Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r g===== . M. mm | OUR SCI ?| PAPER K fcs BY PKOF. WILLI ^ra^ea5s^gB8tasa^egB8K Our Schools. "To-day in South Carolina are to be fouud very few people who would adult that they arc uufriendly to popular education, and fewer still who would admit that they arc not friends to our common schools. The people of the State have Just passed through a somewhat vigorous political campaign. In' this, as in almost every such campaign, many of the candidates for office have taken occasion to declare their deep interest in the common schools. The caudldatc "doth protest too much, methinks," but most of them are entirely sincere iu their declarations. Some of these win soon occupy positions which , will enable them to demonstrate their j Interest in our schools, and their capacity for improving them. From the outside it would seem that very , few of these men have made any , careful analysis of the conditions of our schools, and certainly few have . offered any definite, practicable plan j for their permanent improvement. Py no means do I intend to cast any i slur at these men. Perhaps it is asking too much of men busy with their own affairs and the affairs of the pub- ( lie, to stop to studS* the problems of 1 education?a field broad and rich in ( vexatious questions. Perhaps, too, those who have studied these problems, and are familiar with the con- ( dltions. have been remiss in not telling the people frankly what they see and know. For fifteen years thU writer taught in the common schools of this State, , and for seventeen yearsr he lias tried , to study the conditions which make 1 for good or for evil in the educational ' system of the State. Duriug the past 1 twenty-six months lie has traveled more than thirty thousand miles In- 1 side the'State, driven hundreds of iniUni through the rural districts, and visited'not far from three hundred schools In the State. He claims no wider or richer knowledge of the conditions than is possessed by scores of his fellow-workers. Yet he feels that "he knows something of these conditions. and that he owes it to the people to set these conditions frankly heforo them. Let me say at the outset that I have no disposition to forget or to ' disregard the many good things in our schools, or to withold merited 1 commendation anywhere, yet it is not ' my purpose to tax the reader's time and patience with platitude and empty 1 eulogies, so frequently indulged in by 1 those who strive so diligently to blind themselves to our patent weaknesses. Our schools have been vastly improved within recent years. We should rejoice ut their growth, and ever honor those who have contributed to that growth. But we can not afford to stop at that. It would be folly to 1 assume that our schools, and our school system, are anything Tike perfect. Let us discover some of the ' glaring weaknesses, admit what, we * discover, and set ourselves resolutely toward improvement. Some of the most conspicuous ' weaknesses in our schools are these: 1 1. Lack of funds suillcient to main- 1 tain high-class schools; 1 2. Beggarly salaries paid to teach- ! crs; 1 3. Too many Incompetent teachers ' employed In our schools: 4. Short school terms, espeellaly ' in ihe rural districts; 5. Poor school houses and noor 1 equipment; 6. Neighborhood jealousies and neighborhood quarrels; 7. Too many little half-supported sehools; 8. Inadequate supervision of village and rural schools; 8. Non-attendnnco and irregular attendance of the pupils; 10. The mlssiug lluk?the high school. 1 wish to discuss these features of ' our school system frankly, somewhat fully, and altogether dispassionately. ' 1 wish to avoid anything captious oi hysterical. In these discussions, I 1 beg to offer, as unobtrusively as I may, some suggestions as to reme- ' dies. For he Is a poor physician who ' tells his patients that he is sick, but offers neither to tell him what the disease is, nor to prescribe any reme- ( dy. ; Lack of Funds. To maintain good schools requires money. They can ( not he run on ebullient sentiment. ' nor will spasmodic charity keep them ' at a very high standard. Money if absolutely necessary to build comfort- ' able school houses, to furnish th? .'