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(The lamberg ifrralb Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1912. One Dollar and a Half a Year. ? - - " | HAS 01VEN AWAY $6,000,000 ; < PHILANTHROPIST GAVE AWAY I HIS ENTIRE FORTUNE. Dr. I). K. Pearsons, of Chicago, the r "Prince of Givers," Now Dead 2 Broke, But Happy. are bright, his cheeks have aQoui the right amount of color in them, and he is happy. "I am much better than I was a year ago," he chuckled. "Within the last three months I r gained pounds. The only thing that t > > bothers me is a touch of rheuma- I tism in my knees. t "And I don't owe a cent to any- I body. Every pledge I made has s been paid. It's a big relief to know j you haven't got a lot of money to t give away. I'm not an open giver t ^ any more. I haven't any cares now. \ I have the satisfaction of knowing that my money is elevating humanity. There is not a penny of it that N . is not doing good." ^ The doctor then spoke of the ' The bulk of Pearsons's fortune was \ made on timber land speculations. 1 The philanthropist favors votes for c women. He believes women eventu- c ally will vote, and that it will be a good thing for the country. "There is just one favor I wish you'd do for me," said the doctor to the reporter. "I wish you to mention I have no more money to give away. I still get about a dozen letters a day from people who want J money. I read them if I haven't anything else to do, and then throw them in the basket. I'm broke?yes, ' sir, broke?but I'm happy!" ANOTHER NEGRO NAMED. > J I ??^ rW. C. Matthews Appointed Special United States Attorney. Boston, April 23.?William C. Matthews, a negro lawyer, was sworn t in to-day as special assistant United } States attorney at Boston. He is the j second negro to be appointed to the j assistant district attorneyship within the past half dozen years, William H. Lewis, an old Harvard football t man, having been given a similar ap- 1 nointmpnt bv President Roosevelt. 1 Girl Appears for Negro. < ( New York. April 23.?Miss Lu- I cilia Pugh, of North Carolina, be- i ? came the first feminine counsel ever i seen in New York at a murder trial t when she appeared in court to-day < . to defend Leroy h'omaexier, a negro, i accused of shooting Thomas Brown I after a quarrel in a game of dice. 1 By chance the last talesman ex- j amined was Robert Lee, a descend- 1 ( ant of the Virginia Lees, whom she < at once accepted. ? I Dr. D. K. Pearsons, Chicago phi- * lanthropist, who has given his entire fortune of more than $6,000,000 to educational institutions, celebrated his 92nd anniversary last Saturday. At the Hinsdale sanitarium, where he resides, he held an all-dav reception. It was just a year ago that the man whom Carnegie called "the prince of givers" announced he had given away the last dollar of his once great fortune. He spent twenty-two years in distributing the money. Today ended his first year of complete rest. - - - - .. t > "My! but I feel tine," saia rearsons. He looked the part. His eyes c , - ^ c method he had taken in disposing of his estate. "I suppose it does look t , funny for a man to spend years accumulating a big fortune and turn t around and spend twenty-two years in giving it away," he agreed. "But ^ it was the wisest thing to do. The ^ colleges would not get so much if I i had left the money for a lot of peo- j pie to quarrel over." Two years ago Pearsons gave an institution $250,0O0 on condition ^ that it pay him a per cent, annual income on the sum during his lifetime. It is his on'y support and ^ , from the $5,000 a year he still is t able to aid needy persons. "I gave one man $500 to-day," he said. "This person is sick and has . lost his property. He helped me ^ many years ago, and it gives me great pleasure to be able to repay j him if only in a nominal way." , Pearsons is confident he is going to live to be 100 years old. "Our ^ family always has been long on ^ longevity," he explained. "My moth- ^ er lived to be 95 years old, and her mother was 96 when she died. I attribute my age to the regularity of my life." "I used tobacco a great deal until i I was 70. I quit it about four months e ago. I stopped all bad habits. I'm c doing everything I can to prolong i j my ilef." I Were at Dance When Sliip Sank. New York, April 19.?First cabin ' eassengers on the Titanic were warned of the doom of their ship as they lanced in the grand salon of the nonster vessel. A ball had been in ; jrogress for more than an hour vhen the ship crashed into the ice. rhe music ceased with a wild dis:ord, and the dancers dashed to the leek. Feared His Lawyer. A young lawyer had been appointed by the court to defend a man ,'harged with larceny. In his argunent to the jury he.pleaded for the icquittal of his client. He told of lis innocent boyhood days, of the jood character of his father, mother md brothers. In short, he launched 'orth into family history. The prisoner, an old darkey, had istened with growing uneasiness to lis counsel's plea and as the attorney vent on without a hint of stopping, ;he negro was driven to desperation, lumping to his feet, he yelled to the ?ourt: "I'se guilty, yo' honoah, I'se guil- , ;y! De jury can't do moah dan send . ne to jail fo' six months, but if dat 'ool lawyer doan stop dey'll hang ne, fo' suah."