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) N YOLOIE LI, NOIBER 47. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, Jl'LY 13, 1013. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR? EVERYTHING QUIET AROUND BLUFfTON MILITARY RETURNED AM) NO ' rviurrrwi) I vrr nu.i.H i.< The Threatened Riot Has Keen Avert ed And Sherjn and Military Have Gone. I Special to The Herald and News. Columbia. June 12.?"Military and i myself returned from Bluffton this j a. m. Everything quie:," wired Sheriff White, of Beaufort, to Governor Bl;ase at noon today. The threatened j riot is thus averted. W. F. C. j ^ Ridgeland. June 11.?Excitement j r that may result in serious trouble | holds 'the village of Bluffton in its grasp. Late tonigh'i it is said the feeling is near the danger mark and a clash may be expected between the white citizens and negroes. The town authorities are reported as taking chances and the town has been pii^- j et-ed to preven* an out or as peuums the arrival of the militia and officers ; from Beaufort. The so'diers and sheriffs deputies under command of Lieut. ! H. C. Townsend and Sheriff M. 0'D. t White. ar<> reported hurrying to the excited village in launches. Sheriff Porter of Jasper is on the scene and assisting in the preservation of order. The trouble began last evening X - . n. when a negro antempiea 10 assault the wife of a prominent young at- j tornev and failing in the effort made his escape. Today a-negro answering | the description of the fugitive was shot and killed while resisting arrest, it is said. The fatal shot was fired I by E. F. Hammond, State detective. The young woman attacked by the negro is said to have seen the dead negro and declared that he is not the ^ man who attempted the assault last night. This development in the al, ready serious situation brought about a condition what was considered serious enough to call for assistance from Beaufcrt in the shape of soldiers and sheriff's" deputies. In the mean time a negro answering the description of the fugitive furnished from Bluffton has been arrested and com- ( mitted to the Jasper jail at Ridgeland ^ where he will be held pending identi-! fiction. Posses from Bluffton are searching ! for th-e negro who attempted the as- j sault but weather conditions make, the search hard and the pursuers are proceeding with difficulty. The attempt at criminal assault is said to have been made about 7.30 j o'clock last night. The young woman, the wife of a well known attorney, | was alone in her home when a negro 1 entered through the front door and j grabbed her around the neck. With j tne wonaeriui sir?ng;n 01 me urn- : ' zied the young woman wrenched herself from the negro's grasp and rushed to the home of a neighbor, her screams giving >the alarm and calling citizens hurriedly to the scene. The alarm spread with great rapidity and in a short time the search for he negro'was on. The object of the , hunt was described as about six feet, one 'neb in height, of slim build and w a dark finger cake color. His age j was estimated at 30 years. The search 1 i of the evening was fruitless and it1 was renewed this morning with no greater success. The regro arrested here was taken in custody by the chief of police and ft lodged in jail awaiting identification | from Bluffton. I Telegrams were sent to chiefs of j police in all nearby towns giving the ' ' accepted description of the negro and ? /%oiiin<r nn thpsp officers to be on the sharp lookout. Many citizens of Jasper county hur- j ried to Bluffton, going from Ridgeland ' in automobil-es and other towns in -w- Jasper and Beaufort sent men to the scene of trouble which may grow j more serious. I Just Like Newberry. Rock Hill Herald. L . Most of the colleges are turning out ' BL this season the largest graduating | classes in their history. This is en- ! couraging to the friends'of education, ' even if the quality of the graduates has not improved, and tlie indications; B are that it has. So it seems that the quantity of our educational work has m increased and its quality improved. Perhaps there is hope for the country, OlfllKHS J.II) ON ISLE OF PAUIS ! I I Han (?n Sunday Snorts ami Liquor ( Sellinsr by Governor.?A tacks Mayor Grace. Columbia, June 11.?Gov. Blease j - > ' *..4. +?rrV\f nas oraer-ea me nu 'iu ue piu uu 115m, j nt the Isle of Palms. Stringent and per mpiory order to forbid all motorcycle racing or such like sports on the beach on Sunday and to stop t'ne J sale of Mquor and beer were issusd | by the gov-ernor to Sheriff Martin and , Chief Constable Stothart of Charleston. Violations of law must stop and. desecration of the Sabbath day mv.st end says the chief executive of South j