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ISSUED SEMI- WEKKL'^ i. M GRISTS SONS, Publisher..} ? ^arnili) Jlcurspapei;: Jfor the Promotion of (he {political. Social, Jljrieiiltural and (Tommcrrini interests of the people. { ~ ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE. S. c7 TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1910. NO. 87. >? Y+*Y* *** I i Skyscraper I Tale , **+A *#*A **+A 557Z **+A * > r. "Now here's an odd lump of a desl I ^ot off that git rich quick fellow Knevals when he lit out lively betum two days, and has never been heard o1 since, which you can have spot cheap Lawyer Homes," said Joel Faxon. "II was put togedder with such a dorr twist I've often t'ought of breaking II up for kindlings, but it will be fine for your briefs." The janitor liked tne iooks oi im young attorney who had just rented the least desirable room in the Aeria building. Besides he was sorry foi him. What possible chance was there for an up the state lad who hac brought nothing but brains to towr with him to find any demand for sucf commodities in that black back holt under the stairs? So presently when his offer was gratefully accepted he threw in a couple of chairs and insisted on helping to shunt the furniture around to tht new quarters, which were not far from his storeroom. "A penny saved in moving is as good as a dollar earned, according to my exper'ence," he said. With such ready aid Herbert Homes was soon settled and ready for business. The outlook was not extensive consisting of a blank wall not three feet from the window, while the inlool; was equally bare and forlorn. However, he arranged the stationery he had brought with him and then took up the mall that hat! awaited his arrival. The young lawyer's face fell as he ran through the advertisements and looked over the frayed promissory notes and ancient transcripts of judgments from which pay could only come after collection. But it lightened again when at the very bottom he found a letter from Agatha Beams, postmiskie, fllloo-o tn whnm vir was engaged. Agatha was as practical as she was affectionate and this letter showed it The practical part ran as follows: Of course you are going to have but little work a first, dear Herbert, bul you must keep busy in order to keep from being discouraged. Therefore ] want you to take up the Slavenk caso again. You know what it means to me but you do not know what it may mean to you. The P. O. inspector, who was herf only yesterday, said that he was suit that department would pay liberally any one who solved the mystery ol poor father's death; and that the fac) they consented to my appointment in his place proved that they no longei blamed him for the loss. You remember my theory from father's last fragmentary words? Well. I am more convinced than ever that 1 am right. Do strive with all your might to fine and catch that wretch of a Toombs who, I feel sure in my soul, not onl> killed my father, mistaking him for his accomplice, Slavenk. but afterward managed to kill Slavenk. Homes threw down the letter anc mentally reviewed the tragedy thai had horrified the village about thret years before. Peter Beams, the postmaster, had been found lying nearly dead from Plows on ine neaa on in? floor of the front room of his housi which he used as the postofflce. Th< safe had been rifled of its contents. Agatha, returning from a visit ovei night to a school friend, was the onlj one able to affect the dying man's leth< argy. His broken phrases seemed in> coherent and meaningless to the other! present, though all agreed that hi mentioned more than once the tw< names Slavenk and Toombs: but Aga tha believed that she understood wha her father said. His story as translated by her wai this: When about to lock up for th? night Slavenk in a rough gray over coat had rushed into the front room imploring to be hidden from Toombs Beams had blown out the light, but thi door burst open before he could loci it. He had felt a terrible shock an? pain, and that was all. The next spring the body of a man too swollen and lacerated for identifi cation, but which bore signs of fou play, was found in the river. It wa! because the body had on a rough gra; overcoat that Agatha insisted that I must be the body of the unknowi stranger Slavenk, and that he too mus have been killed by the unknowi stranger Toombs. Homes shook his head dubiousl; over the scant facts and broad deduc tions as he had often shaken it befon His hunting' case watch lay open ?>i the desk in front of him for lack of i clock, and his eyes rested first invol untarilv and then curiously on th shining interior surface of the uppe cover. There were letters reflected from th sheet he had just thrown down, letter forming a name, forming the nam "Wnevals." Where had he heard tha name before? Surely Agatha did no use it in her letter. His eyes, turnini from the reflection to the written pag< lighted on the word "Slavenk." A1 yes; that was it, of course; the res was inverted by the reflection, am "Knevals" was "Slavenk" writte backward. II. It was more; it was Slavenk pro nounced backward, of course Agath had written the name as she had hear it. as she had so many times repeate it; but her father in the throes o death, with his brain confused, ha seen mentally all topsyturvy. He ha meant to say that the name of the fu gitive who came imploring his protec tion was Knevals; but he had calle him the exact reverse of that name, o Slavenk. If this were so then it must folbo that the name of the other mat "Toombs." was equally twisted an reversed. Homes held the writte word "Toombs" to the mirror of hi watch, but with ill success. The re flection was a jumble, unpronounceabb unless the "I#" which made all th ?