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ill - ' . ^|| THE BAMBERG HERALD. Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1905 One Dollar a Year : : ? ? : ? 1 . >1^ FARM WEALTH. I ~ v V Colossal Values of Our Farm Products for the Year 1904. ".<T r * After reading the government statistics .of the value of American farm products for the year just past one is certain to be strikingly impressed with the colossal wealth of American agriculture and its profitable diversity as well. the twelve principal articles of farm produce had a market value at the place of production on December 1 estimated ,, by the department of agriculture at the enormous total of $2,784,868,702 and the bumper cotton crop is excluded from the estimate. This, is $200,676,335 more than the yield of 1903, and $176,968,286 more than the yield of 1902, which was accounted a "bumper" year, breaking all previous records of production. *; ^ '.Of the cereals, wheat alone is short, \ which is only a relative expression, for) the wheat crop is enormous. The final 1? estimate falls due 85,000,000 bushels below the great yield of last season. Our wheat exports this year are some 54,000,000 \ bushels less than up to a corresponding date last year, but we are using more wheat at home than last year. With a $00,000,000 bushel wheat crop bread ought not to be high in the United States, * ^: and but for a miller's trust it would not igC be high. 7 ,. The corn crop seems to be running a 7 ^ >, close race with the cotton crop for redundancy. The final figures are set down at 2,500,000,000 bushels, which indicates a record yield. It remains to be seen whether this plentitude of agricultural production will maV..:; ' terially affect the excessively high cost of living. If there is anything in the law of supply and demand, it will. If it does not, producers and consumers will know 7 that the middlemen and the speculators are making rich hauls.?Ex. .v. An Essay on Preachers. p"' 7 : The preecher are a man whot preaches. x .r . He are th,e feller what helps the wimen run the church an' he wares black does J J - an' a solumn (Solomon) look. Evrie Son' v day he gits np in church an' warns yu to prepair tu go to Heven no matter whar ? you'd rather go to. Married' preechers Ift'r has boys whot are tuff nuts an' fyte like tygers. .Preechers wnot are single b<uj? ; ( - gits marrytu kepe frum bavin' ter * dodge the onmarried women. Preechers ' lyke chjcken when it are f orniched by the chirch membirs an' the^l call you "mi brother" an' pat yon on the back an' also I life'- -on the pocket book. We have apreecher in our chirch an' be is long an' slim' an' will talk ole folks tu slepe Sum peeple lykes him an' sum doan't an' I doant neetber, for he talks tu much. Our preechei whisles when he are readin' his sarmon, an' one day he kept three dogs runnin' round in chirch to find out who was whistlin' fer them. It ended in a dog ' fyte an' I laffed* But I shall nevir do so no moar ef mi fathir are in thare.?Bol . Brown. 1 . ?MW?*? 1 O'Rorke?'Tis queer, but whinever I *.. feel in me pants fer me knife, 'tis always in the other pocket McToole~-T bin why don't yez always feel, in the other pocket first, ye foolish ^ tnanf v ; NO MORE STOMACH TROUBLES. Stomach trouble is removed by use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It gives tbe stomrV . ach rest by digesting what you eat. without the stomach's aid. The food builds flfc the body, the rest restores the stom 3p*v ach to health. You don't have to diet yourself when taking Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. J. D. Erskine, of Allenville, Mich., says; "I suffered heartburn and stomach 'i' trouble for some time. My sister-in-law pL-.- had the same tronbie and was not able to eat for weeks. She lived entirely on warm water. After taking two bottles of Eodol Dyspepsia Care she was entirely cured. She now eats heartily and in good health. ;C> ; , 1 am glad to say Eodol gave me instant ' : . relief. Sold by H. F. Hoover. i Hot Time For Jack Egan. j^v Jack Egan, a well known farmer living near Luzerne, was badly burned in a peculiar manner early Sunday morning. ' ; Egan had been in town celebrating, and x started to drive home. He got down near the Brad well home, oh the south ;.