Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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•.> . J' IS PICKED Silver Service Will be Given to r ■ • / + rmw-.-iSu. - The Battleship NAMED AFTER STATE Th« Stela CotmulMion, H«ad«d l»jr <^>vcrn<>r Amael, Selects the n. - CANNOT BE SOLD SWIFT * OOMPAKY MAY SHIP CONDEMNED MEAT. Car Containing Damaged Food Will He Sealinl by City Inspector and Ofiened at Factory Tank. A dispatch from GreenviHe says Will Make to the Ship That Win Bear Her Name. fv.L ./■ ift* •ft? *' City Meat Inspector Smith and City Attorney- McCullough were in^ con- slgM for the Gift Which the State forence Monday afternoon with rep- resen tat lyes of the .Shylft Packing Company regarding the disposition of the 70,000 pounds of meat con demned Saturday, owing to its hav- —JTlte commission to select the sIItct 4ng i^n »«aked in sewage. At a service for the new battleship South meeting of the board of health held Carolina haa made Its ■election of »t B o’clock Dr. Smith reported that the general designs that are to be ; thrt P ackln K company would t>e al- . . . ,, . w ’ lowed to ship the meat, which is used, and naturally expects beautiful i valued at over |4 000> to one of lt8 work. The commission has made ex- , p^p p] an ta, with the understanding cellent selections as the outline of. that the car be sealed here by the the specifications indicate. * Governor Ansel is a member of the commission, and is giving consider able time and thought to the work. Messrs. John B. Cleveland, of Spar tanburg, and George D. Bryan, of Charleston, are the appointive mem bers of the commission, and Messrs. E. Marlon Rucker, and Col. W. L. Mauldin *t*e the ex-offlclo 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 series of Illustra tions and decorations. The whole matter was fully and free.ly discussed by the members of the commission, and with the artists, who were pres ent. inspector and opened at the soap works and consigned to the tank by a government inspector. The condemning of the meat and its disposition have caused consider* aide agitation in Greenville. W r hen the packing 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 hre carried out to the letter. Acting in the mat ter Dr. Smith not only had the local authorities behind him but he was backed up by Dr. Williams of the State board. A number of towns In the State wired asking for informs- EGYPTIAN COTTON FOUR MEN NANG WANTS FKE TRADE Soumtm Statu SupaTt SENATOR FLETCHER URGES - THAT IT BE TAXED. Young Turks Executt Thirteen Mori People The large and centre pieces are to ! tlon concerning the disposition of the be decorated with three historic events. One piece Is to have the scene of Jasper replacing the flag at Fort Moultrie. Another is to have an engraving of the dinner Marion la said to have given the British condemned meat. Spartanburg and Columbia being among the cities to make Inquiry. In an interview O. W. Chandler, manager of the Southern business of Swift & Co., said that his concern officers, and which has been used had no idea of endeavoring to aell In a picture by White, and the third Is to be a picture of Mrs. Motte destroying her own home, near Fort Motte, Calhoun connty. An examination of the specifica tions Indicate that the designs are to Include the palmetto, pine, cypress. Magnolia, rice, tobacco, strawberry, ' melon and peaches. In fact, the Idea Is to Incorporate the trees and plants Indigneous to this State. The flags of the State, the coat-of-arms and other Insignia of the State are to be used wherever the general design will admit. The commission has given the pub lic the complete details of its de sign. Mr. A. 8. Salley, Jr., of the State historical commission, In a letter to The Sunday Newa, suggeata that the events Intended to be re corded in the silver service lack historic corroboration, and went into Interesting details. He says that some of the events did not happen, as far aa 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 artist* 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 he within the appro priation of $B,000: the metal to be of uniform fineness, standard grade, sterling silver. The propositions to give the ca pacity of ail 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 bowl, 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 ealad bowl. Two bonbon dlshe*. Two compotiers. Two vegetable dishes with cov ers. Two «ntre dishes. One Humidor cigar box. made of native wood, cedar, t6 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 deigns to consist of a com bination nautical in their suggestion, and the tres, fruits and flowers in digenous to this State, for instance, palmatto, pine, cypress, magnolia, TmmudIbs find trumpet vine; corn pptton, rjcf) an4..fobgccoA, ^rawberry, melons and peaches. These can be used on the borders and around the bases. On the sides of the large pleees and In the botoma of the trays and waiters, arms snd seal of the State, flags of the State and nary, of-thr UnttW--States, tn combi- nation or otherwise: State House, palmetto trees, with the national em- hlem, eagle, et cetera. . Tha following historical designs are to be used on large pieces: 7 Jasper at Fort Moultrie. Marioa's dlaaer to the British of- the meat which was condemned Sat urday by Inspector Smith. He de clared his willingness to make any disposition of the meat that is de sired by the city authorities. FORGIVES SON’S SLAYER. Will Do All Possible to Secure Re lease of Dr. Roysjian. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., says Hagood Gastanlan of Lynn. Mass., left for his New England home Monday 'evening with the body of his son, Harotoon Gastanlan, who was fatally shot Friday In the De troit police cofirt by his unde, Dr. Garnbed J. Poyallan. Speaking of the crime the dead youth’s father said: "Dr. Bovajlan is nearer to me than a brother. T blame him not. even though be has slain my son. I will do all T can to rdease him from prison. Tt Is the will of God, and I bow before it. I believe my boy was Innocent, but do not blame the doctor for what he did, because he believed him guilty. When our peo ple marry, they marry for good, not for a short time like the American people seem to do. Any offense against the home is punishable by death." -i-r- Mnu Motte’s destruction of her kings of Oon. Sumter, Gen. ~ ■ William Pick <*» Turn Them Is»se. Parents do wrong In keeping their -'hlldrcn hanging around home, shel tered and enervated by parental in dulgence. The eagle does better. It stirs up its nest when the youne eagles are able to fly. They are com pelled to shift for themselves, for the old eagle literally trims them out, 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 birds so fearless in his flight and so expert in the pursuit of prey. and the following emblem: “Pre sented by the State of South Carolina to the Pntted States battleship ‘South Carolina.’ ’’ “Millions for defence, hut not one cent for tribute.’’ The designs to lie different on each niece 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 Ifith day of January, 1910. The successful bidder to give bond in the sum of $2,000 to make delivery at the point to he hereafter to he designed, on or before the date named, and have the service Insured at his or their expense, until pre sentation is made. Formal contract to be entered Into between the suc cessful bidder and the" commission, the commission reserving the right to reject any or ail 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 of, the service and »§.- cepfance'df same by Ihe eommission. ’ Done at Columbia, S. C., April 27, 1909. M. F. ANSEL, Chairman of Commission. The .commission has no axe to 'grind. It wants to render the best possible service to the State, and the discussion, if there is to be any had. better come before the work It done rather than after the designs have been accepted, and the engraving finished. The commission wants to have good reasons assigned for any change, and will no doubt accept any suggestions in the best of spirit, where-such suggestions are not mere ly captious snd is accompanied hy "something better.’ There will, how ever, be no change unles there be XCeeltrie. Col W _ ■ m, Oen. Morgan. Gen. Ptek- —* un. the United j good reasons. It hi safe to say tin "South Carolina,* AUGUST KOHN. Egyptian Cotton, Grown in. the Nile Valley, Coni|»etes Seriously With Southern Long Staple Cotton. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says In s speech on the floor of the Senate a day of two ago. Senator Fletcher, pf Florida, declared that South Oaro- Una long staple cotton wm tiw^best, raised and commanded a better price cm the market than that grown any where else in this country. In adding to this he threw considerable light on long staple growing along the sea islands of the South Atlantic coast generally. Speaking of this Industry the Flor ida Senator said: The production of cotton on an Important scale began about 17 89, when we produced 3,000 bales and the price was 28 cents per pound. In 1799 we produced 46,000 bales and the price was 4 4 cents. In 1800 the production was 73,000 bales and the price was 28 cents. ' In 1820 the production was over 300,000 and the price 17 cents. From 1840 to 1 sr>0 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 si ed and by products, the use of cot- ion 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 4go, and the Increase in the value of the crop in one year, caused by the presence of factories at the fields, louhtltss 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 $482,000,- <100. It is said that if Europe had stack'd 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 “xtent 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 conn try, however, the sea island or long- staple cotton, which competes witli 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 waste 