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> ^ .... > THE JURY ACQUITS SHARP EXONERATED OF CONSPIRING TO KILL CARMACK. Jury Cannot Agree as to Guilt or Innocence of the Coopers?Ordered Back to Room. Nashville, Tenn., March 19.?When the jury to-day returned a verdict of acquittal for John D. Sharp, charged i with the murder of Former United States Senator E. W. Carmack, and j declared it was "hopelessly tied up as; to the Coopers," it was generally conceded that the end of the famous case had been reached. Nothing daunted by the expressive firmness of Foreman Burke's declaration of a disagreement, Judge Hart sent the 12 men out for further deliberation and announced that he would not discharge them until he was absolutely convinced that an agreement could not be reached. Judge Hart fully expected a verdict to-dav. Several times during the morning he consulted with the jury deputies and when he had concluded the day's docket at noon and sent to ask the jurors if they had anything to report, the reply "nothing" came hack. Evidently the judge had some information, however, for he ordered the prisoners brought into court and instructed the sheriff to "carry in the jury." Instead of S. J. Hyde, to whom1 the charge was given, E. M. Burke, the first man chosen, carried :he papers and acted as foreman. In response to the judge's question as to whether a verdict had been reached, Burke replied: "We are tied up tight as to the Coopers, but we find John D. Sharp not guilty." The verdict as to Sharp was announced at 12:32 p. m. "Is there any reason, Gen. McArn, why John Sharp should not be discharged?" asked the court. "None, your honor." "Mr. Sharp, you are discharged from custody, acquitted," said the court with a smile. 1 Sharp sat still and indifferent. Not so with his wife. When she had grasped the significance of the verdict her eyes filled up and she caught her husband's left arm with both her hands and seemed about to break ' down. "We want the exact words of the record." said Judee Anderson, of the defense. "We understood the report was hopeless tied." "I do not recall the exact language, but I am told by the clerk and a newspaper man that those are the words. Let the clerk so record them." "Is that a verdict, your honor?" said Anderson. "It is a verdict as far as John Sharp is concerned, but it certainly is r not as far as D. B. and Robin Cooper are concerned. I sent the jury back for further consideration." s The defendant's counsel advised together a while and assented. Then Judge Hart adjourned court until 2 p. m. Sharp, accompanied by his wife and sister-in-law, father and mother, the latter two reaching the jail after the verdict, went to the room he has occupied for several months in the jail and there held a little reunion with the Coopers. As he left the court room, Reid Sharp, youngest brother of John, remarked: "This is not the end of this case." The jurors looked tired and worn and ill at ease. From the loud talking heard in the room they have been having a strenuous time. They are chafing under the restraint, too, but evidently are determined to vote with their convictions. They sent word to the sheriff late this afternoon that their room was poorly ventilated, that the plumbing was defective and that several of the men were ill from the confinement. The room is quite small and the sheriff decided to let them sleep to-night in the quarter Of the jail set aside for a woman's hospital, which has no tenants at present t The jurors put in the afternoon deliberating, but after supper at 6 p. m., devoted the balance of the evening to amusing themselves with cards and songs. Near Death in Big Pond. It was a thrilling experience to Mrs. Ida Soper to face death. "For years a severe lung trouble gave me intense suffering," she writes, "and several times nearly caused my death. All remedies failed and doctors said I was incurable. Then Dr. King's New Discovery brought quick relief and a cure so permanent that I have not been troubled in twelve years." Mrs. Soper lives in Big Pond, Pa. It works wonders in coughs and colds, sore lungs, hemorrhages, lagrippe, asthma, croup, whooping cough and all bronchial affections. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Condensed Wisdom. The three "D's" of "high society" are Dress, Divorce and the Devil. There are two animals which will eat and drink anything and every * thing: the hog and man. "Contrasts go well together"?is that why the waist measurements of so many society couples are 15 and 51 inches respectively? An overloaded stomach is one of the Devil's most delightful habitations. The woman who has a wasp-like waist usually has also a wasp-like disposition. Many religious papers are advertising a new road to Heaven; the Patent Medicine Highway. The early Christians practiced fasting and praying; not feasting and braying. The making of money is often the unmaking of man. Some people's highest ambition is to keep their hands as soft as their heads. T . * ' ^ V . M Where are Your B< Going to! Editor The Bamberg Herald: The following article contains so much good common sense that I ask you to j give it publicity through the columns' | of your paper. Yours truly, E. PAUL ALLEN. 1. Are you thinking of sending either or both to coiiege next year? Would it be the wise thing to do? Would it be the best thing to do? Sending your boy or your girl to college is a grave question. In settling the question use caution, discretion, business sense, and courage. Be not - * x; i. 1 1 swayea Dy mere sentiment, juuk at the matter in a judicial way, and be not influenced by the seductive reasoning of the college drummer, whose business it is to get students. 