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\ OIIjp Hamburg ijpratfi t smmmm???? * ?? ? ??? ?? ???? """"" ?? ????? ?? ???? Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18,1912. One Dollar and a Half a Year. ^? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. Hews Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Jan. 15.?Mr. John S. opeland, one of our landmarks, died last week on Thursday night about 10 o'clock and was buried Friday at Mt. Pleasant burial ground. He was )b the neighborhood of seventy-six Vears old. He was a great lover of children, and the little tots will miss him on our streets. Friday night gave us a heavy sleet, later on in the day on Saturday sleet and snow, then the sleet gave *#v tr> a hpftw snow. SuDDOse we had seven or eight inches. The young folks enjoyed snow balling to their heart's content. The mail carriers were unable to go their rounds with the mail on acIoount of high water. Nearly all the bridges were washed away, where there was a stream of any size. The rains broke up the last of the show. The first night the rains commenced he said it was raining as hard as it could and about midnight it commenced raining harder, and the first chance he got he left these parts for the city of Lodge. Work is practically suspended today on account of the snow. Can't I io anything but hunt birds, so the laborers say. Not as much exposure hunting birds as it is working. Can you see it that way, Mr. Editor? We have promise of fine open day to-day. If so the snow will disappear rapidly where the sun hits it. Miss S. Merchant has been added to the force of teachers in our school, and they hope to mhke a success teaching the little ones how to spell, write, and arithmetic, t It was so cold Saturday night until one party lit his lamp and when ready to extinguish says he could not put it out?the blaze was frozen. Has the presidency of the Prevaricating Club, eh? JEE. Fairfax Fancies. PoUfov Ton 1 R \ficc A Tin i P A' CM A f VWM? A V? A*A?MV ^ Cleeland, a belle of Branson, spent some time with Miss Lily Myrick recently. Several parties were given is her honor, which were much enJoyed by the young folks. Mrs. Ernest Ritter (nee Miss Meng.) of Ehrhardt, was here greet) ing old friends recently. Her suc essor, Miss Robertson, of Central, has arrived, and is "at home" with | Mrs. Martin Lightsey. f Mrs. Harrison, of Johnston, visited her daughter (our popular music teacher) recently, then went to Olar to see other friends. Mrs. Dr. Addison and daughter have returned from a pleasant visit to Augusta, where the former spent some time with her mother, Mrs. Luquire. Mrs. E. S. vC. Ulmer continues in fuite a low state of health, and so does Mrs. Mary Reed. G. D. Sanders visited Barnwell recently. Rev. Simpson (late of Norway) is installed in the Baptist parsonage Mere. About 3 p. m. Sunday Mr. Jack Williams, of Appleton, and Miss Tela Bennett, of our town, were married. Rev. W. B) Aull was the officiating clergyman. Only a few friends were present. They left for Applel ton, their future home, same day. ^ Many friends here wish them great joy. W Mrs. Bertie Bessinger visited here W recently. i With the return of sunshine our 4 farmers are resuming their former cheerful looks. Mr. W. J. Speaks has returned from a trip to Sumter. Denmark Doings. Denmark, Jan. 16.?The heavy . snow on Friday night and Saturday ^ gave the young folks an opportunity for pleasure which they seldom ever eniov. Snowballing was entered in to in real earnest, and every one who ventured on the street was made to join in the sport. The merchants were prisoners in their own establishments, the crowd having promised them a double share. The holiday season being over, there are very few visitors in town. On last Friday evening Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Faust entertained in honor of Miss Clabourne, at their home on Railroad Avenue. The house was tastily decorated in holly, mistletoe, and bamboo, with a number of lovely k ferns and flowers. During the course of the evening several beautiful sef lections were rendered on the violin NECK BROKEN IN FALL. Fata} Accident to Young White Man in Columbia. Columbia, Jan. 15.?Kit Mims, a young white man, had his neck broken, when he slipped and rolled down an emabnkment. His body was picked up and removed to an undertaking establishment, where it was identified by some of his people. He was a young man about 22 years old, and a mill operative. Reflections of a Bachelor. Some people would rather steal a nn^r livirior than oarn a PTinrl rvnp ywi A?T VliUU VM* *? M QWV? Set 'em up, and the crowd is with you. Go broke, and you go it alone. The goddess of justice may be blind, yet she occasionally winks the other eye. If grindstones were abolished, perhaps fewer boys would want to leave the