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i I ' p lamhfrn ??raU> | ^ - .?... ?. ? I One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15,1914. N ' Established 1891. . COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS - SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Fairfax Fancies. * Fairfax, Oct. 10.?The U. D. C. held its last meeting at .Mrs. W. E. Harter's. A large number was present and business of importance was discussed. Mesdames G. D. Sanders and J. F. Lightsev were appointed delegates from Fairfax chapter to the State convention which meets at Yorkville in December. Refreshments were served. Mesdames Johnston, Lightsey and Blount gave music, while a paper was read by Mrs. Harter. Xfr- on/1 \fr? T?nsp and son Cecil, of Jacksonville, visited Mrs. C. M. Davis recently. Harry Davis, of Garnett, was also a visitor at this home. Mrs. J. M. Brant, of Ulmer, is visiting her son, Roy Brant. Miss Allen and Mrs. Benj. Loadholt were recent guests here. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Deer, of Ulmer, visited relatives here recently. Mrs. Rosa Platts, Misses Emma and Edna Platts visited Mrs. Julia 1 Harter recently. NEWS FROM NEAR COPE. Marriage at Cope Sunday, Oct. 4. Personals of Interest. Cope. Oct. 12.?On Sunday, October 4, Mr. Frank Valentine and Miss Rachael Lynch, both of Cope, were married at the home of the bride. Several relatives and friends being present to witness the happy event. Mr. J. H. Hiers, of Cope, will give a talk at Edisto Baptist church on Sunday morning, October 18. Dr. J. O. Sessoms preached a one sermon at Edisto Sunday. Miss Delia Mae Bonnett has been visiting relatives and friends at Cope. Misses Marie and Genora ThOmas of Cope spent Sunday with Miss Mary Jennings. Miss Flore Brickie spent Saturday night with Misses Daisy and Geneva Dukes. Mrs. Bessie Brickie is very sick, and we hope to see her well again , soon. Miss Agne Brickie of Columbia has returned home after a very pleasant visit here. Rally Day was observed at the Cope M. E. church Sunday and a uery fine programme was carried out. DEATH AT COPE. Mr. Andrew A. Gray Died Monday. Funeral Services Tuesday. Cope, Oct. 12.?Mr. Andrew A. Gray, of this place, passed away today at 1 o'clock, and will be buried at the family burying ground at the old home place to-morrow at 2 o'clock. Mr. Gray was a man cf between vourc 5 Vt?lll V-1UU1 auu OUVCUWJ-UTV JVMIW of age; a veteran of the civil war, having volunteered at the first call, , and served during the entire war; was taken prisoner up in Virginia, and served two months in a Northern prison. He was a good citizen, quiet and reserved in manner, and will be missed by his many friends, and his good wife, Aunt Gatsv, as she is called. He leaves besides his wife, two sons, Charles H. Gray, of Fleming6 ton, Fla., and John C. Gray, of this place. He was a member of the Sawyer Memorial Baptist church of Cope. "Jesus Paid It All." "Refused Notice." Every editor has received them. The postmaster sends them to the editor. For instance, there is a man by the name of John Blank, who refuses to take his paper out of the posroffice. He did not want it any longer and we wondered what was the matter. Upon investigation of our subscription book we found that John was shori $1.50. He stopped the paper as a matter of economy to us. One evening we went to church and John's melodious voice rang out loud and clear in that soul stirring song, "Jesus Paid it All." XVe might have been mistaken but his earnestness impressed us. The next day we sent him a receipt in full, beuaing his pardon for not knowing lie had made arrangements for his liabilities in that manner.?Cordele Dispatch. Moral: Don't be a John Blank. Does not he return wisest that comes home whipt with his own follies??Middleton. STKAXCE DANCES OF INDIANS. ; jj i Fancy Steps Such as "Big Dogs" and; "Prairie Chickens." J S< For several years Alanson Skinner, of the American Museum of Nat-! ural History, has been conducting! *" expeditions among the Indians of the I Northwest, having visited the tribes of the Cree, the Ojibway and the! Menominee, says the New York Sun.j He is now organ zing another expedi- j.. tion, and will set out 6oon to continue his work of exploration and ^ I research among tribes of the Northwest in the interests of the museum. i p/ A report of his work in the field last summer, including descriptions ^ i of the various ceremonials, dances U ! and customs of the Indians of the Northwest has been published re- w 1 K*- mviconm nf thp u y uiuovum. MV data was obtained from Irtdians, fr among whom Charlie Assinilboine, st Chief Walter, Jacob Bear and An- S drew Bear, Spotted One and Four Clouds. M The collector of Indian data and h trophies was initiated into the fa- h moufc ceremony of the Medicine w Lodge, #hich is practiced by the Me- ft nominees and other tribes of the