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41 PAGE TWO EPIDEMICS AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN Doubt is Expressed as to Wisdom of Closing Schools in Such Cases. APPLIES TO CITIES ONLY Interesting Information Sent out from the Department of the Interior,?Bureau of Education. Doubt as to the wisdom of closing schools in epidemics of contagious disease is expressed by Dr Francis George Curtis, of Newton, Mass., in a Dunetin on the "Health ol School Children" just issued by the Bureau of ing a god time. For this reason they "If the schools are closed when an outbreak occurs, the children are turned loose from supervision; they mingle freely with one another in the streets, on playgrounds, and in each other's houses. They are having an extra vacation and enjoying themselves thoroughly and are unwilling to admit that they feel ill, lest they be kept at home and prevented from havllirr o iv/\n<l 1 1 m n 4- K I e> ^? 1 ill ^ d IIIIIU, I VI LI1IO I VTcmVM I LUV^' will not say they feel ill until the disease is well advanced, and they may be active sources of infection for some time before it is discovered that they are ill. "If the schools are kept open the children continue in the classrooms as usual, they are under strict observation and examined daily by the school ph ysician, suspicious and infected xBases being- sent home for observation or treatment. "In this way many children are sent home before they have had an opportunity to infect others, thus rendering the probability of spreading infection. Further than this, the attention of the parents is called to the fact that the child is feeling ill and he is brought under treatment earlier. "It seems, therefore, that keeping the schools open offers the best chance of safety for the pupils, both collectively and individually. "Instead of closing the schools and allowing the children to be scattered and removed from supervision, when an outbreak appears the schools should be kept open as usual and the cniuiren urged to attend. The school physician and nurse should bo detailed to the school where the outbreak has appeared and instructed to examine every child daily, excluding such as appear ill or suspicious. This can be done with very little disturbance of the school work. A note must be sent to the parent stating that the child seems, or is, ill and must be seen by the family physician. Suspicious cases must be ordered to remain at home until further notice, and, if necessary, must be visited in order to settle the diagnosis. Absentees must be rounded up and examined in order to find out why they have been at home. If they are ill, they must be isolated, and, if well, urged to return to school." This, of course, applies to schools in cities in which school physicians, or nurses, or both are employed. o Spelling Contest. In order to stimulate a more general interest in spelling, the English Department at Winthrop is arranging a series of contests to extend through the remaining weeks of the session. They are open to the whole student body and already four hundred contestants have enrolled. Each week there will be a hundred written words from an assigned portion of the dictionary. Only such words as mak up the general vocabulary of the weeducated will be included; there wi! be no unsuual cr technical U rrns. Tin first prize, op .1 t the whole slu Ion body, is Webster's New Internationo Dictionary, presented by the Ameri can Hook Company. A second prize Webster's New Secondary School Dictionary, is to he awarded to th Freshman making the highest grade. The announcements and awards will be made at some time during commencement. Says America Surrenders. Berlin newspapers last Wednesday publish summaries of the American ^^j . ~i. n * nute vjreai Britain on the order in council. None of them comments except The Kreuz Zeitung, which says: "If this summary is correct, the note means the far-reaching retreat of America, inasmuch as it permits Great Britain to carry out its blockade measures against American ships even when they carry goods which are not contraband but come or go to ports of hostile lands. In this America surrenders the principle that every blockade must be effective." G&. I ODD BITS OF NEWS. jy{ $y$ m Washington, D. C.?Few people realize how many women hire out on farms for field labor. In