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OUR SCI PAPER N BY PROF. WILL1 The Course of Study-There is a t small but turbulent class of overwise c writers who periodically belabor the i pul-lic schools. In their nightmares I they see thousands of tender children t murdered or maimed in the publi.: t schools, and give vociferous utte ance to so much wild nonsense that they have but one effect-making people refuse to heed them even t when they point out some real dt feet. Some of these writers have warned us against one great evil which we have gone on ignoring that of an overcrowded course of study. To be brief, some years ag our educators realized the poverty of our common school course of study: confined almost exclusively to the three R's. A just demand waF mar4e for an enriched course, giving a wider range of subjects to th. "rils. A number of subjects ha been added. Now, in order to er I.,urane individual initiative, I tak it. the State Board of Education hac never prescribel a maximum or - minimum number of subjects for any course. Instead it has adopted tex: ho-ks covering a rather wide rang of subiects, and grouped these intc yearly grades, leaving each school tc make up a course or courses from this list. The building of a well-balancee course of study is the work of ar expert. Comparatively few teacher lay claim to that stage of fitness. Yet each teacher, or at least eacb principal, experienced or inexperi enced, sets about to make his owr course. Theories. prejudices, ant" tastes begin to clash for the mastery One teacher is an arithmattc crank. and his course has but little elste in it: another's favorite subject IF grammar, and he makes his pupil analyze and parse everything 'ir sight; another has no taste for ge ography, and he practically omit' It: another "dotes on" poetry, ant the whole school is put to memoriz ing and reciting gems; while a lot o' thorowih-going teachers who tak-' everything literally,-put the whole adopted list into one course, and giv it to every punil in the school. A great deal of ignorant and un just criticism is made against th freouent and .useless change of te bookzs. It would be neitner wise n" defensible to have a child use th same reader throug?' two or thr,, grades, or to use tLa same geog raphv through the 4th, 5th and 6V grade, f'r instance: If the book I suited to his advancement when h begins it. It Is reasonable to say tha' It is not suitable two or three year,. later in his life. An4 if a teache' were to keen the child of one M these watchful guardians of the schools in a fourth reader. for i" stance, for three years, this same guardian would make the columns er' the local newspaper smnell - of sul phur in declaiming against the out rage (then fail to sign his name.) On the other hand, many of our school3 do needlessly tax the pat r ons for books, and burden the chil drea with books. ~Let us give con crete cases: I have just examinedI the published course of study In a ten-grade school In one of .our towns. In that course are prescribed fifty five separate texts, exclusive of cony books, drawing books, scratch pads, etc. In the school are ten teachers. In another ten-grade school, with four teachers, there are sixty-four texts prescribed. In the first men tioned school there are ten sepa rate texts required in the seventhz grade; In the second mentioned school eleven texts are given In the eighth grade. Every child ought to have the best obtainable book In every subject h' pursues, and he ought to have afl the books he needs--books suited to his age and advancement, but protest that the above mentionedi courses are out of reason. To un-der SAYS CHARGES ARE TRUE. Healey Heard High Official Say Keefe Will Get Job. The national Democratic commit tee has issued a statement quoting Timothy Healey, president of Sta tionary Firemen, as authority for the allegation that Daniel J. Keefe ha'd been promised by the president appointment as commissioner gen eral of Immigration In return for that labor leader's support of Taft. The national committee quotes Mr. Healey in part as follows: "I was in Washington Wednesday of last week on a matter dealing with our organization which brought me in contact with an official of high standing in the government ser vice . He said to me: 'Dan'Keefe has been selected for commissioner1 general of immigration.' "'Is that so,; I said. "'Yes, the job is his,' he replied. I asked him how he knew and he told me that his informant was a member of the president's cabinet an"i knew what he was talking about. "This information was not 'given~ to me in a confidential manner, but I will not give my informant's name, Mrr it is plain to see what would hap "en to, him if his name came out. "There Is not any doubt in my mind bu tthat the statement that the "-os ident offered Keefe the position "d that Keefe agreed to accept is true. Perhaps the offer was not made J *'t the conference on October 2 last 'ut I believe it has been made." Six Boys Killed. Six boys were reported killed at i Sugar