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MAKES IT PLAIN State Board of Education Give Their Side of Bak Adoption. SAVIG TO THE STATE Statement of the Appointive Members of the State Board of Education Concerning the Adoption of Text Books for the Schools of South, Carolina. In view of the misunderstandings .nderroneous statements that -have grown out of the recent proltst is sued ,by State Superintendent S .ear-. ingen in reference to the late adop tion of text books, the undersigned appointive members of the State Board of- Education submut to ,the: people the following statement of the facts -involved: Fitness of the Members to Judge and Select Text Books. The undersignied members of the Board have all of them been for many years intimately connected with the schools. Most of them are teach ers of many years' experience of nearly every grade and every kind of school. , Special Preparation for the Adoption. , For something over two years, they have had this adoption -in view and have in consequence, been ac quainting themselves with the usable ness, and merits. of the books in actual use in the schools. This has been done not only by examination of the books themselves but by the - questioning of teachers all over the State. For some six months prior to the adoption, books to be offered began to cone in and expert representatives of-the book-oompanies began -the visits to the several members of the Board. The coming of these books and. agents increased..in-frequency, so that for some three months before the adoption, the members were call ed t6 spend most of their tIme, not given to their regular work, in the examination of books and the dis cission of theinwith agents. This prolonged and searching ex amination of text books was supple mented by informal discussions and comparisons among the members themselves while in attendance upon Board meetings in Columbia. Hence the several members entered the adoption with clearly defined views as to the relative- merits and suita bility of various books, including those now in use, and had, in many cases, their minds made up on their first choice, or on the' books whicb they would be willing to accept in place of this first choice, and with definite ideas as to the opin ions of their fellow members Consequently when the time came for adoption, the members were virtually ready to vote intelligently without the. necessity of much discussion. though despite this preparation there was full discussion on all Important books. The undersigned members submit; therefore, that this. experience and this study of the books, it Is reasona ble to conclude that their individual judgment as to the merits of the books submitted deserves the same consideration, and is just as likely to be correct, as that of Mr. Swearingen, and that where a majority of them were agreed upon 'a particular book, it is just and rational, as well as democratic, to assuue that this ma jority opinion was- more--likely cor rect than that of Mr. Swearingen or that of any minority which included Mr. Swearingen. . The SO-Called Secret Ballot. it is unthinkable -that Superinten dent Swearingen intended in the slightest degree to impugn or make Insinuation against the integrity of the members of the Board, either in dividually or collectively. Indeed we have his assurance that he did not; yet that construction has been put upon his protest and especially uponi his reference to a secret ballot. Hence we are at a loss to under stand why, when he perceived that the newspapers so construed his pro. test, he did not, in justice to himself and in justice to the Board, imme diately publish a disclaimer of any such intention. The ,ballot, it is due to say, was not secret in the sense that any mem ber's vote was concealed. It is due to say, further, that not only was the method based upon the precedent of the adioption of five years ago, but. In the agreement to adopt the Im personal vote, it was distinctly stated that, if in the voting any member -desired to put on record anything about the vote or adoption, he had the right to do so. In the case of most of the books. especially of the more important ones, there were a preliminary dis cussion that revealed whether there w"as any decided dixerences of opinion among the members. Some member then -put a particular book in nomi nation. There was yet fuller discus sion, including comparisons with such other books as individual mem bers thought worthy of mention. An open individual vote was then taken. Thus the whole Board knew how each. member voted. How the Members Voted. On only three of the books adopt * ed were the undersigned members divided in their final vote. These were the basal set of Readers, the Geograpies and the English books be low the high school. The following voted for the Wheeler primer: Mfessrs Daniel, Glenn. O'Driscoll. Rembert. Thackston and Toms. In the case oi the first and second basal Readers. 3Messrs. Glenn and Rembert voted for the Graded Classics of B. F. Johnson & Co. as a solid basal set. MIessrs. Daniel, O'Driscoll, Rice. Thackston and Toms voted for the Wheeler first and second Readers, as adopted. In the case of the Geographies, the final vote stood for Siaury, MIessrs. Daniel. O'Driscoll, Thackson, and Toms; for Frye, Messrs. Glenn, Rembert ana Rice. In'the case of the Grammars the following voted for Kinard and Withers books: Messrs. Gleinn, O'Drlscoll, Rembert, Rice and Thack ston. The following voted against these books: Messrs. Daniel and Toms. In each such instrance, how ever, those who opposed the books fi nally adopted cheerfully accepted and approved the vordict of the majority. -- In the final vote on all other books S aopted the undersigned members voted alike. 