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. ' k 1 , * J One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1915. Established 1891. ? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS ' SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS! IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ?- : a 1 . News Items Gathered All Around the i v u County and Elsewhere. . 4 Olar News. i f< Olar, .March 29.?Mr. H. \V?Chit-Je ty, who was badly hurt by a mule, is; n out again. From now on he wil1 i 0 know that the docile looking mule is; 0 always "loaded." t( A friend of clever Ennis Breland j t( had this ad. prepared for The Herald: a "Lost, strayed or stolen," and show-1 a ed it to a friend. The friend dryly i said: "He's out on Colston." Thereje is something in the Biblical adage: i n "Where a man's heart is, there shall' a he also be." i t. The regular communication of; ]. r Olar lodge, A. F. M., on Thursday j, ""oninir ivoc interesting- DeniltV Dis-I e t <-"'"0 c- , trict Grand Master Lemon presided. tj and he makes a fine officer. Barn-U, well sent down a splendid contingen- s cy, and rendered good service in | t conferring the sublime degree ot'j j] Master Mason. i t( I Mr. H. H. Kearse has the largest j acreage of small grain that we have | p seen on any farm this season. | f; Mr. W. H. Ritter has the best field! ? j L v of wheat that we have seen, and the i 0 prettiest herd of hogs?a cross be- 5 tween Biltmore Berkshires and Du- t \ roc Jerseys. 0 "Old Timer" has harrowed over c his entire grain crop and it has im- s proved wonderfully. He must have s lost his pen, as we do not see any e of his characteristic letters in The Herald any more. t Misses Plunkett and Furgerson, ^ ? also Mr. Marvin Arial. of G/aniteville. s snent the week-end with Miss Sudie e Ritter. These young ladies were v very much struck with the grey moss r on our trees and took back a quanti- r ty of it to show their friends. Marvin Arial spent four years near here j and is no stranger. He is full of g mischief, and quite a tease. He told Mr. H. J. Ritter that he had come down to make a trade with him? that is trade him Miss Plunkett for his daughter, Sudie. Quite a laugh f followed this declaration. a It is no news to say that March * has been a cold month. F ) The writer has never seen the far- ' mers so slow in preparing for a cot- 1 ton crop. The time for planting is 1 here, very little preparation has been 1 made, very little fertilizers have been r hauled on the farms, and it looks! c like cotton is going to be a back, F number this year. It certainly was 1 a losing proposition last year. c Some time ago the writer was on I ~ one of J. K. Mayfield's plantations. * He has laid out a 20-acre "tater 1 patch." an 80-acre pindar patch, a I * kitchen garden, up and growing consisting of two full acres, and hogs of different ages were all over the place. We are willing to bet a goodly $ sum that vjf "J- K.? makes a full crop of potaldes and pindars on these ^ 100 acres that every darkey on his plantation will be wind-broken be- C fore Christmas, and that they will catch every 'possum in Little Salka- j hatchie. But "J. K." is doing something that no other farmer in Bamberg county has ever done?shipping " hogs by the carload, and selling corn ^ by the 1,000 bushels. He is a young man that will yet come to the front * and stay there. B. J Govan Items. < 1 Govan. March 27.?Mr. and .Mrs. ( B. P. Hartzog entertained recently a ' number of the advanced grade. A number of games were enjoyed, followed by a three-course luncheon, the table was decorated in red can-: dies and sprays of red jasimine were j ' placed by each place card. All the 1 refreshments were carried out in red ! I , also. Afterwards a contest followed j ' and Lerov Kennedy was awarded the j prize. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hay enter- 1 \ tained recently at dinner. ( "As She Is Spoke." i Wilton Laekeye, the player, is a 2 stickler for correct English on and ; off the stage, and he never loses an j opportunity to put the erring on the right path in this respect, says Lip- f pincott's Magazine. One afternoon Mr. Lac-keye walk- < ed into a New York drug store andj stated to a clerk his need?a man's ] comb. i # "Do you want a narrow man's comb?" was the inquiry addressed ] to him. < "No," said Mr. Laekeye. with the utmost gravity. "What I desire is a comb for a stout man with rubber ( teeth." i ? W 1 sk<;kkc;ati()\ act ix koiick. !j^ assed l?y Legislature at Last Session And is Approved. ; SOM The last general assembly passed! kl measure to compel separation of' le races laboring in the textile man-! statt factories of the State. The act fol-l I )\vs: '"Section 1. It shall be unlawful I 3r any person, firm or corporation | ugaged in the business of textile | A lanufacturing in this State to allow |*nS 0 r permit operatives, help and labor ^ f different races to labor and work G?ve Dgether within the same room, or pe 3 use the same doors of entrance Oran nd exit at the same time, or to use | upon nd occupy ttie same pay ucaet win- ]n nc aws or doors for paying off its op- and ratives and laborers at the same light irne or to use the same stairways ^ nd windows at the same time, or Wini o use at any time the same ivatories, toilets, drinking water, i.