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lamhraj irralfi One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1915. Established 1891. , COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. < v News Items Gathered All Around the 1 County and Elsewhere. 1 Fairfax Win-?. i < Fairfax. April 29.?The second ] game of the season between Fairfax ( and Ehrhardt was played nere tms , afternoon and won by the home team. , The first game was also won by Fair- ? fax. Fennell and McMillan starred ; for Fairfax, Fennell getting four hits ( out of four times at bat, one for an j extra base, and McMillan drove a , threebagger to centre. Barker pitch- , ed good ball, striking out nine. . Fairfax 6 10 4 , Hhrhardt 4 8 1 ( Barker and Young; Glover, Hires ] , aad Anderson. j " i ? Fairfax Needs Rain. ] Fairfax, May 4.?No rain has fal- , len here since the t^ird day of April. 1 Only a small proportion of the cot- , ? ton has come up or will come up until rain fall6 and of the large acreage , planted in watermelons in this sec- ' tion about two-thirds of it was plant- ( ^ ed too late for the plants to come up. , The oat crop wmcn looKea very prom- , tadng a short while ago will be al- ( most a complete failure if rain does not come soon. j Another ill effect of the drought is ] that pastures for live stock are not , yielding much for the stock to eat. , The corn crop is good. , 1 * Honor Roll Denmark School. Denmark, May 4.?The following ? is the honor roll of Denmark public school for month ending April 30: ; First grade?Winnie Cox, Sudie , Dyches, Olive Hutto, Miriam Turner, . Mamie Turner, Grace Wiggins, Doro- . thy Crum. Second grade?Wendell LaCroy, ' Ada Hutto, Sarah Califf, Dorothy Matthews, Claudia Holton, Edward Zeig- . ler, John Turner, Damaris Faust, Louise Owens. Third grade?Francis Dozier, Al- 1 bert Folk, Stanwix Hutto. James McCrae, Margaret Brooker. "Prturth cradp?Rubv Abstance. El ~ ? " " I dridge Hightowerr Joe Matthews, , Evelyn Cain, Ryrl Price, Dorothy Riley, Mary Cacioppo, Helen Turner. Fifth grade?Fred Wiggins, Edward Cox, Louise Ray, Martha Cacioppo. Sixth grade?James Wiggins, Earle , Rice, Edna Creech, Anna Matthews, ' Julia Margaret Riley. Seventh grade?Harold Sojourner, Daisy Tillman, Julia McCrae, Elizabeth McCrae. Eighth grade?Julia Cox, Sadelle Cain, Kathryn Faust, Willie Dell Hut^ to. Ninth grade?Genie Fogle, Barn- ' f well Huggins, Hazel LaCroy, Martha L Wiggins. Tenth grade?Virginia Hutto, Christobel Mayfield, Vera Wiggins, Frances Guess. Samuel Ray, Kathleen Fogle, Agnes Goza. Old Fashions Return With the War. Among the many changes that the! war is bringing into the streets and I the home some of the most significant are so quiet and unobtrusive that people hardly notice them. One of these is the change that has come over the look of households of persons of fastidious tastes and strict aesthetic conduct. Formerly the 1 idea of a mounted photograph (except perhaps a reproduction of an old master) was thought to be quite banal and terribly suburban. Today yon find their mantelpieces crowded' with photographs, some even pinned on the wall without the slightest re gar a ror spacing anu anaiiscuicm.? details which formerly would have taken an afternoon's thought to settle. Our artistic houses are being ruined without a single regret. Another reversion to simpler days is the return of the old-fashioned hair brooch with its little oblong frame of gold prettily wrought inclosing a tiny panel for a strand of hair. Some of them are originals bought in curio shops or rummaged out from old cases, but the hair in them today is onne and newly cut.?Manchester! Guardian. Xevv Hat Saved. Girl (reading letter from brother at the front)?John says a bullet went right through his hat without touching him. Old Lady?What a blessing he had his old hat on, dear.?London Opinion. TRYING FOIl BLACK COTTON. Mr. Bral>liam Writes Hopefully of His Experiments. j The cotton world is now short >n dyes, on account of the European j kvar. and some of the finishing mills nay be forced to close down. Some years ago 1 conceived the idea of growing different colors oi l ;otton, butNto do this I first had to j know, then get the primal colors of | ottnn. and the number thereof. God; ;ave man five primal sorts of cotton, j svhite, red, brown, yellow and black.) The black has been lost somewhere n the mists of the ages, but every experienced breeder knows that so long as the species exist the lost variety can be restored. To this end I im working to restore black cotton, ind only last week the first start was made by planting deep green linted uotton, red linted cotton and brown linted cotton in my experimental patch, and can I get the three to come Into blossom at the same time, black lint is an assured fact I am not using the yellow sort in this test, for :hat sort must be used in growing mother shade. In making this