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,RHfUn9 TO CHAHGB8 MOVBD DB. SAUNDERS. NO CAPTAIN OF NEGROES Btanfort 8ea*(or GItm Statement Shoving That HU Fattier, N. Ohrie- teooMi Sr., Did Not Berre ae a Cap tain of N«*ro Company, Although Oommt—tawed to Do So. Senator Nell* ChrUtenaen of Beau fort has written the following letter to the editor of the Pee Dee Advocate. It end the statement enclosed are self-eaplanatory: —Dear Sir:—In the public mind sns- pMoas have been aroused as to my father's character by reason of cer tain messages of 'the governor. The connection in which this matter wai brought up by the governor, and the way ft wan^phcased and misstate- ■nuts made about, leave an impres sion with the public that is ourage- oatly unfair. So I am taking the liberty of sending you a copy of pages of the Senate Journal giving the rec ord as it now stands. If you feel ORDER IS ISSUED AGJ BERRY BY LAURENS FOR EIGHTEEN MILLIONS. w ^ rr.wa s J seaava saa viav UaJIt J' y s*^r4 that you can dse my stateaent in M there are all over South OaroHha. Action Gives Newberry QuMe a Shock —Qnarantiwe of the Was Entirely Unexpected.' The board of health of Indrens Sunday passed a quarantine order against passenegr traffic frbm New berry and Newberry County, This step was taken after an Investigation had been made of the small por situation in the neighboring town by two mem hers of the health board, one of whom Is a physician. While the situation Is sdid to be much improved In the city of New berry, It Is claimed that no teas than four hundred cases con be found in the county. There is only one. case at Laurens, says the news report, so far as is known, and the patient nas been isolated. The city and county offloen hare the matter of handling (he quar antine regulation in hqnd and the or der will be gtrlctly observed. 4 dispatch from Newberry to The News and Courier says Abe fact that Laurens had quarantined against Newberry created some Surprise. There are a number of caises o! small pox In Newberry and In the county. executive session I believe It would help to undo a wrong. Trusting that I am not trespassing top fhr on your attention, I am. Very truly, Nells Christensen. His Statement to the Senate. Feeling that it would not be proper for me to be present during this dis cussion of a matter so personal to me I absented myself from the latter part of your executive session. But I am told that you have taken action to. vindicate the rights and dignity pf this .Senate, a body greatly respected by the people of South Carolina; and to vindicate me, for which I am deep ly grateful typow becomes my place to speak for mine own. Beneath the shade of a great oak la a Beaufort grave yard, lies the body of my father. To-night his name is held up for the scorn of the people of this State by Its governor, and for a thing he did not do. My father waa a Union soldier. If it had become his duty to lead "chargee with aegro troops against white sol diers of the Southern Confederacy," -he coaid have done nothing else as a eoidler. But that duty did not be- -eotne hia. He entered the army a foreigner hardly able to speak this language, and for bravery on many a hard fought battlefield he was pro moted to be a corporal, to be a ser geant, to be a captain. He received a commission putting him In com mand of a negro company on a dis tant field. But his orders were modi fied, and he was assigned to other duty. The insinuations in this message Vere voiced shortly after the dispen sary Investigation by H. H. Evans in Newberry, and published in a dally paper. Confederate veterans In Beau fort, my father being absent from the State, published a statement protest ing against the attack and speaking highly of hts life In Beaufort. That action of those Confederate veterans la a part of my heritage. I believe that no youth in this State has grown up with feelings of greater respect for the soldiers of the Confederacy than I have, and I got them from my father. He taughjt me to honor the Confederate soldier. For four years he fought against the armiee of the South. For more than thirty years after the war he lived In the South and did all a man could in a humble way to build it up In my campaigns for the position I now hold, all these facts were fully discussed, and the people who are re sponsible for my being here know all about them. They have passed on them. They who knew my father well, gray-halred Confederate veter ans and men whose forefathers lived on that soil when It was roamed by the Indians, voted for me and. sent me here to represent them. Bora in this State, I loved it as a lad. But