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GIVES HIS VIEWS. ? ~ MAYOR ItHETT REVIEWS SOME C. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. He is an Aspirant lor One of the ? Highest Positions in the Gift of the People of His State. Mayor R. Goodwyn Rbett, a candidate for the Uulted States Senate. 8 has given to the press the following c outline of his views on some of the ? questions of the day: 8 There is, in my judgment, great b need for more business methods In government. It Is significant that c; the Democratic party has not been In power, with the exception of eight ? years, for almost half a century, al- ? thotlirh thn snlld Hnnth ? r 0kn/uvci vvumiiuuiiK almost ohe-third of the country, has 11 almost invariably cast its votes for 1 that party. I believe it is largely r due to a lack of confidence on the v part of the people of the country in 8 the capacity of the Democratic party 0 to manage the Government upon a a business plane and by business a methods. The South does not lack p men of business caplcity, and there v are not a few of them at present In v the halls of Congress, hut they have been following political and not 3 business lines. My belief is that if d they subordinated their political to ? their business talent they would re- " gain the confidence of the entire e country. More than this, my belief is that they would once more secure the leadership and guide the polices of the Democratic party, and through that party the Government of the nation. As a business man. who has found that the applications of business methods to all problems?governmental as well as others?has effected the best solutions, I am offering myself as a candidate for the United 8tates Senate, believing that I can be of some use to the people of my State, to the South and to the country. Currency. The present currency laws of the United States are framed for the benefit of the bond-holding fraterni ty ot New York and New England. ' and against the interests of the far- ' ducer enerally. Under these laws i the Southern bank, from whom * alone the farmer can obtain the currcncy to gather his crops, is now ^Kbompelled to buy this currency In New York. Every fall the Stock I Exchange speculator runs up the V^^price of money and thus makes it "^fficult and expensive, and at times impossible, to get the currency need- | ed. The farmer is driven to pay j high rates, is driven to gather his \ ectton under spur and whip, and tc | sell It, not as bis judgment dictates, E but as necessity demands. T have j prepared a currency plan in detai1, j which enables the Southern banks ( to obtain this currency when it is | needed by the farmer, without goiug f to New York or depending upon , bonds?a currency based upon the t credit of the banks theniseiveH. which means the credit of the commuu5- t . ties hi which the banks are located. c I))' making It a cond'tion that every , bank to obtain its chnrter shall j guarantee the note of everv other t bank, the currency is made the , strongest in the world. I do not be- t lle*e it Is realized how materially . this currency question effects every j Interest in the country. The intricacy of the question has made it so difficult to understand that the representatives of the large moneyed interests of the Northeast have blind- ' ed the people of the country and enable them through the present currency system to levy tribute upon every industry to a greater or less t extent. For instance, there was a ( panic 1'11 fall and no currncy could f oe otuained at any price. The rea- t son was that all bank note currency p had to be sucured by the deposit of f Government bonds, and the Govern- s ment bond market was cornered in f New York. I have constructed a sys- a tern on the lines of our Federal Gov- a ernment?a system of the people and > for the people?a system based upon < the credit of the country, its indus- j, tries and commodities distributed (> throughout the length and breadth \ of the land?a system from the pro- B portionate benefits of which no com- r] mnnlty con be excluded?yet a sys- h tern behind which stands more than the combined currencies of Europe; a system which will forever free our industries from currency famines aud our country from panics. The Tariff. n The tariff duties should be immo- _ dlately reduced to the lowest point consistent with the needs of the Government economically administer- t ed. y In the process of reducing the dtities the utmost endeavors should be used to prevent. discrimination 1 against Southern industries, coupled with diligent care that our Indus- ^ tries shall receive the fullest ?hnr? of advantage from