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l. m grists sons, Pubii?her?.} .A Jamiln geirspaper: #<>r the promotion of the political, Social. Agricultural and (Commercial Interests of the fieople. { ^'oS'eoiJ,V.ra?^#?>C* ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C. FitlDAY, JUNE !24, lDlO. ~ NO. 50. I ------ g ?i *** A ***** A ***** A ***** A I When a m< < | By MARY + ROBERTS RINEHART * I jl Copyright 1909? F * chapter iv. The Door Was Closed. It was infuriating to see how much enjoyment every one but Jim and myself got out of the situation. They howled with mirth over the feeblest jokes, and when Max told a story without any point whatever, they all had hysteria. Immediately after dinner Aunt Selina had begun 011 the family connection again, and after two bad breaks on my part, Jim offered to show her the house. The Mercer girls trailed along, unwilling to lose any of the possibilities. They said afterward that it was terrible; she went into all the closets, and ran her hand over the tops of doors and kept getting grimmer and grimmer. In the studio they came across a life study Jim was doing and she shut her eyes and made the girls go out while he covered it with a drapery. Lollie! Who did the Bacchante dance at three benefits last winter and was learning a new one called "Eve"! ihov hoarH Aimt Selina. on the First Picture of Taken the i. - Mte. ^bL am K? is w?fy JK j0fe_ ~ ~ ^i|l "'Br V ! .:, ^ second floor, Anne, Dal and Max sneaked up to the studio for cigarettes, which left Mr. Harbison to me. I was in the den, sitting in a low chair by the wood fire when he came in. He hesi-, tated in the doorway. "Would you prefer being alone, or may I come in?' he asked. "Don't mind being frank. I know you are tired." "I have a headache, and I am sulking," I said unpleasantly, "but at least I am not actively venomous. Come in." So he came in and sat down across the hearth from me, and neither of us said anything. The firelight flickered over the room, bringing out the faded hues of the old Japanese prints on the walls, gleaming in the mother-of-pearl eyes of the dragon on the screen, setting a grotesque god on a cabinet to nodding. And it threw into relief the strong profile of the man across from me, as he stared at the fire. "1 am afraid I am not very interesting." I said at last, when he showed no sign of breaking the silence. "The ?the illness of the butler and?Miss Oaruthers' arrival, have been upsetting." He suddenly roused with a start from a brown reverie. "I beg your pardon," he said. "I?oh, of course not! I was wondering if I? if you were offended at what I said earlier in the evening: the Brushwood Boy, you know, and all that." "Offended?" I repeated, puzzled. "You see, I have been living out of v... jiiid never seeing i any women but Indian squaws"?so there were no Spanish girls!?"that I'm afraid I say what comes into my mind without circumlocution. And then?I did not know you were married." "No, oh, no." I said hastily. "But, of course, the more a woman is married? I mean, you can not say too many nice things to married women. They?need them, you know." I had floundered miserably, with his eyes on me, and I half expected him to be shocked, or to say that married women should be satisfied with the nice things their husbands say to them. But he merely remarked apropos of nothing, or following a line of thought he had not voiced, that it was trite but true that a good many men owed their success in life to their wives. "And a good many owe their wives to their success in life," 1 retorted cynically. At which he stared at me again. It was then that the real complexity of the situation began to develop. Some one had rung the bell and been admitted to the library and a maid came to the door of the den. When she saw us she stopped uncertainly. Even then it struck me that she looked odd, and .... i.. ....if..,.,,, H..vv..c,.r II sne was n"i in Unix was not informed at that time about bachelor establishments, and tin* first thini; she said, when she had asked to speak to me in the hall, knocked her and her clothes clear out of my head. Evidently she knew me. "Miss McNair." she said in a lowtone, "there is a lady in the drawing room, a veiled person, and she is asking for Mr. Wilson." "Can you not find him?" I asked. ** ?#* A *?*?+ A A +**' in Marries i Author of ?J? |A '' The Circular Staircate'' % 1^ onrf | "The Man In Lower Ten " ^ The Bobbs-Merrill Co. A r T T T "He is in the house, probably In the I studio." The girl hesitated. "Excuse me, miss, but Miss Caruthers?" Then I saw the situation. "Never mind," I said. "Close the door into the drawing room, and I will tell Mr. Wilson." But as the girl turned toward the doorway, the person in question appeared in it, and raised her veil. I was perfectly paralyzed. It was Bella! Bella in a fur coat and a veil, with the most tragic eyes I ever saw and entirely white except for a dab of rouge in the middle of each cheek. We stared at each other without speech. The maid turned and went down the hall, and with that Bella came over to me and clutched me by the arm. "Who was being carried out into that ambulance?' she demanded, glaring