that love has grown very deep and very strong these later ypars as I have found its people ready 4o accept me and mine without pre judice. A people who can rise above these sectional passions is a noble people, and their State is a great State. It seems a splendid thing to me that my humble political career oould embody the evidence of this fine trait of South Carolinians. She forgets the bitterness of the past, and cberlahing its Ideals of sacrifices for conviction, lives in the present ana In the future. After serving here for ten years it was my privilege to bring Into this chamber and to introduce to many of paring an evening I was celled oat, to the experience other message of the in which her name to connection with hto ludnoaHona, and In which muring auutions to Mr I ittad jm but there is no epidemic of the dis ease and all cases in the city are un der quarantine. Nothing has been published about It because It is gen erally understood that the disease is scattered all over the State. To be exact, Health Officer Adams says that there are at present only fourteen cases in Newberry, ahd that several of these are in one family, and and all on the city limits. AH the cases are among negroes, except 3. Since the 13th of January, 1918, there heve been sixty-nine cases in Newber ry and ho deaths. The people are be ing vaccinated and the trustees have been rigidly enforcing the rule as to school children and none are admitted to the public schools who capimt give evidence of successful vaccination. The general opinion at Newberry Is that Laurens wanted to keep a carni val company from that plaep this week and that the quarantine was put on as an excuse to keep the shows away. The fourteen cases are conval escent and will be discharged from quarantine this week. There are a number of cases in the county, but Just to what extent the disease pre vails it is Impossible to ascertain. In the township in which Prosperity is located it was stated aome time ago that a sehool election had been called off on account of the prevalence of smallpox. The county superintendent of education states that abont 76 per cent of the achool children had been vaccinated. STORM RAGES FOR HOURS. Seventeen People Are Already Dead as Result of Cold Wave. A snow storm said to rival In sever ity the famous blizzard of 1887, rag ed to the accompaniment of zero weather in the upper Hudson valley, the Mohawk valley and the northern and western parts of New York State all day Saturday, taking up many smaller railroads and trolley lines and paralyzing communication gen erally. All malls were delayed. Late Saturday the fall of snow ceased in many districts, only to be followed by a return to the zero weather and high winds which have had New York State In their grip for the last four days. While the snowfall In the metropo lis was only 10 Inches, at other points phenomenal falls for those sections were reported, and snow ranging from 24 to 36 inches In depth. Con ditions in New Jersey were almost as bad, though the fall of snow was not as heavy there, ranging from eight to 12 Inches. High waves Saturday again attacked the Seabright, N. J., peninsula, and placed it under two feet of water, causing the population to seek safety on the mainland. Con ditions in Seabright, it waa said, were worse for a time than in January, when many bolldlngi were demolish ed. Car Leaves Race Track. . A great gray racer picking its way Monday along the Santo Monico course leaped from the road near the National Soldiers’ home at Sawtelle, Cal., killed a war veteran, Loyto G. Smith, and Injured several other per sona. Hanged Before Thousands. In the presence of thousands of persons, Thomas WUHams, a negro, convicted of the murder of his step daughter, Vallie Moore, aged 14, waa hanged. He confessed the crime on the gallows. sages, and I most This to no time but I will say this, this room knows that men who now alts in chair to there, we may the opportunlttaa a fords In finch attacks on fool m I did, that and oar dead. In of tool,! thorn as aoeh. vituperation, every man in u the Farm Demonstration Work in the Southern States Get an Appropria tion of $870,400. Chairman Lever of the House com mittee on agriculture, Thursday completed thp* annual agricultural appropriation bill. It aggregates 318,947,000, exclusive of permanent appropriations, an Increase of |960.