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V ' ?eM?^???? ?? ????? ?????????^???????'?? ??mm VOLUME LII, NUMBER IS). DEWBERRY, S. C? TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1914. TWICE A WEEK, $Uf A YEAS. NEWS FROM EXCELSIOR. i' t ? . i' Death of Mrs. J. Caleb Cook.?Per- i soual Mention?Other Matters. I " i Special to The Herald and News. Excelsior, Aug. 31.?Mr. J. C. Sing- ! ley spent Thursday in Columbia. ! Cotton is opening rapidly and the ! crop is going to be shortinthis section. Mr. and Mrs. L. 5. ix>ng spent | Thursday in Columbia. I' Miss Olive Counts has returned ! home from a visit to Columbia, i Mr. John Long, of Lexington, is vis| King in this section. The public road has been greatly j improved the past week. Let the work go on. Mrs. J. D. Lorick and daughter. Miss Jessie, have been on a several days' visit to relatives in Columbia. Misses Effie and Myrtle Bowers have been on a visit to Miss Xannie ivlae Cook. Mrs. J. S. Werts and son, Willie, o: r Saluda county, have been on a visit ! to her brother,, Mr. H. J. Kinard. .Miss Rosine Singley has been spending several days with friends up at Seneca. Mrs. John Smith, of near Leesville, came over to the burial of her sister, Mrs. J. C. Cook. Mrs. Geo. B. Dominick, of Green- : wood, has been with her sick mother 1 the past week, Mrs. J. 0. Cook. ^ Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Boland, Mrs. j Eugene Hawkins and little son, Colie, have been on a visit to Mr. L. C. Singley's family at Garvs Lane. Mrs. Ophelia Bowers and Miss Lora Xates have been in Columbia with t'-eir sick brother, Mr. Ira Xates. Misses Susie Owens, of Clinton, and 1 .Mamie Steward, of Fountain Inn, have been on a visit to Mr. John Wheeler's fpmily. Mrs. Mary Ann Elizabeth Cook, nee Snealv, wife of Mr. J. Caleb Cook, who lius been in feeble health for ' some time died at her home in this section on Tuesday afternoon at- the age of 77 years, 13 days. The burial i service was held ir. Mt. Pilgrim church ft on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, the service beins: conducted by the Rev. J. J. Long, after which the remains were laid to rest in the cemertery near toe church by the side of her husband who preceded her to the spirit land about 10 years ago. Early in Ufe the deceased was con>irmed in St. Pauls Lutheran church but later moved ber membership to Mt. Pilgrim church at which place she remained a consistent member up to the time of "her death ?he leaves ei^ht. children. I four boys and four girls, two brothers, / and one sister, besides a large circle w of friends to mourn her death. Truly a good woman has been called to her I reward and one that will be missed by all who knew her. Mrs. D. B. Cook and daughter. Miss Nannie Mae,, have been on a visit to relatives in Saluda county. Sigma. SOME EXPERIENCES IN SOLl>- <3> B <S> IER LIFE. <S> By Dr. R. C? Kibler. 3> <? <5> After writing of my capture by the Yankees, and of my prison life at > Point Lookout, some of my readers W may think me craw-fishing to go back to my Tennessee and Norta Georgia i experiences; but I have been asked to do so. I was at China manffua. ard there felt the breath of cannon and rifles too. There were breezes a plenty about Chattanooga in those days; but these were no: all natural pleasant. I can tell you. Chicamaugua we formed a line in woods, and then came out into | open field. A field is a good place L . see and be seen." I saw the Yankees over there next to some woods, and of course they saw us. Their line was long and the "Blue Coats" were so numerous that it looked like they could kill all of us. They advanced their line about 50 yards. I thought: "Why does Gen. Kershaw j not order a charge?" Then we were j k commanded to face right about, and i marched 75 yards, where we faced J the Yankees again. When we took ; that position t':e Yankees must have |l I been a little scared, for they went [ back to the woods behind them and to :^eir breast -works. We fought them 1 there for an hour or more. During the battle at that point, though we had been in an open field, I managed to get behind a tree?some soldiers : might not like to tell that, but I am after telling me trim, i any mis-11 takes appear in my articles will be : i because those that copy and enlarge j I on my remarks may not read my writ- i i ing any too well. Mistakes are liable ' to occur in proper names on that ac- ^ count. s {Well, as 1 said. I got behind a tree. 1 .John Mayes came there and said: M "Dock, you must give me half of this \ 1 tree." 1 had to let him get behind j my tree, although I did not much like '1 to do it. After a while a cannon ball * went throught the top o<: the tree. In j "ive minutes a shell went through that !