The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 08, 1915, Page 8, Image 8
SYSTEM SAVES WOMAN'S TIME
Many Farm Wives Lose by Not Mapping
Their Work Out in Methodical
Manner.
A program is a great labor saver,
we are told, but some women u^e a
program as a robin does a pole?
something to fly from. They never
know what is to be done next, says a
writer in Country Gentleman. A regular
order, wherein the work is dovetailed,
makes for real efficiency.
While (he woman who does her work
hit or miss is in the throes of indecision
as to what shall be done next,
the really methodical woman has her
work all mapped out a week ahead.
She moves swiftly and surelj from one
task to the next with no lost time. The
amount of work she turns off is a marvel
to the other woman.
A good homemaker plans her work
, and works hor plan. She is envied by
less executive women, but she must
pay the price in careful thought and in
an indexible will that holds her to the
prescribed procedure. A weaker woman
makes a good plan, but circumstances
are forever altering it. She
never drives her work, but her work
drives her continually. It worries
her: it becomes a nightmare. Because
she is always putting things off she is
always behind time, and therefore
what she does do is dung under pressure
and in a hurried way that is always
wasteful.
CALLS FOR MUCH DEXTERITY
Chakri-Throwi r?g Might Well Be Considered
as an Art Rather
Than a Pastime.
In front of the mausoleum of a holy
saint?Mohatned CShous?a fair is held
annually on the outskirts of Gwalior
(India) town, about the middle of the
rainy season. The most noticeable feature
of the fair is the chakri-throw. A
cltakri is a piece of iron something
like a spindle, over which a long piece
< 1 string or thread is rolled. The
player throws high into the air the
iron cltakri (literally a roll), holding
one end of the string in bis hand, and
gives it a swing and jerk in such a
clever manner that the cltakri. on
touting down, rolls up the thread
again on itself, and is caught in the
hands of the thrower. The art has
been dexterously practiced by a class
of people for ages past, and some
members are so renowned that they
cut a good tigure at the scene. It is
most interesting to watch tin* thrower
(ling the ehakri up high, eatcli H. in his
hands on return and continue sending
it up again and again till the ropd hecomes
as high a? seventy feet above
the ground. There is absolutely no
spring or lever attachment in the
fh.'ikri N.ihhn >c tlm .
... .. ./v, IO tuc V^lICXllI |/IUI1
thrower.
The Curfew.
If there is a curfew in your vicinity,
it is probably a signal, imposed by the
town authorities, which. when sounded
in the evening, requires small boys to
retire within doors. In its beginning
the cut lew served a tar different purpose.
and applied to all classes of
whatever age. In the middle ages,
when we lirst hear of the curfew, the
curfew boll was commonly tolled in
cities us a warning to all inhabitants
to extinguish or cover up all tires and
flights. This was a common practice
throughout Kurope and was a very
necessary precaution against fire. All
of the houses were of wood and the
tires were kindled in a, hole in the
floor, with no other vent than another
hole in tin root above the hearth. I'nder
such circumstances it was all too
easy for a tire to start, and wooden
buildings and crude lire-lighting apparatus
offered small ?*hecic to a lire
once it nnus under way.
Many histories state that tin curfew
was introduced in*o Kngland by
William the (Vnqueror. who in 1"i;s
nth (1 that on th ringin ; of tin* curfew
hell at s p m. all tiros and lights
should bo itn:n diately oxtingnished.
Students of lib lory havo discovered
trans of a ourfe *i?in Knglar.d in much
earlier "iinos and insist that it was in !
use i:t Oxford ?n the tlino ot Alfred j
tin (treat. ? Ant- riean Hoy.
It Must Ha^e Been Difficult.
A man was brought before the court<
Upon the eotnpliint of his wife, says!
the Herllner IHustrirte Zeltung. While
tin' prisoner was testifying the judgo
made it clear that h" intended to ho
harsh with him. so that his wife became
frightened, an l when called to
lie scans. reinsen id give any testimony.
