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I K _ x tElif Samhrrg fcralb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1913 Established 1891. I _ I COUNTRY NEWS LETTER \ ; . SOME INTERESTING HAPPENING I IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ? I f News Items Gathered All Around tli * J v County and Elsewhere. / Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, July 14.?Most of tt * farmers have practically gotte through working some parts of the: crops. King cotton and late pieces < com is about all thev have to conten | with at this season of the year. Bi meetings, picnics, and fish-fries ai booked for amusements until foddt pulling and cotton picking time. Tt corn crops, where properly worke and fertilized, are promising, and tfc farms bid fair to give farmers a be ter yield per acre and many moi acres than last year. The cotton crc is not as good as most farmers thin! as it is late and stands irregula Could not get crop up, and too muc cool weather for the plant after came up. The game warden should watch u ? the streams very close now in orde to save the little fish in our stream Went in Little Saltkeatchie swamp ? Carter's Ford crossing last week 1 try the fish with hook and line. T1 water is low, and in holes fish gath* to the deep holes to hide. Sore party or 'parties use dynamite in tl holes and kill the fish. This way < *-* ? * ? -? 1 ys 1 fV> Alll/^ V nsning is nut ltgcti auu suuuiu v stopped or our streams will soon 1 f empty so far as fish is concernei As many as three or four dynamii sticks are thrown in holes in th? portion of the swamp until the fis are exhausted. Some of our roads are getting s dry and sandy until our automobih shun them all they can. Mr. G. L. Bishop, who has been i for quite a while, died Saturday an was buried Sunday afternoon i Pleasant Hill cemetery beside h wife, who died several years ag> Two sons and one daughter an their families and a host of relative are left behind to mourn and see the his grave is kept clean. Uncle Lav . ton was quiet and a good citizen, member of Mount Pleasant Luthera church. His friends were many, an we will all miss him from our mids He was about 68 years old. The Barnwell nine played a gan: of ball with the Ehrhardt nine o the latter's diamond. The gari stood at the close 5 to 4 in favor < the Barnwell team. Was a very gor good game. '? Mrs. J. F. Chassereau, who spei a portion of last week in Walterbor returned to her home Saturday afte noon JEE. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, July. 15.?Powell Harr son, of Johnston, visited Tom Wilsc , and other friends here recently. Sydney Padgett, of Florida, hj been on a visit to Mrs. Jones Lane. On Friday afternoon our tow was swarming with visitors from A lendale.1 They came in autos, buj gies, etc. They were mostly your folks who were to take part in tf operetta produced here that night I talent of their town. Mesdam< All, Visses, Oswald, and Mi Eunice Williams deserve gre; credit for carrying out so succes fully this high-grade entertainmen The costumes were dazzling and el gant, and the singing and actir fine. Mrs. John G. Williams, of Allei dale, was the guest of Mrs. S. L. Sai ders Friday. Miss Mell Kearse. of Olar, visite Mrs. Julia Harter recently. Carlisle and Herbert Rast. of Swai sea, visited Brooker Simpson la: week. n^or returned fro: .'II 3. VlIO i/vvi * a visit to Ulmer. where she was in house party at Dr. John "Weekley of about 25 persons. She has visi ing her now Mrs. J. F. Council an Miss Edith Nelson, of Lakeland, Fla also Louise Blount, of Ulmer. Miss Margaret Youmans is ti guest of Miss M. S. Harrison ; | Johnston. Miss Lucile Youmans is visitir Miss E. McWhirter at Jonesville. Miss Zelle Loadholdt and R( ; Young now have autos, and thin? are lively. His Bust. Two old ladies wandering aboi the public library building in Bostc the other day entered Bates Ha and gazed interestedly at a bust < niivpr Wendell Holmes in blac bronze. "Well," one lady remarked vei audibly to the other one. "I nev< knew before that Dr. Holmes was negro."