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OUR SCI - PAPER N BY PROF. WEILLI Poor Attendance--Even with in sailicient funds, poor school houses, I h short 3chool terms, and Incompetent it teachers. the people may still show u a commendable educatiilnai purpose s by seoding every child to school i every day the schools are in session. A Mt:'i good may ',e got out of a verj a inferior school, if the children at- E tend it regularly and with the pur- e pose of getting the most possible o'ut it. How are the white children of South Carolina attending thel a schools? In 1907, tie white enroll-j ment in the public schocls of the State was 144,668, while the average atrendance was only 103.304. The c federal Ct'f5US taken seven years be- Ic fore 900. gives South Catrolinla fo .9 72 white children between the. azs of 5 and 20 years, while our lka school age is between 6 and -1 years. It is safe to assert that barelv sixty per cent of the white children of the State are enrolled in any kind of a school, and not over forty per cent are in average atten dance. In 1900, thirty-six per cent of the white children between the ages of 10 and 14 years were not enrol ler in any school, public or private. In the same year Massachu setts had only s' per cent of her white chillren of tne corresponding ages out of school, Connecticut had seven per ceni. and Michigan eight per cent. In 1900, South Carolina had 54, 177 native white Illiterates over lu years of age, only 792 fewer white illiterates than the State had in 'S.0. thirty years previous. At the same date Connecticut. with nearly twice the white population of South Carolina, had but 1,958 white illit erates over 10 years of age. Again. South Carolina had 15.643 native white illiterates of the voting age: Rhoie Island, with four-fifths the population of South Carolina, had just 550. We had 17,839 native white illiterates between the ages of 10 and 19 years; Michigan, with twice our population, had 1,141; Connectiv'Jt had 140, and Rhode Island 100, Is it reasonable to hope for the South Carolina of tomorrow. with her load of helpless illiterates. to cope successfully with those States and sections which have freed them selves from the bondage of igno' rance? The day is forever gone from South Carolina when a few highly trained men of leisure could direct and control the destinies of the peo ple. This responsibility has been shifted to the shoulders of the mass es, and now we are forced to con sider the training of the masses. Only yesterday Hon. O. B. Martin gave out this: "Several educa tional leaders In New England frank ly told us that they are spending their monoy and buiiding up their schools in order to retain and main tain their industrial supremacy. They realized that we have advan tages and great resources In thle Sath, but they propose to keep the lead, if possible, through the power of trained brains and trained hands' Intelligence and skill will win every time in every race. What is SoutL Carolina doing to meet this open challenge from New England? Who are these South Carolina white children not in school, and why are they not in school? Same are the sons and daughters of parents themselves ignorant and unable to, apprecIate or to understand what education means to their children and to the State; some are children of fathers and mothers, greedy anl selfish. who are more than willing t.o make wage-earners and bread winners out of their young untaught offspring; a few are the children of parents opposed to education, be cause they have known some edu cated scoundrels: a very few are the children of parents who actually need the labor of their children to eke out a living, and many are the children of fathers engrossed In ma terial affairs and mothers recreant to duty. Many of these children are at work on the farm, in stores and shops at a few cents a day, and in the cotton mills making good wages for children, while hundreds of oth ers are roaming the streets and coun try lanes-the training grouns for idlers, vagrants, and enemies to law, order, and decency. STARTED TO BURY LIVE WOMAN. Physician Finds that Supposell Crpse was Not Dead. At Ellis, Kan., the timely Inter vention of a physican who was not satisfied with the appearance of th2 body Tuesday prevented the buria! alive of Mrs. Thonas Chapman, sixty years old, who was supposed to have died suddenly of heart dis east on Saturday. The body was prepared for burial, but was not embalmed. The funeral was to have taken place at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday: afternoon. A few minutes before the cofiin was sealed, a physiciaa reriested permission to see the body. An examination confirmed hIs sus-f picions that the woman's body was made rigid by suspended animation. The woman was removed from the~ coffln, placed in bed and revived. While her heart is weak It is believ ed Mrs. Chapman wIll recover. I They Must Worte. At Columbis as a result of a war On vagrancy and idle negroes the police department Tuesday arrested fifty rnegroes. Another raid will be made Wednesday and it has been an u.:uncsd that every