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■ A * V OPPULARITY WINS $135.00 In Prizes to be Given Away to the four Most Popular Persons Entering the Contest of The Press and Standard. In case of a tie the value of the prize will be divided, or one of equal value given. HERE ARE THE PRIZES TO BE GIVEN AWAY: 1st. 2nd. $15 be of Xi S A Rock Hill Buggy, retails at $55 A New Home Sewing Machine, Retails at 3rd. A Handsome Dining Table, Retails at - - - 4th. A Beautiful Karpen Couch, Retails ah - - - $15 TOTAL $135.00 Ip. order to stimulate more activity in our subscription de partment we have decided to inaugurate another o Great Voting Contest This time instead of giving away Free Trips to Jamestown, Gold Watches, Etc, we are going to give away a buggy, a sewing machine, a dining table, and a Karpen Couch. This contest will .not be confined to young or old ladies, or to men but is open to any and every one. The prizes are valuable and useful. RULES ©F THE GCNTEST. fho following table shows the number of votes that will given at Ihe Tress and Standard office for cash payment subscriptions: 6 months 50c—200 votes. 1 year $1.00—500 votes 2 years $2.00—1200 votes. j years $3.00—2000 votes 4 years $4.00—3000 votes. 5 years $5.00—4000 votes Votes will not be issued unless asked for when payment of subscription is made: and are not transferable. The same number of votes will be given old or new sub scribers. This contest will begin Thursday, December 24, 1908, and closes April 15, 1909. A committee of disinterested public men will be chosen to judge this contest and will assemble for that purpose imme diately after its close. No votes will bt issued except in exchange for subscriptions. No one connected with The Press and Standard will be al lowed to enter this contest. HOW TO ENTER. A nominating ballot will be published in each isste which, when properly filled out and returned to this office will en title the person named thereon to enter. Entries may be made at any time. This contest is for men. women, boys, girls, and babies—that is *t is not restricted. RIGHTS T© DECIDE. Any question arising as to the conduct of this contest will be decided by the management of this paper, and such decision shall be final. Candidates by filing votes agree to this and all other published conditions. The right is reserved to alter these rules should occasion demand. . The First Prize in The Press and Standard’s Great Voting Contest, is a genuine, guaranteed Rock Hill Buggy, such as sold by the well kndwn dealers—A. Wichman & Son. It may be seen at their store, where it is on exhibition and will be shown with pleasure. The Second Prize in The Press and Standard’s Great Con test is a high-priced, standard, guaranteed New Home Sew- ‘i n g Mcjf-hinp This machiae is well known. It can be seen at our office. ... The Third prize is a beautiful quarter-oak dining table now on exhibition at ;Terry & Shaffer’s Big Department Store. Call and see it The Fourth prize is a magnificent Karpen Couch from the well-know furniture stone of th^ Brown Furniture & Hard ware Co., which can be seen at any time. Now is the time to begin. Send m your name and Get Busy. We mean what we say, these magnificent* prizes are to be given away absolutely tree. Enter your name and begin ’to hustle. Full information will be furnished gladly. Vote early and often. o THE PRESS & STANDARD, o E CO T. - “S 3 ^ 3 l - * rj ■"IE : £ : o u o w o w o > 3 s~ _> e 3 o >> O CO* S'® > 6 £ -,*S u CO ns £ o ’5. o £ 5: >_ Cm o -C c o a c 3 § a u 3 O >> i d cu ri 6 i v CHANCE FOR THE PRESS AND STANDARD READERS. AN EDUCATION. Opportunities do not always imply culture. It may s«vm strange to the uninitiated, and yet it is true. \ * that we often find a boy or girl who ^ has gone through the schools, and perhaps carries the diploma of some college, who yet is not, in any sense, educated. The gloss of a certain refinement they may have taken on; but when it comes to actual acquire ment. such as surely we have a right to expect, we find them wanting. Like Shad rack. Meshack and Abed- nego newly delivered from the fiery furnace, there is not even the scent of fire about them. Lhances for an education were never more numerous than now; why is it that oftentimes they do not bear fruit in the individual as they should*’ Is the very democracy of learning unfavorable to a choice cul ture? or because it is more widely offered to the masses, must its Work be shallower and its standard lower? We think this is not necessarily so. In the making of the scholar (as in nearly everything else) home train ing holds tin* first place. For “in every