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h. 4 THE BAMBEBB HEBALD ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 -4. W, KNIGHT. Editor. Rates?$i.oo per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?fi.oo per inch for first insertion; 50c. for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want No tices one cent a word each insertion. Jbocai Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must be paid for as regular advertising. CoMMUXiCATiOirs?News letters or on subjects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature > will n,ot be published unless paid for. n 1 ?" 1 1 Thursday, Dec. 29,1904 y- ' ? ^ We cannot understand why the people of Spartanburg should make themselves ridiculous by inviting Roosevelt to visit that city. We doubt very much if. the chamber of commerce represented a majority of the people of the city when they extended the invitation. Let us hope such was not the case at least. We congratulate Sheriff Owens and M Governor Heyward on the capture of Pp?: >. Adams, but more than all do we com mend the moral courage of D. W. Smoak who wrote the editorial in the Colletor. jt& News which resulted in something bein^ W& done. Had the editorial not been written we do not believe Adams would havt ftv- ; apprehended. To Mr. Smoak the honoi |f JB UUC. In Darlington's municipal election last j week the regular Democratic candidate was defeated, an independent bein^ elected. The primary system is getting into bad repute in Soqth Carolina, ano we may expect it to receive other hare jolts unless needed reforms are made. In many instances it is now used as a means to further the designs of interested poli ticians, and it is little wonder that good men refuse to be bound by it. We can see no difference in the State > . selling whiskey through its own agents and its being sold by private parties by and with the consent of the government, j If a governmental 'system of direct con- J , trol of the liquor traffic could be relieved of the taint of fraud and corruption, we would prefer it to having whiskey han-1 died by private individuals. If the State must go out of the whiskey business it will be because of the corruption developed and not for any sentimental reason, j Education is suggested as the remedy for lawlessness, vice and crime. With this we 'concur, provided it is the right kind. Make education compulsory if you will; that is all right, but it must be an education which will inculcate the lesi sons Of friendship,morality, and bzptherly love. The Bible should be taught in every I|J school, and it*principles of righteousness and purity impressed upon every young life. Teach them the religion of gentleness and kindness; to scorn a lie and hate a liar, and above all that order is heaven's ] first law. Drifted 200 Miles in a Row boat. San Francisco, Dec. 24.?A voyage of 200 miles by oar, almost destitute of pro * "visions and water, and pursued by a horde of giant sharks that threatened momen> tarily day and' night to capsize the craft and devour its occupants, was the experi ence of Capt. Sam Harris and four South Sea Islanders, who composed the crew ol the little trading schooner Victor, wreck j?-.. ed on Apataki Island on November 30. > Apataki is two hundred miles from Pa peete, the port of Tahiti. |/ This is a tale*o " the sea brought here by the liner Mariposa, just arrived, which |g. left Papeete on the day Captain Harris Sfe:: and his men landed there, emaciated and nearly crazed, but still alive. When the v- \ Victor ended her career by striking the reef the shipwrecked crew barely had v time to put off in the boat for their long yoyage, made without a compass and no |3b sail, with one day's provisions on board |P-; ' and half a dozen cocoanuts. The milk of the latter was all they had to drink during the eleven days it took to reach Papeete. The passage was enlivened by a constanVcombat with the sharks. In verifiaokj rroro cKntrn UtUUU Ul IUCU SliUlJf Vaio nviv euvnu splintered and worn repelling the attacks of the ferocious fish, which gave them no rest. The Victor was a trader among the Friendly and Society Islanders. If Woman Kills Her In Salter. Batsqn, Tex., December 26?W. R. Constan, an engineer employed by an oil company here, was shot and killed to-day by Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols, wife of another engineer. The shooting occurred on the doo?6tep of the Nichols residence. ;r\ t Constan gained access to the house, it is alleged, insulted Mrs. Nichols, whereupon he was ejected. He returned later and Mrs. Nichols fired at him from the doorway, killing him instantly. Mrs. Nichols was arrested, but later re* / leased on a snail bond to appear before the grand jury. Constan is reported to have a family, but their whereabouts are unknown. ???^ "Yes," said the tall tramp, "I told dat lady in de wayside cottage dat I was once a senator. She actually believed it." "Great hobos!" exclaimed his chum of the ties. "In what way do you resemble a senator?" "Oh, I told ber two or three afterdinner stories. Day were so stale she said I must be a senator."