Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/_ ! AND On Factory Prices Easy Payment^ IV $5. monthly ridlIU? $10. monthly Organs ?2. monf?/yfl to ?5. monf/i/y| 30 days free trial in your] own home. Sheet Music 4cts a copy. Send for Catalog. MUSIC HOUSE. Augusta, - - Ga. Ufr H"H' W"WHfHWW The Planter's Loan and Savsft?s Bank INSURANCE 1 now represent a strong line of Fire Insurance Coinpanies and can insure your property. Your patronage will be appreciated. H. A. SMITH. GROCERIES. Full supply of Fancy and Staple Groceries always xl on hand. {Let me supply your table, Ice cold soft drinks al ways on hand. Fu supply of Bagging [ard Ties on hand for the {farmers. Your patronage solicited.! J. M. OUZTS. TIM MOflS & CORLEY, SURGEON DENTISTS, Appointments at Trenton on Wednesdays. Crown and Bridge Work a Special ?-:-1 Waiter ?. RfliUer, Ben taE Surgeon, 731 Green St., Augusta, Ga. Thone 87. News of Enterest Gleaned Froi Arranged fer TEE GAME LAWS NOW IN FOECE. Interesting Summary Prepared by Secretary Jas. E. Eice, Jr. f From Thc Columbia State. The Audubon Society is in receipt of requests daily for copies of tV game laws. These cannot be supplied since the issue has been exhausted, giving conclusive evidence of thc in terest felt in the subject all over South Carolina. The society has re quested tin t extra copies be returned. Requests have come also from other States. To make the principal points clear the following is a summary of the more important laws as prepared by Secretary Jas. Henry Rice. Jr. Gamo Birds. The statute of 1905, passed two years before the Audubon society was chartered, defines what are game hirds and what are not. Thc game birds are: Swans, wild geese, brant, wild ducks, rails (marsh hens), coots, galliuules, surf birds, snipe, wood cock, quail, (partridge), rice bird, black biitl, (love, sand-pipers, upland plover, curlew, wild turkey and pa in ro chicken. lt is not known to the society why prairie ?pinnated grouse) hens were put on this list, nor why Mongolian, or ring-necked pher-sants and ruffed grouse were left o?r. There are no prairie chickens in South Carolina; whereas there are both Mongolian pheasants and ruffed grouse, but such is the law. The above birds may bc shot in the seasons permitted by law, or taken in those seasons by any method which the law allows. Nongame Birds. All birds not on this list are non game birds within thc meaning of the law, and may not be killed at any time; nor may their nests or eggs be destroyed. It is a misdemeanor to have in possession any part of a non cranie bird, such as feathers, body or skin: and it is equally against the law whether such bird was killed within or without the State. The State Owns the Birds. In the preamble to this act it is stated: "That all wild birds, whether resilient or migratory, in this State, | shall be. and arc hereby, declared to be the property of the State." That is the law of South Carolina. Birds That Arc Exempted. The act further recites that the English sparrow, cooper's hawk (the chicken or hen hawk), the sharp shinned hawk (known locally as thc "Blue Darter"), the great horned owl and all other birds which are by nature destructive of other birds, are not included among the birds pro tected by this act. nor are the nests or eggs of these birds protected. A person is allowed to kill crows on his premises if they are destroy ing crops, but he is not allowed to sell Hiern or their feathers. No non-game bird may be shipped out of the State nor may the eggs or fpnti-ovs of such uiwl-H^ -?'***-1 otras ror other than scientific pur poses his certilicate will he at once cancelled and not renewed. Besides he will be liable to a fine of $100 or 300 davs' imprisonment. It will be seen that no woman has thc right to wear the feather of a ijon-iiame bird on her hat: it is an indictable offense under the laws ^f South Carolina, and it mieht be add ed that it is an indictable offense Gaffney's Flower Show. Gaffney, Special.-The annual flow er show was held Saturday evening at the residence of Mrs. H. D. Wheat and was largely attended. The event was given under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of Limestone Presbyterian church. The receipts of the evening were some $70 and the ladies are well pleased with the re sult. Complete Mail Delivery for Fairfield. Orders from Washington have been issued directing the establishment of complete county system of rural ser vice in Fairfield County, effective No vember 1, 1908. This service con sists of fourteen routes as follows: Blair's, 1; Blythewood. 1 and 2; Ridgeway, 1, 2 and 3; Rockton. 