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1 I .I? J V M M f I 1m I B ^ P 8 | B ^ 1 m I IJ k* I Has since 1894 given 'Thorough Im influences at the lnwp?t nnaoiku ? ? -w fVUVJi l/IC V RESULT: It is to-day with its faci its student body of 413, and its plant THE LEADING TRAINING SCI $150 pays all charges for the year, in heat, laundry, medical attention, phyt except music and elocution. For ca REV.* THOS. ROSSER B BLACKS! PLANTS. Sweet Potato Plants?Early Triumphs, Nancy Hall, Porto Rico, Norton, and Providence, $1.75 per 1,000. H. H. Thomas, Earleton, Fla Lookout Mountain Irish Potatoes? Sure fall crop; $1.75 per bu. Ask for 10-bu. lot price. W. P. Harris, Owings, S. C. Sweet Potato Plants, express prepaid to South Carolina, 1,000 to 3,ooo at $1.75 per 1,000, 4,000 to 10,000, $1.65; Nancy Hall, Triumphs, Porto Rico yams. C. F. Whitcomb, Umatilla, Fla. i For Sale?Nancy Hall and Dooly 1 Yam Sweet Potato Slips. $1.50 per thousand. Missionary and Ecelsior Strawberry Plants $2 per thousand. j Write or wire. Southern Plant Company., W. J. Hawkins, Mgr., Plant City, Fla. ? Sweet Potato Plants, Nancy llall and Triumph, $1.75 per 1,000. 1 can; fill your orders in any quanity. Give me your orders for prompt delivery and choice plants grown under trriirntinn n .,-j^v.wm. v? . mv/v/i v, lia >Y" j thorn, Fla. POULTRY AND EGGS. For Sale?Poland China pigs of flue breeding. Write for prices. S. J. Summers, Cameron, S. C. Two Hundred large, vigorous, young strain comb White Leghorn breeders. $1 each; 50 or more, 90c. Frank Runser, Ada, Ohio. llolsteins?Pure-bred cows; heifers, open and bred; bull and heifer calves for sale. D. S. Jones, Deacondale Farms, Newport News, Va. White Leghorns, Buff Orpingtons, White Plymouth Rocks. Vigorous, hardy stock. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. Mating List Free. This ad will not appear again. 9 Bacon & Haywood, 205 Springfield Ave., Guyton, Ga. I will teach you bookkeeping and the collection business. Appoint you rny special representative in your own town. In your spare time. And help to make you prosperous. Write to-day for this offer. Brown's Correspondence School, Wilcoxon Building, Freeport, Illinois. Prize Winning White Indian Runner duck eggs, 11 for $3; 22 for $5. Bronze turkey eggs, 11 for $3; 22 for $5. 5 Toulouse goose eggs, $2.50. White Orpington eggs, 1.50 for 15 and up. Fawn and White Indian Runner duck eggs, ?1.50. M. 13. Grant, Darlington, S. C. MISCELLANEOUS. Hartford's Itoupc Cure?Guaranteed 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Enead3, Fla. I buy all kinds of ejnpty barrels and bags. Try me. Walter A. Moore, 8 George St., Charleston. S. C. Secrets on slot machines, dice, cards, races, exposed; circular free. Ham 13. Co., I3ox 16-40, Hammond, Ind. Electric Repair Company, Charleston, S. C., agents for Perry Fresh Water Supply Systems. Write for particulars. For Sale?Game Bull Terriers?pedigreed stock. The best watch dog or companion, and fastest fighting dog on earth. Correspondence solicited. Burnett Kennels, Knoxville, Tenn. Personal?Ladies, when delayed or irregular use Triumph Pills; always dependable. "Relief" and particulars free. Write National Medical Institute, Dept. 5., Milwaukee, Wis. # Piles can be relieved at once?Send 1 r>c for liberal sample, ''Lino Pile Remedy," and be convinced. Large size, 50c, 6 for $2.50. H. M. Knight and Co., Manufacturing Pharmacists, Lancaster, Penn. Marry if you are lonely. The Reliable Confidential Successful Club has large number of wealthy eligible members, both sexes wishing early marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs. Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal. Well established job printing firm desires esrvices of experienced printer, Will pay good salary to right man. with few hundred dollars to invest. "Manager," 619 King Street, Charleston, S. C. \ itructton tinder positively Christian oat." ulty of 33, a boarding patronage of 363, worth 1160,000 IOOL FOR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA eluding table board, room, lights, steam rical culture, and tuition in all subjects talogue and application blank address, LEEVES, B. A., Principal.9 ONE. W . HELD FOR MURDER YOLXCJ MAX ACXTSKD OF DIIOWNIXCi 1IIS SWKETIIKAHT. Ho<ly of Girl is Found in