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ibe bureb of AseisoI iII Sava-nah. Only three of them were left. Dr. Cromer spoke of the early struggles of the college. At one time, he said, it was proposed to turn it over to the faealit to let them make what they could out of it. At another time it was proposed to make it a high ;sehool-a feeder for the other col leges. But there were men on the board of trustees who had faith in . 4od, faith in themselves, and faith in their fellow-men, and the college was iLaintained. He spoke of the growth (If the college. and the d1ein,r eVeN Low for' larger equliment ninhii w anding the fact that tw r he -ears ago there was vacan , r 1m in -Holla1d hiali. which had recently been ereeted. A library buiidingi aii1 a new dormitory were n,ow dema,.ded. he said-and they wolild i-le. ie said that lie was prouid this mornin of this exhibition of numbers. aid of quality as well. He spoke of the sue ss of Joseph J. Darlington, of Wa ington, and of Joseph T. John sos, now in Congress-both of whom are Erskine college men-holding up their success, reached by overcoming great 4ifficulties, as an inspiration to the young people before him. They had two things, he said, and they were capital of a high sort. They had heads on them, and they had eharac ter. The latter, he said, no college geld give. Charaeter the students must bring to college with them. Dar lington and Johnson were patriotic, incorruptible, men of integrity as well as'ability. Courage, grit, plack and confidence in one's self, he stiressed as prerequisites to success. As spoke of the difference between being educated and merely getting a i'loma, saying that it was suiris ing how many people went through college and were graduated without being eduoated. First of all and last of all, he said-next to that thing of charaeter, "which you must bring to A(lege with you "-the best thing of all was thoroughness. "Go to the bottom of somethingbesides your fath er's pocket," he urged. "Know something thoroughly." Dr. W. G. Houseal. During the past session, said Pres ident Harms, the college had gone through a period which might ap propriately be termed a "measly"' -referring to the epidemic of measles in -the college last session. Daring thiat time, he said, Dr. W. G. Houseal was a. friend -of the students, ~and he wanted him to tell them this morning how to cure homesickness. Dr. Houseal gave work as an anti dete for homesickness. Hard work hard study-he said, was the best enre. It ha'd been about twenty-eight years, he said, since he came to New berry college as a student under Dr. .Oromer. At that time the colege was where Salter's Art gallery now is. He .recalled, he said, that when h'e eame to college he joined the Ex .dlsior Literary society--out of sym pathy, mostly, the old Excelsior hav ing so few members. During tihe four years he was at .college he doubt ed if there were more than four meet iigs in which he did not take part either in the debate or making an' addresshe membership being so small that al'l the members were pressed into service at practically ev lery meeting. He said that he could' probably have made a speech had he been called on then-23 or 24 years ago, but he was not prepared. this morning, having .had no intimation tat he would be called on, and his work for the ,past number of years having been in a line where talking was not necessary, and in which many of his patients became very silent-and with these introductory jremarks Dr. Hbuseal proceeded .to make an excelent .talk, urging the students to take advantage of the op portunities which were theirs-Which had come to many of them as a result of great sacrifices on the part of those at home. The eyes of many were on them, he said--not only the eyes of t,be faculty and of their fel bw-s'tu4ents, but the eyes of the community generally, and upon the record which they made here would depend to a great extent their sue eess in their future tiives. He hoped to se-e this the banner session in the history of the college, he said. Col. J. B. O'N. Holloway. Col. J. B. 0O'N. Holloway, an a'lumnus of the college, welcomed the students to Newberry as the greatest city in South Carolina, where the beauty of the women was so intoxi eating they must wear veils in ordet that~the men might not