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HAD A HAD IME ELORERS SUFER IN CROSSINO iEELAND CAME NEAR STARVINfi Ponies Were Trained to Feed Upon the Flesh of Their Mates, While the Dire Hardships and Mishaps of Fate Compel the Men to Eat Pet .Dog. The story told -by Capt. Koch, a Danish explorer, of the crossing of Greenland in company with three hardy companions shows that the dangers and hardships to be encoun tered on the great inland icefield have not decreased since Peary and Xansen journeyed over a part of the gme. wastes. The Danish leader and his three - sompanions, Dr. Wagener, a German, Larsen, a sailor, and Sigurdson, a na gce of Iceland, were reduced during their journey to eating a pet dog, the only animal left. After landing on July 24, 1912, the first mishap encountered was the Sois of some ponies. Soon after that their motorboat disappeared through the thin ice and the explorers had to wait until near the end of September befgore the Ice was thick enough to bear their sledges and horses. When they were ready to start Dr. Wagener tell and broke a rib. The expedition was ten miles east of Queen Louise Land October 13 and went Into winter quarters. Because fodder was short all the ponies were killed except fve, which were trained to eat the aesh of their brothers. During a sledging trip Capt. Koch fell forty feet into a crevasse, break tng his right leg. He was helpless in the hut throughout the winter in a temperature generally fifty degrees below- zero. - On April 20, this year, the four men broke camp and with live sleighs, eaci drawn by a pony, started on their 750-mile march to the west coast. For forty days bliz mards raged. The ponies became siowblind and so exhausted that three were killed. Then, with the night temperature thirty below zero, the sun's rays -urned the ~in from the men's faces until they looked like raw beef. Snowshoes were put on the two re -natning ponies and helped them -restly in the loose snow. But for the ponies the expedition would have been in a worse plight. Another pony was killed July II because the fodder had given out. Next day the last pony was killed. A 1.w miles further on splendid pas turage-was found. The men's rations had been gradually reduced and on .uly 13 the provisions were all goner *A howling <blizzard capped this misfortune -and for thirty-fve hours the four men remained in the shelter of a projecting rock without a morsel eat.^'On July 15 they tried to push - nto the coast, so exhausted from hunger, cold and wet they could scarcely move. 'lThe only chance for life was to kill Tffe pet dog, which had tramped with them about 800 miles. This was done and the flesh was cooked and eaten. tb. meal was h'ardly finished when -the erplorer sighted a sailing boat in - Afjord east of Proeven on the west eoist of Greenland. Oy means of shots and signals the explorers at tracted attention and Pastor Chem * its, who was on the ship, with the assistance of the crew, soon had the famished and worn out explorers in safety. FAMILY KILLED. -thod'ew York Mamily Is Found Dead In Their Home. --The bodies of Mrs. Mary Lake and taer'four children, Horace, seventeen; Walter, eight; Stella, eighteen; and "Dorothy, fourteen, were found stark - mkdIn their Brooklyn home Mon -day, horribly mangled. Beside them dying was the husband and father. Henry Lake, a restaurant chef. Ap -parently he had killed all five and then fatally wounded himself. Lake died in a hospistal in the afternoon. The tragedy occurred as early as last Thursday, - possbly Wednesday. Odors from the rooms aroused neigh bors and at their request the police broke In. The bodies of the mother ndthe two boys lay on the bed. The girls were stretched on the floor. All bad- been shot and several of the *bodies bore evidences of being re -peatedly slashed with a knife. Tn a corner huddled in a pool of blood with 'a gaping wound In his head Lake was found in a semi-con scious condition and could only mum ble incoherently. The room was a wreck. Furniture was overturned and the walls 'were streaked with blood. Lake was rushed to a hos pital, where he died. According to his neighbors he was- a kind father. not given to excessive drinking. The police are at a loss to fix a motive for the crime. He was about forty-five years old and his wife was about forty. Husband Blown to Pieces. When Mrs. John Herman, of Grand Rapids, Mich., arrived home from a *visit, she was met by the family dog. which acted very strangely. She fol lowed the animal and found her hus band and two other men blown td pieces in a field near the house. They had gone out to blow up stumps and one of them had probably dropped a box of dynamite. Waif Saves Parent's Live. *Frances Gardiner, 11 years old. of West Chester, Pa.. saved the lives of Mr. and Mrs. William Matson, who adopted her some time ago. The little girl rushed into the room of the old er people in the middle of the night. telling them the house was on fire. They had just time to escape, not be ing able to save any of their clothes. Puts Real Lid on Town. Jaekpot, the toughest town in Wyoming. has been closed by the sheriff, and the Inhabitants are eith er under arrest or have fled the town. Whiskey and gambling devices were destroyed. A deputy sheriff has been left behind to see that the town is not TO RUN PRESS BUREAU GREEN SAID TO BE PRESS AGENT FOR McLAURIN. According to Latest Talk He Will Conduct Campaign Press Bureau at Columbia. That Leon M. Green will come to Columbia on September 1 and open a bureau for certain papers which will back John L. McLaurin for Governor of South Carolina to succeed Gov ernor Cole L. Blease is the latest gossii in political circles in South Car ina, according to information forthcoming from reliable sources. This