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^ Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1912. One Dollar and a Half a Year.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
V SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
I IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
? Hews Items Gathered All Around the
i County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehardhardt, Jan. 22.?The snow
has gone but not all of the mud.
Roads arev ery tough now.
Two young men visiting a young
L $ lady friend express themselves someB
what like this by their looks: The
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neigmn 01 rne Duggy, cut? wium ui
the body and the length of the drive
p kept them from visiting her oftener.
k Tough isn't it, lady friend.
W Mr. John M. Kirkland's oldest son,
r Milton, was bitten by one of Mr. Jack
f Smith's dogs Sunday afternoon. Not
very serious I hope.
The old farmers say 1912 will be
l a good crop year on account of the
snow.
The banks are putting out plenty
(of money to help the farmers run
their business this year.
The Hacker Mfg. Co. have practically
shut down on account of the
woods being so wet and boggy. Their
skidder man says the shadow of the
* cable as they carry it to the log bogs
down and they have a hard time getting
logs to the road.
Booze still comes from Jacksonville,
Fla. As long as a few dollars
can be gotten it will continue to
come. Most of the darkies club tol
gether and divide up when the jug
comes in.
Mr. J. W. Priester's little son was
somewhat sick the first part of last
week and stayed from school to take
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medicine, was standing ueiuic IU^ I
fire -with his gown on, made of can/
ton flannel goods. Same caught on
fire and the little fellow was burnt
so badly until he died shortly after
being burnt, and was buried in the
Ehrhardt cemetery Friday afternoon
at 3 o'clock. Quite a crowd went to
see the little fellow laid to rest. He
was a promising boy of about eight
and his untimely death is a heavy
blow to his parents, who have our
sympathy in their bereavement. We
will all miss the manly, quiet little
fellow from our midst.
Rev. D. B. Groseclose has combinj
ed a lesson study of the Sundayschool
lesson for the following SunJ?
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with prayer meeting. The lesson is
gone over and questions are given
and answered and studied by the
older heads, which makes the meeting
instructive and interesting to all.
f There are three churches in town,
and the meetings were intended to
be in one of the churches each Tues?
day night, but of late the cold wave
and a new preacher in the MethoF
dist church has somewhat broken the
alternate meetings, but hope they
will soon be regular again. JEE.
Country Correspondence.
Cotton is still gracing the pods over
< many acres of land and evidently it
*-111 serve as a fertilizer for the soil,
as it will be nearly impossible to
gather it at this season of the year.
Many changes have taken place;
so many folks are leaving t?eir farms
to move to the towns. These changes
make a little feeling of loneliness
A pass over one whose neighbors are
moving away.
The country schools, (all that we
hear about) are doing very nicely,
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and the teachers that maxe rurai
te aching their vocation seem to realize
and are trying to rally to the situation,
that the great majority of citizenship
is and has been from the
jfr~ country. Yet it is a noticeable and
' almost deplorable fact that the majority
of boys by the time they reach |
* their early teens have aspirations to
other channels than that of farming.
And to my mind it is a sad. hue that j
colors the agricultural horizon, that
so many are turning away from the
"where with for all" profession and
seek "jobs" along other lines.
There are so many expressions of
regret to be heard all about over the
country over the resignation and departure
of Rev. O. J. Frier and his
* wife from the Bamberg Baptist
church, Their influence has been
muchly felt. All the hearers who
hoon fnrtnnate enoneh to be fa
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(vored with a message from this
graceful and gentle follower of the
divine work have felt the magnetic
| inspiration. We, the writer, with
heir many other friends, wish them
' every success that can await their
earnest labors, in their new field of
service.
Last week the legislature killed a
f bill allowing the voters of Abbeville
county to vote on the dispensary
question.
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FERTILIZER-FROM-AIR PLANT.
Operations to Begin in Chester
County This Week.
Chester, Jan. 19.?The current
will be turned on Sunday at the fertilizer-from-air
plant at Nitrolee,
near Great Falls, for the purpose of
testing the machinery and adjusting
the bearings. It is thought by those
in charge that operations will regularly
begin in about two weeks.
This plant is the only one of its
kind in America, and is, therefore,
something of a novelty. The process
employed in making fertilizer at this
plant by extracting nitrogen from
tVio air anrl uniting it to limestone
as a base has been described, and in
theory at least is now more or less
familiar to the people of this State.
