Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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L.. o '■ * ■ THE >ARD, WALTSEBORO, ft. 0. PAGE BBVEIf Tb* Standard: AJHHTND WORLD M SIX- TKEX MIMTEH Por the purpose of determining the time it voald take to cccom- Editor Ut •• ^**** ewatnlatn yon on plUh the fi week’s Uaur, at I tklak It 0 ( rcpectance, and notwithstan* i ^ ,«ur 6all-keadednes« to •win* | to the tall of the Bute. I am now j by wire. • very kopofnl that you will accept | || took exactlj sixteeD and one- the aeat o» tho wagon whore we h=!f minutes for the message to t, the New York Times, the other day, fbrwarded a message of nine words around the world CLASS ENTERTAINMENT WOMAN’S DEPARTMENT MISS H. E. MALONE • • ) Excelsior Holds test need jiat tnch eonrerte. Now, my friends nuct admit that make the journey of 28.C1S miles overland and under seas of the THE CHILDREN OH THE RURAL The country child has no highly ■e*- SCHOOL. Ulandton, Sept. 1.—Special: Sun day August 27, was red-letter day for the Excelsior Class of the Croon Swamp Sunday school. Following tho plan agreed upon. I’m no coward, or that I'm Insane lwo hemispheres. In that time it to lock horns with tho editor of passed through the hands of eight- Xo doubt there are advantages pertaining to town 1.<>; end, aa a practical thing, the training whtca soned and exciting pleasures which th# dlffereilt member, of the class would dUtract his attention from aent Invitations to friends and ac- his books He has generally been qualjAances to attend the Sunday brought up to wholesome Annual school session on shove date. ‘ All labor. ;.id hence has the sound body guests were requested to wear a which so greatly conduces to the touch of red on the left shoulder a chilt gets on the streets Is not gas every edrantsge of mein fight-: crQ different agencies, operating Invariably, or altogether contempt- sou'll mind. He is In direct com- so that the social committee^ might •phe Prsus and Standard while he |atd and sub-marine lines in the ible. Yet, admitting this, 1 have munication with the innocent and recognise themes class guests and lag implements and could use his new a nd old world, traversed the always thought that when we want uplifting iiliuences of nature, and •pace and clippers to good effect WiH be? Not If he la a chip off of that sainted father block that I twines, china, t knew only to love and honor and besides the above we must remem ber what he did In that late (Wal- wajn of city or town. His physiecJ labor gives him a taste for study United States, and touched at the lh e very highest efficiency—the id r^frnote from the vice and tempt- K.awaiac- Islands. Guam, the Phil- mai:> or women of good red blood, ations which lurk in the crowded o parts of India, r of virtue, of ideas, we generally Africa, Spain and the Axores. It find that the town has to be re flashed along the bottom of the crulted from the country. That this nnd school seems like play after termine the winner of this prixe. Pacific. Atlantic and Indian Oceace, 1* usually (though of course not always) so, the history of almost every town will prove; end in near welcome them to the Sunday school. The president of the clres added x *t to the occasion by offering s prize to the member securing the greatest number of guests. To <je- terboro) V.’atrloo. ’./by aa old a ||,e Red and Mediterreanean Seas man as myself just wouldn't be in wr d Cznal a id from Madraa It, but If such a battle should ever Bombay, buzxed its way through >y *very case the most successful Latin.” take place R will rot "be from any fault of mine, but I m going to good, hard work. •Said John Adams, card receivers were placed at each A week's ditching on my fr-*her s . door into which a gurst, on enter- farm made me a good student of ! ing placed the name of the member But how often the