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^ PERSONAL MENTION. { People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. F. M. Move spent a few days in the city last and this week. ?Mr. Jones A. Williams made a business trip to Charleston Monday. ?Miss Mattie Riser of St. George, is visiting Mrs. B. D. Bronson in this city. ?Miss Sybil Izlar, of Orangeburg, is in the city on a visit to Mrs. H. N. Folk. ?Mrs. G. S. O'Neal, Jr., formerly Miss Annie Move, is visiting relatives in the city. at*. ?*, a >T,? * ->i x. auu ;uid. a. xvilc auu tiujdren left Monday morning for Hendersonville, N. C., to spend 6ome time ?Messrs. H. L. Hinnant, C. R. Gillam and R. W. Bass attended a Ma, sonic banquet at Olar Tuesday night. | ?Miss Claudia O'Neal, of Ocala, L . Fla., is spending some time in the p- city with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. O'Neal. ?Mrs. S. H. Counts and Miss Roberta Johnson left last Friday for a stay in the mountains of North Carolina. ?Misses Beulah and Edith Folk, of Newberry, are in the city on a > visit to Misses Alice and Estelle Smoak. ?Mrs. C. R. Dicksdn and little Miss Kathleen Ortman, of Anderson, are spending some time in the city on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kilgus. ? ?Mr. Henry Henderson, of Bamberg, spent Sunday in the city, the guest of his parents Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Henderson.?Aiken Journal and Review. ?Mrs. J. D. Felder and little grand-daughter left last Thursday for a visit to relatives in the upper > part of the State. Little Miss Dorothy Watson, who has been here for several weeks, returned with them. Cleared of Murder Charge. Chester, July 10.?The jury tonight brought in a verdict of not guilty of murder on account of insanity in the case of Richard R. Reighley, who killed Freeman A. Wright at Great Falls several months ago. The attorneys for the defense showed that the crime was due to dementia attributed to pellagra. Medical men in Columbia and Chester took great interest in the case. Dr. J. W. Babcock, superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane at Columbia, sent an article to the court that was of immense assistance. HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE. White Man Bound Over to Court on Charge of Criminal Assault. Laurens, July 14.?Dave Agee, a white man of the Lydia Cotton Mill, Clinton, who was arrested this morning on a warrant, charging attempted criminal assault, was recommitted to jail without bail following a preliminary before Magistrate Crews, who sent the case up to a higher Court. The alleged victim, said to be a mar ried woman, swore out the warrant against Agee early this morning. Pending the naming of the amount of the bond no steps can be taken for the release of the accused. V _ Girl Killed by Elevator. ' While it does not apear recorded in the veraict, several of the coroner's jurors which inquired into the death of Miss Lalia Young, who plunged down an elevator shaft in Corning. N. Y., several daye ago, came to the conclusion that a hobble skirt the victim wore was a contributory cause to her death. Witnesses testified that Miss Young attempted to step off the moving elevator when it was two feet above the floor. With her one foot firm on the elevator floor, they said, the width of the skirt would not have permitted the extended foot to strike the building's floor. . Unable to get her foot to the floor. Miss Young failed in her attempt to jump from the elevator. Before she could change her plans and recover herself her head was struck by the top of the door casing and she was held suspended for a minute until the upward motion of the elevator released her and she plunged down the shaft. The skirt she wore was examined and measured by the jury. An Essay on "Men." A little girl wrote the following romnosition on men: "Men are what women marry. They drink and smoke and swear, but don't go to church. Perhaps if they wore bonnets they would. -They are more logical than women and alsomorezoological. Both men and women sprung from monkeys, but the women sprung farther than the men."