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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
gfcoriaed to make the following
Announcements of candidates,
UUhjeet'to the action of the Dem
ocratic Primary,
itof Congress—
GEORGE T. HUMPHRIES
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL G. CASEY
For County Judge—
W D. MCLAIN
JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
O. W. SCARBOROUGH
Wdt Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW ]
For Representative—
J. M. MARDIS
W. M. SHAVER
J.U.ARD
R. T. SIMMONS
For Treasurer—
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JESSE W. SHUFORD
J.M.IYY
J*. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
t. H- BOWMAN
J. M. BALCH
For Coroner—
HENRY GRANT
J. T. CRAFT
W- H- NOLEN
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Constable—
W. T. GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
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MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Mayor—
JOHN P. PAUL
For Recorder
B. G. GRAHAM
For Marsha!—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
*GUS C. MARTIN
For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
For Aldermen First Ward—
T. P. UMSTED.
C. R. PATE.
For Aldermen Second Ward—
W. B. GRANT.
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A Farmhouse School.
Complete freedom from re
straint is the lot of the children
who attend the experimental
rural school at Winthrop col
lege, Rock Hill, S. C., as de
scribed by Mrs. Hetty Browne,
in a bulletin of the United States
bureau of education. There are
no seats or desks in this school;
no class rooms; no rule of si
lence; but a free activity, guid
ed and directed by a woman who ;
is in complete sympathy with j
country life. !
In this and other respects ob-1
servers have noted a resem- j
blance to the Montessori schools, J
but Mrs. Browne began her
work several years ago quite in
dependently of the theories of
Madame Montesori. Further
more, the Rock Hill school makes
ho claim to a deliberate scientif
ic basis; it is essentially an “ex
perimental” school, where it is
hoped to learn by actual experi
ence what kind of a school is
best adapted to rural life.
’ The school building is a farm
house, with rooms fitted up as
“sitting room,” kitchen and
workshop. A large veranda sur
rounding the house is used for
the midday meal, which is serv
ed by the pupils at the school,
and for other purposes. There
is plenty of ground about the
school, including space for a
large garden.
The garden is the center about
which instruction revolves.
From the study of soil and seed
in the winter time to the actu
al planting, cultivating and har
vesting at other seasons, the
garden remains the center of
the children's interest and activ
ity. Arithmetic, spelling, etc.,
are not taught as subjects, but
only as the need of them arises
in connection with the activities
of home and garden. Laying
out the garden involves arith
metic, and even geometry, both
of which are absorbed by the
children without effort. The
making of towels for use at the
school naturally develops new
words having to do with sewing
and many other things; and so
on. Words and numbers are
given the children only as the
need for them develops, and
then with as little formaility as
possible. The whole idea is for
the children to find out things,
if possible, without being told.
The children in this rural
school are not assigned to “class
es” and “periods,” as in the tra
ditional school. A visitor will
see one group working in the
garden, another group on the
veranda sewing, another in the
kitchen at a cooking task, and
still another doing “numbers” or
reading with the teacher in her
room.
The aim of the Rock Hill
Sg«g«ft!_
We wish our Patrons I
A Merry Christmas 1
and 1
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A Happy New Year j|
J. D. Carvell S Co. f
Front St. The New Store LDJPRICE S
school is thus summarized by h
Dr. A. P. Bourland in an intro- r
duction to the bureau s bulletin, f
“The resolve was to make a
school that will train the farm 1
children for their future work 1
in the home, on the farm and in 1
the social life around them, t
Hence we began frankly with the i
activities of the farm. The aim i
was not a cut and dried plan, 1
but rather a working idea to 1
enable the teacher to create a <
growing agency for the develop- 1
ment of farm life.”—Memphis j i
News-Scimitar.
Two Presidents.
Two men, new to presidential
rulership, occupy much of the j
world's attention today. They ■
are Victoriano Huerta of Mexi
co and Yuan Shi Kai of China.
Filling similar positions, each
being president of his country
through stress of revolution,
they are half a world apart geo
graphically and temperamental
ly. 9
In a personal way it would be
difficult to imagine a sharper
contrast.
Huerta, untrained, unpolished,
ruling by right, fills his side of j
the picture with gloomy shad
ows. He stepped over two mur
dered officials to gain the presi
dency, and the red stains cling
to him persistently. A man of
native power and some touch of
magnetism he must have been,
else he could not have held men
+n him under such fierce ores?
sure as the Mexican revolution
generates. Fear alone could
not have bound soldiers and leg
islators to the wheels of his offi
cial chariot. There must be
something to the man other
than the brutal side he shows
to the worid. But this element,
whatever it may be, is not strong
enough to dominate the coarse,
barbaric strain that is in him.
He is not a patriot, but a self
seeker. He may be a born lead
der but he has stupefied his
brain and broken down his lead
ership through intemperance.
Mexico to him, is not a sacred
cause for which to live and fight
and die; it is a big sponge out of
which he may squeeze the emo
luments of office and the baser
pleasures of life. The govern
ment is not a consecrated trust
he has assumed, but a piratical
prize he has seized for the grat
ification of his'own ambition and
selfish passions.
For a ruler like this there can
be but one end. He will eventu
ally go down in defeat before his
increasing enemies, and the his
torian of the future will brack
et his rule as an interim of an
i -til iii i
ax city aim umuusneu, anu name
him as a petty tyrant.
