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. <
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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
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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
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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
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F>0 Plane Moulds; and many othe^
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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.
It is impracticable to give all of
i lie writers conclusions, but his
most significant comment is that
ppearances seem to teach "that
. uicide is a by-product of the great
complicated machine that we call
civilization."
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