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Cfet Shiran n? SontjjriTL mmmmm mmt ?BT? MTEEN PUBLISHING C9MPANY 8UMTMR. g, C. fl.lt per Annum?la advance. AdvirUaaaaaiita: Oae Sauare ft ret lneertlon.fi.tt ?eery subsequent Insertion.It Contracts (or three months, or Kf will be mads at red need rates. JJ1 com muut nations which sub prtrets tntareata will bo charged e ae advertisements. Panesi tee and tributes of respect c here*4 for. iter Watchman was found ad la lift and the True Southron la !???? The Watchman gad Southron hoe the ;omrbinid elroalatioa and cf both of the eld papers, askd Is snaatfeetly the heat advertising seedturn la Sweater. gJLLU-lgJ... 1 _._J?gfaeasaalsB?sjsj The State Board of Education was called to meet In Columbia Monday to eonslder several matters growing out of tho recent text-book adoption. One of the mat'.ers In which consider? able lntereat has been manifested is the protest made by the Confeder? ate Veterans agalnat the use of the "Heart of Oak" readers, because one of the series contains a poem which alludes to the Confederate army at the battle of Shiloh us "a dark, rebellious host" This statement, in a history, would he quite objectionable, but in a reader, which purports to be noth? ing more than a compilation of prose and poetical selections. It is not a ssatter that calls for so much notice. Wc are cirioua to see what the State Board of Education will do about it. We would suggest that Tlmrod's "Caro? lina" be substituted in place of the objectionable poem, and the reader will be improved from a literary Standpoint and the old Confederates wftl dnd nothing In the pointed al lueiona therein to wound their sensi? bilities, ? ? ? President Taft confeseee to a feel gag of disappointment that the Demo ?rata did not content themselves with passing the Canadian reciprocity bill, according to hie orders, and then promptly adjourning the extra ses? sion of Congreas. He accuses them of pis j ins politics and the Inference li quite aleax. that he thinks their ceaduet very reprehensible. Doubtless he dose fed this waj ghoul It, f Democrats ?od agegsyaggta llopul U? eaa Senators geyra put him in a hole Jragft which go amount of sxpl gs> He has cast i his lot wfth the eld ?taud-pat crowd j anu it is sgalegs r | to travel overj oouatry * hi tb people that . i tariff revision If he wss a re tariff revlilonlst and was on side of the people against sugar. I .wool, shoe snd other trust carles of the tariff he would not have vetoed the tariff bills put through Congress by the Democrats and Insurgent Republicans. If. he had been a sincere friend of the peo? ple. Instead of a pliant tool of the special Interests, he wou'd have vetoed the Tayne-Aldrtch bill and his talk of scientific tariff revision Is worthy of 'i" greater consideration than the petur of a bunco steerer. ? ? ? The pla.i of Commissioner Wttson to enlist the cotton mill men of South Carolina In the movement to market the cotton crop gradually and main? tain pricee at a level that will give the former a legitimate profit, looks like a Utopian dream. It la to the Interest of the farmer, merchant and banker to maintain a high level of prtcea for cotton aa each of them gets a share of the profit, but there la nothing in it to the direct profit of the mill men. and they will be found, we believe, on the bear side of the market, as they have always been. I .a ?1 yesr and the year before the market was maintained by the atcady buying of the foreign mills, white the American mills held out to the last for lower prices and bought cotton as sparingly ?e po*dbl?-. If the cotton farmers depend upon the mills for assistance In the tight against the rotton bears they may as well give up now?the mill men want e.oenp rotton. regardless of how they get It or what the effect of a low tub . has upon the farmer. The farmers want cheap fertiliser and they would laugh at Commissioner WagfOg If he were to ask them to co-operate .?. Ith the merchants, bankers and fertilis? er manufa' turere in a movement |g advance the pri< .? of >?? id phosphate or 1-4-1. The farmers should ne ih. r expect nor ask aid from the mill men. hut they have h right to ask and demand ths co-operation of the merchants snd bankers, for thev will pay. and pay well, for nil the financial assistance they receive from gfgs> ehante and bankers. The price of rotton Is u business mutter >?: i the farmers are able to handle H easily on the! haskt. If they would Luc lie. the JO-montt -old daughter ?if Mr. O. P. Ashmore. was drowned SJ a tub at Piedmont HAVA6ED BY HURRICANE. ihi uminow niiimi uauoua DAMAGE BY TERRIFIC STORM. Si?