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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-07-01
FEDERAL SUPREME COURT DE-
ClDES TWO IMPORTANT
SOUTH CAROLINA CASES.
DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA
pongs and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of South Carolina Peo.
pie, Gathered Around the State
Capitol.
Columbia.

Two important South Carolina cases
were decided by the United States
supreme court Thomas II. Peoples,
attorney general, received telegram
as follows from James D. Mather.
deputy clerk Of the court: "Vaugun
VS.. South Carolina affirmed with costs:
united States ex relatione Brown VS..
Cooke dimissed for want of jurisdic-
ton"
l. u Vaughn, formerly superintend-
en- of the Odd Fellows orphan home
at GreenVlle, convicted Of criminal
assault upon one of his wards, and
sentenced to be hanged, appealed to
the federal supreme court on the
ground that his constitutional rights
had been infringed ky a change in
the method Of execution in this state
made after he was sentenced. The
court had already overruled the same
point in the cases Of Joe Malloy and
VIII Bethune, also appealed from this
state. Affirmation Of the verdict be-
low now sends Vaughn back to the
Greenville county court to be re-
sentenced
Vaughn has been for many months
a prisoner for safekeeping in the sta ,e
penitentiary. He has not spoken in a
long time and this fact, in connection
with other peculairites Of behavior,
may indicate a likelihood Of an insan-
lty plea in case such further defense
tactics as remain to be used shall fail
to save him from the electric chair
Frederick Brown alias Grant, a
negro wanted in South Carolina for
murder, was arrested in Pennsylvania
but until the decision had stayed off
eXtradition to this state on the plea
that as negro he could not get /;
fair trial in South Carolina. The
federal supreme court having dismiss
| ed his petition, for want OF jurisdic
ton, Brown will be brought to thi
state for trial unless he shall devils
! other means Of delaying eXtradition
Attorney General Peoples has ha,
before the supreme court this yea
six cases and in each Of them the de
| cision has upheld the contention mad,
by his sentence.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-07-01

lines. One Of these buses, whose
ordinary work Is the carrying Of a few
native Parisians and Of a great num-
Der OF American sight-seers along tho
DouleVards Of the big city. has inst
passed me on the way to the front.
In big letters on it's side appear the
words Place de la Bourse." Today
II Is not going to the fighting line of
the financiers, but to the camp kitch.
ems OF the embattled troops oy
France. 1t is loaded with fresh beef
An army must still fight on it's stom.
ach, and so this rackety Paris bus is
carrying cargo more seryicca bla
than shells for the "seventy-flves ;"
and more useful in way, than the OK.
plosives for the sapper and the miner
Industry Of French Peasants.
Ever since came into this ao,a 20
operation nave been struck by the
me souled way in which the Old
Frcnch peasants, aged men who can.
not go to the lighting line, and the
women and the children, have followed
the army and have fitted the blade of
the plow into the track of tho ad.
Vancing machine gun. The old mon
the women and the children of this
land are cultiyating the fields almoet
up to the points Of contact Of the bat.
Ting armies. SO earnest was the
pcasantry in its endeavor to make
every aero OF the soil yield its toll
against the day Of possible need, that
IL actually carried its tilling and plant.
ing "k into the fields where the
shell. still were falling
The military authorities finally were
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-07-01
Pigeons as News carrier7.

Chicago. Fra TX Waltenberg. who
clOpcd with Miss Bertha Shack from
Kankakce. ILL.,. and was married in
Chicago. released three carrier pigeons
in front of the Grant hotel recently.
The birds headed for Pa Shacks pig.
con loft at kankakee. Each bird bore
the message, Bertha and were mar.
ricd today 81 hope pa won't take
it ont on the pigeons" said Mrs. Wal.
ICnhNrE.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-07-01
Find Mlser's Hidden Pile.

