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STRONG APPEAL FOR TIE RURAL SCHOOLS More Money and Longer Terms the Urgent Need HOW CAM IT BE DOME? Superintendent IMtts I'ohits the Wjij, '."m'mjt Some Concrete Examples Worth} of Kmuhitlun. Superintendent Geo. L. Pitts is vi tally concerned about the condition ol tlio schools i:< Laurens county. Since going Into office ho has care fully studied every phase of the sub ject and se-'s the weak points and places; his desire is to build up the rural schools, to aid them in bene fitting themselves. Since the voting out of the dispensary, scan of the schools hav ? not been doing what they should to supplement the loss entailed thereby. The following from Mr. Hit:.; i< u very clear prescn. tation of the situation and an earnest idea for tie's i schools: .lust at this time there is a great deal being said about schools and teachers. The school:-, !a the coun try are closing. The work of the present teacher Is being discussed. The employment of a teacher for next year is now in order. Some of our trustees have already employed and contracted with their teachers for next year. All this is well. There is no subject mure worthy of our thoughtful consideration. The fu ture ol our boys and girls, as well as that 01' our country, depend largely upon the amount of thought, energy and means we put Into our schools. In most of the districts we have good school rooms, patent desks, maps, globes, <-t<'. In mos? cases we have ^imi teachers. What, then, is the greatest need of our schools? "Where are we most deficient? My answer to that question is: A longer school term. Ono school in Laurens county was ir: session only sixty days, tili? yeni4. Two were in session only eighty day.-. Some one hundred, and many tine huiidred and twenty, or Course, the majority of the schools are running seven <:.- eight months. The school term this year i- not any snorter than in previous years: in fact, the county, its a whole, will have a longer siehool term this year tuitn usual. O.ir boys and girls In the country must 1 avo a school term of not less than olghl months, Some argue that we haven't got the money. That is just tt!" point that I Wish tb make. The three mill tax, the poll and dbg tax is not suIIW lent tb run our school--*. Now this question confronts us: How are we to raise the money? That problem is easy to solve. There i-; only one solution of it a special tax for school purposes. I think any gcnd-thlnklng business man will admit that there is nothing which helps to build UP U community more than a good school. The value of property In a school district depends largely upon the kin l of school yon have. Take tie- Green Pond dis trict. Not many years ago that was not a very desirable community. To day th?-y have the best country school house in the county. Their school stand.--, among the first. The people are prosperous and contented. Prop erty is high. Nobody cares to sell. They iio not have to move away to educate their children. I have In mind one other school district In this County that once stood first in wealth and refinement. They lei the school go down. Today there is only one white child of school age in all that district. Th?" beautiful old country homes are now occupied by negroes. Hood 'tops no longer grow upon those once fertile fields. The land OWnert have moved away to educate their children. The property M cheap. Who want.; to live where there is no school ? I am aware of the fad Hint most people quake find tremble with fear when yoil talk taxation to them. Hut. my friend, it is a business proposi tion. If you nave fio children to ed ucate sud own land hi the district, advocate a special school levy and you will greatly IncrCns^i the valiie of your property. Fchgriisshinn .1. T. Johnson saw this and ndvbeated a lax for school purposes Ott his ;> op r ty in this county, hit hough he never expects to live here. Dr. Dial, Dr. Christopher. Mr. .lohn Franks, and others who live in the city of Laurens aj*e gladly paying a special school tax on their property in the Trinity dis trict. These are all good business men *i:rl worthy of emulation. Twenty-four districts an* paying h special school tax. These districts all have good schools. They have enough money to pay a gOOtl teacher and tO run the school for eight or nine months. Th? Object Of this article i< an en deavor (o get those districts which are financially weak and not able to support a good school to vote a small t:'\ for school purposes it Is the only way school money can be raised, rind sdr.ee a good School It equally beneficial to every man in the district. I believe taxation Is the best and most just way to raise school finances. l do not mean to be personal, but my burning desire ;<> assist the boys IUI 1 girls of Laureus county compels me to bring this matter as clearly be fore the people as 1 call. 1 can best do this by naming one district an 1 ui\i;ig Its conditions. 