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BAD WRECK NKAR CHESTER. Instant I ?ea th for Two, Injuries for Fifty-Eight-Anotlier Succiimbe. - $ Chester, July 30.-Two persons were killed and 58 injured WP?" ?t , west-bound Lancaster and Ch' titer > train was wrecked this afternoon 5 o'clock at Hooper's Creek, seven miles from Chester, between the sta tions of Orr and Knox. Th? Demi: V. H. Craft, Anderson, traveling salesman. Elijah Heath, Bascomvllle, negro brakeman. Til? Injured: C. Li. Dunlap, Fort Lawn, eye bruised nd band cut. L. W. McDaniel, Orr, head badly cut and Internal injuries. Louis Samuels, Chester, traveling salesman, head and face badly cut. John Taylor, Rich'burg, internal injuries. C. M. Sibley, Kichburg. internal injuries. F. M. Simpson, ltichburg, ear and chest badly cut. J. W. Dye, Hascomville, hip badly cut. S. J. Ruo?, Knox, bad cut on head. W. A. Cureton, Fort Lawn, both legs broken and anns badly cut. Misses Maggie and Carrie Sadler, Kock Hill, badly bruised. Kev. S. R. Hope, Mullins, contu sions of tho body. David Ray, Shelby. X. C.. back wrenched. ,7. P. Yandie, Chester, back bruis ed and hoad severely cut. O. W. Brady, Exum, X. c.. arin, -knee, leg and head cut. J. M. Jones, Chester, may have lost eye. severe cuts and bruises. Miss Martita Marion, Kichburg, se rious injury to ankle. Mrs. J. O. Harber, Rlclvburg. con tusions of the body and cuts. J. H. Hale. Atlanta. Ga., skull fractured. B. D. Phillips, Ninety-Six, Jaw broken and internal injuries. T. J. Kelley, Kernersvllle, N. C., slight injuries. D. A. Cauthen, Kichburg, skull fractured. James Goodwyn, Kichburg, skull crushed. E. W. Gibson, Rossville, knee in jured. C. H. Dunlap, Fort Lawn, back wrenched. W. T. Gladden, Fort Lawn, severe cuts. i Oscar Cook1, Lancaster, traveling salesman, hip and arm badly hurt. C. H. Turner, Fort Lawn, head and back cut. Carl Turner, Fort Lawn, Internal j TI Ju rles. Clifton Ferguson, Fort. Lawn, se vere cuts on face and arms. Roy Clifton, Fort Lawn, head cut. Mrs. C. O. Williams and children, Beatrice, Betty, Oscar, Mildred and inl.'< it. Corpus Christi, Texas, seri ously injured. A. B. Oxford, Edgemont. X. C.. mail clerk, leg injured. K. W. Phillips. Chester, baggage master, ankle injured. Anna Youn, Orr, contusions of the body. Bose Mobley, Kichburg, internal injuries. V. H. Craft, of Anderson, a travel ing salesman. died while being brought to a hospital at Chester. Eli jah Heath, a negro member of the train crew, was in the baggage car when the train was wrecked. He was instantly killed. Of the hair hundred injured a number are be lieved to havo suffered fatal hurts and six or more of the number may -file. The train was a mixed freight and passenger and was filled with persons who expected to witness the base ball game between Chester and Dillon here this afternoon. The engine, tender and elx freight cars passed over the bridge at /loop er's Creek in safety. A coal car seems to have left the track and cut the bridge. When the passenger coaches and two freight cars reached the trestle the passenger coaches went through the bridge, dropping .'.O feet to the stream below. Wanted by his air brakes that something vas wrong, John Stew man, engineer, looked back and saw part of his train piled up In the stream. He hu. ried to a nearby bouse and communicated news of the wreck by telephone to A. P. McLure, superintendent, at Lancas ter Mr. Mci.ure ordered him to bring what was left of his train to Chester and return with all thc physicians ho could secure. This or der was obeyed and soon practically every physician and nurse in Ches ter was on the scene. They found scores pinned under the wreckage with screams of pain and fear fin.ng the air. The work of rescue was begun at once. A bridge was built frotn tho wreckage and by climbing from car tu car the njured were rapidly re moved. Many remarkable feats were per formed in the work of rescue. Many instances of self-sacrifice were dis played as the physicians began to ex amine the injured, many urging that , those more soriously injured be cared for first. Mrs. C. O. Williams and five chil dren, of Corpus Christi, Texas, had been visiting relatives near Lancas .?r and were on the train. All were i'.Jured. Fears are entertained for the life of the mother. She risked her own life to save that of her youngest child. B. P. Roberts, a traveling sales man, of Macon, Ga., did wonderful work In rescuing the Injured and brought five persons from the wreck age. The train from the wreck reached Chester at 9.30 o'clock and the In jured were at once taken to a hos pital. An extra force is on duty at tile hospital to-night and the Ches ter physicians are receiving valuable assistance from physicians of neigh boring towns. One More Die1.. Chester, July 31.-Tie coroner's Jury this morning investigated tho wreck on the Chester and Lancaster road which killed two people and in jured ">8 others Into yesterday, and adjourned until Monday While no statement was issued by them lt is expected that there will be sen- I .-witional developments before all the ' evidence is heard, lt. is stated that Col. LeRoy Springs, of Lancaster, is the principal owner of tho road. Tho death roll was increased by i one this afternoon, when Roy Clif ton, I", years old. of Pori Lawn, died from injuries. WILSON' GETS READY FOR WA lt. Every Shift Made With Eye to rossi Milty of Extreme steps. Washington. July 3 1.