Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I OUR S( I PAPER BY PROF. WIL Poor Attendance?Even with insufficient funds, poor school houses, short school terms, and incompetent teachers, the people may still show a commendable educatiinal purpose by sending every child to school every day the schools are in session. Much good may be got out of a very inferior school, if the children attend i? regularly and with the purpose of getting the most possible out if It. How are the white children of South Carolina attending the schools? In 1907, the white enrollment in the public schools of tho State was 144,668, while the averageattendance was only 103,3 04. The federal census taken seven years before 1900, gives South Carolina ' -i. 217,972 white cnuaren ueiwwu mc ages of 5 and 20 years, while our legal school age is between G and 21 years. It is safe to assert that barely sixty per cent of the white children of the State are enrolled in any kind of a school, and not over forty per cent are in average attendance. In 1900, thirty-six per cent of the white children between the ages of 10 and 14 years were not enrolled in any school, public or private. In the same year Massachusetts had only six per cent of her white children of the corresponding ages out of school, Connecticut had seven per cent, and Michigan eigln per cent. In 1900, South Carolina had 54,""" 'wViito illitprates over lu I ( ( uautc nmi.v years of age, only 792 fewer white illiterates than the State had ir 1870, thirty years previous. At thf same date Connecticut, with nearly twice the white population of Soutii Carolina, had but 1,958 white illiterates over 10 years of age. Again South Carolina had 15,643 nativf white illiterates of the voting age; Rhode Island, with four-fifths th< population of South Carolina, hac just 550. We had 17,839 native white illiterates between the ages of 10 and 19 years; Michigan, witl: twice our population, had 1,141; Connectivut had 140, and Rhod* - . ? j - An it T-oficonahle to hOP( isiana ivu. 10 ^ __ for the South Carolina of tomorrow with her load of helpless illiterates to cope successfully with those State* and sections which have freed them selves from the bondage of igno ranee? The day is forever gone fron South Carolina when a few highh trained men of leisure could direel and control the destinies of the peo pie. This responsibility has beer shifted to the shoulders of the mass es, and now we are forced to con sider the training of the masses Only yesterday Hon. O. B. Marti; gave out this: "Sevaral educa tional leaders in New England frank ly told us that they are spending their money and building up theii schools in order to retain and main tain their industrial supremacy They realized that we have advan tages and great resources in tht South, but they propose to keep th lead, if possible, through the powei of trained brains and trained hands ' ' "Mil -trill win even intelligence auu o?w.. time in every race. What is Sout' Carolina doing to meet this opt.r challenge from New England? Who are these South Carolina white children not in school, ant why are they not in school? Som* are the sons and daughters of parent: themselves ignorant and unable U appreciate or to understand whai education means to their childrer and to the State; some are childrer of fathers and mothers, greedy ar. selfish, who are more than willing to make wage-earners and breadwinners out of their young untaughi offspring; a few are the children o! parents opposed to education, because they have known some educated scoundrels; a very few arc the children of parents who actuanj need the labor of their children t( eke out a living, and many are th< children of fathers engrossed in material affairs and mothers recrear.l to duty. Many of these children arc at work on the farm, in stores and shops at a few cents a day, and in the cotton mills making good wage; for children, while hundreds of others are roaming the streets and country lanes?the training grouns for idlers, vagrants, and enemies to law order, and decency. STARTED TO BURY LIVE WOMAN. Finds that fiunnos1?.'