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r- -%u One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1913. Established 1891. : i ' i COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, October 12.?Miss Maude Barber, after a most delightful visit to friends and schoolmates at Hartsville and other places, lias returned * home Mr. Algernon Morgan,of Savannah, | is spending some time with his sister % Mrs. Benj. Buckner. Mr. Morgan has taken two trips to Europe recently and talks entertainingly of his travels. Mrs. C. M. Browning, of Olar, was a recent guest of Mrs. C. M. Davis. Mrs. W. C. Davis and children have been on a visit to Early Branch. Mrs. John Harter visited the family of J. M. Ritter, at Hampton, recently. Dr. L. B. Kerrison, of Cheraw, was here recently. He thinks our town a good place to come back to, after a few months' absence. We hear good accounts of our absent college girls and boys. "Brook er" says he's getting fat, and learning "lots," "J. B." thinks he's steadily gaining, "Lee"' is gaining fresh | laurels. Russell is determined not i i to return without his promised sheep-skin. Of course Misses Alma x Knight, Gladys Buckner, and Hattie Googe are bright lights at Winthrop. One "city raised lady" here brags % on how much cotton she picked this j week. Another one said two pounds j was all she could count, and was j "tired to death" after that effort. j W. G. Ruddell and G. D. Sanders | visited Allendale Sunday. F. Young, F. Craddock, J. Lane, P. D. Wilson, Earl Hammond, W. E. Harter, and others visited Barnwell Court House on Wednesday. Sam Jenkins, of Birmingham, Ala., i v.as here this week, visiting relatives, j L. O. Watson and L. Seal, of Clem- j son College, are guests of G. D. Sanders. ^ BEAT CONVICTS LIKE MULES. Alabama State Prisoner Tells Sordid Story of His Experience. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 14.?A. D. Dorsey, who has just finished serving a sentence of twenty months at Speigner's, the State convict farm, gave a statement to Gov. Emmet O'Neal's secretary to-day, complaining of | cruelty to convicts at Speigner's. Dorsey says he was whipped three | times, that he weighed 150 pounds j cn commitment to the prison, and j when released weighed 127 pounds. He told of a woman, May Rice, who received 28 lashes because she could not learn how to spool as aptly as ethers. He also tells of a convict taken out of the hospital with a j temperature of 104 degrees and i whipped in the presence of eightyfive convicts in the weaving room of the cotton mill. Cox, he says, uses a leather strap three feet long, four inches wide and an inch thick. The convicts he insisted, are whipped worse than are v horses or mules. For breakfast, he said, the convicts get four hard biscuits, a spoon of syrup, one piece of meat the size of a cigarette paper and some coffee and a cup of milk once a month. He asserted Harry Fox, a convict f broke his leg and did not receive attention, the officials, it is alleged, refusing to send him to the hospital. Speigner's cotton factory is operated by the State. Several hundred convicts are worked at the camp. The Dorsey charges coming on top of the action of the Gover ? "! ~ C nor m cancelling tne tumitti-i ui wc Huxford-Orvin Naval Stores, who hired the Mobile county prisoners, for treating them cruelly, has caused a sensation, and strong efforts ? are being made to have the Governor cancel all leases of the prisoners in the coal mines. The thirty-five convicts hired by the Naval Stores Concern at Aamore are here in jail and all but I . seven show signs of cruel treatment. Thomas Baldwin, according to his story, was hidden by the contractors in a barn when the State investigators came around because he was so badly beaten he had to lie down to eat. Baldwin came here to-day and exhibited his lacerated back to the State authorities. He was turned adrift after the contract was cancelled. Gov. O'Neal, now V rin the East, will be asked to have a grand jury investigation. PARK SHOALS SUSPECTS FREEH Fraser-ttigham Hearing Held in Fair field County. Winnsboro, Oct. 15.?The prelim inary in the case of the State agains J. B. Frr.ser, Jr., and Bissell Bigham of Chester, charged with robbing tin paymaster of $ 1G,0 0 0, at Parr Shoal: was held to-day before Magistrate F. K. Mann, and resulted in the mag istrate holding that there was a fail lire on the part of the prosecutioi to make out a probable case agains the defendants, who, therefore, wen discharged. The attorneys for the defence ex pected to have the hearing in Winns boro and a large crowd had gatherei to hear the testimony, when W. H Lyles, attorney for the prosecution made the point that Magistrate Mam was without jurisdiction to hear th< case in Xo. 7 Township, when hi was magistrate of Xo. 11 Township He was sustained in this action b; the magistrate and the officer states he would go within his territo'r; and have the preliminary. At 3 o'clock the crowd assemble! at Ashford's Cross Roads, 10 milei south-west of Winnsboro, and thi