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OUR SCH PAPER NC BY PROF. WLLIA Inadequase Supervision-In South es Carolina there are three units of of school administration-the Stata, fu the county, and the school district. ei "An educational system Is a great is business." In every organized busi-m ness there must be machinery; that jt machinery must be repaired, adjust- sI ed, and articulated; and some com- ol petent person must supervise that ni machinery. A successful supervisor 1i must be a capable man, an expe- r rienced man, and a courageous man. h He must be reasonably well paid, de- si finitely responsible to somebody, and reasonably secure in his positon as ci long as he is efficient. What of the i supervision of our educational sys- I tem? What do we expect, and what h have we a right to expect s What does the fundamental law c of the State require in the office fl of the State superintendent? Does u it require that he shall be an edu- v; cated man, or a man of experlence t in school affairs, or a man who knows 6 anything of teaching and of teach- f ers, or a man himself qualified to p teach? He is expected to direct"I the educational policy of a State, and a to maintain a system of schools foi 3 ever three hundred thousand chil- v dren. What salary is -offered t-. e a man big enough to fill this po sition? Nineteen hundred dollars ao year. Now does this rank with the salary offered a man big enough to t run one cotton mill? How doos b t get the position, and on what does v the security of it depend? What i; i lilrely to be his reward for any dib t play of courage in his office? Ev- 2 ery second year he is compelled t neglect the duties of his office fo' at least two months and to spend at least four hundred dollars, to ge the opportunity to speak ten min- s utes in each county telling the dear i (indifferent) people that he should t be re-elected. Under our present system of electing the State super intendent, and with two-year tenure z of office, the entire educational pot icy of the State may be reversed in- I side one year. In a recent editorial < The News and Courier pertinently < says, "In late years the people have 1 shown a growing improvement in < their estimate of the place of super- I -tnt of education, choosing as a rule trained teachers for it, . - 1 but there is no assurance so long as the office is filled by popular vote that incapable men will not be I ingratiating manner, or a rewa'd 1 ingratiating manner, or a a rewar- i for political service. . The 1 superintendent of educat:on shoull be appointed by the governor or by a commission, after Investigation, I and the salary should be sufficient i to command the services of expertz, and at the same time remove them1 from temptation." A succession of able State super intendents could not build and mai t- i tain a system of high schools, unless the county supervisors be good. The wisest policies of a State super intendent would avail but little, un- 1 less the county supeirntendents were, able, willing, and courageous enough to carry these policies to success. In the matter of administration the county superintendency is the key to the situation. What do we require of the county superinten-' dent, what do we expect, what d- I we get, and-what do we give? Do we require that the county super-< intendent shall be an expert or ex perienced educator? Is he required to have any jKnowledge of schools 1 or of teaching? Is there anything I N to prohibit an illiterate from hold ing that office? He is not required to I be competent to teach, although by 1 law he is required to give his teach'-1 ers instruction in the art and meth- I ods of teaching. Does the county de-1 enand that its superintendent be at i Least the equal of the superintendent in the court house town? Te be pet fectly plain and honest, have we not I had men elected and re-elected to - the office of county superintendent, t to supervise the whole county, who could not have been elected to any I position in the best schools of their counties? Many of them would not NEGROES TERROR STRICKEN.J Georgia Night Riders Burn Churches and School Houses. A dispatch from Albany. Ga., says there is a reign of terror among thet negro inhabitants of a considerable t portion of Calhoun, Baker and Miller counties, as the result of a raid by night riders Saturday night, the trail of the outlaws being marked t by the blackened ruins of 13 negro1 churches and schoolhouses.C The following buildings were de- b stroyed: Mt. Zion church and y school house, Pleasant church and v school house, Christ church and a school house, Little Zion church and 'I school house, Belmont church, Mt. y Aetna church and school house; g New Salem church and school house-in The night riders first made theirL appearance at a point three miles G east of Kesler, where the first church c was fired. They galloped away to- a wards the east and before the glare of the first fire had reached its height another was being kindled a few miles away. Fire followed firea and the destruction of every buildinga to which the torch was applied was ii complete.q Hundreds of negroes went to their ts church Sunday to attend them, only to find heaps of ashes where their meeting house had stood. Many of the best members of the Ill -negro race in the three counties m named belonged to the congregations Ja of some of the hundred churches. PC This is the same community where rc a few months ago a number of negro a lodge rooms were dynamited and al where several lynchings occurred, the b: last having taken place only a few a weeks ago. REPUBLICAN ELECTORS NAMEI). by __________ry Capers Comes Down and Puts Out sa be the Ticket. A A committee of the South Car.:- i lina Republican party selected for riL the purpose met in Columbia Monday in at the call of John G. Capers, gen-,sh orally looked upon as State leader, and. named the nine electors for which the few hundred members of an oLS. 1. 