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ft W V Lour sci PAPER? BY PKOF. WILLI wtmm wtammmtmtmem s Too Mimy Little Hulf-Kiippurtc?l s Schools?Sooner or later our people ( are going to have more comfortable and commodious school houses, lie fore the people put their money into permanent improvements, would it ( not be wise to reduce the number of ' schools In a great many places? A \ good four-room house costs less than ' four one-room houses of equal com- ' fort and convenience. Sixty pupils ' In one building can be better taught ! and more easily tuught than fifteen i 1 pupils each In four buildings. A ' 1 four-teacher school will flourish where four one-teacher schools would struggle to keep alive. In more than half the counties in the State are to be found dozens of schools with 10 to 12 pupils each. Not many weeks ago I visited a ru- i ral school with an enrollment oi 11 pupils; three miles off was anoth or school with 13 pupils, and in another direction was a third school with 14 pupils. The throe teachers i were paid $35 each; each school house was cheap and ill equipped. In some districts six miles squar are to l>e found as many ns throe white schools, each with a small number of pupils scattered from first reader to high school grades. A good many of the incorporated villa rob have school districts co-e\ tensive with the incorporate limits. An uccurate school district map oi' the State would look very much like a crazy quilt. What is the remedy? Take the three schools cited above. Uuild a comfortable two-room house at a central point, and give the entire, 3 8 pupils to two teachers. Each pupil would then have his recitation time doubled, for there would be in the consolidated school no more grades, or classes, than ther. ! were In the most advance of the three little schools. I am at once reminded that some of these children would have too far to walk. (It I.marvelous how much trouble a father who walked four miles to school and brags about, makes over his child's walking one mile. 1 1 grant that the consolodation puts the school too far for some to walk. What then? Take part of the money to transport these to the school Prof. W. K. Tate of Ihe Memminger Normal school says: "It is bettet and cheaper to transport the distan* children to the good school than ti bring a poor school to the distant children." Yes; one good school it immeasurably better than three inferior schools. The transportation of distant pit pils Is no new fad. Several year ngo the Eastover district In Riclilam. county threw live schools into one. The district runs four wagonettes, made for the puropse, to haul th? distant children. Another instance: Three adjoining districts in Fairfield county .with a combined en rollment of CO pupils, have consolidated their schools at Bethel, have erected a $2,000 school house, and uro transporting all 'the children who live too far to walk. This concolldatlon gives the school enough pupils to establish a rural high school, with $3 00 of State uld. State Superintendent McMahan and Martin have zeoftusly advocated the consolidation of small schools. Such policy would encourage the building of better roads, while the transportation itself would protect the children in bad weatlf-r, and would protect the small children nnd the girls from insult or violence at the hatids of tramps or thugs on the lonely country roads. Neiglilmrliood Jealousies and Quarrels?These twin evils have done more to prevent and to destroy the efficiency of the common schools than any other two agencies in the land. It is difficult enough to maintain a good school where everybody works iu harmony, and it is well nigh Impossible where strife and division are. To listen to the petty contentions, the sharp bickerlugs, HYDROPHOBIA IS SIBERIA. , Peasant.s Who Ate Infected Cattle Suiter From Disease. Hydrophobia is raging in the village of Plelskly, iu the Yenisei dis Irict. Siberia. The village possesses j a large number of dogs. which I during the hot summer were attacked with rabies and hit many of the horned cattle. The owners of he cattle, noticing that some 01' them were oiling, killed them for food. Many of the peasants afterwards developed hydrophobia. The disease was communicated to the domestic poultry, and even some horses showed signs of it. In the village twenty-seven fumiies are nov: Infected. i Wanted Tliein to Settle. It won't l>e tlie fault of the edlto" ' of the Dovle Record it liis sub-|| ttcrihers fail to pay up. Here is his , liberal offer: "Will we take egg.