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ffrrinr- "l i i- ? WipBambrrg Ijmtlii ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for ?!x months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion; 50c. for each subsequent Insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, ox twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterorards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must he paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on subjects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. Thursday, June 14,1906 Something ought to be doing in the warehouse matter, and we hope those who have the matter in hand will keep it alive. We believe it will be an easy matter to raise the money to erect the warehouse as soon as a suitable location can be procured. * * * What are you doing for your town? Are you saying a good word for it and its enterprises whenever possible or are you criticising and finding fault all the time? Don't be a knocker. If you feel that you nan't sav something good, do keep your month shut. # * The Columbia Record and the Spartanburg Journal are the only two daily papers in the State who are finding fault with the work of the dispensary investi; . gating committee. Pitty the investigation is not being conducted to suit them, but then it might not be so effective if their ideas prevailed. feV The dispensary revelations have begun to stir our people up, and many who oncl favored the system now say it must go. It is likely that such a strong sentiment will take definite shape, and that the square fight as to dispensary or anti-dispensary will be made in this county. From the way things look now, anti-dispensary men will be in the field for the m- legislature. Well, the question ought to be settled definitely, and it might as well be done this year. * * * I Friends of the dispensary claim that the system would be purified and reformed by the passage of the RaysorManning bill by the legislature. This has been the cry ever since the law was enacted. Various legislatures have endeavored to improve conditions, the law has been tinkered with time after time, and yet conditions have been getting steadily worse. There is only one way to improve it, and that is to kill it, and the people will do that this summer. * * Cole L. Blease is a candidate for governor in the coming primary and he now holds the position of Senator from Newberry county. Will he resign so that his successor will be elected in the same primary, or is he going to hold on to the Senatorial toga with one hand while he reaches out for the governorship with the other? Such greediness is likely to be rebuked severely by the voters. No man stands any show these days who does not resign his present office before running for another. * * At one time in the history of this State when a man went to another part of the country he alluded with pride to being a native 01 soum uarojina, auu suau^cis at once accepted him as a gentleman and an honest man. Now when yon meet strangers when out of the State they at once think of graft and whiskey when yon tell them where you are from. Is this sort of thing to continue? Are we to hang our heads in shame because of this wholesale bribery and corruption and yet do nothing to stamp it out ? We -will have it just as long as the dispensary is continued. 3 * * We notice that most of the papers in the neighboring counties last week published a long card from a man giving his reasons for not running for office. The Herald received the same card, but as no check was enclosed, it went into the waste basket. The statement was of no interest to any one except the man who wrote it and was merely an advertisement of himself. How long before newspaper men will realize that their space is what brings in an income and act accordingly? There was no more reason why this card should have been published gratis than that an advertisement for a dry goods store should be inserted free. * * * We are not on the program at the approaching meeting of the State Press Association, hut we warn our brethren that we are going to bring up the matter of free advertising for discussion. True the Association cannot interfere with a man's conduct of his own business, yet it is to our mind proper and expedient that the members express themselves and come to some sort of understanding as to what is legitimate news and what is advertising. There should be some standard. Now one newspaper charges for a certain article, his neighbor publishes it free. This looks bad and sometimes causes misunderstandings. Let us think about this matter and go to the meeting prepared to discuss it intelligently and try to arrive at some sort of basis. As newspaper men we owe this much to our patrons, to say nothing of the standing of the profession. A JOCULAR