Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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KDl'l ATION AM> IMMK.HM ION. Clarence PW speak* of the Need* of South Carolin?. One vf the Interesting features of the recent annual meeting of the 8outh Carolina Farmer*' Union waa the addrea* by Clarence Toe. editor of the Progressive Farmer. Mr. Poe's speech laid emphasis up? on "Education and Immigration: Both of the Hlght 8ort" as two poli? cies the South Carolina union should steadily advocae. He did not advo? cate enreetrlsted European Immigra? tion, but selected immigration of peo? ple of our own stock, especially thrlfTy and prosperous northern and western farmers. He urged this es peclally a* the ?urest solution of the vexatious race problem. I rannot believe." he exclaimed, tnet you white people of South Car? olina will ever be content to have thla garden spot of creation remain permanently the abode of a predomi? nate, negro population. You have sccompllshed much; the progress you have made under the circumstances le one of the most remarkable achieve? ments In American Industry, hut I should like* to see Just what you could accomplish if given a predominant white population and freed from tho drawbacks of the tensnt system. I believe you would put the northern states to shame." A great body of email white farm? ers, gsjtt man living under his own I lue and h*J tree. Is the safety of any State, he declared. afi Poe spent the first half of his time emphasising the fact that the welfare of every worthy Interest. In? dustry and individual In the State de? pends upon the efficiency of the aver? age cltlsen. "And the one great question for us. therefore." he continued. "Is slmplv this: How can we raise the average of efficiency? "It seems to me that there are fust two basic and fundamental ways: I 1 t Education, for the development of our own people, and (2) Immigra? tion, bringing efficient people from other sections. And of these two ways Incomparably the greatest Is education. "As yet we but see through a glass darkly as to what education Is really going to mean these next twenty-five years, and from then on In quicken? ing th* Industrial efficiency of the people. Not only shall we have long- . er terms and better grading and all that, but for the first time the schools are beginning to train for sctual life. Here In the Sou'h. for example, al? ways rural and destined to remain so. the one section of America of which It Is true that there are more people engaged In agriculture than ir? all other occupations combined, and yet until now our entire school system has been hacked and hewed to fit the Procrustean bed of the ur? ban model. Made by city people for city people, the books and teaching , have not been adapted to the needs ( et the country children. We shall j tak* a long step forward when the farm boy has proportionately fewer) problems In arithmetic about foreign exchanges and latitude and longitude and the metric systsm of weights and measures, and more about how to cal? culate a feeding ration for cows or! s fertiliser formula from certain . quantities of potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen, and when he studtett proportionately lese about far-away Australia and Kamchatka, and more about the soil that he walks over and plows In every dav .if bin life. The farmer girl (and the city girl also for that matter? must learn of food val? ues, of the ? hemlstry of cooking, of hygiene and of sanitation. Domestic erlern e for the girls must go aide by side with agriculture for the boys. "Take our physiology as another example. Scientists tell us now that every third death among us Is the result of an unnecessary disease, every tblr.l efts* of sickness unr.eo essary. an?t that the average human life might be lengthene d gfjg tftlfd by proper application of the principles of sanitation and hygiene. And I Instead of practical Instructions for combating disease sand preserving health, we learn how many bones there are In the skeleton and about the difference between arteries and veins. We have taught nu n who w to be farmers ,?n On-.-k roots and La? tin roots, and nothing about corn r-'ots and cotton root*. We have spent our time learning about the construction of a Mini century char lot onlv to get run over bv a 20th century automobile. Make An CM of l>tudgcr> "Tbl? \* whit all nur h|ii< atioi i! lesders are now beginning to *< and the changed spirit of the s< boots, carrying new ln.?plrat| >n and knowl? edge Into every line of human Indus? try, making an art of what SOXM trag drudgerv Is g??lng to (fog }l x,.st ;l?,| frultfulne-" ' f? labor these next t\en?