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I (Fit? lamhmj fcratfi One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1914. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS ( SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. h | News Items Gathered All Around the t County and Elsewhere. t y News from Ehrhardt. t 1 L Ehrhardt. February 9.?Another j school month has gone by and has i left with us the following long honor i | roll to show that there are many s workers in our school: First grade?Marshall Copeland, t I Bays Dannelly, Vere Planer, Lonnie i ^ Bishop, Effie Bishop, Maxwell Kfnsey, t B Merle Farrell. t B Second grade?Hildegarde Dannel- 1 fit ly, Dorothy MacDowell, Florence B Fender, Louise Copeland, Reba f || Kinard, Katherine Lemacks, Corne- e m lius Brabham, Archibald Taylor t h Edna Kirkland, Mildred Copeland, t p William Patrick. c f Third grade?Louise Simmons, e Margurite Copeland, Wilhemina Mc- c Kenzie, Furman Roberts, Viola t Bishop, Autry Warren, Eddy Warren, 1 Ernest Patrick. ' 1 Fourth grade?Flossie Fender, t Richard Roberts, Earle Guess. t Fifth grade?Ruby Kinard, Zeita s Planer, Katie Rentz. c Sixth grade?Ruth Bishop, Chester t Copeland, Bettie Kinard, Helen Mac- ? Dowell, Alice Pate, Eleanor Pate., r Effie Ramsey, Glen Smith. N Seventh grade?Inez Hutson, Ada t Smith. i Eighth grade?Genie Ramsey, l Dick Roberts, Prettoe Fender, Zelma i Herndon. . ^ Ninth grade?Allie Kinard, Laurie J Kinard, Edward MacDowell. f Mr. E. F. K. Roof, student at the s Lutheran Theological Seminary, \ preached here last Sunday afternoon and at Mt. Pleasant in the morning. Both sermons were excellent and the * . n people seem wen pieaseu %*iuu Roof. . We Lutherans are minus a . regular pastor since Mr. D. B. Groseclose left us, so it happens, then, that } we are supplied from the Seminary. ? c It is a certain fact that we are get- t ting the -best service that any church t so fixed could wish for. It seems that ^ the Seminary must be filled with ex- a cellent young men who are going to make excellent ministers. t Rey. D. B. Groseclose and wife, of Fairfax, spent Monday and Tuesday c in town with their daughters, Mrs. J. H. Hucks and Mrs. J. B. Ehrhardt. j Ehrhardt News. C J Ehrhardt, Feb. 10.?The following ^ invitation has been issued: "Mr. and * Mrs. H. C. Bishop request your pre- a sence at the marriage of their daughter, Alberta, to Mr. William B. Hiers, a on Sunday, February 15, 1914, at 3 o'clock, at home." The ladies of the Methodist church * are receiving much encouragement in their preparations for the bazaar E t which is to be held in Copeland's a hall Friday and Saturday, 13th and ' 14th instant. We trust that their most sanguine expectations will be ? rjyu V? fViA r?r*r_ C rt;<xnz.tru. i uc v nvpc iu ua< v k.u& v?i dial patronage of their country as c well as their town friends. a A beautiful home marriage was y that of Miss Bessie Smoak and Mr. s Carson Berry, which took place last 'J Sunday morning in the Hunter's i > Chapel community. A wedding ( march and other music was well c rendered by Miss Graham, teacher 1 of the community school, and the s ceremony was performed by the Rev. hj. A. McDowell, pastor of the bride, e Many of the friends of the young c couple were present to wish for them a a prosperous voyage of life. c Mr. George McMillan, of the 1 opringtown community, was in town : * on Tuesday. George is busy build- > lng him a house, into which he proposes soon to move with his young 1 bride. ? I Two prayer meetings will De neia ^ this week in lieu of the meeting to i begin next Sunday night at the Bap- t tist church here. 1 Mrs. Jas. H. McLeod, of Sumter, is i visiting her brother and his family t at the Baptist parsonage. s " ? , FISH CAX GET SEASICK. , ?