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Eh( e VOLUME XXXI. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1916 CHAIN GANG BIll 1RD[R[D IATIfI[D No Alternative If Convicted of Selling Whiskey LIABILITY BILL IS CLARIFIED Hlopeful that Adjournment may be had Saturday. A ptpropriation Rhit - ili Carry in the Aggregate $2,,00, 000, It Seeming Impossible to Trim (:loser. Columbia, February 12.-The chain gang bill, fathered by Mr. Liles, has been ordered ratified. In the Senate the provision, including the storing and transporting of liquor as a chain gang offence was striken out. The House today adopted the Senate amendment, and the Liles bill, there fore, provides that anyone convicted of selling liquor must be sentenced to the chain gang. The punishment for the s, 'ring dnd transporting of liquor, un d. the prohibition law remains as heretofore and is not. covered by the Liles bill. The Ilouse today (leveled itself en tirely to the consideration of third reading bills, and under this heading disposed of a number of important measures, among them being the Pad get.t-Carter liability bill. On yesterday there was general agreement that punitive damages would not be included in the matter of damages against railroads to their employees. 'ir. Boyd, as chairman of the judiciary committee, offered an amendment to insert the word "actual" before damages. This was voted down and the clause which provided for ex emplary damages was stricken out. It was on this that the fight revolved to day, and Mr. Searson cleared the situa tion by having an amendment adopt ed which reads: "Punitive damages shall not 'be recoverable in cases aris in., under this Act." The argument on this question was -largely between Messrs Graydon, Boyd, Searson, Car ter, .aGrone and Barr. Messrs LaGrone and Barr wanted the bill recommitted, because they did not think it perfectly clear. Mr. Boyd made an excellent argument to show that the word "damage" with out any furthe' explanation as was intended by modifying it, with the word "'actual" was liable to various constructions. lie read from the dC cisions of the State Supreme Court to show that. the word "damages" had been variously construed in various sluts, and that if the pIrposes of the bill are not to indlude punitive dam ages it should say so. Mr. Searson thought that. in fairness to all that the bill should he made per fectly clear and secured the passage of the amendment. Messrs Graydon and Carter, who have chaperoned the 1)111 through t he H-ouse, thought that the motion to re commit was simp~ly an effort' to kill their lull. They were quite willing to have the Searson amendment adopted. but did( not wvant the 1)111 recommitted. 'rhe motion to recommit was with dIrawn, and by unanimous consent the Senarsonl amendlment specifleally ipre venting punitive damages wvas inc'or porated in the bill, and in this shape it was finally passed by the House. UJnger a bill proposed 1by Mr. Cherry, Commissioner of Agricul tur ie Watson is authoried to enter into arrangements whereby ground limestone may 1)0 bought in bulk and so1(1 to the peopie of the state. The House extended an invitation to Messrs Jamos D. Evans, of Florence, and A. J. Smith, of Anderson, to pre sent arguments in favor of rural credita on Tuesday afternoon next. lsoth of thesec gentlemen have made studlies of the matter of rural credits. The Spartanburg delegation was somewhat divided on the matter of a county-wide special tax for school purposes. Two of the (delegation, Messrs Hicks and Rogers, opposed the bill, but the majority of the delegation secured the passage of the bill1 pro viding for a county-wide levy of four mills, which is to 1)0 distributed in the county as a whole. The Greenwood delegation also had a little dilfferenec in the matter of the salary for the clerk of court. Mr. flowles, of that delegation, opposed any increase of the salary for that of There was sotRne slgh.. tato to TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS. Two