Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SSS6?-:; <T?.4cr.^aBBWssos^^n?;-.^?^ -> ssMr-re**v - -?.- - - - . <. - ?- ... - ... _ ?_. _ ' '*' '* ?' "**' ' '-" ^ " '-~~1r''f?'%%' ' . f- " ' . ' . . ' " ' '* - '. ' "i: ' ( She lamherg ijeralh 1 == j Established 1891 ' BAMBERG, S.. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 20,1911. One Dollar a Year __ I COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the v-v County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, S. C., April 17.?Rev. B. A. McDowell preached the first sermon in the new Baptist church at Ehrhardt. The church is not com pieted yet, out is near enougn aone to accommodate them nicely. The paint brush will soon be used on the building; this will help its looks. The small congregation should feel v proud of their success in getting their work on as well as they have. Mr. Laurie Copeland and Miss Deborah Zeigler, both of Bamberg county, were happily married at the Lutheran parsonage by the Rev. D. B. ?roseciose Sunday morning. Mr. John and Miss Maggie Ramsey, of Williams, spent Saturday and Sunday with their brother, James B. Ramsey, agent at this place. To-day one week ago Ehrhardt ball team crossed bats with the Bamberg Fitting School team. Was an enjoyable game, as the players were gentlemanly and played ball, not so much "chewing the rag" when announced C out or a poor play. The game scored ?.' 10 to 2 in favor of the home team. Our pitcher fanned out 15 men while I I the school pitcher iannea oniy six. The Bamberg school boys were plucky and jovial, nice fellows. On next Saturday night, April 22nd, the Le Dell Far Concert Co. will hold forth in the Copeland hall. It is said of them that you will get your money's worth if you attend. L In joy the occasion; only 50 cents admission fee. The Ehrhardt Sunday-school Mission Workers of Ehrhardt Lutheran church gave a public exhibition on Sunday night for the benefit of their cause. This mission band consists (of the little tots of the school, older ones assisting. Recitations and songs appropriate for the occasion were rendered by these little ones in their pure and simple way that made one ??w*l ornn/1 And thpre is no doubt but f that the little ones touched some of the audience in a way that eloquent oratory would not. They made every * one feel goqd that was in the church listening to their sweet voices. A Ieollection was taken up for them, but can't say what the amount was, but looked like the congregation re. ' sponded to their request bountifully. The farmers have smiles on their faces this morning. Rain has held up and the sun is shining; only thing | against their plants is the cool weather. What's the Ehrhardt-Denmark &. Railroad doing? Must be gone to ffer Sleep. JEE. I (Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, April 15.?Misses Lanham and Zeigler, our teachers, took advantage of Easter holiday to spend the time witn nome roiKs at jj& - Edgefield and Orangeburg. Miss Willie and Ruth Timmons -are visiting relatives in Augusta. Miss Lila Barber is at home from & Columbia Female college. Mrs. Juila Harter is attending the Sunday-school convention at Walterboro. Miss Alice Stokes, who has spent several months here with relatives, has gone to Charleston on a visit, but will visit us again before returning to her home in New York. Rev. Bothwell Graham preached a fine sermon here Friday night Our teachers are quite busy getting ready for commencement, which takes place last of May. Miss Beatrice Wilson, whose home was with the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wilson, took an afternoon ride i: . Sunday afternoon witn Mr. rnos. (Pender?concluded to be married? so they drove to the minister's home In Appleton where the ceremony was performed uniting them for life. Mrs. Wyman Terry is visiting friends here. Misses Chivie and Carrie O'Neal, accomplished daughters of our popI ular postmaster, are home again, afffc; ter spending several months teachiS ing. 8 Miss Margaret Youmans is now teaching in our school, as Miss Drummond went to Arizona for her health. Mrs. Sam Rouse has returned from v a visit to her old home in Leesburg, P Va' Mrs. Juila Sanders is moving into fher beautiful new couage. The bungalow of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Talley is being rapidly built, and will be a very pretty structure. O'Riley is still in town. J O'Riley is still in town. r - I FELDER AWAITINXG REPLY. Asks That Pointed Questions be Answered. T. B. Felder, when asked last Monday by The State if he had any further statement to make with reference to the dispensary situation, replied that he had addressed a letter to Attorney General Lyon and Chairman Stackhouse of the dispensary commission, explaining his position Attorney General Lyon was out of the city on business and a copy of the letter could not be secured. Jas. stacKnouse, or aiuiuqs, lub cuuttnman of