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MOT PRQPFRLY APPRECIATE!).
raOPLfr'. \Hb: INDIFFKHKNT WITH
1lH.\HO TO IIIOII SCHOOLS.
Tbey Mti Putting Neither their Chil?
dren inir their Money Into tin*
fk-hoots F^taMbihed by the State?
KlrortN to Kvade Requirements of
Um? HOrh iecbool Law.
Columbia. December 11.?Despite
the money and efforts expended In the
?ndoavor to build up a State high
school system during the last two
years. Prof. W. H. Hand, high school
Inspector, declares In his report that
the people arc not supporting the high
schools. "They are putting neither
their money nor their children into
them." hs asserts. In proof of this as
ass He a he cites these facts and argues:
l*rom eighty nine high schools have
gone, this session, to other schools 312
pupils, who lees one year or more of
getting through the high achool at
home. Thea? 111 pupils, at $250
each, (a minimum sllowance for a
year's expeosea away from home at
achool). will cost $71.000 this year.
Many of th pupils have gone from
schools partly supported by the State
board. In some Instances the sending
away of these pupils has ao reduced
the attendance at the home school
that It is having difficulty in meeting
th? requirements as to attendance.
"Such places must lesrn first to help
themselves," declsres Mr. Hand.
Ms continues, in his report to the
State, high school board, as follows:
"It U unnecessary for me to remind
this board of the many dlfflcutles It
haa met In making merited and equit?
able appropriations from the State aid
fund. Tho majority of the school
boards have made nothing but rea
sjonsble requests, stated definitely what
they had to offer, made good every
promise, used every dollar Just as It
was latsndtd. ts be used, and In In?
spection measured up to every re
erelremeat. But there are others. It
has been exceedingly difficult to pre?
vent many schools from taking the
State aid lato the common school and
giving absolutely ao Increased effi?
ciency In the high school. It haa oc?
curred a number of times that a local
hoard having already employed one
high school teacher at $?0o to $1.000,
would ask and accept $500 from this
board, then insist on putting an assis?
tant at $I?o. leaving $140 to be used
ta ths c >inmon fnnd of the school?In
?dear violation of the law and the
ifjsjaUititHU on which the appropriation
eras made Tim- ind again has your
beard been assured in July or Augu st
that a eertaln high school would have
mere than* Cht required If pupils, two
blgh school teachers, and at least tvo
common school teachers?all required
by the law; tnen with the law and the
regulation* before the local board, and
knowing that the requirements had
not r*en met % month after the open?
ing of Iba safceet, Iba board has not
whh it i#rn iu application, but Insisted
on gsttins; the appropriation. Several
times appropriations have been re?
quested on the promise that the law
sind the regulations would be met a
year hence. It would seem that many
people lenk upon the school law as
an Instrument ts be obeyed only
when it is entirely convenient."
This Is pretty plain talk, but plain
talk abounds all through Mr. Hand'*
eery readable report.
"N'tfXt to the Inefficiency of the
teaching force," saya Prof. Hand, "the
snost serious Imperfection of the high
school u the course of study ' It 1*
defective, he auys, in aeveral particu?
lars which Mr. Hand cltea. aa fol?
lows:
' "'if course for all pupils, Instead
e>f at least two parallel elective
courses; entirely too many subject
cowded Into this single course, bring?
ing together all manner of unrelated
and incongruous subjects; and three
years' work spread out over a four
ycar schedule. To do effective wora
a high school student ought not to
carry more than flve subjects at once
- never gsgfa than six. More than
? half our high schools give seven
and eight stud lea at a time to at least
a pint of their course; hence the
teachers und (he pupils dissipate their
tlm? and effort* and get poor results.
J'ully one-half the subjects are not
given time enough to be of any real
Value. To Illustrate. thlrty-threo
acheoU taugat physics only three
gsv" the subject the allotted time to
snake one unit of credit; sixty-nine
? n;>t auasCJfteai history, one <<f the
n i mport\t t high school ?ubjecte?
six I? on? unit; seventy-six taught
?>'.. - th] aigsl m.ide a full unit
\*hwii I < ? It?le benefit does a teacher
eejgssB] a class to get from studying
Tart's Physical QsjOgraphs with two
SO- minute recitations a week for a
v ir* Or, wh.it advantage Is there in
putting seven or eight gflbjoetl In a
grade and running T.ur tnrough |W?
