Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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«DCV— \V a ’ r » DIES SO BROTHER ^ CAN MARRY BRIDE Suicide Leaves Letter Say ing “I Hate Them." Newark, N. J.—Henry Keller wat an emotional boy who liked to drama* tlse himself. When he did even so small a thing as wave an arm In con versation he did it as if he were play- feS to an audience. He began acting I greater role about a month ago when be found that his bride of four months, Florence Wolfert Keller, had fallen In love with his brother Ed ward. Edward asked Henry to give Florence a divorce'so they might mar ly. Henry agree^ decided on suicide, and kept ^on dramatizing* himself to the very last breath. With Henry, hate was uppermost, (or he wrote: “To whom It may in terest ; the cause of It all: 1 loved and trusted my wife and trusted my brother. Now I hate my wife, despise my brother and sentence myself to die for having been fool enough to hare ever loved any one as contempt ible as my wife has proven to be. Both she and her lover (my brother) knew this afternoon that I intended to die tonight They were quite pleased at the prospect, and did not trouble to conceal their elation." Told Brother of Love. Henry and Edward had been Insep arable for ten years. Both had en listed In the marine corps. In Phila delphia, where Henry was stationed, he met Florence—and married her. She came home with him to Newark. Then, or so Edward told the police: “A few weeks after the marriage we found that we—myself and Flor ence—loved one another. 1 told my er so. He said he would give divorce on any grounds she > an ted. He seemed miserable at the news. Then he began threatening suicide—he always kept his promises." Every time Henry saw his wife and brother, he told them again that he would commit suicide. On the day be fore his death, be made this entry In bis diary—the last entry and made to read as If It actually was written aft er death. It was: "Friday—Went to Ed's office to make him suffer physically a little. He waan't there. Went downstairs to car. They were there told them again. They laughed, but I could sea fear In their eyea Wrote letters and took final certain sometime after mid night Warm, warm, warm, here goes nothing." He took three plea home Friday night One of them be gave to hta landlady, the other two he took to his room. He wrote three letters, aa entry la his dtsry. and then prepared to write a running account of bis own death. It follows: Writes of Hie Own Death. This would he a reel opportunity for aa seaay on 'How It feels to sen tence one's self to die.* but—who cares?—It wouldn't matter s bit a hundred years from now. And then, no darned many auiddea have an Idea that the rest of the world Is going to be Interested In their theories on the *uaeleesnees of living* tod the fasci nation of death'—horse feathers l "Pm fixing s little apparatus on tht gas line—good Idee—I’ll get the full strength of the gas and prevent the odor from permeating the bouse and bringing on discovery too soon. "Incidentally. I was twenty-two on December i, 1920. I’ve lived In those 22 years. The age on my marine corps discharge Is three years over. I had to lie about my age In order 1*1 by. It la now 1:20 a. m.—all Is quiet the western front. All the drunks nd night owls are In, so I’m off—no reprieve. “I took my panacea for ill human Ills. It won’t be long now. I’ll bet Florence and Ed are having uneasy dreams. When the stuff starts to take effect I’ll plaster my little funnel to my face and turn on the gas. Ten minutes later—my head is hot I’m perspiring * and shaky, but brain Is still clear. “Gee, I loved you so much, Flor ence. It’s now 2:15. I feel very tired and a bit dizzy. I have the gas nozzle plastered on my face, but disconnect ed from the gas jet It’s quite uncom fortable, damn It My brain Is very clear. I can see that my hand Is shaking—It is hard to die when one Is young. How I wish oblivion would hurry—” Henry Keller’s clear brain kept di recting the hand to write, but the hand, which had been growing un steady, now trailed off Into an illegible scrawl—In a few minutes Henry Keller was dead. I I Charge Barnwell With Striking Woman Hermaa Cook Lodged im Js^J Sunday Afternoon.