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THE EDITOR IN SOCIETY. Gives His Impression of the Grand Opera and Those Who Attend It. The editor took his first wife and attended grand opera Monday night : as a starter, and what they saw and heard afforded an evening of more than ordinary enjoyment. While words can scarcely suffice to describe : the grand music and the work on the i stage, they likewise fall short of de- I picting what could not help attracting one's attention to the audience itself. Speaking of the "see more" costumes, the audience had the operatic : folks beat from here to the water works. Swell ladies, young, old and ' doubtful, fat, plump and skinny, had : on their glad rags for sure. i But not everybody was clad thus. There were many who apparently had 1 means to buy a whole costume and ; who did not like to expose themselves i to pneumonia and the rest of man- < kind. < And some of the men folks looked i just too cute for anything in their tack-puller clothes. We understand j these suits can be rented for three 1 seventy-five per evening and they : make an eight-dollar clerk look quite ; scrumptious. The editor's first wife ] says he has got to have one of 'em the next time he goes out in society, even if the laundry lady has to wait a week for her pay. But when we suggested that she also would have ( to get one of those open-faced pan- . oramic dresses, the look she gave us ^ caused the subject to be dropped. But we felt sorry for those fellows. . They remind us of when Ma used to ( fix us up in our Sunday suit, with paper collar, and comb our hair real slick, with a little duck's tail of a < curl sticking up on top, and hustle ^ us off to Sunday-school. How stiff and uncomfortable we did feel. We c had to sit up so straight that we forgot the golden text. That's the way . those fellows looked. It was the first time we had even been out in 1 society, and we learned a lot of things. We noticed that it's the proper caper to sit and talk and laugh aloud when the robust tenor is just bursting his liver trying to reach high q, ' fourth added line above the staff. c And when the curtain goes down after every fracas on the stage, it's etiquette to crawl over half a dozen + men and women between you and ^ the end of the row to go out and see a friend in the foyer, and come back again after the curtain has gone up for the next struggle on the stage. And, if possible, you must blow some sen-sen puffs and Turkish whiffs in s g the faces of the ladies as you crawl over their laps and their cheval-defrise of hat pins. We had such a good time that our first wife says we must go out some more and try to get a little polish on us.?H. M. Pomeroy, Editor of the Advance-Era, Maumee, 0. THE DEPTH T>F THE SEA. t 4. ?? c Two Thousand Fathoms, or 12,000 c Feet, is Not a Great Depth. c h S. C. H. asks: In connection with i the sinking of the "Maine," my attention has been called to the depth of water that was found for the submersion. I should like to ask two t questions. In the first place, is it s true that such a depth, 1,000 fath- C oms?fathom is six feet?was avail- F able so near Havana harbor? And t secondly, can you state what is the t greatest recorded depth of the ocean, ^ and where it is located? a A. We know no reason for doubt- i: ing the statement of the depth of the r ocean where the "Maine" was sent r to her final resting place; 2,000 i fathoms is not very deep for the ocean. This is less than the mean 1 depth of the oceans. The subject t is discussed quite fully in the last t edition of the "Encyclopaedia Brit- i annica." The greatest depth found s is in the South Pacific, 5,155 fath- f oms, while in the Atlantic about 100 miles north of Porto Rico a depth ^ \ of 4,561 fathoms has been found. ^ A ridge exists along the middle of ^ the Atlantic ocean, where the depth i is about 1,500 fathoms, while along * trie snores tne aepin varies uum 500 to 3,000 fathoms.?Scientific ? American. ^ LJIl t COLLETON WOMAN KILLED. ^ Accidentally Shot to Death While ] I Handling; Gun. ( Walterboro, April 25.?Miss Polly Benton was accidentally shot and j killed at her home near town Wednesday afternoon. Miss Benton was in the act of handing her brother a gun out of the window for the . purpose of shooting a hawk. The ( hammer of the gun was pushed back i by coming in contact with the win- < dow sill and the gun was discharged, s the load entering her head. ? Miss Benton was the daughter of j Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Benton, of the s Pine Grove section of the county. \ and was a woman of many estimable j traits of character. The funeral ser- i vices and interment took place at 1 Pine Grove church this afternoon. ] 4 DUEL WITH SHOTGUNS. Henry Stevens and Tom Boone Wounded Each Other. Camden, April 25.?Henry Stevens and Tom Boone wounded each other in the face with shotguns in a fight Wednesday morning at' the home of Sally Melton, a white woman, who lives at Stokes's bridge near Providence church in Kershaw county. Stevens was shot in the face by Boone and will probably lose both eyes. He was taken to Knowlton's infirmary in Columbia for