Lake?Hud Been Together Xiglit Before?I>eelares lie is Innocent. Every effort is being made by the Pennsylvania state authorities to clear the mystery surrounding the death of Alice Crispell, the eighteenyear-old girl whose body was found in Harvey's lake near WilkesbandH Pa., on last Monday. Nearly half a hundred witnesses were summoned to appear at the inquest held in the hotel near where the body was recovered. Search is still being conducted for possible rival suitors, who may have attacked the girl after her sweetheart, Herbert .Johns, left her on tile night of .1 ulr 1. Johns, who was taken into custody Buoriiy aner me Doay was discovered, continues to protest his innocence. Many widely varying theories are being advanced to account for tlie girl's death. Those who believe Johns innocent, assert that another man may have killed the girl or that she was seized with a faiting spell and fell into the lake accidentally. The detectives are trying to get possession of a letter which a girl companion of Miss Crispell wrote to her two weeks ago, and which, it is said, may contain some valuable information. A It bough the Crispell family contradict the statement that their daughter was subject to fainting spells, Johns himself says that the girl had a fainting spell while walking on the streets of that city with him some months ago. Regarding the theory that Miss Crispell was seized with one of those spells when she left her lover on Kriday night, and while unconscious fell into the lake, a well known physician, who has given the subject some attention, says this would not necessarily have caused death, as the fall into the water would have revived the victim and, as the water on the shore was quite shallow, she could have waded out. Shot at Man; Kills Wife. During the progress of a dispute near Carnegie, Okla., Wednesday in relation to his title to a six-foot row of beans, D. A. Dodington shot at S. Jones, bis neighbor. The bullet went wim aim sirucK and Killed Mrs. Podgington, thirty feet away. Unaware of tlie reuslt of his first shot, Dodgington emptied his pistol at Jones, this time seriously wounding Benjamin Robinson, a bystander. The Charlotte Observer quotes Governor Blease as saying in a speech at Dallas recently: "Since we have nothing but Democrats and niggers in South Carolina. I could say almost anything down there; but up here in North Carolina the people might not appreciate everything I would say." Wonder what the Governor meant? Want<m1?Purchaser for 550 acres of good farming land on the Southern Railroad, near Charleston. $18 per acre for whole or part. Terms easy. P. O. Box 21, Summcrville, S. C. For Sale?50% acres of highly cultivated farming land yielding good returns on railroad near Meggetts, S. C. Reasonable. Apply Box 456, Charleston, S. C. ( ranudate of Wintlirop, with one year's experience, desires grade work; best of references; moderate salary. Winthrop graduate, Box 2 07, Greenwood, S. C. I IF WATKl). Wanted?White girl, with references to do cooking and housework. J. H. Dukes, Summerton, S. C. Agents?Make $20 to $50 weekly selling specialty neoded in homes and offices. Particulars free Tfca Star Mfg Co., 1 4 82 W. Main St., Smithvllle, Tenn. Wo have always found it tho easiest thing in the world to damn the sins that wo do not commit, but not so with our own pot woafcneases and shortcomings. PRIMARY NEEDS REFORM DISCI SSION AS TO I'KOl'Fll ll\SI> OF SIFFKAOH IN STATU. John J. McMulian Tolls of tin* Soundness of Const it ut ionnl Provisions of 1HD.T?Some licquiroinoiits. To tue Editor of The Times and Democrat: "The primary needs reforming." Let us hammer at it. "Line upon line and precept upon precept." We hftke seen that the voters should in. ^11 the white men of intelligence and character, and that most t in " will he admitted by the test of reading and writing or by the alternative test of owning $1500 worth of propetv. We have also seen that the heroes of the '60s and '?