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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KNIGHT, Editor.
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Thursday, April 23,1914.
With McLaurin and Manning lined
up as the leaders on opposite
sides of the political fence, it would
not surprise us to see Clinkscales
come out winner.
Our sympathies go out to the town
of Olar, which has suffered so severely
by fire twice in the past few
months. However, handsome brick
* buildings will take the place of the
wooden structures burned.
What about a county fair for Bamberg
county this fall? This matter
was discussed several months ago
by our people, but no action was
taken. It is time something was
done if the fair is to be held.
We understand that city council
is seriously considering the question
of paving Main street from the depot
to the cotton mill, and we certainly
^ hope this can be done. With this
street paved and a "white way" for
same, Bamberg would certainly have
the appearance of a city.
\ . SUSTAINS RULING.
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Supreme Court Decides the Daicho
School Case.
Columbia, April 22.?Action of the
board of trustees of the Dalcho public
school in Dillon county, in dismissing
Herbert Kirby, Eugene Kirby
and Dudley Kirby, was sustained
in a decision yesterday by the Supreme
Court. The main opinion was
written by Chief Justice Gary and
concurred in by Associate Justices
Hydrick, Watts and Fraser. Associate
Justice Gage wrote the dissenting
opinion. The action of the DilI
Ion trustees was sustained by the
State board of education and an appeal
was taken to the Supreme Court.
Geo. W. Tucker, guardian of the chily
dren, brought the action.
"While the testimony shows," says
the court, "that the children are entitled
to be classed as white, nevertheless
the action of the board of
trustees were neither capricious nor
arbitrary, as they are willing to provide
equal accommodations for the
Kirby children and those in the same
"-1 ^+ V>Tiio toctimnnv alsr*
VJia^d V> 1 C11 U1CU1. X v?.v/x,
shows that the decided majority of
the patrons would refuse to send
their children to the Dalcho school if
the Kirbv children were allowed to
continue in attendance. Tested by
the maxim, The greatest good to the
largest number.' it would seem to be
.
far better that the children in question
should be segregated than that
the large majority of the children
attending that school should be denied
educational advantages.
\ "Subdivision 3. section 1761, code
of laws. 1912, provides: That the
board of trustees shall have authori,
ty and it shall be their duty to suspend
or dismiss pupils when the best
interest of the schools make it necessary,'
shows that the action of the
trustees in dismissing the said children
was justified by the law of the
land and that the petition should be
dismissed."
The action was brought on the
ground that "the wards of petitioners
are not of pure Caucasian blood."
"If these children are white and
are^'entitled to be classed as white.'
then they may not be rightfully excluded
from schools made up of
white children," says Associate Justice
Gage, in his dissenting opinion.
Of the surviving Indians in this
country, 74,825?more than a quarter
of the whole number?live in
Oklahoma. Seven other trans-Mississippi
States have more than 10,000
Indians apiece.
ORDERLY PUT IX JAIL.
Indignities Have Been Heaped Upon T
United States.
Washington. April l.~>.?The arrest
of an orderly who went ashore at
Vera Cruz to obtain mail for the American
fleet, the interception of dis- n
patches to Charge O'Shaughnessy, ^
j the censorship over official dispatches u
and repeated offenses "against the p
| Tights and dignity of the United I ^
I States" were given to-day as some w
of the causes of the dispatch of the 0
i Atlantic fleet to .Mexico in an official n
| statement representing the adminisj
tration views. 0
The following official statement v
was issued to-day as representing
the views of President Wilson and c
the administration:
"In discussions in official circles w
in Washington of the present Mexi- ^
can situation the following points ?>
have been very much dwelt upon. It c
has been pointed out that, in con- S
siderin? the present somewhat deli- c
cate situation in Mexico, the unpleasant!1
incident at Tampico must 1
net be thought of alone. For some J*
time past the defacto government of ^
Mexico has seemed to think mere 0
apologies sufficient when the rights t
of American citizens and the dignity 1
of the government of the United t
States were involved, and has apparently
made no attempt at either
reparation or the effective correction
of the serious derelictions of its civil *
and military officers. *
"Immediately after the incident at
Tampico an orderly from one of the
chine nf the United States in the liar- ^
bor of Vera Cruz who had been sent
ashore to the postoffice for the ship's 1
mail and who was in uniform and ^
who had the official mail bag on his s
back, was arrested and put into jail n
by the local authorities. He was subsequently
released and a nominal c
punishment inflicted upon the officer *
who had arrested him, but it was n
significant that an orderly from the e
fleet of the United States was picked
out from the many persons constantly 11
going ashore on various errands from d
the various ships in the harbor rep- t
resenting several nations. ^
"Most serious of all. the officials **
in charge of the telegraph office at
Mexico City presumed to withhold an ^
official dispatch of the government a
of the United States to its embassy a
at Mexico City until it should have
been sent to the censor and his permission
received to deliver it and a
gave the dispatch into the hands of f
the charge d'affaires of the United P
States only upon his personal and ?
