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OUR SCI PAPER N BY PROF. WILL1 Too Many Little Half-Supported a Schools-Sooner or later our peoplek are going to have more comfortabie and commodious school houses. Be fore the people put their money into permanent improvements, would it not be wise to reduce the number of schools in a great many places? A good four-room house costs less than four one-room houses of equal com fort and convenience. Sixty pupils in one building can be better taught and more easily taught than fifteen pupils each in four buildings. A four-teacher school will flourish where fotr one-teacher schools would struggle to keep alive. In more than half the counties in the State are to be found dozens of schools with 10 to 12 pupils each. Not many weeks ago I visited a ru ral school with an enrollment of 11 pupils; three miles off was anoth er school with 13 pupils, and in another direction was a third school with 14 pupils. The three teachers were paid $35 each; each school house was cheap and ill equipped. In some districts six miles squar, are to be found as many as three white schools, each with a small number of pupils scattered from first reader to high school grades. A good many of the incorporated vil lages have school districts co-ex-i tensive with the incorporate' limits. An accurate school district map of the State would look very much like a crazy quilt. What is the remedy? Take the th-ree schools cited above. Build a comfortable two-room house at a central point, -and give the entire 38 pupils to two teachers. Each pupil would then have his recita tion time doubled. for there would be in the consolidated school no more grades. or classes, than there were in the most advance of the three little schools. I am at once reminded that some of these children would have too far to walk. (It is marvelous how much trouble a fath er who walked four miles to school and brags about, makes over his child's walking one mile.) I grant that the consolodation puts the school too far for some to walk. What then? Take part of the money to transport these to the school. Prof. W. K. Tate of the Memminger Normal school says: "It is better and cheaper to transport the distant children to the good school than to bring a poor school to the distant children." Yes; one good school is immeasurably better than three in ferior schools. The tranaportation of distant pu pils is no new fad. Several years ago the Eastover district in Richland county threw five schools into one. The district runs four wagonettes, made for th puropse. to haul the distant children. Another instance: Three adjoining districts in Fair field county ,with a combined en rollment of 60 pupils, have consoh dated their schools at Bethel. 11ave erected a $2,600 school house, and are transporting all the children who live too far to walk. This con colidation gives the school enough pupils to establish a rural high school, with $300 of State aid. State Superintendent McMahan and Martin have zeabusly advocat ed the consolidation of small schools. Such policy would encourage the building of better roads, while the transportation itself would protect the children in bad weatl1pr, and would protect the small children and the girls from insult or Vio lence at the hands of tramps or thugs on the lonely country roads. Neighborhood Jealousies and Quar rels--These twin evils -have done more to prevent and to destroy the efficiency of the common schools than any other two agencies in the land. It is difficult enough to main tain a good school where everybody works in harmony, and it is well nigh impossible where strife and division are. To listen to the pet ty contentions, the sharp bickerings, HE FOUND OUT. Wanted to Fnd Out if Youing Wife Loved Him. At' Paris. a grey bearded French man recently married a girl in her' teens, and kept wondering whether she loved him. Would she weep when he died, or would she rejoice. and marry again? He would put her to the test,- and he revised gruesome stra tegem. He locked himself up in a room. and waited. After some hours his wife wondered at his unaccountable disappearance; had the door broken open. On the bed lay her husband, his hands crossed, his face white, his body motionless, apparently dead. Now, the wife would show what she really felt. She gazed at him, came to the conclusion that he really was dead, and danced a break down in the room. Up 'leaped the corpse and roared, "So that is how you would grieve -for me? Then take this," and threw clocks and candlesticks at her. She fled, and he continued to vent his disappointment by smashing all the furniture in the flat. WantedI Them to Settle. It won't he the fault of the editor of the Dovie Record if his sub scribers fail to pay up. Here is hi's liberal offer': . Wii; we take eggs on subscription? We'll take the en tire output of the hennery for the next six months and pay for it in subscript ions. We'll take lye soap. clean rags. ginseng, pants, patches old- bones. wood. green hides-, hound pups, old clothes, lumber, cuil ties, wagon tires, peanuts, stiCa candy, onions, crackers, turnmp g:reens. sausages, town lots, cab b~age leaf cigars, yearlings, milen cows. sor'g'm, pumpkins, spring mules, well seasoned shoats, sofa pillows, foot stools. bachelor but tons, patent medicines, eightday' clocks, patent churns, home-mad': sox, choice scrap iron. old maids and .chewing gum. You can bring them by the wagon load. armful. in tow sacks, by the yard. gallon or ton; in drovves, swarms or schools. Yes. we'll take 'em. We'll take anything~ to get you to subscribe or to pay up what you owe. Blood will tell, and so will the feed trough. - | There is no love withotu emo-| T.