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K . h ?=====?== w??i6>tcA^ 1 OUR SCI | PAPER N I IJY PHOF. WILLI itmtma ? ? 131 * ~ - ' Inuvrt miWOI lCHIl#?AN hflS ?1- 1 ready been noted, the average length j of the white schools of the State last year was less than six months. To | be exact, the average for the town < and rural schools was 11? days; the ' rural schools alone 110 days. While ' this is a better showing than wc j made a vory few years ago, still | our schools are iu session a little < lees than two-thirds of our own I standard school year of 180 days, or nine months. In other woeds, the white people of the State are giving their children less than two-third* of the schooling which they declare a child ought to ha've. Here again Is n lock of school funds, which our people, 1 Insist, are able to provide. In many rathei thickly settled and prosperous districts the schools close nfter sl> or seven months because the funds are exhausted, yet not a dollar of local school tax Is collected. I know districts with from 50 to 60 white children, which depend upon the pittance of $300 to $325 to run theii schools. Is it reasonable to expect such a district to keep Us school open or to keep competent teachers? In some of these very communitier I have been told, with a tinge of resentment, that the schools are l>ettei than those to which the fathers and mothers went. That may be true, and It may also be true that these same fathers and mothers are hewer* of wood and drawers of water today, simply because they are unable to cope with those who have beer better schooled. He Is a very displcable parent who Is willing tc wltbold schooling from his child or the ground that he himself had few or no advantages. However, short school terms ar< by no means entirely due to lack ol Cfeow A-* " ** '* " M.VUVJ . uu aiigc U.1 II Ulll) hW'lll, there an? many districts which closi their schools at the end of six, five and even four months, with half a? much money left in the county treasury as they spent on their schools 1 know schools which have to their credit enough money to run then . * twice as long as they have been rnr ny year within the past five. It fact, some entiro counties are mak lug what the officials call a gooi" financial showing, at the expense o' the school children. For instnnce Florence county had on hand, June 30. 1907, a balance of $35.R3S to the credit of the school fund, while sh< had spent only $27,030 on he schools that year. In other words the schools had at the close of tin scholastic year a balance of $S.7S' more than the entire cost of th? schools that year. Financially thu' may be a good showing; how is i educationally? Let us see; Flor ence couuty kept her white schools open last year six months; she pah her teachers an nvernge of 12 30 : year; she gave each white teachean nverajje of 36 pupils to teach Chester couuty makes but little bet ter showing. She kept her white ovuuum upt*u wjvi'u Bnu outMouru months, paid her white teacher! an average of $29G a year, and {tare each teacher an average of 3* pupils to teach. Yet Chester count; closed these schools with a balanci larger than the total expenditure that year. I believe in running the schools strictly on a cash basis, and I know it is necessary to cloe tlu books on tho 30th of June with enough halance to run the schooh until the next tax collection hat been made. But la it sound business or common sense to cut ofl tho school year, pay beggarly salaries, and give each teacher too many pupils ?to teach, in order to show n money balance? Of course undo such policy our school hourds can boast of having money on hand. Ar 1 see it, we have more need for mouey on the children. A man could doubtless make a fortune on a salary of $500 a year, if he were to go naked and hungry, and keep all his timings at ten per cent compound interest; but what would h<? be getting? After all, do our people