Carolina. Tn his letter to Sheriff Martin the i governor calls attcntio 1 to the news-; paper reports of motorcycle races on the Is!e of Palms.last Sunday and in- i structs the sheriff to arrest all taking i part in such sports on Sunday her - j after and prosecute them to the limit! of the law. In his Letter to Chief Dispensary Constable S'orhart to stop the sale of liquor on the Isle of Palms, Gover- ; nor Bleasa says: "It is thought aloud around here that John P. Grace's idea in closing up everything so tight in Charleston on Sunday is to drive everybody to the Isle of Palms, and that a bar room is to be run open and above board over there. It is said I ! also tha: Mr. Grace is boarding at the hotel in Charleston with the gentle- j man who owns the Isle of Palms bus-; iness." The Isle of Palms is the playground of Charleston and excursions every ; Sunday take thousands of people there from all parrs of the State. | Governor's letter to Sheriff. | In his letter to Sheriff J. Elmore i Martin, Governor Blease says: | "Columbia, S. C., June 9, 1913. i "J. Elmor? Martin, Esq., Sheriff, Charleston County, Charleston, South ! Carolina?Dear Sir: I notice in this morning's issue of the News and Courier, page 8, column 5, under heading, 'Cycle Racing at Isle of Palms,' 1 that motorcycle races were held at : the Isle of Palms on yesterday, the J i j Sth instant, being the Sabbath day. \ I "I hope that you did not know that j these races were go'ng to be held, as j I s e nothing in the said article which shows any effort on your part to. prevent the same. "I hope that you will immediately proceed to indio; all who took part in aid races, or attempted to do so, and bring them before the proper tribunal for desecration of the Sabbath cay, and that you will keep a strict lookout in the future and have indicted and locked up in your county jail any j and all persons who shall attempt to j have any kind of races or other sports o' amusements, save sacred concerts, on the Sabbath. There are some things which possibly we can be excused for not hearing, if we did hear; and for not seeing, if we do see, but there can certainly be no excuse in the eyes of Go<* or man for allowing these things to go on upon the Sabbath. "It is true 'that the S^fbath was made for man and not man for the Sahhflth. but the Sabbath was intend ea as a day of rest and recreation, and for the worship and service of God, and certainly not for the purposes that these people put it to on yesterday. "I am mailing copy of this letter to Chief Constable Stothart, with instructions that he get busy also, and I hope 'that you will all see, in the j ^OAnio oKfv thp Sahhath. ! ill lure, iLicit j ? ~ , and the laws of this State, in the discharge of your official duties. "Very respectfully, (Signed) "Cole L. Blease, "Governor." "Copy to Mr. B. H. Stotharr, chief constable, Charleston, S. C." Letter to Chief Constable. The governor addressed the following letter to? Chief Constable B. H. ^totharr Columbia, S. C., June 11, 1913. "B. H. Stothart, Esq., Chief Constable, 69 Society Street. Charleston, S. C.?Dear Sir: It is thought aloud ! around here that John P. Grace's idea j in closing up everything so tight in Charleston on Sunday is to drive everybody to the Isle of Palms and , that a bar room is to be run open and above board ov- r there. It is said also that Mr. Grace is boarding at the ho el in Charleston with tli gentle- j man who owns the Isle of Palms bus- , iness. As to those rumors I do not know. However, notify the Isle of Palms pcopl-? immediately upon re- j i ceipt of this letter that not a drop of wine, whiskey or beer can be sold or served there, and if these orders ar.j violated you ar-e hereby directed to seize all the goods and o arrest the j people violating the law, and if you ' cannot do this I will get a man who ! can. Attend strictly to this, immediately, and fail not on penalty of the loss of your job and the jobs of your men just as quickly as the telegraph -.vires can transmit th message. "Very respectfully, (Signed) "Cole L. Blease, "Governor." Mayor Grace was informed at a 1 -a- i i?i. -: 4- * e late IlOlu iabt lugut ui (jru>cinui Blease's letter to Chief Constable Stothart. The mayor said that he had no statement to give out last night. SNOW IX TVRHEELIA. i Three Inches FjiII in Mitchell County, ' I Bristol, Va.. June 12.?A dispatch from Bakersville, X. C.. says that three inches of snov fell in Mitchell county this morning. Cruelty to Animals. Neirro Hacknian Arrested by S. P. C. A. Officer Vaughn. i Greenville News, 5th. Tnhn Smith a rnlnreri hackman. was arrested en Tuesday afternoon by Officer Vaughn of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, charged