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m Part I Press and Banner Part I M : I I ml ?2.00 A YEAR ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1912. ESTABLISHED 1844 5? WHAT GOVERNOR OF SAID TO THE Columbia, Dec. 10.?The governor | yesterday gave a stenographic report' of his statements at the conference of I governors held in Richmond last week.! The report was made through W. F. Caldwell. Columbia correspondent of 1 the News and Courier of Charleston, the only representative of the press to visit the office of the governor. The following was given out with request to publish: December 9, 1912. Mr. W. P. Caldwell, Columbia, ___ "Dear Sir:?As the representative of the daily press or tne enure oiaie, so far as this office is concerned, I herewith hand you copy of steno graphic report of the Richmond ; speech, as furnished me by the Times- j Dispatch News Bureau of Richmond, j for which I have paid five dollars, j Since the press of the State have ! made such a great fuss about the mat-1 ter, I request you to furnish them cop- j ies of this and ask that they publish j it, in order that the people may see j just what the speech was, just what j my answer to Governor Carey was, | and then let the white people of the i State judge whether there was any- j thing in it to raise such a great row . over. I have also requested a steno-1 graphic report from the official sten-; ographer of the conference of the! speech I made after the adoption of | the resolution which was offered in | reference to this speech which 1 now j hand you. When it is received I shall1 also ask the papers to publish it. Both ; of them I will incorporate in a mes- j sage to the general assembly, in order that it may be made a part of the of ficial records of this State. "I stand by every word I said. I have absolutely no apoiogies iu 111 an. c, | to any man or set of men in this State, ' or outside of it, and, as I said in Richmond and repeat now, I do not care what the governor or governors of any State or States thought about it or what anybody else in the Amer ican union thinks about it. This is what I think, and I said there only what I said on the stump all over South Carolina. And I am receiving - nri telegrams from all over this State, and from many other States of the union, congratulating me upon my position. If your papers desire It, ' I will be very glad for them to have thn nricinni lptters. Drovided they will publish them." "Very respectfully, "Cole L. Blease." The views of Governor Blease op marriage and divorce were brought forcebly in an address delivered be fore the Governors' conference on Thursday afternoon. Governor Wm. 11. Mann of Virginia had just finished a discussion of turning the trend of population from the towns and cities to the country, and referred to the great work being accomplished by the Boys' corn clubs, giving statistics as to the corn yield accomplished by these young farmers. Governor Blease said: "Mr. Chairman. I shall not under take to discuss with the distinguished governor of Virginia the question 01 raising corn, because South Carolina holds the world's record, and as to thi quality of his corn, I would not for a moment discuss that, because al through prohibition South Carolina we have examples of the quality o? his corn, shipped from the Capital o" his State by his wholesale dealers. No Divorce Decrees "But, Mr. President, the othei question in which South Carolina stands alone, and in which, in mj opinion, she is superior to all th< States of the American union, written in the fundamental laws of my Stat( by a constitutional convention, com posed of men of both races, in 1868 and even more emphatically in 1895 by the white people of South Caro lina, are the words: 'No divorce from the bonds of matrimony shall ever be granted.' It may be sir, a hardship ii some cases, and possibly I might re fer to cases where other States mighi think it was right, still I say to this audience this afternoon, and I say it with pleasure, that the only correct niie, followed both the Biblical injunc-. tion and the injunction of man, is thai /** r, y,r\ 1 ? o fnllnwc whpr WHICH OUUlll v>tli uiinu iviiv/mw she pays;- 'Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.' If there be one thing in the American union that is a disgrace to American civilization, it is the sale of American womanhood for wealth: if there be another, it is the wholesome and unwarranted granting of di vorces becausc. forsooth some women or some man has not got as much money by their marriage as they ex pected when the marriage ceremony was performed. I am glad that we have no divorce law in South Carolina, per sonally, and if you will look to the rear of this hall and pick out the best looking red-headed .voman in this State, you will see why I object per sonally to divorce. But, Mr. Chair man, when you lay down the law you