emphatic demand, he having, in the 11
meantime, learned through other &
channels that a dispatch had been r
sent him which he had not received. E
"It cannot but strike any one who 2
has watched the course of events in
Mexico as significant that untoward r
incidents such as these have not occurred
in any case where representatives
of the United States, and that s
there has been no occasion for other *
governments to call'attention to such 0
matters or to ask for apologies. 0
"These repeated offenses against 11
the rights and dignity of the United
States, offenses not duplicated with
regard to the representatives of oth- ^
er governments, have necessarily s
made the impression that the govern- n
ment of the United States was singled n
out for manifestations of ill will and s
contempt. - v
"The authorities of the State department
are confident that when the
seriousness and the cumulative effect a
of these incidents is made evident to e
the government of Mexico that the *
government will see the propriety ^
and necessity of giving such evidences
of its desire to repudiate and
correct these things as will be not 11
only satisfactory to the government c
Qtntpc; hut also an evi- n
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dence to the rest of the world as an c
entire change of attitude. There can *
be no loss to the dignity of the de
facto government in Mexico in recognizing
in the fullestv degree the
claims of a great sovereign govern- 11
nrent to its respect." ' s
DIVORCE BY WIRELESS.
Hawaiian Heiress in Hurry to Take *
a New Husband
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Mrs. Marie K. King, a Hawaiian
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heiress, now in Honolulu, is probably
the first woman who ever received
a decree of divorce by wireless.
She got it to-dav in order that
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she might marry at once another
man. *
Mrs. King was the wife of S. G. O. ^
King, secretary of the Junction Oil
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Company. She is rich in her own
name, and a member of the old Piiloi ^
I family, of Hawaii.
I The Kings separated in 1909 and
Mrs. King sued for divorce, charging f
desertion. The interlocutory decree ^
was granted April 1. 191.1, in Oakland,
and Mrs. King returned ?o
Honolulu. There she met a wealthy
Hor-irtoH tn rpinarrv. but at
in a. xi anu uvviwvv* v? , ,
the last minute she remembered that I
the final decree of divorce from King
had never been granted. She sent ^
frantic wireless messages to-day to
her attorney here, and as a result
Judge William H. Donahue, of Oak- c
land, signed the decree.?San Fran- c
cisco Examiner. F
TRAFFIC OX CANAL.
wo Small Railways Carried $130,500,000
Worth of Merchandise.
Washington, April 15.?Suggesnns
of thp amount of traffic which
lay be expected to pass through the
anama canal are contained in figres
made public to-day by the deartment
of commerce which show
!iat in 1913 two small isthmian railrays
carried across the narrow strip
f continent $130,500,000 worth of
lerchandise brought by vessels from
tie United States for trans-shipment,
f this trade two-thirds moved west-ard
and the remainder eastward.
Only a few American ports partiipated
in the traffic. New York leadlg
with $84,000,000, San Francisco
ras second with $21,S00,000, and
lawai third with $1S,200,000. Many
f the shipments were from New
irleans to ports on the west coast of
outh America. From San Franciso
large shipments went to Europe.
