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".r "'"" " '"" ">"' :-^V'";'" 'r- ' ?-V7''.!. "ftf -'-' ; "' - .- - . % , / r":' ' ; ' " ' : ; ' . ' ' fl }t lambrrg Ifmtlb > | One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915. Established 1891. v J / ^ ? - COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS # SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Fairfax Fancies. Fairfax, Sept. 25.?The following young people have left for th^ colleges: Miss Sadie Harter, to Colum bia college; Misses Leylite Wilson, Alma and Lucy Googe, to Winthrop college; Misses Ruth Wilson, Alma Loadholt and Kate Fennell, to the Greenville Womans college; Charley Fennell, Wilbur Wilson and Edward n MacDowell, to Furman university. The civic league held a meeting at the home of Mrs. M. A. Moye, Wednesday afternoon of last week. Owing to the inclement weather, there was not a full attendance of members and some important business matters tfere left over for the next meeting in October which will be held with Mrs. MacDowell. A salad course folowed by a sweet course was served. Mrs. J. E. Johnston and children are at home again after an extended visit to Greenville, Chester and other points ' Mrs Grimes. Mrs. Hogart and Miss Elsie Grimes, of Brunson, were re^ cent visitors to Mrs.E. A. Ha ter. Mrs. Rosa C. Platts, of HrCkory Grove, is spending /some time with v her daughter, Mrs. William Harter. Mrs. D. B. Groseclose has returned from a visit to Prosperity, Newberry and Columbia. * Country Correspondence. ' The health in this community (Lemon Spur)'is good. We fully 4 ? believe in a few more years, with ^ good drinking water and vigorous ii ^fights against mosquitoes, and other germ laden insects, that malaria and the dreadfed typhoid, and hemmorrhagic fever will be a thing of\he past in Bamberg county. Only a few years ago there was a great deal of sickness every fall, that now lb so much lessened by determined methods of screening, draining, etc. On last Wednesday about noon a tenant house on Mrs. Eugenia Whet" * ? ' ? ?i~ ?Troo hni>na/1 stone nice s< pmuiaiiuu. nao uui uvu and in it the eighteen months' old child of Raleigh Williams, colored, was burned beyond recognition of humanity. Hampton school began its session last Monday with Miss JCate'Kornegay as teacher. There are only a very few pupils in the district of . . Hampton. We must comment on some of Supervisor McMillan's road management. Some beautiful work has been done on the road leading from Bamberg to Spring Branch and on * to the swamp. Then some much needed repairing has been done on the Bamberg-Ehrhardt road, but there's more to follow. The office ? of- supervisor is much before the public all the time, as everybody travels some, and never fail to criticize the failures, but seldom compliment the successes. The writer attended the mission> ary picnics given by the W. M. S. of $ " Spring Branch church on the l?th. Ice cream and lemonade was sold all * . day and s, neat sum realized to be reported at the Blackville meeting. On Sunday, the 19th, at the \ home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mr% T. J. -Crider, of Spring Branch, their daughter, Blanche, ?xand Mr. Loiless Euge$e Murray, of Summerville, were married. Quite a crowd ^ witnessed the ceremony, performed by Rev. B. D. Bolen, her pastor. The young couple left immediately after the ceremony for their future home at Charleston. We wish for them much happiness, as Blanche -seems quite near the writer after three - * * * - 1 A years reiationsmp as leacner emu pupil. In last week's issue The Herald t commented on th^ soil adaptibility I of Bamberg county to rice. The writer has often been told of the efforts made during slavery times to grow rice along Lemon Swamp. A canal that is across the Southern part of causeway on Ehrhardt-Bamberg road, was cut by a Mr. Bailey's slaves during the early 60's. This * afforded drainage sufficient for rice - -- ? * - n j _ i. _ production and it was iouna to De a profitable undertaking. After the war and during reconstruction, the scarcity of labor caused a discontinuance of that. To show how far away rice production has been to our people a pupil in agriculture asked us last year if "home. made" rice tastes 'as good as "'store bought" rice, Bamberg county has tasted and enjoye the appetizing "home * 1 .4 TO RECALL DU3IBA. Assurances Given at Vienna Foreign Office to the American Ambassador. I Washington, Sept. 27.?Dr. Constantin Dumba, Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the United States, will be formally recalled by his govern ment, according to assurances given American Ambassador Penfield at Vienna foreign office. Mr. Penfield had been instructed to make cloar informally that "leave - of absence" for Dr. Dumba would not satisfy the United States. A note