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AN INTERESTING L FROM MR. I Tells of His Trip to the M< olina.?A Trip to Paci rience in Mounta Saluda, N. C., Pace Farm, August I no: 17, 1912. for Bamberg Herald:?Mr. Editor: frc Dear Sir?For some time after I ar- Ca rived here I was not very well and the did not feel like writing. But now ev< I am feeling much better; can take ing long walks over the rough hills with noi not much fatigue and stronger for sle i the next tramp. In company with fe\ another sojourner I took a jaunt of five miles to the famous Pacolet th? Falls and back to our boarding place, ers making the entire trip in about five see hours. This gave us about an hour me to rest at the falls, to eat our lunch, boj drink the cold water, inhale the pure ma [ air and enjoy the grand scenery. For j the ' it is indeed a beautiful sight to stand an< below, look up to the sparkling wa-; no ' ters as they rush down over rough rocks from lofty heights, shattered let and broken into many cascades, as j ha: the limpid waters leap from rock to ; ing rock in their mad career. It is a j de; scene delightful to look upon. See j om those huge rocks and steep cliffs j An : covered with a dense forestry reach- pej | ing high up to the summit of the I mountain and with a dense foliage L almost veiling from sight the spark - , ling waters you have come to look k upon. You turn away not quite sat- til? isfied, promising yourself, if fortune | di I favors, to come again at some future ^ ' time to yet imbibe more of the beauty and grandeur which nature has so lavishly bestowed upon God's most j ^ ^ humble creatures. j res But to enjoy and take in such;an scenes and beautiful sights it is not j t without some effort on your part, I j d XI] for you will have some deep coves, to descend or lofty hills to climb, all j OT1 ail1 of which will not infrequently cause ? - T, 111 t you to pause, take a long breath, and then march on to higher heights. bu Low down the cove see that lone cot- .Sll tage, there lives a mountaineer; he j . - tells me that he has passed his four score years and more, hale and hearty, yet he could not tell me when the SO( little log cabin in which he has lived all his life was built and still the timbers of which it is constructed , are so nicely notched, hewn and un placed one on another and form- ? ms ing a solid wall as permanent as the everlasting rocks upon which it is founded, and per- ar< . fectly in accord and typical of pio- i neer workmanship, something that j has withstood the test of time and ^ " ; SO a , the wreck of ages, and still it stands, j r^Q Here an honest mountaineer lives a! . . : tri simple life. He may not have all the / comforts and good things of this life, which you may count as indipens- . able, but his wants are few and easily satisfied. His revenue may be small j . but his expenditures for living are j ^ * . less. Hence he can look the whole! ^a world in the face for he owes no! ^ man. He pays as he goes. It looks | as if he may be hard up. You pass; ' ! 3 him on the by-path. He is on his . way to market and has five miles to au travel. See him as he climbs up, up ^ the steep hill side. He has a covered ^ i basket on his arm. What have you reJ for sale? Kis reply: A few chick ens, some eggs, and maybe a few ^ pounds of nice butter, or vegetables, such as tomatoes as large as your fist, or Irish potatoes solid as a rock, a sack of apples, large and red, slung ed over his back, only 15 or 20 cents * per peck. But if you want the cider nQ go down in the cove and there you | ^ can get all you want for five cents, j * kept in the cold spring almost as j ^ cold as ice. The cider is fresh, cold and good, but don't do as I did, for ha I drank very freely, not remembering I had to climb back over the un mountain, the wagon road zigzzaged de ? up the mountain side was two and one half miles to the top, but by a po more direct by-path with steeper sir ^ grade you could make the trip by Co half the distance. This we endeavored to do and thus overtake a party of ladies that were traveling in a carriage and had drank cider with us 50 down in the cove. We soon overtook f0i them and as we would pass them and er? get above, one in great glee would arc cry out, "Excelsior!" for truly, we an were above them and making better | rei speed than they with their span of j th( horses, but it was hard work on our An part. The day was warm, sultry, th< for there was but little breeze down gai in the cove. I thought at the time that I would never undertake such em a race again, but I am rested now noi and ready for another tramp. an i Here we are one and one-half per miles from the depot at a count... ?gj farm. A nice well of water 60 feet ga: deep, and cold as ice. A cool breeze th? is generally blowing. The nights are ari always cool and pleasant. Here at ed the Pace Farm quite