Raleigh, n. C.-Whon the little iron
safe in the home Of II. r. Lamm was
opened at Wilson, near here, more
than $4,000 in cash was found Lamm
died recently and it was supposed that
he was worth 100000, but now 1t ap-
pears he was worth three times that
amount An old homemade sack in
the safe contained $34 1892 in gold GER
tifcatcs and thirteen envelopes held
$4,000 in cash
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-07-01

commanded by
t n e GRO W n
prince, is hold
ing a salient,
shaped like a
spear point, and
which cuts into
the valley Of
the Meuse. Ever
since last Sep
tember w h e II
the Germans re.
treated to this
place after their
fl r s t advance,
and which they
had alre a d y
p / e p a r e d for
d e f e II S e the
IN e II Of t h e
crown princes
f o &c es have
succeeded in
kpoDiDp + N pi u
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-07-01
Good Progress in Tick Eradtc alton.

Washington, ID. C.-Bctter progress
was made in tick eradication in South
Carolina during 1914 than at any 9TH
cr time since the work began in 1907,
according 10 Information recently com
piled by the Department og ASricul.
ture. TWO thousand and ffty-thrce
square miles Of territory '"ere relcas-
ed last year making total Of TO-
6G8 in the state. Nearly 10000 square
miles remained at that tine infected,
but in March Of this year, the coun-
ties Of Chesterfield Marion and Flor.
crce were freed.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-07-01
l3oars Infant Across continen.

Albany, ~ y. Governor Whitman,
while visiting the fair in San Fran.
cisco recently, hoard his infant son
cry over The telephone Young Whit
man was held close TO the transmittc,
and induced to wall
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-07-01
CLARK VISITS SCENE OF ONE OF
MOST DESPERATE BATTLES Of WAR

correspondent Describes Plain Of the Last Spot Con-
tested by the German Crown Prince in His Retreat After the
First Advance Paris-SheI Torn and Fire Scahed VIII
ages on Every Side-Spirt of French Is Jndaunted
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-07-01
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.

stan correspondent of the Western News
paper Union.
Near st. Mihiel, France-It Is at st.
Mihiel that the German fifth army.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07

From the London Chronicle.
Following up the action of the Prus-
sian government. the Bavarian ministry
has now issued 10 instructions or sug-
gestions to the people on what they are
to eat in wartime and how it is to be
eaten. We have had quite a number of
these prudential maxims, but this Ba-
varian ordinance has certain peculiar
points of interest of its own. The instruc-
tons are as follows:
Instead of tea, cocoa and coffee, take
milk or oatmeal.
Take less soup made of rice, lentils,
peas and beans, and use instead barley
soup or soup made of greens, potatoes
or flour.
Eat less wheaton bread and less white
rolls. Take instead bread made of rye
or mixed -four.
Instead of veal eat pork and beef.
In cooking be careful not to use too
much fat. Instead of the lard and vege-
table oil from abroad, use native oils and
fat and especially beech oil and artificial
fats
Eat plenty of fruit. The harvest has
been plentiful. Also lots of sauerkraut
and picked beets and beans.
Limit your consumption of alcohol.
Use up all remnants and help to utilize
your kitchen refuse. Drops make a river.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07
The New Judges

As forecast in yesterdays Age
Herald, the governor of Alabama has
appointed former Solicitor Harrington
P. Helm to be judge of the criminal
court of jefferson county to succeed
the late Judge Samuel E. Greene, and
ATTORNEY General Robert c. Brickell
to be Judge of the Eighth judicial cir
cult to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Judge Speake. They are ooth
good appointments.
Mr.. Heflin, in his long service as
solicitor of this county, has an excep-
tionally wide knowledge of criminal
law, and will therefore go upon the
bench we'll equipped. He is man OF
the highest character and OF even tenn
per. and he has always been fearless
in the discharge of his public duties.
Judge Greene was one OF the ablest
and best poised members of the judicl-
airy, and no criminal judge in this state
ever made a greater record than he.
Any one who might have succeeded
him would therefore have been put
upon his mettle. Mr.. Helm can be
counted upon for an honorable and
successful judicial career.
Mr.. Brickell, who becomes judge Of
the Eighth circuit, is widely known, he
having been chosen four years ago
attorney general, by very decisive
vote. His father was jurist Of emf
hence. The elder Brickell was known,
indeed, as one of the greatest juris-
consults that Alabama had ever pro-
duced. Robert c. Brickell has, like his
father, the judicial temperament and
will be at home on the bench from the
start.
The people of Alabama as well as
people of their respective jurisdictions
will wish Judge Heflin and Judge
Brickell all good in their new work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07

