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MB. TY1LS0S HAKES STKU^U FI ^ T)AY ADDEfcSS Why We Joined War?Declares It Is People's Battle Against Prussiau igm, for Freedom, Self-Gov ernment and Justice. Washington, June 14.?President Wilson warned the American people in a Flag Day address on the Wash ington Monument grounds today that Germany has carried lnro effect the jsreater Dart of her immediate plan of conquest and now is negotiating a aew "intrigue of peace," designed to end the war while her aggressions are secore. All the Central Empires, the Presi dent declared, have been cemented into one great autocracy-ridden em pire "throwing a broad belt of German military power :jid political control across the very center of Europe and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia." This accomplished. lie said, it Is easy to nnaerstanu wuj Germany is fostering a propaganda for an early peace. Much Peaee Talk. "-Peace, peace has ben "Peace, peace, peace has Deen the talk of her foreign office for now a year and more," said the President. "A little of the talk has been public, but most of it has been private. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me and in all sorts of guises. rT,T- - ?-1:nHor whfim JL LLG minim y liiasiuo uuv?v> Germany is bleeding see very clearly to what point fate has brought them. If they can secure peace now with the immense advantages still in their hands, which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have Justliied tnemseives otuure mc ur*=i man people; they will have sained by force what they promised to gain by it" - Spoke Under Umbrella Several hours before the President spoke Washintgon had been denched with rain and pelted with Hall. All , through the speech rain came dowu an/? a swret service man held 9aV4V4J V?UW W -an umbrella over the President's head, while hundreds of umbrellas hid the faces of most of the hearers. In spite of the unfavorable conditions, the crowd was large and applauded vigor ously. Secretary Lansing introduced the President and most of the mem bers of the Cabinet and others prom int;ul. 111 umviai me ?v>v The President recited again the Ger man aggressions which drove the United States to war. He declared the purposes for which American soldiers jk>w carry the Stars and Stripes to S&urope for the first time in history, are not new to American tradition? 'because realization of German's war aims must eventually mean the undo ing of the whole world. He spoke as follows: Emblems of Unity. "My fellow* citizens: We meet to -celebrate Flag Day because this flag which we honor and nuder which we serve is the emblem of unity, our pow er, our thought and purpose as a na tion. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. * * We celebrate the <Jay of its birth; and. from its birth nstil now it has witnessed a great nis tory, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a great people. We are afcout to carry it into battle, to lift it where it will draw the fire of our ene mies. We are about to bid thousands, trundreds of thousands, it may be mil lions, of our men, the young, the strong, ine capauie men n_c uauvu, to go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood far away?for what? For some -unaccustomed thing? For some thing for which it has never sought the fire before? American arms were never ueiore sem atiusa cut ow^. *W&y are they sent now? For some new purpose, for which this great flag has never been carried before, or for some old, familiar, heroic purposeifor which it has seen men, its own men, die on every battlefield upon which Americans have borne arms since the revolution? "These are questions which must fce answered. * * * x German Aggressions. "It is plain enough how we were rorcea mxo me war. me wuauiur marr insults and aggressions of the Imperial German Government left us bo selfrespecting choice but to take up U111S 111 UCT.CU9C U1 VU1 j xu * free people and of our honor as a ?orvereign government. The military Masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral. They filled our unsuspecting communities with vici ous spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their own behalf. When they found that they could-not do that, their tigents diligently spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance? and some of those agents were men eonected with the official embassy of 'he German Government itself?here ji our own Capital. They sought by "Jrsi/vr.rtQ ? <1notrmr aiir inflnrips. and arrest our commerce. They tried to incite Mexico to take u parms against us and to draw Japan into a hosttile alliance with her?and that, not by indirection, but by direct suggestion from the foreign office in Berlin. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly exe cuted their threat that they would end to tehir death any of our people woh ventured to approach the coasts of Europe. * * *What great nation ir such circumstances "would not have take:, up arms? Much as we had de sired ;jeace it was denied us and not of oar own choice. The flag undei which we serve would have been dis honor ;>d had.we withheld our hand, only l'art of the Story. "But that is only part of the story WV> know now as clearly as we knevs before we were ourselves engagec that we were net the enemies of the German people and that they are noi our enemies. * * *"St Tiiey arc themselves in the grip of the same snister power that has now at lasi stretched its ugly talons out anc drawn blood from us. The whole world is at war because the whole world is in the grip of that powei and is trying out tile great battle which shall determine wiietiier it is to be brought under its mastery 01 fling itself free. "The war was begun by the mili tary masters of Germany, iwho provec to be also masters or Austria-Hun gary. These men have never regard ed nations as peoples, men, women and children of like blood and fram( as themselves for whom government! existed and in whom governments ha( their life. They have regarded then merely as serviceable organizations which they could by force or intrigu* n* /wYrrtint tn their own ournose iuvuu VA ? w-|#w .. ? ? ? They have regarded tue smalle] States, in particular and the peoples who could be overwhelmed by force I as their natural tools and instrument! 1 of domination. Their purpose has ! long been avowed. * * Only a Step. "The demands made by Austria up ! on Servia were a mere single step li a plan which compassed Europe an< Asia from Berlin to Bagdad. The: j hoped these demands might no i arouse Europe, hut they meant U press tnem wnetner tney uiu ui uui for they thought themselves read: for the final issue at arms. "Their plan was to throw a broa< belt of German military power am political control across the very cen ter of 'Europe and beyond the Medi terranean into the ehart of Asia, am Austria-Hungary was to be as mucl 1- - - - rvnmn o <3 Qorhl Ck I\T "Rill I X116U iuui auu j/Anxx iw v?v. w ? 1 garia or Turkey or the ponderou | States of the East. Austria-Hungar i indeed, was to become part of th ,! central German empire, absorbed an< dominated by the same force and in . fluences that had orignally cementei ! the German States themselves. Th dream had its heart at Berlin. I j could have had a heart nownere else j * * * It contemplated binding to j gether racial and political units whic! [j could be kept together only by fore | ?Czechs, Magyars, Croats, SerDs. Ru | i manians, 'furks, Armenians ? th ' ?Ufthomia ?ri/i Hun I piUUU SMltO VI ? '{ gary, the stout little commonwealth !: of the Balkans, the indomitable Turks J1 the subtle peoples of the East. Thes . people did not wish to be united t they apparently desired to direct thel 11 own affairs?would be satisfied onl . j by undisputed independence. * * .} Plan All But Accomplished. [ "And they have actually carried th ! ppratpp nart of that amazin? plan in , to execution! Look how things stanc * * * From Hamburg to the Per ,'i sian gulf the net is spread. "It is not easy to understand th j eagerness for peace that has bee: manifested from Berlin ever since th . snare was set and sprung? Peac< peace, peace, has been the talk of he , foreign office for now a year an more; not peace upon her own initia tive, but upon the initiative of th nations over which she now <leem herself to hold the advantage. A lit I tie of the talk has been public, bu j "most of it has been private. Throug j all sorts of channels Jt has come t j me, and in all sorts of guises, bu j never with the terms disclosed whic ! +v.? r* *-i finvornmpnt would b !| willing to accept. That governmeii ? has other valuable pawns in its hand '! besides those I have mentioned. I j still holds a valuable part of Franc< ;f though with slowly relaxing grasi !i and nracticallv the whole of Belgiun Its armies press close upon Russi and overrun Poland at their will. I 'i cannot go further; it dare not g j back. It wishes to close its bargai before it is too late, and it has littl - j left to offer for the pound of lies' !; it will demand. PrA#MrHinftnt of Tfilitarr Masters. | "The military masters under whor ;l Germany is bleeding see very clearl !