Northwest. The dances and ceremo- ti nies described by Mr. Skinner include tc the Windigokan, or cannibal dance; m the big dogs dance, the prairie chick-j tc en, the sacred pipe-stem and the tc peacemaking dance. w Dream of Skeleton Being. pi "Pertain men used to dream Of! paguk, a skeleton being, with glar- al ing eyes," Mr. Skinner says, "which ai was sometimes seen flitting through C the air, and obtained from him the cl right to be Windogokan or cannibal ri dancers. Si "Such a man made for himself a $: costume of rags with a hideous mask, having an enormous, crooked, beak- ( like nose, the whole being daubed with paint. He also provided himself with a feathered staff hung with deer's hoof rattles. After a council the Indians agreed to perform this V1 dance, although it was very unusual. "A man's dance was held, and just ^ at dusk, when the dance was started in the log cabin used for that purpose three dancers were seen approaching. One bore a cane orna- ta mented with owl feathers down, and fr others carried green branches with r< strips of colored cloth tied to them. ^ As they drew near they paused, danced in a circle, performed ludicrous gyrations, appeared to bf' terrified at stumps, fled from dogs and were overcome at faces made by by- t standers. t Clowns Accept Tobacco. "At the conclusion of their antics ly the people came forward and gave w them tobacco with prayers for good p< luck. The clowns accepted the tobac- hi co with Dantomimes of terror. They e< then pretended to smell the gift, and as each for himself was sure that it m was a morsel of the precious weed he ty bent backward and forward, shaking 01 with guffaws. According to tradi- oj tion, whatever they were told not to di do that they straightway did. After- di ward they withdrew, but pausec. long p< enough for a photograph. The cos- al tumes are,now in the museum." fii The Wetigokan dance is another ir one in the series described by Mr. Skinner. 'According to Four Clouds, when all the people camped together some one might announce that he would sc make a Wetigokan dance, so a tent was set up in the centre of the camp, ^ apparently in imitation of a soldier's 11 lodge, and before it was placed a rod s' thickly hung with antelope hoofs or p deer claws." Mr. Skinner says. ^ Does the Choosing. ni "The maker of the ceremony, who a: was always a man who had dreamed j11 he had the right to do so, set about! i making himself a suit of grotesque | clothes and a mask with a very j a< long nose and small eyes and mouth.' When the costume was completed hej j donned it and began to sneak aliout i ! 1,- |,aj h tne camp peering uuu iuujco. j found a man at home, he would enter; | and point at him with his staf.\ andj3, : that man was then obliged to ri ;e and j join him. Other ceremonies recorded are thet big dog's dance, the dancers carrying! ; bone whistles and little painted!" 1 a sticks with headed streamers and' i ; m ; brass jinglers pendant: the round; r, ! dance, a popular performance, in! j which the participants dance in a ^ {circle around a large drum: the{ ! horse dance, the "throwing way n I dance," tabooed by th.e government: j the sacred pipestem dance, given bej fore going to war. and the peacemaking dance, with lighted pipes and! j song. | li j .Mr. Skinner will Lie accompanied j ! by an Indian interpreter on Lis exj pedition to the Northwest, and heib< ] will include a camera in his ot tfit. ; fs i V THE PALMETTO STATE >.ME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Vnitv ItnilaH TWivrn t'ftr Onick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The engineer and fireman on train o. 55, on the C. N. & L.. were inlred when the train ran into an open vitch at Goldville Monday. The amount received from the >rporation tax in this State in 1914 as $139,954.10. The corporation ix law went into effect in 1905. Ernest P. Evatt, of Greenville, as thrown from a horse Tuesday id killed. The animal became ightened and dashed through the :reets, finally throwing him to the round. Thomas Amnions was convicted al larion last week of the murder ol is wife and child and burning the ouse in which they lived. Mercy as recommenaea, saving aiiiuiuu: om the electric chair. Mrs. Frank Leslie, who died some me ago. leaves in her will $5,00C > Charles R. Folline and $10,000 tc rs. Robert Simons, both of Charles>n. Personal effects were also left > other Charlestonians. Mrs. Leslie as some years ago a well known ublisher. The South Carolina |tems in the tlotment for waterways in the rivers id harbors bill are as follows: harleston harbor, Ashley rivei lannel, $ 1 ,000; Great Pee Dee ver $10,000 Winvah bay $15,000; intee, Wateree and Congaree rivers, 30,000. Givp the Pestle-Tail Editor Room. Some of our exchanges are again laking sport of the fact that newsapers 'are willing to offer free adice to the farmers. If an editor ? as no advice- to