?Answers. It seems as though a man will surmount all obstacles when he once makes up his mind to make a fool of himself. CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING. Postmaster at Meridian, Mississippi, Charged with Taking Postal Funds. Meridian, Miss, July 13.?William J. Price, postmaster here, was arrested at his home this morning on the charge of embezzling postal funds. The amount alleged to be involved is said to be between $4,000 and $5,000. The arrest was made by Post umce inspector Jtiass auer a iwu weeks investigation of Mr. Price's office. Mr. Price waived a preliminary. hearing and was released on $6,000 bond. He refused to make a statement concerning his arrest. Tells Why He Appealed Anderson, July 10.?Mr. B. F. Martin of the Greenville bar was here Tuesday afternoon and was asked about the case of T. U. Vaughn. He stated that it is his intention to use every legal opportunity in behalf of his client and he intends to take the case to the United States supreme court, provided he thinks there is any chance of success. Mr. Martin declared that Vaughn's victim was over the legal age of consent at the time that Vaughn was charged with having forced her and he declares further that this was the evidence before the court. He states further that the victim of Vaughn's amorousness had opportunities to tell of Vaughn's deviltry, but she clung to Vaughn. Mr. Martin says that he realizes .that Vaughn was a beast, but he does not believe that he is guilty of the technical crime as charged. For that reason he will try to get a new trial. Will Fight Liquor. Orangeburg, July 10.?The prohibitionists of Orangeburg have held a meeting and will fight to gain the election to reestablish the dispensary in Orangeburg county. A number of prohibitionists met at -\the office of John S. Bowman yesterday and devised plans for work. It was decided to divide Orangeburg into districts and that every voter will be approached and talked to. Xegro Slain by Mob. Blountstown, Fla., July 10.?A negro known as "Kid" Tempers was taken from the jail here early this morning by a mob of- citizens and lynched. The mob overpowered the jailor and carried Tempers to the river bank where he was strung up to a limb, his body later being riddled with bullets. The negro, it was alleged, assisted anothe negro who had killed a denutv sheriff of the neigh borhood by giving him money and keeping him in hiding. The coroner's verdict to-day was "death caused at hands of unknown parties." To Vote on Dispensary. Abbeville, July 12.?Supervisor Stevenson stated on Thursday that he would order the election on the question of re-establishing the dispensary in Abbeville county. The petition as turned in contained a few over 1,100 while the total number of registered voters is something over 4,500. It is generally admitted that there are not that number of qualified voters in the county. The su- | pervisors of registration have been going over the books this week, taking off the names of those known to have moved out of the county and those known to be dead. This work has not been completed but Supervisor Stevenson states he will order the election. A X?w Version. The boss got a good disappointment for once in his life. Taking up the morning newspaper, he gave his attention to the baseball score. As he was reading it the door opened and in popped the head of the office boy. The boss knew, of course, what was coming, and settled himself firm lv in his chair with a not-to-De-iooiea air, relates The Cincinnati Enquirer. "My grandmother?" began the boy. "Thought so," snarled the boss. "Has just died?" "Knew it?" growled the boss. "And left me a fortune?so I resign. See?" And he left the boss on the verge of a fit of apoplexy! A Mistake At a certain Sunday school one afternoon the superintendent, driven to distraction by the noise from a class of particularly unruly boys, got on a chair and looked over the partition dividing the two rooms to see who the offenders were. Seeing one boy, taller than the rest, talking a great deal, he leaned over, seized him by the collar, lifted him over the partition and banged j V. In r.ti o i r ca vin<r ''VrtW hp I iiilll W111VJ ci Ulan , oa,- mo, .. ~ q uiet." He resumed his lesson for about a quarter of an hour, when a small head appeared and a meek little voice said, "Please, sir, you've got our teacher." ASK AID FOR PELLAGRINS. S Api>eal Issued by Government Ex- < I>erts at Spartanburg. Spartanburg, July 10.?The ravages of pellagra here are said to be 1 especially severe this summer. Dr. -1 Joseph F. Siler, United States army, 1 and Dr. Philip E. Garrison, United 1 States navy, members of the Thomp- t son-McFaddcn pellagra commission, * issued a signed statement Wednes- * day, appealing to the public for funds 1 with which to provide hospital treat- 1 ment for pellagra sufferers. In part * they said: ; "Our daily work brings us into contact with cases in most urgent need of hospital care and treatment, j who can be saved if a hospital can be provided for them. Patients have already