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OUR SCI PAPER N BIY P~ROF. WZiLL! Our Schools. To-day in South Carolina are to be found very few people who would ad mit that they are unfriendly to popu lar education. and fewer still who would admit that they are not friends I to our common schools. The people of the State have just passed through a somewhat vigorous political cam- 1 paign. In this, as in almost every such campaign, many of the candi dates for office have taken occasion to declare their deep interest in the common schools. The candidate "doth protest too much, methinks," but most of them are entirely sincere in their declarations. Some of these men will soon occupy positions which will enable them to demonstrate their interest in our schools, and their capacity for Improving them. From the outside it would seem that very few of these men have made any careful analysis of the conditions of our schools, and certainly few have offered any definite, practicable plan for their permanent improvement. By no means do I intend to cast any slur at these men. Perhaps it is ask ing too much of men busy with their own affiTrs and the affairs of the pub lic, to stop to study the problems of education-a field broad and rich in vexatious questions. Perhaps, too, those who have studied these pro blems, and are familiar with the con ditions, have been, remiss in not tell ing the people frankly what they see and know. For fifteen years this writer taught in the common schools of this State, and for seventeen yearsr he has tried to study the conditions which make for good or for evil in the educational system of the State. During the past twenty-six months he has traveled more than'thirty thousand miles in side the State, driven hundreds of miles th?6-igh the rural districts, and visited 'iot far from three hundred schools in the State. He claims no wider o'- richer knowledge of the con ditions than Is possessed by scores of his fellow-workers. Yet he feels that he knows something of these condi tions, and that he owes it to the peo ple to set these conditions frankly before them. Let me say at the outset that I have no disposition to forget or to disregard the many good things in our schools, Or to withold merited commendation anywhere, yet it is not -my purpose to tax the reader's time and patience-with platitude and empty eulogies, so frequently indulged in by those who strive so diligently to blihd themselves to our patent weaknesses. Our schools have been vastly improv ed within recent years. We should rejoice at their growth, and ever hon or those who ha-ve contributed ~to that growth. But we can not afford to stop at that. It would be folly to assume that our schools, and our school system,-are anything Ilke per fect. Let us discover some of the glaring weaknesses, admit what we discover, and set ourselves resolute ly toward improvement. Some of the most conspicuous . weaknesses in our schools are these: 1. Lack of funds sufficient to main tain -high-class s'chools; 2. Beggarly salaries paid to teach ers; 3. Too many incom'petent teachers employed in our schools; 4. Short school terms,- especilaly in the rural districts, '5. Poor school houses and poor. equipment; 6. Neighborhood jealousies and neighborhood quarrels; 7. Too many little half-supported schools; - 8. Inadequata supervision of vil lage and rural schools;. 8. Non-attendance and irregular attendance of the pupils; 10. The missing link-the high schooL. I wish to discuss 'these features of . our school system frankly, somewhat fully, and altogether dispissionately. *I wish to avoid anything captions or hysterical. In these discussions, I * beg to offer, as unobtrusively as V may, some suggestions as to reme dies. For he is a poor physician who * tells his patients that he is sick, but offers neither to tell him what the~ disease is, not to prescribe any reme dy. Lack of F'unds. To maintango schools requitres money- They can1 not be run on ebullient sentiment, nor will spasmodic charity keep them at a very high standard. Money is absolutely necessary to build comfort able school houses, to furnish th~se houses, to pay competent teachers. and to keep the schools open nine months in the year. What is South Carolina putting into her common schools, the training school of the fu ture citizensliip of the State? In 1907, the State enrolled in the com mon schools 314,399 pupils, or about I8 per cent of her total population. On these pupils was spent $1,415,724) ~.--or $4.50 per pupil. This $4.50 in cludes the expenditures on school houses, furniture, apparatus; librar ies, and teach'ers' salaries. The aver age attendance upon the schocls was. of course, much lower than the en rollment. therefore the amount spent per pupil on the basis of attendance - was larger-$6.37. In 1906. North Carolina spent $6.90 per pupil in at tendance: Georgia spent $7.45: Miss issippi. $8.01; Tennessee, $8.48: Vir ginia, $11.05; Florida, $11.30; Louis iana. $14.83: Main. $20.65; Mary land. $21.32: Wisceonsin, $28.34; Minnesota. $30.19; New York, $47.40. In 1907. South Carolina spent for common school educatio' 4 cents per capita of her total populAation. In 1906, Georgia spent 98 cents; Virgin ia spent $1.12; Mississippi, $1.15; Kentucky. $1.19; Tennessee, $1.49; Florida, $1.96: Maryland, $2.51: Wis