1: Change of Text Books. In reference to the change of text i books, it must be remembered that I the law itself anticipates the neces sity for change in providing for a per iodic adoption. The object, moreover : in inviting bids is to secure not the < cheapest books, but the best books J at the lowest prices. The Board a showed its recognition of this prin- c ciple as a primary end in the fact C that, at its first meeting and fre- 1 quently in the course of the adoption, c it was repeated with emphasis that I the first duty was to get the best 1 books irrespective of reasonable dif- i ferences in price. One of the most dangerous doctrines implied in Mr. Swearingen' protest Is that which tends to establish the principle that books should not be changed and c that cheapness-is the chicf object. No man's child sh.ould be compell ed -to use. inferior - text - books-- even though such books were furnIstd free of cost. Time once lost by the child through poor books, is never recovered and the damage done is irreparable. People living in the country. are, as a rule, not in posi -ion to keep up with the advance in text book improvements. These ad vances are on a par with, or ahead of, improvements. along other lines; and books that were relatively good four or five years ago may be rel-a tively poor today. Surely the coun try -children are entitled to as good books as the town children are. This advantage the Board was fully de termined they should have, without regard to criticism. Increase in Prices. - - - Most of those who have made com parisons between particular books of the old and the new adoption have fallen into serious and misleading er ror. Primer and reader.-In the case of the Primer, although the one adopted costs 13 cents more than the old one, it contains 6,700 words or reading matter, wher. -s the old Primer, pasteboard bound, cheaply made, poorly illustrated, gave only 110 words of readi nmatter for one Tenit,~ihife "the~ New Primer, cloth bound. fully and beautifully illustrat ed, gives 225 words of reading mat ter -for 'one cent. - ~The judgment of the school world upon this new book may be inferred from the fact that ;t has been adopted in eleven States. So, also, are the Readers adopted superior to those discarded. Reading is the most important sub ject taught in the school, because the child's progress in all other stu dies depends upon his ability to read. That series of Readers which enables the child to gain this power In the shortest possible time, is in the end the best and cheapest. Such f series undersigned members of the board claim to have adopted. Geographies.-In the comparison between the old anT th6 adopted Pri mary Geographies, the following is the fact: The book thrown out was confessedly unsuitedlyjrdsiteirti-pn confessedly unsuitable and was not supported by a single member of the Board. The Board was finally lim ited to a choice between the New Primary Frye at 40 cents and the new Primary Maury at 45 cents, a difference of five cents and net of 12 ents, as alleged. iPhysiologies-It is equally unfair and misleading -to compare the oost of the three book series of Physiolo ties adopted- with the two book ser ies discarded. The third and added book is to be used as an elective science- In one 'of the high-- school classes, and was adopted in response to the most marked movement of the day--the call for the education of the people in health laws and pre servation. In the two lower .books. those adopted are so far ahead of the old books that there is no compari son. The Primer of Sanitation alone if placed in the home of every man in South Carolina and read and even partly folliowed would save in one year more money than this adoption will cost. Arithmetics--The comparison be tween the old and the new Arithme tics 'is an instance of the glaring in ustice done to the Board. The fol -owing is the statement given: Cost of old arithmetic, elemen tary.. .. ............22 Cost of old arithmetic, advanc ed......... ..........40 Total.............. 62 Cost of new arithmetic, elemen tary.............. ..32 Cost of new arithmetic, inter med-iate......... ........-36 Cost of new arithmetic, advanc ed.. .... .........--.. Tt................$1.09 Ma-king the apparent increase on arithmetics 47 cente'. As a matter of fact, the New Advanced Arithme tic quoted at 41 cents in the second :Is above, was on the old list and is a re-adopted book. The' proper comparison should be: Cost of old Wenthworth arith metic, elementary.. .. . ....22 Cost of old Wentworth arith tic, advanced.. .... ......40 Cost of old Milne arithmetic advanced.. .... ...... ..-4. Total.. ...... .......$1.03 Cost of new Milne arithmetic, elementary.. .. .... ......32 Cost of new Milne arithmetic, intermediate.. .. .. .. .. .. 6 Cost of readopted arithmetic, advanced.. .... ........41 Total........... .... .