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A NEW YORK MARQUIS. ? French Nobleman Who Has Lived in Poverty on West Side. Only a few persons in New York knew the Marquis de Guichainville and none knew the unsavory little * basement store at 343 West 17th K. street, where he lived with his blind Hl daughter and son nearly blind. So when the marquis was knocked down by a 7th avenue car and was taken HH to Bellevue Hosiptal with a broken leg and a deep cut in his head only his son and daughter knew and cared. Before the days of the French Revolution the family from which W the marquis springs was wealthy. But they became embroiled in the politics I of that period, and the marquis's * ^grandfather mortgaged his property L to raise a large sum of money. The m- mortgage was foreclosed and their ^ wealth was gone. The present marquis came to this country about 40 |H years ago and for years earned a living as a teacher of French in some of ^ the wealthy families of New York. But after a time that source of inBl come failed him, and he, with his son and daughter, drifted over to the V lower West Side, where they have " M 1 A riivea ior nearly ren years. The basement store would never k be taken for a home. From the outk side it looks like a store room, for W the little of it that can be seen through the dirty draped windows, ^ partly covered by a strip of cloth, is W filled with boxes. The boxes contain all that is left of the heritage of De k Guichainville, family relics that have been treasured after everything else K, was gone. Among them is a marble wf statue of the marquis's wife. A few crippled chairs, two beds that do not invite repose, a table and many books are the only things which the light arc of the small glass lamp that is necessary even in the daytime. Only the janitress has seen that ; much. De Guichainville, who is 80 years old, and his son walk to work every morning, and it was on this morning 1 , walk that he was run down. The aged, erect man, with his carefully white waxed mustache, looked some what out of place in that part of West 17th street, even if his clothes were threadbare. Both he and his sen carried a cane, which aroused mirth among the neighbors. r Years ago the marquis had a reputation as a numismatist, and possessed a collection of old coins of considerable value. This he sold when his reverses came, but his desire for collection remained with him. He carried a small bag on these morning strolls and' picked up anything , that he saw lying in the street. The front room of the basement was littered with cigar stubs and cigarettes that had been accumulated through the months and there were big packages of labels from tin cans and bottles. Sometimes, though, he worked for dealers in old coins in 23d street A and showed that he still possessed skill in detecting false coins of supr posed antiquity. The resources of the family have become smaller and smaller during the last few years. They depend almost wholly on the few French people in the city who know of the marquis and his family and are willing to help them. When a reporter went to the basement to see if the son?Raoul?was h in he found the plrce in utter darkm ness. Somewhere in that darkness K the daughter of a marquis sat alone, J waiting for her brother to come home f from the hospital.?New York Sun. Crematory Explodes. Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 23.?While Wm the body of Minnie Massie, a young * woman, who died February 3, from the effects of a stab wound, was being cremated at the morgue to-day, the crematory exploded. Deputy coroner Black was hurled violently against a wall and seriously burned. Coroner t Jamison and a number of prominent hotel proprietors, who saw the beginning of the cremation, had barely left the room when the explosion orcurred. The partly incinerated body * was badly scattered, while the body of the crematory was blown away. Escaping gas is thought to have assembled beneath a false bottom of the oven and ignition followed from the intense heat. Youth Rewarded for Bravery. McAlester, Okla., Feb. 24.?As a ^ reward for his bravery in warning miners at work in mine Xo. 5 of the Western Coal & Mining company at Lehigh, Okla., when fire broke out in the mine last Thursday, resolutions were adopted at the convention of the United Mine Workers of America, of the Twenty-first district, to-aay aumuriziiig mc t-Acuuuvc board to set aside sufficient funds to defray the expenses of educating Reifno Rodpguez, a Mexican youth. Rodrigue when it was discovered that the mine was afire, ran through the works shouting a warning to the workmen. As a result, all of the 100 men at work, with the ex||k^ ception of nine, escaped from the mine before the fire gained headway. "IT'S MY BROTHER." Said Gen. Miles When He Picked up Dead Man in Street. Washington, Feb. 22.?Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., retired, was motoring along Pennsylvania avenue to-night when a man walking briskly through the twilight in LaFayette Park opposite the White House, crumpled down in a heap, then sprawled on the pathway. General Miles left his car to peer over the heads of the crowd which gathered. "It's my brother," said the general, when he saw the upturned face. Then he took the body up in his arms and carried it to his automobile. Daniel C. Miles was the man's name. The coroner said his heart had failed. The dead man's home was in Westminster, Mass. He was in Washington visiting Gen. Miles. Where Johnston Surrendered. Much has been said and written about Lee's surrender to Grant, but little has been said in any way about Johnston's surrender to Sherman, although Johnston ranked next to Lee in point of command in the Confederate army when he surrendered. While almost every intelligent person in the United States knows where Lee surrendered, there are very few people who know where Johnston surrendered. Johnston's surrender took place in Orange county, North Carolina, April 17, 1865. The place wThere he surrendered was a farm house