?Chicago y Daily News. k ? t - * X . g I I ?=Sg The * Conqueror By KEITH GORDON Cowrights Hot*, bv Jtf. ilcKen & .. I TIB IL 1 111 III ? 1 'BBir T JP-mV) Ma aloe looked at his watch. It was ten minutes past 4, and he was already late for an engagement. Nevertheless he dashed hastily Into the big department store, determined to procure the drtring gloves that he sorely needed. The tired electa and shining pneumatic tubes seemed to be In league to detain him, and he was strolling Impatiently up and down, inwardly reviling the system that made such delay possible, when the sight of a tall, fair girl, also waiting for change, transformed his feelings like the touch of a fairy wand. His impatience vanished; his engagement was forgotten. He had seen his ideal woman! A weaker man might have failed to detect his ohanrr in the mere passing gltznpse of a face in the crowd. ' Not so Manice. If fate, in effect, sold to him, "Don't you wish you knew her?" he Indomitably answered, "Trust me? I shall know herf And so the game I began. Social customs he regarded as so many fences inclosing and dividing the field of action. Under ordinary circumstances be respected these defenses and skirted them decorously until be came to gateways, like any other well bred individual. But the case in hand was comparable only to a cross country ride, when the man who would be in at the death must go over the fences, J amp the ditches and, stay him r>n+ fr\-r cmtpirflvfl nnrl hrid?>fi. MV? 4V4 |JV*W .. ? .. , 0 All of which means that Floyd Manice, usually the most dignified and conservative of men, spent the rest of the afternoon following a slim, erect young woman at a very respectful distance and utterly without her knowledge. At 6 p. m. he had the satisfaction of seeing her enter a smart trap at Morristown, N. J., whither she had unwittingly led him, and satisfied from her manner that she was at home he paced the platform waiting for the train back to town and making plans with an exultant confidence born of long success. " "Going to Morristown for the summer, eh?" exclaimed his partner in some surprise when he announced his intention a week later. "I thought you loathed New Jersey?" "Mistaken idea of yours," responded Manice, with mendacious brevity. "By the way, do you know any one there?" Brents usually moved with businesslike precision when Manice started to accomplish an end. Within two weeks from the day on which he first saw his star, as he called her to himself, be was established in Morristown, watting in strong, serene, yet humble expectation for her to appear once more upon his horizon. The days passed like a procession of snails, but she did not appear, and, though through the kindness of city friends he had a number of introductions, he made no effort to discover her Identity. He had a strange, sweet consciousness?to which he held in spite of disappointment and the deplorable sentimentality into which it was leading him?that she was sorely drifting toward him and that each day brought them nearer together. Near the end of the third week his faith was rewarded. It was on the golf links, and a ripple of peculiarly Clear, frank laughter somewhere near him caused him to turn his head. She and a companion were sauntering toward him, every line of her lithe, graceful figure standing out gloriously against the pure background of the . sky, her brown hair framing her face in a bewitching disorder. On this glimpse of her Manlce Rved for another week, and then his friend, Duncan Brown, descended upon him for the week's end stay. Duncan would have been welcome under any circumstances, but when he announced that a great friend of his, Betty Alston, lived in Morristown and offered to take Manlce to see her the latter pressed the freedom of his bachelor quarters upon him with added fervency, wondering if by chance be was entertaining an angel unawares. So indeed it proved. "I think I saw yon on. the links the other day," Miss Alston remarked, turning to Manlce after the greetings were over, and that gentleman always wondered what be said in reply. The one impression that he carried away from that meeting was a confusing sense of having been projected unexpectedly into the very midst of heaven. That impression, however, was not lasting. Time revealed that if Miss Alston was a guiding star others besides himself were looking, raising their eyes to her and following where she led. Still he drew a sigh of relief at the thought that he had two rivals instead of one. Always in these matters there was safety in numbers. KAftnincr a watchful eve upon two rivals Is wearing work even for a strong man. If Manice had been fascinated by Betty Alston's face, at the end of two months it was lovelier to him than ever, for the better he knew her the more assured he became of her sweetness and womanliness. Counted by conventional standards, it was a pitifully short time that they had known each other, but he felt as if he had been aware of her through all the thirty-five years of waiting. Thus