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& : Slip Sambfrg foralb One DoDar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6,1914. Established 1891. ? t j COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS ' SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. c > News Items Gathered All Around the c County and Elsewhere. t Ehrhardt Etchings. a j t Ehrhardt, August 3.?War in Eu- s rope is all the talk now, and all fig- r ure what it means to the farmers, a Some have it that the cotton will not c be worth anything until the war ends, 1 and all kinds of prices are talked p % about by the farmers. How, then, f will the men who buy it for specula- a tion do when they know what the r farmer thinks of his own stuff? The (3 farmer who has corn, wheat, pigs and I beeves don't worry about the prices s he will get for his goods. He s knows that the people must eat; their clothes can be patched. Saturday night we had some excitement in town. It is reported that one Boy Brown went to church; on * his return he found some one in his ? house. His wife and her sister were * in the house at the time. He thought 1 he heard some noise more than us- * > ual.so he scratched a match and 6tart- < ed for his gun, when he was fired up- * on with a pistol and killed instantly. ? P* Two parties.were arrested and lodg- ? ed in the county jail, both colored, who are charged with iJeing implicat- < e<3. < It'seems as if life is worth very * little any more, and when a good 1 man is going around he is liable to 1 get shot by some worthless fellow ? trying to hide his mean Sets. I Some cotton getting ready for the i market in this section. s % wnais our Kcuucyi iuisicco uv<u& towards the school building? Sep- 2 Member will soon be here and nothing done. c Plenty of rain these days, it's fod- t der pullihg time; that's usually a 1 wet time. J Mr. Plemons accidentally shot a ^ young man, Mr. Frank Lemacks, Sat- 1 urday night. They were the beet of friends. They took an auto ride and 1 when on the ride tried to fire a pistol and it would not fire. Looking i at it, when they were in the light, c the pistol went off, the ball striking t young; Lemacks near the mouth, I knocking out three teeth and lodging' t in the neck under the tongue. The 2 ball has not been located. It is a t painful, if not serious wound. , J It is reported that one of our can- 2 didates is a talker that you read about. This party was talking to i one Mr. C. L. Brant last week and t entertained Kim so long and so well \ that he forgot his horse and other t duties around the house. When he came to his senses, by the admoni t?bn of his wife, his first thought was! ? for his horse's wants, as it was after s feed time. He rushed to the lot and ? 'hurriedly looked for the horse. Mr. Brant did not see him in his usual place and did not receive the usual whinker from his horse so he thought the horse was stolen. Mr. Brant spread the report that his horse was * stolen, and had his neighbors helping ? him hunt. When all were hunting * with the thought that the horse had I been stolen, all at once they raised ! the yell that the norse was found. All gathered together to pass their opinion of the loss. Mr. C. L. Brant's f horse was standing in his corn house, well satisfied with his surroundings and the way he had been served. v JEE. Denmark Doings. Denmark, Aug. 1.?Mr. John D. Milh6us and Misses Helen and Margaret Milhous, of Columbia are visiting relatives here. Misses Caro and Dorothy Hart, of Estill, are the guests of their sister, j Mrs. J. Wesley Crum, Jr. Mrs. J. K. Breedin, who has been j visiting her parents, the Rev. and i Mrs. J. D. Huggins, has returned to j tior homp in Mannine. I Dr. Joel W. Wyman spent Thurs- c day in Aiken. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bolland, of ( v Savannah, Ga., who have been the W* - guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Asen- i dorf, have returned to their home. i The Rev. and Mrs. H. G. Harden t left Monday for an extended visit to (Yorkville and other points in the up- i country. ( Mrs. Julia S. Payne has returned to her home in Washington. D. C.. i * after several months' visit to rel^- t I ' fives here. f Mrs. W. E. Osteen and children, of ( Florence, who have been spending several days with Mrs. Osteen's fath- ( er, Mr. H. C. Rice, left Wednesday : for a 6tay of several weeks at Paw- t ley's Island. Miss Hattie Rice acJ i companied them. ' Mrs. Corbett and Miss Marie Till- .' r* MEETING OF COTTON MEN. | 'resident of Association Plans Conference in New Orleans. S Atlanta, August 3.?Harvie Jorlan, of this city, president of the southern cotton association, today elegraphed representatives of the issociation througout the States in he cotton belt, suggesting the neces;ity for a mass meeting of