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JUR SC PAPER BY PROF. WILL The High School Situation Counting the increased facilities added this year, it is easily demon strable by figures that the publicl high schools of the State, aided and unaided, have increased in efficiency :more than twtnLy-dYe per cent sin. January 1907. in more than onc fourth of them the efficiency hay been doubled within that time. The chief increase Is in the quantity and quality of the teaching forca, thus giving longer recitation p+ riods, a wider range of studies, and lengthened courszs of study. The State appropriation of $50.000 has been the chief instrument by which these improvemerts have been brought about, but it must be ad mitted that even with this lever at has been a task of magnitude to s cure this increased efficiency. It has required courage and watchfulnes on the part of the State High School Board prevent the schools from taking the State aid for the hige school, Then turning it into the com mon school department without on. pasticle of increase of ,iency i: the high school. The introductory statement migh lead the uninformed to think that our high schools are now satisfact o ry. Far from it. There are now no far from 140 public high schoo' coming within the minimum defini tion of a high school under the pres ont high school law-one teacht giving all his time to not fewer than fifteen pupils above the sevent grade or seventh school year. 0 these 140 schools. 25 have on, high school teacher each, SO schoo: have two teachers each, and the re maining ones more than two teac' ers each. Only six schools have eaci the full teac?ag time of five teach era or more. In nearly all the one-teacher hig; schools the recitation periods have been advanced to 30 minutes each, nothing less than 20 minutes being accepted in the aided schools. 1. those with two or more high schoo teachers, fully three-fourths hav' - 40- and 45-minute periods, while t few have one hour periods. In as aided school of this class nothini less than 30 minutes is acceptei The greatest single gain has bee: this l'sngthening of the recitatioi periods, and upon the whole th situation in this respect is satis factory. Some noticeable improvement I tae competeney of the teachers h? been made, but in this respect condit ions are far from satisfactory. Man; places are willing to pay from $1,201 to $1,500 fora supervising principal but give him cheap assistants. I Is utterly useless to talk about get ting a competent and experience: woman, fitted to do high schoc teaching, at $40 a month. or a mal who has shown himsW qualified at $60. It is painful to me to sa: this, for among just such teacher are some of my best personal friend! But I know only too well that tn standard of the high schools depend~ upon the standard of their teacb ing force. Let me tell some thing I have seen and heard. I have see more than one high school teacnr wrestle a half-hour with an ordinar problem in Wentworth's Practic' Arithmetic, a book usually compli ed in the 8th grade. In Tarr's Phye Ical Geography, a booR really to difficult for the 8th grade where is "sually found, I nave seen teach ers cover enough ground in one 30 minute recitation to have give: pronitable work for three such .p riods. In one history recitation have seen the class read the tex uske a fourth reader for one-half th; time, then listrened to 'he teache ask twenty to thirty wholly unrelatel questions each suggestive 'of tn answer expected. Day atter day see teachisra valnly attempting t< teach English grammar and punctu ation from the rules and the fe" esamnplee given in the textbook, arn seemingly oblivious to the fact tha every textbook the child uses is ful of the very illustrations neede.i Latin is usually referred to as a dea, language; it might with propriety b< called deadly in some instances Not a few hig schools pupils afte: two years of Latin study are unabb to separate a word into its sylables or to determine the length of a sye lable. In translation It is no un common thing to hear such as this: divided, in-in, partes-parts, treb three," etc. As a specimen produc1 of the vigor of the Latin graftec upon the fiexibility of the English note this: "The arsiy having beet drawn up more as the'nature of the place and the slope of the hill and the necessIty of the time than a the order and plan of military thing demanded, since the different legious some in one part and some anothet *were resisting the enemy and thC thick hedges hr-in: been east down, ste. (See Caesar's Gallie War, Boon IL, ehapter 22.) The teaeher who accepted this jargen hel~s a ccl loge diploma. and is exempt from ex amination of fitness to teach. Ora Rejects Dispensar'y. Union county by vote on last Tues day refused to re-establish the dis nensary in her borders. Last De cember the dispensary weas voted ' by a majority of eleven, but