| to what point fate has brought then | If they fall back or are forced bac ! j an inch their -power both abroad an ;,at home will fall to pieces like . j house of cards. It is their power a home they are thinking about no^ 'j more than their power abroad. It i | that power which is trembling unde j their very feet, and deep fear has en i t?r*d their hearts. They have bu one chance to perpetuate their mill tary power, or even their conirollin, political influence. If tney can se ' ure peace now, with the immense ad vantages still in their hands whic ! they have up to this point apparent > ly gained, they will have j-ustifie themselves before the German peo pie. * * * If they fan tnelr peo pie will thrust them a&ide, a gov 1 ernment accountable to the peopi j themselves will be set up in Germany ; it. has been in England, in th ((United States, in Franoe and in al 1 the great countries of the moderi times except Germany. If they sue ceed they are safe and Germany am I the world are undone. If they fai i Germany is saved and the world wil j be at pea?e. If they succeed Amerio i will fall within the menace. We a'ni . all the rest of the woiid must re i main armed, as they will remain, am must make ready for the next stej I in their aggression; 'if they fail thi ! world may unite for peace, and Ger j many may be of the union. Aim Is Deceive. | "Do you not now understand thi new intrigue, the intrigue for peace j and why the masters of Germany d< not hesitate tc use any agency tha promises to effect their purpose, tin j deceit of the nations? Their presen particular aim is to deceive all thos< Who throughout the world stand fo] the rights of peoples anc trie self i government of nations; for they seef !j what immerse strength the forces! of justice and of liberalism are gatli-j ; ering out of this war. They are em-; ; ploying Liberals in their enterprises.' They are using men, in Germany and! j without, as their spokesmen whom j I they have hitherto despised and op | pressed, using them for Uieir own l r| destruction?Socialists, the leaders or! ji labor, the thinkers they have hither- i } | to sought to silence. Let them onco' ; | succeed and these men. now their i , I tools, will be ground to powder be-; , neath the weight of the great mili-i i tary empire they will have set up;! [{the revolutionists in Russia will be| ;! cut off from all succor or coopera-; I; tion in Western Europe and a coun-| ^: ter-revolution fostered and supported; ;j Germany herself will lose her chance ;j of freedom; and all Europe will arnr .Ifor the next, the final struggle. Intrigue Everywhere. "The sinister intrigue is being no! | less actively conducted in this coun-i try than in Russia, and in every coun-1 try in Europe to which the agents and! J dupes of the Imperial Germon gov- j 1 ernment can get access. That gov-j | ernment has many spokesmen here,! ] in places high and low. They have 1 learned discretion. They keep with ! in the law. It is opinion they utter > | now, not sedition. They proclaim the! j liberal purpose of their masters; .; declare this a foreign war which can j | touch America with no danger to eith J er her lands or her institutions; set 3! England at the center of the stage 5 and talk of her ambition to assert [ economic dominion throughout thei world; appeal to our ancient tradi-j tion of isolation in the politics of! Jithe nations; and seek to undermine j the government with false professions1 of loyalty to its principles. fj tj Will Make >'o Headway. "But tney win matte no neauway.j The false betray themselves always; f j in every accent. It is only friends of' j the German Government whom we *1 have already identified who utter j 1 these thinly disguised disloyalites. The' - j facts are patent to all the world,! ! and now where are they more plainly! J seen than in the United States, where: 1j we are accustomed to deal with facts and not with sophistries; and the s great fact that stands out above all' y the rest is that, this is a people's1 e war, a war for freedom and justice j *: and self-government amongst all the ~i nations of the world, a war to makej the world safe for the peoples who e live upon it and have made It their t own, the German people themselves .included; and that with us rests the' choice to break through all these hy k' pocrisies and patent cheats .and, ft. ?->-> n n 1 t r\f Vvt"ii + q f nrfio qiiH bpln qpf I , llia^IVd VI 1/1 4V1 VW M.AAV* MWW. " the world free or else stand aside e and let it be dominated a long age! L~ through by sheer weight of arms andj s the arbitrary choices of self-consti-! * tuted monsters, but the nation which: e; can maintain the biggest armies and, the most irresistible armaments ?, r i a power to which the world has af-; y| forded no parallel and in the face ofi *. which political freedom must wither! ' and perish. "For us there is but one choice. We J if \XTr\a ho tn thp man or i I j uaic inaut 11. ii vu >#v w ...? _- , ,'i group of men that seeks to stand in J "j our way in this day of high resolution) i when every principle we hold dearest; is to be vindicated and made secure g for the salvation of the nation. We, 4 | are ready to plead at the bar of his- j '*: torv. and our flag shall wear a new ' Ti lustre. Once more we shall maKej j good with our lives and fortunes the! ~! great faith to which we were born,{ ej and a new glory shall shine in the i face of our people/' & ULBULANCE UNIT oj IS WORKING HARD kj Colombia Company at Allentown, Pa^j ei Striving to Fe Among First lt! , Sent to France. si t1 To the Editor of The State: Since the arrival of the Columbia ambulance company at training head 1- i ?