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*r PAPER Ni BY PROF. WIU-3" Who Is Responsible?-Who is re sponsible for our ill-equipped high schools, with their short inefflicient course of study, their lack of teach ers to do the work, and the relatively small number of pupils therein? The answer is, the superintnden and principals, the people, and the colleges. The superintendents and princt pals are rightly looked to by the people for leadership in building . the high schools. They are large. responsible for the educational idea-s of their communities, and the at tude of the people toward high schools. If the course of study is overcrowded with subjects. or s scrappy in its material, they alone are responsible. Many a high school without a map, a chart. a globe. any other iecessary apparatus, might have at least a few such thin,- I bought with thy: rnoney spent on :; calie commencemen:, baccaiaure. addresses. invitations. programs. rus books, etc. Rio.:ove r. nany a boy and many a girl not in the hig b school would be there, if they hal only a few encouraging word- shoe to them. It Is to be feared that th2 public high school teacher is no: always mindful of the pupils who are out of school but ought to be It school. Finally, many a high schoo. is running In a rut. because ths principal is running in one. The people are emphatically to blame for not supporting their big.: schools. They put neither the: money nor their children in them. Throughout the State, in places eas 'ily pointed out, are high schoo: scarcely worthy of the name. bu which might be made within fiy' years to rank righ, it the people m:4 those places were only willing to us, a little common sense business saga. ity. Why a sensible man will refu to help his home high school by pa. ronizing it, but instead will heli to maintain one away from home b sending his children there, is one o the strangest things in life. He ge: no better advantages for his ow' children, and refuses to help he neighbor at home who is unable t' send his children from home. Henet the home high schools ?ags or die= It costs today $250 to send a pup a year to school away from home Why will four men thoroughly farm lar with the laws of business co operation take their sons and daugh ters from their own high school, t send them away at an expense r $1,000 as year? Why will they no put even half that money in th home school, thereby keeping the; money and their children at home and at the same time vhen the chi dren need parental attention? Holly Hill had last year a goo two-year high school taught by o. teacher. The school had 13 pups In the 8th grade, and 5 in the 93r This year the people attemipted organize a high school /ith tw teachers and 23 pupils. This wou entitle the school to enough Stat aid to employ the second teache at $50 a month. The underta~kr. had to be abandoned. because ti: five pupils in last year's 9th greC could not be held in the school, mor of them going off-to college. Ridgeway last year asked Stat aid for her hIgh echo!. recee $410, and barely had the require number of pupils. The school ha 14 pupils in the 8th grade, and I in the 9th. This year sIx of thos pupils~ have been sent away fro:. Ridgeway to school. The place paying $990 for two high schoc teachers, and is asking the State tr pay part of that, while the schoc at this writing has not enrolled th required 25 pupils. Jonesville had jast year 14 pupil in the 9th grade, and 9 in the 10th Seven of those pupils have this sea son been sent to college and two L preparatory schools, and the home school opened wIth 9 pupIls in ta 9th grade, and 6 in tne 10th, and a: eifort of the prlnolpal to add the 110 grade was defeated. These nine pto p1ls away from home will cost tb people of that community ove $2.000 this year, yet they are todo. paying their own three high schoc teachers a cor:bined salary of $1,77r and getting part of that from th State. Can these people expect i maintain a high school? Of coursr the entire community must not o held responsible for this folly, a the pupils unable to go off to schoc must not be forgot. Central Is struggling to establis' a high school; It needs money an pupils, yet three of her last year i high school pupils were sent awn this season. Batesburg attempted to adId th 11th grade this year, but four o last year's F.ve pupils in the 10:1 grade left for college, and the cf fort was defeated. Anderson, one of the four place last year with a four-year publir high school, has had to abandon P 11th grade, although 12 of her las year's 10th grade are off at college Five from the 9th grade and seve: from the 8th grade are-at college These 44 pupils are costing the pet ple of Anderson $6,000 this year this year Anderson is paying he ertire high school teaching foro less than $4.000. Niney-Six added the 11th gr~ thIs year. kept 5 pupils out of las year's 10lth grade. sent 9 out of th same grade to college, and pays tw high school teachers this year SI. 360! These nine pupils, v-Rth on from the 9th grade, at college. w this year cost the people of the town more than they are spendir on thei entire school from the firsI grade up. The people of Pendieton, senecal Union, Woodruff, and numbers e other places are impoverishing the high school in the samie way. Whi is the tronbie? 