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VOL XLIVA NO 84. NEWBERRY. S. P., FRIDAY' OOI'OBER 18, ) j)07. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR SUPT. MARTIN IS MAD. The Governor Appointed a Member of State Board of Education Without Consulting the Superintendent. Columibia, Oct. 10.?On receiving notification this morning that Governor Ansel had appointed llayne P. Rice of the Aiken bar to till a vacancy on the state board of education, Superintendent Martin sent the governor a two page typewritten letter denouncing him in most sarcastic terms for making the appointment without consulting him, and notifying him that on account of his policy he will not offer for re-election as a state superintendent. Mr. Martin's Letter. The letter from Mr. Martin to the Governor is as follows: Department of Education, Columbia, S. C., Get. 10,. 1907. Hon. M. F. Ansel, Governor, Columbia, S. Ci?Dear Sir: Your letter notifying me of the appointment of Mr. II. F. Riee, of the Aiken bar, as a member* of the state board of education was promptly received. So you have succeeded in appointing a lawyer and also in not consulting the ofliccr who is responsible to the people for the conduct of the educational affairs of the sta>te. T wish that it were possible for me to think of your action in this whole matter other than as small-minded, officious and pernicious. [ prefer to think of the governor of niv state as liberal-minded, potential and statesmanly. I note that you say that Mr. Rice has taken an interest in school matters. Likewise many of our school men have taken an interest in law, but it does not follow that they should be put upon the Supreme Bench. They are hardly competent to examine applicants for admission to the bar and to discharge the,numerous complicated, but technical, duties of the supreme court. To take a charitable view of the situation, T believe you utterly fail to grasp the duties of a member of the state board of education. Some time ago, when you made your second appointment of a lawyer on this board I characterized your action with such language as seemed, at that time, appropriate. I applied the mustard plaster, which afterwards seemed rather pungent. The conclusion is now bearing down upon me that you are furnishing a concrete exemplification of the characterization above referred to. The appointee, whom I shall designate as Lawyei* No. 2, happened to be too broad-gauged a man to accept an appointment in a department whose head had been ignored. Appointee Lawyer No. 3, "Prof." Rice, of the Aiken bar, may be of similar calibre, but if I am to believe (he report given to the press concerning his appointment. T should say that lie is at least ambiguous, amphibious, ambidextrous, ubiquitous and indeterminate. These characteristics may appeal to you. As you perhaps know, you have next year the appointment of the remaining members of the state board of education, with the exception of the secretary, who holds the position ex-ollirio as state superintendent of education, and I have the supreme satisfaction of knowing that 1 do not have to sit with them nor be bound by their actions. I wish to give you the pleasure of knowing here and now that I shall not be a member of that board any longer than is necessary for me to discharge mv duty aijd obligations lo the people of South Carolina. For two terms 1 have been elected stale superintendent of education without opposition. I have discharged my duties fearlessly and vigorously. I feel the satisfaction of having done some good for my people. I shall not ask for re-election. 1 mention this in order thai you may indulge and cherish the fond hope of getting a satellite of your own ilk. T am somewhat in the position of the old negro woman who went into a dry goods store and asked for three yards of red ribbon. The clerk was very bow-legged. lie started across the store and said: "Walk this way." The old woman said: "No, sir; I'll Jo without the ribbon bo for < I'll walk dnt way." And I'll cl? without my ribbon before I"11 wall your way. Sincerely yours. O. H. Martin, | ?"