program was decided on some tine ag,, so it is understood, and, it is claimed, will be put in actual oper aion -by the first of next month. That the McLaurin backers are anxious to obtain the endorsement of Governor Cole L. Blease is also well understood, but it is stated that they have been unable to do so. It is un derstood that Governor Blease was Invited to Hendersonville some time back, and the advantages of the Mc Laurin organization outlined to him, and he was urged to enter the combi nation, endorse McLaurin for Gov ernor and they would back him for the Senate. However, the governor has stated all along that he was not going to mix in the next guernatorial race. It is understood that he declined to have anything to do with the McLau rin movement. It is true that many of his former supporters are now be hind Mr. McLaurin for governor and that he was and still is friendly with McLaurin, but will not endorse him or anybody else for governor-that much he has stated several times publicly and emphatically. .Leon M. Green, until recently was editor of the Anderson Intelligencer, a weekly newspaper which has here tofore been a warm friend of the present al-ainistration. Col. Green, it is understood,;-has retired from the editorship of the Intelligencer. Be fore editing the Intelligencer Col. Green achieved publicity .by the activ ities as a detective of the State gov ernment. He is a member of the staff of Governor Blease and has been artively identified with his adminis tration. BEAUTIES OF DIVORCE. Er-Wife Kill Former Husband and His New Wife. W. S. Godbee, a prominent citizen of Millen, Ga., was shot to death Monday and Mrs. Florence Godbee, his wife, seriously wounded by Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee, from whom he was divorced several years ago. The shooting occurred at the en trance of the Millen post office. The divorced woman used a large calibre revolver, which she had concealed in a handbag. Without warning she fir ed three shots at her former huszand, all of them taking effect and killing him instantly. She then turned up on Mrs. Godbee, inflicting three wounds, which may prove fatal. After the shooting, during which she had exhibited rare coolness, Mrs. Godbee, the divorced wife, placed her revolver in her handbag and walked, apparently without undue- haste, to her home not more than two blocks from the post office and the scene of the shooting. Here she was found a few moments later by Sheriff M. G. Johnston, of Jenkins County, and placed under arrest on the charge of murder. She is now in jail without bal, pending an investigation of the shooting. Jhudge Godhbee was married three times. His first wife died a few years after they were married, and he then married Miss Perkins, the second Mrs. Godbee, who was such a promi nent actor in the tragedy. After liv ig together for some years there arose differences that could not be reconciled and M(rs. Godbee sued her hunsband for divorce, winning her Case. Alien Land Law On. It had been expected that the Jap anese reply to the state department's last note, regarding the protest against the California alien land leg Monday, when that legislation be came effective, there has been no further move in the matter. Ambas sador Chinda has served notice upon Secretary Bryan, however, that the islaton, would be submitted before Japanese answer will be forthcoming in due course. Stole Brick Ho~use. Samuel Jefferson and David Price, two negroes of Washington, have confessed to the theft of a brick house. They did not carry the struc ture off in its entirety, but took it by piecemeal. The building, the prop erty of Silas S. Daish, had been a brick residence, but had been torn down to make room for a more Im posing dwelling. Slit Skirt Proved Downfall. Mrs. Fannie Goodman, of Denver, Coo., wearing one of the latest style skirts, of the sort that must have a slit to afford the wearer room to walk, tried to board a street car. Un able to step up. she made a jump for the platform and fell, breaking her right arm, spraining her ankle and receiving many .bruises. Helped Himself to Cash. A stranger walked into the New York State Bank, at Albany, thrust his arm through one of the paying tellers' windows, grabbed bills aggre gating $879 and rushed out into crowded State street, where he was lost to view before the astonished teller could give an alarm. I *: Loses Life for a Woman. Dawson Co rew was drowned in the Tallapoot river at Robertson Ferry when he attempted to rescue Miss Mary Stone Oliver. He reached and assisted her until he had placed hr in a boat, but sank immediately after she was out of his hands. Taunts Drive Man to Suicide. Wilson Whalen, of Rochester. N. Y., committed suicide when the taunts of his neighbors became more than he could bear. He was a road supervisor. and his delay in getting the roads fixed caused the uifavor MO 'ATTACKS JAIL SPARTANBURG OFFICERS KEEP PRISONERCSAFE THREE MEN WOUNDED Sheriff and Deputies Cause Crowd Bent on Lynching Negro Charged With Chiminal Assault to Disperse By Threatening to Kill First Man Entering Prison Gates. "Gentlemen, I beg you not to pro ceed through this gate. I am in dead ly earnest. I will kill the first man who advances a step, though he should be my best friend." W. J. White, sheriff of Spartanburg Coun ty, thus addressed -a mob bent on lynching Will Fair, a negro prisoner, accused of assaulting a white woman, when a crowd of -five hundred men, after being repeatedly repulsed with pistol shots, blew down the gate in the outer wall of the county jail late Monday night with dynamite. The mob were impressed with what the sheriff said and dispersed. Earlier in the evening three men were shot when efforts were made to batter down the jail gate with logs