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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
BY Ida R. MCCABE

would doubtless have remained with her; but EN-
bodened by increasing skill and rising bank credit Mrs
Earian became possessed with desire to vanquSh her
preceptress of unbroken record The psychological mo
ment when least expected Lady Carries and Mrs
Varian plunged in to meet with sportsman
loss after loss Mrs VaTan unmndful In the frenzy 81
contest of the fund until msfortunes unfag
generosity brought about the present denouement
There it lay on the tray with the cold toast and I'M
tasted notification of Overdrawn bank account,
headlines of slump in Tobacco, and demand from
Lady Carries for immediate payment of thousand
dollars on outstanding Indebtedness of two thousand.
How she to pay Lady Carries without confessing
to Willis?
his ove-death would be preferable; for despite the
wide swath she cut in the smart world Mrs Varan
manned at bottom elemental as a country To
draw upon her husband for the whole amount despatch
the check to Lady Carlies and dismiss the incident,
occurred to her. She had read of and heard
the teacups the subteruges resored to by wives II
order to meet pressing personal Obligations,
ing from tradespeople and even employees, only to dis
miss it gossip amusing fiction.
willis must never never know moaned Mrs.
Varan she forced herself to drink the cold coffee.
and allowed her maid to manipulate her feverish palp
tatng body into the blooming splendidly poised
that later in the day confronted Carolyn Dyas the
steps of the Varian mansion
DOsIA!"
= "Carolyn!"
In the joy Of mutual recognition. the overworked
woman of toll and the pampered woman of pleasure
transpanted back to the Rockies where their
lives had begun From afar Mrs. Dyas had noted the
Varians' rise to fortune and position She had often
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
Drawings by G. E. Wolfe

N HE was one of those comely. well meaning,
tx ainless young women precipitated by
g get-rich-quick husband from a self-suffi-
" cient Western town into the Intoxicating
whirl of merciess New York.
III When the novelty of the excitement OF
TX fitting up a Riverside Drive mansion was
W spent, Mrs. Willis Varian, divorced from
uir1hoad friends and home ties Wakened
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
Old Orangeburg District.

Columbia, Feb. 10.-Orangeburg
district, before the sub-dividing be-
gan, was one of the largest in the
State. Orangeburg county to-day is
one of the largest and most import
ant in the State, but the old district
embraced the territory that is now
included in large part in Barnwell,
Aiken. Bamberg, and Calhoun. Mr..
Alex S. Salley, Jr., who is always
thinking of historic things, had a
little dinner party at the st. John
Hotel in Columbia, to which he in
vited the representatives of the moth
er and children, so to speak, of Or
angeburg district At the party Mr..
Warner spoke for Barnwell, Senator
Williams for Aiken, DR.. Black for
Bamberg, Senator Banks for Cal
houn and Senator Lide for Orange
burg. 1t was most pleasant gather
ing of members.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH.
Sumter Lad Falls Into Barrel OF
Scalding Water.

Sumter, Feb. S.-News reached
here to-day of the terrible death of
little Willie Hays Workman, the e.
year-old son Of the Rev. w. H. Work
man, of Salem Brick Church, Mayes-
vile, at his home there Friday after
noon. The little fellow was watch
ing his elders prepare hogs for
butchering, when he fell into barrel
of boiling water which was intended
for scalding hogs.
He was terribly scalded and the
pain was intense Medical assistance
was summoned at once and all that
could be done was done for him, but
all to no purpose. Death came dur
ing the night and put an end to the
horrible suffering. The people of the
community were shocked by the
tragic end of the little boy, and their
heartfelt sympathy goes out to the
bereaved parents.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
ALMOST READY FOR TAFT
SENATE PASSES WEBB MEASURE
WITHOUT ROLL CALL.
Bill Already Adopted by House Sub
Stituted for Sheppard-kenyon
Measure After Debate.

