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8 WILL FAIR, NEGRO, NOWAjREE MAN Spartanburg Jury Acquits Pris oner Mob Nearly Lynched. JUDGE COMMENDS VERDIC1 JiKl^e (t?ir)je \V. tiage Says Tinu Will Show That the Decision is ltight One. Spartanburg Special to Charlottf Observer. Sept. 20.?In the face ol the positive statement of a respectable white matron of high intelligence that he had assaulted her, Will Fair, a negro, was found not guilty this afternoon at a special term of general sessions court called for the trial of the case. The jury was out 20 minutes. The verdict caused no surprise and was quietly received. A few people not entirely familiar with the case were reported to be muttering this evening. Fair was told it might be inadvisable for him to remain in this vicinity. He thought so himself A position was offerefl him in a railroad construction camp 300 miles from here and he left for there this evening. The acquittal of Fair is a vindication of Sheriff W. J. White, who, at the risk of his life, saved the negro from being lynched. He stood off a large mob who stormed the jail on the night of Fair's arrest and went so far as to blow open the outer gate with dynamite. Hundreds of pistol shots were fired and three men were wounded. F liceman S. J. Alverson. who was alleged to have shot one of the men and who was impelled by the force of public opinion to resign in consequence, has been exonerated by the city council and tnrtav vas reinstated on the force. EPOCH-MAKING CASE. People were saying here tonjght that Fair's trial and acquittal were epoch-making in South Carolina and made the best argument that ever has been advanced against lynching. The woman is believed to have accused Fair in good faith, but to have been laboring under a delusion due to her physical condition. The circumstances surrounding the case did not bear out the woman's statement, although Fair admitted that he passed her house about the time of the alleged assault. The jury. It is authentically reported, never considered a verdict of guilty. On the first ballot six stood for acquittal. The other six wanted to report a mistrial and shift the burden upon another jury. Thus they stood until about 10 minutes before they finally brought in their verdict. Then Judge George W. Gage bade them be men. They filed Into their room and soon emerged with the verdict. Judge Gage had asked them: "Do you think I may not say anything to help you in arriving at a conclusion In this case?" The foreman, Joseph Lee of T,andrura, president of a hosiery manufacturing company. replied: "We are hopelessly disagreed." JUDGE GAGE SPEAKS. "I have had juries so often say that to me." said Judge Gage, "and then go out and find a verdict within 10 minutes. I tried a case in Charleston where the jury was out two nights and a day and said they could not agree and that jury agreed in 10 minutes auer inai. "You cannot agree if you each make different points?if one man sets his head this way and another sets his head that way and another another way. If the members of a jury pet to combatinp views, and especially if they lose temper, and they pet up that thinp called 'pride of opinion' they will never apree. Rutif they put everytliinp under their feet, and po at it in the spirit of truth-seekinp. in the spirit of honesty?I mean, honest with yourselves ?let every man. every juror, po down into the bottom of his own heart and uncover himself before his Maker and his Maker alone, and inquire calmly and quietly what is the truth?and when you do that, and see the truth in the small and silent chambers of your heart?if you do that and own it and proclaim it. you will all be of one mind. PRESENT THE TIME. "This court was called for the trial of this case and nothinp else. It has been held at an enormous exoense in money, in time and in nerve I have been on the bench now 16 years, and I have never held a conrl that caused me such nervous strain It is too much to put on anybody apain, and