Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LANCASTER HAS ?75,000 FIRE. C. and L. Railroad, Cotton Oil Co., and Hardware Co. Losers. Lancaster, Aug. 9.?Lancaster was visited this morning by one of the most disastrous fires in her history. The office building and the gigantic seedhouse of the Lancaster Oil Company, the Lancaster and Chester Railway passenger and freight depot, with all contents, and a warehouse of the Lancaster Hardware Company, filled with furniture and hardware, ?- ?- A r\o + were tuiaii* uccuw.'vu. The fire originated in the seed house of the Lancaster Cotton Oil Company, and when the department arrived the building was ablaze from end to end. The heat was so intense that the firemen could not approach . close enough to do effective work. Fanned by a strong south wind the flames swept across the railroad tracks to the depot. The wooder structure, approximately four hundred feet long, was soon a mass of flames. . From the depot the flames swept - a. across to the warehouse of the Lancaster Hardware Company, anothei wooden structure, which likewise was lost. By hard work the plant of the Lancaster Lumber and Supply Company and the fertilizer shed of the I Lancaster and Chester Railway were > saved. It looked for a time like the main building of the Oil Company was doomed, but the protection afforded I by a fire wagon saved this building. The residence of H. Y. Hathcock, tc the right of the office building, caught several times, but was saved. The loss is approximately $75,000. The Lancaster and Chester Railway were the heaviest losers, as the depot was filled with inbouiid freight accumulated since the disastrous wreck of last week. The company"s loss was $30,000, fully covered by insurance. The Hardware Company's loss is $3,000, fully covered. The conflagration was witnessed by the largest crowd ever seen at a fire in Lancaster, the city being filled with shoppers from the country, while the citizens generally turned out en masse. Battle Against the Boll Weevil. Atlanta, Aug. 7.?High councils oi r>. - - - i. war are being held preliminary to the great battle against the boll'weevil which will begin in South Georgia within the next few months. In Washington Georgia's senators land congressmen are discussing the L' " V. + V\ rtl'o 1 p A f flic quesuun uau> v> uu mc viuviaio vjl ?-"v department of agriculture. Senator Hoke Smith and Congressman Roddenberry are receiving the co-operation of several other senators and rep!resenatives, among them Senator . Smith of South Carolina, Senator Ransdell, of Louisiana; Bankhead oi Alabama; Sneppard, of Texas; Congressman Lever, of South Carolina; Heflin, of Alabama, and others. The Georgians have obtained thousands of pamphlets and bulletins on the boll weevil and are sending them to the farmers in the Georgiacounties near the Alabama line. The boll weevil is expected to invade Georgia about this time next year. The greatest difficulty arises from the fact that many farmers are slow to realize the seriousness of the situation far enough in advance. It usually takes a crop failure to convince some planters of what they are up against. At a conference of Georgia repre^ Ktr Ar Qmith * Still U1L1 > CS> llCttUCU uj ocuaw uuum with the officials of the United States department of agriculture, the proposition of establishing a zone in whicl no cotton shall be grown next yeai and which would amount to a bob weevil barrier, was not regarded with favor. It would be of doubtful legality and very expensive. The fighi with the boll wevil will be a hand-tohand battle. The department states that one of its difficulties is in inducing negroes to adopt and push th? proper methods fpr fighting the pest Millions and millions of dollars wil be saved to the farmers of Georgia ii they unitedly and untiringly fight th< Mexican pest that blasts and lays ban the cotton fields. The work can b( started this fall, and every farmei who wishes to learn how to fight th< weevil should get into communicatioi at once with Senator Smith or one o the Georgia congressmen. Gensing Exports Valued $1,000,000 Washington, Aug. 7.?Ginseng, th< market for which is chiefly in China nas Deen smppea irom uie timet States to the orient at the rate o 150,000 pounds, valued at $1,000. 