anything by the transaction, nobody
else would have made the loans.
The honest pawnbroker-and there
are many honest ones-is not only use
full to the needy classes in times of
emergency, when sickness and other
misfortunes overtake them, but he CO.
operates with the police in arresting
thieves. 1t is estimated that one
fourth of all crooks arrested by the
police are caught through the efforts
of pawnbrokers. The pawnbroker who
receives stolen goods is not only run
ming the risk of falling into ill repute
as a business man, but he is apt to
suffer direct loss, as the police re-
quire him to return such property
when located without cost
Honesty is the best policy in a
pawnshop, as it is everywhere else.
All pawnbrokers are not hard-hearted,
either, although many efforts are
made to fleece them, and the familiar
sign of three gilded balls has proved
the salvation of many an unfortunate,
without friends, who must have
money.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07
Humane Society's Good Work

Birmingham has many worthy
charities, but few of them accomplish
more real good than the Humane So
ciety; and few institutions conduct
their work so quietly.
The Humane society was organized
several years ago. Good women have
managed it from the beginning The
society derives its revenue chiefly
from associate members who pay
small dues. :
At first the activities of the or
ganization were confined for the most
part to the prevention of cruelty to
beasts of burden, but as was seen in
the annual report published in The
Age-Herald of Wednesday it succors
helpless men, women and children as
we'll as giving attention to the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals. Its work
is now very extensive. Mrs. w. N.
Wood of Ensley, the president, is
earnestly supported by number Of
women as vice presidents.
Last years receipts totaled $2202.09.
The disbursements were $20S6.80, and
anyone who is familiar with the
operations of the organization will
gladly testify that every dollar was
expended judiciously.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Register: The action of the
Belgian burgoma ster In shouting Long
live the King! Long live the Queen! Long
live Belgium shows that Germany has
another Alsace-Lorraine problem on her
hands.
Tuscaloosa News: General Villas state
ment to the effect that he is taking orders
from Provisional President Gutierrez Is
the first intimation that we have had of
his receiving commands from anybody.
Montgomery Times: 1.-THE year 1914 took
its departure with few friends to mourn
It's passing remarks The Age-Herald.
The year of 1914 will be most memorable
one to all the people of the United States,
for with all the world engaged In war,
It left with peace in the United States
and with a friendly feeling and good will
to all other nations. 1t is our sincere
wish that the year 1916 will do as weh for
us and see peace restored between warning
nations.
10 Greenvillc Advocate: Politics cannot
stop good times" says Champ Clark. But
politics may make prosperity look sick
just before an election.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07

From the New York World.
There were registered in the several
states last year 1,SO6,441 automobiles
against 1,127,e4O in 1918. At this extraor-
binary rate of increase Of nearly 5000
a month the country will have 100000
automobiles In use by early spring.
Two million automobiles represent an in
vestment for the buyers of at least ST.
500, 900. Placed end to end they would
form a double line stretching clear across
the continent. Their upkeep and oper-
alton must cost per year nearly as much
as the original cost of the machines. But
they evidently pay, and more and more
in a commercial sense, or they would not
go on increasing SO greatly in number.
regardless of industrial depression and
war disturbances. And in the great stim-
illus they have given to good roads con-
struction they have had profound effect
in improving the economy of the coun-
try.
The great war, in deed, has been demon
sire ting the peace value of the automo-
bile in proving its military Importance. 1t
has been of vast and indispensable use in
all the armies for the transport of supplies
and the unobilizing and shifting OF troops
on the scales and with the rapidity which
distinguish this war from all others. But
for Paris great supply of the machines
the army for the defense of that city
could never have been marshalled as 1t
was at the critical moment to strike Won
Kluck on the flank and turn his swift adj
vance eastward and backward.
The day of the automobile Is evidently
only at its beginning, and America ts
to lead the world in making 1t an tnstru-
nent OF economic value.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07
Investigating Uncle Joe's Election

