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The Bamberg Herald. ESTABLISHED .11 \Y 1st, 1891. J. IT. KSIGHT. Editor. RaTKS?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?5i.00 per inch for first insertion; 50c. for each subsequent insertion. I.il>erul contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices Sc. per line tirst 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 l>e published unless paid for. Thursday, Way 1, 1W2. News from Olar. Oi.ak, April 29.?Mrs. R. Karesh lias returned home, after an extended visit to relatives and friends in Charleston. Mr. Tom Pearlstine and sister, Miss Rosa, of Bamberg, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives here. Messrs. G. J. Bessinger and E. T. Morris went to Bamberg last Thursday on business. E. T. LaFitte, Esq., of Denmark, was in town yesterday for a short while. A good many of our young folks attended the memorial at Rivers' Bridge last Friday. Rev. T. J. Saudifer, of Bamberg, preached to a large and attentive congregation here Sunday night. The little two-year-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Lige Fail died Saturday evening. Its remains were interred at the family buryiug ground near here. A good many of our citizeus are victims to the measles at present. Farmers are very busy with their work, as a consequence our streets are almost i lucurt i: ? i.f i>niirci> iw\v< in rf f V **V Minister Disciplines His Wife. The parishioners of one of the best known clergymen in Philadelphia vouch for the truthfulness of this story. The minister had frequently warned his wife that she was too careless in the way she carried her pocket book and that some day she would surely lose it. About a year ago he stepped into one of the downtown trust companies and was surprised to see his wife ahead of him at the window. The end of her pocketbook was protruding from her coat pocket. "Here's my chrnce to teach her a lesson," said - the minister to himself, and he pushed against his unsuspecting better half and transferred the wallet to his own coat pocket. Then he left the bank. At dinner that evening the minister began: "Where haye you been today, my dear? " "In the house all day mending," replied his wife. "Well, you were down town for a while, . were you not?" said the husband. No, I was not," insisted his spouse, wondering. "Why do you ask ? " "What!" almost shouted the minister. "Isn't this your pocketbook!" "Never had one like it; where did it come from?" asked the puzzled woman. "God have mercy on my *?UU1, 1 sauit; it, aua?citu tu^ pi^av-uv.1. Then he confessed the trick he had tried to play on his wife. They examined the contents of the wallet?seven new $10 bills. No name in it gave a clew to the owner. The minister went to the trust company next day with the wallet. The story he told was received with lifted eyebrows. Two moptlis later the bank officials returned thepocketbooktothe minister, saying that no one had claimed it and they would not keep it. He has given the contents to charity. Political News from Washington. Washington, April 28.?Lawson Melton will not be reappointed United Statts marshal of South Carolina. It is probable that Postmaster Cunningham, of Charleston, will be transferred to the mar. shalship, leaving the pcstoffice open to a score of applicants to scramble for. A. C. Kaufman is here after the vacancy to be thus created with endorsements formidable enough to justify his appointment *?-? + kn 1\I %\ /.f /\r o miociAn in iuc vrtuiuci, vi iv a luicigu mio^ivu, but the Republican leaders iu the State say he is not to have the Charleston postmastership. A dangerous dark horse in the race is said to be W. L. Harris, a *1- ' pension examiner, temporarily stationed ?in Charleston. He has lived there long enough to-elaim eitize-?shiajjhe owns some property in the State and his wife is the first cousin of Major Micah Jenkins. His name has been strongly urged upon the President. Mr. Hagood, Mr. Mo wry and a number of others are in the field, but it is understood that no action will be taken in that matter for several weeks to come. John G. Capers, Republican national committeeman of South Carolina, spent nearly an hour with the President today, having come to Washington upon the invitation of President Roosevelt. Mr. Capers was not inclined to talk when he emerged . from the private room of Mr. Roosevelt, but your correspondent gathered enough to know that as a national committeeman he is still the oflicial adviser of the Administration in South Carolina. The President appreciates his responsibilities as well as does Senator Hauna, and those who know Mr. Capers are aware of the fact he is an untiring and aggressive force, and he proposes to look after the Republican party and have Republicans appointed to office, with an entirely pioper A 1...... 