The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 23, 1913, Page 7, Image 7
- WILL LEVER RUN FOR SENATE?
r Seventh District Congressman Carefully
Sounding Conditions.
Washington, Oct. 17.?In view of
the various reports which have been
prirted recently in South Carolina
? with regard to the possible candidacy
of Representative A. F. Lever for the
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seai in me senate nuw ueiu u.v oeu
ator E. D. Smith, The News Courier's
correspondent to-day called on the
distinguished Congressman and asked
him to say something about his
plans and purposes in the matter.
As has been the case on each of
the numerous previous occasions
when the correspondent has endeavI
M ored to obtain a statement from Mr.
Lever in relation to the Senatorial
campaign, the 7th district Representative
politely, but positively, refused !
to say anything definite or to give !
any indirect indication of his prob- j
T ^ able decision. He did assert, in re-:
sponse to a question, that he had ;
not yet made up his mind conclusive-1
ly as to what he would do. and that I
any publications purporting to be j
based on information to the contrary j
were incorrect.
Mr. Lever said that he was about j
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to iui u Liiy ?ji <x ncca ui mun, I
in South Carolina, and that in going |
hack and fourth through the State j
he would trv to size up the situation i
with regard to the Senatorial contest.
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He said that in the course of his j
trip he would speak at the Conway !
Fair October 22, Union October 24. J
and at Rock Hill November 1. It is j
thought that something may be expected
from the Congressman soon j
after the State Fair, which is to be !
held at Columbia the last of this j
month.
Strong influences have * been at j
work for some time in the effort to j
bring ]\Ir. Lever into the Senatorial J
fight. Some of his colleagues in the j
South Carolina delegation here have j
been urging him to run, saying that!
they believe he can surely win. It I
is significant that Senator Tillman j
has not taken occasion to deny the I
^ published reports that he has been 1
a leader in this work of persuasion.
However, it is very safe to say that J
the young chairman of the agricul-1
tural committee will reach a decision |
v^ Vii? n-tvn "mdsrment after a !
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careful personal survey of the situation,
and that if he does not himself
:%- incline to the opinion that he can win
the approaching Senate contest
against both Governor Blease and
Senator Smith or either of them, he
will remain in the House and develop
the exceptional field of usefulness and
achievement which lies before him by
^ reason of his committee chairmanship.
DATE TREE OF OLD CABILDO.
According to Legend it Grew from a
"Traitor's Grave."
In the old Cabildo building, on
Jackson square, now used as the
Louisiana State Museum's history department,
there is a little oil painting
of a palm tree or date tree about
which tree tradition has woven many
tales, which differ greatly in detail
but concur in the general statement
of the "uncanny" origin of the tree,
which for many years served as a
sort of landmark to the young people
in the First municipality.
The painting shows the tall tree,
the little red house near by and the
bare lot, surrounded by a wliite^
washed fence, where once a sunny
garden flourished.
The story goes that once long ago,
before the Spanish domination, a
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stranger uruugut, icucio |
ernor, who forthwith provided the |
house and garden, and directed all |
, courtesy to be shown the stranger j
guest says a New Orleans dispatch to j
The New York Sun. For strange he ;
was to simple folk, living in great
seclusion, with much money to spend,
caring only for his books and his
garden. It was whispered about that
he was the Sultan's brother, who,
seeking protection at the court of
France, had been transferred to NewOrleans
for safe keeping.
One stormy night, when all good
1 ? folk were indoors, a remarkable vessel
came to anchor in the Mississippi,
a vessel unlike any that was ever
here before, and a man muffled to the
eyes in a great coat came ashore.
How he found the way to the little
red house we are not told, but find it
he did.
The next morning there were signs
o struggle, a new- made grave and
-? laying thereon with the ;?nBNHhl
n engraved deeply on it:
te tree shall grow from the
grave and thus the vow be
,r^-" The stone was shipped
to "France, the Governor held his
own counsel and it might have all J
passed away from memory if in the j
.. course of time a date tree had not
arisen from the exact spot where the
grave had been dug.
The tree grew and grew, till by
and by many forgot its sinister origin,
little children played about it, grew
to love it as a friend, silent but dear,
and many in New Orleans grieved
when it met its 'fate, dying as it had
been planted, in the heart of a storm.
