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IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Pungent Paragraphs About Men
* and Happenings.
The time of meeting of the State Press
Association has been changed to July 17,
18,19. The meeting will be held at the
Isle of Palms.
Mr. John J. McMahan, of Columbia,
has entered the race for governor, on the
dispensary platform, but he wants the
institution reformed. Mr. McMahan was
formerly State superintendent of education.
The passenger train from Darlingtonto
Hartsville was wrecked in the yard at
Darlington last Sunday night. The cause
of the wreck was a half turned switch at
the MY," the switch having evidently
been tampered with.
Mr. C. L. Hayes, a prominent school
book man from Tennessee, was drowned
in the surf at the Isle of Palms last
Thursday. Several others were in bathing
at the time, some of whom were rescued
with difficulty.
William Marcus, a white man, was
found guilty of murder in Charleston
last week and sentenced to be hanged.
Marcus was formerly a soldier, and brutally
stabbed his wife with an ice pick at
_ Sullivan's Island a few months ago. Insanity
was the plea.
Judge Hydrick has decided that the
dispensary election in Laurens county
was illegal, and the dispensaries will
again be opened until another election is
^ hel$, unless an appeal is taken by the
anti-dispensary people. Irregularities in
; the election caused the contest.
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Jesse Cain, a negro who escaped from
a Florida jail 11 years ago while uhder
sentence of death, was arrested at Kingstree
Friday and carried back to Florida,
, after stubborn resistance. Cain had opened
a store, rented a four horse farm
and was prospering when arrested.
W. R. Gilliam, a white man of Union
county, has been put in jail charged with !
the murder of Mose Hughes, a negro, |
Gilliam's barn was burned some weeks
ago and the old negro was arrested for
the crime but was released as there was I
no evidence against him. Later his body j
''-vp was found in the Tyger river, and it is j
thought he was murdered by Gilliam.
jP I Dr. J. A. Clifton, one of the prominent
ministers of the South Carolina conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
died suddenly of heart failure at his home
?? in Marion last Thursday afternoon. The
burial took place Friday at Sumter. Dr.
Clifton was well-known and had many
gHF^' *' ~r
friends throughout the State, having
? served many of the most important
charges.
At the annnal meeting last week the
i board of trustees of Wofford college de
' cided to abolish fraternities in the college.
Most of the colleges in the State
have done away with Greek letter societies.
Members of the present Freshmen
class will be allowed to join fraternities,
but new students will be required to sign
a pledge that they will not become members.
This plan will result in the disbanding
of the societies in a few years.
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? He Gives Warning.
"Now, Grace," commanded her husband,
"I don't want you to buy your bathing
suit like you buy your shoes."
"How's that, dear?"
"How's that? You know how's that.
Two sues too small."
A Foolometer.
Some visitors who were being shown
over a pauper lunatic asylum inquired of
their guide what method was employed
to discover when the inmates were sufficiently
recovered to leave.
"Well," replied he, "you see it's this
way. We have a big trough of water
' and we turns on the tap. We leave it
running, and tells 'em to bail out the water
with pails until they've emptied the
"How does that prove it?" asked one
of the visitors.
"Well," said the guide, "them as ain't
idiots turns off the tap."
Bomance Shattered.
They were standing in the shadows
down by the old mill. In the copse a
^ . night bird called.
"Parting is such s^eet sorrow," he
said with a sigh, as he stood and steeped
his soul in the lovelight from her eyes.
"Break away, George. Your liver's on
the bum. What you need is sassafras tea."
FOLLOWING TILL ITiAG.
When our soldiers went to Cuba and
the Philippines, health was the most important
consideration. Willis T. Morgan,
/ . retired commissary sergeant U. S. A., of
Rural Route 1, Concord, N. H., says: "I
was two years in Cuba and two years in
the Philippines, and being subject to
colds, I took Dr. King's New Discovery
lor Consumption, which kept me in perfect
health. And now, in New Hamp^
-shire, we find it the best medicine in the
/ world for coughs, colds, bronchial troubles
and all lung diseases." Guaranteed
at Hoover's drug store and J. B. Black's.
f*rice 5Qc and fl.OQ. Trial bottle free.
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ATTEMPT TO BRIBE.
An Effort to Buy Appointment as County
Dispenser at Walterboro.
