Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE STATE SUMMER SCHOOL. One Fare For the Round Trip Al? lowed Ali Teachers. State Superintendent of Education V McMahan has issued the following : "The Southern Passenger Associa? tion has granted the one fare round trip railroad rate asked for the State summer school and the State teachers' association, both to meet at Rock Hill. In each case the tickets will be sold frorii all points within the State, in? cluding Augusta, Ga. "The teachers will be glad to know that they will not be subjected to the inconveniences of depositing their tickets for extension, as was required last year. Chairman Richardson writes : * Please note that tickets will be sold June 24, 25 and 26, limited to return July 25, 1902, without deposit.' The school begins work on the morn ^ ing of the 25th of June and closes the evening of the 23d of July. "For the teachers' association the tickets will be sold July 14 and 15, with final limit July 19, 1902. The association will be in session the even? ing of the 15th and the day and even lng of the 16th. Other smaller associa tiens will meet on the 17th. It is ""hoped that many members of school and college boards, and others with sufficient interest, will take advan? tage of the reduced rates during this week to attend the State teachers' as? sociation and remain over for several days, to visit the school and see it at work. HISTORY AT SUMMER SCHOOL. "The following are the announce? ments of the history courses in the State summer school ; they are design? ed to be of the greatest practical bene? fit to our teachers! I have been for a long time on the lookout for some one who can give our teachers anecdotes of South Carolina that can be told to small children so as to instruct and interest them in the great men of the State. I found that Mrs. Means, of Spartanburg is writing a book along that line. Hence her course in the school this year." History, Prof. Davis-Two courses will be offered. L History of the United States.-A course in the history of the United States, beginning with the formation of the union, and tracing its political and constitutional growth. Special attention will be given to critical epochs, such as the alien and sedition laws ; the rise of republicanism ; the war of 1312; early tariffs and nullifi? cation: the administration of Jack? son; the Mexican war; abolition and the struggle for the territories ; seces ^sion, war, and reconstruction; the struggle over expansion. The narrative contained in ordinary text-books will be amplified and ex ? ^ plained by reference to underlying cases and political and social issues. L The object of the course being to assist teachers in presenting the sub-. iect to their classes, the text-book used will be that prescribed for tue ^ public schools, Lee's New School His ' tory of. the Ignited States (B. F. John? son Publishing company, Richmond, Ta. ) Each member of the class must have a copy of this book, and is ad? vised to bring such other books of ref? erence as he may have. John's His tory of American Politics will be found useful (Published by Henry Bolt, New York. ) II. History of South Carolina.-(a) A course in the history of South Caro? lina from its settlement to the close of the Confederate war, embracing epochs of special interest and import . ' ance. The text will be amplified by I illustration and anecdote, in order tc make the subject attractive and inter? esting, (b) Reconstruction: The latter part of the course will be devoted to a somewhat full presentation from original and unpublished sources of ."vthe. period of reconstruction, the cam? paign of 1876 and the rehabilitation .of South Carolina under the adminis k tration of Gov. Hampton and his ira mediate successors. Chapman's History of "South Caro? lina will be used as the basis of the ??.ourse. Examination will be held on ? the text-book and on notes. Members ? of the class will provide themselves with this book, and may brins: such other histories of South Carolina as they can procure. TALKS ABOUT LEADING SOUTH CAROLINIANS. First Week, Mrs. Means-Carlyle f says that history is but a lot of short * biographies, and it is proposed in . haif a dozen talks to tell of some men Iand women of South Carolina and the relation that they have borne to the Ration. L The Peopling of South Carolina -Thos. Smith and the introduction cf rice culture: Eliza Lucas, a colonial dame, who first cultivated indigo in i South Carolina: the Pinckneys, L "'friends of Washington." Hfv- 2. Revolutionary Heroes.-Chrisio W pher Gadsden, ."the prime mover of Bs the Revolution;" the Rutledges: fe Rawlins Lowndes: Jasper: Marion; ^ Sumter :k Piekens. 