one, white or rlack, mnust work, show cause or work for the city. Military and Bands. Arrangements are oeing made to have grand nmilitary dey during Fair Week. One of the biggest features of this day will be the fact that there will be seven g-ood brass bands in I Colunibia at ~this time. If we shoulid always reak the truth. Thre'd eure~y bs a fuse; As tusances 5npeakable. Nobody'~t speask to us.i t' rics s not na to do things .iust1 :o (e d0':. :r sa thing just t ~. I. DM H. HAND. Two of the worst enemies to child ood and youth are overwork and !leness. Close confinement at man al labor Is dulling, stifling, and de ructive to the childhood; Idleness poisonous and ruinous to youth. .ttendance upon school may be used s a corrective for both evils. The tate, in order to protect at least ne class of children against over ork, has passed a child labor law. arring some notable exceptions, the bortiveness of that law is a common est. To illustrate: In 1905. one ,f our city school superintendent-, ii Est more than twenty pupils from a ne school within two months. Ir. ompany with one of the cotton mi uperintendent of that town (a man a favor of schools), the school su- E )erintendent went from house to b Louse in the mill village enquiring or these missing children. In one fl fternoon he located twelve of them, t very one of them unlawfully en- a ;aged at work in the mill, though ,nly three of their names appeared S n the pay-roll. Now, the child of the lazy, greedy. elfish parent is at work: and no' n school. The child of the igno- a *ant and indifferent. parent is neither Et work nor i. school; he is idling. : 3oth children need to be educated' he State needs both of the-; and 1 he State has already decreed that e :he taxpayers shall establish and naintain schools for both. There -emains but one logical thing to do[' -compel the parents of both to send :helr children to school. There is 1 Dut little logic in compelling peopi :o pay taxes to support the schools 1 :hen permitting the parents of the I children who most need the school: eliberately to keep them from the benefits of the schools. The poore. the child the more is the need fr1 compelling his parents to send him to school. Compulsory attendane. 1 laws are aimed at the selfish and in different parent, not at the child. Of what advantage are good teach ers, long school terms, and fine school houses, unless the childre* attend the schools? In a recent elec tion to increase the local school tax in a district in North Carolina, where they have recently enactel a kin' of local option compulsory law, r certain taxpayer made this declar. 'ion: "If you vote to compel t;e children of this district to go tc school, Increase my tax as yon. please; if you are not going to put the children Into the schools. I ar opposed to any further tax." That man's argument has no answer. Some opponent to a compulscry law says, "You have not enoug. school houses and teachers to tak' care of the thousands of :hildren not in school." That argument iz worthless, unless we are willing t. admit that the white people of th? State are actually unable to take care of their children. Let sorie philanthropist offer to aid Sou : Carolina in matters educational then you get an answer to that ques tion. Will the school houses evet be built or the teachers employec until there is a need for them? Would It be wise for a farmer to let a $500-crop waste in the fields, rath er than build $100-house in which to store it? The last argument of the oppo nents to compusory attendance is that it can not be enforced withomt truant officers, and that truant of ficers must be paid . Certainly. The present child labor law of thIs State Is a dead letter, because no provis ion is made for its enforcement. And the police of Charleston, Columbia. and other places, have to be paid. but It pays to pay them. We are perfectly willing to pay an ofilcer of the law to arrest little negre boys In a 10-cent crap game, but it is too much to pay an officer of the law to see that a lazy selfish father sends his child to school. We -are paying today In actual money every year five times as much in trioute to the Industrial supremacy of New England- and other sections, as it would cost us to put every white child in the State in school for si:-. months in the year! What econ omists we are! And what philoso phers we try to be! WILLIAM H. HAND. University of South Carolina. USES FOR OLD PAPERS. Some Things They Can be U~used For With Profit. To fill cracks in wooden floors put one-half pound newspapers in thret quarts water and soak three aays, theit add one tablespoonful powdere alum and one quart wheat flour; stir and boll until like calke dough; coo.l and fill cracks. It will harden like cement. To fill rat holes use the above re cIpe, but add, when cool, a liberal1 allowance of red pepper. To make rat proof floors for hen bouses use the above, mixing in one uart of sand and gravel. To dry shoes, fill with crumpl.ai aewspapers, renewing as the paper' absorbs the moisture. To clean and polish windows, mi r rors, etc., dIp papers in cold tea. t To