the commission, in conversation with a representative of The State over the telephone, said that he had received a letter from Mr. Felder. "The letter is a very lengthy* affair," said Mr. Stackhouse. He said that Mr. Felder gave his views on various phases of the dispensary situation and that Mr. Felder said he would be glad to appear before the commission and tell what he knew of all transactions. "He promised," said Chairman Stackhouse, to give information as to the work he had done." Felder's Letter. The letter written by T. B. Felder in which he asked some pointed questions was in answer to the following: "Reported you offered Towill immunity from prosecution for $5,000. Please wire reply." He replied as follows: "Statement that I offered Towill or anybody else immunity from prosecution for $5,000 or any other amount, a base and unmitigated lie." T. B. Felder later wrote the letter in which he asked several questions and first stated that "to confirm this answer and to say that the next report, I take it, will be to the effect that Towill declined my offer 'on advice of counsel,' this advice coming from the general counsel of the plunderbund, Cole L. Blease.' " Felder's Promise. When T. B. Felder wrote hie first letter concerning the governor of South Carolina he said that if the governor did not sign the investigating act that he would write a book about him and tell some interesting things about the present chief executive as private citizen, State senator and governor. Gov. Blease vetoed the^act. The time set for the exposure is next Thursday. Gov. Blease is out of the city. * PREACHING VS. PRACTICING. Governor Blease Bought Furniture in Charlotte, N. C. V The controversy precipitated by Gov. Blease over the contract given by the building committee of Winthrop collegev for the plans for the new industrial arts and science building to the Charlotte firm has been brought to a close. The building committee, in a letter to the governor, states that the contract has been I anH fn hp hrnVptl i-Uuuu auu uw w w v* v*? Gov. Blease takes the position that he is against sending South Carolina money outside of the State and denounces the practice. The letter of the building committee explains its reasons awarding the contract to the Charlotte firm and a letter by the governor, explaining his position, were given out Friday. The board of trustees will not be called to meet by the governor. Gov. Blease placed himself against giving the contract to a Charlotte firm for the plans. The legislature authorized him to expend as much as $800 for new furniture for his office. He spent this money with a Charlotte firm, on the recommendation of the sergeant at arms of the senate and house, the new furniture in the room of the general assembly being purchased from a Charlotte firm. ?? Fire Sweeps Whole Block. Jacksonville, Fla., April 18.?A fire which originated from an unknown cause in the fuel room of the Doscher-Gardner Lumber company ATTTArvf A TTT V? A1 A 0/l11QT*O Lit?11? lU"Ul5Ut| a Tf iiv/iu 04uui v in the western part of the city, destroying the stocks of the first named concern, the Jacksonville Lumber company and a line of freight cars on the Coast Line siding, making a total loss of half a million dollars. The gusts of wind, which carried somewhat of fury of a gale, threatened to send the fire across the streets of the square to frame structures. The fire department handled the communicating points of the fire in an able manner, and the western part of the city escaped another conflagration. O'Riley is still in town. O'Riley is still in town. i . . "%U /.* . 'V. . IN HE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Qnick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. According to report from the census bureau, the population of Branchville Is 1,471, Springfield 438? and Rowesville 508. The South Carolina Medical Association held its annual meeting in Charleston this week, and decided to meet in Columbia next year. Mr. A. H. Marchant has been elected secretary of the Orangeburg chamber of commerce, he succeeding Mr. J. P. Matheny, who resigned. ^ Dr. Manning Simons, a prominent physician and surgeon, died at his home in Charleston Tuesday night after a short illness. He was 65 years old. Another weak hank has gone by the board. The Bank of Lamar, in Darlington county, has closed its doors and will liquidate. It is stated that depositors will be paid in full. A commission has been issued by the Secretary of State to a company at Dillon with a capital stock of $25,000 which proposes to manufacture and sell aeroplanes and deal in aeroplane supplies. Dr. E. C. James, who will retire as president of Greenville Female College at the end of the present session, has announce^ that he will accept the presidency of the Baptist State College of Georgia, better known as "Bessie Tift" College, located at Forsyth. Two negroes and a white man have been arrested in Aiken county -3 A V* /I inrvo oo/1 moot CLiaigf U Willi OClliug uujcaa&u uicuk> The case has been set for trial next week. It is claimed that a cow belonging to the white man died and he had the negroes sell the meat of the animal. It is claimed that several people were made ill from eating the meat. Barnwell Baptist Association. Union meeting will he held at Barnwell, Georges Creek, and Friendship churches, Saturday and Sunday, April 29 and 30. PROGRAMME. Saturday, 11 a. m.?Introductory sermon. Organization. Verbal reports from delegates. 