1 f.,,. AT^T clllll l*MiU 1U-.UU 1WI IIIC lUt uauuu UiCU, o who ure bravely stamliug by "the broad national principles" proclaimed by the junior Senator. Mr. Capers would not advise anyone of the details of his conference with the President, but it can be stated that il . Marshal Melton is not reappointed he will be taken care of as a consul to Cuba, and in that event a simon-pure Republican recommended and appointed United States marshal and further that if Revenue Collector Koester is withdrawn or fails of confirmation he, too, will be provided for, and a Republican, well-known for years as such, appointed collector. Mr. Capers will recommend none other for Administration offices, except occasionally for postmasters, where he is more than willing to accord some recognition to Senator McLaurin's friends. He does not think the proposed new Federal district bill has the remotest chance of passing at this session.?R. M, L. in News and Courier. Mileage Hook*. Seaboard Air Line mileage books save you money in travelling. Seaboard Air Line mileaire books are a great save in money and special convenience in travelling. One thousand mile books are sold at rate of and are good over the entire system, including Florida, also to Washington, I), ('..and to Baltimore,Md , via Norfolk ami Bay Line Steamers, to Brunswick, Ga., over B. A* B. R. R., and between Columbia and Clinton over C. N. & L. Ry. These books are good for one year from date of purchase and affords passengers the privilege of stopping off at any points. Don't Start Wrong. Don't start the Summer with a lingering cough or <-old. We all know what a "summer cold" is. It's the hardest kind to cure. Often it 'liangs on" through the entire season. Take it in hand right now. A few (loses of One Minute Cough Cure will set you right. Sure cure for "coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles. Absolutely safe. Acts at once. Children like it. "One Minute Cough Cure is the best cough medicine I ever used," says J. H. Bowies, Groveton, N. H. "I never found anything else that j acted so safely and quickly." Bamberg Pharmacy; A. C. Reynolds, Ehrhardt. ~ j X Ml'RDEK IX COLLETOX. Mrs. Jones Brutally Killed for the Purpose of Robbery?One Negro Captured and Killed. Last Monday morning one of the nio.-t atrocious and tiendish crimes in tlie c*i iniinal annals of South Carolina was perpetrated at New Road, two miles west ol Raveuel. ou the Charleston and Savannah railroad, in this county. Mrs. Jones, the wife of of Mr. \V. W. Jones, a section master on this railroad, was murdered in a most foul and shocking manner. It was, in fact, little less appalling than the awful Whitecapel murders which so shocked the civilized world a few years ago. Mrs. Jones was a young woman, being about thirty years of age, and the day of her death was the anniversary of her marriage. Monday morning, about six o'clock, Mr. Jones left his wife and home and went to his work near Adams Run depot which is about five miles distant. Between 7 and 8 o'clock the two children of the household, Mrs. Jones's sister and Mr. Jones's little son by his first wife, went away to school, leaving Mrs. Jones alone. Before 10 o'clock she lay cold in death, her head crushed with a bludgeon and almost severed from her body. " Robbery ? i- * r I J . 1 was tue prime oojeci 01 ner muraerer anu in order to accomplish his design the awful deed was done. West of Jones's residence, and adjoining his lot, with only the yard fence between, is a vacant house also enclosed by a fence. The murderer and thief approached the scene of his terrible crime through the yard which encloses this vacant house. Arriving at the fence, he removed his shoes, passed through the yard, crossed the fence between the two lots and evidently concealed himself behind a small house in Mr. Jones's yard. Mrs. Jones was engaged in some laundry work and had occasion to go out in the yard. Armed with a black gum bludgeon about four feet long and two inches in diameter, the fiend evidently crept up to Mrs. Jones without his presence beingknownto her, and with a terrible blow, which crushed her head, knocked her down. He then struck her again and gathering up the senseless body dragged it into a dog kennel, which was only a few feet away. This dog house is about six feet long, probably five feet wide and four feet high, with a door about eighteen inches wide. Having gotten the body inside, the murderer procured an old grass or scythe blade, which was oil the premises, and cut her throat, severing the veins and arteries on the right side. That this was not done until after the body had been dragged into the kennel is evidenced by the fact that only inside was blood found, except 011 the weapous with which the deed was com rPL^i if T :4.4.