4. M H. #&AND. say to teach In the best schoolsi their counties. They understand 11 well that the public does not pect such fitness of them. Thati our fault, not theirs. The public ind does not think of a county perintendent as a man bf educa on, experience, tact, and leader-1 ip in school matters. It thinks I' him as a man who listens to ighborhood quarrels about district sea, and about the appointment and moval of trustees, and who sits in is office one day in the week t'' gn teachers' pay warrants. In speaking thus of incompetent yunty superintendents, I have no tention whatever of being personal. am happy to count my best friendis the State many of the county iperintendents. Many of them are ympetent and efficient men, sacrt ing themselves on the altar of aa nappreciative public, for their re ard is contemptible. We ask forty wro qualified men to direct over ,200 teachers, to act as guardians yr 314,000 children, and to kee. ad to disburse nearly a million and half dollars; we offer them an verage salary of $684, an insult to a official man! The city of Green ille has conceived itself that it Is conomy to pay its superintendenl 1,800 a year to suprvise the work f 44 teachers; while Greenville ounty pays its superintendent $700 3 supervise 275 teachers. Sumtei aye its city uperintendent $2,400 a ear to direct 36 teachers; Sumter ounty offers its superintendent $900 : direct about 150 teachers. It is , source of wonde rhow we have s many efficient county superinten ents as we have. All honor to the ompetent man patriotic enough tW erve his county on a contemptabie alary! But shame upon a people rho compel patriotism to crawl in he dust! I know that we have some people! rho claim that our schools are .ready too much supervised. That Lepends entirely upon what is meant y supervision. If it means the onstant meddling in petty details r the jealous interference with eachers in matters concerning nly themsives, or the insis ency upon teachers becoming heap imitators of a fad tend superintendent, then perhaps re have too much. But If super ,sWon means the readiness and abil ty to assist the teacher, the power o Inspire her, the tact to prune Lnd refine and strengthen her, and he manhood to sustain her (and it isually does), then I dissent ve temently. All over the State we ave young men and women who LS teachers ought to succeed, but vho are failing because they have o one to advise them and to sul. tort thema in the crucial moment ft trial. This is especially true in he rural and village schools. Is it Lny wonder that the young teacher' 'lock to the towns? The rural schools must have bet er supervisions. Nearly seventy per :ent of the white school children >f this State are In the rural schools. ['hey are entitled to as good and a: :lose supervision as are any other rhildren. Proper supervision can tot be given as tong as we multiply he one-teacher schools with fiftee'. pils each, and permit the popula' ection of supervisors at a salary ,f $684. On a salary of $684, whNt an a county superintendent do to ward the real supervision of 150. achers scattered all over a.-count., perhaps 100 school aouses? Require that the county superi edent be an expert educator, le Li be appointed by a board. and 'esponsible to that board, keep hir: n office as long as he Is efficient, and ay him an expert's salary. We sha:i lnd the men prepared to do the rork. Then we shall stop frittering wway the school fund, increase the und, and we shall get results. ooner or later our people are going come to look at this matter some rhat as did Hon. John J. McMahani a his report for 1900. WILLIAM H. HAND. he statement given out afterwards here was no friction at the meeting ,nd the white people are urged ' ote the ticket "without fear of ne rodomination," as is stated by Capers also stresses the fact that de Bryan Democratic committee has tiree negro preachers, bishops, and 5 negro preachers urging the elec on of Bryan and Kern, which state ient was taken to mean that the eppblicans are rather uneasy about de ngro vote. The electors at large are: L. W. B lalock of Goidville, who has een associated with the party for ears, and A. C. Kaufman of Charls n, who as taken a part in the ifairs cf the Red Cross society.I he district electors are: Isaac Hl. 