?Judge. : . ' A dastardly attempt was made on ; :he night of the 1 t?th to burn the j aw office of Warren & Warren, at | : Hampton. Kerosene was put on the i 'ront porch and under the front door ! tnd matches applied. A strip of 1 in- j: ileum just under the door is sup-!; iosed to have prevented the matches j 'rom igniting. Robbery was not the j : notive, as nothing was missing from j he office. Major E. F. Warren has j iffered a reward of one hundred dol- j F '-v?? nvon f f A PnTH'l'ht tllD Q'lliltV 1 dlS 1U1 J/IUUl lu VV-t. . ivv VI.V , person or persons, and the mayor of Hampton has offered a like reward. number of fires have occurred in :hat town within the last few years. I 3 it is now supposed that several , ire the work of an incendiary. : >ints of "Dooze. mis manes a iu( al of 460 half pints of liquor that j he officers have seized here in the >ast week. , ? Only Half Guilty. 1 Senator Williams in an address in j fazoo, said of a movement he op>osed: < "These men try to apologize for , heir course, but their apology re- . ninds me of that of the Yazoo office >oy. "A business man, looking up rom an important business letter he vas drafting, said to this boy testily r " 'Don't whistle at your work, Calioun.' " 'I ain't workin', sir,' Calhoun 1 mswered. 'I'm only just whistin'.' "?Cincinnati Enquirer. ' The question of home supplies is { >ne that will not down. It must be ' aken into consideration. Where will 1 be food for your household and for rour stock come from? Will it come nainly from your own farm, or will ; t come from the West? Will the bod for your table come mostly from 1 japer casks and tin cans? How far s your corn crib from your house? s it within easy walking distance, >r is it somewhere between 600 and 1,000 miles? What about hay for he stock? Do you raise it, or do *ou buy it??Farmers' Union Sun. FIRE IX McSWEEX STORE. jj )ver $30,000 Loss by Fire and j I Water at Tiniuionsville. j J Timnionsville, April 21.?Fire to-j light at about 10:30 o'clock dam-| ( iged the store and stock of goods of j he John J. McSween Company to | he extent of $30,000 to $40,000. <o opinion as to the origin of the lames is expressed. The blaze was liscovered by the night policeman 1 md the alarm given. In a very short vhile it had made alarming headvay, but effective work of the fire ] lepartment and the efficiency of the 1 lew water-works system made it pos- 1 ;ible to save the magnificent store milding. The greatest damage was i lone by the water. 1 The McSween Company, as is well j mown, conducts one of the largest general merchandise businesses in j Sastem Carolina, carrying a stock of ] joods valued at between $150,000 < o $200,000. Mr. John J. McSween, , >f this town, is president of the lompany. Beer Seizures in Barnwell. ' 1 Barnwell, April 18.?In a raid j nade early yesterday morning on he home of Mace Jeffcoat, Sheriff , r. H. Creech and his deputies cap- , ured about 200 half pints of whis- . :ey. Another raid on the black- . * < ;mith shop of Jeffcoat netted 17 half IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS I KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. state News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The State Sunday-school convention decided to meet in Sumter next year. The $7,000 yacht Geisha was completely wrecked at its wharf in Charleston on Saturday by a sudden and violent windstorm. Sheriff Creech of Barnwell seems to be something of a raider of blind tigers in that town. He has seized i lot of whiskey and beer recently. A special term of court is soon to be held at. Barnwell, and the governor has appointed Chas. Carroll Simms, Esq., as special judge to preside. John Gary, colored, was shot and killed with a shotgun on Sunday afternoon at Alcolu, Clarendon county, by John Barfield, white. No cause is ?iven for the killing. The coal chute at Hodges, on the Southern Railway, burned Friday night with a thousand tons of coal and three box cars, causing a loss of about six thousand dollars. Dr. J. H. E. Milhous, a prominent pitizen of Blackville, died suddenly last Thursday. He had practiced Jentistry for a number of years, and bad many friends who regret his untimely death. Rev. J. D. Chapman, D. D., former Dastor of the First Baptist church of A.nderson, now pastor of a church in 3cala, Fla., has accepted the position 3f financial agent of the Greenville female college. One of the striking features of the State Sunday-school conveniton, which met in Greenwood last week, was the parade. Over two thousand persons were in line, each man with a Bible under his arm. Eighty-two new indictments were handed out on Monday by