3. South Carolina women as Pa-1 triot-s. Philanthropists and House- [ i^ves.-Mrs. Motte: Emily Geiger; "Dicey Langston ; Jane Thomas: Mar r tha Bratton: Martha Laurens: Theo k dosia Burr: Pamela Cunningham; I Mrs. Snowden. 4. Times and Statesmen.-War of 1SI2 ; nulificaticn ; secession : Lowndes : Calhoun; Robert Y. Hayne: Legare: freston ; McDuffie : Harper : Perry. fe 5. Great Pageants in South Caroli ? na.-Washington's visit: Lafayette's fe reception ; departure of Palmetto regi m ment: Calhoun's funeral. 6. The Indians ; schools and masters : P judges; writers. ^ Condition of Dr. Palmer. New Orleans, La, May 7.-The con? dition of Dr. Palmer, the Presbyterian divine, who was injured by a trolley ear last Monday, has shown such im? provement that tonight only his family ?hysician, Dr. Holt, was with him, >r. Palmer passed a restless night, but all unfavorable symptoms have yielded readily to treatment. ^Ihe physicians are still hopeful of recovery, although it is doubtful if their patient will regain the use of his limbs. _ ^^^^^ London, May 7.-The wife of Gen. /ocas Meyer, the commander of the Orlwtge Free State, who is in this country, recieved a cable message from her husband yesterday saying that peace in South Africa was proba Mp RIDE THE CHEAPEST FOOD. Provides Five Times the Food Ma? terial as tho Same Value Ex? pended for Beef. As the "marketing" is now the burning question with every house? keeper, the following statements are worthy of the consideration. The rice committee connected with the Rice Kitchen at the Exposition has issued a tempting and appetizing collection of rice receipts in a dainty little brochure called "The Carolina Rice Cook Book," which can be procured by any housekeeper who is interested in this most important question of what to eat, where to get it, and how to cook it. The following very logical argument in favor of rice as a food as compared with*meat is taken from an article prepared by the literary bureau pf the Southern Pacific: "Whether the present high cost of liYing-'is due to the formation of trusts or combinations of small dealers, the fact remains beyond contradiction that articles upon which the ordinary individual and his family are compell? ed to subsist have advanced materially. "This advance has been manifested all along the line, but particularly has excited public attention in the matter of recent increase in the value of meat produc?s. The butchers have been in? cluded in the list and today good beef, meat, veal and pork are selling at an ? advance of 10 to 20 per cent. The matter is becoming serious, as it di? rectly affects the question of living in the matter of household expenses, and the man with the small salary, in using the parlance of the street, is "up against it." That is why we suggest :"I you can't afford to eat meat, eat rice." "The value per pound is very large? ly in favor of rice, as the cereal pro? vides five times the footd material as the same value expended for beef. Rice is cheaper, is more easily digest? ed than any other food and can be cooked in "over two hundred forms, and it contains every element of nutri? tion." The Minneapolis Tribune says : The alleged discovery of Prof. Andrews, of Columbia University, that "rice will pop like corn?" if subjected to a sufficiently high temperature, is to be utilized by a Minneapolis company to produce a new breakfast food. Whether rice can be subjected to heat of 400 degrees without scorching or burning it we do not know ; but if it can be, it is manifest that it will fur? nish a thoroughly cooked starch food that ought to be wholesome. It is a well known theory of cooks and chemists that starchy foods produce dyspepsia only when they are eaten raw or undercooked. Charleston grocers are now selling a very fine rice flour made from best selected Carolina rice, and, as it is almost as cheap as the best grade of wheat flour, and more nutritious and more easily digested, rice breads should become the standard breakfast bread on every southern table.-News and Courier. Schiey on Sampson. Washington, May 7.- Admiral Schiey today made the following statement re? garding the death of Admiral Samp? son : " I regret very much the death of Admiral Sampson and I sympathize with his family? No one has heard me utter one unkind word about him. "On account of his death I have re? quested my friends in Baltimore to postpone the delivery to me, which was intended to have taken place to? night, of the Cristobal Colon service of silver, and they have acceded to my request. ' ' Baltimore, May 7.