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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-04-08
MISS NARY I. NANCE
Points Out Ways Whereby Rural
Schools May Be Improved.

The rural schools of South Caro-
lima have been greatly improved in
recent years, but there is yet an enor-
nous amount of work to be done
before the schools in the country
will compare at all favorably with
the town and city schools. \ large
percentage of the population of our
State is rural and agricultural;
therefore, if every boy and girl is to
be given an equal chance for an ed
ucation it is very important that our
people build up good system of
country schools. The efficiency of
q country school depends largely
upon the effort put forth in a rural
community by its trustees and teach
ers. If they show that they are in
terested and will take the leadership
in improving their schools they will
not fail to get cooperation from pat
rons. | urge every country teacher
and trustee in South Carolina to ask
himself this question: What can |
do to make my school better? Find
ont how you can make it better and
90 to work with determination to
improve conditions. Success will
always attend an earnest effort.
During the recent session of the Leg
islature bill was passed appropri-
ating $4,000 for the purpose of
increasing the average length of the
school term and to improve the ef-
ficiency of the public schools in this
state.
The State Supt of Education, MIR
JESwearingen, will gladly send a
copy of this act, together with regu-
lations, to anyone who will wiite
him for same. Every rural school
should run longer than three or four
months; 80 if yours doesn't run at
least 100 days don't fail to take adj
vantage of this law. 1t provides
vat any school whose term is less
In one hundred days can secure
90 from the State Supt Of Edu-
ion for every $1.00 that the
rons may raise. If any school
lich pays $4,000 a mouth will
ise $1,000, the State will supply
$4,000 and thus lengthen the term
by one month. Of course, any
greater amount raised by the school
will secure correspondingly greater
addition to the school term. The
State Board of education has recent
ly set aside $4,000 of the library
fund to be used by the School Inn.
provement association for prizes.
This amount was offered last year
and 81 schools entered the contest.
1t is estimated that 100000 worth
of material improvement resulted
from this contest. If your school
did not apply last year, don't fail TO
make an effort to win a prize this
year. Regulations regarding prizes
can be secured by writing to Miss
Theodosia Dargan, Dalzell, S c. |
will be glad to furnish any trustees
or teachers in the State with any
information / can that will assist
them in improving the conditions OF
their schools.
MARY T NANCE,
Field Agent of Campaign Com.
Cross Hill. S G., April 8, 1909,
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-04-08

MARY T NANCE,
Field Agent of Campaign Com.
Cross Hill, S G, April 8, 1909.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
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I Don't fret, miss, dear" chirruped
Vic. You're afraid Mr.. st. George
will die here, but he won't. He's
!! big, strong fellow - 'twould take
| many hard knocks to kill him. III
| go again to the shippers hut-he has
more than one pair of oars. Cour'
| age!-we'll row to Watchhaven
yet"
mo, no, Vic. You must make nc
more ventures of that kind. I am
horribly afraid of the skipper and
that dreadful Peter" :
Pooh! Give Mr.. st. George some
of the medicine, miss, and I'll 60 and
see if Jim's boat is we'll beached fol
the night. If 1t gets adrift our TAI
will surely be all in the fire."
She stole softly from the cave, but
was back directly, her eyes cleaning
her voice husky.
"1'nem Jail birds have taken the
Victory" she announced. "They
must have seen her by the moonlight
when they started to, cross back to
the island. Very likely Joe had the
bars I dropped somewhere near,
Anyway, Jim's boat is gone, and with
her our hope of escape from Dragons
Nose!"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
RELIGIOUS READMG
FOR THE QUIET HOUR,
"sHE is NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEP.
ETH"

This is not DEATH! IT'S but a struggle
ended;
A ransomed soul in bonds refused to
keep;
And now God giveth HIS beloved sleep.
If tears will flow, not hopeless, is our
Our dear one rests among Christ's folded
sheep,
Just for q night; but God will, on the g.
morrow, y
: Awaken His beloved from their sleep.
Safe in their rest! No harm shall e'er be-
fall them
No fears disturb thei. slumbers, calm
And, through the night, till in the morn
- He call them,
God guards His OWL beloved while they
sleep.
Though summer shall still shine bright
above them,
And Ger their graves winters wild
storms shall sweep
They aye remain His children, though
they sleep.
Then, darling, rcstl Nay, nevermore shall
grieve thee
The ills that make earth's children sigh
and weep;a
And, till the day dawn, with thy Lord We
= leave thee, n
"For so He giveth His beloved sleep"
John D. Linnell, in London Christian. :
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
A Substitute.