~" ] Game Warden Declared Railroad j Made His Pets 111. J > Prof. L. L. Dyche, State fish and ( IJ 1-1- ~ ? game waraeu, ?uuiu nnc yut a. boycott on some of the railroads c s the State because the roads are v>o t rough, wavy and jerking that they make the fish seasick. A good many . people might scoff at the idea of fish j being" seasick, but Professor Dyche says that the fish become as sick as j any person he ever saw on the ocean. ?Tokepa, Kan., Dispatch to Kansas City Times. s 1 WAREHOUSE BILL ;J1> READING. Governor Urges Senate to Act Favorably on Fortner Bill. Columbia. February 10.?The Mc^aurin warehouse bill was advanced o third reading in the senate late o-night under an understanding that he test vote will be taken there. Notice of general amendments was jiven. The debate lasted the entire light, with Senator McLaurin makng what is regarded as the final ipeech on the bill. Both branches adjourned over unil Thursday. Practically the entire nembership will go to Charleston o-morrow. The governor and Atorney General Peeples went to Chareston to-night.. \ The Fortner bill to prevent whites rom teaching in negro schools caus !d a snort, nurry in tne senate just > fore that body recessed for dinner o-day at J o'clock. Senator Clifton ailed up the bill and the senate votsd to take it up out of the regular >rder. Senator Clifton then moved o adjourn debate on the bill until :o-night at 9.30 o'clock. Senator iardin said the bill was unconstituional and moved to recommit it to he committee on education, but the lenate refused to do this. Further Jiscussion of the matter was ended >y the senate adopting a motion by Senator .Manning to recede from busiless until 8 o'clock p. m. The governer sent in a message o-day on the Fortner bill and atached a picture of the faculty of Benedict College in Columbia showng both races. Senator Appelt ranted the photograph printed in the fournal along with the message, but inally yielded to the other senator" md the message was ordered printed vithout the photograph. Married at Ehrliardt. f Ehrhardt, Feb. 7.?Of much interist to their many friends was the uarriage of Miss Annie F. Carter, of his place, to Mr. E. S. Sease, of Barnwell, which occurred Thursday ifternoon, February 5th, at threehirty o'clock, at the home of the iride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. 'arter. Quite a number of relatives ne friends assembled to witness the eremony, and at the appointed hour he bridal party entered. The procession formed in the hall, oming through the parlor to the liazza, where the bride's pastor, Rev. L C. Lawson, awaited them. First :ame Miss Elizabeth C. Smith with Jr. W. H. Carter, then Miss Sallie j barter with Mr. W. C. Carter. The >ride and groom entered together, :nd in a very impressive manner ?lr. Lawson pronounced them man ,nd wife. Mrs. Sease is a young woman of nany lovely traits of character. She eaves many friends to go to Barnvell, where her husband is a pros>erous young 'farmer. We wish them l long, prosperous, happy life. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Feb. 9.?Gordon, the year >ld son of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder lied on Monday of throat trouble, md was buried at Bethlehem grave ard on Tuesday, Rev. W. H. Simpon officiating at the funeral services. The school turned out en masse and >laced a beautiful wreath of flowers which they had purchased for their lassmate) on his bier. The little 'ellow was much beloved and all ympathize with the affiicted family. Our teachers attended the teachers' meeting at Allendale on Saturlay. They were enthusiastic in their iccounts of the success and pleasure >f the meeting. Dr. Snyder, of Woford college, woke them up to a sense of their responsibility. He vas the great speaker of the occasion, rhey said they would not soon forget lis good advice and valuable suggestions in the school room. He adriooH Thorn for nno thing' nOt to 11 Se superfluous or big sounding words :o the younger grades when a simpler one would be better understood. For instance, the teacher of ;he second grade in a certain school >aid, "Johnnie, were you detained at lome by the inclemency of the leather?" "Xo ma'am," said Johniie, "just staid cause it rained so lard." Mrs. Fred Lightsev and little b're^rica are spending some time in Jolumbia. Mrs. Laura Gooding is spending some time with Mrs. W. W. Anderson. Mrs. D. D. Dowling, of Varnville, nas been spending some time with ler son at Commercial 1 otel. J. W. and Cbarlton Ellis were nere on Dusinees oaiuiuay. Spend and the girls go with you, save and you go alone. \ IN THE PALHETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. s State News Boiled Down for Quick d Reading?Paragraphs About f Men and Happenings. t a Beaufort county lias voted bonds of t. $80,000 to build a bridge from the b mainland to St. Helena and Ladies b islands. * . ... . e Alex Mathis, a wmte man, committed suicide at St^tesburg, Sumter county, on Tuesday by shooting * himself with a shotgun. He was fifty years old. * e James. 