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Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first *; insertion. Communications?We are aiwaysglad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interim , v esf. W.e require the name and address of the writer *1n every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, Sept. 23, 1915. Weekly Weather Forecast. Issued by the United States weath... 1 er' bureau at Washington, for the week beginning Wednesday, September 22, 1915. For the South Atlantic and East Gulf States: / f'V ? Generally fair weather and moderate temperatures throughout the - week. ^ : ^ According to the census report on . cotton ginned to September 1st, the ' (? number of bales this year is 4,305 llfSagainst 14,633 for the same date "v.- " ^ s~\ . last year. Considering tnese ngures, it is not at all surprising that cotton is n*w worth ten cents and more.^ || v The crop wilhbe, it is stated by many r-: farmers who ought to know, about the same proportion when all the ginning figures ar? in. | The prohibitionists have won the : * first round in the campaign against | 4 whiskey Jn South Carolina. But it ' should be distinctly understood that .yV it is only the first round. Real prohibition will never be a fact unless there is a concerted determination to t'^%. enforce the law. If the mass of peo? * pie who buy whiskey are prevented from doing so, by any means whatso-1 ever, the condition of our great State will undoubtedly be greatly * bettered. 0& course, under the law, those who are able to do so can still order Br'i'/*' whiskey to the extent of a gallon a month. But the great majority of ' persons who use whiskey will not order it, and it is pretty safe to say p-y ' that if they cannot get it at home ? they will not drink at all. The prob^ - lem before the la,w-loying people now is the enforcement of prohibition. ; There are officers who are charged i - ' with the duty of seeing that the lawt> j I S'-. aro not violated. and that violators' Brr-;-. w " "" " " | are brought to justice. Let the good people of the* State stand en masse ,* ; behind these officers, and let them it - . \ * know that the best people of the \ \ State can be depended on to render : all possible aid in the enforcement, | not only of the prohibition law, but of all laws. The present State adg?' ministration is pledged to law enforcement. The people have declared , for prohibition. Let the people rule. ...... / Last week The Herald published an excellent article by Mr. Clarence n.f + V> <-v Prncrroccivo Par * roe, cuiiui ui x i vw.? - ? ^ mer, oh the cottonv situation. Mr. p - Poe atgues that cotton should be worth- twelve cents, and gives statisffe; > tics to prove his contentions. He adv vises the farmers to hold for this ; price. While we agree fully with Mr. Poe that cotton is well worth twelve cents., in fact we believe that it is - worth fifteen cents, but we would be slow in advising farmers to hold'for this price. The unusual conditions >^prevailing make the cotton market very uncertain^ When farmers sell i-;./' cotton at ten cents, they receive at least three cents more than the maf / jority of them counted on getting when the crop was planted. We believe that when a man?farmer, meichant or what not?owes money it /? is his duty to pay?because, by holding up payment waiting for cotton to go to twelve cents, he is helping \ to jeopardize the creditor's business and financial status. The withholding of payment of debts, when it is , possible to liquidate them, stagnates business in general. If the planters, at least all of them who owe any , considerable debts, wish to hold their V'-' * cotton, which they may do if they are x able, they should store it in wareVirtiicoc arirl borrow on the Cotton to liVUUVU VVAAV*. * w - ? liquidate their debts. Cotton may ' sell for twelve cents or maybe fifteen, fT V" but it is no certainty by any means, - ? " and in the meantime those who have ' been good enough to credit the farmer ?41 the year, waiting on him to sell cotton, may be in great need of money. We could name some of Kf C * them who are. \ i-.V N, , ;r/. . t Living in the Family. We all know the type of persoi who likes to spread the thin buttei of his philanthropy over as wide ai area in the community as possible where it will show, instead of wast ing it within doors on the tacit, un grateful acceptance of his own fami ly. Who expects the great virtuos< of song or piano or violin to giv< concerts at home to the plain litth temperamentless woman who keep: the books of the firm? Who expect: the world-molding orator to influ ence the domestic circles with Hi subtle persuasiveness, his mounting fires, his rhapsodies and metaphors' One man goes out and faces an au dience; quite another being come: home and toasts himself superbly ii the firelight. He could "not take i out of" the audience; he could no vent his spleen in public; he had t( smile and be affable, no matter hov he felt; so now comes the reaction and his mind can don fatigue uni form, and with no appearances t( maintain he can be just