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THE BAMBEBG HEBiLO ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A W. KNIGHT. Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for aix months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for txrst msernon; 50c. 1UI COU1 auujv^uvui. . 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 snbjects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. { %' Thursday, Feb. 22,1906 The legislature did one good thing at least when it defeated H. H. Evans as dispensary director and chairman of the board. > Verily "Hubbie" is not so popular as .be once was. 103 votes for Rawlinson (to 80 for Evana. "Now, what 'ye think ?' that?" The legislature finally passed a bill appropriating $20,000 for a State exhibit at the Jamestown exposition, which is only another instance of the waste of money by that body. The recent session of the legislature will be remembered more for what it failed to do than for what it accomplished. However, we are not disappointed, for we didn't expect anything. What the people will do to the dispensary this summer will "be a plenty." W. O. Tatum was re-elected dispensary commissioner by the legislature without oooosition. This is quite a compliment. I It is said the relations between Mr. Tatum and the former board were not of the most cordial nature, and possibly this ac' counts to some extent for his popularity. The legislature adjourned last Saturday, after a practically useless session. No dispensary legislation was enacted. The Senate refused to pass the Morgan bill, bat passed the Raysor-Manning bill, and the house would not agree to any propo? aition which did not do away with the State dispensary. So things are left as they were, and no doubt the fight will come up in the primaries this summer. It is stated that Mr. Geo. B. Cromer, of Newberry, may be the candidate of the prohibitionists and opponents of the disrw?naarv against Senator Tillman next (summer. Mr. Cromer is a strong man, and> should he enter the race against Tillman, the fight will certainly be interesting to say the least. Scores of people resent Tillman's interference in the dispensary fight, and there is no question * but that he is not so strong as he once was. There are some of the most selfish people in Bamberg we have ever seen. We regret to see such a spirit exhibited in our borne town, and we wish some of our citizens would take some interest in the welfare of the town. A man who makes bis living in a town owes something to that community in the way of public spirit and patriotism, and no man ought to succeed who is not willing to do something for the public good of people out of whom he gets a support. The Johnston News has been sold by the owner, Mr. A. F. Perkins, to Mr. Ira C.Carson, who recently purchased the Monitor in that town. Mr. Perkins was living in Bennettsville, but had leased his paper to Mr. H. C. Bailey, who was connected with the Bamberg Herald for some time, he going from here to Johnston. Mr. Carson will combine both the News and Monitor, and make one good semi -weekly paper. He is exactly right. ? - . . ? . r ? Johnston is too smaii a town ror iwo newspapers. ? * It is easy enough to criticise, and no doubt the legislature will come in for a good deal of adverse comment during the next few weeks. While there is no question but that our law makers failed to measure up to their responsibilities, still fewer bills were passed than at any session in the last few years, and for this we should be thankful. The worst feature of the session was the extravagant and * in many instances unnecessary appropriations. This thing of raising salaries and increasing expenditures every year is getting to be a sore point with the taxpayers, and we very much mistake their temper if it will not be resented in the primaries this summer. The Woman's no me companion. The "Woman's Home Companion for March contains in addition to such interesting fiction as Seumas McManus' "Donal O'Donnell's Standing Army," "Alcibiades," "Affairs of State," "The Mountains of Peace," and "Mr. MeCoggin?Country Tourist," three timely articles on gardening, including "The Children's Garden," by Samuel Armstrong Hamilton; Miss Gould's Fashion Pages, an article by Helen Marvin on "Crocheting," Fannie Merritt Farmer's instructions in Bread making, Evelyn Parson's "New Ideas in Neckwear "and Belts," Samuel Howe's directions for building "A Cement Rough-Cast House Costing $4,000," and Anna S. Richardson's practical talks on "Kindergartening." In "The Romance of an American Princess," TJ14 a rrionn T .f>Tvio telle rvf A 1 ir>fJ JJLCUi J uctiiiovu 44 V II VV11W V4 AAttw Roosevelt's courtship and marriage; Carleton Max describes a few "Simple Experiments in Chemistry" for boys, and the Carnival at Nice is portrayed" in ex cellent photographs. Published by The Crowell Publishing Company, Springfield, Ohio; one dollar a year; ten cents a copy. . yacht Was Haunted It Was Follotved by a Spectral *Boat. Why an Lje-Cornmodore Lost His JftrVe In a Cruise on Lake Michigan?Upset In Gate. "Lots of strange things happen when a fellow is cruising," remarked the old ex-commodore as he drew farther away from the grate fire, say6 the Chicago News. "By the way, Austin, why did you desert the Windward at Middle "SHE TURNED BOTTOM UP IN A SQUALL." island last summer instead of sailing her all the way to Detroit, as you agreed to do?" "I 1 ?st my nerve, to tell the honest truth," replied the yachtsman addressed. "When the Windward boys sold their twenty-one footer to a Detroit man he1 Insisted that some one sail the boat from Chicago to Detroit, where he would pay the money for her. No "---a TT.