>v side, and lost control of his team. The ^ . V; horses ran into a narrow place between - two buildings, detaching themselves from the wagon and harness, throwing Egan . out. A bottle of whiskey in his pocket was broken, the contents being spilled over the lower part of his body. Feeling the cold liquid trickling down, Egan s. struck a match to find out the trouble, N y with the result that it was revealed to b* -x him in a sensational manner. The liquor took fire, and the man's clothing blazed brightly. M. E. Howard, who was going * home, heard Egan's screams, and ran to < . - his . assistance. He tore the burning clothing loose, and with the aid of several neighbors, Egan was carried to the pump i t x ana placed under the spout, where the; Ifv-i blaze was put out.?Belle Plain (Iowa) Union. ,* : . A VERY CLOSE CALL. "T ^ ? """ onirino olt.hftncrh PVPrv -L SlUUH W 1UJ vugmv, - j joint ached and every nerve racked with ( P*"1*" writes C. W. Bellamy, a locomotive *, firemanHof Burlington, Iowa. I was weak J and pale, without any appetite and all run down. As I was about to give up, I got a bottle of Electric Bitters, and after | ^ taking it, I felt as well as I ever did in ! my life." Weak, sickly, run down peo-! pie always gain new fife, strength and * vigor from their use. Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed by all drug stores at j ' Bamberg, S. C., and Felder & Matthews, Denmark, S. G. Price 50 cents. < : I'r , I IN THE PALMETTO STATE. INTERESTING 6CCURRENCES OF VARIOUS * KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 1 State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading t Pungent Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. i | The inauguration of Governor Hey- * ward will take place on Wednesday, Jan- ^ uary 2o^h, the general assembly having 1 fixed that date for the ceremonies. 1 ^ 1 ^" T "P" Pi-ootooIo o rtrnminpnt p.iti* 1 iXJLI . U Xki JVMAVMAVf m VM.. ? | zen of Belton, Anderson county, committed suicide last Monday by banging himself from a rafter in his barn. Failing health is supposed to be the cause. He was 51 years old, and leaves a wife and three children. Gen. Matthew C. Butler, formerly ( United State* Senator from South Caro- ] lina, and Mrs. "Walter Whitman, of New York, were married last Saturday in Grace ] Chantry, New York,by the Rev. H. Mc- j Kim. Only a few friends of Gen. and Mrs. j Butler were present. The bride was given away by Patrick Calhoun, and Perry Bel- t mont was best man. j Rev. Harvey Hatcher, D. D., of Atlan- j ta, died suddenly last Sunday afternoon j at the Sea Island hotel in Beaufort. Heart disease was the cause of his death. He was ] 72 years old. Dr. Hatcher was a prominent j Baptist minister, and had gone to Beaufort j 3 * mAAb Knf TTOk on a aeer auui duuui a Yt tCH UViui v? uv had preached in the Baptist chnrch Sunday morning and was to preach that evening. , The State board of canvassers at a 1 meeting held in Colombia last Monday decided that the election recently held 1 for creating Calhoon county was legal. : It will be remembered that the Edgefield 1 board threw out the vote and declared the election illegal on the ground that the books of registration had been open the day before the election. It is said that there will be a protest from Green- 1 wood county and the State board will i meet there Thursday to hear it. The postoffice at Williamston was broken into by robbers last Sunday nighf. 1 The safe was blown open and about $75 worth of stamps and $50 in cash secured. Bloodhounds were procured, but they 1 were not successful in striking a trail. A gentleman who roomed near the building 1 was awakened by the explosion and step- ' ped out when he heard an excited voice 1 call, "Jim, Jim, come on." Jl moment ] later three men hurried out of the office ( and went down the railway track. There 1 is no clue to the robbers. 1 ? i a ' At ft special meeting vi me uv?uu m directors, held last Saturday, Mr. Charles ' Witsell was elected president of the Walterboro Cotton Oil Company, to take the place of the late Or. J. G. Saunders. Resolutions were adopted complimentary to the deceased president. Mr. Witsell is an able and energetic young business man and will, no doubt, fill this position well. He is at present a leading merchant of Walterboro and is serving his first term as mayor of the town, to which office he was elected last year without opposition. Recently atCheraw Mr. W. C. Tray wick was shot and killed while down near the river inspecting lumber. The cause of his death was a mystery for several days, but it finally