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% published tri-weeko WILL MAKE RACE! Chief Justice of t he Saprk^Xoort Wi 1 Oppose Guyaner -? URGED TO ENTER FIGHi The Hon. Ira B Jones Quits His High Office to See i the Nomination for Governor < f South Carolina Against Got ernor Blease in the Democratic Frimary Next Year. A special from Lancaster to The News and Cornier says the pressure brought to bea.* on Chief Justice Ira B. Jones from ell parts of South Car olina to becomo a candidate for Gov ernor has been so great and the ar guments emplo red so convincing that the eminent jurist, intensely patri otic citizen, an:i Christian gentleman, has determined to enter the race, and accordingly on Monday, Judge Jones forwarded to the Governor his resig nation to take effect on January 9 next. Tuesday che Chief Justice gave out the following statement to the Lancaster Newn: "You are authorized to state that if Providence permits I will certainly be a candidate in the primary next August for non.ination as Governor." The announcement of Chief Justice Jones' candidc-iy will be received with much interest in the State. Reftigis His Office. The following letter was received Tuesday by Governor Blease at his office in Colum )ia: Lancaster, S C. Sept. 11,'1911. ' Hon. Cole L. Blease, Governor, Co lumbia, S. C.?Dear sir: I hereby ten der my resfegm .tion as Chief Justice, to take effect January 9, 1912. Very respectfol ly, Ira R. ones. Calls! (lease's Bluff. The forwarding to Governor Blease an official statement of his resignation as Chief Justice, and within twenty four hours the defi nite announcement that he would enter the race for Governor next summer, place Chief Justice Ira B. Jones as the : irst certain candidate to test the issue with Governor ?Blease for the Gubernatorial term of 1913-14. Mr. Jones has taken the! stand which Governor Blease recent ly in Charleston declared he would not take, and has taken the risk of being the "sta:eman without a job," which the Governor said he would be should he resij.n his position as Chief Justice of th> South Carolina Su preme Court. The resigna* Ion and announcement have been rumored in various quar ters of the State for several weeks, but they come as a complete surprise even to those who have been expect ing his candiracy. By many it has not been considered that he would re linquish the highest judicial office in the State, of which he may have been certain for life, at a salary equal to that of the Governor, In order to be come a candidate for the Executive office. ' Friend ol Senator Tillman. It is univer?aly conceded" in polit ical circles tr.at Chief Justice Jones at any time would make a formidable If not an Invincible, candidate for any office In t le State. He is a prod uct of the relorm movement, one of the ablest and most aggressive lead ers of the wirm political fights of the early '90V., but his career on the Supreme Ben< h has been highly dis tinguished for fairness and judicial .integrity no less than for scholarship, learning and ibility. The Chief Jus tice is a personal as well as a politi cal friend of Senator Tillman, hav ing identifiec' himself with the re form movement in 1890. In the fall of IS75 Mr. Jones re moved to Lancaster, where he has since resided It was then a town without rail'oad or telegraph facili ties. It is said that when the future Chief Justice reached Lancaster he had $10 in his pocket, and no friends or acquaintimces in the new town. He is esentii.Iy a self-made man, in the best senso of the term. In 1S90 Mr. Jones was sent to the House of Representatives from Lan caster. He i t once took first rank with the lead ?rs of the reform move ment. In the house his personality immediately :nade itself felt s ohe be came chairmen of the most important committee, that on ways and means. A newspaper man who reported the proceedings i i those stirring days re cently said that when Ira B. Jones led a fight in tha House, it was as igood as won. Wi en Speaker John L. M. Irby was ele< ted United States Sena tor, Mr Jones was made Speaker. Elected Asoeiate Justice. Factional eeling ran very high ini those days. It is related that upon one occasion the house passed a reso lutlon taking out of the hands of thej Speaker the appointment of a free i conference ( ommittee?an unheard j of proceeding. Speaker Jones at once threw down the gavel, took off the' purple robe and walked down the' stand. The House apologized to the! Speaker, and he resumed his office. J On January 30, 1S96, while still Speaker, he vas unanimously elected Associate J.istice of the Supreme Court, sho ving the respect in which he was held by his fellow members of the General ..ssembly. On anuary 22 1902 he was re-elected for the full term of eight