** **? T**1* T+** J 8 : LAWYER HOMES'S * FIRST CASE 8 muddle was silent as it was in the i name "Toombs" as uttered by old Mr. 1 r Beams. It should be cut out then, as i ? Viciflncr nlavsd nn nnrt in the mental < f confusion, and as a result the reverse of , "Toonis" was Smoot," a well accepted t name if not a very common one. i Homes was already following his t sweetheart's advice. His legal instinct ' and training were busy with the Slavenk case; indeed, they were absorbed > with it. Let him see, then. He was I just as sure that he had not heard this 1 name "Smoot" recently, as he was sure r that he had heard this name "Knevals." 5 Where then and by whom had "KnevI als" been recently mentioned? > As he pondered, striving to recollect, i Homos's eyes rested first involuntarily s and then curiously on the desk before him. Not a bad bargain by any means, i for all the janitor's slighting words. Probably one of the very first of the r roll top sort ever manufactured and ( hence a trifle bulkier than the later i models, the interior sides being lined instead of skeletonized, but still far I too serviceable for a kindling fate. What, then, was it the janitor had said? Why, of course he had said that i the desk had belonged to "that get rich quick fellow Knevals, who had lit out . lively betune two days and had never been heard of since." And there you : were; yet, and there was the man, be yond the shadow of a doubt! I It came back vividly to Homes, the excitement of that financial fraud and fiasco of three years. How exposure had sprung unexpectedly upon Knevals I and his accomplices at the very height ' of their plundering; how Knevals entering the Aerial building at nightfall ! had been set upon by a mob eager to i tear him into pieces and how in the i narrow bends and turns leading to the waterfront he had managed to escape. ' Why then was not this get rich quick Knevals the fugitive Knevals whom old i Beams had succored to his cost? Why . then was not Smoot an accomplice of his, who had followed him and killed : him, having reasons of his own why t he should not be heard of since? > Here it was that Homes's involun[ tary gaze became a curious gaze. ' What was that crisp bit of yellow par , per sticking out from under the lining j i of the desk on the side, yes, on the < side, that was undeniably thicker than , the other and so did Rive the impres- j > sion of beinR, as the janitor had said, { all askew? OpeninR his knife Mr. ( f Homes drew out from its hiding a fresh ; Rold certificate for $1,000. c i Could it be? He rapped frantically . on the panel; it did not sound hollow ^ . and empty. Could it be that this deep. er side of the desk was a secret store ( . for treasure which Knevals had not , had time, had not lived long enough to ( I remove? , Why, if the janitor had not raised | ' the other end of the desk to reset a j castor he might never have known, I never have dreamed of such a marvellous thing. At all events he would 1 find out at once, at once, t Homes jumped to his feet. He pick- 1 ? ed up the hatchet from the corner . where Faxon had left it. He beat that particular panel of the desk at least ' ? Into kindlinps. Then he started back. ' ? The flat surface of the desk was cov? ered with crisp certificates. Mowing over his stationery, his watch, Aga- 1 r tha's letter, the despised promissory ' notes and the rejected judgments like ' . a river of gold. He would not have believed he could ' 3 have been So avid as he piled and 1 ? counted and counted again. Not that - ViaH a>1 v iHen <>f withholding and ' . keeping the treasure. It belonged to t the deluded depositors in the get rich scheme; he would account to them for 1 3 every cent of it. But equally of course e he would be liberally rewarded: that - was no more than right: and oh, but a i, small percentage of it would mean so t. much to Agatha and to him. ? There was a deeper shadow in the < shadowy window opening on the blank I wall as a man swung like a cat on the ledge from the side, but Homes did not i, heed it as he counted and recounted. 1 . Then came a report not half so loud I as the unnoticed racket of the hatchet s and Homes fell forward bleeding and , unconscious still grasping, still guardt ing half a million of dollars. i Joel Faxon, descending leisurely front k. his storeroom with a sharp glance here . and there, came upon in the main en. trance a demure and pretty young wort man looking wistfully over the direca tory board. There was a simplicity . about her dress and manner that at ,, once attraced the janitor's favorable r notice. "And what is it I may be doing for e you. miss?" he asked, with a touch of s his cap. e "I ant looking for Mr. Robert t Homes." the young woman answered. . "Ho i? a counsellor at law of the su j, preme court and has recently opened offices here, hut I do not find his , name." ,1 "It is the fault of thim dnm painters, (] miss," replied Faxon, smiling a little M at her importance. "The boss sint word to thim to put up Mr. Hmnes's name to wanst. There'll be ructions the morrow whin he finds that it hasn't - been done yit. But sure such a leada ing barrister as the Honorable Herbert d Homes has no need to be telling his d clients where he is: he might rather f be hiding front the rush of thim. I'll d show you t<> him to wanst: and don't d be bothering either, for you didn't have your case in better hands." "It is my life rather that 1 have put d in his hands," explained Agatha Beams r as she followed along, "for we love each other. We are engaged. But [ ,v have given him a case, a most importl. ant case, notwithstanding. It is the d case of the people against Slavenk and ii Toombs, rascals both, though I believe s Slavenk has gone to his deserts." "I hopes it may be sarvcd hot and , hot for him. thin, ma'am, though I e don't remimber a tnintioii or picture of either. What is it, if you don't mind, they've been doing of?" And as they shot up in the car to the seventh floor and passed down and around to the jut in the wall by which an odd bit of the land had been made undesirably profitable Agatha told the