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> . " . ' A- I (Flip lambprg fealii One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915. Established 1891. - i - I ; COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS 1 90ME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IX VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. News From Cope. 1 i Cope. May 15.?Gardens, small grain and crops generally were greatly benefitted 'by the rains of last week, and the farmers were just set- 1 ? ting down to work again on yesterday, but their plans will undergo another change, as rain, which began falling early this morning, has increased in such volume that plowing will have to be dispensed with , for several days. . The earlier cotton planters have most of their cotton chopped out and ' sided, and the plants are looking extremely well, as the weather has been , favorable to same. Oats are ripening so rapidly that harvesting will begin this week. The ( frnn e-pnprailv is rather Door, but several farmers in this immediate vicinity have some that are really * / worth talking about. The firm of Antley and Gordon have moved into the handsome ne.v brick store just completed by Mr. J. ? R. Myers. Work on the new brick store of Mr. W. M. Hughes is progressing satisfactorily. Mr. E. P. Garrick is digging out ( the foundation for his new brick store, and rumor has it that two other Ngentlemen contemplate building real soon. Honor Roll of Clear Pond School. The following is the honor roll of Clear Pond school for the month ending May 21st, this being the last month: 8th grade?Dorris Folk, Vera Me- : Millan, Rosa Walker. 5th grade?Ruth Morris. 4th grade?Roy Morris, Reba Steedly. 2nd grade?Adrine Morris, Joe Martin. 1st grade?Mary Martin, Lynwogd Pearson, Vera Pearson. High school, 1st year?Mamie Mor- ? ris. LEONA IDELL STALVEY. Ehrliardt Wins. Ehrhardt, May 13.?In one of the fastest and most spectacular baseball games of the season Ehrhardt defeated Fairfax here thi6 afternoon, 2 to v 1, in ten innings. The game was featured by the battery work of Hiers and Moore for Ehrhardt and the first base play of Smith for the visitors. Fairfax 0010000000?1 4 3 Ehrhardt .. ..0001000001?2 6 3 Youmans and Young; Hiers and Moore. Umpires, Glover and Gooch. SAVED FROM THE WRECK. \ Divers at Georgetown Bring Up The Lunaria's Machinery. Georgetown, .May is.?mvers nave at last succeeded, in their efforts to secure the engines and other machinery of the $40,000, eighty-foot yacht Lunaria, which went upon the rocks of the north jetty off Georgetown bar more than a year ago, and has been subjected to the pounding -of the waves for that time. Persistent efforts have been made to save the valuable machinery of this palatial boat, but without success till this week, when daring divers succeeded in detaching the machinery from the broken hull, and turning it over to Messrs C. Ford and T. W. Brightman, who bought the wreck from the insurance people. The Lunaria was one of the finest yachts on the Atlantic coast, and was the property of a wealthy New Yorker. Why she should have been allowed to go on the jetty has never been explained. The engines are in excellent condition in spite of their long immersion in the salt. T 1 THOUGHT HE WAS ENGINEER. , Somnambulist Leaps From Second- < Story Window of Hotel. ] Spartanburg, May 17.?Under the delusion that he was a railway engi- , neer, and had received instructions to . "rm '' r? W Wurlonn n trnvpl ing salesman of Wilkesboro. jumped out of a second-story window of a lo- ' cal hotel early yesterday morning and, clad only in his night clothes, ran three blocks through the business streets of the city, until he was stopped by policemen. Hudson was slightly hurt about the knee in his jump. He was taken to a local hos- ! pital, and. after an hour or two. was released, having apparently fully recovered. LAX HI V LHJI'OK TWIC'K A 1>AV. JJ Vothing to Prevent Dispenser Making] Two Sales, Says Attorney General. j SC Columbia. .May ir>.?There is nothing: to prevent a dispenser from mak-j ing more than one sale a day to a j '1 person and nothing to prevent the | county dispensary board from fixing the retail price for a barrel of beer which can be sold to a person, is the! opinion of Attorney General Thos. H. ^ Peeples rendered to the county dis-j^ pensarv board of Williamsburg coun-j ty. _ ! The clerk of the dispensary board ] t'1 rendered the folowing questions to T" the attorney general, which together th with his answers will be of interest to every dispensary county in the j I pc Olsi tcr. I "Dear Sir: I am in receipt of j Pi yours of the 12th inst., in which you > w ask: "First. Can a dispense!