years, and his term would have expired in 1910, but up on the resignation of Chief Justice Pope Ass date Justice Jones was WHAT THE GRAND JURY SAYS OP THEIR WORKMEN. Finds It Is Not Injurious to Health \ of Convicts or That its Maintain a:ice a Nuisance. In speaking of the Hosiery Mill at the Penitentiary the Richland County Grand Jury says: <Tn accordance with your honor's instructions, and the performance of what we conceived to be our general duties and within the authority in vested in' us, we have made a most careful and exhaustive investigation and examination of the alleged nui sance existing at the hosiery mill, devoting much of our time at this session of the court to this particular matter. We oeg to report that we first made a personal examination of the hosiery mill, inspecting each of the departments therein, and also the hospitals and other buildings at the penitentiary. Thereafter, we sum moned before us and examined the following witnesses: Col. D. J. Grif fith, superintendent State penitenti ary; Dr. Robert Wilson, Jr., chair man State medical board; Dr. W. M. Lester, member State medical board; Dr. Jennings, present physician at the penitentiary; Rev. Mr. Abney, chap lain at the penitentiary; J. M. Gra ham, who operates the hosiery mill; Dr. Boyd, the .health officer of the city of Columbia; Drs. Pope, Harmon and Butler, former physicians at the penitentiary. We find that many of the convicts worked in the hosiery mill are those who can not be worked either upon the public highways or upon the State farms) r.nd we also find that quite a number of convicts are sent to the penitentiary from the county jails and chaingangs who are sick and frequently horribly diseased and are unfit for work on the county chain gangs or elsewhere. Wie made especial inquiry as to the number of deaths from consumption, and were agreeably surprised to find that the mortality from this dreaded disease had greatly decreased. We found that the number of deaths from consumption from 1900 to 1905, inclusive, was 58; from 1905 to 1910, it was 22; and during the year 1911 and up to the present time only three had died of consumption, and two of these had the disease when they were brought to the penitentiary this year. We beg further to report that in our opinion the sanitary conditions of the hosiery mill are good and just as nearly perfect as possible; the floors, machinery, fixtures and other departments being neatly and cleanly kept, and we do not find any conditions existing which ave injur ious, either to the health of the con victs or to the public at large, or any facts warranting us in finding a true bill charging the maintenance of a nuisance at said hosiery mill. The only improvements we think could be made would be the installa tion, on the third floor, of exhaust tlon, on the third floor, or exhaust fans and ceiling ventilation, and we would recommend that the proper authorities be requested to look after these alterations and improvements. In our examination of the peniten tlary buildings we were shown every courtesy by the superintendent, Col. Griffith, and we find that he is ren dering the State valuable services in the discharge of his duties, and that the prisoners are humanely treated and are as well kept as could be ex pected under the circumstances." elected Chief ustice to fill the term expiring in 1914. He thus had more than two more years to serve had he not resigned. Will Make Hot Fight. Chief Justice Jones is a man of most impressive personality, virile, gressive, alert, absolutely fearless. Quick in debate, thoroughly familar with South Carolina affairs, he would at any time and against any opposi tion be a difficult man to handle on the stump, and should Governor Blease stick to his determination to offer for re-election next year, the candidcay of Mr. Jones makes it cer tain that there will be at least one antagonist able to cope with the Gov ernor, whose stump speaking ability is highly regarded by his friends. What position Senator Tillman will take with regard to a race for Governor between Messrs. Blease and Jones is a matter upon which there is considerable speculation among those interested in politics. It is conceded that an active and avowed champion ship of either candidate by the senior Senator would be an important fac tor. While the Senator is not likely to take any active part in the cam paign, those who are closest to the j Senator in politics exnect hi.u to sup port Jones, as the Chief Justice has' been more in acord with the Senator! than the Governor has been. Thousands Die Daily. The Yang Tse River, in China, is forty-five miles wide at places. The great flood stretch over a territory seven hundred miles in extent. Sev enty thousand survivors surround