.c ' houses, to pay competent teachers. ' and to keep the schools open nine 1 ninnlhc In 4 ~ J??r. ? liai is MOUt.l Carolina putting info her common r schools, the training school of the fu r turo citizenship of the StRte? In ^ 1907. the State enrolled In the com- ' mon schools 31 1.399 pupils, or about ' 18 per cent of her total population. ' On these pupils was spent ll.41G.7Z4t ' or $4.GO per pupil. This $4.50 Includes the expenditures on school houses, furniture, apparatus, librar- ' les. and teachers' salaries. The aver- '' ase attendance upon the schools was. * of course, much lower than the en- 1 rollment, therefore the amount spent ' per pupil on the basis of attendance ' was larger?$6.37. In 1906. North Carolina spent $6.90 per pupil in at s tendance; Georgia spent $7.45; Miss- t isslppi. $8.01; Tennessee. $8.48; Vir- *> glnla, $11.05; Florida, $11.30; Louis- tl iana, $14.83; Main. $20.65; Mary- =? land. $21.32: Wischnsln. $28.34: a Minnesota. $30.19; New York. '1 $47.40. a In 1907. South Carolina spent for \* common school education 9 1 cents fl per capita ot her total population. In hi 1906. Georgia spent 98 rents; Virgin- h< ia spent $1.12; Mississippi. $1.15; o! Kentucky. $1.19; Tennessee. $1.49: hi Florida. $1.96: Maryland. $2.51: Wis w conaln. $3 97; Minnesota. $4 41; !e> 10.1. g [AM H. HAND. H Mew York, $6.27. If Virginia has found that it requires $11.05 per pupil to maintain her schools, is it reasonable to assume bat South i Carolina can maintain ;ood schools on $6.37 par pupil? If Vlaryland is willing to invest (21.32 per pupil in her schools, she must be satisfied with her investment. for she las been Increasing the amount from rear to year. The question at issue s not concerned with the relative; wealth of these States. The question is iuib: ii it pays to put 111.05 a rear in the education or a Virginia boy, docs not a South Carollua boy need or deserve more than JG.3" iv his education. God ha j done his part i?y the South Carolina boy atid sir I; Lias the State done Its part? A'cti people will admit that our school fund is insufficient. Hoc.' are *e to increase It? Several plans hove been offered, and several ways a.-e jpen. Some of them, however, do not ippcal to men of experience. Not a few people Insist upon increasing the ichool fund by privato subscription. This plan is inadequate and rather vicious in its effects. The public schools arc supported primarily for the benefit of the State, rather thau for the benefit of'the individual. If the support of the schools Is dependent upon voluutary subscription, the less patriotic shirk their duty, and the burden falls upon the willing few. [lesides, such support is irregular, unstable, and uncertain. Frequently it Is proposed by a few to increase the common school fund by direct npproprlatlou from the 3tate treasury. Unless such appropriation Wore made upon the condition that each district receiving its j>art should first make i specific local effort, the result would be hurtful, as the districts would soou come to look upon themselves as beneKNarles of the State, and would cease to make any effort to help themselves. Only a few years <go one house of the General Assembly passed a hill (knowing that It would fail to pass iu the other house) appropriating $200,000 to the common schools, llow much relief would such sum give to the schools? It would increase the fund only 63 cents per pupil on last year's enrollment. or $15.75 to a school of 25 pupils. Au appropriation of $200,000 disbursed in such way as to require the districts to raise in the aggregate something like $400,000 In local taxes. would be equitable and wise. ! am at once reminded that this plan would not entirely relieve the strain in a few of the poorer counties, and I admit it. Our present plan of collecting and apportioning the constitutional 3-iuill school tax is not a democratic one. That tax Is collected and apportioned by counties. Some counties with poor land, lack of water power for manufacturing, and with no railroads to tax, are at a decided Psadvantage. It would have been unjust to have collected and apportioned that 3-mill tax as a State tax, but it would have been just and democratic to have made two mills a county tax, as at present, and have made the other mill a State tax. Then the stronger counties would have been contributing a well-guarded ta.t