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* - V; If. * ?lt? lamterg ifrralii 1 Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. 0., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1910 One Dollar a Year-' l|? I COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the i County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. * Ehrhardt, May 23.?Everything has gotten quiet around town now. The comet has practically gone for this time. Pehaps the railroad ques?.{ii AnmA front strain UU11 Will k.ULUV IV wv 11 vuv no-'"' Our farmers are blue over the situ< ation. Poor cotton stands; oats are short, and what little they have are hard to cut on account of their height. Corn crops are in fair shape, and looks well, notwithstanding the dry weather we have been having. \ Fish fries are fashionable now. One or two a week is the order now, and orders are very well attended to. Our ball team has been very successful this season. Have played \ five games and won all of them. Misses Ruth and (Jioe Groseciose came home from Mt. Pleasant, N. C., where they have been attending school. Others will soon come and liven up our homes with their presence. Had a light rain last night. More t. expected from the indications this morning. Ice is in good demand these warm days. Rev. D. B. Groseclose held services at Mrs. G. L. Bishop's Sunday afternoon. On account of her feelings and disease she could not go to church, so the services were held at her home so she could be present and enjoy the services. Our school will soon come to a close. Our teachers are going to exhibit some of their work by giving us a joyful evening at its close. They have all done good work and we feel proud of them. $ The Farmers' Mercantile Co. have commenced to build a ware room to ?<Y-r -T* tfrAAoriflo on/1 farminf im pui UCO > l giwwuva uuu plements in. Our town is surely on a boom. JEE. ????? Colston Doings. Colston, May 23.?Mr. Editor, will ? you allow me enough space in your paper to give you a few dots from COlston? We are having hot and dry weather in this part of the county. \ Mrs. Isham Goodwin and son, Mr. i George Kinard, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bishop last Tuesday. ___ :\*V Mrs. Ogretta Beard and daughter, Miss Irene, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Chisolm last Sunday. f Miss Alma Fender spent last week with her sister, Mrs. L. R. Clayton. r Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Kearse visited Mrs. Esther Sease last Sunday. Misses Annie Bishop and Leila Padgett spent last Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Bishop and family. : Everybody is busy now chopping cotton and gathering their oats, v _______ Miss Minnie Fender is still visiting friends and relatives in the Ehrhardt section. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Beard and family were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Bishop last Sunday. I' We are glad to know that Mrs. J. C. Bishop is able to he up again. Little Cuddie Padgett spent last Saturday night with little Blanch Avant. We are expecting to have Mr. John G. Clayton and sister, Miss Nellie, with us in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Fender and daughter, Addenna, visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bishop and family last Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Beard and daughter, Miss Theima, visited friends and relatives at Lodge last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Purdy Aver, from Olar, visited friends here last Saturday and Sunday. BLUE J. ? LETTER FROM "OLD TIMER." j The Comet, the Weather, the Children, and the Crops. ? "Wanderer's Rest, May 23.?Earth has passed safely through the tail of ? Halley's comet with no mishaps save a certain old man ate too much dinner on that day and felt drowsy the whole afternoon, but felt disappointed as clouds obscured the sky and j he never could see the tail so did not hold it, Uncle Bill, an old col- , ored man, a few weeks ago brought some beautiful roses made up in an old time bouquet, the back of which was made of the much de- ? spised fennel weed. With the most s beautiful effect, he lifted his hat only 1 as an old time negro can, saying: * "See here, Cap, I bring you some * flowers; dey grow'd in me own ya'd. I ben fer fetch im to de young mis- t sus ente," so the rosee were c taken with thanks and handed to de t young missus and asked the old man ( what was wanted. Then was stated ( a tale of woe hard to realize. "Say, Cap'n, I scared mos to det, de comic ben fo commin soon so?an dey tel T me dat he ben fer hit de eart' wid he ( tail an broke em all to pieces ente, ( an I tell Lula (his wife) dat I been ' for kill dat hog in de pen an we eat ? um up befo de time cum and all de chicken what ben run in de ya'd and all de tings in de garden, fur me can't lebe all dem