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r | BEN. ROBT. E. LEE HE IS OUR HERO AND IDOL, ROT [ HE IS OOR IDEAL J ^ IS HIS LIFE HUH GUIDE An Rloquent Sermon on tbe Life and Clu^ttoter of the. Great Southern Soldier and Ideal Christian Gentleman by Her. At Awhby Jones, D. D., at Augusta, Ga. ine neraia says one 01 me most eloueqnt sermons ever preached In Auguata was delivered by Dr. -.M. Asbby Jones at the First Baptist b . Church on Gen. Lee's birthday on the topie: "la ltobt. B. Lee the South!, ern Ideal?'' There was a large nuin| ber present. Dr. Jones is peculiarly well qualified to speak on the life of the great leader of the Confoderacy, not only becauso of his own brilliant attainments as a thinker and an orator, but also because his father. Dr. J. William Jones, was chaplain in General Leo's army. The eloquent Augusta minister knew General Leo personally as a boy, d|id had heard his father often talk of the great leader of the armies of the | "Ixjst Cause". Hero is the sermon, \ and we hope it will be read by our young men specially: "<My friends, the name in which this service is held is its own justii flcation. It is fitting that in this house, 011 this day, there should be emphasized a life that so exemplified [' the teachings of Jesus Christ. "I measure my words and speak Ji without excitement or exaggeration when I say that I believe in the I South, at least, the name of Robert B. Lee instantly suggests that of \ Jesus Christ. And divesting myself | of all prejudice my judgment is that in all these centuries of the Christian Kra there has been found no name and no life that so fully expresses the heauty, life and truth of the Lord and Master as that of the beloved captain of northern Virginia. "It would seem to bo throwing away an occasion and an opportunity when the birthday of Leo and the resurrection of the Master were united in tho beauty of the winter sunshine. H "Wo should strive to measure ourselves by Robert E. Lee and to test \ our civilization by his. "I come with humility to-night to | ask with you is Robert E. Leo the Southern ideal? I grant you ho is our hAro?T grant you he is our idol ? I g^ant you ho is the sweetest sentiment over cherished in the hearts of the people?that we shall swear ) by him?that we shall revere his memory?but I am not asking this?I am asking if his life is the dominant element of the spirit of the 1 South of to-day? and if his character is the model by which we rear our 1 boys? Oh, tragedy of history, men 1 have garnished the tombs of the prophets, yet stoned their descend.< ants? Men have shouted in praise of ^ the dead, yet crucified those who i foretold their coming! So I am ask' ing you to consider three epochs in his life. If we are to search for the ' real Lee wo will find it in his three > decisions. When a man decides upon j a courso of action we can find the man if we can discover why he made * the decision. It does not matter what decision a man makes, but why $ lie makes it. I am not interested to* nieht in the question of the judg ' raent of Leo, but of the morul purpose of the will of Lee. Why did he jf choose tho Southern side? We can i- arrive at an intelligent answer to fthat by the process of elimination. We will answer in tho negative first ?he did not fight for slavery, ho did not believo in slavery. No ardent Boston abolitionist ever believed in slavery less than Robert E. Lee. Lee on Freeing the Slaves. w| "He wrote to General Scott, saying, 'If four million slaves were mine 1 I would free thom in a moment to preserve tho Union.' I lovo to read a privato letter to an abolitionist friend of his in which he says: 'I am as anxious for the freedom of tho slaves as any of you but am trusting to the sunshine of lovo to melt the bonds of slavery?he is no friend of slaves who makes an enemy for them of a white master.' "Neither did Leo cast his fortunes with the South because of secjj] fioual hatred to the North. He loved if the army of the North with a passionate loyalty?his old comrades were officers in the army and when they met in war time would clasp j?j hands with a love that made the ensuing battle seem the irony of the fate af men. Not even after four years of carnage, not after all the horrors of reconstruction, not even when he was refused tho general nmnostv offered by that brave sol f| dicr, IT. S. Grant, not oven wbon |{ threatened with an Indictment for i treason?did no person hear him u;ter a word of unjust criticism or [I abuse either of the bravo foe that 1 met him on tlio field of battle, or of the cowardly politician that fought R him in secret. Not llocauso of Personal Ambition, jf "Loo did not mako his choice because of personal ambition. Ho and ffj Lincoln both ?eem to have