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p OUR SCHOOLS. PAPER N). 10. BY PROl*'. MILI i.VU H. HAM>. 1 Who lh‘s|H>n*ill)lr?—Who, Is r»‘- 'Miid^d hy that fundamental ,error Bliousil)le lor o(W til-equipped hUh hat I he function of the hich ,-ch < l achools, »ith their short Inefficient course of study, their lack of teach* ora todn the vMitk. Illltl Hie relatively email numlier~of pupils therein? The answer is, the ■ supeilntt nden'- and principals, the i>eople, and tii coltegem =—■ ; ^ The superintendents and prlncf pals are rlffhtly Tucked to f/y ‘th people for leadership in building- n ttie high schools. They are targel rospTihslble for the educational Ides of their communities, and» the att. tude of 'the people toward y hl« schools, If the course\ofj»ntdy i -'‘tm rerowdeil with—sittijeeT^ t)r .t scrappy In Us material, they alo’i are responsible. Many a high echo without a map, a chart, a globe, < any other necessary apparatus, nilgl- have at least a few such thin txmght with the money spent on o called commencement, •baceaiawea'- •addresses, mvitnttorrsT pnTgnirotf, nfc bOoks, etc. .Moreover, many a. Uv. and many a girl net In the hig school, would b‘ there, if they ha only a few (*ncournging words spoke to them.. It is to be feared that th public high school- teacher i* in always mindful of the pupils who ai out o'f school but ought to he 1 school. Finally, many a high scho' is running in a nut, becausix tb principal Is rtninlng in one. The i> ople are emphatically t blame tm not supporting their hig schools. Th'\v put neither the! money nor their children In then Throughout the State, in places cm ily pointed out, are high schoo • scarcely worthy of th * name, to which mUht he made within fi\ years to rank ngh, a the people i thOfe places wen only willlrf?; to in a little common sense htislnofs saga Ity. WJvy a.sfnslhle man will refu td hefp his home high school by pa rouizlng it, lint instead will he’ to multi tain Jiooi homeJi ten ling iris childrwr;therK is one ( thecstrar.gr :-t things tii life' He ge no . t> tier jidvantages ._for his ow children, t^ad refuses to help h M tAuir oj at -home who It unable ^gfiT h!g_ •■’iiftTti en from home. Hen Hie h hi schools i.aor do It cosj-e t1 •.■ |TfiO to send a put a year to school away from horn- Why will four 111 11 thoroughly fam lur with the laws of hmlneHS vi operation take their sons and daugh ters from their own high school. s to prepare st udents b i lie- f I) I b 1 nf tii.- f.ii|ill 11 tin lli.i n. he*'7th .grade never sCe the doors f a coi'ege, 1 me, ifT addition 10 tie subjects necessary to college eu —a luai,—w-e—have—addl'd—to—t-fm—bt--— •itlonui. course a large number ot —-1 —iill to Speak .. These side 1 shes asf nothin,', but reHs.,,s. ii • tasted bccasloually. The peope —rH Ire principals have fnit uro me a.: r iur.se ■ parallel to thtyt sjngie 1 : ich !'*ail. stralghTjo the coll eg our. The people by their owe 0-1 i-,b i line.-*. a~uj—un.a..ni.ma4iu:--.i loHtn, stand t.hd see their owi tong and stii'rdy sons-step out ot 1 ■• "scho*1 room at the endt,.* 1 i grade, because those sons hr. • in I that their t»ar« u's and teticb have put nothing in the hig lo il except tiom i diluent for tb eh g.' candidate. . Is ih reader Iiccilining to s<; pTein the -colleges ' are responsr 'e for the uns'iti: factory Jjigh A<‘hu<> idlU ns? Fvery college in Soil'll ’ rolina, State, denomination, an ’ Tyale, is doing high school^ work" h college coupe. "This stat men' i i-Is no proof^. the higls'schoo “ not doing the work, and It mu d lie in the colleges, If done at il. Formerly, awl not so Ion ••o, the ooMegi-s w, re all hot befi •s in tills matter they pad to tilkf e raw unprepared material,, o )!*e tle ;c .,)) or- - og-ilnst deo*rvlnc >s and girls umilde to get * the oji r preparation. 1 have alreatb gtio 1, tTurt the hfgli seho ds are no t ready to furnish property pro red stm'euts to the colleges. Tti •ie of - dennfeatiou between hig*' boo! t rrltnry an I roMeve terri of this fact?--Again, Winthrop Col- im i tht» year 1017. apiillcuiny for admission. 