\ year* ?o? b a* the world has novi r known hctViro, I do not think It lex much to say that In the next twenty five years we shall In?MfSSSft the Sjsji fuln<?i* of our schools tenfold, that In promoting the efficiency of the peopb the (k hool will be ten time* n* ISftftOf tent a factor m now. "In other words, much as educa? tion has meant to the prosperity of a people until now, the new education Is going to mean tenfold more, and the Carolinas should make haste to /cad al other States In taking advan? tage of this great energy-giving im? pulse. We have made great advance.* In eduction, and yet the best thing the Carolinas could do now, the best financial Investment her people could make would be to double this school . -vpenditure. Considered simply as a profitable place to put money, It would pay the man who has land, the man who has capital, the man who has scientific knowledge or industrial skil. and the man who lives by his muscles. For the prosperity of all Is measured by the Intelligence and ef ;i< . ncy cf OUT average man. "And not only the schools, but all ther agencies that are educating the people to a higher degree of elFlcjen t y. deserve otir support lust in proportion to the extent and thor? oughness of their work. "First of all then. In raising the ef? ficiency of our average man. we need always and everywhere to help forward the cause of eduactlon for the development of our own people; and in the next place we ought to en? tourage the immigration of progres? sive and enterprising men and wo? men* from other sections. Need More People. "While the great basic principle , upon which we must build Is that the prosperity of every Industry, and ev? ery Individual is measured by the in? telligence and efficiency of .he ave? rage man with whom we have to deal, we need also to r< member? simply as a modifying factor?that up to a point of density which we In the south shall not reach for centuries yet. prosperity will be en? hanced by increasing the number of Intelligent and efficient people per square mile. Ther? !? a point of 'diminishing returns' but we are in no danger of reaching It. As it is, t oth Carolinas need and must have , n larger proportion of white people. | The whole south is still t"o sparsely settled. <>ur eleven southern states. | hiding T?o:as. support 20.000.000 j people of both races, and only 12, 0000.000 white people, while the some area in Europe suports over 1 .^.OOO.OOO white people. "Of course, we do not want the i lower class European Immigration. If we can get Immigration from Eng? land. Scotland. Ireland, Germany, Holland. Sweeden, etc.,?the countries whose blood has gone to make up ? >ur vigorous American stock?It \\ ?uld be of great help to us. We are ?II of us such immigrants ourselves. r?r descendants of such Immigrants. From some countries of southern and .?;.M?-rn Eurbpe, on the other hand, Immigration Is of a decidedly lower Ofdjaf and objectionable because of n l<?w s*andard of intelligence and i d'.ciency. ?<>n the very same principle .how-1 ever. Immigrants of a normal or high standard of intelligence and effi? ciency is desirable. Such immigra? tion can be had, and ought to be had ?In some measure perhaps from nir Fngllsh, Scotch, Dutch and Irish kinsfolk across the sea?but chiefly from our northern and western states.. For years now hundreds of thousands of the most enterprising, and progressive farmers In the mld ?11* west have been going Into Cana? da with Its long hard winters and bit? ter climate, not only giving up American cltlsenshlp, but actually paying two or three times as much f'?r land In the Inhospitable region as land of the same fertility commands In the south. We ought to have Wrought these men to the south. They know our Institutions, our language. Thev are industrious .thrifty, wide? awake, and many of them of south ? rn ancestry, who should naturally) ( ome back home. Let's bring them ba?k. One Strong Itoa^ui. If ?her.' wen- no other reasons for advotatlng such immigration from the north and West, I should fa\or It a*< our surest deliverance from onr no e problem .as Senator Tlllmail himself has so strongly argued. The proportion of negrOCS In our State \sil eXCC#d twenty per -Hi. We must train the aafjro?the more Ignorant he Ii the grnater the burden on the south, Bui ?t beat the process will be slow .f.nd at present it would probably not bi too much to say that In conshb ring our whole population, Including our great constructive Isaaken and eaptatni ?