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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1913. Established 1891.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
* County and Elsewhere.
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Ehrhardt, Sept. 8.?Cotton is coming
in. About 375 bales came to
our market last week. The prices
ranged from 11 cents to 13 cents
the pound, according to sample
Farmers say cotton has fallen off
about one third from July outlook.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wicker, of
Newberry,are visiting her sister, Mrs.
Jacob Ehrhardt, for a few days.
The ladies of the Lutheran church
r intend to have a box-party at Mr.
Elzy Copeland's on Friday evening
about seven o'clock. Ice cream will
be served also. The proceeds are to
\ go to the Greenville mission. The
public is cordially invited to come
and partake of the pleasures of the
evening.
Revs. Hutchison and E. A. McDowell
have returned from their vacation
and have gone to their respective
work, "canvassing for lost souls."
A new auto in town. C. C. Ariail,
M. D., is the owner. He took a trip
v to St. George, to try its qualities.
Sunday had a good share of joy
riders enjoying the fine day. Sorry
E. ' to say these pleasures detract from
; church attendance on Sundays to a
greater extent than any one imagines.
^ Watch it.
* Several candidates are trying to
get the job of dispenser at this place.
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Fairfax Fancies.
Fairfax, Sept. 8.?Miss Maude
Barber is spending some time in Darlington
with friends.
Miss Etta Perry, after spending
several weeks with relatives here,
f left for Ridgeland last week.
Mi6S Mell Kearse, of Olar, beamed
4 upon us for a few days, and promises
a longer visit in the near future.
Miss Sybil Mott, of Savannah, visited
Miss Lucy Googe recently.
LeRoy Young expects to leave
soon for Clinton, X. C., to act as
groomsman in the Crumpler-Monroe
7 r wedding.
Misses Sadie and Erma Harter
returned from a pleasant trip to the
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HOQ16 01 31 rs. J. v>. L>uiL at vuiuuiuiu.
Miss Birdie Smith, of Hampton,
visited Miss Hattie Cone recently.
Misses Allen, of Sycamore, visited
Miss Sue Best last week.
, Miss Ruth Gooding, of Hampton,
has been spending some time with
Mrs. W. White Anderson.
Wm. Darlington, of Allendale, vis?
* ited here recently.
Our school opened on Monday. A
full attendance, and the new principal
has gone to work in earnest.
Mrs. Sallie Hogg, of Kline, is visiting
Mrs. Gordon Kearse.
Mrs. Girlie Ellis is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Clifford Davis.
* Mrs. Delk, of Blackville, is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Wm. LancasJ
ter.
The little Lutherans gave a
"weight social" Saturday for benefit
of their church.
A protracted meeting has been
going on at the Baptist church for
a week. The pastor was ably assisted
j by Rev. N. N. Burton, of Stateburg.
He made a fine impression here. The
music was faithfully conducted by
Miss Joella Padgett at the organ and
' a full choir of singers.
Miss Mack Tuten, of Crockettville,
has been spending time with
Mrs. Mack Mixson.
> ? Mrs. T. T. Speaks, of Varnville,
was the guest of Mrs. Joe Tuten last
week.
Miss Maude Barber is visiting
I friends at different places.
Mrs. H. M. Harveley and son have
returned from their summer mountain
trip.
Mrs. M. Mcys, after visiting different
resorts in North Carolina, has
returned.
Messrs. Move and O'Neal enjoyed
a visit to their son and daughter at
Jacksonville.
Miss Lalla Rush, who spent several
weeks here, asserts that Fairfax
i6 the nicest town and the folks so
sociable and easy to get acquainted
with Come again Miss Lalla; Olar
is not so far away.
Rev. N. N. Burton made many
friends here, who would be glad to
> welcome him back.
Many people wonder why their
hens will not lay, and their young
ones do not thrive and ?row as
they should, forgetting that in most
cases their trouble can be traced
to insects, which can be easily overr
come by using proper methods.
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jailed for white slavery. i
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Prominent Farmers of Georgia Lure i
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Little Girl.
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George and William Walker, prom- j
inent farmers of Walker county, Ga., j
are in jail awaiting trial on a serious j
charge. It is alleged that they lured j
from her home, Susie Fricks, the;
pretty 14-year-old daughter of a
neighbor, took her to the home of
George Walker, in the absence of his
wife, where she spent the night concealed
her the next day from her parents,
and put her on a train bound
for Alabama City Ala., where George
Walker, it is said, promised to join
her.
