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PERSONAL MENTION. t People Visiting in This City an at Other Points. ?Mr. D. H. Counts, of Laurens "was in the city Monday. ?Mr. John F. Blanche, of Orange v burg, was in the city Monday. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Felder, o Cope, spent Sunday in the city. ?Mr. J. H. Fender, of the Ehi hardt section, was in the city Moe day. ? ?Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bennett, o the Ehrhardt section, were in th city Tuesday. ?Miss Kate Felder is spendin some time this week in Walterbor attending the Colleton county fair. H ?Mrs. Ida Schwartz left Monda J for North, S. C., where she will spen Pp some time with relatives and friends ?Dr. J. L. Copeland, Messrs. I C., H. C., and J. C. Copeland and J . _ il. D. Dannelly, of Ehrharar, were in m city Monday. ?Our good friend, C. W. Garris formerly of Denmark, spent a fei hours in Bamberg last Friday. H iis now living near Savannah, wher L he is operating a saw mill and mah f ing a good success. His many friend I. here were glad to see him again. Mr. Pettigrew's Snake. k " Mr. Elias Pettigrew, the eminen " annual naturalist and snakeologisl has a pet black snake which is th wonder of the neighborhood, says th ^ Richmond Times-Dispatch. Th | snake is up to all sorts of cute littl I tricks, and is about 20 feet long. I * it were any longer, no doubt Mi Pettigrew would say so. Some tim i ago a culprit entered the otherwis s peaceful farmyard of Mr. Pettigre'* under cover of darkness and stol the rope off the dinner bell whic hangs at the top of the long pol * near the kitchen door. This was ver embarrassing, inasmuch as Mrs. Pel tigrew was no longer able to ring tn dinner bell and call her hungr spouse from the west 80. The inte! ligent black snake noticed the lady' embarrassment, and, climbing th pole, he took the bell handle in hi 111014th and allowed his body to han straight down until his tail almos touched the ground. Mrs. Pettigre1 grasped the pet snake by the tai and was thus able to ring the dinne bell. Every noon now the snak climbs the pole without being tolc His idea of time is something ver remarkable, as he is never more tha two minutes too early and never minute late. How Briar Pipes are Made. Briar, which furnishes the roc from which the briar pipes ar made, is the shrub called the whit heath or heather, and is found chie: ly in the south of Italy, or on tb Island of Corsica and in Algeria. Th j 'shrub often grows to a large siz< although only the roots are used i the pipemaking industry. After the roots have been cleane of the earth which clings to tbei they are sawed into blocks of variou dimensions, placed in vats and a lowed to simmer for 12 hours, whic brings out the rich brown color fc which the finest pipes are prized. Following 'this boiling process th blocks are steam dried for two week and then are sent to the factor: v where they are converted into pipe; The blocks are assorted according t size by experts, are placed on shelve and kept at an even temeprature fc 10 days. Then they are dried, an sent to the machines, where the acti al manufacture begins. After th blocks have been trimmed to th . proper size the upper part of th w bowl is turned, then the lower pai and stem, and they are sandpapere< The finishing of the bowls then tak< place.?Indianapolis News. Bath Patrons Flee. A score of patrons in a Russia * bath establishment at 935-37-3 South Fourth street fled to the streei k in scant attire last night when fii started in the basement of the buil< l? , ing and spread rapidly, says th | Philadelphia Ledger. I Policeman McCarthy, of the Se1 I enth and Carpenter streets statioi * gave the alarm and forced his wa through a hall filled with smoke 1 T>Ano,ieo fhp QOtliy lilt; |;au uua. ucvau?? v<. lack of clothing the flames blistere several of them. Screams from wit] * in had a startling effect upon onlool ers, and their shock was increase when 20 shouting men, most of thei draped with towels, issued from tt doorway. McCarthy preceded the men an waved the crowd aside. The rescue men followed him to a store aero: <v the street. The bluecoat had amp! * time to return for the clothing, a though a few minutes later the rul bing rooms burst into flames an were destroyed before the fire wj extinguished. The loss is estimate by the owner, Gersen Brandow, ; $2,500. He had recently taken ov< the bath establishment and intend* > to take out a fire insurance poli< 1 next week. i WHIPPED, GIRL MARRIED \ ^ Macon, Ga., Girl Married Man Whose B Father Whipped Her. Macon, Ga., Oct. 30.?Essie Cars' ter, the young woman who was re- er cently taken