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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1915. Established 1891. %
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
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SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
/ News Items Gathered All Around the j
County and Elsewhere. J
Ehrhardt Etchings. v
Denmark l*>ts.
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Denmark, Jan. 30.?Miss Jennie 1
Owens, of* Kline, is visiting her sis- c
ter, Mrs. John Minor.
Miss Genevieve Wroton, of Ham- *
let. X. C., is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. R. M. Willis. c
Dr. Miles J. Walker, of Yorkville, 1
? visited his daughter, Mrs. H. G. Har- c
den, last week. t
Miss Julia L. Goolsby left last 1
week to enter Columbia collegerMrs.
J. G. Howell, of Knoxville,
: Tenn., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. j
J. D. Huggins.
Mrs. J. P. Carter, of.Fairfax, is
visiting relatives here.
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Fairfax, Jan. 31.?Much interest *
is centred in the marriage of Miss ^
Adelle Best and F. L. Marsh, which ^
took place Thursday morning at 9:30 (
nt th<?' home of the bride's 1
, sister, Miss Sue TBest. The announcement
of their marriage comes
as a surprise to their numerous
friends, not even their closest friends
being aware of their intentions. The
ceremony was performed by the
bride's pastor.
Immediately after the wedding
the young couple left on a 10 o'clock
j train for Augusta, from which point |
they took a train for McCormick, the
old home of Mr. Marsh, where they
will spend several days before going
to their home, Douglas. Ga. The
bride is one of the most popular
young ladies of the town.
Mr. Marsh has made Douglas his
home for several years, where he has
been a railroad conductor on the
G. & F. railroad, and is one of the
n?nm!nont Veiling- niPn Of the
UiVOb j/lVUiiuvuv W?o
town, being popular as a railroad j *
? man and also socially. x
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Illustrated Advice. 1
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The lawyer, says the Cleveland c
Plain Dealer, leaned back. He was
a good lawyer, yet business was poor. {
It had been poor for some time. He j
had even thought of running for of- s
' fice in order to secure an income. c
Then a caller entered, a young wo- t
' mail, well gowned, well hatted, well \
shod.
"J want your advice, sir," she said
as she took the chair he pointed out.
"I am a person of independent means 1
well invested."
The lawyer leaned forward. He
showed a new interest.
"A man wishes to marry me," the r
young woman continued. t
"Such cases of cause and effect are e
not infrequent," said the lawyer. i
"I believe tne man mienas iu mar- >.
rv me for my monej*." I
"You may wrong him." (
"I think not. I realize that I am 1
as plain as a motor truck." i
"I am very nearsighted," said the 1
lawyer. c
"I have a figure as unlovely as a 1
country railway station." t
"You have something better," said f
the lawyer. "You have taste." He ?
paused a moment. "May I ask the t
approximate size of the income you c
have mentioned?" ?
"I haven't the figures at hand," c
the young woman replied, "but the *
amount has four ciphers in it. And I
now, what is your advice?" a
' The lawyer leaned a little further S
forward. He was still young and not I
unreasonably bad looking. c
"My advice." he said, "is to take s
no chances where you entertain i
doubts. If you will remain at home <
this evening I will myself drop in ^
and ask you to marry me. Your ad- ?
dress, please." r
Only Worse.
A Philadelphia scnooi teacner nas
I* later been instructing her pupils in ?
k Grecian mythology. It is the plan t
f to have the children read the tales r
aloud, and the next day recount them
in their own language. One lad to
whom was given the assignment to c
render in his own language the story
of the Gorgons did so in these terms: s
"The Gprgons were three sisters 1
that lived in the Island of Hesperides '
somewhere in the Indian Ocean. They
, had long snakes for hair, tusks for I
teeth and claws for nails, and they (
looked like women, only more horrible."?Pittsburg
Chronicle-Tele- -
gr&ph. 1
, x Italy is likely to find that one war C
measure is a peck of trouble.?Columbia
State.
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JilKIEl) AT OKA\(>EHl'K(>.
)fficer Stnoak Succumbs to Wound
Received in Augusta.
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Orangeburg, Jan. 29.?News has
eached this city of the death of Mr.
eff Smoak. who resided in Augusta.
t:?out a week ago .Mr.-Smoak. who
ias a patrolman on the Augusta poice
force, was shot by a negro whom
le was attempting to arrest. He was
aken to a hospital for attention at
mce, and was thought to have a good
hance for recovery, but complicaions
set in and resulted in his death
esterdav. Mr. Smoak was a brother
>f Mrs. John Miller and Mrs. Frank
>. Miller, of this city. The remains
LTived here on the A. C. L. train
his afternoon and interment took
>lace here.
