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BLEASE WRATHY Ik bvemr Reviks the Ciaiissiiu I Three Neurits SLAPS AT THE EDITORS The Removals Made Because One of the Notaries Made An Affidavit Against the Governor and the Other Two Attested Affidavits Made * uy vruicist . Publication of affidavits corroborating the charge? made by the Belton Times of rudeness on the part of Governor Blease toward a young lady, employed as ticket agent in the Southern railway station at Belton, was followed on Thursday afternoon by the summery revocation by Gov. Blease of Notaries Publics J. 'AT. Alexander, J. H. Merritt and J. A. Horton, all of Belton. The crime for which Mr. Alexander was removed was making affidavit that the article in the Belton Times concerning the Governor was "* J ni>lmai frtl* U'hlnh XlUe, miU IUD V/l I1UV AV? tf m* vta Merritt and Horton were punished by decapitation was attesting affidavits in the same case. To each of the three notaries Governor Blease sent the following letter: "Some time since you were commissioned a notary public by me, under the constitution and the laws (during the pleasure of the governor.) Your commission is hereby revoked, and any further act performed by you as such offficer will be illegal and in violation of the law. A copy of this letter has been filed , with the secretary of state, and also with the clerk of court, who has been requested to cancel your commission." The Columbia Record says Governor Blease was asked what moved him to revoke these commissions. He said he had not intended to volunteer any statement, but in anticipation of such an inquiry had dictated to his stenographer an expression on the subject, and had the copies before him. He said he wished it understood that his language applied only to the "editors of the newspapers that have taken part in this business." The statement was as follows: "I have no further comment to make on the Belton matter, at this time. What I stated in my letter to Mr. Harris is absolutely correct. I was perfectly sober; feeling good; had just left a large crowd of my friends, was on my way home in the beet of spirits and remember very distinctly what took place. Any man or woman who lives in South Carolina that does not know that I am governor is indeed in the lowest mire of ignorance; hence, when I reflected in spite of their lies. Watch me!" The Columbia Record says Mr. Alexander is understood to be superintendent of one of the Pelzer 'Mills at Pelzer. He was commissioned on /-vf Qonotnr Hon 111C It'l/UllllllCUUIUIUIl Uk uviiUkv/1 v<v?> W. Sullivan, of Wiliamston. Mr. Merritt was commissioned on the J. Bolton Watson. Mr. Ilorton who is mayor of Belton and president of a bank there, was commissioned on the recommendation of Representatives J. W. Ashley and J. W. Jackson. The owner of the Belton Times is Representative J. Archie Willis of Laurens. say to anyone that I am 'Cole L. Blease,' it is absolutely useless to add that I am governor of South Caroina and I did not say so on that occasion, if my enemies do swear to it. "I have cancelled the commission of the three notaries publics taking part in this dirty transaction and some other people will hear from it later. Everyone who nas known me from my childhood up, both men and women, will certify to the fact that I 'have at all times ana on all occasions been polite and courteous to everybordy, and particularly so to ladies; and this is the first time in all my life that I have ever been charged or accused of showing the slightest disregard to any lady, and I am satisfied that my friends do not believe that 1 was disrespectful on this occasion. "My enemies, of course, will say they believe It, even if they don't, and the liars who are editing the newspapers of South Carolina will endeavor to use it to injure me, hecause they will igo any depth in the filthy bog holes of vituperation and abuse to do me harm. However, the people know me and I am governor, the pimps and shunks, who use the pens for newspapers to the contrary, notwithstanding, and I'll be <0 Made Happy at lost. Columbus Spradley, of Aiken county, S. C., the young man who was held up and beat Wednesday last, and Miss Oussie May Holstein, the young woman whom he swore to marry In spite of the protestation of father, brother and cousin, were married at 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at Rev. A. D. Echols, pastor of Anbury (Methodist church. ? Apparently one of the chief usee of our great national holidays affording a suitable time for boxers to brulee one another for the enjoyment pt the people with depraved tastes. URGED TO HOLD COTTON ? ADDRESS IS ISSUED BY SUMTER COUNTY UNION. y| Argument by Committee Giving Reasons for Sending Appeal to People of