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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.
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