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Utye lamhmi ferald m ' j One DoUar and a Half a Tear. BAMBERG, S. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915. Established 1891. ?. . '??? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS r 4 IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. , r ? , News Items Gathered All Around the it. - County and Elsewhere. Schofield Sketches. i ' -? i Schofield, Nov. 3.?Mr. F. G. P. Weigand spent-Saturday and Sunday in Columbia on bu?iness. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Beard spent Sunday with friends and relatives in I; the Colston section. ^ ?? T-. TT n..u_ Dollar V - Messrs. r. j\,. omu <tuu **. x an?i spent last Sunday with friends at * Ulmers. ] t Mr. G. R. Platts visited Barnwell Monday of this week. -Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Johnston motored to Ehrhardt last Sunday. Mr. H. T. Kearse visited relatives V at Olar Sunday. Several of our citizens attended the revival meeting at Ulmers last Sunday; they report a successful meeting. Rev. McMillan, of Bamberg, is conducting the services. . \ Mr. R. W. Schofield, general manager of the Saltkeatchie Lumber Co., P; of Philadelphia, is expected to arrive here today on a regular inspec| tion trip. RIPSAW. Hunter's Chapel News. I < Hunter's Chapel, Nov. 2.?The farmers of this section are nearly | through gathering the short crop of this season. Oat and wheat sowing lias begun and soon the good old time of grinding cane and hog-killing will be here. Hallowe'en night was observed by 1 ; our school last Friday night. Quite & large crowd attended.? Refresh v ments wpre served and everybody en/ , joyed themselves. ^ ; Judge J. L. Herndon had business J' In Bamberg on Monday. v ; v 4 Miss Lucile Hunter, of Bamberg, / < spent the week-end with her grandJ parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Hunter. Capt. D. Rice Steedly-and Mr. v ' H. Fender attended the union meet% ing at St. John's Saturday. A beautiful home wedding was that which occurred on October 27 at Mr. D. N. Rhoad's, when his daughter, Miss Rebecca, and Mr. Ralph -Rente were happily married, in j* \ % i the presence 'of a large assembly. Varied and profuse were the presents which the young couple received. * The happy couple left immediately after the ceremony for the State fair. | D. E. F. f Kearse News. m ,.. ? * Ww fmm ;uiar, inov. x.?a s\: , ' here attended the State fair last r" week. %. Mrs. George B. Kearse, and Misses t % Minnie Davis Kearse and Eulalie | Coleman attended the Hallowe'en party at Ehrhardt Friday evening. . Miss Sudy Ritter visited her sis% A ter, Mrs. G. W. Jenny, at Jenny's, IP last week. Mrs. Aaron Ayer entertained a v few of the young folks at her home |v* - last Wednesday evening. JlV Mr. and Mrs. B. V. Kearse, from the St. John's section, spent Satur.. ^ day evening in our midst. The tent meeting at Ulmers is at'f&r/ tracting big crowds from this sec-, K tion, all report a good meeting. Mr. and Mrs. E. Bart Price are1 visitors at the home of Mr. L. A. ^ ; Brabham.. K . ' Messrs. Albert Loadholt and Wilfe?' / lie Lightsey were recent visitors here. = i Mr. Faber Kearse spent the'week-' emd at home. - Branchville Bolts. v "% ' V - ( * ' a " ** 1?9ft?\fr and oritiiuuviiic, wv. M v. P i Mrs. F. F. Fairey attended the W. 0. f ^ W. meeting at Bethlehem church ) Sunday. They will be the guests of Mr. W. Sanders Griffith. Miss Florence Griffith, of Bam berg, is with her aunt, Mrs. F. F. Fairey. She will attend school here. Mr. Sam Smoak, of Cordova, was \U a visitor at the house of Mr. F. F. i. Fairey Saturday and Sunday. , Miss Johana Muller, of Charleston, r a popular trained nurse, is spending a few days as the guest of Mrs. Laui ' rie Fairey. ft - > . x V, - "We must be nice to my rich uncle, t . 