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6 One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1913. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS ______ SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. _____ Ehrhardt, September 22.?Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Appleby and daughter, Virginia, are visiting her relatives in town. Little Mildred Copeland, daughter r of Dr. J. L. uopeiana, Drone ner arm j yesterday while at play. - Saturday night, after the stores i ^ere closed, say about 10 o'clock, i Mr. J. Monroe Kinard and Joe Hiers, way to Monroe's place, on their bicycles. Concluded they would fire off their pistols. Monroe fired his, but Joe's didn't make a report, so they stopped to see what was wrong. Joe broke his pistol down and when he closed same up it fired off and the ball struck Monroe Kinard in the 6ide. They were near Mr. G. S. Shaw's place, and Monroe was taken in the house and Dr. J. H. Roberts called. Sunday about noon Monroe that Monroe said before he died, down from Bamto hold an ins body. is morning, with he farmers have tton with a vim t listen at doing anything else. Cupid is shooting his darts about in this section. Look out, young ladies, you will get hit by some of them. Guess you won't mind it i much. _ i Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Sept. 22.?Mrs. Annie j Ellis, of Lena, spent several days with her brother, Mr. Joe Tuten, recently. Miss Hattie Dowling visited *- friends at Ulmer last week. Mr and Mrs. Elliot Sanders, of / Ulmer, visited relatives here recently. Mrs. Robert Mixon is spending some "time in Allendale with her sister, Mrs. Jno. Hewlett. Mrs. Nan. Gregg and little Joy, of Savannah, are spending some time with Miss Jennie Du Rant. Misses Alma Knight, Hattie Googe, and Gladys Buckner have returned to Winthrop College; Brooker and j' Ethel Simpson have gone to Green- j ville; Russell Loadholt and J. B. v O'Neal to Furman; Lee Bessinger has returned to the University of S. C., so we are left sad and lonely, and will miss our young folks much, ? but believe that everyone of them will make good, as they are good students. J. Loadholt also returns to Clemeon. 7Vfr?e? XfArTT T aH nf flin TJur. JUO. iUUl ? UVUUIlViV) V/l mony neighborhood, has been here on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Googe. Mrs. Luther Barber has returned 'from a stay of several weeks in * Hartsville The teachers and Miss Anna Kearge were hospitably entertained at the home of Mrs. M. A. Wilson recently. After animated conversation, and sweet music by Miss Harrison, a delicious sweet course was served. r Lizzie and Mary Jarrell, of Barton, visited Miss Ethel Jarrell recently. Friends here sympathize very much with Messrs. Fred and Martin Lightsey in the death of their father, Mr. Judson Lightsey, Sr., of Brunson. He was held in high esteem, , and had many friends here as well as in his home town. He was sheriff of Hampton county for a number of years. Most of his family were at his bedside when the end came Sat urday night. A new use for "the old grey bonnet," with no ribbons on it: In the spring, when this scribe was setting hens, our practical domestic begged that she should convey the eggs just as she wanted to. We complied with the request. "Now," said she, "you'll see, every egg hatch, 'cause I carried them to the nest in that old grey bonnet." Sure enough, we've never had better hatchings any past year. Anything in it? Miss Mercedes Buckner has accepted a school at Wagner, S. C. Frank Wilson, who has been in Florida for some time, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wilson. There was a dance for the young folks Friday evening. Mesdames W. L. Brooks and W. G. Ruddell were chaperons. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Westcott, of Ol8r, were here recently and went to Allendale for a visit. She was pleas SUICIDE AM) FOOD PROBLEM Case of Girl Who Killed Herself In- j terests Welfare Workers. I Chicago. Sept. 20.?Social welfare ! workers were interested today in the fate of Selma Peterson, a 19-year-old girl, employed in a chothing factory, who committed sfiicide after she had lived for six months on meals which food experts had said were sufficient to sustain life. Her reason for her act was given in a note: "Wages too low. Life not worth living." In a note book she had set down her weekly expenditures, showing that meals, room rent, car fare and laundry took $7.25 of her $8 wages. There were entries which stated that her daily diet consisted of the following: For breakfast, coffee and rolls; for dinner, beef stew and milk, and rice pudding; for supper, fruit, salad graham crackers and milk. Shortly before the girl died she regained consciousness. To a physician she said: "Doctor, did you ever live for six months on 20-cent