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3i3-AN LYNCiEI CHARLOTTE BOB TAKES NEGR( FROM HOSPITAL SHOOT HIM TO DEATE -4 Small Mob of About Thirty-five Mex Stormed Good Samaritan Hospital and Drag Victim to. the Streets, Where His Body is Riddled With Bulets. The first lynching in the history of Mecklenxburg county occurred at 2:15 o'clock Tuesday morning, when a mob.of about thirty-five men storm ed the Good Samaritan hospital at Charlotte, N. C , and took therefrom ge negro, Joe' McNeely, who last week shot Policeman L. L. Wilson, according to a special to The Green ille Daily Piedmont. The crowd threw the negro in the stret in front of the door and riddled him with -bullets, and thereupon dispersed up on the instant. The coup against law and order was . planned and carried through with a minimum of outward disturb ance. It was whispered about the streets in the hours just before mid night that something unusual had been planned but nobody knew ex actly what it was to be and most of -those who heard the rumors believed that nothing would materialize, that too large a percentage would recede from their intentions when the criti eal moment came. . The probable success-if such a word is permissible-of this under taking was due to the secrecy in the belief of the community's absolute safety from such an uprising, the authorities had permitted the negro - to remain in-the hospital, instead of removlng' him to the county jail, or from the county. There had been considerable talk, it is said, but it was not of the housetop variety and seemingly nobody took it with suffi :cient seriousness to take steps which are ordinarily taken, such as calling out the mzilitia or placing squadrons of police. The negro, who had been chained to prevent the possibility of his es capei. ras in an upstairs room guard ed by two policemen, Offcers Earle ton and Everett Earnhardt. About one o'clock it was noted that groups of men were standing about on back streets, .but .the first real intimation given the police was the detonation of fifteen or twenty pistols, as they hurled their leaden missiles into the prostrate form of Joe McNeely. 'Only a few seconds, if at all, be tote the arrival of the mob, it seems. did the authorities at the hospital suspect anything. uptoward. When the- crowd arrived, having pursued their way thru the darkened streets of the negro settlement, they found the hospital door shut and locked. One man advanced to the door, banged on it and called for Police - man Earnhardt. ".You'll not get In this house to night," replied one of the colored women nurses sharply. For answer the man hurled his weight against the door which yialded and the crowd thronged in and up the stairs. Those on the outside say they heard them *demand,-"Which is the right one?" "Show us the right one." The wo -man shrieked in terror. Never in the history of Charlotte had just such a -scene- been enacted.. The two policemen on guard lev eled their revolvers at the crowd and *ordered them to stand back, but the vengeance seekers leaped upon them Dad tore the pistols from their grasp. "Then," said a spectator on the out ide, narrating his experience after ward, "we heard the clinking of the chains as they brought him down the stairs." The rest must have happened in a very few seconds. A score of pis tol flashed In the faint gas light and from the helpless form on the ground came not even a moan. - The swiftness with which the mob dispersed, according to those who saw the occurrence, Indicate their confidence that their aim had been deadly and that the object of their foray had been accomplished. Buit when the police station was notified. the patrol sent down and the negro's body exmined it was found that life was not extinct. He was taken to po lice headquarters. The greatest excitement naturally prevailed in the hospital while the unexpected visitors were achieving their gruesome mission. .When the mob demanded to know which was the right one, Joe -McNeely, whom they sought, pointed to another ne gro lying on a ,bed on the other side of tihe room. "That's the man,'' he cried. "He's the one you ,want." "For the Lord's sake, no," slionted the other. "I'm not the one." Th~e Intruders forced onie of the officers, It Is said to say which one was Mc Neely, in order that a totally inno cent man might not be the victim. In the pistol duel last Friday in 'wilh Policeman Wilson was virtual ly shot from ambush as he rode on his motorCycle to arrest McNeely, the negro recelge4 two bullet wounds. neither of which proved to be sorious but they hard necessitated hovital treatment. McNeely, evidently under the influence of cocaine, was runni:2 kmuct on extreme South Tyron street firing hjg pistol at whomever ap preached. Charlotte o'4!cials are using every effort to uncloak the identity of the mob. At a special session the board7 of aldermen offered a- reward of $1, 000 each for the apprehessi-on of men who comprised the mob. A coroner's fury rendered a verdict that the ne gro "came to his death by pistol shot wounds in the hands of a mob un known to the jury." * iddies Build a Dynamite Fire. Clarehee,. aged ten: Luela, aced six, and John. aged three, children of John Clutter, were seriously in