1 TIm Battleship
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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 '
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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.
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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,"
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. 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
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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
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EGYPTIAN COTTON f
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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. ]
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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.
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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
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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."
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Why don't yon work for Uncle Sum?
Civil Service Manual, which prepares
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Three volumes (with maps), $3.
express prepaid. Sims' Book
Store. Orangeburg, S. C.
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plaining our methods of assisting raj
teachers to secure positions and
supplying schools with teachers. H
Interstate Teachers' Bureau, At- j||
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Wanted?City school principal at $75
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Other urgent calls for experienced
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Teaehers' Agency, Heath Springs,
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Cut anything from tissue paper to
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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
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