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C^uoon and
Tnnioi!". u> s :i It*- Heavy Polished
('hHiionl Tin I?t?=hp:in. with rivets han
?ilef. 17-quar* slz'-.
JOc ^tPi'E.vlBER MJiCN J0c
VAI.se rOMIHISED BY HENRI I. MARSHALL.
Now the biggest instrumental hit In the court
try- The music is the prettiest you ever heard.
The front page of the waltz Is an exact repro
duction of Paul Chabas' pointing, "Septembei
Morning." .
(Come in and hear it. Always a good concert
In our Music Store.)
Music Store?Fourth Floor.
rCOOLEST STORE IN TOWN
10 TO 20 YARD PIECES OP ANT>ROSCOOOIN
BLEACHED COTTON
For women's and children's wear, also for house
hold uses; 12&c per yard Is usual value We q
shall offer them, as long as this lot lasts, for. Q(J
per yard
Domestic Store?Street Floor.
This Coup n
= 49c
Tomorrow bnys k... >? 1. 1 ien*ll? of
best pnre seamless aluminum. rijoiee of
ten different articles.
^ Once Again, and Perhaps the Last Chancc of the ^
Season, to Buy $1.50 $2.00 and $2.25
Middy Blouses, Including Some /Q.
Balkan Styles, at - - - ? ^
< iirls' and Misses' sizes from 4 ?to 20 years. Just 335 in the purchase. These
are "road samples.*' garments which have been used for securing orders, and con
sequently exceptionally well made.
Made of excellent'quality galatea cloth, some with white, some with navy
blue and red collars, both with and without shields. A number are ornamented
with embroidered emblems, others are laced up the front, and many have pock
etc. Among them are blue and white pin-striped blouses, navy blue galateas and
tans.
Buy for your girl*' seaside or outing wear. For boating, canoeing, tennis,
yachting this sort of a garment is pretttiest.
W e also have in connection with this sale a limited number of
WHITE SKIRTS that are worth up to $1.25. To go tomorrow at 69c
same price
P.AROAIN TABLES?STREET FLO OR.
'We Thought We Had Made Amazing Purchases Before, But In Po.nt
of Variety, Quality and Low Price, Never Any Quite to Equal This
Dotted Swisses, Bordered Voiles, Dimities, Batistes
Our Sale Price Much Below Wholesale Cost
Values From to 18c a Yard, at 834c
Beautiful Bordered Voiles, in fine sheer quality, a great many in dark
grounds, making them suitable for kimonos, as well as for summer dresses, ex
quisite Batistes, dainty Dimities in patterns that express the latest ideas of the
designers. ALL PERFECT GOODS?AND IN FULL PIECES.
A "Mills" Clearing Lot, Bought From One of the
Largest Manufacturers of the Country
Goods 28 inches wide; fresh, clean new fabrics, in all the wanted colors.
ANOTHER PURCHASE made at the same time consists of FIGURED
LAWNS BATISTE AND VOILES, in the daintiest of designs, including fine
striped effects, the pretty neat, effective designs and summery colorings. faZUs*
Worth up to 12}Ac yard. Tomorrow VF7*C
BARGAIN TABLES-STREET FT.OOR.
Would you be willing to secure a suit that was practically exclusive in style
if you could buy it for about an average one-third of the real value?
Tomorrow Tailored Suits Worth to $49.75
In a Sale At the Absurdly Little Price of
$15.00
15 Eponge Suits, formerly $44.75
18 Eponge Suits, formerly $49.75
16 Serge Suits, formerly $40.75
21 Bedford Cord Suits, formerly $49.75
10 Striped Eponge Suits, formerly S44.75
12 Striped Serge Suits, formerly $.'{9.75
10 Silk Poplin Suits, formerly $49.75
18 Wool Poplin Suits, formerly $30.75
19 Wool Poplin Suits, formerly $35.00
27 Wool Serge Suits, formerly $35.00
The designs and workmanship are the most unusual, and as there are but a
a few left of each kind, the styles are practically exclusive. The materials are
the high-grade qualities; many imported fabrics among them.
