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' 1*. " - . r^-> . - ^ . * The Bamberg Herald. Thursday, February 20,1902. C. J. S* Broeker's Hardware Store. \ Personal Mention. ?Mr. Decania Dow ling spent Monday in Barnwell. ?Mr. A. C. Reynolds, of EUrhardt, spent last Friday in the city. ?Mr. J. L. Proveau, of the Olar section, ^ paid us a pleasant call last Friday. ?Mr. C. E. Walker, of Hartzog, was in the city to-day, and paid us a pleasant call. ?Mrs. Bessie Kelly and Miss Hattie Risher, of St. George, are visiting at Mr. B. Risher's. ?Mr. G. F. Hiers, of Folk's Store, was in the city last Thursday, and paid us a pleasant call. ?Mrs. Otis Brabham and children, accompanied by Miss Aliue All, returned home from Allendale Friday last. Many farmers re-planted their grain rrnn loot vpptr It snowed for a few minutes in Bam^ * berg last Sunday. The rain last week was very welcome, k as it was very dry in Bamberg. & Eden watermelon seed for sale at 50c. per pound by W. D. Rice, Denmark, S. C. ^ Mr. B. H. Theus, of Hampton, a member of the legislature, died in Columbia last week. City taxes are now due and payable to W. P. Riley, town treasurer. Pay up at once. Rev. G. H. Waddell, financial agent of , the Epworth Orphanage, preached at the Methodist church here last Sunday. The Methodists of Walterboro are tearing down their old church, and will erect a handsome building on the same site. Miss Helen Gould and party passed through Bamberg this morning in her private car, on their way to Charleston. Remember the teachers' examination * at the court house next Friday. The examination will be held at ten o'clock in the inoraing. A beautiful line of new stationery will ' be received this week by The Herald Rook Store. Call and see it. We have , the very latest styles in fine note papers. For Sale.?About thirty or forty fine pine trees that will average one thousand feet each, also one hundred nice saw logs. - Apply to Q. F. Copelaxd, Ehrhardt, S. C. 1 County Treasurer J no. F. Folk informs ' us that there about eighteen hundred tax i receipts yet to be issued. Evidently many . parties are not in a hurry to pay their taxes. The Walterboro cotton mill is to be enlarged, and bids for the erection of the addition to the buildings have been called I for. The addition is to be 75x65 feet, two , stories high. - The trains have been running very irregularly recently, and passengers from this section have been put to inconven* ience by not making connection at i4-:h Branchville. I Capt. H. P. Griffith has retired from j the editorship of the Gaffney Ledger, as his other duties consume all his time. We ? regret to lose him from the fraternity, as 1 he was a strong writer. See Brooker's line of hardware and j farming implements before you buy. He has the goods you need and will make ^ prices that defy competition. ' It is hoped the new jury law passed by ( the legislature will do away with all this t v trouble about the illegality of juries t ^ . which we have been contending with in this State for the past year. ^eing asked by the preacher why he * kept his eyes closed during the sermon, J old colored brother reolied: "Well, t suh, you does me so much good dat I goes a ; fas' asleep en dreams er heaven!" In the Augusta Chronicle of last Sun* day we noticed the statement that Col. - Mike Brown, formerly of Barnwell, had been allowed $110,000 by congress for a damages to property by Sherman's army, f The Columbia Record says: "It is not ( true that Senator Mayfield will introduce v > a billprQviding that the state shall furnish all litigants and defendants with the 8 services of lawyers at ten per cent above e ? cost." p " The time for making tax returns ex- i pi red today, the 20th, and many people j nave not yet made their returns. The penalty is fifty per cent added to the value * of your property for not making your re- f turn. -v Pay your city taxes, and avoid the pen- f * alty. See W. P. Riley, city treasurer, and c ~ get your receipt. Extensive repairs are being made at the 1 Bamberg Cotton Mills. A good part of -; . the looms on the first floor have been taken out and new sills and flooring are y being put in. The work will be finished j in a few days. m* The Senate has killed the bill directed ^ 1 against the Virginia-Carolina Chemical " company, the vote standing ?0 to 10. I Senator Mayfield voted to kill the bill, i The same day the house passed an antitrust bill by a vote of 78 to 29. The supply bill has been adopted by the legislature and it fixes the tax levy -. for Bamberg county this year at four mills for ordinary county purposes. Barnwell's levy was fixed at three mills, with one-half mill to repay loan. ? ~ % + % * _ _ _i j - 1.111 * Senator Mayneici nas mirouuceu a uiu j to regulate the rate of interest to be charged in this State. He has also in- * troduced a bill to prevent pools, monopolies, trusts, and combinations from con- 1 trolling business and to prevent the or- t ganization of the same. The Bamberg Guards will go to Char- c lestoff Friday to take part in the exercises c of Military Day at the Exposition. Col. ( Jno. Folk, who is a member of Governor q McSweeney's staff, will go down to take * part in the exercises, as the governor and his staff will participate. t The many friends in Bamberg of Mr. * and Mrs. J. L. Eddleman will be grieved r to learn of the death of the latter's moth- c er, which occurred Tuesday evening of ^ last week at Concord, N. C. Mrs. Strieker was 59 years old, and died suddenly t from an attack of heart failure. " l City taxes are now due and payable at t the city treasurer's office. Pay at once < and avoid the penalty. A new road law has been passed by the bouse of representatives, and has been c sent to the Senate. This bill was prepared * by a committee of the members, one from { each county. Mr. Crum represented Bam- j berg county on the committee. It if probable that it will become a law. The aDDroDriation bill passed by the i legislature carries $50,000 more than last < year, for the reason that the pension fund ; is increased to $200,000. It was $100,000 . ? last year. The only cut in the appropria- , tions reported by the ways and means 1 committee was that for the Winthrop 1 College. Corn drills, guano distributors, and cot- ' ton planters, also a full line of all kinds , of farming implements and hardware. Be sure to get my prices before buying, as I 1 will surely save you money. j C. J. S. Bkookrk. , We have been forced to part company , with some of our subscribers. We can- | not afford to send the paper on longtime : without pay is the reason. But live subscribers are taking the place of dead heads, i and the circulation of The Herald is now larger than it has been since we have had charge of it. The proposed amendment to the constitution providing for biennial sessions f of the legislature, was defeated in the Senate last week. The bill merely submitted the question to the voters, and had passed the house. A majority of the Senators voted for it, but it required a two-thirds vote. Senator May field voted against the bill. On account of the bad weather the auction sale of fruit trees at Olar was postponed until next Saturday, February 22nd. ?| HH HBjHH figfif ^Bj H| H| We print our paper on Tuesday this week, in order that the editor may take a holiday for one day. The bill to repeal the war taxes passed the lower house of cougress last Monday by a unanimous vote. The legislature has changed the salaries of many county officers throughout the State. Next week we will publish the salaries Bamberg county's officials will receive this year. A bill has passed both houses of the legislature, extending the time for the payment of State and county taxes until the 30th day of March. This will be good news to many who have uot paid. T> T> 1 Oorli'clu rror. v.>iareiu:e hj. nnyu, i?i tm. Fitting School, Bamberg, S. C., has been spending several days in the city viewing The Exposition. Prof. Boyd has charge of the chair of Latin and Greek at the Bamberg institution. I?e was graduated from Wofford College in 1897, being the youngest man in his class and one of its brightest students. Prof. Boyd also pursued a special course of study at Vanderbilt University. He is, of course, delighted with The Exposition and surprised that it has not been more widely advertis ed.?Charleston Evening Post. Mr, 1). D. Antlef Dead. Mr. D. D. Antley, a well-known resident of this city, died at his home here last Friday morning, after an illness of about two weeks with pneumonia. The remains were carried to Caanan church in Orangeburg county Saturday, where the burial took place, the services being conducted by Rev. Mr. Smith, of Cordova. Deceased was born in Orangeburg county May 5th, 1826,and was consequently seventy-six years eld. He was no doubt the oldest citizen of the town. He had lived in Bamberg for many years, and leaves a wife and two children: a son in Orangeburg county and Mrs. Jno. H. Cope, of this place, also one sister and three brothers. The Cotton Market. The cotton market still has an upward tendency, and the staple is selling for 8? sents in Bamberg to-day. Several bales were brought in this morning. New Citizen to Come. Dr. H. F. Hoover, formerly of Hamp- ' ;on county, but who has been practicing n Ridgewav for the past four years, spent : several days in the city last week with 1 Dr. M. R. Lewis, and the result of his risit is that