In I'act, she retracted all her
a< < usatinns.
' So your husband lidn't strike you,
then?" said the judge. "Where did I
you yet tiiat black eye?"
I struck it aceid" ntally on the mantel
phce."
"So! And that piece bitten out of
your ear?he didn't do that, either?"
"No, no. your honor. I did that myself'"
Should Go on All Fours.
Medical men have found that much
of a man's structure i belter adapted
to a quadruped. I >r. S. Lewis states
that probably at least half of our illnesses
are due to sedentary habits and
ort ct. posture and through the latter
weak structures are overworked,
strong ones weakened from disuse, organs
sag. intestinal and other tubes
kink, dependent veins overdistend and
toxins are generated.
Gymnast'cs and other methods for
strengthening and toning the abdomen
ire reeor.mended
l' rli?ps a little exercise ,vi fcll foi>rs
would t.e Uoloful.
LOCKHART JUNCTION
Lockhart Junction, Jan. 4.?The old
years, 1914, is gone anj js numbered
with the passed. Always at this time
my mind reverts to the scenes
of my boyhood days, and in imagination
it seems as if it was yesterday
when it passed. I have bripht recollection
of the days tpent in boyhood
at the old home whore I first saw the
litfht, and with loved ones sit around
the old hearth stone and listen and
mingle our voices with those we love
so well. But now can see the vacant
chairs and empty cradle, and this
seems as if it was a dream?but dear
friends, I kpow there are many who
can imagine these same scenes. Sometimes
I wishi I could those days
over atrain, but we cannot, you know.
But we can forever keep in memory
those loved ones.
I will say thanks to those who say
to me: "Still prive us news, Mow, we
like to read your letters." Now, w?
sure do appreciate such words as
these.
We often hear peofUe say when
some one dies that he or she, whoever
they be, was a jrood fellow, but you
h'ardlv ever bear it while he lives.
T,ets rpiead the flowers while he lives
and dc.n't wait until he is dead and
then say {rood things, it will do no
good to the dead.
Now at the beginning of the new
year let us all pass some good resolution,
for there is always room fo<improvement.
For there is so much
bad in the best of us, and so much
ood in the worst of us. It behooves
the best of us to say nothing about
the rest of us.
There were several young ladie?
and young men boarded the train at
this place to go to the higher schools.
Messrs .Jessie and Victor GaUman
go to Snartanburg Rusiness college
"Messrs Harold Trcfzer and Charlev
Garner go to Landrnm. Misses
Mabel Kelly. Elizabeth T .ittle go te
T.andrum. Miss August Trofzer goetto
Hot Snrings, N. C. Miss Sarah
Little goes to Limestone.
Misses Florence Hanev and Miss
Madee McWhirter are teachers at
the Gault school.
We met Miss Esther Mayson today
who is from Dicvson. S. C\. on he?way
to Mr. llosie Webber's, where sh
boards while teaching school at Mt
Joy.
The family and relatives of Mv
II. C. Little have our sympathy. Wknew
Mr. Little all his life. W"
feel our inability to sav anything
ipore for him than what others migh'
say. That Pinckney township an-'
Union county have lost another good
man, and he will be greatlv missed.
"Moxy."
NEWS FROM SKDALIA.
Sedalia, Jan. 1.?On last Wednesday
afternoon Mr. Elmer Bobo and
Miss Kate Stevens were united in
marriage at the Baptist parsonage in
Cross Anchor. Rev. J. lv. Hair was
the ofliciating minister.
'pl: : ?i. iu l A:
Alii?* murine*; at tuu u^uai turn*, tnu
Cross Keys high school opened with
all the teachers and pupils on hand.
They entered with bright prospects
for a prosperoous new year and all intend
to work successively for 11)15.
Mr. Eldridge Fincher was the guest
last week of Mr. L. Wilson near Cross
Anchor.