Walterboro, June 17.?A rumor has
started up here within the last few days
to the effect that an attempt was made by
a candidate for dispenser to bribe the
county board of control of this county.
Several weeks ago the board advertised
that they would elect dispensers at Walterboro,
Lodge, Jacksonboro, Adams Hun
and Rantowles on June 5th. There were
quite a number of applications for the va|
rious places, but all of the old dispensers
were reelected. A report soon gained
| circulation that a member of the board
| had received a letter from one of the candidates
offering him $200 for his vote and
tne vote 01 one omer uiemuci, muasauiing
bis election. It is said that the letter
contained a hard luck story -about there
being a mortgage on his place and he
wanted to liquidate that the first year,
that he did not want the member to consider
his letter an attempt to bribe, for it
was not so intended, but he thought every
man was entitled to pay for his time and
influence.
When seen by your correspondent, a
member of the board admitted that one
of their members had received such a letter
and that they had decided to turn it
over to the grand jury at the approaching
term of court. The board of control of
Colleton county is composed of C. P.
Fishburne, Sr., of Walterboro, W. N.
Jones, of Ashton, and H. P. Ulmer, of
Getsinger. The letter was written to Mr.
Ulmer and shown by him to the other
members of the board. The board held
a special meeting Thursday and determined
to take such action in this case that
will convince all parties that they do not
belong to the class that can be bribed.
They regard the letter as a gross insult
to themselves and will see that an example
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The board did not care to give out the
letter for publication nor the name of the
person, as the matter will soon be before
the courts. They admitted, however,
that the contents of the letter was substantially
as stated above.
It was also stated that the person offering
the bribe was a candidate for dispenser
at Walterboro, which position pays
about $80 per month. Col. J. W. Hill of
Colleton, formerly a member of the legislature,
has been dispenser here for some
time and has made a most acceptable officer.
He was reelected. There were two
candidates opposing him, J. M. Buckner,
of Cottageville and G. Albert Beach, of
Stokes. Mr. Buckner was seen \ esterday
and indignantly denied any such letter
written by him. Mr. Beach lives
about seven miles from town and could
not be seen today.
An "Innocent" Letter.
The dispensary investigating committee
made public the following letter last
week. The letter was written by Geo. R.
Koester, of the Columbia Record, a daily
newspaper in Columbia. Comment is
unnecessary:
1 Columbia, S. C., June 19,1902.
Dear Farnum:?How about those beer,
and whiskey ads. you promised me?
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lishing them. Every little helps to make
The Record a bigger and stronger paper.
The way The Record has made Dukes'
fight for him has more than ever demonstrated
the value of The Record as a
friend and defender of the dispensary and
its officers. If The Record were a bigger
and better paper, it could more effectively
take care of the dispensary's interests.
It would be such a paper if all the firms
which do business through the dispensary
in this State were to give it their patronage.
The dispensary people are anxious
to sie The Record branch out and are
going to take a good block of its stock to
help make improvements. As it stands,
The Record is a good piece of property,
more than paying expenses. With ne *
machinery, it can be made a good earner.
It will pay you, directly and indirectly,
to take several hundred dollars worth of
stock. The shares are worth $25.00 each.
How many will you take?
Yours truly,
Geo. R. Koesteb.
Will Not Run.
The pledge of Mr. Chas. A. Smith, of
Timmonsville, was filed by a friend last
Monday as a candidate for lieutenant
governor, but Mr. Smith will not make
the race. He would have done so had a
candidate for governor come out who
favored his views. Strong pressure was
brought to bear on Mr. C. C. Featherstone,
of Laurens, to enter the race for
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governor, dud ne aecnneu 10 uo su. it is
believed that had Mr. Featherstone entered
for governor, Mr. Smith would have
made the race for lieutenant governor.
We regret that neither of these men can
be voted for. They are both strong,
brainy men, and it would have given us
much pleasure to support them. Mr.
Smith is one of the most prominent Baptists
in the State, and is held in the highest
esteem by all who know him.
In sickness or wellness; in gladness
or sadness, use SHAW'S MALT. For
sale at the dispensary.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN YARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Aronnd
the Conuty and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, June 18?Three cotton
blooms have been brought to me. William
Ealey, a colored farmer in this section,
brought in a full red cotton bloom on last
Thursday, Mr. M. A. Kinard one on Friday
morning and another on Friday afternoon.
