Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MANIAS HEARING SOFIA. WITHIN THIRTY MILK*. OF HtTI> GARIAN CAPITAL. Hin? h-r ihmii.i Now Begin* to Fear Approach of Fi>ca and Becomes a tmppilcant. I London. July 17.?Roumanian troops are at Plevlna and Mazdra. the latter town within 30 miles of Kort?, and King Ferdinand of Bul? garia Is a suppliant to the king of Roumanla for terms of peace. It Is understood that *he oowers art striving to induce ltoumr.nla not to ocoupy Sofia and are urging Bul garla to appoint a delegate to conic ?Ith the Servian snd Greek premiers. The real facts of the si teat Jon are only Just becoming; generally known In Sofia. M. Mallnoff's effor s to form a cabinet appear to have failed. Fighting of no great importance eontlnues on the Greek and Servian fronts. BKTAILH? BALKAN HORRORS. Ring C'ofMrtanttnc of Greece Tells of Atrocities Perpetrated by the Bul? garian Troops. New York. July 17.?King Constan? tino, of Greece, from the headquarters at Hadji Bellik. near Seres, sends to the Associated Press a detailed ac? count of the strocitiea of the Bulga? rians In Macedonia. Following Is the king's message In pert, through Col. Dousmanl, chief of Che general staff of his majesty; "Associated Press, ?4ew York: Hadji Bellk. July 17 ?In reply to yeur dispatch of the 10th instant, I have ths honor to communicate to you the following Information on the Bul? garian wtrocti."" committed at the outset of hostilities against the Greek and Mussulman Inhabitants of Mace? donia. "The first city to be scourged was Mgnta. A large number of its peo? ple who had remained at their homes after the events occurring In the Fangheon district were msssacred by the retreating enemy, who did not fail to light the path of their flight by the flames of the city, to which they had applied the torch. "On our left wing 700 Mus? sulman of the environments of Kilklah. a nest of Bulgarian comitad its (Irregular troops) shared the same fate . 'Two of our officers, who In a baronet assault, had been left lying wounded on the field a few steps from the enemy's trenches, were found when the attack was renewed to have had their eyts gouged out. "At Dolran before their fight the enemy dragged the metropolitan and it of the leading cltlsens from their homes. They have never been seen again. "At Strumitxa fortunatey the ene? my had time to kill only two of the prsoners imprisoned. But all these things are nothing compared with whe.c happened at Demlrhlssar and Doaaoto. where everything was sack? ed by tire and sword. "The city of Seres is nothing more than a mass of smoking ruins, niled with mutilated corpses of old men and women and children. "At Demlrhlssar the exhumations of the mutilated bodies of leading cltls? ens have convinced"ua that our enemy la not aatlaHed to pillage, burn, de? spoil and murder, but ho rejoices in torturing; hta vkMmr "Doaxoto Is no longer anything but a pool of blood. Of Ita 3.300 inhabi? tants only 1(0 remain. A great num? ber of little vMisses alontr the route now taken by the fleeing ar?,:y were the scene of like atrocities." Cat On Train. A young white man diving his name as Hercules Kelley snd his horne as Darllagton. S. C, was severely cut on a train Friday afternoon as he was getting off by knocking his elbow up against the glass of the sash, which broke at the contact. He was taken to the Sumter Hospital, where the wounds were given attention ana where he was fellln,. very much bet? ter Saturday morning. Sold Milk; I'abl F.tpenscs. A certain man who recently moved with hla famil> t.ir town was in Columbia a few days ago, and while there he purchased a tine cow. He came through the country and wa?* three days and niKht* on bis way. bot notwithstanding the fact, he led his cow and sold milk enough to pay all his ayjpsgaves and that he ar? rived at home Saturday with a clear profit of thirty ft e cents.?Tiinmons ville Enterprise Tomatoea sell on the ntr.it* f.,r forty rente a fjmi k or $1 || ;, bushol and the supply Is not e<p?al to the demsnd In Charleston they a dru? on the market at SO USatS ? bushel, which Is there consul, red I fall pries There ought to he money in mow Ing tomatoes' for tin- |o?