* make di more than one sale to one man a day? L< "Second. Can a dispenser sell a at barrel of beer to any party and if so, ar can the board fix a price per barrel at less than the selling price per bot- co tie' ue- . su "In reply to your first question, I ni will say that there is nothing in the je law, as I see it, prohibiting more than one sale to the same person a day, I pc unless, of course, the dispenser be- i lieves that the par?y is intoxicated, as provided by section 853 of the code. lh "As to your second question, I pre- ^ sume that you refer to t"he sale of bottled beer in barrels and not to di the sale of beer in bulk. Section 850 w provides that the county dispensary ' board, before permitting any dispen- dt sary to offer any liquor for sale, shall cause the same to be put into pack- lo ages of not less than one-half pint R nor more than Ave gallons and sell se the same. The dispenser shall sell w by the package only and no person "1 shall open the same or drink any of vi the contents on the premises. "In my opinion, the limitation as w to five gallons to be contained in a W( package refers to the quantity that kj is in each individual bottle, jug or _ barrel and would not apply to the one fc, hundred and twenty bottles of bot- n( tied beer in a barrel of beer.' 'In my opinion a barrel of bottled beer may sj, be sold by the county dispensary, but no barrel containing more than five gallons of beer in bulk may be legally sold. R "As to the fixing of the price, section 851 provides that all sales shall be for cash and at a profit to be determined by the board. In my opin- cc inn nnrfpr this* section the retail price of 6ame is a matter within the pow- tj( ers and determination of the county tv board." g, SUBMARINE IX STEEL TRAP. ^ of Bodies of 30 Germans Found in Craft *n Held by Steel Net. th The effectiveness of the steel submarine traps which have been put down to guard the British rivers and harbors has been shown by the fact that wto German submarines have ^ beenI cayght in the Firth of Forth. . In addition a third has been sunk off Qj the coast of Haddingtonshire and a fourth was rammed last Wednesday. ^ disabled, captured and towed to g? Leith, where the crew was taken prisoners. No description of these ^ nets can be given and no information of their effectiveness has been allowed to go forth by cable, but at this date, since King George himself has inspected one of the captured sub- Bi marines and it is talked about freely no harm can come from the letting the world know of it. The first of the submarines, one of se the very large type, was caught in hi the net of the Firth of Forth which be held it at the bottom until it was sc round by inspectors. Engineers and m divers with great dredges went to i< work and succeeded in lifting the machine and towing it to a dock. When the hatches were finally cc opened an investigation showed twen- of ty-nine dead German sailors and their ce officers. In addition there were four jy Scotch fishermen. Today the names of these men stand very high in their , dc native land. st It was apparent that the submarine. bound on a voyage of destruction up the Firth came upon the men fishing. She took them prisoners.and ordered them to steer their craft . safely up to a point where they could m accomplish their mission. ' It has been asked: "Did the fishermen, knowing of the traps, the huge steel nets strtched here and there 01 deliberately steer the submarine into one of them?" They were caught ar and they died.?London dispatch to m New York Sun. m Glendale Springs water for sale at fr Murdaugh's grocery 6tore. w< I THE PALMETTO STATE >MK OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ate News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The architect has presented plans r a 250 room hotel for Charleston, said work will begin on it soon. The grand lodge. Knights of Pyias. will meet in Orangeburg next .lesdav and remain in session rough Wednesday. .Miss .Maggie Dean, of Greenville, ;ed 20. died Friday night from blood >ison, caused by a young friend eking a small bump on her face ith a pin. Rev. \V. P. Yarbrough. a Methost evangelist, died at his home in ?esville on Wednesday. He was join 4 0 years old and leaves a wife id two children. Jno. C. Mahaflfey, of Lancaster lunty. a farmer aged 62, committed licide with a gun on Wednesday ght, on account of had health. He aves a wife and five children. The Greenville News tells of the >isoning of five grown people at edmont Wednesday by chewing im. Physicians brought all of them rough, but some had close calls. Paul E. H. Sloan, treasurer of lemson college for 20 years past, ed suddenly Saturday morning hile sitting in his chair. He was ) years old. He was buried on Sunr iv at Pendleton. Greenville policemen found 15 galf ns of whiskey in the possession of ichey Ballenger, a negro. He was nt to the gang for 30 days. The hiskey was what is known as ilockade" and was made in Greenlie county near Travelers Rest. An old negro named Joe Townsend as murdered in his home in Greenood early Tuesday morning with life and pistol by unknown