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THE PEOPLE'S .JOURNAL VOL 12.-NO. 34, PICKENS, S. C., TH URSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1902. FARMERS COME SOUTH WARD. AN a Rest1lt of the Work Being Done by the Southern Rail roaN(' Industrial Agents. An important influence in determnin ing the trend of immigration in this country, especially since thousands of :oreigners have flocked annually to the United States, has boon the activity of railroad linos running East and West. Following the pioneer and established lines of trade between the coast and the backwoods, such roads were the earliest to be completed, and the general rule of immigration that parallels of latitude are followed, was reinforced thereby. During the past ten or fifteen years a number of independent lines, somne of them quite weak, have been united into strong systems, giving prompt and comfortable means of travel between the North and the South. The first effects, the diversion of outward-bound trade from the middle West and Northwest to South Atlantic and Gulf ports, have been followed by an increasing tendency of farmers to move toward the South, with its virgin opportunities and its promise of large profits on comparatively small invest ments. '1'his movement has been ac celerated by persistont and intelligent work by several of the leading railroad systems of the South, and the results are becoming strikingly inanifes,. Since the days sixty and seventy years ago, when the new lands of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas in vited settlers, there has been no stronger interest in Southern lands than there is today. The movement is so important that the Southern l!arm Magazme, in its October issue, pub olihes several special articles from rep resentatives of railroads who have b'en active in immigration work for the South. Their statements are not only valuable as records of what has been accomplished, but they are full of sug gesuon about the future. Mr. l. V. Rlichards, of Washington, D, C., land and industrial agent of the Southern railway, writes : " To the general public the best proof of the growing influx of settlers into the territory tributary to the South ern railway lines is found in the grad ual advance of real estate values, the opening up of the wild lande to the ex tent of millions of acres and the en ormous increase of Southern travel locally. Prosperous colonies have been established, while grain, fruit and stock areas have been created and improved, and extended in numberless directions along our lines. Within the past year 035 new industries have boon located along the Southern railway system, 215 industries have been enlarged and 155 industrial enterprises are now under construction, which, with other impor tant developments, aggregate a total disbursement of $117,000,000, all this adjacent to and upon the Southern Railway lines only. The effect upon immigration has been marked. Thou sands have come Southward in conse quence of this industrial actiN ity, as sured of employment, and as we are in close touch with every portion of our territory we are constantly in a posi tion to know whether these people are content and prosperous. We have no information to the contrary and be lieve that as they become accustomed to the new conditions and familiar with climatic and soil requirements andi effect, their own domestic life and welfare are bett,ered and their pros pects brighter than ever before. The present outlook is emphatically en couraging anti the present decade will, we feel assured, round up with a totality surpassing that of the palm icst year of immigration Westward." CJol. J. B. Killebrew, of Nashville, Teun., industrial and immigration agent of the Nashville, Chattanooga andl St. Louis Railway, writes : "Thme immigrants now settling on the line of the Nashville, Chattanooga * and St. Louis Railway are of high character,,industrial habits anti great intelligence. During the past eighi teen months not less than seven hun dred and fifty families anti single men have bought farms in the territory tributary to the road and settled on them. There are many that have not been reported to my othice. Many of t,hese have paid from $5,000 to $12,000 in cash for farms andI nearly all of * ~ them are not only pleasedi with the soils, markets and climate, but they are making efforts t,o have former neighbors anti kinspeoplo to join them. I estimate that during the past ten years something over three thousand heads of families and single men