and steel rails. Sheriff White and a deputy held the crowd at bay at first by firing blank cartridges. Members of the mob returned the fire with bul lets, however, and in the -confusion and darkness Frank Epply, J. C. Ow ensby and John Turner were wound ed, though it is believed not serious ly. They were taken to a hospital. Hundreds of pistol and rifle shots were fired when the mob began to use dynamite, but so far as can be learn ed only one man was wounded. A bullet passed through his hand. His name was not learned. Will Fair, a negro, was arrested Monday afternoon charged with as saulting a nineteen-year-old white woman, near Whitestone, Monday morning. It was about half-past ten o'clock when the assault is alelged to have been committed. The young woman, a bride of last Christmas, had been to a neighbor's house. On her way home through a patch of woods she saw a strange negro, who leered at her. Trembling, she hur ried o4, followed by the black. She entered her home safe and locked the front door. Under her own roof she gained assurance, and as the negro had seemingly continued on his way, she gave the matter no further se rious thought, but went to her bed room and was brushing her hair when the next chapter of the tragedy was written. Suddenly she heard footsteps at her back and almost immediately a hand, thrust Yrom behind her, was pressed closely against her mouth, another hand seized her by the neck, and the rough voice of a negro said: "If you yell I'll kill you." The girl then threw every ounce of her energy into an effort to escape from the ne gro's clutches, but in vain. Picking up a heavy stick, which lay on the window sill, the black ,brought it down upon her head with crushing force, and the girl. ' eding from an ugly scalp woux. apped like a dead person. When se s regained con sciousness, a half hour later, she had been dragged to another part of the room. The unfortunate raised herself un steadily to her feet, thinking to fire a shotgun, which was suspended from the wall and thus summon her hus band. She swooned again as she was reaching for the gun, and was lying on the floor unconscious when her husband'happened to enter the house a few minutes later. The husband took his wife to his father's home, a half-mile away, call ed a doctor and then went to Glen dale and gave the alarm. About 500 people, including a number of Glen dale Mill operatives, started in search of the negro, of whom a good descrip tion was given by his victim. Sheriff W. 3. White headed one posse and Chief Moss P. Hayes, of the Spartan burg police, another. A posse of which Samuel 3. Nichols, a well known Spartanburg attorney, was a member, found an old negro who said he had seen within fifty yards of the scene of the assault a negro corre sponding in description to the assail ant, and told of the direction in which the man was walking. He said the negro they were seeking was named Will Fair. Will Fair was trac ed to Glendale. where he was seen to board a car for Spartanburg. Other clues were obtained which led to the arrest of Fair several hours later at the Southern Railway station in Spartanburg by Rural Policeman 3. M. Williams. Officer Williams con cealed the negro in the bottom of an automobile, which he pressed into service, and carried him into the county jail by the rear entrance be fore any but one or two people knew of the arrest. Fair denied that he was the negro wanted, but officers said they felt confident that the chase was over and were only waiting for the identification of Fair as her as sailant by the negro's alleged victim to make sure. When he learned of the assault Mayor 0. L. Johnson or dered all the social clubs to -be closed for the day. Members of the mob broke into the armory of a military company after midnight and took seventeen rifles. A militiaman with loaded rifle sur prised the maurauders, and by threatening to kill them, made them return the firearms. William Fair, the negro who was saved from lynching .by a mob at the Spartanburg. jail Monday night by the firm stand taken by Sheriff Wil liam 3. White of that county, and a single deputy, was carried to Colum bia Tuesday morning by the chief of police of Spartanburg and is lodged safely in the State penitentiary, tem porarily, at least. The negro was spirited out of a rear door of the jail about three o'clock Tuesday morning while Sheriff White held ack the mob at the front of the in stitution and hurried by train to Co lumbia. Prison officials at Columbia expect to receive immediate instructions to keep the negro in the State prison until the date of his trial. The Albany Herald says that "Sen ator r3acon is holding the hot-heads and woodenheads of the Senate down o na heMian situation." TILLMAN'S SPEECH (Continued From Page One.) negroes. The States colleges an universities of the South, maintaine by taxation, were controlled by true tees elected by the negro Legisla tures. Carpet baggers, scalawag and negroes were among these true tees, and Dr. Bledsoe and othe Southerners like him were ready t, cry out: "Icabod, thy glory has de parted forever." At the thought of women any where, especially of the South, en tering this monstrous and filth arena, Dr. Bledsoe's chivalrous, sen itive spirit recoiled with horror. H pointed to the women of the Nort] ot for what they were, but for wha they might become, and would be come, and would become if they per sisted in their determination to aban don the sphere In which God hal placed them. He lifted the kindl finger of warning; he drew th knightly sword of protection; he di not level the brutal pike of censur and condemnation. His scholari mind appreciated the cause of th rottenness of imperial Rome, and be lieving that history repeats itself, h trembled for his country. I knoi from experience how hard It is to old men to adopt new notions, t accept new ideals. Visions are fc young men; old men must "drea dreams", and cling to their trad' tions. They dislike to be rudel awakened, and are ever holding bac against innovations and changes. Th world moves forwards, ever forwarc because the young men will seek t progress. It is the ideal civilization c condition in society when the tw forces are equalized, and the youn and progressive visionaries are cou selled and directed and held .back b the wisdom of their seniors. 