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I Hambmj Ifmlb | | Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24,1911. One Dollar a Year fj| = l COUNTRY NEWS LETTER! SOME INTERESTING HAPPENING! IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. I " News Items Gathered All Around th< pL County and Elsewhere. ^ Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Aug. 21.?Dr. J. H Roberts came home on Saturday af ternoon from his trip to Beaufort FSays he and family enjoyed the trip balance of his family will reach hom< about the last of this week. Mr. G. W. Hughes died yesterda: ito, afternoon at 5 o'clock, and will b< I buried at Pleasant Hill church thii morning. Ir Messrs. Herbert and Bennie Ehr hardt left this morning for Atlanta Ga., on a pleasure trip. At St. Luke's church, (colored; where they had a big meeting goinj | on, some young bucks got in a rov over a game of baseball played 01 I Saturday. Result: One negro cu the other in the back with a knife one gash 11 inches long, anothei about 7 inches and one 2 inches | Not serious, however. Six or seven bales of new cottoi were marketed on Saturday. Mr. A. M. Kinard brought me < I stock of sugar cane matured foul feet. Mr. Kinard is not in doub about making enough syrup this year. Messrs. J. M. Kirkland and Otis Copeland have gone to Northeri Copeland have gone to Northeri markets to buy goods for their firm: Farmers' Mercantile Co. Miss L. Sandifer, of Bamberg, is spending some time with Mrs. Good V 80nSome of our young men are listen Ing to the request of their best gir and are giving up dancing. Straightei them out, young ladies; you have th< strings in your hands; all you hav< to do is to pull them. Ice is in good demand. | Mr. A. W. Brabham had a sampfc of long cotton here on exhibition Says he has been ten years perfecting this seed of cotton and has 11 now to his notion. Says that he car get fifty cents the pound if he car gin it properly. Says that he will make about forty bales of it this year. JEE. Letter from Hot Springs. T ' Hot Springs, Ark., Aug. 17.?Youi Fairfax correspondent has "gone a swimmin'." Seems like a long waj to come for baths, but do believe it is the place of all the world foi health baths for many and varied complaints, such as nervous breakdown, malaria, besides rheumatism, I . etc. At Memphis we caught a glimpse of your good town's-people, the Bambergs, but they were soon lost to sight, but not to memory dear. Going to different bath houses we have never met here. After crossing the Father of Wa ters on our way here, we commenced If" to notice the fields of Arkansas. Corn and cotton were not as good as ours, but the rice fields (lands that a few years ago were called worthless,) were something wonderful to see and so well irrigated. A remedy has been found here tc eure Bright's disease. Twelve miles distant are the Mt. Valley Springs. Those waters are said to cure thai disease, and we know many of the parties camping there who have beer much benefitted already. One deai lady in our bath house who hac come four thousand miles (fron ? California) for the Hot Springs baths exclaimed: "It is just like going into the Pool of Siloam; just step in, and you are healed." On car line we visited one of the finest ostrich farms in America. The largest alligator farm is reached bj the same car line. The stores abounc with beautiful souvenirs made of different parts of the latter. A stee] observation tower 165 feet high has been built on top of Hot Springs mountain. There are forty-four hot springs and ever so many mineral springs oj cold water. Said to be 150,00C -rrie.i+1-.T.c evorv vear. Plenty oi V lOl VV1 ? uv? > - v , room here for all Bamberg and Barnwell county folks, so come on, anc we won't feel so home-sick. Since his inauguration Gov. Bleas* has pardoned 102 convicts and paroled 114. The commutation tax collected it Chester county this year amounted to $7,650, an increase of $1,445 ovei last year. Henry Jacobs, colored was founc guilty in a magistrate's court ir Greenville on Thursday of cruelty tc his horse, and was sent to the chair gang for 15 days. He drove his hors( ^ so rapidly on the street that it fell I and then he beat it unmercifully. ; ~ -'-i-.r-' -v.. ; DOIXGS AT DEXMARK. ) Personal Mention?Baseball?Deals 3 in Farming Lands. Mr. Harvey W. Goolsby, who has e been in the employ of the Cotton Oil Co. here for the past several years in the capacity of book-keeper, has accepted the position as manager of the Fort Motte Cotton Oil mill. Mr. John Bronson left a few days ago on a business trip to Hamlin, | . Tex. Messrs. W. P. and W. H. Sandifer left last night for Albany, Ga., on a business trip. Mr. Asa Baxter is spending some few days in Columbia. Mr. Algie Guess, who has had a position with ithe United States government at Knight's Key, Fla., has accepted a position with the cotton oil mill here as book-keeper. Mr. and Mrs. George Riley have returned from a vacation trip to Harlem, Ga., where they have been for several weeks. Mr. F. M. Hauser has returned after holding a few days' meeting at Leesville, S. C. Mr. I. G. Jennings, the right-ofway agent for the So. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., spent Sunday in the city with his family. Mrs. Frank Keller and son, of El. loree, are spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Jennings. Mr. E. Bart Price, formerly of this city but now of St. Matthews, spent Sunday here visiting old friends. The Bank of Denmark has recently painted and kalsomined the interior r\f thpir building whfnh adds: a firraat deal to the appearance of (the building. It certainly looks as if the streets I need a little work. Nothing shows t up a town as much as its streets, j Mr. C. A. Calhoun and family will ? leave here for Abbeville, where Mr. .Calhoun will look after his father's extensive farming interests. 4 Miss Adelle Johnson, of Blackville, is the charming guest of Miss Bertha Auld. [. Denmark and Cope again crossed { bats on the Denmark diamond t Wednesday afternoon, Denmark being victorious. The score was 6 to 2. 5 Batteries: Denmark, Morris and Zorne; Cope, Frier and Sandifer. Umpire, Steadman. Mr. Monnie Sandifer, of this city, has accepted a position with Mr. W. M. Ritter, of Cope. Mrs. Riley and grand-daughter, Miss Mary Morse,, of Norway, are vis[ iting friends and relatives in this . vuy. Miss Thelma Faust, of Bamberg, is visiting Miss Josephine Faust of [ this city. Mr. E. P. Sojourner sold his fine \ farm near town a few days ago to Mr. E. P. Garick, of Norway^ S. C. We understand the price paid was J about $35 an acre, which is cheap for the plantation, which contains ' about 300 acres. Mr. Gariqk is a 1 good man, and we are glad to have : him come among us as a resident. ' Mr. Sojourner will of course remain in Denmark. Several gentlemen from here left ' Monday night for South Georgia on a prospecting trip. They go to in' vestigate the farming lands in that 5 section. ' Denmark, August 22, 1911. i CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION. L : Woman Wanted in North Carolina, I Arrested in Spartanburg. i 3 Spartanburg,. Aug. 21.?Wanted > on a charge of abduction in Lexing> ton, N. C., where her husband was sentenced on Saturday to serve 15 i MA A ' years upuxi uuuviunuu ui me eauie 5 crime, Mrs. Charles Noel, about 26 T years of age, was arrested here tol night, charged with enticing Clara - Gibbs and Vera Kindley, aged 13 and I 14, respectively, from their homes at i Lexington. * She declared that she would not go back to North Carolina without ? requisition. ) FATHER is; MOTHER 19. f . Head of United Wireless, Facing Prisl on, Gladdened by Son's Arrival. New York, Aug. 18.?Announcement was made here of the birth of * a son to Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Wilson. Mr. Wilson is the convicted head of the United Wireless Tele1 graph company and is fighting to es* cape a three-year sentence in the Atlanta penitentiary. The baby is to be christened.Christopher Columbus i vvnson, jr. t Mr. Wilson is 73 years old and his > wife is 19. She was formerly his l stenographer, and they were married i last August, a few minutes after the , announcement of Mr. Wilson's indictment. i V . ? . ? ; ' .. MM*.6*iSSri IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Union and Laurens are both getting ready for free city delivery. It is said that the Atlantic Coast Line shops at Florence are to be enlarged. The