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LIGHTNING ELECTROCUTES TWO. j I _____ Others Injured and Property Dam- I Mai aged in Macon Storm. Macon, Ga., Aug. IS.?Violent | 1 lightning, which centered about Mer- j whi cer University at Tatnall square this of afternoon, caused the death of two mil persons, injury of two others, dam- alw age to many buildings and wound up lurj in the fashionable Vineville district tori by causing a panic in a Presbyterian 413 church, directly across the street site from where a bolt had torn a corner and from a residence and set fire to the etei building. and The dead?Mrs. N. A. Cranford, mai 55 years old, and granddaughter, the Flora Sullivan, 5 years old, of Cor- of 1 dele. der< The injured?N. A. Cranford, 69 wor years old, retired planter, of Cor- mac dele, and his granddaughter, Vir- soli ginia Sullivan, 10 years old. The Cranford has little chance to live, upp The Sullivan girls are orphans. The it c Cranfords came here Friday to visit wel their children. While crossing from met one yard to another during the elec- ries trical display they were felled as if and by a bullet. Mrs. E. B. Campbell, -a n who witnessed the four persons fan can as if dead, became insane. She has S not been restored to tier normal ninj senses. met - Jy p Byrnes on Calhoun. ^ot . the At a campaign meeting at Ridge' reef land recently Congressman James F. colu Byrnes told of the experience of his opponent, Col. H. D. Calhoun, with ful the negro vote in Beaufort. firs< Congressman Byrnes explained his The 0 0? vote on the Bristow amendment, showing that in voting for it he was pho but carrying out the instructions ta1, sent to the South Carolina delega- lent tion by the South Carolina legisla- Rob tnre, and that three-fourths of the Democrats in the senate voted with bori him, and showed letters from Sena- 1 ftor Tillman, Congressman Adamson unu coal and others sustaining his position. He stated that Mr. Calhoun was the eler only one who thought it wrong, and ir0E he thought so because he wanted to gra' go to congress. 7"8] Congressman Byrnes said that Mr. Calhoun stated that he was afraid of Yankees and of negro domination, A but that he (Byrnes) was afraid of for neither, and did not believe the Cor 0 people of South Carolina were. He Moi said that Mr. Calhoun talked "negro" and simply because he thought he could figh fool the people; that he never under- fell stood what tfce trouble was between aidi ? " I t cainoun ana iue ue^iuce uuu< u* x went to sBeauforit and learned that rem before going to Maryland and Geor- rich gia Mr. Calhoun had lived there, ran biv< for mayor, and that his friends, on tha the night before election, had cor- Inst ^ railed about seventy-five negroes in ped c a hall, where they amply fed and gun served liquid refreshments to the figh dusky voters. After considerable earl feeding and refreshing, the head nig- The . gers addressed the crowd, saying: ly : "The time am now come to perseed life, to de bisiness ob de occasion. White a folks call 'um de caucus, an' only de of : true blue kin remain. All you nig- ally gers who is oppose de politics ob Mr. con Harry D. Calhoun 'kin 'scuse de wer hall." "And, bless the Lord," said mai Mr. Byrnes, "all but three niggers ertj 'scused de hall. Some of old man lov? George Holmes's lieutenants met the zin coons as they came out, piloted them to another hall, where they were A kept all night and voted early next F morning for Holmes, and Calhoun Nor has been mad with the negro ever his since." "But," said the congress- $22 man, "the thing for Mr. Calhoun to trie do is to go back to old Aaron Mid- mai dleton and the other negroes and mai r , ask for the money wasted on their ann refreshments, and fight it out with tuit them instead of bothering us with eve his fight with the negroes of Beau- ]\ fort who went back on him." say: Mr. Byrnes told how #he had sen worked hard and finally got through mir the national house a bill to have the and United States government aid in maintaining the roads of the coun- dur try; of the drainage surveys he had Oct worked for and helped to pass; of my the improvement of Archer's Creek; oth of discovering an almost forgotten cor act