Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

OUR SCHOOLS. PAPER NO. 9. BY JPBQF. WILLIAM H. HAND The High School Hituation— Counting the Increased fact title* added.this year, It is easily demon strable by figures that the public high schools of the State, aided and unaided, have increased in efficiency more than tireniy-five-per cent since st Hnt use In this State eight years, January l^LSuL m wore thau om - , aU(1 hfstorleH more than fourth of -doubled withlnJJiAfciflmo. my desk are some specimens of spell ing In the handwriting of high schooi teachers—all but one college grad uates: Ceasnr (thus by three teach- orn), latlu,/liVurature, Knock Arden. Huehter's grammar has tjecn In Con- NORTH VS. SOUTH r IVI KHKSTI \(« T4« C+VltWART— them the effleiej^hm ~r, t ; o ny^v*. Here are some of the iln thaT^tlmn Th ! » * —r - The Number of Troops li'The Fed eral Army Over Four Times os Many as in the Confederate.,' Kdltor The Atlanta Journal. ha«n doubled within Lhatrtimo. Th _ ‘ , . .. * — ■ chief increase is In the quanta ^ clarions: Myov*. Meyo L H\ add quality of the teaching fore?, ^“ J :‘ r 8: “*' uhler (nve ^achers). Beulah (three teachers). Buela'i thus giving longer recitation p*^.- Ttodsiia wider range rrC studies. a.ul-|- ltwn BeuhUr- (one tench lengthened courses of study. Tin Stale appropriation of |60,00fi- ha* been the chief Instrument by which 1 ^itraw • these Improvemedts have bec;i tJuly a few,high - schools are con- brought about, but It must Jje-«nrK ent t<r ' ofrer a two-year course, al- er). A fifteen hundred dollar pinci- nal can not make bricks without mitted that even with this lever it has been a task of majjnJtude-To sa- CUii: this Increased-efficiency. It has required courage and watchfulness on the part of the State High School Board to prevent the schools from taking the State aid for tho high school, then turning it into the com mon school department without one particle of increase of efficiency It the high school. The introductory statement mlgh* lead the uninformed to think that our high schools are now satlsfacio- ry. Far frdm lt.‘ There are now net far from 140 public,.high schools coming within the minimum defini tion of a high school under the pres ent high school law—one- - teacher giving all his time to not fewer than fifteen pupils above the 'seven!n grade or seventh school year. Of these 140 schools, 25 have one high school teacher each, 80 schoo's have two teachers each, and the re malnlng ones more than two teach ers each. Only six scfiobls have each the full teacu.ng time of five teach ers or more. In nearly all the one-teacher hlgn schools the recitation periods have been advanced to 30 minutes each, nothing less than 20 minutes helm; accepted in the aided schools. In those with two or more high school teachers, fully three-fourths have 40- and 45-mlnute periods, while a few have one hour periods. In an aided school of this class nothing less than 30 minutes Is accepted The greatest single gain has been this lengthening of the recitation periods, and upon the whole situation In this respect Is satis factory. . Dear-Sic;- be of interest to the’ many Con federate soldiers, How gathered in your hospitable city, I enclose sta tistics which show' that the Soutn with 600,000 soldiers withstood an lnvai}ion of 2,778,30'4 men for four STOLE HIS JEWELS A HTRANGK STORY COMES FROM —cmcjtccjr ~ Robbery, Romance and Affinity Mil. gled In Many Sided Story Reveal ed by Woman. , '4:~' At Chicago a many-sided story c f R will jobbery and-romance—of the af tears. Casserave- O. I.ee ecy<- wftr sti rcrngnl/eil authority on civil ,w£r statistics per- oared ann published in a' Vlrginlu paper the following Interesting tablj Unity" varlmy^ is revealell In the ar rest, announced Tuesday, of—^Mr»^ Martha Mabelle Dunphy wife John Duffpfiy. a prominent Boston physician, on a charge of appropriat- ing $10,000 worth of diamonds nnd securities. Chnrlen K Ciles, a Boston money- lender, is the complainant againsti Mrs nunnhv. Ilia -iitory to the ’Chi- cago police included a recital of sup in the Confederate army. The foreigners and negroes In the northern army aggregated 6841,312- or 80,917 more than the total strength of the Confederate. There were 316,421 men of south ern birth in the northern army. Mr. Lee's figures are as follows: Northern Army; Whites from the north. .