tragedy to her new friend. "That was a bad season for crime free years ago," the janitor reflected. "There were those dom rascals Kneva.ls and Smoot, who cleaned out the poor and thrifty in the very dure above; sure their rooms haven't been rinted since for the terrible name of thim. "Ah, here we are now; not spacious l>ut snug and all there, like the counsellor's briefs. Can he hev garn without my seeing? I t'ink not; and the lure unlocked! P'raps he fell asleep it his work on this very case, for here's the shadow of him be the desk. "Wait a bit, my dear, up goes the ilictrics. Howly Mother, miss, don't Taint or scream or nawthin". It may lot he as had as it looks." But Agatha Beams's spirit was too Tree and constant for that. With but ;he murmur of a moan she sprang to ler stricken lover: she raised his head, she pressed it against her bosom, softy entreating him to speak. With the esourcefulness of his rough and tough aoyhood the janitor was at the washstand and back with a cold water ompress. " 'Tis hut a glancing wound and a stun, my dear," he explained. "In a moment he will he himself again." And as '.f in proof of this hope Herlert Homes's lips moved. "Knevals and Smoot," he muttered. "Is it so?" cried Faxon, springing to :he window and looking up the well. 'A strong and desperate chap like that Smoot might have done the job, let:ing himself down on the iron shutter itid swinging over; sure Knevals would liver have the heart even to luk at it. t. "But why, but why? And if he did lo it, thin why did he do it? Why, be:uz of the desk, av coorse, the desk that ;clonged to thim, the desk now smashed into kindling becuz boodle?oh, to ,'ink of it?must have been hid be;une, the desk that thot black whiskered cove up on the nineteet flure? vhat's his name, Nobbins?was beatng me down for unly yisterday, and tlad I am he didn't git it?the desk. "Be all the saint's, wasn't he watchin* it the bind whin I moved it in with the ounsellor? And the eyes of him, the ?yes of him?they were, they are, the yes of Smoot and no wan Use. Wait, learie, wait, you poor tinder, brave litle creature, and tind your lovyer thrue. rhiTo'a u'nri- tn ho done to wanst that nay help him out in the great case iOu gev him." Agatha hardly heeded the janitor's jroken words or his hurried departure. She was laving Herbert's wound, she vas watching life and hope returning :o Herbert's face. Then she stopped short in her thoughts and ministraions. Her eyes had caught reflected in the shining inner surface of the watch case he word "Knevals." No need for pain'ul deductions: her intuition told her it once that it came from her letter, hat it was the word Slavenk reversed. So too with a deft move did she see :hat the reflection of Toombs might svell be Smoot. And then like Herbert, iike the janitor, she also knew. IV. The knowledge had been on the very threshold before: it had almost penetrated her mind. Rver since her talk with the keeper of the nearby prison resterday, which had brought her to town see to Homes, she had almost known. "I 'most believe we discharged the villain a few days ago who killed your father?a fellow named Smoot," the keeper had said. "A little after that lappened he was sent up from the next ?ount.v f<mfiring a barn; did it deliber ately and in full sight, and then plead?d guilty with a grin. 'Well, he talked of course with his pals in the shop, and of course they told me; trust them for that. He hoasted that he was doing the hit to avoid suspicion for having made away with two guys, and that there was a pot of money waiting outside for him in consequence. I only wish they had told me in time. I'd have sweated him until he squealed." Agatha stopped short in her recollections, trembling. There were steps in the room above?the room that had been occupied by Knevals & Smoot, and to which Smoot must still have a key?the irregular, uncertain steps of one in a panic. Suppose it was Smoot, who had come to the building in the hope of getting access to the desk; Smoot, who had been unable to buy it for lack of funds, who had watched and slipped down and nearly killed Herbert in order to strip it of its loot. It might well be then that he had waited in the upper room, feeling sure that Herbert's dead body would not be discovered until morning, that he was waiting until the dead of night to make a sure escape, and that the janitor, also divining his presence, had managed to lock him in, believing that he would not have the hardihood again to descended to Herbert's office. Even as she breathlessly thought. Agatha had breathlessly turned out me lights and was now watching by the side of the open window. She suddenly sprang on one of the two chairs the janitor had contributed, and there poised in the dark as if again about to spring. "Agatha: oh. my dear Agatha." came Homes's feeble voice, "was 1 dreaming, am I dead, or did I really hear your voice, feel your hand?" "Hush, darling," murmured Agatha. "Be silent, be still, just for a moment, and then there will be light and life and love for us, for us both together." Some one was descending. There was the creak and groan of the next iron shutter as some one crept out on it. as some one swung over on it, to grasp the sill with one hand and then the other and draw himself up and into? No; not into the room! There was a sweeping, rushing sound. The heavy window crashed down. The door slammed open. I'p Hashed the lights. "Cart." cried Faxon, dashing forward to where Agatha Beams with all her might was holding down the heavy window upon a screeching, squirming man whose false hair and beard had become dislodged in the struggle, leav ins: a convict's shaven poll and fact disclosed. "Cart, Smoot and Toombs and Nobbins, yis, and the very divvl# too, all in wan, cart like a dom rat Ir a trap. "I t'ought I had med a mistake after I locked the dure from the outside or you; hut I might have known that il you did