Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Sftv»r Sarvtea WM N Given to Ike Bottlesiilp - NAMED AFTER STATE CANNOT BE SOLD r*Zm 1t •* ,*ea ftwnrr • company mat ship CONDEMNED MEAT. Cmr a>BUdAinc Danag^d Pood Will He Healed by City Inspector aad Opened at Factory Tank. *< A dfipatch from Greenville aaya City. Moat Inapector Smith and City Attorney McCullough were in con- * 1 ** 1 ~TTW*_■ — Vf .. ■ -^rr ^ fii the Gift WUch the State f«rence Monday afternoon with rep- L'.' ; v. mr; The commlaalon to sefect the ailver reaantatlvea of the Swift Company regarding the dlipoaltlon of the 70,000 poanda of meat con demned Safufday, owing to Ita hav ing been soaked In sewage. At a eervlce tot the jew- battleahlp South meeting of the board of health held Carolina hae made Ita aelectlon of u t 5 o'clock Dr. Smith reported thal the general deigns that are to be th * P ackln « company would be al lowed to ship the meat, which 1» Ski'; w . - .— / 7. ^-4,. used, and naturally expects beautiful work. The abmmlsaltm haa^hde ex cellent aelectiona as the outline of the apeciflcations Indicate. Gorernor Ansel it a member of the commlaalon. and ip giving consider able time and thought to the work. Messrs. John B. Cleveland, of Spar* tanburg, and George D. Bryan, of f.HArliMitstn a ra t Ka anrwkintivA ” nwi I^ avvrit, exx tr IIIV7 B|»jr\7i n trTv^ flldTI” bers of the commission, and Messrs. E. Marlon Rucker, and Col. W. L. Mauldin are the ex-offlelo members. When Col. Cleveland came to the first meeting of the commission at which the general scheme of the de signs were discussed he had a pretty well worked out aeries of Illustra tions and decorations. The whole matter wrj fully and freely discussed by the members of the commission, and with the artists, who were pres ent. The large and centre pieces are to valued at over gM®0, to one of Us soep plants, with the understanding that the car be sealed here by the Inspector and opened at the soap works And consigned to the tank by a government inspector. The condemning of the meat and Us disposition have caused consider able agitation tn Greenville. When the peeking company's representative arrived he gave out the statement that he was constrained to follow any suggestion Inspector Smith might make In the matter, but not withstanding the authorities will take every precaution to see that the Inspector's orders bre carried out to the letter. Acting In the mat ter Dr. Smith not only had the local authorities behind him but he wss barked up by Dr. Williams of the State board: A number of towns in the State wired asking for informa tion concerning the disposition of the TRtfr-' be decorated with three historic 1 condemned meat. Spartanburg and events. One piece Is to have the 1 Columbia being among the cities to scene of Jasper replacing the flag, make Inquiry. at Fort Moultrie. Another Is to have i In an Interview G. W. Chandler, an engraving of the dinner Marlon manager of the Southern business of is said to have given the British Swift ft Co., said that his concern officers, and which has been used had no Idea of endeavoring to sell In a picture by White, and the third the meat which was condemned Sat is to be a picture of Mrs. Motte I nrday by Inspector Smith. He de- pb m-'H Ksifi' destroying her own home, near Fort Motte, Calhoun county. An examination of the specifica tions Indicate that the designs are to include the palmetto, pine, cypress. Magnolia, lice, tobacco, strawberry, melon and peaches. In fact, the Idea is to incorporate the trees and plants indlgneous to this State. The flags of the State, the coat-of-arms and other Inaignia of the State are to be need wherever the general design admit. The commission has given the pub lic the complete details of Its de sign. Mr. A. S. Salley. Jr., of the State historical comhnlsslon, In a letter to The Sunday News, suggests that the events Intended to be re corded In the silver service lack historic corroboration, ^pd went into Interesting details. He says that some of the events did not happen, as far as history records. The com mission will explain further Its po sition and reason for selecting the events that are to be used as the central pictures. In the meanwhile the exact specifications, which the artiste have been asked to use, are here given: Specifications covering silver serv ice to be presented by the State of South Carolina to the United States battleship South Carolina: Competitors to submit designs on or by the 16th day of June. 1909; all tenders to be within the appro priation of $6,000; the metal to be of uniform fineness, standard