-al ruarke' and some of th? tomato club Kirl mlabt Sud i? to Ifcelr Interest to di* Sos* of at least a t>;?rt ? then crop kg this way. BATTLE IN BALKANS REPORTED. PAIUs Bl Molt TELLS OF FIGHT AT II KLOO HA DC 11 IK. Hulgnrs Seek Peacv 1 lirotigli Hal)? On<v Warlike king of Savage Na? tion Im I'rglng Foes to Show Le? niency. London, July 18.?Except for a re? port coming by way of Paris tbat a batt'o Is progressing between the Rou? manians and Bulgarians at Bclograd ehlk, II miles northwest of Soda, which was not mentioned today in di i ? ct dispatches received from Buchar? est, the general situation in the Bal? kans remains unchanged. Bulgaria now is seeking through Italy to obtain peace terms from Bou mania, but no progress appears to have been made towards negotiations and all three of her enemies aro clos? ing In on Bulgaria with the apparent determination to dictate peace when their armies occupy Sofia. / - FORMS XEW CABINET. Liberal Leader Constitutes Coalition Ministry. Sofia. Bulgaria, July 18.?A coali? tion cabinet was formed today by M. Badoslavoff. tho Liberal leader in the Bulgarian parliament, to take the place of the cabinet of Premier Daneff which recently resigned. The new cabinet consists of Liberals and Stambuloff Nationalists. M. Ouendieff has been appointed foreign minister. TARK CAULK STATION. Roumanians Now Control Wires to ScbastopoL Sofia. Bulgaria. July 17.?The Rou? manians today took possession of the cable station at Varna on the Black sea and thus control communication with Sebastopol. As the railway be? tween tho coast and Sofia has been cut Bulgaria can not communicate with the outside world except through Servla and Boumanla. By forced marches the Turkish army la approachng the town of Kirk Kilisseh, taken by the Bulgarians after heavy fighting at the beginning of the Balkan war. Many of the popu? lation are reported to be fleeing. An official dispatch reports the de? feat by the Bulgarians of the Servian forces wheh had penetrated Bul? garian territory on the western fron? tier. The Bularians attacked yes? terday and put the Servians to flight. The Servians are retreating in the di? rection of Viasina, across the bor? der. King Ferdinand today personally telegraphed to King Charles of Bou? mania that Bulgaria was ready to ne? gotiate terms of settlement with Bou? mania. Th efforts of A. Mailnoff, the dem? ocratic leader and former premier, to form a cabinet to take the place of that under Premier Daneff have thus far proved futile. SOUTH KMX M KltC 11 ANTS* CON? VENTION. Atlanta Expects 1,000 Merchants ami Manufacturers to Attend Conven? tion. Atlanta, July 21.?Secretary Harry T. Moor, of the Atlanta Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, when asked if prospects pointed to the attendance on the Southern Mer? chants' Convention next August reaching the total of 4,000, which figure the association has set, replied that according to all indieations they were going beyond this* figure. A dry goods salesman wrote this week from Florida saying that con? ditions wero exceptionally gbod in that State, and that practically all of his trade were intending to come to the convention. Another salesman writes fron. South Carolina and tells of the enthusiasm there, while from A hi ha ewe, MleeteelpnJ, North Caro? lina and from every county in Geor? gia, comes advbes of the parties wbi< h are being formed and the re aejeat fat information in retard to ?e? eommodatlons. NO HOT WAVE. Weather Bureau Think* Weather for Week Will Ih- Moderate WashinKton. July 10.?No hoi wave is lohad for this ereek by the weeth er bureau. "The present pffeeaure distribution offer the northern hemiephere," said the weekly bulletin today, "appear) faffoffnbte for tbe prevalence of mod? erate) or, at least, not unusually high tentpoffaturee over tb<- greater portion <.f the country during the coming eseek. Over the Mouth and South west tern per at nrei probably will be blab at time*, but not ao hieb is dur lni the week Just ended \n to precipitation, prospects ire I not \erv fnvoffuote and generally fair ? i at tu r me | be expc ted over II ?actione except the South Atlantic and east tJnlf States when occasional thunder ?honren ore likely in oecur. "There ere i"> Indications ot a West Indian dletut Dance,'1 BALKANS SEEKING PEACE MEDIATIONS MAY SOON BEGIN BETWEEN BAKING STATES. Buigurs lend lien to Confer with Servian, u'nH utitl Presumably ltoumuiiluii Representatives ut Nlsh London, July 20.?The advent of a new Bulgarian cabinet, compris? ing a coalition of the Literal groups, seem to