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?l|f Hamburg ifmlb ^ Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1912. , One Dollar and a Half a Year. | COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS \ SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. rNews Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. iEhrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Feb. 19.?Well, the railroad right of way is being cut out and some grading done, where the water will let them work, in about two miles of town. Of course the trestle work over the streams is left off on account of cold and high water. Dock Moye says it's so wet and boggy until mules can hardly stand up, so he is trying another plan. He buys every strong dog he can get hold of and says that once he gets them trained he can have them scratch up dirt on a fill and scratch out a grade in short order. All he will have to do will be to stand around and set them on. A. good idea, if he can con V trol them. I According to old men's sayings we must be going to have some kind of weather every day this year. Snow on the ground and lightning and I thunder. Saturday night snow and m electric storm before the snow meltF ed, either Tuesday or Wednesday [ night. Can you tell us, Mr. Editor, I what will be the outcome? Will it h be as I have said above or different? K We have some signs of spring of i the year down here. Birds are fixing to pair off. * Plentv bonze was used ud last Sat urday or "shoo maica ginger" one, as there was a goodly number on streets that could not walk in their * natural way nor talk natural. Had a tangle foot gait and tie-tongue speech. , A big dance is being put on foot for the night of the 22 nd instant, calling the dance Washington's birthday dance. The mud and sloppy roads have put the autos out of commission. Don't see them moving around any more. The Hacker M'f'g Co. is putting in another switch to their works; an other valuable lot is messed up on Broadway street by the switch. Cotton has not all been gathered yet, and some of the gins have taken off their belts to cut off the business. Fertilizer is not being bought to any extent by our farmers. Last year did most of them up. Too wet for the oats crop. Don't look for much crop in that line and our farmers need them, as forage is scarce in this section. Mr. Joe E. Carter's son, Conrad, is said to have walked off last night without any knowledge of his parHP ents. Mr. Jphn E. Carter was here hunting him this morning, at day ' ' break. JEE. Denmark Doings. Denmark, Feb. 20.?Miss Kathleen Califf, of Barnwell, the charming f niece of Mr. W. L. Califf, is spending some time here. Miss Nettie Miller, who has been spending the winter here, returned to her home in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. The beautiful new home belonging to Mr. White has just been completfed. It is situated in the northern part of town, on "Quality Heights." Also the frame work of Mr. W. H. Faust's house has been put up. The erection of these homes will be quite an addition to Denmark. Miss Marguerite Stokes, who has been for some time with relatives . s here returned to her home in OrangeIt burg on Monday. m Miss Nettie Miller and Mrs. R. M. Willis, of this city, spent a few days last week with Mrs. H. W. Goolsby in Fort Motte. Miss Lucie Phillips, of Sandersville, Ga., was the guest of Mrs. G. . W. Goolsby last week. Miss Maggie Milhous, of Olar, was the guest of Miss Virginia Hutto for the week-end. Mr. R. M. McCartha spent Sunday with friends here. "G." ? Bank Robbed. . Atlanta, Feb. 19.?Robbers blew open and rifled the safe of the Austell Bank at Austell, 16 miles west of Atlanta, early to-day and escaped with their booty, which consisted of about $2,500 in cash and valuable papers, it is stated. i?ni- ic rm thp prrmnd floor of JL UV MU.UA IkT V** cp - ? - _ _ _ _ a hotel building and the force of the explosion is said to have thrown many of the guests of the hotel from their beds. Two men carrying large sacks were seen leaving the bank soon after the explosion and posses with dogs V have gone in pursuit. NEGRO FROZEN IN ROAD. Fell from Wagon While on His Way to His Home. Jim Miles, a negro man, about 55 years of age, was frozen to death Wednesday night on the road, seven miles from Aiken. Miles, who lived some ten or twelve miles from the city, came into town Wednesday with a load of wood, which he sold, and bought a quart of whiskey at the dispensary. Starting home after dark, he drank half of the whiskey, and the bottle containing the remainder was found by the side of his body. The i ? ? 