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-J>- -if- B M. O.v O 0.0 O 0,00 o o o o o o c c OUR SCHOOLS. PAPER NO. 1. BV I’KOF. WILLIAM H. HAND. N/.V/ v,s/ '■yV> vy V ,!» Our HchooU. To-day in South Carolina are to be found very few people who would, ad mit that they are unfriendly to popu lar education, and fewer, still who would admit that they are not friends- The people to our common schools, of the State have Just passed through a somewhat vigorous, political cam paign. In this, as in almost every such campaign, many of the candf- dates for office have taken occasion to declare their deep interest In the common schools. ^ The candidate "doth protest too much, methluks," but most of them are entirely sincefe in their declarations. Some of these men will soon occupy |>ositions which will enable them to demonstrate their interest in our schools, and their capacity for improving them. From the outside It would seem that very few of these mop* have made any careful analystttof the conditions of our schools, and certainly few have offered any definite, practicable plan for their permanent improvement. B.v no means do I intend to east any slur at these men. F’erhajHi It Is ask ing too much of- men busy with their own affairs and the affairs of the pub lic, to stop to study the problems of education—a field broad and rich'in vexatious (|uestions. Perhaps, too, those who have studied these pro- blems, and are familiar with the con ditions, have been remiss in not tell ing the people frankly what they see and know*. For fifteen years this writer taught ip the common schools of this State, and r for seventeen yearsr he has tried to study the conditions which make for good or for evil in the educational system of the State. During the patrt twenty-six months he has traveled more than thirty thousand miles In side the State, driven hundreds of miles thtOugh the rural.districts, and visited not far from'three hundred schools In the State. He claims no wider or richer knowledge of the con ditions than Is possessed by scores of his fellow-workers. Yet he feels that lie knows something of these condi tions, and fhat he owes (t to the peo ple to set these conditions frankly before them. ' ~ ^ Let me say at the o^set that I have no disposition to forget or to disregard the many good things in onr schools. Or To wlthold merited commendation anywhere, yet it Is not my purpose to tax the reader’s time and -patience with i>TaTIttlde Rlld empty eulogies, so fre<|iiciit!y indulged in by those who strive so diligently to blind themselves to onr patent weaknesses. Our schools have been vastly improv ed within recent years. We should rejoice at their growth. and v ^ver hon- or those" who have contributed to that growth. Hut we can not afford to stop at that. It would tie folly to assume that our schools, and our school system, are anything like per fect. Let us discover some of the glaring weaknesses, admit what we discover, and set ourselves resolute ly toward improvement. - Some of the most conspicuous weaknesses in our schools are these. 1. Lack of funds sufficient to main tain high-class schools; . 2. Beggarly salaries paid to teach ers: 3. Too many incompetent teachers employed In our schools;- 4. Short school terms, especilaly in the rural districts;. 5. Poor school houses and )ioor equipment; 6. Neighborhood jealousies and neighborhood quarrels; 7. Too many little half-supi>orted schools; K. Inadequate supervision of vil lage and rural schools; ' 8. Non-attendance and irregular attendance of the pupils; 10. The missing link—the high school. I wish to discus# these* features of our school system frankly. somejvJi&r fully, and altogetheg^^jnfsgfonately. I wish to Unvthlng captious oi »cal. ”1n these discussions, I beg to offer, as unobtrusively as I may, some suggestions as to reme dies. For he Is a poor pliyslcian who tells his patients that he Is sick,, but offers neither to tell him what the disease Is, nor to prescribe any reme dy. Lark of Funds. To maintain good schools requires money. They can not be run on ebullient sontimenf nor w 111 spasmodic charity keep them at a very high standard. Money is absolutely necessary to build comfort able school houses, to furnish th(se houses, to pay competent teachers, ami to keep the schools open nine months in the year. What is Soutli Carolina putting into her common schools, the training school of the fu ture citizenship of the State? In 1907, the State enrolled In the com mon schools 314,899 pupils, or about 18 per cent of her total population. Oft these pupils was spent $1,415,7241 or $4.50 per pupil. This $4:50 in cludes the expenditures on * school houses, furniture, apparatus, librar les, and teacberp' salaries. The aver- age attendance upon the schools was, of course, much lower than the en rollment. therefore