The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 15, 1905, Image 1
THE BAMBERG HERALD.
Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1905 One Dollar a Year
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WIETERS SUIT ABANDONED.
The State Has Affected a Compromise in the
Suit Against the Constables.
In the United States circuit court today,
an order was taken, cancelling the bond
of the several State constables who were
convicted in the court of general sessions
some time ago for assaulting Rudolph
Wieters at his place of business in the
course of a raid on the establishment.
It was stated several days ago in The
Evening Post that a compromise would
probably be affected and this has now
been done, and the case will not go before'
the jury. The amount of the consideration
which the State paid to stop the suit
was not announced, the order of the
court simply providing for the dismissal
of the suit and cancellation of the bond
of $35,000, which the court had required
of the defendants, all references to the
amount of the sum agreed upon being
omitted. The attorneys in the case stated
that the compromise sum would not be
announced.?Evening Post.
Here He Drew the Line.
Patrolman Hogan, who sfends at
Eleventh and Walnut streets, is asked
many peculiar questions every day. Women
especially ask all sorts of queer
things, says the Kansas City Times.
; "Last week," said the officer yesterday,
"a woman came up and asked me how
many children the president has. That
*' same day another woman led a little dog
up ana asked me where she could sell it.
When I said I didn't know she went
away half mad. One of the queerest questions
I was ever asked, however, came
from a woman Monday. She stopped on
the corner here and after hesitating a
moment asked:
"'Officer, is my dress unbuttoned bet
hind the shoulders?'"
"There were two buttons unfastened
and I told her so.
"'Thank you,' she said. Then she
s- studied a minute. 'I wonder who I can
? get to button them?' she asked.
" 'I don't know.' I said. 'Not me.'"
.
The longest through trolley line now
in operation runs irom Indianapolis to
Lima, O., 188 miles. Second in length is
the (line from Cleveland to Toledo, 120
miles. There are 12 other interurban
? roads having from 30 to 80 miles of track.
A Pennsylvania pastor who had been
$ reading about the life insurance scandals
in New York has evolved a plan for res.
cuing the members of his congregation
;> V from the clutches of the insurance octopus.
He has organized an insurance
branch of his church, and proposes to
provide insurance for church members at
rates of cost that appear ridiculously low
as compared with the rates of the big
mmnanies.
&/' Mr. Reginald C. Vanderbilt is going to
Psell his dog. He can not afford to keep
it. The dog, Chauffeur by name, is a cunning
little fellow, but he has a way of
breaking things that Mr. Vanderbilt can
not abide. His master was willing to
overlook the matter when Chauffeur
jumped into the food lift and broke $50
worth of rare china dishes, but when he
chewed a hole in the middle of a $5,000
Persian rug, Mr. Vanderbilt said he
. would have to go.
THE CHILDREN'S FAVORITE.
For coughs, croup, whooping cough,
etc., One Minute Cough Cure is the chil- j
dren's favorite. This is because it contains
no opiate, is harmless, tastes good,
cures. Sold by H. F. Hoover.
Arrested for Robbery,
Bennettsyille, June 7.?A. T. Redd
was arrested today and confessed to robbing
the depot here last Thursday night.
A list of the money was found in his
trunk. He said he had burned the checks.
Redd'shomeis said to be near Monticello,
Ga. He came here last March
from Senoa, Ga., where he had been attending
a telegraph school. He went to
work at the Coast Line depot to learn the
business. He has not received any salary.
Since the robbery he has bought a new
suit of clothes and watch and hired a
turn-out Sunday. This aroused suspicion
aniKea to his arrest. He is a fine look
ing young man and seems to be intelligent.
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women ue&neu me ouccm.
Babton, June 2.?Yesterday afternoon
the streets of Barton Landing were thoroughly
cleaned, the grass in public places
raked and the entire village made to look
bright and fresh. This was done by the
women, who turned out in large num'
- bers.
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A short time ago a meeting of the com'
mittee of the Woman's Improvement Society
met and assigned a certain number
of women to each street of the place.
Those in charge were allowed to enlist
men and children in the work, but the
women were to have the superintendency.
The plan worked well and yesterday the
village Was busy. After the last bit of
rubbish had been removed there were ice
i cream and cake for those who helped.?
New York Sun.