^.1 milieu. 1 nui jus. duLics was penuuieu to make 110 alarm or outcry is to be inferred from the fact that within two hundred yards of the house, on the east side, Mr. J. D. Boyle, a neighbor whose residence is within live hundred yards of Mr.Jones's dwelling, was, with two others, at work in a field and they were not made aware of the terrible tragedy that was being enacted so near them. Having murdered Mrs. Jones and disposed of her body, as stated, the murderer turned thief and entering the dwelling turned everything topsy-turvy searching for desirable plunder. He secured a gold watch and chain which had been presented to Mrs. Jones the day before by her husband, a pistol, cartridges and a razor. The crime was discovered by Mrs. J.E. Chinnis, who, accompanied by her colored nurse, arrived at the Jones home between 9 and 10 o'clock. Mr. Boyle was called, a messenger was dispatched for Mr. Jones and the people for miles around were informed of the murder. Among the early arrivals was Magistrate L. C. Behling, who telegraphed immediately to Charleston for blood hounds. Not being able to obtain them there, he telegraphed to Orangeburg, but was again disappointed. He then telegraphed to Columbia, but was advised that owing to the length of time that must necessarily elapse before the dogs could be gotten to the scene it would be futile to attempt to run murderer down with them. In the meantime parties were organized and sent out in every direction to find and capture the criminal. The searching parties were in possession of no clue, however, which would enable them to locate or identify the perpetrator of the crime. In the afternoon Magistrate Behliug summoned a jury, with Mr. A. W. Clement foreman, and proceeded to hold the inquest. Dr. J. T. Taylor conducted the post mortem. It was feared that Mrs. Jones had been outraged and then murdered, but Dr. Taylor found no evidences of an assault of that character. The witnesses examined were Mrs. Chinnis, Mr. Boyle, J. G. Gilbert, Sarah Cochran and Chloe Blige. Their testimony, however, related only to the finding of the body and weapons and the condition of things in the house upon their arrival. The verdict was that Mrs. Jones had been violently murdered by some persou or persons to the jury unknown. Sheriff Owens was informed of the crime by telegraph Monday afternoon and yesterday morning his deputy, Mr. G. S. Aruett, with several others from AValterboro, went down on the train to the scene of the crime. Upon their arrival they met about a hundred citizens of that section of the county, amoug whom were Magistrates Behliug and Mellard. In their midst was a negro named Cain Ford who was held under suspicion of complicity in the crime. Had the crowd gotten any positive evidence against him he would have been lynched. But proof was lacking and the negro was committed to jail yesterday evening. During the day evidence accumulated j tending to fasten the crime ou Jim Black, a notorious negro of that section of the county, and redoubled efforts were made to capture him. Sheriff Owens himself went down to the scene this morning with the purpose of remaining until the perpetrator of the crime is captured or all efforts to effect his capture are exhausted. Yesterday evening the body of Mrs. Jones, accompauied by the grief-stricken husband, members of the family aud friends, was carried up to Lodge for interment. Mrs. Jones was a Miss Kinard, whose parents lived in the vicinity of Lodge. CRIMINAL CAPTURED AND SHOT. The murderer, or at least an accomplice, has been captured and killed, and Mrs. Jones's watch recovered. This (Wednesday) afternoon a negro supposed to be Ned Pryor, brother of Cain Ford, was captured at Raven el. He claimed he was innocent and gave his captors the names of two or three negro women who would testify as to his whereabouts the morning of the murder. The women were sent for. When they arrived at the station they evidently became excited and one of them produced Mrs. Jones's watch, which she said, had been giveuherby the prisoner. Thereupon the prisoner made a dash for liberty. But he was riddled with shot before he had gone far. It is still believed that Jim Black had a hand in the murder and every effort is being made to capture liim.?Walterboro Press and Standard. To Cure a Cold in One Bay Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 2ae "Dawson is one of the most devote,1 fathers 1 ever knew." "How so?" "He's so proud of children. Why, sav, he often lies awake half night to* think up clever things that he can credit them with saying." Won't Follow Advice After Paving For It. In a recent article a prominent physician says, "It