FINAL & COMPLETE CLEARANCE OF ALL SMALL
LOTS OF SUMMER DRESSES WORTH UP TO $7.95
Including voiles, ratines and linens. On street floor bargain tables, & | QQ
No exchanges. All sales final
J
Out Must Go Lawn Swings
$3.95
Your Choice of a $6 50
LAWN SWING
We are determined to make immedi
ate disposal of our stock of Two-pas
senger Swings. Made of a pood quality
wood; uprights are painted RED, and
seats ^nd back are natu
ral finish. While they
last
Our stock of JUVENILE LAWN
SWINGS that sold for $5.50 to close out
at $2.95. Made after the heavy pattern
design: will hold two pas
sengers: painted a pretty
red. Special..............
Fourth Floor?Furniture Store.
$3.95
$2.95
The IVrirmt French Innovation
The Demand Is Greater Than
the Supply, But We Have
Secured
50 Pieces of Shadow
Val and Plain Net
PI eatings
25c and 39c Pleatings; some of
fine quality shadow val; others
of plain net pleatings. f sr
3*4 Inches wide, to sell IOC
Monday at, a yard
Neckwear Store?Street Floor.
Exceptional Monday Bargains
for Discriminating Shoppers in
SHEETS AND
PILLOWCASES
81x90 Extra Heavy Bleached
Double Bed Sheets, made from a
regular sheeting cotton; all in
one piece; finished with a 3-inch
hem; sold regularly for
69c. Monday's special
price v...
45x36 Linen-finish Hemstitched
Pillowcases; regulation size; sold
regularly for 16c. ? if
Monday's special I Z'/2r.
price '
Domestic Store?Street Floor.
These are the three require
ments for perfection la house
dresses, namely
Comfort? Styl% Economy
Our $ J .50 Q n
HouseDressesat 7 / C
ON SALE MONDAY
Percales, ginghams; in plain
colors and stripes; In dark or
light effects; some all white,
others blue, tan and gTay; all
sizes 34 to 46.
Bargain Tables?Street Floor.
CLEARING OF
STAMPED PIECES
Undermusllns; stamp
ed In pretty patterns.
Values up to 95c, at....
55c
Waists stamped on good qual
ity voile and sherette In the sea
son's best designs of
punch, eyelet and 2
French embroidery.
Regular price, 55c, at..
Stamped White Doilies;
18-ln. Value, 12%c
Art Store?Third Floor.
8c
COOL AND DAINTY HAIR GOODS
FOR THE L ATFS HIGH-DRESSED CO! FFURtS
SPECIAL REDUCTIONS
We have selected a ??&e of very fine, well made,
switches and transform* titns. which *e will offer way
Id price. Yon will hart to difficulty In watching your
us our assortment is com??i*te.
SWITCHES, for all the tew effects?
2tMnch Switches, of flue, waTjr hair. Special
24-inch Switches, of fine, wavy hair. Special
28 and 30 Inch Switches, of fine, wavy hair. Special...
20-inch Switches. of real human hair. Special
24-inch Switches, of real human hair; stemlens. Special.
20 and 28 Inch Switches, of real human hair; stemless.
Sj?eclal
ALL-AROUND TRANSFORMATIONS, of fine, wavy hair.
Special
ALL-AROUND TRANSFORMATIONS, of real human hair.
Special
YVETTE BATHING CAP FRINGE, of real human hair.
LA MADELINE HAIR COLOR RESTORER. Special
HA1RDRESSI.NG AND MANICURING
Third Floor?HalrdresslnK Parlors.
liKht
down
hair.
$1.40
$2. TO
$1.80
$2.80
$5.80
00c
>I.S!?
Special
WV
OOc
A SPECIALTY
<T
a clearing of i rgmi WIZARD FURNITURE
PARASOLS
Formerly
priced $3
diic1 at*
$1.80
These are in the most desira
ble greens. blues, American
beauty and purples, in plain and
ribbon insertion styles and bor
dered effects. All made on stylish
8 or 10 ribbed frames. Parasols
that we sold at the beginning
of the season at $3.00 and $4.0??.
but which we ofTer
tomorrow at a July
Clearance Sale at ...
^Bargain Tables?Street^FMoor^^
$1.80
AND FLOOR POLISH
Once used, will become a household necessity. There are
so many reasons for its popularity.
