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NEW HIGH SCHOOL ! I ' SUBSIDY LAW. W i ' gjj . I FULL TEXT OF THE ACT GIVING FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO HELP HIGH SCHOOLS. The most important act pass ed at the late session ot the General Assembly in reference to schools was the one appro | priating fifteen thousand dollars for a system of high schools. This was introduced in the senate by Senator T M Ravsor Iot Orangeburg, for years a member of the State board 01 education and in his legislative career the champion of compulsory education and other movements. This act is intended to provide a system of schools that will help poor boys to prepare for college. An act to provide high schools for the state. "Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of South Carolina: "Section 1. That it shall be j lawful for any county, or for any township, or any aggregation of adjoining townships, or for any aggregation of adjoining 6. hool districts, or any incorp rated town or city within the State, of not more than 1 1,000 inhabitants to establish a high school in the manner and with the privileges herein given, t "Sec. 2. That any high school territorial unit mentioned in section 1 of this act may establish a high school by an election to be held in said proposed high school district upon the question of establishing the same; said election to be conducted in all other respects, including the requirements of those who are allowed to vote therein, as elections are now conducted under section 1208 of the civil code of 1902, in reference to special levies for school purposes.. If a majority of the votes cast shall be 'for high school,'and not'against high,' ' the high school shall be established. and become a body cor Iporate under the name and style of high school district No. blank Of blank county (the State board $0 insert the number in order of its establishment in the particular county, and also the name of the proper county), whereupon the county board of education shall appoint for said high school a board of trustees composed of fire regular members: Provided, That the five trustees for said high school shall be appointed for six years, one of Kfewhom shall serve for only two f "years, two for only four years, and two for six years, lhe tenure of each to be determined by lot; ? ?I a I rnu ~ 4 *V. ~ rTOViaea, iuruicr, uiai uic chairman of each school district board within the high school territory be ex officio a member of the high school board: Provided, further. That the trustees F of any special district in any incorporated town or city operating under a special act of the general assembly, shall be exofiicio trustees of the high school in that town or city, every vacancy by expiration of tenure & to be filled for six years and all unexpired terms to be filled by appointment of said county board, except in special districts owerwise pruviucu. t? "Sec. 3. That the board of trustees of everv high school so established is hereby authorized to levy annually for the support of such high school, not exceed ing two mills on the dollar in j? , addition to the levy now allow% ed by law, of all taxable propery within such high school district, | the tax to be collected in the same manner as special levies H are now collected under section v 1208 of said code: Provided, That the right to make it a levy merely for conducting the high school tor the then next cnrrent I* scholastic year as now defined \ in section 1232 of said code may H . b* voted down for that year in the same manner as now provid-1 ed for in said section 1208 with reference to voting upon special levies for school district purposes. "Sec. 4. That any public high school already established, or any number of high school 1 ? rj 1 rOQ H XT gracies inapuouvo*-wwia.i.^?v., established?provided it shall be organized and adopted as a high school by special election as prescribed in section 2 of this act?in any high school territory above described may claim the privilege of this act: Provided, it conforms to the provisions thereof: Provided, further, That nothing in this act shall be construed as a repeal of anv of the privileges granted them in the special acts of the general assembly. "Sec. 5. That a high school maintaining a four years'course of study beyond the branches of learning prescribed to be taught in the common schools of the State, and embracing not fewer than seven grades or school years, shall be known as a fouryear high school; a high school maintaining a three years' course beyond the common school course, shall be known as a three-year high school; and one maintaining a two years' course beyond the common school course, shall be known as a twoyear high school; Provided, That any and all high schools so established shall include in the course of study instruction in manual training, especially in respect to agriculture and domestic science. "Sec. 6. That The State high school board shall provide for the inspection and classification of high schools under this act. In doing this, it may invite the assistance of such members r?+ faculties of the University of South Carolina, Clemson college, Winthrop college, and the South Carolina Mil'tary academy as they may select, and their actual expenses shall be paid out of the fund hereafter appropriated from year to year while actually engaged in the duties devolving upon them. "Sec. 7? That the State board of education as now constituted shall constitute the State high school board. The State high school board shall provide rules fnr th#? jirmortionment and dis *"" "r i bursement of the State aid to the high schools, giving due recognition to the number of years of high school work, to the number of courses of study offered, to the enrollment of pupils, and to such other matters of local merit as may appear to the board after a careful examination of each high school: Provided, That no school shall receive more than 50 per cent, of the amount raised annually by taxation, subscription or otherwise; Provided, further. That no school shall receive aid unless