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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20,1914. Established 1891.
BIG CANAL OPEN TO ALL
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HENCEFORTH SHIPS MAY PASS
^ TO AND FRO.
Loaded Steamer Goes From Atlantic .
^ Ocean to the Pacific in Nine
Hours.
Panama, t.ug. 15.?The Panama
canal is open to the commerce of the '
world. Henceforth ships may pass
to and fro through the great waterway,
which establishes a new ocean
highway for trade.
The steamship Ancon, owned by j
the United States war department,
with many notable people on board, ,
today made the official passage,
which signalized the canal's opening.
She left Cristobal at 7 o'clock this ^
morning and reached Balboa, on the
Pacific end, at < o'clock this afternoon.
The Ancon will remain at the
Balboa docks for some time, dis
' charging her ca go, this being the
first commercial voyage made
through the canal.
The canal will be used tomorrow
for the transfer of four cargo ships.
-.1 The Ancon's trip was the fastest
* " yet made by a large ocean steamer.
The steamer went through the Gatun
^ locks in 70 minutes, a speed never
before equalled. The other lockages
were equally rapid.
Col. G. W. Goethals, builder of the j
canal and governor of the Zone,
watched the operations closely and ;
was pleased at the improved hand- '
ling of the locks. He declared that
even this would be made much better
with time. Capt. Hugh Rodman,
superintendent of transportation.
^ ^ ' who directed the trip, voiced similar '
sentiments.
FRENCH WOMEN WHO KILL. 1
Female Murderers of France Do Not 1
Expect to Suffer Penalty. ' 1
They have got out of the habit of 1
executing women in France. For the ]
past 10 years there have been about <
. 350 murders a year in France, two- 1
thirds of them crimes of passion, as 1
the French call them, says the Toron- 1
to Mail and Empire. Rarely, indeed,
is a murderess executed. There is a 1
very notorious case that may be re- <
called, that of Mme. Lamberjack, the J
wife of a well-known automobile <
manufacturer. She had been divorc- i
ed from a former husband for 12
months, and the former mates, ac- (
companied by their attorneys were
to meet for the purpose of arranging
., for an equitable division of the furniture.
In the presence of the witnesses
Mme. Lamberjack drew a revolver
and shot her ex-husband. She i
even pursued the wounded man into i
the garden and there emptied the ]
contents of her revolver into his 1
body. Her defense was that she ]
loved him too much to see him mar- i
ried to another. She was acquitted, i
, Another case was tnai 01 .ume. <
Poeckles, who kept a small school in i
, the suburbs of Paris. One night as i
she and her husband were returning i
home together a couple of gunmen :
opened fire and killed the man. At the <
.trial it was proved that Mme. Poeckles
had hired them to commit the ]
murder. She said that her husband <
. was a man of dissolute character <
% and had been unfaithful to her. She
was acquitted. France does not pun- 1
ish her murderesses because the av- <
erage Frenchman is very impression- 1
able, and pays more attention to the ;
emotional appeals of defending coun- j
sel than would the average Canadian i
juror. On account of this forensive i
eloquence reaches a high pitch in
France, and scores of murderers are i
saved every year for no better reasen i
than that they have eloquent advo- i
cates. i
In France the judge is not the j i
stern master of the courtroom that j ?
he is in British countries. At the j 1
trial of Mme. Steinheil, who was ac-' 1
cused of having murdered her hus- <
band and her mother, a contingent ]
of youthful barristers behaved out- <
rageously, making it impossible for <
, the jury to hear the voice of the pub- ]
lie prosecutor, and jeering whenever
he made a point against the prisoner. <
A French trial, according to a recent <
observer, resolves itself into a trian- 1
gular duel among the judge, the ?
prosecutor and the laymen for the :
defense. Sometimes all three speak (
at once. The judge frequently inter- 1
rogates witnesses. The public in the <
background applauds, hisses, laughs 1
and otherwise takes a hand in the ]
proceedings. Emotion decides the <
issue. If the murderess looks repentant,
and weeps becomingly, she :
will frequently be acquitted without
the jury leaving the box. In view of 1
the great political influence which 1
Mme. Caillaux can command it does i
not appear likely that she will pay
any severe penalty for her crime. i
ALLIES FOR 800 YEARS.
