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OUR SG PAPER I BY PROF. WILL Change of Teachers-The frequent change of teachers is a constant brake and clog on the progress of the school. It robs them of anythin4 like an unbroken course of work and fixedness of policy. Every new teacher introduces some new feature Into the work of the school-per haps -a good feature in itself, yet no better than what it displaces. I: requires readjustment to install an' thing new, and the time and fric tion are a loss, unless the change is decidedly for better. Generalb speaking our best scnools are thoze which have the fewest changes in the teachers. It requires at least one full session for a teacher to become acquainted with his- patrons By becoming acquainted with patron: I mean far more uan mere social knowledge of them. I mean an ap preciation of their tastes and thei: ideals and their ambftions, and a knowledge of tneir recuaarities, i yo-u please. Until he understards these he is not in a position to serve them and to lead -em, and a teacher who can not lead is of but litt' ; force. Not .ntil after a teacher has taught from four to six years in a community is he prepared to gix it his best services. Yet how few teachers remain in one schoo. LbLrea years. Some places eaange teachers every year simply because they have ac quired the habit of doing so. Like any other bad habit, this one grows upon people. The trustees and the patrons frequently realize that their school is far inferior to some other school, and rush to the conclusion that they need a change of teacher3, when the truth is Liaat t.ey ..ave already injured their schoo by t o many changes. Have any of my readers ever seen a pupil, at the be ginning of each of three successive seasons-each time by a new teach er? Is it probable that this would have been done bf any one reason able teacher teaching the school tet% three sessions? -This evil of change reigns in the town and country schools alike. I have in mind one town in this State which had six principals in eigh:. years. Change was the only remedy it knew, and it believed in heroic doses. A great many rural schools rarely have the same teachers tw years in succession. Many of thece changes, in both town and country schools, are due to the neighborho ) jealousies and quarrels already dis cussed. Many a community has its chronic critics of the schools, who are dyspeptic by nature and sour Vv habit. A teacher never satisfies then longer than one year. They knox all about schools, and their owr children are paragons of perfection If any teacher finds one of these children anything but a paragon straightway there is trouble. Tc listen to these disgruntled fathe and mothers with their tales of wce requires patience and grace. It their eyes there Is but one remedy change teachers. Not two months ago I heard a man not far from sixt) years of age deciare that he intendec to "break ur~' the only school in hiP district. unlass the trustees dismissec the present teacher. It had nevel occurred to him that perhaps th' trustees were in the right. SucI a man is in a small way an anar chist. In some instances faultfinders and dissatisfactIon are unwittingly en ecuraged by the board of trustees The board,. either ignorant of ito function or disposed to dodge at unpleasant duty, asks the patrons to elect the teacher. Such a course is an Invitation to division and tht disappointment consequent to defeat and will Inevitably bring about dis cord. What is the board appointh for, if not to manage the school by ussening the occasions for discordt A good many towns nmake It KILLING IN EDGEFIELD. Prominent Negro Shot to Death by a Young Man. A dispatch from Edgefield to The State says Richard Penn, a promi nent and somewhat educated negro of the town, was shot and' almost instantly killed by Tom Gray, white, Thursday afternoon. Gray used a pistol, shooting five times, two balls taking effect, one in the right thigh. the other two inches above the nave , the latter wound causing death. W. W. Sheppard and Policema'. Weir were the first to reach Penn after he was shot and testified at the Inquest that the deceased made the following dying~ declarations: That he was ecoming towards town and met Gray and they spoke and deceased remarked that that was a fine piece of corn. Gray replied - 'Yes; it is not mine, but belongs to Mr. Samuels.' They then passed each other and when deceased ha~ gone about 30 yards, Gray called him back and commenced cursing him and drew nis pistol and fired.'' It is said that Mg. ' 1ght Hiolson was an eye witness to the homicide. but he did not testify. Gray nas, so far as is public'y known, made no statement and hi version of the affair is not known. It is rumored that Gray says that the. deceased- insulted his mother. Gray is now In jail and has employed counsel. The jury's verdict was in accor dance with the above facts.