the amount spent per pupil on the basis of attendance was larger—$6.37. In 1906. North Carolina spent $6.90 per pupil in at tendance; Georgia spent $7.45; Miss issippi, $8.01; Tennessee, $8.48; Vir ginia, $11,05; Florida. $11.30; Louis iana, $14:81; Main, $20.65; Mary land. $21.12; Wisconsin. $28.24; Minnesota, $30.19; New York. $47.40. . - In 1907, South Carolina spent for cgminon school education 94 cents per capita of her total population. In )6,<3«brgia spent 98 cents; Virgin* IMS; New York. $6.27. ;^—^ If Virginia has found that it requir es $11.05 per pupil to maintain her schools. Is it reasonable to assume that tfbuth Carolina can maintain good schools ou $6.37 per pupil? If - . of many human lives and the destruc- Maryland Is willing to invest $21.32^ : ’ per pupil in her schools, she must be satisfied with her investment for she has been increasing the amount from year^to year. The question at issue is not concerned with the relative wedlth of these States. The question is this; If It payrf to put $11.05 a year In the education of a Virginia boy, does not a South Carolina boy need or deserve more than $6.3 7 in Tia education. God has done hit, part by lift. South Carolina boy and girl; has the State done ita part? A'<.>’ -people will ajrr.lt that otir .school fund Is Insufficient. Hoc.’ are we to Increase It? Several plana have been offered, and several ways a.*e open. Some of them, however, do not appeal to men of experience. Not a few people Insist upon Increasing the school fund by private subscription. This" plan Is inadequate and rather vicious in Its effects. The public schools are supported primarily for the benefit of the State, rather than for the benefit of*tbe individual. If the support of the schools Is depend ent upon voluntary subscription, the less patriotic shirk their duty, and the burden falls upon the willing few. Besides, such support Is Irregular, unstable, and uncertain. Frequently Ifc^is proposed by a few to Increase the common school fund by direct appropriation from the State treasury. Unless such ap proprlatlon* were made upon the condition that each -district receiv ing its part should first gpiRke a specific local effort, the result would be hurtful, as the districts would soon come, to* look upon themselves benefiklarlrs o$ the State, and as ’• 2M9; $1.48; hava would cease to make any effort to help themselw-s. Only ft few years ago one house of the General Assemb ly passed a fiiil (knowing that It would fall to p'ass in the other house) appropriating $200,000 to the com mon schools. How much relief would such sum give to the schools? It would Increase the fund only 63 cents per pupil on last year's enroll ment, or $15.75 to a school of 25 pupils. An appropriation of $200,000 disbursed In such way as to require the districts to raise In the aggregate something like $400,000 in local tax es. would 1»c equitable and wise. I am at once reminded that this plan would not entirely relieve the strain in a few of the poorer counties, and I admit It.* Onr present plan of col lecting and apportioning the consti tutional 3-mill school tax is not a de mocratic one. That tax Is collected and apportioned by counties. Rome counties with poor land. lack of water power for mautifacturiug, and with no railroads to tax, ore at a decided (i'sadvantage. It would have been un just to have collected and apportion ed that 3-mlll tax as a State lax. but It would have been Just and demo cratic to have made two mills a coun ty tax, ns at present, and have made the other mill a State tax. Then the stronger counties would have been ooatrlbwUM a well-guarded tax for the support of the weak counties. So far in this State atleast. local taxation has proved to be the best means of tnereaslng the school fund. It Is equitable. It Is stable, and it Is eertaln .until, a majority of the people vote It off. It compels the unwilling few to bear their proportionate part *»f a legitimate and necessary com munity expense. The district which 'evies a local tax knows just where “very dollar comes from, and just where every dollar goes.. Moreover. It Is usually not very difficult to levy a local school tax. if there is only some safe person to lead, for as a rule the wealthiest persons in the district are the readiest to Vote a local school ♦ ax. Personally 1 am confident that the most just, equitable, and reasonable way to Increase our school fund Is to Inaugurate a sensible and hones! sys tem of returning our property for tax ation. When you compare the amount of school tax raised In South Carolina on each $100 of taxable property, with that of other States, the showing Is very good. But when you stop to consider That our property has been returned at perhaps twenty-five per cent of its true value, the showing is not good. The habit of returning