-The ad ministration Is taking steps to be prepared for the worst In connection with the Mexican situation. Every shift of the military resources of the government is made with an eve to the possibility of going to extreme length in Mexico. An insignificant illustration of this is to be fonjid in a letter received to day by Senator Weeks, of Massachu setts, from Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt. Weeks had put In a request that a couple of battleships be detailed for show duty at Boston during the meeting there of the American Hankers' Association. When his rep'y came from Mr. Roosevelt it w^. quite in line with tYirx ,r;enernJ policy of preparedness of the administration. "Tho depart ment will be delighted to send the battleships," said the letter, "pro vided they are not needed at that time for use In Mexican waters." Ii is tine ihat the administration has not yet formulated a policy in regard to Mexico, and will not until it feels Itself more fully Informed. But at the same time it does not pro pose to be caught unprepared In case an emergency requires prompt atten tion by force of arms. The possibility that only war will quiet Mexico is not lost sight of, and if that should bo forced upon the ad ministration it proposes to bo ready to act with vigor and effectiveness. | Another Cruiser to- Mexican Waters. Tho cruiser South Dakota has ar rived at California City on her way to Guaymas to relieve the cruiser Pittsburg. When the Pittsburg re turns to San Francisco she will bring any refugees who wish to leave Guaymas. Will Not Recognize Huerta. President Wilson made it clear to those who discussed the Mexican sit uation with him to-day that he had not been swayed In the least degree by arguments of Ambassador Henry L. Wilson in favor of r?cognition for the ?Huerta government in Mexico. Ile let it be known that his analysis of conditions from official and unof ficial reports and his Judgment of what should be done had not been altered by the ambassador's state ments. The President ls formulating a policy which, he told his callers to day, involves nothing that ls not en tirely friendly to Mexico. He has not yet announced what his program will he. but he is emphatically and unalterably opposed to the recogni tion, under any circumstances, of the government set up by Provisional President Huerta through the events in which President Madero and Vice President Suarez met. tragic deaths. state of ?Milo, City of Toledo, I jucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of P. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in tho city of Toledo, county and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay tho sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by tho uso of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before mo and subscrib ed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. (Seal.) A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. "Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Mall's Family Pills for con stipation. adv. MR. SWEARTNC GRATUI Points Out Where Improi in Educational Matters Been Marked? but O Below the State's A\ Expenditures 1 Tho following letter from State Superintendent of Education J. E. Swearingen with reference to Oconee schools 1B self-explanatory: Columbia, S. C., July 30, 1913. Supt. W. C. Hughs, Walhalla. S. C.-Dear Slr: The checking over of your annual report for the scho astic year ending June 30th, 101?, in duces me to make a few comments and suggestions regarding school af fairs In Oconee. In the first place, 1 thank vou most cordially for your diligence ami promptness in preparing and for warding the report on time. Your co-operation in this matter enables this office to handle its statistical work with much greater ease and convenience. I thank you also for your usual neatness and accuracy in furnishing all available information required by law. The sifting of these facts from the annual reports of teachers, and sometimes from the pay warrants of a few who neglect to file their annual reports, ls a cl i f Ii - cult task, but your interest in the educational problems of the county, and your acquaintance with school conditions, have enabled you to fur nish as full and as clear a report as I expected to secure. Our work for the schools began in January, 1909. Your report for the scholastic year ending June 30th. 1909, presents sumo interesting points of comparison with the facts for 1913: Four years ago school receipts in Oconee amounted to $41,840.22; this year they amounted to $54.444.20. This means : net gain of $12,60'?.04, or 30 per cent during your adminis tration. Since the proceed 3-mill tax have been aijfii M tionary, this increase is duo ?ely the growth In local taxatio ' b taxes In 19 09 yielded i while in 1913 the levies foi ii. ??