Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r p?? I PAPER I J; BY PROP. WILL The Coarse of Study?There is a email but turbulent class of overwise < writers who periodically belabor the public schools. In their nightmares they see thousands of tender children murdered or maimed in the public schools, and give vociferous utte-ance to so much wild nonsense that they have but one effect?making people refuse to heed them ever, whea they point out tome real defect. Some of these writers have warned us against one great evil which w*e have gone on ignoringthat of an overcrowded course of study. To be brief, some years ago our educators realized the poverty of our common school course of study; confined almost exclusively to the three R's. A just demand wn< made for an enriched course, giving a wider range of subjects to th" pupils. A number of subjects habeen added. Now, in order to en courage Individual initiative, I tak> It, the State Board of Education ha.' never prescribed a maximum or : minimum number cf subjects for an. course. Instead it has adopted tex: books covering a rather wide rang of subjects, and grouped these iuct yearly grades, leaving each school t< make up a course or courses fron this list. The building of a well-balancer" course of study is the work of ar expert. Comparatively few teacher lay claim to that stage of fitness.Yet each teacher, or at least each nrinciDal. exoerienced or inexperi enced, sets about to make his owr course. Theories, prejudices, an." tastes begin to clash for the mastery One teacher is an arithmatic crank and his course has but little ehr in it; another's favorite subject ir grammar, and he makes his pupil:-analyze and parse everything iu sight; another has no taste for go ography, and he practically omitsit; another "dotes on" poetry, ami the whole school is put to memorizing and reciting gems; while a lot of thorough-going teachers who take everything literally, put the whole adopted list into one course, and give it to every pupil in tne scnooi. A great deal of ignorant and unjust criticism is made against tho frequent and useless change of tex;books. It would be neitoer wise nor defensible to have a child use th-j same reader through two or thr^e grades, or to use the same geography through the 4th, 5th and 6th grade, for instance: If the book iv suited to his advancement when h begins it, it is reasonable to say that it is not suitable two or three years later in his life. And if a teacher were to keep the child of one of these watchful guardians of the schools in a fourth reader, for instance, for three years, this same guardian would make the columns of the local newspaper smell of sulphur in d-eclaiming against the out-! ra*e (then fail to sign his name.) On the other hand, many of our schools do needlessly tax the patrons for books, and burden the children with books. Let us give concrete cases: I have just examined the published curse of study In a ten-grade school In one of our towns. In that course are prescribed flftyf.ve separate texts, exclusive of cony books, drawing books, scratch pads, etc. In the school are ten teacher*. In another ten-gracTe school, with four teachers, there are sixty-four texts prescribed. In the first mentioned school there are ten separate texts required In the seventh grade; In the second mentioned school eleven texts are given in th) eighth grade. Every child ought to have the best obtainable book in every subject h<? pursues, and he ought to have all the books he needs?books suited to his age and advancement, but I protest that the above mentioned courses are out of reason. To underBANK CLOSES. Cashier Kills Himself With a Gun in His Barn. A special from Bradford Ark., says Following the closing of the Bradford State Bank and issuance of a warrant yesterday for the arrest of the cashier, H. Drennan, who was alteged to be short in his accounts to the extent of $10,000. Drennan's dead body was found in the barn, at his home today. The shotgun , with which the man evidently ended his life was found nearby. * NEGROES LYNCH NEGRO I For Stealing a Bale of Cotton From a Gin. I A dispatch from Hernando. Miss , j reports the lyncing near that place I last night of W. J. Jackson, a negro, by members of his own race. Jack-; son. it is stated, was discovered white attempting to remove a bale of cotton. the property of another negro, j from a gin Tuesday night. He escaped, but was captured later yester- \ day, and while being taken to jail ] wa6 secured and hanged by a mob | composed of negroes. * j MURDERER HANGED. , I Rode to the Gallows on His Own 1 t New Coffin. j At Fayetteville, Ga., on Thursday, * Jim Bennett, a negro, was hanged for the murder of D. McEachern. a white man, last September. Bennett was carried to the gallows on the o coffin In which he was to be burled, li The negro aleo 6hot down Seaborn .