! Corpse was Not Dead. At Ellis, Kan., the timely intervention of a physican who was not satisfied with the appearance of thi body Tuesday prevented the buria! alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman, sixty years old, who was supposed to have died suddenly of heart diseast on Saturday. The body was prepared for burial, but was not embalmed. The funeral was to have taken place at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. A few minutes bet'oro the coffin was sealed, a physiciaa requested permission to see the body. An examination confirmed his suspicions that the woman's body was made rigid by suspended animation. The woman was removed from tho coffin, placed in bed and revived. While Vior hourt is; wpalf it is hpHpv ed Mrs. Chapman will recover. SEVERAL KILLED In an Attempt to Make Arrests in Indian Camp. A telephone message from Ovando, Montana, says that Deputy Warden C. B. Peyton and four Flathead Indians are d^ad a? a result of a fight between Deputy Peyton and his assistant. Herman Rudolph, and a band of Flathead Indiaus near Hott I jhools. i NO. 8. | LIAM H. HAND. Two of the worst enemies to child hood and youth are overwork and idleness. Close confinement at manual labor is dulling, stifling, and destructive to the childhood; idleness is poisonous and ruinous to youth. Attendance upon school may be used as a corrective for both evils. Tho State, in order to protect at least one class of children against overwork, has passed a child labor Jaw. Barring some notable exceptions, the aooruveness 01 iuat mn 10 a jest. To illustrate: In 1905, one of our city school superintendents lost more than twenty pupils from one school within two months. In company with one of the cotton ml'l superintendent of that town (a man in favor of schools), the school superintendent went from house to house in the mill village enquiring for these missing children. In one afternoon he located twelve of them, every one of them unlawfully engaged at work 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 idling. Both children need to be educated: the State needs both of them; and the State has already decreed that the taxpayers shall establish and maintain schools for both. There remains but one logical thing to do ' ?compel the parents of both to send their children to school. There is ' but little logic in compelling people to pay taxes to support the schools, i then permitting the parents of the children who most need the schools . deliberately to keep them from the 1 benefits of the schools. The poorer the child the more is the need for f compelling his parents to send him I to school. Compulsory attendance ' laws are aimed at the selfish and in? different parent, not at the child, i Of what advantage are good teachers, long school terms, and fine 1 school houses, unless the children - attend the schools? In a recent elec. tion to increase the local school tax in a district in North Carolina, where i they have recently enactel a kind of local option compulsory law, a certain taxpayer made this declare> tion: "If you vote to compel the children of this district to go to t school, increase my tax as you please; if you are not going to put i the children into the schools, I am opposed to any further tax." That man's argument has no answer. Some opponent to a compulsory i law says, "You have not enoug.i school houses and teachers to t.ak-3 care of the thousands of children I not in school." That argument Is ' worthless, unless we are willing to - admit that the white people of th? State are actually unable to take - care of their children. Let some i philanthropist oner to aia oouui ' Carolina in matters educational, r then you get an answer to that question. Will the school houses ever ' be built or the teachers employed > until there is a need for them? i Would it be wise for a farmer to lei a $500-crop waste in the fields, rath? er than build $100-house in which i to store It? * The last argument of the oppo? nents to compusory attendance is > that it can not be enforced without t truant officers, and that truant ofi fleers must be paid . Certainly. T!i3 ' present child labor law of this State I j is a dead letter, because no provis? j ion is made for its enforcement. And the police of Charleston, Columbia, L and other places, have to be paid, ' but it pays to pay them. We are perfectly willing to pay an officer of the law to arrest little negro boys in a 10-cent crap game, but it r is too much to pay an offioer of '.he 1 law to see that a lazy selfish father s sends his child to school. We are paying today in actual money every L year five times as much in trioute ? to the industrial supremacy of New I England and other sections, as it i would cost us to put every white i child in the State in school for six - months in the year! What ecm omists we are! And what philoso phers we try to be! WILLIAM H. HAND. University of South Carolina. | lands prairie on Swan river Tues day afternoon. Peyton and Rudolph j were attempting to arrest the Indians for hunting without a license and killing deer in excess of the number permitted by law. Peyton went to the camp of the Indians and told them they