Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cor*?* ChrhHt, Tum, Aug: ???? BtoMag at a 70 mile an hour velocity tho fovereiinei tit the tropical storm he tho Gulf of Mexico was felt to? night ae It approached the Texas eeeeti al this point and Brownsvllls and Ml gas Intermediate plains. Tonight ths weather bureau station astinested that ths crest of tho storm would) ssach hers about midnight with trie wind st a velocity of prob? ably lib-ml lea an hour. Bah few details of the storms' work eautl \ vir north of here had been re - oelvflft early tonight. In Corpus CartghV however, ths gale had car rted almost every movable thing be? fore st. In 1U wake It had left de ssoHshed cottages along the beach front here, thousands of dollars dam? age to buildings In the business sec? tion asm a heavy sea running in Cor pat Christi bay. The wavea whip? ped twee the beach In the northern sscttfro ef ths city, beaching small craft and carrying up on the shore debris from a score of docks and mat bathing pavilions. LdydTe pier, one of the largest PlenenSO resorts In this section of the coast. Which Juts out over the water that, had been almost complete? ly aesaollshed at t o'clock tonight. The ouny portion that remained was a two story structure adjoining the shore; Fronting tho business section which ? built on the beach proper, Is 0 gaur foot breakwater. Incom? ing heavy seas were dashing over that aad threatened to wash over It Too small freight steamer Pilot Boyfc owned by the Texas & Gulf fltespjspjp company of Galveston, was sunk Ig the gulf today. 'One report recerved here stated that all the crow of 11 Often were rescued and another reported that three of the crew had been asaehed ashore at Port Aransas. Toes far there has been no loss of life hi or about Corpus Christi and, so ffc* as known, none seriously in Jured, Ample warning of the storm, It woo eara", had given residents op? portunity to prepare for the hurri? cane. The city of Corpus Christi Is situated! oa a beet shaped peninsula, It miles from the open gulf but sur? rounded on three sides by Corpus Chrtgtt and Noaeas bays. OA thai othet side of the bay are Mustang and Padre islands, forming a breakwater to gay tidal wave that might ap? proach from the gulf. On each side of ens channel are situated Fort Aranaas and Aransas Pass. What damage has been done there, how? ever, is Impossible to estimate, as telephonic communication was lost early In tho afternoon. Railroad prop? erty In this section has not been seriously damaged. Corpus Christi la connected with the malatai. 1 from the toe of the penin? sula by a causeway a mile and a quar? ter long. On It are strung telephone and telegraph wires. The latter failed at about 6 30 o'clock, while telephone communication continued 30 minutes longer. Up to that time no serious damage had been done to the cause? way proper, a concrete structure. OHIiY SLIGHT DAMAGE. Ho Great Lose Caused at Brownsville. Brownsville. Tex., Aug. 18 (By Radio to Han Antonio. Tex.)?Damage hags from the hurricane was slight up te f o'clock tonight, although the wind during the day reached a velocity of ? 0 miles an hour. The barometer marked tt.t? during the middle of ths afternoon but at 5 o'clock It rose te IP.38, At dark the territory In the reaches of the storm extended from Corpus Christi to Tamplcos Mex. There was then no sign of abatement. Ths wind tonight changed from the northeast to the southwest and was blowing! out so sea. The daman* hsre consisted mostly of broken plate glass windows and levelled fences and trees. Hundreds of army tents are down and the troops moved Into the city. Commu? nication by telephone and telegraph Is lest. GALVEATON NOT Hl'RT. Galveston, Texas, Aug. 18.?The gulf coast storm was not ?? tously felt In Galveston. Thousands of persons thronged the seawall boulevard today watching great waves break on the riprap at the foot of the barrier. The maximum wind velocity was 40 miles reached shortly after noon. The max? imum tide was four feet. The WlgsJ velocity whs decresftin>' tonight and normal conditions were expected to prevail tomorrow. Tuberculosis? and poverty go hand in hand? The United States Public flflnlth gorvlce will Me1111 a booklet on flies and disease, gratlo to all applicants? - ' "-? ? -.-1?-?-' ttttB COTTON WEIGHERS CON? TRACT. ot Minutes of Last Meeting I Sawrw Adjustment of Matter. adjustment of the contract be? tween the county and the Humter Cot? ton Warehouse Company was made on Tuesday between the weighers and the company to the satisfaction of both parties. The minutes of the meeting referring to this part of the board meeting are as follows, belnrc published by request of those concern? ed: That part of the minutes of July 5th, relating to the cotton platform contract, whs read for Information. Mr. Thompson said that he hud not received a notice from Mr. Lemmon m time to attend that meeting. He land Mr. Ingram declared that the minutes contained statements which .were damaging to their character, ley Insinuating ef wrong doing, and asked that the derogatory words be expunged. Mr. H. C. Haynsworth