the elec tion was set aside on account of irregularities. The majority agains! the dispensary in the recent election was nearly three hundred. Another Milliner Arrested. At Spaainburg Monday Mr. James Hen~ry Rice, Jr., secretary of the Audubon Society, swore out a war rant against J. M. Goodlai, proprie tr of a well known millIne'-y estab lishmnent on East Main street. in the fashionable shopping district of the city, ehsrging him with displaying two hats with feathers from the snowy eret. the most famouns bird of plumage in the world. Negro Piclkpock~et Caught. At. eelumbia a negre aaamed Jenes was arreste4 Thursday by the F'air gr.113ds police for at'empting e pick the pockets of Mr. Wright, *f brought before Magistrate Riley by~ Chaf Fre Strickla and his men." HOOLS. AAM H. HAND. ny desk are some specimens of spell lng in the handwriting of high schooli teachers-all but one college grad uates: Ceasar (thus by three teaeh ers), latin, liturature, Enock Arden. Buehler's grammar has been In con stant use in this State eight years, and Myers' histories more than fifteen years. Here are some of the 1 variations: Myer's. Meyers', Meyer's; Beuhler (five teachers), Beulah (three teachers), Buela: (two teachers), Beuhlar (one teach er). A fifteen hundred dollar pinci pal can not make bricks without straw. Only a few high schools are con. tent to offer a two-year course. ai-, hough one of the best in the State s a two-year school. Nine-tenths >f the high schools offer a three ear course, no matter how man, ior how few teachers. Last year :here were but four public high schools in the State with a standar. 'our-year course, and enough teach rs to teach it. The report for 1908 39 will show perhaps eight standara our-year schools. To be sure more han four schools claim a four-year ;ourse. Several schools claiming a 'our-year course were credited wish 'ewer units of work than are req.uir ?d for a standard three-year course, and one school claiming four years 'ell below the requirements for a =tandard two-year course. The ;tandard applied to the high schools vas that generally accepted by tae -olleges of the State, and Is bel-on 'hat used by the Carnegie Founda 'ion Board. The error into which most of these schools have fallen 's to divide their pupils into four lasses with six- and seven-month intervals of advancement betweec each two, then call each division rear in the course. That the read-e may see the validity of some o these claims, some courses are her outlined. This is the fourth year' work in one school: The first ha' of Myers' General history, Comme ' cial Arithmetic five times a week three books of Plane Geometry, an forty-five hours during the year t' Tappan's History of Literatur' Another four-year school get through the Second Book of Caesar' Gallic War, four books of Plan, Geometry, and Tappan's Literature Numbers of these courses show tha 'he third-year and the fourth-yes classes are together in more thy: one study. One must not be misle by the term literature in many c these schools. It Is nothing mor than reading about the authors n *terature-a little biography, if th truth must be told. The poverty of some of these four .year courses is more than offset b some' of the plethoric 'hree-yeo tourses, some of which are formt fable affairs. At random I tak one year's work from one of thes ocurses- Arithmetic, Algebra, Rhe' orc~Literature, Latin (reading ;rammar and prose composition Phyica Geography, History, an Business Methods (an innocent litt' text).- In this year's work ever: cupi! takes everything prescribec! and each pupil is on recitation pra(' ically every period during the da: ,Several echools have Arithmetic Algebra and Geometry in the sam year's work, and a few have Physica SGeography and Physics in the samnt year, with practically no other sc: ence In the entire course. _The majority cf the one-teacher 2 high schools undertake the impos . sible-to teach a full four-year ' ourse. One such school has class I es In Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry. SEnglish Grammar, English Comp" rsition, Literature, Physical Geogr Sphy, U. S. History, S. C. History, General History, Beginner's Latin, Caesar and Ovid. One teacher may teach a f'ew subjects through a fou' -year course, and do it well, but or. r, such a course as the one just given a teacher is wasting his time and energy. The greatest evii is to tne ,pupil. His time and effort are. oi vided up among so many subjectr that he pursues none of them long enough and far enough to get any training or knowleoge out of thenm in even the better schools the aver age pupil gets but little out of such sulyjects as Physical Geography. pLjysics, and Civics, because they are not studied long enough to benefi: the pupil. The high schools, like the common~ schools, suffe? from the endless enanging of teachers. A comparison of this year's