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/'NO BODY GUARD " ?.? GOVERNOR BLEASE SAYS BEARD DID NOT GO WITH HIM DURING LAST CAMPAIGN ? c In Kcply The IVe Re? Daily Recalls \ History of CampniKn and (iives ' c Koine Facts to Refresh the CJovern- j or's Memory?Tells of llrard's Ad- ^ mission on Platform* ' I The Georgetown Times says when Gov. Hlcase was asked about the Pee ( Daily story of "Hull Moose" Heard j travelling over tho State in behalf of K Hleaso for Senator and McLaurin for ( Governor, he said: 1 "Mr. Heard was not my bodyguard j during last summer. While I have a N very low opinion of some of my one- f mies, and believe that at one cam- r palgn meeting, particularly, there \ was an organized movement to as- t nussinated me 1 have never thought t) it was necessary to carry an armed ( bodyguard, and this remark on the t part of the editor of this little one- i cent sheet is absolutely libelous to Mr. Heard. As to Mr. Heard working t in my interest throughout the State, i 1 have never heard of it. I appre- c elate his friendship and want the e friendship of every respectable white ^ man 1 can got. Some of them are \ not respectable and their support 1 i do not want. I do not care for the t support of the editor of the Pee Dee ^ Daily. t "As to Mr. Heard's remarks as to V Senator McLaurin, 1 presume they are his own. They were certainly c not dictated or put into his mouth by a me. Neither were tho words he uses >' criticising Mr. Humbert. I have no o interest in the first race for governor (. unless the issue is drawn clearly be- t tween Hlease and anti-Please. In l that event I shall stand by the man a ?m? i rprrMMHH T j)0 MieaSO iSHUC. If 0 ho goes down I bIiall go with him. i Senator McLnurin is a brainly man. t Col. Uembert is a brainy man. There t will bo other good men in the race, I and the white people of South Cnro- li linn are competent, to pick a man for governor without any dictation from me, and there most assured 'will he none attempted by me." . I Bennetts ville Paper's Reply. To this the I'oe Doe Daily, which is published at Hennottsvllle has replied: ' c "Jn the article referred to, wo ^ Nvero <1 \iotink Mr. Hoard, and not j Governor Hlease. The article itself v made that very clear. Perhaps Mr. c Yleard has been talking and travel- j ing in the interest of Gov. Hlease, rj without the latter's knowledge. If s :?o, The Daily has given the governor wuprne important information. Mr. ( f?eard admitted on the stand at one v Of the campaign meetings last sum- ( mcr, in answer to a direct question, j in the presence of Gov. Hlease and t liundreds of others, that, he was arm- ( <5(1; he had in his pocket a commis- . ffion from Gov. Hlease as a detec- j tive; ho was paid by the governor { out of the State funds; and accoml>anied Gov. Hlease to the stand and ( Fat with .him on the stands at most of the campaign meetings in the up- , per part of the State, at the time ( Gov. Hlease was telling about his fears of being assassinated. These facts were published at the time by nearly all the papers in the State. Perhaps Gov. Hlease has forgotten these facts. If so, The Daily has done him another service by reminding him .of them. Mr. Heard does nut ritgu.ru jvh iiopious mo statement that ho was (Jov. Blease's bodyguard, lie has never denied it. He jokingly referred to it while in the office of The Daily the other day. When the governor says that Mr. Beard was not his bodyguard, he contradicts Mr. Beard. To normal minds and characters, the charge of falsehood Is greater libel than that of being the governor's bodyguard, even if the latter were not true. "Oov. Blease contradicts himself almost in the same breath when he aays: 'In that event, I shall stand by the man who represents the Blease issue. If he goes down, I shall go with him. * * * The white people of South Carolina are competent to pick a governor without any dictation from me, and there most assuredly will he none attempted by me.' "The statement that the governor does not want the support of the oditor of the Pee Dee Daily, reminds us of the old fable, in which the fox ttaid he did not want those old sour' grapes, after lie found that they were out of his reach." 