1 will name Sullivuns No. ?". the lUibuti district. Now bear In mind that most of the school districts that are not paying a special school ta\ belong In the same column with Kabnn. Some of them a little better off financially, and a few In worse condition. Next year Itubun will have ;* little less than $200.00 for school purposes. After the negro teacher and current expenses are paid there will be about $150.00 left to pay the white teacher. This will mean about three months school. You will bear in mind that this is a Illicitly settled community. Nice homes. Tine hind. The people, as a whole, are what we term well-to-do farmers. With the dispensary money and a teacher With a salary of $35.00 or $40.00 a month, the school has been running about six mouths. I don't suppose the people of ltabiiu have paid in the last live years as much as $50.00 for the education of their children. I mean in the local school. The three mill, the poll, and the dog lax must be paid whether we have a school or not. something must he done. The idea of a people not paying one red cent toward the education of their children. 1 mention this simply to remind the people of their negligence. These facts are true in almost every district in the county where a special tax has not been voted. A petition is now being circulated in Kabun district asking for a special lax of four mills. The good people of Kabun will eagerly grasp this golden opportunity. A four mill tax will give the district uboul $2Q0.W). It will cos! the man who runs a three horse farm about the price of a good hat. I trust thai every trustee and pa iron will fully realize the great re. sponsibllity that rests upon them, and that they will at oitOe go t.> work to build up their school. If you need any assistance I tint at your command. 1 will go to your district, see each man personally niitl talk school ia\ atlon to him. I trust that I shall have such an Invitation real soon from every district thill is no) al ready paying a special school tax. liver) Old Thing Made New. An old chair with n small can of l.. ? M. Home Finish Varnish Stain. Any old furniture With a small can of L ?V M. Home Finish Varnish, A kitchen lloor. porch lloor, with ti small can of the L. ?V: .M. Home Fin ish Floor Paint, Old kitchen chairs, benches, any Old small things with a pound or two of the I.. & M. Home Finish Domestic Paint. A carriage, a buggy, with about a dollar's worth of 1.. & M. Home Fiiiish Carriage Varnish Paint. Porch furniture, lawn swings, Iron railings, w|th a small can of 1.. ?v M. Home Finish I'httunel Pnliil in all colors, Ah old leaky roof made light, with ii can of Eclipse Roof and Bridge Paint. All old tilings made new with these little cans of D. & M. Home Finish Paints. Co; i Is trilling. Be sure lo gel them from .1. 11. M. 1.. Xas'.i. Laurens. Unknown Toiurues. in view of the fact Hint the "(!lfl of Tongues" rnOVehi 'in has sin li strong backing in this section as thai of the Rev. .i. M. Pike, editor of The Way of KVlIth. u religious weekly of large circulation published in Columbia, liiere is considerable Interest for South Carolinians in the study of this peculiar manifestation which has been made from a psychological standpoint by Prof. Frederick <;. Heiicke, who, writing in The American Journal of Theology (Chicago) calls it '"a recru descence of culture," said the Ander son Mail. However, the phenomena agree, he says, both in their origin and in the experience themselves, with the do* SCI'Iptlon Rlvetl of similar i henoniena In the \ew Testament, suggestion it is asserted, plays an important part; "suggestibility Is greatly inert ased by the formation of a physlschological crowd, that is a group of persons who through reciprocal suggestion a".! Imitation one of another act i: a group mind had sitppluntcil the va> rlon' Individual hi in h-." ? ? ? forts on (lie parl of the xtibj i to ? \ c lud ? every possible extraneous hip pres.