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? - - - Mr gmti mi pews Entered at the Postoffice at \TewJwry, S. C., as 2rx1 class matter. E. K. AULL, EDITOR. | Friday, May 9, 1913. THE SCHOOLS ONCE MORE. An encouragig sign of school im% provement the constant criticism of methods and systems by our educators themselves. Mr. Hand's let ter, published yesterday, was pertinent, and should receive the attention of all sdhool boards. At the South rn education conference, recently held in Richmond, Whitfipld. of the HfississiD Pi 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 ffiome life. It does not train for parenthood. It gives no reil instruction in sci-j entific feeding and clothing. Tt dnec not teach how to make san-1 itary 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 ror political citizenship that is worth the name. Ifhe criticism is severe and unfortunately it applies to very many of f 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 pu+Vick Torimic nnr>nnQtif?n<3 tihat mijrht O UUV Tai WVU^/MVAVMW fUMv ,-0 w Awaken a latent talent, if above all things they can teach sincerity1 in effort, and thoroughness in all tasks however small, then may they begin to find some light in these dark plac es. It is not the fault of* the high school boy or girl that they finish the ten years of schooL life, and go out to / meet the world utterly ignorant as to how or where they may make a livelihood; it is not the fault of the hundreds of graduates who leave college next month, that they hesitate what they may do, knowing eo well their nnpreparedness for doing anything. Tne rauit is in tne system, ana me system being impersonal, here'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! salutton ir. the proper w&y must b^ ^ gradual, but it will come. The one I * great trouble in tl is section is that the people have never waked up to' 1 the importance of the subjcct. Thej N^orld is: mofiiv and making progress j in almost every line but unfortunately the schools in niany 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 forj reasons entirely foreign to any suchj Questions. Many of the things enum- i erated 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 ! liave a broad and liberal grasp of the situation or the need of it. The improvements' are coming, but flrst the people must be aroused. If once they see the true conditions and realize their obligations to the children of tJhis generation, the improvement of conditions will begin, because the people are able to do whatever they make up their minds to do. Tne suffragettes in England" nave j gone to burning churches. This, it seems to us, would not help materially in convincing right thinking people anywhere that the cause of woman suffrage was tlhe thing to be adopted. The negro outlaw, Henry Austin, peems to be able to evade his pursuers, but with the large reward offered *.or his bodv. it !s onlv a dues tion of a short time until it will he delivered and the reward claimed. Welcoming the Ladies. Florence Times. Florence extends a cordial welcome to the ladi-s of the State Federation of Wc~aj.'~ C' "is ~n' expects thej to feel tint 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 CONTEST FOR MEDAL. Prosperity Boys and Girls Will Enter Contest at Little Mountain. Other Prosperity News. Qno/M'ol tr? TTio TToraTrl i?r?r! Vpu'S Prosperity, May 8.?Mr. A. L. Wheeler and Miss Alda Ray Wheeler visited 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 he held in Grace church Friday afternoon instead of the town hall. Reverends E. W. Leslie and Z. W. Bedenbaugh and Mr. W. P. Counts attended the special meeting of synod in Columbia Wednesday. Mrs. G. Y. Hunter spent 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 Pros-' perity high school will contest for a silver medal at Little Mountain Friday night under the auspices of W. C. T. U. of Prosperity. T^e following program will be rendered: Music?Mesdames Brown and Harmon. Legion?Willie Mae Lester. Old Soapy?Susie Langford. Goodnight, Papa?Susan Quattle baunm. " ' 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. Decision of judges. The W. C. T. U. invites the missionary societies of ail the churches to meet with them Tuesday, May 13, at four o'clock at Grace church. The meeting will be under its department ' - * 9 t 11 or cooperation witn missions, ah interested in temperance and missions are urged to attend. 5ews of Excelsior. Excelsior, May 8.?Prof. Aum-erle Singley lias given vacation at his school and returned home. Supervisor Hill is doing a good piece of work near the school house j *? - AT_ ? Vv?i J *\nf_ i Dy removing me wuuu-cu unu&c yui- j ting down a large piping and widening j the road some. This will do away with the bridge and be a smooth dirt road and no more trouble to the county. All of the bridges should t>e fixprt fhp same wav. That was very commendable in Gov ernor Blease to order work at Parr1 Shoals stopped on the Sabbath day. j The Sabbath day should be observed and kept holy by all mankind. 