for the support of the weak counties. So far in this State atleast. local taxation has proVed to be the best means of Increasing the school fund, it Is equitable, it Is stable, and it is 'ertaln until a majority of the neonle rote it off. It compels the unwilling rc* to hear their proportionate part >f a legitimate and necessary corununtty expense. The district which evies a local tax knows just where ivery dollar comes from, and just ahere every dollar goes. Moreover, t is usually not very difficult to levy i local school tax. if there Is only sonic safe person to lead, for as a rule he wealthiest persons in the district ire the readiest to vote a local school :ax. Personally I am confident tUat the most just, equitable, and reasonable Aay to increase our school fund is to naugurate a sensible and bones! sysem of returnidg our property for taxitlon. When yon compare the amount >f school tax raised In South Carolina >n each $100 of taxable property, with that of other States, the showing s very good. But when you stop to onslder that our property has been eturned at perhaps twenty-five p?*r ent of its true value, the showing is lot good. The habit of returning a >iecc of property at one-fourth its rue value, then taxing it at 4 mills, nsfead of returning it at something ike its true value, the taxtng it at ?ne mill to raise the same amount of noney, is not only childish business iractice, but ft Is a training school in llshonesty. Men who offer to return heir property at something like its rue value are actually laugbed-at for u?-ii imii-sfufss. wvic nonesty ruust lecline under such vicious system. Were the real and personal properv In this State returned at something ike ninety per cent (and why should t not?) of its true value, the ft-niIII chool tax alone would practically louble our entire school revenue. In 907. the land outside the incorporatd towns In the prosperous, producIve. and wealthy county of Anderon was returned for taxation at an vera Are of $6.51 per acre. Marlboro, ne of the finest farming counties in he whole South, returned her land t an avera'ge of $5.28 an acre. Or- < ngeburg is justly proud of her farm ind. but she returned hers at $8.54 i n acre. Williamsburg has some < oor laud, but she has some of the t nest fields of cotton and tobacco to t ft found In the State: on tho tax t ooks her land is rated at an average 1 I $2.09. In these very counties I < ave been shown land whose owners t ould not sell for $30, $40. and) r?u $60 an acre In one of those! CAUSE OF FLOODS. | 1 WOHX FOB APPALACHIAN PARK BILL RECALLED. i PitMfnt Flood flight llave Boon Pre- ? rented llad the Bill Been Passed When It Was First Introduced. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says the loss or many human lives and the destruction of thousands of dollars' worth of property throughout the Southern States because of the floods now prevailing mould probably not be witnessed to-day had Congress passed the White Mountain and Appalachian forest reserve bill a few years ago. for which so hard n fight has been waged.Ou the other hand.such conditions as arc now being seen will necessarily continue until the lawmakers of the land realize that only with the passage of such a bill and the consequent holding of the waters to flow off into their outlets lu a natural way will such terrible floods stop. The fight that was made at the last session of Congress and at the two or three sessions before by advocates of the White Mountain and Appalachian Park reserve hill Is well remembered. Led by Represetatlves Currier, of Vermont, and Lever, of South Carolina, everything possible was done to have such a bill enacted into law. but even with the great fight that was made for Its success could not be had. Just as it seemed that success was in sight KeprcsentaIve Ilartlctt, of Georgia, adroitly took the matter out of the hands of the House committtee on agriculture by a resolution placing It with the committee on the judiciary, giving the latter committee fuli power and authority to go into the question of the bin* constitutionality It was at first believed that Mr. Bartlett was favorable to the measure and really desired to test the constitutional questions so that such matter could not be raisinl on the floor of the House when it came to a