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HAD A HARD TIME1 ?*? ii EXPLORERS SUFFER IN CROSSING GREENLAND * j CAME NEAR STARVING Ponies Were Train oil to Feed Vpon tl ii the Flesh of Their Mates, While the Hire Hardships and Mishaps of \ Futo Compel the Men to Kat Pet A tl l>Og. j. The story tohl by Capt. Kocli, a ' Danish explorer, of tho crossing of 11 Greenland in company with three ? hardy companions shows that tho dangers and hardships to be encoun nrrwl rvn 4 1 - 1 1 * e v /11 in*.- gretu luianci lceueid have not decreased since Peary and Nausea journeyed over a part of tho same wastes. 'l Tho Danish leader and his three :l companions, Dr. Wagcnor, a German; a Parson, a sailor, and Sigurdson, a na- a tico of Iceland, were reduced during 11 their Journey to eating a pet dog, tho " only animal left. a After landing on July 21, 1012, 11 the first mishap encountered was tho ^ loss of some ponies. Soon after that their motorboat disappeared through tho thin ice and tho explorers had to n wait until near the end of September t befgoro the ice was thick enough to b bear their sledges and horses. When v they wore ready to start Dr. Wagcnor c fell and broke a rib. c The expedition was ten miles Vast y of Queen Louise Land October 13 and < went into winter quarters. Because v fodder was short all the ponies were b killed except five, which were trained c 10 oat the llesh of tlieir brothers. s During a sledging trip Capt. Koch ( foil forty foot into a crevasse, break- ( ing his right log. llo was helpless in H the hut throughout the winter in a v temperature generally fifty degrees below zero. On April 2 0, tills year, c the four men broke camp and with , 11 vo sleighs, each drawn by a pony, \ started on their 7f>0-mile march to the west coast. For forty days bliz- j zards raged. The ponies became r snowblind and so exhausted that E three were killed. c Then, with the night temperature t thirty below zero, the sun's rays j burned the skin from tho men's faces until they looked like raw beef. Snowshoes were put on the two re- ( maining ponies and helped them greatly in tho loose snow. But for 4 the ponies the expedition would have f been in a worse plight. Another pony was killed July 11 j because the fodder had given out. ( Next day the last pony was killed. A few miles further on splendid pasturage was found. The men's rations j had been gradually reduced and on ^ July 13 the provisions were all gone. ^ A howling blizzard cappod this misfortune and for thirty-five hours the four men remained in the shelter of a projecting rock without a morsel eat. Oil .Tlllv 1 n thev tHnrl trv r\nali _. - _ - ?'1 on to tho coast, so exhausted from hunger, cold and wet they could scarcely move. . The only chance for life was to kill tho pet dog, which had tramped with them about 800 miles. This was done and the flesh was cooked and eaten. The meal was hardly finished when tho explorer sighted a sailing boat in a fjord east of Proeven on tho west coast of Greenland. By means of shots and signals tho explorers attracted attention and Pastor Chemnitz, who was on tho ship, with the assistance of the crew, soon had the famished and worn out explorers in safety. i ? Carried Off by an Kaglo. An enormous eagle carried off the four-year-old child of a woodcutter while it was playing near him in the forest in the vicinity of Audeer, Switzerland. A large body of hunters accompanied by dogs searched the roads fixed caused the unfavortraco of the eagle or its prey. ; ? ? Seven Are l>ro\vned. Seven persons were killed when tho government steamer Henry Ilosse was overturned in a heavy wind storm in the middle of a narrow channel of tho Mississippi River. Seven other persons escaped by clinging to parts of tho boat until rescued. I>eath Kept Secret. The will of Mrs. Jocelyn-Clagett, of St. Ixmis, contained the clause that none of the relatives should bo notified of her death until after the funeral. Then their shares of the $12,000 estate was to be sent them. Mrs. CljlCett flid nnf toi n? o Kl.. ' ? 