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SOME CENSUS FACTS SIOW WHITES TO BE GAININ6 IN THIS STATE THEY GOOD GAINS The Illiteracy Rate in South Carolina o is High, Percentage Reing Over Twenty-five Per Cent. According to Advance Bulletin of the Cen- sus Bureau. The composition and characteris tics of the population of South Car olina, as reported at the Thirteenth Decennial Census are given in an ad vance bulletin soon to be issued by Director Durand, of the bureau of census, department of commerce and labor. It was prepared under the supervision of Wm. C. Hunt, chief statistician for population. Statis tics of color, nativity, parentage, sex, state of birth, citizenship, age, illit eracy, school attendance, marital con dition, and dwellings and families are presented. They are grouped as follows: For the State and counties; for the two cities of more than H.’.'imt inhab itants; for the two cities of in.nno to l’.'),(Hid; for place of 2,.'eh to in,- 00h; and for wards of Charleston, the only city of more than fin.nnn inhabitants. A previous population bulletin for South Carolina gave the number of inhabitants by counties and minor civil divisions, decennial increase and density of population, and the proportions urban and rural That and the forthcoming bulletin cover all the principal topics of the population census except occupations and ownership of homes. The white population is divided into four groups: i 1 ) Native, native parentage that is. having both par ents born in the Cnited States; iji native, foreign parentage having both parents born abroad; i 2, i na tive, mixed parentage having one parent native and the other foreign born; (4) foreign born Of the total population of South Carolina. 67f*.161, or 44 ^ per cent , are whites, and Vl.'.SA.l, or ,'c 2 per cent , negroea. The corresponding percentages In 1900 were 4 16 and f>S 4. reapectively, the proportion of white* having Increased during the decade. In four of the forty-three counties the proportion of negroes exceeds. thre**-fourths. and In twen- tv-nlne other counties it exceeds one- half. the maximum percentage of negroes being that for I’.eaufort County i xtt u i Native whites of native parentage constitute 47 per rent of the total population of the State, and '*7 '■ ; cr rent of the white population Na tive whites of foreign or mixed par entage constitute only " x per cent of the total population, and foreign born whites only 0 4 per cent Of the urban population. 4‘< 6 per cent are native whites of native par entage. of the rural, 42.7 per cent. The corresponding proportions for native whites of foreign or mixed parentage are 3 4 and 6 3 per cent , respectively, for foreign-born whites. 1 S and 0 2 per cent. The percentage of negroes is 432 in the urban pop- ulatiop and 36 b In the rural. / Sex. / In the total population of the St at • then* are 7 3 1. s 4 2 males a ml 7 6 3 . 33 s ft- males. or 9 x 3 malt *s to 1 (HI fomalo s. In 1 900 tin ratio w as 9 V 4 to l*OI Amon-’ th.‘ w lutes 9. • e art 1 10 2.4 males to Imi fem alt •R . a mo ng tho in grot ■s, .' • to 1 • 1 1 \ mo ng tin nativ* whins tho r; 'I is 1 **2 to 1 on, a s comp are 1 w . n 1 3 9 to 1 on for tin* fo reign- lu n: whites. Itv the urlmit potmla-coo there are bn.2 males to Ibo fettn’e-j, but in the rural sexes are neat'v equal in number. State of Birth. Of the total native population — that is. population born In the Cnited States—9 4.S per cent, were born in South Carolina and 3.2 per cent, out side the State; of the native white population. 9.4 per cent, were born outside the State, and the native ne gro, l.S per cent. Persons born out side the State constitute a larger proportion of 'the native population in urban than in rural communities. Foreign Nationalities. Of the foreign-born white popula tion of South Carolina, persons born in Germany represent 2 8.S per cent.; Russia, 13; Ireland, 11.1; England, 8.3; Italy, 3; Greece, 4.7; Canada, 4.5; all other countries, 19.4 per cent. Of the total white stock of foreign origin, which includes per sons born abroad and also natives having one or both parents born abroad, Germany contributed 33.2 per cent.; Ireland. 