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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-19
IMPORTANT OPINION.
Common School Trustees Have No
Right to Levy Incidental Fees.

Common School Trustees Have No
Right to Levy Incidental Fees.
Assistant Attorney General Gunter
yesterday handed the state superin-
tendent of education an opinion of far
reaching Importance. Under this opin
ion the law of the state forbids school
districts to charge pupils incidental
fees going to make up the tuition fees
which they cannot legally charge. 1t
will affect many public schools in the
state whose resources have thus been
most materially added to from time to
time.
This opinion has no bearing upon the
decision Of the supreme court rendered
sometime ago, in the Rock Hill case,
which allowed the charging Of such
fees in schools. In that case the schools
were chartered, and the charter gave
the right to charge supplemental and
incidental fees.
MIR. Gunter's opinion reads as fol-
lows:
Dear Sir: Your request to be advised
upon the following question: Can a
board Of trustees Of free school
charge an incidental fee or impose any
other kind of cost as a prerequisite to
entrance Of scholars to the public
schools?"
I am of the opinion that the boards
can impose no such charges. The
| 90 ~ ,fo f,,fp
construction can have no authority ex-
cept such as granted by statute.
Boards of trustees are created under 4
general school law. This law provides
for the complete free school schema IF
the state, and Is entitled IAN act to
declare the free school law Of the
state" approved March 3. 1896. The
title as we'll as the body Of act denotes
the intention of the general assembly
to give the people free school. No:
only free in name, but free in fact.
After a careful perusal Of every sec
ton of the act I have been unable to
find any authority, either direct or by
implication, to impose the fee referred
to. 1t Is true that the board Of trus-
tees are charged with the management
of the free schools Of their respective
districts, and are given authority to act
80 as best to promote the educational
interests Of their district. That feature
is left to the tax collecting and tax dis
bursting machinery. The trustees are
given authority to distribute and ex-
pend the school funds Of district for
the best interest of the district. There
can, therefore, be no excuse to attempt
to raise funds for any incidental pur-
pose by an incidental fee for the whole
sum raised by taxation is available for
any educational purpose. If board Of
trustees can impose a small fee they
could likewise impose large fee, there
by making attendance impossible, and
thus thwarting the object Of a free
school law This conclusion has, Of
course, no reference to schools opera
ting under special charters or special
legislation, wherein authority Is given
to charge fees or tuition, the supreme
court having recently sustained sucn
a power. The cases passed upon by the
supreme court have no bearing upon
schools operated under the general
free school law Of the state.-Colum-
] bia State, Wednesday.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-19
We
Have
The Goods.
SHOES.

Whether for ladies, gentlemen Children or ALL we have
the LARGEST STOCK OF SHOES that has ever been ex-
hbted this Any customer satisfy himself or her
self about the of this claim by personal nves-
tigaton that will than fifteen minutes We
have all kinds of Shoes including large assortment for the
fine trade and the values that giving along this line
calculated asonish people who best informed as to
how far dollar should 60 the proper dressing of the feet
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-19
We
Have
The Goods.
DRESS GOODS.

is the ladies generally who know about goods than
do any other class of AS rule they know what
they want and they ndentify it when they see it. There
wide range of among the ladies' and to be able to
please them all requires lots of goods The range in quail
ties and styles in Our DRESS GOODS department is wide,
and few are the who unable to find something
to suit them exactly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-19
We
Have
The Goods.
CLOTHING.

There not many complete stocks of GENTLEMENS
CLOTHING in this immediate section There are quite
number of concerns that carry few Clothes complete
stock means all patterns and qualities for thin men, me-
dunn men, long men, short men, stout men, To carry
stock like this calls for lots of money and lots of room We
are somewhat crowded. maybe; but we have the stock
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-19

The nerve that never relaXes. the
eye that never blenches. the thought
that never wan lers-these are the mas
ters of victory. Burke.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-19

A calm at sea resembles that artifl-
cial sleep which Is produced by opium
in an ardent fever: the disease Is sus-
pended. but no good is derived from 1t.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-19
J. M. HEATH & CO.,
Dry Goods Department.
We
Have
The Goods.
VARIETY
VARIETY.

