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FIVE KILLED IN WRECK. RUNNING AT TOP SPEED TRAINS CRASH NEAR McCORMICK. Dispatcher Fails to Deliver Meet Order and Passenger Trains Collide with Fatal Results. Augusta, Ga., Oct. 16.?Owing to the operator at McCormick, S. C., failing to deliver "meet order" for train No. 8, leaving Anderson, S. C.. for Augusta at 3:50 p. m., Passenger train No. 3, leaving Augusta at 4:45 o'clock this afternoon for Greenwood, S. C., collided with the Anderson train at 6:45 o'clock at the forty and a half mile post, two and a half miles this side of McCormick, S. C. The trains were running at top speed I and came together in a head-on collision. As a result of the collision five trainmen were killed and seven trainmen injured and ten passengers injured. Five Killed. Both engines were completely wrecked, the two baggage cars being telescoped and the next two cars on both trains badly damaged. The list of dead is as follows: Engineer Arizona Rivers, of Augusta, train No. 8. Fireman Jim Sprowles, colored, of Augusta, train No. 8. - - o Jb'ireman james ware, cuiureu, ui Augusta, train No. 3. Mail Clerk W. F. Acker, of Anderk v- son, train No. 8. Train Porter Heard Searles, colors'; ed, of Augusta, train No. 3. List of Injured. The injured are: R. L. Hartley, of Elberton, Ga., leg and ankle I?, * broken; A. S. McNeal, baggage master on train No. 3, of Augusta, mashed in chest and shoulder, condition ! serious; Engineer F. S. Hughes, of t ' Augusta, of train No. 8, fatally injured; J. G. Stilwell, of Augusta, road master of the Augusta-Anderson division; Conductor Joseph Hernlon, of'train No. 8, body mashed; Baggage Master H. K. Burns, of Augusta, of train No. 8, slightly hurt, and the following passengers were injured: W. F. Smith, Hartsville, S. C., leg |V; hurt; W. E. Cutliff, of Albany, Ga., slightly bruised; B. N. Sego, of Greenwood, S. C., chest and hip injured; Miss Alma Williams, of Greenwood, S. C., body bruised; Lorenzo j?-' Rivers, of Augusta, son 01 tungineer Rivers, slightly hurt; Jenny Payne, of ?|<v: . Greenwood, S. C., seriously injured; i Ross Dawson, dead-head flagman, head scalded and leg bruised. All of the above passengers were 'on their way to Greenwood and were j? * - sent to that city in a physician's charge. A relief train was made up ?js? at Augusta on receipt of the news of l|& the wreck and this train is expected s??. to arrive in Augusta at 2 o'clock. % The Dispatcher's Plea. Shortly alter tne wreca jL?isyau;uei $ Browden at McCormick telegraphed * the local office of the C. & W. C. railjj?> road and stated that he was so busy %% selling tickets that he forgot to show gS? jr." the signal to stop train No. 3 for Augusta for orders. Train No. 3 registered at McCormick and left at |sv once for Augusta. Conductor E. L. ptV Foster, who was on train No. 3, es, caped injury and walked the two and a half miles to McCormick with the fc* ?ew8 of the wreck. There Capt ??v Foster secured an engine and ran Jjj&V t0 the scene of the wreck and took the coach from the Augusta ?bv bound train back to McCormick. The young son of Engineer Rivers was on the train with his father, go '. . ing to Anderson, and was sngnuy mjured. Two boys, whose names have not yet been learned, are said to have been hurt. One is known to have f* had his arm broken and the other "s boy was badly injured. Wife of Deputy Gets Damages. Columbia, Oct. 15.?Five thousand dollars is the amount awarded Mrs. Mary W. Fanner to-day by a Richland county jury, after deliberations extending from 2 o'clock Friday afternoon until early Saturday. This is unique in South Carolina. Mrs. Farmer is the widow of Constable James P. Farmer, who was shot and killed here two years ago by Wade ' Hampton Sellers, known as "The Blind Tiger King" because of his extensive operations in the illicit liniior traffic. ? Farmer, search warrant in hand, was slain while seeking access to a house whfere Sellers boarded. Mrs. Farmer asked the court to award her $25,000 damages against Sellers for her husband's taking off. Sellers will probably contest the case further. Woman Honored by Aviation Society. f-y-y. New York, Oct. 14.?The Aeronautical Society has awarded its gold aviation medal to Mrs. Frank Raishe of New York, who recently made successful flights for short distances in an aeroplane partly of her own invention. She is the first woman to receive recognition from the society. ?Columbia Record. STOLE A GREAT BIG BELL. Firemen of Salt Lake are Accused of Theft of Great Tocsin. Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 12.?An historic bell, weighing several thousand pounds, has disappeared from the cupola of the Salt Lake city hall in which the police department is quartered. Two members of the fire department with headquarters in the same building are under arrest, and have, the police say, admitted the theft of the bell. They are said to have lowered it to the ground with block and tackle, broken it with sledge hammers and carted it to a junk dealer in a fire department wagon. The junk man grew suspicious when he found the date 1853 stamped on a piece of the brass. The bell was cast in that year by an early Mormon foundry and was the official tocsin through the territorial days. TELLS OF MIDNIGHT SUN. Steward on Steamship Talks of Visit to the White Sea. Mr. Thornton, steward of engineers of the British steamship Duart, which recently discharged her cargo at the Columbus street wharf, talked interestingly with a reporter for the News and Courier concerning a trip ? " 4-V.^S. Till loflf Tllltr f A XilctUC U > tuc JL/Uail laoi UU1< lu mv. White Sea, off Northern Russia. One of the most interesting parts of Mr. Thornton's narrative concerned the "Midnight Sun," which is seen in the White Sea. In speaking of the phenomenon Mr. Thornton said: - "We were in the White Sea twenty-five days, taking a load of lumber from the Czar's own saw mill at Solombolo, just inside the Arctic circle. I cannot say every night, because there was no night while we were there, but every day after tea at six, there would be a severe drop in the temperature. This was during the half hour or so that the sun disappeared. While the chief luminary did disappear for a short time, it did not get dark, but it resembled our late afternoon when it draws toward the twilight. ."The people of the region around about eat black bread and salt fish. They are Russians and, as none of us could speak the Czar's language, we beld no discourse with them. We often went into the town of Solombolo, and there we saw many quaint things. For instance, the houses were all of logs and there were no public buildings of any consequence. Even the jail was of logs. Though it was a frail structure," no one imprisoned would dare to break out, because the officers go armed with swords and pistols and they do not fall to use their weapons on the | slightest provocation. One of the most curious things to me was the fire alarm system of the town. An old man would go about through the streets at night with a wooden rattle in his hand and we were told that in case of fire he was to rattle the instrument. Just for fun we thought we would try the alarm system. We persuaded the old man to let us Ipok at the rattle he carried, and, while examining it, one of the fellows shook it; but the old man was too quick. No doubt he was anticipating trouble and before we could test the alarm system thoroughly he was whacking us over the head. "The expense of lighting the town of Solombolo is not heavy, as it envoys so much daylight. I do not remember having seen a single lamp while we were there. "The custom official who came aboard our ship in his official capacity was a queer sort of a human. He was a very nice fellow, as far as that goes, but the trouble was that his salary did not go far enough to prevent his personal appearance from being ludicrous, as touching the cut and fit of his clothes, j This poor custom official, I am told, earned the the princely sum of 25 cents per day. He told us that he employed his spare time doing carved wood work, and at this he was certainly a master. He carved a pair of wooden shoes, which were models for an artist. "The black bread eaten by the inhabitants of this region is baked in loaves as rouna as a can wawi auu nearly as large, being eighteen inches in diameter. "There was one amusement in Solombolo which I had almost overlooked, and that was a moving picture show, which gave a very creditable performance." Forced to Leave Home. Every year a large number of poor sufferers whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs are urged to go to another climate. But this is costly and not always sure. There's a better way. Let Dr. King's New Discovery cure you at home. "It cured me of lung trouble." writes W. R. Nelson, of Calamine, Ark., "when all else failed and I gained 47 pounds in weight. Its surely the king of all cough and lung cures." Thousands owe their lives and health to it. Its positively guaranteed for coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup?all throat and lung troubles. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free at People's Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. $60,000 IN FIVE MINUTES. Raised to Build a New Presbyteriai Church in Middletown, N. Y. Middletown, N. Y., Oct. 12.?Sixt; thousand dollars was raised in a fev moments at the service of the West minster Presbyterian church in thi city on Sunday for the purpose o building a new church. The ne^ church will cost $75,000. On Satur day the pastor, the Rev. Dr. E. Vai Dyke Wight, notified his parishioner that he would ask for $60,000 of th amount needed on Sunday. At th conclusion of the service he called to subscriptions and inside of five min ' utes all but a few hundred dollar had been subscribed. Mrs. Webl Horton subscribed $20,000, he daughter, Miss Carrie J. Horton, $5, 000 and the balance was from 20i members. The Ladies' Aid Society o + U,/?v V* AVI ^ HA A fnnror/ LUC LU1 ULU OUi/oviiwvu vv>vvv tunu*< a new organ for the cliruch. A Chat With the Boys. I suspect you will accuse me o putting the cart before the horse be cause I have written of spiritua things first. Hear this: "Seek y< first the kingdom (kind love) of Go< and His righteousness and all thesi things (these material things) shal be added unto you." That means boys, if you take God and His son unrisi, lnio your uvtrs U<11 we ueei not worry one minute about what w< shall eat or what we shall wear God knows we need these things ant if we do our part He will certainly d< his. Man is trying to reverse this. h< is spending all his time even a par of the Sabbath, planning what he ii going to do Monday. With all hi: forethought he is getting poorer ant poorer, just because he is not livinj as God wished him to. r Worry is the great big fear of life It kills people quicker than anything else. It is the greatest folly to be re bellious against God. Ybu are onl: clay in his hands, remember you place and be respectful. What j comforting thought this is: If y< fear God, "ye shall grow up as calve: of the stall," not pasture fed, some times abundant, sometimes scant, bu an abundance all the time. The lat< Moody, America's greatest evangei ist, says: "I believe this is the bes land God ever gave to any nation, land flowing with milk and honey and it is a poor man's paradise." I he will let whiskey and tobacc( alone, he can have his own home See the millions of money put int< tobacco and whiskey and then the] complain about "hard times." Wha we want to have is a revival o righteousness, and we shall hav< "good times." How long are we go ing to wander around in this wilder ness of sin, when the promised lane is so near? God is a just G<-d anc when we sin He is obliged to punisi us. We cannot blame God for whai we bring on ourselves. Here Is something to think about: "Whei truth springs from the earth anc righteousness looks down from heav en, then wil our land yield her increase." How long will it take us tc learn this lesson and put it into practice? The sooner the better for al! concerned. For tweny-one years, boys, you arc undergoing training to be something of which every boy should be verj proud?you will then be an American citizen. Do you realize what ar honor this is? Why is it more of ar honor to be born under the American flag than any other? Those oJ >ou who have studied history knov that the object of its settlement was to find "Freedom to worship God.' Here we are allowed freedom o1 thought and speech, so long as il does not interfere with the happiness of others. If there is anything in ? boy, it has a chance here to come out This should be encouraging to the young folks to do their very best anc make themselves worthy citizens. Bj your lives you are keeping our flaj proudly waving in the breezes or yoi are dragging it down in the dust You were made for a purpose; arc you trying to find out what it is anc help on the world's business? Be stir yourselves, boys, valuable time ii passing. There is a terrible onenesi about life, humanly speaking, on< time to live, one time to die. Onl: one trial, how particular we shoulc be! With our best efforts we mak< miserable failures, then when peopli are so careless and indifferent, hoi1 sad it is. Enough to make the an gels weep. Perhaps some of yoi don't know how to get about lovini Christ. Read about Him, see ho\ good, how gentle, how free from al - i. ?-'i. l 1 _ Sin, wny you just can L neip luvuii Him. Then think how much he ha suffered to save you from sin. Whei you do wrong you are crucifying Hie afresh. I saw a picture the othe day that made it very plain how w should love our heavenly fathei Not a picture that you hang on th wall but sure enough people, i father looking lovingly upon his onl child. It was not difficult to see ho^ dearly he loved that child and ho^ she loved him. The father should lov God just as tenderly as she love FIGHT LABOR CONTRACT LAW. a Peonage Case From Georgia Before U. S. Court y Washington, Oct. 16.?Believing v that hundreds of Southern negroes are being deprived of their liberty by s big planters under forms of law the f Federal Government will endeavor v this week to induce the Supreme - Court of the United States to strike a a telling blow at the alleged evil, s This it will do by asking the court to e declare unconstitutional the so-calle ed Alabama "labor contract" law. r Similar laws have been passed by - several of the Southern States and s the decision