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ThcPki?ter's Loan \ \ and Savings Bank Augusta, Ga. Pays Interest on Deposits,*.- X J*> Accounts Solicited.1 ? . LC. KAYNE, CHAS. 6. HOWARD, I * PRESIDE:, 1\ C?SHIEA; J ?? RESOURCES OVER $1,000,000. .. 41H 111 I I M H-II-II M HT "3 VOL.73. EDGEEIELD, S. C., WE ?ES DAY, OCTOBER 14, 1908. .. THE NATIONAL MM Of A?G?SU f ,1 AUGt?rSTA^G?A; X .. L. C. HAYNE, CHA& B. CLARK, f President. Ckitiet??. II CAPITAL $250,000.00. ! . Surplus & Profits $190,000.00. j ?j * * The business of oar out-of-town Wend? , receives the same careful attention aa that .. of our local depositors. The accounts o? \ 1 . careiul conservative people solicited. ??i-Mi I i ri..ri.ii.H..H..M'<'-i?tf NO. 42. SOUTH CAROL! News of Enterest Gleaned frc Arranged Pei Stato Pardon Board. Columbia, Special.-The Board of Pardons, consisting of Messrs. R. Mays Cleveland, of Greenville, C. W. Savage, of Coller?n, and W. A. Clark, of Columbia, met last week-to consid er th? petitions for pardon referred to the board by the governor. There "were only four such petitions refer red, as the governor bas acted on most of the petitions presented within the last three months, since the lad meeting of the board. The petitions ? referred are the following: Lawrence Hampton, convicted of murder ia .Greenwood, and sentenced to be hanged. Governor Ansel grant ed a ?espite until the 16th of this "month, and it will be recalled that the governor's secretary, Mr. Bet bea. went to Grjenwood during the flood, at much inconvenience and with great difficulty ,to get.the respite there in time and prevent the hanging.. Gary Renew, Aiken County, petit larceny, sentpneed to five years in the Reformatory. Thos. Wells, Laurens, manslaugh ter, three years, from January, 1906. Robert Gunnells, Greenville, rape, sentenced to eleven j'ears in Septem ber, 1903. The case of Gunnells has been before the governor and pardon board before, having been referred to the board by Governor Hey ward first in September, 1906, and refused by the board the following January, and again in September ,1907. Gunnels, a young white man ef excellent fam ily, 'served in the Philippines, and was said to be mentally unhinged by his life there. Returning to .his old home in Greenville he committed an atro cious crime.' His mother'has been un tiring in her efforts to secure a par don and was h-^re to press the petition .before the board. The recommendations of the board? of pardons is not binding on the gov ernor, and he is not under the law compelled to refer any case to the board, the pardoning power being vested in the governor solely under the law. , Aetna Mill Unsold. Union, Special.-The Aetna Cotton Mill was advertised to be sold last . Wednesday by the trustee in bank ruptcy, but the sale did not take place. There were several prospective .pur chasers, some of whom had deposited the required cer*^5-" ' wpset price of $2 been .larger thar .bid a's no one o sale was therefoi property, which in good conditio * fered for sale abc vember at a lowe Verdict Against Southern. Spartanburg, Special.-In the suit against the Southern Railway for ?damages in the sum of $50,000 brought by J. M. Turbyfill, adminis trator of the estate of Miss B. Hand, the young school teacher who was killed at Duncan last November while crossing the railway tracks, the jury returned a yerdict $5,000 dollars. Miss Hand was on her way to visit sick friends, and while crossing the tracks was struck by No. 37, which was run ning several hours late. The young lady was a sister of Prof. Hand, of South Carolina University, Spartanburg May Get Orphanage. Spartanburg, Special.-The com mittee having in charge the matter of selecting a location for the Episcopal Orphanage will visit Spartanburg in the near future to further consider the advisability of selecting Spartan burg. Well known citizens here have agreed to- give fifty acres of land in the suburbs for the home. Need Money to Build Bridges. Spartanburg, Special.-The county commissioners have not as yet suc ceeded in raising $100,000 with which to rebuild bridges that were washed away during the August flood. The commissioners have had several con ferences' and various methods of rais ing finances have been discussed. A trust company has offered to loan $100,000 for a period of "thirty years at 5 per eent, but the offer.has not been accepted. More than fiftyybrid ges are down, many of them very im portant steel structures. -, Suicide Pact Suspected. . . Lincoln, Neb., Special-3. L. Shep pard, a traveling salesman and 'Mrs. Leona. Bruner, stewardess at the Lin coln Commercial Club, were found dead in apartments of the man. Gas was pouring from a jet in the room. The supposition \of the police is that they turned on the gas with suicidal intent, though the possibility of acci dental death is admitted. Sheppard end Mrs. Brunor were