000, annually during the past tei years, according to a report today o the department of agriculture. Young Man Commits Suicide. Anderson, Aug. 6.? Wilton Jeffer son, a young whitfe man 20 years o age, committed suicide at his hom< 10 miles west of the city Tuesday about dark. No reason has been as signed for the act. He shot himsel behind the right ear with a pistol. REALLY A CLOSE SH * VE. Lightning Struck Razor in Hands of Sumter Barber. Sumter, Aug. 8.?During the terrific electric storm which visited this city Thursday evening the Hotel Sumter was struck, and although considerable smoke, which poured from the chimney where the lightning tnnl- off opt lori man V to at first believe that the large frame building containing about 100 rooms was cn fire, the damage later resolved L into nothing more than a severe fright to several occupants of the . building and the littering up with soot of four or five rooms. A re, markable incident, however, occurred across the street from the hotel in a barber shop, when a razor was knocked out of the hand of a barber enI gaged in shaving a customer, much t to the consternation of barber and customer. Tillman Clashes with Conductor. : Washington, Aug. 8.?Senator Tillman is the latest national legislator to clash with a street car conductor 1 and to-day he w*as engaged in "cool1 ing off," as he expressed it, before " aeterming whether he would file 5 charges against the man. Within 5 the past few weeks Representative Sisson, of Mississippi, and Represen1 tative Buchanan, of Illinois, have 5 clashed with conductors on Pennsyl' vania avenue street cars. "If this keeps up," said a senator 1 today, laughingly, "we'll have to or. I Mnma dninnc' strppt Car Society 5iuilc for Conductor Chasing. It seems about to become the most popular summer sport with congress." Senator Tillman, with Mrs, Till man. boarded a car at the capitol to ride to their home. He proffered his ' tickets while standing on the step, ' :nd. according to his account, the conductor ordered him on to the platform, "in an abrupt and discourteous manner." The clash followed, and ^ the senator took the man's name and 1 number. The conductor today denied 1 that he had been or intended to be i ' discourteous or abrupt. I MAIL CAR ROBBED IX ALA. Clerks Handcuffed and Registered f Packages Rifled. ? Birmingham, Aug. 6.?The mail ' car on the fast Louisville and Nash1 ville train No. 4 from New Orleans was robbed early last night by two 5 unidentified white men. All register! ed mail was taken, but no estimate * could be made of the amount obtained. When the train reached Birming ham on time at s: 6\ ociock p. m. iwu ' of the mail clerks, George Hoover ' and E. G. York, were found handcuffed. Chief Clerk Harry Everett's thumbs were tied together with heavy : twine. The robbers boarded the car at Calera, on the dark side, after the train had begun to move. The clerks said " they immediately were covered with 1 pistols and ordered to turn their faces 1 to the wall. Everett looked around 1 and was fired at, the shot striking near his head. The robbers jumped ' from the train at 14th street Birming: ham. ! Everett said both robbers were r short, slender men. He did not get ! a good look a.t their faces. The : clerks first saw the robbers jump to ' the mail car on their hands and * knees. One man kept his pistols on the clerks while the other ransack ed the mail. The distance from Caorv, o-rvi ie 99 miloc tllpfp ' ICI a tu x^ii miU5uam 10 uu juunvwt * **v- w 5 was plenty of time to make a thor ough job. No one on the train other ' than the clerks apparently knew the robers were abroad. ! When the engineer stopped for the Southern crossing at 14th street, Bir mingham, he glanced back and saw t the men jump from the mail car door. - This aroused his suspicion and he in5 vestigated. A quick run was made to the Louisi ville and Nashville station, where the alarm was given. Every police sta1 tion was notified and automobiles F with detectives started a search. The - handcuffs were filed from the clerks' 2 wrists. 1 E. G. York, one of the clerks in the r car, was in the Louisville and Nash2 ville mail car which was robbed near 1 Boyles about a year ago. f HIS HORSE STRUCK DEAD. . Mail Carrier also Stunned by Lightning Near Blacksburg. Blacksburg, August 7.?Mr. John 1 R. Love, a rural mail carrier going f out from Kings Creek, near here, had - a narrow escape from death recently. 1 He was out on his route when a f storm came up and the lightning became very vivid and the flashes close together. One blinding flash came and when Mr. Love could see. his - horse lay dead and one wheel of his f mail wagon was entirely demolished. 3 He says that he was stunned for some , tirns, but does not know how long. - He was near a house and he secured f another horse and buggy and carried his mail through. "DEAD" LETTERS YIELD $1,105 Post office Department Conducts Its Annual Auction of Mail. When officials of the "dead letter" branch of the postoffice department at Washington finished counting the dimes, nickels and pennies derived from the annual "dead-letter" sale on the last day of July, they discovered the the United States government was $1,105.75 richer as the result of carelessness on the part of those who, in the last year, intrusted badly directed packages to the mails. ?