The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 10, 1908, Image 6
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BY I'HOF. WII.L
Our Schools.
To-day in South Carolina are to he
found very few people who would admit
that they are unfriendly to j>opulur
education, and fewer still who
would admit that they are not friends
to our common schools. The people
of the State have just passed through
a somewhat vigorous political campaign.
In this, as in almost every
such campaign, many of the candidates
for office have taken occasion .
to declare their deep interest in the
common schools. The candidate
"doth protest too much, methiuks,"
hut most of them arc entirely sincere
in their declarations. Some of these
men will soon occupy positions which
will enable them to demonstrate their
interest in onr schools, and their
rapacity for improving them. Prqm
Hit! outside it would seem that very
lew of these men have made any
careful analysis of the conditions of
our schools, and certainly few have
otVored any definite, practicable plan
for their permanent improvement.
Ily no means do I intend to cast any
slur at these men. Perhaps it is asking
too much of men busy with their
own affairs and the affairs of the public,
to stop to study the problems of
education?a field broad and rich in
vexatious questions. Perhaps, too,
those who have studied these problems,
and are familiar with the conditions,
have been remiss in not tell-J
ing the people frankly what they seel
and know.
For fifteen years this writer taught
in the common schools of this State,
and for seventeen yearsr he has tried
to study the conditions which make
for good or for evil in the educational
system of the State. During tho past
twenty-six months lie traveled
more than thirty thousand miles inI
hl> Rfnfo
miles thi'ifugh the rural districts, unci
visited not far from throe hundred
schools in the State. He claims no
wider or richer knowledge.of the conditions
than Is possessed by scores of
his fellow-workers. Yet he feels that
he knows something of these conditio?^,
and that he owes it to the pcoplo
to set those conditions frankly
before them.
Let me say at the outset that.
1 have no disposition to forget, or to
disregard the many good things in
our schools. Or fo withold merited
commendation anywhere, yet it is not
my purpose to tax the reader's time
aod patience with platitude and empty
eulogies, so frequently indulged in by
those who strive so diligently to blind
themselves to our patent weaknesses.
Our schools have been vastly improved
within recent years. We should
rejoice at their growth, and ever honor
those who have contributed to
that, growth. But we can not affofd
to stop at that. It would be folly to
assume that our schools, and our
school system, are anything like perfect.
Let us discover some of the
glaring weaknesses, udmK what we
discover, and set ourselves resolutely
toward Improvement.
Some of the most conspicuous
weaknesses in our schools are these:
I. Lack of funds sufficient to mainkUk
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v??u SVUOIH?;
2. Beggar)y salaries paid to teachers;
3. Too many incompetent teachers
employed in our schools;
4. Short school terms, especilaly
in the rural districts;
t>. Poor school houses and poor
equipment;
ti. Neighborhood Jealousies and
neighborhood quarrels;
7. Too many little hu If-supported
schools;
8. Inadequate supervision of village
and rural schools;
8. Non-attendance and irregular
attendance of tbo pupils;
10. The missing link?tb# high
school.
I wish to discuss those features of
our school system frankly, somewhat
fully, and altogether dispassionately.
I wish to avoid anything captious or
hysterical. In those discissions, I
beg to offer, as unobtrusively as I
may, some suggestions as to remedies.
For he is a poor physician who
tells his patients that he Is sick, but
offers neither to tell him what the
disease is, nor to prescribe any remedy.
I^ack of Funds. To maintain good
schools requires motvey. They can
not be run on ebullient sotitlmenf,
nor will spasmodic charity keep them
at a very high standard. Money Is
absolutely necessary to build comfortable
school houses, to furnish these,
houses, to pay competent teachers,
and to keep the schools open nine
months in the year. What is South
Carolina putting into her common
schools, the training school of the future
citizenship of the State? In
1 907, the State enrolled in the common
schools 314,399 pupils, or about
18 per cent of her total population.
