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OUR SCHOOLS. FAPCT WO. 7. 4 BY PROP. WILLIAM H. HAND. Th« Court* of Study—There is take to teach all thene books to any •mail but turbulent class of overwlac one child In the allotted time would writer* who periodically belabor the make pId' / 'S(Si , rateg catch hla breath In the first case It would seem that the course given was measured by The physical endurance of the teach- public achoola. In their nightmares they »e« thousands of tender children murdered or maimed in the public schools, and give vociferous utter ance to bo much wild nonsense that they have but one effect—making people refuse to heed them even when they point out some real de fect. Some of these writers have warned us against one great evil which we have gone on Ignorlng- that of an overcrowded course of study. To be brief, some years ago our educators realized the peffort, of our common school course of study; confined almost exclusively to the three R's. A just demand was made for an enriched .course, giving a wider range of subjects to th'. pupils. A number of subfects ha _ been added. Sow. In order to en courage Individual initiative, I take It, the State Board of Education ha> never prescribed a maximum or i mlnimUm number of subjects for an., course. Instead It has adopted tex' books covering a rather wide rang of subjects, and grouped these ini' yearly grades, leaving each school t< make up a course or courses fror this list. The building of a well-balancei’ course of study is the work of ar Comparatively few teacher lay claim to that stage of fitness Yet each teacher, or at least each principal, experienced or Inexperi enced, rets about to make his ow. course. Theories. | re ju dices, an’ tastes begin to clash for.the mastery One teacher Is an arlthmatic crank' and his course has but little e1-< In It; another's favorite subject I* grammar, and he makes his pupil analyze and parse everything in sight; another has no tartc for go ography, and he practically omltr It; another "dotes on'^_poetry, and the whole, school Is put to memoriz Ing and reciting gems: while a lot o r thoronsh-golng teachers who tak^ everything literally, put the whole adopted list Into one course, and give it to every pupil In the school. A great deal of Ignorant and un just criticism Is made against the frequent and useless change of te/t. books It would be neltner wise nor defensible to have a child use th ■ same reader through two or thr>e grades, or to use the same geog raphy through the 4th. 5th and 6tV grade, for Instance: If the book 1 suited to his Advancement when h begins U. it Is reasonable to say that It ia not suitable two or three years later In his life. And If a teacher war* to keep the HrtM of rmte -*rC these watchful ’ guardians of the schools In a fourth reader, for In stance. for three years, this samo. guardian would make the columns of the local newspaper smell of sill ers—ten teachers pitted against ten sets of children. In the second case the physical endurance of the teach ers was no limit—four teachers pit ted Igal nil Ten sCrt W children; I am far from advocating only the three K’s In the common schools, but our schools are undertaking too.much In the quantity of work and the kind of work. School work must be cir cumscribed by time, space, and th' 1 ability of the pupik Take the 8th grade course already mentioned. Of he eleven texts prescribed, nine ar • o be pursued at the same time, it Is no figure of speech to say that t a child’s tlmo. Is the dividend of v long dlvlslon.y'tjie quotient, or re-' Milt, must be small. For Instance, n the first two years of a child's chool life the schools vf*ry properly evote much! time and energy trr oral eadlng. But by the time he reaches he fifth grade, so many things an rowded upon him that he does but Ittle oral rending while under In- tructloh—a few minutes each dav, 'erhaps. Henoc when he reaches he high school his oral reading I. carcely Intelligible, and he Is often •nable to get through from the prin' *d page. Indeed, many a college indent and not a few -teachers lh Mir common schools can not read 's they should rend on entering the high school. These crowded courses of study have another fatal weakness In the -'amo school and In the same classe-i 's a wide range of ability, taste, an 1 'nportunlty* among the pupils. The '>rl?ht and precocious mind, the slug gish hut retentlve mind, and the dull mind are found side by side. The ’'uplL-of robust body and vigorous •health, the one of feeble body and letlcate health,' and the one w|*n ■*mple time for every task and the one with scant time for anv task ell so^to the same school The uc- oardonablo sin of the schools Is t > hunch them together, give them the same work, and require all to mcn<- ore up to a common standard Go 1 made them In different molds, amt It Is useless for the schools to trv *o Ignore the differences. It Is un natural and It Is wrong. To march abreast twenty-five children In on* 1 grade up to a given dead-line^. V nefther possible nor desirable.