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>:/ The Bamberg Herald. ESTABLISHED MAY 1st, 1891. < ? A. W. KXIGHT, Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?|i.oo per inch for first insertion; 50c. for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made foi three, six, or twelve months. "Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices Sc. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must L . . *1 f . ...1 3 i.!_! oe paid ior as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on subjects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. ? Thursday, March 7, 1901. The repQrt of the attorney general w shows that of the number of white and 1 black criminals before the courts in this State last year, a greater proportion of the whites were convicted than the blacks. This goes to show that the negro does not get all the justice in South Carolina, and and that the poor, down-trodden negro can get a fair trial here, even if we don't have negroes on our juries. Gov. McSweeney lias not yet disposed of the free pass measure. We are not apprised of why he is postponing action on this bill, but his not having vetoed or approved it leads us to believe he will take no action whatever and return it to the general assembly next year without his signature. We hope he will not do this, however. He should either approve or veto it. For our part we prefer decisive action. If our people want water works and electric lights, and they say they do, why not get to work on the matter? Let some j one get up a petition to the town council asking that an election be ordered on the question of issuing bonds for this pur> pose, and circulate it for signatures. There never was a better time than now 1" s. "* ^ to go to work for these improvements, * and all admit that we ought to have them. "We hope some one will circulate the petition at once, and we believe our v * people will vote for the scheme. Congress has refused to appropriate $250,000 to the Charleston Exposition. Senator Tillman made a strong fight for the appropriation, but it was killed ; . during the closing hours of congress. The defeat of this measure is due to nothing but the same old hatred for South Carolina and Charleston which has existed in the breasts of Northern representatives ever since the war. They T?r?t vpt. fnronven nnr State for beintr the first to secede and the firing on Fort iv Sumter which commenced the bloody struggle. Congress has heretofore made appropriations for government exhibits at expositions in other parts of the coun. try and their action in this instance can only be attributed to sectional feeling fand hatred. ; The Tolbert Shooting. t Greenwood, February 28.?A gentleman from McCormick brought here today the first accurate account that has been obtained of the shooting of Jim t Tolbert at that place last week. According to his story the people of McCormick, while determined to make Tolbert leave the town, had 110 desire to kill him or even inflict bodily harm. ? They hit upon a novel plan. They decided to capture him and tie him in a crate like a calf and ship him to some of - his relatives at Anderson. The railroad people, it is said, had agreed to receive "^^thefreight and duly trai^M^^and the crate was gotten in^^H^^ A party of eight or ten men then set out to capture ''the varmint." Tolbert was found at work repairing one of his houses, and x was.told that he must either leave town '& forthwith or he would be shipped off. s Tolbert broke and ran and the crowd gave chase. There was no firing going on?indeed, the whole crowd was coni vulsed with laughter. Young Mr. H. L. Martin was not one of the party but knew what was to Ije done, and when he saw Tolbert running-up the street with the pursuers at his heels he started to head off the wanted man.- Tolbert then drew his pistol and fired twice at Martin, > and those of the pursuers who had pistols began firing at Tolbert. Martin was wounded twice, as has been stated, but neither time seriously. Tolbert Mas wounaea iwice, once in me arm auu once in the back, the ball perforating the lung. He was brought to Greenwood the day after the shooting, and has since been getting along nicely. The physician attending pronounced him out of danger several days" ago. Tolbert has declared that as soon as he is able to be out he will have warrants 5. issued for four citizens of McCormiek who were in the party that assaulted him. The people of McCormiek are still determined that Tolbert shall not again become a citizen of that town. They say they have 110 special desire to do him bodily harm, but that if he conies back they will try to induce him to leave and if lie gets hurt he will cause it liim \ self. ~ Appropriation Refused. Congress, in the closing hours of the session refused to appropriate $250,000 to the Charleston Exposition. It also refused an appropriation to the Buffalo Exposition, but appropriated $5,000,000 to the St. Louis fhir. The story of Charleston's defeat is told as follows in Tuesday's press dispatches from Washington: From 10::>0 last night the senate remained in continuous session. The most interesting feature of the session was its receding from its amendment to the sundry civil bill providing for three expositions, giving $5,000,000 to St. Louis, $500,000 to Buffalo and $250,000 to Charleston, S. ('. Without division the motion of Senator Allison to recede was agreed to. Then the senate receded from the Charleston amendeut to the St. Louis exposition bill which had passed tiie house as a separate measure. This action passed the bill appropriating $5,000,000 for St. Louis. Though suffering from ill health. Senator \ est, 01 .Missouri, nau remainedin the senate all night to battle for this exposition appropriation. He said it was not fair to make St. Louis sutler because the house would not make an appropriation for the exposition in South Carolina. Senator Tillman showed deep feeling. He said the legislation which had paved the way for the St. Louis appropriation was placed in a bill last year, as were the amendments from which the senate had receded in the sundry civil bill. The watch-dogs of the house of representatives had not pounced upon this proposition then and defeated it. Congress, lie said, had appropriated eleven millions of dollars for expositions, and now it was proposed to give $o.000,0(X> more. His State, K South Carolina, was regarded as an outcast, a disinherited dog. He would leave : it to the senate whether it was just, fair, "-^^and righj to give to St. Louis ?