ACQUITTED OF PERJURY.
jehon, Tedder and Thurman Are
Freed by Jury at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 31.?A verdict
)f not guilty was returned by the
ury in the superior court here late1
oday in the case of Dan S. Lehon.
2. C. Tedder and Arthur Thurman,
vho were tried on charges of subirnation
of perjury in connection
vith the Leo M. Frank case. Lehon
s Southern manager for the William,
r. Burns National Detective agency,
redder was formerly employed by
he agency and Thurman is an Atanta
lawyer.
The trial began last Thursday and
V.~ noon woe or i von fo f J-| ?> illTV late I
I4C vaoc ?? uv vw v..v ^ .
ast night. Judge Hill held a session
>f the court this afternoon to receive
he verdict. Only a few persons, besides
the lawyers and court attaches,
vere present when the verdict was
mnounced.
The defendants were acquitted of
laving procured false affidavits from
he Rev. C. B. Ragsdale, formerly
)astor of an Atlanta church, and R.
\j. Barber, in which the affiants dedared
they had overheard James
Donley, a negro, tell another negro
le had killed a girl in the pencil facorv,
where the body of Mary Phagan
vas found. Ragsdale and Barber
ater repudiated the affidavits. Coney
now is serving a year's imprisonnent
as accessory after the murder
>f the Phagan girl.
The three men were tried on the
ndictment charging them with bribng
Ragsdale. Solicitor General Dor;ey
said that in view of today's verlict
it was unlikely they would be
ried on the indictment charging
>ribery of Barber.
THK IRISH POTATO.
Enthusiastic Meeting of Hnrteville
Farmers Develops Talk.
On Saturday, January 9, a farners'
meeting was held at the Temple
heatre here for the purpose of listening
to talks on the Irish potato
ndustry. H. T. prosser, agriculural
agent of the Seaboard Air Line
bailroad company, Mr. Baker of
Elemson and'J. R. Mixon, of Chareston,
were present and presented
ntelligent, informative address.
This initial meeting was productive
>f good fruits for an association has
>een formed with C. W. Coker. presdeni.
and R. P.^Gillespie, secretary,
or promoting and encouraging the
growth of Irish potatoes in .this secion.
Saturday, at 11 o'clock a secend
meeting was held. While the
ittendance was not as large as ?as
lesired, some constructive outline
vork was accomplished. There were
>resent some commission merchants
md the industry was discussed.
Several farmers will cultivate Irish
jotatoes this season and the devel>pment
and extension of the idea is
;ure to come about. That the potato
s rich in promise is a foregone concision
and it looks now that Harts-jlie
is to take a lead with this crop
is it is doing with cotton and other
>roducts.?Hartsville Messenger.
Blanched?But Xot By Terror.
Prof. Albert B. Merrill, of the
sorthwestern university, praising
he chemical preponderance of Gernanv.
broke off to tell an anecdote.
"A German-American," he began,
'said to me with a quiet laugh the
>ther day:
" 'Do you know, my friend, that
ince this war began, many a Frenchnan's
whiskers have turned white
n a single night?'
"'Aha!' said he 'Trouble, I snp>ose.
Anguish of heart over Rheitns
Cathedral; sorrow, borrow, eh?'
" 'No. my friend.' said the GermanAmerican.
'Xo, nothing of the kind.
The reason is that the Vaterland has
ut off France's simply of 'hair-dye.' "
?St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Read The Herald. $1.50 per year.'
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
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State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The Carlisle anti-tipping bill was
passed by the Senate on Tuesday.
Five prisoners made their escape
from the Greenwood county jail
Tuesday night.
The movement for a county with
Fountain Inn as the county seat has
been abandoned.
The bill providing for a 2-cent
passenger rate in tills State has been
continued until next session.
The railroad commission will grant
a hearing on Feb. 17th to those who
are fighting for lower grain rates.
Governor Manning has appointed
C. L. Shealey as clerk of court for
Lexington county to take the place
of his brother, Frank W. Shealey, who
roilrAo/1 nr\ m m i cci' nn pt
? aa gictitu juiuyuu vw???inww?v-v.
last year.
Dr. A. P. Herring, the asylum expert
employed by Governor Manning,
has submitted the report of his investigation
of the State hospital, in
which he says the institution is fifty
years behind the times.
A number of citizens living in different
parts of Ridgeway reported
having felt an earthquake, accompanied
by shaking of houses. Failing,
however, to see any records-of
an earthquake reported the disturbance
is accounted for by the explosion
of 200 pounds of dynamite in
the town of Cayce, 25 miles distant.
