Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^??_d * PAPER I W BY rilOF. WILL Iwxf MI wrj?.-}fe?^L]?::??Mg3ti^ic-! IloKgarly Salaries for Teachers. The i services of a bank cashier, of a bookkeeper, of a carpenter, and a school teacher have a market value. The market value of these services is based upon what the employer feels that the employed is worth to thei business. What value have the peo-1 pic of South Carolina put upon thej ovuivm vi n ?uue scnoui leacueri Last year the Stute paid an overage salary of $267, a year, or $45.87 a month for a little less than six school months in the year. This salary itlower even by the month than the wages of an experienced dry goods salesman, or a competent stenographer. Ry the year, the salary of the teacher does not compare with thai of the unskilled carpenter, 01 plasterer, or bricklayer. Almost every town of 2,000 people in tlu State pays, by the month, higher wages to its policemen than to its women school teachers. Men teachers art paid a little better, but beggarly salaries have run almost all the men out of the schoolroom. "As will be seen by the various figures I have given, either men or women working in the cotton mills and exercising less patience arc readily making more money than tlu average public school teacher."? August Kolin. in The Cotton Mills of S. C. Is It reasonable to expect the services of competent men at $60 and $70 a month, and competent women at $3 5 and $40 a month, for a few months in the year? The answer involves a very simple question in economics. It has cost either person from four to six years in time, and from $800 to $1500 in money, to prepare himself to teach. And if either is fitted to teach, his preparation fits biiu for something decidedly better pecuniarily. If neither If fitted to make more than $267 a yeat m some other vocatiou, he is on the high way to penury. Why do our people pay uo more for teaching? Is it due to poverty? i nere was .a time wnen tnat explanllou could hav? becu given, but not so now. We have on every hand too many evidences of plenty and even luxury to accept any such excusesnow. The real explanation is hard tc admit. These salaries represent the vlauation our people place upon education. "By their fruits ye shall know them.' Our people rate the education of their children when they employ teachers, somewhat as they rate their land when they visit the tax lister. Our people are well able to pay better salaries, and they will pay better nlaries only after they have come to appreciate th? value of better teachers and bet tot schools. Many of the praises of good schools are mere lip-service. Incompetent Teachers. To disdiscuss this feature of our schools is very distasteful, but it must be done, nnd done fearlessly. Every well-informed person knows that out schools are burdened with a host of incompeteut teachers, persons fitted neither by nature nor by training Such teachers waste the money of th? children, ruin the children themselves, oud discredit teaching itself. They know nothiug about what to teach and even less about how to teach i line and again 1 have sat in schoolrooms watching the blind blunderlogs of teachers plodding through recitations without over getting hold of a teaching fact or a teaching principle, until my very heart ached in sympathy for the children who had to eudure It nil. Yet I have? gone out from J out. sucli scenes to l?e told within three hours by some patron that In that school they had a fine teach er. The travesty of such teaching: h bad enough, but when the patrons are pleased with it. it becomes pathetic. I can put my linger on the names of dozens of white school teachers who could not to-day pass an examination in the eightn grade in the Columbia city schools. Yet to thes? incompetents are entrusted the education of children, and the people ar< sat 1 fled, and are paying to them the * children's money. 