."An ef~fectual substitute for the sa-
loon would be public casinos, support
ed by public taxation as schools are,
which should be as universally dis
tributed almost as saloons, open as
long as saloons, and provide a resort
for the men and women Of the neigh
borhood where they can meet to read
and enjoy all the liberty which is
found to-day in the saloon, excepting
intoxicating liquors, but where whole
some refreshments might be pur'
chased. These casinos might be made
self-supporting from the sale of re-
freshments"-that is one of the spe-
cial movements which is being cham.
pioned by Temperance, New Bruins.
wick, N. J., the monthly journal of
the Temperance Society of the Ep1s-
copal Church. Such a plan as this
ought to prove most successful where
prohibition has recently gore into
effect.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Temperance Notes.

Homes are blasted and families are
broken up by the rum traffic.
Emperor William will give his sup
port to officers drinking toasts in
water or non-alcoholic beverages.
Children are deprived Of education
and of opportunity to prepare for
success in the struggle OF life by the
rum traffic.
When the new employees are needed
on the railways Of Denmark those ap-
p~licants who have been abstaineTs
for at least one year will have the first
chance.
Last year the National Society for
the Prevention Of Cruelty to Children
in England dealt with 50,015 cases in
which want, suffering and abuse had
played havoc with their little victims.
1t is well known, comments the AL
lance News, that ninety per cent.
of these cases have their origin in the
drinking habits of the parents.
"Ninety-fve per cent. of the trou-
BILE in the police department, and at
least ninety-eight per cent. of the dis
charges in the fire department OF
Chicago, are due to the use of lntoXi-
can1s," declares Howard o. Sprodle,
attorney for the Civil Service Com
mission, in his annual report.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Mice on the Pillow.

I'm not so much afraid OF mice
as some women" said she, but
don't like them in my hair. The 9TH
er night 1 finished a biscuit I was
eating after / went to bed and natu-
rally left some crumbs about, not
meaning to, never think of the mice.
"Well, about the middle of the
night I heard scampering, and there
were the mice all over my hair, try
ing to get at those crumbs.
II tell you, I gave n Shrek,
sprang up, lighted all the gas in the
room and sat up the rest Of the night
watching that pillow."-NeW York
Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Beer and Babies.
n Ks had FOR babies.

Beer is bad for babies.
Beer is neither a food nor a slim
ulant.
Alcohol is poison; beer is. diluted
alcohol. 2, 4,
The most that has ever been
claimed for alcohol as food Is that
it is capable Of being converted into
heat and fat. But it is worthy OF
note that these claims have been
made by chemists and physicians paid
for their opinion by the manufac-
turers of alcoholic beverages. And
even they have had to admit that but
"a very limited quantity of alcohol
could be appropriated by the system .
Besides alcohol there is nothing OF
value in beer. ,
There is more food value in a tea
spoonful of milk than there is in a
gallon of beer. There is no poison in
milk. There is enough poison in a
gallon Of beer to kill ffty-one in
fants. .f.E
Beer contains from three to five
per cent. Of alcohol, or from two to
three teaspoonfuls Of alcohol in each
glass Of beer.
Three drops Of alcohol, which is
equivalent to one teaspoonful Of beer,
or six to eight drops of whisky or
brandy, will make a week old infant
drunk. That is why some mothers
and nurses give crying babies whisky
or brandy. 1t seems to cure the collie.
But it only makes them SO drunk they
60 into a stupid sleep.
What mother would like to see her
son brought home from the corner
saloon, or her daughter from the
dance hall, in a drunken stupor? Yet
how often will a mother deliberately
make the infant at her breast drunk
to prevent it from crying?
Are not beer and other alcoholics
in moderation stimulants? That is an
exploded theory. Does not alcohol
stimulate the heart to quicker beats?
No. 1t irritates it to a more rapid &C
ton in the systems effort to elm
mate the poison. Does it not stimu.
late digestion? No. 1t infames the
stomach and congests the liver. Does
it not stimulate the mind? No. 1t
makes the intellect stupid and dull.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
OUR Temperance COLUMN
REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF THE
BATTLE AGAINST RUM.
One Divorce in Five Due to Drink.