good tings to wase 1 an spile, when jegment day dun cum i an I ben fur gone. What you tink i ebout em, Cap'n? I sho scared ente." < Then was tried all the reasoning i known to alleviate the old man's feel- i ings and partially succeeded, for he 1 left the fat hog and garden but he ( ate the last rooster on Tuesday night t before, saying he "sabe dat much 1 ene how, ente." Now he says: "Dem p.hinken he ben fer eat up ebery ting in me ya'd so I kill em, ente." Now the great event is gone and the scare is over with the timid for ( the time, and an old man invites you t to take a stroll with him. Now sit i on the end of that board under a shady old red gum tree and look, for on this May-day the sunbeams are dancing, they strike the earth with 1 their genial warmth then rebound c and millions of them are laughing * and dancing over the fields as they 1 see their touch oi\ the little plants unfolding and look like a long 1 drawn out band of green ribbon. Then the birds. See the little blue < birds as they spy some worm, how ^ quickly they dart and pick it up; yes, * here comes a red head sapsuck. 'Watch the cross little bee martin fly at him as he comes too near his 1 nest, but the sapsuck sits quietly on ^ the side of a tree and the caw of a 1 crow near by warns mistress bee martin of danger, and then a flutter of wines, a hurried flight, with sir * crow's hasty retreat soon leaves all Ic calm and serene and brings to mem- 1 ory Mark Twain's adage: "To be good is to be alone," and an old man concludes that to be alone with < the sunbeam, fields, birds and flow- i ers is good. Then the children, bless them, how much charm they give to an old man t who sits and watches them play. How he enjoys seeing them tear up creation they call it, and they run to f him all begrimed with dust, the pers- ^ piration running down their little * faces and hear them exclaim: "Ain't t it fine!" Then go to the pumps and get a trough of cool water and bathe their faces and then wash the dirt 1 from their feet and legs; then lunch; 1 after that more play, more dirt and dust, then another wash for dinner. Yes, happy childhood, how dull ? life would be were it not for them. Come again, little boys and girls. You always have a welcome and a c warm spot in an old man's heart and 1 now that the black-berries are here, J won't it be fine?blackberries, milk ? and sugar, with the red-bugs thrown ? in for good measure, a few briar * scratches, and a thorn or two. We will all enjoy tearing up creation. Now a word for the crops. They 3 are late but green, and fine stands 1 in most fields, all free from grass and weeds with the prospect for a . big crop next fall, for as an old man j ruminates in the past memory brings . to light that all early Easters bring c a cold and late spring. Well does he c remember the first year he ever j plowed a crop. The first of June his i father came to where he and old i Uncle Tom were plowing, his fingers t tingling with cold, coat on and but- t toned up in front and the cotton ? about an inch high; that his father z said: "Tom, this field of forty acres z can't make a bale of cotton," but it f did and that fall 26 bales were gath- z ered off that field with no phosphate, z the largest crop ever gathered from 1 it, but the cold weather is nearly s gone for this spring. Two more cold N THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Jtate News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Editor Felder, of the Dorchester Sagle, has installed a linotype marine. He spent several weeks in *ew York at the factory, learning to >perate it. Bishop E. R. Hendrix has been assigned to preside over the next sesiion of the annual conference of the dethodist' Episcopal church, South, n South Carolina, which convenes in Charleston, December 7th. Barnwell is to organize a company ,o erect a cotton warehouse. The capital stock is to be $10,000, and he building is to be located at the crossing of the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line railroads in that town. Gallagher & Burton, a Pennsylvania 1 whiskey firm which formerly lid a large business with the State lispensary, has decided to turn over 511,000 to the dispensary commission as restitution money. This ac;ion was agreed on at a conference leld last week. Col. Henry T. Thompson, of Coumbia, has announced that he wlil lot enter the race for adjutant and nspector general this year. This decision was reached by him for busiip? rPAsnns. "Manv DeoDle over the State will regret that they will not lave the pleasure of voting for him, Dol. Thompson is one of the best miliary men in the State, and would lave made an ideal officer. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, May 23.?The good folks >f Bethlehem Baptist church gave heir pastor's family another poundng on Thursday afternoon. Wednesday evening Miss Etta, the ddest daughter of Mr. "Trump" iarter, was married to a Mr. White, )f Charleston, by Rev. J. D. Timnons. They took the evening train 'or the "city by the sea." Mr. O. E. Maner, who spent several days here with Mr. George Sanlers, left Saturday for Birmingham, Ua., where he will see his family for i short while. Mrs. Martin Lightsey, one of our ate brides, has gone to Johnston to dsit the family of Rev. P. E. Mun oe and other friends . Haviner heard of the sudden death >f her brothers, Miss Allbright, one >f our teachers, has returned to heT lome for a short visit. Mrs. Julia Harter spent several lays with home folks near Jenny's ecently. Mrs. Sallie Jenkins spent some :ime in Barnwell this week. Miss Margaret Youmans is home rrom Converse College for a short vacation before the exercises of comnencement are on hand. She is in he graduating class. Mrs. Percy O'gomen and Miss Sallie 3unch, of Augusta, are guests of drs. Rentz at the hotel. A son of Mr. "Trump" Harter is ibout to die from effects of measles This is commencement week here >f our high school. Misses Alma inight and Hattie George are the graduates. Mr. Russell Loadholt, on iccount of measles, will not graduite this term. He is one of our >rightest and best boys. Mrs. Lily Myrick and Miss Etta 3erry attended the match game of jase ball at Brunson. Miss Wroten, of Denmark, is visitng her cousin, Miss Goolsby, at the Barber House. lays the last of the month and it is >ver, and two black and tan hound mppies will be glad of it, especially f ice is near. Last week one evenng a block of ice was deposited on he back piazza carefully packed, hen a thick lap robe placed on top. ?aid puppies left their box and bed tnd took this, soon such shivering md whining and running over the loor, then on that lap robed ice tgain. This they kept up all night, md next morning could be seen two lalf frozen dogs looking at that box seeming to say, comfortable but cold. OLD TIMER. ACCUSED OF STEALING WATCH, gj O. P. Sasser, of Branchville, Arrested Cli by Express Company Detective. Branchville, May 19.?Yesterday morning O. P. Sasser was arrested jSf and taken in charge by a detective for the Southern Express company and carried to St. George, where he was arraigned in the court of Magistrate Moorer, on the charge of steal- Ba: ing a gold watch from the Southern the Express company on or about Decern- mo ber 23, 1909. It is reported that pre n -.1? ? A 1 /s A in fViA casser, uix uemg anaigucu m tu magistrate's court, entered a plea of mo guilty and that the magistrate im- ott mediately fixed bail in the sum of dit $1,000. Sasser could not give the ' bond and was committed to the coun- prs ty jail, there to await trial at the next the session of the criminal court for wh Dorchester county. Mil Sasser held the position as lineman soi ( for the Western Union Telegraph I : company and has been boarding at spc one place here for the past three exi years. ?wo It is reported that the theft was ati committed while Sasser was riding hig on the car of the express company as by the train was going to Charleston on enl the 23rd of last December and while ins the train was running through the aw county of Dorchester. The package hig was missed on arrival of the express cei train in Charleston and suspicion at stu 1 once pointed to Sasser, who was con- an stantly watched from that time to the coi evening of the I7tn, wnen tne aetec- an; tive for the express company came ? here and had a talk with Sasser in Mi ; his room at the hotel and afterwards wa , took him to an officer here. It is re- ler ported that Sasser made a statement Rii . under oath that he stole the watch Mg and that his reason for so doing was cla that he was in a state of intoxication. rei Sasser is from a good family of tei ; people, who live in North Carolina, trc ! It is reported that Sasser was seen de! ' by one of his friends here, who went to to the county jail to see him and who fie: said that he seemed quite indifferent he ! and did not seem to realize the serious condition in which he was in. de ? Le Colston News. de] 1 to Colston, May 23.?We are having so some very nice weather these days, so: and the farmers are making good use of it. pil Mr. John G. Clayton and sister, roi Miss Nelle Clayton, who have been at- an tending the S. C. C. I. at Edgefield, be< will return home to-day (Monday) da 1 for the summer's vacation. he: Mi Mr. and Mrs. John McCormic and pu daughter, Miss Lessie, visited at the ^hi home of Mr. A. L. McMillan Sun1 day. Mr all Mrs. Ogretta Beard and daughter, da; Miss Irene, were the guests of Mr. tri and Mrs. S. P. Chisolm Sunday. m go] Master Marion McMillan has gone enj to Savannah on a visit to friends wa 1 and relatives. < ? die Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hiers and an< ( children visited their sister, Mrs. S. 0f W. Clayton, Saturday and Sunday. cr