have purchasedi farms in the region travers edi by the road which I repiesent. They have bought on an average something like one hundred acres each, making about 300,000 acres that are now occupied by Northern farmers. "The tendency of thought throughout the Northwest is leading to a better understanding and a higher apprecia tion of the agricultural capabilities and advantages of the South. The thou sands of new immigrants now buying lands at high prices in the Northwest are causing the earlier settlers to seek new fields, and these are provided with ample funds and are acquiring better information of the South through the distribution of literature by the Southern railroadd.. The pros pects, therefore, for an increase in immigration aire very good." Mr. W. L. Glessner, of Macon, da., commissioner of immigration of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway, -after alluding to the pine forests yielding to fertile farms, orchards And vineyards, and to saw mll replaced * by cotton mills, cotton oil mills, knit. ting factories, etc., writes : " It would be unfair to allo infer that this increase of populatic and prosperity has been brought abot entirely by the immigration of NorW ern farmers, for they do not represe even a majority of it, although thc represent a large proportion, most < them coming from the Northwestor States. We have had comparativel no dissatisfaction and few removal for as a rule they are prosperous an contented, and where one Northor farmer settles others from his ol neighborhood follow him. For thi reason the prospects for additional in migration fromi the North and Wes are very favorable, as every satisil( Northern farmer in the South is al active and iniluential immigratio1 agent. In south Georgia, and Floridi we are expecting a new class of im migrants from the Northwest--stocl farmers-for we have demonstrate( that cattle, sheep and hogs can b raised, fattened and narkoted cheape in this section than in the Northwest and already several large tracts o land have been taken up by North western farmers for the purposo o graz'ing cattle. " it has been anything but an easy task to attempt to divert the tide o: immigration from. lines of latitude t< those of longitude, but the stream hati beeni started and will continue to in ci ease II its flow.'' Capt. J. F. Merry, of )ubuque Iowa, assistant general passengem agent of the Illinois Central Railway writes "If we may judge from preseni valuations the South during the next twelve mouths will witness an immi gration from the North akin to that which for the past two years has found its way in the direction of the Cana dian lit,e. " Within the past sixty days an un. usual interest has sprung up among bankers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, real estate agents and railroad men throughout the Northwest in the matter of Southern land investments, especially in the cotton districts, and already a number of cotton plantations have been nurchased by Northern men and wil. be leased to colored tenants. The writer is confident such investments will be far more remuner ative than oven double the amounts invested in Northern forms. " The undeveloped cotton and corn lands of the South are also now in de mand at advanced prices. Contracts are being made for the clearing of these lands and the placing of those farms in such condition as will make them attractive as well as profitable. " Indeed, there is a general feeling everywhere that Southern farm lands, in sympathy with the present indus trial and commercial activities of the South and the general prosperity of the country, must necessarily advance. What we want in the South is more farms and better farming, more atten tion paid to farm attractiveness, more white houses and more rod barns. All these things are steadily increasing and in time Mississippi will compare favorably with Illinois, Tennesseo with Ohio, and Louisiana wit,h lowsi in the amount of their products and value of lands." T1IIEY ROBBEID TI[E ORAVES Negroes Supplied Iianliainapoli Colleges With )eaad Bodies Fromn Ccrueteries. Wholesale robbery of graves in t,h< cemeteries about Indianapolis, whia' has been going oii for some time, waf brought to a close Monday morning by the arrest of a gang of seven negroes, Warrants were also issued for & p)rominent physician, the deimonstrato) of anatomy mi the Central College 01 Physicians and Surgeons, in which tw< stolen bodies were found about 10 daym ago; for an intorne in the college am for the janitor of the college. Th& negroes