Solicitor Otts at the Spartanburg court. The sases brought over from the previous ^ourt bring the number of cases on the criminal docket up to 114. Jesse Clifton Penny, Associated Press operator in the office of the News and Courier, committed suicide in his room in Charleston on Saturday. He was 30 years old and a fine young man. No cause is assigned. He was originally from Abbeville. Furman and Love Brown, white and brothers, shot and mortally wounded John Johnson, at Barnes Station, Anderson county, on Saturday, shooting 12 times in the presence of many bystanders, five shots taking effect. The cause is not stated. Immediately after the shooting the brothers fled over into Georgia. Politics in Charleston are under going rapid changes tnese aays. | Some time ago L. C. A. Roessler announced that he would run for sheriff against J. Elmore Martin, who now holds the office. Later he withdrew and Jno. P. DeVeaux entered the race, both Roessle:* and DeVeaux being allied with the Grace forces in Charleston. Now DeVeaux has withdrawn and the field is open for Capt. Martin. They do some queer things in political circles in Charleston, but what is behind these many changes no one seems to know. Tornado Near St. George. St. George, April 22.?A tornado swept within a few miles of St. George to-day shortly after noon, causing loss of life and wrecking a number of houses. Two lives are known to have been lost, while other injuries are reported. A son of Mr. Weathers is reported killed, wrhile two other children of Mr. Weathers are said to have suffered broken limbs. John Hunter is said to have been severely injured. A negro man, whose name could not be learned. was killed. The cyclone spent its force before reaching St. George, and no damage is reported in the town. The storm is said to have swept the town of Reevesville and Badham and extended to Aiken. Much damage is believed to have been left in the path of the terrific blow, while several other lives are believed to have been lost in addition to those reported near here. ' " ?? ...nl.ft r.1/1 Viar- ! I UU *.'<*11 llianc wju luinitm-c nui mon:ze with new surroundings by applying one coat of Campbell's Varnish Stain. These stains are transparent and impart a fine color and finish without obscuring the grain of the wood. Any inexperienced person can use them. Apply to G. O. Simmons for color card. i BANDITS LOOT SLEEPER. Force Nine Passengers to Hand Over Money. Chicago, April 21.?Nine persons were robbed of money or valuables, or both by three masked hold-up men who went through the sleeper Nottingham, of the Rock Island west-bound Golden State Limited, a few minutes after last midnight, at Sheffield, 111., forty miles east of Moline. After the robbers had finished their work they shot holes in the air signal tube connected with the engine, thus bringing the train to a standstill, and quickly made their escape. Under cover of three revolvers the porter was forced to point out to the outlaws the berths that were occupied. As soon as the robbers entered the Pullman they forced the porter to lock the doors. Only the occupants of one Pullman were disturbed. The Victims. Those who were robbed are: W. L. LeBlanc, New York, $5 and railroad ticket; Mary Herron, Chicago, $96; O. T. Benton, Oberlin, Kas., gold watch and diamond, valued at $150, and $250 cash; D. A. McFuller and wife, Fort Wayne, Ind., $95 and two watches valued at $60; J. B. Gomand, Phoenix, Ariz., $85. The presence on the train of the three robbers has not been accounted for. It is thought perhaps the men boarded the limited at the crossing of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad near which a Burlington train was held up some time ago. ?-??ii... _ rr_,;n nuilflft >"5LUp X imu. After the desperados had taker their loot they commanded the portei to pull the air tube as a signal for the engineer to stop the train. Wher the porter demurred the men punctured the tube with bullets fron their pistols. The firing of the revolvers was the only noise connected with the hold-up. It was stated at the general offices of the Rock Island here to-daj that a good description of the robbers was obtained, and it was furthei said that there were hopes of run ning them down. Many Towns Wiped Out. The following summary of th< flood situation in the Mississippi val ley was given out Wednesday morn ing: Parts of thirteen parishes 11 Northeastern Louisiana are to-da: facing a deluge unparalleled in th< history of disastrous floods of thi lower Mississippi valley. Numerous small towns in East Carroll and Mad ison parishes are already wiped out vast stretches of valley lands ar< covered by from six to twenty fee of water, and a wall of the devastat ing flood waters twenty feet higl and more than a mile wide is rush ing through the great Dog Tai crevasse near Alastia, La. Already thousands are homeless and destitute. What will be the tol when the waters from the Panthei Forest and Red Fork crevasses, n