For him there are no roses for
today and no laurels for tomor
row.
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But across the Pacific looms
that other figure of a new presi
dent of a new republic bom of
the travail of internecine war.
Yuan Shi Kai is not a novice
in government power. He was
premier under the emperor who
was deposed, the last of the
long and despotic line of Man
chus. His power was next to
that of the little emperor him
self; he was emphatically “the
n>an behind the throne,” with
all the authority that implies.
Thus, unlike Huerta, he Had been
trained up in the ways of gov
ernment, and he had the suave
ways of the diplomat on which
to start his new career.
But he had something better
than these things, for in his
Heart was an abiding love for
China and a patriotic interest
in her welfare. It was not a
thirst for power that set him
on this new path; he already
ruled China from the shadow
of the throne, and it was im
possible to forecast the re
sult of the revolution—it might
as readily have stranded hiifc
in oblivion as to have landed
im in the ruler’s chair. Every |
evolution is a game of chance
or the leaders on both sides.
Although not a man of blood
ike Huerta, Yuan is no weak
ing. He has the same strong
land, but he has it along with
he broad mind and the states
man's grasp of things. He is
iot in the presidency for what
ie can get out of it, but for what
ie can do for the country. Many
>f his measures do not appeal
o us, but China is not America, (
ind the laws that are applicable ,
;o us would be out of step for a ,
>eople just emerging from cen- j
;uries of autocratic rule.
Yuan Shi Kai occupies one of
he most unenviable positions
n the world, because he is pres
cient of- a people in the transi
;ion stage, a people long restless
md discontented, but who may
not yet know what they want
is a permanent change from the
aid conditions. He is beset with
criticism from abroad and nag*
ging opposition at home, but
he seems to be doing the best
that in him lies for the estab
lishment of a stable govern
ment.
It is more than probable that
he will succeed, for he is cour
ageous and patriotic. But no
matter how the Sun Yat Sen re
volt against him ends, he has
made himself a place in history,
opposite which there is no black
mark that spells infamy.
Yes, President Huerta and
President Yuan Shi Kai are half
a world apart geographically,
temperamentally and in all the
things that go to the making of
a high type of mfanhood.—Com
mercial Appeal.
Miller-Bible Wedding.
Special to Independent.
Pennington, Jan. 3.—One of
the most beautiful weddings
ever solemnized in this part of
the country, took place at the
home of the bride’s father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Bible, when their second daugh
ter, Miss Ivy Bible, became the
bride of Mr. Erven R. Miller of
Winamac, Indiana.
Miss Bible is the second dau
ghter of Mr. E. E. Bible, the
well-to-do planter, also post
master of Pennington.
Mr. Miller is the son of R. A.
Miller, a farmer of Winamac,
Indiana. Mr. Miller is connect
ed with the dredging business
and is an accomplished young
man.
The hride was clowned in A
beautiful suit of white satin,
while the groom wore a tailor
ed suit of brown.
The young couple were mar
ried on January 1, 1914, at 2
o’clock, before a large crowd of
friends and relatives. Mr. E
manuel Gilmore officiated.
The writer joins in with the
many friends of the young cou
ple in wishing them a long life
of happiness and prosperity.
A Friend.
Office of The Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railway Company.
Chicago, 111., Nov. 15th, 1918.
To All Stockholders of The Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Company:
A special meeting of the stockhold
ers of the company will be held at the
office of the company in the City of
Chicago, Illinois, on Saturday the
Slst day of January, 1914, at ten
p’clock a. m., for the purpose of vot
ing upon the acceptance by the com
pany of a lease of the line of railway
of the Rock Island, Stuttgart and
Southern Railway Company, extend
ing from Mesa, Prairie County, Ark
ansas, in a southerly direction through
the counties of Prairie and Arkansas
to Stuttgart, Arkansas County, Ark
ansas, a distance of approximately 22
miles; said lease to extend for a
term of 999 years from February 1,
1914, upon such terms and conditions
as may be agreed upon.
H. U. Mudge, President
Geo. H. Crosby, Secretary.
Not What She Meant
The other evening at a simple
octal function, opened with a game of
:ards, the host caused quite a stir
imong the ladles present by announo
ng after the guests had seated them
;elves at the tables: “If everybo^ s
r.ade up, we’ll start." Self consclous.y
hey looked at one another and In
voluntarily their hands went to their
aces.
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IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW
What a Heap of Happiness It
Would Bring to Newport
Homes.
Hard to do housework with an
aching back.
Brings you hours of misery at
leisure or at work.
If women only knew the cause
—that
Backache pains often come j
from weak kidneys,
’Twould save much needless
woe.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are for
weak kidneys,
Many residents of this vicin- j
ity endorse them.
Mrs. T. L. Stewart, Kensett,
Arkansas, says: “I have not
had any sign of kidney com-;
plaint since I was cured by
Doan’s Kidney Pills some years j
ago. I publicly testified to the
merit of the remedy at that
time and now I gladly confirm
that statement.”
Price 50c, at all dealers.
Don’t simply ask for a kidney
remedy—get Doan’s Kidney
Pills—the same that Mrs. Stew
art had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo,^?. Y,
W- B- Egan
?ornin? froma
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fox fire." On
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mar>y of the
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first and last. First
last to nay."- -Puck.
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