through which he secured for rut many old Confederate soldiers $150 qui each for horses taken from them af- the ter the surrender; of the work he you had done in the committee on banks sen and banking, and of other ways he Mr, had labored for the good of the peo- see pie of his district and State. fra Lever to Head Committee. ^ __ tha Washington, Aug. 16.?The defeat anc yesterday of Congressman John niu Lamb, of Virginia, by former Gov. Po: Montague will make Congressman Lever, of South Carolina, chairman of the house committee of agricul- ? ture at the end of the former's term, ent March 4, 1913. This is one of the ing most important committee chairman- er, ships that could possibly be given a nig man from the South. Mr. Lever is Sa? a practical farmer and probably fou knows as much about agriculture in i its various forms as any other man to in congress. rep m en( Rub-My Tism will cure you. ser HE IRON PILLAR OF DELHI. de of Welded Metal Wrought Yoi 1,500 Years Ago. "he famous "Iron Pillar" of Delhi, J ich stands in the inner courtyard in < the "Qutb" mosque, about nine the es south of the modern city, has age ays excited the interest of metal- mo: ?ists and engineers as well as his- age ans. It was probably made about of * j jj . ? . r> f T* a. u., ana movea iu its jjibscui i * in 1052. As it is between 23 era' 24 feet high, 16 inches in diam- ate at the base, and 12 at the top, in I probably weighs six tons, its con lufacture at so early a period as attc fifth century partakes somewhat inal :he marvellous. And it was ren- crir 3d even more of a manufacturing der, ider when the discovery was city le some years ago that it was a for d piece of welded wrought iron. tak< t curious yellowish tinge of the and er part had led to the belief that is < onsisted of brass or bronze. The moi ding together of such a mass of I: al in those primitive days, centu- and before the era of modern forges J drop hammers, must have been the lighty troublesome job for King T dra's iron workers. Mrs ome years ago Sir Alexander Cun- Cav jham had a rough analysis of the ent< al in the pillar made, which final- wor iroved it to be wrought iron. Sir Jon >ert Hadfield, a past president of poli Pritish Iron and Steel Institute, A! >ntly obtained new samples of the suit imn and subjected them to a care- to 1 and very thorough analysis?"the hus ; through analysis," he believes. * result was as follows: "Carbon, two I; silicon, 0.046; sulphur, 0.006; the sphorus, 0.114; iron, 99.72; to- drei 99.966." Plainly a really excel- mat , type of wrought iron, says Sir Mrs >ert, and much to be wondered at was in the date of its manufacture is le in mind. The small quantity sulphur indicates the use of an ? sually pure fuel, probably char- kin! 1. The absence of manganese, an pro, aent usually present in wrought br0 l, is also of interest. The specific , , loai srity of the metal was found to be . . L.?N. Y. Evening Post. 1 The First American Heroine. kin; _ is s .nd the first woman who fought ing American liberty was Gunner tak bin's widow, at the capture of bet mt Washington, by the Scotch Gas Hessians. In the midst of the him t Gunner Corbin, struck by a ball, his dead at his wife's feet as she was tim ng him in his duties. dev t was not an uncommon occur- no? :e for Irish women (as a Lime- con :) to share the dangers of the bro macks, as instance, the deeds of son 5 * t otner nerome, iviuny nwucj. iruj :antly, without a word, she step- the into his place and worked the no with redoubled skill and vigor, ers. ting bravely until she sank to the trui th, pierced by three grapeshot! in < ?ugh terribly wounded, she finalrecovered, but was disabled for l soldier's half pay and the value a soldier's suit of clothes annuren voted her by the Continental gress (but so6n discontinued) was e all the reward that the first wo1 who fought for American libr ever received for such heroic c i, courage and suffering.?Maga; of American History. sup Voice Against Free Seeds Graft, ney tepresentative Robert N. Page, of . is th Carolina, almost alone, raised ^ ' voice against the expenditure of w n ( 6,940 for the free seeds graft. He C3,s< d to have it cut out, but it rened in and it will continue to re- . mg n in until the farmers who are nallv insulted bv this flimsy gra " - or y get the habit of voting against 6X6 ry member who supports it. sen dr. Page is quite right when he , s these seeds of doubtful value are , stai t annually to the farmer to "reid him of the approach of spring ger. [ the congressional primaries." 