When You Visit a Very
Sick Friend
C)I&~dlo By Mrs. L. H. H., in Ladies' Review. Mrm-4
What You Must Not Do.
ON'T go to the sick room unannounced.
Don't rock.
Don't wear rustling silks or squeaking shoes.
Don't stay more than ten or fifteen minutes.
Don't say, "I have something that will particularly inter
est you. So and so is very ill, or has just had a terrible
operation." described in detail, or "I once had a dreadful
illness," described at le-1gth.
Don't send books and then insist on knowing whether
they have been read. Sometimes a person is too ill to read evertyhing.
Don't send gloomy books full of harrowing incidents.
Don't shake the bed or hit it in any way.
Don't be so optimistic that you are unsympathetic. For instance, don't
congratulate a sufferer too much on an approaching operation, even if relief
is expected. People often do this and it is kinder to do the congratulating
afterward.
Don't be excitable, or show any intense emotion.
Don't say, "What, still in bed. and you look so well-"
Moreover, don't be hurt if your friend is not able to see you at all.
What You Ought to Do.
Do bring at least one beautiful flower, if you can.
"Do wear your prettiest clothes.
Do tell about things your friend will enjoy thinking about afterward.
Do ask one or two interested questions about the progress of the patient's
health.
Do, above all, be natural, gentle, and quiet voiced. After all, it is better
to make a mistake thr.n to seem to try too hard to do the right thing. It is a
comfort in it all to remember that the very fact you have called at all gives
evidence of thought and kindness.
If your friend is too sick to see you. send -something.
A package of kodak pictures, showing what you are doing, or how the
children have grown, is sure to bring pleasure. I once saw such a set that
was sent every week from Italy, showing the few weeks old baby in her bath,
in her basket, with the Italian nurse, "with the grandmother, etc.
An attractive magazine, one large grape fruit, a little pillow with a linen
cover, a silver spoon, some ice cream in:a 'pasteboard box, and always and ever
flowers, are among the gifts that cannot fail to carry a message of comfort
and bring more brightness than you will perhaps realize.
English Wewspapers.
And Our Own
W0V e&#F By Henry Watterson. 4. goenWWI:
- . OURNALISM .may be philosophy, but it is not statesmanship.
+ + It is the current chronicle, among other' things, of statesman
+ + ship, real or spurious. It may be narative or it may be
+ J + doctrinal. In England it aspires to be both. With us, less
so. But if it be enlightened, if it be honest, if it seek the
good of the many, it cannot blindly follow the politicians,
==Sand in England and in America, it is less and less doing1- so.
There is ;a very marked difference in the make-up of the
London newspapers and, let us say, the New York news
papers. None of the great dailies of London use display type as it is used in
America. They affect .bookwork in their typography as well as their com
position.
Another 'point -of dIfference -much to the credit of London as against New
York is the reduction of the day's news into some proportion, and the abridg
mnent of each ,detail within its proper quantum. There is less "featuiring:" no
needless superfluity. London :compresses into a paragraph what New York
would amplify into a column. New York covers the field more fully. But
:It does this at the -cost sof a vast amount of the immaterial. When one has
read any one of the five leading London dailies he is tolerably sure of being
in possession -of the 'history of yesterday.
The cleanliness of -the London newspapers is delightful. Much of their
interest and value is found in their court reports, wherein the story is set
down with great particularity, without surplusage. There are no exaggera
tions in the text and no headlining to distort the text.
In London, as in America, the leading article is beginning to play second
tiddle. Whether this is the decline otf strong writing, or whether it implies
that the public has found out the Thunderer and where thLe thunder comes
from, it would be har?'. to say. *There is no reason why good editorial writing
should not exercise the charm it once did, if not the power.
But good -editorial writing, like good butter, must he genuine and fresh.
Leading articles kept in cold storage and served, like chickens in a restau
rant, on demand, deceive -no-one who knows the difference between hot chops
and cold 'potatoes. 'The editorial should be tbe rationale of the day's doing, It
rhould expound the news, -giving precedence to the most important. The
reader should instinctively turn to it after he has perused the despatches.