01 men see the world rushing alon pell-mell, helter-skelter, going to ti devil, so to speak, we mourn in spir "The old order changeth, yleldin place to the new," and the transitior are so startling that they hurt t cruelly. Tackles Suffrage Issue. - I am led to make a few remarl on woman suffrage, although it is dangerous topic to handle just at th: time. I flatter myself, however, thi my well-known reverence for goo women will shield me from beit misunderstood. The idea is fast bi coming a practical issue, and Sen tors will realize the importance our obtaining as much accurat& Ii formation in regard to it as the ni ture of the subject will permit. Muc value data could be obtained I States where the experiment is no being tried. Vital statistics shoul by all means be gathered in thoi States where woman suffrage alread obtains. We ought to have recor made of the 'birth rate, death rat divorces and other things affectin the every-day social life of the pei pie, which would in a hundred year say, show us whether female su frage has affected these things inj1 riously or not. -In Rome, when the manner ax customs with regard to women bega to change-and they were given moi privileges than they had ever enjo; ed before, divoroes were so large increased that free love ,became ti rule-the birth rate corresponding decreased, at Lecky's History show Now It is a beautiful dream that f male suffrage will purify politics, b cause our ideals of women are , high, and we regard them so abs lutely as the sources of goodness ax purity, that we can not conceive their not elevating and helping an: thing they touch. 'But the vital ax important thing for us to consider the effect on women themselves. 'M had better endure the evils of co ruption in politics and debauchery our government rather than brix about a condition which .will mar ti beauty and dim the luster of the gli rious womanliood with which v have become accustomed all of o1 lives. We can better afford to ha' degraded and corrupt politics tha degraded and bad women. To ha' both in ever-increasing degree, was In case In Rome, would mal the world so unspeakebly horribi as well as so corrupt, that good me and women both would disappe: from the face of the earth, and civi ization would be blotted out like was in the dark ages after the fall Rome. Indeed, I amn so thoroughly convert to the belief that "y( can not touch pitch without being d filed," that I shudder to think of ti consequences to the womanhood America should suffrage become un versal taking in both sexes and a races. Yet the experiment Is goix to be tried, I fear. The Ballot a Privilege. I know the the demand for su frage on the part of women Is groi ing too fast for old fogies lIke mei stop It. except possibly in the Sout and New England, where conserv: tism Is more strongly intrenchi than anywhere else in this countr I believe religiously that whatev the women ask for the men will gli them, even though it be to their ult mate Injury; and the country wi have to test and be tested along thei lines in spite of all the theories ax Ideals which have governed us her tofore. Fortunately the United Stat Supreme Court has declared th casting the ballot is a privilege-n a right-and that the States alor can confer this right on its citizen Neither the suffragettes nor ti suffragettors-as Representative He lin calls their masculine sympathi ers-ever consider or seem to ps and regard to the effect of politie on women; .but I sincerely belie' that the usefulness and goodness woman vary inversely as the exte: of her participation in politics. believe she will improve politics, bu ultimately, politics will destroy h< as we know her and love her; ax when our good women are no long< to be found, and we have lost tI breed, the doom of the Republic It may be contended that inform: tion such as I hav'e described woul be partial and fragmentary, and th; any conclusions based on it woula therefore, contain a large factor< uncertainty. That may or may n< be true. But there is at least ox subject about which mathematical] exact knowledge can be obtalnel The number of divorces granted in State with woman suffrage and ti birth rate may be compared with ti number in the same State befoi equal suffrage was adopted, and tI eatio between the tw'o phenomex inferred. I thank God that my lot was cast in a State where there is no such thing as divorce. To get married in South Carolina is the easiest thing I imaginable. To get "unmarried" is I impossible. "Once married, always married," is the rule. Literally and exactly we believe that "for better or for worse, in poverty and in wealth, in sickness and in health, till death r do them part," they twain are one. D It is true that, if life together be comes unbearable, a man and wife may separate and live apart; but even then the bonds that bind them are only stretched, not legally brok en. In South Carolina we tie a mat rimonal knot that baffles alike the skill of legal logic, the dexterity of sophistry, the nimble fingers of a t false expediency and the brute strength of a statute. The knot we tie holds faster than the fabled "Gordian Knot" of antiquity. Inge nuity can not unfasten nor force de stroy it. The skeleton fingers of death alone can loose it. ^ e Not the South Carolina Way. d We in South Carolina do not be e lieve in the modern idea so prevalent In this day and time of permitting a man to marry a woman in her youth and beauty, and then, when ier :.