come down again this little ledd.v wud hev the mind and the nerve enough to clinch his first case for her lovyer thrue. "Come in now out of thot. Not a wud or a move or I'll do you with the hatchet as you done the odders. Come in now and rist aisy while I strip you' of the stuffing of which you stripped the desk." And as Herbert Humes, but ball comprehending what was going on, leaned forward on his desk his hands again grasped and again guarded half a million of dollars.?New York Sun. THE FARMER'S WIFE. Chas. S. Barrett Pay# Deserved Tribute to Noble Woman. President C. S. Barrett of the National Farmers' Union, sends out the following letter paying high tribute to farmers' wives: "To the offlcers and members of the Farmers' Union: "Now about that wife of yours, I wonder if you ever think what an indispensable influence she has been for your own welfare in this world, and for the general advancement of the country? "I doubt it. A good wife we are too apt to take like the sunshine and the fertility of the fields?as a matter of course. Only when all three are missing, do we discover the genuine blessing. 'The wife of the farmer it is who keeps hope and ambition kindled on the hearthstone, who nerves tired bodies to the work of supporting the nation, who rears up the men and the women into whose hands the destinies of the nation are to be handled. "I sometimes think that it is only within recent years we have come to appreciate the monumental and historic sacrifice of these farm women. If you will indulge a slight personality, I cheerfully hear witness to the fact that whatever I have accomplished for the good of the brethren In this world is due to the uuselfishness, the industry anu lilt* l'UUI ttkc 1)1 lilt; w mucin \-iiu 10 my wife and the mother of my children. "I know that if ever my sons shall work well in the battle for common good, and live as I would have them live?an example to all men?it is hecause of the untiring watchfulness and the almost incredible self-sacrifice of their mother. "I talk thus that you may look about you in your own homes and see what you can do to lighten the task of your own wife, the mother of your children. "If all goes well with the farm, find out how much is due to her persistent toil and forgetfulness of her own comfort. If your children get ahead in lirt*?consider her part in their success. If you have experienced the common lot of having passed through poverty and sickness and misfortune? consider how hopeless would have been the outlook had it not been for her sustaining courage and energy. "They call the farmer the hope and the support of America. "It is his wife that is the inspiration of the hope and the bed rock of the support. "Bear these facts in mind when you are inclined to be a litle mean, a little stingy with the pocket money or a little vainglorious about your own accomplishments. "Not all the Carnegie medals coined between now and doomsday will reu-afH tho cilont hArrtiam r?f thp farm women who are humbly uplifting the agricultural life of the country today. "Charles S. Barrett." A PHILIPPINE VOLCANO. The Craters and Hot Pools of Taal In Luzon. The central or main crater of Taal is nearly round, its diameter on an airline north and south is 6,233 feet and the eastwest diameter 7,546 feet. The edge of this crater is somewhat irregular, but is nowhere broken through its highest point standing at only 1,050 feet above sea level and its lowest at 426 feet. It is said that Coshima, in Japan, is the only other volcano of similarly low altitude. Within the rim are two hot pools, known respectively as the yellow and the green lake, and a little active cone above 50 feet in height, from which escape steam and sulphurous gas in varying quantities. In the smaller lake every few minutes the water in the centre is blown up like an immense bubble, which rising above the surface finally bursts, revealing a black orifice and causing Vi i? lwktlinc anrl vprv tnrlnilAnt wntnr to assume all imaginable colors. The aqueous vapor escaping is sufficient tu form a broad, smokelike column which is visible especially during the night and in the early morning. At some distance and before reaching the edge of the crater, where a view of the bottom can be obtained, the rumbling sound produced by the escaping vapor, under the influence of the mysterious subterranean forces, can be heard like that of an immense boiling kettle. The greatest eruption of Taal took place In 1754. It consisted of only fragmental ejecta, but these were sufficient to destroy four villages lying about the lake. "The ash," Semper says, "has now indurated and a new growth of bamboo and palms has sprung up around the projecting ruins." Father Beuncuehillo wrote also a pathetic description of this eruption, from which the following is taken: "The eruption began on May 13 and did not end till December 1. During this time the intensity and aspect oi the eruption were continually changing. It was 200 days of devastation and ruin for the inhabitants, to whom the time must have appeared an eternity. During this terrible time the four principal towns of the laguna ol Bimbon disappeared, viz., Sala, Lipa Tanauan and Taal, with the numerous villages around them." It is impossible to describe the beau tiful coloring effects caused by the different mineral deposits on the walls and cliffs of the crater. As the lake is fed from underground springs and no surface water drain5 into it, it is as clear as crystal and much cooler than sea water and has ar abundance of line, hard tleshed fish which are highly esteemed by the Filipinos of the region. They are gamf fish and some reach a size that makes their capture with light tackle a matter of some difficulty. The clear water of the lake has another marvel that is well worth seeing Some comparatively modern eruptions of the volcano covered some towns, in two of which only the church roofs are