schedule with that'' last year shows that the whole course has been overhauled and re organIzed, and in some cases the nev: course seems to be given over to re-. viewing past work. Perhaps sucb course is necessary, but it shows r fearful wast of energy somewhere In at least two cases the new teach ers have taken the pupil out of las' year's 8th and 9th grades, added Ia few recruits, and made a four year school. Presumably that is progress. t WILLIAM H. HAND. University of South Carolina. STONES BLOWN Through a an's Body at Fire iis a Mine. One man is dead, one missing, on~ dying and four others injured by a dy-nmite "xrlosi'in art Hammnonal mines near Gadsden, Ala.. at nine o'clock Thursday night. Almost e'-e ry plate glass window in Gadsder was broken and twenty-four miners nouses in the vicinity of the epo sion were razed to the gon n many others damaged. The fire de partment had responded to the alarts of a house burning, being near 'a mfagazine. Hundreds of spectators standing near the scene when tI' explosion occurred and every one within a wide radious were hurl'd~ to the ground. Stones were blowr entirely through the body of Hienr Kel,. and no trace can be found ce Arthur Hood.1 Forty Killed in Battle. A battle between Papago and Taui Thdans has t ~3n place norli1 ef Altar, Sonora. and that forty Taguis were kied. According :o reors the Mc::ican government armi ed the Papiagos, who lured the Yayu'- I MAKE PRINT PAPER )F TRE BEST RIND OUT OF CORNSTALKS. the Government Chemists, Who Have Been Experimenting for Years, Succeeded at Last. Chemists of the bureau of forestry and of the bureau of plant indust-y of the department of agriculture. says a Washington dispatch, believe that they have solved the problem of a cheaper paper that will dispense altogether with the use of wood fiber. The new material, from which al ready five grades have successfully been made, is the ordinary corTi stalk, and officials of the department predicted that the new product when made on a larger scale will be at leat 50 per cent cheaper than the print paper now made from wood pulp. The two bureaua have been work ing on the problem for years, but not until now have the results been so positively successful as to permit "f any announcement. The first practicable samples have been man ufactured by Dr. H. S. Bristol and assistants atthe new laboratory on Pennsylvania avenue. Dr. Bristol has already carried his experiment to the point of mat ing the paper in five shades. One grade is dark gray, thick and heavy :lIke parchment and almost as tougi as sheepskin. Then there is a light 3r shade of the same character, tw shades of yellow and one of white. The white paper is made from the hard outside shell of the stalk an. .he yellow grades from the pita The yellow grades have a much long er fiber and resemble paper mad; from linen rags or cotton. It it ery soft and pliable. Millions of tons of cornstalks wHl 7e available for this new manufac ure, according to the department n griculture. At present the stalk re annually destroyed in eaormou :uantities to get them out of the we 'r else are simply turned under th oil with a plow to add slightly t he fertilization of the next year -rep. The process of manufacturing th ew invention is much easier the hat involved in reducing wood pul o paper. The chemists have use a their experiments the "sod -ooked" process, which has bee ound to be the best for making ti' iner grades of wood pulp pape tut the cornstalks only need abo' wo and a half hours of cookin a this process against the thirtee r fourteen hours needed to softe he wood pulp. So far the new paper has bee 1ade only in a laboratory withot pecial machinery or the wholesal roduction necessary to insure chea iess, but the department is going i *cperiment at once on a larger scal nd believes that the price of whit >aper as weil as the other grade vill be reduced to a startling degre. "No special growth of corni ieeded," said one of the chemist -We have used the ordinary stal oem the Virginia fields, and ti -nd that is destroyed in Texas, 'et ~essee and elsewrhere in wastef' uantities each year can now be tura d to use. Not only will the co: f paper be greatly reduced, but ti armer will have an added asset in y product that ought to net hidi eat sum each year." The department will at once tal teps to have the manufacture of tU ew paper undertaken on a larK cale. SENSATION AT WEDDING. Veiled Woman Presents Child Groom at Altar. A most sensational event tor place at a wedding at Fall Rive Mass., Tuesday. The marriage a Charles J. Regan, banker, and Mis Mary B. Chadwick was the soci: event of the season. The churc was filled with friends. After th ceremony the bride and membersc he wedding party started down th 'aisle as. the wedding march we played. A closely veiled woman, clad ,lack, rose, picked up a four-yea' ld boy and held out to Mr. Regat "Stop, Charles Regan!" she criec Miss-Miss Sullivan!" gasped Re: ;an. "Yes. it-s IL" answered the womar Here he is; here is your child ?ve taken care of him for four year; ow you must take him-you our wife." The woman turned and walke ut. The bride fainted and friend vere horror-strickea. Regan stool tine in the church aisle, holdin a his arms the baby, who was cryin 'or his mother. When the bride revived she re urned to her home alone. Mr. Rea ;an left town, refusing to mas nown his destination. He took t1: child with him. ETANS AND FINLEY SPAE. Two Well Known Spartanburg Lawa yer's Come to Blows. A Spartanburg dispatch says the Hon. John Gary Evans and Mr. 8 G. Finley, well known lawyers, an: who, until recently, were associated in the practice of law, engaged ir a personal difficulty in the law offic' of Ncholls & Nicholls at a referenc' which was being held for the pu: ose of settling the business affair: of the former partnership of Messrs. Evans & Finley. Mr. FInley took offence at a statement made by M-. Evans and they came to blows. Mi tual friends rushed between the Wa:' ring lawyers and stopped the fight before either sustained injuries. Made to Leave. Citizens of Pooler, ten miles from Savannah, where Wednesday morn ing 1-year-old Solomon Reilly, co. ored. shot and instantly killed Mrs. izie Torrance. ordered the boy s other and brother to leave that so: don of the country, giving them four hours in which to go. At the end f the time of grace the negro famn iy had disappeared.* A ;:irl who can mnatagei to ge :hree engagement rings must have a NORTH VS. SOUTH INTERESTING STATISTICS ON THE CIVIL WAR. The Number of Troops in the Fed- ] eral Army Over Four Times as Many as in the Confederate. Editor The Atlanta Journal. Dear Sir: Thinking that it will be of interest to the many Con- I federate soldiers, now gathered in your hospitah. city, I enclose sta tistics which show that the South with 600,000 soldiers withstood an invasion of 2,778,304 men for four years. Casserave G. Lee, a recognized authority on civil war statistics per pared and published in a Virginia paper the; following interesting tabl.+ sho*ing the numerous superiority of the northern army over that of the South during the civil war. His figures show that the total enlistemtnts In the northern army were 2,778,304, as aginst 600,000 in the Confederate army. The foreigners and negroes in the northern army aggregated 680,917 or 80,917 more than the total strength of the Confederate. There were 316,421 men of south ern birth in the northern army. Mr. Lee's figures are as follows: Northern Army. Whites from the north... .2.272,333 Whites from the south.... 316,017 Negroes .. .. ...... .... 186,01 Indians .. .. .......... .. 3,630 Tot* .. .. ..........2,778,804 Southern Army. Southern army .. ....... $00,000 North's numerical super iority .. .. ........2,178,304 In the northern army there were: Germans .. .. ........ 176,800 British-Americans .. ..... 53,500 Irish .. .. ............ . 144,200 English .. .. ......... 45,000 ')ther nationalities .. .... 74,00 " Negroes .. .. .......... 186,017 Total .. .. .......... 680,91' rotal of southern army 600,006 southern men in northern army .. .. .......... 316,424 'oreigners .. ........... 494,90" 'egroes .. ............ 186,01. Total .. ............. 998,41 kggregate federal army, May 1, 1865 .........1,000,51 ggregate Confederate ar my May 1, 1865....... 133,43 Number in battle: - Confederates. Federals seven days fight. 80,855 115,28 -ntietum .. ...35,256 87,1J 3hancellorsville .57,212 131,66' 'redericksburg ..78,110 110,00 lettysburg .. . .62,000 95,00, Zhickamauga . .44,000 65,00: .Vilderness .. ..63,987 141,.6 Tederal prisoners in Con federate prisons ...... 270,00 Zonfederate prisoners in Federal prisons- .. .. ....220001' Zonfederate died in Federal prisons ..........----..24,53'5 FPederals died in Confed erate prisons .. .. .. .... 22,57h 1Hoping that these figures will be. f Interest to you and the Confe'.i 3rate soldier, I am, Yours very truly. R. C. GREGORY. A Maiden of Lon~g Ago. -Twas in the gladsome days of Ions ago, That I loved a maiden fair; Xnd no changes of time or plact have wrought Any change in my heart for he: image there. I have seen other faces as fair a: hers; Other forms with as mnch of airy grace, But no other girl in the whole wid world, Have I found who could take he place. sI have found other friends who just as true, Other hearts which were good ant kind; But ne other heart which could mov me so, (Or soul so attuned to mine. I have passed other days which wer full of joy, 'Mid scenes which were free frort care, But none to compare with the day of yore The days when her form was near. How bright were those days, b. fleeting! Those hours how joyous free; Wen even the tones of her gent'e voice IWere sweeter than muale to me. But gone are the friends who kne.e