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THE BAMBERG HERALD ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. ?? ???????????^ Rates?|i.oo per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for firs* insertion; 50c. for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local f Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must he r.aid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on objects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. Thursday, March 16, 1905 _ We have on foot several plans for the improvement of the paper, and we want our friends who owe us anything to come to our rescue. We are very much in need of money to pay for material and machinery, and a dollar to us now means s great deal more than it will later on. Kindly look at the date on the label of your paper, and if you owe us anything, | please send it to us without delay. We promised some time ago not to say any* thing more about money through the columns of the paper, but our needs are urgent and we havn't time to send each person a separate statement of account. # * Bamberg county and the State of South Carolina this week loses a citizen which we can illy spare. C. W. Garris has been | to the writer a true friend, and a sense of 1 1 ? "O Aoo deep personal iu&? is u^uu us. AO M VAVA- | zen of this community and the State he has always stood for progress and adN Tancement as well as the highest and best j? type of citizenship. His influence and efforts were always at the disposal of his friends, and he turned not away from thos^rwho sought his help and guidance. As railroad commissioner and law maker |g. , he stood for the interests of the whole people, and his record is one of which any man might well be proud. His broad statesmanship and conservative v counsel will be sorely missed in this community, where he was a potent factor in social, political, and industrial circles. Water and Lights. &T; y. At a special meeting of city council held last Monday evening, an exclusive franchise was granted to Messrs. Howell and T^nn tn establish a water and light plant in Bamberg. The aldermen present jsp-V and voting were: Messrs. W. P. Riley, Geo. A. Jennings, Miles J. Black, and Henry J. Bradham, Jr. Mayor S. W. Johnson presided at the meeting. While the mayor was in favor of the franchise, under the law he had no vote. All the S& aldermen present voted in favor of the . franchise. A good deal of discussion was had over the terms of the franchise, and the meet, ing lasted until twelve o'clock at night. The question was carefully gone over in all its phases, and we feel sure that our citizens have offered to them a most advantageous proposition. The franchise extends for a period of thirty years, and |V ' the town has the privilege of buying the plant after ten years, the price to be fixed by three disinterested parties. The price ( for arc street lights is $80 per year, and f\ for fire hydrants $50 per year. Council contracted for 25 arc lights and 20 fire hydrants, which, well distributed over the town, will give us ample light and protection from fire for several years, even if the town should grow rapidly. The minimum rates to consumers of light and water is also incorporated in the franchise, and our citizens can rest assured that they are fixed at a low rate, one which any one can afford to pay. Council has gone into this matter in a businesslike way, and they have made a most advantageous contract, much better than many towns double our size have. The reduction in insurance rates will be considerable, and our people will have I protection from fire as well. The town can afford these improvements without increasing the present property tax rate, and it will be a money saving proposition on account of the great reduction in in; - surance rates, to say nothing of the protection from fire losses. Next week we hope to comment more fully on the terms of the franchise, and also to print some figures from other Cities, showing the tax rate and the price paid for lights and water hydrants by |-5r these cities. We have written already to several places. Orangeburg's property tax rate is 13? mills and also a license ordinance; Spartanburg's rate is 12^ mills and a license ordinance as well; Sumter's rate is 14? mills with a license ordinance. These are an growing auu prusperuuo Jv. cities, yet the tax rate of each is more than double that of Bamberg. Here we can pay for lights and water5 without increasing the property tax one cent. Is not that a good business proposition, when we will save several thousand dollars a year in insurance premiums ? mm A DINNER INVITATION. After a hearty meal a dose of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will prevent an attack of indigestion. Kodol is a thorough digestant and a guaranteed cure for indigestion dyspepsia, gas on the stomaeh, sour risings, bad breath and all stomach troubles. N. Watkins,Lesbus, Ky., says: *'I can testify to the efficacy of Kodol in cure of stomach trouble. 