clean carpets, wet a newspapert Lith ammonia and water; squeeze,C :ear into bits, throw on the floor and sweep from wall to the opposite side. To keep fire all night In a range tove or grate, lay a folded news paper on the coal. In the morning :he paper ashes will be removed nore easily than coal ashes.d Home Meal and Hominy. I The Barnwell People gives this: ;ood advice: ' rjat home grown and . ~round gorn meal and hominy. here are now In the State insane ~ isylum in Columbia about twen yh tersons suffering with pellagra. an tlalian disease caused by eatin~ osound meal. There have beei hirty-seven deaths within the pastj -ear from pellagra, which first crazes .d then kills its victimes." I Deadly Work of Snowstorm. ix accidental deaths are trace2'ale o a snowstorm that prevailed in :olorado Saturday night and Sunday. p sides. sven~ persons sustaIned so iu. iritris in railmead colis-1 ions in coming in contact with IME ONCE MORE anator and Mrs. Tillman Landed at New York Saturday. ARCHBOLD LETTERS ead by Hearst Are Important Fac tors of the Campaign-He is "Glad That the Light Has Been Turned on the Conunercial Democracy Gang" in This State. Senator and Mrs. Tillman lande t New York on Tuesday after arT bsence of five months in Europa. :e is greatly improved in health an" ajoy'J. his trip abroad very much. :e did not tarry long in New Yorl. ut left for his home soon after he Lnded. He crossed the ocean in the ne steamship Kroonsland. He was esieged by news gatherers as sool1 s he landed in New York. "The Archbald letters that Mr. [earst has read are the big thing f this campaign and the one sub act of interest on the other side," "I see that he got McLaurin. I m not surprised. We were on to IcLaurin In the Democratic wing f the senate, and read him out of he caucus eight years ago. He be ngs with the corporation---controll d senators and we told him so." "I cannot but feel a little pity for >enator Foraker," continued Mr. illman. "He is an old man and is ,o worse than a good many of the est of them-in Ohio, too, I might ,dd. He, of course, deserves what unishment this expose will bring, ut I hope Mr. Hearst will get the est of them. "No, I will take no active part in he campaign. It is too nearly over or me to bestir myself. The last ession in Washington was the most rying I have ever known and I was most prostrated at the end of it. do not want to waste any of my 'egained strength. Senator Tillman paused to engage n repartee with a Philadelphian1 n the tariff question, and then said :hat he would hurry to Washington or a few days. From there he will o to his home and rest until hi: luties call him to the capital agal' Tillman in Washington. The Washington correspondent of he News and Courier says Senato: ind Mrs. Tillman arrived In Wash ington Tuesday night en route home When seen at his hotel Wednesday morning, Senator Tillman was sur rounded by half a dozen or more newspaper men and other friends, who had called to welcome him home, and to get his views on th Presidential campaign and other matters. Senator Tillman is naturally very deeply interested in the outcome f the P-residential election, and al lough he has been absent, and no' in close touch with the management of the campaign, yet his gener-J knowledge of the situation leads him to believe that Bryan will be the next President of t~he Uniter 3tates. He does not intend to ente, 'he campaign, but will rest from ha: ravels, and be ready for the ap oroaching session of Congress in D 3 eember. To The News and Courier corre pondent the Senator said that h ad read the Archbold and McLaurli lisclosures, and that the~ light haJ been turned at last on .3the ace and doings of the "commjercial De -ocracy gang." With unusual vigo: the Senator said: "What I woulc like to know now Is this, 'what newspaper in the State received any~ portion of that five thousand do! !rs from the Standard Oil, and why is it, the different detective editort within the State have not taken the trouble to ascertain what newspape: supported the 'comercial Democracy gang' and publish the list so tha! the people could know who the ben eficiaries were." Continuing, he said: "Certal newspapers have been very vigilent in 'raking u'p past records. Now la rem come forward and give th' people the names of the bobtai: papers In the State that were knock' ing at the doors of the Standard Oil treasury for 'lubrication.' HadJ it not been for tlie unexpected death of President McKinley It would b: :lifficult to say just how much harra would have been done to the Demo.: racy of the State by the sleuth-lik editors of South Carolina so long is they were receiving 'substantiai support.' " GREAT WHITE PLAGUE. oome Interesting Facts Concerning This Terrible Disease. Some very remarkable facts were >rought out at the International Dongress on Tuberculosis recently Leld In Washington. It was demxon trt~ed that cne-third of the hu nan family who die between the ages f 25 and 45 years die of tuberculc Is. Thus It behooves every man. roman and child to be educate.1 .bou the "great white plague." The convention from actual test. .ecided