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VOL. XXV MANNING, S. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL BALKS AT NEGRO Ymng Girl Model Draws Color Line in Chicago Art School SHE WINS MUCH PRAISE Refuses to Puse Before Class in Which Negro Man is Included- i Hereafter Negroes to be Barred- b Makes Epoch in Practices of Art d Schools in Chicago. i 1<4 Hereafter negroes will be barred a admission to the art cluases in Chi- 1 cago. The climax to the question was brought about last week in Chicato through the following incident re lated by the Chicago Tribune: r A beautiful girl model standing on c a raised dais before Boutwood's life lass of men students raised her hands to her throat and was about i to fling away the long kimono that tj draped her figure from the nape of n 'a her softly curved neck to her bareI' feet. As she did so her eyes took in the 1: 'nen of the class, one by one. At last they rested on Thomas Downs, a ne-. -:ro. Then suddenly the hands whichl had been fumbling with the cords at her throat paused. A deep flush cnread over the face of the girl. Turn- a ing to one of the men students in the first room she said in a half whisper: 'd "I'll not pose so long as that- t that-black man is in the room. You must get him to leave if I stay. Downs was on his feet in an in-t stant. This was the first time in the istory of the life classes at the Art Institute that the color line had ever been drawn. A half dozen other stu- h dents stood up when Down did. They looked at Downs and Downs looked it them evpectantly. Then with a muttered protest Downs walked slow ly to and out of the door. An instant later the kimono had been tossed away and the work of the life class was on. - That was all there was to it ex- Il ceut the congratulations and ap- v nlause'that came to Miss Blanha- x that is the name of the model-after a the'class was over; but it marks te tl beginning of a new order of things a: in the life classes at the Art Insti- tl tute. From now on no negroes will p: be admitted to the classes in which si girls pose. g There has for a long time been an ti undercurrent of protest both among ai the students and the models against e; compelling beautiful young girls to ja pose before negroes. This feeling t] never found voice until yesterday. v, The models were afraid to speak for fear of losing their positions, the gri students remained silent in dread of being ridiculed for prudery, and tne g< men said nothing because it did not t seem a thing for a man to talk about. ijs Miss Blanha's action solved the sit- it uation. She did what every one h seemed to want to have done ana e: what no one seemed willing to do. n 2diss 'Blanha--her first name is ti Siamie--lives at 812 Southwestern avenue. She had been chosen to pose hi for the class because of the exqzuis- o iteness of her figure. which is said to f be almost Grecian in its classicalness. a Yesterday was her first appearance s before Boutwell's class. "The other girls had told me what i I was to expect when I posed beforeS this class," said Miss Blanha, "and Id how they dreaded to do it. I made se up my mind that some one would Ii have to take a decisive stand in the i matter, and as I have personally such a great aversion to colored men that it would have been almost impossible for me to force myself to pose before one of them. I determined to bring on a crisis of some sort. I am glad that matters have turned out as they have. With the exception of the ne-i gro student I guess every one is sat-! e isfied.-, * si GIVES HEAVY VERDICT. Man Given. Fifty Thousand Dollars for Injuries. After deliberating about one hour, the jury in the case of A. G. Mene fee vs. the Southern Railway Corn-a pany returned a verdict for the plain-t tiff at Barnwell Friday afternoon mIn the amount of $50,000, the amount c asked for in the complaint having t been $75,000. The accident that f brought about the suit. and thats made Mr. Menefee a cripple for life. - occurred a few years ago at Dent. a little station above Columbia. twc trains, a regular South-bound pas5-b senger train and a special, on which Menefee was engineer, colliding head-c on. A motion has been made for a new trial, and will probably be heard 1 next week. This verdict is said to be the next largest ever rendered by a Soutb Carolina jury, there being one on record for $55,000. TWO NEGROES BURNED Beyond Recognition in Their Home 1 at Blackville. 1 At Blackville Oscar Greene and his s~ wife, two respectable old colored peo ple, were burned to death Friday morning in their home. The fire oc curred about 1 o'clock Friday morn ing. and the wind was blowing at a rapid rate, bra,. fortunately, only one other residence was burned. Oscarr Greene was a good old darky, and ai his death and that if his wife are de plored. These old people had ac quired a right nice property, and,. while having no children of their I own, had adopted several, and edu cated them, among them being Albei't Davidson, the mulatto who served as postmaster there for several years.s until his sudden death in the postof BIG PUSH OF BOYS O'PLE, MARRIED TEN YEARS, POSSESS NINETEEN. 