*o parcel post matter was in this sale, as that service has not been established long enough to permit of the sale of uncalled-for or misdirected packages. The Rush for Divorces. Twitted by the Twiggs County Citizen that the superior court of Bibb county, on one day, granted verdicts in twenty-eight divorce cases, The Macon Telegraph asserts that many of these divorces were of negroes, but "too many were white." The Telegraph sees in numerous youthful marriages responsibility for so many divorces. "There is now a bill pending in the legislature which aims at the real trouble, but," according to The Telegraph, "it does not go far enough." The Telegraph contends that "no girl under eighteen or boy under twentyone ought to be permitted to marry without the written consent or verbal consent of the parents, the latter being present as witnesses in the latter case. The law ought to make it a misdemeanor for any minister or officer to marry runaway couples when a bov or man steals a young girl away from her parents. If both are of age, and accountable, there is no occasion for elopements. They can do as they please." The Carolina way?no divorce?is a mighty good way, if there were only concert between the states?that is, if each state would abide the marriage laws of the other states. As it is, when they can't get a divorce in Carolina, they live a year in Augusta, or some other border point, and run up the divorce average in these neigh- , boring cities.?Augusta Chronicle. No Jobs for the Negro. President Wilson has been the recipient of a number of uncomplimentary criticisms recently because of his appointing a negro to the post of registrar of the treaspry. This post has always been given to a negro, it seems. Mr. Wilson was following the precedent of President Cleveland, who appointed Judson Lyons, of Augusta, Ga. While the people of the country realize that the negro vote is not a negligible factor in presidential elections, and while thousands of negroes in pivotal states, such as Indiana, turned to Wilson in the last election, yet there is deep seated objection to giving even one position to the negro in which he would have authority over and the directing of -white people. The treasury department has been "cleared out" by John Skelton Williams, we are informed, and the employes so grouped that no negro has supervision of white clerks. We think in view of the wholesome work done by Mr. Williams, that the president made an unfortunate selection in naming the negro Patterson from Oklahoma. The appointment will be withdrawn, as Senator Gore of Oklahoma whose grandfather, by the way, was from Chester county, South Carolina, has made a vigorous protest that the president cannot but withdraw. When we come to think of it, however, isn't it pitiful that great parties run after the negro vote?and the negro gets nothing out of it? The best thing to do is repeal the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution and thus prevent the parties from involving themselves in any such deplorable tangle.?Anderson Mail. His Cat Came Back. When Dr. H. L. Ross, a dentist of Canaan, Conn., left there in his automobile for the Chatiemac club, of which he a member, at Lake Chatiemac, in the Adirondacks, early in July, he took along a maltese cat, which R. T. Farnum, a druggist in Canaan, had given him. Just twelve days later, when Farnum was locking up his store at night the same cat, thin and starved, appeared at the door. It had hiked ISO miles. Mrs. Ross wrote to her husband, telling him of the cat's return and asking him if he succeeded in getting it-to the mountain resort or whether | it escaped on the way. She received a letter in which Dr. ! Ross said he had the cat when he reached the Chatiemac club, but that on the second day it was missing and " ~ C 1 J T 4- VI-O O lit) trace or it uau uccu iuuuui it v?a.o feared at the club that the animal had been caught by a wild cat or a bear, which abounded in the mountains, or fallen prey to some other wild beast. [7^ A R LISL n VSCHOOuC BAMBERG, S. G. A standard "A" Grade School owned by Wofford College. A School with High Standards of Scholarship; WholesomeMoral Atmosphere; Positive Christian Influences. Twelve Acre Campus. Handsome New Dormitory. New Athletic Field. Study Hall conducted by Teacher. Unsurpassed Health. Pure Artesian Water. Teachers and Matrons live in Buildings with Students. TERMS LOWER than any School of Similai Grade in the State. A SCHOOL THAT IT WOULD PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE. Ctirst year oegms sept. wnie ior ttiuu^uc. CALDWELL GUILDS, M. A., Head Master pi aonoocaoi?ii 1 We beg to announce to the public that we have secured the services of Mr. ; C. B. Wiggins, of Bamberg, with headquarters V over the Peoples Drug J Store, as our agent and ! all packages entrusted to to his care will receive special attention and best 2 of workmanship. .