1 a i x _ nignt was intensely com, anu n js supposed that Miles became drunk and fell from his wagon. During the night his team of mules reached his home, but his family did not begin a search for him until the morning after. About seven miles from the city they found the body, stiff and stark, by the roadside. The man had crawled through the water and mud for some distance. The body was found on the other side of Shaw's creek, and physicians stated that the man had been dead ror some time. A Sad Death. On Sunday night last, February l$th, the sweet, young life of Mrs. Pearie Breland Brabham, wife of Quintus Brabham, of Olar, was suddenly snatched from its earthly abode and ushered into the Great Beyond. Such news is indeed a great shock to the whole community and is of unusual sadness. Truly, in the midst of life we are in death. This dear creature, in the bloom of young womanhood was a perfect picture of health, and, having been married less than a year, life was full of bright promises. "God works in a mysterious way His wonders to perform" and although these unexpected trials are so hard to bear, we should quietly submit to His will and some day we'll understand. May the great love and consoling power of Him who gave and taketh away linger around the hearts so sorely bereaved and may they find comfort and peace. Especially do we feel for the boyish husband, whose fond hopes are now shattered and broken and do sincerely plead that he may look heavenward and realize that the chain of love and happiness naiTorad in+ft AOn Q CrOl'n ho pflTl UU W Ot VC1 AUtV VUU wv VW** nected in a brighter, happier land where no parting is known. / Women Strikers Disorderly. Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 19.?A band of Polish women operatives who are participating in the textile strike, assembled near St. Anthony's Syrian church early to-day and defied the police and militia authorities to disperse them. The women numbered about a dozen and were engaged in picketing the nf +V?/-v mille TVioi' did nnt ViCiJLlll/V ui luc ui mo. xuvj u>u uwv disperse until a squad of about 30 police officers, a small detachment of infantry and a troop of cavalry were sent to the scene. Three of the women were arrested, charged with disorderly conduct. At some of the mills large increases in the number resuming work to-day was claimed, but there seemed to be little change at the plants of the American Woolen Company. The rumor was persistent this morning that the stationary firemen propose to strike late this afternoon or to-morrow morning. This would cripple some mills seriously. Hanging Voids Life Insurance. Washington, Feb. 19.?Death by the hand of the law voids all life insurance policies of the criminal. The supreme court so held to-day in the fight of the children of James McCue, former mayor of Charlottesville, Va., who was executed for the murder of his wife in 1905. A policy for $15,000 was carried by McCue in the North-western Mutual Life Insurance company of Wisconsin. The United States circuit court of appeals for the Fourth circuit held that the policy was made in Wisconsin and under the Wisconsin laws was not annulled by execution on the gallows. The supreme court to-day held that the policy was not to go into effect until the payment of the premium which was made in Virginia and therefore that the policy was made in Virginia and was not governed by Wisconsin laws, the policy was made in Virginia and was not governed by Wisconsin laws. After reviewing the cases in the federal courts and in the courts of Virginia, the court announced that the public policy in both federal and Virginia jurisdiction demanded that death by the law should void life insurance. IN IDE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Sam Williford was tried in Union this week and acquitted of the killing of his brother-in-law. Ed Anderson. The defence was that Anderson i ? t- - ? /?- ttt 11 a>_ was aDusing nis wue, wnmurus siater, when the fatal shot was fired. The governor has signed the antiracing bill which is supposed to have the effect of shutting up the race track at Charleston. The law takes effect July of this year, and the injunction feature of the hill was eliminated. A disastrous fire was narrowly -rrrrtll XlTaA nao/loTT Tf avci ICU 1U juaiunui, ?T vuugoui*; . a.v was discovered in a store occupied by E. H. Richardson & Son and was in a part of the town where frame buildings abound. It was soon under control, however. The Sumter Shoe Manufacturing company of Sumter has been commissioned by the secretary of State, with a capital stock of $45,000. The company will erect a factory in Sumter and do a general boot, shoe and leather goods manufacturing business. The petitioners are R. I. Manning and J. W. McKeiver. This is the first shoe factory to be erected in South Carolina. Gander for Christmas Dinner. "Well do I remember my last Christmas dinner when in the army during the Civil War," said N. B. Eison, of Jonesville, who was a scout and courier under Gen. M. C. Butler, to a Progress man the other day. "The chief item, the only one it might be said, on the bill of