farm. Going through tunnels in an electric lighted train is wasted opportunity for a girl. A woman has just as much right to lie about her age as a man about his poker hands. What makes the baby look so much like its mother is its father knows it looks like him. Silence may be golden, but it's the loud candidate who gets the campaign contribution. White Men Put to Death. Horrible atrocities have been com mitt'ed by the tribes in Portugese Africa during a rising of the natives there, according to a dispatch received from Angola at Lisbon. A number of Portugese officials who were captured by them were burned alive. The rebellion occurred in the province of Muxima, and the natives captured all the white men who crossed their path. Some of these were immediately burned at the stake, while others had their lips severed and their eyes pulled out of their sockets before they were thrown into the flames. One British merchant was maimed, but later taken to his house, where his servants were murdered. News from Ehrhardt. Enrnarat, Jan. it>.?Mr. jonn s. Copeland died Thursday night and was buried Friday afternoon at Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church. Mr. J. Etna Buch, of Rural Retreat, Va., is visiting his sister, Mrs. D. B. Groseclose. Miss Lucile Carter, of Waynesboro., Ga., is visiting Miss Minnie Copeland. Miss Sarah Merchant, of Newberry, arrived Thursday to take charge of the third and fourth grades of the Ehrhardt school. Mr. Abner Fender has moved into j the old parsonage at Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church. Col. John F. Folk and Judge Harmon reached town Thursday morning, after having stuck in the mud with their automobile. Miss Annie Sue Copeland is visiting her uncle, Mr. Joe Copeland. Miss Annie Carter, who lived with Mr. John J. Copeland, deceased, for - * 4- i - 1.: ? inirty years, is uuw maKiug ueri i home with Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Copeland. Mr. W. C. Hughes, who has been with the Farmers Mercantile Co., I and wife have moved into the country home of Mr. H. A. Hughes. Mr. J. D. Dannelly has moved his stock of goods into Mr. H. C. Copeland's store, Mr. Copeland having built a furniture room on the side of his old store. Mr. S. W. Copeland will move into^ the store made vacant by Mr. Dannelly. Miss Minnie Fender, from Colston, spent the week-end with her uncle, Mr. E. C. Hughes. Miss Llewlyn Zeigler spent the week-end visiting friends. and piano by Misses Josephine and Virginia Faust. A delightful salad course was served by the Misses Faust and Louise Zeigler. Those invited were: Misses Genevieve Wroton, Margaret Thorpe, Emma Thompson, Hattie Lee Guess, Martha Riley, and Louise Zeigler; Messrs. R. A. Goolsby, J. B. Guess, Jr., Cecil Crum, Gordon Steadman, E. B. McCown, A. P. Guess. J. W. Crum, Jr., Elbert Steadman, and St. Clair Guess. The evening was very much enjoyed by all present. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Chitty, of Lees, spent the week-end with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Garris. of this city. Mr. C. R. Gillam, of Bamberg, was here Tuesday evening on important business. Mr. M. L. McCrea has gone to Jacksonville, Fla., where he expects to remain for some time. I 7 IN THE PALMETTO STATE ( SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Q State News Boiled Down for Quick ^ Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. ^ Jas. T. Harris has been elected a president of the Spartanburg chamber r of commerce. jThe Farmers and Merchants bank I of Lake City, Williamsburg county, f cleared 22 per cent, the past year. i Both the senate and the house I have endorsed by resolution the "Rock Hill Plan" for reducing the i cotton acreage. s | Last Wednesday the legislature r passed over the governor's veto the ^ bill providing for rural police in 1 Spartanburg county. s Senator Smith has appointed W. S. Carrington, of Spartanburg, to the . naval academy at Annapolis, Md., af- , ter competitive examination. The effort to form a new county, j to be called Heyward, out of portions of Aiken and Edgefield, with North j A ? /V/\itr4+tr OAOf V* O O HoOfl . AUgUSlci tile CUUUIJ ocai., uua ubbu ^ revived. g The railroad commissioners will ] investigate the report at its meeting i ; this week that the Coast Line owns \ | 52 per cent, of the stock of C., N. 1 & L. road. t Four towns in Lexington county ^ i will make bids for the girls' college | that the Lutherans propose to estab- c I lish?Lexington, Batesburg, Lees- ^ j ville, and Chapin. Sixteen freight cars left the rails on the Southern at Carlisle on Friday and tore up the track for 300 t yards. Six cars loaded with coal were i smashed to pieces. t The Lutheran board of publication 1 expect to complete their new build- t ing in Columbia by July. It will face Sumter