cousin, $3.97; Minnesota, $4.41; New York. $6.27. If Virginia has found that it requir es $11.05 per pupil to maintain her schools, is it reasonable to assume that S-outh Carolina can maintain good schools on $6.37 per pupil? If Maryland is willing to invest $21.32 ner nninil in her schools. she must be satisfied with h-er investment, for she has been increasing the amount from year to year. The question at issue is not conceened with the relative wealth of ttuse States. The question is chis; TI it pays to put $11.05 a .y..ar in education of a VirginiaI 100tS. oy. does not a South Carolina boy ,eed or deserve more than $6.37 in is education. God has done hi; part y the South Carolina boy and girl; as the State done its part? , 1's people w;i a-mit that our chool fund is insufficient. Ho: are ti e to increase It? Several plans have 0 )een offered. and several ways a-eS ipen. Some of them, however, do not hppeal to men of experience. Not a ew people insist upon increasing the ;chool fund by private subscription. his plan is inadequate and rasher f icious in its effects. The public f schools are supported primarily for v he benefit of the State. rather than t or the benefit of'the individual. If s :he support of the schools is depend- t nt upon voluntary subscription, the p ess patriotic shirk their duty, and < :he burden falls upon the willing few. < Besides, such support is irregular, o unstable, and uncertain. Frequently It is proposed by a few 1 to increase the common school fund t by direct. appropriation from the State treasury. Unless such ap propriation Were made upon the 1 condition ihat each district receiv ing its fart should first make a specific4local effort, the result would be hurtful, as the districts would soon come to look upon themselves as beneficiaries of the State, and would cease to make any effort to help themselves. Only a few years ago one house of the General Assemb ly passed a bill (knowing that iU would fail to pass in the other house) appropriating $200,000 to the com mon schools. How much relief would such sum -give to the -schools? It would increase the fund only 63 cents per pupil on last year's enroll ment,. or .15.75 to a school of 25 pupils. An appropriation of $200.000 disbursed in such way as to require the districts to raise In the aggregate something like $400,000 in local tax es, would be equitable and wise. ? am at once reminded that this plan would not entirely relieve the strain in a few of the poorer counties, and I admit it. Our present plan of col lecting and apportioning the consti tutional 3-mill schooi tax Is not a de mocratic one. That tax is collected and apportioned by counties. Some counties with poor land. lack of water power for -manufacturing, and with no railroads to tax, are at a decided isadvantage. It would have been un just to have collected and apportion ed that 3-mill tax as a State tax, but it would have been just and demo cratic to have made two mills a coun ty tax. as at present, and have made the other mill a State tax. Then the stronger counties would have been "ntributiv a wel!-guarded tax for the support of the weak counties. So~ far-in this State atleast, local taxation bas pro'ved to be the best means of increasing the school fund. It is equitab~le, it is stable, and it is certain until a majority of the people vote it off. It compels the unwilling few to bear their proportionate part of a le~gitimate and necessary com munity expense. The distrIct which evies a local tax knows just where every dollar comes from, and .just where every dollar goes. Moreover, it is usually 'not very difficult to levy a local school tax, if there is only some safe person to lead, for as a rule the wealthiest persons in the district are the rea'dlest to vote a local school tax., Personally I am confident that the most just, equitable, and reasonable way to increase our school fund is to inaugurate a sensible and honest sys tem of retiernihig our property for taX atIon. When you compare the anmount of school tax raisei in South Carolina on each $100 or taxable property. with that of other States, the showing is very go'od. But when you stop to consider that our property. has been returned at perhaps twenty-live per cent of its-true value, the showing is not good. The habit of returning a piece of property at one-fourth its true value,' then taxing' it at 4 mills, Instead of returning it at something. like its trnie value, the taxIng 'it at one mill toc'raise the 'same amount of 'money, is:not only childish business oractice, b.ut It is a training school in -ishonesti.' .Men who offer to return their property at something lUke its true value are actually laughed-at for their artlessness. Civic h-onesty must 'decline unider such, vicious system. Were the real and personal proper ty in this State returned at something like ninetyper cent (and why should it not?) of its true value, the 3-mill school taz -alone would practically double' dur entire school revenue. In 1-07, the laind outside the Incorporat ed towns In the prosperous, produc tive, and :wealthy county -of Ander son was returned for taxation at an average of $6.51 per acre. Marlboro, one of the finest farming counties in the whole South, returned her land it an averige of $5.28 an acre. Or ingeburg is justly proud of her farm land, but sh'e -returned hers at $3.54 an acre. Williamsburg has some noor land. but she has some of the rest fields of. cotton and tobacco to be found iii the State: on the tax books her land is rated at an average f $2.09. In these very counties I have bien shown laud whose owners would not sell for $30. $40. and even $60 an acre. In one of these counties is a school district contain ing nearly '45.000 acres of land, yet the etire real and personal property f the district is returned at $100. 