grade, sterling sliver. The, propositions to give the ca pacity of all hollow ware and the weight In ounces of each piece sepa rately. Workmanship to be of the best and to follow In all details the de signs submitted. Propositions to embrace the fol lowing pieces: One punch howl, seven gallons. One plateau for punch bowl. Twenty-four cups, one-half pint. One ladle for punch bowl. One centre piece. One water pitcher, three quarts. One tray for water pitcher. One tea set. consisting of five pieces and a kettle and tray for same. Two fruit dishes. Two roast dishes, one with well and tray; one without, both same size. One fish dish. One salad bowl. Two bonbon dishes. Two compotlers. ' Two vegetable dishes with cov ers. Two entre dlshe*. One Humidor cigar box. made of native wood, cedar, to hold three hundred cigars, silver mountings and ornaments. The general design to be plain and simple as far as Is consistent with the ornamentation specified. The dsigns to consist of a com bination nautical In their suggestion, sad the tres, fruits and flowers in- dlgenons to this Stats, for Instant*?, palmetto, pine, cypress, magnolia. and trumpet vine; corn, wberry, nnd peaches. These can be borders and around the the sides of the large In the botoms of the trays arms and seal of the of the State and navy, Will Do All Possible to Secure Re lease of Dr. Royajlan. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., says Hagood Gastanlan of I.ynn, Mass., left for his New England home Monday evening with the body of bis son, Harotoon Gastanlan, who was fatally shot Friday In the De troit police coflrt by his uncle, Dr. Oarabed J. Doyailan. Speaking of the crime the dead youth’s father said: “Dr. Boyajian Is nearer to me than a brother. I blame him not, even though he has slain my son. I will do all I can to releas* him from prison. It Is the will of God, and I bow before It. I believe my boy was Innocent, hut do not blsme the doctor for what he did. because he believed him guilty. When our peo ple marry, thejf marry for good, not for a short time like the American people seem to do. Any offense against the home Is punishable by death.” ;■< dared hls^willingness to make any disposition of the meat that Is de sired by the city authorities. FORGIVES SON’S SLAYER. EGYPTIAN COTTON SENATOR riq'/ KM THAT IT SB TAXED. FOUR MEN HANG ' Young Turks Exscuts Thlrtssn Turn Them I/we. Parents do wrong in keeping their dilldfCh hanging around home, shel tered and enervated by parental in dulgence. The eagle does better. It stlra up Its nest when the young eagles are able to fly. They are com- KgyptUa Cotton, Grown fat the Nile Valley, Compete. Seriously With Southern Long Staple Cotton. The Washington correspondent of ^The News and Courier says la a speech on the floor of the Senate a day of two ago. Senator Fletcher, of Florida, declared that South Oaro- Packing iina ion* staple cotton, was the beat. raised and commanded a better price on the market than that grown any* where else In this country. In adding to thl* he threw considerable light on long staple growing along the sea islands of the South AtTShttc coast generally. Speaking of this industry the flor* Ida Senator said: The production of cotton on an important scale began about 1789, when we produced 3,000 bales end the price was 28 cents per pound. In 1799 we' produced 46,000 bales and the price was 44 cents. In 1800 the production was 73,000 bales and the price was 28 cents. In 1820 the production was aver 3QQJ)00 end the price 17 cents. From 1840 to 1850 It reached the low price of 5 cents per pound, and again about ten years ago. The Introduction of the factory, the utilization of the sred and by products, the use of cot ton In place of wool and silk and hemp in Increasing quantities have made the crop today worth more than double what It was ten years ;\go, md the Increase in the value of the crop In one year, caused by the presence of factories at the fields, doubtless would more than pay for all the spindles In the South. Even now the grower, labor and supplies having gone up, is making no tre mendous profit. , The value of the exports from this crop amounts annualy to 2482,000,- 000. It Is said that if Europe had stacked up all the gold and all the silver mined from the earth for the past six years and shipped it to the South she would still owe us $200,- 000,000 for our raw cotton alone. The protection given to cotton yarns and cotton cloth may to some extent help the price of cotton. I question if the former Is benefltted thereby materially. There Is but lit tle of the short-staple cotton Import ed. There Is produced In this coun try. however, the sea island or long- staple cotton, which competes with that grown In the West Indes and In the Valley of the Nile. On the free list in the pending bill are "cotton and cotton w»ste or flocks.” The annual crop of long- staple cotton fluctuates, but the aver age production may be fairly esti mated as follows: Florida. 