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TWO (illlLS l>ilOW\. Horse Jumps in Mill Pond With Sistors in I5ii?j?y. Lexington, April 4.?.Misses Jessie and Flossie Crout, aged 20 and 11> years, respectively, lost their lives in Taylor's mill pond, about fifteen miles south of Lexington, at 2 o'clock this afternoon when the mule they were driving made a wild dash into ti e pond while they were crossing the dam. Elzie Crout, a brother of the young ladies, aged about 12 or 13 years, who was*in the buggy at the time of the accident, barely escaped with his life, he having managed to get to the bank. His escape is said to have been almost miraculous, j The accident happened almost I within sight of the home of the young j women, as they were returning from J Swansea, where they went yesterday to visit relatives. There were 110 witnesses to the accident. The home 1 of Mr. Azarias Taylor is almost with- j in a stones throw of the pond where the young women were drowned. Mrs. 1 Taylor and her little daughter, the only members of the family at home at the time, were attracted by the girls' screams. They were unable to lend assistance and the lad, too young to aid his sisters, struggled in the water in an effort to save his own ! life. The mule swam to the opposite shore after he had managed to get i loose from the buggy. It was possibly half an hour before the men nearby reached the scene and it was an hour before the bodies of the y< ung women were recovered. - - - . - XL. I Webster Smith, in enarge 01 me search, found both bodies. The older girl, Miss Jessie Crout. was still in the buggy in a sitting posture. Miss Flossie Crout was rescued from beneath the buggy. The water where the young women lost their lives was about eight feet deep. Elzie. the little boy, says that he saw his sisters rise two or three times, but he was unable to give them aid. The accident has shocked the entire community as nothing has shocked the people in recent years. The 1 young women were popular in the | community and their sudden and untimely end is a great shock to their family and friends. They were daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel ! Crout, one of the oldest and most j highly esteemed families of the Pond Branch section. Besides their parents the young ladies are survived by several brothers and sisters. Suggestions by Hand. Prof. W. H. Hand offers the following suggestions to teachers: 'The end of the school year is approaching, and I venture to offer a i few innocent suggestions to some of j my fellow teachers. Is it not possible to have fewer commencements and diplomas and no baccalaureate j sermons and baccalaureate addresses | in our common schools? Let us not be so vain. Leave these pompous airs to the collegette, Mr. Swearingen's hapily named 'monohippic college.' Such airs are the crowning glory of that nondescript institution. A man of simple tastes must have a curious sensation when he is invited to deliver an annual sermon or a baccalaureate address before a half dozen young girls in short dresses and half as many boys in knickerbockers, pompously styled the graduating class. We teachers suffer immensely from such grandiose performances7 "It is entirely proper to make the closing exercises of your school enjoyable and instructive, but there is no possible defence for taking days and even weeks of your time, and your pupils' time, preparing for elab orate display to gratify anybody's vanity. Time is too precious and the school revenue is too small to be spent in mere stage show. Let us have a little less tinsel, bombast and folderrol. Make your exercises simple, brief and elevating. Avoid coarse negro minstrel shows and cheap vaudeville performances. They degrade. Our youngsters are already too much inclined toward flippancy, clownishness and the limelight. They need training in dignity and poise. Let your exercises be fresh. Permit Spartacus and the rest of the gladiators to take a rest and leave off Benedict Arnold and the black horse for one season. All about you are fresh and inviting subjects. "The money spent on engraved invitations might be better spent for " ~ ^ ^ ? /I * V? /\ <x guuu SLiiuui giuuc, aiiu tuc mv/uc.* given tor diplomas would furnish your school with some much-needed maps." SPAKTAX COMMITS SUICIDE. ? Father of Fight Cliildren Takes Pose of Poison. Spartanburg, April 1,?L. Y. McAbee, 48 years old. sewing machine salesman, took poison at his home at Fairmont early this morning and died this afternoon. He is reported to have been heavily in debt and to have worried about it. Mr. McAbee is survived by his wife and six daughters and two sons. NO MOKE DKIXKING IN NAVY. Secretary Daniels's Order Even Excludes Wine Mess. Washington, Api:il ">.?Absolute prohibition will prevail in the United States navy after July 1 next. Secretary Daniels to-night made public a ^ ^nnt rrnlv will a ?? CCl'Illg UIUCI, n 1I1V.1I uv/1 w . . . . abolish the traditional "wine mess" of the officers, but will bar all alcoholic liquors from every ship and j shore station of the navy. This orj der, constituting one of the most notable victories ever won by proI hibition forces, was issued at the recommendation of Surgeon General Braisted. It was brief and to the point: "The use or introduction for drinking purposes of alcoholic liquors on board any naval vessel, or within any navy yard or station, is strictly prohibited, and commanding officers will be held directly? responsible for the