* PARKER AFTER TEDDY. But Roosevelt Dodges by Saying He Has Answered. "Well, it was coming to Roos velt," said ex-Judge Aiton B. Parker, "and I gave it to him. Now let him reply." Judge Parker referred to his attack on the president made in his speech at Baltimore Tuesda.y night when he accused the president of having been tied up with E. HI. H~arrimanl and Standard Oil inter ests in the campaign of 1904 when hre (Parker) was the Democratic c'n ditate for president. Roosevelt says he bad fully answered in 1904 the charge made by Judge Parker in his speech at Baltimore. Live comfortabiy; extravag~anee is HIOOWL S. ' 10.4. LEM H. HAND. rule to employ only young ineipo-1 ach year drop those who have :ailed, keeping the more successfi nes urtil they have become real' ;erviceable, then let them go be -ause the trustees and the peopie art t inyilling to pay for good teachi! it par v:.lue. Some places boast thai heir schools are the gateway to tn. ,romotion of their teachers. Th,,s amay be a credit to the school,-an a discredit to the people. It iot creditable. if the people ar ;imply letting efficient teachers pas ->ut from their schools in exchang.0 for crude inexperience, because t h, latter is caeap. A few town school boards ar given to the indefensible habit o advertising every year for appli cants for every position in the school when the board does not intend t, elect a single new teacher. Th. king who marched his army up tht hikl, then marched it down again did no more childish thing than thes boards do. The thing is not oulb :ndefensible, but it is hurtful to th, schoA, unjust to the tegchers, ant' t dishonest to possible applicants What meaning does such advertise ment convey to every teacher in thn school, no matter how emet.ent o faithful she may be? When the teachers ask for its meaning, they are told that it is only a matter o! form, and that they need not be con. cerned. Great big grown businesc men playing like children! Ler what about the innocent strange . who make bona fide applications i answer to what they suppose is . bona fide advertisement, only to be informed that it is a mere form" What teaeher with any regard fo. ethics would apply for one of thesE places, If he knew that no vacancy existed and that the incumbent ex pected re-election? Is the boar" playing a game in diplomacy? Do: it intend to zee if it can secure bet ter teachers, -but if not, to re-elect the incumbents? Such game woule be dishonorable. If a school boar. wishes to change teachers for any legitimate reason, It has a perfect legal and moral right to do so. Bu! the change should b made in , manly straightforward manner. Le' the board frankly tell the teachc not to ask for re-election, declare , vacancy, then advertise for applica tions-if that is the best way tL secure teachers. Teachers themselves must beal their part of the responsibilitY to: so many changes. There are son teachers who ought not to expec any school to keep them longer tha: one year. The captious (sometime miscalled spirited), the eccentric the frivolous, the giddy, and th ignorant ones may expect to ftoau about like driftwood. 'inien there ar some teachers who have an incur able mania for becoming birds o' '-assage. I once knew a teacher t: resign her work to go elsewhere o.a the ground that she had been it her present position three years They apply every time they hear o .a vacancy, and if they hear of n vacancy, they ask when the ner~ one is to be. They tell you very frankly that they are worth a grea deal more than they are gettin.. and that they are prostituting a profession when they work for sc little. Once more, there Is tna foxy diplomat of a teacher who seel:~ a place in March, accepts it in June adholds it until about two week before the school Is to open, thc: telegraphs the board that she ha' ccepted elsewhere (at two dollar a month more salary). She call this resigning; In law and commo; sense it Is a violation of conac Such conduct under ordinary circum stances is reprehensible, and wholi unworthy of an honest man or we man. William H. Hand. University of South Carolina.' RATES FOR STATE FAIR. Round Trip Tickets Will Be Issuet With Convenient Schedules. The railroads have announced the reduced rates for the South Carolin State fair, .which is to be held ir Columbia, as usual, on October 2.5 to 30. Tickets will be on sale or Saturday, October 24 to Octoher 2 1 inclusive, and for train due to arriv in Columbia before noon of Octobe' 30, with final limit November 2. ThE rates apply from all points in South Carolina and from Charlotte. Ashe vieel, Augusta and Savannah and Intermediate stations, and are gran. ed by the following roads: Atlacntie Coast LIne, Blue Ridge railway Charleston & Western Caroline.. Columbia, Newberry & Laurens, Sea board Air Line and Southern raIl ways. The round trip tickets in lude coupon admitting the purchase: to the fair grounds. The rates from the points named are as follows:r Abbeville ..................36 Allendale ...................3.05 I Anderson ..................4.4C Asheville .. ................5 Augusta. Ga. ............... 