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 Battle, Mother, song by school. "Pnnr old Slave, sons: bv Miss Thel ma Singley and Miss Frances Kibler. Dialogue, A Know Nothing Customer j by Hayward Singley and Bernard j Stone. j School Days, song by school. Two Little Girls in Blue, song by Mattie Ruth Singley and Veta Kibler. Dialogue, The Use of Study, by Misses Thelma Singley, Frances Kibler, Nannie Mae Cook and Lona Stone. j Sing me to Sleep, song by Misses] Thelma Singley, Frances Kibler and i Nannie Mae Cook. There will be good music and one1 or two addresses. Public invited. 1 I CM omr\ o I C*. ] F0U3 POLICEMEN CONVICTED. | Found Guilty of Conspiracy Against; Justice. New York, May 6.?James F. j Thompson, James E. Hussey, John J. j Murma anu l^euuis owccuc/, mo wu* j demoted police inspectors charged; with a conspiracy to obstruct justice, | were convicted by a jury in the su-l preme court shortly after 8 o'clock j tonight. Only 38 minutes were taken by the jurr- to reach their verdict that the ' v.-cre guilty of a misdemeanor in plotting to keep a prospective witness against the "system" from making graft disclosures before the grand jury. me <%<:< officials stood outward-1 uuiuuicu cwa Uitjr ir~aiu tliti rci- . I diet. The crowd in the court room j 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 certificate of reasonable doubt will be 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 T iX SCHEME. Goes Through House Over Protest of 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, iree mesns cluu uiuci utv>cosaries, 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 psssed un amended oy zne nouse vy wmunun. All day there was sparring across the aisle dividing the democrats and the republicans. Many amendments! were offered by republicans in a forlorn effort to put many free listed articles back on the dutiable list, but all were voted down with a regularity that brought smiles from the mi-1 norit.y. Fnally when the last of these j ? proposed cnang esutm proposed changes had been rejected, Representative Payne precipitated a lively rules fight by offering a brand new amendment to create a tariff commission. 1 Instantly all the parliamentary* sharps on both sides were astir. Speaker Clark sat next to Mr. Underwood at the front of the speaker's; -nrhoro Mr TTndefWOOd has 1UOU urn, ITUV* V . been conducting consideration of the bill. Representative Fitzgerald of New j Yqrk rushed in from the appropria-j tions committee, armed with precedents, and followed by Representatives Shirley of Kentuckjr and Hardwick of Georgia, who joined in the amendment. On the republican side v i Representative Manri, Representative Gardner of Massachusetts, Representative Payne of New York and others conferred and addressed the house. It was all over quickly, Represen-! tative Garrett of Tennessee in thej chair sustaining a point of order made by Mr. Underwod that the tariff commission amendment was not germane to the bill. j When Representative Mann appeal-1 ed from the decision the house sus-' tained the chair, 164 ;o 87. Representative Bull of Tennessee, chief draftsman of the income titx feature of the tariff bill, prepared tonight to resist a campaign by the minority to amend the details of the pro posed law. ?ie expeeceu a. oxiaip on behalf of the mutual fire insurance companies, which would be taxed 1 per cent, under the measure. Provisions affecting insurance companies 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 r/iKiaWnn fho OYIStinp- laWS. vanauuu mm i.ik^ ^? ?0 ? Regular reading of the income tax provision for amendment was completed in short order. Perfecting amendments offered by the ways and means committee were adopted, including a provision exempting returned investments in insurance and a clause changing the terms regarding mutual fire insurance companies so ab to allow them to deduct from their gross incomes the amount required under the State laws to be placed in their reserve funds. AUSTIN'S THIRD VICTIM DEAD. ? 1 Dr. Moore Succumbs to Wounds?Fu-1 gitive Still at Large. Hamnton, May 5.?News reached Hampton this morning that Dr. S. C. i \fnnro whn wnc wnnnderi bv the negro I in the first battle with him and who j bravely fought Austin after being j 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, 36-year-old son of George E. Boland,one of Sheriff Mc i^am s aiuea. uciwccu < ?uU v ~ ? Thure-lay night drew $27.50 salary. V>m the Postal Telegraph company "r>~ which h-e was me?? tv"* Yesterday morning, with Enr' Spencer, another lad, Preston disa: ^ed, and though his father searchthe town' for him he could not be found. I Mr. Boland thinks hi:? bc.