< purposes raised $15,362.62 md I levies for bonds $3,423.69. In local taxation, therefor? than 100 per cent during he past four years. In 1909 the county con ted ?7 school districts, and 27 of a local tax. In 1913 the districts, of which 43 hav d : local levy. This com pa ri?, i that four districts have be tinned or consolidated, while 16 districts have shown a determination to improve their schools with the en dorsement of the resident tax-pay ers. During the last twelve months eight districts have either voted a tax or increased an existing levy. If this development continues it should not be many years before Oconee can boast a school tax in every dis trict. Darlington and Dorchester have already set t li is standard, and I hope soon to see some strong Pied mont county with a large whit?! pop ulation follow their example. Westminster now collects a 7-mlll school tax for current expenses and one mill for bonds. Walhalla has 6 mills for running expense., and 3% mills for bonds. Seneca bas 3 mills for current expenses and 2 mills for bonds. Townville and Oak way have each voted 6 mills for school pur poses. The trustees of every dis trict should consider the advisabil ity of securing the State aid availa ble only for special tax districts. A good school is desirable in every community, but it is not wise for the State to try to build up the educa tional interests of a district unless the resident tax-payers and patrons aro also interested in school improve ment. You have always made the greatest possible use cf the term ex tension act and the rural graded school act. Tho benefits of this pol icy are clearly shown by your report, and I sincerely trust that, every hoard of trustees in Oconee will continue to take advantage of these two con structive measures in the future. If the 30 districts now without a local tax would follow the example of their neighbors they would soon secure a more efficient school, running for a longer term. The 1913 report shows 8 white town and G5 white country schools, enrolling 5,292 pupils, taught by 116 teachers. This means an average of one white school In every district. The figures show only two white schools with an enrollment of less than 12 pupils, and only 8 such schools where the average attend ance was below 12 last year. Im provement of these conditions can result only from the consolidation Of districts, which has already begun In the county. In any community where 12 boys and girls can be kept regu lary in school lt is almost necessary to provide educational facilities, but ?EN CON TATES OCONEE cements Have Been Made -Oconee's Progress Has ur Standard Still Far rerage in Per Capita For Education. If a weak fchool of this kind can combino with its nearest neighbor much greater progress can be made in educating the children. The districts in ?the county now maintaining rural graded schools with iv.'o or three teachers are dem onstrating the advantages of local taxation, State aid, and a longer term. There are a score of communi ties in Oconee where the required number of pupils for a rural graded school can be enrolled. The trustees and patrons of such districts are sleeping on their op|>ortunities by refusing to take advantage of State aid in educating their children. I note with regret the inadequate term of the rural schools. The re port shows 35 schools with a term of less than 100 days. In one com munity the term was 10 days; in two others, it was 20 days, and in ll others it was less than GO days. Every country school should run at least six months, and the Legisla ture ' as provided the moans to ac- '? complish this end in every school district where the tax-payers will co-operate. It would be better if every child could attend school at least 140 days each year; but iv is ^impossible to educate pupils who spend less than 100 days in the class room and 205 days elsewhere. These I conditions do not apply to the towns I and villages of Oconee, because they j are found in purely agricultural dis tricts, having only a white farm pop ualtion. 1 am especially interested in this problem because Oconee re ports a heavier white enrollment than is shown in 37 counties, and is surpassed in this respect only by Spartanburg, Greenville, Anderson, Richland, York and Orangeburg. ;-3very white child in several coun ties may attend school 1G0 days dur- j mg the year. Is lt right or wise for ] :he parents and tax-payers of Oco iee to give their children as little as I 100 days? Yet more than half of | ;he country schools were run on thia ^asis during 1912-13. Four years ago the white enroll ment was 4,962; in 1911-12, lt was 5,031, and in 1912-13 it was 5,292. This healthy growth stands in mark- I .?d contrast to the loss in a few conn- j Mes. A gain of 261 pupils during the i last twelve months ls entirely satis- i factory, although I am deeply inter- ' ested in your estimate of 500 white children failing to enter school. I ? wish the teachers of the county . would investigate this situation, and ! would organize to enroll every boy ; and girl during 1913-14. The attendance figures challenge | attention. Of ibo 5,292 white boys ? and girls, only 1,102 were in regular ! attendance on town schools and only 1,9 42 were regularly in the country schools. This means that 2,248 boys and girls attended school to little advantage, although I cannot blame the children when the school term in a majority of the country districts I was too short to arouse and hold ; their interest. The high school enrollment, for the i county