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g . . . ; . ; ; . | $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. 0., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1920. Established in 1891 STATE WILL SPEND ' OVER SIX MILLION TOTAL AMOUNT APPROPRIATED $6,091,241.39. Little in Excess of 1919. Provisions of Appropriation Bill Set Forth in Detail?Stipulates How Each Dollar Shall Be Spent. The general appropriation bill passed by the general assembly which brought its session to a clo'se Sunday carries a total of $6,091,241.39. A levy of 12J mills will be required to raise the amount. Total expenditures last year were $5,811,012,35. Eliminating the building extensions at etate institutions, appropriations this year will remain within the figures of 1919. Following is given the amount for each office, department, institution or organization, supplemented with detailed information as to how this money shall be spent: Recapitation. Legislative department....$ 102,291.31 Governor's office 54,200.00 Secretary of State's office 11,275.00 Comptroller Gen.'s office.. 197,277.04 , Attorney Gen.'s office .... 21,851.50 State treasurer's office .... 260,063.95 Adjutant general's office.. 19,199.29 University of S. C 209,515.00 The Citadel 398,583.33 Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical college .... 168,070.00 Winthrop Normal and In-' dustrial college 416,616.06 Medical college of S. C 96,067.00 Confederate college 4,000.00 State colored college .... 115,880.00 John de la Howe Industrial school 34,316.00 School for trie dear ana the blind 104,551.00 State superintendent of education's office 931,090.00 State historical com 3,750.00 State library 4,215.00 Confederate museum .... 100.00 State relic room .: 1,000.00 State Hospital for the Insane 946,651.96 State penitentiary 125,715.00 State board of charities and corrections 29,530.00 8tate board of pardons.. 400.00 State training school for feeble-minded 40,307.00 South Carolina Industrial school for boys 125,001.73 South Carolina industrial school for girls 55,576.67 South Carolina reformatory for negro boys .... 48,061.67 Catawba Indians 8,500.00 Committee on support of deaf and blind children 500.00 State board of health 220,394.14 S. C. tax commission 35,000.00 Tax board of review 1,500.00 Insurance Com.'s office.... 15,634.00 State bank Ex.'s office .... 15,463.75 8. C. R. R. commission 19,000.00 Chief game warden's office 13,525.00 State board of medical examiners 3,000.00 8tate board of law ex* aminers 450.00 State board of fisheries .. 10,500.00 State board of conciliation 1,200.00 Joint committee on printing 30,395.00 Commissioner of agricul, ture's office 81,145.00 State warehouse commissioner's office 34,949.00 8tate electrician and engineer's office 30,950.00 State highway engineer's \ ioaiioaa U-LLLUtJ J.OV,J.JLd.UV State pension commission 607,350.00 Confederate infirmary .... 22,159.25 Reunion of Confederate I veterans 1,500.00 Judicial department 157,623.6b Public Service Com 1,891.90 Canal commission 12,000.00 Miscellaneous t 98,859.12 i V Grand total $6,091,241.39 ^ < > GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS. Adopts Appropriation Bill of About $6,100,000. Columbia, March 7.?The general assembly of South Carolina adjourned sine die early today after a session extending two weeks beyond the cus tomary forty days. Total appropriations for this year are about Sfi.lOO,000, to raise which a levy of twelve and one half mills will be required This does not include a two-mill treneral levy for permanent roads in the state system, nor a three-mill constitutional tax for the public schools. LETTER PROM "OCCASIONAL." General Admixture of Yarns, Humor and Gossip From Kearse. Kearse, March 10\?The people of Kearse are perhaps as progressive as any other rural community. I notice numerous tobacco barns going up and everybody seems busy and hurrying things up. The writer in flying around the circle notices that our friend, J. O. Kearse. has made a new gate to his flower garden, and the lumber is on the ground to build a horse rack. These are little things but it is "the little things that tell." L. W. Ritter is still enjoying himself because it hog killing time with him yet. He finds it necessary to purchase a small amount of lard to fry the middling with, but he does not mind this a bit, because he goes to Ehrhardt once a week anyhow, and while he is there he can get the fztf. The friends of Eugene Brabham want to correct a report. Eugene drives the truck to Olar for the school children and it was reported that he; went a-coon hunting in the truck and | when the dogs treed a coon Eugene | tried to climb the tree with the truck and broke tfte truck up. Now, tne facts are these: The truck just