1 was afflicted with it for 15 years and have taken 6 bottles of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which cured me. The 6 bottles were worth $1,000 to me." Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will digest any quantity of all the wholesome food you eat while your stomach takes a rest?recuperates and grows strong. This preparation is entitled to its many cures. H. F. Hoover THE MOOD OF MIGHT. ? * jf \ ;< Tb?M I? K pecvllar Potency In Be 11*4 , Xa One's Own Power. Achievement is less a matter of natural ability and external circumstance than of the habitual mental attitude. Success, happiness and accomplishment of all kinds are born of confidence, buoyancy and faith. Discontent, self distrust and hesitancy are all cankers, i eating into every part of life and destroying foroe and perfection at every point I There is a peculiar potency tn belief in one's own power. This need have aiMnont of oimHsm In it onlv a steadfast trust In oneself. Yet even childish self conceit Is better than weak depreciation of self and the palsied muscle resulting. To believe in one's own success, to think and act always with confident assurance that it is possible to do anything and all things that one desires to do?such an attitude buoys up the spirit, sends the currents of energy and skill pulsing through the body and makes the maximum of accomplishment possible. There is nothing of this nature that will make hard work unnecessary. But hard work, vivified by the electric current of faith and triumphant confidence, will be multiplied in effect as if by magic. The human mechanism In all its Intricacies and potencies is operated by a mental and spiritual dynamo the essence of which is faith, confidence and Jove. Why let life be operated at the minimum when deliberate, persistent effort can awaken the forces which will make each one the full man or woman he or she was meant to be??Rocky Mountain News. THE CRIMINAL SQUIRREL. Be Ia a Thief and a Murderer and a Foreat Deatroyer. I wish to take away for all time the - ?xmamIimaI TTa 4a a cnarscter vi ura ch^uuac*. uu ~ ? thief and a murderer. Admired by Ignorant dty people and by journalists, I be devotes his life to eating the eggs and killing the young of harmless and useful birds, which, if permitted to live and Increase, would protect the forests from harmful Insects. By killing these birds the squirrel takes rank J as a forest destroyer. Moreover, the red squirrel Is not the only sinner. In my opinion the gray Is almost. If not quite, as bad. I have killed many squirrels caught in the act of eating eggs of young birds. Any bird that selects a nesting place which is also adapted to the use of squirrels Is almost certain to be ejected. When a forest has been destroyed by fires, lumbermen or insects, it Is almost Impossible for natural reforesting to take place if squirrels are abundant In an adjoining tract because they eat the seeds. Fifty seeds per head each day would be a low estimate. Yet even this would make 18,250 in a year. And seeds are not the only thing. In winter the ground Is often strewn with twigs that have been stripped of buds by squirrels. The trees attacked are generally situated at the border of a dense forest and | would. If left alone, yield the greatest seed crop. A single squirrel thus de-1 stroys In one day thousands of seeds in the germ. In Montana I have seen the grays rob birds' nests,?Country Life In America. Bee Hnntlnr in lauomauu, There Is a charm about bee hunting peculiar to this particular spot, and it can be enjoyed wherever bees locate. There were flowers about the camp, over which we had often noticed honeybees hovering, and the guide said he had been watching their maneuvers and it was about time to give them a chase. Our outfit was very simple, consisting of a box about four Inches square, divided into two parts by an ordinary slide, the lower compartment containing a piece of bread