wish to keep the schools open nlue month* in the v??ar? Fle|H?Btedly I have had _____ xiuorn < uiviuvrs very rareiyy opPoro the attempt to lengthen their school beyond six months. Tlieii contention Is tlint the children cm uot be spared from the farms and the mills for n longer period. K.xrept In case of extreme poverty ii , the houies of very unfortunate people, this argument means nothing less than that the child Is looked upon oh a bread-winner. The par :nt Is either too short-sighted o: too selfish to give his child the op portunlty to become e\en a breadwinner. save in the humblest call logs. Such u parent needs to h? shown bow his child mov he trained until ho become! a master of something, and a citizen iis-'ful to tht ; State. Every child should be taught to work?to work intelligently and profitably , but his ultimate suet ess aud usefulness should uot he sacrificed to immediate selfish gain. foot- School Houses and Poor Equipment?There are at. least two! very distinct kinds of poor school houses: The building itself may be worthless: n good colliding may bo unfit for school purposes, tl is posslhble to invest a modest sum of > money In a good school building. What we knon as school architec- i ture is yet in a very erttde and un- 1 developed state, if we are to judge I from some of our recent school 1 buildings. Some of even the larger 1 towns of the State have taxed theui- ( solves liberally to ercet new school I buildings, and have very inferior i ones. Not one cent%of public money . l fhould ho permitted to be used in ; j a school house until the plans of the t building have been favorably passed h upon by some thoroughly competent i person Some of the mo?t common1 e fast ks-mmzm-m mmm 100LS. [1 10.3. J LAM 11. HAND. Jjl 1 iefects lu our school buildings arc , jinall class rooms, low ceilings, inefficient window space, windows set in front and to the right of the pupils when seated, tops of the winlows too far front the ceiling, poor iieating, and poor ventllatiou. These lefects are foinul in the town build-1 luk ituu 111 iu<* vuuai ouuaings. We have some excellent school houses. Among the larger towns the buildings in Florence, DarlingLou. and Georgetown, together with the latest buildings in Greenville, cellent in almost every detail. The Spartanburg, and SumU'r, are exiclleut In almost iW cry tiling. The Taylor school, lu Columbia, Is another excellent bulkling, but I am forced to add that this Is Columbia's only public school building worthy of the name. A number of the smaller towns have relatively excellent buildings, notably St. eorge and Suinmerton. llelton, Brunson, Chesterfield. Fountain Inn. Manning nnd Seneca each will soon have a new building of niodesn type. , On tho other hand, some of the towns have very p??r buildings. The e are in this State four towns i whose taxable property combined was returned lntft yeur at $1,400,000, in round figure*, and whose four school houses for white children vould not sell at auction for more , thou $1,000. Of cuurse these buildings cost much more than their pros- . jnt value, but they are almost worthless to-day as school houses. lu i these same towns are beautiful homes, good stores, good batiks, attractive churches, and even good i barns for the horses and cattle. Can the citizens of these places make themselves believe that they are not Jiscounting schools? They can not < make other people believe It, I am sure. The rural school houses are relatively inferior to those In the towns. Many of them are little better than dingy sheds, unpointed, ugly In appearance, jioorly lighted, poorly ' honti.H mwl unari ??ulj ? IJUippi'd. Many of these houses are lot coiled on the walls or ' iverhoad. When they are celled, hat overhead is often so low that he tallest hoys can reach it with their heads. Not one building in hree has enough window space properly distributed. The windows aro small and placed equidistant from the floor and celling. It is no inconimon thing to Hnd a room of children sitting with their faces oward one. and even two, open windows, while the room at their hacks i? comparatively dark. In 190T?, the Itate Superintendent of Education Issued a pamphlet giving design; 'or modern school houses, which ha; 1 done much towards improving tin ir character. 