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i The Planter's Loan : > I and Savings Bank . j Augusta, Ca. Pays Interest on Deposits, ! I ?Accounts Solicited. . . LC. HA?NF, CHAS, fr HOWARD. I! PBfialDE^r. OASHIBtt... RESOURCES OVER $i,000,000. . . H i ti 11 Mili IIIMH-HT VOL.73. EDGEFIFXD, S. C., WEDN^OAY, OCTOBER 2!, 1908. 1 THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA. J ?AUGUSTA, GA. , , L. C. H?YNE, CHAS, K, CLARK, .. President ^hier.? . CAPITAL $250,D00.00. ! ! Surplus & Profits $190,000.00 j * * * Th? business of oar out- af-town ?riecdo , t * * receives the same careful intention as that * * "of oar local deposito?. Tb? accounts of . * m careful conservative peopllo solicited. T. lH"W"l t"M-l-M-l?M-M"l fr l"t* NO. 43. SOUTH CAROL News of Interest Gleaned Fro . Arranged Fer PREPARATIONS FOB STATE FAIR. The Chamber of Commerce Has Many Details. Columbia, Special.-The Chamber of Commerce is progressing rapidly with preparations for fair week. The contract for wiring for street light ing has been awarded to tho Perry Electric company. The arrangements ?5 to street lighting will bs different this year in that the material put np will be the property of the Chamber of Commerce and not rented cs has been the custom in the past. The Johnny Jones shows, which will have the . street attractions, earry thir own electric lighting plant and they are under contract with thc \ Chamber of Commerce to present their full capacity of lights and an equal number of lights will be in stalled at the side shows by the Chamber cf Commerce in addition to ~ the ones used by the carnival. Fun, But Not Rowdyism. The Johnny J. Jones Carnival com pany has arranged for the . street ?hows. . Police will not permit the sale of whips, rubber balls, con fetti, etc., and will rigidly enforce the ordinance against the practice of throwing these things around thc j city!. ' Every show that will be pre sented is represented as a high class attraction and no objectionable shows will be offered. The Chamber of Commerce will not grant concessions to any one ex cept with the express understanding that there can be none of the ob ? jectionable features. The idea of the committee having this matter in charge is that the fair shall be full of life and ginger with rowdiness eliminated. Old Nicholas Malcher, a veteran of many faiiv will have rcharge of the water supply. Barrels will be placed at the corners on Main street!.' and ice water can be had by all de siring it. The barrels have been scalded and painted and are in read iness to fill the functions required ' of them. The city has granted the uss of the water. Capt. R.J. Person, Jr., who can be found at" the B.-C. Electric company, three dcors^*from the transfer sta tions, in charge of tbe-information . : bureau, and has perfected arrange ments for handling the crowds. Mr. Person in addition to. his experience and ability, is a West Point gradu ate and ex-army officer/ and by rea son of his military training, being well versed in matters of. discipline, is thought to be an ideal man for the position he holds. . Tbe'Jonny J. Jones Carnival com pany has nine shows and is the best carnival" that has ever exhibited in . Columbia. The management has just secured a new show, "A Trip from ^N.eyr York to the North Pole," which is an entirely new production and will probably show for the'first time with the carniyal when they open their engagement-in Columbia. They have an animal show that is ; pronounced the best ?ver seen in Co lumbia, and a new trainer, who is now in charge of the animals, has i few superiors in the animal business, V and is no doubt the best with any carnival company. This company is also under contract to secure six other high class shows and they must be stellar attractions. The band with the carnival was in Columbia last year and gave thorough satisfaction. ; It consists of 16 pieces and is an all-Italian band. It will give street concerts in the afternoon and night. Two merry-go-rounds will be here, which, with the Ferris wheel, will make things look natural. Three free attractions will be given on Main street. A balloon ascension with a Resources of the State. ? NGov. Ansel has appointed Messrs E. J^ Watson and A. C. Moore, of Columbia, Earl Sloan of Charleston and* J. E. Shrine of Greenville as a committee to prepare a statement of facts, figures and tables on the re sources of this-State. These facts will be presented at the Southern Commercial congress, which meets in j Washington in December. In Receivers Hands. In the case of Tompkins & Tomp kins vs. Edgefield Manufacturing eompany of Edgefield, Judge Pritch ard in the federal court made the temporary receivership permanent and appointed J. D. Allen special master. It was ordered that thc re ceivers be authorized to make a com promise of the Louis Gilchrist $10, 00???laim against the Edgefield Man ufacturring"company by the entry of a verdict for $1,000. The receivers were also directed to pay claims ag gregating $1,106. Military Elect Officers ano1 Adjourn. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-The seven-1 teenth annual convention of the As-1 sociation of Military Surgeons of the United States came to an end after! IVashington had been chosen as the] next place of meeting. Rear Admir al Pressly M. Rixey, surgeon general, United States navy, was elected pres ident; Surgeon Charles Poindexter Wertenbacker, Norfolk, Va., was elected vice presidentl Funeral of Mrs. Zach McGhee. Spart an burg. Special.-The funerp' JOT^MTS. Zach McGhee, formerly Miss j? Helen Irwin, whose death occurred in Washington Sunday night, took ?lace at the Church of the Advent lerc last week. Tho service being .onducted by Rev. Mr. Mitchell, rec tor of the Episcopal cbureu in Green ville. The church was filled with the Hielen:? friends of Mn. McGhee. ?nd their floral offerings vere molt beau tiful. Interment wai made in the aburcli yard ceioefcarVi MA NEWS ?TEMS m AH'Sections of the State and ^ Busy Readers parachute drep will be given once a day. This is a most spectacular act. An, aeral trapeze act will be given twice a day. A hair-raising bicycle ? act, Looping the loop and jumping the j gap, will be given once a day. Special Trains for State Fair. The transportation departments of the Southern and Seaboard Air hine ! roads have arranged for the fair week crowds. Announcements have . boen made of special trains on all lines of both roads and, in addition, the regular passenger trains will all carry several extra coaches. 'Eor the Southern railway Mr. J. L. Meek, the assistant general passenger agent of that line, has sent out the following letter to nil officials: "Gentlemen: Our transportation department has arranged for extra coaches to be handled on regular trains between Augusta and Colum bia, October 26, 2?. 28, and 29, also between Allendale and Columbia, Charlotte and Columbia, Spartanburg and Columbia, Greenville and Colum bia and Charleston and Columbia, to protect overflow tiavel on account of the above occasion. "In addition to regular train ser ; vice, we have arranged for special train service, October 27, and 28 and ?29, to be operated from Winnsboro to Columbia and to return from Co lumbia to! Charlotte; between Spar tanburg rand Columbia, October 28 and 29; between Anderson, Belton, Abbeville and Columbia, October 28 and 29; between Allendale and Co lumbia, October 28 and 29, and be tween Branchville and Columbia, Oc tober 28, 29 and 30." Assistant General Passenger Agent. A special train will be ruu Wednes day, Thursday and Friday from Branchville, leaving there at 7.15 a. m. and arriving here at 9.40. Special trains will be mn from Allendale Wednesday and Thursday, leaving there at 7 a. m. and arriving here at 10.15 o 'clock. Special trains will be run Wednesday and Thursday from Anderson, leaving there at 5.30 a. m. and arriving here at ll o'clock. Re turning these trains will leave at 7 o'clock in the evening arriving at Anderson at midnight. Special trains will be run from Spartanburg on Wednesday and Thursday, leaving there at 6.30 a. m. and arriving here at 10.30. Returning these trains will leave Columbia at 7.30 p. m. and ar rive at Spartauburg at 11.30 p. m. Special trains will be run from Winnsboro Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, leaving there at 7.30 a. m. and arriving here at 9 o'clock. All of these trains stop at every station and are in addition to the two and three daily on every line mentioned above. The SeahoartLAir line'will operate, special fra?ns~f?om~Haml?t, N. C., on Wednesday and Thursday. The trains will leave Hamlet at 6 a. m. and ar rive in Columbia at 9.45. Returning, the trains will leave Columbia at 5.30 in the afternoon. Specials will also be operated from Fairfax on the J same days, leaving Fairfax at 7 o'clock a. m., central time, or 8 o'clock eastern time, and arrive in Columbia at 9.30. Returning the train will leave Columbia at 5.30 p. m., central time, or 6.30, eastern time. The tickets are good on ajl trains and go on sale on October 24 to 29 and limited tb return until November 2d. \_ State Hews Items. At Batesburg the fourth anual fair of the Tri-County Fair asso ciation was held last week under fa vorable circumstances. All roads in the