South Carolina. In an address issued to the farmers of South Carolina a committee of the Sumter County Farmers' union urges the holding of cotton until a higher price is obtained. The address is prepared by a committee consisting of E. W. Dabbs, president 1 T I of the State Farmers union, anu j. M. Brogden and S. N. Welsh. It is as follows: "To the farmers and all the business interests that are affected ,by the price of cotton: The Sumter County Farmers' union at its last meeting unanimously directed us as a committee to call! your attention to the serious condition that confronts us in the outlook for low prices for this crop of cotton. Thirty or forty days ago cotton sold in Sumter for 15 1-2 cents (spot). Today a holder who would not. then sell was glad to get 12 1-2 cents. These are actual sales. What has brought about sucli a slump in this short time after cotton had held steady for nine or Hen months at 14 to 15 cents? They say because there is a prospect of over 14,000,000 bales. It is not more because the world, judging by the mast, thinks it can stampede the farmers and the merchants, and buy below 10 cents before Christinas. The men who are predicting such prices are working with might and main to bring about 10-cents cotton by telingll.,Jddl lxzfififf ( by telling, their farmer friends that the crop is the largest on record. 'You ought to sell as fast as you can, for cotton is bound to go lower.' Apparently not knowing that this is the very way to bring about a lower level of prices. "Now we have no quarrel with the Northern and foreign spinner who wants low-priced cotton. It is only a part of his business to get the raw material at the lowest possible price and it is also part of his business to sell his -finished product at the highest possible price. But how any Southern man, even owners of mill stocks, can wish to see low prices for cotton, or can in any way give aid and encouragement to the enemy by joining in the hue and cry that 'prices are bound to go lower,' is past our comprehension. For every business man and every cotton mill in the South is inevitably bound up in the general prosperity of this section. If Southern mills would seek out new markets for the manufactured goods, and learn from the successes of foreign mills to cater to the demands of the world'fe trade in the fabrics the world wants, put up in the| kind of packages the| world wants, they could join hands with all the business interests of the South and fix and maintain the highest possible price for cotton and cotton goods. "That the mills will not do this * 1-.. 4Un IS aounaanny proven uy uic uiniui j of recent years when our own mills kept out of the market while the farmer was falling over himself to sell his cotton, and later paid more for their stocks than the foreigners, with freight and other charges added. We may expect the same thing to happen this fall. Hence we leave the Southern spinners out of the count. "But we do call on every merchant and every fertilizer manufacturer and every banker and every railroad man to join with the Farmers' union in urging every farmer to hold back his cotton until the world is willing to pay a Bvlng price for it. S?uch a course can hurt no one, and it will help every one; the merchant by giving him cash customers for his goods, the fertilizer plants by increased use of their goods, the banks by larger deposits on more imported goods than our people will have the money to 1 "" ""nfv iM>nfaaalnn nnrl Pflll Uliy, ttllU CIV.I J (MU1V/UU1VU! ing by tho increase in the circulating medium brought about by the larger flow of foreign gold in all tho arteries of commerce. "There can ,be no question that this will be the result of higher prices for cotton. If it were not true, from whence comes the present prosperity of the South? It is 15 cents cotton that has done it. As surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, just so surely will there be stagnation and want, distress! and| bitterness, in thousands of homes in the South, and they will not all be farmers' homes, if -All fnr w? let in is crop u l cunuu d*=h ?" 