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fTHE BAMBERG HERALD ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 j i. W. KXIGHT Editor, Rates?|i.oo per year; 50 cents for , six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?|i .00 per inch for c first insertion: *oc. for each subsequent ] g|. % insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Noticesone cent a word each insertion. Local Notices Sc. per line first week, 5c. after; 'wards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must be paid for as regular advertising. ?& : , Communications?News letters or on P&- subjects of general interest will be gladly pX - welcomed. Those of a personal nature ?pv will not be published unless paid for. ||4 Thursday, March 3,1904 life There has been a number of killings in g|?. 'South Carolina during the past week or and too many of them were "murBp**" w 1 fijgo,* Jno. Bell Towill, a new member of the B&f State board of dispensary directors, says that where it is shown that the people of pL. atown or city want a dispensary abolish|||i' he will vote for its removal. Good 6|^ for Mr. To will! May the other members fc, of pie board vote the same way. Si&The way for a South Carolina congressp,;.man to hold his job is for him to get a pit pnblic building or some kind of a government appropriation for the large towns ^ i in his district. If he can do this he has a v "lead pipe cinch" on his congressional ^H&eat and need not be uneasy, no matter ^ |bio>w many fellows run against him. Il^' News and Courier has certainly ||fr done a very sensible thing in reducing its TTnw it. p.rpr kent no ice so long we cannot understand, not believe in newspapers being ap, but it was the only Southern hich charged $10 the year, so far fcnow. While it is a fine news i, still we believe it has lost ground at years on account of its high re indeed glad of the action of nstice Pope in granting an order ing the opening^of dispensaries at n and Lake City, pending the of the matter by the supreme The case is sobn to be heard by it, and we trust that the decision against the opening of djspenThose people have fought hard the opening of rum shops in their ve towns, and they should not ipensaries forced on them. congratulate the building com n the handsome start they have t the work of raising funds for Methodist church. But with such usiastic and capable worker as T. Brabham at the head of the ee, the work is bound to go for- ; th dispatch. Mr. Brabham is one lost public-spirited citizens?one me and money is always freely r the good of his town and cornLong may he be spared to Bamhave no State campaign meetyear. The plan of having meetevery county in the State has rery much of a nuisance, and the W^'P small attendance of voters at the meetings two years ago shows conclusively that Kit the people generally have lost interest in Sp^them. Our people are preparing for a BK& big crop this year, and they will want to stay at home and work. We can see no good reason for continuing the plan of tRjf\ campaign meetings in every county;speak- ' vBamberg, we do not believe our TQters, or a majority of them at least, Ij|b' want any meetings here. We'll have all politics we want with our county candidates. gfov:. Killed by a Train. Nobth, Feb. 29.?John Myrth, a young llfcxiiegro 17 years of age, was struck by the Seaboard's Florida Limited this morning about 9 o'clock and instantly killed. He j gfc bad been sent by his father to bring a i ipagon load of fertilizers and was stand- s St *' ing in a store for a few moments. The 1 team was standing on the other side of * ^1- the track from the store and as Myrth 1$^ beard the whistle he tried to cross the ^ > track to stand at his horses' heads. The ( train, however, was running at full speed s Ip&and he was struck by the pilot of the i m^^gine. ( gfc Magistrate Johnson began the inquest i ^,"4' tbis afternooD, but continued it until to- j J'-., morrow evening at 8 p. m. so that addi gfe tional evidence may be obtained. The town ordinances prohibit the trains !&/ running at such speed through the limits, : p.. . but this rule is frequently violated espec- 1 ially by the flyer which passes just as the < lll^l children are going to school. < The Oldest Man. J New Brunswick, N. J., March l.