2.7u Beaufort ...................4-; Bennetts'illie................3.9 f Blacksburg ................. 4. e Camden ....................7.5? 11 Charlotte ...................55 t Charleston .................4.60 s Cheaw ....................34 Chester.................... 27 Clinton .................... 2.7 Denmark ...................2.3') Fairfax................... 3. Greenville ..................10 Greenwood .................3.2 Laurens ..................... 3.0 ewberry .................... rangeburg .................2.2- h Port Royal....-.............70 Prosperity ..................85 S Svannah. Ga. ..............4.5 seneca .....................13n spa rtanburg . . . . . . . . sumter .................... 3. War in the East. Bulgaria declared her indepeu-e lence of Turkey Tuesday andi Princ- de erdinand declared himself czar. to 'rkey and Bulgaria are assembling d trmies on their respect!ve frontiers. h at the other nations will do all he hey can to preserve peac.E ar It s easier for a camel to lose its to mmp than it is for a ma to dis- t'h 1ARKET CROP SLOWLY' NTIL PIRICE FOR COTTON GETh UEITTFRl. armers Should Use the Warehoiscs if They Must Hare Money to Meet Urgent Debts. Mr. H1. L. Alexander, President o: ie North Carolina State Union, give )me good advice t0 the farmers. .e wisely says whatever your money I rop may be, market it slowly. L1 poor business policy to force any roduct on a non-appreciative ma-1 et. The great bulk of agriculturai roducts are non-pershiable if kept nder shelter. Of course there i. !ways the danger of fire, but you an have that risk covered by insu nce for a small cost. Feed the mar ets on short 1ations and you wil Oon see prices boosted by an increas d demand. Don't let the cry of big crops" scare you into parting -ith your products at a price tha; -ill not give you a fair and just eward for your labor and the capital hat you have invested in your bus, ess. You don't find men in other call ngs disposing of products which epresent a year's work and inte' st on their investment, at ' pricv >elow cost. The farmer has often Lone this by following the sulcida . yClicy of forcing on the maiiket i -our months time, crops which m-.. neet and supply a year's demand. )f course these crops are not to b nd will not be consumed in Fou, nonths. They are bought by the 'middle man" and held in storag :til the demand of the markets call for them at remunerativ: prices. Farmers should not quarrel with .he "middle man" as long as he con ucts a legitimate buying and sell ng business. They should quarrel ith themselves for not handling heir own crops for their own benc it in the same business-like way that he "middle man" has been handling hem for his benfit. If product. vere not offered for sale on th. streets of our towns at whatever *)rice they would bring, the "middle nan" would soon go out of busi' .iess. But as long as farmers fol :ow the present method of marketing .heir cl'ops, there will be a lcogiti' ate field for the "middle man," and, n fact, he is a necess-ry part of hi; node of marketing. In the case o :otton crop, which is the principa noney of the South, we can v-el elieve that a fair margin Is madE oy the men who stand between thE >roducer and the spiner; otherwist here would not be so many "cottor Now, how are farmers to get ou 4f these "old ruts" and upon the ighway of successful business-liki narketing of their crops? It. musi e done by extending the seliiII. eriod throughout the year so tha he supply will just keep pace witi he demand. Also by "bunching' heir products and selling in suci ;uantity as demanded by targe buy rs. This is co-operative selling. How is It to be done? Througl he storage or warehouse plan. G' o any large cotton market town er.< ou will find the cotton buyers usins he warehouses to store their cot on in, to be he'd until demanded b2 he spinner. F:.rmers should tio thi: 'or themselvese and save the pr~fit: 'at now go to the men who have een doing it for them. But, you say that you have bill hat are due and that you muns 'ealize money from. your crop a nce . Unfortunately this is trn< .ith a great many farmers. TOL nany of them are still followi-ag thi ld ruinous "credit system," whict s the legitimate off-spring of th( 'all cotton system" and, next to it' arent, Is the greatest curse eve mposed upon the agricultural in. erests of the South. Well, if yo* we bills you should pay them wher ayment is demanded. But do no: ut all your cotton on the market o to your local banker and borrow~ n your cotton just as little mone.1 s you can possibly do with. Leave his money on deposit and~ use a ~heck hook. Your check may possi ly pay several bills and finally 't teposited to the credit of some other na without any money being drawr from