at me with the most awful intensity. "I'm sure I don't know, Bella," I said, wriggling away from her fingers. Colonel Roosevelt Moment He Lande ' / ' 8& , iflf ^sBS \ ragR JP.? Hj|kfH& fa ? El ^ Mi "What in the world are you doing here? I thought you were in Europe." "You are hiding something from me!" she accused. "It is Jim! "I see it in your face." "Well, it isn't," I snapped. "It seems to me, really, Bella, that you and Jim ought to be able to manage your own affairs, without dragging me in." It was not pleasant, but if she was suffering, so was I. "Jim is as well as he ever was. He's upstairs somewhere. I'll send for him." She gripped me again, and held on while her color came back. "You'll do nothing of the kind," she said, and she had quite got hold of herself again. "I do not want to see him: I hope you don't think. Kit. that I came here to see James Wilson. Why, I have forgotten that there is such a person, and you know." Somebody up-stairs laughed, and I was growing nervous. What if Aunt Selina should come down, or Mr. Harbison come out of the den? "Why did you come, then, Bella?" 1 inquired. "He may come in." "I was passing in the motor," she said, and I honestly think she hoped I would believe her, "and I saw that am?" sne stopped ana negun imam. i thought Jim was out of town, and I came to see Takahiro," she said brazenly. "He was devoted to me, and Rvans is going to leave. I'll tell you what to do, Kit. I'll go hack to the dining room, and you send Taka there. If any one comes, 1 can slip into the pantry." "It's immoral," 1 protested. "It's immoral to steal your?" "My own butler! she broke in impatiently. "You're not usually so scrupulous, Kit. Hurry! I hoar that hateful Anne Brown." So we slid back along the hall, and I rang for Takahiro. But no one came. "I think I ought to tell you, Bella," I said as we waited, and Bella was staring around the room?"I think you ought to know that Miss Caruthers is here." Bella shrugged her shoulders. "\V? I1, thank goodness," she said, "I don't have to see her. The only pleasant thing I remember about my year of married life is that I did not meet Aunt Selina." I rang again, but still there was no answer. And then it occurred to me that the stillness below-stairs was almost oppressive. Bella was noticing things, too, for she began to fasten her veil again with a malicious little smile. "one of the things I remember my late husband saying." she unserved, "was that he could manage this house. and had done it fur years, witn (lawless service. Stand on the hell. Kit." I did. We stood there, with the table. just as it hail been left, between us. and waited for a response. I'.ella was growing impatient. She raised her eyebrows (she is very handsome. Holla is) and flung out her chin as if she had begun to enjoy the horrible situation. I thought I heard a rattle of silver front the pantry just then, and I hurried to tlie door in a rage. Hut the pantry was empty of servants and full of dishes, and all the lights were out but one. which was burning dimly. I >?ould have sworn that I saw one of the servants duck into the stairway to the basement, but when I got there the stairs were empty, and something was burning in the kitchen below. Bella had followed me and was peering over my shoulder curiously. "There isn't a servant in the house," she said triumphantly. And when we went down to the kitchen, she seemed to be right. It was in disgraceful order, and one of the bottles of wine that had been banished from the dining room sat half empty on the floor. "Drunk!" Bella said with conviction. But I didn't think so. There had not been time enough, for one thing. Suddenly I remembered the ambulance that had been the cause of Bella's appearance?for no one could believe her silly story about Takahiro. I didn't wait to voice my suspicion to her; 1 simply left her there, staring helplessly at the confusion, and ran up-stairs again; through the dining room, past Jim and Aunt Selina, past Leila Mercer and Max, who were flirting on the stairs, up, up to the servants' bedrooms, and there my suspicions were verified. There was every evidence of a hasty flight; in three bedrooms five trunks stood locked and ominous, and the closets yawned with open doors, empty. Bella had been right; there was not a servant in the house. As I emerged from the untidy emptiness of the servants' wing, I met Mr. Harbison coming out of the studio. "I wish you would let me do some of this running about for you, Mrs. Wilson," he said gravely. "You are not well, and I can't think of anything worse for a headache. Has the butler's k/J T -? Matit ;u 111 lltyy xuin> I i " v ' * </ '> . - Wis*,''1 m wri*m ml IB Wj illness clogged the household machinery ?" "Worse," I replied, trying not to breathe in gasps. "I wouldn't be running around?like this?but there is not a servant in the house! They have gone, the entire lot.'" "That's odd," he said slowly. "Gone! Are you sure?" In reply I pointed to the servants' wing. "Trunks packed," I said tragically, "rooms empty, kitchen and pantries full of dishes. Did you ever hear of anything like it?" "Never," he asserted. "It makes me suspect?" What he suspected he did not say; instead he turned on his heel, without a word of explanation, and ran down the stairs. I stood staring after him, wondering if every one in the place had gone crazy. Then I heard Betty Mercer scream and the rest talking loud and laughing, and Mr. Harbison came up the stairs again two at a time. "How long has that Jap been ailing, Mrs. Wilson?" he asked. "I?I don't know," I replied helplessly. "What is the trouble, anyhow?" 