??fit t ? \ . ;*! ^ '
Perhaps there Is no better t? -et of a
teacher's competence than his course
of study. It lit an epitome of his con?
ception of education so far us Is cov?
ered by his course. In It he shows 1
what he think*) a pupil ought to study, '
how much and how far the pupil
aught to study oach subject, how thor
ter each, and how much each teacher
is able to accomplish. Almost with?
out exception in any particular school
in this State the person responsible for
?he high school course is responsible
for the elementary course leading to
it. What are we to suppose a teach?
er's educational creed to be when he
has his eighth grade and his tenth
grade studying the same history and
reciting 75 pages apart? Or. when
he regularly follows Bain's Latin Book
by Collar & Danlell's? Or. when
Buehler's English Grammar is regu?
larly followed by Maxwell or some
other of the same grade. Or when
botany and physics alternate with
each other in the same grade with no
science in the previous year? Or, what
is the explanation of the eighth, ninth
and tenth grades studying the same
arithmetic at the same time and all
beginning at about the same place?
Something is radically wrong when It
becomes necessary for the tenth grade
to review common fractions in arith?
metic.
"When the Joint committee appoint?
ed by the State Teachers' Association
and the Association of Colleges made
Its recommendation to this board
something more than two years ago.
It recommended that a two-year high
school must make 8 units, a three
year high school 12 units and a
four-year high school 15 units,
and at the same time recom?
mended the content of these
units. These recommendations were
based upon the system in general use
through the East, North and North?
west. It must be borne In mind that
this system made no credit allowance
for English grammar or artlthmetic,
both of which are credited In Table 1
at the request of this board. A refer?
ence to Table 1 shows that there are
101 schools reported and divided as
follows: One school claiming a one
year course, 28 schools claiming a
three-year course, 62 schools claiming
a three-year course, and 10 schools
(Including Memmlnger) claiming a
four-year course. In 93 of these
schools English grammar was taught,
and In 97 arithmetic was taught. With
the additional credit of these two sub?
jects, let us see how the schools stand:
Of the 10 schools claiming a four-year
course 4 schools made the required 15
units; of the 62 claiming a three-year
course lit made the required 12 units;
of the 28 claiming a two-year course 8
made the required 8 units; leaving one
school with a one-year course. These
figures show that 76 per cent, of the
high schools of the State, are falling
below the standard set up by the
teachers ^f the State, ond below their
stalgMfc It la now portlnent to
a?k if this standard is impossible or
unreasonable. Is It?
"No high school In the State runs
leas than four and one-half years ac?
tual teaching time In the dally sessions
?exclusive of all recess time. In such
la school six 45-mtnute recitations can
be heard by each teacher every day?
It is done throughout the State. Un?
der such conditions, a high school with
a three-year course and two teachers
make 12 units of credit by economis?
ing time. These two teachers can
Jointly give 12 recitations each day,
four recitations to each of the three
classes. With 45-mlnute periods five
times a week for 36 weeks, any com?
petent teacher can do the work re?
quired to make any unit In the scheme
?If the pupils have been prepared to
do high school work when they were
put there. Some one at once protests
that Pain's Latin Book cannot be com?
pleted in one year. No, not with 30
mlnute recitations, and six other sub?
jects for study. The author, with
thirteen years' experience in second?
ary teaching, says that it can be done.
However, he does not say that a
twelve-year-old boy unable to separate
the subject from the predicate in a
simple sentence In English can com?
plete his book in one year?in fact,
he does not insist that such a hoy
will ever complete the book. Another
objects that you cannot carry a class
to quadratics In algebra In one year.
No; that would be impossible perhips
with boys before reaching percentage
In arithmetic; It is more than probable
that seventh grade pupils could not
rcaoh quadratics in one year.
"Now, if it be possible for two
teachers to teach a three-year course,
and to make 12 units, why Is it that
some schools with one-half the time,
or even the whole time, of the third
high school teacher cannot make 12
units?
"The same facts and the Ihme ran?
soning ought to convince any one that
no two teachers teaching four and
one-ha If bOttfS a day can possibly
make more than 111 units. For two
teachers |0 undertake a single full
course ir a four*year snhool, with Its
OVarlapping and its repetitions In the
work. Is a hopeless task.
"The pity of all this is that the pu?
pils are Suffering, the patrons art not
getting returns and everybody Is bliss?
fully Ignorant of the situation or bliss?
fully Indifferent."