The Tehuantepec railroad, which is
20 miles long, carried $99,500,000
r'orth of traffic and the Panama railray,
40 miles long, carried $31,000,00.
The total amount was double
hat shipped by the same routes in
908, one year after the opening of
he Tehuantepec line.
Ten Great Inventions.
What are the greatest ten invenions
of the past twenty-five years?
<ast July the Scientific American ofered
prizes of $150. $100 and $50
or the best three essays on this subect
of universal interest.
The stipulations were made that
he greatness of an invention would
e measured in terms of practical
uccess and general usefulness to
mankind. The contestants were limted
to "machines, devices and disoveries
commercially introduced in
he last twenty-five years;" they
lust be "patentable though not necssarilv
patented."
The judges had difficulty in selectag
the winner, owing to the wide
iversity of opinion among the constants.
Xo two competitors sescted
the same set of inventions,
'hey finally decided to award the
irst prize to William T. Wyman. or
Washington, D. C., whose selections
re bbriefly summarized in the World
s follows;
The Electric Furnace.
This produces a "heat so intense
s to simulate some of the primal
ores of nature." It alone has made
iossible the production of artificial
ems, carborundum (hardest of manifactured
substances,) calcium cariide
and artificial graphite. It has
educed the price of aluminum from
Qore than $12 a pound to less than
5 cents. It has made possible the
ixation of atmosphere nitrogen and
evolutionized the steel industry.
The Steam Turbine.
Has effected striking economics in
team consumption, abolished vibrairm
rpHnppd enerine sDace by from
ine to two-thirds, and is sending the
Id reciprocating engines to the scrap
leap.
The Gasoline Automobile.
The benefits conferred upon rnan:ind
by the automobile are so widepread
as to need scarcely any comaent.
Among them however, must
iot be forgotten the creation of thouands
of miles of improved highways.
Moving Pictures.
Have transformed the people's
musements and are becoming an
ver more important factor in educaion,
science, trade and recording
urrent history.
The Aeroplane.
While this presents the least comaercial
utility of all the inventions
onsidered. it is the most radical inovation
in the whole history of ionmotion
and threatens to revolu
ionize warfare.
Wireless Telegraph.
Has made possible the universal
nter-communication of all the world.
ias robbed the sea of its terors and
aved thousands of lives.
The Cyanide Process.
One of the main agencies whereby
he world's production of gold was
rebled between 1890 and 190S. Has
evolutionized the metallurgy of the
irecious metals.
The Induction Motor.
This has made possible the transmission
and utilization of alternating
lectric current and is mainly reponsible
for the rapid substitution
f electric for steam power in the inustries,
conserving from 30 to 60
?er cent, of the energy formerly
,-asted in whirling line shafting and
elting.
The Linotype.
Has made it possible to set type
rom five to ten times as rapidly as
eiore: nas savea nine auu wyeusc
nd made the modern newspaper.
Electric Welding.
* Makes it easy to join the most anagonistic
metals with safety, surety
nd swiftness. Tt was the first radial
change that the art of the smithy
ad undergone in historic times.
The most fashionable thing in use
iow is the initial correspondence
ards. We have them, 25c a box.
lerald Book Store.
ASKS CONGRESS TO APPROVE. ^
Has Authority to Use Force, but
Seeks Co-o|?eration and Advice.
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Washington, April 20.?President
Wilson laid the .Mexican situation before
congress to-day in these words:
"Gentlemen of the congress:
"It is my duty to call your attention
to a situation which has arisen
in our dealings with Gen. Victoriano !
Huerta at Mexico City which calls for
action, and to ask your advice and
co-operation in acting upon it. On
the 9th of April a paymaster of the
U. S. S. Dolphin landed at the Iturbide
bridge landing at Tampico with ^
a whaleboat and boat's crew to take off
certain supplies needed by his i
ship, and while engaged in loading <
the boat was arrested by an officer 1
and squad of men of the army of Gen.
