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I OUR SCHOOLS. PAPER NO. 4. BT PROP. WILLIAM B. HAND. mmm Change of Teachom—The frequent change of teachers is a constant brake and clog oh the progress of U19 school. It robs them of anything ' lik<§ an unbroken course of work and fixedness tot policy. Every new teacher Introduces some-new- feature Into the work of the school—per haps a good feature In Itself, yet no ^.bfUer thap what, ll; displaces. It requires readjustment to,.install any thing new, and the time and fric tion 'ate a loss, unless the change is decidedly for better. Generali”- speaking our best schools are those which have the fewest changes In the teachers. It requ^es at least one full session for a teacher to become acquainted with his patrons By becoming acquainted with patron I mean far more man mere social knowledge of them. I mean an ap preciation of their tastes and the!.- fdeals and their ambitions, and a, knowledge of their peculiarities, • if you please. Until he understands these he is-not in a position to serve them and to lead v-em, and a teacher who can not lead is of but llttl > f#»cd. Not until after a teacher has taught from four to six years. In a community Is he prepared to glv*- It his best services. Yet how few teachers remain in one school three years. Some places cuange teachers every year simply because they have ac quired the habit of doing so. Like "y other bad habit, this one grows t on people. The trustees and the a irons frequently reallxe that the*r '•bool Is far Inferior to some outer ••ah ol, and rush to the conclusion s that they need a change of teachers. hen the truth Is mat t.iey -avo already injured their sehoo^ by t >o many changes. Have any of my readers ever se^t a pupil, at the be- — ginning of each of three successive seasons—each time by a n^w teach er? Is It probable that this would h-ve been done by any one reason- ble teacher teaching the school tN* throe sessions? r his evil of change reigns. In the f own an 1 country schools alike. 1 h ve In mind one town in this Stat" •'hlch hid six principals in eight ve- rs Change was the only remedy !t knew, and It believed In heroic doses. A great many rural school rely have the same teachers tw > years in succession. Many of thor.o . changes. In both town gnd country reboots, are due to the neighborhood Jealousies and quarrels already dis cussed. Many a community has its chronic critics of the schools, who -re dyspeptic by nature and sour by habit. A teacher never satisfies them rule to employ only young Inexpe- each year drop those who have failed, keeping the more successful ones until they have become real!) serviceable, then let them go be cause the trustees and the people are unyllllng to pay for good ieachitif, at par value Some places boafrt that their schools are the gatewayMO tin* promotion of their teachers. TIPs may be u credit to the school, an<( a fjiscredlt to the people. it is not creditable, if the people ar, simply letting efficient teachers pas- out from their schools In exchange for crude Inexperience, because (hi* latter lu epeap. A few town school boards are given to the Indefensible habit of advertising every year for appli cants for every position In the school when the lioard does not Intend to eleot a single ne^w teacher Tb • king who marched his army up tin* hill,- then marched it down again, did no more childish thing than tbes,* boards do. The thing Is not only indefensible, but It is hurtful to t|n* schopj, unjust to tip* teachers, and dishonest to possible applicants. What meaning does such advert Is** ment convey go,every teacher in that school, no matter how etmient or faithful she may be? ~ When the teachers ask for its meaning', they are told that It is (only a matter ol form, and that they need ndt be con cerned Great big grown business WIU WAGE WAR Against Disease is Resoles of State Medical Association. that the teaching of physiology and hygiene be made compulsory In tho public schools of the State. ‘‘Second. We woulo recommend that all applicants for a teacher’n MEETING FAIR WEEK To Promt Tuberculosis the Assoc la- w ■ tion Will Carry Out the Plans For- l mutated at Tuberculosis Congress Itcceiitly Held in Washington—Pre- -to liininary Action Already Taken. men playing like children! i uer what about the innocent strangei.