31,000 bales; Georgia, 52,000 bales, and South Carolina, 12,000 bales—of about 400 pounds each. The Growing Area. The producing area being about Charleeton and extends down the coast to the Georgia line, and then It leaves the coast and extends south through Georgia into Middle Flori da. About one-thlrd of the South Carolina crops gives a staple 2 to 2 1-2 Inches long, and It Is sold gen erally for export at from 40 to 80 cents per pound, it is the finest staple produced. The "East Florida” sta ple is 1 3-4 to 2 inches long; the "Florida” 1 5-8 to 1 3-4 Inches. The "Georgia” staple Is 1 5-8 inches long but not so fine as the "Florida.’ Fineness Is a factor with the spinner and only the superlative fine fibre brings the fancy price. Outside the - i- y PLANED BY SULTAN Os* 'A special dispatch to the Colum- -.aduiu b , a ny> senator Tillman fav- Evldence Hamid Knew BMotehnnd of the Adana Massacres list orf Houses ' With Notes of tbs Kind oL boot to Be Found. Thirteen civilians nnd soldiers ssntenced by the Military Court to death for murder were hanged In different parts of Constantinople at 4 o'clock Monday morning. TRADE L. ■ • -s » ON LUMBER AND ON COTTON ‘ A 1 r ~ ‘ ‘ ‘ *■’. ' ~ TIES AND BAGGING. y.-/ Senator Tillman Hays the Hap of Protection is Not Worth What It costs DemoeracyT ors free trade la lumber and trill vote for it. He believes that in the -end Democratic defections from the declarations of the party platform, will give the vTctory to those Repub licans desiring a duty, but he ex- preses Ion pelled to shift for themselves, for the old .eagle literally (runs them out, islands of South Carolina the price Major Youssef, his son and three other men, who killed the Syrian deputy, Emir Mohammed Arslan, In front of the Parliament building, were executed on the spot where they committed the crime. Five others were hanged at the entrance of the ministry of war and three men at the Stambonl end of the Galata bridge. Upon the breast of each criminal had been placed a large placard In Turkish, setting forth the sentence of the Court. Around the foot of the gibbets on the bridge the early morning buyers of fruits, flowers and vegetables pro ceeded as usual, while the bodies were In full sight of the great crowds that made their way over the bridge between Stamboul and Galata. Major Youssef was commandant of the 1st battalion of the 7th reg iment. Among the non-commission ed officers executed was Hamid Bin Yechar, a sergeant In the fourth hat- talllon of the Saloniki chasseurs. The men executed on Galata bridge were guilty of the murder of Lieut. Elis. Major Youssef was the man who, after the murder of Deputy Arslan, made his way to the house of Par liament, and In a speech denounced the members for acting against the laws of the Koran. Yechar was the man who planned the details of the revolt of April 13, and was commander-in-chief and practically dictator of Constantino ple for the two days following. The other eleven men worked under Yechar. Mourad, editor of the newspaper Nizam, was tried by court-martail to day. A member of the court-martial read the Sultan’s flrmin, confirming the sentences of each place of execu tlon, and priests prayed, with the condemned men for two hours before their execution. The bodies were left hanging until 2 o’clock and were seen by at leaV one hundred thousand of the popu Tatlon of the city. Documentary evidence has been discovered among the records of the telegraph office here of the knowl edge of the Constantinople authori ties that massacresjiad been planned for the Adana district, and that they were to coincide with the political events here. Other papers have been found In dlcating also that the conspirators at the palace acted In tha Sultan’s name In preparing the military muti ny of April 13. Lists of houses, with notes of the kind of loot to be found therein, were discovered on some of the prisoners now In custody. The arrangements included a general massacre of foreigners in Constanti nople, Including the diplomatic rep resentatives on April 24. Supply (jonipany COLUMBIA, S. O. '4-r THEY ARE MYTHS EVENTS THAT DI& NOT HAPPEN . MAY:RB. ~ : ~r - : CLASSIFIED COLUMN v&l ; ■ •' V ■ • ■; Real bargain* In aecond hand