-, t on subscription? We'll take the en- i tire output of the hennery for the * next six months and pay for it in t subscriptions. We'll take lye soap, clean rags, ginseng, pants, patches t Old hones. wood. green hides, ^ hound pups, old clothes, lumber, cuil t ties, wagon tires, peanuts. stick I candy, onions, crackers, turnip c greens, sausages, town lots, cab- c bago leaf cigars, yearlings, milch a cows, sorguni, pumpkins, spring i mules, well seasoned shoats, sofa in pillows, foot stools, bachelor bu? tons, patent medicines. eightdav u clocks, patent churns, home-mad.- s sox, choice scrap iron, old maids and a chewing gum. You can bring them o by the wagon load, armful, in tow c sacks, by the yard, gallon or ton; u In drowes, swarms or echools. Yes. t] we'll take 'em. We'll take anything ci to get you to subscribe or to pa\ 9j up what you owe. r, HOOLS 1 l0,3* * [AM H. HAND. g| mmmom mw&mymm m*m?m m md the tales of discord in some omniittee makes one marvel that a ichool can exist in such a place. The petitions and the appeals which ;onie before the various school >oards are enough to make one turn >essiniist. The worst of it all is, hat most of these contentions and ilckertngs are childish and groundless. and thut they are usually be<un and kept alive by men who have it heart but little interest in any school. In settling most of tlies? lisputes, Solomon's judgment between the two women claiming the L-hild would be wholesome. It is to these jealousies and quarrels that we owe two, three, an 1 otroo r,*.... iu< 1 nuir ?iai viu^ SCtiOOl where but one ought to be. To them we owe the little district liuible to support a school. Every in(iuentinl local celebrity wished to have a school house at his front door or in his backyard. To these Jealousies we owe most of the defeated local tax executions. Nearly all the local disputes over the teacher have their origin in neighborhood jealousies, and the baneful habit of constant change of teachers has itroots embedded here. A certain district school is supported by ten families. All is well, but the school house stands on the -outh side of a little creek which ibout once a year reaches a depth if four feet. A and It suddenly conclude that this innocent stream is a menace to the lives of their children, and petition for a new dis trict. The next session finds a lit tie 20x^0 foot hull of a school lions* oil the north side of that creek, and a little lifeless school on each shk of it. Or, C"s bad boy is punished by the teacher; straightway C raises the tlag of secession, and proceed! to have his own little d-e-e-striri [cut off. Or, one of the local econo mists gets tired of paying a teachei $ Hi a month, since his daughtei would teach for $30; the trustee: will not yield to the economist; thei the economist canvasses the district in the interest of a new set o trustees, with the economist a: chairman. Or. I) and K are riva .'oral physicians already at odds; 1 lays that Smith's boy has a con agious disease, and must he stoppot 'nun the school; E declares that th lisoase is only infectious, and thn t would bo silly to stop Smith' ?oy; the quarrel rapes, the partisan! irray themselves, and down goe ho local school tax proposed by th< only really interested patron of tin school. Or, X begins to discuss lew school house; I, says that tin >ld one is good enough, and that > s trying to lead the district; no ncv house is built, and the old one grad tally rots down. Or, Miss Brown he teacher, boards with the Smiths he Joneses feel neglected, and begit *o whisper it about that the teache :in not solve Sallie Jones' problem: or phrase Sullie's sentences; tin Smiths retaliate by asserting tha he teacher is aide to teach the whole lottos family; result?the ant I Smith faction's children are taugh text session by Miss Sallie Jone herself. Once more, Mr. Brown with lunch religious devotion to hi church creed, demands that the nee teacher shall bo an X-ist; IVrkin. Y-ism at once begins to ferinen. while Stnbbs declares that Z-ianisr has been outraged, since there lm not been a Z-inn teacher in th< chool in tive years. When the new teacher comes, is he to teach X-isi doctrine. Y-ist doctrine, Z-ian doc trine, or should he lie a simple Clod tearing man whose daily life will b a rebuke to those clamorous Phan SOPP ? All this may sound like satire, bm it is a mask rehearsal of a play when the curtain never falls. Can noi some neighborhoods see thcmselve in the play? WILLIAM E. HANI). University of South Carolinu. ACCUSED OF FHAUI). T. C. Duncan, of Union, I> Arretted and Hailed. Thomas C. Duncan, formerly president of the Unlon-Huffalo and othe cotton mills, was arrested at Union late Inst Saturday afternoon on a wurrant charging him with receivinT money from the People's Hank ot Union under false pretenses and with intent to cheat and defraud. Hond in the sum of $1,500 was required and furnished. The facts, nearly as can he ascertained. are that in December of 11)00, Duncan obtained from the People's Itank the sum of $1.."