jured when they built a fire of dyna mite sticks and caps near their home In Chester. W. Va. Their bodies were terrnribly lascerated by flying pieces of medal. stone and dirt. It is most time for Feiger break out again. How the Fran1'4~se ran in the courts of Atlanta for oves? a month without Felder getting in the newspa-oers about it is a nestery. Like all humbugs, Felder les the - fmelght. - . AGAINST PROTECTION SMITH MAKES STRONG SPEECH ON THE TARIFF Inconsequent Nature of Republican Argument for Protection Explod ed by Carolina Senator. A special dispatch to the State from its Washington correspondent, says that Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina Monday made what was pronounced by many senators to be one of the strongest tariff speeches that has been delivered during this session of Congress. The cotton schedule was under consideration and Senator Smith made a plea for the American laborer against the im migrant laborer. He took up the claim of the inanu facturers of New England that they need protection for the .benefit of the American laborer, and showed by the reports of the Immigration commis sion that 68 per cent. of the emplo; ees In New England cotton mills are foreign born, while 29 per cent. are native born of foreign parents and only 9.4 per cent. are native born of native parents. His argument was that the manufacturers, after getting high tariff duties under the guise of benefiting American labor, had Im ported cheap immigrant labor and had supplanted American labor. He also undertook to show that there had been a great decrease in the cost of production, by reason of Improved machinery, but the wages of the operatives had not increase4 in proportion. He denounced, the plea for protection for the benefit of American labor as a delusion and a snare, not warranted by any facts, and went on to show that, of course. the wages paid the native cotton mill labor in the South was larrely gov ered by the wages paid the cheap in mIgrant labor in the mills of New England. Senator Smith's speech attracted much attention as he used a line of afgument that had not been heard before during this session. His argument was made more for cible by reason of the fact that the report of the immigration commis sion, from which he quoted. was made by two Republican Senators from New England, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and Senator Dilling ham of Vermont He was interrupted by Senators Smoot of Utah, Gallinger of New Hampshire. Lippitt of Rhode Island. and others, but they were not able to shake the force of his ar guments. He was warmly cong-atu lated by Senators on- both sides of the chamber on having advanced some new and telling arguments on the tariff question as it applies to American labor. Church and Public. Health. "No social agency is more earnest in its demands upon the church for co-operation than public health, and no agency offers a greater return for such co-operation." says Dr. Ennion W. Williams, health commissioner of VirginIa, in a bulletin just issued by the United States Bureau of Educa tion. "Public health asks the church to join hands with it In giving men better bodies, and it promises that when men's boodies shall be stronger. their spirits will be nobler. Public health asks the church to assist in it making sanitary the community to which the church ministers; and it pledges .the experience of the world to show that when this is done,* none will benefit more than the church. Other things equal, the healthy man is the moral man, and the sanitary community Is the spiritual commu nity. "The first means of co-operation on the...part of the church is in preching the dignity, of the human person, the sanctity of the individual body. This will enable the church to justify the health officer in his de mand for a sanitary community will, indeed, make that demand Ir resistibly logical. If the body is sac red, then the body deserves a sani tary surrounding and depends upon it. The permanence of our fight for better health must rest, in part at least, upon an awakened public con science which will view disease as second only to sin, cleanliness as next to godliness. "The church should, in a very practical way, illustrate the necessity of sanitation by being itself a model of san'iation. It should he well -ven tilated, well kept supplied with prop er outhouses and with a safe supply of drinking water. Many of our rural churches fall far short of this. Cleaned only when filth becomes un bearable, ventilated by chance or ac houses and supnlyinn w-ato -' - rusty bucket and a dirty ti" t'i"e' the church oftentimes Is a ''oe, - ' Infection. If it is to stnnr aC the evangel of good health, jt mutt h' sanitarv. If it is to proach the g'= nel or fresh air, it must be well venti lated." FAfTHFUL. It is something s7;eet when the world goes ill. To know you are faithful and love' mae still: To see. when the sunshine has left the skies. The lovelight shining in your dear Beautiful eyes more dear to me Than all the wealth of the world could be! t is sopmething, dearest, to feel you near When life 'with its sorrows seems hard to 'bear: o feel, when I falter, the clasp di vine Of your tender and trusting hand in mine: Reatitiful hand. m'ore dear to me Than the tenderest things on earth could be! Sometimes', dearest, the world goes wrong. For God gives grier with its gift of And poverty, too: Put your love is moreI To me than riches and gel1en store: Beautiful love, unatil death shall part. It is mine. ae, you are-my ov:n sweetheart: The Mexican policy of Pretinant Wilson is endorsad by Ronflhhi'Yan nd Democratis Seators and Con gressmeP. FIND FHANK UiULTY NO RECOMMENDATION TO MERCY BY ATLANTA- JURY THIONO LIKES VERICT Populace Shows Its Approval by a v Noisy Demonstration When Jury's Finding Is Announced-Solicitor - c Lifted on Men's Shoulders and Tri umphantly Carried Off. Leo M. Frank, convicted late Mon- b day of the murder of 14-year-old $ Mary Phagan, showed no visible signs of emotion early Monday night when 0 informed that he had been found guilty. The factory superintendent's .wife, with him when the message was b delivered, collapsed. More than an hour before Frank b was notified the jury's verdict of I murder in the first degree was re ceived with a noisy demonstration by a crowd estimated at more than 2, 000 persons that jammed the street. All spectators were excused from the Court room before the verdict was announced. By agreement of coun sel the prisoner was permitted to re main in his cell at the county jail. Only lawyers, Court officials and newspaper men heard the ver !ct rendered. After listening to the presenta- f tion of the evidence and argument of t counsel for more than four weeks the jury retired at 12:47 o'clock Monday afternoon when Judge Roan concluded his charge. Shortly after 4 o'clock it was announced that a verdict had been reached, but it was nearly 5 o'clock before the jury re turned to the Court rooM. At 4:50 o'clock Foreman Win burne read the verdict It contained no recommendation to mercy. As the t news was flashed to the crowd out side there was loud cheering. Mount- I ed policemen rode through the crowd co disperse it, but the demonstration continued unabated. Solicitor Hugh Dorsey, who con- s ducted the prosecution, was the first S person to leave the Court room. As g he stepped into the street he was lift- t ed to the shoulders of several men and carried for more than a hundred 1 feet through the shouting throng. C Mary Phagan's bodV bearing marks of violence was found In the base ment of the National Pencil Factory early Sunday morning, April 27. The c girl previously had been employed at the factory and had gone there at noon, April 26, for her wages. Near her body was found two notes, on which were accusations against a "long black negroe." Newt Lee, negro night watchman of the factory, who found the body, immediately was arrested on suspic ion. Superintendent Frank and sev eral others connected with the fac tory were detained several days later. Among these was James Conley, ne gro sweeper. Frank's trial began July 28. The State built a basis of circumstantial evidence and then called James Con ley to the stand to give the only di rect testimony against the defendant. Conley swore that he had stood guard outside the factory office while Frank was closeted with the pretty 14-year old girl, and that later he helpedi Frank carry the body to the base ment. The negr. also told a story of other alleged incidents at the fac tory office, charging the defendant with degeneracy. The defence's at torney's attacked Conley's veracity by attempting to prove an alibi for their client and by producing three pre vious affidavits, in which the negro told widely varying stories of the crime. Late in the trial the defendant took the stand, making a statement of general denial. He said he paid Mary Phagan her wages on the day se disappeared, and that she left his office immediately Judge Roan's charge to the jury, delivered immediately after he had overruled a motion of the defence for a mistrial, was terse and direct. With reference to "reasonable doubt" he said: "You are not compell ed to find' from the evidence his guilt beyond any doubt, but beyond a reasonable doubt, such a doubt as grows out of the evidence, or for the want of evidence: such a doubt as a reasonable and impartial man woul~d entertain about matters of the high est importance to himself, and after all reasonable efforts to ascertain the truth "'his does not mean a fanci ' ""+. er sonjured up by the ju Or-- E' t'ial much stress was -' I i M des on the question -~ '- c' -acter. Judge Roan et ''i 4:that while evidence tl' te'r'- 's good reputation va e *)o math of Mary Phag n m~' in' "a "'sdered possibly as eontng a "'nht of his guilt, such ev i-nonne 'onlin not suffice to clear him +'. in the oninhn of the jury, other etinyp wat '-ufficient to show that he had enmmit'.ed the crime charged aeirst him. Onh Tuesnav Tudge Roan sentenced 'rrnrek +o r'eath, the date of the exe "ntien being fix~ed as October 1 0. At torneys for the defence made motion rn a ne tri-I and the date set for the. hoarine in October 4. This ren drs it certain that Frank will not he haredj op the tenth, for itf an ad verse ruling is .even to the motion for a nnw trial an appeal will be tak n to fthe Supremer Court, which will necessitate a lonr 'lelay. 