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. * " . ;f The Fort Mill Times. ESTABLISHED IN 1891. FORT MILL. S. C? THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1911. 81.25 PER YEAR. ' ~ ?? i ?ii11/\ mi\ nn IT9 BALKS AT NEGRO Ytag Grl Mtl Draws Calir Lm m * Ckicag? lit ScM SHE WINS MUCH PRAISE Refuse* to Po?e Before Clasa in Which Nfipt) Man in Included? Hereafter Xegroee to be Barred? Makes Kpoch in Practioca of Art Schools In Chicago. Hereafter negroes will he barred admission to the art classes in Chicago. The climax to the question was ? brougul about last week In Chicago through the following Incident related by the Chicago Tribune: A beautiful girl model standing on a raised dais before Boutwood'e life class of men students raised ber ? hande to ber tbroat and was about to fling away tbe long kimono tbat draped her figure from the nape of her softly curved neck to her bare M feet. r*' As she did so her eyes took in the men of the elass. one by one. At last they rested on Thomas Downs, a negro. Then suddenly the hands which had been fumbling with the cords at her throat paused. A dtep flush spread over the face of the girl. Turning to one of the men students in tbe first room she said in a half whisper: "I'll not pose so long as that? that?black man is in the room. You * must get him to leave if I stay." Downs was on hie feet in an instant. This was the first time In the history of the life classes at the Art Institute that the color line had ever been drawn. A half dozen other Btu-; dents stood up when Down did. They 1 looked at Downs and Downs looked at them expectantly. Then with a mattered protest Downs walked slowly 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 ^ ceut the congratulations and applause that came to Miss Rlanha? that >s the name of the model?after the class wan over; but It marks the beginning of a new order of thlugs in the life classes at the Art Instltute. From now on no negroes will be admitted to the classes in which girls pose. There has for a Ion? time been an undercurrent of protest both among the students and the models against compelling beautiful young girls to poee before negroes. This feeling never found voice until yesterday. The models were afraid to speak for fear of losing their positions, the giri students remained silent in dread of being ridiculed for prudery, and tne men said nothing because it did not seem a thing for a man to talk about. Miss Blanha's action solved the situation. She did what every one seemed to want to have done ana what "no one seemed willing to do. j Miss Blanha?her first name is ttiamie?lives at 812 Southwestern , avenue. She had been chosen to pose for the class because of the exquisiteness of her figure, which Is said to be almost Grecian In its ' lasslcalness. Yesterday was her first appearance before Bout well's class. "The other girls had told me what I was to expect when I posed before this class," said Miss Blanha, "and how they dreaded to do It. I made up my mind that some one would have to take a decisive stand In the 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 brin? ^^^^^^o^^^nsl^of some sort. I am glad ned out as they bavo. With"the exception of the negro student I guess every one is satisfied." GIVES HEAVY VERDICT. Man Given Fifty Thousand Dollurs for Injuries. After deliberating about one hour, the jury in the rase of A. G. Menefee vs. the Southern Railway ComT?any returned a verdict for the plaintiff at Barnwell Friday afternoon in the amount of $50,000, the amount asked for in the complaint having been $75,000. The accident thai brought about the suit, and that made Mr. Menefee a cripple for life, occurred a few years ago at Dent, a little station above Columbia, two 1 trains, a regular South-bound passenger train and a special, on which Menefee was engineer, colliding headon. A motion has been made for a new trial, and will probably be heard next week. This verdict is said to be the next largest ever rendered by a South Carolina jury. ther?' being one on record for $55,000. TWO NEGROES Bl'RN'BD Beyond Recognition in Their Home at Blackville. At Rlackvilie Oscar Greene and his wife, two respectable old colored people, were burned to death Friday morning In their home. The fire occurred about 1 o'clock Friday tnornp 4?gv aad? the wind was blowing at a rapid rate, but, fortunately, only one ' other residence was burned. Oscar /Greene was a good old darky, and his death and that If his wife are deplored. These old people had acquired a right nice property, aud, while having no children of their . LhMAOTTftLjjttd adopted seven], and eduv. 4'A.jMiiidAsm. then l*elng Albert (q the postof BIG PUSH OF BOYS COITUS, MARRIHD TEN YEARS, POSSESS NINETEEN. Thirteen of Thli Number, All Boys, Are Living, and Not One is Yet Five Years Old. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott, of Highland, Kan., are seeking a home | in Oklahoma with plenty of land. ! They will need It, for although they have been married not quite ten years they are parents of 19 children, all boys, and 13 of them living. They hold the record tor triplets, having five sets to their credit, | and two sets of twins. All of the 13 boys living are under five years. Recently the Scolts, deciding thai i they must find more land, went to Alberta, Canada. They were not satisfied there and returned. On the j return trip Mrs. 6cott ana ner a \ children all rode on one first class 1 ticket. At Omaha the conductor made a vigorous protest i "Madam, you cannot carry a whole Sunday school along with you on ; that one ticket," he said, "and you need not tell me those are all yours j and under five years of age. You i will have to pay for some of them.' 'Mrs. Scott dug down Into her valise and brought out the family Bible. in which was recorded the names and ages of each of the children. The conductor had to give In. The mother and children occupied five double seats In the homeseekers' car and paid for only one. I The names and ages of the children are: Ashbell, Archer and Austin, triplets, four and a half years old; Arthur and Arnold, twins, three , and a half; Alan, Almon and Albln, triplets, two and a half; Albert, Albl- ! on, and Adoiph, triplets, 18 months; Abel and Abner, twins, six months. Mrs. Scott Is 30 years old and her husband is only a year her senior. EXTENSION IMPROVEMENTS. ; The Southern Railway Revising Its Roadbed Near Atlanta. Extensive improvements on the line between Atlanta and Macon, in volving the laying of about twenty miles of passing tracks and revision of grades are to be made at once by the Southern Railway according to announcement given out Tuesday by the Assistant to the President. The passing tracks will be of latest design. known as lap-sidings, which greatly facilitate the movement of trains. These tracks will be placed at intervals of about five miles and each will be long enough to accommodate four trains. This additional trackage will give many of the ad-, vantages of double tracks and will greatly Increase the capacity of this important line over which, in addi-! tion to the freiglvt and local passenger service, the through passenger trains of the Southern between Florida and the West are handled. During the la6t few monthB the Southern | has completed the work of strengthening the bridges on this line and is now operating its heaviest locomo- j tives over it. These improvements will add greatly to the facilities for handling both freight and passengers over this line and will prove of bene- : fit not only to the territory immedi- i ately served but to shippers and passengeis using it for through commerce and travel The expenditures involved are being undertaken by the ' Southern Railway Company in the i desire to give its patrons vhe best of service and to provide for the great increase of business that la hoped for In the future. FOFR 1'FRISH IX FIRK. A Mother and Three Children Burned I I to Death. Four i*ersons perished and five o'h- ' ers had narrow escapes In the de- i struction of the home of J. T. Veach four miles from Harrodsburg, Ky.. by flames early Monday. The victims ' were Mrs. J. M. Bridges and her three : children. Her parents, the Veachc* and their three children, escaped with slight burns, j Mrs. Bridges, who is the wife of a Methodist evangelist of Bath. N". C., was visiting with her three children at the Veach home. They Bleep on the second floor. Early Monday Mr. I Veach was aroused by the crackling j ; of flames He alarmed his wife and their children who slept on the first floor and shouted up a flame-choked stairway to Mrs. Bridges. There was no response. Veach attempted to , rush through the burning stairway to his daughter's aid. but was driven back by smoke and fire. The house burned down in an iucrediblv short time. In the ruins were found the charred bodies of Mrs. Bridges and her children. DIVINING ROD MEN JAILED. Sta offers Sentenced to Pay Fines and Sent to Prison. Fines and prison sentences were. Imposed by Judge Orr, sitting special) in Federal Court in Scranton, Pa. j last week. Abraham O. Stauffer, hi6 ' son. Oscar A. Stauffer; his namesake, A. S. Stauffer. and