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DR. J. W. BABCOCK RESIGNS LANCASTER SENATOR NEW HEAD OP INSANE ASYLUM. . Dr. Saunders Quits Also?Dr. J. L. Thompson Temporarily in Charge. Columbia, March 13.?The governor to-day accepted the resignation of Dr. James W. Babcock as superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, and appointed in his stead * Dr. T. J. Strait, of Lancaster. This turn in the events of the asylum came as a climax to the two-days' session of the board of regents. Dr. Babcock became superintendent of the asylum by appointment of Governor Tillman, August 13, 1891. Dr. Strait is the senator from Lancaster county and was a member of the legislative committee that conduct d the recent investigation into # the affairs at the State Hospital. The governor was asked whether he had any statement to make with regard to the asylum situation. He said he had none, but would be glad to furnish copies of the official correspondence between himself and those at the asylum, since the letters are a public record which any one is entitled to see. His secretary furnished the copies of the official correspondence and the official notice to the secretary of State indicating the appointment of Dr. Strait as the new superintendent. Dr. J. L. Thompson, the first astsistant physician at the asylum, will have temporary charge of the institution until Dr. Strait qualifies as superintendent. Dr. Babcock's Letter. Dr. Babcock's letter to the governor was as follows: "Columbia, S. C., March 12, 1914. "The Hon. Cole L.. Blease, Gover nor, Columbia, S. C.?Dear sir: I desire to acknowledge receipt of your letter of March 12 requesting me 'to put in writing what you have stated to me verbally in reference to your resignation in order that I may take it up with the board of regents of the State Hospital for the Insane at 4 o'clock this afternoon.' It is rather difficult, as, of course, you must appreciate, to be entirely accurate as to what transpired in my several talks with you as to my resignation. The substance of it, however, is this: That on account of the lack of har4 mony at the State Hospital for the Insane the patients must necessarily suffer, and rather than be a party to such conditions I would prefer to resign. "This morning I expressed my willingness to the board of regents to cooperate with them for the good of the -'institution, and it is now for them to say whether we can unite our efforts to this end. If there is not to be co 4 operation, then I desire to resign from the superintendency of the Hospital for the Insane. Yours very respectfully, (Signed) "J. W. BABCOCK." The governor's reply follows: "Columbia, S. C., March 13, 1914. "Dr. J. W. Babcock, Superinten dent State Hospital for the Insane, Columbia, S. C.?Dear Sir: Your re^ signation. tendered verbally on the 16th day of September, 1913, also through Senators T. J. Mauldin and T. J. Strait, and your written resignation, bearing date March 12, 1914, have been received. After duly and carefully considering the same your resignation as superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane is hereby accepted, to take effect this day. Very respectfully, "COLE. L. BLEASE, > ' Governor." Dr. Saunders Leaves Also. Dr. Eleanora Saunders, woman physician at the State Hospital for the Insane, resigned to the board of regents this afternoon, and her resignation was accepted. She will remain at the institution for a fewdays until her successor is chosen. No action was taken as to the State Park. It was announced to-night that 4 - v A "r?-- !- ? will nnpn a sue (tliU L/l. L/auvuv?- > ..i -j- ? private sanitarium in Columbia for the treatment of nervous diseases. WOULD GET MEXICAN LAND. Senator Park's Resolution Provides Territory for Negroes. % Washington, March 13.?Something in the nature of a curiosity with > reference to the Mexican situation was introduced to-day bv Representative Park, of Georgia, in the shape of a joint resolution directing the president to "acquire by purchase, treaty or conquest all of the territory of Mexico above the 20th degree or latitude, comprising the States of lower California, Sonora, Sinaloa. Chihuahua, Durango. Coahuilo, Zacatecas. Neuvo Leon, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi and Tertepig. from the authorities of the Republic of Mexico, to be reserved and used as territories of the United States for the colonization and the pre-emption of homesteads by the Colored races inhabit* ing the United States.*' f C. & W. C. TO DROP NAME? Reported Jno. B. Cleveland Will Retire as President. Spartanburg, March 11.?That John B. Cleveland, of this city, will retire in a few days as president of the Charleston and Western Carolina railway is reported here to-night. According to the report the road's * - -? ...J11 J pieseui, iiduicu ?jiii uc uiuppcu anu it will be known hereafter as the Atlantic Coast Line, after the parent corporation. Official confirmation of the story is lacking. Mr. Cleveland is in Florida, recuperating from an attack of nervous prostration. The Rebuilding of Jerusalem. About 5 p. m., the train reached Jerusalem. In an hour it would be dark, and not to lose time I took a cab and hastened to see that part of the city situated without the ancient walls. I did not recognize it. During my nineteen