Nanking, where three thousand are dying daily. Similarly distressing de tails are being received from many cities. It is feared that the waters will not subside before the middle of October. The floods this year are un usually early and caught the crops before they had matured. ORANGEBURG: GOES FOR TAFT rk President is Sbonn Up in Bis Trae C hrs By Gwernor H?rmen. WflO FLAYED HIM ALIVE Before a Gathering of the Democratic Clubs in Boston the Chief Execu tives Attitude Towards the Tariff Was Attacked by the Chief Execu tive of Ohio. President Taft's attitude toward tariff reform was attacked by Govern or Harmon of Ohio In a speech before the gathering of Democratic clubs. Governor Harmon said that the pres ident's course in vetoing tariff bills passed by the special session of con gress indicated that he had been reached by "wrong advisers." Speak ing of the president's objections to these bills he said: "Theso and oth er marks of paternity suggest the question whether the vetoes may not have been adopted offspring, like the defense of Ballinger." "He needed no commissioner," said the speaker, "when he promised a general reduction before his elec tion, nor when he called the special session to keep the promise, nor when he signed tihe bill that broke the pro mise, nor when he confessed that the woolen and cotton goods duties were too high, nor when he made the agreement with Canada. His posi tion Is simply that those who by trickery of tariff making laws have secured a license to impose exorbi tant prices on the Amercian people shall go on doing it, in spite of the action of both houses of congress, until five men who are not responsi ble to the people, nor even experts, shall advise him how much these fa vor taxes ought to be reduced and how to do* It scientifically. He then admits they are too high on these ab solute and universal necessities of life, but he fears these bills may have cut them too much. All the men, wo men and children in the land must continue to suffer for an admitted wrong which affects health and corn Art rather than run any risk of caus ing too much shrinkage, in profits made excessive by law. The people must not even have the benefit of the doubt. "If the present tariff charges had knowledge and skill it could well be said that an 'unscientific' remedy is good enouigih for an unscientific wrong, especially when those who apply the remedy have the advantage of dealing with actual results while those who did the wrong acted only on conjecture. But the Payne-Al drich-Smoot law had a far worse sire than ignorance. And it is a reflec tion on our plan of government to say that the flagrant iniquities of tihat law shall go on defying good sense, common knowledge and honest pur pose until a commission without legal responsibility or authority shall de cide how the duly chosen law making body may deal with them. "I believe in the veto power. But it. is to be employed only on the clean and positive conviction of the executive that the public interest so requires. He is allowed ten days to consider and decide. If he remains in doubt at the end of tfnat time ac tion of his part is dispensed with and the judgment of the legislative body become effective without it. For the president to defeat the action of congress, especially when it fol lows the plain mandate of the coun try merely because he is not certain about it himself and wants to wait for somebody else to advise him, is a new and perilous departure from the wise design of the consitution. "We have had tariff commission before but nono of them ever ac complished anything but delay. And if ever time is money it certainly is to be beneficiaries of a favor tariff. The consumers of the country were entitled to at least partial immediate relief. This congress gave and the j president took away. His tenderness; was all for the few who profit by the present excessive rates. He harden ed his heart to the multitude who are compelled to pay the exorbitant prices which include them." "Not content with calling the ma jority in congress unscientific, incom petent and ignorant," continue-1. Gov. Harmon, "though in his vetoes he did so in parliamentary phase, the president now, in public speeches, ti.arges them with insincerity, em ploying the rude- language of the stump. He says they were 'playing politics." This gives a fellow feeling for .Messrs. Clark and Underwood and their association. For when I set about the reforms in Ohio which I was elected to secure I found myself coufronted by a general assembly Republican in both branches, which undertook to discredit my adminis tration in every way it could. It smothered or defeated measures proposed to prevent further grafting with the treasury funds, to limit i taxation and distribute it fairly, to | reduce expenses and secure effective, conduct of the public business. When' I persisted In urging measures for j these and other worthy objects, though I l:ni?v the fixed purpose to! make my efforts fruitless, I , too, was ?,!urgf!.I with playing politics. | ?