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UUR SC | PAPER I | BY I* KM) P. WILL SW memmmm mmmmm**<m C/luwa^e of Twwhpnt?The frequent change of teachers is a constant brake and clog on the progress of the achool. It robs them of anything like au unbroken course of work and fixedness of policy. Hvory new teacher introduces some new feature Into tho work of tho achool?perhaps a good feature in itself, yet no hotter than what it displaces. It requires readjustment to install anything new, and the time and friction are u loss, unless tho change is decidedly for bettor. General sneakInu our best scnools are tho^e which have the fewest changes in the teachers. It requires at least one full session for a teacher to become acquainted witii his patrons By becoming acquainted with patron;. I mean far more mail mere social knowledge of them. I mean an appreciation of their tastes and the!; ideals and their ambitions, and a knowledge of tneir peculiarities, if you please. Until he understands these ho is not in a position to serve thorn and to leud and a teacher who can not lead is of hut litt! > force. Not until after a teacher has taught from four to six years in a community is lie prepared to gi\e it his best services. Yet how few teachers remain in one school three years. Heine places cnange teachers every year simply because they have acquired the habit of doing so. Like any other bad habit, this one grows upon people. Tho trustees and the patrons frequently realize that thew school is far Inferior to some otheschool, and rush to the conclusion that they need a change of teacher i, when the truth is mut t.?ey ..uve already Injured their school by i >o ninny changes. Have any of my -dors ever seen a pupil, at the beginning of each of three successive seasons?each time bv a new teach er? Is it probable that this would have been done by any one reasonable teachhr teaching the school the throe sessions? This evil of change reigns in the town and country schools alike. I have in mind one town in this State which had six principals in eight, years. Change was the only remedy it knew, and it believed in heroic closes. A great many rural schools rarely have the same teachers tw) years in succession. Many of these changes, in both town and country schools, are due to the nolghhorho > i jealousies and quarrels already discussed. Many a community has its chronic critics of the schools, who are dyspeptic by nature and sour by habit. A teacher never satisfies them longer than one year. They know all about schools, and their own children are paragons of perfection, if any teacher finds one of these children anything but a paragon, atraightway there is trouble. To listen to theso disgruntled fathe s and mothers with their tales of woe requires patience and grace. In their eyes thero is but one remedy? change teachers. Not two months ago I heard a man not far from sixty years of ago deciare that he intended to "break up" the only school in his district, unless the trustees dismissed t ha nrnmint fitarlwir It Vi'1,1 nnv.^i' occurred to him that perhaps tho trustees were in tho right. Such a man Is in u small way an anarchist. In somo instances faultfinders and dissatisfaction are unwittingly encouraged by the . board of trustees. The board, eithor ignorant of its function or disposed to dodge an unploasant duty, asks tho patrom to elect tho teacher. Such a cours is an invitation to division and th< disappointment consequent to defeat and will Inevitably bring about discord. What is tho board appointed for, if not to manage tho school by weening tho occasions for discord? A good many towns make it & |o pua oip D* pun 'tuaqouoi poouoi.i THE EDITOR'S DOVE LETTER To TIioho Subscribers Who Have Not Yet Raid lip. Doar darling delinquent Our precious subscriber in arrears! You are so shy! Do you think we have sold out and gone? No, little sugar pluin, we could not get away if we wanted to. We are still at the s&nio old stand dishing out the news on sweet promises and bright expectations. They make an excellent dlot, darling, with a little pudding flavored with a word of encouragement to serve as a desert. We are waiting and watching for thee, dar ling, our turtle dovo. We long to hear thy gentlo footstep approaching and hear the ring of the happy dollars within our ofTlce. Dear one, we feel unusually sad and lonely without you, dear. Now, little pie crust, will you, will you come? Do we hear you answer in a voice so sweet and beguiling, "I'm oornlug," or it it only the winds that around our office roar? We pause for further development. The above is the pathetic pleading of an editor with his delinquent subscribers. If you have not paid for your Times and Democrat this year consider the above letter written to yon. HOOLS. I NO. 6. | ,1AM H. HANI). *c *? :<*>? rule to employ only young inexpeouch year drop those who have failed, keeping the more successf ti olios until they have