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MET WITH UNEXPECTED END. All Nine Lives of Feline Snuffed Out at Once. Thomas K. Cat, household pet emeritus of a family in one o, the better residential districts, is no more. The nine lives of Mr. Cat departed from his earthly clay at 10:3S o'clock Friday morning, death being due to an overdose of chloroform administered with malice aforethought. Thomas K. Car was a bachelor, of 1 ? 2?- J V>Aonf,r ho VL'QC a fa V great Sl?e clliu ucauij, nc ? orite among the members of the opposite sex and spent many a pleasant hour courting various fair felines on the back fences of the neighborhood. With no one to whom he must answer, Mr. Cat stayed out as late as his fancy directed, some nights not even putting in an appearance at the house where he was chief pet. One night about two weeks ago, while calling on a lady friend, Mr. Cat was surprised by another gay Lothario of the cat tribe, whose fancy perchance, had rested on the same feline divinity to whom Mr. Cat was paying homage. In such a case, among felines of the male persuasion, there is only one thing to do. Mr. Cat did. So did the other gay Lothario. Tn the combat which ensued, unmarked by blare of bugle 61 rattling of drum history does not record what happened to Lothario Mr. Cat, however, came home, sans one eye, and suffering from an ap parently severe physical breakdown, superintended by the claws and teeth of his redoubtable adversary. Warm food and kind treatment aided greatly la restoring his physical prowess. But the eye that had guided him through many a dark alley ?5. was darkened forever. Notwithstanding his afflictions and weakened physical condition Mr. Cat continued his pursuit of the fair fel ^ ines of the neighborhood, until the fortunes of war left him looking like Pthe German Uhlans who stormed the forts at Liege. He was a wreck, and his nine candles of life were flickering low\ A family council was finally called, \ Mr. Cat's fate was put to the test and the verdict was "thumbs down." # Various methods of execution were (Jiscussed, among them an axe and a & gun, but chloroform finally secured a majority of the vote present, and it was decreed that Mr. Cat should perish in this manner. A bottle of chloroform, a tin bucket, and an older brother formed a combination against which even nine lives could not prevail.. Th6 chloro-i form was placed on some absorbent cotton, the cotton placed beneath the bucket, and Mr. Cat was started on his last long journey, also be neath the bucket. A few minutes sufficed and at 10:38., eight minutes after he had been placed beneath the "bucket Thomas K. Cat was officially adjudged to have kicked the bucket and his nine cat souls had wended their weary way to the cat's happy hunting grounds. Interment was private.?Greenville Piedmont. 1 Alcohol and . Pneumonia. The United' States public., health service brands strong drink as the . most efficient ally of pneumonia. It ; *! declares that alcohol is the hand| < maiden of the disease which produces ten per cent, of the deaths in the United States. This is no exaggerafiE tion. We have known for a long time that indulgence in alcoholic lij : quors lowers the individual vitality, and that tbfe man who drinks is peculiarly susceptible to pneumonia. The United States public health service is a conservative body. It does not engage in alarmist propaganda. v In following out the line of its official duties it has brought forcefully to the general public a fact which will bear endless repetition. The c?r. ^ liberal and continuous user of alcoholic drinks will do well to heed this warning, particularly at this season of the year when the gruesome death toll from pneumonia is being doubled. m ?: : The Final Advantage. Mayor Thompson, of Chicago, was talking at a dinner about the monstrous parades for and against Sunday closing that have been thrilling the Windy City, relates the Phila delphia Record. "The.Sunday closing law is now being enforced by us," he said. "But can we keep it up? We have the ad( vantage but to make our advantage permanent we must work very hard. Otherwise our opponents will be in the position of the bachelor at the Christmas ball?down and out at first, but victorious in the long run. "This bachelor, tall and lean and distinguished-looking, approached a fat man and held out his hand. " 'Hello, Smith!' he said cordially. ' 'How glad I am to see you. It's seventeen years since?' "But Smith frowned and said in a worried, cold voice: '' 'Paor norHnii Vnn have tho ad f Ml UV11* X VU **M. ? V/ V*A V/ vantage of me.' "VYes, I know I have,' said the strahger. 