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r $hp lamhmj SjmUi ? One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 26,1912. Established 1891. J COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS t i SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the ff County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Sept. 23.?Sunday passed for a rainy day. The cotton in the fields is given another backset in grade. Practically all the cotton was open in this section before the rain commenced, * and a few days more will sprout it, that is if the seed are matured enough. Farmers that did not save seed from first cotton will get a lot * * of faulty seed to start off with an other year. Miss Von Leah, of Walterboro, is visiting Mrs. J. M. Smith and relatives. One hundred and twenty-nine bales of cotton changed hands here Saturday. . Mr. J. Hampton Fender has opened up a horseshoeing establishment, here on Saturdays. Mr. J. Hampton Fender has a very fine lot of sugar cane and bids fair to have syrup for another year. He brought the writer three cane matured, six feet, i Mr. Frank H. Copeland has taken charge of the Hacker Manufacturing Company's plant here as its superintendent. Mrs. C. W. Carter, better known as "Aunt Mena Carter," was placed in the Carter cemetery by the side of her husband on the 19th. Thus an, other of our loved neighbors has gone to join her family that has gone on before. Her husband and three or four sons were given her atten*. tion and love during their illness. One of her sons was burned so badly until he could not recover. Through all this family sickness and trouble she held up and said God's will be done, not mine. We will all miss Aunt Mena. She was a model wife, a mother second to none, a Christian ? worthy to be followed, and a neighbor that all will miss, for her various deeds of kindness will cease. She leaves behind her one sister, one brother, three daughters, two sons, several grand children, and a host of friends to mourn her departure. She was in her 80th year of age. ? ' i. Messrs. .Lionel Liayiun, uieiuuus Carter, and Raleigh Kinard left for Newberry college last week. Mr. Frank Robinson, is all smiles, . It's a boy. Mr. G. B. Kinard is rocking the cradle, it's a girl. JEE. J Denmark Doings. | i Denmark, Sept. 25.?The Denmark 'high school opened Monday morning with a large enrollment. Though the weather was very inclement, quite a large crowd attended the opening exercises, the first of which was a selection read from the Bible by Rev. T. E. Morris and a prayer by Rev. Petite. Two very interesting and beneficial talks were made by Mr. J. A. y Wiggins and Dr. J. S. Matthews. /They have secured an unusuaiiy excellent chore of teachers for this f term, those in the high school being: Miss Emma Thompson, of Rock Hill; Miss Hart, of Estill; Miss Stokes, of Mountville, and Prof. E. M. McCown, of Darlington. * Those in the grammar school are: Miss Esther Polair, of Aiken; Miss Lillian Gentry, of Florence; Miss Carroll, of Chester; Miss Herritt and Miss Josie Pratt, of Greenwood. Miss Emma Owens is at home after spending the sumer with her mother in Barnwell. J v ' Mrs. Percy Bethea, of Darlington, ? is spending some time with her mother, Mrs. J. G. H. Guess. Misses Ruby and Ladelle Guess r * left Wednesday for Spartanburg to attend Converse college. Miss Lula Hightower left Sunday for Lynchburg, where she has acceptor r> nncitinn in the* sr>hnfll Misses Martha Ray, Lula Bess Wroton, Annie Lou Collins and Eulalee Ellzey left Wednesday for Columbia to attend Columbia college. _ Miss Lynn Goolsby went Sunday w to Hendersonville to take a position in the high school there. Mr. Charlie Guess, of Williston, Fla., is visiting friends here. "L." The State Supreme Court has decided that the attempted removal of W. H. Kerr as magistrate at Green4 * wood by Governor Blease was without effect and that he is now and has been since his confirmation by the Senate a lawful magistrate. Here is another case where the governor attempted to override the wishes of the legislative delegation and appointed another man to fill the office. > CONFESSES $55,000 ROBBERY, j Bank Clerk Said Feared Officers Would Suspect His Brother. S Pensacola, Fla., Sept. 24.?William H. Bell, 20 years old, a bank g clerk, to-night confessed that he robbed the local First National Bank, Tuesday, of a package containing $55,000, of the Louisville and Nashville's payroll, and substituted a bogus package in its place. h Fear that the officers would sus- b pect his brother is said to have caused Bell to confess. The young bank clerk has been in g the employ of the local bank for two tl years. In his confession to detec- tl tives, he declared that he had planned to secure the money a week be- f, fore the pay-roll was made up. Last g Sunday he made a bogus package, 0 similar in shape and size to the pay?n ?