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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2,1913. Established 1891. ? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS h~ SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the , County and Elsewhere. Country Correspondence. EmHH Since the cool wave has blown over, ideal Indian summer is a welHmBmP come guest. Miss Eva Hughes, of Elmer, is K|^BP spending a few days with her father's family in our midst. H Miss Virginia Hill left last Wednesday for Gaffney to attend Limestone On last Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the home of Mr. J. T. Smoak, his youngest daughter, Marie, was married to Mr. Hughie Clayton, HgBaK. of the Colston community. Quite a crowd had been bidden and was present to witness the beautiful and imHHb pressive, yet solemn ceremony as perHH formed by Rev. E. A. McDowell, of HRF Ehrhardt. The attendants were Miss BBhFP *Jerilee Sandifer and Mr. Grayson Hix, Miss Nettie Clayton, sister to HWF~ the groom, with Mr. Conner Smoak, brother to the bride. The wedding jCc party was a pretty scene. The bride is one of our community's younger girls and we are sorry to lose her to another community, yet our very best wishes follow her to ner new nome. The groom is the second son of Mr. Frank Clayton, of Colston, and is a rising young farmer boy. May their lives be long and full of happiness * and prosperity. We must comment, yet we can't do justice, to the beautiful sermon of Rev. W. R. McMillan, at the BammT berg Baptist church Sunday. He was L~ introducing and paving the way for W the protracted services now in session there. His text was taken from E the 4th verse of the 22nd chapter of " St. Matthew. He likened the con? ditions of man to some of the wonders of nature. The darkness of sin * to the Mammoth cave, the depths of ruin to the Niagara Falls, and the height of glory which the earnest followers of Christ are trying to climb, to Mt. Blanc. Mr. McMillan gives hi6 congregation good spiritual food every Sunday and so appropriate to r the work he is trying to do this week. A large crowd was present and had something rare to carry away. Special mention must be made of the good music as rendered by the choir, assisted by Miss Kate Rentz on piano, Dr. Faust on violin, Mr. C. W. Rentz on cornet and Mr. Clarence Black on "hnss vinlin. For the first year since the writer has been teaching, we will be in a different community to that of our , own. We are going to cast our lot in the Denmark, Ghent's Branch neighborhood. Now that is a short way from home, but when we come to think of never teaching only near enough that we could drive or walk to our work every day and could visit our church and teach our Sunday-school class every Sunday we, to say nothing of leaving home, feel - like we are going far away. But we feel sure we will like our new labors and devoutly trust there will be more earnest workers to take up the labors of-our past at each post of duty, for we have labored to do our best. Fairfax Fancies. n Fairfax, Sept. 27.?Quite a number of persons from this place attended the funeral at Brunson, of the late Judson Lightsey, Sr. Dr. Wilber Tuten, W. E. Harter, and others from here attended a deer hunt over Savannah river this week. ^ * - Two deer were caught. They brought one home with them, cooked and j^> ate it! Said it was nice. P L. S. Bryan and family, of Barton, p: were here trading this week. i Misses Gussie and Carrie Pollard, F of Hazen, Ga., are guests of Mrs. H. M. Harveley. These young ladies have visited here before, and we are glad to welcome them back to Fairfax. There was an entertainment Thursday evening for the benefit of the library association. A nice sum was realized, and all carried out their parts on the program beautifully. Particularly cute and sweet was the song sung by little Fannie Wilson, "You Can t Guess What He Wrote on My Slate." The quartette by Misses Harrison, Kenny, Albergotti, I and Porter was well executed, and very sweet. Misses Harrison and Sadie Harter gave fine instrumental music. The closing scene, The Spelling Class, was intensely amusing, but they won a book to present to the library, for best speller. There was a lecture Wednesday evening at the school hall by Rev. OI K SMOKE AM) OKIMv BILL. ! It Keaches the Enormous Sum of $2,700,000,000 a Year. Frank Fayant shows that the smoking and drinking bill of the I j American people now reaches the j enormous figure of $2,700,000,000 a ; year. "Since the time when Columbus ' braved the unknown seas in search I j of the treasure of the Indies, man has dug out of the earth $15,000,000,000.000 of gold." he says. "Since j the panic of 1907 the American peoj pie have spent for alcohol and tobacj co $15,000,000,000. Or, to put these j two statements in the form of amathI ematical equaton;the product of 4 20 I hnmon frtll oo^rifico Q r? H ? Cdl S V 1 II 11 Iila.il lull, UUlllllVU HUM bloodshed, of daring discovery and exploration of continental wilderi ness, of cruel wars of aggression and ! conquest, of wonderful engineering j triumphs, in the never-ending search for the precious metal, equals six years easy going expenditure of the American people for the weed that soothes and the cup that cheers. "How much is $2,700,000,000? If, a thousand years before the time of j Moses the Lawgiver, the the ancient i Egyptians had begun hoarding a j treasure of gold at the rate of a doli lar a minute, and if ever since then? everv minute, dav and night, these I ? ' thousands of years?the accumula! tion of this treasure had continued, i the golden hoard would to-day be ! 