Ofli these pupils was spent $l,41f?,724J
or $4.60 per pupil. This $4.60 includes
the expenditures on school
houses, furniture, apparatus; libraries,
and teacflfrrs' salaries. The average
attendance upon the schools was,
of course, much lower than 'the en*
roHmcnt. therefore the amount epfent
per pupil on the basis of attendance
was larger?#6.37. In 1*0$. North
Carolina spent $.* *0#=" *flfiHi
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tendance; Georgia spent $7.15; Mississippi,
$8.01; Tennessee, $8.48; Virginia.
$11.05; Florida, $11.50; Louisiana.
$14.83; Main, $20.05; Maryland.
$21.32; Wisconsin, $28.34;
Minnesota, $30.19; New York,
$47.40.
In 1907, South Carolina spent for
common school education 91 cents
per capita of her total population. Tn
1900, Georgia s|)ent 98 cents; Virginia
sjH'Mt $1.12; Mississippi, $1.15;
Kentucky, $1.19; Tennessee, $1.4 9;
Florida, $1.96; Maryland, $2.51; Wis
cousin, $3.97; Minnesota, $4.41;
New York, $6.27.
If Virginia has found that it requires
$11.05 per pupil to maintain her
schools, is it reasonable to assume
that South Carolina can maintain
good schools on $0.37 per pupil? If
Maryland is willing to invest $21.32
per pupil in her schools, she must be
satisfied with her investment, for she
hns been increasing the amount from
year to year. The question at issue
is not concerned with the relative
wealth of these States. The question
is this: If it pays to put $11.05 a
year in the education of :? vin?iniii
boy, does not a South Carolina boy J
need or deserve more than $G.H7 in
his education. God has done his part
by The- South Carolina boy und gill;
lias the State done its part?
VctA people will udn-.it that our I
school fund is insufficient. How tire
we to increase it? Several plans have
be? n offered, and several ways a *e
open. Some of them, however, do not
opjM'Hl to men of experience. Not a
few people insist upon increasing the
school fund by private subscription.
This plan is inadequate and rather
vicious in its effects. The public
schools are supported primarily for
the benefit of the State, rather than
for the benefit of "the individual. If
the support of the schools is dependent
\ipon voluntary subscription, the
less patriotic shirk their duty, and
the burden falls upon the willing few.
Hesides. such support is irregular,
unstable, and uncertain.
Frequently it is proposed by a few
to iuoreaso the common school fund
by direct appropriation from the
State treasury. Unless such appropriation
were made upon the
condition that ouch district receiving
its jmrt should first make
a specific local effort, the result would
be hurtful, as the districts would
|toon come to look upon themselves
|as beneficiaries of the State, and
would cease to make any effort to
Ihelp themselves. Only a few years
ago one house of the Genera! Assembly
passed a bill (knowing that it
would fail to pass in the other house)
appropriating $'JOO.OOO to the common.
schools. How much relief would
s*TK-h bum give to the schools? It
would increase the fund only (ill
cents per pupil on last year's enrollment.
or $15.7r? to u school of U5
pupils. An appropriation of $?00,00<)
disbursed in such way as to require
the districts to raise in the upgregate
something lilte $400,000 in local taxes,
would be equitable and v ise. !
am at once reminded that this plan
would not entirely relieve the strain
in a few of the poorer counties, and
I admit tt. Our present plan of collecting
and apportioning the constitutional
U-mlU school tax is not a democratic
one. That tax Is collected
and apportion*^ by counties. Some
counties with poor land, lack of water
power for manufacturing, and with
no railroads to tax. are nt a decided
isadvantage. It would have been unjust
to have collected and apportioned
that ft-mill tax as a State tax, but
it would hove been just and democratic
to have made two mills a county
tax, as at present, and have mode
the other mill a State tax. Then the
stronger counties would have' been
contributing a well-guarded tax for
the support of tho weak counties.
?x> rar in mis state at leaf t, local
taxation lias proted to be the best
moans of increasing the school fund.