'The por -ses blinded by that inndamental error tha.t tehe funcion of the high schee is to pepare t'Vs for crlllW Nine-tenths of th ppil who fw!' the 7th grade nevr~ see the door? of a esoe Tre*nadto the subet necessr to coage e1 Th s:- to runiel it not a >2> way to do business. It is the s:ures way to :rouble and loss. Mon--y on: of poet .t every time fo h a ~.I D31 H. HAND. tional course a large number of id?-dishes, so to speak. These side ishes are nothing but reiis.es. to e tasted occasionally. The people :: the principals have put no meaty rourse parliel to that single cno l. lie: straight to the coll. g loo.. The people by their own ei -ss and unwilingn- :.e o letru. stand and see their owl,..n trong and sturdy sons step out of pe .h, scho::1room at the end of ti se :th gr::de. because those sons have th ound that their parents and teach- :o rs have put nothing in the high ha chool except nourishment for th.' -ollege candidate. ed Is the reader heginning to se] ,t the colleges are responsi- ;n ' for the unsatisfactory high school ond..i ns? Evcry college in South ,a arin?. State. denomination. and -i is doir.g high school work in ) tocoee course. This statement is aeL-s no proof, the high schoos .n re no: doing the work, and it must h done in the colleges, if done at pt u!. Formerly, and not so lou ,o. tL coileoes were all but hel- at iss in :his matter-they had to take raw unprepared material, or it 'oe their dcors against deserving SC oys and girls unable to get the )I =ropr preparation. I have already A :gue.i that the high schools are not v -et r;ady to furnish pronerly pre- A ared students to the colleges. The inc of demarcation between high .3 -c-hool terrItory and college terri- . "- cn not be definitely fixed, yet with respect to the a;ge of the pu- d il and to a majority of the sub- ~ cts of study involved there Is al- L -ady considerable unity of opinion. "aking into careful consideration . he actual conditions which exist. let C he college set a reasonable number f high schools units (not grammar, h:fool units) as the minimum fort utrance. A standard three-year iah school ought to do 12 units ' work. Since most of our high "hools are thrre-year schools, that -tudard ought not to be unreason de. (A standard of years cannat set up: every one knows that the rm tenth grade is not definite as what is accomplished: besides. e schools run nine months, some . -n-i a few only seven.) First, let each colege make it atrance requirements definite-let = s-andard be high or low, as it, loose. but let it be definite 'econd. let the college live' up to s published uniformity, but all can , honest in these standards. After l 11, it Is a question of morals, and . 'a college should stand for anythin should stand for unswerving rc-. "ude. It is just as responsible fe' r'ollege as a body corporate to ad --rtise one standard and act o n'ther, as It would be for one o professors to promise one thin: n- do another. The popular min ome to look upon the publisha' -wrance requirements of colleges :c Ites. With a college catalog hefo' ru giving its entrance requiremen" , English. Mathematics, Latin, an 'tstory, at a standard whIch the av -age school of ten grades is fail -ir to reach, and you knowv it. yo:: inad Is likely to be disturbed whet oin know that the same college i -1eing papils from 9th grades. and rainly from 8th grad'es. What are the facts? With fu!!V "en'y hirh schools yct to hear from. have the names of 154 nupils wh' 'tve entered col e this season frcro "a grades, and 36 pupils from St' radtes. Those students reported a~ i tering the preparatory departm en f a college. were of course, not in - luded. Every college in the State ud several outside, are reported i: haring the spoils. It is hard rc econcile these cold facts with th' -onsantwei ofthecolleges for ber er prepared students, and with h" erennial announcements about hav ug raised standards. If a colleeo fler ten or twelve years of standard a.ising In canvaesing for 9th grad, 'upils and taking 8th grade ones I hat must the standard have beet -hen It began raisIng? The col!ege canvasser say;, "Sena 's your 9th grade pup.i: our co' "'ge professotrs can teach him Lati 4 nd mathematics better than you 0th grade teacher can." Perhapc . 0: but Is he ready to admit tha tis so-called college has gone lnt iigh school business? Is he ready I 1o admit that his students whoar. -eally prepared to do collezn wor inst sit idle in the classroomn. whi .quippeCd professor makes daily '9 -ursions down into high school te itory for the benefit of the 9th gra 'elows? The basic question Vhore does the pupil start on enter ng college? If he comes from t u'h grade, or second high scno -ear. how much col!ege work has h: on'e at the end of tour years? I 10h rde pupIl enters thi r.aphomore class, how much coll~ 'ork has he had at graduation? The evil gersius which domina e. ur colleges Is greed for number .oards of trustees, facultjes., an he people are all under the ma;,i nell. There is no objection whoa ver to numbers in the o!egrs, i heir presence is not bought with~ -ice. The constant cry is, "Sen more students: make room fo :ore students: look at the studen" inog turned away from the college! oors."' The public mind in its ha -ricai moments fails to grasp th lanificance of the plainest fact or Iustance, the college enrollmen 'i South Carolina last year was nor unO one-third the high school a nlmrent What is rte sicnifiecnn ithis'fact? Again. Winthrop Co Sthis year 1347 applica~r -r adtmissbon. 