whatever duties p remain. The tariff, of course, is a tax?an ? indirect tax?and the whole question is one of adjusting this tax so that H each industry and element shall hear ' its fair proportion. Railroads. w The State knows ray attitude on the railroad question. I have claimed that there was a discrimination pi not. only against the port of Charles- si ton, but against all parts of South st Carolina. I have cited tariffs which bi show this conclusively. A railroad dl ts a public service corporation. It ei is the public's trustee for its high- I ways, and it should he so regulated gt aa not to discriminate against any gi Industries of any loca.ities. I have o( never favored an indiscriminate re- w ductlon in rates. I believe that rail- sc roads should he permitted to earn at profits, and good profits, upon actual w values, but tot upon watered seeurt- si tlea. I believe that service is of th more Importance than rates, and my th voice has always been for better ser- w P-" vice, greater efficiency and no dls- be crimination, at - .TOUR BEGUN. ALHOUN COUNTY VOTERS HEAR 1 ISSUES DISCUSSED. t. Matthews Alive With Visitors. 1 Business Houses Closed for the Occasion. A special dispatch to The News ad Courier from St. Matthews says: i alhoun County received Its baptism f State politics Wednesday in the rovo tl ai surrounds the scnool ouse 'there, when the first gun in ko C? rt ? ? ? ? i ?? ?? ** * ' * uo amir vaiupai^u wus urea uy tne andidates for State offices. Everyh'ng that could contribute to the onifort and pleasure of the guests f the "Baby" county had been arunged by a special committee and ot a hitch occurred iu the program, 'he day was warm and bright, the ecently organized Calhoun Band fas on hand discoursing sweet mule, a splendid dinner was in course f preparation in the school house, nd as a result a crowd numbering bout three hundred persons was resent. Most of the business /ere closed for the occasion, which /as every way a most, auspicious one. Those present were Governor Anel, Senator Cole L. Blease, can dilate for Governor; Lieutenant Gov rnor T. G. McLeod, Secretary of Itate R. M. McCown, State Treasurer Jennings. Attorney General Lyon, Comptroller General Jones, E. C. Slmore, S. R. Melllchamp hnd J. E. Iwcaringen, all candidates for the ifflce of Superintendent of Eduoalon, Railroad Commissioner Caughnan and Messrs. James Cansler, F. 3. Fishburne, J. A. Summersett and 1. W. Richardson, all candidates for he position now held by Mr. Caughnan. County Chairman Dreher was at he helm and kept the meeting movng from first to last in a manner hat won for him many congratulaimis by the speakers themselves. The speeches were of a dignified orler, and the meeting was pitched on i plane thHt could not fnil to proroko favorable comment. There vub an entire absence of vllliflcation >r anything bordering on personal ibuse, and it was generally reinark>d that the occasion was a success o the last detail. SURGEON A SUICIDE. Jr. Small, of American Liner St. 1 jouls, Kills Himself. A dispatch from New York, says: }r. Thomas Small, chief surgeon of he American Line steamer St. ^ouis. committed Buicide In his cabn on the steamer early Friday by ihootiug. No cause for the act is mown. He had been nbsont from he ship all night. When he return:d that morning he appeared to be n a cheerful frame of mind, and iftcr chatting pleasantly for a time vith one of the officers on. duty reired to his state room. : A moment later the report of a J dtot was heard, and when the door >f the doctor's cabin was opened, he vaa found dying from a bullet, wound u his temple. His right hand clutch d the revolver from which the shot vas fired. Dr. Small had been In he employ of the Amercan line nine ears, and had extensive acquaintance iinong ocean travelers. * DIFl) WHILE SPEAKING. iavannali Veteran Expires iu Middle of a Sentence. At Savannah Thursday, while siting on a bench In Laurel Grove 'emetery John Quincy Adams, Conederato Veteran, was stricken with .cart trouble and fell dead to the ground. He was talking with a riend and died in the middle of a entence. A pathetic incident is bis allure to become a member of the Veterans' Association. lie filed his ipplication papers a month ago with IcLaws Camp in Savannah, hut be:&use his comrades at arms who new him in the civil war are all ilher dead orscattered. no one could found to vouch for his record, o quickly after his application. He lied before he could be approved as member. * Constabulary Stinimonri. As a result of the dynamite at the loyal mines, at Argentine, Pa. Slate onstabulary troops have been sumioned. Drainage. The Government has for some