?Most peopl,. past middle nyr0 HUf_
fer from kidney and bladder disorders
widt h roley*! Kidney Hemedy would
cure. Stop the drall on the vitality
and restore needed stivimth and vigor.
Commence taking Foley's Kidney
Bemedy today. W. W. Slbcrt.
HOW TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS.
Mil. O. B. M1AKTIN SUBMITS TEX
BHOAD 11ECOMMENDATION.S
Retiring Superintendent of Education
Compactly Summarizes His Vk*ws as
To the NeetLs of the School System
In South Carolina, Covering a Groat
Deal in Very Few Words.
Columbia. Dec. 13.?State Superin?
tendent of Education Martin has sum?
marized under ten headings the rec?
ommendations in his final annual re?
port to the general assembly as fol?
lows:
"(1) A commission should be ap?
pointed to revise the school Code and
submit the same to the General As?
sembly at Its next session.
"(2 Our system of county super?
vision should be Improved by making
county boards elective by the people
and the superintendents elective by
county boards.
,4(3) There should be a State tax or
State appropriation to raise the per
capita per child in each county to at
least $4. Weak counties should be
aided first. Such an appropriation
I would tend to give us a State school
system.
I "(4) The legislature could well af?
ford to make an appropriation to aid
I rural schools which run for eight
I months, and which have eight grades.
I There should be at least two teachers
I and forty-five pupils in such schooL
I Such action would encourage consoll
I datlon and local taxation. Many com
I munlties cannot meet tho requlre
I ments of the High School Act.
"(5) The High School Act should be
I amended so that small towns can com?
ply with its requirements, so that the
I number of schools In large counties
I may be Increased, and so as to give
I the tSate high school board more dis
I cretion and authority in passing upon
I the merits of each individual case. It
I will be necessary also to increase the
I high school appropriation as the de
I mand Increases.
"(6) I believe that the time has
I come when the legislature should es
I tablish agricultural high schools. Other
I trade and vocational schools will fol
I low within a few years.
I "(7) It will be neoessary to make
I better provision for summer schools
I for teachers if this work is to be kept
I up as heretofore.
"(8) The method of conducting
I teachers' examinations should be
I changed at once so that greater unl
I fortuity and efficiency may be se
I cured.
I "(?) The field agent of the cam
I palgn committee should be made an
I assistant In this department and a sal
lary provided for her services. The
I State board of education should be al
I lowed to make a small appropriation
I to encourage schools to get pictures
I and chest of tools.
I "(10) This office should be pro
I vided, at the earliest possible convenl
I ence. with sufficient rooms, furniture
I files and fixtures."
Great men stand like solitary tow?
ers In the city of God.?Longfellow.
Camphor in Florida.
That the cultivation of the camphor
tree is being seriously considered as b
substitute for orange cultivation in
those sections of Florida where frost.-,
have made the latter Industry an un?
profitable one, is one of the facts that
has been brought out in connection
with hearings being held by the ways
and means committee of the house
preliminary to the Introduction of a
new tariff bill at a special session of
congress next year.
As a result of the hearing on th?
reh'.dule providing for chemicals, it ft
proposed to restrict the free admission
of camphor to the crude, natural art?
icle. As a result of the experiments
conducted by the department of ?gri
culture with camphor growing It.
Floilda and the announcement by two
concerns of their intention of cultivat?
ing camphor to a considerable degree
that crtlcle may be taken off the fr?e
list rltogether within a few years.
Hoxamcthylcneietramine.
?The above is tho name of a Ger?
man chemical, which is one of the
many valuable Ingredients of Foloy s
Kidney Remedy. Hexamethylenetetra
mlne Is recognized by medical text
books and authorities as a uric acid
solvent and antiseptic for the urine.
Take Foley's Kidney Remedy as soon
as you notice any irregularities, and
Hvoid a serious malady. W. W. Sl
bert.
A number of Greenwood people
bought stoek in the BemlnolS Securi?
ties Company.
Beware of Frequent Cold*.
?A succession of colds or a protract?
ed cold is almost certain to end In
chronic catarrh, from which few per?
sons ever wholly recover. Qlvs every
COld the attention it deserves and you
may avoid this disagreeable disease.
How oan you cure a cold? why not
try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy? H
is highly recommended, .Mrs. M.
White, of Butler Tenn., says: "Several
years ago i was bothered with my
throat and lungs, Someone told me
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I
began using it and it rellevi d me at
Once. Now my throat and lungs me
sound nod well." For sale by all Drug?
gists.
