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CAMPAIGN MEETING I> ,r HISTORIC EDGEFIELD (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6). carried through a full fledged Jones demonstration, the first such of the campaign. It was novel, it was exciting, it was good to behold, in the eyes of both friend and foe. Governor Blease had to stop speaking for a j * while; he appeared amused. The crowd looked on in wonder and saw the launching of a real, genuine 20th cenL tury militant suffragette movement. 6k "Boys, I never complain about girls " ?"J ompomnr "hp- i noiienng, saiu mc ^ ^ , * cause I've made some of 'em squeal before." The girls, however, were not to be P laughed out of court, for they came back, but the governor assured the -crowd that all the girls could do was to holler, be pallbearers and bring flowers to funerals. * '*- " A s\+n. 17Y\+^ in Q/Mlfh It IS tl'Uc iucj van wc 'wiv, in wv>>? , ft Carolina, not now, but maybe soon, if I "this Edgefield sentiment grows. A Jones rooter near the stand yell- j W ed once or twice for his favorite, w whereupon Governor Blease said: W "Here's an old feller down here about to have a fit; I guess he's had some blind tiger liquor." "Well, I ain't been to Charleston, 'where y >ur mess is," retorted the man in question. Addressing himself to his enemies in Edgefield, the governor said: "Whoever thought that little Coley Blease could put so much red pepper on their backs that they could not sleep at nights?" The governor explained that it was no disrespect to the people of Johnston that he declined to speak there last night, but two speeches a day was too strenuous; that he attended the meeting to answer any attacks Judge Jones might make, but since none was made ' lie saw no necessity of speaking. "Jones has asked what I have done for the poor people," said the governor. "I want to answer that right now; the principal thing I have done was to -stand between the people and the Cu~han-Soanish agency in Columbia; elect Jones your governor and Gonzales will ' furnish the brains." "What did you do at Honea Path?" asked some one, meaning the Belton -incident "Any man who says I insulted tha' lady is a liar," retorted the governor, and he defied any one to "write her and - ti. a i ask if the governor aa<i lnsuueu n< If she said "yes" he promised to give the man "who wrote the letter of inquiry $25; if, oil the other hand, the man would publish the letter, if she answered negatively. The governor closed amidst mighty shouts and as he left the stand "was crowded almost to suffocation by some of his demonstrative admirers, who dogged Ms heels, yelling and throwing their hats high in the air. ' DEATH AND RUIN FOLLOW FLOODS i Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Affected?Toll of Many Lives Taken. Pittsburg, Pa., July 24.?Death and -mr}/l?ve>T\T?.f\orJ n'flvastatirvn, from frpmpn YT luv^pi^au dous rains resulted today in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. From all sections come details telling of persons drowned or > reported drowned; of hundreds of "buildings wrecked or completely washed away; streets torn up and bridges swept down; crops ruined, light plants put out of commission and towns left to suffer their misery in darkness, while transportation, telegraph and telephone facilities are badly crippled. At Evans station, three miles north of Uniontown, Pa., a coludburst sent waters raging into the mouth of the Superba No. 2 mine. Fourteen men were drowned like rats in a trap. While 37 others had miraculous es% capes from a similar death. A few miles away at Lemont Mine No. 2, three other men are reported to have drowned in like fashion. Up in *he Red Stone valley near Brownsville, Pa., it is rumored that at least ten miners were caught while at work, by flood waters entering the mines and drowned. Verification of this tonight is impossible and it may A "be some time before anything definite can be learned. At Millsboro 75 miners had a narrow escape when the waters swept into the mines. All escaped but not before many were exhausted. Three deaths are believed to have nopnrrpH in thp vicinity of Wheeling, W. Va. For a radius of 100 miles around Pittsburgh tonight there