~ n.- --y ye In emotion alone. E0ooLs. 10.3. 11 I. HAND. .nd the tales of discord in some :ommittee makes one marvel that a ;chool can exist in such a place. Che petitions and the appeals which ome before the various school )oards are enough to make one turu ,essimist. The worst of it all is. :hat most of these contentions and Ackerings are childish and ground ess, and that they are usually be zun and kept alive by men who have t heart but little interest in any school. In settling most of thes aisputes. Solomon's judgment be tween the two women claiming the hild would be wholesome. It is to these jealousies and quar rels that we owe two, three, and even four. little starving school where but one ought to be. To them we owe the little district un able to support a school. Every in fluential local celebrity wished to have a school house at his front dooi or in his backyard. To these jeal ousies we owe most of the defeated local tax executions. Nearly all the local disputes over the teacher have their origin in neighborhood jeal ousies. and the baneful habit of con stant change of teachers has its roots embedded here. A certain district school is sup ported by ten families. All is well but the school house stands on the' south side of a little creek whicn about once a year reaches a depth of four feet. A and B suddenly conclude that this innocent stream is a menace to the lives of then children, and petition for a new dis trict. The next session finds a lit tle 20x20 foot hull of a school house on the north side of that creek, and a little lifeless school on each side of it. Or. C's bad boy is punished hy the teacher; straightway C raise. the flag of secession, and proceeds to have his 'own little d-e-e-strier cut off. Or, one of the local econo mists gets tired of paying a teacher $40 a month, since his daughter would teach for $30; the trusteei will not yield to the economist; then the economist canvasses the district in the interest of a new set, o: trustees, with the economist a chairman. Or. D and E are rival local physicians already at odds; D says that Smith's boy has a con tagious disease, and must be stopped from the school; E declares that the disease is only infectious, and that it would be silly to stop Smith's boy; the quarrel rages, the partisans array themselves, and down goes the local school tax proposed by the only really interested patron of the school. Or, X begins to discuss a new school house; L says that the old one is good enough, and that X is trying to lead the district; no new house is built, and the old one grad ually rots down. Or. Miss Brown the teacher, boards with the Smiths: the Joneses feel neglected, and begin to whisper it about ;that the teache: can not solve Sallie Jones' problems or phrase Sallie's sentences: th'e Smiths retaliate by asserting thai the teacher Is able to teach the whol' Jones family; result-the anti Smith faction's children are taught next session by Miss Sallie Jone herself. Once inore, Mr. Brown. with much religious devotion to his church creed, demands that the new teacher shall be .an X-isi.: Perkmns Y-ism at once begins to fermenT while Stubbs declares that Z-lanisr: has been outraged, since there ha:. not been a Z-ian teacher in th' school In five years. When the new~ teacher comes, is he to teach X-ist doctrine, Y-ist doctrine, Z-ian doc trine, or should he be a simple God fearing man whose daily life will b a rebuke to these clamorous Phari All this may sound like satire, but it is a mask rehearsal of a play where the curtain never falls. Can not some neighborhoods see themsel~es in the play? WILLIAMf E. HAND. University of South Carolina. ACCUSED .OF FRAUD. T. C. Dunmcan, of Union, Is Arrested and Bailed. Thomas C. Duncan, formerly presi dent of the Union-Buffalo and other otton -mills, was arrested at Union late last Saturday afternoon on r warrant charging him with receivin? money from the People's Bank of U~nion under false preten-ses and with intent to cheat and defraud. Bond in the sum of $1,500 was re uired and furnished. The facts, nearly as can be ascer taned, are that in December of 1906. Duncan obtained from the People's Bank the sum of $1,515 in payment of a check or draft upon a bank in Spring City, Tennessee, where Dun can was then doing business, and there was no money in the Sprint City Bank to pay the check. It Is alleged that the check was drawn by the American Lime Company at the. instance of T. C. Duncan, who i supposed to have been the head of tt company. It is stated that there are other transactions of a similar nature in volving an amount of about nine thousand dollars. Since the People's Bank went into the hands of re ceivers a few months ago the re ceivers have made several efforts to' adjust these matters, but without aail, and the warrant was sworn out by one of them. It is untierstpd that Duncan's udrkakings and investments at Spring City, where he has been oper atng for several years, have turneri on badly, and the American Lime Company, w.hich figures in these al leged fraidulent transactions, is thought to be bankrupt. Unless this case is adjusted it is probable thst similar action will be taken with refernce to the other transactions. AN ACCIDENTAL KILLING. Woman Killed by Her Brother-in-Law' Near WValhalla On last Sunday morning Octavi. I'I toson, a colored woman, was shot i and instantly killed by her brother.Ii n--law, Charles Johnson, a boy 1. ' rears otf age. The shooting occurre 1 at what is known as the Porter plac'.