street. Their former ( building, facing Main street, they sold for $80,000 recently. * It is stated in the Barnwell Sentinel that H. F. Buist, Esq., of Black- [ ville, will be a candidate for Master of Barnwell county in the primary the coming summer. He would make a most efficient officer, and we hope the voters will elect him. H. H. Evans, of Newberry, formerly a member of the board of dispensary directors and now under indictment for receiving rebates while a member of the board, has announced that he will run for attorney general this year. Wonder what his platform J will be. Pointed Paragraphs. The cradle manufacturer is natu- u rally out for the rocks. Only a woman can smile, sweetly j when she wants to cry. f You don't have to lead some men to water to make them drink. ( Yes, Alonzo, its easier to get mar- ; ried than it is to stay married. A ?? /\r? r? n if nrVl aVlO T A WUUiiXU 1ICYC1 mcauo it nuvu auv J says she doesn't care how she looks. Some people are so conceited that ( they are actually jealous of themselves. ? Nearly every time you meet a man t you hear of some other man he dis- ? likes. t There's one thing we admire about ? [women: Few of them are called t "Professor." j The man who is considered a "good j fellow" by the boys downtown is sel- c dom that kind of a chap at home. t When May and December take ^ each other for better or for worse, g the chances are they will both get ^ the worst of it. ^ Up to her wedding day a girl be- i lieves that if her husband has bad g habits it is because his wife never 1 feeds him angel food or meets him \ at. the door with a kiss. c There is no use wasting sympathy t on a man who can't be happy with t good health, good meals and good c weather. \ Great-Grandmother at 47. t Early marriage seems to run in the t feminine progeny of Mrs. Hazen t Conklin, of Denver, Colo., who at the I age of 47 years finds herself a great- s grandmother. c The fourth generation of the family 1 of which she is the maternal head a was born to her granddaughter, Mrs. S Lydia Rauch, on Thursday. I Mrs. Conklin was married at Mem- t phis, Tenn., when 3 4 years old, in op- \ position to the wishes of her mother, who herself was no older when she f was married. j Mrs. Conklin's first daughter was i Mrs. Mildred F. Ferguson, married c at the age of 1 6, and now a grand- J mother at 34. Her daughter, Lydia \ Rauch, married at 15. t t FAMILY TRAGEDY IN TAMPA. | )ne Dead, Another Dying, Third Shot, but Will Recover. P Tampa, Jan. 14.?Incensed bemuse his wife, from whom he had ^ >een separated six months, received l young man caller this afternoon, V. D. Moore shot and fatally woundid^his father-in-law, J. R. Robinson, it the Robinson home, in Arcadia, lear here, and was instantly killed >y Robinson's son. The son, John & - . - . __x v j. KODinson, is wounaea, dui not atally. The elder Robinson is pres- 0 dent of the Gardiner Lumber Com- M >any, one of the largest in Florida. ^ Moore married a daughter of Rob- d nson about a year ago, but they ;eparated, and for the past six nonths Mrs. Moore has been living a vith her father. Robinson brought doore home to dinner in hope of iffecting a reconciliation, which a leemed about to be realized, when a * r -oung man, whose identity the fam- v ly is concealing, came to call on a drs. Moore. This aroused the anger * >f the husband and he began to heap 7 nsults on the family. ' Robinson ordered Moore from the r louse, when the son-in-law fired 1 hree shots at the old man and one v Lt the son, each taking effect. Young d itobinson secured a pistol from a 11 M A niyvl t?AAm Q V* rtf \lf AAfft ^ 11 ail LCI 111 L11C 1VVU1 ?UU o&avti, V| tilling him instantly. The elder t lobinson is not expected to live un- 1 il morning. The son is not badly v vounded. 11 The young man who was the * :ause of the tragedy left the house 0 vhen the first shot was fired. Diplomatic Sidestepping. F "Last winter during a social func;ion in Washington," says Mr. Kenlard, counsellor of the British emr jassy, "I overheard a remark on the )art of a young clubman there, the act of which indicates that the youth n question should immediately adopt ^ liplomacy as his lifework. "He had been asked by a widow to v juess her age. He hesitated. 'You nust have some idea about it,' she g said, with what was intended for an irch smile. " 'I have several ideas,' the young nan admitted with a smile. 