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1 MUCH RED TAPE In Making Awards of Scholarships in Colleges, v A CHANGE SUGGESTED Wintlirop Makes a liwai ivccoru. There Were Tliirteen Hundred and Twenty-four Scholarships. Fifty Thousand Dollars Paid for Scholarships in the Schools. That tlie entire method of allot-< ting beneficiary scholarships in ihj several State colleges is wrong, is the view of the State superintd 1cent of education, Mr. J. E. Swearingen. The cost is several hundred dollars annually, the exact amount being unknown because the county ^.r iiioiitlnti nr>? nniri out uuai uo ui cuuvuviwu ~ i of their respective county funds and not out of the State treasury. Mr. Swearingen says that all of the examinations should be held the same day and that the papers should be examined for award by the faculties of the respectiv institutions. This Is the law with reference to the scholarships at the University With reference to Clemson the county boards of education are the arbitors, even after the papers have been graded by the Clemson faculty. This means possibly all additional meeting of the county board, for which each member gets $3 per day. There are two appointive members of the board in each county and this would aggregate $256 for the boards to meet to ratify what the faculty had already decided de facto. The scholarship appropriation of the State'are as follows: Clemson $16,600, Winthrop $ 1 2,400, university $4,200, Citadel $17,000. Total $59,200. For the vacant scholarships at Winthrop this year there were 1,300 applicants. It has been an immense undertaking to grade the papers. livery applicant xiusi nuiKe aii average of 60 points on each branch of study. Some have excellent standing in some studies and fail In others. Furthermore the county I boards of education must ascertain if the applicant conies within the restrictions of law as to property qualifications. ' The legislature intends that these scholarships shall be given to worthy and needy girls. The Winthrop faculty is now grading the lepers, some 6,000 of them, and the report will be in the hand6 of the State board of education early in September. Tho recommendations from the South Carolina university faculty are already completed. Daily the State superintendent is gettling reports f^om 'the county pupeilintentfents wjth reference to the Clemson scholarships, but the entire list is far from being complete. Mr. Swearingen would like for the county superintendents to report at once as he can not require this information from the Clemson faculty or trustees. The county boards are required to give preference to those applicants for Clemson scholarships who state that they wish to take the agricultural or textile courses, and the ^ spirit of the law is to encourage the study of agriculture, but the law does not make this mandatory in giving the scholarships. The board of visitors of the Citadel met on the 29th of July and granted permits for 8 2 young men to stand the examination for Citadel scholarships. These examinations will be held on the 13th of August, making an additional expense upon the counties of $3 per day for each examiner. Mr. Swearingen has found what he considers another injustice?a youth will be successful in standing an examination for Clemson and will then in August try for the Citadel vacancy. And yet one other condition which Mr. Swearingen seeks tb correct is the inequality in the amounts appropriated. lie thinks that VVinthrop and the university should he 011 the same plane as Clemson. Wlnthrop has 124 scholarships at $100 each; Clemson 166 at $100 each; the Citadel 68 at $2 50 each t and the university 4 2 at $100 each. There* is frequently a vacancy from a county. In such a case Mr. Swearingen suggests that there should be authority given to the faculty of each institution to a low some worthy, deserving and needy young man from another county to become the beneficiary?for the year year at least. Such an arrangement could be designed "scholarships at large." In brief Mr. Swearingen suggests that the matter of scholarships could be resolved into a much mote sini* pie arrangement. All applicants for all scholarships should appear at the respective court houses on the same day. The county boards of education could see that tho restrictions as to property qualifications were met. Tho questions could be answered and forwarded to the respective faculties who would grade $ i * ROLLS DOWN BANK THREE CARS FOLLOW LOOOMOTIVK NEAR Ml DAW, TENN. Nobody Killed, as by a Miracle Ten I*er?on? Hurt, On? Probably Fatally. While going down grade at the rate of 4 0 miles an hour, the Washington & Chattauboga vestibule train, southbound, left the track on the Southern railway, two miles west of Midway, Tenn., at 1 o'clock ThnruHov n rtiipiin/m 'I'lin M. 4t ill uuu J uivviiiUVii. 