must accompany him to Missoula. Without warning the:' | fired on the deputy with rifles. The fire was returned by the deputies. THE FARCE GOES OX. Two Revenue Collectors Reprimanded for Political Activity. K i'^ XX7 ? St* r*f noire rt. uispaiuu uuui waauiugiuu oa.ro the civil service commission Friday announced that after thorough investigation J. H. Forlham, a deputy collector of internal revenue at Orangeburg, S. C., has been reprimanded and suspended without pay for fifteen days for participation in the itepublican State Convention at Columbia. Robert A. Stewart, a temporary deputy collector of Clarendon County, S. C., has been reprimanded. R. 0. Pierce, an employeo of the Marine Island navy yard, who announced his candidacy of supervisor in the 1st district, has been disrh rtrfrpd from the servioe. Clvrie Knook. a letter carrier at Independence. Kansas, who became candidal0 for the District Court clerkship, resigned from the postal service tj , avoid dismissal. * HOME ONCE MORE Senator and Mrs. Tillman Landed at New York Saturday. ARCHBOLD LETTERS Read by Hearst Are Important Factors of the Campaign?He is "Glad That the Light Has Been Turned on tlve Commercial Democracy Gang" in This State. Senator and Mrs. Tillman landel in New York on Tuesday after an absence of five months in Europe. He Is greatly improved in health anl enjoyed his trip abroad very much. He did not tarry Jong in New Yorl:. but left for his home soon after he landed. He crossed the ocean in the fine steamship Kroonsland. He was besieged by news gatherers as soo'i as he '"nded in New York. "Tf Archbald letters that Mr. Hearst has read are the big thing of this campaign and the one sub ject of interest on the other side," "I see that he got McLaurin. 1 am not surprised. We were on tc McLaurin in the Democratic wing of the senate, and read him out oi the caucus eight years ago. He belongs with the corporation?controlled senators and we told him so." "I cannot but feel a little pity fo' Senator Foraker," continued Mr Tillman. "He is an old man and it no worse than a good many of the rest of them?in Ohio, too, I mighi add. He, of course, deserves whai punishment this expose will bring but I hope Mr. Hearst will get tht rest of them. "No, I will take no active part ii the campaign. It is too nearly ovu for me to bestir myself. The las session in Washington was the mos trying I have ever known and I wai almost prostrated at the end of it I do not want to waste any of ni} regained strength. Senator Tillman paused to engagt in repartee with a Philadelphia) on the tariff question, and then sale that he would hurry to Washingtoi for a few days. From there he wil go to his home and rest until hi. duties call him to the capital agai.i Tillman in Washington. The Washington correspondent o The News and Courier says Senato and Mrs. Tillman arrived in Wash TnooJni- nio-ht on rniitp hnmp II151UU 1 UVOUUJ ??0?v V.. . v ? When seen at his hotel Wednesda: morning, Senator Tillman was sur rounded by half a dozen or mon newspaper men and other friends who had called to welcome hin home, and to get his views on th Presidential campaign and othe matters. Senator Tillman is naturally ver; deeply interested in the outcome 0 the Presidential election, and al though he has been absent, and no in close touch with the managemen of the campaign, yet his generu knowledge of the situation lead; him to believe that Bryan will bi the next President of the Uniter States. He does not intend to entp the campaign, but will rest from hi; travels, and be ready for the ap *proaching session of Congress in Dj 1 cumber. To The News and Courier corre spondent the Senator said that h had read the Archbold and McLaurii disclosures, and that the light ha. been turned at last on to the acfs and doings of the "commercial Democracy gang." With unusual vigoi the Senator said: "What I woulc like to know now is this, 'wha newspaper in the State received ahj portion of that five thousand dol lars from the Standard Oil, and whj is it, the different detective editors within the State have not taken the trouble to ascertain what newspape. supported the 'comercial Democracj gang' and publish the list so thai the people could know who the ben eflciarles were." Continuing, he said: certai" newspapers have been very vigileni in 'raking up past records. Now le' them come forward and give the people the names of the bobtai papers in the State that were knocking at the doors of the Standard Oil treasury for 'lubrication.' Had It not been for the unexpected death of President McKinley it would bdifficult to say just how much harm would have boeu done to the