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OUR S1 PAPER BY PROF. WIL Short School Terms-As has al ready been noted, the average length of the white schools of the State last year was less than six months. To be exact, the average for the town and rural schools was 117 days; the rural schools alone 11' days. While this is a better showing than we made a very few years ago, stil our schools are in session a little less than two-thirds of our own standard school year of 180 days, or nine months. In other wosds, the white people of the State are giving their children less than two-thirds of the schooling which they declare a child ought to -have. Here again is a lack of school funds, which our people. I insist. are able to provide. In many rathe thickly settled and prosperous dis tricts the schools close after six or seven months because the funds are exhausted. yet not a dollar of local school tax is collected. I know districts with from 50 to GO white children, which depend upon the pittance of $300 to $325 to run their schools. Is it reasonable to expect such a district to keep its school open or to keep competent teachers? In some of these very communities I have- been told, with a tinge of re sentment, that the schools are better than those to which the fathers and mothers went. That may be true. and it may also be true that these same fathers and mothers are hewers of wood and drawers of water to day, simply because they are unabl( to cope with those who have been better schooled. He is a very dis picable parent who is willing tc withold schooling from his child on the ground that he himself had few or no advantages. However, short school terms are by no means entirely due to lack of money. Strange as it may seem there are many districts which closE their schools at the end of six, five and even four months, with half as much money left in the county treas ury as they spent on their schools I know schools which hive to their credit enough money to run their twice as long as they have been run any year within the past five. In fact, some entire counties are mak ing what the 'officials call a good financial showing, at the expense of the school children. For instance Florence county had on hand, June 30, 1907, a balance of $35,838 to the credit of the school fund, while shE had spent only $27,050 on her schools that year. In other words the schools had at the close of the scholastic year a balance of $8,78F more than the. entire cost' of the schools that year. Financially that may. be a good showing; how is it educationa',y? Let us see: Flor ence county kept her white schools open last year six months; she paic her teachers an average of .$250 year; she gave each white teacher an average of 36 pupils to teach Chester county makes but little bet ter showing. She kept her white schools open seven and one-fourt! months, paid her white teachers an average of $296 a year, and gave each teacher an average of 31 pupils to teach. Yet Chester count: closed these schools with a balance larger than the total expenditure that year. I believe in running the schools strictly on a cash basis, and I know it is necessary to dloe the books on the 30th of June with enough balance to run the schools until the neit tax collection has been made. But is it sound busi ness or common sense to cut of! the school year. pay beggarly sala ries, and give each teacher too many pupils to teach, in order to shov a money balance? Of course unde: such policy our school boards car boast of having money on hand. A! I see it, we have more need for mon ey on the children. A man could doubtless make a fortune on a salary of $500 a year, if he were to gc naked and hungry, and keep all hi! earnin'gs at ten per cent compound interest; but what would the be get ting? After all, do our people wish tc keep the schools open nine months in the year? Repeatedly I have had fathers (mothers very rarely) op pose the attempt to lengthen their school beyond six months. Thei: contention is that the children can not be spared from the farms and the mills for a longer period. Ex cept in case of extreme poverty ii the homes of very unfortunate people, this argument means nothing less than that the child is looked upon as a bread-winner. The par. ent is either too short-sighted or too selfish to give his child the op portunity to become even a bread winner, save In the humblest call ings. Such a parent needs to be shown how his child may be trained until he becomes a master of some thing, and a citizen useful to the State. Every child should be taught to work-to work intelligently and profitably, but his ultimate success and usefulness should not be sacri ficed to immediate selfish gain. 