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lamhmj Ifrralfc ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Thursday, January 18,1917. A good roads association has been organized for the county, and we hope that it will result in much improvement for the road~ of the county. Some mighty good arguments were made at the good roads meeting in favor of a good system of highways. Now, we would suggest that it would be a good thing to get the actual work started, that the association call for Volunteers to put in, say a day or two days, in work on some road of the county. As the Hunter's Chapel road is in mighty bad condition, this would be a good road to work on. This plan has been carried out in other places with fine results, and we see no reason why it cannot be done in Bamberg county. It is to the interest of every member of the good roads association, and the public generally, to get a good road to Hunter's Chapel, and to every other section, for that matter, but a start must be made on some road, and it is a fact that traffic is being directed away from Bamberg because of the condition of this road. If several hundred men would volunteer to put i- ?uc? A in even one aay s worn, uus iuou could be put into good condition in a remarkably short time. "I AM A UNION MAN." How Andy Johnson Dominated an Angry Virginia Mob. It was some time after dark when we arrived at Lynchburg, Va., where the largest crowd we had yet seen , was waiting for the train. Many of the men bore torches, but they were not cheering for Wigfall; they seemed to be in an ugly humor about something. Suddenly there were cries of " Hang the traitor! Here is a rope! Bring him out!" as the maddened mob fairly swirled about the car. A man burst through the door, rushed up the aisle to where I was seated, and, leaning over me, said to my neighbor, "Are you Andy Johnson?" "I am Mr. Johnson," replied the stout gentleman. "Well," said the stranger, "I want to pull your nose!" and he made a grab for Mr. Johnson's face. The latter brushed the man's hand aside, at the same time jumping to his feet. There followed a scuffle for a few seconds, and poor little me, being between the combatants, got much the worst of it; I was unpleasantly jostled. The crime for which they wanted to lynch Mr. Johnson was the fact that he was reported to be on his way to Tennessee for the purpose of preventing that State from seceding. Mr. Wigfall came up to Mr. Johnson and asked him to go out on the platform with him. Wigfall at once adj j xt ?~~ J ~ a 4.^1 uresseu tut? uiuu a,uu uigeu mem give Mr. Johnson a hearing, which they did. The latter commenced his speech by saying, "I am a Union man!" and he talked to them until the train moved off, holding their attention as though they were spellbound. His last words were, "I am a Union man!"?and the last cry we heard from the crowd was, "Hang him!" On relating the foregoing incident to Mr. George A. Trenholm, then secretary of the Confederate treasury, I expressed the opinion that it was one of the greatest exhibitions of courage I had ever witnessed; but Mr. Trenholm cast a damper on my oufhuciocm Kv co vir>cr 4 4 A T tt onn T vutuuoiuoui ou; uijj, .uj i have known Mr. Johnson since we were young men. He rod? into prominence on1 the shoulders of just such a mob as you saw at Lynchburg, , and no man knows how to handle such a crowd better than Mr. Johnson. Had he weakened, they probably would have hung him."?James Morris Morgan, in the January Atlantic. Where He Got It. He was a witness in a case in the police court. "What is your name?" inquired Prosecutor Robinson. "Mah name?" from the darky in CI CUUIUUM^ . "Well, sah, mah name is Hallowed Hopkins," answered the negro. "Hallowed?Hallowed!" gasped the judge. "Where did you get that name?" "Frum mah maw," answered the negro. "It am from de Scriptures." "From the Scriptures? What part of the Scriptures?" "Doan' you r'membah, judge, wheah it says, 'Hallowed by thy name?' " The judge recalled the passage. Nothing Intentional. "Dear me, these Boston streets seem to get more mixed up every time I come." "Sorry, mum," said the polite patrolman, "I assure you we don't shuffle 'em."?Louisville CourierJournal. PONTARLIER SPY STRAINER. I Rorder Si>ot Where Grim Guards Have Niches in Their Guns. The tightest spy strainer in all Europe is at Pontarlier. on the French border of Switzerland. They can sicken your soul, those dozen Frenchmen at Pontarlier. They've got niches in their guns. They have caught spies, who have been shot, and they are trying to catch more. "It's a matter of life and death here," explained, in a half-heated apology, a whiskered French officer who had once lived in Cleveland, Ohio. "We are constantly seiuuug our spies into Germany by this route, and the Germans are always trying to get their spies into France through this station. We're out for blood here." But he didn't render this explanation until I had been put