-ROWNSVILLE DISCUSSION.
SENATOR FORAKER SPEAKS AX I)
PRESIDENT WRITES ABOUT IT,
Shoot Ing-Vp of Texas Town, Which
Resulted in Riscliarge of Three
Companies of Negro Soldiers, Re
fore Senate Yesterday?Forakcr
Wants Investigation?President
Willing for Innocent Troopers to be
Reinstated.
Washington. Dec. 14.?Senator For
aker today introduced an amendment
I to the bill providing for the re-enlist
ment of negro troops discharged with?
out honor because of alleged partici?
pation In the affray at Brownsville,
Texas, and addressed the senate con
I cerning the amendment. He proposes
I in his new measure to establish a tri
I bunal consisting of retired army of
I fleers, naming these officers in the bill,
I before whom evidence may be submit
I ted as to the guilt of defendants, and
I before whom the defendants them
I selves might appear to answer
I charges.
I The measure is so drawn as practi
I cally to take out of the hands of the
I executive and give to a tribunal ap
I pointed by congress, full authority to
I consider the Brownsville question and
I by Its findings provide for the re-en
I listment of the discharged negroes. In
I addressing the senate Mr. Foraker
I said It was an elementary proposition
I In American law that the accused may
I have an opportunity to confront the
I accuser and to appear In person and
I answer evidence with evidence. He
I said that he had not expected It would
I be necessary to enter upon a new in
I vestigation of the Brownsville ques
I tion, but that during the summer let
I ters had been coming to him from
I these discharged negro soldiers de
I daring that detectives were constant
I ly engaging them in conversation.
I "These men," said Senator Foraker,
I "are not secret service detectives, of
I course, for they would have no right
I under the law to engage in such ser?
vice."
Continuing the senator spoke of the
I activities of the detectives, as outlined
I by his correspondents, saying that in
I many cases they went so far as to take
I up their dwelling with the discharged
I soldiers for the purpose of securing
I their confidence and spying upon their
I movements. The senator read some
I extracts from the letters, a batch of
I which he held In his hand as he spoke.
I One soldier wrote to Senator For
I aker that he was questioned by a de
I tf ctive in response to any letters he
I might have received from the senator.
I "There seems to be a good deal of
I interest about my correspondence,"
I added Mr. Foraker.
Upon the conclusion of Mr. .Forak
ler's remarks Mr. Culberson asked that
I the president's message on the
I Brownsville affair be read, and Vice
I President Fairbanks directed that that
I be done, all senators present remain
I in*, in their seats and listening atten
I tively to the reading.
I Senator Foraker took the floor as
I soon as the president's message and
I the accompanying reports had been
I read. He read a letter from Boyd
I Conyers, a discharged soldier, who is
I alleged to have made a confession to
I a colored detective named Lawson
I whose report accompanies others con
I tained In the document made up by
I the war department and read today:
I In his letter to Senator Foraker Con
I yen speaks of the visit of Lawson to
I Monroe. Ga., where Conyers has been
I living. Conyers says he learned that
I Lawson was there to "pick" him, and
that he had the "high sheriff" to ar?
rest Lawson. As Lawson had not had
an opportunity to have a private talk
I with Conyers, according to the latter's
letter, it made him angry, and Con?
yers says Lawson "told lies" to the
I sheriff about him.
I At this point Mr. Foraker referred
I caustically to this colored detective,
I calling attention to the fact that his
I "high sounding, smooth, logical report
I is signed with his mark," and pausing
I to look around the senate, the sena
I tor added:
"When this thing is gone to the bot?
tom of all, honest men will be ashamed
of it."
Mr. Foraker said the statement of
the president concerning this Investi?
gation by detectives showed the pro?
priety of adopting such a provision as
that embodied in his amendment. "It
seems to me," he said, "that one of
the worst features of this whole un?
fortunate business is that this man
should now be pursued in this way by
secret detectives in the manner I have
described."
1 Senator Foraker read a letter he
had written to Conyers in which be
said he. (the senator) would "look af?
ter" the detectives who were visiting
him "at the proper time."
"That promise will be made good,"
declared Mr. Foraker,
"Enough haa been shown," he as?
serted, "to make it the Imperative
duty of the senate to create a tribunal
before which these men can go ami
receive a hearing, is there anything
mote atrocious than this proceidtng
against these men? This is the sixth
time they have been pjl on trial, and
five times they have been acquitted, in
my opinion."
