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I 'Immmbebg hbbald 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 first insertion; 50c. for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. 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 Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for.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. April 6, 1905 jMM?????? ??????? Let there be no bitterness over Monday's election. We are all working for the best interests of the town as we see it, but of course we cannot expect every one to agree with us. But let us concede to each other the right of free thought and free speech and work together fqr the upbuilding of the town in every way possible. * * * We are going to make a city of Bamberg, and we won't be long about it either. When our advantages are considered, Bamberg is one of the very best towns in the State. No place of 2,500 people has a tax rate of six mills and no license system. This town is an ideal location for manufacturing enterprises. We have all the essentials'for success except outside capital and new blood. What we want is * men and money. * * J * The citizens of Bamberg never did a better thing than when they voted favorably on the water and light franchise. We will nave inese conveniences uoc iu RE?" less than six months, and they are bound to enhance real estate values and help the town generally. True we are paying a good price for water and lights, but it was the best contract we could obtain. But the town ought to own these things, and we hope such will be the case in ten fvV r years. * * . Bamberg presents an attractive openiing for a number of manufacturing enterprises. We might mention a furniture and coffin factory, a steam laundry, an ice factory, a spoke and handle factory, a bag factory, a mattress factory, a broom factory, a foundry and machine shop, etc. Our people will cordially welcome any parties who wish to establish these enterprises here, and they will, we feel sure, be exempted from taxes for five years, which is the legal limit. Uses a Delicate Perfume. A young man bearing the earmarks of an "agriculturist" walked into a Main street grocery last evening, and called for a bottle of vanilla extract. Before opening the door to step back into the street, he pulled the cork, poured a few drops of the flavoring on his handkerchief, and as he placed the bottle in his vest pocket, remarked to the clerk: "If there is any! thing Missouri gals like better than chewin' gum, its perfumery."-Joplin (Mo) Globe. * ns-* 4hn PvaoldAnt A Dlllt IV 111C & icoiuvuvi Col. Jim Bacon advances these views in The Edgefield Chronicle: President & Roosevelt, who is a meddlesome and ridiculous man, has been talking a great deal to the Mothers' Congress in Washington and complaining that white women nowadays do not have children Hv enough. Nonsense! They have a great many more than they ought to have, especially the poor ones. However, that is not our point. Our point is to beg Mr. Roosevelt to come down here to Edgefield and preach warmly to our hens, collectively, that they have not laid an egg this spring. If this fussy and absurd President would let white women alone, and cease to force them to have a baby every year, and come down here and use his "big stick" upon our froward and unfruitful hens, he would-be doing a real wise and benevolent "stunt." SULPHUR NATURE'S GREATEST GERMICIDE. Iff ? A Freer Use of it Would Save Doctors' Bills. Greater healing power can be had in the privacy of the home by using Hancock's Liquid Sulphur in baths than by journeying to most famous sulphur springs. Greater benefits to the skin, a clear and more beautiful complexion can be had by using the harmless Hancock's Liquid Sulnhur for the toilet than by use of danger ous drugs and cosmetics. Liquid Sulphur cures dandruff, eczema, pimples, salt rheum, itch, hives, erysipelas and all open sores. It is nature's greatest germicide. Write to Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore, Md., for free booklet, or ask your druggist for Hancock's Liquid Sulphur. Dispenser Elected. At a meeting of the county board of control held here last Monday, an election was held for dispenser at Denmark, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. W. H. Faust. There were nine applicants for the position, and Mr. : D. P. Neely was elected. He is a young man of sterling character and. good business qualifications and will make a faithful and efficient officer. He hhs given bond and assumed charge. Mr. Faust resigned to go into business in Waco, Texas. He will leave for that place some