on the subject is being prepared in Vienna, and immediately upon its receipt safe conduct home for Dr. Dumba will be arranged. Dr. Dumba hao engaged passage on the steamer Nieuw Amsterdam, sailing October 5, it was said. Charge d'Affaires Barclay, of the British embassy, called on Acting Secretary Polk at the State department today, and later the secretary stafori that Fir Diimhn'e unmnlest.ed ">"vvu ,"M,V / * ~ ~ passage could be arranged by wire 1 in a few hours after Vienna's official recall. / ? . Written assurances that Madam Dumba cpuld proceed without interference from British or French authorities was mailed Saturday,1 the allied embassies having > notified the department that safe conduct was 1 superfluous in the case bra non-combatant. STRAY BULLET FATAL. Negro Loses Life on _ Allendale Street. J* 4 r ? f Allendale, Sept. 25.?Jake Saxson, a negro boy about 15 years of age, died Wednesday from the result of a pistol shot inflicted Sunday night ' while on his way from church. Elazer Daniels, who is charged with the crime, was shooting ~At a negress, Nannie Fitts, at the time and a stray bullet pierced the boy's stomach. The attack Was a result of a general row among the negroes the night before on the J. J. Walker place several miles from Allendale. * The verdict of the coroner's jury is that Jake Saxson came to his i death from a gunshot wound in the hands of Elazer Daniels, He made his escape, it is thought, into Georgia and is still at large. A number of arrests are to be made among the negroes who took part inlthe Satur'day and Sunday night rows. made"N flour an<* we hope the rising price of cotton will not make her k neglect to grow plenty of rice and I flour' next year. Not only Lenion p t Swamp vicinity is adapted to rice culture, but there's enough soil in the county to grow rice enough to feed its people. . When will a depot, or some kind of shelter be built at Lemon;; Spur? There is a good deal of get-off-and-on at this point and the irregular sched- I ule of the afternoon service makes it very uncomfortable in rainy weather and since, days are shorten ing. \ Colston Clippings. . Colston, September 27.?Well, the good old summertime; is almost past and gone; no more picnics, and, oh, I my, how they will be missed by the . young folks. ' * Mr. Hamie Folk and sister, Miss , Bessie, visited.Miss Alberta Kearse .... last Sunday. t Mr. Will McMillan spent last Sunday with friends and relatives in Ulmers. I s Mr. Clyde Dickinson and Mr. Eldon Kirkland were visitors at Colston last Sunday evening. Mr. Wesley Kearse spent last Sun, day with Mr. Barbot McMillan. Mr. Preston McMillan spent Saturday night and Sunday with his brother, Mr. Jake McMillan. A certain young man took a girl to Sunday-school Sunday afternoon and forgot to take her* home. Miss Evelyn. Kirkland and Miss Bessie Kirkland spent last Friday afternoon with Mrs. Jule Ray. Mr. Vernon McMillan and Mr. Gerald Kearse visited friends at Ulmers last Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kirkland, of the Beuford's bridge section, visited Mr. Frank Kirkland and family last Saturday evening. Mr. Jake Folk was also a visitor in Colston Sunday evening. Mr. Horace Ray has been sick for rlovo' Vir\r>c ho will cnnti hp &cvciai u&j >3, ?*^ .. ? out again. Mr. Johnnie Kirkland, who has been ill for several weeks, is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hughes, of Ehrhardt, visited their sister, MVs. i C. B. All, last Sunday. i . v J / _ . i* / F * # Charles C. Langston, former editor of the Anderson Intelligencer, died in Anderson Tuesday, at the age of 56. Five negroes were in the death house in the State penitentiary Tuesday, awaiting execution. All of them were convicted of murder. Manson Shuler, a negro 21 years old, was shot and killed by a posse of citizens Tuesday at Ellorree, while attempting to enter the home of a resident of that place. He was killed on the premises, after he had flashed a pistol in the face of the owner of the residence. The city of Augusta is seeking an injunction against the county of Edgefield to prevent the foreclosure by pubfic sale for taxes of the dam across the Savannah river. The amount of taxes claimed is $774.35. in - r>/Mi rrt Ar? + Vl 1 lit! 111J UiltLlVJll IB SUUfelH UU LUC ground that the dam is public necessity. FOLLY TO STAND PREPARED. * Nebraskan Tells Columbia Audience Doctrine of Preparedness is Failure. * _ * . ) / Columbia, S. C., September 23.? William J. Bryan, former secretary of State, speaking here tonight under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A.; attacked "preparedness" as inciting to war and stressed the opportunities which, he said, America now had to advance the cause of peace.