Great Britain and Portugal Always
Close Friends.
If Great Britain is drawn into the
war in Europe. Portugal necessarily
will become involved, according to
Prof. Siqueira Coutinho, of the Uniyersidade
Live, Lisbon, who is at the
Raleigh, says the Washington Post.
Prof. Coutinho is in this country to
study commercial relations between
the United States and Portugal and
to deliver a course of lectures on Portuguese
literature.
"Portugal is Great Britain's oldest
illy," said Prof. Coutinho. "Away
back in the 11th century Portugal
rod England contracted an alliance
for defense and offence, and it has
jxisted ever since. In the South African
war Portugal facilitated the
transportation of British troops
i/iMBo'lini. torritnrv and in nrpvinilR
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wars in which England was involved
always stood by her ally. The situation
in Europe is ominous. One can
not contemplate it without the gravast
apprehension.
"I have found in my brief visit to
America that Portugal and this country
can extend trade relations with
mutual profit," continued Prof. Coutinho.
"There is a market here for
aur wines, preserved figs and fi6h,
olives, cork and cocoa, and you can
send directly to the Portuguese markets
textiles and machinery. We
have bought quantities of machinery
from the United States, but nearly
all through European agents. There
is no reason why we should not deal
iirect. It would be profitable to both
nations."
Prof. Coutinho expressed the greatest
confidence in the future of the
new republic of Portugal, notwithstanding
Spain's efforts to stir up
UltJ i \jj aiiDto.
''Whatever agination there has
been on the part of royalists and followers
of former King Manuel has
been due to Spain," he said. "Spain
provided the money for the arms and
immunitions of the royalists, but
they can never succeed. If Manuel
were to return to Portugal I should
fear for his life.
"Business has not been so good in
Portugal. We have suffered from a
Jepression as have most of the other
aations, but I find that here in this
country business is worse than it is
in Portugal."
CHILDREN PLAN FLYLESS CITY.
Will Rob Pests of Breeding Places
and Rid Town of Them.
Muncie is almost a fiyless town,
md there's a: reason. Several thousind
school children enrolled in a
more or less definite organization
known as the Young Citizens, league,
pledged themselves a few weeks
igo to make Muncie a clean city by
seeing to it that rubbish and garbage
Df all kinds should be removed. The
?flioe Torino' hoAn
result lias UCCU men. ?vvrobbed
of their breeding places, now
aumber less than a fourth of the
aumber usually present at this time
if year.
The el'y and county boards of
health and the city street cleaning
department have cooperated with the
children to make Muncie clean, and
while it is probable that there will
be a good many flies during the
summer it is believed that the number
will be so reduced that by next
rear it may be possible for an effective
organization of children and
adults to obviate the necessity of
screening.
"Talk of that kind seems idealistic,"
said a Muncie physician, who
is interested in this work, "but it is
really practical. I am told, although I
aever have been there, that in Vienna
there are no screens because a fly is
so rare as to be a curiosity, and this
because cleanliness is the city's motto.
Now if we can interest the children
a little more vitally in a campaign
to make the town absolutely
:lean. all this with the cooperation
Df the adults of course, the fly here
may in time become rare."