^.-2,272,333 Whites from the south , 316,017 Negroes 186,Oli Indians 3,530 though one of the best In the State Is n two-year’ school. Nine-tenths of tho high «'’hools offer a three- year course, no matter how many nor how few teachers. Last year there were but four public high schools In -the State wlMn^etarwiar t four-year course, and enough teach ers to teach it. The report for 1908- 09. will show perhaps eight standard four-year schools. To he sure more than four schools claim a four-ye-.r course. Several schools claiming a four-year course were credited wl'h fewer units of work than are requii* 1 ed for a standard three-year course, and one school claiming four years fell below the requirements for a standard two-year course. i lie standard applied io tho high schoo's was that generally accepted by trie colleges of the State, and is below that used by the Carnegie Founda tion Board. The error into which most of these schools have fallen Is to divide their pupils Into four classes with six- and seven-month Intervals of advancement between each two. theji call each division a year in the course. That the reader may see the Validity of some of these claims, some courses are here 'outlined. This is the fourth year - work in one school: The first ha'.' of Myers' General history, Comme. - - Southern men in northern showing tha numerous superiority of ; posed doings at th£ Great Northern the northern army over that of the hotel,' which, wore conducted when South during "the civil war. Mrs. Dunphy disappeared during hr; ^ His figures show that_thfi- total absence from the hostelry. The vil enllstemtnts, In the nortnern army., .laMes disappeared said he, along were 2,778,304, as aginst 600,000 with Mrs.HDunpl.y. Total 2.778,304 Southern Army. __ _ Southern army 600,OOP dal Arithmetic five times a week, three books of IMane Geometry, and forty-five hours during the year' to Tappans History of Literature. Another four-year school gets through the Second Book of Caesar lllc War, foili* hooks of FMane Rry, and Tappan's Literature, ^tfinibers of these courses show tha' l the third-year and the fourth-year Some noticeable Improvement l«j classes are together in more than tne competency of the teachers har been made, but in this respect condit ions are far from satisfactory. Many places are willing to pay from $1,200 to $1,600 for a supervising principal, but give him cheap aadstants. It „ is utterly useless to talk about get- one study. One must not be misled by the term literature In many of these schools. It is nothing mor»* than reading about the authors ot literature—a little biography, if th truth must bo told. Tho poverty of some of thee*- four ting a competent and e.^>erleoe«Hi ( ^ear courses is more, than effsot tn- woman, fitted to do high school p* on,e of the Plethoric ‘hree-year teaching, at $40 a month, or a man course*, some of which are forml dahle affairs. At randouy I tak one year's wort from one of these —otirses: Arithmetic, Algebra. Rhet oric, Literature. Latin (reading. grammar^itML prose composition), I'hyskai Geography, History, an I Business Methods (an innocent litt 1 who has shown hlnn-Rif qualified. -* at $60. It U painful to me to sav this, for among Just' such teacher-' are some of my best personal friends But I know only too well that tn< standard of the high schools depend- upon the standard of tho)r teach Nbrth’s numerical super iority 2,178,304 In the northern army there were: Germans .. .. ........ 