too much to put on you ''It is next to impossible for us ir matters of this kind to put away al outside considerations. I speak frorr my own experience and out of my own heart and my own knowledge 1 was raised on a plantation with ne proes and I think I know them as well as any man knows them, know their weaknesses and I know our own weaknesses. They are her* by a strange Providence, but thej are here. How our final relationshij with them is to be determined no mar knows and no man need questioi himself. If we go to our duty day b; day and do justly man by man, th< end will come and the God whi made us and who made them an< d ho put. us here together will brim us safely to some common end! RACE AGAINST RACE. "I know that men are almost in capable of weighing a nice balanc of truth where the contest is be tween one race and another race, es pecially w here the one race is charg ed with the awful crime of assault I know the awful anxiety and awfu peril our country women are subject ? d to. I was ralRed in the count rj and I know its duties and beautier its stories and its perils, its Joys an its sorrows and burdens; but th THE only question for- you in ttaiB caBe is: I-"" """"""""-""""" Did this man assault this woman and ' /*/\f Til1 under all the testimony is it true be- I |ll|n| yond a.reasonable doubt? If it is, VWI1 it is your duty to declare, it is your duty to say 'Guilty.' If it is not true as you see it, if it is not true beyond a reasonable doubt, then to write a verdict of 'Guilty' in answer to any- Special to Th? . body's demand would be to crucify j)ry creek the law, to degrade our courts and to lne Mathis Kp stultify you men. 1 know there is John McMurr such a thing as public opinion that tjon drives and whirls men like a sand- ^'r j0jm E ' storm, but I tell you this: a wave of BDeut" Sundav public opinion in times of excitement eran<ifather I 't, 8?lme"me8 V!,e St ,UUCe^a!n Miss Normi ' tI? nK l." ??r,d; Jh<? ?v.ljLCerlaln Jay afternoo thing Is the knowledge which points ^y j puj to the truth and which never errs. " faster"Alvs If you follow it, you are in the sure ....n path, and if you leave It you are in ^,r q g , ) quagniifes all the wvpy. p gejj "Now, gentlemen. I do not mean "Mr and Mrs to take from you the prerogative of Mary'Mathis i deciding the truth. If you believe jas the charges in the indictment have ' '^jr j,-d been proved by the state beyond a McKeowii spc reasonable doubt, it is your duty to wpjj their frie say so. but if you are left by the tes- ^rs kuu ( tlmony in a state of uncertainty and wg], Mr G W your minds are unsettled, it is your |jov*' c{ duty to say so. I cannot reach your vy' ^authcn s inner consciousness: these men can- ^ jobn cag]( not. You can. and the God who pre- 1 ^.r w ^ sides over you can. d " ith' hl " "I am not going to say another ?eckhanu word to you. I am done. But I M1b8 Co?nie don t want to leave this city with b,rthday dlnn, this case unsettled. The supreme w|1, be 1Q court has directed me to sit at this court, and it has been ordered by the governor. It has been held at great SUNDAY SUI expense. To order a mistrial would be to have this furore and excitement i?,.oirl.HI11 0# ?, continue until and through another term of court. I will confidently ???? "l,lwa wait upon you with the expectation The Flat C that you will find a verdict in this school convei case. You may retire." Midway Sundj | When the jury reported that they tober 3, at 10 had found Fair not guilty Judge Devotional i Gage said: dent. ! "Inasmuch as you have had the Enrollment courage to do your duty in this mat- various schools ter I ought to have the courage to Address of a commend you for it. Time will Response by show that your verdict is right. Verbal repo I There are many things that cannot "Working Con I be proven In evidence, but when you First query: sift this thing to the bottom you will age nm|t in S find that your faces have been set in all ages and s< the right direction. I discharge er