?Boston Herald. ? j KILLS WIFE AXI> FLEES. , Relieved Edgefield County Fugitive S | Escaped into Georgia. ! Edgefield. July 10.?Mabel Elam. ie a negress. was shot and instantly killj ed by her husband, Gilbert, alias Sam j Willis, near Clark's Hill, in this j county, several days ago, news of the _ I homicide having reached here to-day. IC I There was one eye-witness to the r tragedy, another negress, and according to her statement given at the in^ quest, the husband and wife had an altercation and the latter went to g the spring; that Gilbert called to her, ' demanding that she return and per^ form some service for him; that upon ^ her returning to the house he procured a gun, renewed the quarrel and as she turned to flee from him, emptied the contents of the weapon in her back. ?P After the shooting Gilbert made ? his escape into Georgia, it is supposh ed. Sheriff Swearingen is in communieation with the authorities of It that State and every effort is being made to locate the fugitive. jr She Drinks at Bar Between Puffs. s. it Philadelphia, Pa., July 14.?More ? than one hundred persons who relo cently journeyed to the Washington -r avenue pier to meet the steamship 10 Prinz Oskar from Hamburg were '0 mildly surprised to see a handspme{ ly dressed woman who had descend>o i ed the ladder from the second to the >o main deck draw forth a fcigarette d- and light it. to They were even more surprised at it her air of calmness and perfect self;h control as she blew the smoke over her shoulder and continued down the >? ladder and into the vessel, but were ?s openly astonished when with her arms resting on tne oar or rne saiuuu 11 and a daintily clad foot moving gent^ ly along the brass foot bar, she order*t ed a drink. A pink concoction was is | straightway served, and the uncono. ventional lady downed it with enjoyd ment. ?s Passengers and visitors were daz*t ed, but the woman did not seem to r- mind. Addressed by a reporter, she a indicated that she did not speak n English. While still sending wreaths d of smoke into the air she was accostt. ed by one of the officers, the cigarette was quickly cast into the water and ie the woman as quickly disappeared. m ? ie FARMER'S BODY FOUND IN POND. . Mack Spain, of Near Waycross, Had id Been Missing Three Weeks. lt: Waycross, Ga., July 14.?With -' the skull beaten to a pulp and other marks of violence evident, the body of Mack Spain, a prominent farmer, who has been missing from his home, twenty miles west of this place, for (n three weeks, was found to-day in a shallow pond near his farm. A disas charged shotgun lay nearby. Spain was believed to have had a large .Q Quantity of money in his possession 1_ when he disappeared, none of which y I was found on his dead body to-day. l0. He came to Georgia from North Carie olina several years ago. )V Tom Bullard. the young white man who found the body of Spain, was Sg arrested on suspicion. He is held a n prisoner in the county jail here pends_ ing further investigation of the murt der. e" MRS. CRAWFORD OUT OX BOXD. i S Woman Charged with Killing Hus^ band Puts up $6,250. Atlanta, Ga., July 14.?Mrs. Mary f(* Belle Crawrord. arrested yesterday charged with poisoning her husband, n" Joshua B. Crawford, Atlanta capitalst | ist, four years ago, was released on j $6,250 bond to-day. Mrs Crawford ni j continued to-day to protest her ina | nocenc-e, declaring that criminal pros | ceedings had been instituted against t- her to influence civil litigation pend1(* ing over the $250,000 estate left by ' > her husband. Crawford's heirs-atlaw in a suit instituted soon after ie his death asked that the will, leavat ing the major portion of the estate to Mrs. Crawford, be set aside. o )vj TRY TO CHECK GRASSHOPPERS. ts I j Fanners in Western Kansas Spreading Tons of Poison. j Dodge City, Kansas, July 14.?At it ' least one hundred farmers in Ford, I ?n j Grey and Edwards and Pawnee coun11 i ties of Western Kansas joined to-day ! in spreading tons of poinsoned bran 'k i mash over the fields in an effort to check the ravages of