It 1r equitable, it is stable, and it is
certain until a majority of the people
vote it off. It compels the unwilling
few to bear their proportionate part
of a legitimate and necessary community
expense. The district which
levies a local tax known just where
every dollar comes from, ami just
[where every dollar goes. Moreover,
It is usually not very difficult to levy
a local school tax, if there is only
some safe person to lead, for as a rule
the wealthiest persons in the district
are the readiest to vote a local sc hool
tax.
Personally 1 am confident that the
most just, equitable, and reasonable
way to increase our school fund is to
inaugurate a sensible and honest system
of returning our property for taxation.
When you compare the amount
of school tax raised in South Carolina
on each $100 of taxable property,
with that of other States, the showing
is very good. Hut when you stop to
consider that our property has been
returned at perhaps twenty-five per
Cent of its true value, the showing is
not good. The habit of returning a
piece of property at one-fourth ita
true value, then taxing It at 4 mills,
Instead of returning It at something
Hke Hs trhc value, the taxing it at
one tall) to raise the same amount of
money, fa hot only childish business
practice, but it is a training school in
dtebooefsty. Men ?rho ?#er to rfcttir*''
their property at something like its'
true value are actually laughed-at for
their artleeaaees. Civic honesty must
decline under such vicious system.
Were the real and personal property
in this State returned at something
like ninety per cent (and why should
it not?) of its true value, the 3-rnill
school tax alone would practically
double our entire school revenue. In
1907, the land outside the incorporated
towns in the prosperous, productive,
and wealthy county of Anderson
was returned for taxation at an
average of $G.f> 1 per acre. Marlboro,
one of the finest farming counties in
the whole South, returned her land
at an average of $5.2S an acre. Orangeburg
is justly proud of her farm
land, but she returned hers at $3.5 4
an acre. Williamsburg has some
poor land, but she has some of the
finest fields of cotton and tobacco to
bo found in the State; on the tax
books her land is rated at an average
of $2.09. In these very counties I
have been shown land whose owners
would not sell for $3 0, $40, and
even $00 an acre. In one of these
counties is a school district containing
nearly 45,000 acres of land, yet
the etiro real and personal property
of *tho district is returned at $100,000.
What would a 4-mill school tax
mean to that district? Increasing the
tax levy while we reduce the valuation
of our property reminds one ol
the policy of the master who undertook
to punish his thievish coachman
by periodically stealing hack from the
coachman what the coachman had |
nioit'ii irum iiiM iiiciait'r.
William if. Hand.
University ot' South Carolina.
(7.\I5 TilK 1MCHKST MO.VAItCH.
l'liiipet'or of Kussia is Paul One Million
Dollars Hvory Other Week.
Considerable interest will be Treated
by the forthcoming discussion in
the Prussian Parliament, or Ladtng,
f the Kaiser's request tor an increase
of salary. Wllhelm II, as Herman
emperor, receives au annua) grant
of only $400,000 from the Slate. His
salary as King of Prussia is more in
keeping with his needs, the amount
being $:i,500,000. During the twenty
years of his reign the Herman emperor
has received many legacies from
wealthy subjects. In this respect he
Is the luckiest of all monarchs, for
he has benefitted to the extent of
nearly $0,00 0,000 in hard cash, and,
in addition, several tine estates have
been left to him.
The Kaiser's mode of living is one
of unparalled magnificence. Ho is
a connoisseur in the art of choosing
apparel and in the art of wearing it
to the best advantage, and his tailor's
bill mils into thousands of dollars.
His majesty possesses sufficient
castles, palaces and "country houses
to cuubic bim to live in a different
one each week of the year, if he
should feel so dispoM?d. When he
travels nothing that may lend splendor
and impress!veness to his progress
is overlooked* and here many Germans
see an opportunity for their
|king to economise: they would prefer
him to omit some of the pomp and
cereinouy which surrounded him
ivrw-u .lourut'yinp; ui nis own icitim,
, One of the disadvantages tin dor
which (he German emperor labors is
that ho must provide for his family
out of his own income. In Hngland,
on the contrary, each member of the
royal family receives a yearly grant
of $500,000 or over from the State,
while King K-dward himself gets $2,3
50,000. Of this sum barely onefourth
goes into his majesty's own
purse, as be defrays *he salaries and
expenses in connection wfth the royal
house-hold, and also provides pension
for his superanuatod servants.