declaration I fear rou may think I am mixing my irinks over-much, or that I am a fit subject for Bedlam. I can assure fou, however, that I am on the water j svagon. and I hope I am not non j compos mentis. There is greater variation in plant life than in animal life. From five pairs of human beings, primal pairs, there now exists, and have existed, some 250 different types of men, all varying in color and in characteristics. No plant or animal breeder can accept the Mosaic version of the Adam and Eve theory. White will beget white eternally if no admixture takes place. So on with black, red, brown and yellow. Now and then there appears an albino, but this is a mere freak, and two albinos, mated, will produce a coal black progeny. More than this: If God cursed Ham and not Ham's wife, the black blood of Ham would have been lost in ten generations. Look at the octoroons in your own city; look at :he Creoles in Louisiana. From these two types, "by breeding, in ten generations the full black can be restored. Blood not only tells, but lives, even though dominant, and by a certain line of breeding can be brought back. To illustitate: There is no record in all history of green linted cotton. Grow the brown Egyptian and- the deep green seed found in some varieties of our uplands together three years and you will get a light green J lint. Select the darkest green, and | in three more years you get a deep green lint. As my experiments along this line cover only six years I cannot say what will happen in the next few years. But if green lint can be produced, pink, blue, black, in fact, any shade can be produced under intelligent breeding. My experiments would have been further advanced than they are, but I have had much trouble in getting the seed I want. It took me four years to locate red lint cotton. I got the seed this year and planted last week the first cotton of that sort ever planted in the State, so far as I know. I know nothing of its growth. It may be a perennial; if so it will further delay my plans, but I truly hope it is an annual. When I used to write on growing long cotton on the uplands the lamented Carlisle McKinley, of the News and Courier, tried to laugh me down. Now the long cotton produced on the uplands averages 10 per cent, of the entire* cotton crop, and many of the grades are so gooa uu it u<ts made sea island cotton a back number. I got a pathetic letter from one of the best known sea island planters in the State some weeks ago. and while I did not say it to him. but I knew that I had been instrumental in injuring the sale of sea island cotton by pushing the growing of long cotton in the interior. Natural phenomena opens up to the human family greater possibilities than were ever dreamed of, Edison, Marconi and others are developing physical forces that are more than wonderful and challenge the admiration of "the world. Had they lived in the dark ages death would have been their portion?would have been accused of communing with the devil, while in reality they are communing with God's own forces. Plant life offers more rewards than | physical forces. We only need a few Edisons on the job.?A. W. Brabham. in the News and Courier. Reproof. ^ "Who was Shylock, Aunt Ethel?" "My dear! And you go to Sundayschool and don't know that?"?Life. \ v IN THE PALMETTO STATEj SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick.. Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. A new bank for Brunson has been' chartered with a capital stock of | $25,000. Sapio Mavbank. Jr., was struck byi a Coast Line train at St. Stephens) Tuesday and killed. Z. V. Davidson was Tuesday elected mayor of Chester over R. R. Hafner by a vote of 275 to 273. Mr. Davidson is an insurance man of Chester. The annual inspection of the South Carolina naval militia will be held on May 24-28, conducted by Adjt. Gen. Moore and Lieut. B. B. Taylor, U. S. X. S. H. Richardson, a prominent citizen of Hampton county, died at his plantation near Brunson on Saturday. The funeral service and interment were held at Hampton cemetorv QunHav A young son of Tom Lowe, of Aiken county, was killed by the accidental discharge of a shot gun Sunday afternoon. The boy with several other children were playing with an old gun which was not known to have been loaded. Two fires in Anderson Tuesday destroyed property valued at $90,000. The first fire is said to have been set by a spark from a locomotive. Among the buildings burned was the $20,000 freight station of the Piedmont Northern railway. As a result of a general row among the negroes at Cherry Grove church in Hampton county Sunday, Buddy Cope is dead, John Davis is mortally wounded, and Henry Davis seriously wounded. Five negroes have been placed in the Hampton jail. A third case of attempted criminal! assault within a few days in Green-1 ville county was made by a negro Tuesday upon a white