-$1.09 This makes the increased price on ly six cents. A change in the two lower Arithmetics w'as considered advisable, since in the judgment of the Board they were out of date. Such being the case, the adoption or the Milne was logical, inasmuch as the advanced Milne was already on the list and the whole series was al ready widely used in the independent schools of the State. Saving to the State. Those who have commented on the cost of th4 adoption have overlooked he positiva fact that this Board has secured what is confessedly the best contract ever obtained from the pub lisers ir- this country. For we main tain that the credit for this contract is due to no one man, but that the contract was the product of the com bined judgment of the whole Board and was unanimously adopted by it. Py this contract, for the first time in the history of book adoptions, "any old book" in the hand of the Ichild has been given a definite money value and will be tagen in exchange for any book of a lower or higher grade in the same series. By the same contract, too, the length of ncreased 25 per cent. Both the method ,and the saving n this exchange provision may il ustrated with the Readers. By the ontract the old Johnson Primer, rhich, when new, cost the children .2 cents, has now an exchange value f 15 cents. That is to say, an old ohnson Primer and 10 cents will buy new Wheeler Primer, the retail ontract price of which is 25 cents. )r the same Primer and 10 cents will uy a new Wheeler First Reader, the ontract price of whica is 25 cents. n the same way, an old Primer may e used at this valuation of 15 cents o help pay for any reader, first, econd, third, fourth, or fifth: where s, in the past a Primer could be ex hanged only for a Primer. Further, Ln old first reader, which cost 20 ents when new, has by contract been iven a money value of 15 cents and nay be used to help pay for a Primer r for any Reader. In the case of the Geographies, the !d Primary Geography, which was iscarded by the Board, and which ost when new 33 cents, has by con ract been given an exchange value f 23 cents, being only 10 'cents less han it cost when new. That is* to ay, an old primary geography and 2 cent swill pay for the new book dopted. Or the old Primary Geog -aphy and 65 cents will pay for the iew Advanced Geography. So, too, he old Advanced Geography and 22 -ets will buy the new Primary Geog aphy. Could .tny- one deny that noney has been saved to the State Cost to the State. It has been claimed that the Board )y its action wantonly destroyed property values estimated at $500, 00. This sum is just #a few thous nd less than the cost of all the ;chool books bought in South Caro lina during the years 1906-1911. ow preposterous this claim is will appear from the following: It assumes that all these books, wven those bought five years ago, are still in usable form in the hands of he children and are now worth what .hey cost when.new. It assumes also hat if all the old books had been reaopted, the children of the State would not have had to buy any new books d-uring the coming five years. ft forgets that each book now in the 1ands of the child has not only paid its price in use, bat is by contract given an added- definite value, ap proximately fifty per cent. of its orig inal cost. - The following analysis will show that the apparent-loss to the State would in reality -be only about $16, 000 a year for the five-year period, ar only about 4 2-3 cents per child. instead of the alleged loss of $500, 000. As it is claimed that the loss was entailed by the assumed eighty per cent change, then the entire vai ae involved would be upon this eighty per cent. or upon $400,000 instead of $500,000. It is, however, general ly estimated by teachers and exper ienced book men that the average life of a text book, especially in the lower--grades;j-is- from one to -three years. On a liberal allowance then, the ooks bought during .the first three years of the last adoption per iod are not usab-le in class, thouigh by the contract they have been given an exchange money value. This re duces the possible loss to the books bought during the last two years, or to two-ffths of '$400:000, ~that is $160,000. Now, not only have these books -paid their price in actual use, but they have an actual value of fifty per ' cent 'of their -cost when new This reduces the alleged loss to $80, 000. If this loss be distributed over a period of five years, a legitimrate distribution, inasmuch as the assum ed loss covered that period, this makes a so-called loss of $1.6,000 a year. This leaves a so-called loss of $1,000 'a year to be distributed among the 340,000 and more chil dren in the schools, or about four ano~ 2-3 cents apiece. Thus, at this slight additional ex pense of 4 2-3 cents, each child in the State would be supplied with new and better books. Surely this is gain and not loss. For it is a serious in justice to a child, an injustice at once physical, intellectual and aesthetic, to put into his hands an old, defaced, and filthy book in any study. We have gone into these figures on the assumption that the statement that 80 per cent. of the books ha're been changed, is correct. The cor rectness of the statement we do not admit. Exclusive of copy books and drawing books, which are destroyed by use, supplementary English Clas sis and duplicates there were 53 books on the old list. Of this num ber 23 only were changed, whereas 20 were readopted. Ten were entire ly dropped from the list. Owing to the extension of the high school course, it becomes necessary to add nine new books to the list for high school use. Let each 'man calculate the percentage of change for him The foregoing is a statement of the essential facts of the adoption, of the -preliminary preparation of the members of the Board, and of the fair and rational view to take of the cost involved. The undersigned ap pointive members have no apology to