1 HV UU^IUU turned over and rolled 30 feet down a bank, followed by the mail and baggage anil express cars. As if by a miracle nobody was killed, but ten people were injured, including Engineer Samuel Bush of Knoxrille, who is believed to be fatally hurt. He had a leg crushed and a hole cut in his head. Others seriously injured are: The fireman, scalded; John R. Shields, express messenger, hurt internally; Fay Price, postal clerk, crippled. Many of the passengers were shaken up and releived bruises and scratches. The engine and four cars are a complete wreck. Tho coaches were torn to splinters without seriously injuring any of the passengers. The mail car was split in two and the floor hurled 40 feet into a lipid, wnn rosiai uierk. k. \n . mint and Fay Price clinging to it. The fact that the cars In front rolled out of the way of the Pullman cars probably accounts for the escape of so many passengers. The wreck, it is said, was caused by spreading rails. TWO GREAT MKN THERE. Statues of Washington and Lee in Hall of Fame. Bronze statues of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, Virginia's contribution to the nation's "Ilall of Fame," were Tuesday placed in Statuary llall at the Capitol, at Washington. Formal ceremonies attending the unveiling will take place at some time yet to be determined. Both statues are beautiful works of art. Lee is pictured in the uniform of the South, and his statue stands between those of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamship, and J. L. M. Curry, of Alabama. Near the statue of Lee are those of Gen. James Shields, of Illinois, and Gen. Philip Kearney, of New Jersey, in the uniforms of the Union army. The Lee statue was designed by Edward V. Valentine, of Richmond, Va. Washington's statue was placed in the southeast end of the hall, between the statues of Gen. Ethan Allen, of Vermont, and Gen. Peter Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, a distinguished soldier and statesman of Revolutionary times, and a brother of the first Speaker of the House of Kepresentatives. me wasnington statue is a replica of Houdon's famous masterpiece now at the Capitol in Richmond. FIGHT IN I)AHK ROOM. An Italian and His Wife Rattle to the Death. At Chicago, after locking their two children in a bed room and fastening all the doors of their flat, Antonio Spizzirri and his wife, Anna, went into the darkened parlor and tried to kill each other. The woman was shot twice and stabbed twice with a stilletto and died before the police arrived. The husband was shot twice also and he were found near the sofa on which may die. A revolver and a knife the woman lay dead, and another revolver was found beside the husband's body. The disordered room indicated a luiuine snuggie. opizzirri lurnea on his side as the police, called by neighbors, broke into the room with a sledge hammer. He tore a letter into bits before the police could stop him. This letter, when translated from the Italian, may solve the mystery. It is thought that Spizzlrri was jealous of his wife. "Lumber King" Killed. George VanDyck, of Lancaster, N. II., one of the best known lumber men in New England, and his chauffeur, Frederick B. Hogdon of North Stratford, Vt., were fatally injured when an automobile in which they were riding plunged over a 75-foot cliff into the Connecticut river at Riverside, opposite Turner Falls, Mass., Monday. Both died of their injuries at the hospital. Mr. Van Dyck was known as th? "lumber king of New England." them. These papers would of course j be signed by number and no one would know the number until the conclusion of the examination of the papers by the faculty. The State board could then declare the result upon the statement of the county hoards and the recommendations of the respective faculties. HURTS THE SOUTH SECRETARY WILSON GIVES COTTON A 11LACK EYE. Much Harm Has Been Done by His Interview in Which Ho Said Cotton Was Normal President Ha vuv Toi?t>n of