1 J-o'dre Roan erde: ed the release of the nearo watchonan. Newt Lee. Con- I 1by. the n'egro whoea testimony was so dlamaging to Frrik's case. is ex peted to be trie-I and sentenced to about three years for his part of the ('wimo. His confession will of course help him. We would like to hear what kind o argumen+ the so-ctlled Democratic Senators of Louisias a could advance to .iustify their voi-- to tax the cot ton g-nwors of the 'nuth for the ben eit of the surqr growers of Louisia Cut ont the too h ilion dollas thatv the farme~rs will on tribute this year t to the wealth cf m'e nation by the r rops they h'ave ra" ad We would have-s li+tle lef+. Tre n'-1 Vith the hoe isji the real business uan 4f the country. 1 MILLION AND A HALF )F CROP MOVING MONEY SENT TO THIS STATE. 4harleston Gets $500,000, Columbia $400,000, While Spartanburg and Greenville Each Get $300,000. While the treasury department ;ould give out no information re arding the crop moving money go ag to.different South Carolina banks, 'he Columbia State's Washington orrespondent was able to ascertain fonday that Charleston will get 500,000 and the share of that city ;ill be divided among the following anks: Peoples' National bank, 175,000; Bank of Charleston, $175, 00, and the First National, $150, 00 Columbia, it Is learned, will get bout $400,000, and as far as could e ascertained this amount will be di ided between the three following eanks: Carolina National, Nktional oan and Exchange and the Palmetto Zational. Greenville and Spartanburg, it was lso learned, will each receive $300, '00 and this fund by agreement will e equally distributed among all the tational banks of- those two places 7hich want it. When the treasury department of icials were asked by the State's cor espondent if these amounts were i orrect, it was stated that for the I resent it was not desired that any i gures be printed and therefore othing of confirmatory nature so far i s the officials named are concerned, i ould be had, but the Information i Lere given was secured from those i n the inside and is believed to be pproximately correct, except that i he total amount going to Columbia aay be slightly more than here given. It is considered that $300,000 for 1 reenville and Spartanburg is a good 1 ized amount whent-it is considered i hat Charleston gets only $500,000 >ut the two first named places were >laced prominently before Secretary IcAdoo. This information Is believed to be .s nearly correct as it is possible to ecure it at this time, but not being ecured from official sources it is ven subject to changes by the treas try department hereafter. [3HE WOMAN WHO UNDERSTANDS 'omewhere she waits to make you win Your soul In her firm white hands ;omewhere the gosd have made for you The woman who understands. as the tide went out she found him Lashed to a spar of despair 7he wreck of his ship around him, The wreck of his dreams In the air ound him, and loved him, and gath ered The soul of him to her heart; [le soul that had sailed an unchart ed sea Ehe soul that had thought to win and be free- - The soul of which she was part; Lnd there In the dust she cried to the man: T'n your battle-you can-you can." elping and loving and guiding Urging when that was best bIoding her fears in hiding Deep in her quiet breast 'his is the woman who kept him True to his standard lost, Vhen tossed in the storm and stress and strife, e thought himself through with the battle of life And ready to pay the cost, atching and guarding and whisper ing still: 'Win-you can-and I know you will." hIs Is the story of ages This is the woman's way Viser than seers or sages, Lifting us day by day racing all things with courage Nothing can daunt or dim; rreadng life's path wherever it leads ned with flowers or choked with weeds, But ever with him-with him. uardian, comrade, and Golden Spur, rhe men who win are helped by her. somewhere she waits, strong in be lief, Your soul In her firm white hands; Chank well the gods when she comes to you The woman who understands. -J. Appleton. LIFE. ro the preacher life's a sermon, To the joker it's a jest; ro the miser life is money, To the loafer life is rest. ro the lawyer life's a trial, To the poet life's a song; o the doctor life's a patient That needs treatment right along. ro the soldier life's a .battle, To the teacher life's a school; Afe's a good thing to the grafter, It's a failure to the fool. o the man upon the engine, Life's a long and heavy grade; t's a gamble to the gambler, To the merchant life Is trade. ife's a picture to the artist To the rascal life's a fraud. ife. perhaps, is but a burden To the man beneath the hod. ie is lovely to the lover, To the player life's a play: .ife may be a load of trouble To the man upon the dray. Me is but one long vacation To the man who loves his work ie's an everlasting effort To shun duty to the shirk. ro the earnest Christian worker Life's a story ever new: ife is what we try to make it Brother, what is life to you' -John Upton. "What a great and glorious com-1 nonwealth this old state of South1 arolina would be if every mani ould determine to obey the law and I o do his duty by his God and his eighbor.. says The Newherry Ob- I erver. -Such an ideal conditiog gould surely be a foretaste of heav'en FOR NEEDED REFORMS