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The famous little pills Early Risers
cure constipation, sick headache, bilious
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impart early rising energy. Good for
either children or adults. Bob Moore, of
* LaFayette, Ind., says: "No use talking,
DeWitt's Little Early Risers do their
work. All other pills I have used gripe
and make me sick. DeWitt's Little Early
Risers brought the long sought relief.
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Pungent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
The Citadel cadets will-go into camp at
Columbia this week.
There were forty graduates at Clemson
this year, four of them being in the agricultural
department. The largest number,
16, were in the electrical and mechanical
engineering department.
And now Colleton county has joined
the ranks of those counties who want to
vote out the dispensary. Petitions are
being circulated, and an election will be
held on the question in case enough signatures
are secured to the petitions asking
for the election.
There was a general row in a negro
church at Montmorenci, Aiken county,
last Sunday afternoon and one negro
who was acting as peacemaker was killed.
His slayer defied the sheriff and his deputies,
but was arrested without trouble
and lodged in jail.
There is talk of moving the Presbyterian
College of South Carolina from
Clinton to Yorkville, the latter town having
made a very flattering proposal to
the trustees. A committee has been appointed
to look into the matter and report
to a meeting of the board the 12th of September.
Two negro preachers were tried in the
United States court in Charleston last
week for pension frauds. Each pleaded
guilty. One was sentenced to imprisonment
of one year and the other to six
months. Another negro preacher in
Beaufort has been indicted for a like
offense and will be tried at the next term
of court.
A fight started between a white man
and a negro on a trolley car on the Augusta-Aiken
line last Saturday afternoon
and a general fight resulted. The negro
cut the white man on the wrist and was
put off the car. He then drew his pistol
and commenced firing, which was returned
by the whites. When the smoke of
battle cleared away one white man was
killed and two wounded. One is badly
wounded and it is thought will die. The
negro's brother was also slightly wounded.
A suit has been commenced in the
United States court at Charleston by H.
T. Cummings, of Augusta, against the
Southern railway. He seeks to break
the lease of the South Carolina &
Georgia railroad to the Southern, and
asKS mat me court appuiui a icueivci ouu
sell the S. C. & 6. The complainant is a
stock holder in the S. C. & G. road, and
claims that the lease is to the detriment
of the stockholders of the road and a
violation of the State constitution. The
case is to come up before Judge Pritchard
at Asheville, N. C., the 26th instant.
He Didn't.
His Mother: "I am sorry, Tommy; to
learn that you and the little boy next door
have been quarreling again. Better
make it up with him. Never let the sun
go down upon your wrath."
Tommy: "I don't, mamma. Him an'me
is all right again. I licked him good and
proper about 4 o'clock."
G. Frank Bamberg handles the best
buggies and wagons, yet the prices
are reasonable.
Judge Poland's Cow.
Judge Poland, of Vermont, was a member
of congress, and in demand as a campaign
speaker, says the Boston Herald.
He was not a strict temperance man,
though by no means intemperate. He
was to make a speech in Maine, where
the temperance laws were stringent.
The chief committee man knew the judge,
so he placed two mugs, supposed to be
filled with milk,on a table near where the
judge stood. Slyly the committee man
I'ntimotod trt tlip inflcrp which mup he
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should drink from.
The judge had not got far in his discourse
before he became thirsty. He
raised the mug, quaffed it to the bottom,
then exclaimed: "Ye gods, what a cow!"
THE SALVE THAT PENETRATES.
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve penetrates
the pores of the skin, and by its antiseptic
rubifocient and healing influence it subdues
inflammation and cures boils, burns,
cuts, eczema, tetter, ring worm and all
skin diseases. A specific for blind, bleeding,
itching and protruding piles. The
original and genuine witch hazel salve is
made by E. C. DeWitt & Co. Sold by H.
P. Hoover.
His Destination.
"Tell the jury where you first went
after leaving home on the evening on
which the circumstances as charged in
the indictment took place."
"Went to Clancy's saloon."
"Where next?"
"To McFadden's place."
"And then where?"
"Went to Hogenschnitz's caffy."
"Then where?"
"Went to Finny's poker rooms."
"And what was the next place you
went?"
"Went broke."
Is It Right?
Is it right that a property owner should
lose $4.20 to let a dealer make 50 cents?
A dealer makes 50 cents more on fourteen
gallons of ready for use paint, at $1.50
per gallon, than our agent does on eight
gallons of L. & M. paint and six gallons
of linseed oil, which make fourteen gallons
of the best paint in the world, at
$1.20 per gallon; the property owner loses
just $4.20. Is it right? It only requires 4
gallons of L. & M. and 3 gallons linseed
oil to paint a moderate sized house. Ten
thousand churches painted with Longman
& Martinez L. & M. paint. Liberal quantity
given to churches when bought from
Bamberg Pharmacy.