years' absence it had completely changed. There is no empty space, and it is all built up. In place of the old, dilapidated hovels that disfigured the approach to the Jaffa gate I found on both sides of the road large modern stores and magnificent European hotels. A little further on there was a fenced 6pace with a number of trees?very much neglected?known as the park and adjacent to the famous enclosure containing the Russian Hospice, more beautiful than ever. For miles the long Jaffa road is flanked north and south with innumerable buildings and streets bearing Hebrew - names. Many of the large buildings are new institutions, others are the old ones which in my time were located within the city in ruinous state but have now made great progress, and have removed into V. 1 f + T- o-nrl oirr o<2 to Vkl icVim PT11S LiiCOC IVi auu U4J, J W. Wherever my eye turned it beheld stone houses and others half finished. There is something uncanny about the building fever that has been raging for years in and around Jerusalem. Building is the best, almost the only industry, in the Holy City.?London Jewish World. Kills Husband. Cornelia, Ga.. March 14.?Will Wells, who lived about six miles from here, is dead and his wife is reported dying as the result of a battle between the two last night. According to the reports received in this place. Wells is said to have been intoxicated and attacked his wife with a hammer. The woman, to protect herself, is said to have caught up a poker and with it crushed her husband's skull. Neighbors of the Wells say that the man and woman have not been on the best of terms for a number of years. As Advertised. Charles L. Sinnixon, a London advertising expert, was praising in New York the change that ha^ come over the advertisement. "In advertising, as in other things," he said, "it has been found that honesty pays, and to-day, throughout the world, the successful advertiser is modest and conservative in his statements. "Advertising is no longer mistrusted. Things are no longer as they were in Phatt's day. " 'You know Phatt, the 400-pound bookkeeper?' said one man in the street to another. " 'Yes. What of him?" " 'Well, he saw an ad in the paper % ?'Fat folks reduced, five dollars'? and he answered it.' " 'Did he get any reply?' " 'O, yes: it was just as advertised.' , " 'That's good. And how much was re reduced?' " 'Why, just as the advertisement said, five dollars.' " A. C. L. COX1MJCTOR HURT. Capt. C. M. Gregg Mashed Uetween Kngine and Car. Sumter, March 11.?Conductor Charles M. Gregg, of Florence, of the Atlantic Coast Line was painfully, but not seriously injured, when he was caught between a shifting engine and a box car and mashed. He was taken to the Tourney Hospital and given surgical attention. It was reported there today that he was getting along as well as could be expected. There seems to be little probability of his injuries proving serious. TO TRY G LYNX'S PLAN. Unemployed Will lie Sent Where There is Work. New York. March 11.?Governor Glynn's plan for reducing: the number of unemployed in New York city by deporting men out of work into the country, where labor is in demand, will be put into operation here for the first time to-morrow. Governor Glynn has been informed that the demand for labor in the country districts has never been heavier. * f I POSTMASTER TOOK MONEY. Negro Appears lief ore United States Commissioner. Orangeburg, March 14.?Porter W. Anderson, a negro, former postmaster at Prioleau, was brought before United States Commissioner J. Leroy Dukes, this city, to-day for a preliminary hearing on a charge of converting monies from the money order department to his own use. The charge was made by Postoffice Inspector W. E. Willimon, who checked up Anderson's books and found them short in amount of $506.73. Anderson re funded the shortage yesterday, after he was arrested. Anderson confessed to the charge of appropriating funds to his own use. In default of bond. Anderson was committed to jail to await trial at the United States district court. Prioleau postoffice is situated in a negro settlement of Berkeley county. NO COLOR LINE IN HAITI. t Where the Rlack Man is Boss in the g Little Island Republic. * In Haiti, color prejudice as a prob- J lem is nonexistent. There is no | doubt that prejudice itself exists, but g in a remarkably quiet and unob- % trusive form. Any open Expression 2 of this feejing is so sharply resent- S ed that it is always safer to conceal ? it under a cloak of politeness. The ? "blancs," as the whites are called | in Haiti, enjoy a certain prestige, due g not so much to their color, as to the 5 fact that all, or nearly all whites S here are more or less capitalists, or ? hold well-paid positions. And in | Haiti, like all over the world, money | counts. This prestige, however, is g by no means accepted by the Haitians ? as a mark of racial superiority, and * j any such interpretation is likely to a receive a rude contradiction. | The arrogance of the European in | Africa and the East would most like- g ly be fatal to him were he to try ? and indulge in it in this country. J* tm-iq writer a r>nlnrpd man. some A ?? * , M WW J times recalls with amusement, the pathetic remark a white American once made to him while on a trip to America. "These people," said the American, referring