1 Very few of our schools ore equipped as they should he. Huniseds of good desks have been put in within the past Ave years, but there ire yet scores of school houses seat>d with the most clumsy and unsightly and uneonifortabl" desks known to suffering hacks and liuibs. l'he blackboards are too few in lumber, made of the cheapest material, and the surface is 110 ion?*??? black. lu many of our school* ooms is not seen a map or a cnuri rou? September to Juno. Even ho fatuous cltarts havo i>oon relocated to some closet of plunder. Vere it not for the genius of my friend. Mr. Hughes, of Greenville, uany ot our school houses would ho absolutely without anv kind of globe. The State has very wisely provided hundreds of schools with small libraries. In most places these libraries are used much and well cared for. hut in altogether too many olaces the books are torn to piec??s, some scattered through the neighborhood, and some lost. What e.se 1 can be expected when the school 1 house stands open to every body and everything. A dirty school house is inexcusable, and is a disgrace to a commit- 1 nity. Here the teacher is chiefly responsible. Any teacher, man or { woman, who keeps a dirty school house is rather poorly fitted to train children. You can not readily re- ( flue the tastes of a child who Is | compelled to sit five hours a day in the midst of filth and utter. WILLIAM 11. HANI). | University of South Carolina. SIGH FOR HOME. Wants a Ileal ChhxI Halt of Hog ami llominy. I A dispatch from lyondon to the ' New York Herald says Senator Till- ' man. of Suith Carolina, who is m:ikiUE his first ,;l . v,M uu (Will , London very much, though ho si*, a? in vain for tho ridicules of tin- table of "down South." "Young man." mid the Senator titis morning, "if you will only toll roe whore I can get t.onio real corn meal in this town, you will make me your debtor for life." t A friend who was standing near supplied the Information and the , Senator was effusive in hi* thanks. , "Well, sir, I've had a hard time to ( get something to eat over here. You , know a man used all his life to our . Southern rooking just naturally craves for something that has corn in it. I don't eat beef aud 1 havt tho hardest time everywhere I havt been trying to explain what I meant by. breakfast bacon, but as for corn bread and hominy grits, why. sir. I haven't been able to find a irate of them anywhere, so I just thought if i, I could only find somebody to tell I I C( no w here i could get some corn' ileal I w ould take it to niv stopping | jlace and show the cook how to * nake a nice, yellow- pone of rr ru b tread or an ashcakc. lirompion road. "1 lid yon aay? T am certainL much n< tbllfed " et 'WEAPONS ARK DESTROYED. An Unwritten 1j?iv, IUmsI oh Super tit ion, of ltoynl Houncs. Itor obvioue reasons It was tint ural that the Spanish police ahoult be :tr\ious to secure tlto bomb whicl did nttl explode when thrown at tin royal ?touple. There wau a reusot behind the desire to nip in Ohe bm chit dtp of further damage. Ther< is an unwritten law In the feignlnj houses pf Kurope. says the I,on dm. Standard, that all relied oC attempt! upon royal lives, as well an the In truments used for treating thwound* caused in such attempts ball he destroyed. Thcrv was ; solemn assembly- In Geneva of \utro Hungarian otltrials tc. wiines' the destruction of the in ttrunx n' which caused the death of the Mm press Elisabeth and of the stirKuu post-mortem examination. The cuKtom Is based to a certaii xtent upon superstition. 