enforcement of this order." Agrees With Braisted. In a statement to-night Secretary Daniels said: "I am in hearty agreement with the views expressed by the surgeon general. There should not be on shipboard with reference to intoxicants one rule for officers and another and a different rule for the enlisted personnel. The saddest hour in my official life is when an officer or enlisted man must be punished for intoxication. During the past week it has been my painful duty to approve a courtmartial for dismissal from the service of an officer for intoxication. He told me that he never had tasted intoxicants until he did so in the wine mess on a cruiser. "Officers now are commissioned at the early age of 22 years. Has the I ofA,.A,.nmailt o vicrlit tr\ normit thie 5V> ci inii^nt a i w yv* A<i*v v ? v temptation, which too often destroys the highest usefulness of young officers? I think not. If there is one profession more than any other that calls for a clear head and a steady hand, it is the naval pprofession. Experience has shown the wisdom of having no intoxicants on our ships for the voung men who enlist. Uniform Kule. "I believe experience has demonstrated that a uniform rule should prevail in the navy for all who enlist in the service, from the highest rank to the youngest enlisted man or officer who comes into the service, and that abolition of the wine mess will be justified. The new order will replace that section of the naval instructions which permits the formation of wine messes." Thi6 provision reads: "Ward room officers may form a wine mess, of which all commissioned officers and warrant officers attached to the ship may become members on the payment of mess entrance fees, but no officer shall be required to become a mem ber thereof. Suitable locker room for wine mess stores shall be provided when fitting a ship for sea." While admitting that the old regulation conforms to the letter of the laws. Surgeon General Braisted in his letter to Secretary Daniels declared: "It may be an open question how far it fulfils those laws in spirit." HIS SHOE WAS HIS BAXK. Johnson Was Afraid to Show Policemen Money. i Spartanburg, April 5.?When OsI car Johnson, white man, was arraigned before Magistrate Robert J. Gantt yesterday as a vagrant, and charged by the rural policemen who arrested him at Spartanburg Junction Friday with having no visible means of support, he produced a j ten-dollar bill from a reserve bank in j the toe of his shoe. He was discharged. The man said he would not tell the policemen that he had money, because he feared they would take it away irom mm. MURDERED WHILE HE SLEPT. Raker at Hawkinsville, Ga., Dead. Nephew Held. Hawkinsville. Ga., April 5.?P. O. Bonnell, age 22, a baker, was murdered at an early hour this morning as he lay asleep in bed. His nephew, Harry Lee, age 18, who roomed with Bonnell, says that his uncle was slain by a negro who used an axe with which to commit the deed, the noise awakening Lee as the black fled. He gave the alarm immediately and and investigation is now being made by a coroner's jury. Lee has been arrested. Bonnell recently came here from Live Oak, Fla. He is survived by his wife and several brothers. To He Made Postmasters. Washington. April 3.?After civil service examination .Miles B. Cope has been endorsed by Representative Byrnes for postmaster at Port Royal, and will be appointed. The same is true of S. S. Lee. of Langley, Aiken county. Mrs. Effie Gunter has been appointed postmistress at Seivern, also in Aiken county, to succeed her husband, who resigned. BROWNING, CANDIDA Times Gives Account of Visit Farmer, Active in Halls Sketch of His Acts (From The Union Times, .March 31, 1914.) The writer had the pleasure sometime ago of visiting the farm of Hon. Lowndes Browning in Cross Keys township. Years ago, .Mr. Browning realized that the one crop, all cotton, theory of farming was a delusion and a snare, and he began raising ms own meat and corn. It has been 24 years sice he has had to use any cotton money to buy meat for his plantation. Not that he has not bought bacon all these years, but each year : he has sold more than enough hogs, hams and lard to buy all the meat needed on his place. He has a very nice bunch of short-horn cattle and a fine flock of Rambaulliet sheep. In fact, he lives at home. He is president of the County Far-: mers' Union, and during his administration, this organization has put on new life, and is proving quite beneficial to its members in the pur-! chase of fertilizers, and other farm j supplies. Mr. Browning is very much inter- ' ested in the education of the rising j generation, and he takes great pride in the consolidated school that has been established at Sedalia. largely through his efforts. As an incentive to agricultural development, he has i given the use of several acres of i land adjoining the school lot, on which the school board will have an experimental farm for three years, profits to be used for the school. He has served several terms in the house of representatives, during the session of 1911-12 being chairman of the Ways and Means committee, and the two appropriation bills introduced by the committee were only amended by the house to the amount of $83.75. This is a record that has never been equaled by the Ways and ' * ' - ???^ : ?4- ^ ^ ^ ?