Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4rtittiii?t?itt?>iiiJ. The Planters Loan J I and Savings Bank | Augusta, G^, - Pays Interest on Deposits, Account Solicited. RESOURCES OVER $i,ooo,o^V.v fc? -S^?^l^X* j? LC. KAYNF, i. PBEalDJE.U'. VOL.-73. EDGEFIELD, S.-C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25^08. I * THE NATIONAL BANK ?F'?S?,'? L. C. HAYNE, CHiiS. R. CLARK, .. President. -'du&ier.' ? CAPITAL $250,000.00. I ; Surplus & Profits $190,000.00. ' I The business of.our out-of-town friecds receives thc same careful attention as that * ' of our local depositors. The accounts of * ' ? careful conservative people solicited.s *$* Uli 1M|,I^H? NO. 39. H"M1' ? I1 M !? I I M I t ? I ? OUR. SCHOOLS I ' BY PBOF. vriLLiAM H HAXD, ?r * Universit?r of South Carolini. V Paper Number Two. \ Beggarly Salaries for Teachers. The services of a "bank cashier, of a bookkeeper, of a carpenter, and of a school teacher have a market value. Llb*/ market value of these services is based upon what the employer feels that the -employed is* worth ~ to the business. What value "have the people ofSouth Carolin^' r?ut upon the services of a" white school teach-' Br? Last year the State paid* an iverage. of $267. a -year, or $45.87 I month for a little less than six ?hool months in the yeer. This sal ary is lower eves by tho* month than the wages bf an experienced dry good's salesman, .or. a ^om^etenf.j stenographer. *. By" the year" -the?? sal ary of the teacher "does not-compare with that of the unskilled carpenter, or plasterer, or. bricklayer. Almost every town of 2,000 people in- the State pays, hy the month,* higher* wages to its policemen than to its. | women school teachers. Men ftfech srs are paid a little better, hut* beg garly, salaries ^h'aye^ru^ almost all the men 'out 'of "the "schoolroom. '?' -'As Will be seen by the various figures which " I have given, either men or women'. working in the cotton mills and - exercising less patiences are', readily making more money-than, the' average public school teacher.' ' August Kohn? in The Cotton. Mills-1 of s. c. . . .?? t Is it reasonable to expect the .ser vices of competent men at $60 and $70 a month, and*competent- w^men at $35 and 40 a month,,-for- a"'few: months in the 3rear? The answer in volves a very simple question in economics. It has cost either per son from four to six years in time,, and from $800 to $1.500 in money, to prepare himself to teach. 'And if either is fitted to teach, his prepar ation fits him for something decided ly better pecuniarily, if neither is fitted to make more than $267 a year in'some other vocation, he is on the high way to penury. > Why do our people pay no more for teaching? Is it due"to poverty? There was a time when that expla nation could have been given, but not 60 now. We have on every hand too many evidences of plenty and even luxury to accept any such excuse. The real explanation is.h?rd to ad* mit: These salaries represent the j I , valuation our people place upon edu cation. "By their fruits ye shall know them."." Our people'"rate -the .^.education of their children when they^ employ teachers, somewhat as they -? rate their land when they visit _ the J tax lister. Our people are well alite. | to pay better salaries, and they will tpay better salaries only after they . have come to appreciate the value of better teachers and better schools. Many of the praises of good schools* are mere lip-service. - v Incompetent Teachers.-To discuss this feature of our i schools is "very distasteful, hut ;it must he done, andi) .done fearlessly." Every well-inform ed person knows 'that our schools are hardened with a host of incompetent teachers,, persons, fitted neither by nature nor by training. Such teach ers waste the money of the children, ruin the children themselves, and discredit te?ching itself. They know nothing about- what to teach, and even less about how to teach. Time and again I have sat in schoolrooms watching the blind blunderings j oi$| teachers > plodding through recitation* without-ever getting hold'of aT- feach ^ ing fact or a teaching principle, un til my very , heart'ached in ^sympathy for' the children who. had \o endure it ?"1. Yet I have gone out from just rtjeh scenes to be told within three hours byse-me patron that in , that school they had a fine teacher: The travesty of such teaching'is bad" enough, but When the patrons are pleased with it, it becomes pathetic. I can put my finger on the names'o? dozens of white school teachers who "could not today pass an examination in the eighth grade in the . Columbia city schools. Yet to these* incom petents are entrusted the education of children, and