'hirteen of This Number, All Boys, Are Living, and Not One is Yet Five Years Old. mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott. of ighland, Kan., are seeking a home i Oklahoma with plenty of land. 'hey will need it, for although they ave been married not quite ten ears they are parents of 19 chit ren, all boys, and 13 of them liv ig. They hold the record for trip ts, having five sets to their credit, nd two sets of twins. All of the 3 boys living are under five years. I Recently the Sco.ts, deciding that 2 hey must find more land, went to Al erta, Canada. They were not sat dfled there and returned. On the eturn trip Mrs. Scott and her 13 t hildren all rode on one first class lket. At Omaha the conductor iade a vigorous protesZ. "Madam. you cannot carry a whole t unday school along with you on hat one ticket," he said, "and you i eed not tell me those are all yours nd under five years of age. You rill have to pay for some of them.' Mrs. Scott dug down Into her va se and brought out the family Bi le, in which was recorded the names ] ad ages of each of the children. 'he conductor had to give in. The .1 iother and children occupied five ouble seats in the homeseekers' car nd paid for only one. The names and ages of the chil ren are: Ashbell, Archer and Aus n, triplets, four and a half years Id: Arthur and Arnold, twins, three nd a half; Alan, Almon and Albin, riplets, two and a half; Albert, Albi a, and Adolph, triplets, 18 months; c .bel and Abner, twins, six months. [rs. Scott is 30 years old and her I usband is only a year her senior. EXTENSION DiPROVE3MENTS. he Southern Railway Revising Its Roadbed Near Atlanta. Extensive improvements on the ne between Atlanta and Macon, in- C ving the laying of about twenty diles of passing tracks and revision f grades are to be made at once by ie Southern Railway according to nouncement given out Tuesday by ie Assistant to the President. The ssing tracks will be of latest de .gn, known as lap-sidings, which reatly facilitate the movement of -ains. These tracks will be placed t intervals of about five miles and ich will be long enough to accom odate four trains. This additional ackage will give many of the ad ntages of double tracks and will reatly increase the capacity of this nportant line over which, in addi on to the freight and local passen er service, the through passenger ains of the Southern between Flor Ia and the West are handled. Dur ig the last few months the Southern as completed the work of strength aing the bridges on this line and is ow operating its heaviest locomo yes over it. These i.nprovements -ill add greatly to the facilities for andling both freight and passengers ver this line and will prove of bene t not only to the territory immedi tely served but to shippers and pas nges using ,it for through com erce and travel The expenditures ivolved are being undertaken by the outhern Railway Company in the esire to give its patrons ithe best of ervice and to provide for the great icrease of business that is hoped for the future. FOUR PERISH IN .FIRE'. Mother and Three Children Burned!C to Death-. Four persons perished and five oth rs had narrow escapes in the d ruction of the home of J. T. Veach Jur miles from Harrodsburg, Ky., y flames early Monday. The victims -ere rs. J. M. Bridges and her three bildren. Her parents, the Veaches nd their three children, escaped ith slight burns. Grs. Bridges, who is the wife of Methodist evangelist of Bath, N. G., -as visiting with her three children t the Veach home. They sleep Cli he scond floor. Early Monday Mr. each was aroused by the cracklingI f famec He alarmed his wife and heir children wh slept on the first oor and shouted up a flame-choked airway to Mrs. Bridges. There was o response. Veach attempted to ush through the burning stairway > his daughter's aid, but was driven ak by smoke and fire. The house burned down in an in redibly short time. In the ruins ere found the charred bodies of irs. Bridges and her children. DIVINING ROD MEN JAILED. tauffers Sentenced to Pay Fines and Sent to Prison. Fines and prison sentences were 'uposed by Judge Orr, sitting spec alv in Federal Court in Scranton, Pa. ist week. Abraham G. Stauffer, his on. Oscar A. Stauffer: his namesake, sS. Stauffer, and William S. Ream:, esiients of Paimyra, Pa.. who plead d guilty at the Williamsport session f making fraudulent use of the 2i. They conducted a mall order usiness by which they sold "divining i