2. If your boy or your girl has the age, the maturity, the settled habits, the preparation, and any ambition to get a college education, by all means send him or her, if it is possible, to do so. At the proper time and under favorable conditions, it is your sacred duty to send him or her. 3. Not every student would be benefitted by sending him to college. Unless your child has a genuine desire to go there for the work it would be a mistake to send him at all. If he wishes to go to college to have a good time, by all means keep him at1 home at work. For his future welfare a college campus is the last place for a student to go simply to enjoy himself. 4. Is your boy or girl old enough, mature enough, and settled enough to stand alone morally, and to do j college work in the college way? If I not, by no means send either. The average boy or girl sixteen years of age has no business at college. The majority of college uoys and girls are fine types of young manhood and womanhood?ambitious, sincere and of fine fibre. But among those on ev ery college campus are tne aerencis ?the idlers, the morally weak, and the morally vicious. To withstand the influence of such characters is a part of the training to which every boy and girl must sometime be subjected, but it is courting disaster to your son or your daughter to thrust either in the way of temptation until old enough and settled enough to resist it. Do not bank upon the strength of your immature child; many another parent has drunk the dregs of bitterness because he imagined his child unlike other children. With the same preparation and equal native ability, the young man entering college at twenty years of age will do as much college work in three years as the boy of sixteen will do in four years. 5. Is your boy or girl prepared ! to enter college? Is he just through the ninth grade of some school? If so, he lacks about two years of the proper preparation. You ought not to be in any doubt about that. You can easily find some college anxious to take him. Suppose it does take him; will that student do college work next year, or will he do high school work?at increased expenses? The answer to that question is simple. The college must take the pupil where it finds him; the student cannot jump from the middle of the high school into the college, and if he undertakes to do so, he is sure to pay the penalty. To send a ninth grade pupil to college is unjust to the DUDil. robs your high school, and forces the college into the high school business. 6. Has your boy or girl completed the tenth grade in some school? If so, do you think either is properly prepared for college? How much has he been taught? How well has he been taught? What has he mastered? How much power has he acquired for independent thinking? Has he barely got beyond quadratics in a school algebra? Is he still in plane geometry? Has he read three, or even four, books of Caesar's Gallic war? Is his knowledge of history confined to a smattering gathered from a few months' study of some general history? Is he or she able to write a simple English letter of three hundred words, spelling all the words correctly, using capitals where they belong, and dividing the letter properly into paragraphs? Is such a pupil ready for college? 7. The average school with two average teachers to teach the eighth, ninth and tenth grades, will not, and cannot, properly prepare students for real colleee work. The ex planation is simple: Two teachers cannot teach such a course in three years, unless the classes are unusually small and the pupils above the average in ability. Such a school needs at least three teachers for these three grades. The proper preparation for college to-day means the mastery of a wider range of subjects than required fifty years ago. 8. The average community thinks it too expensive to employ three teachers for the eighth, ninth and tenth grades. What does the average community in South Carolina pay the two teachers who attempt to do this work? One is paid from $60 to $100 a month; the other, from $35 to $50 a month?an average of not far from $1,250 for the two. Would it not be better and cheaper to add the third teacher to the school, than to send the boys and girls unprepared to college? 9. Suppose your school has te$ grades with three, or even more, teachers for the eighth, ninth and! tenth grades. Would it not be wisdom and economy to add the eleventh j grade and another teacher? A ten-j grade school at best cannot offer; more than three years of high school. Why should its pupils go to college to get the fourth year of high school work? 10. Suppose your school has already eleven grades and claims a four-year high school course. Does it carry its pupils beyond what the ordinary ten-grade school does? If not do not be satisfied to call it a four-year high school. A four-year high school with a single course of oy and Qirl School Next Year? study giving five subjects to each pupil cannot be taught with fewer than three teachers. Does your school of eleven grades measure up to that standard? If not, it needs your support to make it a standard scnool, and its pupils are not properly prepared for college. 