under arrest are: Walte: Daniels, Sol Grady, Sam Martin, Gar field Bucker, Wm. Jones, IRufus Can troll arnd Isham Donnol. All live ir Indhianapolle. Rlufust Cantrell made a comp1cti confession andl implicated the others He said the demonstrator accomapaniet the negroes on several of the gravy robbing expeditions. Nearly one hundred graves, it i. said, have been robbed by ghouls dur lug the last three months. The detec tives say the negroes were armed wit! shotguns and . equippedl with horse and wagons. The bodies were sold t< different colleges which opened thei winter terms last week. The detec tlv3s say that a complete investigatio will probably show that evin th, graves in Crown Hill were deosecrate, l)y the ghouls. Cantrell said that hi andI the other negroes visited Moun Jackson cemetery almost every tim any one was buried inl the place. "W pretty near cleaned that place out," hi saidl. " I doin't believe that we hay missed anybody that has been burie there since July." When the negroes were brought iri to court all weakened and confesse they wore members of an organize gang of ghouls. Mount Jackson, a cemetery jum across the river, west of the city, hm been left practically empty by tile gray robbers. "Rufus," was the p)assword at t: medical colleges and when It was u tered by the returning ghouls, U: doors of the colleges would always I opened without questioning. Th statement that Crown 111ll, one of ti best guarded cemeteries in the Unit< States,' has probably been invadled 1 the grave robbers, has caused indign tion. One of the ghouls said it usual took about 25 minutes to rob a gray The law in Indiana is very stri and provides for effective puinishme n f goulst by long i.pIonet n 1)ATIl OF EMILI 'OLA. ' Tie Note(t Fichtelt NoveliHt nt it itnunch F"ricnd of )reyftuN. Emilo Zola, the novelist, who gainc< additional prominence in recent yeari y because of is defonse of ihe Jews an( of former Capt. Dreyfus, was fount dead in his Paris home Monday morn ing. Asphyziation resulting from th( fumes from a stove in his bedroom i< given as the cause of death. t M. Zola and his wife retired at l( 1 o'clock. Madame Zola was seriously ill when the room was broken into, At about noon she was removed to ia private hospital, whore she recovered consciousness for a short time and was able briefly to explain to a muagistratc whiat had happened. M. and1u Mine. Zola had returned to Paris from thoii country house at Medan. Owing to a suddon spell of cold weather the heat ing stove in their bed-room was order. ed lighted. The stove burned badly and the pipes of the stove are said to have been out of order. To the magistrate Mme. Zola ox plained that she woke early in the morning with a splitting headache. She wakened her husband and asked him to open a window. She saw lin rise and attempt to move toward a window but he staggered and fell to the floor unconscious. Mme. Zola fainted at the same moment and was, therefore, unable to give the alarm. Mine. Zola does not yet know of her husband's death, and it is feared she may suffer a relapse when informed of it. It is thought, however, that she will recover. h'le death of M. Zola, which only became generally known late in the afternoon, has caused a great sensation in Paris, and there was a constant stream of callers at the Zola residence. The servants of the Zola household, not hearing any movement in their master's apartment, entered the bed room at half-past 9 o'clock and found M. Zola lying with his head and shoulders on the floor and his logs on the bed. Doctors were sunmlone(l but they failed to resuscitate him. Mne. Zola was unconscious, but after prolonged efforts on the part, of the physicians she showed signs of life, but it was some time before she he came conscious. A slight odor of carbonic gas was noticed when the servants broke into the bedroom. From the position of M. Zola's body it was evident that he had tried to rise, but had been over come by the fumes from the detective stove. The servants immediately opened the bedroom windows and sent for physicians. A commissary of police was also summoned. It was decided that theze were evidences of suicide in the death of M. Zola. Nothing has so far developed to substantiate this theory. The statement made by Mme. Zola to the magistrate seems to dis prove it. M. Zola dined with a good appotite yesterday evening, and the servants of the household ate of the same dishes. No unuaual sound was heard from the bedroom during the night. Two httle (logs belonging to the Zoas passed