age and in all human story” it is habit that counts, and the parent s province is to give the habit shape. «T.ildren whohavt had some difficulties to meet and master in their lives some circumstance of struggle or of hard work almost invariably make better students t lian those who have lived softly, and have every wish gratified. John Adams list'd to say that ditching his father’s farm made him a good student of Latin. The habit of overcoming difficulties is so vahi- abk* an asset in all experiences! To attend school as inevitably as the sunrise, to have a regular study-time. 1 to fix the attention firmly on the I lesson one i:> getting, are one and all simply and solely habits-and quite under the control of the wise parent who begins in time. The teacher's advice inlluences but indirectly and afar off, as compared with the ir resistible drawings of habit. And a child, as any teacher may have noticed, will bear punishment like the martyrs of old rather than re form those irregular or indolent ways which have been allowed to grow with his growth. It is a fear ful thought, and carries with it a weight of responsibility-for the parent, primarily, because his au thority and control are so much anipler-but also for the teacher who, while less able to prevent the evil, is yet, perhaps, more fully alive to its consequences. We fear, too. that the ideals in- ! V culcated in the home do not always , induce to a desire for knowledge in itself-a contempt for whatever is make-believe in education, and a N hearty administration for thorough V and finished scholarship. Too often i ft parents show plainly (even if they do , , not put the matter in explic t words i — that they will l»e perfectly satisfied i . , , . if their children “keep up with the nio p* Is ’hat of enlisting the rest at school, do no worse than the an< * froewill of the little others”. They seem to have no care j ontentity on the side of at all as to how much knowledge an< ^ tru *h. this is going to represent, the fact of "keeping up with the procession” is all that gives them concern. They would do well to consider how poor an ambition this is; and that if such a spirit has prevailed in every in stance, would have cut out every great name (that is every exception al man) from history. As a practi cal instance, verv frequently a child is permitted to miss school for no better reason than that some body elses child is going to stay at home. What can be the result but a ragged place in the education of each—hardly ever to be repaired in the aftertime! Another great source of harm is the employment of the non-profes sional teacher—of those who have no ambition as teachers because they have no natural qualifications and no love tor the work. They can af ford to use methods #f mere expedi ency, and to say “After me the del uge’—for the deluge will not find them there. The cause of education suffers untold evil at such hands. PRI6E REDUeTIONS Galors On Intire Stock Of READY-TO-WEAR Cloathing At D THE W. COHEN STORE “The Store That Always Mawkes Good.” desires independ- knowledge O' H. E. Malone. FOR SALE FOR SALE—Two good (arm moles, cheap to qoick purchaser. M P Howell, Walterboro, S. C. IS 80 31. FOR RENT OR SALE—For rent or ■ale. Roadside Plantation Aahepoo Staton. ACL Ry. 8. 0 Stoney, 181 St. Philip St, Charleeton, SC. FOR SALE—The Collenon Kealtv Co. has two very fine farms for sale. If any- Carson’s, one is interested in the purchase of a farm it will be well to communicate with said oompany. We buy furs for the largest fur de a l. ers iu the world. Come to us and <r e t big prices Terry * Shaffer. Advertise in The Press and Standard he paper with the circulation. Pictures and Carson’s. picture frames at J W Sausage seasoninga, spices and pep- pera. Everything the best at Klein’s Drug 8‘ore. We buy In car lots—you get the bene fit in low pricee fur any of our goods' C ▲ Savage. 64-30 Liver Pills. Get them at Klein’s Drug Store. Come and be cured of indigestion, heart, liver, kidney, bladder, catarrh & female troubles. Mrs J T Herrington Onion seta. Klein’s Drag Store. Story books for boys end girls el J W FOR SALE—One 8-horse power center crank engine. Price 975.00. J W Carson, 0 2 tf W alterboro, S. O. Fn order to test The Press and Stand ard’s great circulation and its superior advertising value, wo have made ar rangements with John M Klein, the popular druggist, to offer one of his best selling medicines at half-price to anyone who will cut out the follow- ing coupon and present it at his store. \ COUPON THE OLD STAND BY It is hardly, perhaps, sufficiently realized, even by the wisest, how slow- and consistent a child’s mental improvement should be. The Ger mans have a motto, “Ohne hast, ohne rast,” without rest and with out haste, which exactly applies here. No time must lie lost and yet nothing should be forced, noth ing crammed. What is not assimila ted into-the mental being is of noj -J good; and equally it is no use to superimpose “higher branches” on a week and insufficient foundation. | TO RENT.