vote, but it was subsequently discovered mat nis purpose whs to effectually delay action for the session. The Judiciary committee took up the Currier bills, and after considering them for some time passed a resolution to the effect that If the purpose of tho hills were to further navigation then it would be constitutional, otherwise not. That was a step in tho passage of the measure, but so complicated was the situation towards the eloslug days of he session that nothing could be done towards securing its passage then. The trouble about these bills, however, which has been of more consequence than the action of Mr. llnrtlett. is the fact that Speaker Cannon, even in the face of the strogest appeals, has absolutely refused to permit them to come to a vote. Dozens of delegates from both the New England and Southern States called on him publicly and privately during the last session of Congress and pleaded with him to yield in his position and aliow the matter to come to a vote; to let. the Representatives of the people express their views on the floor of the House by their votes, hut nothing could change him. Not even his best friends in Congress could have the least possible influence upon him. He not only told those RepresctaMves who begged him to let the niafler come to a vote, but the various delegations also, that as long as he was Speaker he would recognize no one for that purpose. That was the situation at tho close of the last session of Congress. Representatives Lever aud Currier were pledged to their poeple to secure the passage of the bill at all hazards, and the failure to secure fA..AHAklA ? -A 1 * taiui ouic it> i Km cannoi t>e piacea to their account. The lives that are being lost every year in the South by reason of the hoods that sweep through the mountain country into the streams of the lowlands are Southern lives, but the miltons of dollars of property that go to destruction represent the interests of people In every part of the United States. It is not only Southern money i that goes into the South's cotton mills bleacherles and other manufacturing Industries, but Northern money and Masterrn money is invested there < also. I It is not known just what line of < procedure the two Congressmen mostly Interested Id this "measure will < adopt at the coming ssesion of Congress to effect its passage, if possible. | but It is reasonable, to assume that , they will not only continue their , work of former years in the interest | of the White Mountain and Appalach- ; fan Park country, hut that they will , redouble their efforts aloug this line , and bring all the pressure to hear on Speaker Cannon to have him yield b'l < position and allow the matter at least , to come squarely and fairly before { Congress for a vote. ( SHAH'S TROOPS PKFKATKP. ^ 1 I oyal Soldiers Suffered Heavy Casual- I tie* in the Conflict. A special dispatch received at St. ' Petersburg from Teheran says that * it is reported from Tabriz that Satar ^ Khan has inflicted a decisive defeat on the troops of the Shah, in which . the government soldiers lost 800 men killed and wounded. Civil war is raging anew in Tabriz province. H counties is a school district containing nearly 45.000 acres of land, yot the etire real and personal property \ of the district is refuVned at $100,- v 000. What would a 4-mili school tax e mean to that district? Increasing the n tax levy while we reduce the vaiua- 0 :ion of our property reminds one of ( the policy of the master who under- i ook to punish his thievish coachman > I>y periodically stealing back irom tbr roachman what the coachman had itolen from his master. h William H. Hand. n Vui**raity of South Carolina. w THE PAKTEVB TREATMENT. How the Patient In Inuoculatfd Against Hydrophobia. Many have friends, or at least know of people who have received the Pasteur treatment as preventative of hydrophobia, but few with the exception of the medical fraternity, are familiar with the treatment they receive. To Pasteur, the eminent French bacteriologist, is due the preventative treatment that is now admitted to be entirely successful in the great majority of cases. After long experiments on animals he demonstrated that iunoculation of the patient with a week virus from an animal that has died from hydrophobia imparts immunity from