'orris, Yorkville; George R. May eld, Greenville; Thomas F. Bren en, Columbia; James Pcwell, Aiken; D . Melton, Columbia; T. 3. rnt. Charleston, and J. A. Baxter. eoretown. The two last named re colored. A Dissatisfied Subscriber. "I hereby offer my resignashun as' subscriber to youre papier. It be Eg a pamphlet of such small konse sence as to beefit my family by ,kin' it.. What you need In youTe tete Is brains and some one to rus :1 up news and :ite editorials on re topics. No menshu-s has been ade in yours shete of my butcherin poen china pig weighin' 369 unnds or the gapes in the chicken: und here, you ignore that i bought bran' new bob sled, and say nothin out it. Hi Simkin's .iersey cali oke his two front legs fallin' in well, two important chiverees have en utterly ignored by yours shet' .d a 3 column obitchnary notis ri me cn the death of grandpa Hera ,was left out of your shete to y nothin' of the alfebetical poem ginning "A is for And and also for k,"t by me darter. This is th>' ison yours papier is so unpopular town. If you kant rite eddyto .Is and in't goin' to put no news yoursshete we don't want sad" Soe men enjoy being grouey, i their highst ambition is to de- I SCHOOL TEACHERS 'HEIR DUTIES AND RESPONSI BILITIES ARE GREAT. ome Patrons Still Believe That Teachers Should Keep School From Sun to Sun. News and Notions says there is loubtless no other profession so ommonly used as stepping stone to mable many to enter a profession usually considered more tremuner ,ive and exalted than teaching. Prhaps society itself is partly re sponsible for permitting this In ,rusion, but the intrusion is being made, whether fostered by society :r not. What a common occurrence it is to see a young man "keep school" law or medicine, or a young lady "keep school" to earn money for her wedding trouseau. Society, pat rons and often trustees are unable to distinguish between the teacher who scientifically trains and devel opes all the God-given physical and mental powers of the cnd In rank, teaching should be class ed as a profession next to Lne minis try, or perhaps co-ordinate with it; for the teacher details with the mind while it is in a plastic condition and very capable of being molded Then, too, the teacher, by means of daily association and personai contact with the child, is able, in a manner, to guide and assist the mind of the child in character-building He helps th.. child's mind to do right-thinking and right-acting. Many people have erroneous ideas about teaching, yet almost every patron knows just precisely what It behooves the teacher to do at all times. How common its the idea that the teacher sits in an easy-chair in the shade for a few hours in the ay and coins money with very little effort. Really, the true teacher is, and must always be, the most diligem pupil in the school, regardless of hit preparation for an experience ic teaching. The teacher's work is not confined to a few hours in the day, but begins with the opening of school and ends with the closing. Just a the body hungers and thirsts daily for the various food substances, sc necessary to sustsin life, so the mi n hungers and thirsts daily for the food necessary for mental growtl and development. This mental food must be supplied daily by the teach er if we proceed in accordance wit the laws of nature. Some patrons still btlieve tha1 teachers should keep children it school from sun to sun. They forge1 that there is a difference betwee: manual labor and mental labor Keeping a'child in school from sut to sun chains his body to a seat; bu1 it fails to keep his mind at work Though his body Is in school, hi, mind is most likely elsewhere. The mind receives instruction only whila in a receptive attitude. Teacher: may rush children mechanicall: through books, but they cannot rust or force the contents of any boo] through the child's mina. Perhaps tha Greeks realized the im mense responsibility of the teachel better than many others; for the: pmployed pedagogues to attend the children to and from school and ver, carefully direct and guide the child in character-buildinlg and virtuou: iving. This lent the teacher free tr impart what we term book learn ing," for want of a better term. Thb modern teacher has the work o teacher and pedagogue. Still hi profession- is regarded as a triva one by many; when skillful experi enced teachers lcok into the faces o old pupils of theirs and see their owr thoughts, ideas arnd hal3its reflected as it were, in a mirror, we think the: have just cause to think of shirking juty and shuddering at the erroneous amount of responsibility. VISITS SCENE OF HORROR. Correspondent Describes Situation it the District of Hyderabad. A correspondent of a newspape who has reached Hyderabad, Indin the capital of the flooded district, de scribes that city as a vast grav-a Streets and bazaars have been trans ferred to a grewsome mass of ston' and mud and decomposed flesh. 1F it impossible accurately to estimaN the death roll in the stricken region, the correspondent declares, but some natives put it as high as 50,000. Six hundred corpse s were taken 0o1 of the mud. Funeral pyres are burn ing day and night. he damage is estimated at 2,000.000 roubles. SMOKING OUT SHELDON. Republican Treasurer Said to Be a Trust Magnate. News comes from New York that an investigation is being made by te Democratic national committee into the "-rporation connections ot C'norge R. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican national committee, andi "sresentatives of the Democratic national committee have been sent into the financial district to inquire into Sheldon's affiliations and his early financial career. It is said that he is connected officially with :iozen or more trusts, and that is why he was selected as treasurer by the Republican committee. The Democrats intend to smoke him out. DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. Republican Official Could Not Tell His Record. After telling some of his friends hat he would rather die than live o hear the reports whicn some of his >olitical opponents were circulating tbout him, W. Regan' Rice, regis var of deeds of Madison county. N ., shot himself to death in a barn n the rear of his home near Marshall tt 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. )eath was itrstantaneous. The de ased was elected to office on the epublican ticket- two years ago. Hie ras 38 years old and leaves a wife nd one child, a daughter. Ittakes hard work to grow corn -and character. EIs 1all right to have an aim in fe provided we don't a~m too long1 right to know what contributions e being made; that they may judge r themselves the motive of the vers and the obligation impose I >on those who receive. The reflec )n upon the people involved in ur charge that they would misuse C e knowledge which publicity would ye is unworthy of one who has en elevated to so high an office the votes of the people, and I Yen re the assertion that you can not ocure from Taft an endorsement your defence. He is now before e people; he is offering himself as candidate for the Presidency; h. 3.re not tell the people to whom ! e ppeals that they have not sense iough to form a just and correct pinion as to the purpose which ads parties interested in special leg lation to make big contributions. ou fear that we would misrepre nt the motives of those who are :ntributing to the Republican cam aign fund, and cast an unjust sus icions upon Republican candidates the names and amounts were :nown before the election. Your rgument, if sound, would prevert ublicaition after the elcetion. for ,hy should an unjust suspicion be ast upon officials after the election ny more than before? Does not he secrecy before the election iiL rease this suspicion? We are goin; o give you an opporturity to mis epresent the motives of those who live to our campaign fund, and to rouse all the suspicion you can; wt re going to prove to the people that ve are making a fight for the whole ecple and not for those who have )een enjoying privileges and favors Lt the hands of the government, and ve expect that the honest sentiment )f the country will rebuke the party vhose convention refused to endorse My kind of publicity and whose can lidates are not willing that the peo yle should know until after the po!s ire closed what predatory interests lave been active in support of the Republican party. With great re spect, etc., yours truly * CALLED OFF MEETING. legroes of Maryland Town Had Things Fixed to Knife Taft. There was to have been a meet ing of the colored Republican club at Brentwood, Md.,' a suburb of Washington, on Wednesday nigh", but the meeting was not called to rder. It became known next day that the reason that no meeting was had was that the president of the club refused to call It to order, be ca.use he knew that if the meeting was had, the president of the United States would be severely arraigned by resolution; and Bryan would he endorsed. It was the intention of a majority of the members to pass such a resolution, and the cuairman did not want it. The meeting had been called as a Taft and Sherman rally. When the chairman found that a large number of members had signed an agreement to support a resolution condemning the presi dent for his activity in the campaign and advising the negroes of the State to vote for Bryan and Kern, he announced that the meeting ha-l been postponed. SHOT DOWN AT CHURCH. Drunken Men Use Pistols as Services' Are Ended. One of the bloodiest affairs in the history of East Tennessee occurred north of Anthras postoffice Sunday. The .scene was the Baptist church1, within fifty yards of which a "blind tiger" has been operated for months. Services had closed and nearly all the congregation had emerged from the church when a crowd of drunken) men who had visited tne "blind tiger" began firing into the worship pers with pistols. John Bennett, J. W. McKinney and Edward Thomas were shot down at the church door and died almost instantly. The preacher was mor tally wounded. Another worshiper was also shot down in front of the church, but is not dangerously wounded. KILLED HIS WIFE. At Wiliston and Then Made Good His Escape. A special dispatch to Augusts hronicle from Williston says Mon -ay night about 10 o'clock a negro iy the name of Andrew Washington. ying right in the village, shot and tilled his wife. The load from i. un fired at shorr. range penetrat ad the abdomen, tearing the intes ines into fragments. Some of the eighbors got to the scene of the tilling in time to see the murder-:tr leeing across a cotton field. This "a he second murder he has commit ed in this community, and the ne roes are greatly excited over the KILLED THE INSPECTOR. 