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ThE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Dime Reading Setember 25-Young People Go Away to the Various Colleges. Prosperity. Sept. 1 7.-iev. itroe Eptimr.. of Savaah. visited his sis ter. Mrs. Ables. last week. Misc Julia Kihler has gone to New berry to spend a few days. Miss Pearl McCrackin. of Newber rv. visited Miss Kohn over Sunday. Misses Willie May Wise and Clara Gibson have returned to Rock Hill to resume their studies at Winthrop. Miss Kate Thompson went Mon- I day to Due West Female college. Mis cs - Ethel Paysinger and Lillian Hornsby spent Tuesday with Mrs. J. P.. Wheeler. Miss Isoline Wyche goes Saturday to Utopia to teaeh the school there. Miss Jessie Moseley has gone to Vaughnviile to teach musie, etc., in the-school there. Dr. Hunter and family have moved into their -palatial residence on Me Nairy street. Mr. and Mrs. Isanogle returned to, Baltimore Monday. Both have won many friends here during there so journ of more than ' year with us. Mr. Isanogle was the successful con tractor for the Lutheran church and Dr. Hunter's home. Mr. Cecil Wyche is home again. Misses Lizzie Hawkins, Leila Grose close, Louise Counts. Ollie Counts'and 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 be debates, illustrated songs; tableaux, drills and reading. Everybody is invited. The entertainment will begin promptly at 8.30, and you are promised at least two hours of such things as will 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 and mother. Miss Hannah Wilson is with Mrs. Browne at Wise Hotel. Mr. Robert Wilson, of Savannah, is visiting Mr. Clifton Kreps. Messrs. Marks and Lillius Simp son have gone to Clemson college. Mr. Willie Barnes has accepted a position with Harmon Bros. -Dr. Dominick has just pu1rehased an automobile to facilitate his practice. Miss Annie Lee Langford, of Spar tanburg, spent a few days at home last week. Mr. Herbert Langford has return ed to Wofford college, Spartanburg. Miss Lillie May Russell is in Co lumbia for a few days. We are glad-to report that Mrs. Bridges is improving and also Mrs. Jane Long. Mr. John Hawkins -has gone to his school in Georgia. - Mrs. Lane has returned from Hen dersonville. CHANLER !NAMED TO FIGHT RHXrEES .New York Democrati: Couvention~ Selects Ticket.-Present Lient ant Governor Seacted. Roehester, N. Y.. .Sept. 16 ---Nom'i nating all but oue 'of its ein:ddues by acelamationl ai.1 i.1 ytin .a plat formi which arraigns t;e a'.bninid4ra tion of ('overnor HuzLes iun-I1e. earnest support to th D-mnv': pl~at form and candidates. the democerat:. State convention~ today no..?inated ais the head gof its ticket for gove1*.rn the present lieutenanit governor of the State, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, of Datehess county. John A. Dix, of Washington county, was nominated for lieutenant governor. All opposi tion to Mr. Chanler disappeared after a conference of State leaders which occupied a greater part of last night. The ticket decided upon by the lead ers with one exception seemed to meet the approval of all the delegatesI and the nominations were made with great enthusiasm until the office of State engineer and surveyor was reached. The conference candidate for this office was Philip P. Farley, of Brooklyn, an Anti-McCarren man. Senator McCarren, amid the cheers of his supporters, took the platform "to resent an insult.'' He declared the nomination of Farley was agreed to without any regard to thle Kings county delegation and was intended to embarrass them. He declared .he would always support democratic nominees, but would not hold himself responsible for the action of people who felt themselves insulted. Farley won on a roll call, but a motion to make the nomination unanimous was lost by two of three scatteringr nega tives. Judge Alton B. Parker was the permanent ehairman of the conven tion. The convention adjourned without day afte Iitd Sita Senator 1\'il. i i :." 