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ORN SHOW OPENS COLUMBIA IS NOW THE MECCA Of THE FARMERS CORN CLUB BUYS THERM City Welcomes Visitors to Greates Agricultural Event Ever Held is United States. - Exhibits From Twenty-seven States.-isplay of Federal Government Never Before Equalled. With innumera.ble flags and fancy decorations flying a glad welcome, the city of Columbia began Monday morning to receive visitors,to the 5th National Corn Exposition, which op ened its gates at 9 o'clock. it will continue two weeks, and during this time it is expected that it will be vis ited by thousands of people from va rious sections of the country, whc will come to it to study the funda mental principles in agriculture which are demonstrated in all its varied exhibits. The Exposition embraces exhibits from some 27 state agricultural col leges and experiment stations, a greal and comprehensive exhibit from the Federal department of agriculture representing all the numerous phase: of activity of this department, anc various other exhibits, all devoted tc the fundamental purpose of the Ex position-the betterment of agricul ture and the enrichment of rural life 'Many strangers visited the ground: Monday mornring, and the series of structures which house this agricul tural event have been alive with the demonstrations of the exhibits, the operation of the modern farm ma ehinery in the machinery exhibit por tion of the building, and with the col lege yells and the eager exclamation: of the corn club boys, who are here to attend the prize winners' school which began its sessions Monday morning. -The installation of the various ex hibita has been completed, and witi the elaborate floral decorations al in place, and the mammoth painting around the main educational hal completed, the scene presented is oni of striking beauty. Every exhibi has a group of :agricultural special ists to explain the various points o interest, and to discuss farm prob lems with the visitors. The opening exercises were hel< Monday afternoon beginning at fou o'clock, in the presence of a larg< throng of city people and visitors The leading merchants of the cIt: closed their doors at 3:30 o'clock to allow opportunity to all to attend the Exposition. Addresses were deliver ed by Mayor; T. C. Thompson, o Chattanooga; Mayor W. H. Gibbes o Colulmbia, and Dr. S. C. Mitchell president of the Un!versity of Soutl Carolina. TlE Exposition will be opel throughouft'he two weeks from nin< o'clock In the morning until elevel o'clock in the evenings, and ever; night the structures 'will be brilliant ly illuminated throughout, sho'win; the elaborate decorative effects ti their best advantage. The 'whole Ex positioni is completed 'withmn one se of walls, and is equipped with a' conveniences, including dining hall Visitors are encouraged to spend th' entire day in the Exposition, study ing the educational exhibits and gel ting acquainted with the many farr methods and principles demonstrated The great exhibit from the Federa department of agriculture, the bes the department has ever put out, ha aroused the wonder of all visitori Many have spent hours studyini some single feature of tbis exhibit In addition to giving a grand revi of the work of the department, thi exhibit deals fundamentally 'wit1 many agricultural problems, especial ly those which are peculiar to th, South. Beginning -Monday afternoon at o'clock, the government is exhibit ig a number of interesting and in structive moving picture films at the F'ifth National Corn ExposItion. Thi pictures are to be shown every after noon and every evening. The admis slon charge, 50c for adults and 25 for children under 12 years of age covers the entire Exposition, and, o course, there is no extra charge fo: these pictures or any of the othe educational demonstrations. Among the reels shown is ont dealing exclusively with the cattl< tick, the destructive insect which it stated to be costing the South an nually from $50.000,000 to $100, 000,000. The complete life story c the cattle tick will be shown in mov ing picture films, from the eggs t< the adult. insect, and the varlou methods of the tick eradication wil also be shown upon the screen. Thi film will be accompanied by lecture from Dr. E. M. Nighbert, of Atlanta of the United States department o agriculture. These films are not making their first public appearance having been recently completed af ter two years of Investigation in get ting pIctures. Other ~highly Interesting film: show the course of the milk suppl: from "cow to customer", the mea inspection in the United States de partment of agriculture, and the great live stock parade at Seattle Government men are in charge of thi demonstrations. Demonstrations of the cattle dip ping vat at the fifth National Cort Exposition comnenced Tue34t: morning at ten o'clock at the Expo sition grounds. Cattle were dipped and this method of eradicating thi cattle tiek, one of theo destructive in sects of the South. will be explaine4 by representatives of the Federal de partmient of agriculture, which I! putting on this internsting exhibit The vat Is under the direction of Dr 3. Francis Fahoy, of the TTnited States bureau of animal industry. Demonstrations of the vat will bi given daily throughout the Exposi tion at ten o'clock. two o'clock in the afternoon, anrd at four o'clock In the afternoon. according