000. What would a 4-mill school tax1 mean to that district? Increasing the tax levy while we reduce the valna- 1 tion of our property reminds one of I the policy of the master.who under took to punish his thievish coachman by periodically stehling back from the coachman what the coachman had stolen from his master. William H. Hand. t University of South Carolina. SHAH'S TRO)OPS DEFEATED. Foyal Soldiers Suffered Heavy Casual ties ini the Conflict. A special dispatch received at St. Petersburg from Teheran says that - it s reorted from Tabriz that Satar 't Khan has inflicted a decisive defe at r yn the~ troops of the Shah. iu which t :he government soldiers lost 800 meni tilled and wounded. Civil war is c CAUSE OF FLOODS. 'ORIK FOR APPALICINS UK G BILL RECALLED. resent Flood Might Have Been Pre vented Had the Bill Been Passed When it Was First Introduced. The Washington correspondeut of t he News aind Courier says the loss f many human lives and the destruc- t< on of thousands of dollars' worth 'T f property throughout the Southern 6 tates because of the floods now pre ailing would probably not be wit essed to-day had Congress passed he White Mountain and Appalachian I crest reserve bill a few years ago, p 1 which so hard a fight has been r raged.On the other hand.such condi ons as are now being seen will neces arily continue until the lawmakers of he land realize that only with the x passage of such a bill and the conse uent holding of the watdrs to flow If into their outlets in a natural way C rill such terrible floods stop. The fight that was made at the ast session of Congress and at the wo or three sessions before by ad -ocates of the White Mountain and C Lppalachian Park reserve bill is well I remembered. Led by Represetatives urrier, of Vermont, and Lever, of 4 outh Carolina, everything possible I as done to have such a bill enacted ato law, but even with the great ight that was made for its success I :ould not be had. Just as it seemed 1 hat success was in sight Representa ive Bartlett, of Georgia, adroitly took he matter out of the hands of the 1 louse committtee on agriculture by I resolution plating it with the com nittee on the judiciary, giving the ,atter committee full power and au :ority to go into the question of the ill' constitutionality It was at first ,elieved that Mr. Bartlett was favor ble to the measure and really de sired to test the constitutional ques tions so that such matter could not be raised on the floor of the House when it came to a ~vote, but it was subsequently discovered that his pur pose was to effectually delay action for the session. The judici.ary com mittee took up the Currier bills, and after considering them for some time passed a resolution to the effect that if the purpose of the bills were to further navigation then it would be constitutional, otherwise not. That was a step in the passage of the measure, but so. complicated was the situation towards the closing days of he session that nothing could be doie towards securing its passage then. The tron'ble about these bills, how ever, which has been of more conse quence than the action of Mr. Ba'rt lett,'is the fact that Speaker Cannon. even in the face of the strogest ap peals, has absolutely refused to per-. mit them to come to a vote. Dozens of delegates from both the New Eng land and Southern States called on him pub] idly and privately during the last session of Congress an~d pleaded with him to yield in his position and alow the matter to come to a vote; to let the Representatives of the peo ple ex-press their views on the floor of the House by their votes, bat nothing could change him. Not even his best friends in Congress could have the least possible influence upon him. He not only told those Represetatives who beggead him to let the matter come to a vote, but the various dele gations also, that as long as he was Speaker he would recognize no one for that purpose. That was the situa tion at the close of the last session of Congress. Representatives Lever and Currier were pledged to their poeple to secure' the passage of the bill. at all hazards, and the failure to secure favorable action cannot be placed to their account The lives that are being lost every year In the South by reason of the floods that 'sweep through the moun tain country into the streams of the lowlands are Southern lives, but the milons of dollars of property that go to destruction repr esent the interests of people in every part of the United States. It is not only Southern money that goes into the South's cotton mills. bleacheres and other manufacturing industries, but Northern money and Easterrn money is invested there It is not known just what line of procedure the two Congressmen mosta ly interested in this 'measure will adopt at the coming ssesion of Con gress to effect its passage, if possiblev but it is reasonabic, to