make either for the results of the adoption or for the methcds used. They entered upon the task with only one purpose, to further the best in terest of the schools and of the chil dren of South Carolina. They brought to bear upon this task their best ex perience, the unremitting toil of months, and the deepest interest and sncerity. They believe that with due allowance focr the fallibility of hu ran judgment they have succeeded. To the test of use, to those who know books and the needs of our schools, and to the sober second thought of the fair-minded people of their State. they leave the final verdict. D. M. O'Driscoll, 1st district. Hf. F. Rice, 2nd district. D. W. Daniel, 3rd district. A. G. Rembert, 4th district, 3. Lyles Glenn, 5th district. Nathan Toms, 6th district, A. J. Thackston, 7th district. Auto Turned Turtle. At Anniston, Ala., J. D. Dill, a bak er, was killed, Mrs. 'Mary Dill. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dill 'and Charles Dill, Jr., probably fatally injured !.onday night, when an automobile in which they were riding turned turfle. The accident occurred when an attempt was made to avoid a :tollision with 'another automobile. Crazed from Pellagra. Crazed by the suffering caused by pellagra, which was contracted two rears ago, Mrs. 3. W. Cate of Nash ville, Tenn., aged 37, killed herself bydrnkn arbholi acid Monday. AWFUL CRASH lany Kiled and Wounded as Fast Train Plungs Over Viaduct. BAD FIRE BREAKS OUT rhe Federal Express Running From Washington to Boston Over the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad Wrecked at Bridge port With Great Loss of Life. Many lives, probably twenty, were crushed out in an instant and proba bly three times as many persons were frightfully hurt Tuesday when the Federal Express running from Wash ington, D. C. to Boston, over the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad was hurled over a con viaduct at Bridgeport, Conn., by an open switch. Fire broke out in the wreckage but the Bridgeport fire department quickly put this out and the men lent assistance to rescue the injured. Ambulances and doctors hastily sum moned did their best to save those who were under the debris. At 6:30 o'clock the bodies of 15 dead had been taken from the wreck and ior ty other passengers were in the lo cal hospitals severely injured. The more severely injured are: Unidentified woman, eye goughed out, face terribly bruised, leg frac tured. LMichael Fury, conductor of train, New Rochelle, N. Y., fracture of skull, -internal injuries, will die. David Kissner, New York, brake man, fi-acture of the left leg, other injuries, will probably die. Mrs. James B. Joyce, of Maury, a suburb of Washington, fracture of the left wrist, back injured, shock, condition serious. Sarah Czalobro, 931 South Penn sylvania street, Philadelphia, head badly cut, body bruised, shock, con diticn serious. Christie and Antony Czalobro, hei two children, five and eight years Christie, bi-uised about head and body, internal injuries; Antony fractured arm, scalp wounds; inter nal, may die. John F. Von Pfeiffer, McDonald St Deadvile, Mass., fracture of skull, condition critical. Frank Von Pfeiffer, cousin oJ John, 227 East North street, Phila delphiadelphia, fracture of ribs, dis location of shoulder; condition seri us. Miss Lucy Note, 222 Washingtox avenue, Washington, internal inju ries, condition critical. George Rogers, Washington, D. C His young son was killed and an other.son, Frank, badly.hurt. Mrs Rogers is thought to be one of the women who were killed. Charles Frazier, Navatree Green Md. Mrs. Emily Wilson, Philadelphia. Miss Bertha Monroe, Cliftondale Miss Mary McCann, Philadelphia. The express left Harlen Rive) about an hour late. It was going a high speed when the open switch mile and a half west of Bridgepor station was struck. The switch was near the tower a the junction .of Fairfield avenue ani State street. There was one tremen dous crash, an instant of intense si lence and then the groans and shriek: of thewbunded.-' 'The wreck was almost complete five cars having gone over, only threi cars of the long train being left o3 the track. The engine, twisted into junk, wa: two hundred feet south of Flairfielt avenue. Behind were the mail anm baggage cars while the Pullmans an! coaches were in a mass at the rear. The day coach was entirely crusb ed and in it the deaths were many five bodies being removed at once. Three Pullmans were .almost comn pletely crumpled up, but appear ances indicated .that the passenger: in a measure were protected by th< strength of the cars. With firemen, policemen, and doc tors working as fast as possible the dead and injured were laid out upoi the lawn of a residence in Fairfieli venue. As fast as the ambulance: came the injured were sent to thi hospitals. In the wreckage of the engine wa: a body thought .to be the engineel who had died at his post. A bab< about a year old was found in ont car. It was alive and had becom' separated from its mother, Mrs. W V. Cleppine, of Cherry Creek, Md. and its aunt, Mrs. Beatrice Cleppane both of whom escaped with minor in juries, chiefly wounds on the head. In another coach a Mrs. Whaton of Philadelphia, was taken out alile but her child was dead under her Mrs. L. W. Page, of 2223 Massachu setts Avenue, Wiashington, D. C., wh< was with her maid and child escapec with minor hurts. Had a Close Call. en the first executi-on under th4 new law providing for electrocutio! in place of hanging took place it the State