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! / - j i r * , iOVERLOADED SCHOOL CHILDREN By Prof. W. H. Hand. The writer is a devoted friend to the public schools, feelingly sympathizes with the teachers in their problems and has unbounded faith in the merits of modern education. However, he is not blind to the faults of the schools or to the shortcomings of the teachers. Perhaps the grayest fault of the present-day public school is its overloaded course of study. The school is overloading the pupils with subjects and with books. New subjects are constantly being introduced into the schools; almost every subject is being, from year to year, subdivided. and each division calls for a book and is given a place in the schedule of school studies. Not only the tendency, but the actual practice, is to give to the pupils a mere smattering of many things and a mastery of very few. To see school children from 8 to 14 years of age struggling through each yea? with six, seven and eight school studies, exclusive of writing, drawing and music, ought to cause teachers, school boards and parents to consider the end of it all. The mentally strong and physically robust, and the mentally weak and physically weak, are all given practically the same tasks within the same time. The law protects the child from overwork in the mill and the mine; the overloaded horse and the underfed mule have some protection at the hands of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Who is protecting the overloaded and underfed child in the schools? Recently much attention has very properly been directed to the sanitation of school houses and the general ?1 1 -t:u r_ nvciitii ui dcuuui cuuureu. is it | not time to turn some attention to another phase of the children's welfare? The conditions under discussion are not the fruits of a morbid imagination. To see them one has but to look about him. The schools throughout the State have just opened or are about to open. Look at the book lists of your children; look at the load of books the children lug to and from school each day. Can the normal child master and assimilate what he is given each year? Is it any wonder that examinations in all these books give children nightmares? Would it not be far better, more sane, to give four or five subjects at a time, and to master these, than to browse over seven or eight? Loved Stonewall Jackson. At a meeting of Confederate veterans held in Norfolk, Va., Friday, Jefferson Shields, the aged negro cook of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, made a little speech about Gen. Jackson in which he said: "I love young men because t.hf?V nrf> strnnnr T Mown ? A IV T VV* ATA ai OV/ Jackson because he was a strong man. He was a strong Presbyterian and didn't mean no foolishness. Marse Jackson always laughed and shook hands with me whenever he met me on de road and said: 'Jefferson, don't you go to the front; I want you to keep out of danger,' Love such a man as that? How could I help it? T'want no danger I wouldn't have faced for him." GALLONS PUT UP D I> T I? IN JUGS. k l\l\J IZA EXPRESS I CORN WHISKEY. 1 Gal New Corn.. $2 10 One-Year-Old Corn 2 35 Two-Year-Old Corn 3 00 Three-Year-Old Corn 3 25 Old Mountain Corn 2 75 Old Private Stock Corn Pocahontas Corn Old Process Corn Primrose Corn, old and mellow Sweet Mash, white as spring water, 10C RYE WHISKEY. Gibson Old Times ... 3 75 Old Prentice (case goods) Cascade Old Taylor 4 (X) Mellwood (bottled in bond) 3 75 Overholt Jefferson Club . 3 75 Old Henry 3 50 Savage Mountain Rye .... 3 50 Old Grand Dad 3 50 I. W. Harper Paul Jones Rye - ?. I Rose Valley Rye 1 Sherweed Rye.. Excelsior. 2 25 Hoover's Private Stock Rye. .... Mellwood 4 50 Wilson Rye -..-I Green River 4's..