as insuffer able as, he pleases. Living in/the family is a fine art too. It is a dexterity to be cultivated as one would habituate the hand anc the intellect to the contrivance 01 some advice or memorial form o: beauty. Many never come anywhen near proficiency in what seems st easily attainable an art. Roberl Louis Stevenson knew that it was 2 hard thing, demanding faithful application on the part of the practitioner. Admirable and amiable as he was, it requires no very shrewd guesswork to reach the opinion thai he was letter-perfect rather thar deed-perfect in the part. Yet he never posed as an angel, though Henley so sadly and unaccountably pretended that he did. He surely was a much better man man most of us are. And in moments of engaging frankness he let us into the open secret that it is easier to belong to the community, like an endowed public institution/ than to be the property of a clinging, .intimate little group by whom you are named "husband" * and "father." They know you and love you?or dislike you?for what you exactly are; they travprap tha fare value t.n the real and spiritual appraisal; and you cannot go on fooling your wife and children after-they have found you out. The family stiucture rests on tolerances, latitudes, concessions?all * v of them things that procee^ from the undying, underlying fact of love as the rivers of paradise issue from the world's exuberant garden. Where love is not, it is useless to* try to have a satisfactory domestic arrangement. The strain and friction inciV ' i dent to every day of living are inevitably so severe * that all the strength the primal feeling of the heart can bring is needed to assure the lastingness of a sympathetic union, and a steadfast and single purpose. There must be no. ugly duckling, > no evicted prodigal, no hundredth sheep left, wandering. The arm of love is longer in the outreach than astronomic distances. It can go beyond the stars, if ifeed be, to reclaim an angel out of heaven.? Philadelphia Public Ledger. I ? . > . . i The Country Church, v One of the graduates of the Columbia seminary,' the Rev. W. H. Mills, of Clemson, is becoming quite a specialist in the field of the country church, its problems, their solution, methods of advancing the interest of the rural dommunities and serving the community life. The TT? - J 3 x -? J ^ P ft unuea. oiattss ueyainiimi ui a.&iivmture is aiding him in his work. Mr. Mills has had overtures to give his whole time to this field in the employment of the United States bureau of education. He is already doing very valuable service in this field in his> native State of South Carolina. The Columbia seminary is very fortunate in securing him to deliver a series of lectures, during the next year, covering this field of the country church and rural sociology. There will be five lectures, which will perhaps treat the subject under the following general heads, with such modifications as immediate nronoMtinn mnv lpnri him t.o make: pi^WriUVlVU 1*1 ww First, "The Kingdom of God;" second, "The Church as the Means oi the Bringing In of the Kingdom.;" third, "The Country Church and Its Problems;" fourth, "The Countrj Church and Its Solution of These Problems;" and fifth, "The Countrj Minister as the Centre of the Whole Question of the Relation of the Country Church to the Whole Community." It is very necessary that students should hear from specialists in this field this whole subject treated, ir order that they may be prepared wisely to serve the rural churches of which they themselves becoms pastors. Perhaps the most important and practical ecclesiastical ques tion that is now confronting th( Christian people is the problem oi the country church and the prepara tion of wise and effective minister* to fill these fields. Seventy-five years ago there were Hard to Rebuild Giant Mastodon. a The preparators and aides in the r section of vertebrate paleontology of 1 the United States National Museum are busy putting together the bones . and fragments of a huge skeleton of _ a mastodon recently secured near _ Winamac, Ind., by the assistant cura^ tor of fossil mammals, James W. Gid2 ley. 3 The laboratory where the skeleton 5 is being assembled, with its corps ol 3 earnest workers, reminds one of a _ lot of children working on a cut-up s picture puzzle, only the problem becnionfict nnri his assistants T 1V/1 C uvivu tiw w ? ?-. 