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:v1 I " The Bamberg Herald. ? ?, i ESTABLISHED MAY 1st, 1891. =============== A. Jr. KXIGirr. Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 ceuts for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 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 be paid for 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 Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for.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, August 15, 1901. ?? We print Senator McLaurin's reply to the executive committee. It will be seen h/\ Ahftn/rno TillmoYA T\* it It TP liiill iiU y. Jill! 5V.0 11I11UU11 ?1>U - sponsible for the committee's action, and compares records with the senior Senator * t as to their votes in congress, proving by the records that Tillman voted with the Republicans at least as often as he did. Altogether it is a strong reply. From Honey Ford. The Midway and Clear Pond base ball teams met for practice on last Saturday J afternoon. The score stood 14 to 4 in favor of Midway. Misses Nora Lee and Lanier Folk, charming young ladies of Weimer, visited r , Miss Wilhelmina Cleaver last week. Messrs. Eugene and HughHutto are on the sick list. A picnic is scheduled for next Saturday at the Getsinger place by the Clear Pond base ball team. Two games will be gg played. There will be music and we hope plenty of pretty girls on hand. fni?< _: ir, n?l TTT? TTVOL- oro PX11C 1HCUUJ Ui VUI. UUV. J. . J. win U.v gratified at liis appointment as treasurer? an honor worthily bestowed. H. E. G. To Cnre a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Brorao Quinine Tablets. KV" > All druggists refund money if it tails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. ? &.> . Six Candidates for Senate. Columbia, Aug. 11.?The past week has been largely devoted to politics. McLaurin attacked Latimer at Greenville, aud Latimer retaliated at Union, and so it went. The attacks on McLaurin's record were savage, and so severe that it may not be speculative to sav that McLaurin would have had a hard time with the Union audience. It ha9 been my observation that McLaurin is an unusually agile and quick stump speaker and a hard fighter, and pretty well able to take care of himself, and he could as well do so in the coning fight, if he enters it, although Tillman says he will never toe the scratch. McLaurin had the crowds with him or pretty much divided in the days of yore, but how it will be now, with intense opposition from many sides, will be another matter. From the situation as now observed the ftrrav of senatorial candidates who will want to succeed McLaurin will include: John Gary Evans, John J. Hemphill, Daniel S. Henderson, Wilie Jones, George Johnstone, Asbury C. Latimer. There may and probably will be others who^ will want Mr. McLaurin's place, whether he runs or not, and each candidate seems to have his own style of campaigning.?News & Courier. if This signature is on every box of the genninf Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets the remedy that ?urea a eoM in one day Denmark Doings. "The colour of the king doth come and go Between his purpose and his conscience T :).? LnoMs tirn rlrooilfnl hflttlps jUI&C uciauto ui iAb in v ui vui?iua * set. His passion is so ripe, it needs must break" The above lines are taken from the works of a famous dramatist, which fitly portray in blank verse a struggling conscience. And such must have been the musings of the poor mortal that fired the Baptist church of this place Monday night. This is expressing the sentiment of the entire community,"His passion is so ripe, it needs must break." If the calamity is the work of an incendiary, these sentiments are true. It would be inhuman for your correspondent to say that it was human, for it would be forcing the broadness of the term into narrowest confines. But possibly the poor church mouse, is the cause of the disaster and not man. The iron tongue of night had already spoken twelve, and gentle sleep engrossed the town. See that sudden glare! It is the Baptist church! You say this is the work of man! Oh God, change the mental picture, surely it is but the mischievous, poor church mouse! The fire was hard to locate, few thought that the sacred spire of half a century, was at the mercy of flames. As each man rushed up to the scene, he quietly stood and gazed. No one entered the church. The fire seemed to have enveloped the building in short order. The officials of the church held an insurance policy of $2,000 which will materially aid them in the erection of a new ? church. The location was sjp^t&l early in the year, midway b$" the two towns. Money and nihave also been subscribed for a jjjrfWnage. Work ^ will sooir begin and what the Baptist ~ " "people now call a calamity will in the end be a good blessing. It takes a sweeping fire sometimes to move off the car of progress. The citizens of this school district are anxiously awaiting the final disposal of the entangled county affair. The business reputation of the new Treasurer Sromises much and possibly the overraw n accounts will soon be reimbursed. Mr. Folk is well known throughout the county as a man of extraordinary capacity. His success in past undertakings have V , , 1 .. ; oeen