> tree ton -half way down. 1 told John j that I thought best to move away from there, as the Yankees had probably! i discovered us in that open place. John ! replied that there was danger every- j ] where about there, and that he saw j t no reason for moving. Poor fellow! | Those were the last words he ever j > spoke. Another shell came just then j and struck low on his side of the tree, j I I All I know about the explosion of < that shell all I could know?is that j i I was in a world of fire. Mr. Spence j i said I was thrown over like a wheel I ^ m.'o o loaf from n tr"pr>. < ; AUU laj* L11C1C t* He told some of the boys t~at "Little ( Dock'' had gone that time; but direct- i !y I got up, and. being dazed, started ij towards the Yankees. Maffett caught ; t me and turned me around. I stagger- \ ed off about 20 yards, but did not j 1 know what I was doing. When I came | < to myself I was lying in the woods, j Pope came to me and asked if I was i i much hurt He soon learned that I could j I not hear, and that I was badly stunned by the explosion, and somewhat 1 scorched?and that was all. He beck- < oned for me to go back to a place where tiiere was a little less danger. I 11 went. Before I had gone far I :ound j i my cousin, R. C. Maffett, who had ] been shot in the foreiead, dead?and j < my brother, J. Hf Kialer, shot in the 1 shoulder, with whom I went to the 1 hospital. < DEATH FOLLOWS c CRASH OF CARS 2 \ J >Irs. A It in W. Gilmore is Killed?In * Santuc Accident. 1 1 The State. Union, Aug. 30?Mrs. Alvin i\V. Gil- jc more was killed, her son Aubrey prob- j* ably fatally injured and three young ,5 daughters were hurdled violently to I the ground this afternoon when an j * automobile in which the five occu- i pants were riding collided with South- j era railway passenger train Xo. 27 at j1 a dangerous crossin g?. and a half j miles below Santuc. * i iTiha ontn'no unH- nnp rnafli had I passed when the automobile ran up [ the steep grade and squarely into the second coach of the fast running < train. The train was stopped and the injured were taken aboard. -Mrs. Gilmore died before the train reached Union. The young man was carried on to the hospital in Spartan- I Kiiww n-r, A o moccatro SllCt- roppivof? flfTP 1/U15 auu. a, jww * nsw* - ~.v. w gives some hope of his recovery. The three young girls escaped, it is 1 thought without serious bodily harm, although they are badly bruised and broken. Young Gilmore was driving the auto and his sister was riding on \ the front seat. ( A message over the telephone brought Mr. Gilmore to Santuc in ^ time for him to take train Xo. 13, ^ winch arrives here 40 minutes behind , No. 27. ( The Gilmore house is near Xeal i Shoals. Mr. Gilmore is one of the \ county's prosperous planters and a j prominent citizen of Union county. t Mrs. Gilmore was Miss Willie Estes 1 before her marriage and came here 1 fr?r>r?T \Ticciccinni xhpn r> crirl 1 11 v/ui o** 9 after the death of her parents in < that State. 1 What Would Happen. ( Detroit Free Press. ] "Had I the wings of a bird?" be- i gan the poet. "You'd suffer," interrupted the pro- ] saic person. "Your wife would take them away from you to trim a hat." ; NEWS FORM POM ARIA i .argre Crowd Expected to Attend B.iri)ecue Saturday?Fine Hains. ** - - 5 rersonai. Special to Tne Herald and X.ews. Pomaria, Aug. 31.?Rev. J. J. Long, >f Little Mountain, preached and ad- : ninistered the holy communion to the Lutheran congregation here Sunday ! corning last. The regular pastor :as not yet been ordained. Rev Long j ,vas former pastor off this charge for j several years and it was quite a pleas- i: ire to the people of Pomaria to hear ! lim preach .another one of his in- i eresting sermons. .Miss Chatheran Efird, of Lexington, , s the guest of Miss Marvist Ray Setzer. Miss Rebecca Ixmg, of Greenville, is :i siting friends and relatives in to'.vn. Miss Olive Richardson ani Jennie Vdams spent Saturday and Sunday in Jnion. Mr. Clarence Graham, of t.:e New 1 ftope community, spent Sunday in own. ( Mr. Julian J. Hertz, of Kinards, is ;isiting his mother, Mrs. Lera Hertz. : Mr. ana Mrs. j. r. seizier ana son, Breaker, and Mrs. T. A. Setzler, have ?one to the mountains to spend a veek or ten days making the trips by iutomobile. Mr. C. W. Sawyer has returned from i pleasant visit to friends at Concord, N. C. :Mr. and Mrs. M. E. K. Glymph have ust returned trom a two weexs visit :o relatives at Abbeville. Miss Edna Koon visited Miss Wilie Bouitli Saturday night and Sunlay of last week. Rev. J. J. Long and Mr. Horace Shealy, of Little Mountain, dined with Vlr. B. M. Setzler Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Carson, of Greenrille, are visiting at Mr. J. P. Setzler's ind Jno. C. Aull's. Mr. Vance ^this, oi- Little Moun:ain, spent 'Friday and Friday night n town. There will be be given, by theMeth)dist church here Saturday, September 5, an up to date barbecue at the )ark for the benefit of the