grasshoppers ry that in the last three weeks have ^r done thousands of dollars' of dama age to young trees, alfalfa, corn, cane I and other crops. * I IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Spartanburg on Tuesday voted $100,000 in bonds for street paving. This makes $300,000 voted by the city within the year. The members of the First Baptist church of Greenville w ill remodel their church building?at a cost or $ou,uu. This includes a new Sunday school room. Dr. Henry Miller has resigned as pastor of Pendleton Street Baptist church in Greenville. Dr. Z. T. Cody, editor of the Baptist Courier, will supply the pulpit during the summer. The citizens of McCormick have put up $5,000 to finance the new county proposition, with county seat at McCormick?to come out of portions of Abbeville, Edgefield and Greenwood. The anti-dispensary people of Orangeburg county will make a strong fight against voting the dispensary back into that county. Public meetingshave been arranged for in different sections of that county, and prominent speakers will adf dress the voters at these meetings. The will of David Weston Shuler of Orangeburg,, who died of heat at Cleveland, Ohio, last week has bee*, opened. He leaves his property, valued at $15,000, to education. If otbeT parties will raise a like sum for-.a girls' college at Orangeburg, the money goes for that; otherwise, as the trustees may see fit. One of the Dayton Heroes. Among the heroes of the Dayton flood there is M. B. Stohl, an employe of'the American Telegraph and Telephone company. Stohl is a wire chief at Dayton. [He reached the Dayton office of his company late Monday night before the floods came. The rush of the waters put all the telephone batteries and power out of commission. Fotgetting thoughts of escape. Stohl ramaged around until he found a lineman's test set. With this he rigged up a sending and receiving apparatus and cut in upon the wire on the roof of the four-story building. This wire connected him with Phoneton, a testing station, eight miles away. Thus he established communication with C. D. Williamson, whose batteries were still working. Then Stohl sent messages from the flooded city, otherwise cut off from communication with the outside i world. All night he stuck to his post. , All day Tuesday he remained. Wedi nesdav noon found him still on the roof of a building whose foundations were being sapped by the waters. There he stayed in the rain and I cold, with the prospect of death star| ing him in the face every moment, i Hp sohhpfl a strone man's job as he" told his tale of death and desolation; of floating wreckage bearing men, woI men and children doomed to death; I of dead bodies borne upon the crest I of the waters; of piteous sights, rn [ themselves enough to unnerve the bravest of men. But he stuck to his post. When the whole story of terrible disaster is told, whether he survive ' or perish, the name of M. B. Stohl will stand high upon the roll of heroes. It is such examples as these that reassure the world and demonstrate that heroism is not dead.? Chicago Inter Ocean. Said they Plotted to Poison Him. Fort Motte, July 14.?Joseph Hane, colored, about 25 years old. shot his brother, Andrew Hane, and a colored woman, Bertha Caldwell, to-day about noon at his home about two miles from Fort Motte. Joseph Hane came in to Fort Motte and passing Sheriff Hill on the street, went to the office of Major James R. Crouch, attorney, and told what he had done. Sheriff Hill was immediately called in and placed Hane under arrest. He related his story to Sheriff Hill, saying that he had killed his brother and the woman because they had plotted to poison him. They were in the house at dinner. He, with his Colt's magazine, marched the two out in the yard to the barn and lined them nrv oVir?