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(Ehf lambrrg iirralb KSTABHSHKD APRIL, 1891. A. W. KXIGHT, Editor^ Published every Thursday in Th( Herald building, on Main street, iE the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcocl cylinder press, folder, one jobber, 2 fine Miehle cylinder press, all run bj electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; six months, 75 cents; three months 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per incl for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad vertisements at the rates anowea dj law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under specia! head, 1 cent a word each insertion, Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Write for rates Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all no, tices of a personal or political character are charged for bs regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or thoss pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory 01 offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, January 9, 1913. HENRY JASPER BRABHAM. January 2nd, 1912, one year ago, H. J. Brabham was called from a life of labor to one of rest. He lived the life of a patriot, a Christian, and . . a gentleman. There never lived a more unselfish man than he nor none who gave more time, money, and effort for the best interests of his town and county and the people with whom he came in contact. Surely a great reward must be his! The writer never had a better friend, and we miss him every day and all the time. The memory of his words of kindness and acts of unselfishness and helpfulness remain with many of us, and while we no longer see his familiar figure, we remember him as . one who loved his fellow-man. -* ?-* v A split log dr^g used on every road in the county will be of untold benefit and the cost will be little. ' , The merchants of Bamberg can extend their trading territory by means of the parcels post if they will. The people of Bamberg should inm;. vestigate the parcels post rates now operative. The postmaster and clerks will be pleased to give all in* " formation. The rates are much cheaper tna-n iormer express rates. The parcel post rates apply to merchandise only. "A Deadly Weapon." Following a long list of automobile casualties in Chicago recently, Judge Gemmill reflected public indignation by fining a speeder who had injured a young girl the sum of $1,000, on the ground that there had been an assault "with a deadly weapon." The v judge declares that an automobile, when driven beyond the speed limit, is a deadly weapon. He declares that no driver can possibly be in doubt of the danger inherent in passing at high speed through crowded streets. Anything is a dangerous weapon if used in a dangerous way. A motor car traveling forty miles the hour through a city's streets, most men will agree, is a very dangerous weapon?a deadly weapon, in fact. The situation in this town is not so bad as it was. There is less racing on the streets than there used to be. There is nevertheless much room for improvement. Breaking the speed laws should be punished by an extremely heavy tine. To exact a penalty of ten dollars is merely to invite the offence. The man who shoots a revolver at random in the streets is generally regarded as a dangerous person. His punishment is not light. Yet a great motor car, when driven at high speed within the city limits, may be a far more deadly and dangerous thing.?News and Courier. Stirs New England Town. The arrest of several business men in the town of Mystic, Conn., on charges involving moral turpitude has aroused the entire community. Two men committed suicide rather than face court proceedings. Five of the men arrested are over 60 years of age. When the officers went to arrest Herman Haulisch, a storekeeper, he asked permission to feed his horse in the barn. While there he dived out of an upper window and broke his neck. Another man, Edward Williams, aged 78, for whom prosecutor Hewitt said he had a warrant, was found hanging in his dining room. All the arrested men gave heavy bonds for trial in the superior court. More arrests are expected. v ASSAULTED LITTLE ORPHAN? . Former Methodist Pastor Arrested IJ for Alleged Crime in Florida. Owensboro, Ky., Jan. 1.?Henry j C. Hoffman, formerly a Methodist s< l minister and head of an orphanage e: * home at De Land, Florida, is under f( ' arrest here charged with criminally u [ assaulting an eight year old girl, an a i inmate of the institution. The war- e; ' rant for his arrest was mailed from d 5 Land. ir Hoffman, who has made his home h here since September, is 59 years old, d ' and married. Since coming to Owens- I gi [ boro he has organized a band of holy tl rollers. e' 1 Hoffman said he would return to ? Florida without requistion papers, ir r He declared he was innocent and that p 5 the charges were the result of spite p | work. tl a Other Girls Outraged. Tampa. Jan. 1.?A dispatch to the tl Times from De Land says: "Henry