pncnomeuuj aim uiv imjji c>? ui ui? intelligence on the work of the Treasurer's office will soon smooth out the crooks and kinks. Mr. Dickinson deserves the sympathy of the entire people. His peaceful resignation to the inevitable situation shines with the integrity of honored manhood. Taking the whole trouble into careful consideration, lie has done remarkably well. The ex-Auditor must wear his share of public censure for the poor book-i keeping exhibited in his office. If our hustling Supervisor issued checks, which he knew would overdraw funds to his credit, he too must walk up and take his li'tle pill. Each department should be a check 011 the other. [We do not see how the Supervisor is at fault.?Ed.] The Allendale base ball team tussled wifli tl>t> FWinnrL- Sfitnrilnv noon and won with hands down. It was a game of errors. Several hoys from Bamberg played on the Denmark team. Youmans pitched for the Allendale nine, which seemed willing to dul> him with the household name, "Tillman." The son seems to like the name better than his papa likes the man. Hutto and Peterson have opened up a general merchandise store under the Ellzey House. All stores are occupied and others could be rented if they were available. Cottages are in demand. The transient dwellers cannot find homes. Every week brings the inquiry for a house. Miss Bessie Recti, of this place, and Miss Mamie Rowell, of Bamberg, have won the Winthrop scholarships. They were formerly pupils in the Denmark ... ^ High Schoohwheretheir work was exceptionally editable. J. Denmark, S. C., August 13,1901. You Know What You Are Taking "When you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on every hottle showing that it is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure, no pay. Price 50c. McLAlRINS WARM REPLY. His Letter to the Slate Executive Com mi t tee?Sco res Till in a n. Paris Mountain, S. C., Aug. f>, 1901. To the Democratic Executive Committee, State of South Carolina? Gentlemen: The official notice of the action of a majority of your committee of July 25tli was received by me on August 1st, live days after it had been announced in the newspapers. The published announcement was the lirst notice I had that any action affecting me was to be taken by your committee. 1 am now officially informed that the majority of your committee condemns my course in the senate, demands my resignation, and undertakes to expel me from the democratic [Villi >. Jl WVUIJ *VUl 111*. 11 141% ? V. UIVVU*|'1VVI to usurp the powers of the 90,000 democratic voters of South Carolina, and as an incident, in a meeting called for another purpose, have hastily endeavored to do what can be done only by solemn proceedings of impeachment,"expressly provided for in the constitution of the United States. RESPONSIBLE ONLY TO THE PEOPLE. I hold mv commission from the democratic voters of South Carolina. I recognize no authority but theirs, take 110 orders from any source but them, and shall in due course appeal to theift for judgment on my course as a senator and my character as a man and a democrat. Personally, I am indifferent to your action because nobody has made you my master or censor, and I regard what you have done as merely expressing the malice and the fears of one individual, Senator B. R. Tillman. But for this always evil and indecent influence, ordinary respect for the proprieties would probably have prevented the four of you who are my declared competitors for the seat 1 now have the honor to occupy, from attempting to use the power entrusted to you by your party to remove a rival from yuurpuui. UNFAIR AND UNDEMOCRATIC. As a citizen and democrat of South Carolina I am mortified by your action, because it has brought upon the State the condemnation and the ridicule of the press and the public throughout the country. Unhappily, those who are not intimately acquainted with our conditions accept the action of 3-our majority as representing the intelligence and democracy of our State and both arc made objects of derision. I wish to enter my solemn protest. I shall demonstrate how unfair, absurd and undemocratic your action is. and I shall trust to the democrats of South Carolina to repudiate it when the opportunity is given them. Your purpose is to deny that opportunity. STAR CHAMBER PROCEEDINGS. It is in strong contrast with the blatant boast of Senator Tillman at Gaffuey to put me on trial liefore the party on' the hustings with himself as prosecutor. As you know, I sought that test by accepting ;i proposal of appeal to the people, but the governor saw fit to forbid it. Now Senator Tillman appears as prosecutor against me in my absence, and by proceedings like those of the star chamber, which was the most infamous tribunal of English history and the most abhorrent to AngloSaxon instincts, seeks to exclude me from the party and its debates and public assemblages. It is your duty, as custodians of the party interests, to seek recruits to strengthen the party. To save Senator Tillman from staking his record, strength and fortunes against mine, you undertake to exclude me and my friends from the party. Whatever your individual motives may have been, the purport of your action is to facilitate the Senator in dodging me and to deny the people the