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v THE BAMBERG HERALD Thursday, Feb. 9.1905 Short Locals. Nice cold weather we've had recently. The city of Anderson now has electric cars. ? ^ Lofinnr Lie inninffc JL lit? WUUU Hi.au uauu^ these days. Some of the best bills introduced in the legislature have been killed. The cotton mill has recently received several hands from the upper part of the State. Wasted.?One team of oxen suitable for carting logs. P. O. Box 2 & 12, Ulmers, S. C. See the ad. of boarders wanted in another column. This office will give full information. Next Tuesday is St. Valentine's Day, and tender missives will be exchanged by the boys and girls. The legislature should pass the bill re(juiring a license for the sale of coca cola in South Carolina. A new bank has been organized in Sumter, with $60,0005 capital. C. G. Rowland is to be president. Nice weather we've had for the past few days, which is very acceptable after the sleet and freeze of Saturday and Sunday. Remember the"01d Maid's Convention" in the onera house Friday evening. This will be the funniest thing you have seen y. in many a day. The exhibit of fine pictures at the graded school buiWing this week will be something every one will enjoy, so don't fail to see them. Sunday was a fearfully bad day, and as a consequence no services were held at the churches in this city. Most people stayed in doors all day. On account of the disagreeable weather very few people came to town last Monday, which was salesday, being the first Monday in the month. Mr. E. T. LaFitte has introduced a bill to mark as satisfied all judgments against the bondsmen of late treasurer A. F. . Free of Barnwell county. Dr. J. B. Black has introduced a bill in the Senate to mark satisfied a judgment !. against the bondsmen of late treasurer A. F. Free, of Barnwell county. When an item of news happens in your . community let us have a note from "you giving the facts. Don't wait for "the .) -other fellow?send it yourself. We are certainly having all sorts of weather these days. If any one is out looking for samples of all sorts of weather he can be supplied in this section. Remember the art exhibit at the graded school building on Wednesday, Thursday. Friday, and Saturday. The proceeds will he used to beautify the school building. The unpaid taxes for this county up to Jannarv 1st amounted to $653,885. The v one per cent, penalty added is $113.31. Tbe number of polls unpaid were 1,695. An' effort is being made by the legislature to pass a ten hour labor law. Petib: tions from cotton mill operatives have IP"*-' been presented to that body asking for I the passage df the bill. The general assembly was not in ses?T; . sion last Monday, having adjourned from r Saturday to Tuesday to allow the members to be at home on salesday. Will the t legislators charge for the day? The South Carolina Live Stock Associ\ ' f ation is to meet in the Y. M. C. A. hall in Columbia on Wednesday and Thursday, the 15th and 16th instant. Important and 3$ interesting subjects are to be discussed. By the recent act of the legislature j|- Clemson college will hereafter receive $75,000 a year from the privilege tax on fertilizersand the remainder is to go to vfT Winthrop. Ciemson has been getting it Nk all heretofore. J. M. Jennings, who has been at work f|&: boring artesian wells in Hampton and Beaufort counties for the past, few months, moved his machinery back here this week. He expects to bore several wells in town t. for private parties at their residences. PThe Herald office force has had a strenuous time the past week. With a rush of work, the sickness of some of the force, and getting our engine up in this bad weather, we've certainly had a hard week of it. However, we hope to get straightened out and be running smoothly again in a few days, firn-trm's "Minstrels will appear at Folk's V? opera house Monday, February 13th, with 5 an entirely new, novel and up-to-date atjtV>. traction. The wardrobe, state and scenic effects are elaborate and expensive, and the company comprises only the best and fmost capable performers. A street parade of more than usual attractiveness will be given at 11.45 a. m. President E. D. Smith, of the South ? . . Carolina Cotton Growers' Association, has published a letter in the daily papers calling on the farmers of every township to meet