William S. Ream, ; residents of Palmyra. Pa., who plead- i ed guilty at the Williamsport session of making fraudulent use of the mails. They conducted a mail order business by which they sold "divining rods" that were represented to be able to locate different metals by the use of different needles. They also pleaded guilty to selling lascivious pietures through the mails, and will be fined and imprisoned for that -Burned to Ifem*._ I' - Dr. D. Z. Norrla, a' pronlnent phyaiclan and his four children were burned to death when their home was buried near Aurora. Mo., ^ueeday. ; MASS OF RUIN New Ytrk't Magnificent Twtity-Smn MiUiwo Dollars Capitol ? WRECKED AND RUINED Beautiful Structure Goes I'p in Fire M and Smoke While Many People ( Look On?The Famous White l Granite Structure Notable Exam- < . pie of Fne Architecture. Fire swept, smoke-stained and water drenched, New York state's 11 magnificent $27,000,000 capilol stands at Albany, N. Y., is a par-Ji tial wreck of flames that started In < the assembly library, burned away the entire west wing and did damage eetimated at $10,000,000 before the ' fire was declared under control after raging more than four hours. It is believed the fire was started by a fused electric push buttotr becoming electrified. It was discovered by a night watchman and the alarm was sounded at 2:46 o'ciock Wednesday morning. Before the firemen reached the massive structure, price- . lees documents', books and records stored In the assembly library had been destroyed, other departments were threatened. The imitation oak celling of the assembly chamber, composed of papier mache, was partially destroyed as was also the famous million dollar staircase in the west wing. On the third floor, where the flames gained their start, the departments ' wholly or partially destroyed by fire or seriously damaged by water were: , The state library, containing four hnndred thousand volumes, among J them the most valuable genealogical works in the United Statos, together with relics, priceless documents, some of them dating back to 1776 and irreplaceable. The assembly and senate libraries, ( stored with thousands of volumes of law and code books, also a number ] of documents and manuscripts thai ' can never be replaced The finance committee room in -* -J J? nt all f),o ! wnicn wert* siuieu ?<iam> v*. ? .. appropriation and other bills of the present session. The chamber of the president pro tem of the senate. The lieutenant governor's room, badly damaged but not wrecked. The senate and assembly chambers are soaked with water that has ruined their rich furnishings and tnt papier mache ceiling of the latter Is hanging in straggling shreds of half dissolved paper. This ceiling with its handsome adornment is said to have cost a great sum and was one of the show sights of the capitol. On the fourth floor in the west wing the wrecked offices are. Court of claims, In which many important legal documents were on file. The bill drafting department. The bureau of weights and measures. The state regent's rooms. The state prison commission. The state educational department, containing many valuable books of scientific and historical interest. On the second floor the damaged rooms are: The attorney general's office. The state excise department. On the first floor the damaged departments include: The offices of the state treasurer and state tax commissioner. The 6tate board of charities and the state commissioner of lunacy. The lower offices of the state educational department. Practically all the offices below the third floor, including the executive chamber, were damaged by smoke and water. An attache of the assembly library returning for some overlooked papers discovered a tiny blaze near his desk. There had ben a complaint filed during the day that an electric switch was out of order and this is supposed to have started the fire. Running out into the corridor the clerk summoned a night watchman and with the assistance of two newspaper men. efforts were made to put out the fire, which probably could have been done had a fire extinguisher or a bucket of water been available. Lacking these, the flames spread until the room, with its inflammable furnishings and papers, was ablaze. It was sometime before the firemen arrived and before they could get streams playing the flames were racing toward the state library. The grand western staircase, which was regarded as one of the most beautiful In the world, occupied the center of the western wing and consisted of an immense double stairway of sandstone