/-?tinc both a nnrnhpr of times. killing them instantly. This is one of the most bloody murders ever committed in this section. Considering the entire earth, about one person in one hundred lives to be sixty-five years of age. SPARTAN FOUND DEAD IN DITCH, gj Wm. Hughes Arrested Charged with ' Killing Coker H. Cox. ^ Spartanbu-g, July 14.?With a fresh cigarette clenched tightly be- Soi tween his lips, the body of Coker H. 1 Cox, 36 years old, an employee of Tucapau Mill, was found in a gulley * near the mill early to-day. Four bullet wounds indicated that he had D. been slain. After an all-day search lut for evidence the coroner'-s jury found m< this verdict, that Cox had met his re< death at the hands of Wm. Hughes, gii a farmer, and that Lulu Huff. a th< negro woman, was an ucwbbui*, to Hughes was arrested in Greenville to County and brought to the Spartan- tir burg jail. Lulu Huff is being sought ca by officers in the w^ods near her Se home. sic According to evidence presented at the inquest, Cox and Hughes both < called at the Huff woman's resort je< Sunday night and quarrelled over gi] her. pe "The killing of Cox was a cold- Ca blooded murder," said Coroner John er S. Turner to-night. "The victim pa was unarmed." Cox leaves a wife to and two children. Hughes is marri- s0 ed and has four children. * ga m he RE-OPEX BEX FRAXKLIX'S SHOP. Cr Ca Jersey I). A. R, Torn Old Place At th Burlington Into Clubhouse. W Benjamin Franklin's old print shop de m which he turned out paper cur- ca rency for the Colonial government of New Jersey, was opened here of the Enpis Stockton Chapter, Daughters ^ of the American Revolution. Mrs. Harriet N. M. Pancoast, of Palmyra, regent of the Ennis Stockton Chapter, presided, and Mayor E. Jo E. Mount welcomed the guest, John us S. Merrill, of Trenton, president of the New Jersey Society. Some of the American Revolution, presented a big p( flag to the Daughters says a Burling- te ton (N. J.) Dispatch. The history of ^ the old "bouse as it appears on the ^ country records and the traditions at- _ m tached to it were related by Henry S. Haines, State Surveyor-General. The gc principal address was made by Mrs. Charles Yardley, of East Orange, State regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution. on The Ennis Stockton Chapter by ^ those exercises becomes the first so- , bv ciety of the Daughters of the Ameri- ^ can Revolution in New Jersey, to pur- g(.. chase and own historic headquarra tersThe Franklin cabin .is one of the * J c oldest buildings in South Jersey, having been erected over two cen- ^ turies ago. It is near what was the ? TV] end of the New York Post road, in ca Colonial days, where the Philadelte phia boats tied up at the old Burlington wharf. 1 In the history of his own life Franklin tells how he stopped in Bur- Bi lington as a poor boy while en route from New York to Philadelphia. He missed the Philadelphia boat, and awaiting the next passenger stayed w; at the home of an old woman, who nc advised him to open up a shop in the T1 town, but with only a few copper wj coins in his pocket he could not fin- C? ance the project and went on to Phil- fe adelphia. cl; His employer later received an or- ]e der from the Government of New fo Jersey, for a big issue of paper money WJ and Franklin, as a trusted and expert be foreman, was sent to Burlington to set up the print shop and print the is currency. an ? H< The Value of Pictures. ne Question: What makes a picture dl valuable? Answer: An excessive CQ amount of money in the pocket of a g^ purchaser. k This newest $200,000 Rembrandt is the same picture that sold for $106 ge while Ben Franklin was editing a ?I Philadelphia newspaper, says ine Philadelphia Ledger. Time has not ta improved it any more than years cii would add luster to a diamond. Can- go vas and colors and every line and ar shade were there then they are now. sa Why has it become so enormously th valuable? Because in the time when Hg the picture was first sold, in 1734, tTr no Dutchman nor anybody else had st $200,000 to pay for a painting. Now su hundreds of people appear to have it kn and are willing to spend it. tis If the multiplication of gold contin- 0f ~ ~ + 1 (Irt T-oorc tn nhpfliiPtl fir ues in uie uc.\i aw v-?