1 know teachers by name who go to thciT schooirooms day after day without having studied a single lesson they ore supposed to tench. Some of them do not own a single book that they are attempting to teach. How can such a teacher succeed? If ho has in hitu'nothing of the student. how can he expect to inspire a pupil with the zeal of the student? To such a teacher the name of Spencer and Arnold and Mann are but founding brass and tinkling cymbals. Some teachers and some patrons 1 bank largely on the teacher's experience. Experience is an excellent thing when coupled with other qualifications, tint when divorced front them, experience is to teaching precisely what t< Is to the practice of medicine?It. kills as often as it cures. i Scholarship. ntudlousness. training. and energy are all necessary to thu highest success In touching, but there is another qualification which far outweighs all these combined? manhood! The personality of the toucher Is the first consideration. Is the teacher able to take hold of the life of a child and guide him upward 1 to the limit of the child's capacity? 1 Is the teacher's life worthy of being reflected In the life of every child he ' teaches? If not, he is incompetent. Will your teacher measure up to this ' standard? Why are so many incompetent 1 teachers employed? There are rev- ' eral reasons. Tbo one most obvious ! is. that such teachers ean be had ' cheap. Most people wish to keep ' open their schools a reasonable length 1 of time, and the.plttance In the school 1 treasury will not employ a compr tent teacher for long. Hence, a plus, i as the horse-jockey would say, is \ put In charge of the school. When- t over a school board goes out to flod t HOOLS. ,Ul,| \ to. 2. I; I AM H. HAM). 3 i a cheap teacher, it succeeds In getting a cheap one in every sense. If a man goes on the market with seventy-five cents with which to purchase a dollar article, ho need not be surprised to get shoddy. A school board need not expect to get a $750 teach er for $267. Why will not a $1000 man teach school for $500? Simply becaue he has sense enough to teach school. To-day in South Carolina any competent man teacher of two years' experience can get a uinemonths school at from $ < a to $100 a mouth. School boards are advertising for such. Why should I be willing to teach your school for fob or $60 a month for less than nine months? When corn is selling in the open market at one dollar a bushel, will 1 offer mine at sixty cents?if it is marketable? Does the school hoard hunting a cheap teacher catch the meaning? However, there are other and more serious reasons why we have so many incompetent teachers. There is the daughter of the local trustee who must have some of the school fund with which to buy her clothes. What difference does it make if she has had no other education than that which she received In the very school she is going to try to teach? What lifference does it make if she knows ao more than some of her most advanced pupils? What difference does It make if she never saw an educational journal or a book on the art of teaching? What difference does it make if she is but eighteen years old, and without a practicle of oxoerlcnce in teaching or in life Itself? Then, there is poor widow Smith's laughter. The mother is poor aud the daughter Is in poor health, perhaps. Heally the community owes both something, aud the district IChool Is t he easiest rhnrltv In ln? ,uw. The uneducated daughter can somehow drag through the recita ions, and manage to keep the big )ovs inside the school house. She ?et the school, and the people solace themselves by thinking that they have done "a mighty good thing.' Then, again, there is Mrs. Brown. 70 years ohl. No one ever accused her ot being educated, or in any other way at' being fitted to teach school, hut die taught school Just before th? war. or just after the war. Some tnemy to competence advocates hei lection, remarking that "Site is r nighty good teacher;I went to sclioo o her forty years ago: in fact. sh? larnt mc about ail 1 ever was larnt.' Mrs. Drown keeps the school house open most of the time for six months lrnws $ir?0 of the defenseless chil iron's money, and tlie community feels tranqual over its act o pious gratitude. 