Demo;racy of the State by the sleuth-like editors of South Carolina so long as they were receiving 'substantial support.' " CHESTER NEGRO A SUICIDE. Aired Plantation Darkey Cuts Hi'" Throat With Itazor. James H. Heatherington, an aged negro, living on Mr. J. B. Atkinson" place, near Armenia, Chester county, Monday committed suicide, a thing few negroes do. Heatherington wp.g an industrious and respected negro, ana "vr>.? getting along as woll :) ? usual this year, but somehow became worried about the outlook, with the result that his mind became affected. A few days ago he told nis daughter good-bye, and since then in consequence, his actions had been watched so as to prevent him from taking any rash step. Monday morning, however, he got hold of a razor, and stealing off into a nearby thicker, cut his throat. Coroner Lcckie h? ld an inquest Monday afternoon, with Mr. Harrison Grant as foreman of the jury, the verdict being that the deceased came to his death from inflicted wounds. Down at the seashore the boys say the "peach" season is about over. A spoony lovor do^s not always win hv making stirring remarks. FACING A CRISIS ji SHALL THE SOUTH SURRENDER C fii -n nnnnnn in riolfl? ? Thftt Is What She Will Do if the i Cotton Crop Is Sold nt Present Prices. The flippant way in which some people speak of the present price c of cotton argues that they do not f fully appreciate the gravity of the situation. This is intensified when they say that the farmers have put the price of cotton too high and that s it is now seeking its natural level, c Such people leave the impression i that they are not looking beyond ( their personal interests and therefore fail to see the stream of gold that annually comes to the South from c foreign countries in exchange for i her cotton crop?this amounting to t hundreds of millions of dollars, which ( is the mainspring to all business life and activity in the South. Cur- ( ! tail this inflow of gold and we at once crippel every Industry in the . South. Augment it and at once the electric effect is seen and felt In r : every line of industry. i t11-" ortft/in la tnrinv 2 1-2 v X 11C pi 1UO U1 WbWM ?w W%. ? _ cents per pound less than it was a , year ago. If this depresion of price ( 1 is to continue throughout the season ( ; it will mean a loss to the South on ( a 12,000,000 bale crop of $150,000,- , 000, a sum equal to more than ha.f ( of the capital invested in the cotton . mills of the entire South; likewise a ( much greater ('sum than will be ( ; spent in the South this year for pub' lie education. 5 These illustrations are given to J , more forcibly illustrate the enormity c of the loss of the South, caused by ; the present depression in prices, and ' to endeavor to arouse a determination among our people,- irrespective of vocation, that it shall not be so. ^ For the past few years the South t has been enjoying an unprecedented . prosperity for the cotton crop. It seems that the cotton-buying world has decreed that this ago of Southern prosperity shall not longer cous tinue. As evidenc of this there was j during the summer a report sent to j the cotton factory centers of tho 1 world stating the Southern cotton I crop would approximate 16,000,000 5 bales and the prediction made that the price would go to eight and possibly as low as 6 cents per pound, f Such a report very naturally demoralized the cotton trade and every . manufacturer wanting to get in on the ground floor was unwilling to r lay up stock, and so curtailed pro? duction and bought cotton from hand to mouth .continually looking for lower prices. Another factor in depressing the price of cotton is the ; closing of the Lancashire mills in r England. These mills are said to represent half the spindle capacity or i? that country; consequently their f closing will very materially ancui . the price of cotton. t Hold for Better Prices, t Such briefly is the situation. What 1 are the remedies? An easy question s to ask, but a far more difficult one 2 to answer. 1 In my opinion, the first thing nec!> essary is for the cotton farmerj 3 themselves to determine in all their . might and manhood that they will . not sell a bale of cotton at present prices except to satisfy existing ob. ligations; and then first endeavo" i to store the cotton and get advances i on it to meet the necessity of the 1 occasion. As long as sufficient cot 5 ton to meet the requirements 01 me - mills la offered there will he no need j. for them to advance prices. There1 fore hold the cotton off the market t until the surplus is worked off. If ? the cotton mill men can not sell . their goods they can not be ex pected to buy cotton at Its full value, s so the thing to do is to not offer any . cotton for sale until the trade wants : it at a price that will justify the r farmer to sell. [ At the present prices the purely . cotton farmers is making no more money on his cotton than he was ten i years ago when cotton was selling i ot a totita nov nnunrl. At that tim-3 I ?? " ~ ?'