| bouir' six miles south of Walhal. Thebo wa. n' 0aminin::: a pistol I .vhen thc ball was accidentally dir hagged and entered the brain of the FEDDY IN A HOLE loosevelt Forced Standard !1)1 Franchise on Oklahoma. [HE RECORD SAYS SO. t Shows That Roosevelt Did Exactly What He Charged Gov. Haskell With Doing in the Prairie Oil and st al Gas Company Matter Against the a ai Protest of Haskell and Hitchcock. 0! A dispatch from Washington says d< nvestigation at the interior depart- t nent brought forth the fact that b :he franchise to the Prairie Oil and I as Company, in Oklahoma, was is sued by Ethan Allen Hitchcock, then g ecretary of the Interior, as charged t y Governor Charles N. Haskell. I' t further appears that Mr. Hitchcock ranted the franchise unwillingly, ind only after he had once refused L to do so. When the Secretary did e grant it he yielded to an explicit in- n truction from President Roosevelt. The facts are a matter of record, ir etter files and elsewnere in the interior department. After a full discussion in the Cab inet meeting today it was decided aot to issue a statement in reply o the hot rejoinder which came from Governor Haskell, treasurer of thte Democratic national committee. resterday in regard to the Prairie Oil and Gas Company; aid other . matters. The explanation was given after the meeting that was deemed est to await any communicationt :hat may come from Mr. Bryan b.y way of rejoinders to the President'e letter of last Wednesday. Ther is 4, feeling also in some quarters hat the President should have held loof from such a discussion as the Prairie Oil and Gas Company affair. The history of the Oklahom-4 ranchise is as follows: The secretary of the Interior was .>bstinate in his refusal to issue the franchise, whereupon ex-Senator J. K. Jones, of Arkansas, former chair man of the Democratic national com ittee, went to Oyster Bay, accompa tied- by his client, T. M. Barnesdale >f Pittsburg. Later Mr. Jones called n the President in Washington 'till later he was reinforced in his lemand for the franchise by State senator Franchot, ot New York, who who had an Interest in the company. and Senator Depew, who expressed a desire to see the State Senator obliged in the matter. Certain infiuential Republicans in ndiana were also interested, amon. them Harry S. New, chairman of the Republican national committee, who was in a company that had sold its hcidings to the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, and whose contract was in danger of being impaired by thc -efusal of Secretary Hitchcock to ratify. After several conferences the Pres dent sent for Secretary Hitchcock~ and asked him why he had not ranted the franchise. The Presi lent, for reasons best known to him self. decided that Secretary Hitch cock's objections were not well found d and ordered him to issue the ranchise requested by the Prairie Oil and Gas Company. There was a question at the time is to whether the company was af iliated with the Standard. Repre sentations were made by certamn interested parties that Mr. Barnes lale and his colleagues belonged tc in independent company. Subse ~uently the fact was established that :he Standard. was the real party in nterest, as the President non. ~harges in his attack on Governoi Haskell.. In ta' matter of certain pipe line prV.:-;es referred to an an inter --given cut by Governor HaskeU Le records show that the per mits were granted by Secretary Gar ield to the rairie Oil and Gas Coin *any last April, and that Governor Haskell entered a protest at the' ine. He telegraphed to Sccretary Garfield demanding by what right he assumed to issue a permit to lay pipe lines within a sovereign State. The Secretary, according to the records of the office, replied that he exercised the right to grani nermits across Indiana reservations. which are under his control, and that he had assumed no greater au thority than that. WHISKEY STILL DESTROYED some Revenue Officers Make a Very Successful Raid. A dispatch from Aiken to the News and Courier says the whiskey onstables succeeded in making an other excellent haul on Saturday, morning early. This is the second till captured in the lajst fewt weeks. A short time ago a most noted distillery was broken up on the South Edisto River. Now anoth r has been captured. much to the satisfaction of the law-abiding citi zns of the section in which it was operated. The raiding party entered the North Edisto swamp seven or eight miles from Wagener three o'clock Saturday evening. They had been suspecting th-' )eration of, a still in that section. or sme time. After a search they eame upon the site of the still. They saw the light at a distance and was guided by it. They workedh their way cautiously through the h samp in order to not attract anv i~ttention so that the stilling party zould be caught. When they came :o the place they found the still de 4erted. but the embers from the fir-i a s'ere yet alive. There was no mash or liquor inywhere around the site and it waas taken for granted that they had A uust left carrying with them the n -sult of their night's labor. Bar- t1 -es and other fixtures were smash- Y td to pieces with axes. and the stil! ai ras placed upon buggies and carried of to Wagener. where it was broken \1 o pieces and destroyed publicly. IT rhe