which was situated on the public road that runs from Hillsboro to Durham. Durham was then only a railway station, not thought of as anything else, now it is an active city. The place of the surrender is about three miles west of Durham and can be seen from the Southern Railroad. If they only knew it, every passenger on the trains between Durham and Greensboro in the daytime could see the place. It is marked by an old log building which is overshadowed by a large sycamore tree. Some time ago the writer was going from Durham to Hillsboro on the train and was in company with a South Carolinian, ! who, when told of the place, express ed a desire to see it. When the place was pointed out to him he scanned it closely the few moments it was in view of the train and then remarked that he had heard of Sherman down in South Carolina and didn't like his reputation. To many it may seem strange that Lee and Johnston surrendered so close together. Their armies operated in fields widely separated, one helonging to the east and the other to the west, until within a few months of the close of the war, and then both surrendered in adjoining States. The reason for this was that Lee and Johnston were trying to get together and unite their armies so that they could prolong the struggle against the ever-increasing Federal forces. But the Federals found out what Lee and Johnston were up to, and a large force of their men were sent to head off Johnston, while Lee was busy entertaining Grant's men over in Virginia, thus they prevented the union. Lee surrendered April 9 and Johnston April 17. Many people throughout the Carolinas and Georgia still look upon Sherman and his men as a bunch of thieves and plunderers-. But Sherman showed a better heart when Johnston surrendered to him than he has ever been given credit for hav ing. He gave Johnston such liberal terms that when the terms were wired to Washington for approval, the Federal government disapproved them, and new terms had to be arranged. Doubtless Sherman wanted to see the war close, and then it is said that he dreaded Johnston worse than any general he ever faced in battle. The place where the surrender of Johnston took place is known as the "Bennett Place" by the surrounding country. No importance seems to be attached to the place by any one far or near. The writer first saw the place some ten years ago while he was attending Trinity College. He, in company with a number of students, walked out to the place one winter afternoon and looked it over. He has seen it many times since then and notes that it is gradually going down. The old log house will soon fall down if not torn down, and then it will have nothing to mark the place, unless some one takes more interest in preserving it than has yet been shown. A year or so ago there was talk of the Woodmen of the World setting up a suitable monument on the ground, but the movement, if it was ever begun, must have died. Xo one lives there now and already the ground is being cultivated close up to the old house, and when the house falls down, as it promises soJn to do, the ground will likely be cleared of logs and put into cultivation, and the place will son be unknown.?C. R. R. in Charlotte Observer. CAME TO HIS ASSISTANCE. Friends of Carolinian Save Him from A Arrest. Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 23.?Louis York, the young man residing at c Lowe village, and who was several i days ago identified as the man want- li ed in Pickens, S. C., for escaping \> from the officers while a member of e the chain gang in that county has r been aided by friends. York was 1: wanted for serving out the unexpir- f ed term of six months. His friends here rallied to his support, and to e keep him from going back to a life of o shame they made up the amount of t money required to pay him out, and b he has been allowed to remain with his family. The officer who came for York from South Carolina, was t one of the number to contribute to t the fund "which kept the man from h having to go back to prison. York e has lived an exemplary life ever since c coming here. e ? t RECORD SPRUNG ON BLEASE. s Governor Formerly Favored Heating ^ Plant for Colored College. v p Columbia, Feb. 25.?When the item relative to the heating plant at the negro State College was reached last night, when the senate was con- p sidering the vetoes on the ajppropri- j ation bill, Senator Weston arguing t for the passage over the veto, stated p that Gov. Blease, a few years ago while a trustee" of the negro State ^ College, in the report which the board n made in 1902, approved then the in- e stallation of a heating plant in Mor- 0 rill Hall at the colored college. r "That report," said the Richland j, senator, "is a complete refutation of p the governor's message vetoing this ^ item." Senator Weston characterized p the governor's present attitude as n that of a candidate seeking re-election t and as an appeal to the prejudice and passion of the people. The report referred to by Senator e Weston was made while John J. Mc- \ Mahan was superintendent of educa- g tion, and contains this paragraph: p "A steam heating plant has been in- ? stalled in Morrill Hall at a cost of p $3,300, which adds much to the safe- j ty of the building and the health and ? comfort of the students." t The report was signed by Gov. Mc- 0 Sweeney, Messrs. Cole L. Blease and ^ W. R. Lowman, trustees. D Unable to Find Mrs. Greever. O Washington, Feb. 24.?There are '' no new developments in the case of Mrs. W. H. Greever, of Columbia, S. 8 C., who disappeared in this city on a Friday, February 16. The police of v this and nearby cities have been u working diligently but they have not a discovered the slightest clue as to ^ her whereabouts. The mystery in- ? creases as each day passes. Mr. Greever, who is a well known minister of Columbia, has been here s t for several days, as have other relatives of the missing woman, and they a have been aiding in the search, but to no avail. Mr. Greever is almost distracted. J Mrs. Greever had been in Washington for several month's. She came here for treatment for nervous trouble, but ai no time was her con- f dition regarded as alarming. She J was apparently in good spirits the day she disappeared, and this makes S the case all the more mysterious. She h was out shopping Friday afternoon, J in company with a woman friend. Her t. friend turned to speak to her as they were walking down a crowded street, a and found that she had disappeared. r She has not been heard from since. 