The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 06, 1915, Image 1
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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1915. Established 1891. ,
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
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v News Items Gathered All Around the 1
County and Elsewhere. 1
Fairfax Win-?.
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Fairfax. April 29.?The second ]
game of the season between Fairfax (
and Ehrhardt was played nere tms ,
afternoon and won by the home team. ,
The first game was also won by Fair- ?
fax. Fennell and McMillan starred ;
for Fairfax, Fennell getting four hits (
out of four times at bat, one for an j
extra base, and McMillan drove a ,
threebagger to centre. Barker pitch- ,
ed good ball, striking out nine. .
Fairfax 6 10 4 ,
Hhrhardt 4 8 1 (
Barker and Young; Glover, Hires ]
, aad Anderson. j
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? Fairfax Needs Rain. ]
Fairfax, May 4.?No rain has fal- ,
len here since the t^ird day of April. 1
Only a small proportion of the cot- ,
? ton has come up or will come up until
rain fall6 and of the large acreage ,
planted in watermelons in this sec- '
tion about two-thirds of it was plant- (
^ ed too late for the plants to come up. ,
The oat crop wmcn looKea very prom- ,
tadng a short while ago will be al- (
most a complete failure if rain does
not come soon. j
Another ill effect of the drought is ]
that pastures for live stock are not ,
yielding much for the stock to eat. ,
The corn crop is good. ,
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* Honor Roll Denmark School.
Denmark, May 4.?The following
? is the honor roll of Denmark public
school for month ending April 30: ;
First grade?Winnie Cox, Sudie ,
Dyches, Olive Hutto, Miriam Turner, .
Mamie Turner, Grace Wiggins, Doro- .
thy Crum.
Second grade?Wendell LaCroy, '
Ada Hutto, Sarah Califf, Dorothy Matthews,
Claudia Holton, Edward Zeig- .
ler, John Turner, Damaris Faust,
Louise Owens.
Third grade?Francis Dozier, Al- 1
bert Folk, Stanwix Hutto. James McCrae,
Margaret Brooker.
"Prturth cradp?Rubv Abstance. El
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dridge Hightowerr Joe Matthews, ,
Evelyn Cain, Ryrl Price, Dorothy
Riley, Mary Cacioppo, Helen Turner.
Fifth grade?Fred Wiggins, Edward
Cox, Louise Ray, Martha Cacioppo.
Sixth grade?James Wiggins, Earle ,
Rice, Edna Creech, Anna Matthews, '
Julia Margaret Riley.
Seventh grade?Harold Sojourner,
Daisy Tillman, Julia McCrae, Elizabeth
McCrae.
Eighth grade?Julia Cox, Sadelle
Cain, Kathryn Faust, Willie Dell Hut^
to.
Ninth grade?Genie Fogle, Barn- '
f well Huggins, Hazel LaCroy, Martha
L Wiggins.
Tenth grade?Virginia Hutto,
Christobel Mayfield, Vera Wiggins,
Frances Guess.
Samuel Ray, Kathleen Fogle, Agnes
Goza.
Old Fashions Return With the War.
Among the many changes that the!
war is bringing into the streets and I
the home some of the most significant
are so quiet and unobtrusive that
people hardly notice them. One of
these is the change that has come
over the look of households of persons
of fastidious tastes and strict
aesthetic conduct. Formerly the 1
idea of a mounted photograph (except
perhaps a reproduction of an
old master) was thought to be quite
banal and terribly suburban. Today
yon find their mantelpieces crowded'
with photographs, some even pinned
on the wall without the slightest re
gar a ror spacing anu anaiiscuicm.?
details which formerly would have
taken an afternoon's thought to settle.
Our artistic houses are being
ruined without a single regret. Another
reversion to simpler days is
the return of the old-fashioned hair
brooch with its little oblong frame
of gold prettily wrought inclosing a
tiny panel for a strand of hair. Some
of them are originals bought in curio
shops or rummaged out from old
cases, but the hair in them today is
onne and newly cut.?Manchester!