opportunity of passing on my positions and conduct. It seems to me the democratic masses of South Carolina are competent to say at the polls whether or not I have been a faithful Senator and a consistent Democrat. Why should you attempt to prevent them ? POLITICAL ASSASSINS. It is no cause for wonder that Senator Tillman should seek to make political assassins of you to avoid open and fair fight. He has climbed to power by venomous abuse of many of the purest men in the State who opposed him, for which he has always carefully shirked personal responsibility, and on the political lives and fortunes of those who befriended him while he needed friends. Norris, Tindal and Donaldson, men representing earnest purpose and the interests of the farmers of the State and therefore strong, were used by him to promote his own interests and then thrust aside. Irby, Shell and Farley died despising him because of his treachery to them and to the people. I am now in his way and because he has failed to strike me* down he incites you to attempt to strangle me, and at the same time to destroy a white primary, to his advocacy of which he owed much of the best of liis early following. Party principles are fixed and to the principles of the democratic party I have been uniformly faithful. Party policies are determined from time to time by party elections and conventions, and no man, nor body of men, has the power to say between those elections what policies shall be the tests of party loyalty. Senator Tillman is assuming the prerogative of supreme boss and dictator to say who shall or shall not be regarded as a democrat next year. I do not concede any such power to him nor to you. He, nor all your committee together, has not the power to exclude from candidacy nor the polls at the democratic primary the humblest citizen of South Carolina who declares himself to be a democrat and pledges himself to support the party nominees. Suppose in 1890, the execu tive committee of the State hail ruled out of the party all who engaged in the ''Fanners' Movement?" Suppose two years later it had excluded all who favored the Sub-Treasury idea? Such action Would have been unjust, tyrannical and insulting to thousands of good citizens and democrats, but not more so than this proceeding of yours. WHETiE DID TILLMAN* GET T1IE MONEY. In his double character as prosecuting witness and attorney against me, Senator Tillman is reported as saying before your committee that I have voted with the republicans "in important matters" and that he has seen me conferring with republican senators. As I will show by the records he himself frequently voted with the republicans "in important matters," as all other democratic senators have done from time to time. It is frequently necessary, proper and courteous to confer with members of the opposite party, as he knows and as every man of practical sense knows. These* expressions of his are attempts to take advantage of credulity and ignorance. I do not think there is a man in South Carolina so ignorant as to be really deceived by them. He can not put me under suspicion as he has put himself by his own I acts. I have not in public otfice retrogra ed from a, perhaps, honorable bankruptcy to dishonorable and unexplainable wealth. He and I have drawn the same salaries but I have found it impossible to save a dollar from mine. I have never, however, truckled to corporations, with ; the fawing of a tamed spaniel, made 1 speeches against them, then voted for them, and accepted favors as he has done. I have never been the sole boss and buying agent of a newly created whiskey trust with its rebates of $00,000 to $70,0(K) a year, none of which ever reached the State treasury. I have never had the handling of a State bond refunding scheme with $28,000 of commissions never yet accounted for or explained. A year ago Senator Tillman went into North Dakota and made speeches advocating the re-election of a republican Senator?Mr. Pettigrew. Senator Tillman and llli> >cn;in'i n vi t" |?i iMiiiiRiu tii |uv?viiiing by filibustering tacticts a vote on the subsidy bill. The newspapers said that Mr. Hill, head of the Northern Pacific lobby against the subsidy bill, gave SenaTillman's friend and associate a "tip" which paid him *4.">0,000 in the stock market. Birds of a feather, gentlemen of the committee, always llock together. TILLMAN NOT A DEMOCRAT. Has Senator Tillman, prosecuting attorney against my democracy, ever failed to abuse democrats aud democracy ? Do you know that in the last two democratic national conventions lie lias supported the nomination of Republicans ? In lbUti lie favored Senator Teller for President, an old line republican and one of the bitterest foes of the South in reconstruction days. He had himself appeared before the convention as a competitor of W. J. Bryan and been ignominiouly snowed under. In 19(H) lie was for Towne, also a republican, for vice president. Is he the man to be supreme arbiter and judge of what is democracy in South Carolina? GIVE THE YOUNG MEN A CHANCE. Iii the Senate I have labored, as the records will show, to broaden the prosperity of the country, to promote the interests of my own people, to spread civilization. to enlarge and increase opportunity for our young men and to stimulate enterprise. llis whole political course and method have been to tear down, to abuse and oppose, to blight and restrain, to bite \\ here lie dared and to fawn where he feared or sought favor. 