'That's why I'm so pleased. "We were rivals for Minnie Madden's hand?don't you remember??and she rejected me and married you.' " BONES OF WAR VICTIM. I'enarth Relic of Sherman's Visit at University of South Carolina. Wednesday as workmen were excavating in the northeastern corner of the campus of the University of South Carolina, just inside the wall, they came upon a skeleton far advanced in decomposition. Prof. E. L. Green, of the University faculty, who is an authority on the history of the university, says that there is no doubt that the bones belong to one - ' * ' J fliir. r-AOtl An Ot 1116 corpses uuneu 111 imo of the campus just after the burning of Columbia by Gen. Sherman. A little pamphlet published in Columbia in 1895 by William A. Nicholson, of Union, gives a graphic account of the burial of Confederate wounded who had died at the hospital which the college buildings then formed. He says: "The duty devolved upon me to make preparation for the burial of the dead that had been accumulating since the occupation of the city on the 17th. I found, on examination, 17 corpses. It was impossible to procure planks to make coffins, and it was with the greatest difficulty I was able to get a trench dug to bury them in. There was no white help I could call upon, and the negroes were defiant and insolent and refused to aid in digging the graves. I was, under the circumstances, compelled to use arbitrary measures. I selected a few of the hospital attendants, armed them with muskets and went into the city and impressed such able bodied help as we met and marched them to the field in the rear of the president's house in the university campus and had a trench dug SUIIlCieiil iu iaj oiuc uj oiuv n?vwv 17 men. As I stated, I was unable to procure planks or nails; all I was able to do for them was to wrap their precious forms up in a sheet, and wherever it was possible for me to learn their names, I would mark the grave, or rather the position they occupied in the trench, with such material as I could get, in order that their friends might remove them, ii they desired. "The day following I was compelled to go through a like experience and tfury 11 more. It was while engaged in this duty that an unpleasant incident occurred. One of the negroes employed in .digging the trench took a pistol from his pocket and commenced firing and using very strong and defiant language. .1 asked him to desist, as the occasion was % too solemn a one to be engaging in such boisterous conduct, even if he meant no harm. I asked him to give me his pistol. This he refused to do, I was equally determined that he had to show more respect to the dead then lying in their shrouds. I called on one of the guards to take the pis tol from him, but when he saw the guard reach for his gun he ran like a horse through a gateway in the rear of the president's house and down the middle of the campus and the guard after him. He refused to halt, and was likely to get the better of the race. The guard, equally determined to teach him a lesson, took aim, fired and brought him down. I hurried to the spot and found he was wounded in the arm. He was removed to a building in the rear of Prof. Reynolds' house in the campus. I informed Dr. Thomson of the occurrence, who went at once to see him and gave his wound prompt and careful treatment. While we deeply regretted tne wounding 01 uie man, the incident had a very salutary effect. "On the day following we buried seven. One of this number was a most worthy female attendant, a widow, leaving two helpless children. I had in a manner become accustomed to sad sights, but when I realized that it wrould be my painful duty to consign her uncoffined to the grave, I felt then the terrible horrors of war. We laid her away in a grave by herself. If ever genuine tears of sorrow w^ere shed it was over the grave of this poor woman. Her children were not present and I have no ground for thinking that they ever knew where their mother was buried. As matters began to settle down, those that died later on were decently interred. Tt was my melancholy 1 duty from the time the city was destroyed up to the time of my leaving for home, in June, to bury no less than 75 persons. I doubt if there is one person in Columbia today who knows that such a number of Confederate dead lie at the place described. But a few months ago I visited the place in company with Dr. Woodrow, pointing out the place. "I learn with much pleasure, since writing the foregoing, that the dead buried at the back of the college building have been removed and interred in the Elmwood cemetery." The buildings of the South Caro1 - ? ~ +oL-cn hv Port 1 111 Cl lUUCge n CI C WW w - ? federate government June 25, 1862, and used by them a-s a hospital until the close of the war. Dr. LaBorde, chairman of the faculty, reported at the close c^ 1862 that already more than 2,000 wounded Confederates had been treated. The present gym HUMOR IX ADS. Jjj Unconscious "Bulls" Made by Advertisers in Knglisli Papers. The following examples of more or less authentic classified advertisements, says Printer's Ink, are taken e. from the Christmas number of the La Advertisers' Weekly (London): be< The late Hugh Stowel Brown, of J1?1 Liverpool, a man of extraordinary girth and appetite, tells us in his do autobiography that going to Wigan cei A f to preach he found the following ^ mural advertisement, due to the lrftAnnopf f inlrin cr rivalrv lor 1 Brown, who died last summer 011 a 1 new and improved plan." I Postmaster at Allendale. , Washington, March 2.?J. E. Sear- B j son was today recommended by Representative Byrnes as postmaster at Allendale, to succeed his father, who g died recently. j. g Read The Herald, $1.50 per year. ^ ' nasium contained 300 beds. When ! Sherman entered Columbia the yel-j low hospital flag flying over the col-1 F< lege buildings saved them; they als so held federal wounded. iiK'ilniiiiiiji 'ill | K 13 : FASHION,! to Fiction McCall's is Supreme," I [ writes a New York subscriber. I I oMvC^AM00h00P0 fpOL^ffiNEj I women urcss m j i h style at small ex- j j / \ l B pense. A recog- j / f^ij |i/jlj3 x ' I nized Fashion ,J \ 1 11 H Authority for 45 j!