500 years short of the $2,700,000,I 000 we spent in one year for alcohol and tobacco." Mr. Fayant says that the bulk of this money is spent by wage-earners, j It is equal to the earnings of more j than 4,000,000 workers. It is two I and a half times the wages of all the : men on the railroads. It is fourteen j times the great pay roll of the Steel corporation. Sir George Paish, the English economist, estimates that the American people are saving the great sum of $5,000,000 a year?that is, that we ! are putting this money into new rail! roads, factories, farms, homes and | other productive investments, and thus adding to the national wealth. | Birt we are spending this sum every | 22 months for tobacco and alcohol. Our enormous savings bank hoard is the wonder and envy of Europe, but we spent in 20 months as much money for tobacco and alcohol as we have laid by in the savings banks in all these years of prosperity and thrift. Every month we spend more than we add to our bank savings in a whole year. More than half the total wealth of the United States is incorporated in manufacturing and industrial companies. banks and other financial institutions, railroads, telegraphs, telephones and other public service corporations. The combined profits of all these businesses are less than the expenditure for smoking and drinking. The $27,000,000,000 annual outlay is greater than the total cost of all our government, from the president's salary down to the cross-J roads school house. It is three times the national debt. It is more than all Europe is spending for war and preparations tor war. "If our habits do not change," says the writer, "we shall consume more alcohol and tobacco in the next 35 years than could be purchased for the entire wealth of the United States today?the total value of everything possessed by everybody from the Atlantic to the Pacific." A quarter of the $27,000,000,000 is spent for tobacco, and three quarters for alcohol?that is, the drinking bill is three times as large as the smoking bill. Of the two billions spent for drink $1,170,000,000 goes for beer, $700,000,000 for whiskey, brandy, gin, rum and for wine. The $700,000,000 tobacco bill is thus divided: $446,000,000 for cigars and little cigars, $73,000,000 for cigarettes. $157,000,000 for smoking and chewing tobacco, and $244,uuu,uuu for snuff. Mr. Favant's figures show that beer is the drink of the American people, and that cigarettes are rapidly becoming the national smoke. The consumption of cigarettes has increased 500 per cent in ten years.? Munsey's Magazine. Xungazer, of Estill. The ladies of the Baptist missionary society were in charge. Mrs. 0. J. Youmans gave a fine recitation. A collection was * taken for the society. Miss Joella Padgett led the music. A vocal solo "U?.- pArvirkfAn n'Oo rrtn/?Vl U v VV/Uij^/i-vu r? uo uiuvu vut The Lutherans are putting an important addition to their manse, which is to be occupied by Rev. D. B. Groseclose. now at Ehrhardt, in November. Audrey Sanders is also putting up out buildings, so we hear the saw and hammer all around us. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Roiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Wade Bright, white, convicted at ^ ^? ? - - - ^ -.i r. rv f Krt rl if r\AT? CO y*\7 uamiey ui viuictnug uic uis^cuimi law and sentenced to a fine of $175 or five months on the gang, has been paroled by the governor on condition that he pays $25. Brack Edwards, colored, committed suicide in Aiken on Sunday by jumping into a well a hundred feet deep. His body was found Monday. He had been threatening for some time to kill himself. Mary Alice Rollinson, colored, shot and killed her husband, Nero Rollinson, at their home at Wedgefield, Sumter county, Sunday night. The evidence showed that the husband had cursed her and shot at her with a shotgun, when she shot him with a pistol. Mayor John P. Grace of Charleston has filed a petition with Speaker Clark asking for an investigation of the election of Congressman Richard S. Whaley of the first congressional district. The petition charges that Congressman Whaley spent more than $60,000 in the Democratic primaries last summer, which is a violation of the law. Whaley says the charges are bold, baldface lies, cooked up to hurt his reputation in the house. J. B. Tipton, the Southern Railway conductor who was arrested in Greenville charged with