Before the last term of school end;d
the Commercial club, by means of
speakers, obtained pledges from
thousands of school children, who
signed their names to printed cards,
saying that they would do all they
:ould to nr .e the city clean. Nothing
tvas said about flies, but the partial
elimination of the fly comes as a natural
consequence of the clean up
movement. The pledges the children
signed follows:
For a cleaner and more beautiful
Muncie:
I want Muncie to be clean and
beautiful, and I promise to do all
that I can to make it so, especially
in the following ways:
I will not throw litter or dirt of
my kind into the streets or alley or
I IN THE PALMETTO STATE
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SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
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State News Boiled Down for Qnick '
Reading?Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings. <
Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins, dean of the '
department of agriculture of the Uni- !
versity of Illinois, addressed the <
farmers at Columbia Tuesday. <
The last campaign meeting of the ]
senatorial candidates will be held at 1
Sumter to-day. The last meeting of
the State party was held .yesterday 1
at Pickens. 1
George E. Case and J. W. Stout J
were killed in Spartanburg Saturday
when an automobile in which they ^
were riding was wrecked by a Southern
railway train.
Subscriptions amounting to $143 (
have been made by persons in Char- ,
leston to the German Red Cross so- ,
ciety for the relief of the injured in j
the European war. ,
The national banks of the State |
held a meeting in Columbia yester- <
day for the purpose of forming a j
currency association, in order to se- i
cure funds under the Vreeland-Al- (
drich act. ]
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Different Trains, IHfferent. Folks. j
It would repay you suburbanites i
for your trouble were you to come to ,
town on successive mornings in dif- ,
ferent trains. I promise that you i
may observe a wide difference in the ,
habits, demeanor and appearance of j
i itia'nonnlA nil the wav from 6 to 10 i
o'clock. (
You've noticed that when a local \
train approaches the station, some of i
the passengers will crowd toward j
the doors? Well, the earlier the ]
train the more crowding. ;
Thus the aisles of the Paoli local ;
arriving at Broad street at 6:45 re- i
semble the aisles around a bargain (
counter. Many of those early ar- ]
rivals are hurrying to beat a time j
clock at their place of employment, j
Around 9:45 the crowding has '
greatly decreased. Most of those i
pasengers take no note of time regis- ;
ters. 5
Different newspapers are popular j
on different trains, and also in dif
ferent directions. And I observe also ]
that the passengers at < "erent hours i
are addicted to various news?the ,
later trains prefer the financial, edi- ,
torial and society pages. j
Sports attract most attention in ,
some of the early trains. It isn't true j
of course, that all the "big men" come
to town late.?Exchange. (
Country News.
Miss Thelma Sandifer returned to
her home in Collins, Ga., after an
extended visit to Miss Gladys Odom i
and other relatives. !
Mr. L. D. Odom has returned from 1
a trip to Bennettsville, Clio, and ;
other points in Marlboro county. j
Misses Eva and Lila McCue, and 1
Gladys Odom visited Ehrhardt 1
several days last week. 1
Mrs. L. D. Odom has returned from ]
a visit to Collins, Savannah, and <
several other points in Georgia. <
Mr. L. D. Odom spent the week- 1
end in Savannah, and accompanied i
Mrs. Odom home. 1
on the lawns.
I will not deface buildings, fences
or sidewalks. ,
I will not unnecessarily cross or ^
trample down grass or grass plots.
I will not break down shrubbery ^
or flowers without the permission of
the owners.
I will help to keep the front yard ,
and back lawn of my own home as i
clean as possible.
I will always remember that Muncie
is my city and I will help to make ^
it neat and attractive.
The speakers from the Commercial ,
club who addressed the school chil- j
dren also added to the pledge the '
advice to "swat the fly." When the ,
school vacation ends the Commercial ^
club will attempt to effect a detailed
and officered organization of the
Young Citizens' league, dividing the
city into districts, each district having
a captain who will be in charge
of the clean-up work. i
A more extensive campaign against t
the fly will then be started. Health c
authorities say tnat nies exist an me
year around in certain steam heated ?
buildings here, and that it is from t
this parent stock that most of the 1
summer flies come. An effort to have
these flies exterminated in the win- t
ter will be made to the end that Muncie
may be made perfectly flyless.? i
Muneie (Ind.) Dispatch to New York c
Sun. I
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BORAX PREVENTS THE FLY.
Effective and Easy .Means Checking
Spread of Typhoid.
