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.1 COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. flWIY LKTTttltl? FHOM OUR HPK? CIAL COKKKaPONDKNTS. of latarast Pt?mii ?II Parts uf bm aad Adjointa* Counties. OfOTlCB TO CORRBiKOXDBN'i > Mail yeur letters so that they will eaaoh thte oOWe not later than Mon Bay whan tatendxd tor Wednesday's and not later than Thursday *B Issue This, of courtM?. syplles oaly to regular eonrespond ?ace. In case of Items of unusual ?ew? value, send In Immediately by ssatl. telephone Or telegraph. Such eewB stories are acceptable up to the hour of golag to press. Wednesday's la printed Tuesday afternoon Saturdays paper Friaay after ROCKT BLUFF. Hooky P.luff. Jan. 18.?After' a 'V or ten days of real spring weath #r. we are having some cold rainy weather. Farmers are breaking their land, getting ready for planting. Mrs. Joyner of New Sumter. spent last Friday with Mrs. Q. P. Josey. Mise Eva HaMeld spent Saturday and Sunday at home. Mr. W. F. Baker and farJ'y spent Sunday at Mr. J. J. Hatfletd'a. Mrs. Fogle, of Orangeburg, is sepnding sonvtlme with her daugh? ter. Mrs. W. K. Wells. Mr. Jerry 8andei* and family have amoved to South Georgia. OF DIVORCE. Facts ami Some Figures? Upon (.rowing F.vll. According to the census of 18t0, was a married population In the United Mates of 12,447.76?, with an annual average of tS.lt7 divorces. That la, there was one divorce to ev? ery I7t of married population, wrltea Rheta Childs T>nrr In The Forum. Ac to the census of 1900, there a married population of 27.770. 101. with an annual divorce record of 05,502, or one divorce to every 500 of married population. Iletweea 1880 and 1000 the record of divorces reach OS the amazing total of 045,625. Nearly a million American marriages went to pieces In twenty years. That ta, disruption overtook 47,281 mar rtagee a year, 3,t40 a mon'h?more than ltO r. day. No one section of the country pro a much larger divorce crop another. Louisiana. with Its large Catholic population, Morman Utah and Cnltarlan Massachusetts furnish similar figures. Ilroadly Ling, the divorce rate rises as we the map westwurd. but. on the the rate Is fairly even through? out the country. The rate Is slightly larger In citleti than in the country, hat ?tvorc? Is by no means a city problem It Is astonishing to rind that divorce taws, strmgent or liberal, affect the rate very slightly. New Hampshire, Utah and South Dakota show almost exactly the same proportion of di ?er population and per mar Haej York with Its one cause for dlvjrce and New Jersey with Its half d ?cen causes show a rate nearly Mentxal. ?he solution of our divorce prob? lem lies In securing a better relation between men and Women In every d? awrtment of life. It Is an anomaly in this repi ? Mr that there should hfl any dletlnctlors on account of sex. It Is absurd tl at women should rflCOtve lower w iges UflMJ men for equal work perform* d or equal service given. It la unfair to deny worm | their share In Qu?lle housekeeping. It Is untu-t to tax them ?nd at the same time re? fuse ?Vm c tUenship. An. fftfSlM women are as well edu? cated. a< Intelligent, as moral, as con itlous and. within their npportu as efficient as American men. Once this is fully reoKHlsed; flflsfls the last vestige of gag prejudice aad sex contempt winWh's from cos tom and fi <? r?? the | BOOlui] OhOff taw flame standard of morals Is tflflog In society as It Is In the luv ; It is m id'' at least as . awy f ?r m as for uo n to earn an honor? able Jiving, once marriage on a s<> lutely equal forms is made possible ao moral or physical advantage . n the side of the husband, no parualtum alloweil on the part of the wife. Then ft Will he perfectly sale to at? tach a divorce enupon to every mar? riage MVttflcate, Iwlth permission for Both parties to tear It off at will. Raymond rlctts, of Alton, I'l., af ter two successful nights frort mat? rimony, finally bceam.. weary of his efforts and ha* -nr, mh red to the third shaft from ?'uj ' s flow, Oat atrlke. two jitrik.'