and organize on Saturday, Feb% ruary 11th, and elect delegates to a meeting at the county seat on Saturday, the 18th instant. The farmers of Bamberg county should take notice bf the call and organize. Mr. Sol Kohn has gone to New York city .where for the next few weeks he will take advantage of the big display of goods in his line now being shown there. He I expects to purchase a full supply of fancy feminine wearing apparel, at very low rates. When he returns he will give the shoppers in this section the opportunity of taking advantage of his bargains.? Orangeburg Evening News. An innovation which has.become popular is the continuous performance presented by Gorton's Minstrels. There are no long, tiresome waits and no inferior acts put on merely to fill out the time. Everything presented is clever and interesting, and goes with a dash and vim from start to finish. The company is composed of the best performers, and the performance is guaranteed to be free from anything that could be considered offensive. The Minstrels will be seen at Folk's opera nouse, Monaay, reuiuaij 13th. Mr. W. A. Gray, a well known and prosperous young "farmer about two miles below Cope, died of heart failure last Wednesday night at 9 o'clock. When he retired at 7:30 o'clock he was apparently in perfect health but was a corpse in the short space of one hour and a half. Mr. ? Gray was an industrious, honorable and upright man and his death is a crushing blow to the devoted wife who, with one little child, survives him. The remains were interred at Oakland cemetery Saturday afternoon in the presence of many relatives and friends.?Orangeburg Patriot. * The Bamberg Nurseries is going out of business, having sold the farm to Mr. J. Stokes, and the stock of trees, roses, etc., on hand is being closed out at sacrifice prices. The Charleston bar held a meeting Tuesday and selected R. W. Memminger as Charleston's candidate for circuit judge, in case the legislature passes the ten circuit bill. The United States Senate has passed the Statehood bill, which admits Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one State, and New Mexico as another. This adds I two new stars to the flag. Master H. C. Folk sold at public auction last Monday the tract of land advertised in the case of Lee against Lee. The tract contained one hundred and forty acres, and was bought by Mrs. Annie R. Lancaster, the price paid being $550. < In another column will be found the notice of opening books of subscription to the capital stock of the new building and loan association. The books will be open today at the office of Jno. R. Bellinger, Esq., and remain open for three hours. The regular term of court was not held in Columbia this week because of the prevalence of small pox in that city. Some prisoners in jail there have recently been afflicted with the disease. Our legislators had better be sure their vaccination is all right. Cow Lost.?On Mr. Willie Bishop's plantation near Bamberg last Friday, a white and red steer with no horns, weighing about 350 pounds. Rope on one foot and around his neck. Reward if delivered to Wm. Orr, at Bamberg, opposite Dr. Hoover's drug store. The burglar proof safe of the Bamberg Banking Company, which is operated by a time lock, refused to work last Monday morning, the machinery of the lock 1 ' -* Acs o niMiae. fl&Ving biuppeu luumug. iio U wu?v quence the bank was forced to go around to the merchants and get cash to transact the day's business. The lock opened all right Tuesday morning, and no interruption of the business occurred. Mr. H. C. Bailey, who has been with The Herald for the past year, left for Johnson Monday morning, where he will take charge of the Johnston News as editor and publisher, having leased that paper. His family will move up there in a few weeks. Mr. Bailey is a newspaper man of long experience, and will no doubt give the people of that community a good paper. We commend him to the people of Johnston, knowing that they will find in him a good citizen and an upright, straight-forward business man. Our best wishes go with him. New Advertisements. W. H. PATRICK. Mr. Patrick wants to sell you gasolene engines. Consult him if you need power for any purpose. SIMMONS HARDWARE CO.' The season is approaching when you will want to beautify your home. The Simmons Hardware Company wants to furnish your