become intox icated. Newberry college was as good college as there was in the world for those who wanted an education, and who were willing to get down and dig for it-and one could not get an education angwhere. he said. Veel(1e4 wviieh were greatly enjoye. by his listeners. The Rev. J. E. James. The Rev. J. E. James, pastor ol ukAeigh Presbyterian church, wel comed the students on behalf of that church, closing with these beautiful words of admonition: "In all you work-and all your play, keep before yur mind the higher life and powei by which you live. Keep before your minds the vreat model of all trutc living and all truie ch1aracter-Jesuc ( 'llrist. Dr. A. J. Bowers. r. A. )J. B wers. of the faculty, made the shurtes: address of thE min111g1", 1ut u : w-as 1 the f point. C aINr" vters i.e c. I r. BPJwers, it ma. be sai' of his audress-"m uiltum111 in parro--Latin eropping out here and 1 1ere a :'he addreses of the dis tini;zhied speakers. Prof. WV. E Rountree is the ,ewly elected pro fessor in the "Tech" department of the college. This explanation is nec essarv in order to get the full force of Dr. Bowers' few remarks. He said: "His name may be Rountree, but he is a square man. Be like him.'" Following the exercises in the chapel, the classes reported to the various professors for duty, and the actual work of the term will begin on Monday morning. J. K. Aull. REPLIES TO PBARY. Dr..Cook Explains Entrusting Instru ments to Harry Whitney.-His Choice of Home Route. New York, Sept. 27.-Dr. Cook consented to-night to give the As sociated Press a formal reply to some of the most material charges brought against him by Commander Peary. A more complete declaration will be issued when Commander Peary makes his accusations over his own signa ture. The statement is as follows: ".Commander Peary says that. my sledges were not fitted to Aretic travel and that he would not care to voy age in the Arctic with them. The only sledge Commander Peary saw was half a one, which I had given to Mr. Whitney as a souvenir. The re mainder of it had been used to make bows and arrows. "As to my reasons for leaving my instruments with Mr. Whitney, he bad told me that the Erik was coming to Etal' and would take him over to the American side to hunt big game and would come back to Annatok. The distance from Annatok to Uper navik by the route which I was com pelled to follow was nearly. 700 miles. In that journey I had to travel over high land in two places with glaciers and difficult places to negotiate. The ice was extremely rough and there was a good deal of water to be ex peted that would have subjected the instruments to a risk which was en tirely unnecessary when Mr. Whit ey awaited a ship to go to Etah for 'im upon which he expected to re turn direet to America. "By going to Upernavik I -boped to get back by the end of July or the iddle of August. I wanted to see my family as soon as possible as I had been separated from them for over two years, while Mr. Whitney id not expect to get back before Oc tober. *"As to the charge that I had not found traces of Commander Peary 's records at cCape Thomas Hubbard: I'he point which Commander Peary wourid call Cape Thomas Hubbard is a round promontory, and it would be ifficult 'to find any distinct point which could be positively recognized s Cape Thomas Hubbard. From ommander Peary 's map I am abso utely unable to locate Cape Thomas Eubbard. We did not search for any airn where records might be de osited. In fact, I did not know that ommander Peary had left any rec rd there. "IConsiderably to the west I did see a rock which might have been erely a clump of rocks. I was at a very long distance from it, and here was no reason why I should ave searched. I left a cache of pro isions close to the beginning of the liffs which Sverdrup puts down as Svartevoeg. There was no indica ion near where we left our provis iOns. "The other points of the so-called carges have been replied to in de al or~ several oc-casions. I will an wer everything in the most formal ay when Commander Peary prints r makes public his other points. My eply will be given out as a written tatement.'' Dr. Cook lectured -to-night at Car egie hall under the auspices of the rtic club of America. HTARTPING ON WHITTNEY. 