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Personal Mention.
?Rev. P. E. Monroe, of Ebrhardt, was
in the city Tuesday.
?Mr. F. G. Fickling, of the Blackville
section, was in the city Tuesday.
?Miss Barnett, of Denmark, spent Sat;
orday and Sunday with Miss May Zeieler.
?Mr. A. W. Hunter, of the Hunter's
Chapel section, was in the city Tuesday.
' ?Miss Edith Gale returned Tuesday,
^ ' afternoon from an extended trip to Baltimore.
9 ?Messrs. G. Frank and Henry F. Bamberg
are spending a few days m Georgia
/..this week.
?Messrs. S. W. and Thos. Clayton, of
the Colston section, were in the city last
Saturday.
?Mr. F. M. Moye, of Fairfax, spent
Sunday and Monday in the city on a
.Visitto relatives.
?Mr. H. G. Stokes, of Dadeville, Ala.,
spent Sunday and' Monday with his
brother, Rev. Peter Stokes.
?Misses Lillie Mouzon and Sallie Chapman,
of Charleston, are visiting at the
home of Mr. C. R. Brabham.
>-Mr. C. D. C. Adams, a former Bamberg
boy, visited relatives here last week.
He is engaged in the mercantile business
at Walterboro.
EVANGELIZING FROM AUTO
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Preacher's Car Will Be Bqmipoed For
' Four Months* Tour.
v The Rev. Jacob Kurtz, an evangelist
of York, Pa., has bought an automolv*
. bile and is equipping it for a soul savj
v ing tour of the middle western states,
says the New York World. Mr. Kurtz,
who is known as the house top evangelist
first came into prominence by
j , preaching from the tops of houses.
There will be a small car attached to
the automobile. At night the evangelist
will sleep in this car. During the daytime
he will preach from it the car be
v ing so constructed that the sides may
be thrown open.
He will leave York in the early
spring, and. traveling leisurely, stop;
ping in villages and towns to preach,
f his ultimate destination will be Springfield,
I1L He expects to take about four
months in which to make his tour.
> ''* . His living expenses while en route,
r ' he estimates, will not be more than 7
cents a day, as the evangelist lives upon
the simplest fare. His outfit of baggage
will be small. As he is a practical
machinist he will be able to keep
bis automobile in repair at little cost
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France's Rooseveltian President.
JV .. M. Fallieres, France's president elect,
is a great waiaer iu ixie w.unu),
a Paris correspondent of the Pall Mall
; Gazette Rain or shine, he accomplishes
his six or seven miles a day. He seizes
every occasion to absent himself from
Paris to bury himself in his estate. He
wears the clothes of comfort rather
than of fashion?soft hat, loose fitting
> jacket and trousers, finishing in leggings
and thick boots?when his horizon
is bounded by his vines instead of the
pedpled benches of the senate.
i HIGHEST RAILROAD BRIDGE.
Great Structure to be Built Over \ the Arkansas
River.
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Cakox City, Col., March 6.?Work
was begun today on the highest railroad
bridge in the world. It is to be built
across the top of the famous Royal Gorge,
near this city. It will be 2,800 above the
hftn<rinff hrid^e of the Denver and Rio !
Grande railroad and will be so high in ;
the air that the roaring of the Arkansas
river below will not be heard and the
powerful stream will look like"a mere
CJ^hread of silver.
^^^he structure will be erected in conneciion
with the plans of a syndicate of
San Jose, Cal., which is about to establish
an interurban system of electric
railroads in Fremont .county from here
to Florence and the top of Royal Gorge.
It is expected that the line to the top of
Royal Gorge will be completed and in
operation some time this summer.
Hypnotized Out of $4,000.
Syracuse, March 6.?Complaint has
been made to the police by) Mrs. Thomas
Mprriam. widow of a wealthy box
manufacturer, that after placing her
under a hypnotic spell Prof. Ross Edwards,
a clairvoyant, trance medium and
healer, induced her to go to a local bank
on Friday and withdraw $4,000. Edwards
hastily left town with his wife and
little niece.
Upon becoming free from the hypnotist's
power Mrs. Merriam realized that
she had been duped, and called on the
police to get her money back. As yet no
, clue has been found of Edwards's whereabouts
and the police throughout the
state have been asked to be on the lookout
for him. .
Mrs. Merriam was left a large amount
of money by her husband, and each day
as she drove up in her carriage to the
clairvoyant's home neighbors were at
tracted by her exquisite dress and her
flowers. The victim declines to disclose
what information she desired from the
clairvoyant, but he advertised to disclose
tA lnre tho romnval
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of evil influences and (o be a healer.
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Mr. Phillips
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OcpvrighU 1905, by Earner Sprague
There was no room to doubt that Mr.
