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I ' . Slip lamterg ISjmtlb One Dollar and a Half a Year. '' BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1915. Established 1891. ? - j . - 1 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. ^ Cope Cullings. / Cope. May 24.?Senator Robert ? J i T/vV.? n l^iae, accumpameu u\ ou?. juuu Kennerly, came over on Thursday night to give Cypress camp, No. 161, t W. O. W., a boost with one of his /\ inimitable speeches, but there was \ such a small attendance, on account of several sovereigns being off attending court, and on account of the short notice, that Senator Lide, after a few suggestions and complimentary remarks as to the camp and the order, promised to meet with us at some future date, and help to boost things 1 in proper style. Little Edward Griffith and little Mary Julia Felder, who have both been quite sick the past few days, are both reported as being some bet? ter. Although the oat crop as a general rule is rather poor this season, * Mr. S. B. Cope has just housed some | thirty odd or forty acres, that he; | p caims to be the best he ever made, u They will make from eighty to one, t\ hundred bushels per acre. ' ^ . Messrs. Marion Green, Jno. H. and vPrank E. Cope al60 have fine crops of oats. Mr. S. B. Cope's crop of - wheat is about the best in this section also. Mr. John H. Cope is cutting his with binder pulled by his tractor. Chief Dowie had the sidewalks cleared of all weeds and grass, and 2 '/ * the -drains and ditches all cleaned f out the past week and now Cope can boast of being as clean in that respect as any town its size. The little six-weeks-old infant of Mr. and Mfrs. Francis H. Pickering, whidh became quite sick Friday night, was taken to the hospital on yesterday afternoon for an operation. Mrs. M. L. Cope, who has been with her daughter, Mrs. J. J. Cleck\ ley, of Bamberg, for the past several months* arrived this morning to spend some time with her son, Mr. S. B. Cope. Mr. J. Herbert Hayden, rural mail carrier No. X who was married on the 12th to Miss Huffman, of Ehrhardt, and who went on his honeymoon to Jacksonville, Fla., returned with his bride a day or two ago, and ^ will make Cope their home ior me ' present. While Dr. V. W. Brabham, of Orangeburg, was making a professional call here yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Brabham paid her friend, Mre. J. E. Felder, a visit. Miss Kathleen Kirkland, who has been visiting relatives in Barnwell county the past ten days, returned this afternoon, accompanied by her aunt, Mrs. Leena Black, of Millett ville. The Sunbeam Band of the Sawyer Memorial Baptist church entertained their little friends on yesterday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brickie, in a literary and social manner, the refreshments being especially enjoyed by the little ones. v No Decision Reached. M ' Norway, May 21.?Norway and Denmark tied in a pretty game of ball on the latter's diamond Thursday afternoon. The game was fast with very few errors despite the wet field. Only six innings were played in order for the visitors to catch a train, the score being 2' to 2. The r feature of the game was the pitching of Reed and the batting of P. Gue for Norway. Reed struck out 13 men and allowed two hits. Both teams played good ball. Batteries: Norway. Reed and Able: Denmark, Baxter and Creighton. Horse Veteran of War. \ r ? The oldest horse that served the country in vthe war between the f States is still alive, at the age of I 53, at Horseheads, N. Y. It is owned by P. A. Mclntoch, who is also a veteran of the same war. To prove his assertion, Mr. Mcintosh shows the government brand on the animal's hip, which reads. "I. C., 1865." Horse and man served in the same regiment. Although bent with age, his hair turning gray and his teeth becoming worn, the old warhorse is still able to eat twelve quarts of oats and take his master to town several times a week. It is estimated the animal is at least 53 years old. Farmers say the average life of a horse is about 15 years.?Exchange. ; Silas Green Country Store Thielen Theatre Friday night.?adv. FKKTILlZKlt TA(? TAX. j I Keteipts at Clemson College "? "? l*e?*; Cent ?>f 1014. Clemson College. May 24.? The! fertilizer tag tax for the period>rom; July 1, 1914. to May 18. 1915. was 55 per cent of the tax for the same I period last year. Figures from the office of H. M. Stack house, secretary i of the State board of fertilizer con- j trol at Clemson College, show the j tax receipts to May IS to be $148.-' 102. The tag tax receipts on May j 18. 