~ TfifVi X Uil [JdCivagc ui , uncu magazine slips. j On Tuesday afternoon, when the E Louisville and Nashville pay-roll was being fixed for shipment he slipped t] the package containing the $55,000 into his locker and substituted the package of paper in its place. No one noticed the change and the ? bogus package together with a shipment of $20,000 was taken to the ex- ^ press office and receipted. Tuesday night Bell took the pack- a age of money to his home in a suit case. Activities by detectives and officials when the robbery became n known caused him to return the 11 money Saturday. ^ He wrapped the package in a n newspaper and after notifying the & cashier of the First National Bank 0 where the missing money would be e found, placed it on the back steps of the bank building. * s] The cashier disregarded the anony- tl mous telephone message. The pack- o age was found after it had been on tl the steps several hours by the jani- a tor. p > d Texas Generosity. B It happened in Amarillo, Tex., at o the hotel where a traveling man a from Kansas City was staying for a v few days. He wore one of those lit- v tie fried egg hats made him look like a freshman. A Texas ranchman had a come to town on business and had tl taken a few drinks and had become c quarrelsome. A good friend was a hovering near to see that he did not 0 get into any serious trouble. a As the drummer passed through t, the hotel lobby and started upstairs p the Texas spied him. a "Hey, there," he called out boldly, t] "Come back here." e The drummer looked amazed and f, paused, but did not retrace his steps. "Come here fellow. Don't you hear me?' loudly repeated the old rancher. 1 The , guardian friend touched his arm and said: "NoW, Bill, don't yon start anything like that here. That fellow was minding his own business and you let him alone and keep out 0 of trouble." The old Texan leered at him scorn- c fully. "Say," he replied, "I wasn't J starting any trouble. I just want to 1 take that fellow out and buy him a v hat."?Kansas City Star. a _ a In the Summer Camp. b Col. Gilford Hurry, commissary of c the national guard of New York, was v condemning an officer who, on an an- P nual encampment, had fussed too * much over his men, says the Wash- S ington Star. v "A famous editor," he said, "watched the officer on night during the J last encampment, as he showed the i] boys how to fold their clothes, how * to spread their bedding, how to drape a their mosquito netting and so forth, v and finally, when the officer took * leave, the editor called after him: 1 " 'Hey, you've forgotten some- 6 thing.' * " 'What have I forgotten?' * " 'You haven't heard 'em say their prayers and kissed 'em all good,- t: night.'" a M v Advice to Husbands. t When she makes a hat, admire it, even though it looks like a Welsh a rarebit nightmare. It will save you a lot of money in the long run. When you are out late, you may as well tell her the truth. She won't *] believe it, anyhow. c Don't be grouchy about her allow- E ance, even if it runs up as high as c 25 cents a week. o Eat what she cooks and keep your u mouth shut. If you keep your mouth shut you can't eat very much, so it won't Hurt you.?rticnmoiiu nines- " Dispatch. C. F. Rizer at Olar received this f, week a car of nice horses and mules. They were bought right and will be sold right. See the load if you need an animal. h N THE PALMETTO STAT OME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOU KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. tate News Boiled Down for Quic Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The Cox cotton mill of Anderso ave asked for a receiver. The lis ilities are said to be 5350,000 an tie assets- the same. Greenville merchants have lost ood deal lately by shoplifters, an tiey think there is a regular gang c lem operating in that city. The jury at Lexington on Frida Dund Jacob Watts and Govan Watl uilty of manslaughter in the killin f Adam Watts at Swansea May lit ist. Their sentence was postponet Judge Gage signed an order in C( imbia on Thursday directing B. I Ivans to pay to the Murray Dru ompany $103 collected by him fc he company, which he failed to a< ount for. A report gained currency in th ewspapers last week as to hazing ? lemson college, but President Rigg enies- that there has been an rouble along that line to amount t nything, and it appears that the r< orts were greatly exaggerated. Even the town of McBee has ewspaper, the McBee Courier mat ig its first appearance last weel ii- T n AVt '1111 J. ?j. Uiiruuti at] cuaui au lanager. However, he has show ood judgment in not purchasing a utfit, as he is having his paper prin d in Charlotte. B. A. Blount, the former car ii pector for the Southern Railway i lie union station, tfho was convicte f grand larceny in the June term c tie court 1910 for Richland count nd sentenced to five years in tb enitentiary, was granted a full pa: on on Monday by the governo: Hount was accused of taking clothe ut of a trunk at the union statioi nd was subsequently tried and coi icted. On September 16, 1911, b 'as paroled. In a decision rendered last Satu: ay, the State Supreme Court decide hat B. J. Rhame had the right t ontinue as State bank examine nd that Governor Blease was witl ut authority to remove him, as h ttempted to do. It will be remen ered that the governor seized as retext for removing Mr. Rhame, h; ction in a Lexington bank case, bi liere is little doubt but that he wan d to remove Rhame to make a plac Dr one of his friends. MARLBORO VOTE A TIE. n Third Primary Clerk of Com ran/liflnfoc Rpppivp SflTTlP VOt.C. Bennettsville, Sept. 24.