Miss Flossie Wilburn has returned
from a stay near Black Rock with
relatives.
There is a deal of moving in this
community and the weather has been
so unfavorable that the work on the
farm could not be completed until
after the new year has begun.
Rev. Lamar filled his regular appointment
at Cross Keys yesterday.
He said that he was going to make
this the best year yet in working for
the people.
Rev. A. ivlcA. 1 ittrnan tilled his appuintment
at Padgett's Creek yesterday.
_ "Violet."
Advertised Letters in I'est office.
John Heaty, Rev. J. 11. Brown, Ranee
Feaster, Rev. M. A. Foster, C. F. Gen-'
a^ans, W. H. Hooton, Walter Keith,
.Miss Mary Laurens, Bill (landy Bertha
I.oomis, Rev. .J. M. Long, The
Mishna Cotton Mills, Rev. R. M. Molfit,
Rev. J. M. Murry, Eli/.ah McGowan,
Rev. S. M. McCain, Miss Maude
Rogers, James Sanders, Rev. J. W.
Sanders, Samuel Kidd, Mrs. Minnie
Thomson, G. E. Wiles, Dave Williams
Ullesses Young, Cleveland Young.
WOULD TAKE~/TLITTLE TIME
Uncle Billy Had Some Sons to Consult
and Probably Real Estate
Agent Missed the Train.
| was eager to close the deal for llncle
I'.illy Weatherman's -In acres, which
would front on a beautiful lake after
the bin White river (lain In the Missouri
O/.arks was built.
The payers lay on the table, awaitin/
Uncle Itilly's signature. The real
( state man was impatient, lie was
in a hurry to get back to llollister, the
nearest railway station, so as to catch
the only train that would get liiin back
to Kansas Ci^y the next morning.
"Now if you'll sign right there?on
the dotted line," he said, handing a
fountain pen to Uncle Hilly.
Uncle Hilly took out his spectacles,
and read the papers carefully.
"I reckon I'd better not be in too big
4i 11111 i > iiimmil iui:> 11 \ ?ii , in* iniipr1
rized, with the shrewdness of the
! Ozark mountaineer. I don't read as
! pearl as I used to I b'lieve I'll have
! my sons read them papers, mister."
"It would he a great favor to me,
I'tiele Hilly," remarked the Kansas
City man, looking at his watch, "if you
could manage to see them in time to
linish up this transaction by noon.
You see, I've got to get away today.
I low many sons have you, anyway?"
I'ncle Hilly scratched his head a
minute, and said, "Eighteen."?Youth's
Companion.
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k County Registrars Appointed
The State Board of Health has appointed
the local registrars for this
county. The duty of the gentlemen is
to repprt the births and deaths as
sent to them by the physicians, undertakers
and midwives. The law
requires that the reports ba- made under
penalty. If there be no attendance
at the birth or death the parents
are required under penalty to report
to the local registrar. The local registrar
in turn reports to the State "Board
of Health, and is allowed a fee of 25
cents for each birth and each death
as reported. The following have been
appointed for Union county:
City of Union, Dr. S. G. Sarratt;
Cross Keys Township, Dr. G. F. Mo^eley;
Bogansville township, not yet appointed;
Goshen Hil township, ,F. W.
Coleman, Whitmire; Fish Dam township,
P. II. Jeter, Carlisle; Jonesville j
township, C. N. Alexander; Pinckney j
township,?D. G. Gallman, Union, R. 4;
Santuc township, J. P. Thomas, Santuc;
Union township, not yet appointed.
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The law has been in operation since I
January.
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Given Bale of Cotton.
N. Shapiro conducted a sale here
recently and as an inducement to j
Stimulate trade offered to give to the
one spending the most money with
him during the ten days sale a bale I
of cotton free. Mrs. T. C. Westall of |
Excelsior mill, won the bale of cotton, i
Mrs. S. A. (list, of West Springs was]
a close second. The former having!
spent $89.01), and the latter $09.42 at
Shapiro's during the sale.