One Divorce in Five Due to Drink.
One of the most striking arguments
for temperance reform, says Mr.. L. A.
| Brady, is to be found in certain cold,
| di~spassionate statistics issued by the
United States Census Bureau. These
figures show that intemperance, as
| either a direct OF a contributing
cause, was responsible for o than
| nineteen per cent.-practically, me
| 6fth-of all divorces granted in q
! United States during the twenty years
between 1887-1906 inclusive. Since
at the present rate at least every
twelfth marriage ends in divorce, we
get a proportion of one home in every
| sixty-one wrecked by drink! More
over. the census authorities them
| selves, according to Mr.. Brady, admit
that these figures represent only n
| most fragrant and palpable instances
| on the part which ~intemperance plays
In divorce, and that greater percentt
ages than those actually given would
be nearer the truth. The detailed fig
ures as set forth in the census bulIe-
tin are as follows:
I"Drunkenness was the sole cause
of divorce in 36,5l6 cases, or 3.9 per-
cent. of the total number OF divorces
(18S7 to 1860. It was a cause IN
combination with some other cause
in 17,765 cases, or 1.9 per cent. OF
the total number. Therefore, it was
a direct cause, either alone OF in; COM
bination with other causes, in 54,2Sl
| cases, or ST per cent. of the total.
| OF divorces granted to the wife the
percentage for drunkenness either
alone or in combination with other.
causes was 10; Of those granted to.
the husband, the corresponding per-
centage, IA.
"The attempt was made to ascer-
tain also the numbero of cases in which
| drunkenness or intemperance, al
though not a direct ground for the
divorce, was an indirect or contribu-
tory cause, The number of such
cases was returned as 1S0,287, rep
| resenting 1873 per cent. OF the total
number of divorces. Probably this
number includes those cases in which
the fact of intemperance was alleged
in the bill of complaint or established
by the evidence. although not speci-
fed among the grounds for which the
divorce was granted.
1.-The remaining cases are those in
which there was no reference to in
temperance or no evidence that in
temperance existed as a c%ontributory
/; cause. In some Of these cases the
record was SO meager that the abb
sence of any mention Of intemperance
! would justify no conclusions. But IN
the majority of instances 1t would
create a strong presumption that In
temperance did not exist or was not a
contributorycause." -Literar Digest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Confirms an Oil Monopoly.

Frank Pierce, Assistant Secretary
of the Interior, it was announced In
Guthrie, Okla, has refused to grant a
right of way to the proposed Okla
homa Pipe Ill COMPANY, holding
tbrt the Prairie Oil and Gas Company,
a Standard Oil branch, is already in
Oklahoma and should handle Okla
homa oil. Oklahoma has denied per-
mission to the Prairie Oil and Gas
Company to build a pipe line because
it is not a domestic c~orporation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Trees Purify the Air.

It is a fact that trees along high.
ways, trees in towns and cities and
trees in groves amid agricultural re-
gions render the atmosphere purer
They by their foliage absorb hIrtful
gases, which would otherwise be
breathed by the inhabitants Of the
densely populated cities, thereby
modifying diseases, %lessening tho
dangers of epidemics and in many
ways improving the healthfulness OF
communicative York Farmer. !,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Secretary MacVeagh to Wear Red Tie

Secretary CT the Treasury Mac
Veagh says he thinks a red cravat Is
very becoming to gray hair. This ex-
Modes the story that the Cabinet has
decided to appear uniformly in pur-
pie or black ~cravats. Mr.. MacVeagh
made this important announcement
after Mrs. MacVeagh had left Wash
ington, D. c., for Chicago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
An Alibi.