1 He may leave us some money. He M says that he yearns for a slice of | home made bread." "That's pasv." responded the ? young wife, "our baker sells it.'' I f ;" . The Tribuna, of Rome, publishes information to the effect that the t famous Zoochi monument to the memory of Dante at Frert, has been demolished by the Austrians, that the bronze in it might be used in cannon making. i L GREATEST CROWD AT FAIR. Thursday's Attendance Reached 37,585 Paid Admissions. Columbia, Oct. 28.?The largest crowd ever in attendance on a fair during any one day was present at j I - i ni.i. r _ V* I I the soutn uaronna siaie iair uerc 1 \ today, the paid admissions registering 37,585, beating any former Thursday of fair week, which is always the red letter day. The out-of-town visitors at the fair were there by the thousands and the attendance was made still greater by the very general outpouring of the people of Columbia. This was "Columbia Day," and in honor of the event it was a public holiday in State, county and municipal offices, schools and colleges and the banks. Thousands of school children were on the fair grounds and the inhabitants of the capital city turned out practically en masse for the day. Of course, the big event during the forenoon was the Carolina-Clemson football game, which was the mecca of 7,500 people. Hardly another one could have gotten there, for the grand stand, the bleachers and the standing room was all utilized. It was a great game, one of the greatest ever played on the fair gridiron, ending as it did in a nothing to nothing score. The feature of the afternoon was the $20,000 trades display, several score floats being entered by the merchants and business firms or co lumbia. The parade moved through Main street from Elmwood avenue, turned down to Gervais street to Sumter street, then back to Laurel street, where it was dismissed. Thousands Saw the parade, equalling the great crowd which. witnessed the natural resources parade yesterdafr afternoon. There was much applause as the various displays passed through the crowded thoroughfares. DR. YAMEI KIN TALKS. Chinese Woman Physician Gives Her Views on Suffrage. r If American women, when they be gan their struggle for the ballot, had begun instead to train their boy children in the proper consideration of women, their sex ^ould now have equality as a matter of course, gfeiys Dr. Yamei Kin, China's foremost woman physician, who is in this country on furlough for a year. Not that Dr. Kin isn't a believer in suffrage. "Women ought to have the ballot," she said, "for the sense of responsibility it will give them. When they vote they can't say of this or that law, *Oh, well, I can't help that; it's bad, but I have nothing to do with the making of the laws.' Woman's vote won't make much difference in Conditions, for they will vote just about as men do, but it will make a vast difference in women." Dr. Kin's opinion is based on observation, for she came from China by way of California and spent some time there. "She brought away a few qualms on the subject of what the franchise will do to women. "I'm afraid the women who go into politics will get hard and tricky," she said. "Of course women will want to hold office and they ought to. Women are splendid in administrative and detail work, as their service on hospital boards, etc., shows. But administrative work is one thing and politics is another. I suppose, i however, that the women who get tricky in politics would be tricky in some other work if they weren't in politics. "Women certainly have a lot to learn if they're going into the political game. In California I met Mrs. Helen Williams, who ran for lieutenant governor there. She told me that when the nomination was forced upon her she felt as helpless as a baby. She didn't know one thing that she ought fo do. The men had to tell her." * Dr. Kin spoke at the Connecticut, suffrage convention on October 20, v..a ~^ fViof cho ic not p-ninsr I UUL AdiUC llUiii IUUI, U"V o ^ to take any part in the movement. She refused an invitation to march in the suffrage parade today. "I "have a very liberal feeling'-toward those who like to march in parades," she said, "but I don't. I never would walk in a parade in China, and why should I here?" The so-called woman suffrage movement in China has collapsed, Dr. Kin said. "It was a forced thing, a worked up thing, which made a good deal of noise, but meant nothing. Men 1 J '* Trt+Q in Pliina* thpv flTP Tint I U17I1 I iu ?uu>, ? ready for it yet. Yuan Shih-kai is preparing the monarchy so that when the Chinese people are ready for freedom the thing can be done without jar."