dinners?" The menu in the girl's diary was submitted to an expert on food values who. asserted it contained all of the elements necessary to support 1 life. Denmark News. On Tuesday morning Miss Louise Zeigler left for Rock Hill to attend Winthrop college. Dexter Guess, of Spartanburg, spent a few* days at the home of Mr. J. B. Guess last week. Mrs. H. W. Goolsby went to Barnwell Tuesday to visit her mother, Mrs. M. M. Owens. T. B. Wilkinson, Jr., went to Clemson college on Tuesday. Miss Laura Layton, of Hepzibah, Georgia, is the attractive guest of Mrs. Joe Corbett. Miss Virginia Faust returned home last week, after spending the summer in Christianburg, Va. Miss Blonde Barton left Friday for Rock Hill to attend Winthrop college. Mrs. G. W. Goolsby is visiting Mrs. J. D. Milhous, in Columbia. Miss Inez Starr, of Olar spent Monday with Miss Martha Ray. W. H. Rice has recently gone to Clemson college, to complete his course in chemistry. Mr. S. T. Califf, spent Sunday with friends in Columbia. Dr. Odom, of Springfield, is the guest of H. M. Crum. Mrs. Joe Corbett entertained a number of young folks on Monday evening in honor of Miss Layton. On entering the guests were served to delicious fruit punch, 'by Misses Christabelle Mayfield and Daisy Tillman. The chief amusement of the evening was "progessive Rook" Miss Martha Ray and Mr. J. K. Mayfield were the recipients of the prizes. The fell with it. Jumping up, he ran decorated in ferns and flowers, the color scheme of white and pink being carried out, also the score-cards and the dainty ice course which was served. Those present were: Misses Martha Ray, Louise Zeigler, Julia Goolsby, Josephine and Virginia Faust, and Christabelle Mayfield; Messrs. Frank Henderson, James Fogle, Malcolm Crum, Stanwix and Kennerly Mayfield, Thomas Wilkerson, and Dr. Odom. What a Mate Does. The Chicago Tribune tells this one: I "This, ladies and gentlemen," said the showman, "is a moving picture of an old-time steamboat mate in action." "But he doesn't seem to be doing anything," objected a man in the au dience, wno suspected tnat tne picture was a fake. "Don't you see his lips moving?" sharply retorted the showman. "He's swearing to beat the band!" antly known here as Miss Kathleen Kearse. The Fairfax Advance will make its bow next week to the public, and we hope will be long-lived. A colored fireman of the Brunson oil mill was beheaded here Saturday night by a freight train coming on him suddenly. Mr. and Mrs. Middleton, of Scotia, and Mrs. Jennie Barker were recent guests of Mrs. Benj. Loadholt. Mrs. Dr. Tuten visited Mrs. Ray-' mond Tuten, of Ulmer, last week. Mrs. J. T. Compton is visiting Mrs. Otis Compton at Clyo, Ga. Miss Isabel Brooker, of Swansea, is spending some time with Mrs. W. B. Simpson. Mrs. L. Boyles and daughter, of Barnwell, have been on a visit to Miss May Brunson. IN THE PALMETTO STATEi SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Roiled Down for Quick j Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The foreign mision office of the! Lutheran church has been moved from Orangeburg to Columbia. Dr. Holland, the president of the board, has moved to Columbia and will make his home there. Troy Philips, a young man claim? m _ 1 J ing to be from Houston, Texas, pieau-1 ed guilty in court at Lexington' to the charge of house-breaking and was sentenced to 12 months on the county chaingang Wednesday. Samuel Dibble of Orangeburg died in Baltimore on Tuesday, aged 76. He was the first graduate of Wofford college, was several terms member of congress and was a good man and useful citizen who did a great deal for his town and its people. In the second primary in Spartanburg on Tuesday for mayor Jno. F. Floyd defeated the incumbent, O. L. Johnson, the vote being 757 to 712. The four commissioners elected were J. P. Fielder, C. B. Waller, 0. T. Gallman and J. T. Hudson. It was the first election under the commission form of government. CRUELTY TO CONVICTS. Carried to Extremes in Penal Colony of Frencji Guiana. Cayenne?red pepper to the world at large, hell to the few thousands of convictr transported to this isolated, northeastern corner of equatorial South America, says Harper's Magazine. Here, it was rumored, existed cne of the world's most antiquated and revolting penal systems, wnere thousands of men are not only transported for years, but exiled and doomed to a living death. Men from French Guiana had intimated conditions which vied with the cruelties of the old convict ships. Groups of convicts lounged about or lay sick and incapacitated on the verandas. At night the barred iron door on each dormitory is locked,and outside paces a guard, revolver in hand. Sometimes under cover of darkness the inmates settle feuds. Occasionally to establish leaders, rival gangs fight with cudgels, knives and even