'The o^ly ;rouble is that I hesitate whether to nake you ten years younger on ac:ount of your looks or ten years oldjr on account of your brains.' "? . Lippinsott's Magazine. ^ a New Judges Elected. * s uoiumDia, Jan. iz.?me joint as-1 g sembly of the two houses to-day made I a he following elections of circuit y fudges: For the 2d circuit, Hayne F. Rice, >f Aiken, to succeed the late Robert Udrich. ( For the 4th circuit, Thomas H. Spain, of Darlington, to succeed As- c jociate Justice R. C. Watts. C For the 8th circuit, Frank B. Gary, t >f Abbeville, to succeed the late a Tudge J. C. Klugh. t For the 11th circuit, Judge J. W. DeVore, "Of Edgefield, re-elected. i For the 12th circuit, Judge S. W. \ Sr. Shipp, of Florence, re-elected. t The first two elections were full of t ipirit and vim and the contest be- t ;ween Mr. Edward Mclver and Mr. 1 Spain, to succeed Judge Watts, for s he unexpired term, was one of the e sharpest and most spirited contests j hat has been seen in many years. On the first ballot the result was t tie. There was a bit of feeling >ver what appeared to be a delay in s he announcement of the result, and s vhile the rseult was pending several I ;enators came in and recorded their s rote. The late arrivals added to the i rote of Mr. Mclver and there was t nore or less resentment over what i iome thought to be a purposed de- i' ay, but each vote stood on its own i: >ottom and when once recorded, un- P ler the rules, cannot be changed un- a il the next ballot. On the second t >allot Mr. Spain won by a majority P >f 26 votes, although on the first P >allot it was a tie. 1 is In the race for the judgeship from h he 2d circuit there was a sharp con- t est, which narrowed down to Sena- t or Bates, of Barnwell, and Mr. n Jayne F. Rice, of Aiken. On the n econd ballot when things simmered h lown, the vote stood Bates 66, Rice o '4, Miley 10, Davis 5. On the third n ind final ballot the vote stood Rice t 19 and Bates 55, and by this vote Mr. p layne F. Rice, at present a mem- s >er of the State board of education, k vas elected to succeed Judge Aldrich. a When the joint assembly met the ii irst election taken up was that of c udge for the 2d circuit. The nom- 1 nees were Senator George H. Bates, g if Barnwell; Mr. Hayne F. Rice, of r; Uken; Mr. James E. Davis, of Barn- c veil, and Mr. B. W. Miley, of Bam- r; (erg. d TOED BILLS ARE PASSED &AI> DAY FOR VETO MESSAGES OF GOVERNOR BLEASE. Principal Among Acts Passed was for Investigation of Dispensary Commission. Columbia, Jan. 16.?This was disinctly a bad day for the veto mesages of Gov. Blease. Each and every eto message that was considered was ver-ridden and so far as the house ras concerned the acts passed at the ist session, that were considered toay, are to become laws the vetoes o the contrary notwithstanding. First and foremost the veto on the ct providing for an investigation of lie dispensary investigating commitee is now an act, the house and sente both having passed the act over he veto. It will be remembered that rov. Blease at first asked for such n investigation and then suggested hat it looked like the committees /ere "packed" against him and his riends and that it would not be a eal investigation and vetoed the act. 'he senate passed the act over the eto and to-day the only symptom of lefence was a move to delay and this t was explained was not an approval f the governor's course in vetoing he act. The fact is that the act was manimously passed over the veto, whether this meant that there was no ise of a fight or that the members Qsisted upon the correctness of their riginal position is not known. Passed Over Veto. The house then in one, two order tassed over the governor's veto the till relative to the Industrial Home, ,t Florence. No other veto messages were taken ip to-day, except that providing for he commission form of government or Charleston, and in this case a moion to refer the measure to the juticiary committee for the purpose of , hearing, prevailed, although there va.s opposition to this. Mr. Vander lorst explained that Mayor Grace md others had requested a hearing >n the act. He did not indicate what IltJir ctLllLUUe WUU1U UC, uut. nnurou he hearing as a matter of courtesy. Old Dispensary Fund. The house took up the governor's reto on the act relative to the disribution of the balance from the old lispensary fund. Mr. Stevenson, the tuthor of the act, came vigorously o its defence and explained the poition the house had taken last year ind why it should be sustained. The ict was passed over the governor's reto by a vote of 83 to 11. Don't Tickle Sweethearts. Richmond, Va., Jan. 11.?Moral, jirls, don't tickle your sweethearts. R. J. Watkins, a young man who ame here recently from Raleigh, N. 1., fell down the stairway in his ?oarding house and shattered an arm irtery in the, stub of his right arm, hat was amputated some months ago He and his sweetheart were spoonng at the head of the stairway, vhen she suddenly executed a dive >y tickling him. This caused him to ake a tumble head-foremost down ho Btairwnv He was removed to Virginia hospital, followed by his weetheart. Aside from the shatterid artery, the doctors say his inuries are slight. Biggest Gnu in the World. The biggest