EARMPUL EFFECTS OF POOR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. Fohn J. McMahan Discusses Vital Question and Gives Reasons for Compulsory Education. The enlightened mind revolts at he idea of ignorant parents compell ng their children to remain in igno ,ance without availing :;hemselves ol :he schooling offered free by the ;tate within the reach of every home. idd to those that never go to s.hool he large number that attend irregu arly, and we probably have half of he children failing to make propei se of the facilities provided for their ducation. Let us consider the mean ng of it all, as if we were explaining o the simplest mind that: does not ee the evil. The child is not his own master, >ut is subject to his parent. Left to imself, the child will be ignorant mnd undeveloped. He will not have L compelling desire for knowledge, tnd will not apply himself to learn, intil he is made to taste a sample td perceive that it is good-acquire n appetite for learning, Meantime, inless made to go to school he may prefer to idle at home. Primitive Tribal Education. In a state of primitive nature, with io law but the individual will (if :here ever was such an individualistic tage of man's progress) it rests wholly with the parent to compel Ather ignorance or learning, and we :an not doubt that the instinct of -ace-preservation secured for the :hild instruction in the essentials of ell-being according to the then standards-just as in the animal reation the parent teaches its off spring how to obtain food and how o escape from its enemies. But in he earlest known times, there is some sort of custom which none ould defy and which is thus the ummounity or common law. This ustomary law has from the begin ing prescribed the education which a the requisite of the times. Thus Lmong savages in tribal relations, :he-parent never neglects, and would ot be allowed to omit, to give his son the standard training for the :hase and for war-the -great duties >f citizenship at such a period of uman society. Difficulties of Modern Discipline. In modern times, with the higher levelopments in the main, there is a strange decadence constantly mani !esting itself. There is more parental ieglect, relatively, than among sav tges, and in the more artificial train .ng of the schools to fit for new con litions of man's life, there is more lifficulty in keeping alive in the child t zest for learning. Thus even after ais taste is somewhat aroused and he ias formed the general purpose to learn, he will have his periods of sloth, of reaction, of revolution against the labor of application, against regularity, against system, against obedience-the very things hat he needs to become inured to. ! allowed to have his own way as his ancy changes, he will attend irregu arly, will loiter and be tardy. His atenesses and absences will suffiee to destroy the effectiveness of his studying, the connecting links of his earning being lost. When present Ie will be inattentive to instruction, regletful of the assigned tasks, will rot be seriously in earnest, will not rew his obligation to get an educa ion as a closed question, and will therefore dwadle and fritter away his time. If allowed to acquire such Iabits, he will be injuring instead of building up his character, and will be lessening instead of increasing his uture usefulness. A large part of the benefit of true schooling is the acquiring of correct and useful habits uder compulsion-such as the habit af regularity, of system, of obedience. af self-control, of diligence, of stead astness, of ability to de unpleasant hings, and at last the ability to find pleasure in doing duties whether or riot inherently unpleasant. This mod ificaton of natural desires to recog ized duties has come to be best de scribed -by a term derived from the :lassical name for the pupil in school. the ideal of all schooling being the resultant "discipline", the mental and moral acquisition of the true dis iple or pupil. Regular Attendance. If the child goes to school spas aodically, he will have more friction with the teacher than otherwise, for be will not -be as well up in his stud Les, or as well trained to applying bimself, or as accustomed to obey, ad thus he will have to be the more ontrolled, punished if need be, and ris a result of the corrections or pun ishments he will be angered and have !urther disposition to vent his resent ent by staying away at will or alto ether. Poor attendance breeds worse ttendance. Irregular attendance mds in non-attendance. If the par ut indulges him, let him be his own aster, spoils him, he will do poor work at school or will stay away. uch Is often the indulged child of parents who should know better and 1 better, and not very different in :he misfortune of the neglected child ,f parents of a peculiar type of ig rorance. :ions (so necessary to enable the :eacher to accomplish much when :here is a large number to teach). lasses are further rendered impos ibe by some children entering schor, ater than others and dropping out sooner. Such a child can not go for rrard with his proper grade from year o year--having entered and left so rregularly and done so little in the ie at school that he must be in a Iass by himself or start over