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jc ' *' ' v r. i ?Ijp lambmj feralh One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG-, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1914. Established 1891. \? ? : - j " j ~ COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the ' County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. s Ehrhardt, June 22.?Think the farmers have very promising crops this year. Heard several say that the prospects are better than last year. Cotton blooms have been plentiful for twelve or fifteen days. Mr. M. A. Kinard, one of our prosperous farmers, brought a bloom in some time since, but owe him an apol* TVia UaroM Ogy ior qui senuiiife il> iu iuc jliviu'u, but my negligence did not stop Mr. Kinard's crops from being fine. Mise Mamie Cline, of Newberry, is spending some time with her sister, Mrs. Jacob Ehrhardt. The dedication of the Baptist church at Ehrhardt was the feature of the day Sunday. Miss Dorothy Taylor came home with her sister, Mrs. Herbert Ehrhardt, to spend a while in our fresh air. The fish warden has about scari ed the fishermen out from trapping, I shooting, and giggipg fish from our streams. The hooks and lines are much used now. Had a run away from an auto yesterday. Three darkies driving two mules to a turnout was frightened by an auto. One mule tore loose and went to eating grass;' the other, as soon as the tongue was broken, stopped short. No damage done, otherwise, to the vehicle. The darkies under ;the influence of fire water took it quiet uhtil they get another pole;, then they went on to the church and soon reiurnea?gou men- icugiuu quick. Denmark Personals. ,\ Denmark, June 20.?Misses Ruth and Frances Guess are visiting their Bister, Mrs. H. W. Matthews, in Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. P. A. Bethea, of Darlington, is the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. H. Guess. The Rev. H. G. Hardin has returned from a short visit to Cokesbury. V Miss Annie Stokes is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. K. Goolsby. Mrs. J. W. Wyman and Miss Clara Wyman are visiting relatives in Charleston. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, June 22.?Mrf and Mrs. Marion Jennings (bride and groom) are now "at home" at the Comhiercial* Hotel. / Mrs. Janie Barker, of Allendale, was here this week visiting her moth er,'Mrs. Till. Mr. and Mrs. Moprer have returned from their bridal trip, and are "at v home" with Mrs. Martin Lightsey. Mrs. Moorer contemplates a visit to St. George soon to see the parents of her husband. I Miss Maude Barber has returned from a pleasant visit to Columbia. Mrs. L. O. Browning and daughter are visiting Mrs. C. M. Davis. Dr. J. B. Stokes, of Charleston, was a recent visitor here. Mrs. Julia Harter visited Allendale *- Tuesday. T% 4* T TT'-i. * _ i.1. _ X _ H ?toi. lt. kj. waison is me guesi 01 G. D. Sanders. , Miss Lily Weekley, of Ulmer, ;is with Mrs. Otis Deer. i Mrs. G. S. O'Neal has returned from a pleasant visit to Delray, Fla., where several of her sons are residing. A crowd is expected here next week when the Luthern Sunday-school normal meets. All denominations! will take part, and will assist in en-1 tertaining. Miss Iris Kearse is visiting her sis- j ter, Mrs. Dan Hartman, at Waycross. j Ga. Eloise Garrick has returned to I Norway, after spending some time i with relatives here. Mrs. Purdie Ayer, of Olar, and! Mrs. L. W. Clayton, of Bamberg, were recent visitors here. .0 A miscellaneous shower was given to Miss Mell Kearse on Friday at Bamberg by Mrs. John Jones. Many useful gifts were bestowed by her many friends there. Miss Kearse is to wed Mr. George DuPre Sanders on the 30th instant. Mr. Robbie Johnson, of Augusta, I visited Mrs. C. F. Hiers this week. < Meva Hiers is spending some time in Augusta with relatives. James Connelly, of Waycross. Ga., visited the family of C. F. Hiers this week. G. D. Sanders visited Bamberg on Thursday. i . Sam Jenkins, of Birmingham, Ala., | ? OYER LOSES SEAT. Republican Congressman From Missouri Unseated. ! Washington, June 19.?L. C. Dyer, of St. Louis, Republican, representing the 12th Missouri district, was unseated by the House late to-day by a vote 147 to 98. His election was contested by M. J. Gill, Democrat. On the vote to declare Gill elected, 31 Democrats voted with the solid Republican minority against him. Under the usual custom Mr. Dyer keeps his salary up to-day and gets "noe exceeding" $2,000 for expenses of the contest on his side. This was Mr. Dyer's second term in Congress. By a vote of 126 to 108, a resolu- ^ dftolorinor dill 1 dcro 11 tr HVAi ucvio-i v>**i was adopted. Mr. Gill immediately took the oath of office. ? Woman Changing Into a Man. Paris, June 14.?The professors and surgeons of the French Academy of Sciences have been confronted with a remarkable case of what is known as "virilism." Professor Tuffer, an eminent Parisian surgeon, has presented a woman of 62 "years whose face and hands have become those of a man. When she was 40 years old the woman was attacked with an extraordinary hypertrophy of certain glands and since then her whole being has changed. Her biceps have attained the strength of a healthy , man's biceps , her shoulders have broadened and she has become peculiarly muscular. Most" extraordinary of all, she has grown bald and at the same time has developed a long black beard which reaches her waist.?Baltimore Sun Dispatch. Black Hander Executed. Ossining, N. Y., June 22.?Peter Rebacci, a 19-year-old Italian, a tool of a black hand "murder syndicate" in Westchester county, was today put to death in the electric chair at Sine Sine prison for the murder of Tony Murro, of White Plains. Rebacci had figured in several other crimes. To Regulate Insurace. Washington, .Tune 20.?Congressman James F. Byrnes today introduced a bill to deny the use of the mails to- insurance companies for the purpose of soliciting new business or collecting premiums on old business unless such companies are licensed in the State in which they attempt to conduct business. Mr. Byrnes says that this bill would not only checkmate the wild cat insurance schemes which have fleeced so much money out of the people,-but in addition would prevent a company from coming into a State, complying with its laws and securing its license for a year or two, and then when it had written a large number of policies withdrawing its deposits from the State, forfeiting its license and yet continuing to collect annual premiums out of the State. St. John's News. St. John's June 16.?Mrs. Rosa "'* "V. ? Lee Roberts, of the Hickory Grove : section^ spent a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Connelly. i Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Connelly gave a turkey dinner on the 13th instant, and had as their guests their children, grandchildren, and a few friends. A most enjoyable day was spent. is here now with relatives. j Mesdames Thos. Warren and Ellen Hiers, of Allendale, visited Mrs. S. L. : Sanders Wednesday. i J. G. Crawford, of Latta, was here this week. Misses Ida Compton and Lylele Wilson are visiting friends in Orangeburg. Our community has been much sad- . defied by the death of Mrs. Jones ; Lane, which occurred on Tuesday, and the funeral was preached next day at Bethlehem church by Rev. Wm. Simpson. She and her sister, : Miss Joella Padgett, had both been : extremely ill for several weeks, and < the latter is still too dangerously < sick to be apprised of her sister's ? death. Much sorrow is expressed in sympathy with this bereaved family, 1 and all feel that a useful, working Christian woman has been called from her earthly labors to higher joys ; above. The missionary and aid societies brought lovely wreaths and laid them tenderly on her grave. Rev. and Mrs. Paul Brown, of Estill, daughter and grandson, were guests of Mrs. S. L. Sanders this week. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. M. D. Earnest was given a verdict for $1,000 in Greenville on Saturday against the Judson cotton mill for the loss of two fingere in a machine in the mill. The State Dental Association, which met in Greenville last week, decided to meet in Columbia next year. Dr. P. D. Brooker, of Columbia, was elected president. Tuesday night, on the farm of J. A. Barber, York county, a negro killed his wife with a hammer, set his home on fire and then blew his own head off with a gun. He and his wife had had a row. William Landis, an aged carpenter, was run down by an automobile in Spartanburg Saturday, at the corner of Main and Church streets, and was killed. The machine was being run by a young man named Rupert Alverson. Robert Hendsley was arrested in Greenville on Saturday and held for trial *bn the charge of violating the white slave act in forcing Rosa May Wilson, aged 15, to live with him, having brought her there from another State. Tom McLeod, a young man from North Carolina, was arrested in Union on Thursday on the charge of bigamy. Three weeks ago he was married to a young woman at the Monarch mills, and.it came out afterward that he had a wife already. A white baby girl, about 12 hours old, was found in Greenville county Saturday in a field where it, had been thrown. The doctors who examined it say it lived after being born, and the supposition is that it was eithe^ killed or left exposed to die. There have been no arrests. Uncle Abner. Mrs. Amry Tibbs has been divorced so often that she now has a nharee account with her attornev and pays him a little now and then when she can. A woman finds' out how her husband likes her hair done up best and then does it up some other way. Anse Frisby, ouriocal banker, who is somewhat of a cornersewer, says that the only things he doesn't like about grand opera are the words and music. Lem Higgins says the fellers who made the calendar ought to have allowed more time between the Christmas presents and the Easter bonnets. Mr. Lem Higgins has bought so many appliances for his oatmobile that there isn't room for all of them on the car at the same time. It takes so much power to run the appliances that there ain't any left to run the oatmobile. Everything is divided equally in this world. The rich drive the automobile and the poor dodge 'em. A fellow who is paying alimony to two or tneree ex-wives can De pardoned for indulging in a bit of pessimism occasionally. Miss Pansy Tibbitts got into her tight skirt the other day and couldn't get out, and they had to cut it up the back from the hem to the waistband. There are times when even a lodge button doesn't guarantee you that a feller .is going to give you a square deal. Many a fellow is judged by the cigars that are named after him. Hank Tumms and Hod Peters are such bitter enemies that they vote different tickets every four years just to knock each other out. There are a lot of book critics in this country who couldn't get one of their own published on a bet. Job must have been some long on patience, but he never had to hookand-eye his wife up the back five minutes before tneatre time, or ne would have lost his reputation. This country seems to be divided into two classes. One class would rather have a house and lot than an oatmobile, and the other would rather have an oatmobile than a house and lot. It is estimated that nearly one per ?ent of the genuine Havana cigars are made in Havana. The feller who kin keep steam up all the time may make more money, but he won't live so long. Faith and Works. "Do you believe in a minimum wage for girls?" "Sure. I pay it."?Detroit Free Press. MAN IS LOST IN WHEAT FIELD. ^ ?? 4 Grain so Tall That Farmer Nearly Starved Before He Got Out. I La Crosse, Wis., June 18.?Lost in a 1,200 acre wheat field, with the ^ wheat extending above his head so that he could not get his bearings, Daniel Erni, a Ruch county farmer, ^wandered all afternoon and far into the night before his shouts for help brought him relief. The story was brought to La Crosse * today by Frank Wesley, a ranchman ^ of Ruch county. He explained that t c the wheat stands more than five feet k tail and it is easy for a man to lose himself in a field. "Erni is not a very tall man, and t the wheat extended above his head," * said Wesley. "He lives in Bison and 1 drove out into the country to take a look at his wheat. Leaving the * car at the side of the road he enter- * ed the wheat, penetrating some dis- c tance, closely looking for traces of 8 ' - ? -3 J .11 f Hessian fly or rust. He wanaerea an afternoon, going in what he thought was a straight line, expecting to strike the opposite side of the field, but he evidently was moving in circles. The darkness came and he was still in the denseness of the wheat. This particular field included nearly 1,200 acres and adjoined other fields not separated by fences, so a man could go for miles without leaving the wheat thicket. "It was about 10 o'clock at night that his car was discovered and searchers went into the wheat suspecting that someone was lost. They heard the faint cries of the almost exhausted man and finally discovered him."?Kansas City Star. INSPIRATION FROM BEES. 2 Thomas A. Edison Evolves New Idea For an Airship. ? Thomas A. Edison arrived in the s city to-day to attend the convention c of the National Electric Light Asso- i ciation. As the inventor and his wife I were on their way to this city from s New York by automobile to-day they 4 passed through a shady glen. * Flitting among the trees was a bumble 4 "Do you know," said Mr. Edison, "as I watched that bee I realized that a real plane, a heavier-than-air ma- t chine of great weight, can be built 1 as soon as we obtain something that a beats the air at the rate of 200 times t a second. .. i "That bumble bee was one inch t long, three-eighths of an inch in di- I ameter, with a wing one-quarter inch c wide and five-eighths of an inch long, t The wings weighed a milligram. That a bee weighed 7,000 times more than s his wings. If we can only get to that, get to that?the greatest thing for the smallest wing?that is the t thing. The bee's wings beat the air I 300 times a second. I "A bee works on sound waves. Re- I member, the air is rigid as steel if the pressure is only sudden enough, f Give us something that beats the t air 200 times a second and we will i have a real plane."?Philadelphia dis- I patch to the New York American. a \ Crossed Wires. ^ c The girl with the debutante slouch ; gasped a little. "Why the idea!" she j said. "There must be some mistake. cHe was coming to see at once when he c got back! At least, that was the last t thing I told him. Morgan is so shy t that one has to bring him out. He T must have been ill or something"? e "No, his health has been excel- c lent," said the other girl. c "Well," snapped the girl with the e debutantee slouch, "since you seem to f know so much about Morgan Spillings |n perhaps you can tell me just why I haven't known a thing about his get- ^ ting back or why he hasn't been to a see me"? c "I am sure I don't know," said the brisk young woman with a faint C smile, "unless it's because he has been so busy with me. We're to be " married in June. I'm having such a lot of clothes made that I've got to, hurry along this minute or miss my fittings. Goodbye." ** * "Well, I always said Morgan was ^ queer!" said the girl with the debu- s tantee slouch. "I'm sure you'll be ^ very happy together!"?Chicago d News. ^ M 111 Bennettsville's New Postoffice. o Washington, June 20.?Congress- ? man Ragsdale was notified to-day by $ the treasury department that the con- a tract has been signed with the Die- p trich-Richardson Company, of Richmond, Va., for the construction of the postoffice building at Bennetts- ^ ville. The bid of the contractors was o $37,838. H SUPPORT IS WITHDRAWN IEQITSITIOX FOR S. C. MILITIA REJECTED. Yar Department Withholds Aid Pending Adjustment of Claims for Lost Property. Columbia, June 24.?Yesterday here was received at the office of he adjutant general the following etter from Gen. A. L. Mills, chief of he division of militia affairs, United x KfT? ~ states war department.: iu mc Adjutant General of South Carolina: "In a letter dated June 16, 1914, he secretary of war advises the jovernor of South Carolina as folows: "Referring to your requisition of Jay 11, 1914, for ordnance and quarermaster supplies for the use of the >rganized militia of your State, I'regret to inform you that in view of the ailure of the authorities of South Carolina to comply with the federal aws which govern the care, accountibility and disposition of government sroperty in the possession of the orjhnized militia, the war department s obliged to suspend further issues >f government property and funds to he organized militia of South Caroina, and to withhold authority for he expenditure of government funds >y the militia of S. C. until the lelinquent matters are taken up by he State and brought to a satisfacory settlement. " 'When the organized miliitia of South Carolina is placed on a satisactory basis, the war department vill consider the withdrawal of the estrictions of which you are inform;d in this communication and which ire effective on and after this date.' "Requisitions for quartermaster ;upplies submitted on April 24 and day 11, 1914, and ordance supplies ;ubmitted May 11, 1914, are, in ac:ordance with the action of the sec etary of war noted in the foregoing >aragraph, returned herewith. The iupplies asked for will not be issued. 'By direction of the secretary of war. A. L. MILLS. 'Brigadier General, General Staff, Chief of Division, For the Chief of Staff." Col. 0. W. Babb, assistant adju? ant general, was asked last night low, in his opinion, the shortage trose to which reference was made in he letter of Gen. Mills and whether n recent years any effort to reduce his shortage had been made. Col. 3abb said he could not speak for >ther administrations. Regarding he policy pursued since he has been issistant adjutant general, Col. Babb ;aid;. "The shortage of property mention;d in the letter of Gen. Mills has >een accumulating for years and the iresent administration has made re )eated efforts to collect the obsolete >roperty. "During 1912 about 1,2-00 old riles, a lot of bayonets, bayonet scab>ards, gun slings and other appurtelances were collected and shipped to lock . Island arsenal. During 1913 ibout 400 old rifles and carbines, a ot of old cartridge belts, cartridge >oxes, bayonets, bayonet scabbards, arbine scabbards and cavalry sabres vere collected and shipped to Rock sland arsenal. .There is a great leal of this old property in the hands >f some one now and it should be urned into the State armory, so that he State may receive credit for it. I vill state also, that during the presmt administration a great number if the old blue uniforms have been ollected. As stated above, repeated fforts have been made to recover this iroperty and with some success. The iulk of this loss occurred prior to the Bsue of the new Springfield rifle and he olive drab uniform about 1908 nd 1909, although some loss has ocurred since." >LI) CLOTHES MAN WAS RICH. Poco" Bennett, Known to All Harvard Men, Left $100,000. Some idea of the large extent of he business carried on by the late larnard or "Poco" Bennett, known to everal generations of Harvard stuents as a buyer and seller of stuents' castoff clothes and a money mder, is gained by the inventory of is estate, niea in tne suhoik rrouaie ffice. ' His personal estate is valued at 65,699.65, and his real estate at 57,200. Ida Bennett, the widow, is dministratrix of the estate.?Boston 'ost. McCormick Mowing Machines and lepairs. Hay Rakes, Cultivators, [arrows, and Lawn Mowers.. Paints, ?ils, and Varnishes. HUNTER'S [ARDWARE STORE.?adv. * ; } . * . x _ . MAN LURED TO SWAMP. H E. M. TuUis Tied to Log and Severely Beaten. Waycross, Ga., June 20.?Because of a lawsuit he had instituted, E. M. Tullis, a well-known farmer, whose home is south of Homerville, in fMinrh ronntv was? takpn frnm his house to a swamp nearby and so badly beaten with leather straps that he is in a critical condition today. Reports of the assault have just reached Waycross. Martin Baldree and Randolph Jones, white men, have been arrested, charged with assault and battery. It is alleged that under pretense of borrowing grease to rub on a mule the two men got Tullis' to leave his house, and grabbed him at the barn, taking * ?*- ) him to a swamp and tying him to a log where the beating was administered. Tullis was then taken home in a semi-conscious condition. Neighbors passing 6aw him on the porch and got medical aid for him. Tullis claims that from Remarks the men made while beating him he is positive they were employed to flog him, and he proposes to institute prosecution against more than one as soon as he is well again.?Atlanta Journal. ANTS CONQUERED A CITY. . Living Things in a Jamaica Town Driven Out or Eaten. . ? ! The paragraphers throughout the country are having fun with ihe littie red ants that Mrs. Morse brought over in a box from the other side, and the careless customs officers allowed to escape. It is obvious that the jokesmiths knew very little about red ants. That box of ants may become a menace to the city ef New York. The ruins of a splendid city on the north coast of Jamaica remain as evidence of the devastation that red ants are capable of causing. An army of the insects invaded the city 't one day and drove away every living ^ creature, animal and human, that v ' M could escape. Prisoners in the jails, and bedridden patients in the hospitals were devoured. Not even a rat or chinchbug remained alive. In Liberia and other parts of West Africa anthills as large as native huts are found. The large black > ant is the builder of that sort of home. Such ant hills are not unknown here in this country, although they are rarely so large; but the black ant rarely invades houses. He is a scavenger, and is protected by most farmers. At the northern end of Greenwood Lake I remember to have seen two such , > ant communities, with hills six feet \ high. When I asked the manager of a nearby hotel why he didn't destroy( the insects, he replied that they were of value in destroying roaches and in keeping away many insects?except rattlers, which are the foes of the black ants, and feed upon them.?J.Chambers, in Brooklyn Eagle. Rides Bucking Cow? m Washington, Pa., June 15.?Riding a bicycle, J. F. Welch, of Washington, started out this morning with the intention of attending services at the Hill church, near town, but instead he was the central figure in a thrill\ ing performance, with a cow in one of the leading Toles. A short distance from the borough line Welch encountered a herd of cattle. All fled except one obstinate old cow. Welch, going at a rapid speed, did not divine her intentions soon enough to avoid a collision. He was flung from the wheel and alighted astride the cow's back. The cow forgot she was a suffragette, and, standing up for her rights, dashed down the road, bellowing and plunging. Then she. stopped and gave a demonstration of bucking. Welch, though clinging to horns and hide, was tossed into a field. He r walked home unhurt, except in his feelings.?New York World Dispatch. Xame of "Gaillard Cut" Approved. Washington, June 22.?President Wilson today approved the suggestion laid before him by Congressman David E. Finley, in behalf of the Federation of Women's Clubs in South Carolina, which has been working to have Culebra Cut changed to GaUIard Cut, in honor of the late Lieut. Col. D. D. Gaillard, who died from overwork in achieving this historic triumph. After his interview with the chief executive, Mr. Finley said he felt quite sure the name of this mammoth cut in the Panama canal would be changed to honor the distinguished South Carolinian who dug it. A. / . - . -. 3