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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-08-27
You Can Have a Pretty Home
If You Can't Have a Fine

One.
Perhaps you can't have "a fine
house, to live in, but you can have
pretty one.
To begin with, we suspect you
can paint it, even if you do think
you can't afford" to do so. And
painted farm house will give you
a new distinction in your neigh bor'
hood, and will be a mark Of progress
your other neighbors may follow.
Then, arrange to plant some
shrubs and some bulbs of oldfash.
ioned flowers this fall and such
new trees as you need. The bios
soming Grape myrtle, with its pro-
fusion of beauty, is now adding
glory to many Dixie homestead,
and the fragrant mimosa is scent
ing the air with a perfume as rich
as that which marks the breezes that
blow sos* over Ceylon's Isle. "
Why do 1ore of our southern
farmers p these beautiful shrubs
around. their homes? Farmers in
coldeTclimates would pay heavily
to have them, but our farmers too
of them bessase perhaps
L
hood. u ~ Ord er the i, Ia Ia from 8 nursery.
There is indeed no excuse for
not having pretty home,
no matter how humble it is. We
have seen Negro cabins so beauti-
fully kept as to be more attractive
to the eye than some $4,000 homes
we have seen. The simple morn
ing-glory and plenty of cheap white
wash will make any place look beau
tiful if the grounds and walks are
well kept. In this connection, we
reprint again the famous Govern
ment recipe" for whitewasb and
would suggest that every reader
cut it out and put it away in his
Bible for reference-right between
the Old and New Testaments where
it can be easily located.
But before putting it there, why
not get busy with it and whitewash
all the outbuildings on your place
and if you can't paint your house,
why. whitewasb it also? Now that
you have laid-by your crops, the
best work you can do is to beautify
your home. The whitewash recipe
follows:
ITO make the so-called Govern
ment whitewash,' slake half bush
ell of lime with boiling water. Cover
during the operation to keep in th i.
steam. Strain the liquid through a
fine seive or cloth strainer and add
to it a peck of salt, which has pre-
viously been dissolved in warm wa
ter. Then dissolve one pound of
clean glue by soaking it well OF
heating in dou lie kettle, and add
to the whitewash, together with
three pounds of rice, pounded fine
and boiled to a paste, and a half
pound of Spanish whiting. Then
place the compound in small ket-
tie, place this kettle into a larger
one containing water and bring to a
boil. When the substance begins
to bubble, remove it from the fire
and add FIVE gallons of boiling wa
ter. Cover it up and let stand for
a few days. When wished for use,
reheat and apply while hot.
"OoloriDg can be added in the
proper proportions to secure the
desired shade. Venetian red can be
used. For cream color, add yellow
ocher; for pearl or lead, add lamp
black or ivory black; for fawn, add
nroportionately four pounds of um-
ber to one pound of black; for stone
color, four pounds Of umber tv two
pounds of lamp black will give de-
sired results. .'-Progressive Far
mer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-08-27

signed. The souvenirs were in boot
shape with the colors of the italian
flag attached.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
MURDER OF NEGRO
BLAMED ON WOMAN
Daisy Holmes, Colored, to Stand
Trial for Death of Claude
Skinner.

After coroner's jury had held her
responsible for the death of Claude
Skinner, colored, who was shot To death
In house at l04 Pulliam Street Sat-
urday night. Daisy Holmes. a twenty
three -year-old negro woman. was hold
for further hearing yesterday morning
when nrraigned before Justice Crutch
neld in Police Court. After conference.
Justice Crutchfield agreed to continue
the hearing until July 10. The Holmes
woman claim sthat she shot Skinner to
prevent the negro man from stabbing
ner: Her own wound. which was self
inflicted In the fight, is not serious.
only few witnesses were examined
yesterday morning by Coroner TAYLOR
Ut the inquest into SINNERS death.
DAISY Holmes herself made no effort
to escape responsibility for the murder.
but declared In her account of the af
fair that she had shot In sclf-defense.
me jury returned verdict holding
hcr 10 blame for SINNERS death with
out noting mitigating circumstances.
she will plead guilty in Police Court.
and will trust to being dismissed after
the Justice has heard her story.
According TO her account, Skinner
had been drinking all day Saturday and
annoying her INCREASINGLY. After re-
pcatcd trips to her house. he finally
struck her on the head with a half
brick, and she fled in search of q re-
Volver. When he again attacked her
win knife, she fired point blank into
ms body as he held to her left arm
One OF the bullets from her gun passed
through her own arm, which Skinner
held, and the other entered the mans
left breast. He died several hours later
III the City Hospital
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
BOTH MEN CLAIM
STRONG SUPPORT
Interest in Brown-Koiner Fight
Grows as Date of Primary
Draws Nearer.