h . C. Hoffman, arrested to-day at tc Owensboro, Ky., is charged with tc ! criminal assault upon a 10-year-old w girl inmate of the orphanage at En- bl i terprise, Fla. He is also charged lc ( with three other girls of the institu- tl tion ranging in age from fourteen to k' , sixteen years, of having illicit inter- tl ' course with them. The rumors of il- tl | licit relations with the children be! came general and he was discharged ei by the trustees of the institution. It v< : was later reported he had gone to k: Germany. The man is well connect- di r ed in this State." d< w Order in Tillman Case. hi fc Columbia, Jan. 6.?The supreme p court this afternoon tiled an oraer m a. J the Tillman children case designating j what times of the year the mother is m to have the custody of the children and what time the father is to have them. The children are to be with their father in the months of July and August, from December 26 to January 2, and one week in April. W During the time they are with their mother they are to be permitted to see their father every other Saturday, and during the time they are fii with their father they are to be per- e^ mitted to see their mother every oth- il er Saturday. The question of sup- F port is not passed on. c? The following is the order in full: "B. R. Tillman, Jr., petioner, vs e< Mrs. Lucy Dugas Tillman, alias Mrs. st Lucy Dugas, respondent. Per curiam ti order: The parties to this contro- ai versy being unable to agree as to the details referred to in the order dated sc December 9, 1912, the court orders oi as follows: w "The children, Douschka Pickens Tillman and Sarah Stark Tillman, are si to be in the custody of their father, ai B. R. Tillman, Jr., every year during th the months of July and August, sub- tt ject to the right of che mother to have them at all times when ill. They pi are to go to their father every year qs on December 26 and remain until p< January 2, following, and to spend bi with him any week in April of every w year that the mother may duly in- A dicate to him as most convenient. la "The children are 'o spend every \\ other Saturday with their father when in their mother's custody and th with their mother when in their b( father's custody in July and August, di The duty is imposed on the mother ec to provide that the father shall have v reasonable access to the children in pc case of serious illness. The children 1' may be taken temporarily out of the ai State by either parent for their 'th health or pleasure, but the undertak- C! ing to the State of South Carolina, Li mentioned in the former order, shall provide that they shall not be removed permanently from the State, and that they shall at all times be subject to the order of this court. "The court adjudges nothing as to /l the duty of the father to support the 111 children, because that question is not S( before it in this proceeding, and because there is no evidence that the 10 father has refused to support them. oC "Eugene B. Gary, C. J.; C. A. er Woods, A. J.; D. E. Hydrick, A. J.; bl R. C.' Watts, A. J.; T. B. Frazer, fa A. J." t0 tl Officers Drinks for a Living. d( di Uncle Sam's expert "taster." a man whose sense of taste is so keen w that he can detect a drop of sherry tl wine in an egg flip, arrived in Spar- fa tanburg yesterday and visited all ei the soda fountains and drank egg ti: flips to his heart's content. In all Si establishments where flips are serv- g? ed with sherry the "taster" required the proprietor to pay a revenue li- rc cense of $25, the regular amount as the government charges for selling in spirituous liquors. st The United -States revenue depart- j tr i ment has a large number of men who i n< go about the country visiting soda in fountains for the purpose of ascer- T taining whether they flavor drinks of w l-i.. J ? * * Vs AVX1- ti'iriA any ki 11 u \\ i in shcj i > w juc ?* any are detected the proprietors are al required to take out a revenue li- w cense. Several local druggists yester- cc day were asked to come across.? pc Spartanburg Herald. fa FOUND WOUNDED IN STORE. a I'll well County Merchant Taken to S< Columbia?No Clue. Columbia, Jan. 5.?Mi*. Hankin3n, who conducts a store at Walk- h; r's station, in Barnwell county, was fc )und last night in his store lying sc nconscious on the floor. Examin- R tion revealed wounds in his head, h< ye and the back of his neck, evi- 01 ently inflicted with a blunt instrulent. The work was evidently the of andiwork of robbers, for the cash p< rawer in the store was rifled and ac oods scattered around, indicating w lat the robbers had been moving tre verything looking for money. Mr. lankinson was brought here this gc lorning and taken to a local hos- ol ital and his wounds dressed. Re- 01 orts from his bedside to-night were ai lat he was still unconscious and in is critical condition. E No clue was obtained to the au- w lor of the deed last night, and none ta ad been obtained, so far as reports ) this office are concerned, up till di )-night. It