Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WHAT WE NEED Bow l? Build Bp North and South Carolina Permanently. EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS Of Clarence Poe, F?ditor of the I*ro Farmer and Gazette, Knleigh, N. U., Bt'(on? the South Car* ollna l*reM .IfMciutlon, Glenn Springs, S. C.t June 14, 1910. Both Caroliuas need and must have a larger proportion of white people. The whole South, in fact is still too sp&rcely settled. Our 11 Southern States, excluding Texas, support only 16,000,000 people of tooth races, and only 10,000,000 white people, while the same area in Europe supports over 160,000,000 white people. And it must bo remembered that up to a "ertain point which we shall not reach for centuries yet, and other things being equal, prosperity depends upon d?>rfilty of population. Population mak"9 wealth, provided that it is normally intelligent and efficient. Of course, we do not want the lowest class European inimtg -a'lo'i. If we can get Immigration from lingland, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Svcden, etc?caa conn I ries whose blood has gone to make up our vigorous American stock? it would be of great help to us. We are all of us such immigrateourselves or descendants of such imrui grants. Prom some count r?-s oi Southern and Eastern Europe, on the other hand, immigration Is of a decidedly lower order and objectionable because of a low standard of intelli gence and efficiency. On the very same principle, however, Immigration of a normal or high standard of intelligence and efficiency is desirable. Such immigration can be had. and ought to be had?in some measure, perhaps our English, Dutch and Irish kinsfolk across the sea?but chiefly from our Northern and Western States. For years now hundreds of thousands of the most enterprising and progressive farmers in the Middle West have been going into Canada with its long hard winters and bitter cllA mate, not only giving up American citizenship, but actually paying two to three times as much for land in that inhospitable region as land of the same fertility commands in the South. We ought to have brought these men to the South. They know our institutions, our language, they are industrious, thrifty, wideawake and many of them are of Southern ancestry who should naturally come back home. Let's bring them back. If there were no other reason for advocating such immigration from the North and West, I should favor it as surest deliverance from our ra/ce problem. The proportion of negroes to whites is too large in every Southern State, and my hope is that ultimately the tides of migration and immigration will equalize population until the proportion ol negroes in no State will exceed 20 per cent. We must train the negro ?the more ignorant he is the greater the burden on the South?but al beet the process will be slow, and at present It would probably not bf too much to say that In considering our whole population, including oui great constructive leaders and cap tains of industry, the average negrc In the Carollnas in economic worth and efficiency ts'only half as nsefu a* the average white man. In othei words, in rating general average 01 efficiency we should put the white man at 100 and the negro at 50, sr that a county half white and h;?li negro would have an average eftlci ency of 75, or a handicap of 25 pel cent, as compared with a count-, with an exclusive white populatiot of n normal degree of efficiency. Whether or not the digeronce it as much as I have indicated, certmr It is that the larger the proportioi of whites, the higher the average o efficiency, the more prosperous wil be our every industry, and the bet ter it will be for every lndlvldna citizen, including the negroes I hem selves. There are just two grea ways to build up the Carolinas. Firs and of paramount Importance is e<l ucation of all our p . , and should only supplement this by put ting more earnest emphasis upot practical education, education tha trains for efficiency, not educatioi suited to the great urt>an centers o Europe and the North, but educa tlon suited to the needs of a great awakening agricultural citizensiii] such as ours is and must be. And second only to education, i immigration. Now let us start right?not b seeking immigrants from Souther Europe, but by advertising our r? sources to the thrifty, enterpriain and progressive farmers of th North and West?men of our stoc who only need an invitation t, mas them come. Emerson was rigl when he said that "every man wh comes into a city with any purcha able talent or skill In him gives l every man's labor in the city a ne worth," aud if an ignorant negi CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER DEAD. i, , HL<t Death \yus Entirely Unexpected As He Wan in Good Health. Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller of the United States Supreme court died of heart failure at his summer home in Sorrento, Me., at six o'clock Monday morning. The death of the chief justice was entirely unexpected, as he had been in apparently good health lately, and there had been no premonitory symptoms of any kind of trouble. Sunday lie attended church as usual, and when he retired that night he was to all appearances in his cubt Am urv health Death came about six o'clock Monday morning. His daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel Francis, and the Hev. das. F. Freeman who was a guest of Justice Fuller at his Sorrento cottage. "Mainstay" were with the Jurist when he died. The funeral service will be held at Sorrento and the Interment will be at Chicago. The date for the funeral has not been yet fixed. Chief Justice was in his seventh-sixth year. slave in the old days was worth $1 000, certainly we may assume that a thrifty and intelligent white Westerner, bringing not only himself, but in most cases substantia! accumulations as well, should be worth many times as much as an asset to the State. The last census year North Carolina had only 1,200,000 whlt? ,e pie. It should have 4,000.000. South Carolina had less than 600,000 whites when it should have 3.000.000?and would then be even with its 800,000 negroes, only onethird as thickly settled as Massachusetts! Consider for a moment howmuch more influential our papers would be. how much more important every institution in the State would be, how much more varied would be our Industrie; how nucli easier it would be to get good roadn in counties in which the white population is now- too small to maintain them, how easy it would lie to double the usefulness of our public schools. how nnieklv build railroads in sections which must otherwise remain dormant and backward for long, long years, how important our cities should become, and how much more attractive would be country life in our thickly settled communities, and how much easier it would be to set water-works and trolley lines and local libraries and all the advantages of twentieth rural life! Let us take as our watch word "education and immigration?both of the right sort." In the last census year 2154.0U_' native sons and daughters of South Carolina were living in other States (to say nothing of the million sous and daughters of South Carolina emigrants), while South Carolina had received from other States and countries only 60.7 4 4 settlers. For seventy years now our Carolinas have been going West to build up the new States of that empire. Now let us welcome back their children and neighbors to help us s?uiiu two great prosperous and pop uluous commonwealths, where the masses of tlte people trained to as high stnndnrs of e clency as an>l where in the world, shall develop a ? symmetrical and well rounded civil ization: a splendid aud forceful det tnocracy of trained. Intelligent and I thrifty home-owners from among > whom shall come not only a JetTer[ son and a Marshall, not only a James J. Hill and a Thomas A. Kdi son and a Seaman A. Knapp. not on> ly men whom all the nation shall \ know as leaders in industry and in I public a (Tail's, but poets and seers, - sculptors and artists If not a t'it( ian at least a Reynolds or a Millet, ? if not a Michael Angelo at least a > St. Gaudens or a Ward, if not a I' Shakespeare at least a Rrowning or - a Tennyson, if not a Savonarola, at r least some great religious leader r who shall put the church into vital i relati ns to modern thought and give it a new baptism of spiritual , power all these until our long and , tragic years of war and struggle aud , rebuilding shall find their fruitage t in an outburst of achievement such I .<? <>! kii iit-in j?T?nn?-u lor, alio 11 is . now our high privalige to help bring 1 about. I Out* is killed. Many Mini. t Oiif man was killed and many - were hurt in rioting Saturday !?*?I tween Clericals and anti-Clericals in - the village of Centi, Spain. The 1 trouble arose from a strong sermon t against Premier C.inalejas" religious i program, which a priest delivered at f mass. * Found in Shark. 