James Phillips was astute. He had
been told so by his employer, by his
fellow clerks in the bank and by two
or three detectives with whom he had
come in contact In fact be had rooms
in the same house with a detective, and
thev were on such intimate terms that
the sleuth let him in on some of his
cases and on several occasions had said
to him:
"Phillips, you would have made a
great detective. You have the natural
astuteness of a Vidocq."
There were times when the bank
clerk really thought of resigning his
position and taking up detective work
as a profession. He had almost made
up his mind in earnest when a brilliant
thought came to him.
He was a young man of twenty-six,
earning a salary of $20 per week. Until
further promotion should come he
| could not hope for any increase. The
| place he aspired to was years away,
and there was no way of adding to his
income and getting married and living
as he wanted to live.
The brilliant thought that flashed
upon him one evening was to turn his
astuteness into criminal channels and
reap the profits. He did not intend
murder nor highway robbery nor burglary,
but simply to beat the public In
some easy way. As he was a good penman,
and as he was well acquainted
with the ways of banks, it was natural
that he should decide on forgery as his
line.
The astute Mr. Phillips did not rush
lulu me new uubiucsb lu a uaj vi u.
month; it was a whole year before he
was ready to move. He first called up
all the cases of forgery that he had
heard of in connection with banks and
went over them one by one in the most
methodical manner. Some had succeeded,
and he satisfied himself as to why
others had sent men to prison. Then
he borrowed the detective's scrapbook
and purchased the published reminiscences
of two or three others and read
every line connected with forgery. His
deductions when he had finished were
that nineteen out of every twenty men
arrested for the crime were burglars.
They had been careless; they had left
loopholes; they had neglected the most
ordinary precautions. In some cases
they had lacked nerve?a thing he knew
he possessed to a wonderful degree; in
others they had taken alarm when there
was not the slightest cause for it
Forgery, he decided after studying every
phase of it for a year, was the very
safest game in the catalogue.
When Mr. Phillips had fully and firmly
made .up his mind to enter into "business"
he jotted down the following
points in his favor: He had always
borne a good reputation; he was connected
with a responsible house; he
could imitate any man's chirography;
he knew scores of men who banked at
institutions outside his own; he was an
adept at disguising face and voice; he
was a comrade of a detective who
would keep him informed of what was
going on, and his friendship with the
officer would serve to lull all suspicion.
It was plain sailing to success.
It is said that there are plenty of
men who would beat a bank out of a
thousand dollars and yet hesitate to
take ten from any other source. Persons
of wealth will beat the customs
because Uncle Sam is considered fair
game. The criminal who gets ahead of
a bank or other corporation does not
feel that he has broken the law as if
he had robbed a private house. Mr.
Phillips intended to pay all his attenI
tion to banks and none of it to private
individuals. Had any one suggested
that he beat a corner grocer out of $50
by some gum game he would have
been highly indignant
The detective had told the bank clerk
that more criminals came to grief
through confederates than in any other
I way. There is honor among thieves
only up to a certain point They stand
| ready to sell each other out at any
I hour when it seems that they can personally
benefit by it
Mr. Phillips' natural astuteness
warned him to go it alone and trust
to no man, and therefore when he got
ready to put his programme in motion
no living man shared his secret There
had been certain preparations to make.
He was allowed an hour for lunch. He
had been In the habit of going to a certain
place patronized by other bank
clerks. He purposely raised a row with
the proprietor that he might have some
excuse for going elsewhere. He would
need to be disguised, and he had to rent
a room in a convenient location to
make the changes. There must be a
safe place for his money, and he found
it by renting a second room half a mile
from the other. To both landlords and
to account for his brief stops be claimed
to be a detective.
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Mr. Phillips was in no hurry, and he I
did not propose to leave any loose ends.
He went over his plans time after time
and finally satisfied himself that they
were without a flaw. He had provided
for every contingency likely to arise,
and it only remained to rake in the
plunder. After going over his list of
"available*" he finally selected a business
house which had formerly banked
with his people. Their signature was
at his disposal, and he knew the size of
their account at the new bank. He
could get $5,000 from them easily, and
the chances were that the crime would
remain undiscovered for at least a
fortnight
. iht* nc+Trtp hflntr clerk was
I quite ready to start out He was not
| a bit flurried or excited. He left bis
| desk at the usual moment, donned his
coat and hat 'in the usual way and
passed out upon the street to seek his
lodgings and disguise himself. He did
not overdo this. He simply donned a
j false wig and mustache, slipped on a
hat and coat unlike his usual garments
and then sauntered carelessly along into
the Fourth National bank.