woman. Thej negro was frightened away. Bloodhounds were put on the trail, but failed to locate the assaillant. to prevent burglars from rifling his cash drawer, Garris Ladd, of Dawkins, Fairfield county, set a "trap gun." Sunday he evidently forgot about the contraption and went into the cash drawer, with the result that the load of shot struck him in the side, inflicting a dangerous wound. The cotton mills of the Aiken, the Langley and the Seminole Manufacturing companies have been bought in at a receiver's sale by William McKinley, Jr., and Charles H. Low, a committee appointed by the creditors of the companies. The mills will be reorganized and reopened in the near future. FAMILY OF 24 AT REVIVAL. Biggest Household at Religious Service Will Get Prije. It was "family night" at the Chester Tabernacle, and the Rev. William Nicholson, the evangelist, paid a high tribute to the families which are eo-operatin? in tli work oi leading penitents on thfe trail. Dr. Nicholson announced that he would give to the family presenting the largest membership at the Tabernacle a handsome prize, and stated that at Shamokin a record was established by seventeen members of one family. "Chester can beat that," announced a voice, and twenty-four persons, all members of the family of Caleb H. Reed, stood up to be counted. The evangelist gasped as the Reeds were greeted with applause. They will get the prize. A Mixed Blessing. A gallant Tommy, having received from England an anonymous gift of socks, entered them at once, for he was about to undertake a heavy march. He was soon prey to the most excruciating agony, and when, a mere cripple, he drew off his footgear at the end of a terrible day, he discovered inside the toe of the sock what had once been a piece of stiff writing paper, now reduced to pulp, and on it appeared, in bold, feminine hand, the almost illegible benediction: "God bless the wearer of this pair of socks!"?Punch. The land at the head of Wall street, on which Trinity church and cemetery stand, comprises a plot 391 feet long by 227 feet broad, valued at $17,000,000. SHKIXKI) IHNKIHK. Ordnance Was Latest Work of KruppI Factory. Paris. May 2.?Today's war office report says it is believed the great; German gun, which twice has bombarded Dunkirk from a range of 23 1-2 miles, has been put out of action. It also announces the bombardment by the French of one of the German forts at Metz. The text of the statement follows: "There is no modification to report in the situation along the entire front. "Information received from a deserler is to the effect that for about twn months pngineers of the KrUDD Gun works have been directing in the suburbs of Dixmude, a sector where there has been no fighting, the installation of a machine gun capable of firing a shell over a very long range. It is this gun which may have bombarded Dunkirk. The gun is believed to have a range of 23.5 miles. "Only nine shells were fired on the second and last bombardment of the French seaport. There is reason to' believe that the gun either has been damaged by a method of fire which the most powerful pieces do not resist a long time or that the continual presence of our aeroplanes has had the* effect of stopping its fire. *On our side yesterday we bombarded one of the forts on the southern front of the entrenched camp of Metz." l\ S. GUV OF LONGEST RANGE. Secretary of Navy Compares NewPiece With England's Best. Washington, May 2.?Critics who claim the American navy's 14-inch rifles are inferior to the 15-inch British naval gun are answered in a statement issuea tonigni dj seurmarj i Daniels declaring that the bureau of I ordnance has developed a 14-inch J gun "that will shoot farther, shoot straighter and hit harder than any gun now in use or known to be designed by a foreign country," While conceding that the British* battleship Queen Elizabeth's guns throw a larger shell, Mr. Daniels points out that she carries only eight 15-inch rifles, compared with twelve 14-inch weapons on the United States battleship Pennsylvania. "There is an axiom with regard to caflibre which amounts to this: That a ship should mount the smallest big gun that will pierce the enemy's armor over vitals at the maximum probable fighting range," says the secretary's statement. "The 14-inch guns of the Pennsylvania will get through the maximum armor afloat, so far as our knowledge goes, at a range of 12,000 yards.* The Queen Elizabeth's 15-inch guns will do little more than that. If our information is correct as to the velocity of the r"1 - ? "V. onnc tho . 