to annoiunce ments from Dr. Fahey Monday z.. lng. The cattle will be dippinr the arsenical solution, and the olperd. tion will be fully explained to all persons interested. Senator Tillman was reelected ot Tuesday witbout opposition, Senator Young's effort to hold up the electioni aid not even meet with a second. STRIKERS GIVE TROUBLE ONE XAN KILLED IN A ROW WITH LAW OFFICERS. Twelve Other People Were Wounded, Some of Whom it is Thought Will Die From Injuries. At Pittsburg, Pa., deputy sheriffs and strikers from the Rankin plant of the American Steel and Wire Com pany, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, clashed Tuesday and one man was Killed and twelve persons injured, several fatal ly. All the wounded except two dep uty sheriffs and a policeman, were spectators. Among the injured are several women and a six-months-old child. The deputy sheriffs and strikers collided in one of the principal streets of Rankin borough, which ad joins that city. The county officers, armed with revolvers and rifles, and the 'strikers armed with revolvers and stones, battled for one hour with in an area of two squares. The rioting and shooting ended when the deputy sheriffs retreated within the fence of the mill. The dead man, George, Kozley, was shot twice in the stomach. The strike started less than a week ago. They are paid at the rate of 19c an hour. They are demand ing 30c an hour. The first out break occurred last Saturday night. I when strikers and policemen of Ran kin clashed. Nine persons were injured, a ma jority of them officers. A number of shots were fired without effect. Sunday was quiet, owing to the pres ence of Sheriff Judd Bruff, of Alleg heny County. with a large force of deputies. During Saturday night, however, the strikers took possession of the hills surrounding Hankin Borough, building bonfires. Occasionally shots were directed toward the yards of the mill. Early Monday morning the deputy sheriffs dispersed the strikers, extinguished the fires and Sheriff Bruff issued an order closing all saloons. This was followed later by the probably fatal stabbing of a deputy sheriff, whose I assailants escaped. 1 Tuesday Burgess J. Knox Milligan. of Rankin, issued a proclamation de cl aring the borough in a state of riot and being a "dead line", of 300 t yards around the plant, warning all children from the streets and con t tinuing the order to keep all saloons - closed. MRS. LONGSTREET'S OFFER. Wants Confederate Veterans to Help General Sickles. "I will raise the money to relieve Gen. Sickles of his embarrassment if - New York pushes the prosecution f and none of his Northern friends go to his aid. The ragged, maimed vet erans of the South will rush to re spond to the need of one of the most gallant soldiers America ever knew." SThis statement was made Monday by Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet, widow ~of the Confederate general at Gaines - ylle, Ga., where she lives, after the publication of her telegrams to Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, at New York, and the State Attorney General, at Al bany, offering aid in the soldier's I fnancial difficulties. "My husband always spoke of Gen. Sickles as the hero of Gettysburg., the statement continues. They were opposed to each other in tnat decta ing battle of the war, and Gen. Long street, in the last autograph letter he ever wrote. September 19. 1902, to Gen. Sickles, told him that the taking of the peach orchard .by Sickles' corps won the battle for the Union forces. "It was Gen. Longstreet's detach ment that shot off the leg of the brave Union general, but, as Gen Longstreet said: 'Sickles can well afforrd to leave a leg on Gettysburg. for he has made sure his place for ever in the hearts of Americans.' "I1 have made no plans as yet, but if Gen. Sickles needs my aid, and the aid of the South. he will get It." WOULD LEGALIZE RACING. A Bill Introduced in Legislature for That Purpose. rThe establishment of a racing commission, to be composed of three members to be elected by the General Assembly, to hold office for three years and to have charge of all rae SIng meets in South Carolina. is pro -vided for in a bill, which was intro duced in the House Monday morning !by Representative John T. Miller of Richland County. This bill would Srepeal all anti-racing measures now ci the statute books and give the commission the right to license rac inlg associations, the salary of the commissioners to be $500 each an nually. No system of betting is per. m itted, except the par-mutuel sys tem, and violations of the sections are made misdemeanors punishable by fines. Under this bill all county -and State Fair associations will have to get a license from the racing tom mission, to hold race meets at the fairs. SCOUTS KILLED AT TAGLITSI. A Captain and Six Privates Were Reported as Dead. A cablegram from Manila says a wireless dispatch from Brig. Gen. -John J. Pershing. commanding the department of Siinaanao, gives de tails of an engagement on the morn ing of January 23 at Taglltsi between IMoros and detachments of Philli -pine scounts and the constabulary. Capt. Patrick McNally and sIx en listed men of the scouts were killed: Leut. William Townsend of the Iscouts and Lieut. Cochrun, Lieut. Whitney of the constabulary and 19 enlisted men were wounded. The wounds of both Townsend and Coch run are