persons -two, it is thought. No cause is lown for the murder, and there is ) aiue Jo the guilty. The negro just ifore he died said two white men lot him and then cut his throat. TOWN SEEKS HIDDEN GOLD. ottle With Directions Found With Petrified Cork in Neck. In the vicinity o* Lapel there is msiderable gossip just now because ' the finding of a message in a botb unearthed from a rock ledge renty feet below the surface of the ound. The cork was petrified. In le bottle was found a small sheet ' paper, yellow with age, with this scripticn: "July 5, 1814. You will id'a pot of gold one mile south of tie place. George Snare, Nobleslie, Ipd." The gravel pit where the mysteous bottle was dug up is about a ilf mile east of Lapel. Pioneers of iat community say there was a man ? the name of Snare in the vicinity ' Lapel more than 70 years ago. e was a hunter and a recluse. Since ie find there has been some investiition of the ground for more than a ile back from the gravel pit.?Anjrson, Indiana, dispatch to Indian)olis Star. PI TS VP BABOON PRICES. ig Stock in Hamburg, but Animals Are Interned There. We learn from London that in con quence of the war baboons are very gh, alligators are scarce and polar ;ars are firm, says the Boston Tranript. In iact, these animals comand twice the prices bid in April )14. It seems that in course of Gerany's commercial expansion it got ntrol of the "wild stock" markets 1 the world. Hamburg became the intre of this trade, which is diligentprosecuted by German collectors. Now Hamburg is isolated and >ubtless finds itself with a big ock of baboons, polar bears, alii itors, etc., on its hands which it can )t move. With the coming of peace amburg may be expected to realize i its holdings, and a sharp decline baboons is probable. Until the ar is over British families desirous pet baboons or polar bears will tve to pay fancy prices or go withit. American lovers of canary birds e in a similar predicament, for Gerany handles in normal times imense quantities of the yellow songers and we are told that orders om the United States for $25,000 arth are by no means uncommon. WILSON HKVIKWS FLKKT. Siiys (ireat llattlesliips Are Kngiiu to Promote Interests of Humanity. New York. .May 17.?Presidei Wilson today reviewed the Atlant: fleet in the Hudson river and at luncheon tendered to him on shot by the city of New York told a di: tinguished gathering what the com try and its navy stood for. The gre< battleships that lay in the river, h said, "were engines to promote tli interests of humanity." "The inspiring thing about Amer ca." the president asserted, "is tfl; she asks nothing for herself excel what she has a right to ask for hi manitv itself. We want no nation property; we wish to question no n< tion's honor; we wish to stand selfisl ly in the way of the development < no nation. * * * It is not pretensic on our part to say that we are pri' ileged to stand for wnau every ns tion would wish to stand for an speaking for those things which a humanity must desire." The spirit which brooded over tl river today, said the president, ws "just a solemn evidence that the for< of America is the force of moral prii ciple; that there is not anything eh that she loves, and that there isjm anything else for which she will coi tend." Tribute to Daniels. The president took occasion to p? tribute to Secretary of the Navy Dai iels, who sat beside him. Although the day was damp ar chilly, with occasional downpours < rain, the weather abated in.no wj the enthusiasm with which New Yoi greeted the head of th'e nation. 1 the forenoon ne reveiwea a janu p rade of 5,000 sailors and marine and from the moment he set foot t shore until he returned to the Ma flower to review the fleet, his pro; ress through the streets was a co tinuous ovation. He was plain touched by the welcome accord* him. Everywhere a spirit of patriotis was shown. Many men and worm seized every opportunity to tell tl president of their support in the pre ent international crisi6. Thousan* stood in the chill drizzle while tl brigade of sailors and marines marc ed up 5th avenue, and during the a ternoon, with a cold, damp wir blowing across the Hudson, ar thousands more later thronged va: tage points to watch the Mayflowi as she passed up the river betwe* the warships. The president's remarks at tl luncheon were greeted with treme: dous- applause. ENDORSE ANTI-SALOON LEA GUI Southern Convention Pledges Coope ation in Educational Campaign. Houston, Texas, May 17.?T1 Southern Baptist convention at tl final session of its 17th annual mee ing here today created an education commission, pledged cooperation i the Anti-saloon League of Amerii and similar organizations and adop ed resolutions deploring the present of a papal legatee at Washington ar alleged "efforts of the Roman Cathol Heirarchv to gain control of our Go ernment." The educational committee will I composed of one