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TOM REED'S WAY AS TEACHER. A Turning Point in The Life. of The Future Speaker-His Service in The District School. Topeka, Kan, April. 2.-The recent death of former Governor E. N. Mor rill at his home at Hiawatha recalls some interesting incidents in his life. One of them is that when a member of a district school board in Maine he confirmed the employment of the late Speaker Thoams B. Reed as teacher, and later stood by him and saved him when other directors and patrons of the school sought to dis place him. . It was fifty years ago when Reed, then about 1~ appeared at the little village of Westbrook, ten miles west of Portland, Me., and applied for the job of teaching the district school. Westbrook, now a town of 8,000 peo ple, was then a hamlet. E. N. Morrill, who later came to Kansas and served this State as Con gressman and Governor, lived on a farm near the Westbrook district school. He had been elected a mem ber of the school board, and among the other duties devolving upon that body was that of employing a teach er for the eight weeks sehool term during the midwinter. Reed was a student at Bowdoin College and was doing chores mornings and evenings to pay his way. He had eight weeks vacation during winter and decided to put in the time teaching a country school at $25 a month. He selected Westbrook because of its nearness to Portland. Dr. H. C. Linn, a Kansan, who has ,spent many years in Washington and was a personal friend of Speaker Reed and Governor Morrill, in a rem iniscent talk about the -early friend ship betveen these men in the little village of Westbrook said: "I wish I could tell the story as I heard Tom Reed tell it in Washing ton when he and Governor Morrill .were in Congress. Nobody on earth could put it in black and white as it was told in his inimitable drawl, with the twinkle in his kindly eyes, the jolly laugh or slowly coming smile that changed so marvellously the whole expression of the face. ''From Reed's description of- this his first business venture in the world the district was no Happy Valley by any means. There was a neighbor hood broil always on the coals at Westbrook and one was stewing away. when he put in his application for the district school. It was there that his path crossed that of Governor Mor rill, who, though only five years his senior, was chairman of the district school board. Thomas B. Reed pass ed the examination and was engaged to teach the school for eight weeks, Governor Morrill signing .the eerti ficate. "Reed didn't get along very well even at the first, because , as he said, he undertook to introduce city meth ods into a cou.ntry school. He was very strict' He insisted that lessons should be learned and proper decorum observed during school hours. "When pupils made poor recita tions he sent them back to their seats and kept them after school hours, laboring with them long and earnestly. Misdemeanors were visited with se vere condemnation also. I remember of hearing Governor Morrill ask Reed if h-e wasn't something of a czar when a boy. " 'Oh, hang it,' Reed replied, '.what's the use of doing a thing un less you do it properly ? I was there *to teach school. I was paid for it, and I intended to -earn my money if I had to fight every day.' "In describing one particutar en counter which led to Reed's arraign ment before the school board, he said his' attire was sadly rent and dis couraged and -he looked to have been - the under'dog in a fight. " 'But,' the form-er Speaker added -with a twinkle in his eyes, 'the other fellow didn't look very pretty either.' "The neighborhood .row that was going on finally involved the district school, and charges of Czarism against the teacher or something akin to it were proferred against him, and he was accordingly arraigned before the school board. The battle waged all one day, Chairman Morrill, of the school board standing by the sturdy youth to the very end. "Night cam-e on and Tom Reed walked out of the board meeting a conqueror. With Morrill 's .help he had been able to count a majority in his favor. He taught the school to the end of the term and so well did he succeed that he was engaged for a second term and a third winter, and' he might have gone on indefinitely had-he not graduated with honors and gone beyond the narrow horizon that environed Westbrook.''" More than twenty-five years later Tom Reed and Mr. Morrill were in Congr-ess together, and the boyhood friendship wa.s re-established. Natur all\. when Mr'. Reed's ambition to be come Speaker of the 51st Congress became known, one of ~his most ardent -eupotr was Governor Morrill, of Kansas, together with the balance of the State' deleation. During iis lifetime Governor Mor rill trequently