TO HURT, XOT TO KILL.
Is Chief Aim of Combatants in
Modern War.
A French general has figured out
that it cost France in 1870 $21,000
to kill a German soldier. It cost the
Russians $20,400 to kill a Japanese
soldier.
The general's method of obtaining
an answer to the question, how much
does it cost to kill a soldier, was
very simple. He divided the total
expenditures of the war by the number
of troops killed in the enemy's
army.
But this calculating Gaul omitted
the value of all by-products. For
every soldier killed in battle about
four are wounded. Hence part of the
expenses placed against the dead
may fairly be subtracted and credited
to the injured.
The chief aim in a battle is not
to kill an enemy, but to wound him.
A badly wounded soldier can do no
more fighting than a dead one. so
that as an offensive measure when
one soldier shoots another through
the leg he gets rid of an enemy as
effectually, as if he had hit him in
the heart.
But he does really better for his
own cause, since a wounded man at
once becomes a much greater bur
den to his own comrades than is a
dead soldier. The latter needs no
more care, but the former must be
helped to a field hospital, doctored
and nursed.
One of the most dramatic incidents
of "the civil war was the retreat of
Lee's army after Gettysburg with its
hundreds of wagon loads of wounded
soldiers.
A woman who lived by the road
down which this long line of screaming,
groaning and dying men were
being hauled told me recently that it
was the most awesome event of her
life. They went by her home during
the night.
But even the wounded had to make
way for the guns. When the artillery
came thundering along the road
the officers in command of it forced
the wagons loaded with wounded to
give them the right of way, which
was done.
A good many thousands of the
Union wounded at Gettysburg were
brought to Philadelphia war hospitals
by railroad trains. The nearly 6,000
dead in blue and grey who lay over
the sunny fields at-Gettysgurg gave
the opposing armies far less worry
than did the hosts of wounded.
That's why I have said the real
aim in battle is to hurt, not to kill.?
Pliladelphia Ledgeer.
I'p to the Minute.
Cranque?A wife is an expensive
luxury.
Blanque?So is an automobile.
Cranque?Sure. But you can get
a new model every year.?Judge.
Ignorance is often the kind of bliss
that is very tiresome for the near
neighbors.
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UNLIMITED COTTON.
Hill Kejieiiling Acreage IlediKtion
Heady for Governor.
Columbia, Jan. 29.?The cotton
acreage reduction law is now repealed.
The senate this morning gave
final reading to the bill already passed
by the house repealing the cotton
acreage reduction iaw.and ordered
it enrolled for- ratification. It will
be ratified and laid before Governor
.Manning for his signature early next
week. There was no objection to the
repeal voiced in the senate this morning.
The bill providing for a referendum
on State-wide prohibition and
making the Webb act relate to the
shipment of liquor into dry territory
were made special orders for next
Wednesday morning immediately after
third reading bills. Senator John
F. Williams gave notice that he was
going to introduce a bill providing
at the same referendum on September
14 that the people can vote not
only on the question of whethex the
State shall go prohibition, but also
whether they prefer the dispensary
or high license as the best way of
regulating the liquor trafic.
TALK OX SUFFRAGE.
.Mrs. Valentine Speaks in Capitol at
Columbia. ,
Columbia, Jan. 27.?Crowded galleries
looked down tonight while Mrs.
B. B. Valentine, of Richmond, Va.,
addressed the house of representa
tives on "voies ior women.
committee, consisting of Representatives
Joseph A. McCullough and William
N. Graydon, escorted Mrs. Valentine,
and Dr. Jane Bruce Guignard,
president of the Columbia Equal
Suffrage league, to the speakers'
stand. The galleries and all the
available space on the floor of the'
house were filled with men and women
of Columbia, who turned out to
hear Mrs. Valentine. Speaker Hoyt
called the house to its feet and Mrs.
Valentine appeared with her escort,
and her introduction was greeted
with cheers.
The senate was in session in its
chamber while the speaking was taking
place, and none of the senators
attended the exercises.
Mrs. Valentine spoke as a Southern
woman to Southern men and
made an earnest plea for the ballot
to be given to the women. She spoke
of the spread of suffrage in other
States and painted a glowing picture
of what she said would result if
South Carolina would grant suffrage
to women. Her speech lasted more
than an hour and was listened to
pvith the closest attention. She was!
frequently cheered and given what
was almost an ovation when she concluded.