0£G were adn/med; 0 27 were refused. President John* wn reports that fully 300 of these •efused*were not prepared to enter Winthrop at all. tTfemson, had 1, 14T applications for admission. ? t i|- were admitted; 246 refused. Prerl- dent Mell reiiorts that 206 appli 'ants failed on account of examina Ion. The oth r colleges have slrri The . cry shoul 1 nr —better high ■arhoupB In'ller pat Tonlzed. WILLIAM I? HAM). Fnlver-lty of South Carolina. inrrYArTTWKFPRiiTTr state. VeTiraHta Goes Demornit 1c Both In State and National. Returns from X luaska ^ shov, 'hat Bryan won a sweeping victory In his own State Inst Tuesday. While In* pluralltlon are nol plieTTomlnal > large, they are fomplote, the Stat< icket and candldat 3 for Congrei 11 most Instances running paralle with Bryan. , Complete returns frobri'a third o . ’T ' ! -1 sent fttpril flivjry at an expense $1,000 a ymr? W hy will they n< l»ut even half that money In Hi tioni • school, thereby keeping tin money and their children at hone an,i at th. same time when the chi dren need parental attention? ... Hotly Hill had lust year a goo, two-yoar high -sehtr b taught 'by o teaehrr. The school had 13 pupi In the (till grade, and ;• in the ^*1 This year the people attempted t organize a high school with tw teachers and 25 pujiils. This woul entitle the school to enough St.ut aid to employ the second tenehi at JjO a month. The. undertukln had to lie abandoned, hecaust* tb live pupils In last year’s itth grad could uot lie held lu tin* school, mu* of them going off to college. ’ Ridgeway last year ask d Stat aid for her high school, reodu $410. and barely bad th© require number of pupils. The m'hool ha 14 pupils In the tith grade, and l In the '9th. This year six of thos pupils have been stmt away froi Ridgeway to school The place i paying $990 f.or two high scho< teachers, and 1- asking the Sttfte t« pay part of tnat, while the sc hoi at this writing has not ( a ml ted th required 2T puidls. Jonesville liad last-year' 1 4 pupi' lu the 9Hi gtaj Seven son been 'xeh; 'tocollege preparatory schools, nnd the horn school opemal with 9 pupils in th 9th graile. and t! lu tue Kith, and a effort wfhe principal to mid the 11 grade was defeated. Thee© nh>© , pi Is a w*a y rrotn Rom? win coal th p ojile of that community ove $2,000 this year. y. t they are tod?, paying thetr own three high scho. teachers a con bitted salary of $!,77' and getting parr nf that from th State. Can these people expect t maintain a high school? Of-emirs- the entire commuuitv must not ii hold rosponsiide for this folly'"* ' H30 .t.ofc—jx. « » -* ■» 11 11 | * I e 9th gtaffe. and 9 in the Hit! a ol-thoseYpupils have this sc; leen'sefi; to college and two 1 '•'m .not he definitely fixed, yet Hb respect to the a • e of the 1 . and to a majority of the sub- •ts of studv ItveolvvaT there is a' .-idv censlieraide unity of'opinion king Into ctir fu! consideration e a. exit con Mfions wtrich exiv-t, f rVrarltege set n reasonatile. niimt) •• -high schools units (not grammer ■ 1 uiATb-)-_. a_ ^Um— in Ini mum—fau *t ilice .A sfand .rd three-vext h school ought t do 12 uni'., 'ivrr'lr fsiffoe nHfsr*Kif oitr , hign hools arc fhr ir -"ho- W 'h' d ltd ought not to he unreason- !e. (A standard of years cann it ■ cL-up: every chi^ knows that th** —*rt—rrrrm md tcnnl'e a what Is tifetyrirpllshed: hesld s <> sch/tols ri;n_nlne mon'hs, soma mt a few only seven.) First, let each codege m 'ke i' 'itramu 1 —renuipewcTTrs deffnite -J.’* standard lie high or low, as 7’ HV-e. hilt Jet ft ttc dcfiltlf. Vid let the colleg** live ei|i 1' , publish d uniformity, but all can • tm nest In theio stau lards. Aftei R. It Is a question of morals, am' a college should “faud for rnvthlf hould stanl for unsw erving r'C ! ttnde. it-Is Just as r*‘S"o’islti!c f. college as a body corporate to a.l ertise one s' indurd and act o tiuiher, tts It woul I tie for one o •> professors 'o proiiilsi 1 otic thltr . ltd do another The poptilar mln nme to 1< ok upi»n ■ tbi* putdish 1 rtnmce requirements of colleges ikes. With a ciilleg*> rata' In fo on giving ft* rntratn e?req 111 remeri* — i.Engll'h, Mathematics. Latin, ate "story, at a standard whlch_the av i- i-nge school of ten grades is fait ig to reach, and vou know It. vo • ind ts likely to tie disturbed when on know that the same College i tking pupils from 9'h grades, tut' rcni lonatly f'-om dlh’' gra tes What Hre th facts’ With fiitL ■ enty high schools vet to hear from "have the names of 154 pnpPs v, !t ••vc entered college this season from 'h gradi's. and 26 putdls from vt 1 ra les Ttio^i* students nh'orted a • teriug the preparatory departmen - f a college, were of emirs . pot bu ’ 1 ujed. Rvery eidb ge in the Sin 1 * i d s \ • LaJj outside, are reporf hiirinA«e spoils It Is hard t. .