* ahr wanibrm iferaiu One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1815. Established 1891. COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOMK I.\Ti:i:KSTI\(; IIAIM'KMNGS IN YAKIOIS SKITIONS. v . News Items (Jathered All Around the ^ County and Elsewhere. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, April ' ).?The Civic league held a meeting last week at the home or .Mrs. w . .M. tirooKS. i"iaiis wen* discussed for clean-up week, which was set for the first week in April. Wednesday was especially designated as the day for residents and business houses to clean up their yards and premises. The carts will be kept busy all day Wednesday and longer if necessary, hauling off trash from yards, etc. Plans were discussed for a reception to he given the husbands and brothers of the town at an early date. .Mrs. Brooks served sweet course at tlie conclusion 01 tne easiness meeting. A reception was held by the Woman's Missionary society of the Baptist church at the parsonage Thursk day afternoon. A programme o:' ^ music ami readings contributed to the pleasure of the occasion. Misses Radcliff and Elizabeth Edwards. of F Brunson. and Miss /.e!!e I.oadho'.t gave several readings. Mrs. .1. K. ; ' Johnston and Misses Alma Knight and Damaris Folk gave several piano numbers. Mrs. E. A. MacDowell sang two songs. The girls of the Y. W. A. served the refreshments, which consisted of a salad course and cocoa, in the dining room. Souvenirs consisted of the society colors in purple vio lets, tied with white ribhon. Mesdames O. J. You mans. Hen Brunson. M. F. Craddock and .Mixson assisted * 1 in receiving and entertaining. Election at Denmark. Denmark. April 7.?The election for town council today in Denmark passed off quietly and resulted as follows: For mayor. Dr. H. J. Faust; * for councilmen. 1>. L. Zeigler. P. L. Bean. C. M. Cox. J. B. White, I). \. < Cox and St. Clair P. C.uess. ft ' The Bamberg county chaingang is P camped about f/ur miles southwest of Denmark, just beyond Hart/.og's mill, working the road in the direction of town. The Civic league is having clean-up week observed and a number of cleanup week badges are to be seen on the citizens. The Boy Scouts are heartily enlisted in this work also. The Booster club is rapidly finishing up its work for the Chautauqua, which is to be here April 2''?-2S. A Letter From "Old Tinier.'.' Wanderers' Rest. April ?.Inst to think this is tiie hrd day of April and . * my old friend and comforter, tlie mocking bird, has sung one song. * only one. and that pitched in a halfhearted key. Poor old fellow, how he sits on the bare limbs of tiie leafless trees or on the garden fence so quiet, grey and sad, saying in his heart's mind. "I trow, has the warmth of old Sol gone? .Me to nearly to freeze with no worms to feast on. no warmth to clothe the trees for Mrs'. Mocking Bird to build her nest screened from the eyes of bad boys and prowling cats, while / I, Mr. Mocking Bird. sit idly by, while the mistress works and me t^sing my sweetest strains to cheer her on the way and see an old man hobble among the roses, stoop and pick a flower here and there. No. not this time, for in all my short life I have never seen frost and ice. sleet and snow to the second day of t April." But it is warmer now and the wind is from the southwest, with a gentle patter of rain .makes the heart grow fonder as memory brines to light other days when we called them April showers. Don't despair, faint heart, for spring is coming with its flowers, the bees will hum. the bird will call for his mate, and all nature will awake with one glad chorus basking in the sunshine given _ by Him who rules the universe. Only ' a little later than most years, but so it has been before, and men wondered if the Easter cold would be the last. Vncle Rastus left his old home, wandered far away to a town, and one day. as he was loafing on a corner a young man came along. The old man scanned the face of the new comer and in it saw the favor of his old master. It was more than tlie old darkey could stand, so he rushed to the side of the young man. caught him by the hand and exclaimed: "Lord e massy, ain't dis Mars George's son?" The startled young man said: "Yes. but who are you?" "Ki. now Mars George, don't you r IN THF PA! MFTTft STATE I K.in o.