1 UV.V nuui. U 1 UUUIU1. , Takes Poison Before Wife. Becoming despondent because his wife was very sick, and expected to die, W. J. Bettis, of Macon, C?a., took laudanum. Ho loft a note saying that he wanted to dio before his wifo left him. ? ? l>iggs Found Guilty. In eloping with Marsha Warrington from Sacramento, Cal., to Reno, Nevada, Maury I. Dlggs, who was guilty of violating the Mann act, according to the verdict of the Jury that tried him. >7 FOR NEEDED REFORMS [AlOll l Ii KFFKCTS OF POOH ( SCHOOL ATTKNDANCK. olm J. McMahan DIkcuksph Vital (^uostion and dives Heasons for Compulsory education. The enlightened mind revolts at lie idea of ignorant parents compell- ( lg their children to remain in Igno- I ance without availing themselves oi 1 (to schooling offered free by the < tate within the reach of every home. < .dd to those that never go to school i he large number that attend irreguirly, and wo probably have half of lie children failing to make prope: ' se of the facilities provided for their i duration. Let us consider the meanrig of it all, sis if we were explaining n the simplest mind that doe3 not ee the evil. The child is not his own master, ut is subject to his parent. Left to intself, the child will he ignorant nd undeveloped. Ho will not have compelling desiro for knowledge, nd will not apply himself to learn, litil he is made to taste a sample nd perceive that it is good -acquire n appetite for learning, Meantime, nless made to go to school he may refer to idle at home. Primitive Tribal Kducntion. In a state of primitive nature, with o law hut the individual will (if here ever was such an individualistic tage of man's progress) it rests /holly with the parent to compel ither ignorance or learning, and wo an not doubt that the instinct of ace-preservation secured for the liild instruction in the essentials of yell-being according to the then tandards?just as in the animal reation the parent teaches its offpring how to obtain food and how o escape from its enemies. But in ho earliest known times, there is ome sort of custom which none vould defy and which is thus the uinmounity or common law. This ustomary law has from the beginling prescribed the education which s the requisite of the times. Thus unong savages in tribal relations, he parent never neglects, and would lot be allowed to omit, to give his ion the standard training for the liaso and for war?the great duties if citizenship at such a period of luman society. Difficulties of Modern Discipline. In modern times, with the higher levelopments in the main, there is a itrange decadence constantlv mani esting itself. There Is more parental leglect, relatively, than among saviges, and in the more artificial trailing of the schools to lit for new conlitions of man's life, there is more lifflculty in keeping alive in the child \ zest for learning. Thus even after nis taste is somewhat aroused and he lias formed the general purpose to learn, he will have his periods of sloth, of reaction, of revolution against the labor of application, against regularity, against system, against obedience?the very things that ho needs to become inured to. If allowed to have his own way as his fancy changes, ho will attend irregularly, will loiter and be tardy. His latenesses and absences will suffice to destroy the effectiveness of his studying, the connecting links of his learning being lost. When present he will be Inattentive to instruction, neglectful of the assigned tasks, will not be seriously in earnest, will not view his obligation to get an education as a closed question, and will therefore dwadlo and fritter away his time. If allowed to acquire such habits, he will bo injuring instead of building up his character, and will be lessening instead of increasing his future usefulness. A largo part of the benefit of true schooling is the acquiring of correct and useful habits under compulsion?such as the habit of regularity, of system, of obedience, n f r>f "4-- J W . VV11I.IW1, vji wi?ife\.:n??o, Ui BUJilUfastness, of ability to do unpleasant things, and at last the ability to tlnd pleasure in doing duties whether or not inherently unpleasant. This modification of natural desires to recognized duties has come to be best described by a term derived from the classical name for the pupil in school, the ideal of all schooling being the resultant "discipline", the mental and moral acquisition of tho true disciple or pupil. Regular Attendance. If