176,800 Britlsh-Amcricans y . .... ’63,500 Irish .. ; 144,200 English 45,000 Other nationalities 74.000 Negroes •’ 186,017 FISH AND GAME. PROPERTY OF THE STATE AN'Y ’WHERE IT MAl BE. ’"C -- Some Facts About' the Matter Not # Generally Known by the People of **' * v the State. -•‘UV Mr. Janies H. Rice, Jr., sctfrOtary of the Audubon Society, says rumor* come to him now and then to the ef fect that certain parties claim the right to hunt and fish on their own lands, at any time and in any man ner, whether for bidden by law or GIVES HIS VIEWS SENATOR TILLMAN ON THE LIQUOR QUESTION. Says He Cannot See Where Prohi bitlon Stands Any Chance in the Coming Legislature. : i. • , The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta ehronlcte Says Senator Tilt• man does not endorse the movement headed by Representatives M. L. Smith, C. W. Garris, John G. Rich ards, Jr., State Senator Earle and not. . • - This is vicious doctrine and pr >- geeds—from—ignorance of» law and- the usage of ’civilized countries, e^- mrlally Of the usage of the States throughout the Unoin. — In the first place, as to birds, the act of^i 906 states in the preamble: "■That ail wild birds, whether resi- Total 680.917 Total of southern army... GoO.OOn f army Foreigners Negroes . . 316,42i 494.901 186.01T 998,oi Total • ■ "• Aggregate federal army, MayTT, 1865 1,000,51:; Aggregate Confederate ar my May 1, 1 865 133,43.> Number in battle: Confederates. Federals Seven days flgfta. 80,855 1 15,24.) Antietum 35,255 87,101 Chancellorsvllle .57,212 131.6<>1 Fredericksburg ..78,1 10 1 10.00' . 62,000_ - 95.00') .4 1,000 6a,00'J .63,987 1 41,iCO The accused woman, however is emphatic in'her Icrials of the entire etwy, declaring that ILTs trumped ". by the money-lender In a spirit of revenge. Her husband in , noston stoutly maintains that tnere is no'h- Ing to the charge. In the conrre of the police investi- gatior it dev< loped that the stol''ii property originally had belonged to Mrs. Dunphy, but had been deposit ed with Giles as security for several .oans. ' * "It's all a pack of lits.” tearfully exclaimed' Mrs. Dunphy when asked about the charge. "It’s an outrage if there Is to be a trial, R shall b- In Boston, and not in Chicago." Giles first made his complaint to •he police here something ovtr a week ago. Ho declared ’hat he -tartel witn M’-s. D mphv for I iston. vhere she wps gdng to transfer some real estate to him In payment of her Indebtedness for* money loam'd to her. The trarsacticn was not made, however, said he. and they returnci to Chicivo. At the Great Northern hotel he •old Secretary William Luthart. of he detective (bureau, they occupied ’’h? Fame*'«uwe of rooms. Durtti: his absence from the suite one morn ing. he a.dded, Mrs. Dunphy called a hell boy and complained that stm had lost the key to her trunk. The bell boy was offered a doll at to optn It for her. the story goes he broke the lock and left the trunk In Mrs. Dunphy’s care. When Giles returned, he .aid, Mre.'Dunphy ami the valuables had disappeared. r * 270.00m ing force. Let me tpll sonTh thing 1 tttxO- In this years work every . .1. , .k.t.kll * V. I Ik . ■ Gettysburg . Chlckamauga Wilderness . Federal - prisoners—Hw -Con" federate prisons Confederate prisoners in Federal prisontf'TTTT . . . 220.00m Confederate died in Federal prisons . . . . i .' 24.53 > F.'derals died in Confed erate prisons 22,570 Hoping that these figures will I « if interest to you and the"Confed erate toldler, I am. Yours very truly. WRAPPED IN .MYSTERY. f Two Servant* in a Household Dies Very Suddenly. Kd and i aura rinvis. servanta iu I have seen and heard. I^iave se \i P»PH lakes cvsry ihlng prescribed, more *ffian one high school ^ATFn't'f each pupil is on recitation prnr-- wrestle a half-hinir^SJieti an ordina l Hcally every period during the da; problem in Wentworth's Prac^^^L ^ t>vorn l schools have Arithmetic, Arithmetic, a book usually conij^^^ ed In the 8th grille. In Tnrr's Phy R. C. GREGORY. HYDROPHOBIA TREATED FREE’ leal Geography, a book really too difficult tor the Rth grade where it is usually ToundW nave seen teach ers cover enough ground in one 30- minute recitation to have given profitable work for three such pe riods. In one history recitation I have seen the class read the text like a fourth reader for one-half th< time, then listened t\) the teachei ask twenty to thirty wholly unrelated questions each suggestive Algebra and Geometry in the same Ocorgie State Board of Health Care- year's work, and a few have Physical i Geography and Physics in the same] year, with practically no other sci-j once in the entire course. The majority of the one-teacher high schools undertake the Impn.