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| PAPER I 1 BY PROF. WILl Too Memy Little* Half-Hnpportetl Ncbool*?Sooner or later our people are going to have more comfortable mod commodiouB school houses, lietore the people put their money into permanent improvement*), would It not he wise to reduce the number of schools in a great many places? A good tour-room house costs less than four one-room bouses of e<jual comfort and convenUinco. fllxty pupils in one building can be better taught mod more easily taught than fifteen pupils each in four buildlugs. A fbur-teacher school will flourish Where four one-teacher schools would | struggle to keep alive. In more than half the counties in tho State arc to bo found dozens of schools with 10 to 12 pupilo each. Not many weeks ago I viatted a rurtU school with nn enrollment of 11 pupils; threo miloH off was another imhool with 13 pupils, and > another direction wan a third school with 14 pupils. The throe teacher* were paid $3f> each; each school house was cheap and ill equipped. In some districts six miles squara Hro to bo found as many aa three white schools, each with n small number of pupils scattered from tlrst reader to high school grades. A good many of tho Incorporated villages have school districts co-oxtonsive with the incorporate limits. An accurate school district map of the State would look very much like u crazy quilt. What is the remedy? Take the tfcree schools cited above. Hulld a comfortable two-room house nt a central point, and glvo the entire 3H pupils to two teachers. Kach pupil would then have his recitation time doubled, for there would In the consolidated school no! more grndes, or classes, than there were in the most advance of the three little schools. I am at once reminded that some of theso children would have too far to walk. (It is marvelous how much trouble a father who walked four miles to school and brass about, makes over his child's walking one mile.) I grant that the consolodation puts the school too far for some to walk. "What then? Take part of the money to transport these to the school. I'rof. VV. K. Tate of Ihe Memminger Normal school says: "It Is better and cheaper to transport the distant children to the good school than to bring a poor school to the distant children." Yob; one good school Is immpfiHii rn hi v hntt?>r thim thrr?p In ferlor Bchools. Tho traneportation of distant pupils Is no now fad. Several years ago the Eaatover district In Klchland county threw Ave schools Into one. The district runB four wagonettes, made for the purop?e, to haul the distant children. Another instance: Three adjoining districts in Fairfield county ,with a combined enrollment of 60 pupils, have consolidated their schools at Bethel, have erected a $2,600 school house, and are transporting all ,tho children who live too far to walk. This concolldation gives tho school enough pupils to establish a rural high school, with $300 of State aid. State Superintendent MoMahan and Martin have zea(>usly advocated the consolidation of small schools. 3uch policy would encourage the building of better roads, while the transportation itself would protect the children in bad weatlfjr, and would protect the small children and the girls from insult or violence at tho hands of tramps or thugs on the lonely country roads. Neighborhood Jealousies and Quarrels?These twin evils have done more to prevent and to destroy the efficiency of the common schools than any other two agencies in the land. It is difficult enough to maintain a good school where everybody works in harmony, and it is well nigh impossible where strife and division are. To listen to the petty contentions, the sharp bickerings, HTOCK FOODS NO ?OOI>. How to Make a (ohm! Cheap One at Home. Bulletin 1 Of., of the South Dakota Experiment Station, gives account of two experiments conducted In the summers of 1906 and 1 907 to determine the amount of gain, if any, either In early maturity, marketable condition or cost of feeding, which might is* expected from feeding the commercial stock foods to hogs. Five of the host known brands were secured and submitted to chemical analysis and the results compared with bran. None of them were found to be equal to bran in the proportion of crude^jirotein, thi most expensive and indosponsable ingredient of the feeds. Two of the feeds had a slightly larger quantity of nitrogen free ex> tract aud none of them excelled bran in the proportion of oils and fats. The stock foods averaged $220.00 per ton as against the present high price of bran $20.00 giving bran 10 to 12 times the advantage. These foods being often called medicines it was .found necessary to ascertain their value as drugs. The rule in making them seems to l>e use small proportions of active drugs as gentian, fennigrek, sulphur, la i -wm at agreitaK hools. | MO. 3. I JAM If. HAND. S iiar iKtimi im. a'MximmwMtiMMi Ttiif rir n^and the talea of discord In