it has at least 25 pupils and two teachers in the high school department: Provided, also, That no school receive more than $1,200 annually from the appropriation provided in this act: Provided, further, That no county shall receive more than 5 * per cent, of the annual appropriation provided tor under this act. "Sec. 8. The funds raised in the various counties by taxation, subscription, or otherwise, for high school purposes shall be placed in the county treas ury, together with any appropriation received from the State board of education, and shall be paid out only upon the order ot the board of high school trustees, duly approved by the county superintendent of education. Both the treasurer and the county superintendent of education shall keep accurate accounts of this fund, as is provided for other public school funds. "Sec. 9. That each of the high school districts so established is hereby authorized to receive and use gifts, transfer, ?* ' bequests or devises of property for corporate purposes, whe ther they be otherwise conditional, or whether absolute in r.heir terms; and also to issue coupon bonds within the constitutional limit, and to dispose of the same to raise money for the purpose of purchasing sites and th*? #?rf?rtion of buildings there on, or for the purpose of purchasing improved property, suitable for school, or dormitory, or mess hall purposes: Provided, That the question of amount of issue, and the rate of interest, and the time or t ines of payment of the principal, shall first be submitted to the qualified electors within the said high school district whoreturn real or personal property for taxation, at an election to be held in the same manner as elections for special levies for school district purposes are now required to be submitted under section 1208 of said code: and Provided, further, That an annual interest on said issue shall not exceed 6 per cent., and :bat 4-Via cola cliall Tint- Kp fnr 1 PSK cu*_ oaiv ouu&t uv?. w than par and accrued interest. "Sec. 10. That the suui of $50,000, or so much thereol as may be necessary, for each of the school years, beginning July 1, 1907, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to carry out the provisions of this act, and the comptroller general is hereby authorized to draw warrants, upon the Slate treasurer for such amounts, upon the order of the State board of education, duly signed by the governor, as chairman, and the State superintendent of education, as secretary: Provided, That tuition shall be free in every school receiving aid under this act to all pupils in the county where the school is located: Provided, further, That nothing in this act shall be constructed to mean that pupils of different races shall attend the same school./ "Approved Feb. 19, 1907." The Alligator's Sleep. A man who passed himself off a? an animal keeper at a zoo had one spring an experience with an alligator which cost the concern dear. The alligator had not awakened ' from his winter nap when the keeper appeared on the scene at the park. He could not understand why the saurian slept and thought it whs siplr. Hp nunehed the alii gator and tried in many ways to wake it up. He also noticed that the creature did not eat. Finally, growing desperate for fear that he would have a death on his hands, the keeper bought ten pounds of beef, pried open the saurian's huge jaws and poked the meat down his throat with a fence rail. A few days later the thick skinned creature died. The keeper later explained thaLhe did not know that alligators slept in the winter and did not eat anything during their long naps. Vary Mueh Haaviar. Chureh?At a recent church fair in England one of the means used for increasing the receipts was a guessing contest as to the weight of the pastor. Gotham?Before or after? Church?Before or after what ? Gotham?Before or after preaching. Church?What difference would that make ? Gotham?A good deal. Some pastors are much heavier when preaching.?Yonkers Statesman. Baeomaa a Littla Rabat. That there is a startling difference between the temper of the riling generation and that of the youth whose young ideas shot up according to the teachings of Mrs. Hannah More and Sanford and Merton has recently been proved by a little seven-year-old girl, who was laboriously spelling her way through a reading lesson. "Always 6peak the truth,'V she 6aid, "and obey your parents. "lie gentle and quiet. JNe?-er 6lam the door and Bhout and scream a-bout the house. "At the ta-ble eat 6lowly, not in a greed-y man-ner, like a pig/' Suddenly the little girl shut the book with a portentous bang and announced with firmness and decision : "Fm not going to let any old Third Reader boss me like that 1"? Rochester Herald. * ( i \ * * <?.' * ">, 'V "?/*?*<*';/ " - .ji; 5 7?! * IMPROVING THE ATTIC. SuggMtionii That Will Halp In Making It Habitabla. In addition to those familiar uses of attics which iro so vivid when it rains or when one is cynical or moody or incline i to be witty at the expense of bedposts and warming pans, there are improved uses an attic can be put to and still remain an attic. The feeling of attics?that sense they give of a friendly alienation from the world below 6tairs? must not, of course, be lost. If one desires no more than a place in which to tell fairy tales at twilight t,fte lighting 01 a canuie migm be change enough in the usual unplastered and left over space. But that is too simple. Besides, the taste for fairy tales is not universal, and it is, moreover, a taste more natural in the nursery than in the attic. But a habitable attic must be anything but dingy. A glass trapdoor, such as one too often sees, is not enough. There should be a great dormer window, built low enough for window seats, and ample seats at that, large enough to lounge in. There should be wide sills, too, for flowers, for an attic without flowers would be unimaginable. As for the body of the room the chief thing to do where there are gables would be to insert a wainscot ail around of, say, five or six feet in height. Along this could be put shelves for books or