• onelt^th©-.' r id Tie’s wi*h tb *mstnnt wall of the colleges for ?.e 1 • ' prepared students, and-aifli "to retiniul ann vunrenicnts about ha' ng rnlse ( | standards If a (■olldv* f‘er t n or twelve years of standard nlsing'(fjv.canvassing L-r 9th ^ra.t he, edTintles and scattering preclne otnr.ns f/orn most of the remalnffP? -•how that Bryan will h.nv a plura ty of not fewer than 10^000 vote ■nd Shallenherger, Democratic, fo To'ernor. and the reel nf bhe Demo ■ratio ticket will have about 9,000 But the Democratic victory do ■ lot stop there. Five of Nebraska • lx Congrersjmen are Democratic nly one Repulilican, Hlnshaw. 11 tie 4th dls'rlrt, escaping defeat e '00 votes, although his distric Bryan a plurality. ’ Th** greatest surprise of all Is th iv rwtoelming majority the Derm ■rats will have in the' Loglslatun )f the 133 Senators ahiTTlepresent ives elected, the eanvasgers of r urns could find only J 8 Repuh! 1 ts wt»o had warn. Lancaster eounty, in which I,fr >!n. Bryan’s horn cfty r Is locate' ’ hich for thirty years hav elec'e one -hilt Rc-publlca n me'UlFiers ^ dll tiranehes. this rear sen’s 3 R> ahllcans end three Democrats 44AVE BIG PUtt WITH THE REPUBLICAN POST- OFFICE AUTHORITIES. I’ostoffice on Rockefcller’a Rarony Kent Running While Poor Man's PriMimifij-hmoseiL You can’t heat th^ Rockefeller null with the Roosevelt government, ■cays a dispatch v from Utfca, New York. The dispatch guts on to say: “My Dear Senator,” writes tne Standard Oil messenger boy, and tike magic disagreeable' little fea- ures of proposed legislation are liminated. The latest servant of the “peepul 'o hot foot to the assistance of Amer- ■an's richest family Is Postmaster Defier al -Von L. Meyer. No one has been kind' enough to “swipe" the ecret correspondence in this latest •itandard Oil scandal, hut p'raps th Messenger hoy’s epistla. to the post-. ■ laster | imii,ii.I r/:m T.imalliln FATAL BALLOON ACCIDENT. One Man Killed and a Boy U So* verely Hurt. —PTiae^ton, Nov. 5—Prof. Peter Kramer, of St. Louis, was dashed against the chimney of the Meth odist church and killed here yester- lay whllejuaking a balloon ascension it the farmers Carnival.. Glen Hay- Ten, a s. ven-year-ofd boy T -who--w* standlhfT’fiear the church, was struck by a brick falling from the chimney which was wrecked by the_ balRxm, his skull was fractured-and he ma> die.— 1 *•' TARE ON COTTON THE WEIGHT OF BAGGING AND TIES. ^ KILL THi: GERMS. That’* Only Way to Cur© Dan druff, and Parisian Sage Is the Onljj Killer. w^Jkrlslan Sage7” said a New York J 4 .. . „ . baritr, ’’win kill the destructive and lonie Suggestions Almut tins Mat- . _ . persistent germs of dandruff, and ter That Cotton Makers Sh(fulil' aboll8h the disease.. There may he other remedies that will do the same. r Think About and Act On. There is almost as wide variation n the weight of bagging and ties i;Qd as a covering for, the cotton STEVENSON WILL CONTEST. emorriUlC Candidate for Guveniot of Illinois not Satisfied. The election o' ChCngo. Nov bo. i rnor" CNas 6 C Deenen to sorv a tbar ie-m ns Governor of lllin C i'l tie eon'es't'd by his Democrati* iv-H. accordirg to a signed stnt omt Dsued fotiVeht tiv Chari ■*ri.inti.tiiii'iiln ch-ilrninn of 'ha Do’'. ••rat|c S'ti’o oentrai commlftije Th< “f am convinced, that with*a co v* ■ ecun' epd an honest canv? c ' tl-| K Stevenson has a'wt'HaJltv ' l i«. vo’d cast tn th* v etectlon las' ■I’.'