that bovine tuberculosis was ransmitted to human beings by ubercle acilli in milk from tuber uous cows. Here are some facts hat are not generally known: Deaths from tuberculosis in Uni d States last year. 160,000; deaths or 15 years of yellow fever '.n inited Staes, 100,00f0. Deaths from tuberculosis last four' ar i United States (estimated). G0.0; deaths during four years of ivl war in United States in actIon nd from wounds received in action 'ederal 110,000, Confederate 95,000 -total deaths 205.000. Comparative death rate of tuber uloss in the Ujnited States and lack plague in India for 12 year; 1896 to 19. in proportion to :he lopulation-the great plague epi emic in India began in 1896: Tbrculosis in United States per ,000 of population during the whole eriod, 23 deatus: black plague in idia, 19 deaths. Dath rate, tuberculosis of lungs, hite and colored population, in nitd State, year 1906, per 1,001 ,pulation: White 106.2; colored. A poony lover does not always FACING A CRISIS I SHALL THE SOUTH SUtRRENDER C $150,000,000 in Gold? That Is What She Will Do if the P Cotton Crop is Sold .at Present Prices. The flippant way in which some people speak of the present price 0 of cotton argues that they do not f fully appreciate the gravity of the situation. This is intensified when they say that the farmers have put the price of cotton too high and that s it is now seeking its natural level. o Such people leave the impression i, that they are not looking beyond o their personal interests and therefore fail to see the stream of gold that annually comes to the South from d foreign countries in exchange for i her cotton crop-this amounting to t hundreds of millions of dollars, which is the mainspring to all business life and activity in the South. Cur tail this inflow of gold and we a. once crippel every industry in the South. Augment it and at once the electric effect is seen and felt in every line of industry. The price of cotton is today 2 1-2 cents per pound less than it was a year ago. If this depresion of price is to continue throughout the season it will mean a loss to the South on a 12,000,000 bale crop of $150,000, 000, a sum equal to more than ha.f of the capital invested in the cotton mills of the entire South; likewise a much greater sum than will be spent in the South this year for pub lic education. These illustrations are given to more forcibly illustrate the enormity of the loss of the South, caused by the present depression in prices, and to endeavor to arouse a determina tion among our people, irrespective of vocation, that it shall not be so. For the past few years the South has been enjoying an unprecedented prosperity for the cotton crop. It seems that the cotton-buying world has decreed that this age of South ern prosperity shall not longer cou tinue. As evidenc of this there was during the summer a report sent to the cotton factory centers of the world stating the Southern cottor crop would approximate 16,000,000 bales and the prediction made that the price would go to eight and pos sibly as low as 6 cents per pound. Such a report very naturally demor alized the cotton trade and eve' manufacturer wanting to get in on the ground floor was unwilling to lay up stock, and so curtailed pro duction and bought cotton from hand to mouth ,continually looking for lower prices. Another factor in de pressing the price of cotton is the closing of the Lancashire mills in England. These mills are said t., represent half the spindle capacity of that country; consequently their closing will very materially affect the price of cotton. Hold for Better Prices. Such briefly Is the situation. What are the remedies? An easy question to ask, but a far more difficult one to ans 'er. In my opinion, the first thing nec essary is for the cotton farmer: themselves to determine In all their might and manhood that they will not sell a bale of cotton at presenr prces except to satisfy existIng ob ligations; and then first endeavo to store the cotton and get advances on It to meet the necessity of the occasion. As long as sufficient cot ton to meet the requirements of the mills is offered there will be no neerd for them to advance prices. There fore hold the cotton off the market until the surplus is worked off. If the cotton mill men can not sell their goods they can not be ex pected to buy cotton at its full value. so the thing to do is to not offer any cotton for sale until the trade wants it at a price that will justify the farmer to sell. At the present prices the pu'ely cotton farmers is making no more money on his cotton than he was ten years ago ,.when cotton was eelling at 6 cents per pound. At that time corn, meat, labor and other thin~gs that the cotton farmer buys was sell ing at but little over half the prices they are now b-inging. Six-cent cotton at the time multiplied mort gages on the cotton farms of the South. Notwithstanding the few years of good prices we have had have enabled most farmers to pay off the mortgages then incurred, a con tinuation of present prices and con ditions will bring about a repetitio' , of those