1icd bYV lis i re, reamlird here io night from Portland, and within half an hour was in conference with Gen. Thomas N. H. Hubbard, president of the Peary Arctic club, concerning the statement which soon will be made public by Commander Peary to sipport his contention that Dr. Fred erick A. Cook did not reach the pole. The conference was still in pIOgess late to-n0igt. "There is no: to say just ;,w,'' said (Jre. Hubbard mt-ni't. lNo ate has b.eenI set for the meei ng of! Ihe olicers o c lhe Artill itnh Olnd I stmlli no'tdeler mine 11i1at u:i1 !nv retun to New YIrk ibhis week.' The confece will boe ctinuimed tomiorrow\ and( hite ifn (h da C'om m11alder Peary probably VWill retu ii rn to Eagie IsLid. Froim what canl be learied of the conferen:e to-niglit Peary we:. over every phase of his evidence against Dr. Cook, dating from the time the Brooklyn explorer began -his prepara tion to go north, more than two years ago, and until after Peary's inter views with Dr. Cook's Eskimos at Etah. .There was a large crowd at the steamboat landing notwithstanding inelement weather, to give Command er Peary and his wife a hearty wel come to-day. During the trip to Bar Harbor, Peary spoke of Harry Whitney. "There might have been some strange reasons why Whitney d d not go back to Etah in the Jeannie for Dr. Cook's stuff," he said. "I can not understand how any one could let such records get out of his hands. I would not give my records to my dearest relative. I say again, I don't see how Cook could have turned his stuff over to Whitney or anybody else. I secured my instruments in a bag and the flag which I took to the pole I sewed in my clothes and I wore it until I reached Battle Har bor. "I kept, my records under watch day and night and I was prepared in case the Roosevelt was crushed in the ice to throw them overboard so that they could float in their cases. Can you imagine me giving those records to a perfect stranger? ''Harry Whitney did not tell me what was in Dr. Cook's stuff except six fox skins, a narwhal horn and some other trophies. I could not see I should have carried the stuff when Cook could have taken it. If . Dr. Cook's stuff was of such importance why did not Whitney go back in the Jeannie and get it?'' THE NEWS OF POMARIA. otton Market Lively, Withi Three Buyers.---ood Work Being Done on Roads. Pomaria, September 27.--The high price of cotton is making the farm ers feel good and I believe -the mer hants, too. Mr. Howe Ligon spent a few days with his sister, Mrs. B. M. Setz-ler.' He returned home last Monday. Mr. Richard (better known as Dick) his brother went with thim. Last week one of our ladies in .town found a hen nest witha 40 eggs in it. The hens eertainly must have been of the guinea kind. Some of our overseers have worked their roads. Some have put them in fine fix. Mr. H. M. Wicker worked about 1 3-4 miles, ploughing the sides of the road with a two-horse turn plow and having the hands, there were only 8, to throw the dirt to thef center, and putting his road in good fix in two days. Where are the other1 overseers who will do it ? There will ,be preaching in the school house at half past three o'clock by Rev. J. J. Long, on the 2nd Sun day in October. Everybody is cor dially invited. Mrs. T. J. Hayes, of Newberry, ac companied by Miss Riser, her niece, visited Mr. G. B. Aull's family last week. Rev. J. J. Long preached two most excellent sernmons to very large congregations. Rev.- Long's sermons are always very interesting. We were sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. Ike Sheely, mother of our express agent, Mr. J. W. Sheely. The bereaved familiy have our sympathy. Riding along the other day, we hap ened to see an old colored woman stuffing a chicken in the mouth with corn. We asked her if that was the way she fed her chickens and she said to us: ''Boss, I's been having dis here chicken in de coop fer 'bout 'two weeks and it seems like the oid fool won 't fatten, and I want to kill it tomorow, that was the next day, and I thought I wol" r ofte it this way' ol r ofte Mrs. ( . W. Setzler and Itildren Susanna Koon. iolther of Mr. J. B. Koon. We now have four cotton buyers in TowN. Aull & Hipp, The Setzler .C-o.. C. H. Counts and J. L. Graham. They are making the cotton market lively. AIrs. J. F. Miller, who has been si(k fr some time. is improving AIr. W. B. 1B. l)ler zind clilldren visited 3Mr. 1'. T. Livingston's fai iy las[. Saturdlay night and Sunday. 