'I think he probably has something contagious," he said, "and it has scared the servants away. As Mr. Brown said, he looked spotty. I suggested to your husband that it might he as well to get the house emptied?in case we are correct." "Oh, yes. by all means." I said eagerly. I couldn't get away too soon. "I'll go and get my?" Then I stopped. Why, the man wouldn't expect me to leave; I would have to play out the wretched farce to the end! "I'll go down and see them off," I finished lamely, and we went together down the stairs. Just for the moment I forgot Bella altogether. I found Aunt Selina bonneted and cloaked, taking a stirrup cup of Potnona for her nerves, and the rest throwing on their wraps in a hurry. Down-stairs Max was telephoning for his car, which wasn't due for an hour, and Jim was walking up and down, swearing under his breath. With the prospect of getting rid of them all, and of going home comfortably to try to forget the whole wretched affair, I cheered up quite a lot. I even played up my part of hostess, and Dallas told me, aside, that I was a brick. Just then Jim threw open the front door. There was a man on the top step. with his mouth full of tucks, and he was nailing something to the door, just below Jim's Florentine bronze knocker, and standing back with his head on one side to sec if it was straight. "What are you doing?" Jim demanded fiercely, but the man only drove another tack. It was Mr. Harbison who stepped outside and read tin- card. It said "Smallpox." "Smallpox," Mr. Harbison read, as if he couldn't believe it. Then he turned to us, huddled in the hall. "It seems it wasn't measles, after all." he said cheerfully. "I move we get into Mr. Reed's automobile out there, and have a vaccination party. I suppose even you blase society folk have not exhausted that kind of diversion." But the man on the step spat his taeks in his hand and spoke for the first time. "No, you don't," he said. "Not on your life. Just step hack, please, and close the door. This house is quarantined." [To be Continued.] iUiscrUattmts grading. WHAT BECAME OF JIM LOWRY. Story of His Death Six Months After Killing Shelby Policeman. For Jim Lowry's capture $1,200 rewards were offered by state, county and sheriff. Fifty suspects have been arrested in different places in many states, but no Jim Lowry has been caught. The mysterious case has baffled police officers and still the mystery remains unsolved, unless the death of a Jim Lowry, near King's Mountain and near the South Carolina line six months after the tragedy in Shelby offers the true solution. It is stated that Jim Lowry died of pneumonia from exposure in hiding from arrest, at a colored man's house three miles from King's Mountain and on the road from Yorkville, and was buried at a colored church near Whetstone Mountain, near the South Carolina line. t Jim Lowry, alias Jim Jenkins, son of Rev. Stephen Jenkins, colored, of York county, S. C., was found sick and almost helpless in a field back of the negro's house three miles from King's Mountain. He refused to enter the house until after sunset, then he was helpless and was carried into the house. He had on his person $30 and no pistol. Before he died he disclosed his name and told where his father lived. That night he died and was buried next day. After deducting $16 for clothes and coffin, the party sought Stephen Jenkins, the father, told his tale and message. The father did not believe the tale, was suspicious and refused to accept the remaining $14 in cash. Is this true? It appears credible yet others doubt the death of the desperado. Rufus Brooks, a clever negro, who has lived here fourteen years, is our informant, who secured his information from the man who buried Jim Lowry. Policeman R. Shelton Jones, while trying to arrest the slayer, was killed after midnight at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, August, 1902, by Jim Lowry, colored, who had fled from Yorkville, S. C., to escape a sentence of three years. Most of our readers remember the sad tragedy and the fruitless efforts to capture the slayer. This version may solve the mysttry, but it awaits further proof of its accu racy.?snemy mgnmnuei. IN STRANGE TIBET. Why Its Capital City Is Cut Off From the Rest of the World. Tibet lies between the latitude Rome and Cairo yet. owing to the fact that it is nearly ail one series of lofty tablelands, its climate is purely Arctic. There is hardly any rain and biting, dry winds send dust or dry snow storms forever raging across its inhospitable uplands. Lhassa, its capital, is the Mecca of the Buddhist world, and pious Buddhists gain much merit by making the pilgrimage. The reason why this strange city has been