is a scene of - desolation. Wrecked buildings are visible everywhere while streets are strewn with debris. In some places the debris is piled 20 feet high. Scores of small bridges have been torn from their moorings and broken to pieces [ in ihe raging waters. At a number of points the bridges held enough closing j up streams and back water far into the town. Cellars bv thousands were submerged and in many cases the water reached the second and third floors of buildings. CLOUDBURST FLOODS MILES OF TERRITORY Jeaunette, Pa., July 21.?A cloudburst flooded- miles of territory between here and Greensburg today. The lAnrifln^c nnmtlv inn u dated and tvniauua u v? hundreds of persons were compelled to fiee for their lives. Residences and business places were almost completely submerged in some districts, while the Manor Valley and Turtle " * 1 ^ ~ +n/y^V?A? TI-i +V> fmlloV UreeK. ranroaua, iisg'cvut?* mm nv.iv., I service, were put out of commission. | Over 2,000 persons, including many women and children, are marooned on the mills of Oak Ford park, where the annual outing of the employes of the Union Supply company from Westmorelw-rtr and Fayette counties was held today. Two creeks in the vicinity of the park overflowed their banks and before the pleasure seekers in the park could help themselves, had surrounded the hill. The water continued to come up early tonight and no method of remov ing the people from the park has been provided. Seventy-five families are homeless in Jeannette. The monetary, loss will be heavy. After wading knee deep in water the 2,000 marooned picnickers reached a railroad station and were taken to their homes. FLOOD FROM MOUNTAIN DESCENDS UPON TOWN Dunbar, Pa., July 24.?A devastating flood, rushing down the mountain side, spread ruin throughout Dunbar today. A cloudburst transformed small streams into raging torrents. A num ber of buildings were completely wrecked and hundreds of others damaged. The town is almost entirely under water tonight and condition? are chaotic. Up to a iate hour tonight no fatalities had been reported. C|ty friall, police headquarters, a restaurant, jewelry store, grocery store, two warehouses and a number of dwellings were swept away completely. Not a house in the lowlands escaped injury. Over 200 are sub merged. The main thoroughfare is blocked with debris. At points the wreckage is piled 20 feet high. The track foundations of the Pennsylvania railroad were swept away and the tracks dropped into the creek. The station platform was carried away and the building partly wrecked. Mines and * Pnol nnm. I property 01 me rretrpun. ouai wmpanv and the United Coal company have sustained inestimable damage. A score of families were caught in their homes in the lower section of the town. They were in imminent danger of drowning. A rescue party of six men, who volunteered, went to their assistance and succeeded up to 10 o'clock in taking the members of seven families to safety. To rescue the marooned people it was necessary fnv fho rds^nprs to swim to the al IV X Viif * WVM V* >V _ _ _ most submerged homes. One at a time the victims were brought back to high ground. From Dunbar to Uniontown railroad tracks have been washed out in long stretches and train service is abandoned. Other roadways are blocked by landslides. Tons of earth slipping down from the hillsides off^tivplv tied ud all kinds of na * vuvw. ? traffic: Many narrow escapes from death were encountered by residents of Dunbar. Horsemen Save Hundreds. Brownsville, Pa., July 24.?Horsemen dashingjlown the Red Stone valley today, often with water up to their saddle girths, made a journey of nine miles in time to save the lives of hundreds of persons at Smook, a mining village. Aside from the great quantity of water due to the cloudburst, it was I feared a huge reservoir was about to let go. The warning caused terror among the miners and within a few minutes 1,000 families were rushing to the hillsides. Soon the water came pouring into the village, causing heavy damage. Tonight the miners and their families are camped in a pouring rain on the hillsides. The reservoir held. An unconfirmed rumor tonight is to *'u~ fViot fmm civ ta 10 miners UIIC Cil C uiat