paints, varnishes, etc. TEAMS WANTED. See the ad. of W. F. Bowe in this issue. He wants to hire teams and drivers for work in Charleston. Good wages will be paid. See the ad. and write to him at Augusta for particulars. THEODORE KOHN. There is always something new and interesting in Kohn's advertisement, and you can always get new and seasonable foods at interesting prices at Kohn's Imporium. Plenty of people are shopping at his store very satisfactorily by mail, and you can too. Just try him with a mail order for some of the great values advertised in this paper. The ad. this week tells .you about a new lot of black dress goods; be sure to read it and note carefully the prices. M. STEINBERG. Sternberg wants to buy old iron, etc. He will be at Smoak's blacksmith shop until Saturday, so bring in your old stuff and turn it into money. Jno. R. Bellinger et al?Notice. Attention, Farmers. President E. D. Smith has issued a call to the farmers of the State to meet in their respective townships on Saturday, February 11th, to elect delegates to the county convention to be held at the court house on Saturday, February 18th. You are therefore, earnestly requested to meet on Saturday and elect delegates. jLet every township in the county be represented at the county convention. This is important to the farmers as well as everybody else. The price of cotton is down, and the acreage has been too large. The object is to cut down the acreage, and thereby raise the price. Give this matter your attention, farmers, and let Bamberg be in the front rank. Thft Old Maid's Convention. In the opera house Friday night the "Old Maid's Convention," a side-splitting comedy, will be presented by home talent. The old maids of Bamberg and vicinity have affected an organization and promise an evening's amusement unsurpassed by any male troupe, however famous they may be. Professor Makerneux, the famous French magician, with his wonderful youth renewing machine, will be on hand and perform some wonderful operations. Prices 15,25 and 35 cents. Seats on sale at Hoffman's. At the Opera House. Gorton's Minstrels will appear at Folk's opera house Monday, February 13th. The addition this season of many high class specialties of a novel and interesting character insures a performance satisfactory and pleasing in all details. Among the notable features is the stage setting of the first part, representing a tropical scene in Florida, with the magnificent Ponce De Leon hotel in the back ground. I "d;~u and olpcrsnt rnstnmes add still iiltu ?UU ? WW... # further to the beauty of this incomparable stage picture. The entire company is composed of capable performers, each one selected with special reference to his ability. The comedy, music, and various specialties are said to be high class in every respect. The press opinions in the various cities where this organization has recently appeared are of a very favorable character, and there is every indication that the performance is all that it is represented to be. r a hand to hand flgbt, and I have never Celt the least bit of fear of them. There is no animal that will face man; even the grizzly will leave a part of the country that he has habited in for a long while when he finds out that a man has come into it, and while I have seen their tracks many times I have never seen a single one of them. Moun tain lions and cougars ana pantners are quite plenty. The cougar is the largest of any of them and the worst beast that I have ever seen in that country. The mountain lion is next in size and is very ferocious. I had an opportunity once of seeing a mountain lion kill a deer, and it is the only time that I have ever heard of any one having a like experience. I was lying hid waiting for a deer to come up a gorge close enough for me to get a shot, and as I lay motionless I could see it gradually working closer and closer. "When it got under a place where there was an overhanging ledge I saw a streak of dun colored lightning shoot out, and the mountain lion made a dear leap of at least twenty feet and lit on the deer's back and bore him down to the ground. The thing that struck me as the tnost wonderful was that the lion held on with his fore| paws and teeth and literally ripped the deer to pieces with the claws on his hind feet I needed that deer for meat, so I took a long shot at the lion, but