assume, that they will not only continue their work of former years in the interest of the White Mountain and Appalach ian Park country, but that they will redouble their efforts along this line and bring all the pressure to bear on Speaker Cannon to have him yield hf5 position and allow the matter at least to come squarely and fairly before Congress for a vote. PAYING IS VICTIS. silionaiini Robber Has Reformed and is Ein:; festitui.,'n. Chief of Police Creecy, of St. Louis. SIo. is aiding a man who refuses to ;ive his name or the name of the New iork millionaire for whom he is work ug, in an effort to find a man in St. :,ouis and who was robbed of a liamond stick pin. The agent declar ss the robber was arested in Lafayette d.. and was sent to penitentiary der the name of W. J1. Hy:de, in 1905 Now the millionaire higliwayman as been released from lirison and re ored to his family. Recently he eturned a large sum of money to a nan in Springfield. Iil., which he had It May Become "Lord Astor." i The Socialist party nominated Jas g William Waldrof Astor is men-li ioned among government circlesin1 ,odon as likely to be raised to thea e ecrage. The honor is regarded asi o imminent that many are speculat- ' ng whether he will become Lord As- If or of Cliveden. or Lord Hever of lever castle. Campion Corn Eaters to Contest. n An effort is being nmadei to bring; 3 wt -u em'in:: contest in Middle- d own, N. Y. Fred Owens claims the~ C hampionship. He ate corn off cobs a bt would measure 11 feet 9 inches t Elaid end to end. Williarm Portz. a f Roscoe, declares be ate it off 1 4 .11 SANK IN QUIKSAND. IVES UP HOPE AND COUNTS MO- I 3JENTS OF LIFE LEFT. ,.red at Last Minute in Lonely Quag. ' mire all Night, Water Was Above His Chin When Rescued. In the fanciful tales of horrible and rrifying experiences from Poe and [ugo no situation is described more !rrible than that in which Edward 'iefenbach, on Torrington, Conn., und himself for eight hours until e was rescued Friday moring at the I foment when death seemed inevit ble. Like one caught in the quicksands, rith the added horror of the man enned in a cavern of the sea by the isig tide. Tiefenbacha faced the dou le in a lonely pond throughout the ight As his body was slowly~ suck d downard into rife soft, yielding nud his progress toward death was neasured by the rise of the water to v ard his mouth and nostrils until he ould count ahead the minute and econds left him to live. Tiefenbach went to Catlin's pond. sear Harwinton, for a night of fish ng. He was alone, and at that time f night there was no onein the neigh orhod. He rowed out to the south ,rn end of the pond. where the wat ,r is shallow and the bottom is cover ,d with a soft ooze several feet thick. Lbout 9 o'clock, while Tiefenbach was standing in the boat, a patched place n the bottom gave way, and Tiefen )ach through, his feet imbedding .hemselves in the slime. The boat sank quickly, and Tiefen ach. feeling himself being drawn lown, struggled until he managed to et his feet-out of the mud, which was acting like. quicksand, and upon the bottom of the sunken boat. But the boat also. quickly filled with mud, again entrapping him, and thb craft began to sink slowly into the mud. Tiefenbach soon discovered that any struggle on .his part made the boat sink quicker, and that his only hnce was to stand still, with the hope that the -boat would reach solid oot torm, or that daylight would bring some one to his assistance. For hour upon hour Tiefenbach stood, while his body was slowly but surely drawn further and further own. He could tell by the rise of the water upon his body that he was sink ing deeper' and deeper, and as the interminable night wore on it be came of an hour or two, then of minutes, until the horrible death which had threatened so long should overtake him. The man was frozen with horror when the water reached his chin. just as day began to break. Gradually 'the water rose until it reached his lower lip, and he had to tilt his head back to keep it from go ing into his mouth. He felt it rise until his face alone was out of water, and then it was day, and with a last despairig cry he shouted loudly for help. Two farmers heard the screams of Tiefebach and arrived at the 'pond just in time to save him from drown ing. They reached him in another boat, and by heroic work r-eleased his body from the mud and brought him ashore. It will be many days before Tiefenbch recovers fron) his expe rience. THlE PASTEUr. TRN~ATMENT. How the Patient is Innoculated Against Hydrophobia. Many have friends, or at least know of people who have received the Pasteur -treatment as preventa tive of hydrophobia, but few with the exception of the medical fraternity, are familiar with the treatment they receive. To Pasteur, the eminent French bacteriologist, is due the pre ventative treatment that is now ad mitted to be entirely successful-in the great majority of cases. After long experiments on animals he deinon strated that innocuilation of the pati ent with a week virus from an animal that has died from hydrophobia im parts immunity from a virus of great virulence. On this principle a recently bitten patient is mnnoculated hyperdermical ly with a virus prepared from the spinal cord removed from a rabbit infected with hydrop~hobia,' and whose virulence has be'en attennated