Long or short, it should be sincer'e. While there is nothing more meritless
and grotesque 'than a bit of wood with a nib of lead at one end and a fool S
the other--and, yet 'worse, a knave-the clumseist illustrations of good sense
and good feellflg, hot from the .hearts and brains of truthful men, responsive
to Lhe wires, did .priceless.
Criminal Chemistry
By Associate Judge Werner, of .the ANew York
~ Court of .Appeals.
M'ONG a'll the 'enumerated powers of government none is more
113 important and .far-reaching than the branch of the police
power through ,the exercise of which the state seeks to re
IJIstrain .and punish the adulteration of foods and foodstuffs. Of
superlative importtance .is the vigilant and fearless exercise
of that power in regulating :the purveying of milk, which is
most easily .adulterated .of .all the foods and beverages of
civilized humanity.
The crimes of murder and theft in their usual significance might almost
be counted as virtues when compared with the poisonous adulteration of foods,
for the latter combines the felonious villainy .of both the formecr, not against
selected individuals., it is Lrue, but .against society at large. It is a mean and
insidious crime, stealthily committed in the marts of trade by men who mas
querade in the garb of good repute. but in whose breasts the qualities of hon
esty and morality have been stifled by the most despicable form on which
the pharisees of commerce wax fat at the expense of:thei'r innocent competitors
and of the poor and helpless consumers.
No form of food adulteration within the field .of .criminal chemistry can be
more deadly and far-reaching in its effects than the adulteration of milk. Other'
adulterated foods and beverages, which are used by persons whose powers ot
resistance have been developed by maturity, vary so greatly in the kind and
quantity of adulteration that the ill effects from their use may be considerably
minimized or altogether neutralized by regular or frequent change of diet, Net
so, however, with the myriads of help'ess babes for whom nature's greatest
food is transfojrmed into any artificially ceolored. flavored and preserved fluid
which mocks at the pangs of hunger or defies the powers of digestion; that
either cheats them with the appearance .of nourishment, and thus deprives
them of the nutritious food which they need, or fills their system with drugs
that may entail upon them lifelong weakness and misery.
In the presence of such a crime humanity may well assert itself through
the voice of its legislatures in the enactment of statutes designed to protect
society, and as against such statutes and so-called common law rights of the
Individual criminals should not be so zealously hedged about by tecnical sate
guards as to render the state helpless to effectuate a great, just and humani
tarian policy.
Ingenious Device. Salad Grown at Table.
The Icelanders have a strange but The experiment of serving a dinner
etfective plan for preventing horses party with salad grown under the
straying from any particular spot. Il gutest's' own eves was recently tried
two gentlemen happen to be riding in Berlin. Here is the recipe: Take
without attendants, and wish to leave good germinating lettuce seed and
their hcrses for any reason. they tie -soak it in alcohol for about six hours,
the he:ad of one horse to the tail of sow it in an equal mixture of rich soil
another. and the head of this to the and unslaked lime, and place It on the
tail of thle former. In this state it is table. After the soup water it with
utterly impossible for the horses tc lukewarm water, whereupon It com
move on. either backwards or for- mences to' sprout immediately. The
wards. If disposed to move at al t'hing worked like a charm, and the
will be only in a circle, and even ettuces when plucked and prepared
there must be mutual agreemenor eating were the size of Barcelona
1turn their heads the same wa- uts.
OFFERED $100,000 REWARD
Offered For Conviction of a Gang of
Brutes.
New York. Special.--Isidore Worm
ser. the millionaire banker, offered
$100.000 reward for the conviction of
a gang of men who recently assaulted
Annie Thornton. a domestic employ
ed iii his household. In court when
five men were arraiglned for the as
sault Mr. Wormser said:
"I will g-ive $100.000 to have the
perpetrators of this dastardly crime
convicted and sent to prison.'