.L'i'd.av foe Giovo-ratryV *>f ‘-Inin-’V, "he ilenuml for areconnt will V oade noon the I.eglslaiifra as r'r • i.ieT for Th the slaln’es." fVivt-rnor ide*»m*->u* nturaRtv Is ♦- •■1 1 ted* SI front '’T noo fo c 1 1 * 1 ’••n H Atwell, veerctarv. to Chet "■•n B> schensteln cxolaThed th'' -rors in 'hi' count had nlreadv-hoc •ive -vered In icve-al oreclncts an ' •* catcu'etet *h?t if onlv th"’ 'laMc'to in *> , >''h of the ”4 non votln r,w'lnctu In Illinois w re taken Do* •u.onen at#i given on re'-onut to ■.■enson, the latter would be foun ’ 0 have won th? ejection. OVS. HX'-KFI I \NDVARD\M\' must mat* bo for got v — Central is slruggllng. to istabli- a high school; it needs money an pupils^ yet tVee of hea- last vear -high echo 1 pupils were sent a": this season. ■ . -Rateshurg attempte'd' to- tidd th 11th grade this year, but four o last year's five pupils In the lOtl grade left for college, and the ef fort was defeated. Anderson, one of the four placi last year with a, four-year publi high school, has had to abandon 1 11th-grade, although 12 bf her b year's 1 Oth grade"arTTofF-aT r'o!!~g< Fiv© Dpjii the 9th grade and seve from the'Sth gradt* are—nt colb ae These 24'pupils are'costing the pc pie of An den on Aus yeaV this year Anderson Is- paying !v entire high school teaching T ' V for less than ?4,000* "pile, and taking Ji’h trrade one r vhat must. ’;■> standard h ive'lice’ ' ;i-u it betyin rnlsfrig? The college canvasser says,-"Fen'* s your 9tfDgra l pij.p.iT~ our co -—'ge prufogs r- can ^each him Ln* *- •id .mathematics hotter than vou Oth gride teacher- cm.'’ Porh?" o; hut Is he Tcadv to g’141 It th’ 1 ' •tx so-calted eoHegt' lifts e-'nc In* a 'I’h ‘Cibool business? Is h* reid' t - | i admit that his students who . r< **ully pret'at d to mlter'e >'■ H j ''.list- sit Idle In the classroom, wh'' qiitpi'eT ?' r fes?(jr mtike.. dally ■ ! -rrslons down into high school to- ! ifory f< r the h nefjt.of the 9th gr.ob •Hows? T'h*- basic {qTiestion Where does the pii)i|! stiart on eirwr CJ eolli g.e.2—ire comes from tV l.lHl VIU Participate In Crtton Confer rnce Tills Week. Vl-inta, Nov 5 O 'Vertmr C V laSkell, of Oklahoma, and form ’ov tm'es K Vardanian, of Mb bsfpttl have no’lffe! HarvC .lofiar, *1 Atlanta, that they wilt attend 4St. 'o’ton eonfer«'f\ce in Menii>}ib Tm*; ’ay. WeTnesday and Thursday >• his week. The gevernor of Aikan.-.as h is nT • ppoint (1 debvtatos to the confe- tice \V I> Nesbitt, a member o he railroad -eawTiiTsslon from A anta. tijis also written tiarvle dor i tan that he will tie in Memphis m 1 tie I! Hi. and will attend the c " | r nee. Governor Haskell's lett"! follow©: ./. , j "Your Inyitatlen of the 219T cap | luring mv uteonce. C will appoir | ’eb-gates at once, mnl If thin' 1 can further the cause, will trv ’< tend. Let me know what day ym •r fer me to be there." Mr. .Iordan ftired Governor Has 11' that he would like for him f •tfend on November llth.Tts on tha 'ay "Nlch' Riding In the South vill be the siih'ecf of discusslo 1 ocluding n.n ad-iress on th at * 11 b j c ■v. Pri'sident J A. Taylor, of th his: “My Dear General: At your ea - 11 st convenience pi ase have ,th . stofhee at Derrick,—Nr—Y.^ closed nd the p-Ftofflce at Bay PonA, N._ Y., continued. Afr. WilHam Rock •feller’s friends and servants would be greatly Ineonvenl. need If there w re no postotlice at Bay Pond, Der ick is not important. "This will be greatly appreciated m l if we can reciprocate It will he tut pleasure. Yours _sincer:!y, lOHN' D AR'CHnOLD." Bing' Bang? That sound comes j rom th? closing do rs of the 11UK | •errick ofhee. , Wlluam^ Rockefeller owns a hunt ng park in the Adirondack* of 52 100 acres. Bay Pond is the station *\rme(l guards are «mployed the yea •ound to'keep trespassers from en ring the sacred .precincts of th n rmous estate Persons who have red to fish lu the Rockefeller riv •rs ar climb the Rockefeller moun. ain- have been arr s ed and flne<J " illiam Rock foller has spent Ie<* 'him one month at..this es.t.ajp durlu. h>- r>lne. years that he has owt\ed 4‘- lut his children’ g 1 there and fl-h ■om s'reaiu.- stocked by ihe„stat • ml shoot deer that are drlVen 01 ured into the [iark by the Rocki^ .