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A A ALA Entered April 23, 1903, srt Piciens, S. C., as Beoond-Olass Matter Under Act of Congress of Marh 3, 1879. VOL. XXXVIII . PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NO MBER 5. 1908. SOUTICAROU Mews of Interest Gleaned fro Arranged for T=E GAI LAWS NOW IN FOBnB. .Ziteresting Summary Prepazd by Secretary Jas. H. Rice, Jr. From The Columbia State. The Audubon Society is in receipt -of requests daily for copies of V^ game laws. These cannot be supphud since the issue has been exhausted, .giving conclusive evidence of the in terest felt in the subject all over South Carolina. The society has re -quested that extra copies be returned. Requests have come also from other States. . To make the principal points clear the following is a summary of the more important laws as prepared by Secretary Jas. Henry Rice, Jr. Game Birds. The statute of 1905, passed two 46rs before the Audubon society As chartered, defines what are game birds and what are not. The game birds are: Swans, wild geese, brant, wild ducks, rails (marsh hens), coots, -gallinules, surf birds, snipe, wood -cock, quail, (partridge), rice bird, black bird, dove, sand-pipers, upland plover, curlew, wild turkey and pa irire chicken. It is not known to the society why prairie (pinnated grouse) hens were put on this list, nor why Mongolian. -or ring-necked pheasants and ruffed grouse were left off. There are no prairie chickens in South Carolina; whereas there are both Morolian phensants and ruffed grouse, but such is thg law. The above birds may be shot in the seasons permitted by law, or -taken in those seasons by any method which the law allows. Nongame Birds. API birds not on this list are non -game birds within the meaning of the law, and may not be killed at any time; nor may their nests or eggs be destroyed. It is a misdemeanor to have i n possession any part- of a non 'game bird, such as feathers, body or skin; and it is equnlly against (lie law whehlier such bird wis killed within or without the State. The State Owns the Birds. In the preamble to this act it is -Stated: ''That all wild birds, whether reidwnt. or migratory, in this State, shall be, and are hereby, declared to be the property of the State.'' That' is the law of South Carolina. Birds That Are Bxempted. The net further recites 'that i lie E,n!,-I,Ii sparrow, cooper's hawk (the chick-en or hen hawk), the sharp shinned hawk (known locally as the "Bltue Darter''), the great horiod 'owl and all other birds which are hv iature destructive of other birds, are not included among the birds pro 'teted by this act, nor are the nests 'or eggs of these birds protected. A person is allowed to kill crows -on iis premises if they are destroy ine crops, but lie is not allowed to e11 them or their feathers. No nou-game bird may be shipped *ont of' the State nor may the eggs or - eathers of such bird be shipped. For Scientific Purposes. Certifieates may be granted by the ~seoretary of state to any person of the age of 15 or upward, who is proner4y accredited, permitting the holder to collect b)irds and their eggs for "I ri'tly scientific nurposes. The :appliennt must be endorsed by I wo welt kniown ornithologists, and if it is proved1 that the holder has taken birds f'or other than se ,,tifie p-ir 'oses his certificate will be at once eanneelled and not renewed. Besides he will be liable to a fine of $101) or - -800 (dava' imprisonmen't. It wvill be seen that no woman- has the right to wear the feather of a liOn-eame bird on her' hat : it. is an ihada~ble offense under th~e laiv's i" Benth Carolina, and it. mieht he addt ed that it is an indictable offense Gaffney's Plower Show. Cahfineiy, Special.-The annual f!ow - r shiow was held Saturday evening at -the residenece of Mrs. .1. 1). Wheat and was largely attended. The event V ~ wams given under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of Limestone Presbyterian church. T)me receipts of the evening wvere some '970 and the ladies are well pleased wit2k t m. re uit NlA NEWS IE MS rn All Sections of the State and Busy Readers under the laws of almost every civi lized country in the world. There ire 150,000,000 birAs used up in the plume trade -of Europe every year, these birds being imported from Asia, Africa and Polynesia. Many species have become extinct through this savago slaughter. ' The Open Season for Game. According to the act of 1906 the season for shooting partridges, wild. turkey, woodcock, 'Mongolian or other pleasants is )nade from November 15 to March 1, with the exception of the following counties. Beaufort, Hampton, Dorchester, Colleton, Chaileston, Barnwe, Berk Icy, Aiken, Oconce, Fairfield, Saluda, Georgetown and Clarendon. . These counties have fron Novem ber 1 to April 1. Lexington was formerly among the excepted coun ties, but has been' taken off and the season