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BAJiKEK SCHMIDT TELLS [ (? OF GEKMAN SLISH Fl'M> Revelation May Lead to Investigation; to Reach Persons No? Unknown j t Who Are Believed to be In- p j yolved. a 0 (New York, Oct. oj.?<oCunt Johann j i la "TT -" ' ? ^ frw.PP imnorij) i ! n-eiuricu vuu dwuswiu, j German ambassador to the United | ^ States, received some time in IS.-:, i i ^ from the Deutsche bank in Berlin a j , Quarter of a million dollars whicii j ,, 11 may become the object of a new m- j, vestigation either hv the New York A * | a state authorities or by the United > ^ i States secret service. v This sum is! 0 > * . d separate from the $2,000,000 sent Herej by the German foreign office through I t tfce same Berlin bank for Bolo Pasha. j ? i ^ the French corruption paymaster. I t( About the same time Count von | f Bernstorff had $5,000 and then $10,000 j, pai-d to one "Mr. Kramer," of Peterson, N. J. To these two payments a!- j r so considerable mystery attaches. ! t These new traces, leading, it is be- ? lieved, to the heart of the ramifica* tim? nf Oerman arovernment "slush") fund in operations in this country, j ^ were uncovered voluntarily bv Hugo! i Schmidt, accredited representative in; 9 America o! the Deutsche bank. The! ? a transcript ot his testimony in conned- g tion with the Bolo transactions. in which he played a prominent part. t being the man who handled the pay- ^ ments and deposits, was made pub'!!? ^ toniSht a W' Has First Papers, j f( Herr Schm dt, sent here thr^ej 3 ears a?o to look after the business of j e the "Deutsche baric, testified that ne | 0 hatf taken out his first napers in Febrcarv. 1916, because it might be help- n f'il t* him in a business wav He ex- ? i u T>lainM he felt failure on his nart to j e rW|r.-e "hfc: ai^e^ianr^ to the Fnite'lj^ S^atpi mie-M inir'slr Ms usefulness a?! Q thft r?r>resentative of the Deuts^h^ j r "bsnlc. j c "T" "have erotten alon^ plwavs ve-"? j Tnce1"* \r?t'h the a^fboritted Ti?r?Mj? reads the transcript of his statpmeni-s j p "and I hone it will also he the case j j. with you and it will be my best In- I r. tention to be frank and open, so pleas? | e ask any questions." Shortly afterward t lie made the new revelations: j, "I want to .be frank and open an-i t. will say that once in 1916 I authorize;! g f payment of $250,000 by the Corn E::- t( change bank to the ambassador and I ^ have no knowledge of what the money . was intended for. p "Then again I authorized the payment of $5,000 and $10,000 to a Mr. Kramer, of Peterson, N. J., on request 1 of Ambassador von Bernstorff. I kept c no books and don't know the initials Tframpr " ^ Had Special Powers Reverting to the Bolo Pasha affair, 1] Robert C. Morris, counsel to Attorney F General' Lewis, v who conducted c Schmidt's examination, asked the wit- 11 ness why the $1,700,000 that have a t been traced were deposited in more t B than one bank. Herr Schmidt replied that as the i * German ambassador's representative i ie did not think it proper to deposit! a such a large amount in one bank. h 1UC W icjucoo oa^u ox-icw cio uuviau^ j v manager in this country of tfie t Deutsche bank he executed orders ! g from the Berlin headquarters of thatjt< institution and had special powers to j e deal with certain banks here. He j e named. the Guaranty Trust company,11; the 'National Park Bank, iSpever f Co., the Chase National bank and the s Equitable Trust company. I v Two weeks ago, Herr Schmidt tes-; s tified, Adolph Pavenstedt, who admit-1 c tedly acted as go between for Count a von Bernstorff and Bolo Pasha, came11< r to him, Schmidt, and said: I f "You made a payment to me a Ion? j r time ago and <1 feel in duty bound toj tel} you that this money went to Par- j . is, to Bolo Pasha, and this man has! ibeen imprisoned and probably you j will 'be called too, and so I feel in 1 duty bound to tell you this." [ Herr Schmidt appeared suddenly this afternoon in the room where his testimony was being transcribed,. He D requested that he be permitted to look at copies. Earlier in the day he ^ had affixed his signature to an origi- a i ! r ,?"v iiai. I ! F MM BERNSTORFF WORKED WITH j i: BOLO TO CORRITT FRANCE ' I ' n (Washington Oct, 5.?The State Dea partment tonight adduced direct proof that the $1,700,000 which Bolo Pasha C sent to France for the corruption of . a the French press, came from the Ber * lin foreign office on t'?e