*h' I: ::.c.t'i? pursuing a curse from| Sum* unworthy motive, and any mo tive except to promote the general welfare is unworthy in a public of , S. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEM THEY HAD ROUGH TIME FOUR YOUNG PEOPLE WERE MA ROONED ALL NIGHT. Quartet of I'hiladelphians Pass Hours of Terror While Relatives Search Vainly for Them. Marooned all night and until noon Monday upon ? small island in Mid dle River, half-way between Ocean City, N. J., and Tuckahoe, two young men and two young women, mem bers of well-known Philadelphia fam ilies, were rescued half-famished and numbed with the cold. The quartet was composed of Bay* nard Kendrlck, son of John R. Ken drick, president of the Trades Pub lishing Company; Maurice Mulhern, son of a Philadelphia fire marshall; Miss Eleanore Morse, daughter of Harrison E. Morse, and Miss Louise Green, daughter of Robert M. Green. They were rescued by Commodore C. Howard Schermerhorn, former sheriff, George Barrett, of Camden, and George Jeffries, Commodore Sch ermerhorn's helper, and brought back to Ocean City. The exhausted girls were put to bed and are recovering: from their terrible experience. The young people started Sunday on a trip to Tuckahoe river in Ken drick's motorboat, Floret. By mis take they went up Middle river, the two having one mouth In Great Egg Harbor Bay. They had not gone far when a cable afoul of the propeller displaced a union and water began nouring Into the boat. The boys pumped the water out as fast as pos sible in order to reach help at the river's mouth, while the girls bravely helped to bail the sinking craft. Just as they reached Swan pond race and as the boat was about to collapse, they sprang waist deep into the water and upon the meadows, taking with them two camp stools and a light lunch. They were all thinly clad and throughout the night suffered from the cold, fog and mos quitoes. They had nothing to drink from noon yesterday until the res cuers reached them with stimulants and food. The young people had lost their reckoning of time and as the sun beat down on them mercilessly on the' dreary meadows this morning they almost gave ?themselves up for lost. To add to the terror of the girls a monster hawk kept whirling near the party. The hawk had to be fought with oars to keep him off. At sight of Commodore Schermer horn and Sheriff Barrett the quartet gave a cheer. They were first discov ered by the white dresses of the girls. Search boats sent out by John R. Kcndrick and Mr. Morse sounded the waters of Great Egg harbor bay all through the night. fleer. ''But at the first opportunity the voters of the state most emphatical ly declared that they 'play politics' who thwart efforts for reforms and not they who make such efforts, how ever, hopeless of Imediate success. "And talk of 'playing politics!.' The members of the obstructive Re publican legislature were, according to press reports, In constant touch with the national administration dur ing both sessions. The speaker and leaders frequently went to Washing ton and conferred with the president. Half the cabinet were sent to take part in the campaign last fall where the direct issue was who had been 'playing politics' and who trying to serve the public interetss. Pet in dispatches inspired in Washington the claim is now set up that this great record of accomplishment b'y a Dem ocratic administration is due to those who had to be twice defeated at the polls to secure it. 'E\en from Wash ington,' says one of these, after re citing with praise what has been! done, 'where it was rtaiired by thtj Republican chieftain thai the Demo-1 crats would claim most of the creditj ?or the paisaae of sum legislation. Republicans in the le?sl?.r.,rf> were; ii!\-;<-<l ard advised tc sr-.p^ort pro-j posed ia"?s vhich in thtdr ojerationl would prove to be a benefit to the! great masses of the people.' Tins chieftain must have little influence with his followers in Ohio, because with no\v and then an honorable ex ception* in either house, they con-! tinued to oppose a solid front! against the entire program of reforms j for which the Democratic administra-j tion was contending with its slender' majorities in senate and house. Sure ly trying to take credit from those who have earned it is the worse form of 'playing politics. ' I "Let our friends in congress take heart, for if what they have done Is 'playing politics,' the people will cry 'Go on with the game.' "Take the tariff out of