MONARCH. Iru the Terrible Had C?M Blooded Notion* About Jeutlngr* Ivan the Terrible forgot neither his devotions nor his diversions. His palace alternately resounded with praying and carousing. For his pastime bears were brought from Novgorod. When from his window he perceived a group of citizens collected he let slip two or | three of these ferocious animals, and his delight on beholding the flight of the terrified creatures, and especially on hearing the cries of the victims, was i 1 ^ ^ U In A# 1q,i rrhtor I UUWUUUCU, UiO UU1DIO V4 iuu^Mbv* were loud and long continued. To console those who were maimed for life be would sometimes send each of tbem a small piece of gold. Another of his chief amusements was In the company of Jesters, whose duty it was to divert him, especially before and after any executions, but they often paid dearly for an unseasonable Joke. Among these none was more distinguished than Prince Qvoedef, who held a high rank at court The czar, being one day dissatisfied | with a Jest poured over the prince's head the boiling contents of a soup basin. The agonized wretch prepared j to retreat from the table, but the tyrant struck him with a knife, and he fell senseless to the floor. Dr. Arnolph was instantly called. "Save my good servant!" cried the j czar. "I have Jested with him a little too bard." "So hard," replied the other, "that only God and your majesty can restore him to life. He no longer breathes." Ivan expressed his contempt, called the deceased favorite a dog and continued his amusements, j Another day, while he sat at table, the waywode of Starltza, Boris Titof, appeared, bowed to the ground and saluted him after the customary manner. "God save thee, my dear waywode. Thou deservest a proof of my favor." He seized a knife and cut off an ear. Titof thanked the czar for his gracious favor and wished him a happy reign.? Pearson's Weekly. THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE. Love Is kindly and deceltless.?Yeats. - Love can sun the realms of night? .Schiller. They do not love that do not show their love.?Shakespeare. Love's a thing thafs never out of season.?Barry Cornwall. He that shuts out love in turn shall be shut out by love.?Tennyson. The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.?La Rochefoucauld. Love Is master of the wisest; it Is only fools that defy him.?Thackeray. Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.?Ninon de I'Enclos. The magic of first love Is the Ignorance that it can ever end.?Beaconsfield. Man's love Is of man's life a thing apart; tis woman's whole existence.? Byron. Tt to imnoRsthle to love a second time when we have once really ceased to love.?La Rochefoucauld. Bulow'i Wonderful Memory. Bulow had a wonderful memory, as was evidenced by his astonishing feat of memorizing Kiel's concerto, which the man who wrote it could not accompany without notes. His accuracy was almost infallible. He was once rehearsing a composition of Liszf s for orchestra In that composer's presence without notes. Liszt Interrupted to say that a certain note should have been played plana "No," replied Bulow, 'It is sforzanda" "Look and see," persisted the composer. The score was produced. Bulow was right How everybody did applaud! In the excitement one of the brass wind players lost his place. "Look for a b flat in your part," said Bulow, still without his notes. "Five measures farther on I wish to begin." The Word "Aaphalt." Of deceitful ancestry is the word "asphalt" Apparently it means "not slippery." The Greeks themselves were tempted to derive "asphattos" from "a," not and "sphallo," make to fall or slip. However, the word is really of unknown barbarian origin?Phoenician, some say. Asphalt was In use very early in history. It Is said to have been the slime with which the infant Hoses' ark of bulrushes was daubed and which the builders of the tower of Babel used Instead of mortar. Batcher? In War. In one of the Du Guesclin's victories so many English were taken captive that even the humblest soldier among the French had one or more prisoners. The victors, however, fell to quarreling, and, ill feeling becoming rife in the French army in consequence of these quarrels over the prisoners, Du Guesclin ordered all the captives to be butchered, and the brutal order was carried out A Cautions Lover. A correspondent of the London Globe tells of a gilded youth who left Instructions at a jeweler's shop for the Inscription of an engagement ring he had Just bought He wanted It inscribed, "From Bertie to Maud." As he left he turned back and added as an after thought "I shouldn't?ah?cut 'Maud' too deep, don't you know." Close. She?Do you know I've induced my husband to give up cigars? He?Is that so? Well, I've known him for seven years, and I never saw him give up one.?Illustrated