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THE GSUrJTY REGgD. Published Every Thursday ?AT? WNQSTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?BI? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. The Australasian Commonwealth lias iuiroilui-etl a bill in Parliament which prohibits admission into Australia of ::nv person "1111:1511; to write a fifty-word tes: from Kuglish dictation." It is already provided that no immigrant shall he admitted who is likely to become a burden on the public purse or who within three years lias been convicted of a nonpolitical offence. The educational qualification is designed to effectively exclude Chinese and other undesirable immigrants. Our own Congressional Record must look to its laurels and hurry up if it is not to be surpassed by the parliamentary record of the youngest State iD the world. In the first five weeks of the session of the Australian parliament enough speeches were made to fill 5S0 closely printed pages, and as the Australians have not learned the triek of "leave to print." this means that every word in those 580 pages were spoken during the -sessions. \Ye ran fancy soiue enemy of the speaker saying: God of the southern winds, call up Thy gales And whistle in rude fury 'round his c;; -s. The Klondike is already feel in? the evil effects of forest denudation. Since the discovery of gold there the sparsely timbered hills of the district have been stripped of all tree growth to fill the extraordinary demands for fuel in mining operations and other purposes. The hills for many miles around all of the productive creeks are now bare, and the ground being thus exposed the snow accumulated during the winter quickly melts in the early summer. This year there has been an early and prolonged drought in consequence and the prospective output of gold has been reduced front $:5U.000.000, the original estimates, to $-0.OOO.OOO. because of the lack of water to wash the auriferous earth. There is in Lower California a strange colony of which the outside world rarely hears. It is made up of outlaws, and some of the most notorious escaped criminals have taken refuge in it. They live in a strange, rugged stretch of country, with the tlulf of California on one side and a range of foothills which spread down toward the Mexican border on the other. There arc no ports at this point on the coast of California, and no railroads reaching in front the oilier direction, so the men are completely isolated. They are practically prisoners. because they dare not venture out. but no effort has ever been made to disturb them in their chosen refuge, though they have l<rou congregating there for years. In a little handbook on journalism recently issued is a paragraph which every journalist should paste iu his hat: "Don't belittle your calling. Hespect the profession of journalism. Place it on a high pedestal, and do all vmi can to keen it there. Be a gentle man at uil times anil at all places. People like to give news to gentlemen. Mothers like to welcome clean, reputable young journalists to their homes. Young newspaper men are in demand. Journalism is the great profession of the future, the great money-maker of the coming century, Rich men are always looking for bright, clean, rcJjp spec table young men for their daughters. Reporters are the coming editors aud publishers and newspaper owners. First let the young reporter acquire ability and respectability, sobriety and frugality, and he can choose a wife who will bring him all the money he wants to get into business, with if he shows the required bu.siuess capacity." The new Italian >u1>marine war vessel D elfin o is said to have proved a success in her recent triai>. She is provided Kvith a clcptoscope, a new device, for reflecting to the crew below a brood view cf the -it-face of the water. SEX, NATIVITY AND COLO?. Figures Given Cut in Cenrus Report O.j Population. Washington. Special.?The final ' census report on the population of the United States by sex. nativity and color. was issued Friday, it shows that the males number C9.050.242, or 51.2 per cent, of the total population in 1900. The increase of 13.233,031 in total population since 1J-90 is made up of C.744.179 males and C.G4S.S7C females, an increase of 20.0 of males and 21.1 of females. The foreign-born element increased only 12.4 per cent., and the native born population 22.5 per cent since 189ft. As to color and race, the population in 1900 conipi ises 0G.99ft.S02 white persons and 9.312.555 colored persons, the latter comprising S.S40.7;9 persons of negro descent. The colored element as a whole shows an increase of 17.8 per cent, since 1890. The colored element constituted 12.2 per cent, of the total population in 1900. as against 12.5 per cent, in 1890, the negro element alone representing of the total population 11.6 per cent, in 1300, and 11.9 per cent, in 1S90. These figures show a loss, therefore, of three-tenths of one per cent. In the proportion of persons of 1 ? a i ? 