serIous. Bride's Hat Afire at Altar. While the Rev. William H. Walsh of Ballston, N. Y., was officiating at Ithe marriage of Anna Guito and John Curico, the bride leaned too close to the candles on the altar and her hat a-ht fire. In an instant Father Walsh beat out the fire, calmed those ' the church who had become panic Lstricken. and proceeded with the cer mny. TO WEAR THE LY GETSBURG TO SEE THE OLD UNIFORM AGAIN OLD CONFEDS TO DON IT Pennsylvania Governor Disposes of Vexed Question When He Declares That Southern Veterans Will be Welcome Whether They Wear Cit izens' Attire or Their Tattered Confederate Grey. The News and Courier says Gen C. Irvine Walker has just returned from a conference of the Pennsyli vania Gettysburg Commission, with the representatives from the various States, Governor Tenor of Pennsyl vania and others, held last week at Philadelphia. The meeting was a most pleasant and profitable one. Much l~aogress was made in the nec t ssary t-ran: ements f r the fr .-. celebration to be held July 1-4. The only matter of general inter est to the South was the conclusion reached as to the Confederate Vet erans appearing in their grey and bearing their colors at the celebra tion At the first Conference, held October, 1910, it was agreed that it was best for all that all Veterans appear in citizens' dress, as Ameri can citizens and not as soldiers, and that only the flag of the country should be displayed upon the field. This gave great dissatisfaction to miany Veterans, Union as well as Confederate. Just about as many posts of the G. A. R. wanted to ap pear in blue as there were camps of U. C. V. who wished to come in grey. The matter was brought up and nost forcibly presented by Gen. Felix H. Robertson, commanding the Texas -livision, U. C.. V., and representative from Texas. Among other things he said: "We were forced into the Un ion, and now we ask that you take us as we are. Allow the old Confeder stes to go to Gettysburg in their tat tered uniforms. If you decide that these grey uniforms must be left at home, a large number of those who wear them will refuse to attend the great encampment." Gen. J. Thompson Brown, repre sentative from Virginia, and Sergt. J. C. Scarborough, representative from North Carolina, thought every one should wear what he pleased. Gen. C. Irvine Walker said that Vetet,.ns of both armies will certainly wear their badges; why not their uniforms if they want to?" The discussion was closed and the question settled, when Governor Ten er, of Pennsyllvania, said: "I want It well understood by the whole Con federate soldiery that you are coming as guests of the State of which I have the honor to be the Chief Executive, and It will make no difference to him or the State whether the man fromn the South comes in citizens' attire or wears the old grey uniform. Wheth er the uniform be blue or grey, the wearer will be heartily welcome. No one has greater admiration for the Confederate soldier and for the su perb manner in which he fought his battles than I have. As Pennsylvania is the host, all that need ConCern you, as representatives of the several states, is the bringing of your Vet eran soldiers here. Pennsylvania will do the rest, and we hope our guests will enjoy the occasion as much as we will." The hospitable words of Governor Tener were received with great applause, and thus it was de cided that the old Confederates could come as they pleased and would be most warmly welcomed. A most marked feature of the conference was the respect and consideration shown the representatives of the Southern States, and the cordial comradeship shown by the Union Veterans. None of the Southern States, but several of the other states, have yet made appropriations to pay the transportation or their Veterans not for want of Interest, but from the fnancial difficulties which embarrass them. So, the Confederate Veterans who go will have to pay their own transportation expenses, but will be cared for when they reach the field. The United States Government and the State of Pennslivania are erect ing a modern camp to accomodate at least 40,000 Veterans. and under the skillful direction of Major J. E. Nor moyle, United States army, will have a complete and commodious camp. There will be issued cots, blankets. mess equipments; quarters and cook ed rations will be supplied; hospitals, if unfortunately any such may be needed, will be provided, and every. thing will be done for the comfort, convenience and enjoyment of the Veterans. Gen. Walker has been appointed by the commission. its Southern repre sentative, and will be most happy to give any Information to his comrades. There will soon be issued a circular of such detailed information as now can be given, and the same will be distributed among the Veterans of the South. An additional attraction for the trip will be that the Confederate mon ument at Arlington, which the U. D. C. have raised, will be unveiled on Memorial Day, Sunday, July 16. The railroads will give a lay-over privi lege of ten days in Washington so that all the Confederates, returning from Gettysburg, may attend the un veiling. The monument to Robt. E. Lee and the Virginians, which the State of Virginia is now erecting at Gettys burg. can hardly be ready for un eiling at the time of the Gettysburg ~eebration, as had been hoped and contracted for. This monument will be erected