case was called. The prosecution offered only tin testimony of H. W. Mahan, paymas ter of the J. G. White Company, an( A. T. Hancock, camp boss of the con scruction camp at Parr Shoals. Mr Mahan testified in substance as fol lows: Paymaster's Testimony. He was on train Xo. 13 that lef Columbia about 1:20 o'clock, an< that he arrived at Parr Shoals a 2.30 o'clock, that it was after he hac receipted for the money and startec towards the camp that he saw thre< men with blackened faces; that the: came up and ordered the negro, Bil Renger, to 'beat it,' and drop th< money he carried in a canvass bag The men, he said, shot twice ove: his hpad and shot Jovner in the hiD when he moved his hand toward hi: hip pocket. The witnesses could no identify the persons, but stated on< o-f the men was of the build of Frase: end one about the size of Bigham Witness would not swear either o them was the guilty party. Says Recognized Them. Mr. Hancock testified to havini seen Fraser on the works at Par: Shoals in February and June an< saw Bigham in the month of June that he was about eleven feet awa; when he saw three men near tin mail crane and heard them hollering at the paymaster and his assistants Their faces were blackened, he said but the disguise had rubbed off thei: hands and he knew they were whit< men. Witness said he recognize* Bogham as the man on the righ when they came up to him, and tin stout man in the centre as Fraser Witness said he went to Chester an* after staying tl?ere four or five day: took a seat in Wylie and Anderson': stables, where he was told he woul( probably see the man he was looking for. He said he thought Mr. Wyli< knew whom he was looking for be cause he was in Chief of Police San ders' office and heard the purpose o his trip. Witness recognized Frase: when he came through the stable. Asked the question whether hi told his employer that Fraser wai the person who held them up, th< witness answered he had not. Sai( he saw Bigham in an eating housi and that Bigham went out when hi came in and left his meal. Witnes: stated he would swear positivel; that Fraser and Bigham were tw< of the persons who held the men up regardless of what a number of citi zens of Chester would say as to thei being in Chester at the time th< robbery was committed. The attorneys representing the de fendants were J. E. McDonald, S. J A A /"* ..l T>r* ?4- A T ;ua^r auucu, u)ico rauciauu, A. Gaston and Malcolm Marion. Afte the decision was announced the largi number of Chester citizens who hat journeyed to the haring in automo biles applauded the magistrate and ; number shook his hand. HOMICIDE NEAR SUMTER. Man Named Pye Slain By Party Wilt Makes Escape. Sumter, Oct. 15.?A man namei Pye, was shot and instantly killet six miles east of here this afternoon and the slayer, whose name is a yet unknown, made his escape. Tlr killing is alleged to have been cause* by intimate relations between Py and a woman. The woman was ar rested and lodged in jail but claim to know nothing of the killing. Sher iff Bradford and his deputies hav gone to the scene with the coroner t< hold the inquest and endeavor to ar rest the slayer. i in the palme staii " I I SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. * ! State News Roiled Down for Quiet Reading?Paragraphs About s i Men and Happenings. e i _ { Crawford McCullough was shot ir _ j the back and killed Thursday nighl I ! in Chester by Jack Wherry?both colII ored. The affair took place at ? 3 dance. .Mrs. Clara V. Padgett of Lexingtor - j has brought suit against the Seaboarc - j Air Line road for $75,000 for the I! death of her husband, an engineer . who was killed by falling into a drop, pit at Cayce last January. ^ The postoffice in Charleston issuec - money orders of the value of $377,b 249.22 for the year ended June 30 1913?most of which was for goode Y bought away from home that coulc i have been bought there. T Solicitor Peurifoy says that he be lieves he can put a stop to the race* * in Charleston, and that he is going 3 to take steps to do so as soon as he B returns from the mountains of New York, where he has been ordered tc 3 go by his physician. The races are to start in Charleston December first Glenn Woodley, 6 year old son ol E. J. Woodley, a former resident ol Clio, was smothered to death while playing in a pile of cotton seed ai his home in Jackson Springs a few t days ago. He and his little broth er had due a hole in the cottor i " ? ? t seed and Glfenn fell hearforemosi j into the hole. After making a fuj tile attempe to extricate him th< little brother ran to his mother and told her that Glenn was dead. Lift j was extinct when the mother reached the scene. While working on a telephone polt P wire at the top of a pole Wednesday afternoon, John W. Wilkins, of Gaff3 ney, manager of the Piedmont Telet phone and Telegraph company, suf3 fered an accident which may caust r him to lose his sight. Mr. Wilkins was working with a pair of plyers f above his head, when they slipped from his grasp striking him in the eye and badly lacerating the ball t The accident occurred directly ir 3 r front of the city hospital and th< j injured man was carried there foi . treatment. 