politics says some. The president missed the best opportunity there ever was to do this by signing bills to reform the tariff which were passed by a Demo cratic house and a Republican senate obeying the command of enormous popular majorities to whioh men of both parties contributed. But the tariff will never be taken out of politics so long as it is to be prostituted for private gain and those who get or wish to get the gain can control the organization of one of the great parties. For the voters will always use the other party for their defense and the conflict will go on until it is settled whether privileged classes or the people shall rule, for those rule a country in whose behalf the taxing power is employed." iBER 14, 1911. FARMERS BEET Cotton Growers Meet to Refate the Lies About Size of the Crop. SMITH MAKES SPEECH At Gathering in Interest of Better Prices for Cotton, ?outh Carolinian Roundly Denounces Gamblers and Criticises Department for Inaccu racy of Cotton Reports. One thousand men from every cot ton growing State in Amercia met Tuesday in Montgomery and con ferred to devise ways and means to rebut the figures of the Federal cot ton report and to secure a better price for cotton. There were .present Congressmen, United States Senators, the commis sioners of agriculture or their repre sentatives from every Southern State, together with hundreds of farmers, bankers, business and professional men whose homes are scattered throughout the South. While nothing further than organi zation was effected officially, Tues day's meeting of the cotton growers proved their earnestness by the ap pointment of four committees to be known as the committee on resolu tions, marketing and financing the cotton crop, national legislation and statistics, estimates and conditions of the cotton crop. These committees were appointed early in the day and made to consist of the commissioners of agriculture of each state, three delegates from each State and ^resident Barrett, of the Farmers' Educational and Co-op erative Union. One of the principal speakers of the day was Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, who in scathing terms denounced the so-called gam blers of Wall Street, Liverpool, New Orleans and foreign markets, and cried that the Southern farmer must declare his financial independence of these people. He said the farmers should demand a fair profit on his cotton and ventured the assertion that If the New England farmer had such a monopoly crop as the cotton crop he would demand and receive 30 cents a pound for it. J Senator Smith also made an attack upon the accuracy of the Government cotton report; and said that the Southern farmer had lost enough money because of it to establish an insurance department; or to insure proper figures. He declared too, that Attorney General Wickersham want ed to break the so-called monopoly to boost the price of cotton but crushed no illegal combination to f"rce prices down. When Congres meets again in De cember, Senator Smith said, he iB go in? to Introduce a bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to show in his monthly rotton census, not only the amount of cotton in the field, but the number of bales in warehouses and who owned these bales. Throughout his speech, Senator Smith was heartily cheered, and he! spoke until faces in the auditor!-' urn could not be diestinguished. The Convention was called togeth er at noon. Capt. Reuben F. Kolb, commissioner of agriculture for Ala sama, was made temporary chairman. He presided until Comisioner of Ag riculture E. J. Watson, of South Carolina, was made permanent chair man. The Rev. C. A. Stakely opened the Convention with a prayer. Addresses of welcome were made by Capt. Kolb, Lieutenant Governor Zeed, Mr. R. B Evins, representing Governor O'Neal, President Gunter, of the city commission, and President Kohn of the '.Montgomery Commercial Club, in behalf of Alabama and the city of Montgomery. These addresses were responded to by State Senator I. A. Bush, of Ceorgia. The convention will be brought to a close Wednesday night with a demonstration in honor of the Hon. Oscar W. Underwood, leader of the National House of Representatives, who will reach this city with a party of good roads advocates from Bir mingham. It is thought that Sena tor John Sharp Williams, of Missis sippi will also be in the city by that time. STRUCK BY ENGINE. Eugene Hnckett Killetl at Crossing in Greenwood. Eugene H. Ilackott, a citizen of Greenwood, met an awful death Mon day morning at 7 o'clock, when an Incoming freight train struck him. as ho was crossing the track in a buggy. Mr. John Richter, who was in the j buggy with hhn, escaped with his life. The train, which was moving j at a terriffc speed, struck one