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^ is POV/AUNT HITTY GOT . [ ) THE CLUE RADONS fa j Ey KATTIE uYER ERiTTS. NJ Y\ There were two Mehitabel Perkinses, a pretty young one, and an i <y1 one almost as s?eet. The young ( one was always called Mabel, and no- j J- ii-- :?'?u I UUU> III IIIVS iid^UUVJl lll/UU CIC1 i thought of calling the wife of Josiah I Perk'os anything but Aunt Hitty. Mabel lived on the farm next bncle Josi 's, - .d not many days rassed t. at her small feet did not trip t .rough the lane to see if Aunt Hitty didn't have a I't of sewing to do, a rbbon to fix, or some little trifle, such as nice girls are fond of doing lor their elderly aunts, especially in these modern days when the young folks are really the chaperons, and tell their elders just what to do. It happened that soft September morning that Mabel found her aunt standing in the door of the sweet, clean springhouse with a very sober face, and tne butter paddle held idly in her plump hand, the fresh golden, butter waiting iu the wooden bowl on the cedar table close by. That wasn't Aunt Hitty's way of working, , so Isabel quickly asked: "Aunt/, what's the matter? Some- ; thing, I know, you look so sad." "Oni> a little disappointment, child, that's all," and the sweet old face lit now with a smile, "Uncle Josiah sa.\s I can't send my jellies to the Fair, and I did want to, so bad." , Mabel opened her blown eyes wide In surprise a\d cried out: "Oh, Aunt Hittv! A:i those lovely Jellies! That beautiful crab apple, and the green grape, and the red currant, and the blue plum, and all the rest! Oh, my! what is Uncle thinking about! You made them on purpose, and I know you would take a lot of blue ribbons! Why won't he let you send them?" ".*,e say* iie's got to go see after a calf he wants to buy, and hasn't got time to run up to enter them. Says there ain't any money In such foolrhr ess anyhow." 9 "There isn't? Well, T take notice > \ lie's mighty ready to eat his share of the jellies on the table. It's too bad! I'm real mad at Uncle! I mean to tell him so, too." ^o, don't, dear, it would only get you a scolding. Josiah means well, but he don't think a woman's work amount; to much. I'll just have to let the premiums go?maybe I wou.un't take any, if I sent the jelly. Did you come over to help me with my dressing sacque, child?" "Yes, I did, Aunty. If it's ready I can put sleeves in for you." "All right, I'll be glad of your help. Mabel, who's that stopping at the gate? Somebody in a buggy." t 1 ~bel glanced, and a half blush *-me over her soft cheek. "It's only Ben Allen, Aunty, I expect he wants to see me for something. T'll just run down to the gate a minute." "Where are you bound for this moriing?" she asked as sue turned back to the house. "Well, I had some notion of going 5_to to~n to-day," answered he, "I want to look after a new set of harr?sr, and I'm not specially busy this V " "Ch, "'en, I wonder if you would lik to something for?for me and .Aunt Hitty?" she said. **L'p in town? Yes, if jl go, certainly I would. What is it girlie?" Mabel told him about Aunt Hitty's <isippor tment, and added: "I feel so sorry for her, and I just .dered i* you would be willing to take the box out to the Fair Gro and enter tne jellies in her name." "Why, indeed I will, with the greatest pleasure. Aunt Hitty is the one best woman in the world, and if I can do anything to help her, you just count on me, Mabel. I'll go up to the city, sure thing, and if she don't get several blue ribbons it won't be our fault! Has she got the things ready?' "I think so?she wanted Uncle to take them and he wouldn't, for fear lie might miss a calf sale he's after." , *'01d Tightwad! Beg pardon, Mabel, I know he's your uncle, but I do get so mad at him because he does so little for Aunt Hitty. If rhe belonged to ma, you bet I'd see that she had more comfort than she gets." He gave Mabel . look which made Her cheeks pink again, but to cover her confusion sne said: "I'll run see if she's got them y," and flew up the path like a young deer. Mabei stayed all day with Aunt Hitty. Ben stopped as he drove home in th . afternoon, and told t rem that tiie jellies were entered an right, and so far as he saw, there wouldn't be any there to beat them. "Are the folks goinj in to the Fair?" he asked, and Mabel answered: "Yes, Uncle always goes on Taursday, and takes Aunt Hitty." "All rignt then. I thought if he wasn t g( ng. we would just take her with us?I knew you wouldn't mind." "Of course I would not! It's good in you to think of it, Ben?some young fellbws wouldn't care to be bothered with an elderly lady. But they will go. I hope she will get ever so many premiums, just to show UnC-: ~ ~iah he c'on't know everything." ! "j. d ?; ro d-bye, child. Early Thursday morning I'll be over for you." Ben drove nome, and Mabel stood at the gate, look'ng after him for a moment. "He is good!" she saK sor'ti;*, "I aBaBMBnannaaBBanBHaB don't believe I could ever find any- T b <j any better." And then she went t thj l.