\ Adams, another white man, who a attempted to disarm him after he had a killed McEachern. * ci HOOLS. I (0.7. | [AM H. HAND. | mmmmm m mmmmm TUB -at take to teach all these books to anions child in the allotted time woul l make old Socrates catch his breath. In the first case it would seem that the course given was measured by the physical endurance of the teachers?ten teachers pitted against ten 6ets of children. In the second case the physical endurance of the teachers was no limit?four teachers pitted against ten sets of children. I am far from advocating only the three R's in the common schools, but our schools are undertaking too much in the quantity of work and the kind of work. School work must be cir?umscribed by time, space, and toe ability of the pupil. Take the Sth Trade course already mentioned. Of he eleven texts prescribed, nine ar; o be pursued at the same time, it is no figure of speech to say that f a child's time is the dividend of \ long division, the quotient, or result. must be small. For in?tanrp n the first two years of a child's chool life the schools very properly "evote much time and energy* to oral eading. But by the time he reaches he fifth grade, so many things arc rowded upon him that he does but 'ittle oral reading while under instruction?a few minutes each day, perhaps. Henos when he reaches "he high school his oral reading fj carcely intelligible, and he is often 'nable to get through from the prini?d page. Indeed, many a college student and not a few teachers in ->ur common schools can not read is they should read on entering the high school. These crowded courses of study have another fatal weakness. In the same school and in the same classes !s a wide range of ability, taste, an1 opportunity, among the pupils. The Vieht and precocious mind, the sluggish but retentive mind, and the dull mind are found side by side. The ^upll of robust body and vigorous health, the one of feeble body and delicate health, and the o;ie wltn 'mple time for every task and the one with scant time for any task *^ll go to the same school. The unnardonable sin of the schools is t> hunch them together, give them the same work, and require all to measure up to a common standard. Go.J made them in different molds, an<i it is useless for the schools to try o Ignore the differences. It is unnatural and it is wrong. To march "breast twenty-five children in one grade up to a given dead-line 's neither possible nor desirable. Chi1dren with diverse abilities, tastes ind opportunities should not be required to progress with even ster through such diverse subjects as mathematics, language, history, and drawing. If a boy can do the lansruaere work of the 6th grade, but is prenared for only the 4th In mathematics, put him Just where he iv fitted to go. "Oh, he would no? fit Into my program." says som^ one. Then make the program fit the boy. The possibility of doing thl* is one of the great advantages that the small country school has over th-9 closely graded school. There is another thing which nf:ed* to be dinned into the ears of oprica ?both teachers and patrons?that it is folly for a school with nfnerrades and two teachers to undertake to do what a school with nine erades and six bsachers accomplishe-. The two-teacher school may be th-=? better school within its limitations, but it must keep wihin theee limitations. A one-horse farmer who would claim to be able to grow a>| manv crops ana as large crips as p four-horse farmer would grow, wouH he laimhei at. Little David cou'rt not fight in big Saul's heavy and cumbersome armor, but with a fling and a pebble he dH effective work WILLIAM H. HAND. University of South Carolina. * SAYS CHARGES ARE TRUE. Healey Heard High Official Say Keefr Will Get Job. The national Democratic comml' tee has issued a statement quotln-2 Timothy Healey, president of Statinnarv Flrpmpn. aa anthnritv for the allegation that Daniel J. Keef? had been promised by the president appointment as commissioner general