1 hope tha t niu not misunderstood in this las example. 1 am glad to know thajoine teachers at seventy years o ige. educated and vigorous, are ah!< o do effective work, even in tin* coin mon schools. Old age and misfortune should be gracefully reincniberet ind cared for. but not at the * \ pense of the education of our chtl dren. Pensions should be paid out side the school house, not inside. There is yet a more serious reasot jf so many incompetent teachersmore serious, because they are lier? under the sanction of law. Hundred: if incompetent teachers are in oti. schools because of the vicious systen hy which certificates are granted am renewed. I disclaim auy Intcutiot whatever of casting any rcfiectioi against any set of persons, hut unde he present system we need not hop* to get rid of Inefficiency among on teachers of the common schools. Le us face the facts: Teachers' ccrtifl cates are granted by the count? boards of education, composed of th< county superintendent and two la? members appointed by the State superintendent upon the reconinien tat ion of the county superintendent The county superintendent must g. every two years to ask the people t< vote for him. Many of the peopb who help to elect the superinten tendents expect a return of favors These superintendents must sit ii judgment upon life efficiency of ;i|> plicnntB to te.uch school. We an sonic of those applicants? Sons niv daughters, brothers and sisters, o men who helped to elect the count* superintendent. Now, it would If an insult to intimate that any hones county superintendent would violab his honor by granting intentional): an unmerited certificate, hut it re quires no sagacity to sec the nnon viable situation of the supcrinten dent In surh contingency, lie ought to he relieved of any stteh embarrassment. It may bo appropriate to give tin facts concerning a few cases of abus? In granting certificates. The writei knows of more than one teacher that holds a first grade certificate, hut that lias never stood any examination whatever, though not exempt by law. Another is the case of a teacher holding a first grade certificate for over ten years, but stopped teaching long enough to let her certificate expire. Later she returned to teaching, and on taking the examination failed to make a grade high enough for any certificate at all. Question: How did she get a certificate, and why was It VollouuiH ' I AIM t?one to ?* ?* K ant examination? Some eounty hoards have made such records for uprightness in granting certificates that any other county hoard feels .ate in renewing oue of the former's certificates: while a few have made such nonviable reputation in granting these certificates that no other hoard is willing to renew a certificate Issued by the former. These are un* [talatable facts. Many claim that good teachers are issured by accepting the diplomas of >eputab1o colleges in lieu of examiuaions. This plan is fauTty. In our ectlon of the country the term col* gy- . jj lego hu? no definite moaning: there is nothing by which one college cuu be legally differentiated from another. Therefore all college graduates are nccepted in the schools on equal terms. It is a fact well kuowu to all educators that a person may in the course of ten years not only fall to Improve as teaching grows better, but actually grow inferior. Besides. some college courses offer teacher training, some claim to do so, while others make no claim at all. Yet another defect must be taken into account: A student with very poor preparation may go through a fairly reputable college, taking only | academic work, only to find himself lamentably lguornnt of the common school subjects which he is required to teach.' The best colleges and the pupils from the best colleges are the most willing to submit to examinations for teachers' certificates. The