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='^ - a kv $amb?rg irralii . ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. IV. KSIGHT* Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?|i .00 per inch for first insertion, 50c. for each subsequent insertion Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices Sc. per line first week, 5c. after- : wards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must be paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on subjects of general in .erest will be gladly 'welcomed. Those of a personal nature ' will not be published unless paid for. > Thursday, June 27,1907 What element of Charleston's citi &; zenship is J. C. Jaudon, who is runvning for alderman in that city, sup- < |posed to represent ? The assassination of young Mabus in Lexington county is a serious reflection upon our civilization. The mur- ( der sounds like the stories of the ; | mountain feuds of Kentucky. State Superintendent of Education 0. B. Martin says that he is opposed-1 ; to compulsory education. Any one j I :who is familiar with the record of , r. this gentleman since he has been in ; r:>r office will not be surprised. We have seen ,a number of fine fc ... articles in the newspapers of the State ?? ' in reference to the meeting of the State Press Association at the Isle of | Palms. Why won't the brethren write , H as interestingly on other subjects? j , They can write] well, if they only ' l j would. _ ^ ! E f The citizens of Manning have subscribed the necessary capital stock to | 1 erect a cotton warehouse. Why can't . Bamberg do as well? We have the i' money here if our people will only make the investment. A warehouse would be of much benefit to the town lip and county. Lewis Byers, a white man, was , tried in Columbia last week for the ? murder of his step-son. The jury ; failed to agree and a mistrial was 1 * U ordered. Richland cannot be proud of its grand orjpetit juries. Theevi- ; L; * dence against Byers made out a clear J case of murder. Newspaper men should be careful 3 ' how they pull other people's chest- ' nuts out of the fire. Editor Jordan, ( $ w of the Dillon Herald, got a libel suit on his hands by using information |v; - which he considered reliable. Too ?f|7 often some fellow wants to hit any:;:rother man, but the newspaper editor 1 must become the responsible party. h Over in Georgia they are booming i > Hoke Smith as presidential timber-. 1 No doubt the gentleman's family f\ connection would help him some, pro- 1 fe vided all the Smiths voted for him. ( Really, it seems a shame that this 1 t '. large family has never had represen- j | tataon in the white house, we've ? never had a president named Smith. ( So why not Hoke? ; The corner stone of Sumter's hand- j * some new court house was laid last Thursday with appropriate ceremo- 1 nies. Governor Ansel was present j and made an address. The building \ will be one of the best in the State, i v and will cost something like $130,000. J Sumter is no doubt the livest town in 1 , the low-country, and her magnificent < ?new temple of justice is only one of j the many evidences of her growth, prosperity, and progress. j m ' We want the brethren of the press 1 to know, or at least believe, that it J was not because we were afeard of 5 the automobiles or the perils of a 1 whaling expedition that we did not attend the meeting on the Isle of Palms.?Chester Lantern. Well, why weren't you there? We missed you sadly. There I was all ( v dressed up in that new suit and you ( not there to gaze on and admire the i picture. I can hardly forgive you, but I'll try if you'll promise to be at ] Gaffney next year. Those who oppose immigration J should have heard the remarks of Mr. P. H. Gadsden before the members of < the State Press Association. Mr Gads- J den does not approve of the methods heretofore adopted. He wants settlers ] instead of laborers?people who will i buy land and improve it?and he ad- j vises the organization of land com- J panies in every community to buy up \ lands and sell them on time and at a profit to these immigrants. Mr. Gadsden argues, and very rightly too, that if this country is to be dominated by < the white man in generations to come, 1 we must have an influx of white set- ? tiers. This is the solution of the race ' problem in a nutshell?more white 1 people. It is to be hoped that future ( efforts at inducing immigration will , be along the lines laid down by Mr. , Gadsden. , ? SPANKED GIRL PUPILS. Jury Acquitted Teacher and School Board Raised His Salary. Bristow, Iowa, June 19.?In order to compel obedience and to enforce a strict discipline among his pupils, Prof. D. L. Carrell, superintendent of the public schools here, has made a practice of taking pupils of both sexes across his knee and spanking them soundly. This old-fashioned sort of punishment he has even administered on occasions to some of his young lady pupils. The young lady pupils seriously