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N- OUR SC PAPER fY PROF. WILI 'ggarly Salaries forTeachers. The serrieeT OT aank cashier. of a b~ook a carpenter and a school a marKet valn'. The :rI:et value of these services is 1:pon what the employer fels I hm the1 emniploYed is worth to the b:ae.s. Wh.t value have the p',o so of oh Carolina put upon the ervices of a white school teacher? ast year the State paid an average salarv of $67. a year. or $45.S al month for a little less than six school :ont as in the year. This salary is lver even by the month than the wzges of an experienced dry goods samsman, or a comlpetent stenogra pher. By the year. the salary of the :eacher does not compare with that of the unskilled carpenter. or lasterer. or bricklayer. Almost every town of 2,000 people in the State ,ays. by the month. higher wag es to its policemen than to its women school teacers. Men teachers are paid a little better. but beggarly salaries have run almost all the men out of the schoolroom. -A- will be seen by the various gu1res I have given. either men or wo %en working in the cotton mills and exer'cing less patience are readily m1a0in: more money than the average public school teacher." August Kohn, in The Cotton Miiis of S. C. is it reasonable to expect the ser vices of competent men at $60 and $70 a month, and competent women at Se1 and $40 a mouth. for a few months in the year? The answer in volves a very simple question in economics. It has cost either per son from four td six years in time. and from $800 to $1500 in money. to prepare himself to teach. And if either is fitted to teach. his prepara tion fits him for something decidedly better pecuniarily. If neither if fit ted to make more than S2G7 a year in some other vocation, he is on the high way to penury. Why do our people pay no more for teaching? Is it due to poverty? There was a time when that explan iion could have been given, but not so now. We have on every hand too many evidences of plenty and even luxury to accept any such excuses now. The real explanation is hard to admit. These salaries represent the vlauation our people place upon edu cation. "By their fruits ye shall know them." Our people rate the education of their children when they employ teachers. somewhat as they rate their land when they visit -the tax lister. Our people are well able to pay better salaries, and they will pay better alaries only after they have come to appreciate the value of better teachers and better schools. Many of the praises of good schools are mere lip-service. Inconmpetena Teachers. To dis discuss .this feature of our hools is very distasteful, but it must be done, and done fearlessly. Every well-in formed 'person knows that our schools are burdened with a host of incompetent teachers, persons fitted neither by nature nor by training. Such teachers waste the money of the children, ruin the children themselv es, and diiscredit teaching itself. They know nothing about what to teach. and even less about how to teach. * ime and again I nave sat in senoo? rooms watching the blind blunder ings of teachers plodding through recitations without ever getting hold of a teaching fact or a teaching prin ciple, until my very heart ached in sympathy for the children who had to endure it all. Yet I have gone out * from just such scenes to be told with in three hours by some patron that in that school they had a fine teach er. The travesty of such teaching is bad enough. but when the patrons are pleased witty it. it becomes pathe tuc. I can put my .finger on the nam es or dozens of white school teachers who could not to-day pass an ex : nuination in the eighta grade in the Cciumia city schools. Yet to these incomp;etents are entrusted the edut cation of children, and the people are satified, and are paying to them ihe * children's money. I know teachers by name who go to their schootrooms day after day w ~ithout having studied a single les stvu they are supposed to teach. Some of them do not own a single book that tney are attempting to teach. How can such a teacher succeed? If he has in hiig nothing of the stu dent. how can he expect to inspire a pupi! with the zeal of the student? To snch a teacher the name of Spen cer and Arnold -and M\ann are but sornding brass and tinkling cymbals. Some teachers and some patrons hal'uk largely on the teacher's exper ieace. Experience is an excellent thing when coupled with other 'ualifications. but when divorced from them. experience is to teach ing precisely- what it is to the practice of 2 dicine-it kills as often as it cures. Scholarship. studiousness, train ing, and energy ar'e all .;necessary to the highest success in leaching, iiut there is another qualification which far outweighs all these combined manhcod: The personality of the teacher is the first consideration. Is the teacher a ble to take hold of thec life of a child and gidi him upward to the limit of the child's capacity? .is the te'acher's life wvorthy of being~ reilected in the life of every childl hei teaches? if not, he is inco-mpetent.I WVill your teacher meast're up to this standar'd WVhv are so miany inucomp.;etent teachers cemployedi? There are sev Eral reasons. Tihe one most obvious ithat such teachers can he had ceap. Most people wish to keep open their schools a i'easonable length c~ ie.and therittance inthe school reasur~y 'vl! not employ a conmpe s at vebl:r for long. Hlence. a plua. us the horse-jockey wonid say, is *tit in carrg" of the school. When ever a schooel bot rd goes out to find a clyeap tosa'hr. it succeeds in get rin n cheV one in every seuse. If c'man 'oe on i- noar e.t with0 seven tv-v cents'- with which to~ purchase a (ollar'. .article, he need not he, sur *rised to get sboddy. A school board nee n j xpct~ to get a $750~ 1each ,,r for . -'7. WVhy will not a S 8 'ae schoo! for $50i. 7 ip - "ek -' h'.'To-day in Sothl C'aro a, any uine:ent man~ teacher of o yars'iperience can get a nine-1 HOOLS. 