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; ■ ip| i ... . ' •' - • VOL. XXXI SCORES KILLED. yfZ? BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1907 AtfeMltMTm Practically M- straytfbrTMrfflcExplMlM HUNDREDS AN fiov. Antii Watts t» IWm TNTaxUvy. Powder Plant Blows Up, Scattering ... 1 V Destmetion In Every Direction— The Concussion Was Ip^jt Two Miles Away—All Build- i In the Town Were Wrecked Inhabitants Killed or Injured. The town of Pontanet In Indiana was practically destroyed Tuesday by the explosion of the plant of the Du pont Powder Company. The dead number from twenty-five I® fifty. More than six hundred per rons were injured and every building in the town was wholly or partially levelled to the ground. Where stood a thriving and busy town of 1,000 people Tuesday morn ing Tneaflay night there is ruin and scattered wreckage. Five hundred inhabitants, aU more or leas seriously injured, have been taken away. Five hundred lnhabitanto,-eH more or leaa wounded, remain to gather their scattered household goods and sleep under tents and on cots, guard ed by aoldlera of the State. Without wnrnlng the powder mills, in number, blew up at 9.15 ployed two hundred men-, and of thoae seventy-five were at work when the first explosion occurred in the press mill. - In quick succession the gluing mill, the {wo coining mills and the powder magaslne blew up, followed by the cap mill. In the magaslne, situated several hundred yards from the mills, toere stored i0,009Jtegs of powder. When It blew np the concussion was felt nearly two hundred miles away.'* 1 Farm houses two miles away and school houses equally distant were torn to pieces and their occupants in Jared.- A passenger train on the Big FourTlailroad, four miles away, had every car window broken and several injured were by flying passengers glass. - - ■ ■ —- The mtll went up with three dis tinct explosions-, followed ninety min utes later by a fourth, even more ser ious than the others, when the mag- ulne blew up! immediately following the explo sions the wreckage caught fire and the inhabitants of the town, who rushed to the rescue of the mill em ployes, found themselves powerless to aid thoae burning in the ruins. They worked frantically, in constant danger from possible succeeding ex plosions, unmindful of their ruined homes. ^ Dead and dying were picked up and collected. Eighteen bodies burn ed and mangled were carted to a pro tected spot to await Identification, while the badly injured, numbering upward of fifty, were put on a special train and taken to Terre Haute for hospital accommodations. Nearly every one of the one thous and inhabitants carried blood on hinds and face from his or her own wounds or those of people who had required atfl.• / The mills were located one mile south of the town. With the first explosion the employees rjn for saf- ty, but most of them-Were killed‘or wounded by the quickly following ex plosions in the other mill. When the heat from the burning mills exploded the main powder maga slne, later, practically destroying U» town by the concussion, many o those engaged in rescue work werr badly Injured and several were kill ed. ’ . - - . Superintendent Monahan, of th« plant, Waa killed while sitting In hi* office, and his wife and sster-n-law were killed in their home some dis tance away. That the death list is not far great er is due to the fact that the people Tin town had left their houses at the first explosion and were not In them when the explosion of the 40,000 kegs of powder In the magaslne hurled their -homes to pieces and scattered their household goods in heaps of debris. Among the buildings totally de stroyed in the town were the Metho dist and Christian churches, the de pot, -all business blocks,- Including s large block Just completed, a large ware house and 500 homes. Three school bnlldlogw were de stroyed, two St Fontanet Sttd one at Coal Blufi, two miles away. AJ1 were filled with school children and every one of these were more or less injured by the €0118,986 of the bull dings. A four-room school building was torn to pieces and not one of the two hundred Children escaped unhurt none was fatally hurt The school huildisil at Coal Bluff was turned over and