Recentlv, on Miss Thornton's birth
day Mr. Wormser gave her $50 and
a holidav as a reward for several
years service in his household. That
evening while passing a stable on the
West Side. she said she was seized
by two urn and dragged into a stable
and that about a dozen others join
ed them there. She did not escape
from the stable until the next morn
ing. Her health was seriously affeet
ed by her exNperience.
The five ren arraizned were held in
$2.000 bail each and the police an
nounced that they expected to arrest
nine more mna in connection with the
assault.
Mutiny on High Seas.
Wilmingtn. N. C.. Special.-A spe
cial to the Star from Southrort says
the schoone:- Blanche H. King. Cap
tain J. W. Taylor. [Brunswich, Ga.,
September 23rd to Philadelphia, put
in there br-nging iI irons three jin
groes. all that remain of the crew of
the four masted schooner Harry A.
Berwind. Captain Rumill. from Mo
bile. Septetrber 23rd. to Philadelphia.
the captain. mate, cook and anl en
gineer having been ostensibly murder
ed in a mutiny at sea and their bod
ies thrown overboard. The body of
a fourth negro of the crew was found
lying on deck where lie, too, had evi
dently been inurdered. Captain Tay
lor. of the schooner King, siglitd the
Berwind early ThNrsday morning
about thirty miles off the Cape Fear
bar. imd wis attareted to her by the
mianner in which she w~as beiqg steer
ed. having several times come verv
ner 1 runninr down the King. A near
er approach to the Berwind showed
that she iad been practically aban
doned. Captain Taylor and crew
boarded the vessel and placinz the two
vessls oil the bar. whenee one of them
was towed in by Wilmington tugs.
which have now gone for tie other
schooner. a gale prevailing on the out
sidc.
The Italian Earthquake.
Rome, Special.-According to the
latest officiai reports 300 villages were
destroyed by the recent earthquake in
the proviice of Calahria. Reconstruc
tionl wor-k, it is estimated, will cost
about $30.(00.000 and funds contri
buted up to the pr-esenlt time amount
to .800.000. The pope is much dis
tresed b)ecause if the situation, es
peially now thlat the severity of the
etomni wecathier is felt among tihe in
habitants of tile stiricken district. His
hlolineCss r-eceived tihe Right Rev. Fran
ci. Borun~e. Ronman 31athlolie airchbish
op of Westminster, in audience and
thaked im~ warmly for- opelnmg a
collection amonlg the clergy of West
mister. adding: "'All gtood Catholics
t houhout thle svorid should imitate
Governor Wright to Retire.
Washington. Special.-By r-eason of
what appears to be dissatisfaction
with the situation in tile Philippines.
Luke E. Wrliight. governor general of
the Phlilinpine commiss.on, wvill retire
from that po4stion abo'ut tile 1st of
December. G;eneral Wright is ex
peted to tLrrive in the United States
during that monithi and is entitled to
six monlth' leave? of absence prior to
tle formial relinquishlmenit of his Ia
bors ats gov) ernor- general.
To Force Mixed Schools.
Topeka. Kas.. Special.-Thie State
supreme cour-t issuedl a writ of alter
niatie mandamus against the boardl
of educatien of Kansas City. K{as., r-e
tunabllle November 7. reqiing said
boartd to show cause why colored pu
~is a1re n1ot allowedl to attend school
at the samle 1hours and( ill the same
bilingsl~ as tile white pil1s.
Hearst Accepts Nomination.
New Yo?k, Special.-Williaml Ran
dlo ~lhiHeirst has made pubilic a letter
odressed toI .Judge Samuel Seabury,
of the Mu nicipal 0Ownershlip League.
aeept ing the league's recent tenlder
of a nominationl for mayor of New
Yo rk. Tile mniciip~al convent ion of
tle o~-ranizationi wil lb held Thlurs
day. liut Mr. Hearst was offered tile
n oiialt ion at at meeting somei (lays
ao. Hlis aceptance assures till-ee
mayoralty tickets ill the field thlis faill
-the democratic, thle republican and
mniial ownecrsh ip League.
Was There Foul Play?
New Yor-k. Specia.-Police (draggedl
tile Harlem river for thle body of Mr-s.
