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THE BAMBERG HjjjjiLjj 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 Sc. 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 Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for.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, Aug. 24, 1905 The building and loan association gives every man the opportunity to own a > home, and you owe it to yourself and family to do this. It is not good business 4' to pay rent when you can own a place. KF. ' ' * * * Our buyers must pay the top of the market if they expect to bring the cotton to Bamberg. Heretofore we have had a fine reputation for good prices. Let's not only keep it up- but do better than ever this fall. ' * * * There are numbers of people in Bamberg who can and ought to own homes, ? V; and they can easily do this through the building and loan association. This en terprise was organized to Duua nomes in Bamberg, and our people should take advantage of the opportunity. * rki- * * The conviction of three white men in Lexington county for election frauds is a healthy sign. This thing ^of fraud in elections has become entirely too common in South Carolina. Election manipulators should be taught that.it is dangerous to do these things in this State. - *** In its statement of the dispensary transv . action the Spartanburg Journal says it got 15c. a line in its daily edition and the same price for matter repeated in its t-weekly. Thirty cents a line for reading s matter is a pretty good price?one we'll be willing to wager the Journal does not ' get from it's commercial advertisers. *** : Bro. DeCamp, of the Gaffney Ledger, ' was in error when he credited that article about "demagogism" to the Saluda Stan; - dard. It should have been credited to the Saluda Times. Bro. Cargile, of the Stand ard, stands for high ideals and sobriety, and is doing good work in the matter of working to get the dispensary voted out of that county. rep- \ *** T:: . The Columbia Record criticises Judge Gary for putting such light sentences on the white men convicted of election frauds in Lexington county. The sentence of each man was four months on -c ra-t TT7 I me cnain gang urauiie ui ^10. *t ca^cc with the Record that this was entirely too light. They were intelligent men, and an example should have been made of them. *** The Spartanburg Journal has published from its books a statement showing the Yarious charges made for publishing that dispensary matter. The statement is itemized and gives the number of lines and % the price per line. We are glad to see this, for it makes the transaction look better. But while the matter is up the whole thing might as well be threshed out. We want the Journal to give the exact terms of the contract and tell how much money was actually received. The account totals $401.70. Has all of this been paid? Some of the witnesses in the Spartanburg investigation said that the Journal first wanted $500, but came down to $400, and that the editor said he would lose subscribers by publishing the matter. Did these witnesses tell the truth? Was V , the contract for a lump sum or what? ? Why He Wanted a Tenner. Application was made at a half a dozen . stores before the man could get one $10 bill for his roll of ones, says the New York Press. "I don't see," said the man's companion, "why you went to all this trouble. You are going to pay the money right over to your tailor. Why don't you give him the one dollar bills?" "Because it would make a bad impression," was the reply. "I am broke, but I don't want him to know it. Whenever you get in that fix pay your debts in the largest bills that you can get hold of. It enhances yonr value in the estimation of tradesmen and paves the way for further credit. A fellow will think a heap more of you if you pay with one $o bill than with five ones. A handful of chicken feed indicates that you have had to hustle around pretty lively to get the money, and that there isn't much left where that came from. A man who really has money can afford to pay in pennies if he feels like it, but he who has little can keep his credit only by using large bills." Remembered it Distinctly. The divorce lawyer took his pencil from behind his ear and prepared to jot down the necessary memoranda. "Tell me, as nearly as you can," he said, "the exact date when yorr matrimonial trouble began." "I can give you the exact minute," snapped the fair client. "It was when the preacher said, 'I pronounce you husband and wife.' " Every man owes it to himself and his family to master a trade or profession. Read the display advertisement of the six Morse Schools of Telegraphy, in this issue and learn how easily a young man or lady may learn telegraphy and be assured a position. * Home Wedding. Miss Rosye Pearlstin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8. W. Pearlstin, was married at the home of her parents in this city last Thursday afternoon at two o'clock to Mr. M. I. Krawchek, of Charleston. The wedding was a quiet one, only the immediate family and intimate friends of the contracting parties being present. The ceremony was performed according to the Jewish rites by Rabbi