talked of the intimate friendship which existed between him and Mr. Reed. This was proved when Reed was chosen Speaker. He had it in his power to reward Morrill for his kindness to a struggling school teacher in the early days at West brook. He made his boyhood friend chairman of tire committee on pen sions, and the Morrill pension law which has distributed millions of dol lars among former soldiers, their widows and their orphans, is the re sult. Governor Morrill frequently refer rred to the employment of Mr. Reed as the teacher of the Westbrook dis trict sehool. and in his reminiscenses and speeches in eulogizing the man from Maine expressed the belief that he himself in a measure was respon sible for the career of the Speaker. If Morrill had failed to hold that school board to its contract Reed 's: opportunity would have been lost and his prospects injured. Governor Mor rill believed that Reed's turning point in young manhood hinged on his sue cess in handling the Westbrook school, and that his stanch friendship and loyalty to the young teacher in a critical hour was the inspiration which shaped his useful life. After Major Morrill was electeJ Governor of Kansas in 1894 a great ratification was held at his home town, Hiawatha. Cyrus Leland, who had settled in a neighboring county in 1859 and who for twelve years was national Republican committteeman, was that year chairman of the Re publican State Committee. Joseph L. Bristow, now United States Sena tor, was secretary of the -committee. They both went to Hiawatha for the jollification, and the two with Morrill marched at the head of the procession around town. That night Leland and Bristow were guests ati Morrill's 'home. After dinner they, talked over the matters that would come before the new Governor. "How many do I have to fulfil in the way of pledges to give people jobs:'" asked Morrill. "Only two," answered Leland. "Yes," said Bristow, "and they were in return for good service." "That's nice,'" said Morrill. "That is very easy, and it's very good of you.'' COLLEGE PRESS MEETING. School Editors. Wind up Columbia Convention With a Banquet. Columbia, April 16.-Dr. E. S. Joy nes, of the University of .South Car olina, addressed the College Press Association today. Dr. Joyn'es spoke of the benefits of the press in general and the value to the college of the college magazine. He termed the press a great work of civilization, doing much to mould public opinion. The session of the Association elos ed tonight with a banquet at Craven Hall. The delegates have been en tertained. for the past two days by the students at the University at the College for .Women and at the Colum bia College. The organization meets at N'ewber ry College. The delegates have sue ceeded in placing the Association on a firm foundation. The co-operation of the colleges of the State each year for the bettei-ment of magazine work and the furt'hering of literary work by the. college writers is the sole object of the Press Association. The short story medal was won by W. C. Curry. 09, of Wofford. "The Gate,'' a story in .the Wofford Journ al took the prize. This story has won favorable ceriticism from other college magazines and .won a medal awarded by the Woffor'4 Journal. Furman University severed all connections with t.he College Press Association. The officers for next year came from the following institutions; Pres ident, from Newberry College; first vice president, from Erskine College; second vice president from Green ville Female College; treasurer. from 'the University of South Carolina; re cording secretary, from the Presby terian College of South Carolina; corresponding secretary, from Winth rop College. A Money Saver. B'ron son-'"Fr'e just given $100 for this diamond ring for my wife.'' Woodson-" It 's a beauty! But it will save in gloves!"'-Philadel phia Bulletin. No Excuse. Waiter (whose attention had been called to a grost error in addition) Very sorry. sir: but, even if you had n 't found out the mistake. the firm would have benefited. not me. Din e.rTheni you have no excuse ! Punch. Right to the Point. lHe is a man of few wods "'Yes, and they are, 'What is there it form m.' '"-Detroit Free Press. IRA B. JONES CHIEF JUSTICE.! Thos. S. Sease Made Circuit Judge To Succeed D. E. Hydrick-Large Number Were Present. The State. Extremely simple were the exercis es at the supreme court yesterday at noon. There were present alarge num ber of local and visiting members of the bar, nearly all of the State offi eials an( many ladies. Promptly at noon there appeared on the stand in the supreme court room Associate Justice Ira B. Jones. Judge ). E. Hydrick and Solicitor Thos. S. Sease. In just ten minutes their titles were changed. Judge Ilydriek read to Associate Justice