^? In tt hird primary the returns obtaine ver the 'phone give Tom C. Hame ,127 and Julian McLaurin 1,126 fc lerk of court?a difference of or ote. In the second primary froi ike information Hamer led by thrf otes. The executive committee t , vote of nine to five after recoui nd allowing one McLaurin vote thj ad been challenged declared tb ontest a tie. The contested vol ?as challenged by Mr. Peters, a su] orter of McLaurin, he not knowin or whom the party was voting, th ;round of challenge being that tb oter was not a "white Democrat." Dr. Charlie Napier and Mr. Wi ohn, two of the county's most pron aent citizens, testified under oat hat the party was not recognized a "white Democrat." The part; rith no one to corroborate him, te: ified that he was a white Democra 'he committee accepted the voter ide and allowed the vote for Mi -aurin, this making necessary th hird primary. Nearly the same vote was cast th ime as was cast in the first primar; nd about two hundred more tha ;as cast in the second primary, whe hree offices were to be filled. In all probability a recount will t sked for by Mr. McLaurin. A New Process. From Alabama recently has com tie news of the discovery of a pr( ess whereby cotton seed oil can t ciade into a "butter" said to t leanly, free from all artificial co ring. The claim is made that by il se a great economy in the mark< iinds will be effected. It is advisable for the economic? ousewife to test for herself all th substitutes" for dairy butter; als he various frying mediums to t ound in market. In this way sb an determine the most desirable m? erial for her special purposes. A ave their uses?many their abusei p $55,000 RETURNED BY ROBBER, j Missing Package Found on Bank S Steps by Janitor. Pensacola, Fla., Sept. 23.?As a . result of the mysterious return to ' k , _ the First National Bank, some time last night, of the $55,000 stolen while being delivered to the Louisville and Nashville pay car at Flomaton, sevn eral days ago, a conference was held 1 l" to-night between officials of the bank 1 d and private detectives and special 1 agents investigating the robbery. i a At a late hour it was stated that j d an arrest was momentarily expected, t >f The package containing the money < was in the original wrapping as made J y up by the bank employees, it is said, :s and was enclosed in a newspaper. It 1 g was found this morning lying against i h the grating of the back door of the 1. bank by the negro janitor, who first s thought it a pair of old shoes. This 1 j iuuitai.es, attui uiug tu wc v/mtiaio, ' that some one with previous knowl- < (r edge, had prepared in advance the 1 dummy package containing magazine pages, which was found in place of < the money when the shipment was J ' opened in the Louisville and Nash- ] lt ville pay car. 1 Detectives Hot on the Trail. y Burns and Pinkerton detectives and special agents of the Southern * Express Company are hot on the 1 trail of the man. a They claim the package of cur- 1 c" rency, in its original package, was ' found wrapped this morning in a ] morning Journal published on Thurs n day morning. It had been placed at 1 n the back door of the bank some time ^ during the night and had rested ? there unnoticed. The janitor had oc< l* casion to go to the door, and open- 1 ing the inside door saw a package 1 d resting against the iron grating. He 1 thought it was a pair of old shoes, * ;y but when he picked it up the paper ' Le dropped off and he saw plainly lar" belled "this package contains $55,r* 000." He took it to the bank officials 5S and the latter identified it as the ( original package intended for the paymaster of the Louisville and ( ie Nashville Railroad Company. j Every Dollar in Package, r- Every dollar was there, and the 1 d package had not been broken by the 1 ;o man who stole it, and sent along a r, dummy to the paymaster of the l- Louisville and Nashville. This dum:e my was made up of old magazines, i- the sheets being cut to the size of a a silver certificate or bank note. The is money had evidently been resting , it against the bank door for several ( t- hours, for it had been out in the 1 :e rain which came down in a downpour j during the night, and the newspaper ; in which it was wrapped dropped off ' when the janitor picked it up. i The rear of the bank is enclosed by a brick wall about five feet high < and the door at which the money