140.2. JAM H. HAND. tising for such. Why should I be willing to teach your school for $5u or $G0 a month for less than nine months? When corn is selling in the open market at one dollar a bushel, will T offer mine at sixty cents-if it is marketable? Does the school board hunting a cheap teacher catch the meaning' However, there are other and more serious reasons why we have so many. incompetent teachers. There is thei daughter of the local trustee who iust have some of the school fund with which to buy her clothes. What difference does it make if she has had no other education than thati which she received in the very school she is going to try to teach? What difference does it make if she knows no more than some of her most ad-'' vanced pupils? What difference does it make if she never saw an educa tional journal or a book on the art of teaching? What difference does it make if she is but eighteen years old. and without a practicle of ex-i perience in teaching or in life itself? Then. there is poor widow Smith's daugfiter. The mother is poor and the daughter is in poor health, per-! Maps. Really the community owes both something. and the district school is the easiest charity to be-1 tow. The uneducated daughter can somehow drag through the recita tions, and manage to keep the big I boys inside the school house. She get the school. and the people solace themselves by thinking that they have done "a might good thing." Then, again. there is irs. Brown. 70 years o~ld. No one ever accused her of lbeing educated. or in any other way of being fitted to teach school. but she taught school iust before the war, or just after the war. Some enemy to competence advocates her election, re'marking that "She is a niighty good teacher:I went to school to her forty years ago; in fact, she Ilarnt me about all I ever was larnt." Mrs. Brown keeps the school house open most of the time for six months, draws $150 of the defenseless chil dren's money, and the community feels tranquat over its act of pious gratitude. I hope that I am not misunderstood in this last example. I am glad to know that some teachers At seventy years of age, educated and vigorous, are able to do effective work, even in the com mon schools. Old age and misfortune should be gracefully remembered and cared for, but not at the ex pense of the education of our chil dren. Pensions should be paid out side the school house, not inside. There is yet a more serious reason of so many incompetent teachers more serious, because they are here under the sanction of law. Hundreds of incompetent teachers are in our schools bcause of the vicious system by wvhich certificates are granted and renewed. I disclaim any intention whatever of casting any reflection against any set of persons, but under the present system we need not hope to get rid of inefficiency among our teachers ot the common schools. Let~ us face the facts: Teachers' certifi cates are granted by the county boards of education, composed of the county superintendent and two lay members appointed by the State superintendent upon the rec'ommen dation of the county superintendent. The county superintendent must go every two years to ask the people to vote for him. Many of the people who help to elect the superinten tendents expect a return of favors. These superintepdents must sit in judgment upon the efficiency of ap plicants to teach school. We are, some of these applicants? Sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, of mnen who helped to elect' the county superintendent. Now, it would .be an insult to intimate that any honest county superintendent would violate his honor by granting intentionally, an unmerited certificate, but it re quires no sagacity to see the unen viable situation of the superinten-1 dent in such contingency. He ought to be relieved of any such embarrass ment. It may be appropriate to give the facts concerning a few cases of abuse in granting certificates. The writer knows of more than one teacher that holds a first grade certificate. but that has ne.ver stood any examination whatever, though not exempt by law. Another is the case of a teacher hold ing a first grade c'ertificate for over ten years, but stopped teaching long enough to let her certificate expire. Later she returned to teaching, and on taking the examination failed tcl make a grade high enough for any certificate at all. Question: How~ did she get a certificate, and why was it renewed from year to year with out examination? Some