will reap the harvest that the dis tinguished governor of Nevada has *Ar? |MUIUICU IU 11110 Wiagivuvv/. "My state stands alone. We grant no divorces; we recognize no di vorces. If a man leaves the State of South Carolina, or a woman, and 2oes into another State and obtains a di vorce from his wife, he may come hack into South Carolina and live, but if he again marries and moves back within the State with a second wife we hold him and his wife guilty of adultery and punish them according ly: and if there are children born to the union after the divorce the su preme court of South Carolina has stated in their opinion that they are illegitimate and can not inherit the property of the parent. That , I say, may seem to some of you a hardship: hut, my friends, it is far better that in a few instances some good woman rray suffer or some mnn may be caus ed to suffer, than to lay down a law which would bring, and which is bringing today, in disrepute the sol emn bonds of matrimony, which only under any conditions or any circum stances should be contracted for love, sanctioned by a divine power. In Other States "Mr. President and Brother Govern ors, we do not apply to your States anything wrong. It is your way of looking at the proposition. We do not mean for a moment to condemn you, nor would South Carolina or South Carolinians for a moment set itself up as the only or the proper guardian of the morality of the American na tion; but we are glad of the distinc tion that we hold; we are proud that it is written in our fundamental law, so that no legislature, elected possibly by a wave of excitement or irum i other causes, can change it; it is so written that it is impossible to change, and of that we are proud. "Now we can not follow this rule of desertion all the way through, but in South Carolina when a white man de serts his wife and children, or if he deserts his wife and they are without children, it is a criminal offense to fail to support that wife, or to fail to support the children, if there be such. Consequently the wife can go into a ^ourt of justice and prosecute her hus band for non-support of herself and for non-support of her children, and we punish him as a criminal for fail ing to do his duty to that woman, to those children, to society and to his State. Therefore, we have but little trouble on this score. Sometimes we have a citizen who drifts to Reno; sometimes we have a citizen that crosses to Augusta, only going across the Savannah river, but when he real izes that when he comes back into the State that a criminal prosecution will hiing over his head for the desertion of that woman, who has sworn, not only before man, not only for her love for him, not only for the devotion which she has for her State and her nation, but for her belief in the heic after *.nd in the God tsitv gave h?r life that she would stand by him in health and in sickness, old South Car olina says to him, 'As she stands by you, you have got to stand by her,' We are proud of it; we lovo ihe dis tinction. "Now, there is a race of people in my section of the country?and I am pointed to the world sometimes as their enemy, but I am not, and if the governorship of South Carolina depended upon an election next Tues day and they would leave it entirely to the negro vote, disfranchising for the *ho whitp vote. I could receive without trouble 75 to 90 per cent, of the negro vote of the State to be, their governor, and notwithstanding that I stand alone in this conference and in other places of this great nation, not as governor of South Carolina, but in ray individual capacity believing there Is but one punishment, and that must be speedy, when that negro lays his >ands upon the person of a white wo man. Such a thing as happened a few I lays ago in a certain State, can't hap-1 Men in South Carolina; the boasted hero of the black race who claims to be the superior of the white man in i '.he prize ring could not disgrace South j Carolina by having himself united to i white woman within its borders, thank God, and if it did happen the law provides a punishment for him I ind a punishment for her, and the jnly reason that the law would be called in to protect them would be he location of the place in the State n which the crime might have been :ommitted. Otherwise there might be no need for a grand juury to present > hm.o hill \ir. Chaimarn, of that we \,re proud. , "Of course, we can not apply that .0 this individual race, and wny not? because, ray friends, you do not un aerstand tnose people. You condemn id of the Soutn, and yet Ohio fol lows the example; in Springfield they tollowed it; New Jersey follows it; r'eunsyivania will follow it. All other .states of the American union will follow it, because no matter where it be, North or South, East or West, .vhenever you touch the Caucasian jlood it is the same, and it will prove ' iselt to be the