So completely cut off from the rest of the world is really simple enough. The Chinese, who conquered the whole country between the years 1300 und 1720, have Inculcated among the Tibetans their own dislike of "the foreign devil." The Chinese had a selfish object in view. They wanted to keep all the Tibetan trade to themselves. Some years ago there was war between Tibet and Nepal. Tibet I Vonal n nil iind nf the Conditions I of peace was that the trade routes from India should be closed. How well the closing of these routes has benefited thp Chinese may be gathered from the fact that Chinese tea of very worst quality?mere stlcl^s most of it?sell in Lhassa for .Is a pound. The government of Tibet is dual. The political side run by Chinese Ambans, who draw fat salaries from the wretched Tibetan taxpayers; internal and religious affairs are managed by the Dalai Lama and a council of five ?four nobles and one layman. The Amban makes yearly tours of inspection through the country, and as he goes collects his salary, which amounts to the comfortable sum of or- ? Or. <w_ (I uuui oil puuiiu^ a uuj. v/ii uiiv ? casion. when calling at a town named Shigatse, the Amhan suddenly demanded f.4 pounds a day. The infuriated villagers struck at this extortion and stoned him. Troops were hurried and terribly (logged, receiving 4(tO strokes; while the two mayors had the llesh cut away from their hands. Small wonder, then, that the t'hinese are not loved by the Tibetans! The choosing of the Dalai Lama Is one of the oddest bits of swindling to be found anywhere. The main article of the Lamaist creed is transmigration. When a Lama dies it is believed that he will at once reappear in human form, and it becomes the duty of his survivors to determine in which child he is reincarnated. There are certain physical signs, usually peculiar to didieate the reborn saint, and the names of children answering to the required description are written on pieces of paper, which are rolled up and placed in a golden urn. (>n the eighth day the urn is spun until a name has come out three times. Then the boy is brought to Lhassa, and submitted to certain tests. Pure humbug, of course, but they serve to deceive the populace. The election must then he sanctioned by the Chinese emperor, and the wretched little in?v is insl.'i lli'il ill his new dignities. The country is full of convents, some of them containing as many as 4.0t?0 monks, nearly all of whom claim to be reincarnated. It is said that for every family in Tibet there are at least three monks. The Tibetan penal code is curious. Murder is punished with a fine, varying according to the importance of the slain: theft by a fine of seven to one hundred times the value of the article stolen. Here, again, the fine depends on the social importance of the person from whom the theft has been committed. The harborer of a thief is looked upon as a worse criminal than the thief himself. Ordeals by fire and boiling water are still used as proofs of innocence or guilt, exactly as was the custom in Europe in the Middle Ages. And if tiie Lamas never inflict death, they are adepts at torture.? London Answers. HOW TO BUILD II The Development of Our Mai A GREAT MESSAGE F Thouch the Fault Was Not Ours Have Fallen Behind?By Vii Resources, However, We B Take Our Rightful Place as Following is the text of the splendid address that Clarence H. Poe, the brilliant young editor of the Progressive Farmer of Raleigh, N. C., delivered before the South Carolina Press association at its annual meeting at Glenn's Springs last week. I am glad to come to South Carolina, and in casting about for a subject on which to address you, it has seemed to me-that I could not do better than to consider with you "How to Build Up the Carolinas," how to develop and strengthen these two sister states into which our lives have been cast and to which our lives should be given. These commonwealths which gave us birth we love for their own sake and also because they are a part of our southland, the romance and tragedy of whose history, the hope and promise of whose future, are to us as our very heartstrings. Our great republic which our fathers helped to found and whose tlag compels respect in every land and clime ?we are proud of our citizenship in it because of its majesty and its prowess, proud of it as a son might be proud of a hero-father who had won a mighty name. But these mother commonwealths of ours?their appeal to us, we must confess. Is far tenderer and more searching, more inaeea nae me appeal ui u ^euue, great-hearted mother who, having suffered much, has suffered only to show more striking grandeur and beauty of character and evoke love and loyalty all the more absorbing. Others may adopt a different policy, but I would have us deal frankly with one another. In the splendid civilization of the twentieth century, the south has fallen behind. It is idle for us to claim that our section still holds the commanding position it had a century ago. It is not alone In the fact that the destinies of America are no longer guided by southern hands ?that we no longer have our Washingtons. and Jeffersons, and Marshalls, and