many tne primeval forests of the man- *ud thoroughly satisfactory lawyers, amusemei <s r-nd recreations of the er-' ng tiger, panther, boa-constrlctof doctors, business men and school- c, *y rhild prove so abeorbing and prove game with my pen. Let me aiJ d python, over the 650 miles of teachers have once been children l*** inclination for lessons. The see? He Mys he was not fighting i an d it n?fl owned by the Indian 1“ c-rural school. of self-ii lulgence which these Goveror Blease. As my memory is Government. | N° w » this may be considered' breed, even Invades the school bad I shall leave »hr-t to the*rend j The experiment had a special strange, for the child of the rurc4 room, and renders the pupil indlf- ing public. You say, second! that rigi.ificcnce in view of the fact that wfiocl ;s not generally supposed to feroi ‘ and careless In his work. Blease is only an evident. Is the fifty-four years ago this mor<h, Cy have as many advantages as his r ‘* Te on, >’ ,0 f he possibilities of sly votes of a good majority of the ru „ w. Field, saw his dream of towt cousin. To hint at only c. few fun * a hil of a genera’ "goood time.*' DemocrcJ* an accident? Third, who eiectricct commutrioation between ot these ••advantages’’ that he must ,n *hort, we are more apt to have first called hard names, the jQovern- England aid the United States re- forogo, he may hn-ve to content him- “spoiled child” in a city school or or the preaa? Fourth, you deny | alized in the successful laying of * e,J 'v* 1 * 1 a l , ii > lner school house, a th * n * 1 ’ a rur *J eshoo), and the '•he first Atlantic cable and the l* 88 comforlaole desk, a shorter 8 P 0 il< 1 <i child seldom ever develops Into the most efficient specimen of Blecse Governor? Ard will a repe- t wo widely separated nr-Mons. 1 11 ifc no doubt a good thing to manhood or womanhood, tition of last election or next elec-! That achievement following the in- hav,} a f lne education equipment— To 8Ure - there are many ex- that the press has lost its Influence I the first Atlantic cable and the ,e8R comforlaole desk, a over the people. Then why is ' transmission of messages between teem tlift-n the town child has. _ * . . _ . _ . 1 I* .1^. l.s « I a < tion satisfy you? Wait and see. ‘ tmduction of the land telegraph of and a 811,1 better thing to hc-vc a ccptlons to every rule. The unless you commence to climb on professor Morse, by thirteen y?ars. sufftciei-t school term, o But we and 'h'ious are like the poor—we Lon-essentials hav * tbcm with us alwrys—in the and ye?rs. i With its aid Dewey was enabled where I will welcome you. I do rot'moved the world forward c- thous- ,nus, ,lot confound with essentials. There is a lesson ‘"'bool as well as in the town, to be leaned in doing without But 1 ’hink no one will deny—not to notify the world of the sicking ‘bings of this not, e-sential order eT • , • “'ose of us who can not truth- of the Spanish Anhadc- under Mon- whlch ma y b* fully equal fu,, y bo '«' <>* country rearing—that tojo, 7500 mile* away In Manillc. to the «dvantage of possessing then*. <*ountry life and its disciplli:* con- Bay ac hour ’after that historic The Spartans were for their pur- d “ c * 8 ’hat steadiness, virtue, am- disaster to Castlllian ascendency in , P 08 *- w,8 « and Practical educators? bition and thoroughness of appHca- the Frr East. see where your illustration fits my rase, as I e<m neither rich nor poor and have never been accused of begging, even 1c* the spring of the year, but do claim that I am and hr«ve long since been a great lover of newspapers, whether I ans profit ed by them ia another matter. But since reminders are in evidence, al low me to use one that I believe is credited to Abraham Lincalon. There were two men chased by a bear, ted when they decided to climb a tree the head man only had time to get up while the oth er had