superior and the his .ory of the world has proved it (both Bible and profance history) that whenever the inferior race gets in wtte way of the superior that the su I perior will rule and control, even ..hough it be necessary to wipe the .nfenor race from the face of the ^arth. Some men condemn this, and :hat is their privilege, but in the Southern States we love a woman; .ve hold them higher than all things oico and whenever anything steps be tween a Southern man and the de fense of the virtue ot womanhood of ais nation and his State, he will tear it down and walk over it in her de fense, regardless of whatever may be the consequence or whatever may be nis punishment or the result to him self. "Now. Mr. Chairman, we have a judge in our State whom I consider the ablest man who has ever been on the bench there. On one occasion several indictments were handed out oy the solicitor to the grand jury, and he sat there and heard the solicitor hand out indictment after indictment. After a while he turned around and said, 'Mr. Solicitor, are these white people or darkies you are handing jut these indictments against?' The solicitor said, 'May it please your lonor, they are against colored peo nle.' The judge looked over to the grand jury and said, 'Gentlemen, you can find no true bill against these negroes for the crime for which the solicitor is handing out these indict ments. Do you want any cotton raised this year; do you want your fields cultivated; if so, it will not do to bring in true bills on these in dictments against these negroes.' The result was no true bills were found. So, it will be seen that we can't treat them as we do ourselves. We treat them as servants. We pay them hon estly for the day's work, and I am proud to stand here and make this statement?and when I speak here I know I speak to the American na tion, because it has been heralded all over the country and all over the world what my opinions are on these subjects. "I am proud that I have paroled or i COTTON MARKET WILL BE NERVOUS Census Report to Be issued Thursday. EXCITEMENT EXPECTED ON -EXCHANGE Ginners Report Already Issued, But Estimate oi' Entire Crop is to Come. New Orleans, Dec. 9.?There will probably be but two events of im portance in the cotton market. One will be the census bureau report on ginning up 10 uie eiiu ui i\ovemuci, issued Monday morning, and the oth er will be the crop estimate by the department of agriculture, which will be issued at 1 o clock Thursday af ternoon. Naturally the estimate will be of more importance than the gin ning figures and the trading of tbe entire week can hardly help revolving around it. As opinion stood at the end of last week, the census report will be bear ish. The trade expects something around 12,000,000 bales. While this is smaller than the amount turned out i to the corresponding time last year, it is looked upon as large, consider ing other comparisons. Bulls gloss this over by stating that this is the fastest picked and ginned crop ever known, a claim that they have been putting forward for about three years now. Bears contend that it- points to a larger total crop than the world has been figuring on. The census figures, especially if < they show any great departure from expectations, will be used as the ba sis for a batch of new guesses as to what the government's estimate of omr CTAWfh rtf I lilt: W Hi UC, anu CL11J sentiment one way or another that i may develop in consequence will un doubtedly have a quick influence on prices. The market will probably be very nervous with erratic fluctua tions, up to Thursday. If the signs ! are worth anything, Thurday will be a wild day on the exchange, with ' heavy trading, and, possibly, wide price changes. j Up to recently the bulls were con vinced that the government's esti mate of the crop would be below 14, 000,000 bales, but private estimates this last week have shaken that be lief somewhat. At the same time, it is generally acknowledged that the tendency of the government to un der estimate the crop should be taken into consideration, and that figures much over 14,000,000 bales would be surprising. As sentiment now stands, an estimate commencing with thirteen would cause an advance, while 14, 000,000 bales or over, could favor ? the bears, since the estimate will not include linters, and the short side is bound to allow for the habit of un der estimating no matter what claims are advanced by the bulls. pardoned more negroes than all the governors of South Carolina put to gether since 1876, when we redeemed ourselves and went back to white su premacy in the old State of South Carolina; therefore, I say that I am not his enemy, but his friend, and I know him better than you know him. ?But we don't give the negroes di vorce?" (the speaker was. here in fprmnted.l Question Asked By Gov. Carey of Wyoming: "Gov. Blease, when you were sworn in as governor of