a number are tw: stopping, twenty or more, but there th? is a constant change. Some are go- am ing while others are coming in. While Y. ?r ETTER N. BELLINGER >untains of North C armlet Falls.?Expein Climbing. t on the tramp there is much time pleasant conversation with those ?m all parts of the country. South rolina, Georgia, Florida, in fact ?re are representatives here from ?ry State in the South, and all try; to have a good time. We have thing to do but to eat, rest and ep comfortably, no mosquitoes and v flies to disturb you. Each day some one going out for i mail and daily papers. The genii topic is Jones and Blease. We ! but few Blease men, but Jones >n are all going home to vote; not isting but conscientiously for a .n with broad, comprehcsive views it can take in the entire State, one i undivided, as it should be and wrangling. We are ready for the election, and each one cast his vote with his nd on his heart, sincerely believ,r he is doing the very best for our ir State, with no ill will for any s that may differ from our views, d when it is over, let us have ice. . L. N. BELLINGER. Trinkets of the Dead. In the War Department at Wash;ton there is a vault which contains i trinkets of the dead Federal solirs, taken from their bodies on the Ltlefields, where they gave up their es for their country's sake. It was the rule of war that when } bodies were placed in their final ;ting place swords, guns, watches d other articles of value were sent Washington to be distributed iong the families of the deceased. Each package is neatly wrapped d labeled with the name of the forir owner stamped upon it. Many re claimed shortly after the war, t others have remained and are 11 preserved in dust-covered siice. Congress has just passed a bill lich provides for the sale of these lvenirs of the battlefield. It is not ne with the view of making money,, t to rid the department of so much bbish for that is really what the claimed goods amount to. There ly be a few rings or watches of lue, but the swords and pistols are ly valuable as relics, and if they 2 sold will be sold as such. All efforts to locate the relatives the deceased soldiers have failed, this is the best thing that can be ne with the assorted collections of nkets. In the clothing of the soldiers who id on the field of battle were found otographs of mothers, daughters, eethearts and wives. But no one ows who the originals were or lere they lived and most of them ve gone to join those who died on 2 battlefields of the South. Under the army rule the effects of member of the army who dies or killed in battle are forwarded to the ditor's office and remain there unclaimed. If they are not claimed 2y remain there forever. For this ison the vault was built and has ice been enlarged to accommodate 2 belongings of members of the my who have died in the Philiples. The law that has just been enact applies to the effects of the solars who died in the civil war, and t the effects of those who have id since. There is no earthly use "in keeping 3se things any longer. If there ire surviving relatives they would ve claimed them long ago. The re fact that they have remained claimed for 50 years is ample evince of this. Room in the audit's office is valuable, and to disse of the junk to any one who dees it is a good idea.?Memphis mmercial-Appeal. Most Have Made Rat Dizzy. A rat revolving at the rate of 1,0 revolutions a minute has been md detrimental to the proper opition of electrical machinery. LizIs rotating at a similar speed also 1 detrimental. An armature was ltrned recently from Costa Rica to } Crocker-Wheeler Company at ipere, N. J., with the request that i ventilating holes be screened with aze. The correspondent wrote: "There are opening or holes in the I of this armature and when it is # t running small animals find in it attractive hiding place. When the **er is turned on they are thrown n'nof f L a noointr o r? A fho XIUO I. l/UV VUUiiAf) UUU 1>U^ WUVi Ai.u I force makes a distribution of iir contents, and in this way the nature is short circuited and burnout. The trouble has occurred ice, and afterward on one occasion i remains of a lizard were found, d on the other a small rat."