have brought a prospect that peace negotations soon would be en? tered into. After vain attempts to negotiate separately with Roumanla i the Bulgarian government accepted the advise of Russia and Austria and offered to Roumania an important ter? ritorial concession. Bulgaria also sent delegates to meet the Servian and Greek and presumably Roumanian representatives at Nlsh to negotiate an armistice and peace. It is confirmed from Athens that Servia, Greece and K yntencgro arc ready to participate in these nego? tiations. Turkey, however, has in? troduced a new complication and had notified the European powers of her intention to make the Maritza river the new frontier, giving as her reasons that she always has claimed this fron? tier, but that the powers set aside the claim in order to expedite peace; j that the Porte would bo prepared to settle the question by diplomatic means, but that the atrocities and vandalism of the Bulgarians in the occupied territories make it impossi? ble to hope for a settlement, and that new) conditions arising from the last war between the allies make it doubly necessary for Turkey to obtain fron? tier guaranteeing safety to Constanti? nople and the Dardanelles. The Porte promises not to cross the new Maritza frontier and asks the powers' assistance in establishing it so as to secure durable relations be? tween Turkey and Bulgaria. It is not considered likely that Eu rope will permit the decisions of the London conference thus to be thrust COUNTY PAIR NOTES. Members of Committees Working Hard to Raise Subscriptions. Messrs. W. B. Boyle and B. I. Rear don, of the County Fair Oragnlsatlon committee are pegging away man? fully at Sumter citizens to Induce them to subscribe to the capital stock of the proposed association. ess Secretary Reardon says that the hot weather has a depressing effect upon the financial intentions of many of Sumter's "progressives," and that soliciting fair subscriptions calls for much patience, faith, perseverance, talk, and some little religion these days. ess Very few reports have been re? ceived by the secretary from the township committee on organization. Messrs. Boyle and Reardon expect to s'urt out visiting different sections of the county next week doing mission? ary work and trying to get the var? ious township commltteemen organ? ized for effectual work. * ? e Mr. J. Frank Williams is doing some hard work and lias secured a number of subscriptions, besides stimulating other commltteemen to work DENIES THE STORIES. King of Bulgaria Denounces Atrocity Reports, New York, July 17.?King Fer? dinand of Bulgaria denlea emphati? cally the horrifying atrocities ittrlbut ed at various quarters to the Bui garian troops during their retreat be? fore the Greek armies marching I through Macedonia. His majesty cabled the following message through the Bulgarian royal private secretary today: "Associated Press, New York. "Sofia, July 17.?All the rumors about Bulgarian atrocities are in? famous Qreek calumnies designed to poison universal public opinion and regard to which the truth will be es? tablished one of these days, t Signed) "Tiie Royal Secretariat." BASKET PICNIC. Big Day at Big Springs, Bctlmne, S. C, Weditcedsy, duly SOtb. Hon R, i. Manning of Sumter will make ,mi address at 11 o'clock; base ball by tyvo fasl teams in the after noun, music by one of the best brass bauds in the country. Everybody In* vlted In lake a day off, bring well tilled baskets and have n good time. Governor Bleoso has written the "proper letter" as required by See rctary. ol War Garrison, and the boys yvdl no on their encampment. It was a bitter pill for the Governor lo give In, but he exhibited horse sense In withdrawing hi* foolish prattle about tills being a Yankee nation - Orangeburg Times and Democrat! CHINESE RULER IS ANXIOUS TO COMMAND TROOPS. Mends Restrain Him, Pointing out That He Would be Kitted on His Way South. Peking, July 20.?The Chinese gov? ernment is still dispatching troops to subdue the revolutionary movement in the disaffected Southern provinces, but has not withdrawn any soldiers from Mongolia. President Yuan Shi Kai is anxious to proceed south to lead his trops, but his associates have persuaded him to remain in Peking for tear he might be assassinated on the way to the scene of the hostili? ties. It is now generally accepted that Dr. Sun Yat Sen, former