*' ^ uokets, pails, cups, dippers or glass- j j. ^ s: Provided, equal accommoda-' ions shal be supplied and furnished j a all persons employed by said per-| on, firm or corporation engaged ini of t he business of textile manufactur-J have ag as aforesaid, without distinction j niak o race, color or previous condition, ing "Sec. '1. Any person, firm or cor-1 will oration engaged in textile manu- trict acturing violating the provisions ot" -j-] his act shall be liable to a penalty! nour f not less than $100, nor more than | ">00 for each and every offense, to; derti e recovered in suit by any citizen' cutj{ f the county in which the offense is! tQ ommitted and to be paid to the jia chool fund of the district in which j SQ_f. uch offending textile manufacturing j stablishment is located. "Sec. 3. This act shall not applyl o employment of fireman as subpr-J ^l linate in boiler rooms or to floor !men. erubbers and those persons employ-' ijne d in keeping in proper condition .a- t0 b atories and toilets, and carpenters, pj, nechanics and others engaged in the js epair or erection of buildings. "Sec. 4. This act shall take effect gvei mmediately upon its approval by the1 w;th governor." _ j equi This Can't Seize if for "Personal I'se." rece: Columbia. .March 20.?Attorney jteet' leneral Peeples. at the request of froir deputy sheriff of Greenville county, nien odav rendered an opinion on somejresI)l iarts of the "gallon-a-month" liquor j Pecu aw. The attorney general holds i in? hat peace officers have no right toj^one nspect the records of the transpor- anc* ation companies or to seize liquor! sudd narked for personal use: that the jnote ifficers can prosecute persons sus)ected of having violated this law.' busi ?ut cannot confiscate the shipments f whiskey. -vou .Mr. Peeples did not pass on the i bion; onstitutionality of the "gallon-a-1 nonth" act. ! duel ? m J But Officers Confederate Home, . B I won Columbia, March 2G.?At its first! Ir neeting tonight the board of com- Sam nission of the Confederate Infirmary and igreed on a plan or reorganization dow or the home, elected a new set of you ifficers and made several changes in cal he rules governing officers and vet- kno1 irans. Capt. J. L. Wardlaw, of Co- that umbia, a Confederate veteran with i othe in excellent war record, was chosen ! busi ;uperintendent of the infirmary to J T ;ucceed H. W. Richardson. Capt. j leng kVardlaw has been for years in the; one smploy of Lorick & Lowrance. and j the s a highly respected citizen of Co- j com umbia. Mrs. J. L. Wardlaw was j cato ilected matron of the home. E. J. i four Derrick. M. D.. was chosen physician i autc >f the home, vice F. W. P. Butler, j a h tl. D. ! enot m | nesg Playing It Safe. i jong to d A satire on those belligerent "neu-j ral" citizens who fight out the Eu-jfour opean war in the United States, is J A urnished in this story, says the Phil-. just idelphia Record. i (jjsti A certain man-about-town had in j (0 v lis employ a snial and fiery Japanese ca]j ralet who never grew tired of con- i0n? lenn.ing the Germans and all their j f vorks. His repeated tirades finally nuni .vearied his employer and the, latter mon leaWed to call a halt. So. one day.> ^ ifter Sato had delivered himself ot'1 j rece >? nnnciialiv hitter tirade, his em-! ,\ UMl,OUttiI.' ,,i4vx" " * ~ ICS1 iloyer questioned him: te]j "Why don't you go back home and erac ight if you feel that way about it?" jias For a moment Sato was astound- vant ?<1- pa to "Me Melican citizen," he replied at |JUT ength. His voice showed a sense of ]00,. njured dignity. ent|. "You confounded rascal," roared . lis employer, "how dare you tell me j-nQ, ;uch a preposterous thing as that!" The Japanese bowed low. "Japanese in time o' peace," he y< explained politely, "but Melican in stati Lime of war." for > THE PALMETTO STATE K OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS INDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. ? News Roiled Down for Quirk Heading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. new dispensary board, consistf H. P. Dyches, W. C. ftawl, and P. Hite, has been appointed by rnor .Manning, for Aiken county. ititions are being signed in geburg calling for an election J the matter of issuing $30,000 i >nds for a public school building $30,UUU ill uonas ior a waiei auu plant. le Blair-Frr.zier company, of lsboro, has gone into bankruptThis is one of the largest firms lat section. It is rumored the lities were $1 10,000, with $45,-1 assets. m and Sam Wolf, proprietors he Aiken Dry Goods company. i been arrested charged with ing way with goods after_enter-J bankruptcy proceedings. They be tried in the I'nited States discourt. le State board of