ods' that were represented to bei ble to locate different metals by thei se of different needles. They also leaded guilty to selling lascivious etures through the mails, and will 'e fined and imprisoned for that. Burned to Death. Dr. D. E. Norris, a prominent phy-1 ician and his four children were urned to death when their home was ..,.e nar Aurorn Mo. Tueay.a MASS OF RUIN (ew York's Magnificent Twenty-Seven Milmion Dollars Capitol WRECKED AND RUINED 3er.atiful Structure Goes Up in Fire r.ad Smoke While Many People Look On-The Famous White Granite Structure Notable Exam ple of Fne Architecture. Fire swept, smoke-stained and rater drenched, New York state's agnificent $27,000,000 capitol tands at Albany, N. Y., is a par Ial wreck of flames that started in he assembly library, burned away he entire west wing and did damage stimated at $10,000,000 before the Ire was declared under control af er raging more than four hours. It is believed the fire was started oy a fused electric push button be :oming electrified. It was discovered iy a night watchman and the alaim vas sounded at 2:46 o'clock Wed Lesday morning. Before the firemen eached the massive st'ructure, price ess documents, books and records tored in the assembly library had een destroyed, other departments ere threatened. The Imitation oak eiling of the assembly chamber, omposed of papier mache, was par lally destroyed as was also the fa ous million dollar staircase in the rest wing. On the third floor, where the flames ,ained their start, the departments rholly or partially destroyed by fire r seriously damaged by water were: The state library, containing four undred thousand volumes, among hem the most valuable genealogical vorks. in the United States, together rith relics, priceless documents, ome of them dating back to. 1776 .nd irreplaceable. The assembly and senate libraries, tored with thousands of volumes of aw and code books, also a number f documents and manuscripts that an never be replaced. The finance committee room in rhich were stored drafts of all the .ppropriation and other bills of the resent session. The chamber of the president pro em of the senate. The lieutenant governor's room, i adly damaged .but not wrecked. The senate and assembly chambers re soaked with water that has uined their rich furnishings and tt. apier mache ceiling of the latter is tanging In straggling shreds of half ssolved paper. This ceiling with its handsome ,dornment is said to have cost a reat sum and was one of the show ights of the capitol. On the fourth floor in the west ring the wrecked offices are. Court of claims. In which many mportant legal documents were on The bill drafting department. The bureau of weights and meas The state regent's rooms. The state prison commission. I The state educational department, ontaining many valuable books of cientific and historical interest. On the second floor the damaged ooms are: The attorney general's office. The state excise department. On the first floor the damaged de >artments Include: The offices of the state treasurer nd state tax commissioner. The state board of charities and he state commissioner of lunacy. The lower offices of the state ed u ational department. Practically all the offices below the hird loor, including the executire ham.ber, were damaged by smoke .nd water: An attache of the assembly library 'eturning for some overlooked papers iscovered a tiny blaze near his desk. here had ben a complaint filed dur g the day that an electric switch ras out of order and this Is supposed o have started the fire. Runnin~g out into the corridor the lcrk summoned a night watchman ,nd with the assistance of two news paper men, efforts were made to put ut the fire, which probably could tave been done had a fire extinguish rr or a bucket of water been avail be. Lacking these. the flames sprend mntil the room. with its Inflammable urnishings and papers, was ablaze. t was sometime before the firemen rrived and before they could get treams playing the flames were rac ng toward the state library. The grand western staircase, which rs regarded as one of the most >autful in the world, occupied the enter of the western wing and con isted of an immense double stairway f sandstone elaborately car'ved. It rs surmounted by a glazed dome rhich soon fell. The capitol, a gigantic structure of rhite granite with red capped tow rs, stands perched upon the highest ff the several hills upon which the iy of Albany is built. It is 300 feet north and south by 'our hundr.ed feet east and west, and oovers three acres. 'he first stone in the foundation ras laid July 7, 1869. It was first >ccupied by the legislature on Jana try 7. 