Guardian.
Xevv Hat Saved.
Girl (reading letter from brother
at the front)?John says a bullet
went right through his hat without
touching him.
Old Lady?What a blessing he had
his old hat on, dear.?London Opinion.
TRYING FOIl BLACK COTTON.
Mr. Bral>liam Writes Hopefully of
His Experiments. j
The cotton world is now short
>n dyes, on account of the European j
kvar. and some of the finishing mills
nay be forced to close down.
Some years ago 1 conceived the
idea of growing different colors oi l
;otton, butNto do this I first had to j
know, then get the primal colors of |
ottnn. and the number thereof. God;
;ave man five primal sorts of cotton, j
svhite, red, brown, yellow and black.)
The black has been lost somewhere
n the mists of the ages, but every
experienced breeder knows that so
long as the species exist the lost variety
can be restored. To this end I
im working to restore black cotton,
ind only last week the first start was
made by planting deep green linted
uotton, red linted cotton and brown
linted cotton in my experimental
patch, and can I get the three to come
Into blossom at the same time, black
lint is an assured fact I am not
using the yellow sort in this test, for
:hat sort must be used in growing
mother shade.
In making this declaration I fear
rou may think I am mixing my
irinks over-much, or that I am a fit
subject for Bedlam. I can assure
fou, however, that I am on the water j
svagon. and I hope I am not non j
compos mentis.
There is greater variation in plant
life than in animal life. From five
pairs of human beings, primal pairs,
there now exists, and have existed,
some 250 different types of men, all
varying in color and in characteristics.
No plant or animal breeder can
accept the Mosaic version of the
Adam and Eve theory. White will
beget white eternally if no admixture
takes place. So on with black,
red, brown and yellow. Now and
then there appears an albino, but this
is a mere freak, and two albinos,
mated, will produce a coal black
progeny. More than this: If God
cursed Ham and not Ham's wife, the
black blood of Ham would have been
lost in ten generations. Look at the
octoroons in your own city; look at
:he Creoles in Louisiana. From these
two types, "by breeding, in ten generations
the full black can be restored.
Blood not only tells, but lives, even
though dominant, and by a certain
line of breeding can be brought back.
To illustitate: There is no record
in all history of green linted cotton.
Grow the brown Egyptian and- the
deep green seed found in some varieties
of our uplands together three
years and you will get a light green J
lint. Select the darkest green, and |
in three more years you get a deep
green lint. As my experiments along
this line cover only six years I cannot
say what will happen in the next
few years. But if green lint can be
produced, pink, blue, black, in fact,
any shade can be produced under intelligent
breeding.
My experiments would have been
further advanced than they are, but
I have had much trouble in getting
the seed I want. It took me four
years to locate red lint cotton. I
got the seed this year and planted
last week the first cotton of that sort
ever planted in the State, so far as I
know. I know nothing of its growth.
It may be a perennial; if so it will
further delay my plans, but I truly
hope it is an annual.
When I used to write on growing
long cotton on the uplands the lamented
Carlisle McKinley, of the
News and Courier, tried to laugh me
down. Now the long cotton produced
on the uplands averages 10 per cent,
of the entire* cotton crop, and many
of the grades are so gooa uu it u<ts
made sea island cotton a back number.
I got a pathetic letter from one
of the best known sea island planters
in the State some weeks ago. and
while I did not say it to him. but I
knew that I had been instrumental
in injuring the sale of sea island cotton
by pushing the growing of long
cotton in the interior.
Natural phenomena opens up to
the human family greater possibilities
than were ever dreamed of, Edison,
Marconi and others are developing
physical forces that are more
than wonderful and challenge the admiration
of "the world. Had they
lived in the dark ages death would
have been their portion?would have
been accused of communing with the
devil, while in reality they are communing
with God's own forces.