the night in their master's bedroom. They were alive. it is believed they owe their lives to the fact that one slept on the bed and the other on a chair thus escaping the heavy carbonic gas, which settled niear the floor. A druggist, who was the first to ar rive at the house to attend M. Zola and his wife, said: " When I entered the bedroom, M. Zola was lying partly3 on tihe floor. M. andl Mmne Zola did not present exclusive symptoms of as phlyxiation. Their faces were contort od andl their lips5 were bloodless bu1t Inot violet colored. I think the acci. I dent was probably caused by the Zols inhaling heavy carbonic gas, which lay mainly below the level of the higi: -bed. This would account for Mine, - ola's escape. They were not suf focated on the bed. M. Zola wam awakened by the effects of thle gas and tried to rise, but he was seized witli vomiting, faInted, fell to the floor, I where he was suffocated. Mmne. Zolt also was overcome by the gas but to s less (degree than her husband." The commissary of police who wai summoned to the Zola residence sah in hIs report to the prefect of P.aris "The heating stove was not lightet I and there was no odor of gas. It il believed that M. Zola's death was duil to accidental pisoning by drugs. Tw< - little dog8 found in the bedroom ar< Salive." In the second report the commissar' of police endorsed thle medical opmnloz Sthat M. Zola's death was accidental an< L due to asphyxiation. 3 Dr. Leyrmand, who attended M 3 and Mmne. Zoia is quoted as saying ir 3 an interview that the heating stovi 3 was still warm when he entered th4 room. The prefect of Paris ordleredl thi - city architect to examine the bedroon I in which M. lola died and( has issuo< d instructions that an analysis be mad' of his blood andl of the atmosphere ii t his room. 8 M. lola had been resting from liter o) ary work since lie finished his bool called " T1he T1ruth," which is bein; e published serially in The Aurore. L- M. lola was born in Paris April 2ind e 1840. SCASTOR IA S For Inf'ants aind Children. the KInd You Have Always Bougi cit Bears the TOM DI XON'S ROM E. I Tice Aitt 11or of' *41T11e Leopar(i't Spotti'' DescrlieN Elting. tot. In the World's Work for October, the Rev. Thomas Dixon, .Jr., gives a deecription of his homa1n in which he says : The present house at Elmington was built by Dr. .lohn Prosser Tahb, flifty seven years ago, at that time the rich est and most influential mani in this county. Its walls contain the brick from the old house built im the earliest Colonial days. These walls are three feet thick. The house is three and a half stories high and contains thirty-two rooms. The hall is twenty feet wide, thirty Ilve feet deep, and from its rear circu lar wall the winding mahogany stair sweeps gracefully up three stories into the gallery of the observatory. There is not i shoddy piece of work in it from collar .to attic. The malogany rails and spindles are the llinsct finish (d handwork, the win(oi% and door sills are massive Italian marble, and the hard pine floors so evenly and smoothly laid they will hold water. 'Tie floors are laid on oak sleepers set only tell inches apart, and are back plastered and sand-ballasted. More than a hundred slaves aided the skilled workmen in its erection. Its straight, massive, square lines gave ie the opportunity to carry out my dream of the Colonial home. It only required the addition on both sides of the Greek facades and great pillars and it was done. I had men at work on the construc tion of these columns who never saw a locomotive--men of family who own their homes. And I hope they never will see one down here. I put ini a system of waterworke, with windmill for power, four bath rooms, and a coimjieto system of sower age into tidewater. An acetylene gas plant gave us finer lights than cloctri vity and for less c(uoit than city gas. \Vu rummaged through the junk shops of New York and dragged out a com plete set of uassive old brass chande liers, all over tinfy years old ini pattern, hadl them cleatedI at the factory, and thcy looked as if they were built into the house originally. Twelve rooms have open grate fires, and we secured sufficient heat for ill the space by placing two tubular 1. air furnances in the basement. Our winters are usually,so mild that roses blossom in the llower-garden in I)e comber. 