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Mr ftall mi pewj1 Entered at the Postoifice at N>wktrry, S. C., as 2?d class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, May 9, 1913. THE 8CH00LS OXCE MORE. An encouragig sign of school im% provement ie the constant criticism of methods and systems by our edu cators themselves. Mr. Hand's letter, published yesterday, was pertinent, and should receive the attention of all sdhool boards. At the Southern education conference, recently held in Richmond, President Whitfield, of the Mississippi State College for Women, presented a report of a committee which discovered these defects in the existing school system: It does not teach health. It does not train for [home life. It does not train for parenthood. It gives no re?l instruction in sci * - - -5 2 enimc teeumg auu uuiuiug. It does not teach how to make sanitary and convenient homes. It does not teach how to make beautiful homes. It does not train for proper use of leisure in the home. It contains no training for political citizenship that is worth the name. Ifhe criticism is severe and unfortunately it applies to very many of our schools and colleges. A criticism is not worth much, however, unless its author can suggest a remedy.- If these educators can select those studies of genuine value, while they repudiate the non-essentials, if they can suggest to the minds of the pupils the various occupations that might awauen a latent taient, ir auuve an things they can teach sincerity; in effort, and thoroughness in all tasks however small, then may th-ey begin to find some light in these dark places. It is not the fault of the high school boy or girl that they finish the fo-n voarc rvf R^hnnl life and S'O nut. to / meet the world utterly ignorant as to how or whe.re they may make a livelihood: it is not tiie fault of the hundreds of graduates who leave college next month, that they hesitate what they may do, knowing so well their unpreparedness for doing anything. . The fault is in the system, and the system being impersonal, there's no harm in abusing it, even if it cannot be made better.?Spartanburg Herald. The rural school problem is the most important and far reaching before the American people today. Its salut?on the proper way must b^ N gradual, but it will come. The one great trouble in iJ is section is that the people have never waked up to the importance of the subject. The >rorld i* rnofiiv and making progress in almost every line but unfortunately the schools in many places have been going along in the same old way. There is need of wise and efficient - leadership. Too often the leaders and school men are chosen for positions of leadership with absolutely no thought of their efficiency or ability, but for reasons entirely foreign to any such Questions. Many of the things enumerated above cannot come in many of the schools for many years, because of lack of money. Many of the schools / that have the money do not seem to have a broad and liberal grasp of the offiio +viti nr* fho nf it The improvements' are coming, but Jftrst the people must be aroused. If once they see the true conditions and realize their obligations to the children of t!his generation, the improvement of conditions will begin, because the people are able to do whatever they make up their minds to do. The suffragettes in England" have gone to burning churches. This, it seems to us, would not help materially in convincing right thinking people anywhere that the cause of wo9 man suffrage was tjhe thing to be Adopted. The negro outlaw, Henry Austin, #eems to be able to evade his pursuers, but with the large reward offered *or his body, it Is only a question of a short time until it will be delivered and the reward claimed. Welcoming the Ladies. Florence Times. Florence extends a cordial welcome to the Jadi.s of the State Federation of C' "is "ii' expects the, to feel th t Florence is home in every way "while they are staying here. It is a pleasure to have them, and to be brought in closer touch with the women of the State who are doing thin?-. COTE.ST TOR MEDAL. Prosperity Boys and Girls TVill Enter Contest at Little Mountain. Other Prosperity News. Special to The Herald and News. Prosperity, May 8.?Mr. A. L. Wheel er and Miss Alda Ray wneeier visitea in Little Mountain Wednesday. Mrs. Nanie Wheeler and little Pearl Wheeler have returned from several days' stay to Newberry. Mr. J. H. Roberts, of Chapin, was a business visitor here Wednesday. Mr. D. B. Miller, of Columbia, was the guest Wednesday of his sister, Mrs. J. Sidney Wheeler. The Memorial services will be held in Grace church Friday afternoon instead of the town ball. Reverends E. W. Leslie and Z. W. Bedenbaugb and Mr. w. f. uounis attended the special meeting of synod in Columbia Wednesday. Mrs. G. Y. Hunter 6pent Tuesday in Newberry. Messrs. W. J. Wise, H. J. Rawl, F. M. Wise, Pet Mitchell and W. B. Wise attended the Newberry-Clinton ball