a piece of property at one-fourth its true value, then taxing it at 4 mills, instead of returning it ht something like its true value", the taxing It at one mill to raise the same amount of money, is not only childish business oraetice, but ft. is a training school in dishonesty. Men who offer to return their property at something like Us true value are actually laughed-at for their artlessncss. Civic honesty must decline uftder such vicious system. Were the real and personal proper- *.y in this State returned at something llko nlnet^per cent (and why should tt norT) of Us true value, the 3-mtil sttilTbT tax alone • would practically double our entire school revenue. In 1^07, the land outside the Incorporat ed towns in the prosperous, produc tive, and wealthy county of Ander son was returned for taxation at an average of $6.51 per acre. Marlboro, one of the fnest farming counties in the whole South, returned her land at an average of $5.28 an acre. Or angeburg la Justly proud-of her farm land, but she returned hers at $3.54 an acre. Williamsburg has some poor land, but she has some of the finest fields of cotton and tobaeeo to be -found IbtW' State; bn the tax books her land is rated at an average •f $3.09. In tbeie very counties I CAUSE OF FLOODS. WORK FOB APPALACHIAN PARK BILL RECALLED. Present Flood Might Have Been Pre vented Had the BUI Been 1 hissed When it Was First Introduced^ The Washington correspondent of The Nows and Courier says the loss tion of thousands of dollars' worth of property throughout the Southern States because of the floods now pre vailing would probably not be wit nessed to-day had Congress passed the White Mountain and Appalachian forest reserve LIU a few years ago, for which so hard a fight has been wagedJOn the other hand,such condi tions as arc now being seen will neces sarily continue until the lawmakers of the land realize that only with the paseage of such a bill and the. conse quent holding of the waters to flow off into their outlets In a natural way ^ill such terrible floods stop. The fight that was made at the last session of Cougrese and at the two or three sessions before by ad vocate’s of the White Mountain and Appalachian Park reserve bill Is well remembered. Led by Iteprcsetatives Currlert of Vertnoutrand Lever, of South Carolina, everything possible was done to have such a bill euacted Into law, but even with the great fight that was made for Its success could not be had. Just as It seemed that success was in sight Representa- ive Bartlett, of Georgia, adroitly took the matter out of the hands of the House commltttec on agriculture by a resolution placing It with the com mittee on the Judiciary, giving the latter committee full power and au thority to 1 go Intb the question of the bill’ constitutionality It was ar first believed that Mr. Bartlett was favor able to the measure and really de- slrefl to Test the constitutional ques tions so that such matter could not be raised on the floor of the House when it came to a vote, but it was subsequently discovered that his pur pose was'to effectually delay action for the session* The judiciary com mittee took up the Currier bills, and after considering them tor some time passed a resolution to the effect that if the purpose of the bills were to further navigation then it would be constitutional, otherwise not. That was a step * in the passage of the measure, but so complicated was the situation towards the closing days of he session that nothing could be done towards securing Its passage then. The trouble about these bills, how- rrrr, which hag liffn of mer” conse- THK PA8TE1R TREATMENT. 6IG iOSS BY FIRE. CZAR THE RICHEST MONARCH. How the Patient is Infiorolatcd Against Hydrophobia. Many have friends, or at least know of people who have received the Pasteur treatment as preventa tive of hydrophobia, but few with the exception of the medical fraternity, are familiar with the treatment they receive. To Pasteur, the\emftient French bacteriologist, Is dueVhe pre ventative treatment that is now ad mitted to be entirely successful in the great majority of cases. After long experiments on animals he demon strated th|U innoculat ent with a week vlru(£from s ftn animal that has died from liydropb parts immunity from)i virus of great virulence. - On this principle' a recently bitten patient Is inuoculated hypcrdennical- ly with a virus prepanMl from the spinal cord removed from a rabbit Infetted with hydr<?phobia r - ^d whose virulence has been attenuated by being kept for fourteen days In a dry atmosphere after the time infec tion (at the expiration of this time the spinal cord would be entirely in nocuous). On the second day the patient Is treated with virus prepar ed thirteen days before, ott the third day with twelve-day old virus of suc cessively increasing