520 were ad-mitted Ti were refused. Pres!<ent John -'a reports that fully 200 of thes '-i v.-e'e not prepartd to ent \'inthrop at all. Clemson 'and 1.44 oplicat ions for admIssion. 7) - are uimitted; 246 refused. Pres -at Mel! reports .that 2C' app. ats tailed on aesount of exains on. The other cegess have sim ar e-:periernCs. The cry shou o1 'r aetter high s col 'aetter par onied. W:L.TAM I-. TIAND. "er~ c Soath Car-.. I Wa cbatrve that soe~ of ou~ -x-e a -rife can earn m.one- ', ist a i HUNTING LICENSE S al jlo COPOSED BY THE AUDUBON SO- 1( le CIETY FOR THE aF cc otection of the Game and Oth--r ti n; birds in the State of South Car- bl olina. It almost goes without saying that al birds, game and fish are worth pre. c rE rving, then they must be intelli ntly looked after, and to do this tails expense. How shall this ex- b nse be met? The question ha:, en agitated for a long time, and It e net result is that all States and untri s that are preserving game A ve adopted the license system >ne has ever tried it and abandon- t! it. This universal experignee T ght to weigh mightily in deter- -I ining a State's policy. - Fortunately for South Carolin:: e .me protection is undertaken at 3i ne when the Sfate has the bene1 ' observing the operation of thi: ense system, as it has operate'i other States, and can profit b; - eir experience with abundant op >rtunity- for improving on thii, stems. There is no need of lon.; a Ld costly experiment. Outside of wh t has been done the North and in the West, many a >uthern States have adopted tne r an of putting a license on hunters. v mnong these are Florida. Alabam, t ississippi. Louisiana, Texas, an. ! rkansas. In these the condition e fairly similar to the conditions South Carolina, and in Mississippi Ley are almost exactly the same. The plan, as proposed by the Au ubon Society of South Carolina, ill be carried out in this wise. pon passage of an Act by the Gen ral Assembly a number of books ill be issued and sent out to the lerks of Court. These books will )ntain each 100 licenses with stub+ ttached, both being numbered' ith each book will go 100 meta igs in a box, similarly numbered warden will be appointed for each ounty, whose duty will be to col ct these licenses. The license wii ost $1.00 and be good for one year 'he warden will be required to fu:. ish bor2d to the Clerk of Court, t' e approved by him, in the sum o 500. Having taken the oath an urnished the required bonds th: rarden will proceed to collect tb icense, failure to pay which will b, unished by fine of from $10 t >125, or corresponding imprison nent. The warden will be compen ated by 25 per cent of what he col ects, or 25 cents on the dollar. Thi vill furnish employment for goo nen at remunerative rates whit, hey are at work, that is for severn nonths in each year. On furnis': ng the hunter with his license th varden will also furnish a met. ag on the front of the gun stiee he size and shape of the tag be'n 'hanged each year as that any wa len may be able to tell at a glaner vhether any tag is out of date. The money so colleeted shail h ransmitted by the Clerk, less sn& -emuneration as shall be allowed th 'dierr for his work, to the Stan 'reasurer and! placed to the credi ,f the "Came 'Protection Fund - ny am~tunt over and above what i u~tired for the enforcement of th aw may be turn~e' into the Schoo "und by the Legislature. The v.ardens coilccting this licens' re not to be confused with th egule r warden force, which is char 'r with the enforcement of the ian bhese regular wardens will be put : ;alary and their expenmses paid vi nle n discharge of thitr duity. If people will refi:et on the pres 'at condition of affsirs and 'WW 'ast and permanent be~nefltq are to be arived from suzs c"ri'v~ticnl 'Y he State's resources theme can be na 'oubt tat that license will becom'. -a -"nd receive the support of the -ople, -ow in th.' a.st armalvsis I' s the pjeup!' who are the suzfferere nder tee ;rese't v st iful practice T'he whole body ol the 1'-:);1-O WIP 'e thne giers uade- the e:s.ire.' Sder. Within a few years South Car' 'G;ta wcnuld again be stocked with rame and fish and the enormfou-' 'osses now~ inflicted an tb,: eron my insect ravages would be eu lown, thus adding in another way 'ar greater benefits to the State an ' te peopM than any amount of gamen~ .dfish et uld add. . he ulan i us frankly outlined, for there i= '.o reason for concealing anythmr? -remn the people; it is their cause ant' here is no greater before the p'ople f America. Some time since I had occasi ,r o call attention to the fact, orter -ommentedi on by the world's t~hink' rs, that here in America demnocrac' s on trial and that trial wi rno' ie be determined by any of the pt itical parties now battling for so remacy. The issue is