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1 TIm Battleship i ft NAMED AFTER STATE ^L The State Commission, Headed by X Governor Ansel, Selects the De signs for the Gift Which the State Will Make to the Ship That Will Hear Her Name. The commission to select the silver MB. service for the new nattleshlp South SB Carolina has made its selection of the general designs that are to be used, and naturally expects beautiful ! work. The commission has made excellent selections as the outline of the specifications Indicate. Governor Ansel is a member of the ' I j?. ?...?- - -> ->- -?-?? *- 1 buiuviiDsiuu, iiuu id Biviug considerable time and thought to the wopk. Messrs. John 13. Cleveland, of Spar. tanhurg, and George D. Bryan, of! Charleston, are the appointive members of the commission, and Messrs.' E. Marlon Rucker, and Col. W. L. MauUlin are the ex-ofllclo membeft. When Col. Cleveland came to the llrst meeting of the commission at which the general scheme of the designs were discussed he had a pretty well worked out series of Illustrations and decorations. The whole matter was fully and freely discussed by the members of the commission, gj! and with the artists, who were presE ent. The large and centre pieces are to a- be decorated with three historic events. One piece Is to have the scene of Jasper replacing the flag at Fort Moultrie. Another Is to have i an engraving of the dinner Marlon * 'rlfn. Ba'^ *? have given the British |r officers, and which has been used In a picture by White, and the third Is to be a picture of Mrs. Motte i ' ! destroying her own home, near Fort Motte, Calhoun connty. -'jsu An examination of the specifications indicate that the designs are to Include the palmetto, pine, cypress, Magnolia, rice, tobacco, strawberry, melon and peaches. In fact, the Idea Is to incorporate the trees and plants indigneous to this State. The flags of the State, the coat-of-arms and other insignia of the State are to be used wherever the general design will admit. The commission has given the public the complete details of Its design. Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., of the State historical commission, In a letter to The Sunday News, suggests thnt the events Intended to be recorded in the silver service lack historic corroboration, and wont Into Interesting details. Ho says that some of the events did not happen, as far as history records. The commission will explain further its position and reason for selecting the ? " events that are to be used as the central pictures. In the meanwhile the exact specifications, which the artists have been asked to use, are here given: Specifications covering sliver service to be presented by the State of South Carolina to the United States b&Jttleship South Carolina: Competitors to submit designs on or by the 16th day of June, 1909: all tenders to be within the appropriation of $5,000; th*> metnl to be of uniform fineness, standard grade, sterling silver. The propositions t.o give the capacity of all hollow ware and the weight in ounces of each piece separately. Workmanship to be of the best and to follow in all details the designs submitted. Propositions to embrace the fol^*?Wlng pieces: One punch bowl, seven gallons. One plateau for punch bowl. . visV ? iii.t-mur rupa, one-half pint. One ladle for punch howl, centre ploce. - . / One water pitcher, three quarts. One tray for water pitcher. OH" tea set. consisting of five pieces and a kettle and tray for same. Two fruit dishes. Two roast dishes, one with well and tray; one without, both same size. One fish dish. One salad bowl. Two bonbon dishes. Two compotlers. Two vegetable dishes with cov1 j 0r*' Two entre dishes. One Humidor cigar box. made of native wood, cedar, to hold three hundred cigars, silver mountings and ornaments. \ The general design to be plain audTwmple as far as Is consistent with the ornamentation specified. The dalgns to consist of a combination nautical in their suggestion, and the tres, fruits and flowers Indigenous to this State, for instance, palnfetto. pine, cypress, magnolia, ieaftamine and trumpet vine; corn, cotton.crlce and tobacco, strawberry. metons ana peaches. These can h<? used on the borders and around th,? U*sef. On the sides of the largp pieces and In the botoms of the trays and waiters, arms and seal of the State, flaps of the State and navy, arid the United States, In combination or otherwise: State House, palmetto trees, with the national emblem, aple, et cetera. The following historical designs are to pe used on large pieces: Jaeper at Fort Moultrie. ItftHon's dinner to the British of- 1 pfefrg. [Motte's destruction of her < * Etchings of Gen. Sumter, Gen. 1 Marion, faen. Moultrie, Col. William Was&tngton, Gen. Morgan, Gen. Pick- ? ens, Cetimander Ingram, the United f States battleship "South Carolina," ' *. y . CANNOT RE SOLD ] SWIFT 4 OOMPASHHY SHIP I CONDEMNED apjf ' 5H Car Containing Damag^&ood Will I Be Sealed by City l^^Ktor and Opened at Factory IjK A dispatch from dfcMNulle says City Meat Inspector flBoB&nd City Attorney McCullougflgSgHyn conference Monday afteJHHttth representatives of the MfMvB>acklng Company regarding jHf dtifcosltlou of the 70,0(10 poundil'of tnyit condemned Saturday, owing to its having been soaked in sewage. At a meeting of the board of health held at 5 o'clock Dr. Smith reported that the packing company would be al- 1 lowed to ship the meat, which Is valued at over $4,000, to one of Its soap plants, with the understanding that the car be sealed here by the inspector and opened at the soap works and consigned to the tank by a government inspector. The condemning of the meat and Its disposition have caused considerable agitation in Greenville. When the packing company's representative arrived he gave out the statement that he was constrained to follow any suggestion Inspector Smith might make In the matter, bu$ notwithstanding the authorities will take every precaution to * see that the inspector's orders tare carried out to the letter. Acting in the matter Dr. Smith not only had'the local authorities behind him but he was backed tip by Dr. Wili? ams of the State board. A number ofi towns in the State wired asking for information concerning the disposition of the condemned meat. Spartanburg and Columbia being among the cities to make Inquiry. In an interview G. Wi Chandler, manager of the Southern business of Swift & Co., said that his concern hnd no idea of endeavoring to s^ll the meat which was condemned Saturday by Inspector Smith. He declared his willingness to make any disposition of the meat that is desired by the city authorities. FORGIVES SOX'S SLATER. Will Do All Possible to Secure Relense of Dr. Rovafian. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., says Hagood Oastanlan of T^vnn, Mass., left for his New England h'ome Monday evening with the body of his pon, Harotoon Oastanlan, who was fatally shot Friday In the Detroit police court by his uncle. Dr. Garnhed J. Doya.llan. Speaking of the crime the dend youth's father said: "Dr. Doyajlan Is nearer to mo than a brother. T blame him not, even though he has slain my son T will do all I can to release him from prison. Tt is tha will of God, and I bow before it. I believe my boy was Innocent, but do not blame the doctor for what he did. because h<> believed him guilty. When our people mnrry, they mnrrv for pood, rot for a short time like the American people seem to do. Any offensp against the home Is punishable by death." Turn Them IjOsp. Parents do wrong In keeping their children hanging around home, sheltered and enervated by parental Indulgence. The eagle does better. Tt stirs up Its nest when the young eagles are able to fly. They are compelled to shift for themselves, for the old eagle literally trims them out, and at the same time tears all the down and feathers from the nest. 'TIs this rude and rough experience mini ik. i.) ? ? - . . - Mini iiKtiviTB nit* kiiik nirn or mrQa so fearless in his flight and so export in the pursuit of prey. ahd the following emblem: "Presented by the State of South Carolina to the Putted States battleship 'South Carolina.' " "Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute." The designs to be different on each niece and to be so used as to avoid crowding, simplicity preferable to ornateness. less attention paid to show than elegancy, the general motive simple, elegant and dignified. The successful bidder 10 deliver the service, properly packed, not later than the 15th day of January, 1910. The successful bidder to give bond in the sum of $2,000 to make delivery at the point to be hereafter to be designed, on or before the date named, and have the service insured at his or their expense until presentation is made. Formal contract to be entered into between the successful bidder and the commission, the commission reserving the right to reject any or all bids and designs. After the execution of the work . V. ? J ? iic iiesiRM sunn necome tne property of the State of South Carolina, and turned over to the State historical commission. Payment for said service to be made as follows: Cash. | on delivery of the service and acceptance of same by the commission. Hone at Columbia, S. C., April 27, 1909. M. F. ANSEL, Chairman of Commission. < The commission has no axe to grind. It wants to render the best | oosslble service to the State, and the 1 discussion, If there Is to be any had. i better come before the work It done rather than after the designs have hren accepted, dud the engraving ' finished. The commission wants to 1 have good reasons assigned for any t change, and will no doubt accept any t suggestions ;n the best of spirit, 1 where such suggestions are not mere- r v captious and is" accompanied by p 'something tetter.' There will, how- t >ver, be no change unles there be <1 cood reasons, It Is safe to say. t AUGUST KOHN. li 5 S??jf i #4 ; ^ -p * ~ . ..0: - .? . EGYPTIAN COTTON f w SENATOR FUSTCHKB URGES THAT IT BE TAXED. ^ Bgyptian Cotton, Grown In the Nile Valley, Competes Seriously With Southern Long Staple Cotton. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says In a ** speech on the floor of the Senate a lav of two ago, Senator Fletcher, of Florida, declared that South Carolina long staple cotton was the best raised and commanded a better price un the market than that grown anywhere else in this country. In uridine tn thin ho throw onn olrlnro K1 ^ I i?v vui v m vvuoiuviautv light on long Btaple growing along g< the sea islands of the South Atlantic d coast generally. Speaking of this industry the Flor- ^ Ida Senator said: 4 The production of cotton on an important scale began about 1789, 0 when we produced 3,000 bales and (j the price was 28 cents per pound. In 1799 we produced 46.Q00 bales f and the price was 44 cents. In 1800 w the production was 73,000 bales and c the price was 28 cents. In 1820 the production was over 300,000 and e the price 17 cents. From 1840 to t 1850 it reached the low price of 5 ^ cents per pound, and again about n ten years ago. The introduction of j, the factory, the utilization 'of the f sted and by products, the use of cot- ^ ton in place of wool and silk and t hemp in increasing quantities have n made the crop today worth more 0 than double what it was ten years v ago, and the increase in the value of t the crop in one year, caused by the ,, presence of factories at the fields, loubtbss would more than pay for all the spindles in the South. Even ( now the grower, labor and supplies p having gone up, is making no tre- ^ mendous profit. t The value of the exports from this r crop amounts annualy to $482,000,000. It is said that if Europe had stacked up all the gold and all tho a silver mined from the earth for tho r past six years and shipped it to the j South she would still owe us $200,- , 000,000 for our raw cotton alone. j The protection Riven to cotton yarns and cotton cloth may to some ^ extent help the price of cotton. I question if the former Is benefitted thereby materially. There Is but lit- ^ tie of the short-staple cotton import- f od. There Is produced In this country, however, the sea island or longstaple cotton, which competes with >, that grown in the West Indcs and r in the Valley of the Nile. On the free list in the pending bill r are "cotton and cotton waste or t flocks." The annual crop of long- t staple cotton fluctuates, but the aver- f age production may be fairly estl- t mated as follows: Florida, 31,000 bales; Georgia, ? 32,000 bales, and South Carolina. c 12,000 bales?of about 400 pounds ] each. The Growing Aren. f The producing area being about t Charleston and extends down the ( coast to the Georgia line, and then t it leaves the coast and extends south f through Georgia into Middle Flori- i da. About one-third of the South c Carolina crops gives a staple 2 to 2 1-2 inches long, and it Is sold gen- ( orally for export at from 40 to 80 t cents per pound, it is the finest staple i produced. The "Fast Florida" sta- t nle is 1 3-4 to 2 inches long; the i "Florida" 1 5-8 to 1 3-4 inches. The t "Georgia" staple is 1 5-8 inches long, t but not so fine as the "Florida." r Fineness is a factor with the spinner, r and only tho superlative fine fibre t brings the fancy price. Ontsido tho i islands of South Carolina the price is about 20 cents per pound. Egyptian Cotton. The West Indes is the original 6 home of the plant and produces about 1.000 bales annually. It was In 178G that the plant was transplanted on he American Continent from the West Indes. There is produced in f the Valley of the Nile a cotton which v is capable of competing with our sea f island cotton. This rich region pro- ( luces about. 1,500,000 bales of 400 s pounds each annually. It Is a long- t staple, fine fibre cotton, and about t 150,000 bales of it are imported by ^ American mills every year at a price v ranging about 15 ovnts per pound. c It spins well and wastes about 8 per c cent loss in going through tho va- g rioug processes of preparation for the n spindle, than does the sea Island cot- ^ ton. The Egyptian cotton wastes e about. 25 per cent, while the sea p island wastes about 33 per cent. The v Egyptian staple is about 1 5-8 Inches . long; but is preferred to the American for some purpose because of less 0 wasta and greater strength and its f color. c It seems that while the Egyptian f cotton Is n near relation of the sea v island. It cannot l?? ?rn?n In our ? country. A duty of f> cents a pound ti on the lint cotton would yield a reve- p nue of $3,000,000?150.000 bales be- i ing 60,000,000 pounds. n This .cotton Is used In the manufacture of mercerized silks and liner r goods of the highest and most ex- P pensive clnss,.on which this bill pro- a poses a duty of 5 4 per rent, while t] the total wAge cost Is about 20 per n cent. b The actual cost of producing the p cotton layabout $21 per acre. The rr ivcargo yield Is about 10 to 150 pounds <of lint to the acro.