again ~very year. Irregular attendance is harmful to he other children--those that attend ,erfectly, because it disorganizes the school, the discipline and the teach ng. Many of our schools are af ited with this ystematic lack of system. The princziple of law, "So ise your own ar not to injure an ther's," would Lully justify the abso ute exclusion from school of every hild that can not be made to con :or fully to the implied reluire nent of attending regularly and se iously. from the 'heginning to the hnd. Most graded schools do this, in elf-defence. This protects the earn st pupils and may save some lag ards. But the law ought to author ze the - requirement of attendance. without thme necessity o ggeng to SENDS OUT MONEY CROP fUND IS DISTRIBUTED BY THE TREASURY IN SOUTH AND WEST Government Agents in This State, Major Henry Schachte in Charles ton, Henry W. Briggs in Greenville, August W. Smith in Spartanburg, and Wim. H. Lyles in Columbia. Secretary McAdoo announced Tues day the apportionment as far as it had been completed of the $50,000, 000 to be deposited .by the govern ment in national banks of the West and South to facilitate the movement and marketing of crops. The total amount allotted to date is $46,500, 000, of which $21,800,000 goes to banks ii the 13 Southern States and the District of Columbia, and $24, 700,000 to fourteen Western States. Southern banks asked that their share of the funds be deposited in August and September and those in the West want the money apportion ed to them during September, Octob er and November. The money will be allowed to remain on deposit on an average of four or five months. All of it is to be returned not later than April and Southern bankers who get their : ney first will .begin turn ing it back - Into the treasury in monthly Installment. In a statement announcing the ap portionment, Secretary McAdoo said: "The funds are deposited in the banks in the West and South at this time because it Is believed there is a special demand for the money to as sist in marketing of the crops which are now being harvested in these par ticular sections, but if in the east or elsewhere it should be shown that there is need for the temporary use of funds for similar legitimate pur poses the government will be quite as ready to extend similar aid." Many factors were taken into con sideration In arriving at the appor tionment of deposits in the West and South. "Among these," the secretary said, "were the immediate needs of the localities as reported by the com mittee of clearing houses in the con ferences held with them in Washing ton, the capital of the different na tional Lanks and the character of business transacted by them The amount of money which these banks are at present time advancing to their country bank correspondents and the additional accommodations which they expect to extend to these corre spondents; their present condition as shown by the last comptroller's call; their outstanding circulation and the amount of rediscounts they may have made In their efforts to meet the legitimate demands upon them of customers and correspondents." In each depository city the govern ment has chosen a special representa tive who will serve in conjunction with the clearinig house committee of five to pass on all commercial paper recommended as security for deposits and all paper before being accepted must be recommended by this com mittee. Following are the amounts allotted to each Southern State, the cities des ignated as depositories and a partial list of the government's representa tives: Alabama. $1,500,000; Birming ham, E. M. Tutwiller; Mobile, Albert Bush: Montgomery, W. A. Gayle. Arkansas, $600,000; Little Rock, W. M. Kavanaugh. Florida, $1.1 50,000; Jacksonville; Pensacola, J. B. McNeill; Tampa. Georgia, $1,700,000: Atlanta, W. K. Orr; Savannah, 3. R. Anderson; Augusta, William H. Barrett; Macon, William H. Felton Jr. Kentucky, $1,650,000; Lexington, J E. Cassidy; Louisville.. 'Louisiana, $2,600,000, New Or leans, W. T. Hardie; Shreveuort. Maryland. $2,800,000; Baltimore, William C. Page. Mississippi, $6,000,000: Jackson. W. Q. Cole; Meridian, J. H. Wright; Vicksburg, P. M. Harding. North Carolina. $1,300,000; Char lotte, E. R. Preston; Greensboro, R. R. King; Wilmington, Hugh McRae; Raleigh, Charles E. Johnson. South Carolina, $1,500,000; Char leston, Maj. Henry Schachte; Colum bia. William H. Lyles; Greenville. Henry W Briggs; Spartanburg, Au gust W. Smith. Tennessee, $1,950,000; Chatta nooga, W. F. Kalb; Knoxville, Sam uel B. Lutterell; Memphis, Samuel P. Read; Nashville, Joseph H. Thomp son. Texas, $2,500,000: Dallas, Alexan. ler Sanger; Fort Worth; Houston; Galveston, I. H. Kempner; San An tonio. Virginia, $1,450,000: Lynchburg, A. S. White; Norfolk. Walter H. Tay lor; Richmond, E. L. Bemiss; Roan oke. District of Columbia, $500,000; Washington, J. Selwin Tate. Bridge Built in Twelve Days. One of the most Important bridges near New York city was rebuilt, after it had been burned down, in 12 days, record time on such a structure. It is more than a mile long and 1,500 men worked on it continuously. Overdose Causes Blindness. Ninety grains of quinine, self-pre scribed for chills and fever, caused total blindness to