new Meth>dist church. Congressainn Wyatt Aiken has accepted an invitation to be present and iddress the people. Hon. Fred Domilick a candidate for congress has )een invited and it is hoped that he vill accept. All the county candidates n the second race are especially incited to be present and spend the lay. Everything will be done to make his be one of the best cues of the season. Mr. Monroe Bishop spent Saturday n Columbia. Misses Eva Ledbetter and Grace ^ytle, of Spartanburg, spent the past -veek with Mrs. Z. T. Pinner A fine rain fell in th^s section of he county Saturday night which was leeded 'very much. LAD IS ELECTROCUTED Seorge King Steps on Live Wire at Greenville. rhe State. Greenville, Aug. 30.?George King he eight year old son of Mrs. W. L. Vlauldin and stepson of Dr.. W. L. Vlauidin, was instantly killed early :his aJ.'ternoon when he stepped "on a ive wire. The little boy was playing with two other children in the yard )f his stepgrandmother, Mrs. W. L. Vlaulriin, widow of the late State senator. The wire was a guy, which liaJ ?ome into contact with the feed wires >f an arc light. In stringing the wire :he feed wires had been thrown over :he guy wire, which with an iron peg svas fastened to a tree in IVIrs. M&uliin's yard. The insulation of the feed ^ r, tt o?. tViQ 7 user hnrnoH t'hp A 1 It's WUIC a ? O.J . uuiuvu V-V. :ree and then came loose, the wire 'ailing across the sidewalk. It lay ;here some time but was thrown over :he fence and into the yard by a man svho noticed it. He used his cane in :hrowing the wire. The children came >ut into the yard to play, the little t>oy stepped on the peg which was it the end of the wire. He screamed >nce and fell, iV300 volts of electricity passing through him and killing him instantly. Dr. Mauldin only recently married VIrs. King. The funeral will be held Monday .if tor noon. GOV. BLEASE DECLARES n FOR MR. RICHiARDS a 'x Letter From the Governor In Which ; C He Declares For >Ir. Rich- t ards. - ? I f The following letter was received | p in Newberry on Thursday a;ternoon: jv Columbia. S. C., Aug. 29. 1914. j f My Dear Friend: jl The second race for governor, as !1; you see, is between Richards and i Manning. The election of Manning: f means the overthrow of the rights of c the laboring people of this State. Man-'s ning's grandfather was governor, and Ms '.ather was governor, and he comes |c directly from the "aristocracy." as : F they term themselves. His ote in the j * house of representatives and in the j t senate, when he was there as a rep- 11 resentative from Sumter county, were , always against the interests of the : c laboring people, and his election to j P the governorship means the loss of!c everything that the laboring man /has ja worked for since 1890 in the politics j r of this State, and it will take years in for them to recover and get justice ; e and their rights if they sit down now 11 and allow Manning to be governor. I j il beg or you, not .'.or rayseir, dui ior 11 the people whom I represent, to get j c busy and do everything within your power to elect Major Richards gover- c nor. All I can do is to "beg the peo- d pie not to make the mistake of elect- o ing Manning, and 1 am begging you. a Manning voted in 1902, as senator,^ when a bill was introduced to prohibit jt trusts, against fc'..e bill and for the |a trusts. See senate journal, 1902, pages jc 482 and 472. At the same session, ! s w'.:en ihe railroad relief bill for em- J i ployees was offered, he voted to kill j a the bill and against tiie interests of s the employees. See Journal, pages * 262, 276 and ">04. By voting to kill j 1 this bill he voted to prevent the am- ; c ily of the railroad employee who was t killed by negligence of the railroad, J t or its servants, from recovering any j" damages from the railroad corpora- j * tion. At the same session, when the j State was endeavoring to repeal the j charter of trie Virginia-Carolina j o nimmiVal nnmranv a trust thrnttlin:?. !3 - O. or attempting to throttle, the farmers 11 of South Carolina, and which Attorney t General Bellinger and his assistants were fighting with all their power, Mr. n Manning voted against the bill to sus- * pend this corporation, and against the j ^ interests of the farmers and laboring ; o people. See journal, 1902, page 360 j c In the session of 1900, journal, page a I 206, you will see where Mr. Manning o voted against the child labor bill and r i against tV:e interest of the cotton mill | F employees. In 1905, as senator, held voted against he bill to prevent strik- [ h - * 1 x- ?? : ~ 4. i . ? ! -n es ana IGCKOUIS, waxen was mtruuuutru | v to meet emergencies and to help the ! r cotton mill employees, thus voting F against the laboring man and in favor of the corporation. He also voted a against the bill for ten hours in s cotton mills. You will