Ridge, when a freight train1 on the Toledo and Ohio Central Rail road crashed into a heavily -laden excursi"'n train returning from a fair at Bowling Green. I Where Is Harry Lardner? If anyone knows of the wherea bouts of Harry Lardner, he would be doing a favor to R. D. Lardner. a sailor on H. M. tcrpedo boat No. ~ 9. Chathm, England. by writing o him of his half-brother's location. * a Bryan Negro Club.C At Springfield, Ohio, Thursday n night a Bryan Club. six hundred e strong, was organized by the negr:: voters, led by colored soldiers who i farmar1y served at Brownsvmes *I WoLS. 0.7. AM H. HAND. ake to teach all these books to any ne child in the allotted time would nake old Socrates catch his breath. n the first case it would seem that he course given was measured by he physical endurance of the teach rs-ten teachers pitted against ten ets of children. In the second case he physical endurance of the teach rs was no limit-four teachers pit ed against ten sets of children. I am far from advocating only the hree R's in the common schools, but >ur schools are undertaking too much I n the quantity of work and the kind >f work. School work must be cir :umscribed by time, space, and the t tbility of the pupil. Take the F' j rade course already mentioned. Of he eleven texts prescribed, nine art! 'o be pursued at the same time. it I s no figure of speech to say that 5 f a child's time Is the dividend of long division, the quotient, or re ult, must be small. For Instance n the first two years of a child's -chool life the schools very properly 'evote much time A energy to oral -eading. Bu. by the time he reaches 'he fifth grade, so many things arei !rowded upon him that he does but 'ittle oral reading while under in ,truction-a few minutes each day. 'erhaps. Henoe when he reaches he high school his oral reading I. -carcely intelligible, and he is often -inable to get throufh from the prini. ed page. Indeed, many a college -tudent and not a few teachers in nr common schools can not read ,s they should read on entering the, 'igh school. These crowded courses of study ave another fatal weakness. In tb -%me school and in the same classe a wide range of ability, taste. an' nDortunity, among the pupils. Tb -iht and precocious mind. the slum -ish but retentive mind, and the du' ,Ind are found side by side. Tb 1nil of robust body and vigcroi Plth, the one of feeble body an 'alicate health, and the one wit: -nnle time for every task and t), '-e with scant time for any tas' '1 go to the same school. The i' vrdonable sin of the schools is # inch them together. give them t, -me work. an' require all to mea ~e no to a cnmmon standard. Ge -Ae them In different molds, a" is useless for the schools to tr - igrore the differences. It Is u "tural and it is wrong. To mare' breast twen+y-five children in or 'qde up to a given dead-line aither possible nor desirable. Ch' 'ren with diverse abilities,' taste ,d opportunities should not be : -Ired to progress with even ste hrough such diverse subiects - ,athematics. language. history. an 'rawing. If a' boy can do the lv" -uage work of the 6th grade. b" 's prepared for' only the 4th in ma+' 'matics, put him just where he ftter1 to go. "Oh,' he would n' fit into my program.' says son' one. Then .make the program fit ti' boy. The possibility of doing t'hi 1s one of the great advantages thyi the small country school has 'ove' 'he closely graded school. There is another thing which ne# to be dinned into the ears of opried -both teachers and patrons-th' it is folly for a school with nin grades and two teachers to unde take to do what a school with nine trades and six treachers accomplishe The two-teacher school may be th better school within Its limitation? but it must keep wihin these limi tations. A one-horse farmer wb would claim to be able to grow a many crops and as large cr .ps as four-horse farmer would grow, woul be laughed at. Little David coul not fight in big Saul's heavy an-' cumbersome armor, but with a slin and a pebble he diH effective wor1 WILLIAM H. HAND. Univmrity of %onth Cain~'~ A PREDICTION VERiFIED' About a Trust Gobled Soap Factor. In Nebraska. In a speech at Nebraska City iM Bryan compared his meeting ther this year with his meeting ther in 1900, and left with the chai' man of the committee $5 to be pre ented to the campaign fund of th' Republican committee if they would consent to carry the same banners in their parade that they carried at that time. At that time he predicted that the starch trust, which was being prose cuted under the State statue would be likely to close the factory at that place, and it was intimated that physical violance would be done him if he spoke in that city. "I told them then that I would denounce the trust even in the shadow of the starch factory," he said. "Where are the Republicans who mockingly wrote to me after the election and declared that the shadow of the starch fac tory extended across the State? How far does the shadow reach now? The factory is closed down; the machinery has