Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. . v \ Poor Attendonc*—Even with In- ■ugclent funds, poor school house*, •hort jchool terms, and Incompetent teachers, the people may still show a commendable educatllnal purpose by sending every child to school •vary day the schools are In session. Much good may be got out of a very Inferior school. If the children at tend It regularly and with the pgr- Two of the worst enemies to child hood and youth are overwork and Idleness. Close confinement ai-man- ua) labor is dulling, stifling, and de structive to the childhood; Idleness ts-poisonous and ruinous to youth. Attendance upon school may be used as a /corrective for both evllr—Th>* State, In order "to protect at least -one class of children against over- pose of getting IW most possible out work, has passed a chlT3 labor law. If tt: ' How are the white ehUdri n. Barring some notable exceptions, the abortiveness of that law Is a common Jest. To illustrate: In 1905, one of our city school superintendent'! lost more than twenty pupils from one school within two months. In company with one of the cotton ml'l superintendent of that town (a man In favor of schools), the school su perjnten<|er^t wept from house to house in the mill village enquiring for these missing children. In one afternoon he located twelve of them, every one of them unlawfully en gaged, at work In the mill, though only three of their names appeared on the pay-roll. Now, thc-chlld of the lazy, greedy, selfish parent Is at work, and no' In school. The child of the lgno-‘ rant and indifferent parent Is neither at work nor In school; he Is Idling Both .children need to be educated: the State needs both of them; and th^ State has already decreed that the taxpayers shall establish and maintain schools for both. There remains but one logical thing to do —compel the parents of l>oth to send their children tb school. There is but little logic in compelling people to pay taxes to support the schools, then permitting the parents of the children who most need the schools deliberately to keep them from the I>eneflt8 of the schools. The poorer the child the more is the need for compelling his parents to send him 'to school. Compulsory attendance laws are aimed at the selfish and in different parent, not at the. child Of what advantage are good teach ers. long school terms, and fine school houses, unless the children attend the schools? In a recent elec tion to Increase the local school tax in-a district in North Carolina, where they have recently enactel a klnj of local option compulsory law, a certain taxpayer made this declare 'Ion: "If you vote to compel liie children of this district to go to 'school. Increase my tax as you ploaa^-if-jrou- -arc not going 4o—put That. Is What Hhe Will Do if the Cotton Crop is Sold at Present Prices. The flippant way in whlc^ some people speak of the present, price of cotton argues'that they do not That the Tight Has Be€B TniHfcd| fuHr appreciate the gravity of the situation. This is intensified when ARCHBOLD LETTERS C. Read by Hearst Are Important Fac tors of the "Campaign—He is "Glad of South Carolina attending the schools? In 1907, the white enroll ment In the public schools of the State was W4.668, while the average attendance was only 103,304. The federal census taken seven years be fore 1900, gives South Carolina 217,972 white children between the ages of 6 and 20 years, while our legal school age is between 6 ami 21 years. It is safe to assert that barely sixty per cent of the white children of the State are enrolled in any kind of a school, and not over forty per cent are In average atten dance.. In 1900, thirty-six per cent of the white children between the ages of It) and 14 years were not enrolled In any school, public or private. „ In the same year Massachu setts had only six per cent of her white children of the corresponding ages out of school, Connecticut had seven per cent, and Michigan eight per cent. In 1900. South Carolina had 54.- 177 native white illiterates over lu years of age. only 792 fewer white Illiterates than the State had In 1870. thirty years previous. At the same date Connecticut, with nearly twice the white population of South rollna, had but 1.958 whfte llllt crates over 10 years^of age. Again. Soujjh Carolina had 15.643 native white illiterates of the voting age; Rhode Island, with four-fifths the population of South Carolina, had Just 550. We had 17.839 native white Illiterates between the ages of 10 and 19 years; Michigan, with twice our population, had, 1,141; Connectlvut had 140. and Rhode Island 100. Is it reasonable to hope for the South Carolina of tomorrow, with her iqad of helpless Illiterates, to cope successfully with those State’-- and sections which have freed them selves