her, And passed are the golden dream - But her presence still abideth, And her face, with its sunli' beams. I can see her pass lbefore3 me Like the form of one departed; Bt the thought which cheers me onward Is the thought of our souls united illed in Prison. A mob of about thirty men at. tacked the Roane county. Tenn., jail Friday morning, and killed Geo. Cook, held on the charge of mr dering John King, a few weeks ago. Al but two of the mob were mask ed. The identity of one of the mob is known. Killled From Ambush. J . G. Jonee, a prominent merchant at Holland, Va., was shot from am bush, in his own yard, Monday night and died iuesday of gunshot wounds and pistol wounds. There is no clue. Jones was to have given tes timony in a contest will case. Was Not a heal Balloon. It has developed that tae balloon reported as having passed over s-nt up from the back lot of an en terprisng merchaant. In daylight and at a distarnce it looked like a real balloon, and so fooled all the 1eope, as can be done sometimes. * Tes, Abram, one can readily af-1 si2 a 'week. iL he will agree to wtrn~ STOLE HIS JEWELS I STRANGE STORY COMES PROM F CNICAGO. robbery, Romance and Aaity M.i E gled in Many Sided Story Reveal ed by Woman. At Chicago a many-sided story of obbery and romance of the ' af c inity" variety is revealed in the ar- c -est, announced Tuesday, of Mrs. i 'Iartha Mabelle Dunphy. wife or kz fohn Dunphy. a prominent Boston I hysician, on a charge of appropriat- r .ng $10,000 worth of diamonds and i ;ecuri ties. Charles E. Giles, a Boston money ender, is the complainant against t i rs. Dunphy. His story to the Chi :ago police included a recital of sup posed doings at the Great Northern hotel, which -ere conducted when Mrs. Dunphy disappeared during hi ibsence from the hostelry. The vol .cables disappeared said he, along with Mrs. Dunpty. The accused woman, however is emphatic in her aerials of the entire story, declaring that it is trumped up by the money-lender in a spirit of revenge. Her husband in soston stoutly maintains that t ere is noth ing to the charge. In the course of the police investi gation it devt loped that the stolen property originally had belonged to Mrs. Dunphy, but had been deposit ed with Giles as security for several ,oans. "It's all a pack of lies," tearfully exclaimed Mrs. Dunphy when asked about the charge. "It's an outrage. If there is to be a trial. It shall be n Boston, and not in Chicago." Giles first made his complaint to he police here something over r veek ago. He declared that he 'arted wits Mrs. P mphy for FPston --here she was going to transfer some cal estate to. him in payment o: "er indebtedness for money loar' o her. The transaction was no nade, however, said he. and the. eturne I to Chicago. At the Great Northern hotel ha old Secretary William Luthart, c' he detective bureau, they occupiec he same suite of rooms. DurimL: "is absence from the suite one morn ng, he added, Mrs. Dunphy called bell boy and complained that sh iad lost the key to her trunk. The bell boy was offered a dollo 'o open it for her, the story goes ie broke the lock and left the trim' n Mrs. Dunphy's care. When Gile! -eturned, he raid, Mrs. Dunphy an, 'he valuables had disappeared. WRAPPED IN- MYSTERY. Two Servants in a Household Die Very Suddenly. Ed and Laura Davis, servants I: he household of Rev. Dr. Cart' Telm Jones, recently carried -t< ')klahoma from Lynchburg, Va . -nysteriously met their death som. ine between Saturday night an uesday morning. Their bodie vere discovered before noon by D; Tones, who reported the matter t' he police. How they came to thel -leath is a mystery. There was no evidence of violenc ,n either of the bodies. The wo -an was found lying in a bed in at :1pper room of a new parsonage soot 'o be occupied by the Rev. Dr. Jonen while her husband was found dead on the floor. On a cliair the offleer: found a half bottle of whiskey, also 9 partly emptied bottle of blackberry wine. Dr. Jones scouts the idea that they committed suicide, and says they were not addicted to the use of drugs. Dr. Jones ridicules the Idea the the blackberry wine, which 1s thought to have contained poison. could have been= intended for himr He said the wine was home-made and the kind ordinarily used In th preparation of jams. It was brough: along with the other household goodtr from the Jones family from Lynch burg, Vs. CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. Little Colored Boy is Killed by -' Stray Shot. A dispatch from Laurens say quite an unfortunate aecident, since 'ccdent it appears to have been from present reports, occurred lae' Thursday afternoon .n the wester. part of the city, when Abe Shell, little negro boy, aged six years. wam shot through the bowels with eithe' a pistol or rifle, inflicting a- wound hat a few hours later proved fatai The boy was standing in the fron yard of his home