is reported at 209, barely 4 per cent of the enrollment. Taking the United States as a whole, 8 per cent of the school children belong to the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh grades. It is almost a necessity for the average attendance and high school enrollment of Oconee to be greatly Improved if the boys and girls ? are to compete for and enjoy the pleasures and privileges of an edu cated citizenship. The average per capita expendi ture per pupil was $8.05 for whites and $1.53 for negroes. In 1911-12 similar averages for the State were: White, $13.02; negro. $1.98. It seems, therefore, that tho education al Investment for each child In Oco nee is still nearly $5 below the stand ard for the State. Though this dif- ( ference is rapidly disappearing, is it too much to hope that lt may be re moved altogether within the next four years? In other counties many districts are voting the maximum of 8 mills allowed for current school expenses. With the large white population, and the consequent heavy enrollment in your county, a similar course would greatly benefit the schools/ I hope to see the time come when the State will guarantee adequate school facili ties to every child. but this cannot be done until our county system of school taxation is fcupplemonted by a State-wide educational tax. Tho be ginning made by the Legislature of 1913 in levying the new one-mill State school tax Indicates a tendency in this direction, for this policy of fers untold benefits to counties with a large white population. Th? improvement in your teaching corns is also noticeable. The rural school supervisor will do much to remove untrained, unskilled teachers by aiding them to master and to use approved methods and appliances. I shall watch with groat Interest the benefits that must follow her efforts and those of the County Superintend ent during 1913-14. Though you haye accomplished much, you have turned over a fertile field to your successor. His oppor tunity for constructive work is great, although the tasks confronting him aro not easy. While congratulating you upon the progress of Xhe last four years, 1 feel that your accomplishments only point the way to other needed im provements. It has been a pleasure to work with you for better schools in the county. My sole regret ls that we could not give to every neighborhood such a community Behool as lt needs. Yours resi>ectfully, J. E. Swearingen, State Supt. of Education. Hemarkahle Cure of Dysentery. "I was attacked with dysentery about July 15th, and used the doc tor's medicine and other remedies with no relief, only getting worse all the time, l was unable to do any thing and my weight dropped from 145 to 125 pounds. I suffered for I about two months, when 1 was ad vised to use Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. I used two bottles of it and it gave nie permanent relief," writes B. W. Hill, of Snow Hill, N. C. For sale by all dealers. adv. WILD CAUSE 9300,000,000 DOSS. New Orleans Cotton Exchange Filters Pro nest .Against Clark "Rider." New Orleans. July 30.-Declaring that If the Clark "rider" to the pro posed tariff bill becomes a law. the effect of changed conditions because of the absence of '..edging "may cost on the coming crop anywhere from $100,000,000 to $300,000,000," the New Orleans Cotton Exchange to-day issued an official statement protest ing against the Clark "rider," which provides a tax of one-tenth of one cent per pound on cotton futures, or an average of 50 cents a bale. The statement ls signed by W. P. Stew art, vice president, and acting presi dent, and by H. G. Hester, secretary. "In order to correct any misunder standing," says tho statement, "this exchange asserts positively that the cotton future contract business and the system of hedging through futrir? contracts, which have saved many hundred millions of dollars in the marketing of the South's cotton crop, will be completely destroyed if the Clark rider to the tariff bill becomes a law." The statements add that competi tion will be lessened because, under the rider, buyers will be forced to require a heavy margin between buy ing and selling prices, and the neces sity for Increased capital and credit will drive out early all of the small buyers. It is also pointed out that this lax of 50 cents per bale will be paid by the producer because the "buyer will see to lt that the tax comes out of the price he pays to the farmer, thus making the latter bear the burden." It is declared that nine-tenths of the crop is moved through the means of hedging agreements, and that every sale of spot cotton on any terms will be affected by the tax. How the Trouble Starts. Constipation is the cause of many ailments and disorders that make life miserable. Take Chamberlain's Tablets, keep your bowels regular and you will avoid these diseases. For sale by all dealers. adv. Infant Paralysis Traced. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 2.--A demon stration of the theory that infantile paralysis was originally a disease of fowls and is transmitted to children by the larvae of the fly has been pre sented to the St. Louis Medical So ciety by Dr. E. W. Sounders. The theory, which was originated by Dr. Sounders, was accepted by many of the physicians who heard him. A monkey, a chicken, several guinea nigs, and three rabbits were used to demonstrate, the deadly effects of the larvae. Dr. Sounders called at tention to tho fact that infantile pa ralysis is prevalent only In tho insect season. Bryan Refused $3,000 Lecture. St. Ix)uis, Aug. 1.