had proH photic vision, and he predicted that fc the war would laat four years, and that the South would fall. He eald to Gordon after the surrender: 'I never expected any other result/ And yet when in 1860 he received the offer front Lincoln of the supreme command of the United States army?loving that army as he did, not even approving of the war between states (writing in a letter to his son he said: 'Secession is madness; revolution?and I would give all to do away with the coming horror of such a war) with all this yet this man left the war office that eventful afternoon and rode to Arlington?the mecca and inspiration of his thoughts?rode slowly?with the great capitol at htB back and his home to the front?with this quarter of a century record behind him and only his Virginia hills in front?? 1 ? 1 ? ~ n /, t U nnn n f fVinnorht 0 11*1 rUUtt 111 a ViniUDOUlCUQ V/l ?uvueuv .m anguish! He had been offered su preme command?'Where shall this sword fight?' "Reared in a day when his appointmet to West Point was considered to mean that he represented his state there, rather than the country ?reared in a day when state loyalty meant patriotism?the question for him was, 'shall I draw sword for the general government against my o\v i state?' Mrs. Lee says that all during that night while she kept vi^il below, she could hear him pacing his floor above her, and every now and tlien he would kneel in prayer. Gen oral Lee in prayer! To what God did ho pray?and what was he asking of that God? Oh! men and women, I believe that future generations, and the verdict of history, shall decide that when ho prayed that night his prayer was to the God of Kiglit and that the prayer, Oh God what is my duty?' and I believe that he heard in answer, 4Xo matter what t lie duty ol' others, it is right for Knhert K. Lee to fight for Virginia at any at any sacrifice! "And so he wrote with a breaking heart his letter of resignation saying, 'Never again shall I draw this sword except in defence of my native state.' "I proclaim that this sword was unsheathed for naught that could be seen or heard or handled?but for honor, loyalty and right as the God oi right let him see it! The Confederate army did not fight for slavery ?but for Principle as God gave them the vision to see it! "Oh, ye inheritors of the memory of Robert. EJ. Lee, is he the ideal of your civilization, tho guiding star of your success? * * * There are worse things than war, worse things than tho pillaging of cities?brutal war is dreadful but brutal Peace l? worse! There is some excuse for the war maddened soldier rushing into burn and pillage?but Oh the cold blooded greed of commercialism ? that believes in things tangible and not Eternal principles! If you lose your idealism, young men and women of the South, you can not claim the precious heritage of your fathers! Lee and Appomattox. "Charles Francis Adams, noble foe and generous enemy, most sympathetic critic of General Lee, says that at Appomattox General Lee rose to the true height of his greatness. These wero the circumstances?our beloved General, E. -P. Alexander, states in his history that on the night before the surrender there entered into the tent of General Lee a group of Confederate officers who urged upon him that he escape and with his officers join Gen. Joseph Johnson in North Carolina, letting the men disperse thruout the South, they said 'General Leo, you can't surrender.' Chas. Francis Adams says the history of this country for the next fifty years depended upon Lee at that moment?guerilla warfare could have been kept up indefinitely. The decision was his and ho turned to them an said, 'Gentlemen, we are Christian people?we have done all in our power in honorable warfare, further fighting would mean useless slaughter?now we must accept the issue.' "General Lee in this decision saved his nation from countless woes * * * "His last decision was when he must decide what to do with his life Fow know how many oilers he received. An English nobleman offered him an estate and an income amounting to fifteen thousand a year Hut ho answered: 'I must sharo the fate of our Southern people.' "Among many other offers of sup port and comfort, an insurance company offered him a large income just for the use of his name?his eyee flashed and he replies: 'Gentlemen my name is not for salo.' Such r name can not bo bought for all tin riches of the earth. ITe refused all these offers and went to Lexington where the school founded by Wash ington had been almost completely ruined by the reckless dasli of Hunter and he said: 'I have a self-impos ed task?I have led young men intc battle; I must toach them the dutief of life.' "And so for the succeeding years with his beautiful character, hit splendid example and noble life, he climbed ever upward. And so one day again he triumphed?the duj came when ho did not die?but al Lexington came forth to hold hh stirrup while ho mounted to ride down the streets of gold. "And ho still is calling to the young men of the South, come u? higher, higher, higher!'