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p..,r i . ' Shr ianthmi ?rrali> j One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1914. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS i SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS; IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, Sept. 14.?The weather is very cool for the time of year. Fire in the fire place is not out of order at all. Makes the air more pleasant. Sunday morning a bale of cotton was found on the platform on fire. It happened to be away from the other cotton, and only the one bale caugh on fire. Several citizens went to work and put the fire out, saving about one-half of the bale. Farmers are gathering their cotton with all the care they can, those that hire cotton picked give as much as 50 cents per 100 pounds for picking, 60 the 'laborer gets paid, if no one else gets any money from the ootton. , Well, we know now who will be governor and the like, and the good people can remember what each candidate told them he would do if * elected, so now it remains for themto show us that they are men who ^ stand by their word or not. v The Carolina Gin Co. is busy until late at night ginning cotton in order to take a new start next day. JEE. Country Correspondence. Ideal Indian summer, school children hunting up bid books, and everyone hunting up last year's thick clothes for these cool mornings. The health in our community is good and we hope the change of season will not affect malaria for the worse. Hampton school opened its doors Monday morning with two pupils. The other three in the community are busy aiding their parents in gathering the fleecy staple. Saturday, the 26th, is set aside for "work day" for Connie Maxwell orphanage. Let everybody give their t labors of that day to the fatherless and motherless boys and girls. At the Bamberg-Barnwell Baptist Sunday-school convention it was noticeable that the schools reported more finances to the orphanage than any other benevolent cause. Just a word or two in addition to W. G. B.'s report of the convention in last week's issue. Rev. W. R. McMillan's sermon was taken from these words: "Gather the men, women and children and the stranger within thy gates into the house of the Lord." His sermon, as always, was much commented on, and a timely and much appreciated discourse. On Thursday evening, Rev. J. R. Collum delivered another timely sermon from the words: "How often V would I have gathered thy children togetner, even as a nen gaiueicm her own brood under her wings, and ye would not." On Friday morning Dr. C. E. Burts, of Columbia, made an able address, his subjexil being "The dignity of the Sunday-school." He mentioned statistics showing the force to citizenship and among some of the things he said were these words, "It is great to be loved by and a leader of men, but far greater is it to be loved by and a leader of children." He laid stress on the responsibility on such leadership. From start to finish the program was filled with good spiritual teachings, and with such generous hospitality as Healing Springs tendered we were sorry when the session was finished. Mr. Ben. F. Hill, of Clear Pond, is ' spending a short while in Augusta. Now that the elections are all over we offer (though we we are not a voter) many thanks for the services of the retiring officers, with good wishes for whatever you may undertake, and to the new ones we hope you will fill the places with the same diligence as our faithful retired ones and that the voters will !* be ready to respond to the calls and fc hold up the hands for all that is tried to be done for our good. The soreness and strife that may have been occassioned, we hope will soon be healed and not long before everyone will feel "at home." Now at the season for new dresses, hats, cloaks, etc.. it is real interesting in one sense to hear many who have hitherto cast away last season's apparel speaking of remodeling as "the war is on!" Some say the styles are no good, as Paris is in too much trouble to design fashions. Fidelity's a virtue that ennobles ? E'en servitude itself. EXCHANGE KKOPKXIXG IX SIGHT j | I Optimism is Cornerstone of Simulation. 5 New York, Sept. 10.?Optimism is the cornerstone of speculation and < stock brokers in the financial district are discussing with confidence the reopening of the stock exchange and a near revival of speculative activity. Predictions were made on the floor that the trading would be resumed , within six weeks. This, of course, . would not be attempted without the sanction of the federal reserve board, which is expected to provide a fund of at least $250,000,000 that would ( be available for call loans. The announcement from Washing- ( ton that the special committee ap- * pointed at the recent conference suggested that the banks of America un- ? derwrite a fund of $150,000,000 in ] gold to be u6ed for the settlement of i British-American