fare was an old gander. It was twenty-six years old and it took me five hours to properly cook him. It was when the Yankees had raided the south side of the railroad betw^n Stony Creek and Ream's station. Gen. A. P. Hill and Gen. Hampton met there near Bellefleld and Hicksford, Va., and drove the Yankees back into Grant's line. The ground was covered with sleet and snow to the depth of eight or ten inches and the Yankees met with a heavy loss in killed, wounded and froze to death, besides a lot of prisoners taken. "About this time I was detailed with ordinance train and we had huts, shacks and some tents near Bellefield. "One of the drivers brought in a gander. Its throat was soon cut and it was hung up in the shacK to mellow. On the third day we decided to dress and. cook him for our Christmas dinner. "While I was sitting in the door of the hut with my feet in the sunshine and reading a letter from my best girl, which had just come in the mail, an old citizen came up to me and said: " 'Mister, Mister, have you seen anything of an old gander about here?' "I told him there was one hanging up in the hut and thereupon he said: " 'If that old gander has an X in one web of its foot and a V in the U'o fVin orondot* T om lnnlrinp' UlUCi j I b o tug ^UUUVl JL for.' "Examination proved that the gander had both. On finding this out the old man said: " 'Well, would not have minded it so much but my wife she liked that old gander for her mother gave it to her with a goose when we were married twenty-two years ago, and at that time it was four years old." "I told the old man he could take his gander, if he wanted him," continued Mr. Eison, "but he said he guessed we needed him more than he did. As that was about true, we kept the old gander but I gave him a silver half dollar and a fifty'dollar bill in Confederate money, while the other gave him two dollars in greenback, several pairs of blankets and all the ammunition he could carry. Lastly we gave him all the feathers of the old gander. As he was leaving he said: " 'Well, boys, I am satisfied and will give the old woman the feathers, blankets and money but will keep the ammunition for myself.' "After the old man had gone the gander was dressed and I began to barbecue him by hanging him before a good fire which was blazing in a stick chimney. I had a can of vinegar, salt and pepper and a mop on a long stick.. I commenced cooking him about 3 p. m., but it was not until 10 that night that he was finished and an hour later we ate him LEVER'S OLEOMARGERIXE BILL. Committee Will Introduce Mdksure Prepared by South Carolinian. Washington, Feb. 20.?The report of the oleomargerine sub-committee, of which Mr. Lever, of South Carolina, is chairman, has been made to the committee on agriculture in the form of a bill recently introduced by Representative Lever, and to which he has given considerable study. For a month or more the subcommittee has held constant sessions ?at the commencement of which Mr. Lever's suggestion of open door meetings was adopted. Both the butter people and the oleomargerine manufacturers have had accession to offer suggestions, and the Lever bill, as reported, has been augmented by some of these suggestions which the sub-committee has seen fit to accept. | Mr. Lever in submitting the report of his sub-committee, pointed out to the committee just what the bill intended to do and occupied more than an hour and a half in going into details. He Is quite hopeful of a unanimous favorable report from the committee on the 28th instant, the date set by the committee for final consideration of the question. Found it Out in Time. In the February Woman's Home Companion a professional opera singer writes a remarkable article, in which she tells the true story of the country girls who go to New York to study singing, and then make a failure of it. In one club that she tells about there were forty girls, only two of whom were daughters of rich par ents, the remainder coming from middle-class families. Following is the story of one of these girls: "The first to go was the mineowner's daughter. She had come to New York with a clear, high uncultivated soprano voice. After two years of study with a high-priced teacher, she had nothing to show but a few vocal-tricks and many ungirli&h mannerisms. Her tones were \^hat we singers call 'white,' or colorless, and her singing lacked warmth, 'sincerity, and feeling. None of us took her very seriously until she gave a mid-winter recital. "Her teacher rented a fashionable hall, and guaranteed the presence of critics. Her parents came from the far West to witness her triumph. Her frock came from Paris. The tickets that would not soli were distributed among desirable people. We club-girls, accompanied by the most presentable men we knew, were scattered through the hall. There were flowers and critics in plenty; but the recital