find that in the c session of 1893, house journal, page v 186. Also in the senate journal of r 1900, page 365, he voted against sep- t arate coaches for the two races, thus s voting Cor wfcite ladies to be thrown c in the some coaches with negro men. 1 It will thus be seen that this man, "J who is now the president of a bank in c Sumter, and a director in many other a large corporations in this State, on t every occasion, as senator and rep- r resentative oted against the interest S of the laboring man for the corpora- c tions, and he is today the candidate c o>;' the corporations and their officers j and attorneys, and is. receiving their t unanimous and solid backing. t In addition to this, fre was in the 11 Sheppard convention, which met in [ t \Tqrr-ii iKQ-> uc -j riplporatp from Sum- IE 4.CA.X , ? " "" j ? ter county, which convention denouiic- j e ed Ben Tillman's administration in 11 these words: "We pledge ourselves o to the most rigid economy in the ad- a ministration of the government, made t more than necessary by the misfor- a tunes of t'he people and the impending a deficiency in our treasury, resulting h from the unwise management of the f present administration." At another n place, in speaking of the then Gov- o ernor B. R. Tillman, their platform s said: "We submit that the course of n the head of our present administra- 'b tion, both before and since his elec- v tion, has been unwise and unjust"? t and this platform goes on?it is too 1 long for me to quote it all to you?in t denouncing, Tillman and the Re'.'orm j j if lovement in no uncertain language, nd calling upon the people to rally round their standard carried by John J. JSheppard, of Edgefield, to down he "despot" Tillman and his friends. Vaw AT ? AT n v? n i n rv /?ln I YVl r< t r\ Ka O -N U vv , Jll. i a 11 u 1115 viauiid iv/ uk: c* riend of the farmer and the laboring eople. If so, wi'.-.y was .he in this conention denouncing Tillman and the armers" movement in such terms as have quoted to you, and as can easly be verified by the records? Mr. Manning, when he was senator rom Sumter county in 1902, voted to ompel all parents or guardians to end their children or wards to school -a bill known as the compulsory eduation bill, introduced by Senator taysor, of Orangeburg. Mr. Brice, iie senator \rom York, moved to kill he bill. Mr. Mann*'g voted "no," hus voting for compulsory education. *o\v he says he favors local option ompulsorv education because the eople as a whole are not ready for ompulsory education. Yet, 12 years go. when they were very mudh less eady then than they are now, he did ot vote for local option compulsory ducation, nor did he vote to leave it o the people whether they wanted t or not. but he voted to force it on hem. Another artful change in this orporation candidate's political li e. He is most assuredly subject to hange, for he was one of the State ispensary's most bitter and active >pponents ween a member of the sente, but after going to Washington nd holding a conference .v;th Sena or unman, ne came uacK 10 uie sen- j te. and all ?,t once became the great hampion of the corrupt (?) dispenarv, falling on his knees and ho'lerrig, in order to become governor, "I m now a friend of the State dispenary, I am now a friend of Ben Tilnan, whom I have denounced publicy and privately, I am now a disciple i Tillmanism. afid an upholder of: he dispensary,." concluding with those eautiful lines,, 1 am consecrate my all to thee. Jen Tillman and t'.:e State dispensaree." \Vi:en Mr. Manning was a member ' if the house of representatives in 1893, Kill t r\ r>Vl Qnoro tViO . Uln nas mi.iuuuv.cu iu t,uV j egal rate of interest in this State! >y reducing it, which was a bill in J avor of the money borrower, the poor j nan. When a motion was made to j :ill the bill, Mr. Manning voted to J :ill it, and against reducing the rate j f interest which the banks were re- j eiving from the poor man. Thus .gain he s-liows 'bis interest in behalf I >f the corporation?he being a cor-1 (oration director and a corporation j resident?by refusing to vote to reuce the rate of interest, which would lave been of great assistance to the | >oor people?those who nave to.Dor-1 ow money. This will be found on ?age 334 of the house journal of 1S93. Mr. Manning and some o /^is friends rgue with great force that we should tand by the nominees of the Demoratic party. This is correct, but vhen Mr. Manning makes this argunent, he should remember that he limself did not do so when he was * - -w.-. ?