time next week. V. A New York man has offered one thousand dollars to charity if a "perfectly happy married man" can be found. He would have been safe to have included bachelors and women. "Perfectly happy people" are rarer than thousand dollar checks. He Kept up in the Race. James S. Barron, President Manchester Cotton Mills, Rock Hill, S. C., writes: "In 1883 I painted my residence with L. & M. It looks better than a great many houses painted three years ago. Don't pay $1.50 a gallon for linseed oil, which you do in ready-for-use paint. Buy oil fresh from the barrel at 60 cents per gallon, and mix it with Longman & Martinez L. & M. Paint. It makes paint cost about $1 20 per gallon. Wears and covers like gold. Every church given a liberal quantity when bought of Bamberg Pharmacy. BANK STATEMENT. Statement showing condition of Bamberg Banking Company at close of business March 31st, 1905: A eewpo AQO?. X o. Loans and discounts $188,062.53 Dae by banks 24,016.13 Over drafts 172.56 Real estate and furniture 2,807.06 Cash in safe 5,780.75 $220,839.03 liabilities. Cash capital $ 55,000.00 Surplus 25,000.00 Undivided profits 2,608.74 Bills payable 25,885.39 Personal deposits 101,596.89 Partly matured profits 10,748.01 $220,839.03 Personally before me appeared D. F. Hooton, Cashier of Bamberg Banking Company, and upon oath says that the foregoing is correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. D. F. HOOTON, Cashier. Sworn to before me this 31st day of March, A. D., 1905. Henry J. Brabham, Jr., Notary Public for S. C. Correct attest: E. R. Hats, ) J. D. Copeland, v Directors. J. B. Black. ) BANK STATEMENT. Statement of condition of Bank of Denmark, Denmark, S. C., at close of business March 31,1905: resources. Loans and Discounts $34,590.16 Cash in vault and due by other banks 50,879.64 $85,469.80 liabilities. Capital $10,000.00 Deposits 75,469.80 $85,469.80 State of South Carolina-Bamberg County. I, J. Arthur Wiggins, cashier of the above bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. ARTHUR WIGGINS, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, at Denmark, S. C., March 31st, 1905. T. U. Cox, Corject attest: Notary Public, S. C. S. D. M; Guess, 1 J. Arthur Wiggins, > Directors. Jas. B. Guess. ) D. J. MLK Has in stock a nice line of Open and Top Buggies and Harness for sale cheap. He is agent for Bickford & Hoffman's Celebrated Grain Drill, the Woodruff Hay Press, and Deering Harvesting Machinery. Also Conducts a First-class REPAIR SHOP 3 1 ui aim uuiius auj'Luxug uu niims to order. Now is the time to have your buggy repaired and painted to look and last as good as new. Horseshoeing a Specialty RUNS A Grist Mill on Saturdays All orders sent to me wil be handled the same as if you were to bring it yourself. Give me a call ana inspect my stock. Yours for satisfaction, D. J. i)DLR. I HURRAY'S IRON HIXTURE ^Now is the lime to take a spring tonic. By far the best thing to take is riURRAY'S IRON rilXTURE. It makes pure blood and gets rid- of that tired feeling. At all druggists. 50C A BOTTLE Or Direct From The Murray Drug Co., COLUriBIA, s. c. ENGINES, B0~iiis GINS and PRESSES. Complete Cotton, Saw, Grist, Oil and Fertilizer Mill Outfits: also Gin Press Cane, Mill and Shingle Outfits. 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ENGINES PUMP 640 t per Minute, all > j t rick, Mgr. | ig, s. c. j; 10 Distributor ND CHAINS ND BREAK. j arrows and Covers It and Ends. Big Hopper, ling, Sows any Quantity, e it. Awarded Diplomas e Exhibited. For Sale by ROOKER, ?x, bamberg, s. c. ? ^ CERV STORE i 1 when in need of ^ oceries, Canned ? es, and Meats. esh supply Huy- flit jnt for Ballard's w per cent. Flour 3? A ? < > tjjj 3; oyeI - - BAMBERG, S. C. jjj s S Mother For John Philip By Harriet G. C&ofidd Copyright. 1904, by Harriet G. CanfieU John Philip Brown sat up very straight at his end of the breakfast ta1 ble. Mrs. Rachel Noah, at the other end, could not see his little bare feet playing tag beneath the table. "Aunt Rachel looks just like my chicken hawk?anyways she would if be wore spit curls,** he said to himself, with a little chuckle. "I bet**? But John Philip's bet was never recorded, for Susan appeared just then, red and giggling. Mrs. Noah stared at her reprovingly. "I did not ring," she said sternly. "No'm, I know you didn't, but sheshe's here, an' "? " 'She? Take your apron down from your mouth and talk connectedly. Who is here?" "Columbia ? Columbia Farley. She says that*s her name, ma'am, an* she's from the Orphans' home?a little mite of a thing, an' that funny V* Here Susan retired again behind her apron. "What does she want?