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Reform in Ed By Professor Eliot, I E all know that there i! secondary schools, neit the secondary school a be one. But there is an epo is determined, and thi velopment of the child the growth of the flo I believe that the know of in the whole Ahe child had best go away from its Zound that the moral character ot iveloped at the age of eighteen. Tha *om home. Don't we know what changes rf the order of the subjects taught in subjects from the ages of six to e School to-day is positively bad; th Any child of nige can master any < -an observation subject such as botal ferred to the age of fourteen. W studies down into the primary gra snore than they now are. Every child in the whole counti language and observation studies. tact that certain studies are held the High School ccurse to six years 'e Uses of By Charles A. Cona HE discovery was n property or a new visibility by putting shares. The creati capital of Individu essary to build fact an undertaking am( prise beyond the a giving it a fictitious To give mobility to the shares thi have a market. It would be compar shares if there were no means of tri to band. Therefore, a market for ti grises is ope of the vital necessities forded by the stock exchange. The abused by people who go into it in Its purposes and who are incapable ,which dominate it, is no reason for t tody politic. Railways have not t over men oc.casionally and kills ther one occasionally suspends; and If en: tion would never have -been enacted other countries for stamping out or I produce. markets.-The Atlantic. ofC l* By Justice Davfd J. HOUGHTFUL men, the w T of our constitution and sy It becomes more apparent tution is its judicial syst Not in the mere fact of a our Anglo-Saxon inheritan this country executive, 1< functions were In existen< given to the Supreme Coi - - ion of States, which, t ^ uremacy ot a Nation, wereoni~n dependent autiort.C We call ours a Federal system of Is a Nation and tates within and a mational affairs and in foreign relt purely local interest of the separa republic as a nation possessed in ts the essential attributes of nationalit tress as the legislative body of the affairs of the smallest village in an; as supreme as though they were not This creation of a new nation absolute control over national affair. of States having a like absolute c< anunities within their limits, would, p'ersies between the Nation and the mnatters. That such disputes migh1 pendO~it tribunal, and so the constit1 that court were given vast powers. States," in Scribner's. Please et. Stowe tion that is ake life mi and no ti as your but wax e up t influe inuti roi hi lucation. resident of Harvard University no real line between the elementary and her Is there a definite distinction between ad the colleges. The whole process should ch-a period-at which the child's character s is based on natural history, for the de has in It just as much natural history as ver of the field. line Is this, and that it is the only line I process of education; it is the age when home for its education. Our country has its youth has been pretty thoroughly de t age is a good one to take the child away ally need to be made? The change is in the High School and the order of all the ighteen. Don't we know that the High at the study of languages is erroneous? lomestic or foreign language, and so also iy. Yet the study of these subjects is de e are beginning to get the observation les, but we have got to get them there -y ought to have a channe to attack the The hindrance to this system lies in the back for High School study. Increasing would be a distinct help. aorporations. nt. iade long before our time that a piece of enterprise could be given mobility and di the title of its ownership into transferable on of share companies enables the small Is to be gathered into the large funds nee ories and railways. It divides the risk of mg many persons, and places the enter ecidents of a single human existence by body dowered by law with perpetual life. is, created, it is necessary that they should .tively useless to divide an enterprise into mnsferring these shares readily from hand ie shares and bonds issued by such enter of their creation. ' Such a market is af fact that the stock market is sometimes a gambling spirit, who know nothing of of understanding the mighty influences reating it as a harmful excrescence oi the een abolished because'a locomotive runs n; banks have not been abolished because ightened judgment had been used, legisla t in Germany and seriously considered in iampering the operations of thq stock and a Feature our Constitution Brewer. orld over, have not been lacking in praise stem of government