developed that he was accidentally shot by a party of young white men while target shooting^ The dead ?" "inmKni. r\f TTpffihftw damn Uiau was a ukuivu vi uvw--.. ? r Woodmen of the World, which appointed a committee to go to Cheraw and investigate the shooting. As a result of their work, a warrant was sworn outf for a Mr. Mcintosh, charging him with criminal carelessness. ? x. . Not Enough to Hurt. Dr. Wallace Wood, of the University of New York, was talking about the love i of beauty, says the New York Tribune. "The love of beauty," he said, "is not so firmly planted in the people's minds as it should be. Things only that are useful are considered valuable, beautiful things too often are regarded as unimportant. "This popular idea of the useful's unspeakable superiority over the merely beautiful may be illustrated by a happening in a barber shop. "A barber, in cutting a young man's hair, snipped off a piece of his ear. "The young man leaped from the chair. He cried in anguish and horror: " 'Oh! you have cut a piece of my ear i off!' "But the barber answered in a patron- i izing, soothing way, as one speaks to a child: " 'Sho! Don't carry on so, boss. 'Taint i 'nuff to affect yo' hearin.' " 1 i The Old Man's Idea. Maw: "That young Loafley has been comin' to see our Mariar purty stiddy : since the cold weather set in." Paw: "Yep, I notice so." /I'tt/v aro Kio infon. juaw; * u nab u jc o <u& uu *unvu- , tions ?" Paw: "I think his intentions are to . keep warm of nights at our expense for j the rest of the winter." * WONDERFUL NERVE. < Is displayed by many a man enduring 1 pains of accidental cuts, wounds, bruises, burns, scalds, sore feet or stiff joints. But there's no need of it. Bucklen's Ar- 1 nica Salve will kill the pain and cure the < trouble. It is the best salve on earth for | piles, too. 25c. at all drug stores at Bam- i berg, 8. C., and Felder & Matthews, Den- t mark, S. C. j r Country Correspondence. New Year came as a welcome visitor, md we hope we all are quite determined ;o improve in every way, to grasp all jolden opportunities and turn aside from ;he opposite. Miss Belle McKewn visited her parents n Orangeburg yesterday, returning to ake charge of her school on Monday, lampton school under her management is progressing very nicely. A very nice li? prary has been fitted up, and now the pupils are kept in touch with some of the 3est writers of the day. We are sorry to report the extreme illaess of Mr. P. W. Sandifer. He was stricken Saturday morning with paralysis. All his children,and other near kinired, were immediately summoned. All teat medical skill and loving hands can 3o is being done, and we hope for his recovery. Miss Eva Hanberry, of Denmark, has been with Miss Georgie Emma Jordan for the past week. She will return home ;o-morrow. Miss Pearle Sandifer, of our midst, entertained a few of her young friends at borne last Friday evening. In spite of the inclement weather a very pleasant evening was spent. Mr. Wm. Hughes, of Clear Pond, has purchased land in our midst and is erecting a dwelling, in which he intends moving in the near future: We will gladly welcome Mr. Hughes and his family. Miss Pearle Sandifer, of Binnaker's Bridge, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Dowling Free, in our vicinity for the past week, returned home Saturday. Cupid seems to have darted his surest arrows at the hearts oi a lew or tne young folks lately, judging by the marriages that have taken place lately in the Clear Pond vicinity. On January 1, at the home of Mr. F. M. Zeigler, his daughter, Miss Annie, and Mr, Joe Beard, of Colston, were united in the holy bonds of wedlock, Rev. 8. P. Chisholm officiating. A number of very useful and pretty presents were received. On the same afternoon in the same vicinity, at the home of the bride's sister, Miss Mary Goodwin and Mr. Clifton Miller were married, Mr. Jimmie Jones, of Colston, Notary Public, officiating. Two weeks later, on Sunday afternoon, at the home of Mr. H. F. Priester, at Clear Pond, his daughter, Miss Annie, and Mr. Louis Zeigler, of the same vicinity, were happily married, Rev. 8. P. Chisholm officiating. A number of presents were received. To these three happy couples who have set sail in love's canoe down the stream of time we wish a long life of peace, happiness and pros^ perity. ( The friends of Mr. J^mes Hill, Jr., will be glad to know he is in fine health and excellent spirits, and