'o Had Checked Him Short in His .Accounts. Postoffiee Inspector Charles Fitz erald, of Jackson, Miss., was shot nd killed -by W. A. Sorsby, cleri< i the Clinton postoffice. Fitzgerald ad been in Clinton two days check ig up their office, of which Mrs. 'abaniss is postmistress. Sorsby iarried her daughter and has been inning te office. Fitzgerald is a~id to have checked him up short averal hundred dollars and had ~arted back to his home in Jackt m. While on the way to the train orsby suddenly algpearedy befor Im, stuck a pistol to his side and red before his victim could raise HASKELL TO SUE HEARST. overnor of Oklah6ma Says He Will Br'ing Action. * A special to The Kansas Times omm Guthrie, Okla., says: Governor Haskell announced on s arrival here last night from Chi go that he would bring suit against 'Iliam Randolph Hearst on Wednes "For criminal libel, Governor?" "Well, I don't know what you ould call it." "To make him prove what he "o sir; to make him *prove that b~at he said wasn't true." SIZING UP TEDDY ,OOSEVELT A SHAMEFUL DEMA- AC OGUE SAYS CHANCELLOR DAY. ockefeller's Champion Says De- Dr generacy is Made Contemptible By Revelation of Glaring Incon sistency of Chief Booster. That the Standard Oil Company m emains under the venomous hatred m if President Roosevelt, for reasons, ca >est known on the inside, while the H teel corporation, the greatest trust bE n America. receives his approbation T d consent to increase its holdings. c was the statement of Chancellor fames Roscoe Day, of syracuse Uni- Y4 ,ersity. e The chancellor charges that not ai nly did Roosevelt, when a candidat-. or president four years ago, hobnrohc with trust magnates and urge them c to secure money to elect him, iut c( that after his election he appointed b: to a position in his cabinet a man D who held at the time a retaining fe!c from a large corporation, that man P being still a member of the cabinet. o The interview follows: "The % things that I predicted more than two ti years ago, and that are on record. d have come true, and other sequences c are hurrying to their conclusion "Never has this country known c; such a condition politically. Never A has it seen its president descend to 11 such a shameful degeneracy of de- a magogy. Most of its high moralitir" t far above trusts, which it considers I the sum of all villiany, are made con- C temptible by revelations of the glar- r ing inconsistency of the chief boos ter. "For Senator Foraker to procure 3 a loan for political friends who wish to i: purchase a paper fo rcontesting the i election shocks Mr. Roosevelt. Bit t the president was very 'practical I when he wanted $260,000 to put n. c where it could do most good when N his eWction was involved. What 1 was such a great sum to be used for? t "It is a sign of political corruption t for Senator Foraker to have cor respondence with an officer of the Standard Oil Company, but only the I direction and privilege of Mr. Roose velt to call to Washington a 'pracu- I cal' man, the head of the greatest railway corporation in the land, to confer with him before he announced his 'policies' to congress. "The Standard Oil remains under Mdr. Roosevelt-s venomous hatred for 1 reasons well-known on the inside, but. the greatest trust in America re ceives his approbation and consent to increase its holdngs. "A representative of predatory wealth is intimate counsel and ii co-operation with Mr. Hitchcock until discovery becomes inevitable. Then he is forced to resign, not becausc of the sin, but the sure discovery of it by political enemies. "The glass houses seem to bu cracking with ominous sound . -The F'oraker-Archbold incident is shock ing to hypocrites But honest and thoughtful men who are not hiding facts to promote a cause, remember the conditions of brigandage in the~ legislature when every State' her-d up industrial and transit corporations and demanded their money or theit lives. "Fortunately the culmination from the White House carry no conviction So prejudiced, unfair and untrue are they. They are humiliating, not because they are from Mr. Roose velt, but because they are fomrn th" -,resident. The office is disgraced. The people are covered with shame. "The little postmasters are re moved for engaging in politics. The :ost of the business of the presideu tial office is devoted to a political campaign. Cabinets are called, in terviews are furnished, telephone anc telegraph wires are kept hot, the clerical force is worked far into the night-if the newspaper special cor respondents are to be believed-and our square deal presrdenlt is chafing at the bit to go on the platform. "I know that no corporation resist d this mulcting more successfull! than Standard Oil. "Charges against Mr. Foraker for oracticig as an attorney when in of tce is absurd The very salary paid a senator proves that the copntry ex ects him to employ his spare time n some legitimate business. I"The eye of the American people 'tie opened wide. They are not all leceived. What they need is to er rcise themselves in the judicial tem rament. They are too easy stamp eded by the frenzy of the mad re former. "The American citizen cannot re turn too soon to Constitutional gov ernment and the re-inforcement of business with his confidence." '* A DARING ROBBERY. nocks Down a Man and Locks Him in Vault. Concealing himself in the vault of the offce of W. D. Allen Manufact uring Company, Chicago, a thief Wednesday stole $500 after commit ting a murderous assault on Henry Gibbs, the superintendent. The rob ber struck Gibbs on the head with a revolver when he opened the door of the vault to get the money which was part of the payroll. Thrusting the superintendent into the vault and making him a priso aer by turning the combination knob the robber leaped towar. the door. The way was blocked by the comn pany's stenographer and bookkeeper. 