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POPP^.*" TILLMAN TALKS To the Members of the Farmer's Union of Chester THE SENIOR SENATOR Discusses the Legislature, Denouncen Compulsory Education, Speaks Pleasantly of President Taft, Defends Clemson and Scored Some ^ of the Newspapers. A special dispatch from Chester to The News and Courier says an tiirilpnpn varlnnalv pRtlmated at from 2,500 to 4,000 persons gathered on the grounds of Union A. R. P. church, near Richburg, Tuesday to attend the rally of the Chester County Farmers' Union and to hear Senator B. R. Tillman and the other speakers engaged for thiB occasion. The senior Senator seems fully rejuvenated and spoke with all his old-time force and fire. He jumped on the mileage system In vogue in this State by which the railroads sell a passenger a mileage book for |20 and then compel the passenger to waste much valuable time and patience in attempting to exchange mileage for a ticket, lie said the whole thing is the fault of the legislature and cautioned the people against putting too many railroad lawyers and freiends of corporations in the law-making body. "An Infernal fool arrangement," he called the present practice. He said he did not know much about the Farmers' Union, but thinks It a good thing, only he begged to warn the people against allowing the organization to become a lever to advance the fortunes of politicians. He described his missionary work in the North, and his endeavors to convert the Northern people to the sane and Southern way of viewing the race question. He denounced the efforts of those who favor compulsory education as a scheme to give the ballot to negroes, which It surely will, he said, by compelling them to go to school and overiome the educational qualifiest.lnnn. which nlnnn ctunH hot umnn them and the ballot. President Taft, he said, Is a splendid gentleman, a great Improvement over his predecessor, but is "spreading all the molasses he can to catch flies." He descrbed conditions at the North as regards social problems and drew a beautiful picture of the comparative purity that obtains in the South. Tho divorco evil ho particularly denounced and called on his hearers to hold fast to the present practice In South Carolina on this subject. Touching on Clemson College, the Senator denounced the newspapers that have been meddling with the situation there, as he dearlhed it, for the sole purpose of stirring up discord, and offered to compare records of life trustees with those of elected trustees. He also said that no Instance could be shown where life trustees had Ined up en masse on one side of a question and the elected trustees on the other. He hoped that certain defects at Clemson have been remedied, and the future of the Colloge made brighter. Certain political foemen In South Carolina, he Bald, want to write his obituary, but he Is well and hearty and won't go until he has to. He warned tho peonle neainst the ?'mc_ cals" and bade them keep their eye on the State Legislature and the lawmakers* at Washington. Other speakers were Editor W. F. Caldwell, of the Cheater Lantern: Solicitor J. K. Henry. Col. T. R. Butler, of GafTney; Mr. J. G. L. I White, president of the Cheater County Farmers' Unon, and Prof. W. 9. Morrison, of Clemson College. The day passed off quietly, the most perfect order prevailing. Masked Robbers. Four maked men entered the home of Charles Burlew, a store keeper at West Pittbon, Pa., and going to a room occupied by a merchant and his wife, demanded of the former the money he received from his sales on Saturday. He refused and was knocked insensible. The intruders then hound and gagged Burlew and his wife and ransacked the room. After securing $300, the men set fire to the house and fled. Burlew and his wife were rescued. Fiend Will Hang. Rogers Merritt, a negro, was Tuesday convicted In the Superior court at Atlanta of criminal assault upon Miss Maggie McDermott. 16 yearn old. on (he night of June_ 20 last. The negro will bo sentenced to hang. The assault occurred in the heart of Atlanta. Miss McDermott being en route to her home when the negro attacked her. Three Pled in Mine. All the missing miners in the Haraiso shaft of tho Curuclia mine, near Pachuca, Mexico, have been accounted for. The total casalty list is throe men killed and 20 injured. Work in the mine has been resumed. Fire broke out In this mine last Saturday, and a sdore of miners were reported at first to have been killed. Drowns in Swolen Stream. News was received Monday of the drowning near Shafter. Tex., Satur- * day of United States Deputy Collec- i tor of Customs John Donaldson and < Immigration Inspector Robert Iluide. 