with hard driving. The negro escaped from the officer and was arrested by members of the city police department on the charge of disorderly conduct. Smith was tried before the recorder yesterday morning and sentenced to serve thirty days on the city works. imiutJuia.Lcij' aiuci iic 10 i>-iv,u.ijvu he will be re-arrested on the charge of cruelty to animals. Mr. Vaughn has been unusually active of late and stated yesterday that he intends to have every dray and hack horse in Greenville in good condition or have them taken off the lines. SITTING IX JUDGMENT. People Think It Would Be Easy to Do the Other Fellow's Work. How easy it is to map out the lives of others for them, with the scale of distance and the points of the compass clearly indicated! How Simple, to point out when tbey have wandered I inextncaoiy irom tne airecuons 01 me chart, the other better way we would have taken in their shoes! The business of other people would be prosperous in our minding. We would ' have avoided by our astuteness, that abject and crying failure. We know just the short cut to take?or else the suitable, tactful, roundabout way; we were aware of the psychological moment and the striking hour; we could have advised the sapient plan, the forethoughtful method; we could have 1 divided infallibly the right thing to do and the right effectual fashion of doing it. With the whole record of , another's life spread out before us, albeit in an almost illegible scrawl, it is no hard task to point out the abounding errors iD grammar and in spelling. In th? fair copy we would Tv-i o rl o the nrthnornnhv WOllld lid. * ^ lllUUV) llMV V* W44VQ* ) -w ?? - ? have been faultless. The firm-handed transcription would have mirrored a life at peace with itself, moving from strength to strength, making few j errors and those excusable. We look first cn the picture of the wreck that is due to piteiabl mishandling, then j we contemplate with satisfaction our own contrasting mental vision of shining success and luminous victory. If we only had their chances, what would nnt do with them! Isn't it a pitv to " ~ ~ - I see them spendthrifts of their golden opportunities. With all they do or say or think we are at variance. At the risk of giving pain, we must disWortliy Object. Mrs. Brady?Och, Missus O'Toole, ! vez be worrukin, noight an' day. Miss O'Toole?Yis, Ol'm under bond j to kape the pace for pullin' the hair o' that blags*ard Missus Murphy;, the j ? ~ a . 1 .5 ?. - A ' ^ /m i /-. V* j'\ rl j r* juuge louiu me as u wi iuuuuvu u ? again he'd foine me tin dollars. ^Trs. Brady?An' yoz is worrukin' hard so's to kape oten mischief? Mrs. OToole (between her teeth) ? Xo: Oim saving, eop the foine.?Xew York Globe. THE NEWS OF P0.1IAKIA. Assistant Teacher Elected?Fourteen For Ganihlin??Nice Park? Heavy Iliins. Pninnria. S f!.. .Tune 11 ?Mr. Qeo. S. Setzler has two boys with typhoid J fever, that are right sick at this writing. There are several cases reported in the adjoining community. Fourteen gamblers were before Judge A. L. Aull, on Friday. Thirteen negroes and one white man. All plead guilty and were fined $10, or twenty days on the chain gang. They paid the dollars and went free. They j were caught by Rural Policeman Tur- | ner on June 1st. Mr. B. T. Richard- ' son was wih Mr. Turner and they watched the crowd playing till about 3.30 on Sunday morning, to be sure that they were gambling. There is a pretty grove being trimmed near the old Holloway home which will be used for the barbecue grounds each year.' It is a lovely grove and has two springs which will afford plenty of water, and make a very nice park. There was considerable storm here last week wi h a display of lightning, hail, wind and torrents of rain. All of which did much damage to the the little truck. Several houses were reported blown off the pillars and th covering torn off and lots of tre-cs including fruit trees were broken off. The rain las:ed over an hour and all the creeks and branches were very much swollen. ' Messrs. G. B. Aull, W. B. Boinest, I and H. F. Counts went to Columbia on the excursion last week to attend , to some business. ! Miss Lucy Ligon, has been elected assistant teacher here in the new school building. We think this a wise selection, so we have two good teachers for another year, which will be a great help to the town and community. Mr. Campbell Lake, a junior at Lenoir college, Hickory, N. C., will go to the Northern countries to sell autoharps and wares during the summer months of his vacation. There has been a lot of rain in and around Pomaria which has thrown the farmers very much behind with their work and has given the grass a good start on them. There are