well known in Lincoln. Both were divorced. Shot and Killed: at Lodge Meeting. Anderson, S. C., Special-While at tending a meeting of a negro lodge of Odd Fellows near Antreville, in Abbeville county, last night, Her.iy Alston, colored, was shot by Major Smith, a negro of bad jeputation. Als ton died this morning and the coro ner of .Abbeville held an inquest, a ?verdict being returned charging Smith with murder. Smith has skir> ped thr rountrv. It{ ii understood that the difficulty arose over some rfis?u?flicn in the lodge room. NA MEWS ITEMS 'tn AH Sections of the State and . Busy Readers Looks Like Infanticide. Lexington, Special-What seems to be a clear case of infanticide came to light a few days ago, when the body cf an infant was found near a branch in the upper pari: of town. The discovery was made bv a negro woman, who was attracted . to the scene by the terrible odor. The child was wrapped in .'cotton, and had evi dently been born a week, as the arms was almost ready to drop off at the shoulders from decomposition. Those who saw it, say that it was impossible to discern whether the child died from natural causes or whether it was killed by the heartless parent and car ried to the swamp with the hope of covering up the erime. The supposi tion is that the party who placed it wh?re it was found intended throw ing it into the water, so that the dis covery would never be made. It has caused a great deal of talk among the negroes, but they are very cautious I how they speak. It is said that the j child had been moved since it was found as it could not be found later. There has been no official action tak I en in the case, but it is one that I should be investigated, and it is very j likely that Coroner Clerk will look in to-., the situation immediately. School Information Wanted. Superintendent of Education Mar tin bas requested the county superin tendents of education to send him a brief description of school conditions , ;.n their respective counties, and also [ an outline of the greatest needs of ' the schools, as they may appear to j thc county superintendents. Mr. Mar j tin proposes to incorporate these ar j tides in his last annual report, which i will be the fortieth annual report of J the department of education. He be 'lieves that this collection of short ar ticles in addition to the statistical re j ports from the county superintendents will be beneficial, not only to the leg I islature, but also to the future stu dents of our educational development. Covers the Field. As a purveyor of reliable news The Calumbia State is easily in a class by itself. With unsurpassed "facilities for gathering the world's happenings, added to its own staff of reliable and energetic special corres pondents, both State and general events are recorded with a degree of exactness and detail that cannot be surpassed. In this campaign year whe^things are constan tl g'harina?*U>??-l _r~" ?iiuunuj at mit?rent points: Charlotte. <-.:.".. 81-2 I Columbia. .81-2 j Galveston. New Orleans. 3-4 : Mobile.S.60 . Savannah. .......8.60 Charleston. .81-2 Wilmington.8 3-4 Nirfolfc..^.....8 7-8 , Baltimore^. .9 New York.9.10 Boston.9.10 Charlotte Produce. Corn.85 Bacon.t.111-2 Lard.;..12 Chickens.25 to 50 Eggs.28 Butter.15 to 30 Wright to Speak in Bichmond. Washington, Special. - Secretary I Wright has received invitations from ! Norfolk and Lynchburg. Va., to 1 speak on behalf of Judge Taft before . the" close of the campaign but has not decided whether to accept. He will speak at Richmond on the 2Sth in stant. He said that he did not ex peet to speak in Tennessee during the campaign. Property Values in Lexington. Lexington, Special.-County Audi tor W. D. Dent completed his abstract of property values in Lexington conn ty on October 1. The figures of the abstract as shown by the auditor's books for 1907 give a total valuation of $5,335.729, while for the fiscal yead, 1908, ?he total valuation is $5, 299,709, the decrease being due large ly to that portion of the county that voted itself into Calhoun, and to a slight reduction in the taxable valu ation of the railroads. The State will receive $2,914.40, compared to ! $2,410.78 for the year 1907. Carneigie Gives Big Amount. New York, Special-The fact that Andrew Carnegie has contributed $20,000 to the campaign fund of the Republican national committee was announced by State Chairman Tim othy Woodruff. Mr. Woodruff also announced that Mrs. Russell Sage has contributed $1,000 to the same fund. There have been no other large con tributions from individuals, Mr. Woodruff said, but small sums arc coming in from various sources. Newberry, Special.