collapsed. The teacher and ninety pnpila were more o; less in jured. . Terra Haute and Brasil sent physl- r etnas and nurses with supplies tn carriages and automobiles across tho country, while special traiiis were made up tfnd run over the “ juuroad Ur ths cars of ths His First Annual Message Will Deal Largely With the Problem of Taxa- tkm and the Needs of the Schools. A dispatch from Columbia to Tty Florence Times says In his annual message to the legislature Governor Ansel will recommend that the state tax levy be Increased, but Just to what figure ha has not himself yet decided. He has been considering the advisability of recommending an increase of two mills for throe con- secuetive years, being anxious to yank the state out of Its disastrous floating debt policy and place it upon a firm cash basis to remain, but the legislature would never do anything of the kind with an election coming upon them next summer, and fUfwBia likely that a more moderate Increase will be recommended, say something like half a mill. The present levy is four and a half mills, having been decreased half a mill by the present legislature and a half mill by the preoeedleg legls- lature. In 1905 the levy was placed at 5 1-2 mills upon the recommenda tion of Governor Heyward, also for the purpose of placing the state on a cash basis. Afterwards the legist* ture banking on an increase In tax increased- the appropriations each year. — The reports of county auditors are coming ip rapidly how, and the comp troller general's office will in a few weeks be in a position to say whet the total tax values for 1907 will be. Nearly every county so far show a decided increase over the previous year, due principally to the increase la railroad . assessments. Some of the counties show increases of over a million dollars, while many show additions of half a million or more., It Is estimatedlhat the total Increase 1 will be about $20,000,000. The rail roads alone have been Increased over $12,000,000. The state’s total assessment for 1900 was $249,534, 532, fcbe Increase noent of real estate. The 1907 seasment will therefore be about $209,500,000. Half a mill addition- al jevy on this would yield $134,500 and.the five mills on the twenty mil lion dollars Increase would bring in mother ${,00,000 bringing up the to tal Income for next year $234,000 above that for the present year. This would about cure the floating debt ayil, provided the appropriations are, not Increased. The state treasurer has already borro’ year for current expenses. In spite of the big increase in .tax values for 1906. It seems practically certain that the appropriations of the coming leg islature will reach high water mark In spite of the warning of next sum mer's elections. A strong fight, lead Governor Ansel himself, wJH be ^ made to have the salaries of all stat'4 officers raised, and an equally deter mined effort will be made to have the supreme court and circuit court ludges' salaries raised and each court itenographer provided with' an as sistant. Which will mean an addi tional appropriation of about 919,- Mfi tflHttS.OOO. • WJhthrop College will ask for $69,- )00 for a new •tons will cost $20,000 extra, the Mft Drs. Batts aN TtaiMfinin, Lata State Irtatnnrs, DECUNE TO SETTLE Dr. Timmerman Says Bonds Were Stolen by a Subordinate Not of His Choosing, and He Holds That Neither Legally Nor Morally Can He Be Held Responsible For the Acts of a Subordinate. t Attorney General Lyon has re ceived a letter from Dr W. H. Tim merman, former state treasurer. In reply to Mr. Lyon’s letter requesting him to arrange the shortage caused by the theft of bonds from his office during his incumbency by a clerk, who had charge of the bond de partment. Dr. Timmerman declines to recognize' his liability for the theft of bonds by his formelr clerk, Daniel Zimmerman, and consequent ly the attorney general will institute suit on the former treasurer’s official bond for the amount lost during his administration, which is about $14,- 900, including interest. _ The letter from Dr. Timmerman is M.followa: - ' ■ Bates burg, 8. C., Oct. 14, 1907 tf&T ties “reduced the levy, although it ^ OB - TrFTSaer Lyon, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir:—-Yours of the 12th in stant is received in reference to stol en bonds claim. In answer thereto I will say that I do not consider my self morally or legally bound for the value the said bonds. 