visible. Others are completely submerged and on days when the surface of the lake is unruffled one can look down into the streets of thesf submerged towns and see the fish dart through doors and windows of once populous barrios. The water is twenty-five feet deep, but so clear that every detail is visible.?Manila Times. ; iUiscfllauroits Starting. A NEGROLESS PARTY. White Republicans Seek to Launch , New Organization. Columbia Record, Friday. State chairman?L. W. C. Blalock, Laurens. Vice chairman?I. H. Norris, York. Secretary?D. H. Wallace, Union. Remainder of state executive committee composed of three members from each of the seven congressional | districts. i no riauvi in r?Mwr??M. "The Republican party of South Carolina, In convention assembled in the opera house in the city of Columbia, this 27th day of October, 1910, affirms its loyalty to the principles of the Republican party, as adopted at its last national convention, In the city of Chicago, in June, 1908." None but qualified electors may bs members of clubs or delegates to conventions. Conspicuous Absentees. Shortly after noon National Committeeman Capers called the convention to order. Se\eral hundred persons were present. Conspicuous absentees were the collector of internal revenue for South Carolina, Major Micah Jenkins of Columbia; the collector of the port of Charleston, Mr. E. W. Durant; the United States district attorney, Mr. E. F. Cochran of Anderson; the postmaster of Charleston, Mr. Harris; the postmasters of Columbia, Spartanburg, Greenville, Anderson and Sumter, Messrs. G. H. Huggins. Mart Floyd, J. F. Richardson, John R. Cockran, Jr., and Geo. D. Shore. The Call Is Read. Captain Capers read the call, issued by himself, upon which the body had met. He said it had appeared to him and his associates that it was necessary to take this step just now, for the perpetuation of the party in South Carolina. He thought the opportunity ripe for the rehabilitation of the party here, the improvement of its personnel and its development into a militant, respectable organization, ivhioh would have some voice in na tional affairs. Capers Sounds Keynote. Captain Capers was elected temporary chairman. He then proceeded to deliver the "keynote" speech of the convention. It referred mainly to the elimination of the negro from the councils of the party in this section; and every utterance along this line was warmly cheered. Not Taft's Suggestion. Captain Capers said, in part: "It should be stated at the outset that this convention was not assembled at the suggestion of the administration in Washington. "The fact that we have as delegates very few, if any, Federal officeholders and that there- will not be an officer of this new organization from chairman down to doorkeeper who holds a Federal office should be the best evidence of the fact the convention is hero in answer to a call from the people of South Carolina to take advantage of the fact that there does not now exist a Republican organization in this state operating under either the state or the party law upon such matters. No Antaaonism. "This should not he taken to mean, however, that we entertain any antagonism to our splendid national administration, or to our patriotic and wise president, but simply as an expression of our independence of Federal patronage in organizing a high class opposition party which we believe will develop so as to be representative of the brains, culture and business interests of our state. The Carolinas Compared. "Today the vice president of the United States is campaigning in our sister state of North Carolina, urging the re-election of three Republican congressmen and a steadfast adherence to the principles of the national administration. How unfitting it would be to invite him to campaign South Carolina and address the few and scattered members of our political faith, ' who without a party organization or fixed purposes could not furnish such a distinguished citizen the audiences or the support to which liis high office J would entitle him. We are here to inaugurate a movement and perfect a party organization which we bflieve in no distant day will command such confidence and respect as to justify a Re; publican president himself in coming among the people of his party in South ' Carolina. "The Goat." "The northern and western Repub licans who have for the last forty , years made the southern Republican ' 'the goat' of the national situation, , should be made to take care of their own colored neighbors and where ! these white men are in congress because of the colored man's vote in their ' districts, they should urge a Republican president to provide for them in ' the distribution of Federal patronage , if not indeed send a few of them to i congress from the north and west, ; rather than attempt to palliate the ' colored voter in the 'doubtful states' , by Africanizing the South Atlantic and Gulf coast through the appointment 1 of the colored man to office in a sec; tion of our country where he exercises ! no political power whatever, and where i such appointments have only resulted 1 in keeping the white Republican of the | south In helpless political bondage. ' "That is why it has resulted, as Mr. , Taft said at Greensboro, that except ! in two or three southern states 'there Is a little eorterie of politicians who devote themselves solely to the selection ! of delegates to the national conven, tions, who devote no time and energy ; whatever to elec tions and whose whole I object is the securing of Federal pa1 tmnage.' Real Opposition Party. "It is in a measure true that such a ' condition has prevailed in the south and much to the humiliation of her . best citizens, many of whom are do sirious of aligning themselves with a 1 real opposition party, representative , of the business interests of the south. But the 'little coterie of politicians' in the south have been for years, and , in some instances are still, the creatures of one Republican national ad' ministration after another, whose object has been to control the delegations from the south at national con ventions. We may as well place the responsibility where it belongs. "The time has come for southern Republicans to take care of themselves and to do so as they have done in North Carolina by giving a Republican candidate for president, one hundred and fourteen thousand votes and electing three Republican congressmen, then, and not until then, will they rise to the politicnl importance and dignity of West Virginia, Ohio or New York. "We southern Republicans must realize that even a kind providence only helps those who help themselves. An "Off Year." "This is an 'off year' in national politics and while I believe the Republican party will carry New York and control the next national house of representatives, a Democratic house could only force the Republican administration to mark time, it could not upset the wise legislation already enacted nor could It accomplish a single tning upon which to successfully appeal to the country in 1912. In fact, the Republican party would Immediately get together as never before In Its history and sweep a Republican president back into the White House two years hence. Appeal to New North. "In such a battle for ballots the southern Republican has the opportunity of his political life and we are here today in our modest efforts organizing a real opposition party for work in promising fields of the new south, and appealing In our efforts to such a new north as was so eloquently described by Col. Willett of Alabama in his address before the Union League in Chicago in these words: " 'You have heard of a new south and there is a new south, striving with might and main to build up all thp waste places and give the priceless boon of education alike to white and colored races, but there is also a new north, which is just as distinct as the new south. " 'The north of Sumner, Ben Wade and Thad Stevens, breathing vengeance and passion against the south has given way to the north of Charles Francis Adams, William McKlnley and William Howard Taft, breathing nothing but loving kindness. It is no wonder we are one people. It would be something strange if we were not.'" The Machine Well Oiled. Every detail had been arranged in advance. Even the committee reports, the lists of the committees themselves, had been prepared and neatly typed at Captain Capers' room in the Columbia hotel. There was evident a determination that nothing should be left to chance, no opening be given for alI lctrattAno nf icrii]r nrnpednre When Captain Capers had concluded his speech, the routine motions necessary to perfect a temporary organization and resolve this into a permanent organization were put and carried in quick succession. Mr. Dan H. Wallace of Union, son of the late Judge Wm. H. Wallace, who was chairman of the famous "Wallace House" that wrested control of the state government from the negroes in Reconstruction times, was elected temporary chairman. On motion the chairman appointed a committee on resolutions and organization, one on platform, one on nominations and one on credentials. While these were "preparing" the typewritten "reports" which had been handed them from the rostrum, Mr. S. B. Blakely of Fairfield, one of the oldest delegates present, spoke briefly, on invitation of Mr. Lawson D. Melton of Columbia, upon the evolution of the "respectable white Republican" of South Carolina. He cordially welcomed this movement, and believed the meeting of the convention marked the beginning of a new era In the political history of the state. The Committees. These committees were as follows: A r? APorlontlQ Q_l. w C. Blalock. I Laurens, chairman; William Bryce, Orangeburg; John Hart, Spartanburg; L. J. Tucker, Marion; John Cantey, Kershaw; Joseph Corbett, Bamberg. On resolutions and organization? Lawson D. Melton, Richland, chairman; J. W. Shell, Laurens; G. W. Nobles, Orangeburg; R. A. Hannon, Spartanburg; E. B. Wagnon, Sumter; O. E. Hutchison, Richland; V. P. Clayton. Fairfield. On platform?George G. Fox, Sumter, chairman; W. H. Cox, Oconee; Charles Dudley, Cherokee: F. C. Cain. Calhoun; J. A. Bramlett, Greenville, M. M. Scott, Fairfield; I. H. Norris, York. On nominations?George R. Mayfleld, Greenville, chairman; James F. Jenkins, York; Emmanuel Cockrell, Lexington; James Boyd, Laurens; J. H. Williams, Newberry: John B. McCra trey, Richland; Charles Dudley. Cherokee. The committee on platform reported briefly: "The Republican party of South Carolina, in convention assembled, . . . affirms its loyalty to the principles of the Republican party, as adopted at its last national convention . . . " The report of the committee on resolutions is given in full below. The same committee recommended that the temporary roll of the convention. as repc rted by the committee on credentials, be adopted as the permanent roll. The credentials committee found all the papers regular; ther^ were no contests. The committee on resolutions and organization recommended the election of Mr. L. \V. C. Hlalock as chairman of the state executive committee, Mr. I. H. Norris as vice president and Mr. D. H. Wallace as secretary, with, it addition three members from each of the seven congressional districts. All these reports were adopted as read. Candidates For Congress. An important recommendation front the committee on resolutions and organization, which was adopted with a shout, was that a Republican candidate for congress be put out in each of the congressional districts in lit 12. Some of the Delegates. Among the delegates from Oconee was Mr. t\ E. Grey of Westminster, who comes from the only precinct in the state that gave Tat't a majority at the last presidential election. Some of the delegates were: Richland?