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if? I . THE BAMBERG HERALD =====^^ ESTABLISHED IN APRIL. 1891 =========== | A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for . ma frt* oanVi cnh^nnpnt iUMiiiaciuuu, jva., tv? v?v>. j insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want No- j tices one cent a word each insertion. Local ] : * Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. after-1 wards. 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 Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. Thursday, Feb. 9,1905 = Is it little wonder that we have such a sorry lot of judges on the bench in South Carolina when the lawyers select v - the men for these positions? #** It looks now as if the scheme to create Calhoun county will be defeated by the ir legislature. Both the house and senate committees have made unfavorable Teports on the bill to establish the county. This no doubt means the final defeat of the project, and of course the people of g|? Edgefield are pleased. ip*' ** The hope of a compulsory education law is gone for this year anyway. Our J nrana TTOVtr i.v: senators ana rtjpreacm.auyoo .wj , jpshort-sighted in this matter, for we know | of no more crying need in South Carolina than the education of our white people. But we have not lost heart by any means. The day is coming when such a Jaw will be adopted. According to the report of the legislative committee, which examined the books of the State house officials, Secretary of State Jesse T. Gantt's financial matters in his office are in mighty bad shape. One thing is clear, if the report - states the facts correctly, and that is that 4. he is criminally careless and entirely too ' ' lax in his management of public moneys coming into his hands. PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS. The legislature has put in some hard work trying to legislate people into being honest Why, of course there should be a tax put on the sale of coca cola. Tax anything which interferes with the profits of - the great moral institution. The dear people will certainly not know "where they are at" when the legislature gets through amending existing laws and making new ones. I I We notice that no city boasted of being a "hot town" daring the recent freeze, p . Still it wasn't so cold in Bamberg as it might have been. Many people seem to think that cold, freezing weather is a license from the ; \ Almighty to get drunk. That riot at Langley last Saturday afternoon between whites and blacks ought to give Aiken county's law and order league some work to do. A member of the house of representatives from Charleston objected to a bill to require police officers to report blind tigers and gambling dens. Wasn't that strange? A preacher has resigned his charge at Prosperity. So there's nothing in a name p after alL Will Rebuild Burned Works. Union, Feb. 5.?The Union Carriage . works, tohich lost nearly everything in the recent disastrous fire here, has purchased of Mr. Macbeth Young a strip of land in the rear of his former residence lot on Bachelor street and they are preparing to erect at once a two story frame building 25 by 60 feet with an additional one story department 18 by 20. This firm p is composed of T. A. Green, of Spartanburg, and W. F. Hughes, of this city, who IS tusu mo uiouagti. Arrested for Forgery. fcj". . Babnwell, February 7.-*Edgar P. Mitchell, a young white man of Williston, was arrested today for forgery and obtaining goods under false pretenses. Upon him was found sundry express money orders, filled out to various parties, purporting to be signed by the Williston agent. . A similar draft had been cashed by the Blackville agent, Mitchell representing himself as the payee. This caused his arrest. The Express Company have retained Messrs. Bates & Simms to prosecute. j r? Negroes Arrested. -* v y Mr. Harry Felder came down from Denmark Monday for the hounds from the chain gang for the purpose of trailing persons who had been going around the town throwing bricks at private houses the night before. The dogs were carried up, and their trailing resulted in the arrest of three negroes. One gave bond, and the other two were locked up. The negroes seemed to be going around the town^throwing bricks at houses generally. Windows were broken at Mr. D. L R. Felder's and D. K. Ray's. We understand that bricks were also thrown in houses occupied by negroes. ISjr iV & A". >;>v t KILLED FATHER TO PROTECT MOTHER. | John Atkinson, Who Threatened the Life of < His Wife, Was Killed by His Son. < Newberry, Feb. 6.?News has been < received here of the killing of John At- < kinson by bis son, John Atkinson, Jr., < Saturday night at Goldville, this county. J The father and son. occupied a house of the Goldville