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v > ?hp lamberg fcalb > One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1914. Established 1891. ' ! 1 " ' w .*rv??T^.Twn STATE CANDIDATES SPEAK CHAIRMAN FOLK DENOUNCES THE GOVERNOR. All Candidates Given a Respectful Hearing.?Meeting Decidedly Anti-BJease. TTTi+v U P TTolb Y? 1 kU 11, V/. * ing, the campaign meeting for seekers after State offices was opened here Wedne8L*.y morning at 10:30 with prayer by Rev. W. H. Hodges, pastor of Trinit* Methodist church, who prayed hat the candidates rememb?r that thiy wer^ neighbors and that they be mindful of the golden rule and temperate in their language, , At no time was there any evidence of a desire on the part of the crowd whch numbered poesibly 600, to be boisterous, and each candidate was given an attentive hearing. A distinct departure from the usual conduct of such meetings was the reading of a statement by Chairman , Folk, in which he denounced the con duct of the governor at the senatorial meeting here On the 29th of June, when, in answer to questions from Mr. Folk, the governor tore up and spat upon a copy of a telegram, which was handed him by the chairman and included in the questions propounded. The statement ^ follows: Statement by Mr. Folk. "I want to thank those of this audience who were present at the senatorial campaign meeting for the splendid order that, under the circumstances, was maintained and for giving each speaker an attentive hearing. "I commend you especially because ; had I realized, as many of you did, what happened, I would not have remained silent as you did, and the governor, notwithstanding the presence of his armed body guard, would have apologized then and there or he would not have spoken from our platform that day. s "My unfortunate physical disability?blindness in one eye?prevented or, rather, spared me from witnessing v the disgraceful spectacle of the governor of our proud old State tearing up and, as an insult to the Democratic party, of which I am the head in this county, spitting upon a paper containing pertinent and legitimate questions propounded in the name or the Democracy of Bamberg county, by the chairman of this meeting. "Such an act cannot be justified or approved of even by his most blinded and partisan followers and was but a spontaneous portrayal, by himself, of his ill-breeding and the lowness and dirtiness of his character. It would be ugly in the extreme coming from the ignorant lackey boy around a third-class livery stable, where the governor probably learned his code of manners, but utterly unpardonable coming as it did from the governor of a proud State. "This insult was primarily aimed f at me, no doubt, but it was no less an insult to every Democrat of the county, for, by virtue' of your votes, I am the head and spokesman of our party, and an insult to me as your county chairman, is an insult to every Democrat in the county, and should be resented as such. "But why did not the governor answer the Questions? They were sim pie, pertinent and legitimate and read as follows: Telegram. *' 'In the primary you swore to support the nominees of theparty. I supported you as the nominee for governor. Are you support^ ii^g me as the nominee for master? If not, why not? Answer. (Signed) <"H. C. FOLK.' Question. " 'Is a man who violates his oath at the ballot box a fit person to senr to the linited States senate?' "These were the questions. Why did he not answer them? Surely he did not find himself in a hole from which he could not extricate himself by foul, if not fair means! "But it is a fact that he did not answer, and by his failure to do so r has he not admitted that he perjured himself at the ballot box? Has he not admitted that one Vho perjured himself at the ballot box is unfit to be sent to the United States senate? These are the legitimate conclusions to be drawn from his actions and by them he stands self-convicted of the charges preferred. * "Why then does he not retire from r the race? "Oh! he says he stands as the friend of the poor man! "He has fooled us twice and he thinks he can fool us again. His record shows that he stands as tne (Continued on Page 8, column 4) w ' i . EXPOSED SECRETS OF NATION? I Magazine Men Accused of Revealing Panama Points. S San Francisco, July 10.?Warrants for arrest of Charles K. Field, g editor of the Sunset Magazine, Robert J. Fowler, an aviator, Riley A. Scott, a writer, and Ray. A. Dupem, a photographer, were issued today at the request of District Attorney John W. Preston. The charge . against all four is the disclosure of military secrete. The penalty is ten y years' imprisonment or a fine of $10,000. 