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Vol. 4 NO. 43 More Railroad Talk. Albert D. Oliphant of The State contributes to The Manufactures Record of Baltimore the "toHowine article on the coal terminal building at Charleston for the Carolina, Clinclifield & Ohio railroad: "After a period of conserva tive and steady business expansion covering the last few years." Charleston's industrial growth will be acc el erated by the coming of a new railroad and the building of huge coal terminals on the water front. Last Saturday a contract was signed bv officers of the Holston corpora tion and by Mayor John P. Grace for the city of Charleston under which the corporation agreed to begin the construction of coal terminals on its Town creek site within 60 days from July 1 in consideration of the transfer of a 60-foot right of way for a railroad to the Norlina Lnnctriir^/^r. ? * ???ut.nuu company Dy tlie city. The Holston corporation, of which Mark \V. Potter of >ksw York is president, is a subsidiary of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroad, extending from Spartanburg, S. C., to the rich Clinch field coal beds in southwestern Virginia. The signing of the agreement for the construction of the terminals by ?the Holston corporation makes it absolutely certain that Charleston will be the port of these extensive cottl fields. "The Clinchfield coal, it is believed, will be brought to Bostic, N- C., on the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio, taken through Charlotte, N. C., to McBee, S. C., |^^%on the Seabteird Air Line, trnns.'1 uxuAtlantic & Western railroad and carried to Charleston through ft - ^ nansviite, Darlington, Florence and Poston. The link in the Carolina, Atlantic & Western which is to connect Charleston and Poston is now under construction. W. R. Bonsai of Hamlet, president of the road, expects the line into Charleston to he completed in time to move the next cotton crop, although this is, of course problematic. About 1,000 laborers are at work on the Carolina, Atlantic & Western between Andrews, S- C\, and Charleston. The line from Florpnpo tr* Pneirtr. * i\/ m. uaiu 11 was toinpiciod <1 .few weeks ago, and is now in operation. The Carolina, Atlantic & Western railroad was recently formed by the amalgamation of the North & South Caro lina, the South Carolina West em and the Charleston Northern railroads, all of which were under the direction of Mr. lionsal, who is one of the big railroad men of the .South. His enterprise is doing much to develop Charleston and the Pee Dee section of the State. C. C. Graves is traffic manager of the Carolina, Atlantic & Western, and J. K. Hancock is general manager, both of them veteran railroad men. "President Potter is credited with stating that contracts amounting: to about $1,100,0(H) are required in connection with the purchase of properties and the construction of these coal terminals. Preliminary work was begun on June 20 by the I Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Dredg-j ing company of New York to j construct large dykes around about 70 acres of the terminal site. It is understood that the construction involved will in 1 ?- OPA ' viuuv uuck onu ieet lonj*, with deck of concrete cap on concrete | piles; fill retained by concrete sheet piles; dock anchored to base of concrete tunnel, supporton wooden piles. Mr. Crosby j IHE P PAG has considered bids on 600,000 Sviuare yards of dredging required; storage bins to have capacity of 650,000 tons coal; capacity for loading vessels to be 1,000 tons hourly; plants and specifications by J. W. Fra/.ier company, Cleveland, Ohio; engineer has J considered bids on dock." .Two Firemen Lose Lives By Dynamite Charlotte, N C., July 1.?Fireman \V. B. Glenn was instantly killed and J. II. Wallace, chief of the Charlotte lire department, was fatally injured bv an explosion of dynamite while fighting a fire on Cedar street this morning at 9 o'clock. Responding to an alarm the firemen found a barn burning briskle. It was while they were fighting the flames that dynamite stored in a house nearby exploded. Chief Wallace died at 12:20 o'clock in a local hospital, where he was rushed just after the accidentThree other members of the department, Randolph Frwin, Clyde Todd and Robert Raines, were also more or less painfully hurt. The dynamite was being used by a contractor who was doing some street grading for the city. The origin of the fire is unknown, hut there is a strong suspicion that it was of inceniiiarv origin. Claud Blackwell Pardoned. Claud C. Blackwell, who was convicted in the Mecklenburg county court cf manslaughter anil sentenced t > two years was last week pardoned by Governor J Lock Craig and returned to Ker^SIKMV---Saturday hwornnig:* rPrWf i charge for which he was convicted was the killing of Dr. I Fred Meisenheimor -u viiiuiUikV, two years ago, during the 20th of May celebration. He had served just about half of the sentence given him by the court.? Kershaw Era. The Chinese For "Honk, Honk." "If you can't talk, make signs," is an admonition often given to those who do not seem able to make themselves understood. The Western Christian Advocate tells of a woman who had a s me what similar expedient when she was in trouble and failed to find the necessary word. A l'irrro 0 vjliniiiii woman neut up a long line of people at the monev-order window in the !