j. Thompson Brown. of Bedford
County, candidate for Commissioner
of Agriculture and Immigration in op-
Koiner. opened his speaking cam
paign at Martinsvlle. in Henry Coun-
~. yesterday. Mr.. Brown will speak
at II o'clock to-day at Charlotte
Courthouse. The contest for this DO
sition is one OF the most evenly bal
hnccd that the State has seen in years,
and while 1t has been quietly con-
Quoted so far. 1t may yet take prece-
den"e in public interest over the pend
Ing three cornered contests for Lieu
tenant Governor and for Attorney
General. Mr.. Brown opposed MIR.
Koiner four years ago. and for days
the result was In doubt the official
returns from every county being re-
CURED to settle the matter in Mr..
koiner's favor.
Since then both sides claim to have
gained strength. Roth are better
known throughout the State, and at
the Headquarters of each man names
are mentioned of influential men who
supported the other candidate before,
and who have been won over. Mr..
Koiner. n native of Augusta, and now
resident OF Richmond, has had eight
years in office. during which time he
mas visited almost every section of the
state. Mr.. Brown was member OF
tho Constitutional Convention, and was
for several years in the General AS
sembly. In recent years he has taken
active direction of his large farm In
Bedford County. and devoted much O:
his time to building up the Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Mt B!acksburg. having been an active
member OF the board of that institu-
tion for years.
There are no less than FIVE J. Thomp-
son Browns living In different sections
they are not related One of the most
amusing features OF tho campaign has
been a recent confusion between the
Bedford County candidate and j.
Thompson Brown, a Richmond real
estate agent. veteran OF the Confed-
crate service. who led the Virginia
delegation at the recent Gettysburg
reunion. Neither of tho candidates
is old enough to have taken part In
the war. Neither Is averse to having
the support Of the veteran vote, but
Mr.. Brown has found II necessary to
explain to some enthusiastic veterans
that he has no desire TO sail under
false colors. or to wear the laurels
which General j. Thompson Brown, OF
Richmond. recently gained by his skill
In looking after the comfort Of Vir-
ginia veterans at tho reunion.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
travelling public would encounter two
inconvcnicnt locations


The saving Of fifteen or twenty
minutes in time between Richmond
and the great cities is much TO be de-
sired. TO say nothing of the time which
the travelling public would save by
going to or from "A station convenient
y located to their places OF abode.
Visitors should be landed in the
growing section of city
There are already six trains over
the Richmond, fredericksburg and Pc
tomac Railroad which run in and out
OF Main Streec Station.
1t has been stated that, although
the Richmond. fredericksburg and Pc
toEiac train service to and from Main
Street station has increased 30 per
cent In five years, the Use of that sta
ton has decreased % per cent in ticket
sales.
1T has also been stated that the
Richmond. Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac handles over 100000 persons In
and out of Richmond per annum, and
GO per cent OF these use IIlba Sta
ton.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
would hardly spend millions o. dol
lars for improvements to sidctrack
itself or cripple one OF it's chief sources
Of income, viz. It's Richmond business"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
FORGERY IN MURDER PLOT.

Pottsville. Penn. July "a letter re-
Gently mailed to Mrs. Nellie Nye, liv-
Ing on Garfield Avenue, Schuylkill
Haven, and TO which the name of Dr.
j. a. Lessig, A well-known physician
OF Schuylkill Haven, was forged. con-
tanned powder with the written adj
vice that Mrs Nye take the contents
At once. Mrs. Nye. who was under
going treatment from Dr. Lessig, was
suspicious because OF the urgencP of
the note and did not take the powder.
but turned the letter over to post office
officials. who started an inquiry.
Investigation shows that DR.. Lessig
never sent the letter. and that the
powder contained ground glass, which
would have caused certain death within
n month.
Valentine Sehoenberger, postal in
spector, AMI other government officials
are trying 20 run down the sender OF
the letter. Several Schuyll1il Haven
citizens who have been mentioned as
concerned in the plot against Mrs.
Nyo have engaged lawyers to bring suit
against nelghbo-s said to have involved
them without evidence.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
HART WILL VOTE
FOR ENABLING ACT
But if Statewide Election Is
Ordered Will Favor
Local Option.

