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? KIM)S THAT (ONYKT WAS VEHV SEVEKELY WHIPPED Committee Reports On Case to Whicl F Attention Was Directed By Governor. S Columbia, Feb. 2.?The comitteo or penal ana cnaruaoie msuiuuons, uj tbe senate, today reported on the Simeon Ellis case. Simeon Ellis, a life termer, was paroled last year b> the governor and later Governoi Blease sent up a sepcial message ir which the following issues were raised: 1. Was Simeon Ellis cruelly whipped? 2. Was the electric battery applied *~ + r-notmon + fnr nnrnsih LLP Xli111 JLU1 LI vta. *v* ^? ment? ^ The report of the committee or penal and charitable institutions says: The tesuJiony taken in the case I < shows that Simeon Ellis asked the ^ guard to be allowed to speak to the "v governor, who was at the time passing on the street, and the guard refused tc allow Ihikti to speak to the goverror the guam claiming that he had nc right toiillow prisoners to speak tc anyone time uu uuy. umo iu?u i?v guard t) It he would speak to the governor c fyway, and thereupon threw down th t tool with which he was working antj went and spoke to the gov> ernor, in defiance of the order of the guard who had Ellis in ihis custody This happened on Satnrday. On Sunday following the guard reported th matter to Capt. Sondley, and he ordered Simeon Ellis to be whipped. Th whipping was administered by Mr Wilson. The committee made a pnysicai e.\amination of the prisoner on Wednesday, the 25th of February, 1913, ana k found signs of the whipping on the K back of the prisoner, the skin being plainly discolored. He was whipped A on Sunday and this examination was made on Wednesday following. It is admitted by all that institution of this kind must have rules aiiri regulations for the conduct of the pris ? 3 a/>A Kd OTI oners anu uia.i mcse i ua-a mus. forced; it is necessary to apply punishment according to the grade of th offence, but at the same time the punishment should be administered judi^ ciously and conservatively. Simeon - ? Ellis according to the testimony, was not a good prisoner, and had been disobedient at other times. He wilfully disobeyed the order of the guard, and was whipped for so doing. . Your committee finds that he was very severely whipped. This is the con I elusion reached on this point Dy tne committee, on the testimony submitted to the committee, and your committee would advise against whipping W of such severity in the future. The next issue raised by uii message of the governor is: Was the electric i battery applied for treatment of punishment? Your committee finds in this case that the electric battery was not applied for torture cr purnishment, but for treatment. The prisoner was subject to spells or fits, according to the testimony, and whether the doctor was right or wrong in his diagnosis of the i case or as to the remedy to .be applied, the committee is of t'ne opinion that the purpose of the use of the electric battery in this instance was for treatment TT!ib*c: had treated for this ailment before by. application of the electric battery. The electric battery was applied in this instance on Monday morning after the whipping on \ Sunday, the testimony conclusively shows that he was taken with one of these spells on Monday and carried to Uht; nospital for treatment, when the electric battery was applied. The attention of the senate is direct ed to the testimony taken in this case, -which is herewith submitted; and to (the message of the governor referring to this natter. All of which is respectfully submitted. G. K. Laney, Chairman Committee on Penal and Charitable Institutions. Quandary. ^ Judge. Ted?If you can't decide between your two girls, khy not pick the pretWm tier one? H Ned?You see, my boy, the other one has t'be money. Judge. Madge?How do you know she wasn't satisfied with the work of the beauty doctor? A Marjorie?She hasn't had any photographs taken * 1T_i * T ' ? A natural impressio*. BK Judge. 