•Tier" guards. A strong wind was blowing and ill efforts were made to persuade th*. aerenot not to attempt an ascen sion. In reply he safd: "I wiTT make the Jumg today if I break my neck insdoing it." Those were the last words he spoke as he left the earth. . t When the ropes wto loosened the balloon shot upward and before Prof. Kramer could unfasten th ■ rope which held his para’chute tc the balloon he was hurted against th. ?himney. He was crushed by the mrow. The—Jballoon bounded alou^ on riie roof.-until, it collided with the te. pie, dragging the unconscious dalloonfst aider it. The rope which ttwid the -balloonist then broke and he fell-to the roof of the chirt-ch. .rolled to the edge and plunged to the ground thirty feet below. * BRYAN CARRIES GEORGIA. Hot Over Votes Than Taft. A Atlanta, (’.a., Nov. 5.—Comple" returns from 139 of the 14t> countle.- in Georgia give the following result in th? presidential election on Tues Jay: For Bryan, i3,606; Taft, 41,268 Watson, T 7,514; Debs, 767; Chafin 483; Hisgqn. 83. TliFs show? a toda^ >f 133,238* votes and gives Bryan 1 niajority*bver all 01 9,632. Bryan’s plurality over Taft is HL£3ii—votea. _V8© jayxr 3 half vot was poll1*d. Had all the voters turn •d out Bryan’s plurality over Taf: .\ervld have b;en near 80,000. The Democrats elected every Congress nan by good majorities. :rop as there is in the different names nd numbers used by cotton firms nd exchange* to designate the va-’sage and found it better than any but I neveiy heard of one." And just read what one of the foremost barbers of Springfield, Mass., says of Parisian Sage: "Dear Sir: I used your Parisian ions grades of cotton, days the Cotton Journal. With regard to ba e> ?’ ting and ties there is an allowanc.*- >f 6 per cent off, or 30 pounds to th’(' •ales for tare* by the foreign trade 11 Savannah there is an allowance f 7 yards of two and ^St'* quartei ound bagging. The New England -pinners have agreed to an allow , nee of 22 pounds of bagging an 1 ies to the bale, while interior buy •rs insist on only 6 yards of baggift : nd 6 ties. The majority of farm- rs buy light bagging, so that the verage freight of the bagging and es on a bale of cotton delivered by irmers to buyers amounts to about 1. pounds. In this wide complication of dif erences in the weight of liaggin? >nd ties the farmers as usual get he worst end of the bargain. Near- 'y 65_ tier cent of the crop goe n ice paid Tor ex- >ort cotton the farmers have tr GOV. HEYWARD RETIRES. The lust of possession is th° on 1 ) xplanation that has been made ot 'tockefHler's reason for holding th rreat nonjiro Dicing tract which h- icver sees, but is mainly used b> ivants in ills cmploy. s from liai 'ond. Inliablted by 28 families. Ii <. ems that the postal aothbritie's-d* •i'♦*■1 that either Hie postnflioe a Derrick or the on:* at Ilay. Pom 1 wmiH h^ve tr* be disrontinned. \’ t.tv i’ond th* re is one family—th? of WJ'llam itockefeller. And. o th •ourstf. the 2s families of Derric nt 1 tu* anryt^U’ Uio.-new al_.aL There Ts indignation among them ' he.' 11 * w go to Bay Pend fo 1 j heir maTf. How to do that and no 1 >e fin*-I for trespass Is a ptizzlle the ^ have not yet solved. To reach th ’•ay Pond 1 st office they have elth* ■ • step on Rockefell r land or wa 'own the track of Rockefeller's New 1 Yoik Central railroad. In eithe (and a loss of 30 pounds to the ba’e or bagging and ties, sp that if they mt on 21 pounls they lose 9 pounds- •f lint in addition to bagging and ies they pay for and put ou the hale*. • ' Spinners do not pay for bagging nd ties. The buyers do not pav he farm rs anything for . bagging nd ties. No farmer has ever sold C pound of bagging and ties to any- 10 ly. The bagging and ties on a >ale of cotton is a net los*, to the iian who—had—the bale ginned. The cotton growers of the South ire losingr millions of dollars annu- illy on account of their indifference r ignorance regarding this question 4**f twigging and ties. There is but ne correct, fair and business-like h- 1 ‘**thod of settling tirts matter on a asij of. equity to all parties at In rest. and that Is to telll co’ttou 'Tictly on net weight. Just as the pinners buy it from the cotton fac ers or extKirters. The^weight of all bagging should imtfornw and Hie same numb r f yard* us d on each bale. Good, envy weight bagging shoiJd-be used 1 1 under existing regulations every irmer should put on the full allow- ace, else he loses a portion of h's t. This is a serious matter which . or.Id l> remedied by mutual agre?