Katherine D uerir. who was d h-ownedl
under circutancest 0.ICso5 suspicious as
t'o cause the arrest of Mrs. Duerrt s
h~usbandi. Otto. and his frienld Char-les
H hn~i2. Raymondill Messmer- and his
Iwife. Mary, parenits of the drownued
w vomal. d!( ele to (Coroner (O'(Gor
mai thait the beV )lieved she had1( beenu
Neck Broke But Went Mile.
into a Big Four- grav-el pit near. saw
renlcebrg. Id., and brea)1C~king. hi~ nec-k
an Italiani laborer, a51sisted by a
friend. waulked nearly amile to his
ent holding. his head ill he hi nds tihe
hole distance. Physician'. found
that the man's ieek hlad bcen frac
ured at the fifth vcriebu ac an'd deC
eared the injuries3 fill unhloubtedly
nroe fetal.
Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and
Other Manufacturing Enterprises.
Ware Shoals, S. C.-Another biz
South:--rn. mill, the Ware Shoals Manu
facturii company, is nearing compie
tion. Its buildings are now eomplet
ed, the machinery ias been ordered
and is being received at the plant for
installation. This latter work is ex
peeted to be completed by November
20, and then the spindles and looms
will begin to produce. The mill build
ing is four stories high. 1.50 by 277
feet in size, and will have 25.000 spin
dles, together with SOO looms, from
the Draper Company. of Hopedale.
Mass. There wil then remain sumei
ent space in the building to double the
spindles when the company desires to
increase its equipment. The corpora
tion owning this mill is capitalized at
$500,000, and N. B. Dial. of Laurens.
S. C., is its president.
Gaffney, S. C.-It is expected that
the work of developing Gaston Shoals.
a property on Broad river, about five
miles from Gaffney. will be started at
once. This property and other water
privileges were acquired by the Gaff
nev Manufacturing Company some
time ago, but were sold recently to a
company that Mr. J. B. Cleveland, of
Spartanburg, is said to be at the
head of. This company had a corps
of surveyors at work at the property
last weeI and it is thought here that
the work of developing will be bee-uln
in the near future. This property is
considered very valuable and if prop
erly developed it is thought that these
fals will furnish water power suffi
cient for the manufacturing plants
at Gaffney, Spartanburg, Cherokee
Falls, Blacksburg, in South Carolina.
and Shelby and other points in North
Carolina.
Nashville, Tenn.-A meeting of the
stockholders of the Warioto Cotton
Mills. was held on September 30 to
consider plans for that company's en
terprise. Officers were elected as fol
lows: President, W. R. Odell, of
Concord, N. C.; vice-president, Wil
liam Nelson: and secretary-treas-urer,
J. B. Morgan. Directors were chosen
as follows: M J. Smith, Edward
Warner, Joseph H. Thompson, H. G.
Lipscomb and A. H. Robinson, and
the three officers named. This com
pany will not be in a position to make
its building ready nor to install ma
chinery until next summer, as it has
purchased the cotton mill property of
the Tennessee Manufacturing Con
pany, which is under lease for some
mciiths yet, as stated recently.
Durham, N. C.-The Durham and
Southeastern Railway will soon be
running trains from Durhanm to Apex,
N. C., where this road wiln eross the
Seaboard Air Line and connect with
a road already running to a point on
the Atlantic Coast Line a few miles
north of Fayetteville. This road will
be a great convenience to the Erwin
Cotton Mill interests at Durham
which have already established a large
new mill and commenced the erection
of a fine new town at Duke, which
is on the line of this road only a
short distance from its eastern termi
nus at Dunn, N. C. It is probable in
fact that the Duke and Erwin inter
estshave been the chief factors in the
building of this road which will be
of great benefit to a section of coun
try heretofore seriously lackim' in fa
ciities for transportation of its pr1o
Spartanburg, S. 0.--The Sun Mills
will be incorporated with an authoriz
ed capital stock of $300.000 to build
and operate a cotton-rope and twine
mill. John B. Cleveland, John A.
Law, Walter S. Montgromery and A.
