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-fl y* ' $p ? : - m REFORM NEEDED The State AstIdb for the Insaae is ia Bad Coaditioa. SHOULD BE REMpDELED Many Improvements Urged, and the Sanity Arrangements Hold to be Deplorable and the Institution 9 Very Much Overcrowded?A M?v jority and Minority Report Filed. Last year the General Assembly appointed a special commission to investigate the conditions at the State Hospital for the Insane. On this commission were appointed Senators Chrlstensen, Hardin and Bates, and Representatives Carey, Harrison, Sawyer and Dick. The committee has been diligent in its work and research. Days were spent in taking testimony and studies were made of other hospitals for Insane. Much of the results of this inquiry is placed before the people ip the reports released a few days ago. The committee is entirely at va(n ih/? mrtei ?.aaanflo1 fno tiro 1 lailvv i u iuc uiudv i*oa^wu?i what should be done to further alleviate conditions? There are two reports, one signed by Senators Chrlstensen and Bates and Representatives Harrison and Dick. The other report Is signed by Senator Hardin and Representatives Sawyer and J. P. Carey. The reports are so entirely at variance In point and suggestion that there Is but one war to get the varying views, and that Is by reading both reports, which are very long and volumous. Without placing the blame on any particular person, the majority report states that the evlednce shows: That fifteen patients of one ward were bathed In the same water In a bath tub. That the foulest water closet, cen. tre of wide soil pollution, without screens is located within a few feet of an outdoor kitchen. That the bodies of dead patients are burled one on top of another In the Bame lot, with as little consideration as If they were so many dogs. That cholera hogs and the dead are kept In the same lot. That the wards, even of the white women, are overrun with vermin and the patients are allowed to go unkempt and ragged, a The report alBO states that some of the attendants are reported 11r literate and brutal, many cases of brutality being reported and that the food served the patients +b badly prepared by persons who never learned to cook and Is served in dirty, greasy tin dishes. Government reports are quoted to show that in the South Carolina Hospital tha death rate Is the highest in the United States, 21.54 per cent, as compared with a general average of 11 per cent. It is estimated that it will require $350,000 to put the plant In proper shape, and it is suggested the present plant be sold, the land being worth $400,000, and two plants, to cost $500,000 each, be erected by the State elsewhere. The minority report, submitted by three members of the commission, disagree with the *maln features of the majority report. It holds that the lack of funds to put the institution on a modern basis, due to ttfe State's heavy indebtedness, is the principal source of trouble. It states that the patients, as a rule, are well cared for, that the food served is of good quality and well cooked, and that the management of the State's farm is systematic and efficient. The minority report states that it is unnecessary to create a great debt for the State in the purchase of new sites, and that the expenditure of about $50,000 annually for several years will meet the requirements of the situation. They say that the superintendent ib u?ci wuncu uuiiiK me wori ui three men. On December 13 last there were in the Institution 1,533 inmates ? 520 whie women, 370 white men, 321 negro women, 322 negro men. The board of regents is composed of Messrs. W. J. Gooding, Hampton; J. Perry Glenn, Anderson; W. W. Ray, Congaree; J. H. Taylor, Columbia. There are no better men in the State than these. For their work these regents receive a per diem of not more than $250 a year, and mileage when they attend meetings. The superintendent, who i3 the chief physician, receives $3,000 a year and a residence on the grounds. Roth reports speak well of the farm. The reports together with ^ the mass of testimony have been published in book form?the reports and evidence make about a thousand pages. Black l>olls. The congregation of the St. James' A. M.'P. church, at Wilmington, Del., has placed the ban on white dolls. It was decided this week that black, mothers shall allow their offspring to play with black dolls, as a matter of