the b'ank. We mention this because wo knov'. :hat bankers are more ready to loar noney if it is to be left on dejvosit aith them.' Follow this planl an; ;conomize in every way possible un :il you get ou~t of debt, and thei. ;wear that you will stay out. -1 farmers are ever to attain their com nercial independence they must 'aise home supplies and quit buying n credit. We don't know a singli armer who has followed the "all otton system" and made a success Now, a few words about the cotton' rop. The crop Is greatly over-cati nated. At the Farmers' Union Con ention in Fort Worth, Texas. we Lad reports from every one of the otton States and according to thes* eports from the field the commit ee havng charge of this mnat'er as fully convinced that we would .nd in the wind-up that the precsen : rop is considerably below thait o: ast year. if the crop is ha'~d off be market for thirty days we wil. ee a very material rise in the price. STOOD) IN WATER 'p to 1Uer Neck Ten IHonrs to Savie' Child's Life. For ten hours Mrs .W. Weis. of ri-sland. Mieb.. stood up to her ek in water in a cistern to save er two-year-old boy. Mrs. Weiss saw the baby, a child2 'a neighbor, fail into the cistern. e instantly plunged after him, and iding him at the bottom. hEld hiai >ove the water. She called for hellp. it the cistern is ten feet deep and >one heard her. Late in the after on she was n:issed and neighbors 'gan a search. It was long after irk before one o-f the party chancedI think of the cistern. Looking wn into it by means of a lantern. siw the plucky womian. st ding the iittie one above water:< r voice was worn to a whisper '1 .d she was rescued in a faintin~. I ndition. She is seriously ill from WILL WAGE WARa Against Disease Is: Resolve of t State Medical Association. t MEETING FAIR WEEK To Preent Tuberculos.is the Associa tion Will Carry Out the Plans For mulated at Tubeculosis Congress Recently Held in Washington--Pre liminary Actior Already Taken. As a result of the tuberculosi congress held in Washington re cently, definite steps will be taken in South Carolina to prevent the spread of the dread disease. Th. State Medical association will b called to meet some time during the fair for the puropse of formulating plans to bring about this result. This meeting will be called by Dr. John L. Dawson of Charlestol. who is president of the association and who was one of the delegateF to the tuberculosis congress. Dr Dawson will have a definite plan to propose to the association for spread of tuberculosis. Dr. Dawso: familiarized himself at the congress with the methods for the reduction of mortality among tuberculosis pa ients and will be able to give th: doctors of the State some valuable information along this line. South Carolina was well repre sented at the tuberculosis congres? Among those who atended were th( following: Drs. C. Fred Williams State health officer: J. -H. McIntosh W. M. Lester and R. A. Lancaster of Columbia; Dr. C. C. Gamble, Ab beville: D.r H. T. Hall, Aiken: Dr Robert Wilson, chairman board of health. Charleston: Dr. J. L. Dawson Charleston; Dr. J. Mercer Green Charleston; Dr. W. V. Brockington Kingstree; Dr. C. B. Earle. Green ville; Dr. W. A. Tripp. Easley: Dr T. E. Allgood. Liberty: J. E. Teague Laurens; C. F. McGann, Aiken: Dr Walter Cheyne, Sumter; Dr. A. M Brailsford, Mullins, Dr. a,. J. Walker Yorkville. At this conference there was giver an exhibition of what is being done throughout the country and in th: foreign lands to prevent tne spreae of tuberculosis. There were. showr all the appliances used and interest ing papers were read on the dlsea-q and the best possible methods o' cure and prevention. Representa tives were present from this countr and Europe and among the numbe were some of the foremost physic tans of the world. Valuable Exhibits. Perhaps the most important of al' the exhibits was the showing -if the work that is being carried on ir this country to prevent tuberculosi And other countries, too, had the! exhibits. the one from Germany beinv about the best shown. Dr. C .F'. Williams of this cit: was one of the interested physicianr aresent at the congress and he har 'rought back with him a greater de sire than ever to aid in the gre .t work of reducing and preventing tu herculosis among the people of South Carolina. Dr. Williams considerr wo of the most Important thing lone at the congress the following -rinciples, which the congress wev on record as being in favor of: 1. That the best means of reduc ing mortality from consumption :s he segregation of all tuberculosis natients in institutions specially 'suipped for the treating of suenr niatients. 2. 