before hr ourt of the ages. and1 the answa s in the womb) of time. In old times the king, advied. y the educa'ed priest, preserved hi' anme, his fish and his forests. Hel ad these things with their res Ie ag benenits in great abundance rever once did royalty let go an' f these valued and precious prero.: . tives until royalty ceased to hav' urisdiction. Now the people have succeeded i: his country, at least to all the privi ages and prerogatives of royalty 'hey have, and may continue to are forever, all that made kingshbii ttractive. The resources of the 'orld's greatest continent are theirr. to have and to hold. As they com: erve these things (use them wiseb ad not wastefully), so may they ntinue to possess and enjoy thenm ut if they continue to waste thes >yal possessions. then the heritag. *the fathers will shortly cease tr ist, and too late the people will 2d that royal prerogatives may be >sessed for any length of time On : rwise foresight and prudent use. eiocracy is, therefore, on trial is the over'shadowing issue befor ery party. the ftnal question it er'y State. c It Is the hope of the Audubon' I ciety that men in charge of th't ate's affairs, having devclv'ed o'a em the solemn responsibility of c ring for the State's waifare and off C nserving its rssources may die-B arge that msoonsibility like nen-.a te clamor of the idle, the heedless d the vlcious, should not be per ted to obsecure this fact.j There is not an argument that has I amed to Justify the waste of re urces. One generation has no mor right to destroy what of right be ngs to all generations. It should the ambition of every man to TI ave the State in as good condition he found It, to say the least. Wherefore, with two years' pract .1 experience in an untried field, e Audubon Society of South Caroli- Sc t, chartered by the General Assem y of the State, and composed of te State's citizens, finds that the stem of hunting licenses, in gener ure throughout this and other untries, is the best way to raise in avenue for the protection of birds u' time and fish; the best way to give roper protection to property, th' cr >st way to ensure the perpetuity the bird. fish and game supply or " te State for the use of its citizen.'. ad so recommends to the General Cc ssembly. A little reflection will show that o1 te Society seeks nothing for itself. he money collected does not, go to ie Audubon Society, and never can. he Society is supported by its tembers, and intends to spend every 4 ollar it can collect from these mem ers in educating the people to the alue of bird life to the world. el Having a serious public duty and ?sponsibility laid on it by the Gen ral Assembly, it has sought to ieasure up to both duty and re ponsibility. The gainer will be the tate, and, therefore, all its people. The man who is killing the game nd catching the fish ought to be equired to contribute something to ards preserving these things, and he amount required is very small o small that any man that can afford i he luxury of hunting and fishing an afford to pay it. In order that such work of en orcing the laws might be carried 9 n without embarrassement to the >ociety, at its annual meeting las! seek the Audubon Society recom- b nended the appointment of a Game nd Fish Commissioner, who sha'i Lave charge of enforcing the laws, 1ts pay to come from the Game Pro ection Fund, and be no tax on the tate Treasury. The Society recommend that the ,ommisioner be nominated by the Audubon Society and appointed by he Governor. by and with the a' rice and consent of the Senate, thu 'urnishing every needed check an" seeping the work absolutely divore ed from politics. Every citizen of the State should dive the matter his serious attention and see that it is acted on by hi= Representatives in the General As 'embly. The Audubon Society, without money and with limited powers, and with mixed and confusing laws t.' handle, has shown what can ',e inne. South Carolina is revolution ized already; it merely remains fo 'he people to reap the reward, t" -ecure the fruit of that work for 'hemselves ani their children hence.' 'orth and forevermore. JAMES HENRY RICE, JR., Secretary. STEVENSON WTLL CONTEST. Democratic Candidate for Governor -of .Illinois not Satisfied. Chicago, Nov. 6.-The election of 'Governor Chas. C. Deenen to serve mnother term as Governor of Illinois, will be contested by his Democratic '-ival, according to a signed state -nent issued tonight by Charlis 3oeschenstein, chairman of the Demt 'cratic State central committee. The -tatemnent follows: "I am convinced that with a co -et count and an honest canvass i.dlai E. Stevenson has a plurality o' 'he vote cast in the election last "uesday for Gover.,nr of Illinois The demand for arecount will be -,ide upon the Legislantre as pro ';ided for in the statutes." Governor Deenen's plurality is es 'imated at from 23.000 to 26.000 Ren H. Atwell, secretary to Chair -nan Boeschenstein, explained that orrors in the count had already been discovered in several precincts an1 it was calculated that if only three ',llots in each of the 4.000 voting '-recincts in Illinois were taken from~ "Seenen and given on recount to Ste venson, the latter would be found 'o have won the election.