Mrs. Valentine appeared before the;
judiciary committee of the house j
this afternoon in support or a pro-j
posed constitutional amendment giv-|
ing women the right of suffrage.
The Girls' Canning Clubs.
National attention is . centred upon
the results of the Girls' Canning
club movement in a report of the
general education board, advance
copies of which have just been made
public. This movement, as South
Carolina readers should know, was
begun by Miss Marie Cromer, of this
State, near Aiken, about four or five
years ago, Miss Cromer purchasing
a canning outfit for girls and teaching
them how to grow and can tomatoes.
He object was to make life
on the farm more attractive to the
girls and women by showing them
how they could, with no great hardship,
earn spending money of their
own while at the same time storing
the pantry with inviting eatables.
The methods are akin to those which
were followed in the old fashioned
quiltings; that is to say each girl
plants and cultivates her patch of
tomatoes and when the fruit begins
to ripen the canning club meets first
at one home and then at another and
the girls cooperate in canning the
product. This they are taught to do
in such a manner that the tomatoes
are easily marketable, and experience
has shown that there is a ready sale
for them. The average profit made
by girls reporting in twelve States
was $21.98, but a great many girls
made very much more than this.
Some of them showed profits of nearly
$100 each. The first year the
movement was organized only 32~>
girls were registered; the next year
there were 3,000; the third year
there were 23.550 and in 1913 there
were upward of 30,000 in fourteen
different States.?Ex.
What's the use of studying women
when even the dressmakers often fail
to size them up?
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TOUCH OF WAR F08 CANADA
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GERMAN DYNAMITES RAILROAD
BRIDGE.
Arrested in Maine, Werner Van Horn j
Claims He Committed Act of War <
and Cannot l?e Surrendere<l. 1
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Vanceboro, .Maine, Feb. 2.?Another
international problem, incident
to the war, was thrust upon the '
United States today by the action of '
Werner Van Horn, who, operating '
on the Canadian side of the border,
dynamited the railway bridge over 1
the St. Croix river, and then escaped
into Maine. 1
A few hours later in a room at a 1
hotel here, Van Horn submitted to
arrest, but immediately proclaimed
himself an officer of the German '
army and set up the claim that he '
had committed an act of war, and
having fled to a neutral country; '
could not be surrendered legally to
an enemy of the Fatherland.
The Canadian authorities took a :
different view of the matter and immediately
instituted proceedings to
extradite the prisoner on a charge of
destruction of railroad property.
Pending the outcome of these efforts
Van, Horn is held at the immigration
office here in custody of a depu- '
ty sheriff.
The bridge, which Van Horn
sought to destroy, was not greatly
damaged. Within a few hours cars
were shunted across one at a time,
the passengers walking over on the
ice. By morning, railroad officials
said. the.bridge would be strong
enough for trains to use it without J
uncoupling.
Carrier of War Supplies.
The St. Croix river for some distance
forms the boundary between
Maine and New Brunswick. The!
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bridge is owned jointly by the Maine!
Central and Canadian Pacific railroads,
and is on the direct route of
the Canadian Pacific from Western j
Canada to the maritime provinces.j
Over this road have been shipped;
large quantities of war materials for
the allies, which were dispatched
from St. John to Halifax.
According to the police, Van Horn,
a man of middle age, of military
bearing, told them that he left Germany
five years ago and for the past
four years had been managing a coffee
plantation in Mexico. Recently
he made unsuccessful attempts to return
to his native land.
Friday night Van Horn left New
York city, arriving here Saturday
night. That same night by appointment
he met at the east end of the
bridge a man unknown to him. The
man gave him a satchel containing
dynamite. Van Horn suspended the
satchel from the inside of an end
post of the bridge and about 2 o'clock
this morning discharged the explosive.
This done, he planned to go to
Lambert Lake, from which point he
intended to drive about thirty miles
to Princeton. The night was so cold
he abandoned the trip and returned
to his hotel. There the police found
him in bed at 7 o'clock this morning.
At the request of the Canadian authorities
he was taken into custody.
Ordered to lie Held.
Attorney General William R. Patannall
tonight ordered that Van Horn
be held until further orders. While
there was no formal charge preferred
against him at first, arrangements
were made to have a warrant issued
if necessary in order to make certain
Van Horn's detention.
Van Horn, the officials state, could
be charged with damage to a railroad
bridge, which is an extraditable
offence, or with damage to property
on the American side of the border,
where windows were broken by the (
explosion.
Up to tonight Van Horn had not
seen a lawyer, and appeared indifferent
as to what charges may be preferred
against him.