operators of the still ar un At 21 the conserivent of the worbi M oks~ as easy as rolling off a log ' n aos~t men. but at 60 the'y are run- it Ling to keep the log from rollin; WAGENER BURNED STRUCT1YE FIRE IN BUSINESS SECTION OF TOWN. tilroad* Depot and Other Business Houses Destroyed With a Loss of $40,000.. Wedncday night one of the larg t business blocks in the town of ' agener in this county was de royed by fire, entailing a loss of >out $40.000. with iirsurance nounting to not more than $27), )0. Five large buildings and sev -a smaller ones, all occupied, were stroyed. and the information ates that the total contents of the aildings was burned by he confla- n ration. The buildings on the block c, ere all wooden structures and i rned like tinder. With the limited a re fighting facilities in Wagener j iere was no chance to save any ot r le buildings on the block. Very t w of the partic-ulars of the fire t uld be learned. r The large store of Mr.M. J. i .brand, which was one of the larg- I st general merchandise establish ients in the county, was completegv estroyed. It is stated that the stock i this store alone amounted to fully I 20,000. He had on his stock $10. 00 insurance. It was also rumored yesterday that he passenger depot was destroyed. 'he depot was situated in the street, nd was not more than 20 or 30 feet rom the burning buildings. The fire broke out some time last ight. and continued to gradually rn its way through the block. 'he fire is a great blow to the prosp rous little town, the destroyed block eing the principal portion of the own. The following are the losses so far -eported here: J. W. Lybrand. store building, vorth $3.000, insurance $1,500. J. W. Lybrand. stock of goods, 22.000, insurance $10,000. Mrs. 0. M. Ott, building, $1,000, nsurance $500. Jones & Ott, stock in this building, vorth about $Z00, insurance not nown. Mrs. Dora Lybrand, building, $2, 00, insurance $1,200. H. L. Gunter ;tock $1,000, insurance not known. Weeks & Gantt, drug store, small 5tock. E. Williams. three buildings. xvorth $2.000, insurance not known. S. R. Smith, general merchandise stock, worth about $3,000, Insurance aot known. Southern'railway depot, valued at $2000. HEARST FLUNKS HE DECLTNES GOV. IASKELL'S CHALLENGE. The Yellow Renegade Knows That' He Would Be Proven a Liar If lie Accepted. Wmn. R. Hearst, who has been :ampaigninlg for the national ticket of the Independence party in the South and Middle West, returned to New York Monday night and soon afterwards issued a statement concerning the challenge of Gover nor C. N. Hasko~ll, of Oklahoma. In his recent speeches Mr. Hearst had charged that Haskell, who .s now treasurer of the Democratia national committee, sought in 1S99 o influence Attorney General Frank Monnett, of Ohio. to dismiss certaivi suits then pending against the Stan dard Oil Company. In a telegram to Mr. Hearst, which lhe made public' Sunday night, Governor Haskell invited Mri. Hearst to publicly prove his charges before a committee of editors. Mr. H-earst refuses to accept the suggestion of an editorial board of arbitration in the followlins language: To the Associated Press: I ad rlress this communication to you, as cannot have the slightest cor :espondence or controversy with man of Mr. Haskell's charaater. "Mr. Haskell's proposition reminds n of the well known story of the~ ,rglar who was caught in the act > the police. When the police burst n upon him they found him in front > a safe which had been blow' >pen,. with his tools in his pocket, idark lantern in one hand and his )ther hand on the valuables in the afe. The police dragged the burg' r to the cou~rt r'oomn and the judge aid to the culprit: 'Well, what have you to say for ouriself?' 'The '>urglar said:- 'Look-a-here, 'udge, let's arbitrate this case.' "The court records, the complaint ff the ex-Attorney General of Ohio. r. Monnett. the affidavit of the~ resent assistant of the present At orney General of Ohio, Mr. Bur ett, the Court of Records of the tate of Oklahoma in the Prarie Oil nd Gas Company case accuse Mr. laskell and not L. "Mr. Haskell has had many years a which to sue Mr. Monnett if tha( etleman committed a libel in namn rig C. N. Haskell as one of the in who attempted to bribe himc ithe Standard Oil -case. "Mr. Hiaskell's proposition to ar, itrate the matter now shows that e has a sense of humor, even i T* e has not a sense of honor. (Signed) "William R. Hearst." INSANE MAN KILLS TWO n Injures a XMan at the Wash ingtonl Asylum. c Att\Washigton in demanlical fury. t nrew Lightfoot, a mulatto in.- e ate of St. Elizabeth's asylum fo, f, i insane, Tuesday kilied Patrick c one y. overseer of the grounds. h id Millie Follin, a young inmat'? a -the asylum, and severely injured w ss Robinson, another inmate. S, b murder esenpedl from the p, 'oounds and fled to the swamps near-H where, shorTly afterward, a scorew police surrounded the plac ol his conealme'nt. He finallv|3 as suhded after the polire found t nnessary to shobot him. inflicting I ,unds in his legs, and he was oi TEDDY FLUNKS. deni misl evid nect nominious Failure of Roosevelt the to Make Good His bad nev ern con, BASELESS CHARGES kel onnecting Haskell With Standaril pos Wit Oil Bribery Case and Falls Back'app Upon Local Affitirs in Oklahoma ica as Described in a Political Article act Sta in a Republican Magazine. ica President Roosevelt Wednesday is1 an' ight, following upon a prolonged ai >nference with members of the cab- tha iet at the White House, prepared nd gave