repair yard will be made three times its present size. Marion is to have two new banks soon, one with a capital of $100,000, the other with $50,000. These will make three banks for that town. Dr. James H. Kirkland, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, has informed the trustees of the University of Alabama that he will not accept the presidency of that institution. He will remain at Nashville, j Abbeville county is at a deadlock on the question of rural policemen. The law authorizes the governor to appoint upon recommendation of the sheriff, the supervisor and the tjvo sub-supervisors. The sheriff and the RiinArvisbrs favor the aDDOintment: the sub-supervisors don't. And so it stands. Commissioner ,E. J. Watson says that samples drawn in 11 cities in South Carolina from meal shipped into this State "show the meal in a majority of cases to be extremely dangerous to man and beast," and that "it is noteworthy that the worst goods are being sold in localities where pellagra is most prevalent." Although there have been showers from time to time in most sections of Lexington, not in the history of the county has there been such a water famine as there is at the present time. The rains that have fallen ( seem to have had but little effect upon the wells and water courses, and, as a consequence, hundreds of farmers are hauling water?some for many miles?for their stock. The Btreaillb imuugu posuuicg, 1U mauj instances, have dried completely up, forcing the owners of cattle to water their stock at the wells. But the wells, too, are giving out, and they have had to be dug deeper and even . this fails to bring water. Creeks that have never before been known to go ( dry have ceased to run, and ponds are very low. _ I Marriage at Newberry. Newberry, Aug. 19.?On Wednesday evening a pretty midsummer wedding was solemnized at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. H. F. Cline, "when Mr. James D. Wicker, a native of Newberry, but who has been engaged in work in Columbia for the past eight years, and Miss Margaret L. Cline were married. The wedding march was rendered by Mrs. F. H. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, a niece of the bride. The bridesmaids were Miss Edrie L. Ehrhardt, niece of the bride, and Miss Grady Wicker, sister of the groom. The maid of honor was Miss Lucile Cline Epting, of Savannah, niece of the bride. The home had been tastily decorated for the happy occasion, and the costumes of the bride and her attendants were lovely creations, the whole forming a scene of exquisite beauty. The ceremony was performed by Rev. M. J. Epting, D. D., brother-in-law of the bride, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church, Savannah, Ga., assisted by the Rev. Edw. Fulenwider, pastor of the Lutheran church of the Redeemer this* nitv of which the bride is a member. Following the ceremony an ice course and fruit punch were served. The color scheme was pink and white. This was skillfully executed in detail, extending to the ice courses and confections. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs. H. F. Cline and the late Wallace A. Cline, and is one of Newberry's most highly esteemed young ladies. For several years she has been a faithful member of the choir of the Lutheran church of the Redeemer. The groom is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Monroe Wicker, of Newberry. For nearly eight years he has held without interruption a responsible position with the Columbia Lumber and Manufactur- , ing company of Columbia. Mr. and . Mrs. Wicker will reside for the present with the latter's mother, in Cline street. The presents were numerous and handsome. The out-of-town guests were: Mr. and Mrs. J. Ehrhardt and family and Mrs. F. H. Copeland, of Ehrhardt; Dr. and Mrs. M. J. Epting and fami- 1 ly, of Savannah; Misses Pet and Emma Andrews, Greenwood; Mr. Her- < bert Ehrhardt, Atlanta; and Mr. W. ' H. Roberts, Jr., of Columbia. "OLD TIMER" WRITES. An Interesting Discussion of Crops and Farming Methods. Wanderer's Rest, Aug. 19.?"All is well that ends well." As predicted last spring, good crops are or soon will be made, nature is smiling, and as the old farmer mops his brow on his shirt sleeve, hangs