South Carolina, did you not swear to uphold the constitution and laws of the State of South Car olina?" By Gov. Blease: "I did, sir." By Gov. Carey: "Don't you have a law on the statute books of South Carolina protecting the negro the same as you do the white man?" By Gov. Blease: "Yes, sir. I will answer the governor of Wyoming, as I answered this question on the ros trum in South Carolina?I wish to call upon the newspaper men present not to say that I am excited; in South Carolina, thank God, I have a record of not only being a fighter, but a cold-blooded fighter?I answer you, sir by saying this?that when ever the constitution of my State steps between me and the defense of the virtue of the white women of my State, I will resign my commis sion, tear it up and throw it to the breezes and march to the defense of her honor and her virtue, regardless of what may be the consequences. "I would like for the newspaper reporters here to get mis uunauj, I was quoted in a campaign speech to have said, "To hell with the consti tution.' Seventy-five thousand white men of my State indorsed it as I said it, and here is the way I used it? I said: 'I will never order out a com pany of militiamen or regiment and order them to do something which I would not do myself, and I will never order out a company of young men to shoot down their neighbors and friends to protect a black brute who has committed a crime upon a white woman, and when the consti tution of my State stands between me and the defense of the virtue of the white women of my State, as I have just said, I will resign my com mission, tear it up and throw it to the breezes and march to the de e?lmnnr and their virtue. icnoc ui invii If this be treason, in the words of tha great Virginian, 'Make the most of it.' And for this expression I have no apologies to make to any man or set of men." 0?0?0?0?0? 0 -0?0?0?0-0 0 0 0 P. A. R. 0 0 0 0 The Andrew Hamilton Chap- 0 0 tor D. A. will meet with Mrs. 0 0 Wyatt Aiken, Wednesday, Dec. 0 0 11th at half-past three o'clock. 0 0 Mrs. (?. E. Calvert. 0 0 Cor. Sect? 0 0 0 0-0?0?0-0- 0 ?(T?0?0?0?0 BAPTISTS DID MUCH WORK IN THRE DAYS The Baptist State Convention com pieted its worK on Tnursaay mgni shortly after 10 o'clock, and Friday morning the delegates departed for their respective homes, loud in their praise Abbevilles hospitality. Dr. C. A. Milford, chairman of the local entertainment committee, reports that there was not a sinr"' discordant note in the universal expressions of pleasure, both on the part of guests and hosts. The members of the con vention enjoyed their stay here and the citizens of Abbeville enjoyed hav mg mem nere. The convention decided favorably upon the proposal to establish a san itarium. A board of 12 members, head ed by Rev. Louis Bristow, was select ed to take charge of this work. At tractive offers have been made by several cities for the location of this sanitarium. The board having this work in charge will meet in Columbia at the call of the president some time in January to decide upon the loca tion. This is a new line of church work in South Carolina, though in many. States such institutions are quite common and are doing a great work for the relief of suffering humanity. Rev. Mr. Bristow has put a gicat deal of time and effort into his work as chairman of the committee on san itarium and he was enabled to lay be fore the convention a mass of data bearing upon the subject. His address in support of the report of his com mittee was one of the features of the convention. His argument was able from every standpoint and was well received. Another important step taken by the convention was the removal of State headquarters from Greenville to Columbia. This means that by locating their headquarters at the geographi cal and railroad center of the State the State mission board will be in closer touch with the members and " - J i T* tbe interests 01 tne aenumiimauu. *<. is a step that would indicate increased activity on the part of the Baptists. Two years were allowed in which to accomplish the removal. The Baptists have been offered a large tract of land as a site for a proposed home for aged ministers and the convention authorized its commit tee to accept this bequest if they saw fit. Bennettsville was selected as the next place of meeting, the date tyeing Tuesday morning after the first Sun ~ ? tn- a n day in next uecemoer, ur. o. ?im,u ell, president of South Carolina Uni versity, will preach the convention 6ermon. The citizens of Abbeville generally attended the sessions of the conven tion and were well repaid for their attendance, much of interest and prof it being brought out in the discus sions. All in all, it was a pleasant and profitable occasion for the convention and for her guests. PEEPLES YS. RACING Attorney General-Elect Says He will Enforce the Law Columbia, Dec. 9.?"Will there be horse races in Charleston this win - ? 