(? deserve to be permanent voters, and that all these (and likewise all other white men who were of age before January 1, 1 898,) have had ample opportunity to be registered for life under the special temporary "understanding" clause of the State constitution of 1895. The suffrage article provides in section 4: "A separate record of all persons registered before January 1, 1898 sworn to by the registration officer, shall bo filed, one copy with the clerk of court and one in the oflice of I the secretary of state, on or before Fobruray 1, 1898, and such persons shall remain during life qualified electors unless disqualified by the other provisions of this article." The few deserving men who may and write in this era of free schools, important for the personal welfare of each man?as well as for his fitness in citizenship?that the illiterate ought to be given a progging now | and then to prevent his contenting himself to go through life a misfit in this world of reading, reading everywhere. If he really values the ballot, lie can learn to read and obtain it; and unless ho can read he can not truly use the ballot though it be be excluded by these tests must be after emancipation. The rising generation. who are to furnish new votyoung and can still learn to read and given to him, for he is dependent npwrite. Many a negro learned as much ers each year hereafter, are being now encouraged to sloth fulness and to lack of ambition except to excel the negro if they are assured the high privilege of manhood suffrage though growing up unable to read cheap newspapers, and unavoidable catalogues and other advertising literature of every kind. Reading is so on others to prepare it for liiin, and he can never know that he is voting bis own choice?he may be the helpless tool of the ballot-fixer. If a man can not read?thanks to bis parents who denied him a white man's chance?he ought to be the more anxious to do better by his children. and not doom them to bear the handicap he labors under. He should therefore welcome any reasonable added stimulus to spur his ,bovs to learn. Rut the prevalence of illiteracy indicates that many an illiterate is not concerned to save his children from a repetition of his own fate, and rather permits or forces them to abstain from the rudiments of schooling and to propagate and multiply their father's defects. If he himself were denied the ballot?shut out from a man's voice in the community affairs because of his illiteracy and until he overcomes that deficiency, he would probably have loss contempt for schooling and more respect for the ballot as the final badge of equal manhood. lie might for the first time perceive some reason to send his children to school. Well for him if the laws of the party as well as of the State should thus wake him from ; O I.wJt CC ? m Hi.-* |n cmm 111 u i it t; r?* nee, in a K0 II1 111 realize that ho and his aro losing something real, bring home to him the error of the policy pursued by his parents and himself. It would he mercy to put this coal of fire on his back. Denial of the suffrage because of illiteracy would operate as an indirect compulsory education law, self-enforcing. It would afford also an education in civic duty. Let us stop a practice which teaches that the ballot is a cheap play thing handed out to all whether or not they can use it understandingly. Let us rather teach that the ballot is a prize to lie striven for and when obtained to be reverently cherished, a sacred trust to be merited and never to be misused. Tt is humiliating that we have ignored all these considerations in the practices of the Democratic party primary. But our State constitution of 1 895 has provided just these standards for suffrage in the general election. Tt took care of all white men becoming of age by 1S0S, and gave to the voiiger fellows two or more years of warning that they must learn to rend and write if they would become voters independently of the property qualification. Tt provided especially for their education by rais ing the ago of school attendance to 01 years, and increasing the school fund In several ways and with particular reference to the ensuing three years?1806-7-8 before the requirements should become rigid. There was thus every precaution of fairness in giving notico and affording opportunity to get ready for the new requirements before they went into effect. We should adopt for the primary the same legal requirements that now i y I'oihI. \\ "i re so hot. \n ' v uid slow; n gauged On'y o i m hat are low; \V'.