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PlR MAKES CONCERNING ffjpfe- governor Cooper has returned to office in Columbia yesterday for a :^^Mifet<ence on the alleged mob vior l^lehce situation and newspaper charges ||?{bced against the chief executive Ip.vaad the state in connection with the |j|p90eht trouble experienced in protectJesse Gappins and C. O. Fox, lll^jitifes&ed murderers of William from men who were supposed ^^ro/have been bent on lynching the Lxm^ie governor arrived shortly before coming down from his summer ane on Paris Mountain, and was in :^pfiference a considerable part of the with Richland and Lexington of ifi/Sera. Sheriff E. Austin ?tooi 01 l.ca^^jjSigton and Solicitor T. C. Callison Sphere here from Lexington and SherHeise of Columbia was at the execKflMtVe office during the day. Col. A. Sanders, superintendent of the ffifjitate penitentiary, was also present. H Following the conference with the ^j&JBi&ers the governor issued a state^pment denying the charges made in { ^3w?ne newspapers that the state had ; IpE^bidicated and surrendered to the mobj ^L-.lpr that no steps had been taken to! Sjjfc prevent possible mob violence. The! ^ chief executive^, also criticised the ^newspaper for giving too much pubEi' licity to the movement of the two ^;Mnen in question and called on the papers, as well as every citizen, to ||Ffurnish him with information that ||i will lead to the apprehension of any Iplpember of the mob. If the newspa. lj- pers are unable to prove that the ^st&te has abdicated and surrendered M t6 the mob, the governor expects an |p: apology to the state from all who |j| riiade the charges. ^ Sheriff Heise told the chief magis-l Ill trate that he knew of no threatened j P rata violence in Richland county, the statement says, and Sheriff Roof also j told the governor he had been vigi^ in performing his duties. After the conference with the offi|**%ials the governor did not say any-! gtefcSBS in regard to the transfer of the I ^ man held in Charleston to the peni-j or to Lexington, intimating I Ppthat' they were well protected in| ^^^rlesion and might stay there. The l^chief executive did not say what he officers in the conference, but ^^Ijirhole affair was thrashed out fetho rouahly. ^^^^BB^^oVfernor will probably return p^t^aris Mountain today or tomorrow. is his statement: IPllft/ Oatra^ed at Charge. r _^"When I read in certain daily pa^ieqrttjeditorials which in effect, charg^efLthat the state had abdicated and ' i Il\ I Empire Tires fjp ^ ' So,< 1313 Assembly S rK ' . AB Adjustments ma^e by .A r STATEMENT |j MOB ACTIVITIES i i I ? T |. surrendered to the mob, and that the 1 governor of the state had done nothing in reference to the threatened ! mob violence and none of these papers having communicated with me ] as to any action taken or contemplated, I felt outraged. ' | < "These papers virtually charge that a mob of armed citizens has defied the law and the law officers and has been holding up citizens on th[e public highway and searching trains and no steps have been taken to prevent^ it. I assume that some one connected with these papers is in position to give specific instances of such acts of I violence. I have endeavored, and am | endeavoring .through the only available channels to find out the truth about these matters. I did not deem it advisable to publish in the daily press that an investigation would be made and the persons who violate the law brought to trial; but since th4' newspapers are determined to have a newspaper trial, I feel compelled to ask for my/day in court.' "As governor of the state I call upon every citizen and especially the newspapers to furnish me any information which will eriable the proper officers to ascertain who composed the personnel of any mob or assemblage of persons in connection with the Brazell murder case. If the news-1 papers who have made the charge j that the state government has abdicated and surrendered to the mob are unable to make good the charges which they made, I assume, of course, I that they will make due apology to j the state which they have slandered. | If they can furbish the information j desired, they should have done so and j given the legal authorities an opportunity to act before charging them j with indifference and inactivity. Too Much Publicity. ??t? rklar?p in this COn f X 11 10 11VI V?v w*. I* j nection, to say that the chief difficulty j which the officers interested seem to I have had in dealing with the threat ! of mob violence wag the fact that the ; newspapers published to the world I every movement of the officers and | thereby enabled those who would do violence to the law to have the ad- j vantage of advance information. J When there seemed to be danger of violence to prisoners in legal custody j myy first concern, naturally, was to i prevent any act of violence. The sheriff of Lexington county, where [ this horrible murder was committed, went to Savannah, Ga., where two of the prisoners were in custody, and the fact of his departure was published