>f Industry, the average BafJfU in the Carolinas In eoonomlr worth and efH? clency Is only half as useful as the average white man. In other words In rating gnnoral average, .., ?fl|< i, n< y we should put the White man at |0<l and the negro at fifty, to that a COUn? ty half white and ball riee.ro would have an sverage efficiency of nsvon? ty-flve or i handicap of twsnty-flve per cent as comparad with h county with an exclusive white population >t a normal degree of efficient y. "Whatnot or not the difference is .is hihi h i I ? ?... noli* tie.I, i ert tin it is that the laraof the proportion of white, the higher tie- average of of* ff'lency, the more proopofOUl Will bf our every Industry, and better it will be for every individual citizen including; the negroes themselves. "Now let as start right?not by Making immigration from southern Eur<?pe, but by advertising our re? sources to the thrifty, enterprising and progressiv?? farmers of the north and west?men of our own stock, who now only need an invitation to make them come. Emerson was right when he said that "Every man who coiiie? into a city with any pur? chasable talent or skill in him gives to every man's labor in the city a new Worth,' and if an Ignorant negro slave in the old days was worth $1,00<?, certainly we may assume that a thrifty and intelligent white west? erner, bringing not only himself, but in most rases, substantial accumulat? ions as well .should be worth many times as much as an asset to the state. "And the truth Is, South Carolina needs more people. "In the last census year, 234,062 native sons and daughters of South Carolina were living in other states (to say nothing of the millions sons and daughters of South Carolina emi? grants,) while South Carolina had received from other states and coun? tries only 60,744 settlers. "The rest of the United States gained In population, 1900-1910 over fifty per cent faster than you did, and no other cotton belt state except TenneeaeC, which is only partially in the cotton belt anyhow, made such a low per centage In the gain of popu? lation. While the figures showing the population by races have not been given out, a fair estimate would be that South Carolina now has 650,000 white people. It should have 3,000, 000 more?and even then with its 800,000 negroes, would only be one third as thickly settled as Mass? achusetts. "And with twice or thrice Its present population, consider for a moment what ? mightily forward movement we Should see at once in every conceivable phase of South Carolina progress, how much more important every institution In the state would become, how much more varied would be our indlustrles, how much easier It would be to get good roads in counties In which the white population is now too small to main? tain them, how easy it would be to double the usefulness of your, public schools, how quickly we should build railroads in sections which must otherwise remain dor? mant and backward for long, long years, how Important our cities should become, and how much more attractive would be life in the thick? ly settled communities we should have, and how much easier it would be to get telephones and waterworks and trolley lines and local libraries and all the advantages of twentieth century rural life. "Let us take as our watchword Education, co-operation and Immi? gration?Each of the right sort." GRANT AND LEE. Points off Resemblance In Charac? ter of Two (.real Commanders. In some respects there are re? markable resemblances between Grant and Lee. Though one had old family traditions behind him and the other had not. both were abso? lutely simple, democratic and indif? ferent to fuss, parade or show, lioth wore men of extreme reticence, using as few words as possible and only for the deliberative conveyance of thetr purposes. Both, under a calm. If not frigid exterior, cove red genuine sympathy and human kindness. Kut one was a man of the eighteenth cen? tury and the other of the nineteenth, one of the old America, the other of the new. Grant stands for our mod* srn world, with Its rough business habits, its practical energy, its de? sire to do things no matter how, its indifference to the sweet grace of Ceremony and dignity and courtesy. Lee had the traditions Of an older day. Its high beliefs, Its grave state lin<ss. its feeling that the way of do? ing a thing was almost res much BS the thing done. In short Grant's Amerlcs ares the \meiica of Lincoln, Lee's tin- America <?f Washington. Long ago Milton gald that he who would he a great poel must make his OWf) life a true poem, Lee bad cer? tainly no oare for being ? gn at poet, j but if ever man made his own life true poem it was he, Grant's career has the vigor, the abruptness, the patness, the roughness of a terse milt* tar\ dispatch. It fit ?c its plaCS and (ills It. and :>ll is