died this year who need not have died had hospital facilities * been available for them. The urgent i need now is a hospital where these \ sufferers can be taken at 'once and t cared for during the hot summer f months until the disease subsides, as s it will with the onset of cooler weather. Every case it has been possible t so far to get into a hospital has f promptly and rapidly improved. At t least a score of pitiful cases are now f waiting until their beds can be provided for them." I WORKHOUSE AS EYE CURE. ^ Mistaken Identity Plea Fails to Save a "Masher." i John Pinover, 33 years old, who gave his address as One Hundred and c Twenty-second street and Third ave- e nue, was sent to the workhouse for s / 10 days by Magistrate Appleton in the men's night court last night, af- \ ter he had been found guilty of t 'mashing." t Pinover was arrested on the com- f plaint of Miss Kathrine Gamore, of r 273 West One Hundred and Sixteenth t street, wno testified that she was sit- d ting in Riverside park when Pinover t came up and, seating himself by her a side, insisted on talking to her until * she slapped his face. f Then she called Policeman Reilen- ? berg and had the man arrested. Pinover offered the excuse of mistaken indentity, saying that he had weak j eyes and that Miss Gamore looked V. Ul.A n rnunrr nrnmfln fnr VtJIV IH UV.I1 11IVC a ,'UUU{j n U"i?" . ~ whom he was waiting.?New York Tribune. ' e a Finds Gold in Man's Lung. c Patrick Quinn, sexton of the a Church of the Blessed Sacrament in * New Rcchelle, N. Y., went to a den- ^ tist to have a gold crown put on a 1 front tooth. When the dentist was a adjusting the crown it sipped and 1 disappeared down Quinn's throat. Exploring expeditions failed to r discover the crown. Quinn began to cough and complained of great pain * at the top of his lungs. Efforts to s relieve him failed. Then he was car- * ried to St Vincent's hospital, New ? York, where X-rays showed the gold 1 crown. It had gone all the way down t Quinn's windpipe and lodged in a 1 lung. Dr. Quinlan of St. Vincent's c decided to perform a very unusual * operation. An opening was made in Quinn's * throat below the larynx and just e above the collarbone, and a long pair s of "forceps was introduced in the windpipe. The X-rays were kept fo- 1 cused on his chest, and in this both 1 the crown and the prongs of the for- s ceps could be seen. Guided by the * rays, Dr. Quinlan grasped the piece of srold with the forceps and brought * it out. , * Quinn is resting comfortably and 2 when the cut in his throat heals he * will be as good as ever, the doctors * say. * Girl Has Eight Grandmothers. % , j Across the line of Clarke and Elbert counties, Ga., from Athens, in j what is called the "Flatwoods" dis- 2 trict there is a little miss of nine g months who according to the opinions ^ of grandmothers, traditionally held, ^ is in danger of being spoiled more f certainly than perhaps any other lit- s tie girl in Georgia. If the number t of one's grandmothers increase the s chances of one's spoiling little Fran- r ces Elizabeth Bell,'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bell, is in a precari- c ous state?for she has no fewer than r eight living grandmothers and great- ^ grandmothers. c Her three great grandmothers are Mrs. Mary E. Hammond, aged 69; c Mrs. Corrie Dye. 58; and Mrs. Jen- g nie Scott, aged 55. Older than these t there are three great-great-grandmothers as follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Dye, aged 92; Mrs. Martha Smith, 83, and Mrs. Mary Butler, 78 years old. J Getting closer range on her mater- i nal ancestry her two "really and v truly own" grandmothers are Mrs. A Georgia Bell, who is 47, and Mrs. Hu- r bert Ware, who is one of the youngest grandmothers in the state, being J only 36. s As many grandmothers as this lit- > tie miss has there is only one grand- r father living. I t PARTAXBCRG PREACHER FIXED Charged One Dollar for Riding Bi- H cycle on Sidewalk. Spartanburg, July 10.?The Rev. iV. H. K. Pendleton, rector of the flj Protestant Episcopal Church of the co Advent, was fined $1 in Police Court in iVednesday for riding a bicycle on co he sidewalk near his home. He took ba V, ~ - J 4 Jl,. 1 i J "c maner guuu uaiuieuij, uui saiu \ ui here was so many ordinances which 14 vere not enforced that he had no Sc dea that his riding on the sidewalk gl o avoid rough places in the street vould be objectionable. pc ^ lis WOMEX AS JURORS. ge ~ B' Prosecution Favored Them, Defense . ve Objected?Reasons Why. j.