1 In April the Sunset published an article, "Can the Panama Canal be e Destroyed From the Air?" 0 Reproductions of photographs tak- ^ en from an aeroplane and showing ^ some of the fortifications of the ca- 1 tho Son Frflnriano S Presidio accompany the text. As c soon as a copy of the number was called to the attention of the war de- c partment it requested Preston to in- a vestigate. c Field, Fowler, Dupem and Scott ' were served with the warrants and h taken before United States Commis- c sioner Francis Krull. They were re- E leased on their own recognizance. e At a special session of the Federal P grand jury tomorrow the -govern- f ment will present its evidence and P ask for indictments. The editorial comment of the magazine on one of the photographs against which the war department t nflrtirnlarlv comDlained was as fol r "" e lows: "This is one of the most signifi- ^ cant photographs ever published in v this country. Below the aeroplane from which the picture was taken lie the Nao6 islands, in the Bay of Panama, on which the United States govn ernment is mounting batteries of the j heaviest artillery in the world, to protect the Pacific approach to the ^ Panama canal. n "On the island, almost directly under the aeroplane, can be seen the emplacement for the most powerful weapon ever constructed, the first ^ 16-inch disappearing gun, which has g an effective range of about 12 miles. "Here is the significance of the ^ photograph: The aeroplane might have come in time of war from a bat- ^ tleship out of range of the big gun, .j flying a safe height and carrying 500 pounds of high explosive instead of a camera. Would not the big gun n be helpless against such a foe?" The editors described the circ'umo stance in which the photograph was . taken and who took it, adding: "Shortly afterward President Wil- n son issued an executive order forbidding such flights under heavy penalty. ^ The photographs made on this flight ^ probably are the only pictures that ev. ,, , n a er will be taken or tne canai irom i ^ the air except for purposes of war. j LEPROSY AT GEORGETOWN P Patienl Hafe Been Isolated by Health s Officers s A well-defined case of leprosy is ii under observation at Georgetown. The patient, a Georgetown negro, has t been isolated by the county health o officials and is under observation. n Information concerning the case b was obtained today from the office of t the State beard of health. Dr. F. A. d Coward, of the State board, is already o on the way to Georgetown, to ex- a amine the patient and make official v disposition of the suspect. PHARMACISTS IN SESSION. ? Of Twenty-seven Applicants Fourteen Pass Examination. ^ Greenville, July 14.?The South ^ Carolina State Pharmacists are in j session at CiiicK springs. ;uonaay t and Tuesday the State board of ex- b aminers gave the test to twenty-seven applicants, the following being successful: O. Z. Hicks, J. P. Sim- j mons, G. F. Bigley, J. M. Rhame, C. j. E. Harris. C. H. Legrand, S. B. Bri- ^ son, C. L. Stover, C. H. Milton, J. P. t Halford, P. L. Brannon, W. P. Gillan. j, L. Roy Cates and R. A. Williams. . XEW RECORD FOR ALTITUDE. V h Heinrich Oelerich, German Aviator, t Soars 4.75 Miles. c t Lepsic, July 14.?A new world's record for altitude for an aeroplane t was established here to-day by Hein- y rich Oelerich. a German aviator, who ] rose in his biplane 7,500 metres, or i approximately 24,606 feet, nearly a four and three-quarter miles. v The official world's record, 6,600 v metres, or approximately 21,654 e feet, had been established only on r July 9, at Johannisthal by Otto Lin- ]nekegel, another German aviator. . r See H. H. Hill for prices on c melons.?adv. c N THE PALMETTO STAT! OME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOU! KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. itate News Boiled Down for Qoicl Reading?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. By a vote of 70 to 6 at an electioi ield last week Walterboro voted t ssue bonds in the amount of $30, 00 for the purpose of establisbini rater works and sewerage for tha own. While preparing to attend the fun ral of Mrs. Medora R. Duncan, wid w of Bishop W. W. Duncan, at Spar anburg Monday afternoon, Mahilli Valker, an aged negro servant o he Duncan family, dropped dead he was deeply attached to Mrs. Dun an. , L. D. Jennings and W. P. Pollock andidates for the United States sen te, at Abbeville Tuesday emphati ally denied the charge that the: -'ere in the race for the purpose o elping to elect Senator Smith. Thi harge was made by the YorkvilT Inquirer. Mr. Jennings called on th< ditor of the Enquirer to produce tb " -Viortro r\T retract It nf I UUi U1 tV* *vv?t?v? ..r w. ering to withdraw from the race i roven. Cotton Grading in the South. gg We must never let up on this cot on grading question until the farm rs get into a position to get th eal worth of their grades above mid ling, and in a position also toikno^ . hether or not the b\iyer is righ ;hen he claims that a grade is be ow middling. Only a few days ago one of th< lost thoughtful agricultural leader a the South said to the writer: " m pnnvincprt that cotton buvers ge 441 vw" " \ " " " alf of the increased prices that th aills pay for grades above ordinar uality." In oth.er words, under ou resent system half