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BV BOY SHOT BY BOY. Jealousy Said to Be the Cause of Shooting. Aiken, S. C., Feb. 9.?Will Carter, a young white boy about 17 years of age, lies dangerously wounded at his home in Langley, the victim of a case of jealousy. Another young white boy, Walter Cowens, about 16 years of age, is in the Aiken jail, charged | with the shooting. From the information that could be gathered this morning, it seems that Walter Cowens and Will Carter were paying attentions to the same young lady, who was about their same age, or younger, and that Cowens, taking exceptions to the attention being paid her by Will Carter, shot Carter in the back. Cowens boards at the home of Mr. Palmer, in Burnett town, and it was at this house that Carter was calling. He started there last night, and* about 8 o'clock opened the gate and started in when Cowens seeing nnmin? ninked uD a shotaun and fired at Carter. The load took effect in the side and back. Carter was only about 10 yards from Cowens when the shot was fired, and the wound is a very serious one. Cowens becoming frightened at what he had done fled and was located in Bath by Rural Policeman ?*,. Busbee and brought to Aiken and lodged in jail. Cowens in jail here to-day was interviewed, and he hardly knewr what to say about the shooting. He says that Carter had been threatening ? him for the past few days, and that on Tuesday night had made threats at him, as if to draw his pistol. VICTUALS FOR LINERS. Great" Stores of Food Needed by the ,;,f H Olympic and Titanic. Rv * Sixty thousand dollars worth of American food and drink will be placed on board the new ocean liners Titanic and Olympic each time these, big boats dock at Newr York city. For meat alone $15,000 is to be paid each, time either of the big sister ships comes into port. Large Quantities of beef, lamb, pork, veal and mutton will be brought from all over the country and stacked away in refrigerators that must hold enough to feed 3,500 people on a trans-Atlantic voyage. Wagonloads of poultry costing $5,400 are to be added to this array, with piles of fish worth $2,0*00. Far away in the frigid depth of the new liner's cold storage compartment* $1,200 worth of ice cream L* is to be stored, and for cigars $2,000 will be spent. Wines and spirits costing $5,000 are set down as nec' essary .for each shipload of passengers, together with some $3,000 worth of beer and mineral waters. If both boats aro able to hosnn their'regular trips next spring, $1,500,000 will be spent in New York city in a year simply to stock up their capacious larders. Advertising Agent Arrested. Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 8.?Geo. W. Lamance, a representative of the Burton Advertising agency of Atlanta, was arrested here to-day by Deputy Marshal Harkrader of Asheville on the charge of using the mails to defraud and at a preliminary hearing held later was bound over to the Federal courts of Georgia to answer to the charge. The arrest was made on complaint 01 county omciais rrom half dozen Southern States to the effect that they had received letters from the Burton Advertising agency requesting the names of the registered voters of their respective county, i?| ' for which th Atlanta concern promised to pay $2.50 per thousand. In compliance with the request the names were furnished but payment from the concern was not forthcoming, and recently the Atlanta postoffice has been returning to the writers letters addressed to the agency. The government showed that Lamance had in his possession lists of names from Georgia and elsewhere which he had disposed of , for money. __ ? In Proof of Patience. Fish Commissioner George' M. Bower has succeeded in planting the Chinook salmon in Lake Sunapee, N. H., and visitors to the Ben Mere now catch four and five pound Chinooks at the Hedgehog. It took 40 years to plant Pacific ealmon in the East?a work of patience. "Yes, it has been a work of patience," said Commissioner Bowers in an interview in Washington. 