game in Clinton Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Mitchell spent Monday in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Dominick and Mr. Pat Mitchell spent Thursday in Columbia, making the trip in Mr. Dominick's automobile. Several boys and girls of the Prosperity high school will contest for aj silver medal at Little Mountain Friday' night under the auspices of W. C. T. IT. of Prosperity. T^he following pro| gram w^ll be rendered: i MiiciV?"VJpKrfa-m-ps "Rrown and Har mon. Legion?Willie Mae Lester. Old Soapy?Susie Langford. Goodnight, Papa?Susan Quattlebaumru ~ * Music?Mesdames Brown and Harman. It Pays?Earl Taylor. Lost on the 'Battlefield?Alvin Singley. Music?Mesdames Brown and Harman. One of the Fallen?Price Harmon. ' Annie's Tears?Leo. Mathis. Music. TVo/iicinn r\f indsroQ JL/"" VWix/u vi j The W. C. T. U. invites the missionary societies of ail the churches to meet with them Tuesd? May 13, at four o'clock at Grace church. The meeting will be under its department of cooperation with missions. All interested in temperance and missions vre urged to attend. 5ews of Excelsior. Excelsior, May 8.?Prof. Aum-erle Sinsley has given vacation at his school and returned home. Supervisor Hill is doing a good I piece of work near the school house | by removing the wood-eh bridge putj ting down a large piping and widening the road some. This will do away; with the bridge and be a smooth dirt j road and no more trouble to the county. All of the bridges should be fix!ed the same way. ! That was very commendable in Governor Blease to orcjer work at Parr Shoals stopped on the Sabbath day. The Sabbath day should be observed front VinW Vitt sill mankind. auu n.cyi< nvij MJ The following is the program for the closing exercises of Excelsior 'school on Friday night, 9th: ! America, sung by school. 'Recitation, To My Mother by Miss Mattie Ruth Singley. } Just Before the BattJe, Mother, song by school. Poor Old Slave, song by Miss Thelma Singley and Miss Frances Kibler. Dialogue, A Know Nothing Customer by Hayward Singley and Bernard ) Stone. f School Days, song by school. Two Little Girls in Blue, Bong by Mattie Ruth Singley and Veta Kibler. Dialogue, The Use of Study, by Misses Thelma Singley, Frances Kibler, Nannie Mae Cook and Lona Stone. Sing me to Sleep, song by Misses Thelma Singley, Frances Kibler and j Nannie Mae Cook. ! Thoro will hp ?ond music and one or two addresses. Public invited. ; Sigma. FOUR POLICEMEN CONVICTED. Found Guilty of Conspiracy Against. Justice. New York, May 6.?James F. j Thompson, James E. Hussey, John J. j Murtha and Dennis Sweeney, the four! demoted police inspectors charged; with a conspif-acy to obstruct justice, were convicted by a jury in the su-l preme court shortly after 8 o'clock: tonight. Only 38 minutes were taken by the i irr - tn roach their verdict that the ' r?;;t-'-s T'cre guilty of a misdemeanor in plotting to k-eep a pros-, ..ective witness against the "system" from making graft disclosures before the grand jury. a tie r, officials stood outward-. ij uuuxutcu ud tu&jr ircaiil tilt! Vtii'- . I diet. The crowd in the court room caused a disturbance, shuffling chairs and feet, while attendants checked the disorder. The prisoners gave their pedigrees and after being remanded for sentence Friday, were returned to their cells. Counsel announced that a -- - V.r. certificate 01 reasonauie IIVJUUL Will sought, which would give the prisoners a change to go free on bail pending efforts to obtain a new trial. The penalty for obstruction of justice is one year in jail or a fine of $500 or both. It was reported that the jury required only one ballot to reach its decision. INCOME T1X SCHEME. _______ Goes Through House Over Protest 01 Minority Members, Who Finally Become Half Reconciled to it Washington, May 6.?The overwhelming democratic majority in the house today swept through the free list, bowled over all opposition to free wool, free meats and other necessaries, and passed on to consideration of the hundred million dollars income tax feature of the Underwood tariff bill. Not a dent was made in the bill as approved by the ways and means committee majority, it was expected the measure would be passed unamended by the house by tomorrow. All day there was sparring across the aisle dividing the democrats and I the republicans. Many amendments were offered by republicans in a forlorn effort to put m. j free listed articles back on the dutiable list, but all were voted down with a regularity that brought smiles from the minority. Fnaliy when the last of these proposed chang esdah proposed changes had been rejected, Representative Payne precipitated a lively rules fight by offering a brand new amendment to create a tariff commission. Instantly all the parliamentary sharps on both sides were astir. Speaker Clark sat next to Mr. Underwood at the front of the speaker's rostrum, where Mr. Underwood has been conducting consideration of the