xi. VAii vv -w \ were drowned before they could reach safety. When the alarm was spread over 500 men were at work in the mine. According to mine officials all of them were saved. Although the reservoir held, the miners refused to leave their hillside camp. Communication throughout the Red Stone valley is interrupted seriously and few details of the devastation and reported loss of life can be secured. The Appomattox Apple Tree. Editor Evening Post, sir:?I see in your issue of yesterday, 22d, the announcement, purporting to come from Washington, L>. c., tnat (iov. vvooaruw Wilson is to replace "the famous apple tree near Appomattox court house, Va., in which (meaning "under which") Lee surrendered to Grant, long since carried away piece by piece by souvenir hunters." If there was ever an apple tree under which Lee surrendered, there would be no reason for replacing it except to perpetuate the memory of the darkest day in the history or tnese Southern States; and why the Democratic candidate for the presidency, who is largely indebted to the South for his nomination, and who can not be elected without the Southern vote, should go out of his way to plant a memorial of the South's woful disas ter, is incomprehensible to me. It looks to me, one of the soldiers whom Lee surrendered, to be not only irrational, but positively indecent. Surely, Woodrow Wilson is not fixing to throw a sop to the South-hating Cerberus at the North which stands in his way to the White House! But the apple-tree story is pure, or impure, ricnon. i-<ee mu. not suneuder under an apple tree, or under any tree, but in a bouse, sitting at a table, and after conferring with Grant I think you will do your readers a ser-. vice by publishing the following account, given by Rev. J. William Jones,' D. D., in his "Personal Reminiscences of Gen. Robert E. Lee." He writes, page 302: "What followed is best given by Gen. Lee himself in the conversation with the company of friends referred to above: "He said that he had for duty that morning not 8,000 men, and that, when he learned from Gordon that there was a heavy infantry force in his front, he decided to see Gen. Grant and ascertain the terms upon which he could end the contest But, before going to meet him, he left orders with Longstreet and Gordon to hold their commands in readiness, determined as he was to cut his way through, or perish in the attempt, if such terms were not granted as he thought his army entitled to demand. He met Gen. Grant between the picket lines, in the open field, about 200 yards below Appomattox court house. "You met under an apple tree, did you not, general?" asked a gentleman present. 'No, sir!' was the reply; 'we did not meet under an apple tree, and I saw no tree near. It was in an open field not far fram the main road.' (This, explodes the 'historic apple tree' about which so much has been said.) A gentleman, who was within a few feet of the two generals when they met, pointed out to the writer the exact spot. The apple tree, which was cut to pieces, and even the roots of which were dug up and carried off by relic hunters, was fully a quarter of o miip from thp- nlace of meeting, and i the only historic interest that could be attached to It was that Gen. Lee rested under its shade a few minutes while waiting for the return of his flag of truce. The only tree anywhere near the place of meeting was a small locust-thorn, which is still standing, about 20 yards from the. spot." The volume I quote from was put into the hands of the priner in 1874, and published in 1875. Vr'hile we are exposing falsehood, it may be well to add to the foregoing j Dr. Jones' statement, immediately following, of Gen. Lee's reply to the suggestion by some one, in the same conversation, that Lee offered to surrender his sword to Grant, and that Grant declined to take it The author proceeds to say: "Gen. Lee said that, when he met Gen. Grant, they exchanged polite salutations, and he stated to him at once L"u ~ o in vcxf or L licit IItJ UUOii cu ? uuuivi vuv/v iu. a vava ence to the subject matter of their correspondence. 