-Noah < Kaby died today in the Piscataway poor ifv house of which he had been an "inmate 1 g? for the last 40 years. If he had lived until ^ S&* April 1, next, accoruiug iu ms unu siaie^; ,ment, Raby -would have been 132 years ' jps?, old. He retained bis memory and would * SgV recall many incidents of bis lon^ career 1 sr until very recently. Raby is said to bave i - - been born in Eatonton, Gates county, N. 1 . C., on April 1, 1772. He enlisted in the ? ; navy in 1805 and served on the ship Con- j stitution and the frigate Brandywine, on the latter of which Farragut was a lieutenBpF ant. 1 THE BEST COUGH SYRUP. 1 tj: 8. L. Apple, ex-Probate Judge, Ottawa , 1- Co., Kansas, writes: "This is to sav that , I have used Ballard's Horehound Syrup . -;r for years, and that I do not hesitate to recommend it as the best cough syrup I 3 liave ever used." 2oc, 50c, $1. Dr. Hoover. 1 Su> I'V.". y~-'\ ' .. ' > ' c ' ' -" 'iV 'A* : ' " - . ' 1 '* ' V * A bicycusrs DATUffG FEAT. l*oopt a Loop from Which a Section qf the TracK, Hat Arm Avmwntf Looping dans le vide" is the latest Aversion of the sensation loving Preach and the most half raising feat hat ever a daredevil American perormed to defy nature. Every one has seen a fly walking on he ceiling and thought nothing of it md as a parallel case the bicycler who Ides around Inside a huge circle bead lown. But no one has ever seen a fly valking on air upside down. Yet that s practically what this dauntless American does, and for affording the jnnuied world such a sensation he Iraws a yearly salary double that of President Roosevelt. The young man is W. H. Barber of itochester, N. Y., and what he does is ilmost incredible. The loop as it has >een looped is familiar to every one, >ut never has a cycler tried, much less tccomplished, wbat Barber Is doing. The construction of this loop is the . lame as of old, but about five yards of he top of the loop have been removed, Hid the cyclist jumps through space lead downward to land on the loop Lgain and shoot out at the end in the lsual way. It was an accident that gave the American cyclist the idea for his peril>us aerial flight He was in Nimes, France, looping he loop in the ordinary way when an iccident befell him that nearly proved lis undoing and was the means of )ringing him widespread renown. When the time came for him to loop he loop the wind was blowing a gale, md there was no way to protect himself or overcome its resistance. Instead of going into the loop at the regilar speed of forty miles an hour he xrald not riding against the wind, have been traveling at more than wenty-five miles. He brought all his strength to bear :o overcome the force of the wind, but t was unavailing, and, as be afterward said, "I said a little prayer for nyself, for I was sure I bad not speed mough to carry me around the loop, md?well, even a novice wouM know what the result of such circumstances would be." But the same Providence who had Irequently helped him out of smaller (crapes and saved his life a number of imes when be was a boy came to his lid again, and to that he says that he rwes the fact that be Is still amusing >eople by his scorn of danger and is lamed the world over. He never reached the ceiling of the oop, but to his astonishment made a BIDING THBOUGp SPACE. ump of about six feet impelled by the vind and tbe momentum, and, landing securely on tbe back wall, continued lis ride as tbougb be bad touched all be way round. A number of tbe spectators had seen be terrific midair leap and had not recovered their breath before Barber stood on terra firma, bowing and smilng in response to the applause and carefully hiding the feeling of horror ivhich swept over him after he had 1 anded and had time to realize his past ianger. After the first impression left by his 1 iccident had vanished the novelty of :he break grew upon him, and he decided that if he could do it once he could repeat it Accordingly he constructed a model, with which he experimented and from which he got the limensions for his present loop. The start is made from a platform birty-eight feet high, the cyclist ridng down a run at thirty-five degrees, entering the loop at the rate of about chirty miles an hour, then rising twenty feet when he leaves the loop, nakes a jump in the air upside down, ands on the other wall and rides down 1+ c orvccLT? nf fn-OTif-T7.fi vo milfc n r> iour. The track as far as the cut is three feet wide, the back wall or come out jeing six feet just half the width of die loops used in America. The bicy:le he uses is a specially made one. weighing eighty pounds, and even then t sometimes gives way under him, the force being so terrific when be hits the Dack walL -- ; ' . *.o >> - - . -' i y - - . V' . ' a ; i : ' !'Buried * ^/t i i*ve Strange and Horrifying Experience of a young Englishman* Apparently Dead. Though Fully Conscioxts, He Was Consigned to the Gra%)e?His Miraculous F^escue. George Heyward, who recently died at Independence, Mo., was eighty-two years of age and until a few weeks ago worked every day. Mr. Heyward was born in England, where he learned the watchmaker's trade, and came to this country many year? ago. When a young man in England Mr. Heyward was buried alive and was : ^ THE DOCTOB DBOPPED HIS KHI7E. only saved from awful death because physicians disagreed as to the cause of his demise and took up the body to perform an autopsy. When placed on the dissecting table signs of life were discovered, and he was resuscitated. This Is the story, as often related by Mr. Heyward: "11 was in aiarsirvuie, cjugmuu, wuuty of Gloucester, where I was buried," Mr. Heyward used to say very grimly. "My father had a very large family of boys, and he raised us all on the form near the village. I was quite young, and it was my chief delight to go to the fields with my older brothers. In those days the farmhouses were surrounded by big yards filled with straw. This straw was allowed to rot, and in the fall of the year it was loaded on to wagons and carted to the fields as a fertilizer. It was a bright morning when we started for the fields, and I ran ahead of the horses. The horses in England are not driven with reins, but they follow the command of the voice. After reaching the field the pitching of the straw was completed. The men used hops ticks, which are fashioned somewhat after a heavy pitchfork. While standing near one of the hands by accident I was struck on the head with one of the picks. It penetrated my skull and at the time made me feel faint and dizzy. My injury was not considered serioias. "After returning to the house I was sent into the cellar, and, much to my - ? ? At- - J - ?1_ surprise, 1 CO$ia see in uie uura. as well as in the light After coming from the cellar my strength failed me, and I was soon bedfast Two doctors were called One of them insisted that my condition was due to the blow on the head, the other that I had pleurisy. At any rate, two weeks elapsed, and mv eyes closed in supposed death. *It was death as far as my relatives were concerned. Yet I was painfully conscious of every movement going on around me. My eyes were half closed, and as I was laid out I heard my older brother, John, walk into the house. I saw him approach the cot with tears in his eyes, and sympathizing friends consoled him by asking him to dry his tears. 'He is gone,' they said, and other similar expressions were used around the bier. Well known faces would peer down at me as I lay with my eyes half closed. Tears rained on my race as tne Dunai snroua wus wrapped around my body. As soon as the undertaker arrived I knew I was to be buried alive. Try as I would, nothing could break the spell which bound me. Every action and every word spoken is as distinct to my mind now as then. "Well, the time for the funeral arrived, and the service was preached over my living but rigid body. The undertaker approached, and the lid of my little prison house was fastened down. Life seemed all but gone when this took place; but, as I said, no effort of mine could break the spell. The coffin was shoved into the wagon, and the trundling of the vehicle sounded in my ears. I was painfully conscious of the fact that I was soon to be lowered into the grave. But I did not feel fear at my impending fate. The coffin was taken out of the wagon and lowered into the grave. In those days boxes I : .v.; v.," / < ir:& were not used as receptacles for coffins . The clods of earth fell heavy on the lid of the casket. There I was being entombed alive, unable to speak or stay the hands of my friends. My effort to move proved futile, and the close air of the coffin seemed stifling to me. Suddenly the shoveling ceased, and the silence of the tomb was complete. I did not seem to have the fear then that a person would naturally expect under such circumstances. All I remember is that the grave is a lonely place, and the silence of the tomb was horribly oppressive. A dreamy sensation came over me, and a sense of suf* "J ' * XCTT n.hn1a iocauou L>tn_~lLUe Uyptlitlil. AVkj nuvis By stem was paralyzed. Were It otherwise my st:ruggle3 would have been desperate. "How long I remained