1>ui mor? solidly upon the deter iuiuii i<<i to prevent the relics from t'niliiu into the hands of exhibitors of sue; tragic nttles. The custom in this matter one was to grind to plecon the wenpoi which had been employed. When however, the dagger was 1: ! *?< with whioli lite priest Martin Mcrir.? attempted to murder Queen !; nb-ll: of Spain, rathetr more than half i century ago. the blade was found '? l><* of such finely tempered steel rhtv it r<*!sted every effort of file an< stone. Soinetbiu? like a panic was cant o when the news got. abroad, tin Spanish pfasnuts Imagined Mini there must, he magic in the blade So ? cabinet was specially summoned to deal with the crisis, and it \vndetermined to submit the steal t? the Influence of acids. This provint Kticceasful. all implements twed foi the like foul purpose have tinder gone the like treatment- knives swords, daggers, revolvers and. presumably, bombs. It was cruel irony that the bnuiht thrown at the young king and quern, of Spain should be buried by u man secreted in the only house in Mud rid owned by Queen Christina. Thiat Jlrst sight, 1h surprl.slng. Napoleon III., in the terror which Orslm"' nttempt Inspired, bid for safou l \ buying up tho hons? s facing; the Tulleries, so that borr lis should li>'t he flung thence by hIf. enemh->. It Ik from places whoso posit lor should guarantee their safet> thai danger comes. Only a miracle invented Alexander IT. from hoin* Mown to atoms In. his own wir i i palace. Tho Grand". l?uke Serge \va assassinated outside the law conn? si St. Petersburg; iflcn. Hobrikofi was slain when entering the rciumc; M. Plehve was struck dead with hi secret police all arc uud him; t!,? ?.ii<k *mi queen or sjorvin perisue<| In |heir own palace. Useful ('limn Cutter. A new idea in rhe se cutters fui use .In grocery stores hns been ja enteo by an Indiana man. In tin majority of cheese cutters at preRent employed the out'.inn blade <>v tends the entire width of the c-heo.,?> on the cutter. The operator is thn? "jC- ^ J c ^|p^E3 Q CUTS ANY SIZK SI.ICC. Compelled to cut. the length 01 the rheese. and where the quantity required 1m small the cut Is naturally very thin. This objection Is overcome in tb" cutter shown here, :\h tho cutting knife extends only one-half the wi.itli at the cheese. The lop of the t. b'e moves freely, the knife being siatimnry and pivotal to a frame at the hack. An arrangement for indicating the size of tho cut Is securei to the front of the table. Tho ease with which a pound or two of die >< nn ho sllcod off will he apparent t :>nce. In fact, the dividing mechanism is so accurate that it is, unnecessary to re weigh the cut. i.s is itenerally done. Costly Wallpaper 1 tesigu. A new design in farcy wall pa er ttattoriis comes from Kat. a Ci ; ?1fo a. nay to utilize cance lled < ,%s. ^ firm ha* had all its offices pip*-.- I wi'h old checks, placed neatly ir? edge. The face figures of :ho hecks vary from $30,000 to $ i ,< tu ind the total for one room is Xg.n it. Kill 1 v.- - "til tn?..UI .,r. n p,ii' iiiiiiiiixK run Ml'tiilul .h>* edges of each cheek-panel. the general effect s rathe pie. sing. f.initio to liiM'linrti1'. M. Hovel, the dirertor Ol the postvftire at Lausanne, has address" ! a tircular to the posial employe in the own warning them that in fat iro onthachn will not he considered an xouhm for nbflenrn from work They nuat either get the tootlt out or ;?t out themnelve*. XKOHO COXSIMH \< Y A i AM:? 'coplc at Xiiiety-Si\ so licgartl \it'air of tlie Nrgiws. There have hoen no further deveipnien's in the matter ol the negro jnsplraey. so-ealled, at Xinetvo :. he prevailing opinion at (J re" n wood nd also at Nind y-Sj.