1 had dreamed all this complete from the moment I saw the house. The actual doing of the things was a revelation and a liberal education. I figured on $3,000 for the job of paint ing, decorating, water, heat, and modern conveniences. The plumbing cost $2,350 and I got good value for the money. The bill aggregated $7, 600. But when it was (lone it was a joy to look at it. The effect was mas sive and dignified, and1 yet homelike and inviting. We had something to show for our money, and, what was a great deal better, we had something that would stand the test of tinie. Its great hall and grand old rooms with their lofty ceiling give meaning and dignity to daily life, and their meno ries link us in followship and synpat; to a mighty past. And we got all this for the price of nineteen feet of scorched mud in New York. FLOODS IN TFXAS. Cotton D)antagecd By The Tre iinend ous~ Ra ins. A JLouston, Texas, dispatch of Saturday says that dutriug the past 12 hours there has been a terrib)le rain fall over the whole of south andl a per ion of east Texas, which has (10n1 great dlamahge to the open cotton, washed away in numzerable small and many big bridges, (drowned cattle and caused other destruction. The small streams are reported out of their banks in every dlireCtioni and the railroads have suffered heavy dlam age to their tracks and bridges. At Kennedy it is estimatedl that 15 inches of water tell. Many people were comp)elledl to remove from their Ihomes. At Ranchio, a (i2 foot steel bridge was wrecked by the flood and carried half a mile down the stream. Several houses were washed away but their in habitants got out in safety. A great niumubor of horses were caught in,the bottoms at various poinits Iand were drowned.I Gonzales county, esp)ecial ly, su ffered heavily in this respect. The loss tc cotton cannot even be estimated, be cause of the large area affected. I'ick ing had been in progress for somt days, butt all that had not been remnov. ed from the bolle is a total loss and~ bigabeatenI into the ground. Thu ranhsthoroughly relieved the long existing dIroughit in the cattle countr along the lower coast. t Lieutenant Governor-elect Sloan haa received a great many applications foi the few appointments that come uindle his control. iIe has already dIecided upon all of his appointments and it ii useles to write to him further uipoi: the matter. The two most important ap)pointmenlts are: Journal clerk TI'imhan Bunch, and bill clerk, A. IL ihitler. Mr. Bunch, who has be001 selected for the p)ositionl of Jouirna itclerk, is a girandson of the late Gieorg4 D. Tillmnan, and is from Spartanbur1 County. Mr. liutler is the efilcien bill clerk who has occupied that plac for some time. FLIECTHICI'I'Y IN RICEl: (ULT'UI One of tire Many Chanaa Wrouiglt by the Disacovery Fuel Oil in Texas. Fuel oil has worked many stram imaprovemnents ini tihe mothod of (101 things in ''exats and Louisiana ail) the Lucas gusher " came in '' near two years ago, and it is destiuecd accomplish many more wonder changes, the latest and most striki of which has just been announced. It sounds like a fairy tale, but it b the erious approval and financial bac ing of conservative business men, il the approval and support of the Sout ern I'acilie Itailroad, and the furthc fact that $250,000 in cash is to be i vested in carying out this plan placc it on the same plano as any other gret coinnercial undertaking. The plan has as it8 object nothin more nor less than the turning of a con paratively (agriculturally) unimportai section of a Texas county into a thri ing centre of life al.d activity throug the agency of olectri,ity. Harris County is thit selected, an the industry to be dveloped is ti raising of rice on an iinat.rnso scale, al the powet to be supplied by electricity even to the flooing of the field, har vesting th. crop, milling lire rougl rice, lighting and heatimg the nuomues o farmers, supplying heat for their cook ing stoves, and supplying the power fo the transportation of the product ove a riot-work of trolley car lhnes. 1a other words alost every necussity i(an comfort of the peop!e who will b brought in to settle this country wil come to them through the agency of electricity. Fuel oil will produce steatm, whicl will operate the big central powel plant, and through its use the cost o operation will ho just about on-hal of what it would be were coal or othe fuel used, the oil liolds heing only ; sho1 t distance away and also locata on the main line of the Southern I';t cilie. . The company which will carry ou this plan is practically ready to begit work. 1-'ini,, it will equip a 10,00 acre rice plantation, which cannot b irrigated under the system of surfac canals now used, and at an expens much less