—Alleged to Havo Struck Mother-in-Law. - • • ~ »—::• ••■■- —r Herman Cook, of Barnwell, was ar rested by Sheriff Boncil* H. Dyches Sunday afternoon and lodged in the Barnwell County jail on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons, it be ing alleged that he struck his mother- in-law, Mrs. Frank Rountree, on the head with a pistol at her home several miles from this city. The injured wo man was brought to Barnwell for medical attention. Cook was located a short time later in a field near the public road and arrested by Sheriff Dyches. According to Sheriff Dyches, Mrs. Rountree claims that ,after getting Cook out of her house she locked the door; that her son-in-law then broke down the door, re-entered the house and hit her across the head with a pis tol that was in the room. Her hus band is said to have been at home at the time. She said that Cook then left the house and he was arrested by the Sheriff a short time later in a field some distance away. He had two pis tols in his possession according to Sheriff Dyches. It is understood that at the time of the arrest, Cook disclaimed any knowl edge of the alleged assault. He was released under bond Sunday night. ONE MORE^ CHANCE FOR KATE ADAIR to ATE ADAIR knew why Mark Chester had not married her, A Prompt Suggestion “What can I do," roared the fiery orator during a demonstration, “when I see my country going to Vuln, when I see our oppressors’ hands at our throats, strangling us, and the black clouds of hopelessness and despair gathering on the horizon to obliterate the golden sun of prosperity? What, I ask you. What can'I dor "Sit downr shouted the audience. —Toronto Globe. Fish Reclaimed from Ponds and Mud Holes OrtT 3.000 Which Wariicd Oat m Rich Water Are Brought Beck.—Care ful Methods Used. Orangeburg, June 15.—More than 3,000 fish of various varieties have been reclaimed from ponds, mud holes and ditches in the vicinity of Brsnch- ville and placed in the Edisto river in one day. The work was accomplished through the cooperation of the State game warden's office, the Orangeburg county game warden and attache* of the government fish cultural station, located just outside of the city limits from Orangeburg. The fiah varied In length from 3 inches to 14 inches *nd would have been doomed to death in the fast evaporating waters in which they had been trapped when they left the river during high water. A number of men were engaged in the work of reclaiming the fish and two unk trucks were used for con veying the fish from the points where they were taken from the ponds, mud holes snd ditches to the river. The work required very careful handling on account of the fact that the water in which the fish were found was considerably higher in temperature doe to the heat of the tun, than the water of the river into which they were placed. On account of this fact the water in the tanks had to be changed several times and each time the temperature lowered until it was about of the snme temperature ss :hat of the river water before they were thrown into the stream. Had this precaution not been taken the fish would have been killed from the sud den change from high to low tempera ture of the river water. It is understood that more of this work is to be undertaken by the same agencies in the future and in this way thousands of fish will saved for the State which would otherwise die, and the streams will he restocked in a much easier and m^re economical manner than is usually followed. Land owenrs in the State where the ^gme condition exists as that found in the vicinity of Branchville, where the first experiment was under taken, are being asked to report the warden, and an effort will be made immediately to reclaim these fish in the same manner. Additional equip ment will be provided to handle the work and in this way it is hoped to save many thousands of fish which would otherwise be lost. From IllinoU Until the arrival of the new baby sister, Bobby had been the only child of the family. A faint trace of jeal ousy prompted him to ask his mother where the new arrival came from. The mother’s reply was that the baby had come from heaven. "Did I come from heaven, mother r was the next question. "Why, yes, Bobby," the mother replied. * "Did you come from heaven. Bnt her friends and relatives did not know. They thought it was because Kate would not have him. Kate knew It was because Mark would not have her. She had kept her secret well and it helped her through many a weary passage of her after life,. such as this present one, when her mother, two aunts and a cousin, who had been In vited to dinner, seemed determined to have it out with her. Kate had come home from her office tired, with a good appetite for the fried chicken and waffles. But the delicious food soured in her mouth when Aunt Em began: “You know I heard something about Mark Chester, your old beau, today, Kate. Mrs. Frlsbee was telling me. She’s got a son living in New York. He ran across Mark the other day. Mrs. Frisbee’s son said Mark looked fine. He’s got all kinds of money. And he’s