— slide—710 teach a full four-yiar course. One such school has class es In Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry. Rngilsh Grammar, English Compo sition. Literature, PJiyMcal Geogra phy, U. S. History, S. C. History, General History, Beginner's Lathi; for Victims. ’he household of Rev. Dr. Cart Helm Jones, recently carried to Oklahoma from Lynchburg. ^ .Va , mysteriously ' met their death som* 1 time between Saturday night and Tuesday mcrnlng. Their bodies were discovered before noon by Dr. lones. who reported tho matter to •he police. How they came to their death Is a mystery. There was no evidence of violence on either pf the bodies. The wo man was found lying In a bed in an upper room of a new parsonage soon •o be occupied by the Rev. Dr. Jone*. while her husband was found dead on the floor On a chair the ofllc. r.> found a half bottle of whiskey, also d nt or migratory In this State, shall be, and are hereby declared to be ihe property of the State.” That settles the bird question. No man ownes them; no many may kill therif txeept at sueh times and In su :b manner as the laws prescribe. The same principle applies to fish and game. It was probably true that at first the taking of fish and game was a natural right, whol ly unrestrained by law, as set forth in a Idarned opinion on the subject by the supreme court of the United States. As the population of the earth increased R became necessary to restrain this natural right bv law. in order to insure the perpe ulty of these things for the use of future generations. In America the court declared that fish and game belonging to the State not as a property, but In its capacU is the r; presentative of all the peo ple, following this up by declaring that fish and game are Incapable oi absolute ownership, except in so fa is the State shall elect to make It so, ’hat fish in private ponds and game in resrrves are still the property of the State; that game after it is killed is subject to legislature con trol. There is a line of decisions ou •his point, each ^ne bringing ou -'me pha-e of the subj ct, but al adhering to the original principle lamely, that fish and game are spjll the property of the Slate. Reflecting will show any'due that if this w.re not the case.'it would be impossible to protect either fi»n or game, since the land of a Stati ill belongs to individuals—at least in South Carolina it does. The exercise^of this power by the Stato-is a well established rule of law and there Is no possible chanr* to upset It. The eAeprlse of the.rigiu by States Is all for the purpose of conserving the fish and game a' valuable food - supplies Tor th? peo- TifTc—in sume staTf’S'p'fifi wfi'ra* n'' "•permitted, to be drained off for the There is no such law in South Car: purpose of killing or catching fish ollna, but if there were the citizen? would have to obey it. * others of the old State dispensary- leaders to join forces with the pro hibitionists and pUFff a State-Wide prohibition ?bill through the coming as-was attempted wit out success in the last ' legislature when the county option scheme took the place of the State dispensary sys tftUL A Maiden of Long Ago. Twas In the gladsome ditfs of. long ago, That 1 1 oyed a malden fair; And -' uo changes of time or place — -hare -wrought Any change in my / heart fo> her image there. , 1 have seen other faces' as fair as —^—t hersj . Other forms with as much of airy grace, y . But no other girl in the whole-vWjdj^ world! -At* ',..r y- ] Have I found who could take bef place. I have found other friends who Just as true, „• ' • —Other hearts which were good and cannoj see