\fii Lives lAtst and Many Injured ?City Inundated und Property Damaged lit Least A Million Dol? lar*?Kht'tric Light and Street Railway System* But Out or Busi? ness. Summervllle. Aug. 29.?The sal* that has heen sweeping over the South Carolina and Georgia coast for j the past 46 hours had completely sub i aided >as>t night at 11:30, accord? ing to passengers reaching Summer? vllle this morning at an early hour. The loss is estlmat ?d at from $1, 000.000 to $1,500,00. The death list of seven has not been Increased, al? though a diligent search of the city and outlying districts has heen made. Trains tonight entered (he union station. The water, which was three i feet In the afternoon, has completely suhslded. The city Is in complete darkness, and no street cars are heing cperated. Charleston police stated at a late hour last night that no vandal- , Irm has heen reported. Many of the summer visitors on the Islands near the city left on the late afternoon tralnt. Reports reaching here from j Sullivan's Island say there was no | loss of life there .although the loss to property was great. The storm attained cyclone propor-| tlons at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon 1 of more or less squally condtions. 1 At noon the barometer regstered 29.75 after having steadily feilen all da v. At 1:25 o'clock a force of 48 i miles was shown; at '2:05, 44 miles; , at I:It] 86 miles; 4:30, 40 miles; 5:45 48 miles; 6:50. 70 miles; 7:50, 65 miles; 8:45. 65 miles; 9:45. 86 miles; 10:05. 76 miles; 1:20, 94 miles, at which time the wind gauge was put out of adjustment by the shaking of the frame work of the gauge. The wind died down to 48 miles shortly, after this time only to spring up again a* an Increased force, the wind veer? ing from the northeast and east, at which It had been blowing, to the southeast. At midnight the barometer ' got down to 29.30 inches. At noon today the barometer had gone up to 29.79 inches, the wind was only at brisk force with occasional squalls In puffs, and the sun was try- \ Ing to shine. The rainfall was more i than two Inches. The disturbance was reported to be west of Charles- | ton. WOfktgJg alley, and Forec/tster Cole* said that there Is no furthei dann? r. Charleston being etr out Of *M telf graphic and telephone commit* | nie ;t*on*. Mr. Cole wus unable to say anything about the movement that | the disturbance took, and did not. know whether Charleston was In the . direct centre of It or not. From the way things were shaken up It Is pre? sumed that Charleston was close to the centre. j How much beyond the registered reading of 94 miles an hour the wind got last night and this morning. Mr. Cole said that he was not prepared to say. The velocty was greater, but i Just how much he could not say. In the storm of 1885 a record of *4 mles an hour was recorded before the Wind gauge blew off the building. In the cyclone of 1893 the wind blew ?teadlly at the rate of 96 miles an hour and attained velocities of 120 miles. The tide was over eight feet during the present storm, three feet short of the record of 1893. Constd*rab|s & imag* was gone by the water in the lOfJ OSOtlOM of the city. Mmy people had to be removed from their houses. The tide contributed to the property damSgSS OAO1 unless the water recedes st onoe? further loss will result. The traten have caus? d washout on ths approaches to the union station, pre-J Venting Ike use of th's depot. The Southern railway announced today J that fcr the i.ext two days all of its trains will be handled from the old terminus' on 14ns street and it is! likely the! the Atlantic Coj.st Line: will ?tss the same depot. With tide much higher the uare hOtlOOS "f fertilizer. c??m^nt and Other concerns on the water front will ho ? fectod. making thi.* a very import? ant phase of the storm situation. Great damage is feared for the rice and Sea Island cotton Industry by the ' rise of th?- tide. Heavy damage WOl J dons to these crop* In the storm of j Inst October and another SSVSro blOW ( might prove almost ? death blow to i rots i s 4 eat r lea Th?