- who make bonn tide applications in answer , to what they suppose Is i bona tide advertisement, only to be informed ITitit It Is a mere form" What teacher with any regard fo ethics wouFd apply for one of these places, if Jie knew that no vacancy existed and that the incumbent ex longer than one year. They know all about schools, and their own children are paragons of perfection If any teacher finds one of these children anything but a paragon straightway there Is trouble. To listen to these disgrunfled fathe i and mothers with th«lr tales of wo. requires patience * and " grace. In their eyes there is but one remedy- change teachers. Not two month; ago I heard a man not far from sixty years of age declare that he Intended to "break up" the only school in hif district, unless the trustees dismissed the present teacher. It had nevei occurred to him that perhaps th* trustees were in the right. Suet a man is in a small way an anac' chist. ^ ' In some Instances faultfinders ami dissatisfaction are unwittingly on couraged by the board of trustees The board, either ignorant of t»: function or disposed to dodge an unpleasant duty, asks the patron to elect the teacher. Such a cours is ah Invitation to division and th< disappointment consequent to defeat and will inevitably bring about dis- pected re-election? Is the boar*! playing a game in diplomacy? l)o“- It Intend to see if it can secure lief ter teachers, but If not, to re-elect the Incumbents? Such game would be dishonorable. If a school Imard wishes to change teachers for sny legitimate reason, it has a perfect legal and moral right to do so. But the change should be made in i manly stralgTiiforward manner. f,< > the board frankly tell the teachi i not to ask for re-election, declare r -vacancy, then advertise for applies lions-—if Thai Is the best way t< secure teachers. Teachers themselves must hem their part of the responsibility fm so many changes. There are sotie- teachers who oiikIU nol to expei*- t-t As a result of the tuberculosis congress hold in Washington re cently, definite steps* will tie taken | in South Carolina to prevent the or a certificate in this State be fequlred to pass an examination on physio) ogy^and hygiene as a part of tho regular examination for teachers. As many graduates of colleges are given certificates on presenting thier di plomas, we recommend that such ap plicants be required to show that physiology and hygiene were a pari of the course at the college front #hich said applicants received the diploma- If these branches were not a part qf the course, require the ap plicant to pass a regular examina tion on th*se branches. “Third. We would recommend thatr all of the colleges under the xontt'ol of the State ‘be required to teach physiology and hygiene as a part of the regular course. "Fourth. We would recommend SENATOR SMITH 4 • Favors Mammoth Convention to Demand Better Prices. HOW GROWERS LOSE v The Senator Thinks the Boathern Grower Should Get the Benefit of ' n' the Thirty Found Tare, and the Meeting Adopted Resolutions to That Effect. GLAD TO BET BACK SOUTH JPAROUNA 19 A SWEET = PARODISE Compared to Springfield, Illinois, Said an Old Colored Woman Who ' Is Coining Iliuck. , DIED OF RABIES Womta Succumbed After Houra of Tertwe. *- BITTEN BY PET DOG At the union depot, Sunday af- Several Other Parties Bitten by tho spread of the dread .disease. The State Medical association will be called to meet -soniq time during the fair for the purqpse of formulating plans to brinttbuibout this result. This meeting will be called by Hr. John L. Dawson of Charleston vt-ho is president of the association and who was one of the delegates to the tuberculosis congress. Dr. Dawson will have a definite plan to propose to the association for spread of tuberculosis. Dr. Dawson familiarised himself at the congress with the inethods for the reduction of mortality among tuberculosis pa tients aiKl will lie able to give th * doctors of the, State some valuab!" information along tills line. South Carolina was w;ell repre sented at the tuberculosis eongrep® Among those who atended were the following: Drs. C. Fred William? State health officer; J. H. McIntosh W. M. Lester and R. A. Lancaster of Colombia; Dr. C. C. Gamble’, Ab beville; Dr ll. T Hall, Aiken; Dr Robert Wilson, chairman board o'" health. Charleston; Dr. J. L. Dawson Charleston; Dr J. Mercer Greea. Charleston; JL)r W V Brocklngton* Kingstred; Dr.' C. B. Earle. Green vllle4 Dr~W. A. Tripp. Easley; Dr I E. Allgood. Liberty: J. E. Teague Laurens: C. F. McGann, Aiken; Dr Walter Cheyne, Sumter; Dr. A. M nrailsfhrd. Mullins, Dr. ,*i. ^.“Walker Yorkvllle. 