-ck e begins to grow skinny and shrunken, r her face sallow and splotched, and her eyes dim, to search out among his women acquaintances some young r and buxom girl who suits his lustfui eyes better and straightway set to y work systematically to treat his old k wife so that she, in self-defence and e to maintain her self-respect, seeks a divorce to get rid of him. There have been glaring cases of this kind of world-wide notoriety wherever the divorce evil flourishes. g When we contrast this type of t man and woman with the glorious Y picture drawn by Burns, these men d who have souls are bound to recoil g from the one type and bow down and e worship the other. Lest you have t- forgotten the verses I will recite 9 them for you: s "John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquient, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonie brow was brent; But now your .brow is beld, John, a Your locks are like the snaw, is But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson, my Jo. g "John Anderson, my jo, John, a- We clamb the hill thegither, L- And monle a cantle day, John, )f We've had wi'ane anither; 1- Now we maun totter down, John, L- And hand in hand we'll go, h And sleep thegither at +he foot, .n John Anderson, my jo!" W' d This song, one of Robert Burns' e best, is the very apothesis of married y life among the virtuous and good is people of the world. In thinking about the widespread, unprogressive character of the di vorce evil, like all thoughtful men, I ,, have been led to consider the cause of it and. the great demoralization I- which has followed it. The law of sexuality is the most powerful law in nature, and it is the wise provision of dthe good God who created us with it to compel reproduction, the perpetu eation of the race. Whever the mar. Sriage bond is regarded as a sacred one, women are usually virtuous, and evirtuous women always make virtu ous men, just as good mothers raise sup brave and noble sons. As long as Rome had women of the type of Vir ginia and Lucretia, the Romans con quered all their neighbors and all other nations in Europe. When the women grew to be loose in their yir rtue, and lost it altogether In many Icases, and the women to be of the Stype of Nero's mother, who commit eed Incest with her own son, as the historilans tell us, _Rome rapidly de aydand ceased to be mistress of the world. Therefore, it can be safe. ly claimed that civilization itself is t dependent on good women, and by - good women I. do not mean only iramiable women; I mean virtuous weo rmen. re This State Unique. re The divorce evil does not directly is affect South Carolina; -but our State e Is the only one that does not permil edivorce in some form. North Caro. lna and Georgia, States on our bor ir ders, .both grant them, and on in 1- creasingly trivial grounds, if repori ibe true. My State is a lonely isle ~surrounded on all sides by a turbid a flood of raging, maddened waters; and lest we too be submerged,] would see the waters subside and the Sdry land appear, and under the bless ed rays of God's moral sunshine Swould behold once again over our 11 whole country the fruits and flowers of domestic peace, love and affection, confidence, joy and contentment. I beg Senators' pardon for having digressed. But as I was going on tc say, statistics on the number of di vorces granted in States where wo omen have the vote would be very val huable. It would enable us to see the connection between woman suffrage dand family life. It appears to me that the relation .between "votes fox rwomen" and divorce, if not one of 0 cause and effect, Is at least one of mutual acceleration. I am no pessi 1mist; but I am enough of a scIentist sto accept the truth wherever I find dit, be it pleasant or unpleasant, and I have read history to no purpose if s it has not taught me that the purity it and stability of the family has in all yage been the surest bulwark of the t State. It has ever been that when s the marriage relation became inse e cure, and women quitted their own fsphere to enter that of man, the de - cay and fall of States followed. Sc y often has this happened that I must s believe that the one set of events is re the result of the other. I have, there f fore, sounded this feeble note of it worning. As Hannibal gazed mourn I fully on the bloody head of his broth t, r, Hasdrubal, and prophetically ex 3r claimed, "Carthage, I see thy fate," dso I, looking at the growing craze of sr woman suffrage and the rapid in e in number of divorces granted in this i country, saily think, if I do not say. "America. thy race is almost run un - less something Is done to check thy id headlong speed." it The demoralization and conse 2' quent degradation, which has been )f produced by the divorce evil, nre i! t lustrated by the notorious Diggs 1 Caminetti affair in California. The yease with w'ich divorces are obtain l- ed in Reno Ir-l to that nla~ra hcinc a selected as the one to carry the two e respectable girls from Sacramento. 