debts met with gen- j eral approval. Probably not more < ? r A AAA AAA k/\ mail ^uv,wv,vvv nuuiu uc iuaujcuiately needed and the effect on the sentiment would be very great. With * the cooperation of the Bank of England, credits should be opened for a ' shipment of grain and provisions to offset such deliveries of securities ' that are still pending. Too Much Attention Abroad. One of the old-time active floor < traders said yesterday: "I look for i some form of trading within thirty 1 days, and I expect a quick apprecia- 1 tion of the opportunities that lie at 1 the feet of our industrial corpora- ( tions. The inforced idleness of the past six weeks has made us unusual- . lv keen and the large amount of reserve money already issued will surely find its way back to Wall street and be used for speculative T.w/-,ooo In mr nnininn pntirplv j/uij.vati,. -r-? < too much attention has been given to , the threatened heavy selling from abroad. Supposing stocks do decline some five points. We are already ' margined for such a development, 1 and the public would quickly buy 1 and turn the tide upward. For ( twenty years I watched the trading ( on the floor and the man that would ^ attempt to make a profit by short * selling under present conditions would be a fool. There are a lot of traders who hold these opinions." Call loans are being generally marked up to 8 per cent., and such time loans as mature are renewed on call at that rate. A more active market was noted in commercial paper, with Western banks buying at a ( 7 per cent. rate. As predicted iast week, the Copper Producers' association did not make a report for the 1 month. The market for copper metal is quiet, with inquiries for South and Central America awaiting banking facilities. Reports from the steel trade indica'te that prices are holding 1 well, with a fair export business, but a falling off in domestic orders. , 1 Aviators Shake Hands. 1 London, Sept. 9.?Writing to ms ' parents from a hospital, John Baker, belonging to the British Royal Flying Corps, says: , < "While flying' over Boulogne at a height of 3,000 feet something went wrong with the machine and the engine stopped. The officer said to me, \ 'Baker, our time has come. Be brave ( and die like a man. Good-bye,' and j he shook hands with rue. 1 "I shall always remember the min- < utes that followed. The next I re- ] membered I was in a barn." Baker's injuries include broken 1 legs. < 25 Notaries Dismissed. ( Columbia, Sept. 12.?The gov- , ernor today revoked the commis- . sions of twenty-five notaries public, . J as follows: . C. L. Jones, Ward; J. A. Satcher, Ward; W. B. Wallace, Newberry; C. , F. Lathan, Little Mountain; R. L. jTarrant, Newberry: H. T. Cannon. < Newberry; W. F. Sanford. Newberry; Guy Vaughn, Fairforest; J. N. Barn- J well, Bayburo: Arnold Bell, Bayboro; M. C. Holmes, Bayboro: R. M. Prince, Gurley; J. W. B. Chaplin, Neeses; W. L. Ehney. Neeses; J. B. Sheppard, i Neeses: J. T. Williams, Nees?s: W. S. 1 j Mobl^y, Johnston; W. C. Derrick, Johnston: J. C. Lewis, Johnston; < Yancey M. May, Johnston: Eugene ' A. Griffin, Newberry; J. y. McFall, Von-horrv .Tnpl F McFaddin. Sardi- 1 iiia and J. L. Gamble, Mayesville. j 1 Where Was the Monkey. i Edith had been to a concert for < i the first time. "And what did you think of it?" asked her mother. 1 "I didn't like the organ very well." I "Why not?" . 1 "'Cause these wasn't any monkey 1 with it." ] IN THE PALMETTO STATE T >OME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ti State News Boiled Down for Quick ti Reading?Paragraphs About e Men and Happenings. C( e: il John J. McMahan was nominated t< 'or the house from Richland county it the third primary held on Tues- y lay. t] A great many of the towns and itiec nf the state have organized g 'Buy-a-bale" clubs, and quite a good q leal of cotton is being bought for 0 en cents per pound, cash. e: Henry Sharpe was shot and in- C1 stantly killed Monday afternoon in y Lexington county, by George Berfoot, )oth white. Berfoot claims to have e Ired in self-defense, saying that 0 Sharpe had a knife in his hand. The expense accounts of the can- jj lidates in the second primary were: y Wyatt Aiken, $96.35; John G. Rich- p lrds, $173.55; F. H. Dominick, $500; f F. W, Shealy, $68.80; C. D. Fortner, S( $29.31; R. I. Manning, $1,125.42; A. b I. Bethea, $24.00. t, Conductor P. S. Jeffers, of the roast Line railway, was considerably S1 njured Monday by stepping into a P lole near the track and being thrown & :o the ground by the moving train. S d lie IS now in nil luiiuuai ? an. x i?i- mce. ^ The State Democratic executive j committee Tuesday reversed the Dor Chester executive committee in defaring J. A. Parlor and T. H. Abbott n lomirees for superintendent of edu?ation and auditor, and ordered the ? o :ommittee to declare John J. Howell tnd P. L. Moorer the nominees. t] Representative Henry, of Texas, tl tas appointed E. W. Dabbs as a rep- b eser.tative