The cotton is too small to
brag about however and the continued
rains makes the cotton crop look disheartening
to the farmers. Saw acres
upon acres of cotton in my travels that
has not had a bit of work done to it since
planting. Can't see where more than 50
per cent 01 a couon uruu uau uc wauc
with average weather from now on.
Messrs. Jacob Ehrhardt and Frank H.
Copeland went to Newberry a week ago
to attend the commencement of Newberry
College and accompany their families
home.
Say, do you want some rain? We have
plenty and will divide. Buford's, Rivers'
and Broxton bridges have been washed
away by the high water.
The Old Mill bridge and bridges at the
ford on Little Salkehatchie swamp near
the old mill, also the two causeways over
Lemon Swamp, one near Mr. Jacob
Rentz's, the other near Mr. J. W. Hill's,
have also been washed away.
Mr. J. W. Priester says it has rained so
much at his home until his Irish potatoes
have bogged down so deep until he could
not dig them up.
Mr. Charlie Kinsey is all smiles. All
his spare moments are now employed
rdcking his boy.
The Colleton Cypress Co. isn't worth a
dam. The high water broke their dam
and most of the logs that they had in their
pond are washed back into the swamp.
We have another change of schedule
on our branch of railroad. We get a
train coming in at 12.25 p. m. and leave
about 2 p. m. Can't say whether will
hav6 the regular daily freight each day
or not. Jee.
'Barnwell Wants Union Station.
Barnwell, June 14?An enthusiastic
gathering of the business men of the city
met the representatives of the railroad
commissioners and the Atlantic Coast
Line and the Southern railroads here in
the opera house today to lay before them
the necessity of the erection of a union
depot at the junction of the said roads.
All the business men of the town entered
into the spirit of the meeting and did their
best to convince the railroad commissioners
that the depot was an urgent
necessity. Able arguments were made
by different business men and while nothing
definite was accomplished, the citizens
of the place feel that they have accomplished
a great deal of good and expect
to have an order from the commissioners
in the near future that will result
in the erection of the said building.
The State Campaign.
The first State campaign meeting was
held at St. George Tuesday, the entries
having closed Monday at noon. The
meeting for Bamberg is to take place next
Tuesday. Following are the candidates
for State offices, congress, etc.
United States senate, B. R. Tillman and
W. W. Lumpkin.
For congress, First district, Geo. S.
Legare, incumbent; Second, J. 0. Patterson,
incumbent; G. L. Tcole and B. B.
Hare; Third, Wyatt Aiken, incumbent;
J. E. Boggs; Fourth, J. T. Johnson, incumbent;
W. C. Irby, Jr., G. H. Mahon;
Fifth, D. E. Finley, incumbent; T. J.
Strait; W. P. Pollock; Sixth, J. E. Ellerbe,
incumbent; Seventh, A. F. Lever, incumbent.
Governor, M. F. Ansel, C. L. Blease, J.
E. Branson, W. A. Edwards, A. C. Jones,
R. I. Manning, John J. McMahan, John
T. Sloan.
Lieutenant governor, T. G. McLeod.
Secretary of State, R. M. McCown, J.
B. Morrison, L. M. Ragin, and M. P.
Tribble.
Attorndy general, J. Fraser Lyon, J.
W. Ragsdale and Leroy F. Youmans, in
cambent.
Comptroller general, A. W. Jones, incnmbent;
G. L. Walker.
State treasurer, K. E. Jennings, incumbent.
Adjutant general, J. C. Boyd and L. W.
Haskell.
Railroad commissioner, J. H. Wharton,
incumbent; James Cansler, J. M. Sullivan,
J. A. Summersett and J. C. Sellers.
State superintendent of education, 0.
B. Martin.
Brakeman Addison Killed.
"Rt> ivrnvTT.T.p .Tnnp 1 fi?.T_ A. Addison.
white, a brakeman on a Southern work
train, was run over here and killed almost
instantly about 8 o'clock this morning.
It is not definitely known how the
accident occurred, but it is supposed that
in coupling cars he fell across the track.
Several cars passed over the body, and
his neck and one arm were broken. The
body will be taken to Charleston to-night,
where it is said the deceased had a family.
The inquest will be held to-night.
WHITE MAN KILLED BY TRAIN.
John Thornall Goes to Sleep on Railroad
Track at Kingstree.
