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HAVE GOOD WAGES AND SHORT HOURS ' . ' y ? , Some Interacting Figure* As To Aot ual Earnings Of Men On. Southeastern Roads. Washington, I>. In connection with the movement of train uiul tin nine employes for increased wages, k frank statement of the earning* of men employed in. freight ficrvive lu tho southeastern territory will doubt less be or IftteieM, l>r engineers i ho prevailing mini mum va,H In through freight sen ice ranges ^oni *o,l5 to 4't >> ' P"* ihty fur englhes of ur.ri.inar> !>p'*N in loeal freight service from 10 $<'.? O for engines of ordinary types, in both through mid local fn.Juht . sonkfl Iroin $t? to ti.U'i i< r Ma.Het O |?? < nglnes. For white firemen on engines of ordinary type* >. t*he minimum rate r.kin/,'t's front 'o f I't'i* day In through freight sj.ruii', iroin $,:.ut? to $;u;o in lot it) i> e. ' oii Mallet engines in both through and local ser \ ice from $ > 1 ?> io ? 4 Kur <*o ii i i ii * 'dis tin* standard mini ilium i a t ?? in through f r< ? I k h t service is I" per day, in local senile $1.40 per day. For w li i I ?* htakemon the standard rate in through freight service is ; Jl'.To ja-r, In locaJ service %?, per day. The foregoing are I he minimum i t.ally rales that must he made by the 1 railways to vai h employee in the i lasses named who' does any work at all In a day, Irrespective of Jiow few , hours he may he on du'y or "of how ; few miles he may actually run. These ; jaies are. paid for any work up to ! }<K> miles with additional pay for ) ""overtime If the run is not completed ! , in the .specified number of hours. On the oilier luiiid, the earnings of employees frequently exceed these' ligures as the actual earnings depend J upon the number of miles run and, in the case of fast freight runs, tho earning a. re much higher for coiu l-aiatlvely short hours. Taking as an illustration a fast freight train running over a division i'.iO miles lo-ng where the run oan be made in 7 hours and .">u min u< es, the engineer would receive lm this 7 1-- hour? on duty the sum of $vl*\ the 11^ entail #4.70, the conduc t or $t>. 1 and i he white bra Kern an $ I 1 <?. Thu- while the first ligures show the minimum that can be paid an engineer, fireman, ? ondueior, or brake-man for a day's work, the lat ter figures - how the wanes that can he and are Ik ing made h> train and engine employees on fast freights on long divisions, such as urn being run every day in regular service by a number of roads in the southeast for handling live stock, perishables, ami other freight which ii is necessary to move on expedited schedules. In yard sen ice the standard rates for while employees \ary fr<>m $3."" to $.! ."? 1 1 per day for day switchmen, and from to for night switchmen, and from to $,'j.so l <.? r da\ lori men, and from ?;5.7o to 1- 1 (?o I ? ? 2 - ni'-ht 1'ireiiM n. These are i h?- 1 1 ; li i in u n i ra'e- that uin be paid f'?r a day or any par? of a day up to !v hours, at'* i '? hour- pru r.ila Over time i- p. i'l. I'nder ih? ? mi'- ;?><?[ o-aj.- :!;?? lnw ? st >ard enu.:.?> - ? ? \ ho now in l ive on tor a ' ' ; 1 1 '. ! ! ? da> wnual re i eivr on ic|- \ ! mir il.iy, or i4.lL' for the v or;: at i n rr.t p?'r formed In lo houis. . i .? ? ? I the niuhf >ard i ondueior l.ow rei ? i\inu .?t "" for his !?? hour <?a ^ wm!d n-cei\e this $ 4.oo for his s hour d.r. ?.r '.u for th" v.ork at present per;, r: ? d i:i "r ' hOUIS. I: !.-, the raiike-t nonsense for The Trauiiiiait '<? pretend 'l.'at the publit. i ns run hi u'.: to iio with ihis i-usine-s. "'hi- pu'dii ha- everything to do with as i be brut Im-i hoods will lind, if thev refuse ai hi! rat ion and cast con >?