1 shall ask the people to ??A.?4 1? A o J! e 1?n 11 />loiio TT Willi.V*!. HIV ICVV1US .Will .-M1UU 1 it I L11 lllj right as a free man, a born and reared demrtcrat and Senator from South Carolina, to do it regardless of the orders of twenty-one members of the executive committee. I shall ask the people to decide between the man who has tried to help cotton factories, open highways of commerce and to so command the democratic party as to command for it the confidence and respect of the business and laboring elements north and south; and that of the man whose conduct and record has been to sink the party to disrepute and impotence. I shall ask them to say whether they prefer the Senator who has tried to retain for South Carolina the honor and dignity won by a long line of illustrous sons and glorious deeds, or the Senator who has postured as buffoon and bully and who proclaimed on the floor of the Senate that he represented a constituency of ballot box stuffcrs and murderers who wanted their share of the stealage. He is now in a Notheru State holding up our people as negro murderers and ballot box thieves. WOULD CONDEMN AND DEPOSE WITHOUT A HEARING. You have undertaken to condemn and expel and depose m<J, not only without a hearing, but without evidence. Upon what ground are my good faith as a Senator and my fidelity as a democrat assail ed ? Is it on tlic tariff? None of you of the committee can prove to the people that the democratic party is a free trade party. It has opposed a tariff for protection only, hut as early as 1797 we had a protective tariff and we have never in the one hundred kand four vears since known free trade. * General Hancock, the party nominee for president in 1880, regarded the tariff as a local question. Samuel J. Randall, for years the party leader and speaker of the house, was a protectionist. In every congress where the question has been presented numbers of democrats have voted against and helped to kill free trade. I have contended that Southern products should be put on equality with others, and in 1897 I fought to have rice, pine lumber, and cotton protected. The cry of "Republican" was raised against me then, but the people, before whom the issue was squarely, put, endorsed me by an overwhelming vote. Are you now undertaking to reverse that verdict ? TARIFF SUBSIDIES AND EXPANSION. I have favored ship subsidies. It is a great question and one, I submit, on which the people of this State are competent to pass after hearing full argument. The subject has never been discussed before them, although it is of vast importance to the prosperity of this State. The nurnose of the subsidv is to develop the building and operation of great fleets of American ships. It touches the interests of our sea ports, of our lumber industries, of all our manufacturing enterprises and our great agricultural products. It is a question on which some of the ablest democrats of the house and senate are divided. I most humbly submit that it is not in order for twenty-one members of your committee to rule that the democratic masses of South Carolina shall not at their campaign meetings hear this matter of vital interest to them discussed, and that the people of the sea'coast cities, who would like to see new tides of commerce brought to their harbors and the lumbermen and owners of forest lands who would be glad to sell material for more ships, are to be thrown neck and heels out of the party because they favor ship subsidies. Senators Carlisle, Pugh, and Morgan voted for a subsidy bill which has been in force ten years and which has helped our Brazilian trade, in a measure at least. Are they not democrats, according to the decision of Senator Tillman and your committee? I believe that is our duty to develop the new territory which has come into our possession along commercial and industrial lines, to civilize them, and make them the equal of our own States in material prosperity. Senator Tillman would leave them, after we have deprived them of the protection of Spain to a hopeless struggle as an independent nation without resources or self protection.! Fortunately for us the records show that in building them up, we are going to benefit our own country. I want to give that territory the best form of government in tlio world, he does not want to give it any form of government at all. lie says "free silver or bust." I say the American people have settled that question at the ballot box. I am for a sound currency and constant employment for all who desire to work at remunerative wages. This we can not have without an outlet for our surplus* products on equal terms with all of our competitors in the markets of the world. Do you think the energetic, live, progressive young business man of the South, will long permit the cabals of a few scheming politicians to stand between him and the attainment of these glorious ends? If this is not democracy, then gentlemen, I invite you to join hands with me in making it so. These are the leading questions on which I understand my democracy and loyalty have