to get up and get arohnd tbe big tree and as Brother Bniinfs wind seemed to be longest and his head more unsightly than the "tail, he grabbed the tail and could eas ily keep up, but when the first mt-o got a safe distance, and astride a limb, he hollowd to the other to let loose and climb. The acawer was faint but distinct, that he could not let go, and in my humble judgment most of the editors are Id the Mme fix. They ty:«ve been swinging to the tail of the State, so long and is now between the devil and death. See that they coc- not or will not let go, but not withstanding you flatly refuse my cdvlce in your last. I repeat it, turn loose, good friend, atd do It now as today is the accepted time. Harden not thyi heart. And my word for It, you will sleep better. As we think of this marvel, the picture of Nathan Rothschild, rid ing at top speed on a fiery steed over right to the coast of Belgium with the first news of the defeat of Xopoleon of Wc-terloo and its dispatch bp boat and relr-ys of trusted carrier*, every forty miles from Dover to London, unconoslous- by looms before up. as a ghost of the wistful past. Reverting in fan cy to those primitive days, as we felicitc4e on the wot-der of the modern ocean greyhoued crossing the Atlantic in four days, the world now recalls in amazement how it took eightp for Ben Frank lin, to mcke the journey to France on his mission for the American colonies. From the Introduction of the ca ble dates most of those electrical, ' engineering aid other . marvels which have since stirred the uni verse and fired the imagination of the progressive and thoughtful. Since then- Alexander Graham Bell has given us the telephone. Edi son, the wonders of the electric light, Bessinger his great secret bf INFLAM MATION -AND PAIN Cafcd by Lydia E. Pjnkhaa’a Vegetable Compound. Creston, Mika.—*• I was troubled for a kmc time with inOammation. paint In *mj side, sick headaches and ner vousness. | had ta ken so many medi cines that I wat discouraged and thought I would never get well A friend told me of Lydia E. Finkham’s Vegetable Com pound and it re stored me to health. 1 have no more my nerves are stronger and I can E. Finkham’s me after I rec- my own work. Lydia Vegetable Compound cunnl m< some good everything else had failed, and e a distance ommend it to other suffering women.” -Mrs. Wm. 8kau», «05 W. Howard 8t, C res ton, Iowa. Thousands of unsolicited and genu ine testimonials like the above prove the efficiency of Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound, which is made exclusively from roots and herbs. Women who suffer from those dis and they appreciated the value of t,on ' i " ,he >' 0, i“a. without which that training which prescribed a tef-rber and school may- be powerlea simple u-d laborious life, and ,0 * ,VP - h' an y ’roe *ense, an edu- which eliminated luxury^ They cation. ' T rt , may have carried the matter to an • The r,,ra, "chool *s a great nur- extreme—and yet that there was froni ‘•hich valuable citliens I straws was resorted to. Mbs VJr- trie Bitters will much truth in their system our own —sometimes the most valuable citi-'ginla proved the Incky contestant j tiie first dose, experience today attests. We all , tell,, an * ’«med out. |«nd received an elegant Bible »p- need to be a little bit Spartan at’,^ / ^ ,,1 •’ not P*y then, to give propriately presented by> times, for ourselves or others, and th# children of our rural schools the president. .hose Invltrtion he accented. Considering the inclement weather the class can mogrctulate Itself on the number of Interested friends Pt.senl, 'speeiali) as friends came from quite -In the main thg regular order of exerrises was carried out,I ttaj excelsior class teacher give us some excellent teaching and the class responded in a wry that showed eareful and lively preparation for the lesson. The