It cleans quickly and easily. Produces a lasting polish
to which dust will not adhere, and is unexcelled for use on
pianos, furniture, automobiles, woodwork, floors and all
finished wood surfaces. It removes all dust and grease and
acts as a food to the varnish, making old things look like
new. Put up in bottles at the following prices:
25c, 50c and $1.00
THE WIZARD DUSTER is chemically
treated, is made similar to the mop, re
moves the dust and polishes furniture
at the same time; has handle, and is
very convenient for dusting
. stairways. pictures, picture y
^moldings etc. These are
I>o not forget to ask the
D e in onstrator
about the
WIZARD POL
ISH MOP at..
llousefuruishtap Store?
3d Floor.
f.
Imported Bamboo
Porch Shades
Two months and over left of
this season, and all next season
may be made comfortable and
pleasant by screening the porch.
Imported Bamboo Porch Shades;
made of bamboo slats, set close
ly together to shut out the hot
sun and, at the same time, ad
mit the cool breeze; sizes? 6 ft.
wide; complete with
ropes and pulleys. $1.25
values reduced for quick
clearance to
^^S5creen Store?Third Floor.
49c
98c
FOR A CROQUET SET
LIKE THIS
h
8?mallets, 5-ineh heads, 28%-inch
handles; 8 hardwood balls. Com
plete with wickets, posts and in
structions. Neatly put up in a
^strong^wooden box.
Entire Remaining Stock of Our
READY-MADE
BLUE STRIPED
AWNINGS
75c =
For windows 28 to 38 Inches wide,
Values, $2.50 to $3.50 If made to
order. WHILE THEY LAST
Early comers get the best. All made full,
with 12-inch scalloped valance, ropes and pul
leys all set In place; made on steel frames.
ail ready to hang. Awning Stor
The Ideal Summer R<
?d Tin
CROCHET
SPREADS
Can I< Had at a Prlee to Salt
Third Floor.
the Wont Rfn?om1p?l TTnvi*ette?>n?r
Full Size Double Bed Crochet
Spreads, in two good Marseilles
patterns; free from dressing and
made of extra good quality ma
terial; sold regular- ^ C
ly for $1.69. Mon- J) 1
day's special price..
>
I1
THE our STORY.
? I
? Copyright. l:ilo, by W. Werner.)
From behind the somewhat dingy
-ilass door of the tiny delicatessen shop
Miss Hale looked out sadly. On the
>ther side of the street two women, old
?ustomers, were hurrying home, bundle
laden. But the bundles did not come
from her she ves. They were from the big
store in the next street, a place of big
plate glass windows, broad aisles and
up-to-date fixtures. She had seen its
windows once as she passed. Since then
she had not gone that way. It was tan
talizing to look at the heaps of oranges,
nuts, green and yellow baskets o-' raisins
decked with wide satin ribbon, all the
rich colorings possible to exhibit in fruit
and candies, and then come back to her
own meage display.
And. not content with its power of
drav.Mig trade by its exhibits the new
et>>.<- ad slashed pr.ces out ageously.
No;.: .ir?.i< t'S were sold far below cost.
Folks .-aid it belonged to a chain of
stores OAned by a company that coutd
afford to lose a few hundred dollars?
doKars that it was pretty sure to pick
up attain when the slashing had driven
smaller dealers out ot" business.
Laura llaie Wiis a tired, sweet-faced
W'inian, middle-aged. Her customers
were mostly women who had to make
tvi. v penny count. She could not real y
blame them for buying <1111 pi< kles at
4 c?-nts a dozen instead of paying her H,
nor going where they could get two her
rhiK* for the pi ice she had to charge for
one.
Hut her receipts fell nearly down to her
bills; then threatened to fall below. This
morning a letter had come from a small
western town saying that her brother
Harry was dead. What should they do
with the four small children whom he
had left destitute? It seemed that their
mother had died years before.
She promptly sent the money for them
to come to her. cleared out a storeroom
above for an extra bedroom, put two cots
In her own room, and tried to figure
how a store that balked at keeping one
person could be induced to keep five.
In a few days the children came?two
white-faced giris of eight years and ten,
a whimpering bo> of five, and a thin,
ri-d-eved one of twelve. Their clothes
were patched and poor In the beginning.
Their fare and the last month's rent had
aiise HALE LOOKED ABOUT SADLY.
eaten deeply into her savings, but she
drew enough to outfit them, "so," as she
snapped at the cat when they were
asleep in the tiny rooms above the shop.