his hat on the rack, brings a long drawn, "shee, hoo; how hot!" he is not complaining but feels elated at the prospect and another pin is driven to hold the hard earned knowledge gained, and that is that deep preparation, liberal fertilization, and shallow cultivation pays. In all the fields looked over from here to South Georgia the fields all tell the same tale; tickle me with good treatment and I will tickle you with good crops. Certainly this is a corn country. To see the many fields laden with the king of grasses, that up to the last days in June seemed lost, all go to show how our soil and climate suit it. Only the very early planted and the prize acres suffered loss. These were too far gone to make a crop, but the grass is up and growing with the peas and by October a crop as valuable as the corn will be ready for the mower gathering. Corn stalks, pease, and grass gives a variety of feed that horses, mules, or cattle will do well on. ml** rrroo ornn^ x ncii me uai uu^o >iao guuu. vuv square acre was cut and thrashed and 77 bushels was the result, and all was smiles, but a surprise was in store, an agreable one at that. Only yesterday the hay press was put to work baling the bright clean straw, and under this straw four moie bags oats with five and one-half bushels more oats not measured was discovered and 82% bushels was the yield from one acre that one neighbor said he would not have given 25 cents for the acre a year before. One thousand pounds cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and muriate potash was used, and the above was the result. Now, boys, don't think the old farmer is bragging; not much, for the old fellow is doing all in his power to better his home neighborhood and State by using all the help he gets by travel, observation, agricultural journals, and last, but not least, from Prof. J. N. Harper, director of Clemson college experiment station. Do likewise, boys, and you won't regret it, even if you are laughed at, remembering that he that laughs Last laughs best. Last spring many were the critics ?^A AAri Kraablni' w11u UUUUCU1UCU Luc uccjj vi0 of the fields, two-horse plow farmers condemned, but here is an old one who will use three instead of two, for it pays, and that is what we farm for, and some day these same ones will have to do likewise or he left by the hoys who take advice and do things, for they now, many of them, are leaving the old rut fellows in the shade; and remember that all is not success, hut effort will succeed in the end. Now the peanuts are growing, the pigs waiting for them, and soon boiled pinders and roast pork will be the rule. Then Xmas. But the word pig brings a recollection. A certain old man is fond of pets and flowers. As there are no children to pet, his fancy turned to pigs, and with care and a little kindness he soon had a pair of pure Essex to root his feet, grunt, then lay down to be scratched. The older one, a perfect picture, none prettier, the special pride of his eye, and much speculation indulged in as to the pretty herd of hogs to so.on be his. Now his better half took up a brood of very young chickens, the mother hen taking them to where the pigs were; now helpless chicks were too much for that beautiful pig and as Eve was by the apple, she took one as a sweet morsel, was caught by the madam, turned out among other pigs, all strangers to her, who ran and tormented her in,, the heat of an August sun, and when the farmer came from his fields saw her lying prone under the shade of a persimmon tree. Wondering why she was there he called?no friendly grunt to greet him. Then he went to her and lo! she was dead; overheated, and there under the shade of that tree a grave was dug and there that pig sleeps, too pretty to feed to crows. Perhaps all things happen for the best, hope so, but a 525 pig for a nickle chicken don't pay. OLD TIMER. The election in Sumter county by which $150,000 worth of bonds is to be issued for good roads will be contested and ex-Judge Purdy has been retained by the protestants. The election was a tie until the Mayesville fcax was thrown out on a technicality. EXTRA SESSION CLOSES THREE O'CLOCK DECIDED ON A! HOUR OF ADJOURNMENT. Cotton Bill Passed and will be Ve