*rva'isin io i he winds. The most (owardlv government could not, in ihat < .-a-#-, -hrink from its supreme <*.uty of kef'nir.g the national high ways open to romnieri e. ? New Or >&nx Time- Picaynne STRIKE WOULD INRJCT A STAGGERING LOSS Would Cut Far m?r?' Prices, Stop In dustry And F?c? Cities With Starvation Nhw Yofk -On one point related to-; ili*? demands of the unions of .iriwu service employes ?or u heavy !aCiea#o ni wages the sentiment of thfc general public hit* bet' it *k passed In no un certain terms. That in on the ques i ion of u strike. Declarations have come froni every quarter ( hat- an interruption of tnuu poit.ii i<>u will not ho tolerated by tho publu , but will cull fovlh drastic ac* lion. The enormous injury to the country that would result from u ^na tion-wide strike of train service em* plo) os Is discussed b>' a writer in tho Man I; National Magazine, from which the fol lowing extract in taken: What Htieh a Mtike would mean to the American people cannot be net idrtlv hi mere fuels and figures. it i can lit? dlnd> imagined by those who ! ] (a 1 1 ' t ? \\ bat an intimate and vital, i part railway transportation plays m 1 every industrial uctivlty ot the couU i There is scarcely a person in any ' part of the1 land who would not be j jinmedlatelv affected If the millions I of busilv turning wheels on our nearly three hundred thousand miles i nf railway we're to stop for a single I day If the tie up continued for a w eek, the blow to the industry of f lit* country would, bo greater than ! what caused by any panic ol recent history. To the hlg cities of the coun try. and particularly to the Cities of tn? 'eastern seaboard it would mean a cutting off of the food supplies that would place the inhabitants virtually .in a state of siege. In the case of many food products these ei'ies do not carry on hand a stock sufficient 10 feed their people for more than a week, and in the case of some, such as milk and fresh vegetables, supplies are replenished dally. The stoppage of transportation, therefore, would mean suffering .and want to these city dwellers, and if continued for long would threaten many of them with actual starvation. To the farmers of the country a general railroad strike would be a catastrophe,' onlv less serious, tut ofr from his market, the farmer could m?t move, his produce, and the price df riain and other staples would be Miih klv cut in two, which the market \ a lue of more perishable articles would disappear entirely. The great industrial plants of the country would soon be forced to close down follow in u the declaration of a strike be ruihe Ihev could not obtain supplies needed for their operation, nor could ihev ship tbnir finished products to market. Their plants would soon be idle, and millions of men would be i ihmwn out of work. With the in come or practically evcr> (lass of citi/ens either seriously cut down oi Mjsuended entirely, merchants would transact little'buslnesp, because 'here . would be few purchasers. In short i t he industrial activities of the ^note count rv would be \irtuall> palsied 1 1 oni the moment the railroads ceas ed to operafe. I The railroads cannot purchase bet terment materials in huge quantifies and also devote the same money to the payrolls. If they yield' to the de mands of the men th?>y must abstain from spending what they are plan ning to spend for purchases; the result Will be that the steel mills will drift back into slackness and the. business boom just get t inn well un r wa> will flatten out. to the bitter (l.