+ Vl <2 O ItnHoi'O'^np ^Dm ^ "| ijuai ici o ib nuo a; changes, having been divided into * i three distinct units, each under sep-1 0 arate ofiiers. It still retains its prig-1 a inal number, 26, with sections 26, 27 e and 28. Each section is made up of h; one first sergeant, one s-econd ser ! geant, one corporal, two orderlies, two ! clerks, one chief mechanic, two as-1 aj sistant mechanics, one cook, two as-J y\sistant cooks and 24 truck and ambu-J 1 - - i l- i lance drivers. ! I 'Section 26 has the following officers: j First sergeant, L. yi. Smith; second *! sergeant, R. H. Banks, and corporal, j j H. T.. Livingston. Section 27 First! V'sergeant, J. N. Piatt; second sergeant,! s T. A. Fridy and corporal, L. E. Alt-; ri man. Section 28: FMrst sergeant, D. 1 ~ R. Wallace; second sergeant, W. G.1 * Ragsdale, and corporal, C. E. Mont-! " i gomery. p; A company is made up of five full, j units or sections. Our company lacks ' "I two units of meeting this requirement, < so, in order that we may have a tuli South Carolina company, commanded | by a South Carolina captain, every ; officer and private is doing his ut i most to secure the desired units im i mediately. e | We are hard at it drilling and get '*! ting in trim generally for eany ser e vice, as we have been notified that the first ready will be the first to 1 get off to France. Watch and see " who is among the first! Our men are still young in the business but are J i ODtimistic and in high spirits gener-' ally. jji Of course our hearts are back In: 3| the old Palmetto State and our minds' ~! r.ften revert to relatives, friends andj *! others, to whom it was so hard to j 1 ,y 5UWHY Robert F. Goodwin, I Allentown. Pa., June 12. WISCONSIN ENACTS ITS OWN FOOD LAWS! J Madison, Wis., June 14.?The state j council of defense was given the pow-j er to investigate and take over the, distribution of food products of Wis-] consin today, when the assembly put through the finance cottee bill. j KED CROSS WEEK. President Wilson Frges People of tlie United States liaise Some $i,00C,0(K/ War Fund for the American lied Cross, South Carolina's Share $300,000. It is an immense sum winch tne people of the United States are ask ed to subscribe as a war fund for the American Red Cross?$100,000,000.1 This is nearly seven times as much as the initial appropriation bj the, Confederate Congress for war pur-! poses. But when the war of the; Confederacy began the belief was general that it would be a short, easy,; bloodless and inexpensive conflict. \ The immensity of the work which the American Red Cross must do from; now on in the present war is realiz ed also that the work cannot be ac-; complished except at a cost in treas-1 ure and in sacrifice wnic'n is veryI great. To understand why the American' Rpri r.rn?s much monev It must be remembered that it has a work to do for our Allies as well as for the great army of American sol diers and sailors now being mobiliz-, ed for service in the war against Ger-; many. It will only be a few mofcths j until we have an army of a million men and a navy of a hundred and; fifty thousand men. It is the task i of the Red Cross to care for these men when they aTe sick and wound ed. The Red Cross must care also for the distressed of other countries. It must aid in combatting tufcerculo-; sis which has become prevalent in i France, as a result of trench warfare., It must look after the homeless in +1nn ft ViiinHro/1 tj-iTi/ri a and vil UiC V/V4 - -? lages of France which have been laid waste. It must lend its aid to af-j flicted Russia, where on a ^line o? a thousand miles there arc on:y 6,000 ambulances, as against 64,000 on the JYench front of four hundred miles All its resources will be taxed, no matter how generous the response of the American people to the appeal now being made. President Wilson has proclaimed the week of Monday, Jpue 18-25, as "Red Cross Week," He ras designat or? snmp r>f thp foremost business and professional men in the United States to lead in the campaign for the $100, 000.000 war fund which the Red Cross needs. South Carolina is called up on to subscribe to this fund. Public spirited men in every county have been asked to organize for the rais in z of the money. The Red Cross or ganization of the City s+f Charleston has alrpadv nledrced itself to raise $75 as Charleston's share. It is pnoerf that every man, woman and child in South Carolina will try to have some part in this great and no ble movement. Announcement of tne movement's success cannot fail to send a thrill throughout all the Allied coutries. 