1? After a long struggle several men cnptured a man eating shark Hrt-t'eet s long, weighing about 1 tons, in thi straits of San Juan Del Kuca, bey tween Port Present and Port Angel? es. near Seattle, Wash. In the shark they found pieees of bones and a K pieee of kodac plate. e Lawyer Killed in Klevator. r John William Hallahan, Jr., on< it of the most prominent members o iO the Philadelphia bar. was killed la?< ?- Thursday night as he stepped fron lo a hotel elevator st Cape May, Pa w lie was caught between the car am ro the tloor. his neck being broken. KILLS HER BABE THEN MOTHER DRINKS DEADLY POISON HERSELF. Husband lb-turns Home to Find Wife and Ha by Lifeless on Same Red and a Pathetic Note. Haunted by the intolerable fear that she was going insane. Mrs. Jeanne Hodgson Catlett gave cyanide of po*t~?sium to her 2-uionths old daughter. Jeanne. Friday afternoon at her home in New York City, and then swallowed a Oraugh of the same poison herself. Both lay dead on the same bed when the husband, a supervising chemist employed by the Western Electric company, went to his borne that night. Beside the young mother lay a long letter to her husband. "Don't think me cruel to the little life I've made." ahe wrnt? ''hut , v,.... .v.... I am saving her so much pain, for bodily pain is nothing to this that is either insanity or nervousness?only flod knows. She would surely inherit it. "IKn t mourn for me. I wish 1 could go on with just you and our love. My very life is one continuous thought of thankfulness for It but my mind must be relieved. The tension is frightful." Evidently there were momenta wiien the mother yearned to spare her. daughter, for farther down she w rote: "If i leave our oj. ?y tell her I k: . ed her a ith lots of love and 1 am so sorry I ever have been cross to her." "Leave my locket on me but wear my wedding ring. I have loved it so and (stressed and kissed it so as the outward sign of the happiest moments of my life. Pinned to the outside bed room loor was a note to her husband reading: "tieorge. don't come in. Let tome one else?one of the boys." Mrs. Catlett who was born in V'rglnia. I years ago, and her husband, who is from South Carolina, met her three yearrf ago at Palls Church, Vu. They fell in love at first sis;ht an.l were married mi April, 1909. Since the birth of her daughter .Mrs. Catlett has been very nervous and her morbidness was increased by the fact that her little girl, named for her, cried much of the time. AVI.%TOIl KILLED. VVachter Instantly Killed by Fall While Practising. The opening of the second aviation meeting Sunday on the historic field of llethany was marked by a fatal accident. Aviator VVachter being killed. VVachter was the first to practice Sunday morning. in his Antoinette monoplane he buttled with th?s ...?u nuiiu ni?* emnusiasni of the speeulat ra until the rain compelled him to make a descent, lie resumed his flights in the afternoou and was flying inngniflcentb when suddenly an explosion waheard. The wings of t.he maehire | doubled up and the monoplaue< dropped to the earth with lightning speed. The aviator was killed instantly in full view of the spectators, among whom were his wife and little daughter. The accident is attributed to the breaking of the wire stays. " HUMAN KlI.LKlk Walks of an Oil Storehouse folhipstlhiring llla/4*. Capt. Michael J. Lyons, of the ct l.ouis fire department, was killed and three other firemen and a workman were injured in a fire wh'ch destroyed a part of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company's storehouse at St. Louis Saturday. The loss was ; Lyons was buried under falling I walls. It was several hours hefon j the fire was under control. The ] storehouse eovered two city blocks.rThree Killed by Hull. Miss Louise Duran. Louts KuL , ;in?1 Louis Flore/, were killed duri: g I a hull tii;lit in the San Aulonio Te'.oyo .baeienda at Puebla, Mexico, on Saturday. Ruiz was manager of the hacienda and Flore/, was a cowboy. | The tight was an amateur affaii, | participated in by people on the hacl ienda. Miss Duran was in iiuinine.