the - people are .satis fied, and are paying to. them the children's money. - I know teachers hy name^ho go to their schoolrooms day after day without having studied a single les son they are supposed to teach. Some . of them do not own a single book that they are attempting to teach. How can such teacher succeed? If he has in him nothing of the student, how can he expect to inspire a pupil with the zeal of the student? To such a teacher the names of Spencer and Arnold and Mann are but sound ing brass and tinkling cymbals. Some teachers and some patrons bank largely on the teacher's ex perience. Experience" is' an excellent thing when coupled with other quali fications, hut when divorced from] them, experience is to teaching pre cisely what it is to the practice of-| medicine-it kills as often as it cures. Shholarship, studiousness, training, and energy are all necessary to the highest success in teaching, but there is another qualification which far outweighs air these combined-man hood! womanhood! The personality of the teacher is the first considera tion. Is the teacher ? able to take hold of the life of a child < and' guide him upward to the limit-of the child's capacity? Is the - teacher's life worthy of being reflected in the life of every child he teaches?. If not, he is incompetent. Will your teacher measure up to this standard? Why are so many incompetent teachers employed? There ar? sev eral reasons. 'The oUe most obvious is, that such teachers can b? liad cheap.-' Most people wish to keep open -* their schools a reasonable length of time, and the pittance in the" school treasury will not employ "a competent teacher for Jong...Hence, a p'n-', as the horse-jockey would say, is put in charge of the school. When ever a school hoard goes out to find a ehe ap teacher, it succeeds in get .Mg ,a aheap one in' eve^ sense. i man-goes on the marked with s ?nty-five cents with which ro'p i?hase a dollar article he need i be surprised to get shoddy". m A scB board . need not expect toige't -,a $'t teacher ^for -$267. ?Why *%r$?n?t ?l,000-man teach school for $5 Jimply because ..-he? has .?ense ' eno'u 'o teach , a'scboot. Today in Soi Caro- ia any competent .man tea?i of-two years' experience can get nine-moaths school "?af from $75 $100* a month.' School hoards.are i veirtis?hg for such. Why.^ should De willing "to teach your school i $50 or $60 a month for less than ni morphs?. ^3V.h?? com is. filing in t pper^,market : at one dollar a bush wiil'ljgjffer mine at sixty - centsr it is.; marketable ? Docs the scb"< board hunting '? cheap teacher cat the maning1 ? . Eoweverr there are~other and- mc serious reasons why-'weihave so ma incompetent teachers. There is t daughter, of v^ilQcaJ^t?ustee. w caust^a;^' sv^V??Vi^%g^o?b?tv witir whi^to-fluy^r'^ difference does it make if she bas h 'Mo other. edTu*fe\ti<"^than ?L??C whi ;h e. recei ve^- %^ ?teVery sch col *"s is going?' to 'iry^tiit??hi What d, /erejice does it makVi? she kno1 no jabre than ..some JO? her most a vanced pupils ? . Wh?V difference dc it make "jf ^she^n^yer^sa.w^ an educ tioH?f' joui;n?^Co*'?a'. bfolc. fn t^e^a of teaching^'What '"differen'ce" ' do it.'m?ke if .shelis.jbu^igbteen yea oldv and..without a particle of ? perience in teachingt ^.Wlife. itscl Xj?gn there,; is^popr... widow. ;J5mith daughter. The mother is poor,- ai '.hc^.daughter. is in poor health, pt 'Tap's. Really the community ow both something, and the . distri school is the easiest chanty/to/1 itpw. The uneducated . daughter ci niV^j^Ss-vivJ" ->--*?.'<' * "Ai -*-?? - : ? somenow -djeag ihrpugh the recitatio and'manage to keep the big boys Vi side the school house. She gets t school, and the people solace thci selves by-thinking^ that they ha done ff a- mighty good t hing. " Thi again, there is-Mrs.; Brown, 70 yea old. .'No Qne^ye?-iaceused her of h ing~edu?ated? or iii any other ?wi of being fitted to teach school, b she taught school just before- ti war, _or. just. af ter.. the war. SOB enemy to competence advocates h election, remarking that "She is mighty good teacher; ni ? went school to ber forty years; ago ; .in *f a< she larnt me" about all.I ever wi larnt.'' Mrs. Brown keeps the scho house open must of .the time for s months, dr?ws $150 of the defens less children's money, and the cor munity feels"-tranquil over its act i pious gratitude. I. hope that I^.a| not^?nisunderstood in this last ei ample. I. am glad to know- that sori teachers at seventy, years, ?of age, e< ?eated. anet vigorous,, are able ro c effective 'workr-even-'" fir Tlro"~i*o'mTnc schools. Old " age and " misf?rtu; sbqald be, jgrat^fully remembered an cared for," but not- at-the expense < the'education-cf