thainu that at which water cal be supplied through such canals evel in the more favored sections. Wells are to be bored, til alinildanc of water being obtainable at a depth o fifty feet or less in any portion of thi rice belt, and the wator drawn and dia tributed by electrically operated pumpa Each farmer will have his own wel and will be independent. of his neiglh bors and of drought, thus insuring a uninterrupted cultivation and a coi staint.ly increasing crop of rice. A central power plant will suppl: power for the wells, rico mill, harvest ing machinery, trolley lines, warehous trucks and equipment, lights for th plantation roadways, stores and dwel ing houses, aind, possibly, heat in wil ter time, as well as the means for cool ing all the year around. Thus will be solved practically ai the problems of domestic economy i the rural districts of Ilarris Count3 and if the big project proves a finar cial success tire plan will be 'rxt,cudec to all p)arts of tire rice h,eit, for it claimred that not onl1il li it lessenr tih coat of operating irice planitationsr to very app)r-eciab)le degree, but wvill br-in int,o tire rice zoine of these two Stat,< aany throusandl of arcr-es of high] prodluctivo land(s not niow arvaiable f< cultivat,ion. It is proposedl to lease tire lanads tire Hiarris Cournty plhantartioars to sma farmers, all wvoi-king indepenrdenrti wvhile yet, amainrtaininrg a comunaity < interest betweeni them. Prof. Kanpp, p)residenmt of thre N ional ILice G rowea-a' Association, wik has just closed an rampor-taant session i New Orleanrs, has lonrg held that a soll tronr of the costly system of canrai irr-ig ion-receiving wvater supprly fro rivers and bayous-will be follow< b)y an inicrearse of 100 per cenit. in ti rice output withini five years. Thue meni whio air-e behiand the pri)4 revolurtion in the plaan of i-ice cult,iv tiou assert that the cloctricali maet,h< of p)umpinig from wells compilete solves tire econromic questioar amnd in decade ill eniable .Louisian)a andi( TexI to surpply a lar-ge p)ortionI of tire ri4 produact of tire world. CourNTnYur S~CHiO(aL loma..;M%. - Thalit our rurali schrools are failures ' a certain extenrt is self-evident,. 01 far-mers are abandoninrg their count ironies, goimg to towvn iln ordIer to edl cat.e there cildrenr. Is their anrythrn in nrature or counatry enrvironment L,h hlind(ers tire caruso of edlucation anrd pr vents the intellectual developmenrt youth? If so, tire wvorld las been sl< in making this discovery. In~ fact, t haistory of tire ages refutes t,his theor Our Creator p)lacedi maun inr a garde in close r-elat,ionr with anture and t, soil. Here he hras ever founid t most favorarble conditions for iap niess and symmetrical dlevelopment. our schrools are failures the fault is c own. Natrure and environment ha ever favoredl tire rural school. C himitartions are advantages. Suaper dents of city schools admit tis facet, JCfliza4beth 1). Abernaathy! in Srv F iarm-Mayujzine. I Columbia has a rich nad arcy- a satlon over tihe rep)ort.ed arriage e x-Alderman Schmidt, who sanys lae t nhot married while tire girl's famaly r that he 18. it, seems that hre claims have bean u,idoped." E. A. State Jicealu of t titjji an. es Inf'orma1tioll 1Bad1y WN"1terl. ot A. Kohn In Nowe anmt Court or. South Carolina seems to be absolute ly 11(1 lhopolossly without aiiy orgnutiz~ go Lion that will work to securo a <esir ng able class of farmers. There is n, co literature available that will givo th, ly legitimate Information that is beinl to asked for almost every (lay, and thi ul General Assembly years ago killed the ig (opartment of agilculturo that gav such information and attended to suci as matters, without making any provisior k- that the work should be attended to h3 id any one elseo. I. At the recent meeting of the Statc 1r board of (iuai'.ition lemilbers of tht bonid from various counties stated that a farm lands wore getting to be lesH valuable, becauso tho farm labor was Ieavig and was going into the cotton mills. That, it would seom1, would all g the more emphasize the necessity for i a proper effol t to secure desirable im migrants. The following is a type of the letters that are received here upon the subject: New York, September 22, 1902. His s Excellency, the Governor of South Carolina--Dlear Sir: Referring to our letter we some time ago took the liberty of writing to you about lands in your State, and as we have since tried to interest some of our fcountrymein to settle there and con Ience farming on a high scale, and we have