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L THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. K Dime Reading Setember 25?Youixi [ People Go Away to the Various ^ Colleges. Prosperity, Sept. 17.?-Rev. Monro* Epting, of Savannah, visited his sis tev, Mrs. Abies, last week. Miss Julia Kibler lias gone to New berry to spend a tew days. Miss Pearl MeCraekin, of Newber ry, visited Miss Kohn over Sunday. Misses Willie May Wise and Clan Gibson have returned to Rock Hil to resume their studies at Winthrop. Miss Kate Thompson went Mon day to Duo West Female college. Misses'Ethel Paysinger and Lilliai Hornsby spent Tuesday with Mi's. J P.: Wheeler. Miss Isoline Wyche goes Saturday to Utopia to toaoh the school there. Miss Jessie Moseley has gone t* "Vaughnville to teach music, etc., it tho school there. Dr. Hunter and family have move< into their -palatial residence on Mc Nairv street. Mr. and Mrs. Isanogle returned t< Baltimore Monday. Roth have woi many friends here during there so journ of more than a year with us Mr. Isanogle was the successful con tractor for the Lutheran church an< Dr. Hunter's home. Mr. Cecil Wyche is home again. Misses Lizzie Hawkins, Leila Grose close, Tyouisc Counts, OIlie Counts'nn< Dominick went to Marion, Va, where they will enter college. There will be a "Dime Reading' at the auditorium on Friday evening September 25. There will he debates illustrated songs, tableaux, drills an* reading. Everybody is invited. Th . entertainment will begin promptly a 8.30, and you are promised at leas two hours of such things as wil drive dull care away. Rev. W. H. Hiller, of Lexington was in the city a few days this week Mr. Jacob Dominick, of Kinards has been visiting his sisters am mother. Miss Hannah Wilson is with Mrs Browne at Wise Hotel. Mr. Robert Wilson, of Savanna! is visiting Mr. Clifton Kreps. Messrs. Marks and Lillins Simp son have gone to Clemson college. Mr. Willie Barnes lias accepted position with Harmon Bros. Dr. Dominick has just purchased a: automobile to facilitate his practice Miss Annie Lee Langford, of Spai tanburg, spent a few days at horn last week. Mr. Herbert Langford has return ed t.o Wofford college, Spartanburg Miss Lillie May Russell is in Cc lumbia for a few days. We are glad to report that Mrs Bridges is improving and also Mrs Jane Ixnig. Mr. John Hawkins has gone to hi school in Georgia. Mrs. Lane has returned from Hen dersonville. CHANLER NAMED TO FIGHT HUO-HE New York Demoeratio Conventio Selects Ticket.?Present Lieutant Governor Selected Rochester, >T. V.. Senl. KJ- NTon-i nat-ing all hut one ?>f its cand'ds.ie by acclamation ae.l a-liptini; a plat form which arrniyns the a>!mi!ii>t r.i tiou of Governor tiu-.'J.es ami p'cd'.'.e earnest support io ;he Dmvr plat form and candidates, the. democrat: State convention today no.isin.iled a the head tjof its ticket for g?.vcru.> the present lieutenant governor of tii State, Lewis Stuyvcsant Chanler, o Dutchess county. John A. Dix, o Washington county, was nominate, for lieutenant governor. All opposi tion to Mr. Chanler disappeared afte a conference of State leaders whic occupied a greater part of last nigh! The ticket decided upon by (he lead ers with one exception seemed ! meet the approval of all the delegate and the nominations were made wit] great enthusiasm until the office o State engineer and surveyor wa reached. The conference candidal for this office was Philip P. Farley, o Brooklyn, an Anti-McCarren man Senator McCarren, amid the cheer of his supporters, took the plat fori) "to resent an insult." He declare* the nomination of Farley was agree* to without any regard to the King county delegation and was intende* to embarrass them. Ho declared h would always support dcmocratl nominees, but would not hold himsel responsible for the action of peopl who felt themselves insulted. Farle; won on a roll call, but a motion t< make the nomination unanimous wa lost by two of three scattering nega tives. Judge Alton B. Parker was tin permanent chairman of the conven tion. ' The convention adjourned withou ilelfcy after United States Senato 1 (Jure, iii' Oklahoma, had -made a brief address. y '' 'I lie promises of reform upon which (lie present governor was elected, the platform alleges, have not been kept. We point as proof of i? this fact to the expenditures of 1907, _ which are larger than the extravagant sums expended under the predecessors _ ol' Governor Ilughes. We charge him with the responsibility for this waste _ and with giving his time and attention to the pursuit of spectacular t methods and self-advertising issues \ rather than to the work of reform and retrenchment upon the proceeds _< of which he was elected governor two" years ago. We insist that in this l most important .feature of his'dministration he has been derelict and remiss. Instead of cutting off the tax >r eaters from the list of office-holders he has caused new ones to be added j to it, and in the two public service t commissions, which have been brought into being at his suggestion and dicI tation, he has created office-holders _ who have woefully failed to better the condition of affairs confined to ^ (their charges.'' 