^ A jury composed entirely of worn- to ;n, all but two of them married, s to try another woman, charged p? vith blackmail, in San Francisco, and he dispatch recording the event sent S1' rom the Golden Gate city makes the *? itatement: 13.' "The prosecuting attorney favored he women for the jury, but the de- pi ense did not appear to be happy over b he prospect of trying their client beore women." J0 oh It may be supposed, from the dis>atch, that the alleged blackmailer ^ n question is young and pretty?else vhy should she prefer a masculine ury? Is it because no woman will ** idmit a fellow woman her "peer," or m s it because she fears what the sairist terms woman's "worst virtue" ?jealousy? Are the theories of Hon>re Balzac to be put to the test and imerge triumphant after the united bc kepticism of a decade? 0E ? -. . . . - ... .in rne aispat.cn aaas tnat several vomen proved reluctant to serve on m he jury, one of them urging her fle >aby as an excuse, another a sick" ar lp. ather, and a third "pressing busi- 1Cl less." Suffragists in the West are leginning to realize that "the vote" m t h* loes not mean merely a periodical au- L omobile ride to the ballot box, but co T1 dso other and more arduous duties A1 v*hich the male citizen has been per- as orming since this republic was first d jstablished. - w< CLEVER CRIPPLES. ba th distinguished People Who TriumphCd ed Over Physicay Infirmities. U1 lo Talleyrand, the notorious French eE ;tatesman, friend of Napoleon and j imbassador at the English court, was CQ lesigned for a military career, but an U iccident when one year old, rendered lim a cripple for life, says London ^ Pit-Bits. His cunning, cleverness, po- ^ itical penetration, adroit intrigues ^ md ingenious subterfuges were ve? Tj lemently opposed by the emperor's w, rife, Josephine, who energetically decLL lounced him as a "cursed cripple." va Josiah Wedgewood, the famous of lotter of the right knee which necesitated the amputation of the limb. ?? n i } O T-? rr Ia 1 A iu liho iniii 1x111 j , iyii. vjiautone once declared, "It sent his mind pr nward; it drove him to meditate on ni he laws and secrets of his art. The esult was that he arrived at a per- e(^ eption and grasp of them which, per- ca laps, have been envied by an Athen- j an potter." The early years of John Qj Haxman, who designed the choicest m pecimens of Wedgewood ware, were pr pent behind his father's shop count- cil >r, propped up by pillows and amus- or ng himself by drawing and reading. t was long before he could walk, ^ tnd he learned to do so only by hob- H >ling along on crutches. U, Alexander Pope, the poet, is said o have inherited nothing from his sp ather save his physical deformity, md nothing from his mother except ler violent headache. Little more tr han four feet in height, his bodily pc nfirmities rendered his lifs one long lisease, yet he labored incessantly UI md received lb5,320 for his trans- in ation of the "Iliad." Mrs. Browning, the distinguished ge joetess, was of a delicate constitution ma never enjoyea roDust neaun. ner fe ;ufferings were due to an accident ^ vhich happened in her 16th year. She at vas one day trying to saddle her iz, )onv in a field when she fell with the as addle upon her, incurring an injury o her spine. The after-effects were ,o serious that for years she had to n? ecline on her back. Wj Both Lord Byron and Sir Walter 5cott were lame. Sir Walter's lame- y( less was caused by a kick from a js1 lorse when acting as quartermaster p( >f the Edinburgh Light Cavalry. jn Sir William Thompson, who be:ame Lord Kelvin, was a cripple, and se o was Dr. James McGregor, one of he greatest of Scottish preachers. 0f It Made a Differ^ce. "The onlv thing I find to say p1 isl igainst vou, Jane, is that your washv an ns; bill is far too extravagant. Last reek you had six blouses in the wash. m Vhy, my own daughter never sends nore than two." or "Ah, that may be, mum," replied ane, "but I 'ave to! Your daughter's tI( wl weetheart is a bank clerk, while my oung man is a chimney sweep. It t0 br nakes a difference, mum."?Yonkers ^ Jazette. ne KEY AND HIS FAMOUS SONG. istorical Incidents Connected With "The Star Spangled Banner." With the Fourth of July and tfie ring of thousands of flags, there mes to mind many historic events which the American flag figured >nspicuously; among them the bomirdment of Fort McHenrv in Baltiore harbor, on September 13 and I, 1814, which inspired Francis jo11 Key to write the "Star Spaned Banner." For 6ome time it has been supised that this poem was first pubshed in the Baltimore American of sptember 21, 1814, but a copy of the iltimore Patriot and Evening Adsrtiser, which has recently come to ?ht in the library of congress, seems prove that the first press reproduc:>n aDDeared in the issue of this iper on September 20, 1814. By ay of editorial comment, the far?hted editors aplv state "The folwing beautiful and animating efsion, which is destined long to outst the occasion, and outlive the imllse which produced it, has already ;en extensively circulated. In our st renewal of publication we reice in an opportunity to enliven a :etch of an exploit so illustrious, ith strains which so fitly celebrate ? 