'Such patient work maks .jme think of the ticket agent in tjie railway station. "A woman said to the ticket agent angrily. " 'Look here, sir, I've been standing before this window 2o minutes.!' "The agent, a gray, withered little man, answered gently: " 'Ah, madam, I've been standing t behind it 25 years.' "?Boston Herald. WOMAN KEEPS DEATH COMPACT Kills Son and Self Following Death of Husband. Oxford, Me., Feb. 12.?In fulfilment of a compact, made with her husband during his lingering illness, which death ended yesterday, Mrs. Lynwood S. Keene, took her own I life to-day, after having fatally shot j her 14-year-old son, Gerald. The compact dated about a month back, was found by the coroner in a sealed envelope in the woman's room. Keene once was a prosperous farmer, but according to the com-| pact, the family had become impov-, erished and discouraged during his long sickness. He was 38 years old and his wife a year or two younger. The document recited briefly the family troubles, the result of Mr. Keene's illness. In it his death was predicted, and it was stated that, as both the parents thought it was wrong to have their son remain in the world to suffer the troubles they had experienced, Mrs. Keene bound herself to "do away," in the words of the compact, with herself and their son, Gerald, as soon as possible [ after the death of the husband and [ father. Friends of the family, who were in the house to-day assisting in preparing the body of Mr. Keene for burial hoard shnta firod iin-stairs. Thev found the boy in bed ^ith a bullet wound in the right temple. The door of Mrs. Keene's room was broken in and her body was found stretched on the bed. She placed the revolver' muzzle to her mouth and fired, death probably being instantaneous. In letters to relatives the husband and wife asked to be buried in a double casket and that their son's coffin and theirs be placed in the same box for final interment. The funeral will be held here next Wednesday. CITY BUYS OPERA HOUSE. Orangeburg City Officials will Have Quarters in Remodelled Building. ??? Orangeburg, Feb. 12.?Last night at the regular meeting of the city council it was decided to purchase the opera house property, situated on the-corner of Middleton and Miles streets, owend by the Edisto Savings Bank. The building will be used as a combined city hall and opera house. Changes will be made on the lower floor making suitable of fices to be used by the city officials, and improvements will also be made on the second floor, a part of which will be used as an opera house, as heretofore, and the other part will be fitted up for a council chamber. Other improvements will be made. Good Business Policy. In this day of overturning, when the misdeeds of people in places high and low are being exposed to public gaze, it is refreshing to hear a bit of v? ?... ...i,;?u I uusiiitJ&s uuucsi.v v> uiuJ-1 uum iue vcij* casual manner.of its coming to light is evidence that much testimony of the same sort exists if people were at the same pains to exploit honest dealing as they are the other sort, says a writer in The Christian Science Monitor, who th4n goes on to illustrate by this incident: "A gentleman stepped into a haberdasher's shop# where soft hats were for sale. He had never worn one of the sort ana was a long time picking over those offered by the attendant, a friendly, freckled-faced youth. Hats at four dollars were - 1 J 11. /v- U..1 X 1 suuimueu uue aiter auuiiiei, uul iue salesman shook his head with professional disapproval over each. "I don't like you in that," he said again and again, or "That is not it." Finally quite another lot of headwear was resorted to, and a hat set on the shopper's head which brought a quick nod of assent from the young critic. "That's the hat for you," he said with a conviction which sent the patron's hand to his pocket. He knew it was the hat, whatever the price. And here is the point of the story, for the price was just two dollars. The young shopman valued his customer above the extra dollar or two. That purchaser never forgot, and ten years thereafter, while the freckled youth grew to rotund smiling manhood, that particular salesman in that particular shop chose all that gentleman's "smallwear." Now, this kind of occurrence i3 more common nowadays than it was ten vears back. Thp annlirntirm nf expert methods has proved to business people that to do the kind and considerate as well as the exactly just thing by any patron, is the way to prosper. Where once few merchants would give back a buyer's money for a returned article, now most good stores do this as a matter of course. This is kindness, refusing to hold another to a bargain which he?and often she?would wish to withdraw; and it is also good business policy. In many ways like this the power of the higher ideal is