I must have missed him, for when the gun cracked he disappeared. "When I got to the deer I found that one side or it was torn to pieces wnere the mountain lion had held on and scratched it with his hind claws. But I got the deer. This mountain lion that I brought with me isn't the first one I've trapped, by any means. I've caught many of them, but this one is the first one that I've ever tried to capture alive. The others I killed on the spot, for all I wanted was their hide. I knew this fellow was around my traps, for now and then he'd steal something out of them, so I made up my mind to trap him. I drove a stake into the ground and baited.it Around the stake I set four double spring steel traps, each one clogged with a chunk of wood that would weigh 150 pounds, and one morning I went there I found that I had made a catch. The trap was gone, and I followed the trail of the clog a couple of hundred yards until I came on to the lion sitting on his haunches in the snow. "The moment he saw me he screamed and made a leap for me, but the trap was fast on one paw, and the clog held him. It took me four hours to get him tied so I could get him back to my tent I had lassos with me and got him wrapped up so that he couldn't move a muscle ,and then made a sledge from the fork of a tree and dragged him over the frozen snow, screaming, for four miles. The first two days he lay in my tent tied up, while I went forty miles to Vermont, where there was a blacksmith shop, and had a cage made. I drew the iron cage back home the """m ? olod on/1 cmt thA lion LUILJ/ IXJ.u? vu u divu o~- ? In it after much work, then dragged his paw out and loosed the trap, but his foot had partly frozen when he was in the trap, for the thermometer was 40 degrees below zero on Feb. 2, the day I caught him, and part of the paw sloughed away. "When the ice broke up at Fort Benton on May 1, I was ready to go with "the moment he saw he he scbeahed." it, and on May 3 I set off alone on my 8,000 mile drift The Missouri river was full of drifting ice, and I went downstream with it, seeing it melt and melt as I got farther south and then saw It finally disappear. There was nothing of incident to the trip. It was simply a lazy dropping downstream at the rate of about forty miles a day, for I only drifted In the daytime and tied up to the bank at night All the company I had was the lion, that snarled at me all the time, and the wolf, that was running about the boat I saw no people who were inclined to bother me at all* ana i wouldn't nave minded it if I had, for I've lived all my life where the only law was a six shooter and the right on your side. What I make by trapping I spend in traveling around. I have been in Yokohama, Hongkong and the Philippines. I stopped at Honolulu for awhile on my way back and then went up into the mountains and started trapping again, with a few books to keep me company through the winter." ?2* ,v,.r v t A; ~ WITH TOE CHARACTER ^ C "HI / WOMAN FOR SALE BY C. R. BRABHAM & | BAMBERG, SOUTH Ci G. Moye Dickinson, INSURANCE. FIRE, LIFE. TORNADO, ACCIDENT, LIABILITY, CASUALTY. Office at The Cotton Oil Co. ASSESSMENT NOTICE. For the purpose of taking returns of personal property and notice of change in real estate for the year 1905,1 will be at the following places on the days and dates given below: St. John's, Wednesday, January 11th. Camp Hill 8choolhouse, Thursday, January 12th. ' i Kearse's Store, Friday, January 13th. Farrell's Store, Monday and Tuesday, j January 16th and 17th. All days and dates not named above I will be at the court house. The 20th day of February i9 the last day on which returns can be made without the penalty. After that date the law adds 50 per cent, on all personal property not returned. I earnestly ask that the people meet me and give in their property. It is lots more trouble for me to aad the penalty than to take the returns. Remember the dates and days and meet me promptly No person can make return for another unless authorized to do so. Come prepared to give the name and number of your school district. R. W. D. ROWELL, Auditor Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C., December 15,1904. 