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UIE AMN IRAY LO AES TOGETHER ON FIELDS GETTYSBURG FIFTY YEARS 0F PEACE General Bennett H. Young, Comman der of Confederate Veterans, Makes Great Address on First Day of Cel ebration to Veterans Who Stand and Listen in Broiling Sun. Despite the strenuous efforts of the regular army to do impossible things, thousands of veterans spent the night on Gettyturg field with nothing be tween then and the starts- but heir clohes and their courage and nothing _ between them and the hard earth but . little more of the same thing. They kept coming from that hour until long after daybreak and shortly after breakfast the rush began again. 'Major Mormoyle declared that prob ably 55,000 veterans will be on the field by night, 5,000 more than ever have been looked for in the wildest dreams of the estimators. Although half that number'would fill the camp in comfortable fashion, Major Nor moyle said he would see that every one was taken care of, that nobody went hungry and that ,blankets to warm and tents to protect were found for all. Many of the men of '63 spent the night round the fires near the cook tents, talking and trying to forget that their bones were not so young as they used to be and that he ground was much harder han it was fifty years ago. Although the railroads were not good to the veterans, nature. was ,thughtful and the usual cold breeze that springs up in the early morning ours did- not visit the camp, there was. only a slight fall of. dew and practicaly no suffering. In the morning fifteen thousand ueand gray veterans of the war be tween the states sat in a big hot tent Jon he Gettysburg battlefield and joined in the opening ceremonies of "' the first day of the semi-centennial - celebration. General Bennett H. Young, com mander-In-chief of the United Con federate Veterans, said no man who 'loves his country "can fail to read Snthe circumstances surrounding this n the stimulating and up F ing power of a people's govern niment." Se declared the scenes at Get .y burg are the completest evidence the perpetuity of the American re He declared the men of both ar mis hose deeds of valor made this b.efleld forever historic were true nuth as they saw it and that more ta eight out every ten who partici in tha sruggle "have gone to be with .the immortals." V'Referring to the tattered battle flagsln evidence on every hand, Gen -era Young said they are no longer <-eigwaved. to -lead meni into the $s"jasaof death, "but to declare and poai3m a peace that,ln its menefi Kecant power-and In its political liberty - challenges not only the gaze-but the Sauation of the civilized world." Xei spoke feelingly of the fact that ~meng ho fought a half century ago t as-friends, with war's animosi S forgotten. $''"hee are; thin in. the past that r5arkrgettable," he said. "Laws were ~naaetea that challenged the equality & enof the south, buat,.tried in Whbe~crnelble of reason, liberty and pa dtrftlim, they have all been repealed. Every state has equal rights, every Isan Ns equl privileges. The war has left-no badge of inferiority, and the niensbo wore the blue z.nd followed tlidlag of the Union ask for and ex Anothing that Is not right of the nmwho wore the gray and followed Sthe stars and bars. "It may 'be that the suggestion Kitely put into form to give Confed erate soldiers the same privileges in national soldiers' homes as federal soldiers may lead to the establishing of his right, or that peace, in its de -mand for the obliteration of all bit terneai of the past,.may demand that that 'the nalon shl1 pension surviving Confederes. "Ido not even suggest, or In the name of my people, say that it would Sbe accepted, but this republic is a greats destroyer of the cherished ideals of the past when they stand In t he way of completest justice. For nearly fifty years the people of --the south, without complaint, have contributed nmlllons for the pensions -of federal -soldiers. A nation's grati tu~has been meted out through --enormous grants to provide for the Moderal soldiers, their wives and chil e dren. " No murmur has ever come from -the men of the Confederacy at this :vastoutlay, and there are some who ~-predict that the hour may arrive in national life when the few and in-1 E frm xtemaning men who fought un Kder the Confederate standards with abditdy unsurpassed courage, shudhave in their evening time the .'comforts and conveniences that their Intrepidity deserve. - ."The men who fought in the great Sest war- of the ages, made fiercer by the fact that it was acivilwaar, now celebrte peace that bears no stains or bitterness from the sad and sav age desolation, losses and ruin of a struggle that cost 750,000 lives and ,such treasure as defies the power of figures, a peace that like heaven's Sstand for the preservation and de fense of the highest and noblest Ideals of a republic. '"We point with Immeasurable pride to the past; whether on one side or the other it was a great past, a past that quickens the manliest emotions of bravo and chivalrous men." Fles Across Lake Michigan. Logan A. Villas, an amateur avi ator of Chicago, Tuesday made the first aeroplane flight across Lake Michigan. His trip, made In a hy droaeroplane from St. Joseph, Mich. to Chicago cousumed one hour and 34 minutes. Kills Wife and Commits Suicide 9Henry Dodd, a farmer of Green vle, Tenn., shot and killed his wife ~wth a rifle Monder and then comn