proved. It is not only right to do right hut to do right brings better things for everybody. * LNCHING IN ALABAMA. Young Woman's Assailant Strung Up and Riddled. Eufaula, Ala., Feb. 12.?Iver Peterson, a negro 18 years old, was lynched by 20 of the most prominent citizens, in the woods off to the South. His body was strung up to a limb and riddled with bullets. The ? body was left hanging there. Peterson grabbed a young lady of the city as she was en route to her home. Deputy Deverly, accompanied by a Mr. Spencer and several deputies, in Mr. Spencer's automobile, started in pursuit of the negro, who had made an attempt to escape. The negro was captured and quickly rushed into the woods. Negress Dies of Her Wounds. Saluda, Feb. 11.?The negro woman, Mattie Lee, who was shot and fatally wounded Sunday afternoon on L. C. Grice's place, near Wards, this county, by Ed Lott, a negro, died Thursday. An inquisition was held by Magistrate Ramey. Lott, after shooting the woman, turned the. weapon upon himself and fired a bullet into his nwn hndv inst above the region of the heart. He is not expected to live. Both negroes lived on Mr. Grice's place and the Lee woman was on her way from Mr. Grice's house to her own home and after passing by where Lott lived was followed by him. At a point midway between the two negro houses Lott overtook her and for some cause unknown fired upon her. She ran some distance and Lott turned out into the woods and shot himself. Gas Carries Death. Philadelphia, Feb. 12. ? Seven members of one family, the fatherEdward Bodarwitz, the ^mother and five children were killed by illuminating gas in {heir home in the Ghetto district of this city to-day. The children aged from 18 to five years. When the bodies were discovered in the gas filled room by neighbors the father lay fully dressed on one bed' with the little boys while the mother and three girls were in an other bed in the same room. The gas was escaping from a tube which connected a gas stove on the first floor where are the kitchen and living rooms. The father was seen by neighbors coming home about 1 o'clock this morning and it is supposed he accidentally stumbled against the tube pulling it away from the fixtures on the wall. The eldest girl, Minnie was to have been married in a few days. One Last, Simple Request. Camden, Feb. 12.?John Wilson, the negro charged with stealing a horse from Mr. T. C. Sessions, of Blaney, some time ago has been sentenced to the gang for 30 days for vagrancy. He will be tried by the circuit court the latter part of March for horse stealing. Supervisor West tnnlr him tn Kershaw a fow riavs aero. where the chain gang is located under Superintendent Henry Munn. When the train reached DeKalb, on the way to Kershaw, Mr. West got up to look out the back door. As he turned to look at his prisoner, he saw the negro advancing upon him with a large spittoon. The negro dropped the spittoon when Mr. West faced him. He attempted to get hold of a rifle when he reached the chain gang, but Mr. Munn was too quick for him. The neerro refused to let. Chief Haile put handcuffs on him when first arrested, until he could make and light a cigarette,. - ? % Accused of Stdbling. E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton, Me., boldly accuses Bucklcn's Arnica Salve of stealing?the sting from burns or scalds?the pain from sores of all kinds?the distress from boils or piles. "It robs cuts, corns, bruises, sprains and injuries of their terror," he says, "as a healing remedy its equal don't exist." Only 25c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Small Change. At the recent dinner given by An drew Carnegie, an eminent lawyer, seated half-way down the table, was deeply Immersed in conversation with his neighbor when the host opened up the subject of the British coinage system and showed signs of wishing undivided attention. "Every other civilized nation," he declared, "has the decimal system, while England adheres to the absurd and cumbrous table of pounds, shillings and pence." Rap-rap-rap. The raps were for the lawyer, who remained absorbed in his own conversation. "And even farthings," continued the iron-master. "Is there anything else in finance so rediculous as the farthing?" Rap-rap. The lawyer glanced around somewhat impatiently. "Judge G ," Mr. Carnegie called out, "why do the British continue their coinage of farthings?" "To enable the Scotch to practice benevolence, Mr. Carnegie," returned the lawyer.?Success Magazine. . :,-v. .... -j;.' .. . v.