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gii^jbU- - 'v ss;-- . - ? >: -. . " " < / lamhrrg fyrdft ^ ?????????????M??^^^????^????????'?? S ? ?? ? One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. G. THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1916. Established 1891. I COUNTRY NEWS LETTER: SOME INTERESTING HAPPENING IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. ^ News Items Gathered All Around th County and Elsewhere. (. ' Colston Clippings. Colston, May 2.?Many young pec pie of the Colston section attende the Oak Grove picnic last Saturda: All report a jolly good time. Mrs. Ella Valentine, of the Cop section, visited her daughter, Mrs. ? J. McMillan, last Sunday. The many friends of Mr. J. I Kirkland and Miss Arsula Walke were very much surprised last Sur day when they returned from Eh] hardt joined in holy matrimony They have the hearty congratuls tions of their many friends in thi . section. The young folks of thi s community serenaded them last Mor day night. Miss Alberta Kearse, of the Co 8ton section, spent the week-end wit Miss Clara Bell Copeland, of the Oa Grove section, last week. . Mr. John G. Clayton left Sunda for the Baptist hospital in Columhj to undergo an operation for apper dicitis. His many friends hope fo him a speedy recovery. The near relatives of Mr. R. I t Kirkland visited at his home las Thursday, April 27, to celebrate hi 53rd birthday. Messrs. Reuben Kearse and Vei non McMillan were the guests of Mi Marion McMillan Saturday night an a _ _ founaay. Mr. Elgin McMillan was the gues of Mr. Frank Kirkland, Jr., Satui day night and Sunday. Branchville Breezes. ? Branchville, April 29.?Miss Rut Johnson, of Palarka, Ga., visited Mrs C. L. Bruce last week. P. H. Fans, of Holly Hill, was her Sunday. O. G. Rhoad spent the week-end i Augusta with relatives. Mrs. J. H. Johnson, of Fort Mott visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C L. Bruce, here last week. Mrs. W. A. Isler and little daugfc ter, of Augusta, are guests of Mrs. S S. Byrd. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Simmons entei tained the young people, of Branch ville on Thursday evening. Th guests were asked to' shell peanut for a certain time. The couple wh shelled most was presented a prize. Interesting Story of a $100 Bill. isn SEg&r/-,.. v In the April American Magazin we read as follows: ^ "Mrs. Davis came into possessio of a $100 bill. Prizing this mone because it was the first she eve earned, she kept the original bill i her possession most of the time o her person. Only a short time be fore her death were her relative aware that she still had the bill. "When a little girl, nine year old, she deposited $10 in a saving I bank, and received a pass book. Sh carried this book with her for 7 years. Three weeks before he her death she told her grandson sh was curious to know if the bank wa still doing business and what ha become of her $10 deposit. A let ter giving the number of her pas book, the amount of the deposit an her maiden and present name, wa written. Just one week from th y) day the letter was posted a reply wa rpp^ived to the effect that the d posit, together with the accrued ir terest for 75 years, amounting i all to $325.65, was in the bank fo Mrs. Davis. Had she deposited the hundre dollar bill with a savings bank paj ing 4 per cent, interest compounde quarterly, the principal and interes would have amounted to the hand some sum of $601.89. The bi' would have earned for her five othe $100 bills. * "Her investment at nine years c * ^ age multiplied itself for her* thirtj one times. Her sentiment at th age of 39 persisted in for 45 yean .deprived her of many comforts i her old age which the $600 woul ' have provided." Pipe lines are now carrying natr ral gas a distance of 120 miles i California, and from the Caddo fiel in Louisiana?one of the most pre ductive fields so far discovered?t > consumers in towns and cities c Arkansas, 200 miles away. In 19L the value of natural gas produced i | this country is estimated to hav been nearly $100,000,000 or abov eight times as much as twenty yeai * ago. ? OPERATION TO RESTORE MINI). Ascribes His Crime to Injury Caused 5 by Kick of Horse. 1 Lansing, Kas., April 29.?Fred Bissell, whose confession of the mur6 der of Edna Dinsmore, a 10-year-old ?