race pride. - HAVE LOST MOST GULP STATES SUFFERED MOST BY THE BAD WEATHER. Hooter's Analysis of Movement Shows Decrease From Last 'Year of 1,600,402 Bales. A New Orleans dispatch says Secretary Hester's analysis of the cotton movements for the four months of the season, from Sepember 1 to December 31, inclusive,] shows that compared with the crop movement last year the State of Texas has brought into sight this season, in round figures, 714,000 bales less; other Gulf States, which include Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma, have marketed 834,000 less, and the group of Atlantic S.ates which include North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Virginia, have marketed 52,000 less, making the decrease in the amount marketed 1,600,000. Mr. Hester shows the amount brought into sight by groups of States for the four months of the season as follows; Texas, 1,796,814 bales, a decrease under last year of 714,312, an increase over year before last of 719,651, and a decrease under the same time in 1906 of 517,254. Other Gulf States, 1,927,172 bales a decrease under last year of 834,284, a decrease under year before last of 365,689, and a decrease under same time in 1906 of 741,781. Atlantic States, 3,876,451 bales, a decrease under last year of 51,806, an Increase of year before laBt of 45,709 and an increase of the same time in 1906 of 378,572. Total crop in sight at close of December. 7,110,437 bales, a decrease under last year of 1,600,402, an increase over year before last of 399,671 and a decrease under the same time in 1906 of 880,465. The groups of States furnished in round figures of the crops of last year and year before last: From the State of Texas last year 3,819,000, and year before last 2,221,000; other Gulf States, 4,300,000 last year, and year before last 4,242,000; Atlantic States, 5,666,000 last year and 5,109,000 yeare before last. DIED AT HER POST. Lived Sixty-Three Years in Charleston Ornhan The Post says Miss Catherine Arnold, a teacher at the Charleston Orphan House, died a few days ago at that institution, into which she was entered as an Infant of eighteen months on March 25, 1847, and in which she half lived continuously for nearly sixty-three years. After completing her indenture as a charge of the institution, Miss Arnold, In September, 1864, was appointed a teacher on the staff of the Orphans House, and has served in that capacity for more than fortyfive years. She was one of the most capable and efficient of the teaching force of the institution, and held the affection of the children and th^ confidence of the authorities in a marked degree. From her salary as a teacher at the Orphan House, Miss Arnold had saved through the course of years, a comfortable sum of money, whl-.b by oequest is to be disposed of to the benefit of St. Paul's church, the Orphan House and certain graduates of the institution for whom she had a special aP.-ciHn. TAGGED WILD DUCK KILLED. 8hot Bird labelled "Box 48, Kingston, Ontario." While hunting in the 3wamps of Rocky River, east of Anderson Monday afternoon, Mr. W. E. Bray killed <2 lnrira mrU't ?? ? n.iu uuua nuau uttu uu UUf of its legs an aluminum band bearing the Inscription "Box 48, Kingston, Ontario." Mr. Bray will at once communicate with the address given. A gentleman from Canada, who was at the Hotel Chiquola a few nights ago, said that not infrequently sportsmen around Kingston would capture wild ducks, and after marking them, would turn them loose. The duck was a good ways from home. Miss Ileptmn Gets Verdict. A jury in the United States Court at Norfolk, Va., Monday awarded $15,000 damages to Miss Mamie Rephan, of Charleston, S. C., against the Norfolk and Portsmouth Traction Company. Miss Rephan lost a leg under the wheels of an electric oar in 1908, and sued for $30,000. The case will be appealed. Trainmen Indicted. Engineer Maddox and Engine Foreman Leon Irving, members of the Kansas City Southern switch engine crew that crashed Into a rTexas and Pacific train Sunday before last, killing three persons, were Indicted a few days ago by the grand jury, charged with manslaughter. SOME HOT STUFF 1 Democratic Congressman Files Sensational Charges Ahoot * ? USE OF PUB L MONEY Hitchcock Declares to House Comc mittee That Funds of the Interior f Department Were Improperly Used 1 e In Paying Private Travelling Ex- ^ penses of Bollinger's