by being kept for fourteen days in a dry atmosphere after the time infec tion (at the expiration of this time the spinal cord would be entirely in nocuous). On the second day the patent Is treated with virus prepar 'd thirteen days before, on the third day with twelve-day old virus of suc cessively increasing strength, . until on the fourteenth day he receives virus of full strength that can be borne without inconvenience, the system having been rendered Immu ne by the treatment described. Many thousand cases are treated every year in various laboratories1 throughout the world, and fewe cases are on record where a successful cure has not been effected. WANTED TO LYNCH A FIEND. rhe Colored People at Holly Hill Got Aroused. The colored people in and around Rolly Hill were very much excited on ZSaturday. Frank Johnson, a neg ro who criminally assaulted a young iegro girl, about a mile from the own one week before, was arrested ;aturday ai'd brought to Holly Hill or preliminary hearing. The streets rere full of; negroe's during the day Ld the threat's to lynch the man v'ere so open that unusual precau ions were taken for his safety. He ras taken from the small and inse re guard house at night and placed a the depot. where a strong armed -uard kept vigilant watch during the Light. no one being allowed to ap i'oach the depot unchallenged, and .s early as possible on Sunday morn ag he 'as taken to Monck's Corner. 'here seems to be no doubt of the eend's guilt. Says It Ts Not True. The Toledo Times. an independent 1ernig paper. published an interview 'th Senator Foraker, in which he nies in positive terms that he andi :ndidate Taft hadi become fricuds' ud that he would take the stump for1 he presidential tiIominee. Forakeor.< cording to the Times, declares that] .e bas been insulted and throws1 ~wn th a u 'lt to Taft. BIG LOSS BY FIRE. EVE IiAL STORES BUllS isso IN RlNCIlVILLE MONDAY. he Money Loss is Said to, be Be. tween Fifty and Sixty Thousand Dollars. A big fire visited Branchville on ast Monday morning at two o'clock. ieveral of the most prominent Stores n the town were destroyed, entailing t loss of fifty or sixty thousand doi ars. The origin of the lire is not snown. It originated in the store of Dukes L: Co., and in a short time after be ng discovered the store and its con tents were in ashes. Mr. A. F. H. Dukes, who managed this business, says his stock of goods was worth $16,000 and his building $7,000, with insurance to the amount of $13,000. H. Berry Co., next door to Dutes & Co., had stock of $6,000; loss $4,500, Insurance $3,600. F. F. Bellinger, loss $6,000, insur ance $4,500. Mr. Bellinger occupied the upstairs of the building that he kept store in, as a residence, and he says that his loss is about $1.000 with no insurance. J-~ B. Henderson. loss partial, his building saved by hard work. Isis beautiful stock is damaged by fire and water about $1,000, covered by in surance. Clifton A. Dukes owned the build ing occupied by H. Berry Co.,. and F. F. Bellinger: his building was a total loss. The building was a total poss. The building was valued at $6,000 with $3,000 insurance. P. C. Dukes sustained a loss of $1,000, covered by insurance. L. A. Gardner lost $50. no insurance. Black's Pharmacy lost $400 or $500, covered by insurance. Luckily there was very little wind blowing at the time of the fire. It is due largely to this fact that the whole business section of the town would have been burned down. "THE TEN COLiIANDMENTS." Certain Rule. Must Govern the Farm er Who Wishes to Succeed. At an early period it was found necessary to evolve from the mass -of ethical teaching a few general rules for living, called "The Ten Com mandments," by. which a man could be moral without .going tnrough a course.1h theology. Just so, in order to instruct the average farmer how to successfully conduct his farm operations so as to secure a greater net gain from the farm, it is neces sary to first deduce from the mass of agricultural teachings a few gen eral rules of procedure. They are called "The Ten Commandments- of Agriculture,' by the practice of whicl a man may be a good farmer in any State without being a graduate fron a college of agriculture. *( 1) Prepare a deep and thorough ly pulverized seed bed, well drained: break in the fall to the depth of 8 10 or 12 inches, according to the soil with implenients that will not brini too much of the subsoil to the sur face (the foregoing depths should be Ireached gradually.). 2) Use seed of the best variety intelligently selected and carefully stored. (3) In cultivated crops, give the rows and the plants in t'he rowsa space suited to the plant, the soil and the climate. (4) Use intensive tillage durina the growing period of the crops. (5) Secure a high content of hu muns in the soil by the use of legum es, barnyard manure, farm refuse and commercial fertilizers. (6) Carry out a systematic croj: rotation with a winter cover crop oi southern farms. (7) Accomplish more 'work ina day by using more horse-power and better implements. (8) Increase the farm stock to the extent of utilizing all the waste Iproducts and idle lands of the farm. (9) Produce all the food required for the men and animals onl the farm. (10) Keep an account of cach farm product, in order to know from which the gaiinor loss arises. S. A. Knapp. Washington, D. C. SEES