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yp-- 7 p.- ' m life: mr |: Sty? lamhrrg ifrralii - ? ?? ? ESTABLISHED IN APRIL. 1891 ; A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. ?Tj Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for ? : first insertion, 50c. for each subsequent insertion Liberal contracts made for ' three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local S|K; Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must be paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on i* ' subjects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature yV will not be published unless paid for. p* ?% Thursday, June 13,1907 . Our citizens ought to take some steps to get another railroad. No l| doubt the Atlantic Coast Line could 2*/ be induced to extend the Ehrhardt IpV line to Bamberg if the matter was jft properly put before them. Why not If *?it1 If v- Our citizens are in favor of a high Rr; school department at our graded jj^V school, and they want another year jggr added to the course so that they can S|f keep their boys and girls at home one jg? year more. Let the election on the ' question be held. Is it not time some steps were g? being taken for the high school? We should add another year to the course || at the graded school and hold the & election for a high school department. Let us get to work at once, |l': so that the matter can be in shape g in time for the fall session. | The growth and prosperity of Bam| berg will be given a great impetus & by adding a tenth grade to the graded school course and establishing a t? high school department. We can do it and we ought to do it. We hope ; those in charge of affairs will start to work on the proposition. The newspaper men will take Chart leston and the Isle of Palms this week, ' where for a few days they will forV v get the delinquent subscriber and all their other troubles as they enjoy ri the good things prepared for them by Elder Hemphill, Billy Ball, Tom | Waring, and the other good fellows up of Charleston. We have heard that the county supervisor is thinking of ordering I , the dispensary election for some time In September. Now we have no desire | to suggest any time for holding this election, this being entirely within ! the discretion of the supervisor, but several person have expressed themselves that September will be such a busy time that a light vote will likely ' be polled, and little interest taken. Another railroad to Bamberg would : do much for our growth and pros' perity, and we believe the Atlantic | Coast Line Could be induced to extend its road from Ehrhardt to this place. . The scheme is worth a trial anyway, so let our business men take up the matter in earnest. Won't some; body take the initiative? This seems * to us the best solution of the transportation question, and we at least ought to try to better existing con| ditions. If a few more counties had grand juries like Richland, the courts would have to go out of business. Last week that body returned "no bill" in the case against a dispenser ?L*. 1M LtO AA/tA1irt^0 HTUA IWUU was SUUll Ui mo WAA/uuia. xuc / solictor immediately prepared anr other indicment and again the jury returned "no bill." How twelve men p of intelligence could take such action passes understanding. Richland has just cause to feel disgraced over such farcical proceedings in the name of justice. * Editor?I notice that you say that the women at the ball to-night were "elegantly gowned." Do you think +-l?o4- "rrAumo^" ic a orrvrw^ Uiav 5VTT*AVV? M &V/VVA ?? V*. V. Reporter?Well you couldn't call them dressed.?Somerville Journal. Mary's Other Lamb. Mary had a little lamb; its fleece was white as snow; it strayed away one day, where lambs should never go. And Mary sat her quickly down and tears streamed from her eyes; she never found the lamb because she did not advertise. And Mary had a brother John who kept a village 5? store; he sat him down and smoked ? pipe and watched the open door. p) And as the people passed along anc did not stop to buy, John still sat anc smoked his pipe and blinked a sleep} eye. And so the sheriff closed hirr out, but still he lingered near, anc Mary came to drop with him a sym fe ... pathetic tear. How is it sister, car you tell, why other merchants here: sell all their goods so readily anc 'fl thrive from year to year. Remember i ing her own bad luck the little maic replies: "These fellows 'get there John, because they advertise." lip -. :' > <Mmif > -i. --I- ;. - Preferred the Baby's |Voice. A New York scientist, the father of a large and growing family, has his troubles. One evening his youngest was holding forth in her best style. The mother could do nothing writh the child, so the man of science went to the rescue. "I think I can quiet little Flora," he said. "There's no use humming to her in that silly way. What she wants is real music. The fact that I used to sing in the glee club at Yale, and sang well, too, may make a difference." Accordingly, the professor took the child and, striding up and down I the room, sang in his best manner. He had not finished the second verse of his song, when a ring was heard. The door was opened, and there stood a girl of 14, and said: "I'm one of the family that's just moved into the flat next to yours. There's a sick person with us, and he says, if it is all the same to you, would you mind letting the baby cry instead of singing to it?"?Success. The Dance in Kansas. "We attended the fine dance given by the local lodge of Sons and Daughters of Sunlight last night," says the Paw Paw Bazoo, "and we had a nice time stepping around the hall with a lady or two hugged to our manly breast. It was a delightful ball no doubt, but where is there anything in the world that cannot be criticised? Now, last night it might have been better had the boys in the band been less full of tanglefoot than they were. We don't care what you say, no bass horn player can grunt pleasant music on his horn when he's got a load bf Ed RramW's rve under his belt and no bass drummer can keep good time for circling about with your lady when he's so loaded he can't hit the drum. Of course, there are no personalities in this, but let us suggest that the flute players put the right end of the flutes in their mouths hereafter, lest they spoil the tunes, as they did last night, unofficially. The snare drummer was fine, he having lost his drum when half drunk, and the two cornetists . certainly smeared glory all over themi selves, being indeed almost sober, yet , insidiously in need of practice, The alto horn was fine, but it is rather obstreperous to try to dance to the ump pah pah music of an alto when the other horns are constantly interfering with bad notes. However, the dance was fine, even though Hump Brisby did fall on his sitting posture in one two-step with his slippery feet, making Henry Gaines laugh too loud for a gentleman. Another thing, why does George Devlin spit on the floor at a ball; does anyone know? These, outside of the drunken fight between Hep Leslie and Martin Hart, which waIUAM triln AVA] uruugui uil 11UU1JT iauici vut tAvmmation from them, were all that could be criticised at the dance. It certainly was a fine affair and society was there and wrestled each other around with smiling faces. Let us repeat it soon.'' ?Denver Post. He Drew the Line. Arthur Herkimer, the Missouri historian, told at a dinner in St. , Louis a story about the famous governor, Clairborne F. Jackson. "Jackson," he said, "married, one after another, five sisters. The thing is incredible, but it is a fact. "When for the fifth time Claiborne Jackson broached a marital proposition to his father-in-law the old man was eighty and quite deaf This is the conversation that ensued. " T want Lizzie.' " 'Hey?' " 'I want you to give me Elizabeth.' " 'Oh, you want me to give you Elizabeth, do you? What for?' " 'For my wife.' " 'For your wife?' " 'I?want?to?marry?Lizzie.' " 'Oh, yes, I hear you. You needn't rouse the neighborhood.' " 'Well do you consent?' " 'Yps T eon sen t. ' said the old man. He shook his head and added slowly: " 'Yes,-you can have her. You've got 'em all now, my boy. But for goodness sake if any thing happens to that poor misguided girl, don't come back here and ask me for the old woman.' "?Washington Star, Governors' Salaries. Illinois is going to have the highest paid officials in the country. The new 1 salary bill just passed by the legislature raises the salary of the governor from $6,000 to $12,000 a year, which will make him the best paid of American governors. New York, New Jersey and Penn' sylvaniapay their chief executives ! $10,000. Massachusetts and Indiana Dav $8,000. Most of the other States pay $5,000. Vermont pays the smallest gubernatorial salary, the amount being $1,500, or a clerk's hire. New Hampshire and Delaware are on a $2,000 basis. ; South Carolina pays $3,000. Texas and Connecticut are $4,000 States, although Texas is more than | 50 times as big as Connecticut. Geor> gia is in the $5,000 class. [ Professional. i One morning Rufus Choate's clerk informed him that a gentleman had 1 called and wanted him to undertake I a case. "Ah! And did you collect the r regular retaining fee?" "I only coli lected $25, sir." The regular fee was 1 $50, and Mr. Choate said: "But that - was unprofessional; yes, very unproi fessional!" "But, sir," said the clerk, , apologetically and anxious to exoner1 ate himself from the charge, "I got - all he had." "Ah," said Mr. Choate I with a different expression, "that ' was professional; yes, quite professional."