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' N * t ' f \ ' ' * ' Hiw Hamburg lirrali) $2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1920. Established in 1891 * STRANGERS COLLECT | $7,000FROM FARMER 1 RECOVER $5,933 AVHEX MEN ARE ARRESTED IN COLUMBIA. | Sheriff Finds 3 Guns. Strangers Deposit Bond of $400 Each - and Hastily Leave Town. A prominent Calhoun county, farmer, in the opinion of Sheriff F. F. Hill, came near losing $7,000 one day last week in what the sheriff thinks to be ' 1 A ~ -P an attempted swindle on tne part ui two men, J. F. Smith and J. M. Anderson, wTho claim to be from North Carolina. The two men were arrested by Sheriff Hill soon after the Calhoun county man had turned over to them $7,000 in Liberty Bonds, which, the bond owner says, -^as to be held by the two men as security tor stock purchased in a Texas concern by the farmer. The salesmen, one of whom form. erly canvassed this county selling stock in a fish concern in Virginia, iS approached the farmer and suggestfjV ed that he subscribe to stock in the ^ Texas concern to the amount of $7,000, and agreed to take Liberty 1 bonds for this amount, have them transferred to the company they represented and have the company hold the bonds as security for the stock. The farmer agreed to the transaction I and turned the bonds over to the V salesmen. ' The bonds were brought to St. Matthews by the two men, accompanied by the farmer, and were transferred in blank, the salesmen claiming that this procedure was necessary in order that the bonds might be held as security for the stock. The cashier of the local bank where the transfer was made became suspicious I of the strangers, however the alacrity > with which the farmer agreed to the ^transfer so clearly indicated that the deal had been thoroughly investigated and was above reproach that the cashier made the transfer without comment. Shortly after the two men had left this county Solicitor A. J. Hydrick was informed of the deal and immediate! began an investigation. He ascertained that the men were doing business in St. Matthews without a license and he", accompanied by Sheriff Hill, began a search for the two men and the bonds. Their chase led to the Jefferson hotel, Columbia, where the men, who were heavily armed, were arrested at 4 p. m. Cash to the amount of $5,933 was found on their persons. Sheriff Hill went to tne room occupied by the men at the Jefferson hotel, accompanied by the hotel detective, aroused the occupants and informed them that they were under arrest. The men appeared very much perturbed and declared that their dealings with the Calhoun farmer were absolutely fair. However, the sheriff ascertained that the Liberty bonds had been sold to a Columbia bank, and the money and check found on the person of the two men were evidently funds derived from the sale. The prisoners were brought back to St. Matthews and each required to put up bail in the sum of $400. After their release, the officers says, the ? men hired an automobile and went to * North, and it is understood that they hired an automobile there to go to Denmark. Shortly after leaving here a telephone call was received from Columbia asking if the men had left St. Matthews. It is said that the men will be re-arrested when located. The money found in the pillow of one of the men was returned to St. Matthews. Sheriff Hill says three revolvers were found scattered about the room in the hotel, and an empty whiskey bottle also was in evidence. He says the men declared their prop* osition to be legal and immediately upon being aroused said they would give the money back if the farmer was not satisnea. rney naa ieit a call at the hotel desk so as to catch an early-morning train.?St. Matthews Carolinian. Fell Into Fortune. "Sure, it's Mike, that's the lucky man." "How's that?" "Why, he just took out an insur? ance policy for ten thousand dollars and the very next day he fell off the bridge and got drowned in the river/,' p i lSITS CAPITAL AFTER 60 YEARS. Formtr Bamberg Woman Sees Columbia First Time Since the War. To have paid her first visit to Columbia before it was burned by Sherman and then to drop in for her second visit yesterday was the remarkable experience of Mrs. Mollie Bailey, of Edisto Island, who is visiting friends in the city. On that first visit in the distant fifties, Mrs. Bailey, who at that time was Miss Mollie Rice, of Bamberg, says she was inordinately proud of her homespun dress elaborately adorned with horn buttons. Yesterday she was clad in georgette and wore it with that air of distinction and easy grace that somehow seems to have passed from the realm of + Viir> cro fcimirn'no -nrifh the COmin2T of T *vu ~~ ? w "rights." But the pride she had in her costume on that former occasion could not