the child goes to school spasmodically, he will have more friction with the teacher than otherwise, for llP \ui1 1 he 1 *? > 1 ? \- J ? -1 *" -1 ?iv ti *ii uwt uc an wi'ii up III I1IH 8lU(l* ies, or as well trained to applying himself, or as accustomed to obey, and thus ho will have to be the more controlled, punished if need be, and as a result of the corrections or punishments he will he angered and have further disposition to vent his resentment by staying away at will or altogether. Poor attendance breeds worse attendance. Irregular attendance ends in non-attendance. Tf the parent indulges him, let him he his own master, spoils him, he will do poor work at school or will stay away. Such is often the indulged child of parents who should know better and do better, and not very different in the misfortune of the neglected child of parents of a peculiar typo of ignorance. Injures Self and Others. When attendance upon school is TO RUN PRESS BUREAU || ? HtEEN SA1I) TO BE PRESS AGENT FOR McLAURIN. } ? \ceording to l>atest Talk Ho Will Conduct Campaign Press Bureau at Columbia. That Leon M. Croon will come to Columbia on September 1 and open a * bureau for certain papers which will back John L. McLaurin for Coventor >f South Carolina to succeed Governor Colo L. Please is the latest ?ossip in political circles in South Carolina, according to information forthcoming from reliable sources. This program was decided on some time ago. so It is understood, and, it < is claimed, will he put in actual oper- 1 ation by the first of next month. < That the McLaurin backers are j anxious to obtain the endorsement of 1 Governor Cole L. Please is also well i understood, but it is stated that they ] have been unable to do so. It is un- j derstood that Governor Please was 1 invited to Hendersonville some time back, and the advantages of the Me- j Laurin organization outlined to him, i and he was urged to enter the combination, endorse McLaurin for Gov- i ernor and they would back him for s the Senate. However, the irovernnr Uou all along that ho was not going to | mix in llio next guornatorial rare. . It is understood that he declined to ( have anything to do with the MeLau- 1 rin movement. It is true that many < of his former supporters are now be- ,] hind Mr. McLaurin for governor and ; that he was and still is friendly with ( McLaurin, but will not endorse him < or anybody else for governor-?that i much he has stated several times ] publicly and emphatically. Loon M. Green, until recently was < editor of the Anderson Intelligencer, ( a weekly newspaper which has here- | tofore been a warm friend of the i present administration. Col. Croon, it is understood, has retired from the editorship of the Intelligencer. Beforo editing the Intelligencer Col. , Green achieved publicity by the activities as a detectivo of the State government. Ho Is a member of the 1 staff of Governor iBlease and has been artively identified with his admlnis- j tration., irregular, ragged, the teaching is , broken in upon, the progress of the , different children is uneven, it is im- ( possible to preserve class organize- , tions (so necessary to enable the ( teacher to accomplish much when there is a largo number to teach). Classes are further rendered impossible by some children entering school later than others and dropping out sooner. Such a child can not go forward with his proper grade from year to year?having entered and left so irregularly and done ho little in the time at school that he must ho In a class by himself or start over again every year. Irregular attendance is harmful to the other children?those that attend perfectly, because it disorganizes the school, tho discipline and the teaching. Many of our schools are afflicted with this ystematic lack of system. The principle of law, "So use your own as not to injure another's," would fully justify the absolute exclusion from school of evory child that can not be made to conform fully to the implied requirement of attending regularly and seriously, from the beginning to the end. Most graded schools do this, in self-defence. This protects the earnest pupils and may save some laggards. But the law ought to authorize the requirement of attendance, without the