-y The c< price now ta less than 20 cents per ti pound. ? 0 Snnih Could Supply the World. $ Seventeen counties In Florida are pow producing the> long-staple cotton, ai t can bo prown In more than half u< he counties of the State. Suitable p< toll, climate, and conditions rxlft n Georgia. South Carolina and Florl- cr la. and, to a certain extent and de- rs rrce, the 'Mis .Isalppl Delta, to supply di he world, and 'as a revenue-pro- p< luclng Item is w>ould prove, one of in he best anopg ail the schedules. It co i an important, industry. If I em- yi oung Turks Exectte Thirteen Mora Pfcopfb PLANED BY SULTAN Evidence Discovered That Abdul Hamid Knew Beforehand of the Adana Massacres?List orf Houses With Notes of the Kind of Loot to Be Found. Thirteen civilians and soldiers ?ntenced by the Military Court to eath for murder were hanged in liferent parts of Constantinople at o'clock Monday morning. Major Yousscf, his son and three ther men, who killed the Syrian eputy, Emir Mohammed Arslan, in ront of the Parliament building, rere executed on the spot where they ommitted the crime. Five others were hanged at the ntrance of the ministry of war and net? iiit-u hi me siamuoui ena or he Galata bridge. Upon the breast f each criminal had been placed a rrrge placard in Turkish. setting orth the sentence of the Court, iround the foot of thQ gibbets on he bridge the early morning buyers f fruits, flowers and vegetables proeeded as usual, while the bodies rere in full sight of the great crowds hat made their way over the bridge ietween Stamboul and Galata. Major Youssef was commandant if the 1st battalion of the 7th regment. Among the non-commissiond officers executed was Hamid Bin rechar, a sergeant in the fourth hatallion of the Saloniki chasseurs. The nen executed on Galata bridge were ;pilty of the murder of Lieut. Ells. Major Youssef was the man who. ifter the murder of Deputy Arsian. riade his way to the house of Pariament, and in a speech denounced he members for acting against the aws of the Koran. Yechar was the mRn who planned he details of the revolt of April 13. ind was commander-in-chief . and >rsctlcally dictator of Constantinodo for the two days following. The >ther eleven men worked under Tecliar. Mourad. editor of the newspaper Cizam. was tried by court-martail tolay. A member of the court-martial ead the Sultan's flrmin, confirming he sentences of each place of execuion, and priests prayed with the :ondemned men for two hours before heir execution. The bodies were left hanging until ! o'clock and were seen by at least >ne hundred thousand of the popuation of the city. Documentary evidence has heen Uscovered among the records of the elegraph office here of the knowledge of the Constantinople authorl^ ips rnat massacres bad been planned 'or the Adana district, and that they vere to coincide with the political ?vents here. Other papers have been found Inllcatlng also that tho conspirators it the palace acted In the Sultan's inme In preparing the military mutllv of April IS. Tdsts of houses, with lotes of the kind of loot to be found herein, were discovered on some of he prisoners now In custody. The irrangemycnts Included a general nassacre of foreigners In Constantllople, including the diplomatic rep esentatlves on April 2 4. fJOV. MrSWKKSEY IIJ;. iinldenly Stricken by A(i??k of Indidlgrstion. A long distance phono messagd rojn Hampton to The State says chile returning from his office to his tome Tuesday about 3 o'clock, exiOv. M. B. McSweeney was suddenly trlcken and fell unconscious. His wo young sons were with him at he time and summoned help. He vas taken to his home, where he vas found to be in a very serious onditlon. Tuesday he had not reovered consciousness. Acute Indl ,i>oiiuu m kiv?-h jt? me cause or nis ittack. The former governor has >een in bad health for the past sevral months. It is said that there s very little hope that he will surive the attack. iloyed the language of the authors >f this measure, I would sa-y the armors engnged in it very Justly ontend that they ought not to he oreed to abandon it by competition fith Egyptian cheap labor in the ertile Nile region. We pay from 81 o $1.25 per day for labor, which in Igypt ranges about one-tenth that, 'he land there Is very rich and does ot require fertilizing like ours. When we say the country needs the evenue which a tarifT on that forign product would yield, and such tarifT is required to help equalize he cost of production abroad with hat. at home, there would seem to e sufficient stated to -jhow the prortof \r o n A <ueHoA ?' 