of the hard-earn d wealth the farmer creates in qual ty of staple is confiscated by buy rs instead of going to the growers eedy wives and children. Ou riend then gave us an illustratioi I was in a cotton buyer's office las all," he said, "when a farmer cam' a with a few bales to sell. Ordi ary cotton was going at 12c am fraction, but the buyer told the far aer that as these bales were of su erior staple he would pay 14 cents r two cents extra per pound. Am hen Mr. Buyer told me that the cot on was really worth 18 cents o early 6 cents extra on the pound.' In other words, on eaca (rOO-poum ale the buyer made $20 clear profi y two minutes' sharp practice o bout one-third as much as the far ler and his family had made throug! . year of weary toiling and plannin; ?breaking the land in winter's cold reparing, fertilizing, planting ii pring; hoeing and cultivating unde ummer's suns and laboriously pick ag the crop in the fall. / How long will free people submi o such a system? How long wi] ur cotton growers be content to b aere laborers, surrendering all th usiness side of farming to alien in erests? "Who makes himself a wore aust not complain if he is troddei n." If cotton farmers shut their eye nd invite buyers to do their worsl /hat may they expect? It is true of scores of markets al ver the South that there is no rea ompetition among the buyers. Th /riter has himself witnessed the pri ate signaling by means of whic! uyers would "divide the spoils," a he farmer's cotton comes into sight luyer A makes his bid and Buyer }, C, D, and E do not interfere^ fo hey will take their turns with late ales. And with such a system it i Iways possible for the shrewd buy r to get the farmer's cotton fo such less than its real worth. W now, of course, that many hones uyers will not take advantage o he weak, but it is not fair for th aborer to be thrown bound and help ess before whomsoever wishes t lunder him. And it is not fair t onest cotton buyers for them to hav o compete with dishonest ones whei onditions give such an advantag o dishonesty. Well, then. .Mr. Farmer, let us pu his question squarely up to you "D ou know that cotton will be proper y graded on your market this fall? fnd if not, what are you going to d bout it? Take up the subject i] our county farmers' union. Or i ou have n't a county union, or oth r farmers' organization, just re nember that this is only one of lundred problems affecting the far ners' welfare which can be solve >nly through organization and cc iperation. Talk it over with you [J GUNTER TO SUCCEED TATE. G Head of Rock Hill Schools Rural 3 School Supervisor. Columbia, July 14.?Superintendt Lueco Gunter, of Rock Hill, has been appointed State supervisor of rural schools, to succeed Prof. W. K. Tate, who resigned some time ago to accept the chair of rural life in George 1 Peabody College for Teachers, Nash0 ville, Tenn. The acceptance of Mr. Gunter means much to the country 5 schools of the State, said J. E. Sweart ingen, State Superintendent of Education, in discussing the appointment. " Mr. Gunter is a native of Aiken ' county. He graduated from the State University in 1900. Since that 1 time he has *^en actively engaged in * teaching and in superintending. For the past three years he has acted as " superintendent of the public schools of Rock Hill. ' FEEDING A LINER. y Food and Drink Bill for One Comf pany $6,519,000 Last Year, s e The tdtal bill for food and drink - A T 1 .J ? V. ~ 0 01 tne ^iorin uerman juiuju iur tuc e fiscal year amounted to the enormous - sum of $6,519,000, as against $5,f 125,000 during the preceding year, according to the official report just made public by Oelrichs & Co., general agents of the company. The stokers shoveled into the ships' furnaces 1,791,013 tons of coal worth $7,768,868. During the pree ceding year the ships consumed 1,743,016 ton6 of coal, valued at $7,v' 581,370. ' For these two items alone, coal and provisions, the North German Llody spent during the year $14,e 287,868, a large part of which fell 8 into the coffers of Uncle Sam v;hile 1 a great Dart of the remainder went * to the Germans. All of the coal for e the east-bound steamers is purchased y in this country and the same is true r of provisions. For fresh meat alone during the year the North German Lloyd paid ~ $2,111,250; for fish, $737,750; game, ' $531,000; fresh vegetables, $163,000, r preserves, $313,250; while miscel11 laneous articles ran the bill up to 1 $2,662,750 more. 8 The passengers and crews con~ sumed 7.801,604 eggs; 2,925,287 oranges and 1,000,000 apples and pears. They drank 36,661 bottles of champagne; 168,516 bottles of other ^ wines; 291,998 bottles of beer, and 2,214,641 quarts of beer, in kegs, in addition to 428,914 bottles of min,, eral water. 