a virus of great virulence. On this principle a recently bitten patient is innoculated hypcrdcrmically with a virus prepared from the spiuHi cora remove a irom a rabbit Infected with hydrophobia, and whose virulence has been attenuated by being kept for fourteen days iii a dry atmosphere after the time Infection tat the expiration of this time the spinaf cord would be entirely Innocuous). On the second day the patient is treated with virus prepared thirteen days before, on the third day with twelve-day old virus of successively increasing strength, until on the fourteenth day he receives virus of full strength that cau be borne without inconvenience. the system having been rendered immune by the treatment described. Many thousand cases are treated every year in various laboratories throughout the world, and few cases are on record where a successful cure has not been effected. ABOUT FEEDING HORSES. Fart of a Speech of one of the South'* Greatest Experts in This Line. The following is slipped from The State, being a part of the speech recently ruad?> by Judge Henry Hammond of Augusta and Deach Island. Judge Hammond is recognized as an expert on the subject of feeding stock. "When the farmers of die south learn to use more of their cotton products, learn to feed their horses and stock with cotton seed products, it will mean millions of dollars to the south, part of which every farmer will save for himself. No report has over shown that injury to a horse has been a result of feeding cotton seed meal. Feed It every day. That's what I do. It is not a hot or a cold climate feed. Feed not less than one pound nor more than three, the amount to be determined by the age, size and work of the animal. Not only is it the most nutritious food but it greatly aids the digestion o?d general health and good appearance of the animal. Feed Cotton Seed Meal with anything you ever heard of a horse or mule eating?corn, whole: corn, cracked,: ensilage; bran 4ic. Don't stick to any one food. Give a variety. Change as the price changes, it is always best to feed hard working stock ground (not too line) feed. Cotton seed meal is fed to best advantage when thoroughly mixed with the other portion of the grain part of the ration. If you know what number of pouuds of grain will maintain your animal, reduce this two pounds for every pound of meal you feed To illustrate this.?if you hiv- % ?r?n giving him 14 pounds of corn, give him now only 10 pounds of corn and 2 pounds of cotton seed meal. He will soon improve and do better work than ever before." SKKS D A UK CXOFD. ilohson Predicts War With Japan Whhin Ten Veal's. nt w vuimgo w in ue japan s objective and that city will be the center of tremendous military operations In the American-Japanese war and that is bound to come within the next ten years, accordiug to Captain Richard Pearson Hobson. The captain's latest prediction of war was given out Tuesday night on his arrival at Chicago on his way to Wisconsin, where lie will lecture at a chauLaqua on "America's Lack of Defence." "Japan has been preparing for war with the United States for years," lie >aid. "She has contracted for the building of 11 Dreadnought battleihips in England and other foreign countries under fictitious names. She las replenished her financial coffers ind has money to burn and will make fight Inside of. 1 will say, six rears. "Japan is ready," continued the >aptain, "and the United States is lot. Canada ran easily be entered, ind through the Great Lakes to Chicago .from the north, and through Mexico from the south their troops vould invade the west, while their taltleaMna wnuM ?ti?ii?*<?? ?? - ? viiaiiviibv LIIV M'U' >oard." In the course of his address llnbon referred to an interview with ^resident Roosevelt during which ho aid the chief executive had indicated lis belief that defensive stops should ?e taken by the Tnited States. This statement had a sequel the ollowlng day, when a severe repudiaion of the interview was given out t the white house. Wives of Strikers Shot. In a strike riot ot Dunmire. Vn.. Vodnesdav evening Mrs. Adam Kaalko and Mrs. Anna Cordtlach. wivs, of miers, were shot while the winen were standing on the back porch f the Kavalko home. It Is not now'n whether the wounds were inieted hi' shots fired by Stntr police