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THE OLD AND THE NEW. j Fouth of July Musters, Corn Shuckings and Quiltings of the Old Days. ' Wanderer's Rest, July 4.?July the fourth is being observed by a < large part of the people, and big picnics, ball games and dancing are all gentle reminders that this great republic was born on that day, and as the years roll by let it be remem- ( bered. Well does the writer recall* the old-time fourth of July muster ifV when all turned out in wagons, carts, , and a few in buggies or old-time j gigs or chairs, many walking, and } the cider and ginger cake stands, the j bie dinners and the silent awe that . a small boy looked on the crowds, j and as these old days come back , they bring back the happy days of , the old-time corn shucking, when ( hundreds of bushels of corn was hauled and placed in a long half ( circle pile all evened up as. nearly the j same as could be placed, all the j neighbors invited and brought all the j help on their farms. Then was all . hurry bustle, as the women lent j a helping hand, and how they laugh- , - . ed and joked at each other, with j Maum Zena or Clary or Hester ( giving orders to the young ones, with t orders to the boys with long aprons j on to hurry with the wood as they made the pots boil hung on a crane in tlie chimney,- and to some girl: ( "Make haste, der gal, fur de crowd ^ y" is now comin' an' supper's not done." ( Soon they all gathered to the corn ^ ? 11 - "? ^ - ? ?- nAnfainc TT-CT-O pile 111 Lilts Udl U ;aiut i> v?v chosen, the length of pile measured, ( the hands chosen by each one, Tots j drawn for one or the other end of ] the pile of corn, then with a shout t and a yell all hands were soon busy taking the shucks off amidst loud ( ? ' * r;. talk, songs and laughter, as the captains halloaed and yelled, each trying to encourage their side to out , work the other. Then the great fun j as one side finished a little while be- ( fore the other, the good natured jest t < - and joke as one captain would slap j the other on the shoulder and say: j "I told you so, my side never bin ( beat yet." Then supper, the white ? folks all going to the dining room /( where the table was groaning under { the weight of the good things to eat, j the colored under the trees in the yard where a long table was built, j and all was life, fun and laughter, ( V. in a land of plenty raised at home, : -V. 1 and that flowed with milk and 1 I* honey. Then the quiltings often were along with the corn shuckings, and such good natured all round enjoyment was indulged in that the evening was the talk of the settlement ' * until the next one. But my! the roads of the good old days. Mud holes, water, deep sand, then a bog down and a prize out, then go again with hills all gullied on the side and bogs at the foot, logs to drive round, limbs to dodge, leaving ;* T two hours before day to go to Bamberg and getting home perhaps y o'clock at night, the team fagged out, drivers sore and weary, and seldom was more than a ton hauled with a four horse or mule team, and they the best. Now all is changed, and > often three or four bales and never ? lees than a ton is put on two and hauled over many of our roads with case, the driver leaving home after ' breakfast and back before night if he chooses, with his team ready for work next day, and where sand beds or mud holes once held sway, now all is level and firm made of sand 1 .'/ and clay, and where three miles an hour was thought good time with a load now five is made with ease, and A cjr\oorli! foetor than thp I tJLiC (tUlUUiUUll^ Oj^?V>VUO XtWOV,*. VUMU vuy j railroad' train did in the years gone ( Let the good work go on for in j them lie the only hope for the country people, and with the telephone, | jp ;> rural mail routes, motor cars and mo- } tor wagons to haul the crops to market, motor or steam plows will en- 3 thuse our young men to stay on the ] farm, then will it he pleasure as wvli fe'V as profit. Then with pride can the ] good roads builders look at the new 1 P order of things and say or feel thus ^ have I helped to make the desert j ' , a pleasant place to behold and have been a benefactor to mankind. All , honor to the good road builders is ] f; . the wish of OLD TIMER. APPEAL IX EDWARDS CASE. Supreme Court to Finally Decide Berkeley County Matter. < ? i Columbia, July 7.?The Edwards i case will be carried to the supreme i court for a decision, notice of appeal haying been filed to-day by attorneys : for J. 0. Edwards and the sureties on his bond with Attorney General Lyon. J. O. Edwards was removed from the office of treasurer of Berkeley county on the charge of being short in his accounts to the extent of over it* rT $5,500. The State brought suit in the Berkeley county court for the shortage and a verdict was rendered against J. O. Edwards and his sureties. The State was represented at the trial by Attorney General Lyon. rf. i . LYNCH DETECTIVE IN OHIO LEAGUE DETECTIVE HANGED FOR KILLING BARKEEPER. Culmination of Mob Violence Comes After Raids on Alleged Blind Tigers and Continued Disorder. Newark, Ohio, July 8.?Carl Eth?rington, 22 years old, employed Thursday night by the State anti>aloon league as a