1 oruisii i o-iuvii ?,uuo, - . guns of the Pennsylvania will range a little farther than the Queen Elizabeth's 15-inch guns." The Pennsylvania mounts twelve guns to the Queen Elizabeth's eight. "Counting volume of fire and probability of hitting, we see that at battle range the number of blows delivered by the Pennsylvania in a given time will exceed those given by the Queen Elizabeth by 70 per cent. No one can doubt the advisability of delivering seventeen hits to ten of the enemy. ~ "Now, if we compare these guns at a range greater than armor-piercing range we find that the Pennsylvania's guns range quite as far, at a maxij mum as those of the Queen ElizaI beth. Both guns range farther than they would have any hope of hitting a ship." BOV TRIES TO WRECK TRAIN. Was Staging an Imitation of Scene in the Movies. Charles Foreman. 14 years old, a negro, tried today to imitate train wreckers he had seen in moving pictures, and a repetition of the tragedy that sent a score of persons to death seven years ago, wnen a nam on the Seashore Railroad plunged from the Thoroughfare bridge, was barely averted. The youngster had piled scrap iron on the tracks and was lugging a discarded railroad tie to finish the job on the Meadow side of the bridge when a dispatcher sighted him from a tower. Detectives sped to the scene in an automobile and the youngster fled. The 11 o'clock train from Camden, due at 12:40, was in sight when they cleared the track. The boy was captured after a mile cha6e across I the Meadows. i WILLIAMS TAKES CHARGE WILL KEl'KlYK SALARY OF $6,000 PKIt YEAR. Dr. Strait, Retiring Suj>erintendentt Says He Will Tell Public About Asylum. Columbia, .May 1.?Dr. C. Fred Williams today succeeded Dr. T. J. Strait as superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane. In a statement announcing his appointment of Dr. Williams Governor .Manning said of the inmates of the asylum, "I regard the proper care of these 1,700 unfortunates the largest work of our State. Humanity demands it." Dr. Wiliama "'ill be paid salary of $6,000 a year, $3,000 of which is provided for by appropriation and the additional $3,000 is borrowed on the personal endorsement of the Governor. "I do not propose to disregard the constitution and the laws: I stand for them," says the governor, "and if this increase of salary for service to be done is forbidden I tfill pay it myself rather than that these patients under the care of the State should not have the best treatmenl that can be secured." The following is the governor's statement in full: "I have appointed Dr. C. Fred Wil liams, of Columbia, as superintendent of the State Hospital for the In sane for the term beginning May 1 1915, to February ?5, 1916. Aftei I found the appointment of Dr. Sargent?a man skilled in mental troubles?was against the spirit of the constitution, I looked around for a physician skilled, younger, full ol energy and full of love for his fellow man, and desiring to be of service to them. With these considers tions in mind I consider Dr. Williams an ideal choice. Dr. Williams had in Columbia a lucrative practice anc his own home. To give up the practice for the salary allowed would have entailed a heavy sacrifice on the part of Dr. Williams and his family Having his own home, he desired and agreed to forego the residence and perquisites that have always" been ah lowed superintendents of the State Hospital for the Insane, and I ther guaranteed personally to him the extra compensation. "I regard the proper care of these f.TOO unfortunates the.largest worP of our State. Humanity demands it Money spent to give them the besi care and treatment will be well spent I do not propose to disregard th< constitution and the law; I stand foi them, and if this increase of salarj for service to be done is forbidden ] will pay it myself rather than tha these patients under the care of th< State should not have the best treat ment that can be secured." Dr. Strait Talks. Announcement that he would prob ably enter he political arena nex year and tell the South Carolina pub lie fully of the details of operation; of the State Hospital for the Insane at Columbia, of what changes am improvements were made by him and of the treatment accorded him b: the present State administration wai made by Dr. T. J. Strait, of Lancas ter, recently removed superintended of the asylum, shortly before he lef yesterday afternoon for his formei home after being succeeded by Dr C. Fred Williams, of Columbia. Dr. Strait said his mind was no fniiv madft ud as to what effort h< would make to carry to the public o this State his views upon the situatioi of the asylum and upon the actioi of the administration. Early in th< interview he forecast a political up heaval in 1916 that would have th< asylum as the centre of two vortex Dr. Strait said he did "not knov whether he would run next summei for governor or lieutenant governor or for congress from his district." That "some of the leading lawyers of this State hold the opinion that J superintendent of the asylum cannon be summarily removed without cause and that such action without caus< would be illegal," was mentioned bj the departing former superintendent during the interview. He