that prohibition stands any chance of soccers in the coming legislature,” said the Sena tor in answer to a question from ypur correspondent. "With a ma jority of The counties in the State holding on to the county dispensaries, isn't it natural to suppose that the delegations from those counties will stand by the present aystem?" The Senator added that so far as he was concerned it was a matter of indifference whether a prohibition bill was enacted or the present sys tem was continued. Two hundred years from now folks will be wrangling over this same liquor question,” said he, "and it is Idle to talk of settling the problem. T have been seeing the same old tussel over in Europe. The countries that have been longest at it have reached a solution that seems jiuost kind; But no.other heart which could move me so, • • . Or soul so attuned to mine. _r. * I have passed other days which were full of Joy, 'Mid scenes which were free from carer But none to compare w ith the day* of yore— , The days when her form was near. 'How bright were those days, but ——Meeting! Those hours how joyous free; When even the tones of her gentle voice Were sweeter than music to me. But gone are the friends who knew her, And passed are the golden dream*. put her presence stlll abldeth, vfXnd her face, with Its sunlit beams. I can see her pass before me Like the form of one departed; But the thought wblch efteers me onward Is the thought of our souls united. satisfactory to them In the adoption of beers and light wines. During a'l my travels through Italy, France and Germany I never saw a drunken man, but plenty of drinking men. Ov-s.* in London, where a big fight Is on over the matter I saw many drunks. When I was governor I recommend ed this same substitution of light afbohollc drinks. I wanted to see . . . i j v xs ivnaniite ^xi’Ioslon at lianiroonii brer given a chance, y we couM give the beer privilege to a big, re- mines near Gadsden, Ala., STONES BLOWN Through a ..ion's Body at Fire la a Mine. One man Is dead, one missing, one dying and four others injured by • THRU.I.ING BESTIRS. A dispatch from AfTaqla says Iriirtly emptied bottle oi blacklterrv not tho State board of health mad arrangements .for treating free ol of tnc answer expected. Day alter day • i Caeaar and Ovid. One teacher m i.v tee teachers vainly altem|rtlng to teach o f-w subjects through a fou’ teach English grammar and punctu- . vear course, ajjaf do It well, Jiut o.) i rules and "the few j such a course as the one Just given wine. Dr. Jones scouts the idea that 'hey committed suicide! and says -charge persons threatened with hy- they were not addicted to the use of drophobia, it is quite probable (hat j drugs many deaths from this dread diteas • Dr. Jones ridicules the idea that would have rsulted during the paut I the blackberry wine, which is summer and fail. The seas’n Just [thought to have c ntalned poisor passed was one most unusual in [-could have been Intended for bin this- line. There seemed to hav been an epidemic of mad dogs. Realizing that there were man* people In the State who might ir . ..... victim* of rabid dogs and who did atlon from the rules and the few i such a course as the one Just River. : haV< ; t1u ; mf>ans t0 pay for th ;«H burg. Ya. examples given in the textbook, and i a teacher is wasting bis time and ; tr| . Mniont tho State board of hea ,. ;i j He said the wine was home-made, and the k>qd ordinarily used in th- preparation rH/Jams. It was brought along with the\tlm/dioiitehold goodr frdm^tho J6nes Uvmily from Lynch t . ha .' ZZ?’ .T17V5 l f | m a d7aVrangcmentrto7rVat W ‘pa‘tUnts | CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. every textbook the child uses isjuh rtupll. His time and effort are u:-, without charge lf brouKht t0 Atlan:a of the very iliustrftttons neffftc i vM-d up among su man. subjects ’ uf to pf , nd . the tn . a , m( . Jlt t0 ttl „ Ki , Icd by a Latin 1. usually referred to as a de^thatht^sues none of them long h ^ of the language; It might with propriety hr moKgh pnd far eirongh to get any US4 , jH , y called deadly lu some Instances. Not a few hlg schools pupils after jlu even [the bett^^tt'liuufe -the aver lltff^oi ,n«rt nm f»r rmraim •„ b . )w {M , jHiili.s ior knD.yatc oat ol pW fJrec , j>a4lents have been ^Pt-aleft-anT two years of Latin study are unable age pu,-|! 