farmers, nerchants. bankers, manufacturers r md all other allied interests of the * otton trade, to be held in New Oreans early in September. The pur>ose of the conference would be to 1 ormulate and adopt such measures 1 s might be considered necessary to v irotect the price of cotton from the lepressing influence of a protracted e Suropean war. President Jordan t aid that he believed this step neces- i ary to sound cotton interests. Retribution that Was Swift. * \ Cy Perkins and Jim Brady were 1 rom the country, the deep country, md they were unschooled in the craf- i y ways of swell cafes, says the Popu- a ar Magazine. They had spent the day t aking in a sights the State fair just mtside the big city, and they had nvaded the districts notable for tlectric lights, high prices, and poor lervice. After holding a caucus on a street :orner, they decided to go into one >f the high-class restaurants and lave dinner. After delaying them 'or the proper length of time, a vaiter approached them and hand>d them a menu. Incidentally, he )iled up in front of them the usual mposing array of cut glasss and iilver. 2 "We might as well go in and get t square meal," said Jim Brady. Cv Perkins assented, and they jrdered for dinner practically everyhing on the menu from the soup to luts. At the conclusion of the meal, j Tim Brady produced & silver dollar, vaved his hand in a lordly manner oward the waiter, and said: "Take the damage out of this, and ceep the change." The waiter came as near to lookng embarassed as any city waiter 'ould, and ventured to remark that . he bill was more than a dollar. He iresented it in writing. ? It amounted o nine dollars and sixty cents.' Jim, ifter taking one angry glare at the c otal, produced the ten dollar note md stalked out of the restaurant Vi o y} fr lu^au ui On the sidewalk Jim,.after indulgng in a profane duel with nobody, lttered this prophecy: "Cy, some day heaven will punish hose men for that." " Jim,said Cy reverently, "Heav:n has punished them already. I've jot fifteen dollars worth of silver ipoons in my pocket." Summer Fiction. "My dear boy, you haven't changid a particle in the last thirty years." "Dear wife: This is the first opporunity that I have had to write to you :ince you went away. I have been oo busy." "Universally proclaimed by pulpit, >ress and public to be the greatest >lav of modern times." "Mr. Chairman, I rise with the greatest reluctance to say a few vords." "I don't know whether you owe us mything or not, Mr. Trimmer, but '11 look up your account and report." a "Harry. I wouldn't say a word to c lurt your feelings for the world, > >ut?" i "I admire your nerve, old man."? s 'ortland Express. f ; r nan have -eturned from a stay at Ty- c >ee. Ga. Mr. and Mrs. J. Roland Griffin have r eturned to their home in Lynchburg, i ifter a visit to Mrs. Griffin's father, dr. George W. Hightower. Mrs. M. J. Owens and Mr. Durant )\vens, of Lyndhurst, are the guests ^ >f Mr. and Mrs. John R. Minor. Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Clark, of Columbia, have returned after several days* visit to Mr. Clark's grand- q nother, Mrs. Alicia Cooper. C Mrs. Gedney M. Brown, of Flor- ) snce. is visiting Mr. H. C. Rice. t Miss Daisy Tillman has returned, r ifter an extended visit to Meldrim. q }a. v Mr. Herman E. Cohen, of Rich- s nond, Va., spent several days here v his week. s Mr. Counts Hutto, of Savannah, c 5a., is visiting relatives here. t Misses Isabel Strait and Ruby c 5uess have returned from a visit to I dr. and Mrs. J. P. Guess, at Apple- j on. v Maj. John Black and Messrs John, r lr., and Walker Black are visiting r dr. and Mrs. J. A. Walker. a \ v N THE PALMETTO STATE iOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. itate News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs About V Men and Happenings. 4,676 voters are enrolled for the irimaries in Orangeburg county. The ote in 1912 reached 4,356. Mail service has been instituted on he two Coast Line trains recently >ut oil between Atlanta and Sumter ia Augusta. Sumter has just concluded a boostt trip through the section adjacent o that city. The trip was a prolounced success. A machine for the maturing of coton bolls was demonstrated in Barnveil county last week, the result beng reported satisfactory. Mr. Quincy Kennedy, of Williston, s among those marooned in Paris on iccount of the war in Europe. The rans-Atlantic steamship lines have learly all suspended service, hence he difficulty in the Americans getting lome again. The governor has issued a statenent in which he denies the statenents of Candidate Norman Creech, >f Barnwell county, to the effect that he governor vetoed the app'ropriaion of $30,000 for eradication of the attle tick, and that the governor * - - r*? 