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Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNTy3|^^^PP^*. jTW <";'' Number 34 MAKING WAR BT POISON GAS Battle front In France,?Aa English officer sends the following desription of the effect of poisoned gases the German are using: "At 2:45 on Monday morning, most of us were roused by a terrifTic bombardment by our guns?every single gun for miles seemed to be biasing off as hard as it could, so, thinking thre must be an attack, wej dressed and made ready to rush off at amoment's notice. "I went down intb the street and I noticed at once a slight smell of {Chlorine in the air. I soon noticed that although I was fourf or fiv miles from (ha flrlntr Una n... ?"?- ?? ... ?"o lino u&jr cjco nnt i watering freely. Along thet road were coming some of the victims of this terrible gas. They slouched along like drunken men, hardly any pf them had kept rifle or equipment. AUwere gasping and caugliing, blindly staggering on?away front the gas. It was a terrible sight Many of them were undoubtly brave men, but had probably been asleep in the second or third line trenches and had not had time to get on their respirators before the gas was upon them, or else their respirators were dry and useless. "By this time motor-ambulances were streaming back from the field ambulance at the other end of the village. They were a terrible sight, packed with gasping, struggling men in any attldudetheir agony could suggest; sometimes fighting with the very orderlies in charge of them in their delirium. "Later in the day I went up to the field ambulance at the top of the village. It was a terrible sight, and one I can never -forget. The ambulance was established in a fair-sized school, at the door of whwich a perptual stream of motor-ambulances jjj drew up , loaded^ or unloaded, drove wswTtt. ?.??* lAsiasr playground were lying some of the less serious cases, who had probablj found their way there on foot. They were lying in a row along the pathway, coughing and struggling for breath while doctors ami ordilics did the little that was possible for them. Inside the playground was filled with stretchers aranged in orderly rows in the sunlight, but there was less movement here. Some were heaving in tneir last agony ot suuocatlon. many were silent?forever. "Through the windows I caught n glimpse of a large scholrom full oi more cases, while in yet anothe- room I could ae doctors and ordilies in their sldrtsl-i3*vs drcsing the wounded who had Just been brought, in. 1 NO LAW FOR THE CASE No Law Holding Relatives of Insane J Liable for Support, Says I'eeples. , In a reeent opinion given the State ^ board of charities and corrections at < its request Thomas H. Peeples, Attor-', ney General, held that relatives of patients undergoing treatment at the State Hosp.Ml foi the Instno cou't' * not be hei-l l^gtlly liable for their , support, i.j ir the case > ' a hits ' band for his wire or a father ror nls ( dependent unmarried child, but that ( the board of regents of the HoBpital had the authority under the law to j exclude any patient from admission to the Hospital as a beneficiary when, ^ in its judgement, the relatives of Bueh . patient were able to pay for his or he rtreatment at the Hospital. The State board of charities and * corrections asked the Attorney Oene- j ral for an opinion on two or three . points of law relating to the powers ^ of its fiscal agent, who 1b authorized ' under the Act creating the board to make investigations of the financial status of patientB at the Hospital and! and their relatives. The investiga- ' tions will be undertaken to give the| board of regents information on which it can refuse to admit patients' as benificiarlos when they themselves or their relatives are able to pay in or their relativs ar aid to pay n 1 whol or n part for their treatment at the Hospital. Attorney General PeepleB said, in his opinion, that he knew of no South > Carolina statute holding statuteholding relatives of an insane person liable for his or her support . Section I \ 697 of the Criminal Code of 1912 T makes It a misdemeanor for any able-! bodied man who shall, with out just' cause or excuse, abandon or fall to' supply the actual necccssitles of life j to his wife or to his minor unmarried , child dependent upon him. The Attorney General held further: "In addition to this the common law imposes a duty on the husband und, th father to support his wife and chil- Fi dren. There is a conflict of authority ec as to whether this common laow liabil of lty extends to the maintenance of an ty insane peranum who has been taken w in charge by the State for the protec- Ji tion of soiiety in general, as well as fe fodr the welfure of the patient lo himself. "Section 3 365 of the Code of Laws A of 1912 requires the Probate Judge in hi addition to mental examination of the la naManf ?