an> Messrs. Lee Morris, Purdy and Troy Ayer, of Olar, visited friends on Prtlctrm Riindav. ha Kearse and Colston crossed bats ^o Saturday. There were 20 to 23 scores wh in favor of Kearse. L. C. th< bai Eighteen Passengers Injured. j0] the Washington, May 23.?Eighteen his passengers were slightly injured in 3j0 the wreck late to-day of a special 15 train running as the second section of No. 10 on the Southern railroad hai near Cedar Run bridge between Catletts and Calverton, Va. The engine 0f and four passenger coaches were de- jir railed 200 yards from the bridge, the th? cause of the accident being a mys- ma tery. All the passengers were seri- as ously shaken up and some were badly cut and bruised. sti: Among the injured were: Hardy c0 M. Edwards, Buffalo; H. G. Ashley, (ja. Mobile; Mrs. A. L. Shullo, Honesdale, we Pa.; Herbert A. Whiting, Boston; James Clark, New York city; Charles F. Smith, Buffalo; Mrs. S. C. Faran- ' dis, Seattle; J. P. Dimmick, Mont- Ha gomery, Ala.; Mrs. G. E. Melius, hoi RridereDort. Conn.; S. F. Miller, Balti- ing more; Mrs. Wm. F. McAvoy, Balti- gas more; R. C. Hill, Buffalo; Mrs. I. S. stil VanLoan, New York city; A. M. Dum- yai lo, Baltimore. be Physicians from Calverton, War- tar renton and other nearby towns gave spi aid to injured and all wore brought bat to Washington on a special train ar- Tw riving here to-night. | exi FADED SCHOOL CLOSING ASS DAY EXERCISES HELD LAST FRIDAY MORNING. ?ays Read by the Graduates?Address by Hon. S. G. Mayfield. Diplomas Presented. rhe class day exercises of the mberg graded school took place in ! large auditorium last Friday rning at 10.30 o'clock, and >mptly on time there had assembla large crowd of the fathers and thers of the pupils as well as ier friends of the school, the auorium being well filled. The exercises were opened with lyer by Rev. O. J. Frier, pastor of > Bamberg Baptist church, after ich the salutatory was read by 3S Nettie Sandifer. Then came a lg by a chorus. Superintendent E. Paul Allen also >ke a few words of welcome and fiained that the diplomas which uld be presented to the gradung class were given by the State fh school board and were signed the governor, State superintendt of education, and the high school ipector. These diplomas were arded to the graduates of such ?h schools as made a certain perltage of units in the course of idy mapped out for high schools, d it is gratifying to note in this inection that Bamberg stood fifth Long the high schools of the State. The class history was read by ss Dot Adams, the class prophecy s assigned to Miss Llewellyn Zeig , the class poem by Miss Pearle ce, and the class will by Mr. trion Cooner, the lone boy in the ss. Then an instrumental solo was " * "*?'? t j n-n, A * laerea Dy Miss beouara r kjikl, a.L which Superintendent Allen induced Hon. S. G. Mayfield, who livered a strong, sensible address the graduating class. Mr. MayId's remarks were most timely, and was warmly applauded. An instrumental duet was renred by Misses Annie Lou Byrd and onard Folk, and then Superintenut Allen delivered the diplomas the graduating class. In doing he gave the members of the class me good advice. Prizes were then presented to pus in Mrs. Murdaugh's room. Each ar Mrs. Murdaugh gives a medal the best average in scholarship, d for three years this medal has an won by Miss Edith Rice, a ughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Rice, r record being from 95 to 97. Mrs. lrdaugh also gives a prize for nctuality and attendance, and for *ee years this prize has been won Miss Nell Black, a daughter of . and Mrs. Thos. Black. During this time she has not missed a y or been late a single morning, ily a remarkable record. The (dal presented Miss Rice was of Id and a beautiful design, suitably graved, and the prize to Miss Black s a lovely gold locket. The exercises closed with the vale:tory by Miss Julien Easterling, d a farewell chorus. The papers the graduating class were very editable and showed much thought d care in their preparation. No Early Adjournment. Washington, May 22.-r-Shivers ve been chasing themselves up and wn the spinal columns of members, io must face serious contests in iir States or districts if they come ck to the next Congress, ever since tin Dwight, the Republican wnip 01 i House of Representatives, issued i prediction that the present sesn would not adjourn before July Even the most pessimistic members i thought there would be little Bculty in getting away by the end June, but a week has passed since . Dwight made his forecast, and in it time little progress has been .de. That the prediction was made a bluff for the purpose of impell; both branches of Congress to ber themselves vas believed by the ngressional leaders, but there is nger now that the session will run 11 into July. Child Burns in Gasoline. Tampa, Fla., May 19.?Manuel ckney, a 5-year-old-boy met a rrible death here to-day while play; in his father's yard. A tank of soline exploded, and while it was II burning was thrown into the d by a fireman who happened to passing at the time. The burning ik struck the child, the gasoline eading over him, burning him so lly that he died two hours later, o houses burned as a result of the )losion. i . .. .. MAKES REQUISITION. Tennessee Governor Asks for Sumen. c der of South Carolinian. \ Columbia, May 23.?Governor An- M sel has now under consideration the .I ; matter of whether or not he should % honor a requisition requested by Governor Patterson, of Tennessee. HvoreliaHnwin? thp mprp niieS+ion. V ~ O as to the merits of the case, there is great interest to the public at large, not only in this State, but throughout the country, in the fact that last fall Governor Patterson, who has since come into such notoriety by his pardon of Col. Cooper, refused to honor %? a requisition sent from this State for C. J. Hebert, wanted in connection with the Seminole scandal. Governor Ansel has not yet decided gr|| whether he will honor the requisi- ' tion, but he gave a lengthy hearing1. 'i.'Sj to both sides to-day in his office, ' -i where appeared attorneys from Ten- g nessee and South Carolina, in the in- P| terest of the two parties to the cause. The case centres around A. Shep Pearlstine, of Branchville, who charged with embezzlement by PaJmer Brothers, of Charleston, Tenn.(Y;)||? There are eleven counts in the in- *: dictment, involving nearly $20,000 altogether. Mr. Pearlstine is perfectly willing to be tried in Sout!|Carolina, but is resisting the requiai- :^gg|| tion by which he would be carried Tennessee and placed on trial in a strange State. It appears also that the question i? rm largely one of law, and that the,'J|gv|| merits of the case itself have bat little bearing in the way of pabUc*;'|||j|3 interest. But for the fact that the '*J?9 question of extradition came up, and ' I the fact that the matter is with tbo\fc|g|S State of Tennessee, the story itself/;/?^ might not have been given to the, public/ Under the circumstances however, it could not be withheld,? even though the charge against Mr. Pearlstine has not been proved. One of the points in the argument "That the deponent, being in tha^^gB city of Augusta, State of Georgis//?|| drew a draft on Palmer Brofeap^j^^f Charleston, Tenn., for the sum $60, and that the said draft was padi. J%?; and is in the possession of Palm^|^ijB| Brothers, as deponent believes, aaift^ygjj that the said charge of embezzlement of $60 is made as of the 16th of /% November, and that deponent re-:? ceived of said Palmer Brothers a let~_fjp || ler uettriiig uuuic ixu?cuiuci xo, j.?v postmarked Charleston, Tenn., as ?f-*J|j|S said date, and received a note at Den- sM mark, November 20; said letter exhibit heretofore set forth as hibit 'N.' That as to this account V$|| deponent also submits affidavit ot C. Rice, who knows that depone^. i was in the town of Denmark on thereabouts at the time mentioned in this count of indictment." This has/H^yl reference to the second count of indictment. There are other coants^>^BB involving amounts from $50 to $500. Mr. Pearlstine's attorney submitted affidavits from well-known Denmark people to the effect that the drafts were deposited by Mr. PeartSrtine in the Bank of Denmark. There *&? were a number of affidavits submitted7 in the case and Governor Ansel heard them read this afternoon. m1 kafAM flAPa rw?w IXICX'C (typcaicu uciuiv v. v. .-w. Ansel this afternoon Attorneys S. M G. Mayfield, of Bamberg, and Townsend, of Columbia, for Pearlstine, and Attorney G. . Chamble, of Chattanooga, for the Palmer Company. Mr. Pearlstine does not think that 1 he would get a fair trial in Tenner->;fM2 see and his attorneys contested t extradition on this and other points ; of law. The contrast between Governor-':f. Anse's respectful hearing of both sides of the case and Governor Patr^-^^S terson's refusal last fall to honor tha -,r i|33 extradition for Hebert is marked. It is interesting now to see the future developments of this case. Young White Man Convicted. Anderson, May 23.?Will Martin, rjjli of Williamston, a young white man AfJ ? - ? AAnnA/tfinn rro a rfefifaJS (JI yiULLliUClit IdUlllJ! UUUUCV11UU) nwJIT| found guilty of assault and battery jg-fM of a high and aggravated nature tonight. He was arraigned this morn-'. ing on the charge of attempted crimi- jf|j2 nal assault on a 19-year-old white ^ girl. Attorneys for Martin will argue a motion for a new trial before Judge Watts to-morrow morning. Solicitor Bonham is yet undecdied. tils as to whether Calhoun Harris, former secretary of the Orr cotton mills, / will be arraigned on the three dictments of forgery remaining on. ' ^ the docket. Harris was acquitted on svdm three counts of forgery and one of breach of trust on Friday. ' -Jl