< .i \\ h mh seem so Sluggish s ready to break; Our 1 's *i 1th longing To th- ( ' ''actory Lake. No u ;( In h power To i ivish 'he ear. As the v !vcry notes Of its vv:itor? ??? fl<nii>" No vision fo enticing To bop'aiii us on As a bath and a plunge In tlu* old Factory Pond. | No pines wave so graceful; No bird's song so sweet; No flowers so beaut ions That bloom at our feet; No call so insistent: No memories so fond, As tbe memories that cluster 'Round" tlie old Factory Pond. In the beauty of sunrise Its charms never fail The white vapor trails o'er it Like a pure bridal veil. In the gold of the sun-set When shadows prow long, What place so inviting As the old Factory Pond? The Swimming Flub Proposes to make What nature intended Of this beautiful lake A play-ground of pleasure For hearts that are glad And a peaceful retreat For the hearts that are sad. A oozy little (dub house With doors open wide To welcome you hack When you come from a ride With boats on tin* waters So sparkling and clear As you glide o'er its bosom So w insome and fa;r. Then let us be loyal To things we hold dear Join the Swimming Club And pay dues every year. For do we not all Ml. J - I- - * v iit-ritiii memories loncl, And gladly pay t ribute To the beautious Old Pond. How well we remember Those bright days of yore, And friends that were with us On its pebble-washed shore; Hike a soft summer day, Not forgotten, but gone, Yet. their faces are mirrored In the waves of the pond. Soon may its blue bosom Ho dotted with boats, From which Swimming Club Flag gallantly floats. May the reign of the club Ho successful and long, To aid us in enjoying This glorious old pond. I * * WOMUN KAKKIA DISIIO.NKST. So Ivondon Firm Finds, Commenting oil Leadville Appointment. The appointment of a woman as receiver of the United States government's land otliee at Leadville, Col., and Secretary of the Interior Lane's remark that "money can be more safely handled by women than by men" have aroused considerable interest here. Heads of business firms have been interviewed, and the general verdict is that women are astonishingly honest. Mr. Lawrie, managing director of Whiteley's stores, said that in fourteen years' experience he had not known a single case of dishonestry among tlie women employees, and that could not be said of men. Women, he added, were quite loyal, but they perhaps had fewer temptations than men with families. "Between the ages of twenty-five and thirty women are often superb in business." lie commented, "They may not be as enterprising as men at the head of a firm, but as heads of departments they are often unrivaled." apply to the general election. We must do so if we are not to perpetuate illiteracy and the rule of illiteracy, cursing our people with a lame and backward government. We must do so if we are to justify the oath now prescribed by the Democratic party constitution, to "support the nominees" of the primary. Think of the absurdity of such an oath taken by men unable to vote in the general election. The real voters of the State pledge themselves to elect in November the choice of a primary election conducted not by themselves but by themselves and a large number of non-voters. The latter may be the balance of power in nominating those whom the majority of the real voters consider unfit. The nomination would amount to nothing but for the votes of the real voters in November. They go to the polls and elect the men thev don't want honnnon have participated in a primary with non-voters and have voluntarily abdicated their own power and rights as voters. They use their real ballots in November to make effective the choice of the non-vot< rs in a preceding primary! The subserviency of the men who can vote to the men who can not vote is generosity run mad! John J. McMahan. Columbia, July a. ? Cel up your exhibit for the County Fair. MUST ACT QUICKLY ro AI'I'KAIi I'HOM MAJOR IIOWi:li/s \dvkksi: uuroitT. (>i'aiiU't'hiir?; Must !