TILLMAN MAY BE FOR PROHIBITION.
Some People Expect Senior Senator to Take the
Stump Next Year.
Columbia, June 12?Tlie county cam|
paigns started in various parts of the
State to vote out the dispensary has bej
come almost epidemic. Pickens having
joined Cherokee in the dry column and
petitions looking to the same end being
in circulation now in Anderson, Greenville,
Spartanburg, Union, Oconee, Williamsburg,
Charleston and Newberry.
And this and other evidences of a change
of heart on the part of various classes of
people against the dispensary have started
some interesting political talk, which
seems to outline some important realignments
for the coming campaign?county
as well State, Senatorial and Congressional.
Among other entertaining phenomena
held out as probable is Senator Tillman
stumping the State for prohibition. His
close personal and political friends assert
with confidence that he will certainly be
found doing something of this kind in case
it is demonstrated that the State is determined
to rid itself of the dispensary. And
the prohibitionists will get numerous
other strong advocates from the dispensary
ranks. Among other prominent politicians
who have climbed aboard the
prohibition band wagon recently are exCongressman
Jasp. Talbert and ex-United
States Senator John L. McLaurin, both
said to have aspirations which they hope
to realize in the coming campaign.
The prohibitionists alone are not strong
enough to carry the State, their voting
strength being only 20,000, but there are
many dispensary advocates who have
been accepting the dispensary as the next
best thing, who, it is said, are now willing
to join the prohibition ranks. And
there is always a large whiskey element
ever ready to join either the angels or the
-devil's imps to beat the dispensary.
There has been no effort so far to organize
the prohibition forces, but the
leaders say this will be done in the immediate
future, and that the campaign
will be pitched with a view to capturing
the Legislature as well as the State offices.
Not only a State ticket will be put out,
thsy say, but every county will be organ
ized so as to elect memoers 01 me legislature
who will vote against the dispensary
and for prohibition.
On whom the cold water people will
center their energy for Governor is so far
altogether a matter of speculation. Mr.
J. A. McCullough, of the Greenville bar,
and Mr C C Featherstone, of the Laurens
bar, have both indicated recently that
they would not be non-conductors should
the lightning strike in their immediate
vicinity.
The dispensary people show a disposition
to concentrate on Col. John T. Sloan
of Columbia for Governor, because among
the other candidates for Governor M. F.
Ansel of Greenville is regarded as a prohibitionist,
and Speaker of the ,House M.
L. Smith of Camden, and State Senator
Richard I. Manning of Sumter, are regarded
as too luke-warm. Chairman Hub
Evans of the dispensary directorate and
State Senator Cole L. Blease of Newberry
have been regarded as probable gubernatorial
candidates, but neither will make
the race. Mr. Evans wants to retain his
present position and Senator Blease feels
that he can help the dispensary cause better
by running for Attorney General,
quietly directing the dispensary strength
toward Col. Sloan as he goes along.
Experienced politicians say that high
I likens* is an imDossibilitv in as thorough
ly Democratic a State as South Carolina?that
is, an impossibility as a permanent
arrangement. The constitution forbidding
the sale of whiskey except under
dispensary regulations the prediction is,
therefore, made that if a high license law
is passed by the next Legislature (or by
the new one succeeding it), the exclusive
or monopolistic features of an arrangement
of this kind will cause its death at
the succeeding election in favor of low
license.
Before concluding it might be said by
way of parenthesis, as it were, that it is
felt here that the efforts to vote out the
dispensary will not succeed in either
Charleston or Anderson. In fact the
Charleston petition has been withdrawn,
and it is understood that the Anderson
paper has no substantial backing.
Speaker Reed and the Barber.
Years ago Tom Reed, then speaker of
the house of representatives, went into a
barber shop in "Washington to be shaved.
After the darkey had scraped his chin he
began to cast about for further work or
for a chance to sell hair tonics.
"Hair purty thin," he said fingering the
two or three ?tray locks that fringed Mr.
Reed's bald pate; "been that way long,
suh?"
"I was bom that way," replied Keed.
"Afterward I enjoyed a brief period of
hirsute efflorescence, but it did not endure."
The barber gasped and said no more.