-t ; peril during one stage of the light and Hui/. and Florez rushed to bet aid. The infuriated bull gored ih? woman and the two met.. I AIIIUl ... ... naii-i) uravf. After a desperate struggle with a friend who tried to restrain him, \V. H. Titus, of Oklahoma City. Okla., i jumped overboard from the steamer Holland, en route front Chicago to Holland, last Friday night and was ; drowned. Titus, who was thirtyi four years old. was suffering front nervous prostration. * Young laidy l>rowned. ? Miss Aintee Creary. the 19-yearf old daughter of li. L. Creary, wnf f? drowned while bathing in sutf will t a party of girl friends at Milon. Fia. i. Wednesday afternoon. Efforts o I her companions to rescue her wen * of no avail. t THE WAGES OF SIN OR. VERTAL AND WIFE JAILED FOR MALPRACTICE. One Girl IHw as a 1C<>mtilt of It and Another Is Found in His House Very Sick. A special dispatch to the Charlotte Observer from High Point. N. C.. says one of the saddest tragedies that ever occurred there happened Saturday night when a young girl uy the name of Hessle Thomassonville of Statesvllle died at the home of L)r. W. L. Vestal on account of an illegal operation which had been performed by I)r. W. L. Vestal last Tuesday night. The police were notified about the condition of the young girl just short time before she died and when they arrived at the home of Dr. Vestal they not only found the one who is now - dead, but also found another >oung girl who gave her name as May Owen from Lin wood, and who was in a serious condition, she nad also gone through the same operation. Saturday night about 11 o'clock Drs. Staion and McAnally were called to the home of Dr. Vestal to see I ilessie Thomasson and they at once saw that the girl was in a moat critical condition. They suggested to Dr. Vestal that the patient be taken ro the hospital for treatmeut and made the arrangements, but it was . oon learned that the girl was at that time in a dying condition and that 10 remove her would be only hastening her death. At about twelve o'clock she died after having a uumiwr of spasms. rWore she died she made a full confession to the physicians telling ulH>ut the operation and her treatment. May Owen, the other girl, was removed to the hospital by the policeman and her condition seems some better, but is yet regarded as serious. lit ssie Thomasson went there last Stat, sville without the knowledge of her father, to receive treatment from Dr. Vestal. She was induced to come here by a young man named Levy M ivnard of High Point who it is elaini.'H i? L .? %>iv ?unu n liu f^Ul III girl in trouble. MOJt KILLS NFtiltOFS. Vllcc^l They Murdered White Furnier In His Wa^on. Two negroes were lynched n*'ar Charleston, Mo.. Sunday afternoon for the murder of William Fox. a planter of Mississippi county. They were taken from the county jail by t la rise crowd of infuriated citizens, who broke dowa the doors with -ledge hammers shortly after four o'clock. The negroes were alleged to have shot Fox in the back while riding in -his wagon about two miles from town Saturday night. lie died after identifying his assailauts. The negroes approached Fox Saturday afternoon in Charlesun, where he was trading. They said they were working for a thresh,ag outfit near his place, and asked eimission to ride in his wagon. Between 7 and 8 o'clock he started tot lis home, six miles away, with tin negroes in the wagon. Two mile# from town one of theiu shot !'o.\ hrou.^h the back, and both searched Vs pockets. An approaching wagon a used them to rim. FOFND IH:AI? IIY TKACK. Supposed tbitt Young >lHn Was Kill e?l by Train. Itobert Wofford, aged 25, son ol dr. Frank Wofford, of Switzer, Spar tanbtirg county, was found dead Fri my morning beside the C. ami \V. C. til. o ld track, t.hree miles east ol Woodruff. It is supposed that h( viis killed Thursday night by a train here was a wound on the left side >t the head. The body was discov red by the engineer of a freight rain, which passed the place at 5 'clock. An inquest was heid by th? coroner. , * Hit Hi IhlUe | Hull. I*. K. M issergale, of Norwood, flu. n attorney, son of T. K. Massengale t man of considerable prominenct n the cotton world, was hit on tin head by a hatted ball at Harlem. 2 w.im uuvh ago. an i remlert'd un oust ions. Fears are entertainer hat ne will not recover. 