Washington, Feb. 10.-The senate
to-day, by viva voce vote, passed
the Webb liquor bill already passed
by the house as a substitute for the
Kenyon-Sheppard bill.
The Webb bill would prohibit ship
ments of intoxicating liquors from
one State to another when intended
to be received or sold in violation of
the law of the State to which the
shipment is made
Friends of the legislation now will
seek to have the house concur in the
senate bill, which differs from the bill
passed by the house only in number.
Should that be done the bills will not
be considered in conference, but the
measure passed by the senate will go
to the president for his signature.
The substitution of the Webb bill
for the Kenyon-Sheppard bill came
at the close of prolonged debate and
was by viva voce vote, no roll call
being demanded.
Senator Sheppard during the day
had failed to get unanimous consent
for the substitution of the Webb bill
for the measure of which he was a
Joint author. Senator Kenyon, CO.
author of the senate bill, closed the
debate by asking that the Webb bill
be substituted, as the order of the
day did not permit the voting on
the Webb bill as an independent
measure. The vote was first upon the
perfection of the Kenyon-Sheprard
bill.
By vote of 81 to % the senate
agreed to the committee amendment,
adding a section to the bill, which
provided in terms that Intoxicating
liquors should become subject to
State laws on crossing State boun-
daries.
Senator Hitchcock amendment to
except liquor intended for personal
use vas defeated without roll call,
and one by Senator O'Gorman except
ing liquor intended for personal and
for sacramento use was likewise de-
feated. 81 to so. Senator Kenyon
succeeded in having his measure
amended to become operative July
/, 1913. Thereupon Senator Gall
niger asked for the substitution of
the Webb bill for the Senate meas
ure. He likewise succeeded in hay
ing the title amended so as to bring
the houses in accord except as to sthe
number of the bills.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
STRENGTH of GriZZly Bear.

1t is related that grizzly bear that
had one of it's forepaws so shot as to
render it useless employed the other
to draw it's weight of LOO pounds
up an incline almost precipitous, a
seemingly impossible feat.
A Californian asserts that while in
the mountains he observed big griz-
zly in the act of carrying a dead COW
home to her cubs. From his posi-
ton on the mountainside the Cali
fornian could follow every movement
of the bear in the sparsely timbered
valley below. He contends that the
big beast carried the COW in her fore
paws for three miles across jagged
rocks several feet in height, over fall
en- logs around the rocky mountain
side where even mule could not get
foothold, to a narrow trail up the
steep mountain.
This bear, it appears, stopped not
for a moments rest but proceeded
straight on. The observer followed
her and about half a mile from her
lair shot her. The cow, it is report
ed. weighed at least 200 pounds,
while the weight of the grizzly was
about 450.-Fur News.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
BATTLE WITH OFFICERS.
Sixteen Killed in Fight in West Vir-
ginia Coal District.

Charleston, w. Va, Feb. 10
Sixteen are dead including twelve
miners and four mine guards, after
a desperate battle between striking
coal miners and officers Of the Ka-
nawha County coal fields to-day. Five
companies of the State militia reach
ed the trouble zone tonight.
The clash occurred. near Mucklow.
Fred w. Lester, in charge of mine
guards: sought to head off several
hundred strikers attempting to gain
a position from which they could fire
on the town of Mucklow and avoid
the range of machine guns In this
skirmish two of the officers were shot
dead. Reinforcements appeared and
during the afternoon kept up a con-
slant guerilla warfare. At every
point they were met by strikers and
were steadily driven back.
The two Charleston companies
reached Ronda at 9:45 tonight. I'M
mediately squads were sent through
out the trouble zone. Every train
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road into the strike territory tonight
is equipped with a machine gun. The
gun is screwed to the rear platform.
It is manned at all times and ready
for instant use.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
BILL PASSED BY BIG VOTE.
Would Stop Liquor Shipment Into
Dry Territory.