^ SPOILED CORX SEIZED. Damaged Grain Reported-from Several Sections. Shipments of spoiled corn to South Carolina have been held up by the feedstuffs department of the State department of agriculture. The department was Wednesday notified by consignees in several sections of the State that car load lots of corn in a damaged condition had been received. Commissioner Watson, upon the receipt of the messages, rushed inspectors of the department to make an investigation. <<rrh? lour will ha vicnrnnslv eii forced," said the commissioner, "and it is very probable that several of the cars of corn will have to be destroyed." Samples of the corn sent to the department showed it to be in a decayed condition. The corn is being shipped here from without the State. The spoiled corn problem has afforded a great deal of annoyance to the department. The department has had careful botanical and other analysis made and^has succeeded in identifying the fungo formed in the heart of the' heated^ damaged corn, and has established a good many other points which enable the men with the department to identify the corn that is dangerous to men and animals. The commissioner will not permit the corn to be shipped out of the State. Ten samples are drawn from each car. Two Banks for Smoaks. Smoaks, Feb. 6.?The meeting held Friday to organize the Smoaks Banking Company was very successful. Books of subscription to the capital stock were opened at the store of Smoak, Carter and Maxcy and in a few minutes the majority of the stock was subscribed. The stockholders immediately held a meeting to elect officers, resulting as follows: Jno. E. Smoak, president; F. J. Berry, vice president; C. A. Thomas, cashier; I. A. Sauls, secretary and treasurer. Jno. E. Smoak, F. J. Berry, P. W. Thomas, C. A. Thomas and Dr. H. M. Carter were elected directors. The capital stock of the bank is $10,000, and it will probably begin business at a very early date. It is thought that the bank will not 'await a new building before beginning business. The stockholders of this bank are among the most sul^tantial business men and citizens of the community, which fact insures its success. The Bank of Hampton has about completed its branch bank at this place, and will be ready to open business in the near future. Room at the Bottom. A Frenchman was teaching in a large school where he -had a reputation among the pupils for making some Queer mistakes. One hot day he was taking a class which was rather disorderly. What with the heat and the troublesome boys he was very snappish. Having punished several hoys and sent one to the bottom of the form, he at last shouted out in passion: "Ze whole class go t<o ?e bottom!" < -Tit-Bits. * / JJquor Law Tight. Topeka, Kan. Feb. ll.-^-The $uo nnn rf f o tt Vi a! H OAr\C + itn_ wuii twuaj u\^xu i/vuobivu" tional the new liquor law which prohibits the sale of liquor for medicinal or mechanical purposes. Can't be Naturalized. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 11.?Saloonkeepers, bartenders and all others whose business is to sell intoxicants in Tennessee, were declared ineligible to citizenhip in the United States in ruling announced by Judge John E. McCall in the federal court today. Summarizing, Judge McCall said: "No man can support the constitution of the United States and of the State of Tennessee and uphold the laws of both, as they are required to do under oath in securing naturalization papers, and at the same time eneaere in the unlawful voca tion of selling liquor in a State where its sale is prohibited by law." For this reason Judge McCall refused the petition of Filippi Vanni, an Italian, and George Congios, a Greek. The former, it was shown, was engaged as a bartender and the latter in the general sale of liquor. Others whose means of livelihood were said to be similar withdrew their petitions. Thirty Years Together. Thirty years of association?think of it. How the merit of a good thine stands out in that time?or the worthlessness of a bad one. So there's no guesswork in this evidence of Thos. Ariss, Concord, Mich., who writes: "I have used Dr. King's New Discovery for 30 years, and its the best cough and cold cure I ever used." Once it finds entrance in/to a home you can't pry it out. Many families have used it forty years. It's the most infallible throat and lung medicine on earth. Unequaled for lagrinpe, asthma, hay-fever, croup, quinsy or sore lungs. Price 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. ' . . ; J -w. r ' -\.'r MAKES WORLD'S NIGHT RECORD i Aviator Coffyn Accomplishes Feat this Morning in Angusta. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 13.?Over a field black with people, but lighted 1 here and there by the bull's eye of an automobile, in a flight which he had expected to make secretly to prevent interference when landing. Frank Coffyn, a Wright aviator, this morning at 12 o'clock broke the world's night altitude record, going 800 feet .aloft. Arch Hoxsey, who recently was killed by a fall from his machine, held the previous record of 250 feet. Coffyn set another precedent when he took aloft in a second flight George H. Manor, of Baltimore, the latter being the first man not an aviator to ascend after night fall. The rule of the Wright brothers, which prohibits members of their staff from making ascents on Sunday, caused the start to be delayed until the early hour this morning. Weather conditions were ideal. The first flight consumed 13 minutes and the second eight minutes. Expects to Save Millions. Washington, Feb. 12.?Col. Geo. W. Goethals, chairman of the Isthmian Canal commission, and chief engineer of the Panama Canal, by arrangement with the house of representatives to-day, will address that body Monday night, describing the progress that has been made in the construction of the waterway. Members of the senate will be invited to attend. The need for immediate action by congress towards fixing the rates that shall be charged vessels, was impressed upon the house committee on Inter-State commerce to-day. Col. Goethals supported the Mann bill, recently introduced, which presents the administration ideas of what tolls should be. He said the canal would be completed by September, 1913, that it would practically take the Tehuantepec Railroad out of business and that the shipping interests of the world must have at least 18 months to .reconstruct their ocean rates upon the basis of charges imposed at the canal. Col. Goethals said that the canal would be completed well within the limit of cost of $375,000,000?probably $15,000,000 under that amount. An Invidious Inquiry. It is related of the president of a famous college that at one time he allowed his wife to persuade him of the uselessness of fire insurance on household goods, and he allowed his policy to lapse. But, better judgment asserting itself, he finally renewed his insurance. The same day a fire in' his wife's rooms destroyed some of her dresses, which the professor enjoyed as a good joke. In due time the president of the insurance company *wrote President Blank this letter: "Dear Mr. Blank: We enclose check for $500 paying your fire cl^im under our policy B6007. "I note in passing upon these papers that the policy went into effect *at noon, December 10, and the fire did not occur until 3 p. m. Why the delay?"?Circle Magazine. Dining With a Lioness. Miss Ellen Velvin, in the February McClure's, speaks of the excessive danger to the trainer that lies in many of the tricks performed with trained lions. "Another trick was one in which the trainer took a long strip of meat, put one end of it in his mouth, and let the lioness take the , other in hers. Hardly anyone in the audience realized the terrible danger of the act. To allow any wild animal to put its face in such' close proximity to the face of a person is in itself dangerous; but to give it also the opportunity of snapping or biting at such close quarters is, in my opinion, foolhardy. "This act generally passed off very quietly and it was not particu- . larly popular with the audience, but one evening when the lioness was in a bad humor she missed catching the other end of the meat and instantly sprang for the trainer. The table between them probably saved his life, and he had the presence of mind to throw the piece of meat away from him; but even then she tore his throat and nearly killed him. Few people in the audience realized that there had been any accident at all, so quickly was the act ended and both the trainer and the | lioness out of the arena." MONEY TO LOAN. Loans made on improved farm lands in Aiken, Barnwell, Bamberg and Hamp ton Counties. No delay. JAMES A. WILLIS, Attorney, Barnwell, S. C. c 3 WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO ' _? v Their Unceasing Work Keeps Us Strong and Healthy. All the blood in the body passes a J through the kidneys once every three minutes. The kidneys filter the blood. 