been assaulted. The records give me little light as to'what further ground there may be for your action. Allow me to summarize them briefly. COMPARING RECORDS. In the first session of the 55th congress Senator Tillman and myself voted together in 148 of 150 yea and nay votes. I voted against him for protection to the farmers on an amendment to the tariir bill, proposed by Senator Jones, of Arkansas, present chairman of the executive committee. Possibly you may reconvene your committee and read him out of the party. I voted with Jones, Vest, Bacon, Bate, Berry, Daniel, Mills, Morgan and all the other democrats, except Senators Tillman and McEnery who voted with the republicans. It was a .4 ? Mn innfliop nnwnil. MHllglll JM1L? iwvi,. v?? uuv>?v. ?....? in en t to the same bill I voted with the democrats. Senator Tillman was the one democrat voting with the republicans. See Congressional Record, vol. 39, page 1577. In the second session of the same congress Senator Tillman and myself voted together on 82 of 95 roll calls. One vote on which we differed was on a motion to adjourn intended to defeat a resolution calling upon the President to intervene in Cuba. Senator Tillman voted with the Republicans to adjourn and the motion prevailed b^ one vote. I voted with the Democrats. The other votes on which we differed were unimportant and not pa rty questions,the parties dividing on all. I favored the acceptance of theHawaiaan Islands along with such Democrats as Gorman, Kyle, Money, Morgan, Pettus, and Sullivan, and he, with the other democrats and some republicans were opposed to it. On page 4858, vol. 31 of the Record it is shown that I voted with all the democrats but three and all the republicans, for a bill to provide for arbitration of disputes between railway companies and their employes. Senator Tillman was one of the three against it. We also differed on a bill prohibiting intoxicating liquors to be sold in the territory of Alaska. I favored and he opposed the prohibition. Possibly he had views on a dispensary and rebates there. On a vote to recommit the conference report on the River and Harbor bill I voted for the recommitment with such Democrats as Chilton, Hcitfeldt. Kenney, Mills, Rawlins and Turner. lie voted against with such republicans as Allison, Burrows, Cullom, Davis, Elkins, Foraker, Hale, Hawley, Lodge, Perkins, Piatt and Quay. In the first session of the 5(>th Congress Senator Tillman and I voted together on G7out of 71 roll calls. In each of the four cases which we differed the parties were divided. The most notable of these was on the admission of Senator Quay. I voted for it with Senators Daniel, Kenney, McEnerv, Morgan and Taliaferro, democrats. He opposed with most of the democrats and eleven republicans, including Hanna, Piatt, Foraker, Gallinger,*and Hale. In the last session of the same congress Senator Tillman and myself voted together in most of the 57 votes taken. On a resolution requiring the President to issue in ten days a proclamation disclaiming any purpose to exercise sovereignty over the Phillippiues I voted "nay" with Foster, Kyle, Lindsay, Morgan and Sullivan, democrats. Senator Tillman was one of 22 favoring it. On an amendment deelar ing that it was not the purpose of the United States to exercise permanent control over the Pliillippines Senator Tillman with most of the democrats and Senator Hoar, republican, voted "aye." I, with Senators Foster and Lindsay, democrats, voted "nay." On the tiual passage of the army bill \vc differed. I voted for it, and had \vith me Senators Foster, Lindsay, Morgan, and Sullivan. We voted together for amendments extending the constitution of the United States over the Pliillippines on strict party lines. TOGETHER OX IMPERIALISM. On the question of governing our outlying possessions he and I voted together, and it is that determined the matter of j imperialism, not the possession of the | territory. I voted to take possession and rule justly. He voted not to take possession but to rule. He and I voted together on all party questions except those concerning the Philippines, which my judgment, exercised as a Senator and a representative! of the people, tohl me was a question of foreign relations, involving entirely new problems and therefore not properly a party question, and on which my political judgment told me the country was practical!}' united. The democratic party was wrecked by being forced in this matter into a policy opposed to its own traditions and the overwhelming sentiment of the country, against my protest and that of other loyal democrats. Developments have proved that those who maintained that the pacification of these islands was impossible, that the people would never accept our control and that their retention would be unprofitable and disastrous, were wrong. I am ready to go before the people of South Carolina and show them the facts. Do you undertake to say that I must resign and put myself out of my party because I favored upholding the dignity of the American flag after its troops had been fired, and opposed a cowardly abandonment of the people of these islands to chaos ? Is the proposition to punish ine because I did not believe Aguinaldo to be the equal of George Washington or concede that the Filipinos A. A. 