'Poor School Houses and Poor Equipment-Th~ere are at least tw( very distinct kinds of poor sc'hool houses: The building its-elf may he~ worthless; a good rauidiug may he~ unfit for school purposec. sI is pos sibble to invest a mod'st som of money in a good school buiilding What we know as school archbitec ture is yet in a very crude and un developed state, if we are to .iudge from some of our recent school buildings. Some of even the larger towns of the State have taxed thcm selves liberally to erect new school buildings. and have very inferior ones. Not one cent of public nmonel should be permitted to be used in a school house until the plans of the buiiding have been favorably passed upon by some thoroughly competent non. Some of the most common defects in our school buildings are small class rooms. low ceilings, in. sufficient window space, windows set in front and to the right of the pu pils when seated, tops of the win dows too tar from the ceiling. poor heating, and poor ventilation. These defects are found in the town build ing and in the rural buildings. We have some excell'ont school houses. Among the larger towns the buildings in Florence. Darling ton, and Georgetown. together withi the latest buildings in Greenville, cellent in almost every detail. The Spartanburg. '.nd $umter. are o 1HOOLS. I NO. 3. LAu H. HAND. cellent in almost everything. The Taylor school. in Columbia. is another excellent building,. but 1 am forced to add that this is Columa bia's only public school building worthy of the name. .A nunber of the smaller towns have relatively excellent h:idings. notably St. George and Smmerton. Dielton. Brunson. Chest;'rfield, Fountain Inn. Manning and Seneca each will soon have a new building of modesu type. On the other hand. some of the towns have very poor buildings. There are in this State four towns whose taxable property combined was returned last year at $1.400.000. in round figures, and whose four school houses for white childrer, would not sell at auction for morE than $1,500. Of course these build -ags cost miuch more than their pres mt value, but they are almost worth 'ess to-day as school houses. In these same towns are beautiful homes. good stores, good banks, at tractive churches. and even goot barns for the horses and cattle. Can the citizens of these places mak( themselves believe that they are not -liseounting schools? They cau not make other people believe it. I an sure. The rural school houses are rela tively inferior to those in the towns Iany of them are little better than lingy sheds, unpainted. ugly in ap >)earance. poorly lighted, pooriy heated, and miserably equipped Vlany of these houses are I ot celled on the walls o. verhead. When they are ceiled 'hat overhead is often so low thai 'he tallest boys can reach it witt heir heads. Not one building ir :hree has enough window spac< properly distributed. The windows ire small and placed equidistant from the floor and ceiling. It is nc incommon thing to find a room of ihildren sitting with their faces toward one. and even two, open win lows, while the room at their backs s comparatively dark. In 1905, the 3tze Superintendent of Educatior issued a pamphlet giving design: for modern school houses, which ha! done much towards improving thoi character. Very few of our schools ar( equipped as they should be. Hun Iseds of good desks have been put in within the past five years. but thert ire yet scores of school houses seat .d with the most clumsy and un sightly and uncomfortable desks known to suffering backs and limbs. rhe blackboards are too few In number. made of the cheapest mate -ial, and the surface is no lonea black. In many of our school -ooms is not seen a map or a char; 'rom September to June. Ever 'the famous charts have been rele ;ated to some closet of plunder Were it not for the genius of my friend. Mr. Hughes. of Greenville, many of our school houses would he absolutely without any kind of globe The State has very wisely provided hundreds of schools with small lI 'raries. In most places these libra ies are used much and well cared I or. but in altogether too man" laces the books are torn to pieces, somne scattered through the neigh borhood, and some lost. What ezse aan be expected when the school house stands open to every body and everything. A dirty school house is inexcus able, and is a disgrace to a commnu aity. Here the teacher is chiefly responsible. Any teacher. man or woman, who keeps a dirty schoo' house is rather poorly fitted to trair children. -You can not readily re fne the tastes of a child who is compelled to sit five hours a day Iu the midst of filth and nitter. WILLIAM H. HAND. U'niversity of South Carolina. SIGH FOR HOM(E. Wants a Real Good Bait of Hog and Hominy. A dispatch from London to the Now York Herald says Senator Till man, of South Carolina, who is mak ing his first European tour, likes London very much. though he sighs in vain for the delicates of the table of "down South." "Young man," said the Senator this morning. "if you will only tel' mec where I can get some real corr meal in this town, you will mare me your debtor for life." A friend who was standing near supplied the inforliaation and the Senator was effusive in his thanks. "Well, sir, I've had a hard time to get something to eat over here. You know a man used all his life to our Southern cooking jiust naturally craves for something -that has corn in it. I don't eat beef and I have the bordest time everywhere I have Ibeen trying to explain what I meant by breakf'ast bacon, but as for corn bread and hominy grits. why, sir. I ha't benabet find a trace of' themanyhere soI .ust thought if T could only find somebody to tell mn" where I coulid get some corn meinal I would tak'e it to my stopping place anid show the cook how to make a nice, ycl!ow po'nc ot' corn bread or an asheake.