assauge the homesickness that filled her heart, for she was on her way to college at Limestone, and she says, "I did not see much of Columbia for the tears that filled my eyes. I cried the night through and prayed that I might die so that I would not have to go to college," she said yesterday with eyes alight with memories aroused by her second visit to Columbia. ."Professor Curtis met me here in Columbia and I went with him to college. Everything, it'seemed to me, has changed in Columbia since that time. "I have, had one other unusual experience in this matter of visiting towns," she continued. "The first time I visited Orangeburg I was 17 years old?the next time I was 70. Why do I remember that first visit?" and she dropped her eyes and smoothed a fold in her black dress. "Well, the young man whom I afterwards married was courting me then?oh, I remember it well enough," and she laughed like a school girl. "Mind you," she said, raising a protesting finger, "we wrere not engaged?just good friends?and matters like that will develop, you knowr," she exclaim? "? ? * ini, I ed. sue was taKing in me iea ouup in the Arcade at the dinner hour and when the guests at the various tables heard the clear, soft voice recalling the days "when I was 17," they listened closely and they did not wonder that "matters had developed" and probably envied the young man his > part in the development. Mrs. Bailey is a delightful conversationalist, her memory is remarkably clear, and she brought to Columbia an atmosphere that one does not often come in cantact with in these days of rush and hurry. She is visiting Miss Carrie Laysath and is making many acquaintances in this city. ?Columbia State. An APpeal by E. D. Jenkins. Because of the great loss and fodder shortage, we should see to it that we get in a very large acreage of all small grains this fall, as cover crops and for harvesting. Let us plant an overwhelming crop of oats this fall. They are easier to grow than to buy. At certain seasons they can be used as both corn and fodder. Some soils in our country are not suitable for successful wheat production. There should be a number of acres of wheat planted on every farm in the county, where land can be -3 on > f o Kid crrTi-n* t Vi i e vorv im? UJL1U OUitawi^ ivj vjjlau f V* ^ portant grain. It is easy to buy^f you have money, but it will be easier to grow it under boll weevil conditions. You have some of the finest grain growing lands in the world. Don't forget the rye. Plant a good quantity for cover crops, grazing purposes, etc Be getting ready; the time is practically at hand.?E. D. Jenkins, local agent. PRESIDENT WILL RESIGN. Deschanel Expected to Retire to Private Life Within Week. Paris, Sept. 15.?"The tragedy of Deschanel," which for nearly four months has been the secret of a few persons has become public property and nothing but the warmest sympathy is being expressed on all sides for the president of the republic, as it is announced that he has decided irrevocably to resign. President Deschanel's four months against illness has been a courageous one, but since l is accident at Montargis May 23, when he fell from a moving train, it has been a losing one, and the hope for his early recovery now has been abandoned. Before another week has passed, it may now safely be said, M. Deschanel will be retired to private life. DEATH IN WAKE OF EXPLOSION EYE WITNESS DESCRIBES CRASH FROM CLEAR SKY*. Many Lifeless Forms. Bodies on Sidewalk Discolored With Blood When Associated Press Reporter Arrives. ? New York, Sept. 16.?"It was a crash out of a blue sky?an unexpected death dealing bolt which in a twinkling turned into a shamble tne busiest corner of America's financial center and sent scurrying to places of shelter hundreds of wounded, dumb stricken, white faced men and women?fleeing from an unknown danger." A reported for the Associated Press, who was an eye witness of today's explosion in New York's financial district, thus described the scene. "I was jusf turning into wall street from Broadway," he said, "when I first felt, rather than heard, the explosion. A concussion of air similar to that experienced on the subway when a train dashes into one of the under river tubes was felt. Its force was sufficient to all but throw me off my balance. Instantly following the concussion, came a sharp resounding crash which shook to their foundations the larger buildings facing either side of Wall street. With the roar of the blast came the rattle of falling glass, and from the Junction of Wall, Nassau, and Broad streets?a block distant, screams of injured men and women. \fnclirnmn Shanp/1 rrmvd. "I dodged into a convenient doorway to escape falling glass and to reach a telephone and call the office. Looking down Wall street later, I could see