W. Smith will . e the directors and im
charge of construction work and mn
stallation of machinery. Mr. Mont
cmery will be president. __
San Hartonia, Texas.-The contract
with Del Rio people and Eastern cap
italists for the erection of a large cot
ton mill at this place was closed on
the 29th and Colonel S. G. Grimshaw.
rereseitiig the capitalists, left at
nce for Fall River, Mass., where lie
wll make arrangements for work to
bgin on the building. The plant will
cost $150,000, and work is to begmn
within four weeks.
Muscagee.-Thie Commercial Club is
neotiating with the representative of
w~ York capitalists relati-e to the
erction of a large textile mill, prob
ably a cotton factory.
Marion, S. 0.-It has been but a
few months since the Marion Manu
fact uring Company begain operations
with its 5,000 spindles, but alrcady
it finds it necessary to add to that
equipment. The company's directors
mt and ordered that 2.000 spiett.9Te
installed, and William ~jt'ekhouse
president left at once for the North
to buy the newv egnpment.
Memphis, Tnn.-Makers of textile
machinery rre invited to correspond
with he S'heby Cotton Products Co.,
atatvO the "purchase of machinery~
for anufacturing cotton yarns and
blciing that product. Th -hlb
entrprise contemplates adding a yarn
mill to its present plant to utilize the
hiners and waste cotton, and is pr~e
pared to receive information and esti
mates on the cost of the required
equipments for the purposes named.
Lidale, Ga.-The Mpissachiusetts
Mills whose plant is here will make a
comprehensive exhibit at the Floyd
Conty Fair, Or-tober 10 to 14. Tue
dsiplaav will include a Draper auto
matic'lom in operation, andl also the
other details of manufacture from thec
raw otton to the tinishied product.
The Massachusetts Mills in Georgia
haave now in operation 514 of the Dra
peer automatic looms.
Burglarc who rifl safes -;hould bc
IS LIKE LYNCII LAW
President Spencer Speaks on Railway
Rate Legislation
TAKES A FiRM STAND AGAINST IT
Declares Government Regulation is
Unfair, Unjust, and Opposed to the
Fundamental Principles of Anglo
Saxon Jurisprudence.
Newark, N. J.. Special.-That gov
ernment control of railroad properties
as proposed in the Esch-Townsend
bill, which was considered at the last
session of congress, is unfair, unjust
to the railroads, opposed to the fun
damental principles of Anglo-Saxon
jurisprud'ence, and is equivalent to
providing by statute for the enforce
ment of commercial lynch law. is in
substance the replay of the railroads
to the agitation for railroad rate leg
islation, as outlined by President Sam
uel Spencer, of the Southern railway,
in an address before the Newark
board of trade. Mr. Spencer said in
part :
"Up to the present time shipper
and carrier have been free to work to
ether. without political interference
to facilitate the establishment of new
industries: to reach out for new mar
kets for our farmers and manufac
tuiers: to create new communities and
to maintain the prosperity of those
already established, and to cooperate
to the fullest possible extent to en
large the volume of both our domestic
and foreign trade.
Propose to Change System.
"It is now proposed to change this
system and substitute for it one in
which artificial bureacratic methods
will take the place of the natural laws
of trade and commence. which have
been the controlling force and evolu
tion of the present system.
"And it must be borne in mind that
it is proposed to give those enormous
powers to a body on whom no respon
sibilities rest or can rest. for the pre
servation of maintenance of the rail
road property, or for the discharge of
financial obligations, or the fulfillment
of its duties to the public as an effi
cient common carrier.
"The president, in his last annual
message, laid special emphasis upon
the necessity for doing away with re
bates and for the keeping of the high
ways of transportation open to all
upon equal terms. There is no issue
or controversy before the people oi
congress as to whether or not rebates
or secret discriminations should be
stopped. No one desires more than
the railway managers themselves that
there should be an end to all such
practices.
No Rational Suggestions.
"No rational suggestions have been
made, however, as to how the grant
ing of rate making power to the in
terstate commerce commission sould
be effective to this end. A rebate or
any secret discrimination device can.
of course, be applied to a government
rate as well as to, one made by -the
carrier.