1785 1917 pemAv Luj/jujc,ujc, ur tnAaiJi,.iiv;i ^oTrf?t c-rUlna's Oldest College 133d Year Begins September 28 r?4i*anfA ftT~Tr\"'"!fl*:or,c: rt iT! th*? county-seats, Friday, July 13, at 9 a. ra. > Four-year coures lead to the B. A. and B. S. degrees. A two-year pre medical course is given. A free tuition scholarship is as signed to each county of the State. Spacious buildings and athletic grounds, well equipped laboratories, unexcelled library facilities. Expenses moderate. For terms and catalogue, address ttARBISON RANDOLPH, President, MANY WILL ATTEND NEWBERRY MEETING Summer School for Sunday School Workers to Be Held August 11-17 ?Arrange Program The State, 9th. The Rev. E. C. Cronk, D. D., re turned to Columbia yesterday from Virginia to perfect the arrangements for the summer school* for Sunday school workers, to be held in New berry, August 11-17. Dr. Cronk is AYpnnt.ivA serretarv for tbe summer school, which is under/ the control fit the Lutherans of the State. The com mittee will present a programme of unusual excellence this year. Dr. D. Burt Smith of Easton, Pa., will give a course on "The Sunday School at its Best?How?" Dr. Smith is one of the leading specialists in Sunday school work in Pennsylvanra. He has done special work at Columbia uni versity and is taking an additional course there this summer in psychol ogy and methods of work. Dr. J. Hen ry Harms of Newberry College will havq charge of the course on the Old Testament. Dr. R. C. Longaker of Lenior college, Hickory, N. C., will >>e heard, for the first time in Soutfi Carolina, in the course on the New Testament. Dr. Longaker is a Sun day school worker of large experience both in the North and the West and a tocher of marked ability. Mrs. E. C. Cronk will give a course on "Me thods of Work," and will have charge of the evening "story hour." Mrs. Cronk is chairman of the committee ori methods for the Interdenominaaion al Federation of Women's Missionary Societies of North America. She will come to Newbery from the Northfield conferences, after a series of summer chautauquas. The course in pedagogy will be b~ -I m Gregory's "Seven Laws oi Teaching," and will be given by Prof. S. J. Derrick of Newberry, who has specialized along tilts' line. The delightful out of door evening meetings will be held oi* the campus. witn addresses uy iiiemucis vi mc m c-ultv and other speakers. Enconraging Him. Cheerful'one (to newcomer, on be ing asked what the trenches are like) ?"If yer stands up yer gets sniped; if yer keeps down yer gets drowned; ifi yer moves about yer gets shelled; andl if yer stands still yer gets court-' martailed for frost bite."?Philadelphia' Ledger. ' A'ewberry County Chaining*. ' Following is the report of the New berry county chaingang taken from the quarterly report of the state board of charity and corrections: 1. Mr. T. H. Teague, foreman. .Vis-! ited October IS, 1916. Camp about 12 miles from Newberry near Bush River i church. Equipment?For the guards a tent: with a fly. Convicts occupy an empty1 three-room tenant house. Convicts! sleep on six pallets made of mattress- j es spread 011 the floor of one or tne rooms. For bed covering blankets were provided. They were only fairly; clean. Cooking is done in one of the rooms in the house over the open fire.! Management.?Nearest physician is summoned to the camp when a convict; is sick. Records of convicts kept by: the foreman are up to requirements.! Law requiring separation of races is being obeyed. Convicts who behave themselves were given one-twelfth off their sentences, instead of one-tenth which is provided by law. Convicts.?Number on gang day vis uea?negro men, ia, ujl wnum mu were "trusties." Convicts are re-: quired to bathe on commitment and once a week while on the gang. Three' convicts bathe in the same tub of water. On day visited convicts had, for breakfast fried bacon, cornbread, molasses for dinner: fried 'bacon, cornbread, molasses; for supper:, peas, fried bacon, cornbread, molass-! es. Convicts given fresh beef about1 once a month. Fresh pork provided at irregular intervals uuuug iuc muici. They have wheat bread once a week.1 The sewerage from the camp is buried, j Trusties who need discipline are! shackled. Chain men are strapped. | The latter punishment is inflicted by the foreman himself in camp. I i i 2. Mr. J. G. Miller, foreman. Vis ited October 18, 19-16. Camp five miles from Newberry on the Herbert ferry road. Equipment.?For convicts one tent without a fly to cover it; for the i guards one tent with no fly. Convicts ! sleep on pallets made of mattresses . resting on boards raised off the ground by logs. Blankets are used as i bed covering. Fairly clean. Cooking , is