r strikers. When a man spends all his odd ours puttering around his house the elghbor women ere apt to envy hie 1fe. ^ ->= BIG LOSS BY FIRE. SEVERAL STORKS BURNER IX BRANCH VILLE MONDAY. Tlio Money lioss is Snid to in* llotwcen Fifty nih! Sixty Thousand Dollars. A big lire visited Branehville on ^ last Monday morning at two o'clock. Several of the most prominent stores in the town were destroyed. entailiiiK a loss of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. The origin of the fire is not known. it originated in the store of Dukes &. Co., and in a short time after being discovered the store and its contents were in ashes. Mr. A. F. H. Dukes, who managed this business, says his stock of goods was worth $16,000 and his buildiug 97,000. with insurance to the aiuouut of 913.0UO. H. Berry Co.. next door to Dukes &. Co.. had stock of $('>.000; loss $4,500, | insurance 93,600. F. F. Bellinger, loss $6,000, insurance $4,500. Mr. Bellinger occupied the upstairs of the building that he kept store in, as u residence, and he says that his loss is about $1,000 with no insurance. J. B. Henderson, loss partial, his building saved by hard work. His beautiful stock is damaged by lire and water about $4,000, covered by in 1 suranco. Clifton A. Dukes owned the building occupied by H. Berry Co.. and F. F. Bellinger: his building was a total loss. The building was a total ?oss. The buildiug was valued at $6,000 with $3,000 insurance, i I'. C. Dukes sustained a loss of $1,000, covered by Insurance. I,. A. Garduer lost $50. no insurance, i Black's Pharmacy lost $400 or 1500, covered liy insurance. Luckily there was very little wind blowing at the time of the fire. It Is due largely to thisfact that the whole uusmess suction 01 inc town would have been burned down. "T1IK TEX (UMMANWMKXTS." CcMulu ItnUs Must Ii'oveni the Farmer Who Wishes to Sneered. . At an early period it was found , necessui> 10 evolve rroin the mass of ethical teaching a few general rules , Tor living, called "The Ton Com[ raandments." i?v which a man could i be moral without going through a , course in theology. Just so. in order to Instruct the average farmer howto successfully conduct his farm operations so as to secure a greater net gain from the farm, it is neces( sary to first deduce from the mass of agricultural teachings a few gen. oral rules of procedure. They are called "The Ten Commandments of ( Agriculture," by the practice of which a man may be a good farmer in any state without being a graduate from ! a college of agriculture. t 1 ) Prepare a deep and thoroughly pulverized seed bed. well drained: break in the fall to the deptli of 8. 10 or 12 inches, according to the soil, with implements that will not hriug too much of tlio subsoil to the sur1 face (the foregoing depths should he reached gradually.) (2) Use seed of the best variety, intelligently selected and carefully , stored. | (3) In cultivated crops, give the rows and the plants In tlie rows a space suited to the plant, the soil and the climate. ( 4 ) Use intensive tillage during the growing period of the crops. (5) Secure a high content of humus in the sotl by the use of legumes. barnyard manure, farm refuse ami commercial fertilizers. ( t GI Carry out a systematic crop 1 rotation with a winter cover crop on ' southern farms. (7) Accomplish more work in a day i?y using more horse-power and ' better implements, (8) Increase the farm stock to the extent of utilizing all the waste products and idle lands of the farm. (9) Produce all the food required ' fcr the men and animals on the farm. (10) Keep an account of each farm product, in order to know from which the gain or loss arises. f S. A. Knapp. 