* GOTS. HASKELL AND VARDAMAN Will Participate in Cotton Confer ence This Week. Atlanta. Nov. 5.-Governor C. N Maskell, of Oklahoma, and form.y "ov. James K. Vardaman. of Mis tissippi. have notified Harvie Jordan. in Atlanta. that they will attend the Oottcn conference in Memphis Tues dlay, Wednesday and Thursday of 'his week. The governor of Arkansas has also -tppointed delegates to the confer once. W. D. Nesbitt, a member ofr -he railroad commission from Az-t 'anta, has also written kHarvle Jor-< 1an that he will be in Memphis on he 11th, and will attend the con-< erence. Governor Haskell's letter follows:r "Your invitation of the 21st came 1 luring my absence. I will appoint I lelegates at once, and if you thin'. can further the cause, will try to 'ittend. Let me know what day you arrfer me to be there." Mr. Jordan wired Governor Has Cell that he would like for him t: . ittend on November 11th, as on tha' lay "Night Riding in the South ' ;vill te the subject of discussio.u. neluding an address on that subjectJ I 1y President J. A. Taylor, of the Cational Ginners' Association. * BRYAN CONGRATULATES TAFT. t: C End 1{is Successfui Rival Thanks Him for the Message. 0 Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 5.-'lear' w ccept congratulations and best wish- h: s for the success of your admninis- da ration. " (Signed) "W. J. BRYAN." pt "I thank you sincerely for your b: :irdial and courteous telegram of ,ngratuelation and good wishes. (Signed) "Win. H. TAFT." These messages were today ex ianged between Lincoln, Neb., an-I Incinna~ti. The mnessages from Mr. ryan came while Judge Taft was idressing the Genera! conferens~ the Women's Foreign Missionary gr sciety of the Methodist Episcopa: da iurch. H-e received the message~ Sq 'i his return to his residenace and hi: TARE ON COTTON ME WEIGHT OF BAGGING AND DO TIES. me Suggestions About this Mat- Yo ter That Cotton Makers Should Think About and Act On. There Is almost as wide variation the weight of bagging and ties IEx ed as a covering for the cotton of ed >p as there is in the different names the .d numbers used by cotton firms Ld exchanges to designate the va aus grades of cotton, says the br >tton Journal. With regard to ba e ng and ties there is an allowance dr 6 per cent off, or 30 pounds to the Lies for tare by the foreign trade. Savannah there is an allowance alt 7 yards of two and a quarter und bagging. The New England co inners have agreed to an .allow- n ice of 22 pounds of bagging an-I an es to the bale, while interior buy. a s insist on only 6 yards of baggin:g c id 6 ties. The majority of farm- :e -s buy light bagging, so that the erage weight of the bagging and as on a bale of cotton delivered by e rniers to buyers amounts to about 1 pounds. r In this wide complication of dif- o1 rences in the weight of bagging ad ties the farmers as usual get ie worst end of the bargain. Near- fe 65 per cent of the crop goe, t broad, and in thie price paid for ex- a ort cotton the farmers have to :and a loss of 30 pounds to the bale 'r bagging and ties, so. that if they m ut on 21 pounds they lose 9 pound. f lint in addition to bagging and i es they pay for and put on the ale, C Spinners do not pay for baggin: nd ties. The buyers do not pay s he farmers anything for bagging p nd ties. No farmer has ever sold n pound of bagging and ties to any- t Body. The bagging and ties on r sale of cotton is a net loss to the C :an who had the bale ginned. D The cotton growers of the South I -e losing millions of dollars annu ly on account of their indifference ignorance regarding this question h- ri',g and ties. There is bu >ne correct, fair and business-like to : ..r Qrtting rhii marter on : ,asis of equity to all parties at in erest, and that is to sell cotton -rictly on net weight, just as th I -winners buy it from the cotton fac ors or exporters. The weight of all bagging should uniform and the same numb..r yards used on each bale. Good. vy weight bagging should be used under exisung regulations ever rer should put on the full allow else he loses a portion of his ai- is ;a serious matter which oild I: remedied by mutual agree 'ent of all parties at interest, the .er and the spinner. There tc 1 too big a margin left for graft, call it legitimate or what not, which the farmers should no longer stand for We have called atten'con to thi~s matter many times and the farme: are getting sufficiently organized tu secure a sentiment of the tare ques tion on a fair and systematic basi i We are continuously noticing artic les in papers devoted to cotton infor mation stating that the farmers make a profit on their bagging and ties. This is a delusion, which only reflects On the ignorance of those making .the assertion. As a matte: of fact, more than the average valu' of the bagging and ties is always deducted from the price paid the farmer, the same as freight and all other fixed charges. BRYAN SWEEPS HIS STATE. Nebraska Goes Democratic Both ini State and National.1 Returns fromi Nebraska shov, that Bryan won a sweeping victory in his own State last Tuesday. While the pluralities are not phenominal:v large, they are complete, the State ticket and candidates for