- fertilizer mills were also dam* Sgsd botfly, AH of the mills lost Ihehr smokostackn water towsra and some of th?lr roofing. one ?.f the rntllw, trhoss name could not bs loo mod today, suffered Ihs loss of Its pier. I in the city the damage is large in I ths unroofing of ho uses blowing down j ..f fences, toppling over of chlni.u-y*. The flooding of promises and goods, with IhS unroofing of Ihs buildings added to ths pro port) loss , sa ThS WOfter front ha* suffered as ki hM* not dons since the cyclone of 111! Whsn irroat havoc oral done. A half dozen wharves have boon knocked iway in whole or part and Farmers* Union News ?AND ? Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers ; (Omducted by E. W. Da?h?, Fmkteot FariuerH UttftUil ol Hurmc* , County.) 1 Notice, Furniers' Union? I Bro. B. F. Keller, Vice President, statt- Union, and Warehouse Com initteenian, will be with us at Oswego nOXt Friday. Come out in force, brethren, and let us give this plan our good will and our subscriptions. Hope to have another good speaker, but am not certain. E. W. Dabbs, President. I Hugh Witherspoon, Sec. and Treas. Some Random Thought*. IMxie. (10 miles East of Lancas? ter) Aug. 24.?While I am waiting for the crowd to gather, 1 will give my readers some of my impressions of this section. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I had fairly good crowds at Lancaster, Camp Creek and Tradesville. The latter place is near the North Carolina and Chesterfield line. Mine lost Funderbm k (and their name is legion In this county) j took me over into North Carolina at { two points. For several miles our j road was parallel to the line, in coun- J ty as wild as the mountains on both sides of Lynches river, here a rocky I channel 20 feet wide, where we ford- ! od it, In a deep narrow alley. This section needs the rail- \ road to be extended through from Pageland westward to open up | some valuable lands. What surprised me was the small patches of eropu down In almost inaccessible ravines, while what seemed to me to he bet? ter land on the upper levels are still |g primeval forests, or have grown gp in pines and cedars since they were ?abandoned many years ago. s s ? Yesterday evening Bro. Funderbuek brought me to Bro. Porter's, now and many years ago. Democratic county chairman, at one time county organizer of the Farmers' Union, a veteran of the war and comrade of our fellow cltlxen B. M. Powell. His ! shipping has suffered a good deal. j 8t. Michael's church was among the places which suffered in the ?vorm. The steeple swayed so much lie bells were occasionally toll i mournful dirge as property was wrecked on all sides. One of ndows of the steeple was blown the Plates were blown off the church In large numbers. Considering the losses In crops and property In the city the damages are said to be upward of $1,000.000, with he possibility of the loss going even /rcat er. All business was generally sus? pended and the idea seemed to be that the day was needed for getting into shape after the storm. The tir?- alarm Is out of commission and Fire Chief Behrens asked this afternoon that the public should hear it in mind, and lose no t me in cr.se of a fire, vainly trying to get an alarm In. The trestle adjoining "he Mourn ?leasant ferry wharf was blown down, Instantly killling Elbert It. Smith of Columbia and Motorman Cutter of the Consolidated Electric company of Charleston, severely in? juring L. D. CUntworth of St. Bteph* ens and E. B. Hill. The injured were rushed to the hospital here. After a perilous night, clinging to a roof top .Ernest Hodges, a middle aged man, was rescued this morning at daybreak by a crew of the Con? solidated Power station. Hodges oc? cupied a lonely little cottage located in the marsh back of Cedar creek. About 11 o'clock the chimney fell in ?HodgOS Jumped through the wln doWi leaving two women in the room, swimming for a While around, he clung to the roof of the little house which had fallen in, drowning the two women who were left there. He v is later rescued. A. J. Cohurn, a Southern railway engineer, was killed by a roof Hying across the railroad yard and hitting him in the back. Death was in? stantaneous. < Ithofl killed were most? ly negroes, nam.fl not obtainable. I The storm played great havoc on I the waterfront, especially the lower part. Boyce'S wharf and Terry's wharf arc complete wrecks. The schooner Bdwlna, which was , Wash"-.I high on the I'.attery. had been takln? on lumber at South Atlantic Wharf, has nine feel of wat?T. I Capt, George Bwaln's launch Ca nooga was also lifted OUl of the water and damaged. The dredge Bewee of the Simons May rani company was sunk. The steamer Inlander was picked up and dopoalted on the wharf of the Consumers' Coal Company, sin suf? fered some damage. The naval reserves suffered in the storm, Tin boat house was wrecked snd onlj Ihe cutter was saved by bard work. Several of the iif?