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It was a very ' ' windy day, and the wind blew very ; ) hard against me; but I kept my seat, j Fifty minutes put me to the steel j * | bridge. That bridge cost lots of J I money?it cost me $5?but every 'I * i I time I cross over that bridge I am glad : i I helped build it. It is so much beti ter than a ferry, where one has to j wait and wait, and yell and yell. Ferries are good for slow-moving vehicles, and people not in a hurry; but give me a bridge every time?even if I did have to help pay for it I was born and brought up in Saluda county, near the Saluda river. In my childhood eyes how large that stream used to be! Kow small now! And how clear it was the other day! ! * > rv,,f rwf +Vyo i 1 IISCQ tO tiU vui, >->A ui\/ i . I I i muddy water, from off a trot line that i i has the right name; but those days j have long gsne by. f i J After passing the "Big Saluda,' as ' our folks used to say, I suddenly '! came to the Little Saluda, a smali I river that used to seem very large to me?about the time I was learning to ewim, when I swam over and back on a rail whenever I got ready. Without the rail I could not swim but a few yards, but with the rail under 1 m--* I could swim across Little Saluda and back before getting tired. It itaicht have been right serious if tee ' rail had gotten away from me. 11 ; j used to fish in the Little Saluda, as | | well as swim, where the bridge is, and j la litrle below. Sometimes Uncle : Adam Kinard, whose watermelon j patch was close by, would come along land give me a melon; because he j knew I was too good a boy to steal . ~ tViot'o a fpot Th^p were j U11C 11 \J V* kuuv O *-*. ovvvvi ? j happy days. 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Ai food tor horse booked up on tl We are agent Famous Col See us before complete line oj and Old Domin ing to our Hare 3rd. Chappells-r-Wednesday, Februar; ith. Newberry Cotton, mill?Thursday February 5th. Oakland Cotton mill?(Friday, Feb ruary 6th. Mollohon Cotton mill?Monday, Feb ruary 9th. And in the Auditors Office in thi Court House Friday, February 20th after which date a penalty of 50 pe: cent will be added against all persons firms or corporations failing to maki their returns as required by law. would dislike very much to have t< add this penalty but I am require< by law to do so. The law requires i tax on all notes, mortgages and mon ver Too Col ley to Earn as well in winter as ii jr Sundays or Holiday rINGS DEPARTMEr^ ded on July 1st and J sft for three months < r Savings Department f any amount gladly i berry Savin; # )w at Han Harrows and other i re your land for the b prepared to sell yoi larket for the money MTF.D "rtWFJ o you. Aso we are Buggies, Buggy Har and Bridles. oads Flour and fee sk to see the famous ' :s, cows and chicli 11D JL^CU ailU tan aa v w s for the celebrated j umbia Guano Co. : placing your ordei c heavy and staple D ion Hats. We are i livare department. MHBMnHHHWflBHHaaaMBQBnBBnaBaHanMnHni eys, also an income tax on gross in- t 7 comes in excess of $2,500. ] There shall be a capitation tax of J r, fifty cents on all dogs, the proceeds 1 to be expended for school purposes. * - Dogs not returned for taxation shall c not be held as property in any of the ? - courts of this State. All male persons from 21 to 60 J * e years, except Cenfederate soldiers, or j * 5 1-1- - a or O It i, j tnose persons lncapauie ui saiuius ? r support by being maimed or from any r i, other cause, are liable to pay a poll 1 3 tax of one dollar. * I Real Estate is to be assessed thtfl 3 3 year. Each tract or lot of land must c I be assessed separately. Also state i to assessor whether you have bought - or sold any real estate since last re-jl d Interest n summer; and s. IT pays 4 per anuary 1st. or longer bear i received. & X % gs Bank * ' ' """ ' ^ ' anon is id. mplements with ig crop for 1914 i the best farm r * NSBORO." showing some ness and Heavy ds of all kinds. 'CORNCT Mill :ens. We have you money. in d wide world ?. ' y ) . . Fertilizers. \ We carry a ry Goods, Shoes continually add :urn. The law requires that all property, both real and personal, be assessed "at its true value in money," jvhich is construed to mean, "The sum >f money for which said property, un- > ler ordinary circumstances, would sell for cash." . . Please don't ask that your.property >e taken from the tax duplicate the ;ame as last year. The law requires .hat all property must be listed oft egular tax return bl&nksand propeary signed and sworn, to by person maknz return. Please be sure to have rear returns in, on or before the 30th >f February, 1914-. Eugene S. Werts, 1 County Auditor. )ec. 18, 1913. v /