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\' -p * Reform in Edu Bj^ Professor Eliot, Pre all know* that there is 110 W secondary schools, neither the secondary school and t be one. But there is an epoch? is determined, and this is g|H| velopment of the child liai 999999 the growth of the flower I believe that the line know* of in the whole pre the child had best go away rropi its not found that the moral character of its ; Jfeloped at the age of eighteen. That ag from home. Don't we know what changes really the order of the subjects taught in the objects from the ages of six to eight School to-day is positively bad: that 1 <Any child of nine can master any dom an observation subject such as botany, ferred to the age of fourteen. We a todies down into the primary grades, aore than they now are. I , Every child in the whole country c H * language and observation studies. The fact that certain studies are held bacl the High School course to six years wo sr> x JCS 46 The Uses of C< By Charles A. Conant. m a HE discovery was made property or a new ente * _ W visibility by putting the I shares. The creation < H I a capital of individuals t( M ff essary to build factorie m JP an undertaking among prise beyond the accid giving it a fictitious bod To give mobility to the shares thus ci ItaVe a market. It would be comparativ ?hares if there were no means of transf to hand. Therefore, a market for the si prises is one of the vital necessities of Ctorded by the stock exchange. The fat chased by people who go into it in a f it* purposes and who are incapable of Hrhlcb dominate it. is no reason for trenl t>ody politic. Railways have not been ever men occasionally and kills them: t a??a AAooolnn ollr oiicnanHc nnH if onlforhj . tion would never have been enacted in ther countries for stamping out or ham produce markets.?The Atlantic. ? The Distinctive I of On 'By Justice David J. Bi * "***^HOUGHTFUL men. the world of our constitution and systei It becomes more apparent tha f tut ion is its judicial system. Not in the mere fact of a jud: our Anglo-Saxon inheritance! thig country executive, legis functions were in existence, given to the Supreme Court, uniqn of States, which, thou M^remacy of a Nation, were continued itependent authority. We call ours a Federal system of go Is a Nation <abd States within and a par ? * national affairs and in foreign relatloi purely local interest of the separate . republic as a nation possessed in its vels & > the essential attributes of nationality, y press as the legislative l)ody of the nat affairs of the smallest village in any St as supreme as though they were not inte This creation of a new nation with fcbsolute control over national affairs ar States having a like absolute contr aaunlties within their limits, would, in persies between the Nation and the Stal knatters. That such disputes might Ik pendent tribunal, and so the constitutlo that court were given vast powers.?Fn States," In Scribner's. JZ? A We Can All H? I .ife Pleasan m a *#?>? i By Margaret Stowe. 0HE question that is nat help to make life more influence and no time.' As far as your unc fectly true, but "wait on and let us take up the < You have influence people every minute ol fluenee derived from p the power you have in your thought wo Begin bv looking out from withlu foi tul, or gloomy and dull? You can m world such as will have the power. th< and uplift. It is good to see on every side evide Jilag to realize the power of thought ai they are a help in the world. * - . .In this strenuous life of ours we ne( V cheer, happiness and contentment that ?ejer hi lues to uo so. The main stumbling block to man your own interests that you can think ol be a hindrance. "It is the ignorant man who seeks greater whole. It is the ignorant man. i truly wise man is never selfish." The question of time, or no time, is time telling friends about your aches i *ray. do one wants to. hear about, why and happiness? Instead of fussing and worrying ove: Office why not send out to everybody st; Think of others who are tired and Iqr your cheerfulness aud kindness. You tor it Is by giving that we receive. 