near the power house when he was hit. He at onc, went to bed, where his motner coming in agittle later found him. She communicated with the police. seeking medical aid for his chill which was secured. It is reported that two or three young white boys of the city were in the Copelanr woods near by shooting, and the sup position is that a. Stray shot fronm their guns or pistols struck the ne gro boy. MARRIED WHTLE DRUNK And Took His Life U'pon Sobering Up Afterwards. The suicide of J. W. Hutchinson, a wealthy land owner of H~arriso-1 county, was the cuiminatlon of a sensational marriage in Paris, Ky . Tuesday afternoon, in which Hutch inson and Miss Nannie Sweenfor:1 were the contracting parties. Hutchinson's suicide took, place less than twenty-four hours after th2 wedding, and followed an effort on; his part early Wednesday morning at Paris to have the marriage ser He ecnsulted an attorney with this view. telling him that he kne;w othing of the marriage unt:J Pednesday morning, when he found imself in the home of his bride! n C:nthiana. where he was made ac luainted with the facts. Both Hutchinson and his bride rre prominently connected. He al- t ged that he and several others were noxicaed when the marriage was >erfored. '*c Landlady: "What-s the matte:'3 h that pie? iloa'rder: "It isn't:: it for a pi;. and I'm~ not goiag to oc FISH AND GAME. ROPERTY OF THE STATE ANY WHERE IT MAY BE. ome Facts About the Matter Not Generally Known by the People of the State. Mr. James H. Rice, Jr., secretary f the Audubon Society, says rumors ome to him now and then to the el ect that certain parties claim the ight to hunt and fish on their own ands, at any time and in any man er, whether for bidden by law or lot. This is vicious doctrine and pr> :eeds from ignorance of law and he usage of civilized countries, es >ecially of the-usage of the States broughout the Unoin. In the first place, as to birds, th-s ict of 1905 states in the preamble: 'That all wild birds, whether resi lent or migratory in this State; shall >e, and are hereby declared to be. :he property of the State." That settles the bird question. No man )wnes them; no many may kill them :xcept at such times and in su~b manner as the laws prescribe. The same principle applies to fish and game. It was probably true that at first the taking of fish and game was a natural right, whol ly unrestrained eby law, as set fofth in a learned opinion on the subject by the supreme court of the United States. As the population of the earth increased it became necessary to restrain this natural right by . law, in order to insure the perpe; ulty of these things for the use of future generations. In America the court declared that sh and game belonging to the State ot as a property, but in its capaci s the representative of all the pen ,le, following this up . by declaring hat fish and game are incapable of bsolute ownership, except In so fa: s the State shall elect to make it sc, hat fish in private ponds and game n reserves are still the property of he State; that game after it is gilled is subject to legislature con rol. There is a line of decisions o. his point, each one bringing our -,me phase of the subject, bt all ,dhering to the original principle. tamely, that fish and game are still he property of rne State. Reflecting will show any one that. f this were not the case, it would )e impossible to protect either fian ir game, since the land of a State 11 belongs to individuals-at least n Scuth Carolina it does. The exercise of this power by the =tate is a well established rule of 'aw and there Is no possible charc. o upset it. The exercise of the right >y States is- all for the purpose of onserving the fish and game ac -aluable food supplies for the peo le. In some States ponds are n-w ,ermitted to be drained off for the P'here is no such law in South Car 'urpose of killing or catching fish. -lina, but If there were the citizen~e :ould have to obey it. * THRILLING RESCUES. police and Firemen Perform Great Service at Fire. Policemen and firemen made a nutr.(ber of thrilling rescues in a enament house fire in Brooklyn 'hursday night. From an adjoining iouse Policeman Zerwick reached he roof of the burning house and ittempted to rescue a half-dczei ~rightened people through a scuttle. "here was no ladder, however, and he one he obtained from the next hcuse was three feet short. Lowering the short ladder through :ne .scuttle the policeman hung downi by his arms and steadied the ladder with his feet, allowing a woman andI several children to' climb up, sten aing on his face as they got out onto the roof. Several firemen swung themselvd4 across from an adjoining buildin' ad saved women and children n h'e fire escapes of the burning build ing. ** NEW FERTILIZERI COMPANY' WVith Large Capital Recently Organ ized at Richunond, Va. With a maximum capital of $20. 