1QAA qo /- /-?m n* rfvl Utjfcru UVSlCUl 111 uu w?.r? ? with 1890, and a corresponding increase in that for the whites. The white population shows an increase since 1890 of 11,824,618 or 21.4 per cent, and the colored element as a whole 1,401,901, or 17.8 per cent. There has been an increase during the past ten years in persons of negro descent of 1,352,001, or 1S.1 per cent., and in Japanese of 71,587, or 497.2 per cent. The Chinese, on the 1 other hand, show a loss since 1S90 of 7.728, or C.l per cent., while the In- i dinus have decreased from 273.607 in. i 1890 to 266.760 in 1900, equivalent to a loss of 2.5 per cent. The figures for Virginia are 925,897 j males, 928.287 females; foreign born i 199.461: total white 1.192.855: native i white 1.173.7S7; total colored, 6G1,- i 239. 1 The President's Southern Policy. Washington. D. C.. Special.?Attorney General Knox made a verbal re- i port to the President and cabin-":, regarding the result of his investigation ( I into tho Pacific cable question. His , conclusion was that under the lav/ of j 186<i any domestic company could land | a cable on the shores of the Unite 1 States or of its possessions. The < President and cabinet were convicted j by the verbal report that no executive i action is called for at this time. The question of Southern appointments, generally, again came up and the President reitoratc-d his policy of ap- ( pointing "tepublicans, if suitable applicants could be found, and if not of ^ appointing gold Democrats. His poll- < cy in this respect meets the approval ( of the cabinet. The appointment of ? Dr. Clayton to the collectorship or in- r ternal revenue in South Carolina was considered in this connection. ( Episcopal Convention. ( San Francisco. Special.?The feature ( of Tuesday's session of the Triennial ( Episcopal Convention was the consid- I eration and defeat cf what is ltnown | 3 as the Huntington amendment to the -1 constitution, which was adopted by 1 the house of deputies yesterday, pro ' riding for the use c! modified form3 of * worship by congregations willing to f accept the spiritual oversight of a v bishop. An error was discovered in c recording the'vote of a delegation which had been in favor of the amendment whereas a poll showed that they were opposed to the measure. This led c to a demand for a reconsideration of t yesterday s vote. The vote on re'*on- t S'deration resulted as follows: Aye. o clerical, 2^: lay, l s: no. clerical, ii: ] lay, 12: divided, clerical, 12: lay S. a The united vote of the lay delegates of t each order being required the amend- 1 merit was o ideated. 1 V $160,000 Fire in St Louis. < St. Louis. Special.?Fire destroyed the building and contents of the St. Louis Cereal Sugar Company here early Friday morning. The loss is estimated r at $150,000. The St. Louis Candy Com- J pany was also damaged by smoke and :1 water about $10,000. ^ Texas to Prosecute Oil Companies. Dallas. Tex.. Special.?The State of Texas is starting prosecutions against t fraudulent oil companies .More than t one hundred companies of that class ? i-old millions of dollars of worthless " stock in the early stages of the t Beaumont boom. The suits will be f tried at Austin, where the Travis county grand jury is now investigat- 1 ing. 9 A Wreck on the Norfolk & Western. Roanoke. Va.. Special.?In a wreck on the Norfolk & Western road, near \ Dublin, Va.. Frank I>avender, p. lire- g man on the Cripple Creek passenger t engine, met a horrible death. While r running from Pulaski to Dublin his C engine crashed into another engine nt- t tached to the rear of a freight train i which was standing on the main lir.e. \ Both engines wrro badly wrecked and I Fireman Lavender, whoso Lgs were s caught by falling coal from the en- a gine's tender, was scalded to death by j steam. Hanging from the-c.ib window he begged piteou. lv lor help, but I * bystanders were, powe rless to aid him j owing to the fast escaping steam. s STEAMER FIKED ON. Scut'i Americans Taking Liberies With ti;c British Lion. ONE BALL WENT THROUGH THE SHI? England Will <>end a War Vessel to Protect her Interests? Some Com piwuuiia riuuiuit, Colon, Colombia. By Cable.?