has a fine position in Meridian, Miss., where he has been since his graduation in electricity at Clemson in J*une. In a recent letter he tells of some trips to various cities, towns, hiiie nurVs etft. that, he has enioved. We have certainly been having some cold weather lately, although we have heard of a certain officer who wishes if would freeze on Fridays so the country folks could not get to town op Saturdays Pity on such officers. To Supervisor Bruce and the chain gang force we return thanks- for some excellent work done on Lemon Swamp crossing on Ehrhardt-Bambergroad. The; have reached a long-felt want. The Sassafras Grove school about twe miles from here is doing fine. Miss Sallie Felder, of Bamberg, is in charge. Wishing the readers of The Herald s most happy and prosperous year. In Prosperous Condition. Walterboro, Jan. 14?The stockhold ers of the Cummings Iron Works and Supply company held their annual meeting at the office of the company in thii town last Thursday at 12 o'clock. Mr. S A. Marvin was called to the chair anc Jno. H. Peurifoy acted as secretary. Mr C. T. Cummings, treasurer and business manager of the company, made his report to the shareholders which was very gratifying to them. The following board ol directors was elected for the year 1905: C, T. Cummings, E. E. Peeler, C. H. Grace, 0. M. Read, G. W. Raysor, W.T. Warren and Jno. H. Peurifoy. At a subsequent meeting of the directors the following officers of the company were elected: President, Capt. G. W. Raysor; vice president, C. H. Grace; treasurer and business manager, C. T. Cummings; solicitors, Peurifoy Brothers. The directors ordered 7 per cent, dividends to be ' J L ~ raoorrinnro cnrnlliQ paiu LUC suaicuuiutio, of oyer $800. It will thus be seen that this institution is in a prosperous condi tion. "Yes," said the young student, thoughtfully, "when I get interested in a subject L never stop until I have embraced it thoroughly." "That's nice," was the hesitating reply. Do?do you think I'm an interesting subject?" "It puzzles me to understand how those Mormons can support their peculiar be! lief."' "It puzzles me a good deal more to unierstand how they can support their svives." The young woman had refused him. "I never could marry a man of your labits," she said. "Still, I hope you will io nothing desperate on account of this." "I don't know," he said. "I can't promse.' Some day I may get drunk enough o come and propose to you again."? -Chicago Tribune. ' . " r COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS. SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the Connty and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, January 16.?Jack Frost has claimed his right to rule the atmosphere again. Made one hustle wood in on Saturday and Sunday to keep comfortable. Only a few bales of cotton moving now. The price don't suit the farmers who have some. Messrs. Brunson and Lightsey, of Fairfas, were in town Sunday. Dr. J. L. Copeland returned from Charleston Sundav afternoon.- He went down with his* step-mother, Mrs. Joe Copeland, for medical aid. Mrs. Copeland has been ill for sometime and nothing seems to do her any good. Mr. Phil Clayton left on Sunday for Cameron, S. C. Expects to return today with his bride., Miss Minnie Lee Copeland has gone on a visit to her uncle, Mr. Jacob F. Carter, in Georgia. ' Dr. R. C. Roberts died last ^veek, after a long illness. Dr. J. H. Roberts, his son, was with him a week before his death. Mr. George Kinard has recovered enough to go about again. Was in town Saturday. Some of the farmers are asking about fertilizers but none seem to.be anxious to use much of it. v The Knights of Pythias lodge at this place gave a supper at their public installation of officers last Wednesday night Revs. T. L. Belvin and P. E. Monroe made speeches for them, and the supper was enjoyed afterward. ^ Had a good crowa on*. Gapt. J. M. Dannelly went on a business trip to Charleston last week. Jss. v Denmark Doings. * Denmark, Jan. 11.?Dr. J. S. Matthews and J. I. Felder have moved into the new brick building adjoining the bank, which was built especially for them. The store which they were occupying was too small for their business. Dr. R. D. Holman, the veteran pill roller, is filling the prescriptions. Mr. C. T. Bamberg has accepted a position with Mr. F. H. McCrae. The new postoffice, in rear of the bank, has been completed, and Postmaster Rice has moved