Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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AETNA IN ERUPTION. KVHTII SHAKES AND LAVA I l.owv ? Vibration? of Solid (Ground, With Menace of Already Destructive Stream*. Terrify Peasant*. Catania. Sicily. March 2?.?Mount Aetna, whose eruptions In the past have wrought great destruction, Is again In a violent state of activity. A pgegMSJMMfd movement within the crater began last evening, steadily In istng in volume, and tonight the greatest fears are entertained as to the results If the eruption continues In Its present \ lolent form. From Catania correspondents mo? tored in the direction of the moun? tain. Panning the village of Mascalu cla. 12 miles In a direct line from the crater, a thick curtain of smoke was encountered which entirely concealed Aetna. At Nicolos. 10 miles from the crater, the entire population had gathered in the square to watch the volcano, which appeared as a black phantom above. Now and then it was Illuminated with flashes of light, appearing almost red. Hlgner up the rain of cinders became thicker and extended like a veil across the mountain. A deep roaring was heard and de? tonations like the sound of artillery following one another In quick suc? cession while the earth shook under foot One of the guides cried: "An earthquake!" and could hardly be in? duced to continue. The hot cinders covered the ground like a thick car? pet, rendering walking difficult. A peasant was encountered coming down. He said: "The Are Is rush? ing down; burning every thing. The lava Is like a red hot river." Proceeding a little further, four co? lossal columns of black smoke could be observed. Occasionally they were out by flashes of fire, presenting an awe-inspiring spectacle. Then the wind opened the clouds for a moment, and a wide strip of fire could be seen In the dlstsnce, advancing with mon? strous contortions. It fell like a torrent from Mount Caprlol. spreading out In the valley below. The lava flow had already reached the vineyards above San Leo anu Rlnaxzo, seven miles from the crater, and had burled a large num? ber of peasants' houses. It came in several streams and uni? ted In one great mass about 20 feet In height and 1.500 feet wide. Its ve? locity was estimated at three to four feet a minute, varying according to the condition of the ground. This mighty wall of lava was today not more than five miles from Bolas ?o and NTcolls. The meteorological ?tatlon on the mountain side had been destroyed, and the village of Borrello Is In serious danger. The populace, terror stricken, are flying from th? Ir homes. The earth shocks have been about 60 In number, and there Is a continuous vibration and trembling for many miles around. Everywhere the villagers are carry? ing images In procession and implor? ing mercy. Twelve te w craters have Iwn opened up. Help for the people of the devasta? ted region Is being organized here. A detachment of soldiers and a large numb< r '?' ? ifjtefjgfl and doCtOfl have gore ? 1 tIk pr. !'.?< t of Catania, returning from the scene this evening, said: "I have witnessed a spectacle of desolation and ruin which only tuose who saw the eruption of Vesuvius In 190*? can Imagine. The present eruption can be compared to no other." The authorities have Issued orders that no one shall be permitted to go beyond i:?!paseo and guards have bf>en stationed at varbc.s points to see that these orders are obeyed. The tillage of Itorcll is surrounded by the lava and the Inhabitants have fled to Belpasso. Prof. MoeOi dire t.,r el Mount V t na observatory, said tonight: "The eruption Is \cry grave and I think It will become much more seri? ous. The ir i his covered live ml'cs In II hours fegst If my calculations arc right the erupttog of the \olcano will not be short." Many tourists, among whom Amer? icans are conspicuous, are pouring Into Catania to \ j. v the spectacle. I?atcMt reports front Nlcolosl tonight say that the lava current is moving at the rate of about 100 feet an hour and tb't It has passed o\er Mount San Leo. The earth shocks continue. I low (,ood \o\fs Spread*. ?"I am 70 years old und travel most of the time." writes B. F. Tol son, of Kllzabetbtow n. Ky. "Every? where I so I recommend Electric Bit? ters, because I owe my excellent health and vitality to them. They ef? fect a cure every time." They never fall to tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver, Invigorate the nerves and purify the Mooed, They work wonders for weak, run-doun men and wumcn, re? storing strength, vigor and health that's a dally ley, Try them. Only Satisfaction Is positively guar? anteed by Sllert's Drug Store. The Itch of disputing will prove the ?cab of churches.?Sir Henry Wotton. i THE SU College or High School: Which? To Parente: 1. Sending your boy or your girl to college is a serious matter. It may be for his everlasting good or for his eternal undoing. Parents ought to settle this question deliberately, cour? ageously, prayerfully, and with com? mon sense. Instead, it is frequently settled by sentiment on the part of parents, or by the whims of the child, or by what some neighbor has done or is about to do, or by the seductive sophistries of some college drummer paid to get students. How are you going to settle this question? 