MERCIER'S ARREST
STARTLES EUROPE
London, .Ian. 0.?An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam
says telegrams received there f^om
Berlin assert that Cardinal Mercier's
arrest has caused consternation in
Catholic circles.
Catholic leaders, it is stated, openly
declare the arrest was an unpardon- i
able blunder and that if_the reichstag
were in session, the members of the !
centre party would demand an ex- i
planation from the chancellor.
Berlin dispatches say that messages ,
from Rome declare the arrest of Car- I
dinal Mercier has aroused indigna- ;
tion in Vatican circles and that it is !
expected Pope Benedict will ask for
speedy redress.
Router's Amsterdam correspondent
says:
"The arrest of Cardinal Mercier has
created a profound sensation through- ;
out Belgium. According to reports '
received here, the Germans also ar- j
reseted the printer of the cardinal's !
pastoral letter, who until recently was !
burgomaster of Malines, but released i
him on bail.
"It is stated the reading of the pas- |
toral letter has been prohibited. Sev- |
eral priests were arrested for reading
it. Fugitives from Antwerp say all
the rectories around Malines and Antwerp
are guarded by sentries."
VALLEY OF MEUSE
VALLEY OF DEATH
London, Jan. (5?Herbert C. Hoover,
chairman of the American Commission
for Belgian Relief, returned to
London today from a tour of inspection
in Belgium and issued ihis "statement:
"An appalling situation has been
presented to the commission with regard
to the French peasantry in the
valley of Meuse, where there, are
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|iC*I >Ullft ilUMJ I Ul'lN WIUIUUl '
lood. Our investigations there showed
a large number of deaths already
from starvation.
"Despite the shortness of rations in
Belgium " ii Ik Igium colleague agreed
that u- must share 'he last crust
with the-. people. W j therefore sc.nt
them food out of our limited Belgian
stores."
Jtlr. Hoover also issued a report of
the commission's work in Belgium, in
which he said the orgaization for distributing
food is nearing completion.
It is aided by f>0,000 volunteers and
there are only a few localities to
which relief has not been extended.
"It must he borne in mind," Mr.
Hoover said, "that our problem fulls
into two phases. The first is to provide
bread for those who are able to
pay for it. and the second to supply
all the food for those who are destitute."
Broadly the former comprise
some 5,600.ouo persons They require
auour $>v>ihmiuu worm 01 nreau a
month.
"The definite comprise*hbout 1,400,000.
The cost of supporting them
is about $2,oUii,()00 a month for whicn
we are dep< nding on the charity of
the world."
Mr. Hoover paid tribute to German
assistance in the work of distribu<?n.
He said:
"The occupying army has been extraordinarily
scrupulous in its observance
of the agreement that no
foodstuffs imported by us were to be
consumed by them. The German gov- |
ernment has issued a general order
that no provisions which would in the
ordinary course have to be replaced
by the relief commission shall be requisitioned.
"Despite the volume of food placed
at our disposal we can provision only
until February lo. Great as has been
the generosity of the American people,
it is well to bear in mind that if we
fail after that date the world will Ivj
li\r t iw? (n-p'itoct ! I'll iri?? I v it lllio
yet witnessed in the possible extinction
of an entire nation."
Barnelt-Nix.
A marriage of interest to a wide
circle of friends was that of Miss
Annie Harnett to Mr. W. Nix, Dec.
13. The marriage took place at the
home of the hride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Warren Harnett, in the I.ower
Fair Forest neighborhood. Rev. L. L.
Wagnon was the officiating minister.
'A large circle of friends gathered to
witness the ceremony and to wish the
hride and groom long life and great
happiness.