he will locate here for the practice of his profession. He will be i issociated with Dr. M. It. Lewis, the firm 1 >eing Lewis & Hoover. Dr. Hoover will J ;ome here some time the latter part of j his week, with his family, which consists I .t ;r? nn.i rvno chilli is n. vounir ^ II Uld U11V/ auu wuv v*. ? J a nan whom we feel sure will be an addiion to our town. He is a graduate of Wurman University and of the Cbarleson Medical College, and has taken speciil courses at several Northern hospitals. ' Fire Friday Night. j Last Friday night about ten o'clock the < ilarm of fire was sounded, and it was ' C bund that the bakery of Mr. Jessee Mc- J )ormack, situated in the rear of his store, 1 vas on fire. A crowd quickly gathered, 1 ,nd by hard work the flames were soon < (Xtinguished. The roof was torn off and >artly burnt, but the loss is not heavy. The fire originated by some fellow sleep- ^ ng on top of the oven, and it is presumed hat the occnpant was smoking and the ^ ire caught his blanket. It was a nice , rami place to sleep, but it got too warm or him Friday night. The building is j wned by Col. Jno. F. Folk, and when it s repaired, will be made lodger proof. Executive Committee Meeting. The Executive Committee of the Rivers' ^ iridic Memorial Association will meet ^ ? ? ? ? the memorial grounds on Saturday, Jarcli 1st, at 3 o'clock p. m. for the pur- J >ose of arranging for memorial services. t full attendance is earnestly requested. ' J. C. McMillan, 1 J. W. Jenny, President. Secretary. 1 Senator May field's Speech. ( In opposing the bill in the Senate, re- ? >ealing the charter of the Yirginia-Caroina Chemical Company, Senator May- i ield made the following remarks: "Senator Mayfieki said that when it is < ecalled that in some sections of the State he farms have produced a lesser number >f bales of cotton than tons of fertilizer :onsumed, some idea can be had of their *1 lesperate straits. He then went into the J letails of the bill and the plan proposed. 1 le was strongly in favor of some legisla- ' ion as any one, but he was opposed to 5 his bill. He thought the State could not * naintain its right to prescribe the conjitious set forth in the bill. Again, if the < firgiuia-Carolina company is the unholy * rust that has been alleged, it should not j >e allowed to do business in the State sven under the sanctity of the State. No l ^tate permission can make right that | which is wroner of itself. He read from \ " i lecisions of the courts showing that a j State cannot lay down as a condition to < i corporation entering the State its agree- 1 nent to be bound bv the State courts. If 1 we pass this resolution it will come iu ( conflict with the federal courts and will defeat its very object. Furthermore, the ittorney general has stated that he does , not want this bill to pass; that it will be inimical to the interests of the State and will defeat the suits now being carried 011 by attorney general against the company. The attorney general is prosecuting the Virginia-Carolina as a trust and trying to irive it out of the State altogether, wlierets if this bill passes the company can some into the State and do business. He said that the company has been declared a trust and the attorney general is fighting it in the courts as such, yet this bill undertakes to allow this very trust to come into the State and do business. If this is passed it will set at naught the suit that has already been commenced. It would let the trust go un whipped of justice. He said he favored every measure that would give our State courts jurisdiction in preference to the federal courts, but he knew of no way by which the constitution of the United States can be circumvented. Where a State law comes in contlict with the federal law the State law will go down. And this State cannot make this or any other company pledge itself to be bound by the State courts. We need some legislation, but this is not the measure we need. It is a special law and as such will not stand the test of our own 1 courts. He again asserted that the attorney general did not want this bill to pa6s." A Political Speech in Milieu. Hon. Dupont Guerry, one of the three candidates for Georgia's gubernatorial chair, spoke to a large and enthusiastic body of people in the High school auditorium yesterday at noon. Even the gallery was tilled with men and some negroes. The pupils were given holiday and were marched in by sections followed by their respective teachers, to hear the speech. The speaker welcomed the presence of so many ladies saying by way of parenthesis: "I am not an advocate of woman's rights, but I always appreciate the presence of the silent voters," adding that he did not advocate "woman's wrongs." His platform was given clearly aud emphatically, "Taxation, abolition of lobbyism and prohibition" weaving in a loom of the great arch of honesty that j Thomas Jefferson formed and fought for so ardently. He dealt in facts and figures exclusively, having before him books which contained all his statements and which he defied any one to dispute. He showed us Georgia's deficit, and why and how her credit has been so strained. Laying it to "tax-dodgers," not individually or to mill incorporations, but the railroad companies. They pay on the average, he said, of only one-fourth the valuation of property while the farmers and merchants pay three-fourths. Don't cut down the pensions, or tax individuals more, or cut down school funds, he said; but make these immense companies pay their just debts. He read a clipping copied from a South Carolina paper where our own governor, Mr. McSweeney, was agitating the equalization of taxes. He gave death blows the corruptness of legislative rulings and the trickery used. In passing mention the great Willingliam and child labor bills were referred to. In Carterville last week he said he was referring to these evils and Sam Jones who was talking to a member of the legislature, blurted out in his characteristic style, "Bro. the Hon. , says you ain't telling nothin'." "So I am telling nothing," he quoted, "in comparison to what is to tell!" Of course, tins was all followed by the admonition "to put in office honest men who will see that the laws, are car ried out?we have the laws, only the enforcement thereof is needed." Tis useless to add that his honor thought he was the man for the executive chair, inasmuch as he was "a candidate for the masses of the people," while his "distinguished opponents were candidates for Governor of Georgia!" I am a woman? a "silent voter", so I need not waste breath to air an opinion that would not amount to a "hill of beans," but I had the liberty of thinking, and oh, how I thought for this open hearted calm, delightful speaker. He is either a forerunner of better state officers and better times for Georgia or he is the best rounded humbug I have ever heard talk. His dealings with the rottenness of prohibition was, in no wise, less forcible than the other plank3 of his platform. I heard his burlesqueing of his opponent, Mr. Terrell, with no pleasure, as criticism of others for a sinister motive, is unchristianly, and I dislike to give ear to it, but it was impossible to restrain a laugh at his remarks. It seems that he, Mr. Terrell has had his picture md life printed on the front sheet of >ome advertising medium and is running , "or governor on such merits, as he has failed to give in the remotest degree his : platform. * The political status of our country both : aational and local is of such intense inierest, it should be the duty and pleasure ' >f every woman to acquaint herself '< uvith the details. If nothing else 1 should prompt her, pride ought to, for nust she like some little weakling ask icr husband or brother the whys and ] wherefores? Let her employ the brain ' 3rod has given her. M. O. Lanier. , i Brancliville Brevities. Branciivtlle, February 17.?Prof. J. ^ P. Henderson, principal of the Branch rille graded school, and Miss Elizabe' ii ' Dukes, assistant teacher, will be married 1 Wednesday morning at eight o'clock, it the residence of her father, Hon. A. F. ? [I. Dukes. Immediately after the cere- > liony they will leave for Charleston to 1 ake in the Exposition for several days. < A surprise party was tendered Miss Plorrie McMillan, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. 3rooks Fairey, by the young folks of the own. Quite an enjoyable evening was ;pent. Miss Lilly Griffith, a charming young ady of Reevesville, is on a visit to Mr. } ind Mrs. J. D. Faircy. Miss Edna Tobin, of Asheville, N. C., J s visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Connor. ' Miss Tina Berry, after spending several lays in Charleston with her sister, Mrs. >troble, has returned. The exposition travel through Branchrille has now begun to be extensive. 1 Miss M. A. Quinn will have a large 1 ;rowd to attend her dancing school. Hermes. 