1 The carriage in which they were i crossing a swollen stream was over- < turned. _ _ i GOES OVER FALLS ! N1AGBA RAPIDS SWALLOW UP E ONE MORE VICTIM. Young Man's Brave Effort* Prove < Useless, Giant Waves Finally Overcoming, Driving Him Under. Niagara rapids claims one one more victim. A dispatch from there ? Bays August Sparer, an eighteen- I year-old boy, a resident of Niagara < Falls, went to his death Monday In < the whirlpool rapids after a gallant < battle with the giant waves between I the lower bridges and the pool. 1 With three companions Sporer went ; for a swim in the river. He struck < about at once for the middle of the < stream and then turned toward the bridges. His companions called to him to turn back, for the current is very swift at that point, but he kept on down stream and was caught in the great sweep, the first break from the smoother waters to the rapids. The boy struggled for a time against the current but to no avail. Then, realizing that he was beyond human help and was to be carried through the rapid which took the life of Capt. We6b, and which have resisted every unaided human effort at passage, he deliberately turned down stream and began a grim fight for life. Not in all the history of the river has such a brave effort been witnessed. Although but a frail boy, he went into the rnplds swimming strongly and held his own until he struck the giant wave which curls up opposite the Old Battery elevator. Then he went under and for a second was lost to sight of the score of people who stood on the lower arch bridge. Again and again he disappeared only to reappear, each time fighting desperately against the terrible current. Then when within 300 yards of the whirlpool his strength gave out and he sank and was lost to view. Even then he had swum perhaps 100 yards farther than did the greRt English swimmer, Capt. Webb. THEY WERE SENT RACK. I'nclo Sam Detains a Runaway Couple From Prague. ax mew iorit tne immigration officials have shattered the romance of nineteen-year-old Beatrice Mayer, who left her husband of a few months and eloped to this country with her first sweetheart. Adolph Grohman, a youth of twenty-three. The young couple who have a plentiful supply of money, and whoso refinement apparently verifies their claims to kinship with prominent families at Prague, arrived in New York on Monday. Mrs. Mayer was accompanied by her maid and all of them had first cabin passage. They would not have been disturbed in their desire to land had not a cablegram preceded their arrival. It was from Mrs. Mayer's husband, and asked that they be detained at New Torn. A special board of inquiry has decided that the man and Mrs. Mayer and her maid must be deported. Before the board, Mrs. Mayer made an impassioned ploa to be allowed to land. "Adolph was my school companion, and we have loved each other for years," she said. "We wanted to marry, but my folks objected. I resisted as long as I could, but in the end they forced me into this objectionable marriage. I never loved my husband, but I do love Adolph. After four months of marital trouble, I decided that the only way to avoid a life of trouble and unhappiness whs to run away with Adolph." RELICS OF TRACERY. Fifteen Skeletons Are Found In Excavation. In Washington fifteen skeletons lying together in such a position as to Indicate hasty buriai and three English copper coins bearing the date 1720, found with them during the excavating for the United States Medical School Hospital near the banks of the Potomac, brings to light, It Is believed, some Indian or piratical tragedy of early American days. As authentic history sheds no illuminating ray on the case, the finger of suspicion wavers in its pointing looking first toward the rem man, who stole silently along the wooded Potomac banks a century and a half ago, then to a mythical pirate crew which is believed to have made its rendezvous in the upper Potomac, and lastly to a mutiny-infested cave trading vessel But the bones may remain forever as silent as when they were in their , grave. Killed by Lightning. Two men were killed by lightning at Trion Factory. Ga., on Tuesday. ' Seven men were sitting in a row in front of the depot when the bolt descended, killing Sam Ray and Clarence McCants and seriously injuring > Jeff McCants. Other men were ( knocked down, but not seriously in- > jured. Lightning damaged the de- t pot of the Central of Georgia and 1 a livery stable near by. c t Killed Near WiUiston. I Dan Gaines was shot unci instantly * killed by another negro, named Pet- < er Green, near WiUiston Saturday ? night. The men were playing, when ? Green pulled out a pistol, saying, "I r believe I will f hoot von." Gaines t =aid, "Well shoot," he did so, with c leadly effect It seemn that \t was i in unprovoked murder. ? . RESCUED SAILORS lEVEN SNATCHED FROM DEATH BY THE LIFE SAVERS. ' V Jkptoln of Schooner Drives His Vessel on Shore ThlnMns n?