elaborately carved. It was surmounted by a glazed dome i which soon fell. Tho capltol, a gigantic structure of white granite with red capped towers, stands perched upon the highest of the several hills upon which the city of Albany is built. It is 300 feet north and south by four hundred feet east and west, and covers three acres. The first stone in the foundation was laid July 7, 1869. It was first 1 occupied by the legislature on January 7, 1879. Writers upon architecture say that the white building with its towers reminds them of the famous Taj Mahal, in India. Others call it a superb reflection of French architecture. Bppfcen by Death. At Jlmrkton, Mass., an engagement^* 58 years between Miss Eml-I Iy (Fanny Richmond and Rev. Charlies Lord has been broken by the, dett^ of the former, at the age of ONCE VERY RICH HIE BECAME A RAG-PICKER AND 1 DIED IX POVERTY. | Fatal Duel I let wen Her Father and ' an English Admirer Blotted Happiness Out of Her Life. "Mademoiselle," the rag-picker, had a name, though nobody in Lv- 5 sns, France, knew it til she was ! found dead on the floor of her gar- ' ret. dead of starvation and old age < rombined. Her name was Marguerite : Carrel. And to her name there hangs ' i story. ' Seventy years ago, in 1 840, wher 1 Marguerite was 20, the Carrel were 1 among the silk magnates of Lyons. The silk magnates formed a no !1 bility, an aristocracy as proud In its 1 own way as the old aristocracy or France had been oeiore me revum-iLion. Marguerite was the Carrels'11 only daughter. She was extremely I beautiful, and before she was 18 had j1 as many admirers as the Lyons silK i merchants had grown-up sons. But i she would listen to or look at none 01 them. And then one day a young 1 Englishman came to Lyons. His : name has not survived. He waB the heir of an English silk 1 firm, a firm of Importers which hao business dealings with the Duvai firm, a rival of the Carrels. Between ' the families was a feud as bitter as that between the Montogues and 1 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- ' guerlte came to him with or without a dowry One night Marguerite Carrel ana the Eng!i,'bman left T vnns in a poetchaise. Their idea vus to drive south to mislead pursuit, to make for Marseilles, and from there to ship for England. But old Carrel got wind of their 1 - - * '" J fPnm tiizni ana ionuweu. run.j unrco Lyons he caught them, and there on the roadside, under Marguerite Carrel's frightened gaze, Carrel and the young Englishman shot one another dead. What happened after that to Marguerite nobody knows for cer- j lain. She was not seen again till 1K7o, 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 of the lay sister" Marguerite Carrel -a woman of 50 now?whom be bad known and admired as a young man. She was not a nun. but wore the dress of a religious order and the Geneva r ross. 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, beut nearly double, with a witch's nose and chin. She dressed in bits of sacking and oddments of clothing; which the old cloihes 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 aud ends, begging a bit of sugar here, picking up a cigar or cigarette end there, on her old feet till 2 and 3 a. m., when in luck getting a copper or two from the people who Bat outside the cafes, when out of luck picking crusts from the gutter for her breakfast. And early in the morning "Mademoiselle," the beautiful Mareuerite Carrel 70 years ago, was found dead nf nrivation in her garret. Her filthy mattress fell to pieces when the police llfed it. ami out of a gap in it to the floor rolled Js.OOO in golu. EXPLOSION or DYNAMITIC. ?? Man in Boat Fired at Box and Explosion Followed. The explosion of 100 pounds of dynamite from the impact of a rife hul-1 let fired by a member of a launch party in Hason canal Sunday after- j noon near Franklin, La., resulted in the loss of one and the Injury of 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 Davidson, all members of the launch party, were injured. Lawless seriously. Windows were broken in buildings In this ! town, five miles from the scene. Davidson fired at a box on the shore 150 vards distant A terrific' explosion waB the answer. The boat ( was broken in twain and immediately sank, carrying Miss Miller with it. WOMAN (HA IK.EI) WITH A It SON. Mrs. Missouri Horton Bound Over by n .Magistrate. Mrs. Missouri Horton. of Spartanhurt; was hound over to the Criminal Court Monday afternoon by Magistrate Gantt on a charge of attempting to burn her own home. Several months ago Mrs. Morton's home, which is