(Previous cabling of this matter prevented.! A force cf Liberals, numbering at least 250, attacked Morro Island, commanding the entrance to the port of Tumaco, September 24. The island had all along been garrisoned with fewer than a hundred troops, well supplied with arms, ammunition and commissary stores, including mere than 150 head of cattle and other provisions in proportion. The landing was effected before daybreak by means of canoes. Simultaneously the island was stormed from the other end by Liberals on the mainland. Morro Island is surrounded by shallow sand banks and the only means of approaching Tumaco is by the narrow river which is within easy reach of the island. The British steamer Quito, bound from Guayaquil, Ecuador, Panama and touching at ports between, anchored To 1 a n #1 nn Y> n i t Af Qon. iMi .uuuu loiauu, uii iuu uigui, vi uvj/ teraber 26, and weighing anchor at daybreak, started up the stream toward Tumaco. The Liberals fired a shot across her bows. Suspecting the situation, she immediately turned, but rifle shots and one cannon continued to be fired at her. the former striking her several times and latter once, the ball making a hole right through her above the watermark, though the damage in other respects was slight. The Quito then steamed to the farthest point the tide would permit and again anchored. The firing was now resumed, but it quit after a few minutes, the Liberals seeing the imprudence of their action. It is significant that shortly after the Quito incident became known, the British warship Icarius left Panama ror a destination not made public, but presumably Tumaco. The steamship agents have been officially notified not to accept freight at that port. The situation on the isthmus is unchanged and quiet. Street Car Collision. Atlanta. Special.?Two cars on the Consolidated Street Railway were in ollision at the corner of Fair and iVashington street Sunday evening, inuring eighteen people. Both care were rowded and were under considerable leadway. on a down grade, when the/ net. The injured are: Motorman W. P. laddy. serious: II. S. Johnson, presilent of the Chamberlain-John-Duboise Company; .Miss Lumpkin, Motormen J. \V Shaw, Conductor P. D. Alexaaler. Conductor J. R. Finch. Mrs. W. B. ,ove, Mrs. \V. A. Love, Helen Bagley. tfrs. F. E. Bagley. Mrs. Eva Dempsey, drs. Shoa. Thomas Lamar. Stuart iVcod sou. Frederick Fester. Frank 1 Jtonakia. John Ke'chrrsky, Sister Mary 'eter, John Joseph's infirmary. All are rom Atlanta excepting Miss Lumpkin. ! vhose home is in Columbus, Ga. The | < ars were off schedule. j $16,000,000 Improvements. Pittsburg. Special.?It is announced m good authority that H. C. Fink anu ( he MH'.oei interests, composing the *n!on Steel Company, will build at ( rnee a $200,000 plant at Dcnora, on the . Jonongahcla river, to make broom , iiid mattress wire anu u.ui-i apvi <?>ies. The Matthews Woven Wire ( "ence Company, controlled by the ( "cic-n Company, will build a woven r.ire fence to cost Si00.OCR) with To Urs ; r 11 y capacity and the company will , ouble the capacity of the barbel wire | lepartnient by installing 32 machines. , Utogether the present outlay will each $500,000 and future improve- ] nents which the Union Steel Compaiy has in view will cost between $10.- t 00.000 aiul $18,000,000. i Great Aspen Tunnel Completed. ! Salt lake. Special.?The great As- i >on tunnel, on the Leroy-Eear river ' at ofT of the Union Pacific Railroad, \ vas completed Tuesday night and : rains will be running over the new ! oute next Sunday. The tunnel has i >een two years in the course of con- i truction and cost over $3,000,000 1 i Killed in Luzon. Washington, D. C., Special.?The Van Department, received a cablegram ? e Umflay announcing that Second Lieu- i enant Aiiem i. urocKeii wuj> ku.cu i *. lear Candeiaria, Luzon, September 24. J 'rockett was appointed a second lieu- j emant of volunteers in June of 1909. laving entered the regimena as a pri- , ate, and was sont to the Philippine * elands. In 1901 he was appointed a v eoond lieutenant in the regular army 1 nd assigned to the Twenty-first In- s antry. Ha was on duty with t!ic loran scouts from December, 1900 to r P lugust last, and met his death while r crving hi? regiment. o TO .MAKE IT GENERAL !|jj C-'icAc Superintendent's Plan For Uniformity in Reports. Qq State Superintendent c<f Education McMahnn. is cndeavoiing to have the county superintendents inaugurate in each county of the State the plan for ... the training of the teachers that has born fo successfully put in operation in Richmond by Supt. Wallace. Th Mr. .VcMahan ha3 issued tbe follow- . ins circular letter which is being sent :o every county superintendent of education in the State, and which is published in order that the teachers may 1 th* so ner get a full explanation of for what Is expected of them: jou Dear Sir:?In order to assist the Lei teachers in putting into operation the Ho course of study?especially in follow- See ing the suggestion