• Chi'- dren, with diverse abilities, tastes and ppiiortunltles thould not be r- "ulred To progrHJs* with even Ht:*i> CROOK Convicted and Sent Up For 15 Years in the Pen. SASSED THE JUDGE Who Added Five Years More to 1 the *Ten Years Already Given Him for Talking Hack at His Honor-—The Prisoner SeUdt'to Be. a Hardened iniinal. Samuel K. Williams, alias Janies P Kelly, alias Oakland Sammy; alias Sam Raymond, yeggman and burglar, after making a well planned attempt to escape from the Charleston Jail on Tuesday night In the midst of his trial in Charleston for carrying but- glar's tools, faced Judge Prince Wednesday .morning in the court of general session, after the Jury had brougjit In a ve¥(!lct of guilty, and was gjlven sentence of 10 years and one month at bard labor In the State penitentiary. Sullen ard pen-isting to the last .that hjf gpllt had not. been proved Williams asked Judge PFffice w iy hla honor did not give, him the ilniit while he was about It. "Bring Williams back to the stan<y ordered the Judge, as the prisoner had stepped down. "I am going to reform your sentence, Will iams,'’ announced his honor. "I sen- fence you to lo years at hard labor in tile State penitentiary.” I'nder a heavy guard of deputies Williams slouched back lo the pris oners' room, apparently eased In mind about his sentence. At half-past 6 o'clock Wednesday plclon points to a white man re cently sept enced tOTbe gang for va- grancy, a stranger here who has been sick for the past two days and stayed In the Jail. * ’ ‘ Williams used a picklock not yet found to open the lock which held down the.celt lever to.let him Into the cage. get out of the ceil cage. he'Sawed through the lock ring on the cage door outside with a stud saw made from a corset rib, And to unlock the corridor-door that ad mitted him into the main hallway to the trap door he used an -Inge ulously contrived w'ooden key that worked to perfection. Taking .‘il.- canvas cell hammock, he cut anitoie it Into strips and knotttd a stout rope. Wrenching off a piece of Iro , from Ills washstand, he bent It into POST CARD VOTE. OF NEW YORK WORLD SHOW - _ ' ' -T' LARGE IJBMOCRATIC GAINS. Deformed Idiot. A dispatch from'' Columbia to The today may be materially chanced N®* 8 •od Couytersajrst ern< office has so far received no notlfl- Similar Change in AH the States Would Sweep Bi^anTTnto the W hite House on a Democratic Tidal Wave. The New York World last Sun day morning published, a forecast v * ft of the^ presidential election, that should carry comfort to every Dem ocrat who reads and carefully weighs its details. The World does not pre- the shape of the letter S and had.-JlUct Bryan's election, but the result those of the lenders of the taro par ties and not of the World. They reflect The conditions aa rievred by those leadcra three weeks before election, presenting the first outline of the work of forming the lines of battle. The- condition That exist during the three weeks remaining of the campaign, and the figure? may be revised In many Instances that cannot now be anticipated.. The registration of voters has Just begu-i lu up-state counties. "The totals of the majorities iu the fifty-seven counties above the Bronx show estimated majorities In 52 of them for .*ughes aggregatjpg 1 13.050 aiJflr majorities la the other hook attached to the rope, by which he could grip the edge of the trail door above h-Bfi in me main h,»l! and pull himself Into the loft. A tiny three-sided file was found on him with which he made the 8-a.»- teeth. He must have worked for hours or, hls bob, but Captain Oradlck, leav ing him at midnight and coming back at 5:30, did noC’glve the yegf- ITtnan time o perfect .us escape.