>oston postoffice the other day, and all because her memory went I back on her. She wanted to send some money to her son, a s. ilor on a merchant steamer then in foreign w aters, but when she presented the application at the window the clerk noticed the address was lacking. "Well when/ do you want to send it?" he asked. "We can't give you the money order unless you know the name of the place. I "Yah, dot's de trouble," she readied. "I didn't bring his letter, I mid i cnn 1 remember der name of dor town, hut it's some place out by China dot sounds like | der noise an automobile makes." The two clerks looked at each i other dubiously. ! "What kind of a noise does an automobile make?" asked one. "Ilouk, honk." sujested the I other. I ran, dot's it!" exclaimed the woman. "Monk, honk, dot's de place." "Fill in llonjjkomj," said the clerk, and she paid over her money with a smile of relief.? Kxchan^e. -*- ir* *' * *** AGE? aT^^|Hph Tame Meeting At ChM|ipm^V The state candidates^yolmKl fore an audience of hundred people ass&rft^H^HB 1 the court j Kev. J. L. Tyler offered tlK|^ j vocation. |B 1 The meeting was nQt^hmra* teri/.ed by any particularly little-ting features. It wm botijce- 1 able that nearly everyimanpe- 11 clared that he was raised on the ? farm, is a self-made man anTis 1 now dearly in love with the f pee pul. If the :haracter and ' caliber of the candidates could 1 be judged by the account each ' man gave of himself an unwise 1 selection would be impossible, for judging by these accounts, a more honorable, consciencious 1 and worthy set of men never 1 offered their services to a poor, f down-trodden people. Theii-on ? I the other hand, if the accounts 11 as given by each other are true, * a more unworthy set would be 1 hard to start. 1 Candidates for lieutenant gov * ernor were led by Andrew J. 1 Belhea, who was followed by ( \Y. M. I lamer, A.J. Hunter and 15. F. Kelly. ' 3 The five candidates for rail- * road commissioner made their c usual speeches. They wer^J. c II. Wharton, C. D. For?^ ' Frank W. Shealy, W. I. Wit^B s spoon and George W. Fairle^M 1 Candidates for adjutant ge^B 1 al, W. M. Moore seeking re-^Btion, and M. C. Willis, spolfe 1 next, followed by Attorney Gen- s eral Thomas II. Peeples aniAis J opponent, A. G. Brice. 1 The 11 candidates for scales, Manning and the wo c Smith's were the most poptilar. ^ "Mr -1 t r*? f 4<A?t vuunowa 1^3 JJJUII UL plillU | wide compulsory education is < an impracticable theory incap- 1 able of being put into execu- c tion," said Richard I. Manning, s who was warmly greeted by the ^ audience. * "1 asked Mr. Clinkscales to c answer in his speech today where the money is coming * Irom to run the schools and pay s the teachers if State-wide com- N pulsorv education is put into c effect." s f ? /-it - - I in c^nesierlield county, Mr. fanning said that a third of the r hoys were not in the schools ? and tjnoted the coun/y superin- 1 tendent of education as the auth- * oritv tor the statement th it it s would take a levy of 15 u?i;?^ to 1 pay the salaries of the teac iers c and the running expenses of the 1 schpols, exclusive of erecting new ouildings, should all the c children he forced into the ? schools now. < 1 "It you adopt Mr Clinkscales' ( plan you will give a backset to i! education because you will not N have the money to make Statewide compulsion effective," urged Mr. Manning after he presented his plan for focal op ton school attendance." r "I glory in the spunk the ) governor showed when he or lered raided the Columbia ebb? j the Metropolitan club and o her! 1 I rich men's clubs," declared CVfr. K iSimms. y<. I The speaker said that Nfr. lirownim* -.mil !??? .i?nr? J?ii- ^ . ...... ..V, tvuiv: IUC * iuy j human beings in the race for t governor. t "Ail the other candidates are r sanctified and ought to hi in x heaven," he insisted amid laugh-1* ,??.