is next to impossible for the physician to get his patients to carry out any prescribed course of hygiene or diet to the smallest extent; he has hut one resort left, namely, the drug treatment." \\ hen medicines are used for chronic constipation, the most mild and gentle obtainable, such as Chamberlain's Stomach ifc Liver Tablets, should be employed. Their use is not followed by constipation as they leave the bowels in a natural and healthy condition. For sale by Bamberg Pharmacy. Needed to Be Beaten. "Did I understand you to say," queried the clerical-looking passenger of the loquacious young man across the aisle who had been talking shop for upward of forty-seven miles, "that you are a drummer?" "Your ears didn't fool you," rejoined the knight of the grip. "Then it would appear that I have been mistaken all these years," said the c. 1. p. with a sigh. "How's that?" asked the human phonograph. "I never knew that a drum was a wind instrument," replied the old man as he turned toward the window and proceeded to get interested in the passing scenery.?Chicago News. The Best Prescription for Malaria Chills ana lever is a Dome 01 i*rove s Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. jN'o cure, no pay, Price 50c. No Money in the Business. Ex-President Cleveland and Joe Jefferson on one of their fishing trips among the Maine lakes employed a boatman who was ignorant of the identity of his passengers. On returning from the first day's fruitless campaign, Mr. Cleveland addressed the boatman: "How much do we owe you?" The question seemed to embarrass the backwoodsman. "What did you ketch?" he hesitated. It was Mr. Cleveland's turn to be embarrassed. "We caught a pickerel," he said, stiffiv. "What has that to do with it?" The boatman flushed. "So long as you're so pert," he retorted, "the hire for this boat is $8." "We will take the boat again tomorrow if it is not engaged," said Mr. Cleveland. The man gazed at him blankly. "Why," he gasped, "for $8 you kin git more pickerel than you kin ketch with them hooks in a month!" "What has that got to do with it?" demanded Mr. Cleveland again. The puzzled countenance of the boatman relaxed into a grin. "I guess you won't last long in the fish business," he said. Like a Drowning man. "Five years ago a disease the doctors called dyspepsia took such hold of me that I could scarcely go,"writes Geo. S. Marsh, well-known attorney of Nocona, Tex. "I took quantities of pepsin and other medicines but nothing helped me. As a drowning man grabs at a straw I grabbed at Kodol. I felt an improvement at once andafter afew bottles am sound and well." Kodol is the only preparation which exactly reproduces the natural digestive juices and consequently is the one which digests any good food and cures any form of stomach trouble. Bamberg Pharmacy; A. C. Reynolds, Ehrhardt. Faith Rewarded. Substantial answers to prayer are childhood's fondest expectations. Rob wanted a drum, and asked his mother to get him one. His mother answered that if he would be a good boy for three days and pray to God for it, He probably would give him one. "I)o you think He would, honest?" asked Rob. "Yes, I think He would." "Well, then, I'll be good for three days and then I'll ask Him." He kept his promise, and his mother nnrphotdii rimm tn rt>wfirrl liis f?ith On the evening of the third day Rob prayed earnestly, and wound up with, "And now, do please send that drum." His mother heard him. While he slept she placed the drum upon his bed. When he wakened in the morning he gazed at it in astonishment, then exclaimed, "Where in the dickens did God get that drum'?"?Charles Mcllvaine, in May Lippincott's Magazine. Whoopiopr Cough. A woman who has had experience with this disease, tells how to prevent any dangerous consequences from it. 'She says: Our three children took whooping cough last summer, our baby boy being oniy three months old, and owing to our giving them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, they lost none of their plumpness and came out in much better health than other children whose parents did not use this remedy. Our oldest little girl would call lustily for cough syrup between whoops.?Jesse Pin key Hall, Springville, Ala. This remedy is for sale by Bamberg Pharmacy. Retort Courteous. "How did she get here?" At a famous Dancing Assembly this was the quite audible comment made by several married belles when a beautiful young matron. as yet on the outskirts of the exclusive set, entered the room. The newcomer, whose first appearance it was, nrnvpH hprsplf nnifp pnnal to the occasion. r*v ' 1? 