The election of former Speaker Jo-
seph G. Cannon to Congress November
8, after an enforced retirement of two
years, was hailed with joy by the re-
publicans, was accepted with rare good
nature by the democrats throughout
the country and with kindly grace by
democratic statesmen and especially
those who had long served with him
in the House; for "Uncle Joe" is one
of the most popular of men personally.
He is admired for his genial nature
and his characteristic waggery. His
presence in a democratic Congress
the Sixty-fourth-is being awaited
with more than ordinary interest. Not
many men of continued leadership in
public life, after suffering defeat, can
"come back" even as statesman in
the ranks, but Mr.. Cannon was an
exception.
NOW, however, IL is charged IN his
district in Illinois that several thou
sand votes were purchased to accom-
plish his election. The United States
district attorney at Danville, Mr.. Can
mons home town, has started an inves-
tigation, but politicians of the progress
sive party, jealous of the standpat re-
publicans, seem to be at the bottom Of
the charges.
The investigation will furnish good
copy" no doubt, but it is safe to say
that "Uncle Joe" will take his seat in
the House in March and keep it for
two years at least.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07
Pawnbr0kers Kept Busy

It is estimated that more than
100000 was lent out by the pawn
brokers of New York during the week
preceding Christmas. Curiously
enough, most of the pledges given for
money with which to buy Christmas
presents are redeemed on the first of
the year. The pawnbroker as an as
sistant TO Santa Claus has played the
role for many, many years, and will
doubtless continue to do so as long
- the Christmas spirit is stronger
than material considerations in the
hearts of people who live from hand
70 mouth.
The same conditions in New York
were doubtless duplicated on a smaller
scale in most of the other cities of the
United States, and perhaps more SO
this year, on account Of the prevalent
business depression. Pawnbrokers
were responsible for many Christmas
gifts that could not have been pur-
chased without their assistance, and
while It il true that they did not lose
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07
ANEsTHETICs FOR PLANTS

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Living plants were administered an
esthetics yesterday and lost conscious
ness under the drugs just as human be-
ings would do. The experiments were
conducted at one of the meetings of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science by Prof. J. Chunder Bose.
a Hindu savant from the Presidency col
lege, Calcutta, India. Professor Bose and
his wife were attired in native costumes.
and administered the narcotics to rare
sensitive plants obtained from the boz
tanical collections Of the University o.
Pennsylvania. DIR. Bose declared that
these collections excelled any OF those
in other cities of the world.
BY the aid OF delicate electrical record
ing instruments, Dr. Bose showed that
definite currents of energy travel along
leaf stalks, which closely resemble, II
they are not identical with, the nerve
currents of animals. He draws striA-
ing parallels between sensitive move
n,ents in plants and similar movements In
man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07
INFINITE LOVE

BY Rabindranath Tragore
have ever loved thee In . hundred forms
and times,
Age after age, in birth following birth.
The chain of songs that my fond hoafV
did weave
Thou graciously didst take around thy
neck.
Age after age, in birth following birth.
When listen to the tales Of the prima-
tive past,
The love pangs of the far distant times,
The meetings and partings Of the an.
cient ages
l sec thy form gathering light
Through the dark dimness Of eternity, I
And appearing a. q star ever Axed In tn
memory Of the All. 4
We two have come foating BY the ~
currents Of love
That we'll up from the Utmost heart Of z
beginningless.
We two have played in the lives Of my
lad lovers
In fearful solitude of sorrow,
In tremulous shyness Of sweet union.
In old, old love ever renewing it, llfa
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07
RABIES KEEP BURGLARS AWAY