'l'ry ims a wee.i anu see 11 juu are a flense, and it is demonstrable. In the degree that you are kind and the lives of those around you. In the d< "Thoughts are forces. Each create! ?fllth the effect that corresponds to itself So if you want love, happiness and < happiness and contentment, for like attn ?f malice, criticism or worry, those vc U And consequently breed weakness. Think over the fact that thoughts : flive is unlimited.?New York American. ~ V-' \ ^ T'v4' ' i L" cation. sldent of Harvard University real line between the elementary and is there a definite distinction between he colleges. The whole process should a period-at which the child's character based on natural history, for the de5,in it just as much natural history as of the field. is this, and that it is the only line I icess of education; it is the age when ne for its education. Our country has vouth has been Drettv thorouelilv de e is a good one to take the child away need to be made? The change is in High School and the order of all the :een. Don't we know that the High the study of languages is erroneous? estic or foreign language, and so also Yet the study of these subjects is de,re beginning to get the observation but we have got to get them there aight to have a chance to attack the hindrance to this system lies in the i for High School study. Increasing uld be a distinct help. 7 jS7 srporatio&s. : long before our time that a pteee of rprise could be given mobility and dititle of its ownership into transferable of share eomoanies enables the small > be gathered into the large funds necs and railways. It divides the risk of many persons, and places the enterents of a single human existence by ly dowered by law with perpetual life, reated. it Is necessary that they should ely useless to divide an enterprise into erring these 'shares readily from hand hares and bonds issued by such entertheir creation. Such a market is af?t that the stock market is sometimes gambling spirit, who know nothing of understanding the mighty influences :ing it as a harmful excrescence on the abolished because a locomotive runs tanks have not been abolished because tonorf <ndfrmonf- hod lu>an lackln. Germany and seriously considered in1 pering the operations of the. stock and 7 Feature ir Constitution rewer. over, have not been lacking in praise n of government. As the years go by t tho distlnetivp fpnturp nf flip eonsti with the Supreifae Court at its head, leial system, for courts were a part of Indeed, long before the settlement of lative, and judicial departments and But the significance is in the powers and given in a Republic formed by a gh surrendering some of the absolute In possession of a large amount of invernment. It is Federal because there t of that Nation?a Nation supreme in as, and yet powerless to control the States. We rightfully speak of the itiou to the nations of the world of all et we know that the nation, that Conion. is impotent to regulate the police ate. Over local affairs the States are gral parts of the republic. all the elements of nationality, with ul foreign relations, and yet composed ol over the local affairs of the comthe nature of thinas. result in contro :es as to their relative control in many 1 settled peacefully required an inden provided the Supreme Court, and to >m "The Supreme Court of the Uuited )\p to Make iter if We Will tirally asked is. "How on earth can I pleasant? I have no money to give, no lerstanding goes now that seems perie moment. Let the idea of money go juestion of influence. . Unconsciously you are influencing [ every day with your thoughts. Inositiou iu life is nothing compared to >rld. i- a moment. Are your thoughts cheerakc your menial attitude toward the ? influence, or the force to strengthen noes of the fact that people are l>eginid to know that through that channel *d to cultivate and spread all the good we can; and each one of?us can if he is self. Do not be so taken up with ? nothing else. Do not, in other words, his own ends at the expense of the therefore, who is the selfish man. The an ausuru excuse, iiisieau 01 wasting ind pains and troubles, which, by the not spread good cheer and talk health r business on your way home from the rengtbening and loving thoughts? depressed, and help those around you can benefit them and yourself as well, ot the gainer. It is true. It Is commpn cheerful will you shed that light upon >gree that we love will we be loved. 