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V -- v w - " f i THE BAMBERG HERALD Thursday, June 15, 1905 ?mmmm?.mmm~ j i Short Locals. Great Scott! How Murphy's wood burns. When barefooted go to a shoe store. When in need of wood go to Murphy's wood yard. Mr. W. M. Brabham, youngest son of Mr. C. R. Brabham, graduated at Wofford college this week. In another column Col. Juo. F. Folk offers his opera house scenery, chairs, etc., for sale. See the ad. The Herald office is kept very bust these days. We are getting a good run of work for this season of the year, but money is mighty scarce. Six teachers from Bamberg county have enrolled in the State summer school for teachers to be held at Clemson college next month. 25 ; Dr. C. E. Kinsey is preparing to open a drugstore in the building next door to the bank. He expects to be ready for business in a few days. The Home Missions Society will meet next Tuesday afternoon, June 20th, at 5.30 o'cloek with Mrs. R. L. Risher. A full attendance is requested. Remember that the young ladies of the juvenile missionary society will serve ice cream and cake on the Fitting School lawn this (Thursday) evening. Mr. E. H. Hall, of Chester, who has g|?. successfully managed the Denmark graded school for the past two years, has been re-elected for another term. i Last Saturday we received a cotton bloom, which was grown by Willis Brabham on Mrs. Essie Henderson's planta- ! tion in the Buford's Bridge section. The young ladies of the juvenile missionary society will serve ice cream and 1 cake on the Fitting School lawn Thursday evenihg. Everybody is invited. Mr. E. A. Brabham, of the Buford's Bridge section, sent us a cotton bloom last week, which he plucked Tuesday. It did not reach us ?in time for mention in last < Imp; week's paper. I If you made any wheat this season, send i or carry it to Tray wick's flour mill near C Cope. He has up-to-date machinery and : an experienced miller and will turn out a ; fine grade of flour. There is no more delightful place to spend the summer months than Chick firwlncrc Wa understand that several ifrom ^Bamberg will spend time at this resort next month. The bad practice of discharging fire ( arms in order to give the alarm of fire ( was well illustrated in Laurens one night ] last week when somebody shot and seriously wounded a horse. There should be a number of houses j built in town for rent. There is always good demand for them, and more people would move here if they could obtain desirable places in which to live. We see by the Columbia State that , Bamberg county has borrowed $4,600 j from the sinking fund commission. This ( is wisely done in order that all claims j against the county may be paid cash. ( Miss Mabel C. Brown, of Belton, who i . was elected as one of'the teachers in the < Bamberg graded school, has declined the i position, saying that she bad already ac- ( cepted a position in the Blackville school. ? Crops generally in this section are now 1 free from grass and in good shape. Rain " is needed, however. The dry weather was a blessing, for it enabled many farmers to save a crop which, with, rainy ( weather, would have been ruined. i The new Methodist church caught on 1 fire last Friday about two o'clock, but the j flames were put out before much damage was done. The fire started way up near the tcp of the tower, and was caused by a soldering pot used by Jhe tinners. The summer school for the teachers of > ' Orangeburg and Bamberg counties will begin in Orangeburg next Tuesday, and < - O , ?u l continue until j uiy jioia. ocvciai ers from this count)' will attend. Mr. N. < M. Salley is one of the instructors. I Several prominent citizens in town are ] having a nice lot of water works put in, both hot and cold. Mr. G. H. Jennings is ( g|f. doing the work, and he is ail-right when ! it comes to plumbing. He is a Bamberg J &? boy, and don't forget him when in need ' Kg*-. of water works. The following teachers have enrolled , for attendance upon the State summer j school for teachers at ClemsoD college: Miss Rosa Hutto, Govan; W. C. Koger, : - Bamberg; Miss Narcissa Matheney, Den- , mark; Miss Clara E. Riley, Bamberg; Miss j?