CHARLIE HARVEY CAPTURED. J
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Alleged Slayer of Preston Cooler:
Taken by Jasper Sheriff.
Ridgeland. Oct. 17.?Yesterday af- j
ternoon aoout 6 o'clock Sheriff Por j
ter captured Charlie Harvey, the ne- i
gro, who it is charged, last Saturday, j
at the lumber plant of the Hilton- J
Dodge Lumber Company, near Har- j
deeville, shot and instantly killed
Preston Cooler, a prominent white
man, who was on the engineer force
of the Hilton-Dodge Lumber Company.
Mr. Cooler was in pursuit of
the negro on his horse at the time he
was killed. He was shot in the road
that divided Jaspercounty from Beaufort
county. When the assailant fired
upon Mr. Cooler, the latter was in
Jasper county, Dut nis norse jurnpeu t
and Mr. Cooler fell dead in Beaufort
county.
Immediately after the shooting the
negro took to the swamps and soon
thereafter posses were formed, going
in every direction to try to keep the
negro from escaping from the swamps.
But after a search which lasted for a
few days and proved in vain, the
members of the different posses returned
to their homes, though a few
remained in the swamps looking for
the negro and were still in the
swamps at the time the negro was
captured.
Yesterday morning Sheriff Porter
teceived word that some negroes
were fishing in what is known as
"Savannah Bear Swamp," a distance
of about forty miles from where the
killing took place. He at once left
for the swamp and learned that a
negro answering the description of
Harvey was in the swamps fishing
with negroes who lived nearby. The
sheriff hid himself in a patch of
bushes near the house where he
thought the negro would come, and
soon alter they returned the negro
answering Harvey's description came
out to cut wood, when Sheriff Porter
covered him with his gun, and he surrendered
without much trouble.
As soon as possible the sheriff got
the negro to his buggy and rushed to
Ridgeland with his prisoner until he
could carry him to Beaufort. A reward
of $200 had been offered for his
apprehension: $100 by the governor
of South Carolina, $50 by the HiltonDodge
Lumber Company and $50 by
the sheriff of Beaufort county. This
morning before the news spread of
the capture Sheriff Porter was on
his way with the prisoner to Beaufort
as feeling was very high on account
of the prominence of Mr. Cooler. The
negro admits he is the one wanted
it is said.
In Beaufort Jail.
Beaufort, Oct. 17.?iSheriff H. H.
Porter, of Jasper county, arrived
here this morning with the negro,
Charles Harvey, who, it is alleged,
killed Mr. P. H. Cooler last Saturday
evening near a camp of the Hilton
Dodge Lumber Company, near HardeevilL*,
and lodged him in the jail
here.
Unusual Suit Against Woodmen.
Charleston, Oct. 15.?Suit has been
brought by S. P. Taylor, an administrator
of the estate of Samuel M.
Taylor, his son, against Sovereign
camp, Woodmen of the World. In
brief, the plaintiff is suing the order
for $20,000 damages resulting from
the death of his son, who was mortally
wounded with a pistol by a candidate
who was being initiated into
the order near Honea Path, in Anderson
county last year. The case
will be tried in the United States district
court at Greenville at the term i
which convenes there next Tuesday.
The complaint and other papers in !
the case have been filed in the office
of the clerk of the district court
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The plaintiff alleges that on July
26, 1912, Saluda camp, No. 262,
Woodmen of the World, being located
near Honea Path, in Anderson
county, proceeded with the initiation
of one C. P. Bagwell; that the deceased,
Samuel M. Taylor, assisted in
the ceremonies; that he, with others
of the initiating party, fired blank
cartridges at the candidate, as a part
of the ceremony; that Bagwell believing
himself to be in great danger of
sustaining bodily injuries or death,
procured his own pistol and fired
upon those who were initiating him:
that the deceased was struck by one
of the balls from Bagwell's pistol and
died three days later. Bagwell was
tried for murder in the court of general
sessions at Anderson and acquitted.
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i lie gruuiius iOI &Ult ill mo oooo,
the plaintiff alleges, are that Sovereign
camp. Woodmen of the World,
which has its head offices in Omaha,
Xeb., showed negligence and wilful
wantonness and a reckless disregard
for human life in permitting Saluda
camp. Xo. 2(12, to engage in such
methods of initiating candidates into
the order.