resented the spanking, their parents resented it also, and as a result the superintendent was recently haled into court and arraigned on a charge of assault and battery. The case was tried before a jury, and when the testimony was all in and arguments of counsel for the plaintiffs and the defendant had been made, the jury went out, and in a few minutes came in again with a verdict of not guilty. Thereupon the board of school directors, which had been in sympathy with him in his efforts to maintain discipline among the pupils, re-engaged Professor Carrell as superintendent of the schools for another year, at an advance in his salary. Professor Carrell believes that spanking is the best kind of punishment for offenders in schools. The pupils he has spanked feel very bitter toward him, but public sentiment appears to uphold him in his controversy with them. Our New York Letter. Go where you may, even to the remote corners of fhe earth, people everywhere are interested in New York. It is here that the best of everything gravitates, the daring and dangerous, ambitious, in fact the world is drained to supply this great city with its heterogenous five million souls. - * ? i? It is the aim ana purpose 01 your correspondent to give the readers of this paper every week a newsy report of items o^'interest occurring among this mass of humanity in its busy whirl and mad rush. The tunnels under the river are nearing completion and this means a still greater New York from now on. This stupendous undertaking of man, the greatest yet on earth, was a few short years ago considered impossible. /Today the tubes are joined and finishing touches are being put on. Trains every minute both ways, each carrying six hundred passengers over the double track, way down, first under 100 feet of water, then 50 feet of mud, drilled through the underlying rock, will ere long be shot through with electricity. The Brooklyn bridge, considered at its completion the "8th wonder of the world," sinks almost into obscurity compared with the under river mud and rock railroads. New York is/taking time by the forelock and lots by the hundred thousand in suburban sections for early future homes are being sold. These lots, now $160 to $400 each, will in a few years double, trebble and quadruple in value. People all over the country are sending in and buying, knowing a big profit awaits them.. The writer went out to select some for parties at a distance and witnessed scenes surpassing the Kloniyke craze. People by the score on the grounds buying; the easy terms, 55 monthly, enables anyone to own a tot in New York. The new discovery, raw German Grains for the cure of indigestion and all stomach ailments, which has just been put on the market, comes in for a share of the talk of the day. Where doctors and drugs have failed the new remedy has worked marvelous cures, that have heretofore baffled the skill of the most noted scientists. Physicians are recognizing and receiving it with much gratification. \ boon surely for suffering humanity. It is proposed to build a modern sanitarium not so much for treatment as a monument to the new remedy, rhe treatment is given at home. Like all great things this new one leaded at once for New York to make its headquarters here. This correspondent will endeavor to cover all grounds where items interesting and instructive are on dit. H. W. Finlayson. 450 Broadway. Qirls Should Remember. That the home kitchen, with mother for teacher, and a loving, willing laughter for pupil, is the best cooking school on earth. That "the most excellent thing in woman"?a low voice?can only be acquired by home practice. That true beauty of face is only iM-voniVvl/V *Trk ID CAlll JUKMUIC W11C1C Micig 10 L'vauiij ux uvui manifested in a beautiful character. That the girl everybody likes is not iffected, and never whines, but is just her sincere, earnest, helpful self. ^ And, finally, that one of the most beautiful things on earth is a pure, nodest young girl?one who is her father's pride, her mother's comfort, ler brother's inspiration, and her sister's ideal,?which girl we should ill try to be.?Michigan Advocate. An Even Affair. A Missouri lawyer tells of an assault md battery case that was recently ;ried in a Kansas City court. To the first witness called the presiding magistrate put this question: 'Why did you not go to the aid of :he defendant when the fight occurred?" "Because," answered the witness with a smile, "I didn't know which Dne of them was going to be the defendant." i, . % ,' I ' i ' ' *" / IV The.... I !"Professor's I JVaV. f LEWIS. | ! Copy? ight, 1007, ??