three counties led to Batesburg fair, and every effort possible was made to prevent disappointment to any attendant. Two Hangings in South Carolina. Columbia, S. C., Special-Lawrence Hampton, colored, was hanged at Greenwood Friday for the murder of Robert White, also colored, in 1906. Hampton confessed his crime and said that he was prepared to dieu. At Barnwell, Elliot Greene, colored, was hanged for the murder of Oliver Smalls, also colored, in February last. He confessed bis crime. Items of State Interest. Orangeburg 's Main street will be paved with vitrified brick, the city council having decided that this is the best material for the purpose. Belton, Special. - The concrete standpipe for the waterworks i% in course of construction and when com pleted will be 100 feet high with a capacity of 150,000 gallons of water. Work is being rapidly pushed on the new graded school building by the Vaughn Contracting company. It will have all modern improvements and will be something of which the patrons of the town and community will be proud; It will cost $15,000. Killing in Greenville. Greenville, Special.-Fred Ruby, an Englishman, engineer of the merry-go-round of the Johhny Jones Carnival company, was shot and kill ed here^: Jesse Harris i? in jail charged with the crime. There was no quarrel and no reason is known. Harris had been drinking. A. G. Kirkendall Shot. Spartauburg, Special.-A tele phone message from Moore's Station, a few miles south of this city, says that that Elmore Wright, a well known farmer in that section shot and fatally wouiidod A. G. Kirken dall there late Thursday afternoon. The trouble is taid tc have grown cut of the arrest of Kirkendall o day or so ago on tho charge of making illict Unuof. It I? said Kirkendall ?hof at. Wright Weansiday, No ar mit* bm bean marin, ! AUGUST FLOOD BUBLET?N ? Interesting Figures Gives on Precip itation During That Month. In the monthly weather bulletin on conditions in August, just issued, Sec tion Director Bauer gives some inter esting figures on the rainfall, espec ially at the time of the great flood, The report says: "The average precipitation was" 9.11 inches, which is 4.91 inches above the normal. The greatest local monthly amount was 19.52 jnches, at Greenville; the least was 3.16 inches, at Yemassee. The greatest 24-hour fall was 11.65 inches, at Anderson, on the 24th-25th. The average num ber of days with rain was 10, ranging from six days at Blairs and Jackson boro to 15 days at Effingham and Winthrop college. "Excessive Precipitation.-At An derson on the 24th-26th, 14.31 inches in 34 hours; at Blairs on the 24th 26th, 8.64 inches in 60 hours; at Cal houn Falls on the 23d-26th, 9.62 inches in 63 hours; ut Camden (1) on the 25th-26th, 9.05 inches in 23 hours;'at Catawba on the 23d-26th, 10.12 inches in 65 hours; at Cheraw on the 24th-26th, 6.54 inches in 62 hours; at Clemson College on the 25th, 2.81 inches in 24 hours; at Col umbia on the 19thj 3.15 inches in 9 hours; at Conway on the 26th, 2.S3 inches in 14 hours; at Dillon on the 19th, 3.69 inches in 24 hours ;at Greenville on the 23d-26th, 16.94 inches in 78 hours; at Greenwood on the 24th-26th, 7.06 inches in 60 hours; at Jacksonboro on the 20th, 4.00 inches in 24 hours; at Kingstree on the 27, 2.60 inches in about 14 hours; at Liberty on the 24tb-26th, 11.12 inches in 24 hours; at Little Mountain on the 19th, 3.21 inches, in 24 hours; at Mt. Holly, N. C., on the 23d-26th, 11.19 inches in 53 hours; at Pelzer on the 24th-26th, 5.14 in ches i:i 27 hours; at St. George on the 20th, 2.60 inches in 4 hours; at Saluda on the 6th 2.60 inches in 24 hours; at Santuc on the 23d-25tb, 10.83 inches in 58 hours; nt Spartan burg on the 24th-26th, 9.33 inches: in 72 hours; at Ferguson on the 26th, 2.59 ir ches in 24 hours; at Walter boro on the 19th, 2.51 inches in 16 hours; at Winnsboro on the 24th 25th, 7.85 inches in 48 bonis : at Win throp college on the 24th-25th, 7.10 inches in 48 hours. Beport on Tobacco. Columbia, Special.-Cop- issioner Watson has received a summary of the tobacco situation in this tSate, prepared specially for the depart ment hy Hartwell M. Ayer, as fol lows: "Amount produced in 1908, '24,000,-^ 000 to '25,000,000 pounds. ; . "Of~trfiSr75"pe"r cent is bo?ghTTjy ' the American Tobacco Company and the Imperial Company. The former's grades consist of cigarette and granu lators (for smoking) and wrappers for American trade. "The latter company's grades con sist of cigarette and plug tobaccos, which are all shipped to England. "We have a very small per cent of twist and plug tobaccos grown in cur State. We have about 20 per cent, of a crop of semi-bright strips that are shipped to European markets, mainly to England by indendent buy ers. The remainder, 5 per cent of the crop, .consists of scrap tobaccos that are manufactured b ythe Ameri can trade into smoking tobaccos. The I independents buy from ten to fifteen per cent, of the crop of wrappers foj American trade, principally shipped West. This is as near the informa tion as we can give it. as all tobacco are manufactured in Virginia and the West. What per cent of our grades and kinds goes into the different out puts we cannot give you." Edisto County is on the Way. Columbia, Special.