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NAVAL CRUISE OF OIL. s Parable of Ten Foolish Torpedo F< Boats. Like the foolish virgins of old, 10 of his majesty's torpedo boats have ra teen in trouble because their store of S* oil gave out. The boats, which burn be oil fuel only, took part in the naval fo manoeuvres, and obtained their sup- v: plies from two lighters?one from ai Chatham and another from Devon- le port?which were stationed at Mil- w ford Haven for the purpose. At the close of the manoeuvres the d? torpedo boats had sufficient fuel to bs take them back to Milford to their in base at Devonport, but they used it ?c steaming in a fog at sea on Wednes- ro day last, and were obliged to return m to Milford. fo Hence they were stranded for three days. It seems that the stock of the fa two lighters was also exhausted, SS and as their bunkers were not like h* the widow's cruse, they, too, were h< stranded. Moveover, there was no In available local fuel supply. Conse- bs lip-htorc hari tn hp towpd 01 4 UV^U V* J tUV **0"VV4 V MMV* VW - , back to Chatham and Devonport to sa replenish, and the craft reappeared d at Milford on Saturday with oil to cb send the torpedo boats on their journey. Sa If the incident had happened dur- M ing the manoeuvres probably not one kr of the 10 little warships "would have na been left" to tell the tale. Evidently ap naval oil fuel has its limitations at pi present.?London Chronicle. wi ? Pi Negro Woman Leper in New York. j&Vs ; , New York, September 2.?A negro woman with an advanced case of leprosy has been living in New York sti for more than seven years, associat- ce ing constantly with people of her own in: race. The nature of her ailment T1 did not become kaown until late last by night when she applied at Bellevue of hospital for treatment. 1 9 The doctors at once diagnosed her ailment as one of the worst cases of t'r< leprosy which had ever come to tneir j vi-< attention. They declared that she i th could live but a short time. j to The woman told the doctors that: of she had come to New York from the j West Indies more than seven years ca ago and was sick then. Five years lo< ago she married and a year later her Ms only child, a son, was born. She had br : been married only a short time, she mi said, when her husband deserted her tic and she had never seen him since. According to her story she has ar spent the last few months wandering to about the city with her child, sleep- ev } ing in the parks at night. Their only to food was what she could beg or find. The doctors were not prepared to sa state positively whether the boy is a Li leper. The two will be sent to join to the small leper colony on Blackwell's Island. 00 ?? clc Ballade of the Farmer. The Iraelites once made a calf fo' Of gold and raised it upon high, Quite high, but not so high by half pa As modern calves are wont to fly, pr ne The farmer winks the other eye. When at the price we moan and ra groan. tQ. We used to skin him, sell or buy? ng To-day he's come into his own. \ mi The hen that laid the golden egg, wi According, as the fables say, Just now is taken down a peg va By hens of ordinary lay. ly The farmer smiles and takes away a Our money like a bold brigand. Mi We used to own him once?to-day, < Alas! we're eating from his hand. The farmer has an eye for biz, Full well he knows all flesh is Sr grass, mi Also that all the grass is his. tw He used to be a docile ass, To whom, in pity, we would pass ?? The straw when we had threshed the Gt grain. 00 To-day he's in another class; He's come into his own again. so mi He's smiling at the price of wheat. ^ He's tickled at the price of hay, ^ He s laugmng at tne price or meau, w( The cost of living makes him gay, er For things are coming fast his way. ^ He isn't buying gold bricks now eAnd mortgaging the farm to pay. . At last the farmer's learning how. ' His ox, his ass, his swine, his sheep, at And all his stocks are over par, I i No more on sore backed mules he'll se creep, ac He riding in a touring car. gr His wagon's hitched into a star. T1 His lean and fallow years are passed, ed He's going fast, he's going far. th He's laughing best, he's laughing hi last. Child Kills Mother. lil br Mrs. Robert Thompson, aged st< thirty-two, of Pottsfield, Pa., was ne vo shot and instantly killed on Wed- ,(Jc nesday by her 12-year-old son, Dewey, ta The boy had been presented with a to rifle and was showing his mother how Sa he would kill a burglar. The gun was in, discharged, the bullet striking Mrs. m< Thompson in the head. Bi an Watch the date on label of your: gu paper and renew promptly. Cc WIPE HAS 63 RIVALS. jund Bushel of Love Letters in Husband's Stroifg Box. Lady-killer in extraordinary is the nk that young Mrs. Roscoe H. inborn, of Brooklyn, will seek to stow upon her husband in a suit r divorce. Mrs. Sanborn says she ill name 63 co-respondents. She will so display a huge bunch of love tters from girls in several States ritten to her husband, she asserts. Private detectives say that yesteriv Mrs. Sanborn trapped her husmd with one of the co-respondents a hotel in Brooklyn. Her father companied her in the raid on the om. She