Although he expects, IL elected to tho
next General Assembly, to vote for the
enabling act NJ. ID. Hart. candidate
Tor the House in Hanover County, APP
parenty has no love for the Anti-Sa-
loon League of Virginia. characterizing
II In an open letter as political fad
for has beens.'"
Nelson Hughes, voter in the coun-
ty. recently wrote to Mr.. Hart for a
statement OF his views on certain
measures. and especially to know
whether. II elected. he would vote for
or against the enabling act. Mr.. Hart
replied as follows:
Dear S!r,-ln reply TO your letter
or June IA, mailed in Richmond july
., Will say:
Il Will vote for an enabling act pro-
vlded the same is so drawn that we
vote to retain our present local option
system or to abolish the sale Of liquor
throughout the entire State. Person
ally believe we people in Hanover
county have no right to dictate to
richmond what she will do in reference
TO the sale of liquor | believe il Is
our best interest TO retain our present
local option system OF laws. and shall
so vote when the question Is submitted
10 the people
We're II not for the principle OF
referendum involved, would vote
against the enabling act, so-called. out
and out The Anti-Saloon League did
the state good service when it ran
the low dives from the small towns
and unprotected country communities,
and there Its usefulness ends, in my
opinion, and to-day IT has become a
political fad for the has beens' to pull
up on popular band wagon.
Yours very truly,
M ID. HART"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
DIES HUnRYING TO RESCUE.
IL. v. Humphrey, RunninE 10 Aid
nnther. Victim of Heart DIacahc

nnther. Victim of Heart Disease
West Hampton Beach. L. l., July u
While hurrying TO the aid OF his niece
who had stepped into hole in the
canal here, Raymond v. Humphrey.
f"rtE-slX years old. a wcll-known law
yer OF Riverhcad. was seized with
an attack OF 2eart disease and fell into
the water. His wife and niece hurried
10 his assistance. but by the time they
succeeded In getting him from the
canal he was dead William, BiCclow
who has summer home on the canal.
with MS son George also aided in get
ting the man from the water He was
carried into tho BiScIow home
Humphrey. with his wife. who is
chief clerk In the surroSate's Office In
Iiverhead. and their niece, Miss Cora
MacAvoy, came here TO spend the day.
they decided 10 go in bathing in the
canal. Humphrey was n good swim
mer but neither OF the two women
could swim Miss MacAvoy was wad-
ing about in the canal when she
stepped into a hole and as she went
down she screamed. Humphrey was
some distance away. and he started
for her. but before he had gone far
ne collapsed and fell into the canal.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
WOMEN IN TROUSERS.
Accepted Style Among the Campers mt
Lake HOpntcong.

Lake Hopatcong. y. j., July 7.--Wom-
en- campers on the lake shores have
taken quite fancy TO male attire and
they are wearing khaki trousers al
most universally.
Most of the women don skirts when
they leave camp, but some of the less
thnid have gone so far as to appear in
stores and other places about Nolan's
Point IN their trousers. Some OF the
more puritanical are discussing having
measures taken to prevent their sisters
from "parading" in anything but the
accepted feminine attire.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
pABY DROPS THREE STORIES.
Shed Breaks Fall. However, and She
E.ScnpeH With RruIsrk

Philadelphia. Pa, July Had it not
been for shed. which broke her fall,
ii is likely that Ida Clineberg, two
and half years old, OF No. 77S South
Third Street. would have been seriously
injured If not killed yesterday, when
she fell from a third-story window at
the rear of her home.
She landed on the roof Of a shed on
the level OF the second story and then
rolled to the ground She was taken
to Mount Sinai Hospital. where il was
found that She was suffering from
minor bruises Of the head and body.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
Sweet Potatoes I'm
The Mountain
section.

Il have taken
charge OF y farm,
and am new in this
section, and hence
meet with condi-
tions l do not fully
understand JUST
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
MoToR-BoAT HITS SWIMMER.
Bathcr Ignores Warming md Foot liz
Caught in Propeller.