"One of the most serious objections
to thelegislation proposed is that, un
der it a rate once fixed by the com
mission would continue in force inde
finitely, unless changed by the com
mission or by the court. The carrier
would, therefore. have no power to
make either reductions or increases
to n'7et new conditions.
" To pliace in the hands of one tri
bunal which is or may be prosecutor,
jury and judge and at the same time
executioner is equivalent to being one
statute for the enforcement of com
mercial lynch law.''
Judge Solicited for Campaign.
Washington, Special.--The charge
of soliciting and accepting campaign
contributions in the campaign of 1902
made against United States Circuit
Court Judge Baker, of Indiana, by
the Civil Service Commission, has
been referred to the Department of
ustice by the commission. In connec
tion with the refernee the commission
ave out an official statement of the
case in which it was said "'the statute
of limitations is the only defense
which can be opposed to the charge.''
Gave His Body to Science.
New York, Special.-In accordance
with the provisions of the will of
George W. Catt, president of the At
lantic Dredging and Construct ion
Company, who died on Suday, at his
residence here, his body was taken to
the Bellevue Hospital Medical Colege
to be dissected in the interests of
science. Mr. Catt was the husband
of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Presi
dent of the National Suffrage League.
Farmers Holding Cotton.
Norwood, Ga.. Speed.- Fa ih4+
in this sct ion reie to sell their cot
ton fri less than 10 cents and are
haul:ng it back home. Less than ten
bties of cotton have been sold in both
Yarren ton and Norwoodi so far: this
week, and the buyers are sitting
around with absolutely nothing to do.
The farmers in this section are all in
rood condition, and are able to hold
ndenitely. Crops are short, about
0 per cent of last year's yield.
Wisconsin Central Sold.
Milwaukee, Special.--The Journal
savs: " The Wisconsin Central has
been sold and the new interests are in
full control. They represent big
Eastern financiers and the change
means that the line will finally enter
Milwaukee Southern and that it will
beom part of a great railroad sys
PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARIF3
Many Counties Have Decided to In
crease the Number of Libraries Put
in Operation Last Year.
Columbia. Special.-The S:ite svp
erintendent of educati-ni as received
the annal statistical rep-i s fm all
of the ouinty sluperin tendens except
those of Anderson, Chester, Chester
field, Colleton, Florence, Greenville,
Lancaster. Laureiis and Lexington.
Some of these superintendents have
written that their reports will be
ready to send in wthin the next ten
days.
One feature of interest in the re
port will be the matter of elcourag
in,. free libiaries in the rural schools.
Suerintendent Martin Friday is
sued the following le:ter explaiuing
the status of the library proposition:
To County Superintendents and Tech
ers:
This office is receiving library re
quisitions at the rate of one a day.
Now is the time to push this work. I
think that the State apnropriation
will hold out until the end of the year.,
but it will be impossible to get the
State money during January and Feb
ruary. as we have to wait for the ap
prppriation bill. LEt us'hear from
every first-class teacher en ibis im
portaut matter. Surely every one of
this class can raise $10 in order to
zeta $40 library. During thc past IS
moinths libraries have been establish
ed and increased as Pllows:
Esteh. Iner.
Abbeville.. ....... .. .....30.
Aiken.. ........ .. .. .. .. 12
Anderson.. .............16 6
Bambere... .. .. .. .. .... S
Barnwell.. .. .. .. ....... 12 1
Beufort .. .. ... .. .. .... 3
Berkeley...............-.
Charleston.. .. .. .. .. .... 10 3
Cherokee.... .. .. ...... . 7
Chester.... .. .. . .. ... .. 9
C hesterfield.... .. .. .. ..... 6
Clarendon.... .. .. .. .... 12
Colleton.. .. .. .. .... .... I 1
Darlineton ............. 2.
Dorchester.. ...... ..I..