days. For that reason the manhood of the South should bc against low priced cottor,. It Is not yet time for the South to assume thte role of a philanthropist and sell cot ton for a price less than the co-st of production so as to furnish the worl I with cheap cotton goods. Do we want farm values t-- in crease Instead of decreas~e? Do we want factories of various kinds to multiply and enlarge In the South. Do we want to educate our children and beautify our homes, Do we want an air of prosperity all over this Southland of ours, with new life, vigor and activity into ever lin~e of business, vocation and profession? If so, let us without regard to vo cation be a unIt, loyal to the South and her every interest, and sa.ve to her this $150,000,000 annually by maintaining the price of cotton at a remunerative figure so' that pro perity may continue to smile on our Let not the farmers be fooled an other year by the s'r:n songs of those who U-1l them the world will take at good pricers all the cotton 1 they can produce; but rather let them first see that their crops are! so diversified as to insure each farm er a sufficiency of corn, meat, and other productions necessary for his home consumption. Do vnat and the cotton crop will no longer prove to e a mill stone dragging us dlown into penury and want.1 Ini this endeavor for better pr ices let the merchant, the banker 'het manufacturer and the professional man strike hands with the farmer. I for they, too, are unwilling; to see the South deprived of the millions I of dollars so necessary for her C growth and development. The news- I paper men, too, these giants of in- d fluence and molders of public opin- a ion, can do the farmers of the Sojut h ,1 a world of good if the:y will wage I a battle for better prices for cotton ONFERENCE CALLED )TTON GROWERS INVITED TO MEET IN COLDIBIA. resident Harris, of the State Farm ers' Union, Calls Meeting for Nest Wednesday Night. President Harris, of the South Car [ina Farmers' Union, has Issued the )lowing call: "In order to have a ccnference on ae cotton situation and to devis' )me method for relief all members f the Framers' Union and others iterested in the raising of the price f cotton are urged to meet in the ourt House at Columbia on Wednes ay night of Fair Week. It Is highly aportant that there be representa ives from all sections of South Car lina and from all interests. This eeting will be addressed by Sena or-elect Smith and others. (Signed, "B. HARRIS, President S. C. Farmers' Union. Senator-elect Smith was in Colum 'uesday and gave the following state nent for publication: "Now that the election is over and ny enforced absence from any ac ire participation in the fight for otton at an end, I am in the work o better conditions If possible, and hey are possible. The present price )f cotton is a reflection on the South a small crop last year and- a small rop this year have, or should have. liscounted the effect of the panic. Ead there been a normal crop last rear and prices gone off on account ,f the panic it would have been nat ural, perhaps, but with a small crop at home and abroad, with no flatter ing outlook for a yield this year. present prices are nothing short of a disgrace to the business man and farmer. "Look at the price of corn, oats. wheat, lard, meat and hay, to say nothing of other commercial articles. and compare these with cotton Why didn't the panic affect them? Besides, about two-thirds of the American crop is sold in Europe. A panic in America should not affect the buying power of foreign coun tries. "It is said that goods cannot be sold at present prices, or are not being sold, because it would repre sent a loss to the manufacturer. By the same token cotton should not be sold, because it represents a lost to the grower. Because fifteen cents was not realized last year is no rea son why eight cents should be taken now. It really looks as if the pur chasing world was attempting to whip the grower for revolting, after four years, against their masters. There is manhood and money enougdi to stop this criminal :'oolishness an' lack of confidence and common sense. "On Wednesday night of Fair week every man interested in a high er price for cotton is asked to miect in the city of Columbia, at the Court House, to discuss the situation and ioin the other States in stoppmg the sale of cotton at present prices. "I am on my way to Montgomery. Alabama, where I will address the farmers of 'that State, and will brine a report as to what'-they and other States propose to do. "E. D. SMITH." AFFNEY ELECTRICIAN KILLED. Young Man From Michigan Touches Live Terminal and Dies. A young electrician named N. K. Streter, while painting a switchboard in the engine room of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company Tuesday morning, touched a live terminal with his brush, with the result that 2,300 volts of electricity were sent coursing through his system. He only lived about five minutes after the accident. The physicans say tiat he probably had a weak heart. The young man has only been in Gaffney about two months and came here from