* I r I / 'I- ? * v^ir.ii ics a. vvmtli recalled his \ race for lieutenant governor t against K. Walker Duvall of * Cheraw, paving liis opponent a high tribute, lie then develop- [ ed his arguments in favor of t submitting the question of St ate- s l^MORNING, JULY 8, 1< vide prohibition to the people, i "One of the candidates has ;hied badly on this question," aid Lieut. Gov. Smith, referring /. V?_ I MI.-l u 1*11. V>IU1KSCUICS. "Does Mr. Clinkscales stand or compulsory education imong the ne.iiroes?" ^sked dent. Gov. Smith furtlier on in lis speech. "It is an insult to the poor nan to put in a class by himself ind to infer that he is not as jood as anybody else," declared dendal L. Smith in the course >f a speech in which he advoocal option compulsory educaion. llis condemnation of in discriminate pardons aroused he audience to applause. "1 asked Mr. Clinkscales, Mr. Manning and Mr. Smith where hey were going to get the noney to run the schools if any >ne of the systems of compul;ion they advocate are put into iftect and they have not answerid yet," said Lowndes J. Hrownng. He held that the constitu | ional State tax of 3 mills fori 1. i .... 01 scuooi purposes should he ibolished in order to effect )ther tax reforms. "If you are going to ieave the mill tax in the constitution, hen make it a State tax and livide it anions the counties jqually," uracil Mr. drowning. Ie said that the same principle hould he applied to the educaion of children that now applied o the pensioning of veterans. " There are .V>,7h'? white cliilIren out of school while the chools are running," asserted ohn G. Clinkscales. "South Carolina gives Clemor^$30Q,000 a year to educate a iwuuis iu winuiropana tins year >30,000 to eradicate the cattle ick, placing the tick above the diildren." said Mr. Clinkscales n taking up his opponents' piery about how compuls ry chool attendance was to be inanced. "Is this fair to the housands of children who are >ut of school?" "I counted further that many housands of children out of chool can be put into them row vithout increasing the tax levy >ne cent," insisted Mr. Clinkcales. "You don't have to force the legroes into the schools," declartd Mr. C'linkscales after he rid culed Mr. Richards' declaration Jvat he would never agree to pending an additional dollar for tegro education until all white 'hildren were given equal cducaional advantages. Robert A. Cooper, the' last landiilate for governor to speak, contented himself with announcng Ins candidacy anil briefly >utlining his platform. The nidience applauded him with rigor. A Hot One (Salt Lake City Times.) After Clod had finished the attlesnake, the toad and the 'ampire, lie had some awful v IV II n Mil ^ \ I I 1 V_ I I IIU mule a "knorkcr." A knocker s a twolegged animal with a orkscrew soul, a water soggod >rain, and a comhination back>one made <>i jelly and glue. Where other people have their learts, he carries a tumor of roten principles. When thcknock;r comes down the street honest nen turn their hacks, the angels veep tears in heaven, and the levil shuts the gates of hell to teep him out. No man has the ight to knock as long as there s a pool of water deep enough o drown his body in, or a rope o hang his carcass with. Judas scariol was a gentleman coloured to a knocker, for after Kit raying his Master he had ?nr?M Jrll <'l>'irocliir 'm X NHH?\ ?\ W mill; elf, an?l a knocki-i lias not. tURNAL )14 Were Failures Unless They Could "Lick" Pupils "When I was a boy," said the old timer, "it was considered necessary that a boy get a licking at least once a month when he was at home and not less than once a week when he was at school," says the Topeka Capital. "Teachers were hired more on account of the beef and muscle they carried round than on account of what they knew. The teacher .vho built up a reputation foi beim* nblo to lirL- nnv boy up to the ape of 21 had a cinch on getting a job teaching in the winter. "There were several young fellows who attended school every winter until they were 21, and it was the common thing to give the teacher a whirl just to see if Jie was man enough-for the job. If he came out second best he had to give up the srhool, but if he cleaned out the bunch that generally settled it, and lie had no more trouble | after that. "Some of the young men were as big as the average sized teacher and sometimes bigger. Then they were used to out door work and were stout as young bulls. The teacher was up against a hard proposition but he had one thing in his favor. If the big boys double teamed on him, that is, came on more than one at a time, lie had the right under the code that governed such cases to use a club. "One winter I went to a sort of graded school. There were three teachers, including the superintendent. He didn't have t.o do nmeb toa.rlii.ngr Mis principal business was to do the licking, and I never saw a man who seemed to me to