Huerta. Neither the paymaster nor 1
any one of the boat's crew was arm- (
ed. Two of the men were in the boat <
when the arrest took place and were 1
obliged to leave it and submit to be <
taken into custody, notwithstanding <
the fact that the boat carried, both i
at her bow and at her stern the flag 1
of the United States. The officer 1
who made the arrest was proceeding (
up one of the streets of the town with <
his prisoners when met by an officer I
of higher authority, who ordered him 1
to return to the landing and await i
orders; and within an hour and a i
half from the time of the arrest or- '>
ders were received from the comman- !
der of the Huertista forces at Tampi- <
co for the release of the paymaster 1
and Iris men. The release was fol- 1
lowed by apologies from the com; 1
man der and later by an expression of
regret by Gen. Huerta himself. Gen.
Huerta urged that martial law obtained
at the time at Tampico; that
orders had been issued that no one
should be allowed to land at the 1
Iturbide bridge: and that our sailors
had no right to land there.
Had Xdt Been Notified.
"Our naval commanders at' the '
port had not been notified of any
such prohibition; and, even if they
had been, the only justifiable course
open to the local authorities would
have been to request the paymaster
and his crew to withdraw and to
lodge a protest with the commanding
officer of the fleet. Admiral
Mayp regarded the arrest as so serious
an affront that he was not satisfied
with the apologies offered,
but demanded that the flag of the
United States be saluted with special
ceremony by the military commander
of the port.
"The incident cannot be regarded
as a, trivial one, especially as two of
the,, men arrested were taken from
itcoif?that is to sav. from
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the territory of the United States;
but had it stood by itself it migfit
have been attributed to the ignorance
or arrogance of a single officer. Unfortunately,
it was not an isolated
case. A series of incidents have
recently occurred which cannot but
create the impression that the representatives
of Gen. Huerta were willing
to go out of their way to show
disregard for the dignity and rights
of this government and felt perfectly
safe in doing what they pleased,
making free to show in many ways
their irritation and contempt.
Arrested in Uniform.
"A few days after the incident at
Tampico an orderly from the U. S.
S. Minnesota was arrested at Vera
Cruz while ashore in uniform to obtain
the ship's mail and was for a
time thrown into .jail. An official dispatch
from this government to its
embassy at Mexico City was withheld ,
by the authorities of the telegraphic
service until peremptorily demanded
by our charge d'affaires in person.
So far as I can learn, such
wrongs and annoyances have been
suffered to occur only against representatives
of the United States.
I have heard of no complaints from
other governments of similar treatment.
Subsequent explanations and
formal apologies did not and could
not alter the popular impression,
which it is possible it had been the
object of the Huertista authorities
to create, that the government of the
United States was being singled out,
and might be singled out with impunity
for -slights and affronts.
I>uty to Sustain Mayo.
"The manifest danger of a situation
was that such offenses might
grow from bad to worse until something
happened of so gross and intolerable
sort as to lead directly and
inevitably to armed conflict. It was
necessary that the apologies of Gen.
Huerta and his representatives
should go much further, that they
should be such as to attract the attention
of the whole population to
their significance and such as to impress
upon Gen. Huerta himself the
necessity to seeing to it that no fur
ther occasion for explanations and
regrets should arise. I therefore,
felt it my duty to sustain Admiral
Mayo in the whole of his demand
and to insist that the flag of the United
States should be saluted in such a
way as to indicate a new spirit and
attitude on the part of the Huertistas.
"Such a salute Gen. Huerta has re
Capital and Surplus $100,000.00
'used, and I have come to ask your!
innrnval nnri SUDDOrt in the COUTSe !
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' now purpose to pursue.
"This government can, I earnesty
hope, in no circumstances be foreid
into war with the people of Mexico.
Mexico is torn by civil strife. If '
ve are to accept the tests of its own
constitution it has no government.
3en. Huerta has set his power up
in the city of Mexico, such as it is,
ivithout right and by methods for
svhich there can be no justification.
Dnlv part of the country is under his
control. If armed conflict should unhappily
come as a result of his attitude
of personal resentment towards
this government, we should be fighting
only Gen. Huerta and those who
adhere to him and give him their
support, and our object would be r
only to restore to the people of the
distracted republic the opportunity
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to set up again their own laws and
their own government.