Bits. It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age.?Addison. " THE TIDY TADPOLE. Bow This Cheerful Little Cannibal Eata and Develops. A wonderful spirit of tidiness seems to pervade the ta 'pole world. They always eat whatever has become use less?their own eggs, their superfluous companions. Even those who are only weakly are cleared out of the way and the victims take it all as a matter of course. I have disturbed a strong member of the community just as he had begun to dine off the tail of a weaker brother, but the sufferer has not troubled to escape?he simply waited till the fratricide returned to complete his deadly work. For some time there is no grave change in the tadpoles. They simply grow and become so far transparent that their internal mechanism, which consists of one coil of intestines, is plainly visible. When, however, they are about three months old a careful observer can distinguish a tiny foot on either side of the base of the tail. These grow slowly, but seem unable to move independently until shortly before the border land is passed which leads to perfect froghood. The hind legs have reached their full size before the front ones appear, and, while the feet grow slowly, the hands are ready made and can be used at once. For a day or two they can be seen under the skin before they venture forth, and their possessor is very restless and excited. He rushes madly about, Jostling his comrades, and no doubt being voted a bore; then a more vigorous effort breaks the skin and the tiny hand and arm appear. There seems some rule about the order of precedence here, as there is when the whiskers go, for last year my tadpoles, almost without exception, had their right hands some hours beI fore the left while on Drevious occa sions -1 have had an entirely left handed crew.?Chambers' Journal. MUSIC AT SEA. Conditions Under Which Ships' Sails Sometimes Sins. Some curious facts have been noted with regard to the sound conducting qualities of ships' sails. When rendered concave by a gentle breeze, the widespread sails of a ship are said to be excellent conductors of sound. A ship was once sailing along the coast of Brazil, far out of 6ight of land. Suddenly several of the crew, while walking along the deck, noticed that when passing and repassing a particular spot they always heard with great distinctness the sound of bells chiming sweet music, as though being rung but a short distance away. Dumfounded by this phenomenon, they quickly communicated the discovery to their shipmates, but none of them was able to solve the enigma as to the origin of these seemingly mysterious sounds which came to them across the water. Months afterward, upon returning to Brazil, the crew determined to satisfy their curiosity. Accordingly they mentioned the circumstance to their friends and were informed that at the time when the sounds were heard the bells in the cathedral of San Salvador, on the coast, had been ringing to celebrate a feast held In honor of one of the saints. Their sound, wonderful to relate, favored by a gentle, steady breeze, had traveled a distance of upward of 100 mfips nvpr the smooth water and had been brought to a focus by the sails at the particular locality In which the sweet sounds were first heard. This is but one of several Instances of a similar kind, trustworthy authorities claiming that this same music Is often heard under somewhat the same circumstances and especially In a moisture laden atmosphere.?London TitBits. ' Eafliah Retard For Teaching. If there Is one occupation which Englishmen are unanimous in condemning as degraded and degrading It Is that most fascinating, most difficult, delicate and Important work, the training of the mind. In what are humorously called "the higher walks" of teaching there are respectable salaries to be earned and agreeable rooms or houses for occupation. Here, purged of the dross of utility, a man may once more take rank as a gentleman, and ? m. IX US USCUU1SB lieau vi a uvuac uiv vupreme aselessness of bis position commands universal and silent respectNineteenth Century. Gentian Boot. Gentian root often used as a tonic, is considered in many malarial countries a remedy against Intermittent fever. Especially is this the case in Corsica, in that section of the island near the town of AJerla, which is infested with malaria. The inhabitants recently protested violently against the introduction of quinine on the part of the medical authorities, declaring that they would not abandon the remedy which had been used among them for centuries, the gentian root, either powdered or simply masticated. Qnlte the Contrary. "After all, my friend," began the solemn stranger, "life is but a dream, a"? nln'l ** onrvi-faH tho hflH UliK4i| IV (MU l| 0UV*WV? wv mm- ? beaded man. In nearly every dream I ever bad I was gettta' more money than I knowed what to do with."