-Governor An sel Saturday issued a proclamation for an election on the question of the formation of Edisto county to be held December 15. There has been consid erable contest over this matter, the aera o fthe proposed countv being formed out of portions of Lexington, Aiken and Orangeburg. Eilled by Fall From Tree. Monck's Corner, Spe^al.-Mr. Geo. Mims, a well known mechanic, met with an accident which resulted in his death a few hours later. He was at a baptizing at Canal Bridge and had climbed up a tree to get some berries for the children, when a limb broke and he fell a distance of 30 feet. Dr. W. K. Fishbourne was has tily summoned, who used all medical skill to revive him, but without avail. His death is very much regretted. Abe I?ill Shot to Death. Greenville, Special.-Abe Dill, a well known and highly respected far mer of Saluda township, this county, was shot and almost instantly killed Saturday by Posey Barton, according to a report received in this city. Bar ton is said to be at large. No cause has been assigned for the killing. No particular of the killing could be ob*;.'....^. Missionary to China Dies. Laurens, Special.-The Rev. S. Charlton Todd, who was on a visit here from China, where he had been engaged in missionary work for five years, died in this city last week at the home of his mother, Mrs. Junio Todd Clarke, after a three-weeks' at took of typhoid fever, He was 3S ys&n old and il survived by hil wife, who remained in China during he; huibaad's viiit boma. Th? funeral ?nd internent took place her?. I PUK SCHOOLS T BT PfiOF. WlLUAM H. HAND, J? Uuiyersity of South Carolina. v Paper Number Six. gl-X"X-I"X"X"X"I"I"X"X Ililli !?!? Change of Teachers.-The frequent change of teachers is a constant break and clog in the progress of the schools. It robs them of anything ilk? an unbroken course of work and fix edness of policy. Every new teacher, introduces some new feature into the work of the school-perhaps a good feature in itself, yet no better than what it displaces. It requires read justment to install anything new, and the time and friction are a loss, unless the change is decidedly for better. Generally- speaking, our best schools [ are those which haye, the fewest| chang?s in the teaching force". It re quires at least one full session for a teacher to become acquainted with his patrons. By becoming acquainted with patrons for more than mere so cial knowledge of them. I mean an appreciation of the tastes and their ideals and their ambitions, and ~ a knowledge of their peculiarities, if you please. Until he understands these he is not in a position to serve them and to lead them? and a teacher who can not lead is of but little force. Not until after a teacher has taught from four to six years in a commun ity is he prepared to give it his best I services. Yet how few teachers re-, main in one school three years. Some places change teachers every | year simply because they have acquir ed the habit of doing so. Like any other bad habit, this one grows upon people. The trustees and the patrons frequently realize that their school ie. far inferior to some other school, and rush to the conclusion that they need a change of teachers, when the truth is that they have already injured their school by too many changes. Have any of my readers ever seen a pupil, or an entire class set to work in the same place, in arithmetic for in stance, at the beginning of each of fliree successive sessions-eaeh time) by a new teacher? Is it probable that this would have been done by any one reasonable teacher teaching the school'the three sessions % This evil of change reigns-in the town and country schools alike. I have in mind one town in this State which had six principals in eight years. Change was the only remedy it know, and it believed in heroic doses. A great many rural schools rarely have the same teacher two years in suc cession. Many of these changes, in, both town and country schools, are due to the neighborhood jealousies and quarrels already discussed. Many a community has its chronic critics of the schools, who are dyspeptic by nature and sour by habit. 