DARK CLOUD. Riobson P dicts War With Japan Within Ten Years. Chicago will be Japan's objective and that city 'will be the center of tremendous military operations in the American-Japanese war and that Is bound to come within the next ten years. according to Captain Richard Pearson Hobson. The captain's latest prediction of war was given out Tuesday night on his arriv ai at Chicago on his way to Wiscon sin, where he will lecture at a chau taqua on "America's Lack of Defen "Japan bas been preparing for war with the United States for years." he said. "She has contracted for the building of 11I Dreadnought battle ships in England and other foreign countries under fictitious names. She has replenished her financial coffers and has money to burn and will make fight insini' of, I will say, six years. "Japan is ready." continued the captain. "and the United States is not. Canada can': easily be entered, and through the Great Lakbs to Chi cago , from the north, and through Mexico from the south their troops would invad-e the west, while their battleships would challenge the sea board." In the course of his address Hob ion referred to an interview with President Roosevelt during which he said the chief executive had indicated1 ~is belief that defensive steps should ~e taken by the United States. This statement had a sequel the ollowing day, when a severe repudia ~ion of the interview was given out it the white house. Wives' of Stvikers Shot. In a strike riot ot Dunmire. Va., \eaucederl evening Mrs. Mrair Ka 'alko and Mrs. Anna Cordtlach. wiv s. of micrs. were shot while the wi nen were standing on the hack por-h >f the Kavalko home. Tt Is not nown whether the wounds were in icted Fy' shots fired by State poli. Aid of a Marriage Bureau When Miss Florence Martin. aged thirty-five. and the wealthiest un married woman in Fremont County, went to the post office in the town of Pineville, one June morning to get her mail. the postmaster. Henry HIa-" ins, handed her what seemed to he a strange letter. It u.+s simply a crisp. well printed circular from a marriag' bureau, n whi'. the meritorious business of the concern -.t promot ing we ddings - . was set f.orth ia - % -s ,g1 ow in - terms. She hastily --)!t '.he en velope an: - cir-cular -r in te her handbag. '-s On her ar rival home she read the c ircular again and again, not ing with much inter '] = est all the claims 'made "Circular from a marri- by the bu age bureau." real as to Low easily and for a small pay ment. they introduced - their men and women clients to one another, and how thtese introductions led :o marriages and the establishment of Ihappy homes. . ' '-After three days of grave though. over the wisdom of giving resp-use to the blandishments of the circulaL. Florence we'.t into the li brary and began a search among the photcgrrphs of herself to find one that would do to send to the :-gency. In her lett.,w to the bureau Miss Martin abstained from giving mucn information concerning the proper ty she owned. On the day after Florence posted the letter, Dick Stever.s, the town n.arshal. haprened to be passing along the sidewalk in front of het home and he stopped. to chat witli her for . few minutes as she trim med some rose bushes near the fence. After a week of anxious waiting for an answer to her letter, Flor ence went to the. post officeonemorn. ing and recctied the expected mis sive. Hurrying home she tore i open, and as she did so, a photo graph fell out. It was the likenest of a handsome mid.ile-aged man and the accompanying inclosur stated that th. writer and prospec tine husband ot FIo:encs would ai rive in Pineville the next day to hav a talk with her about the advisa bility of their being jobed in mar rage. Florence almost courted the min, utes until the next day when then csme a knock on the door. "I would like to speak to Mist Florence Martin," sa.d the, visitor who. though of pre-possessing fac lal appearance, and fairly well dress. ed. spoke in a tone of voice whici showed unmistakably 'that he had been Indulging in some intoxicating beverage. "I am Miss Florer e Martin" "You. Miss Martin?" the pros pective spouse said huskily as hi rose to his feet rather unsteadily "Why. there must be some -joke say, is. this your picture?" and hi took Florence's photograph from his coat pocket and thsrust it rlosely' ul before her lace. "Yes, that is. I had it taken-il was three years ago--I know I looli cider but-" said -Florence ii quick, disjointed litt.e exclamation: that bad anything but a mollifyinj effect cn .her guest. He picked all his hat, went quickly to door and bracing himself against the panel was a "bold and shameful decep began to upbraid Florence in no are certain terms for what he declared tion." "I've spent a whole lot of mone3 to conme here!"' he exclaimed in an ger. "to fine! that yor're twent3 yars older than the woman in this picture. H~e flung the photograpia intothe hall and kept up a tirade 0: abuse until Florence coul1 stand ti no longer. She cent to the doo1 and tried to close it. but the fellow resisted her efforts. Then as she was about to fall from her excite ment shte heard I.be voice o' Marshal Stevens sayirg. "What is this man trying to do, Miss M1artin?" "Hle insuited me grrzsly." she cried. "'Make him get away. at once." The marshal put his hand on the stranger's shoulde-r and was about to take hin, to jail when Flo)rence interposed and told the officer tc smpy take him to the gate an.] and make him go on about his way. Stevens obey.ed her i nstructiont and then returned to e:arn of the stranger's business in town. The marshal told her that he was pas. ing her home when he heard the an gry voice of the man at the door They talked for .ver an hour. When thc marhal left the house his face wore a happy iLck~. Sov eral weeks after the visit o)f the man from the' marriage buirean the Pineilie Evening News c'ontair~ing an article of intercest to the wnole con ty It was the story of tho mnrrring.