-Agreeably to the wishes of Rear Admiral W. S. Schiey the presentation of the silver service, made from coins taken from the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon, has been indefinitely postponed. Owing to the death of Admiral Samp? son, Admiral Schiey requested the committee having the matter in hand to abandon the presentation which has been arranged for tonight at the residence of Theodore Marburg in this city. The service together with a let? er of presentation from the donors will be sent to Washington by express. Wagener Day Music. Music is to be a great feature of the Wagener Day exercises at the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition. The details of the musi? cal programme are now being arranged by the joint managers and the first rehearsal for the grand choruses will be held in the Freundschafts Bund Hall Saturday evening at S.30 o'clock. All of the singers are invited and ex? pected to be present and Madame Barbot will see that the voices are properly placed and the music distrib? uted for the concert pieces. The music will all be from German com? posers and will oj^en with the cele? brated "'Tannhauser March," with band and chorus. The "Largo" of Handel will be given and the "Exposi? tion Ode," written by the Hon. George Herbert Sass and set to music by Prof. Theo Saul, will be sung for the second time. This ode was given at the opening of the Exposition, but there is every reason why it should be sung again and will no doabt be heard at even a better advantage on May 22. There will be several instrumental selections by the First Band, United States artillery corps, inculding the grandiv beautiful "Jubel" overture, by Weber.-News and Courier. g As the Miniature Railway is to re? main in the county when the Exposi? tion closes it is proper to suggest, per? haps, that more track should be pro? vided and the line be established be? tween Mount Pleasant and McClellan ville. Christ Church Parish needs railroad development badly, and a small beginning is better than none. If the little line were planted then among the fertile truck farms it would certainly grow very fast.-News and Courier. Augusta. May 7.-There is some quiet effort being made by the mill operatives to effect a settlement of the strike. This 'fact developed this morning when it was learned that Mr. Hibben, secretary of the NatioanI TexJ.ie Union, had left for Washing ?j?m to be gone a week. j? The McLaurin Movement. For some time past we have been watching with keen interest the career of Senator McLaurin of South Carolina. He is a man of intelli? gence, a man of practical ideas and a man of more or less independence of thought and action. He is a politician and politicians can? not always be taken strictly at their word. But there is food for thought in the address which Mr. McLaurin has recently made to the voters of his State. He gives an inter? esting review of the political' revolu? tion in South Carolina by which the Hampton regime was overthrown and the Tillman regime set up. Mr. Mc? Laurin was an important factor in the Tillman movement, and he is in a measure responsible for the new order of things in South Carolina. But he is frank enough to say that the last state of things is worse than the first. He refused absolutely to go into the primary, declaring that "the primary system adopted in the State through the farmers' movement has been pros? tituted and perverted into a political machine for the purpose of excluding all candidates who are not in full ac? cord with the. wishes of Tillman, the dictator. " " The vital question is, ' ' says he, "Will the people of the State submit to the political tyrant - and join in this unholy and unpatriotic work of disfranchising the intelligent people and excluding them from our elections." He asserts that the pri? mary system in South Carolina has been sacrificed upon the altar of partisanship and personal malignity, and has, therefore, become unpatriotic and useless, and should be ignored and finally repudiated by the people. He declares "that a party yoke has been placed upon the voters of the State and has become too galling for further endurance. When the so-called McLaurin move? ment was inaugurated The Times ex? pressed the opinion that it was the beginning of another political revolu? tion in South Caroilna, and it would now appear that it is Mr. McLaurin's intention to call his own followers off and establish a new party in the State. Whether or not this is to be a Repub? lican party we cannot say, but Mr. McLaurin has some distinctly Republi? can views, and if we may judge from some of his expressions and some of his acts, he is not very far from the Republican party. At the recent conference of Southern educators at Athens, Ga., a South Carolina speaker brought down the house by saying that his State was a storm center in the political world. It is even so, and those who study the signs on the political weather map see in this address of McLaurin the gath? ering of ominous clouds. The course and progress of the storm will be watched with interest by the people in all parts of the country.