5 of its kind. Each comes back later and of which it is the cause." ontentment send out thoughts of love, acts like; but if you live in the thought >ry conditions will come back to you are forces and the help that y6u can MM?I FAIR MILL SET! \ r<* r t /-* rw\ i UfcVAMA Spartanburg Section IV By Clo TERRIBLE LOSS IN The Counterpart of the J Horrors Takes Place ii turing Section--Niaga Section and Busy Spii Not since the close of the civil war VlQo ?inv eontlnn r\f thf> Smith Suffered' a greater calamity, with the possible exception of Galveston, than that which struck the prosperous manufacturing section near Spartanburg* S. C.. early last Saturday morning. The disaster w-as the immediate result of a cloudburst just at the foot of the mountains. In a few minutes time the swollen streams had picked up great buildings of brick and stone, and carried them down like houses of -straw. The number of lives lost will reach near or over a hundred. The propertyloss is appalling. Six thousand laborers are Idle and starvation seems almost inevitable. The business of the Southern Railway's main line is crip pled for perhaps a month. Six busy cotton mills are gone, with the complete loss of all their machinery and four to five thousand bales of raw cotton, together with as much manufactured goods. No fair estimate can yet be placed upon the entire loss. The Sunday and Monday issues of the Charlotte Observer, which sent special staff correspondents . 10 the scene, have the following graphic account of the disaster: As a result of the heavy rains six cotton mills?the Clifton Mills Nos. 1, 2 and 3, the Glendale Mill and the Pacolet Mills Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (the Pacolet Mills Nos. 1 and 2 are one plant)?have been swept away. Two Southern Railway bridges near Spartanburg, S. C., have been destroyed and three other bridges are badly damaged; there are washouts at a dozen places along the main line in the piedmont section, and at Landrum, S. C., 18 miles of track are submerged and partially ruined. It is reported that 50 people are killed, and eye-witnesses declare that they saw as many as 10 or 12 bodies floating down the Pacolet river. Thos? who are known to be dead are Maggie Kirby. Augustus Clave and wife. Miss Lizzie Clavert, M. Felix, Mrs. W. B. ir r?: r r r? n T^Un iniiay, -urine oiuis, -urs. d. r. juuuson and four children; Mrs. John Owens, Roy Owens, Garland Long, Mrs. Long, Miss Fletih Gosa. IMMENSE LOSS TO RAILROADS. The loss to railway and industrial property is almost incalculable. The destruction of the cotton mills means a loss of at least $5,000,000. The financial damage to the Southern is enormous and cannot be ectimated at this time. Apart from the direct injury caused by the loss of the expensive bridges, the Southern will sustain a great blow in the blocking of traffic over its main line and branch lines indefinitely. DESTITUTE PEOPLE. Near Clifton, S. C.. alone, 500 people are homeless and 4.000 are out of employment. A CLOUDBURST. The sudden and unexpected rise in the Pacolet river was the direct cause of most of the disaster. On this stream are located the Clifton and Pacolet mills, the Glendale Mills being on Lawson's Fork. All the plants are within a radius of seven miles of Spartanburg, S. C. For the past 36 hours the Pacolet river had shown the effect of the continuous rains, but the river, swollen as it was, did not cause any apprehension Friday night. The mills were, on an average, about ten feet above water level; they had stood the test of many freshets and were thought to Wrecking Train Wrecked, Asheville, Special.?Saturday night a wrecking train left here for the Pacolet section, with Division Superintendent Ramseur in charge When the train reached a point near Tryon several cars turned over and a large force 01 nanas were aemyeu ocvcioi uv>u<a. Sunday morning a second wrecking crew was sent to get the first wrecking train on the track. ? J [LEMENTS .TED BY FLOODS. leets Frightful Disaster udburst. LIFE AND PROPERTY ohnstown and Galveston n the Piedmont Manufac] ira of Death Sweeps Over i idles Cease to Hum. be perfectly safe against any torrent.! But. if all accounts are to be believed. there was a veritable cloudburst Saturday morning at ' about 6 o'clock, and the river rose, visibly, | ( higher and higher. In two hours, it is declared, the river rose 50 feet, mak- i 1 : it cr\ r?* 1.:; ' ui& it uv ict'i ituaii cut: uaudi ' water level. MILLS SWEPT AWAY LIKE STRAW ; Before this fierce tide the mills 1 went like straw. The first to go were j 1 the Pacolet Mills Nos. 1 and 2, a plant < that is near Pacolet station, on the Co- i lumbia and Asheville branch of the 1 Southern Railway. Half a mile down 1 the riyer stood the Pacolet Mill No. 3, 1 a smaller mill than Nos. 1 and 2, and < that, also, was soon torn to wreckage ' and carried away in the stream. ' Of the Clifton Mills No. 1 was first 1 destroyed and was soon followed by 1 mill No. 2. 