1 4 *hil?l I'lny Fools Fatally. VVhi'e playing doctor, the 10-year old son of \V. S, Holcnmb, residini three miles from Fort l'ayne, l>e kalh ecuntv, Ala., Friday took down a hotth- of carbolic acid and ad minis tore i a hig dose to his ten-months old sifter. The baby died in a fe\ minutes. klrviUor Operator Killed. While operating a freight elevate in the candy factory ot Frank It loci s Mlanta, (5a., 1?. K. Skinner, age i '0. was causht between the car an , lirM Moor and crushed to de.it.h Fr f day. The young man's neek and or t of his arms were broken and the ei tire body badly mangled. SHOOTS HER HUSBAND. Woman Fires Bullet Almost Through HLs Neck. A dispatch from Douglas. Ga., says news has just reached that place of a shooting affair In the extreme northern portion of Coffee, county, in which Mr. Gaines Ellis, a farmer, was shot late Saturday afternoon by .his wife with a pistol, the bullet taking effect in the neck and it is said the bullet went practically entirely through the neck and that Ellis is in a serious condition. Owing to the distance of the tragedy from Douglas, it is impossible to get the full details, but from the best information obtainable, it seems that the difficulty grew out of domestic troubles. It is said that Mr. Ellis, for some tl.ne, has been ou too intimate relations with some women who resided a short distance from his house, that Mrs. Ellis had leurned of the relations and had warned Ellis to desist from such conduct, so Sunday afternoon Ellis ignoring his wife's feilings at>out the matter, went down td where the women lived and his wife procured a pistol and followed and the shooting is the result. It is not known whether the wife has been arrested. AUTOMOBILE RUN. Machines From All Over State to (lather at Charleston. Automobilists from all sections of South Carolina are preparing to move to Charleston for the good roads rally. which is to be held at the Isle of Palms on July 11!. There will be several delegations from the Piedmont section of the state. Representatives from that section will very likely mobilize in Columbia, and follow the seaahort highway to Charleston. The delegations from the Pee Dee section may take another route. A trophy cup has been offered in Charleston to the automobile association of any city in the state sending the largest number of machines to the rally. NHOKO HOY KILLS SISTER. Ends Dispute Over Meut by Using a Shotgun Fatally. On Thursday three young negroes, Henry McMaster, aged 13 years, and his two younger sisters, got into an altercation about some pieces of meat nreuared for th?* tnhlp it tH-o home in Chester. Henry demanded it all and then '.n his wrath seized a shotgun and poured the conteuts of it into the younger of his sisters. Klla McMaster, tearing away almost the entire left side and causing instant death. On the verdict of the coroner's jury the boy was arrested and lodged in jail in Yorkville. His ease will come before the court, which will convene on the second Monday in July. * (Hill. ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. Sliot by Companion W hile Boating on the Canal. Word was received at Kllzabe'd City, N. 0.. Friday morning of the accidental killing of Mary, the IL'year-old daughter of Philip Bray, ol Sligo, Currituck county, on Thursj day afternoon. The girl wv visit ' 11 g at her home of her uncle, 11. N. Bray, at Canal Hridze. She with a party of young people was out on the canal in a skiff. A boy by the name of Gray in the party was iho.#ii?i^ snakes with a shotgun which ace dentally discharged, the entire *'?avl entering tlie face and bodv of Mis.. Hrav, who died in terribly agony an f .hour afterwards. The young lady was prominently connected and very . popular. * f Prominent .Men Arrested. ; Resulting from the ambuscade and serious wounding of J. i 1. (Jivens, wealtdiy banker and mill man and . others of Laurel Hill, Fla., live promt ineiit citizens of Faleo, Ala., t Ii c j scene of the trouble, were arretted t late Friday and will be tried for at tempting to assassinate (livens and his companions, none of whom will die. Kale of Negro I'nknowii. ? Information front Columbia. Ala. :? is to the effect that Will Thomas, 11 i negro under arrest for attempted - criminal assault upon a young white 1 girl, was taken from the village jai ' last night by a moo. ilis fate is un known. The Columbia authorities refused to divuldge the young wo . man's name. 5 * Insane Murderer Kscapes. 