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W - | One Dollar and a Half a Year, BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1913. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS % SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. e News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Letter from Old Timer. < M w Wanderer's Rest, Nov. 24.?Au- . Br tiimn leaves everywhere, yellow and -1 W gold and brown and red, all shades 1 * and tinges and hues, beautiful au- ' turn leaves to charm and teach the 1 truth that beauty even in a dead leaf ] i<i ETAatpr if nnssible than in life. See one wandering in a forest, wad- 1 fing in leaves up to the shoe tops, 1 what fallen grandeur greets the eye; 1 bare limbs and branches overhead < but a carpet under foot more beauti- 1 ful than any under the feet of Kings j in their palaces perhaps. On the j v. wanderer goes more and more '< charmed each step as the leaves 1 |p grow deeper, the colors heighten, and ] rapture leads him on. Here he stops \ to look at the trees silent and grand, all lit up with a light brighter than an electric light, but so soft is it that the eye is not dazzled but the ; onlooker as one entranced stands and Views the scene. Yes, trees; trees beautiful trees, so bare and grand, stand silent sentinels over the scene. ' On goes the wanderer, new beauties on every hand to enhance the scene, landscape so grand rolling in a gentle swell like a summer sea. Ail at once a sudden turn brings to view a low * -x sink of many feet. There the leaves ' are more beautiful and the descent is begun, down goes the lone one and he is spell bound by the grandeur, ? down he goes, soon a flutter on the steep incline draws the attention of 1 the lone one as he stands amazed, \ ? j when lo, in the beautiful leaves he sees as in a little basket all of leaves \ a little cup full of sparkling water, 1 clear as crystal, and in this little mite 1 of water two fish at play, and as they 1 sent the drops of water in the air 1 they sparkled like diamonds in the 1 strange soft light. Here was more beauty, such fish, red and yellow and { gold. Soon the sides of the sink was 'c alive with fish, each pair in their ' little socket or basket of crystal, all * ? floundering and playing, how fresh ( and happy they looked. From whence came the water, only a little, but all \ so fresh and bright. Then the va- 1 rieties of fish, none the wanderer had ] ever seen before, all colors, shapes ? ^ and lengths, each kind by twos in & their own little home of the sparkKf ling limpid water, so snugly kept for P each little pair, each home made of j ^ the varied autumn leaves. While the : wanderer stood spell-bound by the f matchless beauty of all but intent in , the interest made by the fish and ? their homes nothing else was noted, , when all at once the whole vale was 1 all life, beautiful creatures of all j kinds began to move, each in har- . mony with the other, then was he made to feel here Is peace, sweet peace, coupled with elegance and beauty. How enrapt, how eager to see, to know whence all this scene. But alas, like all earthly beauty, it soon was to fade. While thus he was held in the revelry of his eyes, the lone wanderer among the autumn leaves and all 3 things beautiful he felt the touch of ( something on his shoulder. Startled, ( > he turned, and there stood a beauti- ( ful woman of deep thought implant- ( ed on her brow, her long dark hair ( streaming below the waist line, her ( two hands clasped as in supplication. 1 W whispered to the rude intruder: "Go on, go on; this is enchanted ground." 5 When lo, the wanderer awoke to find that he was in his own room and 'twas only a dream. Not so with the leaves, they truly are here, and while ^ not as the dream, are beautiful, beau- ( * tiful to behold. OLD TIMER. , r~ ? ? m NO MORE MIXED CREWS. , i Stephens Says Negro and White Mail ( Clerks Will Be Separated. 1 "Negro and white mail clerks will 1 be absolutely separated. The de; partment in fact, has taken steps ^ already toward that end," said Alex- ' ander H. Stephens, general superin- 1 v tendent of the railway mail service, 5 fit to a conference of chief clerks of the eleventh division here to-day. "We have found that mixed crews do not give satisfaction, but in separating races,' he continued, "we are proceeding so that no injustice will i be done and no men demoted. We will simply work with all white and . all negro crews in the future." His announcement was cheered Dy the delegates, all of whom were white clerks.?Little Rock Dispatch. 25 head well broke mules for sale by J. M. DANNELLY & SON, Ehrhardt. Weight 1,000 lbs. and up,-ad. ' TURNS HAIR GRAY.