< j I E years* \ J\ I McCALL PAT- I I TERNS lead in | style, fit, simplic- ; j 7 B ity, economy and iL? ^ ^ number sold. ****35" _ McC ALL'S?84 to 118 pag'S monthly?is the ?p Fashion Guide and Housek- eping Helper of more women than any other magazin e in the world. All the latest styles every month; also delightful stories; sp'thal departm nt.- ? in cooking, home dressm king, fancy w<>rk, Ar and ways to ligh en ho st-work and save wl money. Price: only 5c a copy, 50c a year. pr SEND FOUR ( 10c Fancy-Work Book q. 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The 9] full treatment not only helped wA 9 me, but it cured me." 7M I TAKE ll " I Pardiii E SB uui uui ri The Woman's Tonic uj [ Cardui helps women in time A j of greatest need, because it 91 contains ingredients which act VJ specifically, yet gently, on the jl cl weakened womanly organs. Pi G So, if you feel discouraged, K| w blue, out-of-sorts. unable to El ** do your household work, on L J Bi A account of your condition, stop Mi ? E worrying and give Cardui a 191 J. E trial. It has helped thousands IJ J ' E of women,?why not you ? L9J | P| Try Cardui. E-71 IM | i i ?Jtk?? IIOOO i win * * * w*.. - . iui <<TTn<vU Of Dr ATi*n nf T nrQr- SP1 n Ugli Oiunic iJl V"11, \J 1 1^1*^1 pool, the largest cheese in the world, ^ eight feet in girth and weighing 300 jn, pounds, will he' ^exhibited at the cid Goose and Gridiron. Admission 1 dit penny." A chiropodist announces that he rc has removed corns from the crown- on ed heads of Europe. w* Rr An employer of labor concludes his ne advertisement for assistants with the m? significant nota bene: "None need apply who are in the habit of being poorly on Monday , mornings." thj "Two sisters want washing," ran an advertisement for several weeks, T until some one wrote and asked why ! in the name of decency they didn't [ get washed at once. L An advertiser says he has a cot- *** ! tage to let containing eight rooms and an acre of land. Co And a business woman in the siz 1 country, who evidently knows more about managing a hotel than she th< knows about the English language, inj 1 announces: be "This hotel will be kept by the;ce! , sa. widow of the former landlord, Mr. I jsband and Wife Both Saved From Suffering I wish to tell you the good results self and husband received from Dr. liner's Swamp-Root. About eleven ars ago I had a severe attack of Grippe and was confined to my i about eight weeks under the dock's care. He pronounced my case Iney trouble and rheumatism and t receiving the results from the ctor's treatment I should have reved, I decided to try Swamp-Root, ter taking several bottles of amp-Root I was able to get up and end to my work. About a year er my husband was affected with a ;ere attack of kidney trouble and ctored for some time with the doc's and received no benefit. Know? of the good I had received, he de led to try Swamp-Root. His conion was such that he was confined his bed and words cannot tell howsuffered, but after taking Swamptot he was relieved so he could go with his work without pain. I sh to heartily recommend Swamp?ot to all persons afflicted with kidy and bladder troubles and you iv publish this letter if you wish. Yours truly, MRS. A. E. BRIGGS, Eldred, Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me, Is 2r,th day of May, 1912. IRA MCCARTHY, Notary Public. Letter to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham ton, N. Y. ove What Swamp-Root Will lki For You Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & i., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample ;e bottle. It will convince anyone. >u will also receive a booklet of luable information, telling about e kidneys and bladder. When writbe sure and mention the Bamrg Weekly Herald. Regular fiftynt and 'one-dollar size bottles for le at all drug stores. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY LNnlNtS AND BOILERS law, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injecors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood laws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Selting, Gasoline Engines RQE5TOCK LOMBARD jundry, Machine, Boiler Works ipply Store. AUGUSTA, GA. Best material and workmanship, light running, requires little power; simple, easy to handle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial money-making machines down to the smallest size. Write for catolog showing Engines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. LOMBARD IRON WORKS & m SUPPLY CO. I Augusta, Ga. 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Wi 1 the following notice Tuesd Blank Books have advance* cent'" We've a full line at the 5 herald book store, Mail Orders Solicited . property of $229,- < 00,000 in le differ3 to the ir home, rein rep,o be unfhe rates afford to em. Do )eposits. ^ hb mam mrnam mmm ANK. I . uth Carolina S n.iw.i?- M|| THE 1 jd Ik/dent I mk MAN" H mows V it is m /sDi/ry TO BANK ~ VEYFOFH/S WIFE AND '.H/LDREN i : to protect your . want? 1 bank comdepsits .< * * - :-v ^ its Bank >ut rr 3ank i> i ^ c r< IXlllJUC.'};, C7> v_ . H in-Ill K e received lay: "All d 25 per j old price. BAMBERG, S. C. i %