runabouts and touring cara. Mr. Prospect, it la up to you to Inves tigate. E. A. Jenkins Motor Co.» Phono 1778, Cointnbla, S; G. 1811 Main. i st himself as far from the opln-,-Represented on the Silver Service lyianftwr iffy Torn i hnaMav. tn that such a forecast jusflfiea . W«t»^«r«raL hatUdfl to repto- Democrats in faHllng Into line with That the State la to Gfare the Hat- f “• m0 * t oroanerona lanedrr (ieship South Carolina. and at the same time tears all the down and feathers from the nest. ’TIs this rude and rough experience that makes the king bird of hlrds*so fearless In his flight and so expert In the pursuit of prey. -to or otherwke; State House, with the national am- ; historical designs Si <* y Moultrie, and the following emblem: "Pre sented by the State of South Carolina to 'the Untted States battleship ‘South Carolina.’ ” "Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.” The designs to be different on each piece and to be so used as to avoid crowding, simplicity preferable to or nateness, less attention paid to show than elegancy, the general motive simple, elegant and dignified. The successful bidder to deliver the service, properly packed, not lat er than the 15th day of January, 1910. The successful bidder to give bond In the sum of $2,000 to make delivery at the point to be hereafter to be designed, on or before the date named, and have the service insured at his or their expense until pre sentation lg made. Formal contract to be entered Into between the suc cessful* bidder and the commission, the commission reserving the right to reject any or all bids and designs. After the execution of the work the design shall become the property of the State of South Carolina, and turned over to the State historical commission. Payment for said serv ice to be made as follows: Cash, on delivery jjt. the service and .ac ceptance of same by the commission. Dpne it Columbia, S. C., April 27, 1809. M. F. ANSEL, airman of Commission. The commission has no axe to OOinbt-f**to4r- it-wants to render the beat possible service to the 8t%te, and the discussion, If tjiere Is to be any had, better come befpre the work it done rather than after the designs have been accepted, and the engraving finished. The commission wants to hnve good reasons assigned for say change, and will no doubt accept any SDggedtlons-in-the best of spirit, where each suggestions are not mere ly captious and Is accompanied Ay “sometfalng better/ There will, how bo no change unles there bo »h of* tr * ' 4 \ her w •• Gen. Is about 20 cents per pound. *’ Egyptian Cotton. ^ The West Indes is the original hippie of the plant and produces about 1,000 bales annually. It was In 1786 that the plant was transplanted on i he American Continent from the West Indes. There Is produced In (he Valley of the Nile a cotton which Is capable of competing with our sea Island cotton. This rich region pro duces about 1,500,000 bales of 400 pounds each annually. It Is a long- staple, fine fibre cotton, and about 150,000 bales of it are imported by American mills every year at a price ranging about 15 cents per pound. It spins well and wastes about 8 per cent less in going through the va rious processes of preparation for the spindle than does the sea Island cot ton. The Egyptian cotton wastes about 25 per cent, while the sea Island wastes about 33 per cent. The Egyptian staple Is about 1 5-8 inches long; but Is preferred to the Ameri can .for some purpose because of less waste and greater strength and its color. It seems that while the Egyptian cotton is a near relation of the sea island, It cannot be grown in our country. A duty of 5 cents a pound on the lint cotton would yield a reve nue of $3,000.000—150,000 bales be ing 60,000.000 pounds. This cotton is used In the manu facture of mercerized silks and finer goods of tha highest and most ex- .jicnaive .class, on .which tbl* hill pro poses a duty of 54 per cent, while the total wage cost is about 20 per cent. The actual cost of producing the cotton is about $21 per acre. The avearge yield hr about 19 to 169 potrad* of~Hnt to the -aere. -The -price now is less than 20 cents per pound. __ . " • x Sooth Could Supply the World. Seventeen counties in Florida are now producing the long-staple cotton. It can be grown in more than h*lf the counties of the State. Suitable soil, climate, and conditiona exist in Georgia, Booth Carolina and’Flori da, and, to a certain extent and de gree, the Mimlsaippi Delta, to supply the world, and as a revenue-pro ducing item is would prove ono of beet among all the schedules, it an important industry. If