as to classification. Ho programme and primary work, it on' would be well if you could provide for rec them some sort of systematic instruc- ^c' sei tion throughout the school year on ^ on Saturdays, once or twice a month, to ror begin at once. This system has been wit inauguarated in several counties, the wh superintendents and their boards being err anxious to bring all the schools into a thi weil organized system, well graded, and bee well taught. These teachers to whom nol the county seat is accessible are met Lie there on one Saturday in each month, of other groups of teachers are instructed me at other points in me country iuum we accessible. For instance: In Richland car county, at the initial meeting in Co- Lei lumbia last Saturday, thirty-five teach- the ers were present; next Saturday Supt. cei Wallace and his assistants will meet tha the teachers in the lower part of the del county at Eastover. and the following doi Saturday they will meet the teachers C in the upper part of the county at Coj Camp Ground?three groups for this ed county. Here the teachers are being On instructed in arithmetic, English and wh l^andon's "Teacing and Ciass Manage- car ment." Special atteaticn is given to ten the problem af grading the schools, tirr arranging the daily programme, and ly keeping the smaller children profitably of occupied. Thi Six meetings should be required of ing each group of teachers between now off and the close of the school year. The Jy ] work should begin this month. The bor law requires that the new books be out used as each school now opens and the pos graduation be made as prescribed in she the course of study pamphlet by the un< State beard. Evecy school must con- I. fnrm nn<i at the end of the sessiou Sch we are to report to the legislature the boa number of Children in each grade in 0ffi each county. boa Regular teachers"maetingsflroaer the the authority of the county hoard not only the assist the teachers in the organization Jul and management cf fheir schools as wit well as in the better mastc;y of certain "ag branches o? study, but bring them un- beii der the direction of the county super- Slla intendent where he can instruct them of I iu the proper keeping of school regis- wh( ters and rendering of the reports ru- eoa quired, so that hereafter the statistics ^ of the county will be more accurate tosi and the county superintendent can (.ha make his annual report with oompara- Df ( live ease. The schools ot a county are a3 , thus brought into a system, and the 0bj, teachers feel the helpful stimulus of 0f contact with co-workers, all having ]ect more definite ends in view. Another grc benefit is that we follow up the in- the struction of the last summer school not and prepare for that of the next? solI avoid the loss.of spasmodic effort and c build up.the teachers by continuous Wb< instruction, net only theoretical but practical. hen While I have not vet assurance of aft" the funds to compensate the instructors ^g that will be needed to assist you. I par can promise to reimburse them for the 0(j ( necessary expenses of travel, etc.. I am tha sure that all progressive educators arc jyj, ?o interested in this work that in your the country as elsewhere they will gladly jnt( contribute their services. hea (1) Will your hoard approve the plan bow ind adopt a rule that th? teachers ^e .Kton.) ot thp nincps designated iv t )> the county superintendent and .shall <5^ Jo the work as required? t,lrf (-') if so. would you approve the fol- m(n lowing named as your assistants? 0 l-'i) Can you obtain their sorivces quei .ipon the terms stated in this letter? t;ie' Von - . ill appreciate the need of hav- ..1 ing similar instruction given to your js y negro teachers. In some of the conn- ..j ties competent negro instructors have deep secured. Can you not find such 1 negro instructor for the negro teach- o;.lt ?rs of your country? If he only in- W1, structs them in keeping the statistics wa^ equired in the "registers and in mak- wag ng a proper report to you. it would elieve you of the innumerable annoy- for inces from which, when you come to m,_ ?? lilt ll nake your report to this office, you inf, low suffer. .??] cure New Enterprises. jmp( The secretary of State last week kinc rranted a charter to the Bowling Green was <nitting mills of Bowling Green. York jn t ounty. The capital stock of the com- \\ wnv is to be $15,000. The officers ace lunc I\ J. Patrick, president, and Kobt. M. said Julin. secretary and treasurer. posi A charter was also granted to the vera dullins Building company of Mulli.u. <an apitalized at 55,000. The officers arc V. H. Daniel. president: G. H. Yar- r>n8 >ors, vice president, and M. M. Boyd, ecretary and