been removed and the building is in the hands of a wreck ing crew." * WORK OF' A FIEND. roung Lady Outraged by a Negro Near Concord, N. C. Miss Pearl Tucker. sixteen years I >ld, was criminally assaulted by p egro in the woods near Concord. wenty miles north of Charlotte. . C., Tuestday afternoon. The girl ras picking cotton in a field and the t oint of a pistol. After accoriaplish- ~ ng his purpose he threatened to c :ll her if she told on him, and tell- E sg her his name was Henry Fag art, fled into the woods. A posse f 500 citizens quickly formed f< nd captured a suspect an hour after d. te crime was committed. Police tl hief Boger succeeded in getting the' c egro in an automobile, and follow- o: i by a frenzied mob, which has se rown to. two thousand, Is endeavoc- t g to get his prisoner to a place of m NOED CROOK onvicted and Sent Up For 15 Years in the Pen. SASSED THE JUDGE ho Added Five Years More to the Ten Years Already Given Him for Talking Back at His Honor-The Prisoner Seems to Be a Hardened Criminal. Samuel K. Williams, alias James P Celly, alias Oakland Sammy, alias ;am Raymond, yeggman and burglar, .fter making a well planned attempt o escape from the Charleston jfil on uesday night in the midst of his rial in Charleston for carrying bus lar's tools, faced Judge Prince ednesday morning in the court of eneral session, after the jury had rought in a verdict of guilty, and vas given sentence of 10 years and ne month at hard labor in the State yenitentiary. Sullen and persisting to the last hat his guilt had not been proved Xilliams asked Judge Prince way his ionor did not give him the limit vhile he was about it. "Bring Williams - back to the stand," ordered the judge, as the >risoner had stepped down. "I ani oing to reform your sentence, Will ams," announced his honor. "I sen ence you to 15 years at hard labor n the State penitentiary." Under a heavy guard of deputies Williams slouched back to the prit oners' room, apparently eased in 'nind about his. sentence. At half-past 5 o'clock Wednesday morning when Captain Geadick, the iailer, went to pay Williams a morn ing. call he found the cage door and the corridor door open. The bir had flown. Captain Gradick had taken every precaution that he could think of, warned and taught by ex perience. Here the yeggman had got away, undr his very eyes. as mysterious as nightfall. How could the man have escaped with apparentiy not a tool to help him? Before doing anything else Cap tain Gradick ran down from the west wing of the third floor, where Will iams cell was located, to the jaa ard, to look for traces of an escap2 ->ver the high jail wall. He foundi no evidence that the man had scale-i the wall, and so made a thorougn search of the lower floor of the jaii. No Williams could be sighted. Then the captain returned to the empty cell of the yegfman to look - foT '.othes. Wlliants had been -locked up In n steel cell within a locked steel cage which opens -into a corridor on th third floor liaving heavily barred win tows and shut off from the st'aircase by a sheet iron door always kepi locked. Williams had been placed in a cell directly .on the cdr'-idos that he might be better 'watched from'- without. To reach the stair case, where trace of him wa.s losm he had to pick a heavy Yale lock. This allowed him to raise the leve: that unlocke& the cells in his cage. Then he stepped out into the ce1 corridor within the steel cage. A~ heavy Yale lock secured the cag door. Williams sawed the three ight inch ring of this lock, gettine at it by thrusting his arm througi the bars. After he had opened th. sage door, he passed into the cor idor and was confronted by the heavy iron door that shut off the cells from the staircases. This doot bears a heavy mortised lock that is opened with a huge brass key. Ho~ he got through this was a-rmystery, as well as was his location. Comforting himself with the de duction 'that Williams, although a jailbird, could not fly, Captain Grad ick then proceeded to search in the only place where the prisoner could possibly be, namely: the jail loft. Over the stairway corridor is a tral: door which gives entrance into the jail loft above. It is come 15 feet above the floor. There was no lad der or rope in sight, but Captain Gradick had it figured ont that Will iams must be hiding up in this darh and huge loft. Calling to him, a taij negro trusty named "Mink," Captain Gradick secured a stepladder and or dered Mink to mount it and climb into the loft where, by striking a match he mignt see if Williams were hidden. Calling out that he would shoot Williams on sight if he made resistance, Captain Gradick drew his revolvcr and sent Mink up the lad der and into the loft to take the last chance of nosing Oakland Sammy out if he were about the jail. It was a tense moment for the' jailer when Mink disappeared into the loft, and the match was struck. A light flared up, and then Mink, big eyed and shaking, stuck his hea-i through the trap door and said: "He is dar, cap'in." Seeing the jag was up, Williams