"I needn't be ashamed for folks to see
>m."
la a jaonikfthey were as much a part
The Big Store.
I of her life as though she had given them
breath. And they were grateful. For
mere babies their excessive gratitude was
abnormal. It told sadly that food and
clothes anfl love were strange. Laura
Hale, remembering her brother Harry's
shiftless ways and selfishness, was not
surprised. She was ve y pitiful and glad
when gradually the gratitude faded into
matter of fact acceptance of her protec
tion?that is, 011 the part of the three
youngest. Harry, the oldest always re
mained acute y conscious of the cost of
keeping them, and soon learned how j
sales had dwindled.
Laura Hale was glad to see nothing |
of his father in him. She could think
of her brother now without bitterness, j
but there had been a time when she
could not. Twenty years before she haii
been engaged to Franklin Haag and
ready to marry him. He and Harry, who
was two years her junior, never agreed
Afterward she knew that it was Harry's
fault. At the time she had taken the
side of the spoiled brother whom her
mother, when dy!ng, had urged her to
be good to. Harry had threatened to run
away and go to the bad unless 8he gave
Franklin up. He would not live in the
same house with him. She had tried to
temporize by asking Franklin to wait
two or three years till time had smoothed
away the dislike. Franklin had refused.
"Marry me," he said, irritably, "and I'll
whip that cub Into decency."
With her nerves already unstrung by
the long effort to make them friends she
had retorted with equal irritation, and
after scaree'.y five minutes of hot quar
rellng refused to marry him at all. He
went away from the small town. Harry
loafed around for two or three months,
then coolly declared that the small town
got on his nerves. He was going west.
And he refused to take Laura along.
Didn't want to be bothered with any one.
She had never seen either since. After
a year she sold the house left her by her
father and came to the city and put the
money in the delicatessen shop. She
knew of no other way of making her
living.
Three months after the children came
sales had dwindled to almost nothing
and there was no money to buy fresh
stock. The big store still slashed prices
One or two former customers stammered
an apology. "But with shoes and meat
j and coal so high we Just got to do the
best we can for ourselves." one woman
1 said. Laura could not blame them.
Didn't she herself buy from the whole
salers who sold the cheapest?
She lay awake at nlsht trying to think
what she would do. She could not move
to a better locality; she had no money
left, and. besides, her lease held her.
She began to read the "Help Wanted"
column. But there were no openings
for an unskil.td middle-aged woman with
four children.
| "If you didn't have to pester with
us." Harry said, despondently, one night.
She hastily stuffed the classified sec
tion out of slsht. She supposed that he
1 was in bed. "But I want you," she said,
, promptly. "It's awful lonesome living
I alone. Don't you worry. We'll get
1 along."
! "If I was older," he sighed. "It takes
an awful long time to grow up."
"You'll grow up fast enough," she told
him. "And then the time seems awful
lung." And she sighed.
He went to bed and she followed slowly.
| The next morning at the breakfast table
he announced that he wasn't going to
school. The big store wanted an errand
boy. "Oh," Laura Hale cried in dismay,
"I don't want you to go to work. Why,
you're too young."
"I look older," briefly. "Anyway, I'm
going. Or else I won't live here."
She sighed. But she could not stop
him. And she fe.t helpless. His money,
little as it would be, could help some.
That afternoon two of her old cus
tomers came in, but she did not have
what they wanted. She writhed un
der the look that they cast at the empty
shelves. Harry did not come home
at noon for lunch. But at tt:30 he jumped
through the open door with a whoop.
"Gee! I've worked hard!" he told her. "I
was delivering at noon, so the head de
livery man told me to eat some cracks
ers and an apple. And. say, the man
ager Is coming over tonight to see you.
I told him I was fourteen?had to, you
know, on account of the law?and he
didn't hardly believe me. So you'll have
to bolster up my story."
"Oh. Harry!" she told him, "you
know I couldn't do that. I'll have to tell
him the truth."
"And lose me the Job," he cried, re
proachfully.
"I can't help It," firmly.
Then the -email front door awung
open and a man walked in, a gray
haired. round-shouldered man, with
spectacled, blue eyes. "That's him,"
Harry whispered. "Don't you give me
away."
"I'm afraid your son is rather small
'for his age," the man said, pleasantly.
".And he had no affidavit. So I came
-Laura!"
