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\7 VOL X'LVI J~~)~ 0 NEWBEI"N", C.(. TUESDA-Y. AUGUST 17. lWO9TIEAWE.$.0AYA DISPENSARY ELECTION TODAY Some Say the Election Will Be Full of Surprises for Both Sides. Intense Interest. Columbia, August 15.-Twenty-one counties in South Carolina will vote upon the liquor question on Tuesday. The people are to say in these coun ties whether or not they want the ,1egalized sale of whiskey continued in their territory. -The issue is one that is of interest to the whole South and in this State will spell much of the future politi.s and government of the liquor traffie. The counties in which the elections are to be held are: Abbeville. Aiken, Bamberg. Barnwell. Beaufort. Berke ley. Calhoun, Charleston, Colleton. Do,rehester. Fjrfpld, 1-rence, Geor!etown. Hampton. Kershaw. Lee. -Lexington, Orangeurg, Richland. Sumter and Williamsburg. Within the last days of the dry -period preceding the election the pro hibitionists have waged a hard fight. In all the above mentioned counties spee-hes have been made and argu ments advanced for the alleged en lightenment of the v6tes of the va rious communities. The W. C. T. U. has given its aid and encouragement in the work and much literature has been distributed. As far as can be learned, very lit tle work has been done by the local optionists in any of the counties. The dispensary advocates have de pended largely upon the cold facts of the good work that the dispensary has done and the funds given to edu cation and the lessening of taxes -made possible by the county dispen sary system. In Charleston the busi ness men ef the community have en dorsed the dispensary system and, although no formal action has been taken in Columbia, the same is true here. CENSUS-TAKERS FOR STATE. Taft Issues Warning Against Census Officials Engaging in Politics. The Appointees. Beverly, Mass., Aug. 15.-President Taft gave out a new list of census supervisors to-day. Those for South Carolina are as follows: First dis trict. William J. Storen; second, Geo. Waterhouse; t.hird, William Walker Russell; fifth, Robert LeRoy Douglas. In a letter addressed to Secretary Nagel, of the department of com merce and labor, President Taft served notice that any man engaged in the taking of the thirteenth census of t'he United State's who engages in politics in any way will de dismissed immediately from -the service.. At the same time announcement was made of the appointment of 134 additional supervisors. Outside of casting their votes, the President believes that census super visors and enumerators should keep elear of anrthing that savors of poli tics-national, state or local. In his letter President Taft orders that the Seeretary of Commerce and Lsbor anid th'e director of the census embody in the regulations governmng the taking of the celisvus the rul s forcibly laid down in his letter. Mr. Taft says that in appointing eensus supervisors it has been found necessary to select men recommended by Senators and Congrssmen in their districts. He says he realizes that his method of selection might easily be perverted to pltclpurposes, and it i; to take the eensus out of politics. so far as the actual work is concerned that he ha.s explicitly expressed his desires as to the regulations. SNAKE RUNS SPINNING WHEEL Five-Foot Reptile Operates Ma chine For Nearly Half a Day. Camnpbellsville, K~y.. Aug. 14.-Mrs. W. C. Grider. of Adair county, was attracted to her weaving room to-day by the sound of her wheel. and on pening the door she was horrified tn see a large snake going around with the spti-ning wheel. When the reptile erwled ~on the wheel it started the wheel to rindar. The snake was unable to free i ts~ ..and a number of spectators witiv>ged the remark able sight for re-ary half a day. The snake was. finally killed anid meas uredfi efeet in length. ACCEPT MELL'S RESIGNATION. Clemson Trustees Also Change Rules And Approve the Financial Budget. Anderson. August 14.