Manufacturing company and both worked in the mills, the father being boss of the card room. The weapon used was a shotgun. The father, it is said, was drinking on Saturday and quarreled with his wife. It is alleged that he threatened to kill her, chasing her from one room to another, breaking down three doors. As a last resort Mrs. Atkinson ran into the room occupied by her son and his wife. The son locked the door and told his father he must not come in, if he did he would kill him, in the protection of his mother. Paying no heed to the warning the elder Atkinson knocked the door down and rushed for his wife, when the son fired the shotgun, killing his father instantly. The elder Atkinson was about 50 years old and bad three children besides the one who did the killing, he being the eldest. The younger Atkinson is about 20 years old and has a wife. He went to Laurens Sunday afternoon and surrendered himself. Legislatire Doings. Tho spnntfl ha? recommitted the com- , pulsory education bill, and a similar mess- t nre was killed in the house. Messrs. Faust and LaFitte voted against it. Dr. Black s voted to recommit in the Senate. 1 The house has passed the bill providing ^ for two additional judicial circuits, thus <3 creating places and salaries for two more r judges and solicitors. Mr. Faust was * paired against the bill^while Mr. LaFitte & voted for it. The bill is to go to the r Senate, and it is to be hoped that body ^ will kill it. I The house killed Mr. LaFitte's bill, r which related to the sale of corn, peas, b cotton and seed. Mr. LaFitte's bill relating to disorderly 5 conduct was indefinitely postponed by the house after passing a second reading. The Senate has killed Senator Brice's E bill which provided for locaV option. ]( Both the Senate and house have ap- e pointed members of the committee to in- 8 vestigate the dispensary. o Dr. Black voted in favor of. Senator ^ Brice's local option bill. 1 The Senate has passed a bill making j? some important changes in the dispensary law, all of which will improve it. The most important change is that the board of di- p rotors is to hfi annointed bv the eover- x nor. As to what action the house will s take, remains to be seen. 1 The Senate committee on privileges s and elections made an unfavorable report on the bill to establish Calhonn 8 . D county. ^ Two Blind Brothers. b o A wonderful couple are the Barron brothers, who live on Broad street. Al- ^ though they are both totally blind and i< have been so afflicted since birth, they are well educated and well read. They are h about 20 and 23 years of age, respectively. 8: They go arm in arm wherever they want ^ to go, without the aid of a guide or even a g walking cane. They are familiar with the ^ town and go about the streets, dodging j teams and street cars and never jostle f, against theirfellow-pedestrians. They fre- s quently visit the postofflce and can go to any store in town if given ordinary di- I rections for finding it. They are cheer- 11 ful and get more out of life than many who are more fortunate.?Atlanta Constitution. g "Bridget, you must be more careful J with your dusting. I declare I could . write my name on the piano. D " "Deed, ma'am, it's yersilf has the gran' eddycayshun." 1* a Low Bates via Southern Railway. * ti The Southern Railway gives below a . few special low excursion rates to the a following points: * To New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., ^ and Pensacola, Fla. One first-class fare v plus twenty-five cents for the round trip h from all coupon stations. Tickets on sale March 1-6, limited to March 11th, 1905. y May be extended to return March 25th, 1905, account ot Marcii liras. t, To Washington, D. C., Presidential in- * auguration. For civilians rate one first- ? class fare plus twenty-five cents for the " round trip from all coupon stations. For military companies and brass bands in Jb uniform accompanying them in parties ? 20 or more on one ticket at one cent per v mile plus arbilraries. Tickets sold March n 2d and 3d, limited March Sth, 1905, but h may be extended to March 18th, 1905. Very low rates to other points now in effefct. The Southern Railway is the best " route to the above points, operating a through Pullman and dining cars on all a through trains. For full information ap- n ply to any agent Southern Railway, or ^ R. W. Hunt, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. ^ o "If you steal?I don't care what?you'll repent it some day." .. "Bah!" Didn't you ever steal a kiss?" ^ "Yes, and I married the girl, by gum.' o g Teacher?Who discovered America? Small Boy?Dunno. ^ Teacher?Why, I supposed every boy "V in school knew that. a Small Boy?I didn't know it was lost. ? THE SUNSHINE OF SPRING. ! The salve that cures without a scar is p DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Cuts, burns, a boils, bruises and piles disappear before * the use of this salve as snow before the d sunshine of spring. Miss H. M. Middle- p ton, Thebes, 111., says: "I was afflicted with a fever sore that was very painful. $ DeWitt's Wich Hazel Salve cured me in ? less than a week." Get the genuine. Sold by H. F. Hoover. / |^V/AVAVA\\\\\\VV\VVV\| Tim's Tactics By CECILIA A. LOLZEAUX < Copyright, HXX, by Cecilia A. Loiaoaox > ' l!