As the years go by that the distinctive feature of the consti m, with the Supreme Court at its head. judicial system, for courts were a part of ce. Indeed, long before the settlement of agislative, and judicial departments and ~e. But 'the significance is in the powers irt, and given in a Republic formed by a bough surrendering some of the absolute gefin nweg@r of a large amuacoTi government. It is Federal 'because there part of that Nation-a Nation supreme in itions, and yet powerless to control the te States. We rightfully speak of the relation to the nations of the world of all ryet we know that the nation, that Con -nation, is impotent to regulate the police rState. Over local affairs the States are integral parts of the republic. ith all the elements of nationality, with ;and foreign relations, and yet composed )trol over the local affairs of the com in the nature of things, result in contro States as to their relative control in many bbe settled peacefully required an inde ition provided the Supreme Court, and to -From "The Supreme Court of the United leip to Make, inter if We Wil naturally asked is, "How' on earth can I yre 'pleasant? I have no money to give, no understanding goes now that seems per t one moment. Let the idea of money go he question of influence. nlee. Unconsciously you are influencin~ e of every day wit'h your thoughts. In a position in life is nothing comparedt world. Sfor a moment Are your thoughts cheer .make your mental attitude toward tiig te influence, oi the force to strengthex. nces of the fact that people are beghf; dto know that through that channej o cultivate and spread all the goog~ an; and each one of us can ifh Do not be so taken up wit else. Do not, in other words, ,ends at the expense of the 'ho is the selfish man. The cse. Instead of wasting troubles, which, by the cheer and talk health way home from the ving thoughts? those around you yourself as well, e, it is common at light upon be loved. back later of love, thought to you can FAIR MILL SETl DEVAS1i Spartanburg Section il By Cic TERRIBLE LOSS IN The Counterpart of the J Horrors Takes Place i turing Sectidn--Niap Section and Busy Spil Not since the closetof the civil wi has any section of the South sufferec a greater calamity, with the possiVt exception of Galveston, than tiiA wh'ch struck the prosperous manufac turing section near Spartanburg, S C., early last Saturday morning. Th< disaster was the immediate, result of a cloudburst just at the foot of tk( mountains. In a few minutes time tk< swollen streams had picked up grep; buildings of brick and stone, and car rled them down like houses of straw The number of lives lost will reach near or over a hundred. The property loss is appalling. Six thousand la borers are idle and starvation seem: almost inevitable. The business of th< Southern Railway's main line is crip pled for perhaps a month. Six ,busy cotton mills are gone, with the com plete loss of all their machinery an; four to five thousand bales of raw cot ton, together with as much manufac tured goods. No fair 6stimate can yet be place upon the entire loss. The Sunday and Monday issues o the Charlotte Observer, which sen special staff correspondents to th( scene, have the following graphic ac count of the disaster: As a result of the heavy rains sb cotton mills-th~e Clifton Mills Nos. 1 2 and 3, the Glendale Mill and the Pa. colet Mills Nos. 1,'2 and 3 (the P lel Mills Nos. 1 and 2 are one plant) -avt been-SwYEit a a Spartanburg, S. C., have been destroy, ed and three other bridges are badl3 damaged; there are washouts at. , dozen places along the main line i: the piedmont section, and at Landrum S. C., 18 miles of track are submergec and partially ruined. It is reported that 50 people are kill cd. and. eye-witnesses declare that the: saw as many as 10 or 12 bodies ficatin; down the Pacolet river. Those. wh< are known to be dead are Maggie Kir. by, Augustus Clave and wife, Mis Lizzie Clavert, M. Felix, Mrs. W. B Tinlay, Marie Sims, Mrs. B. F. John son and four children; Mrs. Johb Owens, Roy Owens, Garland Long, Mrs Long, Miss Fletia Gosa. IMMENSE LOSS TO RAILROA'DS. The loss to railway and industria property is almost incalculable. Thi destruction of the cotton mills mean a loss of at least $5,000,000. The finan cal damage to the Southern -is enor mous and cannot be ectimated at thi time. Apart from the direct injury cause< by the loss of the expensive bridges the Southern will sustain a great blov in the blocking of traffic over its mali line and branch lines indefinitely. DESTITUTE PEOPLE. Near Clifton, S. C., alone, 500 peopl< are homeless and 4,000 are out of em poyment. A CLOUDBURST. The sudden and unexpected rise il the Pacolet river was the direct cans of most of the disaster. On tils strear are located the Clifton and Pacole mills, the Glendale Mills being o: Lawson's Fork. All the plants ar within a radlus of seven miles o Spartanburg, S. C. For the past 36 hours the Pacole river had shown the effect of the cona tinuous rains, but the river, swolle: as it was, did not cause any appreher slon Friday night. The mills were, o: an average, about ten feet abov water level; they had stood the tes of many freshets and were thought t Wrecking Train Wrecked. Asheville, Special.