4tets bu^. li^out^of suen Jn , 8 work ha8 t)O0n d e taoa8t rSwirT> to separate a word into its sylables subjects £fivsk-al -(lapyrapnv, ~ ‘or to determine the length of a sy,- physics, an !^(.’LvIcsvfit*cause they ar*' lable. In translation it is no un- not-studlcofoiig enough to 1,onr, l'i 0 f b e a ]th common thing to,hear such as this: [(he pupil , T8 ‘ . "Gallla-Gautr'est-is, omnls-all, dlvlsi-j The high schocts.^Tk^ the-conimo'i- ' have been one of the, jirost trjpiT- tant ‘brar^ches of t^e^feate board t cnanging of lead ers. A comparison - a. plqtol or rifle. In file 1 of this year i schedule with that if , r.,,. , ,o . ^ ba, a Taw- hours later , [ Vaet year sh i > ws—that itfh wtioTe *" The boy, was standing divided, in-in, partes-parts, tres- schools, super from endless three," etc. As a specimen product.cnanging of of the vigor of the Latin grafted \ npon the flexibility of the English note this: "The army having been j course has been overhauled and re drawn up more as the nature of the; organized, and in some cases the new place and the slope of the hill and [ course seems to be given over to re- the necessity of the time than as viewing pas^ work. Perhaps such course is necessary, but it shows a fearful vast of energy somewhere. In at least two cases the new teach ers have taken the pupil out^f last years Sth and 9th grades, added a -few recruit*, and made a four- year school. Presumably progress. WILLIAM H. HAND.;: University of South Carolina. ; are the wTfe, throe Children and the niece of Sheriff George RobsrtsT. Stray Shot. MARRIED WHILE DRINK the order and plan of military things demanded, since the different legions some in one part and some anothet were resisting the enemy and thy thick hedges having been cast down," etc. (See Caesar’s Gallic War, Book II, chapter 22.) The teacher who_ adeepted this Jargon holds a , col-, lege diploma, and is exempt from ex- j amlnatlon of fitness to teach. On Ami Took His Life Upon Sobering Up Afterwards. —- Rejects Dispensary. . ' Shot to Death. Union county by vote on last Tues- While sitting In the back ' rqoni day refused to re-establish the dis- of her home at Pooler, ten mibte pessary In her borders. Last Do- from Savannah. Wednesday morning, eember Hie dispensary was voted * i Mrs. W. E. Torrence, the wife of by a majotyy of eleven, but the elec- an engineer, was flrod upou from the sss 7" tk>A=a—T.<ajt aside on accoun. Irregnlaritiea. The majorTTy agigSt aad inatairtty- kli'led. The boy was the dispensary the recent election captured and is now In jail, was OMrly throdi hundred. The suicide of J. W.-Hutchlnson, a wealthy land owner of Harnscn county, was the culmination of a sensational marriage in Paris, Ky . that is | Tuesday afternoon, in which Hutch inson and Miss Nannie Sweenfor.l were the contracting parties. Hutchinson's suicide took place less than twenty-four hours after the wedding, and followed an effort on his part oa^ly Wednesday morning at Paris to have the marriage se;. aside. He consulted an attorneji with this view, telling him th&t hie knew JForij Killed la Battle. A battle between >apago and Taqnl Indiana has taken place nor‘h of Altar. Sonora, and that forty Yaqtils wqre killed. According :o reports th* Mexican government arm* •d the Papagos. who lured the Yayuls la to ambush and slaughtered them. \t< as Not a l,»-al Balloon. It has developed that the balloon reported as having passed over Kingatree was omy a "fire’ balloon sent up from the back lot of an en terprising merchants. In daylight and at a distance it looked like a real balloon, and *o fooled all th« people, as can be done sometimes • r A "dispatch froili' Laurens says accident it appears to have been from present reports, occurred late T huriiTay 'afternoon .n tho western part of the j:ity. when Abe Shell, a little negro-boy, ago(t-Blx<. years, was shot through the bowels with either pls.tol or rifle, ln(Uetln#<p.,wouad r. proved fatal, ling in the front vard of his home near the power house when ho was hit. He at once went to bed, where bis motnrr ''oniing In a little later found him. She communicated with the police, seeking medical aid for his chill which was secured. It is reported ’hat two or three- young white boys of thgr’City were in tire .