. three stlkes nnd OOt f' l?n> iiomd The evidence sein? t.. I ,? that u. i of the b"St selling hell in authors at" making their homes ami taking up their headuo o ters in N\ v ^ ..t l< Tims the literary centre of the unlv.i changing. Ill It r lt\ 1 \ i ) FROM BUGGY. Mi?.. <.. I.. Mutinous of Florence ftu*? laiiu Painful Injuries in Itunuway ICCldSat. noroaco, J?h. 17.?Mr* o. I* Bm mons, wife of the superintendent of tio industrial school, was painfully In? jured by being thrown from a buggy when the horse she was driving he ? MM frightened on east Kvans street late Sunday afternoon. She was taken to the Florence in? firmary, where she is resting very well. It is thought that her injuries are not very serious. Mrs. Kmmons and Miss Elb - n Kilgo were riding in the buggy and l*oth were thrown out, but IflM Kllgo's injuries were very slight. TIm> Vanishing Race. Chief Joseph died a few years a^o of homesickness tut many of his sav? ings are still remembered. Upvm his surrender to Gen. Miles he said:' "Gol made me an Indian, but not a reserva? tion Indian. You might as well ex? pect the river to run backwards as that any man who was born freo should be content when penned up and denied his liberty. Oh, let int Ijc a fre i man! Free to travel, free to stop free to work, free to trade wlure I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the ro llgion of my fathers, free tj think, talk and act for myself, and I will obey Isvery law or submit to the penalty." Many other chlfetalns made equal? ly futile appeals against the over? whelming tide of civilization, but gone are the hunting grounds and battlefields; gone the wigwamn and council tire. Where once the red man claimed a kingdom, farm house and villages, mills and factories dot the landscape. Where once upon the elear air rang out the cries of th> war-dance, or mingled r 1th the winds of the forest, drifted weird and low* the chant of the braves, now the laughter of white children at their play In the school yard or the peal of the bells calling men to worship tho white man's God, ring out across the morning. A survival of the fittest" the prac? tical man will say, and he may be right. From the viewpoint of close association with the red man, his faults are apt t > be magnified and hie virtues forgotten, but when the last member of the vanishing ra ? shall have folded his blanket about him and passed beyond the great di? vide. We may remember the Indian :\a he has even been, brave, self-sacrill cing and honorable to'a marked te gree. Gen. Mil*s, the veteran of im:t.y Indian wars, has said: "The whites have broken ?\?ry treaty they SVOT mace with the Indians, but the In diam never broke a treaty they ma I with t ie whttes." Col. Cody, better knov%7i as Buffalo Kill, said: "I have known the Indian since I was a baby. I have known him in war and in peace, and 1 have known him to be always honorable in war or peace.? World Today. \ When President Taft sat d wn on the war scare it naturally flattened out.- Pittsburgh Basstte Time*. Tessa is dissatisfied with the cen? sus returns. Did she expect Uncle Sam to oount the boll weevils? France cannot understand how- a i . gt blfl <o rman l aron fan be a hero erbos Frenchmen make so much neat* er statues. YV'th |(ttO inventors at work per? fecting tlM Semplane it might be ex? pected to solve nil the difficulties of sei si travel shortly. But when we resecml er h -w saany have been st work on perpetual motion WO are not SO liiijii ful. a dtrlsil I? balloon that recently travel A fro si Freses to London with seven passengers has been bought by the British eminent. Knglishnn n scree th;*t ;i eraft with sueh Interest* tag p SSl1 llltles ealls for full inspec? tion. A Chicago professor has discovered h i worses gossip because gossiping 1 ?? a phasing shock to tin ir vaso m tot system? Having discovered so much. It OUght to be possible to dlSa b Ver a substitute and thus save many lanoe? ni reputations. it w?i perhaps interest American I OS SVS II y\ d< ll rs |s learn that a I petition for the establishment at or ? ir ll ecoe ?.f i eottos depot, with ipack)us warehouses f>r the reception Of eottos from Central Asis, has been made by t>>, Kokand Chamber of i 'ommeree, The Southern people are l.'irg?' no it ronsumera but small meal pro dticera In fact, the South consumes mors meat per caplts thsn any other sections of our country, but a large proportion Of this meat I? shipped Id I . tin- Sooth from other sections of the country. in HARMONY \m> with MUCH REJOICING DEMOCRATS MEET at BAi/rmoRE, Cotobratton of Jackson Day and ??? I'iimoiis V ictories of 1910 Passes Off Just II Planned by Hosts in Baltimore. Baltimore, Jan? it.?The Demo? cratic celebration came to a joyous