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r One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1912. Established 1891. * COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS ! *1 SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the ] County and Elsewhye. > ' Colston Cullings. < i Colston, Sept. 9.?Miss Ethel Mc- ( a t:n j at: annia lUiiictiJ. <auu :uxspcs i>aicuc auu auu.iv i Mae Kearse spent Saturday night 1 with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McMillan. ? Mr. and Mrs. Halcod Ayer visited , their parents Saturday. . Mr. and Mrs. Purdy Ayer visited ( l their parents Saturday and Sunday. ' p Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Clayton. " Mr. Will Sandifer, of Denmark, and Mr. Raymond Smoak, of Neeses, . spent Saturday and Sunday at the ' home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clayton. . Miss Virginia Jennings spent Satur- ^ day night with Miss Lottie Clayton, j Mr. Dawson Kearse wsa very sick 1 * last Saturday and Sunday. I i Miss Molly Vallentine and Miss , Elise Gray, of Cope, spent last week . < with Mr. and Mrs. H. J. McMillan. , Miss Louise Copeland spent last J week with Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Me- , Millan. ( Miss Llewellyn Zeigler, of Clear ' Pond, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Joe ( Beard. There was a large crowd at Colston Sunday afternoon to preaching. ( Denmark Doings. j Denmark, Sept. 10.?Mr. J. Alvin 1 " Riley, of Clemson, was at home last 1 , week. { Mrs. G. W. Goolsby and son, G. { i W., Jr., spent several days in Fort ( Motte recently. 1 *' Willie Califf was a visitor in Nor- ( way last week. * Miss Josephine Faust returned 1 home Sunday, after a visit of several weeks in Savannah, Ga. Miss Louise Zeigler spent several * days last week in Bamberg. ( Miss Lillian Goolsby is the guest ( s * of Mrs. Carter, in Fairfax. Miss Kathleen Grier, of North, spent a few days this week with j friends here. 1 I 1, c Land of the Sky. 1 i Asheville, N. C., Sept. 8.?Your ^ correspondent has not been station- , ary in this beautiful country, but this city is claiming her attention this week. Its motto is: ''To Buncombe Hall, Welcome all." c Asheville, to the Westward of the J crest of the Blue Ridge (of which ( Mt. Mitchell 6,711 feet above sea * level, is the highest peak east of the i Rocky Mountains) has a small rain- < fall (that dread of the tourists?a v ; wet summer and fog obscuring mountain views.) Only in July, * * generally, do they have much rain. * Perhaps the finest water system in 1 the world is here and the purest ' water. It is brought to the city by gravity line, 20 miles distant, from 1 the foot of Mt. Mitchell. The city 1 i t owns water shed of 10,000 acres virgin forest, no habitation thereon, insuring water purity, (guarded by 1 wardens.) One can take a street car at the depot and ride miles, see- 1 ing all the principal buildings here, and a trip to Riverside Park for only 1 5 cents! But, if we wish to see the ^ palace of G. W. Vanderbilt we drive > there on certain days when permisison J is given to tourists to drive over the 1 grounds, visit the dairies, hot houses, ' etc. The house was built under di- * rection of the famous architect Rich- ( ard Hunt (and we are told by a lady who has been there, that it much resembles the famous chateau at Blois, ^ France.) The Biltmore estate contains 12,000 acres and the hunting | preserve 120,000 acres, known as Pisgah Forest. The herd of import- j. 1 * ed Jerseys are interesting. An Hen- j < dersonville (20 miles from here) ] South Carolina day and Florida day \ was recently observed at Laurel Park. So many representative citi- < zens of these States having invested ( there, much interest was displayed, j Fine speeches were made, the ladies j reciting, reading and singing be- ] tween speeches. The woods near both ] of these cities are aglow with bloom- \ ing laurel, rhododendron, Queen < Annie's lace, wild astor, double and single golden rod, large daisies (re~ ^ Vvl ^ ?