located on North Church street, caught fire three time.? " ithin twenty-four hours and this led to a preliminary investigation. Only circumstantial evidence was presented bv the prosecution at the hearing and the leading witness was Chief E. D. Kennedy, of the fire department, who told of the events. Magistrate Ga.itt saw fit to send the case over to the higher Courts. Mrs. Morton's home was heavily insured. Drew the Line. It was an exceedingly trying experience Miss Kate Johnson had Thursday when she appeared on the street of South Bethlehem. Pa., in a harem skirt. It was the first 6lght local people had had -of this faahion. A crowd quickly formed and after mobj bing her pelted her with stonee. I CHEAPEN THINGS THE DEMOCRATS PLAN A BIG , CUT IN TARIFF DUTIES. rhe House Will Make Sweping Reductions on Wool, Cotton and Other Necessities. All rates of duty in the woolen schedule will be lowered more than SO per cent. No article in that schedule will be permitted to retain half if the protection now afforded by the Payne-AIdrich act. A complete modification and lowering of the entire list will be made. These predictions ire made in letter from Washington to the New York World. The letter goes on to say that all the oppressive rates in the cotton schedule will be heavily cut. Only lust and equitable protection will De allowed to remain. The most ob-' noxious features of the schedule wilt be treated with even more severity than tli* dutiee applied to woolen goods. This Is the prediction made by a leading member of the House waysi and Means Committee, now engaged In arranging some scheme of tariff revision. He says it is a perfectly safe assumption that the high places In the cotton schedule will be hit hard and the woolen duties more than cut in twain. Other prominent Democrats believe that rates on tools, farm machinery, I paints and other necessaries for the producer will be materially reduced. "The things that the farmer has to buy will be put on the free list " ; declared a member of the committee. "We are going to see that the reci- j procity agreement does not hurt the i tiller of the sol! " It is realized by the more conservative element that this is probably going too far in the way of r-redlctiou. It is unlikely that all those things which the farmer buys will be pla:ed on the free list. There may be heavy Bhaving of the rates now Imposed, but all the great maBa or articles comprising such a list of necessities must bear some taxation to meet the requirements of revenue. The temper now manifested by a majority of the Ways and Means Committee augurs well for the effective downward revision of the tariff. There Is a general disposition to eliminate all the most objectionable duties. It Is especially desired to lessen the cost of living. Rates Imposed on wearing apparel, farming Implements, food-stuffs and articles of daily use will be liberally lowereo. The Ways and Means Committee will meet again Saturday and take up the subject of tarlff revision. The committee is having serious trouble agreeing on a course of procedure. One faction would pass at least three tariff revision bills llrst, and then take up reciprocity, while the other would reverse this order. Over this point the caucus called for Saturday will split when a vigorous demand will be made for a complete revision of certain tarlfT schedules. Some members of the Ways and Means Committee would paBs a reapportionment, bill and go as far as possible toward providing for the direct election of United Stai.es Senators. SAVED BY FIRE DRILL. Many Children Are Marched Quietly to Safety. The value of the Are drill In crowded buildings was clearly demonstrated Wednesday afternoon wh?*n fire was discovered in public echooi No 43 In New York. Although smoke was drifting through the building and the odor of burning wood and paper permeated the halls and class rooms, 2,900 little children responded to the fire drill signal and in perfect order marched from the building as they do several times each week. In ten minutes all were on the street watching the firemen. The blaze did only trifling damage. The children were under splendid control. Died in His Seat. When business opened at the piivate bank of Julius Debrousky in New York Monday the first customer was annoyed that she could get n?