1. Discussion?"The obligation of the church to the Sunday-school." (a.) In providing suitable accommodation and equipment. ' (b.) In attendance. (c.) In supervision. 2. Discussion?"Obligation of the school to the church." (a.) Reporting through the church. (b.) A helping hand in church benevolence. Sunday, 11 a. m.?Missionary sermon. BARNWELL. Saturday, 11 a. m.?introductory sermon?W. M. Jones, D. D. 1.?Led by Green Mathis, B. T. Rice, G. E. Birt. a.?R. M. Mixon. b.?Prof. G. W. Coggins. c.?H. J. Crouch. 2.?Led by A. P. Manville, C. M. Edenfield. * a.?W. H. Kennedy. b.?J. K. Goode. Sunday, 11 a. m.?Missionary Sermon?B. F. Allen. FRIENDSHIP. Saturday, 11 a. m.?Introductory Sermon?J. D. Peacock. 1.?Led by J. A. Jenkins, W. C. Baxley. a.?Geo. H. Hopkins. b.?J. O. Sanders. c.?W. T. Still. 5 ?t hv W. G. Britv.on. a.?Barney Baxley. b.?I. H. Hutto. . Sunday, 11 a. m.?Missionary Sermon?Geo. H. Hopkins. GEORGES CRREEK. Introductory Sermon?F. M. Hauser. 1.?Led by Dr. J. R. McCormack, A. E. McDowell. a.?D. P. Smith. b.?Capt. D. H. Rice. c.?D. O. Hunter. 2.?Led by Paul Bolen. a.?M. J. Free. b.?F. M. Hauser. Sunday, 11a. m.?Missionary Sermon?A. E. McDowell. It is hoped that all the churches will be represented by full number of delegates and that dinner will be served on the grounds Saturday. O. J. FRIER, B. F. ALLEN, W. G. BRITTON, Committee. y >' .. . Ov GRAFT IX PERSIA. Officials Pay for the Privilege of Fleecing the Public. It would be difficult for a Persian who has not traveled to understand American excitement over what the newspapers here call "graft." My motherland, Persia, is not yet quite awake to the possibility of a man's serving the public for a certain fixed salary and taking nothing more. In Persia they, take it for granted that every officeholder will "gouge" people whenever he gets a chance. I There are no lawyers in Persia, so there are no jokes about lawyer's appetite for gold and silver. If you have ever had a costly lawsuit on your hands you may think that makes matters simpler, but getting into trouble means being squeezed for money, wrung for money, as if you were a piece of wet cloth in a washerwoman's strong grip. This is how it is managed: First, you see, the governor of a city or of a province never has a definite salary from the State?not at all. On the contrary, he pays the State treasury several thousand dollars more or less for the privilege of being governor of making what he can out of the enterprise. He is not an elected officer; he is more like a "concessionaire" at one of your big expositions, who offers a large sum for a chance to run a restaurant or to provide ice cream soda or candy. The governor (or mayor) of a large Persian town may have perhaps 100 to 150 employees under him. Of these only a few house servants (cook, coachman and the like) have fixed wages. The income of the others depend upon the t amount of money which they can help turn into the great man's hands in the form of fines and taxes. You can guess whether the neighbors are fond of them! Suppose now you live in Persia. You have leased a piece of ground or you have sold some goods and the other man does not pay. You dun mm. men you tnreaten mm. Then you go to the governor and make a complaint. An officer arrests your debtor and takes him before the governor's secretary for examination. Possibly he can convince that important personage that ft is not a just debt If he canot do that he would better put all his wits to work to coDvince the secretary that poverty makes it quite impossible to pay up. This is where many of the 150 un| der employees get their chance. A 1 ? C A/....nn(lA. tn ictige jjctr L ui wen uuuuyanuu ID hunting up facts about everybody's property, everybody's business, everybody's income. They know an amazing number of things which your debtor supposed were safely secret. They produce information whenever information is wanted. Your man's pretense that business is bad and that he is all but bankrupt is brushed asidei and he is made to produce an amount of money considerably larger than the original debt. "Made" to produce it? Yes. There are shocking things that can be done to him if he hesitates too long, and he knows it. So, like a child aware that there is an ugly stick waiting in the corner, he usually does not hesitate too long. He saves his skin and hands