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I dlir Iamb?rg feralb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1915. Established 1891. AGAIN WARNS AMERICANS 15ATTI.KSHIPS OKIU.KKI) TO I'KO< KKI> TO VKItA CKI"/. ??? Milt- resents Views on Which I'ncle Sam Will Act. Washington. March y.?American ] citizens again have been warned to leave Mexico City in view of the critical situation. Secretary Bryan announced to-1 night that transportation facilities would be sought for as many as de-j sired to leave. The battleship Georgia and the armored cruiser Washington were ordered by Secretary Daniels, after conferences with President Wilson, to proceed immediately to Vera Cruz. consular messages irom \ era Cruz stated that it was reported that the evacuation of .Mexico City began last night. Enrique C. hiorente, Gen Villa's Washington representative, received a message saying Zapatista forces j occupied .Mexico City today immediately on the evacuation by Obregon's troops. Word came from American Consul Silliman that he had delivered to Gen. Carranza the formal note from the United States government demanding an improvement in conditions for foreigners in the territory under Carranza's control. These were the principal developments today in the Mexican situation. the importance of which today overshadowed in official Washington interest in tlie European war. An Impressive Vote. Although the contents of the notei to Carranza were not announced, its i tone impressed members of the dip-1 lomatic corps that serious consequences would ensue if Carranza! li 3 * ? u ~ a ,3 ~ ~ iu utrt-u us ucuitinus. 1 uc United States, it "was learned, de-l scribed conditions as "intolerable"! and called on Carranza to take steps i necessary to correct the situation. Incendiary utterances of Gen. Obregcn were noted as likely to stir up feeling against foreigners, giving rise possibly to riots and outrages. The note pointed out that if harm befell foreigners the American government would hold Carranza officials "personally responsible" and would take the necessary means to impose the responsibility where it belonged. The communication was not in the nature of an ultimatum. President Wilson himself declared j that the United States did not utter; ultimatums, but presented views and acted accordingly. German Loss Three .Million. Paris. March 6.?An official note issued by the French press bureau declares German losses since the beginning of hostilities in killed, wound ed, sick and prisoners total 3,000,-1 000. This calculation is based on | the known casualties in ten German regiments. OXOK KICH; 'l>lKS I'Al'I'Kll. Son of Adding Machine Inventor Fatally Wounds Himself. Detroit. March 7.?Horace S. Burroughs. 30 years of age. son of the late William S. Burroughs, wealthy inventor of an adding machine, died in a hospital here today from a sclfinfiicted wound. He was penniless and in frail health, friends said. Several years ago. according to former associates, the young man was worth more than $250,000. Some Wilson Thoughts. Following are some striking sentences from an address delivered in Washington by President Wilson: "When neace is as handsome as war. there will be no war." "It is necessary that not a plow or; a spade be idle in the future, if thej world is to be fed." "Business men came in the past! with all their bristles out to see. not' what they could accomplish (tor leg-' islation). but what they could pre-: vent." "When men engage in the pursuits i of peace in the same spirit of self-' sacrifice and conscious service of the i community with which the common 1 soldier encases in war. then there j will be wars no more." ".Most of our business combinn- j tions have been fitted with a safety lock." "One does not have time to think in a city. You can set contagion in a city, hut you do not always know j where the germ came from." "No man can lie consistently, and j he cannot lie about everything if he talks to you long." i AN IMI'OKTAM IU I.I.Vti. ||^ Collector lleywanl Makes att \n-| iioiiiieenient of (ieneral Interest. I so>l \ Columbia. .March s. l>. <". Iley-I ward, collector of internal revenue, lias made a rather important ruling state relative to the filling of prescriptions . | containing opium coming under the Harrison anti-narcotic law, containing less than the amounts specified in section f? of the act. which are (?