<>. E. Hutchison, 1* I). Melton, T. P. Hrennen, A. D. Palmer; alternates, John, B. McCravey, L. R. Marshall, J. P. Daly. Greenville?John G. Capers, George R. Mayfleld, J. A. Bramlett, Charles Hicks, P. B. Me Bee. Mr. Maylleld who has* been for twenty years a teacher, was one of the Taft electors. Orangeburg?William Bryee, George Nobles, P. Gerlach. Lexington?D. J. Knotts, Emmanuel Cockrell, L. W. Redd. Sumter?George Fox, Ed B. Wagnon. Laurens?L. W. C. Blalock, J. W. Shell, James Boyd. Union?L. Y. Young, D. Hw Wallace, Mr. Wallace, who, as before stated, is a son of the late Judge Wm. H. Wallace, is a prosperous young farmer, owning a plantation near Hopkins in Richland county, besides lands at Union. York?I. H. Norris, J. F. Jenkins. T. G. Moser, G. W. Stegall. Nine Counties Missing. On the roll call, delegations report~d from all but nine of the forty-three rTmntfoa thosp for which there was no answer being Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Edgefield, Georgetown. Hampton, Lee, Marlboro and Saluda. Captain Capers reached Columbia Tuesday night, having spent a day or two before at the home of Mr. L. W. C. Blalock, at Goldville. Laurens county. He has been almost continuously in conference with Republican leaders ever since. The way in which the convention Thursday went about its work indicated that he had left no detail of preparation unarranged. It had been announced that admission to the meeting would be by card, bearing Captain Capers' signature, and the rule was enforced, but there was no difficulty about securing cards. Half a dozen newspaper men were present. None of them is a Republican. Resolutions. The committee on organization and resolutions respectfully reported as follows: "Whereas no legal convention of the Republican party has been called or held in this state during the year 1910 and no legal convention had been call"J " n*\ tn HntAhor K 101 n nnlv CU U4 IICIU U|/ H/ WVUWVI kv.v? W...? three days more than a month before the general election of November 8, following; and whereas any Republican organization through a state central committee or a state executive committee which may have existed has now ceased to exist and is therefore without power to perform its functions; and whereas the South Carolina member of the Republican national committee, in view of these conditions, has issued a call for a state convention under the mass-meeting plan, county by county, such plan being recognized by the Republican national committee where no party organization exists In a newly created state of the union and In cases where the once existing party organization has ceased and become defunct; and whereas, acting under that call, delegates have been chosen from the counties of the state and are here assembled in state convention in the opera house in the city of Columbia, South Carolina, this 27th day of October, 1010; therefore your committee recommends the adoption and ratification of the call issued by the South Carolina member of the Republican national committee an'd the organization of the Republican party, this day perfected under that call. "Your committee further recommends that there shall be a state executive committee, composed of a chairman, a vice chairman, a secretary-treasurer, two members at large and 21 additional members of the executive committee, three from each of the seven congressional districts in the state, to be elected by this convention. The officers of said executive committee as well as the additional members thereof to he entitled to vote upon all questions under consideration by the committee; that said executive committee be empowered and directed to frame such rules, plans and regulations as may be necessary to further perfect the organization of the Republican party in this state as has this day been established, including the county and the congressional district organizations, including also the right hereby vested in said executive committee to fill all vacancies existing, for any cause, unon the said executive com mittee. "Your committee directs attention to, and warmly endorses, what has been accomplished in national legislation during the administration President Taft, who has so steadfastly led kindly light through all of the differences of opinion in our own party as to the application of schedules in a tariff law, the fundamental principles of which, however, all Republicans firmly adhere to. "In this, as in the management of all of our national affairs. President Taft has demonstrated the greatest patriotism and wisdom, all of which has been a source of confidence and pride of the people of his party in all sections of the country. "Your committee further submits, with its unanimous approval, the following resolutions: Resolved that: "1. We favor a more rigid immigration law, so framed as to exclude from our cot ntry the indigent pauper and vicious people of other countries. "2. We heartily approve the laws recently enacted by our state legisla ture nxing me age nmii io? mc cn.ployment of children in the manufactories of our country and favor a gradual increase of such age limit until two years have heen added to the ape now fixed by law. We congratulate the officers and directors of our manufacturing' interests upon their cheerful and cordial support of the spirit and letter of this law. "3. We are in favor of a standard eight hour a day law for the laboring men and women of our country. "4. We are in favor of such a continued adjustment of the tariff as will preserve to the laboring people of our country such protection as will enable them to enjoy a just proportion of our country's prosperity in accordance with the established standard of living of the American workman." The final section of the resolutions, and that which is regarded by the leaders as one of the most important sections, is that which provides that no person shall be eligible to membership in a Republican dub or any one of the several conventions, unless he be registered as a qualified elector at hi3 home precinct. W- A reputation as a fighter might be a good thing if you could gel It without fighting.?Atchison Globe. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. Matters That the Votes Will Pass on Next Tuesday. There are six proposed constitutional amendments to be voted on In the general election November 8. Two of the amendments to be presented to the people are of state-wide interest, the one proposing to Increase the supreme court to five members and the other with reference to municipal bonded indebtedness, a general amendment. There are two other amendments proposed on this latter subject. One of the special amendments has special reference to the cities of Spartanburg. Greenville and Columbia and the town of Manning. It being proposed to allow these places to Assess abutting property for permanent improvements. It is proposed to add to the end of section 7 of article 8 of the state constitution as follows: "Provided, That the limitations proposed by section 8 of article 10 of the constitution shall not apply to bonded Indebtedness incurred In the towns of Aiken, Camden, Cheraw, Clinton, Edgefield, St. Matthews when the proceeds of said bonds are supplied solely and exclusively for the building, erecting, establishing and maintaining of water works, electric light plants, sewerage system or streets, and where the question of Incurring such Indebtedness Is submitted to the qualified electors of 'said municipality as provided in the constitution upon the question of bonded indebtedness." A Joint resolution whs passed making the provision that the limitations of section 7 of article 8 be not applied when the proceeds are used for such permanent improvements as are named above, was also passed. This is the state-wide proposed amendment. As to Aiken county there was a special resolution with reference to section 7, that the limitations shall not apply provided the amount does not exceed 15 per cent of the value of the taxable property therein for the purpose of establishing improvements. For St. Matthews the same sort of amendment is proposed allowing that town to build a $20,000 court house. The Increase of the membership of the supreme court from four to five members Is the object of a Joint resolution proposing to amend article 3 r?f eoptlnn 1 9. The members of the supreme court are: Chief Justice Ira B. Jones, Lancaster; Associate Justices Eugene B. Gary. Abbeville; C. A. Woods, Marlon and D. E. Hydrick, Spartanburg. It is argued that to Increase the number of justices much more work can be accomplished and that there will never be a divided court which would necessitate the calling of an en banc session, as was the case in the Clinchfleld decision. Another amendment is to be submitted to the people with regard to the term of the Justices In office. That section of the constitution is proposed to be amended so that any three of the five justices would constitute a quorum and that the justices shall be elected for a term of ten instead of eight years, each of them to go out of office every two years. A number of names have already been mentioned for places as the fifth justice. JOSEPH BARONDE8S. Russian Jew Who Achieved Death of Sweatshop. Few men live to see their dreams come true, but Joseph Barondess some times called crazy and often pursued hy mobs, Anally won the battle for the cause he had dreamed out in his Russian home. We read in the New York Evening Mail that twenty-two years ago in a town called Medzibosh, Russian Poland, he dreamed of the emancipation of the men and women who had to work for their living in factories and he came to America to exploit that dream. His Arst efforts were discouraging enough. He was arrested and locked in jail every time he sought to make a speech, whether it was In Cooper Union or in the open parks. He was denounced as an anarchist, and even as a potential assassin. But: Today the unions he formed are recognized as the strongest in America, and the sweatshop system he fought has been abolished by state laws. And Joseph Barondess, grown up from an "agitator to a respected citizen," is giving up the rest of his life to that other highest dream of his race and creed, the reclamation of Palestine by the Jews. "There's no forgetting the time I came to this country," said Barondess in his oAlce in Delancey street. "It was the blizzard year of 1888. And I guess the blizzard was blowing its hardest when my wife and I and our baby girl looked out of the steerage of n linpp and saw Sandv Hook through the driving snow. "I had >10?and my dreams?born of he fearful conditions of the peasant class in tl;iro.>e, and of the false tales of liberty I had heard of the United States. Wo got off that ship with absolutely nothing else. "A fine, old-fashioned red-headed Irishman named Kilyou rented us three rooms in the cellar of his tenement in Ludlow street, and I went to work in a factory where they paid me >5 a week to make thirty pairs of children's garments each day for thirteen hours. "The man who sat next to me in that shop worked three days without a rest one week because he had a baby dying and the doctor wouldn't come unless he was paid as he went in the door. At the end of that three days and nights hia head fell down on his sewing machine?and they took him to the morgue. "The sweater' wouldn't pay his wife overtime. Fifteen minutes later another man was brought off the street to work that machine next to me and the dead man's baby died. I know, because, I went there with three other shop workers to tell the wife about her husband. We had just enough left in our pockets of all of us to buy her something for supper, along with a faded five-cent rose for the baby they were taking away. We got the baby and the father of It put in two graves near togi :her in potter's field. It was the best we could do."?Literary Di ov-'t.