1 ? . .. . j jiioikc vi inn ("inim we lake from both standpoints. In the year ending June 3ft, 1908, itton was Imported Into this coun y free to the amount of 70,994.68 pounds, the value of which was 1 4.1 64,406, at 20 cents per pound. I ,Taste or flocks Imported free ( mounted to 10.728.268 pounds, val9d at $446,261.14 at 42 cents por ( >und. Duty should be Imposed on all 1 >t.ton Imported so there could be ( ilsed no question regarding proper stgnatlon at, say, 5 to 8 cents per >und. At 10 cents per pound the lportatlon last year of cotton, not 1 >untlng waste or flocks, would have i elded a revenue of $7,099,496.80. ] . - J ;; * you are crying at the same time Tor a duty on lumber that will keep foreign timber Crom cjbmlng in sparing our own trees for the next generation? You have seen the destruction of our forests in the past few y^ears. l^>w, importation lumber from Canada would save some of our trees from being cut, while this duty they are demanding, keeps the foreign lumber out and makes us cut down our own forests." With forests as far away ffom the Southern pine fields as Canada. Senator Tillman does not believe the free importation lof lumber could affect the profits of South Carollua mills, while It might materially lower the price of lumber to the consumer. As to who owns the South Carolina standing timber he is not certain, though he is inclined to agree with Senator Nelson that a part of it at least is in the hands of Michigan corporations and holders in the far Northwest. It is through the influence of these Northwestern men that the price of lumber in South Carolina would be raised under a protective duty, though in the local field n tariff of itself have no such effect. "Two-thirds of the white people of South Carolina," said Mr. Tillman, "live above Columbia. Nearly all the yellow pine and every bit of the loblolly is below Columbia. Now. why should I vote to impose a higher cost upon those people up there when they want to build houses and barns?" Senator Tillman was sitting in the room of the committee on the five civilized tribes, of which he Is chairman, when I found him to ask about the tariff. He was barricaded behind a pile of books, all of sombre binding, the most, dashing of which was entitled "The Romance of Steel," a volume telling of the manufacture of iron in the melodramatic fashion of a treatise on chemistry. "I am trying to find out something about cotton ties," said the senator, "and there seems to be a lot of it." In regard to cotton bagging, there is apparently reasonable hope that Senator Aldrich will let that go on the free list, if the Southern Democrats work together for that end. but on ties, while Senator Aldrich hns asked Mr. Tillman for information. he expressed himself as doubting his ability to grant the request. The senator from Rhode Island, said Senator Tillman, was under the Impression that tics are made chiefly in Chattanooga, TJirmingham and other centres near the Southern mines and he felt that ample protection ought to be accorded those new manufacturing districts on nn article like tics for which they would have a large local demand. It was to meet that objection that Senator Tillman devoted himself to light literature of the "Romance of Steel" sort. The information he found encouraging. Ties, he discovered, are manufactured almost exclusively In Pittsburg and the great iron and steel centr.es of the North, there being only one small plant at Atlanta. The fact that ties are made hv plants turning out enormous quantities of other steel goods, all heavily protected, leads Senator Tillman to hope- that Mr. Aldrlch will consent to a removal of the duty. ARRESTS FOR CUSTOM FRAUDS. The Government Gets Behind Alleged Smugglers. Four arrests were made Tuesday In New York hv United States Marshal Henk> I on charges arising out of the seizure of smuggled trunks nt the port of New York about a year ago. The persons taken Into custody were George C. White, a dealer In dressmjakejrs* Supplies, FV>rty-flfth street and Fifth avenue: Lome B. Walker, a former employe of the customs department; W. H. KMgamon, former salesman for George F. Crowlev, West Thirty-fourth- street, and Elizabeth Kilgamon. his wife. Th'v were arralghed before Justice Gougli In the XTnlted States circuit court. Cuts Price on rtil. A reduction of five cents a barrel was announced a few days ago by the Standard Oil Company in the price of all grades of crude oil. except. Ragland, which is unchanged, rhis is the first change in the prica< if most of the other grades since May. 1907, since which time Ponnjylvanla crude oil'has been quoted ;onstatitly at $1.78. Convicted of Killing Wife. Chester Jotdan was found guilty n the first degree on a charge .of murdering his wife at Cambridge, Kiu. : - i WANTS FREE TRADE ON Ll'MBKH AND ON COTTON TIES AND BAGGING. Senator Tillman Says the Sap of Protection is Not Worth What It Costs Democracy. 