aom* committee makes one marvel that a school can exist In such a place. The petitions and the appeals which come before the various school boards arc enough to make one turn pessimist. The worst of it all is. that most of these contentions and bickerings are childish and groundless, and that they are usually begun and kept ulivo by men who have at heart but little Interest lu any school. In settling most of these disputes, Solomon's judgment between the two women claimlug the child would be wholesome. It is to these Jealousies and quarrels that we owe two. three, and even tour, littlo starving school where but one ought to be. To them we owe the little district unable to support a school. Kvery influential locnl celebrity wished to have a school house at his front door <rr in his backyard. To these jealousies we owe most of the defeated locnl tax executions. Nearly nil the local disputes over the toucher have their origin in neighborhood Jealousies, and the baneful habit of con" * * i it . stunt mange 01 M'ncn^rs uus h.i rootB embedded here. A certain district school is supported by ten families. All is well, but the school house stands on the south side of a little creek which about once a year reaches a depth of four feet. A and ii suddenly conclude that this innocent stream is a menace to the lives of their children, and petition for a new district. The next session finds a little 20x20 foot hull of a school house on the north side of that creek, and a little lifeless school on each side of it. Or. C's bad boy is punished by the teacher; strnightway C raises the flag of secession, and proceeds to have his own little d-e-e-stricr. cut off. Or. one of the local economists gets tired of paying' a teacher $4 0 a month, since his daughter would teach for $.'10; the trustees i will not yield to the economist ; then I the economist canvasses the district in the interest of a now set of trustees, with the economist as chairman. Or, I) and K are rival local physicians already at odds; I) says that Smith's boy has a coa [ tagious disease, and must do stopped | from the school; 10 declares that the disease is only infections, and that It would lie silly to stop Smith's boy; the quarrel rages, the partisans array themselves, and down goes the local school tux proposed by the only really interested patron of the school. Or, X begins to discuss t new school house; L says that the old one Is good enough, and that X Is trying to lend the district; no new house is built, and the old one gradually rots down. Or, Miss Brown, the teacher, boards with the Smiths; the Joneses feel neglected, and begin to whisper it about that the teacher can not solve Sallie Jones' problems or phrase Sallle's sentences; the Smiths retaliate by asserting that the teacher is able to teach the whole Jones family; result?the antiSmith faction's children are taught next session by Miss Sallie Jones herself. Once more, Mr. Brown, with much religious devotion to bis church creed, demands that the new teacher shall be an X-ist; l*?>rkin.i' Y-ism at once begins to formom, while Stuhhs declares that Z-ianisiu has been outraged, since there has not been a Z-ian teacher in the school in five years. When the new teacher comes, is he to teach X-lst doctrine, Y-ist doctrine, Z-ian docI trine, or should he bo a simple (iodI fearing man whose daily life will lie a" rebuke to these clamorous Pharisees? | All this may sound like satire, but it is a mask rehearsal of a plav where the curtain never falls. Can not some neighborhoods see themselves in the play? WILLIAM K. HANI). University of South Carolina. ginger, pepper, salt, largely diluted inori ?iihntnnces such as mill refuse, ground pine bark, linseed meal. | All of the drugH mentioned are not combined in any one feed but the more Important ones are used, the valuations being In condiments and flavors. Of the drugs mentioned gentian is the best, and charcoal may be /useful to correct, acidity. The quantity recommended is so small that the medicinal value is practically nothing, i One set of pigs fed on grain alone were found to have made MM) pounds of gain, somewhat cheaper i than those fed grain with the addition of any of the stock foods. A home made stock food suggested by Veterinarian 10. L. Moore and J. II. Shepard, chemist, was fed and compared with the commercial article, and grain feed alone and it was found that though this stock fooo I is good and cheap, even in this case gains were made more cheaply witii grain alone. The stock food recommended was made as follows: Cloutain, 2 pounds, cost fiO cents; ginger, 1 1 pound, cost 40 cents; codium be, carbonate, 1 pound, cost 10 cents: fennigreek, 1-2 pound, cost 10 cents. Crow is not good eating, but the man who keeps his mouth shut never lias to eat it. . ?... " > CALLS HIM DOWN Bryan Demands Proof of tho Charges Against Haskell MADE BY ROOSEVELT. ChnllMAfN tho lYwidcnt to l?roduce Kvldonco Upon Which He IWwce His Kndorsomexit of the Atwociotion That the Governor Had Any Connection With Standard Oil. The most sensational development In the preaent campaign was the sending Tuesday from Detroit by William J. Ilryan, Democratic candidate for president, of a telegram to President Roosevelt, demanding that ho produce proof thr.t Ciov. Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma, treasurer of the Democratic national committee, ever was connected with the Standnrd Oil Company. The telegram was sent In answer to the statement of President Roosevelt. published Tuesday morning, in which the President endorsed the charges made against Gov. Haskell by William R. Hearst, that Gov. I Haskell had been connected with I tile Standard Oil Company and had attempted to bribe AttorneyGeneral Prank Monnett of Ohio. The telegram is as follows: "Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Stntes. "Dear Sir: In a statement given out by you yesterday and published in this morning's papers you endorse a charge made against Cov. Haskell of Oklahoma to the effect that he was once in the employ of the Standard Oil Company and as such employee was connected with an attempt to bribe or influence Attorney (leneral Monnett of Ohio to dismiss suits pending against the Standard Oil Company. In endorsing this charge you nttnck the Democratic party and its candidate, says that 'Gov. Haskell stands high in the councils of Mr. Rryan and is the treasurer of his national campaign committee,' and you add that 'the publication of this correspondence not merely justifies in striking fashion the action of the administration. but also casts a curious sidelight on the attacks made upon the administration both in the Denver convention, which nominated Mr. Itryan, and in the course of Mr. Dryan's campaign.' "Your charge is so serious that 1 can not allow it to go unnoticed. Gov. Haskell has defiled that he Wits ever employed by the Standard Oil Company in capacity or whh ever connected in any way whatsoever with it or with the transaction upon which your charge is based. "Gov. Haskell demanded an investigation at the time of the charge was first made, offering to appear and testify, and he demands an investigation now. I agree with you that if Gov. Haskell is guilty as charged he is unfit to be connected with the Democratic national committee and 1 am sure you will agree with mo that if he is innocent hu deserves to be exhonerated from so (lamnging an accusation. As the selection of Gov. Haskell as chairman of committee on resolutions at Denver and also as treasurer of the Democratic committee had my approval and endorsement. ( I feel it my duty to demand an immediate investigation of the charge against him endorsed by the president of the United States. Your high position as well as your sense of justice, should prevent your giving sanction and circulation to such r. charge without proof and I respectfully request, therefore, that you furnish any proof which you have in your possession, or if you have n i proof, I request that you indicate a method by which the truth may be ascertained. Without consulting Mr. Haskell, i will agree that he will appear for Investigation before and tribunal, public or private which you may indicate, and I will further agree that bis connection with the national committee and this campaign shall cease in the event that the decision of such tribunal connects him in any way with this chrnge, or in case you, after an investigation of tinfacts, say that you believe hiiu guilty of the charges made. "As the candidate of the Democratic party I shall not permit any responsible member of the Republican organization to misrepresent the acts of the Democratic party in the present campaign. I have assisted you tothe extent of my ability in remedial measures which 1 deemed C 4U? *...1.1 J.? i.fRloR Roon ioi tin; |m11m n ^imui n in\ ii ^u?? miv?> undertaken; I have urged Democrats to support such measures and 1 have advocated more radical measures against private monopolies than either you or your party associates have been willing to undertake. The platform of the Democratic party is clear and specific on this subject, as on other subjects, while tlie platform of the Republican party Is uncertain and evasive. The Democratic candidate for vice president, Mr. Kern, joined with nie in requesting the Democratic national committee to fix a maximum of $10,000 for individual contributions and to publish before the election all contributions above $100 and the committee acted favorably upon # 4 che request. The Republican candidate and the Republican national committee proposed, not publication before tho election, but publication after the election. I submit thai our committee has given the better evidence of Its freedom from connection or obligation to the predatory interests. Our committee has not knowingly received a dollar from an official of any corporation known