1 l Chinaman Dies at Age of 150. I Dr. Oho Ohoy, late of China and I Cuba, died at tlie Ellis Island Immigration Station, New York, Monday 1 in his hundred and fiftieth year. lie Jived for fifty years in his native land and claimed to have spent near ly 100 years in Ou.ba practicing medicine among the Chinese there, where he acquired considerable wealth. > J C Jo-Operates With Wilson. The Democrats have introduced a : currency bill in acordance with the plans of President Wilson. STRAINED RELATIONS IETWKEX Til ! ] EXITED STATES AM) THIS STATE 'miscd by letters Written to the National War Department by <Jovernor Mease of the State. After hearing Setertary Garrison's ommunication read the Washington orrespondent of the News and Courer asked Senator Tillman this quesion: What do you understand that Secretary of War to mean, Senator, ?y a "proper letter?" Senator Tillman answered as folows: "I would ])refer others to inerpret that language for themselves, will guess this, however: "Governor Blenso, whether intenlonally or not, has caused the poodo at the war department to have onio bad feeling towards the State >f South Carolina. Naturally so. His etters have been published in our irincipal State newspapers and those vho have read them know how ofetisivo they must have been to all irmy ofllcers who over wore a blue iniform. lie seems to forget that lie United States is now our country is well as that of the Yankees and hat we have a Southern Democrat in lie President's ofllco for tlie first time 11 fifty years. "Only two days ago an appropriaion was passed by Congress providing for the payment of the expenses f the Confederate and Federal vetirans of the District of Columbia to ;o to Gettysburg, and that the comnission in charge of all arrangenents and expenditures consisted of he Secretary of War, a Confederate reteran and a Federal veteran, there>y equal consideration being given loth Northern and Southern armies. "Secretary Garrison does not want ir expect an apology or explanation, 11 be expects is a letter couched in espectful terms making a formal reinest from the Governor of South 'arolina to t.lio Secretary of War for liese funds to be available for the impose of mobilizing the militia as lready agreed on and understood, ind to pay their camping expenses, le does not care for any references o lie made to any communications hat have hitherto passed between he Governor of South Carolina and lis office." LITTLK FMhhOWS DHOWXEl) Iridgo Leading to Municipal Bath House Gives Way A narrow wooden walk leading >ver 1 5 feet of water to the munici>al bath house, at Lawrence, Mass., n the Merrimac river Monday gave vay under tho stamping feet of a rowd of impatient boys and at least 1 of tho little fellowB were drowned, [fiiere may be more bodies in the it roam. The boys were jumping up and lown when tho supports sank and the valk extension dropped like a trap loor, rolling the lads into the water, t was thought at first that only hree were drowned and it was not intil two hours later that the probible loss of life was realized. A boy n the crowd of distracted persons on diore, missing his chum, sent up a ?ry ":I don't see ltollie. He must be drowned." Boats and grappling irons were then brought and the river bed was dragged. When the work ceased late ! at night twelve bodies had been recovered. CONDITION OP (X)TTON CROP. Shows Improvement During .Past Month Reaching 80.9. The condition of cotton on an average date of Juno 23, according to the replios of over 1,900 special correspondents of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, was SO.9 coinnsired with SO !? a month ago, or an increase of 0.4 point. This compares witli the 1.3 a year ago and the f>.9 in 1911, and a ten-year average of 81.0. The percentage condition by states, with comparisons, follows: July June North Carolina 77.2 7 8.0 South Carolina 73.3 69.3 Ceorgia 7 6.4 75.3 Florida 80.6 79.9 Alabama 78.3 79.9 Mississippi 80.0 80.fi Louisiana 80.6 81. Texas 84.0 82.1 Arkansas 85.4 85.J Tennessee 82.7 83.5 Missouri 82.7 83.( Oklahoma ..86.6 89.