TfT HETHER the prospective customer knows exactly
WV what he she wants any given line, or whether
he she is in doubt, recognize that the all inn
portant requirement of complete stock is variety in style
and quality Because of this fact carry larger stock than
any other within twenty-five miles of Yorkvie
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Some Odd Names Proposed by Him for
New States.

There were some novel PROPOSE
tions IN Mr. Jeffersons plan Of gov
ernment. One Of them was that no
person should be admitted to citizen
ship who had a hereditary title; that
slavery should not be permitted; that
whenever any one Of the new states
showed as great population as the
least numerous Of the Is original
states it should become member of
the union. But it is fortunate that
the names he proposed for the new
states were not adopted, for Mime
sofa would have been called tsSyl-
sania, Michigan Afichigania, the
upper peninsula : aCherronesus, Illi-
nois 9 Assenispia, southern Ohio
z Netropotania, western Indiana
and eastern Illinois nlinoia," " east
ern Indiana and western Ohio Sara
toga,s and beyond the Mississippi
other states were to be called Poly-
potamia' and xPelisipiia. W. E.
Curtis, in Chicago Record.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
The Gradient Railway.

Hartford's patent gradient railway
is just now claiming the attention of
experts. Its inventor claims, says
London Tit-Bits, that a speed Of not
less than 200 miles an hour can be
obtained by his gradient system No
motive power whatever is required,
the carriages, which are suspended on
each side Of the rails, travelling along
a continuous gradient, thus acquiring
great velocity. The rails are in sec
tions, each part being supported by
hydraulic rams, which supply the
power by which the incline is pre-
pared as the train approaches each
section of the permanent way, the lat
ter assuming a level position again
Us soon as the train has passed.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
ODD BIT OF ROMANCE.
This Man Climbed Fire Escape 10
Give a Girl 4 Flower.


Talking about climbing" said q
travelling man, macs me think
of story heard up IN the state
of a fellow who climbed a fire es-
cape to give a flower back to q girl
at party. We all called the fellow
The Duke he was such a royal
good fellow, and he earned his
name many a night when he was
out with the boys. The Duke was
out one night with a bunch Of the
fellows and there was quite a bit
of fzz spilled before we started for
the roundup at the hotel. We were
all up in the air. a little, but The
Duke was the best Of us all. It was
about one o'clock when We finished
and wandered along toward our
cots.
saThe Duke heard some music in
one Of the buildings on a corner,
and looking up, saw the figure of
girl IN white outlined against win
dow. She was leaning out when one
of the American Beauties she was
wearing dropped to the street, right
at The Dukes feet.
!" Tn going to take it back to
her., said he, and he was as good as
his word. The stairs were too good
for him, so he climbed that fire es-
cape, while the rest of the bunch
staid on the street, till he reached
the fourth-story window A little
dusty from his trip, but as polished
as if he had not touched single
cold bottle. The Duke climbed In
at the window, with all the dancers
staring at him. In a moment he
had picked out the girl seen at the
window and handed her the rose.
did she thank him? Well, /
should say not. She froze him, sim
ply cut him cold, and he walked
down the stairs broken-hearted. He
found out the girls name and the
next day wrote her note apologize
ing for his behavior. She answered
il, and last week the man who told
the story to me showed me an an
nouneement of their wedding."
Milwaukee Sentinel.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
GOOD EYEsIGHT.
Artist Righted Ships Course While Sea-
men Persisted in Error.


Mr.. N. Cheyalier, the Well-known
artist who accompanied the late
duke of Edinburgh on many of his
travels, was once going from Dune
din to Lyttelton, New Zealand, by
steamer. Anxious to catch the ear
lest glimpse of the coast, he went
on deck at dawn, and was alarmed
to see that the vessel was heading
straight on to the land. Calling the
officers attention to the fact, he
was told that it was only a fog bank.
The artist maintained his point, but
the second officer looked and con-
firmed his mate. The artist then
said: "Well, gentlemen, / viii back
my artists eye against your sail
or's eye, and I say that what you
mistake for fog bank is low
range Of hills, and there is range
Of mountains appearing above
them" But he was only laughed at,
until the captain coming on deck
found, in the growing light, that
the artist was right and the seanen
wrong. The vessel was out Of its
course, and there was only just time
to avert disaster. The helmsman
was dismissed in disgrace, and the
course given to the new steersman,
but the vessels head still pointed
landward-the compass was still
wrong. The cause was discovered
later. A commercial traveller had
brought box of magnets on board
and deposited them in q stern cabin,
causing what might have been IA
tai DETECTION of the compass. To
return to the question of interpre-
tation. The artist was dealing with
the appearances which his eye was
trained to see and his mind to IN
terpret. A speek on the horizon
might have remained mere speek
to him long after the sailors had IN
terpreted the speek into a vessel of
definite rig. There can be little
doubt, SAYS The Spectator, that the
t1ained eye is accompanied BY a sort
of mental seeing, an instinct out
running optics.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
Only One Jewish Convict.