As stated before, however, the plant
at Nitrolee is the only one of its
l kind in America, and crowds of interested
and curious persons are expected
to visit the place during the
next few months to witness the
I strange spectacle. The machinery
with which the plant is equipped was
brought direct from Europe, where
there are several plants of this kind.
The Southern Power Company, which
owns almost unlimited hydro-electrical
power up and down Catawba
river and subsidiary streams, owns
the plant, and will erect another
larger plant if this one proves a success.
News from Ehrhardt.
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I Ehrhardt, Jan. 22.?Miss Kate
Hiers is spending time with her
brother, Mr. Joe L. Hiers.
Mr. L. R. Bodie, of Gainesville,
Fla., and Mr. W. R. Hite, of BamI
berg, were in town Sunday, visiting
friends.
Mrs. John M. Kirkland's brother,
i nf Ramhopp snent Sundav with her.
Mrs. Addie Hartz and Mr. Clarence
Farrell were married in Charleston
last Wednesday.
Prof. Chas. J. Shealy spent the
week-end with Mr. J. H. Fender.
Miss Alma Fender, who is attendi
ing school here, spent the week-end
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Fender, of Colston.
Buildings are continuing to go up
in spite of the dull times. Mr. Barnie
Hiers has just completed a handsome
residence on Jackson street. It will
be occuped by Mr. Walter Kinard,
who is with the Farmers Mercantile
Co.
Mr. Monroe Kinard and family
have moved into the Jones house.
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Sermons in Sentences.
Friends do not freeze to a frozen
heart.
Easy times often account for hard
habits.
Nothing is really sacred until all
things are.
Big plans do not balance small performances.
Short cuts to fortune are often
bottomless cuts.
If wishes were wings good works
would soon cease.
That soul is truly lost that gathers
darkness of the light.
No man ever saw his father by
climbing over his brother.
Your rank among men depends on
how you help them to rise.?Turner
Falls Reporter.
RICH INDIAN GIRL.
Navajo Maid Inherits Large Fortune
from Her White Father.
Attorneys for Henry C. Simpson,
who died in Kansas City three weeks
ago, have instituted search for an Indian
maiden somewhere '/in the
southwest" who is heiress to $160,000
of the Simpson fortune.
That Simpson was wealthy was not
known generally until after his death.
His estate amounted to $322,000 and
was left in the care of his son, Henry,
as executor.
After the death of his first wife,
more than 25 years ago, the elder
Simpson is said to have married an
Indian. It is for a daughter by this
marriage that the son seeks. Tne
daughter is said to have returned to
live with her people, the Navajos.
APPARATUS"HAXGS HIM.
Wrestler Tries Device to Strengthen
Neck.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 22.?LeGeorge
Loefler, a young amateur
wrestler, in trying to strengthen his
neck by hanging himself from the
ceiling with a special device noose,
was strangled to death.
Loefler had- an old manual in
which were numerous pictures showing
the methods by the former world
champion. He tried the apparatus
with fatal result.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
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Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
Plans are on foot for building a ,
trolley line between Spartanburg arid
Glenn Springs.
Alton B. Parker, of New York, <
once Democratic candidate for the
presidency, will make the address at
Han mi of nf Stflto hflr flSSOci
ation in Columbia on Thursday night.
The city council of Beaufort have
sent a petition to Gov. Blease asking him
to require his liquor constables
to be more dilligent in suppressing
blind tigers. They say the traffic is
being carried on in town and ,county
in open disregard of law. Beaufort
is a dispensary county.
A concurrent resolution was introduced
in the legislature last wek to
require the attorney general to collect
$15,000 loaned the South Carolina
Agricultural and Mechanical society
by the State in annual appropriations
from 1902 to 1908. The
amount appropriated was $20,000, of
which $5,000 has been paid according
to the resolution.
Hon. Jno. G. Richards, who ran
for-governor two years ago, but who
is now railroad commissioner, having
been appointed by Governor Ansel,
has stated through the newspapers
that he will not be a candidate for
governor this year, but will stand for
reelection as railroad commissioner.
This leaves only Ira B. Jones and
Cole L. Blease as the candidates for
governor, and it looks now like they
will be the only aspirants.
A Broken Resolution.
"A man can't make a better newyear's
resolution than in season and
out of season to mind his own business."
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' The speaker was Representative
Henry, of Texas. With his grim
smile, he resumed:
V'A Texan, at a hotel, got acquainted
with a millionaire. One night in
the hotel lobby,"as the two men puffed
their cigars, the Texan said:
44 4I make it a rule to mind my
own business, sir.'