1 She had a nodding acquaintance with nearly every woman in the room. Some of them even went to her luncheon parties. Calmly turning to the most supercilious critic in the room, she echoed, as though in reply: "How did I get here? I drove here, my dear Mrs. Crossbeam. Did you walk?" ?Ma}' Lippiucott's Magazine. Dangerous II Neglected. Burns, cuts and other wounds often fail to heal properly if neglected and become troublesome sores. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve prevents such consequences. Even where delay has aggravated the injury DeWitt's With Hazel Salve effects a cure. "I had a running sore on my leg thirty years," says H C. Hartly, Yankeetown, Ind. "After using many remedies, I tried DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. A few boxes healed the sore." Cures all skin diseases. Piles yield to it at once. Beware of counterfeits. Bamberg Pharmacy; A. C. Reynolds, Ehrhardt. When one looks over the roster of court cases in various States it looks as if many people were endeavoring to make a living by suiug corporations for damages.? Carolina Spartan. Unexpected Answer. She was a bright young teacher, in charge of a bright class, composed of many foreign children. To increase their vocabulary she had hit on a guessing game. She told the class of what she w as thinking, and they named the object. This time she had thought of the word birthday, and the lesson went on in this fashion : "Now, little folks, I'm thinkingof something you all have. You don't have it very often, just once every year. Even I have one. What is it? I'll give you a minute to think and when you are sure you know raise your hand." Hands began to go up rapidly. "My," sititl this bright young teacher, 4,I really think I have the bekt little folks in all this big school. They aL think so fast, and I knew they are thinking of the very thing I thought. I'm going to let Morris tell. I'm sure he knows." Morris rose to his feet, stood in the aisle in true military position, and like a shot from a gun, in response to the teacher's: "Tell us what it is, Morris," came the ready answer. "A clean undershirt, teacher."?New York Telegram. Wants Others to Know. "I have used DeWitt's Little Early Risers for constipation and torpid liver and they are all right. I am glad to indorse them, for I think when we liud a good thing we ought to let others know it," writes Alfred Hein/.e, Quiucy, 111. They never gripe or distress. Sure, safe pills Bamberg Pharmacy; A. C. Reynolds, Ehrhardt. Denmark News. Dkxmauk, Ap.il 29.?The, board o! trustees of the graded school, consisting of Dr. S. D. M. Guess, Mr. II.C. Rice and G. \V. Goolsby, Esq.,were reelected yester day to serve two years. The finances ol the school are in good shape. The schoo building will remain in East Denmark there had been some opposition to this but it did not "materialize" at the meet ing yesterday. Mrs. J. B. Guess, Dr. S. H. Timlal am Mrs. S. D. Guess have been unwell foi some time. Mr. W. T. Barr, of Lexington county is visiting his sister, Mrs. S. D. M. Guess Mrs. W. F. Rice is in Columbia on t visit to Mrs. G. H. Huggins. A large number of our citizens, old am young, have been to the Exposition. Mrs. W. D. Rice, who has been quit< feeble, is now recuperating in Sumter. Wasted Care. "By gum," said the grim old captain o industry, "it's mighty hard lines to brin< up a boy to what ought to be years of dis cretion and then see all your effort! wasted. There's that son Tom of mine Whpn lip was a hahv we npvpr pvnpotpr to raise him. Night and night E walkec the floor with him in my arms a ad he cos me hundreds and hundreds of dollars ir doctors' bills, but Anally pulled hin through and sent him to college, when I had to keep on putting up money fo; him, all the time worrying for fear hi might get his neck broken on the grid iron, and now look at him." "What's happened? Has he run of with an actress?" "It's worse'n that," the distressed olc man groaned. "He's been appointed < colonel on the Governor's staff and put; in eight hours a day sitting for photo graphs, himself in his new uniform." No Loss of Time. I have sold Chamberlain's Colic, Choler! and Diarrhoea Remedy for years, am would rather be out of coffee and suga than it. I sold five bottles of it yester day to threshers that could go no further and they are at work again this morning ?H. R. Phelps, Plymouth, Oklahoma As will be seen by the above the thresli ers were able to keep on with their worl without losing a single day's time. Yoi should keep abottle of this remedy in you home. For sale by Bamberg Pharmacy. A Rochester, N. Y., woman vouche for the following story of an experienc Bishop Potter had in Connecticut: Som time ago, the story goes, Bishop Potte went on a visit to friends in Connecticut While there he was asked to preach in i small church near Stonington. The mail support of the little parish was a wealth; widow, a devout church woman and ; friend of the Bishop. She invited th prelate to dinner, adding that she wouli consider it a privilege to offer him slielte over night. As the next train out of th hamlet lelt at i o ciock Monday morning the Bishop accepted her invitation. 