* ? ? ? Send in your subscription now tc this paper. It is the best. f CORN SHOW OPENS COLUMBIA IS NOW THE MECCA OF THE IARMEIS CORN CLUB BOYS TBEBE City Welcome# Visitor# to Greatest < < Agricultural Kvent Kver Held in ' * LVkiKOo V?nm I<1UIVU DMUXI^ " CMAAJAVaM* a iviu I Twentj-M)Ten States.?Display of i Federal Goverumeut Nerer Ilefore Equalled. With Innumerable flags and fancy decorations flying a glad welcome, the city of Columbia began Monday morning to receive visitors to the 6th National Corn Exposition, which opened its gates at 9 o'clock. It will continue two weeks, and during this time it is expected that it will bo visited by thousands of people from various sections of the country, who will come to it to study tho fundamental principles in agriculture which are demonstrated in all its varied exhibits. The p]xposition embraces exhibits from some 27 state agricultural colleges and experiment stations, a groat and comprehensive exhibit from tho Federal department of agriculture, ' representing all the numerous phases of activity of this department, and various other exhibits, all devoted to the fundamental purpose of the Exposition?the betterment of agriculture and the enrichment of rural life. Many strangers visited tho grounds Monday mornring, and tho series of structures which house this agricultural event have been alive with the demonstrations of tho exhibits, the operation of the modern farm machinery in tho machinery exhibit portion of the building, and with the college yells and the eager exclamations of the corn club boys, who are here to attend the prize winners scnooi, which began its sessions Monday morning. The installation of the various exhibits has been completed, and with the elaborate floral decorations all in place, and the mammoth painting around the main educational hall completed, the scene presented is one of striking beauty. Every exhibit has a group of agricultural specialists to explain the various points of ! interest, and to discuss farm problems with the visitors. The opening exercises were held Monday afternoon beginning at four o'clock, in the presence of a large throng of city people and visitors. The leading merchants or the city closed their doors at 3:30 o'clock to allow opportunity to all to attend the Exposition. Addresses were deliver1 ed by Mayor T. C. Thompson, of Chattanooga; Mayor W. H. Gib,bos of Colulmbia, and Dr. S. C. Mitchell, 1 president of the University of South Carolina. The Exposition will be open throughout the two weeks from nine o'clock in tlio morning until eleven 1 o'clock in the evenings, and overy night the structures will be brilliant ly illuminated throughout, showing 1 the elaborate decorative effects to their best advantage. The whole Ex1 position is completed within one set ' of walls, and is equipped with all ' conveniences, including dining hall. ' Visitors arc encouraged to spend the 1 entire day in the Exposition, study1 ing the educational exhibits and get! ting acquainted with the many farm ' <ind r?rinr>inlnR demonstrated. IIIUWJI Wt?7 CIKVA X* - ^ The groat, exhibit from the Federal department of agriculture, the best j the department has ever put out, has aroused the wonder of all visitors. ' Many have spent hours studying some single feature of this exhibit. In addition to giving a grand review of the work of the department, this ' exhibit deals fundamentally with many agricultural problems, especially those which are peculiar to the ? South. Beginning Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the government is exhibiting a number of interesting and instructive moving picture films at the Fifth National Corn Exposition. The 5 pictures are to be shown every afternoon and every evening. The admis sion charge, 50c for adults and 2r>c for children under 1 2 years of age, - covers the entire Exposition, and, of * course, there is no extra charge for ? these pictures or any of the other i educational demonstrations. 5 Among the reels shown is one i 1 dealing exclusively with the cattle > tick, the destructive insect which is stated to be costing the South an- ' ' nunlly from $50,000,000 to $100, 000,000. The complete life story of (he cattle tick will be shown in raov} ing picture films, from the eggs to * tho adult insect, and the various nt 1,r? rrmliontinn will Uiriliuvin wi mv> ?. > . v v> , also be shown upon the screen. This * Mm will ho accompanied by lectures ) from Dr. E. M. Nighbcrt, of Atlanta, 3 of the United States department of r agriculture. These films are now I making their first public appearance, i having Ik en recently completed af-; i ter two years of investigation in get- i ting pictures. 