- boats of the lighthouse tender Cypress were I romlnescences of the war, and jf re? 1 construction, anl historical incidents I made my stay with him a very pleas? ant one. We had an early supper, and then behnd a fine mule he took me to the Buford battle tield where the Bloody Tarleton butchered the surrendered Virginians. Eighty four of them lie buried in one grave, I and I brought a small rock to use as a paper weight from the pile of stones j that mark the big grave. Many years ago a small shaft was erected. What I thought was the ravages of time, was the chipping off by vandals of pieces for souveniri Little Wax haws church nearby, where many of the wounded were cared for by the people of the country-side, has long since disappeared. This place is about twenty miles south from old Waxhaws church, where Andrew Jackson's father lies buried. Tra? dition says this public road from Monroe, North Carolina to Camden, known as the Rocky River road, was surveyed by George Washington, but at the risk of having my surmise cor? rected by "one who was there' as Bro. Porter said about a statement about Bro. Powell, I suggest it must have been surveyed by Col. Wm. Washington who ilgured in several battles in South Carolina, notably that of Eutaw Springs. I was invited to speak at old Wax haws next week, but our county meeting coming on Friday made It impossible to accept, for I must rest some. Well the crowd came, some 3.000 of them like Olanta's big picnic, and this letter was discontinued to he nnished tonight in Gaffney. There are some very tine lands and people in this Dixie settlement and they have a beautiful grove, school house and church. I could not help telling them to add the parsonage to com? plete the trio of good influences. Rocky River road Is the dividing line be? tween the waters of Lynches and Pee Dee rivers on one side, and the Catawba on the other. Hon. Tom C. Hamer spoke on Woodcraft, and I on Farmers' Union. The Junior Order of Mechanic's man, Hon. T. R Butter, of Gaffney, failed to come. After dinner Chief Justice, Ira B. Jones made them a ringing speech for better agriculture and marketing of crops. Some of his friends tried to get him to make a political ppeech, but he told them politics would not be appropriate to the occasion. j Mrs. Ira B. Jones captured the writer and he had to plead gulty and throw himself on the mercy of the courf A'hen his friends Oausar and Robinson put him down at the judge's ga'e. whereupon he was Im? mediately pardoned and sentenced to one night's hospitable entertainment! This morning he was invited to ac? company Judge i^nd Mrs. Jones to a dining at Hon. Joi'n G. Richard's (20 mles away) to mi?et Senator and Mrs. Tillman. It would have been a delightful auto rde In charming com? pany, but the engagement to speak at Douglas picnic made it impossible to accept. ? ? ? At Douglas Hon. Geo. Jones, mem? ber of the House, made a nice little Introductory speech, and with au deince comfortably seated In the pretty church, Old Vets, Red Shirts, young men, matrons, maids, boys and girls, the speaker was Inspired to the smashed by the waves as the boat lay at the custom house dock. A number of small fishing boats have been lost. The Charleston canning factory lost a portion of Its wharf and suffered o*b I Bf damage to its plant. The schooner I^tura Belle is nshor" on a mud flat up the Cooper river. Charleston, Aug. 28.?Seven per? sons known to be dead, many in Ivied and property damage of more than $1,000,000 seems to be sum to? tal of damage wrought by the storm here. The dead: ES. R, Smith, Columbia, drowned under falling wharf. Moiorman Cutter, drowned. Ida Robinson, crushed by roof, Rosa Blnaon, crushed by roof. Aloneo J, Cobur. engineer, killed by flying timber. Eva Myers, drowned. Tom Dooley, drowned. in addition to the above the Ca*? sidy family, number unknown, can takers at the Wapoo phosphate works, are uu.