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t ? kit luMlakhi Easy im ?AKinw POWDER Absolutely Pure The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Oroam of Tartar WHUIMJIIUME PHCTHATE WILL MEET SOON < # Southern Baptist Convention It Hold AnDual Session in Few flays. ? ' NUMBER SIX MILLION * The Convention Will lie Numerically Larger Than Congress or the Brit" ish Parliament, but la Advisary Only in Character, and Is Different From Moat Such Bodies. Greater number than the the British parliament or the congress of the United States, the Southern Ba]>tist convention will meet in Jack -.? I I ~ \17 tfnn Etuiiviiit;, r iaM vu YV UUin^ouajr 9 ma; 17, with delegates present from , every Southern State. The convention Is made up of * delegates from churches, associatlons, State conventions, missionary societies and Sunday schools. All Baptist churches are independent. Therefore the Convention has no authority to bind the churches in its territory. Its action is advisory, not compulsory. Ministers and laymen are admited into the convention on the same basis without any oflftcal distinction between the clergy and laymen. ^ The convention has three boards: The foreign mission board with headquarters at Richmond, the home mission board, with headquarters at Atlanta, and the Sunday school board with headquarters at Nashville. The work of the foreign board is to preach the gospel in foreign lands. The home mission board looks after 0 missionary work in the home field, which includes the Southern States, Cuba and the Panama section. The Sunday school board is the head of the Sunday school work, and publishes Sunday school helps, periodicals and books for use in the Sunday schools and Young People's societies. The Southern Baptist The^ oligical seminary, the School of the Prophets, located at Louisville, Ky., is also under the control of the Southern Baptist convention. According to the best available figures, there are about 6,280,649 Baptists. Of this number 4,1 10,873 are ^ in the South, 2,218,911 of the Southern Baptists are white, 1,891,962 colored. In the Northern States there are 1,190,293 Baptists. There are 22,438 churches connected with the Southern Baptist convention. They make up the largest religious denomination in the South. The Baptists are said to have 3 9.5 per cent of the church membership of the South, the Methodists 26.5 per cent, Catholics 15.9 per cent, Disciples 5.2 per cent., Presbyterians \ 4.9 per cent, Episcopalians 1.7 and all others 5.9 per cent. The churches connected with this convention raised last year for carrying on their work $9,474,777. Of this sum $1,336,519 was given for i missions. The church property of the Southern Baptist convention is valued at $37,283,522. Roger Williams was not the first Baptist as some erroneously suppose. The history of the church runs bark for hundreds of years before his day. John Runkun, who lived nearly an hundred years before Williams was born, was a Baptist. Williams was, however, the first to become a Baptist on American soil, and he organized the first American Baptist church in Providence, R. I. The first Baptist church In the South was constituted in South Carolina in 1682. The first established in North Carolina was in 1653, in Virginia 1714, in Tennessee 1770, in Georgia 1771, in Mississippi 1780, ^ in Kentucky 1781, in Alabama 1S03, in Florida 183 8. In 1762, when the great Baptist persecution began in Virginia, there were only 3,000 Baptists in the whole country. In 24 years they had increased to 35,000. In 1700 there were 50,000, in 1812, 175,000; in 1825, 238,000; in 1840, 570,000, and in 1853, 1,258,765. Today there are in the South alone 4,110,873. In 1814 the Baptists of the United * i PUYING WITH FIRE OPEN RIOTING BY THE STRIKERS IN TAMPA, FLA. Declare Strike Will Continue Until deLa Cam pa and Other Leaders m Are Pardoned. As the result of a mass meeting at Tampa, Fla., Wednesday afternoon at which indignation was expressed over the confirmation of the sentences of Jose D. La Campa, Brit Ruseel and J. F. Bartlum, three at leged leaders of the recent tobacco workers troubles, 3,000 tobacco workers declared a strike. About 20 per cent of the number went out ?rvd/l o tr /% mon onnminno/l VV UUUUOUU J ? 