quite a number from our town that are taking in commencement at Newberry this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Halfacre, visited at Mr. Geo. W. Halfacre Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs. Allen Counts, of Newberrrv, visited at Mr. Jo? Boland's first of the week. Rev. S. C. Morris and family spent Monday at Mr. Geo J. Wilson. Mr. E. B. Feagle and family spent Saturdav night and Sunday in Poma ria. Mrs. C. W. Sawyer and little son, left Saturday for Concord, N. C., to visit her old home. She will be away for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hatton went over in iFairfield last week to visit the latt-er's mother, returning home Monday. Mr. Quincy M. Kinard died at his home about four miles west of here on Sunday, and was buried at the old family burying ground near Jolly Street on Monday, me lunerai was at his home and was preached by Rev. J. A. Linn and Rev. Y. von A. Riser. Mr. Kinard was 60 years old and was a member of Bethlehem church. He leaves a wife and several children to mourn their loss. Miss Lawson Link of Abbeville, is I visiting Mrs. W. C. Summer. >'o Job Was Better Than That One. The Free press relates that a well : known but broken down Detroit newspaper man, who had been a power in U : A nv nnnrno^lloH ail nlri frionri the ! Jlia uaj, d|;pi uuv>uv/u ***. w ? __ other day in the Pontchartrain Hotel and said: < "What do you think? I have just j received the prize insult of my life. A j paper down in Muncie, Ind., off'red a job." "Do you call that an insult?" "Not the job, but the salary. They i offered me $12 a week." "Well," said the friend, "$12 a week , Horror- thnn nnthinST." "Twelve a week?thunder!" exclaim- : ed the old scribe. "1 can borrow more than that right h* re in Detroir. Xof every fortune hunter is a good shot. THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY. The Reaper Saddens Another Home. Oil Mill Makintr Summer Run. Personal Mention. Prnsnpritv. .Tune 12.?Again death has visited our town and saddened the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Saner, when God called their lirtle son, C. F, Jr., from his earthly home For many weeks the little fellow has been a great sufferer and put forth a noble effort for life. H-e died .June 10 and was laid to rest Wednesday morning at the Prosperity cemetery under a mound of flowers. Mrs. .J. F. Browne and little Elizabeth Brown and Rebecca Harmon are visiting in Columbia. Th^ Prosperity Oil mill is making a summer run, in order To supply the surrounding country with meal and hulls for cattle. Mr. J. H. "Witherspoon left Saturday for Titusville, Fla. Mrs. A X. Crosson and Misses Ethel Counts and Grace Burton Reagin were shoppers in Columbia Thursday. Mrs. T. L,. Wheeler was taken to the Columbia hospital Monday for an op-ration. Mr. S. J. Kohn was a business visitor to Columbia Wednesday. Mr. S. S. Birge is visiting in Columbia. Miss Isoline Wyche, who has bten teaching Terado, Xev., is home for the summer. Mr. Will Havird and children have | returned to Silv-ersireet after a visit ' to Mr. B. B. Hair. ! Miss Ellen Werts had as h^r guestTuesday Miss Annie Mae Bedenbaugh, | of Kiblers Bridge. Chief of Police J. C. Duncan has rej turned from Columbia where he attended the funeral of. his brother, Pre' siding Elder Duncan. \fr a TT Kohn. treasurer of the J Carolina Life Insurance Co., of CoI lumbia, was a business visitor here ! Monday. Messrs. J. W. Long and 0. 0. Sh-ealy have returned from several days' stay in Columbia. Dr J. I. B denbaugh was in Colum| bia Wednesday visiting his patien't, Mrs. T. L. Wheeler. Dr. J. .J. Dominick took a patient to the hospital Tuesday. Mrs. Roy Kohn is visiting her parents in Columbia. Mr. V. E. Kohn has moved into the Kchn house in Mill street. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. San-er wish to extend their thanks to Their many friends for their kind sympathy and attention during the illness of their little son, C. iF. Saner, Jr., and for their lovely floral offerings. She Broke it to Him Gently. It was only a short time after Lulu McStubbins was married that the stratling truth was forced upon her, that her young husband was not ex' actly a teetotaller. One evening a few I weeks after the wedding that strict I cold water crank, Papa McStubbins, dropped in to ca1!. He found his daughter all alone. After a while he asked: "Where is Christopher?" "Well, the fact is, Christopher isn't feeling very well this evening." I "Is that so? What seems to be ti-e matter?" "Well-er-the fact is-er-Christopher j is suffering from a bad attack ofof-propinquity." "Dmninnnifr?nrnnin n 11 i f- v." reneat I 1 WJ J^/A ed the puzzled old gentleman. "That's a disease I never heard of. I guess you must be mistaken, daughter." "0, no father. Let me explain. Propinquity means nearness, doesn't it?" "I guess so." "And to be near is to be close, isn't it?" "Em-yes-yes." "And when we speak of a man as beins: close we mean that he is stingy don't we?" "Sure." "And when a man is stingy we call him tight, don't we?" "I beli-eve so." "Well," she concluded with a sigh, "that's what's the matter with Chris topher."