>,000.000 .and refuse Charleston a small $2o0,000. Mr. Depew and Mr. Lodge thought that Charleston ought to be treated equally with St. Louis. South Carolina Cotton Mill News. [textile excelsior.] Construction work will soon be commenced on the new mill at Lancaster. The Fairmount Yarn mills have increased their capital stock to $100,000. The McColl Manufacturing Co., McColl, is running on half time. After a few weeks suspension, work has been resumed on the Woodruff Cotton Mill, Spartanburg. The Cheswell Cotton Mill at Westminister, has ordered an additional complement of looms. The Union Knitting Mills, Union, have increased their capital stock and will double the capacity of the plant. The Palmetto Mfg. Co., of Charleston, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000 to engage in the manufacture of knit goods. The "Chicora" Cotton Mills Co., ot Rock Hill, have been chartered; initial capital stock, $<>0,000; incorporators: Isaac S. Cohen, F. Q. O'Neil, Nathaniel Israel. All the incorporators are residents of Charleston, S. C. At the annual meeting of the Langley ! Manufacturing Co., Langley, held last week, only routine business was transacted. Mr. Barrett was re-elected president and treasurer and James L. Robertson secretary of the company. The stockholders of the Alpha Cotton Mills, Jonesville, held their tirst annual meeting Monday, Feb. IS. The report of Treasurer Littlejohn was entirely satisfactory. It was decided to put in J000 | additional spindles, and all preparatory j machinery for same. This addition will make S00U spindles for the concern. J. J. Littlejohn was elected president,succeeding \V. L. Littlejohn, who died last October, the two offices of president and treasurer being combined. \\\ (1. Rice, Supt. of the mills, being elected a director of the mill. The place was made vacant by the death of President Littlejohn. The mills are running day and night with plenty of good help. Liquor, Pistols, and the Devil. [From the Circuit Rider. ] A few days ago, the Bamberg cotton mill was the scene of a heartless and cruel tragedy. A gentleman named Jones, J. B., Jeremiah, possibly, walked \ into one of the mill rooms where Elijah Norman was at work, and without a J word of warning, shot, with a borrowed pistol, the said Elijah into eternity. It is said that at the time Mr. Jones was drinking, and that Mr. Norman's "failing" was drink, but at the time of the killing his "failing" was not on, and the soul of Elijah shuffled away soberly. The good citizens of Bamberg deplore exceedingly this dark deed done in their community, and not only Bamberg, butgood people everywhere are grieved when they read of such a butchery as occurred a few days ago in that cotton mill. The preliminaries and preparations of this murder are sickening. The incarcerated gentleman, Jones, arms himself first with strong liquor, then borrows a pistol, a blue steel, 38-calibre S. & W. affair, takes with him another man. goes to where the victim was at work in his shirt sleeves and shoots him down unarmed. Homicide,-or murder, seems to me sometimes to be contagious. One killing oftimes in a town, or com-! munity is followed by another. Look at j Greenville. Man-slaying is becoming to be an ordinary occurrence. Murder, like disease, breeds malicious microbes and gets in bad men's blood, and stirs up the devil there. The flowers on the grave of Bellinger have likely all decayed, but the mound doubtless still looks fresh. Now slotfly through the graveyard comes the body of Elijah Norman. The preacher, over the untimely grave, reads solemnly: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, in his wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of our deceased brother," etc., but Mr. Mayor of Bamberg, and ye gentlemen of the council, who took the said Norman from your mill, from his work, from his family, at the age of 48? The triumvirate that is our disgrace and our danger."Liquor, the 38 S. & W., and the devil. Can't you pass an ordinance, and imprison the man that is drinking on your ! streets? Not the pure water that gushes as clear as crystal from your great artesian, overflowing wfll, but the stulf sold in your dispensary. I sa\* arrest the man Iin^ni. tho infliianrp of whisl'CV fill Villi T streets, whether he is "three sheets" or one sheet gone. Seize the sinner, for in so doing you may save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins. A drunken man is a crazy iiiau. His insanity displays itself in many ways, and the drunken or drinking man is capable of hugging a goat, cussing his wife, or killing a prophet. Don't be too hard ou Mr. Jones. He only acted as he was acted upon. When court convenes he will be sorry, and will come clear as usual. But move away your dispensary, exterminate the blind tigers and the Elijah Normans will survive. They will be allowed to work in peace in the day, and go home at the sound of the evening bell, where the cheerful hearth awaits their return, and sweet children climb their knees the envied kiss to ihare. O God, deliver us from liquor, the murderous pistol and the devil. Strikes A Rich Find. "I was troubled for several years with chronic indigestion and nervous debility," wiites F. J. Green, of Lancaster, X. II, "No retvedv helped me until I began using Electric Bitters, which did me more good than all the medicines I ever used. They have also k< pt my wife in excellent health for years. She says i Electric Bitters are just splendid for female troubles; that they are a grand tonic and invigorator for weak, run down women. No other medicine can take its place in onr family." Try them. Only | oOc. Satisfaction guaranteed bv Dr. J. B. Black and Thomas Black. Wind Wishes. I Wild wind, blowing today. Blow my troubles and tears away; Blow them as far as the torn white clouds Freeing the sky from their clinging shrouds. Wild wind, blowing today. Blow my troubles and tears away. Wild wind, blowing today. Blow my follies and faults away. 