-The corpora tors of the Edgefield, Augusta and Greenwood Electric Railrad held a meeting in Edgefield on Wednesday of last week to consider proposals for the preliminary -survey. A number of bids were submitted and several gentlemen were ?resent in person to explain the bids which they had of fered. No definite action was taken by the corporators, but a special com mittee wes appointed to go through, tba surveyors', bids and report to the ndjourned meottag of tljo corporators WATERWAY ENDORSED Second Day of the Great Waterway Conference Addressed By Colonel Bryan and Others. Chicago, Special.-Addresses by William J. Bryan and Gifford Pinchot the latter being chairman of the na tional conservation commission, the reading of a letter from James J. Hill, short addresses by* delegates, and a big* reception at the Coliseum at night were the features of the sec ond day of the convention ; of the Lakes-to-tbe-Gulf Deep Waterways Association. Mr. Bryan, who spoke earnestly in favor of deep waterways, not Only from the lakes to the gulf but in all other parts of the country, where increased transportation facil ities were needed, was an enthusiasti cally received, as was William H. Taft when he opened the convention the previous day. Mr. Bryan's Address. In addressing the convention Mr. Bryan said in part : "You cannot give the people too good facilities for transportation of their merchandise. If you tell me you want to improve the Mississippi I tell you that is all right, I will help you improve it just as far as you please, and make the canal as wide as you please and as deep as you please, and when you get to improv ing the Mississippi I will start out all alone if necessary to improve every river that empties into the Mississip pi. Water transportation is the nat aral transportation. God made the rivers, man made the railroads. When you finish a river sufficiently deep for commerce, or a canal upon which boats can float, you make it possible Cor a man with small capit?? to act .vhile the railroads make it possible for men with large capital to act. Where there is a river any man who can build a boat can engage in trans portation, and if he cannot build a big boat he can build a little boat and. if you have a large number of little boats the big boat will have to meet the rate that the little boat fixes. Yon will find it much easier to regulate rates on water than on land because competition can be much more active on water than on land. We are an exporting nation. We send our agri cultural products to foreign markets, and when our, wheat or our cotton reaches the London market its price is fixed there by the competition which it meets. If a bushel of wheat sells for a dollar in London and it takes fifty cents to get it from the farm to London the farmer gets fifty cents a bushel for his wheat. If you can so improve transportation that the far mer can get his wheat from his farra to Liverpool for twenty-five cents you have added twenty-five cents to the farmers' price for this wheat. It is a fact that is admittejL-ihat-tlw-???"^ rnrirl -PA???***--?~ ucean and the West or the waterways that converge in the Mississippi val ley and carry, their floods to the gulf. I believe that it is the duty of those charged with the business of govern ment to develop these things upon which a nation's prosperity depends. "If the work should be done, and I believe that it should, then you peo ple who believe it should be done should agree upon the best methods by which to do it. But I repeat that vou must not be frightened because it may require an investment. At St. Louis last fall thev resolved that ?500.000,000 spent in improving the waterways of the Mississippi valley would bring an interest in the way af decreased cost of transportation amounting to i $180,000,000 a year Why, my friends, if it only saved $50,000,000 a year it would be ten per cent, interest on the investment. "I believe that the plan should be commenced now. I believe that it should be a comprehensive plan, that it should deal with the entire sub ject and that it should be a perma nent plan; that wc should begin now to lay the foundation for the future greatness of this country, in the development of these natural re sources, these God-given water courses of ours." Russia Getting Her Fleet Beady. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-Fearful that Austria intends to take advan tage of the commotion in Servia to deal the boldest blow of all-annexa tion of Servia-tl Czar- has ordered the mobilization of the Black Sea fleet. Russia still insists upon ah in ternational conference to completely revise the Berlin treaty, while the latest word from England is that she has not receded from her position that only existing issues must bc considered. Warlike Attitude of Servia. Belgrade, By Cable.-All the army reservists were ordered to join the colors on Sunday, and a declaration of war against Austria will prob ably be made then. The whole of Ser via is clamoring for a Avar with Aus tria, and King Peter seems powerless to restrain his people. The mobiliza tion of troops is being carried on amid scenes of the wildest enthusi asm. England to Help Turkey. London, By Cable-England gave her first tangible evidence of support ing Turkey by ordering the battle ships Glory and Prince of Wales and the cruisers Diana and Lancaster to proceed at once from Malta to the Island ,o| Lemos, which is in the Gre cian archipelago and belongs to Tur key. England is acting upon the rep resentation of Turkey that tho pres ence of an English fleet can calm the Turkiflh population.And prevent th? ppoiintipn ot the empire. \ Aeronauts Exp?rience a ?rop o, Two Thousand Fee?j LAND WITH BUT SLIGHT INJURY American Balloon Conqueror Bursts at the Height of 4,000 Feet, Precip itating the Aeronauts to the Eoof of a Honse in a Berlin Suburb.:. Eerlin, By Cable.-The internation al balloon race which started Sunday from the suhurb of -Schmargendorf, was the occasion of a thrilling ^acci dent, two American aeronauts h?ving a miraculous escape from death. The American balicen Conqueror, the'only American built craft in the contest, having on board A. Holland Forbes and Augustus Post, less than two-min utes after the start burst at anialti tude of 4,000 feet. For 2,000 feet it shot down like a bullet, and theft the torn silk bag assumed the shape.,of a parachute, thus checking the ra^dity of the descent. Coming close to the earth, however, the basket smashed into the roof of a house, but the two men escaped with but slight braises. The race, in which " twenty-three balloons participated, representing Great Britaint, France, Germany^ the United States, Switzerland, Italy/Bel gium and Spain, started at 3 o'?lock Sunday afternoon in thc presence of at least S0,000 spectators. The;'first balloon sent away was the "Ameri ca II," under command of James C. McCoy, who was accompanied^ by Lieutenant Vogbmann. The balloon was decorated with the Stars. and Stripes and it sailed away tor the southeast at a rapid pace, the oero nauts waving their hats. Dramatic Occasion. A representative of each of th?rofL er nations followed the Araeriran balloon in succession {.t intervals of two minutes, the national hymn pf the respective countries ringing forth as the ropes were cast loose. The second batch of eight balloons was led by Forbes in the Conqueror, which reached a hisfh altitud?' in an iriCTtdibly shori period. I Le basket swaying viohrnly. T:ien almost in stantly a cry of horror arose from thc crowd who s-aw the silk col?npse cr side. "They are killed," went ri a hush ed whisper through the crowd, but shortly the remainder of the envelope appeared to take, first, a triangulai shape and then was transformed into a sort of parachute at the top of the net and- the progress of the wrecked balloon was considerably arrested. It came down slower and slower, mean while being swept by the wind, far to the southeast, and finally disappeared from view behind a block of houses. The suspense among the crowds Avas terrible. But a few minutes later a telephone message was received from Frienenau, which announced that the men had landed and had not been seriously injured. The other bal loons were sent up, after a brief de lay, without further accident. Terrorizing Negroes. Montgomery, Ala., Special.-A spe cial from Tuscaloosa, Ala., says: A negro Baptist church and lodge hall located at Spring Hill, Ala., were burned Friday night by unknown persons. A band of horsemen al leged to have been organized with the intention of driving the negroes out of the community, are said to have set fire tc the church and hall. To Increase Bank Examinations. Washington, Special.-Comptroller of the Currency Murray has decided to increase the number of national bank examinations, in many cases from twice to three or four times a year. It is not his purpose, he says, to examine all national banks four or even three times a year, but ll^e new rule will be made to apply to all national banks that have in the past shown a disposition to violate or evade any provisions of the na tional banking laws or the regulations prescribed by the Comptroller of the Currency. Two Grades Eliminated. New Orleans, Special.-Directors of the New Orleans cotton exchange an nounced that they had eliminated low middling stained and strict low mid dling stained from the list of tender able grades. So mnch discussion re sulted from the change that the direc tors have called a special meeting of the members of the exchange for next Monday to get their opinion on the matter. Kills Wife and Suicides. York, Pa., Special.-William Ben nington shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. Bennington followed his wife to a church with a horse and buggy and fired a load ol shot into her body just as 6he wai about to enter the church. He ther drove across the State line into Mary land, where he reloaded the shot gun placed the barrel against his stomacr and pulled tho trigger, The crirm ls said to have been prompted, by j*ol j (may, RIOTERS W W Abortive Attempt to Lynch al Spartanburg, S C MILITIA PROTECTED PRISONER Infuriated Mill Operatives Make De termined Effort to linell Negrc Who Assaults Young Lady-Depu ties and Officers Exchange Shots and Several Are Wounded. Spartanburg, S. C., Special.-In the heart of Spa'rtanburg with its 20.000 population, a mob of infuriated citi zens, at times numbering a thousand or more, fought Saturday and Satur day night with the military and civil authorities for. thc possession of John Irby, a negro who is alleged to have attempted to ravish Miss Lillie Demp sey earlier in the day while the young woman was on her woy here from Saxon Mill village, three miles away. Four persons were wounded, one of them seriously, aud John Sparks, a restaurant keeper, was arrested and held without bail on thc charge of shooting Sheriff Nichols, who was slightly wounded in the exchange of shots between the mob and thc au thoriti"? who were protecting th? prisoner. Beginning about noon the crowd, sullen and bent on vengeance on the negro, roamed about the court house square, approaching at times the very gates of the high wall enclosing the jail. Late at night thc situation be came alarming. The crowd was augmented by 500 people from Green ville. There wa3 some shooting in tho street and the mob moved into the public square. The first shot came from a window of the jail and it was followed by others from thc same quarter. An answering shot was fired from the crowd. This* broke a window in the jail and slightly wounded Sheriff Nichols. Sparks was accused of the shooting and immediately taken into custody. His attorneys offered $1,000 bail but this was refused. Girl Identifies Negro. Irby's airest was effected shortly after the commission of his crime and close to the scene of his attack. He was captured by mill operatives, was taken before the young woman, .w">p imm<WltJ>L?lv?.-i^Anilfipfl him, anrL of step ladders, but that, too, was in effectual. Sunday and Sunday night passed off quietly with nothing in the* way of a disturbance. N. C. & St. L Detective Killed. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.-T. J. McElhaney, special detective for the Nashville, Chattanooga & . St. Louis Railway, was shot and killed early Sundav while on duty in the yards of the railroad company at Cravens, two miles from the union station. W. S. Smith, who was until recently em ployed as a detective for the road, is in jail charged with the crime. Blood hounds were put on the trail and tracked Smith to his home. The mon, it is said, had been on bad terms for some time. McElhaney leaves a wife and seven children. Quiet in the Near East. Lenden, By Cable.-Belgrade, the storm center in thc present Balkan situation, bas quieted down. After a long secret session, the National As sembly has taken no definite action with regard to making war upon Aus tria-Hungary. The city' itself has quieted down, the people apparently realizing that war would mean the de struction of Servian nationality. Missionary Convention Holds Big Mass Meeting. New Orleans, Special.-At a mass meeting in the Athenaeum Cephas Shelbourne, of Dallas, Tex., preached to a great audience attending the in ternational missionary convention of the churches of Christ. Mr. Shel bourne took as his theme the f.ict that an inscription was written on the cross of Christ in three languages and developed from this incident an ar gument showing how modern churches of all creeds are pushing aside denom inational barriers in favor of more in timate relations with each other. Marked Falling Off in Greater New York Registration. New York, Special.-Registration for the first three days in Greater New York as shown by corrected fig ures reveals a marked falling off "from that of four years ago. For the three days the corrected figures show for Greater New York a registration this year of 040,000 as compared with 573.523 four years ago-a loss of 33,423. Fire Threatens White House Stables. Washington, Special.-Fire of un known origin was discovered in the loft of the White House stables about 8:30 o'clock Sunday morning, causing fifteen dellars damage. But for thc prompt work of thc stable keeper and his assistant the building, in which :ire roused several of the President's thoroughbreds, would have been de greyed. The stables are at Seven teenth and E streets, some distanc? from the White HouBe, ri ? BY PROF. WILLIAM H. HAND, University of South Carolina. Paper Number Five. Inadequate Supervision.-In South karolina there are three units of ?chool administration-the State, th? jounty, and the school district. "An ?ducational system is a great busi iess." In every organized business ;here must be machinery; that ma ?hinery must be repaired, adjusted, md articulated ; and some competent .esponsible person must supervise hat machinery. A successful super visor must be a capable man, an ex jerienced man, and a courageous nan. He must be reasonably well )aid, definitely responsible to some >ody, and reasonably secure in his )osition as long as he is efficient. rVhat of the supervision of our edu ?ational system? . What do we ex )ect, and what have a right tc ixpeet 7 What does- the fundamental law of he State require in the office of the State ? Superintendent? Does it re luire that he shall be an educated aan, or a man of experience in school Lffairs, or a man who knows anything ?f teaching and of teachers, or a man timself qualified to teach? He ir x ?ected to direct the educational pol ey of a State, and to maintain a sys em of school for over three hundred housand children. What salar/ is drered to a man big enough to fill his position? Nineteen hundred dol ars a year. How does this rank with he salary offered a?man big enough o run one cotton mill? How does e get the position. an^r^rU what does he security cf it depend? What is ikely to be his reward, for any dis may of courage in his office? Every econd year he is compelled to neglect he duties of his office for at least wo months and to spend at least our hundred dollars to get the op wrtunity to speak ten minutes in ach county telling the dear (indif erent) people that he should be re jected. Under our present system f electing, the State Superintendent, nd with the two-year tenure of office he entire educational policy of the ?tate may be reversed inside one ear. In a recent editorial The News md Courier pertinently says, "In ite years the people have shown a rowing improvement in their esti lete of the place of supcrintendeut f education, choosing as a rub. train d teachers for it, * * * but here is no assurauce so long as tho ffice is filled by popular vate that ncapable men will not be -elected to t solely because of their ingratiat ng manner, or as a reward for poli ical service. * * * * The **"tUwii_?_j5jbpuld. itendent would avail mit Utile un >ss the county superintendents were ble, willing and courageous enough j carry these nolicies to success. In ie matter of administration the ounty superintend .ney is the key to lie situation. What do we require f the county superintendent, what 0 we expect, what do we get, and diat do*we give? Do we require that he county superintenci'-nt shall bo n expert or experienced educator? s he required to have any knowledge f. schools or of teaching? Is there, nything to prohibit an illiterate from olding that office? He is not re uired to be competent to teach, ul bough by law he io required to give is teachers instruction in the art nd methods of teaching/ Does llic ounty demand that its suporinten ent be at least the equal of the supor llendent in court house town? T6 be erfectly plain and honest, have we ot had men elected and re-elected 3 the office of county superintendent 3 supervise the whclc county, who mid not have been elected to any po ldon in the best schools of their ounties? Manv of them would not ssay to teach in the best schools of beir counties. They understand full .eli that the public docs not expect uch fitness of them. That is our lult, not theirs. The public mind oes not think of a county superin mdent as a man of education, ex erience, tact, and leadership in mool matters. It thinks of him as man who listens to neighborhood uarrels about district lines, ond bout the appointment and removal of rustees, and who sits in his office n? day in the week to sign teachers' ay warrants. In speaking thus of incompetent Dunty superintendents, I have no in mtion whatever of being personal. am happy to count among my best neilds in the State many of the junty superintendents. Many of icm are competent and efficient men, icrificing themselves on the altar of n unappreciative public, for their ;ward is contemptible. We ask for Mwo qualified men to ii ired over 200 teachers, to act as guardians for 14,000 children, and to keep and to isburse nearly a million and a half ollars; we offer them an average of 584, an insult to an efficient man! he city of Greenville has convinced self that it is economy to pay its iperintendent $1.800 a year to sup rvise the work of 44 teachers; while reenville county pays its superiten ent $700 to supervise 275 teachers, umter pays its city superintendent 2,400 a year to direct 30 teachers; umter county offers its superinten ent $000 to direct about 150 teach rs. It is a source of wonder why we ave as many efficient county super itendonts as we have. All honor to ie competent man patriotic enough ) serve his county on a contemptible daryl But shame upon a people ho compel patriotism to crawl in the ?st I 1 know that wo have some ^eoptu ho alain: that our schools are al? Georgia Savings Department Pays 4% interest on all accounts in this department, compounded every six months, January and July. Capital and Surplus $350*000.00. GO TO SEE HAULING & BYED Before insuring elsewhere, Wejrepresent the Best Old Line Companies. HA?UflG & BYRD* hi The Farmers Bank of Edgefield JS?LSL k<i Snmnier COOKES^ EASY GET A BLUE FUME OIL STOVE. We Guarantee them to Please You* ^ Jones & Son We also sell Fruit Jars, Jelly Tumblers. Cull oft us flMtf^ttte^ Jons and ? e us. THE ?.H:?. E want an engine that runs like a top, smoothly and uninterrupt edly. If au engine balks or stops and you have to fool awey'your time to find out tb? cause, you don't want thai eugine because it means a waste of time and energy. -:- -:- -: are so pric ticaj and so si IT ?ole that when you sfcrt them they run until you stop them whether you ara watching or not Never qat of repair;don'twast?fuel Cai! op us and we will gladly explain u> good points of the I. H. C. eugine. -: i - Amm? i E. J. Norrls? ready too much supervised. That de pends entirely upon what is meant by supervision. If it means the constant meddling in petty details, or the jealous interference with teachers in matters concerning only themselves, or the insistence upon teachers be coming cheap" imitators of a fad fiend superintendent, then perhaps we have too much. But if supervision means the readiness and ability to assist the teacher, the power to in spire her, the tact to prune and re fine and strengthen her, and the man hood to sustain her (and it usuallv does), then I dissent vehemently. All over the State we have young men and women who as teachers ought to succeed, but who are failing because they have no one to advise them and to support them in the crucial mo ments of trial. This' is especially true in the rural and village schools. Is it any wonder that the young teach ers flock to the towns? The rural schools must have better supervison. Nearly seventy per cent, of the white school children of this State are in the' rural schools. They are entitled to as good and as close supervision as are any other children. Broper supervision can not be given as long as we multiply the one-teach er schools with fifteen pupils each, and permit the popular election of supervisors at a salary of $6S4. On a salary of $684 what can a county superintendent do toward the real supervision of .1/50 teachers scatteied all over the county, in perhaps 100 school houses? . Require that the county superin tendent be an expert educator, let him be appointed by. a board and re sponsible to that board, keep him in office as long as he is efficient and pav him an expert's salary. We shall find the men prepared to rio the work. Then we shall stop frittering away the schcol fund, increase the fund, and wc shall get results. Soon er or later our pepole are going to come to look at this matter some what as did Hon. John J. McMahan in his report for 1000. There were In Spain in 1901 only 861 electric power stations, of which 661 were for-public lighting and 210 for private lighting. KOTES FROM ACROSS SEAS Kew South Wales has a surplu nearly $3,500,000 for the year. Turkey imports nearly $2,000, worth of paper of all kinds each y A Polish firm ls building the : beet sugar factory in Manchuria, r Harbin. Switzerland has voted to proh the manufacture, sale and impo: tion of absinthe. Flour milling in Brazil is stea(_- ;: ousting the flour of others countries, on which Brazil was formerly de pendent. Rome's Municipal?Council has de cided by a vote of 5 7 to 3 to abolish all religious teaching in the elemen tary schools. . Japan's Government expense for education is $7,000,000 a year. Mu- . nicipalities also spend liberally for this purpose. Experiments are being made with g new machinery on the Chilean nitrate ?e?ds which are expected to decrease che cost of production fifty per cent. New Zealand's revenue during the financial year just closed was $45, 000,000 and the expenditures reached $41 000,000, leaving a surplus of $4,- S 00u,uCC. Great Britain imports about $140, 000,000 worth of timber, wood and manufactures thereof yearly, pf which the United States supplies about $22, 000,000 worth. So much dissatisfaction is felt in Germany 'about the Government's aaval plans that the seceders from the Navy League of Germany are expect ed'to number 140,000. Since 1895-98 the allowance for the support of the Imperial House*-? hold of Japan has remained at $1, 500,000 a year, in spite of the great ' progress of the country. THE COW'S INCOME. The average dairy cow costs |30 per year to feed. It is easy to nguri out that if the income from the sale of her milk does not exceed this amount, the cow is clearly not pay ing her way. The only satisfactory .. method of determining thld quotion Is by weighing the milk and testing the per cent, of butter fat It contains by the Babcock test. A cow that. docs not pay takGa up Just as much' roos at i profitable cue. Sell her io; ?WMf,-Fwmeri Haine Journal.