strength, until on the fourteenth day he receives virus of full strength that can lie borne without inconvenience, the system having been rendered immu ne by the treatment described. Many thousand cakes are treated every year In various laboratories throughout the world, and few cases are ou record where a successful cure Jias not been effected. SEVERAL STORES BURNED BRANCHV1LLE MONDAY. IN The Money Loss In Said to be lie- tween Fifty and Sixty Thousand Dollars. ABOUT FEEDING HORSES. Part of a Speech of one of the South's Greatest Experts In This Line. quence than the action of Mr. Bart lett, is the fact that Speaker Cannon even in the face of the strogest ap-„ peals, has absolutely refused to per mit them to come to a vote. Dozens of delegate# from both the New Eng land and Southern States called on him publicly and privately during the last session of Congress and .pleaded with him to yield In his position and aliow the matter to ccffiie to a vote; to let the Representatives of the peo ple express their views on the floor $f the House by their votes, hut nothing could change him. Not even his best friends in Congress could have the least possible influence upon him. He not only told those Represctatlves who begged him to let the mafler come to a vote, but the various dele gations also, that as long as he was Speaker he would recognize no ope for that purpose. That was the. situa tion at the close of the last session of Congress. Representatives Lever and Currier were pledged to their poeple to secure the passage of the bill at all hazards, and the failure to secure favorable action cannot be placed to their account. The lives that are being lost every year In the South by reason of the floods that sweep through the moun tain country Into the streams of the lowlands aye Southern lives, but the milions of dollars of property that go to destruction represent the Interests of people in every part of the United States. It is not only Southern money that goes into the South's cotton mills bleacheries and other manufacturing industries, but Northern money and Eastorrn money Is invested there also. It Is not known just what line of procedure the two Congressmen most ly interested In this measure _ wMll adopt at the coming ssesion of Con gress, to effect Its passage, if possible^ but it is reasonable, to assume that they will not only continue their w’ork of former years In the Interest of the White Mountain and Appalach ian Park country, but that they will redouble their efforts along this line and bring all the pressure to hear on Speaker Cannon to have him yield h!| position and allow the matter at least to eorue squarely and fairly before Congress for a vote. — The following Ls .slipped from The State, being a part of the speech re cently mad* by Judge Henry Ham mond of Augusta and B^ach Island. Judge Hammond is recognized as an expAt on the subject of feeding stock. "When the farmers of the south learn to use more of their cotton pro ducts, learn to feed their horses and stock with cotton seed products. It i will mean millions of dollars to the south, pert of which every farmer will save for himself. No report has ever shown that injury’ to a horse has been a result of feeding cotton seed meal. Feed It every day. That's what I do. It Is not a hot or a cold climate feed. Feed not less than one pound nor more than three, the amount to be determined by the age, size and w - ork of the animal. Not only is It the most nutritious food operations so as to secure a greater yr»om» airtw the rilTstlnQ “nHlwet gain from the farm, it is noces- general health and good appearance of the animal. Feed Cotton See^- Meal with any thing you ever heard of a horse or mule eating—corn, whole: corn, cracked.; ensilage; bran fcc. Don't stick to any one food. Give a variety. Change as the price changes. It is always best to 'feed hard working stock ground (not too fine) feed Cotton seed meal is fed to best ad vantage when thoroughly mixed with the other portion of the grain part of the ration. If you know what number of pounds of grain will maintain your animal, reduce this two pounds for every pound of meal you feed^b*'*,. To Illustrate tljls,—If you «?n giving him 14 pounds of corn, give h4ra now only 10 pounds of corn and 2 ponfitj.s, t <rf cotton seed meal. He will soon improve and do Ixrtter work than ever before.” SEES DARK CLOUD. Hotaon Predicts War With Japan Within Ten .Years. Chicago wil! be Japan's objective and that city will be the center of tremendous military operations In the Americau-Japanese war and that is bound to come within the next ten years, a Wording to Captain Richard Pearson Hobson. The captain's latest prediction of war was given out Tuesday night on his arriv al at Chicago on his way to Wiscon sin, where he will lecture at a chau taqua on ‘ America's Lack of Defen ce." ‘‘Japan has been preparing for war with the United States for years," he said. ‘‘She has contracted, for the building of 11 Dreadnought battle ships In England and other foreign countries under fictitious names. She has replenished her financial coffers and has money to burn and will make fight Inside of, I will say. six years. T "Japan is ready." continued the captain, "and the United States is not. Canada can easily be entered, and through the Great Lakes to Chi cago .from the north, and through SHAH'S TROOPS DEFEATED. l oyal Soldiers Suffered Heavy Casual- ti«s in the Conflict. A special dispatch received at St. Petersburg from Teheran says that It is reported from Tabriz that Satar Khan has inflicted a decisive defeat on the troops of the Shah, in which the government soldiers lost 800 men kllletL and wounded. Civil war Is raging anew In Tabriz province. Mexico from the south their troops would Invade the west, while their battleships would challenge the sea board.” la the course of his address Hob son referred to an interview with President Roosevelt during which he said the chief executive bad indicated bis belief that defensive steps should be taken by thej^fflted States. This statement had a sequel the tlop pf the dfilerview at the white house. given out ■bow* land not, tin for $1 M# IB counties Is a school district contain ing nearly 45.000 acres of land, yet the «Mre real and personal property of the^district is rettH-ned at $100,* 000. What would a 4-mill school tax mean to that district? Increasing the tay levy while we reduce the valua tion of our property reminds one of the policy of the master who under took to punish bis thievish coachman by periodically staling back from the what the coachman had tram Us mister. William H. Said. Cirotfna. # Wive* of Striker* Shot. Tn a strike riot ot Dunmire, Va.. Wednesday evening Mrs. Adam Ka- valko and Mrs. Anna Cordtlacb. wiv- of miers. were^hot while the wi- men were standing on the back porch of the Kavalko home. 4 " ft. fs net xnown whether the wounds were in- Mcted BY shots fired by State police •*r strlXcrn. A big fire visited Branchville on last Monday morning at two .o’clock. Several of the moat prominent-store* in the town were destroyed, entailing a. loss of fifty or sixty thousand dol lars. The origin of the fire Is not known. It originated in the store of Dukes & Co., and in a short time a, ,j* be ing discovered thef store and its con tents were in ashes. Mr. A. F. H. Dukes, who managed , this business, says ills stock of goods was worth $16,000 and his building $7,000, with insurance to the amount of $13,000. H. Berry Co., next door to Dukes & Co., had stock of $6,000; loss $4,500, insurance $3,600. F. F. Bellinger, loss $6,000, Insur ance $4,500. Mr. Bellinger occupied the upstairs of the building that he kept store in, as a residence, and he says that his loss is about $1,000 with no insurance. J. B. Henderson, loss partial, his building saved by hard work. His beautiful stock is damaged' by fire and water about $4,000, covered, fey in surance. fvfei Clifton A. Dukes owned fhe build ing occupied by H. Berry Co., and F. F. Bellinger; his building was a total loss. The building was a total ioss. The building was valued at $6,000 with $3,000 insurance. P. C. Dukes sustained a loss of $1,000, covered by insurance. L. A. Gardner lost $50, no Insurance. Black's Pharmacy lost $400 or $500, covered by insurance. l Luckily there was very little wjnd blowing ot the time of the fire. It Is due largely to thfafact that the whole business section of the* town would have burned down. Emperor of Rusafe is Paid One Mil lion Dollars Every Other Week. Considerable interest will be Creat ed by the forthcoming discussion in the Prussian Parliament, or Ladtag, of the Kaiser's request for an increase of salary. Wilhelm II, as German emperor, receives an annual grant $f only $450,00^from the State; His salary as King of’Prussia is more in keeping with his needs,yhe amount ingthe twenty FASTEST IN WORLD AMERICAN WARSHIP RILL SUA* PASS LUSITANIA IN SPEED. being $3,500,000. years of his reign ror has receive^ wealthy subjec rip* ftarman empe- legacies from la respeet he monarchs, for the extent of cash, andT t&tes have hard ai ‘ fine <&i •THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.” ('oilain Rule* Mml Govern the F.»mi- «*r Mho Wishr-s to Succeed. At an early period it was found uocessai> to evolve from the mas* of ethical teaching a few general rules for living, called "The Ten Com mandments," by which a man could moral without going tnrough a be course In theology. Just so. in order to instruct the average farmer how to successfully conduct his * farm •vary to first deduce Trom The mass of agricultural teachings a few gen eral rules of procedure. They are called "The Ten Commandments of Agriculture,' by the practice of which a men may be a good fanner In any state without being a graduate from a college of agriculture. I 1) Prepare a deep and thorough ly pulverized seed lied, well drained: break In the full to the depth of 8. 