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No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are s not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, April 1, 1909 p If Bamberg county is to be represented in the fund for the monument to the women of the Confederacy, it is time some work was be1 -1 Til- ? ^p +1- Jr. nnnn._ V m5 UUlir. JL lie CUltUl KJL lUlO UC ? Q- I paper has not the time to make a personal canvas, but we have prepared a subscription list, and those persons desiring to contribute to this fund can leave their subscriptions ^ here and they will be sent to the i . State newspaper. ??: .. In the daily newspapers of Sunday ? ' a week ago there was published the names of the counties in this State who wanted loans from the sinking > f' fund commission, and in the list Bamberg county was put down as wanting to borrow $5,000 for ordis nary county expenses and $5,000 for - a new jail. This was clearly an error, as Bamberg county is out of debt and &ry; lhas money to pay all her expenses without borrowing, and our jail is all right. This building was built when the county was created, and was given to the county by the town of My. Bamberg. They must have meant I Barnwell county, for Bamberg does * .. not need to borrow money for any purpose. Moon Defends His Bolt. Washington, March 29.?A break * : in the monotony of the tariff debate occurred in the house to-day when Mr. Moon (Tenn.), one of the 23 whom the recent Democratic caucus "disciplined" for having voted with ; the ReDublicans in the adoption of the Fitzgerald amendment to the !^?; c rules, defended his action in lan* guage most vigorous. He scathingbsv ly denounced the attitude toward him and his 22 associates by the mit-..'i * nority leader and the other Democrats in the house, who, he said, *p"': had shown an intolerance unspeakable. Mr. Moon sarcastically said that it -- imight be well for those Democrats V who had pressed upon Mr. Clark a p?;v. losing conflict to give up their rights into his keeping, and to have turned over their power, "but why & * v * should they attempt to turn over the power of men that have stood by them? Why should they denounce ??' :' men as % traitors to the party who have stood for Democracy in its p"'" purity and the platform of their party in its integrity?" He characterized the Democratic caucus resolution as "humiliating, dishonorable, contemptible and pusillanimous." The bolting Democrats and Re;' ' publicans loudly applauded Mr. Moon as he sat down. Gov. Patterson (Tenn.) occupied a seat close to Mr. Moon and followed the speech with interest. So impressed was Mr. Harrison (N. Y.), one of the bolters, that he rushed up the aisle and warmly congratulated r~?. the Tennessee member. ? Big Fire in Habana. Habana, March 29.?The two piers of the Habana Central railroad in the upper part of the harbor were / totally destroyed by fire which broke out at 11 o'clock this morning. It is reported that the fire was of incendiary origin. The total damage done is estimated at $1,000,000, which is covered by insurance. A number of lighters loaded with sugar were lying at the piers when the fire broke out. They were cut loose and were blown to sea by the strong southerly gale, threatening destruction to steamers and other craft in the harbor. Some of the vessels hoisted their anchors and shifted their position to escape the peril. Several blazing barges drifted to the mouth of the harbor, being stranded off Morro rasfae. The Hamburg-American line steamer Altonburg, which was lying at the second pier discharging her cargo of rice, was unable to get away. Tugs could not render her assistance on account of the dense smoke and the crew of the steamer were compelled to abandon her and take refuge on the adjacent pier. It was thought at first that the steamer was totally destroyed, but the fire was checked after it had damaged the vessel to the extent of $80,000. Both piers, which contained a vast amount of miscellaneous freight, were consumed, practically nothing on the piers being saved. The crew of the German cruiser Hamburg, which entered the harbor while the fire was in progress, rendered much assistance in towing lighters out of reach of the flames. There was no loss of life. K , A STRINGS SENTENCE. Punishment lor Murder That Was More Cruel Than Death. in 1801 a man died in the CatdKiiis who haa been condemned by one 01 tne strangest sentences on record. Ralph Sutherland was corn in 1701, and lived in a stone i.ouse near Leeus. He was a man 01 violent temper and morose disposition, shunned by his neignbors and generally