-use with a thoughtful face, and a light in her brown eyes that w>r'l have done Mr. Ben goo to see. It was early in the afternoon ^hen ; they drove into the beautiful bair Grounds. They strolled through the neat, cleanly kept horse bar s, and -dsited the fat cattle and sheep before they vent to the sno white poultry house where they werr to meet Aur.t Hitty and Uncle Josiah, and have dinner from the generous "basket Aunt Hitty | brought along. T^ey w>l) -d through the wide aisles to see the fine coops of prize poultry, and came out at the end where ' unt Hitty was already waiting for them with a smile on her co- , y face. "Been over to see what I've got?'* j was her greeting. "Not yet," said Mabel, "we have ' been so busy looking ?; everything tr'? we have ^ct been in that building. . Did : ou have good luck Aunty?' "Oh, didn't I?" she replied, her kind eyes beaming with pleasure. ' "Why, Mabel, I have taken twelve blue ribbons! Think of that! And I have you and Eon here to thank foj it, too. You don't know how proud and glad I am." "Well, we are just as pleased as you are, Aunt Hitty," said Ben; "I'm mighty glad I happened to come by and stop Tuesday. Twelve premi- | urns! That ij good! I reckon Uncle j Jcsiah won't olject to that, will he?" ! "No, he'll be glad because she will get goo^ money out of them," said M~u . in a little aside,'"but you and I are glad for more than that, Ben, aren't we?" "We surely are! It's worth a trip to to./n any day to see Aunt Kitty's innocent pride in her nice work. We will go over after dinner and see the display." By that time Aunt Hitty had the basket unpacked, and they sat down under the shade of a great tree to enjoy its tempting contents. In a short time the snowy rolls, tender fried chicken, crisp pickles, golden butter, rich cake and other delicacies had almost disappeared, and Aunt * Hitty gave what was .eft in the basket to a couple of hungry looking little newsboys who had been hovering around, p< rh?ps in hope of a generous windfall. While the delighted urchins carried off their feast, the basket was returned to the carriage, and Aunt Hitty went over with the young folks to see the display in the Home Products building. Oh, what rows and rows of crimson, ruby, amber and golden jellies, what jar* of toothsome preserves, snow-white loaves of bread, cakes fit for the feast of a king, dainty pickles and other good things were ranged on tne neat shelves and tables! And no one display in whole was finer 1 t'.an A1? * Hitty's, or could boa. of a jreater number of ribbons. "My premiums will come to over twepty dollars, Mabel, just think of that!" whispered the good lady, in great delight. "I'm ever so glad for you!" answered the dear girl. "I'll tell you v "t, Aun' Hitty, you must take ever-' dollar of it and buy you a nice new cloak t is winter; you know you need one ever so much." "That s what - thought I'd do, but I don't krow what Josiah would say if * spent it all for a cloak." "Oh, ne'll want you + buy a calf, j or a sheep, or a pig, of course, but you won t do it. You earned every bit of it, and no thanks to him that you won it. Just you turn him over to me, and I'll settle - .m. If I can't ' i can." "Ben s the ^t boy in the world!" ' said Aunt Hity, earnestly. "I want j you to be good to him, Mabel." jel laughed and gave no answer just then. But when they had watched the races until they were almost over, and the crowd began to wend its way homeward, Mabel Lad made up her mind that she would, ' as Aunt Hitty had said, "be good to jtien." i Sho did not say anything until j tncy were well toward home, and in ! sight of the neat cottage which Ben I was building for himself on the part ! of father's farm which he had j ' 1-J- ? V? Z ? T*rw i>ri Trt rrc HP Vl DOUgllt W 1 til ma u >v ia aai iuqj. Jk UV.U 3he looked up and said archly, "Almost ready to live in, isn't it, Ben?" "Yes," he answered gravely, "but I can't live in it alone, Mabel." "Can't you? Better ask some nice . girl to lire there with you, then." "I have. I asked the nicest girl in ine world, two o three times, but she has not said she would." Mabel laughed, and said softly: "Perhaps if you ask her oilce more she will." He laid one strong hand over the ! small ones in her lap, and said? earnestly: "Then I'll try it. Will she go, Mabel? "I think she will, Ben." "My dear