is said that two negroes X ere suspected of the crime, and xi loodhounds placed on the trail fol- ca >wed it for some distance, but lost to le scent. A steady mint is oemg sc ept up and it is hoped soon to have m le ones responsible for the deed in le custody of the law. R Walker's station is on the South- rt rn Railway, near Barnwell, and T1 ary few people live there. Mr. Han- fr inson conducted a store there, and gi id a prosperous business, and evi- ti ently the marauders figured he hi ould have a good deal of cash on and on Saturday night, and, ther- th >re, picked that time for their raid, ki rom the appearance of things Tl ound the store, it is- thought that se le parties responsible were fa- ul liliar with Mr. Hankinson's move- ri; ents and arranged their actions ac- in irdingly. " H ?- fr DEVIL TAVERN STILL EXISTS. he ar ras Favorite Resort of Ben Jonson sn and Shad well. Af + nroeont timp it WOllld be dif- ^ nt LI1V/ VWVMV V *v - ? _ GI cult to discover a London tavern , fr rer called by the name of "The DevBut in the eighteenth century 1 leet street, still in existence, was so i. ^ m tiled. ^ "The Devil's Tavern," was so calli owing to the proximity of St. Dun- ^ an's church and the fond recollecal on of an interlude between the saint ad the Evil One. be This was Ben Jonson's favorite re>rt and here he presided over a club t* which he was the founder. He rote once: IT1 "The first speech in my 'Catiline,' . >oken to Scylla's ghost, was writ Iter I had parted with my friends at < le Devil Tavern; I had drank well ar tat night and had brave notions." It was also the resort of Shadwell, ^ llorized as Og by Dryden in his "Ab3.1] dom" and "Architophel." Here the ^ aets laureate used to rehearse their irthdav odes, so carefully written pe ith the minimum of emotion in the ugustan style, and here Killigrew id one of the scenes in his "Parson's a? 'edding." Swift, in his "Journal to Stella," ie human document of a passionate r I ling, mentions dining here with Adson and Garth. Pope has embalm1 it in the amber of his classic .. th irse. Here Goldsmith, in his prosmi irous hours, played at cards, and in sl< f 51 Dr. Jonson assembled his merry ,, th id almost famous party to celebrate le publication of the delightful .Mrs. barlotte Lennox's first novel, "The v.*. ife of Harriet Stuart." . _ w J An Involuntary Bridegroom. su On the old Rosebud Indian reser- ci* ition in South Dakota they still th ugh over the peculiar predicament to which a new Indian agent once )t himself. 1S The agent, an unqualified "tenderot," was inspecting an ' Indian sij hool. Noticing tjiat as soon as he m itered the room every girl present m< ought her hair forward over her ce he asked the teacher to tell them th i throw it back so that he might see Tl leir faces. But this they refused to Os until aftpr mnrh ursrine. one eirl fe; d finally uncover her face. tl< After school was over the agent ondered at the strange actions of w< ie girl who had shown him her ha .ce. She followed him to his house, ea itered after him and set about getng his dinner. As he spoke no 011 oux and she no English he could br it no explanation from her. le! Finally, to his relief, the teacher dc )de up. Shaking with laughter, he R1 iked the agent how he liked his su aw wife! Then the latter underood what he had done. In certain 00 ibes of the Sioux Indian all a man ?ed do in order to get a wife is to duce a girl to uncover her face, he agent had proposed in the usual wl ay?and been accepted. go In vain did the agent plead that he cii ready had a wife in the East; there te as only one way to get out of it. It of )st him the equivalent of fourteen sli )nies to persuade the Indian girl's ly ither to take her back again. bu GENERAL JACK FROST. Drne of the Remarkable Parts He g Has Played in the Big Wars. It is eighteen years since we had a ard winter. There has not been a 9| irtnight's skating on end in the )uth of England since 1894-5. ^ ain, fog, gloom, sometimes a halfaarted attempt at snow have been ^ ar winters ever since. Weather experts declare that an- ^ :her big cold snap is due, and they aint to 1879, when a summer ex- g, ;tly like the deplorable one of 1912 as followed by weeks on end of bit- w ;r frost and whirling snowdrifts. ^ If it comes?if the year 1912 is ^ )ing to renew the old-time tradition ^ t hard winters?it will add just ai le more to a long train of really nazing coincidences. For the fact ,, that there has hardly been a ^ uropean war on a big scale in hich General Jack Frost has not .ken a hand. , Hi Go back a century. Eighteen hun*ed and twelve was the year when ol apoleon made up his mind to inide Russia. Before starting he was ireful to inquire of the experts as j what date winter usually set in in uthern Russia. They told him the a iddle of December. It was on June 24 that he invaded ^ ussia with 600,000 men, and he al cached Moscow on September 14. hat night fire broke out and within re days the city was burned to the -ound. Even then he remained un1 October IS before commencing s retreat. ^ In the last week of October began te worst. frost which Europe had ^ si lown for three generations. The hames froze from its source to the a. The Seine, the Rhine, the Dan- m je were all ice-bound. On the Ad- f atic, off Venice, was seen the amaz- 1D g sight of floating ice floes.