close with a banquet held in the Fifth regiment armor) tonight. More than 1,100 diners sat about the score of table! arranged in gridiron fashion. At the guests* table alone 53 covers wer? laid. All of the prominent Dem? ocratic leaders who were present at the afternoon mass meeting, agu men red by a trainload of national leg? islators from Washington, attended the banquet, which was the largest and most elaborate ever held in Bal? timore. In every sense (A. the word the spread was a bountiful one and the exuberance of spirits, which brought enthusiasm to the afternoon gather? ing, reached its height at the ban? quet. The "R?bel yell" made its appear? ance with the arrival of the diamond back terrapin and by the time the canvass-back duck was reached there was singing in all parts of the cavern? ous hall. The banquet began soon after 7 o'clock and it was 10:30 before an at? tempt was made to secure order. The immense crowd of diners by this time was not an easy one to handle. Finally the toastmaster, Ferdinand Williams of Cumberland, began his opening address, despite the disorder. The men who sat at the speakers' table did their best to deliver the mes? sages but the confusion was so great that a fog horn would have boon ineffective and the megaphone voice of Mr Wllllami ' was lost to every one more than 50 feet away. It was apparent that too much had been attempted in the way of banquet speaking. The armory was too large and the accoustics too bad to permit of any semblance of order. Maj. James C, Hemphill of Rich? mond, Va., w ho aas to speak on "The Democratic Press," said he was afraid to undertake it. The diners by this time had all left their places and were either visiting with each other or standing rows deep about the sqeaker's table. Representative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania was the third speak? er to mount the table. By the time he began his speech the crowd in the armory had dwindled to about 200 and there was at least a semblance of quiet. "With the start given in Novem? ber," said Mr. Palmer, amid cheers, "the Demoreatie party will sail on to ? ntlnufd success unless some damn fool rocks the boat." Former Representative Theodore M. Boll paid a striking tribute to Champ Clark and declared that if the party stands behind him as speaker of the house of representatives Demo? cratic success In 1912 will he assured. "The people of the Middle West and the Far West have the greatest confi? dence in the Integrity and the ability of Champ Clark as a leader of the Democracy," said Mr, Bell. The reference to Mr. Clark was re? garded as unusually .significant inas? much ae Mr. Bell has generally been known as the cl ie friend and repre? sentative of William J. Rryan. It was mphaalsed a few minutes later, when Mr. Bell warned his hearers that no matter how much they might he at? tracted toward the gentlemen from Ohio and New .lers.y, the leadership In 1912, they must not forget that the iffeotloni of millions of the people still clustered about the man from Nebraska?Mr. Rryan. The hand of fate, Iii, Bell said, had . probably determined that Mr. Rryan houid not be nominated for a fourth time or ever be elected president of the United States but that he must not be overlooked in the councils of the party. The gaum spectre of the tariff, >vith all the vicissitudes it brings from v Ithoul and within ? politi? cal party, stall ed boldly through tin Jackson day gathering of the Democrats In this city today, it made Its presence felt at the mass meeting at the Lyric In the afternoon and it WOUld not down at the bounti? ful feast Which was spread at the Fifth regiment armory tonight. Hut the laue was fairly met by all the spei kers, Some frank 1) acknowl? edged that there will be differences of opinion among the Democrats on mis subject, as there had be< n among the Republicans, s nator Bailey, for in? stance, while declaring that harmony of action must be the watchword of the Democracy If they maintain th i advantage won at the laai election, t. b dlrecl Issue with those Demo? crats who favor piecemeal revision ol the tariff, Champ Clark of Missouri, speaker-to-b< of the house of repre? sentatives, had Just announced thai the sentiment among the DemocratsI In the hOUSe seemed to favor piece- j meal revision?schedule by schedule, if possible, bul item by Item it* neces? sary. ''And the most