3 NOT SO MANY GOOIXG CRAZY. t r Illinois Man Says Insanity is on the v Decrease, h g Chicago, July 14.?Dr. George A. ; | Zeller, of Peoria, 111., member of the a I Illinois board of arbitration, took r issue to-day with other speakers at - the meeting here of alienists and neurologists by denying that insanity t is on the increase. He asserted that 1 an apparent increase was due to ime proved .conditions that resulted in e minor proportion of such cases being reported. q Dr. Julius Grinker, of Chicago, a said that the primitive custom of casts ing defective children into the river again, might become a custom if better remedies could not be discover!1 ed. .1 Resolutions were adopted cone demning the use of liquor and urg ing public hospitals for inebriates. h WAITING FOR THE BOSS. s Labouehere Showed an American s r What British Reserve Was. r ' s Wherever Henry Labouehere went _ his strange and interesting personalir ly made itself known. He was one e of those men about whom numberless t good stories, authentic and otherwise, f J cluster. The following is a..true one e that appears in "The Life of Henry Labouchere," by Mr. Algar Labouch0 ere Therold: 0 Labouchere was appointed an ate tache to Mr. Crarapton, the British Q minister at Washington. During one e of Mr. Crampton's absences from the legation the young man had opport tunitv of exercising the official re0 serve and discretion for which the _ English diplomats have always been " so famous. An American citizen call0 ed one morning to see Mr. Crampton. q "I want to see the boss," he said, f "You can't?he's out," replied La_ bouchere. "But you can see me." Full line of Waterman's Ideal a Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store. d brother cotton growers. It is high i- time for something to be done.?The r| progressive farmer. i ' NEGRO WOMAN LYNCHED. ORANGEBURG COUNTY SCENE OF DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Negro Woman Confesses to Crime, and Summary Vengeance -is Dealt Out to Her. Elloree, July 12.?One of the most brutal crimes ever perpetrated in Orangeburg county, committed at midway between here and Vance late yesterday afternoon in a dense bay near the Two Chop public road, was brought to light thi6 morning, when the body of little Miss Essie Bell, 12 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bell, was discovered after an all-night search, foully murdered and carefully covered by the confessed murderess, Rosa Richardson, a negro woman, about 35 years old. A grim and a horrifying spectacle is witnessed today in that community. The body of little Miss Essie Bell, with her head beaten into a pulp by a lightwood knot, lies prepared for burial in the quiet home of Daniel Bell, while two hundred yards away, near the scene of the crime, swinging to a tree, is the body of her alleged assassin, Rosa Richardson, riddled with bullets. Guilt was established, the woman confessed, a volley fired, the unknown silent, sober men mopped their brows and dispersed. Thirty negroes who gathered near the scene of the crime, would have fired the volley if permitted, and went to console the griefstricken family. While the crime has cast a pall over the community, and hundreds of people have gone to the scene, there was no race feeling whatever evident. Story of the Murder. The facts substantially told were as follows: The murdered girl went to graze the family cow in a field on the public road a short distance from the home which was hidden from view by a dense field of corn. Just in front of this field on the opposite side of the road is the house where Rosa Richardson lived. Mr. Daniel Bell was reading his newspaper and the mother, Mrs. Bell, was leaving with one of her sons to board the afternoon train at Vance for Charleston. Mr. Bell was absorbed in reading and presumed that little Essie had gone to the station with her mother and would return with her brother. When the young man returned home without his sister. Mr. I Bell inquired for Essie and the young man told his father that she had gone to graze the cow when he saw her last. Mr. Bell immediately gave the alarm, and searching parties were formed. The whole community was scoured. Rosa Richardson was suspected of luring the girl in the woods, She, with her sister, was held during the night by some of the searching party. She told several disconnected stories, which led more strongly to the belief in her guilt. A message reached Elloree late during the night that the girl was missing, and the penitentiary bloodhounds were wired for, but it was later learned that they were out of the city. The suspected were rusnea to me Elloree guard house. Body Found. ' The local telephone being out of commission, connection was established at St. Matthews. Sheriff Salley was notified and Columbia was asked to have hounds make a crosscountry trip, but before either reached here the body was discovered, and a dash was made for the town guardhouse. Rural police, the magistrate and the intendant and several citizens of Elloree, who did all they could to protect the prisoner, were choked, thrown to the ground and the crowd held at bay by six shooters. The victim was placed in a [ waiting automobile, taken back to