\ lkjioil I l-'of the Moment it is <'onsitler Most Important 1'hasO of War. London. April 1. The war on ; eohol. an outcome of the labor situ tion in Croat Britain, has dellnil ly taken precedence i!i British tniii over the niueh-talked-of "sprint; ;i vances of the allies in the west The reason is that the problem munitions has become more pressi than that of recruit in jr. The pronouncements of cabin leaders "and the letter of King Ceor on the question of temperance a intended to pave the way and son: public sentiment preparatory either shutintr off absolutely the si of drink throughout the country, t cept on physicians' prescriptions, the adoption of some measure whit while perhaps not called absolu prohibition, will have almost as tin tic an effect. War Secretary Kitchener has a jiiounced that no alcoholic beverag ! snail ne served in ins ntniseiioid i the duration of the war. The battlefields in the east and t west afford little news today, and ; though the allies are r>\. orted have resumed operations in the D: idanelles. nothing official is fortlieo i I inc. Today being the centennary of t liirth of Bismarck, the London nev papers review editorially the cart ! of that (lernian statesman, ending the break with the present emper< and speculate on what might ha been the outcome of the war to ds had Bismarck been at the helm. Austria would seem to be strengt ening her forces in Bukowina wi the idea of thwarting a formidal Russian advance in the Carpatliiai That, according to the British vie explains the Austrian incursion i to Russia over the Dneister at point near Czeruowitz. TKJKS TO COMMIT Sl'ICIDK. I .1. S. (Vim, of Columbia, Shoots Mil self Through Head. Columbia. .March hi.?.J. S. Cri a shoe merchant of Columbia, sh himself through the head with a p tol about I i o'clocit this morning liis home. He was rushed to t hospital and operated on. It is st; ed thati he lias a fiiilitintt chance f recovery. The cause of the aff: is unknown. .Mr. Crim is a you man who lias done well and w well thought of in the community. been 110 Rastus?" "Why. yes. I'ncle Rastus. is tl you? 1 thought you were dead lo: ago." "No. sail." replied the old 111:1 "Dis am de boy and a nudder tins; been notice: if I lib trou de niunt llMri-li T frrttk1 t't>r <1p tmllancp nh d year. Vah, yah, an 1 he here too." So why worry over March and t three days April borrows from it ai pays back with interest? May is coi ins and with it balmy air. made swe with flowers. Then will the eo and bein.s hovered over tires, cha ped hands and bleeding lips, he ft Sotten. Then too, one other thi: ! that drives March into the memory a certain old man. is that the 31 day is his birthday. From the ear est recollection he well remembe the wind and raw cold on that da often tilling his eyes, mouth and ea j full of sand, and hands that look' | like?well you know what, and lie i the dear old partner would smile ai the little chaps would say. Today Pa's birthday; How old today j Now they are all away save one. ai Ma even forgot this year and d i not have turkey or chicken pie. b j turnips with a jowl was tine. On ! one of the down birds remember i the day and sent a beautiful birt , day card, with much love and ha i p. in ess with it. How it did cheer tl old man as he sat by the tire nursii his many aches and pains and sin ing deep down in his soul, as tl partner of his years would pass and fro. "Darling we are growii old." But still the tir^s of you are burning, for the better liaif*pla: just as ever for the garden, chic ens, turkeys and pigeons and tl old man for his peanuts, pigs at i bread, with a little cotton, but on j a little, for cotton and fertilizer h j and will tie tlie curse or the farm , until he makes a surplus of oth crops, then what cotton he can. I The irrain crop is very hack war j hut the prospects are tine, a sio< stand, and when the warm days com ! then it will make up lost time. Sot | old Dobbin will have his oats ai I the farmer his own srrown whe bread. While the war aroans a heard in Europe, we will have pea and plenty at home. OLD TIMER. * ?I I SO.MK (KXTRRKXCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. ill-; ia-1 I State News Moiled Down for Quirk ,]s . Beading?Paragraphs About (1- Men and Happenings. ;-! s j vestigate the case and see if tliere is er i need for clemency. Rogers was conin victed last fall and was sentenced to :>r. I he electrocuted October iRJrd. hut vejdov. Rlease reprieved him till April. " WIM.AKD KNOCKS (HT JOHNSON. Heavy-Weight I><>nt at Havana Faded in the Twenty-Sixth Round. >le i ______ 1S- Havana. April ?Jack Johnson, w,, pvile from his own countrv. today 'n" lost his claim to fistic fame as the ai heavy-weight champion of the world, j The title was wrested from him by ! .less Willard, the Kansas cowboy, the I biggest man who ever entered the j prize ring, and a "white hope" who m" at last has made good. The day after tomorrow Johnson, his wife and a little group of friends m. will sail for .Martinique, there to ot await passage back to France, where is- Johnson proposes to selt'e down and at I lead the life of a farmer, raising pigs he and chickens. There is no doubt that it- j lie is through with the ring, or Willard is going back