*taie Supt. of Kdueation. Governor Ansel's Tje.:?r. I This letter u reply t\d lowing: "State of South Carolina, " Fxecutive Chamber, "Columbia, October 15, l!)07. "lion. O. B. Martin, State Super intendent of Hducation, Columbia, S C. Dear Sir: 1 have appointed tin Hon. Hayne F. Rice, Aiken, S. C., a a member of the slate board of eduea tion to fill the unexpired term o Prof. J. K. Holand, resigned. Mr I?ice has taken groat interest it school matters for years, and I fee sure that he will make a very usefu member of the board of education. "Yours very truly, "M. F. Ansel, Governor." AMERICAN HUSBAND A SLAVE A Mere Money-Maker and Washe Of his Wife's Clothes, Says a French Woman. Paris, September 12j?A Frencl woman has contributed her impres sions of America to the Paris Matin Among other things she says: "I used to believe that slavery wa abolished, but I have learned in Ne\ York that that is not the ca.sc. Helot still exist in the persons of America husbands. "From their earliest years the; are apprenticed to their hard lot b being made the butts and drudges o their sisters. American boys have t give way to every caprice of th American girls. For woman in Amei ica is a despot to be feared; she ha taken the place of the idol of stone o wood to which the redskins offere human victims. "A husband in the eyes of a American wife is n machine for mafc ing money. He has no other reaso for existence, while her part consist in spending what he makes. "Ask any young girl engaged t some fine young follow of moderat meat:* how she has passed some holi day with her lover, and she will te you triumphantly: "I've made him spend so man dollars.' " A pleasure that is not expensiv is never a pleasure to an America woman. That the poor man in a sir gle day has seen a month's earning disappear is a matter of no import ance. "When married this unfortunat man sets forth to business early i the morning. All the day he wii hardly take the time to swallow glass of milk without even sittin down at- the nearest bar; his time be longs to the Idol; he has no right t so waste the least bit of it on hi personal needs. "In the evening he returns, wor out and worried, always to a board ing house, for he has not even hearth, no American wife being will ; ing to endure the work of keepin house. And then his wife will giv | him for a little relaxation her silk o | wool combinations to wash in th I wash basin, these being all the under | wear she uses, while her dress wil cost about $200; she, meanwhile, a ease in a rocking chair, remains dee in the delights of a novel. "The worst result is that, bavin reduced their husbands to slavers American women despise them be cause they are slaves?which is natui : al. They reproach their husband I with being fit for nothing but tnatei I ial work, while it is they who do J maud this material work. I "Heiresses dream only of marry ling men like those in French noveh : from whom they will have to loar I in turn what it is to be ill-trcntcci j And as the result of their toil an mad devotion American men se J their money and their women fly t foreigners." Undoubtedly, it is the early bin that, destroys the boll weevil.?New and oCurier. I > TOWN WIPED OUT. c Fearful Explosion in Du Pont Powder Works, Followed by Others, Kills About Thirty and Injures Six Hundred?Seven Hundred Homes Wrecked. Brazil, Ind.. Oct. 15.?Twenly-livt to thirty persons are dead and dying and (500 injured and every house in Fontanel des( royed, 700 residents homeless, is (lie result of the explo. sion of the mills of tlie DuPont Pow, der Company near Fontanel today a 1 he lirst explosion in the' Glazing s Mill was quickly followed in the olh. or mills and the men ran for theii f lives. At the first explosion th( town inhabitants ran from tlu , building, thus saving: themselves ami 1 I no one was killed in the town, al I though not a single building- is left standing;. Ninety minutes after the ilirst explosion the heat from the burning: mills exploded the greal powder ma/agines severaly yards |, away. A freight train on the swilcl was partly destroyed by the coneus r sion and caught fire. The heat fi'on the burning- mills made the remova of the bodies impossible. Eighteei mangled bodies were taken to tlu li | morgue to await identification. Tlu . injured were found everywhere. Tin i. j front roofs, sides and foundations o: i many buildings were blown to atoms sjA brick school building' a quarter o: v a mile away, was wrecked and man; 3 children were injured, many serious n ly. V SHOT NEGRO WOMAN. f I Only a Short Time Before She Trice o to Kill Dr. Linder?A Remarke ablo Case. i* iS Union, Oct. 15.