Michigan. He has .rela tives in Ashville and the remains were turned over to Shuford & Lam aster, undertakers, awaiting instruc 'ions from his people as to their dis position. The young man madei many friends in Gaffney and his death was a shock to all who knew him. THE FARCE GOES ON. Two Revenue Collectors Reprimand ed for Political Activity. A dispatch from Washington says the civil service commission Friday announced that after thorough In vestigation J. H. Forlham, a deputy collector of Internal revenue at Orangeburg, S. C., has been repri manded and suspended without pay for fifteen days for participation in the epublican State Convention at Columbia. Robert A. Stewart, a temporary deputy collector of Clar endon County, S. C., has been reprz manded. R. 0. Pierce, an employ o ,f the Marine Island navy yard, who nnounced his candidacy of super tisor in the 1st district, has been dis charged from the service. Clyde Knook. a letter carrier at Indepen ence Kansas, who became candidate 'or the District Court clerkship. re tigned from the postal ser-vice t> ivoid dismissal. or better prices, If these people ould enter into the fight for better rices for cotton with only one ourth the enthusiasm they are giv ng to the politics of the country it could be but a short while before >rices would be far above those off The Farmers Alliance, the Farm ers' Union. the Southern Cotton As ociation should all join their forces endeavoring to withhold cotton rom the markets until a much bet er price is offered. Let these or ~anizations suggest days for the armers to meet at their respective eeting places. and take action. ~ithout unity of purpose and unity iaction we can not hope to accom lish anything. But let not the con itions we are striving for be brought bout by the lawless night rider, nut y 'orderly methods and by sanie ople who have a vital interest in outhern life, and Southern progress. k GROOM SLAIN ly Former Suitor for the Bride's Hand On a Train TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. after Killing Her Husband, the Cow ardly Assassin Turned the Weap on the Bride and Would Have Killed Her Had Not Her Uncle Caught the Pistol. A dispatch from New Orleans says an her bridal tour, which had begun scarcely an hour before, and seat ed in a railroad coach almost be tween her husband and a former suit or for her hand, Mrs. Fred Van Ingen Thursday night saw the flasb of the suitor's revolver, felt th-. sudden grip of her husband's hand as the bullet killed him, and then turned and fought for her life. When the girl appeared about t> become the victim of the second bui let from the revolver her uncle, a man with gray hair, but strong and cool under the excitement, rushei and thrust his thumb beneath the hammer of the revolver, jamming the mechanism and rendering the weapon harmless. This was the story which the other passengers on the Texas and Pacific "cannon ball" told when they reach ed New Orleans Friday, but the principal actors in the tragedy, most of whom are connected with Louis iana's leading families, have so far refused to discuss the matter. The former suitor is F. S. Beauve, of Plaquemine, La., at which pla : he was taken from the train and placed under arrest. The unfortu nate husband was Prof. Fred Van Ingen, a prominent teacher, of Alex andria, La., and a relative of former -Governor Blanchard. The bride is the daughter of James M.~ Rhorer, one of the leading officials of Iber ville Parish,' residing at Baton Rouge. Beauve is 24 years old and Van Ingen was 23. The wedding took place at Alex andria. Beauve was in town, having arrived there, it is reported, on the same day as Miss Rhorer. When the bridal couple left for New Orleanh he boarded the train also, and after a time sat in a seat where he was facing Mr. and Mrs. Van Ingen with the bride between him and he: husband. Other passengers say Beauve talk ed with the bridal couple just befos the shooting and that his manne: appeared cordial. It was at first re ported that he congratulated them but this was later denied. The young woman's hand was in her husband" I when Beauve suddenly drew his re volver and fired. After being dis armed the young man quietly sub mitted to arrest. COTTON MEETING CALLED. Governor Ansel Asked to Name Del egates From the State. President Harvey 3ordan, of th. southern Cotton Association, ha written Governor Ansel requestin; that the Governor appoint delegate from every county of South Carolin: to the Cotton Conference, which Mr rordan has called to meet In Memh phis on November 10, 11 and 12 Governor Ansei is also urged to at tend the Conference in person Chere 'will be a conference of th same kind in Columoila during nex week at the call of President B. Har ris, of the Farmers' Union. Mr. Jor dan's letter is as follows: Augusta, Ga., Oct. 21, 1908. His Excellency, Governor of Sout: Carolina.