Seeing the jig was up, Williams :ame from the recesses of the loft. nd said he was caught. He ma-! no resistance and slowly backed Iown out of the opening. He had M ang by his hands to toucti the tepladder with his feet. Williams~ ooked glum and baffled, but was ~ame, and stated to the captain that 1e had failed to escape because he id not have time. After Captain Gradick got Will ams again in custody, the prisoner was placed in another cell, untamp ~red with and closely guarded, until t was time to take him over to the ourt room. He is now under a eavy guard, and will not be un ratched while the Charleston author ties have him in charge. The story of Williams' plan of1 he escape is interesting. It lsj hought that he had assistance from he outside. or within the jail. Sus-j icion points to a white man re-i etly sentenced to the gang for ia rancy, a stranger here who has been k- for the past two days and stayed i the jail. Williams used a picklock not yet >und to open the lock which held' wn the cell lever to let him into ie cage. To get out of the cel tge he sawed through the lock ringi i the cage door outside with a steel t made from a corset rib. And< unlock the corridor door that ad ited him into the main hallway r aiously contrived wooden key that worked to perfection. Taking nis :anvas cell hammock, he cut and tore it into strips and knottta a stout rope. Wrenching off a piece of iro , OF from his washstand, he bent it into the shape of the letter S and had a book attached to the rope, by which he could grip the edge of the trapi door above him in Lae main hali and pull himself Into the loft. A tiny three-sided file was found on him with which he made the sa-., teeth. He must have worked for hours Jr his bob, but Captain Gradick, lea. da ing him at midnight and comirg back at 5:30, did not give the yegg man time o perfect -is escape. . i i plan. was to make his way to *h+ Oc roof and find or saw out an openirg its and then let himself down into the dic jail yard and scale the wall with hi. of rope and hook. He carried aloni ng two extra hammocks to lengthen hii pr rope with. The hook and hammoc! Sir were found in the jail loft by -ssistant Jailer Rice. The steel saw used by Wlliar.i in is only about five inches long, with W some three inches of teeth cut inte -ir one edge on the corset stay or rib -0 The key used to unlock the corridoi )o door is of hickory, with one en. 3t rounded for the stem and pin. Thr .a ward is made of two pieces of woou :h closely fitted into a slit cut inU' is the stem and tied with cord. The fo: ward and stem were waxed. It iF thought that Williams or a confed- -u erate obtained a wax impression .f to the door key, which Is carried some- _y times by a trusty. The corset rib to and file were probably handed to id Williams y a confederate. ca ::e KEEF DENIES REPORT. re Iis Claims He Was Not Offered Job a- , A Reported. D At Detroit when Kee:e was shown X the above address on Tuesday night 'r ne said-: 0 fc "I was not closeted c;ith Presiden' Roosevelt at all. I did see him on F F 2ctober 3. but it was only a four o- F ive-minutes' audience, at which sev !ral others were present. The in .iuded P. H. Morrissey, head of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainme: ,nd I think one of the others wa:F F -en. Fowell Clayton. There wer. F ->thers that I did not know. I an F >f the opinion that every word tha vas said to me at that time wa: >ve:rheard. "The President did not offer m( he position of commissioner generan >f immigration directly or indirect] hen or at any other time. "The' executive council of th \merican Federation of Labor di iot to my knowledge send out an: iircular, as is referred to in th dispatch from New York, conse uently I could not have endorsed i "On August 15, more than si weeks before I saw the President, nade practically the same statemen which I made today in regard to William H. Taft's candidacy. M' statements appeared in the -Detroit Free Press of August 16. I wa. rsked then by a representative o: the Free Press if I had signed oi seen a letter sent out by Presiden' Gompers, of the American Federn tion of Labor, denouncing the Ro publican 'platform and urging labor to support Bryan an~d the Detnocratr ticket. I replied: "'I dlo not believe Mr. Gompers has. issued any such letter, and if he has it does not meet my endorse ment. If such a letter has been is sued I have not seen It. I will neith er support nor vote for Mr. Bryan I am going to vote for Mr. Taft, whu is an honuorary member of one o our branches, the Association of Steam Shovel- and Dredge Men.' " ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGF'. Merchant Accused of Trying to Burn His Store. A dispatch to The News and Cour ier says the store room in Bennetts yille occupied by Z. P. Wright was found to be on fire Monday nIght shortly after ten o'clock. After the fames were extinguished and an ex amination made it is said that a lo- -~ of plunder, boxes and bags, wert found in the loft thoroughly satu rated with oil. These are