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THE BAMBERG HERALD ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for fix 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. ?Vq^-c loft pre nr on ilfcna objects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. Thursday, Aug. 3,1905 Won't there be a great old time in ? Edgefield next Saturday when "Uncle Ben" and "Uncle Jasp" lock horns! Here goes our money on "Uncle Jasp." * * * There was one man at the meeting of the South Carolina Press Association who is not a politician and is one of the best fellows alive. He numbers his friends by the score, and he ought to be an honorary member of the Press Association. . We refer to Col. Robert W. Hunt, of Charleston. * * # The dispensary was discussed at a Baptist union meeting in Edgefield county last Saturday between W. J. Talbert, ?T. W. Thurmond, and several ministers. Mr. Thurmond favored the dispepsary. It is rather a unique proposition to find a man standing up in the church and defending the dispensary because of its revenue features, but this is exactly what Mr. Thurmond did. " 'Tis true 'tis pity,. and pity 'tis 'tis true." * * * Some of the dispensary advocates are raising a great cry about the condition of the schools after the dispensary money is gone, and some go so far as to say that we might as'well pull down the school houses in case the dispensary is abolished. In the name of common sense, didn't the schools exist before the coming of the dispensary? Better educational facilities are being provided all over South Carolina, and in Bamberg county especially, but the people are doing it by going down ? in their pockets. Special levies are being : made to supplement the constitutional school tax, and the vastly improved condition of our schools is not due* to any income from the dispensary. The^fact is - that Bamberg county gets very little money from the dispensary profits anyway, and in most counties it has to be divided up so much that each school doesn't receive enough to do any appre ciable good. The dispensary men had rtrnn the school argument. The Missing Chickens. A banker in a Western city bought some chickens of a ranchman and told * the man to deliver them at his home. When he went home at noon his wife met him at the door and told him with great consternation that the man brought in the chickens, as he had promised, but instead of putting them in the hen house, had left them on the lawn, and they had all disappeared. Forgetting his dinner, he started off in no very amiable frame of mind in pursuit of the missing fowls. After scouring the neighboring alleys for some time, he came back triumphantly driving the lost chicks. When in a few days he met the offending ranchman, he demanded, severely: "What did you mean by.leaving those x chickens on my lawn the other day? I hunted the neighborhood over for them, and then could find only eleven!" "You did mighty well," was the mild jeply. "I only left six." * / ? Joys of Matrimony. They had just commenced house keeping "Clarence, dear," said bridelet, "I wish you would stop at the drug store as you come home tonight and get some sponges.' "All right, darling," responded the temporary head of the matrimonial combine. "How maDy do you want?" "I don't know, love," she answered. I guess-oh, well, just ask the man how many it takes to make a medium size sponge cake." A Western man visited Boston once to buy boots of the late Gov. William L. Claflin, according to the veracious American Shoemaking. He was advised to return over the Boston and Albany by daylight so that he might view the beautiful Berkshire Hills in the beautiful month of June. He left Boston in an early morning train. The following year he returned again to place more orders. "And what did you think of our grand old Berkshire Hills?what did you think of the scenery?" asked Gov. Claflin. "Scenery?" retorted the Western man? the Western shoe jobber?"Scenery? why Gov'ner, I didn't see any. Your damned hills hid it all!" A Texas girl advertised for a husband and got him. The total expense for advertising, wedding outfit, etc., was $11. Within a year he died leaving her an insurance policy of $10,000. And yet some people claim it does not pay to advertise. A TOUCHING STORY, is the saving from death of the baby girl of