-? r-? i- t ^ r? form .Means COiliIIJidec ui a.ti? uvii^i i,v> ui> | The senate made few changes, and the vetoes of the governor were always opposed by a majority of the house, in most instances, by the necessary two-thirds majority. Mr. Browning was the author of the refunding bill of 1912, and while this bill involved about $6,000,000. one of the largest financial measures ever handled by the State, the house of representatives passed it without a dissenting voice, even a aye and nay vote. When it was vetoed by the governor, it was passed over his veto in the house by a vote of 79 to 10, and an equally large majority in the- senate. This act, if placed in operation, should save the taxpayers of the State around $100,000 per year for twenty years. He was also the author of the asylum bond issue joint resolution, submitted to the people at the last election. While this resolution received a majority of the votes, it did not receive the two-thirds vote which the resolution called for, therefore, did not become law. Had this been enacted into law, it would have proved a solution of this very difficult problem, which is still unsettled. He was the author of the bill which placed the selection of the commissioner of agriculture in the hands of the people, thus putting this important department of the government on a parity with the other departments of the State government. He was the author of a number of other bills of benefit to the State, but too tedious to mention here. Mr. Browning will be in the campaign this summer as a candidate for governor, and of the numerous candidates for this position already KILLED LITTLE BOi". Sad Tragedy at St. Stephens Follows Altercation. St. Stephens, April 4.?in a difficulty this afternoon between R. E. Briscoe and Ben Bradley, both of this place. Briscoe, it is said, in attempting to shoot Bradley, fired the gun and killed the little son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Jaudon instantly. The little fellow received the whole load of shot intended for Bradley in his breast. Bradley saved himself by catching hold of the muzzle of the gun. He lost almost the entire hand, it being shot away by the same load that killed the child. The boy was about 7 years of age and a fine little fellow. The family is prostrated with grief. Briscoe was taken in charge by the police and was taken | to jail by the sheriff. Excitement was very hfefrT Cut violence was prevented by cooler heads. The little i fellow was well known in the town s and will be sadly missed. The heartfelt sympathy of the entire people of the town is extended to the bereaved family. LAWYER GOES TO SING SIXG. Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty to Forging Client's Xame. 1 Xew York. April I.?Augustus M. - Price, for thirty years one of the most - ! ' prominent lawyers in Brooklyn, was j . to-day sentenced to serve from two i and a half to five years' imprison- ! ment in Sing Sing after pleading guilty to forging a client's name. Price is a graduate of Rutgers Col lege. His summer home is one of the show places of New Brunswick, N. J. TE FOR GOVERNOR | I to His Home?Progressive of Legislature?Brief j as Public Servant. | announced, he is the only one who, so far, has dared to outline a platform of constructive legislation for the future. He has done this because he is very anxious for the people to have ample time to study and digest the changes he proposes. In other words, he does not want this high position because he is' a gUUU teilUVV, UX CL UUXXgCUldl tuillpanion, but because the legislation which he advocates would be of great benefit to the people of our State. Therefore, he wants the people to be informed, and have ample time to digest these matters, so that they can vote intelligently at the primary. He believes in nonest elections: he does not care particularly how this is brought about, so that every white Democrat can vote in our primary. He does believe that such restrictions should be thrown around the primary as will prevent dead men, radicals, Bull Mooses and residents of other States, naming the standard bearers of the democracy of South Carolina. He is in favor of a thorough reform of our school laws, so that it shall become the duty of the State, and not of the various counties, to educate the children of the State. It is contrary to ail public policy, that negro children in one county shall receive more per capita for their education than white children of another county, as is now the case. All are the children of the State of South Carolina, and not of any specific county: therefore, it is the duty of the State to see that each child has an equal opportunity to obtain a common school education. He is in favor of a thorough reform of our taxing department, so that the ourdens of government will fall on those most able to bear it and who receive the greatest benefit from it. As at present organized, the taxing department of our government expends its greatest energy placing every mangy pig. lousy calf, bankrupt stock of goods, and all half worn household and kitchen furniture, on the tax books, while many just sources of revenue are left untouched. In other words, under our present tiv lou-e onr tav nffinials are. with devoted zeal, catching the measly revenues that drip from the spigot, while the bung is left wide open, and just revenues, that should enrich the coffers of the State, are allowed to flow into the pockets of private individuals and corporations. He believes that our land-holdings in this State are entirely too large, and that for the greatest development and prosperity of our State, we