1 therefore will abide the decision of the courts upon the question of liability. I will be alow to believe that the state of South Carolina Will be' pc^unjQSt as to require of me payment for the ■toalage of a self-confessed thief, with the aid and Instigation of a con victed criminal, neither of whom has as yet reesfived any punishment for their crime. And especially since I was denied by statute the free exer cise of my judgment in the naming of clerks in the state treasurer’s of fice, do I refuse to make settlement. TRAMS CRASH. HorrtblD WrtcK on the Southern RaNwiy Near Oreensbore In Which Four Persona Were Killed Outright and a Score Injured In the Demolished Cars. A horrible wreck occurred on the Spnthern Railway near Greensboro, N. C>>. Friday morning before day light,- when Jbe northbound passen ger train. No. 34 ran Into an open switch at Rudd, & small station only four miles north of Greensboro, and rushed at full speed into the engine of a freight train standing on the siding, killing four and injuring be tween thirty and forty persons, some of thpm so seriously that they will, in all probability, die. The passen ger train was runnng at the rate of ^$)out sixty miles an hour, and the crash was terrific, as the earn fell in ruins along the track. When' the terrific crash came tLe engine turned over and the baggage car was com pletely demolished. The car next to the baggage car was split in tifo, and in this car the large number w4re in jured and some killed. Strange to say some of the passengers in this car escaped unhurt. The people in Pullman cars were only slightly in jured. • The dead: W. H. Timmerman. Dr. Timmerman’s reference to the fact that he was not allowed to put in the office clerks of his own selec tion refers to the fact that when he went Into the office he desired to ap point a kinsman as bond clerk, but under the statute forbidding nepotism he could not do so and he then re tained Zimmerman, who had been appointed by his predecessor, Dr. W. T. C. Bates. erman lias confessed the theft .of nineteen state bonds, worth $12,500, but his case has , been ap pealed on a technical point and will not be argued until this winter. Meanwhile be la on bond. Hla alleg ed confederate, T. J. Gibson, quite an old man. a broker of Columbia, was convicted of receiving stolen prop erty, knowing It to be stolen, but Gibson has not been-well-enough to appear In court sod have the sealed sentence read to him, so that he too la virtually free, so far as the sen tence Off the court is concerned. D. Allen Bryant, travelling ‘repre sentative of the- Richmond Paper company. .— — ; A foreigner who could not be iden- Uflefi. , 1 - .. ■' ' ; ■ The rolored fire man of the freight train. The Injured. Jim Shelton. Danville. . A. M. Gregg, Portsmouth. Va. John Lineberry, Randolph county. R. W. Dunaway, Kernersville, W. Va. June Tbomaa, Danville. A man from Canada, who refused to give his name to. the reporter. John D. Ferrell, Danville, Va. Chaxles Holton. W. C. Davis, of Gastonia, N. C. Mrs. W. C. Davis, Gastonin, N. C. O Wemple, Danville J. D. Kitchln, Clay county. Dr. F. D. Moor, Charlotte. W-.-M. Q1 lea, Charlotte ‘ Samuel A. Ktndley, Gastonia, N. C. Mrs, George 8. Wells. C. M. Clayton. Danville. ‘ Joe Sledge, Daville John Gordon, colored, Virginia. At the passenger station Thursday night was a hundred or no of people from Reldavllle and other local points north of the city who were attending the |alr and who .were DR. BATES WONT PAY. He Too Decline* to Make Up the 1-V' Bond Steel Shortage. itate board of health will aak for the stablishment of a $50,00$ tuberculo- is hospital for the statejxospltal for. he Insane, the reformatory at Fior- 'nce wants sal>out $5,fiOH to gets it* vork properly started, the new high chool system- will need about $50,- 100 and the militial will ask for tltout $30,000 to enable it to so equip itself as to be able to pass the requirements of the Dick law. - Governor Hanly, at Indianapolis, or dered the Terre Haute company of the Indiana National Guard to