1; Shelton, 1; Strother, 1; Wallacevilic. 1; Winnsboro, 1, 2, and 3; Wood ward, 1. Routes No. 1. from Rock ton, and No. 3 from Winnsboro, are new. having been established August 1, 190S. Merchants Lose Goods by Fire. Spa rt an bu rg. Special.-Fire de stroyed the stores and stock of goods of J. H. Griffin and J. H. Stone in the Spantan Mill village. The total loss is estimated at $15,000, parti ally covered by insurance. The build ing occupied by Griffin & Son was owned by O. L. Johnson and not in sured, he having dropped his policy because he thought the rate too high. The fire originating in Stone's stoic. The origin of the fire is unknown. Millinery Concern Fined. Columbia, Special.-James Henry Rice, Jr., secretary of the Audubon Society of South Carolina, obtained, through Magistrate James II. Fowles, warrants against two Columbia dry goods and millinery concerns, charg ing violation of the laws for thc pro tection of non-game hirds. The war rants name the James L. Tapp Com pany and Mr. W. H. Monckton, Jr.. manager of the Globe Dry Goods Com pany. The defendants pleaded guilty and wore tined $2 each. Wi NEWS BTE ?vas m All Sections of the State and Busy Ke2?et-s tinder thc laws of almost every civi lized country in the world. There sire 100,000,000 ' birds used up in the plume trade of Europe every year, these birds being imported from Asia, Africa and Polynesia. Many species have become extinct through this savage slaughter. ' The Open Season for Game. According to the act of 1906 the season for shooting partridges, wild? turkey, woodcock. Mongolian or other plcasants is made from November 15 to March 1, with the exception of the following counties. Beaufort, Hampton. Dorchester, Colleton, Charleston, Barnwell, Berk ley, Aiken. Oconee. Fairfield, Saluda, Georgetown and Clarendon. These counties have from Novem ber 1 to April 1. Lexington was formerly among the excepted coun ties, but has Deon taken off and thc season there is from November 15 to March 1. The deer season is from September 1 to January 1. but thc law applies only to Georgetown county. Thc rest arc from August 1 lo February 1. Game Birds Not to be Sold. The act ol' 1006 makes it a misde meanor to sell, or oller or expose for sale, lo po!haul, net, or trap, or by firelight fo pursue with intent to catch, kill or injur cany of the game birds named in that section. The handling, possession cr ownership of these birds is prima facie evidence that thev are being offered for sale. The Law of thc Land. These are the laws af the State of South Carolina, made by the lawful representatives of the people and are binding on every citizen whether he 1 h inks thev arc wisc or unwise. The first consideration is that thev are the law:; of the land. Any person has the constitutional right to make representation io the leinslafure to have any law changed, hid while it is on the books he is bound to obey it. _ 3ig Verdict at Greenville. Greenville, Special.-In the Fed eral Court here a verdict for two hundred and sixty-three thousand, four hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-three cents was returned for the Southern Power Company, of Charlotte, in the suit against the Catawba Power Company, of Rock Hill, S. C. The suit was'for the col lection ol' some promissory notes. The verdict was agreed upon by the attorneys for the two companies. Fire in Darlington Causes .815,000 Lose. Darlington. Special.-Fire on Wed nesday morning destroyed a large tobacco warehouse on east Broad street. This building had been used for storing cotton and there were 204 bales of cotton in it at the time of Hie fire, all of which was destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is about $15.000. which is protected by insurance. One of the Atlantic Coast 1 :nc nassencrer - . , .... I ICU i . lill operated bv J. P. Sale & Co. The fire vas discovered in the mirving machinen', md in a slior! time was beyond control. About 200 negro em ployes were at work in the building, and so rapidly did the fire gain head way that spveral came near losing then* lives in getting ont. In the build) M sr were nbo'il .100.000 pounds of Paf tehn^po. Tl c loss is estimat ed at $400.000 mostly covered by in surance. Timor. County Votes Prohihitio:i. Union, Special.