-Situirday nigh a wrecking train left here for th Pacolet section, with Divisio~a Superir tendent Ramseur in charge. When th train reached a point near Tryon ses eral cars turned over and a large forc of hands were delayed several houra Sunday morning a second wreckin crew was sent to get the first wredi ing train on the track. . Ie LEMENTS LTED BY FLOODS. leets Frightful Disaster udburst. LIFE AND PROPERTY ohnstown and Galveston n the Piedmont Manufac tra of Death Sweeps Over idles Cease to Hum. be perfectly safe against any torrent. But, if all accounts are to be be lieved, there was a veritable cloud burst Saturday morning at about 6 o'clock, and the river rose, visibly, higher and higher. In two hours, it is declared, the rivcr rose 50 feet, mak ing it 60 feet higher than the usual water level. MILLS SWEPT AWAY LIKE STRAW Before this fierce tide the mills went like straw. The first to go were the'Pacolet Mills Nos. 1 and 2, a plant that is near Pacolet station, on the Co lumbia and Asheville branch of the Southern Railway. Half a mile down the river stood the Pacolet Mill No. 3, a smaller mill than Nos. 1 and 2, and that, also, was soon torn to wreckage and carried away in the stream. Of the Clifton Mills No. 1 was first destroyed and was soon followed by mill No. 2. Clifton No. 3, the largest of the mills that were lost, was situated at Con verse station, six miles north of Spar tanburg, on the Southern Railway. The mill stood 200 yards above the testle. For an hour it resolutely withstood the mad ouslaught of water, and then gave way, gradually, throw ing into the current large pieces of timber that seriously' injured and threatened to destroy the big trestle at Converse station. BRIDGES WASHED 'AWAY. The steel bridge over Lawson's Fork on the Pacolet river near Spar tanburg has gone. It was one span and was 350 feet long, Including the ap proaches. is destroyed. It was three spans and 142 feet long. The bridge over North Tiger river cannot be used. It is damaged, though the full extent of the injury cannot be ascertained yet. The big bridge over the Pacolet river, six or seven miles this side of Spartanburg, is said by railway offi cials to be very unsafe. It is still standing against thne fierce tide, but is badly damaged and is in a very serious condition. The bridge over the Enoree river just south of Spartanburg is damaged and impassable. The Seneca river bridge is also use less. The bridge over the Pacolet river is 107 feet high, one of the highest brdges on the Southern system. It is 342 feet long and made of steel. The Pacolet Mills had 156,000 spin dles; the Clifton Mills, 112,000; the new Glendale 20.,000 spindles, making a total of 3067000 spindles and 'a total of nea.rly 8,000 looms, according to the estimates made by Capt. J. H. Sloan and other weli-iwnown cotton mill men who were seen by a re porter. This estimate makes the mills worth over $6,000,000. THE FLOOD CARRIED EVERY THING. BEFORE IT. Attendant upon the passing of 'the mills there -'was inestimable loss. Four thousand bales of cotton and 3,500 bales of cloth were carried away with the debris of the Pacolet Mills. tAt Pacolet, the Presbyterian church, the hotel, the mill office, mill stores, cotton gins, grist mills, blacksmith shops, a large number of operatives cottages and all the warehouses of the Icompany were destroyed by the - stream. 1The warehouses .were built of brick Iand stone, one warehouse being built ientirely of stone. SThe population of Pacolet Is 5,000 all of whom were dependent upon .the mills for support. Turks Kill Fifteen. Salonica, By Cable.