in. " Messrs. Faust & Osteen's new dispensary and bottling works building is about completed, and they have moved in. Denmark is on a building boom again. Several new stores have been built, and it is rumored that there are three or four more to go up in the near future. Dr. 8. D: M. Guess is having new shelving and counters put into the old dispensary building, and as soon as it is 'eomi pleted Mrs. A. E. Martin will move her stock of goods into it. ' Mr. J. D. Milhous has purchased Hon. J. S. J. Faust's residence in East End, and ) wilf move his family shortly. Postmaster . Ricei wiil occupy the house vacated by . Mr. Milhous. ' Mr. C. H. Hutto has purchased Mrs. A. C. Faust's residence on Beech Avenue and j wm unff a vko a t IIIOYCU 1U( iUl If UL&* UUVHV UCM UiV/T VU into the house formerly occupied by C. H. Hutto. - . . Mr. G. A. Hutto has rented and is now ' occupying Mr. E. T. LaFitte's residence. > Mr. C. T. Bamberg has sold his resir dence on Maple Avenue to Mrs. W. J. Hutto, and Mrs. Hutto has taken charge. Mr. Bamberg has moved into Mr. David > Hutto's residence on Maple Avenue. News from Goran. i Govan, January 16.?'The wedding bells will soon be ringing around here. We have several new scholars to-day. The smallpox is said to be around Olar. Prof. Brinson preached at Elko jester day. I Mr. Charley Fishburne, of Aiken, visited our town a few days ago. Mr. Willie Lain has just returned from ' a visit to Dunbarton. Mrs. J. R. McCormack, our music teachI er, has been very ill and has not been able to be with her class for several days. We have added to our school library an > encyclopedia, which we hope will Jm; prove our pupils. | Married in Charleston. Mr. C. R. Brabham, Jr., eldest son of , Mr. C. R. Brabham, of this place, and Miss Gertrude Hamilton were happily married last Monday afternoon at four o'clock at the home of the bride's mother,* No. 157 Spring street, Charleston. The wedding was a quiet one, only the immediate relatives and a few intimate friends of the contracting parties being present. The ceremony was performed by_Rev. Chas. B. Smith, D. D. The happy couple came 10 -Bamoerg, leaving Charleston soon after the mar riage. They arrived here on the 8 o'clock train Monday night and went to the home of the groom's father, where they remained until Tuesday afternoon, when they went to Olar, their future home. Messrs. H. fl. Copeland, Joseph Brabham, F. M. Moye, A. M. Brabham, and Miss Clio Cope went down to Charleston to be present at the marriage. The groom was born and reared in Bamberg, and is popular with all (who know him. He is now in business at Olar, where he went a few months ago, being a member of the firm of W. M. Brabham & Co, The bride has been a teacher in the Bamberg graded school for the past two years, and has made many friends while among us. The many friends of the young couple, in common with The Herald, extend hearty congratulations and good wishes. f PREACHED TO COWBOYS.; Congregation was Full of Bad Men, but They Were Always Considerate. "My first appointment by a considerate conference was in the lair of the bad men of the West," remarked the Rev. W. B. Wheeler, formerly pastor here of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South.) "I guess they thought because I was big and brawny I could learn to shoot and fight tit l-i on n D/t/rnocq tt7 tft onfnroo npflno, at TT UvU UWWWW4J VV VMWAVV |/VWW meeting. Los Cerril^os, N. M., in 1883 and 1884 was a town ot about 500 strenuous inhabitants, most of whom didn't know what a preacher looked like till 1 came. There were two saloons, which ran 24 hours a daj, including Sunday. ] chartered a schoolhouse for services and began to get acquainted. Among my first friends were the proprietors of the twc saloons. The cowboys would ride in or pay day and 'shoot up' the town. On one of these occasions I was passing dowi Main street and received a bullet hole through my hat. I took it off, examinee it and went on. A justice suggested thai I might swear out a warrant, but I tolc him it was an old hat and I didn't care about going to law over trifles. Somehov the bad men began to evince a sort o desultory interest in the services. The] would always bring their guns along, bu would never shoot 'em during meeting. ! never succeeded in getting more than fon members, but the congregations were fair MI remember one day daring service there was a little commotion in the bad end. A tall fellow, Stewart by name, wh< had a splendid record as a dead shot arose and said: '"Just stop a minute, parson, if yoi please.' "Then he and another man led a fellov out. Presently they returned. "'All right, brother,' said Stewart Tom's just drunk a little, but he won' bother you any more.' "They had taken him across to thi tavern and locked him up 'in his room. "W.E. Willis, one of the most desper ate men in the camp, came to me one daj and said he wanted to be a steward. . "'Steward!' I exclaimed. What woulc a steward do? 