9 At this conference there was given in exhibition of what Is lieing don* hionghout the country and In th foreign binds to prevent tne spread >f tuberculosis. There were shown A dispatch from Bennettsvllle to The State says Senator-elect E. D. Smith came to Bennettsvllle Monday any school to keep them longer tha* one year The captious (sometime miscall'd spirited 1. th** eccentric frivolous, tho giddy, and tin the cord^ What Is the hoard appointed «i* ^for, If not to manage the school by ‘ssenlng the occasions for discord^ A good many towns make It a )Q pue aqi in pus ‘sjogowei poju.>|j ignorant ones may expect to tloi' iliotlt like driftwood. ‘I iu*n there ar some teachers who have an incur tide manta for 'hemming birds of -lassnge. 1 once knew a teacher L resign her work to’ go elsewhere o * *he ground that she, had been her present position three v/nrs They apply every time they hear o t vacancy, and If thet hear of n vacancy, tltey ask when the next me Is to he. They fell you ver* rankly that they are worth a grea’ leal more than they are gettyn ’ Mid that they are prostituting no profession wh<*n they work for so little, ^i-ince more’ there is th'** foxy of-a te&cjicr who seek i place in March,^Accepts it in June ind holds it uutll about two week* lefore the school is to open, thei olographs the board that she hi* crept(*d elsewhere fat two dollar- ill the appliances used and interest ! ng papers were read on the disea * tnd the best (tossible methods o f Mire and p'revenlion. • Represents 'Ives were present from this countr- uni Europe and among the numhe- were .some of the foremost physic ians of the world. - \ iiluanle Exlilhlls. - Perhaps (he most important of n' he exhibits was the showing he wink that is being carried on It* his country to prevent tubercuiosi? \nd other countries, too, had the! ‘xhihlts. the one from Germany heluc ihout the best shown. , Dr C F Williams of this fit* was one of the' interested physician* •resent at the congress and he hi ,roughf ba< k with him a greater de [ re Hian ever to aid in the gre t work of reducing aqd preventing tu berculosis among the people of Sou'h 'arolina. Dr^. Williams consider hat the book or books to be used as i„vti«.»«n , frtr th« tpnehins of these the the farmers in this section and madte an enthusiastic text hooks for the teaching of these branches bear the approval of the State board of health. t "Fifth. We would recommend that the teaching of the means of preventing the dangerous com muni **nliie diseases be made compulsory in the public schools of South Caroli- rfa. and we recommend further that the hook hew used as a school hook for the teaching of physiology and hygiene be used for this purpose until the tSate board of health can prepare data. ’feixth.—We would recommend that a physician be the teacher of physiology and hygiene in the high schools of this State when it is pos sible to'obtain the services of one for this purpose. •Seventh. We would recommend that in arranging the course for the State and county summer schools that a course of lectures on the means i)f preventing the dangerous commu nicable disease be a part of this .•ourse. ‘ ” “Eighth. 'Ve would recommend that the State board -of health shall name the diseases to be conslderei is dangerous communicable diseas es. “Ninth. We would recommend that you use you Influence to have he trustees of the schools procure address in the court house Monday afternobn. The immediate reason for asking hm to he here was the disagreement between the local cot ton buyers and farmers in regar-i to the deduction for tare on cotton, the buyers having, sine* the 1st of October, been operating under a rule which makes deduction of 50 cents for each bale of cotton having more than seven yards of bagging on the bale. , Senator-elect Smith discussed the cotton situation in a broad way, ad vocating a "manirrroth convention" for the purpose of demanding higher prices and holding the cotton from the market, advocated the storing in warehouses, referred to work that has -been done along this line iu Florence and Columbia. He stated that Liverpool makes a deduction foi tare of 6 per cent on the gross, or 3 0 pounds taro for each 500-pouml bale of cotton and that in fixing the price this 30-pound tare is consld ered, as well as every other item of expense in connection. He then stated that if the Southern farmer did ,not get the benefit of the 30-pound tare and put 30 pounds tare ort each bale it would lie th* fault of the Southern farmer ami he should not blame anv one els*- ternoon, waiting for a train to Augusta, was a negro woman who was on her way to some point In South Carolina, says the Macon, Oa., Telegraph. While in the waiting room she fell to talking to some of the ne groes in the mom with her,, and from the conversation it was learned that she was-from Springfield? 