'A. teacher never satisfies them longer than one year. They know all about schools, and their own children are paragons of perfection. If any teacher finds! one of -thy^ crnldren 'anytHtng tint"'a { paragon, straightway there is trouble. To listen to these disgruntled fathers and mothers with their tales of woe requires patience and grace. In their eyes there is but one remedy-change teachers. Not two months ago I heard a man not fg'r from sixty years of age declare that he intended to "break up" the only school in his district, unless the trustees dis missed the present teacher . It had never occured to him that perhaps the trustees were in the right. Such a man is in a small way an abarhcist. In some instances fault finding and dissatisfaction are unwittingly < couraged by the board of trustees. The board, either ignorant of its' function or disposed to dodge an un pleasant duty, asks the patrons to elect the teacher. Such a course is an invitation to division and the dis appointment consequent to defeat, and will inevitably bring about dis cord. What is the board appointed for, if not to manage the school by lessoning the occasions for discord? A good many towns make lt a rule to employ only young inexperienced teachers, and at the end of each year drop those who have failed, keeping the more successful ones un til they have become really service able, then let them go because the trustees and the people are unwill ing to pay for good teaching at par value. Some places boast that their schools are the gatewy to the promo tion of their teachers. This may be a credit to the school, and a discredit to the people. It is not ereditable, if the people are simply letting effi cient teachers pass out from their schools in exchange for crude, inex perience, because the latter is cheap. A few town school boards are given to the indefensible habit" of advertising every year for applicants for position in the school, when the board does not intend to elect a single new teacher. The Iring who marched his army up the. hill, then marched it down again, did no more childish thing than these boards do. The thing is not only indefensible, but it is hurtful to the school, unjust to the teachers and dishonest to possible ap plicants. What meaning does such advertisement convey to every teach er in that school, no matter how ef ficient she may be? When the teach ers ask for its meaning, they are told that it is only a matter of form, and that they need not be concerned. Great big grown business men play ing like children! Then what about the innocent strangers who make bona fide applications in answer to what they suppose is a bona fide ad vertizement, only to bc informed that it is a mere form? What teacher with any regard for ethics would ap ply for one of these places, if he knew that no vacancy existed t and that the incumbent expected reelec tion ? Is the board playing a game in diplomacy? Does it intend to see if it can secure better teachers, but if not, re-elect the incumbent? Such game would be dishonorable. If a school board wishes to change teach ers for any legitimate reason, it has a perfect legal and moral right to do so. But the change should be made In a manly straightforward manner. Lot tho board frankly tell tbs teacher not to ask for r??oletftlo&, declare a vacancy, thon advertise for appli JHEhs-if that is the best way to S&hre teachers. Teachers themselves must bear ijjflr part of the responsibility for so t?anjr chang-?. There are some teach ?Who ought not to expect any MBPI to keep them longer than ono The ..captious (sometimes mis ef^?ed spirited,) the eccentric, the frivolous, the'giddy, and the ignorant ojt?-may expect to float about like driftwood. Then there ave some teachers who have an incurable mania fdr'; becoming birds of passage. I 01^'knew a teacher to resign her wt eic to go elsewhere on the ground tb'a? she had been in her present position thrqe years. Then there is th$t class of restless mortals who ha$e more ambition than ability. Tbfy apply every time they hear of a Vacancy, and if they hear of no vacancy, they ask when the next one is ip be. They tell you very frankly thai they are w.orth a great deal more tha? they are getting, and that they arejproatituting the profession when the^ work for so little. Once more, there is that foxy diplomat of a teamer who seeks a place in'March, accepts it in June, and holds it until about two weeks before the school is to ?pen, then telegraphs the board that) she has accepted elsewhere (at twohdollars