^ "I had hoped," said Mr. Bryan, "that this war would show all Americans that preparedness is the original cause of war. Had w^e been as prepared as some of our citizens now want, we would be in. the war now, I firmly believe. The doctrine of preparedness will not stand the test of logic and this war shows that it will not stand the test of experience. No nation is challenging us and if there was we should answer that we have the welfare of many people and hieh ideals to take care of and can not go to war without a cause. "Not a nation in the world desires to attack vus," he continued. ".Why, then, Should we let alternate scares result in getting ourselves in a state of preparedness? It is pure folly." ^ . Mr. Bryan, in an interview this afternoon, said he hoped that national prohibition would not be an issue in the campaign of 1916. He hoped, he said, that the campaign would be fought out on the issue of economic reforms foistered *by the administration, which needed the inV, I dorsement of the electorate. WANT RESULTS "DECLARED. / / . ' Steering Committee of Prohibitionists Enter Protest Against Delay. Columbia, September 24.?Letters of protest against the delay in declaring the result of the prohibition referendum election were written today by the steering committee of the prohibitionists to Governor Manning and R. M. McCown, secretary of State. The prohibitionists say that " ? ' ? -a a At ..u ? tne aeiay in declaring me result ui tlie election will give the dispensary boards opportunity to buy more liquor which they cannot do after the result is declared. This brought* forth a statement from the secretary of State, who said that he was the only member of the' board of banvassers in the city yes-1 terday, and he had to call in Lieutenant Governor Andrew J. Bethea. He also points out that all the returns have fiot been received and "for the State board to declare the result before the returns have been received, if the county boards are within the statutes in transmitting their returns, would be gross partisanship," he said. He does not think there is any possibility of the dispensary boards ordering morfe whiskey, calling it a "bugaboo." The State board of canvassers assembled this afternoon at 5 o'clock and had, to recess because all the returfts have not been received. Got Stage-Struck. One of our good paid-in-advance subscribers has finally succeeded in er??*iir?o' A r\f tho fleas that inhabit iiu v*. ?? ed his bird dog. He took the dog to De Queen and while there visited a show where a man had a bunch of performing fleas. The fleas on the dog got stage-struck and followed the performing fleas off.?Exchange. . s / '/ % { 0 IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. PARTIAL RETURNS.* Over 57,000 Votes Cast in State. Canvasser^,, Meet October 5. "kSL_? Columbia, Sept. 28.?Samplete and certified returns of the referendum election from 42 of the 44 counties in South Carolina, as filed with {?e secretary of State give for prohibition 40,581 votes and against prohibition 16,538 votes. The counties from which complete returns have not been received are Clarendon and Marion. ^ The State board of canvassers, whifch was called to meet last Tuesday to declare the results of the election on September 14, will meet October 5 at the call of the chairman, R. M. McCown, secretary of State. The vote was not declared last Thurs day because complete returns had not been received from all counties. Vote by Counties. The vote by counties, exclusive of Clarendon and Marion, is as follows: Dry Wet. Abbeville 723 246 Aiken 1,126 315 Anderson .. ? .... 1,985 847 Bamberg 448 232 Barnwell 543 488 Beaufort .. 203 164 Berkeley 248 186 Calhoun 346 185 Charleston 370 2,607 Cherokee 1,209 259 Chester 625 # 234 Chesterfield 887 496 Colleton 801 226 Darlington 1,152 149 Dillon .. .. 494 162 Dorchester 454 497 Edgefield 710 70 Fairfield 453 138 Florence 1,514 362 Georgetown 319 , 154 Greenville 4,096 ' 1,028 Greenwood 1,172 234 Hampton .. .. .. .. ,545 ^ 227 Horry .. 861 727 Jasper 152 46 Kershaw .. .. /. .... 620 ' 335 Lancaster 989 202 Laurens 1,446 370 Lee .. <- 473 236 Lexington 1,405 572 Marlboro 828 38 Newberry '.. 1,170 398 Oconee ..1,108 162 Orangeburg 1,415 493 Pickens ,.. 1,028 315 Richland 1,257 784 Saluda ?.... 787 > 136 Spartanburg 3,338 1,251 Sumter .. ~ 652 244 Union v- 1,281 427 Williamsburg .. .... 