24Ir. L e~ .Feller.s is 1 ateuding~ to the r.e in :he absee of. Mr. J. W. h1 ls. I wvIll ))d W. in for. 1 a w~hile. at lea1st.Rth Ruth. SCORES INJURED BY EXPLOSION Down-Town Building Wrecked at Pittsburg.-Films Ignite and Terrific Explosion Follows. Pit-ts,burg, Pa., Sept. 27--A terrific explosion occurred to-day in the offi ces of the Columbian Films Exchange located in the Ferguson building, be tween Smithfield and Wood street, in the heart of the down-town district. From fifty to seventy-five persons were injured, many of them serious ly, and the monetary damage is es timated at $200,000 or more. At first it was believed seven em ployees of ~the film company had lost their lives, but a thorough search of the ruins fail to disclose any dead. The employees, it is now thought, made their escape, and have not been located, owing to the great confusion which followed the explosion. A score of the injured were taken to hospitals. A majority of them are burned, while the otihers sustained fractures of the arms and limbs. The force of the explosion was so great that the south wall of the Fer guson building, on Third avenue, was blown out. The remaining walls were badly damaged, and the building in spector immediately ordered them razed. Windows for fully a square on either side of the explosion were broken, and a number of pedestrians making their way along Fourth ave nue, the "Wall street" of Pitts burg, were cut by falling glass. The explosion was caused by an electri eal spark. The manager of 'the film company was absent. OPERA HOUSE EARHARDT & BAXTER, Tuesday ctober 1st. SHAKESPEARIAN EVENT OF THE SEASON America's Youngest and Most Promising Legitimate Star. MY STEWART ACCOMPANIED BY 10SEP1 DEGEOSSE3 And a Company of Un usual e xcelience mn an elaborate scenic p o a, e's R'e ucking~ Com edy "Twelfth Night" or "What You Will" Special Scenery-Magnificent Cos tt mes-Prices 25. 50, 75, $i-oo and $1.50. Seats on Sale at Newberrs HarA ware Co. For .Sa e At Acin We will sell t -the highest bidder, in fr ,nt of Court House, Green wood, S. C., Six Tracts of land within five iles of Gree 1wood, on two public roads an in good n ighborhiood Terms: One-Fourth Cash; b lance in One to Five Years a' 7 per ce't. intere&t Time: Sales Day October 4th. Call or write to us. We have a fine farm of 125 acres, with brick residence and go d out-bui dings Five Miles North' of Greenwood, ihat we are offer ing at a bargain Owner de sires, on accour t of his health to quit farming. Excellent bar gain. Fifty' Eight Acre Farm, with all mnprovements, six miles from G reenwo< d and one ant' a haf I. IF AND 3 THE . YOU WIL IJONES' PIANI THE CE] Sebhub Will Be Put c One Wee October r. V. J. Menzel will be ing The SCHU] ave You from $50 to Ten Years Guarante On Monday evening a1 oon at 4 o'clock, Mr. M iolin recital. You are c< an guarantee you a mos ihe J.L I Factory Agent for the BL~UE RIDGE SCHEDULES. Eastbound. No. 18. leaves Anderson at 6.30 ,i. for connection at Belton wi *'thern for Greenville. No. 12, from Waihalla, leaves A rson at 10.15 a. in., for connecti< tBelton with Southern Railway f No. 20. leaves Anderson at 2. .mi.. for connections at Belton wii mthern Railway for Greenville. No. 8, daily except Sunday, fro abala arrives Anderson 6.24 . with connections at- Seneen wi hernf Railwayv from poinlts su IT'S* to Eat! OU WANT 0 BEST FIND IT AT GROCERYI ~No. 2I2+ FACTORY __PRICES. L,EBRATED 7 Pianos n Sale Here' for ik Beginning the Third. here on that date represent LZ Factory anid will $150 OilEverylhastr'umeiit e with each Instrument. 8 o'clock and Tuesday aftera enzel will give a piano and >rdially invited to both. We t delightful hour. OWLES_O, Celebrated Schulz PianL> a. in., from Belton with conn~4in from Greenville. No. 9, arrives at Andersor. at 12.24 p. mn., from Belton with connections Sfrom' Greenville and Columbia. Goes bto Walhalla. No. 19, arrives at Anderson at 3.40 Sp. mn., from Belton with connections o, from Greenville. r No. 11. arrives at Anderson at '0 6.29 p. in., from Belton with con b nections from Greenville and Colum bia. Goes to Waihalla. m No. 7. daily except Sunday, leaves p. Anderson at 9.20 a. in., for Waihalla, b 'r:ith connections at Sene'a for local