'til ':I 'tit 1 P . l \1',t i) t this fact t( the expedi(l1 i f 1907 1wh1ich are lar!2"er thain the xiraVagan :Umls eX )t -d(( Undilr t:! " pob"tl"tt: r)1 u f GovwernIor Hu11a'he . \\'e e"i:i 1_e himit wvith the rsponiility for this waste and with giving his Iimne and atten tion to the pursuit of spectacular Imeth)ds and self-advertising issues rather than to the work of reform and retrenehment upon the proceeds of which he was elected governor two years ago. We insist that in this most important .feature of his admin istration he has been derelict and re miss. Instead of cutting off the tax eaters from the list of office-holders lie has caused new ones to be added to it. and in the two public service commissions, which have been brought into being at his suggestion and dic tation. he has created office-holders who have woefullv failed to better the condition of affairs confined to their charges." BRYAN WISHES CHANLER WELL Democratic Standard Bearer Pleased With Action of New York Democrats. Utica, N. Y.. Sept. 16.-Soon after receiving word at Amsterdam. New York, of the nomination by the dem ocratic State convention of Lewis Stu.vvesant Chanler for governor. Wm. J. Bryan, on his way to Roches ter, sent him a telegram of congratu lations as follows: "Lewis Chanler, Albany. N. Y.: Please accept my theartiest congratu lations on the deserved honor done you by the democratic convention. Your character and record will strengthen the democratic -cause. "(Signed) . Wm. J. Bryan.'' Of Mr. Chanler Mr. Bryan had this to say: "Mr. Chanler's nomination is very satisfactory. During his offi cial career he has grown in popular ity and the compliment paid him by the State convention was deserved. He represents a type of citizenship which I hope to see an increasing number of representatives. He is a man of means, whose sympathies are with the masses. and he finds a pleasure in rendering public service. I believe that in the future we are going to have more of these men, who, having enough of this world 's goods to relieve them of possibility of w~ant, will unselfishly devote their time to the consideration of public questions and to the rendering of in telligent service to their fellow men. I -have no doubt that Mr. Chanler will poll -more than the party vote and give strength to the national tick et.''" WINTHROP CONTRACT LET. 3. D. Elliott, of Hickory, N. C., to Build the New Dormitory. News and Conirier-. Rock Hill, Sept. 16.-The building comnmittee of the Winthrop board has been in session here two days con sidering the score or more bids sub mitted for. the building of the new dormitory at the college. The con tract was this afternoon awarded to J. D. Elliott, of Hickory. N. C. The figures arie not giiveni. b)ut it is under stood that it is inl the neCilhboh'iood Lf $50.000. W\ork will begin ini the near future, so that the building may be complete by the beginning of the next session. THE JEWISH FESTIVALS. Rosh Hoshanah or New Tear's Falls On September 25-Yomn Yippur Fast Will Follow. Charleston Evening Post. The Jewish festival of New Year alls this year on September 25 and he celebration of the still more um porta.nt feast, Yom Kippur, or the lay of atonement, will take place ten lays later. The large Jewish community in Charleston will observe the festival period at the synagogues on Haseli m.d St. Philip streets and in their somes, and the new year 5,669 will e auspiciously entered upon. The elebra.tion of Rosh Hoshanah or ew Year's as is the case with all ewish festivals, begins at sunset with services at the 'synagogues and preparations are now under way for the observance of the festivals. It seems to have been a general mstos among semnitie peoples to :ount their year as beginning in the all synchronous with the harvest estival. and,1 sinice all semnitie~ peop)le irrange their calendar according to he phases of the moon it can be eadily understood why following the rncint .netam, the .ewish New ? :t" l;tll,I. ,,ld .n1ar \tars thiere is a i < 41;a%s' var iahto froi vear to y eaIr i11 t lbe ( te, of the celebrat ion areo" rding1 t t"lt:urrent 4"alenthilr. I f1t"('eretl tro;it tIie tirdllarv ('i'n c'ttn iu 1i11 Ilo=11,al1;tl1 has a tleep relili2on'U si litica11ce. It is called. in the Bible. the dar of rene'l:lbrance. the day of judgment and the day of bi. wing Le shhofar. or trumpj1et. It is more than anything else really the preparation for the great Yom Kip pur. or Day of Atonement. The days between Rosh Hoshanah and Yom Kippur are being known as the awful (lays, or the ten days of penitence, each of which is observed as a half-feast day by the more or thodox .Jews, while the Yom Kippur itself is invariably <>bserved as a complete fast. The rabbinical