on the very spot where Lee stood to witness Pickett's glor ious charge: "surely." said Gen. Waliker, "any Confederate can go to a place con scrate-d by a monu~ment to Lee!'' Commenting on thie effort to get up a fight on Senator Tillman by some members of the General Assem ly, Brother Banks, of the Anderson Mail, says: "Now witness the old lion at bay. The victor in many a bloody battle out on the open. To day he is belabored by the jungle in sects that swarm. But there Is fight in the old lIon yet and we would take the liberty to post a placard: maNotca Dnt twak his tall " GEN. ROBT. E. LEE (Continued from page one.) eventful afternoon and rode to Ar lington-the mecca and inspiration sf his thoughts-rode slowly-with the great capitol at his back and his home to the front-with this quarter of a century record behind him and only his Virginia hills in front rode in a Gethsemene of thought ani nguish! He had been offered .u preme command-'Where shall this sword fight?' "Reared in a day when his ap pointmet to West Point was consitt ered to mean that he represented h13 state there, rather than the country -reared in a day when state loyalty meant patriotism-the question for him was, 'shall I draw sword for the general government against my ow i Ftate?' Mrs. Lee says that all -lui ing that night while she kept vigil below, she could hear him pacing his floor above her, and every now ani then he would kneel in prayer. Gen eral Lee in prayer! To what God did he pray-and what was he ask ing of that God? Oh! men and wo men, I believe that future genera tions, and the verdict of history, shall decide that when he prayed that night his prayer was to the God of Right and that the prayer, Oh God what Is my duty?' and I believe that he heard in answer, 'No matter what the duty of others, it Is right for Robert E. Lee to fight for Virginia at any cost, at any sacrifice! "And so he wrote with a breaking heart his letter of resignation say ng, 'Never again shall I draw this sword except in defence of my native stat.' "I proclaim that this sword was unsheathed for naught that could beN seen or heard or handled-but for honor, loyalty and right as the God of right let him see it! The Confed erate army did not fight for slavery -but for Principle as God gave them the vision to see it! "Oh, ye inheritors of the memory of Robert E. Lee. is he the ideal of your civilization, the guiding star of your success? * * * There are worse things than war, worse things than the pillaging of cities--brutMl war is dreadful but brutal Pease s eorser There is some excuse for te war maddened soldier rushing into burn and pillage-but Uh the cold blooded greed of commercialism that believes in things tangible and not Eternal principles! If you lose your idealism, young men and women of the South, you can not claim the precious heritage of your fathers! Lee and Appomattox. "Charles Francis Adams, noble foe and generous enemy, most sympa thetic critic of General Lee, says that at Appomattox General Lee rose to the true height of his greatness. These were the circumstances-our beloved General, E. P. Alexander, states in his history that on the night before the surrender there en tered into the tent of General Lee a group of Confederate officers who urged upon him that he escape and with his of~cers. join Gen. Joseph Johnson in North Carolina, letting the men disperse thruout the. South, they said 'General Lee, you Can't sur render.' Chas. Francis Adams says the history of this country for the next fifty years depended upon Lee at that moment-guerilla warfare could have been kept up indefinitely. The decision was his and he turned to them an said, 'Gentlemen, we are Christian people-we have done all in our power In honorable warfare, further fighting would mean useless slaughter-now we must accept the issue.' "General Lee in this decision saved his nation from countless woes. . S S "His last decision was when he must decide what to do with his life. Few know how many offers he re ceived. An English nobleman offer ed him an estate and an income amounting to fifteen thousand a year. But he answered: 'I must share the fate of our Southern people.' "Among many other offers of sup port and comfort, an Insurance com pany offered him a large income just for the use of his name-his eyes flashed and he replie T: 'Gentlemen. my name is not for sale.' Such a name can not be bought for all the riches of the earth. He refused all these offers and went to Lexington, vhere the school founded by Wash ington had been almost completely ruined by the reckless dash of Hunt er and he said: 'I have a self-impos ed task-I have led young men into battle; I must teach them the duties of life.' "And so for the succeeding years. with his beautiful character, his splendid example and noble life, he climbed ever upward. And so one day again he triumphed-the day cae when he did not die-but all Lexington came forth to hold his stirrup while he mounted to ride down the streets of gold. "And he still is callIng to the young men of the South, come up higher, higher, higher!" BULLET INTO HER HEART. Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Commits Sui cide at Green'ille. Miss Arnie Allen, the pretty four teen-year-old daughter of Walter Allen, committed suicide Monday by shooting herself in the heart with a 32-calibre revoliver. Only one bul let was fired, and this caused the in stantaneous death of the young girl. No note or message was left by the girl. The suicide lived with her' father and mother in the suburbs of Greenville and the deed was commit ted in a woodshed near the cottage. Walter Allen. the father of the girl, was convicted some years ago of the murder of Henry Tramwell, a moun taineer, and was sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary. He later scaped, but repented of nreating prison, returned after a few weeks of liberty and told the prison war den that he had come to spend the rest of his* days. About two years ago he was found to have tubercu losis and was pardoned. Woman 8tifled Hiding in Trunk. To tease her husband, Mrs. Alfonse Victorine, of Amesbury, Mlass., con eealed herself in a trunk as she hoard him enter the house. As the cover dopped over her, the bolt of the old tshioned lock slipped Into its place a~nd in a few hours the woman was lead of suffocation. A three days' ;earch by the police revealed the hid ing.. lac nf th nortnate woman. IETS ENTIRE VOTE NO EFFORT IS MADE TO DEFEAT SENATOR TILLAN DESPITE MANY RUMORS The House and Senate, Voting Sep arately, Carry Out the Wishes of the People Expressed in the Pri mary Without Dissenting Voice. Despite Rumors to the Contrary. There was no whisper of opposi tion Tuesday, and so far as the or icial records will show, the re-elec tion of United States Senator B. R. Tillman was unanimous. Every vote that was recorded in response to the call of the clerk, 'both in the House and in the Senate, was for Benjamin R. Tillman. If there was at any time an effort to organize opposition to Senator rillman, it completely "petered out", and some of those who seemed to be most offended by Senator Tillman's recent communication with refer ence to alleged objectionable in duences joined in seconding the nom ination and recorded their votes in his favor. On the House side there were one hundred and sixteen votes cast, the other eight members being either ab sent or out of the hall at the time. Speaker Smith, among those .absent, was excused by resolution to attend the opening exercises of the Corn Ex position, but before leaving the hall he asked that his vote be recorded as having been cast for Senator Till man's re-election. Formal nomination of Senator Tillman for re-election was made by Mr. Courtney, of Edgefield, and in so doing he spoke briefly of the ser vices that had been rendered by Sen ator Tillman to the State and nation. The House and Senate both hav ing cast their vote in favor of the re-election of Senator Tillman, the balloting being necessary Tuesday ac cording to the Federal statutes, there is nothing further to be done now, except having the two houses meet in joint assembly, when the result will be formally ratified and Senator Tillman will, on the fourth of March, as the result of his unanimous re election Tuesday, begin his fourth term as United States Senator from South Carolina. There was not at any time the slightest possibility of the defeat of Senator Tillman because the mem bers of both branches were pledged to abide by the result of the primary. The only thing might have ben a delay, which might possibly have r stilted in complications or the tying up of the election by the presenta tion of "favorite sons", but it all vanished when the show-down came and all realized that the members could not have voted against the re sult of the primary whatever may have been their feeling with refer ence to the charges that might have hurt the feelings of some. All seem ed to realize that the whole thing is the game of politics. . TWO MEN ARE BADLY HURT. Victims of the Premature Explosion of Some Dynamite. In a premature explosition at the Caspanis Stone Company's plant, near Lexington, at noon 'Monday, Lucius Bickley, a young white man. and Willie Lorick, a negro, were ser iously and dangerously wounded. Young Bickley lost his right eye with a possibility of losing his eyesight en tirely, and he is otherwise seriously injured. Lorick, the negro, is more dangerously wounded, being almost completely lacerated from the waist up. The two men were rushed to hos pitals In Columbia by Dr. E. P. Der rick, the company's local surgeon. where operations were performed. How the accident occurred, no one seems to know, other than that Lor rick was tamping a charge when it suddenly exploded. Bickley was standing nearby and both were blown Into the air by the discharge, it is said. Young Bickley had not been working at the quarry long and the terrible accident is much deplored. SHOT WOMAN AND BABY. But Fugitive Had Escaped While Posse Stormed House. In a fight between a sheriff's posse and John Baran, an outlaw, at the latter's home, near Riding Mountain, in Manitoba, Monday, a woman and child were shot to death by officers. Baran escaped. The posse had gone to the cabin determined to capture Baran for shooting Charles Rooke, of the Man itoba police. Rooke had attempted to arrest Baran on a warrant charg ing him with wife desertion. When the posse appeared at the cabin Bar an opened fire. Bullets were re turned by the posse. Suddenly the iring ceased. Believing the outlaw had exhausted his ammunition, the psse stormed the house. Their prisoner had fled. Lying on the floor was the body of a woman with whom Baran is said to have been living. Clasped in her arms was the