?Indianapolis Star. | KILL MEJT TIME, j So Says Nonchalant Alleged Murderer to Officers. COLD BLOODED CONFESSION. Charles H. Rogers Tells How For $16 He Killed the Olney Brothers and Alice Ingerick of Middletown, N. Y. Conscience Untroubled. "Take me out and kill me any time you please," said Charles II. Rogers, alleged murderer of the Olney brothers and Alice Ingerick of Middletown. V Y when he was locked uu in the Goshen jail. Rogers was captured in Los Angeles after a chase lasting a year. On his way across the country he made to his custodians a confession which chilled their blood. "I had been planning this act for a month," said Rogers to his captors. "I thought the Olney brothers had a good deal of money in bills about fh ' nothing and concealed in the x-ouse. I wanted to go west and get away from here. At first I thought night was the best time to do it Then I calculated it was best to do it in daylight, for the farm is a lonely enough place. "On the day of the murders I left home. I told my wife and children they would never see me again. I took with me a piece of iron pipe wrapped in a copy of the Middletown TimesPress. I had a revolver. I went cross lots to avoid passing by the home of my parents. From a hill I saw Fred Olney drive into the ward. He had "WHEN WILLIS CAME INTO SIGHT I SHOT HIM TOO." ' been to the Ogden farm to deliver his milk. I thought of course he had been paid in cash for that and that it would be so much more money for me. "I walked down to the place and told Olney'I was a detective and needed his help and that of his brother in capturing a man who had hidden in the Derby woods. He called Willis Olney, and we three went In their milk wagon to the edge of the woods. Fred Olney and I went into the woods together; leaving Willis with the team. After going in some distance. I shot Fred Olney in the back. He fell dead. "Willis heard the shot and came smashing through the bushes to see what was the matter. When Willis came into sight I shot him too. I searched their pockets. I took a pocketbook from Fred Olney. There was very little money in it It contained only a check for the milk he had delivered at Ogden's that day and some papers. I took Fred's watch and Willis'. "I took the money, ma tne papers that were in the wallet in a chink in the stone wall, near which the horse had been left. I left the horse stand there. Then I walked to Olney's house and met Mrs. Ingerick. I told her that one of the Olneys had been kicked by the horse and was hurt. She went to the barn to get something for him. I followed. As she nfrent into the cow stable I struck her on the bead with the piece of gas pipe. She fell down, and I beat her over the bead many times with the pipe. I thought she was dead when I left her. First I covered her body with straw, and then I went up to the house. There I met Alice Ingerick, nine years old, Mrs. Ingerlck's daughter. I told her to go down in the cellar and close the door. As she started down the cellar stairs I hit her on the head with the gas pipe. She fell downstairs. 1 followed her and pounded her over the head until I felt sure she was dead. "Thinking they were now all dead," Rogers continued, "I went up and searched the house for the money. I didn't find any. All I had for these four lives I thought I had taken was $16 and two watches. Maybe there was more money hidden there, but I was scared off from looking for more. Mr. Conklin, a farmer from Wurtsboro, and his son drove up. They were out buying onions. They shouted 'Onion!' I was In the attic at that time. I kept still, and the Conklins, thinking nobody was at home, went on. I looked out and saw them in the road going away. I didn't want to stay longer. I went over the hills to the hogback." The hogback is a part of the Erie railroad between Middletown and Howells. There Rogers boarded a train for Otisville. He stayed there that night. Next