Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and ^ at Other Points. |A ?Mr. J. M. McKenzie, of WalterigV boro. was in the city last Saturday. ^ ?.Mr. T. D. Antley, of the Cope section, was in the city last Saturday. ?Mrs. John Cart, of Orangeburg, j is visiting Mrs. G. Frang Bamberg. ?Mr. Austin R. Neal, of Roanoke, Va., is in the city on a visit to relatives. ?Miss Xan Osborne, of Spartanburg, is visiting Miss Mary Livingsf nn VVUt ?Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Felder, of Cope, spent Sunday in the city with relatives. ?Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker left last Friday for a visit to relatives in Richmond, Va. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Owens returned Monday night from a week's visit to Charleston. / * ?Mrs. J. A. Brabham is at home again from a visit to her daughters at Denmark and Olar. \ - . \ ?Miss Mell Kearse, of the Kearse section, is in the city on a visit to her sister, Mrs. W. P. Jones. ?Headmaster J. C. Guilds and Mr. W. D. Rhoad left yesterday for Rock Hill to attend the Methodist conference. ?Mi*. Vernon Brabham, of Columbia, spent yesterday in the city on a visit to the family of his brother, Mr. H. J. Brabham. ?Mrs. H. M. Felder, of Mullins, who with her two little children has -been visiting her relatives in Bam* berg, has returned to her home. ?Mrs. Adelle J. Brabham and Mrs. LeRoy Wilson, of Allendale, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon for a visit to Mrs. H. J. Brabham. ?Mrs. LaVerne Thomas, of Columbia, spent a few days in the city this week on a visit to the family of ^ her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rentz. ?Rev W. H. Hodges, pastor of Trinity Methodist church, left Monday morning to attend the session of the annual conference at Rock Hill. He will he away all the week. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Barr, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wyman, Mrs. F. M. Bamberg, Mrs. F. M. Stubbs, Mrs. J. Norman Walker, and Miss Llewellyn Cleckley, of this city, attended the marriage of Miss Alma Wannamaker to Dr. Adam Cherry in Orangeburg last Wednesday evening. ?Col. John F. Folk, Mr. W. M. Brabham, Mr. H. F. Spann, and Capt. E. L. Price went to Charleston on Monday evening for a cruise down the Carolina coast. At Charleston several other invited guests will join them. The party leaves Charleston on Tuesday morning aboard the handsome launch "Cricket," which was awaiting them in port. The party will be out for about one week. Don't Burn the Leaves. One of the important contributions of nature to the fertility of the soil 9 is the great mass of leaves that fall when frost comes. They decay and compensate the soil for what it has done; they prepare it for future demands. Their falling and their restoration of soil fertility illustrate the great law of compensation in nature. . * It is common at this season of the year to hear complaints about the leaves. They pile up in the yard and many consider them unsightly. Many accordingly hasten to gather and consign the leaves to the flames, careless of the waste involved in their destruction. Don't burn the leaves. Withered and dead, they still have their natural function to perform. If one must keep them off the lawn, pile them in a secure place, sprinkle dirt over them and let nature prepare its natural fertilizer for the soil. Sprinkle it in the flower bed next spring and note the result. Put it about the trees and keep them in health. Nature is wise in all its plans. Since the first tree spead its arms and the new monarchs defied the storms, the falling leaves have thus aided in soil replenishment and helped succor all forms of plant life. Why not permit the plans of nature to be carried out for producing that which nature delights to produce for the comfort of man? Don't burn the leaves. * Dam Breaks in Texas. Abilene, Texas, November 23.? Six hundred million gallons of water were released near here to-day by the breaking of the Lyttle Lake dam. A torrent twelve feet high was prenn thft surrounding country. but spread over the plains without causing loss of life. Dropped Dead in Church. Montgomery, Ala., November 23.? C. D. Shell, aged 65 years, a Confederate Veteran, dropped dead in the Methodist Protestant Church shortly after noon to-day during the service. He had just completed a short talk when heart disease overcame him. TRAMPS COST MILLIONS. United States Yields Vast Daily T) bute to Knights of Road. Tramps cost the United Stat $200,000 a day. according to the timate of Prof. William Bailey, of tl chair of economics in Yale unive sity. In a recent address at Sprin field, Mass., he called attention to t tramp evil and declared the only