from the bondage of Igno ranee? ihe day is forever gone from South Carolina when a few highlv trained men of leisure could direct and control ThT^TteBtlnles of the pao^ pie. This responsibility has been shifted to the shoulders of the’mass cs, and now we are forced to con elder the .training -of the masses Only yesterday Hon. O. R Marlin gave out this: "Sevaral educa tional leaders In New England frank ly told us that they are- spending their money and building up their schools in order to retain and main tain their indust rial supremacy They realized that we have advan tages and great resources In the South, but they propose to keep th - lead, if possible, through the powei of trained brains and trained hands * Intelligence and skill will win even time in every race. What is Sout*. Carolina doing to meet this op* n challenge from New England? Who are these South Carolina white children not in school, and why are they not In school? Some are the sons and daughters of parents on tlie Commercdal Democracy Gang" in Tins State. Senator and Mrs. Tillman Tkndel In New York on Tuesday after an absence of five months in Europe. He is greatly improved in health anl enjoyed his trip abroad very much. He did hot tarry long in New York, but left for his home soon after he landed. He crossed the ocean in the fine steamship Kroonsland. He was besieged by news gatherers as soon as he-landed in New York. "The Archbald letters that Mr. Hearst has read are the big thing of this campaign and the one sub ject of interest on the other side,’* "I see that he got McLaurin. I am not surprised. • We were on to Mct^aurtn in the Democratic wing of the senate, and read him out of the caucus eight years ago. He be longs with the corporation—controll ed senators and we told him so.” “I cannot but feel a little pity fo*- Senator Foraker,” continued Mr. Tillman. "He is an old mnfi and is no worse than a good many of the rtst of them—In Ohio, too. I might add. He, of course, deserves what punishrttent this expose will bring but I hope Mr. Hearst will get 'the rest of them. "No, I will take no active part In the campaign. It is too nearly_qv,.r for me to bestir myself. The laijt session in Washington was the most ttying I have ever known and I was almost prostrated at the end of it. I do ngp want to waste any of m)’ regains stlrn^h. . Senator Tillman paused-to engage in repartee with a Philadelphian on the tariff question, and then said that he would hurry to Washington for a few -days. From there he will gd to his home and rest until his duties call him to the capital agal.i. Tillman in Washington. The Washington [correspondent oi The News and Courier says Senato: and Mrs. Tillman arrived in Wash- i.iftfmi Tm^kH^v pigh 1 en route home. the children Into the schools, 1 am opposed to any further tax." That man's argument has no answer Some opponent to a compulsory law says, "You have not enougn school houses and teachers to Ink? care of the thousands of children not In school.” That argument is worthless, unless we are witling t admit that the white people of th State are actually unable to take care of their children. Let some philanthropist offer to aid Sout’.i Carolina In matters educational, then you get an answer to that ques tion. Will the school houses ever be built or the teachers employed until there is a need for them? Would it be wise for a farmer to lei a $500-crop waste In the fields, rath- Wheti seen at his hotel^ Wednesday morning. Setiator Tillman was sur- roundad liy half a dQz^n or mqr^ newspaper men and o'tlier friends, who had called to welcome him home, and to get his views on th" Presidential campaign and other matters. Senator Tillman is naturally verv deeply Interested in the outcome of the Presidential election, and al though he has been absent, and no* in close touch with the management of the campaign, yet ijis generJ knowledge of the situation leads him to believe that Bryan will be the next President of the United States. He does not intend to ent>v the campaign, but will rest from his travel*, and be ready for the ap- they say that the farmers have put the price of cotton too high and that it is now seeking its natural level. Such people leave the v impression that they are not looking beyond their persoppl Interests and therefore fall to see the stream^®? gold that annually comes to the South from foreign countries in exchange for her cotton crop—this amounting 'o hundreds of millions of dollars, tyhlch is the mainspring* to all business life and activity in the South. Cur tail this inflow of gold and we at once crlpppl every indust/y in the South. Augment it and at once the electric effect is seen and felt in every line of industry^. The price of cotton is today 2 1-2 cents per pound less than it was a year ago. If