An influential English Jewish
peeress, member of the board Of di-
reetion Of the female convict pris-
ons, was distressed at the lack of
provision Of devotional literature
for Jewish prisoners and undertook
to bring about correction, with
the result that the home secretary
authorized special devotional litera-
ture for Jewish convicts. A pop
ular work was selected and large
stock. secured. Wien the distribu-
ton commenced the most careful
search only produced one Jewess IN
British prisons.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
COUNTED THE STAIRS.
How the Swedish Shoemaker Came to
Get His Wife

The shoemaker came from Stock
holm, Sweden, and he is always glad
to tell people how things are done
there. He says that he is responsible
for the introduction Of the habit of
inhaling cigarette smoke, that he
learned to smoke cigarette in
Sweden. where they cost one cent
each, by cutting It in four pieces and
smoking the parts in holder. He
has dear little Swedish wife quite
superior in her station, and very
pretty. He likes, says the Kansas
City Journal, to tell how he got her.
1t was in this way:
When In Stockholm he lived in q
kind Of apartment house where one
key fitted every lock. On one ocea-
sion, instead Of going up to the third
flight, where his room was, he stopped
on the second at a corresponding lo-
cation. He fulnbled at the latch with
his key, and opened the door into
room where a number Of young girls
were engaged in making artificial
flowers. The prettiest one arose from
the long table, and with q curtsey
asked him what he would please to
want. He was a bold youth and good
looking withal, and he said, with
respectful bow:
A wife
That threw them into such confn-
sion that he apologized and told them
that he would thereafter count the
stairs and not make the mistake Of
intruding upon them again. He did
this for several months, meeting the
pretty girl he had admired often, but
not daring to speak to her, until one
day when he did her a slight service,
he said:
gu see have kept nv word
eyes, She retoried, with 4 pretty
grimaee, are you going on counting
the stairs forever, stupid p
And now they are married and liv-
ing in America, and he is the Swedish
shoemaker whom everybody likes.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
To Prevent Train Robberies.

A New Orleans paper contains
the suggestion of an electrical en-
gineer that train robbery would be
rendered less easy a task were means
provided for the instant extinguish-
ment of the lights IN a train in case
of alarm Because many outlaws
would be necessary to guard the ex-
its and because the light the rob
bers would find necessary to use ii
passing through the train would
make them conspicuous target for
armed employees and passengers. :
The suggestion, says the Railway
and Engineer Review, seems worthy
Of consideration, for either gas 81
electric lights can be easily cut Of
In case Of alarm.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
Net Many Dlscouragements

b =
Cyrus ". Field worked for ten
years against all sorts Of discour-
agements to perfect the laying Of
the Atlantic cable. He began in
1856, and the first message passed
over the cable IN August, 1858,
Queen Victoria sending it to Presii-
dent Buchanan. In the midst Of re-
joicing, however, the cable broke,
and the finally successful effort was
not completed until July 20, 1866.
It was not only difficulty about
money and with the laying Of the
cable, but public distrust that Mr..
Field had to eonbst during that
weary time
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
HE GOT THE PRIZE.
Literary PUSHES That Were Given at .
Church SociabIe.