a mcnth more salary.) SheHcalls this resigning; in law and common sense it is a violation of act. Such conduct under ordi nary circumstances is reprehensible, and^lwholly unworthy of au honest manaor woman. ROOSEVELT TOGO ABROAD Tho London Times Learns That the ieai Will Lecture at Oxford Receive a Degree After His can Trip - Will Also Visit Lcpon, By Cable-The Times is in that President Roosevelt will rift.' visit-England after his African trip ourly^du. 1910. He will deliver the Romanes lecture at Oxford, and, on the ocasi?n of the university com memoration, will receive the honorary degree of D. C. L., which Oxford already has bestowed upon Emperor William. According to The Times President Roosevelt also will visit Paris and deliver an address at the Sorboune. Neither the dates nor the subjects of the Itj?tures are yet known. The -Times further states that ac cording to the present plans Mrs. Roosevelt will join the President at Khartoum on the journey north ward: Alleged Lynchers Dismissed. W?sjhington, Special.-On motion of Solicitor General Hoyt the- SSC :v*^^~?i-:oLj&-^mie'tf-St?test ordered the discharge from custody of seventeen of theMwenty-seven de fendants in the proceeding charging Sheriff James F. Shipp, of Hamil ton county, Tennessee, and twenty six others with contempt of the Su preme Court because of thc lynch ing in 1905 of a negro named Ed Johnson after the court had taken cognizance of his case. Most of the dismissals were based on I he failure of the testimony to identify the de fendants with the crime. Following are the names of those who profit by the court's order: Paul Pi*I, I B. Taylor, William Beeler, John Jones, Marion Perkins, C. A. Baker, Claude Powell, Charles J. Powell, A. J. Cart wright, R. F. Cartwright, John Var nell, Joseph Clark. Fred Frauley, Paul or "Sheenie" Warner, Alfred Hammond, William Marquette and George Brown. In the case of Pool it was stated that he had disappeared from Chattanooga immediately after the lynching and had never since been heard of. The court also order ed the publication of the testimony in the case taken by Commissioner Maher. Status of Foreign Missions Shown in American Board's Meeting. New York. Special.-Reading of reports showing the work done at home and abroad during the year and the appointment of committees and nominations and business, took up the first dav of the ninety-ninth annual convention of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions ^in Brooklyn. Frank H. Wiggins, treasurer of the board, submitted a report showing the financial condition at the close of the fiscal year. The general mainte nance of missions, it appears from the report, involved an expenditure of $881,254, or $2,075 more than during the previous year. The income of the board during the same period was $837,999. Mr. Wig gins' figures showed that the indebt edness was $79,891. ? . Declines Call to Washington. Washington, Special.-Giving as a controlling reasons that his work in Boston, Mass., is unfinished. Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, of that city, has de clined the position of bishop of Wash ington to succeed the late Rt. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee. Dr. Mann's de clination was communicated in a let ter received from him. Another con vention will be called to fill the va cancy. Wed at 102; Died at 110. Seneca Falls, N. Y., Special.-Mrs. Charlotte Decker is dead here. She was 110 years old. Her father, God frey Reals, was a volunteer in the Colonial army and served until the colonies were free. She remembered the year 1813, when no grain could be raised and it was sold for $5 a bushel. In June 1900, Mrs. Brainard was married to Samuel Decker, her third husband, the other two being dead. He wm then G2 and Mrs. Decker 102. She had but one child, which died in Infancy, ??FI IN. THE SOUTH Republican Nominee Makes a Number of Speeches MEETS A CORDIAL RECEPTION Hon. Willian H. Taft Makes Pol?tica] Campaign in North Carolina and Virginia-Greeted by Enthusiastic Crowds at Statesville, Salisbury, Lexington, High Point and Reids ville, Ending Southern Tour at Richmond, Greensboro, N. C., Special.