\. and the| uiutr buy urn* guuc co - * ? U?, a3^ they were seen at the Seaboard depot ye6terday at noon just before the train departed. The police in Savannah have been notified and will kesp a sharp lookout for the boys. Mr. Boland said yesterday afternoon that he knew of no reason why his son should want to | run away. He had never run away, be fore, said Mr. tfoiana. loung coiana 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 'fAmerican Waste," Alvin L. Wills, representing Transylvania University, tonight won first 'honors in the Southern intercollegiate oratorical contest, Lioyd H. Smith, o? the University of South Carolina, whose subject was "The United States and Peace," was accorded second place. The other speakers and their subjects were ' M. Durrance, University of Virginia, "The 1 Call of the New South," and Carl C. j Gregory, "The American Press." /The ! subj-ects of all tihe contestants were well handled, the composition being ' 1 on/1 tVl0 rip gooa, me logiu u"u v?~ ~ livery 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 institution, was today elected president I of the association; L. H. Smith, vice j president, and G. W. Folin, secretary. . Going Too Far. n m HCon _ j L/ast summer v^. i. nwwu vl iTJLW A-i. j 1 tana, was visiting his mother in Ohio, j He was d riving one morning to a small town, and a negro woman asked him : 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.?Satur day Evening Post t Needs tfore Joneses in Georgia. / That more of the Jones family is ( 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., and purchased land from the Westgreen Development company, is doing some splendid truck farm. His farm is as clean as a floor, the vegetables "a otodti that thev are black and he C4.X ^ OV.6*vv- V 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." A New Compl( rmr- * ? & ?pfe?r. ? >.. /$&&*>? . .i: Ayi'-. MCC 5 ''':" tial iMiii "The Sifif* ri Federal Protection for Express Shipments. The first violation of the new federal law?known as the Carlin act, was the stealine 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 contaiping interstate or foreign shipments of freight or express or of stealing or obtaining by 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 shipments. As the Carlin act becomes better known - and understood, the petty crook will look upon an express pack age in transit with the same reverence and awe as he has been taught to respect all mail matter, however tempting its purloining may be to his criminal instincts. Texas Girl's Portrait on Xew 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 sate to say ner picture win oa m every American hoftie, as 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 tfie officiating r minister, and there was present a number of friends of the contracting parties to Interview the ceremony. TO TOTE ON LIQUOR. St. George, May 6.?It is almost a certain thing that Dorchester county 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 hav-e been circulated throughout the county for the past two montihs and signed by large numbers. The whiskey condition in the county, it is said, is deplorable. f 1 % ete Department nf Wmirkflmr U1 llt/YYIA'll J* " ARRANGE IN THEN See the new sty now on exhibition Smith & Co., 942 i * \ just added to our caimplete line of gu; Human Ha That are worn with the 1 We guarantee a perfe of hair. Switches from Also an up-to-date lii Shell, Fancy Bands and ' Hand made Ornament ing gowns a specialty. ? -,l o L. tiiliil Oi >r UMo-<l-l? XiBintty aid I Hakes Home Baking Easy ROYAl JSL POWDER Absolutely Pure The onfy baking powder made from Royal Grape Oream of Tarter WHilW.MIMPHta'HWt She Was El^ht . He was an ardent lover, an Irish lover and a practically penniless lover. it was su rairicK eve ana m nis nana 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, "but praise heaven it'll b4 paid tomorrow."?The Shamrock. Southern Bailway Announces Reduced Sates and Special Train Service Account of the Pageant, Bock Hill, S. C., May 18, 1918. 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 13th limited for returning until midrrigiit of May 14th. ' Also in order to accomodate the large number of visitors returning from this occasion the Routhern Railway will operate four special train* as follows: Leave Rock Hill 11.15 p. m., arriv- . ing Yorkville, 11.45 p. m. Leave Rock Hill 11.25 arriving Columbia 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 les of hair dressing n J at Miss Annie L Iain street We have ornwing 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-ups." s for the hair and even* I i Company lair Goods." v ? - ?' . ' * V f-*!