pur children. Pei sioris-'should **b?"p'aid outside tl schcol house, iotwioside. j There- is yet a? more serious1 rei son for the presence of so many ii competent toa?hers-*-^lre. serious, hi ."clause they are. under" the sanction c law. Hundreds of incompetent teaci ers are in our schools because of tu vicious system by which certificat* are granted and renewed. I disclaii any intention whatever" of castin any reflection against any set of pei sons,' but under the present systej we need not hope to get rid of ii efficiency among our teachers of th common schools. Let us face th facts: Teachers' certifi?tes" ai granted hy the county boa$5s pf ;edu cation, composed.of the;oo^hty supej intendent' and t^?o .--lay .-members ap pointedly. the State snperintenden upon . th(? recommeftd?jfioq'. ?f th county superintenderif.^Th? count, superintendents must go overy tw years to ask the people to vote fo them^Many of. tba^people?wi?o h?l to elect,. the superintendents - expec a. return ,bf i^v.ors.. .These superin tendents. must sit in. judgment upoi the efficiency of applicants to teae seho?T! ~ "Wbo'are some of these-?an pfccantsfl; Sons *nd daughters,, broth ersiand. sisters, of the men who help ed tcueleCt the county superintendent Now, it-would be an insult to inti mate that, auy honest county super ihtetfde?t'would violate his honor h granting"?nt?ntionally an unmeritei certificate, but it" requires sagacity ti sea the unenviable situation-of th superintendent' in such contingency He oughtsto'-beiTelieved of any sud embarrassments Many claim that good teachers 'ar assured hy accepting the diploma: of reputable .-^colleges in lieu of ex ami nat i o ns. T-nis -plan is faulty. : Il our section of ^the. country the tern college has no definite meaning; then is ppthing by which one college cai be legally differentiated from an other.-"'Therefore, all college gradu ates are accepted in the schools oi equal terms. -It is a fact well knowi to alL ?educators-' that a person maj in the .course of ten years not onb .f?U to improve as teaching . grow: better^.' but actually grow inferior .Besides* some college courses qffe teacher, training, some claim to do so while others make no claim at all Yet another .defect must be take; into? account: ? student with ver poor preparation may go through, i fairly reputable college, taking onl"^ acadeifti?^worki only to find himsel) lamentably ignorant of the comraoi schopL" subjects which, he is requirec to teach. The best colleges and tin .pupils from the.best colleges are tin most billing to submit to examina tiphs* "for. teachers ' certificates. ' "ThV: certificates pf teachers oughl td be* in" the" h?rftrs/of a competen] State Board, appointed to that office and with . certain- well-defined qu?li ficatidns.' :Stilk n man'or woman ma\ .pass an", excellent examination, bu* prove ?i dismal- ?ailure in the school room. :Such can be? eliminated onl> through.:a responsible--and competent supervisor* :.?T?ti^sc?me; such plan if I adopted" we "may maj$e..up our mindi to having bur school.? Jelled with in ferior" teachers'.' w Supt." Martin recorn mended last yea?:?" beginning in tin ? direction of reform in" these matters I and the General Assembly showed f I commendable' Willingness td tal? some action, b?t failed to do- soi Airship Plunges to thc Earth Frow Great height CARRYING ONE MAN TO DEATH : Wright's Aeroplane Meets With,Se rious Accident, Killing One and Se verely Injuring the Daring Navi gator. - v.' ?: ...Washington, Special.-After, hav ing drawn ?he attention of the world to His aeroplane 'flights at Fort Myer, and having '..established new world records for the heavier-than-air fly ing -machines, Orville Wright met .with a tragical mishap while making ? two-mile flight. The aeroplanist was .. accompanied' by Lieutenant .thongs- Er Selfridge, M- the Signal Corps of "the army. Lieutenant Sel ridge was fatally injured and died at 3:10'o'clock at night.' Mr. Wright was; seriously injured, but is expect ed to 'recover. Official Investigation. Major George 0. Sqnier, acting chief signal officer of the army Fri day "morning convened the board of sigr?a?. onTcers'ifpr"the purpose of making an official inquiry -into the death of Lieutenant Selfridge. Ma jor Charles McK. Saltzman as chair man, apd Captain Charles S. Wallace anfl Lieut. Frank P. Lahm were the othef members present. Major .Squier, as acting chief sig j nal; ofEucer, reviewed the finding of the- cqprt, which were, given out by . him as follows : .:The Findings of the Court. "The board finds that the accident which .occurred in ah unofficial flight made at Fort Meyer, Va., at about 5:18 p. m., September 17th, 190S, was .due to the accidental breaking of a propeller blade and a consequent un avoidable loss of control which re sulted'' in the machine falling to the ground/"-from:''a height of about 75 feet. '. '. "The board finds that First Lieut '???nt -Thomas E. Selfridge, First Field Artillery (attached to the Sig .nar.'Corps by War Department orders, and assigned to aeronautical duty), accompanied 'Mr. Wright, by author ity, on the aeroplane for the purpose ? cf officially receiving instructions and received injuries by the falling " of, the machine which resulted in his '.death.'