\/VVVWVVvVvVV\VVVW>/VWv'|! It ail began when Mr. Jones-Brown wrought Tim home one evening and aid the dog in the open arms of his jretty wife. She received him ecthusAisUcally and bought him an elaborate jollar. He was a cute dog. Even Mrs. Hoblnson-Smith, who lived next door ind hated dogs, admitted that?that is, ihe said he wasn't bad for a mongrel, ind it must be admitted right here hat the dog wasn't of any particular weed; he was just a dog. He was soon In high favor in the leighborhood, especially with the Robnsoa-Smlths, who were intimate riends oi the Jones-Browns. Both coo>les were newly married, and during he day while their husbands were in he city the young wives sewed, talked ind called together. But to come back to the dog. In time ie passed the stage of poppy fireworks ind was old enough to know better. Chen Mrs. Jones-Brown's sister came o visft her. And during the same veek Mrs. Robinson-Smith had a card rom her nephew that he was coming town to spend a month with her. He ?as nearly as old as ma auni, woo aunltted that he was called a "catch" in own. The expected guests arrived almost imultaneously?Ethel Herriot with a arge trunk and Jack Marvin with di'ers battered suit cases. They were luly ensconced with their respective elatives, and then the trouble began. )n the second evening Mr. and Mrs. iobinson-Smith trailed their nephew cross the kiwn to call on their nearest leighbor. The two young people were ntroduced. Ethel, as Mrs. JonesJrown afterward said, was unnecessally embarrassed for a girl who had een three seasons "out" In the horribly irritating way of -oung married people the neighborly [uartet immediately beggn to talk of [omestic affairs, leaving Jack and Eth1 to take care of themselves. They did tot notice that there was an awful sience, during which Ethel was threatned with mental hysteria and was aved only by Tim, the thoughtful, who pportunely appeared and jumped into ,er lap. She began to talk to him, and he day was saved?temporarily. Still tatting the dog, Ethel finally said to he man: "Why did you follow me out here?" "I didnt follow you," said Jack romptly. "If I had known that you cere in this neck of woods you don't uppose I'd have disturbed it, do you?" "hen be added, "Why did you come to tay next door to my aunt?' "How was I to know you had an unt out here?" Ethel asked indigently. "Well," said Jack, "I guess we're oth Innocent, so we need not quarrel ver that" Then there was another silence. Tim nmped down from Ethel's lap and japed into Jack's. Jack grinned. hA. chncklAfL DCttlnZ I im effusively. Ethel knew he hated mall dogs. She tried to think of somehing crushing to say, but before the rords came Mr. and Mrs. Boblnsonimith rose and said good night, and heir dutiful nephew rose with them, le put out his hand, and Ethel was orced to let hers touch it for an infcant, while he said: "So glad I've met you, Miss Heir lot. fs awfully jolly that we know so lany of the same people." Ethel smiled, though her eyes were lazing wrathfully. "Isnt it?* she said. "Good night" When Mrs. Jones-Brown turned to peak to her sister she found the girl's hair empty and a moment after heard er ascending the stairs. Late that night Ethel rose, lit the imp and took from her trunk a packge of letters, which she sat down to ead. Long before she had finished hem she was crying softly, and when he did go to bed again it was to lie ride eyed and staring till nearly mornlg. She was awakened by Tim, who ras licking her hand. She patted his ead. "Naughty Tim! Did the missus let on in?" Rising on her elbow, she saw that he door was ajar and supposed that er sister had sent the dog to wake er. Tim seemed full of spirits of puppyood this morning. He would worry tie bedclothes with bis teeth, oasn rildly across the room to catch some nseen thing and then rush back upon er, frantic with delight Ethel lay staring at the ceiling. Her ead ached, and she felt utterly miserable. She wondered how she could get way from her sister's house and that lan next door. Tim, finding himself nwatched, worried awhile at someling he found on the floor beneath the ible, then took it in his mouth and ran ff with it "If he only wasn't so glad," thought tie girl, referring to the man, not the og. "He shows so