this country there arc a million and a half women field workers, more than all the women dress-makers, .milliners, women tailors, hat, cap, collar, cuff and shirt workers combined. Turbotville, Va.?William Grittner, a shoe dealer, fitting a shoe on John Harlow, a customer, irrasned tho ud per and bade Barlow "push hard." Grittner's grasp slipped, the heel of the new vhoe struck Grittner's body, breaking three ribs and causing internal injuries. Montgomery, W. Va.?Hob Ross, State prisoner, working in the highway in Kanawha county, has tendered to Governor Hatfield an offer to serve out the time of his friend, Ed Adkins, if the Governor will give Adkins a pardon. Adkins is now ill in a local hospital. Atkins' time will be up in 90 days, Ross' in 10. Chicago, 111.?The health department has just discovered the source of the great quantities of dust which in spite of the clean streets, fill the air on windy days. From the roofs of three down-town buildings fourteen wagon loads of dirt and rubbish? more than was swept from four and one half miles of streets?were removed one day last week. Hereafter tk. C ~ .11 l * i i me rwuis ui an uunuings must DC kept clean. Piedmont, W. Va.?A family passed through Piedmont on a Baltimore & Ohio train last week consisting of twenty-one members. The father was '18 years old, and the mother, 3G years and there were nine pairs of twins. Fourteen of the children passed free, being under the age limit. o Poor Billy Sunday. Poor Billy Sunday is having his nvn troubles. It seems that there are people, who even though they may relieve that "the laborer is worthy ot his hire," think that he ought to tell .lis employers what he does with the money they give him. It is estimated that the evangelist makes about ?200,000 a year and yet this immense sum does not bring peace and serenity to the plain-speaking preacher. Somebody is always asking, not 'where did you get it?" but "what ire you doing with it?" Sunday has lardly left Philadelphia before an jtiier former associate demands an accounting. The dissatisfied party this time is Francis Porter, a former press agent for Sunday, who sends to the newspapers a statement in which he demands an accounting of the $60,000 contributed by Philadelphians to the support of the evangelist's campaign there. Porter declares there is a shortage of more than $20,000, and says: "The real truth of the situation is that you (Sunday) are commercializing the name of Jesus Christ, boldly using his sacred name to advertise a moneymaking business." "A decided disposition," his statement continues, "has been shown (by the campaign committee) to avoid supplying the contributors to this fund with detailed information regarding its disbursement." o ["attention i Mr. Stock Owner! We carry in stock all the following j Boyd's Remedies ' which are guaranteed to do the work claimed for them or purJ ch:u->e price will be refunded. ; Boyu'ti Suru Poi> Colic Cure, tiwj'c . $1.00 I Boyd's Sure Pop Colic Cure, small , .50 ! Boyd's Sure Pop Fever & Courh Cure .50 Boyd's Sure Pop Purgative 50 I Boyd's .Sure Pep Fyc Remedy . . . .50 Boyd's Sure Pop Hocf Liquid . . . .25 I Boyd's Sure Pop Magnetic Ointment . .25 Boyd's Liniment, small 25 Boyd's Liniment, medium 50 Boyd's Linimer.t, large 1.00 3oyd's Worm and Condition Po. srr.l. . .25 I Boyd's Worm and Condition Po. mcd - .50 Boyd's Worm and Condition Po. Ige. 1.00 For Sale by Conway Drug Co., Conway, S. C. o Will Resume Duties in Florida. The cruiser North Carolina, sodn to he relieved by the cruiser Chester from service in Turkish waters, will resume duty as aeronautical ship at the Ponsacolu naval station about June 1. Invigorating co the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GKOVH'S TA8TKLKSS chill TONIC, drives out Malar in. enriches the hlood. and builds up the sys'em. A true touie. I'or adults and children. 