'Why, he said, 'sit in the amen cornel an' take up the collection. Give me th< job, parson, an' you'll find a healthy ant< in the plate every Sunday.' "So I made him steward. He was a* proud of his job as he could; haye beei over a brand-new Winchester. The col lections were made in his piratical-look in tr snmhrern. and ha nlwavo crnt results I could bear his hoarse whisper as hi went from pew to pew. " 'Damn you, shell out!' he'd say if i worshipper didn't show a disposition .t< contribute promptly. "Sometimes a man would throw in i dime or a quarter, and if my stewan didn't think he had put up as the Lort had prospered him, he'd reach significant ly toward his hip pocket and whispe something that resulted in a material ad dition to the church's revenues. Collec tions by the steward's persuasive systei were always good, much better than Tv ever hacTthem since I returned to Mif souri, and he incontestably demonstrate his fitness for the office. "One day the presiding elder notifie me he was coming to Los Cerrillos. knew he had never been up against th sort of moral atmosphere that blew ove our valley and I bustljed around to g< things in Shape for a serious-minde shepherd who might not appreciate tb broad spirit of the citizens. I went fin to 'Bill' and 'Ike,' who ran the two salooi and poker rooms, and said: "'Boys, the boss is coming over t preach Sunday, and I'd sorter feel good you fellows closed up during service an come out with your families.' "The two men eyed each other curiou/ ly a minute, and Bill said as he hit hi big fist down hard on the table: " 'Damned if I don't do it, parson! Whi say you, Ike?' ?'I'm in,' replied Ike, 'you can't get tb bulge on me when it comes to 'ligion!' "They were both there, clean-shave and primped up like dandies. Every sea was occupied, and the steward made a col MAM/1 Aftor rt, lection iom uiu uuu |/ivuu< v? meeting was over the elder told me h had never addressed a better behaved an< more attentive crowd. He added the opin I ion that the reports of lawlessness on | our way were greatly overrated. A com mittee of the best citizens, saloonkeepers bartenders, poker dealers and others ac companied him to the depot the next daj and gave him a send-off that would have been an honor to a grand duke. I coulc see it tickled him immensely. Within 1( minutes after his train had gone the card tables and bars were in full blast again. Next year I was removed to Watrous 100 miles away, and only visited Los Cer rillos once a month to preach. One rough night when a melting snow was coming down in great sheets I was waiting foi the Sante Fe train to take me home. The train was late. There was no operator in the little station, and no place to go except the saloons to get warm. The trail] was somewhere down the line, only the winds and shelterless coyotes knowing it? location. So I walked up and down the streets shivering. Once when I passed Bill's saloon he spied me. "'Come in and get warm, parson,' he said. "Tcan't Bill; you know why.' w 'Yes, I know; but they shan't bothei yon; you come in an' Til fix it all right,' and he grabbed my arm and led me into ' ' a big room where some 80 or 40 cowboys ^ and miners were drinking, playing cards , and telling yarns. Bill rapped loudly on the counter. "Fellers,' he said, 'the parson's laid out ; hxgm , by his train what ain't come, an* he's no place to go 'cept in this he&h gin palace an' poker parlor. He'll sit 'round an' ; smoke with us an' swap tales?the right S'v# sort, you understand?but tharill be no !'? I drink sold over this bar an' no cards ^ . played till his kers come hiking 'long. ^ ; He's our guest?Parson Wheeler, gentle- / t "There wasn't a protest from a man. I ; was acquainted with most of them, and [ soon had made friends with the others; J;'j ; We talked of lodes, pay dirt, methods <rf>.v > drilling, best way to break broncos, linK;. ?'.