inferior college and its graduates are very much opposed to these examinations. No further comment is ueccessary. The certification of teachers ought to be in the hands of a competent State Hoard, appointed to that office, and with certain well-defined qualifications. Still, a man or woman may pass an excellent examination, but prove a dismal failure in the schoolroom. Such can be eliminated only through a responsible and competent supervisor. Until some such plan is adopted, we may make up our minds to having our schools filled with inferior teachers. Supt. Martin recommended last year "a beginning in th?> direction of reform in these matters, and the General Assembly showed a commendable willingness to take some action, but failed to do so. William II. Hand. University of South Carolina. ANDPMM UAH VUG III TF.IA.S ONE. Wanted Man to Stop Smoking in Niiii-Stnokiitg Car. Andrew Unrip xio. at a dinner that was recently given in his honor, told an amusing anccuote at his awn expense. "I was traveling on nn Kngllsb I Cflilien. 1 J t ? iiuiiuuuwHiuit last yonr, ue nid, "and had chosen a sent in A non-smoking carriage. At a wayBide station ,*t man board :d tin* train, sat down In my comp'r'.niont ail.' lighted a vile clay pipe. " 'This is not a smoking carriage.' said I. "'All light, goverrci,* sail the It an. Til just flj i li till pipe lieru." 1 "He finished it, then refilled it ago lu. ' 'See here,' I sr.id. 't told yen this wi.cii i a smoking r? rriuge. .f you persist with tlint ,?i:? I shall report you at the next st '.ion to the guard. "I handed him my i ird lie looked at it. pocketed it. hut lighted his pipe nevertheless. t the next station, however, he can. Bed to an other conipartnie.it. "Calling a guard 1 tol.l him v.-ha,* had occurred and u or; ude.l that the smoktTs name end u'dreas be taken. "'Yes sir,' said the guard and hurried away. In n lin- - while he returned, lie seemed i 'hei awed Ho hout ov.<r lue end ra> 1 apologetically : " "I)o you know, si , i! I w^re you i would iu?t pro oeuto ti I man. Il.< Jus', gave me his card. M*?ro it la. He is Air. Andrew Cart ;".o.* " A KEEN FEI-LO /. Robinson:?"nilzon Is ? caustic fellow, always making cutting ?e marks." Dolmui?"It comes natural It was formerly a sword scallo,\pr." I nit It That Kill*. Skeptical Patient (to I'aith doctot)?How do you propose to in.e this pain in my chest, '.odor? Kaitl Doctor?I shall pars t.i bands ovc your chest e few titntt and then tell you the pai? is gone and it will he pone. Patient- Alt. yes! Will you rii e with me, doctor? You (an perform the cure afterward. Doctor-?Wit n pleasure. Patient?Well, take this lr>;if o* bread and rub it on ..our waisjroai a few times and say you have hni your d.liner and you w'll have had it. lJ I he cx|?oriinen- is a snerest we will k'> on with the <;h st cure.? Tit-Bits. I.ovcr of llnltit. "Close shave. ;ir?" No response. "Wot Id you prefei the window closed?" No response. "Getting rather cold eli?" No response. "Trim your tmistach', sir?" No rtsponse. 'Think Roosevelt will arcopt i third term?" No response. "B.iy-Rum?" No response. "Any uews about the murder trial?" No re-pnnt-?. Wbevwupon th? country barber * hu ?as alon? in his shop, took a era f;:catiy refreshed. He had been having himself!-Jt ''.yo. > AFTER IT IS PICKED." FAIIMBR8 LOOSE MILLIONS OF 1MJLLOIIS liY Tin: CnivlfNK Handling of Tlieir Cotton After It Is Lathered and HoinK Prepared for Market. Every year cotton farmers worry themselves almost into nervous prostration over the matters of seed selection, excess of mols'ure, drought ' firing," army worms, rust, boll weevil and a dozen other ills to which the growing plant is subject. itiu when the staple has come to mutuiitand been harvested ( in a more or less careless and wntoful manner.) what do they do? This n>.. ....... tiou propounded and answered I ?y the Savannah News. Beginning with the picking and running through to the thiol marketing there is a tremendous amount of waste, roughly