1 Washington. I>. C. t WANTED TO LYNCH A FIEND. ? The Colored People at Holly 11 ill trot Aroused. The colored people in and around Holly Hill were very much excited on last Saturday. Frank Johnson, a nrggro who criminally assaulted a young negro girl, about a mile from the J town one week before, was arrested Saturday and brought to Holly Hill ur/?15 minore hArtfii?rr Tl... -- * 1 -- " .luiiiini,. mill ins. I III- Slll'flh were full of negroes during the day and the throats to lynch tin- man were so open that unusual precautions were taken for his safety. He was taken from the small and Insecure guard house at night and placed in the depot, where a strong armed guard kept vigilant watch during the night, no one being allowed to approach the depot unchallenged, and as early as possible on Sunday morning he was taken to Monrk's Corner. There seems to he no doubt of the fiend's guilt. Says It Is Not True. The Toledo Times, an independent -j mornig paper, published an interview with Senator Foraker, in which he denies in positive terms that he and Candidate T.ift had become friendsand that be would take th^ stump for the presidential nominee. Koraker. according to the Times, declares that ha has been insulted and throws down the gauntlet to Taft. CZAR IT IE llICIiKsI' MONARCH. Emperor of Russia is Paid One Million Dollars Kverjr Oilier Week. Considerable interest will be created by the forthcoming discussion in the Prussian Parliament, or Lading, of the Kaiser's request for an increase of salary. Wilhelm 11. as German emperor, receives an annual grant of only $450,000 from the State. His sulary as King of Prussia is more in keeping with his needs, the amount being $3,500,000. During the twenty years of his reign the German emperor has received many legacies from wealthy subjects. In this respect he is the luckiest of all monarchs, for he has benefitted to the extent of nearly $5,000,000 in hard cash. and. in addition, several fine estates have been left to hint. The Kaiser's mode of living is one of unparalled magnificence. 11c is a connoisseur in the art of choosing apparel and in the art of wearing it to me oesi advantage, and his tailor's bill runs into thousands of dollars. His majesty possesses sufficient castles, palaces and "country houset to enable him to live in a different one each week of the year, if In should feel so disposed. When In travels nothing that may lend splendor and impressiveness to his progress is overlooked, and here many Germans see an opportunity for their king to economize; they would prefer him to omit some of the pomp and ceremony which surrounded him when Journeying in his own realm. One of the disadvantages undet which the German emperor labors it that he must provide for his family out of his own income. In England, on the contrary, each member of th? royal family receives a yearly grant of $500,000 or over from the State while King Edward himself gels $2.350.000. Of this stun barely onefourth goes into Ills majesty's own purse, as lie defrays the salaries and expenses in connection with the roya house-hold, and also provides pension for his ..uperanuated servants. The Czar is the richest monarch in the world. In his ease the crown properties actually belong to hlut. Thes? Impiral domins include more that 20,000,000 acres of cultivated landt and improved forests, as well as sev ral Siberian mines. A state gran of $7,500,000. added to his othei revenues, brings the Czar's gross income up to $ 10,000,000 a year. Out of this sum. however, he has to beat all the~expcnses of his great estates No data of any kind are available re garding the amount of clear profi' which the Czar received, but lie hat $25,000,000 a year for Ills private use. i'ASNKNGKH.S KILL Ill-Hi HAIIV. Telephone Pole Fnlls on Car Causing Panic?Iniaut Trampled I'pon. St~ap hanging played a part in the death of William Finley, tive months old. The baby was being carried by his mother, Mrs. Annie Finley. who whs forced to hang to a strap in a crowded Fifty-first streetcar, which she entered on August 21. She had traveled only a short distance when a telephone pole fell, striking the roof of the car. Passengers were thrown into a panic and before Mrs. Finley could get out of theaisle she was knocked down and the baby was trampled upon. Efforts to save the life of the child at the Provident Hospital proved unavailing. and he died. SEVEN PKItSONS l?ltO\VNKl? On <e> Out in lloat and Only Three Tie turn.. At Deer Isle. Maine, seven summer risitors out of a party of ten wore drowned by the capsizing of a 31foot sloop in Penobscot Hay, off that island. Tuesday. The drowned are: Miss Alice Torro, Washington. C. Miss Eleanor Torro. Washington. D. C. Miss Kellogg. Baltimore. Initio Kellogg. Baltimore. Mrs. Lucy S. Crawley PhilodHphia. Miss Elizabeth (J. Vans. Mount dolyoke Seminary, Mass. Jason C. Hutching, Bangor, Maine. Taeoina Chosen. Tacomn, Wash., has