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!2rd*»-Ejre View of Hog wallow, nfinwhig Ponlofflcr (CopyrlghtM!. 1!»15. Adam? Syndleaie.) i i V B |j|- H r E? L--« fl- i'.i; if iii ‘iB »•- I i ; | f 1 ^ 1 I II 1 ■ I ■ Kashin at on’? birthday was ob served’a^ the postofflre by everybody telling vftfi* truth. The day passed *• * ■ off quietly^lth very few words. The Maif Cf^fj^y-has made the demand that after his death he must not be referred to as the late mail .carrier. ft The poatofflee was closed here on Feb. 2, Ground Ho* Day being a le gal holiday in Horwallow. .The Tin Peddler's blind horse ra^ into the'Mali rariier'a buggy in front of the Postofflce .Wednesday. Con siderable damage -was done. The Mail Carrier, being a part of the gov ernment. has informed' headquarter? of the incident, and asked that the Tin Peddler he held to a strict ac countability if his act. Washington Hocks, who prognos ticates the weather for the glory there is in being a prophet, stated to an eye witness yesterday that If ev erything remained froaen up tb»s way all year there would be plenty of cool weather all summer. The curtain at the. opera house at Tickt-ille has l*een worn out by being raised and lowered so often, and un til another can be bought, the 'au dience will have to keep its eyes closed between arts. Ywi Sims was arrested a few days ago, on a .chsrge of stealins a -mule from a gentleman who lives at the head of Gimlet creek. He was placed in jail at Roundug Billows, through a hiere formality of‘the law and remained there until Friday morning, when he was taken be fore a magistrate for an examining trial, fpon mounting the witness stand he stated that he was not guil ty and was straightway ■ turned loose, ... . . r editor of the Tickville Tld- inss h- decided to knock Roose velt’s plans for nominating, himself 'n the head by coming out strongly against hint In an editorial Just be fore the Chicago convention. Little Fijlity Flindebi has been unable to find any flea* On the toy deg he received .Christmas. * 0-0 , Luke Mn'hewsla has come to the conclusion that the North afld the South are retting oq too friendly tornts to fight each other any more, "o he I? going ahead And dispose of the roll of Confederate, money he has been saving for the occasion. Miss Hostetler .Hocks will sing a rolo at the Hog Ford church next fourth Sundav. -A large - number of pt'ople have decided that tbev can not attend on ecount of the fearful' tng it Is an entirely new stream iS condition of the roads. | the fact that Its water tastes fresh. ■ A ■' ■■ * . ' Ellick llellwange; saw fh the Tickville Tidings where some big man up at Washington said n for eign foe could land a million men on our shores In a month’s time Ellick gave It an his -opinion that out of thkt number some of them would get shot, if .they started anything. * Frisby Hancock a watch under-* went Its annual cleaning this week. ff« took it apart, oiled up the pul leys, wibed off the bearings and ftghtened up all the taps. Then h*‘ took* his watch key, which he wears on his chain, and wound up ..the prihgs. And now h[s watch Is in such good condition it runs much faster than It did before. Sidney. Hocks is holding r»n to his old squirrel rfifie until he sees what 'hey (’o about preparedness In life everybody seems to he wanting a reserved-aeat for the price of n general admission,ticket. Fit Smith rays the more a person knows the more he has the head ache, and for this reason he has oult taking the Tlekville Tiding?-. Poke Eazley says he has been read ing the Tidings for several yearo and hc,s not had a symptom. Prof. Sap Spradlin, who has been getting nextnature in the wilds of the (Hinder Creek bottoms for the part few days, has returned with the newa that he has discovered a new stream. There are several reason* Why he beiievqs It has not been dis covered before, among them being the fart that he saw.no wild animal tracks and empty bait cans on Its banks. His main reason for heliev -WALTERBORO BRIEFLETS . • n . Items of Interest Garnered From the Wireless on the. Streets of Walterboro. To tbe wide awake merchant the [hand may want an eight dollar coat page of'"Personals" in hUohonie pa per presents a series of nightmares. The terse ?latem“rt that "Mrs. How- alt and Mrs Whosit made the trip to Cyclopesburfc Wednesday" warns him that beyond doubt the llowsttK and WhosUs have become dissatis fied with local trading conditions and at*o buying elsewhere it the dealer is n natural born pessimist, he may even come hale the whistle of a railway train It means a loss of .patrohage for hitu iws-ause every day customers are bemg carried away *,o distant shopping* centers, if. how ever. he is big enough to grasp this unfavorable situation qnd avstemat'- cally endeavor to meef’lt. h\wilt not only greatly benefit himself and hts community, but he will g|*o win the eternal gfatitude of the Howsit and Whosit family.