\, as . scrtained y interviews, is that the thing is a take," a scheme hatched up by ou<> ngro to get revenge on other negro i (or wrong* o( hie own. ._gf|{ifo .'JllL 1' * | NEGRO KILLS FARMER l E>l VM EL ( AltVKK SHOT 1H>\VN ? ? , I.N COTTON FIEL1>. i i . V. ' 1 1 , rii-t Itepoi-ts that Negro Hail Ik'en < Lynched by I'nssc Prove False? a lb' Is Lodged in Jail. * J Carver, a young white man about ' i :>'J years of age, living six miles j - South of Saluda, was shot and in- , * stuntly killed Thursday afternoon by i _ W ill llerrin, colored. The killi'i:. took ? ! place in a field, where he was picking cotton, and the negro, llerrin. who < 1 did the killing, it is claimed, was- i of unsound mind. llerrin went to ' 1 I . Carvers held, and without warning . i or notice, idiot him down. Int'orma lion received is that alter killing j Carver he also tried to kill Carver's ^ I wife. who. it appears, was in the * . ! Held. Airs. Carver grabbed the gun ' , land saved herself from a simUm* r??? ,UIC ; v ; to that of her husband. ( v ! N"ws of tho shooting rapidly sproad > , in tho community, and it posse was ? i quickly formed, and from the reports I jus' received they had captured the ( > negro, and It is supposed have lyuclii ed him. Young Martin Mathcnoy, jo . states that he was informed that the l negro had been captured, and while f being pursued was shot, but not fatal1 ly. After he passed the Carver home ? lie heard a volley of guns and pis- t > to!s, and the supposition now is that ; the negro lias been killed. 1 The killing of Mr. Carver was a - most cold-blooded act. A brother of . Herrin was in Saluda last that even ing looking for the Probate Judge, \ !t.i>itig that a member of bis family t ? was crazy, and he wanted to know > v iiat should be done about it. a i From all the reports It appears I that Will Herri 11 shot Mr. farvor 3 hile the former's brother was then ut Saluda looking for the Probate 5 Judge with a view of having him * : committed to the State Hospital for ' tho Insane. It is also stated that * ^ Will Herrin attempted to kill two ' negroes that afternoon.Sheriff Sample * ' van phoned and left soon after for 1 the Carver home, the scene of the ' | killing, and has not returned yet. A later dispatch from Saluda. j Sheriff Sample has just returned to ' Saluda with Will Herrin. who Thtirs- ^ ) day afternon shot and killed Mr. Carver. The negro is suffering from a several gunshot wounds inflicted in . order to effect his capture. After j shooting Mr. Carver down in the Held j Herrin broke hi;; gun over Mr. Car- j |v?r's head, and went and armed him- , [self with another gun. I , I When the news oi Mr. Carver's dcuth was made known. Mr. 11. J t Forrest. Mr. Kunvan. Watson and! others attempted to capture the ne-' . gro, and while doing ho wen- com- y , polled to lire on him to avoid being ^ . shot themselves. , Herrin had hidden in the weeds near Mr. Carver's home, and when ( railed upon hy Mr. Forest and others t t > surrender lie refused to do so, hut r instead attempted to lire upon them, i < hie of the shott iired hy the pursu- ers look effect in tIn? negro's eve and , others in his body. Ucrrin is now in Saluda jail suffering l'roni his , wounds. Sheriff Sample states that Mr. Carver's neighbors assured hint that no attempt would be made to lynch lierrin. They desire that the law take its course. At this hour Sheriff Sample is uii' decided whether to take the negro to Columbia for tnl'ekeeping.The gentlemen who captured the neggro could have easily 1> nched him had they so desired. After taking lierrin into !? M:-tody no effort was made to harm | him. and he was readily turned over Ito the sheriff. S.ieriiT Sample says that Herrin has i 'as good sense as anybody and. so far as lie can see. shows no symptoms of insanity. The negio sips the treason lie killed Mr. Carver was because of a difference arising out of a buggy trade. He wanted to buy the buggy, but Mr. Carver asked him too ^ much for it. H TIIK IIATIjKSS UIKL. J Wo Woleomo Krr (iiul llopo Sbo Will l Ilitlo A woe. We do not know - wo almost fear j to hope? whother it is tin sotting in p of a now fashion, this charming ous- c torn of girls going ahont hutloas, but if i' is lot us welcome it with exceeding Joy. Sho is becoming ubiquitous, ,, t hi:, gii] without a hat. and in the v . tr< < t or in tho stores. in tho parks, wherever sho may l?