1914, had reached $270,244. This I year's tax is to date, therefore, 55 per cent, of that for the same period last year and 53 per cent, of the total for last year, which was $277,000. NEW PAPER FOR LEXINGTON. The News, Published By Messrs I^aphart and Sarrett. * Lexington, May 24.?The Lexington News, this town's newest newspaper, made its initial bow Wednesday. The News is a successor to the j Lexington Enterprise, which for j about two years was published by i John Bell Towill. Jt is edited and j published by Sam J. I?eaphart, for- [ mer postmaster, and M. G. Sarrett, who for some time was associated; with his father-in-law, G. W. Har-j man, in the publication of the Lexington Dispatch. HURT IN* AUTO ACCIDENT. Herbert Glaze and David Smith In. jured Xear Orangeburg. Orangeburg. May 24.?As a result of an automobile accident about 1 o'clock today, C. Herbert Glaze and David N. Smith, Jr., are injured, the former seriously, perhaps. Mr. Glaze wae driving the car' up the Bull Swamp road, on the outskirts of the city, and in trying to avoid several obstructions, caused by the heavywind of yesterday, the machine fell in a ditch. Mr. Glaze was cut about the head and bruised in the side. Mr. Smith's injuries were very slight. Mr. Glaze is court stenographer for thi6 circuit. x XOTE OX COTTON* CARGOES. British Ambassador Says Agreements _ Were Xot Made by Government. Washington. May 24.?A formal statement designed to clear up mis understandings over the participation | by the State department's foreign trade advisers in unofficial arrangements regarding cotton cargoes was handed the department today by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador. It says the British government "quite realize that these unofficial arrangements in no way involve the United States government." Following i6 the text of the ambassador's statement: "The arrangements with regard to shipments of cotton and other articles, of commerce were agreed on between representatives of the British government and the representatives of the American interests concerned. The government of the United States was in no sense a party in these agreements and took no part| in the conferences. The British government quite realize that these un-1 official arrangements in no way com- j mit either government to any depart-j ure from the views which they have) already expressed in their official notes with regard to the declaration of March 1, and the blockade policy adopted to give effect to it." A memorandum issued by the British office several days ago was construed here as intimating that unofficial participation by the State department's foreign trade advisers in arrangements for concessions to American cotton shippers committed the United States government to acquiescence in the course pursued by the allies toward neutral commerce. As a result, conferences between the I trade advisers and officials of the! British embassy were abruptly halted. In official quarters here it is understood that the misconstruction of j the American position was due to! some officials in London, and today's j statement from the British foreign j office fully clears up the matter. Little Sister Says: If there's one thing makes me sick ; it is to see the big hefty 200-pound squash who could lift a baby elephant; with one hand always take the little-. est frailest chair in the parlor and i the little two-bv-four prune who | would get lost in my vanity box popj himself down in the big heavy fumed j oak rocker that makes him look like j a cockroach setting on a feather bed. j i ( . IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS ; KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. [ State News Boiled Down for Quick Heading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Albert C. Druelle. a car repairer, | died Tuesday morning as a result of} a pistol shot wound inflicted, according to the coroner's jury, by his own hand. Petitions are being circulated in Greenwood calling for an election on a bond issue of $135,000. for street improvement, a new school building, and other improvements. W. H. Irvine, considered one of the wealthiest men in Greenville, has filed a voluntary petition in bankv ruptcy. The amount involved is said mnpo than 4200.000. IV WO aivt V Y - - . F The Orangeburg school district Tuesday voted to float a bond issue of $30,000 for the erection of a high school building. The vote stood 96 to 7 in favor of the bond issue. Two Abbeville children were seriously poisoned a few days ago by eating "'snake" strawberries. The strawberries were eaten on Thursday and they became ill Saturday. During the month of April. $288,754.77 worth of whiskey was sold in South Carolina by the dispensaries. Charleston led all other counties with sales amounting to $47,805.50, with Richland a close second. * ? i 1 fl ret 1 He cuy oi sparumuuig is tut u.ov to invoke the compulsory school attendance law. Petitions have been filed with the authorities, signed by the required number of voters, asking that the law be made effective in that city. All children between the ages of 8 and 14, unless exempt under the provisions of the act, will be required to attend school. Last Thursday