// E. C. Parcclls. jj ! Professor Sweetzer. naturalist for a certain New England college, was a little man. He was round shouldered. He was awkward on his legs. He wore goggles for his weak eyes, and he arrived at the age of fifty-five without having loved. As between bugs and beetles and women, the bugs and beetles were aneuu. n uuij rare occasions and when under the stress of excitement that he took the slightest notice of the other sex. Even when he did sit up and take notice of them he could not have recalled half an hour later what he said or whether they had red hair or black. ' On a certain day it came to the ears of Professor Sweetzer that a portion of the vertebrae of a whale had been found on a farm in Connecticut. He arrived on the spot next day and verified the find. On an occasion thousands of years before an old bull whale had decided to take a trip inland and through some error of judgment had left his bones in a gravel pit. A piece of the backbone six'feet long had been uncovered. The professor wanted to excavate for the rest. Where there is six feet of whale you can take it that there is more. He engaged board at the Widow Webb's and hired a man to wield the pick and shovel and thus went to work. The Widow Webb was fat aud forty and childless. She was worth a stony farm and $000 in cash. A still older sister lived with her, and the farm work was done by a hired man with the good old fashioned name of Hiram Stebbins. Hiram was thirty-five and drank nothing stronger than cider, but he thought deeply. One of them was that if he married the widow he would become the possessor of the farm and $600. He had been thinking of this and taking the farm work easy when Professor Sweetzer put in an appearance. Hiram looked at him and grinned. If any one had told him that within a week he would be jealous of that little, dried up and humpbacked specimen of humanity, he would have roared with laughter. As soon as the professor had inspected the bone and become enthusiastic, he was a changed man. He became a fluent talker. He became fatherly toward the widow. He called her "my child," and often took her hand and held it while he tried to make her understand that a whale was a cachelot and that a cachelot could stand on his tail in the water as well as on his head. "When Hiram witnessed the hand holding act, he quit grinning; He was mad all that day as he hoed corn. He was mad when he came up to supper. He was mad when one of the cows kicked him at milking time. While the professor took a ramble In search of beetles, Hiram carried the milk into the kitchen and began: "Widder Webb, how does it feel to have a baboon holding your hand?" "Hiram, what do you mean?" was demanded. "I mean that I have seen you and that little runt of a man saueezing hands a dozen times, and neither of you seems to care/who stands by. Fell In love mighty quick, didn't you?" "Look here, Mr. Stebbins, you have no right to talk to me this way. You know who the professor is. He's a great man. He has taught me more about whales in the last three days than I knew in all my life before. He also knows all about birds and bugs and bees. It's twice as interesting to hear him talk as it Is to hear a sermon." "Has a feller got to squeeze your hand to talk to you about whales?" asked Hiram. "He hasn't squeezed it. That's simply his way. He is a fatherly man. When he gets to talking he don't know whether he has got hold of my hand or the leg of a chair. You ought to be ashamed of yourself to talk as you do. I always thought there was a mean and jealous streak in you, and now it's come out." "Oh, it has, eh?" muttered Hiram. "Perhaps if I went around looking for the bones of an old whale, I'd be all right." "I guess it would be better than grunting around. You don't care for educated folks, but I do. I was born that way. If I was to ask you about whales, you couldn't tell me anything." "But the professor could?" "Yes, sir, he could. Hiram Stebbins, do you know that the Latin name of whale is Physeter macrocephalus? Do you know that we get spermaceti and ambergris from its body? Do yon know that he sometimes reaches the * n- "3 V/VM ICUglU U1 i5C\CIllJ( VI ciguiji ICTI. awu stand there with a mean look on your face, and yet let me tell you that the spgrm whale can swallow a man at a gulp. There are no teeth in the upper jaw, but the lower one has from twenty-five to thirty on each side. The eyes are small and placed far back in the head." "Well?" grunted the hired man. "Well, the cachelot feeds upon fishes and cephalopodous mollusks. You probably thought he fed upon turnips. The whale is gregarious. Five hundred or more have been seen in a single herd. Terrible conflicts often take place among the males, and it is not unusual to find the lower jaws deformed. The left eye is said to be smaller^than the right, and the whale cannot see behind him." "All from the professor!" sneered Hiram as he' bowed and walked out to fasten the hencoop for the night. When the professor wasn't assisting 1 Ills man to dig for bones he was hunting bugs and bees and butterflies. To his great joy, he discovered a seveu spot bumblebee. As all of us know, a bumblebee is of dark color, with yellow spots on his back. There are often from live to six spots and only rarely a seven spotter. This