Arkansas, join with the sea of watei pouring through the Dog Tail bread no one can say. Parts of thirteei Louisiana parishes and two Arkan sas counties will be under water and a conservative estimate is thai the homeless in that territory wil toll at least 50,000, probably 75, 000. It is believed that territory 16( miles in length and from eight t( six miles in width will be inundated Rain and Wind in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., April 22.?Torrential rains, accompanied by high winds ranging from 60" to 90 miles an hour swept parts of Alabama and almosl all of Georgia early to-day. Sever persons are known to have been killed and scores injured. The damage to live stock and other property is reported severe. Streams are out ol their banks in south Georgia, and in many places railroad schedules have been disarranged. At Newborn, Ga., six persons were killed when a cyclone swept th&t ter ritory. At Brookside, near Birmingham, Ala., a negro was killed when a house fell in on him. From Bowden, Carroll county, Georgia, come reports of 20 injured, several fatally, when their homes were blown down over their heads. Reports from Quitman, Ga.. state that streams are overflowing as a result of continuous heavy rains. Railroad tracks have ben washed away, and all service on the Georgia Southern Railroad south of Quitman has been discontinued. Damages from the storm also are reported from Athens, Ga., Gainesville, Pendergrass and other points in nortn ueorgia. | FLOOD'S Fl'liV NOT TEMPERED. j Many Towns Inundated?Much Suffering Among Refugees. New Orleans, April 21.?News from the flooded area of the Mississippi Valley in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana continued to-day to be increasingly grave. Thousands of people, who were compelled to flee to higher places when the yellow flood invaded heir homes, have been cared for, but there are still many more who are in imperative need of aid. As the waters continue on their destructive way more appeals for help are being received by those in charge of the relief work. / It is estimated there are fifty towns and villages that have so far felt the effect of the flood. Some j MEN FACE FEARFUL CHARGE i THREE MEN ALLEGED TO HAVE COMMITTED BRUTAL ATTACK. Men Lodged in Jail at Spartanburg After Being Captured Near Greer. Spartanburg, April 22.?Caught in a dragnet which was thrown far and wide around Greer, three of four i white men accused of an atrocious i attack on a white woman of near that , place were lodged in the county jail 1 by Sheriff W. J. White to-night. The prisoners are Ben Littlefield, Boyce Littlefield and Claude Wright. The i fourth man, Robert McCarter, escap ed after being pursued to Tayfors, Greenville county. The chase will : be renewed to-morrow. With unparalleled boldness the four stormed the home of Henry Rollins on Saturday night, it is charged, during his absence, tore a shotgun from the grasp of Ernest Rollins and drove him away, wrecked , the house and subjected the alleged , woman victim to unmentionable ; abuse. Three of them attacked her in the house she says and the fourth, Claude Wright, after his companions , had fallen over in a drunken stupor, compelled her to accompany him into i the nearby woods, where he detained her the rest of the night. Mrs. Rol> lins, pursued part of the way by one of the boys, fled to the home of her [ brother-in-law, Robert Rollins, fath. er of Ernest. Robert and Ernest say i they were afraid to attempt the rescue of the other woman. A telegram was sent to Greenville l Sunday night. The local telegraph offices were closed but Sheriff White > was communicated with by long disl tance telephone this morning and . took the first train to Greer. In the i torrential downpour this morning . the chase was started. The alleged - crime had stirred the community and Sheriff White had many offers - of assistance. The posse was diviar ed into groups of two and three and - the country was scoured as with a r fine comb. Wright and the Little field boys were found in a patch of woods by J. B. Stansell and Russell Deshields, to wbom they surrendered without ado. McCarter was started up in a cotton mill village where ' he took to his heels and outdistanced his pursuers. Sheriff White followed him on foot as far as Taylors, where the trail was lost. 1 , 7 Pointed Paragraphs. * It is always the open season for 3 killing time. s The smaller the bribe the greater - the disgrace. ? How much does it cost you each 3 year to be sarcastic? t It is human nature to blame others - for most of our meanness. 1 The small boy by any other name - would be just as strenuous. 