Monroes, and Jacksons, and Calhouns and Clays. The fault lies deeper than this. With us the average man Is not trained to do, and is not doing, the effective work he does in the north and west. Neither in wealth nor education does our average man measure up to the average man in other sections. In 1900 the average per capita in wealth in North Carolina was only $447 and in South Carolina only $4 34 as against $l,23f> for the whole country. And the tragic explanation of why the average man in the United States, as a whole, has accumulated almost exactly three times as much as the average man in the Carolinas, Is found in the fact that in an average thousand sons and daughters of native whites in the Carolinas there are almost exactly three times as many who can neither read nor write as in an average thousand of such in the United States as a whole. We have neglected our average man; this has been our trouble. Talk about a state's resources, it has only one resource, the man, the child, the citizen, present or future, and his intelligence, character and strength? his average intelligence, character and strength. This is the measure of all other values, and in speaking to you tonight I am going to lay down this as my first and primary proposition: To develop our state we must develop the intelligence and efficiency of our average population, and all the material resources of the state?mineral, soils, waterpowers, climate, forests, or what not?are valuable or worthless in proportion to the efficiency, the intelligence, energy and character of your average citizen. Secondly. No matter what trade, business or profession you may follow, you prosper just in proportion to the'intelligence and wealth of the Roosevelt's First ' p .- . * ' % i A Jfl fib* ' Be. Ip ' average man with whom you have to deal. In other words, not only does the prosperity of the state as an organization and of society as a whole depend on the prosperity of the average man. but the prosperity of every trade, art. and craft in the community and the prosperity of every individual in the community, front the boy on the street who blacks your shoes to tin- master mind who organizes your railway systems or governs your state the prosperity of every individual. I say. depends upon the pros parity and therefore upon me cmeiency of the average man. The poorer every other man is. the poorer you are; the richer every other man is, the richer you are?not the reverse of the proposition, as too many of our people have too long believed. Kvery man whose carnitiB power is below par, below normal, is a burden on the community: he draps down the whole level of life, and every other man in the community is poorer by reason of his inefficiency, whether he be white man, or negro, or what not. P THE I,MINTS.\ to ai the Average Man Is?; cc n Hope. ? ULL OF INSPIRATION. I m di i. We Must Rprncrni/p That We fr ,, .. ~ - yt tue of Our Abilities and Our ki , _ m elong in Front, and We May flj > Soon as We Will. m pi pf In other words, your untrained, in- jn efficient man is not only a poverty- pJ breeder for himself, but the contagion gf of it curses every man in the com- q munlty that is guilty of leaving him aj untrained. Whether we will it or not th the great God has decreed that you hs must rise or fall, decline or prosper, tii with your neighbor. You will be [j, richer for his wealth, poorer for his ci, poverty. w And so today every man who is till- dl ing an acre of land In the south, so at that it prqduces only half what in- th telllgently directed labor would get ht out of it, every man who is doing poor til work of any kind, every man who is th creating and earning only 50 cents or th 70 cents a day instead of from three th to ten times that much, as intelligent labor would do, every inefficient man ,no matter in what line of work, is ct a burden on the community. p< Suppose you are his fellow-citizen; C( then because of his inefficiency, his p, poverty, because of his failure to con- 01 tribute to public funds, and public movements, you must have poorer ci roads, poorer schools, a meaner al school house, court house, a shabbier \V church, lower priced lands; your d( teacher will be more poorly paid, in your preacher's salary will be smaller, cc your newspaper will have a smaller s| circulation, your town will be a fr poorer market, your railroad will have smaller traffic, your merchant smaller u] trade, your bank smaller deposits, pi your manufacturer diminished patron- in age, and so on and on. The rami- g( fications are infinite, unending. m On the other hand, every efficient m man, every man trained to do good m work whether by the schools or by'.of any other method?he is making the n< whole cummunity richer. If he is ty trained or taught by the schools or ni by any other method to double his p< corn or cotton or tobacco yield, if he p< is trained or taught by the schools or w by any other method to do better a work so that he earns $2. S3 or S5 a hi day instead of 30 cents or 50 or 70 p< cents, does not that mean that y >ur si merchant will have more trade, your at bank larger deposits, your newspaper i( better patronage, your