The Com* Is the richest monarch in
the world. In his case the crown properties
actually belong to him. These
impiral domlns include more than
20.000,000 acres of cultivated land*
nud improved forests, as well as sevral
Siberian mines. A state granof
' $7,500,000, added to his other
revenues, brings the Czar's gross Income
up to $4 0,000,000 a year. Out
of this sum, however, he has to bear
all the "expenses of his great estates.
No data of any kind are available regarding
the amount of clear protit
which the Gear received, but b?? has
$25,000,000 a. year for bis private
use.
PAVING HIS VICTIMS.
Millionaire Robber Has Reformed and
is .Making RfSrtutkm.
Chief of I>olice Creecy, of St. I*ouis,
5Io., is aiding a man who refuses to
give his name or the name of the New
York millionaire for whom he is working,
in an effort to find a man in St.
Louis and who was robbed of a
diamond stick pin. The agent declares
the robber was arested in Lafayette
I ml., and was sent to penitentiary
uder the name of W. J. Hyde, in 1905
Now the millionaire highwayman
has been released from prison and restored
to his family. Recently he
returiUMl a large sum of money to a
tnun in Springfield, 111., which he had
stolen. ?
Attorney So?8 Hairy K. Tbaw.
Paj>ers have been served on Harry
K. Thaw in a suit brought .by John
H. G lea sou, a counsel foV Thaw in his
first trial, to recover 900,000* the
balance of his fee of $80,060 which
the attorney claims his services were
worth.
CAUSc OF FLOODS. |
WOHK FX)Il APPALACHIAN PARK
HILL RECALLED. I
Present Flood Might Have Reen Ihv-|
vented Had the Kill lloen Passed
When it Was First Introduced.
Th" Washington correspondent of I
Tho News and Courier says the loss I
of many human lives and the destruclion
of thousands of dollars' worth I
of property throughout the Southern]
States because of the (toons now pre- j
vailing would probably not be wit-]
nessed to-day had Congress passed ]
the White .Mountain and Appalachian]
forest reserve bill a few years ago, |
for which so hard a fight has been]
waged.On the other hand,such condi-]
ions as are now b"ing seen will neces-j
sari I j continue until the lawmakers of]
the land realize that only with the]
passage of such a bill and the conse-]
quent holding of the waters to Mow]
off into their outlets in a natural way I
will such terrible floods stop. ;
The tight that was made at the]
last session of Congress and at the I
two or three sessions before by ad-l
voeates of the White Mountain and J
Appalachian Park reserve bill is well]
remembered. Led by Itepresolatives I
Currier, of Vermont, and Lever, of I
South Carolina, everything possible]
was done to have such a bill enacted I
into law, but even with the great I
tight that was made for its successl
could not be had. Just as it seemed]
that success was in sight Represent a-|
ive Bart lot t, of Ceorgin, adroitly took |
the matter out of the hands of the]
House eonimitttee on agriculture by J
a resolution placing it. with the com-]
niittee on the judiciary, giving the]
latter committee full power and au-j
thorlty to go into the question ol' the]
bill' constitutionality It was at first]
believed that Mr. Hart let t was favorable
to the measure and really desired
to test the constitutional questions
so that such matter could not
be raised on the Moor of the House
j when it came to a vote, but it was
nil unri| turn n u im~w vi'i t'U vaiil 111^ [i\n pose
was to effectually delay notion
for the session. The judiciary committee
took up i he Currier bills, and
after considering them for some time
passed a resolution to the effect that
if the purpose of the bills were to
further navigation then it would he
constitutional, otherwise not. That
was a step in the passage of the
measure, but so complicated was the
situation towards the closing days of
ho session that nothing could ho done
towards securing its passage then.