—i. e p'an was to make his way to *Ue roof and find or saw out an openine and then let himself down Info t.V Jail- yard and scale the wall with hir rope and hook. He carried alon* two extra hammocks to lengthen hi- 1 A assistant Jailer R1 ce. The steel saw used by William." is only about five inches long, with some three Inches of teeth cut into one edge on the corset stay or rib The key used to unlock the corridor door la of hickory, with one end rounded for the stem and pin, Th 11 ward is made of two pieces of w-oou closely fitted Into a' sllt_cut Into the stem and tied with cord. The ward and stem were wffxed'. It is of its postal card poll Is an encour aging sign- -the most encouraging prospect the o Democrats have had since 1892, when Grover CleyeianL was elected— The fairuess- and Impartiality of ante-election polls of the New York World arc never questioned, and they are J’ust as complete as It Is possible to make them. And this particular poll shows a plurality In New Yoik State of only jo.OOO-votec for Tnfy me Republican nominee. Fifteen thousand votes plurality for Taft, as against 175,000 votes plurality for Roosevelt four years ago.! The canvas was made by sending out thirty-five thousand postal cards to voters in the five boroughs of 7 Y> ll 1 U iwi LI oLviu w v I v- wciA%rv«» k » morning when (/aptaln (Jeadick, th- i thou(tht that Williams or a confed- through such dlgprse subjects mathematics. lif¥fwp,ftgo, history,* an-l drawing. If a boy can do the lan guage work of the fith grade, but Is prepared for onlv the 4th In ma’b phur In declaiming against the out- 1 ematlcs, put* him Jurt where he b rage (then fall to slur 'hls name.) lifte-l to go "Oh. he would mo On the other hand. ncaaV of our fit Info my program " shvh sonv- schools do needlessly tax the pat- one! Then make the program fit tb 1 * rons for hooka, and burden the chU- boy. The possibility of doing thl- dren with books. Let us give con- |* one of the great advantages that crets cases: I have Just examined the small country school has over the published con rs* of study In a th" closely graded school, ten-grade school In one of our towns. There Is another thing which n» 'd« In that course are prescribed fifty- to be dinned Into the ears of oprlcp five separate texts, exclusive of cony —both teachers and patrons-._th<r books, drawing books, scratch pads, p la folly for a school with nTu^ etc. In the school sre ten teachers, grades and two teachers to under- la another ten-grade school, with take to do what a school with ‘bi.ne four teachers, there are sixty-four grades and six tioaohers acnomplfsfler. texts prescribed. In the first men- The two-teacher school mav be th- 1 tloned school there are ten sepa- tetter school within Its limitation.-, rate texts required In the seventh but tt must keep wlhtn thoKC llmi grade; In the second mentioned tatlons A one-horse fArmer w-ho school eleven texts are given in th' would claim to be able to grow a- eighth grade. * 1 - «—sjnanv crops and ns large rr >ps as a Every child ought to have the best four-horse farmer would grow, woul 1 obtainable book. In every, subject h-* be lanubed at. Little David con'd pursues, and he ought to have all not fight In big Saul's heavy and the books he needs—books suited cumbersome armor, but with a slln-t to hls age and advancement, but 1 and a pebble he did effective work protest that the above mentioned WILLIAM H. HAND, courses are out of reason. To under- Fnlverslty of South Carolina. ailer, went to pay Williams a morn ing call he found the cage door and 'he corridor door open. The blr 1 had flown. Captain 1 Gr^dlck had taken every precaution that he could think of, warned and taught by ex perience. Here the yeggman had go: awayr undir his very Oyes, as mysterious ns nightfall. How cculd the man have escaped with apparently not a' tool to help him? * Before doing anything else Cap tain Gradlck ran down from the "West wing of the third floor, where Wili ams cell whs located, to the ja i, yard*to look for traces of an escap-- ivCr the high Jail wall. He found" ho evidence that the man had scale 1 the wall, and so made a thorougn search of the lower floor of the Jab \o WtTIlaniB could h* sighted. Then he captain returned to the empty ell of^ffhe yeggman to look for •lothes. . BANK CLOSES. SAYS CHARGES ABE TRI E. Cftshicr Kills Himself With a —. In His Barn. Gun A special from Bradford Ark., says Following the closing of tho Bradford State Bank and issuance Healey Heard High