estimated to amount to inosc than a million dollars per crop. The "clean" picker is the exception rather than the rule. The average picker, hustling to get out the greatest number ot' pounds in the shortest space of time, leaves many ripe bolls unplucked to take the weather and drops other open cotton upon the ground to be trampled and lost. In hauling to the ginhouses much more cotton is lost through careless handling. In ginning modern methods have made the losses inconsiderable, which Is also true of bailing. Hut after the fleece is baled then follow the greatest and and most Inexcusable losses of all. The bailing is not carefully done, in such manner as to preserve the eontents of the package in the best possible condition. Tnero is no standard or uniformity in size ol' press boxes, no standar" of density of compression and no standard rule for covering that will keep out moisture and dirt and prevent what may for convenience be called leakage. The farmer will watch his growing crop as carefully as he would a sick child, and then, after the cotton is ginned, permit it to be badly baled and rolled out into the open to take the sun ami rain as they conic. It is not nu tiucomnion sight to see hundreds, even thousands, of bales ot rot ton "parked" in t he open air at a shipping point, the bales ragged and unkempt, and without protection against water or fire; anil the same sort of tiling is true on a great many farms. The producer seems to labor under the impression that his duty to this crop ends when lie has got it picked and baled. He will see lie bales get soaked in a heavy rain without "turning a In ir " or lie will see the bales rolled through liuidpuddles without entering a protest. Hut if he were to see a bug in his growing crop he would have a nervous chill. Had baling inflicts a tremendous loss upon the cotton growers every year. It is unreasonable to suppose that spinners will pay as much for a bale that is dirty and wet and rotten on tlie outside as they will for a bale that is clean and dry. it is against the very common seu.se of things that they should do ro. Indian rotton nearly always readies the spinner in excellent condition, because great rare is taken in the baling of it and the bales re always kept m good order. When the Indian bale lis broken open at the mill there are no 10, 20 or SO pounds to be thrown out as unfit for spinning as is very |often the case with American bales. Hdlcieiit parking of cotton, or course, costs a little more than poor packing and .acre is some expense !attached to tbe erection of sheds. . these added costs are, .11 the long run. real economics. Kural Information. The lost traveler aeco'te.l the freejtled lad astride the sate post. "8o"ny, how far is i ironi here to the next town as the cro\s Hies?" "Dunuo. m:ster, 1 tin t no crow." "Well, which is the best way to hi tlie pike?" "Hit it any way yon want, it ain't got no feeling." "Tnt, tot. my boy; don't be so fneetious and tell me if I can make the next car." "Hardly. It's nlrendi made." The traveler frown id ?- " removed the perspiration from li o brow. 'You appear to be a pretty smart youngster." "Not half an smart as m.v brother, mister." "il'r.i! What made hint smart?" "Why, he fell into a yellow Jackets' nest." GrHiidf.it Iter or <?rnn?1niother. A Hrewer in Philadelphia says that one morning he observed an unusually expansive smile on the la.-e of the jovial German who is foreman at the establishment Au tnt< resting e\ent had occurred at the .lome of tlte German the night before. "1 congratulate you. Hans." smilingly said the employer. "Of course tli" new arrival, is a vondcr?" "Of course it b!" van the cm- | I I ':ric reply. "IVs hahy vays nioie mi ninrfn pot ni^! "Splendid! An lis it a boy or * girl ' I'y Roily!" '.iG exelnltncd in eltn;- j i'n. "In dor oxoitoirsen I had lor?;< t to liiul out vcddet 1 was u gran U faJvl r or a truudmu Jdov!" Preparing to '?oI Kvrii. "Yos," lie said, "I wisli to adopt a girl." "A little pirl?" "No. a pirl old v.no'igh to have on- I erpy and perseverance and one v lio has had enough experience with the piano to make her thiu.