disliked. Not being able to get an American servant, he imported a Scotchman, and, according 10 the usage o. the times, virtuan^ uela her in bondage until her passage money had been reiunded. Unable to endure any longer the raging temper of her master, the girl ran away. Immediately upon discovering her absence the man set off in an angry chase upon his horse and soon overtook her. The poor woman never reached the house alive, and Sutherland was indicted and arrested on the charge of murder. At the trial he tried to prove that his horse had taken fright, ran away, pitched him out of the saddle ! and dashed the girl to death upon the rocks, but the jury did not accept ' the defense, and Sutherland was ' sentenced to die upon the scaffold. ' Then came the plea of the insuffi- , ciency of circumstantial evidence and the efforts of influential relatives. : These so worked upon the court that ; the judge delayed the sentence of ; death until the prisoner should be ninety-nine years old. It was ordered that the culprit , should be released on his own recognizance and that, pending the final ! execution of his sentence, he should ; keep a hangman's noose about his , neck, and show himself before the . judges of Catskill once a year to prove that he wore his badge of infamy and kept his crime in mind. It was a more cruel decision tnan tne sentence of immediate death would have been, but it was no doubt in harmony with the sprit of the times. Thus Ralph Sutherland lived. He ' always lived alone. He seldom i spoke. His rough, imperious man- < ner had gone. Years followed years. At each session of the court the i broken man came before the bar of ! justice and silently showed the noose that circled his neck. 1 At last his ninety-ninth year came, the time when the court had ordered < that the utmost penalty of the law I should be executed. For the last i time the man tottered before the 1 judge's bench, but new judges had arisen in the land, new laws had ; been made, old crimes had been for- ] gotten or forgiven, and there was none who would accuse him or execute sentence. Indeed, the awful i restriction that had bound his life < so intimately to the expiration of his crime w^as now legally removed. But the spirit of self-punishment i continued, and when Sutherland, after he had passed his hundredth year, was discovered dead, alone in his house, his throat was found to be 1 encircled by the rope which had been placed there nearly three-quarters of a century before. What the l>ollies Had. Little Mary was really very ill. Mother said she was sure it was an attack of appendicitis, but grandma was equally sure the little one was ' threatened with convulsions. The argument waxed warm in Mary's presence, and appropriate ( remedies were used, and the next 1 day she was better. Coming into her mother's room 1 during her play, she said: "Mamma, two of my dollies are 1 very sick this morning." "Indeed, dear, I am veTy sorry. ' What is the matter with them?" ! "Well, I don't really know, mamma, but I think Gwendolyn has 1 'a pint o' spiders' and Marguerite is going to have 'envulsions.' "?New 1 York Herald. ( . < Attempt to Murder RooseveltLondon, March 29.?A dispatch to , The Standard from Horta says that when the steamer Hamburg arrived ( it was learned that an attempt had ' been made aboard to assault exPresident Roosevelt, but that it was , frustrated, and his would be assail- . ant piacea 111 irons. 1 The Daily Mail's Horta corres- , pondent says: . "Reports are current, and I re- , peat them with reserve, that an at- , tempt has been made on the life of . ex-President Roosevelt." The World's Story. : New York, March 29.?Giuseppi Tosti, a steerage passenger on the i Hamburg, is the man who threaten- i ed ex-President Roosevelt, according { to a special dispatch from Horta to < The World. The incident happened soon after the Hamburg was losing sight of America. Tosti broke from companions in < the steerage and started for the up- ' per deck, where Mr. Roosevelt was ' standing with his son, Kermit. . "He has let them take away my child," Tosti is said to have shouted k in English. "Now he shall pay for s it." ; Sailors seized Tosti, quickly mas- j tered him, carried him below and by the captain's orders put him in j irons. The incident, it is said, is known only to Mr. Roosevelt and a J few of his fellow passengers. Tosti, after his imprisonment, re- < fused for four days to eat, crying ' "Roosevelt is trying to poison me." . The ship's doctor now must taste t all food offered to Tosti before he j will eat it. , m ( Would Bar the Judiciary. ( Young ministers