Edgefield.... .. .. .. .. .. 13 2
Fairfield.... .. .. .. .. ....14 2
Florence.... .......---17
G orztown .... .. ...... .. 2
Greenville.... .. .. .. .... 19 1
Greenwood.... .. .. .... . ..4 2
ampton.... .. .. . . . - ... -
H(.Arv ...... ....... .........1
Kershaw.. ..... ..... ...11
Laflen;ter .... .. .. .... ..-9
Laureus..... .. ..--- 1
Lee... .... ....... .... .. .
Lexington.... .. .. .... .. 9
Marion.... .. - .. ......22
Marlboro.... .. . ...... .. 15 2
Newberry.... .. .. .. ..... 13
Oconee.... .. .. .. ....... 14
Orangebur............--.19 5
Pickens..'.. .... .........~ 30
Rihland.... ... ----.--.30 10
Saluda...........-.-----13
Spartanburg.... .. .......23 .
Sumter. .. . . .. - - - 1.2 1
Wliamsburg. ......--- S
Union.. . . . . . . - S -
York.. .... ....--.-. ---... -
We have received notice of the
building of quite .1 number of new
sool houses under the act of the last
session of the legislature to encour
ar adequate school buildings. The
coproller greneral will. in -1 few
days send out another apportionment
of dispensary funds. The law pro
vids that somec of this money many be
used for this purpose. This is a great
opportunity for a community whic
needs a new school building. It gives
a good op)portunity also for several
communities to consolidate their
schools.
Please let your trustees understand
that local or special taxes moy he
voted after January 1. There oughit
to be a great many such taxes voted
fo next year. This is the only plan
~ndr the law to replace the dispen
sary funds in those counties which
hae or may vote out the dispensaries.
For the last two or three years the
schools have been receiving from
$200000 to $230,000 from dispensary
profits. This amount exceeds either
the poll tax or local taxes. Local tax
ation is one of the best ways to ra~ise
school revenues, because it reouires
local interests and enthusi~fsm. Most
of the States raise the greater part
of their school funds by Ioeal taxa
tion. While some districts have vr~ied
ll the constitution allows them to
vite yet less than 20 per cent. of our
school revenues is raised in this way.
Let us agitate this question nowy. so
that the people may be ready to vote
by January. * aiteatn
*Allowv me againtoclthate
tin of teachers to the teachers read(~
n circle. Pr~ogressive teachers should
eep etudying aind~ '~ ve reew
d zeal to stddith other sue!iteasf
ei5~ji'l township or c.ounlty.
'Wishing you a most successful ses
siol. I am.
Sincerely yours.
0. B3. MARTIN,
State Supt. Education.
A New Telephone Company.
A new stoek telephone company has
been organized at Fort Lawn with 42?
suscribers and bright prospects. The
stockholders pay $10 each and a rental
of 40 cents per month. Mr. Less Ab
enathy is president and Mr. Chapman
anager of the company. A p'ivate
line has been strung to Great Falls
and a rgular line to Chester.
Due West Railroad Company.
A commission was issued to the c'or
poators of the Due West railroad
comany, capitalized at .922.0001. The
coifpany proposes to build and ope
rate a standard guage railroad be
teen Due Wecst and Donalds. The
legth cf the road will be fotr miles.
he )ersons interested are: R. S. Gal
lway. Rev. James Boyce. [R. C.
Broo-nlee. N. B. Clinkseales. .J. W
Wdeian. P. L. Grier. J1. R. Bell. E. L.
Reid. J. C. Tribble. Rev. F. Y. Press
lv. E. P. Kennedy and A. S. Ken
ned all of Due West.
TilE C
Portsmouth
IS DONE
War in the Far East Offic
With the Signatures of Car and
Mikado.
Washington, Special-The emperor
of Russia and the emperor of Japan
Saturday morning signed:7 their re
spective copies of the peace treaty,
thus officially ending war.
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambas
sador, called at the state'department
and saw Secretary Root. While he
had no official advices on the subject
information had reached him to the
effect that the emperorof Russia had
early in the day affixed his signature
to the treatv. .