1 a ter?" a reporter tnis morning asKeu Attorney General-elect Thomas H. Peeples, of Blackville, who is in the city on business. "If you will look at the statutes of 1911 you will see that the anti-racing law is a stringent one; that law will be enforced," replied Mr. Peeples, and that was all he would say at this time in regard to the matter. The anti-racing law as passed last session by the general assembly pro vides in brief that there shall be no bookmaking at race tracks in this state. The racing question is becoming an interesting one, ?ince the time set for the Charleston meet is only about a month and a half off. Much specula tion is being indulged in as to wheth er the race meet will be held. If no betting is allowed it would seem that the races would not be held, for it is plainly evident and has always ap peared so that betting is the life of the "kings' sport." The attorney gen eral-elect says the anti-racing law will be enforced, though the racing interests are going ahead with ar rangements for a meet in Charleston to begin in January. CONSTABLE JOE WRIGHT KILLED NEGRO PRISONER Mr. Joe Wright, who was deputized as a special constable by Magistrate Huckabee of Lowndesville, shot and killed a negro by the name of Sam Cole last Wednesday morning. Con stable Wright had arrested Cole, but when attempting to place handcuffs upon him the prisoner resisted and at tempted to hit him with a brick, whereupon the officer shot him, after first attempting to subdue him by striking him over the head with the butt of his pistol. Cole wanted to go into his house on the pretext of get ting his coat, but the officer refused him permission to do so, offering to allow the negro's wife to get his coat for him. Mr. Wright surrendered himself to Rural Policeman Cann the day fol lowing and was released on bond. The verdict of the Coroner's jury was that deceased came to his death from a punshot wound at the hands of Joe Wright. 0?0?0?0?0? 0 ?0?0?0?0?0 0 0 0 The Abbeville Chapter U. I). 0 0 ('. will meet. Friday, December 0 0 13th ut 3 o'clock with Mrs. L. 0 0 T. Miller. All members please 0 0 note change in date and place. 0 0 0 0-0-0?0?0? 0 ?0?0?0?0?0 METHODISTS WILL RAISE $300,000 Half for Wofford, Fourth Each for Lander and Columbia. COMMISSIONER TO HAVE CHARGE. Church Schools are Prosperous ?Conference Adjourned Af ter Doing Much Work. i Anderson, Dec. 2.?All business , having been disposed of, the one hun- i dred and twenty-seventh annual con ference of the South Carolina Meth- , odist Church was adjourned early | this afternoon, after the assignments ( for 1913 had been read. The assign ments carry wholesale changes. The last day's session of the Con ference was opened by devotional ser- i vices, led by Presiding Elder O'Dell, , after which Bishop Kilgo announced | the following as being received into the conference by transfer: S. A. Steel, P. B. Wells, W. E. Thompson, C. L. Ingram and J. B. Gilgore. ! Reports were heard from the board j of education, the board of missions, of minutes, of Bible cause and church i extension. The reports of the board of missions and the board of educa- | tion provoked considerable discussion i but were finally adopted as received, l To Baiae $300,000 Fund The report of the board of educa tion carried with it the recommenda- j tion of the employment of a commis- i sioner of education, who shall inaugu- \ rat? a three years' campaign to raise i $300,000, one-half of which is to go to Wofford College, one-fourth to Lander College and one-fourth to Co lumbia College. The sums to be re ceived by these colleges are to be ap- 1 plied on their indebtedness ana aiso for the erection of a dormitory at Wofford and for the extension of the various college plants. The commissioner will be selected later by a committee especially ap- J pointed for this purpose. The report of the board of education was adopted as received with the amendment that $750 be appropriated for the Cokes bury Conference School. Dr. John 0. Wilson fathered the amendment for this purpose and a heated debate resulted. The vote when counted, however, included the appropriation. < In promoting the appointment of i the commissioner of education to , raise this $300,000 the board recom- j mended that "amounts received for any one of the three institutions, through agents or otherwise, within ' the bounds of our Conference between now and the inauguration of this cam- i paign, shall be deducted from the i amount to be apportioned to that in- i stitution." A motion was made and , nrfloflntcH to have this Dart < ailUU5V VWVU ?wu , of the report stricken out. After much debate, however, and by a close ' vote, the recommendation was left as 1 presented. 