.' ? The' si ~~ it ' aero ii ' 'derstood will' be ' Sciais- *tr without "receiving OOO for ?9 Rochester," N. Y., Special.-JNomi nating all bat one of its candidates by acclamation, and adopting a plat form which arraigns the administra tion'of Governor Hughes and pledges earnest support to the Denver plat form and candidates, the Democratic State convention nominated as the head, of its ticket for Governor the present Lieutenant Governor of the State, Lewis Stuyvesant Chauler, of Dutchess county. John A. Dix, of Washington county, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. All oppo sition to Mr. Chanler disappeared af ter-a conference of the S?tate leaders, which occupied a. gloater part of the night. The .ticket decided upon by the' leaders, with one exception, seemed- to" meet the approval of all the delegates, and the nominations wereVtw?dc with /great"'enthusiasm un til' the office of State Engineer and Sun'.ey^r/twas reached. The confer ence candidate for this office was Phillip P. Farley, of Brooklyn, an an ti-McCarrcn man. Senator McCar ren, amid the cheers of his support ers, took the platform "to resent an insult.'' *^-^ Testify to Discriminations. Alla nba; Ga., Spacial.-There were only two witnesses examined by Spe cial* Esamrner Smith, representing the Interstate Commerce Commission ; in tho--complaint of'four negro bish-i ops alleging discrimination against their race- by several Southern rail roads. The witnesses were H. E. Ferr}', a negro insurance worker, and A. Graves, a negro real estate agent, of Atlanta.-Both told of instances in which they had been refused better accommodations than was furnished by the railroads, even though they had been willing to pay for them. Lockout cf Two Hundred Thousand Operative? Probable, - Manchester, Eng., By Cable.-Late Friday night there seemed to be no hope tbat'a lockout of 200,000 cotton operatives .could be aypided. The wage ^ispute is of long-standing. The em . -plovers proposed "to reduce wages five per cent., but.. they finally consented not to put the reduction in force un tjil January. o?-next-year. The ope ratives voted pu the question whether or riot' to; a?cept this offer. '..Dies-by His Own Hand. Asheville, N. C., Special.-Mr. Jas. H.** Osborne, for the past .twenty-five years connected with the T. S. Morri son -& Co., carriage warehouse of this .city, and one of the most quiet, un assuming and best known business men 'in Asheville, committed suicide "Fridav morning shortly before 3 o'clock in his apartments in the Y. 'M. Cr. A.'building on Haywood street. 'No cause can be assigned for the rash act. Suffocated in Tunnel. \ D?troit, Mich., Special.-Two men were suffocated and three others in stiled" in a (Tre at the Windsor end of -the''/Michigan Central tunnel Tues day i?drning. When the flames were discovered the two hundred men working in .the shaft made a dash for the exits. All reached the air except four. The exact amount of damage is unknown. THE STATE LOSES CASE Fleischmann & Co. Snit Not an Ac tion Against State-Framers of Constitution Never Conceived that ?Sovereign State Would Engage id Liquor Business. . . - . . v In an opinion handed down afc Richmond, Va., by the United States' Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Ci] Pritchard is sustained in his findings: in the now famous suit of the Fleis-; chmann Company and ochers againstj the South Carolina dispensary com mission. The opinion in this case was writ ten by Judge James E. Boyd, District Judge of Greensboro, N. C., and con-: curred in by his associates, District; Judge Waddill and Chief Justice Ful-r 1er. The opinion is quite lengthyf consuming more than forty pages of: closely typcwriten matter. Much, of this, however, is devoted to the statement of facts. In the opinion proper Judge Boyd says in part: "There are two main propositions; first, the jurisdictional, which pre sents the question whether this is a suit against the State of South Car olina and, therefore, forbidden by the 11th amendment; and, second, whether the dispensary commission is a court incapable of haviug its pro ceedings stayed by a writ 'of injunc tion by a Federal Court. ' Does this case come within the limits prescrib ed?