Southern Cotton Association, enters formal potest against ; receut interview with Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, which appeared in the New York World, and which that paper claimed to have Just had with ,'tho secretary on crop pros pects ror the present year. The exact language reported to have been used by Secretary Wilson is as follows: "The crops will be good everywhere. There will be a superfluity of work for everybody on the farms? more work than the farmers can And hands to do. The corn crop bids fair to surpass any other crop In the history of the country. The cotton crop will be reasonably good, and the balance of the crops above the average all along the line. "Prosperity is not going to wait on the tariff or anything else. If any disturbance of conditions arises in the body politic it will have to come from somewhere else than the agricultural district. It is not coming from the farm." "The monthly condition report was due to come out on August 2, just one day after the publication of the above interview with Secretary Wil son," said Mr. Jordan. "I realized that the interview would be bcarislily construed by the entire cotton trade if not corrected at once, and I immediately wired Secretary Wilson the following telegram: "1 notice an interview attributed to you in the New York World of August 1, in which you state the following: 'The cotton crop will be reasonably good.' Are you correctly quoted? Is not an immediate denial of this interview in order? Otherwise incalculable injury will be done the cotton growers of the South by speculative interests which will construe you to forecast a normal production of cotton. All private reports issued to date indicate a considerable deterioration of the cotton crop condition from the last month's condition report of the Bureau of Cotton Statistics. The Journal of Commerce condition report, issued this morning, shows an actual deterioration during the last month of three and seven-tenths per cent, making present conditions 73 1-10 which is the lowest condition ever reported by them. "My own opinion is that the present condition of the cotton crop is the poorest in my recollection, and that, any authoritative statement from you at this time, that the c?ton crop will be reasonably good is not only a wrong statement of actual facts, but will be used to the great injury of the constituency I represent in the South. "My apprehensions regarding the effect of Secretary Wilson's statement regarding the cotton crop have been fully verified in the depression of the cotton market this week of $3.50 per bale, or practically $40,000,000 in the value of the crop. It is well known that the bureau report which was issued the next day after Secretary Wilson's alleged interview in the World, indicated the lowest cotton condition for August ever made by the Bureau of Cotton Statistics, and that the report of the bureau was emphasized by every private report that came in the last week of July. "The cotton trade has evidently placed more weight and value on the statement of Secretary Wilson as indicating a normal production of cotton this year than it has on the extremely low condition reports issued by the Bureau of Statistics last Monday. There can be no other logical explanation of the recent hammering of the cotton market operators on the cotton exchanges. It is to be hoped that Secretary Wilson will not longer delay remedying the very serious mistake which he has made. Sentiment in favor of abolishing or making drastic changes in the Department of Agriculture regarding the publication of the bureau reports has for some time been developing, and if the head of the department of sensational interviews is to nullify the effect of the bureau reports the sooner the work of the department is regulated by congress the better for the agricultural interests of the whole country." Kyeg (jou^l Out. Further particulars concerning the Moharftmedan uprising in the Shensi and Kansu districts, China, state that the revolt was due to the severo methods taken by the Chinese local magistrates to suppress the opium habit. Ho seized one of the local users, who was an opium smoker and his eyes were gouged out and his arms taken off. The people then rose in rebellion and attacked the magistrate in his yamen, killing his son. To save himself, the magistrate jumped into a well. , , '??W iC. WAR TO THE