>?At one o'clock ,rjthis afternooon Dr. Will L. Linder (1 1 a prominent young1 physician of thi [city, shot three times Lucy Lipsev n i a negro woman, who, going- to hi j office on the morning- of March 25, o n | this year, shot him in the back with s' ont warning-. The weapon used to | day by Dr. Lindler was a 32-calibri 0,'pislol. one ball entering- the righ I breast and the second slightly below ; J It is understood that the wounds an ii! considered mortal, and the end wil I come soon. j The shooting- occurred on Mail street, Dr Linder being- on the sidi ; walk and the woman in the door o j Swigert's cash store, in the act <> I coming: out. As Dr. Linder tired tin '" shots, his father, Dr. S. S. Linder 'S chanced to be coming- up Main strec and was only a short distance away Tie sprang- towards him and attempt. e cd to prevent him from firing; anotlie II shot. In the slight struggle that ensu ^ cd Dr. S. S. Linder is said to hav< a called for help and was heard by Dr ? M. D. Tluiett, who was in the Palmct to Drug Company, two doors below 0 Dr. Huiett ran to his assistance aiu s was handed the pistol by Dr. Wil Linder. 11 As she was shot the woman is sai( to have fallen to the pavement and a ] fallin"-. cried out "My Clod, T'm I- | dead." TTor sister, who had been it g I Ihe store with her. caught her as six o j fell. r, Til a short while Dr. J. IT. TTamil ? i ton and Dr. TTardv readied her sid( 1 and after an examination she was I'* ] placed in a hack and taken to tin t Rice Drug* Co.. and then to her horrn p | near the old baseball grounds. Immediately after the unfortunalf g affair Dr. Linder. with his falhci r, I went to Chief of Police Long am [-.surrendered himself. TTe was turmV -lover to Sheriff Sanders bv Chiel s | Lonir and is now in jail. i Dr. Linder'-; regular counsel. \fr >- J. A. Sawver. left yesterday for New i York, but in tlie event of (lie death ol _ the woman there will be no delav ir .(iDr. Linder applying to be releaser n on bail. d j riie President's early morning swiir e j in Dear L.-.ke i sanother vindicatior OjOf the 'henries of TCx-Judge Alton B Parker.?News aiid Courier. A 'M Mt who has something to sa\ s knows when he has said it? i ?" M '? - -1 ?j up. enjoins dispensary board. Matter "VhrCome up in Richmond in November?Order Was Secured 1 by Garrett & Co. i Columbia, Oct. 15.?Judge Pritchnrd has issued an injunction restrain! '".IT the dispensary winding up com: mission from paying out any money 1 in Hieir hands until the claim of Gar? roll iV: Co., a wine concern, is settled, n writ of mandamus being also asked by Garrett & Co., to compel the com mission to pay their claim. . 1 lie state, which has been using the injunction process to close aliased blind timers, now finds itself the sub5 jeet of injunction and it will be inlcr> estniv to know what course the state I will pursue. The commission is the i^enl d| the state and the case brings t squarely up the right of the federal < courts to enjoin the sovereign state of 5 South Carolina. t The order is returnable before 3 Judge Prit chard at Richmond on Noi vember 10, 1007, and at. that time the commission will doubtless be reprcJ sen ted by Attorney General Lyon and the attorney for the commission, lion. 1 W. K Stevenson. Gov. Ansel was 2 very busy today and had not given 3 consideration to the matter, so that it is not known what policy he will ? direct to be pursued. The liquor concern of Garrett & t Co. is represented at this end of the f line by the firm of Weston & Aycock. The firm has a claim against the old state dispensary which has ,been in dispute and the commission has insisted that the firm take back a lot of wines, which the commission for some reason rejected, these wines having been shipped back to Norfolk some j time ago, and refused by the firm at i t hat point. In the complaint the ^ | firm alleges that, the commission is ' | about to pay other claims and not s j pay their own and tlie injunction is '! a.?K(-d for in order that such payment '^ | be restrained until the application I tor a writ of mandamus is argued hej fore the court to compel the commission to pay the claim. It is lveogniz^ j ed l hiit the firm cannot sue the state, | of which the commission is the agent , merely, nut it is claimed that a writ ' j of mandamus can be issued to compel the commission to perform a dury wh!