-? *>! niu? w ? | Wm Liner's Light. Long Island life savers, after a tlx hours' battle, added another victory against the sea to their long list jf remarkable rescues Tuesday, when Lhey brought safely to land the capLain and crew?seven souls in all? from the three-masted schooner Arlington, of Boston, which went it-hore early Tuesday morning in the driving rain and fog off Long Beach, on the South shore of Long Island. The eighth member of the crew, Madden Pierson, a Swede, put off from the schooner on a raft a line, but was swept out to sea and lost sight of. It is believed that he perished. The rescue from the schooner was witnessed by cheering guests of the Nassau Hotel at Long Beach and by hundreds of cottagers. The hotel was indirectly responsible for the vessel's plight, for Capt. Ira Smith, after having lost his bearings, mistook the glimmering lights in the structure for those of a liner In midocean, and thus misled ran aground. The schooner, heavily laden with Antbratlc, bound from New York for Mayport, Fla., struck a sand bar. Pounded by a heavy sea while a terrific easterly gale was blowing, she began to yield Immediately. The captain and crew climbed out on the bowsprit. The life savers reached the scene toon after daylight. They worked frantically, but In vain trying to shoot a line to the kt?L ? nicv.iv. M. no IIIBU w uiu ttllU Hcas made made this mpossible, but after six futile attempts they succeeded in getting a surf boat through the breakers to the lee of the wreck and the rescue of the imperilled sailors followed. Aside from a broken ankle sustained by the cabin boy and the suffering incident to exposure, which all sustained, no one was seriously injured. The Arlington will be a total loss. LUNATIC KILLS HIMSELF. Was an Inmate of the for the Insane. A Columbia dibpatch to The News and Courier says Emanuel Roland, a middle-aged white man from Aiken county, an inmate of the State Hospital for tho Insane, who tried to kill himself several months ago while on a railway train in the custody of a guard, on his way to tho institution, committed suicide late Monday by falling thirty feet from the lattice work on a porch to one of the Asylum buildings. He lived only a few moments after striking the ground. The unfortunate man was suffering from suicidal melancholia and had been carefully watched since ho entered the Institution. It is stated that he was in the yard of the Asylum Monday afternoon with several other patients and two nurses. While the attention of the nurses was distracted for a moment he climbed the lattice of a veranda to the third story and either let go his hold or jumped backward. It Is said that the nurse tried to persuade him to come down when he was about half way up. The accident although deplorable was unavoidable. No blame can be placed on any one. Last spring when Boland was being carried to the Asylum on the train, he borrowed a knife from some one and, while manacled, plunged it Into his throat, inflicting an ugly wound. When he arrived in Columbia he was in a desperate condition. He recovered from this self-inflicted injury, only to end his life Monday. FAMILY FOUND STARVING In the Great City of Chicago in Midst of Plenty. Starving In sight of plenty is the sad fate of a family in Chicago. John Fitzgerald, 18 months old, is dead of starvation, and his mother, Mary Fitzgerald, is ill from the same cause. Three other children, all ill from lack of food, passed Monday night In the care of the police, and will be taken to the juvenile homo. These children are Helen, 10 years old; Lilian, 8 years old, and Irene, 4 years old. i Mrs. Fitzgerald and her family were deserted by her husband on < June 10. For the last few weeks i family has had nothing to live on except what was contributed by obtained by pawning articles from (he home, which already had been i nearly stripped of its furnishings. i SLAPPED HKK FACE. Because He Said She Sent Him 1'n- ( scculy Post Cards. As an exceuse for slapping hie vires face, William Schonek, of < Cincinnati, O.. said that he was the < rictim of "postal card mania," and 1 hat his wife had sent the cards to l iim. Judge Hoffman, of the Police 1 ourt, dismissed the case and told ( he w-ife not to send her husband any t nore postal cards. The husband pre- I tented several cards to the court. ( )n one was written, "All in. down ( ind out;" another showed a handome young woman, w-ith outstretch- < d arms, and underneath the pic- < ure, was printed the words. "I don't t are if he never comes back." s toother bad written on it, "Com? * o, the water is fine." r "police graft In New York Amounts to a Million of Dollars in v ??? HARD CASH PER YEAR General Bingham, Police Commissioner of New York, Says That He Could Have Made at Least Six Hundred Thousand Dollars in His First Twelve Months in Office. "I am asked to estimate the