—Offlc- over ■ the Prw and Standard will be vacant Jan. 1 at. The Press and Standard. WANTS. WANTED -?arm hand either croppers or or hands wages. D E Smoak. Weekly papers, periodicals, monthly magazines at Klein’s Drug Store. Read The Frees and Standard—only $1 a year. Charleston News and Courier, Savan nah Morning News and Charleston Evening Post for sale at Klein'a Drag Store. Now ia the time to plant peas for early garden. Klein'a Drug Store. Garden seeds at Klein'ii Drug Store. Titles to Real Eitate, and HU other blanks at The Ureas & Standard. Garden seeds at Kleia’a Drug Store. Smoaks. S. C. BUSINESS LOCALS. This coupon entitles the holder to one 50c package of Dr. Howard’s specific for the cure of conttipatlon and dyspepsia at half-price QiSc. I will refnnd the money to any dis satisfied cnatomer. John M. Klein. TWENTY HVE CENTS. Dr Howard’s spedfle for the cure of constipation and dyspepsia Is not an unknown remedy. It has made many remarkable cores right here in Wal ter- terhoro and no positive is Druggist John M Klein of iu great superiority in cor ing dyspepsia, constipation, sick head ache and lirer troubles that be will, in addition to selling it at half price, re fund the motay to anyone whom it does not cure. If yon cannot call at hla store, ent ont the couoon and mail it with 25 cents, and a 50 ont box of the specific will be sent yon by mail, charges paid. The road to heaven is straight and narrow, but a great many people think it is mighty lonesome. on 800 Dont forget the “MMion Pictures ir . . , . . | Tuesdays and Fridays. 4:30 and Very many of our scholars are too p m quickly hurried on into the college | ' ' curricula, when they perhaps just Remember our stock of sash, blinds, begin to attain to an age (careless doors and all building material, is a- teaching during earlier years being only allowed > for) when they are qualified to really understand the rules and principles of English gram- mer, and of simple mathematics, and to be capable of developing a real in sight into, and love for our own literature. All this we think more worthwhile, by far. than any mere smattering of everything under the suncloud be. The conclusion of the whole mat ter, as we see it. is that education is seldom accomplished with the com- pletest success; and when it is so ac complished, it is the result of a for tunate conjunction of home control and influence with the work of a painstaking and gifted teacker. Either element lacking necessitates a partial success only; for the train ing of a child is the most difficult and important task given to man or women. ’ And the last and crowning achiev- C A Savage. Kodak supplies at wave complete. Kodak films and Klein’a Drag Store. Spend t» pleasant hour at the “Motion Pictures” ahow on Tuesdays and Friday Labor contract blank* that will itand the teats of the courts at The Press and Standard. Ohristmas frail of all kinds Glover. at W V Knife bricks. Sapolio, Bon Ami, ■hoe polish, stove rolith, brass polish at Klein’s Drug Store. pleased with the at the Edisonia Everybody is “Motion Pictures” Theatre. Bacon cheap for cash. W V Glover. N uts, raisins, etc at W V Glover’s. Garden seeds at Klein’s Drag Store. Shingles, brick, dressed, kiln-dried "ongh lumber. C A Savage. THANKSGIVING EXERCISES AT PINE GROVE- Following a custom which has been observed for the last seventeen years a big picnic dinner and Thanks giving exercises were held* at Pine Grove Baptist Church Thursday, the last day of the year 1908. From eight hundred to one thousand per sons were present and enjoyed to the fullest extent these exercises presided over by Hon. W. C. Brant. Addresses were made on appro- S riate subjects by W. W. Smoak r., and Hon. D. L. Smith, after which dinner was spread on the large E icnic dinner table and partaken of y the large crowd present. Not any part of the program was the music rendered. With Mrs Dell Benton at the organ. Mrs W C Brant favored the congregation with a delightful sol#. CHANGE IN SHERIFF’S OFFICE. With the exception of the offices of the County supervisor and commission ers there was only one change made on Tuesday, that being the Sheriff’a, which changed from the bands of L G Owes to those of W R Fox.