( Averages 80.9 80.f ? ? o Refuses Requisition A dispatch from Augusta says i became known there Wednesday night that the governor of South Car olina, just prior to Gov. Brown goinj out of otlice, returned to Atlanta tin requisition papers asking for tho de livery to Georgia authorities of Moy< ? t\ 11 1 ? ^1. I ^ /? 1 u i;. UUWling, WIIO WilB CHSU1UI Ol til' defunct Citizens' bunk. Flies Across Lake Michigan. TiOgun A. Villas, an amateur avi ator of Chicago, Tuesday made th' first aeroplane flight across Jvak< Michigan. His trip, made in a hy droaeroplane from St. Joseph, Mich (to Chicago consumed one hour ant 34 minutes. LIGHTNING DANGEROUS j l)OKS FATAL WORK IN SOUTH CAROLINA TOWNS Local Storms Seem to Occur Over the Kntiro State?Cattle Killed ami Buildings Struck. At Pickens on Sunday Demus C.nnt, eighteen years of age, was killed and Homer Davis was knocked sense less and seriously Injured during a thunderstorm which visited that section. The boys were coming into town just as tlie cloud was nearly up and thinking that they could get home before the rain, began to run, and running near the home of Craig Baker the fatal holt came. * Saturday night a mule and horse belonging to Howe Leminon, assistant farm demonstrator for Fairfield County, were killed by lightning. * ? A negro tenant and his wife, living on the plantation of Dr. J. C. Buchanan, near Winnsboro, were killed Sunday afternoon when lightning struck their home. * While Cleveland Byrd, a negro living near Eastover, was plowing Monday during the heavy electric storm, his plow was struck by lightning and his mule was killed. The negro was shocked but was not seriously hurt. * During an electric storm that passed about midnight Saturday night the station building of the Atlantic Coast Lino Railroad, at Wilson's Mill, six miles east of Manning, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. ? ? At Columbia lightning fired a barn of the farm of W. T. Martin on the Bluff road, opposite the State fair grounds, causing damage amounting to about $700, according to the owner. Several heads of live stock were saved. * During an electric storm at Jefferson Sunday afternoon W. J. Armfield's residence was struck hy lightning. The building was ignitod and soon destroyed by the flames. By prompt action of the citizens and family part of the household effects was saved. None of the members of the family were hurt other than being slightly stunned. Sunday afternoon Bessie McLean, a negro girl sixteen years old, a daughter of Henry McLean, who lives near Lnmar, had just returned home from church and was sitting near the chimney during a thunderstorm a bolt of lightning struck the roof and killing the girl instantly. The rest of the family was in the same room, but no one was even stunned. * At Columbia on Monday a bolt of lightning shattered the flag pole on the post oHico, throwing the splinters for a distance of 150 feet or more. All the electric lights in the post office building were snapped out. The flag pole was new, having been erected in the place of an old one about three weeks ago at a cost of about $15 0. Lizzie Gertrude, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Smith, of the lower Hollow Creek section, near Lexington, was killed by a bolt of lightning Sunday evening. She lacked only a few days of being six years old. She washout in the yard playing under a cedat* tree about six o'clock when a holt struck the tree and killed the child. For the eighth time within the past few weeks?since the heated weather has brought on electrical storms? lightning Sunday afternoon struck in trie yara or me nome or jonn wauenburg, a mile from Aiken, on the Levels. The Wallenburg home is in a beautiful grove. Sunday afternoon a tree, only a few feet from the house, was splintered. * During the past week there have been several severe electrical storms, , the worst being on Saturday afternoon, the greatest damage being done west of Rishopville. The gin of Oscar Watson was struck by lightning | and burned, as well as his oat crop, ( which he had stored here. The after noon train had to stop near town to . remove debris from the track. ? - * + ? \ A terrific electric storm that pass \ ed over the Landsford section ol > Chester county about daybreak Sun j day morning