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"S. O. S." SIGNAL
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Brought the Folknxting Responses
This Week:
W. M. Summer, Buffalo, R.l $1.00
Mrs. M. J. Johnson, Trough 1.00
$1. W. Going, Chester, R. 2 1.00
J. T. Clark, Union.- .50
R. J. Fowler, Union 2.00
S. R. Page, Jonesville 1.00
W. H. Hawkins, Union, R. 3.__ 1.00
J. C. McCool, Union 1.00
L. H. Carlisle, Greenville 1.00
T. M. Sims, Route 3 1.00
Mrs. J. A. Fant, Union 1.00
J. W. Gregory, Santuc 1.00
J. B. Foster, Jonesville 2.00
Mrs. L. D. Malone, Buffalo 1.00
J. E. Johnson, Jonesville 1.00
Rev. G. W. Shell, Union, R. 2... 1.00
S. L. Crosby, Union R. 1 1.00
Mrs. Amanda Hyatt, Pauline 1.00
W. R. Sims, "Union, R. 2 1.00
Or. G. F. Moseley, Union, R. 2 l.Oo
Walter Prince, Union, R. 2 1.00
J. G. Sumner, Pauline, R. 2 .60
J. T. Lawson, Buffalo, R. 1 1.00
L. P. Dashiel, Spartanburg 3.00
Mrs. R. E. White, Union 1.00
CIo?. V.e i ".v
?v?n uui J uiaus, ujjai latiuur); l.UU
J. T. A. Ballew, Mt.ville 1.00
A. A. Hames, Union , 1.00
Eliphas Wood, I'acolet 1.00
W. A. Smith, Moore, 11. 1 1.00
Mrs. M. Kirby, Pacolet, R. 1 .50
J. R. Charles, Union 2.00
Mrs. R. E. Littlejohn, Jonesville 1.00
W. M. Cochran, .Jonesville, R. 2 I.Co
Total $07.50
FORMER GOVERNOR BROWN
GETS IN FRANK CASE
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 4.?The entrance
of ex-Governor Joseph Brown into
the Frank case and Frank's reply to
ihe ex-governor's card is attracting
wide attention in Georgia this week
and is the cause of more comment,
perhaps, than any other phase of the
celebrated case. ? J
Governor Brown addressed a card
to the Augusta Chronicle in which he
said that he saw no room, under the |
evidence, to place the crime upon '
any other than Frank, even if the negro
Conley's evidence was thrown out ,
entirely. The Chronicle, in an editorial,
had argued that Frank should
be given a life sentence in the hope
that some day evidence might arise
which might establish his innocence.
Governor Brown replied that his guilt
was already established and inquired
whether Georgia should be left free
to execute her laws until "she convicts
a Jew and that then her process
must be held up and defeated?"
From his cell in the Atlanta jail
Frank gave out a statement denouncing
Brown's card as a tirade a greater
slander against the state than any
possible criticisms of his trial. He accused
Brown of trying to pay his political
uebt to Solicitor Dorsey, who
ciinnnrtoil Rrnuni i ?-* V**o 1
. v.^%/1 w\. *-?i v/ ?t ii in mo ncuaiui uu
campaign, at the expense of the life
of an innocent man.
"It is now reported that Dorsey, in
his argument before the United
Stated supreme court, may wage a:,
attack on the constitutional clause :
that relates to the due process of law
in the trial of criminal cases should
this he true, he will establish a precedent
and if his attempt be success",
he will succeed in breaking down tne
federal constitution itself.
The amendment covering the "du process
of law" is said to have been
adopted just after the civil war pur- ly
as a measure to fit litigation in
the reconstruction period, and it is j
argued that it is useless and unnecessary
now. Many able lawyers have j
for years held it an arbitrary rule 1
which hampers the state courts in
their own rights and which is a dangerous
law to be held over the head
of honest tribunals.
Social Event at Carlisle.
The social season was ushered in on ;
the New Year when Miss Iiosa Hatch- '
ford entertained in a charming and j
unique style at a miscellaneous shower
in honor of Miss Tillie Deaver, who
will on the 20th of January become |
the bride of Everett M. Evans of Newberry.