now in tb' sheriff's office. The policemen ar rested Mr. Wright on a charge a' disorderly conduct, and the mayoi -y took out a warrant for his arrest Tuesday mo rnin g before Magistrate McInnis charging Mr. Wright with C having set fire to and '>urning the store. The accused is in jail and it is said that he has not demand ~ ed an investigation. Mr. Wright i. of a large and influential family. THE FIGHT WON. ID Chairman Mack Confident of Sweep ing Democratic Victory. N Chairman . Mack, before leaving Chicago for the East Friday said: G "When I came West some two weeks ago I realized that the tide had ,D turned toward Democracy and ever~y indication pointed to victory for the Democracy in November. The sit uation is far better n )W than then H and I return East confident in the election of Mr. Bryan. I have not received one discouraging report H Mr. Bryan will not only receive the majority of the electorac vote. bu; H one of the greatest popular votes eraz given a candidate. "The fight is won, but we mutt H keep everlastingly at it for the r'-' maining two weelis of the camipaignc. It is too early to give out figures. and~ I will not attempt to do so, but I wi!! say now that New York, Ohio and .Ic Indiana are Democratic this yea - and my prediction does not take into consideration a number of other States that will swing from the Re publican to the Democratic columr two weeks from Tuesday." ' NEGROES LTNCH NEGRO For Stealing a Bale of C!otton From~ th< tie a Gin.re A dispatch from IHrnarido. Miss .t repo~rts the lyncing near that place :ast night of WV. J. .Jacksotn, a negro. C 0 y members of his own race. Jack- 'n son. it is stated, was discovered while o dempting to remove a bale of cot- do on. -the property of another nero. the -om a gin Tuesday nigh::. He es- be aped. but was captured later yester !ay, ang while being taken to jail rea as seci- and hanged by a mob i POST CARD VOTE. NEW YORK WORLD SHOW LARGE DEMOCRATIC GAINS. .lar Change l All the States Yould Sweep Bryan Into the White louse on a Democratic Tidal Wave. rhe New York World. last Sun 7 morning published a forecast the presidential election, that )uld carry comfort to every Dem -at who reads and carefully weighs details. The World does not pre t Bryan's election, but the resuit its postal card poll is an encour ng sign-the most encouraging spect the Democrats have had ce 1892, when Grover Clevelani s elected. The fairness and impartiality of te-election polls of the New Yora >rld are never questioned, and they just as complete as it is possibl: make them. And this particulai Il shows a plurality in New Yorx te of only 15,000 vote: for Taft, Republican nominee. Fifteen :usand votes plurality for Taft, against 175,000 votes plurality Roosevelt four years ago.! The canvas was made by sending t thirty-five thousand postal cards voters in the five boroughs of 'eater New fork. They were aske. indicate their preference for pres ant, and to state the name of the didate for whom they voted four ars'hgo. The return cards broughT plies from 8,913 voters, who voted follows in 1904: )osevelt .. .. .. . ..........5,43. Lrker .. .. .............-2,433 bs ................... 205 ,w votes ................. 862 Including the new vote the dis ibution of the indicated vote is as llows: For Taft, 4,969, as follows: rom Roosevelt .. .........4,024 rom Parker ... ............. 520 rom Debs .. ............. 1o ew votes .... ............ 415 Total ..... ........4,969 For Bryan, 3,112, as follows: rom Roosevelt .. ..........1,032 rom Parker .. ............1,692 rom Debs .. ............ 30 ew votes .. ............... 35. Total ...... .......3,112 For Debs, 337, as follows: rom Roosevelt .. .......... 13) rom Parker .. ............ 39 rom Debs .. ............. 134 ew votes .. .............. 34 Total...... ...... 337 For Hisgen, 495 votes, as follows: 'rom Roosevelt .. ........... 242 'rom Parker .. ............ 162 'rom Debs .. ............. 31 rew votes .. .......----- 60 'Total .. .. ............ 495 taken as representative ofif,ingt.he Taking these returns, The World's lection experts, men who have been stimating election results with re 2arkable accuracy for many years. ake the following deductions: Estimates of the presidential vote i Greater New York in 1908, based n the vote of 1904-an estimated acrease of 50,000 in 1908, or a to. al vote of 690,000, under applica ion of the changes as between the espective parties on a percentage ass, calculated from actual decla ations of 8,913 voters, as per figures iven ,above. 8,651 declarations received are erein taken as representative of the 40,000 vote of 1904. 862 declarations received are here a taken as representative of the 0,000 increase in 1908. 918 declarations received are here i taken as represntative of 69 0, 00 estimated vote of ?908. ~oosevelt's vote in Greater New York in 1904 ... .289,00) et loss of Taft-10.92 per cent of total vote of 640, 000 ..........-.-..--.--.69,888 ai of 48.15 per cent of es timated increase of 50,000 24,075 aft's indicated vote of 1908, calculated on basis of dec larations and changes . .. 