5tk THE HORRY HERA | WHAT OTHER PAT We Guess Not. A Saluda, North Carolina, girl escaped a fire by sliding down a pole. She could never have done that when the old styles were in vogue.?The State. Dont Know. Who loaded the dice to prejudice ? ?Wilmington Star. M i O - ill U91 Oil.V i'NU. There is an old adage to the effect that "Silence gives consent," but so far as Colonel Roosevelt is concerned silence means that he is preparing to let it be known that he wont cousent to a blamed thing unless he says so. ?Morning Star. Consideration. While newspaper men are dejected in spirits because the supreme court has declared the Associated Press is not a trust, and thus has put an end to temporary but vain illusions, there is some compensation in the rumor that Editor Prickctt of the St. Matthews advance has found a gold mine on his place.?Daily Record. Between Two Evils. Given his choice between being interned or going to sea, it is a safe bet that the commander of the Eitel will take the former, unless he wants to make a patriotic sacrifice of vessel and men for the cause of Germany.? Charlotte Observer. Hard Work. A good aim: "To brag about your home town so much that you will have to work yourself to death to keep from being a liar."Times & Democrat. Same Here. Charlotte could today well afford co take the chance of getting something better, under the dead certainly that it can get nothing worse.? Daily Observer. Forced by Law. We believe that under some circumstances a divorce law would be good for South Carolina. Out in Aurora, 111., the courts have made a man prom ise to let his wife warm her feet igainst his back every night until spring.?York News. Old, Old Way. Kissing is said to be a fruitless method of spreading grip. But science iffers no substitute.?Evening Post. Tobacco Chestnuts. Let the North Carolina and VirginI ~ NOT I Toda.y we are selling the best had. TIMES ARE HARD Uit we are giving bargains jus and Hats in the very Latest ing in every week. Come in and see for yourself. MRS. J. W. TRADE AT 4 Our Stock is more varied suit the needs of this entire the best interests of our cust< at prices that they can affor arc in keeping with the hard I # rope an war. WHEN IN NEED and you fail to get satisfacti EE Toddville and let us show you DUSENI I TODDVILLE, LA GRIPPE &E AND BAD COLDS" 25c and 50c, LD, CONWAY, S. C, 'ERS ARE SAYING ia, farmers, who have been doing the increasing now do the cutting?South Carolina is not guilty nad won't pull somebody else's chestnut out of the fire.?Florence Times. His Staff. If South Carolina goes to war Governor Manning will have SOME staff about him, eh ??Marion Star. New Farming Term. "Pigs and Peanuts" is a pretty good slogan for Dillon County to adopt this year.?Dillon Herald. A Man's Town. Life in Yorkvillc for husbands is just one delightful thing after anoth /~il -- ' [ it. v/iean-up weeK is now on and l I spring house-cleaning is coming.? I York News. Political. Evidently some of the governments now engaged in pommeling one another is the most improved style of the prize ring, are going to be sadder and wiser when "this cruel war is o'er."?Times & Democrat. That Old Bell. The old liberty bell is said to be too seriously cracked to be taken to the Sanfrancisco Exposition?and yet most people thought it was "half cracked" before.?Daily Record. Well Ilardly. It is interesting to note that none 01 the big battles of the present conflict seems available for cigar baml designs.?Evening; Post. A Fool and His Money. "Money is a man's best friend," said a man of experience. "Yes," said another man of experience, "but a man's wife is liable to go into his pocket and separate him from his best friend.? By Nose Rule. The Turks appear to be leading the race by a nose.?Evening Post. Never Such. Man who wants a genius for a bride should remember that aphroditic bromide reading, "Love such as ours was never known."?The State. Going After It. Get your money ready for us; we are coming after it.?Hampton Guardian. I New Weather. The weather man is a sly old devil! ?Times & Democrat. ICE hats for the money we have AND MONEY SCARCE * ;t the same. Dress Goods Styles. New Shapes. Com- ! SPARKS 1 ' ^ TODDVILLE and up-to-date than ever to % section. We still try to serve omers, and offer them goods d to stand, and prices that times brought on by the EuOF ANYTHING on elsewhere, come on to what we can do. JURY & CO. \ s. c. SmBa JOHNSONS and Tablets 26c TONIC I 4 ? - - ?