?N. Herald. Bob. (Continued from page 3.) and was elegantly dressed. Bob approached Bill and said: "Do you see that man over there? That's the bishop and he's the best dressed man on the hill. Why, sir, he's got on a twenty-five-dollar broadcloath coat jist exactly like mine; no difference betwixt the two, sir!" A well known widow of means, one of the most aristocratic ladies of the Saltkeatchie, gave on one occasion a sumptuous dinner and private ball. Her home was exquisitely elegant, her guests well selected, and Bob was invited as clown or funmaker to the crowd; a jester, such as we read about in the by gone days of gallantry and chivalry. The dinner was elegant, the mazy waltz was beautiful "and all went merry as a marriage bell." Bob danced frequently during the evening, but he was Don Quixote at Don Antonio's ball, and his chat, or talk was as funny as his figures were ludicrous. The weather was warm, and Bob, owing to the violent exercise, perspired freely. In those days cloth was not as plentiful as now, and many men of small means iuuk. auvanuige ui a very economical style of dress, then fashionable, by wearing a very fine shirt front over a much less valuable fabric, commonly and correctly called a dicky. When Bob retired that night he found that his false shirt Jront was wet with perspiration, it was spread in an open window to dry, and during the night a puff of wind carried it away. Next morning por Bob was minus a dicky, and like Bo-Peep, he knew not where to find it. Down stairs he went, and the first persons he met was the hostess herself with a bevy of charming young ladies. Addressing the hostess he said: * "Madam, I am in a miserable and shocking condition this morning. Last night when I lay down my dicky was as wet as a dish-rag and I spread it out on the winder-sill to dry. This morning, mam,' that dicky has departed and I would be pleased to know if you have seen it, for I need it sorely." It is needless to jsay that he got a fresh dicky instanter. Bob bought a farm on the Saltkeatchie. The papers had been drawn up, a notary public was taking the jurat, and signed it as he should, "notary public" below his own signature. "Write that thing out complete,"' said Bob. "Make it 'notorious republican' and be done with it. Also write out the L. S. as you should. Let it read 'long standing'! I do hate and detest this way you legal men have got abbreviating all you can. It's wrong and ridiculous." "How are your folks?" asked one of his friends of Bob one morning. "Why, sir, one of my boys got shot the other day and he is in a deplorable condition; and he was hit in the most dangerous place known ?in the abominable regions and caboosal, kerdap!" When Bob was a young man he paid, or tried to pay court to the lovely daughter of Captain.Jim. It was nuts for the captain, but gall for the girl. She could not get rid of him by fair means, so she resorted to foul. In spreading up the bed in which Bob was to sleep, she spread underneath the sheet a basket of dry holly leaves. The holly leaf, it will be remembered, has several thorns or briars on it which prick like pins. When Bob lay down that night he found out that he was not "on flowery beds of ease," but rather on one of sore discomfort. In relating the escapade he said: "I let you know, sir, I lit in, and before you could say Jack Roberson, I lit out." When commercial fertilizers first appeared upon the market, formers bought them carefully. Bob bought one bag, which was 200 pounds, and was pleased with results. In relating his experience with it he said: "Gentlemen, I used a whole bag last year, and it proved fatal, very fatal, and this year I mean to use it very extensively, for I shall buy three whole bags, so help me Lord, provided money can buy such a vast quantity." Bob had a brother named Bill, and in Bob's eyes Bill was the ideal preacher. In speaking of him, Bob said: "Why, gentlemen, brother Bill is a wonder, a miracle, a phenomenon! Look where he started, being only a cavorter; next he was a locust preacher, and now he is a circus rider. He went out in Mississippi nfiiAi. Hqv qt>H ho nroarhpri the LUC umci uu; "."V. r ~ ~ ^ _ most wonderful sermon, sir, the world has ever heard. It brought sinners from a distance, sir; shook the very ground, splintered the cedars of Lebanon, split the oaks of Bashan, uprooted the Banyan tree, was four hours long and it could be heard four miles all around the church, sir! A masterly effort it was, sir." A. W. BRABHAM. * f ACCUSES BROTHER-IN-LAW. Young Woman Says Relative Tried to Kill Her. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 16.?Miss Willis Yielding, of Oneonta, Ala., is probably fatally injured by a bullet that took effect just below the heart, and R. S. Couch and John Beveridge are in jail charged with attempt to murder as the result of a shooting in a local hotel. Miss Yielding charged that Couch, who is her brother-in-law, fired the shot and that the two men induced her to go to the hotel with the intention of killing her. Couch claims the shot was accidental. Miser Died from Poison. Harrisonburg, Va., Aug. 17.?Arsenic placed in coffee by unknown persons caused the death of Geo. B. Nicholas, an eccentric Rockingham county miser, according to the verdict returned to-day by a coroner's jury. A broken package of arsenic was found in the house. No arrests have been made yet, but sensational developments are expected. The vagaries of Nicholas, who, although reputed to be worth more than $280,000, dressed in rags and lived virtually the life of