of the inst you." Inclined? W. | Jones, Rev. ' CHAIR FACTORY quer FOR CONVICTS est problem, Sunday school P. K. Blackmo: Goods Will be Manufactured at Profit B. Welsh, Losi Guaranteeing Sixty Cents Per N. Faile, M. C l>av For Each Convict. Third query as advancing t Columbia Special to Charleston the earth. R( News and Courier, Sept. 20.?Em- S. D. Bailey, 11 ployment of the .100-odd convicts P. McManus, 1 now at work in the hosiery mill in a F. Long. Mrs. chair and table factory to be estab- The preside lislied in the prison walls under the enumerated to direct personal supervision of the di- cusslons. rectors, the state to buy the material Each school and the machinery, manufacture the gates as per th tables and chairs, and making of a public is invit< contract with A. D. Martin of Frank- pleasant day t fort. Kv., to sell the product, was the tentative decision reached by the board of directors of the state peni- FOLOHKI tentiary and Governor Rlease in a long conference yesterday in the governor's office. Association to Mr. Martin will simply enter into in latncasi a contract with the penitentiary to ? sell the manufactured goods at a profit, which will guarantee tlio state To the fr at least 60 cents per day for each County Fair J convict employed, and to give bond tor '1Itltv r? for this purpose. Details of the * ' proposition were gone over by the planning to hi penitentiary board at a session last- Lancaster Oc ing late into the afternoon. and it is hope< It is estimated that P will cost the , .. OVf,r state about $10,000 to . ly the neces- fere;ted ln ma sary machinery and material. Before ?0 PxhlbitIon deciding what building within the , n ,, prison grounds to use for the new ^i^lmw wh factory, the state board of health coiored neonU will be consulted. The hosiery mill - make contract expires November 1, and it Vnn is the intention to rush the plans to ~ . complete the chair factory as soon ' , 'f as possible. of, . H will be given. of horses mul SCHOOL BOY WON GOLF TROPHY milk cows. E sheep and g Highest Honors in the World Go to n}ent- (| also all other Hay State ^ oulll. Mopli 11 tiIph nrp Brookline, Mass.. Sept. 22. hibitlon of t Francis Ouimet. a school hoy ama- blacksmiths, teur of Rrooklinc, won the highest whatever else golfing honors in the United States. A prise will be if not in the world, by defeating music in u Harry Vardon and Edward Hay the will be farmer English professionals, by five" and display. On six strokes respectively in the play day, and all o off for the American championship county will be today. school teacher The victory of the boy carried with cot and bring it a gold medal and the custody of their schools the championship cup by his home woman's day, organization, the Woodland Golf the nicest dr* ; Club of Newton. of canned fru I No amateur in this country and chickens. Th only one abroad has ever gained such and putting o j golfing fame. There were few of the double team !i 5,000 persons following the play who single buggy felt at the start that the youth could harness. L? J possibly vanquish such renowned among the pe veterans as the two former Rritish be a number ' champions. year. We hoj encourage th< Crime Wave Swept Jefferson County, this partlcpla ., . , ,. merchants of Alabama, on Sabbath. <>rn, pr1zes( Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 22.?Six along industr [ persons are dead and a seventh is ?ther countiei t dying at an infirmary here as a re- pre| ) suit of a wave of crime in Jefferson 1 county Sunday. _ , 1 Henry Moran was killed as he n ' stepped from a trolley car in the country by two negroes, who escaped , > after robbing the body. Maeon Col- in** DK,n eir ' quitt, negro, killed his wife and sur- f Intense * rendered to the police, and Mounted r 8row^?, Policeman Norrell killed Dave Evans, Ointment oen , negro, after the latter had shot at ?n5*t Peraoan him. Two negroes were stabbed to b??'?8 whose " death and another was struck over p1?