in the afternoon papers. When he left Savannah, ostensibly for Columbia, Th Em] \~ Grov I c 1 I against |/l I make c mil tube ar f m to ecor /' Tire C and Tubes V( 1 and Guaranteed By ghman 1 Street US. \ with his prisoners in charge, this face was also given wide publicity. When iiis prisoners were delivered to the sheriff of Charleston county and were securely guarded, the officers, as well is the governor, were charged again with surrendering to the mob because the prisoners were not brought forthwith to Columbia, where the mob was supposed to be forming. "To have adopted this course would probably have meant the shedding of blood and the unnecessary sacrifice of human life. It is a well 'known fact that the jail at Lexington is insecure, if there was no danger of violence from without. These prisoners must be incarcerated, therefore, elsewhere than in Lexington until the time of trial. I am unable to see . -1- - ..Airo^nmLnt ic fniline wnere me sitnc auy^niiiivui. ...? ?w in its duty when it decides to hold prisoners in the jail at Charleston, in preference to placing them in the jail or penitentiary at Columbia. The penitentiary is not a detention house, but is a prison where persons are in- j carcerated after conviction. It fre-; quently happens of course, that prisoners before trial are placed in the penitentiary for safe keeping. Usually the penitentiary is selcted in order to remove the prisoners from the storm center. In this case it would have been bringing them into the; place where the mob was supposed to j be. There would be no objection to j such a course in the present case,vbut| there is no necessity for it unless there is reason to apprehend danger of a successful attack on the Charleston jail. ! In Touch With the Situation, '"there seems to be an idea, also, * i that the governor of the state can not discharge the duties of his office unless he is at his desk in the gover- j nor's office in the state capitol. I'wish to say that I have been in constant and continuous touch with this whole situation, by telephone and telegraph from my temporary residence on Paris Mountain and have given the same instruction and advice that I would have given had I been in Columbia. It is neither customary nor advisable, in my opinion, for the governor to be personally in charge and immediately on the scene of a disturbance of this character. It frequently happens that such an outbreak is threatened in a distant part of the state from Columbia, and I have never known but one instance where the governor left his office to go to the scene of trouble. "As soon as I was informed that there was probable danger from an act of violence and that a mob was forming in Columbia, I communicated with Sheriff Heise and directed bim to use his eptire police force and I would give additional men if necessary, and that every person found in his county who was participating, or threatening to participate, in any act te One r pire that fs Greater i l Empire any other )f casing or id learn how iomise in ost fear Longest. Jros j t Columbia, S. C. | I I i I of violence, or who was going armed, j making demonstrations to the terror of the peace of the community, should be arrested and commited to jail. I am assured by Sheriff Heise that he has been vigilant and has been unable to discover any threatened act of violence. He assures me that persons who were supposed to have gone to j Augusta, Ga., and entered the jail j there left the vity of Columbia quiet- j ly, and when he was informed of ( their departure, he notiiied the sher-! iff of Augusta, Ga. I was unable to get | in direct communication with Sheriff Rof of Lexington, but I have had a conference with him today and he assures me that he has been vigilant and active in the discharge of his duty. I did get a mesfeage to him similar to the one given Sheriff Heise. "It is rather significant that in almost every instance where'I had occasion to use the telephone or telegraph, information as to the contents of my conversation or message in some mysterious way found its way to persons on the streets and to members, or sympathizers, of the would be lynchers. This matter 1 would like *to call to the attention of the authorities of the telephone and telegraph companies." CHKMJSTS SCORE AGAIN S^Ik Purse Made of Sows' Ears to Be I Put on Exhibit Cambridge, Mass.?A silk purse made from sows' ears, as chemistry's answer to the old saying that | it couldn't be done, will be shown at i-the Chemistry Exposition in New j York during the week of September 12. In announcing the successful results | of his experiments, Arthur D. Little, Inc., chemists and engineers, of this city, said %the silk was not very strong and that there was no present industrial value in the process involved, lit was more or less the product of chemistry at play, but a contribution I also to philosophy in proving the fallacy of the old proverb. \/ ; In reciting the factors that enterfed into the transition of sows' ears /from Chicago stock yards to a silk purse, such as a