offer, we don't blame im a blame: bit to keep his blame outh shut. But when a pencil usher who has "fetched up" right shind the business end of a pestleiil feels like spinning out a little ee advice and experience to his jaders, the city editor ought to keep is lip out of that too.?Marshville ome. Put His Own Money In. Before the passage of the present rict bank:ng laws in Wisconsin arting a bank was a comparatively mple proposition. The surprisingsmall amount of capital needed is ell illustrated by the story a pros jrous country-town banker told on imself w\en asked how he happen1 to enter the banking business. "Well," he said, "I didn't have uch else to do, so I rented an empr store building and painted 'Bank' i the -window. The first day I was pen for business a man came in and pposited $100 with me: the second iv another man dropped in and debited $250 and so, by George! long abou': the third day I got condence enough in the bank to put i a hundred myself." The Height of Suspicion. Blackstone is a lawyer of the old %.hool and has a well deserved repuition for good heartedness thai eeps him poor. He was recentlj nposed upon by the town's most iccessful miser, one Scruggins, whc laced troublesome legal work in his ands. As the time came for settlelent, Scruggins hemmed and hawed r.a manifpsted all svmtoms of beins " ? " * i acute pain over having to pay a rst debt. The lawyer's sunny good-nature gain asserted itself. "I won't charge you anything for ty services," he said. Scruggins peered sharply through is bushy eyebrows. "Well. I'd like to have a receipt ayhow," lie snarled Culled Him Down. .Marie: "At the pi ice where I was rending ruy vacation this summer fresh ycung farmer tried to kiss ie. He told me he'd never kissed a irl in his life." Ethel: "What did you say to ini ?" Marie: "I told him I was no ageultural experiment station. Nights Six Months Long. "These long Arctic nights are deghtful," said the Eskimo beau, "but guess I'm staying a trifle late." * "No hurry," declared the Eskimo elle. "That clock is two weeks ist." i limriSH WRECK ZKI'I'KLIX. | Make Daring ilaiil On German Airship Station at Dusseldorf. i , London. Oct. IlO.?The followingl official statement has been issued j i covering an attack by a British air!" squadron on a German airship shed at Dusseldorf. "The secretary of the admiralty announces that Squadron Commander Grey reports that, as authorized, he | carried out with Lieut. R. L. G. .\^prix , and Lieut. S.\ V. Sippe a successful attack on a Dusseldorf airship shed. ' Lieut. Marix's bombs dropped from f a height of 500 feet, hit the shed, went through the roof and destroyed a Zeppelin. > "Flames were observed 500 feet high, the result of the igniting of the : gas of an airship. ! "All three officers are safe, but their aeroplanes have been lost. "The feat would appear to be in : every respect remarkable, having re- i gard to the distance of over loO s miles penetrated into country held ' by the enemy and to the fact that a > previous attack had put the enemy on their guard and enabled them to ' i mount anti-aircraft guns." Kills Bond Issue. * I Columbia, Oct. 8.?Debate on the , ' substitute motion offered by Senator , McLaurin providing for total elimi 1 nation of cotton cultivation next year ( occupied the entire time of the ! senate tonight, and had not been ' concluded when at a late hour ad- . journment was taken until tomor- ( row morning at 10 o'clock. The sub ~ f r\y* f It rv PliftAn SLllUie was uucicu |ui vtiiwu resolution, declaring it to be the ' sense of the senate that not more than seven acres to the plough be planted in 1915, which had been amended by Senator Manning to provide for cultivation in 1915 of only one-third of the land planted in cotton this year. SAVING "NO." It Takes Courage, But Pays Big Dividends of Happiness. The young couple, settling in their brand-new home, with tril the temptation to entertain the good friends who helped to fit out the home with wedding gifts, have their troubles saying "No," declares the Pictorial Review. His salary is not very big now, but it's going to be larger next : year, so why worry if the grocery bill is larger than the sum set aside in the household budget? They will just entertain a few more friends ; and then economize. They will just buy one more lounging chair for the porch, and then consider the housecompletely furnished. They will just buy that second-hand runabout and i save car fare. It's hard to say "No" during the ( honeymoon to the little woman who i has given herself to you so unques- ( . tionablv, but it is harder still to j [ make her face debt, uanKruptcy or disgrace with you later. In one of the big Western cities. . where the young people are prepared . . for college at a splendidly equipped high school, the teachers noticed a wave of extravagance sweeping over ( the girls and boys. The girls were