10 or 12 inches, according to the soil, with implements that will not bring too much of the. subsoil to the sur face (the foregoing depths should be reached gradually.) (2) Use seed of the best variety, intelligently selected and carefully stored. ' » (2) In cultivated crops, give the rows and the plants lu the rows a space suited to the plant, the soil and the etimatcP *-— ■*- ( 4 ) Use Intensive tillage during the growing period of the crops. . (5) Secure a high content of hu mus in the soil by the use of legum es. barnyard manure, farm refuse and commercial fertilizers. - (6) Carry out a systematic crop rotation with a winter cover crop on southern farms. (7) Accomplish more work in a day by using more horse-power and better Implements. (8) Increase the farm stock to the extent of utilizing all the waste products and Idle lands of the farm. (9) Produce all the food required for the meu and .animals on the farm. "Cl 0T'Keep an account of each farm product, in order to know from which the gain or loss arises. S. A. Knapp. Washington. D. C. ) live, in a cm |. m , of/he W.-st i Imposed. 1 '■ hat may lenR is the luckiest he has benefit nearly $5,000, in addition, been left to The Kaiser's mode of living is one of unparalled magnificence. He is a connoisseur in the art of choosing apparel and in the art of wearing it to the best advantage, and his .talt- or’s bill runs into thousands of dol lars. His majesty possessc| ^ ( , rt castles, palaces and'count. to enable him to llv^. lu a i ||jj one each week should feel so dj, travels nothing that or and impressiveness to his is overlooked, and here many uer- mans see an opportunity for their king to economize; they would prefer him to omit some of the pomp and ceremony which surrounded him when Journeying, in his own realm. One of the disadvantages undet which the German emperor labors is that he must provide for his family out of his own Income. In England, on the contrary, eac)z member of tht royal family receives a yearly grant of $500,000 or over from the State, while King Edward himself gets $2,- 3 50,000. Of this sum barely one- fourth goes into his majesty's own purse, as he defrays ‘he salaries and expends tn connection with the royal- - house-hold, and also provides pension for his auporanuated servants. The Czar Is the richest monarch in the world. In his case the crown pro perties actually belong to him. These Implral domtns Include more than 20,000.00<f acres of cultivated land> and Improved forests, as well as sev ral Siberian mines. A state gran of $7,500,000. added to his othei revenues, brings the Czar’s gross in come up to $40,000,000 a year. Out of this sum. however, he has to beai all the'expenses of his great estate* No data of any kind are available re gardlng the amount of clear profit which the Czar received, but he ha» $25,000,000 a year for his private use.' Naval Official* are Keeping Secret the Plan* and Specifications Which are Submitted In Confidence. Bids for the construction of ten torpedo boat destroyers, everyone of which must be* Tit least four knots faster than the Lusitania and equlp- ed with- apparatus for burning oil as well as coal, and which are to be the largest ever built for the Ameri can uavy, will be opened at New York this week. These vessels are to cost $800,000 each, and for every knot that the ves- selsipso on any of their trial trips un/T Vvitantract speed the build- ar* hav^to forfeit $60,000 of • ()U I eecact'price t<Uthe government, e plans and itegjfcati 011 * vessels are beingjkcpt secret he Navy Vjes*imqai, and they verc submitted" ia^ewifldence to the bidders. It is known, however, that turves^ sejs must have * displacement of at least 742 to||B« and that they must ittaln on tbe!r,triffl tests a maximum *peed oT HM knots sn hour, a speed that wifil a^gee them among the fast- 3st war /raft ever extended in this or iny J y pthcr country. General’s Wife Murdered. The wife of Major General Chas. Edward Luard. retired officer of the Royal Engineers, was murdered in ♦he woods near London, England, last week. Robbery Is believed to have been the motive as her jewel- ■*ry Tabulated uent of the County State vote will be fennCtm page five. PASSENGERS KILL HER BABY. Telephone Pole Falls on Cnr Causing Panic—Infant Trampled Upon. Strap hanging played a part in th« death of William Finley, five monthi old. The baby was being carried by hli mother. Mrs. Annie Finley, who wa* forced to hang to a strap in a crowd ed \jty-flrat streetcar, which sht eN «yl on August 21. ^ /had traveled only a short