7L special dispatch to the Columbia Record Rays Senator Tillman favors free trade in lumber aud will vote for it. He believes that in the end Democratic defections from the declarations of the party platform will give the victory to those Republicans desiring a duty, but he expreBes himself as far from the opinion that such a forecast Justifies Democrats in fallllng into line with the party In power. A vote for protected lumber, in his opinion, is a vote against forest preservation and also a vote against the claims of Democracy to control the house of representatives two years hence and the whole country after President Taft's term. nrViot'o Vl r> lie a r\f Vii. I nc 'round the country for the safeguarding of our forests," he said, "when ii JJ* * Southern .States * BUY PR rVToch^ner^ Plumbing ' OOL.UME "they are myths EVENTS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN MAY HE Represented on the Silver Sonlce That the State is to CJi've the Hnttlcship South Carolina. In n letter to The Sunday News of Charleston, Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr.. secretary of the South Carolina Historical Commission, criticises the decision of the Commission appointed to select a silver service for the battleship South Carolina. He says: "Unly a few days ago a contmlsi slon, composed of some of the ablest and most honored men of this State, met in Columbia and selected the design to go on the silver service that the State of South Carolina is going to present to the battleship South Carolina of the United States navy. It was decided to engrave on the service a number of historic acnes and portraits of distinguished characters. Not one of the scenes selected can he depicted save from imagination; one of them cannot he authentic at all. and another can he fully disproven by the very best of evidence. "The story of.Marlon inviting the British officer to dine on sweet potatoes cannot b^i authenticated. It first appeared in Weems' 'Life of Francis Marion' in 1809. Gen. Horry, one of Marion's officers, at once pronounced the hook fiction, and Weems admitted in a letter to Horry that he had written chls book 'in the form of a military romance." From cover to cover the book can be shown by the best evidence to be absolutely false. The ancestors of Marion wore manufactured by the nterprising romancer, and every other story in the book bears the true Weems trade mark. Judge W. L>. James, another of Morton's former officers, also gave the stamp of falsity to Weems' book in his account of Marion's brigade. Gen. McCrady's history shows the incident could not have occurred; that Marion and the British officers did not exchange mili tary civiliti s; that when Marlon first sent a flag of truce to a British ofi>er he Imnrlsoned him and Marlon retaliated and put an end to all such intercourse. There are a half dozen volumes of memories hv British officers who served in South Carolina and an equal number by American officers, and not one has a word about such an enisode: nobody tells the ptorv of the noble British officer who resigned rather than fight people who lived on roots before they would forego Independence. The laws of war would make the act nunishable by death, and there Is In evidence no record of such a case among all the thousaiyls of documents that have been handled by historians In all these years. The only authority is W"oms. and he has been discredited as to everything else, and 'lie facts are against him In this case. "The same of Mrs. Motte at the burning of. her house will be a reversing of established fact. Every single reputable historian who has otr?r written of tho episode of Mrs. Motto and tho arrows, assorts that tho house was not burnjed. Col. T.oo and Judge Janion woro eye-wltnossos who so stato. Mr. C. C. Ptncknoy, Mrs Motto's grandson, tho Rov. Pr. C. C. Pinrknoy, hor groat grandson. and Mrs. Harriott Horry Tt?vonol. hor great groat-granddaughtor. havo all writton aorounts In which tlp-y say that tho honso was not burned. A newspaper In tho Charleston library contains a monHon of tlio accidental burning of tho house a few years after tho close of tho Revolution. "Oovpral times in tho past T havo oifod the C.r ono-Pumtor correspondence to show that tho alleged ride of Emllv Coieor could not havo taken olaoo; that those two officers never h'avine occupied at tho same time the relative positions assigned to hem bv tho story, It would havo be^n phvslcallv Impossible for the ride to havo taken place; that there is no contemporary record In evidence to show that Emllv Oolger over took a ride at all. After years of cesrch