/v-.M-vA?Anf nf lUon a Diuer eut:uiy emu w*. ?ne B. R. Tillman, whom he has since earned to love. In 1894 Governor Tillman and Senator M. C. Butler were :andidates !for tJie United States senite. The election was to be held bv Toe general assembly, as there was 10 primary at that time for United States senator. But it was clearly and listinctly understood that whichever if these gentlemen received the maority of the votes in this primary was o be the United States senator, and hat State senators <mu rcpi escma- j ives were morally bound to support [ he nominee. However, we find 15 i nembers of t ie general assembly elecrd that year in the same primary that "illman beat Butler in, violating tl.:eir bligations to the Democratic party nd refusing to vote for Pen Tillman, he Democratic nominee for the sente, and among these 15 was one Richrd I. Manning, then a member of t'-e ouse from Sumter county. He reused to support B. R. Tillman, the Lominee of the party, and got up n the floor of the legfslature and econded in a beautiml speech the lomination of General Butler, who ad been defeated, and when the roll ^as called, voted for Butler against he Democratic nominee, "old Ben oilman," as 'he was familiarly called iy the 'armer boys. See Journal 1394, ;age 263. '.This is the man who is teday claiming the vote of the laboring people* and saying that he is their friend. t ^ ^^ 4- ~ ~ r i s<iiu iu vuu in uie uugiimuig, t speak not for myself. My political ambition was to be governor. I have been and I am governor, but I do not want to be succeeded by a man who I know will be oppressive upon my friends and the people of this State, and who will be a friend of the corporations and the money interests, as has been evidenced by every vote that te has cast as a member of the house and of the senate, and who is today their paid servant as a corporation officer and a corporation stockholder. ? May God's richest blessings rest upon the people .whose interests I represent. Very respectfully, Cole. L. Blease. Triple Alliance, Triple Entente. The six greatest powers o:1 Europe / are bound together by two strong agreements?the triple alliance, between Germany, Austria and Italy; and the triple enteDte, joining Great Britain, Russia and -France. The for- N ^ mer was originally entered into in. 1882, and has been renewed several times, the last December 7, 1912. ',M The triple alliance was considered o nV? AI x'Avn nf LiiC vw 111115 aV/llCl \JX. V4V* many's "Iron Chancellor," Prince Bismarck, w:o evolved the idead. The last renewal 01 t)jis alliance was made* two years prior to the expiration of the former pact, due, it was said, to the necessity of making the alliance more binding, in view of expected complications in the Balkan peninsula following tiie annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by- Austria. Three treaties from the basis between Germany and Austria, the second between Germany and Italy, and the taird between Austria ahd Italy. TVip nrnvisions nf the treatv between Germany and Austria are practically those of the earlier pact of 1879, and a *e directed mainly against' Russia. The agreement between Germany and Italy provides for mutual aid should either party to the treaty be attacked by France. Friendly neutrality is assured by Italy should Austria be attacked by Russia, and by Austria in the event of an attack on Italy by France, under the terms of the third treaty. The exact provisions Ul me pacts utrcwtrcii urci rnau; auu Italy and between Italy and Austria have never been given to the world. King Vic-or Emmanuel is commander ol the Italian army, with a war footing of 1.200,000 men. Austria's cavalry has a war strength of 2.000,000, and is commanded by Bmperor Francis .Joseph. Emperor William directs Germany 5,200,000 cavalrymen? a total war footing for the powers under the triple alliance of 8, 400,000. The triple entente was tlie outcome of a movement initiated by Edward VII of England. It is a friendly bond between Russia, England and France. It was completed in 1907. Thp nrinninal cause >;or the forma tion of t:;is agreement was the enormous growth of German na^y, considered by Great Britain a menace to her supremacy on the seas. The total war footing of the three powers parties to the triple entente is 10,230,000, appropriated as follo|/s: Russia, 5,500,000 Cossacks, commanded by Czar Nicholas; England, artillery, 730,000 with King George in command France, 4,000,000 infantry, directed by President Poincare. A comparison o.' the war strength of the countries under the triple alliance and those of the triple entente shows the latter to the stronger by 1,830.000 men. One of the striking features connected with the present struggle is the fact that King George of England and Emperor William of Germany are both grandsons of the late Queen Victoria. They are first cousins, yet each is endeavoring to conquer the other on the field of battle. Is "blood stronger than water?" An Impossible Task. Baltimore American. First Student (in a burst of admiration)?Prof. Gabby is a wonder as a linguist. What tongue hasn't rae mastered? Associate Professor (dryly)?His / wife's.