really succeeded so far that two very prominent and highly educat. ed fariers from Finland came over here in ,July last to personally investi 'ate the prospects and conditions in South Carolina. They then took simples of soils and plants with them, aint they now seem to be very well satistied with their investigations so r far. We, a coulde of (days ago, had a f letter from one of them, in which ho I says that it, is his intention after a r couple of m11ontlhs to return here again, 1 and that liu most probably will bring a I couple of higlh-tan(Ilig faiiers with him to comliplete the iivestigation. But >efore he goes any further he asked us t to infornl-,hii iaIbout several matters 1 that he duinks aire iocesslry to know before they cnclude ; am111ong other thimgs they have asked about is if foreigners are allowed to buy 1111(1 own 111nd in South Carolina? 1 We surely thiuik it is their intention to become citizens, but your Excel lency knitows that it takes some time, and they wish to start their farning t at o((ce, they still being foroigneis. 'They woil Id also like to know if there . is any literature to he had about eulti vation, etc., the nlature of you crops l and the different products of your - State, such as cotton, sugar cane, to bacheco, sweet andl([ 1 rish potatoels, wheat, b<irley, oats, the different kinds of grasses ani clover, andl also reliable statistlic about the telperature, the .-rmns auid if you have droughts, etc. L) As we found that you showed in e terest in the 1m ter whe'.n" we lai:t virotc . to you, aniid as We surely think it is of interest to your Stito, we agaill dare to in rtt(l u1 ,n1 y"tu t.ln e, lultd We :shall be very thankftul for all the informna - I tion you caln possilhe give. Mtst re ni sp+etfully your huiblu servants, llo111I ( 11(1 & (o. -About thie only informlationl that the d a1pphlCanmts will ho able to get will he a froim those who1. reaudinug the le(tter (~will (e he( in13terestedl ini5(3 seuing the' partieli a anid sell them lands. El). McIKISSICK( DEAJ). iIe wasI one of theit Mlot l)ce f servedly P'opular oumig Meni I in ihe' Soitih. G eiiial Ed McKissic's 0-2 It seems hard for those who knew huim to realhize ~.thaut he is noe more , that lie hils pallssed 1h from the worl's stage. hit it is true. n The (3nd( came1W suddenlly and1( uneixpect.. cde(ly, t.he( young man being (:ut, down m the flo,wer of his~ mailino. A talent.ed fellow, with winning manniers, he0 when dbarely of age determined to (do what ,few men have ever donew becomie ai piromiiienit man1 ini the couniitry through the miumlii of the hotel1 busimess. That h le suiceded is shown by3 t,he tact that (he was known theO country over andl ythat ho niumiibored amonig his personal a friends hundioredls of the m10ostdis.. timg.uished men in America. 11 e was Sa past master in the art of ent1ertaiin mnt, and1 many a person will h eau of his death with sincere :egret In seemis that Mr. McKlissick had1( recenitly beeni at Tiate Springs, TPenn., ,o and went with a party of friends to ir Norfolk, Va., where he was comininuig ybusiness with pleasure, beinig a moem u- ber of a bunting party. lIe died suj. gdenly Suinday miorinmg of apoplexy at about 11 o'clock, shortly after ho had e. breakfasted. of Mr. Mcissick was a son of the late iW Col- 1. 0. McK isem:k, of Union, one of 30 th10 typIcal South Carolina gentlemen y. of the( old school. Hlis mother sur n,vives himn, being at present oii a visit so to relatives at JIonesvillo. iIe loaves he. also two brothers, Mr. A. Foster Mc. )i. Kissiek, puresident of the Grendel Cot. jj ton nills at Greeniv'ood, whbo went to ur Norfolk Sunday morning i and Mr. ye ,J. I. Mcl(issick, at present a stuodent ur at the South Carolina college in Co. n. hunmbia. IIe leaves also a sister, Mrs E. Enest IIarry, of Elberton, Ga.. rn, Ed I'- MeK ssick wais about 85 year of age. iIe was a page in $he Genera A.ssembihly when his father was a mem hor of that body, and as a boy mad n- maniy friends in all part.s of the State of Hoe entered the South Carolina colleg is ab)out 1884 and remained for- a coupl ay of years, when he left and becam to trav(eling agent for the Charlostot News and Courier. In this capacit lr. lMcIRCsik travelc(i over the entire buatue wrti, as well as attending to butiueis for hia piaper, and making tru,ns y thi e Score wherever ie went. lie was thrown in contact with many 'rolinl t lneu, and some of them ioally iuduced l to resign his posi. tiomi an( go to Aslhevill. 