^? their B the he-ad with an axe by an unidentl- ??"? was am! " fled assailant. He will die. A negro ?' *be 8?'B woman died of poisoning and the po- Doeto lice suspect she was murdered. bel] . son^ ? ?f?a#tu 1 overjoyed' to Despondency. cured befort \ T Is often caused by indigestion and .writes Mrs. S >, constipation, and quickly disappears All druggisi d when Chamberlain's Tablets are PfelfTer Che e taken. For sale by all dealers. Louis, Mo., a i 1 LANCASTER NEWS, SEPTEMBER 23,19] i'eat cabbage, fish TY NEWS L SAUSAGE, NEW- BREAD No Indigestion, Las, Sourness or Up IY CKKEK. 8et Stomach if You'll Take ______ "Pape'a lMapepsln"?Try This! > News. Do some foods you eat hit back? Sept. 22.?Miss Paul- taste good, but work badly; fermen ent Sunday with Mr. into stubborn lumps and cause < ay of Dry Creek sec- sit-k, sour, gassy stomach? Now, Mr of Mrs. Dyspeptic, jot this down tell of this eommunitv Pape's Diapepsin digests everything afternoon with his leaving nothing to sour and upse dr. D. P. Bell. you. There never was anything s< i "Robinson spent Sun- safely quick, so certainly effective n at the residence of N<v difference how badly your stom p. ach is disordered you will get hnppj i Bell spent Sunday af- relief in five mirtutes, but wha Miss Bessie Mathis. pleases you most is that it strength Williams visited Mr. D. ens and regulates your stomach you can eat your favorite foods with i. O. E. Mathis and Miss out fear. spent Sunday at Doug- Most remedies give you relic Sometimes?they are slow, but no binson and Mr. Brice sure. "Pape's Diapepsin" is qulck nt Sunday afternoon positive and puts your stomach in t nd, Mr. Dan Bailey. healthy condition so the miserj 'authen spent Sunday won't come back. '. Cauthen. You feel different as soon a> luthen, son of Mr. G. "Pape's Diapepsin" conies in contact pent a few hours with with the stomach?distress just ey. vanishes-?your stomach gets sweet Robinson spent the no gases, 110 belching, no eructationdaughter, Mrs. Ada of undigested food, your head clears and you feel fine. Mathis will have a Go now, make the best investment ?r next Sunday. She >'ou *ver made, by getting a largr irs old. fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin from any drug store. You realize in v -VT v ^ve m'nutes how needless it is to iOOL t'ON\hNTION. suffer from indigestion, dyspepsia or any stomach disorder. 3 ie Meeting to lie Held ???? y School October 3. | TK..\ PARTY IN AIRSHIP. rook township Sunday ltlon will meet with Twelve Women and Kiglit Men Guests ty school Friday, Oc- of Hmt Am|<1 th CUtutlH. o clock a. m. services by the presi- Berlin, Sept. 22.?The first tea party* ever given aboard an airship <Vf d?'egates from the took place yesterday afternoon while t of tin ownship. the Zeppelin passenger Cachsen was velcon. by Midway. in (light near Berlin. Twelve woDr. J. E. Jones. men and eight men were the guests rt by each school on of I)r. Feist Wilhelm, of this city, idition." Counting the crew the Sachsen carWhat should be the ried 30 persons and the party lasted unday schools. Could an hour and three-quarters, sxes increase the pow- One of the guests, after disembarkitution, were they so ing, described the innovation as an L. Croxton, Dr. J. E. unequalifled success. A cruise of r. A. Dabne}, W. U. about 55 miles was made. No heat tng apparatus or anytning requiring y: What is the great- fire is carried on the Sachsen because and best solution in of the danger of gasolene explosion, management? Rev. so the tea, milk, water and toast had n G. M. Faile, Rev. N. to be taken up already warmed. sin Payne, Rev. T. W. ?????? . Gardner. I Quarterly Conference. : The Sunday school ,pjJp japt quarterly conference foi he kingdom of God in i?ancaster circuit will be held af ?v. Jabez Farris, R^- Eigjn Saturday morning, 27th inst., ff;v*... Gardner. \v. at n a. m. All official members art IV. s. P aulkenbery, R. reqUested to be present. T. A. Dabney REV. C. P. CARTER, nt will ask those not participate in the dis- .... , ? v