- After ae cepting President P. H. Mell's resig nation, appointing a committee to investigate the wisdom of establish ing a fitting school somewhere in the State. approving the budget for next session, changing the rules governing the College. appropriating $5.000 for improvements at the experimental station at Summerville. establishing the position of assistant in the pre paratory class and a few other mat ters of minor importance. the special meeting of the board of trustees of Clemson College adjourned to-day. This morning a committee, consisting of Trustees Tillman. Wannamaker and Evans. waited on Dr. Mell to ad vise him that the board of trustees had unanimously adopted the recom mendations of the special committee providing for changes in the by-laws of the College as suggested by him when he tendered his resignation in June. The committee told Dr. Mell that full consideration had been given to the environments surrounding him, that his personal wishes in the mat ter had been considered, and t'hat the boaid had made arrangements for his severance as president from the Col lege. The committee asked Dr. Mell. however, to remain president of the institution until his successor could be chosen. In reply, Dr. Mell thanked the members of the board for the eon sideration shown in the matter, and said he would gladly remain as pres ident until January 1 next, in which time he hopes a suitable man can be elected. He said to the committee in part: "I desire for you to convey to the board that I have a warm affec tion for the College, and that my friendship for the institution remains unabated. I shall do all in my power to keep the College in good shape dnuring the rest of my service as president.'' Shortly after this, Dr. Mell made public the following state ment: "The board has placed the College on a firm basis in passing the by-laws and has removed out of the way all chance for obstruction to the College's future growth. I prefer to retire from active college work and to spend the few remaining years of my life in traveling and in writing in a permanent form scientific data, the accumulation of thirty-one years' work. For several years it has been 'my plan to reti-re to private life short lv after reaching the age of sixty. This is the time for the accomplish ment of this purpose.'' Dr. Mell came to Clemson seven years ago from Alabama. He holds the record of long service in college work in the South, having completed thirty-one years this summer. Faculty Changes. Prof. N. I. Knight. a native of Louisiana. and now a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois, was elected to the chair of botany and forestry, to succeed Dr. Shattuck, resigned. Mr. Knight will receive the P. H. D. diegree from Chicago Uni .ity in a few weeks. A director of the agricultural de partmenlt to) succeed Prof. Barrow, rsined. was not elected. Dr. Mell was requested to prepare a list of available men. from which the board will eles t a suceessor at a special meeting to be held in the next few weeks. The board adopted resolutions pro viding for the establishment of the position of assistant in the prepara tory class at the salary of $1,000 per annum. andl for the enilargemient of the engineerinlg building. It also ap 'poiated $5,000 for improvements a the u:nerville experimental sta tion and provided for the college em ployees to pay small rents for the cot tages, the money to be used for re Board of Visitors' Work. Reports were received from the board of visitors which were highly saisfactry to the trustees. The board has made arangements for keeping the bath rooms in excellent sanitary condition. Mr. G. M. Middleton, of Charleston. presented to the College a fac-simile of the Declaration of In dependence. The General Assembly will be a.sked to enact several meas - r of-+-e imprcet h College. One wviilprvte t Cat benenciary cadets nut eleet either an agricultural or textile course. Antiher will provide t1at the facult y have conziderable share in determining the winners of the scholarships after examinations before the county boards. One of the most important actions of the board was the appointment of a committee to canvass the expense of opcrating the College and money necessary for reasonable growth. The idea is to de termine how much of the fertilizer tax money will be left. If a sufficient amount is left the General Assembly will be asked to pass an Act, giving the trustees the right to spend it on establishing and equipping a fitting school somewhere in the State. An derson will make a strong bid for it. Meeting Was Harmonious. Before adjourning the board ap pointed a committee, consisting of Senator Tillman, Col. Johnstone and Mr. Richard L Manning, to look out for a president to succeed Dr. Mell. The board meeting was harmonious tthroughout and to-night all the mem bers have gone to their respective homes. TAFT ON NOVEMBER