? Philadelphia Press. Frenchmen and Spanish. 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'-SSI Undeterred, the Rhodesian engineers, .. without detracting from the natural beauty of the surroundings, threw * & across the canyon a splendid 600 foot cantalever bridge and tbua opened tbe $ way to Tanganyika, to Uganda, to :M Cairo. This bridge, tbe greatest railway en- % gineering triumph of Africa, deserves Sv | more than passing notice. It consists y? jj of a central span weiring approximately 1,000 tons, 500 feet in length and 30 feet wide. Tbe steel work is of : ^ ! rolled steel weighing 4p0 pounds to tbe cubic foot The end posts of tbe bridge r are over 100 feet long. The pull on the * anchorage apparatus is about 400 tons. The contract for the construction was obtained by an English firm of bridge % builders?the contract time fifty-fire weeks. The work of erection was ear-? ^ rled on from both banks, tbe material. : . being taken across tbe river by means of an aerial electric railway. Tbtf elee-^H;? trical conveyor of this cable way was capable of dealing with a ten ton load- ; : at a lifting speed of twenty feet petf^J'^ minute and a traversing speed of 800, ->^ feet a minute. . An initial difficulty in tbe con*trwS.~^j? tion of the bridge was the securing:-g of a firm foundation, and owing to crumbling nature of the bank a much greater quantity of concrete was necetr ' sary than estimated. The construction was happily unat- tended by accidents of a serious naturet J^H though a few slight accidents to body work and the replacing from England of one piece of steel work were recorded. In spite of these delays the bridge was linked up at 7 a. m. on April 1905, or exactly forty-eight hours lier than had been estimated a year^be-;^ \ fore.?Lieutenant Colonel Sir Percy- - 7^ Girouard in Scribner's. f Cored Him. "I wish my husband would not stag^f! out at night" said the little womsib g^S - ' "Cure him,** said her companion, *!*;^ a woman I know cured her husband, fjl who used to stay out every night OiHiiiiSl" night he came in very late, or, ratber, very early, about 3 o'clock In the mora* J ing. He came home very quietly. Ia .^2 fact, he took off his shoes on the front doorstep. Then he unlocked the and went cautiously and slowly up?~J^H stairs on tiptoe, holding his breattkJ^H But light was streaming through ttMT > * p keyhole of the door of the bedroom. ./ With a sigh, be paused. Then he open* ^ ed the door and entered. His wife '. 'h stood by the bureau fully dressed. wS-i " 'I didn't expect you'd be sitting up , % for me, my dear,' he said. *Jj "T haven't been," she said. T jnit " ^ came In myself/ n PfWBC? of Mild. Mrue. Rachel, the great actress, was ^ resting alone in her dressing room one. ' night preparatory to going on the stage V when a man suddenly entered and, drawing a dagger, said he was going to kill her if she did not at once coosent to marry him. The actress saw at a glance that the man was mad and meant what be said. So with the utmost coolness she replied: "Certainly X will marry you. I wish nothing better. f 'M - . - : ? ?' .? Come with me to the priest at once, x ;r ?g have had him come here for the purpose." She took his arm, and the? went out together?to where there was ^ assistance, of course, and the man was immediately put under arrest?Phile- 4^ delphia Record. 'yWi Mietloa fcr Isrinr. - 'M "Mamma, I's got a stomach ache," said Nellie Bly, six years old. -'2% "That's because you've been without lunch. Its because your stomach is vV;J* empty. You would feel better If you ', had something in It" That afternoon the pasto? called and in the course of conversation remarked that he had been suffering all day with. a very severe headache. "That's because it is empty," said ^ Nellie. "You'd feel much bettor if yosj^^B had something in it"?American Spec- V-* tator. Time For Weoaias- * "I trust your honor will excuse this time," said a habitual drunkard at the police court "It is my misfoc^SS tone?I am child of genius." "And what Is your age?" questioned iS the magistrate. "Forty-two years." "Then It Is time yoa were weaned. YouH have to do ten days away from'jM the bottle." His Wife-But I don^Snk, George, that yon ought to object to marmni. Why, Just think, If it hadn't been tat - :V||j her yon would never have had me! Her Husband?Huh! Dont try to excuse her by saying that Yoa make me hate her worse than ever.?Modern Society. sjgfim Doing Their Beet. "Didnt I understand you to say they keep a servant girl?* w "Certainly not I said they try to. >;,|5| As soon as one goes they get another* HI& ?Philadelphia Press. ? ^ Speech is too often not, as the , Frenchman defined it the art of concealing thought but of quite stifling cfl^j and suspending thought so that there ^ is none to conceaL?Carlyle. g