out his reply to William ne . Bryan, the Democratic candidate, na alative to W. R. Hearst's charges err hat Governor Haskell, treasurer of ein e Democratic committee, had rep- th esented Sta.ndard Oil interests botn on a Ohio and Oklahoma. Mr. Bryan ou ad demanded proof of the charges, to romising that in the event of their ha u bstantiation, Governor Haskeil ui ould be eliminated from the cam- va iaign. Here Is the lame reply oi le t.oosevelt: du "The White House. th, 'Washington. D. C., Sept. 23,1908. an "Dear Sir: In your telegrani you tei ;peak of so much of the charge .. Lgainst Governor Haskell as deatt ho rith his relations, while in Ohio. th vith the Standard Oil Company. fu fou omit the charge as to his rela- p1 ions with the Standard Oil interest A is shown by his action while gover- G ior of Oklahoma, this very summer. O :is action being in par: taken while I ae was at Denver, w'aere, as you ;tate, he was by your wish made tv -hairman of the committee which ti< rafted the platform upon which you re standing. In my statement I ta purposely made no specific allusion to the Ohio matter, and shall at this time make none, in spite-of its sig- m nificance, and in spite of the further ca fact that Governor Haskell's close relation with the Standard Oil in terest while he was in Ohio was a i matter of common notoriety. In Oklahoma it is a matter of record. ti By this court record it aptbeared that the attorney general of the State, elected by the people, ob tained an injunction to prevent the Prairie Oil and Gas Company fron t building a pipe line, and that Gov error Haskell found this out while 0 he was at Denver, as-appears by the representations for the dissolution D of the injunction made in his name. on behalf of the State, before a court ti of superior jur*-"ic ion to that which C( had issued the ..nction. In Athis the governor st' .s that the acting e governor, in his absence, had asked that the hearing be postponed, that he, the governor, might return and have an opportunity to investigatea te controversy. The governor sets forth' in his petition that he is the n sole authority to demand such mat ters, and that the attorney general and the judge of the lower court had ' no right in the matter. and -that h the action of the judge of the lower e court represented 'an encroachmentv by the judiciary.' The attorney gen-a eral opposed the disolution of the injunction, stating that the Prairie G Oil and Gas Company was a foreign 0 corporation which had not accepted E. the provisions of' the constitution" g applicable to such corporations, and y hat without authority of law it was employing a great force of men and teams to dig up, across and into va- t rious highways of the State for the puropse of laying its pipe lines. The i governor prevailed, the injunction g was permitted to continue its work. t to use the words of the attorney gen- p eral, 'without any color of law.' .I c: call your attention to the fact that the Question is not whether or not the judge erred, or whether the in juntion was proper. The point i? , tha' the governor was alert to take i, out of the hands of the attorney gen- o eral what the attorney general fel:, was his sworn duty to prevent, an a: allged instance of the breaking or e the law by this particular great cur poration. a: 'As far as I have seen Governor Hakell has not-even attempted any- s thing which can be called a defense of this action of his. It thus ap- 31 pears that his action was as inex cusable as it was wanton except ont the theory that in defiance of the attorney general of the State and at all hazards, he intended for some C reason of his own to protect the at interest of a great corporation tw against the law- It has been sugges- LIl ted on his behalf that after all he ia lid not favor the Standard Oil Comn- h; any but merely the Prairie Oil and Jas Company. This claim is dis- Fi osed of by the testimony of the "I tandard Oil Company itself in the st atter part of 1907 in the suit now bt ending in the United States cour- Ah gainst the Standard Oil Company. h< a this testimony the Standard Oil di Jompany, upon being required by mn he government to put in evidence list of all the companies in which fr t held' stock or in which its sub- se idiary companies held stock, repre- p1 ented among the others the Prairie th )iI and Gas Company, total capital to 10000,0010, of which the National he rransit Company's proportion was wt 9,99.500; and furthermore it ap- swt ears that the National Transit Comn- tha any owned $3,451,630. In othe;- iip ords, this Prairie Oil and Gas Comr any was owned, all except $500. see y the National Transit Comapny. foi id this National Transit Compane' He Tas owned, all except about $'X,50. Ah y the Standard Oil Company. in~ "Now, contrast your action in this sp to Gover-nor Haskei with Mr. ha 'aft's action as regar-ds Senato.- bel 'oraker, as set forth in his letter o;' o: -1ly 20. 