Candidates Throw their Hats into the Ring, One for Sheriff and One for 'Treasurer. The political ball has conmenced to roll. Two candidates make their an nolncement for ofile in this issue of 'T'he Advertiser, Ceo. C .1Hopkins, for Sheriff, an'. F. McSwain for treas urer. The announcement of Mr. l1o kins marks his formal entrance into the rice, though lie had already let it be known before that he intended en toring the race. The announcement of ir. lcSwain came as a surprise in some quarters, as he had not let it he generally known that he was consider ing the raco. lowever, his apnounce ment will cause no little speculation, as his early entry indicates that he is going into the race determined to make it interestig. Mr. McSwain, though a resident now of Clinton. is a member of the MAcSwain family of Cross Hill and is widely connected. At present he is connected with the Clinton Oil & Manufacturing Company as bookkeep er. The present incumbent, Ross D. Young, has indicated his iutentinm to run again. Another candidate for the same position is Mr. Jud Langston, of Maddens. Mr. IHopkins is as yet the only can didate who has announce(.. though it is expetced that the race for sheriff will be the most. hotly contested of any in the county. Among those tmen tioned as possible candidates are the recent. appointee. John ). W. Watts, F. C. Reid, A. ft. Sullivan, I). W. Mason. of Clinton, .1. T. Peden of Gray Court, and possibly others. day of the biennial matter.1 Mr. Wolfe, of Anderson, reminded the members of their pledge in favor of biennial sessions and hoped that something could be done. He thought that there had been. a committee appointed to frame - the necessary bills, but there seemed to be no one who knew any thing about such a committee. A unanimously favorable report was made of Mr. Fromberg's resolution, which provides for a change in the Ii quor laws, and submitting the ques tion to the voters of the state, A bill was introduced today provid ing for a new registration of voters l for Beaufort. The Ilouse will meet at noon on Monday and declined to meet to night. The programme of the steering con mittee intended for to-day holds for Monday. 't'here was a bare quorum present today. The general State supply.bill will be gievn its second House reading on Monday. Most of the members are now ready for final adjournment and are hope ful that no complications will arise to prevent adjournment next Saturday. The conciliation bill passed the Ilouse without an objection; the work Ingtien's compensation proposition is going to have trouble; f're insurance tmat ters have come in for mnuch (is cussion this session. rThe general a ppropriat ion 1)111 willI carr'y in the aggregate close to $2,.500, 000. it is almost imipossile to trtm closer. No olhject ion has beeti made to the old1 (ispensarty COut ies shippin1 g and sellinig otside- the State the uinsold stock on hand. 111llbusterin g is a pparently a lost art on thte I louse sidie. IrThe I louse Caletida r today ran over sixty piages. The Hlouse has passed to third read ing a bill ph oviding for bridges over the Santee River. In connection with this bill, which passed the Hlouse, Mr. Morrison, who is dlirectly behind the undertaking, has this statement to make: "We failed to pass the highway board bill, but that is no reason why we should stop work along this line. This bill meant much to um state, it meant the laying Out of the highways In their proper place. It meant the bringing new ideas of roadl building in our state. It meant the locating and bridging tihe great rivers flowing through our State; the spending of a little nioney here and a little there, andl nothing accomplished. Woodrow Wilson School. The Woodrow Wilson School Im provement association invites the pub lie to be present at a supper given at the school roomn on the evenink of Feobruar'y 18th. A small foo of twenty five and thirty-five cents wilt , be soharged. MAJORITY LEA1ER I{ITVlIIN 1IOLDS ON W.1 Not he Supplanted lecause He Opposes Preparedness 111 Soein Other Plans. Washington, Feb. 13.