The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 19, 1914, Page 3, Image 3
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
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private sanitarium in Columbia for
the treatment of nervous diseases.
WOULD GET MEXICAN LAND.
Senator Park's Resolution Provides
Territory for Negroes.
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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.*'
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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
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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
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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
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?'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.
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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 *
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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
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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
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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.
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Next to G. A. Ducker's New Store JJ'SON'S
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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
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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
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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
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