1 Church Schools Prosperous < The colleges and schools of the Con- f ference have experienced pn unpre- i cedented year of success. At Colum- . bia college there are 23 teachers and tutors, with an enrollment of 287 stu dents. Value of plant, $256,500, and ' indebtedness, $93,000. The board rec- 1 ommends tnat the field agent be con- 1 tinued. At Lander college there are 234 i students, of which. 159 are boarding j pupils. Value of plant, $147,300; en- < x J OAA aowmeni At Woffprd college there are 305 , students and 181 in the Fitting school. This is the largest enrollment in the 1 history of the two institutions. The < property and resources of the college t have been increased by $50,000. The ' endowment is $183,000. 1 There are 82 students at .Carlisle Fitting School, overcrowding the dor mitory. The property is valued at $35,000; endowment, $5,000. At the Cokesbury Conference school the en rollment was 40. The property is esti- j mated to be worth $6,000; endowment . $1,000. \ Thirty-four charges in the Confer ence failed to pay theif Conference , educational assessments, and only 88 ( of the charges paid this assessment , - /Mctriftt WAR in run. i ne i\iugsucc uiov..? the banner district, paying 80 per cent, j of its assessments. Reports were heard from the boards of missions, of Bible cause, minutes, Sunday schools, church extension, and ordered to the record. Resolution of Thanks The Rev. W. B. Duncan offered resolutions of thanks to the citizens of Anderson, to the Rev. S. A. Dona- 1 hoe and his efficient assistants in ar- ' ranging for the entertainment of the Conference, to the postal authorities for courtesy shown the Conference, and they were adopted by a rising vote. The Conference appointments will be found in full in another part of this issue. McSEILL-COCHRAS Invitations issued to the marriage of Popular Young Couple The following invitations have been issued to friends of a well-known and popular couple: Mr. and Mrs. William McNeill invite you to be present at the mar riage of their daughter Eva Grace to Mr. Julius Eakin Cochran on Thursday evening, December the nineteenth at half past eight o'clock At Home Abbeville, South Carolina. 0-0?0-0?0? 0 -0?0?0?0-0 0 0 0 CIVIC CLUB 0 0 0 0 The CItIc Club will meet 0 0 Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock 0 0 at the Club rooms. 0 0 Mrs. M. T. Coleman, 0 0 Mrs. F. B. Gary, Pres. 0 0 Sect 0 0 0 0-0?0-0?0? 0 ? 0?0-0-0-0 THE GOVERNMENT ( SHOWS 11 South Carolina i 041,221, She Short Washington, Dec. 9.?The sixth cotton ginning report of the census bureau for the season, issued at 10 o'clock Monday morning, announced that 11,844,432 bales of cotton, count ing round as half bales, of the growth of 1912 had been ginned prior to Sunday, December 1, to which date during the past seven years the gin ning averageed 82.2 per cent of the en tire crop. Last year to December 1 there had been ginned 12,816,807 bales, or 82.4 per cent of the entire crop; in 1908 to that date, 11,008,661 bales, or 84.1 per cent, and in 1906 to that date 10,027,868 bales, or 77.2 per cent. Included in the ginnings were 72, 927 round bales, compared with 87, 996 bales last year, 101,718 bales in 1910, 154,393 bales in 1909 and 201,480 bales in 1908. The number of Sea Island cotton bales included were 51,275 compared tvith 87,656 bales last year 77,591 bales in 1909, and 68,396 bales in 1908. Ginnings prior to December 1 by states, with comparisons f<?r last pear and the percentage of the entire jrop ginned prior to that date in those rears, follow: Alabama? 1912 1,166,037 1911...- ..1,536,076 Arkansas? A NOBLE PURPOSE. Scholarships for Worthy Home Girls, Better than Maintain ing Schools and Colleges for Young Ladies" in a Foreign Country. I am told that the South Carolina Fed jratlon of Woman's Clubs desires to raise money with which to buy scholarships in such colleges of the State, as may be se ected by the contributors. A member of ;hat organization says something like jhis: "It seems to me that there is no greater .vork on this earth than thai of helping to make men and women of popr, ambitious soys and girls. I want to establish a scholarship to be known as the HughWilson Scholarship of Music in Due West college, )r in any other college that may be pre ferred. It is desired to perpetuate the right of the music departmeut of the Fed jration to keep a talented, ambitious, de jervlng girl in possession of it. JNoone svould get direct benefit from it, except the jirl to whom the scholarship might be iwarded each year. Think of the vast imount of good that would be done by auch scholarships in the hands of deserv ng girls." The sentiment as expressed is so much n accord with my own, that I hope the South Carolina Federation of "Woman's Jlubs may be enabled to award many scholarships to our own deserving girls. The awarding of scholarships to our own worthy girls is certainly as deserving of jommendation as the work of supporting schools in a foreign land to educate 'young ladies" of another religious faith ihanourown. H. W: WAKRENTOff CEMETERY Those who wish to use the Warren :on Cemetery are requested to come ind select their plots. The cemetery s owned by the Warrenton church, is surrounded by a substantial fence which will last for many years and is In charge of a committee appointed by ;he Woman's Missionary Society com posed of the following ladies: Mrs. C. 0. Cowan, Mrs. W. W. McNeill, Miss Vina Wilson and the writer. There is room lor twenty-nve or mxriy puns. Mrs. F. W. Wilson, For the Committee. HUH BEN TILL1 ME IN C( Columbia, Dec. 9.?Douschka Pick 3ns Tillman and Sarah Starke Till man must grow up under the juris diction of South Carolina supreme Court. The supreme court tonight render ed a per curiam order placing the children in the custody of their moth er, Mrs. Lucy Dugas, formerly Mrs. B. R. Tillman, Jr., but made the fol lowing exception: "This court, is of the opinion that the petitioner (B. R. Tillman, Jr.,) their father, should have the chil dren in his home for two months of the summer vacation season, of each one-half of the Christmas holidays and one in the spring at such times as may be found most convenient, sub ject to the right of the mother to have them with her at all times in lase of their illness. We are of the opinion also that in the intervals the petitioner should be allowed to be ivith his children with reasonable frequency under conditions not un pleasant to him. "We make no order at this time is to details in the confidence that :he parties or their counsel will be ible to agree on the particulars and i i IK' REPORT ,844,43210 DEC. 1 j Total Only 1, )wing a Very Crop. 1912 661,074 191 1 680,434 Florida? 191 2 ; ... 48,593 1911. 74,056 Georgia? 1912 1,563,443 1911 2,339,354 Louisiana? 1912 ' 1911 ... //V? Mississippi? 1912 ' V ' 1911 North Carolina? ' t'i 1912 M 1911... Oklahoma? 1912 1911 sj South Carolina? > 1912 .1. 1 1911 ; ... .-A Tennessee? 1912 '-4 1911... ./ Texas? . 1912 ; ft 1911 3,747,932 Other States? 1912 69,048 1911..' 89,245 ' There were 25,000 more bales ginned in the two weeks period re ported today than there were in the same period last year. is s - 'v?j -)jm MR. JOHN T. CLINKSCALES VERT ILL WITH PNEUMONIA Friends of Mr. John T. Clinkscalea of the Monterey section, will be sorry 1__ W. nf Vila norlAllO (llnPHfl. with CU ICai U VI llto OV4 (VMM - 1 - pneumoqia. Only last week we chronicled the death of his beloved wife. Since that time an adopted daughter has also been claimed and a little negro girl, employed in the house also died, all as a result of the dread pneumonia. , . The last report from lfr. Clink scales' bedside was uot very favorable. His life is despaired of. A LETTER TO "SAJTTA" Abbeville, S. C., Dec. 5, 1912. Dear Santa: I am a little boy five years old. Please bring me a little automobile, a fire wagon, a horn and lots of good Igs. Your little friend, Earl Thomas White. MR. CHEATHAM'S SALE Attention is called to the page an nouncement of Mr. A. B. Cheatham in this week's issue of The Press and Banner. Mr. Cheatham is orrenng 10 dispose of his entire stock of mer chandise at sacrifice prices. It will pay you to read his ad. 0-0-0-0?0?0 -0-0-0?0-0 0?0?0?0?0? 0 ?0?0?0?0?0 / Mr. A. B. Bossier, one of The Press and Banner's valued subscribers, paid the office a visit last Friday. Mr. S. A. McLean, the popular trav eling passenger agent of the Southern, railway, was in Abbeville last week looking after handling the delegates to the Baptist convention. Mr. Charles B. Thomas, one of the progressive merchants of Watts, hai gone to Atlanta on a business trip. Capt. M. B. Syfan has returned from Hugo, Oklahoma, where he went to bring back his nephew, Mr. George Syfan, who has been ill with malaria Mr. V. D. Lipford, of Greenwood, was in town Monday on business. Dr. F. E. Harrison and Mr. F. H. Mill are in Charleston in attendance / 0 0 0 PERSONALS 0 0 Ot | upon the grand lodge of Masons. NIB HAVE m OF CHILDREN at an early day submit a proper or der to the court." In Court's Jurisdiction The court states that these pro visions will be subject to alterations as the children advance in years. The court requires in the order that "The children shall remain suDject 10 me jurisdiction of this court," and that Mrs. Lucy Dugas and B. R. Tillman, Jr., give bond in the sum of $5,000 each on condition that they will not remove the children nor procure their removal beyond the jurisdiction of the court. The order of the court comes as a surprise to those who have kept in touch with the progress of the case. It will be remembered that the supreme court several years ago re moved the children from the custody of their grand parents, Senator and Ms. Tillman and placed them in the keeping of their mother. This ver dict was applauded throughout the State. In today's order the court practically reverses itself. Further developments in the litiga tion are awaited with considerable in terest. ?