From the New York Sun.
"Of course, in my business, same as in
any other" said the. retired burglar, ''you
learn by experience. One of the 1irst
things learned in that way was to avoid
houses where they had young children,
infants. ss..
"Grown folks may sleep right through
thunder storms, windstorms. things fall
ing down in the house, most any sort OF
racket, but you never can tell what an
infant will do And those same grown
I'D folks that will sleep right through
ANYTHING else will wake up sharp at the
smallest peep from an infant. They seem
to be tuned that way. But had to learn
this by experience.
zone night when I was new in the
business / went into what seemed to me
a promising looking house in the supur-
ban districts. Got in by the easy cellar
window and padded upstairs to the Sec
ond story front room with no trouble at
all and went straight to the bureau. l
opened the top drawer. gently, with out
oueak, and when turned in my light the
very first thing ! saw was a diamond ring
that I guess must have made my eyes
sparkle as much as the ring did. 1t was
big stone, I should think two or three
carats.
ut was a mans ring. and instead OF
slipping 1t straight into my pocket as
should have done put it on my hnser
for just a minute to look at It. Al that
same instant 1 heard a baby begin to cry
II had seen two persons in a bed IN this
room, but Il had not observed crip
over on the other side of the Jed. But
the instant that baby cried one or the
figures In the bed raised UP on its elbow
with it's back toward me and looked over
into the crib at the child. and I didn't
need to have anybody tell me that 1t was
time for me to go. which I did, without
those two persons In the bed knowing
then that I had been there at all"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07

Woman's abuse of a shopping privi-
lego adds tremendously to the cost of OPP
Grating department stores and places a
needless burden upon every buyer. One
of the large merchants of New York city
is authority for the statement that Is per
cent Of the articles sent out to charge
patrons are returned; not occasionally but
habitually. We are not thinking Of the
woman who returns garments that have
been worn. and declares they have never
been used. She belongs in class by
herself, and demands special treatment
But the woman, who orders goods sent
home without considering whether she
needs them or not, ought to be amenable
to reason.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07

According to report by Controller
Prendergrast. recently published, the city
of New York is the wealthiest land owner
within the city's jurisdiction. The as
sessed value of the city's holdings is
81, 47547,S69. OF this amount s1,429, 49,, 1860
is within the city limits. Compared with
the previous year, these figures show an
increase in property values of more than
SO 900. 100000. The land and improvement
valuations of city owned property out
side of New York is s1s.O56.509. an increase
over the previous year of more than sl6o,
ued at $641. 1886. ITO on the tax books.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-01-07
LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG

Nicolay. and drank more whisky. Nico-
lay sang his little song OF the Three
Thieves" and we then sang "John
Brown" At last we proposed that For
ney should make speech, and two or
three started out to get band
to serenade him. stayed with him; so
did Stanton and Macveagh He still
growled, quietly. and I thought he was
going to do something imprudent'
Then follows an account of the sere-
made and of the bibulous Forneys
speech, In which in tipsy fashion he
mingled drollery and gravity. When the
crowd greeted him with shouts he said
my friends, these are the first
hearty cheers have heard tonight. You
gave no such cheers to your President
down the street. Do you know what you
owe to that great man? You owe your
country-you owe your name as Ameri-
can citizens
"W. MacVeagh made a most touch
ing and beautiful squirt of five minutes,
and Judge Stevenson of Pennsylvania
spoke effectively and acceptably to the
people. THAT speech (of Forney's) must
not be written out yet" says Young as
we went upstairs. "He will see further
about it when he gets sober" We sang
John Brown" and went home
quite Shakespearlan is this low
comedy interlude, coming just before
the stately scene of conservation. Per-
haps, after all. nature sometimes emu
lates Shakespeare.
I'm the morning (of the 10Th, Hay
continues) l got beast and rode out
with the President and suite to the
cemetery in the procession. The pro-
cession formed itself in an orphanly
sort of way and moved out with very
little help from anybody; and after a
little delay Mr.. Everett took his place
on the stand and Mr.. Stockton made a
prayer which thought 1t was an Grafton;
and Mr. Everett spoke as he always
does, perfectly; and the President, in \
firm, free way, with more grace than
is his wont, said his half dozen lines Of
conservation; and the music walled, and
we went home through crowded and
cheering Streets.