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DIVE INTO POOL CAUSE OF DEATH Olar, Oct. 6.?The remains of Robert A. Kirkland, the 18 year old son of Dr. and Mrs. N. F. Kirkland erf Savannah, were brought here yesterday afternoon and interred in Mispah church cemetery near here, the old home church of the Kirkland family. His death was a very sad one. On the 7th day of last month he was in swimming in a pool in Savannah. Just as he made a plunge to dive he obiserved another boy coining up from tinder the water at the spot where he was directed. Consequently he changed his course so as to avoid a clash with the other ptong man. This necessitated Robert's diving into very shallow water, v and the result was a fatal accident, nsolting in the dislocation of the / sixth cervical vertebrae. He lay p*r*!yzed until his deeth Monday, which was hastened by the development of pneumonia three or four days ago. funeral services were held in Savannah. The committal service was conducted by the Rev. C. M. Peeler 1 f the local Methodist church. This vas (preceded by a few very approfriste remarks by his pastor, the 1 Rev. W. A. Kelly of Asbney Monu- j mental church of Savannan, who accompanied the remains here. > Besides his parents, the young man leaves one brother, Dr. Lawton 1 Kirkland of Savannah. He was a 1 nephew of the Rev. W. C. Kirkland, J D. D., of Latta and Clerk of Court < A. L. Kirkland of Bamberg. . t BIGGEST POLICE CHIEF c ?UW A StKUtAIM 1 1 _ S i Greenville, Oct. 5.?This town to- ^ lost the distinction of having the (* world's (biggest chief of police by * file defeat or re-election of James ^ D. Noe, who weighs 325 pounds, is ^ 7 feet high and has to have shoes v collars, hats and "everything"" espe- n dolly made for him. Worry over the ^ impending election caused him to v lose 25 pounds, he said. He was re *iuced to sergeant. h LIBERTY BOND TRADING . 1( AGAIN IS VERY HEAVY f h h Hew York, Oct' 4.?There was - ? |j| ^heavy trading today in Liberty ^ toads and victory notes after sever- ^ al day of comparative dullness trans- ^ actions in these issues during the ? first half of the session on the stock change approximated $7,50,000 or ^ about 75 per cent of the entire dealings of the bond market. Victory * ?. c* . 4 3r4's were most active advancing ?d 99.46 or a fraction below their , ti Sigi record of last week. New maxie< ^ moms for the year were made at Bwrty 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 4 1-4's the 1 ' > /? fatter showing special strength. X SO th ' ' | WANTS : L J* LOST?Thursday Sept. 29 between Calboon Falls and Mt. Camel, tan ^ handbag. Finder please notify P. B. Thornwell, Standard Oil Co., Wl &L.I!. 1 ? ! *11 1 ? P*1 vwuuiuw auu receive uoerai re- ward. 10, 7-2tpd. ? ;? . WANTED?Table Boarder*. Dinners US a specialty to business people. Prices reasonable. Good home ^ cooking. When in Abbeville give qu us a trial. Opposite post office. . Kn. Rachel H. Minshall. 9, 19c r ' fe< WANTED?Chickens, eggs, vegeta?2e??nd all country produce for sale In market. Demonstration CoanciL 5-3t c. ^?] > hir NOTICE?Cut prices at J. Y. Tur- dei man's Barber Shop. Hair cuts 25c; Shave 15c. A nice place for la- Pu' dies to bring children. 10-3 3tpd. me i FOR RENT?One furnished room, his dcae in. Apply Press and Banner sitl office for information. ltc. coi we LOST?Yale lock with bunch of an< keys, between Crawford's store and Martin's Mill on Abbeville caj road. Return to*J. W. Baker and pei receive reward of $2.00. 10, 3.2tpd FOR SALE?One milk cow, young as^ calf by side. We will trade for we beef cattle. Maxwell's Market. coa I io, a-atpa. ' wh FOR EXTRA BUTTER?Try my ing ptre creamery butter of unexcell- 4 ed quality at SO cents a pound. not MRS. D. A. ROGERS. tf.' ref I GREENVILLE SPEAKER ESTABLISHES PROOF (Continued from page one.) 1865.' "A full history of these events may be fountain the office of the Clerk of Court of Abbeville Countv. "Erected by Civic Club." Excerpts from Mr. . McKissick's speech, which is too lengthy for reproduction in this issue, follow: "Five cities have contended for the honor of having been the scene of the last session of the Confederate Cabinet. They are