"Franklin! said Laura, rising from
her chair, her eyes wide with incredulity.
"Not?you!"
The children, round eyed, listened and
forgot to eat supper. Harry, worrying
for his vanishing job, saw Franklin
Haag clasp his aunt's hand as tightly
as t! ough he never meant to let it go.
HE HELD HER HAND AS THOUGH
HE NEVER MEANT TO LET IT GO.
He heard mention of another Harry and
then two prosaic middle-aged people be
came conscious that four children were
listening to talk too excited and fool
ish for middle age to consider seemiy.
"So many years wasted," Laura Hale
said at last.
Franklin Haag looked at the small
brood with a quizzical smile. "Well,
anyway, we've got a family."
Harry sighed with relief. He was
pretty sure the law couldn't interfere
when a boy worked for an aunt's hus
band.
(THE END.)
V. S. SUES CHINAMAN.
Seeks to Collect Rent for Laundry on
Public Land.
For failure to pay his rent for prem
ises 13 and 15 C street northeast the In
terior Department has filed suit against
Lee Roy, a Chinaman who maintains a
laundry there. These premises are
among those which are to be cleared for
the purpose of using the ground for a
park.
It is said at the Interior Department
that there probably will be no more suits
filed in these cases, as all of the rents
have been paid, and many of the leases
expire July 31, although there are a few
which extend to August 23.
Skirt Burns and Girl Is Dead.
ATLANTA, Ga., July 20.?Miss Bessie
Lyons, nineteen years old, has died in a
hospital here as the result of burns re
ceived when her skirt caught fire at a
>jrate in her home. Her mother, Mrs.
R L. Lyons, was perhaps fatally burned
when she went to the screaming girl's
assistance. A neighbor prevented the
possible destruction of'Miss Lyons' home.
Upholsterers Demand Kaise.
CHICAGO, July 28.?Resolutions de
manding an increase of 15 per cent in
wages were adopted here today at a
meeting of the International Upholster
ers' Union of America. The men
threatened to strike unless the de
mand Is grouted.
Porter Who Is Unable to
Throw Switch Crushed Be
tween Engines.
HOLTOK, Ga., July 26.?A colored
porter was killed and two engineers and
a passenger were seriously injured when
train No. 15 of the Southern railway
crashed into No. 14 on a siding here
early today.
When No. 14, the southbound train,
went on the siding, Will Jackson, a
porter, whose duty it was to throw the
switch so that No. 15 could pass, be
came frightened when the northbound
train came rushing toward liim. Ap
parently fascinated and helpless, he
stood still on the tracks. The north
bound train caught him on the pilot and
crushed him into a shapeless mass
against the engine of the train standing
! on the siding. Engineers Liidell and
j Jennings of Atlanta were injured. E. G.
j Shackleford of Mount Erie, Ohio, was
! the only passenger seriously hurt.
The three injured men, all of whom
will recover, were taken to an Atlanta
j hospital. The tracks were cleared and
j traltic resumed within three hours after
i the wreck occurred. ^
Southern Railway Statement.
A statement issued by the Southern j
j Railway says:
"Accident caused by Train Porter W.
A. Jackson of train No. 13, throwing
switch to passing track Just as No. 24
was approaching. Jackson was killed. En
gineer Jennings' train No. 2#, shoulder
and arm bruised; Fireman Jones, back
Tri^d' Engineer Llddell, back wrench
ed. One passenger, name unknown at this
time, slightly injured about head. Track
cleared at 5:30 a.m.."
SHORTAGE IN NAVY OFFICERS.
Number of Men on Shore Duty Will
Be Beduced.
In order to man the ships which will be
j placed in commission this year It will be
necessary to reduce the number of of
ficers on shore duty. The New .York and
Texas, will need about 100 officers, and
eight destroyers must have about 300!
more. 1
The Navy Department is face to face
with a shortage of officers for the navy.
There are at present between 1,700 and
1,800 officers, Including ensigns who have
only recently come into the service.
t iLi8Kde,Clare<l that the **vy Is about
1,000 short of the number of officers that
Ui actually required to handle the ships.
The largest part of this shortage is In
the grades of commannder, lieutenant
commander and lieutenant " r?
make up that deflciencj in the fleefman^ I
officers on shore stations i- ur um*ny
and other places*
"^return of Secretary. D^ta^d se?