% she knows how to plav |t. And |f j.iic think* fhe can sine why s<> nnnb the hotter. I 1*11 you. I am pomp to pot i even witn the people in the ext flat i c\cu it 1 La.e to adopt two niuehal i i icdlgtw."?-Jdppiucott'a, ' i r ' i * ?y 1 lTn" - " HlMl'I.i: D1 VMOXD TF.STS. I'linarjr PNtMilii-nhcia Have llrru Deceived l?y sunp l ultt rs. "There Rie few persons," remarkad a jeweller, "who are able to purchase a diamond oa the strength of their own knowledge and ob-ervutlon and without placing imp' -It conlidence in the n an tvun belt.- t Hone. It is a fact Unit e\eu ; a > 11brokers have often been u.k<:i n y jewelry and percious stone takers. "Although It takes many years jf actual observation and experience before one can become a diamond expert. there are a few simple te-ts which will considerably aid a lunar of diamonds. One test is to prick a needle hole through a card and look at the hole through the doablfui stone. "!f the latter la spurious two holes will i e seen, but if it Is a diamond jhl> ?.no hole will bo visible, livery miiation stone which resemble* a .lr.ieo.id gives a dojble reflection, while the diamonds refraction 's ll.g.O. "'fiiis i3 a dollcnte tost. "bcea'isa i a difficult to see c\en a sharp ai d iefiued object through a diamond, fhe single refraction of the dia iond also allows one to determine an uncertain atone. "If the finger Is placed behind it and viewed through the stone with a watchmaker's glass, the grain ol the skin will bo plainly seen if the I stone Is uot a diamond . Hut if it Is ja diamond the grain of the skin *iil uot be distinguished at all. "A diamond in solid settings niay be identified in the same mauner. if genuine tho setting at the back cannot be discerned, bat if it is a phony stone the foil or setting will lie "Thero is no acid which has any perceptible effect upon h yenuine diamond. H.vdroriuoric n<id. if dropped on a stone made of glass, will corrode it, but will not i fleet a diamond one way or the other. \ trained eye can see the hardue-s in a diamond, whereas ilie imitations I appear soft to the vision of tlie experts." I m ?T- r > ?? .. ... -v : r . Wf I The Soldiers' Monument In the cemetery of Tipton, Mich, was the first monument erected in iionor ol the .soldiers hilled in the Civil War raised in the United States. It was erect#*j1 in and was dedicated 011 Juiy 4, of tiiat year. The t alnr of rxprcialiim. A popular New Knglaml preacher Bays that it his sermon ever stretche* beyond tlte twenty minutes t<> which he mean:; alw ays to limit it the words of liis little daughter rii s in his ears aud lie reflects that some of hi* con grcgation are doubtless ferlii:;; ashe did on a memorable occasion. The occasion was the little furl's sixth birthday, which chanced tc come on Thanksgivinj; ! >ay. She went to church with her mother ami sat quietly through the sit vice. The sermon was unusually pood, the minister could not holt thinking; he had plenty to say. aur. he said it fluently. "How (Sid yen like my sermon?' he asked itis young critic as they walked home together, her small hand in his big one. "You preached awftil long father." said the little girl, "but I beared it heeouse I love you, and i knew I'd ha\e a nice dinner when I got home and forget what I'd been through." --Youth's Companion. A Cure for Seasickness. A rhat with a nardy JJreton fisher man brought forth this novel our? for seasickness. While the old mat told of tho storms that he had beet, through, the narrow escapes he hart had, and the long journeys lie had taken, ho was interrupted by tht question, "And seasickness? Were you e\er sick?" "Never." replied the old man. "and 1*1 tell you the reason If you like to hear?I nevet went on any ship without taking a little mirror In my pocket. As soon as 1 ten hid sicKitess rominK on I looked In the glass, and all symptoms passed away. I not the