his love, like a mighty wave, whose crest poised for a moment igust inevitably spend itself in foam, broke into words. Simple, manly words they were. "You are the only woman in the . ."V , ' world for me/' he concluded, the color that usually glowed under his tan noticably absent "From the first moment I knew it I would have followed you to the ends of the earth to tell you this, even though I had known that you would refuse me!" Betty Alston, her face as white as his own, turned to him with quivering lips. His earnestness frightened her. But there was Juck Winter?dear Jack with the laughing eyes and the gay smile! And yet Jack would never J l- ? -4. nave iuuoweu uer vui ul ixic uunu, and? She covered her face with her hands, and Manlce, pitted against fate, set his jaw grimly. . "Is there any one else?" he asked at last, and at the gentleness of his voice Betty took courage. "Ton don't know how unworthy I feel," she began in a trembling voice. "You see, I don't know myself. I hate myself for It, but I really don't If you love me like this, I ought to know, oughtn't I, whether I love you or not?" She looked at him with the puzzled confidence of a child appealing to an elder for help in a crisis. Then suddenly the eoior came up over her soft white neck, rising higher and higher until it suffused her whole face, and the eyes that had been gazing so clearly and chihttBhly Into his dropped. In that moment her heart was clearer to him than it was to herself. "Think about It for a week, sweetheart," he whispered, and, caAying her hand to his lips for a brief moment turned and left her. "She loves me?she loves me, God bless her! I know It" Manice's, thoughts ran during the days that fol- j lowed, and, though the hours seemed endless, not once during that time did he approach her. He shrewdly suspected that his absence would do more than anything else could to revdal her heart to herself. So sure of his answer was he that he wanted to make the day memorable to both of them. Many plans suggested thomRpivps. hnt none of them seemed worthy. Then a chance remark of hers flitted across his mind, and he murmured, with enthusiasm, "The very thing, by Jove!" She had whimsically said to him once that it was her idea Of bliss to have Hagadorn, the well known organist, play the wonderful organ at ?t Michael's an hour for her alone, and he decided that if Hagadorn was susceptible to the persuasive power of money she should have that pleasure. But to his dismay he found that he was not He did not understand the gentleman's request, and he refused the offer somewhat haughtily, It was then that Manice appealed to the man, ignoring the artist and at the end of his brief but somewhat shamefaced explanation Hagadorn was smiling genially. "I'll do It with pleasure," said he, holding out his hand. "And of course youll know Justwell, Just the right sort of music?" suggested Manice. "The sort that will -that will"? "Yes," assented the organist, "I think I know the sort" And they parted in great good hnmor. At the end of that rapturous hour of wonderful music in the dim interior of St Michael's next day Betty simply turned her humid eyes upon Manice and held out her hands. It was not until she had gained the poise and assertion of six months of wifehood that she accused him *of taking an unfair aavamagv. "As If any girl could have refused such a lover r' she taunted, ruffling his hair disgracefully. "It was what the papers call claptrap." Relies at Gold Ranters. While plowing In his field near Eufaula recently Mr. Charles Gibson uncovered a large number of weapons, some of which were rifles of an old style, some blunderbusses, a few old time pistols and a couple of swords. All these weapons are in a fair state of preservation and are apparently of Spanish make. According to Greek tradition, a party of adventurous Spaniards, numbering fifty-four, in the year 1664 left New Orleans on burros and went to the territory in search of gold. They secured all the precious metal they could carry, and on their way back they were beset by a band of Shawnees near Standing Rock, eight miles east of Eufaula, and a great battle followed. The Spaniards, with the exception of two who escaped ona raft, were annihilated. It is supposed that the weapons plowed up on Mr. Gibson's place are the ones that were used by the Spaniards mentioned above.?Kansas City Journal. Thwarted by a Witness. "A little flash of humor on the pert of a witness will orten destroy tne tws* of legal examinations," said a well known lawyer. "Not long ago I had a criminal case in which one of the best witnesses for the prosecution was a negro. Before the coroner be bad made two different statements as to the number of times he had seen one of the principals in the case, and I Intended to trip him up on it In the cross examination. If be said the first number I should confront him with the other statement from the testimony before the coroner, and vice versa. I thought I had him cornered, no matter bow be answered. I was reserving the question for the climax, and finally I asked him in my most confident manner, 'How many times did you say that you saw this child? He hesitated a moment and then replied in a surly tone: 'I didn't say I saw It at all. I said I seen It'. Even the judge had to smile, and, though I hammered away at him, all the effect that I had sought was lost beyond repair."