obnoxious items i t," exclaimed Mr. Clark. "As i ? tween rotten apples," Insisted Senator Bailey, "there Is no choh >?. Every schedule in the Payne-Aldrich law Is bad." Gov. Harmon <?f Ohio, one of the most prominent figures in the day's gathering, also pounced upon the tariff. The day passed as the Democratic leaders wished it might, without an attempt from any quarter to launch a boom for the presl lential nominee in 1911. Senator Bailey pud champ Clark, the Democratic leader of the house, the tribute of placing him in the presidential class. ?'If Champ Chirk makes a . ttcr speaker than Mr. Harmon makes a governor, we will nominate him for president," he declared, amid enthu? siasm at the "Lyric meeting. "But," he added, "if Gov. Harmon makes a better governor than Mr. Clark makes a speaker, then we ar^ going to nominate Mr. Harmon." The tariff was acknolwedged as the factor Which brought about the defeat of the Republican party in the last campaign and with equal frankness tin' Democratic leaders acknowledged that If they did not deal wisely with that issue and fulfill their prophecies Democratic power would be short? lived. And while they w^re not discuss'n; the tariff with serious mien and humble spirit. th# Democratic leaders were calling out shouts of laugh ttu* and rounds of applause by their w''.ty and at times Vltrollc attacks on the "grand old party." Col. Roosevelt came in for a large share of tin maledictions hurled at the Republican party. Former Sen? ator J. C. S. Blackbourn of Kentucky declared at the afternoon mass meet? ing 'that the new nationalism cnun? elated by Roosevelt was filled w'ti treason" deeper and darker "than j any charged against the South front j *61 to '65." I Gov. Harmon was the first speaker at the af'.ornoon meeting, which '.' as called to order by Gen. Murray Van diver and presided over by Gov*. Crothers of Maryland. Qov. Hamon sounded a keynote when he declared that "personal pref? erence, jealousies and ambitions must not be allowed to spring up and bre*1 confusion In council or action." He sharply criticised Republican extrava? gance and marveled at the patience of the American people in submitting so long to Republican rule and a Re? publican tariff system. Mr. Clark in his address warned his fellow Democrats that it was the fail? ure of Republican party to keep its pledges especially with the respect to the tariff, that brought about its de? feat, and that the Democratic party must live up to Its promises In every respect. "If the Republican party had car? ried out its pledges," declared Mr. ('lark, "no power on earth could have dethroned it. We must not fall into the same error." Mr. Clark referred to the new tariff law as the Payne-Aldrich-Smoot monstrosity." Senator Bailey declared that Demo? crats were all of one accord as to the necessity for the revision of the tariff and the principle which should guide that revision. The only differ? ence, he asserted, would be in the method or revision. "For my part I believe that the only way to revise a bill like the Pa>>ie-A Ulrich act is to cut its head off and to cut it off as soon as you get to it. "Every schedule in it is bad. 1 am not willing to take out one and h ave another there. Take them all out as, between rotten apples, there is no c hoice. | "Let's prepare a tariff bill as if we had control of the senate and the presidency and then, if those Re? publican heathens and infidels of the senate refuse to take it up, that will be time enough to talk about revision schedule by schedule, if we are not capable of preparing a tariff bin, from Gensis to Relevations, we will disappoint the hopes of tin- country and?the prospects of tin- Democrat? ic party. Lay every duty for revenue, anil none for protection." In rapping "new nationalism." Sen? ator Blackburn insisted that the three coordinate branches of the government should be kept separate and distinct and that there Bh odd be no encroachments one upon another. "Seductive and alluring as is the title." Mr. Blackburn said, "we want no "new nationalism.' " He said that this issue had been thrust upon tic country by th-- "biggest, bohlest an 1 ablest leader of his party." bul thaf, In spite of its exalted origin, "it means more than political revolution It no -ans treason treason deeper inj darker than was ever attributed t> the South from '?'? 