Congre.;s in most instances running paralle' with Bryan. Complete returns from a third of the counties and scattering precine returns from most of the remainder show that Bryan will hay-s a plurai ity of not fewer than 10,000 votes and Shallenberger, Democratic. fo'-" Governor, and the rest of the Demo :ratic ticket will have about 9.000 But the Democratic victory dou ' rot stop there. Five of Nebraska) six Congressmen are Democratic. mly one Republican, Hinshaw, in he 4th district, escaping defeat ay l00 votes, although his district gave i ryan a plurality. The greatest surprise of all Is ther >vrwhelming majority the Demo-I ~rats will have in the Legislature. )f the.133 Senators and Representa ives elected, the canvassers of re urns could find only 18 Republ! ans who had won. Lancaster county, in which Lin-r on, Bryan's home eity is located, rhich for thirty years has electedi c one but Republican members rm oth branches, this year sends 3 Rr iublicans and three Democrats. t S Ask Taft to Aid Cause-. Chicago, Nov. 6.--A dispatch te. he Tribune from Denver. col., says. h A monster petition to be circulated r, mong the women of America, and hen submitted to President-elect 'at, is the immediate plan of the ational American Woman's Suffra< st Association. Announcement of this fact was C 1ade yesterday by the Rev. Anna [oward, president of the associa ton. A special appeal was made to the' b< olorado women to assIst in the Si iovement by securing the signatures , f every woman In the State. Iw "Mr. Taft has often saId he was J p hllng the women of Amrica shoui f ave the right of franchise if they in sired it," the president said. ed Kow is the time to give hIm an ap-1 ta rtunity to show whnat he meant' p1 this statement." * wt ota TILLMAN WRITING A BOOK. th Porter Holls Engaged in Re ca: search for the Senator, to la! John Porter Hollis, a Wofford pa adate, Is in Washington for a few jm: .ys, engaged in research work for~ nator Tillman, in connection with s forthcoming book dealing with Jim e rae qustio. o OME GOOD ADVICE N'T FATTEN HOGS ON CORN ALONE. a Are Losing Money if You Have Not Planted Some Legumes for rhem, Says a Bulletin. Bulletin No. 143 of the Alabama periment Station, gives the results a three-year feeding test, conduct with ninety hogs, and compares results of feeding corn alone-and th other feeds. Some very interesting facts were )ught out by this experiment. For ample, it cost to make one hun ed pounds of gain on the hogs ad in the test, $7.63 when corn ,ne was fed; X5.75 when the ration -s two-thirds corn and one-thir-l ttonseed meal; $o.18 when it was se parts corn to one of tankage. d $5.11 when it consisted of corn d cowpeas half and half. "When rn was fed alone but 48 cents was alized for each bushel used." To ad 7-cent corn profitably one must, he feeds corn alone, get seven nts live weight for his hogs. Cottonseed meal gave good results, ducing the cost per hundred pounds gain to $5.7a, when used for one Ird of the ration. There is dan r in its use, however, and one who eds It must be prepared to assume .is risk. Four deaths occurred as result of the use of cottonseed eal; but all these took place after te hogs had been taken off the eal and placed on other feeds. This suggests that something yet to be learned about the effects or )ttonseed meat on the internal ma 11nery of a pig. Tankaga proved to be a cheap and tisfactory feed. Hogs fed on one art tankage to nine parts corn meal lade a gain of 1.04 pounds per day, e same as those fed on the corn ad cottonseed meal. Those fed on orn alone gained only .69 of a ound daily. The cost per hundred ounds of gain was also reduced 2.45 by the use of the tankage. Cowpeas are a profitable feed Then they cost eighty cents to a dol ar per bushel. After they reach 1.05 they cease to pay. They were ed with an equal quantity of corn. The cheapest gains were obtained rom the use of corn along with >eanut and soy bean pastures. To nake one hundred pounds of pork vith a peanut pasture cost only P2.14, and with soy bean pasture 2.74. This is after taking the cost f raising the crop into account and rediting it with the fertility added :o the soil. This was estimated at p1.50 per acre in each case. Sorghum and chufa pastures use I n connection with corn made a very yoor showing. The hogs grazed in .he sorghum gained only .37 of a )ound daily when fed on corn alone, and .46 of a pound daily when fe i )n the corn and cottonseed meal :ombination. In the first case the rain cost $11.90 per hundred pounds tnd in the second, $7.79. Chufas tnd corn gave a gain of only .72 >f a pound per day and cost $8.8'9 ,er hundred pounds of grain. Tne :ost of raising them was charged the same as with the legumes; but no 3redit was given for any returns they :nade to the soil, for, alas! there was nothing to credit. A good long sermon-several of them for that matter--might be preached from this text; but what's :he use? These are the results of actual and accurate experiments. rhe quesiton Is: Will you try to fat en your hogs on a one-sided ration. as corn alone is, or will you supple nent It witn cottonseed meal, tank age, or some other nitrogenous feed"' rhen next year will you or not have a peanut, a cowpea or a soy bean pasture for your hogs? FATAL BALLOON ACCIDENT. )ne Man Killed and a Boy is Se verely Hurt. Princeton, Nov. 5.