* Farmer's Daughter Seriously Frightened by Big Black Snake. Miss Mabel Murdick, eighteen daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvestei Murdick, who lives on a farm near Mendham, N. J., is in a serious condition at her home as a result of a fright she received a few days ago. Her brother Harry went out with a large top basket to gather ferns tc be used to decorate the dinner table, rhe boy gathered the ferns and went to a pond near by to spend an hour B6hing, leaving the basket open. After catching a few sunfish he returned to the basket, closed it and took it home. While Miss Murdick was filling the fern dish she pulled 3ut a large fern from the basket and from it fell a black snake. The girl screamed and swooned. She has had attacks of hysteria for three days md refuses to eat or drink. Her hair above her ears has turned gray. Doctors have been unable to find a successful treatment for her. Young Man Kills Self. Valdosta, Ga., Nov. 20.?Details oi the death of Gordon Bennett, whose hodv was found lying in the yard oi his father's home, near Cecil yesterday afternoon, with a shot-gun by ais side, indicate unmistakably that :he young man killed himself. Evidence before the coroner's jury today showed that he had repeatedly threatened self-destruction and only i few days ago told his mother that ae intended killing himself the first :ime he was able to get hold of a ru r? * The father and mother went to a leighbors home yesterday morning leaving the young man alone, but :ook the precaution of locking the shot-gun in the "smoke house" before leaving. The son evidently saw :he mother when she hid the weapon, md afterwards broke open the door >f the house with an axe and secured ;he gun. Bennett took off one of his shoes, md sitting down with his back igainst a box, placed the muzzle of :he weapon to his temple, and pulled the trigger with his toes. His ieath was instantaneous. Young Bennett was 25 years old md unmarried. His mind had been impaired for a long while and he lad formerly been an inmate of the state insane asylum. Robbery at St. Matthews. St. Matthews, November 24.?Last light robbers invaded the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Dreher, one block Irom the business thoroughfare, vhile the inmates were asleep, and stole some money, clothes, jewelry, md a mileage ticket. Bloodhounds were put on the trail early this mornng and went to the house of two :olored boys of unsavory reputation, without the least hitch. The eviience against them was so strong :hat they were carried at once to jail. The hounds were anxious and jreated much excitement. Lynching in Georgia. Athens, November 24.?It is reported here to-night that a lynching jccurred three (Jays ago in Walton lounty, but was kept quiet. "General" Boyd, a negro, was hanged for jntering a fanner's house and, it is charged, attempted to seize the farm?r's daughter, who fought him off, aowever, and fired at him as he fled. Boyd previously served a sentence in the penitentiary for seizing a white woman by the foot. A 3,000-Pound Catch Three thousand pounds of fish in Dne day is a pretty good catch for sne boat and a small crew, isn't it? That is what Capt. C. W. Morse and his crew did at Murrel'js Inlet one lay last week. Weather conditions were ideal and the fish were running in schools. Capt. Morse used a surf sein, such as is employed in surf fishing for mullet. The catch included principally school bass and sea trout?the spotted fellows, not weakfish, which are so frequently miscalled trout. The catch was brought to Georgetown and sold to McDonald & Co. which firm iced them and sent them to the larger markets.?Georgetown Times. FLORIDA STRAWBERRIES. Shipped to Chicago, Netting 75c Pei Quart. Plant City, Fla., Nov. 25?The firsl strawberries of the season, two car loads, left here to-day for Chicago The farmers netted 75c per quart The berries are large and fine. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Joseph Summers was arrested in , Columbia Wednesday for trying to pass a forged check for $45 on the Bank of Columbia. A ten-year-old negro boy while playing in a room filled with seed . cotton, near Lamar Tuesday, was [ caught by a cave-in and smothered to death. 1 Thirteen freight cars of a through i train, running 25 miles an hour, 1 jumped the track on the Coast Line 1 near Kingstree on Tuesday and were 1 completely wrecked. The statement that Chas. H. Hen- i ry, late of Spartanburg, now of At-' lanta, intends to start an evening paper in Greenville is denied by his relatives in Spartanburg. A number of- game wardens have f recently been appointed by the gov? ernor, for various counties of the : State. Let us hope the game and - fish laws will be enforced. \ York county officers captured a 60: gallon still between Hickory Grove and Smyrna on Thursday and destrnvpd 400 srallons of "mash." The operators of the still made their escape. Frank Dukes is in jail in Barnwell ' charged with the murder of Mose ' Priester, both colored, Saturday night. Priester was shot in the back ' with a shotgGn and his skull was ; crushed with a club. Josh and Jesse Jones, colored, brothers, got into a fight in Marlboro county Saturday night over money matters, when Jesse struck | Josh in the eye with a scantling, from which he died on Tuesday. The dead body of Duncan M. Carmichael, a young man of prominence, was found by the track of the Coast Line road near Florence Thursday . morning?supposed to have been killed by a train Tuesday night. A bottle of whiskey was found near the body. Consent verdicts to the amount of i $32,225 were taken at Chester court i on Thursday against the Lancaster & Chester railroad in damage suits growing out of the wreck at Hoopers creek July 30th last. A large number of other suits are still on the ; docket. J. L. Finch, an electric lineman, was painfully injured at Clinton Monday. He was standing op a raised ladder'about twenty feet from the ground and touched a live wire. He was knocked to the ground and con1 siderably bruised, hi6 right hip being fractured. 