confronted Sanborn draatically and says he was dumunded. Immediately thereafter she and her ther went to the Sanborn home, at !6 70th street, Brooklyn, loaded all ;r personal effects on a wagon and td them taken to her father's house. a cab she bore away her husnd's strong box. It was forced ten. The letters, she found, she ys, reveal a company of co-responnts bigger than a comic opera orus. Rose-hued with romance was young nborn's marriage, too. His wife was iss Edna Gatechair, of Brooklyn, town to the stage five years as Edl Earle, a youthful dancer. She peared prominently in a vaudeville avlet, "The Fifth Avenue Girls" th Dan McAvoy.?Philadelphia iblic Ledger. The Costly Drinking Habit. Forty-two million dollars is the lpendous amount paid in liquor linse fees by 151 of our cities havg a population of 30,000 or more, lese figures for 1908 given out the census bureau show a gain about $11,000,000 over the year 05. In the number of licensed places )m 1905 to 190S there was a deease of 4.000 and the increase in e amount of revenue has been due the larger fees exacted by most the cities. Texas, Wisconsin, and New York n claim the largest number of sains to the population, while to issachusetts, Pennsylvania and Xeaska belongs the distinction of havg the smallest number in propor>n to the people to be supplied. City records along the same lines e one licensed bar for Galveston every 138 of her people, one to ery 141 for Milwaukee and one every 175 for Hoboken, In Philadelphia there Is only one loon to every 758 persons, while ncoln, Neb., has reduced it to one every 2,038. Liquor licenses brought in $7,927,0 to New York, with Chicago a )se second with $7,252,000. The figures give some indication the magnitude of the liquor trade, r even with the forty-two millions id in license fees there is a good ofit to all engaging in the busiss. Money thus spent is for pleasure ther than profit, and the enormous tal furnishes a signal illustration of tional extravagance of which so uch has been said in connection th the high cost of living. If a halt is to be called in extragant indulgence, as Leslie's Weekvery pertinently asks, is not this fitting place to begin??Anderson ill. Farmers, Raise Mules. Go to raising mules. You cannot ow ten cent cotton to buy $200.00 ules when you can grow a mule to o years old at a cost of $100.00. 5 is then ready to work. In fact as >od a mule as I ever saw was a ?orgia raised mule; she had had a liar on since she tfas eighteen onths old; she was raised in Jeffern county, Georgia. I have raised ules in Georgia that weighed eleven mdred pounds at five years old. A jorgia raised mule will do more )rk at two years old than a Westn mule will at three years old. I tve been raising horses for the past ?ht years. The trouble about horses you have to break them gentle to Drk anywhere and then sell them from $200.00 to $400.00. When raise a mule to two years old I will 11 him at from $150.00 to $250.00 id it does not cost any more to ow a mule colt than a horse colt, le horse must be well recommend, but the mule needs none, the fact at he is a mule will always sell m.?T. J. James. Don't Break Down. Severe strains on the vital organs, :e strains on machinery, cause eak-downs. You can't over-tax Dmach, liver, kidneys, bowels or rves without serious danger to urself. If you are weak or run>wn, or under strain of any kind, ke Electric Bitters the matchless, nic medicine. Mrs. J. E. Van de nde, of Kirkland, 111., writes: That did not break down, while endurg a most severe strain, for three Dnths. is due wholly to Electric tters." Use them and enjoy health d strength. Satisfaction positively aranteed. 50c at Peoples Drug Bamberg, S. C. COTTON TRAFFIC DULL. They Will Do Little Business During ' Next Week. New Orleans, August 29.?This week the cotton market is liable to be ; rather a dull affair. In the first place, the old season will end on Wednes- i day. and the trade willl be anxious to ( know all about the statistics of the old crop before entering extensively i into commitments in the new, and in < the second place the end of the mar- i ket week will come on Friday be cause of Labor day. Friday the government's report on the condition of , the crop on August 25 will be is- ( sued, and with such an important i report right at the week-end and fol- ; lowed by the triple holiday traders ; will hardly care to do much new businesss, but rather will even up , their accounts. As is generally the case, the trade does not know what to expect for the ; old crop statistical totals. The crop itself may be larger or smaller than i generally expected, and surprises may j be found in spinners' takings or in the consumption figures. Toward the ] end of each season the amateur sta- i tisticians are rather apt to say little, for the figures from Hester are rather likely to upset estimates from people who are inclined to loan one way or another in the future market. With the statistics of the old < crop at hand, the trade will know j where it stands, which is a very ( good reason for waiting until the fig- , ures are out before beginning large operations. i J World's Cotton Crop. ] New Orleans, AXigust 31.?Secre- : tary Hester, of the New Orleans cot- 1 ton exchange, announced to-day the commercial crop for the year ending 1 August 31, 1910, amounted to 10,- 1 609,60S bales, a decrease under last 1 year 3,215,7S9, under year before [ last 962.298, and a decrease under * 1906-'0T of 2,901.324. 