to the lirll'nited States to win the fortune ng which was denied him today, when as Johnson got ?:;u.t?oo before the fight started. Wiliard taking only a small ~~~ share of the net receipts. Just what his share was is not known. us Today's fight probably lias no partig allei in the history of ring battles. For tv.entv rounds Johnson punched in. ' . and pounded Willard at will, but his I I blows grew perceptible less powerer | 11. (fill as tlie tight progressed until at j last be seemed unable or unwilling , to go 011. be j Johnson stopped leading and for ^ three or four rounds the battle be. tween the two huge men was little et U more than a series of plastic poses of white and black gladiators. So it was until the twenty-fifth | round, when Willard got one of his widelv swinging, windmill right-hand ol | . I smashes to Johnson's heart. This .. I was the beginning of the end. IIrs When the round closed Johnson sent word to his wife that lie was all ' in and told her to start for home. To i j She was on the way out and was ?,.! passing the ring in the twentv-sixth )\\ i uj! round when a stinging left to the . I body and a cyclonic right to the .> ' jaw caused Johnson to crumple on id' the floor of the ring, where he lay. j(j j partly outside the ropes, until the t j referee counted ten and held up Wiljvj lard's hand in token of his newly j! won laurels. j Willard is probably th.e most modest champion who ever stepped Ij i out of a prize ring, taking his victory as philosophically as he had looked forward to the fight. Neither he nor I Johnson appeared much damaged bv (() ( the battle. The new champion's lip, j j right ear and left cheek showed slight j cuts, but at no time was there more |ls than a drop or two of blood in evij._ denee. A Solemn llebeaisal. ldj ly j Oscar Wilde, in his last hours ' * - ? t as j made a jest amnu in^. ana so ueerjfore him did Lord Chesterfield, says er the Bostoyi Transcript. The latter.] (when lie had only :1 short while to d.jlive. was. on the advice of tiis phy?d sician. taken out for an easy drive. e. ;.\s the equipage was proceeding in slowly along it was met hy a ladyj id who remarked pleasantly: "Ah. my at lord. I am glad to see yon able to re drive out." ft* ' tint /Iriviiifr mif nmrlnm ' ^ I 1 r* (answered Chesterfield. "1 am sini! ply rehearsing my funeral." \\ I I.I. IX VKSTIGATK. i .\^kv Ambassador and Consul to Look Into Report. ! Washington. April 1. Reports that an American ha.i perished in the war zone around the British isles ; were brought officially to the attention of the I'nited States government late today when Ambassador Page and Consul General Skinner, at London, cabled that Leon C. Thresher, jan American mining man. was supposed to have been drowned in the {destruction of the British liner Fala| ba by a German submarine. The reports merely transmitted unofficial statements and instructions I were sent .to both officials to begin an (investigation. No action will be takien bv the government until this ottiI : cial version of Thresher's death has I been received and ail the facts surrounding the destruction of the Fala. Iia Iiave been carefully considered. A representative of the company j which had employed Thresher saw ; him aboard the liner before she sailjed. That is as far as official information noes and Ambassador Pane | or .Mr. Skinner will now undertake I to net statements from survivors of the steamer who can give positive evidence that the American was drowned. i Officials had little doubt that the case eventually would form the subject of representations to Germany. | In its note after Germany's war zone proclamation the Washinnton nov:eminent notified the German foreign I office that it would reel compelled to j hold that government to "strict ac!countahility" for the loss of AmeriI can lives or property through the I operations of submarines against 1 British merchant shipping. WHK.Vr KAI'OIITS KXCKSSIVK. (Jovernment Sounds Warning Against Too Heavy Shipments. A dispatch from Washington last week says: Warning that the present heavy | exports to Kurope of American wheat I and Hour cannot he continued with! out endangering the wheat supplies ; for food and seeding requirements j at home, was contained today in the department of agriculture's Agricultural Outlook. The department's experts believe exportations at the same rate as during December, lanj nary and February until the coming j of the new wheat crop would en! croach upon normal domestic needs. Investigation has disclosed that I there was on .March 1 an apparent j surplus of about ! 1 .Ooo.Ooo bushels ! of wheat over the domestic require! ments for food and seed that was j available for export in the four I months from March 1 to July 1. ' While the evnorts of wheat including flour, during those four months last year were fDI.uun.nuo bushels, it is pointed out that those exports during December. -January and February last averaged almost :;."