was ; Le placed was only about five feet from , ^ this wall. The party returning it , }r either threw it over the wall against ; )r the door or else scaled the wall and ; ie deposited the package where it was ( m found. . ( }e Notified by Telephone. ] (jr A peculiar thing connected with ( the return of the money was that lt Saturday night Assistant Cashier W. ie N. Roberts received a telephone :e message at his house from a party v giving no name and leaving the g 'phone as soon as he had spoken a Le few words. This party said: "You [Q will find what you lost at the bank's back door." jj The party doing the tlephoning first made a mistake and got the k wrong Roberts. He telephoned to g the home of Cashier Clyde W. Roby erts, of the Pensacola State Bank, and delivered such a message, but t was told that the cashier had not lost , anything. He then telephoned to W. N. Roberts, but that official thought ,a some one was attempting a practi cal joke on him and refused to go out lg in the rain to the bank to take a look. The various Burns and Pink^ erton men, who have been securing evidence, called the express and bank officials into conference tonight, and it is expetced that there will be arrests in the case within a few hours. Corley's Warrant Turned Down. Columbia, Sept. 21.?Comptroller ie General Jones has declined to honor )e the warrant for $180 drawn in favor < of P. H. Corley, as chief constable i "s on the governor's fund for the en- : ' forcement of law, and approved by the governor. The comptroller general says the warrant is drawn with- 1 ie out law, and under the law he can- ' '? not pay it. Mr. Corley accompanied ' ie the governor on the last half of the te State campaign tour. He was forjj merly sheriff of Lexington county. 3. It's at Hunter's Hardware Store. < i PROBERS HOLD A MEETING COMMITTEE MET LAST TUESDAY IN "THE CITY OF SUCCESS." Spartanburg, Greenville, Aiken and Anderson Counties Presented Most Serious Charges. Spartanburg, Sept. 24.?Allega:ions of fraudlent balloting in the rieuiIlUllL I'uuuuca auu inc^uiun:ies throughout the State in the South Carolina Democratic primary, August 27, were made to-day before :he sub-committee of the State Democratic executive committee investigating alleged irregularities. The charges were contained in afidavits and reports from county comnittees. Spartanburg, Greenville, Aiken and Anderson counties presented the most serious charges of fraud. Investigators in the first two counties were granted "an extension of time in which to make further investigations. In the allegations submitted to the committee it was declared that nonresidents, negroes, minors and men anvnllfl/1 Ti'aro onnnro/S + n xrft+O uvt auvnvu w ? ww. [t also was alleged that repeating was practiced freely. In Abbeville county it was reported that the required oath was not administered to the voters in Cold Spring and Antreville and these boxes were thrown out. On the face of the returns of the recent primary the incumbent, Gov. Blease, received the gubernatorial nomination by a majority of 3,000 yotes over former Judge Ira B. lones. Despite the request of Chairman Stevenson, of the sub-committee, that supporters of the rival gubernatorial candidates eliminate party feeling luring the investigation, fatcional Dutbreaks were frequent. A clash narrowly was averted when Chairman Stevenson called J. M. Greer to order in the midst of a denunciation of the so-called AntiBlease majority of the investigating committee for having held a meeting in Charlotte, N. C., at which the committee's plans were outlined. Blease supporters left their seats and started menacingly toward the chairman, but finally were pacified. The investigation will continue tomorrow. Had No Use for Them. ' A Southern sewing machine agent drifted into the Seminole domination one day and set up a machine in Tiger Tail's tent. The old chief with great deliberation watched him put it through its paces. He then arose, brushed the agent to one side, and seating himself, adjusted his feet in the treadle. He started the wheel and found that he could make it go, He sewed up one piece of cloth and down another, and then gravely and critically examined his work. At last he appeared to be satisfied that it was all right. He then turned quietly to his v/ives, who had watched the proceedings with interest, and kicked them, one after another, out of his tent.?New Orleans Picayune. 