?New York Sun. * . **"' IN THE PALMETTO STATE j 1 SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS! KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. t State News Boiled Down for Quick ^ Reading.?Paragraphs About c Men and Happenings. t - ' S The Orangeburg county fair will open on next Tuesday, and will contin no thrrmch Friday. The ninth . annual Spartanburg county fair opened on Tuesday. The exhibition will continue through Friday. jj The Southern Textile exposition j opened in Greenville on ?. Tuesday ^ morning. Nearly 200 separate ex- J hibits were displayed. The Charleston association, the 1 oldest Baptist association in the c State, convened in its 164th annual I session at Sumter on Tuesday. Six buildings were burned at Cor- 8 dova, Orangeburg county, on Mon- t day night, including several stores t and stocks of goods and stables. e Dr. John A. Brunson, pastor of the ^ St. Matthews Baptist church, has an- ^ nounced that he will decline the call ^ to the Baptist church at Sumter. ^ Up to October 18th, where had been ginned in South Carolina 582,- ( 091 bales of cotton, against 693,444 j to the same date last year, accord- \ ing to the ginners report, issued Oc- t tober 25. t Two small negro children were f burned to death, Monday at White's ? Siding, near Sumter. The children were shut in the house, while the parents were picking cotton. . The house caught fire, and they were burned with the house. E. P. Cofield, shipping clerk of the Brogon Mills, Anderson, was attacked and severely beaten Monday while atempting to load some goods. It is said that the trouble grew out of the strike now on at this mill, Cofield being attacked by an alleged crowd of strikers. w i S. T. Carter, State treasurer, has asked the attorney general to institute proceedings for the collection from' the treasurer of Dillon cotinty;* of $5,628.79 taxes alleged to have been collected and which should have been remitted to the State treasurer on April 15 th, of this year. Interest of $1,125.75 is also claimed. PERISH IN FLAMES. Twenty Boys and Girls Lose Lives When Fire Sweeps School. Peabody, Mass., Oct. 28.?Twenty pupils of St. John's Parochial school were known to nave lost tneir uvea ? in a fire that started in the basement e a few minutes after the morning ses- c sion had opened today and swept c through the three stories of the brick and wooden building in less than five r minutes. ' c Nineteen of the boys and girls, all t in their "teens," were crushed or c burned to death. A score of others i were injured. Of the latter, one, Mil- c dred Mead, aged 16, died after hav- g ing been, removed to a hospital. 1 The bodies of the dead -were fright- g fjilly burned and only two, Elizabeth Nolan, aged 17 years, and Mary Sullivan, 16, had been identified late today. Other bodies were believed to 1 be in the ruins, and it was thought twenty-five had been killed or fatally injured. There were 700 children in the building when the fire started, its t origin is in doubt. Some thought it T was caused by a hot air explosion. ( Marched Through Smoke. ( Mothei* Superior Aldegeon, who \ was in Charge of the pupils, heard ? an explosion and, detecting smoke, c sounded the alarm. There were no T fire escapes on the building, but wide T stairways at either end of the in- ^ terior led down to the front exit, j I Under fire drill discipline the little r ones were marched through constant- j ly thickening clouds of smoke to the ground floor, when the leaders lost r their heads. r Instead of passing out the rear | exit, according to rule, they made a ^ dash for the front and became jam- f med in the vestibule. Soon the j crowded vestibule was wrapped in G flames. .Many reached the open and others were dropped from second and thirdstory windows or dragged out of the | windows on the ground floor. e I Earth Shock Recorded. a Washington, Nov. 1.?Heavy j earthquake shocks which lasted for j j three hours were recorded today by jt I the Georgetown University seismo-i T ' - - - ~A* -1 A T A AT I grapn. it is estimated mat me ecu- ^ tre of disturbance is 4,000 miles distant. > , ; f \ v < , ? , ' ' : ' } JOHN ANDRE, BRITISH SPY. ^ ?Vas Captured at Tarrytown, N. Y., 135 Years Ago. ] At. Tarrytown, X. Y., standing by he roadside is a little shaft of mar-, < >le, surmounted by a statue in bronze if a continental soldier, which bears he inscription: "On this spot, on leptember 25, 1780, the spy, Major rohn Andre, adjutant general of the;( | Iritish army, was captured by John j ^ Guiding, David Williams and Isaac | c fan Wart." ' c The land on which this monument! i tands was given for the purpose by j i colored man named William Tay- < or, and an address was made by j Jenry J. Ramond, a New York edipr, on the occasion of its dedication ? in October 7, 1853. \ [' It was in March, 1771, that young ? Lndre, then only 20 years of age, \ iame to Ameirca with one of the Snglish regiments. < Young, handsome, clever, full of j ;aiety, an artist''and a poet, he wTas he life of the British army. While he troops of Washington were nak- i >d and starving Andre was the lead>r of revels in Philadelphia. When ( he Briti^ soldiers evacuated that ; iity and went to New York Andre 1 yent with, them, and, as before, he vas the master of the revels. s Andre, wrho had known the wife of < >en. Benedict Arnold, in Philadel- j )hia, entered into a correspondence vith Arnold, and was the agent ] hrough whom Arnold bargained, un- i ler the promise of a large reward, j or the surrender of West Point, the cey to the highlands of the Hudson, i Andrp visited Arnold within the ! American lines to carry out his ? reachery. He was captured on his '?turn by three American farmer < >oys. Papers making clear the trea- < on of Arnold were found upon An- < Ire's person, who by his own frank :onfession was convicted as a spy i Lnd sentenced to be hanged. Arnold, < >y the blunder of an American sol- ] A. lier, got wind and escaped to the British ship lying in the Hudson. ] Sir Henry Clinton, by the most < irgent representations to Gen. Wash- \ ngton, tried to save his favorite, ; >ut in vain; There was but one way, ] he surrender of Arnold, to avert the ate decreed to Andre. This course < he British, in good faith to the raitor, could not take. Andre plead- ] >d for a soldier's death, but the j Americans held in remen^brance the ; ate of the young hero, Nathan Hale, j vho had been hanged as a spy. AnIre died with heroic firmness, and j he whole British army went in 1 nourning. While the name of Ar- ] iold is forever a synonym for trea- < on, the fate of Andre, even among < >ur schoolboys and schoolgirls, yet < woitAc mmmfspration. Arnold miss- 1 id one chance to restore himself, in a ; legree at least, to the consideration 1 )f mankind. He might have delivered himself to Washington and de- 1 nanded Andre's exchange. But he ; lid not. He served,with fervor in i he British army. At his death, ac- < :ording to tradition, into which it < s best not to inquire too closely, he ; :alled for an old continental uniform i ind a sword belt received from iVashington and died with these iround him. _ 1 LIGON TO BE NAMED. , 1 > 1 iVill Be Recommended for Post mas- j ter at Orangeburg. Orangeburg, Nov. 2.?News reachid Orangeburg early this afternoon ( hat Congressman A. F. Lever would j ecommend the appointment of A. 1 Clarence Ligon as postmaster f for 1 )rangeburg. Dr. Ligon is well ' cnown here and throughout the 1 State and has been a consistent Dem>crat. The appointment will be well ! eceived in urangeourg auu meet nth general satisfaction. There 1 vere a number of candidates for this '< >osition and Congressman Lever had nuch material to select from. Mr. 1 ^ever came to Orangeburg several < lays ago to consult with the business nen here before making this recom- * nendation. < .Mr. Ligon is qualified in every 1 vay to make for Orangeburg an ef- 1 icient and progressive postmaster, ie is at present engaged in the real j (State business here. It Didn't Matter. * A woman mounted the steps of the | ' devated station carrying an umbrela like a reversed saber. An attend- * ,nt touched her lightly, saying: "Excuse me, madam, but you are 1 ikely to put out the eye of the man * lehind you." "Well, he's my husband," snapped * he woman.?Chicago Herald. " I i Un?