44 'And a very god rule it is, too,'
said the millionaire, placidly.
* 44 'Yes, sir,' the Texan went on,
'back in '93 I made a new year's
resolution to mind my own business,
and, by heck, I've stuck to it ever
since.'
" 'Good,' said the millionaire, as
he reclined in his leather-arm chair
and smoked, with half closed eyes,
'Good!'
" 'But, sir,' said {he Texan, 'there
are times when a man must speak
out, and I want to tell you, sir, that
you are making a terrible mistake in
employing as private secretary the
young fellow you do. He's not
worthy of a position of such trust.
The fact is, I've seen him drunk in
fashionable theaters and restaurants
at least a dozen times. He joy rides
in your motor car in the small hours
with all sorts of bad company. He's
been seen plunging heavily at several
gambling houses. By jingo, sir,
I wouldn't trust him with a 10-cent
piece. I guess you hired him out of
charity?to reform him, and all that,
eh?'
" 'Well, yes, I suppose . I did,'
muttered the millionaire, and very
red in the face, he added. 'You
see, he's my son.'"?Washington
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Harris Renamed Postmaster.
Washington, Jan. 22.?Pres. Taft
to-day sent to the Senate the nomination
of Wilmot L. Harris, to succeed
himself as postmaster at Charleston
and of Rufus C. Gettys, to be postmaster
at Blacksburg. '
Postmaster Harris and United 1
States .Marshal J. Duncan Adams are 1
now in Washington, presumably look- '
ing after this appointment and its
confirmation.
Denmark and Westminster, S. C.,
were to-day designated as postal savings
postoffices, to be ready for de- 1
posits February 19 next.
Ho Needed a Pull.
"By gosh, there ain't no chance to
git ahead of these swindlers," complained
Silas Hossbarnes.
"What's the matter now?" his wife
asked. :
"1 sent a dollar to one of 'em for !
a receipt to keep hair from fallin' i
out, and what do you s'pose he 1
writes?" <
"I can't guess." <
" 'Quarrel with your wife and git i
it pulled out.' " s
WOMAN CHARGE!) WITH FRAUD.
Unusual Situation Follows Divorce of
Indianapolis Couple.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 20.?That
Mrs. Leona Batty practiced a fraud
on the court when she represented
that she had become a mother on October
28, 1910, was the decision late
to-day of Judge Joseph Collier, of the
superior court, and the petition of
Bernard H. Batty, the divorced husband
of Mrs. Batty, asking that the
court relieve him from supporting
the child was granted. The baby,
which was exhibited in court, also
was claimed by a 19-year-old girl, of
Eaton, Ind., who averred the baby
was* bom to her at a hospital here
about ten days before the time Mrs.
Batty said the child was bom.
In February, 1911, Mn Batty
brought suit for divorce and his wife
filed a cross bill. Judge Collier
granted a divorce on the cross complaint
and ordered the husband to
pay $15 a month for the support of
each of the two children. Later the
husband asked release from the support
of the younger child and at the
hearing, a short time ago, the deceprtf
fho wife was hroucht. out and
the young girl brought into court to
claim the child. The Battys are*j
prominent socially here.
Morse Gets Freedom.
Washington, Jan. 18.?President
Taft to-night commuted, to expire
immediately, the fifteen-year sentence
for violation of the national banking
laws, under which Charles W. Morse,
the New York banker and "Ice King,"
served two years in the federal penitentiary
at Atlanta, Ga.
The commutation of sentence,
which gives Morse his freedom, but
which, unlike a pardon, does not
restore his civil rights, was granted
upon recommendation of Attorney
General Wickersham and Surgeon
General Torney, U. S. A. According
to the surgeon general's report on his
condition, Morse could not live one
month longer in confinement, and
even at liberty probably would not
live six months.
VICTIMS ASK THIEF TO DINE.
Jewelers Invite to Banquet Man Who
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KODbed rnem 01 9?i,wv.
Chicago, Jan. 18.?The "padded
brick burglar," who has smashed
jewelry store windows and taken
goods to the value of $30,000, has
accepted, through his wife, the invitation
of the Chicago Wholesale Jewelers'
Association to attend their
banquet Thursday night.
The woman, whose letter was signed
only Rosa, says if her husband
receives through the press a pledge of
honor that he will not be betrayed
to the police, he will be present and
make what restitution he can. W.
F. Juergens, chairman of the banquet
committee, pledged the organization
to-night, declaring the members are
sincere in offering protection.