> answer to her questions from the hanker, who sat leaning over a table, seemingly burled in thought He had good reason for his silence. In the banker's abdomen was a bullet wound from which he died. Mad* a Big Haul. Ten thousand dollars In currency j was stolen from a mall pouch ii> transit between Tampa and Clearwater. Fla., Monday night. The , theft was discovered when the mail pouch reached St. Petersburg Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, having been carried by its destination, Clearwater. Wilkorson El? rted President. I Prof. Wllkerson, who has been a member of the Colored State College ever since the institution was started, was elected president of the college yesterday by the trustees. We believe he will fill the bill to the satisfaction of all concerned. Lost His Nerve. At Cleveland. Ohio, Wellington Pavis, a vaudeville juggler, lost his nerve when about to be married to Miss Marie Loplant, his partner in the act. and jumped through a glass door. He is now in the hospital, but i still unmarried. Killed in Wreck. Three persons perished in a wreck of the New Foundland mail steamer Bruce, which struck rocks off Scatteri during the night. The steamer Is a total loss. The Bruce was on lte way to Loujsburg, B. C., when the disaster narmened. i a I BRIBE MONEY Kohlsaat Declares That Lorimer Used Money in His Election. KNOWS THIS TO BE TRUE * Bat the Venernble Publisher Reclintd Repeatedly to Tell the Investigating Committee Where He Got His Inform. !lon or Who Told Him about Hatter. H. H. Kohlsaat, publisher of the Chicago Record-Herald, told tho 1111- ^ nols Senate Investigating committee Wednesday that he knew $100,000; had been used to procure the election of William Lorimer to the United States Senate. He refused to give the committee the source of his information, notwithstanding the committee has the nower to imprison him because of his refusal. When Mr. Kohlsaat was first called to the stand, he was asked where he obtained his information on which he I wrote an editorial saying $100,000 has been raised to elect I.orlmer. Mr. Kohlsaat declined to answer a number of questions. He said he could not violate a confidence. Attorney Healy put direct questions 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 Is." "Would you denounce any citizen who takes the stand you have taken here?" asked Senator Burton. "Any man who will violate a confidence is not worth a snap. I would not let my Court reporter via,ate a confidence. Wo newspaper man jan violate a confidence. That is my code of morals." "You hare been demanding this investigation and now you refuse to aid us?" "I appreciate the position, but I will not violate this confidence." The committee then went into executive conference. Everyone except Mr. Kohlsaat, Attorney Healy and members of the committee were ordered out of the room. The questions were again put to Mr. Kohlsaat Again he refused absolutely to answer. The doors wero then reopened and Air. Kohlsaat \vn3 given a third opportunity to answer the questions of the committee; this he again refused to do. Mr. Kohlsaat was excused until 10 o'clock, Thursday morning, April 6. He was Informed by the committee that its members had agreed that ha must answer the questions regarding the money. LA FOLIiETTE FOR PRESIDENT. Wants to Capture the Republican Nomination. A Boston dispatch says Republican politicians are anticipating with considerable 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 launcning of Senator La Follette's candidacy for president. Senator Bourne, who is the founder of the National Progressive Republican I/cague, Is understood to have formed a political alliance with Senator La Follette and to have undertaken the task of capturing the New England delegation to the republican convention of r Th? main nlank of the Hourne platform Is the initiative, referendum and recall. Committed Suicide. Rufus I. Ilasell. for several years bookkeeper for the wholesale and retail grocery firm of Welch & Eason. Charleston. S. C., committed suicide Monday morning in his ofllce by sending a bullet from a new 3S-calibre pictol through his temple, no reason being assigned for the deed. Haseil was 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 $".0 bill was sticking , to a claw. Later $ S75 was taken from the stool, which represents th?. hoard left by Grannie Karg when she died suddenly or. Feb. 25. Indian Plague. During the month of Februarj I deaths from the placue in Indlr reached the total of SS.498. The dis ease has become'such a fixture in th< province that the British India oflic< has almost given up its efforts tt stamp it out. Young Robber. A boy in knickerbockers walker 'nto the postofflce at Lake View, neai Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday night, anc using an axe handle as a weapoD felled