-w o w. v. ? llv things as rapidly as in the last cen- as: tury the papers of June, 2013, may th< record the sale of this identical Rembrandt for a thousand times its present figure. You see, it isn't the pic- Th ture that changes, but only the quan- kil titv of money to be expended for such at things. i H iGGING AND TIE PROBE. I) [ITH WOULD KNOW CAUSE OF RECENT PRICE RISE. nth Carolina Senator Believes ^ ?ronipt Action Would Save Large Il; 1J Cimic , . J Uiuo IV * MA u?va Q Washington, July 15.?Senator E. s< Smith to-day introduced a reso- ^ ion directing the Secretary of. Cornice and Labor to investigate the ^ v ;ent advance of the price of baglg used in baling cotton, as well as 3 advance in the price of ties used v band or bale cotton, and to report . the Senate at the earliest possible 0 e the cause of such advances. Beuse of the urgency of the matter, nalor Smith asked immediate conleration of his resolution. Senator Williams Objects. , Senator Williams, of Mississippi, ob:ted on the ground that cotton bag- ^ ag is put on the free list in the ^ nding tariff bill. To this the South ^ trolinian rejoined that if the Gov- ' nment waited for the tariff bill to ss, its benefits would come too late J apply to the present cotton sean, whereas an immediate investi- I tion might bring results in time to lp in the marketing of the present op and save the farmers of. South trolina $160,000 or $170,000 and r ose of Georgia $300,000. c At this stage Senator Clark, of yoming, called for the regular or- * :r and the resolution went to the * lendar. r t CLOCK SAVES LIFE. I [arm at Unusual Hour Leads Res- a cuer to Intended Suicide. 1 t An alarm clock, which began a j ng-continued ringing at the unus- g l1 hour of 6:30 in the evening in le of the rooms occupied by Meyer l irman and his son, Michael, at 119 c )rsyth street, caused Max Rubin, a ^ nant, to investigate. Rubin found c e son lying semi-conscious on the j >or with a gas stove tube in his j outh. Rubin gave the alarm and a t diceman restored the youth to con- ^ iousness quickly. g Foung Berman told Detectives Wood c id Spiro on the way to the Clinton reet police station that he had been it of work two months and hungry '0 days. His story was overheard t ' a man in a restaurant to which the tectives took him for a meal. The s ranger said he was Philip J. Ab- I ms proprietor of a hotel in Tan irville, and that he would take the >ung man there to-day to give him c position for the summer. The de- t ctives said they would intercede ith the magistrate when Berman j me up to-day on a charge of an atmpt at suicide.?New York Press, t m ; [TRK CONVICTED OF MURDER, snjamin John Found Guilty in Ker- , C ' shaw Court of Killing M. Simon. Camden, July 10.?Benjamin John ^ as convicted of murder this after- ' >on with recommendation to mercy, le crime that John was convicted-of C as a very brutal one. He came to , imden several months ago with a ^ llow Turk named Michael Simon, aiming to represent a Christian colge in Turkey, and solicited funds ^ r same. The two left Camden, alking towards Lugoff on the Sea>ard Railway. When near the . amps of the Wateree River, John alleged to have shot his companion id put his body in a culvert and fled, e was captured later on the train j" iar Bethune. A chain of evidence was worked ound him which resulted in his nviction. John's defence was that mon attempted to cut him with a life, and that he shot him in selffence. G. G. Alexander, Jr., repre- f nted the defendant. ^ Records in the office of the secre- e rv of State show that fifteen "So- d il clubs" have been chartered in I] q uth Carolina this year. These clubs e organized primarily for the illicit " le of whiskey, yet the charter gives c em the right to do educational, re- F rious and all kinds of uplift work. 13 ider the law the secretary of the ate is forced to grant charters to v ch organizations, even though he n iows that they are virtual "blind 11 jers." R. M. McCown, secretary c State, has repeatedly called atten- * >n to the situation, but the general n sembly has not seen fit to change 0 e law. F Tuesday night in Union, Russell t lomas, a