plainly that he's lad if s off r Before she got up she determined to how Jack that he wasn't the only one rho didn't care. She would treat him s a stranger, and she would flirt with lm, too, and make him sorry. She decended the stairs, explained that her ale face was due to a nervous headche, for which she would try a long ralk, and departed in a smart blue kirt and white shirt waist and very retty slippers. During this walk it was her intention o map out her campaign, and her houghts were busy as she strolled long. Finally she climbed a high bank i \ ..... , - ' I 1 by the roadside* walked along tht grassy ledge for awhile and then sai down on the brink of an old stone quarry. She was swinging her 9mal! French heels and throwing stones into the bint water far beneath when somebody behind her whistled a well known strain. She answered before she thought and then started, almost losing her balance, and clutched at the bank to save herself. Her face was hot, and she felt! ? ? C.Ul. J A u i | some one seize a or iroca oemuu, uxr u I bad ail happened too quickly for her to be frightened. Jack dragged her back and then lifted her to a sitting posture. She scrambled to her feet and faced him. "What do you mean by sitting on the very edge of a place like that?" Jack questioned angrily. "Suppose the bank crumbled?" She looked at him, wistfully at first, and then her glance turned wrathful as she saw nothing but anger in his face. "I was ail right until you came and frightened me." "I whistled to let you know I was coming and you answered," he retorted. "I presume your coming to this especial place was purely accidental, like your advent In this town?" she remarked sarcastically. "Not quitev" be confessed. "I followed you because I wanted to talk to you. Sit down and cod off." She reflected that this was her first opportunity to make him sorry, and she sat down gracefully, while he pranged himself at her feet and searched a plot of clover for a lucky omen. She took off her white duck hat and let the wind ruffle her thick, fair hair. He looked up at ber meditatively. , "You have more freckles this year than you had last," he announced. "Yes," she agreed, "and more sense." "I imagine your experience has taught you something," he remarked. She sat up. This was not teaching I him to be sorry. "Ethel," he asked suddenly, "you burned all my letters, didnt yon?" "Of course I did." But her heart beat furiously as she thought of the night before. "I supposed you had," he said. "I only wanted to make sure." He put his hand absently to the pocket of his blue serge coat. "You see, love letters after there Isn't any more love are such asslnine things," he explained; "Just twaddle." "Yours were rather twaddly," she admitted; "at least the ones I had. But they're burned." Again he felt In his pocket She saw the gesture and misinterpreted it "Light it if you like," she said. "Light it? Ah, yes," said he, drawing the pipe from quite ahother pocket She watched him fill it, frowning a little at the tobacco pouch, which was one she had given him. He leaned over to strike a match. "Your bald spot Is certainly much larger than it was last year," she remarked critically. "How observing you are!" be drawled. Then he turned suddenly. , "Will you love me when I'm bald?" he song. "As much as I do now," she answered meaningly. "Not as much as you did last night?" < he queried. "Last night!" she echoed, the blood rising to her face. "What are you talking about?" He turned again and took ! a letter from his coat pocket, holding it up where she could see the address in his writing, "Miss Ethel Herriot" Her heart beat wildly. The envelope was worn and old looking. He drew out the sheets of thin paper. There were blisters ? fresh blisters ? upon 1 thpm I Ethel sat paralysed. The tears rolled down her cheeks, and she did not try to wipe them away. Her fingers dug into the grass on either side. "Poor old letterr he said pityingly. "How did you escape the flames?" Then he heard a sob from Ethel. He turned. He saw the tears, and mentally he called himself a cad. He had never seen Ethel cry before. "Ethel," he said, "I'm a brute, but I don't mean to be. I came out here to tell you that I love you better than ever and to own up that I was wrong and to ask you to take me back to your favor. Ethel," he had her in his arms now, "Ethel, dear, you do love me, dontyou?" "Take It out on Tim, dear, for it was his fault He brought the letter and dropped it at my feet And then I knew that you had been doing just what I've done nearly every night for a year, reading over the old letters. Ethel, aren't you glad?a little?that Tim found the letter?" And Ethel's answer, though muffled, seemed to satisfy him. They went slowly home. As Good m Her Word. Old