1879. Writers upon architec re say that the white building with ts towers reminds them of the fa nous Taj Mahal, in India. Others :all it a superb reflection of Frenchi t.rchitecture. Broken by Death. At Brockt on, Mass., an engage nent of 53 years between Miss Emi y Fanny Richmond and Rev. lharles Lord has been broken by tuy atI o+- the forer, at the age of ONCE VERY RICH - --- SHE BECAME A RAG-PICKER AN] DIED IN POVERTY. Fatal Duel Betwen Her Father and an English Admirer Blotted Hap piness Out of Her Life. "Mademoiselle," the rag-picker had a name, though nobody in Ly ons, France, knew it til she was found dead on the floor of her gar ret, dead of starvation and old age combined. Her name was Marguerite Carrel. And to her name there hang a story. Seventy years ago, in 1840, whet Marguerite was 20, the Carrel were among the silk magnates of Lyons. The silk magnates formed a nu bility, an aristocracy as proud in its own way as the old aristocracy 01 France had been before the revolu tion. Marguerite was the Carrels only daughter. She was extremely beautiful, and before she was 18 had as many admirers as the Lyons sili, merchants had grown-up sons. Bul she would listen to or look at none oi them. And then one day a youna Englishman came to Lyons. His name has not survived. He was the heir of an English slli firm, a firm of importers which hac business dealings with the Duvai firm, a rival of the Carrels. Betweer the families was a feud as bitter as that between the Montogues and Coputets. Marguerite Carrel met the young English friend of the Duval house one day and fell in love with him, and he with her. The Englishman was rich and did not care whether Mar guerite came to him with or withoul a dowry One night Narguerite Carrel ana the Englishman left Lyons in a post chaise. Their idea i.as to drive south to mislead pursuit, to make for Mar spilles, and from there to. ship for England. But old Carrel got wind of their flight and followed. Forty miles from Lyons he caught them, and there on the roadside, under Marguerite Car rel's frightened gaze, Carrel and the young Englishman shot one another dead. What happened after that tc Marguerite nobody knows for cer tain. She was not seen again till 1870. the year of the war. Then one day an old man who had been helping to carry food and drink to patients In the hospital recognized in one o! the lay sistern Marguerite Carrel-a woman of 50 now-whom he had known and admired as a young man. She was not a nun, but wore the dress of a religious order and the Geneva cross. She did more work than any two other helpers in the hospital. All that the Lyons-of the last few years knew about "Mademoiselle' was that she was an old woman, bent nearly double, with a witch's note and chin. She dressed in bits ol sacking and oddments of clothing which the old clothes merchants had discarded. She lived, literally lived, on what she picked up. All night she was to be seen prowling up and down the streets of Lyons, peering about for odds and ends, begging a bit of sugar here, picking up a cigar or cigarette end there. on her old feet till 2 and 3 a. in., when in luck getting a copper or two from the people who sat out sIde the cafes, when out of luck pick ag crusts from the gutter for her breakfast. And early in the morning "Mad emoiselle," the .beautiful Marguerite Carrel 70 years ago, was found dead of privation in her garret. Her filthy mattress fell to pieces when the po lice lifed it, and out of a gap in it to the floor rolled $S,000 in golci. EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE. Man in Boat Fired at Box and Ex plosion Followed. The explosion of 100 pounds of dy namite from the impact of a rifle bul let fired .by a member of a launch party in Hason canal Sunday after noon near Franklin, La., resulted it the loss of one and the Injury 01 three persons, the wrecking of the boat and damage to property several miles distant. Miss Kate Miller is dead and T. C Lawless, Ellis Hahn and John David son, all members of the launch party were injured, Lawless seriously. Win dows were broken in buildings in thi! town, five miles from the scene. Davidson fired at a box on the shore 150 vards distant A terrifi< explosion was the answer. The boal was broken in twain and immediate13 sank, carrying Miss Miller with it. WOMAN CHARGED WITH ARSON Mrs. Missouri Horton Bound Over bI a Magistrate. Mrs. Missouri Horton, of Spartan burg was bound over to the Crimina Court Monday afternoon by Magis trate Gantt on a charge of attempt ing to burn her own home. Several months ago Mrs. Horton's home which is located on North Churci street, caught fire three times wit hir twenty-four hours and this led to preliminary investigation. Only cir cumstantial evidence was presentet by the prosecution at the hearitu and the leading witness was Chief E D. Kennedy. of the fire department who told of the events. Magistrate Ga..tt saw fit to send the case