3 Other highly interesting fi'ms > show the course of the milk suj My from "cow to customer", the meat j Inspection in the United States de- . > partmcnt of agriculture, and the,' great live stock parade at Seattle. 1 SOME SCHOOL FACTS , THKY SHOULD BK STUDIED BY ALL OF OUR PEOPLE. I They Show That South Carolina Lags Way Behind Many Other States in 1 Education. Opportunely for Its influence on educators and law-makers, upon the * eve of the assembling of many State legislatures, there is published a 10,000 copy edition of a bulletin containing results of an important comporativo study of State school systems in the forty-eight states, made by the division of education maintained under the Russell Sage foundation. t Nono of the commonwealths oom- ( posing the federal union has a school t system free from weak points, and j the foundation issues this notable i summary of its recent investigation i at this timo, in order to bring these < weak points to the attention of edu- t cators and to placo in the hands of \ State legislators an authoritative ] statement of present public school < conditions. { Copies of the bulletin have been distributed among newspapers and : magazines, colleges, principals of ( normal schools, city school superintendents, governors and State super- { tntendents of public instruction, and . a copy has been forwarded to every member of overy State legislature appointed to meet in 1913. We agree with The State that South Carolinians will find nothing 1 in this remarkable document to induce in them a feeling of complacency, in respect of tho provision made by their State for elementary public 1 schools. South Carolina is ranked as follows among the forty-eight states: Forty-seven in general efllciency. F^orty-eighth in educational expenditure per child of school age. Forty-eighth in average expenditure per one day's schooling for each child of school age. Forty-sixth in average annual sal ary per teacher. Forty-fifth in the average number of day's schooling given each child of school oge. Forty-fifth in the number of pu- 1 pi 1 s in high schools and colleges relatively to the number attending public and private elementary schools. Rhode Island has the longest i school year of any State?193 days; but if these 103 days of schooling were divided equally among the children of school age in the State, the result would be 116 days of schooling each. The Sago report terms this the "effective school year", and compares forty-eight states on that conservative basis. Rated by this standard, South Car- 1 olina provides fifty days of schooling 1 for every child of school age. South 1 Carolina's annual expenditure per ' child of school age is $3. Washing- : ton's is $32, or nearly eleven times as much. South Carolina's invest- 1 ment in school property?buildings, 1 sites, etc.?aggregating $3,250,000, is only $6 per child of school age, as against. $115 in Massachusetts and $111 in New York. Our rank among the States in this , respect is forty-seventh, Mississippi , alone holding a lower position. For- ] ty-oighth and lowest place is held by j South Carolina in respect of current, expenditure per child of school age. Tho average percentage of atten- , dance among enrolled pupils in South Carolina is 71.8, which gives us the rank of twenty-one among tho fortyeight states. South Carolina teachers receive an average annual salary of but $212? loco llinn SI nor dav. uunniui'i a i/i j ivuu en Y ? , -v California teachers aro paid, on the average, $018 per year each. Compare figures with the averago annual earnings of carpenters in t.he United States $892; of coal miners $G00; of factory workers, $550; of common laborers, $513; and of teachers, $4 85; and remember also that one Southern State rents its convicts to contractors at a little moro than $100 each per year, while it pays its public school teachers, on an average, slightly over $300 each. Nearly 3 4 per cent, of the children of school age in South Carolina are not enrolled In any school, public or private. Not all of these are to be sot down as not having had any schooling or having no prospect of getting any, since the number indicated includes some who have not Government men are in charge of the demonstrations. Demonstrations of the cattle dipping vat at the fifth National Corn Exposition commenced Tuesday morning at ten o'clock at the Exposition grounds. Cattle were dipped, and this method of eradicating the cattle tick, one of the destructive insects of the South, will be