1 The consumption of the Southern 1 mills is 21$,570 .bales behind last ' year, and 148.026 ahead of the sea- 1 son 1907-1908. ^ Last year the consumption of cot- 1 ton in the South was the largest ever { recorded, while in 1907-*08 the busi- ' r.ess of the mills was materially restricted by the panic. ! Secretary Hester is now engaged 1 on details of the statement includinging port movements, exports and the 1 world's consumption of American 1 cotton, which will be promulgated in a few days. 1 ~T TVr I 1 OKIUIAAIJ IhLMin.irn Jui.> i... ] First in the United States Built From < Washington to Baltimore. i ] There was just one story to en- i liven almost three months of debate i in the senate over President Taft's j railroad regulation bill. The senate 1 was serious most of the time. Sena- j tor Bailey told the story just before i debate was finished, and it was sug- 1 gested by the legislation which the < senate inserted in the bill by amendment which has to do with the regu- i lation of telegraph and telephone 1 lines. Here it is: ] "The truth is that the first tele- < graph line ever established in the ] United States was established with s an appropriation from the federal < treasury and procured through the ] generous impulse of a Tennessean. I "It was in the closing hours of a : session when the appropriation of I $40,000 had passed the senate, and it i seemed as if the adjournment of con- ] gress would occur before it could be ] considered in the house. Under a ten- ' sion which few men in the world : have ever experienced Mr. Morse 1 went to a doorkeeper or me nouse i and asked him who was the best ] hearted man among all of the repre- < sentatives. The doorkeeper told him < that it was Robert L. Carruthers, of ; Tennessee, who, strange to say, was < a bachelor. He sent for Mr. Carru- : thers and made his last appeal. He s took Carruthers to the basement of 1 the Capitol, where he had established i his instruments, and, taking a mes- '< sage from Carruthers as he .sat at < one desk, transmitted it to an as- i sociate, who received it at the other ! desk and read it to Carruthers ex- 1 actlv as he had written it. ] "Upon that demonstration Carru- s thers went back into the house of i representatives and secured the pas- ? sage of that item, and it is one of ] the ironies of politics that the first < message ever transmitted over an es- 1 tablished line came from Baltimore ] to Washington announcing the nomination of Carruther's great political 1 rival for the presidency of the United i States. : "Under those circumstances it was s not remarkable that the government ] should have felt privileged to de- < mand at the hands of the telegraph : company concessions which were not generallv accorded its customers. : "And then, too, as I said a moment j ago, we had not in that day reached 1 the conclusion that everybody who used a public utility is entitled to use it on the same terms."?New i York Herald. ? DIED FOR A DIAMOND Thirteen Fine Plymouth Rock Prizewinners Were Slain. The loss of a diamond valued at $350 from his ring has led Patrolman William Meyers of the Canarsie station to look for the gems in the craws 31 his thirteen Plymouth Rock prize winners. One by one the birds will be decapitated and searched, for Meyers is confident one of his pets nipped the diamond from his ring when he was feeding them. Meyers spent Monday repairing the chicken coop, and that night he miss2d the diamond. It was a present from his wife and while he loved his Plymouth Rocks, he loved the diamond more. He hoped the chicken that got the ring would step out and iay his head on the block and save the jthers, but the culprit tnus iar iias not been found; so one by one they are going. Meyers has named his chickens after detective heroes of fiction and real life, including Sherlock Holmes, Monsier Lecoq, Dupin and Inspector Byrnes. They knew their names, and responded when called.?Baltimore American. "The Land of Murder." In the United States the murderer claims more victims every year than in any other civilized and enlightened country in the world, says an exchange. Homicidal mania prevails in this progressive land to a far greater extent than in any nation in Europe. Our people are shocked and horrified, and very properly so. when a president or high official is struck down by the hand of the assassin. The attempt to assassinate Mayor GJaynor, of New York, has stirred the rermblic to its depths. Yet the coun try has never become aroused as it should be to the appalling prevalence if murder in the United States?to :he frightful toll of human life which is taken every day. This country, lias indeed, acquired an unenviable reputation as "the land of murder." Hardly a day passes in which the aewspapers do not record many crimes of manslaughter. The mania is not local or sectional. It is