<?, sho adds ' beaut; to th" IriwlHCupo and pictureolios tot |li> \ |'*W. >:np- v.. lfo; i" ton will tho now- ' old n -toai of i ho fair so\ bo if one of iv results is tlir? dethroning of that awful ro oust rosily, tin? "Merry j-3 Widow" loit, that dlle shape of i ?w i'i :t mows :i swath of disc. m- . : lor' through our throughfares and I ^ ; <>h; h lu< ; ttdded to tho Innvlonc <.f .. i j torrid su tumor. j,, j i < ' uk hope that the now stylo of) j < in initio haivhoadr.o.vs has conio uhout j ;thvoi;.!i I'or.talo roroguition cf tin otornal vority of tin* poot who do-j iclarod lint tho rcoivnint; ft lory of u .woman i.? hor hair, j It may ho that tho girls wlu> aro !hraving convention. d daring their froodom from tlio thralls of tho millinor and making lifo moro beautiful,sa l?\ discarding thoir hats nood on- vo ooiiragomont. For hoavon's sako lot fa it;, all got togolhor and praise tho m>x . to: i' good sonsy. Wo should say at :: tough estimate thit tit" tnatriinon- {a i..I ? h n- ? the girl v.nnout a hat tlr a at ainrt tlio girl with a "'Mr rrt* v < Wido' " v a' ioa.t 1"" to 1. nd ' ^ tlmt shouid In sonn it its troutb i an l.o proved. All hail to the *en- 10 sihie American git' and Inn rrnwn of ta t'orious hair! te p. * wh v hk inuvr ti tx iikr. Tried to 11s?? * ? Cliiinco .< 1*\jiltt in? Hut Site Woiildu t l.et Mini. "I didn't tell > <> <. did I. MilJr" V laid Mr. Ca. i! t?> Lis wife. "tla? 1 aw your sister downtown ju?j lay last week?'' "No, you diun't. Charlos Auiui* j IUB Cavil," rei'lied >1:.. C.i". i\ * \V'iy i IIh?'4 ??uii . ? yu . "Welt, you see?" "Yes,, I sec. You meet the on'y | stater [ have In the world and tn- : stead of coining straight home and telling me about it the an me day. as iny respectable husband would ?a va ioiu, you keep (he matter secret a a-hole week and then ask carelessly j f you have mentioned the lu-.t that ' irou saw her.' "But, my dear " "Don's but me, Charles Augustus ' Js;\Il. I have ' o doubt t irni she sent I lie message b> von. and y\at you i r.ve not only failed to deliver it. but 1 t?y tliis time yon have ?orgott?"" what i t was about. Tt i me :.T this ls:i t j tlie ease." "My dear. It was this way " "Don't tell nie it was that way, j Charles Augustus Caxll. 1 know exactly how it was. You simply lldn't care a straw v hether 1 l:no*.; hat you had seen sister Jane or not )r you would not have waited a vholo week to tell me you had seen ;er." "But I didn't say 1 saw her," Mr. Havil said at length. | "Then I'd like to know what you lid say, Charles Augustus Cavil." ! "1 asked yon if I toll you that . taw her," explained Mr. Cadi. "Well, why didn't you ml! me?" "The reason I didn't toll you was recalls- I didn't see h ;r- that's all. Mrs. Cavil gasp >d and was speech- : CSS. The Deal l?'oll Through. lie had been drinking. That was rery evident to the woman 'ho came j to the door inanswer to his ring. "Shay," lie began alter looking up j Ln?l down the street uoi vously, 'you tut advertisement (hie) m paper hmoi j*;iig?" "I did," sho retdled. "Yor shed yon (hie) would give 1 cood home to cat. ' "Yes; have you a cat you wIfIi to i jet rid of?" "Heslior yer life!" he replied . leartily. She whs about to ask for frithor ! particulars whoa a stocklly built, i mgry licking woman stopped at the i tate and motioned to the man with .he remark: "Jako, you drunken fool, come ! low.; here to me this minute!" "Thanh her?thash oh. cat I want ; :o pet homo for." ho whispered. i 'Shay when" The lady who wanted a feline, ' lowever. quickly -u?sed and lock..! I die door, while lvr culler slunk j loon the su-ps and was led nwny I >y tin; ear. \> ill Street Preference. "1 don't see why S.oik.