arising from the vicinity of the subtreasury building and the J. P. Morgan and company bank a mushroom shaped cloud of yellowish, ' green smoke which mounted to a height of more than 100 sfeet, the smoke being lioked by darting tongues of flame. "I reached the scene a few moments after the explosion took place. The smoke had practically cleared from the street, but from the Morgan building there was belching forth through the broken windows clouds of dust and white vapor. In the street an overturned automobile was blazing fiercely, and nearby, close to the body of a dead horse, was another fire, evidently from a pile of wreckage. "Almost in front of, the steps leading up to the Morgan bank was the mutilated body of a man. Other bodies, most of them silent in death, lay nearby. As I gazed horror stricken at the sight, one of these forms, half naked, and seared with burns, started to rise. It struggled, then toppled and fell lifeless into the gutter. , T 1?A*IWI fi Caati juncicas i i/iiua att". "On the opposite side of the street were other forms. One of them was that of a young woman, her clothing torn and burned away. It was moving?not in an effort to rise, but in the agony of death. I started to/ ward her?but as I did, she became still. Glancing doWn I sawr that the pavement was discolored with blood. In plain sight, within a radius of 30 to 50 feet, were nine lifeless forms. "The body of the dead horse in the middle of the street showed plain evidence of having been in close proximity to the scene of the blast. It was literally torn to pieces. "The windows of the Morgan building were blown out and through the openings could be seen, the smokeblackened interior of what but a few moments previous had been one of the handsomest banking rooms in the city. Opposite the entrance to the npwlv onmDleteri white exterior of the subtreasury annex was battered! and torn as if having been subjected to a bombardment of machine gun fire. The doorway, with its massive steel grill work, "was hattered and the stone surrounding the door cracked and battered awTay. "By this time the crowd was pressing in, held in check by the hastily gathering police. At the doorway of the Morgan bank was an uniformed guard, apparently half dazed, but sticking to his r?3t and holding back those who sought to enter the structure. ' "The crowd was strangely quiet and over it seemed to hang a feeling of awe and horror. At the commands of the police, it moved and fell back si HUNT WILL IS SUSTAINED. Probate Court's Decision Upheld by Circuit Judge. Judge W. H. Townsend, of the State Circuit Court, has affirmed the decision of the probate court of Charleston county holding that the 'will of the late A. Morton Hunt, as filed for probate, is valid. J. A. Guerin, executor, was authorized to carry out the provisions of the document, including a clause written into the typewritten copy which was the cause of the contest. This handwritten clause, which Mrs. Rita B. Hunt, the widow, alleged was added after the last will and testament of the deceased had been AVAAiif A/1 rvwAiri/I A/I f liof nr*AnAT?f Tr h^_ CAcoutcu. (Jiuuucu tnai i,j u^~ queathed to Miss Florence G. Hunt, a daughter, should be held ip trust for her until she attained the age of thirty, providing, also, that the interest should go to her from her twenty-first birthday. According to the testimony of Mrs. J. A. Guerin, one of the witnesses, the margin of the will showed handwriting at the time of tne execution. Second Primary Election. xn < ? S ui ui s P P 3d a ? P 1 ? 5 ^ P 2 < P p P -r 2 ? cl I? - -sr . ? ? ? r : p : p vDenmark .. 61 I03JT26 44 33 137 H. Mill 13 13' 8 18 8 18 Embree - - 4 16 18 2 2 18 Edisto .. .. 7 41 20 28 10 38 j [Colston .... 9 23 19 13 4 28 H. Chapel.. 31 17 39 9 18 30 Bamberg.... 54|119 112 60 95 77 Kearse .... 14 14 19 9 14 14 Lees 15 12 19 8 7 20 Olar 29 99 104 24 37 91 Govan 22 25 30 17 17 30 Clear Pond 16 16 7 Ehrhardt .. 36 70 81 25 50 56 L. Swamp 9 25 23 11 -7 27 'Midway .... 9 1 19 9 1 Tntal 21415 2 4116 2012821121 11592 " * ~ ^ ~ ~ ~| I I || | Magistrate at Fish Pond. Carter Hill Embree 7 13 Edisto 6 42 Hunter's Chapel ....31 17 . Little Swamp 27 7/ Total 71 79 The Great Unrest. We believe that one of the most vital problems of today is that of keeping the youth content on the iarm. We are passing through a critical period. Industry, prices, and all the old standards and force in our life, unsettled and upset. You need no reminder that the contagion of this restlessness has infected the growing generation on the farm. We believe in the glorious future of agriculture. Even now the winds of unrest are carrying multitudes from the farms to the big towns. Thousands of our boys and girls are responding to the distant glitter that will prove a mirage. Thousands of our