Geo. A. Eyler, Cumberland, Ma. He writes: "At the age of 11 months our little girl was in declining health with seri ous throat trouble, and two physicians gave her up. We were almost in "despair, when we resolved to try Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds. The first bottle gave relief; after taking four bottles she was cured, and is now in perfect health." Never fails to relieve and cure a cough or cold. At all druggists in Bamberg; Felder & Matthews, Denmark; 50c and $1.00 guaranteed. Trial bottle free. SPANISH WAR CLAIMS AGAIN. Mr. Townsend and Others to go to Washington This Week. The Spanish war claims of South Carolina will be brought before the authorities at Washington this week. After a conference with Governor Heyward this morning it was decided that Assistant Attorney General townsend and Mr. W. Boyd Evans, who is attorney for the soldiers, go to Washington Thursday and lay the matter before the war department. The claims are for about $30,000 for service done by the volunteers from the time they assembled in Columbia up to the time they were mustered in or were reI jected. There is at present some hitch in j the joint resolution passed by the legislature last year. The time for the collection of these claims expires January 1st, 1906.?Columbia Record. MARLBORO MILLS ECONOMIZE? - - " ' it -J? 11 Sweeping Reduction or salaries unuer new Management. Bennettsville, July 29.?An official force of the Marlboro Mill Company, consisting of four cotton mills in McColl, and the large mill in Bennettsville, have changed, Capt. D. L. Gore, of Wilmington, having been elected president of all of these mills, Mr. T. B. Gibson, the former president, having resigned. The superintendent, Mr. Charles Iceman, of all the mills, who was receiving $6,500 as salary, had his salary curtailed to $3,000 per annum, and the president's salary largely cut, he having received $4,000 per annum. All salaries were cut, as it is claimed the mills are not paying the stockholders, and that officials are receiving too much salary under present conditions. Mr. Gore is wealthy and does not believe in large salaries, is a fine business man and many of the stockholders think that he will soon place these mills on a firm paying financial basis. However, crvmo friction amnnp the officers 10 0vauv **??q concerning the change. Mr. Gore owns the Great Falls factory, at Rockingham, N. C., has interest in several mills and banks and is an indefatigable worker. He says if he can't make the mills pay that he will shut them down. School Trustees. At a recent meeting of the county board of education the following gentlemen were appointed as school trustees to serve for the ensuing two years: Hopewell, No. 1-A G W Hill, J B Kinsey, C N Jones. Midway, No. 2?Marion Smoak, P C Baxley. H W Dempsey. Hampton, No. 3?J W Hill, R W Bishop, P W Sandifer. Three Mile, No. 4?J J Kearse, J 0 Kearse, G Frank Heirs. Fishpond, No. 5?J E Byrd, J H Smith, J L Herndon. Hutto, No. 6?J P Padgett, J I Copeland, Adam Bessinger. Buford's Bridge, No. 7?R M Kearse, J J Brabham, J W Smith. v.? -v-r_ o tt< -d:? t r> w Ul&r, 1>U. o~v r , u u vvuttj ii B Chitty. Salem, No. 9?J W Ray, M J Ray, L W Abstance. Govan, No. 11?L L Lancaster, J A Lain, J H Lancaster. Binnaker's, No. 12?E P Sojourner, J J Sandifer, J L Smoak. Lemon Swamp, No. 13?W G Hutto, J D. Rowell. Chaa. McGeiver. Bamberg, No. 14?Jno R Bellinger, J A J Rice, Henry J Brabham, Jr. Oakland, No. 15?J C Matthews, F G Fickling, J I Reed. Hunter's Chapel, No. 16?D Q Hunter, J G Rhoad, D 0 Steedley. Cuffle Creek, No. 17?J C McMillan, Jr T D Beard, J F Clayton. Colston, No. 18?C F Padgett, W H Folk, J B All. Clear Pond, No. 19?H F Priester, L M Ayer, Jno R Morris. Oak Grove, No. 20?J L Cothran, Geo J Hiers, L H Carter.Denmark, No. 24?S D M Guess, H C Rice, J B Gillam, Jr. Ehrhardt, No. 22?G B Clayton, J F Copeland, Dr J L Copeland. Lees, No. 23?H B Grimes, J D Atteberry, J W Fickling. Hevward, No. 24?J E McMillan, J E Bishop, L W Fender. Kirkland. No. 10?F M Ray, Dr E Kirk land, J W McMillan. PUBLIC IS AROUSED. The public is aroused to a knowledge of the curative merits of that great medicinal tonic, Electric Bitters, for sick stomach, liver and kidneys. Mary H. Walters, 546 St. Clair Ave., Columbus, O., writes: "For several months, I was given up .to