county boards have made such records for uprightness in granting certificates that any other county board feelsi safe in renewing one of the former's certificates: while a few have made mt:h uenviable reputation in grant' irg these certificates that no other board is willing to renew a certificate ( isued by the former. These are un-1 uniatable facts. Many claim that good teachers are assured by accepting the diplomas of reputabe colle-:es in lieu of examina tions. This plan is faulty. hI our :=Zton of the.. countr'y the term col- I i::e has :no definite meaning; there t s nmain:: by which one college can '0 l-"li differentiatedl from - other. Therefore all college gradua tes arc accepted in the schools on equal ternms. Itis~ a fact weil Known . to all educators that a person may' in the course of ten years not only fail to improve as teaching grows better. b)ut actually gr'ow inferior. Besides, some college courses offer teacher training, some claim to do so, while others mat: no...claim at all. Yet another 'eet must be taken into account'- A student with verya cor preparation may go through aifi airiy reputable college, taking onlyi academic wor'k, only to iiad himself (amentably ignorant of' the common r chool suijeet.s which he is required It : teaeh. Tuec'st colleg.s and the pupis from the best colleges are rhec ,ost w.iling to subm'it to examina- t< was tor teahers' tprtificates. The f1 u'vior coloe acci its ::rariuar's ar t wry muc'r opposed to thiese~ "xamina- d .nos. No furrber comment is nec- a The certification of teachers ought is o be in the hands of a competent BRYAN FACETIOUS OINTED CRITICISM OF TAFT AND ROOSEVELT. 4-mwy Things With Rtegard to Which Republicans Have Come to His Way of Thinking. William J. Bryan loft Lincoln, 1eb.. Tuesday for Chicago and thus >egan a three weeks' campaign tour. ,vhich will carry him into the middle Xest. the eastern states and back :hrough the West into South Dakota before returning home. Perhaps no recent news afforded :he Democratic candidate for presi lent so much interest as the an aouncement that Mr. Taft proposed making a campaign tour. Mr. Bry an regarded his opponent's decision a distinct vindication of his course in the present. as well as his two revious campaigns. when he treked ver the country and delivered sixty speeches. When asked if he had any com ment to make on the subject, Mr. Bryan said: "Well. I am getting a great deal of consolation out of the way the :resident and Mr. Taft have been doing. I used to be called hard names because I advocated an income tax and now the income tax has been endorsed by the president and Mr. Taft. I used to be bitterly denounc ed because I favored railroad regula tion. Now the president and 'Mr. Taft have brought that reform into popularity and I am no longer con sidered dangerous. I used to get a good deal of criticism because I fav ored tariff reform, but now tariff reform has become so u"gent that Mr. Taft is willing to have a special session called immediately after In auguration to act on the subject. It used to be that when I talked about independence for the Filipinos I was told the American flag never came down when it once went up. Now we have a Republican candidate for the presidency who believes the Fili pinos must ultimately have indepen dence. "But I have reason to rejoice over the fact thatsome of the things Ihave done are now viewed in a more favorable light. When I made some phonograph records in order that I might discuss political questions be fore more people, the Republican pa pers ridiculed me and called it un dignified, but Mr. Taft has lifted the phonograph to eminence by talking into it himseir. "And now my greatest sin is to be a virtue by imitation. Surely Im itation is the sincerest form of flat tery.' When I went out campaigning in 1896 and 1900 they said it was demagogic to run around over the country hunting for votes. Now it is eminently proper since Ms. Taft is gcing to do it. and I hope the Re publiegn papers will make due apolo gies. "They said in 1896 and I900 that I was scared when I made speeches from the rear end of a train, and I was and the result showed that I had reasons to be. I have been wonder ing whether this explanation would be given when Mr. Taft start! out and whether the result will be the same with him that it was with me. "It is hard for us to keep our pat ents from being infringed on this year. I am afraid they' will try to raise a campaign fund -by popular contributions next." Aged Veteran Commits Suicide. At Birmingham yesterday Robert Wiltse, an old veteran, shot himself. After all, our bread doesn't faill "butter side down" more than half the time. Those who think they have all re ligion are the ones who most need to worry whethe rthey have any. Lots of people let their daily man na spoil while they pray for butter and and sugar to spread on it. The abuse of worship as an end does not prevent its value-as a help. Better Prices Coming. We believe that cotton will ad vanc in price in a short time. Th~e damage reports of the crop from all parts of the cotton belt indicate that the crop of 1908 cannot possibly reach figures wnich the trade is ger - rally expecting. The probability of only a