colored boys and girls are forsaking their heritage, are being lost forever to agriculture. In this hopeful journeying to the crowded cities is a national tragedy; for the sake of the nation, and for the sake of the boys themselves, it must be stopped. What wilj you do? We, as extension workers, must make them see behind the false mask of the city, and teach them this truth, that health, wealth and happiness are far more certain to be found on the farm.?H. E. Daniels, assistant district agent in colored demonstration work. Hospital for Insane Crowded. Columbia, Sept. 19.?C. Fred Williams, superintendent jOf the State Hospital for the Insane, has called on judges of probate in all counties of the state to send only emergency cases as pertaining to negroes to the hospital for treatment because of the crowded condition at the institution. There are now more than, 2,200 patients being treated and the quarters are crowded to capacity. At State Park, where the negroes are cared for, there are 537, negro males and 462 females. lently. On the steps of the old subtreasury building, the spot where years ago stirring scenes connected with the American Revolution were enacted, stands a stute of George Washington. Looking down from its pedestal between the massive granite columns scarred by missies from the explosion, the outstretched hand of the Father of His Country seemed to carry a silent command to be calm." i BISHOP GUERRY TELLS OF MEETINI RETURNS FROM LAMBETH COS FEREXCE IX LONDON. In Very Good Health. Discusses Divorce and Prohibition England Desires Friendship of America. "It may be of some interest t South Carolinans to know that th nnsition which the state has take on marriage and divorce was brougb to the attention of Lambeth confei ence in London," said Bishop W. A Guerry yesterday afternoon. Bisho Guerry arrived in Columbia Frida from New York after having spen about six weeks in London, and spen the night with Dr. LeGrande Guerry leaving this city yesterday for Lan rens and Newberry. "When the subject of marriage an divorce was before the conferenc* one bishop said that to view marriag as an indissoluble union betwee one man and one woman was impra( ticable and that the people woul not stand for it. In answer to thi statement, I told the conference tha the people of South Carolina stoo for it and that it was written in th organic law of our state and that i had the approval of an overwhelmin majority of our people. I believe tha the statement had some influence o the conference which went on recor as saying tllat the Christian standar of marriage was the indissolubl union of one man and one woman til parted by death. "The American bishops," continue Dr. Guerry, "exercised a decided ir fluence on the conference on the sut ject of prohibition. The Englis! bishops were disposed to bring in noncommittal resolution on prohibi tion, but the American bishops, back ed up by the Canadian and the Aus j. i* __ i i ' iranan Disnops, were aDie to swm the conference to a position indorsin prohibition. Out of 50 votes cast o the motion, only three were agains it." Wants American Friendship. Bishop Guerry did not care to dis cuss the hunger strike of Lord Mayo MacSwiney, of Cork, nor did he sa what attitude the English people too on the candidacies of Cox and Hare ing. "The general attitude in England, said the bishop, "is to cement i every way possible the.ties betwee the two nations. I was present whe the Lincoln statute, given by Elih Root, to the English people, was ur veiled and I heard Lord George's r< sponse on that occasion. He said tha the face of Lincoln was the most f? miliar and the best bdloved of an stateman throughout the Englis speaking world. The world need: Lloyd George said, men of the typ of Lincoln and Lee. The Englis people favor anything that will brin about a better understanding b< tween the two great nations. "The most notable utterance of tb conference is the manifesto or appej to Christians throughout the worl on the subject of church unity. I England," says Dr. Guerry, "it : said that this appeal marks an epoc in the religious history of that coui try and of the world. I would con mend this appeal to the careful a tention of all Christians who ha\ not yet read it in the religious pres Out of the 250 bishops present on] four voted against adopting the a] peal, and three of them were fro) the United States. This rote is a the more remarkable because s many schools of thought were repri sented at the conference; the vei fact that representatives of these di ferent schools could agree upon platform of unity was not only a evidence of deep desire for unit; but was also evidence of the leadin of the Holy Spirit." An American bishop was requeste to preach the concluding sermon i St. Paul's cathedral, Bishop