I am- ‘ — , mmmmj m m » ; t , GOV. McSWEENEY ILL. Suddenly Stricken by AttiM* of Indi- digretlon. A long distance phone message from Hampton to The State says while returning from his office to his home Tuesday about 3 o’clock, ex- Oov. M. B. McSweeney was suddenly stricken and fell unconscious. His two young sons were with him at the time and summoned help. He was taken to his home, where he was found to be In a very serious condition. Tuesday he had not re covered consciousness. Acute Indi gestion is given as the cause of his attack. The former governor has been In bad health for the past sev eral months. It Is said that there Is very little hope that he will sur vive the attack. the party In power, A vpte for pro tected lumber, In his '"opinion, is a vote against forest preservation and also a yote against the claims of Democracy to control the house of representatives two years hence and the whole country after President Taft’s term. "What’s the use of hurrahing ‘round the country for the safeguard ing of our forests," he said, “when yon are crying at the same time for a duty on lumber that will keep foreign timber From cfamlng in sparing our own trees for the next generation? You have seen the de struction of our forests In the past few y^ears. f|bw, ImportaHon Ipl lumber from Canada would save some of our trees from being cut, while this duty they are demanding, keeps the foreign lumber out and makes us cut down our own for- estp.” With forests as far away from the Southern pine fields as Canada, Sen ator Tillman does not believe the free Importation iof lumber could affect the" profits'of South Carolina mills, while It might materially lower the price of lumber to the consumer. As to who owns the South Carolina standing timber he Is not certain, though he is Inclined to agree with Senator Nelson that a part of it at least Is In the hands of Michigan corporations and holders In the far Northwest. It is through, the Influ ence of these Northwestern men that the price of lumber In South Carolina would be raised under a protective duty, though In the local field a tariff of itself have no such effect. “Two-thirds of the white people of South Carolina,” said Mr. Tillman, “live above Columbia. Nearly all the yellow pine and every bit of the loblolly is below Columbia. Now, why should I vote to impose a higher cost upon those people up there when they want ,to build houses and barns?” Senator Tillman was sitting In the room of the committee on the five civilized tribes, of which he is chair man, when I found him tb ask about the tariff. He was barricaded behind a pile of books, all of sombre bind ing, the most dashing of which was entitled "The Romance of Steel, a volume telling of the manufacture of iron In the melodramatic fashion of a treatise on chemistry. "I am trying to find out something about cotton ties,” said the senator, "and there seems to be a lot of it. In regard to cotton bagging, there is apparently reasonable hope that Senator Aldrich will let that go on the free list. If the Southern Demo crats work together for that end but on ties, while Senator Aldrich has asked Mr.*T!llmah for informa tion, he expressed himself as fioubt Ing his ability to grant the request The senator from Rhode Island, said Senator Tillman, was under the Im pression that ties are made chiefly in Chattanooga, Birmingham and other centres near the Southern mines and he felt that ample protec tlon ought to be accorded these new manufacturing districts on an article like tiea for which they would have a large local demand. It was to meet that objection that Senator Tillman devoted himself to light literature of the "Romance of Steel” sort. The Information he found encouraging. Ties, he dls rovered, are manufactured almost exclusively In Pittsburg and the great iron and steel centres of the North, there being only one small plant at Atlanta. The fact that ties are made by plants turning out enormous quantities of other steel goods, all heavily protected, leads Senator Till man to hope that Mr. Aldrich will consent to a removal of the duty. ARRESTS FOR CUSTOM FRAUDS. ployed the language of the authors of this measure, I would say the farmers engaged In It very justly contend that they ought not to be forced to abandon It by competition with Egyptian cheap labor In the fertile Nile region. We pay from 81 to $1.25 per day for labor, which in Egypt ranges about one-tenth that. The land there Is very rich and does not require fertilizing like ours. Wben we say the country needs} the revenue which a tariff bn that for eign product would yield, and such a tariff is required to help equalize the cost of production abroad with that at home, there would seem to he sufficient stated to show the pro priety and Justice of the claim we make from both standpoints. In the year ending June 30. 