^Copeland woods near by shooting, and the sup position Is that a stray shot from their guns or pistols struck the n£- gro boy. Police and Firemen Perform Great Service at Fire. Policemen and firemen made a out (<er of thrilling rescue* in a tenament house fir- in Brooklyn Thursday night. From an adjoining nouse Policeman Zerwlck, reached the roof of tin* burning house an! ntterfipted - to rescue a half-dozei frightenej people through a scuttle There was no lad ler, however, and ’he one he obtained from the n< x house was three feet short. Lowering the short ladder through the scuttle the policeman hung down hy his arms and stejuiied the ladder with his feet, allowing a woman an l several children to climb up, step ping on his face as they got out onto the roof. Several firemen swung themselves acrosw * from an adjoining building and saved women aaid clitldren n the tire escapes of the burning build ing. . * NEW Wednesday morning, when he found himself in the home of his bride In Cypthiana. where he was made ac- UU iintcd with the facts. Both Hutchlnsota and his bride were promlnentlj^connected. He al- Wged that he and several others were intoxicated when tha marriage was eat R-” performed. . . P.lg Tobacco Fire. The Imperial Tobacco Company’.' plant at Mullins, containing two an!* one-half miIllon / pounds of leaf to bacco, was entirely destroyed by fir? at 11 o'clock Monday morning. Oth er Targo iadustiTal plants were saved u^l*4*|-through the heroic efforta--of prl- cRf. charging him vate citizens. The loss Is •stimate i ’ two hats with feathers from With I-urge Capital Recently Organ ized at Richmond, Va. •*' 5 "**- .4; ' With a maximum cSpTlaro’f $20,- 000.000, the State corpora’lon com- triiss.ioh of'Vlrglnla, has" granted' a charier to the Industrial Chemical Company, of Richmond, whose pur pose,Tt Is. said, is to fun In oppo sition to the monopoly now held by tne Virglnia-Carplfff'a .Chemical Com pany. The backerS'of ue new con cern are among Rlchhond s leading business men, headed" by Charles B Branner, as president. The charter stipulates the purpose of the coi:-;. corn to be those of dealing and man ufacturing chemicals, engaging in th;- mining business and such other things as wilT not be contrary to the laws of the State. The company i- allowed the right of constructing railroads and other accessories to the business; c * Another Milliner Arrested. At SparatuburgTIIonday Mr. Jamoa Henry Rice, Jr., secretary of the Audubon Society, swore out a war rant against J. M. Goodlet, proprie tor oTa well known millinery estab lishment on East Main street, in the fashionable shopping district of the sponsible concern that would be under a heavy bond, say something like a half million dollars, to se't beer throughout the State under cer tain definitely stipulated conditions, we would do much for lue cause of temperance, and get big revenue for tiie State besides." Senator Tillman occupies a unique position in the present situation re garding whiskey in -this State.