treatment. Boone's wounds are not considered serious. The row began with a fist fight. Boone took refuge in Sally Melton's house when Stevens appeared with a shotgun. Stevens fired through the window at Boone, wounding him in the face. Then he shot Boone's mule and set fire to the corn crib belonging to Sally Melton. Boone came out 3f the house to put out the fire and shot Stevens in the face, inflicting a serious wound. Boone came to Camden this morning to get warrants for Stevens on the charge of arson and other offenses. It is said that Virgil Boone and Jim Stevens, brothers of the principals in the shooting affray, were present but took no part in it. Our Fire Horses. Chief Spencer, of the Chelsea fire iepartment. sat chatting with friends in his office the other evening when ae abruptly excused himself and callid some one by telephone. "I promised to call him at five minutes to 3," he apologized. "But how did you know that it was five minutes of nine?" asked an Dbservant visitor a few " minutes ater, after he had satisfied himself ;hat there was no watch or clock in fight. "Why, I heard those horses pawng in their stalls downstairs," re)lied the chief. "They are very accurate time-keepers." "You see," exclaimed the chief, 'we have a test blow on the fire ilarm system every night at just 9 )'clock. The doors of the stalls open mtomatically, the horses run out md take their respective places unler the swinging harnesses of the lifferent pieces of appartus. They ; ire hitched into the harness and hen after this nightly drill is over, 1 hey go back into their stalls for the tight. "Every night just before that ' ilarm strikes at 9 o'clock," contin- 1 ted Chief Spencer, "those horses be;in to paw the wooden floors of their tails. They never vary more than 1 wo minutes either way, and almost 1 lever more than one. I've observed 1 his thing for years. Every horse 1 hat enters the fire service does this < ,fter he has been here a few weeks. i "How do they tell the time so losely? I give it up. I simply know hat they do it?that in some myserious way they are able to pick out hat minute?that almost exact point if time from the 1,440 minutes that >ccur within every twenty-four lours," concluded the chief.?Boston evening Herald. As tor's Body May Be Recovered. A plan to blow up the wreckage of he Titanic with a powerful exploive in order to recover the body of ?ol. John Jacob Astor, one of the >assengers carried down, has been aken up, it is said, by Vincent Asor, his son, with one of the large wrecking companies. He has been ssured that the plan is feasible and s prepared to go to any expense to ecover his father's body. I. J. Meritt, of the Merritt-Chapman Wreckng company, said: "The plan is certainly feasible, .''he most difficult problem would be o locate the wreck. I understand hat the White Star company has a ,rood idea as to where the Titanic i...* ?* ?1 ^ ortmo timo to cHIK, U U L Jit ttuuiu lane ovm\/ v. m w Vw ind her by the use of soundings. : "Having found the boat the rest 1 vould not be difficult, although we i vould be compelled to completely vreck the boat. A large quantity of i ?un-cotton, between three and four' lundred pounds, heavily weighted, vould be dropped in to the wreck- < ige. An electric wire, connected vith a battery, could be attached and he explosive would be touched off. iVe could use other explosives, if lecessary, and the force of the exjlosions would be sure to bring all )f the bodies to the surface." The consent of the steamship line ind the insurance companies would lave to be obtained before this could >e done. Overtime. A Baltimore man tells of an adirpss made to some school children n that city by a member of the board d{ trustees. "My young friends. ' ?aid the speaker, "let me urge upon "ou the necessity of not only reading tood books, but also of owning them, ;o that you may have access to them it all times. Why, when I was a .'oung man, I used frequently to vork all night to earn money to buy 3ooks, and then get up before dayight to read them."?Success. AFTER 54 YEARS. Many View Face of Georgian Wh< Was Buried in 1858. A gang of workmen digging j sewer on Xcrth Broad street, Rome Ga., Tuesday unearthed an iroi form-fitting coffin containing the body of the late Dr. J. T. Owen which had been buried for more than 50 years. The coffin bore the inscription, "Dr. J. T. Owen, Age 31 Died Oct. 2nd, 1858." The body was in a remarkable state of preservation. The features were those of a young man witt long, flowing hair. Through the clouded glass of the coffin could be seen a white collar, open in front with a long, black bow tie, characteristic of the fifties. The spot where the casket was exhumed was formerly a cemetery. II was purchased and later became Printup City. It was thought that al bodies were removed to another portion of the city. The casket was interred by the city after being viewec by thousands of curiosity seekers Older citizens remember Dr. Ower and declare he looked as natural as the day of his death. ATTEMPT TO ENTER BED ROOM Negro Lodged in Jail in Lancaster or Serious Charge. Lancaster, April 25.?Sim Dunbar, a negro tenant living