bill. Representative Fitzgerald of New York rushed in from the appropria tions committee, armed with precedents, and followed by Representatives Shirley of Kentucky and HardIwick of Georgia, who joined in the amendment. On the republican side Representative Mann\ Representative Gardner of Massachusetts, Representative Payne of New York and others conferred and addressed the house. It was all over quickly, Representative Garrett of Tennessee in the chair sustaining a point of order made by Mr. Underwod that the tariff commission amendment was not germane to the bill. When Representative Mann appealed from th'? decision the house sustained the chair, 164 to 87. Representative Bull of Tennessee, chief draftsman of the income tax I feature of the tariff bill, prepared toj night to resist a campaign by the minority to amend the details of the pro j posed law*. He expected a snarp ngnt : on behalf of the mutual fire insur! ance companies, which would be taxed 1 per cent, under the measure. Provisions affecting insurance companies i were taken almost verbatim from the | corporation tax law already in effect, ! but to avoid any possible question, a committee amendment was prepared ! tonight to eliminate even the slightest variation from the existing laws. Regular reading of the income tax ; nrnvisinn for amendment was com I*"w i pleted in short order. Perfecting j amendments offered by the ways and | means committee were adopted, in! eluding a provision exempting returned investments in insurance and a clause changing the terms regarding mutual fire insurance companies so as to allow them to deduct from their gross incomes the amount required under the State laws to be placed in i their reserve funds. I Tl ! AUSTIN'S THIKD YICTDr BEAD. j Dr. Moore Succumbs to TVonnds?Fugitive Still at Large. Hamrtton, May 5.?News reached Hampton this morning that Dr. S. C. Moore, who was wounded by the negro in the first battle with him and who l 1? A ncfin o ffpT Vi Ain f ur<? v viy iuugut, auoliu ??0 seriously wounded, died this morning at 6 o'clock at a hospital in that city. Two Boys Disappear From Columbia. The State, 3rd. Preston Boland, 16-year-old son of George E. Boland,one of Sheriff McCain's aides, between 7 and 8 o'clock Thurplay night drew $27.50 salary 'wm the Postal Telegraph company. "r>~* which he was me?? v"\r Yesterday morning, with Ear" Spencer, annfhor la/1 Preston di??ar ',a',*ed, and though his father searchthe town for him he could not he found. Mr. Boland thinks his sou and the oilier uvy iritv guuc w ^ ' >' ???) as they were seen at the Seaboard depot yesterday at noon just before the train I departed. The police in Savannah have ! been notified and will keep a sharp | lookout for the boys. Mr. Boland said I s\a/\M 4- V? < ? + V? n Af .VtJSUri Uct,y ciiici liuun uiai lie i\ugvy vjl no reason why his son should want to run away. He had never run away, before, said Mr. Boland. Young Boland had on a brown suit and brown cap when last seen. TKANSYLVANIA MAN WINS. S. C. University Second in Southern Inter-College Orators' Contest Columbia, May 7.?Speaking on t '^American Waste," Alvin L. Wills, representing Transylvania University, tonight won first honors in the Southern intercollegiate oratorical contest, Lloyd H. Smith, of the University of South Carolina, whose subject was "The United States and Peace," was accorded second place. The other speakers and their subjects were C. M. Durrance, University of Virginia, "The 1 Call of the New South," and Carl C. | Gregory, "The American Press." The ' snhi-pptc: of all t!he contestants were well handled, the composition being good, the logic convincing and the delivery above the average. The committee had some difficulty in selcting the dinners. The next annual contest will be held with Vanberbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn. C. C. Gregory, of that in! stitution, was today elected president i of the association; L. H. Smith, vice president, and G. W. Folin, secretary. " ? -r-t Ijomp ivo rar. Last summer C. T. Heaton of Montana, was visiting his mother in Ohio, j He was driving one morning to a small ! town, and a negro woman asked him I for a ride. i After she had climbed in she asked Heaton where he lived. "In Montana." "Is you drivin' there this mawnin'?" she asked. "Better let me out right now"?and she climbed down.?Saturj day Evening Post. 5ee<Is ^ore Joneses in Georgia. That more of the Jones family is i needed in Georgia is seen by the following interesting item from the Douglass, Ga., Enterpris, of May 3, speaking well for a former Newberrian: "Mr. P. A. Jones, of Garrant, who recently came out from Newberry, S. C.. aiid purchased land from the Westi green Development company, is doing 1 i some splendid truck farm. His farm is as clean as a floor, the vegetables are so green that they are black and he j is shipping Irish potatoes, peas and cabbage to Augusta, and other markets. Coffee county needs just about one