111., and was returning to her old South Carolina home. She said that seven years ago her people went to Springfield, because they had been assured that’the ne gro was more respected in that sec tion of the country, and had every right that white people had. The children went to the same school, they ate Ug the same rostanrent. that there was no Jim Crow cars and that there was no distinction in anything on account of color. She said that to some exunt they fou-iu vision charts and have the teacher.- for.it. He illustrated the point as inform themselves how to examln *. follows: Siipjiose for every bah- the children to see If their eyes and <>f cotton there is a deduction of •an* are normal.- | flve f >0,,nrt8 for sand Bu PP° 8 « Mr At the tuberculosis congress It , Farmer picks his cotton, prepares It was very much emphasized that th.* i for ginning and knows there is no best way to prevent tuberculosis hj ,i j* n 4 He Iktu stated that Mr Same Dog, But None of Them Have Yet Been Affected From V / • • ‘ . , • it—The Pasteur Treatment Failed in the Woman’s Case. Mra. Harvey M. Day, of No. Iff Cherry afreet, Elizabeth, N X J., died of rabies ffbm the bite of a pt-; bull terrier, in spite of the fact that she had been under the Pasteur treatment for the past seven weeks. Mrs. UajPhad t& be restrained in a straight jacket for twenty-four hours before she died, so violently did her struggles become. All iiope of saving her had been given up several days and' her husband was compelled to see her die by inches before his eyes. ^ While Mrs. Day was strapped t* her bed awaiting death, her husband J this to be true, but there was no S at in an adjoining roo fearing AJoi real mixing of the races otherwise, £ery minute^hat the di^sse would and they kept to themselves. They attack him and that he, too, would found that while It might be unde- have to be restrained until relieved stood that there was no distinction, py death. In a neighboring house and that the white women called j 8 Mrs. Samuel Doty, an intimate a negro woman Mrs. So-and-so, there friend of Mrs. Day, who waa also was no such thing as calling socially, bitten by the dog! "She, too, is iu and but fur the fact that they were’ a state of nervous conapse. <A let- there and could not get away tliey ter carrier was also bitten, would have returned. - The dog, who was a pet in the In (the recent trouble' in Spring- Day home, was being led down the field the negroes were treated worse street by Mrs. Day a month ago, when by tho whites than they ever were she became entangled in. his leash, in the South, and every negro who Suddenly he began to show symp- could sell out and move was leaving, toms of rabies and attacked his mis- This woman was threatened with tress. Five times he sank his teeth whipping and her o*n family were in her arm, hurling her to the pave- Farmer would be a fool if be did by the education of the people , , , The resolutions of the State l)oarl not.stop long enough to put five if health were received with enthu-1 P° unds of sand in it. ilasm by the-board of education, but Senator Smith stated that his ser j ...mof Th^ l vices were at the disposa of the cot •loth ng was done in the matter, me , , ,, , * , tin. t°n growers and in all prohabilit- •,o,r d ol (-duration «•”'»«*>'" ""‘'“' L. nould make a trip Wo.t humrdi (aattrr h-rorc the , b »* rd h h v '.*''' , J„elv He referred to the f.<t that irataa that t e a u . at cohtpre.eea and tipfore the cot in all the high ^ho'oD t,JI ‘ |l "”' ir ‘ K r '" i fl>r '■Vlinrtin,i L th ! *e 1 ' porter patches up all holes w her ihe course •f the State. Crowded Settlements. Out of the less than 1.0 . ^ advantage of the 30 pounds r whites in this State 135.0017 are em-1 ^ . the samples have been taken from th' bale, puts on more bagging and getf D ••loved in the cotton mills. It wltable that In the crowded mi.! districts tuberculosis is easily trans mitted from one person to anothe r It is estimated that In this State there ire from 1.500 to 2.000 deaths each • ear from tuberculosis, so something must be done" is that the He s]>oke of the complaint madi by the European spinner when In this country recently of the con (lltlou in-'NvhiCh the Southern cotton was received' In Europe. He said that the merchant in oSonag hi- goods for saTi* had adder to hb goods the price of the freight, box dogan of medical men. Among th*- , )nB an( j ^ or wra ppj nK an ,i other ex ponses, that the buyer pays for aii these things. That It was only Just legroes it is said that tuberculosis Is decreasing within recent years. w wo of the most important thin jorobably because of the out door )l f * !nn( j right that the buyer of cotton lone at the congress the followlm* in( j (f, e better habits thqt the r- , should also pay for that iu whicn •rlnclples, w hich the congr.