-A band of Bul garan revolutionists was destroyed by Turkish troops Saturday at Crado -bar,. this city. Fifteen Bulgarians were killed. Another insurgent band is re ported to have been annihilated on the railway line near Ristovatiz, Servia after six hours' fight. Surprise is ex pressed that the band was able to ap proach so near the town. The insur gents last-Wednesday killed ten Greeki villagers while the latter were ir 1church at Selevn, ne Mnstar: TiE OHIIO in Y The Cry Was "AaM, darding and lanmny. "n A STATE TICKET iNOII' Id ks st The Platform includes a Plank, ad franchisemeut and RIcti0. er Representation. ~s. Columbus; 0., SpeciaL-The Rep can State convention.closed e with much alliteration ,a it cries. While Senator Foraker w ' sidin , the delegates added .to a the cry of "Hanna, Herrick., Ha a and Harmony." While all atthat it was "Hanna' ya at not use his inflaence, exceptifo head of the ticket, in nain ad neighbor, Myron T. Herrlck,gor - by ernor. The Senator's fIend - B. Cox,'of Cincinnati; nam ' G. Harding for Lieutenant G d, and Wade Hampton Ellis for s- General. The ticket nom ed lows: Ut Go-ernor, Myron T. Herrick ef :-e ahoga. Lieutenant Governior, W se G. Harding, of Marion; Auditok-, Gullbert, of Nobel;- Treasurer - McKinnon, of Ashtabula; . General, Wade H. Ellis, of.HamIlt0 jude -of Supreme Court, A. N. r- mers, of. Clarke; school conmiksn es E. A. Jones, of Stark; membei f e board of public works; George Watkins, of Pike. While. Senator Foraker exVr ad gratification over fe ticket anS n- results generally, he was he gratifleC 'ver the unanImnuS _ of a resolution whiclfu ador dent Roosevelt's" s- as his admInistration. It had:be, ry ticipated, ssCouvre n Nm he today, that Senators aker would lock horns at dorsement of Roosevelts Im but Instead--they lockgd arms -now leading the Ohio Repu this canpaign more r than ever. e- There never was more tak n- ng a slate In advance of Athe he tion than this year, but'th -Indicated that such-was-Dno is for at least some of th,6, is At any rate Hanna and n- not exercise their personal "in giving the -word," and let before the nomination fo took plac p- The platform Indors e t he na and Foraker, promising les port for re-election and President Roosevelt's t his adherence to President ES policies,,and his own'Pi",A. his high office, showing way worthy of election.b e- to he their Chief re voi's his nomitiati2 on - - niuatt'orm .favorS better rod, - extension of labor loel5!tDt -n e -a way equitable to all, espedafyT are cure for labor just coutbfl settlement of differeaices. Ssion legislation,. merchant marine, st1anua M' E. bank circulation -along sife secure elasticity of =crculaton sBes Governor Taft's anuf ithe Philippines and comed .nd rapid and steady progress iae, 'er jpreparation of' the PhalilpeI . fullest practicable. degreE 'of I-t ernent." . . As to foreign affairs, the pa W inderses the policy of elongh~ ay navy to the highestefciny t4 says: "Our foreig policy bf eqitr -all has made the .United .Statqs 0-peace-maker of the world, gnuq weaker liations fro aggreddion 38 giving the Monr'oe doctrlxie an. force greater than ever before;"'' Regarding the protective tariff 1-cy the platform declares: "WO .all attacks upon this ijolicy,' i,- the pretext, as tending to bring the disastrous, days of 'tariff revision and free trade. les Ing conditions'aid the.1oisible of reciprocity may call for lal adjustment..Of schiedules, but as aprincile and~as a'policy ely administered by t"frediAI* is can prosperity and-must'n e :he ficed. he "Combinations for the monpoy* 4 es- trade and kindred unlawful t are directly amenable topeaOSw'k in videdhby Republican legsiOIL mtheir vigorous enforcement In ee, courts. No worthy interest is fptf, Lhe but whatever will work public haru ie restrainea and that .without the Democratic plan of destroyD alL L-American industrles through tarlf dvision or otherwise. If further 1eII uf- 'tion should be found necessary, the - public party can be depended upon '. enact and enforce it with -equity an safety in every legitimate interest of "Ohio was the first State-with a forever free from the stain flsary r .Pledged by the great creative o~ e.nance of 1787, to the fundametalwt ith ciples of civil and religious liberty aa bound thereby to -forever remna e part of the United States of Aeis--, gOhio was foremost in the war to F lserve 'the indestructible union of id' d.structive States,' and adheres rdr nd, every amendment which that am~ m.- wrote Into our country's constitutions-~ as binding in honor upon every can citizen. Therefore, we hold 1s ion the doctrine of equity 'everywhere lp. the exercise ,of the elective fa emaintaining that justic requires ay State excluding any of its - m~e~ from the ballot to be proporUti 5' reduced in its representation in t electoral college and the lower h on of the national Congress. till Senator Foraker, on being ap. duced by Senator Hanna, as permaneIC'\ nd chairman, made a speech in which e igh' highly eulogized Hanna, saying bh .' ich risen above detraction until he ok Lay In the very front rank of the Snt" m- most influential members, and noo~"' ife does more than he to fashion- the pU rty cies of his party and determine h - ire laws of the nation. Senator Foraker e characterized PresidentRosvl-1Sz