The child attracted the attention
of the railroad conductor, who persuaded
her to return home. The parents
had been conducting a vigorous
search when the little girl returned.
Before her departure she left a note
stating that she was to marry in a
short time and go to Oklahoma to
live. George Walker, the alleged instigator
of the crime, is a married
man. William Walker is being held
as an accessory.
MOHAMMEDANS OF INDIA.
Show Excitement Over Turkish De'
feat in Balkan War.
It seems a far call from the Balkans
to India, and although the foreign
press here religiously reported
by cable the progress of the late war
in the Balkans, its true significance
as an alleged Christian movement to
drive the Moslems out of Europe has
only now been conveyed to the Mohammedan
mind by pilgrims returning
from Asia Minor and te Levant,
writes a correspondent from Allahabad.
Unknown to the authorities, either
British or Hindoo, the agitation thus
started has lain dormant in Mohammedan
quarters at Cawnpore until
stirred into action by the destruction
of a part of a mosque to make room
tor civic improvements. A year ago
this would have passed unnoticed, as
the portion of the building pulled
down was used merely for ablutions,
Mohammedans entering it retaining ,
their shoes. But now, with the memory
of the defeat of the arms of the
Faithful in the Balkans, it has a warlike
anti-Moslem significance, which,
unless the authorities act with firmness
as well as tact, may develop into
a Holy war.
A few years ago the corporation in
Cawnpore decided that a new street
had to be cut through the quarter of
the Fish Market, and this innovation
required the modification of the land
of a Mohammedan shrine, but not of
the shrine itself. But in this case, although
there was some agitation,
there was no revolt.
History has not repeated itself. No
conceivable religious policy or tradition
has been harmful of the proposed
realignment of the Mohammedan
property in the Machlin mosque.
Nothing sacred was ever threatened.
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scribed ablutions are carried on, is
no sacred part of any Moslem temple.
A man may wear his slippers there.
Upon the sanctuary itself no man
may intrude booted, and the contincus
policy of British administration
in India has been that religious prejudice
of every kind, so far as it is
reasonable and does not patently
conflict with the public "weal, shall
be respected.
No one could wish that the religious
animosity of the Mohammedans
against the Hindus should be permitted
any more that that the immolation
of widows among the Hindus, or
human sacrifice among the Khonds,
should still be sanctioned. But in
such case as this, when no religious
principle has been even remotely involved,
when the guiding spirit of the
revolt has been, and still is, purely
political, it is time to ask the Mohammedan
authorities to intervene, if
the pledges they have repeatedly
given have any real meaning.
Three years ago it was the boast of
Mohammedans in India that they had
neither part nor lot in the hysterical
sedition Faised by a small percentage
?a very small percentage?of the
Hindus, who somewhat fatuously believed
that in the partition of Bengal
there was a possible point d'appui for
an Indian revolution.
But there is always a small body in
every race that is discontented and :
gullible, and India is no exception to
the rule. The mass of India Mohammedans
remain as loyal as ever. The
action of a few malcontents in Cawn~
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ency of Bengal agitators, is not representative
in any way of the feeling
of the steady mass of the Indian followers
of Islam.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Roiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The Thnrnwpll Ornhanaee schools
opened on Monday with 350 pupils.
The banks of Greenville will get
$300,000 of the government funds to
move the crops.
Prof. J. Iv. Breedin, dean of An-j
derson college, has sent in his resignation
and will go to Manning to
start a newspaper.
J. K. Dixon, assistant bank examiner,
has resigned his position to accept
a place with a bank president
in Asheville as confidential secretary.
Grier Collins, white, aged 18, and
John Austin, colored, aged 15, picking
cotton together, were killed by
lightning Saturday afternoon in Lee
county.
The county commissioners of Richland
have closed the contract for a
new jail, to be of reinforced concrete,
to be capable of "accommodating"
125 prisoners and to cost $42,475.
David Green and Jasper Reynolds,
both colored, were electrocuted in the
state penitentiary last Thursday1
morning for the murder of Constable
Cooler in Beaufort county March!
29th last.
Willie Outlaw, aged 14, was killed
on Friday while playing baseball in
Kershaw county. He and another
player came in collision while trying
to catch the ball, and Outlaw feil on
a railroad iron, fracturing his skull.
xricu inisnvs PFiFA WINS.
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Postmaster General Gives Permit for
Blind Girl to Ride on Mail Wagon.
Washington, Sept. 8.?The little
blind daughter of Rural Carrier Sherry
at Mendale, Ohio, may ride with
her father over his oute, although
a postoffice regulation expressly forbids
it, because Miss Jessie Wilson,
the President's second daughter, interceded
for the little girl and got;
Postmaster General Burleson to issue
a special permit.