19.3; England, 8.9; Italy, 3.2; Turkey, 2.5; Austria, 2.4 per cent. Voting and Militia Ages, The total number of males 21 years of age and over is 33 5,04 6, rep resenting 22.1 per cent, of the popu lation. Of such males, 49.5 percent, are whites and 50.5 per cent are ne groes. Native whites represent 4 8.5 per cent, of the total number and foreign-born whites 1 per cent. Of the 3,355 foreign-born white males of Toting age, 1,602, or 47.7 per cent, are naturalised. Males of mil itia age—18 to 44—number 276,788. Of the total population, 15.1 per cent, are under 5 years of age, 26.5 per cent from 5 to 14 years, inclu sive, 21.4 per cent, from 15 to 24, 23.5 per cent, from 25 to 44, and 13.5 per cent. 45 years of age and over. The foreign-born white popu lation comprises comparatively few children, only 4.8 per cent, of this class being under 15 years of age and over. Of the native white popu lation of native parentage, 39.9 per cent, are 25 and over; of the native whites of foreign or mixed parentage 55.2 per cent., and of the negroes, 33.9 per cent. The urban population shows a smaller proportion of children of per sons in the' prime of life. Migration to the city explains this at least an part. Of the urban population, 30,.5 per cent, are from 25 to 4 4 years of age, inclusive, and of the rural pop ulation, 22.8 per cent. The census inquiry as to school at tendance was marely as to w'hether the person enumerated had attended any kind of school at any time be tween September 1, 1 909, and the date of enumeration, April 15, 1910. School Attendance. The total number of persons of school age—that is, 6 to 20 years, inclusive—is 564,260, of whom 291,- 3 07, or 51.6 per cent., attended school. In addition to these, 4,566 children under 6 and 4,486 persons 21 and over attended school. For boys from 6 to 2 0 years, inclusive, the parentage attending school was •j0.7; for girls, 52.6. For children from 6 to 14 years, inclusive, the percentage attending school y^was 62,6. The percentage for children of this age among native whites of native parentage was 72.1; among native whites of foreign or mixed parentage, M.4; among foreign-born whites,, 7 2.2; and among negroes, •"6.1. in urban communities the per- centage of children of that age at tending school was 71.4, and in rural 61.5. Illiteracy. The census bureau classifies as il literate any persons 10 years of age or over who is unable to write, re gardless of ability to read. There are 276,980 illiterates in the States, representaing 25.7 per cent, of the total population 10 years of age and over, as compared with 3 ’ 9 per cent in 1 900. The percent age of Illiteracy is 38 7 among ne groes, 10 3 among native whites, and 6.x among foreign-born whites. It is 10.5 for native whites of native par- enage and 1.4 for native whites of foreign or mixed parentage. Illiterates are relatively fewer in urban than in rural communities, the percentages being 13.6 and 27.7, re spectively The rural percentage ex ceed* the urban for each class of the population except the foreign-born 'whites, most of whom arrive in this '.ountrv when past the school age. Among them the percentage of illit- ••ia. > is slightly higher In the urban population than in the rural lor persons from lo to _’o years of age, inclusive, whose literacy de pends largely upon present school facilities and school attendance, the percentage of lllitetacy is 19.1. Mar its] (Condition. In the population 15 years of age and over, 35.5 per cent, of the males are single and 29 per cent, of the females. The percentage married Is 5 9 7 for males and 58 4 for females, and the percentage widowed 4.4 and 12 1, respectively. Although the law- granting divorces In South Carolina was repealed in 1X7S. tin* number re ported in 19lo as divorced is believ ed to be too small, because of the probability that a number of divorc 'd persons class themselves as single or vv idowed. That the percentage is smaller for women than for men is due largely to the tact thaf vvDmeh marry young er. Thus 1 7 l per cent. of the fe males from 13 to 19 years of age .AXu..married, as compared with 3.1 per cent, of the males, and 6u.5 per cent, of the females from 2t.» to 2 4 years are married, as compared with H.6 per cent, of the males. In the next age group, 23 to o4 years, the difference largely disappears, and among those in the next two age groups the percentage married is lughec-among the males. That there is a larger proportion of widows than of widowers may indicate that men more often re-marry than women, but, since the husbands are generally older than their wives the marriage relationship is more often broken by death of the husband than by death of the wife. For the main elements of the pop ulation the percentages of married persons among those 15 years of age and over are as follows: Foreign- born whites, 5 8 for males and 5 9 for females; native whites of native par entage, 58.3 and 59.5, respectively; native whites of foreign or mixed parentage! 