~ Bromipton road. did you say? I am crtainly mntie 'obigcd. M1ANY FISH KILLED) B the Explo"sion of' an Old War .iie. Three of the mines which we~rr put in New York hay at the time of the Spanish--Arfltican wa r and ha~vc lain in the magazine of Fort WXads worth ever since they were officially condemned have been exploded. This took place at the Narrows. near' the fort. No hoats were allowed to 'pass that way at the time. the places where' the mtines were being miarked off by floatin'g targets. The only evidence the spectators ot of' the explo-iors w's about a thousand stunnecd fish-fiuk". blac. fish and flound~ers-which wcere reen tioatiug -lirect'y in front of the fort afer the minos~ had' be set oif. t once and every one oft hem wen Iback to quarters with a good catch GIGANTIC SCHEME PL1\N k(.1GEST WARE-IHOL s-: f. THE WORL.U. IThr)e irieI Object of the 3lU'veetn'I - 1% to Control the Cotton Crop an11, A dispatch1 fromt New Or-4-ilsa the New Orleans Cotton Exchang and the coftton nierchants and plan ers of that section of the countr: will ask the state of Louisiana t< construct a gigantic potton ware house on the river front in the city o New urleans. The plans are an aounced by W. 13. Thompson, presi pent of the Cotton Exchange. Thi proposed warehouse will be the larg I _st in the world. and will be bij nough to store the entire cottoi crop of the South. It will cost sev er&A million dollars. The prime object of the move ment is to control the cotton crol ind the prices of the staple. 11 Addition to the support of the Nev Drleans Cotton Exchange. it has thi ,acking of the Southern Cotton As sociation. Discussing the matter, Presiden Thompson of the Cotton Exchange said that the plan meant millions o lollars saved for the people of th. South. "We are convinced that the ware house should be a quasi-public insti tution, in which the city and th< state will be interested,"l he said "According to our plans a commis iofn would be appointed and will di reCt the affairs of the ~warehouse a ther public commissions carry 0 the work alloted to them. "In the first place, we will hav to convince the outside world tha -.he warehouse which we bave plan ned and which will make New Or leans by far the greatest cottoi center in the world. is not a money making enterprise. If a coml)an: were organized to build the structur t would necessarily have to pay Mividend. No one would subscrib on a philanthropic basis, and i would have to be shown that a prof! would accrue. "Therefore we would have t4 make a profit-making charge fo handling the cotton. As a publi utility the charges would be min imized. We would only want t1 harge enough to pay the interes on the bonds, the cost of mainten ince and certain reserve fund to pa: for wear and tear. The ramifications of the ware house project which we have planne are more potential, considerable an anumerous than that of any ec-onomi al movement which has come t my attention within the last decade It would bring many millions o foreign capital here. "Now when the securities of 10 .al companies, no matter how sol vent they may be, are offered t foreign capitalists, they do not kno' anything about the standing of loca companies. Nor do they know any thing about the value of a cotto: r.jcipt from any warehouse com pay., Of course the people of Nea Orleans and the state know th standing of local companies. bu this knowledge does not extend t all of the money centers. "But when the public warehous is built. the receipts will be as goo as gold and will be accepted as sue by foreign financiers, as they wi have the guarantee of the state o it. This will bring 'millions of cal: ital here." THE H{ATIESS GIRL. We W~elcome U%'r and Hope She Wil Ride Awe We do not know-we almost fea to hope-whether it is the setting i of a new fashion, this charming cut toi of girls going about hatless. bu if it is let us welcome It with exceed ig joy. She Is becoming ubiquitout this girl without a hat, and in th tret or in the stores, in the park! nherever she may be. she add b'auty to the landscape and picture sr~eness to the view. More welcome too will the new old custom of the fair sex be if on of its results is the dethroning o that awful monstrosity, the "Merr WXidow"" hat, that dire shape o straw that mows a swath of disconm *fort through our throug'hfares an which has added to the burdens of torrid summer. Let us hope that the new style o eminine bareheadfless has come abou through female recognition of th eternal verity of the poet who de ciaed that the crowning glory of woman is her hair. it may be that the girls who ari braving convention, declaring thei freedom from the thralis of the mil liner and making life more bieautifu by discarding their hats need en couragement. For heaven's sake le Us ll get together and praise the se: for its good sense. We should say a a rough estimate that the matrimon tal chances of the girl withiout a ha as against the girl with a "Merr: Twidow" were at least 100O to L, am 1that should help some if its trout! Ican he proved. All hai! to the sen sibl Americanl girl and her crown o yo'Ul )WN LOST. Dese'ted Fro~m T.1heir Ship and W~at 'he barklentinc' Fremont. whirl arriod4 from the Aretic ar. San Fran es5c Friday. brought n'ws of :h. aroable. death of