>. i.'Uy-w Ax'r\/\nr-i T*V\ Qhoo.to ^ Q i CV ) StJiii Uiillg liiC CApCllOJI^ UIIUOIU uuio; j and so many other kind! Chinqua- ' pins are ripe, and the "summer giri" wears long necklaces of them. When we see the first chestnut, we'll know J that our days on these lovely hills are numbered, for they come with ] the "sere and yellow leaf." The 1 boys and girls are making wry faces J because school will soon start again. S. L. S. Rub-My Tism will cure you. i v STOREKEEPER SHOT INTRUDER. Vegro Likely to Dio from Wounds Inflicted by George Creticos. ! With a policeman stationed at his bedside in the Roper Hospital for fear that he might escape, Samuel Moultrie, a colored man, who was shot in the nose and left hand by 3eorge Creticos, white, early yesterday, was reported last night as being in a serious condition, and with little chance of recovery. The shooting occurred at 161 Rutledge avenue, where, it is alleged, Moultrie broke into the nouse ana was suui wuuc searching the premises. If Moultrie should recover he will face a charge Df burglary and larceny. The robbery of Creticos's store, at 161 Rutledge avenue, took place early yesterday morning. Creticos, who sleeps on the premises, says that on the night of the robbery he locked the door. About 4 o'clock in the morning, however, he was roused Dy mysterious noises. He listened for i while and heard some one walking around the store. Creticos got up and legan an investigation. He secured his pistol and went into the store, tvhere, he says, he found the negro. Creticos stated that as soon as the legro discovered that he was cornerad he made an attempt to attack the storekeeper. As the negro advanced on him, Creticos fired twice. The first bullet passed through the man's left land. The second, which, it is :hought, will prove fatal, lodged in :he nose. The negro was immedi itely taken to the Roper Hospital ind the bullet probed for. The operation, however, was unsuccessful, md it is believed that the ball, after ' entering the bridge of the nose, ' glanced off and went down into the 1 nan's stomach. Entrance into the Creticos store vas effected by smashing in one of ;he window glasses. The only thing ' >f any value taken by the robber was me dollar in currency, which was :ound on Moultrie's person. Creticos appeared before Magis:rate O'Shaughnessy yesterday mornng and swore out a warrant for the irrest of Moultrie on the charge of mrglary and larceny. Owing to the legro's serious condition, the prelim- , nary hearing was postponed.?News tnd Courier, September 5th. Engineer Crushed to Death. Macon, Ga., Sept. 5.?Train No. 6, )f the Southern Railway, bound from Atlanta to Macon, left the rails on a mrve a mile and a half north of Hoi- ; :on, ten miles frdm Macon, late this ifternoon. The locomotive was turned over in the ditch. Dead and injured: C. S. Scribner, of Atlanta, engineer, crushed to death under driv- i ng tvheel. He had been with the Southern for 22 years and has a wife md family in Atlanta. James Burden, white fireman, fa\ii\y injured, taken to Macon hospitil with broken back and left leg iroken. Conductor W. N. Sloan, of Macon, lands lacerated and left leg injured. A. M. Johnson, flagman, of Macon, iruised about body. J. W. Cranford, of Macon, baggagenaster, both legs injured and hands acerated. Henry C. Walker, negro porter, of Atlanta, right leg broken. None of :he passengers were seriously injured. Three coaches that did not leave :he rail were brought back to this ;ity by the relief train. The injured ver taken to the hospitals. J. C. Mattox, travelling man, Atlanta, legs and body injured, at Ma:on hospital. Spine Patched With Leg Bone. Philadelphia, Sept. 5.?A remarkable cure of curvature of the spine is announced at the Methodist hospital aere. The case is that of Adele Weinaerg, a young girl hunchback. The surgeon removed part of one if the lumbar vertebrae, found to be **" -? J J ~ r% liseaseu, illiu iii xls yi<3.v;t: uacu a. tion of leg bone. The plaster cast in which the child was encased following the operation has now been removed, and she is as erect as though her spine had been normal since birth. He Was Willing to Help. The two ladies had been to the Dpera and were discussing it on their way home in the street car. "I think 'Lohengrin' is wonderful," said the lady in the large hat. "It's not bad," said the one in purple velvet, as she handed the conductor the fare, "but I just love 'Carmen.' " The conductor blushed. "I'm sorry, miss," he said apologetically, "I'm married. You might try the motorman though; I think he's single." IN THE PALMETTO STATE 1 ML SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick of Reading?Paragraphs About er Men and Happenings. e\ or Union county's handsome new court house was dedicated last week with appropriate ceremonies. The s 1 building and furnishings cost nearly m $100,000. 