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WHAT WE NEED I Btw to Boild Up North and Sooth Carolina Permanently. < \ EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS; . i a Of Clarence Poe, Kditor of the Pro- a gressive Farmer and Gazette, ItalJ 1 ?i^h, N. C., IWoie the South Car- '' t ?)tna Press Association, Glenn Springs, S. C., June 14, 1010. ^ I Both Carolina* need and must * have a larger proportion of white t people. The whole South, in fact is still too sparcely settled. Our 11 v Southern States, excluding Texas, support only 16,000,000 people of a both . races, and only 10,000,000 1 white people, while the same area In f Europe supports over 160,000,000 J white people. And it must be rc- " membered that up to a certain point 9 which we shall not reach for cen- C ttries yet, and other thiugs being a equal, prosperity depends upon dor- t sity of population. Population makes ' wealth, provided that it is normally 1 intelligent and efllclent. r Of course, we do not want the t , lowest class European immig anon. If we can get Immigration .froin ling- 1 land, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, I Holland, Svcden, etc?c.13 countries fi whose blood has gone to make up c our vigorous American stock? it would be of great help to us. We v are all of us such immigrao j our- t elves or descendants of such inimi- 9 ?rra.nt?. From some count r-fS ol r o ? ? Southern and Eastern Europe, on the I v other hand, immigration is of a de- 1 cldedly lower order and objectionable v because of a low standard of intelli- v gcnce and efficiency. e On the very same principle, how-1 ?! ever, immigration, of a normal or I '' high standard of Intelligence and t! efficiency is desirable, v Such imnugiation can be had, and ought to be 3 had?in some measure, perhaps our b English, Dutch and Irish kinsfolk 11 across the sea?but chiefly from our Northern and Western States. For I years now hundreds of thousands of a the most enterprising and progrcs- * *ive farmers in Uie Middle West '3 have been going into Canada with 11 its long hard winters and bitter cli- ei mate, not only giving up American li citizenship, but actually paying two to three times as much for land in that inhospitable region as land of the same fertility commands in the ? South. We ought to have brought these men to the South. They know u our institutions, our language, they are industrious, thrifty, wideawake ( and many of them are of Southern ancestry who should naturally come el back home. Let's bring them back. If there were no other reason for c< advocating such immigration from the North and West, I should favor li It as surest deliverance from our u twee problem. The proportion of N negroes to whites is too large in ev- d cry Southern State, and my hope is b that ultimately the tides of migra- u tlon and immigration will equalize nr population until the proportion of h negroes in no State will exceed 20- w per cent. W'e must train the negro s; ?the more ignorant he is the great- \v er the burden on the South?but at nr *.? I < I best the process win do tmiw, unu At present it would probably not be w too much to say that in considering s< our w.hole population, including our J P great constructive leaders and cap- s< \ tains of industry, the average negro 1; in the Carolinas in economic worth k And efficiency is only half as useful p as the average white man. In other s< words, in rating general average of ir efficiency we should put the white if man at 100 and the negro at .">0, so S that a county half white and half S MeKro would have an average effici- a ency of 75, or a -handicap of 25 per It oent, as compared with a countv w with an exclusive white population r< of a normal degree of efficiency. g Whether or not the digerence is I'1 i as much as I have indicated, certain " it is that the larger the proportion n t . of whites, the higher the average or " efficiency, the more prosperous will :,i be our every industry, and the bet- 11 ter it will he for every individual a citizen, including the negroes themselves. There are just two great ways to build up the Carolinas. First and of paramount importance is ed- w ucaticn of all our p ; and i t' should only supplement this by put- t! ^ ting more earnest emphasis upon ti practical education, education that a trains for efficiency, not education p united to the great urban centers of n Europe and the North, but education suited to the needs of a groat, Awakening agricultural citizenship v - - to an/1 nm <tt hp n 8UVU UQ WUIO in ??u U.HMV ?... , And