this depresion of price ia to continue throughout the season it will mean a loss to the South on a 12,000,000 bale crop of $150,000,- 000, a sum equal to more than ha f of the capital invested in the cotton mills of the entire South; likewise a much greater sum than will be spent in the South this year for pub lic education. These lllustratipns are given to more forcibly illustrate the enormity of the loss of the South, caused by the present depression in prices, and to endeavor to arouse a determina tion among our people, irrespective of vocation, that it shall not be so. For the past few years the South has been enjoylBg an unprecedented prosperity for the potton crop. It seems that the cotton-buying world has decreed that this age of South ern prosperity shall not longer con tinue. As evidenc of this there was during the summer a report sent to the cotton factory centers of the world stating the Southern cotton crop would approximate 16,000,000 bales and the prediction made that the price would ga to eight and pos sibly as low as 6 cents per pound Such a report very naturally demor allzed the cotton trade and even manufacturer wanting to get in on the ground floor was unwilling to lay~"up slock, and su-curtailed pro er than build $ 100-house In which preaching session of Congress Jn Dj to store It ? cember ^ The Jgst argument of the op|»o- nents to coitipusory attendance is themselves Ignorant and unable to that it can not be enforced without appreciate or to understand whlit truant officers, and that truant of- education means to their children fleers must be paid .—CcrtlOnly. Th* and to the State; some are children present child labor law of this State of fathers and mothers, greedy ar.l is a dead letter, because no pfovis- selfish, who are more than willing Ion is made for its enforcement. And to make wage-earners and bread- the police of Charleston, Columbia, winners out of their young untaught and other places, have to be paid, offspring; a few are the children of hut It pays to pay them. We are parents opposed to education, be- perfectly willing to pay an officer cause they have known some edit- of the law to arrest little negro cated scoundrels; a very few are boys in a 10-eent crap game, but it the children of parents who actually is too much to 1 pay an officer of -he need the. labor of their children to law to see that a lazy selfish 1 father eke out i living, and many are th” sendsyhis child to ..school. We are in actual money eve-y times as much Hi tribute to duty. Many of these children are to the industrial supremacy of New at work on the farm, in stores and England and other sections, as It •hops at a,few cents a day. and In would cost us to put every whit the cotton mills making good wages child In the Slate in school for six for children, while hundreds of oth- months in the ‘year! What corn ers are roaming the streets and coun- omists we are! And what phlloso try lanes—-the training grouns for phers we try to be!- Idlers, vagrants, and enemies to law, WILLIAMT H> HAND, order, and decency. University of South Carolina. cember. To The News und Courier corre spond^! the Senator said that h had read the Archbold and McLaurin (iuction and bought cotton from hand to mouth .continually looking for lower prices. Another factor in de pressing the price of cotton is th'* closing of the Lancashire mills in England. These mills are said t represent half the*spindle capacity ot that country; consequently ^their closing will very materially' affect the price of cottoa. Hold for I letter Prices. Such briefly is the situation. What are the remedies? An easy question to ask, but a far more difficult one to answer. In my opinion, the first thing nec essary is for the cotton farmer* themselves to determine in all tbei,- might and manhood that they will not sell a bale of cottot^ at present prices except to satisfy existing ob ligations; and then first pndeavo- to store the cotton and get advances on it to meet the necessity of th.' President Harris, of the State Farm ers’ Union, Calls .Meeting for Next Wednesday Night. T President Harris, of the South Car olina Farmers’ Union, has issued the following call: "In order tp have a conference on the. cotton situation and to devis some method for relief all members of the Framers’ Union and others interested in the raising of the prhrr of cotton are urged to meet in the Court House at Columbia on Wednes day night of Fair Week. It is highly important that there be representa- lives from all sections of South Car olina and from all interests. Thi meeting will be addressed by Sena- tor-elect Smith and others. (Signed i "B. HARRIS. "President S. C. Farmers’ Union. Senator-elect Smith was in Colum- Tuesday and gave the following state ment for publication: "Now that the