become realty serviceable, then lot them go because the trustees and the poopie are unyilllng to puy for good teaching at par value. Some places boast that their schools are the gateway to tne promotion of their teachers. This may be a credit to the school, an.l a discredit to the people. It is not creditable, if the people are simply letting efficient teachers pass out from their schools in exchange for crude inexperience, because the latter is cneap. A few town Bchool boards are given to the indefensible habit of advertising every year for applicants for every position in the school when the board does not intend to elect a single new teacher. Tha king who marched his army up the hill, then marched it down again, did no more childish thing than thesvj boards do. The thing is not only indefensible, but it is hurtful to the school, unjust to the teachers, and dishonest to possible applicants. What meaning does such advertisement convey to every teacher in that school, no matter how e<u<.tunt or faithful she may be? When the teachers ask for Its meaning, they are t rO fl <!,;, II lu nnlv r> ? > ? Iil(f> ? r\ f form, and that (hey need not be concerned. Great big grown business men playing like children! ...on what about the innocent strange s who make bona fide applications in answer to what they suppose is a bona fide advertisement, only to be informed that it is a mere form? What teacher with any regard for ethics would apply for one of these places, if he knew that no vacancy existed and that the incumbent expected re-election? Is the board playing a game in diplomacy? Does it intend to see if it can secure better teachers, but if not, to re-elect the incumbents? Such game would J be dishonorable. If a school board wishes to change teachers for any legitimate reason, it has a porfect legal and moral right to do so. But the change should be made in a manly straightforward manner. Doc the board frankly tell the teach* t not to ask for re-election, declare o vacancy, then advertise for applications?if that is uio host way to secure teachers. Teachers themselves must hoar | their part of the responsibility for so many changes. There are sonic teachers who ought not to oxpec t any school to keep them longer tnau one year. The captious (sometime < miscalled spirited), the eccentric, the frivolous, the giddy, and t lie ignorant ones may expect to lloat about like driftwood, xaeu there are some teachers who nave an incut o Klo m n n I u f/\r? 1 v\ ir litr<l?j i\P i?wiVs iiiuiun iv/i uvv/\rniiiig uh wo v/v passage. I onco knew a teacher to resign her work to go elsewhere o i the ground that she had been in her present position three years. They apply every time they hear of a vacancy, and if they hear of no vacancy, they ask when the next one is to be. They tell yon very frankly that they aro worth a great deal more than they are getUn/, and that they aro prostituting ??ir profession when they work for ho little. Once more, there Is that foxy diplomat of a teacher who seeh<i a place in March, accepts it in June, and holds it until about two weeks before the school is to open, then telegraphs the board that she has iccepted elsewhere (at two dollars i month more salary). She calls his resigning; in law and common ense it is a violation of contract, inch conduct under ordinary circumstances is reprehensible, and wholly unworthy of an honest man or woman. William H. Hand. University of South Carolina. * (xKOIlGIA DEMOCRATIC. Brown's Majority Is Alnjut Om Hundred Thousand. A special dispatch from Atlanta On., says reports received then Wednesday night indicate that Jos eph M. Drown was elected governo; today by a majority of not less thai 7f),000. Not moro than ten pTo "cent of the votes polled were foi Yancy Carter. Disfranchisement won. but not bv so large a majority J. W. Lindsay 1b elected i>enaion com mlBfiloner. In Fulton county Mr. Brawn got f majority of 4,500 out of less than , 7,000 votes. Disfranchisement car ried by a small marjority and A. J McBride received more votes foi pension commissioner than all th< other candidates combined. Only two counties heard from ar? believed to have given Carter plu ralities. These are Chattooga am! , Gordon, in each of which only nom i Inal votes were polled. I The returns throughout the Stat' are coming in slowly, but Judging from the figures received Mr i Brown's majority for governor i? j estimated at from 75,000 to 100,00( and the vote for Carter will not ex 'eeed 25,000. WILL WAGE WAR Against Disease is Resolve of State Meoical Association. MEETING FAIR WEEK To rwent Tuberculosis the Association Will Carry Ont the Plans Formulated at Tuberculosis Congress Recently Held In Washington?Preliminary Action Already Taken. As a reBult of the tuberculosis congress held in Washington recently, definite steps will be taken in South Carolina to prevent the spread of the dread disease. The Stato Medical association will be called