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L VOL XLVI NO. 1 NEWBEPJRY, C... FRIDA.Y. JANUARY 1, 1909. TIEAWE.$.0AYA EARTHQUAKE HOJNOR 1OWS HOUR BY HOUR, DISASTER GREATEST OF MOD ERN TIMES. Over 125,000 Lives Lost-Earth, Sea and Fire Took Terible Toll Survivors Mad With Horror. Rome, December 30.-The immen sity of the disaster in Southern Italy and Sicily c.n only be measured b3 the fact that it- is now estimated tha: 110,000 people perished in Messins and Reggio alone. A score of othei towns have been devastated and thousands of victims in these place. must be added to the roll. In the face of this awful total all Italy stands appalled. Nor has the full death list yet been reached. Shipioads of fugitives have arrived at Naples and other ports and the vast majority of these are sorely injured. Other thousands re main near the ruins of their homes or wander half starving, half naked over the land. The forces that oi Monday overwhelmed th-e cities als< destro'yed the means of subsistence Telegraphic communication has beer established with Messina, the appa atus having been installed in a rail. van. Messages which have come over the line, though they have beer meagre in detail, show that hope ic gone. Nothing xemains of the city bu1 a mass of ruins that have been swep1 y fire. A mere handful of survivors ikre being cared for by the rescuing fores, but their distress is -great, ani it has been increased by the violen1 ey wind that followed the deluge of -rain. Destitution is everywhere and appalling. There is little food ani less water. Of Messina's ninety thousand popu lation it is believed that fully seven ty thousand persons perished. Forty thousand people died in Reggio. American Consul Dead. The 'government is finding difficul. in ascertaining the fate of the many- foreigners who were in the earthquake zone at the time of the .eatAstropbe, telegrams eoncernino \whn are coming from all quarters o'f- the globe. The commander of the 'battle ship Admiral Makharoff which arrived with fugitives at Napa les--today, confirms the report of the death of the American consul at Mes sina;, Arthur S. Chepev and his wife who were buried in the ruins of the *consulate. The number of Americans Sieil' r'd Sonthern Italv is be *lieved to be small, and several oi * :them are reported to have been stav ing at Taormnina, which is on the eas1 *coast, about thirty miles southwest ol Messina.. All the sovereigns anid the heads *of the foreign governments have seni expressions of warmest sympathy ani *d?eepest coddelence. France's mes sage was especially warm, and she is dispatching five warships from Tou Jon to Messina, whichi Is hailed as i token of love from a sister State. The minister of marine tonight re ereived. word that the steamship: Taormina and Campania, laden witd '45,000 beds and a large supply of pro. visions, had left Genoa for Messina Other steamers, also bountiful13 stocked. are on their wvay to thl: strieken cities from various ports. Large Army Needed The dispatches from the strickei zone say that a large army would be required to cope with. even the pr-ess /ing needs of the unfortunate people -who are roaming ab- 't. Ii f-eIad a:i' *starving, some of them dragging ar ticles of clothing from the smould ~ering ruins to protect themselves fron the piereine winds. Terrible suffer. ng~ is inevitable before the much *needed relief stores can arrive. Lte dispatches state that the city of Palmi contains 1,300 dead ani St-wie' as m~any ~ 'c',re' Two-thsirds of the town was laid waste. All tht villages adjacent suffered as severely - ome. Dee. 29.--One hundred thouzand dead. Messina- in Sicily and Rega-io andl a score of other towns it southern Italy overwhelmed: the en tire Calabrian region laid waste-this at present known from the reports that are coming slowly into Rome on account of the almost complete de- T structi,..: of Knes of communication to the stricken places. The death list in Messina ranges from 12.000 to 50,000; that of Reg gio, which with its adjacent villages b numbered 45.000 people, includes al- f most the entire population. At Palmi 1,000 are reported dead; at Cassano P 1,000; at Cosenza 500, and half of the hi population of Bagbara, about 4,000. The Monteleone region has been de- s] vastated, and Riposto, Seminara, San l Giovanni, !Scilla. Lazarro and Canni tello and all 6ther communities and d villages