of this State on the com- t] nittee to work for an advance of sev- e jral million dollars to the farmers o )f the South on the cotlon crop, o Representative Lever, of this State, o s also a member of the committee, a * a WORKING TO SAVE EDISIO ITEM. a " Si ?35,000 Appropriation Cut Out by a Senate Committee. f( o Washington, Sept. 12.?Two South Carolina waterway projects are cut a jut of the river and harbor bill by a ;he amendments made in that meas- a are by the senate committee on com- S1 nerce today. The provision of $35,000 for the t] i-atprwav from Charleston to Orange aurg is cut out entirely, and so is the Pee Dee and Lumber River ap- g [>ropriation of $20,000. An effort 0 will be made by Mr. Lever to hold ^ :he Charleston and Orangeburg ap- a ?ropriation in conference. 0 The Charleston and McClellanville p waterway appropriation is not affect- p Jd. f( VOTE IN HAMPTON COUNTY. \ g [Jinn Goes Back to Senate and War- h ren to House. n Si Hampton, Sept. 10.?Complete of- ? Scial returns show E. R. Ginn is re- 0 sleeted senator and George Warren P reelected to the house of representa- a tives. J. Herman Lightsey is elected ^ sheriff, B. R. Hiers judge of probate, P B. H. Tuten supervisor, and R. D. s Mixson and P. E. Terry elected coun- 0 ty copimissioners. At the meeting Df the executive committee a protest a was filed against counting the Black 5 Creek box because one man alleged s to be ins ane was refused the right to vote. The only race that would be .4 iffected by not counting this box would be that for representative, rhe protest was filed by the voter himself. The executive committee p threw out the protest. o 'IX THE LAKE ALL FOR LOVE." t] v Extract From Note Finned to Cloth- ^ inc Found on Bank of Lake. . o C Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 9.?The bod- t] ies of C. B. Howell and Lizzie Griffin are at the bottom of Lakewood Park lake in the suburbs of this city,: according to a note found on the j j bank of the lake at 12:30 todav. | r, With the note was clothing of both i tj people and according to the clothing and contents the parties are railroad people. The man's coat contained railroad passes and the coat of the woman bore an emblem pin of the Drder of Railway Conductors. ! n "We are in the lake, all for love," j was the contents of the note. Aside from this no other information is ob- j :ainable and the bodies will have to | be recovered from the lake before b real identity is known. J crop must be curtailed, j 11 his Season's Crop Can Be Taken | Care of, Declare Representatives. jjj Washington, Sept. 9.?The salva- % on of the South in the present conngency, arising from the aggravati situation with reference to the atton crop, growing out of the forign wars, is dependent in large part, ' not entirely, upon next year's cot)n crop, in the opinion of senators, ongressmen and economists in of Washington who are familiar with Fr ie difficulties presented. ha It is thecr belief that the federal ^ Tli overnment can and will supply adeuate currency to meet the imme- m< iate demands, provided the South- Fr rn States themselves take steps to ^ artail the production of cotton next ear. 1 ip If such steps are not taken, howver, it i3 believed that the efforts 8t< 1)6 f the federal government will prove f small value. ar So pronounced is the view in Waslilgton that the curtailment of next ar' AV ear s crop is an all important as .. mi ect of the situation, tnat tne musty les of the law libraries have been garched for copies of laws passed w< y thg Southern States in war times 5 curtail the production of cotton. m] Far from being illegal and uncon- e* titutional for a State to limit the n< roduction of cotton, this search has *n| isc!osed that practically all of the * outhern States enacted legislation uring the civil war to limit the pro- ^ *LT\ uction of cotton. The State of Georgia, on December 1, 1S62, passed the following law: "Section 1. The general assembly f Georgia do enact: That it shall ah ot be lawful for any person or per fill cms, whether residing in this State r not. to plant and cultivate in any ounty in this State, by themselves, of heir agents or employees, or allow g0 tie same to be done, a greater num- B( er of acres of land in cotton than of tree acres for each hand owned or ltz mployed by them between the ages f 15 and 55; and when said person w< r persons may own or employ hands V< ver 55 years of age and under G5, so nd over 12 and under 15, two of aid hands shall be counted as one; nd. therefore, said person or per- nc ons may plant and cultivate three t0 cres of land in cotton, and no more, or every two of said hands so owned v" r employed by them." Section 2 of the law fixed the pen- ve Ity for violation at $;500 for each *ei nd every acre planted in cotton bove the number allowed by the tatute. de Section 3, 4 and 5 are the adminis- to rative features of the act. wl The Arkansas law follows: to "Whereas, in