should have a large increase of white citizens who own their homes. He feels that he Knows the necessary legislation to bring this > about, and in the campaign this summer, will develop this idea. He also believes that our present laws in regard to land titles work a great hardship on the owner, when he wishes to hypothecate his lands to borrow money. He is in favor of adopting the Torrens System of land registration as rapidly as the needs of the people require. There are a number of other reforms of minor importance, that would be of,benefit to our State, and these he will also bring to the attention of the people during the campaign. In closing this brief sketch it is not amiss to say that Mr. Browning is a man of pleasing personality, loyal to his friends and considerate of all. He is, nevertheless, a man of strong character and great determination. He will make himself felt in the race, for governor this summer.?adv. HIS SONS SUCCEED HIM. Editor James L. Sims Retires From Active Newspaper Work. Orangeburg, April 1.?In the Times and Democrat, of this city, of yesterday, Mr. James L. Sims, for so many years its proprietor and editor, makes the announcement that both the business and editorial departments had been by him turned over' to his sons, Mr. J. Izlar Sims becoming the business manager, and Messrs. Hugo S. and Henry R. Sims editors. The announcement of the retirement of the veteran editor who recently became United States mar shal for South Carolina, will De received with regret by the best of friends he has made since placing his fortunes in the keeping of the people of this city and county. There has not been a day since Mr. Sims took charge of the papers which he merged into the one he now retires from, that he has not given the people a first class newspaper and a clean sheet morally and politically. The retiring editor will be missed by the readers of the Times and Democrat and also by the brethren of the State press. But he has left his charge in good hands. The three young men who are now to take their honored father's place ?ill J/-.,, in tins conimunuy win uu u^uut measure up to the importance of the business they have assumed command of and the people will continue to give them loyal and sincere support. Every one wishes for them the achievement of still greater success. If there was any money in Torreon when the rebels captured it, we know who has it now.?News and Courier. m i I ^ ^ I I The final touch ? f to your Easter Costume! j A pretty, well-dressed foot, peeping daintily beneath the hem of your Easter gown?that's the final Red Cross touch you want. The Red Cross Shoe will add a final touch to your Easter pleasures, too, for in this shoe the last of the day's steps are as easy as | the first. I yV.Aj The smartes^of the smart new models are awaiting you. Oxfords , and pumps, patents and tans, satins and suedes?here you will find just the style you want to set off your Easter costume. Better come in early?before the Easter rush begins. Prices: $3.50 to $5.00 ilWl I " Bends with your foot" ^? y fif i., 3? Tback MARK mt - ^ I Price & Johnson # 1 S "The Right Price Store" Bamberg, S. C. g TntenuituM^^ Farm Wagons J II The IH C Line T^OR many years the Weber wagon <^S?AY ^as been accepted as the standard ^ i&fc lESS ?* wa^on va^ue everywhere. No model of i R*k?, sucJST the Weber wagon was ever so good as the H?y Loadm 1 q-j 4 model now on the market. H*y frottt ? ' ? ? corn machines The Columbus wagon this year is the equal of the TO garter^ kck#r? Weber wagon in every way; where quality and h En?5e CotE?0" features are concerned, the Weber ana Colambas n swlm, skredjen wagons are twins. One good feature common to p?* both is the International nfth wheel, making these h The Only Fifth Wheel Fann Wagons on the Market | general line The International fifth wheel prevents the polling | oa ?d4^EB*iatt up or P^tcbing of the bolster, and therefore does away H Maavt Spre^m forever with Dent and broken king pins and circle Crtam S?pmi?n irons. This one feature is worth a trip to town. ? ikto tSS Go to the I H C local dealer who handles Weber Tkreieni or Columbus wagons and ask him to show you the Graia DnBi fifth wheel on these wagons. If you don't know who iSf GrifwL handles them, write to us and we will tell you where 1 BiJtrTwSr y?u may see them. international Harvester Company of America S.C j^uR Champion Deeriag HeCmid BEhrukoe Osborne Plaao ? ?. ? , . ,? ?i I RILEY & COPELAND | J p Carter B D C*rU* o Successors to W. P. Riley.. 2 castes & castes i | Fire, Life | Attorneys-at-Law Accident bamberg, s. c. insurance 4 Special attention given to set Office in J. D. Copeland's Store tlement of estates and invest*. * X BAMBERG, S. C. \ gation of land titles. ^ g. moye dickinson Estate Bargains INSURANCE AGENT OAA ' ~T. ?. 200 acre farm with dwelling worth Will Write Anything $2,500 and other out buildings, all for $5,000. Situate hear the Kearse " J ~ ? -A ?.t T in. I Thic Ic O ha TP'S i n r ire, xoriiauo, acuucui, ?^ia- i ntigiiuuiuuuu. x mu ? .0? bility, Casualty, in the I Several good farms in Buford's strongest and most re- Bridge township for $lo.00 per acre. liable companies. G?od bargains and ternis t0 suit Pur" v chasers. I ^ My Motto: "Buy What I Need A ?00d Piece of Main street hroin Bamberg, and From Those pert*f?rr f}*\ Rents for $2*}% ^ __ _ . . ? .. month or $390 per annum. Will sell Who Patronize Me. f0r cash for $4,000. ' . H. M. GRAHAM I .v BAMBERG, S. C. ' * *! < ^