-m.ik and are believed to have been drowned. Great relief was felt when it w&m learned late today thai the peopl ! on Suiihan's Island were all safe, mans having b<en taken of! by the ferrs boat Lawrenco, which tied up over nlghl nl the Mount Pleasant wharf. best effort Of this trip, and wan list ened to very attentively for an hour. ? ? ? The interest has been inten??* und assurances come fr? ? iy to pur the Union back on its foot again. It has been very wearing, th.-re wore antago? nistic Influences that aroused all one's lighting blood and it was hard to know what to right and what to ignore. I think the purposes of the Union are better understood and there Will be ?'did growth now. When I boarded the train at Lan? caster, whom should I spy but my fellow worker of the Chamber of Commerce, Snell? I had not seen a paper since Monday and it did me good to have him read to me the news our joint efforts have been collecting from the four corners of the cotton belt. I think he loaded me with enough information to keep it from being such ji tax on my vital force to speak to the Gaffneyites tomor? row. est On my way up this afternoon I saw the beautiful Catawba river, Win? throp College, Kings Mountain In the distance, almost near enough to see the 100-foot monument, Broad Klver, Yorkvtlle, Blacksburg and Geffney. The country is less broken when we leave Blacksburg and I think I will see some fine country around Gaffney tomorrow. There is some beautiful farming country be? tween Rock Hill and Yorkvllle, and we passed In sight of old Ebenezer church. Mrs. Snell said a million years old (?) More or loss! see I Tonight I had a pleasant chat With Mr. Surrett of the United States Geo? logical survey and examined some of the mineral maps he is making of this section of North and South Caro? line, on both sides of the picturesque Broad river. I wish I had time to join him on horse back for a week, as he examines this section and studies its formation. There is a tin mine several miles out that he says the ore runs $300 to the ton. Ali ship? ped to England, there being no tin smelter In thla country. SOS Owing to change of plans I will not visit Spartanburg and Greenville on this trip, but will go home tomorrow j night and it rests me just to think how glad I will be, notwithstanding all the attentions I have received. E. W. D. The Markets New York C<hiou New York, Auk. 28. Opened High Jan LI 46 11 50 *?u Met- 113* 11 60 April .May 11 11 66 June July \u* M 12 75 Sep 114? 11 50 Uct U 42 11 47 Nov Uec 11 U 11 o5 Spot?, 12.7??4? off. Sales, 700. Opened steady. < 'ltiBed steady. Port receipts today, 2ou last year. Market. Uw Close. 11 35 11 3?-3S 11 47 11 IV -49 : 1 57 11 Mh9l 11 f>9-62 it tti 12 50*40 11 42 1 41 43 11 33 11 3e-37 11 34-36 a 40 11 ri-43 20.000 vs. 12. Llverpooi Merket. Liverpool Aug. 28. Open Jan?Feb 63 Feb?Mch 111 Mch?April 617 April?May 616^ May?June ?17 June?Joly July-Aug 659 Aug?Sept tS4i Sirpv?Oct 620^ Oct?Nov 616 Nov?Det5 *I3 Dec?Jan *11H Receipts, 7,000. American, 6,000. Sales, 6,000. American, 5,100. Spots. 6.86?13 off. Opened easier. Closed steady. Closed C07 609,4 Oil 612 6131$ *IM ?364 ?14^ H07 607 DOtbCCTBO rrida> Night. There will be a barbecue on Fri? day night for the benelit of the Sin? gleton Sunday school. at the resi? dence of Mr. T. L. Jones, near Shady Side. The public is invited to be present. Cyrus Heatley, was fatally shot at t. negro '.lot supper near St. Matthews Saturday night Oy another negro named Calhoun. Black River Chill and Fever Tonic Is guaranteed to cure Chills ar.d Fever, Swamp Fever, Bil ion* Fever, LaGrippe and Neuralgia. A trial will con? vince you. Price - 50 cents PREPARED BY BRADLEY & THOMAS, : : Mayesville, S. C. THIS COUPON GOOD FOR 10 CTS. ON PUR? CHASE OF EACH BOT TDK AT ANY DEAL? ERS. HANDLING THE COTTON CROP gTT It would appear from the Til present condition of Main Street and the work necessary to be done on it, that it will not be ready at the opening of the cotton season to accom? modate the traffic usually im? posed upon it. and we would suggest to our customers that they drive their wagons in our lot where we will give them the best service we can under the circumstances. O'Donnell 6 Co