- who do not at all re lish their Monthly shopping expedi tion to the city. - • whiel the cheapest thing she can get here is a ten dollar grade, so she goes with Mrs. Howsit and manages to buy a considerable number of staple articles before she starts home. s' No one expects the smaller mer chants to carry the same variety as •the large city stores. The demand does not warrant the necessary in vestment, and the consumer doesn’t care for it. Too Iprge a display often muddles u buyer. The 'merchant should size up his 'Community, an ticipate the coming demand of all the different classes of people and then let them know that they can buy the goods they want at the same price they wonld pay away from home. But Just how to provide the neces sary remedy for this growing condi tion is ^'ouestinn It should qccuov „ the combined attention of ail the merchants of the town, working to gether in a fraternal cor.mereial bodv-. without petty jeatoir or per-, «onnl feeling. Solve It an*' :he num ber of mail orders, w ill decreased, to a minimum; ignore * ' pd the to-; ca^ trading .field *' ed against the home dealers V.e consumer | has every right to fair prices, reliabla quality and a reasonable variety 4 from which to choose Almost any person, except the frenzied bargain hunter, whose patronage is usually unprofitable, prefers to buy at home If the.u: three requisites are fulfill- ed. • ' »lr t r *'l be; Loeal merchants have' awakened to the price question, and they sr' selling goods' as cheaply as their strongest out-qf-town com»»et|tors Lack of variety must therefore the reason for so muchtfhuying away from home Mrs. Howsit can’t buv a ten dollar grade of silk sweater'at home, so—ebe goes to if'yclopesbilr.r, and not only buys a sweater, hut a new hat,, a pair of- shoes and divert other articles that could have he«n purchased lust as well at home, hut the thinks that while she ia shopplhg •he might aa well get everything she needs.- Mrs. Whosit. on the other • Wood’s Productive Seed Corns. Our Virginia-grown Seed Corat have an established reputation for superioritv In productiveness and germina ting Qualities. Wood's Descriptive Catalog tella about the beat of prtxn-ettn- •ad profit-making varieties la ~ MVeHei Cotton Seed. We offer the beat and moat Im proved varieties, grown In sections absolutely free from boll weevil. Our Catalog gives prices and Infor mation, and tells about the bast of Southern Seeds, I OS-DAY VELVET BEANS, So{a .Baaas. SUDAN CRASS. Dsllis Craw . sad all Soqhuau sad Millsb. Catalog mailed free on request./' T. W. WOOD Cf SONS, SEEDSMEN. - tlchmond. Vt. Only Ons “BROMO QUININE" To get the teaalse. cstl lev tall name. LXXA riVK BBOMOQC1N1NR Look t<vr«iga M urrof g. W. CBOVK. Corea a Coll in One !>«». Stop* <oagk and headache, aud work* <A1 cold Public education v has played so great a part- in the advancement of the people In the United States of America that Its history can not be. separated from the story of our na tional progress. From th« begin ning of settlement In the American continent there has been step- taken toward bettec facilities in education. The modern student - of >ducation looks on the provisions for education under the -English settlers of Vir ginia and th* Dutch setiiers of New Vark as being inefficient. The set tlers took the same view of educa tional provision*.’ else the facilities w ould not have tern Improved as j rapidly as-they wer\ At 'bes* in] the time of thq pioneer the move ment for better education Mvma to have been almost at a standstill for, a period of almost one hundred and, Ptty years. We should n**. proul of the advancement that our nation has made especially within ihq last half centuiy. . Our last half century Is .spoken of ns the period of ^advancement in ,i>ducatlon and mabufa^ure. With in the last fifteen years the average school term has increased about 15 pef cent; teachers salaries, 30 per cent and value In school property. 75 per cent. It has been said that the comfort and the progresh of mankind may be found in Ameri ca* Ho#. Is sugh a statmeent to b*» verified? * Only by the persistence of 'ie educational ideal among the American people. " ftae youth of to day must be educated for tomorrow’. National (ioiernnient ami Education. . The I’nited States has not under taken to directly provide for the support of public institutions of learning Our Constitution gives the national congress no power directlv over our public schools. Therefore the care of public education hsu> be»:i definitely assumed by the states. The national, government however Jias not neglected education, but has done a great deal toward the sup port of public schools and higher institutions of learning. At. the present time the I'niled States has no national university, amj there is a question whether or not the nation could no more through such a unt- '•yerslty for the uaRf* *of education, than it is dolngFet* the pr?sert throughout the states r.rd terrtorlee under its present, system. Washing ton and Jefferson *'* day favor ed r national university. V'asliins- -tr.n tried to »’»t congres.i to t >i« an act for the support of such, an insti*- tutlou. bii r the act. *• is «>*' tMi^cd. as early as 1795 subscriptions by individuals were made*to the amount of $30,0041 for the support of nation al university but It was never ^es tablished. The I’nited States of course maintains such institutions as known as Military . Academy at West Point since 1802. and a Naval Acad my at. Anrtapolis, since 1865. Since 191 ir there have been sixty- eight agricultural ’and mchanicat laud-grant colleges endowed by congress. Courses In agriculture are given in each state* and territory. The moat important agricultural station Is at Washington. D, C. < The Nut-taw ami the Indian’** Eelu " ration, .w* . The problem of how to deal with the American Indians has been a perplexing one. The net tiers who first came to America found them friendly, but their