The substitute teller was at the pay
window, as he had figured he would
be after 12 o'clock. This man did not
know him. There were three or four
persons with checks to be cashed, and
Phillips took his place in line. He had
a forged check for $5,650 in his hand,
and he was certain that it wduld be
I paid without question. The merchants
would have sworn that the signature
was their own. The check was passed
in, glanced at, and the teller swiftly
counted out the money. He was* about
to pass it through the window, and
Mr. Phillips was feeling a sort of contempt
for his easy ways when he paused,
laid down the bills and took another
look at the check on file. There
were ten seconds of puzzled hesitation,
and then he said:
"There is a bit of irregularity here.
This check is dated for tomorrow.
See?"
The astute Mr. Phillips saw. For a
year ne naa Deea siowiy ana careiuny
preparing for this day. Fcfr a year he
had been telling himself that there
could be no failure. He had written
out the check with the utmost care and
had scanned it over and over again, and
yet he had dated it a day ahead and
made a most egregrious blunder! The
thing came upon him with sledge hammer
force, and in spite of his assurance ,
he exhibited some confusion. This
might have passed with the teller as a
natural result had not a man with a
check to be cashed exhibited undue curiosity
and had not Mr. Phillips' com:
rade detective come strolling in. He
was known to the officers of the bank
and at once became interested in the
incident
"It was an oversight that I will have
corrected In twenty minutes," remarked
Mr. Phillips as he took the check
and started out But the detective
would not have it that way, and five
minutes later he had penetrated the
disguise of his friend. Perhaps their
Marulehln rr?<?h+ Hono +V?o O+rfl^n
AiA^UUOUiy Ult^UV UU? V D WW WW WV* -! ?-IT
or an explanation been possible, but the
teller would not have It so. An attempt
had been made to "do" and ruin
him, and he proposed to see It through.
The result came two months later,
when the careful and deliberate and
painstaking as well as extraordinarily
astute Mr. Phillips was sentenced to
state prison for seven years.
"Sorry for you, my boy?very sorry,"
said the detective as he left him at the
prison, "but you see there is a difference.
Astuteness in business brings a
sure reward, but astuteness in crime
leads most of 'em here."
W. P. RILEY,
FIRE
LIFE
ACCIDENT
INSURANCE.
BAMBERG. S. C.
FOR SALE.
One brick store, 25 feet front and 100
feet deep, with open lot adjoining, 36x110
feet deep. Also six room dwelling witn I
bath room, closets, out buildings, garden, 1
barn and stables, and sheds, conveniently j
arranged for wood, etc., in first-class con- J
dition, all fronting Main street. This !
property will go at a low figure to a
quick buyer. J. T. O'NEAL.
ENGINES, BOILERS i
GINS and PRESSES. ' i
Complete Cotton, Saw, Grist, Oil and .
i Fertilizer Mill Outfits: also Gin Press
Cane, Mill and Shingle, Outfits. Build
ing, Bridge, Factory, Furnace and Rail ,
| road Castings; Railroad, Mill, Factory
| and Machinists' Supplies. Belting, Pack 1
ing, Injectors, Pipe Fittings, Saws, Files 1
Oilers, Etc, cast every day. Work 150 <
hands. J
Lombard Iron V'ts Saggly Go'
I AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
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A SLIDE ISf S/fOW
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An A.d*)*ntttr* of /(Hit Ejtplorers
In th# Anlartic
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In Captain Robert F. Seotfs Toy age
of the Discovery" the story Is told of
nine men of the . exploring party in the
antarctic who retained from a sledge
expedition in a blinding snowstorm.
The narrative says:
-An unusually vioiem equaii prevented
us from seeing even one another. I
immediately ordered a chain to be formed
at right angles and extending across
our track, each man keeping in touch
with the rest, with the idea of intercepting
Hare, who was missing, when
he came on. We shouted and blew whistles,
and while this was going on .
Evans stepped back on a patch of bare,
smooth Ice and shot out of sight immediately.
Thinking the slope to be one
of the short ones so common In the
folds of the hills, Barne sat down and
deliberately started to slide in Evans'
track. In a moment or two the slope
grew steeper, and soon he was going at
a pace which left him no power to control
his movements. He whipped out
his clasp knife and dug it into the ice,
but the blade snapped off short or1
failed to check his wild career. In a
flash the Ice changed to snow, which
grew softer, until in a smother of flying
particles his rapid flight was arrested,
and he stood up to find Evans within a
few feet of him."
A third man joined them in similar
fashion: "Realizing the impossibility
of ascending again by the way they
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within four paces of the-place at which
they had been brought to rest they
found that the slope ended suddenly in
a steep precipice, beyond which they
could see nothing but the clouds of
whirling snow. Even as they recoiled
from this new danger and dimly realized
the merciful patch of soft snow
which had saved them from it a yelping
dog flew past them, clawing madly
at the icy slope, and disappeared for
HE FLASHED PAST THE LEADER AND
DISAPPEARED.
ever into the gloom beyond. The six
others eventually moved on until they,
too, found themselves on an awkward
slope. Their leader suddenly saw the
precipice beneath his feet and far below,
through the wreathing snow, the sea.