'If you raise a hand to stop me ['ll kill you both," the thief said is he leveled the revolver. Springing over the railing the rob >er, who was masked, reached the loor before Miss Walter or Galla shers could attract the attention of lalrge foe of employes who were within hearing distance. He ran o a nearby street. where it is hought a horse and buggy were vaiting for him.L ANOTER ONE CAUGHT. lepublican Leader Admits His Con-n nection With Trusts. Charles Nagel, of St. Louis, who a the absence of Chairman Hitch-I ook, is in charnge of Republic~a' atoal headquarters at ':hicago, 'uesday gave out a statement ad iitting that the law firm of which * is a member is acting in a pro sional espacity for the Wat.re a SHOWS UP TEDDY a fo gi. - - U ul Bryan Willing to Leave the Issue " to the People. t gi be QUOTES THE RECORD ti of Influence of Trusts and Other Man- a di aged Interests Not a Personal a a: Question-His Enforcement of the e 10" Law Would Not Be Spasmodic and Ic Iii Diicriminatory. -s y Replying to President Roosevelt'.; s C most recent statement, W. J. Bryai C1 in a letter addressed to the Presi dent, which was given out last night i at Rock Island, Ill., points to his record and declares that it is suf ficient answer to the insinuations of the Chief Executive that he is ir connection with or controlled by th", trusts. Reverting to the charges against Governor Haskell, Mr. Bryan say. that the President. in response - his request, -did not begin to suggest 1 a tribunal which could determine those charges, but Instead proceedel to pass judgment upon him and informs the President that the oc cupant of that high'offlce can not de ny to the humblest citizen the righ' to protect his rep'atation and vindi cate his name in the courts. "I am willing," says Mr. Bryan. "that all your charges against m shall be submitted to the voters of the county' and *ith your charges I submit denial of any knowledge o information that could, in the re motest way, connect me with an, trust, monopoly or law-breaking col poration. My record is sufficien: answer to your insinuation. I have lived in vain, if your accusationm have lost me a single friend. 1 challenged you to name . trust of ficial who Is supportiD' d afte: searching the countr . -oduce the name of one ma- , r ..rust Without inquiring w! ., votes for me because of hit - of busi ness adversity uader Mr. Taft, you accept his statement that he will vote for me as conclusive proof that I I am in league with the trusts, al though you admit that trust -officials i are supporting the Republican tickeL. You compliment me when you meas ure me by higher standard.s than you do your political associates, for you insist that Mr. Rockefeller's contribution to Governor Hughes campaign fund was no reflectioni t upon him and I take it for granted i that you do not criticise Judge Taft's . recommendation of a Standard 0. t attorney to the Federal. bench, a L lace where the judge might have o pass upon the charges against he very trust for which he had been .in attorney. While the truss at 'orney to whom you refer is not a a ffifcial of a truist, I will warn hir, m d through him his clients that V iI am elected I will not only vigor e usly enforce against all offenders he laws whicha we hope to have - nated in compdance with the Dem r cratic platform, but that I will alsc -grrously enforce existing laws 'gainst any and all who violat9 hem, and that' I will enforce them. 'ot spasmodically and intermittently Sut persistently and consistently: hey will not lbe suspended even fo he protection of cabinet officers. "You say' the attitude of mans' nen of large finiancial Interests' war ants you 'in expressing the belief hat those trust magnates whose - fear of being prosecuted under ch< law by Mr. Taft is greater than the] fear of general business adversity undei' me will support me rather than Mr. Taft. You have attem~no to word that statement in such a way as to claim the su~pport of all the trust magnates, and yet put it .sm te groond -nat the-v are~ supporting your party for patriotic reason't rather than for the pomotion of a selffish interest. That is ingenious. but, it is not sound. The trust mag nte are supporting the Repubilican party and the Bible offers an ex planation, 'the ox knoweth his nwner and the ass his master's crib .' You admit that you gave permission t' the Steel Trust to al'sorb a riva, and thus Increase its control of the output of steel and iron products I will leave the American