normal supply of raw cot ton this season to meet the world's denand for the next twelve months; and fill the already depicted gaps in exhausted supplies, should not only :end to encourage farmers to stand for good prices, but should advance 'he price of cotton even in the face >f "Bearish" manipulationl. The fort of foreign spinners, backed > speculation, to depress the price >f cotton to 8 cents within the thir ;y days, will fail. There is absolute y nothing upon which to base a de nand for such low prices, except he selfish greed of those who mightf >e personally benefitted under such contingency. We look for cotton : advance in price in the next few eeks. THg Chicago Inter-Ocean thinks hat "the Democratic party is show g a cohesive tendency that is dis tieting." So as to keep in the limelight Roosevelt had a report sent out hat some one tried to shoot him a ew days sgo. d with certain w.ell-defined quali .caions. Sti!!. a man or woman may as an eellent examination, huL rove? a dismal failure in the school oom. Such can. be t'liminated nl brough a responsihb' aind comptetnt upervisor. Until some: suchl ]'.n i dopted, we amay make up our mindls ri hain ch . hopl flhicd ith in wnddl last yeair 2 hoinnin~tg in il irc'on of rfor.m in '.hes'e mt-rs 'mmendable willines t.o ralke ame action, but failed to do so. Wi'liar:: H. Hand. AFTER IT IS PICKED. U FAMD1E1ls LOOSE MILLIONS OF 1)OLLORS IWY TIE th ti Careless Handling of Their Cotton CC St After It Is Gathered and Being b: Prepared for Market. Every year cotton farmers worry themselves aimost into nervous pros- bi tration over the matters of seed selection, excess of mois'ure, drought el "firing," army worms. rust, boll wee- a vil and a dozen other ills to whicl the growing plant is subject. But when the staple has come to maturity %1 and been harvested (in a more or 10 less careless and wateful manner.) what do they do? This is the ques- d tion propounded and answered by the Savannah News. Beginning with the picking and running through to the final market ing there is a tremendous amount uf waste, roughly estimated to amount to mose than a million dollars per crop. The "clean" picker is the ex ception rather than the rule. The average picker, hustling to get out the greatest number of pounds in the shortest space of time, leaves many ripe bols unplucked to take the weather and drops other open cotton upon the ground to be tramlpl ed and lost. In hauling to the gin houses' much more cotton is lost through carcless handling. In gin ning modern methods have made the losses inconsiderable, which is also true of bailing. But after the fleece Is baled then follow the greatest and and most inexcusable losses of all. The bailing is not carefully done, in such manner as to preserve the con tents of the package in the best possible condition. Tnere is no stan'dard or uniformity in size of a press boxes. no standar' of density of compression and no standard rule for covering that will keep out mois ture and dirt and prevent what may for convenience be called leakage. The farmer will watch his growing,' crop as carefully as he would a sick child. and then, after the cotton is ginned. permit it to be badly baled and rolled out into the open to take, the sun and rain as they come. 1t is not an uncommon sight to see hundreds, even thousands, of bales of cotton "parked" in the open air at a shipping point. the bales ragged and unkempt. and without protection against water or fire: and the same sort of thing is true on a great many farms. The producer seems to lab or under the -impression that -his duty to this crop ends when he has got it picked and baled. He will see he bales get soaked in a heavy rain without "turning a hair," or he will see the bales rolled through mud puddles without entering a protest. But if he were to see- a bug in his growing -crop he would have a nerv-j ous chill. Bad baling inflicts a tremendous loss upon the cotton growers every year. It is unreasonable to suppose that spinners will pay as much fora bale that is dirty and wet and rotten I on the ontside as the:y will for a hale tthat is clean and dry. It is against the very common sense of things that they should do so, Indian cot ton nearly always reaches the spin ner in1 excellent condition. because great care, is taken in the baling of j it and the bales re always kept in . good order. When the Indian bale is broken open at the mill there' are no 10. 20 or z0 pounds to be thrownC out as unfit for spinning, as .i very often the case with Americanl b,:ies. Eflicienlt packing of cottomi of course, costs a little more than poor packing and enere is sonme exfense attached re ** i""4tion of y heds. ~~t these added costs are, an the long run, real economies. ltural Infornmation. The lost traveler acco':ted the freckled lad astride the gate po t. "Son'.ny. how far is i' irom iere to the next town as the crow 1'. .s?"t "Danno. m:ster. I -'in t no t' w." ' "Well, which is the best way to Hit iany way you want, it ain'tl got no feeling." "Ttt tut. my boy: don't be so facetous and tell me If 1 can make thme next car." "Hardly. It's alreamd~ made." The" traveler frown~d a-"- removed S tl-e pe'rspiration from his brow. t "You appear to be a pretty smart ! youngster." S "Not half as smart as my broth- - er. m:ster." "''i! Wh'lat made him smart?" "W\'my, he fell into a yellow jack Grand father or Grandmiot her. t< A Brewer in Phiaephia mays t that one morning be observed an h unusually expansive smile on the t face of the jovial Ge'rman who is Q :oremnan at the establishment. An y mteresting event had occurred at tl tihe sonme of the German the night r "I congr'atula3te you, Handfs.'' smil- 11 o.'y "aid the employer. "Of course a thie newr arrival is a wonder?" I "O course it is!" was the em- t< pw" ie reply. "D's ba~by rgays more oid fifdeen po' nds!