1 liU in C l A aim v/ 14 JiV/Wi they would not return to work until the ruling of the court was rescinded. Singing the Marseillaise, 3,000 cigar makers marched through the streets of West Tampa and Ybor City In a demonstration against the decision of Judge Wall of the circuit court, upholding the sentencing of one year imprisonment of Jose deLa Oampa, and other leaders in the recent strike at Tampa, Fla., rendered by the criminal court of record. Following the parade a general strike was declared, and Tampa faces the same grave situation which prevailed through a greater portion of last year. Further than the gathering of crowds of excited workers on street corners to listen to speeches by strike leaders, there was no disturbance of a serious nature. Wednesday night Judge Wall issued a mandate to the sheriff to notify the leaders in the movement that unless the demonstration came to an end before morning the strike leaders under sentence, Jose deLa Campa, Britt Russell and J. F. Bartluin will be remanded to jail and sent to the chaingang at once to begin serving their terms. , When rumors were received in the business section of Tampa that the cigarmakers had struck and were rioting, a large detail of police was hurried to the labor temple in Ybor City to preserve order. The strikers gathered in the labor hall and listened to speeches during the afternoon. When the factories closed the crowd was augmented by thousands who did not walk out, and that night the streets of both Ybor City and West Tampa are choked with gesticulating Latins discussing the situation. In a manifesto issued (luring the afternoon the joint advisory board stated that the strike will continue until the men under sentence are either pardoned or a new trial is granted. ine numoor wno waiKea out represent about twenty-five, per cent, of the men employed in the industry In Tampa, and it is fc'ire 1 that a majority of those who did not answer the general call will walk out late**. A meeting of the general trades and labor assembly is in session discussing the advisability of a sympathetic strike of all of the trade bodies of the city. Ilcbouml Was Fatal. After an unsuccessful attempt to shoot a crow, John Collins, aged 82, a farmer, lies dead at his home near Hen-dersonville, N. C., the victim of a recoiling gun. Me had killed two IVImJX ? V* y\ M I* yy A 1 1 /I 1 n _ IJ1IUB wiivii lie iiimaeu me iiiuu 1I1_ vader and was hit in the chest with the butt end of his gun. After suffering intensely for several hours he died at an early hour Tuesday morning. The Wages of Sin. At " Milwaukee, Wis., two young women, Emma Nelson and Mebel Gilmore, were shot and instantly killed and Joseph linger was seriously wounded in a fight at a resort there Tuesday, by Charles Yance, a stationary engineer of Racine, who then killed himself. A quarrel between linger and Yance preceded the shooting. Want to Divide Georgia. A resolution will be introduced in the next Georgia Legislature seeking to memorali/.e Congress to cut Georgia into two States, to be known as North Genreria and South Georeia. Its object, according to J. L Crawley, of Waycross, who has drafted the resolution, is to stop the continuing bickering in politics and other ways between the two sections. States gave for missions $134,112, and had only 64 missionaries employed. Last year they gave $865,585 for missions, and there were 800 missionaries on the foreign field. In 1853 Southern Baptists raised $21,000 for foreign missions. There were two foreign mission stations?one in Africa, and one in China. In these two fields 19 missionaries were at work. The home missions board reported 77 missionaries at work, and 642 baptisms *n the same period. Last year $460,787 was raised for foreign missions in the territory of the Southern Baptist convention and there were 231 missionaries on the foreign field. The home board reported last year $283,436 with 1,066 missionaries at work and 188,000 baptisms. \ WILL TALK OF UNION METHODISTS TO CONSIDER ORGANIC FEDERATION. Commissioners from Three Great Branches of the Greatest Protestant Denomination Meet to Confer. For the purpose of considering plqns for the federation of three great branches of Methodism, the Methodist Protestant Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ^ *+ I 4 ?? ziommliioo A t q 111 ti nuumuuiv \.uiuuiii.v</v v> ?? jv>?v commission representing the three denominations met at