243,18'. arer's vote in Greater New York in 1904 ..........327,000 otal gain of Bryan--3.30 per cent of total vote of 640,000 .....--------.27,520 an of Bryan-40.95 per cent of estimated increase of 50,000 ..............20,475 ryan's Indicated vote of 1908, calculated on basis of declarations and. changes ....... .--.....37,9 ebs' vote in Greater New York in 1904 ....... ....24,000 t gain of Debs (1908) 1.22 per cent of total bote of 640,000...-.-..-.--.-..-.- 78,008 ai of 3.94 per cent of es-ti mated increase of 50,000 1,970 abs' indicated vote of 1908, calculated on basis of dec laratons and changes . . 33,778 sgen's vote in 1908 (no Independence party in 1904). .. . --.-.-.-----. :s gains-5.40 per cent of total vote of 640,000. 34,550 .s gains-6.95 per cent of esimated increase of 50, 00.. .................3,48') sgen's indicated vote of 108, calculated on basis f declarations and changes . .. . . . .. 38.04(4 tal estimated 1908 vote of Greater New York for pres as indicated plurality in Greater New York . ... 131,8081 Up State Estimates. "The up-state estimates sent in the World correspondents are ise of the leaders of the two par s and not of the World. They lect the condItions as viewed by >e leaders three weeks before otion, presenting the first outline te work of forming the lines of :tle. The condition that exIst ay may be materially changed~ -n the three weeks remaining of campaign. and the figr - ma revised in many instances that not now be anticipated. The Istration of voters has just begu-a up-state counties. "Wm-- tOWI a1 th 7fl4man5 in Pow Fq PU1, Insures fd fcd for every. The only bakii rom Royal Grape rade frc-n grapes. fe'guards your f 103s.23 of Lmne-har.! e used in cheaply M on. W. M. Blackstock $100, Corne us Cunningham $100, Chas. C. ehority $100, Wm. B. Robinson 100, Abram Simmons $200. Iowa-M. F. Healey $100, Farmrr 100. Kansas-John T. Peddergast $10'). |has. Owen $100, W. A. Harris $100, ,. S. Hendricks $100, R. W. Blair 100. Frank S. Thomas $100, G. F. Aivingston $100. Kentucky-W. J. Baird $100. .'y Woodson $100, Harry Wels inger $100, Bruce Haldeman $14-0 V. T. Ellis $100. Louisiana-Senator C .C. Cordil! ;250, Hugh McCloskey $100, Bai iard McCloskey $250,' the Hon. Albert Esto.pinal $100, ithe Hon. Zobert Ewing $250, J. W. Dansiger '1 00, E-lmund McCullom $100, the Ton. Otto Breide $100, E. A. Bran lao $100, the Hon. P. W. Bond .100. X. H. BYrnes, L. W. H. and E. C. E 3., $100, the the Hon. Martin Beh an $100, New Orleans bankers !250, the Hon. Thos. C. Anderson 100. the Hon Jos..Vogtle $100, u. I. Williams $100; Samuel Gilmore 100, Julius Goetsch $100, the Hor. rohn Fitzpatrick $100, Isidore 'New nan $250, the Hon. L. H. Marreiro 100, Col. John H. Sullivan $100, :he'Hon. E. K. Skinner $100, Geo )mith $100, Governor J. Y. Sanders s250, the Hon. Alex. Pyrol$100. W T. Chamberlin -$100. Maine--The Hon. Dairus H. 'In ram $100. Maryland-T. H. Shriver $100. Massachusetts-Carl' S. Vrooman i00, Fred L. McLaughlin $100, Mrs. F. L. McLaughlin $1 00, D. F. Dough rty $1 00. Humphrey O'Sullivan 1100, J. W. Coughlin $100. Michigan-E. 0. Wood $1,000 Chas. R. Sligh $100, Edward Ryan i100, F. E. Pulte $100, Alf. Lucking $200, Geo. P. Hummer $200, W ' [. Churchill $100, Thonjas E. Bark corth S100,-W. R. Bnrt .$500. W. Forbes'$100, C..-O. Balley $10', Missouri-A. M. Dockery $101' Hurray Carelton $500, E. C. Bleish $100, Edward F, Goltra $1,000, Rus ;el . Gardner $100, D. R. Fran :is $1,000, Lon V. Stephens $200 Dr. John P. Roney $105, J. W. Myt :on 1 00, Hon. Jas. Hagerman $10c W. C. Wetmore $100. Minnesota-T. D. O'Brien $100, J ?. Malady $100,,J. P. McDonell $250, . B. Long $100, F. B. Ly~ch $100 Emil Gaist $100, L. B. Blwood $101. 3. S. Corser $100, Otto Brener $100, 3. D. Autreyment $250, Daniel Aberie 100, Ned E. Wheaton $100. Montana-T. J. Walsh $500, W. 3. George $500, R. S. Ford $500 rohn L. Losekarp $280, Senator W. i. Clark $2,000, Great Falls Trib me $100. Nebraska-M. T. Connor $150, 3. {. Catron $100, Capt. 3. Enart $100, 1. M. Hitchcock $100, G. Md. Hayden~ 100, 3. H. Harley $100, A. Johnso'a (orehead $100, P. Walsh $100, C. M. ~ruenther $100, R. D. Morassy $100,l V. . Bryan, Commoner profits $~4, 46. New Jersey-Hon. -Wmn. C. Geb ardt $100, Hon. W. J. Thompson 200, Warren Dixon $100. New York-John J. Kennedy $100. ohn N. Wiley '$100, Jacob Schwal: 100. Jas. K. McGuire $100; W. P. itchell $500, Norman B. Mack 2.000, Hon. E. G. S. Miller $600, on. T. B. P.,ockwood $100, Harvey !Leham $250, H. C. Jackson $100, ohn Hull, Jr., $100, John W. Cox 1,000, J: Hyde Clark $100, Henry .Burghard $100, Walter Franclh urns $850, Thos. W. Finucane. 500, Wmn .F. Hoffman $100. W. I. onnors $100, A. J. Elias $400, Sey our H. -Knox $100, Caddeback, illen & Karl $!00. W. Perry Taylor 100, Perry Belmont $1,000, John evlley $100, Hon. T. S. Osborne 00. Hon. Burke Cockran $509 Jos. regory $100, Mrs. W. F. Burns $100, 'm Utermyer $1,000, Jacob Ruppert 1000, Delancey Nicoll $1,000, Na man Strauss $2,500. John Stanchfield! 