Mr. Makepeace was in a reminiscent mood. "Did I ever tell ye what mother said to me when I got up spunk enough to ask heiv-in words?if she'd have me?" he began, to the delight of his grandson, Fred. "No, but something bright, I'll warrant," chuckled Fred, with a glance at the old lady, who calmly regarded them from her rocking chair by the fireplace. "I cant recall the preliminary remarks," Mr. Makepeace continued, "and, anyway, I think they were a trifle mixed. But finally, after I'd said something about my prospects, to make it business-like, I began to think it strange she didn't say anything, and I was afraid I was getting it all wrong. " 'I'll make ye a good husband, Betty,' I said, hoping that was the right thing. " 'If I should marry you, John,' she said, and it was the first time she had opened her lips, 'I will attend to making a good husband of you.' "And she hasl" laughed old Mr. Makepeace, the corner of his eye on his wife. : .. > Life as a Trapper Adventurer qfaMcrn Who LtVer In the Heart of the HocKior. Hit Home It MUet Abeay From That of Any Other Human "Being, and Animate Are ( Hit Chief Companion*. Not loog since a battered Uttto | boose boat was tied op to the bank of the Mississippi steer at the foot of Kraoss street, 8t Louis. On the boat | was a steel cage prisoning a mountain ; lion that hissed and apit ferociously at all wljo approached, and the hoose dog and guardian erf this strange craft was "WHEN HE mET'ZWH SOU, YOU CUT THE MUSCLES 07 HIS FOBHASaf." a great gray timber wolf that ran iruiu UWW LU BCCiU uuwuilimi. xua? was a sort of freemasonry existing between the lion and the wolf, and the lion only stared when the wolf came near and did not hiss, says the St Loois Globe-Democrat The man on the boat was tall and thin from recent illness, bnt in his eyes these was the look that told much. His glance was level and cool, and there was a slowness to him that comes to those who live where the sight of another man is of rare occurrence. The little boat was weather beaten and worn. The arched canvas roof showed the beat of many rains and the bleach of many suns. The man was Chaiies A. Stewart, trapper, adventurer and traveler, and when he tied his ark to the shore be ended a trip that is practically without parallel, for at its end ha had measured more than &000 miles of drift / Stewart cast loose his shore moorings last May when the ice on the river at Fort Benton broke up and started southward, driven by the fever to go that has governed him since he was twelve years old, when be left Waco, Tex., where be was born. Since then he has drifted, trapping as a business that be might travel when he felt the desire to do so. The woods are open ' to him. He knows the language and can read nature's writing on the snow. He said that be had killed more than one bear in a hand to hand fight and that it wasn't any trick at all if you knew how. Then he told how. "You keep your knife hand raised up," he said, "bo that the bear won't get it in his hug, and then, when he seizes you, you cut the muscles of his forearm, and he is helpless. It Is almost play, for the little black bears don't weigh more than 150 or 200 pounds." When asked what his business was i be said simply, "Trapping," but finally j he got started talking, and be told the : story of his life. "When I was twelve ' years old," he said, "my parents both ^ died, and I cut out for myself. I had j always wanted to live in the woods, and I drifted around until twelve years ago I struck the country near Fort Ben- ? ton, and there I have been ever since. I had followed the foothills of the J Rockies north and had learned as I , traveled, so that when I got to Fort ' Benton I felt able to-turn out for myself. "I live in a tent in the Rocky mountains about forty miles from the Yellowstone National park and 150 miles from Fort Benton. The winter there i begins the 1st of November, and it < doesn't break until May. It takes a J | man to live that life, but every winter j finds me back within a few miles of 1 ! my last winter's line of traps. J "One can hear the cries of many dif- , ferent animals ont there in the night- j time, and when two timber wolves i meet and get to licking each other's < mouth and howling it seems like there were at least thirty or forty, but the , nights are still and cold, the thermom- 1 eter goes down to 40 and 50 below zero, and sound travels far. I have had some 1 interesting experiences, but I don't- j think they can be called adventures, for they are. common in that country. I've killed black bears with a knife in ' - " ' Iffllii' Itt / .a insurance! i ....I WRITE.... FIRE INSURANCE % LIFE INSURANCE, SURETY BONDS In good, strong Companies. * ty HBSBY J. 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