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A Negro Alalia Over in Georgia?The Ringleaders of the Hand are Under Sentence of Death. TIk' sentence of death lias been passed on five negroes in Screven County, Ga., ? i 1 I... ^ uu ilir Nliu IW l>t" llll V lliUU l II1V.1I1UV1P of the black Malia known as "Knights of the Archer," and which had "Death to White men" as its motto. By order of the Court the five men have been sentenced to the gallows on March 2!), and they are groping about madly in dungeons while their counsel is making a determined effort to have the verdict set aside at a second trial. Screven County is just over the line from South Carolina. When two white officers of the law were murdered last October and a posse went into the black settlement to arrest the murderer?, part of the band tied to this State, and those unfortunate enough to remain were caught like so many rats. It had been known that a Matia existed j in the Screven section. Threats had gone forth from unknown sources, and after the officers were shot and the blacks arrested the charter of the black band was found. In his-wrath the officer tore the charter of the "Knights of the Archer" into a [ thousand pieces and scattered the small bits of paper to the breeze. That hasty i act has saved the necks of bands of ne| groes, who undoubtedly would have been I caught and tried by the Courts. Before i the paper was destroyed, however, some! thing of the object of the Malia was made j known. The charter swore vengeance ! against the whites ami the members obj ligated themselves to defend one another to ilc.-ith. The names of the negroes ar rested and those who made their escape appeared as charter members. Following the arrest of thelirst leaders officers came over into South Carolina and made an unsuccessful search for the six black knights who fled from home. The search led through the dark and treacherous paths of the swamps, where alligators and black desperadoes fought for possession, and by the good fortune of a lucky star the officers were not trapped and killed. The baud had too many friends to get caught. Great excitement spread through the black settlements wlpjn it became known that the leaders of the Mafia had been sent to prison. Sylvania is the big town ! in Screven County. Around this place | negroes thrive like honey bees, and fcar! ing that attempts would be made by j members of the band to free the leaders it was decided to remove the prisoners to Chatham County, where they were kept secure. Arnold Augustus, Andrew Davis, Richj ard Sanders, William Hudson and Sam Baldwin are the five black wretches over whom the doom of death is swinging with a spider webbed cord. They are mourning and weeping. Death has horrors to them, notwithstanding their thirst for human gore, and they put great faith in the efforts of their lawyers to save them from the ropes. Fillmore Harrison and Milton Mears were the victims of the Mafia. Both of these were white men, fearless and brave. Mears was a constable, and, in company with Herrington and Capt. Wade, a neighbor, they went one night to the home of Jesse Zanders to arrest the son of Zanders, who was wanted by a magistrate for a trivial offence. The object of the call was quickly explained. With an I oath Zanders said they could not get his J boy, and then he went back into the house. A moment later there came a shrill whistle from the swamp. The white men heard it. The note went from bush to bush. It sounded like the night thrill of a mocking bird. "Those mocking birds have a sweet tone," said Mears, as the trio stopped j their conference to listen. "But I am not so sure that they are i birds" answered Herrington. While the men waited a long carbine was stuck from the window of the Zanders cabin. With the tirst barking of the gun a bullet whistled through the air, lodged in the thigh of Capt. Wood, and from all sides of the wooded yard there / * came bullets and slugs from half a score of guns. The constables were caught off their guard. They stood in the blinding light from the cabin window. The negroes were concealed in the shrubbery and the bullets kept up their war like sound. Wade, crippled in the leg, picked his way to the edge of the yard and crawled into his buggv. The bullets whistled over his head, smashed in the side of his trap, but the man escaped. He thought that his companions had been saved. Capt. Wade left a trail of blood 011 the highway as he drove into town and told the news. At daylight a posse had surrounded the Zanders cabin. The black wife of Zanders sat in the house, smoking a pipe and rocking her child. She said she knew of no trouble. All around her were the empty shells thrown from breech loading guns. Stretched at full length near the spring was the mutilated body of Mears, the constable. Bullets and iron slugs had torn away his heart. A trail of blood was followed deep into the swanp, and there by the running brook was the body of Herrington. still warm. Death had closed his eyes at daylight. All about there was tlie trace of a bloody struggle. The posse did not.hear the whistling of the mocking birds at daylight; the gang had gone. With the hand scattered only live of the ringleaders could he caught. The written charter of the band was signed in blood. It was a crude atfair and told the fact simply that the "Ivnights of Archer" had sworn vengeance on the whites. One negro in this State, who claims to have known of the Mafia, said that it was planned for robbery and murder, and was made up of the most notorious negroes in South Carolina and (leorgia. According to the men who prosecuted the negroes at the trial public sentiment demanded a conviction, and had the jury a^ked for