51.6 and 46; negroes, 61.1 and 57.8. These percentages by no means in dicate the relative tendency of the several classes as regards marriage. To determine that, the comparison should be made by age periods, since the proportion married in any class is determined largely by the propor tion who-bave reached the marrying age. Similarly, the proportion wid owed depends largely on the propor tion past middle life. The percent age married, both for males and for females, Is higher in rural than in urban communities. Dwelling* and Families. The total number of dwelling* In South Carolina it 802,842, and tht BRINGS BIG MDNEY WIDE INFLUENCE OF OUR GREAT COTTON CROP. It* Value and Mnalnlng to the Pros perity of This County as Compar ed With Other Crops. “Cotton: The Southern Woof in the Warp of American Agriculture, Manufacturing and Commerce,’’ is the striking title of one of the articles in ‘The South: The Nation’s Greatest Asset,” to be issued March 2 7 by The Manufactures’ Record. The ar ticle is signiticent in reflecting the in fluence of cotton not only in this country, but in the world. In this comprehensive report on cotton there are many facts of world-jvide inter est, a few qf which may be mentioned here in advanced. Produced upon 33,000,000 acres, or 11,9 per cent of the 294,343,000 acres devoted to twelve leading crops of the country in 1912, the cotton crop, including its seed, is that year had a value of $1,000,000,000, equal to 20.4 per cent of the aggregate value, $4,906,449,000, of those crops. I pon something more than one-eight ot the land devoted to those crops in the whole country, the South produc ed one crop, cotton, having a value more than one-fifth of the aggregate value of the twelve crops. In the last census year, 1 809, the value of all factory products in the I'nited States was $20,67 2,052,000. In that year the value of the outputs of blast furnaces and iron and steel works and rolling mills was $ 1,37 7,- 1 32,000, and the value of cotton goods, inc Riding hosiery and knit goods, and of primary products of cotton seed, was $91 5,070,000. In the first-named inrustries 2 7s,.5o5 wage- earners were employed, and in the socond group 4 74,7o i. The value of merchandise export ed from the I'nited States in the fis cal year ended June 30th, 1912, was $2,204,322,409. Of the total, raw cot ton represented $5 65,849,271, manu factures of cotton $5o,769,5 1 1 and cotton seed and its products $42,1 42,- 181, and agregate of $658,760,963, representing products of the cotton plant, and 29.9 per cent of the total value of all merchandise exports from the country. la the thirty-three years between 1 8 80 and 1912 there was exported from the United States merchandise to the value of $39,151,- 828.1 95, and of that total $9,685,- 282.1 38, or 2.47 per cent, was the value of Southern cotton exported. Southern cotton fields, now repre- ( sented in 3 0 per cent of annual ex port merchandise values are thus strikingly shown to be an essentially Important factor not only in the ag riculture of the I'nited States, in the manufacturing industries and com merce of the world, but in the basis of exchange. Southern cotton mills alone are now consuming annually more cotton than the South produced In 1868, more than all the mills of the whole country consumed as late as 1 896, and more than half the amount now- consumed annually Dy all the mills of the country. In all the South, now embracing sixteen states, there were 687,066 active spindles In 1 880, which used 111,777,177 pounds of cotton, the spindles being 6 4 per cent of the total number of active ones in the l nlted States and using 14.8 per cent of the cotton used by all the mills in the country. Last year the 1 1,8,38,600 active spindles in the South used 1,3 1 9,707.- v 1 3 pounds of cotton, their number being 3.vs per cent of those in all the mills of the country, and the cot ton consumed. Contemporaneously the active loom equipment of South ern mills inn eased from 1 4,734, of 6 6 per cent, of the total of the coun try, to 2.33,27!*, or 35.5 per .cent of the total. These equipment statistics suggest not only the multiplicity, but also the multiformity of the South's textile, activities today, producing a hundred different lines of goods, spun, woven and knit. These facts clearly mark out the task of the South in this particular. It is, of its own initiative, or in co operation with capital from other parts, to take advantage of its unsur- pased opportuniites, to the end that by the time the world shall be call ing for an annual world crop of 42,- 000,000 bales the South will be rais- ing30,000-000 of them, and Instead of sending 65 per cent of its crop to other parts of the world for manufac turing, will be consuming that much at home in making goods for the" markets of the world. Your Horse should have the best of attention and care during his natural life. Get the full benefit of pleasure, or work, and make hhn valuable to you—as you should value him—by keeping him in first-class condition. 