30. Thos. S. Fuller $100, Hon ~fferson Levy $500. Nathanial Dem 'ratic Club $2,500, W. F. Sheehan [.000. N. Espenicheid $100, Edward Sheppard $100, Antonio Zucca 100, Wmn. J. Moore $100, John Fox 100, W. H. Baldwin $100. New Mexico-N. B. Laughlin $100. New Hamnpshire-Hon. Jas. E. enard $125. H. W. Felker $100. North Carolina-Governor R. G. -nn $1 00, Josephus Daniels $100. Uian S. Carr $100, E. J. Hale $100 I North Dakota-Hon. M. M. Whip rman $100. Hon. W. B. Purce:l 00, Hon. M. F. Murphy $100, n J. Nelson' Kelley $100, Hon.j L. Cash-at $100, Governor John ke p100, John B. Freid and fam $100. Ohio-Judges John Md. Van Meter t C, W. S. Thomas $100, Md. E. rals $1.000, Geo. W. harris $2.- d 0, D. P. Torpy $100, the H.on. M- ti Denver $100, Jame~s Kilbourne 3regon.-J. Md. Watson $100. ahoia.-. A. Mranald $100. fh [HE BRYAN FUND ,enator Tillman Gave Two Hun dred Dollars to the Cause. WOUNTS AND GIVER' )ne Hundred Thousand Dollars More is Needed-Only Those Who Gave $100 or Over are Named. Bryan Second Largest Contributo". Flifty Thousand People Gave. The Democratic national commit .ee, through Treasurer Herman Rid ler, Thursday morning gave out an xtended statement of the contri >utions to the Democratic national :ampaign -fund up to and includina )ctober, showing sums of and over $100. The statement also show receipts and disbursements as foi lows: Received from contributors of $10o ind over, $90,712.33. Receive.: 'rom contributors under $100, $115. 355.22.- Amount left over from Den ver Convention fund, $42,500. fotal, $248,567.55. Amount dis bursed, $225,962.38. Balance on hand $22,604.67. The statement, which is signed by N\ational Chairman Mack and Treas urer Ridder, says that 343 subscri') ers gave $100 or more, and the smaller sums were from 25 cents up. It adds: "The number of centributors t-> the national committee fund is es- 1 timated at about 50,000 people, and F ibout $100,000 of the whole amount $ iontributed came from the Democra ic newspapers throughout the United - "tates. "It will be'noticed from the fore- C ',oing statement that the cash baj ance is about $22,000. Supplies con tracted for and undelivered, circula tion of literature, the expenses of headquarters in Chicago. New Yoriz 1 ind Denver and the traveling and e >ther expenses incident to our speak ing campaign now under way will 'nake necessary an additional $100, 000 to carry our campaign to a suc !essful issue. We are confident that the people whom we are thus taking. into our confidence will supply us with this additional sum, and we ear- . nestly urge a 'prompt and gener ,us response to this appeal. "Subscriptions received of $100 or more will be published daily, begin ning October 16." The complete list is as follows: Alabama-Jere , C. King $100 Thomas C. McLellan $100, Hon. K. 3. D. Mallory $500, J. W. Tomlinso.n $150. Arizona-Wm. E. Thomas $100. Arkansas-Guy. B. Tucker $1,001;. R. B. Macon, Congressman, $100. California-John W. J. Enright $100, Hon. Nathan Cole $500. Colorado-Hon.. Chas. 3. Hughee C500, Hon. T. M. Patterson $1,000. Hon. Chas. S. Thomas $2av. W. J. Gallagan $250, W. A. Hill $250, Hon. Tohn F. Sharoth $250, Geerge R Williamson $200, Jos. A Thatcher $100, Judge R. W. Steele $100, Jane Jefferson Club $100. Connecticut--Melbert D. Cary $1,000, Archibald McNeill $1,000. Florida--Arthur T. Williams $1 0'3, P. A. Bignan $124.. District of Columbia-'Cotter T Bride $100, E .B. McGelrick $100, N. B. Shade and wife $100, Colum bia Democratic Club $500. Georgia--Governor Hoke, Smith $250. Illinois-P. W. Burns $500, L. W. Chambers $100, George E. Dic. - ron $150, Judge S. L. Dwight $100 Edward F. Dunne $200. M. F. Dun lap $1,000. Judge 0. P. Thompson $100, Phil Feeler $100, F. 0. Haw ley $100, D. M. Kinsall $100, W. A. Moody $100, A. L. Maxcwell $100, F L. McCulloch $100, Chas. 3. MullhI ken $100, Andrew T. Phelps $100 Braley & O'Donnell $100, Roger: %ullivan $1,000, H. R. Fowler $100. Ervin A. Rice, $1 00, Harry Highee $100, W. E. Williamst $125, Win ,Hoyt $100, Frank V. Dilatush $100 John P. Hopkins $1,000, Indiana-Thomas Taggart $1 .00 0. BANK CLOSES. Cashier Kills Himself With a Gun in His Barn. A'~ special from Bradford Ark.. says Following the closing of the Bradford State Bank and issuance of a warrant yesterday for the arrest of the cashier, H. Drennan, who was alleged to ' e short in his accounts to the extent of $10,000. Drennan'c dead body was found in the barn. at his home today. The shotgun with which the man evidently ended his life was found nearby. * tae fifty-seven counties above the Bronx show estimated majorities i 52 of them for .ghes aggregating 113.050 and majorities in the other~ three for Chanler aggregating 2,900. In the same counties two years ago Governor Hughes received majorities aggregating 135,342 and Mr. Hearst 377. According to the stimates1 presented by the World today Go" ernor Rughes will lose above the I Bronx 22,292 votes and Mr. ChanlerK will gain over Hearst 2,528. "The estimates show even mnor' marked changes in the