-. Calvert 1 MALT WHISKIES. Hoover's Old Malt 3 25 Rooney's Malt 3 50 Duffy's Malt r GINS. * I Booth's Old Tom Turkey Gin 3 50 Swan Gin 2 50 Holland Gin 3 00 NO CHARGE FOR J W. H. HOOVER & CO., Origin of Cottonseed Oil. It has recently been discovered that the Chinese were the first to discover the uses of cottonseed oil. These ingenious people, centuries ago, learned to crush the seed and burned the oil obtained in their crude hand lamps. The phlegmatic celestial, however, makes little of inventions and discoveries, and is not. so ontror to let the world know of his accomplishments as he might be, so, for a great many years after cotton raising had become a great world industry, the seed was considered worthless, except to reproduce its kind. In fact, it was considered injurious, both to feed animals and to scatter upon the land. This shown by some ; of the early laws in many of the Southern States. The natural result of these laws and super-' stitions was the piling up of huge mounds of seed on tracts of worthless land, surrounded by fences, which were house high, ! bull strong and pig tight, as it was against the law to run the seed into the streams, for it was considered injurious to the fishes i even. The goat was exempted. Nothing could injure the goat, and he was allowed to winter at his pleasure on cotton seed. So i it happened the "Billy" became the discoverer of the wonderful feeding value of cotton seed as a flesh and fat producer. It was also discovered that cotton seed was a most valuable fertilizing agent, equal to the best Peruvian guano and the dump heaps soon disappeared, as the knowledge became current among the cotton planters. The beginning of the oil industry may be said to date in the year 1851, when cotton seed oil was awarded a prize at an exhibition that year and people began to look into its uses. From that time the growth was rapid until now, according to latest statistics, there are nearly 1,000 cotton seed mills in the United States alone, and there is a demand for every pound of cotton seed meal produced by these mills. ?????.???._ TAX NOTICE?101 O. Office of the County Treasurer of York County. Yorkville, S. C., Sept. 15, 1910. Notice is hereby given that the tax books for York county will be opened on Saturday, the 15th day of October, 1910, and remain open until the .'list day of December, 1910, for the collection of State, county, school and local taxes for the fiscal year 1910, without 1 penalty, after which day one per cent, penalty will be added to all payments made in the month of January, 1911, and two per cent, penalty for all payments made in the month of February, 1911, and seven per cent, penalty will be added on all payments made from the 1st day of March to the 15th day of March, 1911, and after this date all unpaid taxes will go into executions and all unpaid single polls will be turned over to the several magistrates for prosecution in accordance with law. For the convenience of taxpayers, 1 will attend at the following places on the days named: At ('lover, Thursday and Friday, October 27 and 28. At Yorkville from Saturday, October 29, to Tuesday, November 1. At Coates's Tavern, from 12 o'clock, Wednesday, November 2, until 12 m., Thursday, November J. At Fort Mill, Friday and Saturday, November 4 and 5. I At Rock Hill from Monday, Novem i? i i, w oaiuraay, novemDer 12. And at Yorkville from Monday, November 14, until the 31st day of December, 1910, after which day the penalties will attach as stated above. HARRY E. NEIL, Treas. of York County. Old newspapers for sale at The Times office. I IQT olJR motto? ^ * Pure Goods. Honest Dealing. 'REPAID. 2 Gal 3 Gal 4 Gal 4 Qts 6Qts 8Qts 12 Qt $3 60 $5 35 $6 85 $2 35 $3 25 $4 25 $7 00 4 10 5 75 7 35 5 00 7 00 9 00 3 00 4 50 5 50 9 00 I 5 25 7 25 9 25 4 90 6 90 8 25 2 75 3 75 5 25 7 25 3 00 4 25 5 00 9 00 3 00 4 25 5 50 9 00: 3 25 4 60 6 (X) 9 25 3 50 4 90 6 25 9 50 Pr<x>f 2 75 3 75 4 75 7 00 8 60 12 75 16 00 5 50 7 50 13 50 7 10 10 50 13 00 4 00 6 00 12 00 12 00 5 50 7 50 13 00 5 00 6 75 12 75 7 60 11 25 14 00 5 00 6 75 13 25 7 10 10 50 13 00 4 75 6 75 13 25 - - 4 50 6 85 ... 12 50 7 10 10 50 13 00 4 00 5 80 . H) 00 6 60 9 50 12 00 4 00 5 75 10 ()0 6 60 9 50 12 00 4 00 5 75 10 00 6 50 9 50 19 no - o 00 7 00 12 25 4 00 5 75 7 50 10 00 .... 4 00 5 75 7 50 10 00 L - -- 4 50 6 85 8 50 12 00 1 25 2 25 3 25 4 50 6 50 4 00 5 75 7 50 10 00 5 00 7 50 _ 12 75 .... 5 (X) 6 75 .... 13 25 4 50 6 85 .... 