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HONOR KOLL. <S> <^ <5> *i&?<?><$><?><$><$<$><$<?><$><$><$><$>$><$' Boundary Street Grade 1.?Elizabeth Blackweld-er, 1* T> T ^,,1^ Jb.ua tioman, famine ouuici, i^uia "Mae Fellers, Elizabeth Halfacre, Mildred Livingston, Mildred A. Livingston, Louise Rogers, Willis Wherry, Jo"hn Boozer, Albert Boyd, James "Burns, Philip Crotwell George FulenTvider, Boyd Glenn, Claude Hornsby, Holand Hutchinson, Maxie Lever, John Walker Schumpert, Vernon Shealy, Thomas West. : (Grade 2.?Margaret Kinard, Martha ^Lathan, Maggie Rodeisperger, Rutty Sligh, Boyd Wheeler, Wright Cannon, "Buford Cromer, Leroy Bishop, Horace "Reagin, T. W. Smith Jr., Garland Taylor. Grade 3.?Daisy Wix, Ruth McCarv, Elizabeth Mimms, Ella Dunn, Mildred "Paysinger, Margarite Burns, Colie ?21ease, Marie scfiumpert, wnnam Jones, John Chappell, Harold Hipp, Everett Hipp, James Wallace, Legare Tarrant, Henry Lominack. Grade 4.?Mary Frances Jones, j Francis Jones, Clark Floyd, Janie j Dell Paysinger, Haynie McGraw, Car-; roll Summer, Olivia Stewart. Grad? 5.?May Tarrant, Marguerite "Wertz, Cora Ewart, Mary Klettner, Daggett Norwood, Hattie Mary Buford, Callie Boyd Parr, Lizzie Henry. Grade 6.?Roberta Mann, Azile Parr, | "Ruth Black welder, Frances Houseal, i "Mary Wheeler, Ruth Schumpert, Mar-j garet Spearman, Sophia Nell Crotwell, j "Mary Frances Cannon, Pauline Fant.: Grade 7.?Bertha Gallman, Marghe-j Tita Matthews, Ruth Porter, John i Floyd, Tommie Paysinger. Speers Street School. Grade 1.?Benetta Buzhardt, Edna Sanders, Glayds Havird. Margaret Fartow, Mildred Perry, Azile Whitaker, Carolyn Epps, Gladys- Suber, J. W. 12arhardt Jr., James Nobles, Tom Sligh Ross Wilson, Otis Whitak-er, "Beverly Evans. Grade 2.?Caroline Weeks, Eiiza"beth Harms, Troxelle Wright, Marie "Long, Cortez Sanders, Griffin Williams, William Eddy, John Epps, Leland Wil- j ^son, Hubert Setzler, Clarence Pitts, j Grade 3.?Louise Thomas, Blanche "Sale, William McSwain, Nellie Lake, TEdith Wilson 1 Grade 4.?Mary Alice Suber. Grade 5.?Abbie Gaillard, Sue Ella : Peterson, Lola Taylor, Susie Maude j Wilson, Edwin setzier. 'Grade 6.?Emily Hoof, Nancy Fox, Annie Dunston, Clara Brawley, Estelle Kibler, Joel Werts, Gray Hayes, Hattie Woodward, Grace Eargle. Grad-? 7.?Annie Kinard, Jack Dunston, Edward Davis, Joe Vigodsky, Edward Davis, Joe Vigodsky, Sara'Thompson, Grace Wilbur, Gussie Sligh, Ernest Digby, Nolia Banks,; TnTm A Werts West End School. Tirade 1.?Estell BouknighO Gussie Danielson, Mary Hayes, Luther Bedenhaugh, George Craps, Broadus Davis, Maxie Davis, Zack Franklin, Carlos j Gardner, Ernest Layton, Boyd Robert-; con, Bennie Stevens, Andrew Thornton, James Taylor. Grade 2.?Willie May Culbertson, f ' I <2 >;& Mazel Hiatt, H-elen Jones, Lizzie Morse. Julia Melton, Ruby Taylor, Hoy Odell, Clarence Padgett, Julius "Hister. - Grade 3.?Alice Thompson. Eva "Rister, Eva Robertson, Leona Living st'on. Grade 4.?B^rnice Campsen, GilTeath Farrow, Mabel Jones, Ruth 7?oon, Carrie Xell Swindler, B. F. Tompkins, John Henry Vines. High School Grade 10.?Amy Wertz, Fay Rikard, IMary Jones, Amelia Klettner, Jennie Morris. Grade 9.?Teressa Maybin, Rebecca Sligh, Abraham Vigodsky, Neely Cromer, Marian Earhardt, Rosalee Summer, Rosa Amick, Maud Abrams, ^Marian Baxter. Grade 8.?Joe Norwood, Ruth Dig by, Henry Rikard, Eldredge McSwain Eddie May Parr, Vinnie Eleazer, Elise Peterson, Fannie Eleazer, Lonnie Franklin, Ruth Head, Frances Wheeler. LOST FOETUSES. JSPeople Wlio Hare "Come Down" ia the World. We hear a good deal of men who have made fortunes and "got on," but the story of those who have lost them is generally told in a few lines in the newspapers, if told at all, and apropos of a bankruptcy, a suicide or a poor law guardian's meeting. It is an easy matter to lose a fortune if you have a fortune to lose, but the storj* and example may be just as dramatic and striking, and as useful as an object lesson, as the making of one. Not long since there died in a mis ~ ?A* "DO o n nl/I Turkman ! Sr&DlC gill ICC JLii jl cii w a.ij. viu it uiuuu ~vho for years bad lived in dire penury. Nearly 50 years ago she was a beautiful and talented soprano, with a huge fortune of her own making and a voice that could coin gold as easily as the blackbird can make notes. She sang in every capital in Europe, and so much of a popular idol was she that she is said to have netted over 30.000 pounds in one brief London season. Then she suddenly "dropped out"?why, no one, save possibly her relatives and personal friends, knew what had become of her until the news of her death in such painful circumstances revealed her almost forgotten name to the public. Another case well within the recollection of newspaper readers is that of a Midland merchant who at one time posessed an enormous fortune. A DanK ianure or some Dig commercial catastrophe swept it all away in an hour, and after long years of privation and struggle he was forced to apply for admittance to the workhouse of the very town he had once been mayor of, and on which he had conferred lasting benefits. ; The story of these fallen favorites of fortune is writ large in workhouse records, and this last resource of the ' rJocH+ntfi cVioH-otc onH Viae cll?