railroad heav- oi ier traffic, yqur preacher a larger tf salary, your lawyer and doctor fatter o^ fees, your county and state better resources. so that your roads and schools cl and public buildings will all feel and c? show the thrill of a new power that S< has come to them? ' Si Seeing then that the prosperity of bl every worthy Industry and Individual oi In the state depends upon the elfl- ol ciency of the average citizen, the one si great question for us Is: How can ai we raise this average of efficiency? cc It seems to me that there are just E two basic and fundamental ways: (1.) gi Education, for the development of ai our own people, and (2) Immigration st bringing efficient people from other cl sections. And of these two ways, incomparably the greater is education. ei As yet we but see through a glass st darkly as to what education Is really Is going to mean these next twenty- b< five years and from then on In quick- m ening the industrial efficiency of the S< people. Not only shall we have longer a< terms and better grading and all that, n< but for the first time the schools are yc beginning to train for actual life, tfi Here In the south, for example, al- fa ways rural and destined to remain so. g< the section of America of which It Is w true that there are more people en- gi gaged in agriculture than in all other ac occupations Combined, and yet until m now our entire school system has been r? hacked and hewed to fit the procrus- cc tean bed of the urban model. Made by to city people for the city people, the sr books and teaching have not been oi n/-lor?fo/1 r\ tlin nnncl a c\ f t VlO PAIintrV t V" children. We shall take a long step tt forward when the farm boy has pro- st portlonately fewer problems In arlth- L metic about foreign exchange and latitude and longitude and the metric a< Speech After His Arrival dil'-'ifc' fiawi I & ' i|v w mk Wts?& **m ***?H^H| ^jP% P*?llp aBHMP -x?vw Willi 'I?! systems of weights and measures, and m more about how to calculate a feed- ca ing ration for cows or a fertilizer 01 formula from certain quantities of hi potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen, pi and when in* studies proportionately to less about far-away Australia and in Kamchatka, and more about the soil ai that he walks over and plows in every ti< day of his life. The farmer girl (and w the city girl also for that matter) pc must learn of food values, of the es chemistry of cooking, of hygiene, and th of sanitation. Domestic science for th the girls must go side by side with bi agriculture for the boys. Take our ar physiology as another example. Scien- be fiato f4,ll i?a tt/kitr i liat afore thil'il ilnuth A1 among us is the result of an unneces- gr sary disease, every third ease of sick- of ness unnecessary, and that the average Ci human life might he lengthened one- eli third by proper application of the a\ principles of sanitation and hygiene, in And yet instead of practical Instruc- \v< lions for combating disease and pre- an serving health, we learn how many hs bones there are In the skeleton and ar about the differences between arteries di id veins. The makers of our text a loks have seemed to shy at useful pc .cts like a new horse at a road en- ch lie. We have taught men who were i be farmers all about Greek roots m id Latin roots, and nothing about is >rn roots and cotton roots. We have w] lent our time learning about the ch instruction of a third century ou larlot only to get run over by a w! fentieth century automobile. ini This is what all our educational aders are now beginning to see, and sei le changed spirit of the schools, car- El ing new inspiration and knowledge so to every line of human industry, an aking an art of what once was an udgery, Is going to give a zest and nc uitfulness to labor these next twenty- th ;ars such as the world has never wl town before. I do not think it toolco nfh tn aav that in the next twenty- |ab re years we shall Increase the use- ev ilness of our schools tenfold; that w< promoting the efficiency of the peo- in e the school will be ten times as im- ta irtant a factor as now. an In other words, much as education hr is meant to the prosperity of a peo- ca e until now, the new education Is W( ilng to mean tenfold more, and the mi irolinas should make haste to lead 1 other states in-taking advantage of ha lis great energy-giving impulse. We sh ive made great advances in educa- Mr in, and yet the best thing the Caro- W1 las could do In 1910, the best flnan- w< al investment her people could make, ne ould be to double this school expen- set ture. Considered simply as a profit- fo >le place to put money, it would pay en ie man who has land, the man who mi is capital, the man who has sclen- tic ic knowledge or industrial skill, and mi ie man who lives by his muscle. For he ie prosperity of all is measured by go ,e intelligence and efficiency of our wl rerage man. mi And not only the schools, but all to her agencies that are educating the lie ;ople to a higher degree of effl- bu ency, deserve our support just in ot oportlon to the extent and thor- wi lghness of their work. ou First of all then, in raising the effl- m ency