< as follows: Two grains of opium. Bulti 1-4 grain morphine. 1-S grain heroin, tor or 1 grain codein. or any salt or de- Albe rivative of any of them in one fluid sista ounce, or if in a solid or semi-solid ^ preparation, any one avoirdupois ' ounce. The ruling was made in response to requests from numerous 1 serio druggists who hll prescriptions or dispense compounds containing opiates in amounts less than specified ^ above. The collector holds that aj ISy record should be kept of any and all! uooc drugs coming within the scope of the! char Harrison anti-narcotic law dispensed -lone by druggists, even though theinish amounts prescribed do not reach the J limit specified in said section ?"> of the' S|le(j act, as. when filling such precrip- Ches tions. the druggist will, of course, j portdeplete his stock. I eonti These prescriptions can be refilled.' nK1,j, Due to a misrepresentation bv one; 'lit | of the drug houses a great many in-' j vemories have been received at t ho j | collector's office. These inventories, j "ter which should have been taken before'as .March should be retained by the| at druggist, physician or other party' ,m*a | liable for the tax. subject to inspee-| Kt tion by a duly authorized orucer 011 vine tile law. i on \ The law requires that a physician.; fatal dentist or veterinary surgeon issuing, then a prescription shall sign his name in time; full. The collector holds that the J jj, I given name bv which the party isL. . tist | known should be written in full. For few ! instance, "John R. Doe." "J. Richard njenJ Doe" would be a signature in full. ,, I . sold | but J. R. Doe Would not be a signa-j trje(j I ture in full. j A number of physicians seem to I be under a misapprehension as to, anc* writing prescriptions for habitual died I users. It is the opinion of the collee-i havii tor that this law is to minimize the j Prec< use of these drugs, and the matter child of prescribing for the habitual user yard, is left entirely to the discretion of Ar the reputable physician. | a ve CHILD SKltlOlSLY BURNER. pCg ~"Thur Was Ix'ft Alone in Koom With Oi>en 1 were Hreplaoe. sen(( ~ life. Saluda. .War. ?Koseline Crouch, Tl1 the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Crouch, was seriously coun burned late this afternoon about the arms, face and upper part of the ''le ' body, when her clothing caught from jl. e * an open fireplace. She was in the P 'ie room by herself and it is supposed I 11 was playing in the fire; her mother J ,,esri was in another part of the house.' -M1 Tiie child ran out on the porch, her! was clothing in flames, and was seen by ^ nit( E. E. Edwards, who was passing. a?air Mr. Edwards threw his coat about deatl Iier and smothered the flames. .Med- enipl ical aid was quickly called, but it is ?raP feared the accident may prove fatal. 281.: ^ pany An Unsettled Quarrel. Some seventeen years aeo there i i Th were no automobiles. Maybe it was 1 the nearer twenty years. Like as not it j was eighteen and a half. Anyway, I niak< you and I can easily remember those i lng 1 ' the days. Great days, too. and don't ' you forget it! . . . Well, another ; sun time we can get together and talk j ' [ yplt about those good old days; just now we shall have to stick to the text that j * the editor laid down for me. ! sa>s The great change began, I feel sure I ^ aDOUt tne year nuuui Uiai j time automobiles began to be turn-j e'g' <>d out as a regular commodity, and I rang< you and I began to quarrel about in^ y how to pronounce the word. Remeni- j her? "You're all wrong, Jim: it's,1'101111 auto-.MO-bile." "Nothing of the'1*16 f sort: the word is automo-HEEL!" "Oh. get out: here, see what \Vel?