'rhat the theory of Dr. Koch that bovine tuberculosis is not trans -nitted to human individuals is non correct, according to the sense of th congress. This latter theory has been worked on considerably, and as the congres~ indicaied, it Is the opinion of e large majority of physicians and pecialists along this line that bovine 'uherculosis Is transmitted to the 'umian being. Animals Spread Contagion. This transmission of tuberculosi' rom animal to human being is a' extremely important matter,, espei tally inasmuch as it affects this Stat' very much and this spread of thF disease can largely be avoided. Speaking of this matter, Dr. Wil liams says: "This form of tuber culosis is brought about by tht drinking of the milk of cows. Te 'revent the spread of the disease Al dairy cattle should be tested for tuberculosis and eliminated froni the 'erd when the test proves positive. ~outh Carolina dairies have shown bout 3 per cent of the herd arc uberculous. A committee has beer' ppinted by the South Carolina ~ie Stock association to draft a uit ble bill at the next session of the egislature to eliminate as far '15 niractic.-'l tuberculosis in cattle and to prevent the Importation of tuber culosis cattle into this State. The object of this bill is to make all railroad cnmpanies handling eattle to this State get a bill of health o he cattle shipped here. I heard while in the North that thefe were many honrds of cattle in that see !on that had as- many as S0 to 9(0 er cen?t tuberculosis cattle in their fit. These cattle are shipped into this State from the North anc Wst and there is conscequently )rought here the diseased animals hait in time affect the rest of thi herd.' Educate the People. It is generally conceded that th best method of prevention of tuber miiosis and other coummunicable dir eases is the educatioin of the people. At the meeting of the hoard of edtu cation held last year the following ecommedations5 were made by the tate board of 1:ealth: Crowded Settlemnente. "First. We wo'ld recommend 'i hat the teaching of physiology an'i - igiene be made compulsory in the ublic schools of th'e State: "Second. We woulo. recommend jd hat all applicants for a teacher'.o -ertificate in this State be required , o pass ant examination on physioi 'gy and hygio-ne as a part of th-~ guar examination for teachers. - - nany graduates of colleges are giver rtificate~s on presenting thier di- i ki lomal, we recommend that such an- f licants be required to show that be hysiology and hygiene were a parr I. iploma. If these branches were not part of the course, require the ap licant to pass a regular examinA ion on the se branches. "Third. We would recommend hat all of the colleges under the ontrol of the State be required to each physiology and hyg!ene as a art of the regular course. "Fourth. We would recommenJ hat the book or books to be used a ext books for the teaching of these ranches bear the approval of the ;tate hoard of health. "Fifth. We would recommend hat the teaching of the means o' ireventing the dangerous communi able diseases be made compulsor' n the public schools of South Caroli ia, and we recommend further tha be book new used as a school boo! or the teaching of physiology an, iygiene be used for this purpos' intil the tSate board of health cai >repare data. "Sixth. We would recommen, hat a physician be the teacher e ihysiology and hygiene in the big' ,chools of this State when it is po ible to obtain the services of one fo' his purpose. "Seventh. We would recommen' hat in arranging ~the course for tl tate and county summer schools the i course of lectures on the mean >f preventing the dangerous commu. 1lcable disease be a part of thi. course. "Eighth. We would recomment hat the State board of health shal -iame the diseases to be considere 's dangerous communicable diseas es. "Ninth. We would recommen-' hat you use you influence to hay( he trustees of the schools procur, *ision charts and have the teacher. 'form themselves how to examin he children to see if their eyes an. iars are normal." At the tuberculosis congress J was very much emphasized that th best way to prevent tuberculosis I' V the education of the people. The resolutions of the State boar f health were received with enthn asm by the board of education, br lothing was done in the matter. Th. oard of education will again put tb natter before the board of healtt 'irging that the study of hygier ind physiology be made a part o -he course in ail the high school >f the State. Crowded Settlements. Out of the less than 1,000,00 whites in this State 125,000 are err ->loyed in the cotton mills. It I ,itable that in the crowded mil -listricts tuberculosis Is easily trans -nitted from one person to another It Is estimated that in this State ther< re from 1,500 to 2,000 deaths eac? vear from tuberculosis, so tha "something must be done" is tb ogan of medical men. Among th' egroes it Is said that tuberculosi is decreasing within recent years robably because of the out door lF ind the better habits that the ra' :s now leading. The number of t berculosis patients amiong negror s still quite large, however, and t methods of prevention of the disesa re an important step