1 They work night and day. When healthy they remove about 500 grains of impure matter daily, when \ unhealthy some part of this impure^ matter is left in the blood. This brings on many diseases and symptoms?pain in the back, headache, nervousness, hot, dry skin, rheumatism, gout, gravel, disorders of the eyesight and hearing, dizziness, ^ irregular heart, debility, drowsiness, 1 dropsy, deposits in the urine, etc. But if you keep the filters right you will have no trouble with your kid neys. . * 1 Mrs. Samuel Harrison, Church St., Bamberg, S. C., says: "I have used Doan's Kidney Pills and they have. ? been very beneficial. My kidneys . " ? annoyed me and I suffered intensely from backache and pains through my lions. Doan'^ Kidney Pills, which I got from the People's Drug Co., relieved these difficulties and improved my condition wonderfully. You are ^ at liberty to use my name as a ref- v erence." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's? and take no other.' ASSESSMENT NOTICE. % i The auditor or his deputy will be 4 at the following places on the days * 1; and dates named below for the purpose of receiving returns of personal property and notice of all transfers of real estate: Farrell'8 Store, Wednesday, February 1st, 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. ? Hunter's Chapel, Thursday, Feb-* ruary 2nd, 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. , # tyj Colston, Friday, February 3rd, il a. m. to 1 p. m. Ehrhardt, Tuesday and Wednes^ day, February 7th and 8th. I ^ St. John's Thursday, February 9th, 11 a. m. to 3. p. m. Camp Hill, Friday, February 10th, 10 a. m. to 12 m. Kearse's Store, Friday, February 10th. 1 d. m. to 3 p. m. Midway, Monday, February 13th. All^ther days, when not filling ap- 4 pointments, my office at the court ' house will be open to receive returns 4 until the 20th of February, after which a penalty of fifty per cent, wul :pM attach for non-return. I will appro- 3 ciate it very highly if each taxpayer ."if will meet me and make his or her return in person. R. W. D. ROWBLL, ! ? County Auditor. $ Bamberg, S. C., December - 22nd, / :J 1910. | NOTICE- TO CREDITORS. ? * I All persons having claims against I the estate of Daniel Jones, deceased, I will file the same with the under- fl signed administrator duly sworn to, 1 on or before the 23rd day of Feb- . <fl ruary, 1911, and all claims not filed"'is J within the time aforesaid will be - 1 barred, and all persons indebted to said estate will make payment immediateiyto i-'* ^ C. B. FREE, ?fj? Administrator. |?I Bamberg, S. C., Janury 21at, 1911.' , . j ~~FoO^SHlraATisuch as beef, pork, dressed chick- 'V ens, and the like, yon wiH do justice to both your appetite and to your pocket to hunt for the market opposite the artesian ' well, second door to Copeland's warehouse. We only handle the best meats that money can buy. v'.:??|| We also Dav the highest prices . for beef cattle, pork hogs, chick* " - ^ ens and eggs. Restaurant in con* nection, where you can get hot Jj meals at all times. A. W. BEONSON, BAMBERG, S. C. x J|g Flies! Flies! We are now taking orders for Screen Doors and Windows, made to order. When in need of Lumber and building material, give me a calL L. B. FOWLER ; -M > II W. P. RILET II | ] Fire, Life || ja j; Accident , j| [insurance i: i f BAMBERG, S. 0. < > 9 ' < * ?9 XMMMMMMMMMMMt* ?-fj| FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Office in Hoffman Building. -4 GENERAL PRACTICE. J ________ L. B. FOWL' A CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER j Bamberg, S. O. % Lumber, brick, and all kinds of building material on hand. ???mmm CHICHESTER S PILLS W THE DIAMOND BRAND. A yjRjK Ladle#! Aak your Druwwiat for /j\ ?4l\ 2&m Chl-cheo-tert Diamond Brand/AXY J'111* in Ked 8-5(1 metallicVI^/ , boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. ?i Bfil Take do other. Bar of jmmr . F7 - (9 Dnu xlxt Ask for C1II-CIIK8-TERS? I L Jf DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for Ik ID* M yean known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE p r. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson Wyman & Henderson * Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, 8. C. ienenl Practice. Loans Negotiated , " ' ' " -f-V;" '3? ?jfej -V-;