Official Say Keotc —~ WUI Get Job. Tfie national Democratic commit tee has issued a ataterneiN quotini Timothy Healey, president of St a , .. , tlonary Firemen, as ^authority for of a warrant yesterday for the arrest * t tho al egat on that Dane J. hoef> had been promised by tho president appointment as commissioner gen eral of Immigration Ip return for that labor leader's support of Taft. of tho cashier. H. Drennan,who was alleged to he short In hls aMpun*8 to the extent of I1JL.000. Dr^nan s dead body was found In the barn * B ^°K 1 fK ,0< * ay TJ" T* 10 national committee quQtes Mr. h, p,« „ mi,,,™, 9 — ** * was ou - ^ "j was j n Washington Wednesday ssommi rx r~ ; me In contact with a/offlclaT wf For Stealing a Dale of Cotton I-rom high .standing in thfr government scr- m Ql lli vice v He said to me: ‘Dqn Koef" " r "' has been selected for comni+gftlo"H,'r loft, a Williams had been locked up In t steel cell within a locked steel cage which opens Into a corridor pn the bird tloor having heavily barred win- lows and shut off from the staircase i»y a sheet Iron door always kept locked. Williams had been placed tn a cell directly on the corridor *hat he might be better watched from without. To reach the stalr- •as<t, where trace of him was los'. he had to pick a heavy Yale lock FhU allowed him to raise the lever ’hat unlocked the cells In hls cage Thun he stepped out into the ce'l •orrldor within the steel cage. A heavy Yale lock secured the cage Joor. Williams sawed -The three- •Iglit Inch ring of this lock, getting at it by thrusting hls arm through 'he bars. After he had opened th* 'ng«c do^r, he passed into the cor- shfor and was confronted by the heavy Iron door that shut off thy cells from the staircases. This door bears a heavy mortised lock that is opened with a huge brars key. llow he got through this was a mystery. hk well ns was his location. Comforting himself with" the de- luctiofl ‘that Williams, although a lailbird. could not fly. Captain Grad- ick then proceeded to search In the >nly place-where the prison t emil 1 •o-slbly be. namely: the Jail lofi.^ )ver the stairway corridor Is a trap loor which gives entrance Into the lull loft above. It Is come 15 feet ibo\e the floor. There was no lad- ler or rope in sight, but Captain Gradlck had li figured out thi|t Will iams must be hiding up in this dark ind huge loft. Calling to him, a ta’i negro trusty named "Mink.” Captulu Gradlck reruied a Step I adder and or- lered Mink to mount It and climb into th>> loft where, by striking n match h<> might see If Williams were hidden, filling out that be would shoot Williams on sight if he made reslstani Captain Giadick. drew hla. revolver and sent Mink ujv the lad der and Into tho loft take the last (banco of nosing Oakland Hammv •out-lf he were about the Jail. It was a tense moment for the rope with. The hook and hammocks found —tn the jail loft; by Greater New iorn. They were asked to indicate their preference for pres ident, and to state the name of the candidate for whom they voted four years ago. The return cards brought replies from 8,913'voters, who voted •is follows In 1904: Roosevelt 6,433 Parker . . ... . . . ; 2,413 Debs •. 205 New votes .'. 862 Including the new vote the dis- 'rlbution of the Indicated vote is as follows: . ' • For Taft, 4,969, as follows: From Roosevelt 4,024 From Parker 520 From Debs . . 10 Sew votes 415 erate obtained a wax Impression of the door key,.which is carried some : times by a trusty. The corset rib and file were probably handed to Williams y a confederate. KEEF DENIES REPORT. Claims He Was Not Offered Job a« Reported. At Deffolt when Keefe was shown the above addre.-s on Tuesday night ue said: _ -- "1 was not closeted with Preslden' Roosevelt at all. I did see -him on October 3. but It was only a four o: five-minutes’ audience, at which sev eral others were present. The in cluded P. H. Morrissey, head-of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, •nd I think one of the others was Gen.—Fowell—Clayton. others that I did not know. I am of the opinion that every word that was said to me at that time was overheard. "The President did not offer me the position of commissioner general of Immigration directly or indirectly then or at any other time. "The executive council of th, American Federation of Labor di 1 not to my knowledge send out any circular, as Is referred to in the ■ llspatch from New York, conse quently I could not have endorsed K "On August 15, more than six weeks before I saw the President, 1 made practically .the same statement which I made today in regard to William H. TaJUs candidacy. M\ Total 4,969 For Bryan, 3,112, aa follows: from Roosevelt 1,032 From Parker 1,692 From Debs 30 New votes • • 353 Total . . .. 