1908, s ce -cotton was Imported tnto- this cotra-" ^ reduction.of five cepti A i- <• s 1 * try free to the amount of 70,994,- 998 pounds, the value of which was $14,194,406, at 20 cents per ponnd. Waste or flocks imported free amounted to 19,728,298 pounds, val ued at $449,291.14 at 42 cants per ponnd. Duty should be imposed on all cotton Imported so there could bo raised no question regarding propet dtalgnatlon at, any, 8 to 8 cents par ponnd. At If cents per pound the Importation last year of cotton, not counting waits or flocks, would • revenue of i: ImshwMR&j; . v « w The Government Gets Behind Al leged Smugglers. Four arrt'Rts were made Tuesday In New Yo^k bv United States Mar shal Henk<l on charges arising out of the seizure of smuggled trunks at the port of New York about a year ago. The persons taken Into custody were George C. White, a dealer In dressnuakegs’ pupplles. Flprty-flfth street and Fifth avenue; Lome B Walker, a former employe of the customs department; W. H. Kllga- mon, former salesman for George F. Crowley, West Thirty-fourth sfcfeet, and ETTfcabeth Klfgamon, Htf'Wtfc: They were arraigned before Justice Gough In the United States circuit court. was announced a few days ago by the Standard OH Company In the price of all grades of crude oil, ex cept Ragland, which is nnehanged. This is the first change In the prica of most of the other grades since May, 1907, since which Urn# Penn sylvania crude oil has been quoted constantly at $1.78. / i ■ > In a letter to The Sunday News of Charleston, Mr. A S. Salley, Jr., secretary of the South Carolina His torical Commisslonf criticlses the de cision of the Commission appointed to select a silver service for the bat tleship South Carolina. He says: Only a few days ago a commis sion, composed of some of the ablest and most honored men of this State, met hr ^olumbta ami selected the design to go on the silver service that the State of South Carolina Is go ing to present to the battleship South Carolina of the United States navy. It was decided to engrave on the service a number of historic scenes and portraits of distinguished char acters. Not one of the scenes se lected can be depicted save from imagination; one of them cannot be authentic at all, and another can be fully dlsproven by the very best of evidence. The story of Marion inviting the British officer to dine on sweet pota toes cannot pli authenticated. It first appeared in Weems’ ‘Life of Francis Marlon’ in 1809. Gen. Hor- ry of Marlon’s officers, at once P' ^ on need the book fiction, and M "••ms admitte’ In a letter to Hor ry that he had written his book ‘in the form of a military romance.’ From cover to cover the book can be shown by the best evidence to be absolutely false. The ancestors of Marlon were manufactured by the ■nf^rerising romancer, and every oth er story in the book bears the true Weems trade mark. Judge W. D. James, another of Marlon’s former officers, also gav« the stamp of falsity to Weems’ book in his account of Marlon's brigade. Gen. McCrady’s history shows the incident could not have occurred; that Marion and the British officers did not exchange mili tary civilities; that when Marlon first sent a flag oF truce to a British officer he imprisoned him and Marlon retaliated and put an end to all such intercourse. There are a half dozen volumes of memories by Brit ish officers who served in South Car olina and an equal number by Amer ican officers, and not one has a word about such an episode: nobody tells the story of the noble British of fleer who resigned rather than fight neople who lived on roots before they would forego Independence. The laws of war would make the act punishable by death, and there Is In evidence no record of such a case among all the thousands of docn ments that have been handled by hls- tortans In all these years. The only authority Is Weems, and he has been <ilscredlted as to everything else, and ’he facts are against him In this case. , "The same of Mrs. Motte at the burning of her house will be a re versing of established fact. Every single reputable historian Jvho has eyer written of the episode of Mrs. Motte and the arrows, asserts that the house was not bnrrted. Col Lee and Judge James were eye-wit nesses who so state. Mr. C. C. Pinckney Mrs. Motte’s grandson, the Rev Dr. C. C. Pinckney, her great grandson, and Mrs. Harriett