Plant life offers more rewards than |
physical forces. We only need a few
Edisons on the job.?A. W. Brabham.
in the News and Courier.
Reproof. ^
"Who was Shylock, Aunt Ethel?"
"My dear! And you go to Sundayschool
and don't know that?"?Life.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATEj
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick..
Reading?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
A new bank for Brunson has been'
chartered with a capital stock of |
$25,000.
Sapio Mavbank. Jr., was struck byi
a Coast Line train at St. Stephens)
Tuesday and killed.
Z. V. Davidson was Tuesday elected
mayor of Chester over R. R. Hafner
by a vote of 275 to 273. Mr.
Davidson is an insurance man of
Chester.
The annual inspection of the South
Carolina naval militia will be held
on May 24-28, conducted by Adjt.
Gen. Moore and Lieut. B. B. Taylor,
U. S. X.
S. H. Richardson, a prominent
citizen of Hampton county, died at
his plantation near Brunson on Saturday.
The funeral service and interment
were held at Hampton cemetorv
QunHav
A young son of Tom Lowe, of
Aiken county, was killed by the accidental
discharge of a shot gun Sunday
afternoon. The boy with several
other children were playing with an
old gun which was not known to have
been loaded.
Two fires in Anderson Tuesday destroyed
property valued at $90,000.
The first fire is said to have been
set by a spark from a locomotive.
Among the buildings burned was the
$20,000 freight station of the Piedmont
Northern railway.
As a result of a general row among
the negroes at Cherry Grove church
in Hampton county Sunday, Buddy
Cope is dead, John Davis is mortally
wounded, and Henry Davis seriously
wounded. Five negroes have been
placed in the Hampton jail.
A third case of attempted criminal!
assault within a few days in Green-1
ville county was made by a negro
Tuesday upon a white woman. Thej
negro was frightened away. Bloodhounds
were put on the trail, but
failed to locate the assaillant.
to prevent burglars from rifling
his cash drawer, Garris Ladd, of
Dawkins, Fairfield county, set a
"trap gun." Sunday he evidently
forgot about the contraption and
went into the cash drawer, with the
result that the load of shot struck
him in the side, inflicting a dangerous
wound.
The cotton mills of the Aiken, the
Langley and the Seminole Manufacturing
companies have been bought
in at a receiver's sale by William
McKinley, Jr., and Charles H. Low,
a committee appointed by the creditors
of the companies. The mills will
be reorganized and reopened in the
near future.
FAMILY OF 24 AT REVIVAL.
Biggest Household at Religious Service
Will Get Prije.
It was "family night" at the Chester
Tabernacle, and the Rev. William
Nicholson, the evangelist, paid
a high tribute to the families which
are eo-operatin? in tli work oi leading
penitents on thfe trail.
Dr. Nicholson announced that he
would give to the family presenting
the largest membership at the Tabernacle
a handsome prize, and stated
that at Shamokin a record was established
by seventeen members of one
family.
"Chester can beat that," announced
a voice, and twenty-four persons,
all members of the family of Caleb
H. Reed, stood up to be counted. The
evangelist gasped as the Reeds were
greeted with applause. They will
get the prize.
A Mixed Blessing.
A gallant Tommy, having received
from England an anonymous gift of
socks, entered them at once, for he
was about to undertake a heavy
march. He was soon prey to the
most excruciating agony, and when,
a mere cripple, he drew off his footgear
at the end of a terrible day, he
discovered inside the toe of the sock
what had once been a piece of stiff
writing paper, now reduced to pulp,
and on it appeared, in bold, feminine
hand, the almost illegible benediction:
"God bless the wearer of this
pair of socks!"?Punch.
The land at the head of Wall
street, on which Trinity church and
cemetery stand, comprises a plot 391
feet long by 227 feet broad, valued
at $17,000,000.
SHKIXKI) IHNKIHK.
Ordnance Was Latest Work of KruppI
Factory.