3VIICAH JENKINS'S OFFICE GONE, Internal Revenue Districts of South and North Carolina Combined. Washington, Sept. 24.?An ordei has been issued by President Taft consolidating the internal revenue district of South Carolina with the 4th district of North Carolina, with headquarters- at Raleigh. The office of Major Micah Jenkins, collector of internal revenue for South Carolina, at Columbia, thus disappears. The deputy will probably be stationed at Columbia to sell stamps. Who this officer will be has not yet been determined, according to a statement made to-day at the office of Commissioner Cabell, in Washington. The order of consolidation is effective October 1, and follows the enactment of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill passed at the last session of congress, when provision was made for the continuance of only sixty-three of the sixty-seven revenue districts now in existence, leaving to the president the designation of the districts to be merged. One Texas district will be consolidated and one in California. The 4th district to vanish remains to be an uuuutcu. There was a neighborhood scrimmage near Br'ightsville, Marlboro county, on Monady night, in which Dorse English received a ball in the leg; the residence of Wm. B. Odom was fired into several times, Mrs. Ddom was hit on the arm, Norman Ddom received several shots, and one Dr more negroes were wounded. me iour prisoners in ine ruuon tower are stolidly ^ silent when ap; proached by visitors, refusing to en- $J|j ter into a conversation even with their jailors. * N 1 Pointed Paragraphs. Be good?and your wife may be ' happy. Street car conductors are not nec- . : essarily fond of jam. ' Da**V? AT\n rrl n Irion nflrtVi Af . m x~ ci uctyo 511x0 n.100 utu^x uxviv - - ? ??% 1 ly to keep in practice. A man dislikes faint praise almost 1 as much as he hates abuse. An ounce of intuition may be >4^ ' worth more than a pound of tuition. There's a good deal of human nature in woman's inhumanity to woman. A woman's idea of a model hus-4 1 band is one who lets his wife do as . she pleases. The reason some women know so ; much about raising children is be, cause they haven't any. \ It takes a genuine diplomat to get t into trouble and back out again withl out getting a single spot on his repu, tation.?Chicago News. VALUABLE*OLD CLOTHES. 1 Garments Which are Worth More When Worn Out Than When New. Hundreds of workers in the United States wear clothes which at the end ' of a year of hard work are worth five or ten times as much as they were when newly purchased. Tt ic hard tn imflpino a nair nf / t worn out overalls and jumper, a pair of rundown shoes and a brimless hat as worth more than the most ex pensive creations 'of the French mil; liners' and dressmakers' art, yet this > i is often the case in places in which i the precious metals are worked, i Every one heard in his primary i school days about the extraordinary ' care taken of employes in the United. , States mints, how they were obliged to leave their clothes in the mint after work every night and how every precaution was taken to guard against theft or fraud of any other sort. . - v0, Fraud and theft are not the only things heads of the mint officials have to guard against with these garments, however. The intrinsic worth of the garments is great enough to justify I the extraordinary care with them. The gold dust and filings in the garmanto o + tJio on/1 nf o voor'e nrnrb uj.uuio ai vuu vi. a j vui o tt v* ' f i are such that it pays to keep the gar; ments and extract the gold from them. Vvif/S^S i Nor is this confined to the United States mint. In practically every y place in which gold is worked the garments of workers are treated to v<V, extract gold. It is a common saying in gold refineries that the richest ore is the clothes of the workers. There is an exhibit in the Field museum in Jackson Park, Chicago, showing a rl %V shoe worn by a gold worker. Beside it is a good-sized "button" of gold which was extracted from the mate of the shoe shown. Read Herald advertisements and I patronize our advertisers. FOUR FOR MURDER IN GEORGIA. rv5 Men in Atlanta Charged with Death of Malt Hughes and His Baby. * r' Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 23.?Four prisoners have been lodged in the Fulton county tower for alleged complicity in the murder of Malt Hughes and his baby near Jasper, Ga., on September 7. Three of the men are brothers, Joe, Jasper, and Ves Painter, the fourth prisoner is Alexander Bailse. Joe Painter and Bailse are charged with the murder, while the warrants on which Ves and Jasper Painter are held charge conspiracy and distilling. They were caught Thursday in the mountains of Lumpkin county and at first were imprisoned in the Pickens county jail and later brought here. \ Joe Painter and Balise were captured shortly after Hughes and his baby were killed. Hughes was shot to death on September 11th near his home. His wife with a baby in her arms ran out and tried to save her husband, but the murderers turned on her and a blow with the butt of a shotgun crusnea ine skuh oi me cnna sue held in her arms. Mrs. Hughes claims to have recognized the men who killed her husband and her babe, but at first would give no information to the officers, fearing the vengeance of the assass1 ins' It was the generally advanced theory that Hughes was murdered by vindictive moonshiners, who believed that he had placed evidence against them in the hands of the revenue officers' ' . a i * ^ .