little gir1!" Ben s arm wr ' suddenly round her, and it was a good thing his horse was steady, and did not scare at the big auto I which just then went thundering by, \ for Ben wasn't minding the hor 2 r: all. "You're not afraid to trust me, tnen?" he asked, presently. "No, Ben, I'm not. I am sure that j a young ow wno wuia De so gooa [ and kind to an old lady, will always I b-> goo<~ to a youn0 one, and so I've j made up mind at last, dear. You can have ma, if you want me." It did not take Ben long to con vince her that he did want her. It may be that two happier young folks got home from the fair that Thursday evening, but Ben and Mabel didn't think so.?Indiana Farmer. I i Palmetto State News V f f v f f W V V V V 1 \ Painter Falls to His Death. While painting the front of "Progress News," a newspaper building, at UDion, Will Palmer slipped from the ladder upon which he was standing and fell forty feet to the ground, dying almost instantly. * Two Negro Children Burned. Two negro children were burned to death in different sections of An derson county one day the past week. One was the seven-year-old child of Alexander Moon, the other a little negro child about a year old, whose parents lived 011 Mr. E. B. C. Snipe's I plantation. * * * Says Shooting Was Accidental. Dr. Ethan W. Foster, aged 25 years, the dentist at Union who shot himself with a 32-caliber pistol, declares the shooting was an accident. The shooting was enacted in the Union hardware store. When assistance reached the young dentist he made a statement that the shooting was accidental. * Was Leader of Women Suffragists. Mrs. Virginia D. Young, editor of the Fairfax Enterprise, died a few days ago at her home in Barnwell ?/ >??+oftor p hripf illness of pneu LUUAAtJ , Uivvi w monia. Mrs. Yonng was the leader of the Woman's Suffrage movement in South Carolina, and had for years been an ardent advocate of woman's rights. She was a bright writer and had frequently delivered addresses and lectures. * * Negro Murderer Executed. William Bennett, colored, was hanged at Beaufort for the murder of a white man, Harvey, on Ladies' Island. Only a few witnesses saw the execution Bennett had been despondent until Ihe last few days of his life, since when he was bright and cheerful. He was baptized by a-negro preacher and declared he was leady to die, having made his peace with God and repented. Bennett's crime was a brutal one, and there was much difficulty in effecting his capture. * * Aiieged Assassins Caught. Pete Heath and Fate Nasli, both colored, have been committed to jail at Spartanburg, Heath being charged with murder and Nash with being an accessory to the crime. Several months ago T. C. Thompson was killed while sitting before the fireplace in the housex of a man named Anderson. The shot was fired through a window. At the inquest no testimony was adduced to show who committed the crime. The case will be tried at the present term of the court of general sessions. * ? New Cars Arc Lacking. (General Superintendent Ljynch of the C. W. C. railway was asked when the new train would be put on to run between Greenwood and Spartanburg, ?T?V>?,.rr ohnnt a. arriving -in &[janauuui^ UVVUV AV | m., and leaving at about 5 p. m. ? Mr. Lynch says that the company has been disappointed in not getting the necessary cars for this train, and it may be a month before it can bo put in operation. He says, however, the management will allow nothing to interfere with its plan to establish this train service as soon as the necessary equipment is secured. * * * Train Master Given Life Sentence. George Spiven^ train master for Cole Brothers' circus, and Campfire j Bill, alias Jack McCocmbs, colored, j charged with the murder of J. E. Gail- i lard at Manning several weeks ago, | were convicted with the recommendation to mercy. The trial was held at Sumter, lasting several days. The sentence for murder, when the jury rec-1 ommends mercy, is life imprisonment, and this sentence was imposed. Unless a new trial is granted the prisoners will soon he serving the term in the penitentiary. When the Cole Brothers' circus was at Manning some weeks ago, J. E. Gaillard, a popular young white man of Sumter, rode up to the circus train? just before it pulled out of the station and was accosted by the cook. - ?" ~Vi/N+r. tpnro fired Campnre hiii. isevcr?u &nuu ?.v..v after a few words, and Gaillard was wounded and died several days later. Campfire Bill was arrested at Bishon.ville.. some miles away, and was carried to Columbia by a circuitous route to avoid danger of lynching. * * Married Twenty-Nine Couples. The Lloyd steamship Wittekind arrived on schedule time at Charleston with nearly five