-Speaker Clark issued a statement tonight, charac terizing as nonsense talk of ousting Representative Kitchin from the I iouse majority leadership because of i.. oP,)position to the preparedness pro gram anld other ad minist rat ion plans. 1Ie said he expected to leave the speaker's chair whenever lie felt it necessary to oppose or support. any measure, but would do so without any intent to supplant Representative Kit clin or any other coninittee chair man or leaders. "It'., a pity," said the speaker, "that all Democrats do not agree about all 'things, but Mr. Kitchin has as much right to his opinion as the president has to his or I have to mine. "No man can bull a proposition through the house by main strength. The entui d philosophy of success in that. able and tumultuous assembly is to take things by the smooth handle, to rub the hair the right way of the hide and to confer freely with mem hers, persuadllg rather than attempt ing to drive, yielding in non-essen tials. tirn as a rock on fundamentals. There are 'I 5 icminers, and every one of them has a perfect right to his opinion and to express it when ever and wherever it seems to himt meet and proper. "if the busyhodies who are trying to stir up strife by magnifying small differenes of opinion among Demo crats would help eliminate these dif ferences they would constitute them selves patriots instead of marplots." MIS. VARIRIE LOU FOSTER DIED IN FLORENCE Daughter of Mrs. W. T. Dorroh, of this City, Succoinbs to Pinoumonla. Mrs. Carrie Lou Foster, wife of )r. C. A. Foster, of Timmonsville, died at an infirmary in Florence Thursday morning where she had been carried for treatment a week before. The news of her death was received with much regret here, where she was well known and where her mother, Mrs. W. T. Dorroh, and other relatives reside. She had been sick for several weeks, but pneumonia was the rimtiadiate cause of her demise. Two sisters, Mrs. S. M. Wright, of Woodruff, and Miss Minnie IDorroh, of this city, were at her bedside when death overtook here. ier brother, .\lr. S. R. Dorroh, two sisters. Mis. L. G. Roff and Miss Willie I)orroh and a cousin, Miss Elizabeth Swidzer, attended the fun eral services from this section. In addition to her husband and two small children, she is survived by her mother and the following brother and sisters, Mr. S. I. Dorroh, Mrs. S. . Wright of Woodruff, Mrs. T. M. Il~vver, of Anderson; Mrs. L. G. Roff, Tau rens; and Misses Minnie, Sarah, Ro berta and Willie, of this city. Mrs. Foster was a woman of exem idariy chiaracter and~ greatly loved whercever known. She was for' seveiral years a teacher in thle school s of this county andl is affeteclonately rememi bered by many of her former luil s. inid iiaind ('ut Off. iFt1 n'an~u t iiron, a yoilng boy froin tile country wVho has been L atkindinig school ini the ci my thIiis yea r, 11ad( oli of ,his hands so badl~ y latcer ated by miachinery in the shop of J1. 1). Sexton & Son yesterday that it wais found necessary to amputate it. lin fact, thle flesh of thle hand wvas but a sihapieless mass whienu it was freed from the mta chinery and only the prompt action of eye-witnesses saved him from being probably fatally mangled, Hie was hurriedly pliaced in a buggy by Mi'. Chane' and rushed for medical as sia o, a tight hold being kept on his wrist al'1 the time to prevent loss of blood. 'lNo young follow held up bravely uinder the severe .train andI was greatly admired for bis condtuct under the circumstances. John1 Woody Captured. John Woody, one of the negroes whb oecapedl fr'omn the jail several weeks ago after' making an assault upon "Uncle Jack" (Glynn, was captured last week near' Whitmitre andl lodged in the county Jail. Talking about. tho matter' yesterday, "Unagle Jack" who has almost recovered, saidl he did not think that John would attempt to get away again soon. The capture was made by Chain Gang Guard Terry,! ghio roported the matter to Sheriff 'Watts. MANY APPLI'ATIONS FOl, ('O1'NTY DIEMONS'itATORI 3'r. W. IW. Lontg Says that. lie W1il .