As a result of experiments, the
specialists of the department of agriculture
have discovered that a small
imount of ordinary borax sprinkled
daily on manure will effectively present
the breeding of the typhoid or
house fly. Similarly, the same substance
applied to garbage, refuse,
ppen toilets, damp floors and crevices
in stables, cellars or markets will
prevent fly eggs from hatching. Borax
will not kill the adult fly or prevent
it from laying eggs, but its
thorough use will prevent any further
breeding. It was felt that if
some means of preventing the breeding
of flies near a human habitation
could be devised, the diseases spread
by these filthy germ carriers could
be greatly -educed. While the "swat
the fly campaign," traps and other
levices for reducing the number of
typhoid-carrying flies are of value,
they are of less importance than the
prevention of the breeding. It was
realized, however, that no measure
for preventing the breeding of flies
tvould come into common use unless
it was such that the farmer could
use it'on his manure pile without
destroying its usefulness for growing
plants and without introducing into
the soil any substance that would
interfere with his crops.
In the case of garbage cans or refuse
piles, two ounces of borax or
calcined colemanite, costing from 5
cents a pound upward according to
the quantity which is purchased, will
effectually prevent flies from breeding.
In view of this discovery there
now seems little excuse for any horse
pwner or resident of a city allowing
typhoid flies to breed in his stable or
garbage can. It is believed that this
information will greatly help the
health authorities in their campaign
igainst the typhoid fly. The health
authorities have long tried to prevent
the breeding of flies in city stables
through the use of iron sulphate as a
iarvacide. In the case of iron sulphate,
however, a large amount is
required, and other insecticides such
is paris green or potassium cyanide,
ivhile effective in killing the flies,
ire very expensive or extremely poisonous.
Borax, which is used freely
in most households, and is readily
ivailabfe in all parts of the country,
has the advantage of being comparatively
nonpoisonous and noninflammable,
readily soluble in water and
jasy to handle. It can be purchased
it retail for 10 cents a pound, and a
single pound used as directed in a
garbage pail or open toilet may present
the breeding of hundreds of
iangerous flies.?Washington Dispatch
to Bostoh Transcript.
Marriage a Habit to Women.
Women have the marrying habit;
men do not. This is not strange, for
generations of girls have been taught
that every woman should be married,
ind that to remain unwed is a disgrace.
Being a "married woman" has
JfcJtJII 5 U1 I U1 uuaol VI s>uyv,nv..vj w;he
part of wives. Naturally, because
:heir mothers and almost every other
person of their own sex put a great
ieal of emphasis on the desirability
jf being married, and none at all on
:he desirability, which sometimes exists,
of remaining unmarried, girls
looked on marriage as the goal of
imbition, and bent their whole energies
to getting husbands.
Rather than endure the stigma of
being "old maids," they took the
irst man who gave them a chance.
Their object was not love, not a husDand,
but simply to acquire the sta;us,
privileges and deference which
:hey had been taught were denied to
ill of their sex except the "married
voman."
> The same mother^ who fairly drive
:heir daughters to marry are singuarly
reluctant to see their sons wed.
The mother who is employing all the
irts and crafts of the chase to entrap
some other man's * son for her
laughter's husband will weep at the
innouncement that the other woman's
daughter has shackled her
son.
Xo Fun in It.
John D. Rockefeller, during an
mpromptu reception at the end -of
he service in a Yonkers Baptist
hurch, said of charity:
"It is well to get rich, but let us
,ret rich without turning our backs
>n charity and gentleness and loving
cindness."
Mr. Rockefeller, with a depreca
ory wave of the hand, added:
"There isn't much fun, after all,
n using as stepping-stones to suc ess
the stumbling blocks of other"
>eople."
| SHOULD HOLD COTT(
WILL PRESS PLANS TO AVE
DISASTER.
Committee Will Labor on in Effort
Save South From Full Effects o1
European War.