13-year-old son of C. D. . i] Eskew, who was accidentally shot by a negro Sunday, died on Tuesday. The two were out in the woods Sunday practicing shooting with a pistol, near Greenville. j. Prof. W. K. Tate, State supervisor r of rural schools, has resigned and j. has accepted the position of professor of rural education in Peabody College g for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn. He ^ will enter upon his new work about c the first of May. b Dr. C. T. Wyche, a member of the n legislature from Newberry county, t was suddenly stricken with paraly- c sis last Friday evening while presiding over a session of the house of t representatives. He is slowly im- r proving at a hospital in Columbia, v F. H. Dominick has won his case J for a fee of $1,200 from the State-for S representing the governor in the t. testing of the State bond issue, the * x- v uu n case naving Deen iriea ueioie ms * appointment as assistant attorney g general. Comptroller General Jones t refused to pay the fee on the ground P that it was not a proper charge against the State. A notorious negro named "Big > Jim" McRae, lately paroled by the governor from the penitentiary, where he was serving a term for murder, got into a row with his son and ^ another negro Saturday night and ? shot his son in the neck, inficting & a wound that may prove fatal. He 5 claims self-defense. s Capt. J. J. Keller Takes Own Life. e Rock Hill, Feb. 10.?Capt. John J. ? Keller, known throughout the Carolinas as a business man, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head at 2.30 o'clock this after- ^ noon. The shot was fired in an out- . d house near his residence in Rock Hill and the weapon used was a 38 calibre revolver. No cause has been assigned d for the deed. He is not thought to have had business troubles and so'far as is known no statement was left. He was unconscious after the shootc ing and lived less than one hour. e He returned from Columbia to-day , . s and spent the morning hour at his place of business on Main street. He ^ was seen by a number of friends and a seemed to be in good spirits. He is supposed to have secured the revol- rj ver when he went home to dinner. As he left the house he told his wife that he would return in a iew mm- utes for dinner. S A negro man, working in the yard, s heard the shot, and Mrs. Keller found A her husband lying unconscious on the * floor, the pistol by his side. t Capt. Keller had large business in- o terests here and at Yorkville. He was a contractor and builder and a mem- n ber of an undertaking firm. He had c been a member of the public works 9 commission since its organization r three years ago. He was a member e of the staff of Col. Lewis, ranking as S captain in charge of the regimental commissary. ' t Gentle but Cruel. . d For a long time James and Mautle had courted. Eventually the engagempnt was announced, and to the lov- ? ing pair the future looked as beautiful as if it had received a new coat of paint. y But, alas! One evening there was a j misunderstanding and then came the bitter quarrel. With hashing eyes ^ the proud beauty yanked off the hun- * dred dollar solitaire. t "Take your ring!" she dramatically cried. "I have decided that I can t never be your wife! I shall expect you to return everything you have in your possession that belongs to me!" "All I have is a lock of your hair j and a photograph," sadly replied f James. "You will hardly care for the * photo, but the lock of hair you will no doubt wish to preserve as a souvenir." .. "As a souvenir of what, pray?" imperiously demanded