12 50 11 5 90 8 50 11 00 3 75 5 50 7 50 9 50 6 60 9 50 12 00 4 00 5 75 .. 10 00 4 00 5 75 11 00 | V- 5 00 7 10 .... 13 00 ! 6 60 9 50 12 00 4 00 5 75 10 50 1 4 60 6 75 8 50 . 1 6 60 8 25 10 00 UGS OR PACKING. Inc., ; vi- * rr liMTr THE FORT MILL TIM ' i hi i in mi i WE / I We are after y Values ever offei unwary, but the : other store in D Seeing is belie^ various lines of n satisfied custome: cents value and c EVERY DAY IS SALESDA' A lot of Sample Slioci dies and Children at 10 Dress Goods in Wool an Suiting that retails at 25 at 15c per yard. Nice line of white and col | poods, worth 15c to 25c, tl selling at 8c per yard. Brown Sateens and 40 inc 10c and 12 l-2c values, at 7 Calico, Ginghams and 8c and 10c values, at Gc. Colored Calicos and si Ginghams at 5c per yard. Lot of Lawns, Calicos an at 3c per yard. Nice lot of Ladies' Ski thing that will interest you Best Oil Table Cloth, per Namrog Damask Table C The above are your fall and win C. B. N NOTICE OF ELECTION. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of York. Notice is hereby given that the General Election for Representative in Con gress will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the county of York, on Tuesday, November 8, 1910, said day being Tuesday following the first Monday, as prescribed by law. The qualifications for suffrage are as follows; Residence in the State for two years, in the county one year, in the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months, and the payment six months before any election of any poll tax then due and payable; Provided, That ministers in charge of an organized church and teachers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six months' residence in the State, if otherwise qualified. Managers of election must require of the voter the production of a registration certificate and proof of the payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed and collectible during the previous year. The production of a certificate or the receipt of the officer authorized to collect such taxes shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. Refore the hour fixed for opening the polls managers and clerks must take ana subscribe to the constitutional oath. The chairman of the hoard of managers can administer the oath to the other managers and to the clerk; a notary public must administer the oath to the chairman. The managers elect their chairman and clerk. Polls at each voting place must he opened at 7 o'clock a. m. and closed at 1 o'clock p. m., except in the city of Charleston, where they shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 6 p. m. The managers have the power to fill a vacancy; and if none of the managers attend, the citizens can appoint, from among the qualified voters, the managers, who, after being sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election, the managers and clerk must proceed publicly to open the ballot boxes and count the ballots therein, and continue without adjournment until the same is completed. and make a statement of the result for each office, and sign the same. Within three days thereafter, the chairman of the board, or some one designated by the board, must deliver to the :ommissioners of election the poll list, the boxes containing the ballots and ES, OCTOBER 27, 1910. IRE Aj PATRC our patronage with tl red in Fort Mill. Thi: goods are here and ; section offers the bar >AILY AT vmg. If you will pay lerchandise we carry, rs we already have th; >ften more for seventy t AT THIS STORE. READ T Men's and Bcr s for La- ? , Men s *5c and $. Ic UP' Men's 50c work , ~ Men's 25c work id Cotton. Boys, ghirts afc 1 to 50 cents, Men's heavy Un suit. lored Dress Men's summer tat we are per garment Linen Collars t\ h Percales, . , ? c per yard. A Sood Sun Outings. Tobacco at 5c p Half Hose, 5c ar lort-length A lot of Men's $ 43c each. d Cambric Men's Duck Hui Men's Kahki Pa: rts, some- Nice lot of mer , at 98c per pair, yard, 18c. Boys' long Pants :ioth, 15c. $1 to $2, now 48c. only a few of the ma ter goods and I will sa 1AGILL, written statements of the result of the election. Managers of Election?The