second only to education, is h Immigration. s Now let us start right?not by 1 seeking Immigrants from Southern e Europe, but by advertising our resources to the thrifty, enterprising P and progressive farmers of the North and West?men of our stock who only need an invitation t, nuiii* them come. Bmerson was right c when he said that "every man who t comes Into a city with any purehas- 1 able talent or skill in him gives to i every man's labor in the city a new I worth," aud If an ignorant negro l CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER DEAD. His Death Was Entirely Unexpected Ah He Whn in Good Health. Chief Justice Melville \V. Fuller >f the United States Supreme court lied of heart failure at his summer lome in Sorrento, Me., at six o'clock donday morning. The death of the chief justice was intirely unexpected, as he had been 11 apparently good 'health lately, ind there had been no premonitory ymptoms of any kind of trouble, inn day he attended church us ustal, and when he retired that night te was to all appearances in his cusomary health. fx * ' ol v r* 9r* 1 Ar* Ir VI mi. .UUillll CUUIC (I I'U kl I OIA V v,K/vn ?vr? lay morning. His daughter, Mrs. Nahaniel Francis, and the Rev. Jas. <\ Freeman who was a guest of Jusice Fuller at his Sorrento cottage, 'Mainstay" were with the Juri? vken he died. The funeral service will be h > .. it Sorrento and t.hc interment will >e at Chicago. The date for the uneral has not been yet fixed. Chief lustioe was in his seventh-sixth year. lave in the old days was worth $1 >00, certainly we may assume that i thrifty and intelligent white Weserner, bringing not only himself, >ut in most casen substantia! aooumilations as well, should be worth nany times as much as an asset to he State. The last census year North Caroina had only 1,200,00C white , e >le. It should have 4,000.000. Jouth Carolina had less than 600,>00 whites when it should have 3,>00,000?and would then be even vith its 80 0,000 negroes, only onehird ;i* thickly settled as Massachuetts! Consider for a moment how nuch more influential our papers yould be, how much more imporant every institution in the State trould be, how much more varied /ould be our Industrie3 how much asier it would be to get good roads n counties in which the white popuation is now too small to maintain hem, how easy it would be to ouble the usefulness of our public chools, how quickly we should , uild railroads in sections which ' lust otherwise remain dormant and ackward for long, long years, how ( nportant our cities should become, | nd how much more attractive , ould be country life in our thick- j r settled communities, and how | luch easier it would be to get wat r-works and trolley lines and local braries and all the advantages of ventieth rural life! , Let us take as our watch word education, and Immigration?both f the right sort." In the last census year 23 4,062 ative sons and daughters of South t arolina were living in other States j to say nothing of the million sons nd daughters of SouUi Carolina j migrants), while South Carolina ad received from other States and uuntries only 60,74 4 settlers. For seventy years now our Caro- < nas have been going West to build ( p the new States of that empire, j ow let us welcome back their chil- , ren and neighbors to help us , uild two great prosperous and pop- | luous commonwealths, where the ( lasses of the people trained to as ( Igk staridars of e elency as a fly- , 'here iiv the world, shall develop a , vniniatrienl and well rounded civil- , :atiori: a splendid and fdrcefnl de- , lorerae.y of trained, intelligent an.) , irifty home-owners from among , -horn shall come not only a .fetter :>n and a Marshall, not only a amos J. flill and a Thomas A. Kdi3ii and a Seaman A. Knapp, not onf men whom all the nation shall no<v as leaders in indi^stry and in ubllc affairs, but poets and seers, JUlptors and artists - if not a Tit111 at least a Reynolds or a Millet, 1 ' not a Michael Angolo at least a s t. Gaudens or a Ward, if not a : hakOspeare at least a Browning or ; Tennyson, if not a Savonarola, at ( ?ast some great religious leader i ho shall put the church into vital dati' ns to modern thought and 1 ive it a new baptism of spiritual I nwor all these until our long and * agio years of war and struggle and ^building shall find their fruitage i an outburst of achievement such s our fathers yearned for. and it is . ow our high privaligdl to help bring . bout. j <, One is Killed, Many Hurt. ] One nvan was killed and many ' ere hurt in rioting Saturday he- \ veen Clericals and anti-Clericals in i lie village of Centi, Spain. The | roll DM' it rust! iiiMii (i ^1* i in \j 11 i < gainst Premier Cannlejas' religious j rogram, whie.h a priest delivered at ' lass. * Found in Shark. After a long struggle several men I aptured a man eating shark 36-feet :>ng. weighing about 15 tons, in the , traits of San Juan Del Fucu, beween Port Oresent and Port Angels, near Seattle, Wash. In the shark hey .found pieces of bones and a dece of kodnc plate. ? ? l?nvv.ver Killed in Klevator. John William Hallahan, Jr., one >f the most prominent members of he Philadelphia bar, was killed la<e rhursday night as he stepped from i hotel elevator at Cape May, Pa. He was caught between the car and he floor, his neck being broken. * j KILLS HER BABE THEN MOTHER DRINKS DEARLY POISON HERSELF. Husband Returns Home to Find Wife and linhy Lifeless on Same Red ami a Pathetic Note. Haunted by the Intolerable fear that she was going Insane, Mrs. Jeanne Hodgson Oatlett gave cyanide ~ <* ...... . .. U ~ - i> ,.w...?kn J i/i )iwi IU nn AtiiivsiiiJiCT uiu daughter, Jeanne, Friday afternoon at her home in New York City, and then swallowed a draugh of the same poison herself. Both lay dead on the same bed when the husband, a supervising chemist employed by the r* \stern Electric company, went to < home that night. Beside the young mother lay a long letter to her husband. "Don't think me cruel to the little life I've made," s.he wrote, "but rather that C am saving her so much pain, for bodily pain is nothing to this that is either insanity or nervousness?only God knows. She would surely inherit it. "Don't mourn for me. I wish I could go on with just you and our love. My very life is one continuous thought of thankfulness for it but my mind must be relieved. The tension is frightful." Evidently there were moments wJien the mother yearned to spare her daughter, for farther down she wrote: "If 1 leave our rn. >y tell her I k! . ed her with lots of love and 1 am so sorry I ever have been cross to her." "Leave my locket on me but wear my wedding ring. I have loved it so and caressed and kissed it so as the outward sign of the happiest moments of my life. , Pinned to the outside bed room loor was a note to her husband reading;: "George, don't come in. Let fonie one else?one of l.he boys." Mrs. Catlett who was born in V?r- . ginia, lit years ago, and her husband, < who is, from South Carolina, met hor three years ago at Falls Church, Va. < They fell in love at first sight and .1 were married in April, 11)09. Since the birth of her daughter Mrs, Cat- < left has been very nervous and her ] morbidness was increased by the j fact that her little girl, named for f ier, cried much of the time. * AVIATOI5 KILLFD. Wachter Instantly Killed by Fall While Practising. The opening of the second avia.ion meeting Sunday on the historc field of Bethany was marked by 1 1 fatal accident, Aviator Wachter >eing killed. Wachter was the first to practice Sunday morning. In his Vntoinette monoplane he battled with the gale amid the enthusiasm < >f the speculators until the rain i rompelled him to make a descent. 1 He resumed his flights in the after- ; loon and was flying magnificently when suddenly an explosion war s leard. The wings of t.he machine loubled up and the monoplane* iropped to the earth with lightning s tpeed. The aviator was killed instantly in full view of the spectators, imong whom were his wife and lit- \ :le daughter. The accident is attributed to the breaking of the wire Rays. * i FI H.MAN* KILLHD. Walls of an Oil Stoiclioiwo Collapse During ltluM>. Oapt. Michael J. Lyons, of the Louis Are department, was killed ind three other firemen and a worl<nnn were injured ill a lire which destroyed a part of the Waters-Pierce Ml Company's storehouse at St. Lou- i s Saturday. The loss was $200,OuO Lyons was buried under falling walls. It was several hours before ' the fire was under control. The storehouse covered two city blocks.* Throe Killed by Hull. Miss Louise Duran, Louis Ruiz ' md Louis Florez, were killed duriry i bull fight in the San Antonio Tecoyo .hacienda at Puebla, Mexico. 