gun in the world is a ixteen-inch breech-loading rifle deigned for the seacoast defense of the Jnited States and its insular possesions, the first one completed being tended for the Panama canal. The otal length of the gun is 49 feet 2.9 nches. It has a diameter of 60 nches at the breech, tapering to 28 aches at the muzzle. If smokeless iowder is used it is estimated that , full charge of 576 pounds will hrow a projectile weighing 2,400 ounds a distance of 22 miles. The rojectile prepared for the monster 3 five feet four inches long, and it as been calculated that it would go hrough a steel plate 42.3 inches hick, if the plate was placed at the muzzle. The total weight of this lonster is 130 tons. What would appen to a vessel when hit by one f its projectiles can only be surlised. The French battleship Libere. which blew up recently, would robably look like a slightly damaged hip beside it. Other rifled guns of irge calibre heretofore constructed re the Italian gun, caliber 17.75 riches; the French gun of 16.5 inches aliber and the Armstrong gun of 6.25 inches caliber. The greatest un ever built by the Krupps had a ange of 12^ miles. None of these ompares in point of energy and 1 ange with the newest American pro- 1 uct.?Chicago Tribune. TRAIN FROZEN TO TRACK. Three Engines Required to Loosen Grip of Ice. Bristol, Team., Jan. 14.?A rare incident in the history of railroading in Virginia occurred on the Norfolk and Wastern, at Lynchburg, to<}ay, when the Washington-Chatta .? j? ?*?n... llUUgci last uaiii ciciuaiij uutc w cue rails. Stopping in a swag, the dripping water from the pipes caught the wheels and the temperature being below zero the train was locked so securely in the ice that it required the use of three engines to move it, bumping from the rear. It was two and a half hours before the train could be moved and it arrived here several hours late. The Same Way Still. / __ Ever since the Editor of The Herald can remember, people have been talkin sr about nlantine less cotton and raising their supplies at home; but they continue to go on the same old way. Perhaps they reason as Jones did in the poem by Sidney Lanier, the noted Georgia poet, published many years ago. The poem follows: Jones's Private Argyment. That air same Jones, which lived in Jones, He had this pint about him: He'd swear with a hundred sighs and groans, / That farmers must stop gifctin' loans, And git along without 'em: That bankers, warehousemen and sich Was fatt'nin' on the planter, And Tennessy was rotten-rich A-raisin' meat and corn, all which Draw'd money to Atlanta: / j. And the only thing (says Jones) to do /. Is, eat no meat that's boughtea But tear up every I. O, U, And plant all corn and swear for true To quit a-rasin' cotton! Thus spouted Jones (whar folk* could hear, " , , J ?At Court and other gatherin's) And thus kep' spoutin' many * year, Proclaimin' loudly far and near Sich fiddlesticks and blatherin's. But one all-fired sweatin' day, It happened I was hoein' My lower corn-field, which, it lay 'Longside the road that runs my way Whar I can see what's goin'. ? ' And a'ter twelve o'clock Jiad come I felt a kinder faggin', And laid myself un-neath a plum To let my dinner settle sum, When 'long come Jones's waggin, And' Jones was settin' in it, so: A-readin' "of a paper. His mules was goin' powerful slow, Fur he had tied the lines onto \ The staple of the scraper. The mules they stopped #about a rod From me, and went to feedin' 'Longside the road, upon the sod, But Jones (which he had tuck a v tod) Not k no win', kept a-readin', And presently says he: "Hit's true; That Clisby's head is level. Thar's one thing farmers all must do, To keep themselves from goin' tew Bankruptcy and the devil! "More corn! more corn! must plant less ground, # And mustn't eat what's boughten! Next rear they'll do it: reasonin's * sound: (And, cotton will fetch 'bout a dollar a pound,) Tharfore, I'll plant all cotton!" Macon, Georgia, 1870. Rats Destroy His Fortune. The life savings of Jack Simpson, of Aiken, Minn., amounting to $2,565, securely hidden from burglars, were reduced to pulp by hungry rats and mice, and in a letter received by President Taft he appeals for the redemption of the pulverized fragments by the federal treasury. His wealth, accumulated to buy a farm, Simpson explains, was placed in a box and deposited between the upstairs floor and ceiling. No human being disturbed it, but when he took it from its hiding place he found it had been reduced to dust by the ravages of rodents. The president has referred the matter to the treasury department for investigation. To revive wilted flowers, try putting them in hike warm water, rather than cold. Many flowers (either wild or cultivated) will never revive in 4 cold water, but will respond to the warm water process. % .'. .