1907, which I quoted in y statement. It was a matter of A ammon notoriety about Senato:' oraker. as it has jong been a mat r of common notoriety about Gov rnor Haskell, that he was the de nder and supporter of certai-1 rporate interests and therefore ostile to the policies for which this di iministration has stood. Ther-' ret as no such convincing proof againsi r mnator Foraker at that time, how- wil er, as there is against Governor - askell, when, as you say, he was. ing ih your approval. madeh treasur-eA-o your campaign committee. lTir rio1 r. Taft refused to be a party to~ ahl: erenmination of Senator For'aker. ir 'en though it was repor-ted that Hy< ily thus could he advance his own the his words were true when he 'I do not care for the presi y if it has to come by compro With a hundredfold clearer ence before you as to the con ion of Governor Haskell with Standard Oil than Mr. Taft then as to the connection of Senator aker with any corporation, you ertheless, having secured Gov Dr Haskell as chairmen of the amittee to write the platform on ch you stand, put him in as treas r of your campaign committee. Let rme add that Governor Has 's titter unfitness for any public I ition of trust or for association [i any man anxious to make an .al on a moral issue to the Amer i people has been abuni-ntly wn, wholly irrespective of this ion of his in connection with ndard Oil interests. As an Amer 2 citizen who prizes his American t and his citizenship far abov - question of partizanship, I re -d as a scandal and a disgrace r .t Governor Haskell should be con :ted with the management of any onal campaign. I have not the ce in this letter to discuss Gov tor. Haskell's conduct, forinstance. vetoing the child-labor bill; or fact that his name appears as e of the defendants in various ts brought by the government prevent the Creek Idtdiant from ving certain of their lands fraud ntly taken; or his connection with rious matters of the kind, but . me call your attention to his con t in prostituting to base purpose a State University, as set forth in article in The Outlook of Sep ,ber 5, last, under the heading of hall the People Rue-in Okla ma?" In this article you will see at Governor Haskell was givie 11 opportunity to make every ex anation, and that he made none. ter setting forth the facts as to )vernor Has1'ell's conduct, The itlook article concludes as fol ws: "'On this state of affairs we have ro comments to make and two ques >ns to ask. "'The people of Oklahoma are xed to support their educational stitutions, from the primary school the university. They pay their oney to have their children edu .ted. When the politicralis use this oney to promote the interests of a )litical machine cr a cliurch sect, Ley are guilty of a breach of trust. hat do the taxpayers of Oklahoma ink of the use to which their public rvants are making of the public inds What do they think about iis financial policy-the taking of e money due their sons and daugh rs and diverting it for the benefit politicians, eccleastical and civil? '' -Governor Haskell was one of [r. Bryan's right hand men in the emocratic convention and at Mr. ryan's instance has been made 'easurer of the Democratic national >mmittee. It is appalling to think hat would be the results of the lucational systems of the Philip ines. and Puerto Rico, in the digging ie Panama canal, in the work of -rigation and reforestation, in the doinistration of the postoffice, the terior and agricultural depart ents, in the appointments of foreigni inisters and consuls, if thib spirit -hich has actuated the Democratic uthorites in the state of Okla oma should be permitted to take ntrol of the Federal government t Washington. Governor Haskell, ctions which speak louder than ords, has declared his disbelief in rover Cleveland's motto, "A publie ffice is a public trust," and Mr. askell is a representative leader ithe Bryan Democr-acy. What does [r. Bryan think of Mr. Cleveland's rinciple What do the American eople think of ?Mr. Haskell's con ~mptuous reversal of it' "You close your- telegram by say ig that you expect and will demand uir and honorable treatment from rse who are in charge of the Re ublican campaign. I am not in btarge of the campaign, but am reatly interested in it. I have down- you above foirly and honor blly that Governor H~askell is a man ho. on every account I have named, unworthy of any position in our ublic life. No further investiga on of tnese facts is required. They e spread on the record before y'ou nd they were available before Mr. askell was chosen for his it:-sition t treasurer." W MAN EATEN BY SHARK. eamer Passengers Witness a Tragic Spectacle on Ocean. Passengers by the F- ninsular and riental steamer Arabia. which has -rived at Plymouth from Bombay, itnessed a tragic spectacle during e voyage, a member of the crew ling overboard and being eaten Sa shark before their eyes. When the liner was off Cape inisterre there was a shout of nan overboard," and a young orekeeper, named William New urry, was seen in the water. The .ip was quickly swung around on r course and sent away in the rection of the man who was swim ig for his life. His efforts were anxiously watched am 'the deck of the liner by pas ngers and crew. He could be seen uckily breasting the waves, and as e boat drew nearer and neare' him there was every hope that would be saved. Suddenly there s a rush through the water and .i ' ir. An agonized shriek reached e onlookers and the swimriter dis The boat reached the spot a few yonds later, and the water was 2d crimsoned with his blood. bad been seized by an enormous arkk which had been seen follow the vessel for some time. How Newburry got into the water s not been explained, but it is ived he must have fallen over ird accidentally. 