1 ' Four mules, a horse, farm imple. ments, forage, grain, etc., were burn, ed in a fire that destroyed the barn of W. H. McDade near Sandy Springs, Friday in Anderson county. The total loss is about $3,800, with $1,500 insurance. It is not known how the fire originated. Miss Mary Mood attempted suicide in Spartanburg Sunday night. She inflicted an ugly wound on her left wrist with a pair of scissors and lost considerable blood, but she will recover. She lived at her home alone and had recently been ill, and loneliness and despondency caused the act no doubt. D J. Griffith, superintendent of k ' I the penitentiary said Saturday that the chair factory would very probably begin operation this week. Hfee factory will be located in the buildL ing formerly occupied by the hosiery mill. The building frill be placed in sanitary condition under the direction of Dr. J. A. Hayne, State health ! officer. Superintendent Griffith said Saturday that A. D. Martin who is to act as selling agent for the chair ' factory, would arrive in Columbia } this week from Frankfort, Ky. Over 100 convicts will be put to work in the mill. BOYS ARE ARRESTED. . Bennettsville Lads Charged With , Burning Barn. i t Bennettsville, Nov. 23.?Two young white boys, Alfred Sanders, aged 9, and Arch Marshburn, aged 11 years, were arrested yesterday i * j i ; ?, I aiternoon, cnargea wim uumiug mo 'barn of Policeman Charlie Peele. The building was found to be on fire about 3.30 p. m. and soon thereafter t the boys were placed in jail. The - facts upon which the arrests were made will be developed Monday morn. ing, when a preliminary hearing will be given before the magistrate. ULMER MAIL CARRIER VICTIM. Edgar P. Phillips Killed by Grover Harter, Who is in Jail. Barnwell, November 24.?Edgar F. Phillips, of Ulmer, the rural mail carrier of parcel post fame, was shot and killed in the store of Willie Brant, at Ulmer, Thursday night of last week by Grover Harter. The weapon used was an automatic pistol. Two shots were fired, it is said, only ' one of which took effect. The ball 1 entered Phillips's body in the region 1 of the heart, causing almost instant death. Harter has been arrested : and is now in the county jail. From what can be learned here 1 Phillips and Harter had been in- < volved in some previous difficulty, as i a result of which, it is alleged, the latter made threats against the life of Phillips. There was a clash be- I tween the two men several days ago ' and a warrant was sworn out by Phillips charging Harter with as- * sault and battery. The case,was to have been tried before Magistrate < Williams, at Ulmer, on Friday morn- < ing. ? Philips was in the store of Willie Brant Thursday night between 7 and : 8 o'clock making some purchases. As he turned to leave, his arms full of < bundles, according to eye-witnesses, two shots were fired from the doorway. Phillips cried, "Boys, he's got me," and staggering a few feet, fell behind the counter, where he died in 1 a few minutes. Coroner Woodward held the inquest and the jury brought in the 1 usual verdict?that Phillips came to his death from gunshot wounds at the hands of Harter. There were several eye-witnesses to the tragedy, 1 among them being Messrs. Frank and William Myrick, Herbert L. Dickin- 1 son, Hugh McMillan, Perry Harter < and Henry Brant. Mr. Phillips was the mail carrier 1 ^ - ^ -nrf + Vk tnat naa uie eAtuuug, e^encutc nuu a wild cat several months ago while delivering two babies by parcel post. Among other articles in his mail was 1 a wooden leg, which he used as a weapon of defence in beating off the animal. Mr. Phillips is survived by his wife and four little children. < Harter is unmarried. Another homicide occurred Saturday night about four miles from Barnwell. Jesse Corley, a negro, shot and killed Luther Green, another negro, the weapon used being a shotgun, the entire load from which took effect in Green's back from close range. The wounded man lived about an hour. Corley was arrested by Sheriff Morris and lodged in the county jail. The coroner's jury rendered the usual verdict. It is said that some previous difficulty led up to the killing. % Morality, Old and New. Morality is always a generation or two ahead of legality. The number of offenses against the moral and legal codes is increasing