president, in a few well, chosen remarks gave the guests a hearty Welcome and urged them to Join the class in its work of bringing the entire community inrto the Sundry schcol. Then fol lowed an address by the school su perintendent. There could have been no more fitting subject for a talk on this occasion than the one he chose—"enthusiasm. The class was dismissed with the When your doctor orders you to class song end Sunday school clos- stop work. It staggers you. "I ed with the school song. ^ [ can’t” you say. You know you aro Now came an interesting time— w, * ak : run dowr - and f “ n,nK ln ^ . h'.slth, day by dry but you must the time for delivering the prize. ; * ork „ ; ou CJl ’ 8falHl . The names being coun-ted, it was j 'Vijat you need is Electric Bitters fouts-i that Misses faille and Vlr-, to give tone, strength, and vigor ginia Yarn had tied. To break to your a ? a, * m * to prevent break- ., , . _ . , down and build you up. Don't bo m^ ! h0<, 0r drr T! n * ^eak. sickly, or ailli.g when Elec- benefit you from Thousands blest? tressing Ula should not lose sight of these facts or doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their health. If yoa want npeclnl advice write to Mrs. Pink ham, at Lynn, Maas. She will treat your letter as strictly eanfldentiaL For 20 years she has been helpinir nick women in this why, free of charge. Don't hesitate—write at once. them for their glorious health and strength. Try them. Every^ bottle the class | 8 guaranteed to satisfy, (inly 50o at Jno. M. Klein's The eJready large circulation of The modern steel making. Holland cJid I’ress and Standard will grow. j Lake their sub-marine destroyers, I have only had time to z-sk spac* nelany, his time annihiliating tele- ,k,a to 8 l ,ow my teeth, and well po st s-utomatic telegraph system, know that your readers would have westinghouse, his striking mechan-i- me better explain many points herej ca , inventions, and Marconi, his mar but It would make this letter too the practice is never without prof- ! , * t opportunities, an£ such an up- it. i lifting environment as their condi- Our rural school children often ac ,,0,!l demands. More and more complish In a schoolterm of six to stat « and teachers are taking this eight months as much as, or even complex work In hmd. acd realizin more than the town children do in what N means in the many agencies | Co., was In town Friday, nine months. | which trajns the youcg eye, hand The reasons are not far to seek. - and brain. (TRHey is coming. \ *■ • y 0 *■ OP X o » 1 Willie Brjwn, of Sniders, w' the Padgett I^nd and Mercantile O'Riley is coming. O'Riley is coming. Death of art Ingaat. \ On July fth, little Robert Lee, the youngest son of Mr. e-nd Mr*. R. L. Campbell, of New Augustine, Fla., died very suddenly. long, s«d as they will keep, I will close by saying that we shall cot forget that we are old friends and are both fighting for the best in terest of our beloved State, though we seem to see differently, but it is the privilege and duty of every good citizen to talk it out in meet- ir * and I and the editor of The Press and Standard can xnd jprlll , do it and quit better friends acd both may be on the same wagon. So climb up here, there is room for all. Uncle Jack. velous wireless aystem, not to ov erlook the automobile, the r-irship and the greet inventions which have made possible the mile a minu O Riley is coming. comfort and convenience. Jager-Schmidt. c- Paris journalist, circles the globe in 40 days taking ^ in AO days, once considered an ex travagantly impossible accomplish ment. looks rediculous. Assuredly the world Is speed mad. Iliake Tke question is not how fast is it moving, hut when and wh-pe—if ever—will it stop? Forced tif. I,?at* Home. Every year a large number of Poor sufferers, whoso lungs aro t-ore and racked with coughs, are urged to go to another climate. Put this is costly at-d not always fc'ire. There’s a better way. Let * ,<>d h,s Mfe fov - vear8 in 8 ? it *. of O Riley is coming. A Dreadful Sight. to H. J. Bamum. of Ereville, N. Y. Hr. King's New Discovery cure you at home. "It cured me of lung troublV' writes W. R. Nelson, of Calamine, Ark., "when all else fril- cd and I gained 47 pounds in wtMght. Its surely the King of all cough and lung cures.” Thousands “we their lives and health to It. H’s positively guaranteed for coughs ( olds, LaGrippe, Asthma, Croup— a! l Throaf and Lung troubles. 