did not express his own opinion as to th? right of those in power to removt him. Dr. Strait said he desired to mak< it plain that he had not brought partisan politics into the government oi the asylum, and that he had brought "" nnnt.idni.QMv mATO pflfip.iPTll aUUUL CL U.v. v ?? government at a less aggregate expense to the State than that which ] found there." Discussing the econo my of operation he had obtained, h* declared a comparison of the monthly expenses of March, 1914, anc March, 1915, showed he had save<3 "N CHlLDltKN lilTTKX BV OTTKIl. Little Fellows Battle With Infuriated * ,! Animal, Which Owner Finally Kills. _s Georgetown, .May 3.?As a result of a most unusual accident a little 'child of Mr. William Palmer, of this city, has been fearfully wounded and two other little fellows less seriously hurt. The children were bitten by a pet otter, the property of Mr. J. C. Lowrimore* a neighbor. The child most seriously hurt was bitten about the face and neck and on the ankle. Well-nigh an entire cheek is bitten off, the nose badly cut and the scalp badly lacerated. Yesterday afternoon the little Palmer children went to the home of Mr. Lowrimore and asked that Mr. t ! Lowrimore's little son take the otter, which was a pet, down to fa near-by * pond and entertain them with his antics in the water. This was done ! and the little animal swam and played in the water, chasing crawfish. | Finally he was called from the water, ( and as is his practice after bathing, he ran to one of the little children and rubbed himself against the child's leg to dry himself. The child became frightened and caught hold of the animal, mashing him to the ground. This infuriated the otter and he bit the little fellow. The other children then attaOked the animal and he fought most furiously. He buried his sharp teeth in the child's cheek. Another child caught the otter's tail and, pulling strongly, ' pulled away most of the cheek. In the fight all of the children were ' badly bitten except the Lowrimore child, his little master. Strange to say, the otter refused to attack this f little fellow, although he was fight- / " ing as vigorously as the other children. ' ? Finally word was carried to' Mr. Lowrimore, who hastened to the j scene^fef the battle, and seeing the ( lacerated'children, caught up his pet and killed him. ^ This otter was known by nearly all Georgetown people. A year ago Mr. Lowrimore's son was fishing in | White's Creek, near the city,/ and I caught three of these rare animals. He was fishing with a bob, and on . seeing the little otters in the water caught them by thrusting the hooks of the bob into their bodies. All of the animals died but one. This was taken home and trained to do many 5 tricks. He developed remarkable in' telligence. He would follow' his mas' ter to the office of the Clyde Line', . ' .. ? 1 where Mr. Lowrimore is employee, " and spend the day about the office i very much as would a pet dog. He r - * i was an object of much interest to everybody. He was very affectionate . and his attachment to the little son of 1 Mr. Lowrimore, who attempted to ' protect the Palmer children, was % striking. Some time ago this little fellow was sick, and during his confinement to his bed the otter insisted - on staying in bed with him all the ? ' t time. Every morning it was the ot ter's practice to go into the child's 3 room and get in his bed before the t , child arose. A special mark of at1 tachment was his refusal to fight this ? little fellow while infuriated by the r attacks of the Palmer children. 3 The otter had grown to more than t - four feet in length and was richly t furred. Mr. Lowrimore attached a t value of several hundred dollars to r his.rare pet and was greatly grieved to be forced to kill him. t MARCH BIRTHS AND DEATHS. > t- RejK>rt of State Board of Health for i ' Last Month. 1 ? ? Columbia, April 28.?Following is . the report of births and deaths for ? South Carolina for the month of . .March, by the State board of health: r Deaths,> 2,036; births, 3,090. r The record of communicable dis, eases for March has not been coinpiled, but following is the record of 3 communicable disease for the month i of February: t Tuberculosis, 155; pneumonia, , 236; typhoid fever, 10; pellagra, 75; ? Whooping cough, 13; cancer, 36; r diphtheria, 4; malaria, 14. ' I 1 L Since the abolition of the vodka x business the savings of the Russian , people have quadrupled. $7,200 for that month. i Among other savings he had ob tained by institution of modern [ methods, he asserted the installation t of bread cutters saved the State the t. cost of 82,000 loaves of bread in - eight months immediately following t the time when he assumed charge. - Giving strict care to the amount of ; meat cooked for each meal, resulted - immediately in a daily saving of 175 1 pounds, he said, which amount saved 1 was further increased.