-' ani^u ster?" Hut before we became fully j P?s,t estranged a genius came along andj^'1'6' said. "Pshaw! call 'em cars:" ami IImnf so cars it is. (Hut. really. Jim, the dis(il right way to pronounce it is auto-MO-1 bile: now isn't it? What! You still j ^iave say it ought to he automo-HKEL? I t0 sl Say. don't you know any? i. The'wou'( Cl.rk-iin Moralrl j teTCSl , _ . | lie ar Professor Spoke Too I.ate. | sive |there A professor in a Chicago universi-1 ever ty says starving to death is not an- threa comfortable if "one is able to adjust the o his mind to conditions as to forirot ' nun I i that he is starving to death." And ; is pe to think of the money we have wast- j la met ed on tiie Belgians when a few words led fo from ?' e professor could have made if it their yoke easy!?Louisville Times, j it wil icitis on Wednesday. It was a ,n? us case, but lie is getting on all : and will recover. coi alter Burns, a negro boy about on ears of age. was lodged in Green- f.aj 1 jail Thursday night on the ge of murdering a youth named s near Hodges Wednesday j)V tor le postotfice department has is- Soi an order that Route No. - in to ter county, one of the most im- juc int in the county, will be dis- dot in tied unless a better road is Th ? for it. Wi ii/./. i <1 is v. John (. Carman, general suitendent and tield worker for the denominational Sunday-school ()t. iation of South Carolina, died is home in Spartanburg on Sat-1 y of pneumonia. ;sie Burnsides. colored, of Greencounty, shot and killed his wifel Yednesday with a shotgun and! ? Iv wounded Arthur Jones and ter tied. He shot his wife four Joi 5 and Jones three. th< le office of Dr. Hamilton, a denof Chester, was broken into a p0 nights ago and a lot of instru- a]] :s were stolen, which the thief sh, to another dentist in town, and j ^ly to sell some of the stolen sold. ie four-year-old daughter of .Mr. j .Mrs. John Harris, of Easley, Friday morning as the result ofl -'^tl lg been frightfully burned theI by iding .Monday when several | ren set fire to the grass in the j an< ! is < ' pat i Edgefield jury on Friday found! ^ rdict of guiltv of murder with pet nniendation to mercy against \Y. ush, who shot and killed E. \V. , niond, Feb. 16th. The men ga| brothers-in-law. Bush was ne; :nced to the penitentiary for ^ He will appeal, roa ie six men of Fairplav, Oconee ]av ty, charged with lynching Green wjj an. a negro, were acquitted in j ag. ?ourt at Walhalla on Thursday.j jie] jury being out only 2S minutes.) ..j testimony was to the effect that; he, is a small race war in which the) k/ sia s. Sophia Hughes, of Florence, dei awarded a verdict Friday by the a I ?d States court of $10,000 Pa ist the Coast Pine road tor the rai i of her husband, who was an ths oye of the Western L'nion Tele- kis h company, and a verdict of $2,- ligi 2$ against the telegraph com- agt hai The Biggest Gun. ^ 1 d ar ere can be little consolation for: ? I fee thousands of volunteer peace-, ;rs in this country who are try-i , to settle the war in Europe in ' Tel 1 announcement that the biggest I cor in the world is being built in ? nei L'nited States arsenal in Water-: N. Y? and is to be placed at ' K 'acific end of the Panama Canal,! the New York Post. j | ^ e gun is a sixteen-lnch weapon, eet 3 inches in length, and i fl TG (is about 126 tons. It has a;, t leg a of from 16 to 21 miles, vary- . vith different elevations, and it," , hurl a projectile of 2,3001 . iuc ds. Each discharge will cost, a nc government $600. . ? I isf i e enormous weapon will lie in i * mil it /innol lipirif* lifter! to' ion by a big running carriage,: '15 i will be dropped from the view! ' diatelv the weapon has been . i tlia arsed- ' Pat litarv experts or all countries followed the gun's construction, j ' ich extent as this government j J permit, with the keenest in-, t. The gun's installation will i event in the history of defen-! y measures. Hut let us hope alio is only a remote likelihood it life will be used other than as a j t against peace disturbers. On ask titer continent all is war. every rea< belches forth death. Here all any are and our biggest gun. the 'I *t in the world, is being fashion-' lool r the preservation of peace, but in ; is needed for another purpose tinn 1 be mighty effective. | We( THE PALMETTO STATE! ; I Sei K OCCl'RHKNCKS OK VARIOUS INDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ' R. ? News Roiled Down for Quirk Reading?Paragraphs About t lie Men and Happenings. f lioi iv. .Manning lias appointed L. L. ed man, of Sumter, dispensary audi- api and .Mr. Bultman lias selected tor rt S. Pant, of Helton, as his as- dis n t. for ay or John P. Grace, of