TBOOPS FOB ENCAMPMENT.
Two Regiments of Regulars Or
dered to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga,
Two full regiments ? 4. ? ?
troops will be at Fort Oirl^h st^??
for the forty-seventh nationai?rPe*
ment of the Grand
lie in September. The r/J?? ^ePub"
th. 11th Cavalry, luuoTa ?
Oglethorpe. Ga., and the 17th
Rationed at Fort McPheraoS. At^S
by Pthese 'r.^menta'durtn* Thi.1 be Riven
went for the entertainment of ???ca/2R"
ins Teteratu ?M
11th Cavalry is now at Winchester, Va..
but will be back in Chattanooga before
the encampment. It is announced that
Brig:. Gen. Anson Mills, U. S. A., re
tired, will deliver the oration at the an
nual reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland, at Crattanooga
during the national encampment of the
G. A. R.
REPORTS ON FAILED BANK.
National Bank Examiner Reviews
Conditions Causing Pittsburgh Crash
Report on the condition of the failed
First-Second National Bank of Pitts
burgh has been made by National
Bank Examiner Hann to Thomas P.
Kane, acting controller of the cur
rency, covering the financial conditions
which led to the failure.
National Bank Examiner Sherrill
Smith is still in Pittsburgh preparing
a report on the question of possible
violations of law in connection with
the failure. A copy of this report will
be given to United States Attorney
Jordan of Pittsburgh.
It has become known that "examiners
of the Department of Justice al
ready are at work on the books of the
institution in an effort to discover any
possible violations of? the national
bank act for report to the district at
torney.
STARVING OUT THE SHAD.
Menhaden Industry Blamed for Scar
city of Edible Fish.
The extensive use of menhaden for
fertilizer, it is believed by Dr. E. 1*
Jones, deputy commissioner of fish
eries, is in one way responsible for
the diminishing supply of shad, blue
fish and herring in the Chesapeake bay
and its tributaries. Dr. Jones is rep
resenting the federal government in its
attempts to obtain the co-operation of
the states of Virginia and Maryland
to conserve the fishing industry of the
Chesapeake, which, he says, will be al
most gone In a few years If present
destructive methods continue.
The menhaden, although not caught
for human food, constitutes the finest
food that shad and bluefish can get.
Dr. Jones said, but as a result of the
fact that tons of menhaden are caught
annually and used to make fertilizer,
the bluefish are beginning to devour
shad. Thus a double crime is being
committed, he declared, for the food
supply of the shad is being taken
away, and the shad itself is falling
prey to other fish.
READY TO BUILD RAILROADS.
Two Groups of Capitalists Wouk
Finance Alaska Project.
That two groups of capitalists are pre
pared to finance a railroad from Resurrec
tion Bay to the interior of Alaska was the
statement made by W. J. Poland, attor
ney for the Alaska Northern railroad, be
fore the House territories committee yes
terday. Mr. Boland urged the committee
not to report legislation providing for the
construction of government railroads in
Alaska.
He said that the President should be
authorized to go over the situation and
determine whether the roads should be
built by the government or by private
capital.
Insurance Company Gains Point.
BALTIMORE, Md., July 26.?Judge
Duffy In the circuit court here has
granted the application of the United
States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
for another examination of the vital or
gans of E. O. Painter, who fell from a
ferry boat near Jacksonville, F1&- An
appeal was taken by members of the
Painter family, and the litigation will i
be resumed during the October term
the court of Appeals.
HE NEW RURAL SCHOOL.
" VI.?Its Future.
By Frederic J. Haskin.
The relation of the experimental rural
school at Rock Hill to the future of the
rural schools of the country, and es
pecially to those of the southern states,
is that of the chemist's laboratory to
the manufacturing plant. The chemist in
a tiny room, heir to all the ages, but
the slave of nothing that is past, makes
a discovery that one might hide in the
hollow of his hand. But a few years,
and that discovery has been magnified,
and not only magnified, but adapted to
the practical ends of a work-a-day
world, and Is represented to the eye
by acres of roofed buildings under which
toil thousands of workmen, each of them
doing as a matter of course and with
the greatest ease what cost that chemist
sweat of blood to do.