Chattonooga, Tenn., Monday. The joint commission consits of 2 7 members, each church being represented by nine commissioners, and its first session will be held on Wednesday to receive and act on the report of the substitute committee. The federation movement was begun at the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Memphis, in 1 894, when the commission representing that denomination was created. Later similar commissions were appointed by the two other churches and the three held a meeting at Baltimore in December, 1910. At that time a substitute committee of three from each commission was appointed to inquire into the causes of the alienation of the three branches of Methodism and, to formulate and present a plan for unification. This committee met at Cincinnati early in the present year and agreed upon a tentative plan of federation, which will be submitted to the joint commission at- its meeting. The meetings of the substitute committee and of the commissions are behind closed doors. Among the prominent men taking part in this conference are: Methodist Church, South?Bishops A. W. Wilson, of Baltimore, and E. E. Boss, of Nashville; Collins Denny of Nashville; Dr. W. J. Young, of Danville, Va.; F. M. Thomas, of T.rtnfavMIa f! Hf Rishon. of Wichita Falls; R. S. Hyer, of Dallas, Texas, and W. B. Stubbs, of Savannah Methodist Episcopal Church?Bishop Early Cranston, of Washington, J. A. Patten, of Chattanooga; R. \V. Miller and J. M. Walden, of Cincinnati, and L. B. Wilson, of Philadelphia. Methodist Protestant?Dr. T. H. Lewis, of Westminister, Md.; L. M. Jennings, of Pittsburg; R. S. Harris, of Henderson, X. C., and J. J. Barge, of Atlanta. FIVE CHILDREN BURNED. Father Was Unable to Rescue Tliem Through Firery Stairway. Five of the six children of Sanford Davis, a farmer, residing near Free Union. Va., were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the Davis home Tuesday, Davis and his wife and an infant escaping. The dead children ranged in age from three to fifteen years. The slept in a room on the second floor, reached by narrow stairs. When discovered the fire aleadv had eaten its way to the stairway. The frantic father attempted to reach the room from the outside, but when at the top of the ladder he was nearly overcome by smoke and heat. Davis called vainly for the children to come to him. The only responce came feebly from Estelle, aged 15, who cried: "Papa, I can t get out; I am nearly strangled to death, I?". WOMEN TOO BUSY AT BRIDGE. Minister Says Tliey Have Not Time to Raise Families. The Rev. J. E. Wray, pastor of the Mulberry Street church, in Macon, Ga., in a recent sermon, declared that the women of the present day, so far as his observation extends, are too busy playing bridge and going in society, and the men too deeply |interested In making money, for them to raise families of creditable size. He deplored the fact that three or four children are now considered a large family, and contrasting this era with the time when 10 and 12 children in a family were common. He said that this indicated a regretable decline in the standards and morals of civilization. iwkiiwii i-niiirr \ iidii^rn. The Newberry Observer says "the backbone of the cold weather is broken. The break came somewhat suddenly on Tuesday. That morning started off at 4.1 degress; in the afternoon the temperature went up to 88. The temperature Wednesday morning was 55; Wednesday afternoon it reached 94. There was a change of fifty-one degrees from Tuesday morning to Wednesday afternoon. The change was very welcome, for everybody had got mighty tired of wintef weather in April and May." All that is needed now is a good rain. * Another Aviator Victim. At Berlin, Germany, Herr Ilekemmuller, an aviatoi* pupil, was killed, when his aeroplane crashed against a building that had been hidden from view of the pilot by a heavy morning mist. DO NOT LIKE IT fople ( Flweace Reseat Actiaa ( (w. B lease ia Reaeriag NEGROES FROM THERE News of Governor mease's uraer tor Removal to the Penitentiary of Nc^ro Prisoners Under Death Sentence Received with Complete Surprise by the People of Florence. The News and Courier correspondent at Florence says the article in Tue/sday's iNtews and Courier sent out from Columbia headed "llusn Negroes to Penitentiary," was a stunner to Florence folks, inasmuch