over the money. You get maybe 80 to 90 per cent, to satisfy your claim?that is, the officer of justice practically collects from you something for his own services. The rest goes to the governor and such of his employees as may be considered in the case. Perhaps you have a shop in the town bazaar or market place and some poor good-for-nothing steals a r?hicken that was hanaine on the wall. If a woman was the thief she is most likely fined?possibly whipped if she has no money to pay a fine. If the culprit is a man they punch a hole through the cartilage of the lower end of his nose, put a cord through the hole and lead him in this painful disgrace all around the bazaar. The officer collects as he goes along a few cents from this shopkeeper and a few cents from that one as an acknowledgment of the officer's public service in publicly exposing a thief. Naturally it often happens that some outrageous robbery occurs or somebody is brutally murdered, and the guilty one is unknown. Then the governor's detective agents set to work. Anybody may be arrested on suspicion and examined either as the probable offender or as a witness. If the suspect has plenty of money he can always prove his innocence or his ignorance by paying cash to the examining officers, though, since there is no regulated tariff in such matters, the proceeding may he quite : - V : V RISK LIVES FOR NEGRO TWO WHITE MEN IX CHARLESTON SHOW HEROISM. H. G. Brown and R. D. Blakely Jump Into Sewer in Vain Effort to Save Colored Lad. Charleston, April 18.?Overcome by gas upon entering a sewarge manhole to-day, Joseph Freer, a negro lad was killed, and H. G. Brown and D. R. Blakely, of Greenville, white men, who went to his assistance, were also overcome. Mr. Brown was so seriously affected that he will die, but Mr. Blakely is recovering, and K? Vitmnall in a /iov ftr fwfl ThP TT 111 UC UlUiOCll 1U Ob UUJ wt > ii w. ? negro was sent into the manhole to clean it out. In some way the gases had collected, and before he could give a signal of distress, he collapsed and was drowned in the cell. Just as he $ell over, Mr. Brown jumped into the place to his relief. He was one of the section hands in charge of the work. Hardly had he entered the place before the alarm was given that he, too had collapsed. Mr. Blakely, a junior at the medical college, undismayed by the experience of the two men, also jumped into the place, carrying a rope with him. He quickly made it fast to himself, Brown and Freer, and immediately willing hands raised the three to the surface. Freer was already dead, and Brown nearly so, with Blakely himself in bad shape for a time. The two men who had been overcome were taken to the Roper hospital for treatment. The doctors announced almost at once that Brown could not recover. It was a SDlendid show of heroism in both Brown and Blakely going to the assistance of the negro, and Blakely was given much of an ovation as he was brought to the top and found to be still alive. GREGORY IS RELEASED. Man Befriended by Governor Pays His Creditors. Greenville, April 17.?In the small packet of mail for the unfortunate souls in the county jail came a letter this afternon containing New York exchange for $100 for a white man of refined appearance, L. W. Gregory, who was incarcerated several weeks ago following his arrest at Newberry by Sheriff Buford'on a warrant charging him with passing a bogus check for $50 on the Otteray hotel of this city. With half of the amount of the check he compromised with the prosecuting hotel and with $30 of balance he forestalled legal proceedings against him by a bank at Hendersonville. Gregory was brought to notice several weeks ago in Columbia, when Gov. Blease rescued him from the clutches of the law. Gregory had given a check for $50 on a bank where he had no funds and was about to ar.roa+ofi when 'the eovernor de posited with the bank his personal check for the $50. The man is said to be from Charlotte, where he has a wife and three little children now living. Anti-Racing Bill Passes. Tallahassee, Fla., April 18.?Separate ba^ots for United States senator were cast in both houses of the legislature to-day, Nathan P. Bryan of Jacksonville, nominated at the recent primary, receiving all the votes. Another ballot will be cast by the legislature in joint session to-morrow. The anti-race track bill was passed by the senate to-day by unanimous; vote. In the house the same bill was recommended to committee after a spirited discussion. Black List Bill Fails. Nashville, April 18.?In the State senate the bill to prevent blacklisting of employes and former employes by employers failed for lack of a constitutional majority. expensive. If the suspect is too poor to make things right with the examiners or * * ? -? ' -H 1 X t too stUDDorn to ten wnat ue wiuhs ?and sometimes, I am afraid, if he really does not know anything to tell?they have some "third degree" methods