through a 24-hour grilling. I wonder if the pretty little American woman with the red silk knitted sweater is still worrying her heart out in the Hotel des Postes at Pontarlier, where the French had held her three weeks on suspicion. I wonder what her name was. Wonder if she is still alive. She, in her red sweater, is one of the war pictures burned most deeply into my mind . . . There were deep black rings under her eyes. The matron of th> little hotel told me she had not eaten for ten days. "I don't want to talk to you," she said to me. "I don't want tnem to tnmK tnat 1 snuw you re not a spy?" "But your name? I'll tell the American consul at Paris that you are held here. I'm a newspaper man from New York." "How do I know that? I don't want to be seen talking to you. This hotel is full of spies." She returned to her room and I never saw her again. There were 15 persons being held in that little hotel, men and women of misty nationality who had tried to come into France from Switzerland and who had been caught as suspects in the Pontarlier spy strainer. They were afraid to talk to me; they were afraid to talk to each other; they suspected each other as much as the spy catchers did. As I look back now at those three Sunday meals in the dining room of the Hotel des Postes and see those silent, mysterious worried men and women file into the room, one at a time, solitary, suspected ana eaten with suspicion, it seems to me that they were the most miserable and unhappy lot of human beings that I have seen in all the war.?William Gunn Shepherd, in Collier's Weekly. A Regular Cheer. "I hear," said a member of the church, to the young parson, "I heard that you have an offer from another church." "Yes," the minister replied, "I have a call offering four thousand dollars a year." '"And what," the friend inquired, "are you getting now?" "Nine hundred." "And you call the other a call? I should think it was nothing short of a yell."?Brooklyn Eagle. 1 ~ GnstesB Bees have lots of HONE^ by putting it in there a little You can have MONEY the s Come in?get a "Chris FREE and put in our bank o and increase your deposit 5 In 50 weeks YOU will have \ This is a "fine" thing fo body. You can also start wit and in 50 weeks have $12.7 You can put in $1.00 or weeks have $50 or $100 or : We add 4 per cent inter* I You can start T People BAMBE] GOVERNOR IX AUGURATE I). (Continued from page 1, column 4) ' | indicated mingled disappointment and amusement. The audience which packed the galleries was composed of all walks of life and ages. There was a sprink- i ling of gray haired veterans of the; Confederacy, young ladies from the colleges in Columbia, young men from the University of South Caro-i lina. business and professional men from Columbia and all narts of the State, men in the honorable garb of the laborer, and ladies of the Equal Suffrage League. It was a represen-' tative and typical audience of South; Caroliainns, rejoicing at the begin-! ning of another term for Governor, Manning. j Before the governor took the oath j of office, the inaugural prayer was! read bv the Rev. Kirkman G. Finlay.! I The governor's closing with an ap1 peal for a reunited and forward look-! . ing people met with a hearty round j of applause which swept through the j : floor and galleries. The governor, was given an ovation at the close of 1 hie aHdrpes I I Chief Justice Gary then delivered j the path of office to Lieutenant Govi ernor Andrew Jackson Bethea, who! ! succeeded himself for another term. \ The lieutenant governor made a short I ; address, the governor and his escori retired, the joint assembly was dissolved, and the senate returned to I ; their chamber at 1:05, the whole in; augural exercises having consumed i just one hour. m _ Merry Christmas! It was the week before Christ| mas?the time of the last frantic ef: forts to straighten out the Christi mas list. j "Let me see"?Edwin L. Sabin ; wrote this in the American Magazine j ?"there's Helene. I've simply got to give her the collar. It's almost ' done, anyway. No, I can give her ! the one I made for Winifred and send i Winifred a card, or else give it to I Nettie. I'm so glad I haven't finish; ed the towel, though. A card will do as well for Virginia. All she sent me last year was a sample bottle of cheap perfumery. And she's rich. I | believe I'll send Aunt Georgia a card, ! too, or else write a nice letter to ex| plain that we're being sensible this j year and economizing, especially at j Christmas. She doesn't give to anybody. She's too close." "But she may leave us something some time," I hinted. "So she may. Perhaps I'll give her ! a collar of mine, theitf that I've I never worn. What did I have down | for her? Oh, yes; a pin. But the collar is just as good, as a remem| brance, and I can save the pin. Or j I can give the pin to ?Let's see, j I can give it to Lois. No?I'm to send Lois a card, wasn't t? Or Vir' ginia." False Success. i Willis?I took up golf