1 to '65. "New nationalism." said the Ken I tucklan, "sticks down every barrier I hoisted f ?r the protection of ?h i J rights of the cltisen." I Gov. Harmon, Champ ?Mark nnd many others on the Byrie stag I /* crowded about Mr. Blackburn to con Tatulate him <ui his- speech. Tho ug auditorium was crowded to the loora in his- addreas Oov, Harmon of Ohio gave his ideas on tariff revision. Af? ter reviewing the result of the No? vember election Mr. Harmon said' "The people have turned to us, sv> far as they can at this time, and they have done it with full knowledge of our view on the tariff. They know we believe the raising of public reve? nue to be the proper object of all tax? ation; that whatever the process th? government can and does not tax any? body but its own citizens from Whom comes every dollar it gets; that tarif taxes, being laid on articles for con sumption, apportions themselves among the people according to the amounts consumed sc that levying them properly means an adustment of burdens among consumers, accord? ing to their ability to pay, and not a distribution among manufacturers of rights to collect tribute from con? sumers.*' Preparing for old Age, (By Elbert Hubbard.) N< w York American. Socrates was once asekd by a pu? pil this question: "What kind of peo pe shall we be when we reach Ely? sium ?" And the answer was: "We shall be the same kind of peo? ple that we were here." If there is a life after tmis we are preparing for it now, just as 1 am preparing for my life tomorrow. What kind of a man shall I be to? morrow? Oh, about the same kind of man that 1 am now. The kind of man that 1 shall be next month de? pends upon the kind of man I have been this month. If I am miserable- today it is not within the round of probabilities that I shall be supremely happy tomor i row. Heaven is a habit. And if we are going to heaven we would better be ge tting used to-it. Past life is preparation for the fu ture; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. We are preparing all the time lor old age. The two things that n: *ke edd age beautiful are resignation and a just consideration for the rights of others. In the play of "Ivan the Terrible" the interest centers around the man, the Csar Ivan. As played by Rich? ard Mansfield we simply got a glimpse Into the life of a tryant who runs the gamut of grunt, growl, grumplness and grouch. Incidentally this man had the pow? er to put other men to death, and this he does and has done as his whim and temper might dictate. He was vfdictive, cruel, quarrelsome, trannlcal and terrible. Now that he feels the approach of death he would make his peace with Ood. Rut he has delayed the matter too long. He didn't realize in youth and middle life I that he was then preparing foi old age. Man is the result of cause and ef? fect, and the causes are to a degree in our hands. Life is fluid, and well, has it been called the stream of life ?we are going, flowing somewhere. Strip Ivan of his robes and crown and he might be an old farmer and live in Ebeneser. Every town and village has its Ivan. To be an Ivan just turn your tem? per loose and practice cruelty on any person or thing wLhin your reach, and the result will be a sure prepara? tion for s querulous, quarrelsome, ptckety, sniptty, fussy and foolsh old age, accented with many outbursts of wrath that are terrible in their fu? tility ?and ineffectiveness. Rabyhood has no monopoly on the tantrum. The characters of King Lear and [van the Terrible have much In com? mon. One might almost believe that the writer of Ivan had felt the in? completeness of Lear and had seen the absurdity of making a melodra? matic bid for sympathy in behalf of this old man thrust out by his daugh? ter. Lear, the troublesome. Lear to whose limber tongue there were con? stantly leaping words unprintable and names of tar, deserves no son pity at our hands. All his life he had* been training his three daughters for exactI) the treatment he was to r? - eei\ e. Ail his life Lear had been lubrica? ting the chute that was to give him a quick ride out Into the midnight storm. "Oh, how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." he cries. There is something quite as bad as a thankless child, and that is a thankless parent an irate. Irascible parent who possesses an und. \ - ground vocabulary and a disposition t > use it. T;?e false note in Lear lie-; in ui\ Ing him a daughter like Cordelia, Tolstoy's portrayal rings true, and Ivan the Terrible is what he Is With? out apology, eXCUSe or explanation. Take it or leave it-?If you do nv>t lik?