complicity in the robbery of $16,000 at Parr Shoals, and who was later released on his own recognizance, was dismissed from custody at the preliminary hearing in his case before Magistrate Douglas at Parr Shoals, who issued the warrant for his arrest. Mr. Tipton was completely exonerated, and it is said that he is planning to bring suit against the detectives ^ho brought about his arrest. DOG TEARS OFF COW S HORN. Ih-ize Canine and Thoroughbred Jersey Meet in Unequal Combat. St. Louis, Sept. 26.?The inbred enmity of dog and cow, shown long ago by the "cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog," broke forth anew in the pasture of Samuel McCIuney, a wealthy St. Louis broker in St. Louis county, when Rodney Stone, Mrs. T. L. Hausmann's prize bulldog, tore a horn from the head of McCluney's prize Jersey cow, Daisy. Mrs. Hausman is a neighbor of the McCluneys in Hampton Park. She took the bull dog for his daily exercise, without the restraint of a lesh and the result was a confiica of tooth V? /\*?*> awu liuiu. A REPUBLICAN TRIBUTE Tarheel Postmaster Says Wilson is Great Chieftain. Norfolk, Va., Sept. 25.?Although only a few Democrats are among those attending the joint convention of Virginia and North Carolina postmasters, which met here to-day, a tribute to President Wilson by C. F. McKesson, Republican postmaster at Morganton, N. C., was applauded with enthusiasm. Mr. Kesson said that, although his loyalty to the Republican party was unswerving, he believed President Wilson to be the greatest chieftain the nation has possessed since the death of Thomas Jefferson. The applause which greeted this assertion was spontanious and prolonged. GETS TRUNKS AGAIN. St. Louis Broker Pays and Recovers Family Property. New York, Sept. 29.?By the payment of $450, the home value of the gowns and hats worn by his wife and daughter, Henry Nicholaus, a wealthy St. Louis brewer, today obtained the release from customs stores of 12 trunks seized last Saturday, when it was charged that the owners had failed to declare dutiable gowns and jewelry valued at $4,000. Examination of the baggage disclosed that the only articles which Mr. Nicholaus failed to mention in his declaration were the gowns and hats purchased abroad, which were being worn by his wife and daughter. The Nicholauses arrived here last Friday from Europe aboard the steamer Kaiserine Auguste Victoria. Highest prices paid for pecans. G. A. DUCKER & BRO., Bamberg, S. C. JiLKVEXTH VICTIM OF HACK KIOX , 1 I Detectives Investigating Cause of Trouble at Harriston, Miss. I | Harriston, Mies., Sept. 29.?AnI ntbor victim nt' flip SnnilflV riot died I -...v.. . -WW. W V ? ] ! here to-day, bringing the death list , up to eleven, three white persons and i eight negroes. Homer Aiken, a nej gro, to-day succumbed to wounds he [ received at the hands of the two i .Tones brothers, who began the riot ] I which ended when they were lynched. < j Officers here, in trying to find the ] real cause of the riots, to-day work- , i ed on the theory that the Jones boys < | were advised to begin their reign of t j murder and in their drugged condi- i i tion readily acquiesced. It has been j | predicted that if the mother of the ] I boys should be brought back to her 1 I home from which she fled when the < j shooting began, she might be sum- < I marily dealt with. She was captured < I at Port Gibson, Miss., early to-night. ] ! It has not been decided whether to '1 ; bring her here at once. 1 Detectives are also investigating. John Prophet,anegroofChampaign, 1 j 111., who recently came here and was 1 { seen frequently with the Jones boys. 1 i He and Robert Patten, another negro, 1 j are in jail. It is said Prophet organ- < j ized negro lodges and vielde some l I influence among the more ignorant 1 ! negroes here. < I Funerals A Sheriff G. B. Hammett, ! Claude Freeman and Frank Keinstly j took place at Fayette to-day. 1 1 Two Others Expecte<l to Die. 1 Natchez, Miss., Sept. 29.?His life 1 hanging in the balance as a result 1 ; of gunshot wounds received in the 1 riot at Harriston, Miss., yesterday J former Sheriff Orrin Gillis was struck | in the face and on the body by plaster ; j which fell from the ceiling of his j i room in a hospital here to-day He < ! was not seriously hurt by the plaster, ] I but physicians say lie is not likely to 1 i recover from the wounds recived i j yesterday. i ! Dewey Haywood, a negro shot in 1 I the abdomen, who also is in the hos- ( i pital here, is not expected to live. j On the advice of Governor Brewer i II he negroes, John Prophet and Rob- i | ert Patterson, arrested in connection i j with the shooting and brought here, j j were not taken to Fayette to-day for < j preliminary hearing. I B1XBY XOT GUILTY, SAYS JURY. . ( Long Beach Millionaire Freed of ? Charge of Wrong Against Girls. , Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 29.?Geo. ' H. Bixby, a millionaire of Long Beach, Cal., charged with having con- 1 tributed to the downfall of minor ' young women, was