Later some one told him he had shaved
the speaker. "Speakah!" he exclaimed.
"Don't I know dat? I should say he was
a speakah, sure 'nuff!"
The war department under the Dick
law, has given the South Carolina militia
$18,000 for an encampment. The en-*
campment will begin July 15th and will
probably be in Columbia.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrkardt, June 12.?Farmers have
put in a good week's work last week, and
their crops show an improvement.
. Peter J. Davis, a young colored farmer
on Rev. S. P. Chisolm's plantation, has
the best cotton in this section. He has
bolls as large as bird eggs. Says first
blooms he noticed was about June 1st or
latter part of May.
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A shower of rain would make it more
pleasant for travelers. Having cool
nights for the time of the year.
The price of Irish potatoes has advanced
some, and the potato planters are glad.
The potatoes are very fine in this section.
Potatoes were sold at $1.00 per barrel last
week, extra select for $1.60.
Mr. J. D. Padgett, who has been confined
to his bed for several weeks, has
recovered enough to be able to walk about
the house.
Miss Ned Ehrhardt and Julius Ehrhardt
came home from school last week.
Both seem to be glad to get home.
Once more we have our 'phone line in
shape, but the central office is in bad
shape, and we can't talk to parties at a
distance yet. The central offices should
keep their instruments in first-class order
all the while.
J. C. Kinard, intendant; wardens, J. A.
Chassereau, W. L. Mitchum, J. D. Dannelly,
and Charley Kinsey were elected
on the 6th instant to serve Ehrhardt town
for 1905 and 1906. Jee.
Country Correspondence.
Old Sol is sending his strongest rays to
remind us of the summer days, though a
very refreshing rain fell Mondey afternoon
which was very much needed.
Miss Pearle Sandifer spent last week
with her sister, Mrs. N. J. Padgett, of
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spring urauuu.
Mrs. F. E. Dozier and Miss Eva Hanberry,
of Denmark, visited Miss Georgie
Emma Jordan Sunday.
A number of the young folks of this
vicinity are looking forward to the picnic
at Colston school house on Saturday next.
Mr. Willmot Sandifer had the misfortune
of losing his buggy horse, of blind
staggers, on last Friday.
Mesdames Julia and Mattie Sandifer
chaperoned a crowd of young folks to
visit the county chain gang, which is
stationed near the Ehrhardt place, on last
Friday evening. They Report a very
pleasant time.
We will all be glad when the daily mail
route is a reality instead of an imagination.
The Springtown Sunday school is preparing
for a children's day, which will
take place on the fourth Sunday.
The health of the community is comI
norotiTTflir <ro?nH wp hone a continu
paianiwj ianCe
of the same. ;
A few young ladies from our vicinity
who intended attending the teachers'
summer school are very much disappointed
that they are obliged to always go to
another county. Why can't Bamberg
entertain the school once in awhile, just
for a change?
The Bessinger reunion, annually held
on the fourth of July, is to be held as
usual at Spring Branch.
Fire at Fairfax.
Fairfax, June 9.?The ginnery and
saw mill operated here by H. M. Hardley
and J. W. Sullivan was burned today
between 1 and 2 o'clock. It is not clear
how the fire originated. The saw mill
was being operated this morning, but shut
down for dinner about twelve o'clock and
the fire was discovered after 1 o'clock. It
is said that the fire started in the seed
warehouse and it is claimed that it was
set by a passing engine on the Seaboard
Air Line railway, but as the sawmill
boiler was fired up the fire may have been
set by that.
A high east wind was blowing and
carried fire from the burning mill to the
residence of Mr. G. S. O'Neal, a distance
of 250 yards, and set it on fire, but fortunately
it was extinguished before any
serious damage was done. No other building
was burned. The loss of Messrs.
Hardley and Sullivan probably amounts
to between $2,000 and $3,000. An empty
freight car belonging to the Seaboard Air
Line railway company was burned to
ashes and another car loaded with lumber
was set on fire and the lumber was slightly
damaged, but the car was rolled to the
water tank and the fire extinguished.
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but on its perfect digestion and proper
assimilation. When you take Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure your system gets all the nourishment
out of the food you eat. It digests
what you eat regardless of the condition
of the stomach and conveys the nutrient
properties to the blood and tissues. This
builds up and strengthens the entire system.