-Dear Sir: In response t requests from all parts of the Sout. I am calling a mammoth Cotton Con2 ference of farmers, ginners, bankers :nerchants and allied business inter ests to meet at Memphis, Novembe 10, 11, 12, 1908, for the purpose o securing general concert of actio: throughout tne douth along busines lines to advance the price of cottoa at least ten cents per pound. You are undoubtedly interested i1 a movement of this kind, and would greatly appreciate the officiaL appointment by you of delegate from the various counties in you. State to attend this Conference, an< I further extend to you a most cor dial invitation to be present yoursel and take part in the deliberation: of the Conference. I would be pleased to have a lis of your appointees so that propes literature can be sent them, giving information and particulars of the Conference. United concert of action will sterr the tide of low prices and do much to check the -present serious situa tion in the South and advance price.s. Rours truly, HARVER JORDAN. CHESTER NEGRO A SUICIDE. Aged Plantation Darkey Cuts Hi'. Throat With Razor. James H. Heatherington, an aged negro, living on Mr. J. B. Atkinson'. place, near Armenia, Chester e:ounty. Monday committed suicide, a thirng few negroes do. Heatherington was an industrious and respected negro, and 'w' gett'ng along as well na usual this year, but someh.ow became worried about the outlook, with the result that his mind became affected. A few days ago he told mis daughte:' good-bye, and since then in conse quenee, his actions had been watched so as to prevent him from taking any rash step. Monday morning, however, he got hold of a razor, and stealing off into a nearby thickett, cut his throat. Coroner Leckie helid an inquest Monday afternoon, with Mr. Harrison Grant as foreman of the jury, the verdict being that the de ceased came to his death from r'" inflicted wounds. Kills Two Otficers. Charlie Mitchell, colored, shot and killed T. L. Peek, bailiff, and C. F. Argo. a yourng white man. Suaday morning about 10 o'clock at his home a~b t 1 1-2 miles north of Lithocia Ga. and brurally beat C. S Jlliott, F-1 BAKING, Comes fron The only bai der made fr Grape Crean Imitation 'oaking powders mineral acids and Ic unhealthful p DR i. H. CARLISLE HIS MARVELOUS nFLUENCE ON YOUNG MEN. Possibly the Great Business of Teach ing May Get Some Hint From This Simple Store. If you were to go to the town of ".t Spartanburg, S. C., says Worlds t Work, and spend an evening in the C house of any man who lives there. s the converation would be sure to 1 turn to Dr. Carlisle; and, if you should happen to go to the home of I any one who has a direct personal interest in Wofford college ,which is situated at one end of the town, i the chances are that most of the I talk of the evening would be about Dr. Carlisle. If you happened to be at the college at a commencement time, you would hear a reverent ani affectionate allusion to Dr. Carliste in every public address, and you migh see every class that comes back to its reunion go to his house in a body to express their affectionate obli gation to him. And who is Dr. Carlisle? A man who went to the college as a teacher of "astronomy and moral science" in 1854, when it was founded, and who has been there ever since, a part of the time as teacher, a part of the times as president and again as teacher. He still meets his clasb es once or twice a week even at his advanced age. Doubtless neither philosophers nor astronomers regard him as a great contributor to their Clepartments of learning. Yet it is doubtful whether there be an astron omcr or philosopher at any Institu tion or in any 'community in our whole land yho has exerted so strong an influence upon the young men who have come in contact with him. They do not say that he taught them astronomy or that he taught them philosophy, but they do all bear testimony to his giving them in great er measure than any other man a right adjustment to life and a moral uplift-a kind of influance that the .oldest of his pupils, who are now themselves far on in middle life, remember with an affection that has grown since their youth; and, throughout the area of the college's1 Influence, men and women say, "We1 must send our sons to Wofford col-' lege because Dr. Carlisle is there." He is now an. old gentleman, of great dignity of character and o' speech, of wide if desultory reading, but not of the modern type of schol arship. He is not an orator, and1 yet, until a few years ago, he had th3 habit of delivering a public lecture1 once a year or oftener in the towni, iand anybody who did not go to hear < him lost standing in the community ji by his absence. These lectures were I lay esrmon, but everybody received I] them as a sort of half-Inspired de- I liverance. ?te has never held a pub lic office, except that he was a mem er of the Secession convention in ' South Carolina and is the only sur viving member but one, and he is x said to have called this adventure r a piece of boys fcolishness. He was e never a preacher, but always only b a teacher, and what he taught best a was neither science nor literatura, 'I but character. The story is told of a man in 3 Texas who met a visitor from Spar- P tanburg. The first question he asked ri was, "Do you know Dr. Carlisle?" e "Yes,"' said the other. "Are y0-i h going back to Spartanburg?'' I ~Yes." "Well, I wish you would pl give Dr. Carlisle by most affection- fl ate regards, remind him that I was vi dismissed from college for miscon- a; iduct in spite of his effort to save e 1 e, tell him that I came to Texas and g S for several years I tried my best to m o to the devil by various roads, but el that I did not succeed, because before bi : got far I always saw his finger h > inted at me and heard his voicet nd they restrained me. He may be iad to hear this." Possibly the great businessof< teaching may get some hint from this simple story.