^ In this,connection it becomes necessary to inquire if the State has. any present interest in the fund in controversy whir h ?-,an be divested by a judicial determination of t;he true, amount, if any, justly, due to the com plainant? Or has the State, by an Act : of the ?Legislature, reliquished all rights, if any existed, to-enough of the fund to pay all the just debts of the State dispensary. "The first proposition rests largely upon the construction to be given to the Act of the South Carolina Legis lature of February 16, 1907, provid ing for the appointment of a commis sion to wind up the affairs of the State dispensary, and Section 47 of another Act abolishing the State dis pensary. The State, through its Leg islature, has passed both the title and possession of the fund to the commis; sion for the purposes designated in the Act. The fund being in the hands of the commission charged with this duty, the State has no interest in so much thereof as is necessary to pay thc just debts" Dispensary Fund a Trust Fund. The Court cites the case of the United Slates vs. Planters Bank of empowered to take possession oi a certain fund, and directed'to admin ister such fund in a certain manner) Wc are constrained to hold that the funds in their hands are held in trust for the payment of the debts men tioned, and that the creditors of the State dispensary have a property in the fund in the hands of the commis sion to the extent that the debts are shown to be just, and that a judicial determination of the true amount of such debts can in no way affect the rights and interests of the State "Having, therefore, determined the relation of the appellants to the funds in controversy, we answer the ques tion propounded in the outset that this is not a suit against the State, and that the complainant is not for bidden to maintain his action by the 11th amendment of the Constitution cf the United States. This suit i* not against the tSate nor is the State an indispensible party. "Treating the funds in the hands of the appellants as a trust fund and the duties of the trustees being clear ly defined, the trustor is not even a necessary party to a suit brought to compel the trustees to discharge their duties The position appears to be that the agents and representatives of the debtor should constitute a tri bunal absolute in its character to ar bitrarily pass upon what, if anything, is due an alleged creditor, and if a claim be adjudged invalid to put an end to it without further opportunity for redress on the part of the credi tor. To uphold such a contention would be to deprive such a creditor of his property without due process of law." The State a Liquor Dealer. The Court further announces that "in the. conception and adoption of the 11th amendment it never entered the minds of the framers of the amendment that a sovereign State would engage in the liquor business and become a trader by buying and selling an article of common traffic in competition with the citizens of the co.untry. It may be ques tioned, therefore, whether the State of South Carolina was exercis ing a governmental prerogative in performing a function necessarily or properly incident to its autonomy as a State." In reference to the provisions of the 11th amendment Judge Boyd uses the following language: "Undoubtedly the Uth amendment was intended to prevent the Federal Court in suits prosecuted by citiicns of another State or citizens or sub jects of a foreign State f-ora inter fering with a State in the process of its autonomy in maintaining its own system of self-government so long as such system is in harmony with the Constitution of the United States. To this end, therefore, the funds of the "State in its treasury, or held by its officers or agents for use in the ad ministration of the governmental af fairs in the State are not to be af fected by the process of a Federal Court, nor can such Court entertain jurisdiction of an action which has for its purpose the invasion of the rights of the State to manage and control its internal affairs or of an action which will obstruct the State authority or impair the State instru mentalities in the discharge of legi timate functions in the maintenance of the State's integrity. Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FRCM DAY T0 BAY Live Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Home and Abroad. Foreign Affairs. , Chancellor von Buelow welcomed the Interparliamentary Union. It is thought that Great Britain ' and Germany will stand together in ? preventing extreme measures against Castro by Holland. Sven Hedin, the Norwegian travel er, gave details abouj his trip through unexplored Tib?t. jj; Cardinal Vannutelli, the Papal Le gate departed from London amid the singing of "God save the Pope." The cholera continues to spread rapidly in St. Petersburg, j Andrew Carnegie lias written a let ter to the Interparlimentary Union urging universal peace and assert ing that Emperor William could 'abolish war. The "Prince dc Broglie has aban doned his wife, an American woman, and-their child and says he will sue for divorce on the ground of infidel ity. A case of cholera has developed on the transport Sheridan in Manila and the number of cases at St. Peters burg has doubled in 24 hours. The German Foreign Office has re ceived the French-Spanish note on Morocco in a friendly spirit, but with caution. Laws to give the Jews greater freedom are being1 drafted by the Russian Cabinet. PoUt/ iL Bryan, in two speeches delivered in Delaware, directly charged the Republicans with relying on the con tributions of the Steel Trust to elect Taft. A number of Marylanders confer red with Chairman Hitchcock on the sitation in this State. Democratic Vice Presidential can didate Kern began his Western speaking tour. .;,tA " candidate of the Boston and Hoinft Railroad was nominated for ew Hampshire, the New ?York Press, ts picked jQh?fllexg^| Governor igiies" Was jrenonOTHfiH ican State Convention^ it the dictum of Presi speeches in Delaware and New Jersey, and in an interview at Philadelphia^ declared Taft was dodging. I Efforts for harmony were made in the New York State Democratic Con vention.' The Delaware Democratic State Convention nominated a ticket, and the "drys" talk cf putting an op position ticket in the fieid. John Temple Graves, Independence party candidate for Vice President, challenged -John W. Kern, his Demo cratic opponent to a joint debate. The Republicans are represented as feeling: confident that they will cerry Nebraska. National Affairs. The Wright aeroplane was wreck ed at Fort Myer. Virginia, yesterday. Lieut. Thomas Selfridge being fat ally injured an-1 Orville Wright's hip and several ribs being broken. By new methods of economy the battleship fleet will save nearly $100,000 worth of coal on its .cruise. Revenue and customs receipts are rapidly increasing, showing an im provement in thc country's business. Secretary Metcalf has run up against an old law which limits in crease of navy-yard employes near election time. ' Miscellaneous. In a sham fight between four sub marines and a cruiser the submarines scored a complete victory. E. H. Harriman says he favors an increase in rail rates, not because he needs it, but for the reason that it would help the weaker lines. The Great Council, Improved Or der of Red Men, elected officers. Emma Goldman, the woman anar chist, is going on a lecturing tour cf Australia. An effort is being made to bring about an affiliation between the En glish union of enginemen and fire men and the American brotherhood. The former Western manager of the E. Mcllhenny Canning and Man ufacturing Company, of Chicago, ask ed for a receiver. Judge Pritchard, in Richmond, sustained his findings that the South Carolina dispensary system is illegal. Mrs. Edith Bebe, widow of a vic tim of the Monoghan mine disaster, committed suicide in Buckhannou. Norfolk has a mysterious child abandonment case. Burton and Conquest, the negroes convicted of rioting in Onacock, were .granted new trials by the Supreme Court. Confessed Murderer Arrested. Jacksonville, Fta, Special.-Wal ter Ledhetter, a negro tramp, was arrested by Sheriff Bowden, in thc settlement of Marietta, and confess ed to killing Mrs. Norman and hei daughter there Saturday. As soon as the residents of thc settlement learned that the negro had been cap tured, there were threats of a lynch ing, but the negro was safely lodged in the Duval county jail, where he is under guard. A speedy trial is now being arranged for the negro. SOME FLO 3D STATISTICS Reports Still Coming In Showing thc Great Loss hy Recent High Water. Columbia, Special.