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Can't Refuse to Haul Beer.
Washington, Jan. 22.?Beer is a I
commodity and railroads must carry
it when offered for transportation,
from one State into "dry" counties
of another State, regardless of the
laws, of the latter State.
The supreme court made this ruling
to-day regarding a proposed shipment
from Indiana into "dry" Kentucky
counties.
The case arose when the Louisville
railroad refused to carry beer offered
by the F. W. Cook Brewing Company
at Evansville, Ind., because a
Kentucky law of 1906 forbade bringing
intoxicating liquors into local option
districts.
The'United States circuit court for
Indiana enjoined the railroad from
refusing to transport beer, on the
ground that beer was a commodity
and that the Kentucky statute, if It
attempted to" regulate inter-State
commerce, was no defense for the
railroad's refusal. The court of appeals
for the seventh circuit affirmed
this decision.
"Valid as a regulation of intrastate
shipments, it never was effective
as to inter-State shipments to
dry' counties," said Justice Lurton
to-day, referring to the State law in
sustaining the lower court.
Twenty-Three Children.
.Mrs. Fred Walkenhorst, wife of a
farmer living about two miles from
St. Louis suburbs, says she believes
that all the more good fortune will
be visited upon her home with 23
children than with 22. On Wednesday
she presented her husband with
i baby girl, their twenty-third child,
ill of whom are living and at home.
WILLINfi TO TAKE STAND.
ATLANTA ATTORNEY WILL COME
IF SUMMONED.
Declares Governor Will Get All That's
Coming to Him, Good and
Plenty.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 23.?Col. Thomas
B. Felder was in Augusta yesterday.
"Will you go to Columbia and
testify against Gov. Cole L. Blease
if you are summoned by the investigating
committee?" we asked him
directly.
j "Yes, if the investigating committee
sees fit to summon me."
"What about that book on Blease
so much talked about? Have you
printed such a book as you are credited
with, showing all the dealings of
the present governor of South Carolina?""
"No book has been printed, but I
have material that would make a
most interesting dook ii it snouia ds
published."
Asked what he thought of the
Blease situation now, he replied:
"He's going to get all that's coming
to him, good and plenty?before
long."
Col. Felder said he did not think
any impeachment proceedings would
be started or attempted by this legislature.
Of this impeachment matter,
hAmovor Vin dtH nnf IAiav anvthin?
of his own knowledge.
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Wholesale Crimes Probed.
Lake, Charles, La., Jan. 22.?The
series of wholesale murders of negro
families in this State, totalling 26
victims within the past 12 months,
the last of which being the murder of
an entire family of five of this place
on Saturday night, are believed to
have been the work of religious fanatics,
and the officers are holding
Rev. King Harris, a negro preacher
at Jennings, La., for further investigation.
Harris heads a sect known as the
"Sacrifice Church," and has succeeded
in establishing a following in several
Louisiana towns. The police do
not charge him with any specific
crime, but fear that he has worked
his followers up to such a point of
frenzy and religious fervor that the
butcneries or "sacrmces ioiiowea.
A DOZEN WIVES ORDERED.
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Western Farmers Ask Marriage License
Bureau to Supply Brides.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 20.?The
largest matrimonial order ever received
in the city has come from Lansing,
Mich., addressed to Marriage
License Clerk Claude F. Gage, calling
for 12 brides for a like number
of Michigan men, ranging in years
from 25 to 50 and ready to begin
housekeeping on some of Western
Washington's logged-off lands as soon
as exigences permit.
"We want the land and we want
the wives," ran the letter. "The
land question we have already taken
up." Gage has written the Michigan
man that he will advise him later
as to the condition of the matri
monial market.
Parole*! Prisoner Arrested ' Again.
Chester, Jan. 19.?Jim Carter, colorded,
convicted of rape in 1905 and
sentenced to life imprisonment in
the penitentiary and paroled during
good behavior by Governor Blease,
in May last was arrested here yesterday
foiv disorderly conduct and
carrying a pistol, and was locked up,
after fighting two policemen savagely
until subdued.
Chief of Police Sanders wired
Governor Blease last night to find
out whether Carter's, offence is se
j rious enough to revoke his parole
and the governor's reply is awaited
| with interest.
Froze a Baby.
Pottsville, Pa., Jan. 22.?A several-months-old
baby, found on the
highway near New Castle, frozen
stiff in death, is believed by the police
to have been deliberately placed
outside by its mother under the delusion
that the oxygen in the open
air would stop its crying. The baby
was stripped of nearly all its clothing
when found.