- t< "splendid: A-1 is it a boy or a a girl.'s "Py golly!" :he excla~imed in chag- tI rin. "In der' excitemaen'- I had for- g ge't to find out v'eddei I was a gr'au'd adder or a grandmudder:" Preparing to Gt Ev'en. i "Yes," he said, "I wish to adopt a r girl." at, "A little girl?" tohee "No. a girl old ,snough o ae n er'gy and perseverance and one who 1 has had enough expeienre with tihe Iiin piano to make her thin.k she knows Ier how to play' it. Aid if The thinks she can sing, why, so much the bet- jfe tema T tell you. I amt goingr to get even with the people in the !.exctiflt la even if I have to adopt two musical bi prodigies. "-Lippincott's. THE Galveston New.s thinks that "Another thing needed in this hai ountry is .iurica that will put the an behind the gun behind the ~. Prov'ing thr t"rokedm" of 'whlvr i'ves will not stra ight 'i ""u r owni. W\hen a mian brags of his erinare 'iealing look out for the sharp edges. PC This 'x.orld is always godforsaken ne thoa' who l-a-o norm'e the ~nne. h bi SIMPLE DIAMOND T-STS. wavary Pawnbrokers Have Been Do ceived by Stone Fakers. '"There are few persons," remark a jeweller, "who are able to pur ase a diamond on the strength of eir own knowledge and observa )n and without placing impicit - nfidence in the man wtko sells tho one. It is a fact that even pawn -okers have often been taken in Ly welry and percious stone fakers. "Although it takes many years of tual observation and experience fore one can become a diamond ex rt, there are a few simple tests hich will considerably aid a buy of diamonds. One test is4 to prick needle hole throngh a card and ok at the hole through the dolue 1 stone. *If the latter is spurious two holes ill be seen, but if it is a diamond ily one hole will be visible. Every aitation stone which resembles a aniond gives a doable relection, hile the diamond's refraction is ngle. "This is a delicate test, 'because ft difficult to see even a sharp and flned object through a diamond. he single refraction of the diamond so allows one to determine an an rtain stone. "If the finger Is placed behind it 3d viewed through the stone with watchmaker's glass, the grain of iO skin will be plainly seen if the :one is not a dia:nond . But if it is diamond the grai. cf the skin w.l ot be distinguieed at all. "A diamond iu solid settings may & identified in the same manner. If nuine the setting at the back can-. ot be discerned, but if it is a phony one the foil or setting will be seen. *There is no acid which has any erceptible effect upon a genuine La mond. Hydrotiuoric acid. if ropped on a stone made of glass, ill corrode it, but wil not affect a iarond one way or the other. A -ained eye can see the hardness In diamond, whereas the Imitations ppear soft to the vision of the ex erts." emeer ofTptn4icwa1h .rst5mnmn"rced nhnro he soldiers Monumed in theCilWa ised in the U~nited States. it was reted in 1866, and was dedicated n ,July 4, of that year. The Talue of Expectation. A popular New England preacher ays that if his sermon ever stretches eyond the twenty minutes to which e mteans always to limit it the words f his little daughter ring in his ears nd he reflects that some of his con :regation are doubtless feeling as he did on a memorable occasion. Thme oiccasion was the little girl's lxthz birthday,. which chanced to em on Thanksgiving Day. She went to charch with her mo her and sat cinietly throughe the ser ice. Tlhe sermon was uisually :ooc'. theO minister could not helL. hinig: he had plenty to'say, and e s:id it fluently. "Ho'. did year like my sermon?' e asked his young critic as they ~aked' -bome togethe', her smial .and in 3tis big one. "You pveached awful long ?ather,' aid the l~ittle girl. '"but I heared it econe I love you. aind i knew l'c ae a nice dlinner~ when I got hom< d forget what I'd been through.' -Youth's Compa-:ion. A Care' for .easickness. A chat with a hardy Breton fisher Ian brought forth this novel cure r seasicknfess. While tbe old mar ild of the s':orms that he had bee trough, the narrow~ esc'apes he har md, and the long journeys he har Lthen he was interrupted by' thi. estion, "And seasickness? W'*r, u ever,. sick?" "Never." rep!!e: te old man. "and l'l tell you rh, ason if' you like to hear--I nerec et on any ship without takin~g i ttle irror In my pocket. As sco I felt the sick-ness coming or' oked ini the glass, and all symu' ems ~assed away. I got the car -om my father, and I never knew fail." The receipt is earily til', id If it does not convince t!. eptical there IS the consoiati' tat no loss need be entailed 1: .ving it a chance.