11. Although we have free scholarships, free tuition, and other gratuities at the colleges, the average boy or girl will need not far from $250 a year at college. Four pupils will cost $1,000 a year. Would it not be the part of wisdom and common sense to add a teacher at $1,000 a year to your home school, thereby keeping your money at home, and your children at home another year? 12. The entire community is often unwilling to put more than $1,250 into the salaries of two teachers, or $1,800 into the salaries of three teachers, to teach from thirty to seventy-five pupils in their home high school, but four parents out of that same community are perfectly willing to nav Ji.ooo for only four students ?away from home! 13. Some parents seem to think that their children do better at school away from home than they would do at the home school. Doubtless a few do, but in most cases he makes himself believe so because he wiuhes to believe so, and because he does not see from day to day his child's faults and shortcomings. > 14. As a school master it would pay to employ an additional teacher for your home school; as a matter of business economy it would pay. By sending your children and your money to other places you aid in building up schools at other places at the expense of your own community and school. By keeping your children and your money in your home school you would soon have a school that would draw pupils and money to it. 15. It is foolish and unreasonable to expect a 40-dollar woman or a 75dollar man to do as good teaching for you as the college professor ought to do. Four parents are willing to pay $1,000 to have a college professor teach their children high school subjects in the college. Suppose you try a 1,000-dollar teacher in your home school instead of the one at $40 a month. 16. By improving your home school you not only educate your children at less expense, but without expense to yourself you give additional school advantages to the children of your neighborhood who are less able than you to send their children off to school. Thus you prove yourself a good citizen. 17. By making your home school better and keeping your boys and girls in it at least one year longer, you would not injure the colleges? you wo lid greatly benefit tfiem. You would send them better prepared students, more mature students, and more of them. Besides, you would almost immediately raise the standard of every college in the State. 18. What are you going to do about it? What are you and your neighbors going to do about it? Are you and your neighbors going to send your fledgeling off to college next September, bewail the expense, grumble about having no good school at home, and finally be disappointed In that your children do not get on as you think they ought? Almost every community in the State could better its school without one dollar of additional expense, if the patrons would use common business judgment and work together. 19. If you have a high school, support it and build it up; keep your children in it until they have completed the course; then if the course is inferior or too shcrt, spend your money on that school instead of on somebody else's school. If you have no high school, why not? If you need help, the State is willing to give you a start, but not to support it for you?that is your privilege and your business. W. H. HAND, High School Inspector, Feb. 20, 1909. Columbia, S. C. Census Report on Cotton Crop. Washington, March 20.?Running bales of cotton numbering 13,408,841, of average gross weight of 505.8 pounds, all equivalent to 13,563,942 500-pound bales, with 27,587 ginneries operating, was the final report of the census bureau to-day on the cotton crop grown in 1908. The report included 344,907 linters and counts round as half bales. The final 1907 crop report was 11,325,882 bales, equivalent to 11,375,461 500-pound bales with 27,597 ginneries operating. Included in the 1908 figures are 93,085 bales, which the ginners estimated they would turn out after the time of the March canvass. Round bales in to-day's report are ~ ~ - - /% * - 1 - - r* i~1 ^ ~ J 34U.4DU Daies. oea, isiauu uaics included are 93,848 for 1908 and 86,895 for 1907. The crop by States, in running bales, including linters, follows: Alabama, 1,358,339; Arkansas, 1,018,708 bales; Florida, 71,411 bales; Georgia, 2,023,828 bales; Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico (including linters of establishments in Illinois and Virginia) 5,054; Louisiana, 481,694 bales; Mississippi, 1,665,695 bales; Missouri, 60,609 bales; North Carolina, 699,507 bales; Oklahoma, 703,862 bales; South Carolina. 1,239,260 bales; Tennessee, 348,582 bales; Texas, 3,719,189 bales; Virginia, 13,013 bales. Empty Pistol Again Fatal. Spartanburg, March 18.?Perry Leister, of Greer, was accidentally shot and killed at his home at that place yesterday by Sam James, his brother-in-law. James was handling a supposed empty pistol, when it was discharged by accident, the ball entering Leister's forehead, causing his death within a few moments. Coroner Turner made an investigation of the tragedy. It has been clearly .established that the killing was accidental. I SPRING GREETING | J TO THE LADIES! y We invite your atten- 1 | tion to our show of ^ GENUINE U ATOai>ril lstI i PATTERN IIM10 and 2nd. i X We've the latest to be had, and as we | gs have the best and most experienced X ? artists obtainable, we can duplicate 0? or design as well as can be done any- g where. Our line of novelties and S ? staples in millinery are much fuller gj I than ever before?as well as other m. lines