the angry Maude. "Of the time when you were a bru- . nette," was the gentle rejoinder of James.?Philadelphia Telegraph. SIMS CASE BEGUN. lany Witnesses Against Spartan-! burg Lawyer. Columbia, February 10.?At two essions 01 uie ouyreme v^uuri tuay testimony for the petitioners and or the respondent was submitted in he case for disbarment of C. P. Sims, n attorney of Spartanburg. During lie first session, which lasted from 10 o 2 o'clock, evidence was introduced o substantiate the many charges prec erred against Mr. Sims, alleging unthical conduct, and at a later afteroon session, Mr. Sims was placed on he stand in his own defence. Mr. Sims, both in his returns to he action and on the stand, denied mphatically that he had ever acted a an unprofessional manner. Charcter witnesses will likely be summoned at to-morrow's session to reute the statements of a number of witnesses that they would not beieve*Mr. Sims on oath, and that his eputation as an individual and as . iwyer was bad. While on the stand to-day Mr. lims spoke with great emotion in enying the charges against him and harged that they had been inspired iy malice, as had been the statements, he said, by witnesses who tesified that he was not of good moral haracter. All of the allegations are denied in he return of Mr. Sims, which was ead to the court by S. J. Nicholls, .*ho, with C. C. Wyche and W. M. nnoc ic corviri(r as attnrnpvs for Mr. ims. Part of the return of Mr. Sims he court refused to have read, sayng rhat it contained improper exressions, and the offending pararaphs Mr. Nicholls omitted. Solicior J. K. Henry represented the etitioners. BANK ONE MILLION SHORT. lemphis Banker in Prison Charged With Embezzlement. Memphis, Tenn. February 9.? Vith the discovery to-night that of 527,867 listed as actual cash on and when the bank closed its doors 410,000 was represented by the peronal checks of the president, C. lunter Raine, now imprisoned chargd with embezzlement, the amount of he apparent discrepancy in the acounts of the Mercantile Bank here dvanced to more txian a million dolars. The exact amount will not be nown until the audit being made uner the direction of J. L. Hutton, itate superintendent of banks, is ompleted. This will -require several ays. Count of the actual cash in the aults showed approximately $52, 00, it is stated. Sight exchange and learing house certificates not countd in detail to-night with the peronal checks of the president, it is elieved will make up the difference etween the money found and the mount listed as cash on hand. "illnian and McLaurin Shake Hands Columbia, Feb. 8.?United States lenator B. R. Tillman ?nd State Senator John L. ^fcLaurin met and hook hands here yesterday for the irst time since they fought on the Icor of the United States senate hirteen years ago, when they were iccupying the seat of South Caroina in that chamber. Senator Tillaan and his former lieutenant weNe ordial in their meeting yesterday ,nd chatted as if they enjoyed the eunion. Politics were not mention d in tile lew minutes mey were iu- i ether. The ending of the feud between hese two men, who have long been irominent in this State, will recall o many of the older voters the early lays of the Tillman movement, when he rugged Edgefield farmer, was asisted by John L. McLaurin, John Jarv Evans and the other lieutenants if the reform movement, which conained some of the brainiest men c louth Carolina. Capt. Tillman went nto the governor's chair, and from here to the United States senate, lr. .McLaurin served in the legislaure. then as attq^ney general, went o congress and succeeded Joseph n. Carle in the United States senate, lecoming the colleague of his politial leader, B. R. /Tillman. But the bond between the two ras strained, and finally was entirey severed when Senator McLaurin olio wed what was called "Commerial Democracy" and voted for the atincanon or uie treaty ui yca^e vith Spain. How the two former riends finally clinched on the floor if the United States senate, thus beonring a national episode, is recalled n South Carolina. ? Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. WESTON AND SIMS LAND. 1 PRESIDENT ENDS DEADLOCK OVER BIO FEDERAL JOBS. t Columbia and Orangeburg Men Nam- c ed District Attorney and Mar- c shal, Respectively. [ l t Washington. February 9.?Presi- , dent Wilson ended the long drawn- . out contest over the South Carolina r Federal district attorneyship and i marshalship by sending to the senate the name of Francis H. Weston, of c Columbia, to fill the former position, and the name of James L. Sims, of t Orangeburg, to fill the latter. Mr. Weston is a prominent lawyer l of the Columbia bar and at present ^ holds the office of senator from Rich- , land county. Mr. Sims is editor and t proprietor of the Times and Demo- ^ crat, of Orangeburg. He has never held public office except that of school trustee. The resignations of District Attor- 1 ney Ernest Cochran and Marshal J. Duncan Adams, the Republican incumbents, have been in hand here for a number of months, having been ( forwarded immediately upon the sug- 1 gestion by Attorney General Mc- ( Reynolds that the administration 1 would like to appoint men in sym- 1 pathy with its policies. No fault t whatever has been found by the de- 1 partment of justice with the work of ; Messrs. Cochran lind Adams. * In spite of the delay which occur- 1 red in presidential action on the recommendation of Messrs. Weston ' and Sims by the attorney general, 1 due largely to the desire of Mr. Wil- ( son to oblige Senator Tillman, who 1 had hoped to have congress establish ( another judicial district in South c Carolina by this time, the ultimate \ nomination of Weston and Sims was 1 made almost certain when Mr. Mc~ Reynolds endorsed them. } Senator Tillman endorsed J. Wm/ * Thurmond, of Edgefield, for the dis- 1 trict attorneyship and Sims for the {c marshalship. Senator Smith endors- * ed Weston for the district attorney- y ship, and said that he would not op- ( pose Sims for the marshalship, if t nominated. Later Senator Tillman * withdrew his endorsement of Sims, t but submitted no other name. * 1 EARTHQUAKE PELT. t Earth Trembles From Montreal South t to Philadelphia. t j New York, February 10.?An < earthquake lasting from fifteen to j thirty seconds and disturbing partic- s ularly what are geologically known 3 OO tho rior/\nion onH Silnrinrt Spftions , CfcO tXIVy Ay\j> ? Vll'Uiu UMU *? ? , of the northeastern part of thfe Unit- j ed States took place shortly after \ 1.30 o'clock p. m. to-day. It was j especially severe in the central and ? northern parts of New York State. Virtually all of New York State, including this city, felt the shock, and ^ New England generally, lower eas- 1 tern Canada and parts of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania were shaken. Tremors were recorded as far g south as Washington and as far west as St. Louis. At Albany the shock was severe . enough to shake pictures from the ^ walls of the Capitol, and at Binghamton a laborer was killed by the caving in of a trench in which he was working. At Fort Plain the heavy doors of a bank vault shook under ^ the influence of the 'quake, and from other parts of the State the falling ( of chimneys, swaying of houses and destruction of fragile objects was . reported. In New York city the preliminary tremor was felt at 1.35.15. At 1.35. 45 the shock had reached its maxi- . mum intensity and at 1.37.30 the n movement subsided altogether, mak- ( ing the total duration of the 'quake two and one-quarter minutes as given c by the seismograph. The period in " ( which the shock was perceptible by -e man was from ten to thirty seconds} and started in a majority of cases about 1.35. " So far as known the movement was from northwest to southeast, with the boundary line of the terri- j torv affected converging to a point j in the Atlantic. The initial movement was at points near the upper Atlantic seaboard 'about 1.35 and extended to places in ^ the northern parts of New York . State, about three minutes later. t reaching Albany at 1.38, Watertown at 1.39 and Rochester at 1.37. From points between these cities the t movement is reported to have taken place between 1.34 and 1.37. No i seisbographic records being