denied that he had Intended any reflection upon the honesty or integrity of the Weighers; nor did he charge that the contract had been tampered v.ith lr a discreditable manner. Ho re? called the fact that he had rejected the first contract, written by the clerk of the board, thereupon he had prepared a contract which the weigh? ers rejected. Afterwards the weigh? ers submitted a third contract, in which cotton stored In any ware? house was exempted from tho cus? tomary fee of 2 cents per bale; whereas the Sumter Cotton Ware? house Company had not consented to such exemption on cotton stored with them; but had agreed to ex? empt cotton In warehouses other than their own. He had Inadver? tently overlooked the broader scope of exception when the contract was [executed. Hence his statement that he had no knowledge of Its inser? tion, and had not consented thereto. His appearance before the commis? sioners was not for the purpose of making any charge against the weighers, but merely to have an oversight corrected. The question was discussed at length, and a mutual understanding having been reached, the board re ? ferred the matter at issue to the weighers and warehouse directors, for settlement among themselves, by making such changes in the contract as wtraftd properly express the terms of their agreement. M| * <*t ? *<- ? r A LOWELL 18 MWlOAOE ADJU? TANT. Asaejeaed to Border Poet by War De? partment?Other Military Matters. Columbia, Aug. 18.?Maj. J. Shapter Caldwell of Charleston, who recently resigned the post of assistant adju? tant general of South Carolina and who. has been adjutant of Camp Moore, the mobilisation camp near Columbia, will be assigned by the war department, on Gov. Manning's recommendation, to be adjutant of the brigade now In cantonments near El Faso, composed of the First and Sec? ond South Carolina regiments and the Second Florida Infantry. Notification to thts effect came to the governor's office yesterday from the militia bureau in Washington. Maj. Caldwell is now in Columbia preparing his records and accounts, and presumably will be ordered to his border station so soon as he shall have been checked out as camp adju? tant He has been succeeded as as? sistant adjutant general by John D. Frost of Columbia, a former adjutant general. Maj. Caldwell had besn rec? ommended for the vacant first lieu? tenancy of the Olympia company in Maj. Merchant's battalion. Second in? fantry. Ot course another recom? mendation for that post will be made now. Maj. Caldwell did notably efficient service as brigade adjutant at Camp Moore and his work in that capacity was commended by regular arrny offi? cers who had opportunities of observ? ing It. Tin* Perfect Husband. Another "perfect husband" has been fttund?this time in Brooklyn. N. Y. According to his own testlmouy he worked every day. stayed homo every night, saved his money, bought a home, gave his wife $100 every Christ? mas, never took a vacation, never saw a ball game, never went to the theatre, never attended a clambake or a picnic of any kind, never drunk or smoked or chewed, never f illed In faithfulness and affection to his wife. And yet his wife has sued him for divorce, nlleglns Cruel and inhuman treatment. She's bigger than he In too. It looks, from hero, as if Iho hus i ami were a little too perfect. If he'd -rut out and had a little fun < nee. In i while, and sort of frcshe ned up, in? stead of sticking around the house un? til4 his wife g*t tired of looking at Mm. or If he'd had a vice or two. he might never have drawn that divorce suit, ? Ux, DEUTSCHLAND MADE TRIP SAFE LY. Private Telegram From Berlin State? She Reached Bremen. Geneva, Aug. 18, via Parle, Aug. 18.?A private telegram received to? day from Berlin by the Neue Z?richer Zeitung says that the German subma i l ine Deutschland arrived safely yes? terday at Bremen from the United States. "The Man of the Hour." "If President Wilson falls to save' the country from a strike it will be the first time he has failed," was the remark made to us yesterday, and by a member of organized labor. He did not e::pect the president to do any? thing rash, but his renriark came out of of the United States to treat all im? partially and to see that organized la? bor is fully protected. It was a re? mark worth bearing In mind, showing the confidence that the masses have in Wilson. In this great crisis, involving the welfare of the public and in which several million people, including sym? pathizers, are arrayed against each other, the president of the United States has a great responsibility; is bearing a heavy burden. But he is facing it promptly and resolutely, and this must strike admiration from ev? ery breast. Much depends upon his efforts. He is truly "the man of the hour," and fortunate it is that the country has such a well-balanced mind, a cool head, to handle the pres? ent great crisis and to work over it. Yet some times is heard some one contending that President Wilson is without Judgment and making light of the burdens he has to shoulder. What would you do if you were in his shoes? How erect would you stand