- 000 over last year's total. The hill Is accompanied by the most compre hensive report ever submitted by the committee. Many radical changes are propos ed, including reorganization of tht weather bureau and preparation by the secretary of agriculture of a plan for reorganizing and systematising department work. The report seta' forth that the department is "now de veloped to a point where ita preset system of bureau organisation has be come cumbersome, la not as effective ly efficient as it should be," and the bill contemplates that existing bu reaus should be rearranged to cover five or six main lines of work, auch as the research, rural organisation, State relations, weather and forest UNDERWOOD AND HOBSON ' EN- <0- GAGE Qf DEATH GRAPPLE. The bin appropriates $25,000 to encourage agricultural development of the reclamation projects through demonstrations and advice to settlers An Increase of $25,000 over the pres ent appropriation Is provided for co operation • with States In the protec tion from fire of the forested water sheds of navigable streams. The elaborate Mount Weather ob servation station, occupying eighty- four acres In the Blue Ridge Moun tains of Virginia, which has cost since 1902 approximately $483,000, wonld be-virtuatty aboHshed-by tlib bill, the “cessful aspirant to the seat occupied secretary of agriculture being em powered to sell or lease In whole or In part, and to maintain there only an "ordinary" observation station, to cost not exceeding $1,000 a year. The committee and the department hold that the special work heretofore car ried on at Mount Weather can be bet ter performed In the West. , To increase the benefits from na tional forests, the bill would author ize the secretary of agriculture to rent or lease to responsible persons or corporations, for not exceeding twen ty years, portions of ground for con struction of hotels, snmmer resi dences, stores or other buildings for recreation or convenience.. The for est service appropriations would total $5,$543,265. Provisions for attention to cost of living problems is made in several Items. For investigating the prepara tion for market, handling, grading, packing, freezing, drying, storing ap,d transporting of poultry and eggs, a $50,000 appropriation would he made Fifteen thousands dollars would be provided for use in educating the peo ple on the value of fish as a supple ment to the meat supply, and to in vestigate the handling of food fish. Oysters and other shell fish also fig ure, with an appropriation of $5,000 to investigate their packing, hand ling, storing and shipping, In the United States and border waters. .. The controversy regarding.a board of experts to pass on pure food 4 and drugs is settled by a brief provision estaDlishlng the right of the secretary of agriculture "to employ and desig nate scientific experts to make inves tigations and act as boards or com mittees to report to him upon ques tions arising in tl)a enforcement of the pure food and drug law." The bill appropriates $378,400 for co-operative farm demonstration work In the South, an increase of II0.000 lor the boll weevil, and $400,000 for such demonstration work in sections other than the South, an increase of $35,000. SAVES GRANDCHILD’S LIFE. Child Enveloped in Flames is Saved by Grandmother’s Effort. The prompt and heroic notion of hsr aged grandmother saved the life of four-year-old Ollice Landreth at her home in the auburbe of Green ville late Friday. As the grandmoth er entered the room where the little child had been playing, ahe found her enveloped in a blase of fire r her clothing having caught from a near by grate. The aged grandmother rughed to thei child, presaed her V>^«r own., fora and finally in patting put the fire, sus- painful injuries herself. Columbia Thieves robbed a safe in Columbia of $30 Sunday night without the use of explosives. The epmbination knob on the fate of tie safe was broken off by the use of a hammer and a cold chlseL T^e lock was then knocked through tie catting on the inner side of the ante doer. Pedigree won first rye; third ALABAMA MUST DECIDE ,' V ' - ■» - -• * Hobeon Has Toured the State While Underwood Has Remained at the Heim of Democrats In the House— _ Friends of Both Candidates Assert ~ Confidence in Leaders. The seven months’ fight between Oscar W. Underwood, majority leader of the national House of Representa tives end Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson, for the Alabama vacancy In the United States Senate Is drawing to a close. The deciding votes In a campaign that has attract ed nationwide interest will be east at the Democratic primaries to be held April 6. The actual election of a senator twill not take place until November 4, hot that will be merely a ratification , of the choice made at the primary polls. Mr. Underwood has announced from Washington that so far as per- eonal participation