there is from November 15 to March 1. The deer season is from September 1 to January 1, but the law applies only to Ceorgetown county. The rest are from August 1 to February 1. Game Birds Not to be Sold. The act of 1906 makes it a misde meanor to sell, or offer or expose for sale, to pothunt, net, or trap, or by firelight to pursue with intent to catch, kill or injur eany of the game birds named in that section. The handling, possession or ownership of these birds is prima facie evidence that they are being offered for sale. The Jaw of the-Land. These are the laws of the State of South Carolina, made by the lawful r6p.resellt~atives of the people and are binding on every citizen whether he thinks they are wise or unwise. The first considpration is that they are the laws of the land. Any person has the constitutional right to make represcitation to the legislature to have any law changed, but whili it is on the books lie is bound to obey it. Big Verdict at Greenvillo. Greenville, Special.-In the Fed cral Court here a' verdict for two hundred and sixty-liree thousalid, four hundred and fifty-three dollars flmd fiftv-three cents was returned for the Southern Power Comnpany, of Charlotte, in the suit against the Catawba Power Company, of Rock Hill, S. C. The suit was for the col lection of some promissory notes. The verdict was agreed upon by the attorneys for the two companies. Fire in Darlington Causes .$15,00b Loss. Darlington, Special.-Fire on Wed nesdav morning destroyed a large tolneco warehouse on east Broad street. This building had been used for storing cotton and there were "204 bales of cotton in it at the tine of the fire, all of which was destroyed. The origin of The fire is unkuown. The loss is about $15,000, which is protected bv insurance. One'of the Atlantic Coast Line passenger coaches, which had been sent up as a special for the dlelegaltes of the T. P. A. to the, progress meeting at Columbia, was burned. Imperial Comopvly's Plpt at Mullins is Destroyed by Fire. Mullins, Speeial.-Fire dlestroved 1he three-story structure of the im. perinl Tobaceo Comnanyv, ow'ned and1 ontrat.ed by .J. P. Sale & Co. The fire w'as dliscovered in the redryin2 machinery, arnd itt a short time was bevond control. About 290 neorro em.. ploves were at work in the biuildine, and so rapidly did the fre gain head way that several came near losiniu their lives in getting out. 'Tn the buildine~ were abn"t 300.000 nounuds of leaf febosco. The loss is estimnat ed at $400,000 mostly covered by in surance. Union County Votes Prohibition. Union, Speeinl.-UTnion coidnty ngain voted for prohibition by about three hundred majority out of fifteen hndred votes east. Dunring the past I hiree vears of prohibition the ar rests for drunkenness havo' dt4esed1 50 per cenit and property valuationsF .in the coiunty~ are said to have in. creased t wo million dlollars. OUR. SCHOOLS BY Pn'w. WIL,iAM Ii. HAND. UniversIt,y of South Carolina. taver Nrmber Eight. POOR ATTENDANCE-Even with insuflicient funds, poor school houses,' short school terms, and incompetent tevcherl, the people may still show a commendable educational purpose. by sending every child to school ev cry day the schools are in session. Mueh good may be got out of a %ery inferior school, if the children at tend it regularly and with the pur posee of gtting the most possible otut of it. I-low are the white children of South Carolina attending the schools? In 1907 the white enrollment in the pubhlic schools of the State was 144, 66S, while the average ~attendance was only 103,304. The federal cen sus taken seven years before (1900) gives South Carolina 217,972 white children between the ages of 5 and 20 years, while our legal school age is between 6 and 21 years. It is safe sto assert that barely sixty per cent of the white children of the State are enrolled in any kind of school, and not over forty per cent are in aveage attendance. In 1900, thirty six per cent of the white children between the ages of 10 and 14 years were not enrblled in any school, pub lie or private. In the same year Massachusetts had only six per cent of her white children of the corre ponding ages out of school. Connecti cut had seven per cent pand Michigan eight per cent. In 1900 South Carolina had 54.177 native white illiterates over 1.0 years of age, only 792 fewer white illiter ates tlhan the State had in 1870, thir. ty years previous. At the same ditto Connecticut, with nearly twice the white population of South Carolina. had but 1,958 white illiterates over 10 years of age. Again, South Car olina had 15,643 native white illiter ates of the voting ages; Rhode Islaud, with four-fiths the population of South Carolina, had just 550. We had 17,839 native white illitc'ates between the ages of 10 and 19 years; Michigan, with twice our population had 1,141; Connecticut had 160, and Rhode Island 100. Is it reasonable :o hope for the South Carolina of lomorrow, with her load of helplw's illitcrate.;, to cope successfully with those States and sections which have freed themselves from the - bondage of ignorance? The (lay is forever Q1on1e from South Carolina when a few highly .trained men of leisure coid direct and control the destinies of the people. This responsibility has been shifted to the shoulders of the mass3es, and now we are forced to consider the training of the masses. Only yesterday lon. 0. B. Martin 9ave this out: ''Several educatio'nal leaders in New England frankly told us that they are spending their mon ey and building up their schools in order to retanin and maintain their in dustrial supremacy. They realized that we have advantages and great resources in the South, but they rwo pose to keep the lead, if possible, through the power of trained brains and trai nedl hads' Intelligence and skill wvill win every time in ev'ers' race. WhIat is South Carolina doinrg to meet this open challenge frcm New En)gland '1, WVhy l:e these South Carolina children not in school, and why are they nuot in school? Some are the soins and1 dauighters of parents them selves ignorant and unable tio appre clate or to understand what edutI a tion means to their children and to he State;* some are the children 'f fathers and mothers, greedy and scl fish who aire more than willing to make wnee-ea rners and bread-winnear's out of their younaguntaulghtj offspriing; au few iare t he children of par-ents op posed to edneation, because they have kupwn some educated scoundrel; a very few nre the children of parents who actually need ,he labor of t heir childr1 en to eke out a living; anad manv.~ are thle childr en of fathers en grovmed in mtralh affairs and mothI ers recreaunt toa dulv. Many of thlese clihire are at work on the farnms, in shurm s and shoeps at a few cen ts a day. andl in the colt<nt mills making goodl wafe ot clhlren, while hunidred1s ofohers are roming.the street; and coun rv m lanes-] lhe training grounds for idlers, agr~gants andi enemies to law, order anmd dlecency 'Two of the woirst enemies to cirild heod and vI), ar" overwork az idleness. Close confiwinent at man ual labor is diling, stiflin. and (es tructi've to clidhood; idleness .is poiso-ous and ruinous to vouth. At telidance upon school may be used as a corrective for both erils. The State. in order to protect at least on* class of children ovainst. over wotk, has passed a child-labor law. Barri-ig some notable exceptions, the abortiveness bf that law is a common jest. To ilnstrate: In 1905, one of our city school superintendents lost more thn itwentv pupils from onc school room within two months. In company with ore of 'the cotton mill superiitendcuts of that. town (a mai in favor of schools). the school sup. erintendent went from house to house in the mill village enquiring for these missing children. In one afternoon he located twe!ve of them, every ope of them uplawfiulv enga,ed at vork in the mill, though only three of their names appeared on the pay roll. Now, the child of the lazy. greedy, selfish parent is at work. and not in school. The child of the ignorant and indifferent parent is neither at work nor in school: he is idlinz. Both children uieed to b)e educated; the State needs both of them; and the State has already decreed that the taxpayers shall establish and main tain. sehcvls for hoth. There remains but one lo-ical t1hing to do-compel the ,parenis of both to s-nd their hildren to school. There is but lit tle loqie in compellin 01 people to pay taxes to suppol t ile sehols, then per mitting the pareofs of the children who mos. need the schools deliber. ateli to keen th- from the benofits of the schools. The poorer the chili' the vrn,n ; lie li-d for cnmpnllin his parents to send him to school. Compulsory attendance laws are aim ed at the selfish and indifferent par ent, not at the child. Of what ad vantage are good teachers, long school teims,- and fine school houses unless the children attend the schools? In a recent election to increase the local school tax in a district in North Carolina, where they have recently enacted a kind of local option com pulsory law, a certain taxpayer made this declaration: "If you vote to compel the children of this disi;iet to go to school, increase my tax as you please; if you are not going to put the clilIren into the schools I am Opposed to any furtrlie tax.'' That man's arg-tument has iio,ansVr. Some opponent to a compulsory law says, "You have not enou-h school houses anud teachecis to take care of the thousands oL chilidren not in school.'' That argumient is worth less .unless we are willing to admit that the white people of tile State are actually unable to take (are of their children. Let Sine outside philan thropist offer to aid South Carolina in natters edwneatIonal, tfhen you get an answer to that (tuestion. Will the school hou,es ever be built or the teachers employed until there is a need for them? Woul it. be wise for a farmer to let a $500 crop waste in the fields, rather than build a %,"100 house in which to store it.? The last ar.gument of the cppon ents to compulsory attendance it that it cannot be enforced without truant officers, and that truant of ficers must he paid. Certainly. TIhe present child labor lawv if this Roate is a dead letter, h~anutse no provis ion is m'adle for its eniforeeme(nt. And the police of Ciharle.ston, Columbia, and other places have to be0 paid, hut it pays to pay them. We are p)erfcetly willing to pay an orlicer of the lawv to arrest lhitIe negro boys in a 10-cent erap) game. but itI is too much to pay anl ofiler' of1 thle law to see t hat a lazy, sellish fat bor sendl' his child to school. We are paying1 to dlay in actual monev every year fire times as muech in tib ute to the hi dustriial suprNney of: New England and other sections, :is it would eaost us to put every white child in Ihe State ini school far six mont hs in the year. What eonomists we arc. And what philosophers we t ry to he. WILLIAM IL. HAND. University of South Carolia. Tt in A" g'od omn.~ii to the Th3ston Hlerabi. that the legal professlon in separably asoeat ed wihth the past histo ry of pol it lea I andl soelal evolu tion in this country should be sen sItive to altered conditions wIthIn andl wIthouit the profession, and to crltlelinm. er whIch there has been, not a little of late years. RAMPAN.'OSAI Object to Abiding By D " of the Powers OFFICIAL POSITION Dilr N Parliamentary Leaders Sy, tat' Idea of an International Oog i Will Be Abandoned--Foroign, Slee . Says Negotiations Are.: ,Progreos. St. Petersburg, By. Cable.-Tnterest in tWe Balkan situation is centeredlin the positive statement of sever1 parlimehtary leaders that RuV.eiiu has det9rmined to drop the idea ofk the proploted ipternational congress and will refuse to recognize the an nexation by Austro-Hungary of Bo& nia and Herzegovina. This information, although pur porting to be from official sources is not entirely exact. Russia has finally committed herself to the prineple that the question of-the annexation of the provinces may be discussed i1x* a conference of the powers, and Austria will permit the - status e Herzegovina to be included in - the programme, but only on. conditio that the delegates will refrain fr6r$) questioning her action, and conft themselves with registering the Arl gation of the article referring to thin V matter in the Berlin treaty. The Foreign Office states that negotiations between Russia, Austria-l . Hungary and other powers on this question are still in progress and eon siders that an acceptable formula for, submission to the congress mayrL ultimately be found. It is difficulty, however, to foresee how a satisfactory agreement may be reached ' without one side or the other wit,hdrawing its contention. Great Religious Parade. Poston, Special.-What was prob ably the greatest parade of a reli,7 gious char:cter in the history of New ingland brought to a close Sunday the centennary celebration of the founding of the Roman. Catholic Dio. cese of Boston which was begun on Wednesday last. It is estimated that fully 40,000 men representing the lioly Name Societies of the Roman Catholie churches in the flVe counties which constitute the -Diocese, with Over 150 priests, )articipated, march ing to the music of 300 bands. Thous aflds of spectators filled every point of vantage along the line of march. Passing before ' the arch-Episcopal residence on Bay State road, the parade was reviewed by Cadinal Gibbons and Arebbishon William H. O'Connell, iogether,vith a number of Visiting nrlates, from a reviewiog stan(d. The day was beg.n . with a solemn pontifieal mass at tfh!Cthe dIral of the Holy Cross. wit'h Arch hishop O'Connelil as celebrn,ao Cat-dinal Gibbous occuivying th'p4nr' tificial throne wit hini ihln saidgrv; -6 .At night ias th'e sAme edifiee a te dentn- -4' service was hel.. Fire DetM-Ls, n Florida. Phocphabte Plant. -Mulberry. Fla.- Special.-F"ire d'~ st.royedi a large portion of the Muli berry plant of the Praitie Pebble ' Phosphate Company. The fire was dia- :T4 covered at 8:30 a. mn. and the em phe'Aes of the. company battled with tlre fire for several hours before the 'flames could 1)e extinguished. The en tire drymng plant, dry b)in and general offlees of' the company, together wiT a b)oardhing house, hotel and two pri vate residences were burnedP'-to the ground. Trhe loss is estimated at $100, 000. TragcGy ir. Blirmingham . .Snllivp!n, wl'osu horre is in I)lls 'e:-.. wa~s shot an!d p)erh t'ps ftally .I',ured( cn t hr son'hI side, and ... t'ooley is un~derin ~ure.st charged wlt!i thte erin.g. Rlhivan is not in condi tion to talk nod~ (Codi.y refnsps to di ('uss the a%'rair. s'o that i flot l(nown how t he eloiing m oc'..