<% t ments for healing shot.gon woondsrr8al* - -g:? > ities of the different, makes of firearms, L t compared the veracity of the Indian and jjj^H , the Mexican, and finally it wound up by ^ I one of the cow-punchers from across the ,.$f t mountains asking me to make a little talk - y || I on the subjectv of my profession -I 3 wouldn't have suggested that, becauscr'as ' ^ | T their gnest I felt the laws of hospKalttjr ; I demanded that I follow their lead, but' j was more than glad of the opportunity t the cowman presented. T monitld onn. V ? of the card tables, and in their o^npkx^' ? p tnresqne language, as I had learned it; . ^ . from them, told of the Martyr of Calory -~M 3 aDd the Compassionate Father. A# I . c went on they threw away thbfr cigars and j seTeralremoved their hats. Not a sound escaped them. They were on their honor, v v jg ' and I believe they wonld have roughly" l handled any man showing the slightest I M , "I dont believe I ever spent a more?. Sf| profitable hoar in my life, or one where . the mutual enjoyment^ras jpeti&jyMf YMj belated trainww heard, and the' meeting}.. %<m *. bl"WiSSn a week a member of my saloon: *JS| audience shot and killed three men,' bufcr3^H - it was in a figi$he had not sought.?Gat r - | r UtmJN. M.) Letter to the Kansas ^ty-. I ' ' IuboIU l?BuEbere. It hM been definitely decided r sent the popular opera, "Isabella^% > opera hooae inthta city nezt fcdty :/^ ' evening, the 80th instant, and the curtain will rise promptly at 8:30 o'clock^. Thls^^J " company has' been f&ithfally rfhearring. fif for sometime for this performance. The 'J| opera is presented by the mnsical taieitt:-^^ good voices from Columbia anii > Miss Leila Hamilton,of Columbh^ wbflf^v ; ^ sang the part, "Joana*" at the presei^a^J kfM J tion of the opera in that city, will * the same part here, andit ieexpected th*t/; r -J| * she will fully sustain the rept^tim^ heriK^ r Mrs. Mitchell will sing thesoty: ' in the Book and See," and '* the casinos and sipg the new wHcb i D wilr be put on this time. ..This wiH e tuneful "Can't Do-the Sum" from "Babes t - 3; d to make a decided hit. 'y^JB d sale at Hoffman's, and those who. desire'- ; | I tickets, should, procure them at once, as ? the indications are' that the opera house - hung out early m tne evening, eince wo > d actors are all prominent society people v = e whom most of us know, we will have an. >* additional interest in the performance. J t? A special train will be run from Or- % angeburg, enabling those at Rowesrille^ o Branchville and Midway to hear the opera f "0 M and return home the same night Train J ^ J d will leave Bamberg thirty minutes after v ^ the close of the last act A number from j ^ 5- Orangeburg will come over to witness is the presentation of the opera to ajtanberg audience. ^ , it Look at the date on the label of your 3| e Many of our subscribers are paying up for the year of grace 1905. Our list 6 . better paid in advance now than at any ' a time in the history of the paper. f * Wait and see C. P. Riser's new lot'of 1- mules before you buy. They will arrive ' ''figl e at Olar Saturday, the 21st instant They are "plum good ones," and will be sold at < * i right prices. Mr. G. B. Kittrell, of Cope, who has , * been very seriously ill for several weeks, ? t has.been taken to a resort in North Car- I n . olina where he will receive expert treat-' V'/ ment. He left on Jan. 10th accompanied ' u rv- D n Rmnann Wfl trnst that ha \ ' may speedily and permanently regain hia r health.?Orangeburg Patriot. Rizer at Olar Receives a load of fine mules . ; on Saturday, and if yoa are in need, wait ' and see them before youfboy. They wifl ' 3 ; be sold at satisfactory prices and yon can be suited as well. ' Are you buying goods from. Theodore Kohn, of Orangeburg, while the great , mill and factory syndicate sale is going \ on? Send him a mail order, for he Is of, fering bargains which you cannotduplicate, and money saved is money made. See a few of the prices quoted in his ad. [ this week. I W. J. Pooser, agent of the Southern^ ( Railway at Perry, has been arrested/ .. i charged with forgeiy and fraud. He is ' ? J [ $300 short in his accounts with the railroad, and $471 to the express company. i He is a son of Mr. P. M. Pooser, formerly -rJM of this place. He was arrested at the in-i stigation of the American Surety Corn Danv. which is on his bond. 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