representative fro each State. The convention took no action wit regard to the Baraca and Philath< movement, opposition to which w; expressed in a committee report. Di cussion of the report was interrupt Saturday by a special order of bus new anH it was not again taken u Before giving its endorsement I the Anti-saloon League, the Convei tion voiced its objection to the "cei tralized form of government" recent adopted by the league by the inse tion of a clause in the report of tl commitfee on temperance and soci; service insisted that the league "t kept in harmony with our democrat institutions." Each of the Southei Baptist churches is self-governin and it was urged that the league t so constituted that each State orgai ization be self-controlling. The organization will meet ne: year in Asheville. N. C. The Supreme Insult. One day a Scottish boy and an En? lish boy who were fighting, were sej arated by their respective mothei with difficulty, the Scottish bo; though the smaller, being far th most pugnacious. "What garred ye fitch a big laddi like that far?" said the mother, a she wiped the blood from his nose. "And I'll fitch his again," said th boy, "if he says Scotsmen wear kill because their feet are too big to g< into their trousers!" -1 jjg jj| ' GERMANY DELAYS REPLY. / ?s WKKK MAY ELAPSE KEFOKE PAPER IS RECEIVER, it 10 Relieved that Entrance of Italy Into the War Would Affect the At e g_ titude of Germany. it Washington, May IS.?Two importaut factors, it became known toie night, are working to delay for another week Germany's reply to the i- I.usitania note. it First. The next few days are exit pected to show whether Germany will i- be confronted with a new military sit's uation by the entrance of Italy into * liio war. ft- Second. Interested diplomatists if here believe the interim of delay will 'n reveal whether the United States, of v- its own initiative, will send a generi al protest to the allies against al1(1 leged violations of international law by interfering with commerce be. tween American ports and neutral ie European countries, is Officials here generally think the -e Austro-Italian situation may absorb ft- the attention of the German govern3e ment and delay composition of the ftt reply. It is realized that should Italy ft- become a belligerent, Germany would lose all hope of obtaining foodstuffs or other supplies through the Mediiy terranean, and if Roumania followed ft" Italy's lead, as predicted, the wheat supply from Southeastern Europe l(*' would be cut off. In such circum^ stances, it was explained in diplomatiy ic quarters, Germany would find the 'k submarine even more invaluable as [n a weapon for reducing enemy supa" plies and commerce. :S* The idea that the United States will m send a note to the allies seeking mody" ification of the order in council has its origin in quarters where the conn" viction is held that such a move ly would demonstrate to Germany that the United States intends to be equally vigorous in insisting on the obserm vance of neutral rights by Great Britm ain and her allies, making; unneces1 sary an offer by Germany to return s" to the maritime rules of internation3s *1 law if the allies do likewise. ie Although, without definite inforh" mation, there is a disposition in well informed quarters here tb believe the l(* president will withhold any represenl(^ tations to England until Germany has a" issued a reply, because of a desire to er obtain a frank understanding with in Germany without complicating the situation as existing between the Unie ited States and the allies. n" it is known that for several weeks there have been under preparation p two notes eventually to be sent to Great Britain, one dealing with the r. general subject of contraband and the other embracing general representations on detentions of vessels ie plying between neutral ports carryie ing non-contraband American goods. it. al RAIDING SEIZURES. Much Liquor Nabbed in Past Two "a Days.?Total Record. Chief of Police Cantwell stated this 2e l(j morning that the police raiding jc squads, which continue active, have v_ seizzed in the past two days, 725 bottles of beer, five kegs of beer, 16 quarts of whiskey and 37 half-pints of whiskey. This brings the total seizures up to 9,556 DOtties 01 Deer, 016 quaris [a of whiskey. 