>l UVUlltUVV UUVIVVXU UUU Aiao cuvn<V1 vu ! men and women who have had in their possession fortunes of hundreds of thousands of pounds. A man charged with begging in a London suburb and g-ent to jail for a month for vagrancy was fourid to have run through an inheritance -of 300,000- pounds in something less than 12 years. Another, who had earned not only wealth, but name and fame, by his brilliant literary abilities, threw all away and drank himself on to the embankment, and over into the river. Representatives of great families are often found in humble positions. A direct deseendent of John Gaunt was an engine driver in Canada, and a grandson several times great of Richard 1 was once a butcher in Birmingham. Another man claiming royal descent was a toll gate keeper near Dudley, and the great-grand-son of Cromwell kept a grocer's shop on Snow Hill, near Holborn. We have a record of Plantagent descending from a long line of kings to earn a living as cobbler in Shropshire, and a very poor living at that, and a natural son of Richard III, after the battle of Bowsworth, worked as a bricklayer in a little village in Kent, and died there in a miserable state of poverty at the age of 81. In his "History of Birmingham" Hutton refers to a milkman of humble circumstances whose ancestry included Lady Godiva of Conventry fame, and descendants of men who made England's history, are to be found at the present day I in almshouses and poor law institutions all over the country. One of the most striking examples of the vicissitudes of fortune is that of a member of the Bracebridge family, who owned immense estates in Warwickshire in the days of the Stuarts. He was a peddler in the districts over which his ancestors were lords of the manor. Hugh Miller tells an amazing story in one of his works of a laborer who used to serve him when he was a working mason. This man claimed to be entitled to an eardom. His claim was admitted by the men with whom' he worked at any rate, and it was a usual thing with them, on requiring services, to shout, "John, yearl Crauford, bring us another hod of lime!"?London Tit-Bits. IRRIGATING MESOPOTAMIA. Making a Garden of Eden of. a n Divucai xirgrun What romance, what tragic events have been staged in this remote nook of the world! Scores of giants in history have passed this way since the episode of Eve and the serpent. Cyrus, Tamerlane, Ghengiz Kahn, Alexander, Herodotus, Marco Polo, all famous in the annals of the east, have i invaded this Garden of Eden. Just to the north ran the old wall of the Medes. Farther up the Tigris basin stands ancient Xinevah, where Layard and others unearthed so many wonders, and whence came the famous cuneiform tablets, confirming the Bible story of creation, the fall of man and the flood. Northeast of Eden lies ruined Opis, once the world's centre of wealth, and the site of the great dam which irrigated all Mesopotamia. And when the invading hordes destroyed this dam, all canals ran dry, crops withered, the famishing people perished or fl-ed to the hills, and the ruin of Babylonia began. It is to restore this lost fertility, says the Christian Herald, to give back a rich, productive Garden of Eden to modern man and a land-hungry world, that one of the greatest irriga tion schemes e?er planned is now being carried out here in Mesopotamia. Millions of acres of rich land, idle for ages, highly adapted for cottcn growing. grain and fruit, are to be reclaim-. | ed. Sir John Jackson and Sir William i Willcocks?it was the laTcer who built the great Xile dam at Assuan and won fame in Egypt?have been engaged by the Turkish government to direct this i important work. Nearly $100,000,000 is required to complete this giant enterprise, which is already well under way. "Willcocks says the ancients were scientific irrigators, and that all he has to do is to clean out many of their old canals and ditches, which will answer perfectly for use in his new system. At the British engineers' camp below Mussayeb 1 saw 4,000 Arab workmen busily digging