Little Jessie Columbia, 13 years
old, of Cleveland, spent her vacation
this year with her grandfather, the
postmaster at Mandale, and saw the
blind girl's plight. She wrote Miss
Wilson of how little Miss Sherry longed
to ride on her father's mail cart,
and an appeal to the postmaster general
was followed by an order waiving,
in this case, a regulation which
forbids that anyone but a carrier
should ride on a mail wagon.
Boy and Girl Found Read.
Salem, Ohio, Sept. 8.?The body of
Ida Lee, IS years old, a high school
girl, was found in a grove north of
here today with a bullet hole through
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ner neaa. sne nau ueeu miasms omvc
Saturday, when she went mushroom
hunting with Oscar Gray, also 18
years old. Gray's body was also found
later, shot through the head. He
was a high school student and leading
athlete. When the couple did not
return home Saturday evening an
elopement was suspected. Then
James P. Gray, the boy's f&thep
found that his revolver was missing.
Alarmed, he notified the parents of
the girl, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee,
and a search was instituted.
Mrs. Theada Allen, the boy's grandmother,
living at Patmos, six miles
distant, said he appeared at her home
Saturday morning greatly excited and
then disappeared in the woods.
The body of Oscar Gray was found
shortly before noon in a field on the
farm adjoining that of Mrs. Allen.
Frank Frantz, owner of the farm,
found the body. The boy had shot
himself through the head.
SEEK MOYE C. DOWLIXG
Georgia Authorities Will Present Requisition
for Him.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 4.?It is announced
here that Gov. Slaton tomorrow
will issue requisition papers
for Moye C. Dowling, for cashier
of the defunct Citizens' Trust company
of Augusta, on charges in connection
with the failure of the Citizens'
Trust. The Citizens Trust company
was conected with the Interstate
Trust company of Aiken, of
which B. Sherwood Dunn, former
Bull Moose national committeeman
for South Carolina, was the presiding
genius. Dowling is now in Allendale.
The requisition papers, it is announced,
will be forwarded to Columbia
soon.
CLAIM BABIES A NUISANCE
Atlanta Woman Jailed For Letting
Babies Hun at Large.
Atlanta. Sept. 4.?For letting theii
babies romp naked on the front lawi
in the sunshine, for all the world lik<
frolicksome little puppies, Mrs Anni<
Hanson was arrested on the com
plaint of neighbors this morning.
Mrs. Hanson did not deny th<
charge, but made the plea that th<
children were such tiny little tot!
and the weather so hot that she didn'
know it was wrong. She was finet
$ 10.75.
Without knowing it, perhaps, Mrs
Hanson was trying to introduce int<
this community a custom which i:
regarded as perfectly proper amon*
the poor people of over half the civ
ilized world. In Rome, Naples, Mar
seilles, in fact nearly all the citiei
of southern Europe, and even in th<
beautiful Florence, it is regarded a:
just and proper for childern unde:
three or four years of age to rui
about and play naked in the sunshine
as it is for them to run barefoo
here.
TO CATTLE TICK
Is Charged Faults Found in Southeri
Leather.
Another indiotment against tin
Southern cattle tick has been foum
by the Department of Agriculture
says the Washington Star. This i;
the tick which transmits Texas o
splenic fever. It has for years pre
vented profitable cattle raising in th<
South, notwithstanding climatic con
ditions of that part of the country.
Now the leather dealers say tha
they are obliged to reject or a
least grade low the hides from tick
infested cattle because there is mori
and more demand for "grain leather'
and on such leather the tick mark:
show and make it undesirable.
It was thought when the diseases
carrying qualities of the cattle ticl
I were first discovered that eradica
| tion of the pest in the South was ai
I impossible task. The agents of th<
j department have been working a
the problem since 1906 and hav<
r found a way to systematically cleai
j up the ticks by dipping and pastun
rotation. Now about one-fifth of th<
cattle area under quarantine has beei
released and the clean area is extend
i ing rapidly. ?
I The department says that unde:
modern leather-making conditionsth<
tick-infested hides are graded as No
4. The same hides, if free from ticks
would grade as No. 2. The different
in price between these two grades o
hides is 3 cents per pound. As th(
hide of Southern steers weighs about
45 pounds, the presence of the ticl
in the hide causes a loss in the hid<
alone of more than $1.26 per hide
Government specialists point ou'
that the cost of tick eradication ii
only about 50 cents per head, so tha
if the counties make a systematic
campaign to eradicate the tick, th<
increase alone would leave the farm
er a net profit of about 76 cents pei
hide.