overdressing at the dances, and the ' boys were spending too much money in order to keep up with theser pretty , " frocks and frills. Carriages and can- , dy, violets and matinees, tea rooms ' and motor rides were making fath1 ers and mothers look serious, and , in more homes than one there were , ' sulky boys, talking about tightwad ( ' parents. The teachers at the high school, ( 1 practical men and women, took the the matter in hand. There was a ioft-Q nincc i'n dmneytir srience and household economics. The teachers specialized on budgets. First came ' the budget of the boy or girl paying for all clothing and incidental expenses with an allowance; second, the budget of a young man earning 1 ten. fifteen and twenty dollars a ' week, showing how much each had < left for recreation and entertaining : , and finally the budget of a young ] . husband making twenty-five dollars 1 , a week. From tbe fascinating task 1 of finding out how the boys divided 1 up the money they got, the girls pass-i' ed to a realization of how little the'i boys had left to spend on them. They I began to realize that carriages and it violets for parties, matinees and tea t room tangoing could not possibly be 1 paid for by the boy on the average < salary. Somebody was going into i debt that they might ride and dance: 1 aiwi i,Q;r>o- n-iintocnme risrht-thinkinsr 1 American sirls, they proceeded to re- 3 ' form the social life of that high t 1 school. They tasted the joy which t comes of the courage to say "No." 1 / HERMANS PRESS TO WEST f?KL(ilAX < ?V ERX.M EXT MOVKS! I IXTC FIJAXCK. i j. S'o Material Change Reported From i . I 1 Battle on t')e Aisne, Which Still t Rages. r The removal of the Belgian government to France, indicating the westward movement of the German1 : ? irmies in Belgium; the continuance! 5f the great batt'e along the line of; the Aisne river and far out toward' the channel shores, and the contraiictory reports of operations in the; t eastern theatre of the European war c instituted the most noteworthy de- j pelopments in the news of yesterday. ^ That the Germans were moving j westward toward Clstend was shown t A 1? - ? AA?_ 4 [lot ill uit>ii<iLciit? 11 urn luc i.uii- i Linent, but in the announcement of the transfer of the Belgian govern- j ment to Havre. s The battle on the Aisne continues, t with no appreciable change, so far i as can be ascertained, the embattled armies are making good their posi- ;< tions despite attacks. ? In the east, Russian authorities s deny that they have abandoned the r siege of Przemysl, but the general opinion is that the Russian armies 1 have fallen back to await the attack c of the Austro-German troops. * The official statement issued in T Paris declares the allies are making c progress along nearly the entire line of battle. * It has been decided to remove the ^ Belgian government to France. King Albert, however, will remain with his troops in the field. Belgian officials . already have left Ostend for Havre. The Germans occupied Ghent and a German aviator dropped bombs on Ostend. . The eastern arena of the war has j recorded no particular activity other than continued preparations for a decisive combat in Russian Poland ? along a battle front which probably j will extend from Kalisz to Lodz, to Piotrkow to Kielce and to Busk, in Galicia. Germany claims to hold all the western part of Russian Poland with the exception of Warsaw, and < it is becoming clear that the German military operations in the eastern theatre are being concentrated 1 in Poland. Vienna declares that the entire i Russian force investing Przemysl has 5 been withdrawn. Russia makes no i reference today to the situation at J Przemysl, but it is reported Russian < forces are continuing to advance in f =ast Prussia and that the soldiers of > Emperor Nicholas hold the entire dis- I trict of Lyck. ? The Kaiser Wilhelm canal, accord- ? ing to an Amsterdam report, Has been closed to ordinary traffic for the duration of the war. Prince George, of Servia, brother of -the crown prince, is reported to have been mortally wounded. Martial law has been declared throughout the Union of South Africa as a result of the discovery of a rebellion in the northern part of the dape province, which adjoins German southwest Africa. Lieutenant Colonel Maritz, a Boer officer, together with, a number of his officers and men, has gone over to the German forces of the German protectorate and is in rebellion against the ? government of the Union. I The proclamation of martial law 1 declares there is reason to believe ' that the government of German 11 southwest Africa is endeavoring to| < corrupt other citizens of the Union < with promises of the establishment 1 Df a republic in South Africa. 