patrol the ruined district and to protect life md property- The governor arrived Tuesday evening about the time the soldiers reached Fontanet. He brought with him 700 tents and cots for. the use of the homeless. The condition of the bodies were frightful. Burned and mangled In every conceivable way, writhing and distorted, the. rescued heap of dead and dying presented a ghastly sight and the screams of agony were herve wrecking. » The powder mtH, which has suffer ed heavy losses in previous explosions gave employment to 200 men, work ing in three shifts. At the time of the explosoh about sixty-five Men were la the plant. The first explosion destroyed the press mill and the glaslng mill, the 'otnlng mills and powder magazine and the cap mill followed. The country school near Fontanet, with an attendance of Bfty children, had Jsst’beea called to order the explosion occurred The roof collapsed, hot none the children wore seriously injured The teacher, Miss Susan Bishop, of Four Terre Haute, was struck by a fall- ut mar MJired. Dr. tv. T. C. Bates, formerly state treasurer, has taken the is his successor, Dr. W. H. Tlmmer nan, and will'decline to make good the amount stolen in bonds by his bond clerk, D. Zimmerman, during tbe administration of Dr. Bates. In a letter to Attorney General Lyon, ac* knowledging the receipt of Mr. Lyon’s letter in reference to the mat ter. Dr. Bates says: “I cannot admit responsibility, by reason of any act of mine, for any reissue of State bonds by such clerk, and Therefore I respectfully decline to make settlement as requested by you in your letter.” The amount for which 4t ia held Dr. Bates Is iielSle is $1,519.50, in cluding interest.. It Is an interesting fact that Mr. Zimmerman waa first appointed to the clerkship in the office of the state treasurer by Dr. Bates and was then retained by Dr. Timmerman and by Capt. Jennings. State Treasurer Jennings, who ia liable for several thousand dollars, has Indicated his probable intention to settle without auit KILLED BY INDIANS. Seven Persons Are Ambushed and The head brakeman of the freight train, who left the switch open and caused, the disaster, ran and has not been heard of. -V TWO MEN SHOT KICKS AGAIN. TN State SuparintandfRt of Ed ucation Scans tiav. AnssL ‘ A- OBJECTS TO A LAWYER Being Appointed on the Board of Education, and Writes a Caustic Letter to the Governor For Not Consulting Him and Appointing u Lawyer—Says He Will Not Stand For Re-election Next Year. The appointment by Gov. Ansel of Hayne F. Rice of Aiken as a member of the State board of education to fill out the unexplred term of J E. Boland resigned from the second dis- I'trict, has caused Mr. O. B. Martin, the State superintendent of educa tion, to write Gov. Ansel that the selection is not satisfactory because Mr. Rice is a lawyer and not an educator. The letter also makes the interesting statement that Mr. Martin will not be a candidate for the office he now occupies again. * The situation in what is called the ’cabinet'^ by the newspaper men ia rather strained Sdme time ago Gov. Ansel announced that be had offered the vacancy in the secopd district to Hon. John C. Sheppard. Superln- molned until after the meeting of the State board of educatioh last month and" when the appointment waa announced Tuesday it was sup posed that harmony once more-pre vailed. The letter notifying Mr. Mar tin of the appointment was as fol lows: Hon. O B. Martin, State Superin- * tendent of Education, Columbia, 8. C. Dear Sir: I have appointed the Hon. Hayne Fr Rice, Aiken, S. C., as a member of the State board of edu cation to Bill the unexplred term of Prof. J. E. Boland, resigned. Mr. Rice has taken great Interest in school matters for years, an^ I feel sure that he will make a very use ful member of the board of educa tion. * i Yours Very Truly, M. F. Ansel, Governor. Mr. Martin received this letter on Wednesday morning and At once re plied with the letter published be low. In talking over the matter, he said that he did not wish to withdraw from his educational work as he plan ned it. He believed, however, that when the terms.. of the board BADLY FOOLED. AIoubi Woman Neamo fmg- Ntf a Mm SN ^ Had Never Seen and Went to Lake Park, Ga., to Marry Him and Found Her Intended a Negro. A dispatch from Valdosta,PGa., aaya the spectacle of nn Intelligent and good looking white woman com ing 2,000 miles to marry a whom she fopnd to be a negro haa greatly exercised the people of Lake Park, Oa. Information of the affair reached Valdosta Thursday. On Saturday afternoon there al ighted from a Georgia Southern and Florida train at Park Lake a young woman who waa a stranger to the people there, and who. afte.