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"Blind Tom," the negro pianist, who has so completely dropped out of hearing that many have supposed him dead, has now reappeared in concert. Tom is now 52 years old, and is still mentally the child he was when his extraordinary imitative faculty was first manifested. Since 1SS2 he has been under the most punctilious care, in asylums and sanitariums, and his custody has been a shuttlecock between one and another attorney. The present guardian is Albert Lerche. The laws of health require that the bowels move once each day and one of the penalties for violating this law is piles. Keep your bowels regular by taking a dose of Chamberlain' Stomach and Liver Tablets when necessary and you will never have that severe punishment inflicted upon you. Price, 25 cents. For sale by Bamberg Pharmacy. The ideal husband is the man who hasn't got married yet. Marrying a drunkard to reform him is like frying fish to make beefsteak out of it. Their Secret is Out. * * Ml Ir ? 4. - 1 All JNiuieviue, ivy., was curious iu icarn i the cause of I lie vast improvement in the health of Mrs. S. 1*. Whittaker, who had ' for a long time, endured untold suffering from a chronic bronchial trouble. ' It's all due to I)r. King's New Discovery," writes her husband. "It completely cured lier and also cured our little grand-daughter of a severe attack of whooping cough." It I positively cures coughs, colds, la grippe, bronchitis, all t hroat and lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Thos. audDr. J. 13. Black's. could instantly and unguidcd organize for themselves a stable government and a high civilization ? LET HIM DENY TniS RECORD. I have been at some pains to show from the records, by volume and page, that where Senator Tillman and I differed in congress it was not on party questions, and that he voted with the republicans at least as often as I did, and that in every case where we divided I had with me democrats who possess the confidence of the party throughout the country and whose democracy not even his reckless and slanderous insolence dares to assail. I could further and show other instances in which he has voted against the great majority of his party and even against his own declarations?notably in the Piatt amendment to the Cuban bill. He had declared his purpose to oppose and fight this to the last ditch, but he voted for it. Some of his present newspaper friends said at the time that he did it to curry favor with the Charleston vote, hoping to trade the exposition bill through If that was the case, he was the shallow victim of a political green goods game and sold himself for sawdust. But I have said enough, I think, to prove to you and to the public that you?like many who have risen and gone "before you?have permitted yourselves to be made tools of by Senator Tillmar., to promote his own base and brutal ends and to protect him from a struggle he fears to face, because he knows th.it the tacts and arguments are an against him. His hope is to keep those facts and arguments from the people of South Carolina. Accept my condolence on the unhappy and absurd situation into which this would-be dictator has led you. You may be assured that he will find- a crevice through which to crawl, leaving you to stand the fire when it becomes hot, and that having used you he will cast you aside like many he has formerly used. I desire to proclaim to the world that you do not represent the intelligence, the tlemocracy or the people of South Carolina, and to j'ou and Senator Tillman that he has never been my master and shall never be; that he shall not escape the vengeance that must surely fall upon him when the people have been piade to understand his motives, his methods, his debased haracter, and his shameful record. To that grand conservator of free government, the reserved patriotism and common sense of the people, I make appeal, against partisan intolerance and tyranny. Yerj' respectfully, Jxo. Lowndes McLauktn. A Minister's Good Work. "I had a very severe attack of bilious colic, got a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, took two doses and was entirely cured." savs Rev. " " " ": '- :'f"* '^Xrv5^' ''^Sv.' CARLISLE FITTING SCHOOL Of Wofford College at Bamberg. Offers a thorough course in preparatory work for College to young men and young women. A Boys' Boarding Home under control of Head Master. A Girls' Boarding Home under control of Lady Assistant Teacher. A well selected Library, two Literary Societies, a Gymnasium, etc. A Department of Instrumental Music. $109 pays all expenses for entire year. SESSIONS BEGINS SEPTEMBER 24, 1901. Write for a Catalogue. H. G. SHERIDAN, Head Master, BAMBERG, S. C. J. P. ALLEN, President. C. B. ADDISON, Vice-President. D. B. KENDRICK. Cashier. The Bank of Brunson, BRUXSOy South Carolina. Board of Directors?D. F. MOORE, JR., DR. J. L. FOLK, M. F. BRA.BIIAM, G. W. CONE, W. D. BARNES. Transacts a general banking and exchange business. Equipped with latest improved lire and burglar proof vaults, with time locks, insuring everv protection that modern ingenuity and science can devise. Accounts of firms, individuals and corporations solicited. All business entrusted to us will receive prompt and