-Hon. William Howard Taft, Republican candidate for President, closed his tour of North Carolina here Satur day. He was cordially received at ?ll points where he s] oke and his speeches were attentively listened to by Republicans and Democrats. First Stop at Statesville. Mr. Taft was up bright and early Saturday morning. His first speech was made at Statesville at 7:30 o'clock. Several hundred people heard him there. Being presented by Mr. J. Elwood Cox, he said: "Laaies and Gentleman: I am glad to come into the State of North Car olina this beautiful October morn ing and to receive this cordial recep tion. Complaint is very often heard on the part of your people that North Carolina is not given her pert in the administration of the government. She is not. She has able men, but as long as you are going to vote for the Democratic ticket and the Republi can party is in power, I don't see how these'gentlemen who do the vot ing can expect to share in the power. In other words, let them vote as they think and then we will wipe out sec tional lines.. It is a great pleasure for me to come here because I think I am the first Republican candidate for President that ever came into North Carolina on a campaign for the presidency, and I am here for the purpose of testifying to the South my interest in that section, my earnest desire to unite it with the North, and my hope that the Republican party will be built up in North Carolina, so that it may well have its full repre sentation in theSexecutive councils of the nation. I thank you for your kindness in coming here and I ap preciate your Southern counrtesy." At Salisbury and Greensboro Mr. Taft said in part: "It is a great pleasure to come in to North Carolina. I have studied the statistics of North C&iolina and her marvelous growth with intense interest. I know a good many of your North Carolinians, and every time a man from North Carolina came into my offic .was S?cr?tai been there m fore '.be' pnV. pulled out a and what he! of the growt Carolina, so ? upon me. F| products in ? five years th?. ~ ?ym*? to $152,000.000. In'1905 "you had employed 36,000 persons in ;*our cot ton mills. Your cotton manufactures had increased from $9,000,000 in 1890 to $28,000,000 in 1900, to $47,000,000 in 1905; also that you are second in rank of manufacture of tobacco; you are third in thc rank of manufactur ers of lumber and timber products. You make in one of your cities in this State nearly as much as they make in Grand Rapids, Mich., in furniture. I am giving yon these figures merely to point out that unless we continue to have a protective tariff, most of . these industries will be destroyed and the wealth that you have accumu lated has been accumulated by reason of thc policy insisted upon by the Re publican party in respect to the tar iff. And yet how many electoral votes have you cast in North Carolina for the Republican party? Somebody ra2v have a better memory than 1 have, but I don't recall n single one. I ask you, my frieds, whether there is a"y reason under the existing cir cumstances why, if you believe i.i Republican policies, you ought no! to vote the Republican ticket? You have a Slate ticket and a congressional ticket that -is unexceptional. I am not going to speak about the national ticket because ? have a personal' re lation to it. But the national ticlc?t is a Republican ticket and pledged to carry out Republican policies I submit to those who have stood in I he Democratic party in North Caro lina that there is absolutely no rea son now why if they favor Republi can policies in the nation they should not vote as they think. Now it ls a great pleasure and honor to me to be the first Republican candidate for the presidency who has como to Ncitli Carolina in a campaign for that great office. I have come here because I deeply sympathize with the South. 1 am anxious that it should take its place at the council board of the na tion. I am anxious that you should exercise the influence through your able and great men, of whom you have many, in the sama way that Ohio and Indiana and New York and Massa chusetts do. But, my dear friends, if you are going simply from historic tradition to keep voting the Demo cratic ticket because you think that your fathers voted that way, then you are bound to stay on the outside and look in at others enjoying the power in the executive councils of the na tion. It is not possible otherwise. Human nature and party politics are such as to make that necessary, ?nd I appreciate the homogeniety of the Southern people. 1 know their fam ily tradition. I know their conser vatism, and their adherence to some thing just out of respect to their an cestors; but on the other hand they are enterprising, progressive, cour ageous people in everything but pol itics, and I think it is time that they began in politics to show the same en terprise that they do in manufactur ing furniture and in reaching out to develop the enormoui wealth of North Carolina, Georgia Rail iroacL A?G?STA, GA. Savings Department Pays '4 % interest on all accounts in this department, compounded every six months, January and July.. Capital and Surplus $550,000.00. GO TO SEE HAULING & BYRD Before insuring elsewhere, Wejrepresent the Best Old Line Companies. HARUM & ?YRD* At The Farmers Bank of Edgefield IVTalto Snmmer COOKING EASY GET A BLUE FIAME OIL STOVE,' We Guarantee then? to Please You* Jones & Son We also sell Fruit Jars, Extra Rubbers, Extra Tops and Jelly Tumblers. Call on us or Phone us. THE ?.HIC EM?iM?