The hostess was assisted in
receiving the guests by Miss Eliza- '
beth Deaver. The hall was most attractive
in decorations of holly, ever- I
greens and bells, suggestive of the ; '
season. After Miss Florence Deaver'
served fruit punch, Miss Sadie Cist
invited the guests into the parlor
which was lovely in its color scheme
of red and white; the soft glow of
white candle added to the effect. The
bride's table was a picture of artistic |
beauty bearing a centerpiece hand
embroidered in red and white. Silver
candelabra with pink and red carnations
completed the decorations.
Much merriment was derived from
a contest in which a romance was
completed by tilling in blanks with
names of different cakes. The truest I
ef honor prize, a silver dinner be'.!,
was presented by Karle Bates. Misses
Aileen Deaver, Mary Fleming and
Louise Bates cut for the contest prize |
which the latter won and peacefully
presi nted to the truest of hono.t rhe
hi id" elect was then asked to rc-^J
h< ! lartune determined by a j .1?
i :cow on m i immense white cake 'j
numbered in rod. As the arrow turned,
each truest drew her fortune by
the correspond inp number which was
witten on a hand-'painted score card
representing Father Time.
A delicious salad course was served
with coffee and mints, miss Aiieen
Denver sang "Because" and "I Love
You Truly," and at the unexpected
moment Miss Rosa Ratchford pulled
the ribbon from a large white bell,
showering the bride-elect with numerous
articles.
M iss Tillie Denver was handsomely
gowned in a costume of olive green
crepe meteor and wore a beautiful
picture hat of black and white with
trimmings of gold.
The hostess was assisted in entertaining
throughout the afternoon by
Mrs. William H. Gist.
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BIG OFFICE BUILDING
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Six Story Structure in Heart of Jacksonville
is Almost Total Lofts.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 3.?Fire
early this morning gutted the DialUpchurch
building, a six-story structure
in the heart of the business district,
causing an approximate loss of
$150,000. The blaze was discovered
at 1:45 o'clock as flames broke
through the roof, the fire having
started in the elevator shaft. On the
floor of the building was the United
States weather bureau, which was
totally wrecked, the roof falling in
and destroying all valuable implements,
records, charts, etc. There,
were but three vacant offices in the
building, all being filled by lawyers,
physicians, insurance companies, realty
men, etc., antL-valuable papers and
office furniture were almost a total
loss. A general alarm was sent In,
which called every piece of apparatus
in the fire department, and for a time,
when the water pressure was poor, it
looked as though adjoining property
was doomed. On the ground floor two
stores were badly damaged by water
and smoke. The entire fifth and sixth
floors of the building were completely
ruined, and floors below were flooded
with watftr. Firemen remained on the
scene until after 7 o'clock this morning.
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DOOL1TTLE AND WHITLOCK
ENTER PLEAS OF GUILTY
Let Off With Payment of $1,000 Each
During Good Behavior by
the Judge.
(Spartanburg Journal.)
Wallace Whitlock and B. S. Doolittle
charged in separate indictments
with violating the dispensary law on
seven counts, appeared before Judge
Sea'se in general sessions court today
and pleaded guilty to counts Nos. 1
5, 6, and 7. Deferring briefly the matter
of passing judgment, Judge Sease
later sentenced the defendants to pay
fines of $2,000 each and serve two
years on the public works of the
county or in the State penitentiary.
"During good behavior, in regards to
dealing in whiskey," all of each sen
tence was suspended except the payment
of $1,000 each.
Count No. 1 of the indictment
charged that the defendants violated
the dispensary law in reference to
selling; count No. 5, storing; count
No.G transporting; count No. 7 was
expressed in the indictment as follows:
"It is further presented that the
defendants on the first day of January
in the year of our Lord 1914, and on
divers other days, both before and
since that day, up to the taking of
this inquisition, did wilfully and unlawfully
act for himself and as agent,
conduct the business of liquor drummer,
soliciting and receiving orders
for beer containing alcohol for interstate
shipment within the county of
Sparta?burg and state aforesaid."