following managers of election have been appointed to hold the election at the various precincts in the said county: Hot h?l?I R KV.../J I I nr V. m-r. * VI U. U . illt IIUl^, YY. | N. Wallace. Hethany?John A. Ratteree, Sr., J. J. Howe, Cleveland Goforth. Blairsville S. G. Carroll, J. R. Duncan, G. W. Good. Bullock's Creek?W. B. Good, V. D. Howell, F. H. Horton. Clover?J. E. Jackson, A. J. Quinn, F. H. Jackson. Ebenezer ?S. W. Barron, T. A. Matthews, J. E. Barnett. Forest Hill -J. D. B. Currence, A. S. Hand, J. E. Harper. Fort Mill ?E. W. Kimbrell, D. A. Lee, Fred Nims. Hickory Grove ?W. I.. Slaughter, W. E. Seoggins. J. T. Smith. McConnellsville?J. F. Ashe, R. E. McCleeve, L. B. Ashe. Newport?J. A. Hayes, J. A. McFadden, A. T. Neely. Ogden?R. L. Smith, M. B. Dunlap, F. W. Herlong. Piedmont?A. C. White, W. C. Dickson, J. L. Martin. Rock Hill- J. II. McFadden, W. B. Byers, J. C. Witherspoon. Sharon?J. I). Quinn, J. C. Hope, J. H. Bigham. Smyrna--J. N. Quinn, W. W. Whiteside, John McDaniel. Tirzah W. M. Barron, R. C. Jackson, J. W. Youngblood. Yorkvil'.e?Joseph Hart, R. E. McFarland, E. M. Williams. Coates' Tavern ?G. A. Gettys, W. S. I YA 1. ? tii-nniif, rrariK onuungiaw. Aragon Mills A. C. Fennell, J. R. Comer, L. D. Pitts. The managers at each precinct named above are requested to delegate one of their number to secure the boxes and blanks for the election, the same to be had of J. L. Sanders, clerk of this board, at the court house, during Saturday, November 5, 1910, between 10 a. m. and 5 p. m. R. W. WHITESIDE, Chairman, H. M. DUN LAP, D. C. KIMRRKLL, Commissioners of Federal Election for York County, S. C. October 7th, 1910. FOR SALE -Several hundred cords of splendid four-foot pine wood and two-foot oak wood, at $9 per cord delivered or $2 at the woodyard, two miles from town. T. H. MERRITT. = FTER > )NAGE ^ ^ ? 1 L -1- * ic gicctiesi snowing o 3 is no idle boast to cat the prices speak for t gains that are to be for MAGILL'S this store a visit and lc you will agree with t at this is the place to g -five cents. HE FOLLOWING PRICES AND YOU V*' Furnishings. I Boys' Suit L Dress Shirts at 38c ^en s an( Shirts at 38c. These Shirts at 18c. Boys 50c 4C A line of 1 derwear at 75c ])er to ' Men's Ov< Underwear at 13c I still ha^ vo for 5c. that I offer Lanterns, -cured Chewing Tin Dish ] ir>r nliiff ? 1 * ? x-?o- I <s-qt. /\gai 1 3-qt. " id 8c. 4-qt. 44 2.50 Sweaters, now 10-qt. 12-qt. 44 iting Pants, 69c. Agate Frj rQ A nice lin< nts, bJc. teresting pri l's Pants at $1.48 Pocket I 5, former price was lery ftt gr ny bargains I have, ive you a considerable Fort Mil T. W. DIXON T. .J. WITHERS Utensils from the cheapest Tinware to tht We are expecting you to call to see us Dixon-W itherspc 2 1 South Tryon St. Marble and Granite ; ?????????^? Monuments. A large stock at prices from $5.00 up. Call and see the line at our storeroom, Boulevard and Palmer streets. Phone 1618. Write and let us call and show designs. Queen City Marble & Granite Works, I Charlotte,! IV. C. Take Dilworth street cars to reach our plant. I roiiR f Money-Saving ch the eye of the :hemselves. No J ind )ok through the he hundreds of et one hundred WILL PROFIT THEREBY, ;s, $1.98 to $3.48. 1 Boy's Caps from (>c to ; are genuine bargains, and 75c Hats, now 25c. Men's Sample Hats, worth I 37c and (>7c. crall Pants at 34c. Tinware. ;c a lot of Tinware left I at the following prices^ each, 35c. Pans, each, 10c. ,e Coffee Pots, each, 20c. Rice Boilers, " 20c. Dish Pans, " 20c. ing Pans, 3 for 10c. e of 8-day Clocks at an in- I ice. tnives and Table Cuteatly reduced prices. Come here for sum of money. i, s. c. I . il'OON O. M. NORWOOD Going to China >r Chinaware is not neceessary since The New China Store fTers such splendid values in all kinds f Domestic and Imported Dinner /ares. We have for your parlor, the pretest Japanese Art Pieces; for your bed>om, Toilet Sets from the cheapest to le best; for your dining room, an eleant line of Table Glassware, Damps, able Cutlery and Carvers; for your itchen, the best there is in Cooking best Enamel and Aluminum Ware. i. )on Company, Charlotte, N. C.