penitentiary at Eddyville Ky., recently it came near ending it the death of two persons instead oi one. Prison physician Moss stepped forward to feel the pulse of the negrc who formed the first subjicet before the current had been turned off and barely missed having several thous and volts pass through his body. Left All to Himself. A spectacle which has not been seen for years, if ever, was exhibit ed in the Senate, says a Washingtor dispatch, on the reciprocity "debate' Friday, when for nearlf ten minutes Senator Gronna, of North Dakota, who was concluding his speech begun Thursday in opposition to the pact. was the only senator on the floor. ' Rescured from Tug. The Marblehead, Ohio, Iife Say saving Station reported to the de partment service at Washington that the life saving crew had rescued at midnight Sunday eight men from the tug Luther while that vessel was sinking in Lake Erie near Gull Is lnd reef. Five C'huz nes Struck. In two days five churches, three Protestant and two Catholic, were struck by lightning last week during difrnt ihunder storms. WOULD HANG THEM LYNCHING IS AVERTED BY AR- M RIVAL OF OFFICERS. Negro Man and His Wife Saved from In Angry Crowd by Intervention of Cooler Heads. A special dispatch to The State from Anderson says the lynching of al a negro man and his wife in the ii Neal's creek of Anderson county was si niarrowly averted Tuesday by cool a! heads and the prompt arrival of offi- th cers on the scene, H. P. McDaniels, r a wealthy farmer, reprimanded his negro tenant, T. C. Williams, for cut u ting down some pine slaplings. The negro resented the reprimand tl and made an attack on Mr. McDan- u iels, hitting him between the shoul- $ der blades with a large rock. One o of the shoulder blades was fiactured $ and his -spinal column was injured. s1 The news of the attack spread rapidly i1 through the county, and Witain nt hour a large throng had gathered( at the McDaniels home, many coming cl from a distance in tutomobiles. n A warrant 'gainst the negro, $ charging assault and battery with i- I] tent to kill, was secured from Magis- T trate Martin, and Deputy Richard Smith, arrested the negro, who offer- v ed no resistance. Because the nero-s 14 wife attempted to help him by bring ing out a shotgun, she was also ar- c rested. I Imediately after the arrests were effected Deputy Sheriff Van Mar tin and Constable Tom Davis arriv ed in an automobile, picked up the t prisoners and rushed them to the county jail. The mob 'had greatly a increased in numbers and violence to the negroes was expected. Col. 0 D. A. Geer and others held the crowd t back, and pievailed upon them to s allow the law to take its course. c Mr. McDaniels is a peaceable man r and one of the best citizens in An- r derson county. His condition.is ser ious, partial paralysis having set in. e He is about 50 years old, and has b taken an active work in the school and 'hurch in his community. Great indignation over the brutal attack hias been expressed by the people. II FIVE MEN ARE IJED. C C In Accident That. Seriously Hurts a I Man From Belton. Five men were killed and two ser iously injured when a travelling crane bearing a 14-ton girder col laised Monday at a new viaduct be ing constructed by the Western Mary land railroad at Salisbury Junction, Pa. The dead: John Scott, McKees port, Pa.; Joseph Smith ,Grove City, Pa.; J. R. White, Richmond, Va.; C. H. Kennedy, New River, Va ; E. L. Sanders, Dullochville, Ga. 'The injured are: A. E. Kluttz, of Salisbury, N. C., and L. G. Garner of Belton, S. C., both of whom may die. The men were all structural iron workers and were, killed or in jured in the fall. They were in the employ of~ the McClintic-Marshall Construction Company of Pittsburg, Pa. The heavy girder was being con veyed to the west bank of the Cas selman river when the crane toppled and crashed to the ground. 1 ATTACK YOUNXG WOMEN. One Dragged to Railroad Yard and Let in Bad Condition. At Marion, Ohio, as iMiss Flora Spicer, aged 20, and her guest Miss Mary Rogers, aged 22, of West Mans field were returning home from church at 10 o'clock Sunday night they were accosted on the street by a man who struck both girls over the head and, picking up Miss Spicer, who was unconscious, carried her1 away. Miss Rogers quickly summon ed the hel-p of a 'number of men, who1 searched the railroad yards, a block distant, where they found Miss Spi cer, with face bruised and clothing torn, crawling along the tracks and unable to speak. Her assailant es caped. Miss Spicer when she regain ed her speech said the man threat ened her with death if she screamed.1 She is in a serious condition. The entire police force is looking for her assailant. CHILD SLAIN BY WOMAN. Shot Fired at a Woman Hits and Kills Little Negro. A special dispatch to The State says a horrible and pathetic tragedy was enacted near Blacksburg Sunday morning between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock. The actors live as ten ants on the farm of Mac Byars, four miles from Blacksburg, on the old I Rutherford and Chester highway. Lily Duncan. a mulatto, was on her way from the home of her step father, Ras Franklin, to her own house, near the home of ira- Sar arms, when she was fired upon by ratt, with a two-year-old child in her Francies Sarratt, the wife of Ira Sar ratt, with a shotgu. -Only one shot struck the mother, the rest or the load lodging in ther back of the child's head and causing its death Monday morning about 10 o'clock. Frances Sarratt disappear- t ed and has not been apprehended yet. Jealousy is supposed to have I been the cause of the act on the parti of Frances Sarratt. Shot by Cupid. The Greenville Daily Piedmont says Deputy Judge of Probate James C R. Bates issued a marriage license a to probably the oldest couple that t has received a license since the mm- t rige license law has been in effect in i this State. The two were Henry a Nix, aged 74, ad Mrs. Melvia V. p Rochester. 