-Prof. Peter :Iramer, of St. Louis, was dashee' ?gainst the chimney of the Meth >dist church and killed here yester lay while making a balloon ascension tt the Parmers Carnival. 'Glen Hay len, a seven-year-old boy, who wai ;tanding near the church1 was struck >y a brick falling from the chimney which was wrecked by the balloon, ils skull was fractured and he may lie. A strong wind was blowing and .11 efforts were made to persuade the Lerenot not to att-empt an ascen ion. In reply he said: "I wIll nake the jump today if I break my teck In doing It."' Those were the ast words he spoke as he left the arth. When the ropes were loosened he balloon shot upward and before 'rof. Kram-er could unfasten the' ope which held his parach'ute to the alloon he was hurled against the himney. He was crushed by the low. The balloon bounded along on hie roof until it collided with the te'epie, dragging the unconscIous alloonist after It. The rope which' eld the balloonist then broke and e fell to the roof of the church. ,lled to the edge and plunged to ie ground thirty feet below.* GOV. HEYWARD RETIRES. ondition of His Health Forces Hiis to Give Up Business. At the regular mieeting of the ard of directors of the Columbia Lvings Bank and Trust Company on ednesday Ex-Governor D. C. Hey ard tenderea his resignation as the 'esident of the institution to take rect not later than the annual meet g in January. Gov. Hoyward stat to the board that his action Wa: ken by reason of the fact that his ysicianl had advised him to give ur rk of this character at this timt account of his health. Chinamen Droned. Amoy, Nov. 6.-A small steamer crying 600 passengers from Amoy Tungan, a few miles distant, san: t evening. Two hundred of tii. ssengers were drowned. Chines: its rescued the ethers.* Dne can not judge of a man't prtance by the number of badges hIs conat. The only ha der made fr Grape Crean Imitation baking powders mineral acids and lc unhealthful p LESS WE FORGET TWO BOOKS SOUTHE"RN BOYS SHOULD LEAD. t So as They Will Know What Our People Endured for Ten Years 1 After the Close of the War. The following letter was taken from the Keowee Courier: We were asked a short while ago if we did not think that "The Leop ard's Spots" was overdrawn? We declare that it is not, while it may be tinctured a little. with fiction, but even that is based upon solid facts. Read, if you please, a history wr ten by Dr. Leland, of -Greenwood, S C., called "A Voice from South Car olina." This book was written in about the years 1872. Then you will agree that the Leopard's Spots' Is a true story. "Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave; No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While fame her record keeps, Or honor points the hallowed spot Where valor sproudly sleeps." This is one of the verses on a beautiful monument we looked upon with tearful revereroe w-hile walking through Rosemont cemetery, at New berry. Such acts as the murder / Crozier are some of the things thai: keep a man from forgetting the war. Does history record any nobler sacrifice? Damon was the friend of Pythias, but this man Bowers was a stranger to Crozier Much more 'M this pathetic story is recorded in tu'~ "Annals of iNewberry." Crozier yielded up his life that another might not suffer. The memory se" that day is of a tragedy never to lv forgotten. The war had ended, ane the soldiers of the discharged Con federate army avd parol'd prisonen~ were passing through Sout~h Carolin to theIr homes in the West. Anmor them was Calvin Crozier, a Texan who arrived at New berry on Septem-. ber 7th, 1865, and was delayed ther< over night. He nad some ladle' 'inder his care, and, as hotel accor' modations were very meagre. th'e decided it would be best to pass the night in the car on which they hare t~raveled. Late in the night some n 'rro soldiers, under the command ef Colonel Trowbridge, who had arria ed at Nrwberry that day entered tb car where Crozier and the -ladia: 'inder his care were quietly repor' ing, and made themselves very of 7ensive to the ladies. Crozier re riuested them to leave, but they re fused to do so, and a difficulty en tued. In the scuffle which followe-' one of the negroes was slightly e': by Crozier with his knife. The re Iment to which they belonged wa' encamped In a graveyard near th dlepot, and very soon after the -d' ficulty occurred a number of ther appeared at the depot bent on re venging the one who had been dear with by Crozier. In their madner they seized Jacob S. Bowers, who we' th en General Superintendent of tb Columbia and Greenville R1ailroat? ond were about to lynch him Whr Crozier learned what they wer about, without a moment's hesit:: iton, he presented himself and tol them that he had wounded the negr' eoidIer. He was at once tied av' Mken to the camp mentioned ahoy 'nd was shot to death by the fiend' His body was thrown in a shallo' grave, and they danced in ghoulis1 'lee upon his new-made grave. Th ffleers of the negro regiment, prir ipaly white, were appealed to i' behalf of Crozier, but in