Philadelphia. Pa, July 7.-Disre-
earding repeated warnings. Charles
Kesnit. thirty-siX years old, of No.
445 Green Street. swan against a mo-
tor-boat in the Schuylkill River, near
Shawmont. yesterday, and nearly lost
his right foot when he collided with
the blades of the whirling propeller
Gustavc Knoll, of Shawmont who was
operating the boat. dragged the in
jured swimmer into the craft and
brought him to shore. He was re-
moved TO ST. Timothy's Hospital, where
the doctors believe they may have to
amputate his foot
kesnit. with a number of friends
from the city, was spending the day
in Shawmont. He was swimming in
the river when the motor boat passed.
When he started to swim out to the
boat. Knoll warned him to keep away
from the sharp propeller blades. Kes-
nit laughed at the danger, and swan
up to the boat, entanGling his foot and
leg in the wheel.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
Odds and Ends From the Wire

urdhys storm. Robert L D!etz. eigh-
teen years old. Of Lock Haven. shared
The fate Of Harry Arment OF this city.
VINO was Killed while fishing at Slack
water on the Conestoga. Dietx, who
was spending his vacation, was killed
at the home OF his brother in Drumore
township.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-08
DIG BIRD ATTACKS CHILD.
Supposed EnEIe Driven on by LittI,
Ones Mother.

''"FPV"cu THEIe OriVeh OH by LfttIc
Ones Mother.
Binghamton. n. Y. July 7.-William.
the little son of Martin Hunsicker, of
Chenango County, had q thrilling es-
pericnce Saturday with large bird,
believed to be an eagle. which tried to
carry him Off
The child was playing about the
YARD when the bird swoopcd down and
tried to fasten its talons in his hair
Mrs. Hunsicker heard the child's
screams and battled with the bird,
finally driving it away.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-10
LOBBY PROBE is EXPECTED
TO SWAY TARIFF REVISION

WASHINGTON, June S.-Neither
President Wilson nor the Democratic
managers of the two branches of Con-
gTesS could estimate to-day what eff
feet the Senate's remarkable lobby
investigation" is to have upon the
progress of the tariff bill, the cur
rency reform plan, or other business
Of Congress.
In the six days of grilling to which
it has subjected Senators themselves,
the investigating committee has Sc
cured information and opened up
channels of investigation that are
likely to have an important influence
upon the whole course of legislation
in the future. President Wilson :
charges that an unusually large lob
by" was engaged in trying to influence
changes in the tariff formed the basis
for the inquiry now under way, but it
has run far outside the scope of the
tariff, and has brought the Senate
committee up to the edge Of what is
expected to be one of the most search
ing ever conducted into the question
of Legislative Influences
Progress on the tariff bill has not
been hindered during the week by the
lobby investigation, but it is believed
tonight that before the reconstructed
Underwood bill finally gets into the
senate LOT ubDdle the lODDy llIR
ton will have become a direct issue in
the fight. None of the alleged lobby
ists' has been questioned as yet but
facts brought out by Senators on the
witness stand, and the course the
committee has determined upon for
the future. make it clear that Con-
gress will be urged to consider:
A registration law, requiring every
lobbyist" legislative agent, or other
/
person who comes to washington TO
influence Legislation to at once iden-
tify himself and the interests he rep
reSents.
The condemnation, and possible
prohibition, of the present system of
manufacturing sentiment in state
to influence that States Senators or
Representatives upon any certain
legislative matter.
The chief influence of the lobby in
quiry upon the present tariff revision
probably will come in connection with
the sugar and wool fights, around
which will wage much of the forth
coming tariff debate in the Senate.
Well organized and extensive cam
paigns have been shown to exist on
both sides of the sugar tariff ques-
ton, and systematic activity by the
wool protective forces has been teStl-
fed to by many Senators.
President Wilson's friends in the
Senate are gathering material as the
hearings progress to support his
free sugar stand by an effort to show
that Louisiana, Hawaiian and Porto
RiCan cane growers and American beet
sugar manufacturers have exhausted
all possible means to arouse public
sentiment against free sugar. Fully
as vigorous a fight will be made on
the other side to prove from the
testimony of the lobby hearings that
cane sugar refiners, particularly the
Federal Refining Company, have been
the bone and sinew of the free-sugar
campaign and would be the chief bene-
ficiaries if President Wilson'S recon-
mendations for free sugar in 1916 are
carried out.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-10
STAYS MOTHER TO HIDE
MURDER OF HIS BROTHER