The trouble about these bills, however.
which has been of more coiasequenco
than the action of Mr. Bartlett.
is the fact that SpeqUer Cannon,
even in the face of the strogest appeals.
has absolutely refused to permit
them to come to a vote. Downs
of delegates from both the New Kngland
and Southern States called on
him publicly and privately during the
last session of Congress und pleaded
with him to yield in his position and
allow the matter to come to a vote;
to let the Representatives of the poopie
express their views on the floor of
the House by their votes, but nothing
PA II1/1 nhaACTA h?m k!>.
*.A/i?rv? v iitlUi iXVV > \'\i U4t> m'Ol
friends in Congress could have the
least possible influence upon him. He
not only told those Rcprcsetativcs
who begged him to let the matter
come to a vote, but the various delegations
also, that us long as he was
Speaker he would recoguiw no one
for that purpose. That was the situation
at the close of the last session of
Congress. Representatives Lever and
[Currier were pledged to their poeple
to secure the passage of the bill at
all hazards, and the failure to secure
favorable action cannot be placed to
their account., . v . ^ *
The lives that are being lost every'
year in the South by reason of the
floods that sweep through the mountain
country into the streams of the
lowlands are Southern lives, but the
milions of dollars of property that go
to destruction represent the interests
of people in every part of the United
tates. It is not only Southern money
that goes into the South's cotton mills
bleacheries and other manufacturing
industries, but Northern money and
Kasterrn money is invested there
also.
It is not known just what line of
procedure the two Congressmen most-*
ly interested in this "measure will
adopt at the coming ssesion of Congress
to effiK-t its passage, if possible,
but it is reasonable, to assume that
mcy win not omy continue, their
work of former years In the interest
of the White Mountain and Appalachian
Park country, but that they will
redouble their efforts along this line
and bring all the pressure to l>oar on
Speaker Cannon to have him yield hi|
position and allow the matter at least
to come squarely and fairly before
Congress for a vote.
Champion Corn Raters to (loutoHt.
An effort is being made to bring
about a corn eating contest in Middletown,
N. Y. Fred Owens claims the
championship. He ate corn off cobs
that would measure 11 feet 9 inches
if laid end to end. William Ports,
of Roscoo, declares he ate it off 16
feet of cobs. : <
.What satisfaction is a secret sor- ?
l+w that bo (bo kbtwa about.
SOUTH CAROLINA OOLLKKK.
T1h? Good Work It is IHjing for the
Schools* of the State.
More and more the University authorities
are striving to link the institution
to the common schools of
the State. Several members of fhe
present faculty have been closely
identified \\i:h the common uciioolsteaching
in the State and county
schools for teachers, addressing
teacher bodies and the public on
school matters. Realizing that the
high school situation in the State was
fur from satisfactory, the Hoard of
Trustees a little more than two years
ago established in the University a
chair of secondary education, and
called to it a man who had taught for
nearly twenty years in the common
schools, most of that time in South
Carolina. Prof. Hand began by giving
half of his time to teaching in the
institution,and the other half to field
work over the State. Within less than
a year the demand for his time was so
heavy that from that time since lie
has given almost his entire time to
this high school work over the State.
In the mean time the legislature has
appropriated $ a 0.0 0 0 annuaiiv to aid
the high schools, and the State Hoard
of Kducation made Prof. Hand its
State Inspector, further linking the
institution to the chools. There are
now in round numbers one hundred
State aided high schools tow and rural.
These schools are getting the
benefit of his service in building
ourses'of study, classfying their work
and urging on the improvement of
those schools. For the first time in
the history of the Stater ail the colleges
and the public at large have access
t<? detailed tabulated information
as to the actual work done in all the
high schools of th<* State. The
volume rit correspondence and the
number of bulletins of information
which pass through this oflice are
h?T?v; . and an' growing almost dally.