found not guilty by a jury to-night. < Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe instructed the jury to disregard the allegations of conspiracy made by Bix- ( by himself on the witness stand and ? to convict him if he were deemed guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The < offence related to the millionaire's alleeed relations with Cleo Helen Barker, a 19-year-old girl, and one 1 of three young women who have sued J him for an aggregate of $150,000 . damages. Bixbv was tried on one of two in< aictments based on charges preferred against him by Cleo Helen Barker and habitues of a resort. Bixbv's defense was that he had visited the place only as a philanthropist, who had spent thousands of dollars to save young girls and had been requited by being made a victim of a blackmail conspiracy. Cotton Goes Back. { New York, Sept. 30.?The condition of cotton, as compiled from near- s ly 1,900 replies of special corres- 1 pondents of the Journal of Com- ] merce, bearing an average date of ? r, ^ i e\n n i _ oepiemuer -a, is 01,1 pci ^cm,, vum pared with 71.4 per cent a month 1 ago, or a decline of 4.3 points. This 1 compares with 70.3 per cent a year < ago; 70.8 in 1911, 65.7 in 1910 and { 59.5 in 1909. The ten-year average is 68.2 percent, while the average 1 decline for the same period is 5.3 1 points. ( Deterioration occurred in all States, but was most severe in Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma, all of which lost 10 points and over. Texas nearly held its own, 1 losing only 0.5 point. J I Bits of Philosophy. j A man sometimes does not know ] who his friends are until he finds he 1 hasn't any. ] We never quite realize the sting J of hard words till we have to take i them back. 1 He who strikes while the iron is < hot doesn't always succeed In mak- 1 ing warm friends. 1 CONSTABLE KING KILLED SHERIFF DOUGLASS AXI) DEPUTY ABBOTT HURT. Posses Pursuing Wife of Jim Davis, Who Escapes After Husband Meets Death in Glowing Embers. McBee, Sept. 28.?J. M. King, a 1 member of the sheriff's posse, was shot and instantly Killed and Sheriff D. P. Douglass and Deputy J. R. Ahhntt u-orp nninfnllv wounded to jay in trying to capture James Davis, i negro deperado, who fought to ;he last and is believed to have pershed in the ruins of the burning house near Middenorf, this county, cvhere he had been besieged since ?arly morning. Davis' wife, who aid2d him in his defense and subsequently escaped, is being sought by a posse. The end came after a battle vith the negro in which many shots cvere fired. Summoned by Lester Burr, ginners' *eport man for this county, who had Deen fired on by the negro yesterday, md other prominent men, the sheriff md his deputy went to Middendorf ?arlv to-day. Arrived there, they Jound the object of their search, and the deputy at once demanded his surrender. The First Fight. As the officer approached the negro ! tvhipped out *his pistol and opened ire. In the fusillade which followed :-oth officers were wounded?Sheriff Douglass in the right leg?and Dep Jty Abbott in the left hand?and the legro, the sheriff thinks, was also lit. Davis fled into his cabin nearby and there barricaded himself. Assisted by his wife, he prepared for lefense. Davis' house was well prepared for a seige. The negro was :ieavily armed and had a quantity of ammunition. With his wife, who had 1 assisted him in the first fight with i :he officers, he was able to put up a ; lesperate resistance. Sheriff Douglass, though wounded, 1 -emained in charge of the situation, and went to McBee for reinforcements, leaving a small party on ?uard to see that the negro did not escape. Returned to Front. At McBee the wounded sheriff raised a posse and soon returned to the scene ready to take the house by storm if necessary. There were no signs of life, and the posse began a search for the negro. Mr. King stooped down to look mder the house and was greeted by i shot from the negro's weapon. The lullet took effect almost squarely between the eyes and the brave constable fed dead. Undaunted by the sudden fire, the ifficers continued their efforts to :ake the desperado. The house was | jurroundered and then was fired, the | * * * " 1 - ^ ~ 1 V, A M /VM/N A I DDject Deing 10 rorce uit; ucgiu mw he open. The heat and smoke proved more :lian Davis could stand and he dashed from the burning house, only to oe met by a volley of lead. Seemingly hard hit, he turned back and sought shelter beneath the blazing structure. Cowers 'Xeath Blazing Beams. There, hiding from the bullets of :he posses, the negro cowered, while ;he flames ate their way through the frail building. The roof and floor fell in; the neiro had not appeared. He was burned to death beneath the house which Pad given him refuge, while he pour?d forth hi6 fire at the officers is almost certain. Davis' wife had escaped, while the sheriff was gone, it is supposed, as there was no trace of her when the posse returned. A posse ie now searching for her. J. M. King, the dead man, has