got a girl, a daughter of one of the New York big bugs. He’s going to do well when he marries her. Just think, Kate; you might have been liv ing In New York now yourself Instead of here in this poky little burg. That’s what Evelyn calls It—a poky little burg. I'm afraid you’ll live to rue the day you refused Mark Chester." “I felt at the time that Kate was miking a mistake." said Aunt Middy. "Of course you never know till It’s too late," sighed Cousin Retba. “Needn’t anyone blame me:" said Mrs. Adair, looking reproachfully at her daughter. "I'm sure I said all I could at the time. I know one thing; ahe’d have been a good deal happier If she’d married Mark than she Is now, selling real estate and working her looks off her face." "It's what’s Inside one's bead rather than what's outside, that counts In this day and generation. And we manage to be comfortable on my Income." Kate's voice held an unexpected edge. Her mother sniffed. Cousin Ret ha col ored. The other two women exchanged glances. Kata laid down her napkin and rose from the table. She saun tered with apparent nonchalance out to the driveway where she had left her roadster. Coming home, a care less driver had allowed his car to swerve and hit her slightly. A shin log fender had crumpled from the Im pact. Aa Kate beheld that fender, the scene at the dinner table rankled worse than ever. What did they know, her mother, her two aunts, snd her cousin, all of whom had married and two of them had been left well provided for, what It meant for a girl to step stngte-hinded Into the business world and fight her way up to where she could have her own office, her own financial rating, her own advertising literature? But she bad done It all In the space of six years. She wasn't so very old at that, only twenty-nine. Often she felt young er. Tonight she felt older, lots older. Just sa If It wasn't bad enough to lose the one man you'd ever loved, you had to hear now how successful he was. how happy, how confident of his fu tors. She'd tried to forget him, to fill her life up -with hard work, but there he was. And there probably he would always stay. Why couldn't he have cared? Meanwhile she ought to be concentrating on her own affairs That new firm that had opened up for business right across the street from her place was going to give her a run for her money; she was aware of that And her mother and the rest of them 'criticized her. She had a womanish impulse to cry. But Instead she began . to whistle. ) Then she jumped into the car and went tearing down the street toward Peggy Winter’s. Peggy Winter called herself an ex terior decorator. She was a beauty specialist Her shop was distinctly up to date. She was successful In her business because she knew the insides as-well *s~the eu Now as Kate entered, Peggy gave her a long look. “Something worse than a fender crumpled, eh?” she said. She had looked out the window and had seen Kate drive up. “Ego slightly damaged, perhaps. Pride, courage, poise in need of a little pick-me-up. You’ve come to the right place, Kate. Pve been up against It myself today. My boy’s got In trouble again. It’ll take a good bit of money to get him out Want your hair trimmed? Or a facial?" “I want you, Peg," said Kate, des perately. “to make me look like some thing besides a soured spinster who Is working the looks off her face. Peggy laughed softly. “Trust me," sway from Peggy’s shop exactly getting Into her car a his wolom arm "Of courts HI sell your plscu for you," Kate smiled. Thu old man's need was so obvious. Bnt the place— run down, out of the way. She couldn't find a buyer for It In two yeara. Til drive over and take a look at It In the morning," she said brightly. T don't know but what If the old seek-no-fur ther tree that you used to give me apples from is still there, Mr. Pell, FU buy it myself." “It’s still there, Kate. But It'a fall* Ing—like me and the missus." Kate knew she had no business to do it, with competition from the new firm menacing her hard-won position, but she bought the old Pell place. Her mother and the rest of them would call her a fool. But certainly she had made a worthy old pair happy., And now she must get busy with her ad vertising. She’d have to turn heaven and earth over to get rid of the unde sirable property. Bravado, pride, mischief, made her send one of her carefully-prepared cir culars to Mark Chester. She daringly called up a friend who kept in con stant touch with Mark, and got his address. “If he doesn’t happen to know what I’m doing, this will tell him," she thought. “And—and any way, we both used to eat apples off that seek-no-fufther tree." A week passed. With the new firm’s