money value of graft and blackmail in New York each year. No one can make such an estimate with accuracy, but my belief is that the total is not less than $100,000,000. During my first year at the head of the police department it would have been anj easy matter for me to have inadfe $600,000 in bribe money, and $1,000,000 would not have been an excessive figure at all." Thus writes Oeneral Theodore Bingham in an article to he published in the September number of the Hampton'8 magazine, it is the first public statement made by General Bingham since his removal by Mayor McClellau from the office of Police Commissioner. He writes: "The power of Tammany Hall rests, and has rested for forty years, upon its ability to control the police, by fair means or foul. A strong honest, fearless Police Commissioner, suppoi'.ed by Police Magistrates of ability and integrity and a mayor big enough to conduct his office without fear or favor, can sap and utterly destroy Tammany influence In ten years or even less, provided he is empowered to dismiss and transfer his subordinates for cause, without recourse to the courts. "I do not believe i am unfair in estimating that from fifteen hundred to two thousand members of the force are unscrupulous grafters, whose hands are always out for easy money." That this is known by the head of the department and apparently ignored is because the commissioner is only nominal head of the force, he states, while a policeman has office for life. Discipline and the question of vested interests should be kept separate, he declares. Graft is hidden in most city ordinances, he says and were enacted to be broken SO thnt snme nno i?nnlH nmlro money from thorn. Ho continues: "One day, shortly after my arrival at Police headquarters an acquaintance dropped Into my office. "Commissioner," he said. "There is a house at No. West Thirtythird street, run very quietly. It will be worth $10,000 a month to you"?but the sentence was never finished to my knowledge. "As a matter of fact, the place had never been opened, and the man had been used as an agent to feel out the department. "A few months later I was offered $5,000 in cash and $500 a month merely to be seen shaking hands with the proprietor of an upper Broadway cafe." General Bngham states as his belief that gambling cannot be eliminated, but that a reasonable law, imposing heavy licenses and ironclad restrictions can be enforced. Concerning the Rogues' Gallery, the controversy over which proved his stumbling block, he states that it is necessary to photograph criminals, but adds that it should be settled by a law not drawn in the interest of criminals. FEET TOUCH ON BODY. Man Thus Located Under Water and Was Rescued. When Miss Ruth Rogers leaped feet foremost from a r??t on Manhattan beach at Chicago she touched one of her feet on a body laying in the bottom of the lake. Her cries when she reached the surface brought former Congressman Chas. S. Wharton. Dr. W. H. Falke and Dr. H. R. Clapp, who wece swimming near. Mr. Wharton dived and assured himself that what Miss Rogers had touched was really the body of a man and after repeated efforts the rescuers were successful in bringing it to the surface. They were astonished to find that breath still remained, although the victim was unconscious. When he had been resuscitated after an hour's work, he said he was John Tuzhockl, twenty-three years old. He was unable to say how he came into his plight, but It is belioved by those who were at the beach that in diving from a post he struck a great rope stretched as ? life line and was rendered unconscious. TAFT MAY VISIT STAR FAIR Columbia Want* to fhangfl Rates With Augusta. A dispatch from Columbia to The Charleston Evening Post says it is entirely agrecablo to have Columbia and Augusta swap days for cnertainlng Mr. Taft, so as to hrins lim here on the closing day of the Carolina fair and in Augusta ou the ipening day of the fair there. ThU a the result of a conference between Chamber of Commerce and Fair So:iety representatives. Mayor Reamer wrote Secretary Carpenter along this line. If the hangc is made Mr. Tnft will conic o Columbia from Charleston or Saturday morning early and go to lugusta on Saturday afternoon and emain there through Monday. * L / DESIGN ACCEPTED FOR MONUMENT TO THE NOBLE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. Beautiful, Elevating [Portrayal of Self-Sacrlflcelng Devotion of Noble Women of "I-iost Cause." Befitting in nobility of conception and beauty of execution the subject It is to commemorate, the design for the monument to women of the "lost cause" has been completed. It Is the work of a Dixie girl, Miss Belle Kinney, of Nashville, Terfgk., and has been accepted by several States. It is probable that all the States which left the union in the Civil War will adopt