LIMIT WITH NO QUARTER ASKED OR GIVEN WITH LX>NTROL Of the Republican National Organisation a* the Stake Is Declared by tlio Progressive Republicans. War to the limit with no quarter asked or given and with the control of the Republican national organization the one great prize at stake is officially declared b ythe Progres sive Republicans. The Republican National Convention of 19 12 is the promised field of I the spectacular battle of the campaign already initiated. The tariff i and how to revise it furnishes the line of demarcation between the opposing forces. A dispatch from Chicago says: Senator Albert R. Cummins of Iowa homeward bound from Washington, flung down the gauntlet and for all practical purposes oflicially and formally delivered the political ultimatum which opens hostilities between the Progressive and the old order, which has aligned in Washington by Senator Aldrich. The big items emphasized by Senator Cummins as critical points to bo pushed to the foro by the Pro- | gressives are these: 1. Placing in control at the head i of organized Republicanism men 1 who will stand absolutely by platform pledges. 2. Struggle for this policy at j every convention, local, Congress- 1 lr\iA o 1 or Cto A KAI " *? ? -1 1 A 1 0 - IVJ11 ill v/1 Ifiuiu ucmvcil liuvv ill HI i y 1 6 j where there are enough Progressive Republicans to make It worth while. 3. No general revision of the tariff for perhaps a decade, but revision from timo to time In particular schedules as expert Investigation demonstrates to bo necessary and at the same time conforming with the broad principle of protection. 4. Appointment of an expert tariff commissioner at the earliest practicable moment to furnish this Information to Congress. 6. And, particularly, no opposition to President Taft?whom the Progressives believe to have a thoroughly progressive program In hand for his administration?at least until the Presidential policy demonstrates the contrary. "What Immediate step will be taken by the Progressives?" Senator Cummins was asked. "We shall present the issue flatly to every Republican convention between the present and the National Convention of 1912 where it is possible for the issue to bo presented. That issue is: Shall the men now in control of the party's destinies be permitted further to disregard plain party declarations?" T1IK JKWISH ISKW l'KAK. Mark the Beginning of the Ten Penitential Day s. The year of 5670, in the Jewish Calendar, is drawing to a close, September 15 will be New Year's Day, and will mark the beginning of the ten penitential days, the last of which is known and observed as Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. As the religion of the Jews does not recognize the divinity of Christ, their calendar dates from the Creation, as recorded in Bible history. As the term implies the Penitential season is one in which the good Jew is given an opportunity under the teaching of his religion to make an enumerated confession of his sins, and pray the forgiveness of the , Eternal. If during that time he | overlooks any sin which he committed in the year just ended, he has an opportunity on the last, or Day of Atonement. . By fasting and excluding all earth ly inougnts, trie believer devotes his whole mind to a review of his year's | work, and profound contemplation of the Eternal. He confesses all the : small mistakes, forgotten, perhaps, j n the recollection of graver wrong doing and invokes Divine forgive- I ness. The service continues all day. It is very beautiful and characterized by many symbolic passages. It is to the believer one of the most slg- j niflcant and important events of the religious calendar, and is observed generally by those of the Jewish faith. Iluracd to a Crisp. At Cincinnati, Ohio, a man half clothed, with his flesh burned to crisp In places and screaming from the pain as he ran through the : streets aroused the neighborhood following a tenement house fire there early Monday. Ho fell unconscious at. the door of the City Hos- . pltal and died soon afterward. Fireman Fatally Ilnrt. At Cleveland, Ohio, Lieut. Farrell English was fatally injured and seven other city firemen were hurt when the roof of the Ohio Sash and Door Company, Mervin street and , Columbus road, collapsed during a fire there Sunday. The losa is estimated at $7r?,0ftft. The orgin of the fire is unknown. DROVE 1HEM AWAY l>K. DOTV, OF STAT