T have not been able to find he scratch of a contemporary pen to show that such n person ever existed. and. therefore, T would be glad to have Mr. Davis or any one else furnish the slightest proof that she did before T can believe that 'she sleeps In a secluded spot rip near where the foneares ereek mingles its rlar waters with the muddy tide of the Congaree.' "The writer has been particularly critical of the nrtople of Mecklenburg county for their adherence to an xplodod myth: he has won high praise from many of the ablest and best known historical writers and critics in America for his work on that mooted question: he will not lay himself open to criticism for Inconsistency by not protesting against th perpetuation of long discredited myths as part of the history of South Carolina." THE ONLY HOUSE IN TARRYING THF "Original Genuine Ga Carrying ilso Rubber and L? Write us for prices on anvthine in Ma COLUMBIA SUPPLY ( S23,WeFt Gervias.Street, C Supply Company ^ OM US ^SuppHes AIB Bl A. S. O. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Real tmrgaliik In second hand cars, runabouts and touring cars. Mr. Prospect, It Is up to you to Investigate. E. A. Jenkins Motor Co., Phone 1773, Columbia. S. C. 1216 Main. Wanted?Several hustlers to represent the most prosperous laundry and dye works in South Carolina. Write at once for new proposition. C. C. Laundry, Columbia, S. C. Madam Eldon, Scientific Palmist, Clairvoyant and Astrologlst. Free test reading by mall. Send birth, date and 5 two-cent stamps. 15 West 4th Btreet. Charlotte. N. C. . ?l.'O will purchase one two-cylinder touring car in first class repair, and fitted with new parts. $200 will purcnase one single-cylinder runabout and ready for demonstration. For particulars, address B. L. Montague, Sumter, S. C. Why don't yon work for Uncle Sum? Civil Service Manual, which prepares you .for the examination. Three volumes (with maps), $3. express prepaid. Sims' Book Store. Orangeburg, S. C. ORIENTAL RUG COMPANY. HOI Cathedral St., Baltimore, Md. We make you handsome and durable Rugs from your old wornout HH carpet, any size to fit a room or hall. a||s Let us send you a price list; Just write for one. We sell your property?no matter where located. It cost you noth- IB Ing If we do not make sale. P. O. 3|? Box I, Orangeburg, S. C. jB Temdiers and school officials can get fe; on request, our 1909 booklet ex- H plaining our methods of assisting raj teachers to secure positions and supplying schools with teachers. H Interstate Teachers' Bureau, At- j|| lanta, Ga. Wanted?City school principal at $75 and several grade teachers at $40. Other urgent calls for experienced teachers. Address South Carolina Teaehers' Agency, Heath Springs, S. C. ." Or for a pair of self-sharpening, 7-inch, tension steel spring shears. Cut anything from tissue paper to tough blanket with ense. Cooper Novelty Co., Box r>4, Orangeburg, S. C. For Sulc?One Am. 15-horsepower steam engine; practically good as new; can be seen running. Address J. E. Johnson, Supt. Neely Mfg. Co., Yorkvllle, S. C. WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT MUSIC? Don't say, "Can't afford an Organ or Piano. We will make you able, granting from one to three years to pay for one. We supply the Sweet Toned, Durable Organs and Pianos, at the lowest prices consistent with quality. Write at. once for Catalogue, Prices and Terms, to the Old Established MA DONE MUSIC HOUSE, Odnmbin, S. C, WOMEN LEAVING HAREM. Ahdui Ilamid Palace nrhl Many Fair Prisoners. A dispatch from Constantinople says It Is said that the Sultan contemplates making a tour of the Asiatic provinces of the Empire. Since the deposition of Abdul Hamid there has been a dally exodus of the women of the imperial harem from the Ylldiz Kiosk. Monday forty-five carriages, each containing two or three women, and later fifteen more, were seen proceeding to Stamboul. It is evident that the total number of falj prisoners in the palace must have been prodigious. In the Chamber of Deputies a telegram was read announcing a revolt of Druses, a fanatical religious --err or Syrians, in Hauran. a district of Syria, east of the upper Jordan. Troops have been ordered to proceed there at once. School Libraries. The school library does awake an Interest In the pupil. It Rives him a Rood appetite; It stimulates. It oppns the channels of usefulness. It. has a powerful tendency to keep the boy in school longer, and thus in the above enumerated ways aids in the development of those traits of character that will be beneficial to the men and women of the future and also to those with whom they come in contact through business and so ciaT 11 f?. 'j Don't try to use a crest truth for wholly selfish ends lest you make a He out of it. COLUMBIA .II>. indy Belt" :OMPANYLin IOLUMBIA, S. C. *' *"T' a,oc*" #, -w. ? t. ft?'" " v.jjfc