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* CYCLONE HITS COX WAY BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED; DAM-1 I AGE BEACHES THOUSANDS. j Several Person Have Narrow Escape j s from Death?New Church, Under J d Construction, l>estroye<l. j 11 -| C Conway, Sept. IS.?Moving in aid northeasterly direction and hewing a t course about one-half mile wide, a i terrible cyclone swept North Conway 2 this afternoon at 3 o'clock and left t ruin and desolation in its wake, p While no lives were lost, several per- c sons escaped as though by a miracle. If' 1 ^ ? 1 " /l o ,, rrV> to,' rtf W \\T Rl)fiS f 1 lie nine uau&mti VJ. ... ... . - while on her way home, encountered a the storm and was rolled about in r tire street. She was rescued by a lady o and received little injury. Mrs. T. J. J Bell had just left her home when the o roof was torn away. She escaped un-. v injured. There may be others who a received injuries about one mile from c town, where it is reported several b negro houses were demolished. The a rain is still falling in torrents and v these rumors' cannot be confirmed, i: The property loss will reach into the h thousands. c A few minutes before 3 o'clock a i: tiny black cloud appeared in the h southwest; a distressing roaring a sound was heard in that direction n and in a few moments the roaring a increased and black darkness fell v with one swoop. * i With the fury of a giant the storm 1< burst upon that section of town, mov- v ing at the rate of approximately 80 s miles an hour. Buildings were demol- ti ished, warehouses were unroofed, t timbers and shingles were hurled in I< midair, trees were twisted from their c stumps and torn from their roots, a chimneys toppled and the air was a c seething mass of debris. i The storm was accompanied by a \\ v.?^n-Vii/^Vi line onntinnpd iicav > i c^iuian, ? luvu ?v.w v, periodically for several hours. The r streets are rivulets of water, the new c Episcopal Church, which was in the " process of erection, was completely ti ^demolished. The High School build- p ig was considerably damaged, while u the residences of T. J. Bell and the i: Rev. D. A. Calhoun were unroofed; a the Burroughs Hospital had the tl , shingles and sheeting of roof con- 13 siderably torn, while an adjacent i: building was unroofed. fi A tree fell across the residence of s D. T. McNeill and the residences of y A. W. Barrett and Chas. Dusehburv s were more or less injured. v FEWER FIRES IX EUROPE. Firemen There Are Appalled at Loss- * n es in the United States. While I was attending the morn- n ing drill of the central fire depart- lj meat at Dresden, in Saxony, the cap- v tain in command told me that the p city had, on an average, about six s alarms of fire a week. I casually re- s marked that we had twenty-five a y day in New York, writes Chas T. Hill. h He looked at me with wonderment and doubt, and when I repeated that v we actually had between twenty and 1 thirtv alarms of fire a day in the Borough of Manhattan alone he 1 threw up his hands and exclaimed: ^ "Thank Heaven, it is not as bad as that here, or our beautiful city would be destroyed!" c; And so we find, thanks to superior tuilding construction, less hurry anl rush in business methods and a tl wholesome regard on the part of the citizens for certain rigid laws cover0 ing the use of explosives and materials of all kinds which usually cause fire, the lot of the foreign fire fighier is not as strenuous as that of his brother firemen on this side of the water. Because of the excellent character of the buildings abroad fires burn slowly and rarelv extend nec yond the room or floor in which ?hey start. ^ * Here/on the other hand, the cong aitions are entirely different. Our fires are larger, more destructive and VI more frequent, compelling us to support not only the most effective, but most expensive, fire departments in the world; and yet, in spite of all F this, our annual fire losses are from 4< ten to twenty times more than those of any country in Europe. Better buildings laws and the universal adoption of fire prevention ordinances are going to change all c this for us in time, but as yet out annual fire loss stuns the average Q European by its enormous total.? Chicago Daily News. t VAUGHN PETITION DISMISSED. e h Man Under Death Sentence Loses, s Chance to Appeal to U. S. Court. s Columbia, September 20.?The Supreme Coure in a decision today ? dismissed the petition of T. U. * Vaughn, former superintendent of c the Odd Fellows' Orphanage, at r Greenville, under sentence of death * for criminal assault, for a rehearing. c The remittur was stayed to allow ^ Vaughn to appeal to the United 1 States Supreme Court. 