--.ion. For Ihe belief of those peoj le thai ?ti e sensory and motor automatisms which appear En connection with their revivals are the product of the Holy Ghost." (leitcke accounts for by trac ing to its origin tin* belief hi spirit possession. Precisely HtCse beliefs were held by ?.'.!?? Hebrews* says the writer. Aft?;- investigating several hundred caaos, Dr. Hencke says: "I heard no one speUk in any of the six languages with which I am acquainted, ia Its simplest for hi. it has been a mere babbling or screeching; and where i: was more developed there \ m a constant tendency toward a : WATERLOO SCHOOL j r I < ? ?. t i ? f. I 4 t J ? ? ?! ? % . .... . ? I ? ? . Our school io making progress -.low ly but surely. Wo have built a largo and well arranged school house, fur nished With patented desks through out the building a very great effort is being n ade to get a high school a; our place an l wo feel hopeful about the matter. We have elected Prof. Ii. H. B. Keeney and wife of Gordon, O.a., as teachers. Thby come highly recommended ami wo feel sure of a goo 1 year's work next session. Tin re tire about eighty pupils in our school now : ml we expect in crease another year. We feel the need of a better school very keenly and eohsenuently lire going to work very hard in the future to Improve ouis in every way. We do not feel like boasting too much about our school just yet; wall twelve months hence and God willing, we believe with all our heart that Waterloo will have a school second to none in Lau rens county according to her possi bilities. Resp.. W, C. Wharton, Chairman Board of Trustees Waterloo School* Jiitie b '< .1. Temple Graves Lands Neirro. New York. May :'.'?.?John Temple Graves, formerly of Georgia politics ami .journalism, and now a New York newspaper editor, praised the negro today in an address at Carnegie Hall at an educational rally for the benefit of Morris Drown college, a negro In stitution of Atlanta. Mr. Craves thinks the negroes an? showing more Wisdom in their efforts to solve their race problems than are woman suf fragettes in their campaign for a legally recognized right to vote, He also commended the attitude of the negro railroad Ilrenten in the Georgia railroad strike just settled, lb" said: ' I ii . in ii of remarkable er.'.Iii to the black race and a tribute to' the work being done, both by whites and i bl tie kit, toWnt'ds Uplifting tin1 ilegro; thai the hegroes have resorted :.? m> violence in connection with tie- recent strike in Georgia. L is an evidence that the hegi'6 is struggling patiently, and 1 say (hoy are act lug n.ore Wisely in iiielr c.Torts to uplift the negro race than are white women in their crusade for suffrage, because the women hhvo resorted to force. The nearr.es St it ml a good show to win ami are winning, whereas, if Ihoy aiio'pted the f:v,"ti > being pursued b> Women suff raget (es, prompt and igno minious failure Would ring down the curtain on hop d'Ul efforts.-' An ?:? his words of praise for the blacks. Mr. Craves hastened to reit-, ernte his antipathy toward anything like rai ml eoaality. Ga-Flj keeps Hi. > off llorr.es am! Caul.-. and .'?'c. At a.ll drug stores. i i-i m. If Neu \re 'A ..rlli .C.u.iiin I)..n't 'dead This. This will not Interest you if you are worth fifty thousand dollars, bin if yon are a man of moderate means and cannot afford to employ a physi cian when you have an attack of dihr rho. a. .' on will be pleased to know that one or two doses of Chamber lain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy will cur." it. This remedy has be.-ii in use for many years and is thoroughly reliable. Price 2.1 ct>. For Mi'..- by Lauren.. Drug Co. Mind-Loneliness. To me it is always a very sad ac knowledgement when a young woman Sliys she is lonely and has to be amused. That she possesses no re sources within herself is surely a humiliating confession. To the active mind loneliness is Impossible- -one's own brain ought to furnish the very best company in the World. An hour each day with some good book is a splendid mental ionic. The more you read and cultivate your brain by dwelling in the companionship of urea! authors, the less dependent yon will be on the society of others. AS a great writer once raid. "When you grow so Interesting that you llko to be b>' yOUrSHf y?U Will be SO interest lug that everybody will want you to hi' with th Now Haven Register. Cllilinbt'l'Iitiu's t Witfll . IJeiue.i, - lies! en the Market. "I have u.