the mercy of the Court the prisoners would have been lynched. Counsel also alleged that the sheriff of Screven j opened jotters written by the prisoners, i iii which they are said to have confessed the murder. These letters were opened | and retained as evidence. The negroes also said in the letters that they were afraid of being lynched. I"nless the Courts interfere with the' sentence the officers of the "Knights of J Archer" will be hanged from one scaffold. Headache often results from a disorder- j ed condition of the stomach and eonstipa-' tion of the bowels. A dose or two of ; Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets will correct these disorders and cure the headache. Sold by Bamberg Pharmacy. Heart Throbs. [Written for The Herabl.] "The dead! Whom call we so? They that breathe purer air?" The tire burns low on the hearth; 1 am alone; memory steals so gently and lures jne away with so much tact I am not dis-1 turbed, and follow where I am led? down the corridors of the past. Dirgelike accents fall on my ear, my disarranged hair is smoothed by baby lingers long since vanished, and for a moment I they are mine to clasp once more! The i fitful scene is gone, and with a gasp 1 i cannot control I cry: "My (?od! why am p t .?.?.,..1 . w'l.t- ,l,i tli/? lii\*<>d i?f 1 UHIUICW luur*. ?? n ? MW v..? our hearts entwine themselves around us { 'till their life cords are hlent with our j own and then are rudely severed, leaving! the dripping tendrils to quiver in pain?" j Oh. you who have no vacant chair in ! your homes, no half-worn shoes and : broken toys, no aching void in your! hearts, no precious memory to cling to, | read not these lines, for they cannot touch a single chord in your hearts. To ' you the fragrance of the tlower is the j same, the gurgling of the stream holds, no sad rhythm, life is a cloudless sky. j All, but cannot my language reach moth-' ers Who have suffered? Those who have j seen the beauty crushed from a fair face j by one blow from death? Those who! have palsied and writhed with grief? To 1 such I speak. Years glide smoothly on j the greased axles of time; we learn to j bear, endure and even smile. Music enters our souls again but it is the "song! tuned to the key of submission." "Swans sing sweetest when dying, ...... ......... f,..,t tfliun PVIKII. ! r l()\Vt'l> illl- llllru U.IMOX1 ?? II* II *? , cd; Hearts weighed with sorrow Awaken chords that to others are hushed." I look bevond life's river, I hear the l billows roar. Almost there?with clasped hands I plead: "Dear Master when the scales fall from my eyes. In the land where all can see. Next to my Savior dear, Can I not gaze upon my children there?" M. O. Laxikk. State of Ohio, City of Torero, 1 ? Lucas County. i Frank J. Ciienky makes oath that he is the senior partner of the lirm of F. J. Cheney & Co, doing business in the city of Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and that said lirm'will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured bv the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank .J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pretence, this (5th day of December, A. D. 138(5. A. W. Greason, fsKAi/] Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, Toe. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Story of a Sucker. A man who smokes four cigars a day and chews 25 cents worth of tobacco a week, said he was too poor to take a local paper. He is a smart man, too. And economical, I should smile. This saving fellow was getting a Maine story paper, and found by sending a dollar lie could get a cure for drunkenness. Sure enough he did. It was "take the pledge and keep it." Later he sent 50 two-cent stamps to find out how to raise beets successfully. lie found out. The an;wer "just take hold and pull." Being single he wished to marry and sent 34 one-cent - stamps to a* Chicago firm to learn how to make an impression. When the answer came it read: "Sit down on a pan of dough." That was a little tough, hut he was a patient man and thought he would yet succeed. The next advertisement he read, "how to double his money in six months." He was told to convert his money into bills, fold them and he would see his money doubled. But he was bound to get some useful secret by which he could make money, so he sent to find out how to write without a pen and ink. The answer was, "try a lead pencil." Then he sent a dollar to learn how to get rich?"work like the devil and never spend a cent." This was discouraging: but he decided to try once more and sent a dollar bill to learn how to live without work and was told to "fish for suckers as we do." He now takes the home paper I and is happy.?Anniston Hot Blast.. Remarkable Cures of Rheumatism. (From the Vindicator, Rutherfordion, X. (\) The editor of the Vindicator has had occasion to test the efiicacy of Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice with the most remarkable results in each case. First, with rheumatism in the shoulder from which he suffered excruciating pain for ten days, which was relieved with two applications of Pain Balm, rubbing the parts afflicted and realizing instant benefit and entire relief in a very short time. Second, in rheumatism in thigh joint, almost prostrating him with severe pain, which was relieved by two applications, rubbing with the liniment on retiring at night, and getting up free from pain For sale by Bamberg Pharmacy. . It Nearly Killed Him. A certain firm is giving away as a bonus a half-pound packet of tea on a purchase of $2.r>0. One Saturday evening one of their assistants wassuddenlv taken ill.and was removed home in a eab. On inquiring the reason of this sudden collapse it was stated that a woman walked into the store and asked for $?.r>0 worth of stamps. It took all there were in the store, hut the assistant wished to please her. She took the stamps, handed over the money, thanked the assistant and waited. "Is there something else, madame?" queried the assistant. "Oh. 110." replied the lady. "That is. nothing I wished to buy." And still she waited. | "You