Washington, Feb. S.-The Webb
bill, to prohibit the interstate ship
ment of liquor into dry States for
purposes of sale ''or in any manner
used in violation of the State laws,
was passed by the house late to-day,
240 to 65.
The passage of the bill ended one
of the most stubbornly fought all-day
contests of this congress. Senator
Kenyon, of Iowa, author of a senate
measure of the same general pur-
port, sat in the house most of the
day watching the fight, which open
ed with a con It over the rule to
bring up the Webb bill. Represen-
tatives of organized anti-saloon ad-
vocates sat in the galleries and kept
taliies on the rolI-calls.
Representative Fitzgerald, Of New
York, criticised his fellow Demo-
cratic leaders for not devoting more
time to essential appropriation bills.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsyl-
vania, Republican, said this Demo-
cratic house would go down in his
tory as one of "masterly inactivity" "
Representative Mann, of Illinois,
characterized as fim-flam' the
bringing up of the bill at this time.
Former Speaker Cannon declared
that the States should regulate traf-
fc themselves. Representative Ber-
ger, of Wisconsin, Socialist, contend
ed that all great men, from Julius
Caesar down to Cannon, were tenn
perate drinkers
Representative Shirley, of Ken
lucky, attacked the validity of the
bill, and Representative Rucker, of
Missouri, said he represented nu-
merous const tuents whose homes
had been wrecked by liquor.
All amendments offered to the bill
were rejected. One of these would
have substituted the bill already
passed by the senate and another
would have added penalizing clause
with fine and Imprisonment provis-
ions, which some members declared
would have made he measure un-
constitutional. The bill now goes to
The senate
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
Events at Winthrop.

On January the twenty-fourth the
general assmebly met with us here
for the inspection of the buildings.
After the inspection dinner was serv-
ed in the college dining hall by the
members of the Winthrop Chapter
of United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy We were glad that Bamberg
was so well represented here. The
following were here: DR.. ]. B. Black,
Mr.. Hunter, Mr. Miley, and Mr..
Benjamin Black, who is attending
the University of South Carolina.
On Thursday evening Mrs. Char
lotte Perkins Gilman gave most
interesting lecture on "The Woman's
Movement and What 1t Means. :"
Mrs. Gilman made many points clear
and we are sure more pepole would
be put in sympathy with this move
ment if the could have heard Mrs.
Gilman's lecture.
Winthrop Day at the corn exposi-
ton was indeed a great day. About
525 girls left Rock Hill at $50 Mon
day morning on a special train and
spent the whole day at the exposi-
ton.
DR.. Johnson has engaged DR.. Wal
Work, to deliver lecture here
sometime in the near future. He
has also engaged Reed Miller, the
famous tenor, who was born in An
derson, S. c., to give concert in
the auditorium on the evening Of
February 21. We are looking for
ward to both of the entertainments
with much pleasure.
For three or four years DR.. John,
son has been trying to arrange to
take the senior class to Washington
but he has never been able to make
satisfactory arrangements with the
railroad company. This year he
hopes to secure rates which are with
in reach of all, and he hopes to take
the senior class to the Inauguration.
The greatest obstacle at present is
the question of board, but DR.. john
son is going to Washington to see
what can be done about this. We
hope he will be able to secure yeas-
enable board, for we are very
anxious to take this trip.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
sPARTANBURG's sKYsCRAPER.
5000, 900 Building, Eight Stories, to
be First of City's Tall Structures.

$500, 900 Building, Eight Stories, to
be First Of City's Tall Structures.
Spartanburg, Feb. 8.-A contract
has been awarded to the George A.
Fuller Construction Company; of New
York, for the building of Spartan
burg's first skyscraper. The edifice,
which will be the property OF e.
Brewster Chapman, New Jersey cel-
luloid manufacturer, will be called
the Commercial Building, and will
cost about 100000. 1t will stand on
Morgan square property, for which
Mr.. Chapman paid $4,000.
The building will be eight stories
high and will be constructed of steel,
concrete and pressed brick, with
granite trimmings. The first floor
will be given to stores and the re-
mainder of the building, save posi-
bly the highest floor, will be devoted
to offices. 1t is proposed to establish
a business mems club on the top
floor.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
He Was Justly Suspicious.


A big mass meeting was being held
in Blimville.
The well-groomed and slick-look-
ing individual who was trying to sep
arate the town from it's money arose
to make a few remarks.
"Fellow-citizens,'' he opened up,
"apropos''-
list a minute, mister, said a
smallish, sandy-whiskered man.
A look of annoyance crossed the
speakers face.
What can 1 do for you?" he ask
ed.
Il have here a pocket edition of
Webster's Dictionary, and l want to
look up that word 'apropos.' I don't
intend to sit here and let some oily
tongued stranger slip one over on
u.s. replied the sandy-whiskered
man.
You are a little suspicious, l
see." said the speaker. Now, that
word to which you refer means
Never mind what it means,' en-
ioined the little man. I'm looking
if up. let a smooth talker sell me
q unicycle one time. He said it was
the last word in conveyances, and
WREN 1 paid the freight on it from
Chicago I found l had purchased a
wheelbarrow." Judge.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
German City Government.