four mmbrrs (I th' crew. who dese:rted ou Ne 36 nd t"rted to reach Uncaalda. The: ohn .Jorg~enson "'ud James MciDofl ad. The:' started on the perilou tip late one night during the higth o a storm.L A search w'as made to then hut wi thouit succes. and sev" eal days later the Dory they ha< ocued was~' picke'd up at D~ubli: a It is helieved that all of thi men per'i' hed. The:. had been di ai.fied for some time over th amount of their' spring allowance. It is pe'rmissii'e to blow yo~u' oW; horn if' you' are a m~emnber of : r THE remit of the Mtint' electic: gave Roosevelt. Taft and fir foi WEAPONS ARE DESTROIJED. An Unwritten Law, Based onl Super stition', of Roya. Houses. For obvious reasons it was nat ural th.t the Spanish police should be anxious tu secure the bomd) which did not explode when thrown at the royal couple. There was a reason behind the desire- to nip in the bud chance of further damage. There is an unwritten law In the ri-igninig houses of Europe, says the London Standard, that all relics of attempts upon royal lives, as well as the in-1 struments used for treating ihe wounds caused in such shall be destroyed. There was a solemn assemibly in Geneva of Aus tro- Hungarian officials to witne.:ss the destruction of tho instrumemts which caused the death of the Em press Elizabeth and of the surgical post-mortem examinatiou. The custom is based to a certain; extent upon superstition, but. more solidly upon the determination to prevent the relics from failing into the hands of exhibitors of such tragic trifles. The custom in this matfer once was to grind to pieces the weapon which had been employed. When, however, the dagger was secured with which the priest Martin Merino attempted to murder Queen Isabella of Spain, rather more than haif a - century ago, the blade was found to be of such finely tempered steel that I it resisted every effort of file and stone. Something like a panic was caused when the news got abroad: The Spanish peasants imagined that - there must be magic in the blade. - So a cabinet was specially sumnmonoal to deal with the crisis, and it was determined to submit the steel to - the influence or acids. This proving successful, all implements used for the like foul purpose have under i gone the like treatment-knives. swords, daggers, revolvers and, pre ai sumably, bombs. - It was cruel irony that the bombs thrown at the young king and queen - of Spain should be hurled-by a man i secreted in the only honse in Mad - rid owned by Queon Christina. This, I at first sight, is surprising. Napo leon Ilf., In the terror which Orsim's attempt inspired, bid for safety by 1 buying up the houses facirr the t Tuileries, so that bombs suould not I be flung thence by his enemies. Jt is from places whose position should guarantee their safety that r danger comes. Only a miracle pre vented Alexander 11. from being . blown to atoms in his own winter y palace. The Grand Duke Serge waa assassinated outside the law courts at St. Petersburg; Gen. Bobrikoff was slain when entering the senmte: M. Plehve was struck dead with his secret police all around him; the king and queen of Servia perisned in their own palace. Useful Cheese Cutter. A now idea in cheese cutters for use in grocery stores has been pat ented by an Indiana man. In the majority of cheese cutters at pr - sent employed the cutting blade ex tends the entire width of the cheese on the cutter. The operator is thus verv thin.j A omptelceee to he topgt of the' cheese arely wher thie beinttione aryuired ismal the cu frsm natrall bac. objectiongeme for inicte cgtte sieof hecut as thecuedito the fronony ontehale. The easeh othe whchee aTpuneo to of heeseb~ 'oce In fec, the knifeiding stcan sm and potcualto athaat thisun inecessary tofrwe the cut sasre to wth chtcy apnder twosign.es A ne desig i a~ll beapaea onso Ia at, utihie cancidled mchan Asnir is ha accrteta its fs a nwitharolt ceg hekpae neaty edge goee.l done.fc iurso h chew desig fro $30,00 wto pa,0er adte otnl froeom isea $8.0, 000. f lAs ail olis oruns paround th ode c check-paedneatl e toee e Lac firas fther i~ig Lhei~ ableo $,0 to Disebarge Mr.dBvt the diector oo the ps:-, onice at Lausanne, has addressed a circular to the postal employes in the town warning them that in future toothache will not be considered an excuse for absence from work. They must either get the tooth out or get out thenmselves. NEGRO CONSPIRACY A FAKiE? People at N inety-Six so Re'gard Af tair of the Negroes. T1here have been no fu rt her dev lopments in fhi- matteor of the negro conspi ircy. so-calied., at Ninety-S-:: T he prevailing opiniou at Grecenwood - and also at Ninoy-S:x. as ascertainecd by intrvtiws. is that the thing is a "fake," a scheme hatchecd up by one negro to get revenge onl other negro es for wrongs of his own. ITEDDY vouches for Taft but Who: vouches for Teddiy, HEARST is trying his best co mrakc Bryan notice him,. JOHN Temiple Graves has challeng ed Mr. Kern to a joint debate. The little political aerobat takes hiwtelf entirely too serious. $SnOI.wL Bryan be eketed there world 1-e a rattlir.e f tio da K I ci' at Wneinipgn. 