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 hales; Georgia, r>2,000 hales, and South Carolina, 12,000 bales—of about 400 pounds each. The Growing Area. The producing area being about Charleston 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-third 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, hut 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 islands of South Carolina the prico is about 20 cents per pound. Egyptian Cotton. The West Indes is the original home of the plant and produces about t.ooo bales annually. It was in 17St; •hat the plant was transplanted on he American Continent from the West Indes. There is produced in the Valley of the Nile a cotton which is capabl of competing with our sea island cotton. This rich region pro- luces about 1,500,000 hales of 400 pounds each annually. It is a long- staple, fine fibre cotton, and about 150.000 bales of it are imi>orted 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 »ca Island cot ton. The Egyptian cotton wastes about 25 per cent, while the sea island wastes about 33 per cent. The Egyptian staple i*-atrout 1 5-8 inches long; but is preferred to the Ameri can .for some purpose because of less waste and greater strength and ita 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—1 50,000 bales be ing 60,000,000 pounds. This cotton is used In the manu facture of mercerized silks and finer goods of the highest and most ex pensive class, on which this bill pro- poses a duty of 5 4 per gent, 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 is about 10 to 150 pomitis -of -lint -to the acre. The price now is less than 20 cents per pound. South Could Supply the World. Seventeen counties in Florida are now producing the long-staple cotton.- It can be grown in more than half the counties of the State. Suitable soil, climate, and conditions exist in Georgia, South Carolina and Flori da, and. to a certain extent and de gree, the Mississippi Delta, to supply the world, and as a revenue-pro ducing item is would prove one of the best among all the schedules. It l* an Important industry. It X am- PLANEb BY SULTAN Evidence Discovered That Abdul Hamid Knew Beforehand of the Adana Massacres—-List orf Houses With Notes of vhe Kind of Loot to Be Found. Thirteen .civilians and soldiers sentenced < by the Military Court to death for murder were hanged in different parts of Constantinople at 4 o'clock Monday morning. 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 hangrd at the entrance of the ministry of war and three men at the Stambonl end of the Oalata 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 Yonssef was commandant of the 1st hattalion'of the 7th reg iment. Among the non-commission ed officers executed was Hamid Bin Yechar, a sergeant in the fourth hat- talMon of the Salonfkt 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 Arsian, 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 tinder Yechar. Mourad. editor of the newspaper Nizam, was tried by court-martail to day. A member of the court-martial read the Sultan’s flrmtn, confirming the sentences of each place of execu tion, 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 leas* on« hundred thousand of the popu lation 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 massacres had bepn planned for the Adana district, and that they were to coincide with the political events here. Other papers have been found in dicating also that the conspirators at the palace acted in the Sultan’s name in preparing the military muti ny of April 13. Lists of houses, with notes of the kind of loot to he 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. ■ANY GOV. McHWEENEY ILL. Suddenly Stricken hy AIUmk of Indi- digestion. 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- Gov. 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 he In a very serious condition. Tuesday he had not re covered consciousness. Acute indi gestion Js given as the cause of his attack. The former governor has been ih had health for the past sev eral months. It is said that there is very little hope that he will sur vive the attack. ON LUMBER AND ON COTTON TIES AND BAGGING. Senator Tillman Says the Sap of Protection is Not Worth What It Costs Democracy. special jdispateh to the Colum bia Record says Senator Tillman fav ors free trade In lumber and will Vote for it. He believes that in the end Democratic defections from the -declarations of the party platform will give the victory to those Repub licans desiring a duty, but he ex- preses himself as far from the opin ion that such a forecast justifies Democrats in fallilng into line with the party in power. A vote for pro tected lumber, in his opinion, is a vote against forest preservation and also a vote 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 crylnf? at the same time for** a duty on lumber that will keep foreign timber Crom coming In sparing our own trees for the next generation? You have seen the de struction of our forests In the past few y^ears. !fiw, importation fctf 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 est/*.” With forests as far away from the Southern pine fields as Canada, Sen ator Tillman does not believe the free importation of 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- once of these Northwestern men that the price of lumber in South Carolina would lie 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 everv hit 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 to ask about the tariff. He was barricaded behind a pile of hooks, 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 he a lot of It.’ In regard to cotton bagging, there is apparently reasonable hope that Senator Aldrich will let that go on the frte list, if the Southern Demo crats work together for that end, hut on ties, while Senator Aldrich has asked Mr.. Tillman for informa tion, he expressed himself as doubt ing his ability to grant the request. The senator from Rhode Island, said Senator Tillman, was under the 1m- nression that ties are made chiefly fh Chattanooga, Birmingham and other centres near the Southern mines and he felt that ample protec tion ought to he accorded these new manufacturing districts on an artlcle tike ties for which they would have a large local demand. If was to meet that objection that Senator Tiliman devoted himself to light literature of the “Romance of Steef’ sort. The information he fqund encouraging. Ties, he dis covered, are manufactured almost exclusively In Pittsburg and the great iron and steel centres of the North, there helne only one small plant at Atlanta. The fact that ties are made hy 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. BUY FROM UB Machinery Supplies Rlumblnq *1I< COLUMBIA, S C. THEY ARE MYTHS CLASSIFIED COLUMN EVENTS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN vay bs ... .. Real bargains In second hand cars, funabouts and touring cars. Mr. Prospect, it is up to you to inves- tlgate. B. A. Jenkins Motor Co., Phone 17t5, Columbia, ff. U. 1216 Main. / Represented on the Sliver Service W ante«-^Several hustlers to repre- That the State is to Give the Bat tleship South Carolina. t ployed the language of the authors of this measure, I would say the farm- rs 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. When we say the country needs the revenue which a tariff on that for eign product would yield, and such a tariff |s require j tQ jielp eflqajize the cp&t 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, cotton wax imported into this coun try free to the amount of 70,994,- 968 pounds, the value of which was $14,164,406, at 20 cents per pound. Waste or flocks Imported free amounted to 10,728,268 pounds, val ued at $446,261.14 at 42 cents per pound. Duty should be Imposed on all cotton Imported so there could be raised no question regarding proper disignation at, say, 5 to 8 cents per pound. At 16 cents per pound the importation last year of cotton, not counting waste or flocks, would have yielded a revenue of 97.0tMM.80. The Government Gets Behind Al- legiMl Smugglers. Four nrecsts were made Tuesday in New Yo r k bv United States Mar shal Henkel 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 dressmlakers’ pupplieg, FJorty-flfth street and Fifth avenue; Lome R. Walker, a former employe of the customs department; W. H. Kllga- mon. former salesman for George F. Crowley, West Thirty-fourth street, and Elizabeth Kiigamon, h4» wife. They were arraigned before Justice Gough in the United States circuit court. Cuts Price on OH. 4- A reduction of five cents a barrel was announced a few days ago by the Standard Oil Company in the price of all grades of crude oil, ex cept Ragland, which Is unchanged. This is the first change in the prlca of most of the other grades since May. 1907, since which time Penn sylvania crude oil has been quoted (Constantly at $1.78. Convicted of Killing Wife. Chester Jordan was found guilty In the first degree on s charge oj murdering his wife st Cambridge, % ... ' r ■' it* , . ofjv tV In a letter to The Sunday News of Charleston, Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., secretary of the South Carolina His torical Commission, criticises the de cision of the Commission appointed to select a sliver 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 in Columbia and 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 nupiber 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 he fully dlsproven by the very best of evidence. “The story of Marlon inviting the British officer to dine on sweet pota toes cannot 1* authenticated. It first appeared in Weems’ ‘Life of Francis Marion’ in 1809. Gen. Hor ry eye of Marion’s officers, at once p v ’’onneed the book fiction, and V ' iks admitte” in a letter to Hor- rj that he had written his book ‘in the form of a military romance.’ From cover to cover the hook can be shown by the best evidence to be absolutely false. The ancestors of Marion were manufactured by the A n'' ry,rising romancer, and every oth er s^tory in the book bears the true Weems trade mark. Judge W. D. James, another of Marlon’s former Officers, also gave the stamp of falsity to Weems' book in his account of Marion's brigade. Gen. McCrady's history-shows the incident <5ould not have occurred; that Marion and the British officers did not exchange mili tary civlliti s; that when Marion first sent a flag of fruee to a British officer he imprisoned him and Marlon retaliated and put an end to all such intercourse. There are a half dozen volifriies 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 snefv an episode; nobody tells the story of the noble British of ficer who resigned rather than fight people who lived on roots before they would forego Independence. The laws of war would make the act punishable hy death, and there is In evidence no record of such a case among all the thousands of docu ments that have been bandied by his torians in all these years. The only authority is W^ems, and he has been discredited ns to everything else, and 'he facts are against him in this case. “The same of Mrs. Motte at the burning of her house will he a re versing of established fact. Every single reputable historian who has ever written of the episode of Mrs. Motte and the arrows, asserts that the house was not hurnted. Col. Lee and Judge James were eye-wJJ, r nesses who so state. Mr. C. C T > inckncy_ Mrs Motte’s grandson, the Rev. Dr. C C. Pinckney, her great grandson, and Mrs. Harriett Horry Rnvenel. her great great-granddaugh ter. have all written accounts In which they say that the house was not hurned. A newspaper In the Charleston library contains a men tion of the accidental burning of the house a few r years after the close of the Revolution. “Several times in the past I 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 hv thp story, it would have he^n physically Impossible for the ride to have taken place; that there Is no contemporary record In evi dence to show that Emily Geiger ever took 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 be glad to have Mr. Davis or any one else furnish the slightest proof that she did before T can believe that ‘she sleeps in a secluded spot up near where the Congaree creek mingles Its clar waters with the muddy tide of the Congaree.*'" ‘‘The writer has been particularly rrttfeirt of the ■people of MPckJ^n- hurg county for their adherence to an exploded rnyth; he has won high praise from many of the ablest and best known historical writers and critics in America for his work on that mooted auction; bq will not lay himself open Jo- criticism for in consistency by not protesting against the perpetuation of long discredited myths a* part of the history of South Carolina.” sent the most prosperous laundry and dye works la South Carolina. Write at once for new proposition. C. C. Laundry, Columbia, S. C. Madam Eldon, Scientific Palmist, Clairvoyant and Astrologlst. Free test reading by mall. Send birth, date and 5 two-cent stamps. 15 West 4th street, Charlotte, N. C. $450 will purchase one two-cylinder touring car in first class repair, and fitted with new parts. $200 will purchase one single-cylinder runabout and ready for demon stration. For particulars, address B. L. Montague, Sumter, S. C. * Why don’t you work for Uncle Sam? Civil Service Manual, which pre pares you |or the examination. Three volumes (with maps), $3. express prepaid. Sims’ Book Store, Orangeburg, S. C. ORIENTAL RUG COMPANY. 1101 Cathedral SL, Baltimore, Md. We make you handsome and dur able Rugs from your old wornout carpet, any size to fit a room or hall. y Let us send you a price list; Just /' write for one. I We sell your property—no matter where located. It cost you noth ing If we do not make sale. P. O. Box I, Orangeburg, S. C. 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 Tps^hers’ Agency, Heath Springs, 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. Q- WHAT 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 quality. Write at once for Catalogue, Prices and Terms, to the Old ♦Es tablished MALONE MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, S. C. WOMEN LEAVING HAREM. Ahdul 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 from the Yildtz Kiosk. Monday forty-five carriages, each "ontatnlng two or three women, and later fifteen more, were seen proceed ing to Stamboul. It is evident that the tojtal number of fair prisoners in the palace must have been prodi gious. In the C'h an ^ e,r Deputies a telegram was read announcing a re volt of Druses, a fanatical religious sect of Syrians, in Hauran, a district of Syria, east of the upper Jordan. Troops have been ordered to pro ceed there at once. School Libraries. The school library does awake an interest in the pupil. It gives him a good appetite; It stimulates. 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