or honeycomb saturated with a sirup made of sugar and water boiled. The slide was pushed into place and the decoy was ready for the bee family. It is easy to trap a honeybee if one only knows how.?Leslie's Weekly. A Tkoafhttnl Empress, One evening Catherine IL of Russia had dined in one town and was to refnm trt h#>r nalace in another some miles distant These Journeys were made with much ceremony and magnificence. The great sleighs were ready to start for home. Catherine sat alone in the imperial sleigh. She inquired if the drivers and the footmen had had dinner. Receiving a negative reply, she at once left her sleigh. "They have as much need of dinner as we," she said to her party. And she waited patiently until the servants had dined. Rot Precipitate. Cholly?It was the first time Td met Crabbe, mind you, and he actually called me a fool. Hadn't been talking to him ten minutes, don't you know. What sort of fellah is he, anyway? Miss Pepprey?Well, he's awfully slow, for one thing.?Catholic Standard and Times. Indirect Action. Hix?Did that trip to Europe relieve your mind of your family troubles? Dix?Indirectly, yes; it emptied my pocketbook so successfully that I was obliged to take my mind off my family for awhile to replenish it ?Detroit Free Press. On the Pullman. "Let's get out at the next station and stretch our legs." "Oh, leave that to the porter."?Cleveland Leader. Shlnlns In Society. Jim?Scraggs Is shining In society. Jam?So? Jim?Yes; private bootblack for the Goulderbilta.?Princeton Tiger. A little sorrow may teach more than many sermons.?Chicago Tribune. Treasures of Brookmere j By MARTHA ! McCUL LOCH-WILLIAMS | Ccpyngbt. 1904, by Mutba McGiBocb-WUHami "Jessamine, come in at once!" Mrs. Brookmere called acidly from the west porch. As her granddaughter rose obediently, but with a little impatient Bigh, her companion, Austin Wills, whistled softly, then said: "Jessamine! What a wax Madam Brookmere must be in! You're always Sunbeam and Fairy and Bright Eyes ?? ? V. l?-i n rvsvsvA hlimAF W wueu buc ? iu a uuu.v.. "That Is to say when the Beveridge thing is around,** Jessamine said, with a shrug. "She is in a wax?she always is when you come?and she feels in her bones when you are coming." "H-m-m! I ought to be flattered, but I'm not the least hit," Austin answered, also rising and catching Jessamine's hand. She looked aghast, but he kept sturdily at her side until they were facing Jessamine's dragon. Then be said, with his best flourish: "Oh. Madam Brookmere, I have brought this young person to tell you why she cant possibly come in. She is to go rowing with me. We will be back by late tea time. The afternoon is too heavenly to be wasted on land." "Jessamine, go upstairs and fetch my embroidery. Be sure you don't forget my glasses," madam said, as though the young man had not spoken. Jessamine made to obey, but Wills held her back. He lifted his hat to | the elder lady, turned and walked off, saying over his shoulder: "Send the ??.? ? had liv?lr tn turn 1 mum uy, wauaui. o W..U . ? back. I can't allow Miss Jessamine ' to risk spoiling oar cruise." | "Oh, what will she do to me?" Jessamine cried as they hurried away. Madam had been too paralyzed by Wills' audacity to say a word. Austin 1 drew Jessamine's hand farther over his arm and smiled down at her, saying: "I hope it will be 'Out of my ! house, ingrate!' Then, you see, you will have to come to my house wheth- j er or no." I "Mercy, you do take a lot on yourself !" Jessamine said, pulling away her hand, her eyes dancing wickedly. "I j begin to fear, Mr. Wills, that you have taken our little affair seriously"? 1 "Isn't it to be taken seriously? Really you lift a weight off my conscience," Wills interrupted in her own tone; then, | after a chuckle: "Jess, I must lecture you?point out the sinful folly of your j course. Here you might be, by taking I naina and showing yourself properly devout and submissive, Mrs. Beveridge ?possibly Mrs. Bishop Beveridge?I j really believe the gentleman has it in him to go high ecclesiastically, he's so suave and silken, just the sort to worm himself into the minds of rich churchmen, not to mention their check books, j Yet you are passing him up?passing up the chance of a lifetime?for the sake of"? "A very commonplace sinner," Jessa- j mine broke in. Wills gave her a look of pained sur- i prise. "I was going to say for the sake of having your own willful way,'" he protested. It was early afternoon, and the long, j