A few minutes after n inister
Takahira appeared af the state de
partment with a message stating that
the emperor of Japan had signed the
treaty at Tokyo. A cablegram was
immediately dispatched to Spencer
Eddy charge of the American embas
sy at St. Petersburg, who was in
stracted to inform the Russian for
eign office that the emperor of Ja
pan had signed the treaty
St. Petersburg, By, Cable.-The
treaty of peace was signed Saturday
though the representative of the for
eign office refused to make any offi
cial statement on parehniept with the
the French and English.teit -in paral
lel columns, was sent by Foreign Min
ister Lamsdorff to Peterhof, where
the ceremony of signing took place.
Paris, By Cable.-Premier Roavier,
acting on behalf of the Russian gov
ernment, cabled M. Harmand, the
French minister at Tokyo, to inform
the Japanese -overnment tiat the em
peror of Russia had sgined the peace
treaty. thus completing Russia's part
in the conclusion of peace 'between
that country and Japan.
DEATH OF SIR HEN IG.
Attack of Synocope After Eern to
Hotel On Conclusion of N!form
ance at Bradford, Englan4C-aus
ed Death at 11:30 O'clockFriday
Night.
London, By Cable.-Sir H Irv
ing died suddenly at Bradfor riday
night.
The death of the distinguished ae
tor was totally unexpected. 1 was
engaged in a tour of the prcnes,
appearing nightly, and a few ' ago
spoke at a public 'meetmng i dvo-,
cacy of the movement for a i~ici
pal theatre. ' ,
Sir Henry played, as usual a4 Brad
ford, and -eturned'from the j eatre
to his hotel, where' he was seized with
an attack of syncope,' dying at" 11:30
o'clock.
Irving's last appearance was ts
"Becket." in Lord Tennysorn's 'lay
of that name. .
The Associated Press received the
following telegram from. Sir 'Henry
Irving's mnag'er, Bran Stoker: i tery
terrible news. Sir Henry 'Irvi~ihad
an attack of Syncope after returning
from the theatre to the hotel an4lied
suddenly."
Beady For General Passenger Agents.
Mexico 'City, Special.-The commit
tee having in charge the entertain
ment of the members of the'General
Passenger Agents' Association of
Ameirea has completed all arrange
ments for the care of the party from
the time of their arrival at the bor
der until they reach this city, where
they will hold their convention from
October 17 to 21 inclusive.
Five Swept Overboard.
New York, Special.-Five lives are
known to have been lost niid more
than 30 persons injured, some of them
serijously, on the Cunard,'line steamer
Campania last Wednesday when a, gi
gantic wave rolled over the steamer
and 'swept across a deck thick with
steerage passengers. John Graham of
Milwaukee was one of the passengers
washed overboard and lost. He .was
traveling in the steerage. In addition
to the name of John Graham the
Cunard line officials gave out the fol
lowing names of steerage passengers
who were washed overboard.
River Craft's Fatal Mishap.
icksinurz. Speciol.-Ilcavily load
ed with freight and with a ciew "of
25 men, the er Elk, while back
'flin ro thec en landing struck
a snag and sunk in 2 feet .$
From five to ten niegro rous
were drowned, but the exact
will probably not be knownu
eral days. The loss of the bo
caro is estimated it $23.00, pa.
insured. The Elk is a local steamer,
which has been plying betweeni this
point atnd Davis Bend.
Holston Methodist Conference Prats
es President.
Bristol, Va., Special.-The Holston
Conference of the Methodist F.'isco
pal church. South, in session here
unanimously adopted a resolution
comeding President Roosevelt 's ef
forts in behalf of peace between Ja
pan and Russia. Bishops Hoss and ,
Duncan of the Southern Methodist
church, were both present at the con
ference.
Slight Fire on Governor's Island.
New York, Special.--A sligh~t fire
started Sunday in the bakery of Cas
tle Williams, on Governor's Island.
in which there are about 300 military
prisoners, most of whom were exer
cising in the court yard. The pris
oners formed a bucket bagrade and
had the blaze out before the fire cgt
pany arrived. The damage is small.