-Union . county again voted for prohibition by about three hundred majority out of fifteen hundred votes cast. During thc past three vears of prohibition the ar rests for drunkenness have decreased 50 per cent and property valuations in the county are said to have in creased fwo million dollars. Spartanbur* Lawyers in Personal En counter. Spartanbnrg, Special. - Ex-Gov. John Gary Evans and his former law partner, S. G. Finley, engaged in a personal encounter here in the law of fice of Nichols & Nichols. Several blows were exchanged but they were separated before either was injured. Messrs. Evans and Finley were asso ciated in the practice of law at the Spartanburg bar for several years. A few months -ago they dissolved the partnership and there was a disag reement as to a settlement. Saluda Bank Prosperous. Saluda, Special.-At the recent an nual meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Saluda the reports of thc president and cashier showed the bank had had a prosperous and successful year. It was evident from the presi dent's report that a very conservative policy had been pursued and this was especially endorsed by the stockhold ers. The rctrular dividend of 0 per cent, was paid and the sum of $2.000 carried to tho surplus account. Vance Milam Fired Upon. Clinlon. Special.-Vance Milam. son of Mr. Marshall. Milam, a mer chant of Clinton, was fired upon five limes with a Winchester rifle in the hands of a man named Salli ?an, an employe of the Lydia cotton mill. There was some misunderstanding be tween Hiern in a business transaction on Wednesday. Milam won! lo Ly dia mill again mi Thursday. The trouble airain came up. Several shots went through his overcoat, which he carried on his arm. One shol cut thc skin ou his hip. POOR ATTENDANCES-Even with insufficient funds, poor -school houses, short school lei ms, and incompetent teachers, the people mjay still show a commendable educational purpose by sending every child to school ev ery day the schools are in session. Much good may be got out of a very inferior school, if the children at tend it regularly and with thc pur posec of gtting thc most possible out ol' it. How arc the white children of South Carolina attending the schools'?, In 1907 the white enrollment in the public schools of the State was 144, ??'S, while the average attendance was only 103,304. The*-federal cen sus taken seven years ijefore (1000) gives South Carolina 217,972 white children between the ages of 5 and 20 years, while our legal school age. is between (5 and 21 years. It is safe to assert that bareryv?te$v_ per cent of the while children of ihe State are enrolled in any kind cf school, and not over forty per c?iit are in aveiage attendance. In 1900, thirty six per cent of the white?children between the ages of 10 and 14 years were not enrolled in any school, pub lie or private. In the same .year Massachusetts had only six per cent of her white children of the corrc ponding ages out of school. Connecti cut had seven per cent and Michigan eight per cent. In 1900 South Carolina had 54.177 native white ill itera tesfover 10 years of age. only 792 fewer white illiter ates than the State haj in 1S70. thir ty years previous. Atrofi same diite Connecticut, with neatly twice thc white population of South Carolina, had but 1.958 white illiterates over 10 years of ace. Aeran, South Car olina had 15,043 nativ* white illiter ates of the voting ages j Rhode Island, with four-fiths the population of South Carolina, had ust 550. TVc had 17.S30 native wjite illiterates between the aces of 1| and 19 years; Michigan, with twice our population had 1.1-11: Connecticut had 1G0, and Rh otic Island 100. J it reasonable *o hope tor the Souh Carolina of tomorrow, with her liad of helpless illili raies, to cope sueessfnlly with thew States and sectins which have free! themselves fron t*?'e bondage nf ignorance? The lay is forever gone from South C?olina when a few highly trained vin of leisure could direct and con toi tho destinies of the people. Tbj responsibility has been shifted to he shoulders of the masses, and now ve are forced to consider thc trainin: of the masses. Only yesterday Hoi O. P>. Martin .crave this out: "Seeral educational leaders in New Engirid frankly told us that rbev arc spading their mon ey and building up their schools in order to retain and laintain their in dustrial supremacy.; They realized that wc have adviltages and great resources in the Soth, but they pro pose to keep th" ead, if possible. .. .i. ? v.. . -? * o mt un namers f parents them selves ignorant and nable to appre ciate or lo understad what educa- 1 Hon means to their-hildren and to the State; some arc he children of ] fathers and mothers, [reedy and sd- ; fish who are more tan will i nc to > make wage-earners an> bread-winners j out of their,young untnght offspring; a few are thc childrenof paient s op- y posed to education, beause they have I known some educated \scouncreI ; a * very few ?ne thc childEn of )arcrits ' who actually need thc abor o' their I children to eke out a j living and y many are the children if f?thes en grossed in material affai-s and anth ers recreant to duty. Siany of lhcsc children are at work on thc farrs, in stores and shops at a fev cents ajay. ' and in thc cotton mills making ood i wages for children, wir Ie. huncbds s of others arc roaming tm streets nd E country lanes-the training grouds * for idlers, vagrants and| enemies ip r law, order and decency j Two of the worst enemies to chil. c hood and youth are overwork a:. 