- icnt of a4C parties at interest, th*- rower and the spinner. There is 00 hig a margin left for gra^C, caj ■f legitimate or what not, which th armers should no longer stand for We hav? called attention to thi nattertimes and the farme V Mine I? Wrecked and Four Mr^- 'fe getting sufficiently organized t- 'ondition of His Health Forces Mil* to Give Ip Business. - • At the regular nv. e*ting of th toard of directors of the Columtij ust company 01 vVe Ines.lay Ex-Governor D. C. Hey ! ! ward tendered his resignation as th* .resident of the institution to tak- • ffect not later than the annual meet . tig in January. Gov. Heyward »Ut ! al to the hoard that his action wa , alien by reason of the fact that hi' I ihysician had advised him to give u* 'ork of this character at thls'tlm. account of his health. — TERRIFIC E\PLD>KIN. F.lltollllH'll. ■a e arm.-d guards or. railroad d<* • ctives might ketch ’em. The pen il'yi'Tor trespass ET' $25 an I costs iHyrick’s i)i*<>i*le have petitione be p«?tin'is''-c. g-mera! to reepe heir |k?s11.iffc•*. HOW INDIANA VOTED. National Ginners’ Assoclatio'n. VHAT CAFSED THEIR DEATH .. •: \ - f-eadflcif’ M 1 9—L 1 1 this year, kept 5 pupils out of la* yaar’e lOtli gradsent 9 out of tb fame grade to college, and'pay* tw. bigb ©chool teacherr thi* year $1. JMl These nine pMpllR, with on from th© 9th grade, pt-college, w this y«sar cort the people of ths' town more than they are spendim on their entire school from the Acs grgde up. Tb© people of Pendleton, Seneca Union, Woodruff, and number* o: other pU£e* tre impoverishing thei: d in the **me way. Wha», iblt? Th© people are still roll® jn. •’h grade, or second high sa.i, r ar. how much college work has h one si the en*! of four years? I 10th grade pupil eii'ers th phompre clrss, h 'W much coll. {.•• ork her he h?d at graduation? The evil g.'iiluH vh!rh dantlna'e ur_ ■hSurifs or’-D.usfeAt,' fac+iRW, - wn-' 'he people are all und r th'fe nng’ •nell. There is no objection wha ver to numbera in the colleg-s, i heir presence is not bought with a •rlc?. The CQuatant Try i?. "Setre i more students; make room for ’p.re students; look at the stumor** 'ejng turned .sway-from th# eollsg© ioors ” The public mind in Its h ^ ■erical moments fails to grasp igniflcance of the plainest facta or instance, the college enrollmeu n Boush Civolina last year was moi'*- hsn or 3 bird the high .school *»• What is the signibchnc© l.vst»‘!-ious !)«‘itth of Thro** People i* W Wasliingti n City. Washington, Nov. 6.—Overcom iv the fumes of a gas of unknow .'rikjn,J.hrfe person*- of the famii if Clarence L. Bromcrman. a st* 1 mgrapber in Jhe library of Congress ver asphyxated in their home, j,30‘ st street, Northwest, this city today r tie dead are: Mrs. Helm Cutt^ Rremerman. 3 1 years oljl; Cutt Bn merman. 18 months old, her son, and Mrs Helen Oath, fine Bremfcrmnt. 58 gears old, her mother-in-law. . rwbett - Detitoerals W«-ct> AH State Office* ; and L«‘gis!:ituw'. \ radidl change in Indiana’s rep *•«• nta’ipn In 'he national Hon <. »f R :•:•**«» nfatives was the. . nt«»*' ’rii-iag fea'ure of Tu sdaV's et*- Ion The !a’«>?t imofflci'il return i^' Tnple'-e, give the Democratic pa ’« meui.liers and the R publican- ’ This L, a gain of seven membei 'or the DAmecrats. Win. H Taf carried the State f< '’revldend to- about 8.000 Thom R Marshall and th ( . entire Demo '.t^flc Pfat ticket are elected by ■ •«! lira lit v (,f ationt la.nnn As th '"Mirtis come in Marshall's plurall* Increases, while the vote on the Re uublican national ticket decreases ; The State legislature is D mocrat m,-'which means that a Democrat! successor to Senator James A. Hem tnway will be chfosen. In this con 'OfDon the name of John W. Ker ! s mentioned. R'pijhlican Rfa' Chairman Goodrich admits that