Tennessee will probably be the firs'
State to be entirely free from quarantine
for ticks. It already has erad
icated the tick in 51 counties and all
that now remain under quarantine
are parts of Marion, Wayne, Hardman,
McNairy and Decatur counties
and all of Hardin, Henderson and
Chester counties. It is hoped that b)
September 1 these counties will be
free from ticks and the entire State
out of quarantine.
According to the specialtists of the
Department of Agriculture, it has
cost less than 50 cents per head tc
eradicate the tick in Tennessee, and
the cattle owners as a result have
gained greatly.
Evelyn Says, "I Can't Collect."
New York.?Three $5,000 checks
signed by Mrs. Mary C. Thaw, Harry's
mother, figured again Thursday in
the bankrupt proceedings involving
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw. The dancer went
into bankruptcy a month ago but various
creditors are trying to prove
that she is able to pay her bills.
Mrs. Thaw gave her checks, Evelyn
said, when she agreed to bring suit
for annulment of her marriage to the
slayer of Stanford White, but later
stopped payment on them, though
her daughter-in-law, so the latter
said, tried to carry out her part of
the contract. To sustain her contention
that these checks were of no
value, Evelyn testified yesterday that
she had tried to 'collect on them in
vain "for years and years."
Mrs. Mary C. Thaw will be called
later to tell about property she is
said to have turned over to Evelyn.
BROAD DAYLIGHT HOLD4JP
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! BANDITS SECURE SIXTEEN THOUI
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5 j Two Assistants of a Construction
Company are Held up at I'arr
Shoals Station.
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; Three daring highwaymen, alleged
s to have been disguised with blackent
ed faces, held up and robbed three
i officials of the J. G. White Engineering
Company at Parr Shoals Station
. on the Southern Railway about twen)
ty miles above Columbia, in broad
s open daylight on Friday afternoon of
I $16,000.
The money was sent out from the
- National Loan and Exchange bank of
3 Columbia on Southern passenger
5 train No. 13, of the Columbia and
3 Spartanburg division, which is due at
r Parr Shoals at 2:10 p. m., and was
i addressed to J. T. McLeilen, superin!?
tendent of the J. G. White Construct
tion company.
The money had been receipted for
by H. W. Mahar, the cashier of the
J. G. White Construction Company.
A few minutes later as he, with Fred
1 Bultman, assistant cashier, and J. C.
Joyner, Fairfield county deputy, were
on their way to the offices of the come
pany, they were confronted by three
i white men, each armed with two relt
volvers.
s Deputy Joyner hesitated to raise
r his hands and reached for his pistol.
_ As he did so he was shot, receiving a
? painful though not serious flesh
_ wound in the thigh. Three other
shots were fired, it is said, but they
t went wild. The money was in three
t packages, one containing $3,000 in
_ gold, another $12,655 in currency,
3 and a third filled with $353.11 in
' small change. ?
5 After the hold-up the robbers
dashed across the railroad and into
. the woods on the east side of the
i track. The entire plant of the con.
struction company was shut down
1 that the men might assist in scour3
ing the woods. The searchers were
t divided into parties, each headed by
? a captain, and as many as 2,000 men
! are believed to be hunting the rob3
bers.
3 As stated above, the money was in
2 charge of H. W. Mahar, cashier of
. the engineering company, Fred Bultman,
assistant cashier, and Deputy
r Jovner, a policeman at Parr Shoals.
3 The robbers were also three in number
and had blackened their faces
> that they might appear like negroes,
3 As the bearers of the money were
f passing through a railway cut be3
tween a string of box cars and the
t side of the cut they were confronted
c by the highwaymen and had six pis?
tols thrust in their faces.