niftted suicide. Eleven children sur riye. The cause of the tragedy is FIVE MEN KILL WOMAN IN LEE COUNTY AND WHIP HER DAUGHTER. The Men Are Now in Jail at Bishop viIne Charged With the Shooting of the Woman. Charged with shooting up the home of Wylie Grayney and killing Mattie Grayney and seriously injur ing-her daughter, Lizzie Grayney, five young white men were brought to Bishopville Tuesday and lodged in jail. They are: Z. A. Grantham, Cloy Grantham, Nick Grantham, Brown Grantham, and Vance Gran tham, sons of Zin Grantham, a resi dent of Darlington county. Mattie Grayney, according to the coroner's jury, came to her death at the hands of the five Grantham boys. The boys, it is charged, first told the women to leave and when they refused proceed ed to shoot up the house occupied by the Grayneys. The story of the tragedy which occurred in the Kelleytown section of that county, a remote and lawless district, seems to be interwoven with alleged relations between Mattie Grayney and Zin Grantham. The five sons of Zin Grantham, it is alleged, took -offense at the rela tions between their father and the Grayney woman. Taking advantage of the opportunity when Wylie Gray ney went to Hartsville, it is charged, the boys went to the house of the Grayneys and demanded that the wo man leave the section. Upon her re fusal to do so, according to the ac counts available from men who have returned from the scene of the affray, the boys shot up the house, the elder woman meeting her death in the fus illade. The younger woman was bad ly beaten. As soon as news of the affair reached Bishopville Sheriff Muldrow and other officers hurried to the scene. Arriving there they found the elder Grayney woman dead and her daughter in a precarious condition. Empaneling a jury of inquest, the officers set to work to ascertain the facts and clear up any mystery. The Inquest was soon over. The coroner's jury without delay, returned a ver diet holding the five Grantham boys for the murder of the elder woman. The sheriff at once arrested them and made his way to Bishopville, where they are now in jail. The Lobby of Terror. With 4,000 active members con trolling a capital of ten billions and employing 5,000,000 persons, the Na tional Association of Manufacturers might have been' a legitimate polit ical party of the first rank, as The New York World says. But the Na tional Association of Manufacturers is not a political party. ' Political parties operate in the open. Their purposes and principles are more or less public. Their agents are known. Possessing some of the resources of a political party, the National As sociation of Manufacturers attempted to exercise Its power in secret and on all sides. It bullied labor. It cod dled capital. Yet It claimed- to rep resent labor as well as capital. It was Republican in some places and Democratic in others. It had rewards to bestow and pains to inflict, as its correspondence now proves. In its finances It followed the methods of commercialized politics. It collected money from manufactur ers for various uses. Some of it went to fight labor unions, to bribe their leaders and to carry on costly litigations. Some of it was devoted to the maintenance of a lobby in Washington. Some of it was used to re-elect friends of -the association to Congress and some of It to bring about the defeat of enemies. That this organization, strong in numbers, wealth and secrecy, under took and for some years succeedled to a large extent in the task of making individuals, parties, Congress and Legislatures subservient to its inter ests. It.- had prodigious powers which it used without scruple, but in nothing else was it so mighty as in its concealments, Its disguises, Its deceptions. These things are fully set forth in the extraordinary revelations of Col. Martin M. Mulhall in The New York World of Saturday. They do not rest upon Col. Mulhall's word, though The World has testimony that this is good. They are supported by 20,000 letters, telegrams and reports which came into his possession during the ten years that he was a lobbyist, field-worker and strike-breaker for the National Association of Manufac turers. In the terrorism thus exerted in behalf of gluttonous industry we can find no difference morally from that maintained for so long a time by the MNamaras, who are now in the peni tentiary. Many distinguished names give dignity to the National Associa tion of Manufacturers, but under their shelter men and interests have been dynamited as truly as any of the victims of the structural iron workers' plot that was formed at In dianapolis. It was not fair politics. It is not the old vulgar lobby of wine and women, of an occasional bribe, of ground-floor investments, .f almost miraculous winnings at cards, of providential tips in the stosk morket or of lavish and inexplicable -attor neys' fees. It is the new lobby of terror, that works in the dark, that stabs in the back, that assumes to speak for mil lions of men and billions of money. hat has resourceful agents in every tate and in almost every Congres sional district, that even in the pres nce of the people's sworn represen atives boasts of a higher authority, wheedled the weak, bullied the timid, ~orrupted the greedy and destroyed :he self-respecting. To say, as the President did, that his lobby is industrious and insidious s an understatement. It is all-per rading and in many cases omnipo ent. It is hidden. It