gave me the correct amount for I the stamps, did you not, madame?" queried the assistant. "Yes," replied the lady. "Are you sure there is nothing else you wanted?" "Weill noticed you were giving half a pound of tea on a purchase of J^.oO and I am waiting for my tea." The assistant is slowly recovering. ?Exchange. A Good Cough Medicine for Children. "I have no hesitancy in recommending Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," says l\ j P. Moran, a well known and popular baker, of Petersburg, Ya. "We have I given it to our children when troubled with bad coughs, also whooping cough, and it has always given perfect satisfaction. It was recommended to me by a druggist as the best rough medicine for children as it contained no ooium or other harmful drug." Sold hy Bamhcrg J Pharmacy. Status of a Watch. A decision regard in ?r the status of a"! watch under the National bankruptcy! Law was handed down yesterday by Judge Lowell in the United Slates Dis-i trict Court, in the case ofFrank Turnhull,! a plumber, who recently tiled a \olun-j tary petition in bankruptcy. Through * his counsel the petitioner contended that j his watch was exempt both as being j "wearing apparel" and as a "tool" j necessary for carrying on his trade. The court however ruled against him on both j points.?Boston Evening Transcript. ' DANGER IN THE BOOK WHY ONE MAN DREADED THE COMING INTO CAMP OF A DICTIONARY. He Discreetly I.eft Before the Vociferouxly Applauded SentInientN lie Impressed In III* Speech Could Be Analyzed n la Webster. When the son of tho president of the I>i^ Mountain Lumber company came into tlie mountains to learn tlie business, so to speak, I knew within l.T minutes that he had come to the wroiijr place, lie was a city chap, new1-. I a. .1 o.,.l K, .4 IV ^Tauiwi ii'ii aim (iiuiuu^iii> nut ui touch with everytliing mountainous, lie was a bright fellow, however, and amply capable, only the mountains were not the lield for his development. As time elapsed his distaste grew, and it was all lie could do not to express his opinion of the mountain people, their manners, customs, homes, morals and everything connected with them, lie was wise enough to contide in me alone and bided his time to get away to some more congenial clime. And lie got away sooner than he expected. It happened that there was a public meeting one night at the sawmill shed, and he was called 011 to make a few remarks. Every other man at the meeting except myself, who acted as chairman, was of the mountains, and their illiterate talk had roused the young college fellow to the limit. He saw a chance to got even, in his own mind at least, and when the call came for him lie responded promptly. His speech, quite brief, but to the point, was as follows, copied from his own manuscript, even the [applause] part: "My friends, I am glad to meet you on this occasion, for I have wished to say to you publicly what I think of you. though our acquaintance lias not been long. Coming as a stranger among you, 1 was only partly prepared for what was in store. Now, let me say to you that half has not been told me. [Applause.] In the internecine arena your lethiferous conduct has artoumled me by the trucidation and occision characterizing it among no T 1>L-nnwn fT.nild fin Hit"ii i iia \ c w?v.i uiumi ?. L -%.x. ,.r plnusc.] In the diversified field of mendacity your efforts would make Maeliiavelli take to the tall timber. [Uproarious applause.] In all furaeious, raptorial and predacious pursuits you have done such wonders that the gifted and groat Jonathan Wild would have felt his latrociny was a sounding brass and his direption a tinkling cymbal. [Great applause.] In the broad * expanse of labor your torpescent oscitation has made you sui generis among all paiuliculate mankind. [Cheers and shouts of "Good for us!"] As good livers, your tables groan beneath their stercoraeeous and impetiginous burden, and as drinkers, your temulent bibacity has made the crapulous reputation of Bacchus to be a sign of puritanical abstemiousness. [Loud applause.] As for yourselves, I take pleasure in saying here to you, without fear of successful contradiction. that your nugacity is forever established; as observers of the law, your aberrance is teratological, and personally you are a cohesive concatenation of rubigant exuviae, that I take especial pleasure in believing does not exist elsewhere on earth. [Vociferous applause.]" When the enthusiasm had cooled down somewhat, he proceeded to speak on the subjects before the meeting and sat down. The mountaineers were pleased to death with the college man's 1 " 1 ^ n.Am ct vt/-1 Illgll Iiuwu spi'i-uu iiuuiiL uiiu though I didn't know the meaning of all the big words he used I did know that he had been calling them liars and murderers and thieves and scoundrels and drones and lawless drunkards, besides condemning their fare and anathematizing the lot of them personally. Hut not one of them suspected, and I was hoping nothing would come of it and they would forget, even if any of the large words were remembered, when one day a book agent.drove up to the office in a buckboard and announced that he was selling Webster's Unabridged Dictionary for ?2 a copy and showed a sample that was as big as a box of soap. Nobody had ever seen so much book for the money, nor had anybody evei seen a dictionary in that neighborhood and when the agent began to tell what a valuable thing it was to be in every family the men became interested, ami it wasn't long until the agent had sold 23 copies, to be delivered the following week. When he had gone away witli his sample, I called the young man into tiie private office for consultation "Don't say a word," he began a* soon as be had closed the door. "1 know exactly where I am at. and I'll be some place else before Mr. Web ster arrives to throw any light on my recent remarks. 