die. I had fever and ague, my nerves were wrecked; I could not sleep and my stomach was so weak, from useless doctors' drugs, that I could not eat. Soon after beginning to take Electric Bitters, I obtained relief, and in a short time I was entirely cured." Guaranteed at all druggists in Bamberg; Felder & Matthews, Denmark. Price 50c. In a scarcity of new stories a good old onemav bear repetition: A Scot in a hospital at Bloemfontein recovering from an attack of enteric disease suggested to the doctor that he would be grateful for a "wee drappie." "No, no," said the doctor. "Do you know that your stomach is in such an ulcerated condition that a spoonful of whiskey would kill you?" "Aweel, sir," replied the patient regretfully, "I must do without it; but, doctor, just come up close to me." The medical man obliged. "Ah, doctor," said the soldier, sighing contentedly, "yer breath's verra refreshin'!" PECULIAR DISAPPEARANCE. J. D. Runvan, of Butlerville, 0., laid the peculiar disappearance of his painful symptoms, of indigestion and biliousness, to Dr. King's New Life Pills. He says: "They are a perfect remedy, for dizziness, sour stomach, headache, constipation, etc." Guaranteed at all druggists in Bamberg; Felder & Matthews, Denmark. 25c. Deeds of Heroism Courageous Acts In the \'Rescue of Men Imprisoned In Tunnel. Wo rUrn en Who Thought Thtm4*1%)*4 Entombed"Built Bam m and Saxfed FeJIotv Laborer* From Brobvning. History has never recorded greater deeds of bravery and valor than have been enacted in the drama at the portal of the Gunnison tunnel in the attempt to rescue the men who were bur iPffSi??Pv linn IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET CLOSES TO - HTM. led by the recent cave-in, says the Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain. Nineteen men voluntarily built a dam that caused the water to rise around them to fill the cell in which they were entombed that seven others might not suffer death by drowning after having been pinned under timbers and debris. Two hundred men working with might and main risked their lives every minute in an attempt to rescue the imprisoned men. H. C. Steele, one of the entombed men, asked for a cigarette as his first request, and another one, Benjamin Tayy lor, lay flat on his back with his neck across a railroad rail, four heavy timbers resting on his shoulders and legs and his feet Imbedded in water. He was only able to move one hand, yet with the rescuers within two feet of him and unable to come nearer for fear of bringing down other timbers he said he was doing first rate. ? a-'? ?* ?unA Nineteen men were ut&eu um, amc. Two men, Taylor and Steele, though crushed between timbers, were close enough to their rescuers to converse with them, but the character of the dirt and timbers around them was such that it became necessary to start a new shaft and sink It to a point below the men and take them out from the bottom. Any attempt to reach them from the top would probably have resulted in a settling of the timbers, causing death to both. It was at their suggestion that the plan to tunnel under was agreed upon. The last man to die was Fred Gross. The rescuers had been within two feet of him all day, and the light from their lanterns showed, that his body was bent back across some heavy timbering. He complained of his cramped position and urged the men to push the work of rescue as rapidly as possible. But it was Impossible to get closer to him, because every time it was attempted the dirt would slide in from the top. It was noticed that his voice grew weaker. The rescuers peered through the timbers, and it could be seen that the n?ck and mud frpm above had sunk and were gradually bending bis back almost double. A beam bad caught bis cbin so that he could not utter a sound, and his body gradually ceased its quivering and was apparently lifeless. The rescuers were frantic, but could do nothing. His suffering must have been terrible, but timbers across bis chin forbade him making it known. Edward Schuler was supposed to have been crushed in a similar manner. He and Charles Smidley were side by side when the cave-in occurred. The force of the falling dirt rendered Smidley unconscious. When he revived he was clasping Schiller's hand. He pressed it, and Schuler answered. Smidley spoke to Schuler, but