>olz1 <1 Rft nor voar f XVtaU X lit nci aiu. j , ? < j ... v ., . . . ; # ... ..-. .:', :: ?; .. sL ?. .... .' IVOMAN SUFFRAGE LOSES I . ELECTION'S HELI) IN MANY STATES TUESDAY. state-wide Prohibition Loses in Ohio. Governors Elected in Several States. Amendments to the constitutions )f the State of New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts to enfranchise women have met with apparently overwhelming defeat at the lands of the voters, while the amendnent to the Ohio constitution for state-wide prohibition in that State net a similar fate. In New York State the vote on suffrage from 2,467 districts out of >,713 in the State, gave 241,928 for, ind 321,418 votes against the measlre. The returns undoubtedly indicated also the defeat of the project to idopt a new constitution. The Republicans have a safe majority in the New York State assembly. The State elected three Republican congressmen: N. S. Gould, in the 36th; B. H. Snell, in the 31st, and W. S. Bennett, in the 23rd district. In Massachusetts the vote on the suffrage amendment from 938 pre sincts out of 1,140, was 95,077 for md 178,192 against the measure. The election for governor at halfpast 11 appeared to be close. Returns from 938 districts out of 1,140 in the State gave McCaH, Republican, 183,33^2 and Walsh, Democrat, 183,075. The missing districts are in sections where McCall is expected to show great strength. In Pennsylvania the returns were slow in coming in, but the defeat of suffrage was indicated by an overwhelming majority. Early returns in mayoralty election in Philadelphia indicated the election of Thomas B. Smith, Republican. The indicated majority for Harrington, Democrat, running for governor of Maryland, was five thousand in the city of Baltimore shortly after 11 p. m. No reports from the Maryland counties had been received. George Puchta, Republican, was. elected mayor of Cincinnati. Detroit, Mich., voting on a plan to purchase the local street railroads 3howed from 89 precincts (.out of 90 9 1 1 ? TrntckQ fnr anH 14 .ft 18 u V? / X V X V wvw AV* ???.> ? - ? against the measure. In New Jersey the Republicans gained two State senators, which will make the next senate stand 13 Republicans to 8 Democrats, and they sleeted 12 Republican assemblymen, which will make the next house stand 37 Republicans to 23 Democrats. President Wilson came ovei from Washington to vote at Princeton. In Kentucky, where a governor is being elected, both Republican and Democratic leaders are claiming victory. The latest returns, however, showed that A. O. Stanley, Democrat, was leading the Republican nominee, E. P. Morrow, by about 5,000. In Mississippi and Virginia the Democrats were easy winners. In the first State, State and county tickets and municipal officers were elected, while in the second the voters decided upon the composition of a new legislature. * marn ITaM TTn .liucrivau kjiAyamv* a uviu ?_ Washington, Nov. 1.?The American steamer Llama, seized hy a British prize crew, was run aground on the coast of Scotland yesterday, according to a report from the American consul at Dundee, Scotland, to the State department. The seizure of the American vessel Hocking by a British warship was reported to the State department yesterday by American consul Young, it Halifax. The consul wired that the vessel was brought to Halifax yesterday unier rnmmand nf the Drize crew. ^ " " ^ > No reason has been given for the seizure in either case, but the State lepartment believes that the vessels svere seized on the suspicion that :hey were engaging in German trade. Torpedo Sunk Hesperian. Washington, Oct. 30.?The report )f the navy board that the fragment )f metal forwarded from London as evidence in the Hesperian case, was part of a torpedo, will not be made ;he basis for American representa:ions to Germany unless the sworn statement of the finder of the fragment is secured^ The report will, lowever, be sent~to Berlin. Germany has maintained consistently that the Hesperian was not junk by a German submarine, and iVashington will send no note-until ;he evidence is complete. - v-.; ' v.. ... v:v . YOUNG WHITE MAN LYNCHED. ; .3 Hand of Masked Men Overpower Jailer and Get