activities right across the street, Kate's business began to lag. Her spirits also. She found hsrself in a corner where she needed the money she had put Into the old Pell place. Even the sight of the couple’s placid faces did not comfort her much. The aunts and her mother and Cousin Retha had got hold of what she had done and were naturally perfectly disgusted. She was sitting in her office, at her desk, drawing caricatures on her mem orandum pad and hoping for a cus tomer, when the door opened. She looked op and saw Mark Chester. Tve come to buy the old Pell place." Mark sat down on the corner of Kate’s desk. He drew her crum pled circular from his pocket. He smiled. “I want to fix It up so I can use It summers. It’s an easy run down here from New York. Maybe when I retire FU live there altogether." "Better go out and look at it before we clinch the bargain." Kate said. In her most businesslike way. "Guess I can take your word for It Kate. You never played me false yet What price have you got on the property r Kate named tha price which would just exactly reimburse her. Mark looked down at her. Tm not bragging about bow much money Fvu got but Fd give that for tha old seek-no-further tree alone," ha •old. "Yon know, Kate. If—If Fd dreamed what a bold you’d get on my heart Fd been buck before. But when u man’s digging Into work the way 1’va dona for tha last six years such things ss home Ufa, romance, love, have to go by the board." Kate was glad of the rouge that kept her color steady. She laughed. Tell that to teacher," she scoffed. "1 know all shout the girl In New York—" She paused. HU eyes, search ing hers, did not waver. He laid hU hand hard on berm. "Kata. Dearest Must I swear on my sacred word of honor that you are the one and only girl I've ever thought of marrying? And I haven’t thought of marrying you until just since I en tered this room. Now I know Fvt got to have you if—If I have to kidnap you," said Mark Chester happily. Gatun Lock at Panama No Longer the Largest The locks of the Panama canal, which have held the laurels as the world's largest—in cubic content—now yield the honor to that of the North Sea canal at Ymulden. When Queen Wllhelmina of Holland threw the elec tric switch that aet the latter into operation, she was acting In line with the traditions of her country, for the nation that now boasts the largest lock also claims th* honor of having invented this important device. Although canals date back beyond thfc beginning of the Christian era— having been used for navigation and communication by the Assyrians, Egyptians, Hindus and Chinese— their full usefulness was not realized until the invention of the lock about 500 years ago. The claim of the Dutch to have originated this device by ^whtch ships are enaWed to sail hill’’ Is, however, disputed by the Italians, who assert that the lock was invented by two of their engineers in 1481. The lorit In Ymulden is 1,312 feet long and 164 feet wide. The Gatun * lock in Panama is 1,000 feet long and 110 feet wide. Lock 8 of the Welland canal is 1,380 feet long and 80 feet wide. The Sault Ste. Marie lock is 1350 feet long and 80 feet wide. In lock construction greater engineering problems are related to width than 1 to length, for the width determines the size of the gates, the manipulation of whose enormous mass is one of the marvels of engineering science. The greater width of the Ymulden lock will enable the largest passenger vessels to reach the docks of the Dutch dty. hi CM But wherever It was used It rastrvsd for ooa purpose; to •epldlig itoomb. In Ntw there ware not many places whSre tha ducking stool was especially favored, though It may be that tha magistrate who ordered a woman docked, "whan tha weather became more seasonable," mar have (Ivan a hint aa to tha reason. There is a record of a woman who was unfortunately drowned while be ing ducked. The ordinary practice In ducking was to submerge the duckee for about a half minute. She was then brought to the surface for air and asked If she repented; if she be gan again where she was when she was Interrupted, she was dropped Into the pond again, and this process was kept up until she promised to be good. Frequently it was surprising how much water waa necessary to quench the * lira of feminine tempers. The woman who was drowned had been ducked several times and finally her unaccountable silence inspired the duckers to investigate, whereupon she was found to be deed. This was con sidered to be unfortunate but her own fault—Boston Herald. Friend told* me to try SNAP. I did. Somewhat dl ed at first not seeing many dee but in a few 4ay> didn't tee one. What were not killed