bordering on the straits are e. in ruins. The king and queen of Italy are g now on their way to Messina, having f< sailed tonight from Naples aboard the battleship Vittorio Emmanuelo. e The pope has .shown the greatest distress at th-e calamity, and he him- 1 self was the first to contribute a sum.1h amounting to $200.000 to the relief of the afflicted. British. French and t< Russian warships are steaming to- V ward the south and already several t] of the ships of Great Britain and Russia have reached Sicily. Officers C and men of these ships have per-form ed heroic service in the work of res- t] cue. hi It is feared that many foreigners have been killed 'as a number of the F hotels at Messina and doubtless oth-er places were crowded with! tourists. g Little is known of the fate of the c diplomatic representatives of the for eizn powers stationed at these posts, although the Italian government is making every effort to relieve the b anxiety felt on their account. There is the gravest danger that a pestilence will follow the destruction of the tov;:ns where. on account of the P vast havoc wrought, bodies will lie unburied for days and weeks. Those who bscaped death, many of whom are badly injured. are making their wvay by the thousands to the nearest places of refuge. Their sufferings even'now must be intelse., as they are without food or clothing. 400 Bushels Pure Toole Cotton Seed hi for Sale. Bought direct of W. W. Toole, last B spring, and handled with SPECIAL 1i CARE since. Price, 75c. per bushel Also a limited number bushels of 4, Brooks' Favorite, Blazier 's Defiance, 31 Cleveland Big Boll, and Alexander's Money Maker, all at 90 cents per se bushel. Plant good seed and be con- s vinced. My crop yielded this year 66 a bales on 63 acres, on what I consider n very ordinary land-' a Apply te- .J. L. Mayer, a Route 2. Newberry, S. C. e St ect. Church Services. Thdre will be services at King's h Creek church on Sabbath mrning a tI 11 o'clock; at Cannon C'reek churoh on Sabbath afternoon- at .3 n'elcoek, c and at Prosperity A. R. P. ehurch on Sabbath evening at 7 o'clok-. Dra.vton Rutherford Caapter. The Drayton Rutherford chapter,~ Daughters of the Confederacy, will meet withi Mrs. George Ja1ndtono on Tuesday afternoon, January 5, at 4. o'clock. ti Mrs. George Johnstone, Secretary. v ~Rev. Mr. Rarley to Be in Newberry. The Rev. J. L. Harley, superin tendent of the Anti-Saloon League of e c South Carolina. will .spend Sunda.y in Newberry. At 11 o'clock Sunday s8 morning lie will preach in the Asso ein:~te Reformed Presbyterian church, BI and at three o 'clock i.n the after noon he will deliver an address in the h< O 0'Neall Street Methodist church. all the churches in West End uniting in r this service. On Sunday evenin2 C there will be a union service at the First Baptist church, addressed by 36 Mr. Harley. to which the public is cordially invited,. - ~ F Today being a legal holiday the ft banks and postoffce will -all be clos- la ed. The rural carriers will also ofa take holiday and will not make their Jo. rounds today. The cipy carriers willi ki make the first rou.nd. The postoffice m NEWS OF PROSPERITY. he Comings ani Goings of Many People During The Holiday Season. Mr. Alfred Brown, of Atlat.'a, has een the guest of Mr. W. A. Moseley's amily. Miss Rosabel Harmon, of the resbyterian college, .Charlotte, came Dme for the holidays. Miss Ruth Perry, of Newberry, pent several days with Miss Willis st week. Mr. George Harmon, who is a sta ent of the Atlanta Dental college, ime home for the holidays. Mr. Hunter Caldwell and Mr. Au ustus Young went to Newnan, Ga., )r a brief visit. Prof. and Mrs. Sease, of Clemson >llege. are at Dr. Hunter's. Mr. Oscar Simpson, of the Char ston Medical college, came home Lst week. Mr. Cecil Wyche, private secretary > Senator Gary, and Mr. Granville Eyche, of the university, are with leir parents during the; holidays. Mr. Harold, of tiie P. M. A., at harleston, is home for the holidays. Miss Issoline Wycha, who teaches ie Utopia school, is home for the olidays. Messrs. Walter, Robert, and Me 'all Wise, Marks and Lillias Simp- 1 yn, .Sam and- Hal Kohn, Clifton reps and Chas. Barre, of Newberry >llege, are in town. Miss Dominick, of Newberry, is the aest of the Misses Harmon. Miss Lucy Hill, of Newberry, will a with Miss Julia Schumpert for a w days. Misses Minnie Boyd Brown ana .n-nie Moseley