- The ec ellespont and the Dardanelles were ozen. Jack Frost's icy fingers lay iavy upon North Africa. Drift ice >peared in the Nile, and there were iow storms in Tripoli and Morocco. cc A As for Napoleon's huge army, it as almost wiped out. Four hun- le ed thousand men perished. They. m oze to death in batallions as they ivouacked and when at last, on us ecember 6, Napoleon reached Ger- ? an soil, out of his whole vast host ni it 130,000 men were left alive. ?* During the winter of 1853-4 the irks were battling for dear life T f r ong the Danube against hordes of ussians. In the following Septem- fo tr 25,000 British troops, a similar imber of French and 8,000 Turks te ere landed in the Crimea. Again came a terrible winter, and r om the west of Ireland right across ec to Asia, frost fell heavy on land Ld sea. In London it froze for six eeks without a break. From Janu- * y 14 to February 24 the thermom- P* er was below freezing every night, the Crimea the cold was fearful fo /N ? id our army, disgracefully catered U1 r, suffered horribly. In all we lost ** ),056 men, and of these only 12 d( >r cent, fell in battle. The rest c* *re defeated by cold and disease, *** ;gravated by a rotten commissariat. In 1870 came the biggest war of m e latter half of the nineteenth cen- gr ry, the titanic conflict between st *ance and Germany. By October 29 ere were 850,700 German troops in *ance, Paris was beseiged, and tr ere began the four months invest- ^i ent, with furious fighting on both "J ies. Again Jack Frost came to tr e aid of the Germans. A long spell cc intense cold made life almost im- *n ssibie for the half-starved French, hile the Germans, who had the ~ liole country to draw on, beside J eir own excellent commissariat, ffered very little. By January, the :y was in such a terrible condition at it surrendered. The date of the last great war in lich Turkey was engaged was 177. The Turks were attacked by . enormously superior force of Rusins, with the czar himself in comand. Osman Pasha, with 40,000 en, hurried inland to Plevna, a vilge which stood upon a hill, and ere hastily entrenched himself, le Russians had 100,000 men, but i >man and his dauntless band de- * ated them in four successive bat;s. In November winter set in three jeks earlier than usual. The Turks id no winter clothing and little to t but maize-porridge and horsesh. The suffered fearfully. At last l December 9, they determined to eak out. There were only 30,000 | ft, but their rush was so tremen- *' us that they carried three lines of _ tissian trenches before they were * rrounded, and forced by enormoussuperior numbers to surrender unnditionally.?London Answers. . . P Thanks, Brother, Thanks: Postmaster Knight, of Bamberg, 10 makes a good official, being a >od, staunch Democrat, will have a ? ich on his office for a good long rm. We are glad of it, as it is not ten that a newspaper man gets a ce of pie, and Brother Knight richdeserves all he will get.?Orangeirg Times and Democrat. 2 THROUGH AFRICA OX FOOT. xperiences of a Settler Who Completed a Walk of 5,000 Miles. Emil Lund, a Rhodesian settler of 6, has just completed a walk from apetown to Cairo, not in fulfillment : a wager, or to test a system of diet training, but simply from the love : adventure. He has been a soldier id scout since he was 17, serving in le second Matabele campaign in 893, the Uganda rebellion of 1897E) and the South African war. T-T<a oturtoH frr?m Psnptown and alked, all alone, right through the ape Province and the Transvaal to hodesia. Thence he continued on irough the Congo State, the Sudan id Nubian desert to Egypt, a distnce of 5,000 miles as the crow ies. "My wish," he said, in telling le story of his great walk, "was nrply to be the first man to accomlish the feat. I am proudest of aving walked across the Nubian ssert. That was the hardest work i all." Until he left El'zabe'thville, i the Belgian Congo, he had a comarativelv easy time, for he could itain supplies, good food and good ater, but beyond that point he had very trying time. He had no port's, carrying all his own impedifents, weighing 7 0 pounds. This one is no mean task in a tropical id wild country. But he could get i natives to accompany him owing > tribal hostilities being in progress. During most of the time Mr. Lund as obliged to be a vegetarian, but 3 always had meat when he could 3t it. "Sometimes," he said, "I lot a buck, but I could only eat the ver, which I broiled in the ashes of ly fire. Having no salt, I cannot ty that I enjoyed my food. In pass.g through the great forests I camp1 on the ground, lighting a large re to keep off the wild animals. I id to be very carerui to Keep mis Ding