EIGHT. Date for His Visit to Columbia Set. -To Spend Some Hours There. Columbia State. Mavor W. S. Reamer yesterday re ceived from Fred Carpenter, private secretary to President Taft, a tele gram stating that itinerary of the president had been so arranged that the presidential party would arrive in this city on Monday, November 8, at 10:50 in the morning, and would leave at 5:05 in the evening of that date. The message asked that Mr. Carpenter be advised as quickly as possible by wire of a detailed pro gramme aranged by a local committee for the president's entertainment while there. The local committee is comprised of Gov. M. F. Ansel, Mayor W. S. Reamer and President Julius Walker of the Chamber of Commerce. Gov. Ansel, Mayor Reamer and President Walker all were out of the city yes terday. The telegram yesterday is a confirmation of the news received here some time ago. Mr. Taft's visit will be the Monday following the State :'fair and it is entirely probable that thousands of South Carolinians will remain in the Capital City to give a Southern greeting to the president. TRAINS CRASH HEAD-ON. Eight Dead, Fifty Hurt in Collision in Coloado.-Four Hundred Passengers. Colorado Springs, Col., Aug. 14. Eight are dead and fifty injured, some fatally, as a result of a head-on col lision between train No. 8, north ~bond, and train No. 1. south-bound, on the D)enver and Rio Grande at Husted, 13 miles north of Colorado Springs this morning. The trains, bothi runnning at territie speed, met on a curve and their crews had no opportunity to avert the collision. Train No. 8. drawn by two engines, telescoped the baggage car and smoker of No. 1. and all three engines went into the ditch. With more than 400 passengers on the two trains, the excitement fol lowing the accident was indescribable All the passengers were thrown in a screaming mass on the floors of the cars and many were hurt in the stain pede to escape. The unhurt rusher to the aid of the injured, but so great vas the confusion that it .required 'half an hour to clear the cars which were enveloped in clouds of steam from the engines. FATS WATERMELONS; DIES. Kentucky Negress's Feat Results in: Cardiac Paralysis. Louisville. Ky.. Aug. 14.-Lucinda Davis. a colored woman. aged 33 ears died to-dlay as t ;e result of eating too much watermelon at a contest last night. Dr. Loomis Blan ton. assistant coroner. p)ronounced death due to cardiac paralysis, su peinduced by acute indigestion. Lu IN THE MOUNTAINS. Mrs. Evans Writes of the Beauty of the Land of the Sky.-Interest ing Incidents. Tululihoma. Inn, N. C., Land of the Sky.-We doubt if a more beautiful scene in the Old World can be wit nessed than the one now around us the g-rand Chickasaw range. whose high tops, covered with emerald green, wit-lh a misty veil lifted by the god of day. and whose golden splen dor floods the high peak of Sugar Loaf with rays that seem to line the azure blue of the skies with ribbons of gold; Bear Wallow. Old Pilot, Ball are close in and beyond, Chickasaw, Dek Rock, Bat's Cave, and other re sorts in our own circle of mountains. We are full of Charlestonians, who seem to have a preference for this ozone belt of health. Many tourists are here from Columbia, Georgia, Florida and Alabama but no one but your scribe. from Newberry, in this heart of the mountain belt. We be lieve the reason is the inaccessibility of this region. There is no railroad nearer than Hendersonville, N. C., and hacks wait on trains for passen gers who engage board at this point, which is ten miles from Henderson ville over a fine mountain road, but serpentine and rocky in ascent. One of the most interesting sights to us was the service on Sunday at St. Paul's Mission church at Edney ville. N. C. The mission was organ ized thirty years ago by a devout churchman and has been maintained by the Diocese of North Carolina and friends at the North have built a nicely appointed school house with organ and have an excellent teacher w.ho is doing missionary work in this mountain region. Sunday afternoon several were christenad in the church and the building was crowded with tourists and native population. Peo ple, irrespective of denomination, have raised nearly four hundred dol lars to build a new church and have donated a beautiful gray granite from a near by quarry for this pur pose. The young lady visitors at va rious inns in the neighborhood give their services as organist