over tc the higher Courts. Mrs. Horton' home was heavily insured. Drew the Line. It was an exceedingly trying exper ence Miss Kate Johnson had Thurs day when she appeared on the strerei of South Bethlehem, Pa., in a haren: skirt. It was the first sight loca: people had had of this fashion. A crowd quickly formed and after mob CIEPEN THINGS THE DEMOCRATS PLAN A BID CUT IN TARIFF DUTIS. The House Will Make Sweping Re ductions on Wool, Cotton and Oth er Necessities. All rates of duty in the woole schedule will be lowered more tha 50 per cent. No article In that sched ule will be permitted to retain hal of the protection now afforded by th Payne-Aldrich act. A complete mod ification and lowering of the entir list will be made. These prediction are made in letter from Washingto to the New York World. The letter goes on to say that al the oppressive rates in the cottoi schedule will be heavily cut. Onl: just and equitable protection will b allowed to remain. The most ot noxious features of the schedule wi be treated with even more severit than the duties applied to woole goods. This is the prediction made by leading member of the House Way and Means Committee, now engage in arranging some scheme of taril revision. He says it is a perfectl: safe assumption that the high place in the cotton schedule will be hi hard and the woolen duties mor than cut in twain. Other prominent Democrats believ that rates on tools, farm machiner3 paints and other necessaries for th producer will be materially reduced "The things that the farmer ha to buy will be put on the free list, declared a member of the committe( "We are going to see that the rec, procity agreement does not hurt th tiller of the soil." It is realized by the more conserva tive element that this is probably gc ing too far in the way of predirt;i'-: It is unlikely that all those thing which the farmer buys will be place, on the free list. There may be heav shaving of the rates now imposed but all the great mass or article comprising such a list of necessitte must bear some taxation to meet th requirements of revenue. .The temper now manifested by majority of the Ways and Mean Committee augurs well for the ef fective downward revision of the tat iff. There Is a general dispositioi to eliminate all the most objection able duties. It Is especially desirei to lessen the cost of living. Rate imposed on wearing apparel, farmin implements, food-stuffs and article of daily use will be liberally lowereo The Ways and Means Committe will meet again Saturday and take u: the subject of tariff revision. Th committee is having serious troubl agreeing on a course of procedure One faction would pass at least thre tariff revision bills first, and thei take up reciprocity, while the othe would reverse this order. Over this point the caucus callei for Saturday will split when a vig orous demand will be made for complete revision of certain taril schedules. Some members of th. Ways and Means Committee wouli pass a reapportionment bill and go a far as possible toward providing fo the direct election of United Stai~e Senators. ' I4 SAVED) BY FIRE DRILL. Many Children Are Marched Quiet1; to Safety. The value of the fire drill 11 crowded .buildings was clearly dem onstrated Wednesday afternoon whe: Ifire was discovered in public schoc No. 43 in New York. Althougl smoke was drifting througnr th building and the odor of burning wood and paper permeated the hall and class rooms, 2,900 little childre: responded to the fire drill signal an< in perfect order marched from th building as they do several time each week. In ten minutes all wer on the street watching the firemen The blaze did only trifling damage The children were under splendia control. Died in His Seat. When business opened at the pri vate .bank of Julius Debrousky il New York Monday the first custome was annoyed that she could get n answer to her questions from th banker, who sat leaning over a ta ble seemingly buried in thought. H had good reason for his silence. I: the banker's abdomen was a bulle Iwound from which ho died. Made a Big Haul. Ten thousand dollars in currenc was stolen from a mail pouch i: transit between Tampa and Clear water, Fla., Monday night. . Th theft was discovered when the ma; pouch reached St. Petersburg Tues day morning at 10 o'clock, havin been carried by its destination, Clear water. Wilkerson Elected President. Prof. Wilkerson, who has been member of the Colored State Colleg ever since the institution was startec was elected president of the colleg yesterday by the trustees. We be lieve he will fill the bill to the satiu faction of all concerned. Lost His Nerve. At Cleveland. Ohio. Wellingto Davis, a vaudeville juggler, lost hi nerve when about to be married t Miss Marie Loplant, his partner i *the act, and jumped through