011 Saturday. Ruiz was manager of the liacienda and Florez was a cowboy. Hie fight was an amateur alTaii. >artielpnted in by people on tiie liaceuda. Miss Duran was in imminent lieril during one stage of the fight, md Ruiz and Florez rushed to hei lid. The infuriated bull gored the woman and the two mer.. Ismps to Wntwy Crave. A tier a aosperate struggle with a | friend who tried to restrain him, YV. H. Titus, of Oklahoma City, Ok la., I Jumped overboard from the steamer 1 Holland, en route front Chicago to : Holland, last Friday night and was drowned. Titus, who was thirtyfour years old, was suffering from nervous prostration. Young l>mly l>ro\vtie<l. Miss Aintee Creary, the 19-yearold daughter of H. T,. Creary, was drowned while bathing in sin f with a party of girl friends at Milon, Fin., Wednesday afternoon. Kfforls of her companions to rescue her were of no avail. THE WAGES OF SIN OH. VKKTAL AM) WIFK JAILKl) FOK MAIiPHACTRTK. J ( One Girl Dies as a Result of It anil i I Another Is Found in His House Very Sick. I A special dispatch to the Charlotte t Observer from High Point, N. C.. 1 says one of the saddest tragedies ' that ever occurred there happened ? -i-L ? ...I _ I ? I f aaiuraay ingni wuen a yuuug Kin uj the name of Bessie T.homassonville of Statesville died at the home o? Dr. W. L. Vestal 011 account of an illegal operation which .had been performed by I)r. W. L. Vestal last Tuesday night. The police were notified about the condition of the young girl just short time before she died and when they arrived at the home of Dr. Vestal they not ouly found t.he one a ho is now dead, but also found another young girl who gave her name as May Owen from Linwood, and who was in a serious condition, rfhe nad also gone through the same operation. Saturday night about 11 o'clock Drs. Staion and McAnally were called to the home of Dr. Vestal to see Bessie Thoniasson and they at once ; saw that Die girl was in a most critical condition. They suggested to Dr. Vestal that the patient be taken to the hospital for treatment and made the arrangements, but it was foon learned that the girl was at that time in a dying condition and that to remove her would be only hastening her death. At about twelve o'clock she died after having a number of spasms. I Wore s.ho died she made a full confession to the physicians telling about the operation and her treat I ment. May Owen, the other girl, was removed to the hospital by the policeman and her condition seems ^ some better, but is yet regarded as serious. ? Bessie Thomasson went there last ^ >tat? sville without the knowledge, of ier lather, to receive treatment from Dr. Vestal. She was induced to ;ome here by a young man named Levy Maynard of High Point who it ' s claimed is the man who got the ;irl in trouble. ? ? MOU KII.LS \K(iKOKS. | * h Ylleged They Murdered White Fail'- ;| mer in Ills Wagon. t' I Two negroes were lynched near j Charleston, Mo., Sunday afternoon 3 'or the murder of William Fox, a * >lanter of Mississippi county. They ' .vere taken from the county jail by 1 1 large crowd of infuriated citizens, s who broke down the doors with ledge hammers shortly after four a I'clook. The negroes were alleged 1 :o have shot Fox in the back while v iding in .his wagon about two miles ^ Tom town Saturday night. He died after identifying his assailants. The negroes approached Fox Saturday afternoon in Charles- ?. on, whore he was trading. They ?uid they were working for a threshing outfit near his place, and asked permission t<j ride in his wagon. Berween 7 and 8 o'clock he started for lis home, six miles away, with the legroes in the wagon. Two miles j from town one of them shot Fox hrou.sh the back, and both searched * t's pockets. An approaching wagon ^ aused them to run. * 1 RllXI) l?KAI> BY TKACK. r s Supposed Young Man Was Kill- c c (hI by Train. Robert Wofford, aged 2.7, son of dr. Frank Wofford, of 3witzer, Spar- % nnbnrg county, was found dead Fri- 1 lay morning beside the C. and W. C. t.til'o.ul track, t.hree miles east of Woodruff. It is supposed that he vr.s killed Thursday night by a train, s ".here was a wound on the left side v f tiie head. The body was diseov- o *red bv the engineer of a freight i rain, which passed the place at 8 s >'clock. An inquest was lioid by the 1 0 roner. * t li Hit Iti Battel Ball. (1 R. It. Massengale, of Norwood, da., m attorney, son of T. F. Massengale, 1 man of considerable prominence n the cotton world, was hit on the i lead by a batted ball at Harlem, a i on pie of days ago, a to! rendered tin- c or.scions. Fears are entertained 8 hat ne will not recover. * 1 ^ i Child Piny I'lnds Fatally. r While playing doctor, the 10-year- 1 ?ld son of W. S. Holcomb, residing three miles from Fort Payne, Dekalb county, Ala., Friday took down i bottle of carbolic acid and adinfnis- i rered a big dose to his ten-months- \ old sister. The baby died in a few t minutes. * I Klevator Operator Killed. While operating a freight