simply gave out on the road and the dogs treed a coon right close and in true huntsman style they brought that coon down with a load of shot. I t have made some inquiry about that coon, and understond that he had numerous rings arour.d his tail. We are told that out west the cows have rings around their horns which indicate their age. A new ring comes once a year and the cows some times get so old that there is not room on their horns for any more rings, so their owners have, to tie poles to their horns for the rings to grow on. Now, I do not know whether this ring rules applies to coons or not, but I have made some inquiry about Eugene's coon, but as th6 parties declare he didn't have any appendix tied on his tail for the rings to grow on we conclude he was not an old coon. ' Some time ago Gen. J. S. Breland listened to. a learned M. D. talking on the subject of raising babies. The Dr. and his audience agreed on this: Give the baby plenty of fresh air, both day and night; let the baby ^ sleep out on the porch where there is lots of air. Now, for his health, Breland gets in his buggy and rides about at night, to take the night air. He rides around and sings such airs as "A Starry Night for a Ramble," and "The Lone Starry Hours," entirely oblivious to disturbing the slumbers of the old folks who have retired. We think he ought to let the old roosters and the owls run the night line. I have just seen L. W. Ritter. He says he has 250 laying hens and they don't lay anything but eggs. A few days ago he went out to his gin house where most of the brood stays and gathered a stick basket full of eggs. OCCASIONAL. HOOVER WILL NOT RUN. Declines to Be Candidate in California Presidential Primary. San Francisco, March 6.?Herbert Hoover will not permit hi3 name to be used in the California presidential primary as he is not a candidate for the cHiee, according ro a telegram from ltim read here today l>y <ia\in McNab, at the Democratic state committee meeting. 4 White highly sensible the great honor implied in the desire of many friends to place my name in nomination as a candidate in Democratic primaries,*' the telegram read, "I d^oin it due to them to advise them that 1 mi nnt a nanrlirlatp. T thprp''r.rp. pan not approve of the use of my name for that purpose." ?eq t Much Easier. Sam?Who was the first Kaiser? Bull?How do I know? Ask me something easy. Com Q r\ yy> r\ f Vi { r* cr ooor9 oaJii kjunicLiiiiiuaoj Bull?Yes; ask me Who's the last. ?London Opinion. Chores. First Boy (gloomily)?I've got to cut kindling and empty three huekets of ashes and build two Hres and;. to the store on errands and thvn! fill the coal bin. I Second Boy (enviously)?You've1: got a regular picnic, you have! Justj! think c? me! Mother said v.hen I; come heme from school today I'd got j to hold the baby.?Philadelphia In- j quirer. UNCLE SAM URGED TO BUY WHISKEY ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE WOULD HAVE WHOLESALE PURCHASE. Temptation at Hand. If Government Takes All Liquor Stocks in Hand Danger Will Be Reduced. Westerville, Ohio, March 6.?Purchase by the federal government of all liquor stocks in bond is urged by the Anti-Saloon league in a statement issued here today at the league's headquarters by Ernest H. Cherrington, secretary of the league's executive committee. The statement says: "Now that prohibition has gone into effect everything which the government can do to make it easy to' enforce the law should be done. "With over 60,000,000 gallons of whiskey in bonded warehouses there * rt n n/Nn r? f f a rtf r\ i r- a is a. cun^tant icuiptanuu UCVIDC ways and means of utilizing that liquor in spite of the law. Moreover, so long as that whiskey is in existence those who own it, realizing as they do its great commercial value except for prohibition, will be constantly tempted to use millions of dollars in efforts to repeal and break down the prohibition laws. "The government of the United! States should purchase that whiskey; at a price to be fixed by a federal j commission, which price should represent the actual cost of producing j it. Upon purchasing the whiskey the^ government should convert promptly | into denatured alcohol for which j there is an ever increasing demand. "By such an arrangement the dis-! tillers will get all they actually have! invested in the whiskey. Th? great-! est temptation to break the prohibi-1 tory law will be removed. The incentive to spend vast sums of money to secure repeal of prohibition or a serious modification of the law will! be eliminated; the government will! b? able* to realize almost as much j from the sale of the whiskey in the; form of denatured alcohol as the | vhiskey will cost the government, and the public will be the gainer in every way. It will require