%>? lr? A - ?1 1 * vu utaau a. luuiuugu tAiiUilua- ll( tion as to the financial standing of th the patient and alBo of the husband, se wife.father, mother.sons or daughters in of such patient, and requires him to tl; certify aud transmit the resultof this e<3 examination to the superintendent of h< the Hospital. ThlB statute, however, te to my mind, imposes no liability lo whatsoever upon the relatives men- to tloned therein. Such testimony is w taken simply and solely fo the infor- te ination of thesnperintendent and the board of regents, so that they may th determine whether or not the patient Vi shal be received as a pay patient or y< as a benificiary patient. It will be dt noted by a reading of this section that a< no liability attaches to any of the rel- si ativos named or to any other party th for th e support of this patient un- rl les he or they cuter into the bond re- lu quired by that statute. vc "I am pt the opinion that, under in the Btatute law of this State, there is H no liability imposed on any relative ar for the support of an inmate in the wj State Hospital for the Insane, unless H possibly upon a husband for the sup- si portjaUW* or a husband for the support afr his minor unmarT><Ki t? pendent child. wj "The bourd of regents, as I see the law, has the power and authority to refuse to admit a patient as a benetlclary patient if they are of the opinion that the relatives of such patient en should support such inmate, but as I >1* understand the law there is no legal tu iiaMllaty attaching to any relative _ miles he evceutes the bond provided in Section 3.33G of the Code of 1912. UIIEAT SHU' LAl'M'lIKI) _ v2* Arizona OirKNmV. With Wine and Water. New Yo h .1 m je 19.?The mv.v battleship Arizona was successfully launched at the Brooklyn navy yard today. The Arizona shares with her sister ship, thePennsylvauia, recently $ launched at New port News, the honor of being the world's largest batleship. j ne Arizona slipped into the water at 1:12 o'clock. She went tot he river with the wine and water of her christening trick- ^ ling in rivulets down her bow from two broken bottles that swung bound togt her by a long red, white and blue cord of silk. Miss Esther Ross ? of I'resscott, Ariz., the sponser, made a fair throw as the big hull quivered and slid slowly forward; the froth of the wine spattered her gown and the clothes of those in her party. (h From the navy yard, black with a holiday throng, from the spans of the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges, from the docks and piers along the Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfronts. I* from scores of craft hugging the far in 3hore of the East river, and from \[ every vantage point of window and sj house top in the vicinity, many tens Wl af thousands saw the newest of Amer lean battleships glide down the ways. rr fo NO WORK FOR COURT. gl st Darlington Reports No Violation of Law. pr Darlington, June 19.?For tiie seer iI< md year in succession the summer af erm of court of general sessions for Sr his county finds no wqrk to do. and sti lodge f. \V. Bowman of Orangeburg th igs been notified tiiat his presence th vil not bo needed on Monday next, mi rills condition speaks volumes for th aw and ordc In this county, vykere he criminal dockets are rarely ever Si leavy. ye ArQJIN EITIIEtt SPLENIMT) AC- f TOK OH INSANE MAN. ropiiTtllo Man Convicted of Criminal Assault Has Not Spoken In S Nearly Two Years v, I y " , T Columbia, June 22.?T. U. Vaughn, e former superintendent of the Odd j j bIIows' home at Greenville, convict- j I In October, 1912, before the Court c< ' common pleas for Greenville coun- , ', of criminal assault on a young e: hite inmate of the orphanage ln'fc ily 15, 