-ss wen'i now leading. ’ The ^number of ♦" f t,w cotton’ is wrapped . »n record as beinp in favor of: , ( *> TC ,Dojis patlents"TfTr»ong negroe® jp. (j| 8CUh8 ,.rf the effect of the gov- I Thai the best means of reduc j ,,,11] quite large, however, and th* 'ernment reports on cotfon and state l ng mortality from consumption me thods of prevention of the disea-?** that since the government gives de- he segregation of all tuberculods , ire an important step in this State, 1 fi u it e ) n f ornia tion as to the produj- •atients in institutions special'? w here mor? than half the popula- Don. ginning and other facts in con ‘quipped for the treating of such t)on | 8 0 f the colored race. And i* necMon with the cotton that It should patients. j (B highly important that the negro i further and give government sta- 2. ihai the theory of Dr. Koch should be taught in some measur. tlstfcs and have regular monthly in t month more salary!. She cnlb I, | im j ne tuberculosis is not trans ( 0 i^ing about a prevention a- ventories as to the number of halos njtU'd to ffutnan individuals h? no; far as ^M4We-of this disease. rand weight in every warehouse and compelled to leave. She does not Inent. Mrs. Doty saw the attack and know where they went, because m ran to the rescue of her friend when the confusion there was no s op- the dog set upon her and bit her plng and hunting for kinfolks. Sho several times on the hands and onlv knows that before the sepa- arms. ration they all wanted to go bac-t The dog then started up the street to South Carolina, and she was go- and met Mr. Day. who had heard ing there, knowing that If alive thev the screams of his wife and Mrs: will- sooner or later meet her there Doty. The animal fastened his teeth She said that down South, in in Mr. Day s leg. and the letter car- South Carolina, jor elsewhere, the Her who happened along tried ’O mob went after the one negro. In fr®e Mr. Day from the mad bruf5 Springfield they went after the whole when he was bitten, too. The dog bunch." In ■‘the South, she said, the was killed and showedunmistakable negro' had as good chance to live s>S* 8 of hydrophobia, in safety and peace as anybody, so in - All four victims went to New \ork ,pringft.'*ld they were not only after a" d **re treated at the Pasteur In- the had ones, but the good.ones. too. ' hol >* ht a " dan ** r No mgro was safe, and she had °f ra, >‘<’ 8 a **<>• noticed that this feeling against tb-* when Mrs. Day confided to her physic- n.-gro was growing stronger every ap that she k>ew she was Inocu- ...edirtes that in a few ’ at<,d The letmr carrier has kept vear; there wlli be separate schoo's aad this has dl- verted his mind. He. too. is nervous. * for whites and negroes all over tho West and North . * .South Carolina was a paradl <* to the West for (he n^gro, she sai l, hut the fool negro didn’t know it until he spent all his money gef'ir? away, ns he could not get hack. One old negro woman sitting in the waiting room, who has been listening to tho talk in silence, threw up her hand and rolled her eyes up wnrd’ and exclaimed: "Ain't dal de trufe." . * bow that Mrs. Day Is dnng. and the mental effect on him js feared. v * CLASSIFIED COLUMN FROM GAS LEAK. SCHOOL THIS TEES—Wishing com petent teachers, should wiite to Sheridan's Teachers’ Agency, Greenwood". S. C No chargei Endorsed by State and counDy superintendents. St-tte saiaiir, length of term, hoard e*c TK U’HERS—Tilt STKES. Four Are I>ead and Several Other* \*'e secure schools for teachers and have many excellent vacancies We Were Unconscious. his resigning; In lew and cbmmoi ■ens** IV is .1 violation of contract > SuPh condiift under ordiuar? ( In tint stancor-,MS" keprehenslble, and wholh unw'b^rhy qf an honest man or w mau. f • WIIHani H Hand University of South Carolina. KILLING IN EDGEFIELD. ’ro-'lnent Negro Shot to Death bj a Young Man. \ dispatch from Edgefield t6 The bate says Richard Penn, a proml- 'eep at tip* Arminius mines near •orreet. according to the sehse of tli ongi essk Appalling Figures. To give an idea of the cost o' . This latter theory has been w-orke** ['tuberculoids in lives, disability, tin In buyers’ and exporters’ hands. His idea was that the present in formation is very beneficial to th •n considerably, and as the congres® ndictOicd. it is the opinion