is expected to apply to b them all. r The treatment of negro farm hands - under this law is interpreted by the 0 department of justice as a reduction f of these laborers to a state of peon1 age. Compulsory service to satisfy debt is taken by Attorney General Wickersham as the object of the legislation. The State of Alabama will appear f in court to defend its enactment. It ? " is claimed by Attorney General Gar1 ber, of that State, that the law in e question is not aimed at the negro as * a class, and?anyway this is a proper 5 exercise of the police power of the * State to stop fraudulent practices ? from which the South has suffered ? severely. * ,The case comes to the court on the - appeal of a negro, Alonzo Bailey, * from the decision of the Supreme * Court of Alabama, which held the 5 law constitutional and punished - Bailey for violating it by assessing a t fine equivalent to 136 days hard la3 bor for the county. -a 3 Bailey entered into a written con- a 1 tract to work as a farm hand for the ? Riverside Company duinrg the year 1908 for the sum of $12 per month, * the contract reciting that Bailey had * received $15 in advance and was to rereive the balance due him at the a rate of $10.75 per month, He work ' ed a month and a few days and then < r quit, it is claimed, without just | 1 cause. He had failed, the record al- 1 3 leges, to refund the money advanced 1 5 him. J The negro was arrested under "the x 1 labor contract" law. This law pro3 vides that in contracts of service, entered into by a laborer with intent to 1 defraud where money was advanced, 1 the contract broken without just ' cause and the money not refunded, ^ the laborer should be deemed guilty 1 5 of misdemeanor. An amendment j * the law in 1903 provided that fail- ? * ure to perform the service and to re' fund the money should be prima facie ? t evidence to defraud. f f 1 Attorney General Wickersham lays 3 stress particularly upon the argu ment that the natural and reason" able to effect the statue was not to * stop fraudulent practices, but to im* pose compulsory services on negroes. ? 1 who made up the bulk of farm labor = t in the State, in satisfaction of debt. i _ 1 him, if he fails here he will deprive ' her of the greatest blessing he can bestow upon her. To make life a success there are three qualities you } must have: You must be truthful, honest and industrious. Remember ^ "dishonesty doubles the journey to success." (This thought is borrowed, ? but it is just what I want.) Get a ? pencil and piece of paper, draw a p straight line to any given point, now draw a crooked one to it, which gets 1 there first? The straight one, of ( 1 course. Keep in the straight and narrow path, boys. That is the only f safe way.. The schools are now opening; j great opportunities are ahead of you; use them wisely. We need clean, ^ healthy, intelligent boys to carry on ^ the world's business. When some one 5 offers you a cigarette, politely refuse 1 it. Tell them you value your heal thy body too much to destroy it. It J would make me real proud to know * you had that much grit about you. 7 There are big problems ahead to be ? solved. I don't profess to know so 1 much about business, but I can tell when things are going wrong. Ev? erybody is living beyond their means; * this credit system is ruinous. Boys, 1 " when you make a dollar, spend not 5 quite that much, lay aside a few 1 5 cents for the rainy days that are 4 5 sure to come. I have been amazed r' at the shortsightedness of the farm* ers, buying so many high-priced mules 5 and sometimes even hay and corn to e feed them on, to?inake cotton. The v South with its mild climate is an " ideal place for stock-raising. Here 13 is a good chance for some enterpris? ing young man. Start on a small v" scale and gradually increase your ? 1 business. Brighten your wits, boys. ? and see if you can't help to bring s about a better state of affairs. Ben Q Franklin says: "A small leak will Q sink a great ship." With so many r big leaks staring us in the face, the e situation looks rather gloomy. But ' there is a way out of it, we must find e it. ^ Get yourselves straight, then evy erything else will soon be working v smoothly. P. B. P. v ? e Why not send us that subscription s you were talking about? . jat This is to notify the public that we have just opened a j X new grocery store in the old Herald building, where we X ] * have put in an absolutely fresh stock of fancy and staple 1 groceries, fruits, cigars, tobacco, etc., and will cater 3? S? specially to the city trade. Prompt delivery made. 