itne been irrigating lands of the t'eBtern 8tntes and converting them ito fertile fields. South Curolina ow has large areas of land coverd by wnter. the drainage of which ould convert them likewiso into srtile fields. Inasmuch as the rinciples in both cases are the tme, the one in adding water, the ther in taking it away to effect a ke purpose, the two problems liould be joined, and some method >und whereby Government aid lould he rendered for drainage as eu as for irrigation Immigration. Wo nood an inoroase in our whito opulation and should welcome all ich within our bordors. all who aro :rong and healthy, not only in body, nt in mind, and do not come In to Isturb our Ideals of life and of gov- . nment and our standards of labor, am in favor of throwing every safeuard and restriction around lmnii- i ration that will prevent the influx < ' an undesirable population. While j o should welcome as one of the | lotions of the negro question the cession of a white population, it i ould not be. in my judgment, de- i rablc to do this by bringing in i tone to whom liberty means license. < iose without religious faith, those hose standards of life are so much l slow our own that they would con- i ltute a menace to cure. < " v. . -.K ?-'. ^ J? V f >' * j A GOOD START. MADE BY THE AUDUBON SOCIETY A IN ORANGEBURG. A Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., State Secretary, Holds Two Enthusiastic Meetings on Wednesday. The Audubon Society, of South ti Carolina, has begun work in Orange- a burg in earnest. Two enthusiastic d meetings were held on Wednesday I by Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., State o secretary. The first was at the old c school building where the summer ? normal school is being held by Prof. Tliackston, at whose invitation Mr. ' Rice appeared before the teachers of Orangeburg county. He was heard with attention and the teachers were deeply interested in the wonders of the bird kingdom. It is an interesting story that the Audubon people have to tell of the fight to save the birds from destruction and of the great work done by the birds in making human life possible. The teachers promised their hearty co-operation in spreading bird gospel among the youth of the State. Mr. Rice was hoarrt u-uk j ? vll )>l ViUUllU attention throughout and warmly . thanked at the end of his talk. At the Court House. At eleven o'clock by appointment \ there was held a mass meeting of . citizens to heur the account of what . the Audubon society has been doing to save the birds, game and fish of South Carolina and ulso to learn how the Audubon work is being carried on. Some thirty-tlve or forty representative citizens gathered to hear , Mr. Rice who unfolded the plans of . the society. Senator Thomas M. Itaysor presided over the meeting and introduced Mr. Rice to the audience. At this meeting attention was called to the secretary to the work done by theNational Audubon society through out America and Canadn, and how it has been spreading from state to state until now it covers the Union. , He said that t!\e Audubon society of . South Carolina, along with other state societies was chartered by the legislature. Under that charter the society began work after organizing and the first work was done in Orangeburg in April last year, although little was accomplished then. The society was embarrassed by the panic that held up all operations and it labored all the time under the difficulty of lack of funds. But work had gone on and results were seen all over the State. "We do not undertake to say that there has been anywhere anything like a perfect enforcement of the laws," said Mr. Rice, "but we have secured numerous convictions in different quarters of the State and thousands of people have been made to respect the law. Any community that, has given the work a fair trial has been satisfled with what it. has received." The swietv does its work through wardens appointed by the governor on the society's recommendation. These wardens are paid by the society and their business is to see that the laws are obeyed. To which end they bring cases against violators of the law and disseminate information in regard to the law and further informations of birds and habits, showing what birds do for j the world. Mr. Rice gnve many interesting eramples of what birds do. dwelling especially on the work of I the South Carolina partridge, he showed what enormous numbers of billbugs are killed by partridges and he also showed how great was the destruction to crops when the partridge is killed out. The Audubon society s not opposed to sport, when sport is had within reasonable limits, J