4EGRO KILLS FARMER lANUEL cAiRVmER saOr lOWX HA IN COTTON FTELD. .irst lZewports that Negro Had Been Lynchedl by Posse Prove False c lie is Iodged inl Jail. C a young wite mn13 abo'ut years of age. living six miles the south of Saludo. was shot and in- Till tantly killed Thursday afte:-noon by ou X'ill Herrin. colored. The killing took" tho >lace in a field. where he was picking Sex :otton. and the negFo, Herrin, who var lid tL killing, it is claimed, was coc A unsound mind. Herrin went to day larver's field, and without warning agc >r notice, shot him down. Informa- am ion received is that after killing qu .arver he also tried to kill Carver's dit Vife, who, iL appears, was in the coi leld. Mrs. Carver grabbed the gun pa ind saved herself from a similar fate th :o that of her husband. Ius News of the shooting iapldly spread ]u :n the community, and a posse was fo iuickly formed, and from The reports wi just received they had captured the aegro. and it is supposed have ly;ih- Mr ?d him. Young Martin Matheney. Sec states that he was informed thit the aegro had been captured. and while h 's being pursued was shot, but not fatal- th ly. After he passed the Carver home he heard a volley of guns and pis ols. and the suppositioa now is that " the iegro has been killed. thc The killing of Mr. Carver was a an. most cold-blooded act. A brother of int Herrin was in Saluda last that even ing looking for the Probate Judge. saying that a member of his family was crazy, and he wanted to know ha what should be'done aboht it. w From all the reports It appears i that Will Herrin shot Mr. Carver ha -hile the former's brother was then no at Saluda looking for the Probate an Judge with a view of having him gel committed to the State Hospital for the Insane. It is also stated that Will Herrin attempted to kill two ME negroes that afternoon.Sheriff Sample 1 was phoned and left soon after for ph the Carver home, the scene of the S killing. and has not returned yet. he A later dispatch from Saluda. Th Sheriff Sample has just returned to trc Saluda with Will Herrin, who Thurs- in day afternon shot and killed Mr. 4r Carver. The negro is suffering from lof several gunshot wounds inflicted in order to effect his capture. After ME shooting Mr. Carver down In the field Herrin broke his gun over Mr. Car- pe ver's head, and went and armed him- In self with another gun. 0 When the news of Mr. Carver s death was made known, Mr. H. J. orrest, Mr. Btinyan, Watson and others attempted to capture the ne- be gro. and while doing so were com- V pelled to fire on him to avoid being lin shot themselves. Herrin had hidden in the weeds si near Mr. Carver's home, and when pe called upon by Mr. Forest and othersti to surrender he refused to do so, but j r instead attempted to fire upon them. at One of the shots fired by the pursu- r ers took effect in the negro's eye and t others in his body. Herrin is now Hc in Saluda jail snrffering from his h wounds. h Sheriff Sample states that Mr. Carver's neighbors assuret him that no attempt would be made to lynch Herrin. They desire that the law Fa take its course. At this hour Sheriff Samp~le is un decided whether to take the negro to Columbia for safekeeping.The gentle men who captured the neggro could a~ have easily lynched him had they so s01 desired. After taking Herrin into the custody no effort was made to harm mi him, and he was readily turnea~ overan to the sheriff. Sheriff Sample says that Herrin has ab, as good sense as anybody and, so far an as he can see, shows no symptoms of insanity. The negro says the t reason he killed Mr..Carver, was be-th cause of a difference arising out of a m~l buggy trade. He wanted to buy the TU buggy. but Mr. Carver asked him too ta much for it. tlo a : WANT TAFT DEFEATED. on pre Mhigani State Federation of Labor th( . Denounces Him. sor Fra At Lousing, Mich., resolutions de- fr -souncing William H1. Taft, as an wil Inemy of labor and local prohibi.. Lii ion as an invasionl of the personal. reports of etizenls were adopted by ti LIhC State Federation of Labor in ses- ha' sion Thursday. Only one dissenting far ote was received when the anti.. ma Tafters name was offered. The plat- bo orm was repudiated and organized at abor called upon to aid in Taft's as efeat. " pin _______________ or Goes for Teddy, t Judge Parker, who was the Demn eratic presidential candidate in 904. is taking aniactive part in the present campaign, and, as the Char- COu eston Post says, he is bombarding Fr Roosevelt with thirteen inch shells sec Judge Parker is dealing in his spec7 la~ aly, taking up practically where lhe eft off in his own campaign againstro Mr. Roosevelt, the charge that Mr.i ot Roosevelt's agents in 1904 made fir some very shady financial and po-fw itical deals with the "malefactors af great wealth" in Wall street. Judge Parker has now the proof ofl o as statements, in the revelations of a the insurance investigation und in o the Harriman letters, wherein Mr. Roosevelt is shown to have had ptr onal cummruniceation with this "un esrable citizen" upon the question >f raising funds to promote his I~ leetion, and to have ojffered to con Eer vith him upon matters cf State e'd to consider especially his sag estions as to railroadl legislation udge Parker was stoutly denounced . a Mr. Roosevelt four years ago lig 'or presuming to intimate anything * >f this kind, but it has al ccme out the indictmient, and there is no "I rainaying thie statements that udge Parke-r is now able to make end is making with convincing ef- n ~eet. Te.'ore he gi t through Judge ~arke'r will show that Roorpveit war SENATOR TILLMAN ' NEARLY COMPLETELY RER COVERED His HEALTH. irei.vi-ion That He Would Practi ally Rietire From Public Affairs s Erroneous, Says Dr. Babcock. 