?Philadelphia Record. . ? , . ' ^ -- ; ' V DO VOU WANT POWER Well I can satisfy your wants with one of those FAMOUS WEBER ENGINES Yes, give you a power suitable for any kind of work at a reasonable price. Address a postal card to me and I will fpll vnn Vinw von ean have water in vour house. j " J J , both hot and cold. Is not that convenient ? Engines from 2? to 100 horse power. VST. H. Patrick, Mgr. BAMBERG, S. C. JhUw mm MM 11 1^1 mwJB ^^WR II II MM .^ME^r wk || I ^ THE Ask Us H II Why? JJ^WHITE STAR BUGGY^R Why? I II to the Best Built, Easiest Rimabg Buggy Made, II | ATLANTA BUGGY CO., Atlanta, Ga. | White Star Buggies Sold by J. M. Dannelly & Son EhrHardt, S. C. _ SftRsrm 1 Mj ia here, and von should have your gun put in first-class . fcfti condition. Bring it to me and be certain that is repaired DaS] ' properly. I repair on short notice all kinds of g@j B GUNS, PISTOLS AND BICYCLES I and guarantee all work to be as represented and the tfffl charges are reasonable. I also carry a full and complete 1m line of bicycle parts which I offer at reasonable prices. I J. 'BUIST BRICKLEf njg Bamberg, 5. C. jlffi Southern Railway ? ^ o ~\r ^ '-T-fcLJU SUU'l'H'S lji(?jA'XJ3iO i OXOiuji i UNEXCELLED DINING CAR SERVICE Ttomd Mima ill Gas a all Tin? Trains Convenient Schedules on all Local Trains Winter Tourist Eates are now in effect to all Florida points. For full information as to rates, routes, schedules, etc., consult nearest Southern Eailway ticket agent, or v.w R. W. Hunt, Division Passenger Agt. CHARLESTON, S. C. F^mBANKS^MORSE^/ GASOLINE ENGINES/?? Fairbanks Water Light and Power Morseoco. . Monroe St. Chicago FAh 4U a Farm Gentlemen?Please send me C or tile r arm, (&/ illustrated catalog and prices on 11 . | ^ the Outfits I have marked by an X? 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AlgNgSfl orders shipped c. o. d. when money is now ^fl remitted with order. 1 am in & betterrSZM position this season to give satistaclibh r-'^H than ever before, as 1 have my plant beds at express and post office named below, J which enables me now to shipplants saznaB^H day orders are received. Your ordenH^H will have my personal attention. ing your valued order, I am yours truly, B. J. DONALD8QN, Meggett, S.(% Weak w Hearts 1 Are due to Indigestion. Ninety-nine of evaH^UM one hundred people who have heart trohbli jfc'l can remember when it waa simple lndigea- T-; 5:J tion. It is a scientific fact that aMcfcwira heart disease, not organic, are not ofar - -V| traceable to, but are the direct result of ton- . jS gftstion. All food takes Into the stomach #, ifl which falls of perfect digestion ferments end swells the stomach, puffing it up against the - j] heart. This interferes with theactton of 9 J the heart, and In the course of time that delicate but vital organ becpmea dftetted Mr. D. Knbie. of H~?da. O, sure I had rtoctyh. | | trouble and was ta a . Jtata M I had lwttrpebl* - . ? with it I took Kodol Dyipepd* Core forabcotfear sEpl Booth# and it cured me. ' _, a Kodol Digests What Yon tat j and relieves the "stomach of all nervotie -,"j strain and the heart of all pressure. ?< a SonjS^^^^ ^'1 cefg^Loat ViUU^T^^S#^^?btiy tmlwHOfc - \1 Igsm^^F^IlagatocMgy. VutoDbwMWMM . J tniConKumption. T "*** on bsvtns- ' SX^^pSikw^OT Ito tor&OCHwMh?|W<i ^ 3 th^m oa e^? I iiess and overwork andhadtoreogn . M^i<l my goeition and take a rest. I B V^W I co^P^8h, and aa your Wine^cf M; j&l B good medicine for the ilia of oer B f I mx, I bought a bottle and began B J f I B using it. I was satisfied with we B^S^jB fl wwwfat . - jy I B B>\l B my work with renewed vigor. T '#?SB B crmsHur it a An* i* ^d j- J lor worn-oat, nervous condition, B ' \ J B ftm pleated to endorie it, B ' * -i y,',.. Afll^WEg^, , w:'-;''|J I Secure a $1.00 bottle of Wine cl I Cavdni and a 25c. package Thedford's Black-Draught today. ? I WIHE OF CtROyi.l H 0. J mlkI Has in stock a nice iine of jfl Opes aid Top Baggies and Banes J 1 for sale cbeap. He is agent for r t jfl Bickford&Hoffman's Celebrated Grain ifl Drill, the Woodruff Hay Press, and m Deering Harvesting Machinery. Also Conducts a First-class X REPAIR SHOP/ I and builds anything on wheels - 41 to order. Now is the time to have . your buggy repaired and painted " V-1 to look and last as good as new. -"^a Horseshoeing a Specialty IlUTTQ A. Grist) Hill on Saturdays :'vm All orders sent to me wil be n handled the same as if you were ,41 to bring it yourself. Give me a ->. l| call ana inspect my stock. " j| Yours for satisfaction, f .jrl NOTICE. / All persons are warned not to hire or ; harbor Bristow Faust or his family, they |J| being under written contract to work for 1 me for the year 1906, and have left my IHfl place. J.W.BARNES. J$M Cope, S. December 24, 1904. V