but it Is opposed to slaughter, and , Mr. Rice added a number of examples to show how much slaughter had , gone on in South Carolina. He took up the case of fish trap- , ping in Kdisto river and pointed out j that parties who had traps in the j river after sun down Thursday ran a fair chance of going on the chain sang- Dynamiting wbb hlso punishable bv six month in the penitentiary. lie then pointed out how the society began and its mode of work. Regular members paid Six Dollars for their tickets and this included one full years dues. Contributing members paid a dollar annually. He showed that Orangeburg cotild maintain a branch organization on securing fifty regular members, electing their own officers and having power to direct their own affairs, having always the aslstance of the State organization when it. was needod. He was heard with earnest attention throughout and many of those present enrolled themselves at once as members of the society, many others followed suit after the meeting. Prominent gentlemen present say that Orangeburg will have 110 difficulty In securing its quota for a branch of the Audubon society. r> ??? A *' ** " mi. um: ? h* unexpecieaiy caned ^ to Rlackville to look after some parties who had made threats against the life of a warden. He is coming back to Orangeburg at once to take up vigorously the work of organization, for it was clearly shown at the 0 meeting the proper procedure is tlrst to organize the citizens and then [ follow this with the active work of the warden, who is in this way as- ! sured of moral support from the membership. A splendid start has been made 0 and the opportunity has been fairly ' nffered to see that the laws of the State with reference to flsh and 1 ?ame shall be enforced. Mr. Rice said that he had been ( much encouraged by the interest ind enthusiasm manifested and felt 4 jure that everything would now J work well. All citizens who have the good of this great cause at heart should enroll themselves at once as members a 5f the Audubon organisation. I ..... * ?* i l RGHTTHE FLIES S YOU WOULD THIS MOST DAN- H GEROUS DISEASE. Jl Houses Should l?e Screened So \\ As to Keep the Filthy Little Pests Out. Files are so filthy and so detrimenal to health, to say nothing of the h nnoyance they cause, that all resi- c< ences should be screened, says the ^ 'regressive Farmer. If the expense J1 ?f wire screens is too great, the ^ loth mosquito netting may be tackd over all windows at very little ost, but frames will have to be made j or strecthing the netting over doors, 'here are many schemes for killing | he little nests.. There la also the old scheme of ^ tutting up roosting brushes for the t lies, which may be made of paper ^ :ut in strips ana hung on the ceiling. v rVhen the flies get on the brushes (it uight, a sack may be slipped over ^ he roosts, so that the flies may bo tilled with little trouble. It may ^ e necessary to repeat the work from irne to time as more flies get into (louse. Sticky fly paper is another ^ emedy often used, but the paper is unpleasant to huve about. Paper j nay be pasted or pinned into the c 'orm of the large part of a funnel, r with a half- inch hole where the joint of the funnel would be if there t tvere n? hole. Place this funnel in the mouthof a large fruit jar and lia\e soapsuds in the jar. A little jyrup may be put*on a cork that tloats In the suds, the syrup beiug to j Iraw the flies into the jaV. Once in, they will not have the sense to gel ( jut and the lnmes from ibe suds will kill them. Set the jar at a well s lighted window, u& the Hies will con- ' gregate there. The jar will have to be cleaned out well every two or three days, or it will smell had f<*om the deciding files. This trap Is as goo 1 as ii is cheap. I Modern scteuce shows that insects | are largely responsible for disease In tbo human family, nnd perhaps the common housefly is leader among 1 insects in giving persons disease. I They breed in filth, develop in tilth < food in filth, and carry filth where | ever they go. From their small size . It might he supposed that they could not carry enough filth to make their ' presence dangerous, hut disease germs are so extremely small that a great number of them may be carried on anything as small as the tip of a pin point. One germ can as easily start a colony of germs as a bit of i.una' aa sou can start a 'Miorh of t Burmuda. So. it is erroneous to suppose that a fly is too small to he a carrier of disease. Many epidemics of the hot Heason have been trac- ' ed to the fly. It is more dangerous ' for man under modern conditions < than wild beast were to man when he lived in the