* Look for Them. SI The Columbia State says: "Those1 :hat stay up very late and those Al that rise very early should take alook at the eastern heavens about He half-past one o'clock in the mornin. They will see there one of the most YI beautiful. and spectacular sights thatx our skies ever afford-Jupiter and A enus, the latter unusual brilliant., in cos4 cojjunction. Take a looirkA at the vision; for it is unforgettable by any one that sees it.' * YE A ainnamoR dog Is Rot the only I E lnd that has both hark anii bite. Absolutely P0WERO ii Grapes Ong pow >m Royal of Tartar are made trom harsh ave in the food roperties. WANT HIM TRIED EGRO LETTER CARRIER AT. SPARTANBURG OFFICE aikely to Cause Trouble Unless He Is Removed, Because He Wrote 0.. ter to White Lady. A special dispatch from Spartan urg to the Columbia Record says here is likely to be a pretty .post ce mess there unless J. A. 'An dor A on, colored, who was recently ap >oitned substitute letter carrier In he city, Is removed. Shortly 'after Anderson was appointed by Poat vaster Poinier the Spartanburg Fournal published an article to th affect that Anderson was formerly: n the postal railway service anadha yeen removed on the charge of writ .ng an .improper iletter to a white oman. 'The officals- in charge - of he postomce were informed of the :harge against Anderson, but no teps were taken so far aS is known ;o find out if the charge 'as true. Last Friday night week a colored Sporting house was raided. and for ;een ,colored gamblers were, arrested, md among. those taken -.n by the polce' were a colored minister and T. A. Anderson. The 'latter begging he police not to give out his name to :he reporters, saying that If his same was'published in the-papers $t-would Prt'him, as'he was in the poet >fflce service. Anderson was to take ut his route and he -hustled and not onme one to put'up ball forr-him, so :hat he might sicure his release and deliver his mail on time; but, it is said, he failed to .secure ball in t~Iue and many people receive4: late mail. - - Many patrons on Anderson s -route ire said to . have made 'the remark :hat they did. not intend to allow him o0 come to their door, believinim o be the ma'n who was fired ~rom the postal service for writing mn. Improper letter to a white 'woman. Inless Anderson' Is removed, and a white man appointed, there is likely' to be trouble for it Is said that :he clerks In the postoffice endeavor ed to keep Anderson from being ap-p pointed, informing Postmnaster. Pon- - er of the charges against-AndersonF Took Taft at His Word. There are several pearl buthn fac ories at Muscatine, Ia. The hEr ons are made from the mussel shells ound in the rivers round about. lbi. yrder to protect the pearl button. ndustry there Is a very heavy tariff n pearl buttcns. But there fs noth ng 'doing in 'the. button line, In kuscatine just now, nor has there yeen since Mr. Taft spoke -ther. a ihort time ago. The employes of the >utton factories were given- time' dif to hear Mr. Taft and he' :ongratulatid them on the' fact hat they had been, able to told their places because of the irotective tariff on mother-of-pearl nanufacturers. He also told them hat because of this tariff their wages Tere still being paid undiminished. his .was a surprise to the employea rhse pay envelopes were -sadly di ainished last November by a radical eduction In wages. When Mr. Taft oncluded the button makers went ack to the factories and demanded restoration of the wage scale. hey backed it up with the evidenee f Mr. Taft's argument-and wasn't r. Taft the candidate of the em loyers? The employers refused --o store wages, and 500 button malt r's went out oni strike. Several undred more threaten to strike i the meanwhile the em oyers who profit go much om the protective tariff ad cated by Mr. Taft have organizea id subscribed to a pledge not to re nploy any person who voluntarily Le up his place to enfocre -a de and for something that the employ 's' candidate said they should have ~en getting all tlie time. Clearly r. Taft ought to return to Musci 2e and square things. Somewhere. >mewhere-dear hands shall clasD our own onoe more, ad hearts that touched our hearts long years, before. tall come to meet us In the morn Ing land; ad tliere, at last, our souls shall understand w, though He hid His meaning from our sight, t God was always true and always right, d how, though smiles were* often changed for tears, ong this tangled patbhway of the years. t enly -se these lives of yours and mine e eaucght the likeaess of the IfE.