order of Am foassador von Fernslorff. The del 3 ^ partment made p'Silic the exchange F of teleerrams betwoeii Bernstorf? ar.si [ Gotth'ebmvon Jas-ov, ;he then German t I minister of foreii s:T!Ta:rs, through a ** which the expenditure was authorized a as "a loan" to briiiic about peace in an i: ^Bjcnemy country. I (K)i) KEVEME FOK ALL COOTl ltOAi)^ Coiuintia, Oct. 5.?Each county iu i;e tidie, \sue:uer 0/ not it has comii6ci w.th tiis loviC.a.. law in sscuriu^ iU J.UI uiatuuuu, 10 ntitied to su per cent of the fundi siting from the saie of automobile iL-euses in th-t county, under t.i-z u.t*e highway act. Twenty per Cr,;.. . o?nt arising from the pro.;on? of the state law is to be cred:ed to the maintenance fund of the ighway commission, and if there is n unexpended balance at the end o^ iie year it is to be held in this fund, nj if there should be an accumulation rt rhic rArrnrrl to P amount be state commission could submi: rojec-ts of sufficient funds of its o .* *: d the government and have su-Scieni unds or its own to comply with the ederal requirements,. Such is the effect of an impcrtnat uling by the attorney general's office his morning, affecting the highway unds of every county in the state. The opinion is as follow:: '"Mr. F. H. Murray, Acting State Iighway Engineer, Columbia,, S. C. "Dear Sir: I have your letter of the d inst. to the attorney general. You sk whether or not under the proviions of section 13 of the highway act, /hich authorizes the commission !n lie event any county should not comly with the requirement of the fe3ral government in securing federal id for their roads, to submit projects or important roads in the state anl iay the amount required by the govrnment to supplement its funds out f and unexpended funds to the cre-.Kt if the state highway fund .the comlission would have authority to draw :pon the SO per cent of the fund raised hv the automobile licence tax due he county in which such fund aros^, v whether the commission wculd be estricted to the use* of the 20 per ent allowed it for operating expenss under the terms of the acti. You urther ask whether or not any unexpended portion of the 20 per cent of he fund raised hv the automobile 1!ense tax to which the commission is ntitled for operating expenses, at he end of the year would be placed q the general state fund bv the stat? reasurer or whether such amount hould be credited from year to year o the highway\fund to be used by tns ighway commission in its discretion n carrying out tbe intent and purpose of the highway act. "In reply thereto I beg to advise that am of the opinion that Tfte highway ommission is witnout auinority 10 raw upon the fund arising from the .utomobile license tax in excess of he 20 per cent specifically provides ti the act for maintenance of the deartmentvand all counties, whether hey have complied with the federal aw in securing aid thereunder or not, re entitled to have 80 per cent of he funds arising from the sale of auomobile licenses in their counties r?urned to them by the commission. "Twenty per cent of all the fund rising under the provisions of tlie ighway act to go to the highway ommission for the purpose of main enance and also to .supplement tns overnment fund on pxojects submited by the commission, and any unxpended balance of this fund at ths nd of any year should be credited by he state treasurer to the highway und for -use by the highway commision and should thus accumulate from ear to year so that in the event it hould reach an amount sufficient the ommission, under the terms of the ct, could submit projects of its own d the government and have sufficient ends of its own to comply with the equirements. "Trusting this gives you the desired ^formation, I am yours very truly. "CLAUD Nj. SA2PP, "Assistant Attorney General." FIRE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. Fire was discovered on Sunday corning at about 6:30 o'clock coning from the roof of Timmerman and Lesley's store at the corner ol O'Xeall nd Drayton streets in "West End. >ne of the first men to see it was Mr. 