health aniees that the law requiring the ? of certificates of death by milkers will be enforced by proseI*?I nrriftf tr* ollnw pvprvnne rua. til uiuc * cvy ^ . ;come familiar with the new law, is not been enforced to the letter ir. A Telephone Telltale. le good old evening entertaint of listening on the telephone on rural party telephones is soon e a thing of the past, ow does this indicator tell who utting in? hy, by means of musical notes, y telephone is to be equipped an indicator. Every indicator is pped with a disc with teeth, is set in motion the moment the iver is taken off the hook. The 1 on the disc pick musical notes i keynote tongues in the instrut. The high and low notes corond to the short gnd long notes liar to tire telephone that is betampered with. Thus, if Bill ,'s's ring is a short and two longs, you are talking -.business and lenlv hear a high and two low s over the wire you will knowBill Jones is rubbering in your ness. Bill Jones, you get off that line," can shout to him. It is then opal with Bill whether he will get the line or fight you a French the next time you meet him. you have the dope on him. ut the indicator does even more derful things than this, t the first place, when you call Smith with Smith's two short two long rings. Smith takes n his receiver and immediately hear two high and two low musinotes in your receiver. You sv at once it is Smith and not Butinsky Jones, who is at the :r end. You go ahead to talk ness. hen the indicator gauges the th of the conversation, so that may comply with the rules of company. When the receiver es off the hook it sets the indi4 r into operation. At the end of minutes it runs down. Then it unaticallv disconnects you. That's int that you have talked long igh for a mere visit. If it is busi. however, and you want to pro : the conversation, all you have o is*to press down the lever and spring is wound up for another minutes. gain, by this means one can tell how long he is using the longance phone and does not need ratch the clock or ask central to him down when he talks too he indicator will also register the iber of hours in the day, the th, or year, the phone is used in ven home. The time when the iver is moved and replaced is stergp so that it is possible to approximately how long the ave conversation on a given phone been. This is of immense adage to the trouble man when the rns deny they ever did anything obey the rules scrupulously. He s at the indicator and reads the re history of the use and abuse hat phone. Then he talks from iviedge to the persons complainof trouble. our choice of any box of sample lonery in The Herald Hook Store 4 0 cents. 1 MlCIl SXOW FALLS. j X umber of I Mures From l"p-State I iepoit Rain, Sleet and Snow. 1 Columbia, .March 30.?Sleet, snow and rain have been some of the brands of weather which has enveloped Columbia today, accompanied by a biting March wind, which drove pedestrians into overcoats and broke up the wearing, temporarily, ; of spring attire. An inclination to rain gave way shortly after the noon hour to a suddenly violent sleet j storm, however, melting as fast as it fell. After a lull of about an hour large flakes of snow began to fall and this continued several minutes, but the snow did not linger, melting as fast as it struck the earth. This is unusual weather for Columbia on March 30 and many agreed with the statement of United States Senator B. R. Tillman that this was i the most "atrocious" March from a weather standpoint they have ever seen. | The severity' of the weather is | causing uneasiness on account of the ! trucking and fruit. Many trees are I in bloom and a freeze would mean no fruit this year in South Carolina. TO COMMISSION DAKGAX. Governor Notifies Secretary of State to Act in Case of Greenville Man. Columbia, March 25.?This morni ins: Governor R. I. Manning gave out I the following statement relative to the proposed appointment of Harry A. Dargan as clerk of court for Greenville county, to succeed John Ma Cureton, recently deceased: "On the night of the 15tb inst. I ; gave out that I would appoint Harry ] A uargan ciern 01 couri 01 ureeuville county, vice John H. Cureton, deceased. I had up to that time re1 ceived a great many endorsements | of Mr. Dargan, and few, if any, for ! any other candidate. Monday I was ; out of the city and for that reason j the commission of Mr. Dargan was ! not signed that day. I received that! : day *long distance calls asking me! i to hold up this appointment until | further communication with me j could be had on this subject. This ; was accompanied by statements | charging that Mr. Dargan was unfit i for appointment. I have held up I the issuing of this commission since i i that date, as requested, and have j given time and opportunity to any) j one interested to appear before me j [and to substantiate reasons why Mr. Dargan should not be commissioned.' -In-the meanwhile I have sought all J the light I possibly could get on this ! matter, and am now convinced by the 