to meet some time during the fair for the puropsc of formulating plans to bring about this result. This mooting will bo called by Dr. John I*. Dawson 01 Charleston, who ia president of the association and who w?h ono of the delegates to the tuberculosis congress. Dr. Dawson will have a definite plan to propose to the association for sproad of tuberculosis. Dr. Dawson familiarized himself at the congress with the mcthodB for the reduction of mortality among tuberculosis patients and will bo able 10 give thi doctors of the State some valuable information along this line. South Carolina was well represented at the tuberculosis congress Among those who atonded were the; following: Drs. C. Fred William.;, State health officer; J. II. Mcintosh. W. M. Foster and It. A. Lancaster of Columbia; Dr. C. C. Gamble, Abbeville; D.r If. T. Hall, Aiken; Dr. Robert Wilson, chairman board >i' health, Charleston; Dr. J. L. Dawson Charleston; Dr. J. Mercer Green. Charleston; Dr. W. V. Droeklngtoo. Kingstree; Dr. C. lb lOarle, Greenville; Dr. W. A. Tripp, Easley; Dr. J. 10. Allgood, Liberty; J. 10. Teaguo. Laurens; C. F. McGann, Aiken: Dr. Walter Cheyne, Sumter; Dr. A. M. Brailsford, Mulllns, Dr. *.?. J. Walker, y orkvllle. At this conference there was given an exhibition of what is being done throughout the country ami in the foreign lands to prevent mo spread of tuberculosis. There were shown all the appliances used and interesting papers wore read on the disea e and the best possible methods of cure and prevention. Representatives were present from this country and Europe and among the number were some of the foremost physicians of the world. Valuable Exhibits. Perhaps the most important of all tho exhibits was the showing >f tho work that is being carried on in this country to prevent tuberculosa. And other countries, too, had their exhibits, the one from (leffiTany being about tho bout shown. , l)r. C .P. Williams of this city was one of the interested physicians present at. the congress and he has brought hack with him a greater desire than ever to aid in the gre.t 1 work of reducing and preventing tu: berculosis among tho people of South Carolina. Dr. Williams considers two of the most Important things . done at the congress the following ' principles, which the congress went ' on record as being in favor of: t. That tho host means of redue1 ing mortality from consumption s - tho segregation of all tuberculosis 1 patients in institutions specially equipped for the treating of sucu 1 patients. 1 2. 'i hat tho theory of Dr. Koch ' that bovine tuberculosis is not transmitted to human individuals is not correct according tn the ?en?e of th.? congress. This latter theory has been worked on considerably, and as the congress indlcajtod, it is the opinion of a large majority of physicians and specialists along this line that bovine tuberculosis is transmitted to the human being. Animals Spread Contagion. * This transmission of tuberculosis from animal to human being is an extremely Important, matter,, especially inasmuch as It affects this State 1 very much and this spread of the * disease can largely he avoided. Speaking of this matter, Dr. Wilk linnis says: "This form of tuber^ culosls is brought ahout by the drinking of the milk of cows. To ( prevent the spread of the disease all dairy cattle should lie tested for tuberculosis and eliminated from the herd when tho test proves positive. South Carolina dairies have shown about ?? per cent of the herd are 1 tuberculous. A committee has been "! appointed by the South Carolina Lie Stock association to draft a suitable bill at the next session of the J, legislature to eliminate as far as J practical tuberculosis in cattle and to prevent tho Importation of tuber" culosis cattle into this State. The 1 object of this bill is to make all ' railroad companies handling cattle to this State get a bill of health on J the cattle shipped here. I heard i while in the North that there wer-? many hoards of cattle in that sec * jtlon that had as many as 80 to 9r >,per cent tuberculosis cattle in theb - midst. These cattle are shipped Into thi? State from the North am J West and there Is consequently brought here the diseased animals that in time affect the rest of the herd." Kducnte the l'eople. It is generally conceded that th-i beat method of prevention of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases is the education of the people. At the meeting of the board of education held last year the following recommendations wore made by the State board of health: Crowded Settlements. "First. We would recommend that the teaching of physiology and hygiene be made compulsory in the public schools of the State. "Second. We wouia recommend that all applicants for a teacher'?; certificate in this State be required to pass an examination on physiology and hygiene as a part of the regular examination for teachers. As many graduates of colleges are