1 couple of hours after the Bishop had lef the house Mrs. H., who was a woman o somewhat impetuous nature, discovers that a hair brush and comb were missinj from the room occupied the previous nigh by Bishop Potter. Hardly realizing wlia she was doing, the woman hurriedly dis patched the following note to the Bisho] of New York: "Dear Bishop: Is it pos sible hair brush and comb were put ii your grip by mistake?" The following day Mrs. II. received this reply by tele gram: "Poor but honest. Look in th upper drawer." Trade Tricks. "Look here!" snapped the lean-nose< woman, "what are you doing in my vesti bule?" "I am just trying to get out, ma'am, said the peddler, as he started for th steps. "Yes; but what were you doing there ii the first place?" "Well, er?you see, ma'am, I amsellin, face powders and paints, but I see yoi are too young and beautiful to need an cosmetics." "You think so? Well, you are right but let me look at a box." And he soli three packages right there?Chicagi News. Poker Won. After dinner one very disagreeabl night last week a certain Madison avenu physician, looking from his office windov and seeing the rain beat against the glass decided that he would have a quiet, unin terrupted evening at home. He was sooi in his house coat, a novel in his hand and tobacco smoke was curling aroun< him. About 10 o'clock some one ran the door bell. "The doctor is wanted right away a ," began the caller. "He can't go, sir," answered the ser vant, quickly. "He left word that he wa not well and that unless it was a case o life or death he would not venture out." "Well, you tell him he must come ovei we need him to sit in a poker game." "Oh, you're Mr. B?, are you ? Step in please, and I'll see." A minute later the servant reappeare* with: "The doctor says he'll be righ over." Seduced Rates, Seaboard Air Liue Railway. Low excursions rates will be given b; the Seaboard Air Line Railway to the foi lowing points for the occasions named : Atlantic City, N. J.?American Funer al Benefit Association, May 13-14. Bowling Green, Ky.?Woman's Boar< of Missions of the C. P. Church, Ma1 11-14. - - m n i j \T.i! unauanooga, renn.?uoioreu mauona Emigration Association, May 28-Juue 1. Minneapolis, Minn.?Annual Meeting Western D: awing Teachers Association May 7-9. Mountain Lake Park, Md.?Y. M. C. A Secretaries of North American Biennia Conference, June 11-15. New Orleans, La.?Western Gas As sociation, May 21-28. New York, N. Y.?National Associa tion of Stove Manufacturers of LT. S, May G-7. New7 York, N. Y.?General Assembb of the Presbyterian Church of U. S. A* May 14-27 Richmond, Va.?Woman's Board o Home Missions of the M. E. Church South, April 18-23. Call on nearest agent for iuformatioi as to rates, dates of sale and schedules o address J. J. Puller, Trav. Pass. Agent Columbia, S. C. Reasons for Tardiness. Teachers who require written excuse for tardiness from parents of pupils some times receive amusing notes. Here are : few specimens from a number receivet sometime ago: "Dear Sir, please forgivi Billy for lateness. I kneaded him aftei breakfast." A second note reads: "Pleasi forgive Billy for tardiness. I was mend ing his coat." The third excuse goei more into details: Mister sir, my Jasoi had to be late today. It is his bi/.ness t( milk our cow. She kicked Jase in tin back today when he wasn't looking oi thinkin' of her actin': so he tliot his bad was broke, but it ain't. But it is black ant blue, and the pane kept him late. We would git rid of that cow if we could This is the fourth time she kicked Jase but never kicked him late before. So ex cuse him for me." A girl absent for half a day brought the following excuse: "Miss teacher?Mj dotter's absents yesterday was una void* able. Her shoes had to be half-soled ant she had a sore-throte. Her konstitushun is delikit and if she is absent any mort you can knew that it is on account of urn avoiabel sickness or something else." A boy absent for half a day laid tiie follow ing explanation on his master's desk "Dear sir, please excuse Henry. He went to grandpapa's funeral with me this fore noon. I have been promising him foi several weeks that he might if he was good, and he has been very good, so I kept my word."