1 am not shedding any tears, aud in order that the die tlouary buyers and others may know just what I think of them I shall leave two dozen copies of my speech for distribution ou the morning of my departure." lie did just as he said be would, and it was a good, thing for him that ht never came back any more.?W. T Lamptou in Washington Star. Tlint'H All. "In proof of the assertion that tin world is growing better." remarked Op tim. "let me mention the fact that wt never find stones in the coffee we buy at the grocery stores nowadays." "No." growled Pessim. "The reasor for that is that most pers->- who buy coffee have it ground when y bay it The grocers pick out the steals for feai of mining their mills. The world h growing more enlightened in its selfish ness. That's all."?Chicago Tribune. Queensland is being converted into a large orange orchard. The Australian orange ripens at a time when otliei countries cannot provide the fruit. An Honest Medicine for La <*rippc. (ieorge W. "Waitl, of South Canlinor Me., says: "I have hail tlie worst cough cold, chills and grip and have taken lots of trash of no account hut profit to the vendor. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the only thing that lias done any good whatever. 1 have used one hottie of it and the chills, cold and grip have all left met I congralulaie the manufacturers of an honest medicine." For sale by l?am berg Pharmacy. Roosevelt's Aegr? nuost. The colonel baritone of St. fJeorge's church. in New York city ? a. Mr. Burleigh? went to A]l?:my one day to sing ;.t a private music ale. After it was over the baritone \\<*it to a nearby hotel, but was refused admittance because of his color. Four other hotels were unwilling to receive him. Coming back to the house where he had sunn: be explained his predicament. (iox*. Roosevelt, who had been one of the guests. heard the conversation. "What's that!"' he roared. "Here, Burleigh. you come with inc. I'll see to it that you net a bed." He drove to his owwi home, gave the singer the best guest room in the house and saw to it before he went to Tied that every Albany newspaper would announce the next morning thai Mr. Burleigh had been a guest at tiie executive mausiou.?March Ladies' Home JournaL CONVENT LANTERNS. An Old Fad With Modern Improve menti?An Electrical Display. In the old days a favorite fad fc travelers in ancient lands was the co lection of lanterns. Those from ruiue convents, decayed mosques and povei ty stricken shrines were prime favoi ites. The fad is not entirely dead, hi the supply has run so short that nc enterprising firms in Birminghan England, and in New York turn 01 large numbers of excellent imitation: The new ones are machine made an so far as strength and durability ai concerned are superior to the anciei designs, which were hand made, hi the latter in many instances were o nainented with inlaid work as well a with carving and twisting of the inos artistic type. The machine made gooc j can never reproduce these latter cha I aeteristics so well as to deceive an e: pert. The material of the lanterns varh from fine "woods and glass to iroi steel, brass, bronze, copper, pewter an even silver. The simplest forms ai cylinders which are perforated wit numeous holes so as to resemble tl clumsy sieve. Then come globes, cube octnliedra. hexagonal prisms, ovoic and more complex solid forms. Tl prettiest of all are the mosque lai terns. Many of them are of bronze ii laid with silver, pierced with little wii dows and these closed in turn wit white or colored glass. With a lightt" candle inside they look like a mass < Jewels in a dark room. A wealthy man on Brooklyn heigh who has traveled a great deal has or of his rooms illuminated by lanterns < this type. They range in size froi small affairs four inches in diameter 1 stately lamps a foot in diameter an two feet high. In place of candles ii side he employs electric lights. 01 bulb to the smaller lanterns and thre four and a dozen to the larger one When the current is turned on. tl splendor of the effect is almost sta tling. The colors of the glass Iut been deepened and made richer by tl years, and the radiance they give nu he compared to that from a great ori in a Gothic cathedral.?New York Fos COMEDY IN THE AMBULANC A Doctor's Story of a Man and a W< man. Each With a Broken Lear. "When I was an ambulance si geon," said the young family phj'i cian, "I used to start like a fire hor at the sound of the call. I was just; much interested in the work at the ei of two years as I was the day I bega It was the excitement of the life th made me so fond of it. I had all sor of experiences at all sort? of lioui There was an element of danger in too, but that only added to the chnrir "One night I had a call from the we side in the neighborhood of Cliels square. It was for a drunken man w fell down and broke his leg. On t way back to the hospital with him picked up a drunken woman to whom similar accident had happened. The . was nothing to do but put her in t ambulance along with the man. "After that the ride across town w exciting enough for a cowboy. At fii the patients sympathized with en* other. Then they began to cry in cl rus. At Broadway they fell to kissii ^ ^ ' l* K ^ T U 5 W/I n fltATT Tt*n t'ucu uluci". .il j.1jihi uu-iiui. iuvj i.v fighting like a pair of Kilkenny ca and I had my hands full in keepii them apart. The woman had scratc , ed the man's face dreadfully, and had nearly closed her eye with a punc When we struck the asphalt in Twe > ty-sixth street, they were singing 'T Have All Been There Before Many Time,' and such singing! The upro attracted a crowd who evident thought I had an ambulance full of 1 . nntics. When we reached tjie ga1 they swore eternal friendship, and the office they parted in tears."?Ne York Sun. She Knew All About It. "I was dining out one evening amoi 1 a notable company of people, most whom I knew only by reputation," sa George Inness, Jr.. in The Home Joi nal. "I was assigned a seat next to very charming and intellectual worn: and did my best to entertain her. Sa : I: 'What can I talk about that will I terest you? I have had some little e < perience as a cavalryman. Possil ; you may care to hear something abo horses in the field.' 1 " 'Why, yes; certainly,' answered e ' fair companion. 