Voman might carry, 'the chemists explained that the first J step was to analyze the silk worm's Af nioHne' cillr Thie flnnf- its caterpillar chemistry was adopted in the laboratory. It was found that man had to provide a substitute for a process by which the silk worm exudes from two fihe ducts in its head min.ute threads of a viscous liquid, coated with another creation, which are cemented into double strand. This becomes a firm filament of silk when it coagulates on reaching the air. Analysis of this viscous liquid showed it to. be like glue and with somewhat similar chemical properties. The sow's ears being chiefly gristle and skin, also has the natural i elements oT glue. . This was obtained j I from the ears and it was put'through j several processes of preparation, fil- j tered under pressure and placed in j spinning apparatus of a special de-j sign. The solution of glue and chemicals .came out as sixteen very fine color-j less streams, joined into composite! fiber treated to give it strength and | color, and processed yet again to obtain the desired soft, silky feel. The weaving followed on a small handdoom, the fabric was formed and the I purse made. Case Proved He?"And why dp you* think I am ! a poor judge of human nature?". She?-"Because you have such a good opinion of yourself."?New York Globe. A CARD FROM JACOB DRAFTS BOOZER \ To the voters of Lexington County: I am seeking the unexpired ' ~m of the office of Judge of Probate caused by the death of my grandfather, George S. Drafts. I do not belong to any "click" or political ring and am only seeking the office on my own merits and the experience I have had in the office during my grandfather's administration. I am a young man just 27 years old who served in the army for a period of sixteen months. After returning from the service I acted as clerk in the office of Judge of Probate, and for the past year 1 have done practically all the work without a murmur of dissatisfaction. There are several matters of importance in this office that I am familiar with and would j like to finish up. ' It will be impossible for me to see personally each voter oetween now j and the election but 1 submit t?> tnej voters of Lexington < ounty the name! j ot* Jacob Drafts Poozcr and ask you; to investigate the qualifb ations of the ! men who are before you .Then cast : your vote accordingly and I shall !> J .- C 1 .-3 I 1 v . Tours truly, JACOB DRAFTS BOOZER. j WHY SOME SURGEONS CHARGE BIG BILLS j A surgeon writing to the New York Herald, apparently in protest against i the Johns Hopkins limitation on fees, tells why he sent a bill of $82,500 to the father of a child whose life, he j says, he saved. He gave four rponths' attention to the child, he explains, and prevented her from becoming a cripple. In justification of his bill the doctor j tells how in October, 1900, having! worked in a store, an office and a j fofit tVio sitp nf eighteen, i determined to become a physician; how he worked his way through college and, incidentally, injured his leg and became a patient in a charity ward of a hospital of which later he was chief surgeon; of the work he did in various hospitals and got little or no pay, and of how much he has done of service to the public. All this, he explains, he did while he "had the hope and faith that some day my services would be required by sombeody who could afford to pay what those services were worth." Therefore when the child of a rich father was stricken and the wealthy man who, by the way, was one of his friends, engaged him and told him "not to -underestimate your services" he felt he had a right to charge in accordance with the man's wealth. The rich father, the doctor writes, spent approximately $100,000 a yeari and had $840,000 in available assets. On that basis he sent in a bill of $82,500. The rich man sent it back with the declaration that it was a joke.) Since then the doctor has "had to accept what he was willing to give me." The disappointment, the doctor says, has rendered it necessary for him to discontinue his charity hospital work so he can devote his mind to improving his financial status. It is a question whether this medical man in the indictment he draws i against the rich man does not indict himself. Possibly the child's father does spend $100,000 a year. But where the doctor is far astray is when, apparently, he thinks a man with "$840,000 in available assets" would not have trouble in meeting an $82,500 doctor's bill. The doctor seemingly figures his bill as 10 per cent of the father's wealth. GOING IT ALONE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL i Only two men have swum the English Channel, and a young American wishes to be the third. Henry. F. Sullivan, of Lowell, Mass., has already made three attempts to cross under his own power, and was within two I and a half miles of the French coast before it was necessary to take him in tow and pull him in. Undaunted by ( these thrilling experiences?for the Channel is always rough?Sullivan is going to try again this summer, says