of our average man, we need in ways and everywhere to help for- ar ard the cause of education for the ge ivelopment of our own people; and tr< the next place, we ought to en- all >urage the immigration of progress- tu ve and enterprising men and women om other sections. uc While the great basic principle R| pon which we must build is that the osperity of every industry and every th dividual is measured by the intelll- Cf ;nce and efficiency of the average (t an with whom we have to deal, we ar ;ed also to remember?simply as a gr odlfying factor?that up to a point ce ' density which we In the south shall or )t reach for centuries yet, prosperi will be enhanced by increasing the Hi amber of intelligent and efficient uj ;ople per square mile. There Is a pi slnt of "diminishing returns" but ch e are in no danger of reaching it. bi s it is, both Carolinas need and must pc ive a larger proportion of white m iople. The whole south is still too hi larsely settled. Our eleven southern wl ates, excluding Texas, support. uuiy ay 1.000,000 people of both races, and za ily 10,000,000 white people, while ra le same area In Europe supports he ,*er 160,000,000 white people. co Of course we do not want the lower- M ass European immigration. If we a in get Immigration from England, K :otland, Ireland, Germany, Holland, ns veden, etc.?the countries whose tr; ood has gone to make up our vlg- ar "ous American stock?It would be a ' great help to us. We are all of us le ich immigrants ourselves or descend- at its of such Immigrants. From some SI )untries of southern and eastern a urope, on the other hand, immi- le. ration is of a decidedly lower order sh id objectionable because Nof a low ti< andard of Intelligence and effl- n? ertcy. th On the very same principle, howev- of \ immigration of a normal or high sh andard of Intelligence and efficiency of desirable. Such immigration can ye i had. and ought to be had?In some pi easure perhaps from our English, iotch, Dutch, and Irish kinsfolk iross the sea?but chiefly from our irthern and western states. For ;ars now hundreds of thousands of M le most enterprising and progressive rmers in the middle west have been ilng Into Canada with Its long hard Inters and bitter climate, not only pi ving up American citizenship but th :tually paying two to three times as * uch for land in that Inhospitable !glon as land of the same fertility n< immands in the south. We ought i have brought these men to the m >uth. They know our Institutions, ir language, they are industrious, irlfty, wide-awake, and many cf hs lem are of southern ancestry who m lould naturally come back home Q( I'l M urillK mem uaCK. If there were no other reason for lvocatlng such immigration from the tli d< la I * In New York. I ^" '' >rth and west, I should favor it be- pr iuse it is the surest deliverance froir to jr race proolem, as Senator Tillman th mself has so strongly argued. The th oportion of negroes to whites Is o large, too oppressively and crush- as gly large, in every southern state, wl id my hope is that ultimately the :les of migration and immigration ill equalize population until the pro- di< irtion of negroes in no state will :ceed 20 per cent. We must train e negro?the more Ignorant he is tir e greater the burden on the south? pr it at best the process will be slow, gu id at present it would probably not Sp too much to say that in considering ir whole population, including our x eat constructive leaders and captains industry, the average negro in the "b irolinas in ecor >mic worth and etfi- co pncy is only half as useful as the wj -erage white man. In other words, rating general average of efficiency 8 should put the white man at 100 ou id the negro at 50, so that a county in) .1* o.,,1 vvmil.l hnup i average efficiency of 75. or a han-|su cap of 25 per cent as compared \vlth|,ie county with an exclusive wnne ipulation or a normal degree of efflincy. Whether or not the difference is as uch as I have indicated, certain it that the larger the proportion of hites .the higher the average of effl?ncy, the more prosperous will be ir every industry, and the better it 11 be for every individual citizen, eluding the negroes themselves. Now let us start right?not by eking immigration from southern trope, but by advertising our re urces to the thrirty, enterprising id progressive farmers of the north id west?men of our own stock who iw only need an invitation to make em come. Emerson was right fien he said that "every man who mes into a city with any purchasile talent or skill in him gives to ery man's labor in the city a new >rth," and if an Ignorant negro slave the old days was worth $1,000, cerinly, we may assume that a thrifty ,d intelligent white westerner, inging not only himself, but In most ses substantial accumulations as >11, should be worth many times as uch as an asset to the state. The last census year North Carolina .d only 1,200,000 white people. It ould have 4,000,000. South Carola had less than 600,000 whites len it should have 3,000,000?and >uld then be even with Its 800,000 groes, only one-third as thickly ttled as Massachusetts. Consider r a moment how much more influtial our