'I have gone through my district ing a campaign in September and . ober, have gone into the homes of farmer constituents, one after the g er, and in the old cupboard in the Joe ner of the living room, where the ibish is put which they are not te willing to throw away, but that y consider of little or no value, J i will find the garden seeds I have aro t them," is the frank statement of woi , Page. When he asked why the in ds were not planted, his no less Am nk constituents told him that cha pv rouldn't deDend unon them and "in t they were afraid to risk them, sho 1 that their ground was worth too eve ch to take the risk."?Houston anc st. sev fiel Takes Her Life. ^ Spartanburg, Aug. 15.?Despond- poi because of the continued suffer- wo with pella^-a Mrs. Minnie Coop- haj aged 30, committed suicide to- the ht by drowning in a pond near in con's mill, where her body was one :nd later. my She made an unsuccessful attempt be hang herself last week and has bu] ieatedly declared her intentions of ling her life. She attended church prvices last night. gus - - . . . WIDOW'S SLAYER SILENT. mg Woman who Killed Nashville Beauty Refuses to Talk. sashville, Term., Aug. 15.?A day custody did not operate to unseal lips of Mrs. Leola Hooper Jones, d 24, who last night shot and alst instantly killed Mrs. Alva Cave, d 30, widow of Steve Cave, a son the venerable Rev. R. Lin Cave, Nashville, who is the chaplain genl of the United States ConfederVeterans. Mrs. Jones appeared the city court this afternoon acipanied by her father and by her >rney and formally waived exam:ion. She was bound over to the ainal court on a charge of murJudge Levin, who was on the court bench, acting tempcprarily Judge Killen, would not under3 the responsiblity of fixing bond, Mrs. Jones was sent to jail. It 3xpected bond will be fixed to row morning. a court Mrs. Jones appeared cool collected. ealousy is generally accepted as prompting cause of the tragedy, 'he tragedy occurred last night, . Jones going to the home of Mrs. e and shooting her twice, one ball jring the heart. The wounded can died in a few minutes. Mrs. es was arrested en route to the ce station to surrender. Irs. Jones some time since, filed for absolute divorce and is said lave been living apart from her band. Irs. Cave's husband died about years ago and at the time of shooting she and her two chila, a girl of 5 and a boy of 2, were ting their home with her mother, r. Sophia Linhos. Mrs. -Cave noted for her beauty. Man Hits Brother. Florence, Aug. 16.?E. B. Gas s, of Lake City, a well-to-do and rpinent man of that town, was ught to Florence to-night and ?ed in jail to await the result of iries said to have been inflicted him on his brother, A. W. Gass, at Lake City this morning. It aid that A. W. Gaskins was drinkand his brother attempted to e him home. An altercation arose ween them on the way, and E. B. kins struck his brother, knocking i to the pavement, where he struck head. , He walked about some e after this, but later in the day eloped alarming symptoms and is 7 considered in a most critical dition. Whether the blow of the ther, the fall to the sidewalk or le other blow inflicted the injury m which he is likely to die is problem to be solved. There was hard feelings between the brothE. B. Gaskins is one of the stees of that school district and svery way a worthy citizen. Another Move in Jones Case. Columbia, Aug. 16.?Chief Justice y in an order to-day stayed the littitur in the case of John J. es. the Branchville attorney, who > convicted in the Orangeburg nty court on the charge of: killing i Pearlstine. Several days ago, and following the rming of the lower court by the rerne court, W. C. Wolfe, attorfor Jones, wrote Chief Justice y in part as follows: "Mr. Jones now confined in the county jail [ we are undecided at this moment 2ther to take an appeal in this e to the United States Supreme rt, we laid