toed?Republicans Cry "Gag Rule." Washington, Aug. 21.?The extri session of congress will pass into his tory at 3 o'clock to-morrow after noon. The Democratic caucus of th< house, ?t a meeting to-night, agree* to the Penrose resolution, whicl passed the Senate, prescribing tha hour as the time of final adjourn ment. This action, carried ou through a resolution passed by thi house at a session to-night, put int< effect an understanding reached ii the afternoon between party leader; in both houses. The resolution carried unanimousl; in the house. It directed the ap pointment of three members of th< house to join with three members o the senate to notify the presiden that congress was ready to adjourn The committee appointed on the par of the house consisted of Renresen tatives Underwood, of Alabama; Dix on, of Indiana, and Mann, of Illinois Republican leader of the house. Th< senate will name its committee to morrow. Cotton Bill Awaits Veto. After a perfunctory debate fo: four hours, the house late to-da; concurred, 180 to 107, to the senate'! amendment to the Underwood cot ton tariff revision bill and sent th< measure to President Taft. The bill; which will be vetoed to morrow, and which will be embrace< in renewed tariff revision legislatioi next December, would have cut th< cotton tariff-on an average of 21 pei cent, ad valorem and bore schedules tacked on by the senate, reducinf duties on iron and steel, cotton an( chemicals, and providing free admis sion of bituminous coal from tin Canadian border. The vote was along strict part: lines, except. that eight Repuhiicai insurgents joined the Democrats Most of the insurgents who hav< been voting with the majority oi tariff measures stood with the regu lars to-day, claiming that the senat< amendments had not been consider ed by a committee of either house. Minority Charges "Gag Rule." The amended hill was considere( to-day ui^der a rule limiting debat< to four hours and barring amend ments. The Democrats were accusec of returning to a "gag rule," whicl they vigorously denied. The debate of the day was not con fined to the cotton bill. Messrs. Un derwood and Payne closed the discus sion. Mr. Underwood said th< ? ? x _i X 1- ~x 1U, amenaea Din was not just wxiat w majority wanted, but it was the bes that could be secured under the cir cumstances. He said it was absur< to expect the people to "wait on th< clerks and hirelings" of the presi dent. A.bill was passed extending, unti March, 1912, the Burton law govern ing the diversion of the waters o Niagara Falls. Mr. Mann raised th< question of no quorum, but Mr. Un derwood moved to adjourn, whic] carried at 11:55 p. m. WHAT IS A MADSTONE? Spartanburg Claims a Cure of Rabiei from Mad Cat. Spartanburg, Aug. 19.?Little Kat< Smith, who lives with her parents 01 Allen street, was bitten by a cat yes terday morning. The child suffere< such intense pain from the bite an< the wound became so inflamed tha it was feared that the cat was eithei mad or poisoned. The parents o the child were greatly distressed fearing that the child would develo] rabies. Mr. Smith learned of a madstom in the possession of Flagman Bigger staff at Forest street crossing, s< he carried his little daughter to th< home of Mr. Biggerstaff, where th< madstone was applied. The ston< stuck to the wound for more thai two hours^ drawing all the poison anc inflammation from the wound. Mr and Mrs. Smith feel much relieved. It is not known whether there fc any virtue in a madstone or not but many people believe that if ? person is bitten by a mad dog oi cat if a madstone is applied in tim< it will take all the poison from th< wound and there will never be an3 danger of the person having hydrophobia. The madstone owned by Mr. Biggerstaff came from North Carolins and has been in his possession foi many years. The stone was found ir a deer that was killed in North Carolina many years ago. * "CAROLINA SPECLAL" WRECKED. ? ' Sk Fireman Bennett Killed, All Others 5 Escape Unhurt. Columbia, Aug. 20.?Fireman Lu ther W. Bennett, white, of Columbia, was crushed to death to-day in the v first wreck that* nas befallen the Southern Railway's Cincinnati-Char- . a leston flyer, the "Carolina Special," M r since that train was