of .1 happiness and money would show j buyer and exporter in as much as tin how Important it is that the means farmer’s hand is exposed to the buy urge majority of physicians and * 0 f } )r eeution of the disease as shown jer and exporter, whereas tfio buyer’s •I literal T*, Yale, Va., Thursdav ami iu ir bodhs wire broken to piecet I , .This frnnsmiHslon of tubercuiosi F ie names of the negtoes were tin iirum animal fo human being Is ai tet iali.sts along this line that bovine t b ( > tuberculosis congress shoulu nben ulbsis is transmitted to the [ i, e carried out as far as possibb human* living. --d j Thfi death rate from tuberculosis in Animals Spread Contagion. a j| j t8 forms in the United Stales if estimated at 164 per I'O.OOJ) qf ^o- kirtTwn, but the white man -,vas W is ing is an *i,vuainiel) inipnvtam—matter,,—ewpm Hr Wiutw.-ot Fluvaula county -Th.* jgTIv ijnrjUineh as It affects this State accident w,i 8 cauSrd—by the hoist very much and this spread of tho I disease can largely be avoided. , . , , ^ nia n failing to apply the cable brakes nent and aomewhat.educated negro 1 n f U , r ril . til ,„ „ .. of the town, was shot and almo-it ovator The' four men ’'! " * Speaking ol^this matter, Dr.'Wll- (\ator. The fout men. who were! liain8 8avs; *<- rhjs form of tubpr _ coming up.ln the lift fell ,0 the ho- t ,. )llo81s is brought about by th- t°m of the shaft with the elcva.o, , i nkinK of , h and were crushed into shapeless masses. The holstman is desperatelv ill on account of the accident, and It Is feaii’d mr w ill Jose his mind instantly killed by Tom Gray, white Thursday afternoon. Gray used pistol, shooting five times, two halls taking effect, ope in the right thigh ‘h* other two inches above the nave la'ter wound causing death. W. W. Sheppard and Policema Weir were the first to reach Penn e'’cr he was shot and testified at ‘he inquest that the deceased made ‘he f'-Ilowing dying declarations: That he was coming towards town and met Gray and they spoke and deceased remarked that that was a fine piece of corn. Gray replied ‘Yes; it is not mine, but ‘belongs * Mr. Samuels.’ They then passed '-‘h other and when deceased ha i gone about 30 yards. Gray called him hack and commenced cursing him and drew nis pistol and fired." It is said that Mf Wright Holson w-8 an eye witness to the homicide, but he did not testify. Gray nas, so far as is public’y known, made no statement a'fid his version of the affair is not known It is rumored that Gray s.ays that the deceased insulted His mother. Gray Is now in jail and has employed counsel. The Jury’s verdict was In accor- f , **n'’e with the above facts. • FELL DOWN SHAFT. fifteen filet Instant and Hor- ▲ white man and three negroes latiou and the number of death in 1 s* 1 *6 "°** nxmio A* ■om—yaar- thls rate, it is said. 5,000.000 people of those living in this country at the present time will die of luborcutaHr The money cost of tuberculosis, it is estimated, exceeds $8,000 per death.- these figures including cap italized earning power lost by death and netting a total of $1,100,000,000 per year. And of this cost $4 4u,- (KKMjQQ^, fails upon other than thos* ho afe consumptive. It is said that and exporter's hand is ffvAnown to the farmer. At the conclusion of his address the following resolutions were passed: "Whereas, tlie amount, deducte from the gross weight of all cotton for tarejs 6 per cent, or 30 pound-* for each 500-pound bale, we, ihe farmers of Marlboro, hereby pledge ourselves to put the 30 pounds tare on each bale of cotton we produce aud prepare for market.” , SUICIDE IN POLICE STATION. milk of cows. To prevent the spread of the disease, all dairy entile should he tested for ulosi^-aud-eiimioated-from--t4»e-| W herd «hen the test proves positive, w South Carolina dairies have shown j *he erection of Isolation hospitals for about 3 per cent of the herd are J incurables in all probably the bes* tuberculous. A committee lias been method and most profitable at pre* appointed by the South Carolina sent for reducing the cost of tuber- j Lie Stock association to draft a I miosis. | suitable bill at the next session of the ; Police Power, legislature to eliminate as .far is j “That we will uitimatslv havu t( court on the charge of violating th- l ,|a( tical tuberculosis in cattle and place officers in mills and other such city ordinance in appearing .in public restaurant, at Spartanburg Jeannette Walker, a young whi'e" 'bTiject of this bill Is to make alii facing." said Dr. Williams. ‘ Take railroad companies handling cattle the mills, for instance, in them are to