open, without a dwel- ( ling for protection. Some years ago when cholera was killing from two 1 to four convicts a day in a Manila i prison, the disease was stamped ] out promptly by screening all openlug and trapping what f nv flies accidentally entered. The fly is responsible for the death of many chil- ' dren through polluted milk. The fly 1 likes milk; and when it can get to i this food, it plants bacteria, which breed rapidly and make milk dangerous. We are told that ninetv-nine of 1 every hundred flies that infest houses belong to the family which breeds in 1 stable filth. One female lays an ] average of one hundred and twenty eggs n a season, the egg hatches in ' eight hours, hatches into a maggot 1 that eats ravenously and grows fast for five days; the muggot turns into j a pupa and sleeps nearly five days, , then in about ten days from the lay- . ing of the egg the fly emerges from the pupa state with wings?an adult 1 fly to traved about and spread the ; disease whereever it finds an oppor- i tunity. Each of the young female flies is soon ready to take up the work of multiplying thoir kind. Each ( fly is capable of visiting a garbake heap and carrying thence germs of I iuch disease as typhoid fever or dip- , theria. Some of our soldiers while In cump during the Snanish war were infected with typhoid fever by ? dies that had access to sewage < luiups. A farmer who keeps his own ] place clean may be made sick by dies that come from a garbage pile of lome sick neighbor. We are told that if there were no Slthy barnyards or stables t here 1 would bo no flies, since they would I tiave no placo to grow; and we are f ilso told that they grow in any ani- 1 nal or fowl excrement. A firm cornlost heap freo from maggots, as the ' !eamale flies penetrate such heaps to ' ay eggs. A hen working in a heap j >f manure will destroy many young lies. The hen also makes the sur- , ace too dry for hatching the fly eggs' All this shows that " each person 1 ihould keep his own premises clean t ind have his house screened, so that j lies may not come from a neighbor's, c vhere there !s? sickness and thus car- , y the disease. It has been stated . hat one female lays an average of 1 >ne hundred and twonty eggs in a I leason; and supposing that half that r nany flies develop figure up what the j lumber of her offspring Is af e- three >r four generations. * Do not be content with keeping tho remises clean outdoors and screen- t ng the hotiso. Do not leave food a mcovered and keep the doors and he tables clean. It Is an error to Leep a room dark continually to keep a >ut flies. Flies do not. like a room f rhere there is no moisture or mold -et in the sunlight and make the ^ corns unpleasant for them. Where here is ,.o sunlight they will fln 1 n onditiors they like, even though b hey gather at windows where light f omes in. Have screen doors hung a o swing outward, so flies will move g rem the house as a door is onorcd. " Eon't preach on modern sinners y s long as the supply of olden saints b lolds out. ^ e jAbi* "trfiiib i**ifi -fmSlfr'tfBNl .. "... t-? CAUSED BY SHAME ] 1 ISBAXD'S CRIME LED WIFE TO ? KILL HERSELF. j 1 "hile She Was Absent From Houie ^ He Attacked Little Oirl and Then 1 Fled From Justice. ) Overwhelmed by the shame of 'mrl usband's crime. Mrs. Lena Wi .aett ( amnimitted suicide iu ner hr.ue in 'ew York. In her death f ?e also illed her 18-month-old s'a. The usband who brought d sgrace to is fair wife's name ha- fled on acount of his crime. The Wiunette ?ved in a small ouse aloe- ,ae of a family by the .~v> O'Brien. On the day of the rime Mrs. Winnett, her son and her lothor. went to the cornerstone layng of Father McClure's Church of he Immaculate Conception, in New 'ork, and while they were gone, Vinnett coaxed nine-year-old Agnes i'Brien to his porch and then got ier inside the house. There he asanlted her. The weeping child ran 0 her mother when she was released, nd told what had happened. Mrs. YBrien summoned the police but Vinnett had fled. When the wife returned home she earned of the man's deed and beanie hysterica with grief. Her nother tried to soothe her and soon he did become quiet, but hers was he calm of desperation. When she etired she closed every hole in lier 00111, placed a quarter in the gas neter, stretched herself and child on 1 bed and died from the effects of nhaled gas. Winnett has a bad record. His wife's mother opinised heir marriage but tliey eloped, and ilnce that date she has been compelled to keep Winnett in addition to ier daughter and grandchild. * Tlif? Diii&r lljiliit. The American Medical Association met in Chicago recently in :heir T>9th annual