elevator in the candy factory of Frank Hlock, l Atlanta. (5a., D. F. Skinner, aged i '0, was cancht between the car and 1 thrid floor and crushed to deat.h Fri- 1 day. The young man's neck and one of his arms were broken and the entire body badly mangled. * %% SHOOTS HKR HUSBAND. ? Woman Flrw Bullet Almost Through His Neck. A dispatch from Douglas, Cia., says news has just reached that place Df a shooting affair In the extreme northern portion of Coffee, county, in which Mr. Gaines Ellis, a farmer, was shot late Saturday afternoon by 'lis wife with a pistol, the bullet :aking effect in the neck and it is >aid the bullet went practically entirely through the neck and that fillis is in a serious condition. M * ? U ^ J A ' ? K A 4 M.. wwiuk iu tut? uiainate ui nit* iia;edy from Douglas, it is impossible o get the full details, but from the >est information obtainable, it seems hat the difficulty grew out of donestic troubles. It is said that Mr. Wilis, for some ti.ne, has been on .00 intimate relations with some wonen who resided a short distance ,'rom his house, that Mrs. Kills had learned of the relations and had warned KUis to desist from such onduct, so Sunday afternoon Kllis ignoring his wife's feelings about :he matter, went down to where the women lived and his wife procured .1 pistol and followed and the shooting is the result. It is not known whether the wife has been arrested. AITOMOHILK RUN. Machine* From All Over State to OAther Mt t'harloston. Automobilists from all sections of South Carolina are preparing to move to Charleston for the good roads rally, which is to be held at the Isle i>f Palms 011 July 12. There will be several delegations from the Piedmont section of the state. Representatives from that section will very ikely mobilize in Columbia, and folow the seushort highway to Chareston. The delegations from the !*ee Dee section may take another oute. A trophy cup has been offered in Charleston to the automobile asso nation or any cuy in me siaie seiuing the largest number of machines o the rally. \ KG I tO HOY KIliKS SISTKK. i ( Omls Dispute Over Meat by Using a i Shotgun Fatally. 1 On Thursday three young negroes, 1 lenry McMaster, aged 13 years, and tis two younger sisters, got into an ^ dtereation al>out some pieces of | neat prepared for the table, at their 1 Lome in Chester. Henry domaiuled . t all and then in his wrath seized a I hotgun and poured the contents of t into the younger of his sisters, < 011a McMaster, tearing away almost i he entire left side and causing in- I tant death. On the verdict of the 1 * oroner's jury the boy was arrested t md lodged in jail in Yorkville. His i ase will come before the court, vhich will convene on the second 1 rlonday In July. * i GIHIi ACCIDKNTALLY KIUJOI). ^ ] ll,?< K?> .. l/vn %?r>. II.. ILxkiln.. TIII/I, IIJ x ?f iiiiu on the Canal. Word was received at Klizabom vity, K. C.. Friday morning of the iccidental killing of Mary, the 12'ear-old* daughter of Philip Bray, v>f Jligo, Currituck county, on Thurslay afternoon. The girl was visit ng at her homo of her uncle, H. i\'. tray, at Canal Bridge. She with a >arty of young people was out on the ] anal in a skiff. A boy by the name , >f G? ay In the party was *ho??tin? . makes with a shotgun which ace - , lent.illy discharged, the entire 'oad | Altering the face and body of Miss ( tray, who died in terribly agony an lour afterwards. The young lady | vas prominently connected and very , >o pular. * j , Prominent Men Arrested. i Resulting from the ambuscade and s lerious wounding of J. 11. (livens, vealt.hy banker and mill man and s it hers of Laurel Hill, Fla., live prom* t nent citizens of Falco, Ala., the t cene of the trouble, were arretted 1 ate Friday and will be tried for it- < empting to assassinate (livens and t lis oonipanions, none of whom will ; lie. < ^ Fate of Negro t nknown. Information from Columbia, Ala., s to the effect that Will Thomas, a icgro under arrest for attemptc.i ^ riminal assault upon a young white v . I i ....... ... l..... i'.,..... ?k? ?!ii :..:i .til, i?tiYt*u uuui nitr vuiiiftt- Jitii 1 ast night by a mob. His fate is un- f mown. The Columbia authorities } efused to divuldge the young wo- ( nan's name. , < In same Murderer Kscuikm, , George H. Warner, who murdered < naehinery for the Louisville & Nash- < riile. and was found insane, escaped I 'rom the asylum for the insane at I rlopkinsville, Ky., Thursday night. ? ? Was Suicide Pack. Supposedly tlie result of a suicide pact, the bodies of N. A. Gammill iind Mrs. Heulah Marsh were found