Danville, Va., Greensboro, N. C., Charlotte, N. C., Abbeville, S. C., and Washington, Ga. "It seems indisputable that in the closing days of the ill-starred nation the Confederate Cabinet met in Danville, Greensboro and Charlotte and at an unlocated point near the boundary line of North and South Carolina. The only questions remaining'to be conisdered are: "First: Was there a meeting of the Confederate Cabinet at Abbeville on May 2, 1865? "Second: If so, was it the last meeting of the Cabinet?" "In his book, 'The Rise and Fall of ;he Confederate Government,' Mr. Davis says that his object in fleeing South was to make his way to the Confederate forces in Alabama or in he Trans-Miseissippi department who lad not then surrendered. More than >ne observer records, on the other tand, that Mr. Davis traveled very lowly. aDDarentlv indifferent. ac tr. whether or not he was captured. If le expected to join Confederate orces farther south or west, why lid he not make more speed? Did le not really give up hope at Abbeille?iDid not his exclamation at'the leeting there that all indeed was 3st indicate his realization that it ras really useless for him to go on? >n more than one occasion the Conederate chief executive had shown imself unwilling to yield to the cold >gic of facts. It may have been that t Abbeville he still hoped against ope, but his better judgment told im that all was lost. In referring ) the consideration shown him by le cavalry escorting him after he ift Charlotte, he says that 'the dark lauows wnicn gathered round us jretold the coming night.' 1 "In view of what took place at { bbeville, our contention is that 4 are the Confederate Government 1 ;ased to exist because the officers 1 I that government perceived that 1 ie last hope was gone and abandon- * J it and because President Davis T mself must have seen that the * tuse for which he had so long and t | i desperately struggled was lost. If e Confederate Government went c it of existence at Abbeville?and t s hold that it did?then the Cabi- * it meeting at Abbeville?and 'we >ld that there was one at Abbeville r was the final session of that body. 1 "Yet, although it has been proved at the last Confederate council of p ir was held at Abbeville, what ' oof is there that the last meeting a the Confederate cabinet was held g Abbeville beyond that offered by e :al tradition which, nevertheless, ^ ually has sound basis in tmtli? "Major Armistead Burt, host of c< esident Davis at Abbeville, is ^ oted by Mr. Miller as often say- w j that the last meeting of the Con- " lerate cabinet was held in his Cl ijse. This may have been only his ^ inion, or it may have been an au- 11 >ritative statement based on some ^ itemporaneous declaration made to w a by his illustrious guest, Presi- C1 it Davis. tc "The New York World, in an issue blished many years ago, said of the ^ eting at Abbeville: ? " 'In-gloomy loneliness Davis and V1 cabinet assembled in one of the! ting rooms. They held their last lsultation, discussed plans thatjcc re discussed only to be abandoned I finally decided that the end had to ne and they had better try to es- m >e. Then they examined such pa- 52 s as they had with them, and th en the hour of twelve struck, the th les of nearly all of those papers W re smouldering in the glowing ^ ils of the big wood fire.' th 'What is the testimony of those G< o participated in the cabinet meet- Bi at Abbeville? so 'President Davis is silent. He does T1 mention his stay in Abbeville. He mi ers to only one cabinet meeting. is f after the Confederate governmenl left Richmond and that was the on< at Greensboro. He does not mentior the session of his cabinet which tool place at Danville and Charlotte, s< his omission of Abbeville carries witl it no implication unfavorable to Ab beville. One of his most recent bi ographers, Dr. Wm. E. Dodd of th< University of Chicago, refers to tin cabinet meeting at Charlotte, btf to none of the others on the retrea from Richmond. "Of the four members of the cabi net present at Abbeville, only on< afterward wrote or said anythinj qKrviif fVio locf paKi'nof monfirirv or\ -fai UWUM v, V11W IWOW VWWIiiVW lltvwiilg) OW XttJ as I have been able to learn. "The only cabinet