as it gave out news emanating from the Governor's office that the people of that city believe was absolutely without foundation, for its publication, and it has caused no little harsh comment of the Governor's action, by not only his enemies, but by some of his Florence friends and admirers. Tne correspondent says me siuiy is considered so ridiculous that Florence folks really take it for a State House joke of the first water. The Sheriff knew nothing of the story until it was shown him by the correspondent in The News and Courier, and then he hurried to the postofTlce, where he found the Governor s letter of the night before awaiting him. The correspondent says: Sheriff Parch, who. by the way, has never had to carry a prisoner to the Penitentiary for safekeeping, but, on the other hand, has faced two mobs at the risk of his life to defend his prisoners, is mortified over the fact that the Governor has ordered these two prisoners hustled to the Penitentiary, and states that there is absolutely no use or reason for these prisoners to be removed from the Florence prison and feels that it is a reflection on him if insisted upon. The following letter from the Governor to Sheriff Purch was received by the sheriff at eleven o'clock Tuesday morning, the postmark on the envelope showing that it was mailed at Columbia, or rather stamped, May 8, 9:30 p. m. at the Columbia postoffice. "State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber, Columbia, S. C., May 8, 1911.?To Mr. Thomas S. Burcli, Sheriff Florence County, Florence, S. C.?Dear Sir: Tti view of the action of the Supreme Court against the two negroes convicted along with the negro Ham, for killing a white man and, after talking with some parties who are acquainted with the facts, T think it would be advisable for you to bring the negroes to the State Penitentiary; for if they are granted a new trial it is possible that they may be dealt with at once or cause you much trouble, so bring them on the next train and commit them to the State Penitentiary for safe keeping. Very respectfully, "Cole H. Please, Governor.'* To the above letter the following telegram was sent in reply by Sheriff Purch, after immediate consultation with Solicitor Walter II. Wells, of this circuit, and State Senator Joseph W. McCown; "Florence, S. C., May 9, 1911.? To Governor Cole L. Please, Greenville, S. C.,?Have read article in The News and Courier of today. Sheriff, deputy sheriff and I think no danger whatever. Ask to have prisoners remain here. Sheriff guarantees protection. "Walter H. Wells, Solicitor." State Senator Joseph W. JVIcCown wired the Governor as follows: "Florence, S. C., May 9, 1911.? To Cole Li. Please, Greenville, S. C., care Ottaray Hotel.?I think prisoners are perfectly safe in Florence jail. "J. W. McCown, Senator. Tn reply to his message to Governor Please, Sheriff Purch received the following telegram Tuesday night, too late to take the prisoners to Columbia on the evening train, but he did so at four o'clock a. m. next day: "Greenville, S. C., May 9, 1911.? Thomas S. Purch, Florence, S. C., Your wire. Take prisoners to Penitentiary on first train as directed. "Cole Li. Please, Governor." Dashed to His Death. Lieut. George E. M. Kelley, of the Thirtieth infantry, U. S. A., was killed Wednesday morning in a fall from a Curtis? aeroplane at Fort Sam Houston. He was making a flight, and when about fifty feet from the ground shot forward from his seat, landing on his head. His skull was fractured, and he died in a few moments without regaining consciousness. Mlliw rndi>r tlio Wlw'cls. Carl Malum, of Wadley, Ga., file clerk in the office of the Atlantic Coast Line dispatcher at Lakeland, Kla., was killed there Saturday by a passenger train. He jumped off the train while it was in motion, alighted on a pile of coal and fell under tiie wheels. He was 18 years old and had been in the Lakeland office but two weeks. * i CAUSE OF DISEASE STATE HOARD OF HEALTH CONDEMNS HOSIERY MILL. Outdoor Work Recommended for Convict** and a New Building Asked for Females. The hosiery mill at the State penitentiary, in which several hundred convicts are employed, under a flveyear contract with the State of South Carolina, has been condemned by the State board of health, following an investigation of conditions to determine the cause of