1 testimony of men whose judgment | j and character are abovie reproach, i | that the reasons assigned and the I ! charges made against Mr. Dargan are j erroneous and have not been sus-j tained nor proven and there is no cause for my refusing to sign his commission. "I have notified the secretary of j State to complete the issuance of the | commission." That "Voice" Again. For many weeks the town had j been ornamented by bills announcing ; that a lecture on the value of vege' tarianism would be delivered by Prof. P. Knot. There being nothing j else going on in the town at the time. ; quite a respectable crowd filed into the hall. The professor was eloquent, and , before he half finished his lecture ; many of the people present had de1 cided to give his teachings a trial J j when?alas! the "voice" interfered j , in the proceedings. Getting worked, up as' he neared | j the closing passages of his oration, j the professor said: "Ladies and gentlemen: I do as-1 | sure you that I never cedse thanking | the good soul who first persuaded | ! me to give vegetarianism a trial! 1 , have never for an instant regretted i the day when I decided to give up | meat eating forever! Before I took , this step I was a wretched, ailing I creature?a thing of aches and J pains; an undersized, hesitating mortal. more like an animated scarecrow than a man. To vegetarianism alone can be given the credit for this change?this?" Here the horrible "voice" interrupted with: "Wot change, guv'nor?" His Kest. | 1 said in under breath: all our life is mixed with death, And who knoweth which is best? And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest. I MUST ENFORCE THE LAWS (JOVKItXOIl SAYS HK HAS (ilYKX CHAKLKSTOX MAYOR WKKK. During Conference Manning Laid Sjieciiil Stress on Gambling and Liquor Laws. Columbia, .March 29.?"Definite action must be taken within a week," Governor .Manning told Mayor Grace, of Charleston, this afternoon at a conference between them. "I asked Mayor Grace," said the governor. "as head of the government of Charleston to enforce the law. I specially mentioned the gambling and the liquor law. I asked ftfr enforcement and no regulation. I pointed out to Mayor Grace that as sd much has been said and written on the situation, and as so much time has already elapsed on account of his illness, since I had first taken the mat-j ter up with him, that definite action must be taken within a week; that the public is so well informed on the situation that nothing could be gained by further delay." The statement of the governor followed the publication in the local afternoon newspaper of an interview with Mayor Grace, in which he was quoted as saying: "Governor Manning told me unequivocally to enforce the law in Charleston. I took his order." Continuing this interview says: "Mayor Grace was rather reticent in discussing the liquor situation in Charleston, saying that everything appertaining to the illegal sale of intoxicants had been aired by every one on every occasion. He averred, however, that Charleston should be granted autonomy, that tta people of the city should be allowed to regulate their own affairs as to liquor selling in a progressive way. "The Charleston Mayor is of the opinion that the State needs a new constitution, which will do away with the present cumbersome system of legislation and allow progressive measures to be passed. He also thinks that Charleston needs a new city charter, but it cannot be grant ed unless there is a change in the organic law ?>t the State." .Mayor Grace reached Columbia today on the Carolina Special and went into conference with Governor Manning at the executive offices, their talk lasting about an hour. At first the governor would have nothing to say for publication, and it was not his intention to give out anything, but when he saw the statement of Mayor Grace in the local paper he dictated the interview in which he said that Mayor Grace had been given one week in which definite action must be taken. What he will do if the mayor fails to take definite action within the specified time was not intimated by Governor Manning. The MojJern Spirit. The modern world thinks and lives and speaks in terms of the body, not of mind and soul, says the Atlantic. The soul, that secret of personality, conceived as a part of one not wholly caught in the mechanical chain of things, capable of choice, was their great concern. To them a little child was something sacred, immortal, whose endless destiny commanded on the part of those to whom it was entrusted alertness, watchfulness, lest its feet should go astray from the narrow path that led to the heavenly hills. Words spoken near the cradle where the new-born baby lay, turned the spot to holy ground. To those of us who are most advanced to-day, a little child is a little animal; few are left who, in its presence, think of sacredness any more than in the presence of a little pig. There is the utmost alertness in meeting its physical needs; there is. if possible, a