paving-stones. Some disabled, others dead, the most indomitable are reconciled and form a tyrannical secret society. Many a poor wretch dreads the night hours, and one suspected of informing may be set upon by an enraged pack. Occasionally murder is committed in profound silence, and daylight finds a dead or dying convict in the passageway or entrance. Questioning is useless, and few guards will risk life in entering the barracks when smothered cries and cursing warn them of internal strife. All the men I talked with were well disposed toward me, one in particular?a tall well educated man with a pair of dark rimmed glasses and large eyes fearfully strained , through inability to secure pruper lenses. "You must not lose hope," I told a group of relegues, and almost swallowed my own words. "Hope!" burst out the rich tremulous voice of the tall man. "It is always the same; there is no hope here." "No, no hope here!" was the echoed murmur of his comrades. Quick Wit of a Soldier. It is a serious offense for a German soldier to appear in public except in uniform. Even when he is on furlough he must always wear it, says The New York Times. * T iontononf ti'hn A uci uaxii Uicuwuuuv ? was engaged in some adventure or other dressed up as a civilian, was having a fine time of it when, on turning a corner, he unexpectedly met his colonel. Lieutenant Schmidt, however, did not lose his presence of mind, but, in a changed voice, asked. "Can you tell me, sir, where Lieutenant Schmidt lives? I am his brother, from the country, and am paying him a visit." The colonel gave the desired information and Lieutenant Schmidt hurried home and got into uniform as soon as possible. He thought he hart rtpppived his suDerior officer, but the next day, when he met his colonel, the latter said: "Lieutenant Schmidt, if your brother from the country pays you another visit I'll have him placed in close confinement for 30 days." NEIGHBOR SHOOTS NEIGHBOR, j Georgia Woman Fires at Another, j After Alleged Quarreling. Statesboro. Ga., Sept. 19.?At Parish a small town, 15 miles from here yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Judson Howard, was shot and it is feared fatallv* wrmnrloH Viv \Trs W \T Par ish, a neighbor. Mrs. Parish used a shotgun and shot out one of Mrs. Howard's eyes and otherwise wounded her. The women were neighbors and are alleged to have been unfriendly for some time because of quarrels over their children and chickens. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Howard went into her yard, and Mrs. Parish is alleged to have appeared with a shotgun and threatened to shoot her. Mrs. Howard is said to have returned to the house and obtained a gun. When she came out Mr6. Parish shot her twice. She fell in the yard, and since the shooting has been in a critical condition. It was hoped to bring her to Statesboro for treatment, but her physicians say she is' too badly wounded to be moved. Mrs Parish was arrested by a bailiff, but released on bond. The relatives of the wound-j ed woman are here to have her arrested again for assault with intent to murder'. Country Correspondence. Our usual quiet community is somewhat waking up. On Sunday afternoon, September 21st, Miss Lessie McCormick was married at her father's home, Mr. J. A X C _ J. _ C _ T.r Z :uc^ormiCK, 10 lur. Jtvistiei oduuuci. The attendants were as follows: Miss Wilhelmina Folk and Mr. Lennie Hightower; Miss Ruth Cain and Mr. Conner Smoak; Miss Blanche Crider and Mr. Glennie Hightower; and Miss Jerolee Sandifer, sister to the groom, and Mr. Grayson Hix. Rev. B. D. Bolen, of Bamberg, united the couple in matrimony. The young lady attendants and the bride were gowned in cream cloth dresses, and 'twas truly a pretty marriage. Quite a crowd was present, and many useful presents were given the young people. The bride is the youngest daughter, and is loved among her friends. The groom is the second son of the late Henry Sandifer, and is a farmer boy. We wish for this youthful couple a long life of happiness and prosperity. This cold wave is significant of the autumnal equinox. The gales were with us a week, and left us hunting up heavier raimnent. f Hampton school is under the" supervision of Miss Kate Kornegay, of North Carolina. Quite a number of visitors were in our midst to attend the McCormick-Sandifer wedding. Among them were: Misses Cain, McClendon, and Keller, of Blackville; Maj. Joe Carter, of Colleton; and Mr. Grayson Hix, of Norway. The peas, potatoes and cane were helped some by the rains we've been having, to say nothing of the people and stock. There is no sickness in our community, and we hope malarial troubles will be foreign with us. About two weeks ago Mr. Sam Goodwin, of this community,; and Miss Ellen Kinard, of St Johns, were married. They started wedding bells to ringing, and the bell is