election is over ami my enforced absence from any ac live participation in the fight for cotton at an end. I am in the work to better conditions if possible, and they are possible. The present priC” of cotton is a reflection on the South A small crop last year and a small crop this year have, oi^should have discounted the effect of the panic Had there been a normal crop last year and prices gorie off on account of the panic it would'have been nai ural, perhaps, but with a small crop at home and abroad, with no flatter ing outlook for a yield this year, present prices are nothing short of a disgrace to the business man and farmer. "Look at the prifcfirof corn, oats, wheat, lard, .meat and hay, to say nothing of other commercial articles, and compare these with cotton Why didn't the panic affect them’’ Besides, about two-thirds of th* American crop is sold in Europe. A panic in America should not affect the buying power of foreign coun tries. "It ia said that goods cannot he sold al present prlc«% or are not being sold, because it would repre sent a loss to the manufacturer, by the same token cotton should not be sold, because it represents a loss to the grower. Because fifteen cents was not realized last year is no rea- snn wiiy eight cents shonld be taken now. It really looks as if the pur chasing world was attempting to whip the grower for revolting. a f 'er four years, against their masters There is manhood and money enough to stop this criminal foolishness and lack of confidence and common sense "On Wednesday night of Fair week every man interested in a high er price for cotton Is asked to meet in the.city of Columbia, at the Ciurt House, to discuss the situation and Join the other States in stoppi"*? the sale of cotton' at present prices. ^f am on my way to Montgomerv. Alabama, where V I will address tbe farmers of that State, and will oring a report as to what they and o'her Stoles propose to do. • E. D SMITH." Possibly the Great Business of Teach ing May Get .Some Hint From This Simple Store. If you were to go to the 4 -town of Spartanburg, S. C,, says Worlds Work, and spend an evening in tbe house of any man who liv* the converation would be sure to turn to. Dr. Carlisle?; and. If von should happen to go to the home of any one who has a direct pere<&ial interest in Wofford eollege .which is situated at one end of thrown, the chances are that most of the talk of the evening would t»e about Dr. Carlisle. If you happened to be at the college at a commencement time, you would hear a reverent an I affectionate allusion to Dr. Carlis'e in every public address, and you migh see every class that comes back to its reunion go to his house in a body to express their affectionate obli gation to him. And who is Dr. Carlisle? A man who went to the college as a teacher of "astronomy and moral science in 1854, when it was founded, and who has been there ever since, i part of the time as teacher, a pari of the times as president and again as teacher. He still meets his class es once or twice a week even at his advanced age. Doubtless ^neither philosophers nor astronomers regard him as a great contributor to their departments of learning. ^.Yet it is Likely to Cause Trouble Unless He Is Removed, Because He Wrote Let ter to White Lady. • . • A special dispatch from Spartan burg to the Ooluduola Record says there is likely to be a pretty post office mess there unless J. A. Andfcr- son, colored, who was recently ap- substitute letter carrier la- the city, is removed, anortly alter Anderson was apptointgjU-by Post master—Poin ier—ifceSpartan b u rg ¥ disclosures, and that the light had I ° #<>as ' on As long as sufficient ro'- •heen .turned at last on to the. acts ] Uin to meet the requirements of the and doings of the “commercial De-jjpUIOs offered there will be no need rnocraity gang.” „ With unusual vigor j for tHem to advance prices. There- the Sana for said: "What I would r‘fon* hold the cotton off the market like-to know- now is this, /what., Jinidl the-surplus is worked off v If newspaper in the State received any the ’cotton mill men can not sell portion of that five thousand dol lars from the Standard Oil. and why is It. the different detective edttmTi ^ the thing to do is to not offer any eke out a living, and many are th” sendsyhis chi children of fathers engrossed in ma- paying; today terlal affairs and mothers recreant year fm*^ tim STARTED TO BURY LIVE WOMAN. Physician Finds that Snppose.l Corpse was Not Dead. ♦ At Ellis, Kan., the timely inter vention of a physican who was not satisfied with the appearance of the body Tuesday^prevented the burial alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman, sixty years old, who was supposed to have died suddenly of heart dls- east on Saturday. The body was prepared