hundred immigrants on board in charge of Commissioner Watson. Wdthin a few hours all but about forty had been inspected and admitted into the United 'States by Com ^ " ' I Tiiissioner Sargent and a corps of inspectors and interpreters, and were on their way to different parts of South Carolina. The first man to land was Ni 4 olas Niemann of Hamburg, who had $10,GOO with him, and who will set up as a merchant in Charleston, i The Wlttekiud had 4-50 steerage and I 25 cabin passengers. Commissioner Watson performed 29 marriages on the trip over. i The following delegation from Geor, gia were present to meet the Wktekind and get information for the Geor- J gia bureau of immigration: Colonel J. H. Estill, F. M. Oliver. F. J W. Garden, William Kehoe, E. Brobston, A. M. Kitchen, W. J. Donlan. Mr. Watson plans to bring 1,100 more in December. Coul Famine Threatens Mills. | (Spartanburg city and county, with its thirty-seven mammoth cotton mills, is threatened with a coal famine, and unless coal is delivered by the 'Southern road within the next few days, the wheels ol' many of the largest cotton mills in upper South Carolina will be stilled and thousands of operatives will be thrown out of empl'oyj ment. The situation is most acute, and the presidents of the cotton mills t are greatly alarmed, for the closing down of the mills means that 671,[ 944 spindles will lie idle until the I railroads deliver the coal. Not only are the mills in Spartan| burg county and city face to face J with a coal famine, but the oil mills, the city waterworks company and the Spartanburg Street Railway, Gas and Electric company are in the same plight. The famine also threatens Greenville and the entire Piedmont section of the state. VICTORY FOR STATE OF GEORGIA Quesion of Jurisdicion in Copper Case Settled in High Court. A Washington dispatch says: in the case o'f the 'State of Georgia vs. the Tennessee Copper company, an effort or. the part of Georgia to secure the suppression of the fumes of smelters located at Ducktown, Tenn., the supreme court of the United States on Monday overruled the demurrer filed by the company without prejudice. Finai hearing was set for February 25 next A temporary restraining order was denied. This action of the United States supreme court means that Georgians idea for injunction to prevent furihe destruction of its forests and vegetation in the northern section of the state has a standing in that court, and that it will be given a hearing there on its merits. It also means that Georgia has?practically won her main contention, that as to the jurisdiction of the United States supreme court. It was a fight in which the copper trust was involved, for there are numerous other cases of a similar nature in other states which can now be brought before that court. It was a decision which primarily upholds the right of a state to sue In the United States supreme court, citizens of other states, on behalf of the state or its citizens. In this it establishes an important ? ii. r ??-.V. Viae rule 01 practice iur wmw wvic uu^ heretofore been no precedent. The widespread and growing destruction to forests and vegetation caused by the processes of smelting copper ores by those Tennessee companies have aroused the people of North Georgia to a determination to put an end as speedily as possible to this evil. SAYS JAPS WANT ISLANDS. ? Captain Aldrich Sees Opening Wedge in Muddle at San Francisco. Captain J. H. Aldrich, a nephew of Major General Shafter, and formerly j provost marshal for the middle province of Luzon, sees in the present Japanese agitation against the exclusion of pupils from San Francisco I schools a move in a campaign to ac| quire possession of the Philippines. Captain Aldrich declares that ever since Dewey captured Manila the Japanese have been eager to get the islands. He says Japanese are now pouring across from Formosa to Luzon and settling in the extreme northern part of the island. GEORGIA ACTS BELATED. Doings of Last Legislature Finally Issued by State Printer. ! Several weeks overdue, the acts of the Georgia general assembly finally came from the hands of the state printer Monday morning. Only about a dozen copies were delivered to the state librarian, which will serve to relieve the immediate and pressing demand only. Considerable criticism was heard of the state printer for getting out the house and senate journals in advance of the cast. It was held that the journals are of minor importance as compared with the a.cts. GAVE BIRTH TO QUADRUPLETS. "" Ms Alabama Neqro Woman a Strict Anti-Race Suicider. Dr. Robert L. Yminar of We^t Oreene. Ala., writes >:he Mobile Res?tcfeP that on October 22 be attended