ha~s none of :he virtues of a lusty though a per rerted partyism. It is not content to oss one party. It seeks to rule all arties. Its aim is from a corner of the Capitol. from a private office, Erom a star chamber, to govern gov arnment! Japan Sends Note. Japan's latest note on the Califor aia alien land law arrived by cable 'uesday. The Japanese embassy at nce began work to prepare i tf or BLEASE TO DECIDE WHETHER MIUTIA WILL 5ET GOT ERNIENT AID. DEPENDS ON HIS ACTION Secretary of War Garrison Says the Militia Must Comply With the Law and That the Governor Must Re sume Proper Relations With His Office to Get the Aid. As chairman of the South Carolina delegation in Congress Senator Till man made the following statement after he and his colleagues had dis cussed the militia situation with Sec retary of War Garrison: "The South Carolina delegation in Congress went to the war depart ment, and after explaining the pur pose of our visit to Secretary Garri son and talking over the whole situa tion, he dictated the letter below. He was courteous and pleasant, as he al ways is, and seemed desirious, as we knew he would ,be, to do anything that is reasonable and lawful to ac complish the purpose we had in view. In every way he showed willingness to do whatever he could do to 'bring about the end we sought. Gen. Mills, who is in charge of the militia divis ion of the war department, also seemed very anxious to facilitate the purpose for which he went. Gen. Wi lie Jones and Col. Cogswell, of the South Carolina militia, who were present, expressed themselves as be ing highly pleased with what was said and done at the conference, and at the results obtained." Secretary Garrison's Letter. This is Secretary Garrison's letter: "War Department, Washington, D. C., June 30.-Hon. Benjamin R. Till man, Hon. Ellison D. Smith, Sena tors from South Carolina; Hon. R. S. Whaley, Hon. James F. Byrne, Hon. Wyatt Aiken, Hon. Joseph T. John son, Hon. David T. Finley, Hon. J. Willard Ragsdale, Hon. Asbury Fran cis Lever, Representatives from South Carolina.-Gentlemen: In pur suance cf our conference of today, held in the presence of Gen. Jones and Col. Cogswell, I am writing this letter to the South Carolina delega tion. There was handed to me, as you know, at that interview, a com munication from the Governor ad dressed to Gen. Jones and Col. Cogs well. A copy of this was left with me and I herewith attach a copy thereof. The only interest that the war department has in the matter is that the militia of South Carolina shoud do those things which the law requires in order to make it proper for me, under the law to extend the Federal aid. As you know, this de partment did not order the muster ing out of any companies, and does not now so order. "As you know certain companies were found deficient in various par ticulars and the Adjutant General of the State suggested the mustering of them out as the only remedy. It Is now proposed that these companies, after this warning, be given an op portunity to show that they have profited, and are now in such condi tion as would make it proper for hem to continue in the service and pass inspection. "I will do the following with re spect to the South Carolina situation: "If the Governor of South Carolina will resume proper relations towards this department 'by a proper commu nication addreTsed to this depai-t ment, the militia of South Carolina will have its transportation paid, to the extent that Federal aid is used for that purpose to the various en campments this summer. They will have subsistence while there paid un der similar conditions. The com panies which passed the last inspec tion will have theilr pay paid under similar conditions. The pay for the deficient companies will 'be retained. "The deficient companies will be given another opportunity to measure up to the test at an inspection to be held at least three months from this date. If a that time they pass in spection, they will then receive their retained pay, that Is, the pay retain ed under the above proposition, If they fail at that time, they will not receive their pay, and they will no longer be considered as a basis for any Federal aid whatever. I am en tirely willing to have this test made1 In the way suggested, and if your Governor will write to me making' this suggestion, I will instruct the proper officers to see that this is car ried into execution. "You, of course, realize that the Governor of the State is the Comn mander-in-chief of its military forces and that I can do nothing against his will and desire, to extend aid in case e will not do those things which makes it proper for me to extend ederal aid. I can hardly believe, owever, that he will take an atti ude so unfortunate for the people of South Carolina. In view of the fact hat I am informed that these en ampments are to be very shortly eld, I would suggest that If you entlemen hope to carry out our sug estion, you have the ,communication rom the Governor to be made very romptly. "Very sincerely yours, "(Signed) Lindley M. Garrison. "Secretary of War." Senator Tillman sent the following etter by messenger to Gen. Jones nd Col. Cogswell, and it was receiv d by them: "June 30,1913. "To Gen. Wilie Jones and Col. Ju lius E. Cogswell. The Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D. C. Gentlemen: I en-1 lose herewith a letter .iust received rom the Secretary of War following1 ur conference with him. You will ote the suggestion he makes for rompt action by the Governor. 