%p. point the 3iost Eflicient. anl Best Quaillied 3Inn lit ('an Find. Air. W. W. ILong, director of the ex tension department of 'olemson ('01oege, has now under consideration the ap po1itmntI of a far m demonstrator for this couanty to succee(i .ohn ). )W. Watts, rehigend, who was recent.y ap pointeC sheriff. It is understood hat MIr. Lour has had (pule a large nu1 her of appliIants for th11 Place, bit of cotirse he has not pullished their names nor annotunced who Will receive the alpointlient. .idging from the letter which he has 'i ritten to one of his friends here, he expects to appoint someone who has had agricultural col lege course and who will give his en tire time to the work. The following are some excerpts from a letten in re gard. to the al)pointment : "I am giving this matter a great deal of thought hecause I want. to get the 'most eflicient and competent one that I can find. I have no interest in the world in any man except to appoint the very hest man that I can get for that county. "Now you know, the denonstrat ion work has developed rah idly. A man has got to know som etl'ig more than just how to cultivate Ce'')tn and eorn to make a good. ehic ienI ad suce's fil agent, and while i have no idea of appointing boys just from the class room of an agricultural college, yet at the samte time if we cnn lld a man who has graduated at an agricultural college and who has had Practical ex perience, you must. admit, and so will I, that lie will make the most efllicent agent, taking into consideration his ability to mix with people and to gain their confidence. Now this is the kind of man I am trying to find for Laurens county. "I have in mind two men, South Car linians, who I anm onsidering for the position in your county. The appoint ment will be announced within the next few days. "I have written you very frankly be cause I know that you realize that ev en though I may make a mistake I am doing what I believe to he for the best interest of (he people of Laurens coun ty. My only desire is to serve the people. I have to fight with myself soietimies to keep my desire to ae comtodate my friends from getting he best of me, but I would not appoint my brother or dearest friend to a po sition in this work unless I thought he was the hest qualitled tman 1 could find." OFF FOl (iRENVI i.E. Three .automobile ('outestait s (:nests of 31r. and 31rs. W. A. 31oorehead, The "Last 'halter"' in ''ha Adver tiser's "great automobile contest" was enacted yesterday when a party of fotir women and one man left the city in the prize ear for Greenville to at tend the showing of "The li th of a Nation". In the party were Mr. and M~rs. W. A. M\oorehtead. Ilarenhts of thte sluccessful comitest anit, and1 telir guests5, .\lrs. JT. A. Weffordi, .\irs. (Conwiay Dial and1( AIrs. Vicor We \'athetrs. it, will he remiemb eed that dluring head1( wr'ote( a lotter1 to 'Th1 Adver illtise saying that "his mamma andl his pa pa' wiotuld earry the three hightest nion-wini nintg conltestantts on a trlip) to tGreenville' ln case heO won the aultomolell( As will1 :1lso he remembheired, ho won tho a t(loobile and1( "mamma and1( Iaa" were ~~04 fuilfilling the contrtact y'esterday. They left t he city ab iot 10():30 o'c10ck expecting to t'each Gireenville in time for luich and the afternoon perform aintce, Mtr. and Mirs. Mloorehead htaving previotusly engagedl tickets for' the par ty. Althiought they wer'e not seen) upon0 their retutrn last. night, It is a for'egone conclusion that thtey had a delightftui time, fiinya Entire Stock. Mr. Irskine Todd, whio recently putrchased the stock of Mr. Albert Iall in the Peoples Drug P'tore, has recently purichased the remaining stock helonyinag to Mr'. 