less effort and expense to enforce the law." It was said the Anti-Saloon league may ask congress for legislation au-! thorizing purchase of all bonded; liquors. FKED MacL<KAi\ STIL.L. LIVES. Mysteriously Disappeared From Newberry College in 1916. The many friends and acquaintances of "Dutch" MacLean, thought dead for three years after he mysteriously disappeared from Newberry college in 1916 and reported dead by the Canadian army, will be interested in the following account of his meeting with his father, as told by the Youngstown Telegram of February 24th: "When the phone rang at the residence of Edgar L. MacLean, 349 St. Louis, Sunday night, MacLean left his armchair reluctantly, for he thought it was someone trying to transact city business out of hours. MacLean is clerk in the city engineer's office. "His 'hello' was none too cherry, but the next instant his face lighted. Over the wire came the voice of his son, Lieut. Fred (Dutch) MacLean, whom he had mourned as dead for three years. "Lieut. MacLean -was reported dead j by the Canadian government about three years ago. The official an-; nouncement said he had been killed in action at Vimy Ridge. His father; did not question the announcement; but rejoiced that his other two sons, { William and Hugh, both officers, had I escaped. "Lieut. MacLean had not written home for so long that he had forgotton the house number and the telephone call Sunday night was to get; directions from his father. When he: reached home his father learned that; he had been gassed at Vimy Ridge in j a charge with the Princess Pats and! tvoc in o T nnrlnn hocrffl-Jil civ months. ... ~? ?X - I "Upon his discharge from the hos-j pital he secured a transfer to the! American army and served through-1 out the war. Then he was given a position with the auditing depart-j mer>t of the army, which he still j holds, lie expects to be discharged ( within a week or two. "iUscLcrn, known as 'Dutch,' to j his friends, was one of the best ath-j lotes Rayen High school ever produc- j Carlisle School Notes. Clipped From The Bugle. j ______________ Summer R. O. T. C. Announcement as to the Ft. O. T. C summer camps was made by the professor of military science and tactics during the week. These are to be held from June 17th to July 28th. The infantry camp this year will be al CamD Benin?. Columbus, Ga. This the infantry training center of the United States army, and has splendid facilities for instruction. The infantry officers' school is here, and preparations are being made to have the best R. 0. T. C. camp ever attempted. Attendance from junior units is permitted of students sixteen years ol age or over upon the date of opening camp, provided they have had at least one year's military training. Sixtyone Carlisle members have signified their desire to go, but unfortunately ! the attendance from any single junior | unit will not be approved for more | than ten per cent, of enrollment, sc that all can not be cared for. j Students authorized to attend camp : from the school will be transported | to and from such camp at the expense of the United States. No article oi I uniform or equipment issued at the i institution should be taken. Uniform j and equipment will be furnished afi ter arrival at camp. ' The substence of students will be at government expense, and the ration | allowance will be the same as that authorized for the cadets of the United States Military academy. Athletics, etc., will form an important part of the camp programme. Drive for Athletic Field. Wednesday, afternoon, March 4, marked the beginning of a drive to secure funds for the building of a new grand stand and the general improvement of the Carlisle athletic fiol/l A fionVQO r\f tVio lnval r?ltl70n<3 11VIU. V/UU ? uu Ui. bu^/ iw; ma of Bamberg was begun in the persons of Captains Herlong and Shieder, and this canva3 is being continued. All indications are that the plans in the minds of the members of the Carlisle faculty who are interested in athletics and enthusiastic supporters in Bamberg will materialize just as soon as building material can be gotten. It has been estimated that a minimum cost to add the needed improvements will be about $1,000. The canvas for subscriptions has not been completed, but the amount raised and promised has reached approximately $800.00. Much more is needed and it is hoped that more than $1,000.00 can be raised. Personals. Harold Long is a new and welcomed member at Carlisle. Capt. Boland paid a visit recently to his home in Springfield. We are delighted to see Mrs. Beach and Maj. Duncan out again after ten days illness. Capt. Lanham left Friday for his home in Spartanburg, where he will spend a few days. Sgt. Campbell has returned to the campus after a short leave on account