41, both of the American Spinning Company's village, near Greenville. I i C Stream of Burning Booze. Recently a large whiskey distillery T was burned at Glasgow. Scotland. A il remarkable spectacl ais f~urnished s by a stream of burniL,. .Thiskey run- o nihg from the flames, which consum- b -. the building, into the Cromarty firti. Terriffic Explosion.o Near Franlkfort-on-the-Main, Ger- a many ten persons were killed and ns twenty others seriously injured by an c explosion in a dynamite factory Wed- il FARMING FIGURES UCH ]NTERESTING DATA COM A PILED BY WATSON. the Value of Crops Per Square Mile South Carolina Ranks Second of All the States. Some interesting statistics on the ;ricultural situation in South Caro na have been prepared by Commis oner Watson from the recent feder . census. As has been announced is state jumped from 21 to 13 in the nk of the states in agriculture. The value of the agricultural prod :ts of the state increased by 28.4 r cent. in one year. The value of e crops in 1910 was $140,000,000 a hich was an increase over 1909 of 31,000,000, and increase over 1906 1 $63,288,000 and an increase of 8,685,000 over 1900, all of which ow that the value of the crops has tcreased over 100 per cent. during s ie past decade. With reference to the value of the t 'ops per square mile, South Caroli- 2 a ranked second of all states, with C 4,518. Other states in comparison: 3 linois, $5,122; Georgia, $3,743, t exas, $1,369. All other Southern states show the s alue of crops per square mile to be ss than $3,000. The cotton crop of the South, ac 3rding to the statistics gleaned ror 910, went on the market for $963, 80,000. The crop of 1909 was rth $S12,000,000, and for 1908 1 681,230,000. It will be seen that I ie cotton crop of 1910 was worth 151,000,000 more than 1909. There I re in the South 440,000,000 acres of t md available for cotton and only < ne out of 12 acres. are planted. Of ie cotton crop 19 per cent. was con amed in the United States, 49 per i ant. was exported and 35 per cent. amained in this country up to Feb uary, 1911. Concerning the value per bale of I Atton, the following comparative ta le is given: alue per bale, 1910 ........ $87.15 alue per bale, 1904...... 50.37 !alue per bale, 1898 ........ 30.22 1 It is pointed out that the sum of 604 was received for twenty'bales of 1 otton in 1898, while the farmer re- i elved $1,743 for the same number in 1 910. In South Carolina there were In 910 176,180 farms, or an increase f 13 per cent. over the preceeding .ecade. The value of the lands and uildings increased ,by 162 per cent.; nplements and machinery, 112 per ent.;lands, 169; increase In labor ill, 76 per cent. These statistics how that there were 20,825 farms .dded. There are 64,227 owners, or .n. increase of 4,810, and of these arms 19,987 are moi'tgaged. The enants number 11,097. The in rease in the number of tenants dur ng the decade was 16,113 and the ame preceeding decade 26,000. WONDERFUL OPERATION. lhe Shin Bone of a Man Grafted on - to a Woman. By grafting the shin bone of a man ito a woman shffering from necrosis :hus practically giving her a' whole ew lower leg, thie surgeons of a New' ork hospital for the deformed have ~ompleted an operation unique in urgery. Up to now oerations of his sort have been confined to ex erimental work done on dogs. The first essential was to get a ood healthy bone to take the place f the one eaten by the disease. Af er a time one of the hospitals which andled emergency cases ~reldrted hat a man had been killed in an ac ident. As the 'body was unclaimed tnd would have gone either to Pot ers field or the dissecting room of ome medical college, requisition was nade for one of the legs, from which he tibia was taken. It was kept in u ice box, immersed in a strong salt olution until the surgeon was ready use i't. * HEAVY REWARD OFFERED. 'or the Negro Who Killed the Ashe ville Policeman. A dispatch from Asheville, N. C.. ays the death of Patrolmian McCon ell, which occurred Friday after won, the increase of the reward to Lpproximately $1,000 and the em >loyment of expert detectives,, has! ;iven impetus to the search for John Iff, the negro who shot McConneln, ;hile the former was under arrest for tealing cattle. Posses are so-uring he mountains:in every direction, foi owing up clues, while officers of a d oning counties are lending every ef ort in the search which up to late 'uesday night had proven of no vail. Ncthing definite has been eard of Huff since he was located .nd gave officers the slip near Green ille Thursday night 0 last week. ItI False Story Denounced. At a meeting of several Confeder te veterans, members of camp No. ,Army of the Trennessee, a state rient, said to have appeared in a reekly magiazine on June 10 last in ;hich it was asserted that a school eacher of New Haven, Conn., was de tuded, tarred and feathered in a blic square of New Orleans dur nig the civil war, was strongly de ucd as a fakehood. Death of Rev. Dr. Shuck. Rev. L. H. Shuck, D. D., pastor of heraw Baptist church, died Sunday terncon. Dr. Shuck was known broughout