> of Florence Martin and Dick Stevens. A Little Bear Story. During a long journey of 1500 miles down the Yukon RIver, made with a single companion In a light Petersorough canoe. Mr. Gilmore examinea a great many gcavel expos ures; usually cut banks on the Yu kon, or on the streams running into it. On the Noi River. a stream run ning into the Yukon from the south, a vertical bank was observed pierced by a number of holes. .For a little distance above the shelf appeared larger iioles. and an examination of the locality showed that a little bear -as shown by the fo.tprints and clawmarks-had walked along the shelf and enlarged all the swallows' nests that he could reach and drag ged out from them young and eggs. which he had of course devoured. The little fellow's path was strean with feathers. One of the greatest markets in the world for musical instruments jin South Africa, which spends on an average $1.000.000 a year. abouf SOUT11 CAROLINA COLLEGE. The Good Work It is Doing for the Schools of the State. More and more the University au thorities are striving to link the in stitution to the common schools of the State. Several members of the present faculty have been closely identified with the common schools teaching in the State and county schools for teachers. addressing teacher bodies and the public on school matters. Realizing that the high school situation in the State was far from satisfactory, the Board of Trustees a little more than two years ago established in the University a chair of secondary education. and e called to it a man who had taught fot a nearly twenty years in. the common t; sehools, most of that time in South C Carolina. Prof. Hand began by giv ing half of his time to teaching in the institution, and the other half to field e work over the State. Within less than a year the demand for his time was sc heavy that from that time since he has given almost his entire time tc this high school work over the State In the mean time the Legislature has appropriated $50,000 annually to aic the high schools, and the State Boare of Education made Prof. Hand it: State Inspector, further linking the institution to the chools. There are. now in round numbers one hundrec State aided high schools tow and ru ral. These schools are getting th< benefit of his service in buildinu ourses of study. classfying thei-r wor) and urging on the improvement o' these schools. For the first time it the history of the State all the col leges and the public at large have. ac cess to detailed tabulated informatior as to the actual work done in all the high schools of the State. Th. volume of correspondence and the number of bulletins of informatior which pass through this office arc heavy, and are growing almost daily This department of the University i! devoted to the educational interest o he State rather than to the individua' interest of this riistitution. ABOUT FEEDING HORSES. Part of a Speech of one of the South' Greatest Experts in This Line. The following is slipped from .The State, being a part of the speech re cently made - by Judge Henry Ham - mond of Augusta and Beach :Island" Judge Hammond is recognized as a expert on the subject of feedin: stock. "When the .farmers of the souti learn to use more of their cotton pro ducts, learn to feed their horses, an' : .stock with cotton seed 'products, . will mean millions of dollars to th - south, part of which .every farme will save for himself. No report ha. ever shown that injury to a horse ha been a result of feeding cotton see( meal. Feed it every day.. That' what I do. It is not a hot or a colt climate feed. Feed not less than on. pound nor more than three, tb amount to be determined by the age size 'and work of the animal. No. only is: it the most nutritious fo but it greatly aids the digestinfl a . general health and good appearanc.( of the animal. Feed Cotton .Seed Meal with any thing you ever heard of a horse ob mule eating-corn, whole: corn cracked,; ensilage; bran. &c. Don' stick to any one food. Give a variety Change as the price changes. It i:. always best to feed hard workin: stock ground (not too fmne) feed Cotton seed meal is fed .to best ad vantage when thoroughly mixed witl the other portion of the grain part o the ration. If you know what. number o pounds of grain will maintain, you: animal. reduce this two -pounds fot every pound of meal you feed l"m To illustrate this--if yott as- ..ser giving him .14 pounds of -corn. giv Ihim now only 10 pounds of corn anc 2 pounds of cotton seed meal. H< will soon improve and do better worn than ever before." Socialists Claim 27..er Cent. Increas< The Socialist part nominated Jamer F. Carey, of Haverhill, last week, fo2 