-Secretary of State Bri.'n, in a telegram received yesterday by Spearman Lewis, de clined to be booked for an hour's lecture at the Colliseum here, for which ho had been offered half of the total receipts. Mr. Lewis had pointed out that he probably would speak to a capacity house 'and that his (Bryan's) share would be $3,00(1. "1 am only lecturlng> during a limited period, and then only at chauauqnas, and cannot, therefore, consider the proposition, which you are kind enough to submit," Mr. Bry an replied. WHIPPED RIVAL ON THE STAGE Confederate Veteran Became a So cial Favorit? In New York. (News and Courier.) Major F. Douglass Walker, who died recently at the Confederate In firmary at Columbia, at the' ago of 72 years, achieved? prom'uence in New York city after the War Between the Sections. He later suffered se vere financial losses and In 1908 was penniless. He was well known in Charleston and visited friends here about two years ago, coming from Columbia. Nearly forty years ago Major Walker, then a dashing young man, created a sensation by horse whipping his rival for a young widow's hand. The incident occur red on the stage of a Brooklyn thea ter during an amateur performance. Tho New York Sun of Tuesday pub lished the following sketch of Major Walker: Major Walker was a cadet at the Military Academy in Charleston, and when the first Confederate gun was fired at Fort Sumter, he jumped from the class room and ran to the water's edge, four classmates with him. There was no boat, so they swam half a mile to the Ironclad Battery, which helped batter the Federal fortress into submission. In the winter of 187 7 Walker was the chief actor in an event that stir red Brooklyn Bociety folks, and be camo a national sensation. One night in th> old Academy of Music, where the Amaranth Society was giving an amateur performance Walker jumped on the stage. ami horsewhipped a player who was his rival for the love of a young widow. Walker had warned him not to ap pear in the same cast with the wo man. The man Walker whipped later became vice president of one of the most important corporations in the world and the husband of the young woman. Walker was arrested for assault. After a trial he was sentenced to 60 days In the penitentiary on Crow Hill. His lawyers soon got him out of jail, and a petition was started in his behalf, which was signed by Henry Ward Beecher. . A letter from Governor Hampton to Gover nor Robinson turned the tide in his favor. He did not return to the peni tentiary. He traveled for many years and then poverty overtook him. One night in the fall of 1908 a tall man, with spow-white hair, stood be fore Magistrate Tighe in the Adams Police Court in Brooklyn and asked for a night's lodging. It was Major Walker. The magistrate could do nothing but commit him to the peni tentiary for six months. Then, through the co-operation of tho Con federate Veteran Camp of New York, and the U. S. Grant Post, G. A. R., of Brooklyn, the Major was trans ferred to the King's County Alms House. Wealthy women of Southern birth heard of Walker's troubles. They organized a bazaar at the Waldorf Astoria on January 14, 1909. and $.1,000 was raised for his benefit. With this money he was sent to the Soldiers' Home at Columbia, S. C., where friends got a clerical position for him. Major Walker had out lived all his relatives. TO INCREASE STOCK RALSING. Chief of Dairy Department ito Start Work in this S??nc. Washington, Aug. 1.-S. B. H. Ra wi, chief of the dairy division of the Depart ment of Agriculture, left here yesterday afternoon to take up with Col. Banks and other Interested at St. Matthews the matter of organi zation of a co-operative association for the initiation of live stock agri culture in South Carolina. This will be the first attempt of the depart ment of agriculture to encourage, In a substantial way, the live stock in dustry of tho State. Representative Lever, who is responsible for tho idea, said: "It is extremely fortunato that we have been able to secure the ser vices of Mr. Rawl for the Initiation of this important work in the State as chief of the dalry division of the Department of Agriculture. Ho is, perhaps, tho best equipped man in tho service for such an undertaking, and in addition to that, he is thor oughly familiar with tho local condir tlons of tho State, being himself a graduate of Clemson College and a native of Lexington county. "I notice some editorial com ments, particularly In the News and Courier, expressing some doubt as to our ability to find markets fdr the live stock which we may raise. When consideration is had of tho fact that South Carolina is nearer Richmond, and even Chicago, than most of tho live stock supply points of these cities, I think the objection disap pears. We can reach Chicago from St. Matthews more quickly than you can from Austin, Texas, or Guthrie, Okla. And in fact, than from most of the centers of the cattle growing States of the West."