'Gen. Grant returned you your sword, did he not, general?' one of the company asked. The old hero, straightening himself up, replied, in most emphatic tones: "Xo, sir! he did not. He had no opportunity of doing so. I was determined that the side- j arms of officers should be exempt by the terms of surrender, and, of course I did not offer him mine. All that was said about swords was that Gen. Grant apologized to me for not wearing his own sword, saying that it had gone off in his baggage, and he had been un able to get it in time/ " So much for the matter of the sword, and so much for the apple tres matter, which has in it aboat as much truth as the fabrication concerning George Washington, the hatchec, and the cherry tree! J. F. J. Caldwell. Newberry, July 23. j' Ihe N Capital Rsi .u You ma] or it mattei some of yo I to save tor be able to "The Bar Fnnr Pi?r A W?M m VA I JAS. McDiTOSH, DEATH OF A VETEEAN. Capt. J. Washington Williams Passes Away Near Clinton. Clinton, July 24.?Capt. J. Washington Willians, a Confederate veteran, died at hih home, about 9 miles from here, on Monday morning, and was buried in the Presbyterian cemetery here yesterday. He was the last descendant of the Williams family that played such an important part in the fighting at King's Mountain who bore the name of Williams, and as he never married that name is now extinct. He was I 79 years of age and had lived alone I most of his life. During the past year he joined the Presbyterian church. County Campaign Schedule. Jalapa, Wednesday, July 31. Fairview, Thursday, August 1. I Halfacres Mill, Saturday, August 3. j Longshores, Tuesday, August 6. Utopia, Wednesday, August 7. L. C. Pitts' res., Friday, August 9. j State Campaign, dewberry, Tuesday, j August 13. Youngs Grove, Wednesday, Aug. 14.1 Little Mountain, Thursday, Aug. 15. Jolly Street, Saturday, August 17. Keitts Grove, Tuesday, August 20. Forks School House, Thursday, August 22. Willowbrook Park, Friday, August 23, 8 p. m. Whitmire, Saturday, August 24, 3 j p. m. Newberry Court House, Monday, August 26, 10 a. m. TEACHER WANTED. Experienced male teacher preferred j I to teach Excelsior school. Salary $60 J j per month for term of 7 months. All applications to be in before Aug. 3. Write any one of the undersigned. D. B. Cook, Prosperity, R. F. D. J. C. Singley, Slighs, R. F. D. J. A. C. Kibler, Prosperity, R. F. D. TEACHEB WAITED. j Teacher of experience wanted for Central school. Term of five or five and one-half months at $10 per month. All applications must be in by August 20. Apply to either of the undersigned. J. A. Counts, T. A. Sheely, J. D. Koon. Pomaria, S. C., R. D. No. 2. mrnmr** ?in?ib lewberry Savings Stock, - $50 ^VMterWI . - ffV ? 11^11 f be a Farmer, or a Miller, or a rs not what your trade or pro " " w or money io the bank. It w a rainy day or a day when y earn as much as now. .' i mi . 11 VT T1 ik lhat Always nas me Cent Interest Paid on Savings President J. L NOi ?WMI Mil MMM HHMHBHBBHHBBnD I Wilmin ~ 1 ~" :.zzizr'::: I Wrightsvi I Is calling you--tl ^11 ?..ii VT ian cry, uui iui y crowd. No more delight on South Atlantic ing, boating, fish: pleasures. (Reached in a f< elegant service of COAST LINE R Standard Railroad connections. Inquire for rate of your local agenl W. J. CR ^^^^^^^assengei Sow is the time to subscribe to The 1 Herald and Jfews, $L50 a year. rrA "n "I? "WATT? A TTf! fJTiTTBS J U 1 ll/JCi JLV i/uiu.vv?i? ?? OF >"E>VBERRY COUNTY. By authority vested in me by tlie County Democratic Executive Committee, notice is hereby given, that in case any of the existing Democratic Clubs have failed to reorganize on Rank l ,000.00 i Carpenter, fession, put | a in * ? ill help you on may not i Money" n ' ? veposiis RffOOD, Castier I I Sc 3 I ^3 I I "? ? I I \ HIHHHBBHBH igton lie Beach I le surf, the music, I ou to follow the I ful seaside resort I | : Coast, for bath- I ing and vacation | 3W hours via the the ATLANTIC AILROAD, The of the South, and reorganize on Saturday, Augusi iv, 1912. Fred. H. Dominlck, County Chairman. Frank R. Hunter, Secretary. ' "july 23,1912. . ltaw to 8-10-1* s, schedules, etc., t, or address AIG, Traffic Mgr.. Wilmington, N. C. I HHBBBHBBBHnaHH . the day heretofore fixed for reorganization, as required by the constitution of the Democratic party of South Carolina, said clubs may meet sad