and choir. And the music was really fine. Every one joined in singing. and as the sun sank behind the everlasting hills the Gloria Patria was wafted up among the high peaks that hundred of years ago resounded with the war whoop of 'the savage Indianis. The Rev. R. W. Wilcox is the priest in e:harge of St. Paul's Mission and beloved by every mountaineer in this 'region. For the worn and fagged-out man or woman this is an ideal place for quiet and rest, far from the madding rowd. No scream of engines or call of factory bell; no spending of money for luxuries, for there are no stores; no worry about cot-ton, for there is none here. The only excitement is the mail man 's arrival at the avenue. He comes at six o'clock p. m. and drops letters and papers into Uncle Sam's mail box, changes your money for stamps, and leaves the starnps and change in the mail box for* vou if you are not there, and we learn that no theft has ever occurred of money thus left. Negroes are not seen here. There is only one family, who wash for the inn 's guests, and never come near except for laundry. White wo men who own houses and mountains are the cooks and serve the guests at the tables. They are neat. intelli ,gent, and travel during winter. They raise on the farms all they need for the table. and so make clear a goodly sum during tihe tourist season. If there were railroad faeilities. this mountain country would be a New Arcadia for hundreds who know nothing of it now. Hack fare out from Hendersonville is $2.00 per head and for more than one $1.50 for each per son and trunk. If the train arrives at one o 'clock they reach here in day time, but if at six o'clock then they rech here at midnight. Take the six o 'clock train so vou will come in the dar and see the mountain scenery. M. A. E. Making Friends. "Say smtigtgt.:e little boy. ' said Bobbie's mother. "Say, kid." .said Bobbie obedi ently, 'kin you fight yet ?"'-Buffalo NURSE DIES OF PELLAGRA. Lou Walcott, Graduate of Charleston Hospital, Succumbs to the Dis ease in Rock Hill. The State. Rock Hill, Aug. 14.-Lou Walcott, colored, a trained nurse, who vws a graduate of the Charleston hospital and said by the doctors of the city to have been one of the best nurses here, died on Friday of pellagra, after an illness of a year. Several cases have come under the observa tion of the physicians here and some of theni are responding to treatment. Your correspondent 's attention was called to a case on the train be tween this city and Lancaster a few days ago. The patient was a white lady of this city and the disease had taken such a hold on her that she had practically lost all of her flesh and her mind seemed very much af fected. The physicians here are not inclined to stick to the theory that the use of corn is the cause of the disease. GOOD ROADS FIGHT BITTER. Head of Spartanburg Good Roads League Attacks Stanyarne Wilson. Spartanburg, August 14.-Paul V. Moore. president of the Spartanburg County Good Roads League, to-day made a personal attack on Ex-Con gressman Stanyarne Wilson, who re centlv issued a circular setting forth twelve reasons why citizens should vote against issuing bonds in the sum of $400,000 for good roads. Moore re prints Wilson's circular and aeross the face prints in red ink that the 'circular was issued by Stanyarne Wil 'son, rich lawyer and cunning politi cian, who has resorted to subterfuge and erroneous statements and base insinuations and impossible interpre tation of the Good Roads. Act to mis lead the people. Moore also refers to the fact that Mr. Wilson was at one time connected with mutual fire insurance companies in which many people claim to have lost money. There are those who believe that Mr. Wilson is opposing the bond issue with the hope of getting back into the political arena. WIFE SWALLGWS POISON. Becoming Enraged in Argument with Husband, Woman Takes Arse ie. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 12.-Angered with her husband over some trivial family dispute, Mrs. A. Gilbert to-day swallowed a quantity of arsenic in the presenas Qf her husband. Gilbert at once hurried to a nearby drug store and secured an emetic, which he forced his wife to swallow, after which he summoned an ambulance and had the woman rushed to the Grady Hospital. It is thought she will re cover. Gilbert declared he had no doubt his wife took the poison with suicidal intent. b)ut declined to discuss his family troubles. He said his wife be came enraged during an argument shortly after breakfast and announ ed her intention of ending it all by taking poison. Discharged. "They say Jones helps his wife wash the dishes.' "Used to; but he got foxy and 3mashed a cut glass cream pitcher."' -St. Paul Dispatch. Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Sun. No matter what a college boy's ed uation costs, it's cheap to have him get over it. Just because a woman has yellow hair and black eyes is no sign she can't be deceptive. What makes a bachelor's life so lonelv is not 1 la things charged to him in all the shops. The reason the baby didn't talk earlier is it was smart enough to want to. but couldn 't learn. The hardened eynie delights in sit tig upon soft p)eop)le. Silence is an argument that doesn't appaI toa n.woman. NEWS OF PROSPERITY. Educational Rally A Success-Old Soldiers' Reunion On August 26. Prosperity, S. C., August 16th. The educational rally held at Young's Grove on Friday was a com plete success, and everybody present enjoyed the speeches. County Supt. of Edueation J. S. Wheeler introduced the first speaker, Prof. Daniel, of Clemson, who made a fine speech on "Education as an investment for the rural communities." He compared the present system to a merry-go round, on which you ride a lots but never get anywhere. He made a de cided hit with the audience by his fine talk and timely jokes. The next speaker was Hon. John E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education, who made a very practical speech on "Local needs in rduca tion." He said that local conditions should not be controlled by the law makers in Columbia, but should be controlled and governed by the trus tees of the school through the legis lature. After a Tecess of two hours, in which a fine barbecue dinner was en joyed, Dr. Geo. B. Cromer spoke. He said that he had been wondering how many trustees were present, and also how many red bugs there were on a nearby dead tree. It was reported that 22 trustees were present, but no one undertook to count the red bugs. After this bit of pleasantry Dr. Cro mer remarked that the numb'er of ed ucated men present was a decided change from conditons thirty years ago, which made speakers more care ful about what they said. He said that he had been reading some of Thomas Jefferson's letters over 100 years old, and that these letters ad vocated common and high schools, as well as colleges. He went back to old times when children used thumb pa pers and how they were taught to say ''May I,'" instead of "Can I.'" Dr. Cromer said the motto of the State should be, "A school for every child, and every ebild in the school. Hon. H. L. Watson, of Greenwood, was expected but could nof he pres ent. Roscoe Shealy is at horap for a few days. Miss Marie Schumpert is at home after a visit to her celativer: near Nin.ety Six. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. D. Qu.at tieb3aum returned Friday from Williamen~t. Miss Mayer is visitig her uncle, Mr. R. I. Stoudemayer. Miss Mary Wheeler entertained de lightfully on Friday evening in ho,nor of her guests. Mrs. Yandle and two children, of ,Oharlot.te, N. C., are visiting Mrs. Boyd, near Prosperity. Master Harry Summer, of Newber ry. is visiting Mower Singley. Dr. and Mrs. Brown and son, Chal mers, and Miss Janie Chalmers, of Newberry, have been visiting Mr. J. Y. Thompson's family. Misses Annie and Margaret Wien ges. of St. Matthews. are visiting Miss Della Bowers. Mr. Rufus Counts, the efficient cor respondent of ';he Observer, has been spending a few days in Charleston. Brooks Miller, of Columbia, is spending a while with relatives in and near Prosperity. On August 26 the old coldiers of Company G, 13th S. C. V., and Com pany A, 4th Batalion, will hold their aamnual treunion at Young's Grove, near our town. There will be speeches and -reminiscences. Everyone come and enjoy a day with the old soldiers who fought bravely for our dear Southland. Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. In th e.orrse of time the oldest ia habitant s..omes a survivor. If you feel inclined to criticis some one. stand in froat of a mirror. Never judge b.: appearance; the homeliest girl usually has the most monev. Before jumping at conclusions find out what is on the other side of the hurdle. When a woman has poor luck with her cake sihe doesn 't save any of it for company. Kissing- breeds mir-robes and money.