as a trust, and it will not receive any money from such. If any money ia contributed by such persons without the knowledge of the committee it will be returned as soon as the fact is discovered. "The Democratic party is making an honest und an honorable fight in defense of the principles and policies enunciated in the platform and it expects and will demand fair and honorable treatment from those who are in charge of the Republican campaign. I "With great respect, etc., "Very truly yours, "William J. Bryan. "Detroit, Mich., Kept. 22." MOKR MONKY IN OATtt. Than There Is in Cotton an Hhown Below. Mr. W. K. Funderburk, of Union, N. C., gives his experience uh beiween cotton and oats as a money crop in tho Progressive Farmer, of Raleigh, N. C. Here is what Mr. Mr. Funderburk nays: Editor Progressive Farmer: Yon wanted to know something about my oat crop. The oats were sown after cotton was gathered (do not remember the exnct date) on good land that had been yielding 500 pounds of lint cotton per acre with 4 00 pounds of guano and a light sprinkle of stable manure. I cut the cotton bods down with a cutaway harrow, then broke th ? land ns well uh I could with a single plow. The oats were drilled in with a two-horse disc drill, with about 2 00 pounds of fertilizer per acre. About three bushels of seed per acre were used of the Appier variety. About the first of April I gave top dressing of 60 to 70 pounds of nitrate of soda, which seemed to pay me big. My total crop of oats amounted to 567 1-2 jbuahels, of which the four acre cotton patch mention above yielded 2KG bushels. Mv i./oflta v. ?? in "-ops t'r "? these four acres 1 have figured out as follows: Cotton (at 12c) and cottonseed (at 20c) $248.20 Cost of making (not including hauling to market).. SI.60 Net profit on 4 acres of cotton $ 1 66.60 285 bushels of oats at 7 5c. . 213 75 V/Oht of making und harVfcsttUft 29.00 Net profltH on 4 acres of oats $ 1 8 4.71" The oats are figured above at 75 cents a bushel, but they are worth much more thau that on the market. The cost of $29 includes the seed at $1.05 per bushel, but does not include the cost of threshing and handling the oats after they were housed. Of course I harvested the oats with my own machine, but 1 figured this in at what I would have had to pay for it. I have the oatstraw baled and on the. oat land a fine erop of peas. W. E. FUNDERBURK. ACCUSED OF FRAUD. T. C. Duncan, of Union, Is Arrested and Railed. Thomas C. Duncan, formerly president of the Union-Buffalo and other cotton mills, was arrested at Union late last Saturday afternoon on a warrant charging him with receiving money from the People s Hank of Union under false pretenses and with intent to cheat and defraud. Hond iu the sum of $1,500 was required and furnished. The facts, nearly as can he ascertained, are that in December of 1900, Duncan obtained from the People's Hank the sum of $1,515 in payment of a check or draft upon a hank in Spring City, Tennessee, where Duncan ' was then doing business, and there was no money in the Spring City Hank to pay the check. It is alleged that the check was drawn by the American Lime Company at the instance of T. C. Duncan, who is supposed to have boon the head of that comnanv. It is stated that there are other transactions of a similar nature involving an amount of about nine thousand dollars. Since the People's Hank went into the hands of receivers a few months ago the receivers have made several efforts to adjust these matters, but without avail, and the warrant was sworn out by one of them. It is uncyjrstcupd that Duncan's underkakings and investments at Spring City, where he has been operating for several years, have turned out badly, and the American Lime Company, which figures in these alleged fraudulent transactions, is thought to be bankrupt. Unless this case is adjusted it is probable that similar action will bo taken with reference to the other transactions. At 21 the consequent of the world looks as easy as rolling off a log to most men, hut at GO they are run"inv keep the log from rolling , over them. ) ) : . / . ? * . : i * 1 BANK OF OON WA ,s ? [ < W. HIIKT TOTAL A88KT8 ?IHK? TO O. T. McNeill, J. A. Mcl> ra H. (J. Collins, M. W. Collins, A "Savingc Bank has recently been on stitution. Inquire tor terms and rates We wish to thank the public for the! and cordially solicit their future buslni D. A. SPIVEY.V.P & h f?f *1 * , m IN flQMT iBHH f^U ? OP ICAI? T# MM. send nt Itlaatratcd Catalog No. Ll FAIRBANKS, MORSE ? BANK OF Conway CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS... SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIRECT Robert. B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, Wat on ti vine to pay 5 per cent interest it youraceount KOBMT B. tOARBORoroa, H L PRKMIDBKT. Vl DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little liver pills. They are ?small, sure, safe pills. Sold by Conway Drug ('o. The man