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library a uandsome donation of new books, including a very fine set of S the new edition of Chambers' ency- i clopedia. "Mrs. R. P. Holland will serve as librarian again, and this session the reading room will also be under her ( personal oversight. Tutors will be i employed in the scientific and pre paratory department, whose names will be announced hereafter." The Colleges At Due West Have I Splendid Prospects. Due West, September 21.-The stu dents at Erskine college today number 154 whereas 'chis time last year the number was ii. The total enroll- 1 ment last year reached 123. Several more students are -expected and the enrollment this year will be the largest in the history of the college and the senior class will also be the largest. At the Due West Female college 'the number of students is 122, the largest enrollment at this time of the year on record. The total en rollment last year was 126. Many more are expected this session. Spartanburg's Two Colleges. Spartanburg, September 21.-The opening of the two colleges, Converse and Wofford, yesterday morning was attended with very gratifying results to the faculty, trustees and others connected with these two institutions. It is impossible to secure the total enrollment at these colleges, as stu dents will be coming in and register ing for the next week or more. At Converse college there was the largest attendance of new students on record. The opening was very en couraging to President Pell, who has labored effectively and successfully as the. head of the institution for the past several years. There are over 4oo new students at Wofford college, including those at the fitting school. The number is being augmented daily. The faculty are inspired by the unusually large opening. The First Day At Limestone. Gaffney, September 21.-Limestone college opened today with 130 board ers in the college and the local at tendance isunusuallylarge. The board ers are arriving on every train and the number will probably reach i6o. The total attendance this year is ex pected to be at least 200. A con servative estimate places the attend ance on the opening day this year as 33 per cent. better than the opening last year. At least so or 6o students entered the music department on the opening day. President Lodge expressed himself today as well pleased with the splen did prospects for the best year in the long history of the college. * The College Of Charleston. Charleston,- September 21.-Not withstanding the fact that the dormi tory of the College of Charleston has been enlarged, the accommodations will be taxed this year, it is thought. The annex is now finished and ar rangements are generally proceeding for the opening of the new session. The college has steadily grown in popularity with the interior of the state during the past few years, each year showing an increased attendance and this year is expectced to show a much larger attendance of boys from up the state than heretofore. Over Two Hundred Rejected. Clemson College, September 21. Clemson college opened Wednesday, September 13th, with 6oo students present. Four hundred of these were old students. The total number of ap plications was 907. There is room in the college for only 630. Seventy five whose aplications wcre approved are vet to report. All the work of the college began promptly at the opening day. The college starts the year's work with the brightestr prospects in its history. The Presbyterian College. Clinton, September 21.-The num- t her of students now enrolled at the I Presbyterian college of South Caro lina is 1o3; the number last year at the opening was 71. The enrollment this session will reach at least 11o. The dormitory is filled and an ad- I jacent building has been rented. A urned this year, and all of the old tudents wish The college to remain ri Clinton. Cokesbury Conference School. Cokesbury, Septemiber 21.