Sunday in a boarding house conducted by the man's mother at Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Marsh was a widow and was to have been married to Gammill in a short time. p CRASS A MENACE Excessive Rainfall Has Reidcred CsW atiaa Impossible OVER THE COHON BELT With Fields Soaked in all the States hut Two, and Crops Threatened by Hon HmU in Stiwe*, the Situution Indicates a Cotton Fumine This Fall. The Memphis, Tenn., CommercialAppeal says: "Owing to excessive rainfall east of the Mississippi river and in Arkansas and Louisiana cultivation over a large area was suspended during the week and grass has become a menace. For the best development of the crop dry, warm weather is imperative. Iu Oklahoma and Texas moderate to light rains relieved an incipient drought. "The crop In those two States 1* late and small but has begun to grow very rapidly and aside from its lacy of siac there is no complaint, fields being In an excellent state of cultivation. Heavier and more general rains, however, would be very helpful. In Louisiana. Arkansas and Mississippi boll weevils axe becoming more numerous and in the former State are reported as already at work on the cotton." The New Orleans report says the cotton market this week, opened a day later than usual, will be called upon first of all to discount what promised to be, when the market closed for the week last Friday night important weather disappointments. The forecast was for more rain in the eastern part of the cotton belt, whore too much rain had already done much damage. If the rains continue until Tuesday morning they will overshadow in importance all other leatures of the market. The report 011 condition last week showed just how important the weather is getting to be. It is time now that the crop should be making fast and anything in the weather that prevents normal development of the plant, thereby threatening the yield, will have an immediate and marked effect on prices, all the more marked because of the semi-famine condition of supplies of raw cotton. Unless manipulation out afresh in the July position it promises to be a typical weather market this week. The semi-famine conditions are expected to have their effect among mills in earnest before long, and of late there have been signs that mills were about to start closing down in earnest shortly, as they have to do in every season like the present. The rumor was spread about last week that 58 mills had agreed to shut down four weeks during July and August- and the trade will he waiting for continuation of this report this week. Developments of this sort may have the effect of offseting to some extent t.he bullish features of the market. The boll weevil situation will corue hi tor its share . of attention, for those who have made a study of the conditions in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, say that the first brood this season of the pest is incubating in young boll and that it is only a question of time before this brood makes its appearance by the millions and stirs up a new complaint among farmers. with consequent alarming telegrams and letters to the main speculative centres of the cotton world. The extent of boll weevil depredations will determine in a great measure the yield of lint in the three States named and during more than >ne period this season boll weevil reports will have much to do in shaping speculative opinion. The July deal in New York may ihow activity and at all times the trade will look for tenders front acual shorts who as yet have made no >'orv great effort to cover. Sooner >r later sensational trading is bound o take place in the July position utd operators in all three markets )f the world will be extremely ner ,'ous iimii me irau.ng uikcs piace. Found Baby in Basket. Like Moses of old, a young baby ivas found near Moreauville, La., Sunday night floating in a protected Ail low basket among the rushes ilong the banks of a bayou. In the >laee of a ruler's daughter, a merchant of Moreauville overhauled the lnusual craft and unsentimentally summoned the sheriff to make an investigation in search of the miscreant parents. In addition to the child the basket contained a bottle of milk, a one dolar bill and a flask of whiskey. Young Man in Trouble, A dispatch from Laurens to the News and Courier says James Y. Wallace, clerk in the postottle. was take Thursday afternoon to Greenville by Deputy Sheriff Major, to be given a hearing before Cnited States Commissioner Magill on a charge of tampering with letter mall, with no intent. V