constantly. Moral principle never cut so large a figure in the affairs of this American people as it does today. We have 20 moral qualms where our godly ancestors had one. 1 vIt never occurred to them that a lottery was wrong, or that it was wicked to drink whiskey, or to whip a child or a wife, or to enslave the black man and cheat the red man. Nine out of ten of the little conscientious niceties of life are discoveries of the last 50 years. More societies to do all sorts of good and work all kinds of reforms have been created in the last two orarniroHnno than had been formed U(|4VUg VMWM or thought of before from the beginning of the world. We are geting better. No doubt about it. But there is still plenty of room for improvement.?Christian Herald. ORANGES AT BEAUFORT. Fine Crop and Fruit Greatly in Demand Just Now. Beaufort, Nov. 25.?Beaufort is having a wonderful orange crop this year. On every hand trees can be seen loaded down with this fruit, which is grown so successfully here. One of the local gardens has produc ed 1,500 for the first crop. These are being handled by one of the fruiters of the town and are very much in demand on account of their sweetness. They had scrambled through the first dance on the program and he was leading her back to a seat. "I could die dancing, couldn't you?" he asked. "No," she replied. "There are pleasanter ways than being trampled to death."?Cincinnati Enquirer. * T. M. EMERSON EXPIRES r PASSES AWAY IN WILMINGTON OF ACUTE INDIGESTION. f Rushed Home on Special Train, Ap- . parently Improved, But Later Grew Worse Rapidly. Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 25.? Thomas Martin Emerson, president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, died late to-night at his home here, following an attack of acute indigestion at Dupont, Ga., Sunday, while on a trip of inspection over the system with members of the board of directors. Mr. EmerBon, attended by his physicians and friends, early to-day reached Wilmington on a special train from the South, and while it was announced that his condition was improved, he later grew worse and died at 11 o'clock. i Mr. Emerson was born in Preble county, Ohio, March 29, 1851. ?He entered the railroad service in 1867 as a clerk in the freight office at Hagerstown, Ind., and by degrees forged his way to the front rank of railroad men in the country. From clerk in the freight office he became night telegraph operator and later chief freight and ticket clerk at Marion, Ind., and Fort Wayne; Ind. He later was general passenger agent < of the Detroit and IndianapoKs j "through line." i Coming South in January, 1875, \ le became clerk in the general freight ( office of the Charlotte, Columbia and j Augusta Railroad, and in July of the , same year was promoted to chief i clerk in the general freight and pas- i senger department of the Atlantic 3 Coast Line, in which capacity he served until September 1, 1880, when for j a year he was assistant general j freight and ticket agent of the same , road. j In August, 1881, he was appointal 3 assistant general freight agent of the ? Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, after- j wards becoming :gfeneral freight and ] passenger agent. From July 1, 1891, , to July, 1902, he wag traffic manager of the Atlantic Coast Line, later he^ < coming third vice president. About 4 five years ago he succeeded the late j President Erwin, of the Atlantic 3 Coast Line. \ Mr. Emerson was taken ill Sun- , day at Dupont, Ga., while on an inspection tour of the road of which , he was president. He was taken to j Waycross, Ga., Sunday night, and j spent Monday under the care of phy- 3 siriflna in a hosnital there. Last night , "J w , w f he was apparently much better, and v;as taken aboard a special train for ( Wilmington. A trained nurse and a j physician accompanied him. When . he arrived here to-day he was taken 1 to his home, his physician reporting , him practically out of danger. . EDGEFIELD KILLING. 1 ? 1 John Scurry Fatally Shoots James ] Burt and Escapes. 1 " ] Edgefield, Nov. 25.?Monday night, , on a plantation belonging to the es- < tate of W. W. Adams, John Scurry shot and instantly killed James Burt, the parties being negroes. Some time ago Scurry, it is said, killed a dog belonging to a Mr. Wood, and, Burt ' informed the owner of the fact, 1 which, it seems, infuriated Scurry, ] and, armed with a gun, it is alleged, J he went on a hunt for the deceased and, finding him at home, called him from the house, and as Burt was ap- ' proaching the front gate Scurry fired, the load taking effect in rhe neck and \ t hrnat After getting in his bloody J work Scurry fled and has not yet ' been captured, although the sheriff is * in hot pursuit. Her Threat. , A certain young couple who were j married some months ago never had ] a cloud to mar their happiness'until j recently. One morning the young i wife came to breakfast in an ex- i tremely sullen and unhappy mood. { To all her husband's inquiries she re- , turned