1 Clifton No. 3, the largest of the mills ! that were lost, was situated at Con| verse station, six miles north of Spar- i I tanburg, on the Southern Railway. < The mill stood 200 yards above the i te3tle. For an hour It resolutely / J niUhat/u\i1 m, n .1 miclminKt Af njflf nr I ! ! and then gave way, gradually, throw: ing into the current large pieces of 1 1 timber that seriously injured and ' threatened to destroy the big trestle 1 ( at Converse station. BRIDGES WASHED AWAY. I The steel bridge over Lawson's Fork on the Pacolet river near Spartanburg has gone. It was one span and , was 350 feet long, including the ap! proaches. . , The bridge over the Middle Tigef , I river, between Duncan and Wellford, | | is destroyed. It was three spans and ] ! 1i"> fppt lnne. ! The bridge over North Tiger river j cannot be used. It is damaged, though ( j the full extent of the injury cannot be , ascertained yet. i j The big bridge over the Pacolet ; river, six or seven miles this side of ! Spartanburg, is said by railway offli cials to be very unsafe. It is still : standing against the fierce tide, but is : badly damaged and ia in a very ; serious condition. The bridge over the Enoree river ' : just south of Spartanburg is damaged ' and impassable. The Seneca river bridge is also useless. The bridge over the Pacolet river is 1 107 feet high, one of the highest j bridges on the Southern system. It is ! 342 feet long and made of steel. The Pacolet Mills had 156,000 spinj dies; the Clifton Mills. 112,000; the ' new Glendale 30,000 spindles, making a total of 306,000 spindles and a total of nearly 8,000 looms, according to the estimates made by Capt, J. H. Sloan and other well-known cotton mill men who were seen by a reporter. This estimate makes the mills worth over $6,000,000. THE FLOOD CARRIED EVERYTHING BEFORE IT. Attendant upon the passing of the mills there was inestimable loss. Four thousand Nbales of cotton and 3,500 bales of cloth were carried away with the debris of the Pacolet Mills. At Pacolet, the Presbyterian church, , the hotel, the mill office, mill stores, j cotton gins, grist mills, blacksmith ! shops, a large number of operatives' J cottages and all the warehouses of the I company were destroyed by the j stream. The warehouses were built of brick and stone, one warehouse being built ' entirely of stone. The population of Pacolet is 5,000, | all of whom were dependent upon the J mills for support. Turks Kill Fifteen. Salonlca, By Cable.?A band of Bulgarian revolutionists was destroyed by Turkish troops Saturday at Cradobar, this city. Fifteen Bulgarians were killed. Another insurgent band is reported to have been annihilated on the railway line near Ristovatiz, Servia, after six hours' fight. Surprise is expressed that the band was able to approach so near the town. The insurgents last Wednesday killed ten Greek villagers while the latter were in church at Selevo, near Monistar. MAN AND BRIDE DIE A GLORIOUS DEATH. Sam Swanguare and his bride die in a way that seemed glorious to the spectators. Swanguare seized his wife by the hand and when they came clear of tee wrecked house he clutched her ???i fnfim Ia a flnatino' y lUoCr LU III III &1IU au jiti w m mass of driftwood. There, in plain view, they clung to each other and sang together, so that all on the banks heard. The driftwood rushed against a large mass and separated, and Swanguare and his bride went under the water locked in a last embrace. Fleta Gosa boarded with a Mrs. Bailey, where also lived Mr. and Mrs. Kirby and J. E. Grier. Miss Gcsa and Mrs. Kirby were carried out into the water and drowned speedily. Mrs. Bailey was caught in a whirlpool just below Converse and. swinging to a piece of plank, revolved in the eddy until she was drawn in by a rope that had been thrown to her rescue. Grier caught the branches of an oak tree and remained there till he was rescued by a boat that was bravely manned. Mrs. Katie Long and her son. Garland Long, and his bride, and her son, Richard, were hurled into the current. Mrs. Long and her younger son were saved by catching the branches of a tree, but Garland Long and his bride were drowned. The bodies of none of-these people have been recovered. 50 DROWNED AT MILL NO. 2. The greatest loss of life is at Mill S'o. 2, the furthest mill down the river, it is said that at least 50 operatives here lost their lives. The only names sf the dead that are obtainable now ?re Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Johnson and four children, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. FinIcy and five children. Several of the children of T. M. Massey were drown?