3,112 For Debs, 337, as follows: P rom RcosgVelt . . 13'> Prom Parker .. ....." 39 Frem *Debs .. 134 New Votes .. ..L. .? 3 4 three for Chanter aggregating 2,900. In the same counties two yeans ago Governor Hughes received majorities aggregating 135,3 4 2 and Mr. Hearst 377. According to the stlmates presented by the World today Gov eruor -Hughes will lose above the Bronx 22,293 votes and Mr. Cbanler will gain over Hearst 2,528. i "The estimate# show eva* more marked changes in the presidentfal situation. Four year* ago 66 of the same 67 counties gave Mr. Roose velt majorities aggregating 213,- 495. and Tarker of 3l8. The conn ties covered In the table printed show majorities for Taft aggregating 148.500, and for Mr. Bryan of 2, 900. So that according to the es timates, Mr. Taft will lose, if pres ent conditions continue, 64,995 and Mr. Bryan will gain 1,062. The * tlmates ■, show that while Mr. Taft will not hold all of the Roosevelt vote of four years ago, he will com mand at least 65 per cent of It. "The reductions noted la the ea timates are mainly In the- factory centres and are due to these causes. "1. Industrial conditions affect ing many thousands of employes. "2. The dissatisfaction of voters with the old parties. "3. Opposition to Governor Hughes because of hls reform." The World also publishes state ments from the leaders of tha re spective parties, and It ,1s evident that the Democrats,are 'more san gutna of success than are the Re publicans. /' . CAN THIS BE TRYE? A Farmer Arrested for Aaaanlting a cation of the arrest made Thursday at Sumter of J. Z. Wooten, a Sumter County white farmer, on a warrant charging him with criminally saultlng his deformed and Idiot 14- year-old step-daughter, Zora Moseley, whom Wooten had on exhibition bet e last Fair week. " According to the Sumter -Item of Thursday, the arrest was made on IBa flTrtvgr of the Orangeburg trail to Sumter, the girl’s uncle, M. D. , Moseley, going to Wooten's home ang Inducing him to come to Sumter w^,d*^ the glrl^ and Itk mother. Moselef,^ according to the Sumter paper, the warrant from a magistrate *.i New Brookland, Lexington county, and H walii based on information furnished hr Wooten's wife, the mother oL the child. Wooten was placed in the Sumter Jail to awa't the officers of Lexington. Whether he hae been carried to » ' Lexington la not known here. The A ' Fair week crowds did not patronize the exhibition here, the result being that some sympathetic chorus girls found the mother and child In a destitute condition and exposed In a tent, and to®* them t0 a hotel anl fed them. * WORK OF A FIEND. OHIO FOR BRYAN. Him Total .V . . . , 337 For. Hltigow, 495-votes, as follows. From Roosevelt 242 P'rom Parker . .‘ 162 rom Debs New votes 31 6v Total v 495 n taken as representative oflf.lngt.he Taking these returns, Tne World s election experts, men who have been «stimatir:g election results with fe markable accuracy for many years make the following deductions:'\^ Estimates of the presidential vote In Greater New York in 1908. based on the vote of 190 4—an estimated inertase of 50.000 in T908, or a to tal vote of 690,000, under applica tion of the changes as between the fe.-pec live parties on a percentage basis, calculated from actual decla rations of 8.913 voters, as per ftguret. given above. statements appeared iu the Detroit! 8,651 declarations received *re P'ree Press of August 16. • I wasjy,p ro | n taken as representative of the uked then by a representative ot r.jo.rtnn vote of 1904. The Labor Vote Will Go for Largely: Waiter Wellman, staff correspon dent of the Chicago Reeord-Hcrald (Republican), In a letter to that paper from Cincinnati, says: Outside Ohio the Impression pre vails that Senator Foraker’s* atti tude la the decisive element In this State, but, as a matter of fact, whl’e of some/ Importance, it cuts a very small figure relative to pthfr ph**cs of the problem. The big thing Is the labor revolt, the Gompera plot 'o defeat Taft, the opposition to Taft on account of hls injunction decis ions on the bench. the general tendency of the work people, wheth er trades unionists or not, to go for Bryan, to vote for "a change.’’ One hears of It wherever be goes. Re publicans as well as Democrats dis cuss It in Cleveland, In Columbus, In Cincinnati. Every man I hare talked with In Yoaag Lady Outraged by a Negro Near Concord, N. C. Miss Pearl Tucker, sixteen years old. was criminally assaulted by a negro in the woods near Concord, twenty miles north of Charlotte, N. C-, Tuesday afternoon. The gM was picking cotton In a field and the negro led her to the bushes at tho point of a frlstol. After accompllsh- idg hls purpose he threatened to km jier If she told on him, and tell ing her hls name was Henry Tag gart, ffed Into the woods. A posse Of 600 citizens quickly formed and captured a suspect an hour after the crime was comrujtted, -Police Chief Roger succeeded in getting the negro In an automobile, and follow ed by a frenzied mob, which has grown to two thousand. Is endeavor ing to get hls prisoner to a place of safety. / c CLASSIFIED COLUMN WANTED Second-Hand Bags an I Burlap'; any kind, any quantity, anywhere. We pay freight. Rich mond Bag Company, Richmond, —vr : Merchant Accused of Trying to Burn His Store. A dispatch to The News^nd Cour ier says the store room In Bennetts- vMle occupied-, by Z. P. Wright was found to. be on, fire Monday night shortly after tt'rf-'o'efock. After the flames were extinguished and air ex* amlaaticn made it Is said that a lot of plunder, boxes and bags, were found In the loft thoroughly satu- 1 JUDer when MlWk disappeared fnto irttafl.with oil. These are now In the nd the match was struck r has Issuedpany such letter he has it does not meet my endorse ment. If such a letter has been is sued I have not seen It. I will neith er support nor. vote for Mr. Bryan I am.going to vote for Mr. Taft, who ts'an honorary member of one ol )ur branches, the Association of Steam Shovel and Dredge Men.'’’ S62 declarations received are here in taken as fepresejiiatlve of the 50,Out) Increase in 1908. ' 8.918 declarations received are here- the Free Press If I Jdfd signed oi seen a letter sent ou^C^' President Gompers, of„ the American Federa tion of Labor. denotiHcing the publican ptatform and urgtng lai+tor-fin^ken as represntative of 690. to support Bryan and the Denocratr: ticket. I replied: - ,“ ‘1 do not believe Mr. Gompers and +f ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CTIAHGF. dispatch from Hernando. Miss general of Immigration.’ reports the lyncing nqar^tl^t^ plac® ” ‘Is that so, I said, last night of W. J. Jackson,'a negro, " Yes, the job is his.’ he replied, by members of hls own race. Jack- I asked him how bu kjio’w arpTbe son. It Is stated, was discovered while told me that his Informant ■ was a attempting to remove a bale of cot ton. the property of another, negro, from a gin Tuesday night. He es caped, but was captured later yester- d»y, and while being taketf to Jail was secured and hanged by & mob composed of negroes. MURDERER HANGED. Bode to the Gallows on Hls New Coffin. At Fayetteville.-Ga.. on Thursday. JUn Bennett, a negro, was han£eJ tef”the murder of D. McEachern, a wfctto van. last September. Bennett was carried to the gallows on the ta which ha was to be buried. Th* negro also shot down Seaborn 6flam* another white man, whi attempted to disarm him after he hid YtHod MeEachern. ) 1 * member of the- president’s cabinet and knew what he was talking about. “This Information was not given to me In a confidential manner, but I will not give my Informant s name, , J°. r ,t X^aL-SLoulcUm r f pen to him If hls name came out. “TheT^T'is nfit any doubt In mv mind bu tthat the statement that the president offered Keefe the position Own &bd that Keefe agreed to accept is true. Perhaps the offer was not made at the conference on October 2j last but I brieve it has been made.” sheriffs office. The policemen ar- A light flared up. and-then Mink, ble | Mr Wrlpht on a ehttrge nf Rain of Volcanic Ashes. A rain of aahea from volcanoes on Martlniqua or 8t. Vincent Island is falling over Guadelopue Island. Mount Soufrlere, the largest volca no on 8L Vincent, is calm and tbs aahea must ccmtT from soma other crater. : ... eyed atrd shaking, stuck his 'hrough tTe yap door and said: ^"Ile is dab, cap'in." Seeing the jng was up, William® Seeing the jig was up, Williams came from the recesses of the loft, and said he was caught. He ma'j no resistance and