01 ai It will be pleasant news to the . many friends of the Carlisle Fitting ^ School that Mrs. Stella Bronson will be matron of the girls' hall the comer ing sesison. The school is fortunate ^ in securing her services. ^ C. W. Birchmore, editor of the Wateree Messenger at Camden,-was st nnnnfir eimQrinTon^ont nf pd- __ tests were settled. It seems to be tr the purpose of the committee to probe the whole matter to the bot- ro torn. We hope this will be done. th yc PICKEREL STEALS ROD. w; th Takes K tel Man's Line and Waits of Late to be Caught. bi le A hotel manager just back from a al fishing trip at Long lake, in the Ad- ol irondacks, tells a story of a pickerel W( that stole his line and rod, carried B] them into deep water and there hung pe around for three-quarters of an hour ri( to give him another chance. The g| manager says he can produce wit- ^ nesses if necessary, according to the New York Sun. "Of course the lake is full of pick- ni erel," he prefaced, "but my luck had si. been poor until one day a New York te school teacher volunteered to take me to a place where I could get a qj good bite. He rowed for two hours. m I was seated in the stern with about 150 feet of line trailing. It became monotonous, so I stuck the rod be- n? hind me while I took out my pipe. n( "I had just struck a match when le suddenly my rod was jerked out of of the boat. The heavy reel took it to of the bottom, and I could see it resting tr in four feet of water. We were near Judge Green's camp, and as neither of us had any fancy for going over- jn board we decided to get a man to re- pj +%r\A TVa i rl ncrnf o mQTl A _ UU V ei LUC 1UU. ?? c uiuu L QVb U. but found a hoe. Then returning to the spot where the rod had gone overboard, we found it had disppearte "My companion was for giving up sj, the search, but I was positive that rod Gl was somewhere in the neighborhood. 0f Knowing the instinct of a fish to v make for deep water when struck I ^ directed my companion to row pi straight out from shore. tr "We found the rod lying at the Wi bottom in eight feet of water. The w hoe handle was just long enough jn with the aid of my arms to get it un- ^ der the rod, which I raised to the surface. The reel was stuck and I be- ar gan to pull the line in hand over q( hand. pi "Suddenly I felt a jerk. The thiev- re ing pickerel was still on the end. I 0f had to work him carefully, and as I th was sure I could not land him other- ^ wise I got my companion to stand by Sb with a dip net. When the fish show- nc ed up alongside it was scooped in. It th weighed six pounds." If the Jones men stunea tne Danoi boxes, as Governor Blease claims, is it not funny that the Jones men are ^ demanding a complete investigation ar while the Blease men are opposing it??Times and Democrat. A: The heavy rains of this week are pi doing considerable damage to the of cotton crop. a ClCtLCU vuuui; iuv>vuuvuv Wi. V- ,_,J. ucation in the recent primary, and ^ Col. E. H. Aull, editor of Newberry W( Herald and News, is in the second jj( race for the same office in his coun- l( ty, with bright prospects of success. 