night, Wallace Turner, of Bennettsville, saw a negro near his house. He ordered the negro to stop, and when he did not, he shot the negro. Being dark, he saw the man no more, but next morning he followed the tracks and came upon him again. Disregawing further orders to stop, Turner again fired upon the negro, who fell, and later died. It was found that the negro was deaf and dumb. THE GREATEST- RAILROAD. Africa's Famous Cape to Cairo Line Will Be Unique. When all the great railroad trunks of the world have been built, a decade or two hence, four of them will appear upon the may in heavy black, indicating that they surpass all others in importance. These will be: The Pan-American, from the arctic waters of Canada to the strait of Magellan; the Transsiberian, from the Atlantic to the Pacific across northern Europe and Asia; the Transpersian or some other line, from the southeast of Europe to India, and the Cape to Cairo. The Pan-American and the IndoEuropean railways may surpass the Cape to Cairo as commercial arteries, and the Transsiberian will doubtless figure more potently as a stragetic line, but for the sheer interest of the country traversed?for the picturesque variety and romantic appeal of the panoramas running like double cinematograph films past the car windows?the great African trunk can never know a rival. Six thousand miles across 65 degrees of latitude; a score of climates, and the lands of a hundred different peoples or tribes; the second longest of the world's rivers and two of its largest lakes; the greatest dam ever built, conserving water for the world's richest lands; the most imposing and ancient of all temples; the ereatest waterfall, and the most important gold and diamond mines, and finally one of the last great expanses of real wilderness, the only place in the world where the wild beasts of the jungle may be seen in their primitive state from a train? all these seen, traversed or experienced in twelve days! Surely there can never be another such railway as this. ? Lewis R. Freeman, in World's Work. Wise George. ' Why did George Washington say he couldn't tell a lie?" asked Meandering Mike. "Because he was one of our wisest citizens." replied Plodding Pete. "He| knowed perfectly well dat when you're caught wid de goods on you only move is to make a play fur immunity."?Warhington Star. t WAK ()\ ITALIAN* FRONTIER. { fc Vienna Announces Fighting Has Begun. -J - Vienna. May 24.?The Austrian war office announced today that fight- ^ I ing had begun along the Italian frontier where a number of small battles are in progress. Italian cavalry has appeared near the frontier. The statement follows: , "The general situation in the i northeastern theatre of war is un- i changed. Battles continue in middle c Galicia. During the engagements of \ the las#t few days in the hilly country i of Kielce, Russian Poland, 30 officers f and 6,300 soldiers have been captur- ( ed. s In the southeastern theatre of war, c after the declaration of war, small battles were begun at some place in c the Tyrol, on the frontier. In the r frontier area on the coast Italian cavalry appeared near the frontier town r of Strassoldo." t SAYS ITALY WILL STICK EXI). London States Rome Will Sign Agreement Not to .Make Separate Peace. London. May 24.?Italy has given her adhesion to the agreement already signed by the allied powers not to conclude a separate peace. The signature of a formal document to this effect is imminent. / SUCCUMBS TO HIS WOUNDS. Chester County Man Shot by Friend Passes Away. ?? \ Chester, May 24.?John Hafner, of Bullock's Creek, who was 6hot yesterday morning by James S. Stevenson, a friend and neighbor, died at a g hospital in this city last night. Stev- ] enson says tne snooting was acciaeutal. He declared that Hafner received the fatal wound while playfully struggling with him for possession of a pistol. Both young men are said to have been drinking. CUTS NAME TO YORK. Town Drops Off Long Kept "Ville." 5 Campaign Very Warm. York, May. 25.?By a vote of 125 to 80 the citizens>,of Yorkville decided today that the second syllable of the town's name should be detached and that henceforth it should be known as York, instead of Yorkville. The vote polled was unusually large for this place, the election being the culmination of one- of the warmest municipal contests in the history of the town. Even those most conversa'nt with local politics were unable to forecast the outcome with any degree of certainty and the matter was in doubt until the votes were counted. The movement to change the name, which was launched several months ago, had been discussed from every possible angle and every conceivable argument pro and con had been ad- I vanced. As a general thing the business men of the town favored the change, but there were numerous exceptions and many of the older piti- * zens opposed the movement for senti- 1 mental reasons. The End of the Quest. Diogenes was sitting on a fire hydrant when a kindly faced man stopped and addressed him. according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "What's wrong with you, old friend?" he asked. "I've been sorely misused^" replied the cynic. "In what way?" "As I turned yonder corner carryj ing my lantern, a youth approached | me. 