of immigration in return for that labor leader's support of Taft. The national committee quotes Mr. Healey in part as follows: "I was in Washington Wednesday of last week on a matter dealing with our organization which brought me in contact with an official of high standing in the government service . He said to me: 'Dan Keefe has been selected for commissioner general of immigration.' " 'Is that so,' I said. " 'Yes, the job is his,' he replied. I asked him how ho knew and ho told me that his informant was & member of the president's cabinet and knew what he was talking about. "This information was not given to me in a confidential manner, buc [ will not give my informant's name, for it is plain to see what would happen to him if his name came out. "There Is not any doubt in mv uind bu tthat the statement that the ^resident offered Keefe the position md that Keefe agreed to accept is ,rue. Perhaps the offer was not made it the conference on October 2 last >ut I believe it has been made." Rain of Volcanic Ashes. A rain of ashes from volcanoes in Martinique or St. Vincent Island 5 falling over Guadelopue Island. ] lount Soufriere, the largest volcao on St. Vincent, is calm and th?? \ shes must come from some other t rater. t NOTED CROOK Convicted and Sent Up For 1! Years in the Pen. SASSED THE JUDGE ( Who Added Five Years More to th Ten Years Already Given Hiin to Talking Back at His Honor?Tli Prisoner Seems to Be a Hardene Criminal. Samuel K. Williams, alias James I Kelly, alias Oakland Sammy, alia Sam Raymond, yeggman and burglai after making a well planned attemj: to escape from the Charleston jail o Tuesday night in the midst of hi trial in Charleston for carrying bui tools, faced Judee Princ Wednesday morning In the court c general cession, after the Jury ha brought in a verdict of guilty, an was given sentence of 10 years an one month at hard labor in the Stat penitentiary. Sullen and persisting to the lai that his guilt had not been provei Williams asked Judge Prince way h honor did not give him the lim while he was about it. "Bring Williams back to th stand," ordered the judge, as tt prisoner had stepped down. "I ai ?oing 'to reform your sentence, Wil iams," announced his honor. "I set fence you to 15 years at hard labc in the State penitentiary." Under a heavy guard of deputic Williams slouched back to the pri oners' room, apparently eased i mind about his sentence. At half-past 5 o'clock Wednesdn morning when Captain Geadick, t* iailer, went to pay Williams a mori ing call he found the cage door an the corridor door open. The bir had flown. Captain Qradick ha taken every precaution that he coul think of, warned and taught by e: perience. Here tho yeggman had gt away, undr his very eye as mysterious as nlghtfal How could the man have escape with apparently not a tool to hel him? Before doing anything else Cai tain Gradick ran down from the wei wing of the third floor, where Wil iamB cell was located, to the Ja yard, to look for traces of an escai Tver the high Jail wall. He fouc no evidence that the man had scalt the wall, and so made a thoroug search of the lower floor of the jai N'o Williams could be sighted. The rhe captain returned to the emp1 cell of the yeggman to look f< clothes. Williams had been locked up in *teel cell within a locked steel ca? which opens Into a corridor on tt hird floor having heavily barred wii lows and shut off from the staircas by a sheet Iron door always ke] locked. Williams had been place in a cell directly on the corridc that he might be better watche from without. To reach the stai case, where trace of him was los he had to pick a heavy Yale loci This allowed him to raise the lev( f.hat unlocked the cclla in his cag Then he stepped out into the ce corridor within the steel cage, heavy Yale lock secured the cag 'oor. Williams sawed the thre< ilght inch ring of this lock, gettin at it by thrusting his arm throug 'he bars. After he had opened tt "age door, ne passea muj me w, ?idor and was confronted by tb heavy iron door that shut off th ceil? from the staircases. This doc bears a heavy mortised lock that I opened with a huge brass key. Ho he got through this was a rnyster; is well as was his location. Comforting himself with the d< luction that Williams, although jailbird, could not fly, Captain Graf Ick then proceeded to search in th i>nly place where the prisoner coul t'OfBibly be, namely: the jail lof )vor the stairway