people to. pass jtdgment upon that act and1 compare your position on the trust1 question with mine. "But your letter presents a de fence of i-our party's pcsition and ant acnsationl against the oters whichi emphasizes an issue already prom-1 inent . You are the first conspic uous member of your party to at- t tempt an explanation of the party's t oppositioin to publicity, before thr election, and the admission which you make will embarrass your party associates. Y'our position is that the publication before election of the contributions5 made to your cam- 1 paign f'und would furnish your polit ical opponents an opportunity 'to give a false impression' as to thc fitness of thi candidates. You cite as illustratlis the contributions made to Governor Hughes' campaig1 a fund, the contribultion collected b; Mr. Harriman and the contributions which are now being collected for. Mr. Taft's campaignl fund. You charge in effect that the people are C so lacking in confidence that they n might condemn as improper contri- r butions which you declare to bc' s proper. If the voters differ from you on this question, are they necessarily 3 ignorant and wrong? Must th': s< members of the party organization S act as self-appointed guardian of the. h people and conceal from the mwhat fi is going on lest tne people be mis- h led as to puropse and effect of large conitributions? Is this youw explanationi of the action of the ae publican leaders in the national con- G ention in voting down a publici. plank? If you will pardon the sug gestion I believe that a better ex planation can be found in Hol:- f Writ, for do we not read of met oving darkness rather than light hi because their deeds are evil? "I do not mean to say that Mr. Hughes was influenced by the con d tributions made to him by the trusi magnates whose names were giver in the after-election report. I d<I not mean to say that you were in-W luenced by the contributions eel lcted by Mr. Harriman, neither de s I mean to say that Mr. Taft will be , influenced by the contributions that are being made to his fund by the trust magnates; but I de mean tou .. a+ tho A mirt enn!mi ha'n BLIND STAGGERS In FAIN MAKES ITS APPEARANCE IN THIS STATE. U1 en """"-""" 3, Powers, State Veterinarian, Gives Some Advice as to Curing Animals de di Affected With the Disease. th The fatal disease of horses com tc ,nly called "staggers" has again de it appearance In this State-, ft ses being reported in Barnwell and P< ampton counties. No cases have? ta en reported in Greenville county. tc iis disease has appeared sporadi- ie .ly in South Carolina for many t1 ars, but no serious outbreak oc- a irred until the epidemic of 1901 f id 1902. X During the fall of 1901 a few 0 Lses were reported in Lancaster A >unty, and in January 1902, it again 0 coke out in Orangeburg county. 0 uring the following six montbs A sses were reported in Anderson, b ickens, Oconee, Spartanburg, Che:- a kee, Greenwood, Orangeburg, Barn- e ell and Barkeley counties. At that me it was estimated that the losses c uring this short period greatly ex- r eded $10,000. After this severe outbreak, no ases were reported until 1906, f ,hen the disease was again reported 1 Hampton, Marion, York, Pickens< nd Oconee counties. Outbreaks of be disease were also reported in i rirginia, Maryland, New Jersey, I ieorgia Louisiana and Kansas du ing the same seasons. Leuco Eucephalitis is the proper .ame for this disease, although It is Iso called Cebro Spinal Meningitis a many localities. The exact cause s as yet unknown, despite the inves igations of many prominent scient sts. It has been attributed.to micro rganisms, poisonous plants, impure rater, mouldy feed, etc. One inves :igator has produced these symp oms by feeding damaged grain con aining a fungus, the spores of which mter the circulation and set up nflammation and often absesses of he brain. State Veterinarian Powers of 1emson, in talking of the disease, aid: "Mules are seldom attacked; in 'act, I have never seen one so af fectedL although some cases- have been reported. In all cases Inves :igated by me, I have found lesions yf the brain. In many instances there has been softening and de generation of large areas of the brain tissues, while- In others there has been severe congestion of theblood vessels and meninges of the brain. "The symptoms are similar to hose observed in nearly all other rorms of so-called staggers, viz: dull aess, delirium, in-co-ordination, etc. Death usually occurs within one cr two days, and the few animals that recover are of little value, owing to the changes in the nervous system "Every effort should be made to :heck the spread of the disease. upon its appearance, all other horses should be removed from the stable, 1nd the entire stable should be thoroughly cleaned, disinfected and 'bandoned for two or three montar. Cmpete change of water and fee'. s of the utmost importance, since nany authorities believe that die eased hay or grain or impire wat.e s the cause of tais disease. In past utbreaks we have notice . .at no new cases developed after those pre :autions were observed. "Medical treatment is most un satisfactory, as animals die so sud lenly after the sympton.a develoTu LTpon