1908, either is an adept at igning insanity or he has completely '; st nis mind. j M Accompanying Gov. Manning and h' lbert S. Johnston, secretary of the ci >ard of charities and corrections, ^ st Friday afternoon on an inspeeon of the state prison a reporter of e Columbia Record made close ob- ?' irvation of Vaughn, who is confined rl the hospital at the state peniten- 1* ary. The man at the time was seat- S I on the floor in a stooping position T 5ad bowed and fingers constantly in- si rlacing. Although addressed in the a udest tone of voice, he did not seem fi i notice that he was spoken to; nor ' ould he utter a word or pay any at- b, ntion to any one near him. t< Col. D. J. GrlfTeth, superintendent of >e slate penitentiary, said that a aughn has not spoken in nearly two S are, and he constantly acts as if ei smented. The superintendent him- n jlf thinks Vaughn is insane and 1* lould be in the asylum instead of o ie state penitentiary. Dr. A. 1'. Her- e ng, of Ealtiniore. Md., when in COr, u mbia, the first part of the year In- el jstlgating the state hospital for the sane, made a close Htudy of Vaughn w erring aumnuui uuu Vaughn was ajv id gave as his opinion that the wanl-ti as simulating insanity, although Dr.Is; erring admitted that Vaughan was ftjjtf iperb actor. ~ jti 111 be argued on July 14. B f< L (1ST m One gold cuff button on which is b< graved the initials "It. X. S... Fin- Bi r will ho suitably rewarded by re cl ruing Ul Tin- Chronicle oilice. b Deposit youi T8! | I lie i>ank i Cheravs THfill^r^ 7 ii a ii 11 * ? i MUKbtH ittflK ?.Ll Ulhtr! di d. compoun / in saving'; IX MONTHS FOH FALSE RESIDENCE t: f>orgc L. Lyons Is Convleted In the j Session* Court Enrolment Frnutl j Lyons pleaded guilty to charge of 0; rjury, and was sentenced to -six p onths' imprisonment hy Ufrdge K <mre in the Court of General Ses tl on Saturday. Lyons was phargrd 1th committing perjury in that he gistoivd on the clirolonieiit boo'.s IK r Ward 7, In the City of Charleston vlng his residence No 22 Charlotte ^ reet. and falsely swearing thereto. e 'i'lie olVeuse to whle Lyons pleaded fi dlty was a violation of the Sinklcr n imary election Jaw which was pass ^ by the General Assembly this year. 3 is said to have confessed tout tor being arrested. .Mr. J. Edward nilh, who resides at 22 Charlotte tl reet, said that I .yens did not stay k i'ie. The Cbib rolls were open tor j( o rugfatrat.on of ptisons tor the w tnicipal primary election to be held is fall. ^ U ibserlbe to The Chronicle only .$1 a (' ar. A ' 4 I'll Columbia, Taj*>?Jn>i?ortnnt nuth CaroHigarc Itere decided esterday b y SjOBr.SH pre m e Court, honias H. PttHjk. jM&rn/y general ?ceived a tejpfe as-follows from ames D. MuBVvfaputy tilerk of the anrt: "VauflB^ ? . South Carolina ffirmed wltwlteata; United Statos k relatioe'Bfjjftk Cflpke dismissed >r want of jMMttctionl T. U. Vauglyl& former]^ superlnandentof th orphan ome at* offftlrollei, -Convicted of rimtn&l asfauPjf uopn one of hie ardfl, and ?Aipineed to be banged, ppealed to <H|Mter&1 supreme court n the groud?6(t his sonstltutional Ights had beflnpVrtnsed by a change i the "iffYjjtf of Execution tn this tate made mfr he waB sentenced, he court kapirtwljr overruled the ime point JESjfe- case of Joe Malloy nd Will/'9pSpn$. 'Also appealed ~om (lilii jWJl^ftflV'riiiitliiii of the erdiet beg sends Vaughan Vaugha^jB P**n for many months tate peOMraH&r He has not spoka in a ]j)?Bfl^nnd this fact, lnconectlon ^j^BM^er-^teuliarltle^ of chavlor, ^j*8fcidlcate- a Ukefthood . an tusa^S^Ph, in case such furth r defense-as remain to he aed shalljflBo save him from the Fredrl<g| jg, alke Grant, ane-gro anted ^ M Carolina for murder rown wMKbrought to this State >r trial uBBs tie shall devise other leans of dtHying execution. Attorney OTkieral Peoples has hud efore the sAreme court this year Ix cases and Hi each of them the dcislon has uplAd the contention made y his sentenBr monJy in .. :>? Qheraw 7, S. |c. INKS IN G OUNTY GQMElNELi m ded quarterly s depa: rtment. rilGED TO MAKE MOKE II\Y lovernnicut Hulletla Advises 1'at _ ni?rn or nouiii Washington June 19.?The praeti ability of in jreaslng materially th roduction of hay in the South is ui ed on Soutb( irn farmers in n bulle n issued to- lay by the agricultura opartment. Tho bulletin points out