this State get a bill of health on a large number of wor)(*rs and these the cattle shipped here. i heard j are deprived of one of the greatest while in the North that there wenjof all the recognized advantages to many heards of-catth* In that sec- health# fresh air The windows are tion that had as many as 80 to HO *kept down and of course the air in per C(‘nt tuberculosis cattle iu theirithe rooms becomes .foul and leads to Young Wqinaju Prefers Death (<• Trial In a Court. ^ Rather than be tried in the polic WANTED TO EXPLORE The World Beyond and so She Took Poison. - a *0 prevent fhe importation of tuber-1 institutions for the protection of 'miosis cattle into this-iStato. Th- health is a condition that we are now woman while a prisoner in the po lice station. She went to the lava tory, to bathe her face and drank the contents of a bottle containing carbolic acid, dyirtg within ten min utes after drinking (he poison. She formerly lived near Duncan, and was highly' educated, being a graduate of a well known female coKege in this State. —* Tried to Lynch Him 5 At Los Angeles. Cal., there was a scene of riotous disorder in Justin's court Monday, in which several per sons were slightly Injured in an at- midst. I hese cattle are shipped 1 had results in health." into this State from the. North and West and' tljj*re is consequently brought here the diseased, animills But here again is the conflict be tween the mill .owners and the oper atives.: 'Should the windows- be iFfft that in time affect the rest of the open, in many cases, fhe operatives herd Educate the People. Curious to learn of the other planes of life, which she believed to exist beyond this world. Mis? Edith Rankin, 26 years of age, cashier of a local restaurant at Los Angeles. Cal.. coTnmitted suicidi with poison. Miss Rankin was an ar dent student of .works on spirit ual subjects. She frequently told her friends that she would like to advance to the “next stage.” Sh3 had a religion in which reincarna tion figured to a certain extent and on'several occasions "she asked, her friends to join her in a suicide cTub, and all commit suicide at once, in order to pass to the other sphere and there delve in the mysteries hidden from mortal eyes. * would close them, as there are cer tain conditions that fresh air brings tempt ’ to lynch Edward Martin, a 'cnlosls and other communicable dis- negro, who. on Friday night assault- fsses is the education of the people. It is generally conceded that th-’ about in the yarn that makes is less best method of prevention of tuber- valuable as a product. It is the con sensus of bplnionS^iong medical men tfcrowm down a shaft 400 feet j prlsonment ed Miss Edith Ralston, a concert- singer of college grove. Martin was spirited away to. Superior Judge WUlsurs’ court where he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life 1m- At the meeting of the board of edu cation held last year the following recommendations were made, by the State board of health: Crowded Settlement*. "Flrpt. We would recommend that certain police powers should be exercls-d in the protection oT bealth and that the State should take cog nizance of these necessitiea. , All of these matters will be taken up and discussed fat the meet lug of fbe State Medical association iq b« \Yar iu the East. Bulgaria declared her hjifepen donee of Turkey Tuesday amU'Princ* Ferdinand declared himself czar Turkey and Bulgaria are assembling armies pm their respective frontiers, but the other nations will, do all they can to preserve peace. fair held fair week. The aasociaiioji hopes to accomplls hmuch in the mat ter of the prevention of tuber culosis in this State and will strain •very effort to bring about good re sults. At Waterbury, Conn., four persons were found dead In a tenement house this morning. The deaths were due to asphyxiation by Illuminating gas Ail the victims are Italbun?. The teheruent was filled witli--escaping gas. < . • * The place where the deaths oc curred is an Italian boarding houikb (l kopt by Luciano Fanloro. When the police arrived, they made t^eir way to the first floor of the house and there found lying on the floor of a room four men already dead, two unconscious and three others in a recommend teachers to trustee* and sell school furniture of all kinds. Write Southern Teach eiV Agency, Columbia. H. C. WANTED -By the American Cottoa and Business University of Mil.! edgeville, Georgia. Students take one or more of our course* in cotton grading, buying and selling. Business course of Book keeping. 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