resulted in the loss bj - R. II. Fudge of a pair of fine 1,20( pound horse mules, valued at $600 In the eastern part of the county im mense damage to trees was done hi the storm, also a large number beinj ^ lifted up by the roots. The cropi were damaged some. s Japan Sends Note. 0 Japan's latest note on the Califor o nia alien land law arrived by cabl Tuesday. The Japanese embassy a once began work to prepare i tfo presentation to Secretary Itryan. q Rill to Pension Confederates, o Congressman C. G. Edwards, o - Georgia, introduced Tuesday a bill t i. gront pensions to Confederate vet [1 erans and their widows at the rate o $30 a month. COTTON MILL MEN CHARGED WITH PREVENTIMG REMEDIAL LEGISLATION. TO PROTECT CHILDERN Secretary McKelway Says Manufacturers Have Kept Legislatures of North and South Carolina From Repealing Law Allowing Children to Work Klevcn Hours a Day. The cotton manufacturers of four Southern states?Georgia, Alabama and tho Carolinns?were charged , with having prevented tho legislatures of those states from repealing child labor laws which permit cliil- , dren twelve years old to work eleven hours a day in the mills, in an address at Portland, Ore., Tuesday by A. J. McKelway, of Washington, I). . (\, secretary for the Southern States 1 of the National Child Labor Committee. Mr. McKelway's address was delivered at the Sectional Conference on Capital and Labor incident to the World's Christian Citizenship Con- ! ference, in session at Portland. In addition, Mr. McKelway charged the textile manufacturers of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Texas with public opposition to "tho eight-hour day for children " and the nine-hour day for women workers". At the conclusion of his address he submitted a "Declaration of Dependence" on behalf of the "children of America, in mines and factories and workshops assombled". He said in part: "In the opposition to child labor reform the textile industry has been even more conspicuous than in its employment of children. During the legislative sessions of this year, it is the textile interests of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania that have ( fought tho eight-hour day for children under sixteen and the textile manufacturer of Tennessee and Texas ] were the public opponents of the eight-hour day for children and the nine-hour day for women workers. "It i? tbn rnttnn fnntiirnm the four Southern states of Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas, that have prevented the legislatures of those states from prohibiting the barbarism of allowing a twelve-yearold child work an eleven-hour day? in the case of Georgia a ten-year-old child. Nor are theso low standard laws adequately enforced in these states. "It has been the fashion of the American people to end an abuse, once its consequences were fairly understood. It has heard the indictment against the child labor system, that it moans not only the injury, physical, mental, moral, to thousands of individual children, but an injury to society itself, and injury to the race. The system stands to-day convicted by public opinion as guilty on these several counts; that it involves racial degeneracy, tho perpetuation of poverty, tho continuance of dependency, the enlargement of illiteracy, the increase of crime, the disin- ' tegration of the family, the lowering of the wage scale and tho swelling of the army of the unemployed. Tho verdict is the abolition of child labor in America at whatever cost. "It if be proved that child labor is not essential to tho existence of an industry, then let child labor die and the industry live. Rut if it be claimed that any industry can not survive without the employment of children, that industry writes itself down as unworthy of survival on American soil." ? SHOOTS IN COURT. Man Fires Three Times at Prisoner in Tampa. Just as County Judge E. V. Whitaker adjourned court Wednesday morning at Tampa, Fla., in the preliminary hearing of W. E. Maddox, a white man who is accused of assault upon a thirteen-year-old girl, E. E. Green, of Sylvania, Ga., an uncle of . the girl, and who was attending the hearing, drew a revolver and fired | three shots at Maddox. All