odds and ends of whatever kind. A carpet would be improper, for it is traditional that an attic is bare. Inexpensive rugs and skins suggest themselves mechanically, like easy chairs, a work table and a lounge. The fancy includes a piano, pictures, glorious andirons, vonces, while the imagination leaps to armor and cabinets. Yet in a proper attic the furniture should be a little commonplace with a discarded look, if you will, to be in keeping. Things half broken down are fit for a quaint utility there, and as clothes once decent on Sunday come to be so only on Saturday and then on Friday, and so on, so odds and ends as they grow familiar and worn in other parts of the house have a last use?as old companions in an attic, ?Wallace Stevens in Indoors and Out. Diplomatic. "Mr. Gidsraorc," l>egan the young man, "when you proposed to youi wife, or to the estimable lady who is now Mrs. Gidsmore, did she tell x _ _ _1_ 1 J.ll fJW you to asx xier iatuer r "She did, my boy," affably replied Mr. Gidsm^re. "And did you .try to shirk the job?* "Well, come to think of it, I did, I?I believe I tried to get her to dc the asking, 'pon my soul. Ha, ha!'1 "And whan you did ask him?ol course you had to speak to him /? 1KJ) anauy ? "Of course I did. Of course/' "And when you did ask him did your knees shake, and was youi tongue dry, and did you have stage bright generally ?" "I was scared to death." "Well, that's the way I feel. I told Gladys I knew I could find some mutual bond of sympathy between us when I came to tell you that she has promised to marry me."?Life. Took Him Down a Pog. The young doctor to whom the iEsculapian oath was Greek looked cbntemptuously at the old woman who had come to the uptown hospital where he was an interne to inquire about her son. "He has cerebro neurosis, I told you once," he said. "Oh, dear," said the woman, for she was not as ornately educated as the young physician, "is it as bad as that ? New?what do you call it ?" "Neurosis,"' said the surgeon. "Don't I talk plain, enough for you?" "Is it anything like nervous prostration ?" inquired the woman. "You will pardon me, sir. My education was along literary rather than scientific lines." 'That's wTiat some call it," said th 3 young physician as he got ready l ? -L- ? nwknl Onna ef kU 11UI&C a ruu 1U1 luc aiuumauuv n> th*j door.?New York Telegram. F*?ling Ov*rcrewd*d. It was doubtless Mrs. Howe's "sympathetic nature/' to which she constantly referred, that made her carry so many burdens which did not belong to her. Her sufferings were many, but the statement of them often roused her family to mirth. "How's your head this morning, my dear?" inquired Mr. Howe one morning in a properly solicitous tone. ' "It's no better," came in a hollow voice from behind the teapot. "It won't be any better while I can't get Cousin John's lungs and Mary's china and mother's eyes and Harriet's wisdom teeth out of it for one minute." T . \ T- lr.*'. T^ High Priced BumbUbm. Many years ago the farmers of Australia imported bumblebees from England and set them free in their clover fields. Before the arrival of the bees clover did not flourish in Australia, but after their coming the farmers had no.more difficulty on that score. Mr. Darwin had shown that bumblebees were the only insects fond of clover nectar which possessed a proboscis sufficiently long to reach the bottom of the long, tubelike flowers and at the same time a body heavy enough ? ? "l l it. -1 1 J to Dena aown me ciover ueau bo that the polleif would fall on the insect's back and thus be carried off to fertilize other flowers of the same species. The bumblebees sent ! to Australia cost the farmers there ! about half a dollar apiece, but they i proved to be worth the price. The Very Earliest CoirXo one knows exactly when or, where the original coin was "struck" cr what metai was used. Certain passages in Homer would lead to the inference that brass was coined as early as the year 1184 B. C. Tradition affirms that the Chinese had bronze coins as early as the year 1120 B. C., but Herodotus, the acknowledged "father of history," is of the opinion that the Lydians "invented" coins some time during the ninth century B. C. One of the oldest coins now known is a gold daric, coined by the Persians during the reign of Darius. On one side of this coin is a bust of Darius and on the other side a ^ figure or a kneeling arcner. Mugwump. "Mugwump" was an old Algonquin word for a chief, which waa used In a seventeenth century Indian Bible to translate "centurion," '"captain" or "duke" in the English i version. It was borrowed by the , New Englanders as a nickname for i most superior persons, very like the English "great panjandrum," and i first applied in its special political i sense to Republicans who desert. 1 i their party on grounds of principle i at tilt presidential election of 1884. i Gum 8Koa Work. "James!" she said severely. [ The butler looked up- with a guilty flush. "James," she asked, "how is it that whenever I come into the pan; try I find your work at sixes and sevens and you sprawled out reading ? the news?" I "Well, ma'am," the butler answered, "I should say it was on ac- j count of them old rubber soled tennis shoes you're always weana* i nl>out the house." Talking to tho Wrong Mam | While Judge Dooly was holding ? court in Washington county, Ga., a ( certain General Hanson who was1 . famed as a blowhard came in and sat down at the side of the judge and began to tell him about the vast amounts of property he owned. "Stop just a moment, general/' ( said Judge Dooly. "Mr. Sheriff, call in Jones, the receiver of tax returns." In a few momenta that worthy appeared. "Mr. Receiver," said the judge, t "come up here and make an inven, tory of General Hanson's property. He has mistaken me for you." A Million Botwoon Thom. "Yes," said Lassitudinous Luke ' as he traded his battered tomato can for a nice fresh one from the dump, "dey wuz once when me an' a New York copper had a million dollars between us." ?nrv.iy> ?11-J T? "" wnai: jreiicu x iimvio. 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