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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915. Established 1891.
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS 1
90ME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IX VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
News From Cope. 1
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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!"
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GERMANY DELAYS REPLY.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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 _
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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.
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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
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