'TUENT ON FRlENCH CRlUTSERi. I Gun Explodes and Kille'l Crew of Thirteen.I \t Tolan. France. during a gun i Tuesday one of The big t guns on the French armoredl ier LaTouch'e Treville exploded h erri fic v'iolene'. complete w-'ing the after turret and kill utrih: the cntire gun crew I 11:. A num'ber of men n-ere so miy injrd,T somo of' them pr-oh r - 'feally. Th" ac-cident wa st ses Anyut 12. last, when. hy b bursting of the breech of the gun I -m1we ll' and tS injuredI. I TRIED TO BRIBE ompers Says Van Cleave At tempted to Buy Him Off. TAFT RESPONSIBLE or Contempt Proceedings Says the Labor Leader. He Goes 'Lto De tails of the Attempt to Bribe Him. Giving Names, Dates and Other Particulars. Samuel Gom:-s, president of the mierican FeC^:. of Labor, as ashington T'. .jay introduced the ame of Fort Secretary Taft and nade serious .arges against W. J. 'an Cleve, pr;eident of the National kssociation c- Manufacturers. Th. :harges were uade as a part of Mr. ompers' testimony in connection vith the proceeding against him. ecretary Morrison and John Mitch ll in the Buck stove and range co*. empt case. Mr. Gompers was a he time under cross-examination a' he hands of his attorney, Jackson -i. Ralston. In the case .of Mr. Taft, Mr. Gom ers in effect charged that he hac supplied the sentiment behind th4 injunction decree, while the direc charge was made that Mr. Var Cleve had had Mr. Gompers and oth er federation officials shadowed b. detectives and had undertaken tt have Mr. Gompers bribed to deser the cause of organized labor an% join its enemies. Mr. Ralston's efforts were directe towards a countr-conspiracyVmfww7 towards showing a counter-conspir acy by the manufacturers to destro: trade unionism. ?Ie read the portio of -.Mr. Taft's presidential nomina tion acceptance bearing on the ant injunction planki and commentin upon the extract, Mr. Gompers said "It is substantially the basis o this injunction suit and these cot tempt proceedings under that it junction." Mr. Ralston: "I understand yot then, it is in reliance upon M1 Taft's decisions that you are her today." Mr. Gompers: "Justice Gould 1 his opinion so asserts and he quote from injunctions by Judge Taft whil on the bench." Mr. Ralston: "Judge Taft's sten in the matter then having the ei dorsement of the National Associ tion of Manufacturers'?" Mr. Gompers: "Yes." Mr.'Ralston asked Mr. Gompe1 whether there had been any gener effort to break down organized 1! bor. and he replied: "Men have been suborned to sI on their fellow laborers in shop factories and mines; to- report ti proceedings of union meetings; I spy on the personal conduct of worl men after working hours and to fc low from place to place labor lea< ers visiting other cities than the homes. Money has also been usedi bribe representative labor men1 cease their connection with the 1 bor organizations and direct the activities to the National Manufa turers' association. They have n< offered substantial safeguard in ti future." After giving details of his os pursuit by detectives, .Mr. Gompel then told . of being approachedi New York by a man namned Brougl ton Brandenburg of New York, wb he sai<d. had attempted in 190'71 bribe him in the interest of Mr. Va Cleve. "He said," Mr. Gompers col tined, "that he was -friendly to n and he thiought that Mr. Van Cle' and myself should have a -betti understanding and offered to brir about a meeting between us to e tablish more agreeable relations.' Mr. Gompers stated that he to) Brandenburg that he would be gla to meet Mr. Van Cleve, as it ha always been his policy to encoural friendly conferences In matters 1 'volvng labor disputes. After Ml Gompers returned .. to Washingtc he said that he received sever: communications from Brandenbut and stated that this correspondent had led to an agreement 'for a mee ing in New- York. He was accon panied to r\w York by Vice Pres dents Duncan and Huber, both< whom had advised him to carry oi the agreement for a conference. Relating the particulars of tU second meeting in New York, M: Gompers said Brandenburg disclose to him his .purpose, saying that h knew it to be the intention of M: Van Cleve to destroy his (Gompers character, but that he (Brander urg) had persuaded Van Cleve the it would be better in~ the interest 4 Van Cleve's purpose to make an ull o Gom'ers and to prevail upon ir to betray the secrets of the Feders ion of Labor, "revealing," Mr. Gompers added, "whatever informs tion I possessed which might reilec detrimentally -.upon labor organi ~ations.'- . "He said," continued Gompera "that Van Cleve had agreed t-o ti proposition and had undertakea t< suggest to me that I coul-1 permi mlyself to be re-elected presiden of the federation in order to pre vent the election of Vice Presiden Duncan and that after some little time I could resign. He assured me that I would be given a good lump sum and that Van Cleve woulh uuarantee beyond question thati would be cared for the rest of m: life, even going to far as to tell me that the guarantee should be under 'He said that I could deliver lec tres in opposition to the labor moement, and that if i did not re tive as much as five or six thousand iollars a year. Van Cleve would nke up the differene. I told him."' said Mr. Gompers. that it was difficult to believe that ,l Van Cleve- would make such a josition and that I must have urher proof of his sincerity. Lnther meeting Was arranged ant' tt this meeting Brandenburg showed 1 checks. drafts and vouebers on ficcial letterheads of the Nationa! Issciation of .Manufacturers and~ nder the signature of Mr. Van lvve. which were made payable to randdenurg. " told him T would consider the roposition." continued Mr. Gompers. did not reject it. hecause t atted him to continue under the? cf that I might accept. Of course was just as determined then as rnnwa