established, _ about six months ago. e The wreck occurred at 4:45 j o'clock just when the train was due h here, both locomotives plunging into ||| t a ravine, where 150 feet of a frame _ trestle had been burned away, at CM I Sueville, an industrial siding four g miles north of Alston and 24 miles 3 north of Columbia. Nobody except 2 Fireman Bennett was hurt. The ^ 8 passengers were not even jarred. Relief Train Sent. y A relief train, sent from Colum bia, returned at 9:15 to-night, with ^H| 3 the passengers and baggage, and def parted shortly afterward for Char- v||| t leston. The bridge will likely be Te- '-WL . placed by noon to-morrow. Meant while, traffic is being detoured by - way of Charlotte. The train was crowded, a large , number of the passengers being Co- Hi 3 lumbia and Charleston business men - returning from a Sunday visit to |3| their families sojourning in the .SJg mountains of Western North Caro- jaB F Fireman Bennett's body was ' a K.n.iiTVif Vini?n nil tlio rollof and " UlUUgUli UCIC VU out 1 VA4Vi, . . 71FW - taken to his home, 1,410 Barnwell 3 street, where his wife and babies -j||8 were awaiting him. -.y'l Both Engineers Escaped. 1 Engineer DeLand G. McAlister, of i No. 1,217 Blanding street, driving 3 the head engine, No. 1,019, saw the 'rjjfl r gap in time to apply the emergency | > brakes and to jump to safety, with I his colored fireman, Hal Robertson, .*?3 1 but not*4n time to warn the crew of ' -awl - the second engine. ..ri 3 Mr. McAllister's locomotive plung-. jjjM: ed into the ravine and turned up7 side down, and locomotive 1,006 al- ,j|jj i so toppled over the brink. Engineer jM ~i . William H. Green, somehow, escaped 3 injury, but Fireman Bennett was in- ^9 i stantly crushed to death beneath the - ponderous machine. The train was >:SSv3 in charge of Conductor James F. - Weaver, of No. 1,620 Gregg street Engineer Green lives at No. 1,530 J Henderson street v * 1 Baggage Car Ablaze. 3 Prompt application of the emer gency brakes so checked the momen1 turn of the heavy train, without in- \;|m5 i juring any of the passengers, that the pn^rhps were barelv moving when - they reached the trestles The for- JjjH-. - ward end of the baggage car, how- 'ISH> - ever, projecting over the brink, took ^ fire from the blazing timbers and so 3 endangered the rest of the train t that it seemed likely nothing would 2 - do but to uncouple this car and push ; 1 it into the gulch, on top of the ^ 3 wrecked locomotives; but the flames \=|S * - were put out eventually by the la- 3 i hnrs nf a bucket chain, formed by '-IlHi 1 members of the crew and volunteers - from among the passengers. ^ f In the list of workers were: Syde ney O. Izlar, of Charleston; Travel ing Passenger Agent Jenkins, of -J| a Augusta, and several Columbians, ineluding R. B. Cooner, wholesale provision dealer; R. J. Blalock, city. councilman, and Charles H. Barron, ; g s Fireman Bennett is survived by his * wife, the daughter of Hiram B. 1; Mitchell, recording clerk in the ofb fice of the secretary of State, and '^|B i by several children. Leaves on Time To-day. i The "Carolina Special" equipment 1 left at the wreck is to-night being ^18j t taken to Charleston, by way of Carr lisle, Chester and Columbia, so that Vl| f the train may leave Charleston for "SB , Cincinnati to-morrow morning at the i|S 3 schedule hour, 9 o'clock. . v'|ljB As required by law, in case of aob cidents involving loss of life, the |ji - wreck was promptly reported to the ^59 ) South Carolina railroad commission, ^S| b which will make the usual investigab tion. The company's investigation 3 on its own behalf has already comCapt. Bell Gets Job. 3 Washington, Aug. 21.?James B. , Bell, of Gaffney, editor of the Chero- . i kee News, was to-day selected by the r joint committee on printing to bei come the editor of the Congressional ||i ? Directory at a handsome salary. He r succeeds James S. Henry. This position is one of the best to be had at the capital and requires - a large degree of executive ability. '/JS t Capt. Bell will take charge of the > -^JS r work about October 1, at which time :; J8 i he will come to Washington and be gin the preparation of the directory, + '^fjl which must be out by Dec*r ->r .1. "JgM