Charlesunderwent an operation for ap- prt 'o\I> .11 ix;i.stiii> Tu s. r. ?? late I'iNMs Aiken Kill. I'or T\> Districts. A'ashington. .March -. Senator 1 Tillnian tonight secure.'l the pa ;e hy the senate of the Aike Igeship l?ill as already passed I house. The hill now goes to tl isident for his signature. Tl ise of representatives today pas the Aiken hill providing for tl )ointnient of a judge, district a nev and marshal for the W'estei trict of South Carolina, but b e passing it attached the fanioi Hop amendment requiring tl sident to make public all endors nts of candidates for the judg P. This morning the senate judicial nmittee made a favorable repo the Tillman bill, which is ident with the Aiken bill without tl Hop amendment. After the passage of the court bi the house and senate the sen s and members of the house fro ath Carolina agreed to reoommei the president for appointment ; Ige of the ne district Congressim ;eph T. Johnson, of Spartanbur ey also agreed to recommend Hiam Thurmond, of Edgefield. fi trict attorney, ami C. J. I.yon. i heville. for marshal. The passaf the Aiken-Tillman hill ends a figl twenty years' duration for the e ilishment of the new judgeship. $ ">0,000 for a Kiss. .Miss (lenevieve Lehne, a stenogr er, of No. 1S0-A East Fair stret turday filed suit against J. D. Pa son. superintendent of the Atlanint Terminals, and his employer i Louisville and Nashville, Atla r* ^ T ; _a A iwOctsi lyiiie unu .-\wauid. auu >? c int railways, for $">0,000 damage eging that Mr. Patterson, whi i was employed in his office, fore ' kissed her left hand, causing h< reat mental suffering and shock.' Miss Lehne says in her petitic it she worked in the offices of tl lanta Joint Terminals, maintain* the Louisville and Nashville, tl iantic Coast Line and the Atlan j West Point. Mr. Patterson all employed by the said railway col lies as superintendent of the te nals, according to Miss Lehne ition. "I'ulawfully Kissed," She Says. Miss Lehne says that while so e ?ed and within the scope of bus >s for the transaction of which si 1 been employed by the said rai id corporations, Mr. Patterson "u . fully, negligently, maliciousl ilfully and without cause ar ainst her will" did grab and ki r left hand, after which he d >rk her with great force and ordi ts\ IaaL* frichM IIV/U *.V7 While the petition apparently : tes, it possibly should not be u: stood that this sort of thing w; )art of the business for which M tterson was employed by the sa Iroad corporations. And. anywa it certainly is not at all the way 1 s a young lady?"unlawfully, ne; ently, maliciously, willfully ar linst her will"?and on the le ad. at that. Values Damage at $.>0,000. Anyway, Miss Lehne values tl nage to her hand, arm, mind, bod ling and earning capacity at $f>0 ). and seeks the same in court, so wonder Miss Lehne included tl Iroads in the list of defendan npiled by Sims and Von Nune attorneys. Calculating on the usual idea thi iss on the lips is worth a thousan les as much as one on the ham vould seem that Messrs Pattersoi and N\, A. and W. P. and A. C. I t lucky In that Mr. Patterson's a ed negligent and willful aggre n was not well directed. The suit then might have had t lude J. I). Rockefeller. A. Carnegi 1 other corporative persons to sa * it. Then again, if Mr. Patterson ha sed "Miss Ketone's right hand, th mption is that the damage woul "e been proportionately greatt n the S'.fi.ObO asked. And if Ml terson hafj (heavens!) kissed lit Vhat are we coming to. anyway Atlanta Georgian. Limited Dissipation. i small henpecked little man wa tit r<> take an examination fo insurance. You don't dissipatd, do you? ed the physician, as lie mad ly for tests 'Not a fast liver, o tiling of the sort?" he little man liesitated a moment ted a hit frightened, then repliei t small, piping voice: "1 some es chew a little gum." ?Collier' ekly. TO ENFORCE ALL LAW: <? j j.manmnt; invkstioatks man i i:ki>oi:ts of violations. i _ n (ioveinor Itelieves He Will Accoi ' plish l'ur|K?se it' Support of I'eole ie pie is (iiven. le Columbia. March ft.?That (Jc t- .Manning is determined to enfor n impartially the laws of the State ai e- that, with the support of the peop is lie expects to succeed in his pi ie gramme of justice in