corridor is a tra loor which gives entrance into th Jail loft above. It is come 15 fee ibove the floor. There was no lad der or rope in sight, but Captai ! Gradlck bad it figured out that Will | lams must be hiding up in this dar and huge loft. Calling to him, a ta" negro trusty named "Mink," Captai Gradick secured a etepladder and 01 dered Mink to mount it and clim into tho loft where, by striking match he mlgnt see if Williams wer hidden. Calling out that be woul 1?? *t* J ill- ? f < P V* A mo/^ snooi v% 1111*1 111 D UU aigui u au uju.u resistance, Captain Gradick drew hi revolver and sent Mink up the lai] der and Into the loft to take th last chance of nosing Oakland Sarum out if he were about the Jail. It was a tense moment for th iailer when Mink disappeared inti the loft, and the match was strucl; A light flared up, and then Mink, bl eyed and shaking, stuck his hea through the trap door and said: "He is dar, cap'in." Seeing the jag was up, William Seeing the Jig was up. William came from the reccsscs of the loft and said he was caught. He ma' no resistance and slowly backet down out of the opening. He had ^ hang by his hands to toucn th stepladder with his feet. William: looked glum and baffled, but wn same, and stated to the captain thai he had failed to escape because he did not have time. After Captain Gradick got Williams again in custody, the prisonei was rilao.ed In another relL nntamn ered with and closely guarded, unUI it was time to take him over to th? court room. He is now under a heavv guard, and will not be unmatched while the Charleston authorities have him in charge. The story of Williams' plan of the escape is interesting. It Is hought that he had assistance from :ho ctitelde. or within the jail. Sus picion points to a white man recently sentenced to the gang for vagrancy, a stranger here who has been sick for the past two days and stayed in the jail. C j Williams used a picklock not yet found to open the lock which held down the cell levej to let him into the cage. To get out of the ceil cage he Bawed through the lock rins ? on ine CctgC UUUI UUIDIUC nuu a si;vi gaw made from a corset rib. And to unlock the corridor door that admitted him Into the main hallway to the trap door he used an Inge niously contrived wooden key that r worked to perfection. Taking :ii.? c canvas cell hammock, he cut and tore c e it into strips and knotttd a stout s j rope. Wrenching off a piece of iroi c from his washstand, he bent It into ' the shape of the letter S and had a c hook attached to the rope, by which 1 he could grip the edge of the trap '< s door above him in tae main hdli I r> and pull himself into the loft. A s ,c tiny three-sided file was found on 1 11 him with which he made the saw teeth. i '* He must have worked for hours or, 1 :e hia bob, but Captain Gradick, leav- ? ^ ing him at midnight and coming ! (1 back at 5:30, did not give the yegg- I (' man time o perfect ~is escape, a* a 5 d plan was to make his way to *ht> I e roof and find or saw out an opening i and then let himself down into th*> : 1ail yard and scale the wall with hi.- I I rope and hook. He carried along ,s two extra hammocks to lengthen his < '' rope with. The hook and hammock? i were found in the jail loft by I e Assistant Jailer Rice. I ,l-' The steel saw used by William? | 31 Is only about five inches long, with ( ** some three inches of teeth cut intc ; one edge on the corset stay or rib. i The key used to unlock the corridor ; door is of hickory, with one end is rounded for the stem and pin. Th'' ward is made of two pieces of woou n closely fitted into a slit cut into ; the stem and tied with cord. The Lj' ward and stem were waxed. It is l" thought that Williams or a confederate obtained a wax impression of II the door key, which is carried some1 times by a trusty. The corset rib and file were probably handed to d Williams y a confederate. KEEP DENIES REPORT. s, 1. !