As a suburban church function,
not long ago, each person was re-
quired to wear conspicuously upon
his or her clothing some pictorial or
other device that should represent
IN "rebus" form the title of any we'll
known book, and all the others were
to guess at the book intended. A
prize was to be given for the most
ingenious Of these devices.
Paradise Lost 2 represented by
a card upon which five dice had been
pasted, and from which two had'eyi-
IDENTIFY dropped or been removed, was
easily guessed. Hard Times was
no puzzle. Neither was It hard to
recognize "A Pair of Blue Eyes" In
nocents Abroad" " Vanity Fair or
Uncle Toms Cabin" in spite of
their pictorial disguises.
One of the guests, however, accord
ing to London Tit-Bits, had poser.
Attached to one of the buttons of his
coat was card bearing simply the
inscription: STer."
Everyone at last gave it up and
asked forthe solution.
fSWhy, that's easy" be said. I'll
means "A Tale of Two Cities" /"
Explain"
Manchester and Leicester. Last
syllable of both. See?''
1<That's not fair = said the others.
It's the last syllable of Chester, Ian
caster, Gloucester, Chichester and
Exeter. We protest."
"Well," he said, Il won't insist.
Try this one
He turned the card over. It was
inscribed on the other side with these
three letters: Ans
After severe mental struggle ev-
erybody gave this up also.
That ought not to puzzle you,
he said. It's The Last Of the Mo.
hieans.
He got the prize.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
In THE SALT COUNTRY.
subsidenee Of the Soil a Daily Occur
renee in England

Il =
Periodically one hears Of this
or that subsidenee in Norwich
or Winsford, chief centers Of the
salt industry ii England, and
thinks little about it. The resi-
dents in the neighborhood itself
seem 50 philosophical that the
stranger may be forgiven if he also
just shrugs his shoulders and mere
" exclaims: SWhat a pity!' By
most remarkable luck, no one seems
to lose his life in these accidents.
There are, to be sure, says Cham
bers Journal, a number of stock au-
thentic tales Of narrow escapes. A
Brewers man, with a vain full of
beer barrels had left the cart when
of sudden down il went, horses,
beer barrels and all, and nothing re-
nlained but a hole with the earth
still crumbling in upon the van
ished load a man was fishing for
pike IN a pool near Norwich, when
he felt the banks sliding under him.
He hurried upward, and then, be-
fore his eyes whole trees and thou
sands of tons of earth moved rap
idly down into the pool and disap-
peared, leaving the pool itself much
extended. A peasant brought al
COW into the town to sell, and 10! a
hungry rift broke in the very
streetway under his nose, between
him and his, COW. And so forth.
There are scores Of less sensational
recorded incidents; and the NUM-
Der of houses, churches, and manu-
factories that have been ruined by
subsidence must now be well over
a thousand But the only man
known to have been thus lost I'M
.derneath seems to have been an ur-
fortunate named Iittler, who, while
mining in the rock salt, had to run
with Others before the danger Of a
slide, but returned for his coat, and
has never been seen since. Of this
event there can be no doubt. One
of the peor fellows comrades told
me the tale, pointing out the marly
cliff above the mere as the exact up
Der site Of his tomb.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
TELEPATHIc ENGAGEMENT.
Fad That Is Now Popular with
the Young People.

One of my girl friends, says a
writer III the Milwaukee Sentinel,
who keeps up Withthe times, informs
me that the very newest thing IS the
telepathic engagement, and she says
that it is keeping her busy remember
ing to think Of certain people at GER
tain hours of the day and remain pas
sive at other times when some one
is supposed to be directing her mem
tai apparatus for her. AtI5.minutes
to SIX each night, she sits down and
composes her mind into something
as nearly like vacuum as she, being
an energetic sort Of young woman,
can make it. She is supposed to sim
| ply await whatever message is sent
her by the man with whom she has
Itelepathic engagement at that time,
| he in the meantime being engaged
in transferring his thoughts to her.
In that Is minutes she watches for
any mental sign that may come-an
impulse, desire, a wish-and this
she notes down in small blank book
the duplicate of which is being kept
by the man for comparison when the
two meet in their bodily selves. 1t.
wouldn't be SO If he were the onlv
man, and the Is minutes before SIX
the only time, but what is driving
this young woman to distraction is
the multiplicity of telepathie en-
gagemenfs that are piling up. She
has them made for week ahead,
sometimes Of the active, sometimes
Of the passive sort, and she is never
quite sure these days whether the
thought she is thinking actually be
longs to her or has been lent for the
occasion. When she is seized with
mild desire for honey nougat she is
not quite sure, you see, whether it is
because some one has willed that she
should spend. her money in this way
or whether her system is really de-
manding bit of sweets. And when
she feels particularly unselfsh and
charitable she can no longer glow
with inward satisfaction because she
fears that at heart she is neither and
that her goodness is only the reflex
action of the mind with which she
chances to be in telepathic commune
cation at that particular time. It
sounds exciting, but being old-fash-
ioned I'm not quite sure that these
mental attentions would altogether
suffice or entirely take the place Of
certain small eourtesies. But there
is no doubt that the telepathic en-
gagement is great saving in time
and money for the man.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
SOMEBODY.