said. Lee's has the breadth, the dignity, the majesty, ths round and full completeness of b MlltonlC epic, none the less inspiring because Its snd Is tragic, it was. a life lived In ths grand style, Only In these days so few people rare for poetry,?Gamaliel Bradford, .ir.. In Ihe Atlantic, Buy n now. Now Is the time to buy :i bottle off Chamberlain's Clolc, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, it i- almost certain to be n.led before the summer is over. This remedy has no superior. For sale by all deal* ers. What It Means. THE WILEY INVESTIGATION. Evidence Introduced u> show Solid tor's Partiality Toward Ben/.oato of Soda?Vigorous Language. Washington, Aug. 9.?The investi? gation o fthe "Wiley incident" in the department of agriculture, revolving i around the charges that Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, as chief chemist, employed an expert scientist at an illegal rate of payment, reached an acute stage in the house committee of inquiry to? day. Evidence showing that Solicitor Mc Cabe had removed the words "ben zoic acid" and substituted the word "caffeine" before circulating a judg? ment rendered against a food manu? facturer in Missouri court was only one incident in a session full of lively clashes between members of the com? mittee and the committee and attor? neys. As a result of views credited to President Taft in a newspaper article that the house committee is conduct? ing an "ex parte" investigation of the Wiley case. Chairman Moss an? nounced today that all witnesses whom the department of agriculture and the president may desire to pur ! on the stand will be heard. The power of the committee to in? quire into the Wiley case as it now retta before the president was raised during the hearing today by Repre t -ntative Sloane of Nebraska. Rep? resentative Mays of Florida replied with vigorous language that he "wanted the light turned on every? thing" and that "the people are tired of having technical objections made to keep out important evidence." Mr. Sloane finally withdrew all ob? jections to the line of inquiry. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOTES. Phone 200. A stranger remarked the other day, relative to Sumter ,that It was one of the prettiest small cities In the country, especially referring to our many beautiful trees. He asked, however, why it was that so many of our people maintained such unsight? ly fences in their front yards. There 13 hardly a street in Sumter that is not marred by these fences. Why is it? Head the following carefully. There are many suggestions that we might adopt in'our own homes: Take away all the ashes and dirt from your back yard immediately, send your rubbish to the dumping ground. Clear out your cellars stables, and sheds. Whitewash your cellar walls, fences, and hen-houses. Burn all rubbish that will burn. Clean your vacant lots and alley? ways. Avoid mixing ashes and garbage. This is against the law. You may be tined five dollars. Refrain from throwing old paper, banana or orange skins into streets. Plant some grass and flower seeds to make your home beautiful. Every house should have a little green grass and a few trees. When you have cleaned up keep your yard clean all the time. Dirty yards cause flies, sickness, death. Old tin cans hold water; water breeds mosquitoes. Hotten garbage makes bad air, bad air makes weak bodies, weak bodies made big doctor's bills.? New liri'ain, Conn. The Rochester children are for clean streets. Large buttons with the words "Clean I'p" printed on them are the insignia of membership In the children's clean street regi? ment organized by the Chamber of Commerce. The school authorities have been SSkd to help organize the children In this warfare. Twenty-nine cities have adopted the commission plan of government since the beginning of the year. The lending men of the commer? cial world are coming to know that ( it it-s Which arc beautiful, well gov? erned .healthful and generally at? tractive to live i ii and Visit are titc ones which will do the business of the future."?American City. At the request of President Dabbs of the Farmers' Union, ;? joint meet? ing of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerz e and a commit? tee of the members of the Farmers' Union will meet al the Chamber of Commerce on Monday, August 14th, al i P, M. A committee representing the Re? tailers' Association attended ths clt> council meeting last evening, and Hi? ed a request that the police be *o structed to prevent crowding on tin sidewalks, and requested that the people be naked to stand along the curb, leaving the body of siii.