Charles Pittsmeyer Iat Camden, N. J. Tuesday. Doctors found the overdose had paralyzed the optic nerve. exclusion for poor attendance. That would save more of the laggards and many who have never had a chance because of their surroundings, chiefly their parents. An end should be made to letting children come to school just often enough to disturb the work of the regular attendants and not enough to do themselves any Ireal god An end should also be put to the whimsical action of ignorant and prejudiced parents who keep their children from school altogether. State compulsion of education should stop parental compulsion of ignor ance. John J. McMahan. Columbia. August 16. Memorandum: "Delenda est Car thago"-which being interpreted r.,ns. "The primary has got to be HUNTING SHORTER RGUTE. Proposed State Highway Passes by 01 Holly Hill. A quicker and shorter route from Columbia to Charleston, and one (C which can easily -be put in first-class shape, was the proposition laid be fore Commissioner E. J. Watson Sat- Hi urday by a party of gentlemen who travel the State in automobiles for w] commercial purposes.' The new pl route to the City by the Sea as advo- av cated by these gentlemen would cut the distance of 99 miles as against dr 122.6 by the present short route and si 138.2 by the longer route ri4 The road, should it be decided to follow the present Capital-to-Coast siI highway until it crosses Bate's Ferry. th This ferry, by the way, is to be im proved, permanent landings made on st each side of the river, the causeways G< improved, the addition of a motor to be made to the boat and the wiring qi to be fixed so that the ferry can w< cross the Congress without interfer- si ing with navigation. At present it is et necessary for the ferry to lie on the w Richland side of the stream all the m time. After crossing the Congaree River is the new road, instead of going from IN Fort Motte to St. Matthews, would take the'straight road bearing to the pi left and crossing the tracks of the to Atlantic Coast Line half-way between Creston and Lone -Star, then cross w the line Into the eastern neck ,of p< Orangeburg County and follow some- H what the tracks of the Pregnall divi- w slon of the Coast Line, crossing the m tracks of the Coast Line at Elloree st and Holly Hill and then going due east from Holly Hill into Berkeley g< County. Turning south between ac Pinopolis and Monks Corner and n4 coming back close to the nain line of the Coast Line the road would go cc from there direct into Charleston, w making the distance from Columbia u4 to Charleston only ninety-nine miles. A study of the map of this propos- ni ed short route will snow that it fol- w lows more or less of a ridge all the G way from Columbia, the lower end of the road being a natural hard pan. tc The road can be put in first-class w shape, it is said, with little effort si and little cost. Thirty-seven and one-half miles of this road on the m Columbia end is as fine a piece o' po roadway as can be found in the xz whole State. If the people along the route, the farmers and' the residents w of the towns, are interested the work p] can be easily done. Commissioner Watson says if the people show any bo willingness to improve the highway a he will chart and map it and sign- di post the road just as he has ,been ti -oing all over the State. w ei NEVER-NEVER LAND. We who are old shall never go Adown a way we used to know I When we were young, and merely fools; b Shall never stand by moonlit pools And mark the poplars thin and stark, Tall sentinels against the dark, Nay we shall never go again Hands held in hands down Lovers: s Lane.d We who e.re old shall never go When lights in windows are aglow, d And 'neath a branch the night-wind ti stirs tc Gaze on that window which Is hers, While yet the light holds out to burn; u And never blink, and never turn ti Until the shadow of the maid Is wiped by darkness from the shade. -.s al We never by the pasture bars Shall stand' again and count the stars, Nor for each falling star shall take The old, sweet toll which used to i make Us richer than a millionaire, 1 Which used to wipe out every care, E Which sent us homeward from the bars With our head up among the stars. We ne'er shall mark where she has T In the white dust her dainty foot, Nor shall we treasure up a rose T That lately her tip-tilted nose Was .buried in, nor tell our love To a worn and discarded glove, Nor mark the glory in "er face When meeting in the trysting G place. We for whom now all years are .gray Shall never take the winding way Up the high hill to the old beach, Where once as high as we could ~ reach We carved within a crooked scroll, While heart to heart, and soul to soul We stood, the maid's name and our own Those names must now be over- r; grown. We, standing in life's ,unset glow, T In all our lives shall never go, Her hand in ours down Lover's Lane; Shall ne'er keep tryst with her again, F Nor watch the trees across the pool, And never be the world-loved fool We used to be-we ne'er shall T stand In love in Never-Never Land. A LIFE HEROIC. 