a new channel for the Euphrates. A concrete mixing machine from Chicago and tons of American Interlocking steel piles are being used to build a great dam in the bottom of this false channel. Already the price of land in the Garden of Eden, and as far away as Bagdad and Amarah, has risen on account of the progress of this reclamation 1 I work. The Arab, under foreign guid- j ance, makes a good laborer. It was j only when the British introduced aj steam engine?the first ever seen in I Eden?that a fellow (s;cogoverrap o Eden?ths.t a few of the Bedouins became nervous. Desert sheiks came i from miles around to see tne strange "smoke horse with fire in it." ODD LEGAL SUPERSTITIONS. Many Curious Survivals of the Ancient Law Customs. We hear much of the superstitions pertaining to certain forms of religion j ! and of their somewhat remarkable I i | persistence in a materialistic if not i skeptical age, a survival that is but in- [ | completely explained by the difficulty | or differentiating faith from credulity i or by the tendency?old as the human races?to attribute natural phenomena to supernatural causes and to magnify both by tradition. Though not: so much discussed, the law also has | its little superstitions notwithstanding the prevalent conception of that science a-c cold, unemotional and severely w ~ t logical. For instance, what useful purpose is j | served by inserting in a bond, conditioned for the payment of money, a penal sum of twice the amount of the actual debt J Bonds have been thus drawn since the days of Lord Coke, and the printed forms in use today contain th-e ancient penal clause. By the letter of such a bond the obligee is clearly entitled to recover the full penal sum on the obliger's fault in paying the sum specified in the condition. But has the obligee, for these two or three hundred years, ever been j allowed to recover more than the act- I ual debt with interest and costs? By another common practice deeds j are made to recite that "the sum of ; vl, good and lawful money of the United States of America, to me in hand paid, the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge," or some equivalent formula. The idea that a deed must express a consideration is ineradicable and equally fixe-d appears to be the superstition that a consideration of $1, is quite as effective as a consideration commensurate with the value of the estate granted. Lawyers learned in the law of real property know better, j of course, but such is the popular no| tion. It is elementary that as between ! +Vi? rvortioo o AaaA ic norfp#?tlv valid I VliV J/tti ViVOy U> uwu V* without any consideration at all; otherwise there could be no such thing as a conveyance by way of gift. Why do we begin a will with an invocation to the Diety, and a recital that the testator is of "sound mind and disposing memory?" Does the former aid the testator spiritually and does the latter furnish any evidence ?f >14*: tftQtamp.n+nrv nanacitv? And why do we bo often insist on attaching a seal opposite the testator's signature? Our statutes do not require a will to be sealed, wherefore the seal is wholly superfluous, as the law books have long advised us. Then there is the invariable custom of writing "ss" after the venue of an affidavi t or an acknowledgment, j j What legal efficacy'do these two letters possess? How many lawyers even know what they mean? It is only lately, we believe, that the painstaking I author of a verv useful little book suci . . , ceeaea, alter mucn anuquanau i e-1 search among the pipe rolls and other interesting jore, in ascertaining the orignal significance of the abbreviation, which is "scilicet," or "to wit." The omission of the letters is now quite immaterial. Many generations of lawyers learned in equity pleading, have followed the ancient practice of concluding a bill of complaint with the solemn assurance. "And thus your orator will ever pray, &c." Apparently no modern lawyer knew what the decaudat-ed formula meant, until recently a wellknown author ran the thing to its lair among the ancient rolls of the court | of chancery and found that (before | it lost its tail) it was a prayer for the j health and logevitv of the king! f I o . I ' 1 The Nev Capital St 1H|"Tiihe Bant OAT Has?~ ~ W ; 1 11: s?i v cr <--^zzr| Sjm i i vidual, is and place kets with 1 1 roooery, \ money in at will? 