1 "I suggest that you wire the Gov- 4 rnor immediately the result of your visit. I understood you both to say 1 hat you were more than pleased with I he results obtained. "It now depends on Governor ( lease whether the State militia will ave an encampment or not and hether the militia gs an~y fusiher ppropriations from the National! overnment or not. The delegation as done all in its power.1 "Yours very respectfully.1 (Sin. "B. RL Tillmnan." j1 LIGHTNING DANGEROUS DOES FATAL WORK IN SOUTH CAROLINA TOWNS Local Storms Seem to Occur Over the Entire State-Cattle Killed and Buildings Struck. At Pickens on Sunday Demus Gant, eighteen years of age, was kill ed and Homer Davis was knocked senseless and seriously injured dur ing a thunderstorm which visited that section. The boys were coming into town just as the cloud was near ly up and thinking that they could get home before the rain, began to run, and running near the home of Craig Baker the fatal bolt came. * * * Saturday night a mule and horse belonging to Howe Lemmon, assist ant farm demonstrator for Fairfield County, were killed by lightning. * * * A negro tenant and his wife, liv ing on the plantation of Dr. J. C. Buchanan, near Winnsboro, were killed Sunday afternoon when light ning struck their home. * * -* While Cleveland Byrd, a negro liv ing near Eastover, was plowing Mon day during the heavy electric storm, his plow was struck by lightning and his mule was killed. The negro was shocked but was not seriously hurt. * * * During an electric storm that pass ed about midnight Saturday night the station building of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, at Wilson's Mill, six miles east of Manning, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. * * * At Columbia lightning fired a bara of the farm of W. T. Martin on the Bluff road, opposite the State fair grounds, causing damage amounting to about $700, according to the own er. Several heads of live stock were saved. * * * During an electric storm at Jeffer son Sunday afternoon -W. J. Arm field's residence was struck by light ning. The building was Ignited and soon destroyed by the flames. By prompt action of the citizens and family part of the household effects was saved.' None of the members of the family were hurt other than be ing slightly stunned. * * * Sunday afternoon Bessie McLean, a negro girl sixteen years old, a daughter of Henry McLean, who lives near Lamar, had just returned home from church and was sitting near the chimney during a thunderstorm a bolt of lightning struck the roof and killing the girl instantly. The rest of the family was in the same room, but no one was even stunned. * s * At Columbia on Monday a bolt of lightning shattered the flag pole on the post office, throwing the splinters for a distance of 150 feet or more. All the electric lights in the post of fie building were snapped out. The flag pole was new, having been erect-1 ed in the place of an old one about three weeks ago at a cost of abouti $150. -* * * Lizzie Gertrude, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Smith, of the lower Hollow Creek section, near Lexing-1 ton, was killed by a bolt of light ning Sunday evening. She lacked only a few days of 'being six years old. She was out in the yard playing under a cedar tree about six o'clock when a bolt struck the tree and kill ed the child. * * * For the eighth time within the past few weeks--since the heated weather has brought on electrical storms lightning Sunday afternoon struck in the yard of the home of John Wallen burg, a mile from Aiken, on the Lev els. The Wallenburg home Is in a beautiful grove. Sunday afternoon a tree, only a few feet from the house, was splintered. During the past week there have been several severe electrical storms, the worst being on Saturday after noon, the greatest damage being done west of Bishopville. The gin of Os car Watson was struck by lightning and burned, as well as his oat crop, which he had stored here. The after noon traig had to stop near town to remove debris from the track. * * * A terrific electric storm that pass ed over the Landsford section of hester county about daybreak Sun :lay morning resulted in the loss by R. H. Fudge of a pair of fine 1,200 pound horse mules, valued at $600. [n the eastern part of the county Im ense damage to trees was done by the storm, also a large number being ifted up by the roots. The crops were damaged some. HOLDS UP MONEY. Domnptroller Jones Declines to Pay Mr. Dominick. Comptroller-General Jones said Wednesday afternoon that he had ield up a claim of $1,250 presented t my F. H. Dominick for attorney's fees I n connection with the test suit on t :he bond refunding act. It is ex- s ected that the matter will be car- a -ed to the supreme court. c At a meeting of the sinking fund v ommission Wednesday afternoon dr. Jones introduced a resolution to i1 lisallow the claim of Mr. Dominick. b [he resolution was voted down. At J Imeeting of the commission several/ reeks ago the claim was allowed. Admits He Killed Wife. tl With a gaping knife -wound in her p hroat and several bruises on her y ace, Mrs. Anne Mattingly Owens, g wenty-five years of age, was found t< m a lonely road near River Spring, 19 tout fourteen miles from Leonard- p own. Md., Monday night. Bennie v )wens, an oysterman, husband of the o Lead woman, has surrendered