?ir? in payiner.1 ?f a check or draft upon a hank in Spring City, Tennessee, where Imuran was then doing business, nnn there was no money in the Spring iiy naiiK 10 pay ino rneek. It is illeged that the cheek was drawn by ho American Lime Company at the. nstance of T. C. Duncan, who is tupposcd to have ln-en iho head of h it company. It in stated that there are other ransactions of a similar nature involving: an amount of about nine housand dollars. Since the People's tank went into the hands of reel vers a few months ago the reelvers have made several efforts to idjust these matters, but without vail, and the warrant was sworn ut by one of them. It is urn'/ rstood that Puncan's nderkakings and investments a: prink City, where he has been oper-1 ting for several years, have turned! ut badly, and the American Lini"! ompany. which figures in these al [ >ged fraudulent transactions, ilought to he bankrupt. I nless tlm ise is adjusted it is probable that Imllar action will be taken with, ?fercnce to the other transactions 4 LEFT HIS FAMILY A DOCTOR AXD YOt'Xti LADY MIKSINU. Ili> Lett for t'tali, According to III* Story, Hut Klnce Tltcn Nothing Hun ltecn Heard of Htm. Several weeks ago it was stated by the Aiken correspondent of til" News and Courier that Dr. H. J. Weeks, a prominent young physician of Wagener, had decided to go to the West. He did leave, and now news from Wagener indicates that he not only left himself, but deserted his wife and five children, and has since married another woman, a former clerk in a Wagener store. For some time it has been reported that he had deserted his family, but the report was generally discredited and his friends believed that he would soon return to them. But time has passed and he has not yet returned, and further investigation has discovered the fact the he was quite familiar with Miss Sarah Smith, while she was in charge of the millinery department of Mr. J. \Y. Lybrand's big store in Wngenner last winter. A few weeks previous to July 30 Dr. Weeks announced that he had decided to move his family to Utah, where ho has a brother-in-law. Dr. .1. R. A. Whitlook. formerly of this county. lie has been in correspoqdenee with Dr. Whitlock in reference to that action and had completed all the details, apparently, to carry out his announcement. Subsequently he said he would go out theie and make his arrangements and return for his family in ten days. A short time after he was to have returned home the tlood came and ' it was thought that lie was possibly flood-bound, or perhaps drowned. ' Soon after the floods an investi' icntioti was started, and a party ' interested in the mutter wbnt to 1 Spartanburg and called on th mother of Miss Smith and asked r where the latter was. Mrs. Smith replied that she had married a W. s A. Hambleton, of Charleston. Upon 1 being described to her it appeared 1 that "Mr. Hambleton" was none ! other than Dr. Weeks. The visitor " then showed her a picture of Dr. ' Weeks and she agreed that it must ' bp the person to whom her daughter nm rriitfl :i tinw> nrnviniic ' Tho marriage, she said, took plac>? in tho liaptist church. Mrs. Smith ' said she had last hoard from tho * couple in Kansas City. ;; A great deal of indignation has * heen aroused over the seeming plain desertion and steps have heen taken to bring Weeks to justice. It is 1 understood that attorneys have heen employed and the case will be pushed k against him. It has been stated that a detective lias heen employed " and is now at work trying to capture hint. Some reports have it that lie is in the West, while others state 1 that lie has gone to Cuba. Dr. Weeks is a brother-in-law of Drs. J. It. A. and W. A. Whitlock, and is himself prominently eon1 netted. He has always heen a resiL' dent of Aiken county and at the time of his disappearance his aged 1 mother was living with him. Ho was a poor young mult when he foe gan the study of medicine. Ily applying himself he soon built up a ' fairly good practice and lie was generally well thought of in his section. A few years alter his marriage ' to Miss Km inn Whitlock some oi his friends advanced him money and he went to a medical college. H?