Paris. May 2.?Today's war office
report says it is believed the great;
German gun, which twice has bombarded
Dunkirk from a range of 23
1-2 miles, has been put out of action.
It also announces the bombardment
by the French of one of the German
forts at Metz. The text of the statement
follows:
"There is no modification to report
in the situation along the entire
front.
"Information received from a deserler
is to the effect that for about
twn months pngineers of the KrUDD
Gun works have been directing in the
suburbs of Dixmude, a sector where
there has been no fighting, the installation
of a machine gun capable of
firing a shell over a very long range.
It is this gun which may have bombarded
Dunkirk. The gun is believed
to have a range of 23.5 miles.
"Only nine shells were fired on the
second and last bombardment of the
French seaport. There is reason to'
believe that the gun either has been
damaged by a method of fire which
the most powerful pieces do not resist
a long time or that the continual
presence of our aeroplanes has had
the* effect of stopping its fire.
*On our side yesterday we bombarded
one of the forts on the southern
front of the entrenched camp of
Metz."
l\ S. GUV OF LONGEST RANGE.
Secretary of Navy Compares NewPiece
With England's Best.
Washington, May 2.?Critics who
claim the American navy's 14-inch
rifles are inferior to the 15-inch British
naval gun are answered in a
statement issuea tonigni dj seurmarj i
Daniels declaring that the bureau of I
ordnance has developed a 14-inch J
gun "that will shoot farther, shoot
straighter and hit harder than any
gun now in use or known to be designed
by a foreign country,"
While conceding that the British*
battleship Queen Elizabeth's guns
throw a larger shell, Mr. Daniels
points out that she carries only eight
15-inch rifles, compared with twelve
14-inch weapons on the United States
battleship Pennsylvania.
"There is an axiom with regard to
caflibre which amounts to this: That
a ship should mount the smallest big
gun that will pierce the enemy's armor
over vitals at the maximum
probable fighting range," says the
secretary's statement. "The 14-inch
guns of the Pennsylvania will get
through the maximum armor afloat,
so far as our knowledge goes, at a
range of 12,000 yards.* The Queen
Elizabeth's 15-inch guns will do little
more than that. If our information
is correct as to the velocity of the
r"1 - ? "V. onnc tho . 1
oruisii i o-iuvii ?,uuo, - .
guns of the Pennsylvania will range
a little farther than the Queen Elizabeth's
15-inch guns."
The Pennsylvania mounts twelve
guns to the Queen Elizabeth's eight.
"Counting volume of fire and probability
of hitting, we see that at battle
range the number of blows delivered
by the Pennsylvania in a given
time will exceed those given by
the Queen Elizabeth by 70 per cent.
No one can doubt the advisability of
delivering seventeen hits to ten of the
enemy. ~
"Now, if we compare these guns at
a range greater than armor-piercing
range we find that the Pennsylvania's
guns range quite as far, at a maxij
mum as those of the Queen ElizaI
beth. Both guns range farther
than they would have any hope of
hitting a ship."
BOV TRIES TO WRECK TRAIN.
Was Staging an Imitation of Scene
in the Movies.
Charles Foreman. 14 years old, a
negro, tried today to imitate train
wreckers he had seen in moving pictures,
and a repetition of the tragedy
that sent a score of persons to
death seven years ago, wnen a nam
on the Seashore Railroad plunged
from the Thoroughfare bridge, was
barely averted.
The youngster had piled scrap iron
on the tracks and was lugging a discarded
railroad tie to finish the job
on the Meadow side of the bridge
when a dispatcher sighted him from
a tower.
Detectives sped to the scene in an
automobile and the youngster fled.
The 11 o'clock train from Camden,
due at 12:40, was in sight when
they cleared the track. The boy was
captured after a mile cha6e across
I the Meadows. i
WILLIAMS TAKES CHARGE
WILL KEl'KlYK SALARY OF $6,000
PKIt YEAR.