Guen said. Bishop Guerry returned to tl states in good health and is glad to 1 once again in South Carolina and i work in this state. "While the old world has much i teach us," said the bishop, "and v have much to learn from it, I hai come back to this country a bett< American than when I went over, am convinced that we have the grea est country in the world, a count] full of opportunity, and with a pr found sense of gratitude and a groi MEN BE MORE DOMESTIC. Woman's I>arty Advocates Training of Boys in Art of Home Making. J A programme to "free" women _ within five years has been presented to the executive committee of the national woman's party, which held an informal meeting here Saturday. It advocates the training of boys in home-making, the education of all girls toward economic independence and voluntary motherhood. Miss Crystal Eastman, feminist and a .member of the advisory council of the national woman's party, 0 who proposed the programme, said e if a strong woman's political party n is organized to carry it out, women t will be fully emancipated in five years at least. "Thp and immediate concern L. " ~ ? of women," she said, "should be freey dom of choice in occupation and the t assurance of economic independence t for every woman, even though she chose house work and child-raising as her occupation. "This may sound simple and easy but it is really a much more revoluj tionary step than gaining political equality. It means tremendous e changes in the early training of both n boys and girls. "Girls pf all classes must be edud cated toward economic independs ence, boys must be educated toward t co-operating in the enterprise of d home-making. It must be womanly e as well as manly to earn your own ' living. It must be manly as well as g womanly to know how to cook and 1 clean. n "Motherhood must be voluntary," ^ Miss Eastman continued, "and wod men must not inevitably sink into e economic dependence because, by ^ their own choice or otherwise, their occupation is child-bearing. This d means we must have a generous enL_ dowment of motherhood, not motht_ ers' pensions to widows and deserted h wives, but money from the state to a mothers whose husbands are too l~ poor to support them, but the liberal endowment of all mothers of 5- young children on the ground that ? they are perfoming a special and & direct service to the state. We aln ready have free public schools with teachers paid by the state, so why ' ^ should the endowment of mothers be considered an extreme departure 5~ in public economy?" r Mrs. Hariet Stanton Blatch, pioy neer suffrage leader and also a memk ber of the advisory council of the I- woman's party, went on record against the movement for a separate " political party for women, n "It would be a waste of effort to n organize such a party," she told the n executive committee of her organizau tion. "Women would go^nto it with l- men's ideas and then never get rid 5- -of them. It wou^d not be long before it the bottom dropped out of your party, i- "To continue the national woman's / it rkortxr olnrtcr nnri-nnrHsan lines, is a J f""- v?7 ?1V"0 x ?J ? ? h wiser idea. We should remain to 3, aether in a militant group and standie ing as a unit, we could do tremendh dous work now that all women of g the nation are enfranchised."?New 5- York dispatch. m in m Just received, shipment of AmeriLe can Wire Fence. See me at once if il you need fencing. G. O. SIMMONS. Get your school books and school n supplies from Herald Book Store. ~ h ing sense of responsibility, jve, the i- people of the United States, should i- live worthy of our great heritage and t- of the splendid ideals and traditions re of our fathers." s. Revisits France, ly While absent from South Carolina ?- Bishop Guerry again visited France, m He visited Paris, Chateau-Thierry and 11 the Belleau Wood cemetery, so "The government has made won3 derful provision for caring for and *y beautifying the cemeteries in which f- the dead soldiers sleep," said Dr. a Guerry, "and it se&ns a pity to take n up the remains of our brave lads and y, transport them to this country. Much g better, it seems to me,- would it be, to let them lie in the soil of France, sd an everlasting monument to the mun tual friendship between the two sister y republics." The Lambeth conference was comle posed of bishops of the Anglician )e communion throughout the world, it There were in attendance at tht conference 253 bishops, 50 of whom to were from the United States. , * x 7e These conferences are called every 7Q ten years by order of the archbishop 3r of Canterbury to consider problems I affecting the moral and spiritual con,t tions of people throughout the world, ry Moral and religious issues are involvo ed in the various discussions held.? jr- The State. r " : #if