3 ? is a more difficult one; it is a three. dimension puzzle, with some of the 3 pieces missing, and others broken in! to many small fragments, says a I Washington special. Nevertheless ( they are forced to resort to a system ) similar to that employed on a picj ture puzzle in many ways, for a small piece is first examined carefully, then . tried here and there, until presently j ?eureka!?it fits exactly, or so . nearly so that its position is definitely determined, and then the assembler takes up another fragment w^th i renewed interest. I s i Nearly a year ago a mastodon skull II r l and several other bones were dug up f by a steam shovel in the course of j constructing a drainage ditch in a , swampy deposit on the farm of H. H. I and W. D. Pattison, several miles L northwest of Winamac, Ind. These . bones were generously donated tp the . United States National Museuifi by 5 the Pattison brothers, with the priv[ ilege of making further search if de sired, and it was soon decided that a L further search would yield valuable > results. The remains of this mon L ster were found in good condition r although near the surface, having r laid without being disturbed for : thousands of years in marly deposits . of an ancient swamp. , A small appropriation was secured . for further excavation in the localV M . ity of this find, with the result that > Mr. Gidley has just returned to the city witfi nearly all the other bones [ of this gigantic mammal. Practical. ly a complete skeleton was found \ except two large limb bones, many - of the foot bones, and the tusks, for [ which a further search may soon be . made. When mounted the museum . will - possess one of the most complete specimens of this great beast of the ages just preceding the PFes( ent. There is a small mastodon specimen in the museum collections , secured in 1901 from the peat deposits near Church, Mich., but the , new one will overshadow it by over ( two feet in height and several hundred pounds in weight. x Will Stand Ten Feet. * It is^believed that this fskeleton , will stand fully ten feet high. The , fine state of preservation of yie bones is duer to the fact that it has lain con, tinuou&y since its entombment be^ neath the water level of the swamp . and thus has not been affected by the oxidizing action of the air. Mr. 1 ^ \ Gidley feels certain that with par tience and by draining the ditch, the missing portions of the skeleton will be found. The Specimen is believed to be that of a full grown male, although not an old individual, who lived^in the Pleistocene age, probably 150,000 years ago. This animal, while it is j related -to the elephant family, differs in general proportions of the skeleton, and through the character , of its teeth, which, unlike the flat, grinding ones of the elephant, are more of a rugose type, with pointed corrugations calculated to have been used in crushing as well as grinding the coarse vegetable food on which it lived. - The largest of the teeth measures nearly seven mcnes in length., and is about four inches across, weighing several pounds. Prospects for continued excavation and search are promising and Mr. | Gidley, with his corps of preparators, i is anxiously awaiting the .time when the missing pieces of their great puzi zle may be found and put in place. / I Easy to Spell. Young Arthur, the pride of the famiiv haH hopn attending school all A XJ J "WV* MVVM o , of six weeks, and his devoted parent thought it was high time he should . find out how things were running. ? So he asked one afternoon: "And what did my little son learn . about this morning." "Oh, a mouse. Miss Wilcox told 5 us all about mouses." r "That's the boy! Now, how do > you spell mouse?" , It was then that Arthur gave promise of being an artful dodger. He paused meditatively for a mo, ment, then said: > s "Father, I guess 1 was wrong. It wasn't a mouse teacher was telling I us about. It was a rat."?Harper's , Magazine. 31 throughout South Carolina hundreds ' of country churches that were the " bed-rock of the civilization of this 3 country. Today their people are ^ scattered, their influence ^waning. " They must be - revived.?Columbia 5 Record. i\ Read The Herald, $1.50 a year A Cow in Pocket Edition. Originally she came from count: Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland and being blessed with a gentle dis position is always assured a welconn wherever she goes. About fort: inches in height and weighing be tween six and seven hundred pounds she possesses excellent milking qual ities, being capable of averaging eight quarts daily for ten months ii the year. Indeed, it is generally ad mitted that for the food consumec she gives a larger return than an: other breed. "That sounds very encouraging,' remarks the reader, "but it woulc be interesting to see in dollars anc cents whether it really pays to keei such a beast." So let us look int( the facts of the case. The average family, consisting of two adults anc two children, besides a maid, woulc easily require two quarts of milk costing ten cents per quart, and i pint of. cream, costing thirty cents making the milk and cream bill av erage fifty cents per day for fift: weeks. The table butter bill woulc average about four pounds per week or 200 pounds per fifty weeks, anc with butter costing forty cqnts the yearly total amounts to $80. Afte: t*he little Kerry had supplied thii amount of milk and cream she coulc .only give half this amount of the table butter, so in adding up the accoum we will say that the milk and crean and half-the table butter amounts yearly to $215. A cow, then, tc prove her actual worth must returr more than $215 per annum. A Kerry, or Dexter-Kerry cow (2 cross of the Dexter and Kerry pro duces an animal about the size ol the Kerry) costs