1 ~ c uspenaea .Magistrate rowies, m vuumbia, because the latter issued cerain warrants against Creech. The ,'overnor states that the statements ire untrue, and has demanded a corection -from the Barnwell legislative ispirant. UNUSUAL CHARGE TO JURY. fudge T. S. Sease Pleads for Compulsory Education. Spartanburg, August 4.?Inasmuch is the question of compulsory educaion is one of the leading issues of he gubernatorial campaign, now on, nuch attention has been attracted by udge Thomas S. Sease's references o the subject yesterday in his charge o the grand jury at the opening of he court qf general sessions. Judge lease devoted most of his address to ompulsory education, which he tronglv approves and which he ad'ised the grand jury to recommend to he legislature. In part Judge Sease aid: "It is strange, gentlemen, if comrnlsory education is a bad thing, that orty or forty-one or two States of his nation, the greatest nation on sarth. have adopted some law along he line of compulsory education. "The State owes it to itself to proect itself. The State is a perpetuity, t goes on forever. There is no progressive legislation unless it takes ino consideration the future happiness ind well-being of the generations hat come after. You and I in our ife time would probably see no benifits directly flowing from a compulsory education system, but those :oming after, fifty years from now, could see it. "Ignorance is the prolific field of lemagogy. Therefore, gentlemen, I iave no hesitation in saying that if ou come to the conclusion, after lue consideration, that this county md State needs a law along the line >f compulsory education, say so in our final presentment. You may gnore it. I can't compel you to conider it one way or the other. It is or you, as to whether or not you will ecommend such things "for the good if the order' so to speak. "1 laKe 11, geilWCUJCU, mai mcos emarks that I have made are not mproper." BODY TO BE EXHUMED. A'idow Fears Husband May Have Been Victom of Plot. Florence, August 4.?At the reluest of Dr. Graham, of Cowards, 'oroner J. L. Gunn went to that plac6 .londav for the purpose of exhuming he body of a .Mr. Miles, who died lear there a few days ago. The reluest was upon the insistence by the vidow of the late Mr. Miles, whom he fears was the victim of a plot vhich resulted in his death. It is tated that Mr. Miles had taken a Irink of whiskey to relieve a pain hat he was suffering with, and it was inly a short time before he was dead. it, fnrttior cfaTprl-flint it mieht be >ossible that poison was put in the vhiskey, and with that idea uppernost in her mind, the widow made a equest for the body to be exhumed ind examined. XO COTTON GOING ABROAD. Steamship Coni|>anies Serve Xotic on Railroad Companies. Columbia, August 4.? Pursuant t the notice served by ail trans-Atlan tic steamship lines upon railroad com pany agents throughout the cotto: belt, local railroad agencies were to day notified that the cotton expor trade is at an end for the time being . The principal Southern ports ship ping cotton directly to Europe ar Galveston, New Orleans, Charleston Wilmington, Savannah, Norfolk, Mo bile and Pensacola. POLICEMAN KILLS BIG NEGRO Who Attacked Him, Shooting is De clared Justifiable. Charleston, July 27.?Joseph Ro per, a negro, was shot and killei Saturday night by Policeman Georg McNaughton, who fired while lyin; on the ground, after the victim, wh was large and powerful, had attacked him and was beating him over th head. The affair occurred abou 9:45 o'clock in the vicinity of Tradi street, and the trouble arose whei Policeman McNaughton ordered Rc per and three other negroes to mov on. To this order, it was testified t at the coroner's inquest, Rcper be came offensive and retorted "No pc lice can move we tour." Upon ar rest. Roner offered resistance and fight between the two ensued. At the inquest yesterday morning resulting in a verdict of jastifiabi homicide. Samuel Sanford. who wa among the men with Roper at th time of the shooting, testified tha Roper was intoxicated and acted die tastefully upon the officer's command Policeman McNaughtun also testifie and his story, in suostance, was iden tical with Sanford's. Two shots were fired by the officei one taking effect in Roper's lef breast and the other in the left am The breast wound v. as near ;he hear and caused instant death,Roper dyin in the police automobile ca the wa to the hospital. JURY ACQUITS GOLDBERG. Spartanburg Merchant Found Xc Guilty of Murder. Spartanburg, Aug. 3.?Abe Golc berg, a well-known merchant, wa found not guilty of the murder c Chas. C. Kennedy after a short trig in the General Sessions Court toda} Self-defence was his plea. Kenned} rushing at Goldberg with a knife, ra into a broomstick which the merchac held and received fatal injuries Goldberg was exonerated by the coi oner's jury, but himself asked to b