1 An Interesting Marriage. Smallpox did not stop the marriage of i Miss Zelma Beerwald, of Philadelphia | ind Mr. Herman Brown, of Blackville, S. , C. While Miss Clara Beerwald was lying i seriously ill of the disease in a room up- , stairs Miss Zelma was married on the j 'ront doorstep of her home, 2214 Market street. The bridegroom stood outside the ' ioor 011 the step and the bride stood in- ' side. The ceremony was performed by j Rabbi M. M. Eichler, of the Beth Israel , Congregation. About a week ago Miss Clara Beerwald 1 ;ook smallpox and Miss Zelma was in the i nouse when the quarantine was put on. | Her marriage to Mr. Brown was arrang- ( sd to take place yesterday, and being su- , perstitious of a postponement, the couple ' lecided to to be married last night, even though they would not see each other for . several weeks. The necessary permission ( was obtained yesterday from Chief Good, of the board of health, and a marriage license taken out. Considerable difficulty was experienced in getting some one to perform the ceremony. Several magistrates were asked to do it, but all refused to run the risk of catching smallpox. 1 Rabbi Eichler finally decided to perform 1 the ceremony if permission could be had , from President Soliuger, of Beth Israel Congregation. This was done, and at 8.:>0 o'clock the bridegroom, the *abbi, : Miss Rosa Brown, a nephew of the bridegroom, and Mr. Morris Rosenberg arrived at the house. Many persons in the neighborhood knew of the coming marriage and when the bridegroom arrived at the house lie was greeted with a large crowd, as well as by his promised bride. Little time was lost in preliminaries. As soon as Mr. Brown and his part of the wedding party arrived at the house the front door was opened by Miss Beer wild. Those who watched the ceremony from inside the house were the bride's mother and the nurse who has charge of the patient. The full Hebrew ritual was used in the ceremony. The bride drank wine from the same cup that the bridegroom did and he afterward placed a wedding ring upon her linger. It took just two minutes and forty seconds to perform the ceremony. After it was finished the bridegroom kissed the bride goodby and, accompanied by his nephew, jumped into a cab and drove olT. The bridegroom is a prosperous voting business man of Blackville, S. 0. He will return to the south, where he will await the lifting of the quarantine.?Philadelphia Press. Card of Thanks. As I cannot see all in person, I take this method of expressing my gratitude to those who so were kind to us during our affliction. May God reward and bless you all for your kindness. Mrs. Anti.ey. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehriiardt, February 17.?The birthday party given by Miss Essie Powell on last Monday evening was in every way a success. The pretty little hostess of "sweet sixteen" was wonderously fairylike in a lovely costume of white organdy with chiffon trimmings, and it was only necessary to glance at the number of useful and beautiful presents to be assured of this young lady's popularity. The ' ? * ~ 1A AM iuft /1/\ 1 A/lf A /t ^ Aft YUULiy lauies WOIC 111C UillllLICSb uuu iu?ut ! becoming evening dresses. Messrs. Willie Sease, Willie Ritter, and Mrs. Quattlebaum furnished most of the music. Refreshments were served at eleven o'clock. The dinning room and table were beautifully decorated with ferns and other pot plants. The Fertilizer Bill. Senator Mayfield's fertilizer plant bill has been killed by the Senate by a vote of 20 to 10. The proposition involved the expenditure of over a million dollars. It was argued that the State didn't have the money to begin with, and even if it did the idea was impracticable. When Senator Mayfield admitted that he proposed to raise the money by additional taxation, increasing the levy to about six mills, that settled the fate of the bill. If there is one thing that the legislature fights shy of it is increasiug~"the levy, and Mr. Mayfield's bill was dead from the moment it was admitted that the levy would be increased. Death at Goran. Editor The Bamberg Herald:?Last Saturday morning on Mr. S. S. Williams's plantation, a colored woman named Julia Washington diet!, after an illness of only a few days with pneumonia. She leaves a nusoana ana six cuuuren,uue 01 tvuuiu is very sick with the same disease. She was buried at Union Baptist cliurcb, the funeral being preached by Rev. G. G. Daniels. Our school teacher, Miss Sallie Woton, who teaches the colored school at Govan, has called the neighborhood together to have prayer meeting at the school house every Thursday evening. C. II. Holm ax. Govan, S. C., February 15,1902. Answers for the Anxious. uIs it proper for one lady to rise when introduced to another lady? Mrs. F. B. H." It all depends. If the first lady has on a new dress she may as well rise and 3how it off. Under ordinary circumstances it is not held absolutely necessary to rise. People who are thrown together in a railway wreck without the formality of an introduction should not rise until the wrecking crew has lifted the car off them. "I have been corresponding with a young lady for three j'ears, and have been told that she is planning to marry another mon Te tl?i? ennrteons