provisional president of the republic, who has taken sides with the southerners and i3 row at Nanking, and Gen. Huang Sing, former generalissimo of the rev? olutionary army, never intended to support President Yuan Shi Kai per? manently, but only to use him to bring the revolution to a successful end. WARSHIPS AT SHANGHAI. The Southerners Seem Sure to Cap? ture Kiang Navy. London, July 21.?Ten warships, including two cruisers, are at Shan? ghai In support of the Southerners, according to a Peking dispatch to The Telegraph, and are cruising the Wu Sung forts. Seventy-tlve hun? dred southern troops have surround? ed 1,600 northerners at Kiang Nang j arsenal and its fall is Inevitable. GOVERNOR MAKES CHARGES. Proclaims the Independence of Prov? ince of Kwang Tung. Hong Kong, July 20.?Qov. Gen. Chan, who Is at Canton, has proclaim? ed the independence of tho province of Kwang Tung, charges President Yuan Shi Kai with bavins committed 12 crimes. These In l?de the con? tracting of a loan and neglecting the Russo-Chineos treaty on Mongolia, with the possible abandonment of outer Mongolia. Business has almost tuen suspended. There is much ap? prehension for the future. SUMTER WINS TENNIS MATCH. Florence Men Unable to Secure Single Set hi First Round. Sumter teams put it all over the two tennis teams from Florence in the match at the Y. M. C. A., court i Saturday afternoon, winning out in two straight sets over both of the op? posing teams. The games were mark i ed by numerous errors, but were fast I and the audience seemed to llnd them satisfactory from the spectator's point of view. The match commenced at 4 o'clock with McLeod and Hill playing Marion and Thees. The locals won the set 6-2 and then retired for the other teams to compete. This was probably the fastest set of any which was play ed. Jordon and Thompson were matched with Moses and Bryan. Both teams were careful at the outset, try? ing out their opponents, the Sumter team coming out ahead 6-1 In the set. Thompson and Jordon both had strong serves, but were weak on re? turn. The second set of the lirst teams was then commenced, the local team again winning 6-4. The second teams again met and the tirst three games were taken by the visitors, when the local men steadied down and took the next five games straight. The visi? tors then made it 5-1 and the locals won the next game, winning the set and match, 8-4. Opposing teams were then changed ami Thees and Marion defeated Jor? don and Thompson 6-1. Moses and Bryan were defeated by Hill and Mc? Leod 6-1. A second set resulted in a victory for the Sumter players, 6-0. A deciding set was Impossible, as the visitors were anxious to take the af? ternoon train home. A return match has been set for next Thursday in Florence, when probably the s, me teams from Sum? ter will make the trip. The Florence men found the near? ness of the buildings a hindrance In their playing and the court was con? siderably tastet- than that at Flor? ence, making it harder for them to play good tennis. Messrs. Leon M. Green and Lieut B. P. Moses ba\e challenged the vic? tors of Saturday's contest to a match, which will probably bo played this wer k. Mr. Green is a former State college champion in singles und Lieut Moses is a strong player. The prohibition forces arc work ing and arguing against the dispen? sary, but the dispensary advocates are having nothing i" sa*< I >\\ nubli britton. it iH repotted' iluTt ther pro Mbittonlatfl plan an active and . a? gresslve campaign up to the day of elect Ion. Some of Um Many RemJOfli Why Iii? Dispensary Slioiilcl Not be Jto cstablished. Our qualified electors are asked to decide if we shall re-establish tin county dispensary. This matter is worth a great deal of our most earnest thought, and we all feel disposed to weigh carefully in our hearts and minds, all issues attending, so that our votes may be cast for what WC feel is best for all of us. The writer of this article is against tho dispensary, but his attitude is not of the closed mind type. All reason. which are advanced in this article in support of prohibition, are built upon a foundation of pure fact and truth, and so any man who will, is invited and welcomed to controvert these rea? sons and the facts behind them if he can, and eis this movement for the dis? pensary has had good men behind it, (though many of them we know for a fact have