-.;. Hattie M. Smoak, Bamberg. & Mr. C. R. Calhoun, who was formerly ] principal of the Bamberg graded school, j has been re-elected as principal of the Walterboro graded school, where he has taught for the past two years. He has . also been appointed as principal of the < summer school for the teachers of that , county. No services will be held in the Methodist church in this city next Sunday, either morning or evening, as Rev. W. T. Duncan will be away attending the p|; Orangeburg district conference at Elloree j| : Messrs. W. M. Cauthen and H. G. Sheridan are the delegates from this church to i the conference. I Magistrate W. Russell Wright, of Bam- ! berg, who is by the way an up to date military man and the popular captain of ; the Bamberg Guards, is in the city today . gM- on business. Captain Wright is well known here and his many friends kept : him busy this morning shaking hands j with old acquaintances.?Orangeburg < jjEvening News, June 10th. < It does not speak well for Bamberg's ' merchants that The Herald's largest ad- | vertlser should be an out-of-town mer- ' chant, but nevertheless it is true. Theodore Kohn, of Orangeburg, is our largest advertiser, and he must be pleased with results, for he keeps it up all the year round. Is it little wonder that other towns are outstripping Bamberg when ? her merchants place so little value on advertising. The Herald has never received the advertising patronage from its home 1 people which it deserves. There is considerable building in progress and projected in and around Bamberg just now. The Farmers' Gin Co. is erecting a large ginnery just out of town, Mr. D. W. Shealy is erecting a residence . on Main_stjreet near the graded schcol, Mr. F. VV. i?'ree is erecung a uweuiug on New Bridge street, the new Methodist church is neariug completion, Mr. Jones "Williams will soon commence the erection of a handsome dwelling, and Dr. J. P. Ott will commence to build on the site of his burned residence. A number of residences are also being repaired and improved. Mr. Yates Snowden, formerly of the News and Courier, has been elected to the chair of history and political economy in the South Carolina college. Mr. Snowden has been studying at Columbia University for the past year. In the write-up of the graded school closing exercises last week by accident the name of one prize winning pupil was omitted. This was Miss Jeroline Bruce, who was awarded a prize by Mrs. J. A. Murdaugh for attendance and punctuality. The Kitchen Grocer cases are to be tried in Orangeburg this week. This is a suit on the notes given by several parties in Orangeburg county in pavment for territory. Mr. T. A. Green, of Spartanburg, purchased the notes and is the plaintiff in the case. June Term of Court. When we went press last Wednesday the jury for the June term of court had been drawn, but we did not publish it for the reason that it then seemed likely that the term would not be held. However, this could not be done, and court will convene here next Monday morning, June 19th, Judge James Aldrich presiding. There are only a few cases to be tried, and no doubt the term will only last a few days. Following is a list of the petit jurors drawn to serve at this term: J W Price, 0 J C Lain, Geo E Kearse, J W Ray, Frank Hiers, A L 31ilhous, B A Bennett, W D Sease, Bellinger Folk, Robt. Kirkland, N J Padgett, W C Zeigler, Willie L Stokes, S P J Garris, Wesley R Copeland, E M Wilson, A M Cox, Joe E Bishop, Chas Ehrhardt, J G Barker, Jr, M L Warren, J D Rowell, Jno H Hadwin, G B Kinard, W B Cave, J T O'Neal, C 31 Cox, J J Simmons, T C Tanti John Neal, R F 3Ic3Iillan, C J Baxter, B B Thompson, C R Brabham, Jr, J W Lancaster. If you want a higher grade buggy than you can find elsewhere, call at u. Frank Bamberg's. Notice to Signers of Contract for Lyceum Attractions. You are hereby notified that the contract which you have signed for attractions for next season has been cancelled on account of excessive license charged by town council, which makes it necessary for me to close the opera house. Respectfully, Jno. F. Folk, 3Ianager. Bamberg, S. C., June 12,1905. New Advertisements. simmons hardware co. Twp new ads tell you about their line of paints and brushes and the repairing department of their business. Their new machine shop is located on 3Iain street iust below Hays's furniture store. When pou want bicycles, guns or pistols repaired, carry your work there. CHICK SPRINGS. This famous resort has a new adver;isement in this issue. The new hotel is equipped with all modern conveniences, and we know from personal experience ;hat there