-e.i Chamberlain's Coiu?h lb mcdy nnd find 'u to be ihe be t ? . i . i i To in in .Ci Wise Selection, Little Tommy Wluiek i was taken by his mother to choose a pair of knickerbockers, ami his choice fell or. a pair to Which a card w :n attached. stating: ''Those can't be beaten." cm rent Literature. Saro Nipple*, Any mother who has had ejipe.t en.e with this distressing ailment will be pleased to know that a cure may bo effected bj applying Chamber ? toft cloth IWbrc allowing the babe t - ? 'his stiilve with best results, For sale SUMMER TERM OF CRIMINAL COURT l?eiiernl Sessions Compile* on Third Hominy, Jnnr 31, >\ Ith Judge Dcvorc on Die Bench, Tlie summer term of the general sessions court for I.aureus county will be convened on the third Monday ?.lime The session will he pre sided over by Judge J. w. Devore of Edielleld. this being his first append anee here since his election to a Judgeship lust year. The criminal docket for the ftp proaehlng term Is not henv> an.', the business of the session tan bo dis pose l of within the w ?ok, ; erhnps. The jurors have beeti draw it and are as follows: Lanreiis township .\. lt. Hi lmes. .1. I.. Neighbors; .lohn D. Mills. Scufltetown?A. !*.. Cleveland, I'.ln ford W. Dlnkely, l\ 0. .Martin, c. a. Puiiy. .lack- -It McCrar.Vi i:. w. Bonds. .:. u. Hunter \>. L Boozer. J. F. Work man, a. P. Voting, a. !'. Fuller. i>. T. Copeiohdi .1. li. jit, Vor.:;.-.. UoSS D. Young. Cl'oS liiil J. It. Wilcut, D. 11. Aus tin. M. A. Letthuin. Waterloo--J. m. Fierce. !!. F. Terry. ?. a. Mi Plierson, .1. m. Jones. Sullivan W. m. Stone. It. It Chap man. W?rren 0. Bai lent In \ w. w. Wasson, J. m. Childress. Dial.- !.. S. BOlt. W. 1.. StlttCl'llebl. 15. m. Wolff. Youngs w. ?;. Henderson, a. c. Edwards, s. W. Cook, W. II. Drum nioiid. It Is itol best ulways to stay at home: at: occasional change is good for everybody. EVon Ihe kitchen fire vi.es out occasionally. it i.- ton hue to regret not being insured. The time to think about insurance is before the Rl'0. That time is right now. Bo pru dent anil HAVK US INSL'PvE V >!' TO DAY, insurance Is foresight, und a little foresight is better than any amount of hindsight. Send us word and we will call and fix things up so lire will ti?? t he a nightmare to Vou. Ie.h.wilkes&sonS STOCKS. BONDS 4- Luw Rung** Laurens, S. C. Ni w is v. ur chance to get at greatly reduced priced, all clean, good stock. Fountain Syringes, Hot Water bags. These are sick room necessities and each household should have one. Now is your chance to get a good one cheap. See our line oi Brush es, Combs fin J Toilet Article.-. Dr. Posey's the Old Reliable. B Glowing Spririg? Mineral Water DIL CLIFTON JON KS Dcntisl Office in Simmcnt Building* Are You Huntino* Bargains We have two Specials 50c Note Paper for 25c AND 25c Tooth Brush for i5c We have just limited quanity of each. Kindly look at goods we are offering*. Agent for Dr. Andes, remedies. Palmetto Drug > I Why Pay Rent! I Buy a Lot and Build Young Man:-?What ;i little alonu this litie? ^ in a lew years your hunch < I rent ^ I hey cash, would bus :i lot ami i nice subs %l It's hurt) to pay rent ami save enot: < \ ^> .i house. Now isn't It? I Now Listen! I At i> your own selection pay .1 nine uo\ life, <itili paying rent?Pay a little in then - m I ^ IMI Laurens Trust /V-?*' "*??' ~??- ^ '^ ^ "i? ^ ^ ^ '2? 2^ -^.>\ $ Hot Weather Corn- t I fort In Electricity \f/ Use lin he! v. >u th<-Of tile ni:\ he Ik ?tue? Think of i Fan both ceiling run! desk* fit you! ii with one, Smoothiny; li'Ons for doing ^ehe! not <>ii!v llid light Work, but the heaVy ms wi Stoves, heat up the dinnei foi sitppei oi f yjy iiig if yon lika, jtist the thiiig you have been ?ki : 5 n u All ot tlu-se cost so little I yjy from tlx in. Special run oil I.:1:11p-, I5cts, 8-16 c]>, !: All kinds of fixture hiul lamps fol ><>::: c< st Is not great?investigate. \)/ not electricity i:i votir home, let tis put v,/ v:> W. Phone No. 240, J. H. Boyd & Co vt/ VI/ V*/ w s?> St/ ,'\ ???,, - V -V .V /?v /?". y ? s*. .?'. **? *r. ? S? ML! Land and Water! $8 000.00 2 Storerooms just 100 feet 01 st d? o rk/\ Court House. Opportunity $0,000.IJU don't last always, today, AOA (\fi morrow it may be ?10,000.00, j 4>0,HJl/^.UU an(i street cars $8,000.00 l-vt. f w !-, divi X^^^^ ^ ^ donds. Jeans won t fool y t: $8,000.00. ,. $8,000.00 1 $8,000.00 p-s- Jeans