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DEFER ELECTION
UNTIL NEXT YEAR
HOUSE AM) SENATE AGREE TO
DISCONTINUE BALLOTING.
Ends In Deadlock
Curtain Rung: Down For Session On
Dramatic Event?Governor
Can Not Appoint.
Columbia, March 5.?The last ballot
to be had at this session of the
general assembly in the election of
an associate justice of the state supreme
court to fill the unexpired term
of the late George W. Gage, was taken
yesterday morning, the house and
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seucttt; yesieruav aneruuuu agrccms
to postpone further balloting until
next year.
This action was taken in the adoption
by both huses of a concurrent
resolution, introduced by Representative
W. D. Barnett, of Columbia, and
rings down the curtain on one of the
most dramatic election contests ever
witnessed in the joint assembly.
Jesse F. Carter, of Bamberg, took the
lead on the first ballot over a field of
ten candidates when the balloting
was opened February 18 and for 37
consecutive ballots held first place,
only to be displaced on the next to
the last ballot by M. L. Bonham, of
Anderson. Mr. Carter went ahead
again on the final roll call, the balloting
ending with him leading by
the narrow margin of - two votes.
The deadlock, which occasioned the
abandonment of the daily balloting,
' had existed almost from the initial
roll call, the gradual withdrawal of
candidates and the race wore on serving
only to leave the decision of the
contest apparently as far removed as
when the race was first begun.
Rice Withdrew First.
Judge Hayne F. Rice, of Aiken, was
the first candidate to leave the race,
' his name being withdrawn just before
the roll call begun for the fourth
ballot. The other withdrawals came:
Judge W. F. Townsend. of Columbia,
at the end of the fourth ballot, Judge
Edward Melver, of Cheraw, and Judge
Ernest Morre, of Lancaster, at the end
of the 12th ballot, Prof. E. Marion
Rucker, of Columbia, at the end of
the 14th ballot and Judge Thomas
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of the loth ballot. Four candidates
remained in the race when the balloting
closed yesterday: Jesse F.
Carter, of Bamberg, with 48 votes; M.
L. Bonham, of Anderson, 46; Senator
J. Hardin Marion, of Chester, 30, and
Judge S. W. G. Shipp, of Florence,
24.
The adoption of the resolution
leaves the state supreme court with
the heaviest docket of recent years
and no way to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Associate Justice
Gage. Governor Cooper can not
appoint a man to fill the vacancy,
he said yesterday, and the court will
b? forced to handle the work before
it with only four members. This,
however, will probably cause little
II inconvenience in the hearing of cases
in that three members of the court
constitute a working majority and
may transact all business. The state
constitution provides that the governor
may fill the vacancy when the
unexpired term to be filled is for
a period less than a year. Associate
Justice Gage's term would not
have expired until April 1, 1922.
House Changes Opinion.
Mr. Barnett introduced his resolution
in the house some time ago, but
the proposal was sidetracked to allow
the house to consider and pass
a resolution introduced by Julius S.
Mclnnes to provide that the joint
assembly meet and continue balloting
until an election could be had.
This resolution came up for consideration
in the senate early yesterday
afternoon and was killed by an Overwhelming
mninritv "\Tr Harriett's I
resolution was adopted by the house
yesterday afternoon after short debate
and was immediately sent to
the senate to also be considered and
adopted with only two dissenting
votes.
In passing the resolution yesterday
afternoon the house reversed its
decision of three days ago, this iden-|
tical resolution being killed when J
offered as an amendment to the McInnes
resolution. The test vote on
the Barnett resolution yesterday afternoon
stood 51 to 13 in favor of
the resolution.
Especially significant was the standi
of the majority of the house members,
who have been consistently
supporting Jesse F. Carter in the
DILLOX FARMER KILLS HIMSELF.
J. H. Berry Found Dead Thursday
In An Outhouse.
Dillon, March 4.?J. H. Berry, a
farmer living on the Marion road
about four miles from Dillon, was
found dead in a small outhouse this
morning with a bullet wound in his
head. It is stated that the wound
was self-inflicted, a pistol ball penetrating
the temple. It is reported
that Mr. Berry was in good spirits
last night and is said to have stated
that he had made arrangements for
the sale of the fertilizers. This morning
he was up early and went to his
barn for the purpose of feeding his
stock. When he did not return for
breakfast, an investigation was made
and nis ooay rouna. ay a decree 01
of a court -he lost most of his estate
last year and this together with deflation
in farm products is thought
to have preyed upon his mind. He is
survived by a widow and seven
grown children. His widow, before
marriage, was Miss David, of Marion.
race for the associate justiceship.