This department of the University is
devoted to the educational interest of
he State rather than to the individual
interest of this Institution. "
ABOUT FHKDIXCJ HORSKft.
i Pavt of a Spoivli of one of Ibc South's
(iiratost Kvperts in This Bine.
The following Is slipped from The
State, bcinp a part of the speech recently
made by Judge Henry Hammond
of Augusta and Beach Island.
Judpo Hammond is rccogniticd as an
expert on the subject of feeding
st ock.
"When the farmers of the south
learn to use more of their cotton products,
learn to feed their horses and
stock with cotton seed products, it
will mean millions of dollars to the
south, part of which every farmer
will save for himself. No report has
ever shown that injury to u horse has
been a result of t'?-edJug cotton seed
meal. Feed it every day. That's
what I do. It is not a hot or a cold
climate feed. Feed not less than one
r>oand nor more than three, the
amount to be determined by the age,
slao and work of the animal. Not
only Is it the most nntrttioun food
but it greatly aids the digesting
general health and good appearance
of the animal.
Keod Cotton Seed Meal with anything
you ever beard of a horse or
mule eating?torn, whole: corn,
cracked,; ensilage; bran &<-. Don't
stick to any one food. Give a variety.
Change as the price changers. It is
always best to feed hard working
stock ground (Dot too fine) feed.
Cotton seed rueal is fed to best advantage
when thoroughly mixed with
the other portion of the grain part of
the ration.
If you know what number of
pounds of grain will maintain your
animal, reduce this two po-unds for
every jxutnd of meal you feed > * * ?.
To illustrate this,?if you #en
giving him 14 pounds of com. give
him dow only 10 pounds of corn and
2 pounds of cotton seed meal. Ho
will soon improve and do better work
than ever before."
WAXTKD TO LYNCH A KIKXD.
The Colored People at Holly Hill Got
Aroused.
The colored people in and around
Holly Hill were very much excited on
ast Saturday, frank .Johnson, a neggro
who criminally ao&oulted a young
negro girl, about a mile from the
town ooe week before, was arrested
Saturday and brought to Holly Hill
for preliminary hearing. The streets
were full of negroes during the day
a\d the threats to lynch the man
w?\ro to open that unusual precautions
wore taken for Ma safety. He
was taken from the small and insecure
guard house at night and placed '
in the depot, where a strong armed
guard kept vigilant watch during the
night, no one being allowed to approach
the depot unchallenged, and
as early as possible on Sunday morn
iuk whh iukod 10 iMoncK s tjoruer. 1
There fioems to be no doubt of the ]
fiend's guilt. ]
" <
Socialists Claim 27 IVi* Oat. Incicaso
The Socialist part nominated .Tames
P. Carey, of Haverhill, last week, for
governor of Massachusetts. Carey j
announced^ that the psrty had made ]
a net gain bf 27 per cent, in membership.
durinAthe past year. Collective
ownership, abolition of child labor, *
raising of the school age, and abolition
of the injunction in" labor die- ,
putes are advocated In the platform i
adoption. * j
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SANK IN QUIKSAND.
CilVKS l'l? IfOl'K AM) VTs MOMENTS
OF LIFE LEFT.
>
Saved at Last Minute in Ix?nely Q".kii:?
mire all Water \V:ts Ah-ove ^
His Chin Wlien Ueseueil.
In the t'auciful tales of horribl-^ixid
terrifying experiences from Poe and
Hugo no situation is described more
terrible than that in which Kdwnrcl
Tiefenbach, on Torrington, Conn.,
found iiimseif for eight hours ?;ntil
he was rescued Friday mo ring at Mu*
moment when deathvalem- d It: v itable.
Like one caught in the quicksands,
with the added horror of the man
penned in a cavern of the sea by the
risig tide, Tiefenbach faced the double
in a lonely pond throughout the
night As his body was slowly sucked
downard into the soft, yielding
mud his progress toward death was
measured by the rise of tli*- water toward
his mouth and nostrils until he
could count ahead the roinuU end
seconds left him to live.
