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PROX- IU-11467:) U I High School Movement Has S"c,cd ed Beyond all Hopes. News and Courier. Columbia, November 2.-In talking about the high school movement Prof. W. H. Hand, of the University of -South Carolina, tonight said: "The high school movement for the estab- 1 lishment of high schools, where none existed, or for the improvement of I those already in existence, is succeed- I ing beyond the hope of its friends I and supporters. The movement be gtan with the hearty and intelligent support of the colleges, at whose t hands it has received constant en- i couragement. The high school teach ,ers, both public and private, have lent their Warm support. At the begin- j ning it was not known just how the s people would come to the upbnildin' t of these secondary schools. There can I be no room for doubt now. Of more e than two hundred comItunities vis- t ited withili the past sixteen months, 3 il only one IAve I bepn told ihat the i people di4 not eare conder the matter at all, Fewer than a 'alf dozen high shool elections have fin ally failed. / The following places have tom plied with the high school Act, and will reeeve the state aid this year: Brunson, Bamberg, Cross Hill, Cross Aiehor, Cavins, Batesburg, Dillion, Easley, Fort Mill, Denmark, Fountain Inn, Ieath Springs, Hampton, Jones ville, Johnston, Jefferson, Little g Mountain, Laurens, Mountville, Me- h b Ooll, Mullins, Winnsboro, Marion, n Ninety4Six, North Augusta, Olar, 0 0osperity, Ridgeway, Saluda, St. George, Union, Townville, Zoar, '(Sa Iuda County,) Williamston, Blacks burg, Pickens, Latta; Kershaw, Cen- a -tral, Springfield, Simpsonville, West minster, Allendale, Center Township, (Oconee County,) Menno, Oakway, -Mauldin, an-d arnwell-48 in all. High sdhool elections are now pending at about six other places. "These schools are situated at.pla ees ranging from rural school districts to towns of 5,000 inbebitants. In all but three places, the high school ter ritory embraces from two common school districts to a township of eight . districts. At some of these places no high, school existed before; at 'others the school has been enlarged in some way. In every case, save one, a teacher gaas been added, or a year adde~d -o the course, or some study added, and in several places all three have been added.'' OFFICERS IN TE SADDLE President Roosevelt's Order Similar to One Issued by Jefferson . Davis. N~ew York~ Press. / It has not yet been stated with au thority what kinds of saddles were used by the gallant old officers of the army who took that famous ride or dered by Roosevelt as a test of merit. Most of them remained in the saddle, it is.said. The ambulance broke down because it was not needed. The horses suffered considerably from handicap. The father of our little major (al leged) was entitled to gre.at fame as the inventor of the best saddle ever straddled by a soldier. ".Little Mace'' and much of his fame a' a general are dead; but the "%IeClellan saddle'' remains. The first saddles were as soft as velvet cushions, and soldiers usinf them were always in distress. 'The McClellan saddle is as hard as a rock-a bit of tree covered with. hogsskin. And it is easier on the horse than all the upholstered things of the present day. * ~ When Jefferson Davis was secre ~tary of war he ordered all his gener als to learn to ride horseback. That is where President Roosevelt got b1is. notion that to be a commanding of * flcer a horse anid saddle are neces sary. There were no automobiles~in Jeff Davis' time. It was horse or foot. Today the leading generals all. ~over the world-except in America *go to the front in automobiles. The saddle be tblowed! But our ever puissant president must-well, he must. No finer horseman than Davis ever lived. He won the love and hand of Zach Taylor's daughter by his dis tinguished presence in the saddle, as well as by his intrepidity at the can no'n's mouth. When secret ary of war he noticed that only a few offi cers in the service were capable horse men, and issuedl an order something like this: "A liberal reward will be paid t.o any officer or private in the army who will offer a satisfactory device for keeping our soldiers from falling out of their saddles. Communications to the secretary of war will be regarded as confidential." Capt. George Horatio Derby. one ofth a di/ng army engineers of his v stores under the pen name o 'John Phoenix. 'lie received a cop; )f Secretary Davis' order while im >roving the harbor of San Diegc 7al., and immediately forwarded th nost intricate and accurate design )f his plan for keeping officers an< nen in the saddle. To the seat o ach officer's "pants" he attached i >ull ring, and another bull ring wa! Lttaehed to the saddle. The two bul ings were to be lashed together whei he officer mounted his steed, "I hat doesn't hold, nothing will,' vrote Phoneix to the secretary. Davis was furious when -he gw, his proposition and immediately or ered the Capt. Derby should b ourtmartialed for "official levity.' .he secretry felt that the army hai teen disgrae'ed, and wanted Derb3 everely punished. Davis couldn'1 ike a joke. One of his intimateE astened to him. "Jeff." he whisper d, "if you order a eourt-martial foz his little pleasantry of 'John Phoe ix,' one of the salt of the earth, and nmensely popular in the army, you rill be made a ilaughing stock. The eople will ruioue ,you out of office ust 1.g4g i fl ' Iavig. took his ad ice. When Tennyson Was Rebuked. A writer in the current Harper's 7eekly brings to. light an intere!ting meedote- of Tennyson which weil il istrates the singular hahits of the reat laureate in his intercourse with is friends, The poet was not only rusque and rough, but he was domi eering 4nd exacting, and most otli r men were afraid of him. But an .merican sehool-mrIter who for many ears maintained a great intimacy ith him had no fear in his heart, nd sat and smoked on an equality ith the soveregin singer by the Far ingford fireside, 1100 &ehag," says the writer 'when they We th- together, Ten. .yson said th6t h would &part fron is custom and narrate a persona' xperience; but he had su:ffered 2 -ood deal from repetitions of his tale. oy those to whom he had told them nd he would be obliged to ask hi 1riends never to repeat what he ws ~bout to hear. 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