changed their minds) there is no reason to doubt that some ol them at least who still linger on the other side, will come out into the open and tell the voters frankly, what they conceive to be good reasons, founded on fact, why we should again set up in the liquor business. We all possess in our hearts the j mastery of truth. We know that out ' hearts and minds turn t > truth as the magnet turns to the pole. When a complex matter is presented to us, and we lind it possible to reduce all ol the elements of the matter into a simple "yea, yea"?"nay, nay," and we know which side of the question holds truth, no argument is needed to convince us if our answer shall be yea or nay. Not one of us out of a random thousand will decide against right and truth when we meet it and know it for what it is. Can you search your heart and deny it7 Bach one of us reels that we would like to perform sorro great deed of heroism, or make some good personal sacrifice. It is because those things are loved by God and man. Even when small opportunities fall in out paths, and we obey the impulse of good from within, we feel the instant tonic of brotherly love tingling with? in us. Such opportunities are bless ings. In the humdrum and rush of our personal affairs, we are apt to miss al most all of the best things in life. W? know truth when we meet it naked in the road, but not very far out of out way do we go to search it out. W< know what we are seeking, and w< know we are not finding it, but we : keep up the quest. We are seeking happiness, and no man has yet lived so wise, that he has been able to teli us how to find it. Some of the wisesi men have said that happiness come: without bidding, and stays but a fleet? ing time, but that her visits are known only to earnest seekers after right and truth. Now we are presented for our con? sideration a question which affects se? riously our lives as a people. It lt I the liquor question and the principle: I involved in it must surely be prin i ples of right or wrong, for without a single exception, every church of I God in this country is lined up on om side of it. Before we vote on thi: question, we wish to strip it stark I naked, and take a good look at it from every angle. Then we shall I know when we vote, if we have been j true to ourselves, and to our fellow , beings here. We believe liquor to be a menace to the life, health, morals, and eom , posite well-being of this community, our attention is drawn to it, and om natures revolt against it because it makes a fiend or a fool out of the I best man among us, when used to ex? cess. We start by thinking it an agreeable stimulant, or tonic, a good (sociable excuse, but the grip it takes on our nerves and appetite is more than we can light against, and so down we go with it. We ruin mir businest ; and we use money that we had hoped to educate our children with. It I? needleas for our friends to argue with UU as to what liquor is doing foi us. We, the Victims, know the fact: even better than our friends'. Nom of us have far to go to locate a friend's grave that liquor tilleil, ami we know tho trail of sorrow ami want that it j left behind. Now how does all this affect OUI community? We had the dispensers here for a number of years, and ii seemed good enough to us then. Oui ow n affairs were not serlousl) interfer? ed will'. It is true that our wives and daughters were more afraid to walk the street! alone in those days than now. but beyond tlint. we see no great change. Wo know that liquor is as bad as anybody ever said it wa<*, and if less of it is being used here now than in (he days of the dlspen sary, then WC don't need any argu? ment to till us how to vote. Man) of us feel Indeed that even if there was no difference in th.nsumption, that iyv;,l,i ffW^I'tf \V\ ,4* l<lfnJFcr' /?iis? nbd^'nefai ions buidn.?j> v \<h:<-V w. lake up the liquor traffic in t^r name of tin- count) for profit, it seems too dangerousl) near to trafficking in the weakness <>f ? poof fellow man for profit. Indeed it is precisely that, and nothing else. It reminds us of the story of the thirty pieces of silver. No man among us all can read that story, and go down to the polls and cast his vote the wrong way. Figures have been gathered and certified to Which show that since the abolishment of the dispensary in our county, arrests for drunkenness in the city of .Sumter have decreased 12 per cent and that the actual con? sumption of liquor has decreased 70 per cent. Now the supposed profit that we realized from the dispensary amounted in mbney to about fifty thousand dollars per annum. Now let us assume that the consumption >f liquor has only decreased by half. That reduces the net amount per annum we save for a more worthy isc to one hundred thousand dollars. This, remember, takes no account of the many hundred thousand dollars worth of energy, health and morals laved f?