? I ? L corn, meat, labor and other Ih.ngs > that the cotton farmer buys was sell i ing at but little over half the prices . they are now bringing. Six-cent [ cotton at the time multiplied mort.I gages on the cotton farms of ths i South. Notwithstanding the few > years of good prices we have had i have enabled most farmers to pay off . the mortgages then incurred, a con> tinuation of present prices and con; ditions will bring about a repetitlo-i ' i of those days. For that reason the manhood of the South should bo < against low priced cotton. It is not < yet time for the South to assume the I role of a philanthropist and sell cot- I ton for a price less than the cost of I production so as to furnish the worli 1 with cheap cotton goods. * Do we want farm values t..-, in- i crease instead of decrease? Do we e want factories of various kinds to t multiply and enlarge in the South, f Do we want to educate our children * and beautify our homes, Do we want l an air of prosperity all over this f Southland of ours, with new life, i vigor and activity into ever lin.> of ^ business, vocation and profession? t If so, let u.s without regard to vo- t cation be a unit, loyal to the South and her every interest, and s?.ve to e her this $150,000,000 annually by s maintaining the price of cotton ar i a remunerative figure so that pros- f perity may continue to smile on our t people. g Let not the farmers be fooled an- f other year by the s'ron songs of r those who It'll them the world will \ take at good prices p.ll the cotton o they can produce; but rather let p them first see that their crops aro d so diversified as to insure eacn rarm- a er a sufficiency of corn, meat, and t other productions necessary for his p home consumption. Do that and the S i cotton crop will no longr** prove to 1 | be h mill stone dragging us uown CONFERENCE CALLED ~ 'OTTON GROWERS INVITED TO 1 MEET IN COLUMBIA. 'resident Harris, of the State Farm- 1 ers' Union, Calls Meeting for Next Wednesday Night. President Harris, of the South Carilina Farmers' Union, has issued tli^ 5 ollowing call: 1 "In order to have a conference on 1 he cotton situation and to devise 1 iome method for relief all members I >f the Framers' Onion and others : nterested in the raising of the price i )f cotton are urged to meet in the 1 2ourt House at Columbia on Wednes- i lay night of Fair Week. It is highly 1 mportant that there be representa- ! ives from all sections of South Car- ! )llna and from all interests. This i neeting will be addressed by Sena- | ;or-elect Smith and others. (Signed) "B. HARRIS, "President S. C. Farmers' Union. Senator-elect Smith was in ColumTuesday and gave the following state nent for publication: "Now that the election is over and my enforced absence from any active participation in the fight for :otton at an end, I am in the work to better conditions if possible, and they are possible. The present price Df cotton is a reflection on the South A. small crop last year and a small crop this year have, or should have, discounted the effect of the panic. Had 'there been a normal crop last year and prices gone off on account of the panic it would have been natural, perhaps, but with a small crop at home and abroad, with no flattering outlook for a yield this year, present prices are nothing short of a disgrace to the business man and farmer. "Look at the price of corn, oats, wheat, lard, meat and hay, to say nothing of other commercial articles, and compare these with cotton. Why didn't the panic affect them? Besides, about two-thirds of th? American crop is sold in Europe. A panic in America should not affect the buying power of foreign countries. "It is said that goods cannot be sold at present prices, or are not being sold, because it would represent a loss to the manufacturer. Iiy the same token cotton should not be sold, because it represents a loss to the grower. Because fifteen cents was not realized last year is no reason why eight cents should be taken now. It really looks as if the purchasing world was attempting to whip the grower for revolting, after four years, against their masters. There is manhood and money enoimh to stop this criminal foolishness and lack of confidence and common sense. "r?n Wpdnosdav nieht of Fair week every man interested in a