5 ^ A Contracts were awarded in Ander- 1 son on Wednesday for two more t school buildings in that city. a SOCIETY AM) GOVERNMENT. f Latter Is Cheap and Vulgar, Form er Must Fail Its Highest Mission. Last Sunday Vice President Mar hall preached a sermon on the las lay of the Southern Methodist camp meeting, near Washington, writes J H., in .Philadelphia Ledger. Hi lid not choose any particular text >ut said a good many things abou he relation of true religion to goo< government, and hamered some o lie idiocies and shortcomings of tin resent day into a truly helples oncntion. Men are not made good by legisla ion. Conscience cannot be purifie< rjd established by statutory enact nent. The state cannot take the plac< >f' the family. The old-fashione< American home was the inspiratioi if the great system of governmen ^hich has come down to this gener tion a little frayed at the edges be ause of the departures that havi een made in the living and thinkinj nd praying of the people. Then rere doubtless many wicked peoph q "the good old days"?Pharisees ivpocrites, the idle, the vicious, th< riminal appear to be from everlast ag to everlasting; but there was a ?ast an enviable regard for appear nces. a modesty of demeanor whicl lade the women more attractive ant shamefacedness in the prevailing - ickedness of typical periods whicl :ave the men the appearance, a rast, of being respectable; and these irtues, even if not infrequently as umed, impressed themselves upoi tie common life and found their in c-rpretation in the better forms o rgislation provided for the publi< are. A noted writer said, 200 years go: When modesty ceases to be th( hief ornament of one sex, and integ' ity of the other, society is upon i rrong basis, and we shall be ever af ?r without rules to guide our judg ?ent in what is really becoming ant rnamental." Seneca, we are told thought modesty too great a checl j vice, that he prescribes to us th< ? ractice of it in secret, and advises ? to raise it in ourselves and upor maginary occasions, when such as re real do not offer themselves; foi tiis is the meaning of the precept flat when we are by ourselves, anti n our greatest solitude, we shouk ancy that Cato stands before us anc ees everything* we do. In short, i: ou banish Modesty out of the worlc he carries away with her half the irtue that is in it." In his discourse, the vice presideni lid the turkey trot, the tango anc p.e slit skirt to the charge of the lothers of the country, because peaking of them as a class, they dc ot bestow that care upon the train zg and conduct of their daughter; rhich would best fit them for th< lace they should hold in the socia phere upon the purity of whi<jh tin trength and fitness of governmen epend. That has always been tin av. In the beginning, "'the womar eguiled me and I did eat," and i .ill be the same old excuse whei he end comes. It is true that th< ice president said that "it is higl ime for American fathers and moth rs to have opinions on religion;' ut he did not dwell particularly or he very trifling character of many " not most, American fathers. Whj hou^d there be an inequality of mor I measurement in fixing the statue: f men and women? There was some hing graceful and lovely in the ok ances; there is nothing beautiful oi ievating in the tango and turkej rot. There was a special charm wher Meh Lady" dancing, "her feet be eath her petticoat like the litth lice, stole in and out, as if the: eared the light of day"; there n othing in the slit skirt which tin ice president preached against, cx tpt vulgar display. This sort o hing the ihothers might correct i hey were not so often themselves iven to the adoption of the leas eautiful of the latest fashions, th< rearing of clothes which becom< either their years nor their build. One of the most impressive of t!n assages in the Scriptures i$ tin harge of David to his son Solomon I go the way of all the earth; b? hou strong, therefore, and show thy elf a man; and keep the charge c he Lord thy God, to walk in hi; rays, to keep his statutes and hi; ommandments, and his judgments nd his testimonials." And it is rc / > r-Htliot YI-lion 15111 h.cVi oha QrtV; V* U^U ClAWt ?? AiVAA x/uwu WU, M V/ non's mother, went to him, "th< Cing rose up to meet her, and bow d himself unto her, and sat down 01 lis throne, and caused a seat to b' et for the King's mother; and sin at on his right hand." There is a great lesson in that fo II mankind. Every-mother in tiii ana is enntiea 10 uie same sun u consideration Solomon showed to hi other; but the vice presiden hinks that turkey-trotting, tango lancing, slit-skirt wearing womai loes not make the most impressive nother. Good government is goo< ;ociety; if the latter is cheap am ulgar the former must fail in it ighest mission, the cultivation o hat spirit of righteousness which ex ilteth a nation. 