The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 16, 1905, Image 4
THE BAMBERG HERALD
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A. W. KNIGHT. Editor.
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Thursday, March 16, 1905
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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 ?
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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