Suit in the case was begun in the
court of common pleas at Anderson,
but upon order of Judge S. W. G.
Shipp, was removed to the United
States district court.
SAYS HE KILLED HIS WIFE.
Cliicago Merchant is Held On Charge
of Murder.
Chicago, Oct. 17.?William C. Ellis,
the Cincinnati merchant who was
found wounded in a local hotel room
here yesterday near the body of his
wife, today confessed to a coroner's 4
jury that he had killed the woman.
He was held to the grand jury charged
with murder.
After a conference with members
of his wife's family, Ellis abandoned
his assertion made at first to the police
that the tragedy was the result
of a suicide compact. He assumed
the entire blame for the killing and
devoted his statement to obliterating
the impression, given first, that jealousy
was the motive for the crime. Ellis,
suffering from the bullet
wound in his chest and from cuts on
his wrists and throat, self-inflicted
Qftor 1.-51 lino- liia wifp lictpriPfl fllmOSt
all day to the testimony in the Coroner's
Court. His confession was
made in few words.
Mind Affected.
"I will state that I shot my wife,"
he said. "I supose my mind must
have been affected. I was worried
over my business troubles and the
state of my health. I want to say that
my wife was the grandest little woman
in the world and the most virtuous.
There was no trouble be- tween
us. She couldn't do anything I
wrong. She was in her bed when I
shot her. She did not know what I
was going to do. I did not have any
intention of doing this when I came
to Chicago. I first shot her and afterward
gashed her with a knife."
Ellis, approaching collapse, begged
to be allowed to take farewell of his
wife's body. He was allowed to see
it. From testimony it appeared that
Ellis, who is 4 7 years old. killed his
wife, who was twelve years younger
than himself, some time in the late
hours of Wednesday night. He remained
for many hours with the! ^
body.
Mrs. Ellis's body will be taken to ;
Cincinnati by her brother-in-law,
Philip C. Fosdyck. Neither he nor j
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sole, who lives here, took any steps
to procure counsel or other aid for
Ellis, saying that their sole interest i
was in the murdered woman. ! ?
Ellis was taken to the bureau of; i
identification and then returned to
the House of Correction Hospital. \
THE PASSING OF CREDIT.
Its Final Knell Would Mean Much |
Good to All.
Manifestly it would be better for
everybody concerned, merchant and *
customer as well, if the the transac-; E
tions incident to the clothing and .
feeding of households were conduct
ed in ready money. The vendor could
afford to sell at lower prices; the
honest buyer would no longer be call- J
ed on to make up the losses incurred ?
through defaulting debtors; the mer- j
chant would save the expense of
maintaining a system of accounts
and every man and woman would 1
think twice before making unneces- I
sary purchases if required to pay 1
down cash on the nail. But in the
large affairs of commerce and industrial
production credit is the essential
breath of progress and prosperity,
and without it the sources of development
would wither p and the rivers
of plenty run dry. Without it continents
could not have been spanned
with iron highways and oceans
ploughed by the leviathans of trade,
nor the fountains of supply have been
brought face to face with the markets
of demand. This, however, is a
distinctly different matter from the
shop and individual credit to which
our contemporary has reference. That
is a foe to economy and a tax on
thrift. The practice, however, did
not originate in the South as a result
of the hard times ensuing on ^
"The War;" on the contrary, it flour- ^
ished to a far more baleful extent
than now, in the old plantation daysThen
buying "on account" was the
general rule in town and country
and settlements were rarely called
for except in July and January, while
frequently the bills would run from
year to year. The dissipation of
many a fine estate was directly traceable
to this cause. "Charge it" was ~
the universal piactice and the day
of reckoning, often postponed, finally
exposed the bankruptcy of the supposedly
wealthy. Conditions are better
now. The prevalence of poverty
at the South in the post-bellum period
curtailed both the extent and
time of individual credits, and we
hope The Observer is right in saying
that our people are learning the advantages
of the cash purchase and
are aiding in the coming of the day
when the bill collector will be a man
without a job. A golden rule for
nnrl nionihpv nf fl South
CVt*l > il^CAVl anv* UlVi'iWi ^ ^
ern family would be?Do without
until you have the wherewithal to
buy.?The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
Farm land sold in Marlboro county
last week at $265 an acre, four miles
from Bennettsville, the county seat.