was concerned, his campaign for a;seat in the upper House of Congress'already has end ed. Repreeentatlve^Iobson, on the other hand, is carrying forward the personal campalgn he has been wag ing for many-months during which time he has spoken in nearly every county and! town in the State. The political adherents of the two distinguished candidates are daily making counterclaims of victory. Careful abseWers, however, are in clined to await the casting of ballots before attempting to name the suc- by the late Senator Joseph F. John ston. Mr. Hobson, once a striking figure in the navy and the hero of the San tiago blockade, resigned from the ser vice shortly after the Spanish War In order to undertake a political career He was quickly elected to the House of Representatives la Washington and has served several successive terms. His eyes long ago, however,’ were fixed upon the Senate and he is now finishing a painstaking campaign to realize that ambition. Whatever advantage may accrue from actual presence in the thick of the fight practically from beginning to end, rests with Mr. Hobson. Friends of Mr. Underwood, however, have used the campaign activities ot Mr. Hobson as a basis for charges of habitual absenteeism from his duties in Washington. One of these friends, W. H. Parker, in his capacity as s citizen and taxpayer, recently filed a protest against Mr. Hobson receiving his pay as a congressman during the period he has been away from Wash ington. Mr. Underwood spent his Christ mas holidays |n Alabama making a covered as much ground as the 11m- brief but vigorous speaking tour. He ited period of the holiday recess per mitted and then announced that he must return to his place in the House, leaving his campaign in the hands of his followers. . ~ J Typical of all latter-day political fights la the South, the Hobson- Underwood campaign has been more or less involved with the question of State-wide prohibition. Mr. Hobson has charged .his opponent with hav ing been influenced by the "Uqsor In terests”. He also has charged that corporation tfifluence was behind the campaign of Mr. Underwood for the presidential nomination in 1912. All of these charges have been denied by Mr. Underwood. ” , U A short time ago there was a pros pect of several Joint debates between the two candidates and the State was greatly excited over the prospect. Mr. Hobson > has issued repeated chal lenges from the stump, but Mr. Un derwood announced that he could not Indulge in any such campaign in view of the demands made upon him in Washington The senatorial fight also to involv ed more or less with the race tor governor of the State, which likewise will be decided at the April primaries. There are five gubernatorial candi dates in tbe field and the campaign baa been mom bitter than that waged by tbe Hobson-Underwood followers. Former Governor Comer claims to be making 4be race for governor against the rest ot the field. It will be neces sary for the successful candidate to obtain a-majority of the votes cast to the primary; [ • . , r---y3Brg' f Carlisle Leaves Prison. Milton~&. Carlisle, serving a sen tence of oaa year at the Newberry cdunty JaiL waa ordered released by the President Monday. ' \ • For Sale—Shetland Ponies. W. 1 * McIntyre, Thomasville, Ga. Foi> Sale—Pop 1st and pine trees. Ad drees James A. Clarkson, Hopkins s. a Wanted to Boy—Tea Oar Loads, well berried Holly. L M. L. Jeffreys Goldsboro, N. 0. Rook, the great popular game. Fifty „ cents postpaid. 81ms Book Store Orangeburg* 8. C. We Pay Cash for all varieties of co ’ and field peas. Palmetto Brokerage Co.. Greenville, S. C. Bright Barred Rocks—Farthers best chicken: 51 for $1. Weaterh Slope Ranch, Salisbury, N. C. 18He Cotton—Columbia Upland long staple. Pedigreed seed; $1.50 bush ed. L. M. Brown, Milner, Ga. , For Sale—Fruit, Shade Orhaffieuta' trees and shrubs. Catalogue free Cureton Nurseries, Austeel, Ga. V . For Sale—Pure Georgia Cane Syrup; 35c gallon in barrels and kegs. W. H. Dairs, Savannah, Ga., Box 45., Ruff Orpington eggs, single comb, pure bred, one dollar for fifteen. Rev. E. W. Leslie, Prosperity, S. C. Write for fnll particulars of my pure Improved cotton Seed. Prices rea sonable. Q. L. Toole, Aiken, S. C. For Sale—Choice bright cotton seed meal in lots of 10 tons or more. Make beet offer. Box lil, Ulmer, S. C. • WTAptcd—I^eifowls—State number, price, age, and sex In first letter. Miss Maria Boatwrtgirt7*"ffohetta7 S. C. Get Married—Descriptions hundreds wealthy Californians seeking mar riage, free. Mission Unity, B-12, San Francisco, Cal." White Wyandottee—Yearling stock for sale at sacrifice. Eggs