for burial, but was not embalmed. The funeral was to have taken place at 2:30 o'clock Tuesda/ afternoon. A few minutes befora the coffin was sealed, a physiciaa requested permission to see the body. An examination confirmed his sus picions that the woman’s ‘ made rigid by suspended animation.' The woman was removed from the coffin, placed in bed and revived. , it- Is lands prairie on Swan river Tues day afternoon. Peyton and Rudolph wei;e attempting to arrest the In dians for-honting without a license and killing deer in excess of “the number permitted by law. Peyton went to the camp of the Indians and told them they must accompany him to Missoula. Without warning the ' fired on the deputy with rifles. The fire was returned by the deputies. THE FARCE GOES ON. Two Revenue Collectors Reprimand ed for Political Activity. * A dispatch from Washington says the civil service commission Friday announced that aftar thorough iu vestigatlon J, tt. Forlham, a deputy collector of internal .-revenue at ed Mrs. Chapman*wMl recover. SEVERAL KILLED la aa Attempt to Make Arrests In Indian Comp. A telephone message from Ovando, Montana, says that Deputy Warden C- B. Peyton and four Flathead In dians are dead as a result of a fight between Deputy Peyton and hta as- Herman Rudolph, gnd a of Flathead Indiana near Hoi-. Orangeburg. S. C., has been repri- ■wsnried and.," for fifteen days for participation fn the Republican State Convention at Columbia. Robert A. Stewart, a temporary deputy collector of Clar endon County, S. C., has been repri manded. R.’O. Pierce, an employee of the Marine Island navy yard, who announced his candidacy of super visor In the 1st district, has been dis charged from the service. ' Clyde Knook, a letter-earrier at Indepen dence, Kansas, who became candidal* for the District Court clerkship, re signed from the postal service t> avoid dismissal. • within the State have riot taken the trouble to ascertain what newspape. - supported 'th£' 'comercial Democracy gang' and publish the list^so that the people could know who^the ben eficiarb’s were." their goods they can not be ex pected to buy cotton at its full value. cotton for sale until.the trade wants it at a,-price thal" will justify the faTmer to sell. At the present prices the purely cotton farmers is making no more money on his cotton than he was ten Continuing, ho said: "Certaii i yeais ago when cotton was^elling newspapers have been very vigi'lent j at 6 cents per pound. At that tiin j GAFFNEY ELECTRICIAN KILLED in ‘raking up past records. Now le' them come forward aud give the people the names of the bobtail papers in the State that were knock ing at the doors of the Standard Oil treasury for ‘lubrication.’ Had It not been for the unexpected death of President McKinley it would ba difficult to say just bow much harm would have been done to the Demo;- racy of the State by the sleuth-liks editor* of Soutfi t Carolina so long as they were receiving* ‘substantial support.' ” CHESTER NEGRO A SUICIDE. Aged Plantation Darkey Cuts His Throat With Razor. James H. Heatherlngton, an ageJ negro, living on Mr. J. B. Atkinson' place, near Armenia, Chester county, Monday committed suicide, a thing few negroes do. Hoatherington was an industrious and respected negro, ana -VM getting along as well as usual this year, hut somehow became worried about the outlook, with the rnimrrttnrt ff so. let ‘us without regard to vo- "A few days ago he told ms daughter goodbye, and since then In conse quence, his actions had been watched i -4m {.w,-as,.trv -prevent dtHti,-feagfr,lakHnc any rash step. Monday mornlnfT however, he got hold of a razor, and stealing off into a nearby thicket, cut hia throat. Coroner Leckie h< Id an inquest Monday afternoon, with Mr. Harrison Grant as foreman of the Jury, the verdict being that the der ceased came to his death from inflicted wounds. Down at the aeashore the boys say tho "peach” season is about ove-. spoony lover do**s nqt alwaj Fin by making .stirring remarks. porn, meat, labor and other tnrngs that the cotton farmer buys was sell ing at but little over half the prices they are now bringing. Six-cent cotton at the time, multiplied mort gages on the cotton farms of the South. Notwithstanding the few years of good prices we have had have enabled most farmers to pay off the mortgages then incurred, a con- tlnuation'of present prices and con-' ditions will bring about a repetition of those days. For that reason- the manhood of the South should bo against low priced cotton. It is not yet time for the South to-qssume ti e role of a philanthropist arid sell cot ton for a price less than the~cbst of production so as to furnish ihe worl i with cheap cotton goods. Do we want farm values f. in crease instead of decrease? Do we want factories of