from a house in Dawson bi and severely whipped by several men d* headed by W. G. Dozier, clerk of the ci superior court of Terrell county, was fii married here to Vogt Dozier. ai It was because of the infatuation tt of young Dozier for the Carter wo- es man that the latter was whipped at tt the instance of the father of the ta young man. p( Young Dozier returned to his st home at Dawson after being married, vi S but did not tell his father of what st 0 he had done. The latter was told bi over the long distance telephone of H y the marriage. tt d "This is a great shock to me," said at 3. Mr. Dozier. "I did not believe that cz ) my son would further disgrace us in C this way. He is here in the house F e now and has told me nothing of the \\ marriage. I do not know what I cc shall do now, for they have about st put me up a tree." qi The couple will go to Columbia, ei _ S. C., to live. w ? _ DIDN'T WANT PICTURE TAKEN. e; s st Mother Bear Adds Excitement to a ai Camera Hunting Trip. t The Rev. Dr. Chauncey J. Hawkt ins, pastor of the Central Congrega- iz e' tional church, Jamaica Plains, has gi just had an adventure with a big pi black bear that would delight the ol heart of any small boy?to read bi ? about?and which, now that it is C . over the doctor does not regret, al- le * though it nearly put an end to his ii adventurous camping trip. tc Dr. Hawkins has been in New tc Brunswick for several weeks hunting di , wild animals with a camera. News o: h of his adventures was brought out to tc civilization by his guide, who came O t out the first of the week to meet Mrs. M Hawkins and George B. Clark, of sc e ? Jboston, who were joining the doctor. ?F V The story is that Dr. Hawkins and ie , his guide were waiting in a blind for la ? bears to come to a bait of meat and P e molasses which had been put out to c< lS v tempt old bruin's palate. But the f< ? bear was wary and they had been ti waiting several days, when at last ai j they saw a big bear and two cubs ap- w ^ proaching the bait. When the bear o! ' was within about fifty feet Mr. Hawk- P j ins snapped his camera, expecting to P ' see the bears run when they heard the shutter of the camera fall. n But this was a mother with her litSL . tie ones to protect, and without waiting to see what would follow the unknown noise she lunged straight for the harmless hunter. She same so quickly and so straight that the doc tor could not move and his camera n e was knocked out of his hands and n part of his clothing was torn away e by huge claws. 11 e The guide, who had an axe in his hands, sprang to the rescue and n swung for a mighty blow, but the old animal brushed it aside easily, just $ d getting a wound on her paw. How11 ever, it diverted her attention from 11 18 the doctor and gave him time to draw r< his pistol, a 22-caliber pistol with a h 12-inch barrel. As the bear turned c< ,r on the guide the doctor fired, the ball a pierced her brain and she fell dead ~ - ?j. l e at tneir ieet.?tsosiuii uiuw. :s - Johnson Mixed. a: . 9 3. " Atlanta, Oct. 30.?|A South Geor,o i >g gia lady who takes absolutely no in- a ir terest in politics, but who occasion- ^ , allv reads the current news, recently d returned from a trip to New York, n where she had been much puzzled by ie the big campaign banners bearing ^ the Bull Moose ticket for "Roosevelt fl 10 and Johnson." She had not asked rt j any questions about it, however, but ^ * had drawn her own conclusions. iS This morning she amazed and ^ highly amused some of her Atlanta friends by the following spontane- ^ ous outburst, after she had read an f( n item about the world's champion '9 pugilist at Chicago. ts "I just can't see how a decent man a *e like they say Roosevelt is could consent to run for president on the same ie ticket with such a horrible negro!" 7. Watered Stock. 0 a, ? Two old cronies had been sitting in r< a cafe on Cortlandt street one Satur- d lO I day afternoon for several hours, and . were pretty much the worse for their a id a_ lengthy tete-a-tete. "What is your nationality, anyway, " i(j Jim?" asked one. ' "Well, I'll tell you, Bob. My father a came from Glasgow, so I'm half 16 Scotch?" fi , "And the other half seltzer, I s: id guess," put in his companion.?Ex. 5S Protecting Himself. le 1- "You admit then," inquired the o t>- magistrate severely, "that you stole b id the pig?" is "I has to, boss," said the prisoner, fi id "Very well," returned the magisit trate, with decision; "there has been tl a lot of pig-stealing going on around id here lately and I am going to make \ ;y an example of you, or none of us I will be safe." n E\V BANK AT COTTAGEVILLE. ranch of Farmers' and