Kingstree, June 18.?John Thornall,
a young white man, was killed by a freight
train which passed Kingstree about two
o'clock this morning. Thornall was in
company with a companion, Joe Springs,
and left Kingstree about 12 o'clock to go
home about two miles out of town.
About three hundred yards beyond the
old depot they stopped to rest and sat
down on the end of the crossties. Both
fell asleep, Springs soon lying down on
the outside of the ties, leaving Thornall
still sitting on the end of the tie. Springs
was awakened by the passing of the
train and when it passed by he found
Thornall lying alongside the track, with
his head crushed in. He soon had assist
ance, but the poor fellow died in a little
while. The coroner is now on the scene
holding an inquest. Both of the young
men had been drinking.
The Careful Motorist
#An automobile driver was arrested recently
while driving slowly through a village
and fined $5. He demanded why he
had been so treated, as he had not violated
any speed ordinance, but could get no
satisfaction. Later a court officer explained
the whole matter by saying: "We
held a meeting last night and decided
I that this speeding must stop. This man
was the first to come along slow enough
for us to catch, so we arrested him."
No Damages from Him.
There had been a railway collision near
a country town, and a shrewd lawyer had
hurried to the scene of disast- r. He noticed
an old man with a badly injured
head, and hurried up to him where he
lay moaning on the ground.
"How about damages?" he began. '
But the sufferer waved him off.
"G'way, boss, g'way," he said. "Ah
nebber hit de train. Ah nebber done
such a t'ing in all mah life! Yo' cain't
git no damages out ob me."
Lend Us a Winchester.
The editor of a Kansas paper states
that he borrowed a Winchester rifle recently
and started up the street to deliver
the weapon to its owner. The delinquent
subscribe! s got it into their heads that he
was on the warpath and every one insisted
on paying what he owed him. One
man wipep out a debt of ten years' standing.
On his return to his office he found
a load of hay, fifteen bushels of potatoes,
a load ( of wood, and a barrel of turnips
that had been brought in. All the country
editors are now trying to borrow Winchesters.?Kansas
City Journal.
A Distinction or a Difference.
A congressional committee went to
Portland, Ore., to assist in the opening
of the exposition on June 1 last, says The
Saturday Evening Post.
There was a parade in the morning, in
which all the visiting statesmen rode in
carriages. The local committee brought
the carriages around to the Portland Jjotel.
The scheme was to have two local
men in each carriage.
After the vice president and his party
bad been sent away a Portland notable,
who was acting as majordomo, came into
tho lobby of the hotel, where the statesmen
were waiting, and bawled:
"Two congressmen and two gentlemen,
please!"
Reunion and Picnic.
Camp Rivers Bridge, No. 839, U. C. V.,
will hold their annual reunion and picnic
at the memorial grounds on Thursday,
July 5th. The public is cordially invited
to attend and join us in the picnic.
J. W. JENNY,
John F. Bbeland, Commander.
Adjutant.
Jenny, S. C., June 18,1906.
Saying the Sinners.
Down in old Virginia the master went
to a revival service by a colored exhorter
from a neighboring county. The preacher
described hell as a gloomy cavern filled
with icebergs, frozen streams, snowbanks,
etc., without a ray of sunshine or
a breath of warmth. His discourse was a
corker, and the mourners' bench was
rrnwded with sinners. When the serv
ices were concluded the master whispered
to the preacher: "What kind of yarn
wc re you spinning about hell being a refrigerator?
Don't you know it's just the
opposite? Why, the temperature is at
least a quadrillion degrees above zero!"
The old darky replied: "That's all
right, boss. Ah knows ma biznis. Ise a
converter, Ah am. Ah gits 'em in de
fold, Ah does. Ef Ah tol' 'em hell wuz
not ebery doggone nigger on de place
want to go dar; but tell 'em it's er freezeout
en dey joins de Lord's army.
DEADLY SERPENT BITES
are as common in India as are stomach
and liver disorders with us. For the latter
however there is a sure remedy: Electric
Bitters; the great restorative medicine,
of which S. A. Brown, of Bennettsville,
S. C., says: "They restored myj
wife to perfect health, after years of suffering
with dyspepsia and a chronically
torpid liver." Electric Bitters cure chills
i ana fever, malaria, biliousness, lame back,
, kidney troubles and bladder disorders.