-Richmond Va., Times._ _ What Henry Walterson Says McLaurin's Defense. So far as the address of Senator Mc? Laurin relates to the primary election rules prevalent in South Carolina, it is mainly a local party question in which Democrats in other parts of the country are not very greatly in? terested. His plea for independence of thought and action is. rather too vague to meet with general acceptance. Undoubtedly a certain degree of inde? pendence must be conceded to repre? sentatives of the people and of States, but there is a probability of carrying this far beyond the bounds of toler? ance. When a Representative or a Senator ceases to represent the people who elected him or the State by which he is accredited in any tolerable degree, he car hardly claim that he ought to receive any indorsement. The manner in which the indorsement ought to be given becomes of second? ary importance when no sort of appro? bation is possible. Now it is pretty generally believed that this is precisely the position in which Senator McLaurin'finds him? self It is net that he differs from the leaders of the party upon some ques? tions that have been the subect of dif? ferences within the party heretofore. It is not apparent that Mr. McLaurin agrees with the Democratic party in anything that is a party question. He specifies some points in which he differs from the Democracy of the country. But he fails to mention ,any point upon which he is in accord with the Democrts, or out of harmony with the Republicans. This being true, it would seem that questions of party organization are matters upon which be is not entitled to be heard at all. True, he calls himself a Democrat, but he neglects to mention anything what? ever in his views, acts or purposes which entities him to call himself by the party name. Mr. McLaarin's recent course in the Senate bears ont these observa? tions. It is not merely his differences with his colleague, Mr. Tillman, which separate.'him from the Demo? crats of the Senate. Over and over Ri ai i we rind in the reports of divis i- .\.. thar "it was a strict party vote ;xcept that Senator McLaurin voted with the Republicans." Here Mr. McLaurin is classed as a Democrat simply because he still calls himself such. He was elected as a Democrat, but on all party divisions he is found acting with the Republicans. So far as can be ascertained he is in his views and in his acts in full accord with the Republicans. They took care of him in committee assignments, because the Democratic Senators decilned to recog? nize him as a member of their party. They were justified in this course be? cause they could not depend on his co? operation in any matter in which Sen? ators divided on party lines. If Mr. McLaurin is unwilling to resign his seat in the Senate because he no longer represents his State, this is hardly a reason why he should seek to conceal his party affiliation. He does well not to seek a nomination as a Democrat, but it is not easy to see why he should any longer deny that he is a Republican. If he has, as he intimates, many friends in South Carolina who approve his course, it must be because they, too, have be? come converts to the Republican faith. If he believes, in spite of all the facts to the contrary, that his service in the Seriate are still desired, he can easily satisfy himself by appeal? ing to the people on that question. His term expires next March and his services in the Senate from South-'C?r olina is then likely to terminate, unless South Carotina has become a Rennblican State, which nobody be? lieves. --Courier-Journal. PAUL LEICESTER FORD MURDERED. SHOCKING DEATH OF AUTHOR X)F "JANICE MEREDITH." His Brother Kills Him and Sends a Bullet Through His Own Heart. New York, May 8.