<;i is alleged to lie purely ministerial. It of course remains to he j; seen whether or not the court will hold that the duly is ministerial, since |l,n commission is by the act un| j <" r which it is appointed, charged '.uif,i the duly of investigating and determining the legality and justice of nil claims against the state dispensary . The commission, it will bp argued, is a quasi-court, and that it ean" not be enjoined or that a writ of mandamus cannot he issued against it. The amount of money which the j commission has on hand and which I , is tied up by this order of Judge I i it chard is not definitely known I but is something like $750,000. I The Commission, if it respects the injunction, cannot pay out a cent of j ! "'is money as long as the order J stands. The claim of Garrett. & Co. i is about $7,000 and the bond requir_ ; ed is only $500. This appears to be a | very small amount compared with the total amount of money which is tied 4 1 "p by the order. The bond is signje,l by Garrett & fin. and by Gen. j Willie Jnes and Mr. J. P. Matthews, 4 president and cashier respectively of jthe Palmetto National Bank of this I ' ''i,yr| two convicts escape. From the State Penitentiary in Co | lumbia?Both Were From GveenT j villo County. II Columbia. Oct. If!. -Two more es| en pes from the South Carolina penii I cut in ry, following up two of a few j days since, has caused a great deal I o| speculation. Yesterday morning 1 j about 4.30 o'clock, Walter Allen and jJas. Suddat!., both trusties, escaped from the prison. They had been jscnt to milk cows, along with four I negro convicts. The men were given -ja good deal of liberty, and it was not i thought they would make an attempt TIMMERMAN REFUSES TO SETTLE. R Disclaims all Responsibility in Stolen Bonds Matter?Former Stato Treasurer Notifies Attorney General that ho Refuses to Sottlo. S C Columbia, ()< (. 14? Attorney flcn- <M oral Lyon this evening received a lottor lroni Or. W. II. Tinimermau, former State Treasurer, in reply to Mr. U Lyon's letter of Saturday, in which Dr. Timmcruyhu declines to recog- \ nize his liability for the theft, of S bonds by his former clerk, Daniel Zimmerman, and consequently the At- Sl torney General will institute suit on the former treasurer's otTicial bond S for the amount lost during his administration. which is about *1-1,000, in- " eluding interest. 1'he letter from Dr. Tiinmerman is I, as follows: Batesburg, S. 0., October 14. 'Hon. J. Frnsor, Lyon, Colum- , bia. S. C.?Dear Sir: Yours of 12th * instant is received in reference to stolen bonds claim. Tn answer thereto T will say that T do not consider ? myself morally or legally liouiul for the value of the said bonds. T there- a fore will a'bide the decision of the courts upon the question of liability, j T will be slow to believe that the v State of South Carolina will be so unjust as to require of mo payment s for the stealage of a self-confessed thief with the aid and instigation of a convicted criminal, neither of whom ( has yet received any punishment for their crime. And especially since T was denied bv statute the free oxer- f cise of my judgment in tin* naming of | clerks in the State Treasurer's of- | Hoe so T refuse to make settlement.. , Very truly yours. "W. TT. Timmerman." ( Dr. Tiinmerman's reference to the t fact that lie was not allowed to put in the office clerks of his own selec- i tion refers to the fact that when he went into office he desired to ap- s point a kinsman as bond clerk, but v under the statute forbidding nepotism, he could not do so, and he then I retained Zimmerman, who had been appointed by his predecessor, Dr. W. j T. C. Tiat.es. Zimmerman has confess. I ed the theft of the 10 state bonds, i worth $12.f>00, hut his ease has been i appealed on a technical point, and t will not he argued until (his winter. ' I Meanwhile he is ou bond. Mis al-|s leged confederate was convicted of! receiving stolen property, knowing J i to be stolen, but Mr. T. .1. (iibson has , I not been well enough to appear in i court and have the sealed sentence |< read to him. so that lie, too, is virtually free so far as jhe sentence of the court is concerned. Dr. Bates was in j the city today, but lie has not yet re-' ;| plied to the Attorney General's letter in regard to his liability for the bonds stolen during his administra-j tion. Treasurer Jennings