1 ASSAULTED OX HIGHWAY. c j Vegro Arrested Charged With Offence . at Latta. c Latta, Oct. 10.?M. Gray, a local f barber, was waylaid last night on his 1 ivay home from his shop. He was t struck with a piece of scantling and c stunned. Mr. Gray called loudly and t R. J. Dew ran to his assistance, v thereupon the assailant ran. Blood- c liounds were wired for from Colum- c; bia by Chief of Police \V. C. Bass, c rhe hounds arrived here this morning. having been brought through v :he country in an automobile. They j; 'ook the trail and went directly to :he home of Harvey Bethea. a nearo ( iving near town. After a test the 1 logs still held the trail. Bethea was s irrested and taken to Dillon, where c -- i_j ,1 TV,,".- io ; Itf WU9 iUUgCU 111 J?u. x mo *o cu?u i :o be his second offense. A few c rears ago he received a sentence on 1 :he chain gang for assaulting Pres- g :on Campbell. Mr. Gray is not se- 1 iously hurt. t . . ..i j Ss& ?????????????? ti:yix<; r<> caitiuk king. teported Kaiser's Troops are on Way to City <>t O.stend. London, October 11.?A dispatch o the Exchange Telegraph company rom The Hague, dated Sunday, says hat, according to trustworthy infornation from Belgium, the Germans ire advancing swiftly toward Ostend, vith the object of capturing and naking the king, queen and governnent of Belgium prisoners. It is iaid the queen has left Jor England. ' s. Head of Southern Cuts His Salary. U Washington. Oct. 11.?Heading he list with a 20 per cent, reduction ' >f his own salary, Fairfax Harrison, >resident of the Southern railway,.it vas announced tonight has inaugurated a retrenchment plan designed o effect equally all officers and inerests in the corporation. All salaries above $2,500 a year ind a reduction of the dividend of ttockholders from 5 to 4 1-2 per ent., payable in deferred scrip, are ncluded in the pl^n. "President Harrison has deemed it ** 'j )nlv fair," the railroad statement -J ays, "that officers of the company ihould share the sacrifice." Curtailnent was made necessary, it adds, 'by the current depression of busi- > less" and brought a "consequent reluction in the opportunity of many 1 J ^ ^ Aw>rNl/\rAflO f A QOm fVl Ok l u iiui'eus i vzwyivj iw vw*" ,r. vages to which they have been ac:ustoirted." Th? statement declares all officers iffected "accepted the situation with oyal appreciation of the necessity." . '| SECRETARY KILLS SELF. Auditors Have Not Found Any Irregularities. Springfield, 111., Oct. 12.?Secreary of State Harry Woods was ' 'ound dead with a revolver in his land in a -garage near his residence :arly today. Four assistant auditors, working ? lince 10 o'clock this morning, so far lave found Mr. Wood's accounts egular. CLOSE DISPENSARIES. Correspondent Suggests That Legislature Pass That Act. ro the Editor of the State: Please allow us prominent space n your columns for the following ^ ^ suggestions, viz.: First, that you nake a suggestion (in the shape of i proclamation) through the columns V if your paper that a petition go tip Vr\T? airarv nnnntv in this State vhere there are dispensaries to the / ,\3 general assembly during the special session to convene tomorrow, if constitutional, that the dispensaries in >ach county be closed so long as the '%a var in Europe shall continue, Secrnd, so that during our dire distress :aused by the said terrible war, makng our only money crop so very nuch below the cost of production, ind also causing the price of provisons to be so very high. Third, we ire much of the opinion if we could iave a la^y enacted by petitions from ;ach county to the legislature fully ndorsing a suggestion from your ;alued columns to frame and pass ) such a bill as above mentioned rela;ive to the dispensary, that our workng men and common laborers, who spend much of the fruits of their lajor for strong drink, would be greaty benefited and under such an act he unfortunates, both white and legro, would be able to spend more )f their earnings for more and better Nothing and to provide for their amilies better, yes, in a thousand vays, and would be able to pay their axes (so much needed), and many jther outstanding obligations so nuch needed at this time by their reditors, with their dispensary savngs. Fourth, if the State could ur would dose the dispensary say for even our or six months with the Webb aw restrictions to allow no whiskey, | >randy, wine, beer or any other kind >f intoxicants to come into our State luring this financial distress which ve are having all over our State, the :hange in a general way of the con Utions WOU1Q Simpiy uts utryunu. vu> onoeptions. Fifth, you might further suggest I'hom you think best to execute these letitions. Sixth, I am satisfied that every Christian gentleman in Soutli Caroina would at this time gladly sign uch a petition; in fact, 1 am of the pinion that every church member n good standing in his church of all if the various denominations who oves his church and humanity would ;ladiy sign such a petition particuarly at a time like this. Denmark. G. W. GOOLSBY.