** *'* STATE ITEljlS OF INTEREST TO ALL *OUTH CAROLINA PEOPLES. ? Chester has decided to extend the paving on some of her streets. A. B. Hood, sheriff! of Fairfield county attended the Wiliard-Jackson fight at Havana, Cuba. John T. Thomas has been named by Governor Manning as rural policeman for Oconee county. mt i - ? ? ^ ?" i ne oiirn or Aine usoourne, Blacksburg, with all its contents, were destroyed by iiro recently. An Orangeburg bank has been awarded a loan of $60,000 to Orangeburg county at 2.74 per cent. Charleston Equal Suffrage club held an enthusiastic meeting and elected officers for the coming year. Miss Susan P. Frost is president. Petitions for compulsory education under the new law are being circulated in Hopewell No. 3, Buffalo No. 6, Sunnyside No. 25 and Butler No. 4 in Cherokee county. The Citizens' National bank of Union was the successful bidder for the $25,000 bond issue voted by the city of Union for the improving and extending of the waterworks and electric light system. A delegation of Greenville citizens who went to Washington for a conference on highways returned and reported that the federal department of agriculture recommends sand-clav roads for Greenville county. Three South Carolinians, Miss Sophia E. Thomas of Newry and Leo Hamilton and II. M. Chapman of Chappells, receive a bronze medal and $1,000 each under the latest annual award of the Carnegie hero fund commission, Pittsburgh. L. O. Watson, the head of the plant disease department of the United States department of agriculture for work in this state, is to move the headquarters of this work to Florence on account of the convenience of the location and greater ease of handling the business there than elsewhere in the state. The incorporators of the new At1o"/ie Coast Distributors, a company which is just now opening an office in Charleston, feel that they are going to supply the answer to a want long, felt locally when they open a spot cash f. o. b. home market to the farmer of Charleston county and adjacent sections. With two raiding squads ided by the detective force, operating, and slot machines valued at $7,GOO reduced to punk in the stable yard of the police station, besides many gallons of booze stored in the station house ready to ho turned over to the county dispensary, the opinion is generally prevalent that Charleston will be "dry as a hone" hefore many days have passed. W. W. Dong, state agent in charge of extension work for the federal department of agrculture in co-ooeration with Clemson College, told about the success of his plan of collecting eggs, to be shipped to Northern marVets, along the cream routes established for the purpose of furnishing to farmers in the neighborhod of Clemson College an advantageous market for their cream. Numbers of South Carolinians, most of them teachers, are planning to attend the meeting in Chattanooga, April 27 to 20 inclusive, of the Southern Conference for Education and Industry, which has been created through the consolidation of the Conference for Education in the South with the Southern Educational Association. S. C. Mitchell, president of Deleware College, but formerly president of the University of South Carolina, is one of the vice presidents. A Sluggish Liver Needs Attention Let your Liver get torpid and you are in for a spell of misery. Everybody gets an attack : now and then. Thousands of people keep their livers active and healthy by using Dr. King's New Life Pills. Fine for the Stomach, too. Stop the Dizziness, Constipation, Biliousness and Indigestion. Clear the blood. Only 25c, at your Druggist. o Whooping Cough. Well?evervone knows the .effect of Pine Forests on Coughs. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is a remedy which brings quick relief for Whooping Cough, loosens the mucous, soothes the lining of the throat and lungs, and makes the coughing spells less severe. A family with growing children should not be without it. Keep it handy for all Coughs and Colds. 25c at your Druggists. Electric Hitters a Spring Tonic. COLDS & LaGRIPPE R of 0 do3es 606 will break .my case of Chills & Fever, Colds & La Grippe? it acts on the liver better than Calomel and_docs no? ?ripc or eickcn. Price 23c. CONSUMPTION CURES J PROVE OUT FAKIjft 1 Found and Reported to be Nos^ trums and Entirely Worth- il less by Scientist ( 1 WORK FDR GOVERNMENT I Pound to Contain in Some In- jl stances Habit Forming Drugs *9 Such as Morphine M Washintr ton . I). Anvil idtli.? 