obtain- c a hip frnm these localities the time 1 given in these cases deals with the I moment when the shock was felt. < FEARED BASEBALL. talian Authorities Suspicious of Gentility of America's Great Game. Rome, Feb. 10.?The unlamiliariy of the Italians with baseball tolay was demonstrated by the refusal >f the authorities to permit a game )etween the New York team of the National league and the Chicagos of he American league, without; tirst Deing convinced that it is not a 'brutal game." After the points of he game were explained the authorties still insisted that a net be erectid within the stadium to protect tne ipectators. Even when promises were given hat this precaution would be taken iermission was withheld until Wedlesday at noon, when a few innings vill be played for the benefit of the tuthorities who desire to judge for hemselves what manner of game the American national pastime is. LAD REPORTS THEPTi ta ' Rutherford Klein Tells Chief of Police That Safe is Robbed. ??? Lancaster, Feb. 10.?Early Tuesiay morning young Rutherfdrd {lein, who has been in the employ >f John Crawford, clerk and treaslrer of the city and also of the waterworks commission, after going into he office sent the negro janitor to ;he police and shortly afterwards vent out in the street and informed J Jhief of Police Bell that the office had >een broken into and the safe enterid and robbed. Sheriff Hunter and dr. Crawford were soon on hand and >egan looking into the matter. Mr. Jrawford suspected that the young nan was the guilty party by his lemeanor and by finding in the lrawer of his desk one of the pack tges of money which he had left in he safe the night before. After being questioned by the iheriff, young Klein finally admitted aking the money and carried the oficer to an outbuilding at the rear >f Mr. Crawford's office, under which le had secreted it. The money was vrapped up in a handkerchief. Mr. Crawford had inadvertently omitted ,o turn the combination on the safe he night before after bolting it and he young man on going to his work ;his morning, finding the safe unocked, could not resist the tempta * 1 ion to take the money. In his hurry he evidently forgot he package of money he had placed emporarily in the desk 'drawer. The mm taken was $370.99, of which ^216.50 belonged to the city and 5154.49 to the waterworks commis>ion, all of which was recovered. The r rounc man was taken to jail and a warrant will be sworn out charging lim with grand larceny. Mr. Klein s about 20 years of age. Much sym)athy is felt in the city for his parents. nm MANIA FOR SUICIDE. Seven Persons Sought Death in Crescent City in a Day. t New Orleans, Feb. 10.?Seven perions, five men and two women, sought .elf-destruction in this city late tolay and to-night. Three succeeded. Jf the four who will recover, two are vomen. \ Frederick Anepohl, 35, a shipping ;lerk, swallowed poison and died in he warehouse in which he worked. Jeorge Anepohi, a brother, killed limself a month ago. Employes at hp warehouse said Frederick brood ;d over his brother's death. Walter Grather, 32, who had been T il several weeks, cut his throat, and lied a few hours later in a hospital. . : Percy Carll, 40, hanged himself :rom an iron bedpost with a sheet n his room at a boarding house. The police learned that he had been >ut of employment. Mamie Carlton, 30, swallowed poison, but was reported out of danger it a hospital to-night. The police >ay she was despondent. Antoniene Pardo, 38, a negress, also swallowed poison. She will re;over. Max Lauber, a prisoner at the first irecinct, tried to hang himself with lis suspenders in his cell. A turnfey rescued him. M. Schetield, 45, was discovered by a policeman on a street corler trying to open an artery in his ivrist with a pocketknife. After his njuries were dressed he was sent ;o the hospital for mental diseases. . / Z "Jimmy seems to like himself prety well, doesn't he?" / "Yes. I fancy that he thinks his ather and mother ought to get down >n their knees every night and thank leaven for having permitted them to jecome his parents."?Chicago Rec>rd-Herald. . A. ... . . : t :?zi