Nephew. a % Somewhat waning Interest in the * investigation of the so-called Bal- ' linger-Pinchot controversy was ^ quickly revived in congress Monday v by sensational charges against Sec- c reiary Halllnger, of the interior de- I partment, and other officials, filed i by Representative Hitchcock, (Dem- c ocrat), of Nebraska, with the com- c mittee on expenditures in the interi- 1 or department, and incidentally by e the senate's adoption of the investi- I gation resolution agreed upon in con- s ference. The house will adopt the resolution later. I The most important allegation of 1 Mr. Hitchcock is that funds of the t interior department were improper- f ly used in paying private traveling f expenses of Secretary Ballinger's ? nephew. The secretary and other ! officials of the interior department 1 will be subpoenaed before the house i committee on expenditures to which t Mr. Hitchcock's charges were ad- t dressed. The statement assertB that when c Mr. Halllnger became commissioner s of the general land office, the po- e sltlon he held before entering the I cabinet, he reduced the salary of 1 Law Clerk Wright bo that Judge Wright's $2,000 salary "could be ( given to Jack Halllnger, his nephew, s not under the title of law clerk, but a under the title, created by Mr. Hal- t llnger's order, of confidential clerk, v I have been told Wright died of dis- d appointment and humiliation soon thereafter." r Jack Balllnger remained a year I In the service, the statement says, 1 his manner of living, about the tim? r his uncle resigned, in March, 1908, C being alleged to illustrate "the reck- q less expenditures of the land of- g flee." r "It was announced," the statement t goes on to say. "that young Jack Halllnger was leaving the land of- t flee to resume law practice in Se f attle. In order that he might re- i I reive a final rake-off he was deBig- f nated as special temporary inspec- r /?.# -m- * - lui vjl uuicKs, an evident outrage r on the treasury. This enabled hlra s to draw traveling expenses from Washington to Seattle and a per diem also. Within two weeks after he reached Seattle, he resigned, as 1 understood in advance, and resumed law practice, including, of course, practice before the land office out there and also in Washington. Mr. Hitchcock declared this to be only one of many outrages on the treasury which can be found. The statement was presented by Mr. Hitchcock at a meeting of the committee called to permit him to substantiate his charges of extravagance in the interior department. The committee decided to issue BUbpoenas on Secretary Balllngor. Commissioner Dennett, of the genearl land office, and all others interested in the charges to appear as witnesses before the committee next Wednesday morning. The affidavits alleges improper use of the million dollar appropriation "for the protection of the public domain, mounting into the tens of thousands of dollars," the erection of a "certain ( large brick chimney for a land of- , flee at considerable expense," "the ( empolyment of some eighty ad- , ditional clerks," "salaries increased, and In one case at least doubled," out of this million dollar fund (citing the case of Chief of the Field ] Service Schwartz as this instance), long expense bills, which "cover long extracts from the newspaper sent in by traveling representatives of the general land office, selection of special agents not at all qualified, etc. Mr. Hitchcock suggests to the mmmiMoA Ko* ~ ?? ? * m yi T vunv I.CI .?1U KillJllUytfeS OI the general land office be called to ( furnish specific information, explaining that he was "persona non-grata ' 1 with the Interior department, and that the committee was in a better 1 position to obtain the facts concern ( ing odd clerks performing ordinary clerical duties, not connected in any 1 way with the protection of the public domain, though so protected. Concerning the office of chief of the field service, occupied by H. H. Schwartz, the affidavit alleges that position was created for Mr. 1 Schwarts without warrant of law, his salary being raised from $2,000 as special agent to $4,200 as chief of field service, or $700 more than his immediate superior, tho assistant commissioner. His messenger's salary was raised from $720 a year to i $900, It Is alleged, although all other land office cessengers receive the low- ( er rate out of the regular fund. Mr. Hitchcock