tried. TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Little Children Die While at Play i Barn. Aiken, Aug. 3.?Although Aike county has experienced many sever electrical storms this season, the firs toll of life was exacted yesterda afternoon about 4 o'clock, when littl Alvin Boyd and Ethel Ready wer killed by lightning on the place c Mr. Nathaniel Bovd. near Talatha. The two little children were plaj ing in the barn with Nick Boyd, age ten. He ran in the house and tol his parents that the other two child ren had fallen, and when the peopl ran out to the barn they found tha they had been killed by lightning The little boy's jawbone was broke: and his clothes were torn to shreds The little girl was not burned ver much. A horse in the barn was als killed, but the barn was not demolish ed to any extent. KILLKI) BOA III>1X0 TRAIX. Itev. \V. Norwood Tillinghast, Wash ington .Minister, is Killed. Spartanburg, Aug. z.?nev w. l Tillinghast, rector of an Episcopa church in Washington, D. C.. wa killed by a train at Morganton, N C., yesterday afternoon at 5:3< o'clock. He was on his vacation am had been visiting D. R. Tillinghast a Morganton, who is the father of Prot J. A. Tillinghast, of this city, who i the cousin of the man killed. Prof Tillinghast received the news of th< death at midnight. It appears that .Mr. Tillinghas was taking the train at Morgantoi for Waynesville. He was bidding hi friends good, bye and lingered till th< train began to move. In some wa; his grip caused him to fall betweei the cars, it is thought, and he wa instantly killed. No further particu lars are known. Mr. Tillinghast was the son of Rev J. H. Tillinghast, of Eastover. ENGLAND DECLARES WAR e AGAINST GKRMANY FOLLOWING ULTIMATUM. o ? Greatest Naval and Military Powers n of tlie World Will Soon l>e - Invaded by War. t ' ?***?**??*?* * England's War Declaration. * e ? ? l* ? London, Augu6t 4.?The Brit- * * lsh foreign office has issued the * * following statement: * ^ * "Owing to the summary rejec- * * tion by the German government * * of the request made by his Brit- * * anic majesty's government that * * the neutrality of Belgium should * * b? respected, his majesty's am- * ^ * bassador at Berlin has received * * his passports, and his majesty's * * government has declared to the * * German government that a state * ^ * of war exists between Great Brit- * * ain and Germany from 11 o'clock * e * p. m., August 4." * ??**???*??# d 11 London, August 4.?Germany has declared war on Great Britain according to official announcement. London, August 4.?Great Britain declared war on Germany tonight. a The momentous decision of the British government, for which the , whole world has been waiting, came , before the expiration of the time lime it set by Great Britain in her ulti e matum to Germany demanding a satt isfactory reply on the subject of Belgian neutrality. L Germany's reply was the summary ;i rejection of the request that Belgian neutrality should be respected. The British ambasador at Berlin . thereupon received his passports and t the British government notified Ger( many that a state of war existed be,t tween the two countries, g All Europe is in arms. T On the one hand. Austria-Hungary and Germany are opposed by Russia, France and Great Britain, Servia and Montenegro. Italy has declared her neutrality, * but is mobilizing. Belgium, Holland and Switzerland have mobilized, j The German demand that the Belgian government should permit the ^ free passage of German troops ^ through Belgium was answered by hasty preparations to resist such an advance across Belgian territory. Sweden has made no answer to inn quiries from Russia and Germany regarding her attitude but is prepar'' ing to defend her neutrality. Japan is making ready to live up to her alliance with Great Britain in case of certain eventualities. Spain is reported to be preparing a proclamation of neutrality, n Austria-Hungary for the moment has retired from the campaign against Servia for th? purpose of n holding back Russia, and Servia has e mobilized, with the reported inten;t tion of invading Bosnia, y Excited and clamorous youths e marching through that area of Lone don which corresponds to the Broad,f way district of New York may cause American visitors to carry home rer. ports that England is embarking on d war with a light heart, but those who d know this country realize the oppol_ site is the truth. e Young men have been parading t through the streets, carrying the unr ion jack and tri-color, with voeifern ous cheering, but the busiest section of the metropolis has not been v as crowded or as noisy as on minor 0 occasions of popular excitement. Crowds gathered about the government offices today and cheered the ministers whenever they appeared: the railway stations were filled with army reserves and territorials * in khaki, but the great mass of the people went about their ordinary occupations with serious faces. Opposition to the war has been al1 most dissipated by the events of the s past 24 hours except from sections '. of organized labor. 