are here from the resbyterian college. Misses Willie May Wise and Clara ibson are spending the holidays at ome. -Miss Ethel Counts, who teaches at :ampton, is at home for two weeks. Miss Kate Thompson, of Due West, at home. Mr. Young Brown., of Er*k*e col .ge, is spendiig the holidays at ame. Last Saturday Mr. and Mrs. W. P. . Harmon were called to the bed de of their granddaughter, little ebecca Harmon, who was danger isly ill. We are glad to state that le is now convalescent. We thoroughly agree with theC mtiment of Tuesday's editorial on anta Claus. By all means encour ge imagination in children. There's. >thinig half so sweet in a child's life 3 fairy tales, myths and such. Take rav the benefit and pleasure deriy I from these and you are sure to .nd a mediocre adult as the result. ithout dreaming dreams, and seeing sions, how is any one to attain any eight ?) All successful peofle hae naginations which they have used Mr. Herbert Langford, of Wofford, ime home Wednesday. Miss Lucy Fellers went to Newber r to ass.ist at the Paysinger-Loriek e'dding. Mr. and Mrs. Pettus Wheeler and :mily also a.ttended Miss Paysiug- j 's ma-rriage. Dr. T. F. Littlejohn spent a por on of the holidays in town. Miss Jessie Moseley is spending hca acation at home.I Miss Marie Bobb has gone to Wii .ingtoni for a week 's visit. Mr. Alan Lester, of the Citadei, I ue home Wednesday~ of last week. Prof. J. E. Hunter. of Clemson, is >e~ding thie holidays at St. Luke's.t Messrs. William Dominiek and Tom ( unter are at home from Clemson. t Mr. Jno. Pat Wise is spending the t lidays here.1 Mr. and Mrs. Hi. C. Moselev have ~turned from an extended visd t;, t inton. Mr. Hart Kohn has been home f.oi ~veral day;. This seems to be "'homing time'" I well as Christmas time. 1 pity reneh reporters who have no -.ord >r "home'" in all their beauitifal nguage. It seems to me that or?e e the chief blessings of this season~ t peace and good will to all m--t nd is the privilege of leaving the a adding crowd and seeking the hiomfe I ~ st. - IN DEFIANCE OF THE LAW. [f Senator Tillman Is Violating Fun damental Law How About Mem bers of the General Assembly Hold ing Similar Trusteeships? Following is an editorial from thi Columbia State of Monday morning December 28: Senator Tillman and the Law. The Kingstree County Record ha! received from Senator Tillman a mor than usually interesting letter o: -ensure, instruction and explanation 'he matter which drew the Senator. Lal fire was contained in a paragrapl ieaded "Conflicting Jobs." in whici the County Record laid emphasis up on the recorded fact that Tillmai missed the opening roll call o' thi !en'ate because on the day congreo met he was attending a meeting o1 the board of trustees of Clemson col lege, and commented thereon as fol lows: "He should blame no one bat him elf for the disappointment he ex perienced at not being able to answei .wo calls of duty simultaneously. Th< Dint is that Senator Tillman has ten aciously clung to the Clemson collegi -rusteeship in plain violation of thi State constitution that he himsel: 2elped to frame, and he has been per mitted to do so , becaus-e-well, be .anse he is Tillman." The reply by Senator Tillman t< the criticism is suffieiently concis ind of sufficient general interest t< varrant its reproduction in full. W; anote "'rdinarily I pay no heed to suel: ;quibs. but there is so much of malic ind of ignorance in this unjustifiabl trticle of yours that I take occasior :o call your attention to some thing ,rhich you ought to know and which f you and the other papers whiet 3opied your article will print. wil >revent future misconception. "First. The meeting of the boari >f trustees of Clemson college is no. ~ixed by law and is subject to thi audgment and oonveniepece of the nembers. The last meeting was or lered in November by the board, bul ~or some reason President Alan John ~tone did not call the meetinz until December 8. and I am sure he was en tirely innocent of any pm-pose te nake the conflict with my duties it Washington. Every intelligent m.ar <nows or ought to know that the an mnal session of congress begins on th4 ~irst Monday in December. There was :ierefore, no necessity for a ''con ~liet'' and had the meeting been eith er earlier or later I could have at tended it without difficulty. In m., judgment the Clemson trustee meet ne was of far more importance thar >f my