- Commissioner Watson has received very full reports concerning the flood damage in the Savannah River Valley on the South Carolina side, in reply to his recent requests for information to promi nent and intelligent residents of the flood swept districts of the State. The replies from this section referred to are made by Messrs. Harry Ham mond and J. C. Lamar, and the terri tory affected is almost exclusively in Aiken county, down to the Barnwell 2ounty line. From North Augusta to the mouth of Horse Creek, it is estimated that by the flood three thousand bushels of corn were destroyed, 320 tons of bay, and that the damage to proper ty, including manufacturing plants large and small, amounted to $S2,600; the. loss to business enterprises amounted to $136,550. Two negroes were drowned in this territory and that covers the loss of life in that area. From Horse Creek to Upper Runs it is stated that 32.750 bushels of ?orn were ruined, 1,381 tons of hay iud 182 bales of cotton; 223 hogs were drowned or lost, .20 cows and cwo mules. The property loss, in cluding buildings, etc., was $3.950, ind the buisness loss was $410. One jfe was lost in this territory. It has already been published that there is much destitution in this par icular territory as the result, of thc lestruetion of the crops, the loss of ive stock and rations in thc coun try districts, just as there is in the bongaree River Valley in this county, out measures of relief through the Red Cross and other agencies, are on coot to supply the wants of the ne groes and others who have suffered. Responses to Commissioner Wat 5on's inquiry are still coming in, but Mr. Watson yet lacks sufficient data >n which to form a satisfactory gen eral estimate. However, the responses .hat have so far come in giy? definite j ;nformation and are from reliable oecple. They indicate a very heavy loss throughout the sections ef the ; State visited by the flood. ? | In the Congaree Valley, the owner of one farra, who requests that his lame be withheld, reports a loss of | ?21,700, $14,000 of which is in dam age to his lands from deposits. His other losses include 8,000 bushels of ?orn and 8,000 bales of hay. An other fanner near him reports a crop 'oss of $6,030. The damage in Oconee County is reported as follows: Three hundred thousand, dollars in crops destroyed, ports damage of $81,000 ut Rocky Creek, $6,000 of which was in loss of cement. The Pelzer Company reports dam age to its plant of $3,000. Anderson County reports damage io crops $20,000, damage to lands f!50,000. * Georgetown estimates the damage :o its rice fields at $100,000/ The Seabord suffered damages imounting to $40,000 in this State. From Sumter County reports of 1511,000 have been received. On the Sumter side of the Wateree swamps p\8,000 worth of cattle were drowned. Lexington Man a Suicide. Lexington, Special.-This entire county was shocked when it became known that Prof. John D. Farr, of Chapin, recently nominated for coun ty superintendent of education, had committed suicide some time during the night by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun. Few were will in? to believe that one who had just a few weeks ago been honored by the people of his county would want to take his own lifo. Planning to Sell Direct to Europe. Columbia, S. C., Special.-The State Farmers' Union is at work on a scheme to sell cotton direct to Eu ropean mills, shipping through Char leston To this end Joseph L. Keitt. of the executive committee, has bau appointed to confer with Commis sioner Watson to work out the de tails of the project. Not Guilty of InfanticiJe. Columbia, Special.-In the General Sessions Court, a verdict of not guilty was returned in the case of Docia Clark, colored, charged with infanticide. The woman admitted throwing the baby in the swamp at Ringville, but claimed the child had died on the train before she got off at Ringville, and she said she was afraid to go through thc woods with the dead child in her arms. Since she has been confined in jail the woman has given hirth to another child which she had with her in Court. Lyon Will Appeal. Columbia, Special.-Attorney Gen eral Lyon states that the dispensary case will be taken up to the United States Supreme Court. Just how the matter will go up cannot now be said, but it is thc determination of the Attorney General that the high est Court in the land shall pass on the issues involved and in this the Attorney General has the full ap proval of Governor Ansel. Leorington Crops Short. Lexington, Special.-Crops in this county, as a rule, will be short. Es pecially is this true of the cotton crop. There is no top crop at all this year and not much of the first. The fields are white everywhere ar ' if good weather prevails for a week or two longer the entire crop will have been gathered. All of the gins are running on full time and much of the first picking is being market ed. Railroa AUGUS^ Savings L Pays 4 % interest on all ac compounded every six mo Capital and Surpl GO TO HAELTNG Before insuring elsewhere Old Line Companies. HA?L/0 At The Farmers ] Make ? Jones ? We also sell Fruit Jars, Extr Jelly Tumblers. Call on us c THE i.H.?. You want an ? .i gi ru th at runs like a top, smoothly and' unlcterrapt edly. If an engine balks of stops