-andbonds. { nsists on going with Miss Coldust, i when lie could just as well take up j vItli Miss (lolrox. The latter eoir.o* , from old American stock." "That may be rue." replied Mi*. | j.inhustn, smilingly, "hut lu jiroJ bly prefers Miss Job i>* because j dm -omes from water stock, lor ! meestovs wore Itnptists. you know." , ?Judge. IW- - rap-., The Baron?"S<? iiothne 1 must ; si; ly uncle to got out the fnni'ly owels to show you." She "Doosn t he keep thorn in ho window in the dnyt'ine?" i "Jimnel.* ' t>li* was the new tcccher who hr.d list conm that nmrnlir for he tint line, and was now engaged in bo- , uniing "ae'juainled." "What is your mime little boy? * "Sam." was tile reply. "No explained the teacher, "th it , only a nickname. 'Samuel' .3 our name " | Then sin- qu*Ft1onert a br?gtat-?yod | ttle chap silling beside Samuel. "'I suppose my names Mliuut ,' it'll." responded the boy, "althou.tii . in always ailed Jim." A hailv of Note. he war musical, nuite. so she mi > her a Of organdie, cleverly planned, k'lili necordeon plaits r'juuing a i up and clown. And Muted to beat 1I12 land be looked truly sw ?JI. and wo..11 ; frequently harp On being high toned and nil th t nd oi course to 1) natinal, had to D j sharp Liiough to abide in A flat. Pray for Ituiu. A dispatch *roru La Porte, lnl. ys the drouth conditions are s-o sere in Kankakee county, where the ruiers maintain daily and nightly, 1 gill to prevent their homes and rins front being swept away by 1 e that all day services for r In j n held Wednesday in a uumber or lurches. The conditions are so ser- ( us that the railroads have meu deiled to watch the bridges to pro-, ct them In case ot fire, AS W ATCH Mi: VS !IKI.PF.ltf?! llallj Trxim-tl niul Often Show ^ I tUcrfthle Sngnctly. * T ? tng ting* to assist the watch-' nri police is a very simply m\" an id an old private watch- ' ft i o." >; >ston, who forn erly walk- ' ?J a b : i in the South l?ud. "D:;s iiku the work. They en- 1 juv pro* ling around through alleys ' and back yards and nosing into cor- ! cp:? and behind barrels and pile* of ; boxes, and their wonderful sense of ?iuell often enables them to locate ' au intruder so securely hidden that'1 hl? ? won mi never be sua- 1 pected by a watchman. "When 1 ??>? walking a beat a ' large Newfoundland dog began fol lowing me of his own accord. I ' didn't encourage him at ttrsl. but: I let him go along on m\ round* a* | much for compHUN as anything elan.!' That dog watched m?> like h delect- > lie and seenied to understand evnrj- I thing I did: followed me htm every 1 ynr.l. and In Its* than a week kn*-w ^ every house that 1 was employed to 1 r.at'h. | ' In ten day* he was doing a large t part of my work. Of cour??? he t could ttot try the doors, hut nt't<M- 1 the first round, when I tried all the : doore end saw that everything we-?(i right, ull I had to do was to send hint in to search the yard, and he ; did it thoroughly. If anything was wrong lie barked and I ran in t?? e | wha was the matter. Once a back \ door was opon. The genti-ni; ?i of . the house had come in late. lef. the dood unlatched und the wind blow it o; en. The <iog knew it was w rong and barked for tne to come. "Another time 1 heard him barking in b hack yard, and running in found he had cornered a n an hiding behind ;i pile of boards. The dog worked with me for neatly three years. Kvory evening. tu> matter i< wuar the weather, that dog wa? on |, hand at the patrol box whete i reported. On cold nights we would go Into nn engine house to warm, and ; while tlte dog enjoyed the warming hour bp much an I did he was no skulker, but whenever I w,i.t read) , to g.o he was ready, too. "1 lost him because his owner moved out of the city. Inn as s ion B?\ i* became known among tlte dog population that he wasn't wot ! In : his place was taken l?y a hound hat I bed often noticed following it-- in x furtive fashion, af fhottgh he wo tl I like to he of the party, hut di In't want to intrude, and the m>\v dt>g seemed front the first to un lers'attd every thing that ought to be dona und did it :ts well as bis p;odere?