cure from my father, and 1 never knew 11 to fall." The receipt in easily tried and If it does not convince th? skeptical there Is the consolation that no loss need he entailed la flying it a chance.? P T. O. : - C\, What the Walter Had, v "In Omaha," aays a New Yorker, whose business keeps him on the road quite a bit, "the general breezl. ness of the West Is shared by the waiters in tho restauraute. "A lej.al light of that town recently ntered r restaurant and was Immediately approached by a waiter, who observed cheerfully: " I have deviled kidneys, pigs' lect. and calves' brains.' Have you?' coolly asked thr lawyer. 'Well, what are your iron to me? I came here to eat." " A SAiiToniAfj STAR. Consid ?. ,?!?le Rouht as to tin* "W'linr. about*" of Miss Joiios. ? on. oo ored, had route to ?) . : < t his fittuce. Miss Jasmine , :?> c ill nn afternoon appoint* 11 . i. N t 'lu.lins; tlie lady at the m.s; li'.'-.v trystlug place in the front yard. Mr. Jackson leisurely , ?5tr?v:v,i around the house, thinking | ? would probably coir.e upon her t)i -re. The lady was yet not to he found, but her mother was discovered on the back porch doing the fnuv.iy washing. Approaching with his mo t pompous air. the future son-in-law inquired. "Mis' Jones, can yr' tell me anything of de wharabouts of Mis' Jaomiue dis I'm nftahr.oon ?" "l)o wharabouts of Jasmine, did you say Mistah Jackson puzzled the oid woman looking up front her tuli. "Ye 'nt. dat's what 1 say, de whnrnhouts of Mis' Jasmine." "\Ynl," muttered ?iie old nearest as sin- ht-iuin hastily to overhaul the contents of (he 4 il>, "if <!< > nln t he:.h. I reckon she's done pot 'em on."?Brooklyt Life. JUNCI 1.10 VA' DKVILI.R. "Wiirp a lire roi-s out. where do s it po !" The monkey ask d (he '>|?e, "Can't say," said the ape, "Yet niany's a time I've si - Ii a tile escape." CLASSIFIEDnqLUiyiN wAvidTivr I'OH S.M.IO?Coiiiiiioii 1 11i 1?!.ibrick red color, Immediate dcliverj I'riei ; upon application. f.tmdeii Press lit i? k Co., Camden, S. <'. \V.\ VTKli?l'ii... i.. . i.......i.. i ""uf.111, ivm rush. I'or pari miliars address Sumter I.anther Co., Sumter, S. ( I OK S \ 1.1:?One .r? horse po\v< i Itlnkeslee Gasoline Kngine. Cost over $l"0. Will lake $100 for it. $.">n repairs will Ret it In Rood condition. Apply to .Jus. I,. Sims, Or(II!?chtl!'<r, S. C. TKACIIKHS?TlUsri'llS. We secure school, for Parlous and have litany excellent vacancies. We recommend teachers to trustee and seil mIii.oI furniture of a. kinds. Write. Southern Teachers' Agenry, Columbia. S. < WAMMI)?Clerks. rot ion buyers, farmers, warehousemen and others to learn grading and classifying cotton in our sample rooms, or through correspondence course Thirty day scholarship completes you. American Cotton College, Miilcdgeville, Cm. I'lANO AMI OIUiAN CCOMhMY. If you an? Interest.>?t it; th" put ;hase of a I'lANO <>r an (MUiAV, \vt want t"t sell you one. l?on't think yon inn ' go to sunn mail order nou e In buy a I>w ; . i d piano or organ; in?r oip id'1 of -kmth Carolina to net tl;e he piano >r organ. We have a great variety >f grades, and till style . at price, - hich cannot tail to in'ero 1 >ot; vYo are taanufs'ct ttretv f. - torv n iresentatives for t- vera I of the largest and mot t famous malfrs of danos and organs. We t.tUt old in "t rnmenls in c\hange and make most liheral terms .f payment u> those who wish to my on time. No hon e quality of tianos and organs considered can indersell tts. Twenty-four years of air dealing in Columbia ami thorn h...? vs..iitli (Vi r< o i n.i i our leior.MlCt and guarantee. Write us at unco for ciiluli.v; prire and terms. Miiloiir's Musio ('mImuiIiui,S.C rianos mill Oniiiis. 37500 Square Feet F!o Pumps, Packing, Pull Pipe, Fillings, V; . . . WHITE EOI! I'll Southern States c o i_ u m r ? l'Uli S.'