governor of Massachusetts. Care:. Iannounced that the .psrty had made a net gain of 27 per cent. in member ship during the past year. Collective ownership, abolition of child labor raising of the school age.. and aboli tion of the injunction inf labor dis putes are advocated in the platforwr adoption. Took 5 Negroes to Get One. A brutal crime, committed by a negro on person of Miss Kate Fane. of McAlster, Okla.. came near caus ing a lynching, last week. Seventy five negroes were arrested in a effort to appreheq~d the criminal. Jackies Barred From Dancing Hall. Uted States sailors in uniform were barred from the dancing pavil ion at Oyster Bay, N. Y., last week. because of their condition. The men ae in service on the Sylph, the Pre sident's private yacht. * Rat's Strange Death. A cocoanut was brought to me just a picked up in a Colomba garden. with the head of a big rat fixed Into' the nut, the rat being not long dead. Clearly the rat was up a tree nib bling at or rather being well into the nut, nearly full size, when the nut tumbled and before it could withdraw it was crushed to death betwen the nut and the ground. Ceylon Observer. . Persons who are strongly impress-. aI by the fact that we are receiving more than a million immigrants yearly t-brough the gate of New York city should not forget that we are yearly receiving In the United States ~ about eight million babies, who irake this country their first earthly Iliteracy in Bradi. The curse of 'Brazil lies In the great illiteracy of its men and wonm en. According to the official Gov ernment figures the illiteracy Is 80 per cent. ,h SOME two hundred mdl hands ave been induced to leave Augus and go to New Orleans fa by an agent of the mills in the Is latter city. ft is to be regretted that one Southern city will thus take advantage of the ca lamities of another. Such base ac tion will not raise New Orleans in hi tMaheeman of the country. FASTEST IN WORLD IlERICAN WARSHIP WILL SUR PASS L'SITA NL I? SPEE. aval Officiais are Keeping Secret the Plans and Specifications Which, are Submitted in Confidence. Bids for the construction of ten rpedo - boat destroyers, everyone of hich must be at least four knots Lster than the Lusitania and equip i with apparatus for burning oil Swell as coal, and which~ are to be ie largest ever built for the Ameri in navy, will be opened at New - ork this week. These vessels are to cost $800,00 ach, and for every knot that the ves els lose on any of their trial triis .nder the contract speed the build'" rs will have to forfeit $50,000'of he contract price- to the government The plans and specifications. or: hese vessels are :being kept sestet iy the Navy Department, and they ere submitted in confidence to e te >idders. It is known, however, that-the vas ;el .must have a. displacement '"t east 742 tons, and that te m t tttain on their trial tests a max mim ,peed of 29% knots.anthour, a ed a' .hat will make them among-1~e hst-J. 'st war craft- ever. extendedfIn thsor fr my other country. <K 7 ''' CZAR THE RICHEST; 1 A ' Emperor of Russia is'Papt :fie . , lion Dollars Every Oth& Considerable atere N el d by the fo he Prussian Palite" r' the Kaiser's requestcI 4f salary. .imperor, receives r >f only $45 :alary as- i o eeping with hi >eing $3,5:0,46 4 ears of his ig or -has rec e a, ealthy sul ec s s the , -e has. benafteda early $5,00 n addion, fifl een left t602aI a The Kaser a od. f unparalled m p - conOssere pparel and he o the >r's bill-Tusifo -. ars. s'naj o enable ne eY hotildfee 1L . ravels~ntllg A T r and h13essivene.S s overlood a mans -see a taim too hento One o h hichth ena '-; hat he olO - ut o h~s on1 E a~ thecot ec oyal fmly-eevs.aefVa7-., hile 15,00.Of 'ourth 0gesIno rse, as he spenses an~ for his siv The C~ter(~ he wold. er tes anu - mpiral dd s 0O,0 aees0%4li % and impr~df~ ~l sv -; -lSiberin ~ne revenus, -ame-up tO f .this su .ill the.'~eip ~ ~ io data of any dfr~ rrding tea o~~ which tlieCrre e Ute~ ,PASSENGEB'K Telephone PoleFal Panic.-4Iat t Strapi hang~p5e ~ se death ofWla I~y~~e~lS4 old.- : The baby was-being are yJis & mother, Mrs.Ann~ie I h forced to hang to- apn- ow~ entered on-August 1 She had ti-aveled. onla.hrtis tance-when atelphn pefl; striking, the roof of tecrPse gers were throw toap c>nd before Mr-s. Fialey coti getOto ~' theasie :she was knce or n the Naby was trampled pon. Efforts to savel the hech at the Provifent; paavovsu availing, and he -died.K SEVEN PEROS1RWE 'en Go Out in Boat anidOoyThe At Deer Isle, Maxien VO1 us nf isitors out -of- art ftuwr Irowned by the .ca~pizingoa3 ot sloopl;n Penbo a.o ht sland. TuendaY rlegrZowe r Miss Alice Torr0~ asit0-C Miss Eleanor. Tern-, Wahngto ). C. - - Miss Ke]!ogg, Baltimore Lutd Kellogg, Baltimore. Mrs. Lucy 5..Crawley. Philod h. Miss Elizabeth ,G.: Vans1 Mont olyoke Seminary, Mass. Jason C. Hutchins, Bangor. Maine. General's Wife Murdered. The wife of. Major General Cha~ dward Luard, retired officer- of the :oyal Engineers, was murdered.in de woods near - London,. England. ist week. Robbery -is bhelieved to ave been the motive as her jewel- - ry was taken. - - Tacoma Chosen. Tacoma, Wash., hasa been selected <r the ext convention of the Span h War Veterans to meet. Tabulatedl statement of the County .ate vote will be found on page five. Peope who live in mortgaged ....es oudnt a rt false financial