body of an infant. Both were victims of the posse's bullets. FLEE BEFORE JUDGiE'S WRATH. School Girls' Visit to Police Court Bather Cut Short. A visit to a police court at Kan sas City, Mo., on Mionday, by eleven high school girls, accompanied by instructors, drew a scathing repri mand from Municipal Judge Burney and caused such a furore among members of the board of education that an investigating committee Im mediately was appointed to place re sponsibility for the girl's presence in the court. The class and instructors left the court room before Judge Burney had finished his denunciation of their presence. President Wilson may let the Re publicans holding office fill out their terms, but we feel sure he will ap point Democrate to succeed them as RU! BAKING I Absolute The only Baldn fron Royal Orap NO ALUM, NO L SOME SCHOOL FACTS THEY SHOULD BE STUDIED Bp ALL OF OUR PEOPLE. They Show That South Carolina Lags Way Behind Many Other States ii Education. Opportunely for its influence 01 educators and law-makers, upon the eve of the assembling of many Stat' legislatures, there is published a 10, 000 copy edition of 4 bulletin con taining results of an important com porative study of State school rys tems in the forty-eight states, made by the division of education main tained under the Russell Sage foun dation. None of the commonwealths eom posing the federal union has a schoc system free from weak points, an the foundation issues this notabl summary of its recent investigatio at this time, in order to bring thes weak points to the attention of edu cators and to place in the hands o State legislators an authoritativ statement of present public schoc conditions. Copies of the bulletin have bee: distributed among newspapers ani magazines, colleges, principals o normal schools, city school superin tendents, governors and State super intendents of public. instruction, ani a copy has been forwarded to ever member of every State legislature ap pointed to meet In 1913. We agree with The State tha South Carolinians will find nothin in this remarkable document to it duce In them a feeling of complacet cy, In respect of the provision mad by their State for elementary publi schools. South Carolina is ranked a follows among the forty-eight states Forty-seven in general efficienc3 Forty-eighth in educational expel diture per child of school age. Forty-eighth in average expend! ure per one day's schooling for eac child of school age. Forty-sixth in average annual sal ary per teacher. Forty-fifth in the average numbe of day's schooling given each child a school age. Forty-fifth in the number of pt p1ls in high schools and colleges rels tively to the number attending publi and private elementary schools. Rhode Island has the longeu school year of any State--193 days but If these 193 days of schoolin were divided equally among the chi: dren of school age in the State, th result would be 116 days of school lg each. The Sage report terms thi the "effective school year". and com pares forty-eight states on that cot servative basis. Rated by this standard. South Cas olina provides fifty days of schoolin for every child of school age. Sout Carolina's annual expenditure pe child of school age is $3. Washing on's is $32. or nearly eleven time s much. South Carolina's invesi -ent in school property-buildingi sites. etc.-aggregating $3,250,00( is only $6 per child of school age s against $1 15 in Massachusett ud $111 in New York. Our rank among the States in thi respect is forty-seventh, Mississipp alone holding a lower pos'tion. For ty-eighth and lowest place is held b: South Carolina in respect of curren expenditure per child of school age The average percentage of atten dance among enrolled pupils In Souti Carolina is 71.8, which gives us th tank of twenty-one among the forty eight states. South Carolina teachers receive a1 average annual salary of but $2 12 considerably less than $1 per day California teachers are paid, on thi average, $918 per year each. Comn pare figures with the average annua earnings of carpenters in the Unit ed States $892; of coal miners $600 of factory workers. $550; of commoi laborers. $513; and of teachers $485: and remember also that on< Southern State rents Its convicts ti contractors at a little more thal $400 each per year. while it pays It: public school teachers, on an aver age, slightly over $300 each. Nearly 34 per cent. of the childrei of school age in South Carolina ar not enrolled in any school, public o private. Not all of these are to bi set clown as not having had an: schooling or having no prospect 0 getting any, since the number indi cated includes some who have no ve hesun to go to school, but whC will begin and others who have com pleted their education: but it is evi dent that Vermont, Maine and Con recticut with more than 90 per cent f their children of se'nool age ac tually in school, are making bette1 investments for future citizenshiT than is South Carolina, with more tan 8' per cent. of its children of =hlo ag" not receiving schooling. South Carolina ranks forty amiong the states in respect of total school mevenue available. all of this bui 1 2.2 per cent. being derived froir loeal and state taxes, but this total can not fairly be used as the basih f a comnparisonl with other states ar'art from data as to area. popula tion and taxable values, which data are not