necessity of resorting to exclusion for poor attendance. That would save more of the laggards? and many who have never had a chance because of their surroundings, chiefly their parents. An end should be made to letting children come to school just often enough to disturb tho work of the regular attendants and not enough to do themselves any real good. An end should also be put to tho whimsical action of ignorant and prejudiced parents who keep their children from school altogether. State compulsion of education should stop parental compulsion of ignorance. John J. McMahan. Columbia, August 16. Memorandum: "Delonda est Carthago"?which being interpreted means, "The primary has got to be reformed." < Escape Prom Prison. TTsin a ladder they had made In the carpenter shop of the institution, two prisoners, cellmates, scaled the high wall of the eastern Pennsylvania state penitentiary at Philadelphia Wednesday, dropped 3 5 feet to fl ornoa nl Af o n rl roo/lo * V* r*I ? ^ - iv n>"uu j/ivsi, nuu niauc nivii CHUitpU, \ Tk>sos Life for ? Woman, Dawson Corprew was drowned in the Tallapoosa river at Robertson Ferry when ho attempted to rescue Miss Mary Stone Oliver. He reached and assisted her until he had placed her in a boat, hut sank immediately after she was out of his hands. If the Legislature passes an act applying the provisions of the Webb I,aw to this State, the blind tigers will bo put out of business, and the' dispensary will sell all the liquor in the counties that voted for liquor.' ROB ATTACKS JAIL ? iPARTANBURG OFFICERS KEEP PR1SONER1SAFE ? THREE MEN WOUNDED >lieriflf and Deputies Cause Crowd Dent on Lynching Negro C^hnrgtMl With Chimlnnl Assault to Disperse Dy Threatening to Kill First Man Filtering Prison Gates. "Gentlemen, I bog you not to proiced through this gate. I am in deadv earnest. I will kill the first man who advances a step, though he ihould bo my best friend." W. J. White, sheriff of Spartanburg County, thus addressed a mob bent on lynching Will Fair, a negro prisoner, iccused of assaulting a white woman, when a crowd of five hundred men, \fter being repeatedly repulsed with pistol shots, blew down the gato in I he outer wall of the county jail late Monday night with dynamite. The mob were impressed with what the sheriff said and dispersed. Farlier in the evening three men were shot when efforts were made to batter down the jail gate with logs ind steel rails. Sheriff White and a leputy held the crowd at bay at first by firing blank cartridges. Members ;>f the mob returned the fire with bulI..ID 1. 1 J- - - n;to, uuwcvei, aim in ino coniusion mil darkness Frank Kpply, J. C. Owmsby and John Turner were wound'd, though it is believed not seriously. They were taken to a hospital. Hundreds of pistol and rille shols were tired when the mob began to use lynamite, but so far as can be learned only one man was wounded. A Imllet passed through his hand. His name was not learned. Will Fair, a negro, was arrested Monday afternoon charged with assaulting a nineteen-year-old white woman, near Wliitestone, Monday morning. It was about half-past ten j'clock when the assault is alelged to have been committed. The young woman, a brido of last Christinas, had been to a neighbor's house. On her way home through a pateh of woods she saw a strange negro, who leered at her. Trembling, she hurried on, followed by the black. She entered her home safe and locked the front door. Under her own roof she gained assurance, and as the negro had seemingly continued on his way, she gave the matter no further serious thought, but went to her bed room and was brushing her hair when the next chapter of the tragedy , was written. ' Suddenly she heard footsteps at her back and almost immediately a hand, thrust from behind her, was pressed closely against her mouth, another hand seized her by the neck, and the rough voice of a negro said: "If you yell I'll kill you." The girl then threw every ounce of her energy into an effort to escape from the negro's clutches, but In vain. Picking up a heavy stick, which lay on the window sill, the black brought it down upon her head with crushing force, and the girl, bleeding from an ugly scalp wound, dropped like a dead person. When sho regained consciousness, a half