careful attention, and every facility and accommodation consistent with sound banking principles will be extended to patrons. A SAVINGS DEPARTMENT will be operated in connection with the Bank, and interest will be allowed on time deposits. Especial attention will be given those not accnslomed to transacting a banking business. A cordial invitation is extended the public to visit us whether bent on business or not. We shall be glad to greet you. t nni iniinn muin Drtuonco going at a special low price this week. A large invoice bought below the regular market price will be sold accordingly. Pure Drugs & Medicines. There comes a satisfaction from using the best, The general public is being educated through experience to recognize the importance of dealing with competent pharmacists and not grocerymen when medicine is needed in their families. A. C. REYNOLDS, EHRIIARDT DRUGGIST. getthebestT^ You want the best flour and the largest of A ArK-4 yield for your wheat. This is precisely W Fifty Barrels Capacity a Day new crop, and I guarantee satisfaction or return you pound lor pound the wheat DDTUflTUfl TM you brought MMM ifl WHAT I WILL DO. A mmj ODGAIJCG If you prefer to ship your grain to Cope, llln j\[l R A I Rll mark your sacks plainly, prepay freight, and I will haul your grain from the depot from early morn to dewy eve and return it when ground into flour, .... without any other cost than the regular agency for toll at the mill?provided the shipment is llie celebrated not less than thirty bushels. Two or more .. Dniu'enii" iTTnnur KUUM run MAN ANU DtAol. .. In case any distant customer should UQP|l|j|fjPy have to remain over night, I have quarters illuUllllIUl J ( unian for the man and stables for his team. I am now prepared to sell vou on cad CYPHAMfiF easy terms self-binding Wheat run HAUnMMUt Harvesters, Mowers, and Rakes. I will exchange flour for good beef cat- You have always heard that Deertic. Bring your wheat and have it made ing Implements were the best; into first-class patent flour. now let me prove it to you or give up your money. I won't have it JO TT#*<ixrv*rirrLr unless you rather have the ma t>. 1 ray WICK, chine. As to our :r.i: caiiige mm Would say I do not deem it necPBflMiJ U nnvTll'V essary to say more than remind JtiLi WLLli. UrLLJuLU. W tiUuilvtia you that I am doing business at " "" 7 " * 7 same old stand, opposite Bamberg , _ . Cotton Mills. I am here to stay, Attorneys and Counselors don't forget rae when y0a need ' the services of the carriage man. BAMBERG C. H? S. C. Gmteful.y yours, | General practice; special attention l>e- D.J.DELK. I ing given to corporation law and the examination of titles. _________________________________ FOR SALE. I??-???? One ten horse power engine; one fifty ff?n- ffaJ 11* fAlAai saw gin; condenser and press. All in flayE yflU Xly^rQ Luc ilulEttL good shape. Will sell cheap for cash or m *?? ? 011 reasonable terms. J. A. SPANN, H7IIAT TO TT Bamberg S. C. W11AI ID 11. q D t jn \/ Terrible Hot Wave Comiag our Way. * ? ** * * 9 WELL, LET 'ER COMEFIRE, THE BON-TON FOUNT HiIF?] Keep Things Cool. ACCIDENT Ail the latest and most popular a mT/NTI <lrinks at the B?NTON, and 5 I 1 S ^ \ \ ( II served in a way that will tickle A -L Y ^ AiiA-1" V7 M-J the palate of the most fastidious. BAMBERG, S. C. ( AT OUR PHARMACY can be found at all times the Newberry College. articles, fancy Stationery, choice I cigars, and a well selected stock Commodious buildings; pure water. Pure> fresh drugs, paints, oils. ^ Three courses for degrees, with elec- 0ar Pre8Cpiptioi| Department Good library; working laboratory. is in the hands of a thoroughly Efficient preparatory department. competent and reliable FharmaBoard, tuition, anil all fees per year I cjst. need not exceed $100in collegiate department; $00 in preparatory department. PURITY AND ACCURACY Next session begins October 2d. For OUR MOTTO catalogue address GEO. B. CROMER, We hare a nice line of spectacles President, Newberry, S. C. and eye glasses, spectacle frames and lenses. ^ Dr. B. D. Bronson, MB FJi&M, CAN SEE because I bought Zifatitipnd/ GUARANTEED I '1 _? UXDKl A my I $5,000 DEPOSIT J ? a '/^nhnfw ? " fme paid . Spectacles ftfja L ?ILiLJIH Write quick to U.-ALA. BuatME?8COH.EQt.Haoon.C? ^ Dr- H- w- BLACK, T C jROIJIS V* Will be at EHRHART from TUESDAY - _ _ _ d*u a n to SATURDAY after the second HonR. R? Ave?, Bamberg, S. 0? J day in each month. . . - - ' .. . : -;; y ?i:: -Vs. "r : " % staH iirjJit Mvar. Capital City Route." Shortest line between all principal cities North, East, Sonth, and West. Unequaled schedules to Pan American Exposition at Buffalo. Schedules in effect May 26th, 1901. NORTHWARD. Daily Daily No. 06 No. 34 Lv Savannah c t .. 11 45 p m 2 10pm Lv Fairfax 134am 3 58pm Lv Denmark ..*... 215am 4 39pm Lv Columbia et... 4 40am 7 12 pm Lv Camden 5 37 a m 8 06 p m Lv Cheraw 7 12 a m 9 43 p m Ar Harriet 7 40 a m 10 15 p m Lv Calhoun Falls .100am 4 11pm Lv Abbeville 133am 4 38pm Lv Greenwood 2 01 a m 5 01 p m Lv Clinton 2 55am 5 47 pm Lv Carlisle 3 43 am 6 33pm Lv Chester 4 10 am 703pm Lv Catawba Jet.... 445am 735pm Ar Hamlet 710am 10 10 p m Lv Hamlet 8 00am 10 85 p xa. Ar Raleigh 10 37am 124am Ar Petersburg 2 45pm 5 48am Ar Richmond 3 28pm 6 29am Ar Washington 7 05 p m 10 10 a m Ar Baltimore ......11 26 p m 11 25 a m Ar Philadelphia 2 56am 136pm Ar New York .... 