was a hideous failure. The 'star' paled beside the three unimportant professionals hired by her teacher and manager to 'assist' her. The critics flayed her with allusions to her father's newly acquired wealth. "The night she said good-by to us is stamped so indelibly on my memory that I can recall her very words: 'Girls, you can call me a coward, but I'm going home. Money can't buy a career, and I'm not going to give the best there is in me for one. I've been paying a man fitfe dollars an hour to jolly me along in the belief that I have a voice. I haven't enough left to sing in a choir back home; but it doesn't matter. There's one man out there who doesn't -care whether my voice goes or stays, and, thank Heaven, I found it out in time.' " Yeggmen Suspects in Jail. Greenwood, Feb. 20.?Sheriff McMillan assisted by three special deputies arrested a man supposed to be W. Britt Stanley and his alleged accomplice, D. M. Cheeks, wanted for safe-cracking and murder in other States. The two men-are in jail here and officers are expected to identify them. Photographic identification, it is stated, appears to be complete al ready. and then retired, but old as he was he did not give us bad dreams, indeed Christmas dinner was pleasanter on account of his being a part of the menu. "A few days later J. C. Richards and I were invited by an old gentleman to eat dinner with him. We had to swim the river but we did not mind that for we had a fine dinner besides some liquid accompaniments, all of which were enjoyed. "That Christmas dinner was the greatest I ever ate and the old gander had an important place, which has never been suplanted in my feelings by more appetizing morsels at dinners in time of peace."?Union Progress. AGREE ON PARCELS POST. MEMBERS OF HOUSE COMMITTE TO PRESENT PLAN. Idea is to Have General System, with Special Provision for Rural Routes. Washington, Feb. 20.?Democratic members of the house committee on postoffices and post roads have agreed to incorporate in the appropriation bill provisions for the establishment of a general parcels post system. They also have agreed upon a general domestic rate of 12 cents and maximum package of 11 pounds. This is the present international post rate. They would also provide for a rural parcels post, tne rate to De t> cents for one pound and 2 cents for each additional pound. The provisions will he incorporated in the bill to be reported to the house some time next week, but the actual wording of the provisions has not been framed. The decision was reached after long consideration of the subject, some Democratic members advocating a system of parcels post zones in which would prevail different rates. This was finally passed and the international rate ordered recommended for general routes and the limited, graded rates for rural routes. It was reported to-night that some Republican members of the committee would approve the recommendations and that the bill would pass tho hrmse The parcels post fight has been on in congress for years. Finds Dog-Faced and Bird-Beaked Man. Los Angeles, Feb. 17.?Dr. Carl Kumm, African explorer and scientist, arrived here to-Jay en route to Washington, where he will lay evidence before the heads of the National Geographical Society that he has discovered men with the faces of dogs and of birds living in the heart of the "Dark Continent." "I have proof," declared Dr. Krumm "that I have found negroes with the faces of dogs. They spoke in a low gutteral bark not unlike that of the canine. They live by class and their mode of life is not unlike that of the stone age. , "In another part of Africa, far from the haunts of white men, I discovered a tribe of negroes who ran about like storks on one leg. Their other leg was never used and they carried it bent or drawn taut. These men live in a section of the country where there are many pools and ponds of water. "In still another part of Africa there are negroes whose faces are virtually like the beak of a bird. They live in trees." And the hunting wasn't very good either! ATTEMPTED CRIMINAL ASSAULT. Alleged Crime at Orangeburg Creates Stir Among Colored People. Orangeburg, Feb. 20.?Quite a stir, particularly among the colored population of the city, was caused here last night by the charge of attempted criminal assault on a well known colored girl of the city by a young colored man by the name of Ferdinand Brown. It is said that Brown and the girl were out riding when the crime was attempted, and that the cries of the young woman were heard by some white men who immediately went to her assistance, and perhaps prevented its consummation. Up to this time Brown has succeeded in evading arrest, but will no doubt be apprehended before many days, as it is not thought that he is very far from this city. J Boy Killed by Companion. Cheraw, Feb. 18.?Yesterday afternoon as several of the boys were