is no better place to go than 3hick Springs. The manager of the ho;el, Mr. J. A. Bull, is one of the most jourteous and accommodating men you ivill ever meet, and no reasonable request if any guest is refused. The hotel is nagnincently equipped, and there are no letestable ''extras" at Chick Springs. We id vise our people who are going away for he summer to go to Chick Springs, for ve feel sure they will be delighted. G. FRANK BAMBERG. Bamberg's new ad. tells you about a lot >f fine mules he received last week. He ilso has the largest stock of buggies he las ever carried. He is making special irices, so see him if in need. Jno. F. Folk?For Sale. J. B. Hunter?Sheriffs Sale. Bamberg Hoards Election. The election of officers for the Bamberg Juards took place at tne armory last oatlrday, the polls being open from 2 to 3 j'clock. There were thirty-four votes jolled. Edgar L. Price received the total rote for captain, he having no opposition. For first lieutenant Jno. S. Jennings was ilected, the vote being Jennings 27; J.Felier Hunter 7. In the race for second lieutenant Greaton E. Bamberg was jlected, the vote being 25 for Bamberg and 9 for D. W. Phillips. The new law requires that all non-commissioned officers shall be appointed by the captain and lieutenants. Captain W. R. Wright did not offer for re-election, and will no doubt receive a staff appointment. G. Frank Bamberg handles the best buggies and wagons, yet the prices are reasonable. It is said that Ben Tillman may take the stump next year for prohibition,abandoning the dispensary, which he foisted on the people as a substitute twelve years ago. If the drift is strong enough that way we shall surely see Tillman's little boat come down with the current. He was never much on bucking the tide. ?Charleston Evening Post. Hester's cotton report made out Friday shows that there was an increase in cotton receipts of 11,000 bales over the first 9 days of June last year. The total movement since September 1st is 12,421,452, against 9,732,526 for the same period last year, a gain of 2,688,926 over last year. The following are the estimates of the reduction of cotton acreage made by the government and various agencies: Government report 11.4; Latham Alexander & Co., 11.2; Southern Cotton growers Association 18.43; New Orleans Times-Democrat 15; New York Commercial 13.21; J. 3. Bache & Co. 13.08; Theodore Price 17.3; Norden & Co. and the New Orleans Picayune each 12. A Doctor's Dilemma. Among the papers of R. H. Stoddard that Ripley Hitchcock edited there is a letter which Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet-physician, is said to have received. l'iiis letter was written many years ago by an ignorant country practitioner, and it is interesting because it shows the low level to which, in the early part of the last century, it was possible for medical education to fall. The letter, verbatim, follows: Dear dock I have a pashunt whose physicol sines shoze that the winpipe is ulcerated of and his lung have dropped into his stumick. He is unable to swaller and I fear his stumick toobe is gone. I have giv him everything without efect his Father is wealthy honble and influenshul. He is an active member of the M. E. church and Gon noes I don't want too loose him wot shall I do? AN ANGEL UNAWARES By KATE M. CLEARY Copyright, 1905, by Kate M. Cleary The April downpour was at its fiercest when the knock came to the kitchen door. It was a timid knock?so timid that Nan stood with knife suspended over the pan of apples she was paring, thinking her imagination might have played her a trick. It came again?low, entreating. The girl crossed to the door and opened it "Good land!" she cried. "Come in! You poor little soul, whoever you are, come in!" And out of the blinding rain she caught the little black, shrinking figure and whirled It into the warmth and spicy scent of the big kitchen. She stood and looked at her unexpected visitor, her gaze a curious blending of amazement and compassion. Such a frail, old figure of a woman. The plain black cashmere gown, the thin shawl, the close little bonnet all were dripping rain, from the stiff jet spirals ornamenting the bonnet to the hem of the poor skirt And the face that looked up at Nan, dumb and beseeching, was childishly pathetic in its wistfulness. The woman held a worn bag clutched in one hand. "I," faltered the stranger deprecatlngly?"I