-t of everybody in the count ry? De troit i r? e I 're-- - The Use of the huge new locomo tive^ and the long and heavy train?, against which the Brotherhoods of freight trainmen, who are asking an enoifnious increase in1 wages, protest vigorously, seems to have resulted in a rapid decrease in accidents to railroad employees, and a decided in -tease in their safety. The number of railway employees killed in ser vice diminished from f.20 in 1!H1 to ;v: in 101 I. and the number of In ?t : ,.."j from to -IS Jo . To pui-ue a dispute as to hours :i d v. n-i> on the theory thar work inutnen ;tre entitled to all thju can be tori ed from employers and extort ed from the people by employers Is not the l est u ay to promote tb?* per* munent welflTre of iabor. ? New York World. FOLLY IN DEMAND FOR SHORT TRAINS MADE BY UNIONS Might Just As Well Ask Country To Return To Sailing Boats And Ox Carts Wa^hintrton, 1). C. ? To the public ' that pay every dollar of (In* railroad ' "till land f<?ri> :;\e cents of every dol- , ?ar pan! f-<: 'r.insporiation is for j v- H!'f> | ll:f itv.titO of the foUI , i.rotherhood? of ruii^.<> empioyetes, \?liu art- ? ! c-m.iii?! i : . increased pay, t ^ ; "Ail i lu* i<tiir?>u(!5 have to do j to meet our demands- lor higher wafics is to thorien ;hur trains, move j freight more rapidl>, and e?<enpe the; j?enalty of overtime wages ' The fallacy of tiii.- Matemem, which j- the la*t-ditch argument used m 1 .-upport of the demand f<-i increased ^ ages, is well shown in ihc- following ? ditonal which appealed in the ?Vuhhington, D. C. Times of April 19, nder the heading "A -M.id Freight .ram Idea:" ? Kwryhody in the lank- ?f the general public will agree with the railway managers that the campaign which t he railway workers are wag ing, panu ulaiiy in the west, lor i>hoit- ' er t r ; ? i r. - , while at the fame time de manding higher pay and fewer hours of work, is of all possible claimH the ill or t preposterous. Indeed, in econom ics it an ideal little nhort of mad. "The railroads have spent hun dreds of milions of dollars lowering grades, eliminating *harp curves. ballasting roadbeds and cutting ir. heavy raj Ik, so that powerful !oc<? motives, larger cars, and longer trains could In* handled in one movement. If this object had not been achieved railway wages never could have been advanced to the point at which they already have arrived and traffic rates never could have heen held do\\ n where they are today without Lb* wholt* railroad .system of the I nitn-i States being made a financial wrecU Any child can see that if, aftei the principal railroads of the coun try nave been reconstructed to haul the heavier tonnage in mass, you cut every freight train in half, the cost of operation must* bo increased stu? pendously, with two locomotive* wbere one now does, with two en?i ziccrs where one now does with twa firemen where one now does, with two conductors where one now does, with virtually two whole train crews where one now does, not to speak of the new equipment and the new ter minal facilities that would be needed. "This* proposal is not essentially different from urging that the world go ba< k from the .nteamshipH of to , day to the fail harks of centuries ago. from the railroads themselves to the stage coaches and ox carts of the past, it is like suggesting that the farmer himself drive his wagon* \ load of produce in small lots day af ter day to the distant market of the t city instead of loading It in bulk lato freight cars ar.d shipping it all at 1 once by rail."' KfcKSIIAWMIIOOl, (M>SIN<j. S\ Yqiule LacliVi mid Thrrtj Youujc M.i. ItecehcU IHplonuis. The dosing 4-\crelses of Mm l\t?r >havy graded -school won? lust Friday evening. Til** owning prayer, was . hy Uev. It. M. Ihtllose. Xupei IntOudeilt lluinphtloH read a coin pri'heuHtvc rejHirt ?tf (he school*# work J throughout thescvioii, which was both a|ul gratifying to the pa tvMi*. ll?