of her. D. F." In affairs of the heart it is considered best to let woman make her own code, ft may be that the j*oung lady is a student af the stamp flirtation, which is published every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday in any well conducted "Answers to Queries" column, and that you have inadvertently applied your stamps in such a manner as to intimate that you had put her in the liscard. You can never tell about this. "Please tell me how to trim my last fall's bonnet so that it will be in style this spring. Lizzie" Take two yards of Valenciennes lace, ar better still, an old Nottingham lace curtain that your mother does not want iny longer, a woodcutter's maul and six irtificial roses. Place your old bonnet on ihe floor and beat it with the maul for ;wo hours. Then drape the lace curtain ibout it with large safet}' pins, and hide ;he roses in the folds. "Kindly give me some advice about writing poetry, also a receipe for pickling watermelon. Housewife." Take a mediumsized watermelon and a fountain pen. Cut the watermelon open ind be sure that the pen is well filled with in ink that will not leak. Having chosen i subject for the poem, carefully remove die seeds from the melon, and jot down | pour idea, placing the pulp in an earthen I ?-1 ^11 -d " lx vlnofror l'ntn I t CSSUl ililUU >\ ill! ClUCi v iuvv/ which has been dissolved ten pounds of sugar. Slice the rind of the melon into equal lengths and arrange the words of the poem so that each line will end at about the same distance from the side of the sheet of paper. Choose eight or ten uice words that sound alike, for your rhymes, and drop the rinds into a pan of hot water for five minutes. Take them out aud wipe dry with a soft cloth, and be extremely careful to spell your words properly. Barely cover the rinds with salt water, aud begin each line with a capital letter. Pour the pulp into the vessel containing the rinds and blot each verse well before proceeding to the next. Having worked in a good climax for the last stanza, cover well with a folded towel and boil for ten hours. Enclose stamps for return of unavailable manu- [ script and drop fifteen whole cloves and 1 one pepper pod into the pickle. Always send a personal note to the editor, and i set in a cool place for a week. Art is long and time is fleeting, and she who tries to make pickles and poetry at the same time must take the consequences. * - T* \\Tn A 1 vt AMtr mnnlt A ram 1U in ?>.? tt C UUUUI iiiuiu whether hard boiled eggs would make a satisfactory flounce for your Easter gown. It would, as you suggest, be novel and striking. In any event be careful that the hard boiling is a success. Hopeful?Please do not ask us again for the addresses of Andrew Carnegie, J Pieryont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, James Corbett, Mrs. Nation or Charles Schwab. The "Answers for the Anxious" editor has tried in vain to get a response from them to his own letters. HenpecU?Your suggestion- is about the only thing that will stop your hair from coming out. Ask an}' ticket agent about the fare to South Dakota.?Josh Wink in Baltimore American. HE FILLED THE BUCKET. A Story of Grant When He Was a "Pleb." at West Point. There is a story told of General Grant when a pleb. He had just entered on his first day in "pleb." camp. A first classman who had noticed the boy's strong build Intimated to him it would be a pleasure to have him call immediately at the senior's tent. Grant went. There is a rule at West Point, which was a rule then as well, that any cadet who asks another to perform menial labor for him shall be dismissed from the service. The first classman knew too much to ask his pleb. visitor outright to do anything of the kind, but here is the way he went at it: "I presume, Mr. Grant, that you have lived on a farm, and, this being the case, you have had undoubtedly a good opiK>rtunity to note the effect of the surfs rays on certain objects. Now, if you had left a water bucket that was Innocent of holding a single drop of the fluid out in the sun from its rising to its setting, what do you think, sir, would be the particular effect upon that particular water bucket?" "I think," said Grant, "that it would get warped and leaky." "Very good, Mr. Grant. You show erudition beyond j'our years. Now, if you will notice my water bucket, you will see that it is as dry as a chip. Now, by the further exercise of your knowledge, Mr. Grant, can you tell me by what means I may prevent the warping and leaking of my bucket?" "Have it filled," said Grant. <itt j i__ \ r ? n i. U.