the Strate, he having la ored in the ministry for 54 years 1 the Carolinas, Kentucky, Missouri nd Virginia. The :interment took lace at Barnwell. Drowvned Himself. Ensign R. S. Young, of Concord, N. .disappeared from the destroyer erkins, at the New York Navy yard, ednesday night leaving a note stat 1g thut he intended to drown him af. The young officer had slightly verstayed his shore leave and had 'l een called upon for an explanation. t From lite of Crab. Miss M vbelle Scheririshea. age 1 4, t New Orleans, may lose her left rm because of the bite of a crab. She as "pinched" on the hand by the b ab last week and the wound- became T fected. Physicians are making c PLANS PROBE C, tomrey General Wickrmham, Against Whom There Are Charges. G FILL BE LOOKED INTO lelegate Wickesham, of Alaska ti Charges That Department of Jus- & G tice Delayed Prosecutions in Al- ti leged Criminal Cases Until Statute of Limitations Expired. Official circles in Washington has a nother serious charge against a pub- v ic official to speculate on until it is f4 horoughly investigated ahd decided 0 d ne way or the other h After secret consideration of s harges made by Delegate Wicker- b ham, of Alaska, that Attorney". ral Wickersham deliberately permit- S ed the Statute of Limitations to run gainst agents of the Alaska -Syndi- a ate, the House of Represeritatives 4 udiciary committee has determined t o report favorably a resolution of 1 nquiry offered by Delegate Wicker- t ham. d The Attorney-General, when seen Chursday night, denied all the ,har- t Mes. His friends intimated that the t harges were old. t The resolution would call upon the ttorney-General to furnish the t louse with all documents, affidavits t nd testimony in his possession re ating to an affidavit su'bmitted to s Lim more than a year ago and sworn o by H. J. Douglas, former auditor >f the Alaska Syndicate, in 1908. r Delegate Wickersham startled the r :ommittee, when, in executive ses ;ion, he produced a copy of an am lait relating to an alleged criminal e tct committed by Capt. D. H. Jarvis, 1 >f the Alaska Syndi'cate, as the one t 'ormerly sent to the, Government ser ice June 23, the day following the troduction of the Wickersham res >lution. .. Through connivance of these men, . t was charged that the Government I was defrauded of coal lands an-d t :bat evidence to. that effect was per nitted to remain unacted upon in he Attorney-General's office for more han a year,'until the Statute of Lim- t tations expired last May Delegate Wickersham furnished he committee with copies of a letter :o D. H. Jarvis, admitting th'e expen iture of money to control Govern nent witnesses in the Hazel murder ;rial, in 1908, wherein 4n agent of ;he Alaska Syndicate was accused of nurdering laborers employed by rival nterests. - A photogrdh of an expense ac, c :ount for $1,33..40, of Mi. B. Morris- 4 ey, employed by the syndicate, it is aimed to entertain Government wit- I Pesses and juryTpen in that connec- i ion, also was submitted to the com- c mittee. 'This evidence, Delegate Wickersham declared, also is in the t pos:ession of the Attorney General.. Delegate Wickersham urged on the judiciary committee the Douglas t affidavit, involving the representsa-t ives of the iorthwestern Commer- < cial company, one of the Alaska syn dicate concerns, and the Sesnon Coal . Company. "On May 24, 1910,," said he, "I C sent to Attorney General Wickersham I a copy of the affidavit, calling his as tention to the fact that the Govern ment had- been defrauded of $50,000 t by perjury and a combination o thea, two concerns."1 "What do you mean 'by the Alas ka Syndicate," Chairman Clayton in qjuired. "I refer to the Alaska syndicate, I composed of J. P. Morgan, the Gug enheim brothers, Kuhn, Loeb and < Co., Jacob H. Schiff and Graves." t "What do you mean by the Gug enheim :brothers?" asked Mr. Norris f Nebraska. "Senator Gu-ggenheim and his six brothers." * "Who is Graves?" "He represents Close Brothers, the English Syndicate, and other Eng lish concerns. "Capt. Jarvis," added the delegate, 'was the confidential agent of Mor ;an, in charge of the syndicate in Se HDDEN MONEY FOUND). . Gaynor and Greene Conceiiled Near ly a Million. Three quarters of a million dollarst as been recovered from the conceal ad assets of Gaynor and Greene, who defrauded the government of two cuillion dollars in Savannah harbor t Iredging contracts in 1897 according 4 :o a dispatch from Washington. E. I. 1 Tohnson, an expert accountant, and t [Tnited 'States District Attorney iiar- f on Erwin of Savannah, Georgia, are 1: eesponsible for the recovery. Most >f the funds recovered were in bonds and stocks. More than $2,0.00,000 was in cash. These assets were found n New York, Philadelphia, Chicago md Denver. Some bonds were 1o !ated in Paris, but they could not be - -ecovered. Johnson and Erwin have t yeen searching for these assets fora 12 years. * t Three Rescuers Drowned. 