a glas door. He is now in the hospital. bli still unmarried. * Killed in Wreck. Three persons perished in a wrec of the New Foundland mail steame Bruce, which struck rocks off Scal tern during the night. The, steame is a total loss. The Bruce was on it way to Louisburg, B. C.. Wlen tb BRIBE MONEY Mou5daa Declares That Lorimer Used Money in His Election. KNOWS THIS TO BE TRUE But the Venerable Publisher De clined Repeatedly to Tell the In Svestigating Committee Where He Got His Information or Who Told Him about Matter. H. H. Kohlsaat, publisher of the Chicago Record-Herald, told the Illi nois Senate investigating committee r Wednesday tLat he knew $100,000 a had been used to procure the election of William Lorimer to the United States Senate. He refused to give the committee 1 the source of his information, not withstanding the committee has the I power to Imprison him because of 5 his refusal. I When Mr. Kohlsaat was first called to the stand, he was asked where he obtained his information on which he 5 wrote an editorial saying $100,000 t has .been raised to elect Lorimer. ir. Kohlsaat declined to answer a number of questions. He said he could not violate a confidence. Attorney Healy put direct ques tions to him asking if his informant had said he was asked for $10,000. "I decline to answer," he said. "Did he say that nine other men had been asked for $10,000 each?" "I refuse to answer." "Is he a resident of Chicago?" "I decline to answer." - "Is he alive now?" -"He lisZ' "Would you denounce any citizen who takes the stand you have taken I here?" asked Senator Burton. F "Any man who will violate a con fidence is not worth a snap. I wouXd not let my Court reporter vieoate a confidence. fqo newspaper man :an violate a confidence. That is my code of morals." L "You have been demanding this In vestigation and now you refuse to aid - us?" - "I &ppreciate. the position, but I will not violate this confidence." . The committee then went Into ex I ecutive conference. Everyone except Mr., Kohlsaat. Attorney Healy and members of the committee were or 3 dered out of the room. The questions were aga.in put to Mr. Kohlsaat. Again he refused ab solutely to answer. The doors were then reopened and Mr. Kohlsaat was given a third op portunity to answer the questions of the committee; this he again refused I to do. Mr. Kohlsaat was excused un r til 10 o'clock, Thursday morning, April 6. 1 He was informed by the committee - that its members had agreed that he - must answer the questions regarding the money. L A FOLLETTE FOR PRESIDENT. Wants to Capture the Republican Nomination. A Boston dispatch says Republican politicians are anticipating with con siderable interest the lecture that Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon Is to deliver at a local club tomorrow night on "Delegated versus Popular Government." The lecture and the informal conferences to follow, it is understood here, will be the launch Iing of Senator La Follette's oandi dacy for president. Senator Bourne, who is the founder of the National Progressive Republican League, is understood to have formed a polit 1ical alliance with Senator La Follette and to have undertaken the task of capturing the New England delega Stion to the republican convention of Bnext year. The main plank of the Bourne platform is the initiative, ref erendum and recall. Committed Suicide. Rufus I. Hasell, for several years bookkeeper for the wholesale and rc -tail grocery firm of Welch & Eason, Charleston. S. C., committed suicide Monday morning in his office by send ~'ing a -bullet from a new 38S-calibre Bpictol through his temple, no reason -being assigned for the deed. Haseil Bwas in poor health, however. He was unmarried and about 38 years of - age. Found Lot of Money. A cat chased a mouse under a ~'foot-stool in the home of Henry Karg, in Fort Plain. N. Y., this week, - and then stuck Its paw into the hole to try for her prey. When she drew the foot out a $50 bill was sticking -to a claw. Later $875- was taken Sfrom the stool, which represents the -hoard left by Grannie Karg when she died suddenly on Feb. 25. Indian Plague. During the month of February deaths from the plague in India reached the total of 8S,498. The dis aease has become such a fixture in the -province that the British India office -has almost given up its efforts to stamp it out. Young Robber. A boy in knickerbockers walked I into the postoffice at Lake View, near! 0Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday night, and using an axe handle as a weapon, Sfelled Helen and Ella Mayn, sisters t of Wmn. Meyn, the postmaster. and robbed them of $500. He then es caped. Negro MIust Hang. ~Daniel Duncan, the Charleston ne -gro convicted of killing a Jew mer r chant and his wife, and is under sen 5 tence of death, lost