0)00,000, the State corporation comn milssion of Virginia, has granted a lharter to the industrial Chemicai Company, of Richmond, whose pur pose, it is said, is to run In oppo sition to the monopoly now held by no Virginia-Caro)lina Chemical Conm ,any. The backers of ...te new con 2ern are among Rlchhond's leading business men, headed by Charles B. Branner, as president. The charter stipulates the purpose of the cort cern to be those of dealing and man-| ufacturing chemicals, engaging in the 'nining business and such other things as will not be contrary to the laws of the State. The company is allowed the right of constructing railroads and other aecessories to the business.* HYDRtOPHOBIA TREA TED FREE Georgie State Board of Health Cares for Victims. A dispatch from Atlanta says had '1ot the State board of health made arrangements for treating free of charge persons threatened with hy -Irophobia, it Is quite probable that many deaths from this drrad direass would have rsulted during the past y summer and fall. The season jusr-. passed was one most unusual in j this line.' There seemed to have a een an 'epidemic of mad dogs. e Realizing that there were many 'eople in the State who might b ;ictims of rabid dogs and who did1 iot have the means to pay for this reatment, the State board of heal'.a nde arrangements to treat patients '.ithout charge if brought to AtlantaI :r to send the treatment to th ~hysician of the patient with instrui. ions how to use. Since July 29. f Ch'?n this plan was put into effeet N 50~ patients have been treated ani a: his work has been demonstrated t>r Lave been one of the mort impo' - ja: ant branch'es of the State boar:4 ci f health. The last riatients under treatment re the wife, three child- anwi the e icce of Sheriff George E Ylrtsar.. b: t Bibb county, who wee hitteca wa! ma dog on October 1''. T healti tious whi aThe o made Girap( of Ta Made ftc Gapes GIVES HIS VIEWS ;ENATOR TILLMAN ON THE LIQUOR QUESTION. ;ays He Cannot See Where Prohb bition Stands Any Chance in the Coming Legislature. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle says Senator Till man does not endorse the movement headed by Representatives M. L. Smith, C. W. Garris, John G. Rich ards, Jr., State Senator Earle and others of the old State dispensary leaders to join forces with the pro hibitionists and push a State-wid' prohibition bill through the coming legislature, as was attempted with out success in the last legislatur.' when the county option scheme took the place of the State dispensary sys-i tem. "I cannot see that prohibitio. stands any chance of success in the coming legislature," said the Sena tor in answer to a question from your correspondent. "With a ma jority of the counties in the State hlding on to the county' dispensaries, isn't it natural to. suppgse that the elegations from, those counties wili stand. by the present system?" The Senator added that so far as he was concerned it was a matter of indifference whether a prohibition bill was enacted or the present sys tern was continued. Two hundred years from now folks will be wrangling over this same liquor question," said he. "and It as idle to talk of settling the problem. I have been seeing the same old tussel over in Europe/' The countries that have been longest at it have reached a solution that seems most satisfactory to them in the adoption of beers and light wines. During all my travels through Italy, France and Germany I never saw a' drunken man. but plenty of drinking men. Ove: in London, where a big fight is on ver the matter I saw many drunks. When I was governor I recommend ed this same substitution of light alcoholic drinks. I wa'nted to see beer given a chance. If we could give the beer privilege to a big, re sponsibie concern that would be under a heavy bond, say something like a half million dollars, to sell beer throughout the State under cer tain definitely stipulated conditions, we would do much for tue cause of empernce, and get big revenue for he State besides." Senator Tillman occupies a unique osition in the present situation r& arding whiskey lin this State. He s not with the State dispensary lea.l ers in their efforts to join forces with the prohibitionists. He is not with the prohibitionists, and - he is not an nqualified endorser of the county ption scheme. He thinks everyv ounty in the State would be better of having dispensaries. "I venture to say," said he in nswer to a question, "that counties ike Orangeburg, Sumter and Flor mee, which are retaining the dispen aries, are in a much better state norally than such counties as Green ille, Spartanburg and others which.I have voted Out their dispensariesJ nd where blind tigers are doing the msiness." When he was reminded that it ppeared to have been proven that he pollee records of the dry counti'm iad materially improved the senator laid this was only temporary, that t would only