the opinion of the b? eneral assembly the vital interests tb f our country demand that the cul- fo are of cotton should be restricted; nd, in lieu of that, the production f corn, wheat and other grain should sti e increased, and in view of such Pc ublic policy and necessity, there- m: ore: fe "Section 1. Be it inacted by the P? eneral assembly of Arkansas, that ev j? o o _k.ii P; l or aunng me year 10it auan -ot be lawful for any person or per- ha ons, in this State, owning, claiming, r leasing or possessing any cleared P? r tillable land, farm, plantation, to in lant or to cultivate more than two cres of such farm, plantation or ind in cotton, to the hand; and any th erson offending against this act, he, se he or they shall be deemed guilty r0 f a misdemeanor." th The penalty for violation is fixed t not less than $500 nor more than 1,000. *0 of AYS CORPSES CHOKEI) RIVER. sic i French Writer Describes tlie Fear-; . iei ful Slaughter of Germans. so Edouard Helsey. of Le Journal, re-1 ar orted to be now serving with the col- j ow rs, writes under date of August 2'j: j "It would be difficult to estimate clC be number of Germans killed last eek. Whole regiments were anniTl ilated at some points. They came ut of the wood iection by section. e me section, one shell?and every- er hing was wiped out. "At two or three places, which I til m forbidden to name, corpses filled be Meuse until the river overflowed, 'his is no figure of speech. The * iver bed literally was chocked by I oh be mass of dead Germans. The ef-, op set of our artillery surpasses even ! po ur dreams. The Germans use out- j f-date shrapnel which the Turks j sed in the Balkans. Its damages of re so slight that one of our artillery j egiments fought for a week, losing' lei nly eight killed and fourteen pa winded." a cri An injury engraves itse'f in metal, j a 1 ut a benefit writes itself in water.? du ean Hartant. I on LUES GAIN BIG VICTORY | ' LTTLE OF MAKXE WON BY THE FRENCH AND BRITISH. is Been Considered the Decisive Battle of the European War. London, Sept. 13.?The sixth week the war between Germany and ance, Great Britain and Belgium, e brought a vast transformation. ie pursued are now the pursuers. ie irresistible sweep of seven Germ armies through Belgium into ance met an immovable force at e River Marne. The army of Gen. Von Kluck, lich so long battled to turn the als' western flank, was slowly and ;adily outflanked. Its retirement fore the email but hardy British my turned the tide of battle. Today, if French official reports e correct, all the German armies, cept that facing Verdun and a few lies southwest, are retreating. Gon. Von Kluck's army, which a >ek ago was a few miles southeast Paris, has retired more than sixty lies to the southeast, while on the treme right the army of the Bavain crown prince, which was attack? the French eastern line from mcy to Epinal, has fallen back to e frontiers of Lorraine, permitting e French to reoccupy Luneville d several other towns. Retreat Hurried, Says Joffre. Gen. Joffre, French commander-inief. pictures the retreat as hurried, not disorderly, with the Germans andoning prisoners, wounded and pplies. Last Sunday was the darkest day nor fnr the allips The French vernment emigrated from Paris to >rdeaux in a long, sad procession motor cars. An attack on the capil appeared imminent and the main ;rman force had hammered a huge ;dge into France between Paris and irdun, with its centre some miles uth of that line. The French people trembled with e question whether their army was it a beaten army; whether the bisry of 1870 would repeat itself. The battle of the Marne, which is decided in a week, is regarded military critics as the most marllous reversal of roles of two arm5 known. German Plan Frustrated. In their view it appears to have tcided the first phase of the war and have made impossible the plan Sich the German staff is supposed have had of smashing me French one comprehensible stroke, and en turning the bulk of the German rces eastward to confront the Rusins. The military experts, however, are ill cautious. While recognizing the issibility that the German armies ay yet rally and draw a strong densive line, they recognize also the ? ? * 1 - a-- ? & *1*" ^ AAmnlntn 'bSlUUll^ Ui LUC dliiiUQt vvuii/ivwv acuation of France and Belgium, iris announces that the Germans Lve evacuated Amiens. The position 60,000 German reinforcements rented marching south on three roads that neighborhood is not known. Belgians Want Brussels Back. The Belgian army is credited with e determination to reoccupy Brusls and claims to have cut the railad between Liege and Brussels, us severing an important German le of communication. It claims to > pushing the scattered German rces, composed for the most part reservists, toward the southeast. Military authorities in France conler the position of the German arm3 critical. The army which was j uth of the Argonne forest, they j