in this condition I do nol: know. The first sense of returning life came over me when I heard the scraping of a spade on my coffin lid. 1 felt myself raised and borne away. I was taken oat of my coffin not to my home, but to a dissecting room. I behuld the doctors who had waited upon me at my home, dressed in long white aprons. In their hands they had knives. Through my hall closed eyes I saw them engaged in a dispute. Tbey were trying to decide how to cut me up. One argued one way, while the ether doctor took another view of the matter. All this I witnessed through my half opened eyes. My sense of. hearing was remarkably acute. Both approached the table and opened my mouth, whi n by superhuman effort my eyelids were slightly raised. The nest thing I he;: :*d was: "Look out, you fool! He is alive!" *He Is dead.' rejoined the other doctor *See! He opens his eyes!* continued the first doctor. The other physician let his knife drop, and a short time after that I commenced to recover rapidly. Instead of cutting me up they took me home. There was great rejoicing among my relatives. I owed my life to the doctors' dispute as tc what ailed me during my Illness/' A WOMA/rs COOL "Bitten by a Carantufa Shi Suck* Out "Poison, Savin# Her Life, To her rare presence of mind a Denver woman undoubtedly owes her life displaying at the same time a "nerve" almost on the heroic. Mrs. Salvador Martin of Park avenue, Berkeley, in the district of Denver, in taking out of her closet a heavy jacket put her hand Inside the coal sleeve. She at once felt a sharp sting and, drawing her hand away, was horrified to find an immense spider-like insect, as large as a silver dollar and ol inky blackness, clinging thereto. She quickly brushed the insect off and crushed it beneath her feet, and ther went on about her work. In about fifteen minutes the band be gan to swell and in half an hour 11 had swollen to twice its size. The fin gers had stiffened, and the entire hand was of a deep purple color. Mrs. Mar tin went at once to the telephone, bu1 no Berkeley physician wat within call She then decided that she would gc MBS. MAETDi FELT A SHABP STISG. over Into Denver, but before she could I get dressed the pain was so intense as to be almost unbearable. Mrs. Martin then decided upon des: perate measures. She examined hei hand closely, but could find no abrasion of the skin through which the poison might be withdrawn. "With a nerve truly remarkable under the circumstances, Mrs. Martin tied a cord tightly around her wrist to prevent the poison from spreading farther and ther deliberately took a sharp razor and cul a deep gash in her hand near where she supposed the sting to be. She then sucked the poison out until the inflammation had receded and the fingers began to move. Hastily making a paste of common baking soda and ammonia, Mrs. Martin swathed her hand in this and started to the highlands for a physician. Upon at last locating one she was told that nothing further was necessary and that she owed her life to her quick thought and cool nerve. The next morning Mrs. Martin's mouth was blistered thickly, although she had been careful to wash It with witch hazel after abstracting the poison. . 1 '-V .. -V i f ? ~v.". .' I sv OUR WAY f The Gentle Way! I The feeling and the edges of the collars are respected, shirts are returned to their | jpj owners free from the rip and tear that some laundries seem to think are necessary, cuffs are worn out as little as maybe As a result the linen last longer and wears better j TT1 trhpn rtnnp at the I H Laurens Steam Laundry, loo Laurens, S. C. Write Now For Agency. marsh; SARATOGA POT ( Pm? up in Cartoons wl Clean and Fresh. TV Convinced that they < 30 CTS. PER F : Hoffman's T>C?i cnurki^ ' I \ ? | ANOTHER. C/ |HORSES i , i| HAS ARRj Iat our s i| If you need an Animal I i| .we can suit you. 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Be sure to get our prices re can surely suit you, no matter r our stock 'is always complete, mus. Furniture! ture. We cannot enumerate, but ne to see us. We are the people * i and styles. ? Machinery. J ing machinery, and can fix you if y-'fl lake, or anything in this line. Ily & Son. Jj HanmJ V;v ' *MER! linutes. Plowing time is here, s years crop. You will need iRIDLES, BACKBANDS ?t 'em and you'll find the prices e cents cotton. Our line of HARDWARE, ETC., r ! re bought in large lots, and 1 . we certainly mean it. Come ised to quote you prices. LOOKER, R? MAX. ^ \ 4