As pursue my daily tasks.
Upstairs and downstairs, in and out
Each room / enter bears the trace
OF Somebody who's been about.
In mothers room Miss Dolly sleeps,
All tucked away in Someone's bed;
And on the window ledge I find
A file of soldiers painted red.
A stately castle, built of blocks,
lis tottering on the nursery floor;
A basket filled with weeds adorns
The handle of the nursery door;
In Daddy's tub / see afioat
A wondrous navy. large and SMALL
And-where it has no right to be-
Upon my desk Somebody's ball.
If Chopin | attempt to play,
Somebody climbs into my lap;
And Somebody comes stealing in
If / lie down TO take a nap.
And when, again, / try to write,
Somebody takes my pen away;
Or if / wish to go abroad,
Somebody begs: % mother, stay!
: So many stitches TO be sewn,
So many buttons to put on,
With whips to make and toys To mend,
And endless knots to be nndone-
o God, I pray these tasks may still
Be mine with every coming day!
How could I live if Thou shouldst take
Somebody and my cares away
Mabel Whitmore, in Good Housekeeping
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1901-03-09
A CLEVER SWINDLE.
Game One Crook Worked Successfully
in the Middle West,

in the Middle West,
Speaking of d1lnning as a fine
art, ,"sa1d professional collector, who
has had a good deal of experience,
to a New Orleans Times-Demoerat
| representative, Z am reminded of d
very ingenious scheme that was
worked some eight or nine years ago
in the middle west by a broken-down
lawyer named McFadden. He was
naturally an able fellow, who had
gone to the dogs by the alcohol route,
and he finally planned big coup to
raise stake and get out Of the coun-
try. The first thing he did was to
have lot Of fancy stationery print
ed for what he called the Inter Ocean
ie Commercial and Collection asso-
ciation. Then he wrote to the lead
ing merchants In each of number
Of small towns throughout the north
west, stating that he made speciality
of collecting outlawed and worthless
debts and asking that he ba sent q
trial account against some debtor who.
had moved to anotherstate Any bill
Of five dollars or less he agreed to.
collect without charge, merely to
show what he could do. This seemed
a fair proposition to the country mer-
chants addressed, and they proceed
ed to rummage their musty files for
old bills, long since regarded as hope
less. A number were forwarded, and
in a short time the senders we're
amazed to receive postal orders for
the full amount. OF course, MeFad-.
den. made these remittanees out of
his own pocket, and as fast as they.
were mailed he would send a hustling
canyasser to the town to solicit mem
berships to his association For
these he charged $50 apiece, guaran-
teeing to collect bad bills gratuitous-
ly for all members for a period ofssix
months. His phenomenal success
with the trial would naturally be the
talk Of the town when his representa-
tive arrived, and the rural merchants
fairly fell over one another to getinto
his association. How many member
ships he sold nobody knows except
the recording angel, but they ran
away up into the hundreds, and as
fast as his solicitors were working one.
field he was pavng the way for them
in another. In a short time he had
a colossal concern on his hands, and
his mail was coming in by the bush
Ell basket mostly bad bills forwarded
for collection by his new members.
He might have kept the game going
indefinitely, but prosperity ruined
him, and heeyentually losttrack Of his
correspondence and got things in.
such tangle that a Philadelphia law.
yer couldn't have Strengthened them
out in 10 years. Thenhe disappeared
into space, and year or so later the
news came that he had died at Rio,
after trying to suppress the Brazilian
liquor traffic BY drinking up all the
whisky there was in the country.
That is the true history Of McFad-
den's celebrated Inter Oceanic Com
mereial and Collection association.
pity the next man who goes into the
rustic northwest with any kind Of
collection agency scheme. He will
need a flying machine and a suit of
chain armor.o