-P T. 0. What the Waiter Had. "In Omaha," says a New Yorker, tose business keeps him On t~e ad quite a bit, "the general breezi ss of the West Is shared by the iters In the restaurants. "A legal light of that town recent entered r. restatcrant and w'as inmediately approached by a wait , who observed cheerfully: "-I have deviled kidneys; pigs' et, and calves' brains.' 'ave you?' coolly asked the yver. 'Well, what are your tru es to nme'? I came here to eat.' " lHe hs no force with men v~h t no faith in them. 1r's easy to get tangled up in r h's ca t o ff c lothe5. for much froim the bles. WVhether life shall be desert de' ids on the springs in your heart. 'here's one unfailing cure for the WILL DINE. TOGETHER.1 BRYAN AND TAFVT WVILL BE IN CHIEF GCESTS AT BANQUET. Two Rival Candidates for Presidency eJ to Meet at Same Board audi Ad dress Sanwli Audience. For the finrsi e in the aistory of modern politics :N- nval candidates Jai for the Presi':w.y of' the United of Sdete 7:liU mee a. iie same board cai ;ud Addre::. the sainc :aiuL:ice. when I Wm. H. Taft. Repubican, oL Ohio. SoI and Wi. Jennings Bryan. Democrat. I of Nebraska are to be the guests of po honor at the annual banqcuet of L..e Chic.gc Association of Commerce at tb the Auditorium on the evening cf :M October 7. This announcement was made Fri- I day at the headquarters of the C ri go Association of Commerce. which m< organization already had secured be assurances of the presence of the two an Presidential nominees 'on different m, days for the third Convention of the kii Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway de Association. for which the Association f Commerce will act as host. st1 Mr. Taft's acceptance 'Was obtain- to .i b.y President Richard C. Hall, Vice bu -rCient E. S. Conway 'and Secretary le, T'. E. Wilder. of the Association, bil who returned to Chicago from Cin- so ini Friday. to: The long-distance telephone figur- ca ed fpro:ninontly in the negotations th to secure the presence o Mr. Bryan th ;t the bnmquet. The invitation had ti< ueen umder serious consideration by I Norum E. Mack, chairman of the of D'emocratic national committee. for cc sonie time. and at a late hour in the br ight he called Mr. Bryan, then at Terre Haute, Ind, on the long-dis- st tance telephone. Mr. Bryan was in formed, as Mr. Taft had oeen, that ti the banquet would be a non-political an one. and that it would be held under h< the auspicies of a non-partisan or- di ganization. He readily agreed to at- u, tend. The deep waterways project is favored by the leaders of both par ties and is not, therefore, a subject di over which any political discussion H is expected. There will be no- (uestion as to which of the candidates will occupy b the right-hand seat. It will be oc cupied by 'Mr. Taft at the express tc wish and with the full approval ofh the Democratic -candidate and his riends. Chairman - Mack declared that Mr. Taft. as a recent member of the present Administration, was p clearly entitled to the place of hon- ti r at the feast. The Ohician, there fore will sit at the right-hnd of Presi dent Hall. and the Nebraskan on the P other. a The meeting of the two candidates ti will differ from the meeting of the C] National Capital and in 'the State of Iinois forty-eight years ago, when Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas began their famous debates by reason of the inhibition placed on 9 poltical discourse. President Hall said that an atten dance of about 1,000 persons was expcted at the banquet. In addition to the great banquet room of the Auditorium, the romns adjoining on It the ninth floor of the Fine Arts build ng have been secured, and the whole will be thrown together for the oc casion-it Managed b)y Trust Magnates. It is only necessary to consider the persone! of the finance and ex- b ecutive committees with which Mr. a present campaign to verify Mr. Bry-e in's charge that the Republican C arty is still in the hands of the trust Magnates who will be allowed b' to continue to plunder the people should Taft be eleced. Amnong the men serving on both committees.are Wn. Nelson Cromwell, the personal and legal representative of E. H.1 larrian and probably the most conspicuos trust lawyer in the coun try; Geo. Rumsey Sheldon. a Wall street magnate and multi-million- t aire; Federick W. Utphaxn, of Chica go. a millionaire many times over; Cearles F. Brooker, of Conrneeticut,t broker and vice president of the N- er Y. N. H. and H. railroad; Frank 0. mn Lowden, son-in-law of Geo. Puilman s and vice president o6f the Pullman dt ar Company; T. C. DuPont, mnem- li( er of the DuPont Powder compa- S( y, against which a suit for its dis- ar olution is now pending in the fed- lit eral courts for the way in which it af milked the United States treasury ci. in powder contracts, and Bois Pen- vi ose, the political heir of Boss Quay s in Pennslyvania and the chief ma nipulator of Philadelphia's corrupt bc political machine. Any one who be- th jeves that these men would favor a fa revision of the tariff or any other Di m easure that would benefit th t maassesmust be simple minded. th re, The Democatic Text Uook. ex The Democratic Campaign Text s Bok for the present year which has ihi just been issu.ed, arraigns the Re- fli publican party for its failure to: give the country relief from the wi burdensome tariff law and other Re- ha pblican measures. It presents an it array of facts and figures demon- pa stating with mathematical precis- clC in tie unfitness of the party in pa power to conduct the affairs of the ha nation ay longer. 