>? Hopirsj'iitiMl by a Delegation and Only Two Days Loft in Wliit'li Slops Can l>o Takon. Do the peoplo of Orangeburg County, merchants, planters, profesional men, everybody, want the Hdisto Kiver opened for navigation? if they do, there remains only a few days before the hearing on the appeal from Major Howell's adverse report is to be made before the Hoard of Kngitieers at Washington. July 15, the hearing is set for, and whether there are delegations there or not, the hearing comes off. A week ago to-day Congressman Lever addressed a large audience of business men and farmers in the Court House, and he outlined the only hope there was for the project. That was the absolutely essential necessity of convincing the board that there was commerce that would he developed upon the line if it was opened. To do this he urged the sending of as largo a delegation as possible to Washington appear with him before the board. Representatives from Hranchville were present, and they were also pledged to secure a delegation. They have done their part. Six men are ready to leave for Washington to push the project with the representatives sent by Orangeburg. These six tnon are Messrs. L. H. Fairey, W. F. Trombly, 0. F. Smoak, J. W. Hlack, J. H. Williams Jr., and W. C. Martin. In a letter from one of the gentlemen who are pushing the project at nnmciivino 10 another gentleman in Orangeburg occurrs (ho following sentence: "We have our people pretty well aroused over the Edisto | project. We do not propose to let i Orangeburg send a larger delegation to Washington than we do, hence we J have arranged to send six," and they | are going to send six. In the meantime what has Orangeburg been doing towards sendings its delegation? Each man who goes will he required to pay half of his expenses, and efforts were to he made to collect enough from the citizens of the town and country to pay half the expenses of the delegates. A committee was appointed at Saturday's meeting, but up to this time there has been no provisions made to secure a representation from Orangeburg at the bearing on Tuesday. It will cost over $100 to have Orangeburg's representation equal to that of her sister city of Branchville and 'at $100 is needed immediately. The delegates who go are compelled to leave the city Sunday afternoon in order to he on hand for the hearing, and there remains only to-day in which the question must be decided. Mr. W. Ti. Glover, who has been always taking a leading part in pushing the plans for opening the Edisto, and who has gotten together statistics showing the value of such a route, when seen yesterday spoke discouragingly of the prospects, unless those who are to be benefitted by opening the route and those upon whom the committee, of which Mr. Glover is the head, has been depending. take immediate stens to heln do fray the expenses of the delegation to Washington. If you are interested in opening the river, if you think it will do tho county and city any good, if you think tho expenditure of $ I 4.r>,000 of the government's money on the Edisto to open it, and $35,000 yearly to keep it up, is worth going after, hand a contribution to Mr. Glover to-day. If you are not in Orangeburg, mail it to him. In the meantime branchville must be congratulated on the public spiritedness of its citizens, and its ready response to the call for a delegation, ready to stand for the opening of the river. ? .? LOOSES A BIO HOLE. A Teacher Drops Twelve Hundred Dollars on Train. Dr. Jj. A. Elmer, head teacher at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and blind at Cedar Springs, lost a roll of bills aggregating $1,200 while en route from Yorkville to Spartanburg Monday. The amount represented several years' of labor, and I)r. Elmer was beginning an extensive trip at the time of his loss. Ho first missed the money after changing cars at Blacksburg and immediately instituted search for it. Though he has advertised extensively ho lias not been able to recover the roll. T)r. Elmer is confident that he was not the victim of a pickpocket. Kill Women ami Children. A large band of Chinese recently surrounded the Thibetan town of Siangchen. Before going into battle the Thibetans killed their women and children lest they should be captured by the Chinese. The Chinese ran short of ammunition and the Thibetans repulsed them. Five Men Buried Alive. Five men are believed to be buried under a cave-in of sand at Newark, NT. J., Thursday of excavation being made for a new theatre there. One man was taken out alive. TO EXPLORE NORTH EXPEDITION LEAVES NEW YOR3 TO SEEK CROCKER LAND ? DISCOVERED DY PEARY ? Willi an IC<|tii|>m<>iit Never Ilcfore K.xcched, Including WIicIchs, McMillan