-Paul Leicester Ford, the novelist, was shot and kill? ed today by his brother, Malcom Web? ster Ford, writer and athlete, who im? mediately sent a bullet into his breast, dying instantly. The shooting occur? red at 10:20 a. m., in the handsome new mansion which Paul Leicester Ford had built at 37 East 77th fstreet, and had occupied for about a year, fcj At the time of the shooting there were in the house besides the two brothers, Mrs. Paul Leicester Ford, Miss Elizabeth R Hall, the novelists' secretary, and the servants. The nov? elist was sitting at his desk in one corner of his library, a large, attrac? tively appointed room at the back of the house on the second floor. It is supposed !he was busily engaged at some literary task. Miss Hall was at her desk in another corner of the room about 30 feet from Mr. Ford. Mrs. Paul Leicester Ford was in her own room at the front of the house on the third floor. Malcom W. Ford called, as he often had done, and went to bis brother at j his desk. Words were exchanged in a tone so low that Miss Hall could not hear what was said, though she says that possibly she might have distin? guished the words if she had been pay? ing any attention to this particular meeting of the brothers. Suddenly there was a revolver shot and Miss Hall, jumping up, darted from the room. Then, according to the state? ments of the police, Miss Hall said to herself that she must act more bravely and reenter the library. Meanwhile Malcolm Ford had call? ed her. As she turned towards him, he placed his revolver to his heart, fired and fell, dying instantly. When Miss Hall turned to look at Paul, he was still standing at his desk, but rapidly losing strength. She helped him to a sofa and then ran next door for Paul Ford's physician, Dr. Eman? uel Baruch. In less than five minutes Dr. Baruch arrived and the dying man, still conscious, was carried up to a room beside his wife's and placed on his bed. He spoke to his wife, and asked the doctor for his opinion, show? ing that he expected death and was going to meet it calmly and bravely. A few moments later, about 20 min? utes after he was shot, Mr. Ford died. Newberry, May 6.-A safe belong? ing to Wheeler and Bowers, cotton buyers at Prosperity, in this county, was blown open with dynamite at. 3 o'clock this morning and robbed of 8240. The safe was in the Prosperity postoffice building. Mr. Wheeler, liv? ing but a few yards away, was awak? ened by the explosion, and upon going to the postoffice three shots were fired by a man standing outside the door evidently as a signal-for a light, which Mr. Wheeler had observed in the building, was immediately put out by some one inside. Only a few dollars of money belonging to the post office was taken. A Pastor's Farewell. A country minister took leave of his congregation the following way : "Brothers and sisters, I come to tell you good-bye. I don't think you love me, because you have not paid my salary. Your donations are mouldy fruit and wormy apples; and the Scripture saith. "'By their fruits ye shall know them.' Brothers, 1 am going away to a better place-to be chaplain of a penitentiary. My text this morning is, * I go to prepare a place for you,' and may the Lord haye mercy on your souls. Good-bye." A Gentle Hint. In oar siyle of climate, with its sudden changes of temperature,-rain, wind and sunshine often intermingled :n a single day,-it is no wonder that our children, friends and relative* are so frequently taken from us by neglected, colds, half the deaths resulting directly from this canse. A bottle of Boschee's German Syrup kept about your home for immediate use will prevent serious sickness, a large doctor's bill, and perhaps death, by the use of three or four doses. For curing Consumption. Hemorrhages, Pneumonia. Severe Coughs, Croup, or any disea-e of the Throat or Lun?rs. it< success is simply wonderful as your druggist will tell you. Get a sample bottle from LeLorme's Pharmacy or Sumter Pharmacy. Regular size, 75 ct?. Ge: Green's Special Almanac. Newcastle, Pa., May 6.-The Shcn ango tin plate works, in this city, the largest tin plate plant in the world, was almost wrecked by a cyclone to? day. Every stack was torn from its foundations and hurled through the roof of the buildings, steam pipes were broken and torn away and the. roof torn off. The damage done will reach nearly 8100,000. A panic occurred among the two thousand employees at the plant, but, strange to say, not a single employee was injured. Wants Others to Know. ..I have used Dewitt's Little Early Ris? ers for constipation and torpid liver and they are ali right. I am glad to indorse them fer ? think when we find a good thing we ought to let others know it." writes Alfred Heinze, Quincy. 111. They never gripe or distress. Sure, safe pills. J. S. Hughson ? Co. Senator Henderson stated to the Aiken county convention that as he was going before the primary in the race for the United States senate, he would tender his resignation as senator from Aiken county, and now announc? ed his intention so the people of Aiken county could begin to think of his suc? cessor. 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