0 Mrs. Greever had several friends J in Washington, and she has relatives i] in Pennsylvania and Maryland. All of these, so far as possible, have been communicated with, but without re- j suits. It has been suggested that the missing woman might have committed suicide by jumping into the Potomac river. The river -banks have . b been scanned by the police for several ^ "days, but without finding any body. All the hospitals in this section have been communicated with, but with- . D out results. The public is greatly interested in ^ the case. It does not seem possible that a person could completely dis- h appear in the national capital, which ^ has a large and efficient police force, ^ vet this is just what has happened. . Many different theories have been worked on, but all have been without any sort of success. The police n have had absolutely no clues to work ? on. i Mrs. Greever is 4 6 years old. She b has two children, and they are now ^ with relatives in Virginia. She has j not been there. So far as is known she had but $S or $10 the day she ? disappeared, and this makes the case X all the more mysterious. J W. S. Peterson, who has been at T the head of the Orangeburg Collegi ate Institute for the past eight years, X resigned last week, his resignation J to take effect at the end of the pres ent session. No anouncement of his X future plans has been made. J ROOSEVELT A CANDIDATE. Vill Oppose Taft Before National Republican Convention. "V* TT 1 T"^ _ O " ( i T ill ;\ew loriv, reu. zo.? 1 win auept the nomination for president f it is tendered me, and I will adiere to this decision until the conention has expressed its prefernce," is Col. Theodore Roosevelt's eply to the letter of seven Repubican governors asking him to stand or nomination. The eagerly awaited reply was givn out to-night at Col. Roosevelt's ffice here during his absence on a rip to Boston. It. was unexpectedly rief, but definite. It follows: Suspense Relieved at Last. "New York, Feb. 24, 1912.?Genlemen: I deeply appreciate your leter, and I realize to the full the eavy responsiblity it puts upon me, xpressing as it does the carefully onsidered conviction of the men lected by popular vote to stand as he heads of government in their everal States. "I absolutely agree with you that his matter is not one to be decided rith any reference to the personal references or interests of any man, ut purely from the standpoint of the aterests of the people as a whole. "I will accept the nomination for resident if it is tendered to me, and will adhere to this decision until he convention has expressed its reference. "One of the chief principles for fhich I have stood, and for which I ow stand, and, which I have always ndeavored and always shall endeavr to reduce to action is the genuine ule of the people, and therefore, I ope that so far as possible the peole may be given the chance, through lirect primaries, to express their reference as to who shall be the ominee of the Republican convenion. Very truly yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. "The Hon. Wm. E. Glascock, govrnor of West Virginia, Charleston, V. Va.; the Hon. Chester H. Aldrich, ;overnor of the State of Nebraska, dncoln, Neb.; the Hon. Robert P. lass, governor the State of New lampshire, Concord, N. H.; the Hon. oseph M. Carey, governor of the Itate of Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyo.; he Hon. Chas. E. Osborne, governor f the State of Michigan, Lansing, Iich.; the Hon. W. R. Stubbs, goverlor of the State of Kansas, Topeka, Can.; the Hon. Herbert S. Hadley, overnor of the State of Missouri, Jeferson City, Mo." The above named governors asembled at Chicago two weeks ago nd drafted a letter to Col. Rooseelt, asserting that there was a poplar demand for him to be president gain and urging him to declare timself as to whether he would acept the Republican nomination if it came unsolicited and unsought." For two weeks Col. Roosevelt conidered the letter, indicating plainly hat he had no intention of making hasty reply. JONES CASE ARGUED. udge Shipp Reserves Decision in Orangeburg Plea. Orangeburg, Feb. 24.?The motion or a new trial in the case of J. J. ones, under sentence for manslaiigher, was heard here to-day by Judge hipp. Several hours were consumed q the argument, and at the close the udge took the papers and announced hat he would render a decision later. Jones was brought from Columbia nd is now in jail here, where he will emain until a decision is rendered n the motion argued to-day. Mrs. ones was present in court this mornag. COMMISSION FORM REJECTED. 'c rty-one Majority Against Proposition in Augusta. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 21.?The fight or and against commission governlent, which ended with the election ere to-day, resulted in defeat of tie proposed new charter by 51 otes. Four wards of the six voted majority for the proposed charter, ut the majority of the other two rards defeat it. In those two wards tie openly termed "professional 'ard heeler" element has its strongold, and the fight was waged directj against them. The count has een protested. FARMERS' UNION MEETINGS. The local Bamberg Farmers' Union leets at the court house in Bamberg n the first and third Friday mornlgs in every month. Meeting at 1 o'clock. Applications for mem ership received at every meeting, et all members be present. J. W. STEWART, . P. O'QUINN, President. Secretory. w. P. RILEY | Fire, Life f Accident 2 INSURANCE 2 BAMBERG, S. C. 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