three ( shots went wild and Green waa disarmed by a court deputy before he could get the range on his intended victim. ^ The first shot fired struck the celling. The second punctured a law r l>ook, the third splintered the top of j Judge Whitaker's desk. I ? Killed by Jealous Husband. j Mrs. C. B. Jones, of Norfolk, Va.f r aged thirty years, was Monday shot 3 and killed by her husband, from whom she had been separated. She was shot in the arm and back, the latter bullet entering her heart. The woman died en route to a hospital. - Jones was arrested and refused to o make a statement. Jealousy is as t signed as the cause. r , ? Peeked Into CiirPs Stockings. A highwayman who took $7 from her escort, forced Miss Rosa Clay, of f Indianapolis, Ind., at the revolver's o point, to lower her stockings and > prove there was no money concealed f therein. Then ho thanked her for her trouble and departed. Eaa since 1894 given "Thorough Ins Influences at the lowest possible c< RESULT: It Is to-day with Its faci its student body of 413, and its plant i THE LRADINP. TRATMINfl fiH! $150 pays all charges for the year, in heat, laundry, medical attention, phya except music and elocution. For cat REV*THOS. ROSSER R BLACKS! PLANTS. Sweet Potato Plants?Early Triumphs, Nancy Hall, Porto Rico, Norton, and Providence, $1.75 per 1 ,000. H. II. Thomas, Karleton, Fla. Lookout Mountain Irish Potatoes? Sure fall crop; $1.75 per bu. Ask for 10-bu. lot price. W. P. Harris, Owings, S. C. Sweet Potato Plants, express prepaid to South Carolina, 1,000 to 3,000 at $1.75 per 1,000, 4,000 to 10,000, $1.65; Nancy Hall. Triumphs, Porto Rico yams. C. F. VVhitcomb, tTma- > tilla, Fla. For Sale?Nancy Hall and l)ool\ I Yam Sweet Potato SIipa. $1.50 per thousand. Missionary and Ecelsior ; Strawberry Plants $'2 per thousand. Write or wire. Southern Plant Company., W. J. Hawkins, Mgr., I Plant City, Fla. Sweet Potato Plants, Nancy llall and Triumph, $1.75 per 1,000. I can fill your orders In any quanity. Give me your orders for prompt delivery and choice plants grown under irrigation. G. D. Moore, Hawthorn. Fla. POULTRY AND EGGS. For Sal??Poland China pigs of lino breeding. Write for prices. S. J. Summers, Cameron, S. C. Two Hundred large, vigorous, young strain comb White Leghorn breeders. $1 each; f>0 or more, 9 0c. Frank Runser, Ada, Ohio. II olsteins?Pure-bred cows; heifers, open and bred; bull and heifer calves for sale. D. S. Jones, Beacondale Farms, Newport News, Va. White IiCghorns, Huff Orpingtons, White Plymouth Rocks. Vigorous, hardy stock. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. Mating List Free. This ad will not appear again. S Bacon & Haywood, 20B Springfield Ave., Guyton, Ga. I will teach you bookkeeping and the collection business. Appoint you my special representative in your own town. In your spare time. And help to make you prosperous. Write to-day for this offer. Brown's Correspondence School, Wilcoxon Building, Freeport, Illinois. Prize Winning White Indian Runner duck eggs, 11 for $3; 2 2 for $5. Bronze turkey eggs, 11 for $3; 22 for $5. 5 Toulouse goose eggs, $2.60. White Orpington eggs, 1.50 for 15 and up. Fawn and White Indian Runner duck eggs, $1.50. M. B. Grant, Darlington, S. C. MIHCK LLA N EO U S. Hartford's Roup? Cure? Guaranteed 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Eneads, Fla. I buy all kinds of empty barrels and bags. Try me. Walter A. Moore, 8 George St., Charleston, S. C. Secrets on slot machines, dice, cards, races, exposed; circular free. Ham B. Co., Box 16-40, Hammond, Ind. l'llectric Repair Company, Charleston, S. C., agents for Perry Fresh Water Supply Systems. Write for particulars. For Sale?Game Bull Terriers?pedigreed stock. The best watch dog or companion, and fastest fighting dog on earth. Correspondence solicited. Burnett Kennels, Knoxville, Tenn. Personal?Ladies, when delayed or irregular use Triumph Pills; always dependable. "Relief" and particulars free. Write National Medical Institute, Dept. 5., Milwaukee, Wis. Piles can be relieved at once?Send lf?c for liberal sample, ''Lino Pile Remedy," and he convinced. Large size, 50c, 6 for $2.50. H. M. Knighl and Co., Manufacturing Pharma