a writer in the Boston Herald; and this time, he believes, he will touch foot on French bottom without leaving the water. His first effort was in 1913, when he started from North Foreland. He was in the water ten hours, and traveled about thirty-five miles in all, including the drifts and tides which carried him up and down the Channel. On this occasion ho was within five miles of the French coast before he had to be taken into the pilot-boat. He found the water conditions and the temperature very much against him". Notwithstanding, says the writer? In 1914 he went over again and was in readiness to set out from Dover, England, when the world-war broke, and that place and the Channel was made so unsafe for swimming that the try had to be given up. In 1920 he went over again and made two tries. On the first he was in the water over nineteen hours and came within three and one-half miles of the French coast, and on the second occasion he was in the water over eighteen hours and was within two and one-half miles of France when the pilot ordered hb*? to quit. On both the latter tries the condition of. the water and the weather were most trying, but it was only after he had battled the elements for more than seven hours and made not the slightest headway that he decided to give< it up as hopeless. , 'Everything ( AT r Sanitar 1343 Main Street, tiome Cooking and Reaso "Little I Quick, Polite and attentiv Open Day and Night. And now he comes along again with u the same objective in view. He is going over this time and will benefit by his previous experiences, which he believes should help him to a marked degree. It is only under certain conditions that the swim is possible? favorable weather and a combination of tides that will work to his advantage rather than his disadvantage. These conditions occasionally prevail, but not for long. During the latter part of August and early in September is the best time of the - - 1.. year, ana even men it s um\ uy chance th&t one finds the water and weather favorable for any length of time. On each occasion when he swims under the colors of the Catholic Young Men's Lyceum of Lowell. ODD AND INTERESTING The sea is gradually getting more and more salty. Besides the parrot there are more than twenty different kinds of birds that talk. Postage stamps worth about. $3,000,000, collected by an Austrian nobleman, are to be sold shortly in Paris. The sea has a great effect on temperature; in hot climates it reduces the heat and in cold climates it mitigates the cold. The Dean of . Exeter has had clocks placed in both pulpits of his cathedral to warn preachers to keep within reasonable limits. Blood tests are now suggested as a means, of finding whether people are engaged in work suited to their health and temperament. The first pair of spectacles was made by Alexander De Spina, a monk, who lived in Florence in the latter half of the thirteenth century. Boats made of special patent metal, extremely light and cheap, with all parts replaceable, have been designed by a Marsailles workman. Mrs. Anna Slaght is assistant manager of one of the largest hotels in Chicago. Birmingham, Ala., has business and professional woman's club of 1400 members. "A Wife's Revenge." The wife was having a small bridge party at the house for a company of women and one of the guests failed to apear, leaving a vacant place at the table, so she called up her husband at the office and asked whether he would not come home early and "fill out." "But why can't you play with a dummy?" he asked, evidently having no relish for the game. "Why, the girls have invited you," was the wifely response. Light Labors "What are you doing now?" asked the first publicity man. "I'm working for a screen star who is being sued for alienation of affection by the wife of a multimillionaire," said the second publicity man. "Easiest job I ever had." "Yes?" "All I have to do ^ to drop into court occasionally and see that the newspapermen are there." All-Aronnd Man's Chance Specialists are getting so numerous in every profession and business that the all-round man who really works [ now is beginning to make a little money again. Rat-Snap Beats the Best Trap Ever Made," Mrs. Emily Shaw Says. "My husband bought $2 trap. I bought a G5c box of RAT-SNAP. The trap only caught 3 rats but RATSNAP killed 12 in a week. I'm never without RAT-SNAP. Reckon I couldn't raise chicks without it." RATSNAP comes in cakes. Three sizes. 35c, 65c, $1.2a. Sold and guaranteed by Lexington Pharmacy and Harmon Drug Co. Mr. Vaughan, Farmer, Tells How He Lost All His Prize Seed Corn. "Some time ago sent away for some pedigreed seed corn. Put it in a gunny sack and hung it on a rope suspended from roof. Hats got it all? how beats me, but they did because I got 5 dead whoppers in the morning after trying RAT-SNAP." Three sizes, 35c, G5c, $1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Lexington Pharmacy and Harmon Drug Co. jood To Eat" ! J rHE y Cafe Columbia, S, C. mable Prices, Different" from the others e service. i