Jones the simple oath administered to all State officers and he assumed the office of chief justice, succeeding Hon. Y. J. Pope, resigned. Chief Justice Jones then administ ered to Judge Hydrick the same oath, thus making 'him an associate justice of the supreme court. The same oath was then administered to . Thos. S. Sease who became the judge of the Seventh circuit. Chief Justice Jones then formally dissolved the gathering. Solicitor Otts was unable to be pres ent. After the ceremonies the judges met a large number of friends and for some time a sort of informal reception was held in t'he capitol. SPECKLED HEN AN ANGLER. Her Pond Was a Mud Puddle and She Fished for Corn. Oc.,nee News. On Monday morning of this week a big speckled hen was caught in the aet of fishing. She wasn't using a-n v hook and line, but just her feet. She was noticed wading out in the water and then doinz the "snow bird stunt.' ' as she backed out again. She was having the best of luck, for ,ev(ry time se went through thei performance. several fine specimens were seen to roll out on the bank. She was using a mud puddle on the Court House square for a fishpond, and the fish were big fat grains of .orn that had been overlooked by the ihorse that was fed there last week diiring Court. HIGH WIND PLUCKS DUCKS. Missouri Storekeeper Says He Wit nessed it with His Own .Eyes. New York World. To doubters- of this story, Jules Buermann, constable of Meramee Township, shows his broken store window. He was sitting, he says, in the front part of his store watching the approach of a storm, in which the wind was blowing with great force, when he suddenly noticed a flock of ducks blow over the large lake in front of his property. The ducks were driven onward by the fierce gale, -and as they neared the Buermnann store the constable no tied feathers flying from t'hem. Then there was a crash, and three of the ducks were driven through the front window of the store, falling on the floor, almost entirely stripped of their feathers by the wind. Buermafn said that all he had to do was to draw and cook them. Buermann found two more of the; flocks of ducks minus their feathers hanging on a barbwire fence back of his store. The ducks had. been driveninto the fence by the wind and killed. WHOSE BOY~ IS IN DANGER? Dr. Cortland Mayes, of Brooklyn, relates the following sto>ry, as told by a ship's surgeon:* "On our last trip a boy fell over board from the deck. I didn't know who e was, and the erew hastened out to save .him. They brought him on board the ship, took off his outer garments, turned him over a few times and worked his 'hands and his feet. When they ha.d done all that they knew how to do, I came up to be of assistance, and they said he was dead and beyond help. I turned away as I said to them, 'Ithink you have done all you could,' but just then a sudden impulse told me 1 ought to go over and see what I could do. I went Lver and looked down into the boy's face and discovered that it was my own boy. Well, you may believe I didn 't t.hink .the last thing had been done. I pulled off my coat and bent over that boy; I blew in his nostrils and breathed into his mouth; I turned him over and over, and simply beg eed God to bring him back to life, and for four 'long hours I worked, until just at sunset, I began to see the least flutter of breath t'hat told me that he lived. Oh. I will never see another hov drown withont taking off my e-a t i the0 first instance and going to him and trying to save him as if I knew he were my own boy.''Ep LAYMEN MEET AT GREENVILLE Interdenominationa! C-nventi-u Coa siders Mission Work-Meet at Greenville-Large Gathering. Greenville. April 15.-The interde n0minational Convention of laymen met here t'his afternoon in the audi torium of Chicora College. A large number of visitors are in the city and Gree.ville is giving the laymen a royal welcome. Frank Hammond intro duceil Governor Ansel to the Conven tion this afternoon, and he in turn in troduced H. J. Haynsworth, who made the address of welcome. Mr. Hammond said in introducing Gov ernor Ansel: "We are glad to have him, and it was a happy choice of the presiding offleer. He is a Presbyterian, his wife a Baptist. and be has enough faults to represent the Episcopalians and others.'' Governor Ansel responded in a short address to the welcome of Mr. Haynsworth. N. C. Pratt, secretary of the laymen's missionary move ment, spoke on "The Call of Christ to Men.'' The address was deep and logical and was highly complimented. Wm. H. Ellis, of Philadelphia, spoke on "Missions From the View point of a Journalist.' Mr. Ellis has travelled around the world making a study of the missionary movement for secular papers. His address was well received, and was doubtless one of the