himself k~ o the county authorities and admit- o: ed that he had killed his wife in an altercaton. Peeked Into Girl's Stockings. y, A highwayman who took $7 from t4 ter escort, forced Miss Rosa Clay, of c. ndianapolis, Ind., at the revolver's ir >ont, to lower her stockings and gi >rove there was no money concealed w herein. Then he thanked her for w STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THIS STATE Caused by Letters Written to the National War Department by Gov ernor Blease of the State. After hearing Secertary Garrison's communication read the Washington correspondent of the News and Cour ier asked Senator Tillman this ques tion: What do you understand that Secretary of War to mean, Senator, by a "proper letter?" Senator Tillman answered as fol lows: "I would prefer others to in terpret that language for themselves. I will guess this, however: "Governor Blease, whether inten tionally or not, has caused the peo ple at the war department to have some bad feeling towards the State of -South Carolina. Naturally so. His letters have been published in our principal State newspapers and those who have read them know how of fensive they must have been to all army officers who ever wore a blue uniform. He seems to forget that the United States is now our country as well as that of the Yankees and that we have a Southern Democrat in the President's office for the first time in fifty years. "Only two days ago an appropria tion was passed by Congress provid ing for the payment of the expenses of the Confederate and Federal vet erans of the District of Columbia to go to Gettysburg, and that the com mission in charge of all arrange ments and expenditures consisted of the Secretary of War, a Confederate veteran and a Federal veteran, there by equal consideration being given both Northern and Southern armies. "Secretary Garrison does not want Dr expect an apology or explanation, all he expects is a letter couched in respectful terms making a formal re quest from the Governor of South Carolina to the Secretary of War for these funds to be available for the purpose of mobilizing the militia as already agreed on and understood, and to pay their camping expenses. He does not care for any references to be made to any communications that have hitherto passed between the Governor of South Carolina and his office." LITTLE FELLOWS DROWNED Bridge Leading to Municipal Bath House Gives Way A narrow wooden walk leading Dver 15 feet of water to the munici pal bath house, at Lawrence, Mass., in the Merrimac river Monday gave way under the stamping feet of .a rowd of impatient .boys and at least 11 of the little fellows were drowned. rhere may be more bodies in the stream. The boys were jumping up and lown when the supports sank and the walk extension dropped like a trap loor, rolling the lads into the water. [t was thought at first that only hree were drowned and it was not antil two hours later that the prob ble-loss of life was realized. A boy n the crowd of distracted persons on hore, missing his chum, sent up a ~ry ":I don't see Rollie. He must be irowned." Boats and grappling irons were hen brought and the river bed was Iragged. When the work ceased late i night twelve bodies had been re overed. CONDITION OF COTTON CROP. hows Improvement During .Past Month Reaching 80.9. The condition of cotton on an av ~rage date of June 23, according to .he replies of over 1.900 special cor -espondents of the Journal of Coin nerce and Commercial. Bulletin, was, 0.9, compared with 80.5 a month go, or an increase of 0.4 point. This ~ompares with the 1.3 a year ago and he 5.9 in 1911, and a ten-year aver ige of 81.0. The percentage condi ion by states, with comparisons, fol ows: July June forth Carolina .. .. .. . .77.2 -78.0 outh Carolina. .. .. .. .. 73.3 69.3 leorgia..............76.4 75.3 lorda..............80.6 79.9 labama.............78.3 79.9 fississippi ............80.0 80.5 souisiana .............80.6 81.6 exas ................84.0 82.7 ~rkansas.............85.4 85.3 ennessee .............82.7 83.3 issouri ..............82.7 83.0 )klaoma..........-..86.6 89.6 Averages... .. ......80.9 80.5 SHOOTS IN COURT. Ian Fires Three Times at Prisoner in Tampa. Just as County Judge E. V. Whit ker adjourned court Wednesday aorning at Tampa, Fla., in the pre iminary hearing of W. E. Maddox, a hite man who is accused of assaultt pon a thirteen-year-old girl, E. E. ireen, of Sylvania, Ga.. an uncle of he girl, and who was attending the earing, drew a revolver and fired bree shots at Maddox. All three hots went wild and Green was dis rmed by a court deputy before he ould get the range on his intended ~ ictim- t The first shot fired struck the ceil- r 2g. The second punctured a law i ok, the third splintered the top of i udge Whitaker's desk. It Is said that Attorney-General [cReynolds has been very kind to d e Republican holdovers in his de- D artment. He even retained the pri ate secretary of the former attorney- T eneral and one of the assistant at- t: rney-generals, br" d whom arei epublicans. This rOn 'ness to Re ublicans had no -"'r on McNab, 'ho was another P"-,.blican hold- c: ver retained by "ernolds. He p nifed his benefactor on the first v pportunity. Ii Cigarette Caused Girl's Death. ei Miss Catherine Breen, nineteen o: sars old, died in a hospital at Pat- ti arson, N. J.. as the result of burns 0: used by falling asleep while smok- ti tg a cigarette. Before