still telling of more to follow. Good wishes to all of them. In the death of Rev. S. P. Chisolm many have lost a good, true, and sincere friend. % He was of the true type of gentleman. Educated in the fifties, and reared in a home of the best culture and refinement, he carried those virtues wherever he went, and was ever ready to impart any know ieage to tne young wnenever ne was sought. The writer feels bettered in many ways for the life and the many kind words and gracious deeds received from Mr. Chisolm, and our pen is too feeble to attempt to do justice to such a character as his. In his early manhood he was an educator, and many of the best men of the State today were his pupils. The pulpits that he filled were many, and all of his congregations loved their pastor. His ambitions were never lagging, and in his last years, when his physical strength forbade an active life, he was ever ready and anxious to bestow a loving act, especially on those who were ready to imbibe knowledge. The writer, along with his other young friends, feels that a good, true, friend is gone and his was a life worthy of example. To his family we extend sympathy. < ? Wofford college opened on Wednesday with more than five hundred students, says a Spartanburg special to the Charlotte Observer. NEGRO HUNT IN ANDERSON SHERIFF AM) POSSES SCOURING BRUSHY CREEK SECTION. 5, Woman's Story Starts Husband and ! c Others on Search for Eugene ( Hatton?Likely to be Caught. l Anderson, Sept. 21.?Sheriff Ash- 1 ley and his deputies, together with ? volunteer posses, have been scouring c the Brushy Creek section of this s county since Friday night in search of Eugene Hatton, a negro, accused 1 I of grossly insulting the wife of his 1 employer, a planter, in the northern 1 part of Anderson county. The search, c it is understood, is still being prose- c cuted by the volunteers, the officers * having returned to the city, after ( leaving instructions for the pursuit. I It is considered scarcely prbbable that Hatton can escape from the 1 searchers. He will hardly be taken * alive. ( Friday afternoon the negro went to the farm where he worked and asked the young woman whether her 1 husband was at home. Learning of his employer's absence, the negro is said to have offered a gross insult to the young woman. She fled to the home of her father-in-law, and returned with two women members of 1 the household. One of them with a 3 pistol covered the negro and demand- ^ ed his name. He gave it as Eugene Hatton. Then, in spite of the pistol, 3 he managed to make good his escape. Start in Search. Returning from Piedmont, the young husband learned of the inci- 1 dent, and with his father went to the ( negro's house. The two called Hat- . ton out, but accepted his explanation, inasmuch as they were imperfectly informed as to his conduct. The ^ young woman had begged, too, that his life be spared. Later in the night the two learned J further details of the negro's actions * A ^ ? t-: ? ' ana aeciaea 10 searcn ior tutu. .ucauwhile, Hatton had fled. ] Saturday the sheriff was notified 1 and he and deputy Sanders went to f the scene. They, with the assistance ( of the Brushy Creek people, made a J thorough search, but were able to get but the slightest traces of the ne- j gro's course. Last night about 8 o'clock word was received that the negro had been t seen crossing the watermelon patch of a neighbor and that he had a gun across his shoulder. Between 18 and 25 men, headed bv the father of the * * i young wife and the father of the ( ^young husband, began a systematic search of the houses in the community, including the home of Hatton's father-in-law, a negro named \ Sherman. The men knew that Hatton's wife had, during Saturday, gone back to her home and secured Hat- 1 ton's clothes and had taken them to i Sherman's home. The supposition was that Hatton would go to Sherman's house during the night to get his clothes and then skip out of the ] country. The clothes were found < and were identified, but the negro's j whereabouts was not learned. 3 Detailing a couple of men to watch j v./-* CVinrmon Vl/llICO frnm T1 P ?1 T* h V LUC uuci juiau AAV uov AA vau ?w ?- ^ ^ bushes the crowd of men went on a searching tour of the woods and nearby houses, but tljey met with no success. Rain Interferes. Rain fell in torrents at intervals, and the searchers were driven indoors to wait until the weather changed. The searchers returned to their homes this morning without having found the man. The search is being prosecuted this afternoon and will probably be carried into the night. ( The young woman whom the negro , insulted is the daughter of probably ] the largest farmer in the township. < The husband is the son of a very prominent and influential farmer, and is one who has a wide and well j known family connection. Besides be- ] ing a bit nervous the young woman ? has suffered no ill effects from the * ' 1 r,t- - 1? - ^ - -? ? + ?trinflP Ttrl+ll mciaeni. sn? nus u??u nnu her father's family since the occur- \ rence while the search for the negro < has been directed from the home of i the young husband's father. { Eugene Hatton is described as being a bright mulatto and about 22 years of age, weighing probably ISO pounds. He has been working for ] the young farmer only since January. It is not likely that Hatton will escape frc-m the Brushy Creek section. 