and how conservative would be your action??Wilmington Dispatch. BIG BALK OF COTTON. ' First at Manning Brings Nearly $100. Manning, Aug. 17.?The first bale of new crop cotton sold on the Man? ning market was brought in today by J. McD. McFaddin of Sammy Swamp and was bought by W. G. King, cotton buyer, at 15 cents. The bale weighed ?J50 pounds and brought the producer $97.50. THE HARVEST. Everything Ready for Development of Paris After War. (From the New York Globe.) Though the war stands as it stands, speculation goes on in France about "afteil the v/ar," as it has every day since the day the war began. Reports from Paris indicate that the "boos? ters" in the capital are already pre? dicting a great boom for the "City of Light," to follow immediately the close of hostilities. They are already setting forth the line on which it is to be carried out. The plan is to develop Paris as a vast centre of manu? factures. The experience of the pres? ent war has impressed business men with the danger of locating so large a proportion of the important manu? facturing of the country within easy striking distance of an alien and hos? tile country. For upward of a year and a half one-tenth of the total territory of France has been in the hands of the Germans, and that tenth is the richest manufacturing region. To be sure, it does not contain great manufacturing cities like Lyons, Clermont-Ferrand, and Limoges, but it does contain Lille and the host of subsidiary cities round about which among them controlled in such large measure the industries and the wealth of the nation. It is proposed after tho wur to remove as far as practicable all this manufactur? ing to the immediate vicinity of Par? is, and it is pointed out that Paris has the facilities of communication by wa? ter and by rail to support such a concentration of Industry. Obviously Paris, Which, as things have been, was frequent!." mistaken for France, will wax greatly through the change la population, In wealth, In power. More than ever before the country will be centralized in its capi? tal. But, one asks, will the Paris the world has known and loved remain, or in its stead shall we find a vast hu? man beehive laboring under a smoky, sooty pall such us holds the English cities of Leeda and Sheffield In per? petual gloom, not to mention certain American cities which notoriously nlfer from the plague of smoke? Paris and Its environs are now by no means poor In manufactures, though they do not compare with the projected Paris of Industry, and in spite of those manufactures the city has kept Itself remarkably clean of iir. It V/OUld Indeed be a calamity if as a penally for industrial develop? ment the "City of Ught" should awake one day a city of darkness. The breast fed baby has the best chance?. the confidence president NEGRO DOCTOR HELD *X)R COURT. Police Allege He A tempted to Per? form Criminal Operation Upon White Girl from Sumter. The State. B. A. Everett, a negro physician, of 2129 Gervais street was arrested yes? terday morning by Detective Strick? land of police headquarters on a w*ar rant sworn out before Magistrate Fowles on a charge of attempting to perform a criminal operation upon a young white woman. Everett was released later in the day on a cash bond of $500. I The patient is a 17 year old girl, who says that she is from Sumter. She came to Columbia some days ago and went to a boarding house, where she stayed until Thursday. The girl Was found yesterday by detectives at the home of Dora Suber, a negro wo? man, in the 1500 block of Lincoln street. There she had been since Thursday, the police say, and there, it is alleged, the negro physician has been treating her. She was taken to a local hospital yesterday morning and placed in care of the city physi? cian. Late yesterday afternoon a warrant was sworn out agaifnst her and she was then placed under arrest, although she will remain at the hos? pital for the present. The Columbia police department has written to her father regarding her condition. Dora Suber, the negro wotnan in whose house the girl was found, was arrested and placed in the police sta? tion on six distinct entries: "Disorder? ly conduct," "keeping a disorderly house," "vagrancy," "held for invest! ? gatlonY "violation of the prohibition law (storing)" and "held for Magis? trate Fowles." She was released late yesterday on a bond of $400. A Civil War Parallel in Europe. For two years the South kept the initiative. She struck at Antietam, at Gettysburg, at Shlloh. Three times, twice in the East and once in the West, she sought decision. She failed, and with Gettysburg and the con? comitant fall of Vlckeburg she lost the initiative forever. Henceforth It be? came a question not of conquering the North, but of holding It off until the people of the North wearied of the sterile sacrifices and the terrible cost. It took nearly two years after Get? tysburg to bring Appomattox. Grant's great offensive, of which the North expected so much, led only to the drawn battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvanla and the shambles of Cold Harbor In 