for hatch lag. W. P. Causey, 1315 Dickem St., Columbia, S. C. Wanted—1,000 agents for self-filling fountain pen. Exclusive territory. Particulars free. Sample 25c. Wol- verton, Massillon, O. Reds—Large, healthy, bright red, In- oculated. Heavy layers; 15 eggs, 81.50; 100, $6. Mrs. Addle B. Pat terson, Plneland, 8. C. For Salb—One Flanders 20, two new cades, top, extra seat. Car In ex cellent condition. Price reasonable. J. F. Burbank, Union, S. C. -i For Sale—Recleaned Lespedeza seed free of Johnson grass; $3.50 bushel. Soy .beans, $2.50 bushel. W. W. Burkhalter, Laurel Hill, La. Special—Pure white and Exhibition Fawn and White Runners, $5; trie' Utility, $1 each or $10 dox. Mrs. J F. Carroll, Hohennald, Tenn. For Sale—Triumph sweet potato seed; largest, earliest, heavy„beav- ersr*l -per bushel f. o. b. Wllliston. W. E. Prothro, Wllliston, S. C. Malari, .Chills Jaundice cured or money refunded. Rigor-Tone 50 cents post paid. Stamps or coin. Rigor-Tone Co., Petersburg, Va. For Sale—Florida cane syrup, 40c gallon in new barrel. Speckle velvet beans, $2 bushel cash with order. Caswell Q Grimes, Alachua, Fla. Extra Early improved half and half cotton seed, 40 to 50 per cent lint. Others get more; my price $2.00 bushel. G. W. Coleman, Tifton, Ga. ' . For Sale—A good portable saw mill outfit, - complete. Daily capacity 15,000. In first class condition and repair. S. F. Chapman, Asheville, N. C. Men and Women earn $3 dally ad dressing letters la spare time. Send lOe for outfit end beginner. Ad- drees Morgan, Box 654, Salisbury, n. a Forty Per cent. Oosuntostan—Big money selHpg guaranteed garden seed. Agents wanted in every town. Lewis and Thompson, Box 21, Tus- kegee, Ala- ^ Engraved Visiting Cards are neatest and best. 100 cards in script and plate for $1.50. Style card mailed on request 81ms Book Store, .Orangeburg, 8. O. For Solo- Eggs for batching, from thoroughbred 8. C. Brown Leghorns at $1 per setting of 11. Special prices en large lots. R. W. Chap lin, Rantowlss, 8. C. ♦ Potato Prqwa (J, Q. $2—$1,000; unexcelled; rery; book order now by $1. Cabbage Plaints, 1,- j. L. Padrick, Tifton, Oa. Sale—Choice Barred Rocks. s, eggs $2 to $6 DO. Registered Jersey Berkshire hogs. R. B. White Wyandottee—Layers, i. Beautiful birds. Stock ggs. Fifteen White Indian >r ducks, Patton and Flshel i. C. Bi Martin, Greenville, experimental stations, always full crop. Price $1.25 Excelsior Seed Farms, Eggs, Baby Chicks, White >ras. Buff and White Rocka, i Runner Ducks. Satisfaction uteed. Summerville Poultry, >bile Contact Points, 75c— ray $1.50 or $2 for new pointa. ut new platinum on for 75c Send them to us and get them urn mall. Wlesepape Mfg Co., bia, S. C. tobacco and truck successfully n». Coming section of Horry., ity. Ten to twenty dollars per Ask us for list. Ream A ienzle, Loris. 8. C. few bushels of my Prolific ts to get seed from. In fonr- I sacks, $1.25 bushel f. o. b. Park. J. S. Saunders, the Pea- * trass White Orpingtons— ■d from $100 pen. Aldrich i from Madison Square Gar- )lue ribbon winners. Fifteen $2, $3 and $5. Orders filled care. W. S. Stansell, Easley, e—Two pens thoroughbred, developed Barred Rocks, C. A. Hamilton, Jonee- —Have improved cotton ^ by and boll selection for three Bought original from H. H. lerour, Duluth, Ga. Highest g cotton. Try It. Known. This corn beat every for the bulletin. Price $ 1 John F. Sale—Choice selected Watson loh seed, saved from crop of 12. There was no good seed s&v- anywhere In 1913, prices too >d. My seed- was saved by care- white people fi^>m large, good iped melons. For prices address Jeh-ir-FTWeekley, Ulmer, S. C. $3.75, once tried always used Goodyear tires, belts, chains, Harley s. Expert motor repairing. Everything for the motorcycle. Mall orders a specialty. Get our catalogue. T. S. Chipley, “The Mo torcycle Man,” Greenwood, 8. C. a concern to start small factory for the utilization of our hog products for the market, such as a fine brand of smoked hams, sliced bacon put up -attractively, home-made sausage, etc. Address at once, Secretary Chamber of Commerce, Beanetts- ville, S. C. / "or Sale—B. B. Edwards Improved Long Staple Cotton Seed, length of staple 1 1-4 inch to 1 3-8 inch $2.50 per bushel, ten bushels$ 22.- 50. Made more cotton per aera with less Guano, and less work than any cotton ever planted. Send for samples at once. Amount limited. B. B. Edwards. Fountain Inn, 8. C. y or genueman, rair education, to act as bur representative in home town. Exclusive territory given. 2 ling experience unnecessary. We nlih capital. Show how to bnild permanent boslneeA that should pay $3.9M ftrat year. Staple line. Oar