- submit ti'd a recommenda tion tlyit the H grade and the necessary tcaehct' h,v added l?* bring I ho *U'Ium>1 |i> a higher stamlawl tt ?*? I place it in Hie da** with the very Mr. W, S. Currcll. president Of tin* rnlverslty of South Carolina. who W?ts present hy inv Hat ion to dellvcr tlu* address in the graduating i.'lttss, wa* then Introduced ? ?> 1'rof, Hum phries. ami charmed Ids audience Wit h 111* combined wit. wisdom ahd elo ? 1 1 1?<4 1< ? ?. Dr. Cunvll in a most pleas ing sj>oj?kor aial possesses in a most unusual 4 l??tc i'?*4? iln> faculty ??f know i i ik wltal to ,sii,\, and iust how to say It. Ih' w a* hi?ro at great im-onveni cnce to himself and had to leave I ? \ automobile immediately afte'r ctauiud hit; his address, in order to catch the night Seaboard train 1 4 ? Columbia, when* lio had to he early ne\t morn lug to participate in l lit* commence ment cxcrdscs at the 1'nlvei sl.ty. The 'gold medal otVerWI hy Hchlos hurg & Karcsh to the l^upil in the eighth made making the heat record in general scholarship, was awarded t?> Kllza Knight. tla? medal ching pre sented hy J. \\\ Haiai'l, The graduates then rendered the class exercises in accordance with the program published in the 10ra last week. The fidlowhig were the uiciu hers of the class: .Misses WlMeeu Croxton. Margaret Deinjwter, Ottie (Jrogory, Louise llamel, Kuth Htogncr. and Sara Tnlexdale; John Itluckmon. Iturko Cregory and William Hayes-. Their diplomas were presented t<> them hy l>r. I... T. t.'ivgory ? ?t" the hoard of trustees. In Ids Introductory re nin rk^ I >r. < i regory stated that the hoard had umler consideration the ad ditions recommended hy Superintend cut Humphries and that It might he the privilege of the class t?? graduate again next year, from the eleventh grade, if. they desired to do so. County Superintendent of Kducatlon C. \V. Itlrchmorc. of Kershaw county, was present and was introduced t" the audience. lie complimented the school very highly and the Civic League for its active interest, in the school. One of the pleasant features of the evening was a song hy Miss Eilleen Floyd. The exercises were concluded hy Kev. It. M. Dur.osc with the ben^Iic t lot). The play Thursday evening hy pupils of the .school furnished good entertain nu'id and was Idglily enjoyed hy the la rue audience. Vocal solos were reu dercd he I ween acts hy Misses Nancy Hayes and Josephine Nelson, and Miss Mary I laves presided at the piano. Kershaw Krn. in*. W. 11. Kelly, oL' Spartanburg, has tiicd his pledge as a candidate for ra i 1 r. tad t-onimissioner. ANNOUNCEMENTS (Card* in 1 1 1? t thi*< bending will 1)0 run I'ri'ii) u??w until tin* primary at the following rntos: !?*? ?r all Stnte and County oiliivs $."?.()(? : m:i^i?t rates and county commissioner*. *."..<?<>. Cash must accompany copy. except those who have lodger accounts :it thi> olliofc.) I OK CONGRESS w. i'. sti:vi:ns(?\ IOK SOLICITOR W. n. c< U'i: FOR SHERIFF hen p. dci.maci 1 1 : II. I?. (liil'K F. L. TRFESDEI. J. 1'. HAT KM A \ K. II. WILLIAMS <\ WELSH .1. R. RELK i>. fletcher S. II. MK'Kl.i: K T. ESTRIHCE R. I J. lir.Ml'IUiiKS .1. 1). SINCLAIR FOH filPERVlSOK .1. ROBT. MACILI. M. C. WEST I). M.|KlltKLKV FOR CLERK OF CO CRT ,1AM ICS II. CLYRI UN ii. c. sinolet??n FOR REPRESENTAT I V ES 1). T. BLACKMoN T. K. TROTTER oeo. g. alexaxhek .1. M. MARTIN NORMAN S. RICH A R1 ?S NEWTON KELLY FOR SI FT. EOI CATION ALLEN B. ML'RCHISON O ROVER C. CASK IN I. J. MeK EN/1 1 : TWOS. IL Yol'NC T. M. McCASKILl. FOR MAGISTRATE (DoKalb Township! SAM'L. N. NICHOLS" ?\ I>. F. l>lXo\ IT. M. FlNl'llEK < rp|H-r Division Wfiteree '!'