various kinds to multiply and enlarge in the Soii*h, Do we want to educate our children and beautify oun homes, Do we want an air of prosperity all over this Southland of ours, with new Hie, vigor and activity into ever line of business, vocation and profession? Journal published an article to tha effect that Anderson was- formerly iu the postal railway service and had been removed on tbe charge of writ* ing an improper letter to a white woman. The officials in charge of the postofflee were informed of the charge against Anderson, but no steps were taken so far as is known to find out if the charge was true. Last Friday night week a colored sporting house was raided and for- teen colored gamblers were arrested, and among those taken in by the police were a colored mintiter and J. A. Anderson. The latter begging the police not to give out his name to the reporters, saying that if his name was published In the pap.*rs It wonld hurt him, as he was in the post- office service. Anderson was to take out his route and he hustled and got some one to put up ball for hlai. so that he might secure his release and deliver his qrail on time; but, it is said, he failed to secure bail in time and many people receive 1 late mail. Many patrons on Anderson’s *oute are said to have made the remark doubtful whether there be an astron- , . .., u . that they did not intend to allow him omer or philosopher at any institu- .... tlon or in any community in our whole land who has exerted so strong an Influence upon the youhg men who have come in contact with him. They do not say that he taught them, . . , , . astronomy or that he taught them | P^ , “ ted ;/ h 1 ! re „ 1 ^ ,, ^^ to come to their door, believing aim to be the man who was fired from the postal service for writing an Improper letter to a white woman. Unless Anderson is removed, and a philosophy, but they do all A J>ear testimony to his giving them in great er measure tfian any other man a right adjustment to life and a moral uplift^a kind of influence that thu oldest of hi's pupils, who are now themselves far on in middle life, remember with an affection that has grown since their youth; and, throughout the area of the college s Influence, men aud women say. "We must send our sons to Wofford col lege because Dr. Carlisle is there." He is now an old gentleman, of great dignity of character and o* ,i< .isLuuoo- re^ CLASSIFIED COLUMN to be trouble for it is said that the clerks in the postofflee endeavor ed to keep Anderson from being ao- polnted, informing Postmaster Poln- ier of the charges against Anderson.* Kills Two Officers. * Charlie Mitchell, colored, sho aud killed T. L. Peek, bailiff, and. C. F. Argo# a young white man. Sunday morning about 10 o'clock at his home about 1 1-2 miles north.of LitLonia Ga., and brutally beat C. S Elliott, deputy sheriff, over the head with hie cation be a unit, ioyul to and her every interest, and save to her this $150,000,000 annually by ■ . a remunerative figure so perlty may continue to snfll/on our people. Let not the farmers be fooled an other year by the- s'rcn songs of those who tell them the world will take at good prices ell the cotton they can produce; but rather let them first see that their crops are so diversified as.to insure each farm er a sufficiency of corn, meat, and other productions aeceMary for his home consumption. Do that and the cotton crop will no longer prove »o j be a mill stone dragging us uowh b Yugjng Man From .Michigan Touche/ Live Terminal and Dies. A young electrician named N. K Stf'eter. while painting a switchboard in the engine room of the Gaffney M aft u facturing Company Tuesday morning, touched a live terminal with his brush,/with the result that 2.300 volts of electricity were sent coursing through his system. He only liv^d about five minutes after, *l.c accident. The -physicans say t>»* he probably had a weak heart. The young man has only been in Gaffney about two months and came here from Michigan. He has rela tives in Ashyille and the- remains were turned over to Shuford & Lani- aster, undertakers, awaiting instruc tions from his people as to their dis position. The young man made many friends in Gaffney and his death was a shock to all who knew him. into penury and want. In this endeavor for ^lettc pliers let the merchant, the banker, the manufacturer and the professional man strike hands with the farmer, for they, too, are unwilling to see the South deprive® of tpe- mtTftons of dollars so necessary for her -grffwth and development. The news- t*»per men, „too, these giants of in fluence and inolders of public opin ion, can do the farmers of the South a world of good* if they will wage a battle for better prices for cotton encouraging the farmers to hoidvot- ton. Hold cotton! Hold cotton!, for better