given certificates on presenting tiller diplomas. wo recommend that such applicants be required to show that physiology and hygiene were a part of the course at the college from which said applicants received the diploma. If these branches wore not a part of the course, require the applicant to pass a regular examination on th< so branches. "Third. We would recommend that all of the colleges under the control of the State be required to teach physiology and hygiene as u part of the regular course. "Fourth. We would recommend that the book or books to tie used as text books for the teaching of these branches bear the approval of the State board of health. "Fifth. Wo would recommend that tho touching of the means of preventing tiio dangerous communicable diseases be made compulsory in the- public schools of South Carolina, and we recommend further that the book new used as a school book for the teaching of physiology and hygiene be used for this purpose until tho tSate hoard of health can prepare data. "Sixth. We would recommend that a physician be the teacher of physiology and hygiene in the high schools of tliis State when it is possible to obtain the services of one for this purpose. "Seventh. We would recommend that in arranging the course for the State and county summer schools that a course of lectures on the moans of preventing the dangerous communicable disease be a part of tills con rse. "Eighth. We would recommend that the State board of health shall name the diseases to lie considered as dangerous communicable diseases. "Ninth. We would recommend that you use you influence to have the trustees of the schools procure vision charts and have tho teachers inform themselwH how to examine the children to see if their eyes and ears uro normal." A# 1 # II l\o 1 #\n 1 M ? I* o V uiu iiiin;u.u lunin UUllftJ II was very much emphasized that the host way to prevent tuberculosis Is by the education of the people. The resolutions of the State boorl of health were received with enthusiasm by the hoard of education, but nothing was done In the matter. The board of education will again put the matter before the board of health, urging that the study of hygiene and physiology be niado a part of the course in ail the high schools of the State. Crowded Settlements. Out of the less than 1,000,000 whites in this State 12,0,000 are employed in the cotton mills. It is evitable that in the crowded ml",I districts tuberculosis is easily transmitted from one person to another. It is estimated that in this State there are from 1,500 to 2.000 deaths each year from tuberculosis, so thai "something must be done" is the slogan of medical men. Among the negroes It is said that tuberculosis is decreasing within recent years. probably because of the out door life and the better habits that the race Is now leading. The number of tuberculosis patients among negroes Is still quite large, however, and the methods of prevention of the disease are an important step In this State, where more than half the population is of the colored race. Ami it Is highly important that the negrc should be taught in some measure how to bring about a prevention iid far as posible of this disease. Appalling Figures. To give an idea of the cost of tuberculosis in lives, disability, nnhappiness and money would show how Important It is that the moans of preentlon of the disease as shown ni ine uinercuiosis congress should he carried out as far as possible. The death rate from tuberculosis in all its forms in the United Stales is estimated at 164 per 10,000 of population and the number of death in one year?1906?was 138,000. At this rate, it is said. 5,000,000 people of those living in this country at the nresent time will die of tuberculosis. The money cost of tuberculosis, it Is estimated, exceeds $8,000 per 'enth, these figures including cap talized earning power lost by death and netting a total of $1,100,000,000 >er year. And of this cost $440,100,000 falls upon other than thos" -vho are consumptive. It is said tha? ho erection of isolation hospitals fo? ncurables in all probablv the be? nethod and most profitable at pre? <ent for reducing the cost of tube* i vNK OH ('ohm a i capital stock SURI'Ll 8 . . LI A PI LITY OF STOCK HOI DERS 8 EC OR I I Y TO DEPOSITORS DIRHC Robert H. Fcurborough, H. L. Ruck, <leorge J. Holiday, We t oiitmue t< pM f> po ceui iiitere it youraccount BOBERT B. SCARBOROUGH, B President. BANK OF OON W A *i <vlOCE TOTAL AHSKTS IIIRKi " 1). T. McNeill, J. A. Mcl) H. G. Collins, M. \V. Collins, A "Savinge Hank has recently been stitution. Inquire for terms and rati We wish to thank the public for tl und /'nr/Unllu n/\l b>Ii *U..i? % i ui.m vvi uiuu; ouu^u im'ii tuiure uus; D. A. SPIVEY.V.P. I ??