?Fun. Prosper!!;/ f >i!ows a catnn<J?r.? r,f education. TV1 them about Anderson and the ma 1/ in 3uc?himks offer-d by Anderson 1 ier lir.'i'.s; and reap 'he itward of that information.?Anderson Mail. "THE DUTCH PROPHETS Amateur Forecaster Talks of Weather Conditions and Prospects. The State, 12th. W. P. Houseal, of Columbia, who is (known eveywhere in South Carolina as the "Dutch weather prophet," has not r. tired from the special series of forecasts of temperature and pre, cipitation in which he has achieved i State-wide notoriety, but it is well : known in the city that some of his recent predictions have been fulfilled to the letter. Mr. Houseal said yesterday that he Via/i iioon Hpv'ntiriff more time to the j study of causes of weather changes I the past year than to making predictions' through the newspapers. He has given out, however, quite a numj her of predictions casually as he j would come and go in attending to his regular business as a newspaper man. At the beginning of the year he predicted a short fruit crop' in , many sections, especially of the peach, crop, which would be almost a total , failure in sections in the north where some of the choicest fruit is produced. , The unusual warm weather in Jan ' uary and February did not deter the j "Dutch weather prophet" from prei dieting that March and April would 1 show lower temperatures than either < of the two winter months of 1913. | Then also a series of unseasonably : cool periods was forecasted to occur i at regular intervals of a fortnight j through April and May, and the in| fluences at work which caused these | unseasonable periods would come to I a climax with a similar cool period I in June. 30 days from it'he similar per iod in May. The population just at this time, while they shiver at 54 degrees in an inclement temperature, have not forgotten so soon-' that fires were comj forTable May 10-13. If they read the j newspaper carefully they also will recall that killing frosts occurred on the northern boundary of the State ^ 'and wer-e disastrous 10 vegetables and fruit from that point still northward, i There was one element of weather, however, Mr. Houseal said yesterday, in talking about the cool periods, that i)?0Dle he meets every day desir ed very much, and which at the time he could give no hope' that would be . forthcoming when they wanted it, and that was rain in May. Early in the year his prediction was that the absence of rain in May would amount to a drought, and he set May 21 as the day when the drought would be broken. The "Dutch weather prophet" was obdurate. He J would not change the forecast. The ! rain came as predicted, insufficient in quantity in many sections, but abun- * ~ ~ J dant in others, it was a sianer, tlliu, as the Dutch weather prophet again. ' assured all inquirers, before a change came for a long peTiod of sunshine the showers would cover the whole country, adhering to the fortnightly neriods which rule until ithe summer ' solstice, which occurs June 20. The next general disturbance will centre around' June 19, owing to a major planetary movement on that date. Cool nights are to prevail during j the greater period of the summer, which Mr. Houseal says are the result of the four-year period that oci vaar nn March 22 and [ UUil^U LXiiU j VM,? ~ ? caused the Omaha cyclone and the Ohio flood, having been shifted from March 4 to the above dat-e by the j magnetic influence of the sun in connection with the position which the planet Jupiter assumed on ?that time. The assurance is also given by the long distance forecast of the Dutch weather prophet that the South Atlantic coast will not be visited' this year by a West Indian s!torm. The libowisp has? a con I lour-yeai" jm iuu .. _ ! trolling influence that'it nullifies at the equinoxial date the atmospheric movements which around the vernal equinox produces inland disturbances similar to the Omaha tornado of Easter Sunday. ><nv. \ow! j In olden times we used to hear With a pretty damsel drawing near. The swish of skirts 'gainst rows of Innn iav/^ That other skirts did richly face. | Xow when we hear h^r drawing nigh, Xo rows of lace to greet the eye The sound her movements doth unfurl, ! Is the swish of skirt ..gainst the girl.