got caught in the rain!" Nan threw back her head and laughed?a girlish laugh, crisp and infectious, and the shriveled countenance of the intruder relaxed into a smile. "Pardon me," cried Nan, controlling herself; "only it was so evident you lij A. 1 j i.wa uttu uut uwu uuuer suener me last hour that I couldn't help laughing. Here, sit down in this rocker near the stove." She deftly unpinned the soaking shawl and removed the pulpy bonnet "Dear, dear," she exclaimed, "you've no rubbers on! And your feet | are dripping! You're Just a bundle of wetness! Whatever will I do with you?' She spoke with the air of solicitude she might have used toward a child. Nan was only seventeen, but she had many burdens on her shoulders, and she bore them with courage, A year ago, when she had graduated from the high school, the hope that she might go to college was strong within her. But her aunt and cousin had condemned her desire and derided her ambition. There was no money to spare for such foolishness. There was work to be done at borne. The latter fact the girl was given no opportunity to ?oubb The maid of all work had been'dismissed the week of her graduation, and Nan had been installed in her place. And silently, but with fierce inward rebellion, she accepted her duties. But her father had been a man of letters and a professor in a university, and she had inherited his love of learning. So It was with a heavy heart she saw the days slipping by and with them the time she would fain have given to the acquirement of further knowledge. Today many bidden tasks still remained to be accomplished, and here was this forlorn creature on her hands. "I'm sure I'm sorry to be making you trouble, my dear," piped up the - ?- * Li T A . 1 piamuve oia toicc. ;n wueu anu I'm rested a bit you'll be telling me my direction I'll be moving on." But suddenly she went ghastly white. She caught her hand sharply to her side, and her lips turned blue. "Here," cried Nan, "take this!" She had gone for a stimulant and was back, holding it pressed to the twitching mouth. The old woman swallowed the liquid and tried to rise. "Sit still r commanded Nan. "You're ill! You mustn't stir!" Nan stood before her, tall and slender In her blue cotton go wp, .with a big white apron belted in at her waist The pure pallor of her sifc^jras accented by the blackness of fcer browB and lashes. Her gray eyes^tfeye wide with perplexity. ^ "Walt a minute," she oraefei. and went flashing up the backstairs* She reappeared with a load of gArmenta over her arm. "You're such a mite of a thing the clothes that I've outgrown will fit you," she said. 'Tour bag? Here It Is?safe behind you. There!" She worked rapidly as she talked. "Now you're dry and comfortable anyhow, If you do look funny." The old woman smiled up at her gratefully. She did look funny In the schoolgirl gown of red, but the color had come into her cheeks, and her chilled feet were growing warm in the dry stockings and slippers. "Now I'll make you some tea and M A aaIo fwl Vor? KonrHn ct fhn tirof iv/aoif iiauf UOU51U5 nw clothes to dry. "And then I must get back to? Good gracious, my cake is burning!" She was on her knees in a minute and had snatched the oven door wide open. A smoking, blackened mound confronted her. And, aa ill luck would have It, at that very moment Helena Burnet, her cousin and mistress of the house owing to the Invalidism of Mrs. Burnet, came sailing into the kitchen. "What's this?" she cried sharply. She was in street attire, but had been well protected from the storm. "Your cake ruined! And that?who is that person?" Her cheeks scarlet from embarrassment and the heat of the oven. Nan was hastily removing the cake. "She's an old lady who got caught in the shower," the girl explained nervously. "Did Aunt Ellen come, Helena?" "No, she didn't," snapped Helena. a "I've waited In that drafty depot until I am nearly sick. I suppose you made that chicken broth the way mother says she used to like It?" "Yes, and the little honey hearts too." "You've got the spare room all ready, I dare say ?" "Yes. It's clean, and I lit the fire half an hour ago." "Such a lot of trouble and expense to go to for a foolish old woman," grumbled Miss Burnet. "Mother 3ays she always had as little sense as the law allows. But that doesn't alter the fact that she Is coming to spend her few remaining years with us and that she has $60,000 