>r us as a community. During the saloon days here crime tnd disorder was as common and conspicuous as it is now almost en? tirely stamped out. The dispensary was all right as long as it lasted, for we knew that it displaced a system which was sucking the life blood from a large part of our population, giving us a hundred dollar cost in ^nergy, crime, insanity, and proverty for every single dollar that it yield? ed In the right direction, but the first step only. We knew that it lessened the consumption only because it re? stricted the flow at the spring head. We all hoped for and expected the day when we might abolish the dis? pensary. That day has come, and wc know that the consumption of liquor is again greatly reduced, be? cause the old spring head is closed. It is but natural that we are impa? tient that liquor is still used to a great extent among us, and the cry rMat many of us voice calling again lor the dispensary is the true mani? fest of impatience coupled with the fact that we miss the revenue. Upon reflection, however, we ob? serve that all true and lasting re? forms are of slow but substantial growth. We take for illustration the great institution of Christianity. The founder of Christianity taught a beautiful and simple creed of broth rly love, and his own life was lived in no single departure from the words of his lips. Nineteen hundred years is a far cry in which to dis? prove the basic principles of Chris? tianity, but who among us can say that the world's human population has not slowly but surely begun to master the A. B. and C's of the les? son of brotherly love. It is true that these long years nave bred generation after genera lion of critics, and judges, but taken as a whole, we know that each suc? ceeding generation has shown a stronger mastery of truth and jus? tice, and we all feel that all men diall one day stand in the full white light of truth, with no veil before their eyes, and no bander of hered? itary human desire between their hearts and the great and infallible lesson of brotherly love. How easy it is for us to frame this dispensary question Into a word pic? ture of human selfishness. For nine? teen hundred years our fathers have been trying to master the lesson of brotherly love. We have before us here today a simpl? question of whether or not we are living within the fundamental law of Christinanity if we engage In the liquor traffic for profit. Can we for one slight instant voice a doubt as to which side of this question we belong, with nine? teen hundred years behind us of a lesson that is great in its simplicity, and not yet learned? Do we fail to see the striking resemblance be? tween this picture of exploiting the weakness of our fellow man for pro lit, and the great and undying pic? ture of the thirty pieces of silver, and the crucifixion? No. When we strip this question of all its vesture of complexity, we know it for what it is. We feel that we know something about the state of mind of the man who "Went out and hanged himself with a halter." If the chance to vote on this dis? pensary question fails to put it right squarely tip to us as to what differ? ence iti valuation our point of view shows between money and the. wish to do right, we would like to hear from tin' other side. This is said in all sincerity. There is no bitterness We would like to hear from the oth? er side. T. B. J BN KINS. To Have Hairy Flaut The Calhoun Advance Says: Capt .las If. Moss, who has ?I ready gained the distinction of being ? ?in- of the most progressive fanners in Calhoun County, Is making prepa? rations te put in a first class dairy. Already he has gotten a number el tine Jersey cows, He expects to ship , cream and feed the milk to hli tine Berkshire bogs. The woman who has nothing to wear should cheer up. Others ere wearing as near nothing as possible I ?Wilmington star.