his last card eMonday when the supreme court dis missed a petitinn to rehear the case. BIBLE MUDENI MAKU 3REAT P.7LIGIOUS PAGEANTRY IN SPARTAN CITY. Led by Former Governor . F. Ansel, Fifteen Hundred Members of Bi ble Classes, Parade. -Spartanburg had a most remark ble parade on last Wednesday. With he streets lined with thousands of ;pectators, a procession of fifteen iundred Bible students marched rom the Court House, on Magnolia treet. to Converse College and back this afternoon. It was perhaps the most impres sive religious sight ever witnessed in the South, and certainly the most im pressive ever known in South Caro ina. A marked feature of this long parade of Bible students was the va rious classes of men and boys which :omposed the long line. Headed by members of the Spar tanburg police force, who are also members of various Bible classes, nd followed by Ex-Governor Martin F. Ansel and other notable guests, the line was composed of profession al men, college professors, those per ;ons living In the mill districts, who are members of their Bible classes, and also there were many from the :ountry churches near Spartanburg. Each Bible class marched under Its >wn banner and some had their bands along, while the orchestra rom the Bible class of Bethel Meth )dist Church, of Spartanburg, occu pied seats on a huge wagon. Mounted on this wagon there was also a piano, and while the line was traversing the most crowded business parts of the city, hymns were sung, nakng It a- most Impressive proces fion and one that will ever linger in the minds of those who witnessed )r nprticipated in it. The stores and business concerns )f the city were closed In order that he employees could march in this ine, openly professing their faith and their religion. The ministers of apartanburg acted as marshals. The second day of the annual Con vention of the Sunday-school workers :ow in session will mark an. epoch n the history of the Association. rhree of the greatest and most en ,husiastic meetings were held, be sides the Bible class parade. BOUND FOR THE SENATE. I ov. Blease Says He Expects to Go Straight There. The Columbia correspondent of rhe News and Courier says Governox Blease will be a candidate for the Jnited States Senate. He said today hat he is -"going as straight to the nited States Senate as a martin to .ts gourd." Senator Tillman said the other day :hat he will run again if his health permits, but it is doubted by many :hat he will again be in the race. jovernor Blease said recently that he 3culd beat any man except Tillman or the Senate. In the event Senator Tillman is aot a candidate In 1913, Governcr Blease will be in the race. Other wise he will be a candidate for the enatorship later on. That is the way the situation appears today. Governor Blease has received en ~ouraging letters, he states, from all yarts of South Carolina. Hie is told .n these letters that he is stronger sow politically than ever before. One :nan wrote him, "Go ahead and give RAINED MUVD DOWN Result of Precipitation in Dusty At mosphere. On last Thursday It rained pure :nud in Wathena, Kansas. The phe somenon is accounted for by the fact :hat a high wind and duststorm from .he northwest was prevailing when a! light rain began to fall, and the drops; f water collected the dust in the at nosphere, turning them into mue. Persons who were outdoors had their :othing spattered and soiled, and the jaint upon houses, vehicles and im ,lements outdoors all showed the ef scts of having received a sprinkling ,f the mud. A high wind wind still ss blowing, with the temperature near rreezing. Life Crushed Out. The Columbia Record says instant leath by passenger train No. 42, from Asheville to Columbia, was the fate >f Mr. H. 0. SmIth, a flagman, em ,loyed by the Southern railway, at Eornane, four miles from Columbia, at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mr. 3ith was 22 years of age and un narried. Died From a Fa~t Hurled by a gi:it wave with ter rific force down the companionway and instantly killed was the fate of Captain Christen Peterson, master of the Danish steamer, Dronning Olga, arriving at Newport News,- Va., Wed riesday with the flag at half mast and showing evidence of a hard bat Lie at sea. Body in Deep Well. The body of R. Copeland, missing rom tiorrison, Fla., for months, has been found in a thirty-foot well. All indications point to murder, as the~ skull of the victim was crushed in, and the body covered by debris to shield the crime. It is known that Copeland had considerable money be fore he disappeared so suddenly. Here's the King. Confessing to numerous thefts, Steen Ellingson told the police of Hoquam Wash., last week, that he 'had stolen more than 3,000 chickens from hen roosts in that town during the past three years. The lad, to