?Evening Wisconsin. "I cculd live on a climate like this!" exclaimed the enthusiastic visitor. "Well," drawled the Billville citizen "ef you stay in these diggin's you'll have ter!" EVENTFUL SNEEZING I HOW A LITTLE THING MAY BE LADEN ' WITH GREAT RESULTS. I ; A Sneeie I'nder I.cndon lirid^c That Coat Two and Saved Many I.Ives. A Sneeze That Averted AHsnssinaI tion?One That Caused a Panic. Exactly at G p. m. on the evening of Dec. 13, 18S4. a sneeze was sneezed un' der London bridge which consigned ' two men to an instant and horrible 1 death. j Their names were Lomasney and Fleming, and they were conspirators, i Their mission was to blow up the bridge with dynamite, because ft was considered that at that time there would be more people crossing it? f workmen, workgirls and others on r their way home fro n business?than at ' nnp Athar <irwi thnt lnss in human , life would be therefore correspondingly s more appalling. j" All went well at first. The pair of I desperadoes dropped noiselessly down l the river in a boat, with forty pounds i of dynamite in their possession, to1 gether with the necessary fuses and de3 tonators. Arrived at their destination. r however, they found that the gully hole 2 underneath the southern arch of the structure, wherein it had been their inj tention to insert the explosive, had been stopped up. Lomasney undertook ] to remove the obstruction, but it occui pied him some little, time. The night 5 was bitterly cold, and his comrade got ' chilled and was seized with a sudden fit of sneezing. In his agitation he dropped one or more of the detonators ~ ** 4-1\aoa fo llinor An DP Was UU1U11IJ4, anu IUCSC, luiuiip v>. | the dynamite which was laying in the r bottom of the boat, exploded it, with _ disastrous results. Doubtless, however, that inopportune sneeze, although it ended the career of a pair of despera.. does, saved London bridge from de struction. c That the Right Hon. W. E. Forster 1 died peacefully in his bed instead of being assassinated in 1882 was due to a sneeze. Three times the conspirators s laid In wait for him, but the last ate tempt was the most determined of e them all. Four men armed with heavy r caliber navy revolvers were to waylay ' him as he drove from the viceregal lodge to the castle. Two of the assas? sins were to fire at him from the first a floor window of a house in a certain e street, and the other two were station3 ed at the window of another house a r few yards down on the opposite side of e the way. ? These latter were the "reserves" dest tined to try their skill should their colf leagues miss. Neither of the two firing ;j parties were to show themselves until 5 the near approach of their proposed t victim was signaled from the street 1 below. The signal in question was to be the waving of a pocket handkerf* chief by James Care}', the same man a who was afterward killed by O'Donrr nC'll. !- The plot was excellently planned e from the point of view of the participants therein. In f^et, so far as^iuman foresight could provide against eventualities the chief secretary seemed as i good as dead. Yet it all came to naught - and for so simple a reason that the ? plotters themselves, meeting together afterward at their secret rendezvous in North King street,, were fain to a laugh at their owu discomfiture. The morning was cold and gusty, g Mr. Forster was somewhat late, and a Carey, chilled with waiting about, bey gan to sneeze. Instinctively he drew out his handkerchief, the handkerchief jj that was to give the fatal signal, and 0 in an instauj the blustering north wind had flicked it from his benumbed fingers and sent it sailing down the street as a twenty mile ar hour gait. e At that very instant the chief secree tary's carriage turned the corner and v came swiftly toward him. Carey ran to the spot which had been previously ^ agreed upon and tried to make his fel1 low conspirators understand that their 3 victim was in sight by signaling with g his arm and pointing. The result, however, though exactly t what might have bsen foreseen, hardly came up to ms expectations, ine tour men at the windows were waiting for a f man with a handkerchief. Instead, they saw one without any such signaling ; apparatus, evidently excited and pointing wildly up the street. Instantly they i, conjured up visions of traitors in their ranks and of defectives on their tracks j and, dropping their weapons, incontinently and hastily Bed. Oil the evening o:f Oct. 11, 1878, a policeman on duty near the Coliseum Music hall, Liverpool, noticed an unusual commotion al the entrance. Di\ sheveled boys and girls, their clothing in many instances torn from their - backs and some of them covered with blood, were pourirg from the gallery 1 exits, while from within the building Y came the sound of shrieking and loud . cries for help. Realizing something of what was happening, the conVable ir seized an ax and smashed in two of the 3 "extra" doors. '' . ? nis pi'UUipi UCUOil uuuvuuauij . scores if not hundreds of lives, for by 1 this-time the auditorium had become