some times say some very irreverent things when first they get in harness, but seldom are so broadly condemnatory as the i young clergyman who was called ( upon to act as chaplain at the open- . ing of a recent term of court down 1 in Maine. After covering everything he could 1 think of as appropriate to say from t religion to law, he closed his prayer ( with the supplication, "and finally, i may we all be gathered in that happy t land where there are no courts, no 1 lawyers and no judges." i Then they changed chaplains.? Philadelphia Record. i TO O BURGLARS CAPTURED. Attempted to Rob Fowler-BruceBates Store at Blacksburg. Blacksburg, March 29.?The large brick store room on the corner of Shelby and Cherokee streets, containing the dry goods department of the Fowler-Bruce-Bates Company, was broken into Saturday nigi.t about 1:30 o'clock by two burglar." who are now in custody. The value of the goods stolen was $50. T. c robbers entered a front window after breaking one of the larwpanes of glass and would have mad.a large haul but for the timely appearance of Chief of Police J. C. Duncan, who was returning home from the Whittaker cotton mill. While passing the side door of the buildin.'the chief was attracted by flashes o light inside, made by matches, and when he reached the front of the building he ran upon a man receiving goods from some one inside. He immediately arrested the outside man and handcuffed him and with the assistance of Messrs. Deck Fulton and Meek Williams, secured the one inside, who seemed to be the leader. They were then safely locked up in the town prison. Of course all the goods were secured without any damage to them. The burglars gave their names as Tate. Roland Tate, who is about 23 years old, is a well known crook, having robbed several stores and the postoffice at Crowders Mountain, N. C. The other, Fletcher Tate, is about 20 years old, being young in the business and not so well known. Ihey are originally from North Carolina, but have no settled home. Roland has been a frequent visitor at the store he attempted to rob during the past week, but purchased nothing. . KILLED HIS OWN DAUGHTER. Dreadful Deed of a Man in New York With a Foreign Name. Within sight of several of her fellow school teachers and pupils on the way to school through a crowd ed street on Wednesday Miss Anna Mangano, a teacher in the public school on East One Hundred and Second street, was shot and killed by her father, Phillip Mangano, an interpreter in a minor court, who had been following his daughter and calling to her to stop. As she kept hurrying on, he drew his revolver and fired two shots. He then turned the revolver on himself, but was prevented from carrying out his purpose by Adolph Schwartz, who grappled with him. Two more shots were fired while the men struggled, but both went wild. Mangano broke away from Schwartz, but was arrested by two policemen. Several of the teachers ran to the place where the girl fell. She was dead when they found her, with a wound in the back of her head. Frank Lacatira told the police that his sister-in-law was compelled to leave her father's house last January because of his cruel and inhuman treatment of her, and had lived at a working girl's home since. He said Mangano probably shot his daughter because she had left him. Preliminary Hearing Waived. Sharon, Pa., March 29.?It required hut a few minutes this afternoon for the preliminary hearing of James H. Boyle, charged with the abduction Df Willie Whitla. Two questions and answers made up the proceedings. "What is your name?" asked Justice S. S. Gilbert. "James H. Boyle," was the reply. "Do you want a hearing on the charge of abduction now?" he "was asked. "Not at this time," he replied, and the hearing was over. Bail was fixed at $25,000, which, it is said, Boyle has no chance of securing, and the prisoner was returned to the jail at Mercer on the first train. About 500 persons, impelled by curiosity, surrounded the station, where Boyle was waiting in mortal L ? ? ? ^ I Vt?? 4- r\ /\+ f Vv/\ terror lor me nam, out ihjl mc slightest demonstration against him was made or indicated. To-night it is stated Mrs. Boyle svill not be brought here for a hearing at all. The statement that she was Helen McDermott is doubted here from the fact that not one of the McDermott family has extended tier any aid so far as the public Itnows or put in an appearance since tier arrest. She has been positively dentified by Sharon people as James Boyle's wife, but beyond that her identity is not known here. The Whitla family will leave tomorrow for some place which