w; to eliminate the undesirable loafe is not to give a penny or a bite eat to a tramp unless he works for The tramp is naturally voracioi Prof. Bailey observes, and once he compelled to work for what he ea he will seek steady employment that he can command what he desir as his food. "Jails are of no value in 90lvii the tramp problem," says Prof. Ba ey. "Tramps discuss jails as mc people do summer resorts and th? select the town in which they w commit a depredation so as to ha a winter home." There are four grades of tramps the United States, according to Pr< Bailey's classification, ranging fro the lowest, the "tomato can" tran to gypsies, the only class that is tc erated at law. The "tomato cai trrmp is not misnamed. He carri a tomato can over his shoulder. I uses it to go about in the back yar and alleys near saloons to drain tl last dregs of beer kegs that are rea< for the brewery. Without the can 1 could not do this. He knows he h not long to live but he doesn't see to bother much about that. Next to the "Knights of the Tom to Can" are the "dossers." Th have the price to buy lodging in doss house at from five to 15 ceu a night. The "dossers" are qui vain and consider themselves as hig ly respectable. The everyday "hob' comes next in the scale. The gypsy is the highest grade tramp. He has a few horses, ma] dogs and numerous children. E chief business is "swapping" hors< His wife usually tells fortunes aj the children earn nickels ?by doii athletic stunts. These gypsies a usually clever as pickpockets a: follow country fairs. They are coi pelled to move from place to pla which amounts to communities swa ping undesirables. Prof. Bailey states that mc tramps start out to get work bu fii they can live without working. Ma never work after their first attack wanderlust and become tramps. Answers The Times. ______ / Editor Florence Times:?I nc the following in The Bamberg Hera taken from your paper. "You wa to know something about Char] Carroll Simms who figured so proa nently in that Blease conference Columbia. All that we can tell y is that he is a small lawyer frc Barnwell with a big moustache. 1 inherits the ability to tell good 1 mance." Since you are from Bar well county, don't you think it a i markable coincidence that you are small editor with a big moustach However, you both were eligible orono nf tha Inst Rarnwftll COUB fair and should have been enter* I am inclined to believe that Sii would have taken the blue ribbc Once a Barnwell county boy, I a Yours truly, W. G. SMITH. Orangeburg, S. C. APPEAL IN SOFTER CASE. Heard By Supreme Court, Whi Opens Fall Session. Columbia, Nov. 25.?Argument the appeal of the dispensary forces Sumter county from the decision the State board of canvassers, thro ing out the ejection for the dispe sary in that county on account of ; leged irregularities, was heard by t Supreme Court, which convened tl morning for the fall and winter ter " T ^ T aiayor ju. u. jemmies auu ocuaiui H. Clifton represented the dispensa forces, which are appealing, wh former Judge R. 0. Purdy appear for the prohibitionists. THREE MORE PAROLED. Brings Thanksgiving Clemency L Up to 103. Columbia, Nov. 25.?The numt of convicts to receive clemency f Thanksgiving at the hands of Gov< nor Blease shot up to 103 to-di when he paroled three more, two r groes serving life terms for murdi and one white man serving a cha gang sentence in Richland county f disorderly conduct. The papers in the pardon and p role cases were sent to the office Secretary of State R. M. McMcCos this morning for him to sign, and ?-v-. o oftooliincr V S>V CHL liltlOL VI Lac Utt.? atiuvinu^ i signature, there being five copies each paper, making a total of 5 times he had to sign his name. T papers were mailed to the Penite tiary and the county chaingangs tl afternoon and the prisoners will released to-morrow in time to Thanksgiving dinner with home pt pie on Thursday. f S DEAD MAN ALIVE. 1 ri-1 As Body Lay in Coffin Supposed Corpse Raps at Door. es While relatives and friends sur- j >s- rounded a coffin in which lay the! he ! body of a young man identified as j sr- j John Thompson, of Hamilton, Ont., j g- i a victim of the recent storm on the ! ! n <i + T olrcic tho ros?l Tnhn Thonin- I Li C ! \J i VUV 4 VV?