We beg to announce to the public
and friends of Mr. J. Vernon
McMillan that we have secured
his services as our agent at Bamberg
and trust you will favor
him with your patronage.'.'.'/.'
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MASTER'S SALE.
By virtue of a decree of the court
of Common Pleas in the case of
British & American Mortgage Co.,
Ltd., plaintiff, against John A. Richardson,
defendant, I, H. C. Folk, Master
of Bamberg county, will sell at
| public auction to the highest bidder
i for cash, at the court house door,
Bamberg, S. C., on the 3rd day of
j November, 1913. during the legal
hours of sale on said day the follow,
ing described real estate:
All f a f lonrl citnota on/1
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being in Midway township containing
one hundred and thirty-five (135)
acres, more or less, and bounded
North by public road leading from
Charleston to Augusta which separates
this land from lands of W. L.
McFail and lands of David Morrow;
East by lands of Mrs. Mary England;
South bv lands of T. W. Richardson,
and West by lands of W. H. Richardson.
Also, all that tract of land in Midway
township, containing one hun
dred and fifty five acres, more or less,
and bounded North by run of Edisto
river; East by lands of J. M. Tucker;
South by lands of W. L. McFail, and
West by lands of Brutus McCormack.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
H. C. FOLK,
Master for Bamberg County.
J. 0. PATTERSON,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Bamberg, S. C., October 7, 1913.
MASTER'S SALE.
By virtue of a decree of the Court
of Common Pleas in the case of British
& American Mortgage Co., Ltd.,
plaintiff, against W. L. McFail et al.,
defendants, I, H, C. Folk, Master of
Bamberg county, will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash,
at the court house door Bamberg,
S. C., on the 3rd day of November,
1913, during the legal hours of sale
on said day, the following described
real estate:
All that tract or plantation of land
situate, lying ana being in Midway
Township, Bamberg county, State of
South Carolina, known as the McPhail
and Byrd tracts, containing
340 acres, more or less, and bounded
North by lands of J. A. Richardson;
East by lands of J. M. Tucker, run of
Briar creek and lands of Mrs. Julia
P. May, South by tract of 33 acres,
owned jointly by W. L. McPhail and
Sarah C. Jennings, and West by lands
of D. R. Morrow and lands of W. L.
McPhail, known as the Benson tract.
Also all that tract or plantation of
land situate, lying and being in Midway
township, Bamberg county,
South Carolina, known as the Benson
tract, containing 312 acres, more
or less, bounded North by the run of
Edisto river; East by land of Brutus
McCormack, lands of W. L. McPhail,
known as the McPhail tract and
lands of D. R. Morrow; South by
Charleston and Augusta pudiic ruau,
which separates this land from
lands of J. T. Richardson; and West
by lands of A. Bessinger.
Purchaser to pay for papers.
H. C. FOLK,
Master for Bamberg County.
J. O. PATTERSON,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Bamberg, S. C., October 7, 1913.
TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
15th day of October, 1913 until the
15th day of March, 1914, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
1914, until the 31st day of January,
1914, a penalty of one per cent, will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1914, until
the 28th day of February, 1914, a
penalty of 2 per cent, will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1914, until the 15th
day of March, 1914, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be addea to all unpaid
taxes. ?3ffl
THE LEVY.
For State Purposes 5^4 mills
For county purposes 5% mills
Constitutional school tax....3 mills
For public schools 1 mill
For roads Vz mill
Total 15^4 mills
SPECIAL' SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14 ! 9 mills
Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
-Colston, No. 18 2 mills
Cuffie Creek, No. 17 2 mills
Denmark, No. 21 6% mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 ^.9 mills
Fishpond, No. 5 1 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 4 mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Hey ward, No. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, No.. 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mills
Lees, No. 23 4 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills .
Olar No 8 9 mills
St.John's, No. 10 2 mills
Salem, No. 9 3 mills
Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years of age,
except Confederate soldiers and sailors,
who are exempt at 50 years of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar.
CaDitation dog tax 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of January,
1913 are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor, are requested
to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1914.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of October, 1913, until
the 1st day of March, 1914.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
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