* jawalt- ing around the station some time, as if expecting some one to meet her: ventured to inquire of bystanders, if they knew Rev. J. J. Roberta. The man first appealed to thought a few momenta and finally confessed that be did not know of any one by that name in the town. Another par ty told the lady that the only J. J. Roberts in the town was a negro preacher known locally at M Burst- Eyed Jake,” who got bis name from the fact that he had lost one eye in a fire. The lady waa escorted to the Lake Park hotel by some of the sympath etic citizens, and H was there that she told her story. Shq said ker tendent Martin wrote the governor a very strong letter'of protest and in the controversy Mr. Sheppard de- cllned j^ >erae^__Tto_jramnrar ra l uuffiFtfliThVea^r’Iinmr^nnVh- very generous In their proffers of ststance to Miss Middleton, and will! aid her in returning to her home If she needs assistance. . ., . .. .. .present board expired Gov. very anxious to go on No. 34 but the M| would appoint lawyers or men ticket agent would not sell the tick ets, making them wait tor local train No.- IZ. -• ■tr At Des Moines, la., by a Pool Room —-—■* Keeper. At Des Moines, la., C. H. Morris, mine owner, capitalist and former president of the lown Mine Operators’ association, and E. €. Johnson, man ager of the company store at Enter prise Mines, eighteen miles north of that place, were shot Thursd log by J. C. Cain, proprietor of the who are not familiar with education al work and thus Interfere with the work of the'educational department. The announcement by Mr. Martin that he would not be a candidate for reelect Ion will probably cause a num ber of announcements to be issued lly. He was regarded as the strongest man In the coming cam paign for the office and therefore hia removal win change the line-up con siderably.' *Bo far only one man haa announced himself, E. C. Elmore of Spartanburg, but several others are spoken of for entrance. „ Mr, Martin's letter to Gov. Ansel waa as follows: > Hon. M F. Ansel, Governor, Colum i Pool Hall. of the appointment of Hr. H. -Fr and when he calL me, I will go to Rtee of the Alkea bar as a member Physicians hold out hopes that Mr. Morris will recover, but It is not be lieved Johnson can live. Cain la still at large, Johnson and Morris had been instrumental In hav ing Cain arrested on a charge of “boot-legging” and the ill feeling which resulted was the cause of the shooting. NEGROES ARRESTED. of the State board of education waa Attacked Lady and Daughter in the Streets of Danville. ^ -y 1 ^- » ‘ ^ ~ '" 7“'"' John Baace, the negro who attack ed Mrt. Ferrell and her daughter in the streets of Danville. Va., Thursday and his brother-in-law, William Hen- deraop/were arrested that night be fore the hounds put on their trail came up with them. There waa dan ger of a lynching for awhile, but it passed. TREMENDOUS STORMS. Murdered in Texas. A special from El Paso,. Texas says: Four men and three women one of the former being a govern meat mail carrier, were ambushed and killed between San Jose de HUa and La Colorado, east of Hertnosttld. in the lower Sonora oonnty by the of Yaquis. The killing was discovered * qhirt time afterwards by n party of Aasrlgaa The Whole of Southern Europe in the Grasp of Floods. The whole of Southern Europe is in the grasp of a tremendous storm* accompanied by torrential rains. This coming on the heels of unprecedented rain falls and floods of the past three weeks, is causing great distress. \ PRISONERS SHOT. mining men who wore trav- eHac over trail with sa escort of ««**»» *•*«»•. ., Five Me Killed by Abe Government of Haiti. Five political prisoners wore shot recently la Hayti, according to k dis patch received at the state depart ment at Washington bia, 8. U Sir: Your