J. J. Simonhoil, ot Charleston. A number of friends and relatives from various parts of the State were here to attend the wedding. The happy couple left on the 5 o'clock train the same afternoon for White Stone Springs to spend a couple of weeks, after which they will make their home in Charleston, where Mr. Krawchek is in business. Speaking of Tall Corn. One of our readers, whose veracity is above question, tells the following: "The terrible news comes from the western part of the Cherokee nation that a boy climbed a cornstalk to see how the corn was getting along, and now the corn is f rowing up faster than the boy can climb own. The boy is clear out of sight. Three men have undertaken to cut the stalk down with axes and save the boy from starvation, but it grows so fast thai they can't hack twice in the same place. The boy is living cn Dothing but raw corn, and already has thrown down over four bushels of cobs."?Checotah, I. T., Times. _ Baby at the Parsonage. A baby was born at the parsonage on Saturday night. It was their first and the preacher dreaded facing the congregation " * -* .1 1 u on sunaay morning 11 tuey suuuiu uuu n out. So he decided to withhold the news until Monday morning. The morning service was opened, he prayed, read the Scripture l?6son, and the choir got up to sing. The soprano started on her solo: 'For unto us a child is born." The pastor colored and imagined every one looking at him. He dropped his eyes. The aito took up the strain: "A child is born, a child is bom." Then the choir sang in unison, repeating over and over, so that no one had any doubt that a child had really been born. A choir keeps repeating and pegging away at a proposition until you just naturally feel what it says must be so or it wouldn't be so insistent. The preacher, too, was fully convinced, but was willing to let it go at that, until the bass with a voice like a pile driver rubbed it in by singing: "For unto us a child is born! Wonderful! Wonderful!" The pastor arose, blushed, looked at the audience and said: "I had intended keeping this quiet until tomorrow, but the choir always gets on to the secrets some way or other. But 1 don't see anything wonderful about a child being born at the parsonage." The levity was so great that the congregation was dismissed and all went over to see the cunning thing.?Kansas City Drovers Telegram. Shooting in Lexington. Lexington, August 19.?The famous dispensary whiskey has again shown its mighty power among men. On the evening of the 19th one Mr. Hall and his two sons, being under the influence of whiskey, became engaged in a fisticuff fight, the old man being badly bruised about Via fono hcfnro tVio nrtlippmnn rnnlfi CPnn kUV 4?v'v WVAVAV rate them, and in an effort to do so one of the sons fought the policeman, knocking him down two or three times, and received several severe blows from the policeman's club. After a hard fight the policeman succeeded in capturing the father?the two sons bid him defiance and being encouraged by other drunken rowdies they arrayed themselves against the policeman and a serious trouble was narrowly averted. Later about nine o'clock at night one of the sons, Mr. James Hall, returned with three other drunken rowdies and approached the policeman with threats of revenge. The policeman drew his pistol and fired four times, every shot taking effect, with the result of Hall's right arm being broken just above the elbow and one ball entering the left arm just below the elbow and lodging in the arm, one ball passing through the muscle of the thigh and dropped into his shoe, the fourth ball entering his body just to the right of the spinal column, passing between two ribs came out below the arm pit. The sheriff immediately arrested the policeman and placed him in jail to avoid further trouble. All this trouble is the result of dispensary whiskey, the greatest curse now in existence amone the human family, and I am surprised at some of our fellow men who have been born and reared in a civilized country and among churches and Christian people when 1 see them fighting the good people when they make an effort to have the accursed stuff blotted out from among civilized people. L. E. M. Smoak. The investigating committee is working on dispensary affairs in Columbia this week. The management of the State dispensary is being investigated. Nothing sensational has been developed so far, though it is shown that affairs are not being conducted as they should be. Remember to pay the newspaper man when you sell cotton. We are going to get our paper entirely on a cash basis this fall, and eveiy subscriber must be paid up in advance. Most of them do so now, and we are going to quit extending credit to even these few, for they cause us more work and trouble than all the balance of our subscribers Attorneys W. Boyd Evans and Lawson D. Melton, of Columbia, appeared before Judge D. A. Townsend at Union Tuesday to contest the dispensary election. The Judge issued an order requiring the county board of control and the county dispensers to show cause before him on Wednesday, September 6th, why they should not be enjoined from closing the dispensaries. He also orders that