1864. Yet in this ter? rible campaign, counted as a failure at the moment, Grant won the war. The South had neither the men nor the resources to replace the losses. While the lines before Richmond still held, the Confederacy crumbled to dust. Now this is in sum what the Allies expect to happen in the case of Ger? many. They expect that the Germans and the Austrlans will no longer be able to replace casualties as the Brit? ish, the Russians, and the Italians patently can. Russia's man supply is inexhaustible; ehe has already proved this. Britain is only beginning to draw heavily on hers. Italy has made no draft to speak of. But France, like Germany and Austria, is ap? proaching, if she has not reached, that point where she can no longer send fresh men to the front to replace loss? es and each casualty therefore dimin? ishes the total of the men in the line. The Allies believe that the Germans and Austrlans are holding lines far too extended for their numbers. Lee did this at Richmond and lost his army. Napoleon did this In Eastern Germany in his last German cam? paign and suffered defeat, which turned out to be fatal. The Allies be? lieve that by steady and concerted at? tacks upon all fronts they will pres? ently wear the Germans and Austrians down to the point where they must shorten their lines or court disaster. But to shorten the lines is to confess defeat. To evacuate France or Po? land is to lose the war absolutely, be? cause these are the prizes Germany holds against her lost colonies and ocean commerce.?From "Germany looses the Initiative?Britain Begins," by Frank H. Simonds, in the American Review of Reviews for August. Weeds. Chop, cut or mow them down. Plow dig or pull them up. Any way to get rid of them before they have a chance to ripen seed, and now is the time to be up and doing. One weed growing where two grew before shows that some one has been on to his job just, as much as two ears of corn ^ growing where only one grew before shows that Mr. Farmer is wide-awake, and. with a little preseverence, it ? a WftOle lot easier to grow fewer v\?.eds fWhere weeds ought not to bo than it is to prow more corn where* corn ought to he. Cnder an 8-Ilour provision, it will lie altogether with the railroad com? panies whether anything is paid for overtime or not. ARMY BILL VETOED. President Wilson Objects to Exemp? tion of Retired Officers from Ar? ticles of War. Washington, Aug. 18.?Thp White House announces that President Wil? son will veto the army appropriation bill because it contains a clause mak? ing retired army officers immune from the articles of war. BATTLE ON SOMME. (ictman Offensive tails to Make Gains. London, Aug. 18.?The Germans to? day renewed the offensive against the Somme front, but made no gains. German night attacks against Foreaux forest were repulsed. The heavy ar? tillery fire is increasing. Very Unfair. In a speech at Greenville last week, Mr. C. L. Blease one of the candi? dates for governor, took occasion to denounce the appointment of Mr. John Lee Davis, of Columbia, as a member of the board of mediation. He declar? ed that Mr. Davis was an employee of The Columbia State and intimated, if he did not charge, that he was there? fore controlled by The State. Mr. Davis Is the representative of organized labor on the arbitration board. He was appointed by Govern? or Manning upon the recommenda? tion of the South Carolina Federation of Labor, the central body of the labor unions of this State. It is true he is connected with the mechanical depart? ment of The State but it is not true that The State controls him in any way. He is his own man. As to The State controlling his politics, we arc sure The State has never attempted to control them and it could not if it tried. The governor also critised the ap? pointment of Mr. John A. Law, of Spartanburg? as a member of this board saying, that he was n president of a cotton mill. Certainly he is. The law provided that labor should have one representative on the board, capital another and the two should select the third. There has been no criticism on the part of capital as to the selection of Mr. Davis and there has been no critictsm on the part of labor as to the selection of Mr. Law. Each side has perfect confidence in the appointee of the other side. The- gentleman selected by the two as the third representative is Mr. I. H. Hunt, of Newberry, and everybody seems pleased with his selection but Mr. Blease. He also criticizes him. We trust that the occasion will nev? er arise where the services ot the board of mediation will be necessary but if it ever does vre believe every? body will be satisfied with its findings. The South u Marvel. In a very thoughtful address before the Virginia bankets recently Presi? dent Fairfax Harrison, of the South? ern Railway, presented figures to show that with all the marvelous growth Industrially Germany had not made such advancement nor increased her wealth in proportion to the South dur? ing the period from 1872, when the Southern States begnn to recover from the paralizing effects of civil war, to 1913, when the last Industrial .census was taken. Germany prior to the out? break of the world war was known as the workshop of Europe, and her manufactured products found their way* into every civilized port of the globe. Notwithstanding this tact, Ger? many during the period named in? creased production of coal only 421 per cent against 6,434 per cent in the South. During those years the South increased her iron output 2,542 per cent against 866 for Germany. From 1880 the consumption of cotton in the South has increased 1,468 per cent against 226 in Germany. We increased our railway mileage 24 4 per cent, against 81 in Germany, and our ton miles increased 2,854 per cent, against an increase of 372 per cent, in Ger? many. These figures would be amazing were they not of such common obser? vation that we fail to realize their full significance. We have become so ac? customed to hearing of great new en? terprises crowding upon each other in every Southern State; our cities are growing so rapidly in population and wealth, so many millions of dollars are going into public buildings, public highways, streets and parks, and the value of farm products is increasing with such leaps and bounds that we have become used to them and little appreciate our marvelous growth in every line of busines sactivity. United Stntos Health Notes. Do you know that Sags in roof-gutters may act as mosquito breeding places? America's most valuable crop is babies? The public cigar-cutter Is a health menace? - u . d.mtum*.aj??i ?asm GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. ThCy Fall to Recapture Lost Position* on Sonime. Paris, Aug. 18.?German counter? attacks today near Maurepas on the Somme front were repulsed. The Germans are shifting forces from the British to the French section on the Somme front. They delivered strong assaults in an effort to recapture the ground lost Wednesday, but were re? pulsed. At Verdun the French at? tacked all along the Fleury-Thiaumont line, hurling Germans from the Flcury positions. GERMANS ADMIT DEFEAT. Berlin Official Report Tells of Advance of British on Somme Front. Berlin, Aug. 18.?It is officially an? nounced that the Germans have been pushed back by the British southwest of Martin Puich, on the Somme front. British attacks north of Pozieres wero repulsed. There is violent fighting In the Flcury sector on the Verdun front. The Teutons have captured Fiorina, Greece, in the Balkan front, I near the Monastir-Saloniki railway. AUSTRIANS HEMMED IN. Attempts to Break Russian Battle Ring Fall. Petrograd, Aug. 18.?Under the bat? tle ring of Russians the German Austrian counter offensive on the Zlota-Lipa in Galicia was repulsed, it is officially announced. On Bystr Zyca Sololvina river the Russians oc? cupy Lysiecstary and heights of Ardzeluz. In the Carpathians the . Russians occupy important mountain heights near Jablonitza pass. GERMANS CHANGE COMMANDERS General von Mackensen Given Su? preme Command in I-Vance. . Paris, Aug. 18.?There has been a complete regrouping of the Germans and a change of German commanders on the western front since the allies offensive began. Field Marshall von Mackensen has been put in supreme command of the western front, ex? cepting the Crown Prince's army. Will be Ready Next Week. County Supervisor West has had the roadway loading to the river put In good condition; The deep gullies washed across the road have all hem filled and the road made passable to where the flat is being built. Mr. West says he has been receiving nu? merous inquiries from all sections of the State wanting to know when the Camden highway would be open fcr travel. He does not know definitely, but states that he hopes to have the flat in operation by the middle of the following week.?Camden Chronicle, August 18. GERMANY KEEPING PLEDGE. Submarines Sinking Ships But Inter? national Law is Observed. Washington, Aug. 3 8.?Secretary Lansing announces that Germany is not violating the submarine war pledges though many ships are being sunk. Official investigations show that the pledges are abided by. Major General Bliss, assistant chief of staff of the army reports to Secre? tary of War Baker that he found con? ditions among all the militia on the border excellent. He is preparing a long detailed statement. He arrived at his office today. THE S?MTER SUMTER. S. C. Beg to announce they have completed the installation of their modern 50 barrel Floor Mill, and arc now prepared to grind wheat, and will guarantee the quality of their work equal to any mill in the country. Wo grind up each lot sep? arately rml in turn, and ; auruntce to give hack the actual product from each particular lot of wheat, so you can cat your own bread. Mr. ?I. W. McDonald, onr Snpcrintciidcnt, is an experi? enced mill man, having near? ly twenty years experience In the manufacture of flour In Virginia and North Carolina. We charge only 1-8 toll nn<I guarantee to give you A Fair square Deal. Wc hare ?Pedal milling-in-trnnstt rates to nil points. WE WANT YOUR BUSI? NESS AND YOU NEED VS. Write for Full Information. J. W. M'DONALD. Sii|>crlntoiidcnt. PERRY MOSES. SR., President.