The message of the president, trans
mining to the senate a numbe: of pa
pen relating io the Brownsville affray j
is as follows:
To the Senate: I inclose herewith
a letter from the secretary of wai
transmitting a report of tie investiga?
tion made by Mr. Herbert J. Browne,
employed by the department In con?
junction with Capt. W. G. Baldwin to
investigate as far as possible what
happened at Brownsville on the 13th
and 14th of August, 1906. The report
and documents contain some inform?
ation of great value ard some state?
ments that are obviously worthless
but I submit them in their entirety.
This report enables us to fix with
tolerable definiteness, at l-?ast some of
the criminals who took the lead in the
murderous shooting of private citizens
a* Brownsville. It establishes clearly
the fact that the colored soldiers did
the shooting; but upon this point fur?
ther record was unnecessary, as the
fact that the colored soldiers did the
shooting has already been established
beyond all possibility of doubt. The
investigation has not gt ne far enough
j to enable us to determine all the facts,
land we will proceed with it; but it has
j gone far enough to determine with
J sufficient accuracy certain facts ol
J enough Importance to rnske it advisa
I ble that I place the report before you.
j It appears that almost all the mem
j bers of Company B must have been
I actively concerned in the shooting.
J either to the extent of being partici
I pants or to the extent of virtually en
I couraging those who were partici
I pants. As to Companies C and D,
I there can be no question that practi
I cally every man in them must have
j aad knowledge that the shooting was
I done by some of the soldiers of B
I Troop, and possibly by one or two
I others in one of the other Troops. This
I encealment was Itself a grave offense.
I which was greatly aggravated by their
I testifying before the senate committee
I that they were ignorant of what they
j must have known. Nevertheless, it is
I to be said in partial extenuation that
I they were probably cowed by threats,
I made by the more desperate of the
I men who had actually been engaged
I in the shooting, as to what would hap
I pen to any man who failed to protect
I the wrongdoers. Moreover, there are
I circumstances tending to show that
I these misguided men were encouraged
I by outsiders to persist In their course
I of concealment and denial. I feel,
I therefore, that the guilt of the men
I who, after the event, thus shielded
I the perpetrators of the wrong by re
I fusing to tell the truth about them,
I though serious, was in part due to the
I unwise and improper attitude of oth
I ers. and that some measure of allow
I ance should be made for the mlscon
I duct. In other words, I believe wt
I can afford to reinstate any of these
j men who now truthfully tell what has
I happened, give all the aid they can
I to fix the responsibility upon those
j who are really guilty, and show that
I they themselves had no guilty know
I ledge beforehand and were In no way
I Implicated in the affair, save by hav
I ing knowledge of it afterwards and
I failing and refusing to divulge it. Un
I der the circumstances, and in view of
I the length of time they have been ou
I of the service, and their lose of the
I benefit that would have accrued to
I them by continuing long-time service
I we can afford to treat the men who
j meet the requirements given as hav
I Ing been sufficiently punished by the
I consquences they brought upon them
j selves when they rendered necessary
I the exercises of the disciplinary power
I I recommend that a law be passed al
I lowing the secretary of war, with!
I a fixed period of time, say a year, to
I reinstate any of these soldiers whom
j he, after careful examination, finds tc
I have been innocent and whom he find
to have done all in his power to hel
bring to justice the guilty.
Meanwhile the investigation will I
continued. The results have made
obvious that only by carrying on the
j Investigation as the war departm
I has actually carried it on is tiere the
slightest chance of following the o
fenders to justice or of separating not
hardly any Innocent, but the less
iruilty from those whose guilt w
heinous.
Theodore Roosevelt.
The White House. Dec. 14, 1908.
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berlaln's Pain Balm was recorrmend
to me, so I tried it and was COmplet
ly cured by one small bottle. 1 hav
since recommended it to several of m
friends all of whom spe/ik highly
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Mis. It. U Wilson dropped dead at
her home in Anderson County.
I
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"Three years ago 1 was marked for
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RECEIVERS FOR SEIM?9?.
JUDGE WAITS ORDEK: COMFASnr
TO SHOW ( AlSt:.
On Oo?plahlt <>!' S.ooMiouicrs Thut
gassjaole ?OctUitkw . opany His
Ren Wrecked by the M ?n-igt-im m
A;.ti its Bovin und Re ?Ida Remov?
ed From the Blase by its President,
tlie Judge of the Fourth Circuit
Orders it to Sliow Cause Why a Re?
ceiver Should Not be Appointed.