- plays of this kind go with me to vaudeville. Mansfield's Dan was terrible. The czar is not Old in years?not over seventy?but you can see that Death is sniffing close upon his track. Ivan has lost the power of repose. He cannot listen, weigh and decide. He has no thought or consideration for any man or thing. This is his hab? it of life. Glimpses of Ivan's past are given in his jerk confessions. He is the most miserable and unhappy of men, and you behold that he is reaping as he has sown. All his life he has been preparing for this. Each day has be m a pre? paration for the next. Ivan dies in a lit of wrath, hurling curses on his family and his court?dies in a fit into which he has been purposely taunted by a man who knows that the outburst is certain to kill the weakened monarch. Where does Ivan the Terrible go when death forecloses the mortgage? I know not. But this I believe: No confessional can absolve him; no priest benefit him; no God forgive him. He has damned himself and he began the work in youth. He was getting ready all his life for this old age, and this old age was getting ready for the fifth act. The playwright does not say so, Mansfield did not say so, but this is the lesson: Hate is a pedson, wrath is a toxin, sensuality leads to death, clutching selfishness is a lighting to the fires of hell. It is all a prepara? tion?cause and effect. If you are ever absolved you must absolve yourself, for no one else can. And the sooner you begin the bet? ter. We oft? n hear of the beauties of old age, but the only old age that is beautiful is the one the man has long been preparing for by living a beau? tiful life. Every one of us is right now preparing for old age. There may we a substitute in the world for good nature, but I do not know where it can he found. The secret of salvation is this: Keep sweet and keep busy. While Secretary Meyer is saving so much, he mustn't forget to save the navy. The six leading magazines publish? ed 291 poems this year?of which some, doubtless, were read. W. A. Kirhy, of St. George, who has been appoiuted on the staff of Gover? nor Blease, is only twenty-two years of age. A bill has been introduced into the house by the Charleston delegation for a commission form of govern? ment for Charleston. Heaven is always found within the heart whenever the obstructing veil of doubt is rent apart?peace pre? sides when doubt is out. The State Teachers' Association will hold its annual meeting in Co? lumbia from March 23-25. A large attendance of teachers is expected. Paris is some place for bringing about improvement in young women! The Charlesi.cn News and Courier tells of a Charleston girl who went there and is now looked upon as an angel. Mrs. Harriet M. Martin, of New? castle, N. H., who is 93 years old, is the oldest ^'office girl" in the world, it is believed. For many years she has been in charge of a doctor's of? fice in that town. The President of Cuba has appoint? ed a board of Government officers to consider plans for constructing the new Presidential Palace, provided for under the recent appropriation of $500, -00 from the lottery surplus. A Ruf* Orpington rooster, missing for three weeks, was found wedged in the wooden foundation of a hay staek at Stanford, Kent. The bird was thin as a lath, but now is crowing as lustily as ever. It was 20 days with? out food. Observations of chanfei in the field of view, the appearance of objects that were formerly below the horizon, ami the disappearance of low-lying objects that were formerly visible have boon made in many parts of the World. Stub chances OCCUr with com? parative frequency in the district around Jena, in Thurlngtc? Another remarkable alteration hf, level has been observed during the last half century in the foothills of the Jura. In 1861 only the tip of a church steeple ..i VUenkundstadt could be seen from th< first story of the Castle of Ptrooa sendorf, on the opposite bank of the Itlver Main. More and more of the steeple became visible each year, and now half oi it can be seen from the first story of the eastle. Another church steeple, situated a few milt l northward, drat peeped above the horizon of the eastle about the year ISnJV and since h is been steadily ris ing.