smooth river reach, flecked with sun ! and shade, mirrored perfectly the summer world either side. Jessamine bung over the boat side, staring at her own j Image. Austin watched her with hap-1 py eyes, but after a little be drew her upright, saying softly: "Vanity, thy name is Jessamine. I can't have another case of Narcissus and his image upon my conscience." "Really! Have you a conscience?" Jessamine retorted. "Pirates even have oonsoeinces?about some things," Austin answered, shipping his oars and letting the boat drift toward the other bank. "For example, it goes against their consciences to let treasure manifestly within' reach go to some other fellow. That other pirate, Beveridge, shan't have the treasure of Brookmere." "What is the treasure of Brookmere?" Jessamine asked demurely. "How much is it worth? And how are you going to save it from clerical clutches?" "Let me see. I believe the Brookmere rating is about three millions," Austin answered reflectively, but with a twinkle of the eye, "handy millions at that," he went on, "all in gilt edged securities. If you were more than a baby, Jess, you would see a little beyond the end of your nose. Bishop-to-be Beveridge did want you?in fact, he still wants you, being a man of taste, for all his sins." "Thanks!" Jessamine interrupted. Wills shook his head at her. "He wanted you rather badly, but not so badly as he wanted the BrookTr>An<MT An/1 thnt h<* mpflns to t AUVUV^ ?WW ?? have?In spite of our teeth. Madam Is only sixty and young for her years"? "You can't mean he Is trying to marry her?" Jessamine cried, aghast Wills nodded. "That's his present laudable aim. Therefore he would like nothing better than to have us openly defy madam. Our elopement would be a trump card for him. Now, although we are not mercenary, neither are we destitute of common prudence. Three millions, or even one or two, might come In handy a heap of times. Moreover, we owe madam a certain duty. We can only discharge It by meeting guile with guile. That means, in plain English, you have got to turn from your evil way of preferring my company and smile instead upon the bishop to be"? "I don't understand. How will that help?" Jessamine asked in bewilderment "He is mighty near committed to madam. Wait until he is quite com mltted, then do your best to take him away from her. Tou can do it never fear. He's human, if he is a. preacher, and no mere man yet born of woman is able to stand against you"? ' "Thank you again," Jessamine said, tossing her head. "Oh, I want that clump of cardinal flower," leaning as she spoke toward the shelving shore. Wills shook his head. "Snakes!" he said laconically, speaking very loud; then, in a low aside: "Here's where we quarrel, Jess. Insist upon getting out The bishop to be is coming down the path." "Oh, Mr. Beveridge," Jessamine called eagerly, "do come and pick some | flowers for me. I want to pick them myself, but I find I am a prisoner," with a withering glance at Wills. Beveridge ran down to the water's edge. "Won't you let me rescue you?" be cried, holding out his hand. "Jump! I promise you shall get nothing worse than a pair of wet -feet by it" "She needn't have even them," Wills I Bald boorishly. "If you'll agree to see her to the house I'll be glad enough to I put her ashore. Not in the humor for walking myself and still less for botanizing." Half an hour later Mrs. Brookmere was surprised and, if truth must be spoken, not wholly pleased to see Jessamine sauntering home, her hands full of scarlet bloom, with the Rev. Bewly Beveridge at her elbow. Now the minister had been madam's own companion all through the earlier afternoon, and, though he had not said much? quite too little to make madam aware of her own state of mind?be had looked unutterably things. She had found j the looking pleasant?she was of the' women made to be married, childless, although she had burled three husbands, and still possessed of an alert and lively vanity. She liked to see her name at the head of lists of patronesses, especially missionary and rescue bands. Further, flattery was meat her soul loved to feed on. The Rev. Bewly had found that out at aooui me seconu minute and acted upon the knowledge. Indeed, his mind was pretty well made up to marry her before the interview ended. But then he had not seen Jessamine in this mood. Jessamine upset his calculations; she fairly swept him off his feet Mndnm was sadly puzzled throughout the next week. Wills haunted the house