of the back wheels of the buggy and carri j ed Mr. Hackett with it for a distance j of about r>0 yards, his body being ter ribly mangled. Young Girl's Body Found. The body of Miss Myrtle Hawkins, 17 years old, the pretty daughter of very prominent people of Henderson vi 11c. N. C, was found floating on the waters of Lake Osceola Sunday morn ing. Discovery of the body deepens the mystery caused by the disappear ? ance of the girl from her home last I Thursday. A GOOD TRUE MAN CHARACTER OP THE OPPONENT OF THE GOVERNOR. Always Has Been a Close Political and Personal Friend of Senator B. R. Tillnian. < Ira B. Jones, of Lancaster, Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, Monday telegraphed to U. R Brooks, clerk of the Supreme Court, the an nouncement of his resignation, to take effect January 9, 1912. Chief Justice Jones is a close personal and political friend of Senator Tillman. It has been rumored around for some time that Justice Jones might take the field for the governorship. Mr. Jones has been a member of the Supreme Court since 1896. He was elected chief jusitce upon uhe resigna tion of Y. J. Pope in 1909. Since that time he has served with no lit tle distinction as head of South Car olina's tribunal of last resort. Justice Jones, who' was born in Newberry, December 29, 1851, is a graduate of Erskine college. He at tended Ne wherry college for two years, but went to Erskine to com plete his education. After leaving jollege, he taught in Newberry and Edgefield counties, at the same time studying law. In 1872 he was ad mitted to the bar and opened an of fice in Newberry. He also became asssitant editor of the Newberry Her ald In 1875 Mr. Jones moved to Lan caster. From then on he began to interest himself actively in politics. He was elected to the Legislature from Lan caster county and in 1890 was ap pointed chairman of the ways and means committee of the house. Sub sequently he was chosen speaker, serving in that capacity until 1896. In 1886 he was made chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Lancaster county and also of the exe cutive committee for the Fifth Con gressional district. He was vice pres ident of the constitutional conven tion of 1895. He was elected to the supreme court by the legislature in 1896 and became chief justice 13 years later. In 1875 he married Miss Rebecca H. Wyse, of Edgefield county. Approves of Jones Course. A dispatch from Spartan bung says the resignation of Chief Justice Jones was interpreted as hut a forerunner to an announcement of Justice Jones' candidacy for governor. State Sen ator Carlisle, when informed of the chief justice's action, said he had al ways been very much impressed with Justice Jones and he believed he was the very man to make the race. "And his resignation," said the senator, "under the circumstances is just the right thing for him to have done. I am delighted that he has decided to enter the race." Ex-Gov. Evans said when told of the resignation of the chief justice: "That's the way to go at it," He said he would not comment further. Associate Justice Hydrlck was tak en completely by surprise and said that being in his position he could not comment/ GRANDMOTHER AT TWENTY. Remarkable Record of Young Wo man of Atlanta A grandmother of two children at the age of 2 and .>. at 30 years, Is the record of Mrs. E. W. Bender, of Atlanta, Ga. It is claimed that Mrs. Bender is the youngest grandmother on record and her case is one of the most remarkable outside of tropical countries. Mrs. Bender, who is 31 years old, was born in 1SS0 in South Carolina. She was married to E. W. Moore, at Columbia in 1SD:^. She was only 13 years and three months old when her first child was born. The child, a daughter, was married in 1909 to Ed-j ward Sinclair, and in January, 1910, gave birth to twins, the mother being barely 1 ."> and the grandmother notl vet 30. In January of this year Mrs. Ben der's daughter gave birth to another ch Id. the third of the grand-children. Mr. Mocre died when Mrs. Sinclair was an infant. Later his widow mar-' I ried E. W. Bender and that union has been blessed by several children. Phy sicians claim it is rare in this part of the world that a woman become a grandmother even in the early thir ties. Editor Killed Editor. Ernesto Mendoza, editor of Bl I Combateu, made good ihe name of his paper by killing Rudo'fo Fertian ' dez editor of the Guines de Rumbou I Both papers are pub'ished weekly at : Gaines, about N miles from Havana. I The men met in a street of that town and Fernandez attacked Mendoza I with a cane. The latter drew his re .olver and shot Fernandez. Beer Laid Him Out. Morris Katz. aged thirty-two years, of Baltimore, Md., undertook to drink one hundred glasses of beer, but after drinking