higher price for cotton is asked to meet In the city of Columbia, at the Court House, to discuss the situation and join the other States in stopping the sale of cotton at present prices. "I am on my way to Montgomery, Alabama, where I will address the farmers of that State, and will bring a report as to what they and other States propose to do. "E. D. SMITH." GAFFXEY ELECTRICIAN KILLED. Young Man From Michigan Touches Live Terminal and Dies. A young electrician named N. K. Streter, while painting a switchboard in the engine room of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company Tuesday morning, touched a live terminal with his brush, with the result that 2,300 volts of electricity were sent coursing through his system. Ha only lived about five minutes after the accident. The physicans say that he probably had a weak heart. The young man has only been In Gaffney about two mouths and came here from Michigan. He has relatives in Ashville and the remain* were turned over to Shuford & Lamaster, undertakers, awaiting instructions from his people as to their disposition. The young man made many friends in Gaffney and his death was a shock to all who knew him. into penury and want. In this endeavor for better pi ices let the merchant, the banker, the manufacturer and the professional man strike hands with the farmer, for they, too, are unwilling ro tee :he South deprived of the millions Df dollars so necessary for her arrowth and development. The newspaper men, too, these giants of influence and molders of public opinon, can do the farmers of the South i world of good if they will waqjc i battle for better prices for cotton incouraging the farmers to hold colon. Hold cotton! Hold cotton!, 'or better prices. If these people , vould enter into the fight for better jrices for cotton with only oueourth the enthusiasm they are givng to the politics of the country it vould be but a short while before irices would be far above those of oday. The Farmers Alliance, the Farmers' Union, the Southern Cotton Asociation should all join their forces n endeavoring to withhold cotton rom the markets until a much bet- ' er pi ice is oncreu. JL.fi uifsu ui ;anizations suggest days for th? armers to meet at their respective aecting places, and take action. Without unity of purpose and unity f action we tan not hope to accomlish anything. Put let not the ronitlons we are striving for be brought bout by the lawless night rider, -iut >y 'orderly methods and by sane eople who have a vital interest in outhern life, and Southern progre3S. ' 'bo time is ;it liand to take action. T. P>. PARKUR. * J, DR. J. H. CARLISLE IIS MARVELOUS INFLUENCE ON NI YOUNG MEN. Li] 'ossibly the Great Business of Teaching May Get Some Hint From Tlds Simple Store. If you were to go to the town of ^ Spartanburg, S. C., says Worlds Qfl Work, and spend an evening in the so lOuse of any man who lives there, po Lhe converation would be sure to ^ A ] turn to Dr. Carlisle; and, if you mi should happen to go to the home of j0 my one who has a direct pergonal efl Interest in Wofford college .which ia is situated at one end of the town, the chances are that most of the 'n talk of the evening would be about Dr. Carlisle. If you happened to be at the college at a commencement cl time, you would hear a reverent anl 8t affectionate allusion to Dr. Carlisle IVJ in every public address, and you migh see every class 8r that comes back to its reunion te go to his house in a body ai to express their affectionate obll- ** gation to him. And who is Dr. Carlisle? A man ^ who went to the college as a teacher th of "astronomy and moral science" in 1854, when it was founded, and h who has been there ever since, 11 part of the time as teacher, a pare1 01 of the times as president and again sc as teacher. He still meets his class-'" es once or twice a week even at his advanced age. Doubtless neither philosophers nor astronomers regard' ** him as a great contributor to their m departments of learning. Yet it is doubtful whether there be an astron- ai omer or philosopher at any iristitu- tl tion or in any community in ">ur tc whole land who has exerted so str^ & tc an influence upon the young men tl who have come in contact with him. a] They do not say that he taught them ^ astronomy or that he taught them w philosophy, but they do all bear testimony to his giving them in great- " er measure than any other man a e< right adjustment to life and a moral p' uplift?a kind of influence that l oldest of his pupils, who are now themselves far on in middle life, remember with an affection that has grown since their youth; and, k throughout the area of the college's A influence, men and womeu say, "We nr must send our sons to Wofford col- a lege because Dr. Carlisle is there." G He is now an old gentleman, of d great dignity of character and o? speech, of wide if desultory reading, but. not of the modern type of scholarship. He is not an orator, and ? yet, until a few years ago, he had the J habit of delivering a public lecture once a year or oftener in the town, ^ and anybody who did not go to hear him lost standing in the community by his absence. These lectures were lay esrmon, but everybody received them as a sort of half-inspired deliverance. He has never held a pub- ? lie office, except that he was a mem% - o ii. . 