Merchants' lj of Walterboro, Opens. Walterboro, Oct 31.?The Farm's' and Merchants' Bank opened its -anch bank at Cottageville, Tuesly, of this week, under most auspious circumstances. This bank [Is a long felt want at Cottageville, | id the amount of business done on le first day justifies its promoters in >tablishing such an institution at lis time. The bank building at Cot.geville is located next door to the istoffice, and is a splendid new ructure, having a fireproof brick lult with one of the manganese 1 eel burglar proof safes. This *anch bank will be in charge of B. . Willis, second vice president of ie Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, ; Walterboro, and W. E. Willis, tshier. While this is a branch bank of the 1 armers' and Merchants' Bank, at ralterboro, this business will be mducted as a separate banking initution, and it will make its own jarterly reports, conduct its own cchange business and in every way ill be conducted as a separate bank, M [cept in matters affecting both in- 11 itutions, or any such problems as ^ e referred to the Walterboro Bank. Mrs. Cleveland to Wed. Mrs. Grover Cleveland has author- P* ed the announcement of her enigement to Thos. Joseph Preston, rofessor at Wells 'college. The date : the marriage is not yet determined nt will be announced later. Mrs. bu leveland is a graduate of Wells col- th :ge and has been a trustee of that m istitution since 1887. Her wedding aE > Prociriont f^rnvpr Cleveland, which or >ok place in the executive mansion It uring his first administration, was it ae of the notable events in the his- th >ry of the white house. Her father, as scar Folsam, was a law partner of fu [r. Cleveland, who upon Mr. Fol- in )m's death in 1875, became Frances olsom's guardian. After his retire- er tent from the presidency Mr. Cleve- w] md made his permanent home in pe rinceton and Mrs. Cleveland has a antinued to reside there since the wi jrmer president died in 1908. Her in vo daughters, Esther and Marion as ad her son, Richard F., are living nc ith her there. The announcement Ei C the engagement was made by id - * TT.-1.1 resident Jonn uner muueu,j ul uc rinceton university. br ? d Jack Johnson's Record. ev or Jailed with Joe Choynski for pe prize fighting" at Galveston. Johnson's automobile seized b? ^ leriff in Philadelphia for board bill. re Forced by law to settle bill for t ursing his brother, presented by a egress. Arrested for violating speed laws 1 Boston and fined. of Pleaded guilty of violating speed iws in Boston and again fined. Arrested in Boston for old debt of C1, 41. ar Sued for injuring young white wolan while recklessly racing on the Dads at Crown Point, Ind. k( Arrested in London, Ont., for exCO ceding the speed limit. Ran down nother machine. Paid fine. Arrested in San Francisco for reck- of >ss driving. Arrested in Boston charged with te ssaulting taxicab driver and breaklg windows in cab. 111 Arrested in New York charged with ssault on another negro. Held in 1,000 bail. U m Arrested on charge made by wo- "* lan and fined $200 in New York. Arrested in New York charged rith assault on white woman. Girl do ill to appear. Discharged. Arrested in New York for violat- ai lg traffic laws. Arrested and fined in New York Dr reckless driving. Sued by sculptor in New York for 2,000 for bust ordered but not paid ai Dr. ^ Sued by New York doctor for $52. w Arrested for assaulting witness a gainst him in smuggling case. Arrested for speeding at Newcas- m le, England, and fined $100. rc n< Arrested in San Francisco ror ais- sc rderly conduct. Arrested in San Francisco for 01 eckless driving. Sentenced to 25 ays in jail. Sued for rent of apartment in Chi- t0 ago. 91 Sued for printing bill of $408.70 ai l New York. *e Arrested in Chicago on charge of as bducting white girl. Summoned to court for operating ve automobiles in Chicago with a ingle license. r _ ci A Fine Distinction for the Family. d( He had had bad luck fishing, and la n his way home he entered the pi utcher shop and said to the dealer: la Just stand over there and throw me tr ve of the biggest of those trout!" "Throw 'em? What for?" asked of he dealer in amazement. of "So I can tell the family I caught il; =!m. i mav be a poor fisherman, but W 'm no liar."