Horry Ravenel, her great great-granddaugh ter, have all written accounts In which they say that the house was not burned. A newspaper In the Charleston library contains a men tion of the accidental burning of the honse a few years after the close of the Revolution. "Several times In the past T have cited the Greene-Sumter correspond ence to show that the alleged ride of Emllv Geiger could not have taken nlace: that those two officers never having occupied at the same time the relative positions assigned to them by the story, it would have been phvslcallv Impossible for tfte ride to have taken place; that there la no contemporary record In evi dence to show that Efolly Geiger ever ♦ook a ride at all. After years of search T have not been able to find the scratch of a contemporary pen to show that such a person ever ex isted, and, therefore, I would he glad to have Mr. Davis or any one else furnish the slightest proof that she did before I can believe that ‘she sleeps in a seclude^ spot up near where the Congaree creek mingles Its clar waters with the muddy tide of th» Congaree.’ ‘The writer has been particularly rrtffcST df'file rfedpTl fir MfecWefi- burg county for their adherence to an exploded myth; he has won high praise from many of the ablest and best known historical writer* and critics in America for hla work on that mooted question; he will not in contai f lay himafelf open t6'criticism for f^TcK! flfc. consistency by not protesting against the perpetration of long dUcredited myths a£ part of the history of Carolina." GST aent the most prosperous laundry and dye work* in South OaroUnm; Write at once for new proposition. 4 C. C. Laundry, Columbia, 8. C. Madam Eldon, Scientific Palmist, Clairvoyant and Aatrologlat. Free test reading by mall. Send birth, date and 5 two-cent stamps. 16 West 4 th street, Charlotte, N. C. 8450 will purchase one two-cylinder touring car Ifl first class repair, and fitted with new parti, $250 will purchase one single-cylinder runabout and ready far demon stration. For particulars, address B. L. Montagne, Sumter, S. C. r '.:jsgr Why don’t yon work for Uncle Sam? Civil Service Manual, which pre pares you *>r the 'examination. Three volumes (with maps), $8. pxprews prepaid. Sima’ Book Store, Orangeburg, S.. C. ORIENTAL RUG COMPANY. 1101 Cathedral Ht., Baltimore, Md. We make you handsome and dur able Rugs from your old wornout carpet, any size to fit a room or hall. Let us send you a price list; Just write for one. We sell yonr property—no matter where located. It cost you noth ing If we do not make sale. P. O. Box I, Orangeburg, S. C. 7? Teachers and school officials can get on request, our 1909 booklet ex plaining our methods of assisting teachers to secure positions and supplying schools with teachers. Interstate Teachers’ Bureau, At lanta, Ga. Wanted—City school principal at $75 and several grade teachers at $40. Other urgent calls for experienced teachers. Address South Carolina Teachers’ Agency, Heath Sprlnga, 8. C. 50c for a pair of self-sharpening, 7-inch, tension steel spring shears. Cut anything from tissue paper to tough blanket with ease. Cooper - Novelty Co., Box 54, Orangeburg, S. C. For Sale—One Am. 15-horsepower steam engine; practically good as new; can be seen running. Ad dress J. E. Johnson, Supt. Neely Mfg. Co., Yorkville, 8. C. ■/ W HAT IS HOME WITHOUT MUSIC? Don’t say, “Can't afford an Organ or Plano. We will make you able, granting from one to three years to pay for one. We supply the Sweet Toned, Dur able Organs and Pianos, at the low est prices consistent with quahty. W’rlte at once for Catalogue, Price* and Terms, to the Old •Es tablished -MALONE MUSIC HOUSE, - Columbia, S. C. k ::: WOMEN LEAVING HAREM. juth Abdul Hamid Palace Held Many Fair Prisoners. A dispatch from Constantinople says it Is said that the Sultan con templates making a tour of the Asiatic provinces of the Empire. Since the deposition of Abdul Hamid there has been a daily exodus of the women of the Imperial harem froifi the Yildlz Kiosk. Monday forty-five carriages, each containing two or three women, and later fifteen more, were seen proceed ing to Stamboul. It is evident that the total number of fair prisoners In the palace must have been prodi gious. In thw phanVber of Deputies a telegram was read announcing a re volt of Druses, a fanatical religions sect of Syrians, In Hauran, a district of Syria, east of the upper Jordan. Troops have been ordered to pro ceed there at opce. School Libraries. The school library does awake an Interest in the pupil. 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