andyou hive % fool zTfiy your time to Und out the cause, you don't want that enfdne because it means a waste of time and energy. -:- -:- -:- - E. J?, ? PROMINENT PEOPLE, Theodore Roosevelt, J;:., attained his majority. He has not chosen his profession in life. James J. Hill, returning from the West, refused to repudiate the state ment of Harriman that all was peace between them. Keir Hardie told the Central Fed erated Union in New York City thar the working class would rule the na tion and make the laws. Baron Sackville, former British Minister to the United Stains, who was dismissed by President Cleveland, died at Sevenoaks, Englan-1. Lord Wolseley, who has passed his seventy-fifth birthday, has probably had more narrow escapes from death than any other living British officer. Percy William Buntting, editor of the Contemporary Review, London, who has reached the ag? of seventy two, was made a knight on the King's recent birthday anniversary. The celebration of the seventy eighth anniversary of the hirth of Emperor Francis Joseph was the oc casion of patriotic festivals in Vienna and throughout Austria and Hungary. Dr. James Augustus Henry Mur ray, one of the great scholars of Eng land, and famous as editor of the 'Oxford New English Dictionary," has beeu made a knight by King Ed ward. When Edwin A. Abbey, R- A., who left England for his home in Pennsyl vania, first went to Great Britain, he had a commission for e. great many drawings and went to Stratfqrd-on Avon. Representative Bartholdi will in troduce two resolutions at the Inter parliamentary Conference at Berlin. Germany, regarding the sovereignty of nations and the holding of future peace conferences. . Suit was brought to break thc will f Etienne Givernaud, the Hoboken (N. J.) millionaire silk manufacturer AN IMPERTINENT CURIOSITY. | '.Have you read the platform ol | our party?" "Yes," answered Farmer Corntos j scL j "What do you think of it?" "H's a soorf platform. Eut what J I want to know is why ^lilies should ? be the only business that allows .1 man to collect in advance on the strength of his good ir.tenticns?" Washlngton Star. rgia dBank department counts in this department, nths, January and July. us $550,000.00. ? SEE & EYED U Wejrepresent the. Best & BYRO* Bank of Edgefield xirriiriex* COOKING EASY . - ? . "/.'X GET A BLUE TIAME OIL STdV?* We Guarantee them to Please You? k Son a Rubbers, Extra Tops .ind >r Phone us. ENGINE .J, H. C engines are 50 prac tical and so simple that when you start them they run until you stop" them whether you are watching or not. ".Jever out of fepa?r; don'twaste.fuel. Caji op us and we will g??dij' explain the good points of the I. H. C. engine. .:. '-.- -:- ..- -. lorris, NEWS5T GLEANINGS. Gustav Stiokley announced his i?*an to found a craftsman's village in New Jersey. Rosier Foster, returning from Rus sia, said thc country was iii a state of anarchy. The Netherlands asked. Franco if she could co-operate in action agaiust Venezuela. Socialists atf^ked a Catholic priest at Budanppt. A"?tria; fifty of the viot ers were arrested. The second annual playground, con gress met In New York City, with del egates from sixty cities. Tbo Catholic parade in London called out pnormous crowds, but there was no serious disorder. Governor Maeo.m, of Cuha, issued a deere*! fi rios; November H as the date of the Presidential election. Dr. D. Laszlo Detre, of the Univer sity of Budapest, announced a M^W method of diagnosing tuberculosis. Ray C. ?wry, the Olynmic cham pion jumper, was honored by his as sociates at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Premios- r?ps>Wn?hfrs peVptf tile Bri tish Government ?to send to Australia a fleet at least as large as the Ameri can. France will wait until Mulai Hafig shows his ability to govern Moroco peacefully before asking tho" Powers to recognize him as ruler. Venezuelan insurgent commission ers at Panania said that. a. stro-.iT movement to overthrow 'President Castro was being organizej?.'1 :; Tho T5riti?it Foreign- Office' in'I mated lhat England would; not he averse ta giving aid in action against Venezuela; Jtaiy will take no action. M. de Ret?s, i be Dutch Minister io Venezuela, said that the-letter whic'i causedJhis expulsion was published without his consent. A blockade ?i ihe Venezuelan coaslvlic added, wo ill ! be an easy matter. PERILS. "Isn't there danger," said t the tim id man, '-cf dropping things 'from an airship on tho people' below?" "That isn't tho worst," answered thc candid Inventor. "You're lucky If the whole airship doesn't fall 01? you."-Washington Star. More than four hundred' language! are used today to give- tho Word ol God to tho heathen world.