convention. Preceding the opening of the regular neeting there was a gathering of famous inebriety specialists. One :>f them declared that America is becoming a nation of degenerates Lhrough drugs and alcohol neurosia. Patent medicines were condemned Even pure water, takan in large and unnecessary ouanities, was injurious. Alcohol, under all conditions was harmful. The slavish use of tea and coffee led to a species of inebriety as harmful as that resulting from alcohol. Over indulgences and gluttony are characteristics of a iegenerate. Such were a few of the opinions expressed by these specialists. The drug habit is a deplorable ane. There is not one person in five not addicted to it. There are handy specifics for every pain and ailment. By imprudent eating, drinking and management of the nutritive and excretory organs a headache or that tired feeling is produced. It has taken weeks to bring about the condition and weak foolish people think that the cure can be affected in two minutes by some of these poison preparations. Any man or woman who denends on driurs. tonics the hypodermic syringe and all sorts of nostrums to keep them going, are ;ertaln to go, but they go downward all the time. No medicine at all is better than its indiscriminate use. If you have formed the habit of taking cathar:ics, tonics, sleep-producing potions and all sorts of regulating dope, you are in a very bad way. We verily believe that the makers of all these patent and proprietary medi;ines have done a thousand times nore harm than good. If we ever lave sane and sound men and wonen we have to get them from that :lass that takes no meaicine. Sturdy strong, healthy children can not be expected from anaemic, degenerate mothers and fathers. Tlic American Farmer. The Review of Reviews says if the American farmer went out of business this year he could clean up hirty billion dollars. And he would lave to sell his farm on credit; for there is not enongh money in the svhole world to pay him half his >rice. Talk of the money-made trusts! rhey might have reason to l>e mad f they o^vned the farms, instead of heir watered stock. When we re nember that the American farmer arns enough in seventeen days to luy out the Standard Oil and enough n fifty days to wipe Carnegie and :he steel trust off the industrial nap, the story of the trusts seems ike "the short and simple annals of he poor."* One American harvest would buy he kingdom of Belgium, king and 11; two would buy Italy: three muld buy Austria-Hungary, and at spot cash price would take Russia rom the czar. Talk about swollen fortunes? Vith the setting of every sun the noney box of the American farmer ulges with the weight of twenty our new million. Only the most tletic imaginations can conceive of uch a torrent of wealth. Place your finger on the pulse of our wrist, and count the hearteats, one, two, three, four. Withj very four of those quick throbs, | lay and night, a thousand dollars Matters into the gold bin of the American farmer. How incomprehensible it would seem to Periclees, who saw Greece n her Golden Age, if he could know that the yearly revenue of his country is now no more than one day's oay for the men who till the soil of this infant republic! Or, how it would amaze ? resur rected Christopher Columbus if hr were told that the revenues of Span and Portugnl are not nearly as mucl eis the earnings of the Ameriear farmer's hen. Merely the crumbs that drop fron the farmer's table, (otherwisknown as agricultural exports) havt brought him in enough in foreigr money since lSbo to enable him. i1 | he wished, to settle the railroad problem once for all by buying ev ery foot of railroad in the United States. Such is our new farmer?a mar for whom there is no name ir an> language. He is far above the far mer of the story books as a 1908 touring car is above a jurikisha. Instead of being an ignorant hoeman in a barnyard world, he gets the news by daily mail and telephone; end incidently publishes a tradt journal of his own. Instead of being a moneyless j>easant he pay the interest on the mortgage with the earnings of a week. Even thi: is less of an expense than it seem for he borrows money from him self, out of hisown bank, and spend, the bulk of the tax money aroum his own properties. Farming for a business, not a lis ing, this is the motive of the nev farmer. He is a commercialist? a man of the twentieth century. H? works as hard as the old farmer did SO MANY Have availed themselves of our Libei at Offer viz. $ir> discount on $HOniid IjHX Organs, we have concluded to renev the offer for a short while so as t get these excellent organs introduce! into every county and locality in S. C Only S-O first payment, SSiin Nov. Isi 1DOK, and balance Nov. 1st, ItMM). These terms enabU you lo buy till First-class Sweet Toned Organ whlc will proven basting Treasure. Don' Delay hut write at once for catalo and price list to the old establishe MAIiONK'S Ml Sit' ll.ii SK. Pianos and Organs. Columbia. S. < LANDER COLLEGE (Formerly Williainstoii Female College.) tiHF.FNWOOD, S. Itev. John O. W'illson, President Opens Sept. IS, 15?