?Ladies' Home Jour-I S1 al. I di II I Stop Our speciall] Compound i sensaiion in nothing bette ber the name Peoples (T LOST FORTUNES. x>ple Who Have "Come Down" in the World. We hear a great deal of men who ve made fortunes and "got on,'' it the story of those who have lost em is generally told in a few lines the newspapers, if told at all, and iropos of a bankruptcy, a suicide a poor law guardians' meeting, is an easy matter to lose a fortune you have a fortune to lose, but e story and example may be just dramatic and striking, and as use1 as an object lesson, as the makg of one. Not long since there died in a misable garret in Paris an old woman ho for years had lived in dire inury. Nearly 50 years ago she was beautiful and talented soprano, ith a huge fortune of her own makg and a voice that could coin gold easily as the blackbird can make >tes. She sang in every capital in urope, and so much of a popular ol was she that she is said to have >tted over 30,000 rounds "in one ief London season. Then she sudmly "dropped out"?why, no one "? 1 ? O A t*e r> a er reaiiy kubw. rut ou jc^o te, save possibly her relatives and trsonal friends, knew, what had beime of her until the news of her sath in such painful circumstances called her almost forgotten name the public. Another case well within the recolction of newspaper readers is that a Midland merchant who at one me possessed an enormous fortune, bank failure or some big commeral catastrophe swept it all away in 1 hour, and after long years of priition and struggling he was forced apply for admittance to the work)use of the very town he had once jen mayor of, and on which he had inferred lasting benefits. The story of these fallen favorites ! fortune is writ large in workhouse scords, and this last resource of e destitute shelters and has shelred men and women who have had their possession fortunes of hun eds of thousands of pounds. A man charged with begging in a sndon suburb and sent to jail for a onth for vagrancy was found to ive run through an inheritance of 30,000 pounds in something less lan 12 years. Another, who had irned not only wealth, but name id fame, by his brilliant literary lilities, threw all away and drank mself on to the Embankment, and rer into the river. Representatives of great families re often found in humble positions. direct descendant of John Gaunt as an engine driver in Canada, and grandson several times great of ichard I was once a butcher in Biringham. Another man claiming >yal descent was a toll gate keeper ?ar Dudley, and the great-grand>n of Cromwell kept a grocer's shop 1 Snow Hill, near Holborn. We have a record of a Plantagenet jscending from a long line of kings ? earn a living as a cobbler in Shroptire, and a very poor living at that, id a natural son of Richard III, afr the battle of Bosworth, worked i a blicklayer in a little village in ent, and died there in a miserable ate of poverty at the age of 81. In s "History of Birmingham" Hutton :fers to a milkman in humble cirimstances whose ancestry included , n/w^ntrv fame, and 3-U.y UUUl V CL KJX. ~ ? v. ? 7 ascendants of men who made Engnd's history are to be found at the esent day in almshouses and poor w institutions all over the couny. One of the most striking examples the vicissitudes of fortune is that ! a member of the Bracebridge famf, who owned immense estates in rarwickshire in the days of the marts. He was a peddler in the strictfl over which his ancestors SBBEaC That C J prepared Syrup of will do it It relieve! your throat at one sr for coughs and cold >, Syrup White Pine Compound, ; Drug C< ME REXALL S TORI MR. LEGARE'S DOG. Small for its Size, Said Wondering Mountaineer. N An admiring constituent gave Congressman Legare, of South Carolina, - * > -- - * ' ? _ r i one or tnose vest-pocKet eaiuon .Lilliputian Mexican dogs to take home to the children, according to the Philadelphia Telegraph. Mr. Legare was leading the dog along by a cotton string, when a South Carolina mountaineer stopped him. "Are it a reg'lar dog?" the man asked. "Yes, it's a Ch? Well, I can't pronounce the name of it," said Mr. Legare, "but it's some kind of a Mexican dog." "Just a pup, I reckon." "No; it's full grown." "Well," opined the mountaineer, "that's the least dog I ever seen at one time." "Billy Rugh. The heroic death of Billy Rugh, the Gary, Indiana, newsie, who gave up his life in so unusual a manner, calls for a word of comment. A young woman had been severely burned in a motorcycle accident and was in danger of death because not enough skin was available for the necessary grafting operation. Billy Rugh, a cripple from his earliset years, heard of the need. His leg was practically useless. He went to the hospital and suggested that his crippled leg be taken off and the skin used for the injured girl. The doctors warned him that the operation would be dangerous. "Well, use it anyway," he said. "I can't use it except to twine around a crutch. If it will save the girl take it off. Besides," he added, "I'll save money?you know I'll have to buy only one shoe." The leg was taken off; the operation upon the young woman was successful, but Billy Rugh began to sink. A few minutes before he passed away the "newsie" said: "Yes, I'm going. But I was some good to the world, after all." Then he passed with a smile on his lips. There is many a monument of marble or bronze in the world's capitals to commemorate deeds of heroism and heroes not half so great as the deed of Billy Rugh. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Yet Billy Rugh laid down all he had for a stranger. Let us build to him in our gratitude and memeory a white shaft of appreciation for his knightly deed.?N. Y. Sun. Vice President James S. Sherman died at his home in Utica, New York, Wednesday evening at 9:42 o'clock of uraemic poisoning, resulting from Bright's disease. Mr. Sherman had been in declining health for quite a long period, and his death was looked for. His physician says that the end was hastened by overexertion on the occasion of his notification speech, August 21. Mr. Sherman was the 27th vice president of the United States. He was born in Utica, N. Y., October 24, 1855, entered congress when he was about thirty years of age and remained a member or mat body until his election as vice president four years ago. He has been unable to participate in the present campaign because of the condition of his health. were lords of the manor. Hugh Miller tells an amazing story in one of his works of a laborer who used to serve him when he was a working mason. This man claimed to be entitled to an earldom. His claim was admitted by the men with whom he worked at any rate, and it was a usual thing with them, on requiring service, to shout, "John, yearl Crauford, bring us another hod of lime!" ?London Tit-Bite. ?. ? ===jj lough I White Pine I ?the tickling II e. There is 11 Is. Remem- II prepared by II n umpany11 i : J. D. PUTS IN 'PHONES. No "Hello Girl" Needed, as System is Automatic. John D. Rockefeller is having an elaborate telephone system installed in his home at Pocantico Hills, and when it is ready for operation he will be his own "hello boy." The system is intercommunicating, and will have 33 extensions. It was especially designed for Mr. Rockefeller. By pressing a button he can communicate with any room in the house, and his conversations cannot be overheard by the central office, because when he talks he is automatically cut off from the outside world. The 'phones are of special design and fit flush with the wall. Alongside of each 'phone are 33 buttons, and Mr. Rockefeller has simply to? push a button to get the room he desires. The system will save Mr. Rockefeller many steps. If he is in his bed room, library or dining room, and his associates in the Standard Oil want to talk to him he does not have to leave the room. He takes keen delight in watching the installation of the new system, and is anxious to get into his new house to operate his new "hello girlless" telephone system.?N. Y. Tribune. ? Zelig's Slayer Escapes Electric Chair. ________ . New York, Oct. 30.?"Red Phil" Davidson, slayer of "Big Jack" Zelig, the gang leader, will escape the electric chair. At the opening of his trial to-day he withdrew his former plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to second degree murder. The penalty may be life imprisonment. A jury was obtained in record time. Justice Goff then called physicians, who had examined the defendant and on their testimony that he was weak mentally, the plea of second degree murder was accepted. Sentence was deferred. ? It Probably Was. One of the big railroad lines has a regular form for reporting accidents to animals on its line. Recently a cow was killed and the track foreman drew up the report. In answer to the question, "Disposition of car- v . cass?" he wrote: "Kind and gentle." ?Exchange. NOTICE OP OPENING OF BOOKS OP SUBSCRIPTION. By virtue of the authority contained in a certain commission, granted to the undersigned as a board of corporators of the Planters Loan and Exchange Bank, notice is hereby given that books of subscription to the capital stock of said Planters Loan & Exchange Bank will be opened at the office of B. P. Hartzog in the Town of Govan, S. C., on November 10th, 1912, and remain open until the capital stock of said bank is fully subscribed. BAXTER GENOBLE, JOSEPH GUNNELS, B. P. HARTZOG, Board of Corporators.' Govan, S. C., November 1st, 1912. IInewshopII Our shop is now open 9 and we are prepared to 8 do first-class work on 8 short notice. 8 Remember we make a a specialty of horseshoe- a ing. | Our prices are mod- | erate and all work is guaranteed. DELK & COPELAND I EHRHARDT, S. C. i UnBHHHHHUff