letter notifying me The Rev. Maxwell Waloata, pas- M a for the tor of St. Lucss’s-GermanHvangellcal I nomination In 1909 he Lutheran church, Sutton street, Wll-lpHed: New, young man, yon are get- llama burg, N. Y., and hla affinity, ting on dangerous ground.” and de- young Mrs. Dora Bauer, were ar-1 dared that he would have something reigned in the Manhattan avenue po-1 definite to any along that lino later to Ice court. I the fall. The case resulted In the discharge I The reception of Mr. Bryan this ef- of the prisoners, with the preacher I ternoon was the meet largely attend- ooaeenting to accompany hla father, ed event of its character ever held to an aged minister, to the Brooklyn su-1 Spartanburg. The great company af premfe court, where he confessed his I cltlieaa and people from the county willingness to be seat to n sant- *bo passed In line to griep the hand tariurn. I of their guest befog anfimeated by a Young Mf» Baur was token bylllne of 300 young Indies from Ooa- her lawyer to the home of an aunt, j verae college and folly as many Wot* to live. But as her aunt took her | ford students, away, she cried: I will always love > Mr. Walento edi yo promptly received. So you have suc ceeded In appointing a lawyer and also in not consulting the officer who Is responsible to the people for the conduct of the educational affairs of theftste. I wish that lb'were pos sible for me to think of your fiction In this whole matter other than as small-minded, officious and perni cious. I prefer to think of the gov ernor of my State as liberal minded, potential and statesmanly.. I note that y&ijLspy that Mr. Rice has taken an interest in school mat ters. Likewise many of our school men bavA token an interest In law but It does, not follow that they should be put upon the supreme bench. They are hardly competent to examine applicants for admiaaion to the bar and to discharge the numer- ous complicated bnt tecnlcal duties of the supreme court. To take a charitable view of the situation I believe you utterly , fat to grasp the duties of a member of the State hoard of education. Some time ago when yon made your second appointment of a lawyer on this board, I characterised yonr action with such language as seemed at that time appropriate, 1 applied the mus tard plaster which afterwards seemed rather pungent. The conclusion now bearing down upon me that you are furnishing a concrete exemjpllfl- cation of the characterisation aibove referred to. The appointee shall designate as lawyer No.-t pened to be too broad-ganged a man to accept any appointment In a de partment whose head had bean ignor ed. Appointee lawyer No. 8. "Prof.” Rice of Aiken bar, may be of a sim ilar calibre hot If I am to believe the report given to the prees concerning LECTUREDAT MOrr On ‘the Prfiace *f Baptist Church to dred People—The Audience That Ever to the ago ike began a correspondence with Rev. J. J. Roberts, of Lake Park getting in communication with him through a matrimonial paper or cor respondence bureau. She had become engaged to him and he had sent h«r money to pay her way to Georgia, where they were to marry. She fearlessly began the long Journey, believing that bet af fianced was, of course, a white man, and one prominent jn hla section. After.hearing her story citlsens of the town went out to look for tty negro, and he appeared as greatly surprised aa the woman had beam He admitted that be had been cor responding with a lady In Vermont, but thought she was a “cnllnd lady.” He protested that he had never, _ , „ . ^ _ dreamed of his correspondent being J anoth i ® r a white lady. The citizens of Lake Net Excepting tbe Manic Festival. In speaking of the visit of the Hon. William Jennings Bryan to Spartan burg on last Friday the correspondent at that place of The State gives the following account of the honors paid the distinguished gentledsan t>y the people of Spartanbnrg. The corree- pondent says: This day has been largely giren oyr by the people of Spartaaburg to •* the entertainment of their distin guished guest, William Jennings Bry- During the morning the Indies of the eity gave*their time aad attsa- ^ tlon to making beautiful the Interior of the Y. M. C. A. hall, where at .9 o’clock this