like his job better than he did his. He had the finest assortment of seasoned guas I ever saw and for especially aggravated cases he had a rawhide whip that was a holy terror. He stood about six feet two and weighed about 220 j pounds and he wasn't fat at that. 1 I think he could lift about half a ton and when he made the ; boy strip off his 'wammus' and swung that whip he could make the stoutest heart howl. The other teachers were rather good ' hearted and didn't care to see the scholars beat up, but if they | didn't send so many up for ticking each week he complained that they were lojjfing on their jobs and didn't amount to an> thing as instructors. "Nearly every boy in the school made a solemn vow that when he grew up he would lick that principal within an inch of his life, but I never heard of one| v?i iiiciii uumg ii. i nearu 01 one hoy who did keep his pledge far enough to undertake it, but he regretted it afterward. "He was about 16 when he got the licking that burned into his soul, also into his hide. The principal had an extra grouch on that day and the first gratifying thing that happened to him was the sending of Hob Williams up for punishment. lie made Hob take off his'wammus'?all the hoys wore 'wammuses'?and then lie took down the rawhide. The marks of that licking lasted on 1 Job's hack for two weeks. Right then and there Bob registered his vow to lick that teacher. He waited five years till he was 21, and then took some boxing lessons from a man who claimed to have been a prize fighter. Then he hunted up his teacher who was not teaching that year. He was running a farm. Boh sort of figured to begin with that maybe the principal was growing old and stiff in the joints, anyway he hadn't Walter Uwlgera inar ! > If $1.00 per year trained in boxing. Bob discovered be had made a miscalculation about his former instructor being muscle bound. "When the fight was over Hob was worse used up than lie was that day five years before. Hut he wasn't altogether discouraged. lie decided to wait five years more and then try it again. He waited the five years and hunted up the school teacher again, but there wasn't any evidence of declining strength by that time, but the way he blacked both of Hob's eyes, mashed his nose and battered him up wp? very discouraging to Hob. Hob never tried it again. t i weni\ live years aner that I saw the okl teacher. lie war 70 years old and well preserved, but he had changed ids ideas about school discipline. He married a sclioolma'm when he was about 50. They raised a familv and he told me that if any teacher would beat one of his hoys the way he used to beat tip the boys I when he was a teacher, he would have the teacher prosecuted for assault and battery, and if that didn't work he would go after him with a shotgun."? 1 Fx change. Good Roads Maxims. (Atlanta Journal) The United Stales Good Roads association has issued a set of maxims in which the people of Georgia and of the South should ht> HSnOfMCllK" it'll.\ ? Uiivivoivu. 4\IIIUI1J4 them are these bits of homely wisdom: If the roads around a town are bad it might as well be on an island. You cail Jiavc ?'.vv, ' v.vl t & road you are willing to pay lor the poorer the}' are, the more you pay. Good roads means that you can come to town with twice the load in half the time you used to. Good roads are easy on you, easy on your horses, easy on the wagon, easy on the harness. A farm ten miles from town on a hard road is nearer than a farm five miles from town on a soft road. Good rn!i<t?\vitl inpn>oci. lio.aa. ? - -..'.w .? ? ? ?l?v VtlOV A J til 111 wealth, happiness, education, morality, civilization and prosperity. Good roads will decrease ignorance, poverty, discouregement, back taxes, sheriffs sales and grouches. All talk a id no work will not make good roads. Go to road improvement with the full realization that it is for | your own personal benefit and profit, not merely a public duty. u " o?:.i .. i i'n/iiii i, aaiu ?i 11111c dov, returning from Sunday school, "1 can't understand the text we had to studv this morning: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.* What does it mean?" "Mother would rather you thought the matter out for yourself dear. Think about it awhile; then if you can't understand, come to me." Half an hour later mother inuuired. "Do you understand what Mt is more blessed to give than to receive' means now, dear?" "Yes, mother, I think so. The Bible jnust be speaking of casloi oil."? Kxchange. She?Johnnie needs a new pair of shoes. lie?Why, saints alive! I brought home a pair for him last night! She?Yes, you did. l>ut as it took you fully six weeks to remomb r to get them, it might be well to stai; in now on the next pair. I s.