'he if;.re::n ~i has prevailed over State for sone time that Senator mnan. or iht tind of his European would have' to retire from ac political life. It h:as not been uight that he, would giv un thr atorship. but; in view of his 'd ceing years-he :nd Dr. lab t celebrated their sinyt-first bh th jointly in Paris a fe-W '.a: -the opinion has prevailed. nven >ng those most intimate!v c .inted with the Senator's c.nn on. that he would hereafte' be ipelled to pursue practica!y a sive course. Nothing could be further from truth," said Dr. J. W. Babcock. L returned to Columbia, trom r months spent in touring Europe h Senator Tillman and Mrs. Till nI. and who left the Senator and ;. Tillman to spend a month in tland before returning to Amer .The Senator has recovered health and strength wonderfully. has been the livliest member of party, and it was all we could to prevent his return.ing to erica to take n active part in Presidential campaleign for Bry He takes the- keenest sort of -rest in the fight and he is en siastically conficlent of Demnar'tic cess. 'Now, of course Senator Tillman reached that point in his life re he will have to recognize his .itations, a thing in fact he should e done several years ago. He can go like a steam engine any more. l he recognizes the fact. He will right back into active political when he returns. and there is ry reason to believe there are ny more years of good fighting him. He was looking splendid sically when I left him. He has adily improved all the time, and has been in excellent spirits. e only symptoms left of his old liibles are a slight occasional ache the back of his head, and a mild 3wing senlsqtion at the corner his mouth." Dr. Babcock himself sent m i his tiine abroad gathering infor tion and studying all sides of lagra, and in this he had valuable p from Senator Tillman himself. addition to gathering informa n from the libtaries everywhere went, Dr. Babcock was given .ch assistance from leadnlg mem rs of -his profession throughout rope. "After 150 years of wrest g with this fearful disease," said Babcock. "the medical prefes n, c'nly within the last year, ap rs to have arrived at a solu n of the problem. A medical atment has been discovered that last promises a prompt and per nent cure. We will start tomor : here in the South Carolina spital for the Insane, where we re a number of cases, testing s cure. WILL RAISE .OTHER CROPS. 'rmers May Quit Cotton in Boll Weevil Belt. A movement has been put on foot ong the farmers in that section of thwest Mississippi infested by :Mexican boll weevil to point a im um cotton acerage next year. I devote th'e major portion of till e land to corn, oats, forage crops truck products. rhe movement has the backin'g of Farmers' Union and is comn nded by the special agents of the Ited States depar-tmenf of agricul e, who are employed in that sec a of the state and who hold that -tation of crops is imperatife as Sof the measures for the sup ssion of the pest. he weevil has played hav'oc with crop in the counties of Jeffer .Amnite, Adams. Wilkinson and nklin, and it is predicted that be e the ed of the present month it I enter the counties of Hinds. teon, Pike and Coplah. [his is the condition in Mississip hut it is only a question of a short t when the same condition will re to be faced by South Carolina mers. The boll weevil is steadily rhing this way and it will not long hefore he will be knocking our door. So our farmers may~ well get ready for the pest by ting something else besides cot .Thme boll weevil has come to Where Bruck Ovens Are Usedi. In Canada the French settlers still tinue to use large brick ovens t of doors such as were built in! ance 250 years ago. The perfec n of the stove and range in the tfifty years has driven many of se ovens out of commission, but ny of the inhabitants think thai good baking -can be done in an' Ler oven. Its use is simple. . s made in the oven of good hard od and when the oven Is exceed ly hot the ashes are raked out 1 the large loaves ready tobake Splaced on the bottom of t n without Dans. This meth od ou ing makes a very thickcoa crust. As all of the naturalI ele ts of the grain are left in the r the bread is dark In color. Railways ia China. Thinese cities object so strongi.: additional openings being mah i -i' walls that the new railways ar. ;:eieri to build their statior. out.