allegory that on Hosh Hosabannah God commands the recording angel to open the books of each one's sins and merits. leaving the record open to be finally and irrovocably closed on t'he Yom Kip pur. indicates at once the significance of the day and the appropriateness of callinr the New Yea'r the day of remembrance, judgment and of blow ing the shofar. Perhaps the most distinguishing feature in the ritual of Rosh Hos l hanhhih is the blow of the shofar. The shofar is made of curved rams horn, and as in earlier times the blowing of the horn was resorted to as a sig nal for preparing for war, assembling for special purposes and particularly to announce religious ceremonies. The cu-tan of blowing the shofar in the e.:ioue has been retained. The blowing of the sh"far on Rosh Hos hannah is the signal for each soul to rouse itself, consider its past, re f:e t upon its deserts and prepare to be more worthy in the future. In the law commanded in the twen ty-third chapter of Leviticus it is said that God in the observance of atonement day observed: "When ye shall afflict your souls." The mean ing of the words is rather obscure, but the early rabbis interpreted them Ito mean abstinence from food, hence, fasting has become the universal cnstom in the observance of this day. The Succoth, or the Feast of Tab ernacles, which corresponds wit'h the Christian Thanksgiving concludes the eyele of holy days wit-h a week's cel ebration, 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 lat-gely anal ogous to the modern harvest home. It partakes in no wise of the nature of the two preceding holy days and is conniected with them only in time. This feast belongs rather to the cycle of the three pilgrimages, concluding the Passover, the Penticost and the Feast 'of Tabernacles. As stated in the sixteenth chapter of Deuteronomy: "Three times a year you shall appear before God,"' on these occasions (of. course during the existence of the Hebrewv state) every Hebrew who could, assembled in Jerusalem, so tLe- were politieal, economic and social as well and re ligious in their character. Added to the forming which mi,'ht be c-alled the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles was another celebra tion known as the Feast of Conclu sion, which in the Hebrew is Shemini Atzereth. which. according to tile Bi blical injunction, winids up the cycle. In past Biblical times. not cointenlt with this, the rabbis inaiugurated a further celebration which they called the Feast of the Rejoicing of the Lew-Simehas Torah. HARD LOT OF PEARL DIVERS. Misfortunes of Natives of French Is lands In the Pacific. About 4,000 people on the Tuamotu Islands, thousands of miles out in the Pacific. are now living in a state of destruction and wretchedness and is scarcely paralleled in any other part of the world. They are the victims of the great storms of 1903 and 1905, and of the indifference, neglect and mismanagement of French officials. Their story is printed in the Bulletin of the Comite de l'Asi.a Francaise, from the pen of Father Bracconi one of the Roman Catholie missionaries in the islands. The Tuamotu Islands form -the most extensive of the a.rchipelagoes controlled by France in Oceania. They comprise eighty little atolls, nairrow rings of corral rock rising a few feet above sea level and enelosing lagoons. Though they are scattered ~over an area 700 miles long landx 200 miles wide, the total land surface comprises ounly about 215,000 acres. Ne-arly 6.000 natives lived on twen tv islands before the storms of 1903 and 1905 reduced their number. Many of the uninhabited islands are visited in nnrenit of the only imponeant in. Ihe :I t uills for m: ot he r . tca y ri. l:V('rV isa Ill(l('1" i his prime is dier. ad Father rac coni says that prof-ionaIl dlive. inl no other parl (0f r'h wo,rid c"anl c( 1ompare with them They can swim as though water wer( tilh-ir nativ(' eleml('1t. They do nl eV<n\ come' :i1re to eat. but. Catcl: fi Ii will th(ir l1iluds and devoul t heA r:tw. Four mr five commercia c :apan ies of TFahiti have practically made slaves of these islanders. Foi years before 190:3 the average produc tion of motiher of pearl was 400 tonm a year. The trading companies bought this for about 600,000 francs, all pay able in merchandise, and sold it for 1.500,000. They had besides the ex tortionate profits derived from