1 and the pron'ise to marry these wo r men after div'ers were ^htnoui no t doubt had much to do with overcomn in domestic life could not happen at all in South Carolina. It could not happen anywhere in the South, even in those States where divortes are obtained, and I say it in no boast ing spirit. Northern View of Us. We have bad women in South Car olina and through the South. Biut the habits of our people and their customs, inherited from our fore fathers, all make it dangerous to "monkey with men'c womenkind". Some Northern people call us barba rians because we shoot the seducer t and lynch the rapist. If the Cali- 11 fornia men had our customs, Diggs r and Caminetti would not be alive t: now, because they would have been S shot like dogs, and the fathers of the A girls they have ruined would be ac- t quitted almost without the jury leav- l ing the box. The unwritten law, as t: it has been called, is the best law to u protect woman's virtue that I ever e heard of, though there have been il abuses of it and men at times have t, gone' scot-free who ought to have s been punished. The more I think about the Diggs-Caminetti case, the t more outraged I grow at the state of 1 morals and society which not only s permits such crimes against civiliza- a tion, but encourages them. I am too a much of a savage myself to think up- t on such things with calmness and e equanimity. However, this case is a now being tried, and, perhaps, I ought not to comment on it. But I am speaking as I do, not for the pur pose of influencing the jury, or pub lic opinion for or against the men who are indicted. I am only using the case to illustrate the argument I am making on the demoralizing ef fects of woman suffrage and easy di vorces. Among our very rich people in America degeneration and bestiality have gone so far that swapping wives is a common practice. Family life is no longer what it ought to be, and the watering places and hotel resorts in the mountains afford opportunities for getting acquainted with other I men's wives and other women's hus bands. Lust takes the place of love, with the result that divorce is soon arranged and the swap is perfected under the forms of law. The womeh 4 are just as bad as the men and di- I vorce their husbands on any slight pretext, if they come across a man they like better, who makes love to them. A most disgraceful and mortifying fact which every American must i blush for is to see how the American millionaires are buying their daugh ters titled husbands. Some count, baron, or lord, no matter how much of a debauchee and scoundrel he may be, is looked up by the rich father and purchased in the open market just as he would purchase a horse or a stallion. The women submit to legal prostitution for a time. . Then the titled debauchee, whose relatives have sneered at the plebian wife all along, are relieved of her presence. A divorce follows and the unnatural alliance between money and scoun drelism Is ended. Oh! the shame of it, but that is the way modern society is progressing. God save the mark! To me such people seem to be go ing straight to hell, and I am no stickler for religion. I only abhor1 from the bottom of my soul the de gredation and rottenness now becom ing too common in society. Warns Against Weakness. The danger, if danger there be, in1 giving women the ballot at all is in creased by the cowardice of public men everywhere. Politicians the world over have always had a keen eye to see which way they think the people are going; and it seems to me that the men politicians are trying to make peace with the women poli ticians and get on their good side while it is fair weather. I noticed in Saturday's paper that the headlines threatened dire consequences here after to any public man who dared oppose the demand for woman suf frage now. I am afraid some of the weak-kneed men will be influenced in their attitude on this momentous subject by this fear. No man, who is a man worth standing in shoe loath er, will be influenced by any such motive, and only cowards will yield their convictions and vote to give the women the ballot unless they believe honestly that it is for the best Inter ests of the women and of the coun try. The history of the world is full of "crazes", or. what they now call obsessions. The crusades are an il lustration of what I mean. Peter. the Hermit, a fanatical monk who was very eloquent, arous ed the religious fervor of the Chris tians in Western Europe to such a pitch that hundreds of thousands en listed for the Holy War against the Infidels. No doubt this fervor was necessary to prevent the Crescent from supplanting the Cross. It was like two storms coming from oppo site <*ections an-! meeting. The Saract -s overran Egypt and North ern Af-ica. 'd crossed the Strait of Gibra.r into Spain. They crossed Spain end invaded France, and were only .beaten haek by Charles Martel, who d-'feated them at the battle of the tours. It was six centnries be fore t!'e Moors were expelled from the Spanish Peninsula and compelled to return to Africa. Later when the Turks had con ruered Constantinople the followers f the Crescent overran Southeastern Europe up to the walls of Vienna. where the rising tidle of Mohamnie danism was only stopped by Jchn Sobieski. The recont war in the llalkans has wrested almost all of that pen insua from the Turks, but here was so little Christianity. patriotism and sense among the allied nationalities that racial and religious prejudice and hatreds brought on a patricidal strife among themselves. Children's Lives Sacrificed. In one of the crusades the chil dren were crazed by the priests and tens of thousands of them gathered and began to march towards the East. What they could do after they got there never seemed to enter their 1 minds at all. They were simply lun-I atics frenzied a fth the religious idea. 1 First and last, historians tell us i that upwards of one million, one I hundred thousand people perished. The pitiful story is told that five1 shiploads of these children who start-< dfor Palestine were sold into slav ery to the infidels by their so-called 1 Christian leaders. The rest of the children dicd from exposure an d r starvation. It It may not be worth while to re- j i ill these things, and I only