they -efuse to name, in search of quiet md rest after their recent harrowing experiences. Victory for Saloon Keepers. New Orleans, March 29.?In the State supreme court this afternoon in opinion was handed down that the Jay-Shattuck liquor law passed at ;he last meeting of the Louisiana assembly is not retroactive. This law stipulates that no license shall be issued to a saloon to operite within 300 feet of a church or school. Had it been applied to these saloons already established it would lave done away with the bars in the principal hotels and clubs of New Orleans and put out of business 1,)00 or more saloons throughout the State. The liquor men also contended that if the law were made retroac:ive the prohibition workers, by scattering a few small chapels and Dusiness colleges around New Oreans and the State at large, could easily add Louisiana to the column )f dry States in the South. Child Born on Train. New York, March 29.?A stork visited a northbound Ninth avenue elevated train, and Mrs. Lena Josephs is the mother of a fine baby eoy. When the news spread through :he cars that a wee visitor was about :o arrive an official of the Interbor)ugh Rapid Transit Company, vho chanced to be aboard, had the ;rain emptied and shunted to the niddle track, where it was converted nto a temporary hospital. An ambulance was summoned and nother and child were taken away. - ' - ' / i if - * < ' v ; & 1 SPR I CI If Wl 3? if: Have just received a k ft TNTft. f!nmo anrl l<at. lis fr I W WU1V U/AlVi AW MM AA # Swell line of EXTRA 1 jj; your inspection. ?|f Don't forget that we s* is a better Shoe. if * Have opened up a swe! if we have made a sale. if Ladies, we will be dee ?Jf GOODS. Please let us. 1 H. J. E ? GE1 ijjf 'Phone No. 28. Jf Hooton Drew We but when you are Hats, come in an< carry everything, Dress Goods, Silk Silk Crepe, Embrc and in fact anythi lady's wardrobe. ntl f n i I ?li auuiiiun uv < are the only store I DRESS i I in connection, ther I don't have to worr with us and we'll E. A. I BAMBERG, ! TRUSTEE'S SALE. I By virtue of an order of Joseph Ganahl, Esqr., Kereree in Dau&ruptcy, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, on the first Monday in April, 1909, at 10 o'clock a. m., before the court house, in Bamberg, S. C., that lot on Midway street, in Bamberg, S. C., belonging to J. C. Sandifer, bankrupt, containing 133 feet by 730 feet, being the lot that was conveyed to said J. C. Sandifer by Mrs. H. J. Hays, and duly recoraea m clerk's office. Purchaser to pay for papers. R. J. SOUTHALL, Trustee. March 22, 1909. A Mutual Benefit Policy Is worth More Living And Costs Less Dying Than That of Any Other Company "IT IS IN THE POLICY" M. W. BRABHAM, Agent. Office at Bamberg Banking Co. jt . / ? * - ' * '- " - - -L-"1.1 V _i ' V_-- C.:,. - ; W : : -I--I- ! -I--I- I- -T; ?'I--I- :I- -:l--I- -I- 'I- <! il- ill :! ?T- -:i-\lj A ING AND SUMMED !j Jf LOTHINC f 1 m ' -% :een line of MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S CLOTH- H t you. It certainly is a pleasure to show them. A ! PROUSERS in exclusive patterns is also here for * * a J ill the WALK-OVER SHOE for men and women. It ii 11 line of STRAW HATS. When you once see 'em $ v - ? 5 '1 -lighted to show you our line of SPRING DRESS J BRABHAM, JR. 11 *TS FURNISHINGS A SPECIALTY. ? J BAMBERG, S. C. 'ii 's Ladies Store .... aind.... P|j|| Ming Parlors | ?\ J n Hi I '"'Pk IPO wot tarry nats j in town on the 1st and 2nd inspecting the i let us show you our line. We don't try to but we do carry the most complete stock of 'C' fjjjfl s, Trimmings, White Goods, Arnold |p rideries, Laces, Corsets, Gloves, Hose ing that is new and necessary to complete a ^ carrying a complete line of Ladies' Goods, We in the county conducting a ~ m //.55a VIAKING PARLOR :'i efore, when you buy your suit from us you y about having it made. Just buy and leave it g do the worrying. v $S||| hootoni S. 0. I - ?|B ?jl PT> TJ Cures Jl A Rheumatism If Read what Nicholas Lang, the largest retail ! grocer in Savannah says about P. P. P. F. V. LIPPMAN, Savannah, Ga? Dear Sir:? For many years I consumed much medicine, and in (act tried every means in my power to get cured of that terrible disease, rheumatism, which had undermined ': ) my health. I visited Hot Springs, Ark., without gaining relief, and at last in sheer desperation I took P. P. P. (Lippman's great remedy), and was in a short time en- IS ' tirely cured. In the eight years since that time I have not had a symptom oil rheu~ ? matism. P. P. P. did the work to my entire satisfaction and made a quick and pennar Toon truly. . .. Nicholas Lang.