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BOARD NAMES NEW BOOKS. t1 pim; < m Wl.l w m \i>r. \ r.sTKHI)\> Larg* *t l'r?t|M>rtion of llu-duc-** <.tn\-. to tiiiciican Book Compauy.? Contrail Kor sit Years. Columbia. June 23.?The State board of education under the chair? manship of r,,,\ itieaae has broken si! records by a five-days' secret session and the final announcement yesterday of the most sweeping; clianges of text? books In the history ol the m its, The American Book compnin of New York received s far propor? tion of the business than any other concern bidding. Tho vote on the adoption of tho various books has not been made public. There were SO companies bidding and 19 have received contracts. The six-year period of the contract la vari? ously estimated st from ?500.000 to 91.0a0.etf. "Thompsons History of the I nited 8tates" was adopted with? out any serious opposition on the part of the governor, although he had given out some weeks ago an inter? view against this book on the grounds of Its not properly presenting the facts of Sherrr...n's responsibility of the burning of Columbia, It Is stated that J. E. Swearingen. State superin? tendent of education, was overruled at almost every point in the voting and that he made frequent, vigorous protests against unnecessary changes and against some of the books ad? opted. Following Is the list of books ad? opted. American Book Company. Hunt'.i Progressive Course In Spelling, book I,, book II., and com? plete. Milne's Progressive Arithmetic, book L, book II.. and book III. Brook's English Composition, book I. Usury's New Elements. Maury's Complete Geograph lea White's Beginner's History of the Vnited States. Pearson's Latin Prose Composition. Gleason's A Term of Ovid. ? Webster's Primary, Common School, High School and Academic Dlctlon eefbs At kit.Mm, 3tcm/e/ X t*ro%er. ??<essC Book-?. H I>. Herr* ? < o. Berry's Writing oyaiem. KctssmtkHUil Publishing Company. Augsburg's Course In Drawing. (?Inn? Co. Supplementary Readers. The Hill Readers. Fourth snd Fifth. Montgomery's Lcadmg Facts of English History. Collar and Darnell's First Year Latin Supplementary Classic. Snyder's Selections from the Old Testament. ? C. Heath and Co. Woolley's Haml I'.ook of Composi? tion. Thompson's United States History. Wells' Algebra for Secondary School*, part I., part IL, ar.d com? plete. We'Is' New Plane and Solid Oeom etry. Iloughton. Millie Company. Supplementary English Classic, to be ?eleeted. Supplementary reading for the sixth and seventh grades, to be se? lected trom Riverside Literature Se? rie* R. F. ioliiiMin Publishing Company. Basal. Graded Classics. Third Reader. Fourth Leader. Fifth Reader. Payne's Common Words Commonly Misspelled. Supplementary Classic. The Ye.mas ?... Supplementary Reading. Hall's Half Hours In Southern History. \X. II. Jone?.. Spellng Blanks. MucMllhwi < ompany. Klnard and Wlther's Grammar, book I . book II. Hangar's Agriculture for Southern 8rhools. Mothfords Ancient History for Beginners. Tarr's New Physical Geography. N' \* -on and < <>. Hehlers Modern English 'irunmnr. Hand. McXalH ami ( o. Supplementary: The Story of Cot ton. Robinson's Commercial Ocog? raphy. Teller and l'.roun'?* Lusiness Methods. iw in it ajuahora and < o Ca? ars * 1 i! 11? W.r. I. V. Johnsir.n and Sanf.-r.i: Select Oratlofjt of Cle ero. l?Uoge; Virgil's Xelll ed, I.-VI.. Falrclough und Brown. < h Serlbner'n ^?m?. S<rlbner's Supplementary English Classics, to i.,. selected. Supplemen? tary Reading. Mims and Payne's Southern Prose and Poetry. silver. H?rth tte mil < o. Supplene n? irv Stepping Stones to Literatur*'. Fl i si Reader, Second Header, Third Rsadar, Whiter The Making of Sooth Carolin i Parker IV NsjHBjsjsja, American History I.? itb ts. Record Carolina, Civil Government of South Carolina ;k><i th? United states. \v. ft Wneelet and t ?>. Primi r. Baaali Viral Header, Bec and Header W orld Hook Company. Primer of Hygiene, Primer of San? itation, Human Physiology. i .ids invited on a history of mod? ern times, and on a Latin Grammar to I, |1#4 With the State superintend? ent of education on <?r before July 1. The following statement as to the ontract w as made hy Superintend? ent Sw..Hingen: 'The \ -\t-hook contract adopted hy the stat?- hoard of education wai originally drawn hy H. P, Mice. J. L, Gleaa and J. k . Bwsartngsn, the com? mittee appointed for this purpose. The orU'na! draft of this contract was submitted to the full board at a spe? cial meeting held In the governor'* office April 7. At this meeting several amendments were adopted, and one of these amendments declared that any and all books containing 25 per cent. <>f their original leaves with or without back should be received in exchange by county superintendents of education and all managers of text hook depositories. "This amendment appeared some? what harsh to the committee when the tentative contract was under final consideration for publication. The State superintendent of education was authorized and directed to confer with Mr. Glenn, -nd a meeting was held in Chester for this purpose. At this conference It was decided that 60 per cent should be substituted for 26 per cent, provided the author of the amendment would agree to the substitution. His consent was secur? ed over long distance telephone, and the tentative contract together with the official form for bids and a full notice to all writers and publishers of text-books Interested In the ap? proaching text-book adoption was printed and ?