negro boy of 18, shot and d i?ot7 SO. I a 11CU l^UV/IO XVUJ , -o a frolic. He shot her five times, r ? is in jail. Is LOSES $1,200 IX BILLS. r. L. A. Elmer, I)eaf->Iute Teacher, Has This Misfortune. Spartanburg, July 10.?It became nown here to-day that Dr. L. A. Eller, an instructor in the South Carona School for the deaf and the lind at Cedar spring, lost $1,200, the ivings of several years, on a train etween Yorkville and Spartanburg. Since the close of the school for le summer Doctor Elmer has been isiting at Yorkville. He returned \ d this city yesterday to prepare for n extensive trip. On leaving Yorkille he placed the money, which was l a roll of bills, in his right trous rs' pocket. After he had changed rains at Blacksburg he felt for the aoney and found it was gone. The $1,200 represented much hard fork and seTT-denial. Its loss means hat he cannot take the trip which . e had been eagerly planning for a ong time. He cannot account for he loss of the money, but does not hink he was robbed. Doctor Elmer 5 a deaf-mute. ACK JOHNSON REACHES PARIS. *ugilist Says He will Never Fight In America Again. Paris, July 10.?Jack Johnson, the tegro heavy-weight prize fighter, acompanied by his wife and his neph;w, reached Paris this afternoon rom the United States by way of Montreal. The pugilist drove to a lumber of hotels before he was able o find accommodations. Johnson said he intended to make 3aris his headquarters in the future, md that never on any acount "would le fight again in America. He added hat he had arranged for a number of ights to take place in Europe in the lutumn. Referring to his recent sentence mder the "white slave" Act to serve >ne year in the Leavenworth peniteniary, Johnson declared he would :arry the case to the highest Court, t is not generally believed here that ohnson will be deported from France )ut the French authorities have not et arrived at any permanent decision with regard to that status of the :ase. . -v|p Girl Guessed Right. Mildred was visiting her soldier V )rother at the barracks. "Sis," he said, "I wish you had said you were coming. I'm on duty, >ut a fellow-bandsman of mine will show you the sights." The girl naturally asked many luestions of her brother's friend as hey went the round. "Who is that man?" she inquired,, minting to a color sergeant. "Oh, he once shook hands with he king!" said her escort. "That's vhy he wears a crown on his arm!" The gymnastic instructor, with a <-}o-a nf ArncooH TnHinrt /^lnha nn Ms irm, was standing in the yard. "That's the barber," replied the girl's companion in answer to her inluiry. "Can't you see he's wearing he scissors?" A number-of stars upon the cuff of . -I i veteran next aroused her cavalier 'Guides us home by the stars when ve've lost our way on night maneuvers." "Very interesting!" said the girl, vith a twinkle in her eyes. Then, noting his bandman's badge ?the model of an ancient stringed nstrument?she asked sweetly of her ;scort: "I suppose that design on your arm c v '* ihows that you're the regimental yre?"?London Answers. ? Charleston Girl Killed in Wreck. Lake George, N. Y., July 12.?The LUtomobile of T. Moultrie Mordecai if Charleston, S. C., was wrecked on he Bolton road late this afternoon, atally injuring his daughter, Miss lertrude Mordecai. The car containd Misses Gertrude and Cornelia Morecai, Miss Hannah Folk of Savan an, ua., Jtienry a. scnermernum ui Ichenectady and the chauffeur, Oly itarr. Miss Cornelia Mordecai esaped with bruises and cuts. Miss "oik's arm was broken, while Scherlerhorn and Starr wore slightly hurt. Mrs. Mordecai was on the grounds .'here the family is building a sumler home and the daughters were goag after her. While passing another ar at a speed of 50 miles an hour he right front tire exploded and the aachine plunged into a tree in front f the residence of George Foster 'eabody. Miss Gertrude Mordecai's x kull was crushed. She was rushed o Glen6 Falls hospital, where she ied an hour later. Mr. Mordecai is t his Charleston home, having just eturned there from a visit to the ike.