mention; them for tIie purpose of directing at tenon to+he dangerous forces z FOR NEEDED REFORMS ARM1FUL EFFECTS OF POOR S SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. An J. 31cMahan Discusses Vital Question and Gives Reasons for Compulsory Education. The enlightened mind revolts at ie idea of ignorant paretits compell- c ig their children to remain in igno- F mnce without availing :hemselves i I 1e schooling offered free by the 7 tate within the reach of every home. I .dd to those that never go to school ie large number that attend irregu rly, and we probably have half of t ie children failing to make propei - se of the facilities provided for their i ducation. Let us consider the mean- < ig of it all, as if we were explaining i ) the simplest mind that does not I ee the evil. The child is not his own master, ut is subdect to his parent. Left to imself, the child will be ignorant nd undeveloped. He will not have I compelling desire for knowledge, i nd will not apply himself to learn, ntil he is made -to taste a sample nd perceive that it Is good-acquire n appetite for learning, Meantime, i nless made to go to school he may i refer to idle at home. Primitive Tribal Education. 1 In a state of primitive nature, with 0o law but the individual will (if here ever was such an individualistic tage of man's progress) it rests holly with the parent to compel ither ignorance or learning, and we an not doubt that the instinct of ace-preservation secured for the hild instruction In the essentials of ell-being according to the then tandards-just as in the animal reation the parent teaches its off pring how to obtain food and how o escape from its enemies. - But In he earliest known times, there is ome sort of custom which none vould defy and which is thus the ummounity or common law. This ustomary law has from the begin ing prescribed the education which s the requisite of the times. Thus Lmong savages in tribal relations, ,h4 parent never neglects, and would iot be allowed to omit, to give his ion the standard training for the hase and for war-the great duties >f citizenship at such a period of iuman society. Difficulties of Modern Discipline. In modern times, with the higher levelopments in the main, there is a trange decadence constantly mani resting itself. There is more parental ieglect, relatively, than among sav-. tges, and In the more artificial train ng of the schools to fit for new con litions of man's life, there is more lifficulty in keeping alive in the child zest for learning. Trus even after uis taste is somewhat aroused and he ias formed the general purpose to earn, he will have his periods of ;loth, of reaction, of revolution Lgainst the labor of application, gainst regularity, against system, gainst obedience-the very things hat he needs to become inured to. f allowed to have his own way as his ancy changes, he will attend irregu arly, will loiter and -be tardy. His atenesses and absences will suffice o destroy the effectiveness of his ~tudying, the connecting links of his earning being lost. When present 1e will be inattentive to instruction, ieglectful of the assigned tasks, will iot be seriously in earnest, will not riew his obligation to get an educa :ion as a closed question, and will :herefore dwadle and fritter away his :ie. If allowed to acquire such sabits, be will be injuring instead of uilding up his character, and will e lessening instead of increasing his uture usefulness. A large part of the benenit of true schooling is the ucquiring of correct and useful habits nder compulsion-such as the habit f regularity, of system, of obedience, >f self-control, of diligence, of stead astn~ess, of ability to do unpleasant things, and at last the ability to find pleasure in doing duties whether or st Inherently unpleasant. This moal ficaton of natural desires to recog ized duties has come to be best de cribed by a term derived from the elassical name for the pupil in school, he ideal of all schooling being the resultant "discipline", the mental ad moral acquisition of the true dis :Iple or pupil. Regular Attendance. If the child goes to school spas nodically, he will have more friction with the teacher than otherwise, for ie will not -be as well up in his stud es, or as well trained to applying simself, or as accustomed to obey, und thus he will have to be the more ~ontrolled, punished if need be, and us a result of the corrections or pun .shments he will be angered and have ~urther disposition to vent his resent nent by staying away at will or alto ether. Poor attendance breeds worse ttendance. Irregular attendance mds in non-attendance. If the par mt indulges him, let him be his own wvhich are being set in motion by h'ose who are preaching and agitat ng for woman's rights. I am aware that in reciting all :hese horrid and cruel things I am ~hargeable with making a jeremaid )r lament of the decay of our civili ation. To others there may be no upearance of decay at all. I may e blinded or giving way to vain maginings, but it seems to me very -al, and I speak my thought frankly tnd bluntly as I have always done, aing been taught by my mother ong ago to always tell the truth or :o try to, and to shun everything ike hypocricy and double-dealing. "Of all man's possessions unspeak Lby most sacret are his symbols," nd his highest earthly symbol is wo nan. She is his goddess 'of inno ence and purity, and if ever she teps down or man removes her from ier high place at our altars, then (God iave mercy upon us; for the golden >owl of purity will be broken, and he silver chord of chastity will be oosed, and the sound of.. mourning vill be heard in the streets, and the ule of chaos and old night will have 'ome.I I pray Glod my foreboding. evil~ rophecies maw never come true. T