who is always trying to get something for nothing gets miehtv littl e sat iwfiirtion in flio lnnn 1 run. ? Do not lot anyone tell you that something else is just as good as DeWitt'a Kidney and Bladder Fills because there isn't anything just as good for weak back, backache, ? rheumatic pains, inflammation of the bladder, or any Kidney and Bladder disorder. A week's trial will convince you. Sold by Conway Drug Co. Many a hard-working woman ? would rather take most of her pay In kisses than in money. At any time when your stomach is not in good condition, you should take Kodol, because Kodol digests ? all the food you eat, and it supplies health and strength for the stomach 9 in that way. You take Kodol just for a little while when you have a slight attacks of indigestion, and you take it just a Mftle longer in order to get relief from severe attacks of ? Indirection or Nervous D.vspefsia. Try Kodol today. Sold by Conway Drug Co. The man who relies 011 luck for the main part of his crop will have ? an easy time harvesting. 2 s Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is used nearly everywhere, because s it nof only heals irritation of the throat and stops the cough, but it drives the cold out of the system through its laxative principle by assuring a free and gentle action of the bowels, and that is the only a way to cure a cold. You can't cure ^ it as long as you are constipated. Insist upon Kennedy s Laxative Cough Syrup. Sold by Conway Drug Co. F There lives but one man and one woman who is not better off than sl somebody else. h sl Kodol is a combination of the h natural digestive juices and it di- d gents nil classes of food and every | n kind of food, so you see it will do the work that the stomach itself fi does. The only difference between it and the stomach is the stomach 1> [can ?et out of order and Kodol can t out the stomach into good order. b Buy Kodol today. It is guaranteed, h Sold by Conway Drug Co. tt s The linest home does not always tl hold within its gilded walls the a greatest amount of love. 8 Burns, bruises and scratches, big f< and little cuts or in fact anything H requiring a salve, are best and quick- s est soothed and healed by DrWitt's it Carboli/.ed Witch Hazel Salve, htie best salvo for piles. Be sure you h eot DeWitt's. Soul by Conway Drug b Co. b' T>tood Tt-tii tell, and so will the feed trough. tl % CONWAY V. s. o 9 AO.OOO.OO 9200,000J*. >RI imott, J no. O. Spiicj, C. P. QuUklMHin, l>. A. Hphrojr, K?tBed In connection with our lain this department. Ir liberal patronage In the gnat, mw. i / . Cashier r? n? 111 ' LJack cf All Tr^* GASOLINE ENGINE 3p\ NEW HOLLAND FEED MILL Vn Thla I. th? only ontrtt that will uu \n grind Ear Com aattafactorHy Tl \1 with ainall power. Thu engine can _ \w Bias b? ua?d for pumping. nwlac wood, shading corn. aoMIng fodder, running erenm Rrrr.?r?tnr, ehara or waahtag machln* 8lcca |?2 from 111. P. up to SM M H.-.. vertical, horlaoalal or portable. t CO., Chicago, RI. HORRY. . S, C. $ 50000 10 ofln 50 0UR 11000. 10RS W. R. Lewis, W. A. Johnson, Will A Freeman, on yearly deposit?, n o** t-ciic. buck, will a. fbkbmam,. ob President. .Uiwiat. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. W. B. McOOKD. SURG BON DBNT18T. CONWAY, A O. Over Bank of Horrj A. H. BURROUGHS ? Physician and Sirccsa. CONWAY, A A B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at law. CONWAY, S. ?. Office In Splrey Building. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Counoelor At Law. CONWAY; S. O. C. K. ST. AM AND, Attorney at Iaw> Hllft j? . J.l'AUM' Conway, S. O. R. B. SC ARB ROUGH CONWAY, tS. O. Attorney at law. AW MAN KATKN BY SHARK. tearner Passengers Witness a TrngicHi>eetacle on Ocean. Passengers by the Peninsular and rlental steamer Arabia, which has rrived at Plymouth from Bombay, dtnessed a tragic spectacle during tie voyage, a member of tho crew ailing overboard ai^J. being eaten y a shark before their eyes. When the liner was off Cap** 'inisterre there was a shout, o'. man overboard," and a young forekeeper, named William New urry, was seen in the water. The hip was quickly swung around 011 or course and sent away in the irection of the man who was swimling for his life. His efforts were anxiously watched rom the deck of the liner by passngers and crew. He could be aeen^p* luckily breasting the waves, and as he boat drew nearer and noare." :? him there was every hope that e would be saved. Suddenly there ras a rush through the water and .? wirl. An agonized sbrb u w - i vmiiivii ho onlookers and the swimmer ?1 Ikppeared. The boat reached the spot a few econds later, and the water wn* aund crimsoned with his blood, le had been seized by an enormous hark which had been seen followiK the vessel for some tiino. How Newburry got into the water as not been explained, hut It elieved ho must have fallen over- * oard accidentally. There is no love withotu omg on, nor any nve in emotion alonV if?