9 It seems that on September 13, 514, Francis Scott Key left Baltiore on the ship Minden, under a ig of truce, with John S. Skinner, r the purpose of securing the rease of his friend, Dr. Wm. Beanes, ho had been captured at Marl>ro and was being held a prisoner l a vessel of the British fleet. Havg passed safely down the bay to the outh of the Potomac, they met the ;et preparing to attack Baltimore, id although Admiral Cockburn reased Dr. Beanes, they were all three >tained and prevented from returng to Baltimore, since it was feared at they would convey information ncerning the impending attack, ley were brought up the bay as far the Patapsco river, where the Min?n was kept under the guns of a :itish frigate; and the three friends ere compelled to witness the bomirdment of Fort McHenry, which e British admiral boasted he would rry in a few hours to result in the timate fall of the city. All day ng Key and his friends watched the igagement with great anxiety. 1% said that he kept his eye nearly nstantly on the flag which contin>d to fly over the ramparts of the rt at the close of the day, in spite the admiral's prophesy, and it was ith great trepidation that he saw disappear in the folds of night, iroughout the night, however, he as conscious that it still flew on count of the continuation of the ittle, and when in the early light the following day he beheld it still lunting defiance to the British, he as inspired to write the verses of e nation's anthem, which so approiately express his fears during the ght and his joy and pride in the orning. All three men were releasi after the failure of the British to .pture' the fort and the city, and ith the aid of Judge Joseph H. Nichson of Baltimore and Capt. Benjain Eades, the song was hurriedly * inted and circulated throughout the ty, to be sung to the air of "Anacre1 in Heaven." It is supposed to have sen sung for the first time by Fernand Durang in a tavern near the olliday Street theatre, Baltimore, nauestionablv this was the first >plication of the words, "The star 'angled banner," to the flag, and it also supposed that the origin of the otto on the coins, "In God we ust," came from the lines of Key's >em, "In God is our trust." The great historic banner meas es 27 feet six inches by 32 feet 10 ches, and is much faded and torn, s 15 stripes and stars are still to be en and mark it as distinctive in is respect. It TS one of the very w of the national flags having 15 irs as well as 15 stars, being i9sued a time just preceding the standardation of the number of the stripes 13, with the addition of a star in e case of each new state. This flag is been on exhibition in the older itional museum building, where it as deposited in 1907, as a loan by 3 owner, Eben Appleton of New 3rk, grandson of Col. George Armtead, the heroic officer in charge of Drt McHenry during this battle, but 1912 it was officially presented to e government and left in the muum, where it may still be seen. In e same case there is a photograph a painting of Key at the age of 17, r Charles Wilson Peale; a copy of a cture of Lieut. Col. George Armtead, commandant of the fort, and lother picture showing the Key ansion in Georgetown D. C., where e author lived. \'e\-t vear the citizens of Baltimore e to celebrate the event of the bat? of Fort McHenry, by a centenary hich promises to be an affair of hisric interest and is calculated to ing this episode of the War of 1812 ifore the public with renewed vividiss and patriotic appeal. TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE. Spartanburg County Woman, However, Only Loses Arm. Spartanburg, July n.?After a quarrel with her husband Ella Douglas, a middle aged negro woman, of near Reidville, dressed herself in her best clothes yesterday morning and then attempted to kill herself with a shotgun. She was so nervous that the load of shot, instead of entering a vital spot, as she intended it should, only struck her left arm. Soj serious a wound was inflicted, however, that the arm had to be amputated. Another