'Wherefore the glim?' he asked. I replied that I was Diogenes looking for an honest man. That youth laughed. "You're wasting time in this town*, uncle,' he said. 'Your ' glim is no use here.' And what do you think? He tooK my jauieru i -j away from me, and my hat and my I ^ street car pennies, and ran around the corner. The only thing he left a of any value was my collar button. Do you wonder that I appear mo- ^ rose?" - c "Not at all," replied the kindly a faced citizen. "YoYu are quite ex- ^ cuseable. I am sorry, however, that c in your search for an honest man i you couldn't have waited until you e met me. But. perhaps, it's just as s well." i: So saying, he stooped down sud- s denly and snatched away the philoso- i pher's collar button, ran up the near- t by alley and disappeared. "Turning the other cheek" is not an American failing: we generally re- c ly on the other fist.?Memphis Com- I mercial Appeal. S '' s- ' - ' JAYS BECKER MUST DIE I LFFIRMS SK('OXI) COXYICTIOX OF XKW YORKER. C 'ossible That Former Lieutenant Will Seek to Save Life by Reveal- ] inc Secrets. ( Albany, X. Y., May 25.?Charles Jeeker, the former New York police ieutenant, must die in the electric hair at Sing Sing within the next six veeks for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the New York gambler, by our gunmen July 16, 1912, unless Jov. Whitman or the United States upreme court intervenes. The court >f appeals of New York today affirm:d Becker's conviction by a supreme :ourt jury at his second trial several nonths ago. Executive clemency for Becker is egarded as remote. As district atorney of New York county, the pres; >nt governor prosecuted the former jolice lieutenant both times. Speculation is rife as to whether 3ecker, facing death, will not seek ! o save his life by making revelations ' n connection with the so-called "po- '' ice system" in New York to the gov;rnor. Regardless of his connection 1 vith the Rosenthal case, Becker is >elieved to possess information that ; vould be invaluable to State and s'ew York city officials. The statenent has been made frequently that ' he trial of Becker hnd the four gunnen who shot Rosenthal on.y scratchid the surface of the true conditions ' n New York police circles. "We desire," the prevailing opinon of the court said, "that the views vhich led us to affirm this judgment ihall be made unmistakably clear. 1 Doubtless a very strong argument 1 :an be made in favor of defendant )ased upon the inducement of the ' tvowed accomplices to swear falsely, heir opportunity to fabricate evi- ' lence and the lack of conclusiveness n corroboration. "All this, however, was a ques- : ion for the jury, whose determine- | ion we are not justified in interferng with unless we can say that it 1 ~ ol_ * US plttliil V w iuug wiiivn, oo u* eady stated, we-cannot say." Among other striking conclusions )f the opinion were these: : J There was nothing to indicate that J he gunmen were actuated by any )ersonal hostility toward Rosenthal. ' They were simply murderers for hire. 1 Jpon the truth or falsity of their ! estimony to this effect then depends he guilt or innocence of Becker. That the testimony of various w:tlesses regarding the "Harlem con- 1 erence." at which Becker and others 1 tre said to have planned -the death ! )f Rosenthal, was corroborated and herefore must be assumed to* be^ rue. One judge dissented. CONCRETE BEST. Cdison Will Not Stand for Any Mis- . representation. i Thomas A. Edison gave out the fol- , owing letter recently, regarding the(1 ire in the Edison plant: "The Detroit Brick .Manufacturers';, md Dealers' association is distribut-1, | ' ng throughout the United States a , jamphlet entitled, "'me taison f ire, j, he contents consisting of a reprint j >f an article appearing in a trade ' ] ournal, 'The Clay Worker.' The en- ( ire purpose of this publication is to ] li'scredit. and if possible, retard the , lse of reinforced concrete in the con-' ( ;truction of fireproof buildings. "The results of the fire at my plant1 >n December 9, are used in an entire-!? y false and misleading manner. Of he seven reinforced concrete buildngs none was destroyed. A small ection of the upper floor was supjorted by the lower house. The pam- ' ihlet referred to presents three views 1 ?f this, the suggestion being that they 1 vere of three different buildings. < The brick administration building 1 vhich remains standing, was protected by an adjacent concrete building 1 ind was not subjected to the fire. i "Every brick and steel building vhich was attacked by the fire w^s > 1 ompletelv destroyed, together with 1 ill the machinery they contained, 1 vhile the damage done# to the con- i rete buildings amounted to about 2 1-2 per cent., and of the machinery < ontained in the concrete buildings t 8 per cent, was saved ana is now ' n oDeration. Manufacturing was re umed in some of the old concrete uildings within a few weeks after he date of the fire." . Peace Centenary. 