gue, hardly can retreat eastward ( ring to the danger from the strong- j held French fortress of Verdun,; tile the mountainous, wooded char- j ter of the Argonne district ren-! rs retreat due north impracticable. ie left wing of the Germans, they lieve, must retreat in a northwest-! Iy direction. Nothing Yet From Germany. They also cherish the hope that _ v otrigiaiis may sutwccu m ucauub ; e Germans out of Brabaut, when j e entire German army would be i liged to retreat on Luxemburg, an j eration which they liken to the ssing of a large stream through narrow bottle neck. The German version of the battle Marne is yet to be heard. The irman official wireless tonight is siit regarding the operations of the st week in that theatre. -It records local success by the army of the iwn prince, which it reports, too, fortified position southwest of Vern, and the beginning of an attack the forts to the south of Verdun ' i'-'I imttiy SPECIAL SESSION CALLED. Governor Calls Legislature to ConI sider Cotton Situation. / Columbia, Sept. 10.?Governor Blease tonight issued an official proclamation calling an extraordinary session of the legislature to meet in Columbia on the 6th day of October. The special session has been particularly called to consider the present and future condition of the State as result of the prostration of the cotton movement following the European war. . THREE SHOOTINGS IN A WEEK. One Results Fatally and Another May?In Aiken County. Aiken, Sept. 12.?Rural Policeman Gantt brought to this city and placed in jail yesteraay uromweu duitu, charged with, having shot and killed a woman by the name of Mattie Belcher, who lived in Edgefield county. The shooting took place near New Holland, where there was a hot supper last Saturday night. This is the third shooting affair in Aiken county within the past week. A white man by the name of Franklin shot another man named Jones at Warrenville on Wednesday night, and it is said that he will not live. The other happened at Eargle's Bridge Thursday, when Luke Gregory shot and seriously wounded Fannie Gantt. SUICIDDE AT JOHNSTON. Orangeburg Bricklayer Kills Himself. Johnston, Sept. 10.?James Brun- % ; son, an Orangeburg brick mason, committed suicide here yesterday afternoon by blowing out his brains with a pistol at his boarding ptlace. Having once been an inmate of the Insane Asylum, insanity is supposed to have been the cause. with heavy artillery. No date is given and the operations may have occurred at an early stage of the battle. Germans Retiring. The position of the troops, as stated in the French reports, is that the German right army is retreating beyond the River Vesle, which runs* between Rheims and Soissons; that the German forces in the centre, which had penetrated farthest south, are falling back north of Vitry-leFrancois and Seimaize and have ' crossed the River Marne, and in the hilly wooded country between Vitry and Verdun the Germans have lost Revigny and Brabant-le-Rct. Tha Prorifh annear to have taken the offensive along almost the entire 1 front, as indicated by successes in the east between Luneville and St. Die, where they have retaken several towns they evacuated a fortnight ago. Reports from Basel say hard fighting occurred yesterday in th^ Gubweiller Valley, in southern Alsace. Ninety thousand men are reported to be engaged. Another dispatch from Brussels says the French artillery and cavalry have annihilated two squadrons of German cavalry in that neighborhood. Russians and Austrians. In .the battles proceeding in Galicia and Russian Poland, success appears to cling to the Russians. They are reported to have won a decisive victory at Krasnick and Tomaszow \y. Thursday. The Austrian and German armies are estimated at forty divisions of infantry and eleven of cavalry, totalling more than a million men, and reinforced by several German divisions. The Russians describe their line as extending over several hundred versts. (A verst is about V two-thirds of a mile.) Fighting has been proceeding since August zi ana me nussians ciaim to be winning both in Poland and Galicia. The battle of Rawa Ruska, which is proceeding, apparently .will prove . ' the crucial test of the Austrian army. 1 Archduke Frederick, of Austria, is with the army there. A message from sources unfriendly to Austria declare the result of the Galician operations will determine whether the Austrian army will continue to be a factor in the war. While there is deep satisfaction in England over the progress of events on the French battlefields, there are 11V1 015110 U1 ICjUlClllg \sx WivwtHvivM. London today wore its usual Sunday calm. Newspapers continue to coun- , sel the people against over-optinjlsm and any belief that the war wijl be other than a long and costly one. The German general, Von Buelow, is giving the German people the same caution. He tells them they are only at the beginning of sacrifices and sufferings. * jr. * ' I '