/')!) I H If H iY i it S r,I^T!F,S5i K- 2 3 PMXI: StNGL I r h ? ??. k .? *. V. finrrl' VJ U' VI Cicirs M* *- *1% i ??1 ' (.llihr . (iMttt.ir ______ 1 ' " THE ONLY HOUSE IN rUUfYlNG TIIK "Oiifjinal Genuine Gs Carrying KubHor oim! L vVri c us for p' ic\s on anvthing in M? COLUMBIA SUPPLY 825 West (iervit s Strict. ( BRYAN FACETIOUS roi\TKI> ClllTHTSM OF TAFT AND KOOSKVKLT. , Many Thing* Willi Kegm-d t? Which llt'iiiiblicaiis I In vc Coinc to His Way of Thinking. William j. Uryan left Mnrr.n. . Xeh.. Tuesday for Chicago and liu.s i begun a tin -? campaign tour. which win carry hint into the middle West, the eastern states ml back through the West into S at It Dakota before returning he- 0. Perhaps no cent news afforded democratic candidate for president so much interest as lite announcement that Sir. Tart proposed making a campaign tour. Mr. Uryau regarded his opponent's decision a distinct vindication of his course ; in the present, as well as ills two j previous campaigns, when lie treked ove the country and delivered sixty i speeches. \ lien asked if he had any coalmen to make on the subject. Mr. 'tryan said: "Well. I am getting a great deal of consolation out of the way the pre ident and Mr. Taft have been doing. 1 used to lie called hard mm es because | advocated an income tax and now the income tax lias been endoisml by the president and Mr. Tuft. I used to be bitterly denoune d because I favored railroad regulation. Now the president and Mr. TaP have brought that reform into popularity and I am 110 longer conjsidi-red dangerous. I used to get a good deal of criticism because 1 tutored tariff reform, but now tariff p to. in litis become so u'-g?M)t that ^ ^ xdr Tal't is willing to have a speeia. * session called immediately after InI a tig a rat ion to act on the subject. It i nl to be that when I talked about independence lot' the Filipinos 1 was told the American Hag never came down when it once went up. Now whave a Kepublicut eatididnle lor the presidency who believes the Filipinos must ultimately have indepeu depce. - -1; : t | have reason to rejoice ove1' tin fact that some of the things 1 have done are now viewed in a more favorable light. When I made some nit.. I.tf-ivil.lt I t'l I mir.ht discuss political questions boton more poops', Ili?* Republican pallors ridiculed mo and called it nn:! hnitiod. hut Mr. Tuft litis lilted tlio phoiuiKfiiph to oiniitoiico li> talking in; i it hiniHoir. "Ami now my greatest sin is to l?o ;i virtue hy imitation. Suroly unit at ion is tIn* sincerost form of II a*? " t When I wont out campaigning ,iu iS'.tO ami Hhhi Ihov saiil it was deioagogie t?i run around ovor ilio oou itri hunting for volos. Now it. lis eminently jiropor since .Ms. Taft is gr.i 'i; to do it, and I hopo tlio HoPii 1>Iiotiii papors will mako duo apologies. I'hej said in I Mm; and 1 tltat I I v as scared ivlii'lt i inado s|>oorlios ! fro-a tin- roar ?Mid of a train, and I i wa and tlio ro.suit showed that I had ! roasons to ho. I havo boon wondering whotlior litis explanut ion world ho given wlion .Mr. lat'f startout and who!lior tlio rosnil will Intin tinio wiMi him that it was with ; mo. "It is hard foi us to koop our patoiits from being infringed on this year. 1 am afraid thoy will try to hat o a campaign fund hy popular i pop I riliut ions next." J A nod Veteran t'oinuiits Suicide. At Itirminghnin yostorday lloh<Mt Witifo. an old totoraii. shot himself. A ft or all. our broad doosn't fall ; "bultor sido down" tnoro than half I t ho tlmv. Those who think tliox havo till ret ligi >ii tiro tlio oip's w ho most need to ; worm whet ho rthoy liavo any. I.ols of i>?m?j#l?* li*t tluflr ?.l;iiI\ innnit:i -;m?iI w hi).' tliey pray for liult'T : i <1 mill M'sar in spivafl on it. I Women .lump at rnurli' ions that arc anything but alarmin i?. I'll" abuse of worship at- an ml din ant |?r< vi-nt its value as a help. or Space Covered With eys. Belting, s UPPLY Co MP ANY 3 1 A. S. O I yoUKOXI.Y. 2. if Next f|I| Week! j ::I? Watch V This I sL KI ACI K. >11 plii'i" timlx i" m In. *? . in * ini in 'in I , lull nil M| |i 1 ilmil I'l ?S| chwuvCI, ^J| / Civ V-? Hi- .IMu.h:n ?> Mllhind* II li m ' l.i *> C. ' C()LIJMI)JA \>Y,T\IumV s' ' ? P*r. mM. 1