thousand of those Carolinians of the Jones breed." : I A New Compl >j I / s^v'.v'v': , '; : ' ' iSviviy^iw.v! | ; " ' ' ' p w, mm,:-: ?lll , ,> - $ Miss r> I "The Si??t! I i..... *" Federal Protection for Express Shipments. The first violation o? the new federal law?known as the Carlin act, was the stealing of an express package in one of the Chicago depots resulting in the arrest of the offender and placing him under a $5000 bail. This act imposes a maximum fine of $5000 or imprisonment of not more than ten years for any person convicted of unlawfully breaking into any railway car containing interstate or foreign shipments of freight or ex press or m meauug ux" uuuuiu/ig uj fraud or deception from any car, depot platform, vessel or wharf any freight, express or baggage which constitutes or is part of any interstate or foreign shipment. While the Carlin act in no way infringes on the jurisdiction of the State courts, it puts the whole power of the federal department of justice behind the detection and prosecution of persons guilty of stealing from cars or depots since it will be practically impossible for thieves to distinguish between interstate and intrastate shinments. As the Carlin act becomes better known and understood, the petty crook will look upon an express package in transit with the same reverence and awe as he has been taught i-> respect all mail matter, however tempting its purloining may be to his criminal instincts. Texas Girl's Portrait on Sew Paper Money. New York, May 3.?Miss Evlina James, of San Antonio, Texas., an art student here is receiving congratulations of her friends as she is the girl whose portrait is likely to become more popular than any other. It is safe to say her picture will be in every American hoifte, sis she will appear exclusively on Uncle Sam's paper money. A Jolly Wedding. Union Times, 2nd. Mr. Broadus Kirby and Miss Mamie Jolly were united in marriage Saturday evening at 7.30 o'clock, at the Methodist parsonage at Monarch. Rev. J. H. Danner was ^ie officiating J minister, and there was present a . number of friends of the contracting parties to Interview the ceremony. TO TOTE 05 LIQUOR. St. George, May 6.?It is almost a nrtf+oi"r> +Vi,inrr fhaf "HnrphPQtpr flftjintv VV/i IUIU VUMV JUTV* w v. will hold an election on the qu^tion of dispensary or no dispensary when the time comes for the election in August.' Petitions asking for the election hare been circulated throughout the county for the past two montjis and signed by large numbers. The whiskey condition in the county, it is said, is deplorable. - l\ i ere ueparanent of Newberry. " ARRANGE' IN THEN a ? See the new sty now on exhibition Smith & Co., 942 A just added to our camplete line of gu; Human Ha That are worn with the i We guarantee a perfe of hair. Switches from Also an up-to-date lii Shell, Fancy Bands and * Hand made Ornament I J ing gowns a specialty. f o L? dirndl oi or UNo-^te Millinery and 1 / . X Makes Home Baking Easy pm hauirfii ruwwn I Absolutely Pure The only baking powAur made from Royal Orape Oream of Tartar HO ALUM,HO LIME PHflffHKIt She Was Sight . He was an ardent lover, an IriBh lftro* onH c nroir?Q 11 v nAnnU^efl Inwr *v ? V/X UUU w p*UVV*VM.*V *w? v?? It was St Patrick eve and in his hand he bore a pot of real Irish shamrock. "They were raised on the ould sod," he-said, as he presented the pot to Biddy, "raised on the ould sod of Ireland. "Sure now, Murphy," cried his lady in delight, "how really sweet of ye. How perfect they are and how fresh. Sure, I do believe that there's a little dew on em' yet." Murphy flushed slightly. "Begorra, I know there is," reluotantly confessed Murphy, "hut praise heaven it'll b^ paid tomorrow."?The Shamrock. Southern Railway Announces Reduced Rates and Special Train Service Account of the Pageant, Bock Hill, S. C., May 18, 1818. Reduced rate round trip tickets are authorized by the Southern Railway account of Pageant at Rock Hill afternoon and night of May 13th. Tickets will be on sale May 12th and 13tli ? ?i 1 *11 ??J limited xor returning uuui 11111*11151x1. of May -14th. ' Also in order to accomodate the large number of visitors returning from this 'ccasio^ the Southern Railway will operate four special trains as .. follows: Leave Rock Hill 11.15 p. m., arriv- . ing Yorkville. 11.45 p. jn. Leave Rock Hill 11.25 arriving Co- . lumbia 1.45 p. m. * Leave Rock Hill 11.35 p. m., arriving Camden 1.30 a. m. \ Leave Rock Hill 11.45 p. m., arriving Charlotte 12.45 a. m. Trains will stop at all stations to let off passengers. Apply to local ticket agent for rates and other information or address S. H. McLean, D. P. A., Columbia, S. C.?Adv. for the Ladies TOUR HAIR EW WAY Ips nf hair dressing aw v* www... j at Hiss Annie L lain street We have growing business a aranteed pure ir Switches new style of hair dressing. ct match to any head - - - $2.00 op le of HAIR GOODS in 'Stick-ops." e .1 1 J s tor tne nan ana eveni Company lair Goods." /