4 * oer OI U1C OW^trasiuii V/Utivcuviua iu South Carolina and is the only surviving member but one, and he ie said to have called this adventure a piece of boys foolishness. He wafi never a preacher, but always only a teacher, and what he taught best was neither science nor literature, but character. The story is told of a man in Texas who met a visitor from Spar- ? tanburg. The first question he asked F was, "Do you know Dr. Carlisle?" "Yes," said the other. "Are you going back to Spartanburg?" "Yes." "Well, I wish you would ^ give Dr. Carlisle by most affectionate regards, remind him that I was dismissed from college for miscon- duct in spite of his effort to save V me, tell him that I came to Texas and for several years I tried my best to go to the devil by various roads, but that I did not succeed, because before g I got far I aiways saw his finger pointed at me and heard his voice, and they restrained me. He may be glad to hear this." a. Possibly the great business o? o: teaching may get some hint from this simple story. 9j e: Deadly Work of Snowstorm. jt Six accidental deaths are traceable h to a snowstorm that prevailed In Colorado Saturday night and Sunday, si Besides, seven persons sustained ee- ei rious Injuries in railroad collisions and in coming in contact with live wires. Southern States ! _pCgL Machinery Plumbing PHONE COLUMBI NEXT WEEK! WATCH THIS SPA Angl ii^KirSRS*E iPB^IBBES STHE ONLY HOUSE IN C( CARRYING THE "Original Genuine Gan Carrying also Rubber and Leati Vrite us for prices on anything in Machi COLUMBIA SUPPLY CC 823|Weet G&viaa Street, CO! WANT HIM TRIED 2GR0 LETTER CARRIER AT SPARTANBURG OFFICE kely to Cause Trouble Unless He Is Removed, Because He Wrote Letter to White Lady. A special dispatch from Sparfan rg to the Columbia Record says ere is likely to be a pretty post ice mess there unless J. A. Andcrn, colored, who was recently apitned substitute letter carrier in e city, is removed. Shortly after ttderaon was appointed by Postaster Poinier the Spartanburg urnal published an article to tha !ect that Anderson was formerly the postal railway service and had en removed on tbe charge of writg an improper letter to a white oman. The officials in charge of e postofflce were informed of the large against Anderson, but no eps were taken so far aa is known find out if the charge was true. Last Friday night week a colored orting house was raided and foren colored gamblers were arrested, id among those taken in by the >lice were a colored miniate.* and A. Anderson. The latter begging te police not to give out his name to ,e reporters, saying that if his name as published in the papjrs it would urt him, as he was in the' postfice service. Anderson was to take it his route and he huBtled and Kot >me one to put up bail for him. so lat he might secure his release and sliver his mail on time; but, it said, he failed to secure bail in me and many people received late .ail. ITlUli/ JJitllUliS uu Auucjawu a :uuic re said to have made the remark lat they did not intend to allow him > come to their door, believing aim > be the man who was fired *om the postal service for writing a improper letter to a white woman. nlesB Anderson is removed, and a hite man appointed, there is likely > be trouble for it is said that le clerks in the postofflce endeavor1 to keep Anderson from being anointed, informing Postmaster Poinir of the charges against Anderson.* Kills Two Officers. Charlie Mitchell, colored, sho'. and illed T. L. Peek, bailiff, and C. F. .rgo, a young white man, Suaday torning about 10 o'clock at his home Lout 1 1-2 miles north of LitLonia fa., and brutally beat C. S Elliott, eputy sherifT, over the head with his CLASSIFIED COLUMN TEACHERS?TRUSTEES! 7e secure schools for teachers and have many excellent vacancies. W? recommend teachers to trustee# and sell school furniture of all kinds. Write. Southern Teachers' Agency, Columbia, S. O. 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