<i, but he ahd his wife escaped. Massey himself had an extraordinary escape. He was carried through the N"o. 2 mill out through the opening at the far end of the building and swam to the shore. nrrncm * IfVOfTDDV 1 Hiii L'LUIIJ-Duna i A Mioiiini. That phenomen, the cloud-byrst, regains a mystery so far as origin is con;erned. Residents here state that the rain was not heavier than it always is ?t this time in June, and everybody is sure that at some place close to Converse a cloud opened and emptied into the Paeolet river 20 times as much water as it usually carries. It is suprosed that the cloud burst close to the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 20 miles from here. ?C OR MORE MILL OPERATIVES ' nrrc In the confusion that necessarily prevails here it will be several days before the full loss of life is reported. Conservative estimates make a death list of at least 60 among the mill operatives alone, though only four bodies are known to have been recovered. OTHER MILL LOSSES. ft is reported here that the D. E. Converse mill at Lawson's lost 1.000 bales of cotton and four houses. It is also said the Campobello Oil Mills and the Tucapaw Mills on the Tiger river have been destroyed. a r* i. J\ tumprcucnMvc jiaiciucm. Spartanburg, S. C., Special.?Below are the mills that suffered in Saturday n;orning'3 floods: Arkwright (slightly), capital $200,000, spindles, 20,256, looms 604. Beaumont, capital $100,000, 3.88S spindles, no looms. Clifton, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, capital $1,000,000, spindles 101,232, looms 3,254. Pacolet, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, capital $1,000,000, spindles 59,332, looms 2,202. Whitney, capital $200,000, spindles 10,000, looms 300. To Furnish Rations. Washtington, Special. ? Absolutely necessary relief in the way of rationp medicines, etc., will be given by the War r>pn?rtment, to the Sufferers by the disastrous floods In South Carolina yesterday. An appeal to Secretary Root from the local authorities resulted in orders being given to General ChafTee. commanding the Department of the East, to this effect. He will authorize r.u ofTicer to proceed north from Atlanta with supplies to relieve immediate necessities as was done for the sufferers at Gainesville, Ga. Relief Funds. Funds for the immediate relief of the suffering have been started ra a number of nearby, towns and cities. Spartanburg has taken the lead with a large subscription. Mayor Brown, of Charlotte, Immediately issued a proclamation calling upon the people of that city for aid. Columbia has started a liberal fund, the Columbia State giving one hundred dollars. Gov. Heyward, of South Carolina has issued a proclamation calling upon the whole State to hefp. Other assistance is imperatively needed. Still in Danger. St. Louis, Special.?The people on the island in the Mississippi are still penned up there, like rats in a trap. The river has spread around the island with a swift current and although every effort has been made to reach them, nothing was accomplished today and there has been no means of communicating with them. The loss of life if they cannot be reached and property less will be very heavy, as the entire valley is under water and homes have been washed away, farms depleted and i stock drowned. % / * [HE OHIO TICKET. j The Cry Was "Hanna, Iferrick, ^ (larding- and Harmony " A STATE TICKET NOMINATED. The Platform Includes a Plank on Disfranchisement and Reduction in. Representation. Columbus, 0., Special.?The Republican State convention closed Thursday with much alliteration in its battle * cries. While Senator Foraker was presiding, the delegates added to the "Ha" the cry of "Hanna, Herrlck, Harding and Harmony." While all conceded that it was "Hanna's year," he would not use his influence, except for the head of the ticket, in naming his neighbor. Myron T". Herrick, for Governor. The Senator's friend, George B. Cox, of Cincinnati, named Warren G. Harding for Lieutenant Governor, and Wade Hampton Ellis for Attorney General. The ticket nominated follows: Governor, Myron T. Herrick, of Cuyahoga; Lieutenant Governor, Warren G. Harding, of Maricn; Auditor, W. B. Gullbert, of Nobel; Treasurer, W. S. McKlnnon, of Ashtabula; AttorneyGeneral, Wade H. Ellis, of Hamilton; judge of Supreme Court, A. N. Summers, of Clarke; school