1 OX THE WATER WAGON. ' More Than Half of the United States is Now "I>ry Territory." 9 r Nearly three-quarters of the aret ~ of the United States is "dry" terri 1 tory. Half the American people live * out of reach of a licensed saloon, says " W orld's Work. This in a large meaS' * ure the work of the Anti-Saloor * League, the militant church in prac. 3 tical politics. The league has done 3 more in 20 years than the Prohlbi * tion party has in fifty. For 20 years * it has been testing and proving the " efficiency of its. political methods until now it can forecast with i reasonable degree of certainty just f what the people of any given part ol r the Unitd States or the whole Unitec States will do with the prohibitior a w question whenever it is made an is 3 sue. It has become probably the mos ~ active and effective policical agenc: in the country. W'hen the league was organized " 20 years ago, outside of a few thinli s populated prohibition States then was hardly a spot on the map of th( United States where liquor was no' ' sold openly and legally. Today 7per cent of the total area of the Unit r ed States?2,130,746 square miles? 8 is "dry" territory. There are nine States in which it is illegal to set liquor anywhere in the common wealth: Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Mississip r pi, North Carolina, North Dakota 8 Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virgin 1 . la. There are ten other States in whicl a more than 90 per cent of the tota area is "dry." These States are: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Flor ida, Kentucky, New Hampshire. Ne^ a Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming. Arkansas has just passed a law re quiring a petition signed by all th< 3 adult white men and women in an? 3 community before a saloon can b< ., cpened, practically insuring statewide s prohibition. e On the other hand, there is not ; 3 single State that is entirely "wet.' e New Jersey comes nearest (with onb - four-tenths of one per cent of it! s area prohibition. Three-quarters o - Pennsylvania is "license" territory e But Illinois and Missouri are each 1'. o per cent "dry" and 58 per cent o - New York State is prohibition ter ritory. ; SEWING MACHINES IN AllABIA. 4 How an American Salesman Got < > Things Started. American salesmanship abroad is extending the foreign commerce of the United States in a marvelous way. It has already revolutionized the automobile trade in England by its wide-awake and enterprising methods. 1 Perhaps the best example of its re: cent triumphs is to be found in the introduction of the sewing machine ~ l 1 among the Arabs. The tale, as told in a consular report from MasKat, in l the sultanate of Oman, would surely I have provided the lamented "0 Heni ry" with a subject for one of his , breeziest yarns. An American manufacturer of seeing machines learned by chance that [ Arabia presented an entirely virgin . field. The Arab had heard of the sewing machine. Even a few of the 5 wealthier families and a daring tailor I or two in the bazar had come into possession of the unholy contrivances by importing them from India. But the faithful regarded them askance. r The prophet had never dreamed of 5 such an ungodly device and there was . no warrant in the Koran to justify j its use. Although small machines in i large numbers had been sold in Egypt, India, Abyssinia and other places having population and conditions not un^! like those in Maskat, the most pro^ gressive Arab merchants refused to J undertake an agency for the accursed thing. Along came an American salesman equipped with a knowledge of Arabic sufficient for Drartirni Tuimnsae , ? - ~ ?M **? 11 o LI I rented the best stall in the bazar and arranged his stock of sewing ma* ' chines to make an attractive display. The placards announcing his wonder| ful wares were distributed lavishly over the city. He trained a number of Arab women as demonstrators and * sent them into the harems. He made presents of machines to two of the highest personages in the country. Then he set about instructing a lively Arab aslocal agent and initiated the 5 j inhabitants into the mysteries of the * I installment plan. 51 The result was the sale of a num* ber of machines and the beginning of v. hat is confidently expected to be a * large export trade for the American 1 manufacturer who is first in the field ; in Arabia. This incident embodies the spirit of American salesmanship in its adaption to peculiar circumstances, and this adaptability, whether at home or abroad, is bound to work ; wonders in building up trade.?Philadelphia Press. I BROKE ARM CRAXKIXG CAR. i So I). E. Johnson, of Bamberg, is Suing Makers for $10,000. 