1 .Mayor Sain of Orangeburg cele- ] brated his retirement from office on < Tuesday by pardoning all the city ? convicts on thechaingang. There were < only three of them, and two of these < <?roarroatofl nn 1 iwere i w??. v??v?. . charges preferred by the county. | J BIG JEWELRY ROBBERY. ?>'ew York "Millionaires' Row" . Touched for $250,000 New York, Sept. 17.?More than >250,000 worth of jewelry and iliverware were stolen from residenes an East 79th street, known as Millionaire's Row," between July 16 nd September 4, according to an anlouncement made to-day by an iniurance company. All the victims M the robberies were out of town on mmmpr vacations. The thieves entered the Wallach esidence through a skylight in the oof and cleaned out the house in a eisurely and painstaking fashion. In >ne of the bed rooms they established a small smelting furnace, in which hey melted down the silverware to convenient ingots. They left the improvised furnace behind them. Among the lost valuables Mr. Walach catalogued furs worth $20,000, i painting valued at $3,500, and two chests of silver. ? AMMUNITION SMUGGLERS UP. Wen Charged with Murder of Ortiz Will Make Stout Fight. 1 Carrizo Springs, Tex.,- Sept. 18.? Fhe case of thirteen Mexicans and pne, American, ammunition smugglers, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Candel&rio Ortiz last sveek was called for trial here to-day, in the State District Criminal Court, rhe entire morning was spent in arguments by counsel for defence. When their attempts to quash special venire for this case was overruled the defence moved to continue the case until next term and announced if that failed they would try to se-% cure a change of venue. Charles Cline, the American memDer of the party, whose papers indicate he is a member of the I. W. W., said to-day: "This organization will cot see me punished if money can save me." ' The defendants claim to have plenty of money for their defence, cut refuse to say who furnished it. They have employed C. L. Bass, of Jan Antonio, and Judge Walter Gills, of Del Rio, to assist in their defence. Letters have been received here asserting an attempt will be made to release the prisoners. A troop of the 14th cavalry and five State rangers are present to assure Drder. Felipe Sanchez, one pf the smugglers who escaped before the others were captured, has been arrested by Constitutionalists authorities at PieIras Negras, Mexico. It is reported the Constitutionalists will either deport him or hold him for the Texas luthorities for extradition. San- ^ :hez was indicted here charged with :he Ortiz murder. ? IVife's Tight Skirt Put Him In Jail. ?? H New York, Sept. 17.?Because w?. rintVinmna flontor rt f Vn ^ R1 >115. V^auici 111^ uautvA VI AW# v ?i East One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street wore a tight skirt last evening her husband Joseph, spent the aight in the Alexander avenue poice station. ' * i Mr. and Mrs. Ganter have'been liv* ng apart for some years. Her husaand she charges has been annoying tier a good deal recently. He now iives in the same block, and, as she told the Magistrate, drops around every little while "to pull my posies aut of the front yard." Mrs. Ganter didn't see anything amusing about this and went to the Morrisania Police Court yesterday to get a summons for Ganter. Magistrate Levy issued one. The indignant wife tried last evening to serve it ou Ganter, when she met him on the Third avenue bridge over the Harlem River. He stepped away. She rushed forward. A tight skirt caused her downfall. k. policeman thought she had been felled by her husband and arrested' aim for an attempt at felonious assault. A revolver was found on Ganter md he was held for a violation of Lhe Sullivan law. Mrs. Ganter said she did not see any revolver, that she tvas to blame for her fall, but would ippear in court to-day. CHILDREN DIE OF LOCKJAW. Picked Wounds on Arm After Vaccination. Trenton, N. J., Sept. 22.?Raymond Clee, five years old, and Catherine Flynn, aged seven, pupils in the - - - - -mi. public school Ot AlOrriSVlue, ra., uicu Df lockjaw in a hospital here to-day is the result of picking the wounds m their arms after having been vaccinated. The children were compelled under a law to submit to vaccination at the opening of school. ?