cists, Lancaster, Penn. Marry if you are lonelv. The Relinhh Confidential Successful Club hai large number of wealthy eligibh members, both sexes wishing earl: marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal. Well established job printing firm de sires esrvices of experienced printer Will pay good salary to right man with few hundred dollars to invest "Manager," 619 King Street, Char leston, S. C. lbciiF?iiao;ini;iM traction under positively Christian 3St.w llty of 33, a boarding patronage of 303, worth 1150,000 IOOL FOR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA eluding table board, room; lights, steam ical culture, and tuition in all Bubjecta aloguc and application blank address EEVES, B. A., Principal. ONE. V/ , - ??????? RESOLUTION OF THANKS ? PASSER ItV CONFEDERATE VETERANS AT OETTYSRURG. To Pennsylvania and the (loverninent for Splendid Treatment?Pledge I tmost Loyalty to I'nited States. At a meeting of the Confederate Veterans at Gettysburg the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : "Resolved, by the ex-Confederates at Gettysburg assembled that our thanks are due and are hereby tendered to the state of Pennsylvania tor initiating the movement which has made it possible for the survivors of the two great armies which fought in tills illustrious field fifty years ago, to meet in friendship here to-day and plant a monument of peace a monument which shall stand as the symbol of American valor, manhood and brotherhood. "Resolved, that we thank the government of the United States for the magnificent and munificent manner in which it has seconded the efforts of the state of Pennsylvania in carrying forward this great work of peaco and fraternity between the blue and gray; and without any self-abasement whatsoever, we desire to reaffirm and pledge not only ourselves, but all our brother ex-Confederates, and all the people of our loved Southland to the utmost loyalty to the government of the United States and to the flag of our country. "Resolved, that we take pride in the fact that to the armies of the Confederacy is due the credit of demonstrating the utter impossibility of the dismemberment of the Union. When we consider that 600.000 men of the very flower of chivalry, as good material as was ever organized in a lighting force, and directed by such commanders aR our beloved Robert R. Lee and his lieutenant, inspired by a sectional devotion such as has not elsewhere been known in history, failed to separate the states, we seo that the demonstration was complete, that the thing was not to be done, and our failure must give pause to those who in the future would contemplate such an undertaking." Drunk Negro Has Luck. Lying with his head between the cross ties not six inches away from passing trains, a negro was found Wednesday night at Columbia hopelessly drunk. The negro had been noticed around the union station, apparently drinking, and was told to move on. From the time ho moved on until found exactly 12 freight trains? one of 4 5 cars?and three passenger trains passed over these tracks. I It is said that Attorney-General McReynolds has been very kind to the Republican holdovers in his department. He even retained the private secretary of the former attorneygeneral and one of the assistant attorney-generals, both of whom are Republicans. Tbis kindness to Republicans had no effect on McNaib, who was another Republican holdover retained by McReynolds. He knifed his benefactor on the first opportunity. HOARDERS WANTED. Wanted?Summer boarders at Viewpoint, Edneyville, N. C. T. A. W. Eyda. I iteulah House is a mountain resort now ready for guests. Address Samuel Williamson, proprietor, Ottanola, P. O. Henderson County, N. C. \ Wanted?Mrs. B. S. Howell is now 5 ready for boarders at Saluda, N. C. t Comfortable rooms; superb location; magnificent scenery; best fare; reasonable terms. Address - Mrs. E. E. Howell, Saluda. N. C. 3 ???? a ? HELP WATET). P Wanted?White girl, with references ' to (lo cooking and housework. J. H. Dukes, Summerton, S. C. , Agents?Make $20 to $r>0 weekly u selling specialty needed in homes and offices. Particulars free. The - Star Mfg Co., 1482 \V. Main St., Smlthville, Tenn.