her death the) ir said she hoped her exnerience ould be a warning to all girls and omen to refrain from contracting ei COTTON MILL MEN CHARGED WITH PREVENTING RE MEDIAL LEGISLATION. To PROTECT CfILUERN Secretary McKelway Says Manufac turers Have Kept Legislatures of North and South Carolina From Repealing Law Allowing Children to Work Eleven Hours a Day. The cotton manufacturers of four Southern states-Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas-were charged with having prevented the legisla tures of those states from repealing child labor laws which permit chil dren twelve years old to work eleven hours a day in the mills, in an ad dress at Portland, Ore., Tuesday by A. J. . McKeiway, of Washington, D. C., secretary for the Southern States of the National Child Labor Commit tee. Mr. McKelway's address was de livered at the Sectional Conference on Capital and Labor incident to the World's Christian Citizenship Con ference, in session at Portland. In addition, Mr. McKelway charg ed the textile manufacturers of Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, Tennes see and Tex.s with public opposition to "the eight-hour day for children and the nine-hour day for women workers". At the conclusion of his address he submitted a "Declaration of Dependence" on behalf of the "children of America, in mines and factories and workshops assembled". He said In part: "In the opposition to child labor reform the textile industry has been even more conspicuous than In its employment of children. During the legislative sessions of this year, it is the textile interests of Massachu setts and Pennsylvania that have fought the eight-hour day for chil dren under sixteen and the textile manufacturer of Tennessee and Texas were the public opponents of the eight-hour day for children and the nine-hour day for women workers. "It Is the cotton manufacturers of the four Southe.rn states of Georgia, Alabama. and the Carolinas. that have prevented, the legislatures of those states from prohibiting the barbarism of allowing a twelve-year old child work an eleven-hour day in the case of Georgia a ten-year-old child. Nor are these low standard laws adequately enforced in these states. "It has been the fashion of the American people to end an abuse, once its consequences were fairly un derstood. It has heard the indict ment against the -child labor system, that it means not only the Injury, physical, mental, moral, to thousands of individual children, but an injury to society Itself, and injury to the race. The system stands to-day con victed .by public opinion as guilty on these several counts; that It involves racial degeneracy, the perpetuation of poverty, the continuance of de pendency, the enlargement of Illiter itcy, the increase of crime, the disin tegration of the family, the lowering of the wage scale and the swelling of the army of the unemployed. The verdict Is the abolition of child labor [n America at whatever cost. "It if be proved that child labor is rit essential to the existence of an industry, then let child labor die and Lhe industry live. But if It be claim ed that any industry can not survive without the employment of children, hat industry writes Itself down as aworthy of survival on American soil." Gambling in Cotton Futures. Gamhbling in cotton futures will be irtually prohibited if the Underwood 'ariff Bill becomes a law as it leaves :he Senate. An amendment has been dded to the bill by the Senate Fin me Commitee, which is intended to ;top cotton speculation in futures. The amendment provides that sales of agreements to sell cotton for ~uture delivery In conformity to the ules of cotton exchanges or other imilar places shall be subjected to a :ax of one-tenth of one cent a pound, ith a provision that if the cotton is ctually delivered the tax shall be re unded. It requires all contracts to e in writing. The tax is to be -paid >y affixing stamps to the written con ract. The necessary machinery Is >rovided for the enforcement of the tmendment. Many Southern Senators have long ought to prevent gambling in cotton utures. Many measures have been ntroduiced with that end in view. )ne passed the House during the last ession of Congress, but failed in the enate. One offered by Senator imith of South Carolina and several thers are now awaiting considera ion in committee. There Was No RecoiL This is the fiftieth anniversary of he day when Pickett's immortal divi "Like a deep sea wave Vhere rise no rocks its pride to save" wept down the valley and up the lopes of Cemetery Ridge at Gettys .urg to encounter the terrific hurri ane of shot and shell that tore hrough the advancing ranks, .but did .ot avail to stop them until the bleed ig and shattered remnants planted heir banner upon the crest, there to e beaten back by overwhelming umbers. "The Gold Guard," wrote ~rchibad Forbes, the war correspon ent of The London Times, who wit essed the charge of Pickett's men, recoiled before a less terrific fire at Taterloo, but there was no recoil in 2iese men of the South.". Drunk Negro Has Luck. Lying with his head between the ross ties not six inches away from assing trains, a negro was found Tednesday night at Columbia hope ssly drunk. The negro had .been no ced around the union station, appar itly drinking, and was told to move r. From the time he moved on un I found exactly 12 freight trains-| 2e of 45 cars-and three passenger ains passed over these