1". TI. C1aiune and is niow in fuli ownership (of lth" business. Dr. Ii. S. D~antzler, who haos heen) in chargo of thte pr'escipt ion dle partment, will contInue wit hthte flt'm. To Occupy Todd1t-Siflmon Rtore. It was slated yester'day that the new hardware 'fl~rm, Jones-Taylor Company, would move their stock- of goods to the stand formerly occupied by the Todd-Simpson Com~any about the first of Sentember. GREAT CHAUTAU FOR LAUREl Fifty Progressive Citizens ha to Back up the Plan. ( .\rrangelnents have just been con pleted for bringing to this city next May what is said to he the greatest chau itatt(lua in the world. The iRedpath ('Iha1tamuqas have l:ee't in the state' for the past. two years and have hieomie lie'r1an1iit1 institutions of great popit larity in all the larger cities. including (harleston, Suomter, Darlington. :o Inlbia, Hock Hill, Chester, Greenwood, Anderson and Greenville. Only a conifiet with festival dates has kept Sortanhourg out of the list the past two years. The chautautiua will last for eight days although no program will be giv en on Sunday, and the very best- talent I money eaa huy will be pesented. On six of the seven program days there will be three sessions and generally two features at each se0s'(ion, some thirty-fi ve features being offered dur - ing the week. A iiffetrent mu.1(al fen t11re will be given every diy. am1oi(g which there have already been chosen( the following: The)4 Killarneys, a coin :ally of eight. ladies who sing. lay and give miiUsical sktehes cit great lbarm;: ' The Selum22:ann: ((intotto. oiel of Iloi tonl's most famous mu22si.' olgnll izations: W eatherwax II ros., male (inartette, the leading lyceum (1uartetto I of the country; The White Ilitssars, an orchestra and m11en4 chorus idme. Jilia Claussen, prima donna of the Chicago-Philadelphia Grand Opera Co. This is the most costly and most. in teresting, musically, of the whole list, as Midme. Claussen is considered to have a remarkable voice, in that it ranges through both contralto and so prano. With her comes two French artists which only the war could make possible. Signor Hienratti, violinist, and Charlier, pianist. This might well rank with the best of the music fes tivals of the larger cities. Among speakers already selected, will be Mr. Rainey Bennett, famous llalilar lecturer; Ng Poon Chew, great Chinese statesman and orator. the ''A LE TI' 'i'OMOlliIOW NIGTIl Spectiu' ila r ierformance Will lie Soiredi in the School At i itoritu i 'i'hurs!ay Night. I:very child and many grown peo ple, who like Peter Pan, never grow up, often wonder what would laplpen it the d12n1) creatures in a toy shop w'ere suddenly endowed with lire and left to chatter in a merriment created out of their own whimsical fancies. To be sure remarkable things would occur and this is exactly what happens in "Fi-Fi" to be given at the Auditorium Thursday night for tile benefit of the fubl l schools. The plot of I lhe play in hrief' is:102 onie, thle I oy-m2a ker's daulighter, while working In lier fa thieri's shop at thle ('lose oft day is over' taken2 iiy the S12ianma, wiho ('asts her intoi a1 malgic 5sleep. She dreams11 a1 wonl Wooidlen and( li (in 112 retr 01f the shop comle to lite antd a niight of r1evelrmy rol n ',unie and1( thle tciys herore the morn latg light selitter's the Sandmian's charm a321 lcionnie a1wakens. Theo 11 announeient will doubthiless lhe r'ecei vedl withI pleasurei~ that Mir. Chiarles 11111llard, who was here sonie t ime , o In "'Cousin Isabelle'' has eon senltedI 1.o take a heading plart in F'i-Fl. lie arrives tciday and wili mtet with: the r'est of the cast tonight. Thio namlies of tile principals In the east wvero given last week anid tile meimbetrs of the cho0ruses5 ad groups are as follows: .Jumin lng ,hacks--James Terry, Alr thor Jlovdc, Frank lloper', J. J1. Adams, Ilinani Johnson, Fred Rope1r, Louis Solomotn, John11 Riha rdson, Ilerman Harton2, lLwrcl(e Tihompson, John llober't l111s8. Idlog) \Villle Bell Ray, (cat) (Cabell (Garret, (owl) Wm2. Duonlap, (mIlonkey) Mart in Teague, (pig) Pinckney Sum mlons. China D~olls-Alma Sullivan, Mar'tha Fr'anlk, Rulth iddle, Flora Bennett, Hiattlo Watson, Katherine Crews, .Juan Ita Wilkes, Gladys Roper. Papor Dolls--Bruce Bagwell, Caro lyn Fleming, Virginia Sullivan, Kate TIlinn lhiehnlhergrr Bnlln Burns. Ce QUA WEEK S IN THE SPRING ve Signified their Willint ness ontract has been Signed grleatest l'laitformn hind of the1 y',':-" A r. C he*wv is a wit nid or for I first calibre and piecrhalcs knows lhinese conlditions) as no (1ne1 e'lse; le s ':ilellt, ii'kerr, if N('w York lI4'icien(y \=so elation. Tfhis: featu11re alon1( 1.