on the place of a prominent citizen and well known farmer of the Antioch section of this county, was arrested to-daj and lodged in the county jail, being charged with an attempt to enter the bedroom of the daughter of the farmer, on whose place he works, at midnight last night. Just as the negro succeeded in raising the window sash, it is alleged a pane of glass falling upon the floor awakened the girl, who at once sounded an alarm sufficient to bring to her assistance the other members of the family, whereupon the negro ran, making good his escape, until to-day, when he was arrested by the sheriff and landed in the jail. m ? A Curious Write-up. Most curious reading, now, is the account given on April 11 by the London Standard of the sailing of the Titanic from Southampton. The Standard's representative had been aboard just before the steamer started, and he watched her as she moved majestically out of the harbor, rhen he sat down to write, and he filled a column with almost lyric praise?of what? Of exactly the things that since the wreck have been the objects of unanimous condemnation, angry, reproachful or mntemptuous, according to the critic's temperament. T*" nnnetirtn r\f mVtotJior n" nflt 1U LUC 4UCOHUU \J J. TT UUKUV1 v.. the Titanic had enough lifeboats? Dr any at all, for that matter?he ievoted not a single line, but his enthusiasm simply flames as he describes cabins with private decks attached that can be hired for a single voyage at a cost of 870 pounds, as ae tells of the gymnasium with all of ts complicated apparatus, as he pictures the squash court, the swimming baths, the elevators, the saloons furnished in the "styles" of French Kings, and as he enumerates the many pianos and the "real coal fires in grates" that gave such a tiomelike air: Just incidentally and by accident he mentions something not utterly trivial?something that is possibly of importance and significance in view Df what was to come. He writes: 'An officer on board told me to-day Lnat ne naa Deen 011 me jliuluii; iuui and a half days, and, apart from his awn sphere, knew very little about her." How much more that officer and a hundred others, of rank high ar low, apart from their own little domains in the huge structure, knew about her when the collision with the iceberg took place, three days later, may perhaps be gathered from the failure to make the passengers understand what had happened and to put into those lamentably few boats even as many people as they could carry. But the Standard man, in writing of trivialities, futilities, and superfluities. wrote of what he knew would interest the public and of what alone would have interested it?then. Now his task would be different, and he would perform it just as well, no doubt, expatiating on provisions for safety as enthusiastically as he did then on Louis XV furniture. His point of view, like ours, would have changed.?New York Times. She Meant Sensations. In a primary school examination, over which I once had the pleasure to preside, one of the questions was with regard to the five senses. One of the bright pupils handled the subject thus: "The five senses are: Sneezing, sobbing, crying, yawning, coughing. By the sixth sense is meant an extra one which some folks have. This is snoring."?Woman's Home Companion. COMPANIES HIT HARD. ) Losses on Account of Titanic Disaster Were in the Millions. i Nowhere in the annals of insur, ance is there a parallel for the loss i of insured life and property occasion3 ed by the sinking of the ocean liner , Titanic, says the Insurance Field, j Continuing, it states there may i have been greater losses of life and , property, but never under conditions covering so many classes of insurj ance?life, accident and marine. ; From advices to the Insurance i Field received direct from compai nies by telegram, mail and telephone 5 and from correspondence throughout , the country, the estimated losses are . as follows: Life insurance, $2,193,000; acci dent insurance, $2,213,000; marine I insurance, $10,000,000. j So far as reported to the Insur1 ance Field, the losses sustained by . the life insurance companies of the - United States are $2,213,000. Advice That is Advice. 1 Dorothy Dix, Laura Jean Libbey, ' Beatrice Fairfax and the rest of the newspaper girls who advise young folks on affairs of the heart have a dangerous rival. > Moreover, he is a man?a clergy man. His name is E. N. Askey and he is the pastor of Oakland Avenue Metho> dist Episcopal church at Sharon, Pa. [ The 'Rev. Mr. Askeys specialty is L advising young men on matters matr rimonial, and here is a recent sample ; of the golden hints he drops to young > men wnose nearts are palpitating uu. duly: Do not marry the young lady who allows herself to float around the . neighborhood in a top buggy or an , automobile until 2 o'clock in the morning with a counterfeit sport > with a weak jaw and weaker morals, j ; Do not marry the young lady who i insists on changing partners six . nights a week in the front parlor . with the lights turned low. Don't marry the young lady who has been pawed over by every yap in the community. The clergyman's matrimonial "don'ts" are a bit blunt, but they 1 are certainly to the point. And a f casual glance at the society leftovers of many seasons will show 1 that young men the nation over have more or less unconsciously followed just such rules for selecting a wife as the canny Philadelphia rlerevman outlined.?Nashville Ten nessean. Operation for Eugene Grace. Atlanta, Ga., April 25.?Though it is now more than a week since Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace was bound over to the grand jury, and though the jury held a long session yesterday for hardling criminal business, her case was not taken up. The delay is attributed to the desire of the prosecution to postpone matters as long as possible, pending a change in the accused woman's husband. Of course the delay was a keen disappointment to her, as she has been confined in jail in default of bond since the day of her preliminary trial. From Newman, Grace's home, it is learned that his doctors are now planning to perform an operation for the removal of the bullet, which either shattered or lodged against his spine, causing paralysis of threefourths of his body. BIG FIRE IX COLUMBUS. Three Firemen Hurt and Property Loss $300,000, Eestimated. Columbus, Ga., April 25.?Three firemen were injured and property loss estimated at $300,000 was caused by the most destructive fire in the history of the city this afternoon. Nearly two blocks of residences in the fashionable part of the city, bounded by 12th and 13th streets and 4th and 6th avenue, were destroyed. The blaze was discovered shortly after noon on the roof of the kitchen of the J. R. Page home. It quickly spread to adjoining homes and, fanned by a stiff north wind, got beyond control of the firemen. Calls for aid were sent to Macon, Ameri j cus,, and Opelika, Ala., Dut oerore ' help arrived the blaze was under control. The baseball game between the Columbus and Albany teams of the South Atlantic League was postponed and the ball players aided the local fire-fighters in subduing the flames. Curious to Learn. In Georgia they tell of a prisoner who had been convicted a dozen times of stealing, who, when placed at the bar for his latest offense, displayed a singular curiosity. "You honor," said he, "I would like to have my case postponed for a week. My lawyer is sick." "But," said the magistrate, "you were caught with your hand in this gentleman's pocket. What can your nnnnt-ol oov in vftnp KsKJ UXX^Ci OttJ ilJ. jwui uvi.v**w^ . \ "Exactly so, your honor; that is what I am curious to know." [SPRING CLEANING^ Calls for overhauling your wardrobe as well as household furnishings. Let us help you by FRENCH CLEANING OR DYEING last season's garments of good materials. We will save you money. Also?before packing away winter clothing have them cleaned?stains left in them may destroy the color or fabric before next winter. Trv the Ideal Wav?It Satisfies IDEAL CLEANERS AND DYERS King and Burn's Lane. Charleston, S. C. Information and Prices gladly given. great the small gift 1 I (/L when 'tis timely I a Dim hood. h.dS a ridfit" ?> expect" I ^sststevice ,(r<nn. Jt\<L luw lo dh.Ma<n>u Udfl t (Wid wistiil tilt Kcibits that ujGU. pre^nre. km to cuitcii "the buj jtsk ef his tf/wib itiun, m UJir U^c bu starti/n^ a sciovyias account" *fiv the, boij in a b-OAUL. 5 - . ^ 4 iht VDJLUJI of- yntmtM m.1 ctr e.&vnw^ p &wor <A titutfht wv\(L vjL$t p^r^Ue wwd responsibility ensue. Invest un s&tmufs w. &wT* bamb, is C0VKp&wnd.e<l. FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANE 4 per ct. Paid Qnarterly on Savings Accounts. Ehrhardt, S. C. * w - - ? - ? ' [not the best! I We don't claim to have the best H Horses and Mules ever brought to M this market in our stables at this _ _ 3c U IT 11 time, for we have had some mighty v/ (R A good ones heretofore, but we do w j | * claim these to be just as good as any | j we have ever handled, and if you will r* |S 17 L 8 M j come and look we know we can Q* please you. See ours before buying j | * is all we ask. I % JONES BROS., || BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA. || H ^nuu^iuner* jg A few Snowflakes do not make any impression, but a v ^ Wk sufficient number of them will stop a locomotive. Your ? ? ? @ small change may seem unimportant to you, but if you g 5 open a savings account here, and constantly add to the gg amount, the accumulation will surprise you and prove (J* ? | a great help to you when WANT tries to run you down. G 0 ?jj We pay 4 per cent, on Savings Deposits. gg |? PEOPLES BANE Bamberg, S.C. rai loaooaoi icjj 1 Repaint Your Furniture ri i i Didn't somebody scratch, scar or bung up some of your furniture during that Xnias jollification? "L,e = lVlo = L,ac" H is a mighty good tonic for ailing furniture. Easy to apply and U quick to dry. Try it for floors also, nothing better. We have just received a nice assortment of Screen Doors andi Windows, Flower Pots, Jardinieres, etc., and they are going at Summer Prices. We give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps for all cash purchases and for all bills paid on or before the 10th of each montft. j A. HUNTER I H THE HARDWARE MAN. BAMBERG, S. C. H =X0tt00XSL01