-ide. Neither railways no i-as cani enter the cities. hse who think tiwy. have el! re fter ali. our bread doesn' t fall tter ::ide down'' more than half sin b:y a gloomuy salvation. SOME HOT TALK IAtS1a1'J. CALLS HEARST A LIAR AND Uftrers to Prove It It the New York Editor Will Give Him a Chance Befowe an Impartial Jury. Governor Haskell. of Oklahomn. who is treasurer of the National Democratic Co-mmittee. Sunday night gave out at Chicago the following telegram, which he said he had Zent to w. R. Hearst: "William R. Hearst, care New York American, New York, N. Y. "Sir: You are stating in speech V :.nd pi&is fn substance that during he .e::r i S59, when Attorney Gen r:Frain S. Monnett, of Ohio, had -c-eral case: pending in the supreme C court of that State against the t Standard Oil Company, that I sought 'o influence him to dismiss those suits. I have said, and now repeat that your statement is absolutely false, and that I never had any re lations of any kind or character with the Standard Oil Company. Our conflicting statements prove nothing. You, as newspaper Dian, may and should desire a reputa'.on for truthfulness; I, as a public of ficial. demand that those 'who ac cuse me stand forth and make known I their proof. You know that a suit < against you for civil damages, or a criminal procecution for libel, means long delay and afford-3 your char acter of journalisra a chance to cover 1 your expenses before being called upon to settle. do not want you: money; simply desire to _expose you to the public as a false accuser who has distorted public records and ~aaufatu'rci statemnents icr baz: political purposes. For the purpose of forever settling this infamous slander which you are circulating in your newspapers 'and on tae stump, I now propose that a com mittee of five or any three of them, composed of the editors of the Springfield. Mass., Republican, the Chicago Journal. the New York World. the Indianapolis News and the St. Louis Republic. be selected. to hear you and me under oath and all other evidences they may de sire as to the truth or falsity of your charge, at the earliest possible nioment, and render their decision to the public In writing. Should this committee find your charge sus tained I shall withdraw 'from all connection with the present presiden tial campaign. Should the verdict be against you. as I know it will, there need be no other penalty than the public contempt due every as sassion of character. C. H. HASKELL,." DOGS AS WATCHMEN'S HELPF.RS Eaily Trained and Often Show Co-n siderable Sagacity. "Training dogs to assist the wateh men and police is a very simpht matter," said an old private watch men of Boston, who forirerly walk ed a beat in the South Ead. "Dogs like the work. They en joy prowling around through alleyi and back yards and nosing into cor . -nors and behind barrels arnd piles of boxes, and their wonderful sanse 0 Lmell often enables them to locate an Intruder so securely bidd' n thai his presence would never be s~s pected by a watchman. "hnI was walking a beat: large Newfoundland dog began fol lowing me of -his own accord. .dldn't encourage him at first, b,; let him go along on my rounds a mnuc'h for company as anything elsa That dog watched me like a detec:. iye and seemed to understand every-* thing I did: followed me into e I ard, and in less than a week kcnew 5very house that I was employed ac v.atch. "In ten days he was doinga lary part of my work. Of coarse he 'ould not try the doors, but arte: :hc first round, when I tried all t'ae doors and saw that everything Wa :'ight, all I had to do wag' to sem -n in to search the yard, and l. ~d it thoroughly. If anything wnm rong he barked and I ran in to .s -hat was the matter. Once a back 'or was open. The gentleman of e house had come in late, left the .,od unlatched and the wind b' t o'en. The dog knew it was wrong o~d barked for me to come. , "Another time I heard him bark :xg in a back yard, and running in. ':nd he had cornered a man hiding -hind a pile of boards. Tbe doi vorked with me for nearl:y three ears. Every evening, no matter .veat the weather, that dog was Os . aandJ at the patrol box where I re orted. On cold nights we would go ato an engine house to warm, and hile the dog enjoyed the warming nou.r t~s muich as I did he v.as no skulker, but whenever I was ready to go he was ready, too. "I lost him because his owner moved out of the city,' but as soon as it became known among the dog population thmat he wasn't working hsplace was taken by a hound that I had otten noticed following us l a furtive fashion, as though he wouild liie to be of the party, but didn't vwant to intrude, and the new dog I seeme'd from the first to undierstand every thing that ought to be done and. did it as well as his predecessor." The Scotch guror. Ta Scot~land in a civil case jury menx get ten shIllings a day for their seivices, and the litigants must in addition provide them with lunch.I If two cases are tried consecutively1 on one day, and the same jurymen odiciate, they get ten shillings for each case. But the most Important difference between an English aud a Scottish ~ sry: is this: An English jury when retu!rnling their verdict must be un- I nmus, and if they fail to agreet after a certain length of time they ar dismissed and the whole pro ceedin'gs are begun again de novo before a fresh jury. This is a most expensive mode of administering jatr.tice. In civil cases. In order to 1 avoid this result, the litigants some times agree to accept the verdict of a maijority. In Scotland the jury can always give a verdict by a ma- t jority, in civil cases after~ the lapse9I of three hours-.. t HiEARS'r3 Indepanda'te LMgvc p has attracted quite a variety of pol-' li itical curios, of which Johbn Tempk' r IRYAN THE. MAN enator Tillman Thinks the Dow ocrats will Win This Fall. GIVVES HIS REASONS Vhich Was Published in