It is manifestly impossible for any
country school district by mere resolution
of the school board to acquire a teacher
such as Mrs. Browne, or to find suffi
cient public support to 'scrap the school
books and desks and radically reform
all notions of teaching school. It simply
can't be done. Reforms, even the most
radical, are not accomplished that way.
Rook Hill has merely showed what
may be done. The shell of tradition is
pipped. The impossible has befen done
and the heavens have not fallen. A
standard has been raised and the event
is in the hands of the future.
Therefore, it remains now to tell not
of what has been done, but of what is
planned to be done, of how the far-see
ing men who have this problem heavy
on their hearts are endeavoring to make
use of this experiment to do good to
the whole country.
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It must be manifest even to the most
casual reader that the activities of such
a school aB
Advanced Pupils that at Rock
Are Scarce in Sonth.
of a teacher's time in working with the
younger children that It would be quite
impossible for her to deal with the needs
! of older and more advanced pupils. For- j
tunately for this experiment, although
unfortunately for the country, the school
districts of the south, where the popula
tion is made up of tenant farmers, rarely
have any advanced pupils. The ordinary
school year Is so short, the method of
instruction so inefficient, and the age of
leaving school to go to work so young I
that advanced pupils are all too rare. |
But It already has been demonstrated i
that the pupils will stay in the school if j
the school is made attractive?that much j
has been shown at Rock Hill.
The plan, therefore. Is to use the more j
rational methods of instruction to bring
the children up to the point where they
will demand more and then to furnish
that additional instruction in school cen
ters advantageously placed In the county.
This will tend to fall in with the plans
for consolidating school districts so that
eventually the one-room, one-teacher
school will be all but eliminated, or will
survive only as a neighborhood center for
the training of the younger children.
Take one county in Kentucky, for in
stance. where a school center is being
worked out Here at hand was a three
teacher country school, working along
conventional lines. It was a better sdicc.
than the one-room school, but its ex
cellencies were all those copied from a
city school and it was making little or no
attempt to make itself a live and vital
factor in the community by relating its
activities to the activities of the people
farming and stock raising.
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Here Is the plan of reforms UThe
principal of the school is a teacher of
. a griculture,
, -flan of Reform for agricui
in Teaching Method,. ^'tVn*
Noh' as the ordinary teacher doesn't
know much about that science, it is
necessary, first, to teach the teacher.
So the demonstration farm agent is
th"^ <nt? filling co-operatk>rf, and
vM,.hh s.ch?o1 of agriculture helps,
olf.h i school goes into a corn
club, and each has his club acre at
home and his plot in the school demon
mw r ?arm" ?ach ?,rt Joins the can
ning club or the chicken club, and in
this way home life and school life are
iVr.T^iyiireluted> and lt i8 demon
strated daily that an education has as
much to do with growing corn or sell
?S"8TS ,as ^a8 wlth grammar
JYLl e ??f ,thr,ee- And at the same
time this principal takes charge of the
more bookish studies of the advanced
pupils.
The second teacher, a woman, has
charge of the canning clubs and the
poultry ciubs, of the instruction In do
mestic science, and, together with the
principal, teaches her charges not only
now to can tomatoes, but how to
sell them; not only how to grow
chickens, but how to market eggs.
The other teacher, also a woman, has
charge of the younger children, and
will attempt as rapidly as may be to
give her little ones the introduction to
a true education that comes from re
lating activities to the business of
learning?her feet being guided by the
lamp lighted at Rock Hill.
Eventually this school would grow
until it would become a county center.
The principal of this school would su
pervise the two-room and one-room
schools throughout the county and
would unify the spirit, and, therefore,
oppose the diffusion of effort that has
brought the present system of rurai
schools to griff.
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This will lead, it is the lively hope
of those who are determined to bring
the rural
Central School schools in
May Be Hub of Otbers.up^to "the
highest possible efficiency, to the es
tablishment in every county of an
I ert"c?tional center, a county school
?would Itself train the older
pupils from all sections of the county
sam? tlme supervise and
direct all the minor schools.
it may seem a long way off, but
Plans are already made for such a
school. It will have, according to the
present outline, no less than eight
teachers, and would demand an equip- |
ment of no less than eight buildings.
i P,r,ilc,pal would be a teacher of
Plant life?for agriculture is the basis I
of all rural lif? Farming, forestry. 1
iruit culture and gardening would be
in his province. One associate would
teach animal life?live stock, dairying
poultry, insects, bee culture, etc'
Another would teach human life?phys
iology, hygiene, sanitation, nutrition
and food values, and psychology.