1Io did so, be -c:olil g clerk at the Battery Park hotel which huu just hea built. This was ) abIot 18(). lie sooll becalue asist.ant imanager under the Coca regisn and then n ,nager of the hotel and, finally, solne years ago, leased the big hotel himself and has since run it With ark ed success. rom tho first his Capacity as a hotel manager vas manifetel and it was not long before ld MeKissicks name was known all over the country as that of an ideal host. lie knew Overybody of prominence, and they knew him and liked him. Few uol. of his age over become as widely kiown and as popular as Ed McKissick. Big hearted, generous, courteous and brighit lie was charming company at all times. He was always a picture of health. Mr. McKissick never married Illi death will be a distinct 'oss to the city of Asheville. TILE STATE'S COI4LEG14 FOR TliI, NEGRO1 4. Annual Report of The lBoarl of TruMtecm of The Orailgebu)1rg School. lelow is given the annual report of the Board of Trustees of the State Col ored college at Orangoburg, which has been sent to the State superintendent of education for incorporation in his annual report to the general assembly: To the Ion. J. J. McMahan, State Superintendent of Education of South Carolina The Board of Trustees of the Co:or ed Normal, Iudustrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina respectfully submit the fol lowing report through you to the Gen eral Assembly of South Carolina: We herewith submit the report of the jresident of the college, embody ing the acadomic, normal and indus trial departments, showing that good, solid work is being done, harmonious efforts being expended by all con cerned. ''he industrial department is scoring a signal success, the line exhibit of the tilustries securing a gold medal at the South *Carol inn Inter-State and West ludiani Exposition. No 'otter work of its kind is being done anywhere. Thore wore 30. industrial studies pur sued last year out of an enrollment of d2-1 studenlts, thus showing that each student has at least one or more trades o: lidustries. The students that leave this school will be self-sustaining and not parasites on the body politic. Tiho farm continues to make a good showing. Farmer's institutes were held in lC counties this year to the edification of white and black. Ex perinits still continue on the farm with various kinds of cotton and corn - -and especial attention was given this year to prolific green stock foed ing plaiits with success, The health of the student body con tinuts to comparo most favorably with mo10st any similar institution. $5,940. -17 have beon expended on the now brick ndustrial building-it will re aiuire about $5i,000 additional to finish and place the miachinory in the build img. A steamt heating plant has been in stalled ini Merrill hail at a cost of s:,J00, wvhich adds much to the safety of then building and the health~ anid comfort of the students. T1hie p)residlent's report ehows the re ceipts and disbursemotnts for the year, ain itomizedl account of which has been fliled with the State Superintendent of le.ducaitioni, and is always subject, to in spection. Th e presidet's ropjort likewise shows the itemized needs of t,he masti tuitioni necessary to continue the con.. struction in hand and to run the insti tution, viz . A n15o1, 1iTI. N IEDs. Current expenses (approxi mated--last year's figures) $4,468.34 Incidental expenses (last year's figures) - - - - 1,254.31 I.urnishings im(iustries (last year's figures) - - - - 1,997.62 Insurance------ ---1,00.00 I.'hysician andl clerical service 800.00 Fire-proof vault - - - - 800.00 $10,820.2? Salaries t.eaching force - - 19,500.00. $23,320.27 Iteduced by income, etc - - 18,315,15 Absolute needs - - - - 5,00542 To complete and equip new industrial building - - 6 ,000.00 State appropriation needed $10,005.12 Thus it. will be setin, as has been claimed, that the institution can be run on a State appropriation of $5,000 annually when .the buildings in pro cess of construction are complete, but we need $5,000 to complete the build ings in process of erection, and we can earnestly request your honorable bodies to appropriate $10,000 this year in order that this work can be completed and .the institution be ,placed on the basis the trustees and president have been striving for since its establishment. A storm t,his summer damaged the roof of ihe, new industrial building i several hundred dlollars on account of its unfinishedl state. 3 Mine. Pat tie and Mmne. Nordica met a by chance the other (lay at St. Marltz, i Switzerland, andl renewed acquaintanoq i of bygone days.