afternoon a public recep tion was given to Mr. Bryan’s honor attended by fully L0QQ. persons, with whom tbe Nebraskan shook bands and greeted with that broad smile so characteristic of the Tonight Mr. Bryan audience of 1.900 people in the audi torium In the First Baptist church, delivering hla lecture, “The Prince of Pence,' He was presented to his au dience by Dr. Henry Nelson Syndor, president of Wofford College. This day has boon Ideal and to night was perfect, la groat contrast with the weather conditions which greeted Mr. Bryan here three years ago when a terrific rain prevailed aad the crowd that heard him was smslL A wreck oa the Southern railway delayed Mr. Bryan’s arrival two honrs aad n brief fctop at Gaffney be tween seetloas of Ids train [crowd in Spartanburg had to uttlng him lore n PREACHER WHO ELOPED With a Married Wc £ Declared to Be Deranged. thus patting him loro a few before four o’clock. At the he was cheered and about 50 shook kandc with him before his rings left the depot, carrying him to the home of Prof. Gaasewell oa Wof ford campus. " In tty hour he spent there before going to the reception la his he received e State aad talked of hie recent trip to I Carolina. Whan naked If he Would him. I will love him to the end of] the world. I will love him as no man was ever loved before, and although we may never meet again, I will keep] on loving him until the end of time.”' Thoae in the reeffivtot tye Senator aad Mrs. Howard Oaritota Mr. and Mrs. Stobo Btmpeon. Dr. and Mrs. Henry Nelson Snyder. Dr. and Mrs. John 8. Watkins. Mr. aad Mrs. John B. Cleveland. Dr. aad Mrs. Robert Payne Pen. (Dr. aad Mrs. L. M. Roper. Mr. and Mrs. John Gary Prpf. and Mrs. D. A. DuPre. Rev. and Mrs. W. A Mr. and Mrs. William M. Jones. Prof, and Mrs. John G. CMnkseales. Mr. and Mrs. Warren DuPre. Mr. end Mrs. R. H. F. CM pmna. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Burns L Congressman end Mrs. Jos !ph T. his appointment I should say that he Is at least ambiguous, amphibious, ambidextrous, nbiquitious and lnde-| terminate. These characteristics may | Mi - - and Mrs. George Nicholls. appeal to you. Aa you perhaps know I Hr. and Mrs. J. W. you have next year the appointment] of\ the remaining members of the] State board of education with the ception of the Secretary who holds | the poslUon ex officio as State taper-1 Johnson. intendent of education and t have | Judge ■and Mrs. D. B. Hydri ek. the supreme satisfaction of knowing] Tonight Mr. Bryan’s audli ace la that I do not have to si{ s with them I ike First Baptist church was one of nor be bound by their actions. I wish I ike most brilliant ever gatiM rad In to give you the pleasure of knowing I tbe city not excepting the gn at fes- here and now that I shall ndt be ajtlval crowds. He did not lei re the member of that board any longer I toxt of his lecture upon Christ so the than is necessary for me to discharge I Price Of Peace, and only in tb f brief- my duty and obligations to the people | cet way spoke of things pollti al and of South Carolina. For two terms lithe problems of government, have been elected State auperinten-l Tty address ia a powerful dent of education without opposition I up°* religion as the basis of ail I have discharged jay duties fearless-1 ernment and the Men that by n ly aad vigorously. I feel tbe aatia- ] lenrlce to the world to hla faction of having done some good for I measured, my people. I shall sot ask for re-1 Speaks at Gaffney, election. 1 mention this in order that J A dispatch to The State aaya_ you may Indulge and cherish the fond I J* C, Otta, representing hope of getting e satellite of yonr I board of trade, and J. B. Bell, own ilk. 1 am somewhat la the pos-1 tenting the city of Gaffney, Ulon of the old negro woman who I for Charlotte Thursday night to ' went Into a dry goods store and ask-1 Mr. Bryan and too®# him to ed for three yards of rad ribbon. Thejwtyrt ty spol erk was very bow-lagged. Hestarw Mr. Bryto ed across the store and saM: ‘‘Walklutoe at Gaffney Friday while this way.” The old woman saM, “No. I way to air! I’ll do without the ribbon before ] More HI walk 1st way ” Aad HI So with-1 great oat my ribbon before IT! walk nm way.", :~ Slaooraiy yours. . 0. B. Martin.