German cities are perhaps the
best governed of any in the world.
The German burgomaster, or mayor,
is selected by the council for term,
in many instances, of II years, is
generally reelected to a second term
and is therefore eligible to a pension.
He is selected because of his specl-
al fitness; and training for the work
is as elaborate as training for the
physician or lawyer in this country.
When a German mayoralty is vacant
candidates from other cities present
themselves to the council with their
credentials.
German burgomasters are far bet
ter paid than American mayors. Ihey
have a corps of trained assistants
who also are specialists with definite
training for their particular work.
The police department is under the
direction of the central government.
Municipal ownership IS botn com-
mon and profitable. Street railways
and waterworks are operated at a
profit. Some cities operate savings
banks which have accumulated vast
surpluses to loan to people who buy
homes.
This country has much to learn
from Germany in the management OF
it's municipal affairs Our system is
notoriously cumbersome and inef-
fcient. We have intrusted our ideals
of the "city beautiful too long to
hack politicians and retainers of spe-
cial interests. We cannot have a
government of the whole people, for
the whole people or by the whole
people as long as we permit the city
to be ruled with a shepard's crook.
Indianapolis Sun.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
Country Correspondence.

Our little neighborhood is quiet as
ever.
Miss Jerolee Sandifer, of our
midst, spent last week with the fami-
ly of her brother-in-law, Mr.. R. l..
Hightower, at Denmark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Smoak, of
Savannah, are visiting the formers S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Smoak.
Five weeks ago Sunday, COW be-
longing to Mr.. G. A. Mcmillan, of
the Colston neighborhood, strayed off
and they instituted a diligent search
over the entire and surrounding
communities, never being able to
trace her anywhere. We have learn
ed that a colored man, Cape Grimes,
was on his way going fishing last Sat-
urday morning and in passing
through a field that had lain out last
year, on the farm of what was JAS
per Warn, colored, just short dis
tance from the Springtown ford on
the Colston-Bamberg road, he caught
the odor of decaying animal, and 1t
being in big open field, and not be-
ing able to see any carcass, till sud-
denly he found an opening about the
size of a buggy wheel and about II
feet below he could discern the form
of some animal. He Immediately re-
lated his find and folks, we have
been told who saw it, say that the
opening about the size of the buggy
wheel was about three feet deep and
below to the bottom where she fell
was about ten feet in diameter from
side to side a cave was under the
three-foot surface, and that cave was
about nine feet deep Now the
writer did not see this but has been
told of it as fact and no joke. The
field in which this was found was
planted in corn, we understand, year
before last. Mr.. Mcmillan dug down
to see if it was his COW and found
the bell and horns which were the
only signs of recognition. 1t was a
valuable milk cow.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.

Ehrhardt, Feb. 10.-The farmers
of this section are lamenting about
their spoiled hams and shoulder
bacon. Heard of some parties bury
ing for a few days and then trying
it for food Farmers of lis section
have had it tough this season. Chol-
era and now warm weather.
The pastors of the three churches
here are going to lock efforts and see
if they can't dc something this week,
every evening at Methodist church.
Mt. Pleasant Lutheran church
congregation is requested to attend
a meeting on the 4th Sunday morn
ing, as business of Importance will
be brought up before them for con-
sideration. Want to make improve
ments on their church and want their
views, etc. Requested by council
of said church.
Did not have a marriage in town
SuuOdy dS CSudl, OOI Aco - AS-~N
among the colored inhabitants. One
negro hit another with an axe on
the head. Did not kill him but
knocked him fool. Did not know
where he was, or what they were
arguing about or who struck him.
It's we'll the party did not knock
the coon on the heel or we would
have had to make box.
The authorities are after a negro
that used his gun on another in the
widow Mcmillan section of the coun-
ty and broke a thigh bone. The
widow Mcmillan had gone to some
expense to give the darkey farm.
Now he can't work it on account OF
attending a frolic and getting shot.
Spring of the year always brings
fights among the coons.
Mr.. H. Karesh left to-day for New
York. Will be gone about ten days
looking up goods for his store.
JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading-Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.