2. Is yo'T boy or your girl old enough to send to college? Is either mature enough and fixed enough in habits to stand alone morally, and to do college work in the college way? If not. l>y no means send either. The average boy or girl sixteen years of age has no business on a college cam? pus. At that age either needs a mother far more than he needs a col? lege proirssor. A boy at that age learns to adjust a cigarette or a pipe more easily than he learns Latin or English, and to some boys gambling Is more fascinating than Physics or Chemistry* The majority of college students are industrious, of excellent moral filter, and clean in thir lives. But on every college campus are the derelicts?the idler, the morally v. ? ik, the vicious, and often the rep? robate. Do not imagine that you know pome college campus free front ?Vll temptations; it does not exist, If It has any students. It Is courting disaster to your son or your daughter to thrust either In the way of tarn pl? atten? until old enough and settled enough to hope to rental it. Do not l ank upon the strength of your own immature child; many another parent has drunk the dregS of bitterness be? cause he imagined that his child was unlike oth. r children. With the same preparation an I equal native ability, tin- young man ent< ring college at eighteen or nim - teen years of age will do more real work In three years than the boy en? tering at sixtc n will do in four yean*. At sixteen years of age the average boy does not r<ali/e tin- meaning of his opportunities at college. lie Is unable to use his time or his talents to the beat advantage, Granting thai he mak. s a good record there and graduates at twenty, he Is not fitted to Inks up tie dutl< i and responsi? bilities of i mature man. Many a man's downfall In traceable to ? sea? son of enforced idleness between Iiis gaaduatlon from college and his en? trance upon the llfework of a man. A graduate twenty-two is a man pre? pared to play a man's par*. 4. Is your boy or girl prepared to enter College? Is he just through the ninth grade of sonn? School7 If so, he is not prepared to enter oollege, At best he has but two years of high school preparation, and it would be an Injustice to him to send him to suits a drop i us she garme X w MTER C college. His place is In the high school; keep him there. 5. Has your boy or girl completed the work of some tenth grade? Per? haps he has gone through the so-call? ed eleventh grade of one of our mod? ern educational wonders?a four year high school taught by a single teacher, giving from 75 to 90 minutes a day to each of four classes with from four to six subjects in each class. The grade from which your boy comes says but little in itself. What is the rank of that grade? What is the rank of your school? How much has your son or daughter boon taught? How well has either j been taught? What has each been taught, and what has simply been gone over. Has he barely gone be? yond quadratics in a school Algebra? Is he still In Plane Geometry? Has he read three, perhaps four, books of Caesar's Gallc War? Is his knowl? edge of History confined to a smat? tering of names and dates gathered from a few months' reading of the subject in school? Is he unable to write a simple English letter without misspelling and mlsuing common ev? eryday words? Then, do not send s u b a pupil to college. He belongs to the high school, You need not be In d<?ubt about what to do. 8, We have colleges and colleges, then we have collegetts. Hence, great confusion exists In the popular mind, and in the minds of some teachers, as to what preparation for college means. Besides, it Is no secret that not a few colleges publish In their catalogs def? inite requirements for entrance, then canvass for and admit to their c lasses pupils who make no claim to having done the required work. In the blunt language of the business world such pr o ti ?