Mary Williams, a no^ess, who <rave to four cM'dren?two boys and ' "> skirls. They lived only three ors. SHORTAGE OF LABOR I j Menaces Progress of Many j Industries in the South. SOME FACTS AND FIGURES ; ; ( i 1 Presented Through the Cojumn^ *of The Manufacturers' Record?Thjex % Fields Neglected and the V Railroads Handicapped. ( Correspondence to The Manufacturers' Record (Baltimore) dwelling upon 1 the extent of material developments j now under way in the south, describes . i the widespread scarcity of labor ham- ; pering that development. It says, in j i part: "Probably the most striking illus- i: traticn of the scarcity of laborers in j the south is seen in the cotton fields, j During a trip of over a hundred miles : through an important cotton region in : Georgia and Alabama a very careful i count was made of tbe number of cot- ( ton pickers seen, and the total was ! fourteen, when, judging by the dis-. j tance traveled, and the condition of the cotton needing immediate picking, j there ought to have been more nearly 1,400. "Another illustration is given in the fact that the proposed exposition in ; Atlanta scheduled for 1910 has been abandoned, not because of the inability to secure the money, but because it was mode clear to the organizers of it that it would be practically impossible to ' secure laborers to erect . the buildings. Every contractor in the city is crowded to the utmost to take care of regular work, every manufacturing enterprise is likewise short of laborers and the country at large is so busy that laborers could not be brought in from elsewhere. "This scarcity of labor is most pro r.ounced in the inability of railroads to carry out much needed improvements. There is scarcely a railroad in the south that is not swamped with business. Of some of the leading systems it might almost be said'that tLey are practically broken down from ' inability to handle with any degree j of promptness either passenger or freight traffic. Many thousands of cars, r.-,any hundreds of locomotives and many thousands of, miles of double track are needed if the railroads of the south are in any way whatever to measure up to the growing bus!-, ness ahead of them. "So rapid has been the growth of the coal mining industry in the fields of southeastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee ihat operators are now confronted with the serious problem of a scarcity of labor. Within the past year many miles of railroad have - been constructed in this mountainous region, numerous undeveloped coal areas have been opened and a great increase in coal tonnage has been registered. Probably 100 new operations have been started within the past year in the region centering aoout the meeting point of these states, and notwithstanding the fact that several thousand foreign laborers have been brought into the mining camps the past summer, the supply. of miners IS SIUl inadequate. , "Given a fair supply of labor, the railroads could increase their facilities to such an extent as to be able to handle business, but to do this not simply millions, but tens of millions, possibly some hundreds of millions, must be expended before the railroads of the central south can begin to catch up with the development and increase of travel and traffic throughout that section." ANOTHER STRIKE SETTLED. Machinists on Southern Pacific Win Fight for Advuncc in Wages. The strike of machinists, apprentices and helpers in the Algiers shops of the Southern Pacific railway was. settled Saturday afternoon, and the men will return to work. The reinstatement of the men discharged by the master mechanic and all employees of the shops are to receive an advance of 25 cents per day in wages. ANOTHER RIOTER CONVICTED. Man Who Took Part in Atlanta Trou ble is Found Guilty. I. H. Carr, charged with rioting on the night of September 22, was convicted in the Atlanta criminal court Monday morning, Judge Calhoun presiding. Sentence was deferred. Carr was indicted along with a number of other men who were charged with participating in the disturbances in which a number of negroes were killed. His. case, however, was tried separately and the others will be taken up later. DOCTOR USED A FORTY-FOUR. Savannah Man Perforates His Head With Leaden Slug. At the Savannah Yacit Club, at Thunderbolt, one of the leading social organizations of 'Savannah, late Monday afternoon, Dr. Edgar H. Nichols, a well known physician, blew his heart out with a 44-caliber revolver. He died instantly. Dr. Nichols, left no note giving the reason for his suicide. ?? 