papers would be, how uch more important every lnstitu>n in the state would be, how much ore varied would be our industries, iw njuch easier it would be to get od roads in counties in which the lite population is now too small to alntain them, how easy it would be double the usefulness of our pubi schools, how quickly we should illd railroads in sections which must herwlse remain dormant and backird for long years, how important ir cities should become, and how uch more attractive would be life our thickly settled communities, id how much easier it would be to t telephones and water works and alley lines and local libraries and I the advantages of twentieth cenry rural life! Let us take as our watchword "Edation and Immigration?Both of the Ight Sort." In the last census year 234,062 nare sons and daughters of South irolina were living In other states o say nothing of the million sons id daughters of South Carolina emlants), while South Carolina had reived from other states and countries ily 60,744 settlers. For a hundred years now our Caro lians have been going west to build ) the new states of that great emre. Now let us welcome-back their illdren and neighbors to help us lild two great, prosperous and >pulous commonwealths, where the asses of the people trained to as gh standards of efficiency as anyhere in the world, shall develop a mmetrlcal and well-rounded clvill,tion; a splendid and forceful democcy of trained, intelligent and thrifty >me-owners from among whom shall me not only a Jefferson and a arshall, not only a James J. Hill and Thomas A. Edison and a Seaman A. napp, not only men whom all the itlon shall know as leaders in Indusy and in public affairs, but poets id seers, sculptors and artists?if not Titian at least a Reynolds or a Milt, if not a Michael Angelo at least : St. Gaudens or a Ward, if not a lakespeare at least at Browning or Tennyson, if not a Savonarola, at ast some great religious leader who tall put the church into vital retains to modern thought and give it a >w baptism of spiritual power?all iese until our long and tragic years ' war and 'struggle and rebuilding lall find their fruitage in an outburst achievement such as our fathers arned for, and it is now our high ivilege to help bring about. A MANUFACTURED CLIMATE. ethods of the Paris Market Gardenera in Forcing Nature. The gardeners of Paris get their oducts on the market weeks before ie regular season for them. This rcing of nature is described by Er ?st FOOle in success Magazine. The secret is simply this: The French araichers have manufactured a cllate to suit them. As one observer is said, "They have moved the cllate of Monte Carlo up to the suburbs ' Paris." Some new prodigy of modern science, lis? Not at all. Only enormous exmse in money and in time. The gar;ns, whenever possible, are placed on nd with a slope to the south and are ell protected by walls on the north id east, walls built to reflect light as ell as to give protection from the )rtheast winds. The ground Is practically covered 1th glass, not as in a greenhouse, but 7 glass frames in the open, "three ?ht" frames of uniform size, 12 by 4} et, and also by glass bells. These, i0, are of a uniform size, about the lape of a chapel bell, a little less lan seventeen inches in diameter and om fourteen to fifteen inches high, he French call them cloches. You ay often see over a thousand frames id over 10.000 glass bells in one two ire plot In the suburbs of Paris. A more recent innovation is the emoyment of hot water pipes run under e soil, making of the earth a veritae steam heated hotel, with this esntial difference, that the hotel keephere is desperately eager, not to >ep his guests, but to persuade them leave on the earliest possible day. Sneezing. We frequently hear the expression, Jod bless you!" uttered after some e has sneezed. The expression, if ? can believe Clodd in his "Childiod of the World." dates back to e time of Jacob. We are told in wish literature that previous to his ne men sneezed but once In a lifene and that was the end of them, r the shock slew them. Jacob preiled in prayer and had the fatality t aside on the condition that among I the nations a sneeze should be halived by the words, "God bless you!" the "Jataka," one of the books of e Buddhist Scriptures, we read that e expression was, "May the blessed ird allow you to live!" Buddha . on one occasion wmre caching to Ills disciples happened sneeze. The priests gave vent to e exclamation, and Buddha lectured em for interrupting his discourse. "If when a person sneezes," ht ked, "and you say, "May he live,' 11 he live the longer?" "Certainly not!" cried the priests. "And If you do not say it will he a any the sooner?" "Certainly not." was the reply. "Then said Buddha, "from this ne forth if any one sneezes and a iest says 'May you live" he shall be ilty of a transgression."?London ectator. ?' "Pa, what's the woman question?" t generally is 'What in the world uld ever have made him fall in love th her?' "?Chicago-Record Herald. i>'Host?"Why did you write all r guests that this is to be a very 'ormal affair?" Hostess?"So I'd be re to be the best dressed woman re."?Scraps.