0l You can't keep working men down. State Chairman Jno. Gary Evans of has issued an appeal to the people m of the State to contribute for the ex- gc penses of the investigation of the h? recent primary. The committee has ai fVia fimrtc trt mate the investi^a- on UV/b 1UUUW VV w tion, and must depend on those who de desire honest elections to come to ar the rescue. Contributions should be at sent to Col. Wilie Jones, treasurer of yc the committee. At a meeting of the State execu- Ci tive committee, held in Columbia last tr Thursday, a committee was appoint- so ed to thoroughly investigate the re- in cent primary, and a resolution, offer- Ci ed by Hon. R. I. Manning, of Sumter, sis was adopted, postponing the primary he for State officers until the matter P< was fully investigated. Therefore, to State officers were not voted for ca in the primary held Tuesday of It) this week, and only county con id yet more Diooa; Diooa 01 uciues, ood of women, blood of old men. nd there I was, shut in, a hopeless 'isoner, seeing these people killed f in batches, ten, fourteen, twenty day, frightful murders, committed PRISONER IN AFRICAN WILDS. isisonary Held for Twenty-Three Years by a Negro Napoleon. After 23 years' peril in the heart Africa, much of the time a prisonin a great black Babylon where imeless horrors were committed ery day, where were hills of skulls id where batches of slaves were itchered for the mere joy of the ght of blood, Daniel Crawford, a issionary connected with the Plymlth Brethren, has returned to I^ritn on furlough and.has just been ven an official reception at his nape town of Greenook. How he penetrated from the westn coast to the great Katanga couny, in the southeast corner of the Dngo country, north of Rhodesia, rms a strange chapter in his life ory. At first he was with two othmissionaries?Fred Arnot and Mr. me (brother of W. R. Lane, the ell-known Free Churchman)?and, i said to a representative of the Dndon Chronicle, "we had to bore ir way in. For hundreds of miles frica is blocked by impudent chiefs r the Rob Roy type, whose only otto is 'Own up and pay up.' You > 15, 17, 2U stupid utile miles, perlps you merely cross a river, and lother 'Rob Roy McGregor Afrinus' meets you with extortionate imands. He looks at your jacket id he wants your jacket; he looks the shirt underneath and he wants >ur shirt." The two missionaries whom Mr. -awford accompanied soon peneated as far as they desired, and to lve the difficulty of getting right to the heart of the interior, Mr. awford attached himself to a aver's caravan. "Along the coast," ; says, "ther are a number of these artugese slavers, but they employ a 11 of black cuthroats, who load the ravans up with powder and flintck guns, and over the hills and far vay they go on their 'pacific peneation of Central Africa. "And it was then I saw the horrs of the slave trade. All along e path we saw the shackles and the ?kes of slaves who had died on the ay down to the coast. To prevent e slaves escaping at. night the legs each four of them are tightly inched together in- wooden shacks. Dozen of shackles were found ong the same route in 1909; not d shackles, but green shackles still et with the sap of the tre- Though ritain prevents slaves being shipid to Jamaica or elsewhere in Afca, there is always any amount of avery up the back path. Africa res on slave labor. "It was the nightmare of my life the interior. At all hours of the ght natives came to me saying 'Sir, r, we are all killed,' and they would 11 me of the attacks by the slavers, women dragged off, of men killedl ften the slavers were led by white en, men sporting false names, and ere lay the difficulty. I have got ites, name of town wiped out, imes of all the victims, but I have )t got the name of the Portuguese ader. These men put on the mask a false name, and under the shield it they do the devil's work in Cenal Africa." The caravan to which Mr. Crawrd attached himself to get into the terior, however, was bound for a ace where there were always slaves be obtained cheap?the capita) of e great Emperor Mushidi. "Years before," says Mr. Crawrd, "Mushidi journeyed into the inrior with his wife, Kapapa, and two aves, total of four, and this terrible lartette smashed up all the tribes Central Africa. Mushidi was a sritable black Napoleon of Central frica. His brain worked with the ecision of a machine. TriDe aiter ibe fell under his sway, and thus as evolved a great black Babylon, here all the tribes formed a seethg mob and where slaves poured in r hundreds and thousands. "It was a city of scores of thousids of people, certainly over 100,)0. And there for years I was