as much as ever, though Jessamine openly flouted him, at the same time smiling shy propitiation at the bishop to be. He also was in a maze. Jessamine's encouragement was too elusive to warrant giving over his pursuit of madam, yet sufficiently unsettling to make him at times distrait. Wills glared at him and ostentatiously -Ignored him. It was that which gave him the strongest hope. Wills must be jealous?madly jealous. If only Beveridge had nev.er begun to court that old woman! She was in the beginning eager to play fairy godmother. It was sickening to feel that he had disturbed this pious purpose, making the lady feel that she was not too old to inspire g~and passion number four. Presently he began to see light He would Save it out with Jessamine?ask her plumply to be Mrs. Beveridge, and, if she said "yes," go to madam for her blessing, along with an apocryphal tale of a distant wooer ready to sue for her hand. He could make it appear he had been finding out her mind toward a fourth marriage. It would go bard with him, but that somewhere he would find a man to make good. Indeed, providentially he already knew the man?a college president, poor and pious, entitled to write half the alphabet after his name in honorary distinctions, with children all safely married, and much in want of a good home. So he went straight to Assamine, begging her to sing to him. The music room was at the very end of th^ house, thus well apart There was small chance' of interruption. All the rest were busy with games or flirting or walking in the flower garden under a white moon. Jessamine went with him, walking high beaded and joyous. At the door of the parlors she waved him forward, running back 'herself upon some errand he did not understand. Whatever It was, she did it very quickly. * ' s 1? V.A anntra ho tie naa uaruiy iuuuu wc wanted when she was beside him, smiling at him in the most bewildering fashion. As she reached for the music ber hand, apparently by chance, fell lightly upon his. He tried to hold it, bat she snatched It away, turned from him and began to sing very softly. He watched her with burning eyes, his breath coming hard and fast As she made to rise he put his arms about her and gathered her to his breast saying hoarsely: "Jessamine, darling,won't you make music for me always? Unless you do my life will be wasted." "You?you are not in earnest!" Jessamine said, slipping from his arms and averting her face. "You, who are so great so wise, so good, need another sort of wife?somebody who can help you. I?I should be only a burden." "A blessed burden, one I shall rejoice to carry," Beveridge said, trying to take her hand. She drew away from *-*? ???? +hAn?h in rimanflirr "Yon U1XII, OajLUfS ao uuvuqu V.?2 ?you are playing with me. You really want grandmother"? "Grandmother! Oh, you Jealous darling! How dare you name anything so preposterous?' Beveridge said, catching both her hands. "Grandmother is the most estimable of old ladles, but even If I knew she would take me I could not think of marrying her?not for all the money in the world." "H-m-m! You've been trying to do It for a very moderate part of the money," grandmother said, stepping through the French window upon Austin Wills' arm. After one look at her the Rev. Bewly Beveridge stepped out through the same window. He knew the treasures of Brookmere were wholly lost to him, no matter how they were I reckoned. fl; il; il; ?! 't|i ili Si; ili ili il; ][ ^p-NE I SPRING ' > 1 REMARKAB < 0 I y* $ 8 PIE * TWO TONED < > ? # > All the rage for shirt-waist su ! 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Worth 25 cents, special pric< i ! * > m ? i ;; Write for Samples ?; thing that is Nc I 1 Thftndftre Knli ?JL I1WV V JL W Orangeburg:, 4* !* *4* * *4* ?4* *4* *4* *4* *4* ?4* *4* *4^ SPRING The Spring Season is a want to tone up your sj "tired feeling." Full su| Tonics at our store at ri line of Drug Store Artic!< See our Line of Rubber! all kinds, and Perfumery DR. H. F. THE DRUGGIST, ?a I HAVE YOUR H0i CABBAGE PLANT! ' Prices: l,000-$i.so, 5, OOO-$1.25 Shipped C. O. D. if desire Express Office in WRITE FOR MBR J. CABBAGE, BEANS, SWEET POTi Orders for shipment of Tomato and Sweet Potato Draws SI JAS. RAY GERAT1 Express Office, Yo Iyou" < < Jt HAVE A COMPLETE S JI ON EASY TERnS. M1 I; Engines, Boilers, t OUR LITTLE 1 1-2 H. i < GALLONS OF WATER J [ STYLES AND POWER o W. H. Pat J[ BAMBEi MILLI ' r??x rvj ? 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