all cases I e- came clear yesterday in an intervit e- granted by the governor. The r< ord of his activities in recent cas ry | was cited. Especial stress was la rt 'on conditions in Charleston and C :i- lumbia, to which the governor ie giving much attention. The attention of Gov. .Manni ill was called to an editorial in a rece a- issue of the Abbeville Press a in 1 Banner on "Law and Order," id J which this statement occurre as ( Some weeks ago a negro man w in taken in the open day from his hot g. I in this county by a party of whi L men, whose names are in the poss< arjsion of the solicitor of the Eigh of [circuit, and severely whipped a <el driven from his home and l'ami lit1 A brother of the man who appear s- on the scene and protested agair the injustice was also severely whi ped. Going "unwhipped of justi< and apparently unmolested by t a_ officers of the law, sworn to enfoi ;t the laws and paid to prosecute crin t_ these men or some others grew bo ta er, and now serve written notice i s on other negroes in the conimun: n_ to leave the country within a f< st; days." The article then goes on ,8> say that this matter has been call ]e to the attention of Gov. .Manning a Robert A. Cooper, solicitor of th er circuit, and asks what they are g ing to do about it. referring to tin )n statements last summer in the ca le| paign that they were for law a ;(j i order. The paper calls upon both t ie governor and solicitor to prove tli ta they are for law enforcement. 30 Asked for Affidavits. n_ Governor Manning*said the mi r_ ter referred to had been called >-s his attention in a conversation wi a citizen, not by an officer. He at ed for affidavits on which to procet n_ but has been unable to get any. Gov. Manning said that he h ie held a conference with Solicit ij. Cooper when the Abbeville situati n_* was discussed. "I believe that S vt licitor Cooper will do his duty." ss lcj the governor. S3 The instances in which the govt id nor has acted on complaints whi er have come to him about "bli tigers" are numerous. In replyi 50 to a letter from Sheriff Ackernu n. of Colleton county, in which t as sheriff reported his activity in su r. pressing "blind tigers." the govern id said: "I hope that you win su v, have this traffic broken up." to Several sheriffs have made repoi g. every few days as to the results (d their efforts to suppress illicit wh ft key dealing. In a letter to Sher Thomas, of Cherokee county t governor said: "Keep up your wor ie the very fact that the sheriff is ali y and active will help scare out t i. illicit dealers." The governor took an active pa ie in the investigation of the Fairpl race trouble and helped to seeu g> much of the evidence presented the trial in Walhalla. it Replying to a letter from May td H. L. Spears, of Landrum. regardii d> the "blind tiger" situation in Y ri> town, the governor said: "I am. L,. course, very desirous of helping y< j. wipe this illegal traffic out. but s- the same time 1 am very much o J posed to hiring detectives for tli o I work unless it is proved beyond tl ie shadow of a doubt that the loc t J officers cannot or will not enfor J the law." d' C.ov. Manning is giving close a ,e J tention to alleged lawlessness d i every locality which comes under h >r; notice, either officially or otherwis r. j He recently wrote to .Solicitor Gu >rjter regarding tlie Killing 01 ? ucsi j in Beaufort Bridge township in Bai > berg county. The coroner's 'nque tailed to hold anyone for the offens but there is reason to believe, do ernor Manning said, that Solicit! s|(Junter will have the matter tho r oughly looked into. War oil Tigers. I Kvery complaint of illicit whiskt ?j s??l 1 i 11 ir is given instant attention 1 ! | the governor and lie litis written I j special letter to every sheriff I J stamp out the "blind tigers." Or ^ complaint of "blind tiger" activiti? reached the governor from Hani] s ton county. in calling the matti j to the attention of Sheriff J. t ^ I Tii'i'ixi; \<>\v rxi.wvri L U9 j I Gov. Manning Has Signed Anti-Tip... ping llill. Columbia. .March ?.? South Carolina is henceforth to bo a "tipless" n- State by solemn enactment of her general assembly and with the approval of her governor. The "antitipping" bill as signed last