(^ Claims He Was Not Offered Job as 'P Reported. n- At Detroit when Keefe was shown Bt the above addreES on Tuesday night ue said: i , "I was not closeted with President [<1 Roosevelt at all. I did ?ee him on si October 3, but it was only a four o: ,n five-minutes' audience, at which sevj'' eral others were present. The in, , Ciuded P. H. Morrissey, head of the jr Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. ^nd I think one of the others was ^ Gen. Fowell Clayton. There *ero re others that I did not know. I am | of the opinion that every word that ^ was said to me at that time was Jp overheard. I)t "The President did not offer me >d the position of commissioner general j. of immigration directly or indirectly then or at any other time. r_ "The executive council of the r American Federation of Labor did j* not to my knowledge send out any >r circular, as is referred to in the 1 dlsoatch from New York, conse ij quently I could not have endorsed It "On August 15, more than six rg weeks before I saw the President, I made practically the same statement e which I made today in regard to ^ William H. Taft's candidacy. My l(> statements appeared In the Detroit r_ Free Press of August 16. I was e asked then by a representative ot ie the Free Press If I had signed or ,r seen a letter sent out by President Is Gompers, of the American Federnw tion of Labor, denouncing the R-ir, publican platform and urging labor j to support Bryan and the Deriocrati^ ticket. I replied: a " 'I do not believe Mr. Gompers |. has issued any sucn letter, ana 11 e he has it does not meet my endorse- i 1 meat. If such a letter has been ist. sued I have not seen it. I will nelth p er support nor vote for Mr. Bryan ( e I am going to vote for Mr. Taft, who tt is an honorary member of one of ' 1- >ur branches, the Association of n Steam Shovel and Dredge Men.' " I It ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGF. ] '1 J Merchant Accused of Trying to Bum b His Store. a ? ( A dispatch to The News and Courd ier says the store room In Bennettse ville occupied by Z. P. Wright was j s found to be on fire Monday night " shortly after ten o'clock. After the e flames were extinguished and an exV amination made it is said that a lot of plunder, boxes and bags, were I * found in the loft thoroughly satu0 rated with oil. These are now in thu ? I sheriff's office. i tie policemen ar5 rested Mr. Wright on a charge of ^ disorderly conduct, and the mayor ( took out a warrant for his arrest fuosday morning before Magistrate I p iviclnnis charging Mr. Wright with 55 having set fire to and burning the store. The accused is in jail and it is said that he has not demand- I ' ed an investigation. Mr. Wright i.i 1 of a large and influential family. ? [ 4 PRANK WOOI) ALCOHOL ? 1[ As a Substitute for Whiskey and Is Dead. H Refused intoxicating drinks by the saloon-keeper, Frank M. Reese, a patent attorney, living at Sharon, Hill, Pa., is dead, as the result of T drinking wood alcohol, which he took ^s a substitute for whiskey. *Reese | was one of the sons of Jacob Reese, b | whet was closely laenunen wuu i Andrew Carnegie in the steel industry and whose inventions had much to do with enabling Mr. Car-1 tioglc to build up his great fortune. |)j.j POST CARD VOTE. \ r t >F NEW YORK WORLD SHOW e c LARGE DEMOCRATIC GAINS. t t t iimilar Change in All the States 1 I Would Sweep Bryan Into the White ( House ou fl Democratic Tidal Wuve. j The New York World last Sunlay morning published a forecast ' >f the presidential election, that , hould carry comfort to every Dem- ! icrat who reads and carefully weighs ' ts details. The World does not pre- ^ lict Bryan's election, but the result >f its postal card poll is an encouriging sign?the most encouraging ' jrospect the Democrats have had since 1892, when Grover Cleveland 1 vas elected. The fairness and impartiality of mte-election polls of the New York iVorld are never questioned, and they ire just as complete as It is possible ;o make them. And this particular 1 toll shows a plurality in New Yoik 1 State of only io.OOO vote: for Taft, :ne Republican nominee. Fifteen thousand votes plurality for Taft, a otralnef 1 7 r\ flAO rrntaa nlnrolltv tor Roosevelt four years ago.! The canvas was made by sending Dut thirty-five thousand postal carda :o voters in the five boroughs of 3reater New fork. They were asked ;o Indicate their preference for president, and to state the name of the candidate for whom they voted four years ago. The return cards brought replies from 8,913 voters, who voted is follows in 1904: Roosevelt 5,433 Parker 2,413 Debs 20o New votes 862 Including the new vote the distribution of the indicated vote is as follows: For Taft, 4,969, as follows: From Roosevelt 4,024 From Parker 520 From Debs 10 New votes 415 Total 4,969 For Bryan, 3,112, as follows: From Roosevelt 1,0-82 From Parker 1,692 From Debs 30 New votes 353 Total 3,112 For Debs, 337, as follows: From Roosevelt 130 From Parker 89 From Debs 134 New votes 34 Total 337 For Hisgen, 4 95 votes, as follows: From Roosevelt . . 