best ever 'heard here on mission work. The College hall is beautfiully dec orated in red and white, the laymen's colors, and the flags of all the world. Electrie lights fill the auditorium, and many hundred of visitors enjoyed the speeches. The meeting continues through to-morrow night. What the Sandwich Was For. A stately old professor was ap proachled by a young student one day in one of the Western colleges. says the Circle Magazine. Trying hard to keep back a smile, the young man asked: "Professor, you say you are an ex pert at solving riddles don't you?" "I claim that I am, my boy." "Well, then can you tell me why a man who has seen London on a foggy day and a man who has not seen London on a foggy day are like a ham sandwich?''" T!he professor studied for a long time, venturing several answers which proved to be wrong. Finally, at his wit 's end, he said: "I give it up.'' "It's easy,'' said the other. "Give it up,'' said the professor. "Why,'' was the reply, "one has seen the mist and the other has miss ed the scene. Ha, Ha! Catch on?'' "Of course I do, you lunatic! But what 'had the sandwich to do with it?" After the youngster had recovered from a spell of laughter, he chuckl "Ohx, that's what you bite on.'' THE BLACK SHEEP, "What,'' asked the man who had returned to 'his native town after an absence of many years," became of Ed. Feguson?'' "Ed ? Oh, he's doin' fine. Got the best livery stable a.nywheres around here and runs the depot hack.'' "Let's see, he had a younger brother, didn't he?''" "Yes. Lem. IHe never amounted to much. Wrote poetry and painted pictures. I guess the fam~ily kind of disowned him. At least, he went away several years ago, and I dunno whatever became of him.''-Chicago Tribune. 'ADVERTISED LETTERS. Letters Remaining in .Postoffice at Newberry for Week Ending April 17, 1909. Mr. Allen Bouknight, No. 7, Mrs. Laura Brooks, Clarence Bowler. Mrs. Frances Caldwell, Mrs. Lillie Cald well, Mrs. Pres Cromer. Mrs. Aggie Frd. Miss Alma Gallmnan, Miss Lucy Gilliamn, Mr. Jim'Gilliam, 1. Mrs. Fannie Holhus. Mr. Will Jackson, Miss Roberty Jones, Mr. Walter B. Johnson. Mrs. Ida Kibler, Mr. Jerry Kimble. Mrs. Maggie Martin, Mr. C. W. Martin, Miss Blanch Meadows, Sue Miller. Mr. Nathan Niekels. Henry Owens. Mrs. H. Pallersoni, Mr. Dock Price. Mr. Peter Renew, Mr. Eddie Rog ers. Mr. Namoon Suber. M. C. Turner. Mr. K. Z. Whitmnire. Mr. Ernest Wilson. Lou Wyatt. All persons calling for these let ters will please say that they were advrtised. C. . PTTRCELL, P. M. YOU WANT THE PRETTIEST SUMER SUIT YOU CAN GET And yet you do not want the cost to be too much. Well, just come^and WE WILL SHOW YOU the softest, silkiest and sheeriest meicerized stuff on the market. Mr. Mercer certainly used the Wand of the Wizzard and put the LOVELIEST COSTUME within the reach -of the most modest Pocket Book. COLORS, DID YOU SAY? DELICATE! EXQUISITE! Lilac, Pink, Blue, Gray, and of course White and Black, Creie; plain and figureed effects. Prices 15 to 50 cents. Come and see them. AN ANNOUNCEMENT. A number of gentlemen, residing in Newberry County, and desirous of improving the stock of Newberry County, have formed themseain in', a company, known as The Carolina SLock Breeders Association. The Asso ciation are offering the ser aices of their .richly colored staiLdard-.bred horse a~ $25.00, to insuie a ecit. The pedigree of this horse is as follows: CERTIFICATE No. 65,123 THE TROTTING STANDARD. AMERICAN TROTTING REGISTER. OF'FICIA L CERTIFICATE. This is to ertify that Prince Cecilian,. 41558, has been duly registered as standard under Rule 1, in Vohune XVII,.-of -The American Trotting Re gister, and the pedigree can there be traced-in the following form: 1558: Prince Ceeilian, (1) brh foaled 1903; by Cecilian Chief, -33698,, -dam Condula, by Princeps, 536; grandam Miss Fanny, by Hamlet, 160, etc.( See Condula, Vol. V.) Bred by J. G. Cecil, Danville, Ky. (Cecilian, 1I,907 Cecilian Chief, 33,698 c (Lady Norvetta, 2:I3% PRINCE CECILIAN, 41,58 - Princeps, 536 Condula ..... .. . .. J (Miss Fanny Given under my hand and seal at Chicago, fll. this 29th day of March, A. D., 1906. (Signed) Frank E. Best, Registrar. This horse will 'be fournd at the feed and livery stable of Mr. B. T. Bishop, who has full charge and management. This'is such a rare opportunity to obtain the services of. a highly bred animal at such a reasonable price that it is deemed unnecessary to say more than to invite those wishing to raise colts to an inspection of this animal. YOUR- BANKING! TE HI SAVINGS DANK, >A pial $5U.000 - .. - Surplus $30,000 No4 Manter How Small iNo Matter How Large, The Newberry Savings Bank 4! g've it careful attention. This message a .~ a .a uh e n an-a'tne women alike. va c;N7;SH. . .E. NOF(WOOD, r sAeat Cashfar.