recommended inves- 1 tigaiion of statements made in an < anonymous letter to him that declared Mr. Dallinger's system of files i . V ? " 111 DEMOCRATIC HOUSE 4R. CLARK RETURNS FROM WEST IN HIGH FEATHER. Minority Leader Think* Dissatisfaction With Republican Policies Will Cause Reaction. Freeh from a speech-making tour f the West, where he made a careul study of the political situation. teDresentatlve Chamn oinrir <~>f mid. louri, the minority leader of the louse, who returned to Washington t few days ago, grew enthusiastic n relating to his political associates n congress the prospects for Dem>cratic control of the next house of epresentatlves. He brings back vith him a roseate picture of the >utlook and predicts a sweeping democratic victory in the congresBonal election this fall and a Demo:ratic house of representatives. His iheerlng story brought renewed lopes for the Democrats. Mr. Clark laid he found a thriving spirit of democracy in Ohio and Missouri, ind other places where he visited. Mr. Clark brought with him from diBsouri the interesting story which le learned at Kansas City of the leparture of a certain gentleman rom the latter place a few days ago or Africa, representing practically til of the commercial bodies of the .Vest and Middle West, to invite Col. iloosevelt to land at San Francisco ipon his return to the United States ind cross the continent from West o Bast. "Such a procession across the ountry would be the greatest show leen on this earth since the morning itars first sang together," said the democratic leader in characteristic anguage. Mr. Clark recalled fhat President Irant had done much the same thing ind said that if Grant had landed it San Francisco at a more opporune time no power could have pre ented his nomination for the presilency for a third term. "In Missouri the party is unanlnous once more as a result of the Cansas City meeting and we are gong to wipe the Republicans off the nap there," said Mr. Clark. "In )hio I attended a Democratic ban luet of 1,200 plates which was the rreatest banquet I ever saw. The democrats are wideawake all along he line. "The papers of the country have teen full of the 'insurgent' news rom Washington and the fight hero irovoked much comment. Dlssatlsaction with Republican rule was lever so wide Bpread as now and th? lext house will be Democratic at mre as anything In the world." KILLED OVER HORSE TRADE. rhird Killing In locality In Short Time Arouse Citizens. A dispatch from Angulla, Miss., lays the third killing in three day3 in that neighborhood took place Wednesday of last week on the Sun I [lower river near there. The frequency of such event* of late b<u jrouaed many of the eltlzens who have telegraphed the governor asking that soldiers be sent there to restore order The last tragedy was the klllinz af Noah Borodarfsky. merchant of Silver City by Jesse Martin, a planter. The trouble arose over a horeo trade. Martin swapped Borodarfsky i horse which he said would worn to a buggy. The dead man, It is stated, claimed the animal would not do as represented and wanted to call the trade off. which Martin r'Tused to do until Borodarfsky covered him with a pistol. Martin at one-* went to his home, procured his Bhot5un and meeting Borodarfsky in tha road shot him. JAIL. DELIVERY AT CAMDEN. PI?o ( the Thirteen Prisoners In County Prison Escape. At Camden Tuesday afternoon leveral of the prisoners In Jail overbowered the jailer, John Boone, and nade their escape. Five of the hirteen prisoners escaped. They vere Elerbe Thomas, with a number >f aliases, charged with fraud in aking orders for a Chicago house which he claimed to represent; Mllon Banks, convicted of larceny and iwaitlng the action of the supreme :ourt in an appeal; Sam Green, louse-breaking. and another negro lamed Truesdel, charged with housebreaking. Truesdel was recaptured in hour later by Mr. John L? .Team, fields and Banks are white. Jailer Roone was pretty badly used up. Be is an old Confederate Veteran ind stood to his post of duty faithTully. A blanket was thrown over Him and after beating him the keys j were taken from him. Teduy for Congress. That Theodore Roosevelt has agreed to run for congress In the First district of New York State, embracing Nassau and Suffolk counties and Oyster Hay, with the understanding that he will be supported for the speakership, is the report that spread Thursday among