Mothers! Have Tsar Children I urged to send dele- Wormi? e constitution, also the Are they feverish, restless, ner^ >d to come and have n voos. Irritable, dizzy or constipated! ogether. Do they continually pick their now ("11R. EX. COM. or grind their teeth? Have thej cramping pains, unregular and rav) COUNTY FAIR. enous appetite? These are all slgm of worms. Worms not only cause your child suffering, but stunt lti Hold Its Annual Fair mind and growth. Give "Kickapoc ter October 20-31. Worm Killer" at once. It kills and , ? removes the worms, improves youi of The News: child's appetite, regulates stomach lends of the Colored liver and bowels. The symptoms die Association of Lancas- appear and your child Is made happj .. and healthy, at nature Intended member tlu \ < ar druggists or by mall, 26c. Kickive our annu fair at ap00 Indian Medicine Company toher 29, 3j and 31, Philadelphia, Pa., and St. Louis, Mo 1 that the colored peo he county will be in- ' Teachers' Examination, king a creditable pub- Next regular teachers' examinatior of their industries wjjj held at the court house Fri There will be a big day, October 3, from 9 to 4 o'clock leh quite a number of * y ^ LINGLE, s (men) are planning Superintendent Education. I 101-1 r best yield per acre of | nolasse8, potatoes and i ... ... ,r which liberal nrizes 1 Teachers of EanCaster < ounty. Ilrtng your best stock We are going to organize a Teach es, cattle, stock, cows, ers' Association (or Lancaster coun Ixhlbtt your best hogs, ty Saturday. September 27. just aftei oats. Ladies' depart- the meeting of the Conference for th< luilts, best made, and Common Good. Every progressive kind of needle work, teacher in the county is expected t< asked to make an ex- join in this movement. We are an heir work, carpenters, ticlpating great things this year; th< wheel wriglits and best work in the history of the or they want to put on. ganization. Are you willing to d< given to the best band your part toward its success? Then niform. On the 2ftth let us have an excellent beginning, s' day for making their V. A. LTNGLE, the 30th educational | County Supt. of Education, f the schools of the represented all of the , Notice of Discharge. 8 are urged to be prea- I ^ something to represent Notice is hereby given that the un /-... tt._i.i_ in darsiened as administrator of thi uu r rniu) v% in u*- ? ? when will be exhibited estate of Hood L. Belk. deceased, wil >ssed baby. All kinds fll<* his first and final return as sucl Its and ail qualities of administrator In the Probate Cour e colored man owning of Lancaster county on October 2 4 n exhibition the beet 1913. and apply to said court fo n harness, and the best letters dismissorv. horse to be driven in It- L. C. BELK, ?t Lancaster county Administrator Estate of Hood L ople lead as there will Belk, Deceased, of county fairs this! September 23, 1913. ^ >e the white people will } colored people along | T4T vnTinc r line, and that the * ' the town will ofTer lib- 1 The tax books will be open froi or creditable exhibits October 15, 1913, to March 15, 1914 lal lines as they do in One per cent penalty will be adde s. . in January, two per cent in Fet M. D. LEE, ruary and seven per cent in Marcl sldent and Manager. | In school districts Nos. 1, 4, 5, < 13, 15, 30 and 43 a special tax c k. wuk two (2> mills is levied. In district iJ. v ?? Eczema Nop 2 3 ? g 19 22 2g 34 4 kin Kruptlons. and 4 8 special tax three (3) mill: d a perfect skin-cover- in districts Nos. 10. 11, 17, 18, 2< uptlons cause them not 23, 27, 31, 39. 