th Republicans lack two votes of hAyirT^ ■ majorl'v of the State legislatin' n joint ballot. Benton, 111., Nqy. 5. An exploslo. t the mines of Col. W. P. Bon hre. miles "'C^rT.T 1 Benton, late ti 1 lay wrecked the shaft and as a r j alt four shot flrera are entombed So terrific was the explosim th v car an.1 pieces of rattryad trar*- t're hurl d from the bottom to th p of the shaft, more : hjDf 600 fee b*niollshing a steel tijij l|| If is impossible to reach the flrers •id their fa'e is unknown. A lari* orco of menrtvffrying to clear aw; he wreckage, hut the work is pr ceding slowly. **cure a sentiment of the tare que- ion on a fair and systematic basi- We are coatin.uously noticing artl- >-s in iiaj'ert devoted to cotton infer nation stating that the farmers take a profit on their bagging an ! ies. This is a delusion, which on!- ♦■fleets on the ignorance of lho“ flETiig the assertion A? a matt if fact, more than the average vain f the bagging and ties is alway ’educted from the price paid tto arim»r, the same as freight iind a> h r fixed charges. ifher. It is the best hair-restorer I ver used, and I have used them all. i find it a great'dandruff remover uso. You should get it into all tho barber shops, and get the barbers o use It, as is is great."—Geo. A. Riltz, 73 ty Main street, Springfield, Mass. Parisian Sage soaks into the scaip, md when it reaches the roots of the hair it not only kills every dandruff term, but it supplies the hair wl’h lust, the right kind of nourishment to out vigor and strength into it and make it grow. Parisian Sage is the most dellgh'- ful hair dressing in the world. Use it one week and you ©ill never give it up. Parisian Sage is guaranteed by J. 1. Wannamaker Mfg. Co. to stop failing hair; to cure dandruff; to fading: to cure itch ing of the scalp, or money baca. Price 50 cents a bottle at J. 0. Wan- lamaker Mfg. Co.'s, or by express, *harges prepaid, from Giroux Mfg Co., Buffalo. N. Y. We observe that some of on*' ex- ■hangfs are telling "h w *V farm-* •r’s wife can earn money," just a? •hough she was not ’every day'earn- 'ng a great deal more than sh*» gets CLASSIFIED COLUMN TEACHERS—TIM ST EES- '*> secure schools for teachert at, have many excellent vacancies W. recommend teachers to truste*-, and sell school furniture of a 1 kinds. -•Write SoiittiPfn Teach• »-r»' Agenrj. Oniiiinhlw. S. C For Sal*'—New Buick 20 h p. four- cylinder Roadst r: complete with top, gas lamps and generator; ex-, tra large tires; cost $1,050 d o livered- First check for ^1,000 —grrg 1 tt.—HuriT*—tftur bargain.; MOTHER \NDSON FOl NDDEAD 'Ornan Shot Tlir*>iigh Head and S*u I Dead from Gas. At New York Mrs. F. Vei; an,! hp m. J. N l.‘orv Veit, a Wall stre*’’ j iroker. were found dead in theii o'ms in a large apartment hotel 01 pper Broadway late Wednesday. The mother had been shot in th- ! * ad and her body was in her bed 00m while the son was lying suffo •ated by gas on the floor of the bed Ask Taft to Aid Cause. -• Chicago. Nov. 6.—A dispatch t* he Tribune from Denver. eol.,®a>u*-: A mon.-ter petlfUm-to t>? cifeidated " the women of America, and kjyn submitted to President-el ct lift. Is the Immediate plan of the jN'uionai American Woman’s Suffrae- ist Association, f' s. Announcement of this fact wat made yesterday by/ the R v. Anna Howard, presidmt x)f ttre assoeja- tion. A special appeal was made to th * Calorado women to assist In th° movement by securing th? signatures of every woman iu-Aho State. "Mr. Taft has oftyiusaid he was w illing the ‘women uf Afhrica ?houM nom, with pillows under hi? head The dror of the bathroom war f have the right -of franchise if they ocked and this was held as evident teslrtd it, the president said. *f probable suicide on his part, fo' j an _ 0 ^; ->wing th? death of his mother, prob- *■—*-• - - - -- — - - * >hly at his hands. GEORGIA IN DISGRACE. Mil,, i voting lie “noticed bis' in rat’ ■on-apparehMy asl'ep in a crib !p •he dining room He called to hD 'vjfe, and received no reply, went In ■n the kitchen, where he found hi? wife aid mother lying dead on th** ter,•merman detected a. etronv fbdor of gas. but was