-.J --3 V. K/V one wameu uie wiiwwaw ucic, because she had turned bottom up in a squall, and part of the crew got caught?a bad accident "I had a vacation about the' time some one had to take the Windward to Detroit The boys begged me to sail her around, and Wentworth of the Vixen agreed to go. I got two of the Windward crew to climb aboard also. We left Chicago one Saturday afternoon with a fair breeze and lots of provisions. Nothing happened at firsthad nice weather, took things easy, sailed by day and ran into some harbor by night. "It was seven bells?we heard the clock distinctly?the fourth day up Lake Michigan. We were cleaning up the dishes in the cockpit The South Manitou island lay about two miles off. We heard the creaking of blocks. You remember the blocks of the Windward? You could hear them all over the harbor. We heard the creaking of blocks, and they weren't the Windward's either. We heard the slapping of waves against a boat. There, not three lengths away, was a white hulled yacht on the port tack. We were on the starboard, had the right of way, but I gave in. I hated to shove that tiller down, but I did. Then I braced myself and pulled, and we missed the stern of the other yacht by a foot. Standing in the cockpit was a tall chap, and he was using his legs to shove the tiller about. He swayed to and fro and looked straight ahead. Three young fellows in white duck suits were washing dishes in the cockpit. "The boat was a block away before any of us spoke. 44 'Well, I'll be hanged!' Wentworth remarked, and so did the rest of us, for that boat was an exact duplicate of the Windward. 'The fellow at the stick looked Just like you,' Wentworth said to me. And the fellow wiping the big pan looked like Wentworth. No attention had been paid to us by the other ci e >v. "About that time we got a puff from the east which gave us quite a knockdown, and for a minute we were busy with our canvas. When we looked again no boat was to be seen. "We worked over close to the Manitou. The wind went out, and a deathly stillness settled about us. It got quite dark. The glass showed nice weather, but Wentworth insisted that we were in for a squall. There wasn't a cloud in the sky worth mentioning. Suddenly the wind came across the {crlonfl frnm tho nnrthwPSt. We drOD JIOIUUU, A.* V4M VMV ???. - .. ... ^ ped anchor and decided to stay In the lee of the Manitou and see what was coming. It came all right?one of the nastiest blows I ever saw. "We were lucky to be just where we were. We rode it out behind the island. The next morning the wind flopped around to the southeast, and we started on our way. "We left Mackinac island early two days later. Did you ever start out navigating a body of water that your friends had said was risky business? a lake full of shoals, sand bars and rocks? "We hit off five miles down Lake Huron; then the wind went out. We stayed right there for hours until late in the afternoon. It was seven bells and the weather was looking a little thick?felt more like rain than a blow. T'Vii-k Katto oof inrr o 1 o f o ennnor T JL tic l/VJO tit CU14U5 u. mvv uu^/^v4f * was at the stick?had the tiller between my legs and my hands in my pockets. I was whistling for a breeze, when I heard the peculiar creaking of blocks and the sound of halyards slapping against a mast. Looking up I saw a mass of canvas right upon us? the white hulled yacht on the port tack again! "It sailed by us, clear down below the rail, and we lay with flapping canvas. Not a breath of air for us. Wentworth and the Windward boys got out of the cabin in time to see the boat and the four fellows standing in the cockpit just simply fade from our sight. It seemed to get misty to the northward. I swore I had kept a close lookout, and there wasn't a thing in sight. The crew swore I had been asleep. A squall hit us about that time, and we had to forget the other boat for awhile. It was all we could do to get in four reefs and beat over to the lee of Bois Blanc. It was our only hope or else a run down the lake. We got over in the lee of that island and anchored. There we rode out the second storm and 6at up in the cockpit all night "We talked of nothing but the other boat It had us guessing and feeling clammy. "Well, we made Middle island two days later, just about seven bells. Tried to run into a little cove near the lighthouse, but the -water shoaled up. so we came about and beat over near the mainland, -which was only a short distance away, and anchored. Cooked a swell supper, cleaned up the dishes, put in the four reefs simply to be on the safe side?we didn't want to stop to reef if the wind changed and we had to run for the lee of Middle island. "It was about two bells and we were playing cards in the cabin and wishing we could make Au Sable by 3 o'clock the next morning when suddenly we heard that old sound of creaking blocks. We rushed into the cockpit. It was pretty dark, and not a boat could we see. We sat in the cockpit for awhile and talked it over, but nothing happened, so we went below. Half an hour later we heard the same sound. While we were seated in the cockpit discussing the matter the wind whipped around to the northeast, and the way it came made us start for the lee of Middle island. "Wentworth and the two Windward boys were forward, holding on to the anchor and ready to drop it when we reached a good place. Suddenly they all yelled: 4Luff her! Luff her!' And as I did I heard the creaking of blocks and saw the dark shadow of a yacht cut across our bows on the port tack. We could make out four shadows on fill "I SAW A MASS OF CANVAS EIGHT UPON US." t her deck. We yelled and cussed, but got no reply, and, fellows, we saw that boat sail straight up through a big circle of fish nets not far from us. Up in Lake Huron they put posts down with pile drivers and string a cable between them and hang the nets on. No yacht can cut through Lake Huron fish nets. "We got over to the lee of the island after a dickens of a time and rode out the storm. It beat the other two storms by a mile. We lay there two days until it blew itself out; then we hired a couple of fishermen to sail the Windward to Detroit. "That boat never reached Detroit. Whether the fishermen hid her away for their own use or got caught in a gale between harbors we never knew. For my part, I'm through. It took sir months' savings to settle up for that cruise, with the help of the other boys, too, but we considered ourselves lucky at that." "And you think"? said the commodore. "No, I don't think, but I know. One more blow would have finished us." 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