-.4 "very goou ugum, ;ur. urruiii, uui note that you said 'have it tilled,' not 'till it.' That necessarily m?ms that some one must fill it for me. Irou have shown so much acumen that I fear to violate your prescription either in letter or in spirit, which I should do if I presumed to carry the bucket to the water tank myself." Grant tilled the bucket PROTECTION OF WORDS. A Plea Per a Rest For Our Familiar Quotations. In these days when everybody is writing and everybody seems to succeed would it not be well to start a society for the protection of words and phrases? Many of these are so brutally overworked by the amateur. The winged words, the words that burn, the thoughts that breathe, the telling phrases, do they not clamor loudly for a rest? That very sentence affords an illuminating example of what I mean. How apt, how vivid, how expressive it would be if all its epithets had not lost their vitality through overwork! To the sated reader the whole sentence is but the echo of an echo. It not merely means nothing, but it is robbed even of its sound and fury. The greenhorn that complained of "Hamlet" that it was too full of quotations unconsciously expressed a great fact through the medium of a bull. In a wrongheaded way he pointed out that constant reiteration has reduced the grandest passages in the language to mere commonplaces. Give our familiar quotations a rest. Lay to sleep our household words. Let fortune for awhile cease to favor the brave. Let us feign that the poet is made. Let a man who would steal another's thunder be arrested for felony. Let us win :ao more golden opinions. Let the favored few withdraw to some select seclusion and the countless thousands to some dry eyed privacy. Thus may nouns, adjectives and phrases, after a long rest, reawaken w ith the freshness of the morning upon them, their original meanings recreated, energetic, effective, brilliant, as on the day when they were flrst conceived and brought forth.?Era. Thought She Was a Calf. When Mme. Schumann-Heink was thirteen, her father was transferred to Oratz, where a singing teacher. Marietta von Leclair, recognizing the young girl's talent, offered to give her singing lessons without compensation. For two years she studied nothing but solfeggios. Then she began learning songs. She had a very deep contralto without any high notes at that time. One day a caller, hearing her sing i Schubert's "Der Tod und das Mndcben" in an adjoining room, said to her teacher, "l am not Know mm juu taught young calves." "She Is not a young calf," replied Marietta von Leclair. "Some day she will be a great singer."?Gustav Kobbe In Woman's Home Companion. The Antiqnity of Wheat. The Chinese cultivated wheat 2,700 years before the beginning of the Christian era, always considering it as a gift direct from heaven. Scientific agriculturists are of the opinion that it was widely known and cultivated by prehistoric man. At the present time it is the principal bread corn of the leading European nations and is fast supplanting the use of maize, or Indian corn, in the American states. The Egyptians attributed its origin to Isis and the Greeks to Ceres. The Dinner Ordeal. When a man invites a friend on the street to go home with him to dinner, the nearer they get to the house the more absentmlnded and timid he becomes until his attitude when they meet his wife is a positive apology.? Atchison Globe. Ostentations Display of Wealth. Tim?Dat Muggsy kid makes me tirpd. Sal-Why? Tlin?Aw. he got a nickel sumhow, and ever* feller he meets he asts him ef he kin change It.?Boston Post When a lamb has been through his first experience In Wall street, he generally feels mere sheepish.?Washington Times. Bnoklen's Arnica Salve Has world-wide fame for marvelous cures. It surpasses any other salve, lotion, ointment or balm for cuts, corns, burns, boils, sores, felons ulcers, tetter, salt rheum, fever sores, chapped hands, skin eruptions; infallible for piles. Oure guaranteed. Only 2oc at Thos. Black and l B. Black. The moon was the subject of discussion in the kindergarten, and a four-year-old had drawn on the blackboard a fair picture of a crescent moon. Still lie kept fussing with his picture, and I said, "What are you doing?" He answered, "I'm putting in the shine." Freda says, "The man in the moon lights the stars."