blind tiger raider, svas lynched here at 10:35 to-night, following a day of almost continuous doting. The heavy doors of the Licking county jail were battered lown and Etherington was dragged from his cell. He was shot, kicked md bruised before the street was 'eached and the finish followed juiCKiy. Etherington, early in the evening, confessed he killed William Howard, proprietor of the Last Chance res:aurant, and former chief of police, n a raid of alleged "speak easies" in i raiding scuffle at 1:35 this afterloon and narrowly escaped lynching it that time. When news from the lospital that Howard had died passed over the city at 6 o'clock to-night, ;he fury of the mob took a definite !orm. Jail Doors Battered In. Large battering rams were directed against the doors of the jail, and he deputies were powerless. The ioors fell after nearly an hour's at;ack. Crying piteously, Etherington, a iurly, headed Kentuckian, who has ieen serving as strike-breaker since le was released from marine service. ;hree months ago, was dragged forth. "I did not mean to do it," he wailid. His cries fell upon deaf ears. Fearing the mob. spirit would Fearing that the mob spirit would lot be satisfied by one victim, Sheriff Linke immediately asked Adjutant General Wevbrecht for troops to pro ;ect six other "dry raiders" held at :he city prison in another section of die town. A hurried guard was ;hrown out in their defense. The mob, ifte^ the first taste of blood, seemed juiet, but it is feared that they will ittack the city prison before the light is done. Etherington's last moments, while le heard the mob battering down the loor, were spent in praying and writng a note to his parents, farmers esiding near Willisburg, Ky. "What will mother say when she lears of this?" he kept moaning to :he jailer. Sought Refuge in Death. While the mob was battering down he doors, Etherington was in his cell, [n an attempt to commit suicide he imothered his head in his coat and jet fire to the garment. He was :aught in time. In the melee as the mob was leavng the jail eight prisoners, held for jetty offenses, escaped. One refused ;o leave. As Etherington mounted the block eady for the swing he was asked ;o make a speech. "I want to warn all young fellows lot to try to make a living the way : have done?by strike breaking and ;aking jobs like this," he declared. "I had better have worked and I vould not be here now. The swing of the rope cut him short. He hung there for an hour, ivhen the crowd quietly left. After :he fifst excitement there was no iisordfer. % An Elevating Spectacle. At the finish there were hundreds )f women and little children in the irowd. No member of the mob was nasked and no attempt was made to conceal their identity. The leaders vere personal friends of the dead nan. After the body had dangled from she pole for an hour, the rop9 broke mder the weight of the body. The city ambulance rolled up, packed the limp form aboard and hauled it to the city morgue. An hour later the city was absolutely quiet, with little chance of further disturbance. The other "dry" prisoners in the city prison, are safe for the present. Howard, it is charged, did not re 3ist the detectives when they entered bis place on the outskirts of Newark, be, it is said, put his arms about Etherington and attempted to hold him, whereupon the boy fired a bullet into Howard's head. It is claimed that Etherington recently came here as a strike breaker, and the ill feeling caused by this intensified the feeling following to-day's occurrence. To-night a strike breaker was pursued through the streets for several blocks. He saved himself by jumping through the window of a laundry. Had Search Warrants. TV,,-. whn made the raids A lit ?' "VT -? ? ! arrived this morning armed with search and seizure warrants, secured from the mayor of Granville, a nearby village. One of the first saloons visited was that of Louis Bolton, where a bartender, Edward McKenna, was hit over the head with brass knucks. The detective who hit him was set upon by the crowd which quickly assembled, and he was rescued by the police with difficulty. The officers, with their prisoners, were followed to the jail. Licking county, of which Newark is the county seat, is dry under the Rose local option law, but it is said the law is not enforced. Wayne B. Wheeler, State superintendent, at Columbus to-night declared to-day's situation was brought about by negligence on the part of Mayor Atherton in not upholding the law. Wheeler said that the detectives j _ A. nt Ai j were secureu ai uevciauu. LINEMAN ELECTROCUTED* B. C. Graves Meets Instant and Tragic Death at Columbia. Columbia, July 7.?Inadvertently touching a heavily charged electric light wire,-while at work on a telephone pole at Gervais and Oak streets, in Waverly, to-day, B. C. Graves, a lineman in the employ of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, was instantly electrocuted. It was some minutes before the current could be turned off, and during this time the dead lineman's body, lying across the fatal cable, was badly burned. Mr. Graves was about 17 years old, unmarried. He came here about four months ig ? from Harriman Junction, Tenn. Graves had