tracks. Co-Operates With Wilson. The Dediocrats have introduced a;, irrency bill in acordance with thej MUST PROTECT PRIMARY SOME REASONS WHY WE NEED INTELLIGENT VOTERS John J. McMahon Declares Educa tional or Property Test Works No Hardship on New Generation. To the Editor of The Times and Democrat: It must be agreed that the priv ilege of voting should be granted to the men who are both intelligent and honest-minded, and that it should be denied, if possible, to both the helplessly ignorant and the vicious. But what standard can be prew-g bed that will make this line of '.ivision? Intelligence is usually tested by ability to read and write-the "lit eracy" standard or "illiteracy" bar. This is not altogether accurate and just. It is only a rough sort of way of measuring a man's intelligence. It is the method resorted to for want of a better. Yet no single standard (outside of the classification by race or foundation stock) comes so near marking the line of cleavage between those who may be trusted with public affairs and those who may not. The man who can read has a tre mendous advantage over him to whom every book is closed. The reader has a chance to be better in formed, to hyve a wider view of things, with less prejudice on narrow 1 lines. Hence, notwithstanding the differences of individual natural tal ent, the reader is likely to be more I intelligent; and with this better knowledge he should have better per ceptions of right and duty, and a steadier ordering of his actions by worthy standards. The reader -belongs to the modern world, and has the advantages of the modern improved machinery for ac quiring information and obtaining a larger and truer outlook on life and duty. The illiterate harks back to mediaeval' days, and learns still only at first hand, through only his own eyes and his own ears. He is at as great a disadvantage in the world of knowledge as the traveler is in the physical world who would deny him self the use of the agencies of steam and electricity. The triumph of mod ern civilization in annihi'ting time and space and bringing a' the world together under the reader's eye e'-ery morning before breakfast, or twice or once a week in the paper delivered by the rural carrier at the most re mote log cabin in the woods, is baf fled by the man that can not read and still lags on the stage of this new world. The invention of printing, making it possible that reading should be come general, made a new beginning in the world's progress. The man that cai not read now should be a curious relic, like an animal that still survives from some former g-ologic age. Yet- there are' exceptions to all rules. Some men whom the world re gards as educated are very narrow minded, very warped In tneir- judg ments, very near-sighted 'as to any thing but their own business, very in different to the duties of citizenship. On the other hand some socalled-Ig- 1 norant men, handicapped :by being 1 shut out from the world's great the.'r oughfare of Information- and enlight- I enment, the printed page, neverthe less have much worldly wisdom and soundness of judgment as to men and. things. "Mother wit," natural apti tude to learn ffom observation, unac- ' countable inheritances from far-back ancestors produce marvelous results. Evidences of such natural ability stir us to grief that such men were da nied the advantages of su education, and thus forcibly held down to a nar narrower plane of achievement and usefulness. "Their lot forbade '- - whether "harsh fate" was the help- ~ less poverty or the 'gnorant folly of ~ the parent to whom .the destiny ! E the child was comitte.I. Thl~~e 1s I sometimes no diffe:ene between f helplessness and ignoran ce. I Men of native worth ilhiterate be- I cause so dooma.1 byv thlou to whom t they are under suuijection in Infancy, usually turn thltr natur11 abilir to C such good use in labor and thrift as c to accumulate proper ty. Hence such t a man will hardly fail to own the s $300 worth of property which iinGer s our State comsritution of 1'9J wi~l s entitle him Le vot*', th-migh' h' is -k-- v barred by the test of reading and z writing.f Similarly as to morals, character, z right motives, which no less than in telligence should be required of the voter. Men cut off from reading may sometimes nevertheless shame the reputedly learned In moral standard anct spiritual aspiration. They may be strong characters with public sprilt and patriotic concern.a We may here note that four yearst of war In defence of great constitu- I tional issues, the discipline and the inspiration of long service under the eyes and the command of the incom parable officers of the armies of LeeC and Jacksln and Johnston and Beau regard-the spiritual uplift of wit-a essing and sharing heroic deeeds, s must have been an education in patri tism and character to every private in the Confederate ranks, even d hough to him every printed page be b sealed. No college course could equal C sch training to make a man-a man " regardful of his country. Likewise in the struggles of the ti white men of the South after the war d nd until the redemption of th~eir r States-ours in 1876--there was a. all to high resolves and unselfish nd unflinching exercise or public re ponsibility-an exaltation of coun- a~ ry, which not only entitled every a: uch man to vote thereafter as an w riginal charter member and voting w tockholder in the government which Ia e had helped to