6 30 a m 4 25 p m SOUTHWARD. Daily Daily No. 31 No. 27 Lv Cheraw, et 7 48am 1118 pm Lv Camden 9 25am 12 53am , Lv Columbia, ct .... 9 40am 105am * Lv Denmark 1109am 2 27am Lv Fairfax 1154 am 8 05am Ar Savannah 147 pm 458am Ar Jacksonville... 6 10 p m 9 15 a m .'; Ar Tampa 615 am 5 40pm Lv Catawba, e t 9 45 a m 1 05 a m Lv Chester 10 30 am 143am LvCarlisle 10 47am 305am Lv Clinton 1137am 3 55am Lv Greenwood 13 33pm 346am , Lv Abbeville 13 48 p m 4 15 a m '/.? Lv Calhoun Falls.. 1 15 p m 4 48am Ar Athens 3 40 pm 6 38 am \ Ar Atlanta '? 4 55pm 9 00am No. 66 connects at Washington with . / j? the Pennsylvania Railway Buffalo. Ex* press, arriving Buffalo 7.35 a m. Columbia, Newberry & Laurens Ry. train No. 53, leaving Columbia, Union Station, at 11.33 a. m. daily, connects at # A Clinton with S. A. L. Ry., No. 53, afford* ing shortest and quickest route by several hours to Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, . St. Louis, Chicago, and all points west. y: Close connection at Petersburg, Rich- z)r.: ' mond, Washington, Portsmouth-Norfolk, l Columbia, Savannah, Jacksonville, ana ~ Atlanta with diverging lines. , Magnificent vestibule trains carrying through Pullman sleeping cars between all principal points. For reduced rates, Pullman reserva- ^ y ^ tions, etc., apply to ~ Wjc. Butleb Jb., D. P. A., Savannah, Ga. 1 J. M. Babe, R. ?. L. Bunch, IstY.P.&G. M., T.P.A., Portsmouth, Va. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. |S| Ah .'yjsm <HV Condensed Sohednle in Effect July 1,190L /.' N55TNO.W I No. 'MM Daily Daily Daily Dafly^ -MM 620p 7 00a Lr... Charleston.. .Ar 1115a 780p Jj^ji ?Q6p 741a ."..Summerville.. " lO&la 542p ^ 7?p 8fiSa ? ...Branchvtlle... 44 900a 51$ 810p{ 928a 44 ...Orangeburg... 44 881* 45$ .^r 908p 1084a 44 ....Kingvffle....44 745* 846p 1145a Ar .Sumter Lv 880f . 1125a 44 Camden Lv .| 554F 9 SOp 1100a Ar... Columbia.....Lv 70Qai 400p .\ *520p TOOajLv...Charleston ...Aril 18aj 780p I f 25p 915a 44 .. .Branchville... - 8?2 515p " ?Sg| 805p 940aj 44.... Bamberg .... 44 827a| 4fi0p P 81Tp 958a 44 ? Denmark? 44 8 lSaj 488p ^ ; ??5p lOloJ 44 ....Blackville.....44 800af 418p * 988p 11 tOal 44 . ... ...Aiken.44 7 06a| 8Up ; S lfl80p liaOajAr. Augusta and Lr44 520a' 380p " NOTE: 'in addition to the above service :trainsNos. 15 and 16 ran daily between diarieston and Columbia, carrying elegant Pullman -iM sleeping oars. No. 15 leave Charleston 1140 p. ^ ' m.:arrive Aaheville 240 p. m. Na 15 leave . ?.$* Columbia 148 a. m.; arrive Charleston 740 a. 4 m. Sleeping ears ready for occupancy at 945 ; > p. m. both at Charleston and Columbia. These trains make close connections at Oolombia ^ ^ with through trains between Florida points . and Washington and the east. Trains Nos. If - Vi and 14 oarryElegant Pullman-Parlor Cars be- ; > tween Charleston, Snmmervillfl and Ashevilln. .. $ " EjT. Sun. Ex. Sun. only Son. Lv. Augusta 700a 980a 62ta Ar. banderaville 100pl250p 848p --WM44 Tennllle lag lOOp 8lti?jsapM frrTwnnlllo..... 580S 85D|? 8Up;;5S 44 Sanderaville 5W850p, itt.pH Ar. Augusta., 9oSj T10p| 85% |j Daily Daily Lv. Savannah. 1280s 1225p .....i. 44 Allendale 840a fffpllttp u?mw?n 418a 8Mp1885p: ^^S - . |4 2sa|#t?pj Ar. Bateeborg 800p . Ar. Columbia. fl 15a 06Op ...... Daily Daily jg*," -;.' Lr. Columbia ....1140a 110a Lv.Batesburg 680a , r Ar.Blackvllle - I?p 252aH)8ua ^ ? Barnwell 1& 807a 1140a ' M Allendale 200& 840a 1200m ? Savannah.... 805p 4fi0al..... x;^|j Atlantn and Beyond. Lt.Charleston. ?00al 620p}...'.~ Ar. Augusta U50aM80p M Atlinta 880p ?003 Lv. Atlanta. 1100p 5 53 5lie 'M Ar. Chattanooga 5 4&a| 0 45a{lOOt^> Lt. Atlanta. 000a 416p . Ar. Birminghm lSn'n lOOOp *' Memphis,(viaBir'mgam) .v... 806p TUa . ; ? ^ Ar. Lexington '.... 606p 800a . " Cincinnati.* 7o0p 7 48a " Chicago... 7 L5a 680p - MiMMW ' ' ' -f ^ ' ' M Ar. Louisville 760p 840a . " St. Louis.. 782a ?Wp : ZZ t, Ar. Memphis. (viaChatt)? 7 jOp 810a. '* : To AshevUle-Clnoinnati-LonlaTlTISi ^ASTEMi TIM*. *Tf. Lv.Augusta. BWp 9?p " Batesburg 486pl?ff? , Lv. Charleston ! 70Qa il5p Lv.'whinbia (Union Depot) 1180a |20a ^ Ar. Spartanburg 8l0pl026a " Asheville ... 7lS> 200p M KnoxvHle. 418a 7 Up M QnolnnnatL 780p 8 Ma ' - '>> - Louisville (via Jellipo) 860a. - ST . V?. i.% To Waahiugtos and tha East. " Colombia. SfiSo 81|a Ar. Charlotte. POOp 04m Ar. Danville ;. JJTHa Igjp At. Bichmond ouuaj szop As.Washington. t35a firip u Baltimore Pa. R. R 0 lih 11 Sp " Philadelphia. 1188a ffife ? " Now York. 8Q8p)8iaa 81eeplng Oar Line between Charleetoa and Atlanta, via Augusta, making connections at Atlanta for all points Worth and West. Connections at Columbia with through trains ^ for Washington and the East; also for Jacksonville and all Florida Points. FRANK 8. GANNON; J.M.CULP, " .S.;U ThhrdV-P.A?en.Mgr. T.M..Washington. BOBT, W. HUNT, * w*S&!&fa.a A B.H.HABDWICK, W.H. TAYLOR, fiLP A-. W*?hington A. G. P. A.,Amgj% STILL AT IT. || WHAT? SELLING TOMBSTONES, MONUMENTS, and anything needed for a cemetery for the old reliable house . Son lb tarouna iriaroie iar?, COLUMBIA, 9. C. -i- ' ' -"4?^ F. H. HYATT, Proprietor. . > W. 91. CADTHE9T. Agent. ; BAMBERG, S. C. Will visit your homes with full lines of designs. Prices right < : . ' , ?>>U ''