5 Judge Henry A. M. Smith in the 1 United States district court today heard a motion to set aside the service of the complaint in the case of Daniel E. Johnson against the Ford Auto Company. The plaintiff alleges that he broke his arm in attempting to craDk a Ford automobile and * charges \hat some defect in the mechanism of the car was responsible for | this. He is suing for $10,000 damages. Judge Smith has the matter under consideration. The plaintiff is a resident of Bamberg and alleges that the machine was purchased ' from C. F. Rizer, a dealer of Olar.? Charleston Evening Post. Constable Seriously Wounded. a j Greenville, Oct. 13.?Green Howt ard, a constable for Magistrate Lan - ford, of the Glassy Mountain section of this county, was shot and seriously - wounded Sunday afternoon by an unJ known person. The shooting occurl red in the "Dark Corner" section, and feeling is running high among the mountaineers. Howard was shot in the right arm, a bullet from a > Krag-Jorgenson rifle shattering the " bone. Sheriff Rector left Greenville last night for the scene, and arrests 1 will probably be made soon. PLANTER SHOT DEAD. , Prominent Alabama Man AssassinaJ ted on Road. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 11.?AVili liam H. Underwood of Strata, Ala., a 7 prominent planter, was assassinated i last night, his body being found this 5 morning, partly buried in the sand of a road near here. One hand and part i of his head had been blown off by a ' charge of buckshot. His clothes had on/1 ororvtliin? r?f valllP IT ?-'CCii iiiic;V4 aixu ^v**-**0 v^ ,? 5 except his watch had been stolen, f Underwood spent Friday in Montgom. ery, where he sold cotton for which > he received $191. Because of the f lateness of the hour when he started - home, he left $150 of this money with a relative here. 135 PERISH IN MID OCEAN J i IASSEXGER STEAMER VOLTURXO BIRXS IX Mil) OCEAX. Eleven Ships, Summoned by Wireless, Stand By Powerless to Assist in Rescue Because of Storm. ; J Xot since the Titanic sank has Eu- 1 rope been so thrilled as by a wireless < message Saturday telling of the 1 burning of the steamer Volturno in 1 mid-Atlantic, with a loss, so far as is at present known, of 135 lives and 1 the rescue of 521. The survivors are < now aboard a fleet of steamers sum- < moned by the Volturno's call for help, < some of which are bound eastward ? and others westward. J rn-u _ TT_li ; 1 ? + 1 lilt: VU1LU111U SdUCU UUUl ivuuvidam on Oct. 2 for New York.- Ac- < cording to the official statement she < carried 22 first cabin passengers, 538 i steerage and a crew numbering 96. 1 The rescue ships reached the scene of the disaster in plenty of time to save all, but for hours stood by the blaz- i ing vessel, impotent because of the ] storm to reach the agonized men and women and children crowding the afterpart of the ship, which wras with- ! in a stone's throw. < The steamer Carmania, bound from New York for Liverpool, was 78 miles away when the call for help sounded. Capt. Barr ordering full steam, in spite of the gale drove through the seas at 20 knots an hour, and was first of the fleet to reach the burning vessel. The Carmania was followed by La Touraine, Minneapolis, Rappahannock, Czar, Narragansett, Devonian, Kroonland, Grosser, Kurfuerst and Seydlitz at various hours throughout the dayr But try as they might, the rescuing vessels could get neither line nor lifeboat to the Volturno, the forward part of 1 which was almost hidden by a dense cloud of smoke when the Carmania arrived. The burning steamer lay in the 1 trough of the sea, pounding helplessly with her propellers fouled by the boats' tackle. The terrified passen- 1 T 1 Jl -J . XT ! gers were nuuuieu uugemer as iai as it was possible to get from the flames, ; while throughout the day the officers and crew fought desperately with whatever appliances were at hand to 1 hold the fire in check. The hopelessness of this situation ' was manifested at 8 o'clock in the ! evening, when a great explosion tore 1 away part of the upper works and 1 flames burst from the engine room. ' It then became a matter of how long the Volturno would stay above the ' waters. Meanwhile several of the ' frantic passengers, within life buoys, 1 dropped over into the sea. One of 1 them was taken aboard the Carmania. 1 It may be that others found a haven with other vessels of the fleet. When day broke the Volturno was still afloat. The gale was moderated and the seas had calmed down. From almost every one of the encircling steamers lifeboats were sent out and into these the women and children were lowered first. Several trips were necessary before the survivors were removed to a place of safety. It is pointed out as a remarkable coincidence that the Volturno, about four years ago. made a notable res cue of the crew of a French vessel in a great storm in mid-Atlantic. Capt. Harrison, who then commanded the Volturno, was decorated by the French government for his daring act. A graphic story by the solitary survivor aboard the Carmania, who is a German named Trentepohl, was received by wireless and presents a ter- ' rible picture of the horror, the panic and confusion aboard the burning liner. "All went well," said Trintepohl, "until 6 o'clock Thursday morning, 1 when the fire alarm sounded. We ' were aroused and told to go on deck, ^ ^^ /Mif f Tin li aIH 1 its lue iJ.au UlUUCll vui. m iiviu. 