1 BRYAN WISHES CHANLER WELL ' !. * 1 . Democratic Standard Bearer Pleased ^ With Action of New York Democrats. Utica, N. Sept. 10.?Soon after \ receiving word at Amsterdam, New York, of the nomination by the democratic State convention of Lewis > Stuyvesaut ('hauler for governor, , Win. J. Bryan, on his way to Koches. ter, sent him a telegram of congratu^ lations as follows: e "Lewis Chanler, Albanv. N. Y.: (, Please accept my -heartiest congrafut, lations on the deserved honor done I you by the democratic convention. Your character and record will strengthen the democratic cause. :. "(Signed) . Win. J. Bryan." Of Mr. Chanler Mr. Bryan had this rl to say: "Mr. Chanler's nomination is very satisfactory. During his ofTic.ial career he has grown in popularity and the compliment paid him by it the State convention was deserved. He represents a type of citizenship i_ which I hope to see an increasing number of representatives, lie is a ^ man of means, whose sympathies are with the masses, and he finds a ,, pleasure in rendering public service. , 1 believe that in the future we are going to have more of these men, e who, having enough of this world's goods to relieve them of possibility of want, will unselfishly devote their , time to the consideration of public questions and to ibe rendering of intelligent service to their fellow men. . I have no doubt that Mr. Chanler . will poll more than the party vote and give strength to ibe national ticket." s WINTHROP CONTRACT LET. J. D. Elliott, of Hickory. N. C., to Build the New Dormitory. s xr , ; News and Courier. ,, Kock Hill, Sept. 1(1.-?The building committee of Ibe Wintlirop board has been in session here two days considering the score or more bids subj_ milled for -the building of the new s dormitory al l lie college. The eon_ trad was iliis afternoon awarded to !_ Klliolt, of 11ickory, X. C. The figures are not given, but it is imdcr_ *t???d thai ii is in the neighborhood of .+.>0.000. Work will begin in the s near hit lire, so (liat the building mav be complete by llie beginning of the ^ next session. [ THE JEWISH FESTIVALS. Rosh Hoshanah or New Scar's Falls i< On September 25?Yo?n Yippur I, Fast Will Follow. Charleston Evening Post. 0 The Jewish festival of New Year s falls this year on September 25 and the celebration of the still more im? portant feast, Yom Kippur, or the s day of atonement, will take place ten days later. The largo Jewish community in ! Charleston will observe the festival R period at the synagogues on ilascli ft,*d St. Philip streets and in their homes, and the new year 5,609 will be auspiciously entered upon. The s celebration of Rosh Hoshanah or \ New Year's as is the case wit'll all R Jewish festivals, begins at sunset R with services at the synagogues and f preparations aro now under way for R the observance of the festivals. y It seems to have been a general n custom among Semitic peoples to s count their year as beginning in the - fall synchronous with (lie harvest a festival, and, since all Semitic people - arrange their calendar according to the phases of the moon it can be I t readily undomtood why following the] r ancient custom, the Jewish New Year occurs in I ho fall. Ami bo- <! cause of this discrepancy between ji Hie lunar and solar years there is a t few days' variation from year to year in the dgte of the celebration ?l according to current calendar. I Ditterent from the ordinary con- <i ceptiou Rosh Uoslinnah has a deep 'J religioous significance. It is called, t in tlie Bible, the day of remembrance, e I lie day of judgment and the day of 1 blowing t'je sliofar, or trumpet. It is t more than anything else really the c preparation for the great Yom Kip- :i pur, or Day of Atonement. v 1 lie days between Rosh lloshanah t and Yom Kippur are being known as a the awtul days, or the ten days of t penitence, each of which is observed a as a halt-least day by the more or- 1 thodox. Jews, while the Yom Kippur t itself is invariably observed as ?i li complete fast. The rabbinical allegory that on t Rosh liosahannah (Jod commands the t recording angel to open the books of v each one's sins and merits, leaving ti 'the record open to be finally and c irrevocably closed on Hie Yom Kip- v pur, indicates at once the significance t of the day and the appropriateness t of calling the New Year the day of remembrance, judgment and of blow- t ;ing the sliofar. 