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SUMMER SCHOOL. County Superintendents of Five Counties Arrange For Joint Institute at Greenville. Greenwood, S. C. March 8.-The county superintendents cf education of the following counties met here yesterday: Sahida. Abbeville. New berrv. Laurens and Greenwood. and decided to hold here a sum mer school with eight or ten instruct ors. These counties will comprise a district and it is their hope that by so doing they can have a much better school than if the old plan of indi vidual schools was held. The sessions will be held at Lander college. Hon. 0. B. Martin, state superintendent of education. was present and encour aged the work. All of the superin tendents were enthusiastic over the prospect of a good school. Arrange ments will be made at once to have prominent educators deliver address es. It is currently reported that the Charleston and Western Carolina rail way will at an early date put on an other passenger train running from. Spartanburg to Greenwood and re turn. This train is asked for Spar tanburg T. P. A., and is seconded by Greenwood business men. If put on it will arrive here about 10 o'ciock a. m. and return to Spai-tanburg in the evenTe-. A LUOKY REPORTER. He Happened to Be on the Spot on * Important Occasions. Remson Crawford in Success Maga zine. It requires eternal vigilance for a reporter to bag his game, leaving not a single chance for escape. It might be further said, however, that the ele ment of luck does creep in now and then, either to a newspaper man's ad vantage or to his ruin., When Regi nald Foster was one of the craft, he came famous as the luckiest of re porters. He was alert, energetic and capable of writing an excellent story when he landed it, but seemed to have a mascot perennial and eternal. Wherever he went he stumbled upon a "beat.'' He happened to be report ing a St. Patrick's day parade and went into Windsor hotel to telephone his office when the fateful fire started in the hostelry, resulting in the horri ble deaths of a great number of per sons. Foster abandoned the parade, and helped rescue the imprisoned pa trons of the burning hotel, and that Every day in M to sell merchar lower than the Io everybody to-sef Dru Goods, JI Milin We are showil weaves and de White Goods, Sill Wash Go Shar ~It will pay you to to' purchase y Watch next Fri the big sale, Sa and Tuesday. The Right F A r AT 'We will havE there is not r Immense Stock We have just re thing included it converted into ( No 25 per cent. DON'T BUY ANYTH It is a case of MI and none on Ap night wrote a graphic account of the fire from start to finish. He*.as the most available reporter in Ne*y4rk when the great Hoboken fire started, and hiring a steamer in the name of his. newspaper, he saved many lives before the firemen could render aid. When President McKinley was assas sinated at Buffalo the first news came to aI the papers in New York in the shape of a very brief bulletin. A group of newspaper men simulta neously asked of each other, ''Where is Foster?'' Somebody explained that he was then on his vacation at Narra gansett Pier, but even while he was speaking, a telegram to the city edi tor was received and torn open. It read thus: ''I was right beside the president when he was shot, having come to Buffalo exposition to close my vacation. Will send full descrip tive story tonight.'' It was Foster. HAVIRD! arch we intend ~idise at prices west, and invite i our stock of eru alid Notions. ig all the new signs in ks, ods, >es and Colors in Hats and Trirnmings. come 50 miles )ur spring bill. :day's paper for1 :urday, Monday lAVIRD, rice Store. +I cop' to give up ti . place in Ne\ into, The Sto4 ceived a big and i this Sale. It is ,ash. We can gE or sensational sc ING, ANYWHERE, JST SELL with u. probation during TrUTH ABOUT ADVERTISING. Temptation to Exaggerate Should Be Resisted By Writers. There is no good thing in this world that is not misused, and this is as true of advertising as of anything else. The temptation to "stretch things'' in telling a story .of business -which is truly what an advertise ment is-is as strong as in telling an ordinary yarn; and this leads to un truth and deception, with the conse quent result that the average adver tisement is discounted as to its most important statements, and in many cases properly so. The firm that suc ceeds in sticking to the exact truth in its advertising and convinces the people of the fact, has learned the se cret -of making advertising pay, pro viding it also knows how to tell the truth in a timely and convincing man ner. A single business man in a town who brazenly disregards setting forth exact facts in his advertising may eas ily spoil the value of advertising to all the rest and to the newspapers as well, so that it would be a splendid law if it could be made an indictable offense for a dealer to make any state ment in print not easily substantiated. NTo doubt there would be a revolution in present advertising methods, but the result would be healthful and in the end more profitable to all concern ed. .No town ever amounts to much without one or more good newspapers to tell the stories of business. This can be set down as indisputable. The advent of a newspaper, therefore, of ten marks the beginning of a town's business prosperity and general awak ening, but it is doubtful whether the newspaper is given this credit. It is often true that a non-advertiser in a live town does a good business-it is very natural that he should-but the credit is not due to himself or to his not advertising, but