* w VMM -? __ ? xay | son rapped at the door and was adirs i mitted to the house. His mother i to ! collapsed and was made seriouslv ill. } it. | Young Thompson's father did not is, j know on what boat his son was emis j ployed end when he read of the find,ts i ing of the body of a John Thompson, so! fireman on the lost steamer Carruthes! ers, he went to Kettle Point and identified it as that of his son. ag The body was shipped to the paril ents' home and preparations were st j being made for the funeral when the en! young man suddenly returned very ill | much alive. He explained he had ve i been in Montreal during the great j storm and had just heard of his rein j ported death. Before going to his >f. | home, the son stopped at a hotel con m i ducted by James Duffy. Duffy, who ap had been at the Thompson home and >1- seen the body there, fell in a faint, a" thinking he had seen a ghost. es le Poison Given Through Mistake. ds b6 Spartanburg, November 24.?From .jy the effects of a dose of strychnine administered through mistake by his as wife and brother, J. W. Lawson, a im substantial farmer, of near Woodruff, died Saturday afternoon, twenty a_ minutes after the drug was taken. ev Mr.N Lawson had been suffering a with a severe cold, and to relieve him [ts the members of his family procured te what they thought was a vial of quih nine. The brother tasted the powder 0" and noting that it had the bitter taste of quinine, proceeded to fix a of powder, which was given to the man. Qy The effects of the drug, set up im[is mediately, and within twenty minutes iS. Mr. Lawson was dead. When the ad physician reported the case it was ag deemed not necessary by the coroner ,re to hold an inquest. . ad Mr. Lawson is survived by his wife, m- several brothers and sisters.. He ce had been married three times and ,p- was reputed to be wealthy. The funeral services were conducted yester>st day afternoon and the interment was ad in the Antioch church cemetery. ny " of President of Southern Dead. Washington. Nov. 25.?President W. W. Finley, of the Southern railway, died suddenly at his home in *e this city this morning from a stroke of paralysis. nt He was stricken at the breakfast es table this morning and sank rapidly. ai" Mr. Finley had been apparently in ln good health and the fatal stroke ou came without warning. With his family he had recently returned ^e from his country home at Warren*?~ ton, Va., and reopened his town n~ house in the capital. He is survived :e~ by a widow, a son and three daugha ters. e President Finley was stricken with to apoplexy and hemorrhage of the lty brain while he was preparing to leave J<*- his home for his office. Before med115 ical attention could be summoned he >n- was dead. Although he was stricken m? before noon, word of his death did not reach the Southern railway offices for several hours. Yeggs at Work in Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Nov. 24.?When J. T. Blackwell, manager of the Palmetto Roller Mills, went to his office this 0f morning he found the safe blown. J 1 i TTTtf V* no. of upeil <UiU L11C UUU1 Ilticicu n itu 0f pers. There was evidence that the w_ robbers were expert safe blowers. The n- J?b was skilfully done but the robaj. bers obtained nothing of value as he Mr. Blackwell had taken the money jjs home Saturday night. A negro in m the neighborhood said he heard a t muffled explosion early Sunday mornry Ing ile e(j Killed Traveling Man. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. ,24.?F. J. Ransom, a traveling salesman of Newark, N. J., was shot and instantly ist killed to-day by William L. Reeves, a clothing salesman, at Reeves' home near here. The shooting occurred |er when Reeves returned to his home or unexpectedly and found Ransom 3r~ there. The tragedy was witnessed by iy' Mrs. Reeves. ie" Reeves telephoned the sheriff to 5r' come and arrest him. Ransom's body an is being held pending advices from or relatives in Newark. )a" KILLED BY RIFLE BALL. nf vn Former Magazine Editor Victim of Fatal Acident. lis of Portland, Me., Nov. 25.?Herman 13 d. Umbstatter, of Boston, a writer he and former editor of the Black Cat :n- maerazine. to-dav died at his cottage lis at Lovell, of an accidental rifle be wound. As he was climbing a wall his rifle was discharged and the bullet penetrated his body just below the heart. * \ ATTEMPTS SUICIDE TWICE. While Drunk Greenville Man Makes Two Efforts at Self Destruction. For the second time within a month, Pink Bishop, a young white man of the city, attempted self-destruction yesterday while locked in a cell at the city jail in a raving condition brought on by drink. Bishop was arrested near the Carolina mill yesterday shortly after noon on the charge of being drunk. In his cell lie became raving and cursed, shouted and groaned for three hours. When he became quiet the members of the police department who were at the station suspected that something was wrong, and on going back to his cell they found Bishop standing on his cot, with one leg of his trousers tied tc the grating above the cell and the other about his neck. Before one of the policemen present could go tc the desk and get the key to the cell, Bishop jumped from the cot. in the presence