to leave, I suppose she will land here tomorrow, and we'll have this bother all over again. Well, I'll spend $100 on mourning for her when I inherit it!" "She will never leave me anything,' averred Nancy Goodwin. "My mother did not marry to please her, and Aunt Ellen never forgave her. But"?briskly buttering some fresh toast?"If she ever were to remember me I'd"? , "Go to college, I presume!" ended Helena contemptuously. "Yes, that, I would!" rejoined Nan resolutely. "There's no hope of that!" she sighed, "Now, try to eat a few mouthfuls of this and drink your tea." Helena stared from her cousin to the strange guest and back again. "Do you mean to say you've gone out of your head, wasting good food on a tramp?" she shrieked. "Hush!" begged Nan, trembling with mortification. "You will hurt her feelings!" "Feelings, indeed!" She glared at the stranger. "The rain is over now. She can go about her business." Nan stood before her cousin. "She is sick and cold. She can't go out of the house tonight Let her sleep In my bed. Fll make up a shake down on the cot" Then, hurriedly, as she saw angry refusal in the other's eyes, "Don't make me leave you if you value my work!" "What do you mean?" "Only that Mrs. Hunter across the street has offered me $10 a week as housekeeper In her home. I would have no more labor there than here, where I am paid nothing. And I shall accept her offer today if you make me turn this poor old creature out!" "Well, I declare!" ejaculated Miss Burnet But aware that Nan was quite capable of doing what she threatened, she made a tempestuous exit from the kitchen. Overcoming her apologetic objections, Nan assisted the old woman up the stairs. On the second floor they passed a bright room, hung with rosy chintzes, with a Jolly fire rollicking in the grate. "I wish I might take you in there," she whispered. "But that Is intended for Mrs. Franklyn, who is joining to stay here. Yon shall have her chicken broth, though," said the girl determinedly. "She can't need it any more than you do." And when she had tucked the feeble body into her own narrow bed she brought the chicken broth. But that night when the dishes were washed the girl climbed to her room she found her protegee very ill. 8he was feverish, and the pain in her side was worse. Occasionally she lapsed into delirium. Nan was frightened, and as the woman grew worse she sped down the stairs and across the street for Dr. Meeker. "Pneumonia," be said. "Exposure, eh? I thought so. Practically hopeless. "What's that eh? You want a lawyer?? He bent to listen. "Poor soul, what have you to will?" "John Meeker," she panted, "don't you know me?' "I'm young Dr. Meeker. John Meeker is my father. I'm trying to be as good a man. If I can build up his practice that had fallen off I hope to make a home for this little girl here." The old woman smiled and nodded. "You'll get me a lawyer maybe If you know that I am Ellen Franklyn. No, dont call the others. Helena is like her mother, cold and selfish. I heard her for myself today." The physician did what he could and hastened away. His experienced eye told him she had been ill several days and that the exposure of the afternoon was hastening the climax. The lawyer returned with him, and the household was aroused. The old woman chuckled, exhausted, but triumphant, as she fell back after signing the will. "I've left Helena a hundred dollars to buy that mourning she was so set on," she whispered. "You can get your learning white he's making the home for you. Twas the fine fellow his father was, I mind well." And not all the wrath or lamentations of Helena Burnet and her mother availed to Impeach the validity of the will, which left the property of Ellen Franklyn to Nancy Goodwin. "I shan't hold you to your promise now, dear," Charlie Meeker said when he came to see the girl off to the university. "You are an heiress now. Everything Is different" "That Isn't different I" she replied, with emphasis. "You loved me when I was a common drudge. You mustn't stop loving me now that I am going to fit myself to be a wife of whom you may be proud." Oa AmlU4 /tAnm at ka> ao Biinreu uunu uk uci, "My dear, my dear," be said, "a prince might be proud of you. Here's the train." Counterfeit*** and Wedding*. The marriage of convenience is an institution among criminals, at least In England. 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