1 idleness. Close confinement at mar. t ual labor is dulling, stifling, and (Tesl t tractive to childhood; idleness iii poisonous and ruinous to youth. At-t tendance upon school may Jae used as v FI corrective for both evils. The ; State, in order to protect at least one class of children ac?inst over work, has passed a chilcUabor law. Barring some notable exceptions, thc abortiveness of that law is a common jest. To il?strate: In 1905. one of our citv school superintendents los! more than twenty pupils from or." school room within two months. In company with one of the cotton mill superintendents of that, town (a man in favor of schools), the school sup erintendent went from house to house in the mill village enquiring for thesr missing children. In one afternoon he located twelve of them, every on' of them unlawfully engaged at work in the mill, though onlv three of their names appeared on the pay roll. Now, the child of,the lazy, greedy, selfish parent is at work, and not in school. The child of the ignorant and indifferent, parent is neither at work nor in school: he is idling. Both children need to be educated; the State needs both of them; and the State has already decreed that the taxpayers shall estnbl?eh and main tain schools for both. There remains but ono logical thine to do-compel (he parents of both <o s^nd lhe:? .-hildren lo school. There is but lir jlo lo'ne in eomnell'irr people to pny laxes to Rupporl the sehrrK then rt"'' mil tins: thc parents of clrldn ?1 who most need th" - ,t; <H:V r'.r]-- (,, ];;><? l]]nrr> f- - ho?',',?' ||T <.< pools. The r?Wer ''.? Hie moro is the nevi crv eompellin? his parents to send him to school. Compulsory attendance- laws are aim ed at thc selfish and indifferent par ent, not at Hie child. Of what :ut vantage are good teachers, long school terms, and fine srdiool houses unless the children attend thc schools ? In a recent election to increase the local school tax in a district in North Carolina, where they have recently enacted a kind of local option com pulsory law, a certain taxpayer made this declaration: "If you vote to compel the children of this district to go to school, increase ray tax as you please: if you are not gjinc; to put the chihircn into the schools I am opposed to any further tax." That man's argument has no answer. Some opponent to a compulsory law says, "You have not enough school houses and teachers to take care of the thousands of children not in school." That argument is worth less .unless we arc williup; to admit that thc white people of the State arc actually unable to take care of their children. Let some outside philan thropist offer to aid South Carolina in matters educational, then yon get an answer to that question. Will the school hoiK.es ever be built or the teachers employed until there is a need for them? Would it be wise for a farmer, to let a $000 crop waste in the fields, rather than build a ?100 house in which io store it? Thc last argument of the oppun* ents to compulsory attendance it that it cannot be enforced without truant officers, and that truant of ficers must he paid. Certainly. Thc present child labor law if this Slate is a dead letter, because no provis ion is made for its enforcement. And the police of Charleston. Columbia, and other places have to bc paid, but it pays to pay them. Wc are perfectly willing to pay an officer of the law to arrest little negro boys in a 10-eent crap same, but it is too much to pay an officer of the law to see that a lazy, selfish father sends his child to school. We are paying to day in actual money every year five times as much in tribute to thc in dustrial supremacy of New England and other sections, as it would ?cost us to put every white child in the State in school for six months in tho year. What economists we are. And what philosophers we try to be. WILLIAM II. HAND. University of South Carolina, PROMINENT PEOPLE, TMV.C-1 Ludlow, of New York Ci?T, ?ecl~v.