to reduce. Gillis?Did you succeed? Willis?Yes, I reduced my bank ! account, my hours at the office, and | my reputation for veracity.?Puck. BnUHBH ? \ is what J^^you will have ifyou join our anking Club. f in their hives in the winter bt the time while they can. ame way. tmas Banking Club" BOOK nly 5 cents for the first week cents each week. $63.75. r Boys and Girls?for Evefy:h I or 2 cents or 10 cents 5. $25.50 or $127.50. $2.00 or $5.00 and in 50 $250 JSt. ODAY? START! s Bank RG, S. C. The FisliCo' Guide. Certain fishes are thought by Drs. V. E. Shelford and E. B. Powers to j be guided in their migrations by highly developed senses of smell and j touch. In experiments made the I fishes recognized the presence of slight traces of acids and alkalies and herrings proved sensitive to changes of a fraction of a degree in tATnnpr.itiirp. It is concluded that salmon find their way from far at sea to their chosen rivers by some chemical peculiarity of the water. In a similar way herrings are influenced by variations in sea water and run in favorable localities. (WEDNESDAY, 7iL FEBRUARY IU1 MATINEE AND NIGHT Henry B. Walthall HH (Star of Birth of a Nation) i "The Sting of Victory" HI This is undoubtedly the best b9 picture that Henry B. Walthall B| has ever starred in, not exceptH ing "The Birth of a Nation." ASSESSMENT NOTICE. The Auditor or his deputy will be at the following places on the days and dates named below" for the purpose of taking returns of personal property, transfers of real estate, and income tax returns: At the court house until Monday, January 15, 1917. Farrell's store, Tuesday, January 16, 1917. Denmark, Thursday and Friday, January 17 and 18, 1917. Lees, Monday, January 22, 1917. Govan, Tuesday, January 23, 1917. Olar, Wednesday and Thursday, January 24 and 25, 1917. St. John's, Friday, January 26, 1917, from 9 a. m. to 12 m. Kearse's, Friday, January 26, 1917, from 1 p. m. to S p. m. Ehrhardt, Monday and Tuesday, January 29, and 30, 1917. At the court house until February 20, 1917, after which date the 50 per cent, penalty will be added. Every taxpayer is requested to learn the name and number of his school district before coming to make his return. Taxpayers are also urged to come prepared to make separate returns for town property, giving number of acres and buildings, and lots in town. Persons living in town will please state the fact to the Auditor so that they will not be charged with commutation road tax. All real and personal property must be returned in the school district in which it is located. R. W. D. ROWELL, Auditor Bamberg County. A^A A^A A^A A A f^T^T f^T T^T T^T ? Hors< ft ft yv ft ft XX ? We have a fu : > stock is select each animal si know what th ?$ don't fail to c ****** showing you. ? are bought so' TV- ===== ft TV TV YY || Wagons TV n it YY ===== YY Y Y We have a spl PaW "WViirko UUMWO) ** H gies an dHari VV the best vehicl YY Come to see u XX ===== It YY YY YY yy _ I Jon YY YY A Be Prepared to fVeat a Storm. j / J V "V ^ j? / \ * THINGS may be going well with you today. You may have a tine position. Your business may be prospering. You may be in the full vigor of youth and health. Of course none cares to look on the dark side. But it always is well to be prepared for a change in the tide. The greatest preparation is a healthy bank account. Drop in and see us about an j. ivr^Mi ~i?;n? +oiLr / VTTOT } | accuuin. V?en giauaj lam v?w. ^ / 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.06 ' Bamberg Banking Co. A MATTER OF ECONOMY / ' j A It is more economical to appoint us as your , . \ \ T^vn^n+nv or?H TViiq+pp Wbpn an Individual huvs and XJAV/V/UVV/X M1XU JLX UWWWi T f v?** ~ ^ ? _ sells investments for an Estate he charges the Estate 1 ' with brokers* commissions. When you name us as I Executor and Trustee you are charged with'no com- I missions either for the purchase or sale of the securi- 1 ties the law requires the funds of your Estate to be invested in. May we talk this matter over with you ? * ^ -V XM BAMBERG BANKING COMPANY V.-5 Bamberg, S. C. j I ' I ? ( A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^k A^AAA A^AA^AA^AA^AA^A A^AAVAAA. y "y^y T^T T^T ^i|r T^T T^T T^T T^T T^T v^r T^? T^T vy t^TiTTt Ty T0T ^j|y y ^s and Mules ? ?v j ! v j it 1 if Tf 1 ff 11 stock on hand of Horses and Mules. Our ; ed personally by a member of our firm, and <? old has the Jones Bros.' guarantee?and you at menas. When you need a horse or mule, ' ome to our stable. We will take pleasure in ??<$ Our stock is always in good condition?they ! und and sold sound. : == ff ff Yv tt XX ! . Buffdes. Harness I? 7 ?DO ~7 ff ft ff ff endid line of Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Lap ? X , Etc. We have a number of styles in Bug- fjr less, and we can suit you. We handle only f I les to be had and our prices are always right. Xi s; you are always welcome. IT - 'ff ' ft / ff tf J ft XX tes Bros. | BAMBERG, S. 0. <? % 1 X * - ? , 3D '