nre net j around my place. RAT-SNAP sore doe* the trick.” Three sixes, 86c, 66c, $1.25. Sold snd Guaranteed by Deo- eon’s Drug Store and The Best Phar macy, Barnwell. SPECIAL EXCURSION —TO— ASHEVILLE, N. C ACCOUNT Rhododendron Festival TUESDAY, JUNE 17TH. Round Trip Fares: Aiken, S. C $6.00 Bamberg 630 Barnwell i 630 Blackville 6.00 Proportionate low fares from in termediate points. Excursion tickets sold for til trains, except Crescent Limited, Nos. 87 and 38, Tuesday, June 17th. Final return Claim Definite Proef of Mother Earth'* Ago | limit midnight Jane 2Ut. See the mountains in their Halley, of comet fame, tried to find out the earth's age by calculating the time It took the rains and rivers to wash the salts from the lands into the oceans. Geologists likewise calculated the time 1^ took for rivers to deposit their deltas, for the Niagara to gouge out its gorge and for the geological strata to be laid down. But all such methods were defective. Like hour glasses, neither the rivers nor the sands ran uniformly. In uranium physicists claim to hart at last found a reliable self-recording clock, says the Los Angeles Times. Disintegrating, It gives off gases snd the final residue Is lead, the rate of disintegration being definitely known. After three billion years an ounca of uranium would not weigh an onneo; nearly ooo-thlrd of an ounca wonld be represented by lead. As uranium Is always found associated with 306 per cent of Its own weight In lend. It Is easy to calculata that some three billion years bar a elspaed since the first lead was formed. splendor. Many special and atfese- tive features account Rhododendron Festival Week. For further Information ticket sgenta, SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM WoaU Tam Xrm* Om H You 8mm M gra, would you recognise Itf Oft Suns K is oat UkelytEsTyau efor will sw a garm, unites you own. a a pin head. But the (set that •Mg. fatal SsTYou eon gte Liquid Iteossns aS Epps' Pharmacy, Blaekrille, 8. C. R. A. Denson, Barnwell, 8. C. INSURANCE FIRE ~ WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ‘7" “7* Th * ACCIDENT - HEALTH within a few years was declared void by the United States Supremo court (trade mark cases) as unconstitu tional. The sobeequent act of March 8, 1881, waa superseded by the act of February 20. 1906, which was supple mented by the acts of Msy 4, 1006, snd March 19, 1920, all of these three now In force. Registering Trade Marks V Trade marks were first registered under laws of the United States In 1870. under the net of Jnly 8, 1670. During 1870 there were 121 reglsti tlons under that law. tha first tbareof (No. 1) under data of October 25. 1870. by Averlll Chemical Point coospa of Now York. Prior to tha onset want of such law protection waa sought to bo secured In a few Instances through SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhoan Rnd Co. P. A. PRICE, Asotker There was a tremendous crash. Farmer Jones, who was working la one of his cowsheds, rushed out into the farmyard, and, looking up into nearby tree, be saw a small airplane lodged (n the topmost branches. “What do you think you're doing?" he asked the airman, who had, fortu nately, escaped injury and was in the act of climbing down the tree. “I was trying to create a new air record," returned the other sadly. “And you’ve succeeded," exclaimed the farmer. “You’re about the first chap who has climbed down a tree without first climbing up.' Thunderstorms and Buds There is a common belief that a loud thunderstorm will cause the young buds on trees to grow so rapidly that the difference in the rate of growth is no ticeable even to the casual observer. Scientists do not believe that the nolsa of loud thunder has any particular in fluence on the rate of growth either In plants or tha buds. Thunder* J. ELLIS ENGINEERING CO, < ft \ storms are usually accompanied by rain, and if the buds’ come oat rapidly after a thunderstorm It is due to the shower which accompanies the storm rather than the thunder. Faisons English Pottery The pottery made at Barnstaple, England, is known os Barum ware. The first productions were small jugs which came under the notice of a London firm and which helped de velop the business. In 1885, Queen Victoria purchased some of this ware. The designs consisted mainly of foli ated and bird ornament, of convention al scrolls, flowers, fishes, etc. Originally the colors were only white and rad. bnt later rich combinations of yellow, bine, green snd others Atlantic Fertilizer Co. FISH GUANO SPECIAL ASPARAGUS FERTILIZER. > Call 79 R. L. HAIR, Representorirt WUliston, S. C. For Sale I hare good Hay and Oats for sal par ton and Cm at