explained by representatives of the Federal department of agriculture, which is putting on this interesting exhibit. The vat is under the direction of Dr. r T-i r, rtf ilm United .? . r lillll'in an?7 . ? ..... States bureau of animal industry. Demonstrations of the vat will bo given dally throughout the Exposition at ton o'clock, two o'clock in the afternoon, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, according to announcements from Dr. Faliey Monday morning. The cattle will bo dipping in the arsenical solution, and the operation will be fully explained to all persons interested. FOUND IN A SWAMP ? - ? OUL MURDER INDICATED BY THE BODY OF A MAN AflTH HIS NECK HACKED itiff and Cold, His Nock Literally Cut to Pieces, Isaac I)uJk>se, Middldo-Aced White Man, Was Found J Dead Wednesday Morning About One Half Mile From Hath. What seems to bo a foul murder ias been discovered over in Aiken bounty. Stiff and cold, his neck itjrally cut to pieces, Isaac DuBose, a 'espectable, middle-aged white man, <vas found dead at Biuth Wednesday norning, the body having boen discovered just after daybreak in a iwamp, or branch, about a half mile 'rom the mill village, whero it had ain apparently for many hours. The lead man is survived by a wife and small son. Without any clue to the affair, it ic believed that the man was foully done to death some time Tuesday night, and one of the most atrocious crimes in the annals of Aiken County is indicated. The whole affair is enveloped in mystery. Sheriff Henry H. Howard, Rural Policeman S. E. llolley and a physician hastened to Bath when the news was received at Aiken at noon Wednesday. There they were joined by Coroner A. G .T. Spradley, who started an inquest., but this was adjourned until Saturday. The coroner's inquest, ns far as it has gone, served to reveal only one possible nine that may ultimately reveal tfte identity of the dead man's assailant or assailants. Ono witness, a Bath preacher, testified to having seen four men late Wednesday evening travel leisurely toward the swamp where DuBose was found dead; that DuBose was one of the four, and the only ono whom he, the witness, knew, j.aier tnree men emerged from the swamp and went away. This is all that the authorities have, as yet, connected with the crime. However, they will continue to investigate and the resumption! Saturday of the coroner's hearing, may develop something of interest. Democrats Win in Delaware. Willard Saulsbury, Democrat, was Wednesday elected United States Senator from Delaware to succeed | Senator Harry Richardson, Republican. Mr. Salisbury's election came after a week's Democratic deadlock, caused by four members of the Legislature who refused to support the Democratic caucus nominee, because they wanted the Senatorship to go to [heir own county. Kills Self as Sheriff Waits. At Jacksonville, Fla., while a deputy sheriff was in his store to serve a writ of attachment on his stock of goods, W. E. Daughtry, a well known south Jacksonville merchant, excused himself for a moment, went to the back of the store and drank the eontents of a bottle of carbolic acid, which caused instant death. yet begun to go to school, but who will begin and others who have completed their education; but it is ovi dent that Vermont, Maine and Connecticut with more than 00 per cent, of their children of school age actually in school, are making: better investments for future citizenship: than is South Carolina, with more than 3' per cent, of its children of scholo ape not receiving schooling. South Carolina ranks forty among the states in respect of total school revenue available, all of this but 12.2 per cent, being derived from local and state taxes, hut this total can not fairly he used as the basis of a comparison with other states, apart from data as to area, population and taxable values, which data are not readily available. South Carolina expends on her schools twentyseven cents per year for each $100 of her wealth (estimated total valuation of real and personal property). Oklahoma's expenditure, reckoned on the same basis, is seventv-five cents. South Carolina puts herself to the expense of only seven cents in furnishing one day's schooling to one child, as against fourteen cents in Florida, eighteen in Uhode Island, twenty-two in New York and Illinois and twenty-three in the far western states. As a general rule, the greater the cost of schooling, the better it should be, and within limits this rule Is valid, exceptions occurring In the sparsely populated western states, where schools are small and tlie average cost 01 msu ut uun inwportionately high. But it is safe to aesuruo that Indiana, for example, which expends twenty-one cents each day of schooling, gets hotter