1 M. STEINBERG ii < O WANTS TO BUY < Scrap Iron, Machinery, < < Metals, and Dry Bones. < > Will pay highest cash prices, n < Bring your old iron in and get X j[ the cash for it. Will be at jj < Smoak's blacksmith shop in o i Bamberg until Saturday. < \ o o o o ' Cabbage Plants. Fob Sale?I have had several years experience in growing cabbage plants for the trade and now have ready for shipment the very best early and late varieties of cabbage plants best known to experienced truck farmers. These plants are grown in the open air and will stand severe cold without injury. Prices f. o. b. packed in light baskets, so as to make express charges lighter, $1.50 per 1,000; in lots of over 5,000 at $1.25 per 1,000. Special prices made on large orders. All orders shipped c. o. d. when money is not remitted with order. I am in a better position this season to give satisfaction than ever before, as I have my plant beds at express and post office named below, which enables me now to shipplants same dav orders are received. Your orders will have my personal attention. Awaiting your valued order, I am yours truly, B. J. DONALD80N, Meggett, S. C. II TEAMS WANTED II o o JI For work in Charleston J J twelve or fifteen double I x teams and 'wagons with J [ x drivers. The outfit must ] [ J be in good condition. For J [ 1 particulars address Wm. J [ J F. Bowe, 541 Broad Street, J J ^ Augusta, Qa. J[ CITATION NOTICE. The State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg?By G. P. Harmon, Esq, Probate Judge. Whereas, W. H. Wroton hath made suit to me, to grant him letters of administration of the estate of and effects of Mrs. Bessie Wroton, deceased; These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Mrs. Bessie Wroton, deceased, that they be and appear before I Pnnrt nf Prnhate. to be held at ULLUf lU vuv wuav 1 Bamberg, S. C., on Friday, February 24tb, next after publication thereof at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 31st day of January, Anno Domini, 190-5. G. P. HABMON, Judge of Probate. s y. \ . * *U f jradif i.| 3f?^ SWELL BOOT | 1AKER& Ml #I that individualises I J fflk, m its wearer as I being exclusive. I XROLiNA. $3.50 J | Hunting Season I J JMJ is here, and you should have your gun put in first-ciass lj? Ktfj condition. Bring it to me and be certain that is repaired w> @>ij properly. I repair on short notice all kinds of m IfiUNS, PISTOLS AND BICYCLES 1 Ma and guarantee all work to be as represented and the " m ' ? (o>|j ' charges are reasonable. I also carry a full and complete mu jjfl line of bicycle parts which I offer at reasonable prices. ?j ^ |J. BUIST BRICKLEI J g)|^ Bamberg, :iV| || DID YOU EVER 1 i I Think for a Homent that if you Would get my k o Advice on Engines that it Would Save You Lots of inconvenience. Send for a Catalogue o to-day. It's Free for the Asldhg. i| W. H. Patrick, Mgr. I J j[ BAMBERG, $. G. f J. M. DANNELLY SUCCESSOR TO J. M. DANNELLY A SOI* ; EHRHARDT, S. C. Having bought the business of J. M. Donnelly & Son, I am now prepared to serve you with first-class Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Lap Bobes, Whips, Furniture, Mowing Machinery, and anything in my line at the very lowest prices possible WHITE STAR BUGGIES 1 I am still handling the celebrated White Star Buggies, one of ' the best Buggies made and price in reach of all Jtf von want to always be satisfied with your purchase, buy a White Star in any style that you like. A full stock always on hand. Harness! Harness!! Harness!!! I have Harness from $5 00 to $40.00 the set, and a buyer who 1 . can't find what he wants here don't want to buy: at alL. :VV3[ McCormick Harvesting Machinery If you are contemplating purchasing a Mo wer, Hake, Shredder, nr "PTflrTrPflter and mruler. it will Dav vou to eet Drices here before baying. I sell the McCormict, the one'that leads them all in Harvesting Machinery. . jpvfjg Gasoline Engines. Gasoline Engines||| I sell the kind that do the work, no money wanted until the .. . .VjaSaHB engine is set up and ronning to your satisfaction. This is not a toy machine, but a real engine that will do more work than a - . sfflj steam engine of the same horse power. Prices in reach of all and terms to suit buyer. J M Dannelly ERRHARDT, - - - SOUTH CAROLINA < jThe Time to Think! S ABOUT We have the Paint that will wear, the ; 3 |\ jI color that will suit that house of 1 I flintlflSf yours. Our stock consists of Glass, I'|jj 9 O Varnish, Stains, Oil, and General I Is at Hand Hardware. ******* | ^ SIMMONS HARDWARE CO,|J 1 BAMBERG. S. C. I