hour later, sho had been draggod to another part of the room. The unfortunate raised herself unsteadily to her feet, thinking to fire a shotgun, which was suspended from the wall and thus summon her husband. She swooned again as she was reaching for the gun, and was lying on the floor unconscious when her husband happened to enter the house a few minutes later. The husband took his wife to bis father's home, a half-mile away, called a doctor and then went to Glendale and gave the alarm. About 500 people, including a number of Glendale Mill operatives, started in search of the negro, of whom a good description was given by bis victim. Sheriff W. J. White headed one posso and Chief Moss P. Hayes, of the Spartanburg police, another. A posse of whi/?h Qnmuol T "XT I ? ?.^11 ? M.VM KUUI u^?i ii, iiivuuin, a wuu known Spartanburg attorney, was a member, found an old negro who said ho had seen within fifty yards of the scene of the assault a negro corresponding In description to the assailant, and told of the direction in which the man was walking. He said the negro they were seeking was named Will Fair. Will Fair was traced to Glendale, where ho was seen to board a car for Spartanburg. Other clues were obtained which led to the arrest of Fair several hours later at the Southern Railway station in Spartanburg by Rural Policeman J. M. Williams. Officer Williams concealed the negro in the bottom of an automobile, which ho pressed into service, and carried him into the county jail by the rear entrance before any but one or two people knew of the arrest. Fair denied that he was the negro wanted, but officers said they felt confident that the chase was over and were only waiting for the identification of Fair as her assailant by the negro's alleged victim to make sure. When ho learned of tho assault Mayor O. Tv. Johnson ordered all tho social clubs to bo closed for the day. Members of the mob broke into tho SEVEN WET, FOUR DRY KESl'LTS OF ELECTIONS ON I)IS PENSAKY QUESTION. ? Vote in Most Counties Was Very Close Showing Sentiment Evenly Divided Among Voters. The dispensary elections are over,' in at least eleven counties of the Stato, as a result of Tuesday's voting and seven of this number gain the legalized state or county dispensary system. In two cases the vote was so close , that official tabulation will be necessary to establish tho result. In nearly all others tho margin was small. Florence and Jasper have retained the dispensary system while Hamberg, Harnwell, Dorchester, Calhoun and Orangeburg have voted to return to the sale of liquor by the county. Abbeville, Lexington, Williamsburg and Sumter voted to remain dry, though Sumter may win out on appeal and recount. Of the counties which went dry Abbeville was the only one giving a decided majority, the anti-dispensary forces in that county piling up a majority of 55 8 against the salo of liquor. in tho other counties which went dry the vote was very close. Lexington leading in this respect with a majority of four against the sale of liquor, but which may be an error, as a mistake is claimed at one mix; w nuamsnurg wnn rourteen and Sumter with twelve also seemed almost evenly divided, but the closeness of the vote in Sumter makes the result still doubt ful. Of the wet counties Barnwell, with 004 majority, and Dorchester, with 3.17, were the most decided, and Orangeburg with a majority of three for the dispensary was the most evenly divided. The majorities for the dispensary in other counties were: Bamberg 1 SO, Calhoun S2, Florence Gt, and Jasper 3S. Should the ofllcial returns bear out the unofficial figures, South Carolina will rave eleven dispensary counties, as follows: Charleston, Richland, Florence, Georgetown, Beaufort, Aiken, Dorchester, Calhoun, Jasper, Barnwell and Orangeburg. The vote: For Against Abbeville 440 09 8 Barnwell 001 207 Florence G7 3 612 Dorchester 661 324 Lexington 03 0 5 43 Calhoun 3G3 2S1 Orangeburg 1,15 2 1,13 5 Williamsbiirg 1 02 20G Jasper 8 7 19 Sumter 4 73 4 85 Bamberg 4 00 220 ? Pours Hot Oil on Victims. Amolia Dilcher, a cook, rendered temporarily Insane by the intense heat of the kitchen in which she was working Wednesday, poured boiling fat over three women and a baby of the Staten Island, N. Y., household