negro woman here, two weeks ago, after a quarrel with her husband, committed suicide by jumping from a high railroad trestle into Lawson's Fork. Ball Pitcher Elected Mayor. "The Ty Cobbs and Walter Johnsons of the baseball world will probably take a lot of comfort from the story of a player of the Western TriState League, who formerly pitched for the Boise, Idaho, club," remarked Edward Benton of Juneau, Alaska, at the Shoreham. "Ralph Pitman was pitcher for the Boise club not more than six weeks ago. He was taking his regular turn in the box for Boise, but was dissatisfied ^with his berth, and one Saturday night took French leave of the Boise management and was not heard of for a week, when it was learned that he was on his way to Alaska to play independent ball. # "He arrived at the thriving mining town of Treadwell, unheralded and unknown. A baseball game against that town's hated rival, Juneau, was about to be played. Pitman volunteered his services, showed clippings from Boise papers telling of some of the good games he had pitched in the Western Tri-States League, and his proffer was accepted. Not only did the former Boise pitcher defeat Juneau, but he held that team scoreless in a hard-fought nine-inning game. The citizens of Treadwell thereupon held a mass meeting and elected Pitman mayor."?Washington Post. , 4 A SURE REMEDY FOR LAZtf LIVER. Go to The Peoples Drug Co. for this Safe, Reliable Remedy and Get Your Money Rack if it Fails. There are v?ry few remedies that gain the confidence of druggists as Dodson's Liver Tone does. The Peoples drug store sells it and backs up the sale of every bottle with the money back guarantee that the price will be refunded if it fails to give' complete satisfaction. Dodson's Liver Tone costs 50 cents a bottle. It is the safest and best1 remedy for torpid liver, constipation, biliousness, etc., that has ever been sold in this city. It takes the place of dangerous calomel and does not lay you up as a dose of calomel often does. A bottle in the house is as good as fifty cents in the bank. If you or your family need a liver tonic you / have the medicine ready. If it fails Vyou get your money back. Be sure you get Dodson's Liver Tone when you ask for it. There are , < imitations of it that may disappoint you. TAX SALES. , State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. * By virtue of executions to me directed by Geo. A. Jennings, treasurer of Bamberg county, I have levied upon and will sell at public auction before the court house door in Bamberg, S. C., on 'Monday, the fourth day of August, 1913, the same being legal sales day in said month, during the legal hours of sale, the real estate described below, to the highest bider for cash, the sale in each case being made for non-payment of taxes due and owing the State of South Carolina and the county of Bamberg: All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Bamberg, County and State aforesaid, known and designated as Lot No. 5 in Block No. 3 of Washington Heights. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of R. M. Walker at . the suit of the State for taxes. All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in Fish Pond township, Bamberg county, State aforesaid, containing twentyfive acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands of Sam Berry, East by lands of D. B. Rhoad, South by lands of Mrs. Cornelia Carter, and on the* West by lands of W. S. Proveaux. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of Simon Davis at the suit of the State for taxes. All that piece, parcel or tract of land containing thirty acres, situate in said County and State, and bounded on the North by Mrs. Hughes, formerly estate of J. C. Harvey, on the East by Mrs. Hughes, South by estate of J. C. McMillan, and West by lands of J. L. Priester. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of estate of G. G. Bishop at the suit of the State for taxes. All that certain piece, parcel, or tract of land containing 250 acres, more or less, situate in Bamberg county, State of South Carolina, and is part of the Lew Rice tract, bounded by lands of Lucius Matthews, J. A. Williams, right of way of A. C. L. R. R. Co., F. F. Johnson, and Mrs. Lizzie Tnabinett. Also one lot, No. 24 in Block No. 43 in Town of Denmark, S. C., as shown by map of town made by W. J. Gooding, Jr., surveyor, December 22nd, 1896. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of W. O. Hovt at the suit of the State for taxee. S. G. RAY, Sheriff Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C.f July 8th, 1913. - - # .1'