kept 'actically a prisoner, for Mushidi fused to let me go. It was a case 'Will you walk in my parlor?' said e spider to the fly. Partly, perips, it was a case of pride, for Muddi wanted his enemies north, )rth, south, east and west to know at he had caught a white man. "Life there was awful," and Mr. :awford shuddered as he recalled e scenes. "Hills of skulls all over e place, and drastic executions lily in full swing. Blood, blood, - - * ? i ? -1 THE SECOND PRIMARY HELD LIGHT VOTE CAST AT ELECTION LAST TUESDAY. Kay Elected Sheriff, Bruce Supervisor, and Chitty County Commissioner?Election Quiet. The second primary election for ( Bamberg county took place/Tuesday of this week, and on account of the rain during a great part of the day 1 a light vote was polled. Everything was very quiet, although there was 1 considerable interest taken in the 1 contests for sheriff and county supervisor. Returns from all over the 1 county came in early, as County ' TT r\ 771^ 11. -r^nAn. < L/Uctirilicta n. r U1<1 liau mauc excellent ararngements for securing the returns, and by dark the result was known here. We publish below the 1 tabulated statement of the votes at each club, and while these are not ' yet official, they were sent in by the managers to the county chairman and are no doubt correct. From these figures it will be seen that Ray de- ' feated Hunter for sheriff; Bruce de- ' feats McMillan for county supervisor; and Chitty defeats Zeigler for county commissioner. Sheriff] Sup. |Co. Com a jo ? i o c 5 5 a ? I- ' 3 ^ o 2 S <2. < ? s * 5 Bamberg .. |136|169|196|110jl72jl33 Clear Pond | 15| 1| 6| 10| j 16 Colston .. | 10| 411 51 46| 35| 16 Denmark .. | 16|195|115| 97|117| 93 : Edisto .. .. | 47j 7j 34| 20| 23| 29 ' Ehrhardt .. j 1171 35| 79| 74| 46(107 Govan .. .. j 7| 44| 6| 45| 33) 17 < H. Mill .. .. | 1| 24j 31 22] 25| H. Chapel | 611 6| 38) 28| 20j 47 Kearse .. .. | 24) 28| 14) 30) 50| 2 ; Lees .. .. | 9| 7| 14| 2| 5| 11 : Midway .. j 29| 6| 24| 12| 6) 29 < Olar .. .. | 361100j 63) 73|119| 17 ] Total .. ..|508|663|597|577|651|517 ! For Magistrate at Denmark Brook- 1 er won out over Arledge, the vote 1 being as follows: Arledge Brooker 1 Denmark ....'.... 68 142 Hightower's Mill 2 23 Lees 11 5 i Total 81 170 For Magistrate at Edisto Herndon beat Zeigler by only one vote. The vote at the different precincts was as follows: Herndon Zeigler Edisto 33 19 Hunter's Chapel .... 27 40 Total 60 59 For Cotton Weigher at Olar the , vote was as follows: N Hiers Templeton? Colston 25 26 Govan 1 50 Olar 90 46 Total 116 122 For Cotton Weigher at Bamberg Steedley defeated Rice by the following vote: Rice Steedley Bamberg 177 128 Clear Pond 3 13 Edisto 3 48 Hunters' Chapel 11 56 Midwav 6 30 Total 200 275 with unspeakable barbarities." For a time Mr. Crawford was helpless, but gradually he was taken into Mushidi's favor, and acted for him almost in the capacity of secretary. And then daily he petitioned for the lives of some of the condemn- . ed people to be spared. "Fifteen or twenty people were to be killed on, say, the Monday morning. I begged the Emperor, 'Oh, King, live for ever; give me two.' Another batch on Tuesday morning. Again, 'Oh, King, live for ever; give me two more.' On Wednesday, 'Oh, King, live for ever; give me three, give me three.' And I got three. "The result is a lot of these peo- J pie are called by a word which means 'Begotten again from the dead,' and they turn up from all parts of Africa bringing little pre&ents. < "What kind of man was Mushidi? i A typical Bantu cutthroat, but lie had < ! A 1 1 J "ll" * llAO/^C * 3 wonaeriui neau, rectnv twv in one, *the curled, rigid occiput tell- < ing of terrible potentialities. He had < 500 wives. "One day a strange flag was seen ] approaching, and this heralded the 1 advent of a new factor in the coun- ? try, namely, the Belgians. In a lit- ] tie while the great mushroom empire ; of South Africa was scattered to the s winds and Mushidi's head was cut : off and sent to the museum of a cer- < tain London institution in a petrole- i um tin."