th, barter trade. The pearl diver was always in deb to the traders and they manoeuvred to keep him in debt. and he wvas al ways straining every nerve to brina more shells, for his creditors nevei cea--ed to bully and threaten him. It was a hare existence. hand-to-mouth for every one of the 6.000 natives ir the archipelago. This had for years been the situa tion when the storms of January 1903. destroyed every cocoanut tree o' the isla;nds, overwhelmed the lo" reefs on which the natives lived washed all their huts and fishing im plements into the sea and drownet hundreds of the islanders, includin many of the best divers, whose fam" ilies have since been dependent on the charity of their poverty-stricker neighbors. They had begun to get i new start when the starms of March 1905. occurred. These storms were even more de structsive than those of 1903. The giant waves not only killed nearli 1.000 people. but dug to the bottom o the lagons and carried out to sea the bivalves that yielded the real wealti of the islands, mother of pearl. Ii addition not a drop of potable watei was left in the islands. There are no brooks among thesr little :rings of rock. The people de pended upon cisterns of mason work in which they caught the rain. Ev ery cistern was destroyed in the gales and the first thing to do was to re build them. spreading~ cloths mean while to catch the rain and thus alle viate suffering from thirst. Under these circumstances the is landers lost courage and wished t< flee from the scene of their trials They sent a delegation to Tahiti t< lav their case 'before Governor Julli en. "We've lost everything but ou l.ives,'' said the old chief. who war their spokesmen, "and nearly ever3 family is mourning its dead. We men are not afraid to stay on the is lands, but we fear for our women ani children. We ask you to give us som< places on t his great high island, wherd our families may be safe. Help us little at first arnd we shall not ask foi anything, not even for work.'' The governor was much affee!tt and promised assistance. Nothing v,;a done, and in the following Decembea another great storm occurred. There was not much left to destroy ex'cep human life, and it took its share r that. France .hea:rd of .this last blow an, 80.000 francs of the public fund; were voted to relieve the immediat needs of the ,sufferers. A commg1'sio wvas also appointed in Tahiti to vi i the islands and see what could b done to ameliorate the situation. Father Braceoni severely eriticise the commission. In the first place i used a l'arge part of the money t< buy European fishing gear, whici was useless to the na,tives. A fev thousand franes were need to buiki cisterns. It was voted to build ver) strong platforms on which the peopl< might take refuge above the cyclon of them, but to this day not a ste] has been taken to carry out this pro posal. A good deal of the fund i: carried on the books of Tahiti as "re eipts extraordinary." The one good outcome of t.hese re peated tragedies is the destruction o: the trade monopoly. The natives have been helped by the governmeni to organize their own s,a ndicate which markets their mother of pear] in Tahiti, and its full value is rece.v ed by the divers. The present situation is .that the( peple are thrown into terror at the slightest indication of a storm. The government will not let them have the islands because to) admit their in~ habitability would ruin.'a valuable possession. The whie teachers in Tuamnotu say that the abandonment of the islands would be unnecessary if the governent would fulf'll its plair duty to sa.feguard life there by every means in human power: if the govern ment will not do t.his it should not insist that 4,000 people continue tc live in a region where they believe thir live are always in danger. FAMOUS Satu Septen 200 ANIMAL The Great Ste The Corned: M'selle De Oesch--I A HERD OF PERFORI 2 PERFOR Rain or FORUA BuIlt to By one of the good IB The materials used New 1908 Styles. very best. Let us f fore buying your fall OUR TWO E Are rapidly filling w season's offerings. 3 your wants. Bear ii are always as low good quality. We rr A Specia4ty We aim always to g of merchandise tha gives satisfaction. C.&kS -day, iber26 ACTORS 200 ines Troupe. y Weylers. Queen of the Air. IING ELEPHANTS. IANOES 2. 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