a recluse, had long been a source of speculation. Besides himself, the only other occupant of the lonely farm house was Jane Hopkins, who had served as the miser's housekeeper for 25 years. She drank of tfhe same pot of coffee which killed her employer and was made so desperately ill that her life was dispaired of for several days. USE OF~CALOMEL PRACTICALLY STOPPED. For Bilious Attacks, Constipation and All liver Troubles. Dangerous Calomel Gives Way to Dodson's Liver Tone. Every druggist in the State has noticed a great falling off in the sale of calomel. They all give the same reason. Dodson's Liver Tone is taking its place. "Calomel is often dangerous and people know it, while Dodson's Liver Tone is perfectly safe and gives betD/sat\1a? r\r?n rr Qf rvro LCI I UI15, fid v S I cupico ug kjwviw* Dodson's Liver Tone is personally guaranteed by Peoples Drug Store who sell it. A large bottle costs 50 cents, and if it fails to give easy relief in every case of sluggishness, you have only to ask for your money back. It will be promptly returned. Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant tasting', purely vegetable remedy? harmless to both children and adults. A bottle in the house may save you a day's work or keep your children from missing school. Keep your liver working and your liver will not keep you from working. DR. J. G. BOOZER DENTIST, DENMARK. Graduate Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Class 1907. Member South Carolina Dental Association. Office Rooms 1-2 Citizens Exchange Bank Building. Hours:. 9-12 and 2-5 every day. J. F. Carter B. D. Carter CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. Special attention given to settlement of estates and investigation -of land titles. j""w PEI LET | | Fire, Life | i .tt.UUJ.UCHU A II INSURANCE I J> BAMBERG, S. C. | A WAY OPEN. Many a Bamberg Reader Knows it Well. There is a way open to convince the greatest skeptic. Scores of Bamberg people have made it possible. The public statement of their experience is proof the like of which has never been produced before in Bamberg. Read this case of it given by a citizen: N. B. Adams, Main St., Bamberg, S. C., says: "For more than a year I suffered from attacks of backache and I also had pains through my loins. The kidney secretions were bothersome, being too frequent in passage and sometimes I noticed that they looked unnatural. Finally I got a supply of Doan's Kidney Pills from the People's Drug Co., and a few weeks after I began their use, I was entirely relieved. I most heartily recommend Doan's Kidney Pills." (Statement given March 12, 1908.) No Trouble Since. On January 26, 1911, Mr. Adams said: "I gladly verify my former endorsement of Doan's Kidney Pills, for kidney trouble has never bothered me since I used this remedy. You may continue to use my name as a reference." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?uoans? and take no other-. $15.00 suits now $11.25, all wool, fit guaranteed. Write F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. Higher prices paid for beef cattle. H. G. DELK, Bamberg, S. C. The South Carolina Co-Educational Institute LOCATED AT EDGEFIELD will begin its twenty-second session on September 26th. Colonel Bailey has been President of the Institution all these years and has associated with him a large expe- everything that is rienced faculty of r~3Hr"~"T"J necessary for car14 instructors. rying on a high Last session grade institustudents attend- jjBBBWfc' tion. Mm ed this school Graduates of from all over i: ine a. w. u. can South Carolina HHP::*', he found all over and five other :.:y South Carolina, States. The dor- filling positions mitories are al- !- flHylj of honor and rfl ways filled to the trust. ,utmost capacity / h If you eontemand each year the ; J|||? Plate patronizing school grows in ^|H this institution it favor with the is important that people. | | u r | you communicate The buildingsE3 '* with the presiare of brick and fBllilBB dent as early as furnished with possible, it is always necessary to engage rooms before the session begins. . , - ifPfll /iai r* xt 1/ n i ii rv i LUL. r. 1>. IV. DA1LL1 R I PRESIDENT . 1 EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA j LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! |&m Ladles Must Have Attention As Men \ Uncle Sam's Pressing, Laundry & flat Cleaning Parlor /|j provides for all. We represent the largest laundry in 1 'M the State and will satisfy all. We also clean, press and mend all Ladies1 and Men's garments at a cheap rate. No tearing, scorching or burning, all work is guaranteed when once in the hands of Uncle Sam's Pressing, Laun- ' dry and Hat Cleaning Parlor. , F. K. GRAHAM, Proprietor . UP-TO-DATE WORKMEN WORK GUARANTEED. IP" 1 -,'V^pj I hardest driving rain or snow cannot sift under them. 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