been iving here for several months. He fvas magistrate's constable for this iistrict. He was married and leaves 1 wife and eight children. Davis is said to have been a very < bad character. It is believed that ; le was wanted in North Carolina for crimes committed there. j Arm Mangled in Ginnery. Olar, Sept. 25.?Frank Kirkland, a , aegro about 30 years of age, who , ives near this place, came to town :his morning with a bale of cotton for the ginnery operated by G. 0. Barker. In some way, while assisting . the hands emplo}red at the ginnery, his right hand got caught in the saws, His arm was so mangled that t was necessary to amputate it just below the shoulder joint. Drs. McBormick, Hartzog and Ray performed the operation. Their opinion as to his recovery is favorable. I QK V N SKA BOARD CHARLESTOX-BOUND. Laying Ties and Rails on ElorencePoston-Charleston Division. Florence, Sept. 29.?The laying of crossties and rails on the South Carolina Western Railroad, the Seaboard, on the Florence-Poston-Charleston division, was begun here to-day. The track-laying force began work on the south side of the Florence-Mars Bluff Road, near the new Plough Factory plant, which is located on the old Munford G. Scott plantation. Until the South Carolina Western can get their viaduct and approaches completed across the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad freight transfer yards they will be compelled to move their rails and ties from the southern terminus of their track to the Mars Bluff road or northern terminus ;n wagons, but this is being done regardless of time or cost and it will be only a few days now before they will have in a connecting track at the Plough Factory with an Atlantic Coast Line siding. The work on this new line will now be rushed with all possible dispatch, as the cuts have been made, the grades reduced and the trestle work over Jeffreys Creek and Willow Creek has been erected and made ready for the ties and rails. It is now stated definitely that trains will be running between Florence and Georgetown by January 1, 1914, and into Charleston by January 1, 1915. McNAUGHTON WILL NOT HANG. ' . vi Gov. Slaton Commutes Sentence of Man Convicted of Murder. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 27.?Tlie sentence of Dr. W. J. McNaughton, who was to have been hanged October 3 for the murder of Fred Flanders, today was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor John M. Slaton. In announcing his decision Governor Slaton said that while the evidence showed the physician guilty, it was all more or less circumstantial, and that expert testimony by physicians . - v: of high standing, offered since the trial, impressed upon him the fallibility of human judgment. "Human life is sacred," said Governor Slaton. "Its protection is the highest function of the law, and the Governor, an officer sworn to enforce the law, should remember the sacredness of life to the condemned criminal as well as to the victim." Dr. W. J. McNaughton was found guilty of poisoning Fred Flanders in Emanuel County, June 4, 1910, and was sentenced to death at the October term of the Emanuel Superior court. Mrs. Mattie Flanders, wife of the dead man, was indicted for complicity in the murder. During the illness of Flanders, and after his death, Dr. McNaughton, who lived at the Flanders home, diagnosed the case as acute nephritis. Experts who examined the dead man's stomach declared that their analysis revealed the presence of poison. The indict merits of Dr. McNaughton and Mrs. Flanders were based on this testimony. The case against Dr. McNaughton had been through all the courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, before it reached the Georgia prison board. In each instance the original verdict was sustained. An extraordinary motion recently was made for a new trial, on the ground that new evidence had been discovered, but this also was denied. Governor Slaton had the case under consideration since the hearing before the prison board closed two weeks ago. The board on September 11 recommended a full pardon. Dr. McNaughton probably will be confined at the State farm at Milledgeville. Mrs. Flanders has not yet been tried. t: * Expected to be Pardoned. Savannah, Ga., Sept. 27.?"I am much disappointed," said Dr. W. J. McNaugnton nere to-mgm wneu told of Governor Slayton's decision. "I had confidently expected a complete pardon. I feel no resentment or bitterness toward those who are responsible for my condition and have persecuted rather than prosecuted me. "I will begin my sentence without a word of reproach, for I have long since reached the point where the worst has no terrors for me." Dr. McNaughton expressed the conviction that be would be cleared "at the day of final judgment." Richard I. Manning, of Sumter, has issued a statement that he will positively fce a candidate for governor in the Democratic primary next summer. He also believes the primary laws -should be changed so as to insure absolutely fair elections.