Kodol cures indigestion, dyspepsia,
belching, sour stomach, weak heart, etc.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for what is sometimes
called America's national diseasedyspepsia?is
destined to work a wonderful
and lasting benefit to sufferers from
this distressing and mind harassing condition.
Sold by H. F. Hoover.
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CAPT. J. DEMPSEY JONES KILLED.
An Aged Citizen of North Struck by a Train as
He Crossed the Railroad Track.
North, June 12.?This afternoon at 6
o'clock a tragedy occurred which has
shocked this community. Capt. J. Dempsey
Jones, one of North's oldest and most
honored citizens, was walking across the
track, when the Seaboard Air Line's
northbound train No. 34 passed through.
He was struck by the flying train and instantly
killed. The accident occurred
near the depot and many friends of Capt.
Jones were standing near. Some turned
their heads away, as they saw it was too
late to do anything. The dead man was
79 years old and had been in the care of a
physician for some time. He was old and
feeble and it is likely that he never knew
what strnr.b him.
Capt. Jones was well known throughout
South Carolina and had a large and
prominent family connection. He leaves
sons and daughters as follows: Dr. T. A.
Jones of Springville, J. Arthur Jones of
Charlotte, Mrs. J. W. Barnes of Cope,
Mrs. James Zeigler of Orangeburg, J. D.
Jones, Jr., and Mrs. Annie C. Tyler and
Miss Lizzie Jones of North. The funeral
services will take place tomorrow afternoon
at the Jones burying ground.
The train was in charge of Conductor
Bate and Engineer Poteat.
The Reason Why.
The Bamberg Herald says: "The daily
papers of the State seem to be prosperous.
The Charleston News and Courier and
the Columbia State are at present installing
fine new presses, and the Charleston
Evening Post has announced that a new
and up-to-date machine is now being
erected for that newspaper. The Post
expects to install its new press about the
first of September. Evidently this wave
of prosperity which has struck the dailies,
missed the weeklies." The wave of prosperity
would have missed the dailies too
if they were managed on the same nonbusiness
principles that the weeklies are
run on. Most of the weeklies in the State
are run on slip sh6d business methods.
They publish all sorts of notices free that
dailv papers get well paid for publishing.
This should be stopped. Then the weeklies
extend an unlimited credit to their
subscribers. In fact about the only way
for a subscriber to get off the books ol
some of the weeklies is for him to die
This is wrong and should be stopped
Let the weekly papers come down tc
business methods,charging for all notices
that should be charged for,such as obitua
ries, tributes of respect, &c., and occa
sionally have a settlement with its sub
scribers. Then the wave of prosperity
will strike them too. These remarks ar<
not intended for the Bamberg Herald
We are satisfied that Brother Knigfr
must apply prett sound business princi
pies in the management of his paper, or h<
, could not give the people of his county
the excellent paper he does at the lov
price of subscription he charges. Bu'
they are applicable to a great many week
. ly papers, The Times and Democra'
among the number.?Orangeburg Time;
. and Democrat.
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Almost Satisfied.
Congressman Broussard, of Louisiana
, says that at New Iberia, his state, in ,th<
early '90's, when that district was visite<
by a severe flood, one of the expedition:
for relief organized by the goveramen
one day encountered an old negro who
in a dilapidated dugout, was having con
siderable trouble in keeping afloat, say:
the New York Times. The old fellov
was busy paddling with one hand, whil<
he bailea out his craft with the other.
At this juncture the relief boat cami
. within hailing distance, and the captaii
called out:
"Hello, there, uncle! Anything yot
want?"
"Nothin' 'cept wings, boss," was th<
grim reply.
In Chicago.
An amusing story of Hans von Bulow
' the famous German pianist and conduc
tor, is contained in the volume of his let
ters that has j ust been issued in Germany
After a very successful appearance whicl
he made at a concert in Chicago, he cann
forward in acknowledgment of the ap
' plause. Beaming on the audience, he be
' gan:
"After all, ladies and gentlemen, then
is only one city"?here he was interruptec
by a prolonged burst of applause. Wher
there was a lull he concluded, "and thai
is-NewYork."
Death of a Maryelous Mother.
Mrs. Edith Gillespie, mother of 15 pain
of twins, is dead. This most notable
mother passed away recently at the ranch
of her son, John Gillespie, 10 miles south
of Denver. Mrs. Gillespie, after giving
birth to one of the most marvelous families
on record, lived to reach the age of
84 and to see her many children scattered
far and wide over the country. This remarkable
mother came from a long-lived
family and was 1 ?f 20 children herself.