Dr. Strait, Retiring Suj>erintendentt
Says He Will Tell Public About
Asylum.
Columbia, .May 1.?Dr. C. Fred
Williams today succeeded Dr. T. J.
Strait as superintendent of the State
Hospital for the Insane. In a statement
announcing his appointment of
Dr. Williams Governor .Manning said
of the inmates of the asylum, "I regard
the proper care of these 1,700
unfortunates the largest work of our
State. Humanity demands it."
Dr. Wiliama "'ill be paid salary of
$6,000 a year, $3,000 of which is provided
for by appropriation and the
additional $3,000 is borrowed on the
personal endorsement of the Governor.
"I do not propose to disregard
the constitution and the laws: I stand
for them," says the governor, "and
if this increase of salary for service
to be done is forbidden I tfill pay it
myself rather than that these patients
under the care of the State
should not have the best treatmenl
that can be secured."
The following is the governor's
statement in full:
"I have appointed Dr. C. Fred Wil
liams, of Columbia, as superintendent
of the State Hospital for the In
sane for the term beginning May 1
1915, to February ?5, 1916. Aftei
I found the appointment of Dr. Sargent?a
man skilled in mental troubles?was
against the spirit of the
constitution, I looked around for a
physician skilled, younger, full ol
energy and full of love for his fellow
man, and desiring to be of service
to them. With these considers
tions in mind I consider Dr. Williams
an ideal choice. Dr. Williams had
in Columbia a lucrative practice anc
his own home. To give up the practice
for the salary allowed would
have entailed a heavy sacrifice on the
part of Dr. Williams and his family
Having his own home, he desired and
agreed to forego the residence and
perquisites that have always" been ah
lowed superintendents of the State
Hospital for the Insane, and I ther
guaranteed personally to him the extra
compensation.
"I regard the proper care of these
f.TOO unfortunates the.largest worP
of our State. Humanity demands it
Money spent to give them the besi
care and treatment will be well spent
I do not propose to disregard th<
constitution and the law; I stand foi
them, and if this increase of salarj
for service to be done is forbidden ]
will pay it myself rather than tha
these patients under the care of th<
State should not have the best treat
ment that can be secured."
Dr. Strait Talks.
Announcement that he would prob
ably enter he political arena nex
year and tell the South Carolina pub
lie fully of the details of operation;
of the State Hospital for the Insane
at Columbia, of what changes am
improvements were made by him
and of the treatment accorded him b:
the present State administration wai
made by Dr. T. J. Strait, of Lancas
ter, recently removed superintended
of the asylum, shortly before he lef
yesterday afternoon for his formei
home after being succeeded by Dr
C. Fred Williams, of Columbia.
Dr. Strait said his mind was no
fniiv madft ud as to what effort h<
would make to carry to the public o
this State his views upon the situatioi
of the asylum and upon the actioi
of the administration. Early in th<
interview he forecast a political up
heaval in 1916 that would have th<
asylum as the centre of two vortex
Dr. Strait said he did "not knov
whether he would run next summei
for governor or lieutenant governor
or for congress from his district."
That "some of the leading lawyers
of this State hold the opinion that J
superintendent of the asylum cannon
be summarily removed without cause
and that such action without caus<
would be illegal," was mentioned bj
the departing former superintendent
during the interview. He did not
express his own opinion as to th?
right of those in power to removt
him.
Dr. Strait said he desired to mak<
it plain that he had not brought partisan
politics into the government oi
the asylum, and that he had brought
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government at a less aggregate expense
to the State than that which ]
found there." Discussing the econo
my of operation he had obtained, h*
declared a comparison of the monthly
expenses of March, 1914, anc
March, 1915, showed he had save<3
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CHlLDltKN lilTTKX BV OTTKIl.
Little Fellows Battle With Infuriated
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,! Animal, Which Owner Finally Kills.