*ent both to the membets of the board and to all others con? cerned. "Tho text-book contract commit? tee held a final meeting in the ofllce of the governor on May 27. At this meeting of the official contract, was drawn, and the secretary authorized to print same. Mr. Rice did not at? tend this meeting, because of an ill? ness, which kept him In the hospital. "Uadei into official contract r.?; bidi jrom pgMlsMng brutes were submit md* to the bo?eVd on or before .Tune 16. Each bidder also deposited with the BtftjU treasurer i certified ? heck or a bond guaranteeing his ability to execute any contract that might be awarded him by the board. On June 17 an additional delayed bid was re ' * ived from Iowa, and this, too, was admitted for consideration by the State hoard of education. The total of l ids before the members was thus raised to 37. HOa June 17 the board met in the OfBeS of the governor, and the bids were opened and read. It was found that almost twp-thlrds of the bidders had submitted conditional proposals regarding the exchange of text-books. The most serious objection raised by the bidders was on the clause con? cerning the 60 per cent of old books to bl received when offered In part payment for new ones. ? The State superintendent of edu? cation had insisted on promotional exchange throughout the entire de? liberation. Promotional exchange means that any book In the hands of a pupil, patron or citizen of South Carolins shall have an exchange rai? ns when offered for any new book on the same subject to be adpoted by the board. This promotional ex? change is a m w feature in text-book contracts throughout the United States, but it means th. ISVlng of al? most "?> per cent of the original COSl of every book pur? based by the chil? dren of South Carolina during ths last five years. "The secretsry also insisted that the period of exchange should ex? tend to December l". I sit, thus cov? ering a part of two pcholaetlc yean and affording every child a full op? portun!!) to secure at the lowest pries whatever hooks might he ad? opted by the board. These features of promotional exchange ami a 15 month period of exchange were ac? cepted, and the contract sj Anally agreed upon in sei t ion t, will allow also for the full exchange Of any and all old books." < i ?itii n i;v> ACTOR. < bainpion Rnlftsnan lo Star in Revision oi ??The College Widow." Detroit? Mich?, June 11.?-Tyrus Cobb, center Beider of the Detroit Americans declared yesterday that h*. was seriously considering an of? fer to go on the stage m xt winter In a revision of "The College widow." several prominent theatrical men and Outfielder Jimmy Callahan, of the Chicago Americana, art said to be interested in the venture. Instead of the "widow" being the heroine, the phtj will i... revised, it BRYAN DISGUSSES POLITICS. PREFACES SCHEDULED ADDRESS TO XEWBKRRY PEOPLE, Nebraskan Declares thai "While R?' pnblloan Party Has Been in OIHcei Democratic Part) Has Been in Power for l.ust Fifteen Years."? Refers to Democratic Measures Ap? propriated and Passed by Republl OMSSj Newberry, June 81.?Prefacing his m iglnflcent lecture <?n "The Prince of Peace" with a thirty-minute ad? dress on the national issues of the day, William Jennings Bryan told a New berry Chautautjua audience, which put standing room in the Opera House at a premium this morning, that "while the Republican party has been in office, the Democratic party has been in power for the last ' fifteen years. While the Republicans have drawn the salaries, the Democrats have moulded opinion and led the way, and I glory in a party that has been willing to go down to defeat rather than surrender its principles, and I rejoice in the vindication that has brought to that party the grati? fication of seeing the righteous caus? es for which it stands, force them? selves upon a reluctant majority and make them accept them as the will of the people." This was Col. Bryan's lirst visit to X( wherry, and he was enthusiastical? ly received. He was in the city but four hours, leaving at 1 o'clock for Chester, Notwithstanding the fact that he has been under the strain of from two to three lectures a day since he has been in South Carolina, he was in fine form this morning and v. as as vigorous in his political ad? dress and took as much genuine pleasure in meeting the people a? during his three campaigns for the Presidency. "The reason It is so easy now, he said, 'to get me to turn aside from politics and discuss other questions is that there are so many Republicans now who are making the speeches j that we Democrats used to make, i that we don't have to spend so much time on politics as we used to and It j is a very gratifying thing; in 'act, I have been enjoying myself the last Pfew year* more than I ever did be? fore ill potltii B, and . have had R ca w nably ejt?o?j time all mi Uf?i MU-U has been mote than a goo.* time the last few y n*. Bver since Mr. Roose? velt began to show familiarity with the planks of our platform, I have bean feeling good." Mr. Bryan said it was the fight over the tarilt question that has made the division that is now so apparent in the Republican party, "A division so great that we had about half the Republicans, voting with us a year ago on reciprocity, nearly half. Wc had twenty-four voting with us on the farmers' free list and I think thts morning's paper said that twenty four, and that is more surprising still, voted with us on the wool bill." Mr. Bryan said the Republicans fooled the people last election with a little word "revision," but the people have found that the word "re vis*-" does not mean downward?it may bi up or down or sideways or any way, but they will never use the word "re vise" again in a paltform. It served its day, it is obsolete, it cannot fooi any