Tiefenbach went to Catlin's pond,
near liarwiuton, for a/ ' "lit of fishing.
He was alone, a^ that time
of night ther?; was no ontu> the neighborhod.
He rowed out to the south*
ern end of the pond, where the water
is shallow and the bottom is covered
with a soft ooze several feet thick.
About f) o'clock, while Tiefenbach was
standing in the boat, a patched place
in the bottom gave way, and Tiefenbach
through, his feet imbedding
themselves in the slime.
The boat sank quickly, and Tiefenbach,
feeling himself being drawn
rinwn nf rn rrcrl?>/l liiwii tin tn
<*t his foot "out of the* mud. which was
acting like quicksand, and upor the
bottom of the sunken boat. Hut the.
boat, also quickly filled with mud.
again entrapping liiin, and the craft
began to sink slowly into the mini.
Tlcfenbach soon discovered tluu
[any struggle on bis part made the
boat sink quicker, and that bte >niy
hncc was to stand still, with the hope
that the boat would reach solid ooltom,
or that daylight v.ouid bring
some one to his assistance.
For hour upon hour Tiefetvhach
stood, while his body was slowlr trot
surely drawn further and further
own. He could tell by the rise of the
water upon his liody that he was liiuking
doeper and deeper, and as the
interminable night wore on it became
of an hour or two, then of
rainines, until me norribie d -ail:
which had threatened so Ions should r t
overtake him. The man wm Itkcii
with horror when the water reached
his chin, just as day began to brr^k.
Gradually the water rose until ii
reached his lower lip. and be h:*4i to
tilt his h?sid Uacll to keep it fro?. going
into hLs mouth. He felt it rt^u
until his face alone was out of water,
and then it was day. and with a hi^t
despair ig cry he shouted loudly far
help.
? Two farmers beard the s*:rca?.ft of
Tiefehach and arrived at the potHl
just In time to save him from drowning.
They reached him lo ancAhrrr
bout, and by heroic work released Ui*>
body from the mud and brought him
ashore. It will be many days before
Tiefenbach rccovc-ts from bis f?cporience.
*
KEYKX PKRHOXS DIIOW7CKT'
Ten Go Out in Boat a?d Only Three
Return..
At Deer Isle, Maine, seven summer
visitors out of a party of ten weefc
drowned by the capsizing of a tff>foot
sloop in Pcndbsj^t Uay, off that
island. Tuesday. l!u+ frowned are:
Miss Alice Torro, &sninprton. C.
Miss Eleanor Torro, Washington,
D. C.
Miss Kellogg, Baltimore.
Lutie Kellogg, Baltimore..
Mrs. Lucy S. Crawley Phftodelphia.
Miss Elizabeth G. Vans, MLounl
ilolyokc Seminary, Mass.
.Tason C. Hutching, Bangor, M-alce.
Took 75 Negroes to Get One,
A brutal crime, committed by a.
negro on person of Miss Rate Vun*\
??> r\u i..
vI mvnirn;i, lilUiV r?t'ir CJtfki"
Infi (i lynching, las^ft'eoh. Secectyfive
negroes were a,rfe?t?Kl in a HToel
to apprehend the brlminal. *
-Tackles Barred Fit>m Dancing flat 4.
Ulted States sailors In uniform
were barred l'rom the dancing pavilion
at Oyster Bay, N. Y.. last wcefc,
because of their condition. The men
are in service on the Sylph, the Pre- *
sident's private yacht. *
General's Wife Murdered.
The wife of Major General Chtif*
tsdward Luard. retired officer of the
Royal Engineers, was murdered in
tho woods near London, England,
last week. Robbery Is believed to
hnvn been the motive as her Jewel cry
was taken. *
Taeomrt hwstii.
Tneoma, Wash., has be<n sclect'-d
for the next convention of the Spanish
War Veterans to meet.
Tabulated statement of the County
3tatc vote Will found on page five,
V' ' III ?| ,1 UllM
. people who live la mortgaged
k>w** shouldn't start false financial
. A .