, Sold on guarantee by Hoover's drug
store and J. B. Black. Frice 50c.
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BLAIK FLALtU UNUCK FCA^C BUnu.
He Makes Statement and Waives Preliminary
Hearing?Mr. Lyon Dismissed.
The affair between Mr. John Black of
the dispensary board of directors and Mr.
J. Fraser Lyon of the investigating committee,
which began on Friday, June 1,
by a threatened attack on the latter by
the former, was closed by Mr. Black being
placed under a peace bond fos $1,000
and Mr. Lyon being dismissed.
The hearing yesterday was held in the
court of Magistrate Moorman, having
been postponed from the day after the
trouble. It was set for 6 o'clock, but
about 2:30 o'clock Mr. Black, with his attorney,
appeared before the court and
without any formality waived a preliminary
hearing and simply left the disposal
of the matter to the discretion of the
court.
Mr. Black made a brief statement in
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wuicu lie saiu mat uc was auAiuua tu
avoid any farther discussion of the affair
and for that reason waived a preliminary
hearing, and that while he, of course, did
not want to be placed under a peace bond
and had no idea of not keeping the peace,
he submitted the matter entirely to the
discretion of the court and would furnish
bond or not as the court deci ed. So
far as he was concerned, he said, the matter
had passed over.
The magistrate announced that he
though it best thai Mr. Black should be
placed under a bond to keep the peace in
the sum of $1,000, but that so far as he
could see Mr. Lyon had done nothing for
which he should be placed under bond.
Mr. Black volunteered the statement that
he agreed with the court that Mr. Lyon
should not be placed under a peace bond.
Mr. Lyon was not present.
Mr. Black immediately entered into the
bond in the required amount with Gen.
Wilie Jones and Mr. J. P. Matthews as
sureties.?Columbia State.
Tlie Delineator for Jnly.
The midsummer fashions with a wealth
of illustrations in color and in black-and
white are attractively portrayed' in The
Delineator for July. Helen BerkeleyLoyd
tells how the Summer girl will be
frocked and furbelowed, and the Dress of
Paris is discussed by M. Edouard La Fontaine,
one of the best known critics in
Paris. In the literary section the most
notable feature is1 the opening chapters of
"The Chauffeur and the Chaperon," a
new story by C. N. and. A. M. Williamson,
authors of "The Lightning Conductor."
The story, which deals with a
group of interesting people cruising in a
motor boat over the quaint waterways of
Holland, promises to be the brightest and
cleverest novel that these renowned
writers have yet produced. Mrs. Mary
Hinman Abel contributes a chapter on
"Flies and Food" in The Delineator's
Campaign for Safe Foods, and Clara E.
Laughlin opens a series of "Stories of
Painters' Lives," with "Millet?the Peasant
Painter." Burton E. Stevenson has
the second part of the tale "The Rose of
Sharon," and there is a short story entitled
"The Baby," by Zona Gale, "The
President of Quex," Helen M. Winslow's
entertaining club story, is concluded.
For the children, there are Stories and
Pastimes, among them the first of the
series of "Tales of the Mountain Giants"
and a clean story by Edmund Vance
Cook, "Down the King's Chimney." For
the housewife there are manv articles of
timely interest, including Novelties for
Summer Feasts, Strawberry Favorites
and New Vegetables Cleverly Served.
Tillman and Roosevelt.
Washington, June 17.?There is a
prospect that before the end of the Roosevelt
administration the President and
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, will
shake hands and make up. Recent iemarks
made by each of them indicate that
no bad feeling would be displayed if the
two should happen to come face to face
all of a sudden.
"I like Senator Tillman," said the President
to Senator Gallinger the other day,
when the latter called at the White House
on a matter in which the South Carolinian
was interested. "He couldn't do anything
to make me mad any more."
In his final speech on the railroad rate
bill, Senator Tillman startled his colleagues
by commending the efforts made
by the President to put an effective rate
bill on the statute books.
A caller discussed the incident with the
[President. "Do you know," said the
President, "I didn't think it was possible
for Senator Tillman to do anything that
[ would surprise me."
Senator Tillman was talking about the
| President to a friend. "Well, we got a
good law," said the friend, "but did you
ever think that a commission might be
created that would be dominated by the
railroads."
"Oh!" replied the Pitchfork Statesman,
"I haven't got much use for the man in
the White House, but I guess he's
straight."