'I know a little cc ' cerning army life, and I once wrote 1 book called "Boots and Saddles."' Ai 1 then it dawned upon my poor, di brain that I was talking to the wide 1 of the great cavalry leader, Genei Custer, so I said no more about hors 1 or army life." Thlnjr^ Wanhlnsrton Never Saw. : It is hard to make it seem true th Washington, Jefferson, Franklin ai ' the fathers of the republic never saw ! railroad or a telegraph line or a sewii machine or a photograph or a typew er or a rubber band or shoe or"h pla or a stem winding watch or a cyclof I dia or a dictionary or a chromo or J steel engraving or a friction match a heating stove or a furnace or a gas or an electric light or a fire engine or thousand and one other things coi mon to every one today.?Pittsbu ? Chronicle-Telegraph. Not Disposed to Dispute. Aunt Hannah?Oh. you fool of a gi Just because a man tells you you a 1 the prettiest woman in the world a; ' the wisest and sweetest you belie him. Arabella?And why shouldn't I? 1 you know, aunty, I kind er think myself.?Boston Transcript to a Statesman. , "Then you are not ashamed of yo humble origin?" "Oh. no; it's part of my politic capital."?Chicago Record. A Horrible Outbreak. "Of 'arge >orcs on my little daughtei ; head developed into a case of scald hem 1 writes 0.1). Isbill, of Morgantown.Teni 1 4. O ,.1.1^..'.. \ J/.rt C.tlivn AAmnliiiii UUl IMICKIUU > ^ll iliua c?nc > uui|jn,ir ' cured Jier. It's a guaranteed cure f ec/ema, tetter, salt rheum, pimples, sor ulcers, and piles. Only 25e at Thoni . Black's and Dr. J. I'. Black's. Every Day Will be Sunday. Representative IIolTecker of Delawa lias been telling this story to lieprese , tative Mudd and oilier Maryland congre men: "Down on the Delaware-Marylar peninsula there live two families who. a cording to the local prints, are nami Day and Sunday. The Day family h; seven daughters and the Sunday fami has seven sons. "I am reliably informed that live of tl Day girls have already married that nui: I l?er of Sunday boys and that still anotln Day girl is about to become the wife < another Sunday hoy. In view of thi I why isn't it appropriate to say that evei Day will be Sunday by and by?" The Best Prescription for Malaria Chills and fever is a bottle of Grove Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply ire ami quinine in a tasteless form. No cur no pay, Price 50c. CHEAPER MILEAGE BOOKS. Seaboard Air Line Makes a Noteworthy Reduction of Price. ir The Seaboard Air Line, being ever alive 1- to the people's interests as well as its d own, has, effective February 2o, reduced r. its 1,000-mile tickets in Florida from $30 r_ to $2o; all one thousand mile tickets of t the Seaboard Air Line railway issue are now good over the entire system (with *v the exception of the family mileage tickets sold in the State of North Carolina), it which traverses Virginia, North Carolina, s. South, Carolina, Georgia, Florida anil d Alabama, and reaches the capitals of all e the above states. lt By agreement, one thonsand mile tickets of Seaboard issue are good in addition to its own lines over the Richr" mond, Freilericksburg and Potomac 13 railroad from Richmond to Quaiuico, st and the Pennsylvania railroad from [s Quantico to Washington, the Columbia r. Newberry and Laurens railroad, and the Baltimore Steam Packet company's line from Norfolk to Baltimore. . The Seaboard Air Line railway is the short line from South Carolina to all [1- points north, south and west and has a d service that is second to none in the e South, and its trains are run on quick 1) and convenient schedules. ie For information write s Geo. McP. Batte, T. P. A., j' Columbia, S. C. ,s R. E. L. Bunch, 10 Gen. Pass. Agent, Portsmouth, Va. Q- A Widow's Lore Affair. ^ Receives a setback, if she has offensive breath through constipation, biliousness or stomach trouble, but Dr. King's NewLife Pills always cure those troubles; ts clean the system, sweeten the breath, ie banish headache; best in the world for 3f liver, kidneys and bowels. Only 25c at m Dr. J. B. Black's and Thomas Black's. t(? A queer instance of improper influence l( said to have been exerted upon a juryn* mnn poniW! frnm Npiv Tlu> inn' in ti certain civil case went to Fairhaveii e, to visit the house of the defendants, s. There, according to counsel for the ie plaintiff, one of the parties to the suit r. gave one of the jurors a piece of pie. This piece of pie is the ground upon which a motion to set aside the verdict ie is founded. But was the pie good or l>' bad? Must not the pie be tried before it el can be judicially ascertained whether the >t. juryman was influenced improperly? r Mrs. C. E. VanDeusen, of Kilbourn, Wis., was afflicted with stomach trouble o_ and constipation for a long time. She says, "I have tried many preparations but none have done me the good that ir* Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tabsi lets have." The Tablets are for sale at se Bamberg Pharmacy. Price, 25 cents, as Samples free. S :s- This signature is on every box of the gennin* !t Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets ' the remedy that nuera cold In one day ist MMWpef 1 : Edison's Phonographs i asd Records,? 