the scene of the crime. The woman was examined. Blood was on her clothing and other evidences of guilt was established. She confessed to the crime, without giving any reason for having committed it. The posse had tracked the little girl and the woman into the bay, both tracks fitting the shoes. The woman was tracked to her home, evidently returning after committing the deed. Xo Reason Assigned. There is no reason assigned for the deed, except that the woman was a bad character and had refused to work for Mr. Bell, on whose place she lived. On several occasions it is alleged that she grew dissatisfied and sullen, and the theory is advanced that she lured the little girl into the woods on the pretext of showing her something, and murdered her to get vengeance. Sheriff Salley, of Orangeburg, who was notified of the crime too late, reached here this af SALl HA IUI.M1 HUUltllW. Coroner's Jury Renders Verdict of Justifiable Killing. Saluda, July 14.?Joe Abney, alias "Boy" Abney, was killed by W. S. Adams, a young white man of the Owdom section of this county, at a negro supper Saturday night. It was brought out at the inquest Sunday morning that the white man and the ? negro became involved in a dispute and that the negro went home and secured his shotgun, and that the killing was done in self defence. The verdict of the coroner's jury was "justifiable homicide." Adams came to Saluda Monday and surendered to the sheriff and will remain in jail till his bond is granted. A single barrel shotgun, loaded, . 'ah ?? A T tt4 "! rr TlOPTft Qfl was iuauu 1 jiug ucoiug uvq*v( were several loaded shells and a bottle of whiskey. The wife of the dead man stated that her husband came to the house and got the gun and went into the trunk, where he kept the shells, and that he came and went in a hurry. He was killed on the place of P. L. Adams, -father of W. S. Adams, and about 200 yards from the home of the deceased. LANDSLIDE KILLS MULES. Driver Jumps From Wagon in Time to Save Himself. " Abbeville, July 9.?Two mules belonging to W. A. O'Bryant were killed Wednesday afternoon when from twenty to forty tons of dirt fell on 1 tham. The wagon to which they were attached was completely demolished and the driver barely escaped. Dirt was being hauled from a banK about fiteen feet high. The driver ! had just finished loading the wagon ' and was standing on the back of it when he noticed the wall of dirt move 1 and jumped in time to save himself. The mules seemed to know that the bank was about to fall for they started to run just as the wall of dirt gave way and caught them. PROHIBITION IN IDAHO. ' , . / Western State Will Probably Soon be "Dry" Territory. 1 s West Virginia became this month the ninth State to put into force a prohibition law. Idaho seems likely , to be the tenth. All three parties held their conventions in that State on Wednesday of last week, .and each of them adopted a prohibition platform. The Democratic platform pledged the Democratic members of thevLegislature to submit to the voters in 1916 a constitutional amendment forever prohibiting the liquor . traffic. The Republicans and the Progressives went further, not only pledging their votes to a constitutional amendment, but promising, in case that failed in the Legislature, to pass . prohibition statute. The amendment, > of course, cannot fail in trie J^eg[ islature if the three parties keep ? faith. [ This looks very much like prohibition. After such a declaration by i all the parties the Legislature must submit a constitutional amendment no matter what its political complex' ion may be. The people will still . have to vote upon it, but it is reason able to assume that they are likely ; to do so, since nothing but a general . demand could have produced such . union of sentiment in the three par; ties. Nor did the proposition go by default, either, for in the Democrati ic Convention, at least, there was a . sharp fight, though the plank finally won by a vote of 122 to 5.?New ? York Times. Russia is making great efforts to develop unproductive parts of the Caucassus by preventing river floods and increasing irrigation and canal I construction. i _ ternoon and viewed the remains. The body of Rosa Richardson was cut down and buried while the victim of this horible tragedy was laid to rest in the presence of a large crowd of grief stricken relatives and friends, at Gerism Baptist church. While the community where this crime was committed are steady and law-abiding citizens, and have always held themselves against mob violence the action of the posse, it appears, has appeased the horror of the crime. tviq nnitofi contimont nf hnth races seems to be in favor of the course taken in the case. The crime is the second one committed in that community within the past seven or eight months. Mrs. Sue C. Cannon, who lived in the Millican section, several miles away, came near losing her life some months ago at the hands of a colored woman, who has not as yet been apprehended. I