With the conclusion of the cases
against Whitlock and Doolittle, the
two most important indictments in
the "near-beer" cases, as returned by
the grand jury under Foreman Query,
were stricken from the docket.
Several of the other forty-odd
"near-beer" cases have been settled by
the defendants pleading guilty, three
or four have been settled by jury
trials, while in none of the cases has
a nol pros or "not guilty" verdict been
returned.
Other Near-Beer Cases.
In the case of A. J. Rutledge,
charged with violating the dispensary
law, the jury returned a verdict of
guilty on all counts at the reconvening
of today's session of court. Sentence
was deferred.
Homer Littleficld, charged with violating
the dispensary law, against
whom a sealed sentence was delivered
yesterday in his absence, was this
morning sentenced to serve six
months and pay a fine of $f>00; all the
sentences-suspended except the rv-'
ment of $100 or sixty davs.
NO I?AUI)Ov rOR CLEMENT.
Spartanburg, .Ian. 3.?Another
batch of pardons and paroles by Governor
Blease and no mention of a navdon,
parole or commutation for Clyde
C. Clement, the Woflford Fitting
school student, held in the county jail
here under life sentence for murder,
serves to accentuate the controversy
that has arisen between some local
"friends" of the governor over this
matter.
Clement was convicted in this
county last February of the murder
of his infant daughter, a child of
Fleda Pendleton, of Durham, who
was tried at the same time and acquitted,
and has since been a prisoner
in the county jail pending an appeal
to the supreme court. The infant, it
will be recalled, was drowned in Lawson's
Fork, a stream on the suburb?
of the city and while both Clement
and Miss Pendleton admitted on the
stand that they were together on the
bridge when the child was thrown
over into the stream each swore that
the other committed th'e crime. Miss
reimit'iuM s actjuiLuu itcuivu u nsu
ticn little short of the crime itself.
Petitions signed hy more than 2. 'itf4
citizens of Soartanburg count;
rre said to have been forwarded !o
Governor Bleaso asking a pardon for
Clemen* and S. J. Nichoiis, Clement's
attorney and strong frienl of
the Governor, has repeatedly confer"
red with him on the subject but ^Ii 11
no pardon is granted.
Col P. G. Landrum, oi the gov. r
nor's slaff, and one of several till
een? who took an acMvo interest in
Miss t * ndleton during her imptisonnienl
and trial, is opj erio * Clement ?
pardon.
4 You can just say Clonent is no:
going to he pardoned,'' is the way
Colonel Landrum expressed the si:uation
>rsterday.
Cleiiitnt is a native of Pi.k county,
and a son of Robert Clement, a pros!
perous farmer in that section.
CRACKMEN HELD
IN OTHER CASES
Howard and Nolan Wanted For Robberries?Paroled
By Governor.
After being confined in the State
penitentiary for nearly eight years,
Charles Howard and Thomas Nolan,
noted yeggmen, enjoyed yesterday
freedom for a few seconds and then
they were rearrested by the State and
federal officers on other charges. The
prisoners were serving terms of ten
years each from Spartanburg county
for housebreaking and larceny and
wee paroled Saturday by the governor
on the condition that they be
turned over to federal officers.
Has 122 Convicts Left.
D. J. Griffith, superintendent of the
peiuienuary, saiu last night that out
of the 35 prisoners actually in custody
who received clemency from the governor,
11 were confined in the penitentiary.
The release papers were
sent to the prison yesterday morning
at 11:30 o'clock and all of the prisoners
were released during the day.
They werq provided with a new suit
of clothes apiece and were given railway
fare to their homes. Superintendent
Giffith said that there were
122 prisoners left in the State prison.
Immediately after Charles Howard
had been nominally released by the
penitentiary guards, he was arrested
by William Cooper, deputv marshal,
acting for R. Beverly Sloan, United
States commissioner. The warrant
for Howard's arrest was sworn out
by II. T. Gregory, postoffice inspector,
March 25, 1911, and charged him
with robbing a postoffice at Prosperity,
-in Newberry county, May 5, 1902.