tuberculosis. The investigation was made as the result of a resolution passed by the general assembly. It is expected that the contract with the operator of the hosiery mill, J. M. Graham, will be taken up at the next session of ' the legislature. The board of"health recommends outdoor work for the convicts. The hosiery mill at the State penitentiary is an old bone of contention, and conditions there have been investigated on several previous occasions. The report was made to A. K. Sanders, the chairman of the board of directors of the penitentiary. The report quotes the resolution of the general assembly. The resolutions provides that the conditions may be remedied by the use of the funds of the State peniten4 ( /> mf I I CI I J . It was resolved by the State board of health that the building used for the female prisoners at the penitentiary should be destroyed and a new building erected at an early date. It is recommended that the sick from the female ward be removed to a ward in the general hospital and that the tuberculosis patients be removed to the tuberculosis hospital at once. The board further recommends that the toilets in the male prison building should be removed to an extension to be constructed adjoining the building, that the bedding of the prisoners be kept clean, that only one prisoner be allowed to occupy one cell, and that fresh water be provided for the prisoners d^VnS night. This recomedation condemns the system in vogue of causing the prisoners to take water from tubs as they enter the prison in the evening to be locked up for the night. With reference to the hosiery mill the report says: "Resolved, That after a thorough consideration of all the phases of the hygiene and sanitation in connection with the work in the hosiery mill it is the sense of I the entire board that this form of employment should be discontinued and that work of an outdoor nature should he provided." . The present toilet arrangement in the general hospital building is condemned that toilets and baths in accordance with modern sanitary ideas be installed. It is also recommended that the building be generally cleaned, and that the entire building be screened. The board says that in the tuberculosis hospital nothing is found to condemn, but much to commend. The only suggestion in reference to the building is that it be properly screend. Concerning the medical system the report says: "That we condemn the present medical system as inadequate and ineflicient." It is recommended that a chief physician and assistant be named. White or colored nurses are recommended. * TO ORANGEBURG NEXT YEAR. ( rand Lodge Chid Fellows Adjoiinrs at Greenville. The South Carolina Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F.f held its closing session in the Opera House Thursday. Orangeburg was decided upon as the next meeting place. The election of officers of the Grand Lodge was held just before adjournment. Jas. G. Lang, Jr., of Union, who for the past year has been deputy grand master, was made grand master. To succeed Mr. Long as deputy grand master is J. H. Craig, of Anderson, formerly grand warden. As grand warden to succeed Mr. Craig, Kenneth Baker, of Greenwood, was elected. Other oilicers of the Grand Lodge who were elected Thursday morning are: J ,L. Michie, of Darlington, grand chaplain; M. P. Wells, of Edgefield, grand conductor; A. H. Doggett, of Piedmont, grand marshall; C. L. Padgett, of Union, grand guardian; J. J. Cooper, ~ ?>* tr in?o n<l horahl lit* Ill IMUIUI lyUUIllJ, ftl ??\I nv? ?IU| S. F. Killingsworth, of Columbia, was re-elected grand secretary, and R. Endel, of Greenville, was re-elected grand treasurer. , Resides the election of these officers, Wade II. Cobb, of Columbia, was elected representative to the , Sovereign Grand Lodge, which meets in Indinapolis next September. Messrs. J. J. McSwain, of Greenville, | and Jj. N. Zealey, of Columbia, were , elected trustees of the Orphans' Home at Greenville. Wade Hampton Cobb, retiring grand master, was presented with the past grand masters Jewel. ?? We have a small taste of the good < old summertime now, and you may i take 'em off, if have not alredy done ; so. i PLANS BLOCKED buargeats BaM Up Ekctiaa ( Pfeik deal Pra Tea. nnu/i on a am rtiiAV mil utmuiKAia truui run 0 ) Insurgents Refuse to Support iiallinger, Causcus C?ndl(l?te to Sue" cee<l Frye, Although Hardly Possible la Follette and Followers Will Vote for llacon, Democrat. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says a broad grin constantly overspread the features of Senator I>aFollette and several other leading Republican insur gents during tne neauuiui spin. mat was developed in the Republican Senate ranks Thursday, over the election of a President pro tem to succeed Senator Frye. Such political curiosities as frequent conferences on the door between Senators LaFollette and Martin developed in the long parliamentary battle. The motion to adjourn, by Senator LaFollette was taken by some observers as a sign of a compromise between the regulars and the insurgents, but the latter deny this positively and say that they are standing pat and will be found so Monday, when the Senate reconvenes. The only chance of the election of a Democratic President pro tem would be by the insurgents voting for a plurality election, or for Senator Bacon, which is altogether unlikely. If the three Republican absentees and one Democrat, who were pared, turn up Monday, both the Democrats and the regular Republicans will be farther from winning than they was Thursday, as the number necessary to make a majority, will be increased. But the Democrats are enjoying the row hugely. A protracted deadlock over the matter is probable. It may last throughout the extra session. In that event "Sunny Jim" Sherman will have to stay constantly on the job, except that when ho wishes to go to a baseball game he has the power to name a sub for ono clay. The incapacity of the Republican party in the Senate to control a caucus edict without the aid of the progressive was demonstrated In the Senate Thursday, when after moro than two hours of effort and as a result of seven ballots, the Senate failed to elect Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, as President pro tern to Senator Frye, of Maine. Mr. Frye's recent resignation was based on poor health. Thursday's deadlock wae due to the opposition of the progressive Republican Senators, five ?f whom voted against and three of whom were paired against Mr. Galliger. Senator Cullom, as the chairman of the Democratic caucus, noininat ed Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, and Mr. LaFollette nominated Mr. Clapp. On the first ballot it was apparent that when the progressives did not cast their votes against Mr. Gallinger they were so paired as to render effective the votes of absentees. The first ballot totalled 73 votes, of which Mr. Bacon, the Democratic candidate, received 35: Mr. Gallinger, the Republican candidate. 32, and Mr. Clapp, 4, while Mr. Bacon voted for Mr. Tillman and Mr. Clapp for Mr. Bristow. Messrs Bristow, I.aFollette, Gronna and Poindexter voted for Mr. Clapp. Messrs. Cummins, Bourn, Works and Crawford, progressives, were all absent, but paired, except Mr. crawioni, wnu was ill. Necessary to a choice 37. On the second ballot Senator (ia 1 linger, who had refrained from voting voted for Mr. Lodge, increasing the total vote to 7 4 an making 3 8 necessary to elect. The figures were unchanged throughout the seven ballots of voting until the last vote, Senator Rradley retiring from the chamber, thus reducing the vote by his own ballot, and that of Senator Tayloi, of Tennessee, who was paired with him. Mr. Root contended that under the rules all Senators are required to vote when their names are called. Mr. Railey replied that the immemorial custom had sanctioned pairing so as to render it equivalent to a rule. l\tr. LaFollette, for the progressive, denied the right of any Senator to make the point against any one voting "as I note that we are voting against our party," "I do not propose," he said, "to be outlawed because I cannot agree to support any man who may he agreed upon by such a meeting." By vote the Senate held that a pair could bo recognized only as an excuse for not voting. Messrs. Stone, Bailey and other Democrats contended that a plurality should elect. This would have Hecured Mr. Bacon's election, but the Chair ruled against them. Itushetl to Columbia. Two negroes have been rushed tothe penitentiary from Florence by the order of Gov. Blease. Alex Weldon and William Burroughs, under sentence of death for the killing of E. M. ?Moye, a Florence county farmer, are the men. ^ V