Columbia, Dec. 16.?A receiver for.
the Seminole Securites Company has
been applied for by Messrs. Nelson A
Nelson, of this city, and Park & Grier,
of Greenwood, representing Mr. J. S.
Klugh, of Coronaca, a brother of
Judge Klugh, and others. An order
to show cause why the receiver should
not be appointed bas been signed by
Judge R. C. Watts, of the 4th circuit,
in the absence of Judge Ernest Gary,
w)f vne Hb circuit, and the officers and
trustees of the Seminole Company 4fe
restrained from disposing of or Inter- s
fering with the assets ef the company
pending the decision of this case. The ?
order is returnable before Judge Watts
at Cheraw on the 21st of December.
In the complaint filed by Mr. Klugh
and others, through their attorneys, it
*s set forth that the trustees willingly
though not with intention to defraud
lent their names to obtaining sub?
scriptions of stock, upon fraudulent
representations of the agents; that no
meeting of the stockholders has been
held, though a board of directors has
been elected or appointed; that the
charter has been secured on the alle?
gation that 50 per cent of the $300,
)00 capital has been subscribed,
though it is alleged that almost all the
stock was subscribed for after the
charter had been obtained, and that
its outstanding capital is only $165,000
instead of $300,000; that stock was
.sold at 60 per cent premium on a
comminsion of 33 1-3 per -:ent, which
was an unlawful commission; that
notes were accepted for atocks, and
-hese notes discounted for as much as
40 per cent in some cases The his?
tory of the deal with the Southern
Life is reviewed. It is alleged that
'.arlington. the president, has taken
the books and records out of the State
%nd that the Seminole Company is in?
solvent. These and other allegations
make warm stuff. ; d
CASTRO BURNED IN EFFIGY.
His Ruin in Venezuela h Prnbablf
Ended.
Caracas, Venezuela. Monday DSC
14, via Willems! Dec. 16
?The people of Caracas arose today
against President Castro. An infuri?
ated mob, unhindered by the police,
swept through the city, wrecking the
property of his henchmen and closest
friends.
The people rounded up all the stat?
ues and pictures of President Castro
from the clube and other semi-public
buildings and burned them with re?
joicing on the Plata Bolivar. Castro's
rule in Venezuela probably is ended.
In spite of Holland's war-like ac?
tivity on the coast, there have been
no demonstrations against the Neth?
erlands; they all have been directed
\galnst President Castro and acting
President Gomez.
Further dangerous demonstrations
are anticipated. No official act de?
posing Castro from the presidency of
Venezuela yet has been taken, but
such a step is expected at any mo?
ment.
Tills Is Wrorth Reading.
?Leo F. Zellnskl, of 63 Gibson St.,
Buffalo, N. Y., says: "I cured the most
annoying cold sore I ever had. with
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. I applied this
>alve once a day for two days, when
every trace of the sore was gone."
Heals all sores. Sold under guarantee
at Slbert's Drug Store, 25c.
The town of Blacksburg will issue
bonds in the sum of $15,000 for the
purpose of building an eUctrlc light
plant.
For Eczema, Tetter and Salt Rheum
?The intense itching characteristic
of these ailments is almost instantl>
allayed by Chamberlain's Salve. Many
a>vere cases have been cured by It. For
sale by all Druggists.
Miss Rena Peaty. 8 wall known
young lady of Charleston, was held up
on Washington square in that city by
a negro and robbed of her purse.
?Foley's Hsney and Tar clear the
ilr passages, stops the irritation In
the throat, soethes the inflamed mem?
branes, and the most obstinate cough
disappears. Sore and inflamed lungs
are healed and strengthened, and the
cold is expelled from the system. Re?
fuse any but the genuine in the yel?
low package. W. W. Sibert.
The railroad commission has com?
menced its tour of annual Inspection
of the railroads of the State.
?Every case of backache, weak back.
Madder inflammation and rheumatic
pains is dang? rous if neglected, for
such troubles are nearly always due t?>
weak kidneys. Take DeWitt'a Kidney
and Bladder rills. They are antisep?
tic and soothe pain quickly. Insist
upon DeWitt'a Kidney ami Bladder
Pills. For weak kidneys and inflam?
mation of the bladder they are un
equaled. Regular size 50c. Sold here
by all Druggists.