3 WILL FAIR NOT GUILTY. - Spartanburg Negro Charged With j Criminal Assault Goes Free t Spartanburg, Sept. 20.?The jurv _ in the Will Fair case returned a verdict of not guilty, after being out ? since 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and having deliberated in the case all nisrht. It is understood that what 1 detained them so long was that six f of the jurors were holding out for a 2 mistrial, wishing to shift the respons sibility upon another jury fearing, it is supposed, public sentiment. The _ verdict came as no surprise as after j hearing the evidence it seemed to , be a plain case of not guilty. 5 Many witnesses testified that they 1 had seen the negro, Will Fair, pass ! } the woman's house in question and j t that he did not enter. It was shown . on the stand that the woman is phy. sically weak and subject to periodB ical hallucinations. When Foreman y Joseph Lee announced the verdict b the judge made the following state3 ment, "Gentlemen, since you have had the manhood to pronounce the 3 prisoner not guilty, I say that time . will prove your verdict was a rightt eous one. In this case there was evi. dence which could not be brought ini to court, but you did your duty in a 1 verdict of not guilty." It is underr stood the vote of the jury was unani-? ? ^ r\ f T"? j mous ill iiuuiiis a. vuuai \jl uui. t guilty. ; The accused negro, Will Fair, it . will be remembered, was charged 1 with assaulting a white woman at . Whitestone, near here, on August f 18, and after being placed in jail > here, the prison, was stormed by a 5 mob using dynamite, but was repulsi ed by Sheriff White, who in the early . hours of morning spirited the negro t to Columbia, where he was placed in . the penitentiary for safe keeping un. til the trial should be called. Neither [ the woman who charged the negro nor her husband was in the court : room when the verdict was announc> ed. The verdict seems to have met , with the general approval of people. 1 INQUEST REVEALS SAI) STORY. 5 _______ * Domestic Trouble Alleged Cause of | Spartanburg Woman's Suicide. 1 Spartanburg, Sept. 18.?Mrs. Ber1 tha Wymbs26 years of age, who endf ed her life yesterday by inhaling 1 chloroform, was driven to suicide, i according to the testimony of neighbqr women at,the inquest to-day, by t her husband's threat to throw her 1 | out in the street if he found her at J i home when he returned in the even, iiig. The tragedy was the climax of ) a long series of quarrels between the - man and his wife, caused, according ? to a statement Wymhs is alleged to 5 have made, by her jealousy of him. 1 In a farewell message, pinned to z the cot on which her body was found, t Mrs. Wymbs absolved her husband ^ from blame for her suicide, saying i their quarrels were her fault, t It was a wretched story which the i witnesses unfolded. Mrs. Wymbs ar^ | ranged early yesterday morning to i j move to the home of Mrs. John Long. - Later she called at,the home of Mrs. M. J. Johnson, and said her trouble i was more than she could bear; that , she had neither money nor friends, ' and she was going to take her life. Wymbs declined to testify, saying 5 it would be unfair for him to give his J ~ ~ xt-Ii olio TV o c ivn Slue Ul llie UUUU1C ? i:tu JUV ?. | 1 able to answer. | r The couple were from Pennsyl ' vania and lived for a time -at Sumi merville. Mrs. Wymbs leaves three - children, one of whom, Helen, ' 3 ? years old, is ill with fever. One of 7 Mrs. Wymbs's last acts was to-give s directions concerning the baby's med icine. f Cause for Anger. f Mr. Wilkins was near the explodt ing point when his neighbor met him on the street. I "That man Tompkins." he burst out, "has more nerve than any one I a ever met!" I "Why?" asked the neighbor, curif ously. "He came over to my house last evening and borrowed my gun to kill f a dog that kept him awake nights." * "Well, what of that?" s 1 1 TTT1- -- '' r\A Afr? Willrinc? Wliv, SUUUICU .til. II uniuo, 11 was my dog he killed!"?Ladies' Home Journal. Obliging Her. e The sweet young thing was being 1 shown through the Baldwin locomo2 tive works. 2 "What is that thing?" she asked, pointing with her dainty parasol. "That," answered the guide, "is an s engine boiler." - She was an up-to-date young lady s and at once became interested. "And t why do they boil engines?" she in-, quired again. a "To make the engine tender," poe litely replied the resourceful guiae. 3 -?Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, i s The Cox mill at Anderson was sold f at auction on Tuesday and was bid - in by Welling, Sears & Co., of Boston for $125,000. 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