snappish answers. She was ' in no better frame of mind when he i came home that evening for dinner, { all of which mystified the young hus- ] band. Finally, late in the evening, in reply to his insistent demands to know what the matter was, the wife burst ^ into tears and replied: Henry, if ever I dream again that you kissed another woman I'll never speak to < you as long as I live!" j ? ? < Our. Mr. W. P. Jones is now in the West selecting another car load of 1 horses and mules, and they will ar- 1 rive the first part of next week. , Prospective buyers will do well ta wait and see this load before they purchase. We can suit you. JONES * BROS.?adv. i t I IJH E IXJAUJiFlEljirs FKOliKHSS. . m ~ 2 rhe Status of the Work on Elkhorn Extension. ^ Hanlrprc who havo in at rotnrnarl rom an inspection of the Carolina, Jlinchfield and Ohio Railway and the lew Elkhorn extension to a connec- \ don with the Chesapeake and Ohio report that construction work on the 55 miles of new line is about 75 per J lent completed and that next spring ir summer will see the new mileage :j| n operation. Construction work is very heavy, lut everything is being done on a permanent basis and according to the latest accepted standards. There will pe 21 tunnels, the longest more than t i mile and a half long. In all, there fvill be 20,000 feet of tunnels, and ? j feese, in conjunction with heavy grading'work, will permit of a maximum grade of 10 per cent, or favorable enough to permit of the operadon of 100-car trains with the asdstance of pushers where the m&ximum grade opposes traffic. Cost will approximate $150,000 per mile of r|J road, but the importance of the new .'..p* extension appears to warrant the lug? expenditure. When the connection is had with Lhe Chesapeake and Ohio, the Clinchheld coal from the 300,000 acres awned in the Cumberland fields will ' have direct entrance "to 'Ohio River crossings, an<4 the most of it will be aauled through the Cincinnati gateway by the Chesapeake and Ohio, and turned over to other lines for general iistribution. This outlet for the company's coal will, it is expected, require doubling the present output, which now amounts to about 1,600,- -V&4M 900 tons annually. now amounts to about 1,600,000 j&jfjH: In addition, the new line will afford a more direct and shorter route from the Middle West into the South Atlantic States, than any now exist- v ing. It is predicted that the passenger running time from Cincinnati, Foiedo and Chicago, to Florida, can be reduced between four and five hours when this new extension is joupled up. The present 240 miles of the Slinchfield's lines are earning in excess of $12,000 per mile gross, largely made up of revenues from movement of coal to tidewater at Charlesfnn A JUtln nna* o v actn 4+ nrfla - 'C-A i>vu? a iivu9 v? ci 4 j cmi a^v *v n mm . ""' ' * "c>afl earning only $8,000 gross per mile. Industrial development along the jompnay's lines has far exceeded expectations. General traffic is increas- . ing at the rate of 40 per cent over that of a year ago. There are 150 salt mines along the company's lines, ' '3M turning out anywhere from three carloads a week to five a day. It is . predicted that there will shortly he 200 such mills. Cement plants, fertilizer plants, and hrick plants, for which local conditions are favorable, .'**?9 ire being established. There is be- tween 20 and 30 billion feet of hard- .';r^?| wood timber available in the company's territory, of#which every mil- I von foot will rot urn JnOOft in freight revenue. The company will this y^ar earn $1,200,000 surplus over all C charges.?Wall Street Journal. Tragedy of a Country Girl. Atlanta, Nov. 20.?The tragedy of ' "^J?| a, beautiful country girl, ruined by , the influences of glittering city life, is epitomized in the hopeless appeal ^ made a day or two ago to the Atlanta police by Miss Mabel Reynolds, -<13 who attempted to commit suicide in % Chinese restaurant here. ' "Oh, why didn't you let me die?" she cried. "Is there any hope in iife for a girl like me?" And the matron it the police station, knowing life as she did, secretly knew what to answer. . ( Miss Reynolds, who is now only nineteen years of age, has known *nn??rh misery and disaDDOintment to 611 a long lifetime. "My husband made me a bad girl when I was only twelve years old, and married me five twelve years old, and married me five rears afterward only to force me to support him by* a life of shame. What ;hance is there for a girl who has been treated like that by a man who above all others ought to protect her? I want to begin again, but [ don't know how." j SIMMS CALLS. ON BLEASE. ?? * Has No Comment to Make on Gubernatorial Race. Columbia, November 24.?Mr. Charles Carroll Simms, of Barnwell, i candidate for Governor, and Representative Mixson, of Barnwell, were jailers at the office of Governor Blease to-day. Mr. Simms had no comment to make on politics, but appears pleased over the reception his candidacy for Governor is meeting in ~ vks all parts of ttie State.