KvpiMlit inn Lchvcn New York ll'lii. / it mi unjr near is?several Depar* . lures in Way of Equipment. Never, it is believed, did an Arctic expedition leave port with as carefully chosen and eomplet equipment as the party, olllcially known as the Crocker Land Expedition, which set out from Brooklyn Navy .Yard on hoard the British steam whaler Diana hist Wednesday a week. Donald B. McMillan, the leader of the expedition, lias been connected with many scientific and exploring parties, and in selecting his outfit he had the benefit of the advice and aid of such men as Anthony Fiala, Sir Ernest Shacklcton and Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, The sledges of the party tire of an entirely new pattern, invented by Dr. McMillan himself. While weighing sixty-nine pounds fifty pounds less than those with which Peary readied the Pole experts pronounce them marvels of strength aiul durability. Each sledge is fitted with a double set of runners. On hard going they will run on the narrow steel; as the surface of the snow becomes softer and the sledge sinks in it is taken upon the second and wider runners; in deep snow the whole bottom of the sledge forms a runner. Dr. McMillan also intends to feed nis men on a new plan. Hitherto the staple food for exploring parties in tho Arctic lias been pemmican, with hard biscuit, aud either tea or chocolate. l'eary depended on tea, hut Shaekloton and Scott used chocolate. l)r. McMillan's party will he fed during their dash across the ice with whole wheat biscuit, of which the party is carrying several thousand pounds, and chocolate thickened with ground peanuts?also an idea original with the present expedition. The wireless outfit which the Diana carries to be set up at the winter quarters of the party in Kane Basin, is a two-kilowatt apparatus, furnished by the. government, and is expected to keep the party in constant ? touch with civilization through the Canadian government station at Capo Wolstenholme. J. D. Allen an expert electrician, is the wireless operator of the expedition. It will bo not only the first time that an expedition of this kind has employed wireless to cornmunlcato with home, hut the first time that wireless communication has ever been attempted from a point so far north, where the aurora horealls prevails. When Peary returned from the Pole in 1908 he reported that on his way north, in the fall of 1900, when far to the north of (Greenland and in tho midst of what had always been supposed to bo ice-covered ocean, he saw one morning lofty mountain peaks on the horizon to the eastward, lie was unable to change his course to approach nearer and explore the mysterious land, which he named Crocker I.and. His announcement caused a sensation In scientific circles and plans were at once begun for tin r;a11iijii iu lucmu (iii'i cnan u\o new territory and hoist the Stars and Stripes over it. George Borup, who was with Peary, was to have been the leader, hnt. was drowned in the Sound. Dr. Edmund O. Hovey of the American Museum of Natural History revived the project and selected Dr. McMillan as leader. ? ? OFFICER FALLS TO DEATH. ? White Flying Army Aeroplane on Texas Military Gamp. , Lieut. Loren II. Call of the United States aviation corps was killed early Tuesday by the collapse and fall of his aeroplane north of Texas City near Houston. He had started his flight from the aviation field in the second army division mobilization camp. The dangerous thing known to .aviators is a "warm air current" is held responsible for Call's death. Tho young lieutenant rose from the aviation field bordering tho gulf early i uesuay morning, turning his biplane northward and flow over the level stretehes near the artillery ramp at an altitude of about 500 feet, lie was plainly visable to several soldiers, who said his biplane seemed to be running smoothly. Without warning it turned its nose downward and plunged almost straight to the earth. The impact broke nearly every bone in Call's body. Animals Ruined to Death. Three hundred and fifty animals? three hundred hogs and fifty head of cattle?were cremated Monday when the big stock yards of Rolling & Powers at Nashville burned to the ground within thirty minutes after the alarm was turned in. The property loss is estimated at about $25,000.