answering the roll call here Elad I attended the meeting of the ~enate on the 7th I would have t( 1are left immediately to attend the :rustee meeting on the 8th. ''Second. Senator Tillman has nol 'tenaciously- clung to that Clemnsor ~ollege trusteeship in p)lai n violatiot >f the State constitution that he him ~elf helped to frame.'' I am a trus ee of Clemson college under Mr. lemson 's will. I do not hold any -ommission as trustee of C7lemMon from the State government. I was a rustee before. tihe State constitution >f 189.3 was adoptedi and that consti* ution could noht anid didl not attempi o alter my status at all. If you are nnocent of intenti,onal or unjust erit eism of me, it must be attributed o your ignorance: if vou were mere y repeating what you have read in1 ther papers without examination, it ught to be a warning to be better in ormed lest you be charg~ed with ma ice'' But Senator Tillman signally fails o convict the County Record of eith r ignorance or malice, and he ignoces he kernel of the matter. The Sena or knows or lie ought to know, that whether or not the several offiees teld by him are in actual ''conflict " s notat isse it s irrelevant as it is foolish. not to say disingenuous, to prove that had the president of the board of trustees called the meeting on some other day, there would have been no "conflict." Had tha date been a week later, Senator Tillman could have answered to his name in the senate on the opening of congress, but to have then attended the meet ing of the Clemson trustees would have required the neglect of his du ties in the senate for at least three days. Is there no "conflict" there! But the qaestion, as we premised, is not of "conflet.," it is of law. And the fundamental law of South Car olina commands that: "No person shall hold two offices of honor or profit at the same time." The constitution makes no refer enee to "conflicting" offices: and it makes- only this exception to its sweeping prohibiton: "Provided, That any person holding another office may at the same time be an officer in the militia or a notary public." The important office of college trustee is not excepted. Under the second head of his let ter, Senator Tillman appears to as sume that the trusteeship of Clemson is outside the jurisdiction of the State constitution because his com S)mission as trustee is not "from the , IState government," but is by author ity of Mr. Clemson's will. The sen ior Senator knows, or it is inexcus able ignorance on his part if he does not know, that the' matter of the source of the "commission" to hold office has absolutely nothing to do vAth the case. The constithtion for bids the holding of two offices of hon or or profit at the same time, and the supreme court has decreed that the unsalaried intendent of a town, however inconsequential a village that "town" may be, can not hold anoth er office of profit -or honor, that of intendent being deemed an office of "trust.' and so an honor. Intend ents, -as Senator Tillman should know, do not get their commissions 1"from the State government." Senator Tillman is in astonishing error when he holds that because he was a trustee of Clemson before the State constitution of 1895 was adopt ed "that constitution could not an( t1did not attempt to alter my (his) .status at .a." If it be conceded thait the constitution did -not force the holder of two offices at the time of its passage, to retire from, one or the other of them, it must also be con ceded that the terin of senator that Mr. Tillman was then serving expir ed on March 4, 1891, and that the conIstitutionlal inhi.bitiot' xiut apply to the second term. The Kingstree County Reeb:.' rec minds the senior senator tha!t he is also a trustee of Winthrop eollege, receiving that office of honor di;ectly "from the State government.'' and therefore if his argument held in re gard to that feature of his Clemson comisson,it would not hold as to Winthrop. But it holds in ne'ther case. The ruling of the supreme court, under the constitution, is that if a clerk of court accept the office of in-f tendent he thereby vacates the office of ecerk of court. Now, it is Senator L Tillman's .judgment that attendance upon the Clemson trustee meeting was of "far more importance" than being inWashingtonwhncgrs met, therefore the offBee of trustee of 0lemson and of Winthron must be of importance, of trust, and honor. Thre supreme court will so hold. and if it should he to the interest of any one] to invalite any action h" either of the hoard of trustees of Winthrop or Clemson in which Senaitor Tillman pirticiwlted it eon1d be done. It is onr opinion that Mr. Tillman vacated the trusteeship of Clemson, March 4. 