the dispensaries be kept opened until the case is heard. "Tnmmr11 coiH ttio T-nnnct man tn nic prospective brother-in-law-, aged five, will you be sorry when I marry your sister?" "Yes," answered the little fellow, "I'll be sorry for you." There is a fortune waiting for the man who can invent a fountain pen that won't leak and a dress skirt that will keep hooked up in the back without being felt of eVery few minutes. Some of the farmers who have nothing to do but sit on a com plow all day might study these things out. I^WhenMeU^l! | Broke in % | By Virginia. Leila Wentx t T Copyright, 1906, by Virginia L. Went? The rusty breasted robins were hopping about the lawn, and the crab apple trees were a splash of pink in the orchard beyond. Tbe narrow beds that bordered the paths in Mrs. Ormsby's garden were gay with tulips and jonquils, and from the leafless branches of tfie wistaria vine hung delicate purplish clusters of blossoms. A flock of brown sparrows twittered in the cherry trees, a catbird was in the hedge over yonder, and already the wrens were building in the eaves of the summer bouse. Somehow the smell of the sweet spring air seemed to have awakened something in Mrs. Ormsby's caller, a girl of six and twenty, as she sat on a rustic chair under the fast slivering maples. It was 5 o'clock, and because tbe day was so perfect they were having tea served in the garden. "But, Constance, if I do not love him how can I marry him?" tbe girl cried impulsively. Mrs. Ormsby waited for ber maid to t deposit a plate of thin bread and butter, some cream, sliced lemons and sugar on the little rustic table before she answered. "Do you remember,. CI a r^, when we were at Mme. Martin's school?dear me, it's eight years ago?an old soothsayer foretold that you'd marry a millionaire? Now, here's Mr. Stanley Hughes, who can give you houses, yachts, automobiles, and who, in the Jtargain, adores you. Why, to be sure, Clare, you must marry him. He's a good man, and love will come later." The girl made no reply. She was looking dreamily at the robins and the pink orchard beyond, a mist.in her lovely eyes. "Of course," continued Mrs. Ormsby thoughtfully as she drew the tea, "1 couldn't have married without love myself, but you see, my dear, Chester and I are so old fashioned anyhow." At the mention of the man's name a quick wave of color surged over the girl's face and neck and brow. In the sunlight which came aslant from the west the gold of Mrs. Ormsby*s wedding ring scintillated strangely. With a distinct effort Clare withdrew her gaze from its flashing. "No," she said, pulling herself together, "not lemon, Catherine. Cream, nloooa ** pi^ao^. "To know what love Is is a miracle, though, after all," pursued Mrs. Ormsby softly as she poured the cream. "Why, I was just a silly girl before I met Chester. Then?life became glorified; it became real!" The catbird had flown to the cherry trees and had burst out into a passionate bubble of song. Clare's eyes suddenly brimmed with tears. Was it the bird's song or the spring's beauty or her friend's voice? "Look here, dear," said her hostess impulsively. 'T don't want to force your confidence, but I'm sure of one thing?there's been some heart affair in your life that's hurt deep and left you cynical. Tell me about it Let's see if we can't straighten it out Oh, * Clare, pride is well enough?one can 1 have a certain amount of it and be c none the worse for it?but its deadly to c make a pet of it." c "But there's such a thing as righteous J pride," flashed Clare. She bent her J head and ad 1 listed the emerald fleur-de- ? lis at her dainty waist; then, rising, she * held out both hands to Mrs. Ormsby s and laughed. It was her habitual * light, pretty laugh. * "I really have to go now, Catherine. 1 You know I told you I could or.ly stay 1 a half hour. But first I want you to * promise to forget that I came perilous- 1 ly near being sentimental and old fash- * ioned, forget th^t I seemed a bit sad. ( Why, I'm quite happy, on the contra- ? ry! I'm going to marry Mr. Stanley ( Hughes. My wedding '11 be a smart af- 1 fair; my gown'll veritable dream, 1 and my husband '11 be one of the most desirable gentlemen of the season. Humph! Why shouldn't I be happy?" "Don't go just yet!" pleaded Mrs. ; Ormsby, not heeding the badinage, but ] looking straight into the girl's eyes. < "Chester's train is due now, and he'll be here any moment. I want you to meet him." Suddenly, even with the words of her i friend, an impulse took possession of < Clare. She deliberately seated herself < again. 