trained nurse to bring scentific knowledge to its requirements, to keep loving fingers away, but the ideas that encircle it concern for the most part its body. .Meanwhile, the most progressive thought of the aee is busy with the question as to whether its standard cannot be raised to that of choice animal stock, whether the infant human being may not be bred, as colt or calf of approved ancestry is bred, by choice of the physica'lv fit. This represents the farthest vision of the future: this is the goal against which the imagination of the present dreams. Providing a Jol). "Senator, you promised me a fob." "But there are no jobs." "I need a job, senator." "Well, I'll ask for a commission to investigate as to why there are no jobs, and you can get a job on that." $:tn.OOO LOSS FROM I5LA/K. Twenty-Two lUiihlings Burned at Town of Prosperity. Prosperity, .March 26.?Twentytwo buildings burned, entailing a loss estimated at not less than $30,OuO, with insurance of only $3,300 were the results of a fire here today, believed to have been the most disastrous blaze in the history of Pros- . peritv. The flames were discovered about 1 o'clock this afternoon on a [ wooden fertilizer warehouse near the depot of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad, and'very soon other j near-by wooden buildings were I ablaze. The town has no organized fire protection, and only individual efforts of many in the crowd that soon assembled could'be counted on in the desperate fight to check the flames. For a while it appeared that practically the whole town, certainly the entire business section, would be destroyed, but through the heroic efforts of the many citizens who volunteered their services, and after two hours of determined resistance, the fire was subdued, but not untij two solid blocks had been laid in flames. . It is thought that the fire was started by a spark from a passing loco- * motive. ' j Among the buildings burned were five warehouses, two shops, four vacant stores, five occupied stores, a : barber shop, a vacant dwelling and : the residence of W. A. Moseley. In addition to the buildings occupied i by them the following merchants lost j thejr stocks: E. A. Counts, W. L. | Mathis, W. L. Dominick. G. W. Mor; ris and W. G. Mitchell. All of the i burned structures were of wood exI cept three stores, which were of con! crete construction. Other heavy individual losers by j the fire are: Dr. G. Y. Hunter, A. G. Wise and S. D. Duncan. Reliable * figures on the separate losses are not available at ^his time, but it Is not thought that the estimate of $30,000 as the total loss is any too high. The aggregate would have been much greater had not so many of the buildings been unoccupied. ' Of the $3,300 insurance carried $2,500 was on the Moseley residence and $S00 on one of the store buildj ings. Xew Abl>eville Sheriff. ' Columbia. March 25.?Governor * ' - *? ? D .v .Manning- tunigiii <i|ipunucu uuwcib * >T? j M. Burts sheriff of Abbeville county. I .Mr. Burts was not an applicant. He | is a farmer and a brother of the I Rev. C. E. Burts, pastor of the First Baptist church, of Columbia. There were more than a dozen applicants for this office, made vacant by the appointment of Charles J. Lyon as United States marshal for the Western district of South Carolina. ARMED MERCHANTMEN". ShijH. of Commerce Should Not Carry Offensive Weapons. There ought to be a clear line o? ,'V? demarcation between warships and merchant ships. The belligerents, particularly the British, are injecting v confusion into an already chaotic naI val situation by trying to make the I same craft serves both purposes.' | If, as Germany charges. Great Bri- v tain has set about deliberately and : \ ' - systematically to arm ships of commerce with guns for the destruction j of the enemies' submarines, then 1 there is justification for Germany's j threatened policy cf sinking British ; merchantmen without warning. A ] submarine can not be expected to f ^ j rise up and hail an innocent-looking ship at the risk of being perforated ! and sunk the moment she shoulders | up to the surface. This appears to be the strongest i argument that Germany has producI ed in support of her "war zone" policy. It would have been greatly to . her advantage to have produced it sooner. International law requires that the non-combatant crews and passengers be saved when a ship of commerce is destroyed, but the presence of guns capable of sinking a submrfHne seems to make any ship a warship, and on a warship there are presumably no non-combatants to be saved. If Great Britain will take the cannon off her merchant vessels, and give lier word of honor that none of them shall be armed?and. furthermore. that they wil' sail under their own flag?then and only then can the neutral world properly support her in her demand that the German navy respect the lives of those aboard.? Augusta Chronicle. Your choice of any box of sample stationery in The Herald Book Store for 40 cents. ** { -f*'1 / f "v V? V