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Beware of aubetltute*. •aid by all dealere la or aant prepaid on receipt of Mad* In Richmond, Va* by the GAVE SCOTT HELP STANDARD OIL MONEY USED IN WEST VIRGINIA ELECTED HIM SENATDR («ives Up His Place. Willem H. Lewis, a negro law yer, whose appointment as an assis tant attorney general raised a row in official circles in Washington and a contest over Lewis’ membership in the American Bar association, resign ed Tuesday. Killed Many Turks. A detachment of three hundred Turkish infantrymen fought for six hours against a body of Greek troops near Janina Tuesday and sur rendered only after 112 Turks had been killed, including eight officers. total number of families 215,204, in dicating that In comparatively few caaec doe* more than one family oc cupy a dwelling. The average num ber per family, 4.8. Another letter From John I>. Arch bold, Heed of Standard Oil and a Good Friend of Our Senator Mc- laiurln, U Published in the March Number of Hearst Magazine. Further damaging letter* from John D. Archbold, the Standard Oil official, who kept I'nited States Sen ators on his pay roll, are given in the Hearst Magazine for March. Hearst's Magazine has already pub lished letters bearing the signature of John 1). Archbold addressed to Senators John L. Md^aurin, of South Carolina, Bailey, of Texas, and oth ers These letters have been hard to explain so hard that Senator Mc- Laurm and Senator 1/illey have left public life because of them. These last letters deal with the ac tivities of Standard Oil In West Vir ginia, with men like Elkins and Scott, both United States Senators, at the time. Read the following ex cerpt* from the article “When Stand ard Oil Carried Weat Virginia,” and you will be given an instructive if not an entertaining glimpee of Mr. Archbold throwing his slimy Stand ard Oil net over the Senate end of West Virginia. The last published lesson-leaf in Standard Oil and its corruptions left Mr. Bailey, then Senator from Texas, on his way to Mr. Archbold and No. 26 Broadway. The New York Amer ican says a review of what letters and documents are in the hands of Hearst s Magazine does not develop the particulars of that Hailey-'Arch- hold conference. It is less publicly important perhaps since Mr. Bailey already has been -driven from the Senate. Senator McLaurin, of this State, was exposed by Tillman sev eral years ago. ^ The American goes on to say “the Clapp Committee, if it would, might lay bare every tingle of the Bailey- Arch,bold story. But—apparently— it won’t. The resolution which call ed the Clapp Committee into being commanded to go thoroughly into all of the correspondence between Mr. Archbold and members of both House and Senate. Or, if you prefer the ac tual words, ‘All financial transactions and correspondence relating there unto between John D. Archbold and Colonel Roosevelt and Representa tives in Congress and members of the United States Senate from the ’year 1 900 Tb the date of the investi gation.’ ” Why, then, doesn't it call for all the Archbold letter-books, and the entire Archbold files? Or is it afraid to make what sure discoveries would thereby be uncovered? If the Clapp Committee were in honest earnest, what would it do in the dripping case of \fr. Hen rose? The Haileys and Lorimers are gone, but Mr. Penrose still insults mankind from his Sen ate place. He confesses, Mr. Arch- bold confesses—only, of course, when confronted by overpowering proof — that Mr. Penrose received $25,000 of Arch,bold-Standard Oil money. Going back a decade, Standard Oil, counting it* Senate henchmen, could point to Mr. Hanna and Mr. Foraker in Ohio, Mr. Platt and Mr. Depew In New York, Mr. Quay and Mr. Penrose in Pennaylvankt, while Mr. Aldrieh and Mr. W**tmore and Mr. Crane and Mr. OwUinger and Mr. Hnle Bight be described a* holding : High Grade Seed and Farm Lands MIXSON'S SEEDS GROW. They are grown In the South tor the South ;; LONG AND SHORT STAPLE UPLAND COTTON The beat Varletle*. Write uc for prices and Information. CORN, SORGUM, MILLET, VELVET BEANS &c Our Corn 1* all HIGH-BRED SOUTH CAROLINA CORN. Get our Illustrated Catalogue of all Vegetable and Farm Seeds. W. H. Mixson Seed Company, CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA the Standard Oil fort for all New England. And there were othera. Over In Weat Virginia Senator El kina, himself a trust master of coal and railroad aort, waa to the Stand ard Oil and every other truat as the shadow of a great rock In a wearv land. And Mr. Elkina waa In con stant and effective touch with Mr. Archbold. What a d* 1 "! 