1 "Catherine," she said whimsically, i "my mood's changed. Fll 3tay, and I'll ] give you a little of my confidence, if 1 you care. I did love some one once, : but?he's married now. It was something like this: Imagine a girl who ] knew scarcely anything of the world < of men or of the things men do to be engaged to?to a man whose name I spelled Paradise to her with a capital 1 P. Imagine a friend of that man and r?f thp crirl nasslnflr a lot of his time with them both. Indeed, he chanced to be such a stanch friend to the girl that he refused to permit her to marry a man not worthy of her, though the man had been his bosom pal"? If that catbird would only stop singing! It made her want to cry. "Well," continued Clare, "he proved certain things to the girl, and she wrote to the man she loved better than life and told him that really she did not care for him at all?that it had all been a mistake. It saved her pride, but it froze her heart, Catherine." "Poor, dear Clare," answered Mrs. Ormsby, touching the lace on the girl's . filmy sleeve in gentle, sympathetic j fashion. "And the man?what did he 1 say to the note?" ] w "Neve answered It," contemptuousy. "l? fact, the girl never heard from ilm till she got his wedding cards, fou see?why, don't, Catherine?not for ne," as Mrs. Ormsby brushed a tear !rom he? eye. "Was I talking like a ragedy queen?" Tne maia came down tne garaen walk bearing a salver with a card on t Mrs. Ormsby glanced at the pastex>ard. "Mrs. Brownsley, our neighbor across he road How inconsiderate of her!" he exclaimed. "Wait for me here, will rou, Clare? I must see her just for a noment or two." From around the veraDda, down the >ath that led by the tu* and jonquil oeds, came the sound of a man's ap>roaching footsteps. "Beg pardon," he said, politely re:reating as he became aware of the lnfamiliax figure, but as the girl turned ler face upon him: "Clare?you! How did you come lere?" For a second Clare gauged him siently. Then, although thpvsound of his >ld, dear voice came neat undoing her, he answered coldly enough: "Not so strange as you'd think! Catherine and I went to school together, t'm visiting the Hayes, your neighbors iown the road, so I made a point of eoming to see her before I left. That's ill, except that I once knew you ilso, and a sudden fancy came to me :o stay and see you tct." "To set If the wound you gave my aeart had healed?" broke in the man Ditterly. "All these years I've suffered -as only a man can suffer who scorns explanations to those whom he feels hould be above suspicion. I swore not to ask what you meant by that letter"? ?vt Ann fnl 1 TT/M1 hliATT' In XVUi Uiuuuci tau tun Jf v/u, tui ^ n iul he girl icily. "For mysel/, I do not are to discuss the matter." "Bronn?r!" The man drew up his land before his eye, palm outward, as me who has unexpectedly been shot. When be dropped it he spoke unreadily: "So it's all been a mistake, sweetleart Bronner loved you himself. I? [ thought he was my friend." As his roice broke he caught the old, tender ove in the girl's eyes. "But, dear," he cried, "of course it vas all a He. And it Isn't too late"? "How do you dare?' cried she, rising n hot anger-as he made an Impulsive forward movement "Yes, it's too late -altogether too late. I am going to liarry Stanley Hughes, and you?you oust be Icyal to your wife." "My?Clare,.are you mad?" "Good!" cried Mrs. Ormsby, tripping illthely down the path. "You and Ihester hnvent waited for the convenional introduction. That's right, and I mow you're going to be good friends. 31are, my husband's cousin, Chester 3rmsby." And to her husband's xrasin: "Miss Clare Clayton, a school Mend of mine. Too bad my Chester lasn't come yet?train must be late. [Chester's a family name with the Ormsoys, you know, It"? Not much wonder she broke off sudlenly in her sentence. Her husband's ?ousin had beseechingly opened his irms, and with a little inarticulate, lappy cry Clare had flung herself Into hem. fTV^ U xue ngui. ubu ui uacu m. Floating Home?tead?. On all tlie great lakes of China are 'ound floallng islands, which are enornous raft? of bamboo, overlaid with jarth and upholding above the surface >f the water pretty houses and garlens. They are, in fact, aquatic farms, jearing craps of rice and vegetables, rhe rich tx>ttom mud, utilized as an irtificial soil, is extremely fertile and rtelds bountiful harvests, though on a imall scale. In a country where there s such a 1 ick of available land owing :o the overplus of population these floating plantations are most serviceible, large sails being attached to the iwelling house as well as to each corler of the island whenever it is desired :o move about. After gathering a ?rop of grain or garden truck from the jurface of the lake the floating farmer jasts his nets into the waters and from their depths brings up a supply of fish 'or his family. Pet* the Sailors' Joy. Animal pets have ever been a great Joy to the average sailor. There is hardly a ship afloat that does not carry one or mere such little favorites to whom the crew are universally kind. More than this, there is frequently developed an attachment between men and animals that is seldom to be seen on shore, and the Intelligence displayed by these animals often far exceeds the wonderful stories we sometimes see in print On men-of-war there is probably more consideration shown the crew in this resard than on merchant men; at all events you will find there many more/ship's pets. It Is by no means uncommon to see upon the same fleck a dozen or more well trained animals of various kinds ^hose natural tiomes are separated by thousands of miles.?St Nicholas. Tvrnlng the Tables. Phny tells us that the phrase "tuning the tables" arose from the extravagance of the Romans. 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