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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. Send for
testimonials free.
P. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.
Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, price 7 5c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con?
stipation.
Wins Fight For Life.
It was a long and bloody battle for
life that was waged by James R.
Mershon, of Newark, N. J., of which
he writes: "1 had lost much blood
from lung hemorrhages, and was very
weak and run-down. For eight
months 1 was unable to work. Death
seemed ( lose on my heels, when 1
began, three weeks ago, to use Dr.
King's New Discovery. But It has
helped me greatly, it Is doing all
that you claim." For weak, sore
lungs, obstinate coughs, stubborn
colds, hoarseness, la grippe, asthma,
hay-fever or any throat or lung trou?
ble Its supreme, fieo and $1.00. Trial
l ottle free. Guaranteed by filbert's
Drug Store.
Summer School for Teachers.
There will be a Summer School for
teachers for Sumter County, b< gin?
ning Monday, July 24, and lasting for
four weeks, The branches taught
will be: English, Mathematics, His?
tory. Geograph, Manual Training and
Primary Methods. The instructors
Mr. s. Ii. Edmunds, Miss E. W. Mc?
Lean and Miss Ague i?. Richardson.
\11 of the public school teachers
of Sumter County are urged by the
County Hoard of education to attend.
For further Information apply to the
undersigned.
Pains All Over!
"You are welcome," says Mrs. Nora Guffey, of Broken
Arrow, Okla., "to use my letter in any way you want to,
if it will induce some suffering woman to try Cardui. 1 had
pains all over, and suffered with an abscess. Three phy?
sicians failed to relieve me. Since taking Cardui, I am in
better health than ever before, and that means much tome,
because I suffered many years with womanly troubles, of
different kinds. What other treatments i tried, helped mc
for a few days only."
Cardu i WomartoTonic
Don't wait, until you arc taken down sick, before tak?
ing care of yourself. The small aches and pains, and other
symptoms of womanly weakness and disease, always mean
worse to follow, unless given quick treatment
You would always keep Cardui handy, if you knew
what quick and permanent relief it gives, where weakness
and disease of the womanly system makes life seem hard
to bear. Cardui has helped over a million women. Try it
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for Uptcial Inttructiom, awl 64-page book, "Home Treatment lor Women," sent free. ] 51
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T4QV C^nir* Rice Flour, Ship Stuff. Bran,
lid., , Uidlll, Mixed Cow and Chicken Feed.
Horses. Mules, F,aurn^es' ^
No or<i??r To*. I.?rar Or Too Small.
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IN
Booth-Harby live Stock Co.
SUMTEK, SOUTH CAROLINA.
; YOU 11
DON'T
WAIT
Wait for next Spring
nnr? higher prjees - buy
now and reap the pro?
fit yourself
SjjM 01 ttj jjjjijj PgjjMjig u^i6? wita Us m?? at Quirt Sd.c. htau
No. 331 West Hampton Avenue.
No. 212 West Hampton Avenue.
No. 24 Haskell Street.
SUMTER REAL ESTATE Z INSURANCE CO.,
Sumter, S. C.
Farmers' Bank & Trust Co. Bldg,
Broad Street Property.
Th.' future of Hroad Street Property is good. This section is |OiOf to be
the resident*? sSCtlon of the city. A street railway system is U>und to come
in the next four or five rears, and with it*, construction Broad Bisset Pro?
perty will double and treble in value.
TheT. W. McCallum property. eunststtag of :i six room house, servant
houM. hams, stables all necessary OUt-building! \\ni I acres of land, is
one of the BSQSt attractive r>n>i>o>i?.u>ns in near-in property in rh;t.r section.
For the next 10 days we can "flVr ? special price on this property.
('an you realize an opportunity when it is t tiered, o-only after it is
psssed ?
R. B. Belser Co.
Real Estate Brokers Sumter, S. C.
N. B.?Funds of $200, $500, S800, Sl,00O, $1,500 and
S.2,C0o to loan on real estate.
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,