The total amount of fines collected
through the activity Of the rural po-
lice of Spartanburg county for the
past year was S6,711.30, while their
salaries amounted to S4,643.17.
The delegation of Fairfield county
have got a bill through the legisla-
ture for the commission form OF
government for the county. An elec-
ton will be held the 25+h instant for
the four commissioners.
Gov. Blease refuses to let the South
Carolina militia take part in the
Wilson inaugural parade because, as
he understands, negro militia from
the District of Columbia and from
Maryland will be in the parade.
Five hundred laborers are now en-
gagged in building the interurban
trolley between Greenville and Spar
tanburg, and are working day and
night. They expect to be ready to
lay the rails by August.
"The York Publishing Company, ,"
with $4,000 capital, has been form
ed for the purpose of starting an
other newspaper in that town. Among
the. largest stockholders are Con-
gresham Finley and ex-senator T.
F. McDow.
The store of S. L. Shirley, near
Meals Creek, Anderson county, was
entered by burglars Thursday night
and large quantity of goods was
hauled away in wagons. 1t is thought
there were two or more in the party.
They broke in the front door with
an axe.
A primary election will be held to
select successor to the late Con-
gresham Geo. S. Legare. Four can
didates are announced so far: Rich
ard S. Whaley and Geo. F. vonKol-
nfz, of Charleston, and Solicitor j..
E. Peurifoy, and Jas. G. Padgett, of
Walterboro.
The big sales stables of the Jones'
Elliott company at Lancaster were
burned down at three o'clock Friday
morning, entailing loss of $4,000,
with insurance of $4,000. Included
in the loss were g mules and horses,
number of vehicles and large
quantity of hay, fodder, etc.
Fire damaged the Methodist
church in Lancaster to the extent of
about $4,000 last Sunday. The fire
originated from the furnace and
burned through the floor, destroying
the carpet and some pews. The Sun
day-school room was also badly dam
aged by fire and water. The loss is
covered by insurance.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-13
Ehrhardt News.

Ehrhardt, Feb. 1.-THE meeting
at the Methodist church was on Sun
day night merged into union meet
ing of all the churches in town, and
as such will be continued through
the week. The pastor of the Metho-
dist church deserves much credit for
the zeal with which he has pushed 1t
to the present successful stage. May
much good yet be accomplished.
Clyde Rentz, 13 years and 9
months old, son of D. P. Rentz, OF
Lakeland, Fla, mysteriously dlsap-
peared from his fathers home on
January %. All efforts to locate
him have utterly failed. He left
home one morning as usual for
school and has not been heard from
since.
When the little fellow was two
DAYS old his mother died, and he was
taken to the home of his grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob G. Rentz,
of the Hunters Chapel section,
where he was tenderly cared for till
the latter part of last summer, when
he went to make his home with his
father at Lakeland, Fla, from which
place he recently disappeared. =,
Much sympathy is felt for his
aged grandparents, who are most al
fectionately devoted to him and who
are anxiously and prayerfully hoping
for some tidings from him.
Ehrhardt is in dire need of better
mail and passenger facilities. With
even our one railroad these might be
greatly improved by little change
in it's schedules. If instead of spend
ing the night in WATERFORD, our
passenger train should make the trip
on through to Ehrhardt, spending the
nights here, and starting from this
point in the mornings, it would give
US two mail and passenger trains
daily. With this schedule we could
make two trips daily to WATERFORD
and return and one round trip daily
to Charleston, with four hours and
quarter in which to attend to busl-
ness in that city. At the present
poor dying rate it takes two days
to make the round trip even to Wal
terboro.
The fact is, Ehrhardt ought to
arouse herself. out of the dust and
take a good shake! If her business
men were organized into an active
chamber of commerce, all such hind
RANGES to her more rapid progress
might be removed. There is nothing
like wise agitation with relentless
determination. With such, even
revolutions have been and are to-day
being wrought.