nd a man of brains, of courage and ~ ' pose and predicted his triumphantt MAN AND BRIDE DIE A GLORI01 DEATH. Sam Swanguare and his bride die a way that seemed glorious to the spE tators. Swanguare seized, his wife the hand and when they came clear the wrecked house he clutched h closer to him and swam to a 6oati: mass of driftwood. There, in p!i view, they clung to each other a sang together. so that all on the ban heard. The driftwood rushed agair a large mass and separated, al Swanguare and his bride went und the water locked in a last embrace. Fleta Gosa boarded with a Mi Bailey, where also lived Mr. and Mi Kirby and J. E. Grier. Miss Gcsa a Mrs. Kirby were carried out into t water and drowned speedily. M Bailey was caught in a whirlpool .it below Converse and, swinging to piece of plank. revolved in the ed until she was drawn in by a rope tb had been thrown. to her rescue. Gri caught the branches of an oak tree a remained there till hewas rescued a bort that was bravely manned. M Kato( Long and her son, Garland Loi and h!s bride. and her son, Richal were huried into the current. M Long and hcr younger son were sav by catching the branches of a tree, b Carland Long and his bride . w( drowned. The bodies of none of the peopla have bcen recovered. 50 DROWNED AT MILL NO. 2. The greatest loss of life is at M No. 2, the furthest mill down the riv, I It is said that at least 50 operativ here lost their lives. The only nan of the dead that are obtainable ni are Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Johnson a four children, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. F] ley and five children. Several of t children of T. M. Massey were droi e.i. but he and his wife escaped. Md sey himself had an extraordin escape. He was carried through -t I No. 2 mill out through the opening the far end of the building and swa to the shore. THE CLOUD-BURST A MYSTER' That phenomen, the cloud-burst, mains a mystery so far as origin is cc cerned. Residents here state that I rain was not heavier than It always It this time in June, and everybody sure that at some place close to C< verse a cloud opened and emptied ii the Padolet river 20 times as much v ter as it usually carries. It is si posed that the cloud burst close to 1 Blue Ridge Mountains, about 20 mi from here. 60 OR MORE MILL OPERATIV DIE. In the confusion that necessarily D vailshere it will be several days bef the full loss of life is reported.-C4 of at least 60 among'the mill ope tives alone, though only four bodies: known to have been recovered. OTHER MILL LOSSES. It Is reported here that the D. Converse mill at Lawson's lost I, bales of cotton and- four houses. It also said the Campobello Oil Mills the Tucapaw Mills on the Tiger i' have been destroyed. A Comprehensive Statement. Spartanburg, S. C., Special.-Bel are~ the mills that suffered in Saturi nmorning's floods' Arkwright (slightly), capital $2( 000, spindles, 20,256, looms 604. Beaumont, capital $100,000,, 3, spindles, no looms. Clifton, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, capital 000,000, spindles 101,232, looms '325 Pacolet, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, capital 000,000, spindles 59,332, looms 2,202 .Whitney, capital $200,000, spind 10,000, looms 300. To Furnish Rations. Washtington, Special. Absolut necessary relief in the way of ratio medicnes, etc., will be given by1 War Department to the sufferers by1 disastrous floods in South Carolina y trday. An appeal to Secretary R1 from the local authorities resulted orders being given to General Chaff commanding the Department of1 East, to this effect. He will author an officer to proceed north from lanta with supplies to relieve imme ate necessities as was done for the s ferers at Gainesville, Ga. Relief Funds. Funds for the immediate relief the suffering have been started ir number of nearby towns and citi Spartanbuirg has talken the lead 2 a large subscription. Mayor Brown, of Charlotte, imi diately issued a proclamation call upon the people of that city for Columbia has started a liberal fu the Columbia State giving one hi dred dlollars. Gov. Heyward, of Sol Carolina has Issued a proclamat 1calling upon the whole State to ha Other assistance is imperativ needed. Still in Danger. St. Louis, Sppca.-The people the Island in the Mississippi are s penned up there, like rats In a tr The river has spread around the isle with a swift current and althot every effort has been made to rei them, nothing *as accomplished tot and there has been no means of cc municating with them. The loss of] if they cannot be reached and prope loss ill be very heavy, as the ent valley is under water and homes hi been washed away, farms depleted tok rowned.