1 wealth of l West Virginia secrets the Clapp Com mittee might unearth, if It would but act up to the design of its In vention and demand the whole Arch bold correspondence' Take the following letter from Mr. Archbold to Mr Elkins. Where does the Inference which it sets In motion end’ And inferences are the corner- posts of all discovery. One hears the squeak behind the bsse-board, and infers the mouae; one aeea the back- fin cutting the surface of the sea. and infers the shark. It was during the campaign of 1900, the second Mc Kinley campaign, and Mr. Elkins had written to Mr. Archbold preferring certain requests. Thu* affably did Mr. Archbold answer him; October 3 0, 1 900. My dear Senator: You need not offer any excuses for asking any aid that we can possibly extend you in West Virginia. Mr. Clark has returned and 1 have just telegraphed him as follows: “Senator Elkins is very anxious to have John Starkey and D. F. Cornell, foremen, work vigorously for the suc- cess of tlie _IiuiuUIica-n legislative ticket in their districts. It is very important. Wo are very anxious to do everything possible to aid Sena tor Elkins. Will you please give the matter prompt attention?” I have no doubt wbatever^but that Mr. Clark will give the matter prompt and vigorous attention. With good wishes, I am Very truly yours, Jno. D. Archbold. Hon. S. B. Elkins, Elkins, West Va. P. S.—Have received following re ply from Mr. Clark: “Telegram received. Everything will be done to secure the Influence of the gentlemen you speak, of in be half of Senator Elkins,” What a torch the Clapp Committee could make of the above, to light It to the finding of further letters, if it only would! Be sure this letter and the Elkins letter is replied to were not, the beginning and the end of any Elkins-Archbold correspondence: In 1 898—an off year—a sudden flaw in the political wind laid the West Vir ginia Republicans on their beam- ends. It looked for a moment as though all were lost. Mr. Fleming was Governor. Also, Mr. Fleming was a Democrat. There would be a Senator elected as colleague of Mr. Elkjns. A Demo cratic Legislature would mean a Democratic Senator. This excited the watchful Mr. Archbold, peering Bpiderishly out from his Standard Oil web at No. 26 Broadway. If yos will re-read Mr. Roosevelt’s 1904 re mark*, delivered across the White House mahogany to Mr. Root, you will observe that he expressed a fear lest “papa” Scott bad collected eam- booaaeeping, 9 hand open more avenues to than any other training. Graduates placed la PROORH 81VE UP-COUNTRY. EdooaUoaa center. Investigate. CECIL’S BUH1NE88 COLLEGE, 8- Dept. 8. Dept Ipartaahwrg. *. C. Anderson, ft. I palgn funds from Beef, Sugar, Tobac co and Standard Oil. “Papa Scott” was Nathan Ba; Scott, and his home State, West Vlr gina. He had always been a Hanm man. and never a Roosevelt man. Ii a Baltimore speech ki 1904—this wa just before the nominations—he ha* spoken of the latter as “this mai Roosevelt, .a'_hom every body- 4e--fo and nobody wants”. But he had beei dining somewhat heavily, and Mr Roosevelt let this burst of humo pass without remark. Later, the hu morous Mr. Scott assisted about th' Roosevelt headquarters. The West Virginia 1898 Legisla ture, Republican and not Democratic as Mr. Archbold had feared, elected Mr. Scott—Mr. Roosevelt's “papa' Scott—to the United States Senate There is nothing of documentary kind in the possession of this maga zihe to show, how iar Mr, Arch bob and Standard Oil forces In the Sen ate elevation of Mr. Scott. However, from Mr. Archbold’s in stant interest In the business, whei he thought that the Democrats ha< carried the State, as evidenced li his letter to Mr. Clark directing th< election of Governor Gleming, one ii free to assume that he had a hanc in the Senate making of Mr. Scott The two were on speaking terms sure ly in 1 904, when Mr. Scott sent thii grateful wire to Mr. Archbold: Wheeling, West Virginia. November 9, 1904. J. D. Archbold, 26 B’way, New York. Thanks to you and other friends we have West Va. by twenty-five thousand state ticket safe, I think. 93 5a N. B. Scott. How tender, bow touching, how promptly loyal! West Virginia goei Republican, and Mr. Scott doesn’t thank the people. He thanks Mr. Archbold, Standard Oil, and “othei friends”. When ssyone beset reached bis ideal it le pissed his Meal to low.