done out or doors, i ^Management.?No physician is re gularly employed to do the practice at this chaingang. The nearest physi cian is summoned when a convict is sick. Sick convicts are kept in the camp or sent to jail. Records of con victs kept by the foreman are very in 1 adequate as they consisted only of a few commitment papers. Law requir 1 nf rar'Oa flflfl t.hft liig Lilt: scpaiauuu VJ. law requiring the giving of one-tenth off the sentence of convicts who mer it by good behavior were being fol lowed at this chaingang. Convicts.?dumber on gang day vis ited?negro men, 11, of whom three were "trusties". Convicts are re ; quired to bathe when brought to camp : to begin their sentence and weekly thereafter. Each convict is given a . tub of clear water. On the day of j the visit convicts had for breakfast: j friend bacon, cornbread, molasses; for 'dinner: peas, cornbread, boiled ba | con, molasses; for supper: fried ba I con, cornbread, molasses. Convicts 1 have fresh meat to eat about twice o mnnfh and wheat bread with two j meals during each week. Sewerage from bucket in the convict's tent is ! buried in a shallow pit immediotely ' in the rear of the tent. For punish ment convicts are whipped or double shackled. Former punishment is ad ministered by the foreman or the guard of the camp. 3. Mr. J. W. Miller, foreman. Vis ited October 18, 1916. Camp near Jolly Street school. Equipment.?For guards one tent I with fly. For convicts one tent with fly. Convicts sleep on six cots and , one double bed. Straw ticks and i blankets used as bedding. Both in very poor condition. Cooking .done j for convicts and guards out of doors. 1 Manageemnt.?No physician is em ployed to practice at this camp. Near est physician is called when a con ; victs is sick. Few, if: any, records of i convicts kept by foreman. Sick con ! victs stay in camp or are sent to tne I Newberry jail. The law requiring the separation of races and the law pro j viding that one-tenth off the sentence ' of convicts who merit it by good be ( havior be remitted are obeyed. Convicts.?Number on gang day vis i ited?negro men, 10 of whom nine j were "trusties." Convicts are re j quired to bathe when they come to the camp to begin their sentence and once ^- Via /loir nf tViia a weeK mereauer. un wc uo; visit convicts had for breakfast: fried bacon, cornbread, molasses; for din ner: friend bacon, cornbread, molass es; for supper: cornbread, fried ba con. molasses. *Tesn meat *ciy seldom." Wheat bread "seldom." The j sewerage from the camp is thrown on the surface of the ground. Trusty convicts have their shackles put back on them for punishment and chain ! men are strapped. ' Recommendation for Gangs.?Pro i vide covered kitchens, preferably j serened wooden cars of approved 1 type, for all chaingangs. Employ a | physician on a salary basis to <\o the practice for the gang. Require him ; to make a physical examination of | convcts when commtted to the gangs j unless they have been examined while ' in jail; to vaccinate convicts against ' smallpox when indicated; and to visit ! the camps regularly once a week, in : sheeting the convicts' food and quar ter. Send all tubercular convicts to j the tubercular nospuai at me sun..:: penitentiary. Foremen of Gangs 2 and 3 should keep in a suitable book a record of all convicts committed to the gangs which should include their names, dates of commitment, race and ages, length of sentence, whether they have a family dependent upon them for support, whether "trusties", dates of discharge and reasons for dls ; charge. Give the convicts fresh meat to -eat twice a week and wheat bread j once a day. Use kerosene oil as a fly j | repellant in the sewerage buckets in the convicts' quarters; dump the sew-: erage into a pit at least 105 yards! from the sites of the camps, and' cover carefully with earth regularly once a day. Abolish whipping as a means of enforcing discipline. Give convicts on Gang 1 one-tenth oft their sentences as required by law when they merit it by good behavior. At Gang 1 stop the practice of bathing more than one convict in the same tub of water. t tnv trii.t.vj FLOREXrv Female Check Forffer Gives Police men and Others a iiace. Wilmington Star. Mrs. O. O. Grant, or Mrs. C. S~~ Whitney, who is held here in th county jail on the charge of passin worthless checks on Wilmington bu siness men, and who made such a sensational escape from the jail ia Florence before being brought here, ** stirred that South Carolina town txr~ ? ?; /t.Vi r\f av/>ifomont ac/inrWinff 4Uiic a yii^u \jl oavi^vuivuv, ?v^.v^v..uo to a story in the Florence Times of the day she attempted escape. The i;torj follows: "Florence was treated to a rich and novel sensation this morning, a young: woman dressed in man-s clothing, fleeing, from a pursuing crowd of men and