"But I earnestly hope that war is I
not now in question. I believe that
r speak for the American people
when I say that we do not desire
to control in any degree the affairs
of our sister republic. Our feeling
for the people of Mexico is dne of
rippn and genuine friendship, and!
everything that we have so far done
or refrained from doing has proceeded
from our desire to help them,
not to hinder or embarrass them.
We would not wish even to exercise
the good offices of friendship without
their welcome and consent.
"The people of Mexico are entitled
to settle their own domestic affairs
in their own way, and we sincerely
desire to respect their right. 'The
present situation need have none of
the grave implications of interference
if we deal* with it promptly,
firmly and wisely.
"No doubt I could do what is
necessary in the circumstances to
enforce respect for our government
without recourse to the congress and
yet not. exceed my constitutional
powers as president; but I do not
wish to act in a matter possibly of so
grave consequence except in close
conference and co-operation with
both the senate and house. I, therefore,
come to ask your approval that
T should use the armed forces of the
United States in such ways and to
such an extent as may be necessary
to obtain from Gen. Huerta and his
adherents the fullest recognition of j
the rights and dignity of the United
States, even amidst the distressing |
conditions now unhappily obtaining'
in Mexico.
I n?re ^an in wnai we uu ue uui
thought of agression or selfish ag-!
grandizement. We seek to maintain I
the dignity and authority of the Uni-!
ted States only because w? wish always
to keep our good influence unimpaired
for the uses of liberty, both {
in the United States and wherever ;
else it may be employed for the bene- i
fit of mankind." i
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SHOOTING AT EDGEFIELD.
tegroes in Difficulty and One Serious- . ,
ly Wounded.
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Edgefield, April 19.?William **
Steadham, of this place, was shot last
night. Dicjt Hampton is accused of '
the crime. Although alive this morning,
the wound is thought to be mortal,
the ball from a pistol penetrating
the lungs. Steadman went to 4
Hampton's house, where they became
involved in a quarrel over a debt,
which the former is said to have owed
the latter. The shooting follow-,
ed. Both parties are negroes. ? *
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GROWING CHILDREN. x
They Should Be Protected Against
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internal i ncieamintss us nou*? .
External Contamination.
The delicate organs of the matur- -J
ing child are more susceptible to the
influence of disease and infection
than are the more seasoned organs '
yv ;
of grown-up. Malaria takes an early ^
and strong hold on the child's liver
and causes headaches, coated tongue,
indigestion, cramps and many-other
dangerous conditions. . :
These are the signal posts of warn- v <
ing nature provides that your child
may be relieved of impending sickness.
The proven remedy, CARSWELI/S | ||f
LIVER-AID which is a purely VEGETABLE
liquid compound should ,be
in y6ur medicine chest ready to ad-;
minister at the first sign of a dis-,
ordered liver.
Fifty cents purchases a large bottie
at Mack's Drug Store, Bamberg/
S. C., under the absolute guarantee
that price will be returned without
quibble if you want it. f. 35
Democrats, Attention!
As provided by the constitution of.. "Agg
the Democratic party of South Caro- Jp
lina, club chairmen throughout Bam?
berg county are requested to give tor
mediate notice of the time and place
of meeting of their respective chibs
to be held Saturday, April 25, 1914,
for the purpose of reorganizing and . <
to elect a member of the county executive
committee and delegates to, :
the county convention. Each club4 is i
entitled to one delegate for every 25 *
members and one delegate- for a majority
fraction thereof. #
The county convention will convene
in the court house at Bamberg,
S. C., Monday, May 4, 1914, at 12 J
o'clock m., for the purpose of electing
officers, a member of the State
Democratic executive committee and
six delegates to the State convention,
and to attend to such other business >
as may come before the convention. f'\
Full attendance of Democrats at A
their club meetings as well as at the
county convention is earnestly^lesif- *
ed. '
H. C. FOLK, y . , County
Chairman. \
R. W. D. ROWELL, '
Secretary.
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