received no reply. He then tried to run his band up Schuler^ arm to the letter's face, but broken timbers and dirt interfered. The man's head was literally held in one position by twisted timbers and rock. Smidley says that Schuler's hand pressure became less and less for about^two hours, and finally the hand dropped to the side of Jhe body, limp and lifeless. * The rescue of Theodore Orasser and Charles Smidley will always form one of the thrilling pages of Colorado's history of brave deeds. After iJmidley.. noticed that Schuler was dead he began an attempt to rescue himself. A 12 by 18 inch boxing runs along the lower dormer of the tunnel at this point for air purposes. He managed to turn around and work himself down to this boxing and noticed that it was broken and had *.lled up with mud and water. Knowing tbat^bere was an opening in the boxing twelve feet further on toward the inner portion of the tunnel, he closed his eyes and held his 'breath and literally crawled the twelve feet through the mud, slush and sand until he reached the other opening, where he #. as enabled to emerge into a small space made by the cave-in, and where he secured a little fresh air and breathing spell. Here he found Grasser held by some fallen timbers and dirt. He managed to pull these apart and rescue his imprisoned companion, and the two men Kotron /?all thrrtiich tho hnTinc Thf> seventeen men on the inside of the tunnel responded. The two men tapped on the wooden boxing and the seventeen shoved a gas pipe through to the prisoners. Grasser was the first to catch hold of the pipe, and he was literally dragged through the mud, water and the sand to the other side of the cave-in. Again the gas pipe was pushed back, and Smidley clutched it and was rescued in a similar way. When the caye-in took place the seventeen men not directly under the slide realized that the seeping water would, if allowed to run through, drown all those not already dead who were under the pile of dirt and timbers. They noticed that the seepage was from above their own room. Knowing full well the death it probably meant to them, but in order to assist in saving their more unfortunate comrades, they set about and erected a dam across the tunnel near the cave-in and continued building it higher and higher as the seeping water rose in their own prison cell. They used the loose timbers and rock, filled the cracks with mud and even slipped off their own clothing to stop up crevices. When the shaft from above was finally sunk to them the water was up almost to the shoulders of many of the men and was above the hips of them all. No sooner had they been placed on the ground above them thau they joined the army of volunteers working so valiantly to rescue the two imprisoned men. The rescuers found the nineteen men In good spirits. Theodore Grasser was the first man extracted. He was very weak from exhaustion and bruises received by being caught in the cave-in. At 4 o'ciocc in tne ariernoon me rescuers came to a point where they could' talk with Steele. They could see him standing between four timbers and hemmed in in such a manner as to be able to move only one hand. "Are you hurt?' said Resident Engineer McDonnel. "No, but terribly crowded. Give me a cigarette," was Steele's reply. McDonnel lighted a cigarette and stuck it through a crack, and Steele took it HE WAS DRAGGED OUT THROUGH THE HUD. with one hand and smoked it A little later they got within talking distance of Taylor. He reported that he was lying flat on his back. The scenes around the month of the tunnel beggared description. The relatives of the imprisoned men were held back by ropes stretched around the places where ti^e rescuers were at work. When the shaft was completed and as one by one the nineteen men were lifted out in many cases their relatives fainted with joy upon seeing them alive. Flies as Germ Carriers. The house fly Is or ltseir a grear disseminator of disease, partaking and polluting as It does-the food and drink of man. Military authorities have noticed that officers whose tents were fly screened suffered proportionately less from the attack of typhoid fever than did those whose tents were unprotected. The latter seems well nigh impossible; but one of the two must be done. 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