been selected or the next convention of the Spuush War Veterans to meet. $7500 Sfluare Feet Fin ? - - ?1 Pomps, Packing, Pull Pipe, Filtiogs, Vs . . . WRITE FOR PR Southern States col.u m e Gibbcs "Por Tl) A money maker indeed. ltS ?elf. Write. ~ Cibbcs ^ Good! v^/ selUr,o^;;noi BOX 12tO, lie American All-Wrought Tma I] Split Steel Pulleys. * Mv 1 WI '.J./'41 Also carr; Si n Shafting. you tr.igh in the ma rni STANDARD DESIGN UUI FASTEST IN WORLD j a AMKltK'AX WARSHIP WILL SURPASS LtSITAXLV IX SPHKU. Naval OtlWiuls nir Socivt the I'lans and S|NHaiflratioiis W'ltirlt miv Submitted iu Confidence. Ilidfi fni* #Krt " .?. wuusirucuoil or ton torpedo boat destroyers, everyone of which must be at least four knots faster than the Lusitunia and equiped with apparatus for burning oil , as well as coal, and wlueh are to ho toe largest ever built for the Amerl, can navy, will be opened at New i York this week. These vessels are to cost $800,000 each, and for every knot that the vessels lose 011 any of their trial trips under the contract speed the builders will have to forfeit $f?0.000 of he contract price to the government. The plans and specifications for hese vessels are being kept secret ?y the Navy Department, and they were submitted In confidence to the I bidders. It is known, however, that the ves>els must have a displacement of at 'east 74 2 tons, and that they must it tain on their trial tests a maximum 1 speed of 29 Vi knots an hour, a speed hat will make them among the fastest war craft ever extended in this or my other country. ( euernl's Wife Murdered. The wife of Major General Chas. rid ward Luard. retired officer of the Royal Engineers, was murdered 111 ho woods near London. England. last week. Itobborv is believed to 1 have boon the motive as her jewel' ery was taken. * * , Tabulated statement of the County State vote will be found 011 page five. PIANO AND ORGAN ECONOMY. if you are interested in the purhase of a PIANO or an ORGAN, wo vant to sell you one. Don't think you must go to some nail order nouso to l?uy a low priced piano or organ: nor outside of fouth Carolina to get the host pinno ?r orcan Wo ? n. . 1 ? >f grades, and all styles, at. prices vhieh cannot fall to interest yon. Vo arc manufacturers factory re resentatlves for several of the argest and most famous makers of danos and organs. We take old instruments in ex hange and make most liberal terms f payment to those who wish to ?uy on time. No house?quality of danos and organs considered?can indorsed us. Twenty-four years of air dealing in Columbia and througli>ut South Carolina is our reference ind guarantee. Write us at once for catalog price , ind terms. Malonc's Music House, Columbia,S.C. Pianos nml Organs. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Hanging from 75 to 400 acres. Reasonable prices Fas-/ terms. Ilox 7, Tlioiunsville, Ha. h'Oit SAL 1-1?Common building brick, * red color, immediate delivery. Prices upon application, Cuniden Press llriek Co., Camden. S. t\ WANTED?Pino logs bought for rash. For particulars address Sumter Lumf?er Co., Sumter, S. C. FOR S.\I?One 5 horse power Itlakeslce Gasoline Engine. Cost over $100. Will take $l??o for it. $50 repairs will get it in good condition. Apply to .las. I.. Sims, Orangvlnirg, S. C. TEACHERS TICFSTEES. We secure schools for teachers and have many excellent vacancies. We reconmieud teachers to trustees and sell school furniture of all kinds. Write. Southern Teachers' Agency, Columbia, S. C. WANTKD?Clerks, cotton buyers, farmers, warehousemen and others to learn grading and classifying cotton in our sample rooms, or through correspondence course. Thirty day scholarship completes you. American Cotton College, Mlllcdgeville, (in. or Space Covered With Supply C ompany 3 I a. s. C. table" "JT N;'xt". Latest Model. A ^ TKiUMPH"e?m Psssfttiwos Week r?rrl?ro? MaI I r\ T T i V Stee 1 Track Smoothest Action. ttt , f Accurate Hawing. X/V O tph 1'crfect ? q u I p- ? ? CltVll ment. ^ Quickly pays for It- This 1 fachinery Co., libra Guaranteed Ma- C*C? j ."-all kinds COLUMBIA, b. C. 'ulley that All Want. ZCARRY A LARGE STOCK. y a large stock of Wood Pulleys, Hangers. Belting and anythirp else t wish in this line. When > cu are rket. write us .UMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY. Columbia, S. C.