? -w imhip) T. W. STARNES ( Flat Rock Township ? .1 AMES T. TRVEShFI. J. E. ORE El > (I. W. B8TES FLETCHER M. J<>R1?.\\ F. O. PERK Y ? Buffalo Township i W. C. RALLY .1. E. SEVERANCE FOR TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONER lOcKalb Township! I>. 8. TRAPP ~ . 1). W. JOY W. N. WEST * v^ ?Flat Rook TowihIhj > ^ / J. 8. BARFIELO L. B. OGBURN I c. FAULKENT.EIMn ? Wntoroo Township! J. M. PORTER FOR CORONER 0. L. JJtSON as I - ***?? 11 1,1 1 " . 11 J-!.'11."' Where I took* Will lie Found. No >me will be H,l lowed t?? v??t<? In I he }?*'4 ???<? * y 4iUu'4iiUi uliu dootf not go in iH'fson to the secretary of his pus i tit 1 t luh and dgu Ids own name or make his mark, if hi* can't write, upon the book provided for tliat pur pose. Tin. hook for flip Kprxhaw pre cinct , in tin*' Lancaster county. side. is at tlm l?ra ofllc'o, in charge of Jan.. Il.lfamel, secivtary, It Is o|H>n now j tiiid w ill Plono Monday, July .'Ust. Tliv enrollment honk for Hanging ; Itin-k eltib I* HI I in* of lie** of Mauls* I Mate li. N. J olios. j Tin* hook for' JlC's club .is in the ; hands of J. Itobt. Mngltl. Kershaw | l1*''Uv i John Davenport, who is wanted in : Anderson county 011 (he charge of op* j crating an illielt distillery, has Imm?i? ? cap! ured in Philadelphia. I'll., and ' brought hack to A ndcrsou. j .Nineteen graduated at the Training ' ScImhiI i'oi* Nurse* 11 1 ihe Slate Ilospl I till foj* the Insane, Kleveii Brothers 111 Army. 1'ioiu Waterloo, S. during the War hetweeii tile. Slates, eleven broth ers b\ the name of Anderson went , forth 1.0 defend Southern homes and firesides. The names of t,heso soldiers were I >. W? <>. 1'.. U. W., C. S., (Jeorge. Ailoipjius, Thomas, John, Joel, Pat rick .'ind Benjamin Anderson. Four were in the Western army (one of them iin engineer. 1 one was a mem ber of 1 In* Second South Carolina Keg Imeiit, 1 wo were in James' Battalion. Kershaw's Brigade, one was a member of a cavalry regiment, two were inca j pad ta ted to serve in the ranks and I were assigned to a different branch of the army, and the youngest, on ac 1 count of age, was with tin* State troops. I One was killed In Virginia, and one i was wounded. The casualties of those j in the Western army are at hand. All I have passed over the river except tWO, ! now past three score and ten. Mr. < icorge Anderson and Mrs. A inc. , lla Smith Anderson were the uncrown ! ed king and queen of this remarkable family of sixteen children all told. Mr. 1 Anderson was born about the close of I the eighteenth century. Mrs. Ander son four years later, and both attained 1 a patriarchal age. I am disposed to challenge eur Southland to prodmc the name of a family that gave more souk to' light for Southern rights. ? < >. M. Huzhardt, ; of Newberry, in Confederate Veteran. Signed Petition to Hang Minister. Aniii-lon, Ala.. June L\ ? "Therefore , !><? it resolved, that the city council appoint a coiiimlttee whose duty it shall be to hang each and every min ister in tlit* city." That was about the wording of 't he I last paragraph of a |M<titiou which .twenty" prominent business men of .this eity signed last week. The peti tion was circulated by a well known ; banker in a jest, to show lhat some 1 men were so compliant they would sign anything put before them in evi , dent good faith. The |H*titiou started by asking the i eity eoinii-ll to pass an ordinance ex cusing the ministers <>f the gosjiel in this city from imylutf a sanitary- twx. TllO docUUIOUt WHS iVUOhcd in legal verbiage and ambled along ^Itli many "wherefores" and ''wheroKKc*" uutll tlK- llnal paragraph wan reach t'd, when it was shown that in order to make the payment of tlu? tax uu? iiecvswary the ministers wutlKP have to l>e bunged