2,002 half-pints, 32 quarts of wine, nine gallons of whisg_ key, 37 half-pints of gin, two 15-galIon kegs containing whiskey, one 10gallon keg containing whiskey, three p gallons of wine, one keg containing 27 gallons of wine, 109 kegs of beer a_ and 61 slot machines.?Charleston i- Post ly How He Took His. rie English men-of-war have no icea* making machines on board, as do our )e ships, and everybody knows how the ic Engfish fail to understand us on the 'n subject of the use of ice, especially in 'S our drinks. )e An English officer was aboard one a" of our ships of the Atlantic fleet, and, on being served with an ice drink, commented on the delights of having cool water aboard. The American nflirpr resnonded with an offer of a small cake of ice, which was sent the ?" following morning. Meeting the Englishman ashore a week later, the "s American asked him if he had enjoyed the ice. ie "Enjoy it, old top? Why, do you know, that was the first cold bawth >e I ve had since I left England." LS A woman is more influenced by e what she suspects than by what she ;s is told. it A corkscrew is sometimes used in opening an argument. y MARCH FIFTY YEARS AGO. Kvents of the Great Struggle, as Conflict was Xearing Hnd. The ides of .March, A. D., 1865, marked the closing of the fourth year of bitter war between the two sections of the United States, the North and the South, the federal and the Confederate governments. In both sections from millions of souls, in cities and hamlets, halls and huts, in ( churches and homes, in that dark hour of dearth and death, ascended prayer in petition for the blessing of the dawn of peace?prayer, though, x ' in which was incorporated petition for victory, respectively. The men of the armies of Blue ?nd Grey, "tenting on the old camp ground," sang around their camp fires of "many are the hearts longing tonight , for the war to cease." The dawn of . peace was then very near. At that period the awful drama was nearing its close, when the "war would * < cease," but many of the actors then upon the gore-drenched stage never hailed the dawn or rejoiced with those rejoicing when the war did cease. There were a few more acts 31* a ccnnanna onrl cconos of Mm age before the final fall of the curtain. , In Virginia, the mere wreck of the proud. army which, under Lee and Jackson, during the years of bloody strife had dealt the federal army so many crushing blows, was surround- , ed by the mighty hosts of Grant and Sheridan like a wounded lion at bay, facing defiantly/ his advancing foe$? 4 and Jackson was not there. The remnants of command of the once splendid Army of the West, reinforced by 1 ^ several small bodies of troops from our coastal region, again under their old commander, Joseph E. Johnston, again faced Sherman's much more _ J 1.1,1. 4 ~ powenui auu uuuenu uucu uicw army in North Carolina. Johnston had collected a force of about 22,000 men, against which were opposed three armies?Sherman's from South Carolina, Terry's from Wilmington ' and Schofield's from Kingston, North Carolina, numbering about 120,000 well fed, well equipped troops?with Johnston were not Clebourne and Walker. Lee, with 35,000 half-starved, poorly equipped men, was striving to defend near Petersburg thirty miles of entrenchments. Grant pressed against Lee with 125,000 well equipped troops and was as rapidly as possible /i concentrating all of the available federal forces in the South for another and final "On to Richmond." ? Lee's only hope of continuing the struggle now so vastly unequal lay t in abandoning Petersburg and Richmond, the long-sought and most ofted^ fought for, and uniting his army with Johnston's in North Carolina?and then?? Johnston was preparing to resist and impair in every manner possible Sherman's advance through North Carolina to joiif Grant. Johnston's lean commands in dingy gray were anxious ana eager 10 race agaxu >. / under command of Johnston the hosts of Sherman, as they had done often in Tennessee and Georgia. * This eager, animating spirit appeared to me, to spring more directly from a passionate desire for revenge than from hope of ultimate success or thirst for future glory in victory won. There were no racial prejudices and* hatred as between the bearded Slav Cossack and the helmeted Teuton; or as between Briton and Turk. The real issue was between Americans, natives of the soil, " v acquaintances, schoolmates and often kindred, in many instances close and occasionally of consanguinity of ' the same degree as between Cain and Abel. But there was a burning desye on the part of the few remaining men of the army of the west to wreak on Sherman's army vengeance in blood for wrongs deep and damnable. The opportunity soon came. On the 17th of March Johnston threw his compacted remnants of commands in Sherman's front at a on/1 motanhnrirallv com AVCi/OWVAV/ U*i?, *i?vvv.r..? T manded- "Halt." Sherman ordered "forward," and then "things began to happen." As animating as our thirst for revenge was the enemy's pride of a year of successes. Flushed with victory he came proudly, gloriously on. as if naught could check his progress or would dare attempt to stay his advance, yet with that caution in movement and carefu'ness of formation? of rear support and flank protection secured by strength of numbers?that characterized all of Sherman's movements with which Johnston was ,so familiar and to which formerly so accustomed. Sherman knew, of course, that his force was greatly si(Continued on page 4, column 2.) |