where she was employed, frightfully burning all four victims. Puts Ileal Lid on Town. Jackpot, the toughest town In Wyoming, has been closed by the anuria, ana tno lnnabltants are either under arrest or have fled the town. Whiskey and gambling devices were destroyed. A deputy sheriff has been left behind to see that the town is not inhabited. armory of a military company after midnight and took seventeen rifles. A militiaman with loaded rifle surprised the maurauders, and by threatening to kill them, made them return the firearms. William Fair, the negro who was saved from lynching by a mob at tho Spartanburg jail Monday night by tho firm stand taken by Sheriff William J. White of that county, and a singlo deputy, was carried to Columbia Tuesday morning by the chief of police of Spartanburg and is lodged safely in the State penitentiary, temporarily, at least. Tho negro was I spirited out of a rear door of the Jail about three o'clock Tuesday morning while Sheriff White held pack tho mob at tho front of the institution and hurried by train to Columbia. Prison officials at Columbia expect to receive immediate instructions to keep the negro in the Stntn -- V?vv |M IOV/1I | until the date of his trial. i bank ot Conwa HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND SUR COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COMB ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COUi CAPITAL STOCK. . .. SURPLUS.. LIABILITIES OF STOOl SECURITY OF DEPOSE DIREi ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH. M. L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS AOC COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE Robert B. Scarborough, K Proeldemt. THE HORftY HERALDCONWAY. S. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, PHOFBHtiONAJb GAUDS tL SL WOODWARD ' ittomv and OlUMtor At Lav CONWAY; 8. C, B, B. BOAJHBSKHJGS GON WAX, B. C MMmmmj m* lam. HL H. BURROUGHS yhyiShin and lurg?oa CON WAX, 8, C. IV. E. McCORD, Denial Surpeon CONWAY, S. C. 1UCNK KAVKNRIj IaiuJ KurYeyiiig avid Drainage Bfrfvey Building Conway, B. O. HE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE k |CJGHt running ^ (VSpawantolthcr a VlbratlngBhiittle, RotauB BbntUe or a Mingle Thread [Chain tititokl Bevrlng Alachluo wrlt? to $m?W HOME SEWINQ MADHINE 60MFM9 Orange, Mum. MMQrtowfTicnackine^ are mode totetlrmftrd!? BMfcfebut the N?w Heme U made to w+m. > OtMT euarantr never mi? oat. # If MthertRMl dttaUrs v mim,?m J ' Pound Head in Store. Shortly after noon Thursday when James Cooper, colored, entered the shop of Mr. A. J. Pittman, at Summerville, he found his body on top of one of the countors. Ho evidently had been dead for several hours. Mr. Pittman had not been In good health for some time, and was under the treatment of a physician. His death two equal allotments. Huslmnd Itlown to Piece*?. When Mrs. John Herman, of Grand Rapids, Mich., arrived home from a visit, sho was met by the family dog, which acted very strangoly. She followed the animal and found her husband and two other men blown to pieces in a field near the house. Ther had gone out to blow up stumps and one of them had probably dropped a box of dynamite. ? Moots Double Death. Charles AleGoognn, a naval stores operator, ago twenty-five, was shot and killed by Will Bowman, colored, said to bo an ex-convict, Sunday at Redlight, Fla., the negro dying from a bullet from McGoogan's revolver. Tho negro's hody was covered with ! rosin and burned by tho white man's incensed friends. McGoogan was to liavo been married in three weeks. Helped Himself to Cash. A stranger walked into the "New York State Bank, at Albany, thrust his arm through one of tho paying tellers' windows, grabbed bills aggregating $87 9 and rushed out into crowded State stroet., where he was lost to view boforo the astonished nllnf ?1 * i wiiui v.uuiu (^ivo un aiarm. ? HORRY, y. S, C. PLUS OF ANY iRlANK TN IIOURY INFO CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF NTY. $50,000 12,500 lUIOLREItS. . .. 50.000 rORS 112,500 :tors W. A. JOHNSON, WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. JOMMODATION WHICH THEIR AC- / 5 SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. >. T. Richardson, Will A. Freeman, Vice-President Cashier.