Washington. Aug. 14.?The Sou
ern Cotton congress, after indors
various plans for the relief of
crisis of the cotton market result
from the European war, conclu<
its sessions here tonight. The c
gress authorized various committ
to cooperate with the federal i
State authorities in their efforts
enable the cotton growers to weat
the financial storm and secure a 1
price for the present cotton crop
After indorsing the work so
done by the Southern representati
in congress in the matter of furni
ing transportation for the exp
trade and providing currency
finance the crop, the congress
dorsed a bill introduced in the ho
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eas, authorizing the issuance of f
eral reserve notes on cotton.
Later the report from the resc
tions committee was adopted outi
ing a plan to meet the entire sit
tion. This provided for the appoi
ment of a committee of five memb
to cooperate with congress,
treasury department and the fede
reserve board to seek means of
nancing and marketing the cr
without unnecessary loss to the I
mers."
Should Hold Cotton.
The report recommended that
growers hold cotton of the pres
tVna r?rico nf 1 2 1-2 PPTC f
pound, based on middling cotton.
It urged the federal reserve bq
and the secretary of the treasury
place $300,000,000 in the banks
the South on the basis of the cot
production in each State. It tl
proposed that every termer sho
have the right to go to his bank {
secure a loan on notes maturing
six months but renewable for
months, secured by his cotton on o
half of the crop he raised, to 80
cent, of the value of the cotton ba
on the average price for the last 1
years.
These notes, the report recomme
ed, should be made rediscountable
the federal reserve banks.
As originally presented, the rep
recommended that the notes cont
a stipulation that the farmer wo
raise only half of a normal crop
1915, and if the war was still
progress on April 1, should raise o
one-quarter of his crop, thus hold
down the 1915 production to prev
a glut, caused by carrying over x
year's surplus.
A vigorous discussion resulted
striking out this provision and rec<
mended only that the farmer
urged to cut down his crop with
stipulation in the proposed notes. 1
report recommended that tobacco '<
other crops should be handled in
same way, in the discretion of the
serve board.
President E. J. Watson was auth
ized to appoint a committee to ti
up the question of providing wa
houses to store such of the crop
will be held over until next year.
He was also authorized to nam
committee of a member from e;
cotton State to call a State conv
tion of nine delegates from ei
county representing farmers, m
chants and bankers, to urge gov
nors to call special sessions of St
legislatures to immediately take
the question of installing State wa
house systems.
I'nmiule Men.
Jerome S. McWade, the DDuli
millionaire connoisseur, said at a d
ner at the Marlborough-Blenheim,
Atlantic City:
"I am sick and tired of those fin;
ciers, who, when caught out, put
the blame on another?put all i
blame on a dead man.
"There was a sugar scandal, a
the blame all put on poor d<
Havemeyer. There was the railrc
scandal, and the blame all put
poor dead Harriman. And now
have the New Haven scandal a
Mellen puts the blame on poor de
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Ii'ierpoiit .wuigau. ua.il, i> um a.
dodge!"
Mr. McWade struck the table vig
ously with his fist and added:
"How ridiculous ever to put 1
blame on others, dead or living, ai
way! We hear a lot from the s?
made man?why does the self i
made one always give the credit
somebody else?"?Chicago Herald.
Be sure to read page 2 this we<
THH COTTON CONGRESS.
Hon. S. G. Mayfield Gi\es Interesting
UT Account of Meeting.
Editor of the Bamberg Herald: I
left Denmark for Washington to at;
to tend the Southern cotton congress
( on Wednesday, the 12th. Was present
at the meetings of the convention.