appearance of the first symp-1 oms, severe purgatives should 3e immediately given, 1 oz. of Aloes with 2 drains Ext. of Belladonna being very satisfactory for this put - pose. The administration of drugs s often impossible, owing to the lelirum of the horse, but purgativ .; an be given hypodermically. When sver a competent Veterinarian can e procured, he'should be called i nediately, as treatment is very un jatisfactory and practically useless tfter the symptoms are well devel "If the animal can be handled, t'1e 'ollowing drench may prove of some Fowler's Sol. Arsenic.I Phenacetin, 2 drains. Strychnin Soluh, 1-2 grain. Aquae, 4 oz Sig: Give this drench three times. The bodies of all affected animals hould be opened and the organs,] specially the brain, carefully ex ,mined The appearance of this dis ase, together with report of the lost mortem examination, should be orwarded to this office. All pos ibe advice and assistance will be urnished to assist in control of this utbreak.* The only baking pc Royal Grape Creas officially approve< a wholesome, big] There Is greater deception in the safe oi HEAVY LOSS OF LIP the Coal Mines of the United States. Accidents in coal mines of the Lited States during the last .eI dar year resulted in the dealh ot L25 men and Injury to 5,316 mort, cording to statistics just made blic by the geological survey. The ath record among the coal miners tring the year was greater by 1,033 an in 1906, and this is said to ve been the worst year in the his ry of the coal mining industry. lie figures do not represen: -tbe 11 extent of the disa.ters, as re >rts were not received from cer in States haviag no mine Inspo rs. West Virgimia reported the beav st death rat'i in 1907-12.35 per Lousand employees and this State so showed the lowest production r each life lost-65,969 tons. New exico stood next on the list with a math rate of 11.45 and a production E 77,322 tons for each life lost. labama was third with a death rate E 7.2 per thousand and a production f 92,535 tons for each life lost. [issouri had the lowest death rate, eading the roll of honor with .95 nd 499,742 tons of coal mined for ach life lost Statistics do not bear out the pop lar idea that most mine disasters esult from explosions. Of I total umber reported during the last year 47 deaths and 343 injuries result, d from gas and dust explosions, and 01 deaths and 4, injuries were aused by powder ex'plosions. The hief cause of death among the mIn rs, the report explains, was due te he falling of mine roofs and eoaL. uch disasters caused 1,122 deattis nd 2;141 injuries. GREAT DAMAGE BY FLOODS. Ieavy Loss of Life and Poperty Is East India. A Bombay dispatch says thousand >f native houses were- washed awa md heavy loss of life occurred:to .he Hyderabad and -Deccan distrii-s is the result, of floods 'which to'&*, owed unprecedented rains. The river Musi -ose sixty feet. All the -bridges were carried away. rhe country was devastated for many' miles. Corpses were strewn, every waere, scores of bodies being found in trees where they were lodd by the swollen waters. The native hospital at Hyderabad was undermined by the waters and collapsed and all the inmates were buried in the wreckage. STABBED BY UNKNOWN PERSON. Grocery Salesrhan Cd aed from Hosse ' and Fatally Wounded. John W. Mullin, a grocery- sales. man, 56 years old, died Wednesday from the effect, of 4yAife wounds in his throat and head, inflicted by unknown persons. Mullin was-found near his .home, lnr Phoeni City,:Ala-, early Wednesday in ad unconscfous-. oondition. After repining' con sciousness he'/stated that he had. been called from his home and at tacked by two men, one of .whom held him while the other cutbl It is stated that Mullin receiveda threatening letter several days ago. The-San Jose Scale'in South Carollna. The San Jose (San Hozay) scale is. the most pernicious insect pest oi< fruit and shade trees in South Cau-q olina. In some sections the owners of trees are cutting athem down olir ing to the presence of. this insecc. The Division of Entomology of, the South Carolina Experiment Station has repeatedly emphasized the fact in the press tliat there Is no necessity. for cutting .down-or otherwise de stroying a tree mer'ely because it'is infested with San Jose scale unless the tree is so far gone that it has not. enough itality left to -recover after the scale is killed. Although one of the worst Insects of America, It has been demonstrated over and'over again -hat the pest can be. success fully and economically' controlled. Frut growers all over the- Unite& States who -are, troubled with tha pest are cdntrolling It by the sprays levsed for that purpose All citi sens of South Carolina *who haves trees dying or who know that their trees are infested with scale, or who have trees' in an unthrifty condition i~re invited to write to the Divisiou >f Entomology, South Carolina Ex'. eriment boatlon, Clemson, S. C. In formation. is cheerfully given and io postage is required to insure eply. We sometimes acknowledge that. see make little mistakes, but the ther fellow always makes big blun lers. >solufely PUR POWDEK 'wde- made from mi of Tartar, the ingredient for -class powder bakngpodes hanevryefr.