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JfOTICE OF ELECTIOS IS McCOLLOUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. o. ! rn ? +! */% I wnereas, out-uiu u ui uc * , electors and a like proportion of the | resident freeholders of the age of twenty-one years, of McCcllough School District No. 5, of the County of Newberry, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the County Board of Education of Newberry County, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in j said School District on the question! of levying a special annual tax of two mills to' be collected on the property j located in the said School District Now, therefore, the undersigned, composing the County Board of Education for Newberry County, South Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees of the McCollough School District No. 5 to hold an election on the said question of levying a two mill tax to be collected on the property located in tue said School, which said <=>Wnnn shall he held at McCollough Schoolhouse, in the said School Dis- j trict Xo. 5 on Wednesday, May 21, j at which said election the polls shall: i n merry oavuii :ock wmmgmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmm i That Always Has TT rABMKAca r Coprricht 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co.?No. 45 nk Account le e to any busines convenient at s. Why load 3 currency and ri vhen you can our bank and c / r 4 per cent on savin $1.00 starts an acc e how rapidly comp i your money. ! J \ ' SOCTHEBJi RAILWAY. Schedales Effective December 8, 1111. ArriraU and Departure* Sew. berry, S. C. (N. B.?These schedule figure* ar* shown as information only and are no* guaranteed.) 8:51 a. m.?No. 15, daily from Co lumbia to Greenville. Pull max sleeping car between Cbarieetot 11: W a m.?No. 18, daily, from areenrlile to Columbia. Arrlrei Columbia 1:85 n. m.. Auirusta 8:85 p. m Charleston 8:15 p. m. 2:45 p. m.?No. 17, daily, from Colam Ma to Grewrtlla. I 1:05 p. m.?No. 16, dally, from Qreea rill? to Columbia. Pull mac sleep tng oar Greenville to Charleston Arrives Charleston 3:15 a. m. Ar | rive Savanna's 4:15 a. m. Jack | gonville 8:30 a. m. Four further information call ol I ticket agents, or E. H. Coapman, V. P nr 1-1_ ?l r? n . T 1 | <2 c\ a.., yy asmngum, u. \j., ?*. aMeek, A. G.- P. A., Atlanta, Ga., or ? L. Jenkins, T. P. A.. Aufftwta. O* bz opened at 7 A. M., and closed at 4 P. M. The members of the Board of Trustees of said School District shall 'act as managers of said election. Only I such electors as reside in said School I ? > J -Atvi.Tt nool r\r> nirartnal i i lilCL ctUU 1CI.U1U i^ai Ui , 1 property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax receipts and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast ballot containing the word "yes" written or printed thereon, and each elector opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "no" written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seal on May 3, 1913. . E. H. Aull, J. S. Wheeler, S. J. Derrick. County Board of Education for Newberry, S. C. i L I ' is Bank $50,000 ie Money" g|?B m ifi MINT ^ : A J* >s or mdiall times rour pocun risk of | nnfr vmir . :heck out -. . f * / " V. / ,J; r i gs deposits, ount. Do it round inter- t|i Special Bates and Through Cars for the Baptists Attending Southern Baptist Convention, St Louis The Southern Railway has been selested as the "Official Route'' to St J^ouis, Mo., for the Baptists of the State attending the Southern Baptist Convention may 14^h to 21st, 1913. The trip will he made on the "Carolina Special" Monday, May 11th arriving St Louis 7.30 p. m. Tuesday, May 13th. The route will be via Ashville, KnoxYille, Lexington and Louisville. Special Pullman sleeping cars wiil be provided from Columbia and Greenville for the accommodation of delegates and others. The Pullman car from Greenville will be handled to Spartanburg on train No. 12 leaving Greenville 1.50 p. m., May 12th and be attached to the "Carolina Special" at Spartanburg. By this arrangement the Baptists may leave their homes in the morning from almost any part of the State and catch this train at either Columbia or Spartanburg. Tbe schedule is as follows: Leave Charleston 9.00 a. m.; Columbia 1. p. m. Carlisle 2.45 p m.,; Union 3.13 p.m.; Spartanburg 4.15 p. m.; Asheville 7.59 p. m. arrive 7.OS a m. Tv->uia ville 11.10 a. m., and St Louis 7.30 p. m. The round trip from Newberry, S. C., will be $27.15. Proportionately low rates from all other points. Tickets on sale May 9th to 14th inclusive, limited for returning to reach destination not later than mid-night May 27th, 1913. Pullman fare from Columbia $4.75 Cr\orfonV\nror C\A 1 iMiil' auu gpax vclu. berth, upper berth 20 per cent less. If desired two persons may occupy one berth without additional cost. Have local agent wire for reservation, or write S. H. McLean, D. P. A., Columbia. S. C.