*. .*. .*. M 1 Jet-White Laundry m 229 King Street, Charleston, S. C I nr~aoaooEior~ii The real harvest that any man expects is tJ financial harvest. After you have worked ha: fot your money, what are you going to do wi it? Is it going to be frittered away in sil. I extravagances? Hot if you are WISE. Yoi own labor is your best asset. Do not waste tl result of it on foolish things, but put as much ; possible of it into the bank for that DECEJMBE of vour life ihat is BOHHD TO COME. tDo YOUR banking with US. We pay 4 per cent, interest compounded quarterly on sarings deposits irmers & Merchants Ban] EHRIIARDT, S. C. "555SSSSSSiSiS I A Safe Combination In the Banking business is ample capital, careful methods, shrewd judgment and unfailing courtesy. Thus ?? the fact that our deposits are increasing rapidly is sufficient proof that our customers realize and appreciate that this combination is our method of doing business. We shall be pleased to number you among our new : customers. We pay 4 per cent, on Savings Deposits. | PEOPLES BANK Bamberg, S. C FIRST-CLASS ;ifc w REPAIR WORI PROMPT SERVICE W@S0 Patrick's Garag BAMBERG, S. C. J More Time ' ' At Home M TO and from work?four trips a 1- \ ST1 day?a wheel will save ten * 11 minutes each trip or nearly an hour b M extra?three hundred hours a year A 1 more at home. You'll feel better ^9 I and act better. Gets the cobwebs 9 out of your brain and honest hunger f ^ Into your stomach. The fIVER JOHNSON has more strong features, is better built and finished and runs smoother than any wheel you ever mounted. You needn't \ buy till you try. Trust the Truss. Bicycles, Guns, and Automobile SupA _1J.? rutins and rian aiml 1^1 piitTOf JVCJ X' ll/VJJU^Of C?UU VHVUV&MB i Repair Shop. First-Class / Workmen. J. BDIST BRICKIE . ' j Bamberg, S. C. < i ~1 You can be comfortable as well as stylish in a % J Sdk ' (not sold in stores) which is fitted to your individual needs in your I own home by a trained corsetiere. Let me call . v I and explain the possibil\ I ities of tasteful, correct . I dress in a Spirella. You a I incur no obligation. ST 0 Telephone or send postcard to H I MRS. A. A. ZEIGLER, H I Bamberg, S. C. 11 NOW HER FRIENDS v ' I HARDLY KNOW HER But This Does Not Bother Mrs. " Burton, Under the Circumstances. ' i j. Houston, Texas.?In an interesting i letter from this city, Mrs. S. C. Burton rc writes as follows: "I think it is my duty th to tell you what your medicine, Cardui, v. the woman's tonic, has done for me. ir ' <ie 1 was down sick with womanly trouble, as and my mother advised several different treatments, but they didn't seem to do me any good. 1 lingered along for three or four months, and for three weeks. 1 4: was in bed, so sick 1 couldn't bear for any one to walk across the floor. My husband advised me to try Cardui, the woman's tonic. I have taken two k bottles of Cardui, am feeling fine, gained 15 pounds and do all of my housework. Friends hardly know me, 1 am so well." " " r ? ika nilfiiMfo ' i II you suirer irorn any ui mc ouumm 80 common to women, don't allow the trouble to become chronic. Begin taking ?IS 8 Cardui to-day. It is purely vegetable, r 11 Its ingredients acting in a gentle, natural [ 11 way on the weakened womanly constitug | tion. You run no risk in trying Cardui. || It has been helping weak women back to || health and strength for more than 50 ? 1 years. It will help you. At all dealers. 3 % Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladles' jffig Advisory Dept., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special Sfflg T-mttructixms on your case and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women," sent in plain wrapper. txtt-a ? 1 1 ?. H. HENDERSON 1 Attoraey-at-Law I BAMBERG. S. C. ?.i/; General Pi-actice. Loans Negotiated. * . j FOR SALE. If BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE. (Y acres fine land partly in town of j Ehrhardt. 38 fine building lots in town of Ehrhardt. 16 choice building lots in town of Bamberg. a 1 store house and lot next to post i?l office on Main street, Ehrhardt. \j I 295 acres fine farm lands two miles ' I west of Ehrhardt. * Apply to JOHN P. FOLK, 1 I Bamberg, S. 0.