-The ,okesbury Conference school opened t ts session for 1905 and igo6 yester- ti lay morning with very encourag- t ng prospects for its school year. t Phere were 8o students enrolled the i irst day and quite a number will be a iere by Monday. The present en- s ollment is larger -Ehan that of several P )revious years. The faculty and P riends of the institution areverymuch m lated over the success promised for he ensuing year. Several teachers of s uccess and experience have been add- s d to the faculty and the recitation v ooms have been supplied with new P urniture. s The devotional exercises were con lucted by Rev. J. E. Carlisle, presid ng elder of the Cokesbury district, fter which Rev. S. D. Vaughn made mn address of welcome to the new ;tudents. He also gave all the stu lents some very good advice in his iumorous way. Rev. J. E. Carlisle Ltso made an excellent address which s sure to inspire boch faculty and tudents to higher motives and make :hem still more enthusiastic in their Nork., Old Cokesbury is proud of hei chool and is delighted to see so many bright young men and women rom all over the state come to the iistoric Cokesbury Conference school ind drink deeply at the fountain of learning and breathe the balmy at mosphere and drink the pure water >f the Piedmont belt. C GENERAL NEWS NOTES. tems of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the World. t .The Russian copy of the peace tErea y. has reached St. Petersburg. Russia and Japan have arranged an armistice on the sea. Thousands of Spaniards are emi grating from the famine districts of f kndalusia to South America. Cholera is gradually being gotten inder control in Prussia. Cuba has apologized for the de ilement of the coat of arms on the American consulate dt.Cienfuegos by r tstreet crowd. George W. Perkins testified that :he transaction conducted by him be- ~ ween J. P. Morgan & Co., and the Newv York Life Insurance company amounted to $39,286,075.C The conference at Sagamore Hill Wednesday night discussed the in rrance scandal, the czar's call for a second peace conference and the sit- . ation in Venezuela and Sato Domin Six employees of the Philadelphia Reading railway were killed in a ead-on collision between pay and assenger trains near Carlisle, Pa. It is believed in Washington that C :he revelations concerning the cam >aign contributions by insurance com- C anies will re suit in legislation by :ongress. - In an interviewv Admiral Dewey says he chief naval lesson of the Russo- t apanese war is the importance of' >igger ships and bigger guns. I The vote on the -dispensary in Ma ion county was 1,149 against 281r or.I Julius H. WVeil, a prominent mer :hant of Anderson, wvill be married L n January to Miss Sadie Cohen, of? lavannah, Georgia. The Trn-State Odd Fellow, a jour- J ial devoted to the interests of that r >rder, will be removed from Green rill to Columbia. S. F. Killingsworth s editor. P. H. Baldwin. Billy Yo'.ng Bald rin and the negro. John WVesley H-en-S lerson were acquitt.:d at Laurens o~ he murder of the negro, Abe Danielc respectable n..gro farmer in that :ounty, last April. The Odd F.ellows home near Green-r rille was opened with the reception >ttfive children. There are numerous tppp.ications before the board of trus e which is investigating each care- a ully before admitting the applicants. t An unknwon negro abuor 20 years >ld was killed by a freight train on he Southern railway at Aiken. b It is expected that Winthrop co!- P ege will come in for a good share ofb h $2,0o,000 Peabody fund, which d ~illbe istibued extmonh. ME GUBERNATO RIAL CONTEST: (Continued from the First Page.) -ue. It is known that he has not re red permanently -from politics and iere are many who will gladly rally > his support if he enters. He is an iherent opponent of the dispensary nd ali for which and for whom it tands. His entrance into the cam aign would give it a different as ect and it is certain that his defeat rould be difficult to achieve. There are others who still may pring into public view before the mmer begins. It is likely that there ill be many candidates and no few latforms. The last campaign was irgely one of personality and of per onal choice; but the next one will ivolve these and also the question of latform, which will be all-import nt. It will soon rest with the peo e to decide who shall pilot the old almetto state into placid havens of reater prosperity and political peace. MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. mportant Issue as to the Dispensary Counties and Those That Are Dry. The Act of Igo4. On account of the doubt as to the xact law on the subject, it will be ecessary to make considerable in uiry into the method of distribu ing the dispensary school money in ounties voting out the dispensaries. The conditions, it is stated, are very eculiar. The school law, as com iled in 1903, made no provision for ounties that might be dry, and Marl oro and Greenwood recieved Their h'are of the profits as well as any eficiency that might exist according o the superintendents of education. The law of 1904, approved February 5, however, provides that no county oting out The dispensary shall re :eive any part of the surplus after he deficiency has been made up. his evidently means that the de iciency shall be made up in all coun ies, but the question -has arisen hether or not Marlboro and Green vood, under This law, will receive a hare of the surplus money or not. t is believed, although there has been Lo test made of it, that the act of 904 applies to counties that had dis ensaries butr afterwards voted them lut. On the other hand. it is said hat in Pickens an-d in Union a test vill be made of it and that these ounties will claim their share. The amount recieved by dry coun ies voting out the dispensary in 1904 as as follows: herokee.... ...