Howard was carried to the office of
Mr. Sloan in the Palmetto building.
He failed to give bond in the sum of
$5,000 and will be given a preliminary
hearing this morning at 11 o'clock by
the United States commissioner. Howard
was later placed in the city jail.
He will be closely guarded by a federal
officer while confined there. Howard
will very likely be tried in the
federal court in Columbia.
Wanted in York County.
Thomas Nolan did not leave the
penitentiary. He was arrested there
by George E. Boland, deputy sheriff
of Richland county, on a warrant,
sworn out, March 28, 1911, before
John W. McElhaney, a magistrate of
York county, by W. B. Meacham,
cashier of the Fort Mill bank. Nolan
will be carried to York county for
fi *
ii icii in cut; oiait; tuui t.
Charles O'Day, who was paroled
last week by the governor and immediately
arrested by a federal officer,
will be given a preliminary hearing
this morning by Commissioner
Sloan. He failed to give bond several
days ago in the sum of $!1,000. O'Day
is wanted on the charge of robbing
a postoflice at Gordonsville, Va.
Howard had little to say while beirur
brought from the State penitentiary
to the United States commissioner's
office yesterday morning.
While in the commissioner's office he
was informed that one of the posiNf- r
fiee inspectors would arrive in Columbia
today to take charge of the
case. He merely grunted and had no
comment to make. He was without
the walls of a prison for less than an
hour. He made no comment on the
growth of Columbia.?The State.
77*1 MEMKEI1S OF r.EHMAV
NOBILITY HAVE MET DEATH
Some Died Upon the KaltlefieldH
While Some Succumbed to>
Wounds in Action.Berlin,
Jan. G.?Publication of the
Almanac de Gotha for 1915 and the
various genealogical annuals which ?
has just taken place here reveals t^y'
up to November lirst 770 mem1 *
the German nobility had "* ,
on the battlefields p.'<? J succumbed
to wounds rece; -* " action.
It is gK, ' - ' Chat of members bel0v>'-is
co the "graelliche" houses, or
Jmilies carrying the title of count,
74 had fallen in battle or died of
wounds by November 1. The "freiherrlichen"
or baronical families had
lost 209 members through the war,
while the very essence of German
nobility, the "Urdeligen" families,
who trace their ancestors to the year
of 1250 or beyond, had lost 24G members
in all. The families hit hardest
are the Armins with 8, the Wedels
with 8, the Oerbens with 7 and the
Deckens with G members. But the
class of nobility which seems to have
suffered most, though it is by no
means the most numerous, is that
whose members have been knighted
by letters-patent, and who are knowp
in Germany as "briefadeliger" houses.
This class lost 250 members.
The total number of losses through
death on the battlefield or as the
result of wounds received in action
of the German nobility is, therefore,
779, up to November 1.
According to the Almanac de Gotha
the following members of German
and foreign reigning houses still retain
their honorary commands in the
enemies' armies: Prince Henry of
Prussia, colonel Second Russian Hussar
"regiment; Grand I)uke of Oldenburg,
colonel f>7th Russian infantry
regiment; German empress, colonel
Russian Garde de Corps Hussars;
Russian empress, colonel German Sec- .
uuu VIUUIU i/ia^uii IUKIIIICIII/I V^urcu
Mary of England, colonel German
Fifth Hussars; Duchess of Connought
colonel *14th German infantry regiment.
The large number of honorary
commissions held formerly by members
of the reigning houses of Europe
in foreign armies has thus sunk to
six?an infinitesimal fraction of the
numbers of other years,
The family of Dr. J. C. Brawley
has moved to Union and are occupying
the house of Mr. J. H. Hope, br
Brawley will himself come to Union
at an early date and will locate here
for the practice of medicine.
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