in this Sta+ here more than half the populr tion is of the colored race. And s highly important that the neg" should be taught in some measu' ow to bring about a prevention a ar as posible of this disease. Appalling Figures. To give an idea of the cost o ~uberculosis in lives, disability, un happiness and money would shos ow important it Is that the mean f preention of the disease as show' at the tuberculosis congress shoul e carried out as far as possib' ~he death rate from tuberculosis 1l its forms in the United States estimated at 164 per 10,000 of por Mation and the number of deatbh i ne year--1906-Was 138,000. A this rate, it is said, 5,000,000 peopli cf those living In this country at th resent time will die of tuberculoeir The money cost of tuberculosis,i is estimated, 'exceeds $8,000 pe eath, these figures including ca' italized earning power lost by deaf' and netting a total of $1,100,000.00W ner year. And of this cost $440 i000,000 falls upon other than thor who are consumptive. It is said th he erection of isolation hospitals fr' nurables in all probably the be' naethod and most profitable at pre ent for reducing the cost of tube :ulosis. Police Power. "That we will ultimately have t lace officers in mills and'other sue' institutions for the protection e health is a condition that we are no' 'acing," said Dr. Williams. "Tat' the mills, for instance, in them are a large number of worlbrs and these re deprived of one of the greater -f all the recognized advantages t: health-fresh air. The windows ar kept down and of course the air ir 'he rooms becomes foul and leads te 'ad results in health." But here again is the conflict be ween the rnil owners and the one itives. Should the windows be left open, in many cases, the operativos would close them, as there are er '&ain conditions that fresh air brings about in the yarn that makes is les valuable as a product. It Is the con Census of opinion among medical rn that certain police powers should be xercised in the protection of health and that the State st'uld take cog -izance of these necessities. All of these matters will be taken ip and discussed at the meeting of he State Medical associationAto he 'eld fair week. The association 'ones to accomplis hmuch in the ma' 'r of the nrevention of tuhr' "logis in this State and will strm' 'very effort to bring about goodre lts.r LABOR'S FIGHT ON CANNON V'ill Send Many Speakers in Hlis Congiressional District. Labor is preparing a final and~ eer~ined onslau.ght on the caneli cy otf Speaker Jos. G. Canno'i. 'he political action committee of the icago Federation of Labor yestnr ay ma'e plans to send a numnber~ f labor leaders into "Un~cle Joe's" istriot next week. I During the last three weeks of 1 campaign ther'e will be near!:: fl labor speakers in Danville. K'an akee and t'iciniy. Two organizers ir the American Federation of La >r ar'e in the district now maing >eeches for the Democratic candi-' its or peakr Cnnons ~sr SENATOR SMITH Favors Mammoth Convention to Demand Better Prices. HOW GROWERS LOSE The Senator Thinks the Southern Grower Should Get the Benefit of the Thirty Pound Tare, and the Meeting Adopted Resolutions to That Effect. A dispatch from Bennettsville to The State says Senator-elect E. D. Smith came to Bennettsville Monday at the invitation of the farmers in this section and made an enthusiastit address in the court house Monday afternoon. The immediate reason for asking hm to be here was the disagreement between the local cot ton buyers and farmers in regari to the deduction for tare on cotton the buyers having, since the 1st of October, been operating under a ru's which makes deduction of 50 cen for each bale of cotton having more than seven yards of bagging on the bale. Senator-elect Smith discussed the cotton situation In a broad way, ad vocating a "mammoth convention" for the purpose of demanding highei prices and holding the cotton from the market, advocated the storing i ,varehouses, referred to work thal ias been done along this line ii ?lorence and Columbia. He state :hat Liverpool makes a deduction foi are of 6 per cent on the gross, oi ;0 pounds tare for each 500-poun' iale of cotton and that in fixing thb ,rice this 30-pound tare is consid red, as well as every- other iter >f expense in connection. He then stated that if the Souther: armer did not get the benefit o he 30-pound tare and put 30 pound are on each bale it would be th ault of the Southern farmer an te should not blame any one els or it. He illustrated the point a ollows: Suppose for every bal )f cotton there is a deduction o ve pounds for sand. suppose Mi :armer picks his cotton, prepares j or ginning and knows there is n ;and in it. He then stated that Mi 'armer would be a fool if he di iot stop long enough to put fiv >ound-s of sand in it. Senator Smith stated that his sei ices were at the disposal of the col on growers and in all probabilit te would make