no.re." He referred to the movement for election Of Senators by the people, begun by the Democrats and fought by the Republicans and yet when it passed the House the other day, only fifteen Republicans voted against it and when it passed the Senate, it had a majority of nearly three to one. He aid there were S? nators and some in the House who did not believe in let? ting the people ha VC What liiey Want, "but they have not the courage to op ! pose tin people when the people ex? press themselves with the emph'ish thai they have on this subject." He cited the Income tax measure a Democratic measure, which lias been taken up by the Republicans, and he said he had lived to tee a Re? publican President take a plank out of the Democratic platform, and he had lived to see the man who defeat? ed him take a plank he himself wrote out Of his platform and put it through, This, he said, had now become an accepted doctrine, and yet it aroused bitter opposition only a few years ago. Three years ago. he said, the par? ties were divided on campaign con? tributions, the Democrats favoring publication before election and the Republicans, Including Mr, Taft and Mr. Itoosevelt, not until after election, and the bill afterwards passed em? bodied the Republican idea, "but our party has Insisted thai it should be before and the second measure in the Democratic programme when the Democratic Congress convened In ? >x traordlnary session was publication before election. I know of no such revolution In hi dory as there has been ttn this subject, for when thai ? |ii ........ ... ., I,, ? i rouse not and which the Republicans then op? posed, through their President In of? fice :111<i their candidate for Presi? dent." lie said: "What they used t<> call 'RryanisnV in derision and now what they call 'Bryanism' and do not make so much fun of," dors not rep? resent what he did, but the work of about Si* millions and a half of people in this country, "and all of us," he said, "have reason to rejoice. There is glory enough in the achievements of our party today to divide and enough for all. While the progress which had been made," said Mr. Bryan, "takes away from the Demo? cratic party any claim that it may have had to a monopoly of good ideas, still it is so much more important that the people should have reform than it is that those reforms should come from any party, that I think even as Democrats we can rejoice that things that were partisan because advocated by our party alone, have now become the accepted policies oi the country." MAY HAVE STARTLING DEVELOP? MENTS. Half Million Dollar Loss Entailed by Adoption of Many New Text Rooks. Columbia, June 23.?Some startling developments may follow the adopt on of school text-books hy the State hoard of education last night. The changes made will be effective for five years. They moan changes amounting to nearly eighty per cent of hooks used so that much buying of new books i* laid upon the patrons of public schools. The adoption of the new text-books changes the tax levy on the people of nearly half a mllion dollars. State Superintendent Swearingen says that if Winthrop should be wiped out by fire*it would not entail such loss as the new text? book contracts. It Is noticeable that the American Rook Company, letter known as th? school book trust got the lions share of the business. In the opinion of those opposed to the adoption the only redeeming feature Is the liberal exchange allowance made. On a number of contracts roll calls were necessary, but the board voted In most cases Viva voce, refusing flatly to use blanks Swearin? gen had prepared, showing ho ?? < ich I member vote d flow Blees? sav be I consented to the adoption in Tnomp* son's History only on the indertsand-I ing that toe authoj would amend the book so as to indicate that Sherman burned Columbia. He says he was j not Interested in any house or firm. I He says he has no criticism to ir.t'ke of the board's action in any respect. Milton Thompson, the 11-year-old lad who camo here on the trucks of a Seaboard train, is still held by the police awaiting advices from Cheraw. Telegrams from Cheraw ?ndicate that he misled the police by saying that his father was dead. Hi? father is employed at the Godfrey Lumber I Works in Cheraw. Catarrh Cannot bo Cured With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or con? stitutional disease, and In order to cure it you must tnke Interna! reme? dies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts direcily on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not a quad- medi? cine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular proscrip? tion. It is composed of the best ton? ics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfec t combination of the two Ingredients is what produces such wonderful re? sults in curing Catarrh. 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Atlantic Coast Line Rail? road = Low Round Trip Fares From Sumter, Tickets on Sale July 7, 8 and 9, 1911. $22.4* ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Account Benev dent and Protactlve Order of Kiks. Final re? turn limit duly 20, which may be extended to August 10, by de? positing ticket and paying $1.00. ROCHESTER, N. Y., $29.30 Account A. A. I?. X. Mystic Shrine. Final return limit July IS. which may be extended to August 15 by depositing ticket and paying $1.00. These Rates are Open to the Public. l or illustrated booklets dtscrtpttve of each <>f the above cities and trips and for schedules, Pullman reservations, etc, call on ?>. v. Player. Ticket Agon,. Sumter, s. <\. or address, W. J. CRAIG, Pawn for Trertlc Me wetter T. C. WHITE,