1 | Perhaps the most distinguishing t | feature in tlie ritual of Rosh IIos- i J hauali is (lie blow of the sliofar. The ^ : sliofar is made of curved rams horn, | and as in earlier times the blowing I ot the horn was resorted to as a sig- t i nal for preparing for war, assembling i j for special purposes and particularly c |t;? announce religious ceremonies. The ' cu"t >.n of blowing t!io sliofar in the ' jy ."'iii'ogue has been retained. The 1 ! blowing of the nhofar on Rosh llosjhunnch is the signal for each soul I to rouse itself, consider its past, re- i <t.cot upon its deserts and prepare to 1 jl>e more worthy in the future. t j In tlie law commanded in the twen- ' t.v-third chapter of Leviticus it is * said that (Jod in the observance of { atonement day observed: "When ve 1 shall afflict your souls." The meaning ot the words is rather obscure, 1 ; but the early rabbis interpreted them I I to mean abstinence from food, hence, i ! fasting has become the universal < custom in the observance of this day. ' j The Succolh, or the Fcasf of Tab- 1 : crnacles, which corresponds with the 1 Christian Thanksgiving concludes the > cycle o| holy days with a week's celebration, and, as in all such cases, ] the first and last days of the obser- | vance are marked by religious servic- ' es. This week is really the thanks- ] giving festival which is largely anal- < ogous to the modern harvest home. Tt partakes in no wise of the nature of j the two preceding holy days and is , connected with them only in time. , I his feast belongs rather to the cycle of the three pilgrimages, concluding ] ilie Passover, the Penticost and the | Feast of Tabernacles. i As stated in the sixteenth chapter j] l<?f Deuteronomy: "Three times a L jyear you shall appeair before (Jod." I i on these occasions (of course during I the existence of the Hebrew state) every Hebrew who could, assembled in Jerusalem, so they were political, economic and social as well and re- \ ligious in their character. Added to the forming whioh might | l?o called the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles was another celebralion known as the Feast of ConduI fion. which in the Hebrew is Shrmini At/.ereth. which, according to the Hi- ! ' jblical injunction, winds up the cycle. ' j lu past Biblical times I content i ' j u i 111 this. the rabbis inaugurated a]' [further celebration which they called the I* east ot the Rejoicing of the ' Lew?Simchas Toraih. ' . I HARD LOT OF PEARL DIVERS, j Misfortunes of Natives of French Is- ' lands In the Pacific. ? i About 4,000 people on the Tuamotu < Islands, thousands of miles out in the I Pacific, are now living in a stale of 1 destruction and wretchedness and is < scarcely paralleled in any other part < of the world. They are the victims of the great storms of 3003 and 1005, I and of the indifference, neglect and t mismanagement of French officials. I Their story is printed in the Bulletin < of the Comite de 1'Asia Francaise, ^ from the pen of Father Bracconi one i of the Roman Catholic missionaries in ( the islands. The Tuamotu Islands form the | most extensive of the archipelagoes s controlled by France in Oceania. TJicy ? comprise eighty little atolls, narrow t rings of corral rock rising a few feet I above sea level and enclosing lagoons. 1 Though tihey nro scattered over an 'I ami 700 miles long (and 200 miles I wide, the total land surface comprises t only about 215,000 acres. < Nearly 0,000 natives lived on twen- i ty islands before the storms of 100,'J i [and 1005 reduced their number. Many i 'of the uninhabited islands are visited J in pursuit of the only important in- t lustry of the group, diving in Uu? } ilgoons and in some waters outside j lie atolls lor mot Iter of pearl. j 10 very islander in his prime is a liver, iind Father Braeeoni says that >rofessional divers in no other part if t?lie world can compare with thorn. [Miey ean swim as though water were heir native element. Thev do not vt n come ashore to eat, hut eateli i<h with their hands and devour hem raw. Four or five commercial nmpanies of Tahiti have practically mule slaves of these islanders. For ' ears before 1 !HM the average producion of mother of )>earl was 401) tons , year. The trading companies bought his tor about 000,000 francs, all