10 cents or less. "With the world's stocks of cotton almost depleted, with the automobile tire industry alone taking hundrede of thousands of bales of cotton annually, increased consumption on every side, this crop can be marketed at 14 or 15 cents per pound Just as easily as last year's crop was, 11 we but hold out for it. This is not merely our opinion, fellow farmers, but It is the opinion of as shrewd business men as the ones who tell you that cotton will go lower. Besides 'there's many a slip 'twlx the and the Up/ and the drought Is not yet broken over large areas where cotton is hurned up; In other sec tions the young crop can not make a half yield under most favorable conditions. And all of it has to run the gauntlet of excessive rains, if they ever start, and of the many insect pests, and climatic changes that make a late crop so uncertain. "In conclusion your committee would urge, with all the insistence of calm and deliberate judgment, that every one who can do so hold his cotton off the market either in his own strength, or with the assistance of his creditors and the banks. Pick it dry, gin it dry, put the bales away under shelter dry.. And if you must borrow money on it, do not borrow more than 25 or 30 dollars a bale and for not less than six months. Thirty-day cotton loans and loans close up to the market value are worse than seli'ng outright. We call on all the unions in the cotton belt to join us in this fight. Shut down on cotton now and fr?r th#> iiftxt. 60 davs and the fight is won. Paper contracts do not run mills. "Yours for Southern prosperity, "E. W. Dabbs, "J. M. Brogdon, "S. N. Welsh, "Committee." WHO PAYS THE BILLS? Good Advertising Should Sustain Itself by New Business. When you advertise in the local paper, what's your theory of payment? Do you figure that you will pay for the ad out of the profits of the business it brings in, or out of your normal, veery day cash receipts? It's a poor advertisement that can not pull its own weight in the boat. The .biggest advertisers in the country aim to make their advertising sustain itself. They pay for it out of increased business. A manufacturer ot popular candies says: "Neither the dealers nor his customers pay for our advertising. It is paid by the growth of our business through advertising which enables us to save enough in cost of salesmen, superintendence, rents, interest and use of the plant to cover most, if not all of our adevertising bills." In other words advertising makes it possible to get the mots out of your investment. It makes your store and your fixed charges bring , in the biggest posible results to the square inch. The bigger your volume of advertising grows the bigger should be your business, and the more efficient work you should be able to get out of every dollar you have invested. Advertising should not merely make enough to pay for itself out of the profits, but it should increase the "square inch" earning capacity of your clerks and your store front, and your delivery wagons and your nice and expensive fixtures, so that the profits on the goods sold would be all profit, and the economies in management and efficiency would pay for the advertising. It takes good advertising to figure out that way, but if you are keen to take advantage or the help being offered you from various sources, you can get out the right kind of advertising. PREDICTS END OF WORLD. Seventh Day Adventist Says the Time Is Near at Hand. The world will come to an end within a very few years," declared Elder O. Montgomery, president of the Indiana conference of the Seventh Day Adventists, during the services of the camp meeting now progressing at Indianapolis, Indiana. "I cannot set the year. It may be next year; it may be five years. But I do know that it will come before the death of the last man who saw the falling of the stars on November 13, 1833. T.helre are few people living now who saw that phenomenon and I know that the end will come before all of them are gone." Elder Montgomery said that science had been unable to solve the falling of the stars n 183 3 and that he has Scriptural proof that the mulcnlum will occur within the generation following that event. SIR ORACLE HAS SPOKEN, ? Teddy Tells How to Regulate the Rig Corporations.. Theodore Roosevelt stalked boldly before the House of Representatives committee of Inquiry into the United States Steel Corporation at New York on Monday and told how his action in consenting to the absorp tion of the Tennessee Coal & Iron 1 Co. by the Steel Corporation in 1907 ! averted a disastrous panic. He arrived unheralded at the city hall, vigorously shook hands with ?iamKoi.a nf th? rnmmitfee. declared I I1IV1I1UV* M V ft. V..V -V - 9 , himself delighted to see everybody , and got down to business. First and foremost he placed upon L himself responsibility for approving . the absorption to save a |perilous ; financial disaster in Wall Street and > condemned any man who would be , so weak as not to act as he did in that crisis. Six Persons Bit. A dispatch from Spartanburg says six persons who were bitten by a mad dog at that place Wednesday left the same day for Columbia to bo treated. BURNED TO DEATH FATAL ACCIDENT AT ANDERSON COUNTY HOSPITAL. Miss Mabel Thompson Receives Fearful Injuries in Lamp Explosion and Dies Soon Afterwards. As the result of an explosion at the Anderson County Hospital ?Monday afternoon, Miss Mabel Carpenter Thompson, the superintendent of the institution, is dead, Miss Josle Moffett, a trained nurse, of Due West, is badly burned, and Charles IJarnes, the hospital's orderly, who held tho kerosene lamp when it exploded is suffering with an ugly gash in the head and painful burns on the arms, hands and face. The News and Courier correspondent says the explosion occurred when the orderly was pointing out to a plumber a defect in the primer kerosine lamp, that is used to heat the sterilizing machine. The negro pumped air into the lamp, to show where it was leaking. Some screw about the lamp must have been lose for the explosion followed, hurling tiiOi lomn trtwarHn Miss 111C \,\JUL l/UVI vw x v.^ ? Thompson, who was looking on. Practically all of the kerosene was thrown on Miss Thompson, and in a second's time she was one mass of flames. Her face, head, arms and chest were saturated with oil and before assistance could reach "her, she was burned horribly. She very probably swallowed some of the gas and the flames. Miss iMoffett was attracted from the adjoining room and she had the presence of mind enough to gather up the carpet off the floor and throw it around Miss Thompson, who was thrown to the floor and rolled over and over. The chetfnridal fire extinguishers were brought into use and in a few moments the .blaze was extinguished. Miss Moffett received her burns in the fight against the fire. The negro orderly received his wounds at the time o>f the explosion, flying part of the lamp hitting him on the head and the flames leaping to his face. Miss Thompson came to Anderson from Dayton, Ohio, last November. Her home is Damascus, Ohio, and her sister, at Salem, Mass., has been ' 1 In Mnm noiinea. out? n<t? a uiviuci m m-n York, but his address is not known. Both of her parents are dead. Since coming to Anderson she endeared herself to all the people with whom she had to come in connection. She made an ideal superintendent and under her supervision the hospital was getting along very nicely. Her fatal accident has cast a gloom over the whole city. She was about 3 0 years of age. This horrible accident and sad sequel is a terrible blow to the hospital and to the people of the city and county. Miss Thompson recently recfeivejd an offer of the superindency of a large Northern hospital, carrying a much larger salary than she received here, but because she was contented with her work at Anderson and because of the fact that her work was highly satisfactory and appreciated by the people generaly she declined the offer Mondday night. ? ? LIGHTNING STKUCK MOURNERS, i Woman Killed and Four Others Rendered Unconscious. Mouring for Phillip Brlssel, whose body lay in a coffin before the altar of St. John's Evangelical church at Kohlville, Wis., Mrs. Henry Conrad | was struck dead and four other wo men rendered unconscious when a bolt of lightning pierced the house of worship Sunday. Rev. John Frank was opening his mouth to begin his sermon when a vivid flash of flame and deafening crash seemed to paralyze for a second the entire congregation. The pastor's words of compassion for the sorrowing family were never uttered: Mrs. Conrad and a dozen other women were knocked prostrate on the floor, while near them were a dozen others, shrieking in terror, almost precipitating a panic, which which coolheadcd men prevented. PellagrA Spreading. The spread of pellagra in the mountain country of eastern Kentucky has become so alarming and deaths from the diseases have become so numerous that a State-wide ? ~ -11 ?? n* P/>t*Kln Tiiaq. IIl<aCLlIlK W ilB liuiu ai< vj v/ & k/aii| jl ?? v<m day, participated in by medical experts, who discussed the best way ot stamping out the disease. At the eastern Kentucky insane asylum alone there have been 30 deaths from pelagra. ? ? (Jraft and Liar Used. "Graft!" "Graft!" shouted a crowd that packed the council chamber at Peublo, Cal., when the city council prepared to pass over Mayor West's veto an ordinance providing $250,000 in bonds to pay for a nitration plant. "Liars!" shouted back Alderman Keating, shaking his fist at the protesting citizens. The measure was passed 6 to 1. ? ? ? (Some newspapers says it still loves Gov. Wilson for the kind of men that call him a liar. BANK OjF Conwa; Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp! CAPITAL STOCK., ., SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, EL L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every aco will justify, and wc j bob but b. scarborough, D President. We continue to pay 5 pel GM&999999999m9 | FIRST NATIC 1 oobtwa ? CAPITAL STOCK ? SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS direct s r|J J. A. (McDermott, John C fB. G. Codlins, H. L?. B