0 Two liberal papers, the Chronicle 1 and the Daily News, have come into t line and are supporting the govern'. ment. s David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, announced in the a iinneo nf rnmmons his schemes for in suring shipping against war risks, t i 'Because this scheme is pronml11 gated in the midst of an emergency," s: said the chancellor, "it is not in any e sense a panic scheme prepared in an y emergency." i The committee of imperial defence s has labored on the plan for more than - a year, he said. Its aim was that in case of war British commerce . should not be interrupted by inability to secure war risks and to insure SAYS LET BANKERS MEET. Byrnes Thinks They Should I)iscus9 Handling Crop Funds. Aiken, August 4.?Representative Byrnes, who was in the city Monday, was asked about the suggestion that a conference of farmers be held to devise a plan to assist in marketing the cotton crop. He stated that he approved of the suggestion, but deemed it far more important that the bankers' association of the South should hold a conference to devise a plan whereby the fifty million dollars to be deposited by the Secretary of the Treasury in Southern banks would be equitably distributed so that these funds would reach banks in rural communities, and not be deuosited in a few large banks and loaned only -to those banks which do business with them, as was done a year ago. He stated that he had already made this suggestion to the officers of the South Carolina bankers' association. RAILROADS TO ARBITRATE. Take Advice of President Wilson to Avoid Strike. Washington, Aug. 3.?Managers of ninety-eight Western railroads, urged by President Wilson to place patriotism above property interests, consented today to arbitrate their differences with 55,000 enginemen and firemen and prevented what threatened to be one of the most extensive transportation strikes the country has seen. / > Virtues of Parlsiennes. Mme. Marcel Tinarye, the author, in a causerie on La Parisienne recently corrected some of the notions prevalent in England and elsewhere regarding French women. She characterized as an absurd legend the opinion that the Parisienne is fickle and frivolous. Appearances, it was admitted, are often against her, for in a drawing room she sometimes looks like a doll, but in realty is a strictly honest woman and an excellent mother, only she does not make a parade of her virtues. She ?c rather inclined to conceal them. ** The Pari6ienne is practical. She knows how to give tTerself the illusion of luxury on a modest revenue. ' . Her ingenuity is marvelous. She can V make the simplest room look refined and attractive. Many Parisiennes make their own clothes and hats and can cook an excellent dinner. They know the shops where they can get the best valuee for their money and the dates of the bargain sales. She is a born coquette, but her apparent lightness is only a veneer, lightness is only a veneer.?London Mail. CHAMPION PILL SWALLOWER. London Man Took 78 a Day for Five Years. Sir Thomas Beecham, the wealth-, iest of the new baronets, would be even wealthier if there were more men like William Jessup, who, in 1816, was sued by his apothecary for his bill. Jessup was one who emphatically did not take Shakespeare's advice, "Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it." In the course of the action it was proved that between 1791 and 1816 Jessup had consumed 226.934 tlio fivA vnorc r* IpiilO. UUllUg Hit. H?C VM1 ?J yi vvvv? ing the action he had averaged 78 pills a day, and in 1814 he swallowed no fewer than 51,590. Notwithstanding this and the addition of 40.000 bottles of medicine Jessup lived into his 60th year. that insurance rates should not go so high as to cause any considerable rise in prices. "We are perfectly convinced," said I he, "that with th^ protection of the I British navy we can make certain of that vital condition." The chancellor expressed the hope that the time for putting the scheme into operation has not arrived, but if it had, the plan would relieve the anxiety of shipping interests. Thousands assembled tonight before Buckingham palace until the king and queen, the prince of Wales and Princevss .Mary appeared on the balcony. Austria Turns to Russia. Xish. Servia, via Saloniki. August j 2.?Austria appears for the present I to have abandoned her aggressive campaign against Servia. in order to prepare for possible Russian attack. Most of the Austrian troops, who were concentrated at Semlin. have been moved to an unknown destination. The few troops remaining conduct a desultory bombardment of Belgrade.