> or, ' The fk'Bh'li Juror. ! ? Sent land in a civil i 'il M * Jury- I m-.r pel ten shillings .1 tiny for their '' *? . ice <, and the litigants must la partition provide thepi v. itii luncii. 1 If two i.vseH arn tried c unspent iv el> o.? our day. and the sane j 11 r> iu officiate, they get ten shilling* for each < aso. Hut die most important difffr- nee between an Knglieh and a ScoFish c Jury is this: An F.nelish Jury wli -n : returning their verdict must be unanimous, and if they fall to jurcotJ after a certain length oi timo they !' are dismissed stud the whole pro- | re-dines nre begun ngntn ?I? irmi . before a fresh Jury This is a most expensive mode of administering! justice. In civil cases, in older to " avoid this result, the 'litigants soih-- 11 times agr<e to accept the verdict of ] a majority. In Scotland the jury t can always give a verdict by a Majority. in civil cases after the lay-so J of three hours. In the Hays of lirognns. la there such a thing In the t. ar kn :.s a brogati? Forty years > i the hrttgan fbvo-fJANi was the pim1 j rhor of i lie farmer ami laborer. It j wes cheap- ? I a pair and with the roughest kind of treat meet would | Inst through a season of plowing r.ud j h:*r\ eating. Two puirs were . noug i fc" a vear's wear. At flist tbi-; she.* ' was coarse and hard, bn when v? y pi;i it on we soaked our feet in the! rree';. or branch, until the leather I fcowhld* ) got soft and pliant, when | it would It; itself to the foot as paper i n: : the wall. Thereafter all you 1 had to do to keep the hrogan in tine i fettle was to grease il with tallow . one* ;i week, which rendered ir soft 1 and waterproof. It ought to be il.o Ideal shoe for hoys who make rough house. It takes Marking well and will shine and reflect like a mirror vtiien podlslied. ? New York Press. WHOLES FMumblriQ Sup IVIc3- hincry Suj Southern States ! OOL.U M B SKN'I) US YOUR ? Gibbes'Port; T i } , A caonor-TTiali^pindeed. < It S "It- write. ~ . i , ./* Glbbes Good! ijjy HoX J. <>, C< lie American All-Wrought T ||p D< Split Steel I'nlN >>. 1 ?Iv I I STANDARD DE9T0N C0*U Wll.I. RAISE OTHER CROPS. h'iuiu?,?'s May (juit Cuttun iu lloll Weevil Belt. A movement lins been put on foot iniong the farmers in that sectlou of southwest Mississippi infested by lie Mexican boll weevil to (>oint a ninimuut cotton average next year, ind devote the major i>ortion of tillible land to corn. oats, l'oragc crops md truck products. The movement litis the backing of he Farmers' Fnion and is coninended by the special agents of the ,'nlted States department of agriculure, who are employed iu that secion of tli" state and who hold that i rotation ol' crops is imperative as me of the measures for the sup >rcssu?n Of the pest. The weevil has played havoc with he crop in the counties of Jeffer<?n. Amite. Adams, Wilkinson and franklin, and if is predicted that beore the ed of the present month tt >vill eufer the counties of Hinds, .inroln. Pike and Copiah. This is the condition iu Misslssip>i. bttt it is only a question of a short into when tie* same condition will lave to be faced by South Carolina armors. The boll weevil is steadily Matching this way and it will not e lonu before lie will be knocking it our door. So our farmers may is well pet ready tor the pest by ilautinp something else liesidea coton. The boll weevil has come to day. )" . t le who are true bltt" never itiffer much from the blues. Those who think they have all reigi-.n are the ote-s who most need to \orr.v whelhe rtliey have any. After all. our bread doesn't full I utter side down" more than half le* time. You cannot win men from glistenng sin by a gloomy salvation. You can measure any creed by its iMipu in ch?meter. PIANO AM) OltCiAN* KCONOMY. 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