<>s. Comfon able, steamheated. electric lightei building, in city limits. (5ood food Home-like life and oversight. Thorough teaching and truinln,Fine work in music and art. Cos reasonable. Send for catalogue. CLASSIFIED COLUMN. WANTED. Wanted?Itovs, from 7 t.? 12 year; of age, who would like to earn >valuable watch for a tew hourteasv work, to send name ami ?'t dress to Lock Hex 17i>, Fort Mill S. C. Wanted Detectives. WANTED?Detectives in every locality to act tinder orders, no experience necessary, address Fedoral Agency, Gary, lnd. FOR SALE?MISCELiiANKOTTB* For Sale < iit^ip?^7)ni^n^tgei^Tiread Mixer, one Thompson Moulding Machine, four Bread Presses; tw< Bread Troughs; one Cake Machine. F>0 Plane Moulds; and many othe^ things used in a first-class bakery Apply to L. R. Kiley, Orangeburg S. C. For Hale?One twelve horse powei Blakesley Gasolene Engine, cheap Also lot of shafting, pulleys, etc Apply to L. R. Klley, Orangeburg S. C. 37500 Sanare Feet I Covered With Pumps, Packir Belting-, Pij Valve . . . WRITE F SOUTHERN STATES SUPI .r? ^ 11 ) GIBBES MACHI1 Box 80, COI L''^--"At . '.' A =>. ? > , but in a higher way. He uses the four M'a?mind, money, machinery, and muscle; but as little of the latter as possible. Neither is he a Robinson Crusoe of the soil; as the old farmer was. His h rmit days are over;-he is a man among men. The railway, the trol! v. the automobile, and the top buggy have transformed him into a -uburbanite. In fact his business ts become so complex and manyided that he touches civilization at ?ore points and lives a larger life mn if he were one of the atoms of crowded city. All American farmers, of course, e not of the new variety. The -untry is like the city, has its 'urns. But after having made alowance for exceptions it is still -ue that the United States is the i?me of the new fanner. He is the i Most typical human product that ' ::is country has i reduced, ar.d the Most important, for in spite of her gotistical cities the United States a still a farm based nation. The Statistics of Suicide. * I Statistics deal directly with facts I ?ut the facts may be differently inI erpreted, and probably there will k? much diversity in the reasoning ! -n the statistics of suicide that are resented by Geo. Kennan in an aricle in McGlure's Magazine. There vill be general agreement with ne author, however upon certain >oints that he emphasizes and genral interest in the figures, stateoents anil explanations that he ofers for consideration. Mr. Kennan finds that suicide is jieciallv prevalent between the 50th ind 55th parallels of north latitude, ne number within "these parallels eing 172 to the million, and the irgest number outside being 93 to he million. The annual number of uicides is about 10,000 in the ' -Jnited States and about 70.tHK) in 11 Europe. It is increasing rapidy everywhere, and in the United Hates it has increased from 12 in he million in 1881 to 120 in the nillion in 1907. Climato Mr kVnnnn save lioc ntle or nothing to do with it, hut eason and weather a great deal. 'ontrary to the general impression, uicides are least numerous in Deember and most numerous in .Tune, ind far more numerous in the clear nd beautiful days of .June than in .is wet or cloudy days. The suicide rate is always reduced y any great and absorbing public alamity or excitement. This is miversaJly true of wars, but was lust as marked in connection with he destruction of San Francisco. Che suicidal impulse increases ra|>:dlv from childhood to old ago. It is much higher among the ofTi: *ers and soldiers or sailors of armies i .nd navies than among other peole. The rate is higher among phycians, lawyers, journalists, teachrs and all professional men except f*|!? 'ergymen than among other classes, here are fewer suicides by far mong women than men. By a mparison of the north of Ireland vith the south of Ireland, and the Protestant cantons of Switzerland l a ith its Catholic cantons, Mr. Kcnj an shows that suicides are much ! more common among Protestants j than Catholics. In Switzerland ! Ihev are four to one. It is more j common amontf all Christains than ' among Jews and Mohammedans. 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