(O00.00o bushels per month, and if that rate of export continued until the newcrop is available it would amount to 140.000.<100 bushels. The department's investigation I did not include inquiries into stocks ! of flour, but the opinion is expressed ' that they do not show so much reduction as wheat stocks. A factor in the situation is that the Southern States have greatly increased their wheat acreage, the crop of which j will be marketable before July 1st | and will have the effect of increas| ing the available supplies between ' now and that date. How Small Hoys .Make I.ove. ' I In the April American .Magazine. Ellis Parker Butler writes another ! small boy story in his new series. I This month's story is entitled. J "Teachers' Pet," and in the followi ing extract, the small bo> talks about j his girl: "Her name is A!illy. 1 haven't j said anything about marrying her i yet?not to her or anvbody?but I've I carried her books three or four times and I hit her in the back of the head with a soft snowball, and I guess she likes me too. She threw : a snowball hack at me when I hit her with snow, she just said. "Oh. ! (leorge! You mean thing!" as if I site might he willing to marry me t sometime if I got nerve enough to i ask her when we're grown up. I wonder how a fellow gets nerve to ask them. 1 don't think I'll ever have." The baseball fan, being a philosopher. argues that it is better to have ' 1 * ' ' - -1 t- - ? - ^ ? A M /] r-9 K r\ an ine nau weauiei cuiue uuu su before the opening of he ieaeue season.?Atlanta Journal. NAMES NEW ASYLUM HEAD i>k. gkokgk k. sakgknt has had ml'cii kai'knikmt.. | New Superintendent, an K\|ieit, Comes to This State Willi Strong (-Indorsements. Columbia, April (5.?After giving tli' matter the most earnest and careful attention for three months Governor .Manning lias appointed Dr. George K. Sargent, an expert in the treatment of mental diseases and care of the insane, superintendent of me istaie riospuui iur cue insane. The new superintendent will assume his duties on .May 10. Dr. Sargent is :50 years of age and has been married two years. He graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in and served for two years at the Worcester. I Mass.. State Hospital of the Insane. ] He then went to Northern Michigan j Hospital for the Insane, and since his | service there has been assistant phy; sician at Sheppard and Bnoch Pratt | Hospital for the Insane, at Cowson, Md. Dr. Sargent v.as highly recomI mended bv Dr. Brush, the superintendent of the1 Sheppard and Knocli J Pratt asylum: by Drs. Henry M. j Hurd and Barker, of Johns Hopkins: j by Dr. Munson. superintendent of the , Northern .Michigan asyiuni, anu oy ! Dr. A. P. Herring, secretary of the j .Maryland lunacy commission, who j made the investigation and report on ! conditions at the State asylum as j Governor .Manning's efficiency ex. pert. Dr. Strait Informed. As soon as the plan for the reorganization of the State Hospital for the Insane was decided- upon the governor sent for Dr. T. J. Strait, the j present superintendent, and told him | it was his intention to get an expert j for superintendent, but that he would I give Dr. Strait ample notice. As soon i as the governor selected Dry Sargent ! for the place he again sent for Dr. j Strait and told the latter that he j had appointed Dr. Sargent superin! tendent and that Dr. Sargent would j assume his duties on .May 11). | This latest appointment of the govi ernor, it is believed, will meet with i ! the approval of the people of the I State. IMV KOli WIDOW Mc.MAMS. j Villa-Xapata Government Korwards $20,000. Washington. .March 31.?The pay [ nient by the Yilla-Zapata govern' nient of ! HO.OO" pesos, or S2ft.oO(? ' in gold at the prevailing rate of exI change in .Mexico City, to .Mrs. Ruth McManus. widow of John B. .Mcj .Manus, the American killed by Zapata troopers, on their" reoccupation I of the city, was reported officially to the Stare department today by the ! Brazilian minister in the Mexican capital. Mrs. McManus sent the following message to the State department: "I wish to extend to you for myself and family our sincere thanks for your efforts in securing indemni| ty from the government and also ex! press my appreciation of the great i courtesy and personal interest shown | by Mr. Cardoso, the Brazilian minis! ter." In transmitting this, the Brazilian ! minister added: "Am gratified with a letter of i thanks received from .Mrs. McManus in which she says: " 'You have accomplished what seemed to all Americans an impossibility. and I have no words in ' which to express my gratitude.' " ritrrr crop may bk hi kt. I W'H o I in !?]