foundation for carryup the questions involved in our eal to the State Supreme court, to ask for a rehearing or to ask cutive clemency or to enter on tence." i.s to the last named course it is ted that the attorneys will ask t Jones be given permission to ve his time on the Orangeburg nty chain gang. At the time the tence was pronounced the law rered that all prisoners sentenced over ten years be confined in the te penitentiary. The sentence of Les was ten years and thirty days. The American Flag in India. ^mong the souvqnirs of a trip und the world brought back by a man whose tour came to an end Chicago a few days ago is an erican flag which the tourist pursed in India. "I saw it," she said, a vender's shop and bought it to iw that our flag is not the same srywhere." The souvenir is silk 1 hand made. It has eight red and en white stripes and on the blue d are thirteen stars and the lerican shield. "The strangest nt about the thing is this," the man added, when she showed the "the man from whom I bought i flag insisted that it was correct composition and that the little i which I carried in an envelope in handbag was the flag as it used to before the civil war."?N. Y. Triae. A.11 children's wash suits at half ce. Write F. G. MERTINS, Austa, Ga. ? k" ' iAiJi - - ' _ .> TO STIMULATE FARM WORK. Attractive Proposition Endorsed byState Chamber of Commerce. Spartanburg, Aug. 15.?The board of directors of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce held a meeting this afternoon in this city, several matters of importance coming up for discussion in connection with the future work of the organization. A set of by-laws, as drafted by a sub-committee, was unanimously adopted, together with tentative plans for the financing of the chamber. The selection of a subscription solicitor, managing secretary and publicity manager, after a prolonged discussion, was finally left to a committee of three members of the board. Applications were considered from commercial secretaries and other city and State building experts scattered over 17 different States in the Union. A proposition submitted by the National board of Grain Exchanges to the State Chamber through Secretary A. W. McKeand, was unanimously adopted by the meeting because of its many attractive features. According to the proposition every county in the State will receive a donation of $1,000 annually for a period of three years for the purpose of advancing its agricultural interests provided the commercial organizations in the respective counties raise an equal sum. The combined total is to be placed at the disposal of the government farm demonstrator in the county as he sees fit in the advancement of agricultural interests of the people. Several counties in the State have announced their acceptance of the terms, which are made without any strings tied to them, but simply to insure the country a safe margin, in the way of agricultural products in time of droughts and need. Snake Skin Gowns Latest. For once fashion has taken a direction which promises to be of general benefit to humanity. Womankind or at least such as have access to the ( 4 longest purses, are snortiy 10 use snakeskin for garments for quite every day wear. One can scarcely imagine a more poetic revenge by the daughters of Eve on their old enemy, the serpent tempter. Whether the new robes will prove as artistic as is expected remains to be seen. They will certainly lend themselves in skillful hands to the emphasizing of whatever graces there may be in the person of the wearer, and if the fashion thins out the number of these dangerous reptiles all over the world humanity will owe a debt of gratitude to the inventor of new modes. We may yet come to see python skin sold by the yard over the dry goods counters, for the python is a big beast, occasionally reaching, when full grown, thirty feet in length and a foot or more in diameter. Thus, apparently, a single skin might supply enough stuff to make an ordinary gown of modern lines. What the cost will be one cannot yet say. It will obviously be high, for serpents of the largest size are not to be met with every day. The market price of skins, in view of coming demand, has already gone