?Chicago Tribune. G. Frank Ba -^jAGENT THE BEST ON Washington freed America. Lincoln freed the Slaves. Schley sank Cevera's fleet. We have sunk high prices on Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Whips, Morses ana xviuies. Quattlebaum & Qannelly, EHRHARDT, S. C. ANOTHDft CARLOAD Our Mr. W. P. Jones has just returned from mar"i - j ?i T? .i 1- j. ^ 1 ,1 ? r Kei, wnuru nu uougni u canuau ui liuu sujuii.. There are both HORSES AND MULES in this load and there are some fine ones among them. We can surely suit you in a horse or mule, 110 matter what kind you want. Be sure to see them. JONES BROS. LOOK OUT FOR THEM The Famous Hawkes Spectacles are now for sale at A. C. Rey= nolds's Drug Store. lAfPfl If PI# PA f P^sons Suffering ill L All Lf L % J from Weak Eyes will WlhIi CI Co 15Sidnireatre,lefby HAWKES CRYSTALLIZED LENSES Drugs, School Books, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, and Lowney's Fine Box Candies. a n "DTrvicrnT /ns'? XX. v. x '-> J X X* V/X^X^w V; EHR HARBT, 8. C. E. C. HAYS, ^ DEALER IN * Furniture, Mattings, Rugs, Carpets, Cooking and Heating Stoves, Easels, Pictures, Baby Carriages, Go=Carts, / Parlor Suits, Window Shades, Cur= tain Poles, Office Desks and Chairs, Bedroom Suits, Wardrobes, Coffins and Caskets, Lime, Cement, Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines. Picture Frames made to order, any size. BAMBERG, S. C. DMQIMCQQ PIlANpC TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. niJullllLuU UllfHlUL Applicants for teachers' certificates to mmmmm?tmmmmm teach in the public schools, will be exI have purchased the meat mar- cour' house, Bamberg, S. ket and restaurant formerly run Friday, February 21st, 1902. Examiby J. A. Vernon, and will keep natl?? will begin promptly at 9.30 a. m. h.n.i niii-inrio nf Applicants will please be prompt in at "" """" ~ tendance. R. W. D. ROWELL, JP y*Q g Q SL t S Superintendent of Education. in season, beef, pork, sausage, T?, Q M T ^ S Q TT. etc., of the very best quality. *?" w* w?9 Your orders solicited. EABfD SIBVEYOB White Restaurant ?and? I will run a first-class restaurant wfJTWVR for whites, and meals will be * served at any hour. Give me a A PI?VTT T 1? C P trial. Satisfaction guaranteed. ULAUIv V LuuE^ D# v. J. W. SMOAK. Offers his services to the BAMBERG, s. c. people of Bamberg County. .v V. - ' ? * mberg, EARTH. I am now Manufacturing All Kinds of STICK il FANCY CM at my bakery. I make it Fresh Every Day. rinaar, Uocanut and Taffy and all kinds of penny goods. Orders from Merchants SOLICITED. Buy from me and get purer, fresher, and better candy for less money. Jesse McCormack, I Bamberg, S. O. DK. G. F. HAIR, DENTAL SIR GEO A, Bamberg, S. C. In office every day in the week. Graduate of Baltimore College of Dental Sur- . gery, class 1892. Member of S. O. Dental Association. Office next to bank. DR. O. D. FAUST, * DENTIST, Bamberg-, S. C. Office Over D, C. Folk's Store. W. P. RILEY, FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT INSURANCE. BAMBERG. S. C. WANTED. "Reliable man for Manager of a Branch. ||| Office we wish to open in this vicinity. Here is a good opening for the right man. Kindly give good reference when writing. -r The A. T. Mobbis Wholesale House.Cincinnati, Ohio. Illustrated catalogue 4cts. in stamps. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having claims against the estate of W. E. Beard, deceased, will present same, duly attested, and all owing said estate will make immediate payment to C. B. FREE, Qualified Administrator. Bamberg, S. C., February 10,1902. S1 G. MAYFIELD, ATHpRHEY DENMARK, 8. C. G, Moye Dickinson, INSURANCE. . | FIRE, LIFE, TORNADO, ACCIDENT, LIABILITY, * CASUALTY. Office at The Cotton Oil Co. S. C. AND BELL TELEPHONES. In the new census issues it may be noticed that, for some unknown reason, "barmaids" are described as "female barmen." The authorities have, however, "... failed to follow the precedent which they have set up, and we find no mention of "male widows," "female bachelors" or "gentlemen bathing women."?London Globe. A pair of enterprising burglars visited Newburg, Ohio, one night last week and stole a new one-story frame building from a corner lot. The next day they returned and tried-io sell the lot, but the owner . '-{SI of the property had meanwhile learned of the removal of his house and - arrived on the scene in time to frustrate their plans, BURTON FELDER. ?BE1LBB IS? SffllE iii M! BSi; , FRUITS and CONFECTIONERY. M^t. Next to Black's Stables While my stock Is small the goods are all fresh and my line complete. I shall be please^ to serve you when you need Groceries. Give me a call. SEWING MACHINE Do not be deceived by those who advertise a $60.00 Sewing Machine for $20.00. This kind of a machine can be bought from us or any of our dealers from $15.00 to $18.00. WE MARC A VARIETY. THE HEW HOME IS THE BEST. * g The Feed determines the strength or weakness of-Sewing Machines. The Double Feed combined with hther strong points makes the Hew Home the best Sewing Machine to buy. Wiiltfir CIRCULARS \ w-e manufacture and prices before purr. hMlng jtpt THE NEW SOME 8EWIM ORANCC. MAM. 2 28 Union Sq. N. Chleago, I1L, Ayaae^-Oa, Bt. Louis, Mo., Dallas,Tex^San I5*oaiwJ,0?l. L