The convention was well attended
by a thoughtful, earnest body
of business men. Among the hundreds
present I did not see but one
the man under the influence of intoxicates
ing liquor, but each and every one,
led bankers, merchants, farmers, and
on_ some lawyers were earnestly anxious
to do whatever could be done to mainind
tain the price of cotton.'and to relieve
t0 the congestion on all lines of ship
ping and transportation.
air In a meeting which I had the honor
of attending as one of two
far sent by the cotton associaves
tion to meet with the grain shipsb
pers, a committee formed by the val0rt
rious chambers of comerce of the
to United State6, we met with the presin
ident, and discussed matters with
use him. The main interest, however,
aa_ was the discussion before the various
ed- heads of departments in which it was
brought out tfyat every grain elevator
>lu- on the coast of the Atlantic, Pacific,
lin- Gulf of Mexico or the Mississippi riv
ua" er was full to overflowing, ana ior
int* miles the tracks were literally covers
ered with grain for export,
the The cotton association did good,
:ral earnest work, and the whole matter
"fi- boiled down means that we urge up?P>
on the coto ngrowers, as individuate,
"ar- the merchants, bankers, factors, fertilizer
companies and every other
company or concern that does busiajl
ness with the cotton farmer to assist
ent in warehousing the crop. It was
s a thought that we would make less
than fourteen million bales of cotar(j
ton, but it was decided that we ought
to at least to warehouse, and hold, sev0f
en million bales, as it was better to
ton sell seven million bales for twelve
aen cents per pound, than to sell fourteen
u]d milion bales at six cents per pound.
in(j South Carolina was well representin
ed, the president of the convention
six was our commissioner, E. J. Watson,
ne. and he did his work well and thorper
oughly. Some of the congressmen
se(j from this State attended the con
gve vention, to-wit: Mr. Lever, cnairman
of agriculture, Mr. Byrnes, Mr.
n(j. Whaley, Mr. Ragsdale, Mr. Finley and
, jn Mr. Aiken. I do not think any others
were present. Neither of our
l0rt senators were present, but Senator
ajn Hoke Smith, of Georgia, made the
uj(j first address on the first day, foljn
lowed by Congressman Lever, chairjn
man of the committee on agriculture.
njv These were fine addresses, well prejn?
pared by thoughful men. The conent
census of opinion, boiled down, was
his that we needed legislation to cover
certain points, and we so recommend- L
in ed. and the legislation has been in)m_
troduced and it is believed will pass
he congress.
out The president, though looking very
Phe sa<*. gave a respectful hearing to the
in(j committe on shipping, of which, as
the above stated, I was a member, and asre_
surea us that everything that could
be done by the government and its
or_ officials would be done. I may write
ike you next weeek when I have time
ire_ to prepare the details of this convenas
ficm*
Won't you urge upon the planters
e a of Bamberg county to begin considerlch
ing plans for holding their cotton?
en_ It is believed that the bankers, mericjj
chants and all others who have exier.
tended credit will cooperate upon a
er_ reasonable basis, so as not to sacri- 1
ate fice the cotton crop of 1914.
Up Barnwell county had a fine delere
gation, Col. Harry D. Calhoun, Capt.
J. A. Jenkins and others. Sorry
that the writer was the only one from
Bamberg count}'.
S. G. MAYFIELD. v
nth
Rattlers at Tillman.
in Tillman, Aug. 15.?W. D. Floyd
and C. M. Jones on last Saturday
an-, killed 29 rattle snakes and on Sunall
I day 38 within one-half mile of M. W.
the'Floyd's residence. The 58 rattlers
' ? '-.'Ha/I Ana cnnt thora pi rt P"
were Mucu at uut cyvi., i.uv>v ~
md three grown and 55 small snakes
;ad measuring 12 to 15 inches. There
jad have been a great number of rattlers
on killed here this season.
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Provided For Now.
>ad keen taught t0 remember all his
aje Bobby had ben taught to remember
all his relatives when he said his
or_ prayers, says the Philadelphia Ledger.
One night, as he knelt at his
he mot^er s ^nee' he did not mention
' ? the name of a favorite aunt,
lyllf
"Why, Bobbie" said the mother,
" - - j; J - Kloeo A lint Ro?
in I * man i sa.v uuu uicm
t0 ' atrice and make her happy.' "
"Well, mother." replied the little
t boy, "I don't have to say that any
ek. more. Aunt Beatrice's engaged."
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