ami the )>etltloncrs urg ed- the city couiicll to appoint a com-j initio to do tlu> hanging. The Juke was oil the signers, of, course, a itumbOr of thorn are saying they knew It was a Joke all along, hut otliers frankly a(l(lltt they did not read the document before signing it, as they should have done. NTCI>Y COI!KHK AT WlNTHItOI' IJeing Arranged For Summer at Will" throp College. To the -flub Women of South ,0a ro Una: At the request of Mi's. J. W, Alien, Mr*. Alexander ijong, and other Club Women of South Carolina. Wht t liro|> (Oollego Is offering a short course arranged es|>eolnUy for them. This course will be given during the Sum mer Session of flits year. It will he id u Tuesday, June ?7th, and end Sat urday, July Nth. This course will present an oppor tunity for as serious study as the wo men desire or Just for attendance on the open lectures and the lighter of ferings. in either case, a woman will M many (VliUi? her i?? Kf?'p abroast of UuMinJj matorlal from tlu? J woman In the hoUu> who sci vr houift and fuiiuuuults |Jj tpialo faahlon. The offering. J prise tlw purely mltuntl, u* j ml. ami the spiritual. *1 Till- follow In;,' II.. the utf plann?'<l '? | Tho home Tilt' Family d Homo Nnrslnu, Health House lManm>?l to I'.lnnlnato tJ Mint, fare of Milk an<| Hmt^l liiK, Hreatl Making, luian.s^ ? i'??v ilto Kamlly. t-Mivhss oust ration, ltm k Yaul IVultry Year Hound (ianlen, Kvo&(3 Tasto In l>i(<ss, KliaWrpirtt^fl In tin* Home, <>p-n IMsoussloi,^ Art Elementary Stiultoi j|l Household Oeeorathai muj ?9 hiux. How to Judge a lMctui*,'li Mtoralnrc What ItcuKs l(jl ami Mow to Hw\rt Tliom, staJ Intf Folk l.o|v. Tin- piblo lure. 1 Civics? City riaunii^. l'arfcl IMayK^oninls. Town 1 -Ihrarlwjjl 1/imI Ohavltles, Curh Market^ lMantlnK. Hcautlfyhitf Yurtl*. Heereatlon ? I'se of CjuJ Swimming lesson*. | Faieli woman plauuhm t<> quested to notify 1 >. IV .hihiug3 dent, Wlnthrop Normal ami li?J College. ? Camden Milling Company MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN Home Ground Meal, Grits, Cow F( Cracked Corn, Graham Flour, EkJ We sell llay, Shucks, Pen Hulls, (J round Cobs, etc., and will hit stock the first pt March a supply of Ltntless Hulls ami Feed Cotto* Meal, those Hulls are gotten out by The Buckeye Cotton Oil Co,^ people having put In machinery which reworks the Hulls, taking o4 t ically every particle of lint, leaving nothing but the hull itself,* i^vory one knows there can be no food value in the lint, and as it 23 pyr cent, lint taken from the Hulls, you can readily see than in the feeding of the L1NTLESS HULL in preference to the old hull the lint on them, we ask you give us a call, ami any time that yoi anything in the way of CJraln, Hay, Shucks or Fodder, to selJ/jii as we buy ami sell these products. Several tons of cotton seed fertilizer meal for sale at the right]* lU'siioctfully, M Camden Milling Compan] Valuable City Propel FOR SALE THE HANDSOME 8 ROOM DWELLING OF MRS. VAL. JORDAN ON N< BROAD STREET. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT HOUSE WITH ALL CONVENI" ONE TWO ROOM SERVANT HOUSE AND BARN ON PREMISES. SIZE OF 138x570 FEET. I C. P. DuBose & Company REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE. VARIOUS FORMS OF Automobile Policies ,?x;:r| '?uiJSSM ' : ? f ISSUED COVERING OWNERS AGAINST LOSS OR DAMAGE OCCASIONED - FIRE, TRANSPORTATION AND THEFT ALSO COLLISION MEANING DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY THE AUTOMOBILE IN C? AND LIABILITY FOR DAMAGE TO OTHER PROPERTY CAUSED LISION. SPECIAL FORMS OF POLICIES ALSO ISSUED COVERIN#?MS FACTURERS, DEALERS AND TAXICABS. POLICIES MAY BE EXTES? COVER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. C. P. Agents