565 -132 York ' 813 164 Total - -.4(1,581 16,538 SHOOTS J. W. ROUSE. Injured Man Taken to Hospital ini Augusta. Brunson, September 27.?This morning about 8:30 o'clock Mr. Angus M. Brabham and Mr. J. W. Rouse met at the town council chamber, one of the most frequented localities in the town of Brunson and entered into a discussion of a business transaction, pending, in which both were directly interested. Mr. Rouse is said to have reproached Mr. Brabham with insincerity and of being guilty of "a dirty trick." Mr. Brabham replied, it is said: "I cannot fight you. I am a physical wreck, but if you advance on me I will shoot you." Rouse struck at Brabham, the blow glancing on the side of Brab ham's face. Brahhanf staggered backward, reaching for his pistol. Rouse struck again and grasped Brabham, as Brabham's pistol was presented. Brabham fired once and lost hold of the pistol, which fell to the ground, two or three paces from where he stood. Bystanders quickly interfered. A ball from the 32-calibre pistol entered just above and to the right of the left hip and did not pass through* or out. The wound bled profusely and the three local physicians, hastening to the scene of the difficulty, were for some length of time engaged in staunching the flow of blood. Mr. Rouse was hurriedly made ready and carriedly to a hospital in Augusta for treatment. Mr. BrabT-.OVV. nrnn + r? Vli C TlPTYlP ^PVPTfl.l ua.in vvao tamcu iv um blocks distant, where he is in bed, suffering from complete nervous prostration and other ailments from which he has been for some time suffering. The latest account of Mr. Rouse states that he is resting easily. Mr. Rouse is a graduate of the Citadel. He taught as principal in several of the hieh schools of Hampton and for the past several terms has served as county superintendent of education and has generally been regarded as a capable and an efficient official. . v ' *> a - '' - i- . - , . RECALL ELECTION FAILS BANNER AND MARSCHER DEFEAT LEGARE AND DODIX Both Discuss tlie Question of the Negro Vote.?Election Was Orderly. j Beaufort, September 28.?Charles E. Danner, mayor, and W. F. Marscher, councilman, will continue as members of the Beaufort city council, the recall election held her& torlflv hflvinp' hppn rarripd hv them by large majorities. The vote was: For Mayor, Danner, incumbent, 144; for councilman, Marscher, incumbent, 144. The unsuccessful candidates put out by the faction which sought the recall of Danner .and Marscher, with the vote of each follow: it. R. Legare 75, J. B. Dodd 77. Two tickets - had neither candidates for mayor scratched, but had Marscher scratched. Quiet and Orderly Election. Th^ election was conducted in an absolutely quiet and orderly manner, and at no time during the balloting was there any semblance of a disturbance over the contest, proving that rumors which had gained wide circulation during the past few days were evidently groundless. While practically everybody here discussed more or less the political situation, and great interest was manifested, still each citizen ''kept his head," and the result, so far, is the peaceful solution of the political problem that has confronted this city for the past month. The negro vote, which each side charged the other with trying to control, was 66. About eighty negroes were registered. Five ballots Vl Allf Kooonoo r> ATI Q A f nolo luiunu uui i uou uuuc ui the four names on them was scratched. CAVE-IN OVER NEW SUBWAY. One Woman Dead and Three Men Injured in New York City Accident. New York, September 25?One death and the injury of three other persons resulted from the caving in of thq street over the new subway in Broadway near 38th\street tonight. An unidentified woman, who was caught in the falling debris, died later in a hospital. I The others injured were men. Police and firemen continued their search for several workmen rc porteld missing. The accident occurred a few blocks from the heart of the theatre ?r".is trict shortly before 8 o'clock and Broadway was crowded with people. The weakening of supports in the subway, due to weight of traffic, is believed to have caused the superstructure to collapse. A crowded street car was approaching the spot just prior to the cave-in. The motorman saw the car tracks ahead sag and applied the breaks in time to prevent the car from being carried down. Many of the passengete became hysterical. Tonight's accident occurred less than a mile from that of Wednesday, when the superstructure of the new subway at 7th avenue and 1 25th street collapsed, causing seven deaths. SIZE OF TERRITORY TAKEN. ' Area Occupied by Allies 4,266 Square Miles; .by Central Powers 69,498. Washington^ September 22.?A German estimate of the physical results of the first war year received by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce today from the American Association of Commerce and Trade, of Berlin, says: "It is of interest at the close of the first war year to record the amount of hostile territory occupied by the belligerents. In regard to / prisoners'taken only German data is available. The territory occupied by the allies consists of: Galicia, 3,861 square miles; in Alsace-Lorraine, 405 square miles, a total of 4,266 square miles. "This territory is about the size of the State of Connecticut. "The territory occupied by the central powers consists of:- In Belgium, 11,197 