a trip West immed: itely. He referred to the fact tha .t compresses and before the col on Is prepared for exporting the e) orter patches up all holes wher he samples have been taken from tb )ale, puts on more bagging and gel he advantage of the 30 pounds - -are. He spoke of the complaint mad 'y the European spinner when 1 his country recently of the cot lition In which the Southern cotto was received in Europe. He sal hat the merchant in -onnrng hi toods for sale had adder to hJ toods the price of the freight, bos :ng and for wrapping and other e> senses, that the buyer pays for a hese things. That it was only jus ~nd right that the buyer of cotto -hould also pay for that in whic he cotton is wrapped. He discussed the effect of the go; :rnment reports on cotton and state .hat since the government gives d( 'inite information as to the produs tion, ginning and other facts in cot aection with the cotton that it shoul ;o further and give government st: tistics and have regular monthly ir ;entories as to the number of bale and weight in every warehouse an in buyers' and exporters' hands. His Idea was that the present is formation is very beneficial to thz :)uyer and exporter in as much as th farmer's hand is exposed to the buy :r and exporter, whereas the buyer ~nd exporter's hand is unknown t he farmer. At the conclusion C his address the following resolution were passed: "Whereas, the amount deducte 'rom the gross weight of all cotto: "or tare is 6 per cent, or 30 pound for each 300-pound bale, we, th, 'armers of Marlboro, hereby pledg< ourselves to put the 30 pounds tart on each bale of cotton we produca ind prepare for market." GEORGIA DEMOCRATIC. Brown's Majority is About On! Hundred Thousand. A special dispatch from Atlanta Ga., says reports received thers Wednesday night indicate that Jos. -ph M. Brown was elected governo: today by a majority of not less than 75,000. Not more than ten per cent of the votes polled were fort Yancy Carter. Disfranchisement won, but not by so large a majorIty. J . W. Lindsey is elected pension com missioner. In Fulton county Mr. Brawn get e majority of 4,500 out of less tisan 7,000 votes. Disfranchisement car ried by a small marjority and A. .. McBride receiyed more votes for pension commissioner than all the other candidates combined. Only two counties heard from are believed to have given Carter plu ralities. These are Chattooga and Gordon. in each of which only nonm inal votes were polled. The returns throughout the State are coming in slowly, but juxd&ing from the figures received Mr Brown's majority for governor is *astimnated at from 75,000 to l#0.000' and the vote for Carter will not ex -:eed 2 5,0 00. Stole Whole Family. One of the most peculiar cases of larceny "after trust" or. recordl was revealed at Anniston, Ala.. wvheu it is alleged W. C. Irwin. w'hite man, was arrested on a charg' yf stealing the whole family of J. Wi. Humnphreys, a white planter of Fa!!adega county. It is alleged them 'rwin had been living in seelinsion rith tioe woman and her three hildren in Anniston. Six Boys Killd. Six 'boys were reported ki~ld a lugar Ridge. when a frcight traiu n the Toledo and Ohio Central Rai!- 1 oad crashed into a heavily -laden xeursio'n train returning frm s Royel Grape Ca4 -MADE FROUI Of greatest heal u e1nVess.V phosphat ynC, GLAD TO BET BACK SOUTH CAROLINA IS A SWEET -PARODISE Compared to Springfield, Ilinois. Said an Old Colored Woman Wht is Coming Back. .At the union depot, Sunday af fternoon, waiting for a train tt Augusta, was a negro. woman war was on her way to some point Ir South Carolina, says the MacoD Ga., Telegraph. Whili in the waiting room sht fell to talking to some of the ne groes in the room with her, ane from the conversation it -was learnee that she was from Springfield, Il. and was returning to her old Soutlb pCarolina home. She said that seven years ago her people went to Springfield, becau-11s they had been assured that the ne gro was more respectea. In that se tion of the country, and had ever right that white people had. Thi children went to the same school they ate it the same restarant a that_ the wan rtio iP anylltoing acountm of olor.nSh saideshat the som ith ther, fon from th e ovretbut ithr -was an andeas reurngiof there othersu. Shead thyket soteseles. Tohe found hatee asuretiht te une stoodta r was mororepistaintsen righ that tewhite peoen ad.leh children wemnMs to---o theresho andy bute for the ame thate were etthatethnr waul not get Crwar-he anud thavteretursndisici.i aId thatt seexrnt tey Sprg tisl tohe terue, were three wose realh mites o thenrahes oterwiee and they kepouothemel ves. Terho found tha ot whiedi mv ea uleaig competood t theae. Shdos notnt know there they wt, woencase-i thaegr omasin thre. Soansno, top Dn wan suhunthing for calingocill..Sh ondlbu knos theat thfor they er raithe antd cnto o awate to wouha rerolneadsewsg In therecntn toubl in Sring-he