1 San Francisco. May 24.?A century i if peace between America and Great < Jritain was celebrated today at the " !an Francisco exposition. < t ? v 11 ' ~'r - " ^ * L -iij* 4 " GKKMAN-AMKRICAX VIEW. '>, rfernian Kidder IHscusses Relations ' Between Germans and Americans. # The Staatz-Zeitung in an article signed by Herman Ridder, says: "Anyone who reads can see that a arge section of the press of this , ^ :ountry has been doing its best durng the last six days to dictate to the ^resident the course which he shall ollow in handling the extremely deli:ate situation which has arisen in >ur foreign relations. ' "These papers, whose names are on iveryone's lips, have sought to opDose the cacophony of the mob to the :alm reflection of the chief executive )f the land. They have filled their columns with incendiary communica:ions which neither represent public >pinion nor have the redeeming features of logic or truth. They have reproduced at a critical, and as they perhaps think a psycological, moment, extensive extracts from the British reports on 'German atrocities' in Belgium, seeking by the circulation of this rehash of stories long since twice told and long ago disproved to further inflame the passions of the people. ' "They have, moreover, attempted to further their designs of provokihg war by publishing extracts from German papers commenting on the sinking of the Lusitania, intended to maintain popular passions in the country -at white heat. While the wireless installation at Sayville is not in operation these extracts come to j as through London and are well chosen to serve the purpose of the British government. They are ' but isolated paragraphs torn from their context in certain of those pestilential H n'ffono nf TuhinVi flopmanv Viae hpr V*. WAAAWA W* ***"' ?? - .; ; V share as well as we, and in no way . represent the feeling of the German people over the Iocs of the Americans >' who went down with the ill fated vessel, "The people of this country are overwhelmingly for peace, yet a large section of the press which claims to serve them is clamoring for war. This element was successful in achieving its designs in 1898, but in 1915, it has to deal with a president who bows to nothing btrt the will of ' the people. "The American press seems to be ' j incapable of understanding that this is no time for war talk. The people of the country have been sufficiently aroused by events. There is no occasion to further inflame their passions by specious argument or basieless insinuations. The president, with grea? wisdom and strength of mind, has - / striven to maintain the peace of the country while upholding its honor, and if the battle goes against him and we are plunged into a war, the full meaning of which no one can forsee r\t n-'Viiph ie natpnt to all, it will be due to the clamor of a J few irresponsible papers. "Nor is this a time to burden millions pf American people with unjust and unnecessary anguish of mind. The German-Americans must sufrer in any conflict between the United States and Germany, pains of which their fellow citizens can never know anything. It is rather a time for showing them the greatest degree of consideration. They have fought to uphold the flag in the past and they will do it against any enemy whatsoever. They deserve the fruits of past loyalty, until they have to. feitad the right to claim them. There lias never been but one flag under wmen trie (jerinau-.iujcuuau *.10.3 fought. There never can be but one flag under which he will ever fight. A.nd that flag is the Stars and Stripes." The Living Telephone. Some time after the close of the Franco-German war the Prussian LThlan drill was introduced into the British cavalry. The first men to be jxercised in it were a corps of houseiold cavalry (Blues) at Windsor. They were extended, each some 300 yards from his fellow, many miles of country being covered. This verbal message was given to :he soldier on the extreme right to pass along: "Enemy's vedettes at Edgefield Green." It got hopelessly muddled half way. The amazed officer waiting to receive it got this communication from :he trooper on the extreme left: n.ifl Vi,* rha n noon '' JCjiigiaiJU O UCUIO yaiu wrj A Simple Part. Patience, observing what other ceetirities are doing, presented herself :o a manager of vaudeville. "H'm? vhat." asked the latter, "can you do jf a popular pleasing character?" "Do?" repeated Patience. "Why I lan cease to be a virtue."?Puck. . '' '' ' ' ' M