I*risoner. , '.'1 Columbia, Miss., Nov. 1.?Jack Hughes, 30 years of age, member of a prominent family of Washington parish, Lousiana, adjoining the county, was taken from the county jail here early Sunday by a party of masked men and hanged to a tree a short distance outside the city limits. Hughes was under arrest in connec. il S a T _ TT-ll ? lion wun uie muruer ui nunv way, a well known young man of this place, who was killed near here on the night of October 21. > Otho Fortenberry, the jailer, who occupied quarters on the second floor was awakened about 1 o'clock Sun*! -}jl day morning by the three masked men, who, after forcing him to give up the keys to the cell occupied by Hughes bound him to his bed. The lynchers took Hughes, leaving the ( building without awakening tw<> prisoners in adjoining cells. For- ? tenberry said the corridor was crowded with masked men and that through a window he saw seven au- j tomobiles parked in front of the jail. The jailer, who was found and released by a boarder in Fortenberry's.O ' ' household several hours later, gave '/'s the alarm and posses began a search for the prisoner and his abductors. A short distance outride the city the posses found Hughes' body swinging from a tree. According to the authorities, persons who witnessed the killing of Holloway in a lumber camp near here said Hughes shot the young man in the back without provocation. Holloway} at the time, it was said, was engaged in a fight with another person while Hughes was an onlooker. Hughes at first defied arrest, but C. P. Jones, who witnessed the killing took him in custody and delivered him to a deputy sheriff. ? J A coroner's jury, which viewed the body returned a verdict that Hughes had met his . death at the hands of a person or persons unknown. An-examination indicated that he had strangled to death as his neck was not broken, physicians said. For several days after the killing of Holloway the authorities, fearing trouble because of the excitement here, guarded the jail, but recently relaxed their vigilance. District Attorney Hall announced today that the , grand jury would be requested to investigate the lynching. "DontV for Men in the Forties. In the October American Magazine a contributor writes an entertaining and helpful article entitled "Growing Young at Fifty." This man tells how he was old at forty-six, with death just around the corner. At fifty he is ten years younger, more youthful, just through obeying a few simple rules. In the following extract taken from a conversation be- {' . tween this man and his doctor appear some of the "dont's" for men in the forties: , "The things that I mustn't do or '3 that I must limit myself in doing % s were numerous. A lot of them had to do with diet. Hot breads, pie crust, fried things were utterly taboo. Meats and the allowable things however, were to be eaten in modera-r tion. I should have but two meals a day, preferably breakfast and din ner. And if I got hungry in the meantime, I must content myself with a little fruit. " Tt won't seem so satisfying at the moment.' he made clear, 'as a lunch eon of the kind you've been used to, but half an hour afterward you will not be hungry, and you'll feel a great deal better,' " 'No alcohol, you said?' I suggested. " 'A single glass of beer will not matter, occasionally," he directed. 'But no cock-tails, high-b#lls, or anything of that sort.' "For breakfast I might have a half a cup of coffee, and since I had been for years almost a constant smoker he would not take tooacco away altogether. Twelve eigare.ttes and one cigar, however, were where he drew the line. " 'Moderation,' he concluded, 'is to be your watchword in everything. Real moderation. And that doesn't mean leading a comparatively regular life for a month, or two months, or three months, and then jumping over all the fences in a single night. You are to lead a strictly regular life, day after day, week after week, year after year. That's your sentence. And, believe me, you are not going to find it hfilf as hard as you think you will.' "And I didn't." ??I * ' The Mosvka, one of Peter the Great's squadron in 1758, has been found near Libau. j r - \ * } '}