The milkman stood before her,
~nervously twirling his hat in his
hands.
so" she said, sternly, you have
come at last?"
"Yes, madam. You sent for me, ]
believe" he replied.
II wished to tell you that found
a minnow in the milk yesterday
morning."
Il am sorry, madam, but if the
COWS will drink from the brook in
stead Of from the trough I cannot
help t."--Harper's Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Social Hygiene Fer Chicago Schools.

SUCIuI 1tySIe1Ie FUT NIICaSU o0IloOTs'
With a view to combating physical
and moral degeneration social hy-
giene is placed in the curriculum OF
Chicago high schools. This study is
necessary, according to Dr.. Alfred D.
Kohn, one of the school trustees, be-
cause Chicago has been for fifteen
years "the dumping ground for all
the worst elements of Europe" 1T
is rather ignorance than innate VIC
iousness which is the cause of the I'M
doing of young men and women"
says DR.. Kohn. Il believe that in
struction in social hygiene should be
given in separate classes, ons for boys
and one for girls"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
The Wondrous Love.

However rich we may once have
been in earthly love, and however
poor we may be to-day, we may be
many times richer if only the heart is
oDen for the entrance of the Infinite
and Living Love. No alienation, no
estrangement, no bereavement, can
leave us poor, if we but know the
love of Christ that passeth knowl-
edge"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Moral Influence.

The measure of moral influence lie
precisely the quality Of moral char.
acter. One clear lapse from goodness
and that authority exDires.-ReV. n.
T. Henson
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Rabbits at 500 and S25.

At Shamokin, Pa, John Socusk and
Frank Carpenter, while hunting, each
killed a rabbit. One Justice fined the
former SIS, while another fined Car.
penter $50.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22
Foundation of Life.

When you assist womanhood you
assist the nation. She Is the founda-
ton Of our lives, she is the inter-
mediary between man and all divin.
ity.-Rev. S. Parkes Cadman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-22

tndC early DanQ o. peTSSCuleu lolioW-
ers, who were condemnedan charged
with hideous crimes, with being pesti-
iential fellows, corrupters Of people.
How shall these few new converts
act? And the unbelieving world was
also looking on, ready to find and
magnify the slightest wrong, amazed
to see the slightest Improvement. 1t
Is one of the mighty things Of the past
to which we can turn u minds and
from which we can draw comfort and
encouragement.
To see and to know that these met
to whom the apostles are appealing,
formerly heather in their customs,
won the world to the religion of Jesuf
Christ. won it away from barbarism,
from idolatry and immoral corrup.
ton, what brave and good men and
women they must have been. What
mighty works can be done when peo-
pie are brave enough to do them. Lis
ten to St. Paul as he appeals plainly
and practically: "You must put off
the old things in which we walked
when we were Gentiles, when your
minds were darkened."
Put away lying and speak truth;
steal no more, but labor for your SUBJ
stance; no corrupt communication
must come out Of your mouth; let all
bitterness and wrath and clamor, NAL
ice, be put away from you, but speak
words to edify and minister grace ia
hearers, and be tendcr-hearted, for
giving one another, even as God for
Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
The appeal Of the great apostle Of
Jesus was made nineteen centuries
ago., but I think we all feel how mod
ern it might be. How st. Paul might
stand before us and speak the same
words with convincing power to our
souls. Would that he might.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-02-20
Lost Time.

After travelling over some hard
beaten paths around the city tor
several hours last Thursday night,
!. \. Wilmont awoke the next
morning to find tha, he had been
relieved OF his watch and eighty
dollars in cash. Wilmont is a
Cuervo boy who had come up 10
Tucumcari TO see the sights and
after falling in with some pals,
whom he had never seen before
and whose names he could no,
remember the next morning, went
with them Tor "a lark. They were
having the time oi their lives it Is
said, when Smoky" Miller butted
in and pulled Wilmont tor being
drunk and dlsorJerly. The next
morning the hoy pleaded guilty
before Justice Patterson and after
paying a fine OF five dollars he
announced himself candidate
tor the water wagon brigade.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-02-20
JACK RYAN OF DALHART FINDS Hin
SELL, A WISER AND A. SADDER YOUTH