morning he threw away the revolver in a stream and took a train for Port Jervis. He took one of j the silver watches to a saloon In Port - \ A'y : / , " '4 Jervis and asked the man behind the bar to buy it Rogers thought it ought to fetch $15. The saloon keeper gave him $4 and then told him to get out. for lie believed Rogers had stolen it. Fearing to dispose cf the other watch. Rogers bought a ticket for Huntington. Ind., which was as far as his cash would take him. There he found a job as farm laborer and stayed for some time. lie came across a Chicago matrimonial advertising journal in this place. In it was a notice that a well to do widow was willing to take most anybody for a husband. Rogers answered it and played "come on" to the swindlers behind the advertisement. He had saved a little money to carry him farther west. He went to Chicago to meet the widow. "How about that widow?" asked Hock in drawing out the prisoner's story. "Say," grinned Rogers, "if you had seen her. Goshen jail Is better than being married to that" Fleeced of his last penny, Rogers walked the streets of Chicago. A placard caught his eye: "Men wanted with knowledge of farming and gardening. Free passage to California. Steady work; good wages." It was a recruiting agent's effort to find competent labor for the immense experimental farm of Luther Burbank, the wizard of horticulture and pomology, who invents new plants and new fruits as Edison Invents new motors and new lights. Rogers found his job there and was sent at Burbank's expense to California. There his conscience never troubled him. "I forgot all about what had happened back home," he told the officers. "I never thought about it." CAUGHT "LITTLE DOROTHY." Chicago Polica Followed Her Mamma's Instructions. INOl m vain am nans, r ltru. jjtvi ui Columbus, O., appeal to the police of Chicago, and if the distracted mother did not accomplish what she thought she would certainly it was not the fault of the detectives who responded to her call. Her appeal came In the following message, received in police headquarters: Police?Please intercept my little daughter Dorothy, who has gone to Chicago to get married. She Is pretty, with lots of red hair. In response to the message three detectives were hurried to meet an incoming train from Columbus, and the sleuths, mindful of the agony which the. mother} must be suffering, determined to let no little red haired girl slip past them. They eyed suspiciously every passenger on the train, but when the last one had alighted no little Dorothy had appeared. The detectives were about to leave the station when they saw a tall, handsomely gowned woman sitting on one of the benches. They recognized her as having been on the train, and one of the detectives said to her: "Pardon me. madam, but did you see any little red haired girl get on the train at Columbus?" The woman eyed the detective as if she suspected he was insane, and she replied that she had not seen any girl answering that description. "I am a police officer," the detective said, "and I'm looking for a girl named Dorothy Levi Her mother Is nearly dead with grief because she left home." The woman jumped up from her seat evidently surprised. ' . "Why, I am Dorothy Levi of Columbus," she said. "Then you'll oblige us by coming to headquarters," said the detective. "We want yott." "How dare you ask mfe to go with you?" the woman said indignantly. "MAMMA MUST BE HA VINO A BRAIN STORM." "By what authority do you tell me where to go? I am old enough to take care of myself, and I have not committed any crime." The detective showed the woman her mother's telegram, and she went to headquarters. ' "Mamma must be having a brain storm," she said to the sergeant. "I am twenty-eight years old, and I am on my way to Colorado Springs for my health. I would not marry the best man living." Miss Levi made affidavit to her age, and the sergeant told her she could go where she pleased. "We thought we were helping a poor mother whose child had run away," he said apologetically. "I would suggest that you wire your mother that hereafter when she wants the police to look for her 'little Dorothy' she mention that Dorothy Is unusually tall for her age." Miss Levi took the next train for Colorado Springs. . v 1 ??????? TO THE LADIESII I > * v ' :-< >? ? I* ' >$%?. ? ?? ? ? !j ? Again our stock of Millinery is full ^: iij and new and coming in almost r\?Mn.,nH5nn Ti>{mtii!tiflrc . 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