^ Mi ls not with the State dispensary lea 1- •'rs in their •efforts to join forces with the prohibitionists. He is not wl'h the prohibitionists, and he is not an unqualified endorser of the county option t^henie. He thinks every county^in the State would be betlet off having dispensaries. "I venture to say," said he In answer fo a question, "that counties like Orangiburg, Stfmler and Flor ence, which-are retaining the dlspen saries, are In a much better state morally than such counties as Green- vljle, Spartanburg and others; which have voted out thelj 1 ' dispensaries, and where blind tigers are doing tli- business.” ** : When ho was reminded that R appeared to have been proven that the police records of the dry countiel had materiilly improved the senator said this was only temporary, that it would only be a’ short time in a county going d r.y - before It was In a worse state morally than it had beei on voting out its.dispensaries. On the whole tne Senator did not appear to be much interested in th t situation and answered questions guardedly. ' - --*• Ruying a Uiano or nn Organ In Not Hard when you come or write to us. Our Pianos and Organs are guar- mteed and up-to-date, and at a reas onable price. The cases are beautiful, the in side is made by the best and most experienced .men in their lines, io it is no wonder our pianos and organs holds their sweet tone a lifetime. Write/tis ht once^for catalog and special price and terms, stating pref erenre piano or organ. ,- MALONE’S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, 8. C,^^ Pianos and Organs. at nine o'clock Thursday night. Almost s -e- .-r> r plate glass" window in Gadsden was broken and twenty-four miners’ nouses in the vicinhy of the- explo sion were razed to the ground and many others damaged. The fire de partment had responded to the alarm of .8^ ifcuso burning, being near a magazine. Hundreds of spectators standing near the scene when tho explosion occurred and every one within a wide^radloua were hurled lo the ground. Stones were blown entirely through the body of Henry Kell, and no trace can be found of Arttnrr CLASSIFIED COLUMN WANTED. TEACHERS—TUI NTKKti. We secure schools for teachers have many excellent vacancies. W* recommend teachers to trust*** and sell school furniture of ah kinds. Write. ^outhern Teach ers' Agency, Columbia. H. O. WANTED—Hy the American ColUts and Ruslness University of Mill edgeVille, Georgia, Students to take one or)’ more of our course In cotton grading, buying asd selling. Business course of Book keeping, Shorthand. Typewrltln* or Telegraphy anu Rallroao course. ‘ Positions guaraataac under reasonable condtllons Write at once for our consollda’ ed Catalog, largest College Booth Let' Me 8hop for You—If you want street suit, wedding trousseau, evening or reception gown, let me send you my samples and esti mates. Cq.n give any price gown the market affords. Simple and inexpensive, or handsome ana- costly. Miss J. E. JOSEPH. 1006 Franklin street, Lou^yille, Ky. FOR HALE—Common building brick red color. Immediate delivery Price upon application^ Camd®» Press Brick Co., Caindea, S. C. WANTED—Pine logs bought foi i eaahi * * For paeUeulars address I*res9 Lumber Co., Hum ter, 8. O.. & ouTHERN States Supply Com ?any* IVIaf..hlnery Supplies ♦jaantrifai a—* . | Rlumb ng ^uppHos PHONE 164. COLUMBIA, S C. Gibbcs "Portable” s ^ u Latest Model. A ••TRIUMPH” com pared w 1 th old ones. Hard Wood Carriage. Solid Steel Track. Smoothest Action. Aeon rate Hawing. Perfeot Equip- ment. A money-maker indeed. Quickly pays for It self. Write. Next .Week! Watch This c... from $25,000 to $30,000, presumed t* be covered 'by-Hwurance. Landlady: "What’s the... matter with that pie? Boarder; "It Isn’t snowy egi^t, the most famouns bird of plumage liTthe world. Negro Pickpocket Caught. At Columbia a negro named Jones As the mind is tongue Inclined. bent so Is tho fit for a pig, and I’m not going to' was arrested Thursday by the Fair grounds police for attempting to ^ pick the pockets of Mr. Wright, of When a mau s half-backed he may Sumter. There were several cas^s still be undone when he goes home brought before Magistrate Riley by »nd gets roasted. Chief Fred Strickland and ’s men • The American All-Wrought Spilt Steel I’ulleys. STANDARD DESIGN The Pulley Thai All Want. WE CARRY A LARGE STOCK. - Also carry a large etock of Wood Pullen Shafting Hangers, Belting and anything else, you might wish m this line. When you are in the market, write us COLUMBIA SUPPLY COMPANY. Columbia, S. C. - *