the members of the bouse and senate. % THE LAZY BUG SAID TO BE MOST SERIOUS INFECTIOUS DISEASE. ^ The Doctors Discuss It, and Dr. Stiles Says It Threatens the South as None Other. "The most serious infectious tils- ( ease in the South today is .hat of the hookworm," declared Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles of the United State? Dublic health service In the first national conference called | of this disease at Atlanta Tuesday morning. While specimens of the hookworm, have been found in the New England States, the Middle West and in the Northern Pacific States, the disease primarily is one of warm climates and is generallv prevalent in the South Atlantic and Gulf States. On the negro is placed the responsibility for the presenc? of the disease in the United States. Dr. Stiles said that the hookworm found here has been trnced to th?> west coast of Africa, "and it un doubtedly was brought here by the negro." In this connection Dr. Stiles called attention to the fact that while the negro had given to the whites the hookworm, tuberculosis had been presented to the negro by the whites and today the death rate from consumption among the negres of the South is three times th? toll of the disease among the whites. Twenty-five per cent of the cot ton mill employes of the South are infected with the hookworm, said Dr. Stiles, who based the statement on personal visits made to 28 mills in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. The mills in the sand sections of these States show much higher percentage of infection than do tnose of the Piedmont or clay sections. In 1 the mills of Atlanta the Infection was found to be less than five per cent. In some of the rural communities of the South, where there is an absolute lack of sanitary conditions, 90 per cent of the inhabitants are infected. Dr. H. F. Harris, of Atlanta, to whom Dr. Stiles referred as the first man to recognize the hookworm in the United States, was chosen chairman of the conference. At the afternoon session Dr. Harris discussed the treatment of the disease. Hi declared It to be most susceptible to treatment. Dr. George Dock of Tulane university described the symptomology of the disease and a paper on "The Pathology of Uncinariasis" was read f by Dr. Newton Evans of Nashville, Tenn. "Excessive Waste of AmeriI can Life," was tho subject of an Interesting address by F. F. Kitten- [ house of New York, president of the I Provident Savings Life Assurance so c ciety. At night Dr. Stiles delivered 1 a stereoptican lecture, depicting the sanitary conditions at the cotton 1 mills and other places visited by hira. < More than 2 00 physicians and rep ' resentatlves of life insurance com- I panies and commercial organizations 1 from all sections of the United States 1 are in attendance. ' WOMAN'S SLAYER CONFESSES. ' Murderer of Governess Xrar I'oughkeepsle Owns Up. In the presence of his mother, Frank Schermerhorn, lying on his cot at Vassar Hospital Monday night, confessed to Under Sheriff Fred Hornbeck that he alone was responsible for the death of Sarah Krymlar, the governess who was found strangled to death at the Compton home at Mlllbrook last Thurrday morning. Sehermorhorn says he was drunk at the time and did not know what be was doing. Just as Schermerhorn finished his cuuicamuu, uis iuomer rainieu. Schermerhorn says he was very drunk the night of the crime; remembers being In the room with Sarah Brymer, but does not remember what he did. "I did not Intend to commit murder," said Schermerhorn, according to the officials, "but I only Intended Mt' for a scare. O alone am responsible and no one else Is concerned in it." Confesses to Two Murders. R. H. Owens, white was hanged in Gainesville, Fla., for the murder of R. L. Smith in Jonesville several months ago. Just before being taken to the gallows, he made a partial confession of this crime and of kill ing a 17-year-old girl In Louisiana, but would give no particulars. Luke Thomas, a negro, was hanged at Fernandina, Fla., a few days ago also for the murder of Mack Austin, a man of his own race. 0 ' " i Get ready to plow, yo of the center belt. i has "so mixed, confused, befogged, I the clerks, flies and records that i there is now absolutely no one who < knows anything about anything that < appertains to the ofllce," requiring < over 100 clerks, against 15 under the old system. V ' \ ' ' tjj MANNH1TS BACK Certain Charges Made By Dr. Mefl He Charges as False. ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE ? A. ? th? Term Used by Members of Olemson Board of Trustees in Discussing Complaint Piled With Legislative Committee, Relative to Affairs of Cleinson College. Replying to Dr. Mell, whose leter as to Clemson codnitions was >ublished a few days ago. Dr. Coke ). Mann has issued a statement, in vhich he characterized certain charges as "absolutely false and without oundatiou." In general the statenent carries quite a criticism of Dr. Cell's actions as president of the :ollege. Dr. Mann, who is a member of he Clemson board of trustees, says n his statement: "I had thought that the controversy between Dr. Mell and myself lad ended, but I saw in the Charleson News and Courier of the 17th instant that I was mistaken. He has a number of charges against ne, all of which are absolutely un'.rue. As his first charge he says: While 1 was in controversy with :he last commandant in the matter >f who should discharge the duties )f the president's office, the R<ev. C. D. Mann, a member of the board of rustees, published an article in the lewspapers condemning me in my ifTorts to control the officers of the :ollege, and yet he had not availid himself of the opportunity to inorm himself concerning my side of he matter under consideration.' iHe says further down that I had lisqualified myself from sitting at k subsequent meeting of the board >f trustees. He calls it a jury. The lublic knows what he raea is. Again le says: 'He took part in the disussion, which occurred in the board, ind cast his vote against m<e in ho final action of the trustees." Vhat disqualified me with the Docor? Specify. Was it for stating acts which I tried to get him or ome one else to come and deny? made the broad challenge that if .ny man would deny it I would prove t, and he did not see his way elear o dispute it. Then why did he lot come out like a man and not vait like a dirty cur until he had eft the State? I call the attention if the public to this fact. v-K''* tfinus had already resigned as comnandant and Dr. Mell was trying to >ut the whole blame on him, and knew it was untrue. Therefore I :nme to hiB rescue and have nothng to regret or take back." "Let me say right here that Dr. Well has his first time ever to deny >ne of Capt. Minus' charges before .he board of trustees. He gave us to understand that he was supreme. Porgetting that the other man was In authority in his department and had rights to be observed and re? 3pected, not by the students in barracks, but by the president of the college as well. Capt. Minus was and is a gentleman of the highest type notwithstanding what Dr. Mell may write or say. My Interference In the Mell-Minu8 controversy was not to interfere with Dr. Meil's duties as president of Clemson College, as he would have the putll'2 believe, but to show to the public that Dr. Mell was trying to run the commandant, trustees and everything In sight. When we had Dr. Mell and Capt. Minus before us at an informal meeting, when about onehalf of the board was present, Capt. Minus making his charges and Dr. Well hearing them, and after hearIng both of these gentlemen, we went over the situation, and we igreed that a committee should be ippolnted to go next morning and ?ee if Dr. Mell would let the Minus lepartment alone, and Dr. Mell promBed he would. Then the coinmit:ee went to Capt. Minus and he iromlsed the same thing. This >romise was not kept by Dr. Mell, ind Capt. Minus' resignation was endered during the seesion of the eigislature in 1908. "I am not at all surprised at Dr. Moll's criticism of nie for I believe lad it not been for my article to he press Dr. Mell would be at Clemion college today. I knew a great leal more about his side of the natter under consideration than he .bought 1 did. I had not been on , he board of triistooo 11 - inu IIIUUIQB jefore it was very elear to my mind hat he was too small a man for the place and with the criticisms tnd charges against him. They were too much for the president of iny great institution to carry. "Now, I hope this will be sufficient. I have not tried to hurt Dr. Mell and would not fo- anything in the world. Now, Doctor, believe me. Stop Dr. Mell, or 1 will take lellberate aim next time and if I lon't get you I will take the consequences. (Signed) "Coke D. Mann, "L. M. Q." \ 4