5 The Democratic and Republican e platforms are compared, plank by so plank, and the emptiness or insirncer- ca ity of Republican promises and pre- to tensions are nmereliessly exposed. A party which has been in pcsses- "E sion of a~l tie methinery of t!'e mo: n ernment for so many ::..'s da tna indicts itself whe.: it ci de "Sr to grave abuses w ie ar nown t o . axist and yet have not h'-enl correct- a'i ad. Presiert Rec''ve!t !: ;vint to C ed out these aibuses im ima~y 1) ;ttance . an ever :r~ay he b~ tn > prsalar..i, to secure the :orrect'on of them. the fade remuaims h :hat the party as a whole cannot beDe viliin -, em . othelr'wise it would T -e dn.- on1 BRYAN POPULAR THE WEST SAYS JAMES J. P HILL. )nblicans Over-confident Uniess T raft Workers Get Busy Bryan Will Jarry The West. * dispatch from New York says nes J. Hill, chairman of the board a the Great Northern railway, who P ne to town on Thursday and is i. ng back to St. Paul Sunday. made ie interesting remarks to his 0 :Is in Wa! street concerning 1 Riel cov icns in the West. b' :r. l Mid tihat the farmers e -otg tie W Est have never paid a ich ttntn to Bryan until tihe 9 zt year ur two. -but that .iust now !. is a strong :sentiment among I irrers. He said that the de- r cratic vote thr6ugh the West will A larger this year than ever before, a I that if the republican campaign I nagers do not put in the hardest id of work that Mr. Taft may be t reated. I He said that in some Western I tes the republican politicans seem be suffering from oVer confidence, I t declared that- the democratic- C ders are keenly alive to the possi ities and may succeed in carrying rme of the states that have here- i ore been considered safely republi- I n unless tle Taft workers roll up ir sleeves and get busy. He said at if the weather is bad on elec- I in day this year-and the percentage stay-at-homle republicans for that I any other reason is large, the unt of the ballots in the West may 1 ing some smrprises. Mr. Hill was asked if oriental mamship business is showing an inu- I ovement. and he declared empha ally that it is falling off rapidly d is practically gone now beyond al pe of recotery. He said that con tions were such that it is almost eless for American vessels to make a ht for the oriental trade. For this reason Mr. Hill said he d not cred;:. the report that E. H. arriman is considering the purchas g of the Oceanic Steamship line, vned by the Spreckels. He said he ieved Mr. Harriman to be too well formed on Pacific trade conditions get another steamship line on his inds. The signs of encouragement are )inted out by showing how thesen ment of the people has been run ng already. As the Text Book Its it, Senator Fulton, of Oregon, iked the people for re-election and iey answered, "We want a iange." Senator Hnsborough - went to orth Carolina and asked for re ection, and the people said,. "We ant a change." Senator Kittredge. heard from the ate of North Dakota, and theyx, dd, "We want a change" Senator Long r'eferred his case to me people of Knsas and they said. We want a change." Senator Hopkins went before the ople of Illinois, and two-thirds of em said, 'We want a change." The same sentiment is sweeping me country everyyhere. It is impossible to give in any rief compass the contents of this imiral handbook but it-should be the hands of every- good Demo at. It is a volume of three hun. ed pages, bound in limp cloth and in be secured for twenty-five cents r addressing, ''Text Book Depart ent, Democratic National Commit e, Auditorium Annex, Chicago, As the campaign progresses you ill need it more than ever, and a ore abundant treasure of Demo atic argument and good doctrine never been sent t betw een roovers. The South and Republicans. "Candidate Taft advises South n Republicans to cease to be a re orginization of political pie ekers and to make efforts to in ice Democrats to join the Repub an party. In the first place uthern Republicans, those who e active in politics, would have tle or no interest in political airs if the hope of officee were mitated. That part of Taft's ad e, therefore, will not be taken." ys the Nashville American. 'As to seeking recruits among the tter element of the Democracy, e at has been attempted, and it has I led. Why should any Southern ~ ~morat desert his party and join, a Rtepublican party? Certainly r'e is nothing in the character or ord of the Republican party as it J3 ists in the South to induce any f-respecting Democrat to desertj owtn party and join a party of I~ lodrous memory. 