gether with two companions, was ar r.ueste for rlarizing a store. WilU U)1 DU lit Representative Smith Says Governor Blease Changed the Names. MATER IS IN A MUDDLE The Members of the Greenville Del egation Reopens the Question of Appointing County Assessors, and Endeavor to Straighten Out the Matter If They Can Do So. A dispatch from Greenville in speaking of the recent discussions that arose over the action of Gov. Blease in revoking the commissions of C. G. Drake and J. L. Campbell as members of the county board of as sessors, and the subsequent alleged statements of the governor's stenog rapher that the names of Bearden Jennings and Mr. Acker had been erased by Representative C. D Smith, a member of the Greenville county delegation, says WMr. Smith went before B. M. Shuman, an attor ney, and -made affidavit, the substan tial statements of which are given in the following extracts: "Senator Mauldin stated that the stenographer in the governor's of fice told him that I had erased the name of Mr. Acker and substituted that of Mr. Campbell on the board of assessors of Dunklin township - and also had erased the name -of Bearden Jennings and substituted that of C. G. Drake in Cleveland township. "I erased no'names, nor were they erased under my directions, but these changes were made under the direc-. tion of the governor. "BeIng the only member of the Greenville delegation that was es pecially friendly to the governor, the governor stated to me on several oc casions while in Columbia during the session of the general assembly that he would make appointments on:my recommendation. "He -told me to make my fight In the Greenville delegation and if I was downed to come to him and he would take care of me. - "In the delegation meetings the delegation appeared to be controlled by Senator Mauldin, and all the men recommended by me were promptly voted down by the members. In Dunklin township, which was my home township, I especially requested the delegation to recommend the name of J. L. Campbell in the place of J. 'D. Wood. The delegation, how ever, recommended the names -of Traynham, Cothran and Acker, my recommendation being Cothran and Traynham. In Cleveland township there was no delegation meeting. I was informed that- the majority of the delegation recommended Morgan, Hagood and Jennings. The minority, which were Mr. Earle and mys'f, recommended Hagood, Morgan and Drake. I carried the papers to the governor, who had told me he would appoint my appointees, and there upon Goy. Blease told his secretary to make any changes that I desired. "The appointments made were oy the governor's own orders and the. governor knew that he was appoint ing on my recommendation and not on that of a majority of the Green ville delegation." Smith is one of the leade'rs of tbe Cotton Farmers' union and has been organizing the union. He has also organized the farmers In the legisla ture so that they may legislate in telligently on matters pertaining to farms. What Gov. Blease Says. Coy. Blease said Thursday that he did not remember the details in con nection with the appointment of the Greenville county board of assessors. He said that the matter had been handled by a stenographer employed by him for several weeks and that she would make a statement Friday. "I will stand by whatever statement she makes," said Gov. Blease. Tillman Feels Better. Senator B. R. Tillman in response to an inquiry as to his health Inspired by a rumor that he was very unwell said Friday that he was feeling en tirely fit. He spent the day in the fields on his farm at Trenton, and says the country life is agreeing with him so finally that he feels better ev ery day. He is feeling better than he has felt for months past.* Queer Death. When a stove exploded in ,. nome of John Teppe, at San Ste. Marie, Mich., fiying pieces o the stove tore loose the . .dfrom the walls and it fet-'n a two-year-old child lying asep in bed. Before the child was rescued it had been smothered. Man's Body Found. The body of Walter Byrum, of 'onroe. N. C., who left his home on1 JTanuary 23, was found in a mill pond near his home Tuesday morning by two boys who were fishing. The body bore no evidences of foul play. Killed His Wife. At Charleston Susan Deas was cut by her husband, Alead Deas, Sunday night at her home on Hanover street, dying a short time afterwards. The cutting was the result of a quarral. Deas was sarrested. C. Bull Kills a Man. Disregarding the warning thata bull in the pasture was vicious Wil 1am Payne, of Norristown, N. 3., was gored ..and trampled to death th-s week. He had declared ho could conquer any mad bull. Pipe Blew Out. At Manchester, N. H.. the head of a 1-inch steam pipe at a power house here .blew out Monday, killing one man instantly and severely inur ing eh t otheor persons.