At the command to throWup their
t hands, Deputy Joyner hesitated and
5 made an effort to pull his pistol. As
t he did so he was shot through the
2 thigh, the bullet inflicting a painful,
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5 tnougn noi senuus, nesii wuauu. i?ia.
har and Bultman did not offer resistr
ance, it is said, after the deputy had
been shot down. Seizing the three
t packages of money the robbers dash.
ed down the railroad track by the
. station and on into the woods down
I the Mayo creek.
j The offices of the company are only
. about a quarter of a mile from the
; station up a hill. There is a steep
t embankment on the west side of the
r railroad track, and a stairway leads
? to the top of this. As the three men
? in charge of the money ascended the
stairs, they had to pass between a
; part of the embankment and a group
! of box cars. It was while in this
i narrow gorge that they were con[
fronted by three white men, who had
? blackened their faces. Each of the
assailants carried two revolvers, and
these were thrust into the faces of
the bearers of the money with the
demand that their hands be thrown
5 UP.
5 Two minutes after the bandits
L made off with the money, the whoje
r camp was thrown into confusion by
. the news of the daring deed of the
bandits. The news flashed Instantly
tn all onrnprs of the camp, and the
700 laborers were at once released
that they might join in scouring the
woods for the highwaymen. The
men were organized into small com.
panies, each directed by a captain,
L and were sent out in every direction
to patrol roads and to keep a sharp
' lookout for any suspect.
Telephone messages were sent to
, the police department in Columbia
and to Sheriff McCain of Richland
county for bloodhounds. Richland
county happens to have no dogs of
its own, but the message was trans
; ferred to the State penitentiary, and
William H. Sondley, captain of the
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ANOTHER MURDER MYSTERY.
Decomposed Body of Missing Man
Found in Trunk.
Ottawa, Ont., September 9.?The
body of Charles Robinson, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., a bookmaker's clerk, who
had been missing since the Connaught
Park race meet, was found
in a trunk in a vacant house here tonight.
The police immediately began
an investigation.
The trunk was discovered under a
pile of coke in the basement where it
evidently had rain for some time. The
body was so badly decomposed it was
impossible to determine by what
means the man had met his death.
Robinson was last seen the night
of Thursday, August 28, and his employer
next day notified the Ottawa
authorities of his disappearance. On
Saturday, August 30, a man who gave
no name obtained from a real estate
agent the keys to the vacant house,
telling the agent he wanted to obtain
a clothing store. The keys were
returned the following Tuesday. The
police believe the body was taken to
the house while the keys were in the
hands of the stranger.
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ORANGEBURG BOY KILLED.
Clinton Dukes Run Over by Train in
North Carolina.
Orangeburg, September 7.?A telegram
was received here this morning
by Mr. Charles F. Huchet announcing
the accidental killing of his stepson,
Qlinton Dukes, by a railroad train at
Elm City, N. C., last night. It seems
young Dukes was trying to board the
train while in motion and fell and
was run over.
The young man was 17 years of
age and resided here nearly all of his
life, but about a year ago left Orangeburg
and has been on the road since
in the employ of the Todd Company
of shows. The* remains will be
brought here for burial.
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North Carolina Man Convicted of
Killing His Brother-in-Law.
Lumberton, N. C., Sept. 6.?Will
j^cKenzie* charged with the murder
of his brother-in-law, Peter Jones,
in Scotland County last October, was
convicted here this morning and sentenced
by Judge Lyon to be electrocuted
October 29.
The case was removed to this county
from Scotland because of alleged
prejudice against McKenzie. McKenzie
and Jones were members of
prominent families.
Wisdom of the Calf.
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A man concerned in educational
matters in Tennessee had been con?
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view. He made no such mistake as
to go to the people with messages of
chemistry, botany or zoology, but, on '
the contrary, advocated eminently
practical measures. At a meeting up
in the hill country he made an address
in which he labored long and
arduously to prove to the audience
that every boy and every girl should
know how to milk a cow, and to this
end should attend an agricultural college.
After wearing out he threw
the meeting open for remarks and
discussion. After a painful silence a
gaunt old man with hay colored
whiskers, the principal of a theological
seminary, arose. "Stranger,"
said he, "I agree with you that every
boy, black or white, should know how
to milk a cow. I even agree that ev- /
ery girl should include this art along
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However, I want to make this suggestion:
Wouldn't it be a good thing
for a college to teach its students
something that a calf couldn't beat
'em at?"
guard, dispatched the dogs kept at
the penitentiary. They left Columbia
at 4 o'clock and were under the supervision
of J. C. Robbins, guard,
who has led many chases in South
Carolina for fleeing criminals. Sheriff
Miller of Lexington county was
also notified and he also went to the
scene.
As the robbers passed the station
J. A. Hancock, the camp boss, attempted
to intercept them. He was
fired upon three times, none of the
shnts hittine him. After Dassing the
station the robbers made their way
down the railroad track for some
distance and then turned off and disappeared
in the woods. Six hundred
dollars reward has been offered for
the bandits and every effort will be
made to catch them. It was one of
the boldest robberies that ever took
place in this State. The robbers
have not been caught eo far, nor
has any clue been found.
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