1 RAWLINGS LOSES OUT I Before Supreme Court of the United States?Only Hope is Now With Georgia Prison Commission. The supreme court of the United States ha* declined to interfere with " the judgment cf the Georgia state courts in the case of J. G. Rawlicgs of Lowndes county, sentenced to death for the murder cf the Carter children and the question of the infliction of I he death penalty now rests wholly with Lowndes county superior court There is no law, or precedent for that matter, to prevent the execution of Rawlings at once by order of the Lowndes superior court, should the court see fit tc pass tnat order. inia has already been decided, by the state supreme court It is now v*ith the Lowndes county -V superior court to say on what day old man Rawlings shall be handed. There is no necessity even to await the arrival of the mandate of the United Slates supreme court, Attorney General Hart says. The "Washington tribunal has, however, ordered that mandate Immediately transmitted. Old man Rawlings' fate having been, finally determined by this decisipn^of ihe United States supreme court, nothing further stands in the way of theprison commission considering the ap- " >/' plications of his sons, Milton and Jesse, also sentenced to be hanged for the same crime, for executive clem- . ency. It is asked for the boys that ;;" --s* their sentences be commuted to lifeimprisonment, and the prison commis- ; sion will take up their cases for consideration and action at its next meet- { ing. , Following is the dispatch from Washington announcing the court's decision in the Rawlings case: "The. supreme court of the United States today affirmed the decision of j- ;/ g the Georgia supreme court in the case :V v of John G. Rawlings, under convfc- * lion in Lowndes county, of that state, . oh the charge of murder, the effect oT the decision being to compel the exe ? - cution 01 KawiJUgs, ut'.iess ui? jers succeed in finding other means /v^ of securing a stay of proceedings, ; ^ Rawlings who is a white man, and a. preacher, was charged with employing aegroes to raprder a family neighbors. Twq children were deco^red out of the house and shot, Jjut > the other members of the family say- ,-i ^ ed their lives by remaining within^p| the shelter of their home." : ? RACE ROW IN MISSISSIPPI. . Negroes Fire on White Mob Whicf* Was Storming Jail. Two men were fatally wounded, and over 500 shots were fired in a race- > riot at Wiggins, Miss., Sunday after* noon and night. William Smith, a negro, resisted arrest, and fired on Marshal Quarrela / and Deputy Marshal Mitchell, the ter receiving a fatal wound in the " head. Smith escaped to his home,.. ricaded the doors and windows, and , defied capture until a?mob threatened to burn the house. After surrendering he was locked in the village jail. * \ Late Sunday night a mob dynamited the jail, fired several volleys in his:* cell, hnd left him ror aeaa. wnue the mob was storming the jail,-a large crowd of negroes came upon the scene and began firing into the ranks of the besiegers. Over 500 shots were ex- ; ' changed, and D. M. Clarke, a white i . man, was fatally injured. Several ne~ groes are supposed to have been she^^:" but so far the total number of cas- ^ unities has not been learned. Monday ^ morning Smith was found alive in the cell, but his arms fcad to be amputated. - ? ^ Armed whites patrolled the town during the day, and no further trouble occurred. ' r | CASHIER SHORT IN ACCOUNTS. < ?^ *v ? /? An Alabama Bank Checked Shy the^ Sum of $22,115. A special from Montgomery says: Cashier H C. Dubese of the Monroe- | bank, at Monroeville, Ala., has been checked short $22,115, and the samereported to State Bank Examiner Rat- v ' \ ledge. The bank is perfectly safe, as* the surplus and profits make deposit 1 1 ~ rv t\ boo Koon otv. . ',?> ors WflUltl. U. U. UJ4IUO 4U?S wvvu wjr pointed cashier. -N > PROFESSORS HAVE A "SNAP." They Outnumber Students In This. ..J Highly Endowed College. Preparations have begun in Boston . y for the celebration next year of the- . ^ centennial of Andovei; Theological -A3 seminary. There are only eleven sta- '?T "{> dents, all told there now, but it has an endowment of one million dollars,- \ and its professors outnumber the stu- !- . dents. Last year only six gained a degree- . -> During the last six years sixteen students were the highest enrollment for any one year. . ^ WAGE INCREASE REFUSED. < ' ______ Perennial Strike Troubles at Fall - .J River Seem to Be Brewing. In reply to their letter requesting: an advance in wages of 10 per cent, the textile council at Pall River, Mass., received Monday a reply from the manufacturers' association that the request was premature, and that there must be a longer run of the present improved business before the \ proposition could be considered.