of illness at his home. Sgt. James W. Milton, of U. S. infantry, will arrive at Carlisle in a few days and assist in thd military W U1A.. Maj. Snyder spent the week-end at his home in Batesburg. His father returned with him Tuesday. Sanford Silverstein has returned to the campus after spending a ten-day sick leave at his home in Savannah, Georgia. Word has just been ^received on the campus that Captain Van C. Walton is now at Walter Reed hospital, Tacoma Park, Washington, D. C. Captain Walton was formerly professor military science and tactics at Carlisle. Last November he was transferred to Hume-Fogg high o^'h cViTrillo Tonn Tf its witTi genuine regret that we learn of our former commandant's illness. His many friends on the campus wish him a speedy recovery. ed. Later he starred in athletics at Brown and was coach at Newberry college, S. C., a year before sailing with the Princess Pats. " 'Dutch' is a rather uncommunicative chap about his own achievements. He returned to his work in New York Monday night without telling his father much about what he had peen through. He did tell him, however, that if he had only known his father thought him dead, ho surely would have written a letter denying: the report." C-<p * O-' Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. iJACK DEMPSEY TO FACE TWO CHARGES CHARGES ALSO MADE AGAINST JACK KEARNS. Grand Jury Action. ; _________ Champion Pugilist and Manager Alleged to Have Conspired to Evade Draft. San Francisco, Feb. 27.?William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, and his manager, Jack Kearns, were indicted by the federal grand jury here today on a charge that they conspired to have Dempsey evade the selective - draft. A second indictment against [ Dempsey charged actula evasion of r the draft. ! Warrants were sworn out for their arrest and their bonds fixed at SI.000 ) each. The conspiracy charge provides for a maximum penalty of two )| years in the penitentiary and $2,00U [! fine and the evasion charge one year ! I in prison. :j The indictment followed weeks of s i investigation conducted by E. M. t Blanford, chief of the department of justice bureau, and Col. C. W. Thomas, assistant United States district ati torney here.' The investigation was i prompted by public charges by Max; ine Dempsey, divorced wife of the pugilist, that she had been compelled to attest Dempsey's claims for ex; emption. Subsequently Mrs. Dempsey presented an affidavit to Col. Thomas in which she retracted the charges, saying they had been caused by pique j against Dempsey. This affidavit figi ured in the grand jury investigation. Mrs. Dempsey, Frank Spellman, a representative of a company in which Dempsey is interested, a number of persons prominent in state sport circles and executives of the draft board | which exempted Dempsey appeared before the jury. Federal officials said they were advised that Dempsey and Kearns would arrive here tomorrow from Los Angeles to surrender themselves. Dempsey was charged with having falsely sworn that his father, mother, widowed sister, and the latter's two children were dependent on him, that j he had contributed $20 a month each to their support during the year 1917 and that they were receiving support from no other source. Dempsey's statement to the draft hnard that his wifp had lived with him for 18 months previous to his appearance before the board and that his parents and widowed sister had made their home with him for four years were false, according to the indictment. "Say, dear, if I ask you would you, if I wanted you to, swear to an affidavit that I was supporting you (see)," Dempsey wrote his wife, Maxine Dempsey in August 1917, the indictment asserted. < > m No More "Red Tape" for Veterans. Columbia, March 6.?After Janu" w "1 (1 O 1 ?n rtVrt f Vl A n nvf ai j f ? a u x, auu uciuio iuc u^ai, sion of the General Assembly, the office of D. W. McLaurin, state pension commissioner, will be abolished, the result being brought about by the adoption tonight of the conference reI port of the house of representatives, Mr. McLaurin, a Confederate veteran, remains in office under the measure as ratified, at a salary of $2,000, but his clerical help is dispensed with. Under the law as passed the Confederate veterans are placed on the honor roll and will receive their proj portionate share of the appropriation | without the formality of the previous | "red tape." The tentative abolition of the com - - ' ' - ? iti a MArtiiH rv ? + V? /*V ; missioner s unice was me ie?un ui lug I fight made in the house this after! noon and tonight on the conference : report by Eugene H. Buckingham, | of Ellenton, and H. H. Evans, of j Newberry, who stated that they were j voicing the sentiment of the Confed' erate veterans