a veritable pandemonium, wherein several thousand people, mad with terror, were fighting and struggling with one another for precedence. Thirty-seven of the number lost their y lives, and more than twice that number , were maimed for life. And the cause of the panic was a fit of sneezing into ^ which a number of girls in the front ' row of the gallery were thrown owing j to some mischievous person tossing r some snuff into the air. A number of those behind, hearing and seeing a commotion in front, rost to their feet. Others joined them. Shouts and cries added to the confu s sion. An alarm was raised that th - place was on fire, and a simultaneous J rush of hundreds of frighteued^eoplt ' for the narrow exit doors was followed r by the results chronicled. ? Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold. 5 Laxative Bromo-Quininc Tablets cure , a cold in one day. No cure; no pay. , Price 25 cents. * President Roosevelt's Stoicism. The President rides at a trot or a slow | I gallop and always with the Centaur-like , cowboy seat which he learned so thoroughly in the Dakotas in his ranching days. It was in those days that he rode through the two final days of the fall round-up with two ribs broken, never ut? tering a word of his misfortune because . he was not sure whether it was cowboy . etiquette to speak of such slight injuries I in so busy a season. Horsemanship that , is acquired in such a stoic school does , not fall from a man like a garment when . he returns to the Kast.?May Ladies' Home Journal. : Sciatic Rheumatism Cured After Fourteen Years of Suffering. "I have been afflicted with sciatic rheu' mati-in for fourteen years," says Josh 1 Edgar, of Germantowu, Cal. "I was able - to be around, but constantly suffered. I tried everything I could hear of and at I last was told to try Chamberlain's Puin j Balm, which I did and was immediately relieved and in a short time cured, and I , am happy to say it has not since returns ed." Why not use this liniment and get well? It's for sale by Bamberg Pharmacy. f The Proud Cow. Walking through the Agawam meadows yesterday, hoping to observe hylas and skunk cabbages, we were beset by a .cow who was walking very chesty. Appeared then to us as a dog and a West Springfield person in citizen's clothes. "Call oir your cow!" we cried in alarm. "Huh!" replied the citizen, "ever since beef's gone up they ain't scarcely any liviu' with that cow!"?Springfield Union. Champ Clark paralyzed the house yesterday by appearing in a dove-colored frock suit, exactly like those worn by the male portions of the sextet in "Florodora." "Tell me, pretty maiden," said Representative Wadsworth, "where you got that suit of clothes." "Oh!" replied Clark, "I have got to wear something and it might as well be this." And then he turned to see if the galleries were looking.?Washington Post. Candidates' Cards. tr/-\n r*r\ \ i mtv ci inco\/icoD ruR ovjuih i i 001 i?1 \ v louii. 1 respectfully announce myself a candidate for County Supervisor, pledging myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary election, and solicit the suffrages of my fellow-citizens. W. H. COLLINS. DENTISTRY G. ff. Men, D. D. S. Will be in Ehrhardt the first Monday in every Month and stay three days WARNING NOTICE. My son, George Morris, ran away from home a few weeks ago. All persons are hereby forbidden to harbor him or give him employment, he being under age. JOHN F. MORRIS. Chrystalized mineral water. The guaranteed cure for Indigestion, Kidney complaints and all diseases arising from a disordered Liver or Stomach. It beautifies the complexion, tones up the system and creates PERFECT DIGESTION. 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C. ||| 00005^^^8. The Herald Book ^ Store has just re= \ gig ceived a new lot ot BBINGffili IB 1 "S| n . g THE SHEAVES 9 m? V A * ^ M ft 10 9V from early morn to dewy eve . I Jk I I II II H I Having accepted the agency for vlUllUIIUI I tbecelebrated -Jflfe J Bseiii Haryeslf which consists ot ifophjitppir Blank Books, MduHolJf Memorandum IJ | easy terms self-binding Wheat .jf!? n | rr% | r\ j ^ Harvesters, Mowers, and Rakes. DOORS, 1 U DC I 3.SXC You have always heard that Deer- ^ _ _ # . - ? ing Implements were the best; -V || i Writing and In= ; delible Ink, SET KSSbaye ,he m" Icera?'h CABBIAGE BOSKS M -w r m i | i Would say I do not deem it necWritinff I 3.UlCtS essary to say more than remind ? t , j i \ you that I am doing business at -T (both ruled and plain) same Old stand, opposite Bamberg I 1 Cotton Mills. I am here to stay, LCHtnCr periCll so don't forget me when you need the services of the carriage man. i Pockets, Crepe 'Wmk /t r?itson?k n r ~tz~ mill piaill 1 1WUV I XT. V . 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