stow!y. Ttackeri down out of the oiieniiig; He had to hang by his hands to t-ouch. the site pi adder with hls feet. Williams looked glum and baffled, but wis gajnf. and stated to tho captain that he had failed to escape becaoi&e he lid not have time. After Captain Gradlck got Will iams again In custody, the prisoner was placedJUi_jnother cell, untamp ered with and closely guarded, until it wgs time to take him over to th? court room. He Is now under a heavy gugrd. and will net be un- witcbed while the Charleston author- Itiee have him In charge. ’ r The atory of WjUfama’ plan of tha escape la Interesting. It is thought that he had gsslatanre from ♦he futslde. or within the Jail. Suv r&e. heal (iigordorly| conduct, and the mayor took out a "Warrant for his arrest Tuesday morning before Magistral,' iviclnnls charging Mr. Wright with having set fire to and burning tho» store. The accused Is In Jail and it Is said that he has not demand ed an investigation. Mr. Wright Is of a large and Influential family. 000 estimated vote of i908. ; > Roosevelt’s vote In Greater Now York In 1904 ....289,000 XeUTbss of Taft—10.92 per cent of total vote of 640,- 000 i-.v 69.888 Gaitl of 48.15 per ce/fyt of es timated Increase of 50.000 24,015 Taft'j) Indicated vote of 1908. calculated on basis of dec larations and changes . ^.243,187 Parker's vote in Greater New York In 1904 -. 327.000 Total gain of Bryan—3.30 per cent of total vote of 640.000 .. .. 27,520 Gain of Bryan—40.95 per cent of estimated Increase of 60,0*00 20,475 Bryan's indicated vote of of declarations and -changes .. ...•. ........ 374,995 factory shows heavy Bryan gains. When the members of the Republi can State central and executive com mittee met at Columbus a few days ago, They talked of little elser- It was given' out that every member ipreaent was confident of carrying the State, bur - 1 happen to know this statement requires Important quali fication, and the .qualification Is— “provided we can get the labor vot? in good shape." Roosevelt's 255,000 Rlorallty of four years ago looks llkf a monn- •tain In Bryan's path. But In ray judgment there Is enough uncer tainty about the labor vote and otb«.- elements to warrant the classifica tion of Ohio as one ^of (he most doubhful States In the Union, tend ing toward Bryan on present con ditions. but toward Taft on tradition, history and inertia. * TKACHEKB—TRl MTEKH. Wa •ecura schools for teachers sad have many excellent vacancies We recommend teachers to - trustee* •ad sell school furniture of all kinds. Write. Southern Tench- era' Agency, Columbia, H. C. * WANTED—-By the American Cottoa • nd Business University of Mill- edgeville. Georgia, Students to take one or more of our courage . ... , m. m 1* cotton grading, buying and Ohio has spoken of ^ .Every pM Business course of Booh or straw vote taken in a shop or 7T£.'. keeping. Shorthand, Typewriting or Telegraphy anu Railroad eburae. Positions guaranteed under reasonable condition* Writ* at once for our consolidat ed Catalog. Largest College South Six Boys Killed. _ Six boys were reported killed at Sugar Ridge, when a freight train on the Toledo and Ohio Central Rail road crashed Into a heavily -laden excursion train returning from a fair at Bowling Green. FOR SALE—Common building brick red color, immediate delivery Price upon application. Camd** Prres Brick Co., Camden, 8. C. Debs' vote In Greater New York in 1 904 24,000 Net gain of Debs (1908)— 1.2 2 per cent of total boto of 640.000 r - 78.008 Gaiu ef 3.94 per cent of es-tl mated increase of 50,000 Debs’ Indicated vote of 1908, calculated on basis of dec laratious and changes . . 1.970 33,776 DRANK WOOD ALCOHOL As a .Substitute for Whiskey and Is Dead. Refused Intoxicating drinks by the saloon-keeper, Frank M. Rees^, a patent attorney, living at _ Sharon. Hill, Pa., is dead, as the result of drinking wood alcohol, which he took as a substitute for wbirkey. *Reese was one of the aooa of Jacob Re.ass. who was closely identified with Andrew Carnegie In the eteel in dustry and whose inventions had much to do with enabling Mr. Car Hlsgon’s vote in 19085 (no Independence party In 1904 ). . . . , His gains—5.40 per cent of total vole of 640,000.... Hls gains—6.95 per cent of estimated Increase of 50,- — 000 ^ 7 • ■ of WANTED—Pine logs bought cash. For particulars address’ Frees Lumber Co., Sumter, 8. C.. 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