M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua Successor to the Bank of Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent dev Republic. Backed by the ( United States Bonds, we are p tomera any reasonable a coo mi H. A. SPIVEY, Cashier. professional. cards. EL H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councilor At Lmw. oonway, s. o. R, R. scarbrough CONWAY, 8. C. \ * ' Attorney at Law. & H. BURROUGHS Physician and Bnrgeoa. CONWAY, 8. O. B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at La;. Bank of Horry Building. CONWAY, S. C. HE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE ^|UGHT RUNNING ^ nrownr mm \ \ fffoa want either a Vibrating Shuttle, Rotate buttle or a Single Thread [Chain SlUcA^ Sewing Machine write to m BfW HOME lEWIHfl MACHINE CONFAB Orange* Mam. <MMweewlBr machines are made lose II retetdleeil ?nlUy(bui the New Homo is made to area* Oar guaranty never rune out; NrtA AM authorised deaiara aaAfUr gas iau mr BURROUGHS it OOIiUNS OeH Conway, 8. O. Fatal Train Wr?rlr. Two men were scalded to death , and two were seriously injured when a passenger train on the Seaboard Air Line plunged through an open switch and'struck a freight train on a siding near Petersburg, Va., on | Monday. The dead men were the ' fireman and the engineer of the , freight train. ? ? ? If dirt ds but matter in the wrong : place so weeds are plants for which . as yet no use has been found. Reaaoning from past successes in finding a beneficial use for many plants previously classed as pestilent weeds it I Is not too much to expect that in .time 1 some good use will he found for everything that grows. * ' ' HORRY, I y. S, C. 1 ny bank in Horry county. Mof e I lus of all other banks in the county*. I $50,000 M 12)509 Oh :HOLDBR8 .. .. 60,000 ORS *1X2,600 ;tors i D. V. Richardson, | W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman* ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a. fbrkmab Vice President. Oashibb r cent, on yearly deposits. )NAL BANK | j Y, 8. O. S ..|26,000.00 T 2,600.00 wj 126,000.00 Mkp roiis: X 5. Splvey, D. T. McNeill, A luck, W. R. Lewis, D. jjk ittlebaum, D. A. Spivey. ^ Conway, the oldest Bank in f|k in Eaiibern Carolina. Close- 5: elopment of the Independent xovernmeut and secured toy mL repared to extend to our cun- jXr aodations. tp B. G. COLLINS, President. IP PAID TO VOTE i j n n I. i n i_ n_?i p. 9am nwuuw wpciu emery omj Before Ceuuttee. \ ON THE L0R1MER CASE Bunker, Church Iieader and State* Senator Makes a Most Humiliating Confession Before the Committer Investigating the Bribery Charges { Against U. S. Senator Lorimer. I TTpohlv Mofan/Hnir, h!a r?ftnfpH9A(l graft, former State Senator D. W. Holtslaw, the 62 year old Illinois, banker and church leader, Tuesday retold to the senate Lorimer committee his story of being paid fo^ having voted for Lorimer for Senator. Incidentally he told of asking and of being promised $1,500 for buying furniture for the State from a certain firm. Holtslaw was asked many humiliating questions. He was required to tell of being called before the grand jury in Cangamon county GlV his way back from a Baptist convention in Baltimore, to which he was a delegate. He was led by counsel Into all the details of his demand to bo paid by the furniture men before he thought furndtiure for the State. r "You were looking out for the best interest of the State when you demanded $1,500?." asked Senator Kenyon. "I felt honestly that I was not taking anything from the State, but was getting part of the agent's commission." "You were worth $100,000 and didn't need the money?" "No, I didn't need it." "Did you intend to turn it ovif to some charity fund?" suggested Av? torney Marble. "Oh, no; I Intended to keep every cent of it." Ho did not get the money because he told the grand jury about it, he said, and declared that it was mostly to get mmunlty for his part In the furniture deal that he told the grand jury about receiving money for having voted for Lorimer. Holtslaw told of his conversation with State (Senator John Broderick the night before Lorimer was elected. "He said to me: Senator Lorimer will be elected tomorrow/" eadd Holtsaw. " 'Yes/ I replied, 'I am going to vote for 'him/ After a second had passed, he said, 'There will be $2,500 in it for you.' I did not say anything." "Did you think you ought to have got more?" asked a member of the committee. { "No, I thought I ought to have had none." "Why did you take it then?" "I really do not know." Melon for Blease. Qov. Blease has received from George Kay, of Honea Path, a watermelon weighing 68 1-2 pounds which is six pounds more than the Georgia melon, christened "Hoke Smith", which was recently sent to the White House In Washington.