out hunting about one mile from town, a young son of J. C. Webster, a farmer of ths county, accidentally shot and killed Fred Hatcher, the 16-year-old son of James Hatcher, who has been a blacksmith in Cheraw for a number of years. The shooting was clearly an acident. It seems that a covey of birds rose and and young Webster raised his gun to shoot. This gun had a defective lock and the trigger did not catch but was sprung before the gun was sufficiently elevated, the entire load entering the back of Fred Hatcher, who was immediately in front. He lived but a few hours as the shot penetrated his lungs, making a terrible wound. The burial will take place Monday in Marlboro county, the old home of the family. I i / * , . ( RETURNED TO COLUMBIA. South Carolina Woman, Visiting in Washington, Disappears. Washington, Feb. 18.?Mrs. W. H. Greever, wife of a Lutheran clergyman of Columbia, S. C., disappeared Friday evening from the home of friends whom she had been visiting in Washington, and they have not seen her since. She had been in ill health for some time and her Washington physician yesterday asked the police if they could find her. Though the police had not been able to discover Mrs. Greever up to the time this dispatch was sent, the Washington friends of the missing woman believe that she went back to her home in Columbia and are hour ly expecting information of her arrival there. , SMKt'M 1<UK MJtt. UJtWI!iV?n. Husband and Friends from Columbia Aiding Washington Police. . L . :4 ??? Washington, Feb. 20.?The Rev. W. H. Greever, of Columbia, S. C., . editor of the Lutheran Synod, is in Washington aiding the police in the search for his missing wife, who dis- 4 appeared last week from the home of Miss Louise Ryan, a trained nurse of Washington, with whom she had been, living for several months while undergoing medical treatment for melancholia. ' Mr. Greever was accompanied to Washington Vy his brother, E. L. Greever; by Theodore Brueger, of Philadelphia, a brother of Mrs. Greever, and by Arthur Kohn, of Columbia, a friend of the family. Up to a late ho.ur to-night the increased efforts to locate Mrs. Greever had been 1 unsuccessful and there is growing apprehension. Her three young children are with relatives in Tazewell, Va. / il?J_ Mil. M xne "six iuuf iiuusci The story goes back to the days just after the war when Charleston was the market for the planters of all the lower part of the State within a radius of 75 miles. There was located just six miles out of Charleston what has gone A down in history as the noted "Six Mile House." This was kept by the Fishers?a man and his wife. It t ; . is said that many citizens would go down to the city, sell their cotton and disappear together with theif money, horses and wagons and nothing but a vague shadow remained which pointed at the "Six Mile House," as the place last seen. 4 1 1" -1 n nnnfoin mfln Al IctSL UliC Ulglit u vci laiu iuuu stopped at this house, where lodgers were taken, and on going to his room at night he wondered why he, /. . a guest of the house, should he locked in his room. He began to look around and under the bed he found the body of a man, who had been ' murdered possibly the night before and there had not been time to remove the body. He set his wits to work and he removed the dead body from und - the bed, and placed it in the bed just as he would lie, and took his stand behind the door. About 1 # o'clock in the morning he heard footsteps and voices, the door was thrown open and a plunge made for the bed by a man and a woman who thought to murder him, while he ran down the steps and six miles back to the citv in the nteht. This proved the undoing of the Fishers, as they were ' arrested the next morning, tried, convicted and both hanged. Before their conviction they confessed many murders. An infant child was left and the child died soon thereafter, and it is told that a baby could often be heard crying around the grounds of the old house up to a few years ago. ?Chesterfield Advertiser. Judge Jones in Washington. Washington, Feb. 19.?Judge Ira Jones, who resigned the chief justiceship of the South Carolina Supreme Court in order to run for the governorship against Gov. Blease in the Democratic primary, is at the Willard hotel here, and will probably remain until to-morrow afternoon. > Judge Jones spent a large part of to-day at the capitol and took lunch with Senator ana Mrs. Tinman aim Representative Legare in the senate dining room. Among the other members of the delegation seen by Judge Jones during the day were Representatives Finley and Johnson. When met in Senator Tillman's office, Judge Jones refused to say anything about his visit to Washington, except that it was on matters of personal business. He declined courteously, but firmly, to discuss State politics or to say anything about his candidacy. S ; '-a -\-M . ' , -V* - .I: