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- ... v.- - > . " " '"i ; Site Hamburg ifwalb One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 2,1914. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS s SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ' R News Items Gathered All Around the w County and Elsewhere. d Fairfax Fancies. 5 _____ s< Fairfax, June 29.?Mesdames Paul Cl Brown and Alderman, Rev. P. Brown ^ ?rronrtdanehter sDent Tuesday S morning with Mrs. S. L. Sanders. d Rev. Dr. Scherer and Rev. G. A. Gon- ix gaware, of Charleston, were also her a' gnests for several days. 11 Misses Ida Compton and Lylete Wilson have returned from a very t] pleasant visit to Orangeburg. Miss Ruth Haigler, who taught ^ here several years ago, visited Mrs. Fred Lightsey recently. 81 Mesdames S. L. Sanders, Geneva Barber, Miss Maude Barber and Le- t( loora fnr 'Henderson IcLUU MlVCl nm ivao ... vile, N. C., July 1st. r< Mrs. Leila Jennings, who has spent several months here, and has made many friends in our comunity, leaves for her home in Richmond, Va., in a n few days. ^ W. E. Harter is enjoying a new ? Ford auto. We hear of several parties who w wfll auto to Savannah, Tybee, etc., ir in a few days. e Miss Grace Timmerman, of Orange- ^ burg, is visiting Miss Lucile Youmans. She has many friends here who will be delighted to see her back. a Little Sarah Hartman, of Waycross, Ga., is visiting relatives here. cMesdames J. F. Clayton and Sam ri Gbodwin, of near Bamberg, are visit* ing friends here. ir ? Mrs. Dr. Tuten has returned from a a long stay in Charleston, very much Ci improved in health.- P Wedding bels will ring for one of c< our sweetest Fairfax girls soon. r< tMany friends wish her unalloyed hap- Vl piness through life. b Miss Margaret Youmans has re- ^ turned from Richmond, to the delight ? of her many friends here. ? Car-l ,Kearse, a student from Wof- b ford, was here visiting friends recent- e" _ ? I Mr. Gordon Kearse is an snmes. It is a daughter, who will be the . light of his home. Mr. C. M. Mc- 11 -Clendon is also being congratulated. s< . ci Kearse News. H ~~ei < Olar, June 28.?Crops are good m this section. f Mr. Jno. F. Breland and Dr. H. M. Brabham attended the campaign ' meeting at Bamberg Saturday, and ^ report four rood speeches. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Roberts, of Clio, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Williams, Q of Jacksonville, Fla., are visiting relatives here. pi Mrs. W. P. Jones, of Bamberg, and Miss Roberts, of Columbia, are here for the fcearse-Sanders wedding Tuesday. Miss Ethel Kearse is visiting her T sister at Bishopville. ^ Miss Cressie Breeland has as her T guests Misses Halford, of Blackville, R and Bessie Armstrong and Mae Brab- ^ ham, of Bamberg. Miss Aline Kearse is at the sum- ^ mer school at Rock Hill. p The new Methodist church will ^ be dedicated second Sunday in July. r> Had Rabies Fifteen Years? T - A York, Pa., June 20.?Miss Ollie L 'Harman, 19 years old, of Gorham, G has developed a strong case of rabies. She was married a week ago. On the C evening of her wedding her friends G gave her a serenade, during which T she became distracted. Her physicians, Drs. David and Harry. Posey, say she has developed a most singular case of rabies. At times she becomes violent and it requires three men to hold her in fc bed. . sl The young woman was bitten by c a dog fiften years ago.?Dispatch to New York World. ** ( m m Fugitives of Law Slain. bl tl Lewisburg. W. Va., Jun%$9.?Carl P< f SB Hoke was killed, his father, Theodore al mortally wounded and Sheriff Coch0] ran and Deputy George Sparks seriously hurt in a battle, which lasted re almost all of yesterday, five miles from Hart's Sun. More than a year ^ ago the Hokes were convicted in Greenbrier county of robbing freight cars and sentenced to the penitentiary. Before they could be removed they escaped from the S> county jail. Last week they were w located in a cabin in the heart of the wilderness. They fought recapture b< until both were down. S INJURED IX AUTO ACCIDENT. everal Orangeburg People Hur When Auto Skidded. Orangeburg, June 30.?Simon B ;ich, Webb Bull and John C. Pik< ere injured in an automobile acci ent near the city this morning abou :45 o'clock. Mr. Rich is the mo6 jriously injured of the three and hii ondition is considered precarious he acident has cast a profounc rief over the whole city and hun reds of friends and relatives of th< ljured men visited the scene of th< cident and the young men durinj ae day. Messrs. Rich and Bull had been a 3e Southern depot to see some gir riends off on the 5:23 train. The: nought they would take a ride aftei le train left, and lurther down th< treet picked up Mr. Pike, who wai Ding to the Atlantic Coast Line depo > board a train. Mr. Pike learne< 3at his train was ar little late and h< jde on with the others. Mr. Bull was driving, and it wai le intention of the driver to go t< le fish cultural station. He wai iinning the car at a good speed /hen he reached that part of soutl roughton street, extended, when le street crosses the Southern rail ay, he 6aw that some children wen 1 the road leading to the fishery. H< udeavored to turn the car to cross ie railway. As he did so the car skidded, miss lg therailroad crossing and goini cros tflRterossties and rails. The car, a seven-passenger, six yiinder car, as it jumped across th< lilroad track, turned over on its de, throwing Mr. Pike some distanci 1 a road and pinning Messrs. Bui nd Rich beneath it. Mr^ Bull extri ated himself and was in the act o ulling Mr. Rich out from under th< ir when help arrived. The doctoi aached the scene then. The car was ery badly damaged. It was ownec y John M. Sifly. The wounded men tessrs. Rich and Pike, were carriet n cots to homes nearby. Later Mr ull fell over in a fit, but severa ours later he recovered. He suffer 3 severe bruises. Mr. Pike had i jnvulsion after the accident and suf ;red bruises and shock. Mr. Rich is far the most seriously ljured. He suffered a severe shock jvere bruises in the side and a deei -J** loo- onH hrntcoo onH minni *V ILl U10 UUU l/i Miwvw UUU its. Internal injuries are feared iis condition is alarming. The oth r two are out of danger. Mr. Rich is one of Orangeburg'! )remost young lawyers and numbers is friends by scores. His popular y has been attested by the visit! ad inquiries of his many friends. This is the only automobile acci ent of consequence ever occurring ii rangeburg. The whole city is stir ;d up over the affair, owing to th< rominence of the parties injured an< le seriousness of Mr. Rich's injuries Today. o be alive in such an age! o live to it! o give to it! ise, soul, from thy despairing knees '"hat if thy lips have drunk the lees' he passion of a larger claim >Til put thy puny grief to shame, ling forth thy sorrow to the wind nd link thy hope with humankind; reathe the world-thought, do th< world-deed, hink hugely of thy brother's need, nd what thj^woe, and what thy wea ook to the work the times reveal! ive thanks with all thy flaming heart? rave but to have in it a part ive thanks and clasp thy heritage 0 be alive in such an age! ?Selected. Killing at Williamston. Anderson, June 29.?Joe Kelly, i )rmer policeman at Wiliamston, was lot and killed on the streets of thai >wn today. Claude Poore, a po ceman, is charged with the shooting oore arested Kelly Sunday for some lisdemeanor, but he was released or and. The men met on the streets lis-morning, and, according to rearts, words passed, when Poore is lid to have drawn his pistol and shot t Kelly six times, two shots taking Tect in his left side. Kelly was tak1 to Greenville, but died before lit ;ached the hospital. Kelly was unrmed. Poore surrendered and is in le Anderson county jail. Amplifying It. "I understand Colonel Flushby ave a good account of himself in the ar." "So he did and has been giving a ?tter one ever since."?Baltimore un. IN THE PALMETTO SI t SOME OCCURRENCES OF VAI KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLI ' State News Boiled Down for Reading?Paragraphs Abo ? Men and Happenings. Isaac Rainey, an 18-year-old j was killed Friday night in fr< Jesse Withers' store in Camd< 4 coming in contact with a hig] [ 6ioned electric wire. The wir * been blown down across the by a wind storm. t Mary Allen, a negro womar 1 killed, and her father, John 7 and her sister, Sallie Lou Allen r seriously burned by a bolt of ? ning at Anderson Friday aftei 5 The negroes had stopped und t apple tree during an electric d: i when the tree was struck by i ning. News reached Greenville Ti 5 night of a killing at Pickens M } night. SherifT Roark, of that 5 ty, telephoned to Greenville tht Hendrix, White, was killed by a 1 named Lloyd McCullim; that a 2 has been scouring the country, 1 trace has yet been found. Acc< 2 to the report Hendrix was killei 2 a club in the hands of the negi 3 was dragged behind his barn an THE NEEDLE. r 3 ???? Humble Instrument Has Played Part in the World's Progre s Who made the first needle? a J haps some clever wife, who p the shank of a fine fishbone to ~ a thread of plant fibre or catgu the Chicago News. To-day the needle is the sym r civilization, for where you fin 3 man beings this side of bar! you find clothes, and where c ' are there are needles. Man is a tool-using animal. ' the needle is the commones smallest of tools. The spider spins his web, the 1 his cocoon; the man, by nature weaves his outmost cutile wit sharp, shining shaft of steel. f I have never seen the need! ' tories. Yet they are in my i } eye huge, many-windowed bar r and out of them march, day ' day, the little soldiers of civili in silver gleaming armor and ! helmets, in companies and regii 3 to go to Alaska and Cape To^ 3 Tokyo and New York; to the of the mother and the sister; s morocco case upon the mah dressing table of the darli: wealth, to the work-box of thi 1 of the people, to the dark roc the slaves of the sweat shops, ' pincushion of the bachelor, t 1 knapsack of the soldier, the 1 * of the pioneer, the kit of the Wherever go the animals calU man there the little needle dam tendance. The sword is the instrumf glory; it has been multiplied ventive genius, transformed in * bullet and the tomb and made in thunderous hail to magnii hideous trade of murder. The the instrument of thought. It t come a type and its printed rain thick from the presses in papers, magazines and books. The knife and spoon have , elaborated into the manifold sils of the chefs who prepare th< plicated delicacies for the goui ' The rude flint of the ape me become the chisel of a Rodir coarse hair clump of the cave has grown into the brush of a . The needle has developed Elias Howe dreamed he was pi by savages whose spears had in them near the point. He i t to devise the needle with its ( ; the piercing end. Hence the s t machine, doing the speed of ar . trie spark. It is an automatic, inacmue > power-driven age, with the n t buzzing attendance. ; When Gustave Charpentier . musician, was presented witl ; sword of the academy by Mimi I ; on behalf of the working gi r Paris, whom he had befriend* . replied: . "The sword, the pen and the . have won great glory for our i try. But has not the needle its share? A statue of Merc score of .Massenet, a speech of care, each is an ornament to Fr but a Paris robe, worn by a ienne. is it not also a thing o ! all the more precious art be enduring but a little time? L ( Some people worry because have nothing else to worry abo' TATE PICTURE tells i)ahk story. Shows Reconstruction Legislature UOU8 With Negroes in Body. NA. Washington, July 1.?Senator TillQuick man to-day handed the following signed statement to The News and Qt Courier correspondent with reference to a remarkable photograph which the Senator is sending to the clerk's youth, 0fl}ce jn every s0uth Carolina county: jnt of "When in South Carolina last ?n, by ^prji( returning to Washington from h. ten- ciemscm College, I stopped in Greene had viiie tQ geg my pjggg while there street Mr l m. McBee showed me a photograph, two by three inches in size, i, was of the Reconstruction Legislature of Allen, 1868, the first we had. There were , wgre far more negroes in it than white light- men. I borrowed it and brought it moon, to Washington and had it enlarged, er an 1 have had it framed, and I intend to Isplay, send one to every county to be hung light- fa the clerk's office, so that those people may see it who have a mind lesday "Governor Blease and Mr. Fortner are howling about the negroes having white teachers and the danger to our it Jas. ciVi]ization from that source. I am negro jnciine<i to believe the Southern peoposee pje ma(je a great mistake when they but no did QOt take cbai.ge 0f the negro's ording gducation and put them all under d with white teachers instead of colored o and teachers. However that may be, the ^ one real danger, and a great one it is, to South Carolina's civilization lies in a possible divison among the white people themselves, making the OrMt .1 _ J a. negroes tne oaiance 01 puwer auu luc ss? controlling factor in our politics. As long' as the white people stand Per* shoulder to shoulder and fight it out ierced among themselves we need never carry fear. The new rules adopted at the t, says iast state Convention to govern the primary insure an honest vote, and bol of every good Democrat will abide the id hu- result, whatever it be. There is little jarism possibility of our having ever again ilothes as bad a Governor as Blease has been. "South Carolina can even stand And Biease in the Senate, however nauset and ating it will be to some of us, bul would never recover from an appeal worm by the Bleaseites or any others to the naked negro vote. Should that occur our h this civilization would be doomed. An indefinite "era of good stealing' e fac- W0Vjid come again, and in the course uind's of tjme another "ringed, streaked racks, ancj striped" Legislature would asa^er semble in Columbia." zation ^jje photograph to which the Sena=olden tor refrs has attracted much attenments, ^jon from visitors-to his office in the vn, to Capitol. Without exception every behands bolder who has. commented upon the to the picture has declared that it presented lOgany more eioquently than any number of speeches or books could do the hore wife r^bie conditions under which the ims State labored in the period of "Reto. tbe construction." :o the jundle To Investigate Cotton. sailor. ;d hu- Washington, June 30.?At the re:es at- quest of farmers at Blackville, who reported that many cotton plants in that npis'hhnrhood were dvinc. Rep by in- resentative Byrnes today obtained the to the promise of the department of agriculto fall ture to send an expert to the scene y the to find the cause of the trouble and pen is recommend a remedy. las be Father Not in Form, words newsThe young man of persistence had been kicked out of the parlor of his been uten b6St gir* f0r the t'1'rt^eth ^mc the same identical irate parental foot. a comAs he picked himself up from the -met. , i has Pavement> *ie saic* t0 aforemen. tioned i. p., who stood in the door' f way exuding threats from every pore. Vlillet "Father-to-be, far be it from me to say anything discouraging, but you irsued are *osing ^orm- That trip from the parlor to the front steps is usually made in four kicks. This time you awoke took five. I should at least try to aye at "* . make it bogev if I were you." ewmg . j ? * . ,. And fhe young man went mdigt elecnantly away into the night.?Indian apons star. -using M ee(^e> Music of Spheres. the The ancients were of the opinion h the that the planets in their movement Vinson through space produced severally rls of the seven notes of the gamut. This ?d, he music, it was contended, was imperceptible to human ears on account brush of the fact that it was too powerful conn- for our hearing. Others held that i also men did not hear it simply because ie, a they were so used to it, just as we Poin- do not notice the roar of the city ance; from our constant familiarity with it. Paris- The "real music of the spheres" is f art, purely intellectual, lying in the great scause and splendid fact of the universe of law and order. they Be sure you are right before throwut. ing over the high speed lever. i ' GOVERNOR IGNORES FOLK LARGE CROWD HERE TO HEAI SENATORIAL CANDIDATES. Good Order Prevails.?Crowd Anti Blease by Large Majority. Smith the Favorite. The United States senatorial cam paign meeting in Bamberg Saturda; partook in some degree of the boister ous nature of the gubernatorial cam paign meeting 2 years ago. That wa the "rough" day of the entire cam paign that year. It was on the morn ing succeding the Spartanburg dicta phone episode, and the language o one of the candidates in referring t< the alleged revelations was so nau seating that ladies were compelled ti leave the grounds. At no other plao , visited this campaign have the line , of partisan cleavage been so definite ly drawn. Other voters have no been so emphatic in their preferenc , of candidates. At no other plao . were the candidates more liberall; , applauded. At no place have mor questions been fired at the sjpeaker nor the parrying and thrusting am the acid replies been more appreciat , ed or returned with more deadly ef . feet. i Tear<* Up Telegram. > When the governor was introduce* Saturday he was asked by H. C. Folk i the county chairman, to answer i ' telegram sent during the recent ses sion of the State legislature, askini ! why the governor was. not supportinj ' Mr. Folk for master, when Mr. Foil 1 was the Democratic primary nominee but had sent another name to th ' senate for confirmation. The chairmai also propounded an additional quee ' "T- --v.- ui 'I UOli: IS Lll'dLll w LIU viuiatco ui i j oath at the ballot box a fit person t ' send to the United States senate?" s The governor totally ignored th i latter question, and taking the tele gram, tore it into shreds, spat upoi 1 it and stamped it with his feet. Th governor then said: "If that dirt coward who made the threat agains 1 me in the drug store is in the au ' dience, now is the time for him to d ' his work." There was no movemen 1 in the audience, nor any response The governor asserted that some on ! in a nearby drug store had said " t want to hear Gov. Blease today, as i will be the last speech he will eve make." There was no response, an the governor again said if the cowan were there it Was the proper time t carry out the threat. Governor Guarded. [ The governor had come to Bam ' berg prepared for trouble, as fou . State detectives were close by at al > times, closely guarding the governo . against any possible attack. A deput sheriff from Newberry was also ii the party. Approximately 1,000 voters hear the candidates. The meting wa held in a grove near the Souther 1 depot, with H. C. Folk, who has beei Unnntv chairman sinee the eonntv wa ' organized, presiding. Prayer was of ! fered by the Rev. W. H. Hodges. Th ' speeches were limited to 35 minutes Calls for Order. In introducing the'first speaker Saturday, the chairman reminded th audience of the meeting two year ago "which was heralded to the worli as a disgrace to South Carolina." Thi i disturbances then he said were "le< f by and indulged in by henchmen o certain candidates brought here fo : that purpose." .Mr. Folk then read ; set of resolutions recently adopted a the Bamberg county convention whicl would require all speakers to emplo: language that \ ^uld not be offensive jto the women who happened to