teachers, provides better equipment and has better schools than South Carolina, which invests but seven cents in each day's instruction per pupil. States obtain, in education as in other lines, Just about what they pay for. PRIEST SHOT HIMSELF . JiOVE FOR A DIVORCED WOMAN LKD TO TRAGEDY. The Last Night He Spent In Apartments With Woman He am) There He Committed Suicide. His love for Mrs. Alice Orespy, one of hi*8 parishioners, a divoroed woman, eccentric in character and behavior, caused the Abbe Chassaing, curate of the parish of St. llilaire, in Agen, France, to commit suicide by sending a bullet through hte fee* head. The dead body was found in the apartments of Mrs. Crespy the dnv after the bishop had ordered the transfer of the abbe from Agen ro Montastruc to prevent a scandal. The news of the abbe's death ;,va? first conveyed to the police by Mrs. Crespy after she had summoned a doctor to her home. Mrs. Crespy long ago declared her love for the abbe and wrote poems m his honor. After he killed himself she put on deep mourning and sent letters to French newspapers in which she declared the abbe's soul was "noble, beautiful, and proud and his sufferings superhuman. On the one hand were stern and bitter duty and sacrifico and torment; on the other his ever-growing love for me." She deplored the fact that the bishop had exiled himself to 'Montastruc and declared the abbo had said that such a transfer would drive him mad. Mrs. Crespy urged that the newspapers hand her over to the cruel world, but defend his name. Describing her last night with the abbe, Mrs. Crespy says they were about to part when the abbe asked that she read two of his favoritepoems. Then ho took her head between his hands and said, "My little love." Later he started upstairs with some books to read during his hours of solitude, and a few mtnuales later shot himself through the head, ? M11S. LOXGSTUEET'S OFFKIl. Wants Confederate Veterans to flcl|* General Sickles. "I will raise the money to relieve Gen. KICKICS OI nis eimiarriiwmnu i? New York pushes the prosecution and none of his Northern friends go to his aid. The ragged, maimed veterans of the South wili rush to respond to the need of one of the most gallant soldiers America ever knew.'* This statement was made Monday by Mrs. Helen I). Longstreet, widow of the Confederate general at Gainesville, Ga., where she lives, after the publication of her telegrams to Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, at New York, and the State Attorney General, at Albany, offering aid in tho soldier's financial difficulties. "My husband always spoke of Gen. Sickles as the hero of Gettysburg," the statement continues. They were opposed to each other in tnai deciding battle of the war, and Gen. Longstreet, in the last autograph letter he ever wrote, September 19, 1902. to Gen. Sickles, told him that tho taking of the peach orchard by Sickles' corps won the battle for tho Union forces. "It was Gen. Longstreet's detachment that shot off the leg of the bravo Union general, but, as Oen Longstreet said: 'Sickles can we)* afforrd to leave a leg on Gettysburg, for he has made sure his place forever in the hearts of Americans.' "I have made no plans as yet, but if Gen. Sickles needs my aid, and tho aid of the South, he will get it." ? FIX I) FORTUNE IN ltlHMC. +. Shows Three New Yorkers to be Heirs to English Estate. Through the discovery of a Biblo brought to this country from England, Charles Howard, Mrs. W. G. HolUster and Mrs. M. A. Proper of Walton, become heirs to a large Eng lisli estate, says a Dingliamton dispatch. In 1S52 the last of the Howard family in England, Nicholas by name, died, and there apparently being no heirs the estate reverted to the crown. A Bible brought to this country by James Howard early in the 18th century was recently discovered in the possession of T. Howard Adams, of Albany, and it shows Mr. Howard, Mrs. llollister and Mrs. Proper to be heirs to the estate. That the lords would defeat the home rule bill was fully expected, nevertheless the goal of Irish home rule is clearly in sight. The government, now so strongly entrenched in power, will again pass the bill at the next session of parliament, and even if the lords do again throw it out it will automatically become law as the result of the act passed a year ago limiting the veto power of the upper house. ? ? Stopped Them Horn Blooming. The unreasonably warm weather has caused G.000 young apple trees in tho orchard of \V. P. Thomas, of Washington, Mil., to bud and even threaten to bloom. To prevent this iho owner is buying one hundred tons of ice a day, which is cracked and applied to the roots of the trees. This show8 how warm the winter has been up North as well as with us.