thirty-five glasses, a coro ner's jury was called in who gave it as their legal opinion that Katz over estimated him capacity for beer. Tried to Kill His Wife. Because his wife insisted on wear ing his negligee shirt, Thomas Tullie, a mechanic, aged 3 8 of, New York, stabbed her eight times. She prob ably will die. # two cents per copy. FLOOD IN CHINA Great Havoc Has Been Doce Anuig the People cf Tbat Country. BY FLOOD AND FAMINE ? It Is Estimated That More Tnan Five Million People Have Lost Their Lives in the Yangtse Valley in That Unhappy Country During the Last Decade. A cablegram from Peking, China, says the, flood situation In,Chin a la the most serious in years. Reports state that the troops are driving the flood refugees from the cities. The English papers in Shanghai say: . We supopse that half the population of the Yang-lse Valley must be sup ported through the coming winter or starve. Probably this J? the most appaling disaster in the history of China." Flood and famine in the Yang-Tse Valley have claimed at leisc 5,000, 000 souls during the last decade, ac cording to conservative computations of missionary societies and other authorities who have received au thenic reports from the death-ridden districts. In the famine of 190C- 07, the most awful camp of wh'c'h history has any record was established out side the walls of the ancient city of Tasing Kiang Pu, situated on the grand canal about 109 miles r.orth of the Yang-tse river. There 500,000 men, women and children were herd ed into huts of mud and reeds. Despite the efforts ""made by tho Chinese government, by devoted mis sionaries and well disposed foreign ers thousands died every day and the deaths in that section of the country in the nine months from October, 1906 to 1907, must have run to three quarters of a million. A very large contingent of Chinese and influential foreign residents be lieved that the greatest responsibility confronting the Chinese government today is the solving of an engineer ing problem that will save the lives of the 150,000,000 people who inhab it the Yang-tse valley and make pos sible for continued human occupa tion one of tfheir richest territories In the world. The constant ylicerugnrrgr-ing;Vth The constantly recurring floods are due partly to denudation of near ly all tree life, as deforestation has been going on for hundreds of years* Another cause is the conformation, throughout much of the territory Huge dams hold the waters from reaching natural channels In many places and completely submerge mll l'ons of acres evciy time the Yang tse, fed by the torrential rains 3n the mountains get on the rampage.. The engineering problems' re ferred to are staggering. Here is territory 700 miles long and 200 wide that at periods recurring at least every three years is fully or partly flooded. Canals and reser voirs would seem to be the only rem edy unless the great Yang-tse re cedes. -r~ POOR FOOLISH GIRL. Fooled and Deserted by a Slick Ton gued Scoundrel. The Greenville Daily Piedmont says one of the most pathetic canes that the police of that city have had! to doal with In some time was that of the arrest of a beautiful young lady of Prosperity, who is said to have boon n graduate of the G. F. C, and who left her home in Prosperity several days ago. Here is the sr.d sto:-y as told by the Piedmont: "it is said she had gone to a num ber of cities in this section with a traveling man, who bad persuaded1 the pretty young girl to leave home, promising to marry her. After fol lowing the travelling man for sever al days and he failing to marry her, the young girl came to Greenville. While there the police receivud the information to arrest the young girl and hold her until the arrival of her parentsll z z z z ?/. z "The officers found tho girl and! notified her parents of her arrest. They came to Greenville and carried her back to Prosperity. The young lady is a handsome girl, with very attractive manners end weil-educat ed. The parents of the young girl are heart-broken over tho sad ccurrence and were surprised at her leaving home." Lost His Own Life, While attempting to save tho life of his sister Ethel, a.red 16, William Lee, aged 12, was drowned in tho Isle of Hope river near Savannah The struggle of her children was wit nessed by the mother, whose screams brought assistance. Tho girl was fi nally rescued by J. G. Hardec, but as she was taken ashore the boy went down for tho last time. Swung For Triple Crime. After he had slashed the throat of Mrs. Albert V;iughan, daughter of a white farmer, shot and killed one of his own race and assaulted an aged negress. Arthur Dean, a negro, was taken In hand by a mob of white men and negroes and hanged from a mill shed cn the principal street o? Augusta.