-?1 - x 1 TII An/]/tiT tirnn /vitr gin, ai I uytjha ia.sc i uesua.) , noa given out last night at the State penitentiary here, has written an appeal ^ asking that an operation be perform, ed on his head to make his condition a normal. The statement given out today says: "A kick on the back of my head by a horse caused an affliction at e j the base of the brain, which affliction causes me to be unaccountable ^ for what I do at times. I appeal to the officials of Kansas to secure for ir me at the earliest possible date an operation for the purpose of raising that portion of my skull now causing pressure on my brain so that I may be restored, if possible, to that of a is normal man." IS Warden Coding promised to have the operation performed. WHAT CLOVER DOES, h Thousand Farmers Gather.on Farm y in Greenwood County. a " Greenwood, April 27.?Approximately one thousand farmers from Greenwood, Abbeville, Anderson, ? Laurens, Edgefield, Saluda and even R other counties gathered today at _ Hodges, in this county, to see the lo wonderful transformation wrought on ordinary lands by crimson clover, j r the great work done in the past few ^ vears bv Mr. Bob S. Hodges, the a banker-farmer, of t. at little town. ^ The meeting was planned *by Director W. W. Long, of the State extension department, and the details arranged by County Demonstration Agent C. B. Faris, of Greenwood. It was a complete success in every way. The h farmers came by train, trolley, au5. tomobiles, wagons and buggies. After a practical demonstration in the e big fields dinner was had, and after dinner addresses we re made by Mr. r u Bob Hodges, the Hon. W. W. Long and Deputy Directors Barton and ?, Stewart. These gentlemen proved to j. the farmers present that the clovers and other legumes are the things i- with which to enrich South Carolina soils, that they dc s > with less cost and more lastingly than any com> mercial fertilizer in the world. Mr. t- Long was of the opinion after the e meeting that much good had been s done in getting farmers to come and o see at first hand what wonderful work had been done at Hodges by Mr. Bob Hodges. On a six-horse farm last year Mr. Hodges used $110 worth of fertilizer and made fifteen e bales of cotton to the horse. His land is ordinary sandy land, n y HEX SIXGS AT SUNRISE, ir n California Barnyard Fowl Cackles 11 Song Like a Canary's. s Harkness Piatt, rancher and poultryman, is convinced that there has s been philandering going on among s the members of his brood of black ? orpingtons. Else why should an ap? parently ordinary hen, otherwise well r behaved, suddenly produce notes e from her throat like a canary? s Piatt avers that one of his birds ^ of which he suspected no unusual tendencies in her youth, though he 1S was surprised never to hear a cackle ^ from her as she grew up, has suddens ly started to sing with several of the e notes and at least a suggestion of the < s fluency of a pet warbler. Piatt does not profess to explain the phenomen An \TnlTiinor lilra it ftvor VjUTinonod uwu, iiuiiillig line lb VI iiw^/^viivv. n in his flock before. r The hen was born, as he remembers, under the usual circumstances, ^ with the exception that the egg from which she evolved was one of only ^ two upon which her maternal parent sat and that the other did not hatch out at all. The little chick grew as 11 little chicks do into a regular hen, r apparently happy when it was well! fed, but always silent. ^ When the hen had grown beyond! the broiler stage Piatt was feeding e his brood one afternoon. As he toss5' ed some grain in this hen's direction n she suddenly looked up at him and ^ began to sing. It was no ordinary j barnyard song at all, but melodious ! and rhythmical and suggestive of the ! l" treetops and spring. Since that day, o when the chanticleers of the flock d I greet the morn in the usual manner )-1 this particular hen sends up a melody. 01 that puts her male associates to shame. As a precaution against her shown ing further birdlike proclivities and e darting off some fine day in flight, lt Piatt has clipped one of her wings.? "si Berkeley (Cal. ) dispatch to New Yorkj i Sun. i IN THE PALMETTO STATE ] SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick 1 Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The South Carolina Sunday-school . convention is in session in Charles- : ton this week. , Tlio or a n H lnritrp r?f thp TnfJpnpnd- 1 A AAV/ QA MAA\? A\/\?QV V A V*?\/ - W?? ent Order of Odd Fellows is to meet . in Greenville on May 9. < The C. & W. C. depot at Mauldin, Greenville county, was broken into and robbed last week tyy unknown 1 parties. 1 Three convicts escaped from the Greenville county chaingang last Thursday. One of the convicts was captured later. Three young white boys who had been arrested for burglary, escaped from the new Greenville county jail I Thursday night. Ed Knuckly and Annie Azer, Greeks, were arrested in Greenville last week charged with violating the ( federal white slave law. , Mrs. James T. Carroll, of Bennettsville, died last week of burns ; received several weeks ago when her clothes caught fire, from a trash pile. Rev. Whitfield Brooks Wharton, 1 superintendent of the Epworth Orphanage, Columbia, died Friday after- 1 noon. He had been in failing health 1 a long time. 1 The Clio high school team won first honors in the annual South Caro- | Una inter-high school track meet held in Columbia Friday. Greenville was 1 second and Westminster third. Freeman McCall, aged 16, of the ( Brandon mill, Greenville, lost a leg . and part of his hand when he fell under the wheels of a freight train which he was trying to swing Thursday. J Too T> UTiorfoll nnotnio ctap at j U aOi XV* I f |/VUWAllU>UtVA MV \ Prioleau, Orangeburg