children, jumping fences with the agility of an acrobat, and Cnally mm down and sent to where her offenses apparently began. Nobody knows the woman or if they do know her they will not tell, sue is awui zu years of age and is supposed to be a Mrs. i Whitney, or 'Whinney, as the telegram read, said to be the wife of an engi neer in Wilmington, or by others who ! claim to know, a well known wo : man of the demimonde of that town. She has been^ pasing worthless checks. i Her plan was to take a check to a I furniture store, buy half or two thirds , its value and get the rest in cash. She , got off the train at Winona yesterday morning, got a car to Florence, went i in at the front door of a boardinj : house and out the back, got anoth? | car and went, to Lake City, giving th^|H , driver the slip there, also, :t.ls said and was finally arrested by the chief j of police of that town on order from j the sheriff here. i "She was brought to Florence and delivered to the jailer, but as she was so lady like in her appearance Mr. and Mrs. Bryant gave up one of their j rooms in the jail to her. Mr. Bryant anxious about her, sat up all night ! on the piazza of the jail watching the i exit to the room. At dawn she got ! him to call Lake City for her on the ! long distance telephone, and talked of ; breakfast and returning to Wilmington I without trouble, but when Mr. Bryant, I the jailer, went to answer the phcne : from Lake City she dressed in the jail ; er's Sunday suit, hat and necktie, slip ' * *- -? 1 1- J - -Shwitvo/) I pea out or me u&ck. uwr auu juiu>mi. ! the high fence in the back of the jail : and made her way to Palmetto street j where she stopped some nr.gro cooks ! going to service and asked for a car. | While talking with these Mr. J. E. ; Justice suspected something wrong M and saw that it was a woman dressed ; in man's clothes and arrested her, 41 ; but she broke from him and fled. I He thought he had a German spj 'I atartpd in mirsuit. She lenT)eT ! over a fence that was one rail too higli for Mr. Justice but the pursuit v:zz ta ' ken up by others on the other side, and after bogging through recently drowned gardens and flying like a bird over fences and around corners she was finally taken, ingloriously taken, and then, like men, every one who had caught her, wanted to help her run away some more, and not catch her, or catching her, xeep ner away from the horrid sheriff for she was young and pretty; but the sheriff was right there in the crowd and he is - ?:-Vi? oViariff Vtl t Via ( 'db IIllgllLV kiVIl HCtil QUVi A XX 9 VUV MV ! does his duty, and.his duty vas to take i her back to jail and lie did so, where \ she was again property attired and ] sent to Wilmington on the morning' train. ! In connection with the, a letter j sent out from Charlotte to mayors | in various towns indicates that pos i sibly there is a wide-spread cam- ^ j paign of ch^ck flasLmg. The letter j j follows: ' 1 | "There is a swindling game going on over this state, and I am using ' every means I can to catch the guilty j parties. The game is this: A lady .roes into a store to make a purchase, j and usually makes it suit to make . this purchase after banking hours | or. Saturday afternoon; and after she I makes the purchase she remarks that ! the bank is closed and that she has a j check for thirty or forty dollars, as finer, TVI i OrV> f V\0 C>1 Ck (Tot O th 0 m PI*? LUC VCtOC b W j W&4V QVVW - ?? ? chant to pay the difference in cash above what the goods cost, and al j ways gives lier residence number dn r j the city she operates in, and when the j goods are delivered they find that no j such party lives there. She usually I has the goods delivered about two days later in oredr tc give her time to leave the city before tliey are delivered. "She played her game here witlx the 'Wake County Savings bank of Ra - leigh. N. ., and I presume she se- ^ cured a supply of checks here ir< A Charlotte to work the next city s'ac A may happen to visit. "This woman is apparently abeut^B ! 26 years old. neatly dressed, and very ^ modest. She wore glasses, and was medium build and medium brunette. Feints and Faints. An Irish recruit was being drilled in the mysteries of sword-play. "Now," cried the instructor, after. carefully explaining various rules of fencing, "what would you do if your 1 opponent feinted?" "Begorra, sir," answered the Irish man, winking knowingly, "I'd jest prod him wid the point o' me sword to see if he was shamming*,".?Jack o' lantern. Elegant Discourse. "Ali want to be procrast'nated at de nex' co'ner," said Erastus Pinfcnejr to the street car conductor. "You want to be what?'*'demanded the conductor. "Don' lose 'o' tempah. Ah had to in A n (4</%t{/>norv T?YTflO'f I i\j\jn. in ug | found dat procrastnate means 'put 1 off.' "?Cincinnati Enquirer, i t