we carry. eg We want you also to see our line of K Embroidered Flouncings, Embroi- 8j dered and Tucked Nets, Mirror Silks, eg Tinsel Crepes, and Silks. H It is admitted by close observers that a we carry a better and more complete 83 line of Millinery than the retail milli- ? ners of large cities and our prices g much lower. Also, we have received 8 since January 1st, 1909, over 40,000 ?9 yards of Laces and Embroideries and gj over 1,000 Corsets, and at the i rate 8 these are going We will have to re- 2 plenish long before this season is over. So we feel safe in saying that in other lines than Millinery we do as well or better for you than the larger gj cities. Our good values and low & prices convince everybody. K MRS. K. I. SHUCK & CO.g MILLINERY HEADQUARTERS.....BAMBERG, S. C. $ GREAT is he one word jE^" Jw< describing "SHIELD BRAND" llBl^i? f/^M seven prices within the range ^10 the lowest; $20 the highest though to do it justice would exhaust the English vocabu- || all about it too, if you will take 1 - Kl;H| I the time and trouble to ex- 1' Cfmu Jw^ Hi I amine me suns, jusl umc mc * & ?% e^b coat sleeves for instance, how i mM|8> V1 I 19 cleverly they round-up at the i ||^B Sgf^B arm-hole. Not a pucker nor a Iran | IB wrinkle, and they hang as ffi^B gracefully as if made to order, |j^B jj] |fl yet this is only one of the B many splendid features of ||Bf is "SHIELD BRAND" Clothing gB PJB DON'T BPY a pring Suit JjiI \J B looked them over. A large va- 9ft riety of patterns and stylish ^ * makes from which to select. Shield? | Conrad Ehrhardt Co. | Ehrhardt, :::::: South Carolina I M 7 ! APPROACHING SPRING I Calls to mind the necessity of a means ? for perfectly preserving food. The ? health of the entire family depends ? greatly upon the manner in which @ food is preserved and it is, therefore, @ the duty of the head of each household Jg @ to see to this important detail. The jg I Leonard Cleanable Refrigerator | @ furnishes a striking example of what ? @ can be accomplished in a means for & ? the preservation of food. ?9 1 Clean, Cold and Economical, I S a luxury, yet within the reach of every !? ^ family. For prices and particulars, ?5 apply to ? I Carolina Brokerage Co. I Ss Spann Building Bamberg, S. C. A ; - ' ' Readers, Read Stieff's Every Week | YOU will find them not only interesting, but instructive, and if you expect to buy a piano and will be guided by our knowledge gained from sixtysix years' experience, you can. secure a piano that will always be good, and buy at the Right Price? *"4 Watch for Special Bargains Write to-day Chas. M. Stieff; fl Manufacturer of the , .; Artistic Stieff Shaw and Stieff Self player Pianos . SOUTHERN WAREROOM: p * 5 W. Trade St. Charlotte, ... N. I C. H. WILMOTH, 0M Manager. Mention this papery NOTICE TO LIQUOR DEAIiERS.?fM| Office of County Dispensary Board of Bamberg County. *'|PI Bamberg, S. C., March 5, 1909.' :;|?| Bids are hereby requested, in aicordance with the terms of the Bis- 3J pensary juaw now m iorue, iur uw ;gm following kinds and qualities of li- " * quors, beer, and other articles herein enumerated, to be furnished to the State of South Carolina for ui?::f|? of the County Dispensary Board Ot'7%|! Bamberg County, to wit: /-.f&S Fifty barrels Corn Whiskey#r 90 proof, different grades. Fifty barrels Rye Whiskey, 90 ; proof, different grades. Five barrels Alcohol, 188 proof. ^ (Fifty barrels Gin, 90 proof, different grades ' . Bids will also be receivedfor Case Goods, including Rye, Com ahfc Scotch Whiskies, Brandy, Gin, Rum, Wines, Beers, Ales, and Porter. Also glass, corks and tinfoil, wire and other articles used for a County ! Dispensary All goods shall be furnished in y compliance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the Dispensary Law of 1907, and bidders ' must observe the following rules: , 1. The bids shall be sealed, and m there shall be no sign or mark upoh the envelope indicating the name of the bidder 2. All bids must be sent by express or registered mail to Jno. F. -P*? Folk, County Treastfrer for Bam- :(fM berg County, at Bamberg, S. Ci, or before 12 o'clock of Monday, the 5th day of April, 1909. The contract ah a 11 hp nwarripri to the lowcist responsible bidder on each ~kta? - 'I the Board reserving the right to reject any and all bids and' any; parts of bids. The Board reserves the right to increase or decrease the above quantities at the same ^ price as the bids submitted. 3. All goods to be delivered f. V'S o. b. Bamberg, S. C., freight prepaid. ;S;| Terms, to be paid for within ninety days and subject to regauge at our :? Hi warehouse. Also state discount for cash payment. Bids will be opened * IM in the office of the County Dispensary Board at Bamberg, S. C. on Mon[day, April 5th, 1909. E. C. HAYS, J. A. WALKER, M G. B. CLAYTON, W County Dispensary Board for Bamberg County. I DE. GEO. F. HAIR a Dental Surgeon...Bamberg, S. C. o | X In office every day In the week. Gradn- ! \ 4 ate ot Baltimore College of Dental Sur- 0' jJ X gery, class 1892. Member S. C. Dental <. X Association. Office In old bank building W. E. FREE I Attorney-at-Law All business entrusted to me ?Ill -1 ? ^+ + tir-in win i tueive piuuijji aucuuuu, Office for present at court house. MEAT MARKET. | Same men at a different place. When yon want the best meats obtainable call at our market opposite The Herald Building, Main street. Our prices are right. We also buy beef cattle, pork, hogs, hides, chickens and eggs. BRONSON&GRANT BAMBERG, S. 0. v V $ :gJlg