The attorney general of New 1
Brunswick, J. B. M. Baxter, tele- i
graphed to officials of the Canadian l
Pacific railway here, asking them to <
make a complaint against Van Horn, 1
which might be the basis for extra- 1
dition proceedings to be begun forth- i
with. Ottawa was also advised of 1
the situation.
The Truth. ,
"You have your father's eyes," de- i
clared grandma, looking earnestly at
lie voune girl. v
"Yes'm." 1
"And you have your mother's
hair."
"No: this is sister Ada's hair," faltered
the girl. "And she said I could
borrow it."?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. '
Money talks, and in the hands of 1
the other fellow sometimes fairly
screams. 1
WAREHOUSE BILL.
House of Repsesentatives Votes 65 to
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52 to Save System.
Columbia, Jan. 27.?The work of
:he extraordinary session of the general
assembly is having a rather
ough time with this general asseruily.
Only a day or two ago the cot:on
acreage reduction bill was overwhelmingly
disapproved so far as the
louse was concerned. Today the
louse let the warehouse bill survive,
Dut it had a surprisingly close shave,
rhe official record was a vote of 65
to 52 to save the warehouse system.
Mr. Graydon changed his vote to
aiove to reconsider. The vote against
the bill would, therefore, have been
larger but for this. As a matter of ?
fact some members said that it looked
a little bad only two days ago
to vote to repeal the acreage bill and
today to undo the only other act of
importance that was passed lees than
ninety days ago. The vote indicates
that the warehouse system is in bad
shape, so far as legislation is concerned,
and that it is going to have
some hard sliding if appropriations
are wanted, because today's vote was
simply upon the question of repealing
the warehouse law outright, and
the appeals were made largely on the
ground of giving the system a trial.
There was no mistaking the fact >
that there is objection to Mr. McLaurin
as commissioner; this fact
was plainly stated in the argument
of Mr. Fromberg, of Charleston, wno
was in favor of the retention of the
system, and it was intimated that
if Mr. McLaurin's personality in connection
with the warehouse was objectionable,
that he would retire
rather than jeopardize the system.
A bill to repeal the statute offered
within ninety days after its passage
and without much of a chance for
the plan to receive over fifty votes
is strikingly emphatic. It is a strik- ?
ing point that the Orangeburg delegation,
with Mr. Liles and Mr. Berry
in the forefront, practically saved
the warehouse system by their votes
and arguments. "
The fight against the. warehouse
systepa was led by Mr. Warren, and
he had as his lieutenants in the cause
Messrs Graydon, Boyd and Morrison
in today's argument.
?1? cvcfnm J
i nose wuo vvioiicu me o.tried
out and continued in today's
arguments were Messrs Liles and
Berry, of Orangeburg; Hutto, of
Dorchester; Sellers, of Marion, and
Fromberg, of Charleston.
?- MILLION
AND HALF BALES.
*' .75
This Is Forecast of Bulls for Export
Movement. .
New Orleans, Feb. 1.?Shipments
of cotton from ports today were over
100,000 bales larger than reecipts,
shipments being 155,647, while receipts
were 55,249 bales. Foreign
shipments amounted to 136,493
bales. . vi
Bulls believe that the export movement
for February will be more than
1,500,000 bales, or about 200,000
bales larger than the movement for
January. This forecast is based on
the large freight bookings, the continued
spot demand an4 the piling up
of stocks at the ports, although port
stocks lost 85,228 bales today, being
reduced to 1,920,900 bales.
Shippers are now paying $13.75 a
bale for room for Rotterdam. All
available ships are being pressed into
the cotton trade. A message from
Galveston today said that four ships
had cleared with cotton while five
more had arrived to load cotton.
The total amount of cotton on
shipboard at all ports on the weekend
was 519,223 bales and broke all
records. Over ten million bales of
the crop already have been marketed.
Not Treating.
Jack MacTavish and two English
friends went out on a loch on a fishing
trip and it was agreed that the
first man to catch a fish should later
stand treat at the inn. As MacTavish
was known to be the best fisherman
hie friends took consider
? 11 CI CGi;unvc M>v ...
ible delight in assuring him that he
had as good as lost already.
"An', d'ye ken." said Jock in
;peaking of it afterward, "baith o'
them had a guid bite an' wise ae
mean they wadna' pu' in."
"Then you lost?" asked a listener.
"Oh, no, I didn't pit ony bait on my
hook."?Argonaut.
Never Met the Fright.
"Were you nervous on your wedJing
day, my dear?"
"Yes, and I never shall forget the
fright I got that day!"
"I don't think I ever met your
husband."
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