ome with much more confidence in he future of my country if I could1 selieve that the women of our great and would always remain as pure nd high as the majority of them< NEGRO ELECTROCUTED LAYER OF OCONEE MAN MAKES DYING STATEMENT. loes to His Death Calmly and Dies Expressing Faith, Saying "I Didn't Mean to Kill Him". "I didn't mean to kill him. He ussed me and I picked up a stick .nd hit him over the head, just one ick, but it killed him." This state nent was made Monday morning by larnest Mulwee, a negro, as he sat trapped in the electric chair at the state penitentiary awaiting electrocu ion for the murder of Sam Hyde, a rhite man, of Oconee County. Mul ree made a brfef statement, telling if the trouble that led up to the kill ng of Hyde, explaining that he bore rm no malice and expressing the be ief that he had received divine for ;iveness for the deed. The current was thrown on at 11:20 and rushed hurtling through is body for one minute and one econd. Dr. R. T. Jennings, prison )hysician, then made an examination. which showed that the heait had not iuspended action, and again the cur -ent was turned on. This time it was Lpplied for twenty seconds, and an ither examination showed that death iad resulted. . Dr. Jennings pro iounced the negro dead at 11:24. )f all those who have yet been elec rocuted-thirteen-Mulwee showed 3erhaps the greatest calmness and net his tragic end with fortitude. Brought into the death chamber at 1:15, Mulwee was immediately trapped in the chair. He surveyed Lhe twenty-one witnesses who were resent with apparent -interest. Capt. Griffith, superintendent of the penitentiary, asked the negro If he wished to make a statement and received an affrmative reply. "I want to tell you all just how this was," he began in clear tones. "Mr. Hyde owed me some money and I went to him three times about it and be would not pay me. The last time when I asked him for my money he mssed me and I picked up a stick and hit him over the head, just one lick, but It killed him. He owed me the mcnev and the white folks that I' owed kept after me about it, so I had . to go to him. I didn't mean to kill him." Mulwee then told of having prayed for forgiveness and stated that he be lieved that he "would be saved in heaven". Concluding his brief state ment the negro asked to be allowed to speak to Guard Wilson, under whose care he had been while in the penitentiary. Mr. Wilson shook hands with the doomed man, and the negro thanked him for favors which Mr. Wilson had done for him. The Rev. J. C. Abney, chaplain of the peniten tiary. who has consulted with Mulwee frequently during his confinement, pressed his hand and spoke a few words of encouragement. A singular coincidence In connection with the electrocution of Mulwee is that the man whom he killed bore the name Sam Hyde and some months since an other white man of the same name was electrocuted for the murder of his wife at Anderson. master, spoils him, he will do poor work at school or will stay away. Such is often the indulged child of parents who should know -better and do better, and not very different in the misfortune of the neglected child of parents of a peculiar type of ig norance. Injures Self and Others. When attendance upon school is irregular, ragged, the teaching is broken in upon, the-progress of the different children is uneven, It is im possible to preserve class organiza tions (so necessary to ena,bi tile teacher to accomplish much when there is a. large number to teach). Classes are further rendered impos i-ble by some children entering school later than others and dropping out sooner. Such a child can not go for ward with his proper grade from year to year-having entered and left so irregularly and done so little in the time at school that he must be in a class by himself or start over again every year. Irregular attendance is harmful to the other children--those that attend perfectly, because it disorganizes the school, the discipline and the teach ing. Many of our schools are af flicted with this ystematic lack of system. The principle of law, "So use your own as not to injure an other's." would fully justify the abso lute exclusion from school of every child that can not be made to con form fully to the implied require met of attending regularly and se riosly, from the beginning to the end. Most graded schools do this, in self-defence. This protects the earn est pupils and may save some lag gards. But the law ought to author ize the requirement of attendance, without the necessity of resorting to exclusion for poor attendance. That would save more of the laggards and many who have never had a chance -because of their surroundings, chiefly their parents. An end should be made to letting children come to school just often enough to disturb the work~ of the regular attendants and not enough to do themselves any real good. An end should also be put to the whimsical action of ignorant and prejudiced parents who keep their children from school altogether. State compulsion of education should stop parental compulsion of ignor ance. John J. McMahan. Columbia, August 16. Memorandum: "Delenda est Car thago"-which being interpreted means. "The primary has got to be reformed." Found Dead in Store. Shortly after noon Thursday when Tames Cooper. colored, entered the shop of Mr. A. J. Pittman, at Sum rnerville, he found his body on top of yne of the counters. He evidently uad been dead for several hours. Mr. Pittan had not been in good health Eor some time, and was und1er the :reatment of a physician. His death :wo equal allotments. Burned to Death. Q. P. Davis. of Elba, Ala., was urned to death under his wrecked utomobile near Montgomery, Ala. avis' companions who were thrown !ear of the wreck were powerless to