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Georgetown, .May 3.?As a result
of a most unusual accident a little
'child of Mr. William Palmer, of this
city, has been fearfully wounded and
two other little fellows less seriously
hurt. The children were bitten by a
pet otter, the property of Mr. J. C.
Lowrimore* a neighbor. The child
most seriously hurt was bitten about
the face and neck and on the ankle.
Well-nigh an entire cheek is bitten
off, the nose badly cut and the scalp
badly lacerated.
Yesterday afternoon the little Palmer
children went to the home of
Mr. Lowrimore and asked that Mr. t
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Lowrimore's little son take the otter,
which was a pet, down to fa near-by *
pond and entertain them with his
antics in the water. This was done
! and the little animal swam and played
in the water, chasing crawfish.
| Finally he was called from the water,
( and as is his practice after bathing,
he ran to one of the little children
and rubbed himself against the
child's leg to dry himself. The child
became frightened and caught hold
of the animal, mashing him to the
ground. This infuriated the otter
and he bit the little fellow. The
other children then attaOked the animal
and he fought most furiously.
He buried his sharp teeth in the
child's cheek. Another child caught
the otter's tail and, pulling strongly,
' pulled away most of the cheek. In
the fight all of the children were
' badly bitten except the Lowrimore
child, his little master. Strange to
say, the otter refused to attack this
f little fellow, although he was fight- / "
ing as vigorously as the other children.
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Finally word was carried to' Mr.
Lowrimore, who hastened to the
j scene^fef the battle, and seeing the
( lacerated'children, caught up his pet
and killed him.
^ This otter was known by nearly all
Georgetown people. A year ago Mr.
Lowrimore's son was fishing in
| White's Creek, near the city,/ and
I caught three of these rare animals.
He was fishing with a bob, and on .
seeing the little otters in the water
caught them by thrusting the hooks
of the bob into their bodies. All of
the animals died but one. This was
taken home and trained to do many
5 tricks. He developed remarkable in'
telligence. He would follow' his mas'
ter to the office of the Clyde Line', . ' ..
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1 where Mr. Lowrimore is employee,
" and spend the day about the office
i very much as would a pet dog. He
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was an object of much interest to
everybody. He was very affectionate . and
his attachment to the little son of
1 Mr. Lowrimore, who attempted to
' protect the Palmer children, was %
striking. Some time ago this little
fellow was sick, and during his confinement
to his bed the otter insisted
- on staying in bed with him all the
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t time. Every morning it was the ot
ter's practice to go into the child's
3 room and get in his bed before the t
, child arose. A special mark of at1
tachment was his refusal to fight this
? little fellow while infuriated by the
r attacks of the Palmer children.
3 The otter had grown to more than t
- four feet in length and was richly
t furred. Mr. Lowrimore attached a
t value of several hundred dollars to
r his.rare pet and was greatly grieved
to be forced to kill him.
t MARCH BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
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t- RejK>rt of State Board of Health for
i ' Last Month.
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? Columbia, April 28.?Following is
. the report of births and deaths for
? South Carolina for the month of
. .March, by the State board of health:
r Deaths,> 2,036; births, 3,090.
r The record of communicable dis,
eases for March has not been coinpiled,
but following is the record of
3 communicable disease for the month
i of February:
t Tuberculosis, 155; pneumonia,
, 236; typhoid fever, 10; pellagra, 75;
? Whooping cough, 13; cancer, 36;
r diphtheria, 4; malaria, 14. '
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L Since the abolition of the vodka
x business the savings of the Russian
, people have quadrupled.
$7,200 for that month.
i Among other savings he had ob
tained by institution of modern
[ methods, he asserted the installation
t of bread cutters saved the State the
t. cost of 82,000 loaves of bread in
- eight months immediately following
t the time when he assumed charge.
- Giving strict care to the amount of
; meat cooked for each meal, resulted
- immediately in a daily saving of 175
1 pounds, he said, which amount saved
1 was further increased.