50c a ud fl.oo. Trial bottle free B-t Joo. M. Klein’s. •-any remedies he tried. At last fi» used Buckien’s Arnica Salve and wrote: “it has entirely healed with scarc»ly a serr left.*' Heals Burrs, Boils, Eczema. Cuts, Bruises Swellings.' Corns and Piles like magic. Only 25c 3 at Jno. M. Klein’s. d Riley is coming. O'Riley Is coming. H. N. Stokes, of Round, was In- town last week on a business trip. O'Riley is coming. O'Riley is coining. ^ Mrs. H. M. Benton, of Sniders, spent last week in Charleston as the guest’-bf her daughter, Mrs. Rasey. A. ’ftryAist. Returning home this week. She reported having a delightful trip. o V O'Riley is coming. o ' D. E. Smoak, of Smoaks. was in town Thursday, of last week. Apportionment of Public School Funds for Colleton — County, Names of Districts t V, NO. OF DISTRICT c o *7 M . ui z D dr OVERDRAFT POLLS ■ ; COUNTY 3 MILL SPECIAL • DOGS / TOTAL r ENROLLMENT Dry Branch 1 149 44 1 64.80 144 00 0 15.84 374 08 ; 72 Hum Gully 2 10 22 36 90 82 00 1(H).63 9.02 2:18 77 41 Williams 3 0 20 27 115 20 256 00 358 22 28.16 757.31 | 128 Strickland 4 174.13 94 50 210 00 74.67 23.10 570.40 105 Smoaka 5 161.52 122 40 272 00 546 36 29 92 809,16 130 Rice Patch 6 77.07 134 80 298.00 173 43 82.78 561 94 j 149 Little Swamp 7 55.96 179.10 398.00 62 79 43 78 027.71 199- Edisto 8 17.05 78 30 174 00 19 14 254.39 87 Sderidan 9 29.40 221 40 492.00 54.12 738 12 246 Verdier 10 169 54 282 60 628 00 69.08 1149 22 3 4 Bella 11 134.06 69 30 154 0t) 16 94 374 :50 77 Glover 13 4 08 81.00 *180 00 • 19.80 284 88 90 Heyward 14 74 59 27 90 6200 6.82 171«! ai Fraser If, 10.15 150 30 331 00 S' 36.74 510 89 167 Lowndes 17 137.44 144 00 32000 35.20 361.76 160 Blake 18 1737 274 50 610 00 67.10 968.97 305* Walterboro 19 1317.91 393 30 874 00 2182 04 96.14 2227 57 437 Buck Head 20 100.09 87 30 194 00 21 34 402 73 97 Weimer 21 13 99 109 80 244 00 * • 26 84 .106 65 122 Hendersonville 22 1322.30 150.30 334.00 197.92 36.74 167 Cottajreville 23 393.07 218 70 486 00 777.08 53 46 1142.17 243 Horse Pen 24 106.58 - 130 50 290.00 ■n 31.90 345.82 145 Bells 25 154 80 ,187 20 416 00 ' * 45.76 494.16 208* Ruffin 20 46 20 102 60 228 00 78 21 25.08 387.69 114 Heyward 27 90 00 122 40 272.10 29 92 514.32 136 Ashton 28 1.18 6120 136 (H) 14 9(5 210 9* 68 Folks 29 21.45 73 80 164.00 18,04 234 39 82 Lodge ^ 30 41.14 202 50 450.00 205.12 49 50 865 98 225 Hill 31 39.55 122 40 27*00 29.92 403 87 ^ 130 B ‘thlehem ’ 32 4.05 55 80 124 00 55.91 13 64 245.35 02 Welch Creek 33 25 82 123 30 274 00 30.14 401.62 137 ' Hall 34 15 51 60 30 134(H) , 14.52 193 31 ,57 I St. Johns 35 61 20 35 10 78 00 8.58 60.48 39 ' Jonesville ” 37 < 159.41 174.60 k 388 no 42 68 445.87 194 Raysors 38 .52 99.90 222.00 75.78 24.42 422.62 111 Cedar Branch 39 39 55 50 4« 112(H) 12 32 214 27 50 Bethel 40 ^ 9.28 83 70 186 00 84 91 20.46 384.35 93 j Oak Grove 41 13.60 47.70 106 00 a 11.60 178.90 53 Drs. Creek 42 24.72 29.70 66 00 7 20 127.68 33 Sniders 43 119.08 90.00 200.00 188 20 22 00 481.12 100 Peniel 44 J23.71 48.60 108 00 11.88 192.19 54 Bridge 45 O A 44 17 62 10 . 138 00 • 15 84 171.11 69 Tabernacle 46 4 63 82 80 184.00 20 24 282.41 ■* 92 Red Bank 47 118 00 64.80 144 00 99.93 15.84 206 57 72 Sand Hill 50 •• 140.53 57.60 J 128 00 c 140.52 14 06 199.67 04 H. W. Black, Sr., Supt. Education, Colleton County.