> had an oflice in Wegener and visited ' his parents in an automobile. Ho was a member of the Aiken County Medical Association and was nromi nent among his brother physician? His deserted family is composed of Ills wife and five children, who are now being cared for by relatives. The affair is greatly deplored and L every effort will be made to see thai ' justice is done. IIK FOt'XD Ol'T. Wanted to Finl Out if Young Wife Loved Him. i At Paris, a grey bearded Frenchman recently married a girl in her teens, and kept wondering whether she loved hint Would she weep when he died, or would she rejoice, and marry again? He would put her to the test, and he revised gruesome stratagem. He locked himself up in a room, and waited After some hours his wife wondered at his unaccountable disappearance, had the door broken open. On the bed lay her husband, his hands crossed, his face white, his body motionless. apparently dead. Now, the wife would show what she really felt. She gazed at mm. came 10 tne conclusion that iu? really was dead. and danced a breakdown in the room. I'p leaped i he corpse and roared. "So that is how you would grieve for tne? Then take this." and threw clocks and candlesticks at her. She fled, and he continued to vent his disappointment by smashing all the furniture in the flat. INSANF. MAX KILLS TWO And Injures a Woman tit the Washington Asylum. At Washington in demanical fury. Andrew Lightfoot, a mulatto inmate of St. Elizabeth's asylum for the insane, Tuesday killed Patrick ' Moloney, overseer of the grounds. | and Millie Follin. a young inmate of the asylum, and severely injured Miss Robinson, another inmate. The murder escaped from th? grounds and fled to the swamps nearby where, shortly afterward, a score ot police surrounded the plac-> of his concealment. Ho finallv * as subdued after the police found , it necessary to shoot htm, inflicting i wounds In his legs, and he w-,u? < taken back to the asylum. "TEDDY FLUNKS. Ignominious Failure of Roosevelt : to Make Good His BASELESS CHARGES C'vniUTliiiK Haskell With Standard Oil Bribery Case and Falls lluck I'pon Ii?>cnl .\ flairs in Oklahoma ns DeserilHNl in a Political Article in a Republican Magazine. President Roosevelt Wednesday night, following upon u prolonged conference with members of the cabinet at the White House, prepared I unu buic uui nits repiy lu William J. Bryan, the Democratic candidate, relative to W. R. Hearst's charges that Governor Haskell, treasurer of the Democratic committee, had represented Standard Oil interests botn in Ohio and Oklnhoma. Mr. Bryan had demanded proof of the charges, promising that in the event of their substantiation, Governor Haskeil would be eliminated from the campaign. Here is the lame reply or Roosevelt: "The White House, "Washington, I). C., Sept. 2,1,1908. "Dear Sir: In your telegram" you speak of so much of the charge against Governor Haskell as dea't with his relations, while in Ohio, with the Standard Oil Company. You omit the charge as to his relations with the Standard Oil interest as shown by his action while governor of Oklahoma, this very summer, this action being in part taken while lie was at Denver, where, as you state, he was by your wish made chairman of the committee which drafted the platform upon which you are standing. In my statement I purposely made no specific allusion to the Ohio matter, and shall at this time ninke none, in spite of its significance, and in spile of the further fact that Governor Haskell's close relation with the Standard Oil interest while he was in Ohio was a matter of common notoriety. In Oklahoma it is a matter of record. By this court record it aiwpearel that the attorney general of the State, elected by the people, obtained an injunction to prevent the Prairie Oil and Gas Company from building a pipe line, and that Governor Haskell found this out while lie was at Denver, as appears by the . representations for the dissolution of the injunction made in his name, on behalf of the State, before a court of superior jurisdiction to that which had issued the injunction. In this , the governor states that the acting governor, in his absence, had asked that the hearing be postponed, that he, the governor, might return and have an opportunity to investigate the controversy. The governor sets forth in his petition that he is the sole authority to demand stte.h mat, ters, and that the attorney general and the judge of the lower court had no right in the matter, and that the action of the judge of the lower court represented 'an encroachment by tile Judiciary." The attorney general opposed the disolution of the injunction, stating that the Prairie Oil and tins Company was a foreign coriKiration which had not accepted the provisions of the constitution applicable to such corporations.' and that without authority of law it was employing a great force of men and teams to dig up. across and into various highways of the State for the puropso of laying its pipe lines. The governor prevailed, the injunction was permitted to continue its work, to use the words of the attorney genoral, "without any color of law.' I call your attention to the fact that the question is not whether or not the judge erred, or whether the injunction was