square miles; in France, 8,018 square miles; in Russia, 50,193 square miles; a total of 69,498 square miles. "This territory is about the size of the State of Missouri and about one-third the size of the German empire." ' The estimate fixed the number of prisoners taken by the central powers at 1,694,869, of which 8,790 are officers, and the numDer or gun^ captured at 8,000 field pieces and 3,000 machine guns. N * ~ , . v ?? ' . *? . / ' < , \ ' l ' A* ' < 11 - I ' : ' ' ? POLITICAL TROUBLE. * ' $ *: Former Beaufort City Manager Attacked on Street. ?? fm Beaufort, September 25.?The city registrar is under bond of $1,000 to answer to the charge of issuing fraudulent registration certificates. A white voter, Esau Levy, is under a $500 bond for alleged fraudulent >- * registration, and a negro voter is .. 3 eluding the service of a warrant for the same alleged offence. Ex-City Manager Home is out on . . ' * a'$200 bond charged with carrying concealed weapons, and Levy is under like bond charged with assaulting Horne. ^ The Alleged Assault. ^ The alleged assault occurred in front of the postoffice tonight. Sur- > rounded by a party of over twenty . V Danner partisans, Levy is said, to have stopped Horne, who came along ; f - the sidewalk in company with J. W. Gray, and cursed hint. for swearing out the warrant for false registra- . tion. Levy, who, it is said, jhad been threatening violence during th"e afternoon, urged on by the crowd, it appears, struck Horne, and ran into a nearby store calling out: "He 1 is going to shoot me!" . vrV Horne went after the^crowd in an uproar. Others stepped in> a policeman came up. Horne was charged witA being armed and turned over a revolver to the policeman and de- %, manded the arrest of Levy, which the /) policeman refused to do. Horne weighs 115 pounds. Tonight at a meeting of indignant . - citizens the following resolution was passed and presented to the mayor by a committee, consisting of Messrs. George W.N Beckett, George Waterhouse and W. E. Richardson: Resolutions of Protest. "Be it resolved, That the mayor 1 .4 of the city, Mr. C. E. Danner, be requested to guarantee police protec- ' tion for Mr. R. C. Home, Jr., who has been attacked by political adherents of the mayor on the streets of ; \ Beaufort in the presence of the police, who refuse to make any arrests upon the ground that the chief of police has ordered them' not to interfere in the event of disturbances arising from politics, but only ta summon the parties involved7 to appear in court. We present this reso- J 1 : ^ lution in the face of many rumors of v threats of violence directed against Mr. Home." ' -'9; The meeting then resolved, That "whereas, the committee appointed by the mayor and chief of police have \ * given explicit promises that the peace will be preserved and the chief of police requests that any threat against Mr. Home or any other citizen be reported to him, upon which /. information he will make the arrest of said person; therefore, be it resolved, That the meeting accept the V J promises." * . f M The meeting also voted to ask the county commissioners to keep the rural police in the city until after y''-\ ,the election. The city registrar has turned down many men who are registered in the county, but who had lost their coufi- ' ^ ty registration certificates. The re- 1 - ^ call advocates some 'time ago tpresented a protest to the mayor, after which the names of two of their opponents were stricken from the registration list. Last night a number of the leaders v discussed other alleged irregularis ties and decided on taking out the , warrants, which were sworn to this morning by Mr. Horne before magisD{1/\.t aP Vftmocoofl Tn U <ALC XV1ICJ' , Ul X ciuaoovv- iu <>uv y -/ case of the two charged it was found r . 'their names do not appear on the ? county registration books and, there- , ^ \ fore, are not entitled to the city registration certificates that were given \ them. Other evidence is in hand - 'rKS warranting other arrests, it is said.? > " > m ^ "BUCK?" "NO; WM. JENNINGS." ' .. - . 1 Ci. T 1 Very Jjaiest xeiepnone awry involving Peerless Leader. v i Washington, Sept. 25.?Here is the latest one which is making Washington newspaperdom laugh: One day this week?it was the day the former secretary of State called on the president?a clerk at a certain government department answered a ring at the telephone. "Who is this?" said the clerk. "Bryan," was the answer. / "Who, Buck?" "No; William Jennings." The clerk was considerably flustered at the denouement of the little drama. "Buck" Bryant, as H. E. C. Bryant, of the Charlotte Observer and the New York World, is known to his friends, was the person whom the department clerk had in mind when he misunderstood Mr. Bryan's name over the 'phone. ' \ . ' . / " ~M > ./ . \ ' * ' / -