treasurer. P?si' A commission was issued to the Pal- en* uctto'Drug company of Union which iroposes to do a general wholesale and t:Vf^ etail drug business on a capital sto.k ronr t $3,000. ? ^, we 1 - fiehl roNI GET THE NEWS vernment Sought To Establish That Schley Bad Been Notified c (jLE'S DISPATCH NOT DELIVERED. e Ship's Record Shows That They Vere Too Far Out to Rcccgiizr Signals From the Shore. Vashington. D. C., Special.?Just bee the Schley court of inquiry adrned Thursday Judge Advocate At mly introduced Lieutenant J. H. lden, formerly watch officer on the )rpion, as a witness. Lieutenant lden signed the entry in the Scorpis log, giving the particulars of the eipt of a message for Commodore lley from the Eagle, which that v?shad brought from Captain Mr.Ciila May 19. 1898, when the flying squadl, then bound for Cienfuegos. fell in .h Captain McCalla's sub-squadron. 1/iV a. V *vaa ucku juoi ltrit luttt puru -lie goviment had sought to show that by s message Commodore Schley had m notified that the Spanish fleet was t in the harbor of Cienfuegos, and mtenant Commander Southerland. the Eagle, had testified that he had gaphoned to the Scorpion that there re only a torpedo boat and several inopierios in that harbor. Captain mly told the court that the log of i Scorpion did not show that the rept of the message in this form and it there was no evidence to show the ivery of the message to Commo e Schley. >ther witnesses were Lieutenant umander W. H. acnuetze, who servon the Iowa, and Lieutenant A. W. int. who was on the Massachusetts, o testified concerning the g?n?ral npaign of the flying squadron. Lieuant E. F. Leipner couciuded his teslony begun yesterday. Captain Lcmasked him concerning the blockade Santiago by Commodore S hley. e witness said the vessels were ly: in column from six to eight miles shore. At night they steamed slowback and forth in front of the liar 800 yards apart. They were so far . the witness said, that it was imsibie to distinguish point* on the ire or to determine where the shore ? met the water line. .ieutenant oramander Wm. !f. uetze, who was a member of th?? ird of navigation which prepared the cial chart of the positions of the ird of navigation which prepared official chart of the positions of vessels enaaeed in the batt!? of y 3. said he had not been satisfied h the report. "I protested." he said. ;ainst the signing of the report as ng inaccurate, but I was finally perded to do so by the senior member the board. Commander Yv'jinwright. j thought that was tile best we Id do even if we stayed there until y msday and I signed it under prot. My first obje tion was that the rt was inaccurate: that ihe position the Iowa was plotted on this chart giving h^r too much rpeed. Another ection I had was the initial position the Brooklyn whri the Spaniards the harbor. I contended that the oklyn's position was tco clos> to mouth of the harbor: that sho was in her regular position. She was th of it." aptain Lemly: "I want you to state ?n you saw the Texas?" When I first saw the Texac she was ding to the eastward of north. Soon rwaril 1 noticed her again and she i heariel to the westward and apently lying dead in the water. I ra'l-. , I'aptain Evans' attention to the fact t. she was in our way; that she was ig dead in the water and cautioned captain that we would probably run her if we kept on the way we wei?ding. She was then on our port r. We were trying to gf" close into harbor and steamed at first director the mouth of the harbor. As the niards turned to the westward we ted in the same direction and in this re we were hindered by the Texas." 11 cross-examination Mr. Rayner itioned the witness in reference to official chart. ft'hy did not yon state. 'This chart rcng and I will not sign it?' " did." Then why did you sign?" Becausce I was persuaded by the ;r witnesses of the board that that the best we could do and thpy ted to come to an agreement. That a compromise." rhen really this chart was signed the purpose otx oming to an agre?t and not for the purpose of showany accurate results, was it?" rhe board was ordered to show aeite results, but it was an absolute OSSlDlllty 10 niaKC a ruau ui luai 1 showing accurate faults. There never a chart drawn of any battle he world that is correct." 'hen the court re-convened after heon Lieut. Commander Sehuetz? he had seen no evidence of a distion on the part of any of Ceri's ships to ram any of the Axe-ivessels. Y the court: "Was your position duthe battle of July J? sucii as to enyou to observe clearly the relative tions and movements of the diff?rships?" Co. sir. I never observed tlie relapositions of ail the ships on a<it of the smoke and the attention vere paying to our own ship ::i tl.e L".