10rl BAMBERG, S. C. ts, ag Jno. F. FOLK, Agent. >h lire ' Complete Stock a of Records of the iy latest music as u- played by the ^ famous bands ot ^ the country and the latest songs. Sample Phonow graphs on hand. ys \ STANDARD : "MAINTAINED." ut My business is now just about one year old. I promised yon ? at the beginning promt, liberal a and reliable service. I have nd been faithful, and you have reall warded my efforts by giving me >w your business. I appreciate it, al friends, and wish to thank you es right here for your patronage, so liberally bestowed. I am much better prepared to at handle your business than I was ad a year ago, having gathered a about me the best wood and us iron workers, painters and trimmers this country affords. You 110 ""doJa^htivfiXo wait till they come, ^ they are here^nd to be found or at my works every working day or of the year. Don't hesitate to a send me your carriage work. I m- can serve you bettei and with rg more promptness than any similar establishment within fifty miles of Bamberg. rl, I also repair, upholster and rere new all kinds of furniture in the i ud latest style, shoe horses and i ve guarantee satisfaction and prices along all lines. Call on me at tbe same old place, opposite 80 j Bamberg Cotton Mills, Bamberg, S. C.,and be treated right. Yours to satisfy, ur I DANIEL J. I>ELK. W. F. RILEY, r's f FIRE, " LIFE, es ACCIDENT ? INSURANCE. ii- zz=zz==i3z=zrzziiz====z=zz=^z=zizzi ss BAMBERG, S. C. C* .,1 f S. G. MAYFIELD, 0 n?r J ATTORHEY AT LAW, 's n *' DENMARK, S. C. GREAT OFFER! V For every person trading $5.00 in cash at the store of F. IF. McCrae, Denmark, S. C., will be givv* en one six months' snb4 script ion to The BamliKKc; IIkkald. He has a magnificent stock of General Merchandise, aipl is offering bargains in all lines. ?SOUTHERN RAILVMY.; V|j * Condensed Schedule in Effect Jan. 17, KOL ^ ^0.11 NO. 8 IliTrRK VT1I? !No. 8 No.ill Daily Daily BA8TERN TIUE' Daily'Dally 620pJ 7OOaiLr... Charleston ...Ar U 10a 815p 800p 7 41a' " .. Sumraerville.. " 10 80a f 2?p T80p 8 56a - .. .B ranchville... " OMa flOOp 758p 928a ** ...Orangeburg... ** 841a 589p 847p.l015a " .... Kingville.... ** 785a 443? 11 80a Ar .. ?Sumter Lv SOOf 11 40a " Camden Lv 280p v j36p 1100a Ar?Colombia.....Lv 710a 400^ 53op 7 00a Lv... Charleston ...Ar il 10a 8l?p 780p 918a " ...Branchville... " 850a OOOp T55p 940a ?* ....Bamberg .... " 827a 583p 806p 9Sua "....Denmark....** 8 18a 510? 824p 10 07a " Blackville.... * 800a 5(Bp 924p llUOa " Aiken ** 7 08* 3 56? >/; lOaOpfll 50a At. Augusta and Lv " t 6 TOal 810| ^VoTE: in addition to the above service trains Nos. 15 and 16 rau daily botween Charles- ton and Columbia, carrying elegant Pullman looping cars. No. 15 leave Charleston lin) p. m.; arrive Oolmnbia 6:00 a. m. No. 16 leavt Colombia 1 :S0 a. m.; arrive Charleston 7:00 a ."''"ivS m. Sleeping cars ready for occupancy at 9 ^ ?>. m. both at Charleston and Colombia. These . rains make close connections at Colombia - v with through trains between Florida point* . * I and Washington and the east. Oonnecttoe < with trains Noa 31 and 82 New York and Flor Ida Limited between Blackville, Aiken and A^ . gust*. No 81 leaves Blackville at 8:48 a. tn.j . v> Aiken 9.40 a. m.; Augusta 10:20 a. m. No. m leaves Augusta 6J30 p. m.; Alkeu 7.15 p.m.; , as Blackville 8.08 p. m. Pullman Drawing Boom sleepers between Augusta, Aiken ana. NVvt ' * York. Trains Nos. 0 and 11 carry Elegant Polk .- J'sman Parlor Cars between Charleston, Summer ville and Columbia, connecting at Columbia ^ with tho Famous Now York ana Florida Lim* ||p Ex. San. fix. Sun. only Sun. Lv. Augusta 7 00a 930a 320p v' fi Ar. Sandersvillo ... lDOp 1243p 8 32? 'ASM " Tennille I80pl250p 840? Lv. Tennille 5 40a 850p 3 lOp ' " Sandersville 5 60a 4 00p 328p j At- Augusta 900a) 710pj 880? ^ |D,llyD^ly|g^|V"- / Lv. Savannah. 1230a 12?p 480p-...?. ? Allendale 3 45a o 56p l?p ^ ** Barnwell 4 18a 428p ...... 8 46p "* Blackville 428a 489p 8l3p 5 (Bp r Ar. Batesburg .; 800p Ar. Colombia. 610a 8I5p 9 45p Lv. Colombia I13Ua llfia ...... 706a Lv.Bateabnrg.. ^ 6101a ...... Xr:Blackville.... 777 1 lOp 257?ll030a Tffla 44 Barnwell 1 Sp 812a 1180a ...... 44 Allendale 1 55p 848a 1180a 'f : 44 Savannah 305p SOOB .TTllOfOi 0^ Atlanta and Beyond* Lv. Charleston.. j 7 00ft 520p v ":1 Ar. Augusta .Ill SOa 10 20p .-..w' 44 Atlanta .'...J 820p 600a Lv. Atlanta. f l085p 530a 400p Ar. Chattanooga ; '2 40a 045a 8<Op Lv.Atlanta, . 600a 4l5p , Ar. Birminghm .' 12n'n lOOOp . < ^ " Memphis,! via Bir'ragam) 805p 712a 1 * * Ar. Lexington 031a SCfip 500a 44 Cincinnati.* 12n'n 780p 74Ba 44 Chicago 83op 7Ma 5 80p Ar. Louisville 74Dp t.Ma > 44 St. Louis ? 7-Ota 60Qp . v Ar. Memphis, (viaChatt) 7l0p 740i ; To Askeville-Ci&oinnati-Loalsvillo. KA8TBUI TIME. "?2 Lv. Augusta. SGOpi 930p 44 Batesburg : 448i>il24)7r<^^|ga Lv. Charleston .. v. !T iHtfgqft Lv. Columbia (Union Depot) 1140a; 8 20a Ar. Spartanburg . 310pll2Zn 44 Ashevillc 71fe 248p 44 Knoxville. 4lfia| 7 80p ym 44 Cinclnnnati 780p! 745a 44 Louisville (via Jellico)!.....7?46flBi To Waskington andtka East. % ^ Lv. Augusta. s..: 8<J0p 980p 44 Batesburg 448p 120fa t . A'f 44 Columbia (Union Depot)..; 600p 216a \-:*M Ar. Charlotte. JMOp 946a At. Dan ville. 1251a I38p Ar. Richmond ! 6 OCa 62& ' Ar Washington. : T? 880p. 44 Baltimore Pa. B. B 912a 1125p 44 Philadelphia. 1136a 286a 44 New York ..*! 20Sp 618a _t ;> + Daily except Sunday. / Sleeping Car Line botween Charleston and ?? Anontito mnHnp <vmrnwHnn? Atlanta for &U points!*orth and West. > Connection at Atlanta with Chicago and Florida special, daily except SnndayT Most -1/ luxurions train in the world. i > Connect ions at Columbia with through trains Jj&a for Washington and the East; also for Jackson ille and all Florida Pointk FEANK 8. GANNON, M. M. GULP. i Third V*P. A Gen. Mgr., Traffic Manager, - - *8 Washington, D. G. WaahingtonTt). C. * . ROBT. W. HUNT, Div. Pass. Agt., Charleston, 8.0. 8. H. HARDWICK, W. IL TAYLOS Gen. Pass Agt., Asst.-Gen. Pass. Agt., Washington,!). C. Atlanta,Ga. ' T-, WANTED! Reliable mah for manager of branch ; : ^ office we wish to open m this vicinity. ,S::M If your record is 0. K. here is an oppor- v tunity. Kindly give good reference when r writing. -? TnE A. T. Morris Wholesale House, -- * Cincinnati, Ohio. t Illustrated catalogue 4 cts stamps,* Buggies** Wagons I j We have received one carload of * ANCHOR BUGGIES. ' One carload of ENGER BUGGIES. and one carload of the famons IIAADOCK BUGGIES. _______ - v ? , ? .irf I We can surely suit you in a vehicle of any description. Full line of HARNESS, LAP ROBES, , WHIPS, Etc. Don't fail to see us before buying a jH Buggy or Wagon. H We can and will save you money. 9 JONES BKOS., 1 RAMBERq. S. C. .:-M The Largest,and Most Complete . Establishment South. GEO. 8. HAM & SON. ?Manufacturers of? I Doors, Sash, Blinds MoiMing, Building Material. Sash Weights and Sash Cord. Office ? | and Wafe Rooms Kins St., op- I posite Cannon St. Charleston, S. O. Window and Fancy Glass a Specially