-w.iiK-, store windows and store entrances free for traffic, Foley Kldnej Pllla will check tin progress of your kidney and bladder trouble and heal by removing the cans?... Try them, Sib.it's Drug Store, AX UNFAVORABLE REPORT. Senate Finance Committee Decided to Present Recommendations Against Tariff Revision. Washington, Aug. i*.--The senate finance committee today decided to report adversely the house cotton tar? iff provision bill. The bill will go to the senate to? morrow. Senator Cummins of Iowa will offer an amendment to the cotton bill when it comes before the senate, providing for the revision of the Payne-Aldrtch law. This complication, coming or top of the threatened veto by the pres; dent on the statehood bill and dead? lock on the wool bill apparently has thrown all hope of early adjournment in the air. POLITICS n r WOMAN'S GAME. Kansas' Woman .Mayor Now Ready to Let Go If She Could. Hunnewell, Kan., Aug 7.?"Politics is not a woman's game." This is the decision of Mrs. Ella Wilson, mayor of this town, who -since her inaugu? ration has had a continuous fight with the male city council. They have not confirmed her appointees for city marshall or civ^ clerk and she has not signed any of the ordi? nances they passed. Mrs. Wilson tonight, for the first time, admitted she would quit if she could, saying politics is not the place for a woman, but at the same time she turned on the members of the city council and forced the members to listen to her. The meeting tonight accomplished nothing except to pay for the repairs on the town pump as the mayor would sign no ordinances passed by the council, and the council would I do nothing the mayor wished. At the close of the meeting Mrs. Wilson telegraphed to Governor Btubbl to begin ouster proceedings against the membrs of the council. How to Can Tomatoes. Harris Springs, Aug. 9.?Laurens is a pretty town with plenty of room. These up-country towns have a great advantage over ours in the beautiful ?sites for buildings. Talking about sights the court house here is a sight. It Is remarkable indeed that earthquake that wrent the funnel of one of Its chimneys did not disturb to any great extent the building itself. I suppose that when this shock came to the chimney there was great con- . sternation within and that the people from the high sheriff, generally sup? posed to be as brave as bravest, rush? ed pellmell into the streets, but. if thef did .they all went back for I took particular pains to notice wheth? er any one was in the old pile, and saw that they were all "doing busi? ness at the old stand." Yes. they are i ) going to build. No one imparted this valuable piece of information to mc, but 1 just know it. They will be a bit slow about undertaking the task, possibly because they are a very de? liberate people, but they are certain? ly going to build because it is a pure case of "hafter." I had to spend the night in the place and found entertainment In what was said to be the best hotel in the place, convenient to travelers, commodious and tasteful. The next morning at lo::io a. m. I took ship? ping to Waterloo, not mine I hope, Whore the Clemson demonstration car was to demonstrate. This they bad begun to do before we arrived, possibly because of the excellent time (?) our train made. As we jogged along I was forcibly remind? ed of other purely accommodation roads. Accommodation! Say, how would you like to live on accommo? dation a while. 1 once read of a fel? low named Lasaroui who tried it be? cause, for no better reason, he had to. As before stated I did not see everything, I saw the ladies teaching our wives how to cook, but a lot of this seemed to me impractical, pos? sibly because I was too raw. What every lady wished to know?bow to successfully can fruit and tomatoes? they were about to pass unnoticed tili I asked for the Information. As many of our good women do not at? tend upon this work l will here give the directions as I received them: A large dish pan Or other suitable vessel with pebbles, pasteboard or other mat as covering its bottom to prevent glass jars resting thereon is placed on the stove, filled with water into which the Jars of fruit, toma? toes, i tc, with rubbers ami caps on j loosely, are placed. If any jars arc not full, fill with water. Bring to a boll and let l>..il . iuht minutes, when you screw caps <mi as tightly as you can. Do not disturb cap after this by trying to tighten. Boll ten min? utes more, Repeat this last ten min? utes, ne\t boll two days, ??Has.i." \n ordinary case of diarrhoea can, ms i rule, be cured by a single dose of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoen Remedy. This remedy has no superior for bowel complaints. For