Thomas S. McMillan, of Charleston,
who led the fight Wednesday night
for the adoption of Mr. Mclnnes'
resolution to provide that the joint
assembly meet and continue balloting
until an election could be had,
yesterday voted in favor of the proposal
to defer the election. In the
fillibuster Wednesday night' J. K.
Owens, of Bennettsville, proposed to
amend the Mclnnes resolution by
substituting for it the Barnett resolution.
This measure was killed,
largely through the almost solid
vote of the Carter men. Mr. Owens
in the passing of the few days also
changed sides and yesterday led the
fight to kill the resolution, which
was identical with the amendment
which he had proposed to the previous
resolution.
The standing by ballots Friday
follows:
Ballot 37 3S 39
Carter 45 . 44 48
Bonham 41 45 4 6
Marion 32 30 30
Shipp 21 26 24
Last Ballot.
The vote on the last ballot was:
Marion (30): Senators Bailes, Baslr?*,
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Clifton,. Hart, Johnstone, Mason, McColl,
Miller, Robinson, Rogers and
Young and Representatives J. A. Atkinson,
R. 0. Atkinson, W. F. Brown,
Carothers, Faile, Gibson, Glenn, Hamblin,
Hanahan, Kennedy, Lancaster,
Mitchell, Moise, Owens, Pursley and
Robinson.
Shipp(24): Senators Harrelson,
Laney, vJeremiah Smith and H. L.
Smith, Jr., and Representatives Anderson,
Camlin, Ellerbe, Evans, Ford,
Foster, Goodwin, Hilliared, Hugi.es,
Lewis, McCutcheon, McElveen, Mc?/
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Innes, McKay, Pegues, Prince, Scarborough,
Segars, Wannamaker and
A. H. Williams.
Carter (48): Senators Black, Crosson,
Duncan, Goodwin, Gross, Hubbard,
Hutson, Johnson, Kennedy,
Lightsey, Padgett, Stabler, Wightman
and Williams and Reprensentatives
Rllen, Bailey, Barr, Busbee,
Carey, Coney, Connor, M. R. Cooper,
Cunningham, DeTreville, Dillon,
Dukes, Folk, Gerald, Horton, Hydrick
Ke#rse, Keller, Kibler, Killingsworth,
Lybrand, Martin, McLeod,
McMillan, Merchant, O'Rouke, Peurifoy,
Riley, Searson, Simonhoff, Toole,
Whalev, Windham and Winter.
Bonham (46): Senators Bonham
Massey, McGhee, Moore, Pearce, Watkins,
Wells and Wideman and Representatives
Alexander, Amick, Babb,
Ballard, Barnett, Barnwell, Beacham,
Bodie, Bramlett, Bruce, Bryson,
Buckingham, Clinkscales, R. M.
Cooper, Jr., Cox, Curtis, Dalton, Dickson,
Gresham, Hall, W. R. Harris,
Hendricks, Leopard, McDavid, Moon,
Moore, Mower, Nance, Putnam, Sapp,
Sellers, Sheppard, Sherard, Todd,
West, J. 0. Williams, Willis and
Wolling.
The balloting Thursday for associate
justice resulted as follows:
Ballot 34 35 36
Carter 48 49 50
Bonham 35 41 45
Marion 40 35 . 30
Shipp 22 25 27
Ehrhardt Wins From Walterboro.
Ehrhardt, March 5.?Ehrhardt re-!
gained the lead in the Bamberg-Colleton
inter-county contest yesterday
by winning from the Walterboro
basketball team by the score of 25
to 7, at Walterboro.
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The Oriental emerald is a variety
of the ruby and is extremely rare.
Pinafore at Carlisle auditorium
Friday night.?adv.
After Eight Stow
Wilson is Age
Washington, March 4.?Eight
storm-tossed years in the presidency,
filled with moments and scenes that
will live forever in human history,
ended today for Woodrow Wilson,
"just plain Woodrow Wilson, now,"
as he himself smilingly asserted.
Under his own roof again as a private
citizen, the former president
rested tonight with his burdens of
state transferred to other shoulders
and the shouting and tumult of public
place behind him. And through a
day that had taxed his physical powers,
greatly, he came smilingly and
with whimsical, humerous twist to
his comments, yet with no hint at regret
in his retirement from high office.
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There was but one incident of the
day when that cheerful mood seemed
to fail. As he stood in the president's
room Mr. Wilson had been telling
Sen. Knok that he would not witness
in the senate the inauguration of
Vice-President Coolidge as he doubted
his ability, owing to his physical
infirmities, to negotiate the few steps
he must climb.