commissioner, E. A. Jones, of Stark; member of theboard of public works; George Watkins. of Pike. > . While Senator Foraker expressed his/' gratification over tho ticket and tiio* results generally, he was especially vgratlfled over the unanimous adoption of a resolution which endorsed President Roosevelt's nomination, as well as his administration. Tt had been anticipated, as Congressman Nevin 3aid today, that Senators Hanna and Foraker would lock horns over the en dorsement of Roosevelt's candidacy* but instead they locked arms and are now leading the Ohio Republicans iu this campaign more harmoniouslr than ever. There never was more talk about fixing a slate in advance of the convention than this year, but the balloting indicated that such was not the case* for at least some of the minor places* At any rate Hanha and Herrick did not exercise their personal influent ? "in giving the word," and left the hall before the nomination for Governor took place. The plaitform indorses Senatora Hanna and Foraker, promising Hanna support for re-election and commends. President Roosevelt's fidelity to duty, his adherence to President McKinley's. policies,' and his own proved ability in his high office, showing him in every way worthy of election by the people to be their Chief Magistrate, and favors his nomination for President ia 1904. The platform favors better roads,, extension of labor legislation in every way equitable to all, ejpecially to secure for labor just recognition of the settlement of differences. Liberal pension legislation, encouragement to ourmerchant marine, stimulation of local bank circulation along safe lines tosecure elasticity of circulation; indorses Governor Taft's administration of the Philippines and commends "the J ~ rapid and steady progress maue m mr preparation of the Philippines for the- w < fullest practicable degree of self-government." As to foreign affairs, the platform indorses the policy of developing the navy to the highest efficiency, and says: "Our foreign policy of equity to all has made the United States the peace-maker of the world, guarding weaker nations fro aggression and giving the Monroe doctrine a vital force greater than ever before." Regarding the protective tarifT policy the platform declares: "We oppose all attacks upon this poficy, whatever the pretext, as tending to bring back the disastrous days of Democratictariff revision and free trade. Changing conditions and the possible benefits of reciprocity may call for timely readjustment of schedules, but protection as a principle and as a policy must be administered by the friends of American prosperity and must not be sacrificed. "Combinations for the monopoly of" trftdp and kindred unlawful purposes are directly amenable to penalties provided by Republican legislation and their vigorous enforcement in thecourts. No worthy interest is imperiled but whatever will work public harm is restrained and that without resort to the Democratic plan of destroying all American industries through tariff revision or otherwise. If further legislation should be found necessary, the Re- , public party can be depended upon to enact and enforce It with equity aud' safety in every legitimate interest. "Ohio was the first State with soil forever free from the stain of slavery. Pledged by the great creative ordinance of 1787, to the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty and bound thereby to forever remain a. part of the United States of America.. Ohio was foremost in the war to preaarva 'tho indestructible union of inde structlve States,' and adheres firmly toevery amendment which that warwrote into our country's constitutionas binding in honor upon every American citizen. Therefore, we hold fast to* the doctrine of equity everywhere in the exercise of the elective franchise,, maintaining that justic requires anyState excluding any of its citizens- ^ from the ballot to be proportionatelyreduced in its representation in theelectoral college and the lower houseof the national Congress. ? Senator Koraaer, on uau( muuduced by Senator Hanna, as permanenr chairman, made a speech in which he highly eulogized Hanna, saying he had! risen above detraction until he stoodT in the very front rank of the Senate's.most influential members, and no out-' does more than he to fashion the policies of his party and determine thelaws of the nation. Senator Forake: characterized President Roosevelt us a man 01 uraiiio, ui cum age pose and predicted his triumphant reelection.