'The South has had experience J~ th Republicanism. The experience D Sbeen costly and the memory of itter. Why shouid it aliandon a :ty that has been comparative& e an, capable and honest and join a -ty that has misgoverned when it s hal a chahce to govern: that it fr. a L>ng time catered to the worst 1 me,ts. and that is now making e eiorts to be respectable be se it has discovered that it pays oe espectable; The' Democratic party h as always n ,spectable. Why shtould any1 a d ide to desert it for a party t si:ddenly makes profession of xc:ability? It is easy enough to to :~ i:rofessions and promises. Thle rehe..nded thief an robber isap ' that. Then what can the Re !een party point to in the South :is to its credit anid that it can t to as argument why it should ho Lon-.red and elevated above the ta locratc party?" ARMY OF 100,000. RESIDENT WILL RECO3MEND INCREASE IN MESSAGE. he Present Regular Army of the United States is inadequate to Pr. perly Guard the Forests and Posts. President Roosevelt, in his finaI anual message to Congress, this fall; robably will recommend an fnrease L the numerical strength of the nited States army is on a footing r 60,000 men, the number provided )r in time of peace. It has become' vident to the general staff two years go that 60,000 men are too few to arrison properly the pc.-ts at which is necessary to maintain an army >rce. These posts incfude the-gar [sons in the insular possessions -of .merica. The law provides that the rmy may be increased to 100,000 ien in time of need. This p:ovision, in the- opinion of be military experts of - the govern ient, is likely to prove a serious andicap to the army if asolute ecessity should arise for' a-largir orce. It is pointed out that':the re ruiting ef the army 60,000 to 10 '00 men would bring into theiervice .n additional of approximately two nexperienced men to every three ex erienced soldiers. The injection of so considerable force of raw recruits, it'Is sald by ailitiary officials, would detrct. ser usly from the efficiencyof. the army t would require many MOths -oan tructioin to whip into shape tie men hus mustered into the' s'eviceanL a the event that the army was needed n an emergency, the preencef o arge a number of inexperience sold ers would prove a hndica to ti nain body. It is pointed out thatai -osiderabl orce will be required to arrio te fortifications at Pearl narr in'the Hawaiian islands An immense amount of mcgiey is to be xpeudea? n the erectionof the Pearl fortifications andit s a i Af army officials.that a at least 2,000 men il miaintained- there, in.dt. -he works and in e Rion by apossible Just now there -are uppm r0,000 Japanese in-th6 alia2 nIa lands. In the -remote between America and: ow some other power--wiatlk i a s on friendly.terasIt woulC b possible for the eofl e sm force of UnitedStates' O in the H3,Wi isand e landing arm supply the !Jaa nese It is expectee will recommen in-," aua ss age an inease 4e the army- by ddition of at leat ten eg infantry, -vef regiments of/.. Valr nd several companieSo coast -atlT iery. Thiis ecdtanlildp ed, would not morays h~rset~ force to the nnim tegh f. the army vrovided y law bt wld. meet .the reqirinents :hlh anbe- ' view of the general ~tf~ are neces sary to piace the. army o :uate footn. - T Dreams of-golden streets wl -not pass in place of deeds -f the gode rule. -- . MURDER Z SUNDAY SCHOOL ~oung Girl Stabbed While Playing Hn on Oran.b A special dispatch from Newton, >. -C., says that emoniacil murder vas committed near thaatjprace.ShnP lay .morning, when -Miss- Wi~ie- - Bullinger,:19 yearsidWws staibed :o death by Lon-Riderniaged*21 1'he .girl was- seated- af then organ >laying the closing hiymn at Sdinday chool when suddenIyf Rader leaped tross seeral benches and with :bis iocket knife stabbed her once-enhle Jack and. twice in the breasta She lied almost instantly. Rader was -arrested and is now in: he Newton jail; Some months ago :e was committed to the State in- -- ane asylum and in his raangs oftien nentioned -Miss:-Bullinger's niame --- tecently he was discharged from the. ospital asi cured. -The -deed was robably' prompted by. unreqnuittell ove and seems to have been - well - ~lanned. as. the- knife -ued- was ought new- the day before. In jail ?ader said he killed the girl "because he was a witch. -- OFFIGIAL FIGURES en. Wilie Jones, State Chairmnn Has Announced Result.. - Gen. Wilie Jones, State chairman. aturday ree'eived the, last of- the liicial retur~ns from the counties and ras able to make up final statement -ith reference to the results.. Thle majority for Caughman is ut 553. . / Following are the figures: United States Senator: no. Gary Evans'. .. .. ....39;498 .D. Smith.. .... .....70,43G Superintendent of Education: . E. Swearingen. .. ....61,379 . Rih-oadl Commissioner: is. Cansler.. ... .. ..54,63'7 unks L. Caughman.. .. . . 56,1l90 Fires Still Unabated. A dispatch~ from: tort William, t.. says there is no eharge for the ~tter in the fire situation -in this etion. The fire line now extetids om Grand M'-arias to Chicago .Bay, distanrce of 35 miles, and it is re 'rted that the camp of the Pigeon iver Lumber company has been -sroyedl. The fire damage in the hite Fish - valley has been very~ eat. * Steamer JDestoyed by Fire. - The steamer Peters Lee was des >yed by fire at Memphis. Tenn., turday. She was beached in time ornable all onL board to escape.* The most singular thing about a mn of genius is his estimate of uself. It is permissible to blow your own rn if you are a member of a brass ad. Sometimes a woman cries over her blar; to find something to laugh