Helen and Ella Mayn, sisteri i of Wm. Meyn, the postmaster, am robbed them of $500. He then ee !caped. Negro Must Hang. Daniel Duncan, the Charleston ne ! ero convicted of killing a Jew mer chant and his wife, and is under sen 1 tence of death, lost his last car > Monday when the supreme court dis missed a petition to rehear the cast BIBLE STUDENTS MAKII1 ' GREAT RELIGIOUS PAGEANTRY' IN SPARTAN CITY. Led by Former Governor M. F. Ansel, Fifteen Hundred Members of III- J ble Classes, Parade. Spartanburg had a most remarK- ^ able parade on last Wednesday. With the streets lined with thousands of spectators, a procession of fifteen \ hundred Ribie students marched from the Court House, on Magnolia street, 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- < lina. A marked feature of this long ] parade of Bible students was the va- ( rious classes of men and boys which composed the long line. Headed by members of the Spar- J tanburg police force, who are also ] members or various muie cismcb, f and followed by Ex-Govornor Martin j F. Ansel and other notable guests, , the line was composed of profession-T al men, college professors, those per-,, sons living in the mill districts, who , are members of their Bible classes, ^ and also there were many from the ( country churches near Spartanburg, i Each Bible class marched under its own banner and some had their bands along, while the orchestra from the Bible class of Bethel Methodist Church, of Spartanburg, occupied 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, making !t a most Impressive proces-1 slon and one that will ever linger In I he minds of those who witnessed ' or participated in it. The stores and business concerns1 of the city were closed In order that the employees could march in this line, openly professing their faith and their religion. The ministers of Spartanburg acted as marshals. The second day of the annual Convention of the Sunday-school workers now in session will mark an epocn in the history of the Association. Three of the greatest and most enthusiastic meetings were held, be-! sides the Bible class parade. t , t BOUND FOR THE SENATE. * L I Gov. Rloa.sc Says He Expects to Go Straight There. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says Governoi , niease will be a candidate for the United States Senate. He said today that he is "going as straight to the United States Senate as a martin to its gourd." Senator Tillman said the other day jthat he will run again if his healtn permits, but it is doubted by many I that he will again be in the race. Governor Please said recently that he could beat any man except Tillman for the Senate. In the event Senator Tillman le not a candidate in 1913, Governor 1 Blease will be in the race. Otherwise ho will be a candidate for the Senatorship later on. That is the I way the situation appears today. Governor Blease has received en; couraging letters, he states, from all parts of South Carolina. Ho Is told in these letters that he is stronger now politically than ever before. One man wrote him, "Go ahead and give 'em h ." RAINED MUD DOWN' Result of Precipitation In Dusty Atmosphere. On last Thursday it rained pure mud in Wathena, Kansas. The r>henomenon is accounted for by the fact that a high wind and duststorm front the northwest was prevailing when a light rain bevan to fall, and the drops of water collected the dust in the atmosphere, turning them into mua. Persons who were outdoors had thidr clothing spattered and soiled, and the I r.oint iirmn houses. vehicles and im plementa outdoors all showed the effects of having received a sprinkling of the mud. A high wind wind still is blowing, with the temperature near freezing. Life Oushed Out. The Columbia Record says instant death by passenger train No. 4 2, from : Asheville to Columbia, was the fat? i of Mr. H. 0. Smith, a flagman, employed by the Southern railway, at Fornane, four miles from Columbia. , at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mr. Smith was 22 years of ago and unmarried. Died From a Fall. Hurled by a giant wave with ter1 rifle 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., Wedi nesdav with the flag at half mast - and showing evidence of a hard bat? tie at sea. ) Body in Deep Well. Tin body of R. Copeland, missing from Morrison, Fla., for months, has boon found in a thirty-foot well. All I indications point to murder, as the r skull of the victim was crushed in, I and the body covered by debris to , shield the crime. It is known that 3 Copeland had considerable money be1 fore he disappeared