member wh< had anything to say about the sub ject was Postmaster General Rea gan. In a letter written in 1899 t< Mr. D. Wyatt Aiken of Abbeville he said: 44 'You make inquiry as to tht place at which the last meeting oi the Confederate Cabinet was held. " 'I have to make a statement rather than a direct answer. The last full cabinet meeting, in which all the cabinet members participated, was in Richmond, Va. Before we left there Mr. Trfenholm, the secretary of the treasury, became seriously sick and left that city before the balance of the cabinet and went to Greensboro, N. C. President Davis and the balance of the cabinet stopped at Danville, Va., several days. When we reached Greensboro, N. C., we found Mr. Trenholm still too sick to participate in the cabinet meeting there, and he went on to Charlotte, N. C. When we reached there he was still quite sick and unable to meet with the cabinet. When we left Charlotte he left with us, but \ after traveling about half a day he became too ill to go further with us, and there resigned the. office of secretary of the treasury. There was then a cabinet meeting, where we stayed !the night after his resignation, which I was not invited to attend and at which it was determined that I should be appointed secretary of the treasury ad interim. And at Charlotte the Hon. George Davis, atA.. XI i -m tux uey-geuerui, wun ine approval 01 the president and cabinet, remained to take care of his motherless children, and met us no more. The next meeting, and one of much interest, partly on account of conferences with the officers of some brigades of the cavalry, was at Abbeville. All the members, except Mr. Trenhokn and the attorney-general, were presjnt at this meeting. After we left Abbeville and passed the Savannah river, and before we reached Washington, da., Mr. Benjamin, the secretary of state, left us, and we saw lim no more. The next meeting of vhat was left of the cabinet was at / hat nlace. Besides the nrooi/lont here were in that meeting Gen. 3reckinridge, Mr. Mallory, secretary >f the navy and myself, representing he postofflce department and the reasury department/ "Even stronger still is the testitiony of M. H. Clark, written in 882, seventeen years before Mr. leagan's statement. Mr. Clark was resent at Charlotte, Abbeville and Washington, Ga., serving finally as 1 cting treasurer of the Confederate overnment, the last officer appoint- ' d by President Davis. He was a ' ennessean. He declared: " 'The last cabinet meeting which J ould be caljed such was held at .bbeville on the second of May at 1 hiqh it seems to have been decided : lat the attempt was hopeless to j irry the oreanized force to the rans-Mississippi department, it beig too small to cope with the enemy would have to encounter and it as left free to the soldiers to dede their own action?the move was > be a voluntary one.' "It has been proved on high autority that there was a session of ie Confederate cabinet at Abbelle, but was it the last meeting? "Acting Treasurer Clark declared lat 'the last cabinet meeting which uld be called such was held at Abjville.' No other person competent i testify contradicts that stateent. Postmaster General Reagan ,ys that the next meeting, not of e cabinet, but of "what was left of ie cabinet' was at Washington? 'hat was left of the cabinet at ashington, Ga.? Only Secretary of e Navy Mallory and Postmastersneral Reagan. Secretary of War reckinridge was not there, although me Georgia historians say he was. he plain inference from the stateent of President Davis in his book ( that he never saw General Breckin- J t ridge after he left him at the Savan-j H ; nah river, while Acting Treasurer f i Clark removes the last vestige of j c doubt by the declaration that 'Gen- j > eral Breckinridge arrived in Wash i ington an hour or so after President . Davis left.' Secretary Benjamin quit . the party just after crossing the Sa- S ? vannah river and, therefore, was not ~ of W q cVnncrf rm T'Vioto ia nn tocf f n m t determine how many members are Z | t required to constitute a session of I ! the cabinet, but common sense indi- I j cates that two men do not make a ? ^ 4 cabinet. There w^ere four cabinet of- J ' r ficers present and five departments J ' ^ represented at Abbeville, but at ? Washington only two cabinet officers J ] ) could have been present and three j J departments could have been repre- - ] sented, not enough to compose an or- ] ) dinary quorum.' # I j "In consideration of all the circum- j stances at Abbeville and the testi- j k monjf of the men who were promi- 1 * . nent actors in the closing scene of I ? the vast drama there, it seems to I . me that it is established that 'the last | j cabinet meeting which could be call- i | ed such was held at Abbeville and J ] that the last chapter in government I i of the Confederate States of AmeiH- E n ca was written there. I have not ex- I fi amined all the evidence, for that I f would take months, nor have I had j 2 an opportunity to acquaint myself | [ j with the details of local traditions, [ 1 yet, upon such data as I have been ff 1 able to find in a spirit of impartial ? I inquiry, I believe that the honor and s ] distinction so long claimed by Abbe- ? J ville are hers by good and rightful ] title. | ' i 1 "Fate, with that fondness for coin- J cidence it has so often manifested, J | ordained, in accordance with the fit- 1 ness of things that the last meeting l ? of the Confederate cabinet should be I held in the little town in which the [ 2 first Secession meeting in the South'! took place. Where-the star of a newjj nation had risen/ there it was des- J ' tined to fall. The Confederacy re- 1 ceived its death blow at Appomattox, r 2 but its heart ceased to beat at Abbe- j 1 ville, the home of John C. Calhoun, ? ] the master architect of those political J theories upon which the short-lived | J government was reared, of the bril- T 1 liant Chancellor Francis Hugh Ward- | I law who supplied the draft upon s J which the Ordinance of Secession was ? J modeled, of Thomas Chiles Perrin, J the first signer of that ordninance, 1 and of legions of gallant sons who 5 1 fought with unsurpassed valor in J the world's history and died for the Hi nation that was. ft "And so, this memorial will stand I ? forevermore to remind successive Z J generations that Abbeville holds in J j proud and hallowed remembrance its | unparalled historic connection with J 1 the rise and fall of a nation that by P 1 the fortitude, sacrifice and sublime g J heroism of its people, will command * J the admiration of the world more ] and more through all the ages te g come." | J 9,575, VIRGINIA PENSIONERS | ] Richmond, Va., Oct. 6.?Virginia's J Confederate pensioners now number ft j 9,576 about one-half of whom are I women. The state auditor declares I ( it is becoming increasingly apparent ? j that he veterans are passing away ? j far more rapidly than their wives, J l iue to the fact that in nearly all in- ? stances on record ' their wives are ft :onsiderably younger than their ft f luabands. Many of the veterans were I J narried twice. [ ' Look Into ji Your Eyes! | Let us search your eyes 3 for defective vision. | 1 Let us furnish the glass- E j es that will relieve the I { strain, bring new light to I j your eyes, and new Joys } 1 to your sight. ? j m superior service ror zn particular people. i } DR. L. VTUSENBEE I OPTOMETRIST tfi TELEPHONES: IJ >fficc 278 Re.. 388 J 1 3 1-2 \|['?iliiii(ton St. jfj 1 Orer McM array Drug Co. ] j ABBEVILLE, S. C. J i Becoming Glasses Cost No Ifore) | j lajgjnnijnjiijgjiuiuiifgiiLrEm Rosenberg Mei Department Four Stores Ma i 7 ' op Knowing u Than'Gu 9 At th'e time you you think they'r< wouldn't buy t didn't. You'll kn j_i_ _ _ i .1 monins wnerne good or not. But it's easy off with knowi this store you sure befor . spend your r You get Hart 5 Marx clothes, pi quality that give service. If you aren't sati. the wear, fit, st money back. n 1 mi nusenoerg men Department I Four Stores Mam TLKnwjiifgfiimzmgmzj HfiHHHHfifBHfiS!! j rcantile Co. j t Stores J| ny Departments j j > Better || essing I IE buy clothes, 1 3 good, you | hem if you ? ow in a"few 1 :r they are S to start S fns. At re " k. I can be || e you [ I noney. [ | >chaffner & | j oviding the ! | :s you long [i ij sfied with [| vie?your [ ] !| I* entile Co. |i - B Stores ? jfj y Departments j | M anrauaraiziziziBis