proper. The point is that the governor was alert to take out of tlie hands of the attorney general what the attorney general felt was his sworn duty to prevent, an alleged instance of the lirunldnp r?r the law by this particular great corporat Ion. "As far as I have seen Governor Haskell has not even attempted anything which can be called a defense of this action of his. It thus appears that his action was as inexcusable as it was wanton except on the theory that in defiance of the attorney general of the State and at all hazards, he intended for some reason of his own to protect the interest of a great corporation against the law. It has been suggested on his behalf that after all he did not favor the Standard Oil Company but merely the Prairie oil and (las Company. This claim is disposed of by the testimony of the Standard Oil Company itself in the latter part of litrtT in the suit now pending in the United States courl against the Standard Oil Company in tms testimony the Standard Oil Company, upon being required by the government to put in evidence a list of all the companies in which it hold stock or in which its subsidinr> companies held stock, represented among the others the Prairie Oil and (las Company, total capital $10,000,000. of which-the National Transit Company's proportion wa$0,000,500; and furthermore it appears that the National Transit Company owned $25.451.050. In other words, this Prairie Oil and (las Com pany was owned, all except $500. I by the National Transit Comapny, I and this National Transit Companv t was owned, all except about $3,550, by the Standard Oil Company. "Now. contrast your action in this 1 rasp to Governor Haskeii with Mr \ Toft's action as regards Senator 1 Foiaker. as set forth in his letter oi f July 20, 1007, which 1 quoted iu t my statement. It was o matter of 1 common uotoriety about Senatoi i i-oraker, as it has iong beeu a mat- x tor of common notoriety about Govfrnor Haskell, that he was the defender and supporter of certain corporate interests and therefore hostile to the policies for which this administration has stood. Titer-* | was 110 such convincing proof against Senator Foraker at that time, bow?ver. as there is against Governor Haskell, when, as you say. lie was. with your approval, made treasurer af your campaign committee. Hut, Mr. Taft refused to be a party to the renomination of Senator Foraker, even though it was reported that only thus could he advance his own 1 interest, showing by actual deeds that his words were true when he said. 'I do not care for the presidency if it has to come by compro mise. with a hundredfold clearer evidence before you as to the conneetion of Governor Haskell witn the Standard Oil than Mr. Taft then had as to the connection of Senator Foraker with any corporation, you nevertheless, having secured Governor Haskell as chuirmen of the committee to write the platform on which you stand, put him in as treasurer of your campaign committee. "Lot me add that Governor Haskell's utter unfitness for any public position of trust or for association with any man anxious to make an appeal on a moral issue to the American people has been abundantlv shown, wholly irrespective of this action of his in connection with Standard Oil interests. As an American citizen who prizes his Americanism and his citizenship far above any question of partizansliip. I regard as a scandal and a disgrace that Governor Haskell should be connected with the management of any national campaign. I have not th*> space in this letter to discuss Governor Haskell's conduct, for instance, in vetoing the child-labor bill; 01 the fact that his name appears as one of the defendants in various suits brought by the government to prevent the Creek Indian's from having certain of their lands fraudulently taken; or ids connection with various matters of the kind, but let me call your attention to his conduct in prostituting to base purpose! the State University, as set forth in an article in The Outlook of September r>. last, under the heading 01 "Shall the People Rule?in Oklahoma?" In this article you will see that Governor Haskoll was given full opportunity to make every explanation. and that he made none. After setting forth the facts as to Governor Haskell's conduct. The Outlook article concludes as follows: v/ii in is* Miiip in ?.i air?* navr two comments to make and two questtons to ask. " "The people of Oklahoma are tax?