when they attempted to abolish the present commission. I To Wiiithrop Alumnae. Each one of the 6,000 daughters of Winthrop college are asked to give j the school a post card shower on : March in. giving her home address, j teaching or business address, maiden J name as well as married name, If J married, and date and years of at| tendance at the college. Any other in-. ! formation is also requested. These cards should he addressed to Miss Leila A. Russell, Alumnae Secretary, at Winthrop college, Rock Hill, S. C. I HID MILLIONS IN SAND. San Franciscoans to Search for Shipwrecked Ciew's Gold. It's a story of $5,000,000 in gold bullion; of disaster of sea; of massacre of savages; or buried treasure hidden for nearly half a century; a tale that all but out-Stevensons Robert Louis Stevenson. But a group of business-minded lawyers, bankers and capitalists 01 San Francisco hav? enough faith in it, with all its smacking of Munchausen, to fit out an expedition to test its foundation in fact. Within a short time this expedition will sail from San Francisco to recover, if possible, the golden hoard from the sands of a barren coast near Balboa, Central America. The promoters of the scheme are not very communicative about tbeir plans, but it is known that they recently dispatched one of their number on a "diplomatic mission" to Balboa to ascertain, if possible, the truth of the story of hidden treasure. He returned, and apparently his report confirmed the tale; At any rate, one of the most able attorneys in the city has been retained as counsel for the enterprise, and an opinion has been obtained upon the international and salvage pnases 01 tne law. The only nam9 which has come to light as one of those actively interested in the expedition is that of Isaac Grant, pioneer druggist and hotel man. He is as secretive as the 7 others about present plans, but this .-'At, is the basis of the story, partly from records, but mostly from memory: The British schooner City of Dunraven set sail from San Francisco in 1878, bound for New York with a cargo containing $5,000,000 in gold bullion from California's gold fields. . In September of last year the ship no 11 or V* 4- r? r* /I At* a 1/-v*r?r* Ka^^Ta KsCL UGUL Uic auu dlLCi Ck 1U115 Udu 10 against the flames the crew lowered the gold into lighters and made for shore. Eighteen of the crew landed safely on the" beach and they lighted beacons to attract passing vessels. A band of Yaqui Indians saw the lights, swooped down on the survivors, and, in a pitched battle, killed 13 of the seamen. Only Two Survivors. The five remaining survivors then buried most of the gold in the sand and started to the Isthmus, carrying with them a small quantity of the precious metal. So severe were the trials of this trip that three of the little band died during the journey. One of the two final survivors, according to the story, was Capt. John Goodrich, of Oakland. After a wait of one year, the two caught a boat which took them to Australia and thence to England. y- :;kj In 1905 Captain Goodrich and the ^other survivor came to San Francisco and planned an expedition to recover the gold. They were to have left in 1906, but the earthquake and fire disrupted their plans, and separated the two men. Captain Goodrich is now the only known survivor, and he is reported to have interested the present group in its attempt to salvage the gold. PASTOR BITTEN BY CAT. Animal Attacks the Rev. G. M. Taylor at Edgefield. Edgefield. March 7.?Last Thnra day afternoon the Rev. G. M. Taylor, pastor of the local Methodist church, . was bitten by a cat. Mrw Taylor went to the well for water and saw the animal near by, but was uot especially attracted by it. As he left to return to the house the cat without < warning sprang upon him, inflicting a wound in the leg. Apprehensive that the cat was affected with rabies Mr. Taylor succeeded in killing it and the head was sent to the medical au| thorities at Columbia for medical ex: amination, from whom a report has I been received to the effect that the i animal had hydrophobia. Mr. Taylor j is receiving the Pasteur treatment. A Sight for Sore Eyes. j Charlie and his thre e sisters had | been to visit a relative in the country. Though the invitation had only been for a week, their stay was gradually lengthened to a month. In fact, the uncle was beginning to fear I it was going to be a permanent infliction. But eventually they went. "Well," asked the father, upon tho return of his oCT-springs, "was your j uncle glad to see you?" Charlie's face lit up with deli^'i1: at the question. "Glad!" he echoed. "Uncle glad!* Why, dad, he wanted to know why 1 wo HMn't hrinsr vou. mother, tha / ' I V~ w * ' ' j maid, the cat, the canary and th? j gold fish,"?Tit-Bits. *' '^1