barbarous char acter was unknown. We are so of ten ready to criticize them for their ignorance and brutality without turn ing our eyes back to the’age in which the -Anglo-Saxon . race in England carried on greater warfare, if pos sible. tha n the Indians did in Ameri- i. The Indian problem has been almost pvercome by efforts *of the American people, who ke°p n their minds tl *> education'll Ideal. Mis sionaries were sent to the Indian befor e and After we had toj flg’ t them. „ The problem of how to deal with the Indians was the real pec plexing one brought- up in the Sec ond Continentlal Congress mi 1775. From that date efforts and appro priatlons have been made through congress for the education of the In dian. Before 181> congress made appropriations-to christen Institu- ‘•‘ons that were-engaged in educating the Indians. In 1819 the national congress made ao appropriation of $1,000‘for- the estahlishmet *qf In dian schools in America. Such edu cational legislation' went on until 1894. when congress voted to v ft li ft old sectarian school support, pfter which expenditures were "in the hands of a I'nlted State* superintendent of Indian schools. The last I’nited States-, report from the Educational Commissioners names 22 states and territories haying .-.chools adopted, to the needs of Indians. KcIiooIm in Alaska. I • In 191,0 public schools i n Alaska [numbered 77 with ft8 teachers and it enrollment of nearly four thou? and - • From 1884 tq 1906 the t’nited States appropriated esch year $30,- "* and since 1906 $130,000. The I’nited . States has undertaken a novel form of education in Alaska which has proven to b e of much val ue to the Eskimos; namely; the in troduction of domestic reindeer as a means toward better life and sus (enance. Since 1893 the Eskimos have been workjng and herding rein deer to a total of 30.327 and to this one form ol education the Cnited "tates has appropriated $267,500. A -dendid example If dllferettt kinds of education to be undertake#. In 1901 the insutar government In the Philippine Islands supported education with $233,41 1 Since that date each* suoeeding. year th* 'expenditure has been about $1,000. | 000 There are 2.100.000 chilren eligible foi< school training There rrp 825 American teachers and 3.125' [ PkllUpino teachers. ' Tbe flatter i were trained under American teach ers Th P instruction Is altogether in English. The insular government (government under V 8. control^ sends to fhe l T . 8. each year about' 125 students fotj advanced learning. Since 1898, when the government of Port! Rico came under l’>8. sup- ervis'on the I'nlted States/ha* snp- (jo ahead, quick as you la; of the national joy smokel Fire up a pipe or a makin’s cigarette as though you never did know what tobacco bite and parch meant! For Prince Albert is freed ft and parch by a patented controlled exclusively by u can smoke it without a cc of any kind because P. A. tobacco delight. " * v , the natbnoljoy tmohe t will do for you what it has done fcr thousands cf men, not only in the States but all over the world! It win give you . a correct idea of what a pipe smoke or a home* rolled cigarette should be. ) Dtod MyaOtk. 1 *07."which Ar»*ja«a ■Boko Get this Prince Albert pipe-peace and makin's-peace message, you men who have “retired” from pipe and dgarette^makin’s pleasure; you men who have never known its solace 1 Because you have a lot of smoke pleasure due you quick as youpack-your-pipe or rott-a-cigarette with *• A. and make fire! R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO Cl6i Wmrton-Sdem, N. C V Albert rerywhere f»- rrJ tag*. Set UmUt fa» tiemr rm Ii4jt red time. 10* t kmmdi end kulf-emmmd He kmmmdnr. end tm that eUenr meemd eryntal.glaun Semi- der wits •e.nei Wmiittmtr tom tket Sm^etSnteSeeeelmnmeSfimenSeme. Many exclusive models fromihe specialty factories 'theHamilton Brown Shoe mpany are ready for your inspection . Come to see them See our ad on back pa£e of magazine section K Go to Your Shoe Dealer and ask for Hamilton-Brown Shoes r portod education in a .similar way to that in the Philippines, having a system suitable to .the Porto Ricans In 1909-10 there were 100.768 pu pils enrolled In about 1,000 schools The schools are principally primarj; age Plants and are entirely free. H. L. EASTERLING. / WEAK, jklURfi CHILD Made Strong By Delicious Vinol Lakeport, N. H.—“Our little girl 8 years of age was in a debilitated, run down condition and Rad a stubborn cough ao she was weak and ailing all the time. 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Do It now and be convinced. t-ll-6’i Cut Your Store Bill Down One Half- Tens of thousands of fanners as well as town and city folks cut down their store i bills one-half last year and saved money In spite of generally short crops and re 4 duced wages. Absolutely millions of dollars, pere saved and countless families lived bvtW than ever bp fore in the face of the cotton crisis and general business depression. How were tftfesc burdensome store bills cut down? By the real money-saving poWer of good hone gardens, rightly planted and kept planted and tended throt'gh the season. Hastings 191G Seed Catalogue tells how to cut store bills down; tells about gar den and farm seeds of kinds and a qual ity that cannot be bought from your mer chant of druggist. It’s full of garden ahd farm information, it’s free If you ask for It. Write for It now. H. G. HASTINGS CO . Atlanta. Ga.—(Advt.)