night by Governor .Manning. It forbids the ?v- giving of "tips" in any barber shop, ce shoe shining parlor or stand, resfid taurant. cafe, dining car. train, or le, any public place. Violation of the o- act is made a misdemeanor punisli>e able by line or imprisonment or both. i\v The war on "tips" was opened by ic- certain traveling men of Spartan>es burg and the bill which passed was iid introduced in the senate by Senator 'o- Carlisle and in the house by repress sentative Boyd, both of Spartanburg county. ng It is interesting to note that the nt State of Mississippi iias a similar annd ti-tipping law. in Governor Manning today reprievd: ed for sixty days the sentence of as death by electrocution passed on ne | Will Goggans, of Newberry, who was ite j convicted of murder. JS-j At tlie request of Sheriff Swearinth ; gen. of Edgefield county, the governd nor drew requisition papers on Govly. * ernor Slaton. of Georgia, for the reed j turn to this State of Ed Martin, who ist I escaped after being convicted of a>ip sault and battery with intent to kill -e'| and who is now under arrest at Milhe len. Ga. 'cej Mr. Thomas P. McDow, of Yorkie, | ville. was appointed by the governor Id-j as special judge to preside over the ip- Laurens county courts, vice Judge ity j Spain, who is ill. "jJ TRUTH IX ADVERTISING. ed I """ ^ j Discussed at -National Retail I>rjr Goods Association Meeting. lat | ,u~! Honesty m advertising was uie Jiri keynote of a speech by Percy S. ni" j Straus, of R. H. .Macy & Co., at the nc*i fourth annual dinner of the National *ie Retail Dry C.oods association at the iat! Hotel Knickerbocker. New York. .Mr. Straus decried advertising j based on premium gifts and depreciated the falsity which sometimes, tolhe said, despite the greatest care. ! characterizes department store ad;k I ,A ! vertising. id. i the buyer must be made to see ! that a half truth is a lie." said -Mr. id , Straus. "It is difficult to impress on oria large body of employees the mon 1 portance of honesty in advertising." '?"j "The trouble with the advertising j men of large retail establishments." .Mr. Straus continued, "is that they 2T~ are told continually to be truthful. cl1 i But their enthusiasm makes them, ' I frequently, juggle with the imaginary ngi difference between truth as a genm,| eral prinsiple and accuracy as a thing ^e|not to observe too closely. Half p truths result. on SOX KILLS BOTH IMIIKXTS. I Then Knils His Own Life With Shot* of ?un .^j Anniston, Ala.. .March S.?The ^ i bodies of .J. A. Cooper, his wife and j tlieir son, L. A. Cooper, were discov' I ered in the Cooper home near here ve; h [ early today. The positions of the i bodies indicated that the son had . | shot his parents as thev lav in bed irt . " , : and then committed suicide. A snotav j gun was found beside young Cooper's ; body. j. a. Cooper at one time was at j editor of the Monticello (Oa.) Times. or} Lightsey, of Hampton, the governor as j said: "I beg to remind you that a 'is peace officer does not have to wait of for complaints to come to him hut 311! can proceed on his own initiative. at | and is supposed to know what is goP'jing on in his territory as well as other citizens know it: also that on t,p information and belief you can alal ways proceed against crime." l'e Efforts on the part of local officers is insisted on uy \?u\. .uauuiug. i-x?3 lt" is willing to assist the officers in in every way possible and with every is j agency at his hands, lie said. e- The governor said that he was den-voting much attention to the situar0 tion in Columbia and Charleston. Mavor Grace has held several conferI st ences with the governor in regard to law enforcement. The governor is v* waiting for .Mr. Grace to recover from ,r j an operation before announcing his r-1 plan for law enforcement in Charlesj ton. The modified programme subI tnitted by .Mayor Grace was rejected *y; hy the governor. Conferences have y also been held with Mayor Griffith 0 and John W. Richardson, chief of 0 police, when ihe Columbia situation ie was discussed. Gov. Manning said *s that he would cooperate with these ?- officers in every effort they make for "f enforcing the laws against the illicit i- sale of whiskey and other violations.