'ope Tompkins. The fire was burnng through the top of the building. it the alarm the company responded nd kept the fire frcm si ading t"> tearby houses and succeeding in rowning out the flames, leaving the harred remains of the upper part and he lower portion of the structure in . badly damaged condition, so rapM nd fierce was the rage of the fire ,fter it had started. Its origin is nut ;nown. The goods were ruined, the loss m hat respect alone toeing over $3,000. md the building cannot 'he replace'' s it stood under $2,000 or more. There 5 an insurance of $2,500 on the buildrig, goods and fixtures. FOUND NEW USE FOR PULPIT : I I Sexton's Wife Was Greatly Excited When Parson Arrived Unexpectedly to Hold Services. Canon Shearme, in his "Lively Rec- ! ollections," tells a good story of a ; brother clergyman in a remote parisn i who turned up unexpectedly to hold a , s i-vice at one of two churches he served in. Greatly to the reverend p*?ntl<Mii?n's surprise, the sexton's wife, who uc.ed as caretaker, appeared greatly troubled at his unexpected advent on the scene, begging him if he must \ hold the service that day at all events to forego the sermon. Naturally he inquired the reason why. "Thereupon," writes Mr. Shearme, j "the - old woman became more vehe- j menr ana excirea. " 'Passon. passon, dear, if you must j preachy, will you preachy from the ! rend in' d<*sk?' ? j " 'But why?* asked he. 'Is there any- j thing in the pulpit?' j " 'Aw dary me! Passon dear, don't 'ee go near it whatever. Oh, why did j you ever come today?' "She clung desperately to his coat \ tails, beseeching him to go no farther, j ! 'Come, Sally, I insist upon seeing what i Is in the pulpit.' 44 'Weill nnsenn?hnt there. I don't 'artlly know how to tell 'ee. Well, passon, if you must know, I've got the turkey 'en in the pulpit, and he wunt 'atch out afore next Sunday!'" i TELLING T!ME A3 YOU RUN , | < - i Nashville (Tenn.) Has Installed Clock for Those Who Wait T"l Last Minute to Get Anywhere. . T-P O YTi 1 r) tlio liohSf nf hpinf? Ijife 11 %v \ju. ai v. in iaav* ^ for work, or are in the habit of waiting for the last minute in which to catch your train, you know how you scan the corner clocks as you fly by. ! Nashville, Tenn., appreciated tiie need of an efficient timepiece that could be seen at considerable distance,; so that instead of having the usual circular dial with revolving hands, the time is shown by white figures, 23 inches high, mounted on endless flexible bands, which move across the face of the clock, changing every 60 seconds. These figures show at a greater distance and are read much quicker than the hands of an ordinary clock. At night the figures are illuminated, i It is operated by a system of onrrrrntrotf n<r CPVPTfil hundred v* rij^niO) v uii?, . v. v,. pounds, which nre automatically wound up by electrical power. There were ' many mechanical difficulties to confront and to be solved on original j lines, for this clock as it is has had no ! predecessor. ! i Napoleon's Divorce. Napoleon's divorce, a civil act of | the empire, was pronounced before | the grand council held in the Tuileries j on December 15, 1S09, and the next | day the senate confirmed it. To reI ?wAttn nil mliorlnns CPTTmlp'S tllP POlirt j liiuvcr an ? i of the bishop of Paris met and pronounced the marriage with Josephine | null, this action being taken on Janu| ary 14, 1810. The civil marriage of | Bonaparte and Maria Louisa of Aus| trla, April 1, 1810, was witnessed by i the college of cardinals, save only two ; who were too infirm to be brought to i Paris. The attitude of the church was ! manifest at the religious marriage. J Not a cardinal was present, although ' * * * 1 1 T ~ * ? " ^ aa TT?n ci n rv tney saiQ mat uieir auseuvc v?ao au. empty form due only to the circumstances that Pius VII had not approved 1 the divorce. i Stimulating Brain Waves. Saturday is usually an anxious time I for ministers. To live with them on j this day is not an unmixed blessing, | says the Liverpool Post. They are fidgety and uneasy, worried over those little finishing touches which go to the making of a good sermon. It is doubtI ful, however, if many are so nervous as I one of the leading provincial divines : who carefully takes his sermon up to ; bed on Saturday night in order that ' there may be no fear of its destruc; tion by fire. Whether he also fancies i that somebody may steal the precious ! document is another point?one on j which he has never expressed an opln| ion. He says, however, that on more I than one occasion he has had a brain i wave during the night, with the result that a brilliant sentence has been added to his discourse the last minute. Wnw trt I an Unrulv Horse. j I will describe a plan I have found | to be