-ing :orth the price of tIhna e chauniina to any I;usiness iatn. Oti'rs have tot yet hen chosen. A.; to entertainmentls the4 lfolionwnw light he mentioned: Aliss fag Znrnola MXIiaLrern. illlersonator: I ari.h I'lay er.-;, giving tIhree one-act plays: Percy McKay's irid Alasinc "Sanctuary"', which includes mI'Oting pictures, 0o0 hour of a play in which actors lako part of birds and animals, and a page ant in which a hondred children take hart. ''hris is said to be the greatest and Costliest single entertainment ever 1th on the platform and cannot be ad (I"latel described. .\ .'ries of lenlrt:es by a spee!:llist \ill h f iture of the morningrs, along ciic (notnnie, scienititic and literary lin:n. Also a fiained chiilren's en i; exe lify the i play r 'ntl '.\ ork and hove a "tory lleur" each day f'mr the children. l :y pros ei it izelns of the eoOnmty hav c guaranterd thie rienes.--iry amount. and will :tand lack of it. The price of an adult season ticket, admoit ting to all the twenty sessions of the week. will le $2.50 or 12 1-2 cents a session. A child 1-1 years of age and under will be admitted to all for $1.25 Chiliren under six years and aceom Panied by guardian will be admitted free. Single admissions range 25, :5, ,0 cents and $1.00 and total in all some $8.00, and yet a season ticket. at $2.50 admits to all. Whatever financial pi ofit may come to local people will be for the benefit of some public institution, probably the city school. Every city in the state last year made money out of this chau launlua, CIarleston making nearly $1,000 for its share and Greenwood, $500. cclia Taylor, Isois Nelson, Francis My er's. Letter liloks- arolilne llaikin .il-. dred ((onlit5, liarrictIe iilghes, Iler nl e eleng. i'atiillo Wilkes, Annie lat rie Thompson, Mary Htoper, L.aura ilmuily Dial. llie,'maids --.\Iisses ilclen Sulilvanr, Kathleen :'itgreaves, .\lary Posey, Lil ilan Kibler, i4alia .\ae Dial, A\ilha lolt. Iiarlan Crews, Lala )ial, .\l -. Albert Dial. Flairies ,laig rirlt(e loper, .\lrioi lilackw\'ell, Toccoan( Gray, 'ermoello ('aine, Louise Smlith, Mary Sire 11o1. .la intrie Ilicha rdson, Floride .\loore, Laura Itudgens, Sarah K. Barksdale. Gtrace YonIg, Iehlneca Adams, Sarah Kliza Fwgert , Nell e .10ones, I rene WmAiIlkes, Mla ry .\le( ord(, l1rill a Ow - inigs, Sarah Rlichrey, VIrginria I licks, Irenei.\Motes, N'anie L~ee Il~lhlr, .\da ('atlherine Owingsm, Kathnerine icaks, Luie .\leCordl, .lanire I loimles ll)avis. .\Iariegenie Gray', Kiolse M\iller, Hnosalien Sulilvian, lheatrlie' ialbb, Nancy .\enre, iary (G~ame, larry ('opetlnd, Laul'n 1Kennedy, Atat tie .\lay lhrinlap, (arliine I lldgenis, ilariet Iishiop, Ilirlw .\a hra ffe, L.etha K ennredly, Lega 'I I 1htek wvel, I Mary Mlajor, liarriet Toddi. InspectIon Next Monirth. Anniounemrent has beenr received here from Adjutant Genreral M\oore tht h l'.! Natoinml Guard comprtany willhav their anual inspection on Saturday March 4th. The comipanry willl be Inspected by Gen. Moore rep resenting tire state and Capt. J1. M. Graham, r'epresenting the national government, Pa atPrinceton. Thre aidvanced tpupilIs of P'rrinceton~r schrool will give a play "Ye Villago Skewl of Long Ago'' on Friday evenIng, Februrary I Stir, beginnrrIirng at 8 o'clock. Admissionr 10 cenrts for children and 2t0 cents tor adults. liebels Srtengthenend, Lonrdoni, Feb. I13.-Tloklo dispathles 'itated that the Chrinesre rebiels wh'io ad, anced fromi Puinnan Province into. Esechuoen andh catltured Lucehow andi Chrungking have been joined bry gov, enntn troonn.