about $150; inter est on this sum and depreciatior (figured at $15) is $24. The cov will consume the following amouni of feed, exclusive of green feed raised on the place; mixed hay, 2.20C pounds, $22; wheat bran, 901 pounds, $13.50; 'corn meal, 30C poirads, $5%25; cotton seed meal, 30C pounds, $5.25; ground oats, 30C pounds, $5.25. These figures arf based on hay $20 per ton; bran, $30 per ton; corn meal, $1.75 per hundred weight; ground oats, $1.75 pei hundred weight. Add to this feec bill $10 for bedding and $10 foi veterinary medicine, brushes, pails rock salt, and the total amounts tc $71.25. The question of bull ser vice depends how far the cow ii sent. It is safe to charge off $2f against it, possibly a bit more oi j less; and as to labor, an ho^a da? j is ample?that is, on the basis o! k|45 a month for a man-about-the Eplace, the actual time given, over tc [the cow would average $50 a year ' ? - x ? 11 I thus tne expense accoum unauj i foots up to $146.25. Tp the credil I side must go $10 for seven tons o: manure, $3 for a calf (butcher's price when five days pld) and $24( for milk, a total of $2o3. Balancing j debit against credit shows that oui little Irish cow is $106.75 to th< good. Now as to the actual-care of sue! a cow. About an^acre will* supply all green food during the growing I season, and some beets for winter tTo give a daily grain ration woulc be impracticable, butv it is wise foi the beginner to invest in a copy ol a book containing full information as to balanced rations and hov to mix them, also to write to his State agricultural college, asking foi bulletins on the feeding of cdws. The stable should be thoroughlj cleaned about 7 a. m., the manure 7 i gutter emptied and dry earth spread over the bottom of it as an absorbent; never provide for drainage ic a manure gutter, but use dry eartli as an absorbent. The cow may eal her breakfast, consisting of half the grain ration, while this is going on The stable in order, clean the cow with a brush, wiping her hind quarters and bag with a damp sponge and drying it with a towel. Milkins comes next, the pail should nevei stand in the stable while the cleaning goes on. It is also well to add that under no circumstances should a cow be spoken to nar?niy or treated roughly. After milking throw in a heaping bushel of lawn clippings or an armful of green corn stalks or hay in winter. About 9 o'clock give the cow all the water she will drink, and in winter see that the chill *s taken off it.?Boston Transcript. The Important Tiling. \ Pat and a friend were reading ar account of a shipwreck, in whict they were greatly interested. "Pat,' said his friend, "in case of a shipwreck, presence of mind is wortt everything el^e." "Prisence ol moind, ye say," replied Pat, earnestly. "Faith and T don't agree wic ve. Tn toime of shipwreck, absinc* of body is of far more importance than nrisence of moind."?National Monthly. A -"-pound box of Norris' Cand> given avay to holder of lucky coupon. Fridav September 24th. Mar} Fuller featured Friday night?r> anc lOcts. Thielen Theatre. t , ; / . * : n.'M 'i A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME p a little cash) It is the man 1 1 who can take the immediate a i START AN AC( 3 If yon already have an account add t< r opnortnnities that are often offered yc 5 ! CAPITAL AND SURPLUS [ 4 Per Cent. Interest Pa i Ramlwa R ^ Discipline and Good Teaching. Disclipine is one of the most . wrongly designed of all the methods I ' t employed as a means to good teaching. The main reason for this is a ) misunderstanding as to what really } constitutes good discipline. I once j visited a teacher who thought her> self to be a model disciplinarian. As . I entered her room I was greeted s with this remark: 'John, take your J feet out of the aisle.' Five of the fifteen minutes spent in her room . were consumed in correcting pupils. . This teacher would have been an ex? cellent officer of the law; she was constantly on duty, and she never ' let a malefactor escape her. This idea of disclipine is not only harrassing to the pupil, but it places an un. necessary amount of nervous strain on the teacher and makes a discon, nected recitation. # f In another rdom I found a group of perfectly drilled soldiers, but } there was a strained and an unhappy look on the pupils' faces. The cause T of this deplorable state was traced t to the almost cruel severity of the f teacher. The smallest breaking of the law was punished with the same ) severity as the worst offense. This . woman's place was not in the school [ I room; her methods were enough to' crush the soul?yes, even the life?j _ out of the child. ^ Such ideas of dis- j { cipline must have been handed down , from the 'stone age,' and they are r pow obsolete and should be so considered. I You have heard teachers say that . they must have good order, no matf ter how obtained. The first of this . statement is correct, but these teachr ers make the great mistake of plac. ing?disclipine above everything else | . ?that is, they make disclipine an end in itself, rather than a means . to