throughout the night. At early iwn I renewed my march, tramping mtinuously until about 11 o'clock, fter that I used to hunt around, colct wood and cook my own dailj* eal. Then I slept 'till sundown, ions and other carnivora do not sually attack in the heat of the day -they are asleep, and it is only when ght falls that they set out in search ! prey." He met with a good many ons, but was never attacked by one he idea that water will protect one om a lion is, he says, erroneous, ?r lions are excellent swimmers. In the Katanga district he was bitn by a black mamba snake, and ould probably have died, but he ached a native kraal and was treatl by a woman, who applied a decocon of herbs to the wound and cured m. She steadfastly refused to say hat herbs she used or how she preired them. From Albertville the traveler made r Lake Albert, and here he had one his most unpleasant experiences, e came across a powerful tribe univ the command of a very suspicious lief, who, before he would listen to m, put him through the "ordeal of rt. " This consists of eating a outhful of dirt picked up from the ound. In the native mind this conitutes a form of oath, and it is bejved that any one who undergoes ?--"? J J ~ 16 oraeai ana aoes nut s>peai\ mc uth will be condemned to an eternal et of dirt. The ordeal is called ikola donga." One of the worst oubles with which Mr. Lund had to intend was the venomous flies and sects which swarm in tropical Af:a. He was bitten near the eye by // It is free?it tells ocal and long dista ice in your home ai Send for it today. ^ hone Manager, or FARMERS' LINE SOUTHERN BELL Tl LND TELEGRAPH ( S. PRYOR STREET a certain kind of malicious tick, and for a time was nearly blind. If he had not shortly afterward reached Ft. Portal and obtained medical 9j^H treatment he would probably have lost the sight of at least one eyei , A little further in the course of h*s walk he fell in with the Baluba * and Valessi cannibals. When they have a cannibal feast the victim is usually a man accused of some crime. In such case the man is offered a draught of a poisonous decoction. If he takes a long drink the poison is inoperative, producing merely nausea. But if from timidity or guilt, he drinks but a small portion, the ? * effect is almost immediately fatal. Women are excluded from these feasts. |\^ Making a wide detour of Lake-Al bert, Mr. .Luna eventually arrived on the Nile, which he followed to Abu Hamed and .then struck across the a Nubian desert and came to the Nile 4 f | again at Wady Haifa. There are but two wells on the route across the desert and he had to carry with him three days' food and water supply. But he safely crossed the desert and. reached Khartum, where he went in-, to a hospital, to patch himself up for the last stage of his journey, which he completed without furthef mishap.?Cape Town cor. London Telegraph. 4 FOR NEW COURT HOUSE. Bill May be Introduced for Orangeburg County. Orangeburg, Jan. 2.?It<s reported in this city that a member of the general assembly from Orangeburg rrrnntv will introdnop a hill at. thp next session of the legislature .providing for a $100,000 court house for Orangeburg county. Such a building is badly needed, as all of the offices are too small and a number of county officers have to rent offices elsewhere. Although the local court house was in years gone by one of the best in the State, it is now too small and not as good as a county like Orangeburg should have. Just how the bill will fare in the legisla-. ture is anxiously awaited in this county by the citizens generally. . Deputy Wounded by Farmer. Mullins, Jan. 6.?James Fowler, deputy for Magistrate Harrellson; was" shot this afternoon about 1 o clock by Bob Smalls, a white tenant on James Norton's farm, near Mullins. < Mr. Fowler went to Smalls's ; house to serve a distress warrant As soon as he made known his business, Smalls, it is alleged, ordered him off. Deputy Fowler replied that / > he was armed with the law and that he had come for the purpose of closing the business. Small went into his house and returned with his shot* gun and fired. The load of No. 6 shot entered Mr. Fowler's right leg above the groin, inflicting what the doctors fear may prove a dangerous wound. The wounded man was car- ' ried to the hospital at Florence to. < night for treatment. \ At dark Smalls had not been cap- ' tured. / FORD AUTOMOBILES. ' A few weeks ago I closed a con-, tract to sell Ford cars in Bamberg county. I have placed an order for six machines, for immediate shipment, two touring cars and fpur,runabouts. These cars will arrive soon, and I will be glad to confer with those wanting an automobile that -* will give satisfaction. Ask the Ford owners how they like it. There are plenty of them in Bamberg. C. F. RIZER, Olar, S. C. < ' r A ' } Postal Brings This $ Book ;; >,i \ ? how you can have . nee telephone sert very small cost Write nearest Bell Tele" DEPARTMENT XEPHONE COMPANY QJ&B ATLANTA, GA. f * % ???????i? ... 'If-v?i / \ ' ,;v % '> c&iJ