that 1,30"> '10 tons' of ] lay, valued at tflT.OJi HO, are broui jht each year into th leven South* rn States despite th let that "It h praetlenldy f<?r the fni lors of the S mth to produce all th ay that they need on their ow irms." Among the gi 'asses and legumes tliti io depart men t eays make good niai et hays in tl e South are Leapedez i the lower I [ississii>i>l Vnlley, Join >11 grass ove most of the eotto It. Herrauda grass on the rich hoi >m lands ant! the Arllng?on inixtnr orchard grai s, tall oat grass an lsikc,) on tl i heavy uplands. . -cZM , OKLAHOMA "(J II AX D FATHER" v CIA USE UNCONSTITUTIONAL 1 11 Conditions of Period Tthnt Ex. n isted Before Fiftenth Amendo m?yit Cannot b<" Held as Qualifications for Suffrage 11 Washington,, June 21.?In probably one of the most important race de- j clsions In its history, the Supreme 11Court today anulcd as unconstitution- i ! al the Oklahoma constitutional a- , menddment and the Annapolis, Mil., t voters' qualification law restricting the 8ufTrage rights of those who could ( not vote or whose ancestors could not n ' vote prior to the ratification of the f i Fiftenth Amendment to the Federal ? Constitution Chief Justice White, a native of the South, and a former Confederate soul- , tlier announced the court's decision. [ which was unaminous except that i Justice McReynolds took no part in the case. t "It is true," continued the Chief -1 i Justice, "that it contains no express j words of an exclusion from the standijard which it establishes of any person j?n acount of race, color, or previous > i condition of servitude prohibited by ] the Fifteenth Amendwmenj. but the | i j standard itself inherently brings that result in to extence since it is based ^ .purely upon a period of time before the enactment of the Fiftentb ' Amendment and makes that period the controling and dominant test of the right of suffrage. "In other words, we seek in vain 'for any ground which would sustain any other interpretation but that the i provision, recuf ring to the conditions existing before the Fiftenth Amendment vfas adopted and the Conditinuanee of which the Fifteenth Amend meuf prohibited, proposed by. In sub ; 1 stance and effect, lifting these eondi . l lions o.or a period of time after the amendment to make them the bush y -of trnftt-uouforitHl In i district and i>ostlve disregard f? r the Fifteenth Auienduu lit. Ami the sonic result we are of opinion, is demonstrated by considering wwhether it i* . [tossihle to discover any basis of tea son fur tli?? standard thus tixed othei > than the purpose above statu!. Nil Other Fxplaiiation. "We say tills hct-uusc we are un able to discover liow urih'ss the pro. uicnt were considered tlie yelightest resas.ui was afforded for \husing tin clttsslih at Ion upon a pMiod of tiua , prior t< the Kifthteenth Auieluliaeiit ' Certainly it eannot he slid that then was any peculiar necroineny in riu time named width engender attri bates nffecting the tpialilieation to vote which wouhl not exist at another ami different period tildes tlie Fifteenth amend meid was in view. The Chief Justice expressed ids . I statement by a development of tin argument that the restriction imposed by the fifteenth insentient on fin power of the stae over suffrage wneoineblent with the limits of the pow *r itself. Iletilso sot forth the prin eiple that, while in the true sense tin FitTteeiith Amendment >:lves no ( "right" of siiftnu'f. "it was lougnu > | reeognized that in operation its j?r hii.ition niigb. nituMirnhly have Cut e'.leor . tli.it is to say that a? the 'HM? ninml of the amendment was self-exe eating ami readied without legisla - live ad I. h the ci iii<itions of diser'm tnatieii against n.v.h it was ainu d, ( the .esiilt uiiulit aiise that as a eo.wouenee of the s-i'il hi;' down of a lis ~ ?riniinnt ing e'ause s right of sulTrige e would lie ?i..ioyei{ by reason of 'h .. ^cnerk eharaeter -f the prov'sbm will, h would ver nin after the d!?. riiiiination was ? !; u hen out." ' This * as said hy way of answt r ?? fli" argument of attorneys for the - de'dlon nflidals ;l at the PHIteenth ; eau-e there was no .-noli tiling under the Ainerieaii form ?f goveminent as o a "light" to vote 0 I MM Kill ATK r.FFKCT. I*/ holding that < "lalitiona that exe i?t"i| before the I itteeuth Am > 11, i, uieiit wlihli provti les that the ?