payble in merchandise, und sold it for ,500,000.? They -luul besides the exortionate profits derived from the arter trade. The pearl diver was always in debt o the traders and they manoeuvred o keep him in debt, and he was always straining every nerve to bring no re shells, for his creditors never caved to bully and threaten him. It s-a-j a bare existence, hand-to-mouth, < 'or every one of the (5,000 natives in he. archipelago. This had for years been (he si tun- ' ion when the storms of January, flOM. destroyed every cocoanul liw on ho islands, overwhelmed the low oofs on which the natives lived, vashed all their lints and fishing imdements into (he sea and drowned < lundreds of (he ishMiders, including nnny of the best divers, whose fainlies have since been de|?endent on the hari'ty of their poverty-sl ricken leighbors. They had begun to get n i lew start when (lie islouns of March, !00"), occurred. These slonns were even more destructive than those of 100M. The riant waves not only hilled nearly 1,000 people, but dug to the bottom of he lagoons and carried out to sea the livalves that yielded (he real wealth if the islands, mother of pearl. In idditiou not a drop of potable water ivas left in the islands. There are no brooks among these it tie rings of rock. The people dcHMided upon cisterns of mason work, n which (hey caught the rain. Ev>ry cistern was destroyed in (he gales, lnd the first thing to do was to remild them, spreading cloths meanvliile to catch the rain and (has alleviate suffering from (hirst. I'nder these circumstances the isandcrs lost courage and wished to flee from the scene of their trials. I'hey son! a delegation to Tahiti to ay (heir case, before Governor Julli511. "We've lost everything but our lives," said the old chief, who was their spokesman, "and nearly every family is mourning its dead. We men are not. afraid to stay on (he islands. but wo fear for our women and children. We ask you to give us some [daces on this great high island, where I >ur families may he safe. Help us a I little at first and we shall not ask for anything, not even for work." The governor was much alTo-ied ind promised assistance. Nothing v..is lone, and in the following December mother great storm occurred. There ivus not much left to destroy cxrt? pi human life, and it took its share of Ilia t. France heard of this last blow and SO.00(1 francs of the public fuiid.-* were voted to relievo the immcdi.in* i needs of t he .sufferers. A coiiiur *i'?u ivaalso ap|iointed in Tahiti to \I i: I he islands and see what could be lone to ameliorate the situation. Father Braeeoni severely criticises the commission. Tn the lirst place it used a large part of the money to liny Furopean fishing gear, which ivas useless to the natives. A few thousand francs were u?ed to build cisterns. It was voted to build very drong platforms on which the people night take refuge above the cyclone >f them, but to (his day not a step nis been taken to carry oui this proposal. A good deal of the funr. is arried on I he books of Tahiti as "receipts ext raordinary.'' The one good outcome of these related tragedies is the destruction of he trade monopoly. The native* lave been helped by the government o organize (heir own syndicate, vliich markets their mother of pearl n Tahiti, and its full value >s ivce.v d by the divers. The present situation is that the leople are thrown into terror at ihe [lightest indication of a storm. The. government, will not let them have he islands because to admit their i;ilabitability would ruin a valuable lossession. Tho v/hi'o teachers in Puamotu say that Ihe abandonment of he islands would be unnecessary if lie government would fulfill its plain Inly to safeguard life there by every nouns in human power; if Ihe government will not do Ibis il should not nsist that 4,000 people continue to ivo in a region where they believe heir lives are always in danger. GENTRY BROS FAMOUS SHOWS Saturday, September 26 M ANIMAL ACTORS 200 f The Great Steines Troupe. The Comedy Weylers. M'selle De Oesch?Queen of the Air. ft HERD OF PERFORMING ELEPHANTS^ Rain or Shine. FOR LADIES Built to Fit You By one of the good Houses of New York The materials used in these Suits are New 1908 Styles. The tailoring the very best. Let us figure with you before buying your fall suit. :::::: OUR TWO BIG STORES mammmmmmmmmmmmmmm ?' i ? wmMammmmmammmmmwmmmmamma Are rapidly filling with the best of the season's offerings. We are in line to fill your wants. Bear in mind our prices are always as low as consistent with good quality. 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