242 From Parker 162 From Debs 31 New votes 6o Total 495 n taken as representative ofif.lngt.ha Taking these returns, The World's election experts, men who have been estimating election results with remarkable accuracy for many years, make the following deductions: Estimates of the presidential vote in Greater New York in 1908, based on the vote of 1904?an estimated increase of 50,000 in 1908, or a total vote of 690,000, under appllcntion of the changes as between the respective parties on a peroentago basis, calculated -from actual declarations of 8,913 voters, as per figure*, given above. 8,651 declarations received are , herein taken as representative of the 640,000 vote of 1904. 862 declarations received are herein taken as representative of the 50,000 Increase in 1908. 8,918 declarations received are herein taken as represntative of 690,000 estimated vote of a908. Roosevelt's vote in Greater New York in 1904 ....289,00') S'et loss of Taft?10.92 per cent of total vote of 640,000 69,888 3ain of 48.15 per cent of estimated increase of 50,000 24,0 75 Taft's indicated vote of 1908, calculated on basis of declarations and changes ...243,187 Parker's vote in Greater New , York in 1904 827,000 rotal gain of Bryan?3.30 ( per cent of total vote of I 640,000 27,520 * Sain of Bryan?40.95 per cent of estimated increase of 50,000 20,475 Bryan's indicated vote of 1908. calculated on basis of declarations and changes 374,995 , )ehs' vote in Greater New York In 1904 24,000 Cet gain of Debs (190S) ? 1.22 per cent of total bote of 640,000 78,008 Jain of 3.94 per cent of es-ti mated increase of 50,000 1,970 )ebs' indicated vote of 1908, calculated on basis of dec larations and changes .. 33,778 lisgen's vote in 190S (no Independence party in 1 904 ) lis gain??5.40 per cent of total vote or (hm.uuu.... oi.oou [is gains?6.95 per cent of estimated increase of 50,000 3,4Sfl [isgen's indicated vote of 1908. calculated on basis of declarations and changes 38.040 ] otal estimated 1908 vote of Greater New York for presidential candidates .. ..690,00'.> ryan's indicated plurality in Greater New York 131,808 Up State Estimates. "Th? up-state estimates eent !n the World correspondents arc tf <2 ? 4 hose of the leaders of the two paries and not of the World. : They eflect the conditions as viewed by ^ hose leaders three weeks before ilection, presenting the first outline if the work of forming the lines of >attle. The condition that, oxlf?t oday may be materially changed luring the three weeks remaining of 0 he campaign, and the figures may c mj revised in many instances that 8 iannot now be anticipated. The * egiBtration of voters has Just begui c n up-state counties. "The totals of the majorities in y fiftv.BPVAn r/mnties above the ' Bronx ehow estimated majorities in >2 of them for ^ughes aggregating 113.050 and majorities In the other three for Chanler aggregating 2,900. [n the same counties two years ago Governor Hughes received majorities aggregating 135,842 and Mr. Hearst 377. According to the stlmates presented by the World today Governor Hughes will lose above the Bronx 22,202 votes and Mr. .Chanler will gain over Hearst 2,528., "The estimates show even more marked changes in the presidential Bituatlon. Four years ago 65 of the same 67 counties gave Mr.. Roosevelt majorities aggregating 213,495. and Parker of 338. The counties covered in the table printed show majorities for Taft aggregating 14 8,500, and for Mr. Bryan of 2,900. So that according to the estimates, Mr. Taft will lose. If present conditions continue, 64,995 and Mr. Bryan will gain 1,062. :Tbe es timates show that white Mr. Taft will not hold all of the Roosevelt vote of four years ago, he will command at least 65 per cent of It. "The reductions noted In the estimates are mainly In the factory centres and are due to these causes; "1. Industrial conditions affecting many thousands of employes. "2. The dissatisfaction of voters with the old parties. "3. Opposition to Governor Hughes because of his reform." The World also publishes statements from the leaders of the re* spectlve parties, and it is. evident that the Democrats are more sanguine of success than are the Republicans. , , OHIO FOB BBYAN. The Labor Vote Wfll Go tar HJm Largely. Walter Wellman, staff correspondent of the Chloago Recprd-Herald (Republican), in a letter to that paper from Cincinnati, says: Outside Ohio the impression prevails that Senator Foraker's attitude is the decisive element In thin State, but, as a matter of fact, whl'.e of some importance, it cuts a very small figure relative to other phases of the problem. The big. thing is the labor revolt, the Gompers plot fo defeat Taft, the opposition to Taft on account of his injunction decisions on the bench, the- general tendency of the work people, whether trades unionists or not, to go for Bryan, to vote for "a chailge." One hears, of it wherever he goes. Republicans as well as Democrats discuss it in Cleveland, In Columbns, in Cincinnati. Every man I have talked with in Ohio haB spoken of it. Every po'l or straw vote taken In a shop or factory shows heavy Bryan gains. When the members of the Republican State oentral and executive committee met at Colufnbus a few days ago, they talked of little else. It was given out that every member present was confident of carrying the State, but I happen to know this statement requires important qualification, and the qualification is? "provided we can get the labor vote In good shape." v * Roosevelt's 255,000 nlnrality of four years ago looks like a mountain in Bryan's path. But in my judgment more io cuuubu uuw*talnty about the labor vote and other elements to warrant the-classification of Ohio as one of the most doubhful States In the Union, tend- < Ins; toward Bryan on present conditions, but toward Taft on tradition, history and Inertia. * I Six Boys Killed. Six boys were reported, killed at Sugar Ridge, when a freight train i an the Toledo and Ohio Central Rail- < road crashed into a heavily -laden excursion train returning from a rair at bowiing ureen. Southern States xtl machine^ Plumbing PHOXE colu m b a\hhocMPnH VlWWVtf * v* I Kj A moacy-mafee? Indeed. S self. Write. ?M*s Hi Good! Se"en,is BOX WOO, 0 rhe American AJLl-Wronght Tlip Pj Anil#. Kfpol I'iiIIavg 1 llV 1 I "I?w ?' fn the mar cou STAM?AKI? DESIGN * CAX THIS BE TRITE? l Farmer Arrested for Assaulting m Deformed Idiot. A dispatch from Columbia to Th9 fews and Courier says the Governor's fflce has so far received no notlflation of the arrest made Thursday x Bumter or J. wooien, a aumier Jonnty white farmer, on a warrant harging him with criminally aaaulting his deformed and idiot 14ear-old step-daughter, Zora Moseley, ehom Wooten had on exhibition here ast Fair week. According to the Sumter Item of Thursday, the arrest was made on be arrival of the Orangeburg trail o Samter, the girl's uncle, M.. D. tfoseley, going to Wooten's home and nduclng him to come to Sumter with he girl and Its mother. Moseley, wcordlng to the Sumter paper, got .he warrant from a magistrate In Srew Brookland, Lexington county, and it was based on Information burnished by Wooten's wife, ths bother of the child. Wooten was placed in the Sumter jail to awa'.t :he offlcere of Lexington. Whether he has been carried to Lexington Is not known here. The Fair week crowds did not patronize the exhibition here, the result being that some sympathetlo chorus girls found the mother and child In & destitute condition and exposed in a tent, and took them to a hotel and ted them. WORK OP A FIEND. Voung Lady Outraged by a Negro Near Concord, N. C. Miss Pearl Tuckej, sixteen years old, was criminally assaulted by r negro in the woods near Concord, twenty miles north of Charlotte, N. C., Tuesday afternoon. The girl was picking cotton in a field and the negro led her to the bushes at tho point of a pistol. After accomplishing his purpose he threatened to kill her if she told on him, and telling her his name was Henry Faggart, ffed into the woods. A posse of 500 citizens quickly formed --1 and captured a suspect an hour after the crime was committed. Police Chief Boger Bueeeeded in getting the negro in an automobile, and folfow- * * ?> ? -ririA m nti vhll<h ha? Hi UJ Ck HCUfilVU WVI/| If M.v? ? grown to two thousand, is endeavoring to get his prisoner to a place of ' safety. CLASSIFIED COLUMN" WA?rrET>! WANTED??Second-Hand Bags anl Burlap; any kind, any quantity, anywhere. We pay freight, Rlchmond Bag Company, Richmond, Va. TEACHERS?TRUSTEES. We secure schools 'or teachers and have many excellent vacancies. We recommend teachers to trustee* and sell school furniture of all kinds. Write. Southern Teachers' Ageacj, Colombia, 8. 0. 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