readily available. South Car olina expends on her schools twenty seven cents per year for each $ 10i of her wealth (estimated total val nation of real and personal prop erty). Oklahoma's expenditure, reckoned on the same basis, is seven ty-five cents. South Carolina puts herself to the expense of only seven cents in fur nishing one day's schooling to one child, as against fourteen cents in Flor.. eiteean in Rhode Tsland, (AL POWDER >Iy Pure y Powder made iCream of Tartar ME PHOSPHATE PRIEST SHOT HIMSELF LOVE FOR A DIVORCED WOMAN LED TO TRAGEDY. The Last Night He Spent in Apart ments With Woman He Loved, and There He Committed Suicide. His love for Mrs. Alice Creepy, one of his parishioners, a divorced wo man, eccentric in character and be 3, havior, caused the Abbe Chassaing. curate of the parish of St. Hilaire, in - Agen, France, to commit suicide by sending a bullet through his fore - heed. The dead body was found-1n the apartments of Mrs. Crespy thi - day after the bishop had ordered the. - transfer of the abbe from Agen to Montastruc to prevent a scandal The news of the abbe's death was I first conveyed to the police by Mrs. I Creepy after she had summoned a doctor to her home. ' Mrs. Crespy long ago declared her love for the abbe and wrote poems in his honor. After he killed himself she put on deep mourning and sent letters to French newspapers in 1 which she declared the abbe's soul was "noble, beautiful, and proud and his sufferings superhuman. On the one hand were stern and bitter duty and sacrifice and torment; on the other his ever-growing love for me." She deplored the fact that the bish op had exiled himself to Montastruc r and declared the abbe had said that such a transfer would drive him mad. Mrs. Crespy urged that the newspa t pers hand her over to the cruel world, but defend his name. Describing her last night with the - abbe, Mrs. Creepy says they were a about to part when the abbe asked Sthat she read two of his favorite poems. Then he took her head be tween his hands and said, "My little love." Later he started upstairs - with some books to read during his hours of solitude, and a few minuatef later shot himself through the head. ELIEVED TO BE EMBEBZZLRER :Serious Charge Against Member of Wyoming House. - Alleging that E. H. Mans.ou, a member of the Wyoming Legislature, Sin F. E. Robert',, wanted in Mcuowell county, West Virginia, for -Illegally tobtaining $900 of school funds in 1903. Sheriff J. F. Johnson, of that Scounty, Friday presented Governor - jJ ceph M. Carey at Cheyenne, a r et from Governor Glasscock for a -requisition for Manson. Manson, a' t~ough elected on a Republican tick .,e, voted with the Democrats in the, - corganzation of the HousA. Hie has staL-d that he would not suv~Jrt Uni ted States Senator Warren for re election. SSome Words of Caution. The Spartanburg Herald says "the -sad death in this city of a young man who took a poison tablet by mistake calls attention to a danger to which almost any one of us is liable. In Bthe medicine cupboard of nearly ev ery home there is poison in *some fcrm-carbolic acid, laudanum, wood Salcohol, or one of different antisep -tics or disinfectants. None but the Smost imprudent fail to label the poi son bottles or boxes, but even with this precaution it often happens, as -in the case referred tO, that in the Snight time a medicine is sought, and, the label not being carefully read, a poison resembling the medicine is taken instead. The safest plan is to keep the poisons elsewhere, under -lock and key. Wear Corn Exposition Badges. -The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says in honor of the opening day of the National Corn Exposition at Columbia, mos; of the members of the House of Rep resentatives Monday wore upon their lapels the official badge of the Ex position, which attracted attention on account of its beauty. The badges were presented by Representative A. . Lever, who saw that no Repre I entative was overlooked. 'ir. Lever says that this is the first time, so far as he can ascertain, that the member ship of the House has joined in such a tribute to an agricultural project. The Spartanburg Journal says Senator Tillman's reply to a mes sage of Blease, submitred to the general assembly Tuesday, is a strong, dignified and sensible docu ment which, in itself, acquits the $nator of at least one of tne Gov eor's charges, that of being of fee ble mind. Senator Tiiaman takes up ach of the Governor's charges sep arately, makes known the real facts, and produces statements and argu mnents that will convtnce any think ig person. twenty-two in New York and Illinois and twenty-three in the far western states. As a general rule, the great er the cost of schooling, the better it should be, and within limits this rule is valid, exceptions occurring in the sparsely populated western states. where schools are small and the average cost of instruction pro portionately h~igh. But it is safe to assume that Indiana, for example, which expends twenty-one cents each day of schooling, gets better teach ers, provides better equipment and has better schools than South Caro - an, which invests but seven cents in ach day's instruction per pupil. States obtain, in education as in oth er ines, , just about what they pay lIES ALL HE MAKES COVENANT MADE YEARS A60 TO BE FULfILLl D INEY GOES TO CURCH Beginning at the First of the