unable to locate Re source. - The coroner, the police and a num ber of physicians who were cqlb d 0. were unable to determine the •xact •fiature of the deadly fumes An autopsy over the body of the f What the Republicans Claim C Really True. The Grorgla Republican campaie* om in it tee Wednesday gave out t'v ollowing: "Indicatinp now point to a Brya-' ’iniority of five thonsand of less T,) fate gave Parker Ihfrty-seven thons nd in 1994 We claim a local vie ory of the campaign, as the flglr wile -mad' without outside aid of •Kiney r*r speakers and with the nc- Tro not voting Had the nogro re^ ’Rtered. the vote cast ip have given Taftj »«;ijo«-*--y s over all. It was a'whilee anl|flg :r TERRIBLE TRAGEDY*. “TV.. \ Crazed Hotel Man Kills Wife, an ' Son. John Hagan, 50 years old, proprl?- rtV of a hotTfat Scranton, N. Y., on he outskirts of Buffalo, near the Lackawanna steel plant, shot and in Rtantly kilted -his 17-year-old sor leprge, and seriously wounded hi vife. Carrie, at-ten o clock Thursda* morning. Hagan is in the custody o f i 'eputy sheriffs and the district at- ! forney has gone to the scene of the hooting. The man is believed to be insane. portunity to show what he meant bv thi? statement." , * in runabouts, touring cars and White Steamers. E A. Jenkins Moter Co . Columbia, S C. Sal s Agents for Th** White. Maxwell, Keo and Sto IdarJ-Paytt*n^ For Sale—Thorbtjghbre 1 B,.(rk?hDe Pigs, Blit more SioeBF at $s and $10 each. a' I)**voui’a Farm, Grenville. S. C. Wasted—Live Wild Turk vs. Also Squirrel-. Tame peer. Red Fox©*. Pa Ft ri' ges, Ph » ii *<, Wil 1 Waterfowl, Etc Dr. Cecil French Naturalist, Washington. D C. Aantid—To purclisse timber fropj 500 acr s up, ntjv rr.t* ha.yimr’SAnie' wri'e antl^ give fuiH'nar tenlarB. t** A -At "Fell. Gre'-nvlite Pa. — —— M-t >le Shop for You—llfcymi wan s’reet suit, wed Hug troussea’i evening or rtceptlon gown, let m send you ,fny samples ini esti mate?. Can give any price gow;, the market affords Simple an 1 inex|><*nsiv«>. or h.an’?• me *n,i costly. Miss .1 E JOSEPH. 1""* Franklin afreet. 1 oulsville. Kv - Milt S\I.K—Common l>ul!ding t»n«> red color, immediate tell'er* Pr^ce upon appllcatlotr Camd* * Pre«k ^jirick Co.. Ca*n<l»*n. ?4. C \\ YNTMa—Flne logs • bought f casif For particular* add res* Pro**** l.umlMT Co., Sumter. S. C C: Buying a Plano or an Organ Is Not Hard when you come or write to us. Our Piano? and Organs are guar'.? anTeed and up-to-date, arnt St a reas onable price. The cases are beautiful, the in side is made by the best and most expertendPd men in their lines, *0 it is no wonder our pianos and organs holds Their *sweet tone a lifetime. Write 11s at once for - catalog and special price >and terms, stating pref erence piano or organ. J „ MALONE'S YH'SIC HOFsfe^ Columbia. S. C. Pianos and Organs. :the only house in Colombia- , CARRYING THE “Original Genuine Gandy B It” Carrying also Rubber and Leather Belt. Write us for prices on anything in Machinery Supply Line COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY 823.W st Gervia?(Street. COLUMBIA. S. C. u. a. pat. omet. TILLMAN WRITING A BOOK. I* hn Porter HoIHs Engage^. search for the Senator. If * •It’s GIBBES Gibbes “PerlecUoii’ 1 Shingle MUi ?nd the result makes Georgia the t>attleground In 1912. People" atmj generally pleased over the election^of Taft/’ Suffering and Ilessolaflnn. *■ ". - .•* .who arrived on th© steameY Dictator , . - ih** gr^.a^ «uffering and desefiation prevail? along the coast of Nicaragua, when' a hnrlcane recently destroyed the towns nf R)o Grande and Plnzsnnlka, v^ungor woman will be held tomor- and devastated the coast .country for *•*. •^mafly mllel,. * John Porter Hollis, a Wofford graduate, is in Washington for a fen days, epgaged In research work for Senator Tillman, in connection with his forthcoming book dealing with the race question- „ Cut* all siie« and leu^thwofFhinjrW'K. Perfoctlj rlsyid framo. Car© b«i*oi*md arbor and f^lf-olilng- bnx***. 8t© 'd^iRovsni* nt. Kol !< r Bparinp ( arrla i aiie - 1 Pfcdjlftme"*—* Next - Week! Watch TUs * ,y v! V*. Good! 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