* Mrs. Noah asked grimly. "Well, ma'am," Susan exploded, "she wants to stay r "Stay?' her mistress repeated blankly, while John Philip, unreproved, squirmed with delight. Here was something doing at last "Yes'm," Susan went on, "She's had her eye on this house, she says, for a long time, but it wa'n't till this mornin' that she decided she'd live with you. She's a-setUn' on her satchel out in the kitchen." Mrs. Noah fairly snorted with astonishment and indignation. "Much obliged to her, I'm sure," she said sarcastically, "and may I ask wl\at decided her in our favor?' "It was John Philip, ma'am," Susan said, choking with laughter. "She?she says she wants to be a mother to him." 1 John Philip's face matched his hair > in color now; even the freckles took on , a livelier red. "Consarn her he said under his breath. 1 "Any more?" his aunt asked, with ? the air of one prepared for the worst , "Yes*m; she asked what your name was, an' when I said 'Mrs. Noah' she ' was that surprised. She said she'd } heard about you an' Mr. Noah at Sun, day school, but she had no idee you ! was llvin' yet" ; "Anything more? My oatmeal Is get? ting cold. Don't stand there giggling > like an idiot" ' "She wondered how old you was, ; ma'am, an' when I said I didn't know f she thought she could tell by lookin' > at your teeth, like the hired man at ! the home done when be bought a j horse." A great wave of color rolled over Mrs. Noah's face and broke on the beach of "spit curls" outlining her high forehead. "Bring her in," she said, closing her thin lips tightly over her "store" teeth. Susan disappeared and a moment later ushered "Columbia Farley" Into the august presence of her mistress. She was truly "a mite of a thing;" with great dark eyes and a most engaging smile. "How do you do, Mrs. Noah?" she said, holding out her hand in a quaint, old fashioned way. To John Philip's surprise, his aunt took the little hand In hers. "So you'd like to live here?' she said not unkindly. mVm nxpfni well. Don't you need meT she asked naively. "I think not," Mrs. Noah said, very gently for her, "and, besides, I omldn't take yon without the consent of the matron at the home." "Oh, she won't care!" the littie girl exclaimed eagerly. "There's too many of us now and"? "Well," Mrs. Noah interrupted, "you can stay to breakfast, and then I'll go with you to the home." The child had crept thus quickly into a warm corner of the grim lady's heart She was eating her oatmeal when John Philip's father came down to breakfast and asked so kindly, "Whose little girl is this?" that Columbia's heart went out to him then and there. "I don't know," she said simply in reply to his question. 'They ain't found out yet at the home, but I know how old I am. I'm going on seven. I'm little, but maybe I'd do for him" ?she nodded cheerily at John Philip? "till he got a really, truly one." "A really, truly what?" Mr. Brown asked smilingly. "Why, a mother, of course. I learned * how to be one from Mis' Jones. She has eight children. She lives near the home. You Just help 'em be good, and they will, 'cause you love 'em so. Ifa awful nice to have a mother," she said wistfully. "I asked Tommy Jones if he didn't think so, and he said, 'Sure thing!'" John Philip tried to scowl, out ms forehead refused to pucker, and when his father said, ''Shall we let her adopt you, son?' he laughed outright "We? we?might give her a try," he stammered. And so it happened that Columbia Farley entered the Brown family "on probation" and later was taken into "full membership." It was on a Saturday morning, a month or more after Columbia had been received into full membership, that the children were playirig; together in the garden. "I guess I'll go wadin' this afternoon," John Philip announced. "Aunt Rachel would just worry if I told her, , and daddy won't be home for lunch, so I can't ask him." "I'm 'frald you'll- be drown-ded, ' dear," the little mother said anxiously t (John Philip did not object to In private), "an* I don't believe^H^^B better "Pooh!" John Philip rejoined. VI ain't my mother. I ain't had a since I was born." "No," she sighed, "if yon had a ly truly one I guess you'd haveSH| mind. Your father might get yon oni^J| John Philip grinned. "He's too boaj,n x he said, "but I know one I'd like to get Last summer we was down at Cove .\l Inlet three weeks?daddy an* pie?an' there was a jolly nice girl there, an* we '*] liked her awful well?daddy an' mean' we took her picture one day?snapshot?1 mean daddy did. He's got it yet. Come up to his room, ana ru awn for it" The children fled into the boose and up to Mr. Brown's sitting room. Behind a tall vase John Philip found the object of his search. For a moment Colombia gazed at it with wondering eyes. ''Why, ifs her!" she shouted, with more force than grammar. "Ifs my. i Miss Curtis! She lives near the home. $ 'Course she's awful nice!" She gazed long and lovingly at the picture. "Say" ' she said at last; "s'pose we get her for , your mother?" Thereupon followed a discussion of ways and means, and It was not until after luncheon that the committee of two set forth in quest of a mother for John Philip. It was a very startled % and amazed young lady who listened * to their plea. It was Columbia who of- ;.? fered the most persuasive argument ^ "He hasn't anybody but his Aunt X Rachel and his father," she said plead-: vgf ingly, "an* he keeps your picture back of a vase, an' "Who keeps my picture?" Miqp Curtls interrupted, her sweet face flush- uj ing a rose red. "Why, John Philip's father," ColumbJa explained. "I s'pose you didn't M know 'bout it then?" "No, I didn't know," she said. "I ^ didn't know," she repeated to herself . 3 again and again. , "Now you know, an' won't you come, please?" It was John Philip -vj who pleaded now. Miss Curtis stooped and took his freckled little face be- sH tween her slender white hands think of It, dear," she promised, "but j| it will be better not to mention yoor ;|p ?your proposal to your father." John Philip did not agree with berv-feg and that very evening he broke the news to his unsuspecting father. Co? . c| lumbia, with rare delicacy, had declined to be present . r -Daddy" John Philip said bluntly, "I g asked her?Columbia an* me," Philip Brown looked up from his peper. He was a fine specimen of manhood?strong of body and mind, dean ; ^ ^ of heart and still on "the sunny side" /^vl of forty. | "Asked whom?" he said. "Asked what?" "Miss Curtis, you know. I?I. asked her to be my mother." Philip Brown sat up very straight and stared at his small son and heir. "Don't you want her?" the little fdlow said, struggling manfully to keep/ ^ back the tears. "I said I was sure yoo ^ wanted her, same as I did." rm,? I II WLUll.UiU BUV ttajr t xuc 4UOHWU ; came from between white lips. "She didn't know you had her pie* ture till Columbia told her. She said she'd think about it, bat I'd better not tell yon I'd asked her to"? But John Philip was talking to the empty air. His father was out of the room before the last sentence was finished He had seized his fiat and van- f ished. "Gee," John Philip said to himself, M "we've done it now, I guess?Columbia an' me!" They had. The bride and groom said J so on their wedding day. John Philip's M father had suggested that the arches- ' tra play "Hail Columbia" while the > knot was being tied, but, strange to * say, the bride elect objected. Degemente. One day in the cloakroom of the sen- .-ys ate, apropos of a discussion whether, ^ from an intellectual standpoint, states- || men of the present fall below the > standard set by those of the past one ' 1 of the members told the following story: "There lived in Lee codnty, Kyn a 1% local sage by the name of Jesse Cole. M Jesse entertained the notion that the /v# 1A?IT0A? TWO a . Jtyc {/irocm. uaj jre vi un/? nao w? ,-.7? to be compared with the jurists of the old days. One day as he was entering the courthouse at Beattyville he notlo-' ed a grou^ of lawyers who were die- r cussing the points of a case that war ' to come up that day. Cole, disgusted1 by their conversation, stepped up to i them and said: "'Gentlemen, thirty or forty years ago the lawyers in this state were men?great, big, immense men, wear- v<| ing fur hats as big as bushel baskets. But now, gentlemen, I honestly believe ? that a fellow could without the least difficulty draw a tomato can over the head of any one of you.'"?Harper's Weekly. < . yj Thing* to Eliminate. v That candy eating habit, girls?does 0 it do you any good? , ' That tobacco habit, boys, or the oe- % casional "treating" or "being treated"? | is it of real use or benefit? That way of spending money on every little trifle that we fancy?is it of J real use or benefit? ' , 3 Those people whom we go to see and Is also entertain, yet really care nothing % for?is this society of any real use or ?*.?| benefit? i Better one good friend of nature, stimulating, congenial and sympathetic, saith the prophet, than a host of society friends of the wreathed smile, the . 1 nod and beck which conceal the sneer. These fads of music or art or short fits of study?are they of any real use or benefit? -itjM One branch of knowledge concentrat- ;i ed upon amounts to more in the long' ^ run.?Philadelphia Bulletin. .. ,j Sp