1895. that he his violated the lettet anmd spirit of the constitution when ever acting as trustee of Winthrop college. and is not entitled to onej cent of per diem or exnenses that hre may have received from either of those colleges during all these years. But neither Senator Tillman's opinion, the County Record 's opin ion, nor the State's opinion will de-| termine the matter'. It is the su preme court's opinion that counts, e and we hallenge the senator to invite a determination of the question by :|( that tibual. H.e may make an ex- ' ,ellent trustee. but that is not the luestion. It is a question of obeying ,he law. No man should be above the aw; no man holding high office ;hould permit himself to be regarded is an example of daily defiance of -he law. rrustee Under Clemson Will Is State Office Or Clemson is a Private College. .... Following is an editorial from the Tews and Courier of Wednesday, De ,ember 23. Senator Tillman and a Private Col lege. Senator Tillman has sent a sharp reply to the Kingstree County Re eord's criticism that he holds two positions, the trusteeship of Clemson and the United States senatorship, in onfliet with the constitution of South Carolina. The senator, it will be recalled, was absent at the open ing of the session of the senate re aently because of a meeting of the Clemson trustees. He defends himself by saying -that he holds his trustee ship under the appointment of the Clemson will, and that it is not a public office; that he held the ap pointment 'before tha constitution was adopted. Consequently the sen itor convicts himself of having giv n attention to private business at the 2xpense of his labors for the publi%,. le is compensated for the latter out Df the public treasury. The senator emarks that the conflict would ;not iave occurred if the trustee meeting iad not been called, unwittingly, for hat particular date, December 8, for 7etting that it is not incumbent up n the Clemson trustees as a board to idjust their work to the convenience )f the senator. Furthermore, as the trustees un ler the Clemson will constitute a ma jority of the board, Senator Tillman orroborates what the News and ourier has frequently emphasized :hat Clemson college is not in reality i State, but a private institution, al :hough virtually all of its revei Aes ire derived through an indirect tax, he burden of which falls on the armers. Of coui'se, when we are 0onfronted with the record of fre luent instances of men prohibitel rom holding the office of school dis rict trustee and magistrate at the ame time, it is Aevident that the sen tor's clinging to the two offices vio ~ates the spirit if not the letter of :he constitution and the recent eon ~liet of dates demanding the pre2ss.ee >f the senator lai two places half a :housand miles apart illustrates the visdomn of the- constitution-makers. We do not, however, attach espe ~ial importance to this matter:.if the enator draws any keen satisfaction rom the continulance of his connec ion with Clemson, we are quite wil ing that he should have it, and his. yeeasional absence from the senate hamber in Washington will not in :erfere seriously with the great value >f his service to the country. If the senato'r should contemplate esigning from either of his offices >f honor we dare suggest that his let :er to the Kingstree paper bears in :ernal evidence that he should by all neans surrender the trusteeship., It s of interest and importance in Ihat t points out inferentially thiat the state of South Carolina should con ert Clemson into a State educational nstitution. The Odd Fellews. - Following are the officers of Pu aski lodge, No. 20. T. 0. 0. F., for he ensuing year, who will be install - tonight: N. G.-Claude Still. P. G.--I H. Hunt. Seer.-W. H. Bowen. Treas.--Theo. Danielsen. 0. G.-D. I. Franklin. Union Meeting at O'Neall. A Union meeting will be held at ) 'Neall on Friday, January '1. 1909, ,t 2 o'clock. A full attendance is rged. G. Sam Moore, President. Communion next Sunday morning t Colony. Preaching by President .H. Harms, of Newberry college, olletion for synod.