excellent for leading unruly horses, says a writer in Farm and Fireside. Tie a ring in halter of horse to be led. Then take a half-inch ropo about 20 feet long, and having tied ono end of the rope to the halter, run tho j other around rear axle, then back I through the ring in halter, and then to the wagon seat or to anyone in th i wagon. With this you can draw the horsB ! tn /M* lof V>?m nut TxrJthrmf of ; IU Vi *Vt lllUi VV?W ?T . V*?V V V.V.?5, i upsetting the rig. In an emergency 1 you can let ?o of the rope and free | the animal entirely. It Worked Too Well. "Yes, you see she told him her father had lost all his money, just to test | his love for her." "And then?" "Well, she will know better nes.t time." The Authority. "Tell mo. mv man. do vou exercise your marital prerogative and dominate your wife?" "?cner ask her, sir. She's the boss." ^ArrDVAn ^,T>r <TTC \" \/ cii c liL.i 1 Lo VICE C03IMISSI0X Columbia, Oct. 5.?"In view of the importance of taking active steps to min mize vice, and in order to deal with the situation in nearly as statewide way as possible, in the limited time available. Governor Manning has appointed a 'vice commission/ said Mr. Albert S. Johnstone, of Columbia, chairman of the commission, in z. statement today. In addition to the chairman., the commission is composed of Dr. Z] T. Cody, cf Greenville7 Mrs. J. L. Coker, Jr., of Hartsville; Lel'.n^ Moore and A. T. Smythe, of Cftf.nesion: t;ev_ u. n. ninety a;:u Dr. James Bruce Guignard, of Columbia: Prof. Mascn DuFre an ] Dr\ Ro.~a Gantt. of Spartanburg, and Mr. John M. Geer and Mrs. H. P. Gridley of Greenville. "The duties of this commission/' says Chairman Johnstone, "are u itu ~:j the conditions that now obtain in South Carolina, to recommend tfte mcst tractical means and measures fo: dealing .vith the problems involved, and, as far as may be possible, to co-operate In putting these into eTfe'.'t. The commission is composed or volunteers, is without authority, anu is investigative, educational and advisory in its aims. It will welcome practical, definite suggestions from ary source, and is counting on tne cooperation of the many agencies over the state, that deal to a varying ex tent with the problem it is studying. "There are three hopeful aspects of the present nationwids efforts to suppress commercialized vice: (1) The negative work of suppression is accompanied by such positive measures as wholesome recreation, education in sex hygiene ami a san^ moral emphasis, demanding a single standard of morals. "(2) The increasingly widespread expression of opinion by medical authorities that a life of continuance v>y the male is not only not injurious to his health, hut is compatible with health and is the best prevention or veneral infections. "(3) Veneral disease contracted mainly through prostitution is being increasingly recognized as destructive to health and efficiency and as productive to economic loss to such an iVtl Allf" +f A f r\ r> 1 i A T? /\ ? i7iu/i iiiuud cAiciu tnat cnc punv;^ ui n*difference and toleration is inevitaK | living way to vigorous, intelligent ;in continued attacks. "America's determination that the army she is sending to Europe will be the cleanest of all the forces now fi^htine is not only a challenge to her allies to make the conditions surrounding onr m^n in England an,^ F'7rone rondur-ive to their continual mrvrol ol oo miocc? Tmi + if -? c n r\1o/-\ f r\ xjiv/i ui ?<ivui'uvco wk t 11 10, a 1'iriiiu c ' fl"nip<; of ',no'per^tirn in this refrnT-f? ?lco, !?; a th^t th? , 'hqrk horrip.' von ar.d T. shall ; fln onr Vt as patriotic d?+v }p fuUv ' 011r government's purnose." mtv^ym ? Jl'ST RECEIVED?A ear load of rice meal;. Johnson-MeCrackin Co. 1 Mowers and Hakes?An advance goes on soon. See us if you are going to buy. Johnson McCrackm Co 7-31-tf TUKN PLOWS?Oliver Pattern, and Dixie Hoys, also points of all siz r* T~i es. juiuisuu-:vi(;\^rutMu 10-2-tf. NOTICE TO SfGK_W0M?N Positive JProof That Lydia w rn i II ? ? r H. rmkiiam s VegetaDie Compound Relieves Suffering. Bri<3geton,N.J.?"I cannot Hpeak too highly of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegeta"Tj?iiii^mi iTiTiTI^6 Compound for IJ lUHgMj I inflammation and iiiSSli^KiJlllll other weaknesses. I .was very irregular lotT -1? and would have terrible pains so that] j! | could hardly take a j| step. Sometimes I f II?j? !'' 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