FN ISLAND, CONQl UltFD THE MOSgl IIO lly lk'stroyinK tlit5 I'Iimi'm Wh(r? i'liey Laid Thvir Funs and Brooded j 'lhoit' Voting. '1 ho people of St a ten Island, Now V I \ I U I ? >. V ' ? I ' W. ? Minv UIOV.V* I I I'd U lU'llC" laclor in Dr. Doty, w lio has rid them cuurci) oi the stripeu legged uiosuuito, uiai, ocstues driving awh> tu.ui) potential residents, has tiulieito 111.tile lile a burden (lining tue summer months to those. residents who remained, ami he has all but annihiliateil the anopuelcs, its malaria-carrying relative. The comjuclb > of the mosquito has increased the . value of real estate on the island by hundreds of thorn-anus of dollars; now houses are going up 1 throughout its length and breadth, t and residences that have long been | nliabited only by care takers are . being rented. Dr. Duty's researches show that ^ the water in which inorquitoes breed * must be continually uresent for s about two weeks in order to allow of the full propagation of the insect, H and that they are not produced in ' water that may accumulate for two v or three days or a week. They will 1 oreed, however, wherever there is standing water. The anopheies lar- 1 viie are frequently found in tin most unexpected places,. such as old glass and tinware, wooden recupticuls, defective roof-leaders, and the crotch- ' es of trees. As, with the exception of the sollicitans variety, mosquitoes do not * go far from their breeding places, if any other are found about the house it is almost certain that a breeding-place exists in the immediate vicinity. Filthy water or that which contains an excess of organic matter is generally preferred by the anopheles mosquito for this purpose, so that obstructed cesspools, street ' gutters, and similar places are found to be the favorite breeding spots. The mosquito deposits its eggs on the surface of the water, usually ^ at night, and from fifteen to twenty hours afterward the larvae are ' released. Although the larvae can 1 livo only in water, they are entirely dependent on air for existance, and J must rise every minute or so to the surface and project above it their respiratory apparatus. Pretroleum- 1 dose not poison the larvae, but kills ' them by suffocation, as the oil on the surface of the water plugs up 11 the respiratory apparatus and pre- ^ vents the intake of air. The campaign against the mosquito does not stop with Staten Is land. The genua culex s doomed throughout the rest of the city. At " Flushing, in the Borought of Queens, which has suffered almost as much as Richmond from the ravages of the sollicitans, the work of drain- J ing the great swamp comprising 2,200 acres that stretches from 1 Flushing Ray to College Point is all 1 hut completed, and the marshes at * Douglestou Creek are being ditchod. J Similar work is going on in the five thousand acres of swamp land f ulong the Bronx river, and in the r Borough of Brooklyn ditching has 1 begun In the marshes that stretch f from Spring Creek and Jamaica Bay f to Remson's Landing and from Gravesend Bay to Bergen Beach. j With the completion of this work the mosquito will have been deprived of living-in-accommodations in the five boroughs and New York city will be j entirely rid of the pest. * I SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Believed to Be Victim of Neighbor- I hood Feud. A telegram received at Baxley, Oh., tells of the ambushing and killing of W. A. Belcher, a well known and well to do young plainer whose home Is 20 miles from that place. Back of the killing is a 1 story of feud and it is believed that ho is a victim of bad feeling that It is asserted has existed between him and others in his neighborhood, t It was stated that the young man , was given no chance for his life, a j llllllot f !'