nationwide. Americans, as a rule, are lawabiding and God-fearing men. Yet there is an element among them which is quicker and more desperate in the use of deadly weapons than the people of any other land. In 1907 it was estimated that we were having about 9,000 murders a year which was from eight to twenty-five times as many, in proportion to population, as Great Britain, France, Germany and Jop^n have. This is a record which the thoughtful people of this country should ponder long and seriously. That human life should be held so cheap in this progressive and enlightened land, that the United States should have the ghastly and evil distinction of leading the civilized world in the number of murders committed yearly, is ;ause for national humiliation. v One of the reasons why manslaughter is so frequent and so common in the United States is the habit which prevails to a widespread extent of carrying concealed weapons. This babit, it is well knowi/, is not restricted to the lawless elements in pur citizenship. Men of good repute, law-abiding citizens, are often found among the class who carry arms habitually. They are not of the type of deliberate murderers. They are not brawlers seeking a quarrel. But when disputes arise they are prone to make use of deadly weapons. The list of murders is swelled every rear in this way. .Men take human life in hot blood over comparatively trivial matters. There ought to be a public sentiment against the carrying pf concealed weapons which would putlaw every man who went about armed unless he >vas engaged in an accupation in which his life was constantly in danger. And this public sentiment should find expression in the vigorous and impartial enforcement of the law against all who make a practice of carrying pistols or other 3eadly weapons without the permission of the authorities. The man who ;oes about armed in a civizived country ought not to be tolerated. In a moment of passion, when he has lost self-control, he may do murder?and, in fact, often does murder?in a quarrel growing out of trifling causes. In Europe it is only the criminal classes and the anarchists and revolutionists who carry concealed weapons. The average citizen is not a 'pistol-toter." Hence the smatl number of homicides in England, France and Germany as compared with the appalling number of cases of man slaughter in the United States. Public sentiment in Europe will not tolerate the pistol-carrying habit by citizens who profess to be law-abiding. We should cultivate the same wholesale sentiment in the United States and enforce it by law more vigorously than ever before. See me before trading your cotton seed. W. G. HUTTO at Copeland's itore. | Horses & Males j| I Buggies & Wagons j I Full Stock in Our Line j j on hand at all times. j 1 , v See us before you buy. 11 A few Fancy Driving j j Horses on Hand.*.*.*.*.*.*. j [ JONtS BROS., I if BAMBERG, S. C. j| rEHEHARDT BANKING COMPANY. Ehrhardt, S. C. I ^fl CAPITAL STOCK $20,000.00. I I We do a general banking business, and solicit your account. I We are backed by a strong board of directors, insuring you I 4 ? n'lftn- vnn A nor rant r\n rionnsite in nnr sav. v g ever* saicit. n c anv?? ..vu fw v,^. v>vrvM.w - I ings department. We extend to our customers every courtesy I j| consistent with good banking. We receive accounts of individu- I V , a als, firms, and corporations on favorable terms, and shall be I ' g pleased to meet or correspond with those who contemplate mak- 5 I ing changes or opening new accounts. I | I J. L. COPELAND, J. C. KIXARD, A. F. HEXDERSOX, I ' : 1 President. Vice-President. Cashier. I I If you had a telephone on your Farm a conI? versation like this would save you a long and probably useless trip: "Hello! Is this the depot (or express) Agent?" ' j "Yes." ; :;U "T'U.'o io TV/ir Tr*Vincr?n nn Rural Route No. 5. A 1113 lO iTll. i untivvu w.. Is there any freight for me today?" ' Jr. "No, it hasn't come yet." "Thanks. I will call you tomorrow." vIf you want to know how to have a telephone on your Farm, at small cost, write for our , " v . free booklet. Address ,4 Farmers Line Department "i .. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE | !& TELEGRAPH COMPANY *jgj - i Soatb Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. I - I ' I . ;;-l ??a@a???@@0?@a?a?e???@??^. ' i ' i National Encampment G. A. R. ? * | I ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. i | &OARound Trip Rate x * from Denmark * ? With Corresponding Rates from Other Points via the A ATLANTIC COAST LINE I DATES OF SALE. September 15 to 19, 1910, inclusive. STOP OVERS. 10 days not to exceed final limit will be allowed on X , i both the going and return trips at Richmond or Norfolk and Washing- a ton, Baltimoae and Philadelphia, by depositing tickets on arrival at ]S7 stop-over point with Depot Ticket Agent. @ Tickets will be limited to return not later tnan midnight of Sep- as ' " tember 29, BUT MAY BE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 28, by de- g positing tickets and payment of $1.00. A * Make arrangements for tickets, Pullman reservations well in ad- jgC vance with V V. TATUM, Ticket Agent, Denmark, S. C. 1 ^