at Itend. These same resolutions als< [provided adequate police power to en (able the chairman to quell and dis iturbance. .Mr. Jennings was the advanc* (guard of the speaking brigade Satur day. When introduced he was me with cheers for Blease, with countei cheering for both him and Senatoi Smith. When he launched into ar animated defense of the new primary rules again there were hurrahs foi the speaker and the governor. One in the audience told the mayor 01 j Sumter that he would not be electee jto the United States senate. "I'm noi worrying about that," Mr. Jennings replied, and then the crowd applaud:ed the speaker with a marked degree :of enthusiasm. At this juncture the question was asked. "Why was it imposed that we shoqld write our names in full when we register?" The speaker drew a prolonged round of applause when he |said: "There are so many people with ; the same initials, but who have to[Continued on page 4. column 2] I JUDGE ERNEST GARY DEAD. # ?? Well-Known Jurist Passes Away in t Columbia, After Long Illness. Columbia, June 30.?Judge Ernest . Gary, of the 5th South Carolina judicial circuit, died today at 12:35 p. m., at his residence, No. 1529 Gervais street, Columbia. Judge Gary's death comes as the result of a protracted illness that has Y confined him for many months. He is survived by his wife and two brothers, Chief Justice Eugene B. Gary and 5 Ex-Speaker of the House Frank B. Gary, and by one sister, Mrs. James M. Eason, of Charleston. Funeral services will be held at * Judge Gary's residence tomorrow at 15 6 o'clock. Interment at Elmwood cemetery, Columbia. 0 Ernest Gary was born at Cokese bury, Abbeville county, S. C.f on Jans uary zatn, tie was tne second son of Dr. F. F. Gary and Mary Car* line Blackburn. * "As a boy Judge Gary attended the e Cokesbury Conference school. He y studied law under his uncle, W. T. Gary, of Augusta, Ga., and became ? the partner of his uncle, Gen. M. W. Gary, at Edgefield, S. C. At hisun" cle's death he entered into a partnership with Capt. N. G. Evans. From 1881 until his appointment to the Bench in 1892, Judge Gary and Capt. J Evans remained partners. In 1886, Judge Gary was elected a to represent Edgefield county in the # i- State legislature. He was twice reg elected, acting upon many important g committees, including the judiciary, k of which he was chairman during his >, third term. In 1892 he was elected i,_ . e as one 01 oouin Carolina s delegates a at large to the national Democratic i- convention, and cast his ballot for the s Democratic presidential nominee. In o 1892 he was elected to the judgeship of the 5th judicial circuit of this e State, in which capacity he has served since that aatp. q In 1905 Judge Gary was married to e Miss Eliza Rhett, daughter of Hon. v John T. Rhett, of Columbia. lt ?? SPARROWS AS RAT KILLERS. 0 Busy Little Birds Declare War on Intruding Rodents. ? ' e Many stories have been told of the 1 prowess of rats in combat with other t animal6, and the fact that one can r kill a dog is well known, but the fact d that they themselves are warred upon 11 and exterminated by the lowly Eng0 lish sparrow has just been brought to light. At North Fort Worth the erection of three brick buildings in a peculiar r manner left a small court in the rear u of one building with no outlet ex r cept the blue sky above, y This court has for some time been a used as a playground by unusually big rats that are almost driving the 3 grocers and butchers in that vicinity g to distraction. Q English sparrows have of late bea come attracted to this court and wish s to use it as a nesting place. That rats _ and sparrows cannot live together is e a settled thing; therefore, the spar. rows have decided that the rats must leave, and daily they are killing them off in large numbers. s The sparrows roost on the tops of e the buildings overlooking the court s and whenever a rat ventures forth * to scarry across from one hole to ane other a flock of sparrows descend 3 upon him and in a short-while peck f him to death.?Fort Worth (Tex.) r Dispatch to New York World. a t The Daby's First Year. i y In all due modesty I wish to map s a brief record of my achievements - during my first year in household J auaus. I controlled the heads of all de partments. I have bulldozed the doctor and i nurse. I have cut one tooth, t I have furnished an unfailing topic r of conversation. r I have been written up by so1 ciological experts. I have put the local drug store on r its feet. j I have helped out the gas comf panv. 1 I have achieved a first-class reput tation as an orator. ; I have put down several severe in surrections of colic. g i While I am not yet on my feet, I expect to be president some day.? 5 Life. j Uplifting. t ??. , Frost?Do you think the auto has , an enobling influence. Snow?Well, speaking personally, . we have been fined and refined.? Judge. V*-- : '