fild theoneroes waere tethed therse byShe wite thaon theythe were mobn thenSoth and teoey negro. wh Sprungfsell ouy t amoer was wleaig bunh womn whe Sothrsead, wth s ppingfied here ono famly afe1 thoelld oeve. She odoes to. now here they wae, becushe had ntied cthatio thfereln wagainstoth ng ad hunting forknoger ever C yers thbfre th e sepa-ho. f ton heyn ee all wantder gohc . oSouth Carolina, wanshe waase tolu therWest knowin that Ifro alie sahd, bu She said negro dwn' Soh it unil oe pent al this one ngo.!g thepiingfl thyo eno ftr, h whol e listnch. to the Sthi slencei, the upner hand and gold chne toe liv inafet and ecasd Andy dati Fouhe de, and theveral oers . Aotie tatu this. feein perons h er. Shen peditsha in a fthuew thsorien. Thegroeats alwoer the otoshyxCarina was iluiatn parin All the Westim aore ntalons.he d tilement aflle hithne eainT The paingrm who deats been l'rrisn totetalin silednce hruew kpt her Luan annro he eye wardc anrvd. eymd "their at o true. fis loro h hosean ouro Aor Ded alrd Seead. Otwor :erei consciousn.C ta aterbutry, Conor pndrthey r were foundved nater smenfot houy he1 otes viTmhe eItalieanTed ndteeetya corle whvegon to The place we re t codetng oan Fo&uryers an goal n barige ho kentry Luaor Fryngoro Whten te oie outhedaroeinaadegto tothr wae toa themori onvtentosefor ral eret founr fortnatl onth Caorof Pu nacknwou Handreest.e in Kere wrevd afre omee ort tod. wder made from mm of Tarta GRAPES lo alum or e acids Abkoltelyr PUTRE DIED OF RABIES Woman Succumbed After Hours. of Torture. BITTEN BY PET. G Sevral Other Parties Bitten by th. Same Dog,- But None of. The Have Yet Been 'Afected., From it-The Pasteur Treatment Failed in the Woman's Case. Mrs. Harvey M. Day, of No. 16 Cherry street,- Elizabeth, N. J., died. >f rabies from the bit% of a pet/ bull terrier, in spite o the fact :hat she had been under the Pastear :reatment for the past seven weeks. Mrs. Day had to be restrained in a straight jacket for twentx4our ours before she 'died, so violently lid her struggles become. All hope f saving her had been given up several days and her husband was :ompelled to see her die by Inches efore his eyes. While Mrs. Day was strapped to er bed awaiting death, her husbmn! sat in an adjoining room, fearing ary -minute that the disease would ttack him and that he; too, would ave to be restrained until relieved. y death.' In a neighboring house s Mrs. SamueI Doty, an intimate riend of Mrs. Day, who was also >tten by the' dog./ She, too, is Ia a state of nervous' coulapse. A let :er carrier was also bitten. The dog, who was a ' ,et in the Day hozne, was being led down the street by Mrs. Day a month ago, when he became entangled In his leash. uddenly he began to show -symp oms of rabies and attacked his' mis ress. Five times he sank his teeth n her arm, hurling her to the pave nent. Mrs. Doty saw the attack and an to the rescue of her 'friend when he dog set upon her and bit .her everal times on the hands and rms. The dog then started up the street nd met Mr2 Day, who had heard :he screams of his wife and Mrs. ~oty. .The animal fastened his teeth n Mr. Day's leg, and the letter. car ~ier. who .happened along tried re ree Mr. Day from the mad bruta hen he was bitten, too. The dog as killed and showed unmistakable signs .of hydrophobia. All four victims went to New York and were treated at the Pasteur in stitute. It was thought all danger f rabies was over until a week ago, hen Mrs. Day confided to her physic [an that she knew she was inoeu lated. The letter carrier has kept t work constantly, and this has di ~erted his mind. He, too, Is nervous, iow that Mrs. Day is dying, and the' ental effect on him is feared. PEOPLE HELP HASKELL. (hey Gave Him 'tbree Thousand Dol lars to Fight With. A dispatch from Guthrle, Okla., ays that Govenor C. N. Haskell of hat State has so far received $3,000 t response to his appeal to .the eople of Oklahoma for funds with hich to fight President Roosevelt, . R. Hearst and others. The Ispatch further says that an agent the interior department was in ~uthrie last week looking up the cords of the Prairie Oil and Gas ympaly, and also the records in the bel suit recently brought by Gover r Haskell against Omer K. Ben iet,. editor of the Oklahoma City mies. Quits the Party. W. C. Cronemneyer, of Mackesport, a., known for the past third of entury as one of the original Re iblicans, has retired from the Re blican party and is allied with the Lrty of Eugene V. Debs. Mr. Cronemeyer was the original Splate maker of the country, and very close friend to the lat Presi t McKinley. Wherever roads have been perma tly improved it is founld that there s been a very great increase in lue of the adjacent property. Every Democrat should vote in the eral electionl this year, and give rer such a majority that the most id Republican could flad no ex se to questionl his right to a seat Congress .rllam state gets a lot of hard