"The senate has thrown me down,"
he said to the Pennsylvania senator
in reference to battles of the past
and the peace treaty, "but I am not
going to fall down."
A moment later someone touched
his arm to call his attention to the
fact that Senator Lodge had arrived
in the room as head of the joint
committee to inform the president
that the sixty-sixth congress stood
ready for adjournment if he had no
further communications to make to it.
Cool Toward Lodge.
Mr. Wilson turned toward the man
who led the fight against the treaty.
His face lost its smile as he listened
to the senator's formal report and
there was in his own tone a touch
of cool formality as he said:
"I have no further communication
to make. I appreciate your courtesy.
Good morning."
Air. Wilson's share in the inaugura
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tion ceremonies remained m qoudi 10
the last. It was not until he had
finished the business that called him
to the capitol that the retiring president
made known his final yielding
to the entreaties of his physician and
Mrs. Wilson to spare himself the ordeal
?is physical condition would
make of adherence to precedent.
From the moment he emerged from
the White House to mount first to the
rear seat of the automobile that carried
them to the capitol, Mr. Wilson
"was shown utmost courtesy by
Mr. Harding who lost no opportunity
to spare the president's feelings. As
he started the painful descent of the
White House steps, Mr. Wilson was
aided by secret service men who placed
his feet on each step and then on
the running board of the automobile.
After he sank back into his seat on
the right, Mr. Harding stepped in and
they rode side by side down Pennsylvania
Avenue, neither, in courtesy to
the other, responding to the cheers
or salutes that greeted them.
At the capitol, the car drewr up first
at the senate wing entrance under
the great steps that sweep up to the
main floor. Mr. Harding and others
in the car except Mr. Wilson alighted
and here the crowd waited. Evidently
it had been pre-arranged that there
should be no public comparison to be
drawn between the big, strong figure
of the new president, and the crippled
form of the old, for Mr. Wilson rode
on alone to a little-used door where
he had hut two steps to mount and
there Arthur Brooks, negro custodian
of the. White House, awaited him.
Lifted from Car.
Mr. Wilson was lifted out of the
BRANDT GUILTY AT ALLENDALE.
Manslaughter Verdict of Jury?Two
Years is Sentence.
Allendale, Feb. 17.?After remaining
out for 17 hours, the jury in the
case of the State vs. John and Earl
Brandt, charged with the murder of
Allie and Aubrey Cone, returned a
verdict of guilty of manslaughter
against John Brandt and not guilty
in the indictment of Earl Brandt.
Counsel for the defense immediately
made motion for a new trial. Later
this afternoon this motion was withirawn,
however, and John Brandt was
sentenced to serve two years on the
public works of the county or a like
term in the state penitentiary.
Brand chose the county chaingang
and was taken there this afternoon to
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car and up the two steps by Brooks.
! At the top he paused to change his
glasses and apparently to recover
; from the effort. Then grasping his
! cane, but alone and unaided, he moved
through the door to plod slowly
i over the 300 yards of stone flagging
| to the elevator. He passed without
\ heed a big rooling chair, recently
i used by Senator Penrose who also has
i entered the capitol in the same way
i since his illness.
The crowd at the other door had
! missed Mr. Wilson and set out to find
I him. They caught up with him as he
j rounded a corner, turning toward the
| elevator at the other end of the buildi
ing from that used by Mr. Harding.
I There were murmurs of sympathy as
! the spectators caught sight of the
| grav-haired figure going so slowly
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! ana wnn sucn eviaence ui uuauv
j powers driven to their work only by a
j mastering exercise of will; but Mr.
| Wilson nodded and smiled back as he
j forced himself on.
i Lifted one floor in the elevator,
i Mr. Wilson, still alone, made his way
j the short distance to the president's
j room and the business before him. He
j greeted the senators waiting there,
i exchanged humorous quibs with some
j of them, and signed or waived away
the bills that were laid before him.
As he said good bye to Mr. Wilson,
the incoming president again displayed
the sympathy he felt for his
I stricken predecessor. They clasped
j hands, and Mr. Harding said:
"Good-bye, Mr. President. I know
| you are glad to be relieved of your
j burden and worries. I want to tell
you how much I appreciate the courtesies
you have extended to me."
Glad to be Free.
Mr. Wilson seemed to agree that
j he was glad to be free, for he even
! gained in cheerfulness as he moved
j out of the room, with Senator Knox
i escorting him in the elevator.
"I can't get aquainted to this feeling,"
Mr. Wilson said to the senator,
as they moved slowly along. "My
feet feel so light."