up to a very high figure, and in Borneo, Sumatra and all over the Malay archipelago native hunters are scour' hv thp lllg me w nuei iicdo icm^vvu k,j offers of dealers in Paris ancf Vienna, and killing and capturing every big snake they meet with. Properly prepared snakeskin is both soft and durable. The anaconda is already "bespoke" for the latest thing in motor coats, and thus used makes an attractive novelty. Made up in delicate shades of cream and brown and lined with satin to match the material, forms most attractive garments, which are especially desirable by reason of their lightness. They weigh almost nothing at all and, it is reported, "never wear out." Four fair-sized skins make a touring coat, but there is some trouble in matching them precisely.?London cablegram to Chicago Interocean. "life hot worth living I is the way Miss Alta Abel of West Baden, Ind., summed up her existence after having sought in vain for health. She writes: "I was a complete wreck J nnd n orrnnq ?always ureu, wuxu uui auu I had to spend about one-third of my time in bed. "Vinol, your delicious cod liver and Iron tonic, was recommended, and I can truly say it has done me more good than all the medicine I ever toofc in my life. That nervous and tired feeling is all gone. I have gained in ? T A 1 health, flesh and strength, unui i ieei like another person." (We guarantee this testimonial to he genuine.) What Vinol did for Miss Abel, we know it will do for every nervous, run-down, overworked, tired, thin and discouraged woman in this vicinity. Try a bottle of Vinol with the understanding that your money will be returned if it does not help you. Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Highest prices paid for beef cattle. H. G. DELK, Bamberg, S. C. j V . J ' That is what everybody says who visits our -i J __i f- TL^ store ana patronizes our luuiiuuii. i ue ui urns are as cold as ice can make them and the store is kept cool by our electric fans, which are running all the time. It is a mighty fine place to spend a few hours every day. We ^ also handle an up-to-date line of Drugs and Patent Medicines. Prescriptions a Specialty. ^? ? ??J 1-1 m- (a ttaii (Lni tirlifif tome m ami lei us piuvc tu jruu uiai nuai we claim is true. Politeness to all is our motto. BAMBERG PHARMACY |i J. R. OWENS, Proprietor. '"^1 ["CTRIKE WHILE THE! ?S ! J IRON IS HOT." WEBSTER J y# A ptjOoloqic*/ *wwd mfttajfun j|| <rf mam, ?lU time 4 wjucl He. rtatutt -his Gurnmgs, w4ieifi^r ^reat ar ^ | small. % IiupM'timt areot?-~ In.jimitclt);<)reala> if Snutd^ , .XfnH I! at tlial mismeut a. iu,st iuohiovL | S 9 J j . '... * fjljj iis moie 0mA \ portion ser asufe to t&rn f |p| more, the/n fcfu e&rnvwj power u>itt bejflin to <wi<l ou a. iusB&c ftllS iAlcA luAs to (jreaitest widepeja^ewce. Our baotlbro*] ore conser- ;||j| wiluK., amd admm.vi{ji/rtl jor tfti cdbso- 'flip lutr security fff- atl (ttpositbrs. m FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK 4 per ct. Paid Quarterly on Savings Accounts. Ehrhardt, S. C. ??y f f Inot the best! I! H Horses and Mules ever brought to M I 1| this market in our stables at this _ - |B 5 | time, for we have had some mighty 1 1 f ' IRl good ones heretofore, but we do ? 11 1| claim these to be just as good as any I we have ever handled, and if you will p, t ? 6 ? come and look we know we can ^ | ( ^ O please you. See ours before buying Q ! | mo o II %g is all we ask. |i| JONES BROS.,!J 1 BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA, j | A A 1^ Ml IMju J I 11 If 1 9 8| rl aj V'l -Lj I ||kl|9W] If vl 11111 I li J U IVi i Has since 1894 given "Thorough instruction under positively Christian f* influences at the lowest possible cost." RESULT: It Is to-day with Its faculty of 32, a boarding patronage of 358 ?+"/*?? + a 19 unH it* nlant worth SI 40.000 ?vo oiuucuii uuujr vji uu? - ? , ? 7 THE LEADING TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA ) $150 pays all charges for the year, Including table board, room, lights, steam heat, laundry medical attention, physical culture, and tuition inal subjects except music and elocution. ""For catalogue and application blank address* REV. THOMAS ROSSER REEVES, B. A., Principal, BLACKSTONE, VA. f '