vair. Throwbridge, the colonel of this reg ment. declared that he took upon imiself all the responsibility of the act. It Prince Rivens, a negro. officer, I wishing to save the life of Crozier. t) went to him and begged him to deny si '-he fact that he cut the negro, but r< hie refused. Seldom indeed do we re 'ind such heroic, self-sacrifice as 4s it smbodled of this noble Texan. He 'ight have gone free to his far Western home had he permited a nnocent man to suffer. How fondly, e may have dreamed of his ar:e. t. his Texos home, Galveston, and he greeting of loved ones there! re gave it all up and laid down his a Ie that another might live. t No ignoble spirit could have acted df s he did, and where he now sleeps s aust be holy ground. His body re-j tained there where it was buried by Ia be negro soldiers until 1891, wheriw .e people of Newberry had ~ais re- te] ains burled in Rosemont cemetery. d nd erected an enduring monument! his memory. In erecting this an onument they hsve honored them- fo: Absolutely AURE POWDER. n Grapes king pow :m Royal of Tartar are made roan harsh ave in the food roperties o this writer, and are in keeping vith the "Leopard's Spots." Ever. outhern boy (and girl as well) hould read. a book written by Dr land, of Greenwood, called ~ a 'Voice from South Carolina,", and :he- "Leopard's Spots." They will .len learn what- the Southern people mndured for ten years after the war intil they all rose up as one man In I876, with the immortal Hampton as :heir standard bearer, and threw off :he iron heel of despotism. - As we have stated before, thi southerr people are the product of a nation which could not wear a yot-. The Anglo-Saxon was born to gov !rn, to be free, to create, to build a -ocial and political structure, mighty-=. and masterful. J. RUSSELL WRIGHT .Walhalla, S. C. CONDITIONS IMPROVING. President Finley of the Southern Saye Business Is Imprivtg. President Finley of the Southern. Railway company, who -has just re turned to Washington from an in spection trip over the. lines of the system, to'ind evidences of improve ment in business conditions and of a general disposition on the part of businesis men throughout- the South' to take a hopeful view of the -fun ture. Speaking of the informationi he had gathered on his trip, Mr. Fin ley said: "Prices for pig Iron are firmer. Southern furnaces, as a rule, have sold their product up to the end of the year, and the increasing number of inquiries for iron warrant the ex pectation that orders will soon be placed for business during the corn-. ing year. "Lumber is more active than for some months past. Especially is this true of the grades -shipped fi> box cars. Tne present demand will be tugmented by increased reqluiremets from railways, principally for car re -airs, as some of the railways are *ontracting with car companies for tome of their heavier repair work. "One of the miost encouragings igns of reviving industrial activity s the increasing movement of steani -oal to industrial centers. The un' ;sually warm weather of the present 'all is retarding the movement of do nestic coal.. "The cotton crop Is early, and the bhre is moving to market in larger 'olumie than at. this time last yea-. lthough, as a result of the stagna ion which has prevailed'in the cot-r 'n goods market, prices are lower aan a year ego. The demand for -otton seed products Is good and they re moving freely. s "The domestic market for cottcon ~oods shows indications of gradual mprovement. Owing to the accumu ations of large stocks and to other -auses affecting that market, there s at present little demand for cotton roods in northern China. Aside from hiis, the export demand is fairly rood, and thibse mills interested in he north of China trade are looking 'orward hopefully to a renewal of ales for that market. "Grain traffc Into the South--es :ecially corn-is light. This Is due n part, to the relatively high price f corn and the low price of cotton. nd in part to the fact that at this eason of the year the South is con timing Its own grain. "Merchandise stoeks which had >een permitted to run low during the~ >usiness depression are being re ulenished conservatively Retal rade In the cities is good, but as a esult of the low price of cotton and *f a disposition of the part of retail rs to buy cautiously for the present, obbing. trade is still somewhat re tricted. "While some lines of business ave not yet shown as much improve lent as might be wished, I believe dlatoconditions generally are decid dly better than at any time since de beginning of the business depres on a year ago, and that we have eason to look forward to a gradual aturn to a higher level of prosper TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. Mine Is Wrecked and Four Meu Entombed. Benton, Ill., Nov. 5.-An explosion the mines of Col. W. P. Bond, ree miles west of Benton, late to y wrecked the shaft and as a re lt four shot firers are entombed. So terrific was the explosIon that car and pieces of railroad track are hurlfd from the bottom to the p of the shaft, more than 600 feet, molishing a steel tipple. It Is imposs:ie to reach the Brers, d their fate Is unknown. A large 'ce of men is trying to clear away