Soon after reaching his new home,
Mr. Wilson, upon the advice of Dr.
Grayson, took a short rest in the endeavor
to recover from the unusual
fatigue to which he had been subjected
during the day.
By 3 o'clock several thousand people
had assembled outside the Wilson
home as a part of a demonstration
organized by the League of Nations'
Association and the Democratic
central committee of the District of
Columbia. While a committee went
inside to present the former president
with a gift of flowers, those outside
united in a noisy and enthusiastic
greeting.
Mr. Wilson in response to the
greeting appeared at the window,
bowing and smiling a response to the
! cheering. When he had disappeared
and the cheering had shown no signs
of diminution, he appeared a second
time, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson,
; and upon repeated requests for a
! speech he contented himself with
! pointing to his throat. Doctor GrayI
son stated afterwards that Mr. Wili
son was profoundly touched by the
tribute paid him, and that he was
so moved that his voice choked when
j he left the window and attempted to
| speak to those near him.
The demonstration continued alj
most until twilight and Mr. Wilson
was forced to respond two more times
to the greetings. Hundreds of automobiles
and a constant stream of
pedestrians passed by during the
evening and early hours of the night.
Mr. Wilson spent the evening, his
first in eight years as a private citirrr^Vt
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family.
begin his sentence. The court room
was crowded when Judge Mauldin
read the sentence. The defendant's
wife, who has been by his side during
the entire trial with a three months
old infant child, was not present today
when her husband was sentenced.
Brandt took the sentence with the
stolid indifference he has shown
throughout the trial.
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in writing.
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Earliest brocades were formed in
part of silver and gold threads.
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Dick Deadeye plays villain in Pinafore.?adv.
Yellow pine and oak woods warp
least when steam is applied.
SIAMESE TWINS, ONE A WIDOW.
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Women Are Inseparably Lnked Together
at Their Hips.
New York, March 5.?A remarkable
pair of "Siamese" twins have
com? to town from Czecho-Slovakia,
historically Bohemia, by way of Boston.
They will stay here for some
months. American physicians and
surgeons will study their case.
The twins are Rosa Blazek Dvorack
and Jlosefa Blazek, Rosa being a
widow.
The widow has a son, Franz, a fine,
healthy lad of eleven. He resembles
the twins and from photos of his
father, Franz Dvorack, he looks like
a "chip off the old block."
Americans interested in freaks exhibited
in museums and circus side
shows will have something to wonder
at when they see the "Bohemian
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1 Wilis. lilt: jjiescui scifcionuu
knows nothing about the Siamese
Twins exhibited a generation ago by
P. T. Barnum.
Those twins were boys. They were
joined simply by a ligament above the
hips which permitted more or less
freedom of motion. The "Bohemian
Twins," famous in Europe for more
than a generation, are joined from
above the hips almost to the knee.
One Drags the Other.
It is a peculiar fact that when one
moves the other seems to be dragged
after her. The widow is the more active.
The spinster seems to follow
her as though yielding to the will of
her sister.
They came to town with the one
twin's son, Franz, brother Franz and
Ike Rose. Ike could not be overlooked
in the strange group. He is
their manager and has been in Europe
one year cancelling a life contract the
twins made with a German.
They were interviewed in the home
of Ike Rose. They spoke English fluently.
They also speak Bohemian,
Russian, Polish and German fluently.
Rosa and Josefa were born Jan. 20,
1878, in a small town near Prague,
formerly Bohemia, now Czecho-Slovakia.
They began to travel when they
were three years old, under contract
by their arents. They -were accorn
panied Dv a tutor.
Rosa and Josefa play the piano, the
violin and the xylophone?in duet, of
course. They played splendidly in the
home of Mr. Rose. They are adept at ,
chess and checkers, and argue like
normal antagonists in both games.
Play Violin Duet.
When Manager Rose set out the
checker board the twins sidled into a
seat and fought through a game.
When Rosa beat Josefa, both laughed,
and Rosa started from the seat to
get violins, Josefa was dragged after
her. They played the instruments with
enthusiasm and much expression.v
Rosa told about their childhood
days, while they were being studied
by medical wis? men. She said:
"We used to climb fruit trees and
steal the plums and the apples and
all such, things. We usfed to fight
about the fruit and scratch each other
like silly children. We don't fight any
more and haven't fought for many,
many years."
"We had great fun sailing the
ocean," said Josefa, laughing, as she
added:
"Rosa was seasick; I was not."
"That is very good, but I can eat
j ice cream and you can not," said
I Rosa with a hearty chuckle.
A Merry Couple.