11 Georne It. Warner, who murderet i- machinery for the Louisville & Nash i- ville, and was found insane. escape* v from the asylum for the Insane a Hopklnsville. Kv., Thursday nij;ht Wiw Suicide I'srk. ?r Pupposedly the result of a suleid ?. part, the bodies of N. A. Gammi d and Mrs. lictilah Marsh were foitn d Sunday in a boarding house conducl i- ed by the man's mother at Dnllui ?e Texas. Mrs. Marsh was a widow an a- was to have been married to Gan * mill in a short time. f j 4 GRASS A MENACE , ? Excessive Rainfall Has Rendered Ciltivatioo Impossible OVER THE COTTON BELT With KieldN Soaked in all the States hut Two, and Croiw Threatened by Holl Weevil in Several State*, the Situation Indicate* a Cotton Famine This Fall. The Memphis, Tenn., CommercialAppeal says: "Owing to excesstve rainfall east of the Mississippi river and in Arkansas and Louisiana cultivation over a large area was suspended during the week and grass has hppnmd a Vo.e ?Ke W * ? ? v.mmvv. * v/i *ur ytrsi development of the crop dry. *3rm weather Is imperative. In ?klahom? and Texas moderate to light rains relieved an Incipient drought. "The crop in those two States l? late and small but has begun to grow very rapidly and aside from its lacy of size there is no complain*., tlelds being in an excellent state of cultivation. Heavier and more general rains, however, would be very helpful. In Louisiana. Arkansas and Mississippi boll weevils are becoming more numerous and in the former State are reported as already at work on the cotton." The New Orleans report says the cotton market this week, opened a day later than usual, will be called upon first of all to discount what promised to be, when the market closed for the week last Friday night important weather disappointments. The forecast was for more rain in the eastern part of the cotton bell, where too much rain had already done much damage. If the rains continue until Tuesday morning they will overshadow in importance all other features of the market. The report on condition last week showed just how important the weather is getting to be. It is time now that the crop should be making fast and anything in the weather that prevents normal development of the plant, thereby threatening the yield, will have an immediate and marked effect on prices, all the more marked because of the semi-famine condition of supplies of raw cotton. Un-less manipulation out afresh in the July position it promises to be a typical weather market this week. The semi-famine conditions are expected to have their effect among mills in earnest before lopg, and of late there have lu>cn n.tn^ were about to start closing down in earnest shortly, as they have to do in every season like the present. The rumor was spread about last week that 5 8 mills had agreed to shut down four weeks during July and August and the trade will be waiting for continuation ol' this report this week. Developments of this sort may have the effect of oflsetlng to some exteut Uie bullish features of the market. The boll weevil situation will come in for its share of attention, for those who have made a study of the conditions in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, say that the first brood this season of the pest is Incubating in young boll and that it 1 is only a question of time before this brood makes its appearance by the millions and stirs up a new complaint among farmers, with consequent " alarming telegrams and letters to ' the main speculative centres of the 1 cotton world. 1 The extent of boll weevil depredations will determine in a great measure the yield of list in the three States named and during moif tbau one period this season boll weevil reports will have mneh to do in I shaping speculative opinion. The July deal in New York may I show activity and at all times the * trade will look for tenders from ac 111 a 1 shorts who as yet have made no very great effort to cover. Sooner or later sensational trading is iKiund I to take place in the July position I and operators in all three markets of the world will be extremely nervous until the trading takes place. f-'oumt Baby in flasket. 1 Like Moses of old, a young habv 1 was found near Moreauville, La., * Sunday night floating in a protected ' Willow basket among the rushes " along the banks of a bayou. In the i place of a ruler's daughter, a mer* chant of Moreauville overhauled the unusual craft and unsentimentally summoned the sheriff to make an Investigation in search of the mis1 creant parents. In addition to the - child the basket contained a botI tie of milk, a one dolar bill and a t flask of whiskey. Young Man in Trouble. A dispatch from Laurens to the e News and Courier says James V. II Wallace, clerk In the postoflie. was 1 fake Thursday afternoon to OreenI vllle by Deputy Sheriff Major, to he s. given a hearing before Cnited States d Commissioner Magill on a charge of 1-jtampering with letter mail, with no intent.