bee, along with a dozen others, was placed in a pasteboard box, and when the house I was reached the box was deposited on j a window sill of the veranda. The | professor had told the widow all about whales. As soon as he had a little spare time he meant to tell her all about bumblebees. Two dayfthad gone by when the moment came. The bone digging labors of the day were over and supper disposed of when the professor and the widow took chairs on the veranda. He had found the shell of a small turtle in the gravel that day, and he set out to first explain about that. Hiram Stebbins was greast ? ? niwl nliuTTtnor tho rn <y in J 11 ? iild U11U viiV n JU& uiv auq **> the kitchen and could hear every word. He also knew all about that box of bumblebees on the window sill. According to Professor Sweetzer, turtles had hearts and lungs, hopes and aspirations. He would even go so far as to say that turtles loved and were loved In return. They did not sing like a bird nor bellow like a frog, but they were supposed to have musicaj ears for all that. In his earnestness the man got hold of the widow's hand. It was only his way. If he had got hold of her ear it would have been the same. He had called her his dear woman and his dear child half a dozen times, and in his lecture he had got as far back as the turtle's markings when Iliram Stebbins could restrain himself no longer. He saw red. He thirsted for gore. He rose up to do murder, but checked his onslaught and walked softly into the sitting room. The window was up and the bee box before him, while the backs of the sitters were toward him. He lifted the cover and stepped back. The dozen bumbles had been hopping mad and calling each other names for the two days. The cover was no sooner off than they swarmed to get room to square off. As they caught sight of the professor and the widow, however, the hatchet was instantly buried. There was a wild swoop, followed by wilder yells. Old seven spot led In the fray. He It was who lifted the professor over the veranda rail and let him drop among the hollyhocks while the rest were paying the widow attentions. The profeTfeor ran and was followed, the widow shrieked and was stung again and again. It was not until Hiram rushed out with smoke and flame that she was rescued and a neighbor woman sent for to treat the lumps and bumps and put her to bed. The professor returned not Old seven spot wouldn't let him. No news came from him as the hours of night wore on, and Hiram wondered, but next morning the widow received a note reading: "My dear child, please send my satchel by bearer. I'm off after more boues. The turtle, as I meant to have told you, is utterly without ambition." "Waal," said Hiram to himself as he worked in the cornfield that day, "there was the professor, and me and the widder and the whale and the bumblebees, and if I hain't come out top o' the heap, who has?" > The Ship's Log. The ship's log consists of a log chip and a log line. The log chip Is a piece of board, shaped like the fourth part . M ? 1^- J.X lit. J ... Xlx. ol a circle, luaueu wiui leau uu uie round side, so that It will stand up In the water. The log line is 150 to 200 fathoms long.' It Is wound upon a large reel, so held as to let it run out easily. The line is divide^ into equal parts by bits of string run through it, each marked by the number of knots in it; hence these divisions are called knots. The log chip when thrown into the water stands still and draws out the log line as fast as it unwinds, and the speed of the ship is shown by the number of knots that run out in half a minute. The usual length of. a knot is 47.3 feet. When it is known how many of these run out in half a minute, it is easy to calculate how many would run out in an hour by multiplying by 120. The record of the heaving of the log, as well as all important things happening on shipboard, is made in a log book.?Cincinnati Enquirer. Open to Conviction. No rock was ever more firmly fixed than were Mrs. Manser's opinions, but she considered herself of an extremely pliable disposition, with a mind open to conviction on all sides. "It's the strangest thing to me, the way the rest of the family talk as if I were set in my views," she said one day to her nephew William's bride, with whom she had been laboring on the subject of calling cards for more than an hour. "It seems to me you're sort of taking the same tone," she.continued, looking sharply at the young woman, "and I don't want you to. There isn't anybody In this world that's readier to be convinced she's in the wrong than I am by people who know more than I. All they've got before 'em, ever, is to prove to me that they do know more than I?and I tell you, my dear, there hasn't one of 'em ever been able to in this family!"? Youth's Companion. The Koran. The Koran, or A1 Koran, the sacred book of the Mohammedans, was writ ten about CIO A. D. by Mohammed. 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