Year Af the Earnings of Twenty-One Five-Cent Stores of H. Z. Duke in Texas Will be Given by Him to Charity. The Atlanta Journal says that H. Z. Duke, who went west from Car roll County, Ga., to grow up with the country, has covenanted to de vote his twenty-one nickel stores to God. He and his wife agreed with their consciences three years ago to turn the earnings of his stores to the uses of Christianity when his savings should amount to $100,000. He then had $50,000. Within a year he had $75,000; within another year his savings were little short of $100,000; last year the sum he named was completed, and on the first day of this year he enter ed upon his covenant. As he explain ed Wednesday morning at the home of his brother-in-law, A. P. Morgan, at Oakland City, he will conduct the twenty-one' nickel stores during the remainder of his life, purely in the interest of God. Every penny earned from the can dies, the toys, the thousand and one things of a nickel store, will be used in the Christian church. These stores will support missionaries, they will pay the salaries of ministers, they will comfort the needy, they will furnish the lessons of Christianity to the untaught. The nickel stores scattered through Texas will spread a Christian influence throughout the states and to foreign lands. :Mr. Duke married in Carroll Coun ty years ago, and set forth for the west to find a young man's country. With $700 he entered business. His one-room store was the size of a close-in modern flat and his stock in 'trade would furnish one counter of the smallest of his twenty-one nickel stores. But even then he gave a tenth of his earnings to Christian work. Bit By bit the store grew, and finally other nickel stores of H. Z. Duke's appeared in other western towns. They seemed to meet with instant success. Wherever he established a nickel store he prospered. And as he prospered he increased his gifts to the church. "I believe," he said Wednesday morning, "that these gifts were the secret of my success. They taught me many things. They impressed upon me the. value of money: they convinced me of the necessity of method and system in ali things; they showed 'me how essential It is to have more than petty Interests. "At last I decided that I had earn ed enough, and I told my 'wife that whatever else I earned shoulud be given to the church and work of the church. She agreed that when I had $100,000 I should stop earning mon ey for myself or for any one but God, and we made a covenant of that sort. I am now keeping it. "Last year I made something over 24,000, and I think that by Increas ing the number of my stores I can increase these earnings to 130.000 or 140,000 a year, all of which shall be used as I have agreed. "I am a member of the F'irst Bap tist church of Dallas. I am sixty years old and I joined tbe church at the age of thirty-five years. During a large part of my life I have devot ed a part of my means to the church. "When I first went west I met a man, a lawyer, named R. L. Rudy, who gave a tenth of his income to church work. He gave with such lIt tie effort and got such good from his. giving that my pastor, Mr. McCon nell, and myself decided we would do the same thing. We were not willing to let any one else get more out of religion than we did. So we also began tithing, and I found that this giving to God was the greatest experience of my life. No man, no matter what his condition, what, his responsibilitIes, should give less than one-tenth to the church. Only then can he know the full benefits of re ligion. "A .I made more money I gave more. From a tenth, I increased my gifts to a seventh, then to a fifth, and now to all. During the first year that I beiran systematically giving to the church my offering amounted to S110; second year, $154; third, $360; fourth, 1388: fifth, $330; sirth $330: sixth. $662. seveflth, $556; eighth. $250; ninth. $556: tenth. $1,040; eleventh, $650: twelfth, $1, 143; fifteenth, $2,472: sixteenth, $3,378; seventeenth, $1,604; eigh teenth, $2,300." In a pamphlet published by him at the request of the Baptist laymen of Texas, he gives his experience of - "Glftenth Years of Tithing." "I have tried the Lordi In this busi Ines way," he says, "and I woolld no more quit tithing than I 'would ault providing for my famnilyl. Tithing as systematized our business as nothing else ever did. It Is worth all t has cost us, ust for Jthi sone thing: if for nothing else. Luke 6:38 says: 'ive, and it shall be gtven unto you: good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, sall men give unto your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete withal, It shall be measured to you again." He is interested In the laymen's con ference that Is to be held early in February, preceding a camnalgn by Methodist churches to raise money for missionary work in Cuba, but he must leave for Chattanooga before that conference begins. Mr. Duke Is the son of IThomas F'. Duke. a Confederate soldier who. as a member of the seronth (eoraia regiment was killed at the first battle of Manassas. *. Mes Man Killed the~ Conc. Acording to a wireless dIspatch received by the ua'r 'epartme't om on Crs1-al, in the Canal Zon,. Alfred Wilmot, of Charlestor. a col ared ward room cook on the I'. . 0. Nebraska was stabbed and killed by Thomas Johnson. a colered mess attendant. Johnson says ne is from teltmmar.