alwayn hare beeni LEFT HIS FAMILY A DOCTOR AND YOUNG LADY MISSLNG. ie Left for Utah, According to His Story, Bat Since Then Nothing Has Been Heard of Him. Several weeks ago it was stated by the Aiken correspondent sof the Xews and Courier that D . H. J. Weeks, a prominent young phyician of Wagener, had decided to go to the West. He did leave, and now news from Wagener indicates that he not only left himself, but de serted his wife and five children, and has since married another woman, a former clerk in a Wagener store. For some time it has been reported that he had deserted his family, but :he report was generally discredited and his friends believdd that he would soon return to them. But time has passed and he has not yet returned, and further investigation "ias discovered the fact the he was quite familiar with Miss Sarah smith. while she was in charge of ,he millinery department of Er.. T. W.. Lybrand's big store in Wag enner last winter. A few weeks previous to July 30 Dr. Weeks announced that he ..bad lecided to move his family to Utah, where he has a brother-in-law, Dr. T. R. A. Whitlock, formerly ,of this :ounty. He has been in -correspon lence with Dr. Whitlock in reference -o that action and had completed' -ll the details, apparently, to carry Iiut his announcement. Subsequent 'y he said- he' would go out there ind make his arrangements and re!' urn for his family in ten days A short time after he was to 'ave --eturned home the flood- dame and t was thought that he was possibly flood-bound, or - perhaps drowned Soon after the-floods -an investi ;ation was started, and- a party interested 'in the 'matter went to partanburg and called .on the -nother of .Miss Smith and. asked vhere the latter was. Mrs. SmithG replied that she had married a W . A. Hambleton,. of CharlestOn.. Upon >eing described to her it -appeared, hat "Mr.. Hambleton" was .none' ther than Dr. Weeks. The -*isitor. -hen showed her a picture of Dr. Weeks and she agreed. that .it must > e the person to whom her alaughter vas married a short time previous. ['he marriage, she said, took. place n the Baptist church. Mrs. Smith :aid she had last heard. from the ouple in Kansas City. A great deal of indignation. has ieen aroused over the, seeming plabi lesertion and steps have 'been tiken. o bring Weeks to. justice. -*'Is inderstood that attorneys have been ,mployed'and the case will be pushed .tgainst him. It has been' stated. hat a detective has been emprded Lnd is now at work tryinN to cajure im. Some reports have it that'be 2 's in ths- West, ~while others state hat 'he has .gone to Cuba. Dr. Weeks is a .rotherin'.la"of 2rs. J. R. A. and W. A. .Whitlock nd is himself prominlently'- con ected. He has always been a resi ent of Ailken conty. and at the ime of his disappearance his abeg nother 'was living with him. He" vas a poor young man when he. be an the study of .medicine. By ap-. ~Iying himself he soon built u airly good' pra'ctice and he was gen rally well thought of in his section. A few years 'after his marriage o Miss'- Emma Whitlock some -of~ ''is f iends advanced11im money and. e went to a medical college- He ad an office in Wagener- and visitied is parents in an - automobile. He vas a member of the Aiken County Vedical 'Association and ewas promi ent among- his brother physicians. {is deserted family is composed of is wife and five children, who are iow being cared for hy relatives. ~rhe affair -is greatly' deplored and' - very effort will be made to- see that ustice is done. ANSWERS CALLTO PREACH .;ives Up Bi Salary to Entertb Ministry. After spending three years in the naking of iron and. steel -and in Ihat time teaching his friend,. W. llis Corey, most of what he knlows oday of steel making, Geo. L. 1unt, ;uperintendent of .the 119-inch 'mill if the Carnegie Steel Company; at *Homestead. has resigned .his "po ;ition and will ~enter the Western Theologicai seminary, to become a "resbyterianl minister. Mr. :Glunt 'caves a position worth $10,O090, a tear, including a' fils- for -'fass vork. When it became. 'known hat he was to' quit' the mills at '{omestead, a fine position, high' up n the calculation department of the steel corporatio~n was offered' 'iim. This he refused, saying he ')elieved he had been called ' to reach. -DASHED THROUGH FLAMES. Pass-engers Are Refugees From Town Destroyed by the Fire.. A great forest 'flire is .raging near Eureka. Col., fanned by a fifty-mile aie, and already the plant of the Keestrom -'Lumber Company, valued t $,00, has been destroyed. The 're is threatening vast tracts, of -edwood timber lying between K.! srom and Trinidad, to which latter uace refugees are flocking from many camps. Th~e million-dollar pant of the Redwood Lumber Codm nany is directly in the course :of th flames. A passenger train ar :ved at. Samoa Thursday night; car -in refugees from Luffenholz and Fildbroo, the former town having >en destroyed by the flames. Refugees were hemmed in by .the 'lames and the daring trip through the ire on the train was proposed. The dash was made with the flames ; close that the paint on the cars "as blistered in the heat. f a man would feed only one out of every ten hogs he could not epct the entire drove -tO thrive. Ten. if he throws his manure on his land in big chunks, how can hc expct the whole to receive the benefit? Get a mianlire spreader. t be true in mnyself. my consciencs and to my fellows." He~ stated that he had related all the detqils of this coversation to Vice president Dun - an Ruher.