of the other policemen, remaining swinging by his neck for an instant. Fortunately the trousers by which he was hanging tore in twc pieces, and he fell to the floor without injury. Probably fifteen minutes later Sergeant Cooksey went to the cell again to investigate as to Bishop's condition, and he found the crazy man again attempting to hang himself, a blanket being used this time. The cell was opened and three policemen rushed in and took Bishop down be rore ne naa time to complete lymg the blanket to the roof of the cell. He resisted desperately the efforts tc prevent his killing himself. About a month ago Bishop was arrested for being drunk, and was taken to the police station in a frenzied condition.* He attempted to commit suicide by battering his brains out against the walls of his cell. Bishop was unable to leave the station for two or three days on the occasion ol that attempt at self-destruction.? Greenville News. WHIRLED ON PULLEY. Chester Youth Loses Clothes But Saves His Life. One of the most remarkable escapes from death that has recently been reported occurred at Wilksburg a town in the Western part of Chestei county on Tuesday when Lonni< Harris, a boy, who is employed at th< gin of C. F. Wade, tfcrent down th< main shaft of the gin in an endeavoi to fix the belt back on the pulley which ran the apparatus that convey ed the seed from the gin. The ma chinery was still running at a rapit clip. As he tried to slip the belt bacl on his sleeve, hanging down, caugh - * ?? 1? ?mi 11 ait in i m a set screw IU ue yuuc; auu iu moment he was being whirled aroun< like a loose windlass. It was at least five minutes befori the machinery was stopped. All tin time he was going so fast that it wai difficult to discern the outlines of hi body. After the machinery of thi plant had been stopped everybod; rushed to him .expecting to find hin a corpse; instead, upon being closel; examined, it was found that he ha< sustained only a few bruises, but h< was minus his clothes, which ha< consisted of two shirts, a pair o trousers, a brand new pair of over alls, socks and shoes. Everythinj was torn into threads and all ha< gone save a piece of sock and sho< on one foot. As he whirled roun< he passed by a place in the wall tha had two long nail projecting, an< the young man was whirled in be tween these long nails, and it wa these that did the tearing. BEAUFORT BRIDGE PROJECT. Again Being Agitated?Would Cos About $67,315. Beaufort, Nov. 25.?The proposi tion to build a bridge across Beau fort river from the town of Beaufor to St. Helena Island, wbicn was ver: much discussed and agitated severa years ago, but which was broken u] by the storm of 1911, is again befor< the public. A bill was passed recent ly by the House of Represntative! permitting the townships of Beaufor and St. Helena Island to enter upoi this undertaking. While there an some here who do not think it wise t< go into an undertaking that would in volve such a large expense, the larg< majority think it would do wonder in opening up and developing thqsi islands, especially Port Royal and St Helena. The bridge proposed is to stand V feet above low water, to be sixteei feet wide, 1,585 feet long, and to hav< two draws of 50 feet each. The cause ways and fills at the approachei would be 1.600 feet, requiring 490, 000 bushels of shell. The cost ha: been estimated to be $58,115, anc the causeway of shells $9,200, a tota of $67,315. This cost could be re duced by using a lighter weight o iron, but it is thought that the sub stantial weight would be the cheapesi in the end. All kinds of ledgers and blanl books at Herald Book Store, cheap. i - 4 GEORGIA FARM LANDS I Have Some V FARM LANDS FC A VERY REASON. The soil is Pimply CI; make fine Cotton, Tob< and Corn, or anything land will produce. C. J. FUTRELL, \ t i n i thnstmas L AND t Christmas / If you want anyth ; or Book for Xma come to the X Herald 6o< . - / ^ , i ___________________ i t i ' We have just rec assortment and 5 J just what you war * arrived this week < B ' that you come at I what you want as | limited, and then f Only 23 More S ' before Christmas. f t f I We also have i a : assortment of Wal t 3 Fountain Pens, th< ) ; mas present; son ! bands for ladies ai ? ii? Hall ' ties and self-hllers ; and get your choi< 3 wmmummam i HERALD B0( BAMBERG, I FOR SALE CHEAP ery Nice >R SALE AT ABLE PRICE ay Land and will lcco, Sugar Cane, I that any other ,'r*v Guyton, Ga. I V ; ' i Cards j r. Books ing in a Card o UA cuva onrl o 0IUV vum ok Store eived a swell you will find it here. They and we advise once and get ; the supply is too there are hopping Days in exura nice German's Ideal 5 Ideal Christtie with gold nd a few safe- : 1 Come quick ' ,1 :e. W STORE s. c.