TO the surprise OF all, and Jack
especially, the name OF James
o. Rourkc, the very man who made
the casual suggestion, was found
there in fancy red letters.
Jack was dumbiounded and de.
clared that II was a mean trick
that some one had worked on him
while he was asleep. The name
wasn't there Yesterday. The evi.
dence to overbalence the boy's S
words and 'Rourke's second sug.
gestion, that anything with his
name on it ought to belong to him,
carried the day.
Jack was taken TO his room and
there he Reluctantly gave up his
clothes which his father had bough,
for him at a second hand store in
Dalhart. O'Rourke filed no com.
plant against the hoy alter regain.
INK his suit and only remarked
that he hoped the youth would
profit by his expss,sncs.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-02-20
OVER THE FENCE Is OUT Is STILL
FOUND IN LATEST BASEBALL RUl as

Aroused by the cackeling oi pul.
lets and a rough house on the chick
en- roost in general, at an unsea-
sonable hour, namely two a. m,
Mrs. Wilkerson. who lives on Cen
ter street, stole from her bed last
Tuesday morning, to ascertain the
cause oi the disturbance. Taking
a revolver with her she went into
the back yard, where she became
convinced that the commotion was
not the result OF mere nightmares
among the occupants OF the roost
but that the more probable sup.
position was that their slumbers
were being unduly disturbed by
some rude hand which was yank.
ing them from the roost to a gunny
sack,
cEouching into the deor way,
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-02-20
CONTRACTORS HAVE
ARRIVED IN CITY.
Construction Work will Begin on
the Chociaw IN. a Few Days.

The beginning OF actual con.
struc,ion work on the Tucumcart
and Memphis railroad is no longer
matter OF weeks, but OF days
simply. w. 5. Buchard, the
general superintendent OF the ]. A.
Ware Consti uction Co., arrived in
this city last Thursday morning
and began operations imme-
dia,ely. Mr.. Buchard has iull su.
perintendence VI the construction
work on the new line and will open
up an office here next Monday or
TUESDAY. The three days after
his arrival were spent in confer
ence with sub.con,ractors. FIVE
being on the ground when he ar.
rived. Several sub.contracts have
been let and many more sections
OF the line are being bid Tor. Con.
tracts are being let for construc-
ton work from one mile TO twenty
OF the new line.
II is the intention OF Ware *
Co., TO have work in operation all
along the line simultaneously, and
not TO begin at each end OF the
route and work forward. Each
sub-contracior will take his section
and start to work immediately; the
whole road bed will be completed
before the summer is over. Ware
4 Co.. have decided to suble, as
much OF the construction work as
possible and TO bring their own
scrapers into the field to do IN.
remainder.
Mr.. Buchard stated to the
News, the day he arrived here,
that he was certain that work will
begin next Friday or the Monday
following at the latest.
Tucumcari merchants will fur
nish the supplies tor all the grad.
my camps between this city and
Endee. This feature alone will
bring thousands OF dollars into the
city. AS yet i, has not been de-
cided whether to let one merchant
contract TO furnish all the supplies
or allow each sub-contractor to
make his own arrangements on
that score.
Engineers are now at work at
various places along the line cross
sectioning the right.ot.way. This
will be- completed before the grad
ers take the field
The Ware contracts only call
Tor the completion OF the grade
and bridges. The furnishing oi
the ties and the laying OF rails will
either be done by the railroad
company or awarded as a separate
contract.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-02-20
WARE TAKES DEPOT
FROM his VALISE.
Building Material is Arriving fos
Construction Of New Depot.

Local railroad men were highly
elated this morning on the arrival
OF two car loads OF the platform
foundation which is TO be used in
the construction OF the new pas.
senger depot at this point. This
has been expected tor sometime
but now that the work will begin
tor ce.tain next week can no long.
er be doubted. From time to time
the superintendent oi the buildings,
Is. c. Ware, has been in Tucum.
carl with the new depot in his
valise. The last time he was here,
however, he lett it with the people
and before long the public will be
enjoying it,
The remainder OF the building
material will reach the city this
week. The new building will be
erected on the site the present one
occupies; and the old building,
which IS to he used tor freight, is
TO be moved up to First street.
Fifteen thousand dollars is to be
expended on the new depot and
the moving OF the old one.