IRONTON OHIO, June 8.-Accord-
ing TO local authorities, Berkeley Elem
ming, aged 20, confessed here tonight
to the murder of his mother. Mrs.
Emma Flemming. aged As, yesterday,
and his brother, Culbertson. aged rs,
July IA. 1910, at Coryyille, one mile
north of IrOntOn.
Following the confession Elem
ming was taken to his home in an
automobile. Near the house he point
ed out the spot where he said he
had buried his mother The police
found her body under Is inches of
earth. The back part of her head
had been shot away. Flemming, in
a tobacco field on the farm. showed
where he had buried his brother. A
few feet under the ground. a skele-
ton the skull of which had been
broken, was found. Flemming told
the police that he shot his brother
alone. -.
The police investigation was begun
this morning. when Mrs. Flemming
was missed by Miss Bessie Stew
art, her sister. who resides at the
Flemming home. Young Flemming
was found this afternoon in IrontOn
and arrested and under a fire of ques-
tons is said to have broken down
and admitted the killing. Fear that
his mother knew of the murder of
his brother three years ago is given
as the motive for the crime.
Flemming told the police that he
had killed his brother in a quarrel
A letter ne wrote his mother, over
his dead brothers name, said that
CulbertsOn had run away. Having
decided TO kill his mother, he waited,
he said until they were alone at
home yesterday. Berkeley will be ar
raigned tomorrow on a charge of
first degree murder.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-10
WAR GAME IN MEXICO

MEXICO CITY. June S.-The Gov
eminent will not attempt to recap
tuTe MatamOras Immediately. 1t will
organize as soon as possible d column
of 1000 men, but for the present these
troops are not available. The gun
boat Vera Cruz. on which it was in
tended to send a force to MatamOras
to dislodge the vessels. is still at Vera
Cruz.
The War Department denies that
Zacatecas, capital of the State of the
same name, has been taken by rebels,
but declares fighting still continues
there. Private information, however,
confirms the fall of the town, and
adds that the rebels are moving to the
south against Aguascaliento. and that
SaltillO is in danger of attack. The
rebels are practically in control Of
almost all the rural regions in the
north.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-10
DERBY INCIDENT FATAL.

LONDON, June S.-Emily Wiiding
Dawson. the first martyr to the mill
tant efforts of women to obtain the
suffrage, died to-day at the Epson
Hospital as the result of a fracture of
the skull, sustained in an attempt to
stop the Kings horse, Anmer during
the running of the Derby on Wednes-
day last. Only the matron of the
hospital and two nurses were present
of the death bed Miss DavisOns rel
atives having left the building when
told that there was no hope of her re-
gaining consciousness. A few mo-
ments before her death two comrades
draped the screen surrounding the
cot with the fateful colors of the
Women's Social and Political Union.
which she wore when she made her
sensational attempt to interfere with
tbs great classic Of the British turf
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-10
EARLY TRIAL Is PLANNED
FOR LABOR UNION OFFICERS

CHARLESTON, w. VA, June s.
John p White, president of the
international organization of the
United Mine Workers of America;
Vice President Frank J. Hayes, and
seventeen officials and subordinate
officers of District No. II, the local
miners union, indicted by the Federal
Grand Jury last night, charged with
violation of the Sherman anti trust
law, will be summoned to appear be
fore Judge Benjamin F. Keller early
this week. The Government, it is
said will ask that the trial proceed
at once.
The indications and allegations
that there is a conspiracy in restraint
of trade and commerce between the
United Mine Workers of America ana
coal operators of Western Pennsy1-
vania, Ohio, Indiana and ILLINOIS
against the West Virginia coal OPP
orators have caused a profound SEN
sation While the names OF the VII
nesses who appeared before the red
eral Grand Jury in the case nave not
been made public, it is known that
coal Operators of Paint and Cabin
Creeks. where labor troubles nave
been abundant, and former officials
of the miners organization assisted
in gathering information for the IN
dictment.
The defendants are charged with
attempting to create monopoly OF
the labor market by fixing prices ana
refusing to allow members of the or
ganization to work at lower wages.
1t is alleged the union prohibits men
from working who are not members
of the organization and that the min
ers' officials conspired to unionize the
coal mines of West Virginia and TO
so fix the cost of producing coal in
West Virginia as to give an advan-
tage to the producers of Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and I'LL
nOis.
1t is charged the mines in the last
four States are already unionized and
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea control wage scales, and that the
defendants conspired with coal pro-
ducers of Western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to give them
a monopoly of the coal trade in the
Great Lake region and other West
ern markets.