to the Haitians, "like respect." His dignity as a white man must have received some rude shocks. T suggested to * him that he might have given them some lessons while ashore. ' Without going into details f can vouch for the following incidents, showing the way in which Haitians \ resent an indignity: For a kick, a white man was shot dead; another was clubbed by the man whom he kicked: yet another.was mobbed by j workmen for kicking one of their J number. Two captains were badly beaten for using contemptuous ex-1 pressions about the blacks; another j "blanc" had his nose broken for the offense, etc. These are only some of the instances that can be related of v Haiti. Please note that in the first three instances the Haitians were men of the laboring class. Indeed, to kick or slap a Haitian of the upper or middle class invariably means a resort to arms, and the death or severe injury of one, or perhaps, both of the principals. The conse quence of this is that in this country, where color insolence is so vigorously resented, the white residents are careful not to make a C C parade of it; for what's the use of expressing contempt of people when ^ you are likely to have to fight each time you dop so, especially when the odds are so heavy against you? And * then Haitian government adminis trators do not understand the dog- ? ma of "maintaining the prestige of 1 the white man."?African Times. I CONFESSES THREE MURDERS. 1 St. George Negro Has a Full Criminal Record. St. George, .March 13.?A negro by the name of Henry Brown beat his wife to death on the plantation of \V. O. Hutto. several miles from I ^ here, on last Saturday morning. From the evidence gathered at the q . inquest it seems that Brown was a strange negro around here, he and his wife coming here from Branch- j * ville. They got in some fuss Satur- 1^ day morning and he beat her with a gun and after knocking her senseless Jhe brought her here in a wagon and got a doctor to her, but she died g in a very short time. He was arrested by Chief of Po- g lice Howell and placed in the county jail, and the coroner's jury found him responsible for the crime. On Tuesday the negro sent for the pastor of the negro Methodist church and Rev. Wiggins, the pastor of the First Methodist church, and confess ed that he had killed two other people besides this, one in Georgia and I the other in Ohio. Me said mat lie. : ran away after killing the one in Georgia, and joined the navy and 1 went over the world and after that -went to Ohio, where he killed anoth er negro man. and was sent up for f twelve years, but escaped from the pentitentiary and came here. 1 J'SON'S REPAIR SHOP ? limit wort! sold Gun, Pistol, Rifle, > 7 7 7 Price at on Bicycle and Electrical Work 3 ? right tne n ALL REPAIRS GUARANTEED "H Next to G. A. Ducker's New Store JJ'SON'S REPAIR SHOP ? Sj ?J ga 1 MY WAY 11'I to SMOAK'S STABLES to " jl see those fine Horses and Mules, and that 11 < ? swell line of Buggies, Carts, Carriages, gg M Harness, Whips, etc., that he now has. If || 1 you want anything in my line come to see 11 1 me. I can save you money. |g *'ar 1 Railroad I I CR/f A k If Bamberg 11 A I _l i llvll V AIV Par. TTTT nvcnuc %j %j maia v & aa* || wmmmmmmmMmmmmmm o. Selps With the Lessons At night when the children gather around in the sitting-room table studying their lessons for the next day, the telephone often rings. A little ^ neighbor a mile down the road wants help from M his school-mates. Children as well as grown-ups get pleasure and profit from the farm telephone. Do you know how little this service costs and how ?] valuable it is ? jjj|j See the nearest Bell Telephone Manager or jy^R write fnr our free booklet. A DOStal will do. jBes " * jrun: FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT - jfg SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE j? IND TELEGRAPH COMPANY ilA# S. PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, GA. gg| Rwy^rmcvwwTwr??PiwaBPffMgggrawmifrtiffg MtFTwafflrifraT <TMTI 2a BMgliTTTlPrTarHMMBMHBWWWBWMM^1i^M^MMTr,"T?iTiW Trar'^I 'IB Mil Jill ifilMTBHnnTTi? Plenty of Stock! t ( f I s Ve have a nice lot of Horses and Mules |( n hand. Our Mr. W, P. Jones has ?& ecently returned from the West where f ie bought an extra nice lot of Mules and I, lorses. They are now at our stables, B nd we can suit you with an animal for ny purpose. A full assortment of luggies, Wagons, Harness, etc. can also ^ >e found here. L ll alSl tors ^ M SaV jones or05.= <6 sal Estate Bargains y> acres good land near town s, dwelling and outbuildings, ti S2.500.00, under wire fence, ft promptly will sell at a sacrifice. 8 acres 7 miles from town; dwelworth $2,500; timber enough to for property and some to spare, is and terms right. Must be sold ce. See me quick or you will be ate. i )dern two-story dwelling in the of Bamberg, prices and terms if sold by January 1st. With ew railroad coming in now is the to buy city property. L M. GRAHAM ______ ?F. Carter B. D. Carter ARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law * \'$ BAMBERG, S. C. ecial attention given to setjment of estates and investition of land titles. rRAHAM & BLACK Attorneys-at-Law practice in the United States and State'Conrts in any County in the State. BAMBERG. S. C. IANCIS F. 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