- Is called fraud; in the refined language of certain oducatlonal cir? cle! it Is called growth, Some college can be found to take any pupil who hns gone beyond the eighth grade. The college student-rolls prove it. 7. Is your boy or girl anxious to go to col log? ? D< es he wish to go, or must he be sc ut? If he wishes to g", why does he wish to go? Unless he is anxious to go there for the best) that the college has to offer him, do not send him at all. If lie is going there simply to have a good time, or simply for the name of having gone to college, it will he little short of a miracle if he is benefited. The chances are decidedly against him. lie is more likely to become an idler and a spendthrift, if not worse. Unless you are satisfied that he is able to do col? lege work and willing to do it, put him to work. Hoys and girls should be taught to work, anyway. x. Are you thinking of sending your boy or girl to college because he is not studying in the high school at home? < >n what do you base your hope that ( ither will do better at col? lege? is it reasonable to hope that either will? one pupil in a dozen, pe rhaps, will improve on going away from home to school. Your child may > these snappy, grace? ful, lively looking ppeal to you ? If so, nto our store. Let >w you these same nts in real life. nn RY them on, *? Select your favorite {pattern, color, fabric, de? sign. LL guarantee to" give you real style and a fit. Easter display of Suits wil iase you. ;7.50 to $30. i LOT HIN be that twelfth one; he may be one of the remaining eleven. Parents fre? quently believe that their children are doing well away from home when a* a matter of fact they are doing noth ing. The parents do not see the fail? ures, and no one reports all the fail? ures. 9. Are you thinking of sending your child to college because he has not been advanced or promoted, in the high school? Sometimes the col? lege professor and the high school teacher take the same view of a boy's fitness for promotion from class to class. He may fail of promotion af? ter he gets to college. Then what? 10. Have you a good four-year high school at home? Has your child been through that school? If not, why do you not put him through it before sending him to college? If he leaves the high school before he com? pletes the high school work, is it not plain to you that whenever he goes he must first complete that work before he can possibly begin college work? Has the pupil gained anything by go? ing to some college to do the work of high school? 11. Have you no good high school at home? Then would it not be bet? ter and cheaper to you to establish such a school? Would it not be a paying Investment to you and your neighbors to establish a first-class high school? After making full al? lowances for scholarships, free tuition and other gratuities, the average pu? pil cannot be kept away from home at school for less than $250 to *::<>0 :i year. Pour pupils at college would cost $1,000 to $1,200 a year?enough b> pay for an additional first-clasii teacher In your home high school. Would it ni>t be economy to keep this money in your own school for the benefit of your child and your neigh hor's child. Would it not be wise t?> make your own community an intel? lectual centn '.' iL'. Why will people of sound judgment attempt to run a high I school with one teacher at $75 to $100 a month, and another at $50 a month, then spend each year enough on four or live pupils, al college do? ing high school \\orl<, t<? pay the en? tire expenditure in the home high school for 1" to 75 pupils'." Can such a community hope to have a high grade high school? 13. Two teac hers cannot run a first class high school of three years. The teaching may be of a high class, but the teac hing force is not sufficient for tile work. Give each of the three grades or classes, five daily recita? tions of forty or forty-live minutes each, then see for yourself if two teachers can properly do the work. A teacher cannot do the Imbpossible. You may cut down the recitations to thirty minutes, if you choose, but your school could no longer hope to bo first-class. 14. It is absurd for two teachers to undertake to run a first-class high lart G CO. school of four years. The teaching, so far as it goes, may he first-class, but two teachers cannot do justice to four high school classes. The dem? onstration of the fact is only a matter of arithmetic. 