-.--.--.-- $4,43938 darlboro. . ...-.--.--.--.--.- 5,012.20 reenwood.......--.... 6,548.66 Jewberry........ -.....6,376.24 Inion.. ......... --- - --5,451-10 ickens.....--.--.--.--.-- 4,414.66 In Marlboro there was a deficiency f $135.80 in the school fund, which ras made up before the surplus was istributed. Dispensary Fund Distribution. Regarding the question which has een raised as to whether the coun ies voting out the dispensaries should e entitled to a share in the dispen ary school fun-d, amounting to about 230,000 a year, Comptroller General ones said that he would take a stand t the matter and decline to apportion y money to those counties--Pickens Inion, Cherokee and Marion-which ave voted out their dispensaries un r the Brice act. "I construe the law to mean," Mr. ones said, "that the deficiency is iade up first in all the counties where here are deficiencies, out of the chool money. I also think that the urplus money should be distributed 1 the counties that had no dispen aries from the first. The law of 904 clearly says, however, that no~ ounty voting out the dispensary. ball recieve any of the school funds om the dispensary. When theI ext distribution of this money tkes place I shall hold out the part 'iat would naturally go to Chero ee, Pickens; Newberry, Marion, nd Union, to awaitr an order by i court." The ginnery of G. A. Still was urned, completely destroying the lt, ten bales of cotton and 8oo ushels of seed. Several small resi ences in the vicinity of the gin wer2 so burned. Peabody Educational Fund. The Peabody board is expected to neet in Washington early next nonth, for the purpose of distribu ing the fund, amounting to about 2,800.000. Of this amoun-c one mil ion has been awarded to th.e Pea )ody collge at Nashville. It is ex )ected that a million of the remainder vill be distributed to southern col eges, and that Winthrop college, at Zock Hill, will come in for a juicy ;lice. Some members of the board iave been advocaing the gift of this nillion to the rural schools of the QUIT COUGHI There is no Lungs out, v tle of Murra lien and Tar A few doses of this Househi lief. . A positive cure for In Throat. Anti-Spasmodic ir THE MURRAY DR ao3.%X=1=a, I Co LALt AL COME SO( Whenever you start out on a This plan will save you man * time. if we haven't just whi $ We shall not urge you to buy * goods as soon as you can. Ii every way to make selectiong MAYES' DI When Wanting Sol CAL Geo. D. I Cod Fish Balls, Devi pered Herring, Fren Boneless Herring, Rc Beef, Lunch Tongue Chicken and Potted'Tt Pineapple, Mushroori Salad, Pickles-Sweet lets, Cheese, Coffee fri Cream of Wheat, QL Force, Peanut Butter Ferris' Breakfast Bac4 Spices for Pickling, Vi Apple, Fresh lot of Ch< pound. Phone 1 10. SOUTH CARO 1808 Four Schools: Arts, La ystem of Wide Election. Opens Septer BENJAMIN GL FOR BARGI FURN HOUSEHO KiIer, D NEW BEF south, but it i. believed that those wishing it to go to such colleges as Winthrop have won out. It is likely that The West End dis pensary in Greenville will be closed when Dispenser Scrugg's resignati3fl takes effect. Two things a man puts off-buying a lot in a cemetery and making a will. It is nort enough to admit that you are a fecl. You must try to get over it. need of wearing your vhen you can get a bot 's Horehound, Mul" Ad Remedy will give immediate re fluenza, Bronchitis and Diseasses of Crup. JcoC., Ah AL AkA )N AND SEE shopping tour come here first. * y unnecessary steps and much S t you want then look elsewhere. ,but we do wish you to see our will be to your advantage In before the final rush begins. UG STORE. ething Good to Eat L ON )avenport. led Crabs, Shrimps, Kip ch Sardines, Lobsters, ast Mutton and Roast , Sliced Ham, Potted rkey, Grated and Sliced , Asparagus, Celery and Sour, Junket Tab m 15c. to 35c. per lb., aker Oats, Grape Nuts, Butter Beans, Olives, n, Tetley's T ea, JVlixed egar--White Wine and colate Candies 40c. per INA COLLEGE -1905 , Sciences and Teachers. Expenses Moderate. iber 27th, 1905. DVER, President. ~JNS TUR E LD GOODS ETO |RY, S. C. j