1 The wireless operator at surf, Cal., -eceived a message at 10.135 p. m. riday night from the Centralla say ngg-that the second mate and two e amen of the Helen P. Drew were c trowned while attempting to take af ife line to the Santa Rosa. * 1 They Had Hot Time.o In a free-for-all fight, at an outing c ndd dance given by some Polish min- a r near Adna, Ohio, three menewere tabbed to death, three more were attlly injured and about a score of erons, including several women, re- C ei ived knife wounds. . I C Struck Their Boat. :A Milton. Fla., George E. Carroll o nd his twelve year old son were in- b tntly killed by lightning Friday. tl 'hey were rowing and had turned n u head for the shore at the approach. f a thunderstorm when the craft ras struck. J Hard on Horses. Twelve hundred horses died from 1i eat in New York during 11 days. h 'he total loss in borseflesh through- h, ut the country as a result of the .be ati estmed at $1,000,000. * W NEAR BEAR SOL ONDImON IN UNION AND DAR INGTON BAD. ovenor Blease Says He is Doing Al He Can to Uphold Law, Bat Can't Do It All. "Near beer saloons have been in oduced into the State and they are s bad as the fake social clubs," said overnor Blease, Friday. "Condi ons at Union and Darlington ap ear to be particularly bad. I am do is all I can to upliold the law, but cannot do it all." The governor directed attention to displayed article in the - Union imes of Friday, which he said set rth the situation in Union as it. was. escribed to. him. The article Is eaded "Governor- Blease orders heriff Long to close. down on Inear eer." The article follows: - "Govenor . Blease has ordered heriff Long to close down on" the e'ar-beer estalblishments in Union nd Union county. Constable D. R. itchens has also received instruc ions from the governor to coopepate i this movement. 'it is to be hoped hat this work will be thoroughly-. one by the officers. It is stated on good authority that he city council has issued more han a dozen lieenses to near-beer es-. ablishments and of course the city ouncil could not logically suppress he creations of its own hands. In he meantime the worst condition ex ts in Union now that we have ever een. Gambling dens and blind tigers, 2asquerading under -the name of Lear-beer saloons are rife. It is mored that cany young lads are attonizing these places. The-tigers re not even blind. They are Argfs yed. For vulgar flaunting -of law essness we -give the palm to Union own. We have never seen anythin3 ike it. Some of the members of the police orce are reported as being regular ratrons of places of - illicit liquor elling. It is certain that they make to effort to- put down these institu- - ions. A blind man can see that. If lovernor Blease will continue. his ffort -to put down these places of niquity he will receve the approba ion of every law abiding citizen of his town.. SET7ENTEEN YEAR TOCUSTS. Vith Voiceless Wives Appeai After a Long Time. What is understood to be the 17 rear locust has 'appeared in Crisp ounty in large numbers on the farm-.' f Mr. A. C. Fraseur, near Cordele a. The insects,. are devouring the eaves of the cotton plants and va ious trees and there are also large uantities-of them on the shade trees Lnd shrubbery in Sunny Side ceme Tese curious pests emerged from ittle 'holes in the ground on schedule7 ie, climed the trees ~and 'filed - he air with deafening songs. It Is Iubtless known that when they iave arrived they will lay their egga nd the larvae will burrow into- the. r~th for-another long dark vigi'l n- - er.ground until 1*928, just. as they iave now waited since their last ap earance in the year 1894. Our records of the appearence of he locusts run back to the year 1634 t'hen they were first observed by the ilgrims of Plymouth. Thelir -ap earence at periodcal intervals of .7 years was observed by the Amer can Indians long ,before the corn ng of the white -man and made rown to the early settlers -of this ountry. They were also known to he ancient Greeks. The male sings his song of love Lnd dies first. The female deposits ter eggs and also dies. -It is all over s n .less than-six ideks after 1T'years f preparation. * ~ SHOT HI TO DEATH. White Man Kills Negro Who Insulted His Wife. After follawing him for 4 miles a white man named Bragg put a load f shot in thebreast and inother load ore- off the top of the head of Ed 3rown, a negro, at Jimps, Ga., Fri lay night. It is said the negro wrote ragg's wife a letter and after hand ng it t'o her himself, started off in he direction of Jimps with a white nan named - Waters. Bragg was tway from home at the time and then he returned-his wife gave him he lettei-. He got his gun and start- - d out after the negro and after fol owing him for 4 iiiiles found him at he station and later the negro was ound in a pile of crossties with his . Lead blown off. Booze Under Straw. Being suspicious of the looks of a vagn filled with t shwra icwhed-(v-b ragon filled with straw which was lassing his front gate, at Dalton, Ga., ursday, Police Chief Fincher called o the driver to stop. He then made thorugh examination of the con ents of the wagon and found a good y supply of old mountain corn whis :ey covered u-p under the straw. * The Earth Trembled. Two earthquake shocks were felt arly Monday morning in the town -Keoskemet, Hungary. A 'panic ollowed, the inhabitants rushing out atto the streets and assembling in the luares. Hundreds of chimneys were verturned and the town hall and ther buildings more or less dam lian Seriously Cat. At Greenville on Monday morning LF. Mc~all, boss spinnet' at the trandon cotton mill, was seriously at with a knife by E.'F. Pittmnan. 'he trouble took place about 6:30 'clock when McCall was approached y Pittman in the spinning room of te mil1 in reference to Mrs. Pitt ian's connection with the mill. Shock Proved Fatal Charley Lawson, a negro living on .E. Broughton's place was killed ednesday about five o'clock by ghtning. Mr. Broughton and his ands had sought shelter in an out ouse and all were shocked by the :>1t that killed Lawscn. Three mules ..ee als nked down.*