1 One good term deserves another ?as any officeholder will tell you. 3 Very soon after some engagements 1 are announced they are denounced, r The average excuse is so thin that i even a blind man ought to see r through it. i Many a young man's interest in an i heiress is the kind that looks like 6 - per cent. > As a matter of fact, there isn't any t one on earth to-day who is better 1 than you should be. A man isn't necessarily crooked > because he walks as if he were fol> lowing the line of a rail fence. ctror.ir i i ty-1 n o man ccdq q fflehinn JJVC1 J U AMMU v~ plate in a woman's magazine he is glad that his wife doesn't look any thing like it. A girl should never marry until ? she is fully competent to support a t husband, and then she shouldn't i marry any kind of a man. A man who is crazy for medals to ' show his importance needs a heap 5 more than he gets to do it. . "Dry" Trains in Ohio. i Passenger officials of Ohio railroads are in a quandary and it is ; not at all improbable that the sale of drinks in dining cars in this State will soon be a thing of the past. The law prevents the service of drinks in a dining car while passing through a , "dry" county or territory. There are now forty-six "dry" i counties in Ohio, eleven have not voted on county option and have sa loons, while thirty-one counties are "wet." As a temporary expedient the passenger agents of the principal lines have been furnished with maps of Ohio showing the "wet" and i "dry" counties in the State. The railroad officials have about come to i the conclusion that the sale of liquor i on trains, as handicapped by this i situation, is unprofitable and a liability rather than an asset. places are from two to fifteen feet under water, with little prospects of an early recession. Reports as to the loss of life differ. Those known to have perished total ten, all but one negroes. It is believed, however, that the list will be much larger when the interior of the affected district is penetrated by rescue parties. Conditions in the country overflowed by the Beulah, Miss., break, are extremely serious. High places in Bolivar county, never before inundated, are covered with three to four , feet of water. All women and children in that district have been taken to Greenville and Vicksburg. Much relief work remains to be done in that section, as appeals for help from both white and black inhabitants are continually being received at Vickshiirsr. where the headauarters of the relief bureau are established. Over a dozen towns have already been inundated from the Beulah break. At Nibletts, Miss., four miles south of the Beulah crevasse, where some alarm was felt for a portion of the levee Saturday, a large force of men is working day and night and it is believed a break will be averted. Great damage has been done to railroads running through the flooded countries. The distribution of supplies to? hundreds of victims marooned on plantations and in settlements in the neighborhood of Tallulah, La.,, began to-day. There is practically no change in the levee situation south of Vicksburg. -? ?. Freak Squall Hits Charleston. -:'l Charleston, April 22.?Additional reports yesterday from all sections | of the water front and from the city in general brought out little that was new in the way of damage from the severe and sudden storm that struck Charleston last Saturday afternoon,, the wind for about ten minutes blowing at the rate of 66 miles an hourThe principal damage done was tt> small boats along the eastern water front, the most exposed point being the Yacht Club pier, where a number of the finest yachts and gasoline launches owned in the city were moored. Reports from Sullivan's Island yesterday indicated little damage from the squall. At Station 26 Vz a large outbuilding on the premises owned by Mr. H. O. Strohecker was blown down. A number of trees were badly damaged by the high wind and several fences demolished. The wind did little or no damage at the Navy Yard. None of the boats were disturbed, and officers at the yard expressed surprise at the dam- ' age wrought in the city, especially the destruction of the Geisha off the Yacht Club pier and the injury of other small craft. The squall of Saturday will go on record as a freak storm. There was a heavy rainfall from early morning. All day the barometer fluctuated, and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon the mercury began behaving in a manner most extraordinary, dropping in less than half an hour .32 of an inch, and then rising as suddenly 18. For about ten minutes the wind blew 66 miles an hour from the southeast, spreading dismay along the eastern water front. The yacht Geisha was reduced to kindling wood, the Waterwitch was badly damaged, several small boats were turned over, one lost her jib-boom and another her figurehead. The crisis came suddenly, and it took prompt and decisive action on the part of those who happened to be aboard to save their craft. The army dredges Sumter and Winyah Bay rode the storm out on the bay rather than run the risk of being pounded at the wharves, as was the case during the hurricane last August when one of them was badly damaged. Monroe Cauthen, an 80-year-old Confederate veteran, was run over and killed by a Southern freight train in Lancaster on Thursday.