-^ rou want v an engine that nias like atop, smoothly and uninterrupt edly, li an englue balks er stops and yo u have to fool away your time to find out the aase, yon don't want that engine because it means a waste time and energy. -:- -:- -:? arc tiwi and so simple that when ou sta rt them t hey until you stop weather yo? ti?' watching or not Nefer qut of r?p??r; don'twast? f ad we wilt gladly points of the L H. C engine. -.- -.- ?*? -J Eo J. Norris? NEWSY GLEANINGS. Servla's war fever has abated. The British hound letter mail now beats all records. The Cretan Parliament voted union with Greece. Mme. Nord Alexis, wife of the President of Haiti, died in Port au Prince. The Montenegrin Assembly voted a credit of $3,?00,OOO to the Minis try of War. In London a noise crusade is being directed against the motor bus in the business district. Servians in New York held a meet ing and pledged their support to Servia in the^event of war. Instances of harrowing cruelty against children in Illinois were re ported by a State charity agent. An arbitration treaty with China was signed at the State Department by Secretary Root and Minister Wu. A popular movement to boycott Austrian, Bulgarian and German products has been started in Con stantinople. British and Dutch delegates from South African colonies met at Dur ban to draft a constitution uniting all the States. The Lackawanna Railroad is said to have issued an order prohibiting thc throwing of rice at newly weds traveling on its lines. Herman Ridder, of New York City, was appointed treasurer of the Dem ocratic National Committee to suc ceed Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma. A wonderfully intelligent ape from Java was received at the Bronx Zoo logical Park, New York City, pos sessing many characteristics of the long-sought "missiug link." M. A. Augustin Rey, of Paris, in an address declared that skyscrapers were a menace to New York and that public opinion would force a lowering in height. Says the St. Louis Republic: "The sovereign preventive of tuberculosis is wholesome living, with a sufficien cy of nutritious victuals and good breathing of good air. Among the most vulnerable points In which to attack it are unsanitary tenements, shops and factories. A deadly enemy of tuberculosis in crowded cities ls planty ci parks, playgrounds and breathing apacea," > PROMINENT PEOPLE. -Speaker J. G. Cannon has sold a 700-acre farm in Nebraska for $49, 000. Dr. J. Loudon, new Minister of the Netherlands, arrived at Wash ington. Count Hayashi in a Tokio inter view denied the Japanese are seek ing territorial expansion. President Roosevelt will present the bodies of animals shot in tho course cf his coming African hunt to * the National Museum in Washington. The Grand Duke Constantine is by far the most versatile of the Rus sian's Czar's relations. Not only ls he a playwright, but he is also an actor. . Ferdinand, Czar of Bulgaria, made his entry in Sofia and was warmly greeted by the people; no foreign representartives attended the cere monies. The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, In his sermon, declared that American hustle was blighting everything that deserved to be called substantial American progress. David Belas:o is the hardest worker of all of the American play wrights. It is not an unusual occur rence for him to rehearse a company for ten to twelve hours. Admiral Dewey, looking the pic ture of health and showing a decided increase in weight,, paid his respects to the President after a vacation spent in the Allegheny Mountains. John D. Rockefeller never signs any personal checks. Everything goes through the regular channel, and is made out by some; of the Standard Oil people a*. 26 Broad way. Captain S. L. H. Slocum, the American militr-.ry attache at St. Petersburg, has 1 "t St. Petersburg on leave of absence He will visit Germany and then i.avel in South eastern,Europe. IN ACTUAL UFE. "Things don't 'happen in life like they do in books. Once a big fire broke out In our town, an' durin' that Jil conflagration, where do you s'poso I ; > was?" "In the thick of the rescuers, of course." "No, ?Ir, I was vlsltin' my broth? cr-ln-law in Dubuque Ioway.M-Kout* ton Chronicle,