has indi-ir cated his probable intention to settle i without suit. J. J I. to get away. They were reported by j the negro prisoners to have been seen throwing down fodder lo (lie cows.' Alien had been sent up for seven j years for murder in Greenville <*01111-' ty, and had served four years as a ' trusty. Allen had killed a man nam-j ' ed Trammell. Suddath was serving a term for j ' monnshining. Il has been the custom lo allow the," mountain men a ynod deal of liberlvj' and lliey have never 'before been 1 known to violate Ihc privileges given ' them. ' hi ocra-ioiM men from the! mount.tin disirit-is have been -entene ' ' d to ;i penitentiary sen I enee. and a I lowed to come lo the pi Imiii without 1 ' a guard, ami lliey always came back j promptly. Tin olljceis grew to have; ,'ieat faith in I he word of these : moiiutain men. and Ibis was why the. j | prisoners w ho escaped today had been allowed so many privileges. i Nothing nas'been heard i rom Dean and Smith who escaped from the penitentiary a few days since. Sooon the race for railroad com- n ; missioiicr will be lo the faster walker, mi '?News and oCurier. y THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. cal Estate in Demand at Good Prices?Personal Mention?Doctors Agrco on Fee Bill. Prosperity, Oct. 17.?-Mr. W. l'rank heeley lias accepted a posit ion in olumbia and is now in Hi capital ty. and will be glad to see liis friends uring lair week. Mrs. Uiekley lias been on a visit > friends in Newberry. Messes (I. V. Hunter and A. B. /ise attended Die meeting- of tho hriners in Columbia this week. Mrs. Lizzie Hunter who had been ick at her daughter's Mrs. A. II. Inwkins returned to her home in the t. Lakes community on Sunday. Little Miss Betsey Hunter is visi11her aunts in town this week. The Sorosis will meet with Mrs. J. \ Browne in ;i social meeting oil 'riday afternoon. There will be comniunion in Grace mgregation on Sunday morning. Children's day will be observed by I race Sunday School on the 4th iunday. Program will be given next reek. Miss Annie Singley is visiting her nut, Mrs. P. C. Singley this week. Mesdames J. M. Werts and S. D. htnean spent a day in Newberry this reek. Miss Nannie Simpson, of Laurens, pent Saturday and Sunday at home. Mr. .1. M. Werts and family and ,1 r. and Mrs. 1>. M. Cromer alt ended he funeral of Mrs. A. L. Aull last iunday. Mr. \V. K. Moseley has returned rom the Jamestown exposition and a rip through Pennsylvania, going to 'ittshurg, Altoona and other centres >l! business. Messrs. J. D. Qualtlebaum and K. Matliis are at Batosburg attending lie Tri County fair this week. Miss Li I lie Mae Hussell is visiting ii Columbia ibis week. Prof. \V. I*'. Monts opened his clionl at Delniar, Saluda county, this reek. W. Q. Hipp, of Pomaria. was in own on Thursday. Mr. S. J. Kohn has sold the Lester bought l?o or three weeks ago, o Rev. I. S. Caldwell, Mr. Kohn uadc a nice little prolit showing that ciil estate i.-> in demand in this secion. lie says he regrets he sold it, ?tit he '.s a trader and could not relist the profit feature. Fee bill for Prosperity and snr'oiuiding country, iidopled by Newicrry County Medical Society. One (1) visit per day in town in lay time and before 0 p. in. $L.')0. Subsequent visits on same day and it same place, day time, $1.00. Night visits alter p. m. in town Visits in country from 1 to l> mile# -day time?each $2.00. Visits in county from 1 to 0 mile# iI'ler sundown $2.:>0. Visits in country from (? to 0 miles -day time? each $2.f>0. Visits in country from 0 to 0 miles ifter sundown, each $J.~>0. Visits in country over !> miles lav I line each $.1.00 and o\ei. \"isiIs in country over !> miles after uudown, each $1.01) and over. "Call visit " when pa.-sing (lirst inie) in count ry $1 . ?0. Detention over time of usual visit, ter hour $1.00. ( Ulicc visits? abscesses, felons, hypdermic injections, phvsieal cxaminaioiis, etc., .fl .00. 1 'erl itieat es for exemption from (.,1(1 or other public dut> $1.00. Aftmini-iterinu" :inc>thelie $.?.00. ()o-=t rical ease *10.00. I! ed uci II'.: I i a el 1111 and di>i->ea i U.US ,?| dres-iie-* >ame $ * .00 lo $..0.00 Amputation ('11ns1111at iou- 10.00. Signed by Jacob S. Wheeler. (!eo. Y. 11 nil'el". .foiln J. llominick. C. T. Wyehe. J. I. Bedenbaugh. Why not keep the comic supple(ml of the educational system I" South Carolina??News and Conror.