-'i spnerical balloon racing un prn?uabl?. Th?. '"Juke o? the Abruzzi. who is to wed Katherine Elkins, sailed from Kavra for America. Hr. Yuan Shill Kai appealed for a I "square deal" for China in discuss ing an American-Chinese alliance. Captain Pritchard, of the Maure tania, will succeed Watt, of the Lusi tania, ts commodore of the Cunard fleet. The will of Bishop Potter, whfeh divided his estate among his five children. Avas filed for probate in New York City. President Castro of Venezuela threatened that, in the event of a revolution, these captured would be shot as traitors. President Eliot, of Harvard, spoke f)f ; . fl ?tv o tl ?Vir? T?-.-lf battleship Idaho, vice Captain S. W. E. Diehl, relieved ou account of ill ?ealth. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, the nov elist's fourth son. lectures occasion illy on his farber's life in Australia, which is now bis home. D'Orsay and fennyson were his godfathers when ?.e was christened. Vladimar Poulsen, the Danish in ventor, who is only thirty-eight years dd, is the son of a Judge iu the High Criminal Court of Copenhagen. He las succeeded in making wireless tel iphone connection between Lingbv md Weisensee, a distance of 2 ?30 niles. A RABY CONTEST. Some mothers and nurses carry the iny baby, when taking it for an out ng, In a quaint willow basket that uggests the papoose sling, only in ;tead of having the infant strapped o the mother it lies flat in a downy test. The basket is quite small, not nore than twenty-four Inches Jn ength. and just wide enough to ac lommodate the baby wrapped up in 1er outdoor ? apparel. The shape of he basket is the same as that of ne tiny wjllow cribs so much in use. ^here is this difference, however, he carrying or portable crib is pro dded with a long handle which can ie swung over the arm. For a veranda airing an arrange ant cf this kind will be found usc il, for the baby can be moved from ie spot to another without having V position interfered with and she ti be carried up or down stairs ^lc still enjoying her slumber. 'he inside of the basket may be Hy with silk and lace, though a se rate soft comfortable, which can beared and changed as often as Uki ]s better. Two or three soft daiiiy covered pillows will make the vi like a fairy couch, and baby can ijoy many happy hours in this little i now nest-New York Press. A OUBTFUL COMPLIMENT. "Th'professor says my bathing suit leather exiguous." "Is tt a compliment?" "I dc* know. I'm going after the dictions now."-Kansas City Jour nal. hK^l..H*M?M">I''I 'I' H-H THE MONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, WGQSTA. L. C. H/NE, CHAS. R. CLARK, P?ident. Cashier CA?AL $250,000.00. Surpluft Profits $190,000.00. Tho busln'of oar out-of-town friends receives thc ae careful attention as taut of nur local Oigjtor.?. The nccounts of careful cnnsetlve people solicited. i f Savings Pays 4 % interest on all ? compounded every six n Capital and Sur 7 [J GOl HAELTN Before insuring elsewhe Old Line Companies. Lt The Farmers THE tm You want an engine that runs like atop.smoothly and uninterrupt edly. If an engine balks or stops and. you have to fool away your time to find out the cause, you don't want that engine because it meass a waste of time and energy. -:- -:- -:- - IE o tile f r ( sortments of cool Jones I I' ,,.?t ?... -at r ^v yr*? irr t tfsedbjrtte' > , successful sh ,. ./>}$. S. BYRD. SURGEON DENTIST, EDGEFIELD, S. C. gJ3?"Ofllce over Poat-Offlce. Jamos A. Dobev, DENTAL SURGEON, Johnston, S. C. Office over News-Seniler CfHcc. >rgia 3.cL Izarais: 5TA, GA. Department iccounts in this department, ?onths, January and July. plus $550,000.00. "0 SEE G & BYRD ire, Wejrepresent the Best & BYRD> Bank of Edgefleld C. ENGINE I. H. C. engines are so prac tical and so simple that when you start them they run until you stop them whether you arc watching or not. Never put of repsir; don't waste fuel. Call on us and we will gladly explain toe good points of the I. H. C. engine. -:- -:- -:- -:- -: dng utensils, etc. k Soo INSURANCE When placing your Insure ance give me a call. I rep resent a very strong line of FIRE: - - - Insurance Companies, Agent for the largest I^II^E) - - . Insurance Co. I will ap preciate a share of yourbusi ness. 1 can be found at my office---Office No. ?---over Bank of] fidgeneld. James T. MIMis Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gie Mills, Engines, Boilers, Supplies and repairs, Porta qle , Steam and Gasoline En gines, Saw Teeth, Files, Belts and Pipes. WOOD SAWS and SPLITTERS. Gins and Press Repairs. Try LOMBARD, AUGUSTA, GA. V. A. HEMSTREET &BR0. Guns? Pistols, Knives? CARTRIDGES, first Class Repairing. 655 Broad Street, Augusta. Ga Near Georgia Railroad Bank.