presidential situation. Four years ago 55 of the same 57 counties gave Mr. Rocs e velt majorities aggregating 213, 495. and Parker of 338. The coun-1 ties covered in the table printed show~' majorities for Taft aggregating 148,500, and for Mr. Bryan of 2, 900. So that according to the es timates, Mr. Taft will lose, if pres ant conditions continue, 64,995 and Mr Bryan will gain 1.062. The es timnates show that while Mr. Taft will not hold all of the R'ooseve!! rote of four years ago, he will comrn nand at least 65 per cent of it. "The reductions noted in the es :imates are mainly in the factor ': :entres and are due to these causes. "1. Industrial conditions affecr- T ng many thousandls of employes. P '2. The dissatisfaction of voters Vith the old parties. "3. Opposition to Gov:erno Iughes because of his rezorm. r The World also publishes state aents from the leaders of the re-0 pective parties, and it is evidernt hat the Democrats are more san nine of success than are the Re er delicious, health home, every day. Ig powder made ,ream of Tartar >0d against alum and h mineral acids which ide powders. J. B. Doolin $200, R. L. Williams $100, Geo. Whitehurst $100, John - B. Turner $100, M. E. Trapp ;100, Thurmond Brothers $100, DavldRus sell $100, Patterson Furniture $100 L. C. Niblack $100, Nex State. Tribune $100. J. J. McAlester $100, Judge D. P. Marum 5250, Leo r r $100, J. A. -enefee $100, R . Lozier $100, J. E. Dove $100,:.W. A. Ledbetter $100, Mrs. Lbman $10. - W. W. Letson $100. . 3. Kane $100. the Hon. B. W. Key $100 Dr. D M. Harley $100, S. W. Hayes $100, the Hon. C. W. Herod $250, Roy Hoffman $100, the Hon. John J Gert lach $250, A. R. Eastman $100, - Jesse J. Dunn $100, Thomas H. Doyle $100, W. H. L. Campbell $100. H. Coyle $100, 3. -P. Conners $100, T. M. Brooks .$200, S. T Bledsoe $100, J. M. Aydelotte $100, R. Owens $1,000. Pennsylvania - Judge :Reumbel $100, Alfred Graham $100, Christ6 phe McGee $100, 3. - Co~fman $110, William J. Crittenden $100, William- B.-- Rodgers $500,4 Jos Fels $500, C. 3. D.Strohecker $10 I. -S. Black $100, F. ,W.' ShoonMake $150, D. Gordon Broimley $1,500. Chas. H. Doughetry $500, E.'4 "qichol $500, E. Raymond Rass $2'00 Tas. . Ryan $300, A..J. Ennis $0 T. B. McCullough $100, Jo. -R Waizi wright $200, Roland H. M #r.s$1 M. F. Howley $100, Geo..W. Acklin $100, 3. A: Wakefield -$100, Jdhn. T. Buckley -$100, Johnt Murphy $100~ W. H. Kerr $125, G. F. Myer $-10 E. M4. Herbst $229, Lot :W. Relf. $115, 3; S. Carmichael $101, E1d. McArthuer $100, Demo'cratic Club $250. Rhode Island-P. 3. Murphy $100. South Carolina-B. R. Tillman $100, Soth Dakta-Hon. C. A. Jew ett $100, D. .1M. Kunman $100, D I. W. Forbes $100, 0. 0. Bailey $100. Tennessee-Isaac Reese $100. W. T. Crawford $100, Commercial. Ap o'eal $100, Napoleon Hill $100. Texas-Jas. R. Stubbs $100, L. B. Robertson $100, Elba ~Heywood $200, George W. Littlefleid $100, H 4.. Wroe $100, T1. 14. Camlpbell $10~ W. F. Ramsey .$100, Capt Jas. R. Wisconsin-J. 3. Hogan $1,000. D. L. Plummer $100, F. 0. Geigur $200, .A. H. Krouskop $100. A 4 West Virginia-Hon. A. 3. Wilk inson- $1 00, Henry- G. Davis $250. Washington - Jammie Durkini ' Wyoming-Jas, E. Osborne $1,000. Hon. W. H. Holiday $200, Alex. Nis bit $246. Hon. I. G. Miller-$200. W. A. Johnson $1 47. 3.'T. Holiday $1 00. Hon. W. S. Kimball $100. E. D. Nor ton $100, Judge Gibson Clerk $1.00, Hon. A. L. Brook $100, Hon. Jas: H. Clause $100. Utah-Hon. Jesse Knight $500. Hon. Moses Thatcher $100, Hon. 0 W. Powers $1 00. Hon. W. M4. H. King $100, John Dprn $100. Hon. Frank K. Nebeker $1.00. T. H. Fitz gerald $100, Frank B. Stephens.3100, 14. B. Howard $250. Alaska-Hon. A. '3. Daley $500. John Ronan $300, Jar. McCloskey $114. H. H.- Perker $108. New Mexico-Hon. A. A. Jones $100. Washington-H. W. Melen $100.* CAN THIS BE TRUE? A Farmer Arrested for Assaulting . Deformed Idiot. A dispatch from Columbia to The ews and Courier says the Governor's offce has so far received no notifi ation of the arrest made Thursday t Sumter of 3. Z. Wooten, a Sumter ounty white farmer, on a warrant harging him with criminally as aulting his deformed and idiot 14 ear-old step-daughter; Zora Moseley, whom Wooten had on exhibition here at Fair week. According to the Sumter Item of hursday, the arrest was made on he arrival of the Orangeburg train o Sumter. the girl's uncle, M. I). oseley, going to Wooten's hcme and ducng him to come to pumter with he girl and its mother. Moseley, ccording to the' Sumter paper, got he warrant from a magistrate i few Brookiand, Lexington county, nd it was based on information urnished by Wooten's wife, the other of the child. Wooten was laced in th-e Sumter jail to awa't 1e officers of Lexington. Whether be has been carried to exngton is not known here. Tj'a air week crowds did not patronize e exhibition here, the resnlt being at some symnathetic eborus girls mnd the mc'ther and child in a estitute condition and erarnsed in a ~nt, and took them to a hotel an-1 ~dthem. Failore in .laudable attemnts is far *o be a thing to be ahamed of.