<)< Ill) SpvPI'mI Weeks at .Manning, Manning. March .11.?A cold rain i that set in late yesterday afternoon continued throughout the night, and was succeeded about 7 o'clock this' morning by a heavy fall of sleet, j which in turn was followed by snow, I for about two hours. XotwithstandI ing the ground was so wet from tliej [ rain there was enough snow to cover! ! the ground and house steps, and it j | lasted for quite a while. About noon, however, the sun came out and! all signs of the snow were soon dis-i sipated. The fruit'trees have been' in bloom for several weeks, but it is j feared that little prospect for a fruit j crop remains for this year. Very little early vegetauies are up aim u, is not thought that tiie small grainy is materially injured. Greece is a heavy lumber exporter. J <>i:i>i:i:s shkiui t to act. Columbia Situation Cut in McCain** Hands. Columbia. April :!.?ContinuedN complaints as to violations of the law in the city of Columbia bavins readied Governor Manning. be has placed the situation under the control of John C. '.McCain, sheriff of Richland county. Governor .Mannins's policy is to leave the question of enforcement of the laws with the local officials. Soon after he went into office he held a conference with Lewie f I A. Griffith, mayor of Columbia. Sheriff McCain was also called into I conference. Law enforcement outI side the city was left to Sheriff McI Cain and Mayor Griffith was held responsible for conditions in the city j of Columbia. } Mayor Griffith has stated on sevI eral occasions that the laws were be! ing enforced in Columbia. However, j many reports of violations have ! reached the governor's office, and : SIierilT .MCL'am lias oeen insirucieu j to enforce tlie laws, especially those j dealing with the illicit sale of whisj Key. The order to the sheriff was is! sited by Governor Manning several ' days ago. Governor Manning has not been ofi ficially notified as to the raids by : the Charleston police. The gpveri nor refused to discuss the Charles.1 ton situation yesterday. TICKS .MASSACKK CHRISTIANS. 1 Russians on Filtering Village of Hafedewan Find 7:20 I todies. Tabriz. March :J1.?Preceding the i reoccupation by the Russians of Sal ! mac Plains, the Azerbaijan province northwest of 1'runiiah. hundreds of I * [native Christians were rounded up by the Turks in the village of Hafei dewan and massacred. Many of these i were searched out from the homes 'of friendly Mohammedans, who tried j to hide them. Tlie Russians on entering the village found 720 bodies, I mostly naked and mutilated. Recovery of bodies from wells, pools and ditches and their burial Kept [three hundred men busy for three ' days. ! The wailing of women intensified the horror of the scene. Widows jable to identify the bodies of their husbands insisted on digging graves and burying them. Some of the victims hail been shot, others had been i i bound to ladders and their heads, i protruding through, backed off. Ryes were gouged out and limbs chopped ; off. j A general massacre of the 10,0'm) of 15.000 Christians remaining in I'rumiah is expected unless it should i lie averted by orders from Constan; tinople. Verbal messages from I'rumiah confirm earlier reports that more than Sou persons already have been ikifoW in that neighborhood and that j more than i.orto have died of disI ease. These messages also confirm jthe reports of the maltreatment of v jtlie Rev. E. T. Allen, an American I missionary at I'rumiah. i KI('H!.AXI> DISI'KXSARY HOARD. l lt^er l)is|?eiiser. Clerk and Other Employes Will l>e Dismissed. Columbia, .March 31.?The Rich| land county dispensary board was j called before Governor Manning this i morning, and as a result of his talk j with them H. E. Watts, beer dispen! ser: George W. Collins, clerk; S. D. Friday. George Geiger and Harrison, all employees of the dispensary, will ! be dismissed and their places filled / I by others.' .\o statement, was niaue j at the governor's office, but it is known that the governor called the ! attention of the board to the charges i of alleged nepotism and the dissatis; faction in the community over their j elections of employees. The board I is understood to have offered every i cooperation. The board is composed of S. T. Westbury, .). \\\ EI. Duncan and J. S. Vefner. This marks the second time that the board has been summoned before the governor and admonished to be careful in the persons they elect to minor positions, and impressed with the fact that the responsibility of the conduct of the dispensary is on them. The Richland county dispensary iinaivt !K ? mooti'tia- thi< afternoon elected W. ('atheart shipping clerk and P. I). Drew and Xewton Carrol!, employees of the dispensary. $ ( ?