"No, I can not eat sweet things,"
retorted Josefa. "I like pickles. We
! had our first ice cream soda in all
i our lives here in your great New
York City. I did not like it. I gave
mine to Rosa and she drank both."
"Josefa likes to sleep," bantered
Rosa, "and I have to lie on the bed
and read while she sleeps. Oh, she
is a great sleepy one."
"Well, we sleep at the same time
at night, don't we?" replied Josefa.
"If I must take a nap when I am
tired then you must lie down with ;
me," she added, and the twins laughed
heartily.
Rosa's son, Franz, stood beside his
mother as the twins chaffed each other.
His knowledge of English is limited
and he understood little of what
T.-00 hnt hp laughed with his
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mother.
Manager Hose said the Germans
had a queer time when Josefa was
charged with breaking a contract.
They issued a warrant of arrest for
Josefa, and Rosa refused to be arrested.
Perplexed, the German pro- cess
server took both to court.
The judge decided both were culpable
and fined them 800 marks for
breach of contract.
A plump and pleasing person is
Buttercup?in Pinafore.?adv.
APPROPRIATIONS
BY GEN. ASSEMBLY *
FEW LAWS OF STATEWIDE BfPORTAXCE
EXACTED.
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Much Wrangling
Medical College Gets Sum of $100,117.50;
Confederate College
$4,000.00.
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Columbia, March 6.?Following
the session in which physical endurance
was the main requisite, the general
assembly of South Carolina, after
exceeding the statutory limit of
forty days by fifteen days, adjourned
sine die this morning at 8:30 o'clock.
A mass of acts of purely local application
were approved, but few laws
of state-wide importance were enacted.
The legislature has been one
of controversy, with small accom
plishments of real constructive nature,
but, according to the -census of
opinion, the rejection of legislation
of ordinary character is of more
salutary benefit to the state than the
enactment of the various proposed
laws. Before
the sun rose this morning
the conferees on the general appropriation
bill had agreed and it was
reported to both houses. They adopted
the report and sent it to the governor,
wearied from his long wait,
but he approved it. The general assembly
then ceased its business.
The bill as adopted carries a levy*
of not exceeding 111 mills and has a
total of appropriations of $6,534,
924.87, hastily tabulated. This is a
reduction over the house bill and
that of the senate. The house bill
carried a total of $6,564,361.71.
Last year the finance bill carried
appropriations aggregating $6,097,141,
a decrease of approximately
$500,000 of those of this year. The M
total requests, according to the budget
report for this year, of all departments
and activities of the state
government, was $9,806,906.59 and
the recommendations were for $7,111,688.86.
The following is the recapitulation
of the bill as signed this morning.
showing the amounts received by each
activity:
Section 2. The legislative department,
$119,155.00.
Sec. 3. The governor's office, $28,150.00.
Sec. 4. Secretary of state's office,
$11,675.00. ;
Sec. 5. Comptroller general's office,
$749,870.34.
Sec. 6. Attorney general's office,
$20,000.00.
Sec. 7. State treasurer's office,
$258,212.-27.
Sec. 8. Adjutant general's office,
$35,817.50.
Sec. 9. University of South Carolina,
$243,355.00. ' <0 ^
Sec. 10. The Citadel, $252,315.00.
Sec. 11. Clemson college public
service), $226,147.15.
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Sec. 13. State Medical college, * ,
$100,117.50.
Sec. 14. The Confederate Home .
college, $4,000.
Sec.' 15. State Colored college,
$63,005.21.
Sec. 16. John De La Howe Indus
trial school, $57,448.00.
Sec. 17. School for the Deaf and
the Blind, $161,333.33.
Sec. 18. State superintendent of
education's office, $1,528,930.00.
Sec. 19. State historical commission,
$4,760.00.
Sec. 20. State library, $4,115.00.
Sec. 21. Confederate museum, '
$100.00.
Sec. 22. State relic room, $1,000.00.
Sec. 23. South Carolina State
Hospital, $784,123.94.
Sec. 24. State penitentiary, $103,093.08.
Sec. 25. State hoard of public
welfare, $29,856*00.
Sec. 26. State board of pardons,
$300.00.
Sec. 27. State Training school for
Feeble-Minded, $45,000.00.
Sec. 28. State Industrial School
for Boys, $126,270.70.
Sec. 29. State Industrial school
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Lur urins, $z3,uio.uu.
Sec. 30. State reformatory for
Negro Boys, $46,077.00. ,
Sec. 31. Catawba Indians, $7,700.
Sec. 32. Committee on deaf and
blind children, $500.00.
Sec. 33. Law enforcement department,
$28,400.00. '
Sec. 34. State board of health,
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