the design and that replcas of the monument will he nlnnori in the capitols of each. The design for the proposed monument is very beautirul and elevatiug. The central ligure, of heroic size, is the Goddess of Fame. At her right, the reclining figure, delicately featured, beautiful, but with an expression of exquisite sadness, represents the self-sacrificing Southern womau of the war time. Fame is represented as placing a wreath upon the Southern woman's head, while she supports, at her left, a dying and emaciated Confederate soldier, to whom the Southern woman is extending, even in death, the palm of victory. The design is such that it readily lends itself to reproduction either of marble or bronze. A year or more ago the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans decided upon the erection of these monuments in every State capitol ia Dixie. The work was to have been done by an Italian sculptor. When his design was submitted at the late Confederate reunion in Memphis, it-raised a storm of protest. Tho artist had pictured the Southern woman as a militant and amazonion figure, carrying in one hand a sword and in the other the banner of the Lost Cause. This conception was so foreign to the gentle, suffering and patient woman of the Southland as thos-i who loved her had known her, that the design was rejected by an over I wueiuiiug voie. ine arusi declined I J to submit ano'her and Miss Kinney tvae appealed to. Tennessee niA appropriated $2,500 through the Daugheters and Sons of the Confederacy for a bronze cast of the design. Other States are raising funds for the purpose and It is believed bv fall each of the former Confederate States will have followed suit. iMiss Kinney, the artist, is but 22 years of age and is nlroady a sculptor of more than national fame. She was recently awarded tha contract for a heroic statute of the late Senator Kdward W. Carmac.k, of Tennessee, killed by the Coopers. When but a child she received a prize at the centennial in Nashville for a bust of her fatner. She received her education In art at the Art Institute at Chicago and later studied abroad. She was awarded the contract for twenty Igorrote figures at the Field Museum and has attracted a great deal of attention in art circles throughout the world. RUTLKDGE COUNTY DEFEATED. Doth Williamsburg and Clarendon Voted it Down. A dispatch from Lake City, which town expected to be the county seat of the new county, says the proposition to form the new county o^ Rutledge out of portions of Williamsburg and Clarendon was voted on by the voters in the sections affected Tuesday and the result was a victory for those who are opposed to the formation of the county by a little over two hundred vtes. The Williamsburg portion of the propos tui county gave 8Z3 votes for the new county and 415 against. The Clarendon voters. whose precinct was Sandy Grove, gave 4 5 for the new county and 25 against. The new county to have won required 831 votes in Williamsburg county and 51 votes in Clarendon. So the proposition was voted down in both Williamsburg and Clarendon counties. STRIKES HIM OX ENGINE. Lightning Severely Injures a Man in His Cab. The Spartanburg Herald eays Frank J. Mooney, fireman on freight train No. 71. Southern railway, was struck by lightning in the Southern Railway yards Sunday night about 11 o'clock during the severe rain and electrical storm. Mr. Mooney was severely injured. At first it. was thought that ho had been killed, hut. an examination Kv" nh.-olni.n- -v. ?a . v. - . UI_ a_j~_ OI. tfiiiri iiuifxnu ma?. Ul? injuries were not fatal, and he was sent to the Spartanburg City Hospital. A report from the hospital Tuesday night said that Mr. Mooney was getting on nicely. He was conscious, but could not speak. Mr. Mooney was ttanding on tho tender of the engine filling the boiler with water when he was struck bv lightning. Strange to say, there ' was uo scar anywhere in the flesh. ; Shoots Young Ijuly. At Portsmouth. Ohio, enraged because he had been jilted, Harry j' Bliss, 18 years old, Tuesday shot and fatally wounded Miss Minnie Clarke, 17 years Old, at. a crowded street corner. When Miss Clarke refused to return a ring, Bliss drew a revolver and shot her through the bark, the bullet penetrating the right lung Bllrs war. arrested. I sap " : , - , . Southern States 1 BUT PRO IVIciohlrxery ^J3Ly WMilRBttkMwMtf OOLUMB HIDEOUS CRIME < Hidden by Charity's Cloak in New York City. |] WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC . 1 Carried on by People Who Pretend to Ik" Honest nnd Friends of Their Victims?Shocking Discovery is Mude by the Detectives of the Immigration Department. The crusade ngalnst evils in the management of Immigrant aid societies in New York, which began Tuesday with the barring of two Societies from Ellis Island, has shown conditions which officials declare will be called to the attention of Congress, at next session. In an Interview a few days ago Representative S. Benuet, a member of the commih^ion appointed by congress lu 1907 to investigate immigration problems says that an inquiry by the commission lias shown tbat 76 per cent of the so-called homes in New York have perverted the purposes for which they were organized. The most serious charge made by Mr. Bennel is that agents for disreputable resorts have been able to go to the homes and obtain girls, newly nrrived from foreign countries, who believed that they were about to find employment in desirable places. The ageuts havo paid from $10 to $15 a piece for the glrlB thus recruited, he says. The commission in getting at the facts here and in other cities, employed detectives who posed as agents fob questionable resorts. They had no difficulty it is said, in obtaining girls from the officials of certain homes. Similar evils havo been found by the commission to exist in other American cities, and the crusade against them s likely to extend to several parts where large numbers of imigrants arrive. The commis Inn ? 111 ? nui it-jiuii, lu cungress eariy next March. The communication made public bv Commissioner of Immigration Williams, in which he called attention to certain evils existing; in immigration homes in this city, revoking the privilege which two of them had long enjoyed of sending thflr representatives to E1119 Island, only scraped the crust of a situation, the details of which are appalling. The investigation of tho immigrant homes is not confined to the immigrant authorities here. President Taft has been informed of the evils existing, and both he and Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor are anxious that the most stringent methods be employed to stan^p out. for many months the Immigrant commission which is separate and distinct from the immigration service, has been investigating these matters and today Representative Bennet told somethings of what it had done. In getting at the facts the commission employed its own detectives? women who posed as agents for ques- 1 tionable resorts. They had no difficulty getting girls, and invariably when these girls were questioned, it developed that they thought they were going to a place of quite another character than they had been hired for. In applying for girls to work for them tho agents of the disreputable resorts, Mr. Bennet says, did not stipulate that they wanted them to 1 go as Inmaes. "They didn't need to go In to the life unless they wished i to," the agents were careful to say. i Mr. Bennet was not ready to give the names of any of these homes, ' which he gave so black a character. 1 but It is safe to say that the reports of the commission, when It is made, 1 at Washington, will be n startling i one. It is also to be expected that i the homes which have perverted the ! avowed purpose for which they were 1 organized will be put out of busi- I ness with scant ceremony. 1 i Mall Clerk Arrested. | Frank J. Stewart, a negro railway mall clerk, running between Augusta auu aiiiidu, was arretted Tuesday afternoon by Deputy United States i Marshal J. P. Murray, charged with 1 embezzling a decoy letter. 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' V A 8MCK CHOOK. Worked a Hllck Came on n Private Detective. Thomas D. Stewart, the head of a private detective agency in Pittsburg. lias reported to the Chicago police that lie was robbed of $500 in money and Jewelry while stopping at i downtown hotel In the lake city. Ho went to Chicago in company with a man who had offered to lead him to the man who. be said, was responsible for the dynamiting of (he Pennsylvania railroad bridge near Pittsburg several months ago rnd for whom there is a reward of 15,000 offered. The detective and his guide slept In the same room at the hotel, and when the former woke up one morning he found ills companion and ail 1\U valuables ;one. M ild Rtory Afloat. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says a wild report was clrcuated over the country Tuesday to he effect that Charleston had been ipsiroypn oy an earthquake, bringnp: many telegrams of inquiry from irons associations and newspapers. ["he report is said to have rtarted mm At'anta. Tho foundation was >robably tho suspension of tele- ? rraphic Communication Monday afernoon by tho wind and thundtrtorm. Pointed Paragraphs. It's a hollow mockery?echo. One-sided people seldom sldo with >ne. With some women tho man who ever flatters soon falls flat. e Giant" Screw Plates rtments. Each assortment is put up wood case, as shown in cut. Each as: has at|HtiMt tap wrracfces for holding all aps contained in assortment. Threads od from 7-44 in. up to 1 1-2 in. "BEST >T PUCES." Crtmm Ma SapptyCa. CatawhfauSC . /