>d to support thoir educational institutions, from the primary school to the university. They pay their money to have their cnildrcn educated. When the i>olitiefatis use this money to promote lite interests of a political machine or a church sect, they are guilty of a breach of trust. What do the taxpayers of Oklahoma think of the use to which their public servants are making of the public funds What do they think about this financial policy?the taking o' the money due their sons and daughters and diverting it for the benefit of politicians, eccleastical and civil? " 'Governor Haskell was one of Mr. Bryan's right hand men in the Democratic convention and at Mr. Bryan's instance has been made treasurer of the Democratic national committee. It is appalling to think what would be the results of the educational systems of the Philippines and Puerto ltieo. in the digging the Panama canal, in the work of irrigation and reforestation, in the administration of the postofTice. th> interior and agricultural departments. in the appointments of foreign ministers and consuls, if the spirit which has actuated the Democratic authorities in the Mate of Oklahoma should bo permitted to take control of the Federal government at Washington. Governor Haskeli. actions which speak louder than words, has declared his disbelief in Grover Cleveland's motto. "A nuhli* office is a public trust." and Mr. Haskell is a representative leader iu the Bryan Democracy. What does Mr. Bryan think of Mr. Cleveland's principle What do the American people think of Mr. Haskell's contemptuous reversal of it ' "You close your telegram by saying that you expect and will demand fair and honorable treatment from those who are in charge of the Republican campaign. I am not ;n charge of the campaign, but am greatly interested in it. 1 have shown you above fairly and honorably that Governor Haskell is a man who. on every account I have named, is unworthy of any position in our public life. No further investigation of these facts is required. They are spread on the record before yon and they were available before Mr. Haskell was chosen for his it sition as treasurer." DASHED TllllOrCH FRAMES. Passengers Are Refugees From Town Destroyed by the Fire. A great forest fire is raging near Eureka. Col., fanned by a fifty-mil** gale, and already the plant of the Kelstrom (timber Company, value I at $fiO,nno, lias born destroyed. Tin fire is threatening vast tracts o' redwood timber lying between Ko' jtroni and Trinidad, to which iatte place refugees are flocking from many egntps. The million-dollar plant of the Redwood Lumber Company is directly in the course of lie flames. A passenger train ar ; Ived at Samoa Thursday night, car ying refugees front Luffenholz an 1 "ieldbrook. the former town having teen dest toyed by the flame? Refugees were hemmed in by th?' lantes and the daring trip through he fire on the train was proposed . The dash was made with the flames o close that the paint on the cars kut> blistered iu the boat. TRIED TO BRIBE Gcmpers Says Van Cleave Attempted to Buy Him Off. TAFT RESPONSIBLE For Contempt Proceedings Say* the l.at>oi- la'nd'V. He Coes Into IK*tails of the Attempt to Itribe llim. Civing Names, Dates ami Othcr Particulars. Samuel Compels, president of tlie American Federation of Labor, as Washington Thursday introduced the name of Former Secretary Tuft and made serious charges against W. J Van Cleve. president of the National Association ot' Manufacturers. The charges were lhade as a part of Mr. Gompers' testimony in connection with tin* proceeding against him Secretary Morrison and John Mitch ell in the Muck stove and range ro, tempt case. Mr. Gompers was a the time under cross-examination a the hands of his attorney. Jaeksoti H. Ralston. In the case of Mr. Taft. Mr. Gom pers in effect charged that he ha< supplied the sentiment behind tin injunction decree, while the direc charge was made that Mr. Va; Cleve had had Mr. Gompers and ot It er federation officials shadowed b detectives and had undertaken t have M*. Gompers bribed to desei the cause of organized labor an join its enemies. Mr. Ralston's efforts were directe towards a countr-eonspiracv Vinfww\ towards showing a counter-c utspii ncv h> the manufacturers to destro trade unionism. ib> read the portio; of Mr. Taft's presidential uomiua tion acceptance bearing on the anti injunction plank^ and comnietitiir upon the extract. Mr. Gmnpers said "It is substantially the basis c this injunction suit and these cot: tempt proceedings under tli.it in iunci ion." Mr. Ralston: ' I understand voi then, it is in reliance upon MTaft's decisions that you are her today." Mr. Goinpers: "Justice Could i his opinion so assorts and ho >niot< from injunctions hy Judge Taft whi! on the bench." Mr. Ralston: "Judge Tot's st-m in the matter then having the en dorsomont of the National Assoria tion of Manufacturers?" Mr. Gonipers: "Yes." Mr. Ralston asked Mr Coniper whether there had been any genera effort to break down organized 1: bor. and he replied: "Men have been suborned