dls- (j. Vben a telephone pole fell, st ihg the roof of the car. Pasaen gers were throw'n into a panic and before Mrs. Finley could get out of thealsle she was knocked down and the baby was trampled upon. Efforts to save the life of the child st the Provident Hospital proved un availing. and he died. SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED Ten (to Out in Boa* »nd Only Three Return.. WA? ANTED TO LYNCH A FIEND. The Colored People at Holly Hill (tot Aroused. The colored people In and around Holly Hill were very much excited on last Saturday. Frank Johnson, a neg gro who criminally assaulted a young negro girl, about a mile from the town one week before, was arrested Saturday and brought to Holly Kill for preliminary hearing. The streets were full of negroes during the day and the threats to lynch the man were so open that unusual precati tions were taken for bis safety. He was taken from the small and Inse cure guard house at "night and placed in the depot, where a strong armed guard kept vigilant watch during the following day. when a severe yepudLu. JilSbt, no one being allowed to ap- proach the- depot tnrcitaHenged,. and as early as possible on Sunday morn ing he was taken to Monck’s Corner. There seems to be no doubt of the fiend's guilt Wbett B ib«B spends all his odd beurs puttering arbutd his boure the rbmA efibirt to •»ry hit Seys It I* Not True. The Toledo Times, an independent mornig paper, published an interview with Senator Foraker, in which he ■denies In positive terms that he and Candidate To(t had become friends and that be would take the stump for the presidential nominee. Foraker, according to the Times, declares that be baa been insulted and throw* doff* the (autlet to Taft* At Deer Isle. Maine, seven summer visitors out of a party of ten were drowned by the capsizing of a 35- foot sloop in Penobscot Bay. off that island, Tuesday. The drowned are: Miss Alice Torro. Washington. C. Miss Eleanor Torro, Washington, D. C. Miss Kellogg. Baltimore. Lutle Kellogg, Baltimore. Mrs. Lucy S. Craw ley Phtlodclphla. Miss Elizabeth G. Vans, Mount Holyoke Seminary. Mass. Jason C. Hutchins, Bangor. Maine. Tacoma Chosen. Tacoma, Wash., has been selected for the next convention of the Span ish War Veterans to meet. ^ CLASSIFIED COLUMN Ranging from 75 to 400 Reasonable prices Fas. - Box 7, Thomas* Me, Ga. FOR SALK—Common building brick, red color, Immediate delivery. Price* upon application. Camdea Free* Brick Co., Camden, K. C. FOR RALE—One 5 horse power Blakeelee Gasoline Engine. Cost over $400. Will take $lftl» for It. $50 repairs will get It In good con dition. Apply to Jas. L. Sims, Or- angebiirg, A. C. TEACHERS—TRUSTEES. We secure schools for teachers and have many excellent vacancies. We recommend teacher* to trustees and sell school furniture "of all kinds. Write. Souther* Teach er*’ Agency, Columbia, S. C. WANTED—Clerks, cotton buyers, farmers, warehousemen and oth ers to learn grading and classify* ing cotton In our sample rooms, or through correspondence course. Thirty day scholarship completes you. American Cotton College, Milledgeville, Ga. 3?^ Square Feet Floor Space Covered With Pomps, Packing, Polleys, BeHtif, Pipe, Fittings, Valves,-Etc. . . . WRITE FOR PRICES . .. tr * Southern States Supply Company COLUMBIA. 3. C. If It’S Gibbes "Portable” GIBBES v - — .: It’s Good! ® Utett Modal. A “TBlUMPH"mm P*r®d wlthold on**. Hard Wo ~ food A aoney-maker indeed. Qalekly per* for U- telf. Write. Next Week! SmootbMt Action. . « Ess’vjr.T Watch . This • CsrHage. ••ltd ateel Track. want. Stttes lUcUaery C*, J m PIANO AND ORGAN KCONOMY. If you are Interested in tha pur- base of a PLANO or an ORGAN, we vant to sell you one. Don’t think you muat go to aom* nail order house to buy a low pric 'd piano or organ; nor outside of touth Carolina to get the best piano »r organ. We have a great variety >f grade*, and all styles, at prices 'bleb cannot fall to Interest you. •Ve are manufacturers factory re- iresenutives for several of the argest and most famous makers of ilanos and organs. We take old Instruments in ex- hange and make most liberal terms •f payment to those who wish to •uy on time. No house—quality pi •ianos and organs considered—can mdersell us. Twenty-four years ot air deallngin Columbiaand through- mt South -Carolina is uur reference. ind guarantee. Write us at once for catalog price ind terms. Malone's Mu*k House. Columbia, S.C. Piano* and Organ*. WANTED. acres. terms. WANTED—Pine log* bought for cash. For particulars address Monitor Lumber Co., Sumter, H. C-. Sellers of "Gibbes Guam teed eiiluery,*11 kinds ^ 10X1»0, COLUMBIA, S. 0. The American All-Wrought Split Steel Pulleys. Tke Pulley Tht AD Wait. STOCK. WE CARRY A Alao cany t large Shafting. Hangers, Be! •tan you might wish in thin in the market, writms STANDARD Vv .imw