warranted to make a man say something. One such method is what they call "bastinado." It is whipping the soles of the bare feet with slender rods. Often live coals from a pipe are put on the shaven head of a prisoner to make him confess. Sometimes? But no. Probably you would not care to hear any more along this particular line. Persian inventions in. this department of criminology are clever in their way, but not things to describe in full detail.?Leon Medem in New York World. % r C * / -v. v' : -V'-. > * ARRESTED AT NEWBERRY. | Two Men and Boy Accused of Shoot- V-yj mg at Brakeman. Newberry, April 17.?Two men and a boy were arrested on the streets here last night at 11 o'clock on the charge of beating their way on a train and shooting at members of the train crew. ' They got on a coal car of the accommodation train at Clinton and reached Newberry at at 8:30. Just beyond the city limits Conductor Roper. had them put off,, and they retaliated by firing their pistols at the hrakeman. The conductor gave the Newberry officers such an accurate description of them that when Constables Blease and Adams and Chief of Police Bishop met them on the street they recog nized them at once and took them in. They gave their names as Reuben '/$% Fry, W. B. Brown and N. G. Hayree and said they were from North Caro- ' lina and Laurens. Fry is in knickerbockers, but says he is 17; the others - > appear to be somewhere from 25 to 30. They had a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Sample to-day, and were bound over to the circuit court for trial. The Great Wall of China. But it would have been well worth 'J*518 while to make the trip if we had got- * %jj| ten nothing else but the view of and :y& from the Great Wall at the end of the journey. About 2,000 miles of v5||| stone and brick, 27 feet high, and '^ffj wide enough on top for two carriages to drive abreast, this great struct- 33a ure built 2,000 years ago to keep the wild barbarian northern tribes . out of China, is truly "the largest ' building on earth," and one of the world's greatest wonders. It would be amazing if it wound only oyer plains and lowlands, but where we saw it this morning it climbed one ^J| mountain height after another until ^ the topmost point towered far above ||| us, dizzy, stupendous, magnificent. v^|j By what means the thousands and ' thousands of tons of rock and brick were ever carried up the sheer steep v;fjg| mountain sides, is a question that must excite every traveler's wonder, Certainly no one who has walked on . ^^9 top of the great wall, climbing among the clouds from one misty - r&|| eminence to another, as we did today, can ever forget the experience. yjiMt Perhaps it was well enough, too, that the weather was not clear. The mists that hung about the mountain- '2$f peaks below and around us; the roaring wind that shepherded the clouds, now driving them swiftly before him and leaving in clear view for a minute peak after peak and valley after j> $83 valley, the next minute brushing great fog-masses over wall and landscape and concealing all from view ?all this lent an element pt mystery "'Jm and maiAstv to the exDerience not l^Hi I out of keeping with our thought of the long centuries through which this strange guard has kept watch around earth's oldest empire. Dead, ' long dead and crumbled into dust. Jig even when our Christian era began,. were the hands who fashioned those earlier brick and laid them in the. '".SgU mortar here, and for many generations thereafter watchmen armed with bows and arrows rode along the battlements and towers, straining their eyes for sight of whatever enemy might he bold enough to try to cross the mighty barrier. However unwise the spirit or the aim in which the wall was built, we must admit that almost matchless daring of the conception and the al- v ' most unparalleled industry of the ex- : ;jj| ecution. Beside it the digging of our Panama canal with modern machinery, engines, steam-power and electricity?considered as a feat of Herculean labor?is no longer a .subject for boasting. To my mind the very fact that the Chinese people had .\i%| the courage to conceive and attempt so colossal an enterprise is proof enough of genuine greatness. No feeble folk could even have planned such an undertaking.?Clarence Poe. in Raleigh, (N. C.) Progressive Farmer. Memorial Day. The Rivers' Bridge Memorial Association will observe Friday, April 28th, as memorial day. Col. James Armstrong, of Charleston, will deliver the memorial address. The following committees have been appointed: On grounds and order of the day ?J. D. Jenny, J. C. Kinard, H. W. Chitty, J. A. Peters, W. D. Sease. W. H. Ritter, Stacy Kearse. On music?Rev. D. B. orosec.ose, J. C. Kinard, J. F. Kearse, Sr. The public is cordially invited to attend and the ladies are earnestly requested to bring flowers. DR. N. F. KIRKLAND, SR., J. W. JENNY, President. Secretary.