All of which goes to show that the man
from South Carolina and "the man in the
White House" may get together and declare
by-gones to be by-gones.
WANTED AT ONCE-Your order for
dry wood, J. H, MVRPHT.
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JV/I1VUL UWWIW.
State Board Adopts This Week.?A Hot Fight
Waging.
The State board of education will meet
in Columbia on Friday to adopt the books
for the schools of the State for the next
five years. This adoption is always of
the greatest interest to the people of the
State, for people kick strenuously against
having to buy new school books and
never see any reason why books should
be so constantly changed by the author!*
ties in charge of the schools. As a mat*
ter of fact the State adoption was insti*
tuted for this purpose, largely, and it has
resulted in very much less change of x
books in the State schools. The special,
school districts, graded schools and the
like, are now exempted from the re*
qnirements of this adoption and as a con*
sequence the children in the city schools
pay a great deal more for books than ' -*
those in the country schools. Independent
districts are adopting other books because
they appear to the superintendent
or teacher of the schools to do better.
Even with these independent schools
using what books they choose, the book
business of the State under the adoption
is about $150,000 a year. The house that
gets readers, that being the more. desirable
because of the large sale of readers,
every child having to have one and use a
reader as long as they are in school, is
worth to the successful bidder about $30,000
a year. The history sales in the State
will amount to $10,000 to $15,000, and so
with grammars. Arithmetics will afford
a business amounting to something like
$20,000 a year. These big figures attract
the very best publishers with the very
best books and stimulate the publishers
to get books that will have as many attractions
for the commission that adopts '
as possible. It has made a wonderful 1
change in the complexion of the histories
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try, north as well as south, for a house
that poshes in the north the sale of a book M
objectionable to the socith will be mighty n
apt to find its representativee treated ' / .J
coldly when they come here witjh the
books. The matter of the nniform sys* $
tem of books in all the schools has an* "J|
other phase and a very important one
which should be considered and that is
in view of the establishment of high. 1
schools in the State. With books alike '&
and course of study alike in country and
the town and a course of study generally
followed with the college in view there
will be many of the impediments to edu*
cation removed.
Great pressure has been brought to bear 4
on the members of the State board of
education, consisting of the "governor, ,
superintendent of education and one
member from each congressional district 3
to keep the books now on the list, but aa \ ";!
great pressure has been brought to change
them. The outsider has no idea of the
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intensity of the school book fight. The
book men have been delighted with the };
conditions in South Carolina, where the
board is absolutely free from political entanglements
and have nothing in view
but the best interests of the schools and
the school children. If many of the books
are changed it will mean the^poiitical
death knell of the State superintendent
and of many of the county superintendents,
the people failing to realize that the ' ^
men who are really responsible are beyond
their reach. They are not in poll- ;gj
tics. Another matter with all book
men, and there is an army camped on our / ||
soil, is that in this State they have nothing
to urge except the excellence of their
books. No influence, no pressure otherwise
than this, is countenanced. The fight
is a straight one on the excellence of the
books. The State board is composed of
W. K. Tate, of Charleston, J. E. Boland,
superintendent of the Blackville schools,
D. W. Daniel, of Clemson college, A. G.
Rembert, of Wofford college, A. R. Banks,
superintendent of the Lancaster schools,
Hartwell M. Ayer, editor of the Florence
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intendent of the Orangeburg schools.
There are hundreds of books offered
on every different subject and many for
the library and teachers reading circle
adoption. As the date of the meeting
draws near the book men are making
their last and most strenuous efforts to
secure their books. Resolutions and testimonials
for and against certain books
for all sorts of schools and states are presented
for comparison.
The board will very probably be as conservative
as possible in the matter of the
adoption, changing as few books as possible
but whenever a better book for the
purpose can be had they are going to get
that book if it is in their opinion worth
the expense of the change.
As a matter of fact the expense of the
people in this State for school books is
an average of 60 cents a pupil a year,
which is not a very heavy tax. The
books offered will be put just as low as ,
they possibly can but it is really wonderful
how beautiful from an artistic stand- .
point the school books of today are. The
sales are large and profits close, but no
expense is spared. Modern methods of
printing have brought that condition
about in the business.
In about ten days now the people of the
State will know what books they are to
use. The city schools will probably adopt
the same books and every effort made to
secure uniformity.
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