rescue and restore, w bt actually fitted him for intelligent J< nd faithful discharge of the voter's m uty-unless he was peculiarly si. rong-minded or suited only for, imes of violence. It is not for us who come after ards to disfranchise any man who ar ought to save the State and helped in edeem the State when all seemed gr ost. Hence the constitution of 1895 N4 rovided by a special "understand- Ia g" test during three years to regis- al Ler as life-long voters all such men, fr4 o that only the new generation E1 ould be obliged to measure up to - he standard of ability to read and on rite or else to the standard of own- ge ship of$300 worth of property injof ~rder to be entitled to register as a roe. Such a test is no hardship, and WH"ItER HEAT WAVE [DNS UP HIGH DEATH SCORE IN CENTRAL WEST. IVER HIINURED PERISH hicago, Illinois, and Tueson, Ari zona, Hottest Places in the United States-Prostrations Occur by the Hundreds Throughout the West, Causing Many Deaths. The heat wave, which has continu d uninterruptedly for six days, ex ended from Denver to Pittsburg, and Is far north as Lake Superior, Chi ago, with a temperature of 102 de rees was the hottest place in the Jnited States except Tucson, Ariz., where the temperature also was 102. ntense suffering was reported in all he large cities enveloped in the heat ave. * * * Thirteen deaths from heat in Wis :onsin were reported Monday. There were Rcores of prostrations. In Mil vaukee eighteen have died from heat n the last four days. * * * More than twenty heat prostra .ions were reported in Minneapolis Lnd St. Paul Sunday in addition to wo drownings. The maximum tem )eratures ranged from 94 to 92. * * s Heat Sunday caused the death of ix persons and ten prostrations. The overnment kiosk in the down-town listrict of Peoria, Ill., registered 109 legrees at three o'clock Sunday after loon. o * * Five deaths, one person driven in ane and several prostrations is the -esult of the fi1tense heat at South 3end, Ind., Monday. The tempera ure at 'four o'clock Monday after ioon reached 106 degrees. * * * At Grank Raprds thirteen deaths mnd nearly fifty prostrations have oc urred since Sunday morning. In :ense heat prevailed all over lower Vichigan Monday, death and prostra ions being. reported from 'several >ther points. * * * Eleven deaths from heat and near y a score of prostrations were rL >orted in Detroit Monday. Of the lead, three were adults and eight in ants. Officially the maximum tem perature was 95 degrees but the hermometer in the street registered L03.; * * * This was the hottest June day re orded in Chicago since the Govern nent records were first kept. in 1872. Jinety-nine degrees was the official :emperature, but the Government hermometer on the street level howed a temperature of 102 degrees. * * * Thirty-nine persons are known to ~ave died in Chicago Monday as a re ;ujt of the intense heat. This num ~er includes only the cases reported ~y the coroner and the police, and it s expected will be Increased by re orts of private physicians. Of these eaths, thirty-two were the direct re nIt of heat strokes, five persons com aitted suicide as a i-esult of the heat, nd two deaths were of children seek ag relief. JACOBS WAS CRAZY ome Believe That Lexington County Farmer Killed Family. A special -to the State says that ohn D. Jacobs, found dead with his rife and four children in their burn d~ home near Peak early Saturday iornizig had been of unsound mind or two years is the statement made y Dr. H. G. Eleazer, a physician of eak. This revelation was made to be .press Monday. "John Jacobs has suffered from isorder of the brain for two years r more," said 'Dr. Eleazer. "Fully wo years ago he came to me for~ con cltation, after which he visited a pecialist in Columbia. His last con citation with me was not quite three reeks ago, when he said: 'I don't iind dying, but I can't .leave my amily behind. This thing can't last - iuch longer with me.'" SWALLOWS COIN AND DIES oung Lad Dies After Thee Days of Intense Suffering. A nickel accidentally swallowed nd stuck deep in his throat, baffling ie efforts of three physicians to dis >dge it caused the death Tuesday in lorence, of Henry Neil Hammond, surteen year old son or the Rev'. H. .Hammond. The child was playing with the coin Shis home when he looked up at his tother and announced that he had allowed a nickel. The little fellow died after three sys of iatense suffering aifter he had een taken from his home in St. harles, S. C. to Sumter, for treat .ent and later to a hospital in Flor ice, where two specialists by use of te X-ray, located the coin lodged sep in the thorax and endeavored to 'move It. Killed by Jealous Husband. Mrs. C. B. Jones. of Norfolk, Va., ~ed thirty years, was Monday shot id killed by her husband, from hom she had been separated. She as shot in the arm and back, the tter bullet entering her heart. The oman died en route to a hospital. ines was arrested and refused to ake a statement. Jealousy is as gued as the cause. Five Are Burned to D~eath. Five persons were burned to deatih d twenty or more eersonl~r injured a fire which destroyml an imnmi ant hotel at 66 3rm'nichje street, w York, in the downtown section, :e Monday night. They w.ere all ens who had .been book'od to sail m New York for their homes in trope. ly a needed stimulus, to the new aeration, growing up in the midist universal free schools. John J. Mic~ihon, Columbi, Jnne 9S