been employed by the Bell Telephone Company for about a year. He has one Drotner, h. n. Graves, who is also a lineman for the same company in Columbia. He was at work in the vicinity of the union station when he received the news of the tragic death of his young brother. He and his friends came to the undertakers, where the body had been caried soon after the accident, and instructions were given that the remains of the young man be shipped to his old home for burial. The dead man was terribly burned before the current could be shut off on the neck and lower extremities of the body are burned places showing unmistakably where the death-laden wires had come in contact with the flesh. The clothing also was burned. When the current had been cut off the body fell from the wires to the ground, a distance of about thirty feet. DROWNING NEAR COLUMBIA. Husband and Companion Held for Death of Woman. Columbia, July 7.?The wife of Bookter T. Martin, better known as Clio Starnes, was downed late to-day in Hampton's pond, near Columbia. The suspicious circumstances surrounding her death led to the arrest of Bookter T. Martin, her husband, T nnfio VoolfiTT ti-Vi n d rp hpld CliiU JUCTTIO iltViV; y ff uvf maw pending the coroner s inquest, which will take place on Sunday afternoon. Constable J. D. Dunnaway, who arrived at Hampton's before the body had been recovered, placed Neeley and Martin under arrest Mabel Blackburn, the fourth member of the party, who lives in a disorderly "house run by Dallas Starnes, was not arrested. The two men are said to have been drinking heavily and were still under the influence of liquor when they were arrested. A few small boys were the only eye-witnesses of the tragedy, besides Neeley, Martin and the Blackburn woman. One of the boys said last night' that one of the men had Mrs. Martin on his back out in the water. In some way she fell off and was drowned. It is alleged that the men had previously threatened to drown one of the boys. Mrs. Bookter Martin, the dead wo man, is said to have led a very checkered career previous to her marriage to Martin, who loves eighteen miles out on the Camden road. The two did not stay together long after they were married Lewis Neely, now being held on suspicion, was recently releasel from the county jail, where he was held pending the investigation of the disappearance of Morgan Smoak, a 15-year-old boy of Waverly, who has not been heard of since June 8. STABS HIS WIFE. White Man in Augusta Kills Her With Sl^arp Razor. ?? Tom Desmuke, a white man, who lives out on the Savannah road, sev-j eral miles from Augusta, Ga., cut the brachial artery in the left arm - " ?:e- n; rrV. * nritVi o mTCiT OI His wiie last uigui, nibu u auxw. and she bled to death shortly afterwards. Desmuke was arrested after the crime by a county officer and did not offer any resistance. The crime was a horrible one and there seems to be no motive for it. Desmuke was drunk at the time. When the officer went to Desmuke's house to arrest him, Desmuke met him at the door, attired in only one garment, a top shirt, which was stained with blood. The only witness to the crime was Desmuke's little daughter. She said her mother was sitting in the back door when her father suddenly rushed to her and stabbed her with a razor. ' - . ...... WITHDRAWS SERVICE. Western Union Declines to Give Wire Accommodation in Ten Cities. New York, July 7.?Without explanation and without warning the Western Union Telegraph Company discontinued its service to-day to brokers in 10 cities of this State and Pennsylvania. The cities affecte4 are Pittsburg and Johnstown, Pa., and Syracuse, Ithaca, Rome, Utict, Gloversville, Auburn, Watertown and Cortland of this State. Executive officers of the company took the stand to-day that under advice of counsel they could not discuss the company's policies. Officers of the New York stock exchange deny that the cut off of service was in an> way instigated by them or that they had any knowledge of it. Officeis of the Consolidated stock exchange, "the little leader," cannot be found to-night. There are many subterranean rumors that the company was acting on the advice of some out in Washington, supposed to be very close to the policy of the attorney general's office, but this could not' be confirmed. Hitherto the Western Union has always taken the stand that as a common carrier it had no right to refuse any business offered it, provided such business is couched in decent language. In fact, the company argued earnestly that any attempt by it to investigate the private affairs of its customers would be inquisitorial and intolerable. Of Its Own Accord. Washington, July 7.?It is on its own initiative, not on orders from trie department of justice here, that the Western Union Telegraph Company has discontinued its service to a num ber of stock brokers' offices in NewYork and elsewhere. This was the declaration made to-night by an official of the department of justice, who played a prominent part in the recent raids made on so-called "bucket shops" by the department. He declared that the department would have no right to order the telegraph company to discontinue its service unless it could be proved that it had broken some federal statute and that this had not been done. One of the brokerage concerns, a Baltimore firm, whose service was stopped yesterday, had an injunction issued to-day, he said, against the telegraph company to compel it to renew its service. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. * Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the eustachian tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give one hundred dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circui? t Sr. CO.. iai a ncc. jl . u. Toledo, 0. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Brought 50 Cents a Pound The first bale of the cotton crop of 1910-1911 was sold at auction in New York Monday of last week and brought 50 cents per pound, the proceeds being for the usual charity. This bale^ was picked at Hildalgo ; county, Texas, weighed about 416 I pounds and was classed as good midI dling cotton. It was first sold at Houston, Texas, on June 23 for $375 and was shipped from there to New York. The cotton purchased on that day wilr be shipped to Liverpool,, where it will again be auctioned. 1 Queer Destination. A Washington car conductor, Doru in London and still a cockney, has succeeded in extracting thrills from the alphabet?imparting excitement to the names of the national capital's streets. On a recent Sunday morning he was calling the streets thus:. "Haitch! ' "High!" "Kay!" "Hell!" At this point three prim ladies picked up their prater books and left the car.?Lippincott's. First Freighter Through the Air. Douglas, Ariz.,, July 7.?Dr. J. J. P. Armstrong has contracted with A. M. Williams, an aviator of this city, *-- mininir manViinprv I [U CUllVcjr yiai/ti from Douglass to a property in the Chihuahua mountains, Mexico. The distance is about 3000 miles. The machinery is such that it can be carried only in 100-pound lots. Williams owns and operates a monoplane. This is probably the first contract made calling for the commercial use of a heavier-than-air-machine. priJ - - M . '.. ' . I KEEP ( There is no reas< should drink warn hot days when yo at such a reasona livered in any qua pounds up at any We Sell No. 1 Tlmot SALE AND f DO YOU NEE1 I Right now, perhaps, you are wishing ? to invest in some good business pr off an old debt, or possibly, to enlarg I And it's just this way every mont] .1 save many of the nickels and dime: time comes for profitable investmei there would always be something wii I ency. Take care of the nickels and din I count here. We pay 4 per cent. int< I PEOPLES BANK - - EHRHARDT BANKI Ehrhardt, S CAPITAL STOCK ! We do a general banking businei We are backed by a strong board every safety. We allow you 4 per < ings department. We extend to oi consistent with good banking. We als, firms, and corporations on fa^ I pleased to meet or correspond with ing changes or opening new accounts J. L. COPELAND, J. C. KIXAR President. Vice-Prt : Bargains in Real Farms in small and larg< and residences, merca , mill sites, sale stables, propositions, at low flgi terms. Descriptive list tionv Call on or write, J. T. O'l H Beal Estate Agent, - ii i< | Horses & I Buggies & II Full Stock in ii , on hand at || See us before || A few Fane | 1 Horses on Ha JONES I |j BAMBERG gfgtg8S8S8S8SBSHSBSHSHggH8B WEEK-END AND SUNDAY ?TO? CHARLESTON AND ISLE ?VIA? SOUTHERN R Effective Sunday, May 29th, and coi son, Southern Railway will have on sale i to Charleston and Isle of Palms, S. C., wi also week-end tickets to be sold on Satin trains, beginning Saturday, May 28th, fina midnight the following Tuesday. Also cheap Sunday excursion ticket* trains, good returning on last train leav J? UttJ luguv. For further information, rates, etc., i agents or address, J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen'l. Passenger Agents Atlanta, Ga. i xxjEl , t. > * on why you l water these u can get ice # ble price de- *} ntity from 5 time of day. hy Hay Also LIVERY STABLE 1 Telephone 68 - . yl D MONEY? f t that yon bad enough money I oposition, or, maybe to pay ;e your business. I ti of the year. If one would I 9 that are wasted when the I j it, or when bills come due, I jj| th which to meet the emerg les by having a savings ac- I ?rest, compounded quarterly. I - - Bamberg, NG COMPANY. | $20,000.00. I m is, and solicit your account. : I. t of directors, insuring you I ;ent. on deposits in our sav- | ^ lr customers every courtesy ? receive accounts of individu- I rorable terms, and shall be I V those who contemplate mak- ; D, . A. F. HEXDERSOX, I esldent. Cashier. M ^ ? == a I I Estate, etc. j 3 tracts, town lots :'0^M ntile businesses, 4 :gjf and pole and tie , ares and on easy 1 sent on applicaVEAL ' , -1 -< - Bamberg, S. C. *tj t Mules [ 1 Wagons | Our Line ; plffl all times. i you buy. Y Driving 11|| jid.Y.Y.Y. 1/lp DlvU I EXCURSION RATES OF PALMS, SC. AILWAY , : || itinuing daring the summer searegular summer excursion tickets th final limit October 31st, 1910, rdays, and for Sunday morning 1 limit to leave destination before ; 3 sold only for Sunday morning fag Charleston 8:15 p. m. Sun- ' apply to Southern Railway ticket *' m 1 nr TO. JEl. nCUUUEt, I Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. J