isle bj all dealers. COMPROMISE ON WOOL BILL. La Follette and Vndcrwood Make Some Progress Toward Compro? mise on Tu riff Revision. Washington. Aug. 9.?There was much activity today in the interest of an agreement between the two houses of congress on the differences on the wool bill, resulting in an un? derstanding that Senator La Follette and Representative Underwood, con? stituting the sub-committee of the full conference committee, will make an early effort to reach an adjust? ment. The close of the day found the two legislators still apart on es? sential details, but nearer together than heretofore. A King Who Loft Home set the world to talking, but Paul MathulKa, of Buffalo, N. Y., says he always keeps at home the King of all laxatives?Dr. King's New Life Pi Iks?and that they're a blessing to all his family. Cure constipation, headache, indigestion, dyspepsia. Only 25c at Slberfe Drug Store. S-. nd us your job work. Do not allow your kidney and blad? der trouble to develop beyond the reach of medicine. Take Foley Kid? ney Pills. They give quick results and stop Irregularities with surpris? ing promptness. Sibert's Drug Store. Columbus Spradley, who was driv? en out of Aiken county by the Hol? steins, father and relatives of Miss Gussie Mae Holstein, whom he was engaged to marry, returned Monday and eloped with Miss Holstein and was married to her in Augusta Tues? day. Thirty Years Together. Thirty years of association?think of it. How the merit of a good thing stands out in that time?or the worth lessness of a bad one. So there's no guess work In this evidence of Thos. Arl3S, Concord, Mich., who writes: I have used Dr. King's New Discovery for 30 years, and it's the best cough and cold cure I ever used." Once it finds entrance In a borne you can't pry It out. Many families have used it forty years. It's the most infal? lible throat and lung medicine on earth. Unequaled for Jagrippe, asth? ma, hay fever, croup, quinsy or sore lungs. Price 60 cents, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Sibert's ?Drug Store. Mr. W. D. Carson of the Dalzell section has moved his family down to Summerton and expects to move to that place himself later in the fall as soon as his crop is gathered. Many a Suffering Woman. Drags herself painfully through her daily tasks, suffering from backache, headache.. nervousness, loss of ap? petite and poor sleep, not knowing her Ills are due to kidney and blad? der troubles. Foley Kidney Pills give quick relief from pain and misery and a prompt return to health and strength. No woman who so suffers can afford to overlook Foley Kidney Fills. Sibert's Drug Store. Since the Governor of Oklahoma has quizzed Governor Wilson about lynchingS in New Jersey. Governor Wilson might retaliate by asking a few pertinent questions about bank? ing in Oklahoma.?Philadelphia Press. More i>eople, men and women, are suffering from kidney and bladder trouble than ever before, and each year more of them turn for quick re? lief and permanent benefit to Foley's Kidney Remedy, which has proven itself to be one of the most effective remedies for kidney and bladder ali? ments, that melical science has de? vised. Sibert's Drug Store. Subscribe to The Da ly Item. 10 cents per week, by carrier. Accused of stealing. B. B. Chamberlain, of Clinton, Me., boldly accuses Buckl.?n's Arnica Salve of stealing?the ftlng from burns or scalds*?the pain from sores of all kinds;?the distress from boils or piles. "It robs cuts, c*>rns. bruises, sprains and injuries of their terror," he says, "as a healing remedy its equal don't exist." Only 25c at Sibert's Drug Store. Try an ad. in the Daily Item, and ersteh results. Seemed to ?.Ivo Him a Now Stomach. "I suffered Intensely after eating and no medicine <>r treatment T tried seemed to do any good," writes H. M. Younkpeters, Editor of The Sun. Lake View. Ohio. "The first few doses of Chamberlain's Stomach nnd Liver Tablets give me surprising re? lief and the Second bottle seemed to give me S new stomach and perfectly good health." For sale by all dealers. Try ;m ad. In the Dalle Item, and watch results. i "u s and bruises may be healed tn about on.?-tbird the time required by the usual treatment by applying Chamberlain's Liniment, it is an an tlseptlc and causes such Injuries to heal without maturation. This lini? ment also relieves soretioss of the muscles and rheumatic pains. Tor sale by all dealers. Try an nd. In the Daily Hem, and watch r.-suits. \ well Known Des Ifotnes woman nftor suffering miserably for two days from bowel complaint, was cured by one dose of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem? edy. For salo by all dealers.