Gentle Jabs.
More tombstones would tell the
truth about people if left blank.
When a woman says, "There's no
use talking," she means that you
might as well shut up and give her a
chance.
Tell the average man a joke and he
will say "That reminds me." Then
he'll get busy and you will have to
listen and it serves you right.?Chicago
Ledger.
For Sale.?Full blood Shepherd
pups for sale. Males, $4.00; females,
$3.00. W. H. ZEIGLER, COPE, S. C.
BURNED TO DEATH ON EDISTO.
Miss Jennie McConkey, Alone in
House, Meets Horrible Death.
Edisto Island, Jan. 19.?Miss Jennie
McConkey was burned to death
at her home here on last Monday
night, the tragedy occurring while
her brother, with whom she resides,
at the famous old McConkey plantation,
was in Charleston on business,
the unfortunate woman being alone
on the place at the time.
Tuesday morning the plantation
1 employees, coming to the house,
found the body of the unfortunate
| woman in the yard, all the clothing
having been burned therefrom. It
is presumed that Miss McConkey
ran into the- yard when her cloth*
ing was, by some unknown means,
set afire, and that there she died.
The funeral and burial services were
held here Thursday. A brother
from Canada, the former home of the
McConkeys, was en route to Edisto, .
on/1 orriro/1 inct in timo tf? hMr the
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sad news of the tragedy, and to attend
the funeral of his sister. Miss _
McConkey was about 60 years of
age.
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A Modern Miracle.
In the January Lippincott's Mrs.
La Salle Corbell Picket tells a /;
strange story connected with the burr
ial of General Robert E. Lee. It
seems that when the great leader
died, at Lexington, Virginia, tha
North River, a tributary to the
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James, had overflowed its banks, and
Lexington was cut off from all
communication with the outside
world. A warehouse was washed
away, and with it all the supplies
contained therein, including all the.
coffins in the city.
"In this extremity Professor Nel- * ~
son, of the University of Virginia,
was consulting with some of the
other professors as to what could be
done. . In the midst of their dilemma
two boys came up to them in a
timid way, hesitating to approach the
group of dignified strangers, yet feeling
the necessity of imparting the information
they were bringing.. Each
feared to be the first to speak and
pushed the other on, saying:
" 'You tell/
"'No; yon tell. You saw ft first/
' 'Saw what?' asked Professor
Nelson, who was a judge of boys,
and perceived that there was some- t
thing of unusual importance on their
minds.
" 'Yes; saw what?' repeated one
of his companions.
"Encouraged by the readiness to
receive their tidings one of them re- . |
plied: 'A coffin.' 9
" 'We saw it,' affirmed the other.
"Yes; we saw it there upon theshore,
there by the island.'
" 'On the shore? A coffin? Where?'"
" 'Just about three miles from
town. We saw it,' said the boy who
had first spoken. 'Maybe nobody's ' \
in it. We was too scared 16 do
more than see the outside, and then
we tuck out. 'Tain't never been
used. It's bran', spankin' new.'
" 'I wonder if they really saw it,
or only imagined it,' said one of the
gentlemen. > ?
"Professor Nelson arose and turned
to the boys, saying:
" 'Come and show us the way."
"The boys led on and all followed,
uncertain as to what tbey were
to find, but trusting that in some
way heaven had graciously supplied
their great necessity. Along the
river-bank they walked unm their
two guides stopped beside a lasg,
closed box that had floated down the
swollen waters in the great flood
and drifted ashore. In the box was
a beautiful coffin.
| "They carried home thp box, and
in that heaven-sent casket all that
was earthly of the great commander
was laid to rest in the college chapel,
where the tomb of the Southern hero
has become a shrine of glory for the
inspiration of the world."
Good Advice.
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What shall we do with our cotton
seed? I have usually exchanged them
t<?n for ton for the meal and used
it in making fertilizer. Would like
to get a crusher that I could use to
crush the seed. Do not do anything
of the sort. If you can exchange ton
for ton, it is the best possible use
you can make of the seed, tor you
will get more fertilizer materia} than
you give. The oil is of no value as
a fertilizer and it is better to be rid
of it. But the best use to make of
the meal is to feed it in moderation
with good roughage like corn stover
and hay and make a profit from it
before using it as a fertilizer, for
you can recover in tbe manure' the
larger part of the manurial value of
the meal. It is worth too much as
feed to use a? manure direct.?Progressive
Farmer.
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