*s_rht to v.?li shall not he denied or abrMg Ions imiililion of sorvlt ml.*. onul.'l not bo hrmnrlit nvor to tin* present a ilny in lUsreiranl of this solf oxonitinp i. amendment. it is generally (believed n Hint tin* noun wont :i long way townril invalidating niui'li of tin* sotion of h'outhorn Stales. 'O Tin* ininioilinto offoot of tin* eiyirt's l' ilooision was to ii|tlii?M tin* oonvirtion of two Oklahoma olootion olYioinls . .." - ? -M.4- - "W>"? tafcv % vlio negroes the right to vote a a congressional election and to iword three Maryland negroes damiges from election officials in Annapills who refused to register tlieni. Hie court held that these election oflelals could not ignore the potency of lihe Fifteenth Auiendinent in wiping >ui ?>i rtiuiv v onsmmions tno worn will to" ns n qualification for voting, n tho Maryland ease, the court's deIslnn established tho iKilnt that tho hftoeiitli Amendment applies alike to iiunieipnl as well r.s to Fodeial cleclons. I)iscu?slng the Oklahoma oases, Tilof Jnstlee White sahl the suffrage inieiKliiieiit to the State Constitution Irst fixxert a literacy standard, and lien followed It with a pro-vision creiting a stanard based upon the coalition existing in January 1, 1800, irlor to thtadoptinn of the Fifteenth \iiiendnunt, and \llminated those miiing under that stanard from the noPision in the literacy test. Tho court had difficulty, he said. In 'inlin e words to more clearly demontrntw its conviction that this action f tlio state revreatd and perpetuafd the very conditions which the Fif. -litli Amendment was intended to lestoy than the language used In tho I'HM'dinont. UTTERLY ATTACK SPELLING OF FEES AMONG SIRGEONSanfr.u.t Is*o, June ill.-?The sec vt livisi'. i of fi^'s between physicians ml surgeons is "criminal dishonesty" aid )?; . William T?. Haggard, of Nashi!!\ who addressed a meeting here nday of tin* Fellows of the American ' die- of Surg. "1 V.uvolitting" I>r. Tlai.gnrd deelaril, "i.; criminal, because it loads lirst. o unnecessary operations; second, to neomjH'tent work resulting in unnee- r ssary death; and third, to a constant werlr.g of the moral and professional 'inf.drtrtT* in mcdictinv The practice as all through It theh elements of lieft. "When a physician refers a patient 0 a surgeon under an agreement that he sir'geoii later is to dixide with him he ft-- eoliectC'l, tiie crime is not rimnrily one agnin.-t the poekethook >i tin' patient, it is a crime against he health <?r lift of the patient. This tmci'cc i.uans that the physician anc1 .i > oil his patient tot'he highest hid! i In is naturally the most Incomicteiit and ^niscrtipulous surgeon ivaihittle. "Another evil is that the surgeon 'eels under obligation to accept the liagnosis of the physician to operate vhethet or not mi examination he. igrees with the diagnosis of the phy.ichin. If lie d ?s not operate in such a.-vs ho dis. i'o.ids ?i.,. ability of the >l?s> ic'an and loses further husiness \itli liim. Thus is pei*i>et rated the ueanest of crimes an unnecessary airgical operation. "The sovereign remedy for cominisdon giving by surgeons anil bribeaking by physicians is publicity. If ve don't cure the evil by extermination. the public will do it b.V leglsla lion. and the eliuiinntion of the unfit. ( lie physician who diagnosis u ease Is -nite a?: much entitled to eoni|>ensaiioii as is the surgeon, but separate !)ills should he rendered liy the p!iy deian and the surgeon to the patient. !n other words the patient should al\L 'JOJ ihij.ind sj ?ui hhjav .\\ou>j s.Cn.u samp this practice out of theh profesion of medicine is one of the chief 'ashs of the American College of burgeons. MAKE MOVING PICTURES Supreme Court Unanimously Declares Orangeburg. S. <\ June 1*1!.?The Culler Film company of this city hhas begun operations. Cecil It. Culler is at the head of this concern. Already ronsld"i'at ion and -cv? nil ?v\iu.i inti.ni nl scene haw Imhmi taken. The pictures have heon taken so far are ? <mii'*:i 1. Those pictures will ho shown at local theaters first. Tho plan for tho developing ami reproduction of the films wil ho nioilorn. As this is prohnhlv tho lirst undertaking of this kiml in South Carolina, tho industry will ho watched with much interest Siili-iriho To The Chronicle ?