?Boston Transcript. J GREATEST OF ALL HARVESTS. Money Value This Season $65,000,* 000 in Excess of Total Last Year. Inquiries are made for an explanation of the manner in which the money value of the crops of this year is to be realized, and by whom it is to be received and there are further inquiries for information whether or not the estimate of $9,000,000,000 be correct, and if this sum be the amount received, how is it to be distributed. These questions show the interest of the public in the details, so far as money is concerned, of what is likely to prove, on the whole, the greatest American harvest, in money value. Of course, the greater part of the money received from the sale of crops will be paid over to the farmers who have cultivated with such good results this year. Yet it is impossible to make any estimate of the net amount the farmers will receive. They must pay a good many million dollars to the harvest hands. These payments must be made in cash. The farmers may have large deposits in the aggregate, upon which" they can draw for these payments. But the magnitude of the crops will entail banking accommodations which will be readily granted. That involves discount charges. There are also storage ^charges, transportation expenses, and many incidentals which will cut considerably into the aggregate sum received by the farmers. All sorts of estimates have been received in the past of the net returns of the American farmers as a result of their marketing of the harvests for any one year. Should net . returns be no greater than 10 per '/ 7 cent, then the American farmers will have to the good between $900,000,000 and $1,000,000,000. What the means for general prosperity it is not naflacoorv ir\ ovnloin ThP Hf?t. fiTftitlS VV ? ? of the farmers of the South for the past ten years have made much of the Industrial and commercial growth of that section possible. It is also the opinion of banking authorities that the net gains to American farmers v since the good years began?about fifteen years ago?serve in great * measure to explain the change throughout many parts of the West, ] f ~J so that now these sections are financially independent, having capital to^ lend or invest,- whereas before that time a considerable part of the bet ter class of the United States lived in the agricultural communities.? Wall Street Journal. A Tragedy in a Smoker. The smoking car was so dull that when the stout man produced a bottle his seatmates?three of them?smiled in joyous relief. "Who's gotta corkscrew?" he demanded. Nobody responded. The stout man looked around. Across the aisle was a thin person in a shabby black suit and a white tie. He was reading, in a short-sighted way, a gilt-top volume with a limp cover. The stout man leaned forward. "Betcha a tenner th' parson has a corkscrew," he hoarsely whispered. "Done," said the man with the rvwrttr oi/ln T*r"h i obnrc ^ 1 d J OlU^ >T AX i h? x v v * ?-> The stout man leaned across the aisle. "Beg pardon," he said, "but have' you such a thing as a corkscrew about you?" The man with the white tie hesitated. For a moment he seemed pained. Then he flushed a little and reaching down into his pocket drew out the article they wanted. Ten minutes later the stout man said he was going back to look for a friend. At the next station the whitetie man gathered up his goods and chattels and left the car. Then came the conductor. "Did Fatty Frost and 'the parson' show you any of their team work?" ^ he laughingly asked. "Team work!" echoed the sidewhiskered man. "They are the cleverest swindling pair in the country," said the conductor and passed on. Taken to Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 10.?Fearing a demonstration similar to the lynching in Cumimng to-day, the five prisoners held in Marietta in connection with an assault on a white woman at Gumming last week, were spirited to Atlanta to-night. The prisoners were taken to Marietta Saturday after a clash between whites and negroes at Cumming was averted by the arrival of two companies of State militia. They were arrested in connection with an assault last Thursday on a white woman and were to have been taken to Summing to-day for trial. Bitter feeling against the prisoners led the officials to rush them to Atlanta.