be a short time in a ounty going dry before it was in a orse state .morally than it had bee'i n voting out its dispensaries. On the whole tne Senator did not .pper to be much interested in th ituation and answered questions ~uardedly. Big Tobacco Fire. The Imnpbrial Tobacco Company'r ant at Mullins, containing two and1 ne-half million pounds of leaf to acco, was entirely destroyed by fira ii o'clock Monday morning. Oth - arge industrial plants were saved rirough the heroic efforts of pri ate citizens. The loss is estimateil om $25,000 to $3 0,000, presumed e covered by insurance. Shot to Death. While sitting in the back roomf her home at Pboler, ten miles Jc m Savannah, Wednesday morning, .T rs. W. E. Torrence, the wife of ft engineer, was fired upon from the S ar by Solomon Rilcy, a negro boy, C id instantly ktild. The boy was *ptured and is now in jail. Teacher: "'Ycu have named all it 'iStly hair. it is grimy, likes dir: d is fond of muzd. Well. Tomi? si Food is more tasteful, iful and nutri :n raised with KINV. rely baking powder from Royal Cream rtar Asoltely NOVEMBER WEATHER Data for the Past Thirty-Seven Years at Charleston. The following data for November. covering a period of thirty-sena years have been compiled from the weather bureau records at Charles They are issued to show the coadit ions that have prevailed duriag the month in question, for the above % period of years, ~ut must not be construed as a forecast of the weath er conditions- for the -coming month. Mean or normal temperature, 58 degrees.' - i The' warmest month was that of 1902, with an average of 63 degrees. *'The coldest month was that ofr 1901, 'with an average-of 63 degrees The h'ig est- temperature was 83 "" degrees on November-23, 1899. The lowest temperature was' 23 . legrees on November-30, 18121'. The earliest date on which Afrst "killing frost occurred In autuma. was November 9, -1886, Average date on which first -kill. lng" frost occurred in autumn, was November 80. Average date on which last "kill ing" frost occurred In spring, 'was March 1. The latest, date on which last "killing" frost - occurred in~ spring, was April 2, 1881. Average - precipitation 'for the -nonth, 2.76 Inches.- - Average number of days with .01 .of an inches or more, 8. The greatest monthly precipita tion wds 7.54 Inches, in 1888. The least monthly precipitatios was 33 inches in 188$: .The greatest amount of precipita tion record in any 24 conseoutiv4 hours was .5.84 inches on November 16 and 17. 1889. ~ Average relative humiditf, a in., 80; average, p. in,~?7 Average numlier pf elear days( 12; partly cloudy days, 11;, eloud, days, 7. The prevailing winds are from the northeasf. The average hourly velocity-of the winds Is 9 mIles. - The highest velocity of the wind was 46 miles, from the east, on No vember 14, 1888. A SWINDLER VICTMF1MD' Many Good People in AndersoniI~ Month. The Mail says another shrewd swindler is abroad in the land, and the citizens of Anderson have mn nocently contributed about $100 to. his maintenance. The man, who gave his name as S., H. McCollough, spent September 11t in this city, of fering a year's subscription to. the Uncle 'Remus. Home -Magazine and an accident policy for $1,000, pazr up for the same -length of time in the North American Acfdent In-. surance- Company of Chicago, all for $1. The offer was an attractive one' and there were many who went In to the scheme. The policies were ia sued on the spot and a receipt given fo~r the payment of the subscription to the magazine. The roaeipt blanks were printed in regular form an nouncing the combination ofrer, A short time ago Mr. Charles Pre yost, one of the holders of the above receipt, wrote the Uncle Remus Corn pany at Atlanta, and asked why the magazine had not been received. A letter came- back by return mail say ing they had no knowledge of such a person as McCollough and that not a cent of money'had been turne-l wer by him for the subscriptions taken. McCollough was a shrewd igent, a young man of good address, iark skin, heagat about 5 feet 9 nches and would weigh about 135 >ounds. His age was about 25.* Watch Your Tongue. Some times a person's tongue ge's hem into trcubie, watch the tongue, t is your tongue, it belongs to you, L~nd is the only one for which you are esponsible. Your neighbor's tongue nay need care also, but that is his , >usiness; this is yours, to see ta Vatch your tongue; it needs watch rig. It is a fire-watch it. It is he helm which guides the vessel. ~et the helmsmen keep wide awake. t can bless or it can curse, it can olson or heal; it can pierce hears r blights hopes; it can sow discord r separate chief friends. Watch our tcngue, no one but you can tke care of that tongue. Your eighbors may wish too, but they n't do it. Why Is a pig in a parlor like a ouse on fire? Because the sooner is put out the better. When a man's half-backed he may