prices. If these people would enter into the fight for better prices for cotton with only one-, fourth the enthusiasm they are giv^ ing to the politics o? the country it would be but a short while before prices would be far above those of today. mars Alliance, the Farm-. imt not of the modern type of arship. He is not an orator, and Vet. until a few years ago, he had the habit o? delivering,, a public lecture once a year or oftener in the town, and anybody who did not go to hear him lost standing in the community by his alTsence. These lectures were lay ‘esrinon, but everybody received rh”ni as a sort-of half-inspired de liverance. He has never held a pub lic office. excep( that he was a mem ber of the Secession convention la South Carolina and is the only sur viving member but one, and he is said to have ^$lled this adventuro a piece of boys r jolishness. He wa- never a preacher, but always only a teacher, and what he taught best was neither science nor literatur* v but, character. The story is told of a man in Texas who met a visitor from Spar tanburg. The first question he asked was. "Do you know Dr. Carlisle?'' ' Yes,” said the other. "Are yoi going back to Spartanburg? ' "Yes.” "Well, I wish you would give Dr. Carlisle by most affection ate regards, remind him that 1 was dismissed from college for miscon duct in spite of his effort to save mo, tell him that I came to Texas and for several years 1 tried my best to go to the devil by various roads, but t^iat I did not succeed, because before I got far I aiways saw his flng^ji poin'ed at me and heard his voice, and they restrained me. He may be glad to hear, this." Possibly the great business of teaching may get some hint from this simple story. * WANTED. TEACHERS—TRUSTEES. We secure schools for teacher* and have many excellent varanclea W» recommend teachers to trustee* and sell school furniture of oP kinds. Write. Southern Teach era’ Agency, Columbia, 8. C, WANTED—By the American Cottos and Business University of Mill edgevllle, Georgia. Students to take one or ihore of our course* in cotton grading, buying and selling. Business course of Book keeping. Shorthand. Typewriting or Telegraphy ana Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable condtlion* Write at once for our consoltda' ed Catalog lairgest College South Deadly Work of Snowstorm. Six accidental deaths are traceable to a snowstorm that prevailed in Colorado Saturday night and Sunday. Besides, seven persons sustained se rious injuries in railroad collis- sions and in coming in contact with live wires. FOR SALE—Common building brick red colorImmediate delivery Price upon application. Comd** Press Briek Oo„ Camden, 8. C. WANTED—Pine logs bought ior cash. For particulars address Press Lumber Co., Sumter, 8. G. WANTED—Salesmen to travel to sHl cabbage aruj.-other plants N. H. Blitch Co„ Meggetts, $ (5. The largest truck farm in the wor’d. -e* Buying a Piano or an Organ Is Not Hard when you come or write to us. Our Pianos and Organs are guar anteed and up-to-date, and at a reas- onable pride. The cases are beautiful. Abe in side Is made by the best and most experienced men In their lines, so it is nb'wonder our pianos and organs holds their sweet tone a lifetime. Write us at once for catalog and special price and terms, stating pref erence piano or organ. „ MALONE’S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, 8. C. Pianos and Organs. -■ iouthern States Supply Machinery Supplies RIumb*nq Supplies PHONE 164. COLUMBIA. S C M?\NY ers’ Union, the Southern Cotton As sociation should all join their forces in endeavoring to withhold cotton ■fronTtft* iwayhofri tinAH NEXT WEEK! niDDrC WATCH THIS SPACE, UlDDtO Angle Drive awiaQfc/ ter price *is offered. Let these or ganizations suggest days- for th” farmers to meet at theii-ifPhpective mealing places, and take aoMon. Without unity of purpose and-nnity of action we can not hope to accom plish anything But let not the con ditions we are striving for l>e brought about by the lawless night rider.. out by orderly methods and by sane people who have a vital interest in Southern life, and Southern progress. The time is at hand to take aefi-'n. ' T. B. PARKER •YSTEM Compute with double bot, Steam Ct Und.rt'ri-M < u>hinn-d TramiK-r. Improved Clewilnir Kerde. • ItotibU' Roll Condeneer. Wetal L ntKIue. * MAXIMUM OUTPUT WITH MINIMUM POWTR. SAVES BKUT8 AND INSURES COOL BEARINON N 2r !P L . ER e ®. R cou ntershafts REQUIRED. ~ 1 * 1 Ll “- encee. Term., Etc.- IF IT’S GIBBES’ IT’S GOOD! :the only house in Columbia CARRYING THE “Original 6ennj||ie Gandy Belt” Carrying also Robber and Leather'Belt. Write tu-for prices on anything in Machinery Supply Line COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY MMiWeet toviae Street. COLUMBIA. 8. C. e. s. Or*, i