to sp on their fellow laborers m shop factories and mines; to report (h proceedings of union meetings; t spy on the personal conduct of work men after working hours ami to fo low from place to place labor lead ers visiting other cities than thei homes. Money has also been used t bribe representative labor men t cease their connection with the 1: bor organizations and direct thei activities to the National Manufuc Hirers' association. They have m offered substantial safeguard in th future." After gi\iug details of his ow pursuit by detectives. Mr. Compel then told of being approached i1 New York hy a man named Mrough ton Brandenburg of New York, who he said, had attempted in I'.trtT t. bribe him in the interest of Mr. Vai Cleve. "He said." Mr. Gonipers eon tinned, "that he was friendly to m? and he thought that Mr. Van ("lev and myself should have a bette understanding and offered to brin. about a meeting between us to e.tahlish more agreeable relations." Mr. Oompers stated that he tol? Itrandenhurg that he would he glai to meet Mr. Van Clove, as it ha< always been his policy to encourag< friendly eoiiferenees in matters in volving labor disputes. After Mi Gompers returned to Wasliingtoi l he said that he received severa communications from lirnndenburt and stated that this correspondents had led to an agreement for a meet ing in New York. He was aeeotn panied to I\w York l\ Vice i'resi dents Duncan and Huber, both o whom had advised him to carry out WHOLES Plumbing Sl IVIar. hiner;y Si Southern States COLUMI SKNI) US YOUR If Portable. J R .ISO AH r. AKI!<l>ri>, .. . ?rom]>lMr lnforni?ti I TOOf GIBBF.S MAGHIf \J VV/U feller* of "Globe* Cunanli B"X 1W0. ? ? THE ONLY HOOSF. IN CARRYING THE "Original Genuine G; Carrying also Kubber and L Vrite us for prices on anything in Me COLUMBIA SUPPLY 1 S2U West Cervias Street, C the agreement for a conference. Relating the particulars of tho second meeting in New York. Mr. Gompcrs said Brandenburg disclosed to hill! his purpose, saying that he knew It To l>e the intention of Mr. Van Cleve to destroy his (Gompcrs*) character, hut that he (Brandon'burg) had persuaded Van Cleve that | it would be better in the interest of Van Clove's purpose to make on ally ot Gompers and to prevail upon him to betray the secrets of the Federation of Labor, "revealing." Mr. Gompers added, "whatever inform i ion I possessed which might rellect detrimentally upon labor organ lz; lio'is." "He said." continued Gompers. "that Van Cleve had agreed ti this imposition and had undertaken to suggest to me iw.t 1 could permit ntlyself to hi' re-elected president of the federation in order to pre vent the election of Vice President Duncan and that after "Some little tiiue 1 could resign. He assured me that 1 would be giveu a good lump sunt and that Van Cleve would guarantee beyond question that I would be cared for the rest of my life, even going to far as to tell me 'hat the guarantee should be underwritten. "lie said that I could deliver lecures in opposition to the labor novement, and that if t did not reeive its ntuch as live or six thousand ollars a year. Van Cleve would take up the difference. "I told hint." said Mr. Qotnpers, hat it was difficult to believe that Ir. Van Cleve would make such .a reposition and that I must have urther proor of his sincerity, not her meeting was arranged and t this meeting Hrandenburg showed e checks, drafts and vouchers on llielal letterheads of the National Association of Manufacturers and nder the signature of .Mr. Van Move, which were made payable to ' randeuhurg. "I told him I would consider the ropositiou." continued .Mr. Gontpers. 1 did not reject It. because 1 anted him to continue under tho lief that I might accept. Of course was just as determined then as am now and always have been > he true to myself, my conscience ml to mj fellows." lie stated th.it e had related all the details of this inversation to Vice President Dunin and Hither. WSWKIIS CAM. TO PKKACH. i\rs 1 p Itig Salary to Kntcr the >1 inist ry. After spending three years in the aking of iron and steel and in at time teaching his friend. W. llis Corey, most of what he knows oday of steel making, fleo. 1,. Glunt. uperintendent of the 1 1 It-inch mill i' the Carnegie Steel Company, at lomestoad, lias resigned his po'thm and will filter the Western lieologieul seminary, to heconie a reshyterian minister. .Mr. Glunt 'lives a position worth $10,000 a ear, ineliiding a Imiiius tor fast ork. When it became known 'iat he was to quit the mills at lomestend. a fine position, high no i the calculation department of he steel corporation was offPO'd int. Tliis he refused, saying h-i elleved he liad been called to reach. 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