'Phone X i X your orders to No. 27. We will appreciate your trade and X 5k will make every effort to please you. We carry all sorts X 1E. L. Price, Jr., & Co. I i r DO YOU NEED MONEY? Tfi| Right now, perhaps, you are wishing that you had enough money I- v.s?r/| to invest in some good business proposition, or, maybe to pay off an old debt, or possibly, to enlarge your business. And it's just this way every month of the year. If one would save many of the nickels and dimes that are wasted when the time comes for profitable investment, or when bills come due, there would always be something with which to meet the emerg I Take care of the nickels and dimes by having a savings ac- B 8 count here. We pay 4 per cent, interest, compounded quarterly. I ^PEOPLE^AN^ (Prickly Aik, Poke Boot and Petaaatnm.) mm posrrm cubes or all roans and sxaoxs or?? I Physicians andoree F. P. P. as a splen- I Byeu Trill regain flaih tad strength. 1 Ud combination, and prescribe It with I Bwastsof energy sadftll rt lessees resultfeg ' freet aatlafaction for the cures of all! Ifton orer taxing the eytemwcgiedky forms and stages of Primary, 8eeondary| ? I the nee of P. P. P. tad Tertiary Syphilla, Syphilitio Bheu-1 I Ladieswboee systems arepoJsonedsnd nalisa. Scrofulous Ulcers and Sores, I B whose blood lain an Impure ooaditiondns Glandular Swellings, Bhenmariam, Kid-| JJr Bto menstrual irregularities are pssuHsHj . i?y Complaints, old Chronlo Uloersthat I | benefited by the wonderful tonio sad v CflTftBBH g SCBOFVILA | isrereslsted all treatment, Oatarrh, Skin I Iblood ?i ??g properties of P. P. P? /' Xeeaeee, Xcsama, Chronlo Psmalel BPrickly Ash. Poke Boot sndPOtMSbUUs I Complaints, Mercurial Poleon, Tetter, | & I gold by all Druggists. .4-1 tcaldhead, etc., etc. I I ' S P. P. P. is a powerful tonio and an I J* ? Pe V. LIPPMAN ' xcellent appltlzer, building np thai I Proprietor f jstom rapidly. If you are weak and 1 I ' eeble,and feel badly try P. P. P? andj j" BaVflnnaH) f Cft? '.j^ RHEUMATISM J 7 P. Carter B. D. Carter I A Mother's Gratitude CARTER & CARTER ? ? , , ? ' , . 'v Attorneys-at-Law "?f a MathCT ln """J** WUI ^ HWm Bamberg, S. C. prectote thc FoUowtog- * 4 ....... . , Many a strong man and many a Special attention given to set- healthy woman has much for which tlement of e8tat?s and investi- t0 thank mother. The care taken gation of land titles. during their childhood brought them JSggS Loans negotiated on farm lands past the danger point and made them umce in nouniau Duuumg. ucaiucu auu nuu^ui wuu?uv? ; * are generally bothered at some period ^5^! with Incontinence of urine, and inmmmb WE SELL mwm ability to retain it .'is oftimes called a habit. It Is not the children's fault? ym n n ? tlie difficulty lies with the kidneys, Buster Browns and can be readily righted if taken v ([*in the proper way. A Bamberg ' : mother shows you how. Mrs. L. B. Fowler, Bamberg, S. C., '^SSm says: "My daughter suffered from * jfcA weak kidneys for several years due r-^Jgjm to an attack of fever. She had but v-.yJS^B little control over the kidney secre Tnd*HM**p*m*4 tions and often said that her back pained her. Another member of the I r*IT ADA MTCm family had used Doan's Kidney Pills |cBM tllJAKAll I EsaU several years previous with great ^ benefit, so I finally went to the Peo' pies Drug Co. and procured a box. nmA/ivrftfiia In a few weeks after my daughter &?3k& VT||| 1(1 ml ^ began using Doan's Kidney Pills she U 1 vvIilllUU ceased to complain and now she has SZESSZSSSISSSSSS n0 trouble from her kidneys what- 4 'V^j ??? ever. We never fail to recommend FOR MAN, WOMAN ?g? nr,5-PUl8 when 4116 oppOT" ^p? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 OR CHILD | cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. New York, sole agents for the TO United States. - m The Best-Looking, Best-Feel- Remember the name?Doan's? j _ _ r' it an<J take n0 otlierTig and Best-Fitting, as well as . m fiest-Wearing Stockings made. W. E. FREE LET DS SHOW TOO Attorney-at-Law *jil ????????? All business entrusted to me khH will receive prompt attention. C R BRABHAM'S SONS Investigation of land titles a specialty ' ' j Office for present at court house. Bamberg. S. C. ^ ^ ^ ? ?? sucli as Deer, ports, uit-ssru uumens, and the like, you will do jus- I tice to both your appetite and to ?f AMR A PA" ] your pocket to hunt for the L LUWD j n ?f?ll~ M market opposite the artesian llTI*lPnVPfl SflW MlllS* V well, second door to Copland's 11U|I1UVCU OA WW l?11110e m warehouse. We only handle the i (VARIABLE FRICTION FEED. SMdgiuttS?IJ *' J best meats that money can buy. Best material and workmanship, light i&fjk We also pay the highest prices running, requires little power; simple. w 1 for Iteef cattle, pork hogs, chick- ea8y to .andle. Are made in several j ens and eggs. Restaurant in con- sjze8 and are good, substantial money- I nection, where you can get hot makingmachines down to the smallest * i meals at all times. 8jze, Write for catalog showing En-( y A ? ttt nnAiT/?An, gines, Boilers and all Saw Mill suppUet. W A. W. 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