> T"AD;:I JM ik'r.Mj.'hJ I. mmt *? ??? \?j* (yj Fleas* scud me Illustrated Catalog No. ] I FAIRBANKS, MORSE Burns, bruises and scratches, bin and little cuts or in fact anything requiring a salve, arc best and quickest soothed and healed by DrWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve. The best salve for piles. He sure you get DeWitt's. Sulci by Conway Drug Co. The railways of Hokkaido, Japan, are now under the control of the General Government. I)o not let anyone tell you that something else Is just as good as DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills because there isn't anything just as good for weak buck, 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. The mnn who is always trying to gel something for nothing gets I mighty little satisfaction in tho long run. 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 in that way. You take Kodol just for a little while when you have slight attacks of indigestion, and you take it just a little longer in order to get relief from severe attacks of Indigestion or Nervous Dyspefsia. Try Kodol today. Sold by Conway Drug Co. Great characters always rests on profound convictions. DeWitt's Uttlo Early Risers, the famous little liver pills. They are small, sure, safe pills. Sold by Conway Drug Co. cul jsis. Police Power. "That we will ultimately have tr place officers in nii 11 h and other such institutions for the protection of health is a condition that we are now facing." Bald I)r. Williams. "Take the mills, for inBtance, in them are a large number of worl|?rs and these are deprived of one of the greatest of all the recognized advantages to health?fresh air. The windows are kept down and of course the air in the rooms becomes foul and leads to had results In health." Rut here again Is the conflict between the mill owners and the operatives. Should the windows he left open, in many cases, the operatives would close them, as there are cer-1 tain conditions that fresh air brings about in the yarn that makes is less valuable as a product. It Is the concensus of opinion among medical men that certain police powers should he ovorolaort in tho protection of health and that tho State should take cognizance of those necessities. All of those matters will bo taken up and discussed at the meeting of 'ho State Medical association to he hold fair week. The association hopes to accomplls hmuch In the mac*er of the prevention of tuberculosis In this State and will strain ! ?very effort to bring abont good re| sujts. ' hokuy. y. !s, c., .$ AO OOP 10 000 50 OOP 110 OOP ; i oks W. R. Lew in. W. A. Johnson, V ill A Jrteman. ?lMi\tarJ> < <| c 18 >i<*? k JicL BUCK, WILL A. FRKKMAlf, Vice President. ( lshim. CONWAY \y, b. c . . . ? .*><1.111 HI <i* $2T>0,000.00. r? >hm emmott, ,lno. O. Hpivop, C. I*. Quuttlebuuin, 1). A. Spivey, organized In connection with our Ines In this department. heir liberal untninniro Iti f h<? imul IllCSB. i CashUr ?~hck j Sifi?*jSfc rT7 gasoi.. y;r \\ , ... A ROW MGLLAiid i c Lu f&U. I' W Tllis i? *ll<' <.".) O'ltl'l ft. I? W J ' -j-?."A VA ! I'.ar < ii ftni i.. : i . k ( ~l\a \\\ with umiiil j-'.v.- r. Tin iiirn.? ? n? . \\A a!?*<i he uh-I f r | impi'ir iv Fm iiitt v i.o-l Rimlllnc < >rn. i-ill iii?; fo-hliT, r'i iMilnir fti'- a >. 1 Lj churn <ir tviish'iii'miichlm JSi/.v. x 1,1)52 from 2 il. i'. ni> t?> '." ?> il. S ., vcr- R tical, horizontal or jiortablu. Kj &. CO., Chicago, FIl ^ I'ICOFESSIGNAL CAKDH. \V. E. McCOKD, SURGEON DENTIST. CONWAY, 8. O. Over Dank of llorrjr A. II. HL'HHOlXill.s I'hyslcian and Surgeon CONWAY, 8. O. li. WOFFOHD WAIT. Attorney at Law. CONWAY, S. C. Office In Spivey Ituihling. H. n. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Lav. conway, a a c. k. st. am and, Attorney at Law Conway, a 0. R. B. 8carbrough conway, 8. o. Attorney at Law. , 4?-? It is easy to run up bills, but lmrd to live down a bad reputation. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is used nearly everywhere, becauae it not only heals irritation of the throat and stops the cough, but it /I 1 trnti \% r\ ^ ^* " ? A1 hiiiud me win uut ui urn system through itb laxative principle by assuring a freo and gentle action of the bowels, and that is the only way to cure a cold. You can't euro it as long as you are constipated Insist upon Kennedy a Daxatlve Cough Syrup. &pld by Conway Drng Co. p ^ " " There lives but one man and 0*0 woman who is not better off than somebody else. Kodol Is a combination of the natural digestive juices and it digests all classes of food and every kind of food, so you see It will da the work that the stomach itsoW does The only difference between it and the stomach is the stolfaoh can get out of order and Kodol 'can put the stomach into good order. Buy Kodol today. It Is guaranteed. Sold by Conway Drug Co. Nix Hoys Killed. Six hoys wpre reported killed a* Sugar Ridge, when a freight train on the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad crashed into a heavily -laden excursion train returning from a fair at Bowling Green. The self-satisfied are alwaya morally short-sighted. The overbearing are seldom baldened with brains. i