42, and 47 specii suffering, but hinder tax four (4) mills. In districts N< Dr. Hobson's Eczema 14 special tax six and ohe-ha be relied op for relief (.6&) mills. In districts Nos 1! ent cure of Buffering 32, 46 and 40 appeal tax eight (8 Bkln eruptions have mills. In district No.' 38 special ta life miserable. "Our ten (10) mills. In district No. 4< leted with breaking out special tax eleven (11) mills. In dl all over the face and trict No. 25 special tax two and on< >rs and skin specialists half (2 Vi) mills. All male cittzei p. We tried Dr. Hob- between the ages of 21 and 65 yeai in/Ointment and were are subject to a capitation tax < " see baby completly three ($3) dollars for road purpose ? one--bo* was used," and all lirtale cjitlzens between tl trublgr, Dubuque, Iowa, ageaof.21.and 60 years are liable f< imical CompujaW Btl' ;-r_ ?A r\ f t. J^TON. nd Philadelphia, Pa. , u * (foVhty Treasurer. 13. ' \ \\ \\ Pi1 \\ \\ \A Wot \ \ \ _\\ y?ui \ \ such \ \* mul the V\ y?/ t- t \ \ Dam ^^^K|plil|j8r \ you deca <] i t 1 will We ! bo Milliner \ ? You are cordia our Fall Mill Wednesday September Lancaster 1 Traded w: Broom Sel Having just received 01 chandise I have ever shown trading public to come to se I defy competition. I i \ Prices and I will get Your BECAUSE BROC ^ _ 1 ' Just a few prices from a de I ment full of bargains: . 64-Inch Panamas at > , 38-Inch All-Wool Serges at. .. , 36-Inch Serge, worth 3 6c, at. 2 Lots 36-lnch Suiting, worth 16' 20c, while they last at the yar< 27-Inch Silk Ratine, lot of p shades, wholesale price, was 2 I sell them for the yard p 39-Inch White Cloth for Qu ' 500 Yards Light Outings, t children and men, while SHOES. SHOES. Our stock of Shoes, as usual i i> the best makes and of the best ] ers. Your shoe bill will be mucl if you buy them from Broom. - sells them for less. n R. & G. Corsets here a 'd Millinery will arriv lat >- Those who bought early wi i. . It NOTIONS. NOTIONS. Babcock Corylopsis Talcum Po 5 ? Hair Pins and Dress Pins, pap '* A good Box Writing Papor fo 11 A 16c Box of Writing Paper Co A $1.60 Real Human Hair 8 ' for white ladios 7 Silk Hose for Ladles at ' Silk Half Hose f:r Men at.. % ==========;s;B======;s. Look for Broom's sign ig by others claiming to be Br< f W. F. " Successor to A. J. Broom < serve you and ty the Unpainted Housef ild you go out in the pouring rain wearing best clothes if you had no protection i as an umbrella or raincoat? Not if yoo d help it, you gay. \ some peopte expose expensive material to element*' without adequate protection, building material in J your house is ex;ivq..and should be protected. Otherwise ill be ruined assurcjy as the fine clothes wouldn't wish to w?ar out in the rain. ipness causes deciy in wood-wort IT keep out the dampness j?ou keep swap y. Paint madt; with j ? Atlantic While Lead Dutch Boy Painter Trade-Mark.) and Pure Linseed Oil keep away dampness and prevent decay. sell it. Come in and have a talk with at it painting. ncaster Hardware Go. LANCASTER. S. C. y Opening lly invited to attend linery Opening on and Thursday 24th and 25tli Mercantile Coy. I Broom's II Y V Is It For Less ne of the best selected lines of merin this town, I ask one and all of the ,e me. isk the trade to compare Values and Business where this is done. Why? m SELLS IT FOR LESS. part- POPLINS AND REPS. 27-Inch Poplins, worth 20c, now 10e .40o 27-Inch English Rep, 36c every.40c weher, Broom sells them for 34e .24c 27-Inch English Whipcord, In the c and new shades, sold In all department d lOc stores for 26c, Broom seels them at >retty lOe 7 1 v c, 27-Inch Silks, 26c grade, at the .25c yard 20c lilt linings or other uses.. . .5c yard suitable for night robes for women, they last at 8 y2e yard LADIES' COATS, ire of I have received one of the nicest leath- lines of Ladles', Misses' and Chilli less dren's Coats ever shown by me. He Prices from. . . $1.50 to $10.00 Each See them before buying. lways. ;er and will be of the latest designs. 11 not have Dame Fashion's latest. HATS FOR MEN AND BOYS, wders A Real $2.00 Velvet Hat L*r. $1.4$ 15c The celebrated line of Chesterfield Cr Hate here for your inspection, r in*- *3.00 Velvet Hats In blocks and iwitch Kreen? 'or fl.oo Boys' Black Plush Hats . .25c Men's 1 os. Hats, good for $1.26, . .25c while tbey last 98c on his door post and don't be misled x>m. Yours truly, BROOM Company. At the old stand anxious tp satisfaction guaranteed. ' ^Ll ' 1 ^