to those. *ho do spend their cash liberally with the newspapers and bring the tide of peo pIe to the plae6 to trade. -Once there they are very likely to drop .into stores that do not advertise, particu larly in certain lines- of business- not usually extensively advertised. See ojgdly, then, .it is the. adyertisers_who help 'make a- town -progressive--in helping their own business they help tall business. - The sum of the whole question is, therefore;' that public spirited and discerning peopTe' should suppor-t ad vertising fir~ahld st'the siehs time insiston 'their ;tslling .he thith. -If the people'like -to be . deeived-anid some'a.ppear to-they aeW apta to ;be accommodated, bet jf ier-chans kno*-tbim thieir afinounemsnits are critically watehed and that' their gn truthfulness reacts on .their--business no otheriricentive toWard i-eformation is neeaed: The peoplsecazi, if they' wish, compel truthful stories of bus iness to be told and thereby raise the value of advertising to' everybody the merchant, the newspaper, the town and the community in general. Taneytown (Md.) Record. When a woman hates somebody it is a sign she is going to smile as if L Af ie store that vberry avaih :k MUST BE & complete line not a question kt room for Casi le will equal th 0 WEAR UNTIL YI ; No time to Ic ( this Sale. Wil THE SOUTH THE PLACE TO D Down There They Show They Kr It When A Prominent Citizen Dies. Two southerners now living in 1N York were exchanging recollectior "Whatever became of -, who ca up here from Selma a few years af reconstruction'?" asked the Kentu lan. " Went back, baggage and accout ments about four years ago,'' answ ed the Georgian. "Didn't he do well in New York "Better than he ever did befc But Jim had a streak of that fool s timent which has kept so many sou erners down at the heel. He was ways pining." "If he was doing well why did pine?" "He always used to say to me ti New York was the best town on eal to live in, but he always got the blh when lie got to thinking about dyi here. And what do you suppose v the kick about that ? "Iwas up to his house one nig and lbe got to doing business with I undertaker as usual. I made mys very inquisitive, for I had got tol able tired of hearing him on ti topic. "Thereupon he dug up a bundle southern newspapers. They werefr several states. Jim began open: the file. Nearly every paper he opt ed had an obituary of some promine man or woman. " 'Look at 'em!' saia Jim in a f lorn sort of way. "'Well, Jim,' I says, 'what abc 'em?' " 'That's it,' he replied. 'Eve one of these obituaries has mourni rules at the top and bottom, and some cases the whole of the page is mourning. They read as if the writ4 were broken hearted. Some of the tieles have poetry in them. Now a then there is some Latin.' "I asked him if it wasn't all rig for a gocd man to have such a se: off.'' Why They Betired. Baltimore Sun.. A prominent attorney of Baltimc told the following story on one of I colleagues recently of the time wh he was in the west, when the g< fever was at -its height: "One -of -the largest gambli houses in San Francisco was in fl swing when, in walked two men, v of whom carried a -large powder hoa They ambled up to the ~iar, and t man with the -powder horn threw on the counter and said in a lo voice: 'I am tired of it all, and sh end it here; but I may as well ta my friends along with me.' He th dumped out on the counter a quanti of what looked to be powder. I companion took from his p)ocket sol of the same stuff and threw it ir the fire, whereupon black smoke pu ed out from the stove. By that tit the gamblers looked around and we horrified to see the other one seize t horn and to throw the contents in the stove. "The whole company, thinkii +here would he a terrible explosic :we are inonJ ible that we c IOLD IN 75. DAY of NEW SPRING G of Profit, for the i, but no room fc is- FORCED SALE. )U HAVE SEEN OUR 61 >ose. NOTICE: No I make Exchange if a IE. jumped to their feet and scattered. Jt With a joyous laugh the two men ran I Low over to the tables and scooped in all b the money in sight-a goodly pile jumped on their horses and galloped away. ew "To say that the players were in Ls. censed when they returned would be: ,me putting it mildly. It turned out, t 'ter upon investigation, that it was only ek- black sand 'that the two desperate meni threw on the counter." on r-The lawyer asked why, whenoni er- of these men threw some of the stuff in the stove it created a volume of~ -smoke. The other thought he must re. have had some real powder in his en- pocket. th- ' a-Now the second attorney is wn dering if his friend who told the he story was one of those who ran onLt of a iat ne ht he elf ~;~+ er of K ng j nt~ ~ut~ ng~ in. lin Drug re For Garden Giro he it Landreth's Ga ke S Wood's uar< [is Paer ne All Paesc tor S., une 1st., and ould get our ,S. -ODS. Every goods must be r merchandise. J0DS AND PRIGES Goods Charged izes are not rght he place. Of course he could not ave been one of the desperadoes0o ow did he know? Pointed Paragraphs. The life of a loafer isn't worth lir After all, a great,man is only a lit le boy growti up. Too many people are like cider hey become sour with age. If you have talent for criticism on 't fail to use it on yourself. r If you do some men a favor they ct as if they were doing you a fa!dr y letting you do it. Sometimes a man is unable to make! oth ends meet beause he keeps.than eaded in opposite directions. Happiness is nine part imagination ad one part brag about it. ~, ~c light Store Seeds that W. rdien Seeds.i Sen Seeds. i lated 1906.