Another would teach human industry,
beginning with drawing and handwork
in the carpenter shop and working up
through the metals to farm manufac
tures, thence naturally to Industrial
and social history of the world in gen
eral and of Europe and America in
particular.
One associate would devote her ener
gies to instruction in the household
arts, drawing, sewing, weaving, bas
ketry and music. The teacher of chem
istry would give instruction in mathe
matics, In physics and in cooking. The
teacher of language would teach the
use of speech and letters In such a
way as to make of every pupil a
book lover. And, of course, there
would be the children's teacher who
would give the little ones a natural
and normal introduction to this prac
tical system of education. It is on
her work, as demonstrated at Rock
Hill, that the whol6 superstructure is
reared.
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The chief building would be the home,
the children's house, and It would be
a model home.
Children's Home itB rooms devot
the Chief Building. ?
Rock Hill. Another building would be
the farm house with a laboratory each
for the class In plant life and animal
Hfe, tor the class in chemistry and for
the plant breeding equipment. A work*
shop would be necessary for the indu^
trial classes. A book house?how much
better these two words than "library"?
would serve also for the auditorium and
for the social ^fe of the school. A pout
try house and barn would be necessary,
of course, andthen there would be two
boarding homes, one for boys and one
for girls.
To place such a school in every coun
ty of the rural distr.cts would be u>
uplift the social and economic lite of
the country to a plane now not to be
imagined, but oniy to oe iondiy ureained
of. And yet such is the goal tuat am
bition has fixed for the iia. d-heaued
practical men who have been at tiock
Hill that conditions arc not inexorably
sett.ed, arid that progress is not only
possib.e but inevitaole if we only
will be natural and normal in our at
titude toward education
To sum it ah up: KuUcfttion lies not
in books, but in do<ng things. Tiie
things most worth doing are iho&e that
build up the men al, moral, economic and
social condition of the peo.iie ir. the
community. It is possible lo negin ui d
ing up these things by giving latural
aid to children at five and sb yenm
o.d. The school then must r ot nly
i teach how to read and write an 1 Ipher,
j but to the three It's it must td i in
1 struction in how to live, hov to grow,
how to produce wealth and how to
husband the resources at han?'. It must .
teach how to grow corn, but not only
that. It must teach how to grow corn
with the minimum drain on the re
sources of the soil, and how to market
that corn to the best advantage. This,
is the high purpose of the rural school
of the future. Rock Hill has pointed the
way.
DADDY SPOILS WEDDING.
All Because He Killed Turtledoves
for Nuptial Feast.
L<A CROSS FJ, Wis.. July 26.?Turtle
doves would be just the thing to serve
at his daughter's wedding, thought Dan
Sady, leader of the Syrian colony at
North La Crosse, but the game warden
thought otherwise, and today prepara
tions for the wedding were halted while
the bride's father was haled Into court
on the charge of shooting doves protected
by state law.
Sady finally paid a fin^. but the pro
ceedings caused to much delay that the
marriage of Rosa Sady to Nejeeb George
of Canton, Ohio, went over until to
morrow.
IN SESSION FOUR MINUTES.
House of Representatives Has Made
New Record.
Another record was smashed in the
House of Representatives yesterday, when
it met at noon and adjourned at four min
utes past noon. According to Reading
Clerk Haltlgan, this was the shortest ses
sion of the House ever held.
After the prayer Representative Gard
ner of Massachusetts made a point of no
quorum, and. as only eighty-two members
were present, the House adjourned until
Monday.
Unofficial watches gave the time of the
session as three and one-half minutes.
FLAMES SWEEP FOREST.
Dominion Government's Rocky
Mountain Reserve Suffers Loss.
EDMONTON, Alberta, July 26.?The
forest fire which started in Jasper Park,
the Dominion government's reserve in the
Rocky mountains, one week ago is de
stroying much valuable timber, according
to word which reached here today. At
one time the fire approached Fltxhugh.
the Grand Trunk Pacific's divisional
point, 3fi0 miles west of here, but a
change of wind saved the town.
The blaze now has swept over the di
vide Into British Columbia, where the
coast province rangers have begun fight
ing the flames.