15. Parents, what are you and your neighbors going to do about this? Are you and they going to send your unprepared fledgelings off to col? lege next September, just as you have been doing? Are you going to spend your money in some college town in? stead of spending it on your own school? Are you going to pay a set of college professors to teach your child what ought to be taught in any good high school? Are you going to take your child away from the home school, then undertake to excuse yourself on the ground that your j home school is an inferior one? i Would you have a school at all, if all your neighbors were as patriotic as you? Finally, are you and your neighbors going to send from home all the pupils you feel able to send, then call on the State of South Caro? lina to aid in keeping up your school for those pupils unable to get away? That is just what some communities are doing. 16. There is but one way to sup? port your high school: Put enough money into it to employ a sufficient number Of competent teachers; keep your children in that school until they complete the work done there. A good banker patronizes his own bank. W. H. HAND, High School Inspector. Columbia, s. C. I stable Manures the Cheapest For i tllizers. The economy of feeding a great part of the crops grown on the land to live stock, of getting th< full feeding value of tins, crops and then of returning from two-thirds to three-fourths ol ' the fertilizing ? lements in them to j the soil in readily available and per I manently helpful form, must be ap ! parent to any one. Then w hen it is remembered that cultivation always : has a tendency to reduce the humus supply in the soil, that this supply must be kept up if the producing ability of the land is to be maintain? ed or Increased, and that commercial fertilisers do practically nothing to? ward keeping up this supply, the folly of any one's engaging in general farming without paving due attention to both the production and the enre of stable manures would seem to be too evident to be overlooked.?Pro? gressive Farmer and Qasette. ?Foley's Kidney Remedy Is a safe and certain remedy for all kidney and bladder diseases, whether acute or chronic. It is a splendid tonic for middle aged and elderly people and a sure cure for all annoyances and irregularities of the kidneys and blad? der, sibert's Drug Store. Sumter, South Carolina The Minister and His Missions. Ought a minister of the gospel to discuss from his p'ilpit methods for improving the public health? Our good friend, Mr. W. D. Woods, thinks not, and even goes so far as to declare that "once let a minister contract the habit of introducing extraneous mat? ter into his sermons, and his useful? ness as a pastor and preacher is at an end." That, we regret to say, is a statement in which we cannot con? cur. Granted that "intelligent and right thinking people attend divine services to hear the Gospel," what is this Gospel which attracts them? Is it a mere formula for finding salva? tion, or is it a guide for life? Much of the Old Testament is taken up with history, biography, poetry, law and rules for the conserving of the health of the Jewish people, and the New Testament likewise touches life on many sides. Coming more immediately to the matter at issue, however, we may say that in the ac? count given us by Mark of one of the very first of the sermons preached by Jesus, that delivered in the synagogue at Capernaum, we are told that after astonishing the people with his doc? trine "for he taught them as one that had authority," he paused in his preaching to rid a member of the congregation of an unclean spirit, and left the synagogue to go to the house of Simon and Andrew, where he healed Simon's wife's mother of a fever. The account continues: "And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possess? ed with devils. And all the city was gathered to? gether at the door. And he healed many that were sick of divers disease, and cast out many devils." And this, be it remembered, was on the Sabbath day. fin minister of today lacks the power to heal diseases In any sock miraculous manner as he is here re? corded, but it Is not merely his privil? ege, but his duty to point to those natural laws whose observance promi? ses the promotion of health. That it seems to as, Is a part of his mission which he dare not neglect.?News and Courier. Saved a Soldier's Tjifc. ?Facing death from shot and shell in the civil war was more agreeable to J. A. Stone, of Kemp, Tex., than facing it from what doctors said was consumption. "I contracted a stub? born cold" be writes, "that developed a cough, that stuck ;o me in spite of all remedies foi years. My weight ran down to 130 pounds. Then I be? gan to use Dr. King's New Discovery which competely cured me. I now weigh ITS pounds." For coughs colds, lagrippe, asthma, hemorrhage, hoarseness, croup, whooping cough and lung trouble, it's supreme. 60c $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Slbert's Drug Store. 'Tis sleight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.?Middleton.