so suddenly. Here's the King. Confessing to numerous thefts ' Steen Ellingson told the police ol - Hoquiam, Wash., last wee'c, that hf - had stolen more than 3,000 chicken! from hen roosts in that town during d the past three years. The lad, tok gether with two companions, was ar >. .rested for burglarizing a stora . r > j HYttU U1LF L/U II! ttpreseDtalife Smith Says Gofernor \ Biease Changed the Names. V HATTER IS IN A MUDDLE V The Members of the Greenville Delegation Reopens the Question of Appointing County Assessors, and Endeavor to Straighten Out the Matter If They Can Do So. A dispatch from Greenville In tpeahing of the recent discussions :hat arose over the action of Gov. Biease In revoking the commissions >f C. G. Drake and J. L. Campbell as members of the county board of assessors, and the subsequent alleged statements of the governor's stenographer that the names of Bearden Jennings and Mr. Acker had boon ?rased by Representative C. D. Smith, a member of the Greenville rounty delegation, says Mr. Smith went before B. M. Shu man, an attorney, and made affidavit, the substantial statements of which are given In the following extracts: "Senator Mauldln stated that the stenographer in the governor's of flee told him that I had erased tb? name of Mr. Acker and substituted that of Mr. Campbell on the board assessors of Dunklin townsUa^^^^B^ also had erased the name of Jennings and substituted G. Drake in Cleveland towiushlp^^*^^^^ "I erased no names, nor were they erased under my directions, but these changes were made under the direction of the governor. "Helng tb*? on'y member of the Greenville delegation that was especially friendly to the governor, the governor stated to me on several occasions while in Columbia during the . session of the general assembly that he wouldmfljn? appointments on my recom m^ffdatfon. "He| told me to make my fight In the Gfknvllle delegation and If I wag downed to come to him and he would take care of me. - 'In the delegation meetings tne ' delegit^i 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, however, recommended the names of Traynham, Cothran and Acker, my ^ recommendation being Cothran and Traynham. In Cleveland townehtp there was no delegation meeting. I was Informed that the majority oNgf"* the delegation recommended Morgan, Hagood and Jennings. The minority, which were Mr. Earle and myss'f, recommended Hagood, Morgan and Drake. I carried the papers to the governor, who had told me he would appoint my appointees, and thereupon Gov. 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 appointing on my reopmrnendatlon and not on that of a majority of the Greenville delegation." Smith is one of the tenders of.the Cotton Farmer** union and baa beea^ organizing the un'fou. He has also , organized the farmers In the legist*- / i ture so that they may legislate In- ~ viw teiiigently on matters pertaining (AM* v. farms. \\1mt (iov. Blease Says. ^ _ Gov. Blease said Thursday that he did not remember the details In con nertion with the appointment of the Greenville county board of assessors. ** He said that the matter had been bandied by a stenographer employed by him for several 'reeks and that she would make a statement Friday y "I will stand by whatever statement she makes," said Gov. Rlease. ^ 9 ^ ^ j 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 entirely 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 every day. He is foelinz better than he i has felt for months past. Queer Death. When a stove exploded in the home of John Teppe, at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., flying pieces of the stove tore loose the plaster from the walls and it fell on a two-year-old child lying asleep in bed. Before the child was rescued it had been smothered. Mnn's Body Found. Tho body of Walter Byrum, of Monroe, N'. O.. who left his home on * January 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 Ills Wife. At Charleston Susan Deas was cat by her husband. Alead Deas, Sunday .-l.. i r\vy Tfonnver street. i nipnt. at nvr numc vn ........? dying a short time afterwards. The Hitting was the result of a quarrsl. Deas was arrested. * f^|H null Kills a Man. Disregarding the warning that a j .bull In the pasture was vicious Wll 11am Payne, of Norrlstown, N. J., was M gored and trampled to death this weqk. He had declared he could conquer any mad bull. Pipe Blew Out. fl s At Manchester, N. H., the head of r a 12-inch steam pipe at a pow?r . house here blew out Monday, killing . one maJi Instantly end severely lnurlng eight other persC^s. flH