9 After investigating under the Food 11 and Drugs Act a large number of Jl preparations advirliso.l as cor.sump- II tion cuits, the Department of Agri- M culture has not bee n able to discover ''I and that can in any sense be regard- tl ed as "cures" for tuberculosis. Sonu? I contain drugs that may at times af\B ford some temporary relief from theifl distressing symptoms of the disease, ^| but this is all. Since the passage of federal legislation prohibiting the B shipment in interstate -commerce of fl medicinal preparations for which^H false and fraudulent claims are made^H there has been a marked tendency to^^| label these prescriptions "remedies" IB instead of "cures" or "infallible fl cures" as thgy used to be culled. In JM cases, however, they cannot even bell regarded as remedies. |l A "cherry balsam" for example, forJB the "cure" of "cor.sumption" and hervvvl morrhage of the lungs."' w'r.ich il w: I represented would "strike at the very I root of tin disease-" was found on an- B alysis to be nothing but a solution in B Water and alcohol of opium, sugar, | benzaldehyde, inorganic salts and col- wH oring matter. It contained no cherry il bark extract or balsam. J^B A more elaborate "cure" consistolftfl of five preparations which the cre'du-.B lous patient was to take separately. I These were first, the medicine proper, B the essential ingredients of which I were found to be morphine, cinnamicLI acid and arsenic?not a very safe mi$W#^l ture to take habitually; second a tonr VI which was supposed t ) contain iroj II but did net. third, a ccugh mixturj il made un of alcohol, IW codeine which is a derivative of opiu>\i V or morphine; fourth a mixture whic contained some qGinine, and a SOlutlV^JH on of water and alcohol; and fifth co-/'? dine tablirs. Even the strongest^con-\ TA stitution could hardly stand a pro- \J? longed course of such a treatment. v? < H In the marketing of such prcpara tions considerable ingenuity is fre-' I quently shown. One of the main ob-y^B jects to persuade the patient that h*?J^H I is receiving, at a comparatively lo>. price, the individual ntt'ntion of a trained Specialist. For this purpose , I symtom blanks are employed. These"? contain i number of questions aboutj I the patients symptoms, the numbcrVfl varing from a dozen or so to as many ' j| as 70 or 80. The patient is led to be- ^ | b'eve that the information which ho ? I f :~i I lunusme* in reply to these questions, fl will be carefully considered before any, 9 medicine is prescribed for him, thought 9 every Pi yslcian knows that an acu-l I rate diagnosis cannot possibly bf^s9 made ir this way. As a matter onJ fl fact note is attempted and the del vjl groe of attention which these individy Ual reports receive can be measured by the fact that cases have come und4 9 er the observation of the department* fl in which mail order concerns doing ft businei4> of this kind have received* fl as maqy as 4,000 lettt.crs a day. ^ . fl Aftcj the patient has submitted hit 9 "diagnosis report" he is urged to pur* 9 Chase c supply of the medicine. It 9 he doej so, ho is then urged to pur# 9 chase inore. If he states that he hai*9 experienced beneficial effects he IftJW told thit he has not taken oniugraj 9 and this process is likely to continue 9 until flic limits of his credulity hav8 9 been leached. If, on the other hand/ 9 he decides at the beginning not to pu| 9 chase :ho medicine it is likely to be of! 9 fered to him at aiioooaalwVlw Tk .*- * < vi,y iwHtr pri J Jjjj cos ui til lie is hi last induced to beii*> jm eve ttat he cannot afford to ignorl la such \ bargain. This is carried I such tin extent that a "treatment'' I the original price of which is $25, ma; I be ofered at the end of six monthi. m for $2.50. * 1 As u matter of fact the successful treatment of tubercolosis require! M mtlCl more than the mere giving cu medfcine and, moreover, what wif help one case will not necessarily hel* I anotner. Claims that are absolutely I unwarranted are no longer permitted I on ho labels pf medicines shipped if- I interstate commerce, hut the wordint 9 mat be such as to convey a mis'^a^ Q mg lmprvHHion without the use of abf jj solite statements. Thus these prcff V arations continu to find a sale deNa fl pit* the fact that a little trouble <ji the part of the prospective purchadjs wil reveal their worthlessness.? U To Cure a Cold in One Day I I Tale LAXATIVE UKOMD Qu'nlne. It stops t\ CmKh cr?d Headache and works off the Co^r S Dmfrirr.ts refund money if it fails to cuij ' Ej"1' OWOVIVS signature on ach box. 2lip- S