county, was 1 given a hearing last week before a i United States commissioner and held -1 for trial at Charleston in June. It is < alleged that he converted certain ? money orders to his own use. He was j released on bond. J. C. Henderson, manager of the 1 Greenville plant of the Southern Cotton Oil company pleaded guilty Thursday upon nine warrants charg- 1 ing him and his company with the sale of sacks of fertilizer which were 1 not up to the weight stated on the label. The warrants were sworn out by a number of Greenville county 1 farmers who had purchased the fertilizer. Henderson was fined $10 on each count and signed an agreement to discount at 20 per cent, all notes for fertilizer where it could be proven that the 'weights were short. % KILLS HIS OWN BROTHER. , And in Seven Minutes Slayer is Be hind Bars. Manning, April 27.?George Allen Frierson was shot and killed late yesterday afternoon by his brother, ; Charlie Frierson, just outside the corporate limits of Manning, in the i road near the colored graded school building. It is said that Charlie ac- i cused George of stealing a pair of i pants of his, with forty cents in one 1 pocket, and that he told Frank King . up-town that he was going down to ; see George and would "do something" to George, or George would "do i something" to him. It was not long i after this that the shooting occurred, and in seven minutes after the shooting Frank King, who is a special deputy, had the slayer in jail. Coroner Gray held that the deceased came to his death by a pistol shot wound at the hands of Charlie Frierson. TM-iqcq twn hnvc wore invnlvpH in fl. JL V ?? V VV/^ ? ?f v *** f v ? v%* ? killing about three years ago, when George shot and killed a young ne- 1 gro on the Summerton road just outside of town, while returning one 1 night from a negro hot supper 01 ( similar gathering. He was convicted 1 of manslaughter and was sentenced to serve two years on the chain gang. The killing was done with a pistol ' that Charlie had stolen, and he was { convicted of larceny for stealing the pistol and sentenced to serve thirty days, and was also sent up for thirty 1 days additional on conviction for car- 1 rying the concealed weapon. j * Careless of Her. i 1 "Oh, say, who was here to see you 1 last night?" i "Only Myrtle, father." I "Well, tell Myrtle that she left her : pipe on the piano."?University of ] Nebraska Awgwan. ! CONFEDERATE REUNION ENDS. Rock Hill Did Herself Proud by Entertaining. Rock Hill, April 27.?The veterans of the Confederate States of America have left and the reunion of 1916 is now history. Rock Hill did everything in her power, from the highest to fhe lowest citizen, to make the old heroes who wore the grey have a good time in one of the few reunions remaining to them, and they expressed themselves as highly pleased with their brief stay in "the good town.' A.s is usual, the sidelights of the occasion were the brightest. The camp fire talks on the Witherspoon lawn was one of the features most enjoyed. The big lawn, containing sever acres, and set thickly with watei oaks, was thickly strung with myriads of colored electric lights anc bright bonfires burned in all parts of the grounds. A gaily decorated and lighted stand was in one side for the Veteran staff, the governoi and staff and the sponsors and maids of honor. Short speeches were made stories were told and delightful oldtime songs were sung by Mesdames J. B. Steele and R. Z. Thomas. Several thousand were present and the scene was most inspiring. Visitors remarked that the scene was almosl as gay as Coney island. Wednesday evening Main street from Hampton to Depot, was ropec off, and under the brilliant white way lights hundreds of couples danced upon the asphalt, while the veterans and visitors had several sets of old-time dances going to the music of an excellent band. After this the sponsors' ball was given at Fried heim's hall, with music Dy jonnson j orchestra. Even in this some of the old vets joined, tripping the lighl fantastic like youngsters. The veterans unanimously voted the "blue ribbon" to Rock Hill. At the concluding business sessior of the reunion yesterday many matters of importance were discussed One matter discussed was that of the efforts of the South Carolina divisior to have all Confederate soldiers oi the State, regardless of physical oi financial condition, pensioned. This discussion followed the report of the committee in charge as to their efforts to get the legislature interested in the matter, and Col. Alfred Aldrich, of Barnwell, announced his in tention of being a candidate for th< next general assembly upon this issue. They very properly conside] this a matter of great importance and the committee was continued. Another matter considered was the desirability of having the nexi general reunion of Confederate vet erans meet in Washington, D. C. with the Grand Army of the Repub lie, this proposition having beer made by a G. A. R. camp of Wash ington, ana an invitation win De ex tended to the Confederates at thei: reunion in Birmingham. There wai some opposition to holding a reunior outside of a Confederate State, anc the matter was finally disposed of tn tabling the motion to send unin structed delegates to the general re union. The division went on record b} adopting a resolution endorsing the movement to have the federal gov ernment refund the "cotton tax" col lected from the Southern people af ter the war and strongly endorsee the bill introduced in the house bj Congressman John M. Tillman, o1 Arkansas, and in the senate by Senator E. R. Tillman, of South Carolina, which bill proposes to refunc this tax in the form of pensions tc Confederate veterans. INSURANCE LAW UPHELD. Supreme Court Passes on Anti-Compact Act. Columbia, April 27.?Upholding tfie legality of the Laney-Odom Fire Insurance act, the supreme court in i decision tonight refused to sign in order enjoining the insurance commissioner and the attorney general from enforcing the terms of the law. The petitions of David B. Henderson, a Charleston insurance man, for in injunction, was dismissed by the court. The opinion was written by Associate Justice Fraser. "The petition is dismissed and the injunction refused," concluded an order which was igned by all of the justices of the supreme court. The State officials were represented in the case by Thos. H. Peeples. attorney general. The anti-compact law, which was passed by the last general assembly, will continue in force. Since the passage of the law more than sixty fire insurance companies have withdrawn from the State. PRES. WILSON ENDORSED FEATURES CONVENTIONS OF COUNTY DEMOCRATS. Enthusiasm Marks Adoption of Resolutions Praising Acts and Policies of National Administration. " 5 In every county in South Carolina thp Dpmncrats. hplH a rnnvpntirm l Monday, principally for the purpose ' of electing delegates to the State . i Democratic convention, which will be > held in Columbia on Wednesday, May l 17. From the reports it appears that - a spirit of harmony characterized l practically every meeting and in very few were there contests of any con sequence. The outstanding feature I was the endorsement of the adminis3 tration of President Woodrow Wilson j I in every county, some of which in-j j structed their delegates to support inj * the State convention resolutions for a j 5 delegation to the national convention | , instructed to vote for the renomina-. - tion of President Wilson. 5 In many of the conventions the I - county-to-county campaign system J i was not mentioned, but where it was: 3 discussed, in the majority of cases j t the decision was in favor of retaining j what has become known as the "bi, ennial circus." The Florence con1 vention passed a resolution asking j the State convention to permit the - people of the State to vote in the - primary this summer on the ques3 tion of abolishing or keeping the pres; ent system. In many counties the i delegates seemed indifferent on this - matter. 3 According to the report from Beaui fort the Christensen faction was in t control of the convention and elected! - its officers and delegates, but it seems 3 that the opposition faction withdrew and that a protest will be made be t fore the State convention. ADVICE FROM FARMERS' WIFE. ' A Farm Without a Garden is a Poor 1 Place to Live. F I wish to say a few words about m gardening, because I think a farm without a garden?not merely a place J called a garden, but a garden with ' something growing in it all the year round?is a mighty poor place to live. And all it takes to have a good garden is to properly prepare ' the ground and plant the right seed at the right time. ( > I plant onions, lettuce, turnips and sow cabbage seed about the 15th , of September, and set out cabbage t plants about the loth of November Last year I sowed cabbage seed the 25th of September, and the plants were so tender they did not stand the l winter weather. The seed should not be sowed later than the 15th of September. I sow the Early Jersey p Wakefield, and my home-grown ? plants about the 15th of November. 1 I have ever bought. I began plantI ing beans about the 10th of March and keen on Dlanting about every 10 days until the 15th of September, and I have green beans from the last days of April until the freezes in No7 vember. Peanuts and potatoes are 3 our most profitable truck crops, and we can grow enough of either to fatten our hogs on a piece of ground that would not make more than five j bushels of corn. Any farmer who 7 does not raise corn, wheat, oats, f peas, sweet and Irish potatoes, peanuts, beef, pork, clover and rye, and make his land better instead of poorI er, is a mighty poor farmer, no matj ter how much cotton he makes. Very early last spring I noticed that where I had had green onions, 1 * 1 3 ?? n-cnnrir? or oil wiT1 - 16tLUC6 ciLI CI L cl U Ud^ c ? A u iiig ui i ?