'I life the man who faces what he must O With step triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle with out fear; 0 Sees his hopes fail, yet unfaltering trustL That -God is God--that, somehow, ti'ue and just A His plans work out for mortals; not a tear Si -Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear, Falls from his grasp-better, with love, a crustA Than living in dishonor; envies not Nor loses faith in man; but does his S best, Nor even murmurs at his humbler lot; But with a smile and words of hope, E' gives zest To every toiler. He alone is great Di Wo by a life heroic conquers fate. F< Boy Whiteceap Sentenced to Gang- st .Joe Callahan, charged with being a menber 'f the masked band that Sc whipped :.n Shannon, a Tipton Ga. farmer, some time ago, has been L< sentenced to a year on the chain gang. Shannon says that he recogniz SUGGESTIVE QUETINS. t the Sunday School Lesson by Dr. Linscott. August 31, 1913. 'pyright, 1912, by Rev. T. S. Lin scott, D. D.) Israel at Mount Sinai. Ex. xix; -b. xii:18-24. Golden Text-Let us have grace,. Lereby we may offer service well'. asing to God with reverence and re. Heb. xii:28. 1. Verses 1-2-How had the chil en of Israel spent the three months ce they left Egypt and what expe nces had they passed through? 2. Verses 3-4-Is God more acces )le or not, and why, from one place an he is from another? 3. What is the meaning of the itement, "And Moses went up unto >d"t? 4. When we pray or make re tests or ask questions of God should a or not expect such a clear cut an er from him as Moses here receiv !? (This is one of the questions ich may be answered In writing by embers of the club.) 5. Verses 5-6-Are God's prom s conditional or unconditional?: hy? 6. What Is the substance of God's. omises for time and eternity to-day his obedient children? 7. Verses 7-8-If these eople, ien their hearts were stirred with nitence promised God to be true to im, but afterward were not true, )uld' God bless them at the time of aking the promise as 'if they had .bseqently fulfilled their vows? S. When a sinner turns to God in >od faith Is he always at the time cepted regardless of what the sin r's subsequent life may be? 9. Verses 9-11-How does God me to the people in these days and hat is the necessary preparation for to meet him? 10. How do the people now recog ze when God has spoken to a man ho says he has a message from 11. It is possible to-day for God work effectually through a church hose members are living in known a? Why? : 12. Verses 12-15-Why did God ake It a capital offense if any of the - o-'e should attempt to touch this ountain? 33. What did it mean then, and hat does it mean now, for the peo e to "sanctify" themselves? 14. Verses 16-25-If you have .en on a high mountain, or can im ne what it feels like to be there iring severe thunder and lightning, ten describe the feelings of awe hich the Israelites likely experienc at Sinai. 15. What would likely be the re gious effect of these awe-inspiring ienomena? 16. Are religious resolutious rmed under exciting influences la e to be lasting or not, and why? 17. Are all God's spiritual bless gs or revelations for every Chris an, or are some of them for the ect few, as in this case? Why? 18. Heb. xii:18-21-What scene es the writer here depict? 19. What would you say is the fference between God's appeal to e Israelites at Sinai, and His appeal us now? 20. Verses 22-23-What are the timate spiritual ideals or concep ons at the present of every devout an when he comes to God? 21. We properly cultivate our se of God's presence, should we so cultivate the sense of the pres ice of this "Innumerable company angels"? Why? 22. Verse 24-What Is the signi ~ance of coming to "Jesus, the med tor of the new covenant"? Lesson for Sunday, September 7, 13. The Ten Commandments-I. K. xx: 1-11. LIFE'S MIRROR. here are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and .true! hen give to the world the best you have And the best will come back to you. ye love, and love to your life will flow, A strength in your utmost need; ave faith, and a score of hearts will show Their faith- in your word and deed. Le truth, and your gifts will be raid in kind, .^nd honor will honor meet. nd a smile that is sweet will surely find. A smile that is just as sweet! ye pity and sorrow to those who mourn; You will gather in flowers again, he scatered seeds from your thought outborne,. Though the sowing seemed in vain. or life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what you are and do, hen give to the world the best you have And the .best will come back to you. LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG. ce In the dear dead days beyond recall, lien on the world the mists began to fall, ut of the dreams that rose In hap py throng, >w to our hearts Love sung an old sweet song; od in the dust where fell the fire light gleam, >ftly It wove itself Into our dream. 1st a song at twilight, when the lights are low id the flck'ring shadows softly come and go, 1' the heart be weary, sad the day and long, ill to us at twilight comes Love's old song, Comes Love's old sweet song. ren today we hear Love's song of yore, ep inour hearts it dwells forever more. otsteps may falter, weary grow the'day,, ll we can hear it at he close of day. till the end, when life's dim shad ows fall, ve will be found the sweetest song One thing about (nevernor Blease