tho Paris Edition of the New York Herald. The Senator May Take a Hand- in the Campaign on His Return. Dr. J. W. Babcock brought back vith him from his European trip a tumber of newspapers and news iaper clippings, one of which is of onsiderable interest. It is an in erview in which Senator Tillman in the 22nd of August expressed his >elief that Mr. Bryan will be elected resident. Dr. Babcock says ,that Serator 'illman is deeply irterested in the ampaign and wishes to come back Lnd get into it. The Senator's plans t present are to sail for America )n the l7th of -October. The interview referred to.was sent )y Mr. Crockett, London correspon .ent of the Paris edition of the New ork Herald. and Is as follows: Among all the prophets of Dem >cratic success at the coming ele& :ions, none is more confident that - United State Senator Benjamine R. Tillman of South Carolina, . who, fter an extensive continentaf to'ar, s enjoying his first visit td -London. -"It may be that the wish \2 father to the thought," said- Senator Till man, when I encountered him at he office of the America Expis - ,opmany, 'but it looks to nie as it ir. Bryan has a powerful good chance of cleaning up the 'other crowd this time. In the first place he has been nominated in spite of the best organized newspaper' light against him ever known, tius demon strating his innate strength with the rank and file of the - Democratic party. "Me. Taft, on the: contrary, 'has been nominated solely at tie' dicta tion of Mr. Roosevelt and against, the wishes of the masses in tMe Re publican party. While Mr. Taft is a lovable character in every way. and I don't wish to- We6 nstrnedz as saying anything against him as a man', .his self-obliteration and haitr I should call the element, of sub serviency shown in his visit- to Oyster Bay to have his speech revised, are not in his favor. '"Tire are ctier facts that must appeal to the people. .If, for' in stance, we are going to liexicaniza our country by -having- a president. appoint his successor, .througgh the machinery of the Republican party and the use of officeholders to'stock a nominating conventioif i.Js- simply going to- make a 'great slump down ward in the history of the American republic. A gain, if the country. is really in love with, eand anxious to have carried out the', reforms which Mr. Roosevelt stole -fronthe Dmcasand proclaimed'/as 'my' policies,' the people will recognize . that Mr. Bryan more fully repre sents those ideas than does Mr:jTaft. "Then, again, the vice p'residieitial nomination of the Republican ion vntion is an insult to the name of reform. Eevrybody in Washington is famnilia:, with Mr. Sherman's align meat with the plutocratic influence of the country, and unless I mis takce the character of the people gencrally they will consider that' his nomination was a surrender to pln torey, while Mr. Taft's frienda, are denying everything that is dal culated to lose him any votes. "There is~ still another linportant consideration which will influe'ce the election of Mr. Bryan. The panic of last winter 'has left only unpleasant recollections and an ameuni of damn"ge to bnsiness which. is now relatively small. Things seem to be almost normal at present. But whatever it was; the harm re suIted with Republicans In possession of the branches of the government in spite of a protective tariff, ~1n' spite of a gold standard. " The money question is no issue now, and can not be made one. Mfr. Bryan's attitude in I896 and 1900 wouldn't influence even- a nervous baby much less a sensible voter, and - unless the American masses are ab solutely besotted, of which, In my opinion, there is not the slightest indication, they will realize that ti allow one party to remain in 'power indefinitely is not healthy 'or for the good of tihe country. Consider. besides, the disaffectioh in the West aver the tariff, the clamor for Mr. Roosevelt's programme, which Mr. Bryan r-epresents, and you will sac that Mr. Bryan can't keep fraon *Vm 'I dont think that much can. be :lone with the tariff next session," said Mr. Tiliman In' answer to a :Ingstion. --Two-thirds of the ben ate is against any -reductionl, and f there is to be a change this aig :lJ~ry would : t*e: favor an ' rease. Every If a D-emfocratic pres dent and house were elected, vouldn't Mr. Aldrich just sit there a the senate and laugh at any at ff bill sent from across the way?" Serious Republican Reverse. The Springfield Republican, which a a supporter of Mr. Taft, made ;he following admission in reference :o the Yaine election a fE w days be ore it wss held: "When it is re nembered th at the Republiesn piu ality was 27,160 in the State elee ion of 1904, 34,182 in 1900, and 48, ri77in 1896, a fall below 20,000 would ave to be considered encouraging ;o the opposition party, while any hing below 10,000 would be count 1 as a more or less serious Bepub ian reverse." As the Republican plurality was only 8,000 they have et a serious reverse arnd the Dem crats arc more than encouraged )f course, the Republicans will at empt to account for the result in aine on all sorts of pretexts, but hey may as well face the stubborn acts, which are that that the peo le have lost all faith in the Repub can party and hav'e deter mined to ake a change in the administra