* aM ter there were a great many cutworms. I sometimes found as many as 12 around a single bunch of onions, and they were bad all summer ' in that part of the garden. Where 5 one has a winter garden the plot 1 should be changed every year. Cab1 bage, corn, in fact nearly everything, ! will grow better if the ground is changed. A garden should never be J allowed to grow up in weeds and grass. All the ground that is not planted in the fall should be turned under and covered with manure.? ! Mrs. W. H. Butler, in Progressive Farmer. 1 Otherwise Engaged. "I used to think I'd like to make a name for myself," said Mr. Chuggins. t "Then I got interested in an automo " bile." \ ' "What difference did that make?" : "Hadn't time to think about 1 names. Was doing well enough to r keep track of my numbers."?Wash' ington Star. i ^ The Rosary, May 17th.?adv. - - - - - - - - ' '.--.I'wj i TO BUILD UP TRADE. ' ' H Colleton, Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton Unite in Organization. Walterboro, April 28.?With initial j financial pledges aggregating $4,000 the Southern association was organized ed here this afternoon by representatives from four counties, Colleton, ? Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton. The following officers were elected: W. W. Smoak, of Walterboro, president; Neils Christensen, of Beaufort, vice president; R. M. Jefferies, of Walterboro, secretary and treasurer; directors, W. E. Richardson, of Beaufort; E. T. Shaffer, of waiter ooro; jl. u. Altman, of ftidgeland; J. S. Williams and M. M. Chisolm, of Hampton, and. the officers ex-officio. The next meeting of the association will be held in Hampton, the date to be fixed later. Considerable enthusiasm was shown at the meeting, and it was evident that the citizens present from the four counties interested meant business. The object of the association, broadly speaking, is 'the industrial development of this section. A competent man will be employed as a secretary, and it is confidently expected that with the cooperation of all the people of this section the movement will bring about highly satisfactory results. The delegates and newspaper men assembled this morning at Ritter, near here, as the guests of Messrs. Paul Sanders and Lemacks, proprie- , ^ tors of the Colleton Mercantile and Manufacturing company. The visitors were splendidly entertained, an old time barbecue being the principal attraction. Tonight they were the guests of the Walterboro chamber of commerce at a delightful banquet at the Hotel Albert, where enthusiastic talks were made regarding the en terprise just landed by some of the most substantial citizens of Colleton, Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton coijnties. Giving Orders. The pro-German sources of American propaganda have broken out anew after a lull in their activities. Apparently they are unable to resist the opportunity./to be stupid and to belator the administration to swallow everything it has ever said about armed merchantmen as payment for German "concessions" in the Lusitania controversy. In this respect we have the Detroit Free Press commenting on the latest outbreak: "George Sylvester Viereck, editor' of the P^therland, which for all practical purposes is the official organ of Mr. Viereck? Is it in the nature of a general caution? Or is it a threat? Or is it an authorized message from Mr. Viereck's master? Again the gentleman says: "If we desire to remove every pos* sibility of friction and we desire to safeguard the lives of our citizens, there is only one peaceful course open to us; the United States must declare without delay that citizens traveling on .board armed ships of belligerents do so at their own risk. ' *j51 "Or, as Senator Lodge would construe such a declaration, we must enter into alliance with Germany in this matter. "Is this a command that Mr. Vie- t , * reck delivers to the American na t v? tion? And from whom? Who told * the editor of the Fatherland to give out this ultimatum informing us that there is only one peaceful course left open? ft *?io o f.nmmanH it ia AlfiO -11 1111S 1 O a VViUUiUUU) a warning, a warning to be prepared later. Of course, Mr. Viereck does not say he is the unaccredited ambassador from Berlin, vice Bernhard Dernburg, but it does seem queer that he should be sending this editorial utterance of his out broadcast at his own expense." The Fatherland has, of course, been for long under suspicion .as a publication brought into being not merely to express and reflect hyphenated thought in this country, but really the official medium of expression to the Germans and Austrians in this country by the imperial German government, that Bernstorff being necessarily limited in his activities in talking direct to the American people has hired Viereck to do it. This may or may not 1 "A A 4>V? r? AifAr t)8 true, out <11 <txj^ idic Luc* c ucvci 4 has been anything American about the Fatherland whenever there was the strictly Potsdamnable side of it to take.?Macon Telegraph. In a modern battle 100,000 men may be killed and wounded, but the tubercle bacillus slaughters 147,600 of our citizens yearly, and 1,500,000 remain infected, the greater number of which will die of tuberculosis.