/"> !?1 51 fllimn l\t tror>o onil ,tr? w ? ? . ? v> ? i*i I' \/? i ? v, ki (% II 14 nilderbrush ending his life almost Instantly near his home eurly , Wednesday morning. Belcher was ? formerly a resident of Screven connty. i Later it was learned that the c shots were fired by B. S. Taylor and k that Belcher's little girl was with <. him In a buggy. Two shots struck Belcher, and one the horse he was i driving, but the little girl escaped '] unhurt. It is alleged that Taylor , followed his victim for five miles \ before he opened fire. It is stated that tho slayer has not been arrest- ( ed. ( Fooling With Pistol. i nascomb Ilanna, a respectablo i white man, about 20 years of age, i of Prospect neighborhood. Williamsburg county, Tuesday killed him- I self accidentally. He was handling i a pistol carelessly, when It went off, < tho bullet entering near or Into tho heart and death resulted In thirty imlnute3 "'m \y IsiTeat benefit" The Irragition Congress at Spokane a Success. PLEA FOR WET LAND Itci lamittioii Miidc by Sou (Ik Caro linil's Delegation IU'('(tKiii/0(l by tin* Meeting its of <ii'4'iit Iim(K>i*? inner ? W'nt son Makes (i'oo<l SjM'tM'll 1111(1 I'lTM'lUs ({(Solutions. Col. August Kohn writing to Tho sews and Courier from Spokane says he South Carolina delegation, Iweny-four strong, has made quite an mpression sit tiie Irrigation Convenion. South Carolina , wants wet and reclamation and that platform s likely to be incorporated in the general policy of the Irrigation Congress. Commissioner Watson, .funding under the South Carolina lag, whooped tip tilings in great ayie iui rtouui v;aronna in mo uesi tpeoch of the day. Tim Congrcsa Is ,nry largely attended and gives lromlso of results. At the meeting of the delegation ruesday the following selections ivere made: 10. J. Watson, chairnan; A. J. llethea, secretary; 1). F. doom, executive committecu all; biinue] (I. Stoney, roniniitteo on esolutions; Samuel Dibble, comniitee on organization; James C'os;rove, although absent, was elected lonorary vice-president. The delegates from South Camilla enrolled are: 10. ,J. Watson, Coutnhia; A J. Ilethea, Columbia; D. <\ Moore, ftrunson, Samuel (}. Stomy, Charleston; August Kohti, Counihia; Samuel Dibble, Orangeburg; !\ M. Raysor, Orangeburg; I>. W. dcLaurin, Dillon; Win. I). Melton, Columbia; W. J. Montgomery, Maron; George H. Cornelson, Orange tirg; C. J. Shannon, Jr., Camden; V. D. Deloach, Camden; Samuel )ibble, Jr., Orangeburg; J. P. McJalr, Aiken; A. L. Rerry, Spnrtan?urg; J. A. Llghtsey, Crocketville; ones Williams, Hamberg; J. C. dghtsey, Hampton; S. M. Clark, CRtlll; L. A. Manning, Jr., Lattu. Our people at home havo litt!o ealizatlon of the Intense interest he West is taking in irrigation and iow freely it is spending barrels of noney for that purpose. South Oar Una's efforts to reclaim wet lands h appreciated out We?t. All is well n the party. On the strength of 3ol. Watson's fine address, he was nvited to address the National Conservation Congress at Seattle on tho 18th. Tn tho Congress Wednesday Com* niHsioner Watson presented strong esolutions relating to Federal aid or drainage upon the ground of mblic health. These resolutions vere signed hy Watson, as chalrnnn of the South Carolina deletion; Oovernor Ollchrist, of Florida, ind members of South Dakota, Ida10 and Indiana and Minnesota delegations. Col. Watson also presented a resolution relating to forest denervation, which was likewise itrongly backed. Tloth resolutions ire In the hands of the committee. At 10:30 o'clock Wednesday Eolith Carolina delegates were enertalned at a banquet by the Ml Paso, Texas, delegation?an elegant iffair. President Tlarstow was present and nresldinir with Fnl Watson on his loft and tho chairnan of tho Texas delegation on h>? ight. There were noteworthy oasts and responses, all ringing vith the progressive spirit of tho South. The South Carolinians will reurn the compliment to tho Texan* lpon arrival in Seattle. AUGUST KOIIN. LOCKER CLUBS TABOOED. Mahama UaHM** Stringent Prohihition Law. Gov. Comer, of Alabama, signed he Carmichae! prohibition law pass d by the Alabama Legislature on. d on day. Under this act it is unlawful to ell or store any liquids containing nore than one-half of 1 per cent ileohol. Locker clubs are illegal md the possession of n United States nternal revenue license shall bo :onsidered prima facie evidence of juilt. Truly, Alabama is a drv Jtate. The Fuller bill ami the Ballard . >i 11 arc still pending in the house, i'hey are more radical than the Carniehael bill and are designed to aid n the enforcement of the latter. ll?e Fuller bill prohibits any sort >f liquor advertising and throws very safeguard around the law. The Ballard bill provides for the mpeachnient of officers who fail to put the law into efTect. Both of these bills will be passed. The contest over the bill submitting to the people in November an amendment to the constitution excluding liquor from Alabama forever will come up in the senate later. Both sides to the contest claim victory.