Many children seemed, it is said, only the
natural course of events to her, and hei
15 pairs of twins were not considerd at all
remarkable by mother and father. It is
said that if all her children, grand-children
and great-grandchildren could be
gathered together a good sized village
could easily be populated.?West Plains
(Mo.) Journal.
DIED OF LOOPING THE LOOP.
Paris Performer Couldn't Endure the Terriffic \
Strain of It
Paris, June 12.?The perils of "looping
the loop" in a motor car were illustrated
by some remarkable revelations made at the
magisterial inquiry regarding Mile.
Rendel, the young woman who died from
oKn/<lr ropflTitlTT offer offemnfinff fhO TU>r.
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formance at the Casino de Paris. Before
her first attempt to loop the loop in a
motor car was made experiments were
tried with dummy figures in the car.
They were decapitated in nearly every
case. Then a pig was placed in the car,
and sent round the circle. The animal
was so severely injured that it had to be
slaughtered.
The first time Mile. Rendel looped the
loop she fainted. She plucky attemped it
again and again she fainted. A doctor
told her that she was doing a highly
i dangerous preformamce, which would
eventually kill her by causing a tremendous
rush of blood to the head and he
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predicted that she would not survive ten
performances. Mile. Rendel kept up her
performances for some in spite of the
terrible strain on her nerves. But she
died after the twenty-ninth. The managers
of the house and the managers of the
exhibit were prosecuted for allowing the
performance.
Rewarded With a Pardon.
Frank Davis, a negro convict on the
Fairfield chain gang, has been rewarded
for saving a guard's life. Gov. Heyward
last Monday signed his parden.
Davis was sent up in 1902 for housebreaking
and larceny and his sentence
was five years. The other day one of the
negro convicts on the same gang with
Davis planned to escape. While the
guard's back was turned the negro rushed
at him with a pickax and only the
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The other negro fought desperately, but
Davis finally overpowered him and the
county supervisor of Fairfield at once
took steps to have Davis set free. Last
Monday Gov. Heyward signed a commutation
of sentence to the present time and
the order for freedom was sent on at
once.
A Worthy Charity.
*
A certain English actor, whose debta\
had made him an object of interest to
vafc)us bailiffs, met a friend one day who
. asked, him if he could spare ten shillings
toward a fund with which to bury a bailiff
' who had just died.
"By all means," replied the actpr; ' ,
' "here's twenty shillings?bury two."
The Rural Telephone.
The rural telephones are making s
' change in farm life. A Shelby coun?y
7 (Kan.) farmer got into trouble in town
3 the other day. Later he was called up
over his rural telephone and informed
1 that a warrant had been issued for him
' and that he might consider himself under
3 arrest, and he was asked by officer if he*
7 would have to come after him? The far7
mer asked the nature of the charge, and
t was told that it was disturbance and that
* the fine and costs world be $14. The
t farmer telephoned back that he was too
3 busy to quit work, but would plead guilty
and send the money by the rural carrier
the next day, and he did. Up in New\
Wirt State the hired man pinned with a ^
t farmer's daughter. Before going he took
2 the precaution to cut the rural telephone
1 wires, so there was nothing left for the
farmer to do but wait till the wires were
* repaired and telephone his blessing.
, Dangers of Travelling.
One of the best stories told about Arte3
mus Ward concerns a journey which, the
[ humorist took on a little "one-horse"
railroad line in the Middle West. After
2 the train had crept from station to station
1 at a snail's pace for half a day, Ward
1 beckoned to the conductor as he passed
through the car.
e "Say, conductor," he drawled, "do you
mind if I give you a little advice?"
"Well, what is it?" skid the conductor, .
gruffly.
' "Seems to me," continued Ward, "it
would be safer to take the cowcatcher off
. the engine and hitch it to the end of the
' rear car."
"What for?" demanded the conductor.
"Well, I've been thinking it over," said
Ward, "and I don't see what's to prevent
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1 Tarn A boat.
An eminent aotor had been introduced y
in a club, to a gentleman who professed a
great liking for the stage,says the Chicago
Journal. A few days later the actor
i received from his new acquaintance this
note:
"I have heard from many sources that
your performance is excellent. Will
you send me two seats for any night next
week?"
The actor made inquiries and learned
that the man was the possessor of great
wealth. So he replied:
"I hear from many sources that your
wealth is immense. Will you send me $200
any time next week?"
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