good teaching. They are right in saying that they must have order, but let this order come from the l . ? child's self-government and not be a forced obedience to commands. The t aim of education is to fit a child for life, and there is nothing more es-1 sential in a man's life than govern-; ment of self. If the teacher does all | ; the governing, how can the child,de-1 veiopr ^ The most ideal method of disclip-; P line is that of no disclipine. Let! 1 there be complete rnderstanding between teacher and pupil as to what [ is required, then those pupils who ./fail to measure up to requirements must be shown in a clear, logical way wherein they have failed to get the plan as worked out by one teacher. This teacher comes to her class, ! abounding with energy, her subjects [ well/ in mind, her programme defli nitely made, and, best of all, her heart full of love for her school. Her manner is free and Dleasing. the pu pils enjoy all their ?work and enter into everything with a 'quiet vim.' During two hours spent in her room, the teacher had ideal recitations, tne class was in perfect order and not one sign of correction came from the teacher. This teacher said that time was tooAraluahle to waste on discipline, and that she let the child discirline himself while she taught him his lessons, and she told me that during the first week of school, for about ten minutes every morning. I she gave a talk on the value of good order, varying her talk every morn ing with apt illustrations. A'ter ' this week of explanation and guiding the child along right lines, the teach* er began to make a mental note of I those pupils who were not attentive because their interest was elsewhere. i ' \ * % ' " * .y 1 ' **" A < L4R BANKED < DOLLAR SAVED IL YOU NEED IT resents itself. All that is needed la who has BANKED HIS SAVINGS ,dvantage. ' . :OUNT TODAY. ^ 9 it and be prepared for the business 3-- $100,000.00 id on Savings Deposits. ' anking Co. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. The regular examination for teach- ^ ers certificates will be held at the court nouse 111 tsamDerg on rriaay, -dy 'cx61 'aaqoxoo isjg eqp ^ plicants are requested to be on hand i promptly at 9 o'clock a. m. A R. W. D. ROWELL, \ County Superintendent of Education. Sept. 8, 1915. . GLEXDALE MINERAL SPRING. All persons are warned not to take V * water from Glendale Mineral Spring for sale without permission. Glendale mineral water for sale must be sealed and labled at the spring, ?adv. JOHN F. FOLK. v "The winning of Barbara Worth/* a powerful play, with a big New York ^ company, fine scenery and electrical ^ effects is announced to appear at The Academy, Orangeburg, Friday, October 8. The play is a stasre adaptation of Harold Bell Wright's moving story of love and mighty deeds incident to the building of the vast irrigation project in the'now famous Imperial Valley, California.?adv. x Patronizing Home Papers. y 1 The Greenville News, in a local story yesterday morning, made the following interesting observations on the home paper vs. the foreign pa- t per, with special reference to the At lanta papers which circulate in this section: "Many people were surprised that the papers from Atlanta Sunday contained nothing of the cutting of Leo M. Frank, which occurred at the Milledgeville State farm near 11 o'clock Saturday night and which came near ending his life, Frank not being out of danger yet. * "*PS "To newspaper men the reason is / readily apparent that papers in this ^ section of the country had the article, while the Atlanta papers did not. The reason is very simple. The papers which the reader purchased in * Greenville Sunday morning, from Atlanta, and other large cities, are printed all the way from the Wed- > nesday preceding until the Saturday, before they are delivered."?Greenwood Journal. ' * The first Universal feature featur*> , \ ing Jane * Cowl in "The Garden of Lies," in 5 reels, Thursday night, September 30. A comedy will also be shown along with this big fea-? ? -l/% S 4 ? ture. Six reels?iu ana idcis.? Thursday, September 30th. Thielen Theatre.?adv. ^ / Recently compiled official figures place the gold production of Alaska to the close of last year at $228,392,240. * i Read The Herald. $1.50 per year. At the end of the day these pupils were detained and shown wherein they had fallen short and how to overcome this fault. At the end of three weeks no pupils had to he de- ' tained and the result was the ideal school room of no disclipine. 1 This teacher realized the vital fact that discipline is only a means to an end?good teaching. Her efforts were centred on the correct * presentation of lessons, and all other devices and methods were subserv- ^ ient to this end. A well developed ^ lesson, an attentive class through self-government, and 2 well informed. loving teacher are the essentials of good teaching. When teachers firmly grasp these essentials and Hovnto thpir tirrp to Pett" * trivialities, then, and then only, will they find that school teaching indeed an art worth attaining.?H. M. H. in Normal Instructor. t ? ' - \