4 On assembling life belts were handed around and much time was occupied ; in fastening them. We were told that the fire soon might be quenched, but the captain thought it wise for all to 1 have belts as a precaution. 1 "The fire frightened the children, who cried bitterly. There were many ! babies in arms. The fire grew worse. ] We saw things blasting down below. 1 About 10 o'clock there was a cry to lower the boats. : "The captain behaved splendidly. So did the officers, who were Eng- 1 lish. I am sorry to say that the crew, who were Germans and Belgians, be- { haved very badly. The people rushed about wildly and the crew seemed 1 to think they ought to have first ? i - - - /if niiiotino- thp nPS- ! pJctue, auu iuoicau ui viuiv-iu0 ~^ ? sengers they made the panic worse. "The firemen rushed up from be- ; low and refused to go back. The capi li\ I\KW1SMUU IVL.MI. kVhite Man Shoots Negro?Difficulty Said to be Over One Dollor. Newberry, Oct. 11.?Hagood Brown -vhite, shot and killed Henry Baxter, colored this morning between 2 and 1 o'clock. The killing took place on Mrs. M. E. Ruff's place, in the Broad tiiver section of the county, about ifteen miles from Newberry. The joroner held inquest to-day. Only two witnesses were examined, the sis;er of the deceased and her husband, rhey testified that Brown rode up "to :he house and demanded the return Df a dollar from Henry Baxter, who Maimed that he knew nothing of the iollar, but told his sister to give him i dollar rather than have a row. She says before she could untie her handkerchief tr? p-et the Hollar that Rrown irew his pistol and fired three shots it Baxter, one taking effect in right side and the other in his neck, killing bim instantly. Brown, it is claimed, was returning from a party and stopped at the negro house, where there had been a hot supper, but nearly all the negroes had left. Brown surrendered to the sheriff this morning. He has made no statement, but it is said that the claim of self-defense will be made. CONSIDER THE TOAD. Has Only Known Liking for the Boll Weevil. The lowly and somewhat loathsome toad frog is the deadliest enemy of the Mexican boll weevil, according to Marshal Montgomery, a prominent planter of Sunflower county. So confident is his belief that the toad frog is nature's remedy for the annihilation of the greatest of all cotton crop pests that Mr. Montgomery has established a toad frog farm in connection with his plantation, and next year he hopes to be able to" supply other delta planters with toads in sufficient quantities to combat the weevil. Experiments recently on the Montgomery plantation show that an ordinary toad will capture and consume more that 200 boll weevile in ' a single day, which is more than the ? most lynxeyed negro engaged in picking the insects from the cotton plants . is able to find within the same period. The toad does not confine his operations to the ground, or the weevils found on the lower branches of the eotton plant. He will leap nimbly to the topmost branches of the tallest eotton grown in the delta, some of which is higher than a man's head an horseback; in quest of the pestiferous insects. Thus it appears that the plague that pestered Pharaoh in the land of Egypt may become the salvation of its greatest crop.?The Vicksburg Post. __ Odd Bits in the iNews. . 4 "The bride," says an Australian paper, "appeared in a smart white frock of pale blue linen." A newspaper headline runs: "Mother of 80 complains." Don't wonder at it. Our own missus finds even one troublesome. The latest Irish bull: "It looks as if she had saddled herself with a veritable white elephant"?Dublin paper. A Missouri lawyer in pleading a wife's divorce stated that the husband "undertook to poison her without just cause." From a South Dakota journal: "The bride is a refined young lady of culture, as also is Mr. Smith." From the Oxford Register: The zoo is open again. It wras closed a few days on account of the pet pig swallowing a stick of dynamite." "In the present high cost of living, thanks are due the Corydon Republican for this helpful recipe: "To keep ants away from the refrigerator, tie woolen strings around each leg saturated with turpentine."?Boston Transcript. tain drew his revolver and drove them below but soon after, as the fire was spreading, they were obliged to abandon the engines. "As soon as the Carmania was sighted the captain made all the -women and children go to one side and the men to the other side. We had been compelled to leave the bridge and go aft because it was too hot. Women wept, shrieked, laughed and became hysterical. "At 9 o'clock Thursday night the ?aptain of the Volturno sent a despairing message which read: 'For God's sake help us or we perisn. "By a miracle the flames did not spread to the after deck. Eventually the sea moderated and boats saved 521 persons. The death roll numbers 136." - **sl