"Another step would have taken him
over the edge. He sprang back with a
cry of warning, and those behind him,
hearing it, dug their heels instinctively
into the surface, and with one exception
all succeeded In stopping. What
followed was over in an instant Before
his horror stricken companions
bad time to think poor Vince, unable
to check hlc^self with his soft fur boots,
had shot from among them, flashed
past the leader and disappeared." Vince
was never seen again, but Hare, the
first missing man, staggered back to
the ship two days after the others, remembering
nothing between struggling
to a patch of rock for shelter and waking
thirty-six hours later covered with
snow.
Pauline Webster Home. .
Spartanburg/ February 27.?Pauline tc
Webster, a young South Carolina woman, w
vho created a sensation by marrying a
voman in Kansas City and being arrested
)n a charge of bigamy, but who was re
eased, passed through Spartanburg this |
ifternoon on her way to her old home at
Cowpens, in this county. A large crowd
of people was at the station to get a
glimpse of the young woman. She was
joined in Spartanburg by her brother,
j. E. Webster, of Gaffney. C
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Yloney Saved i:
Consult your interest. Open
umbrella, for |50.00; or top t
member I sell goods lower tha
Chase's fine plush robes from
sold at a sacrifice of 40 per cei
sold in the city. I am also s
cases, etc., to make room for
famous Babcock vehicles and
H. H. C
The Carriage and Ha
'49 and 751 Broad Street
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THROUGt
Every Day
High-Back Co
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Railway Dinii
FINEST CARS,
' CONVENIENT SCHEDULE
J For Full Inforu
I Southern Rail*
I R. W. HUNT
I Division Passenger Agent
I Charleston, S. C.
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Crescent Bicycles
are the best, lightest and cheapest
wheels on the market to-day at
thejprice. If you are thinking of
buying a wheel see me before doso.
1 can and will save you money.
Remember I also repair ::::::
Bicycles, Guns,
Pistols, Rifles,
on short notice. I also have in
stock a well selected line of::
Bicycle Parts
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which I sell at the most reasonprices.
When In need of anything
in my line, give me a call.
J.B.BRICKLE
Try Us Next Time
If you will give us your next order
for groceries, we guarantee to please
you. Full stock in all lines constantly
on hand, and only reasonable
prices charged.
Fresh Meats
of all kinds on hand all the time.
Beef, Pork, Sausage, etc. Only best
meats handled. I also sell the .... I
WHEELER & WILSON AND I
SINGES SEWING MACHINES I
the best machines on the market. I
Sold for cash or on easy terms. I
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Goods delivered free In city
limits. 'Phone 27. Located
at Jennings' old stand.
A. C. Griffin.
LABORERS WANTED.
Wanted from forty to fifty men at once
) work about saw-mill, railroad and
oods. Good wages to good workers.
THE 3IILLER LUMBER CO.,
Ulmers, S. C.
1. M. GRAHAM,
ATTORNEY-AT.LAW
BAMBERG, 5. C.
)fflce in Folk: Building.
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bnggy, including harness and
>uggy complete for $49.00. Rett
any other honse in the Sonth.
$1.00 up. These are now being
it., the most beautiful line ever *
iacrificing trunks, satchels, suit
other lines. Sole agent for the
best farm wagons on the market.
OSKERY |
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Augusta, Georgia . JjH
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BROOKS MORGAN "M |
Asst. Gen'l Passenger Agt. . R
Atlanta, Ga.
Money to Loan' |||j
I am prepared to loan money
on real estate on easy terms ' (>S|j?
at reasonable interest rates.
Will take up old mortgages or
make new loans. If you want . :$*
to borrow money don't fail
to consult, :
J. Aldrich Wyman ? f||l|
" Attornev-at-Law Bamberg, 3. C. - *al '
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J[ BAMBERG, S. C.
< Investigation of Titles a Specialty . -< Q ?
Jz Office at the Court House. x i
money i? loan 1
On farming lands. Long time. <
No commission charged. Bor- '
rower pays actual cost of per'
fecting loan. For farther information
address
John B. Palmer 6k Son* '
Box 282, Columbia, S. C. frig
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FIRE IXSURAXCE .
LIFE IKS FRANCE.
SURETY BONDS
In good, strong Companies.
HIE? J. BRABHAM, Jr., 1
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][ BAMBERO, S. G. <[
! > Office Upstairs, Next to Bank < >
DR. G. F. HAIR, if
DESTAL SURGEON,
Bamberg, 8. C?
In office every day in the week. Gradn- . *
ate of Baltimore College of Dental Surgery,
class 1892. Member of S. C. Dental
Association. Office next to bank.
COTTON SEED.
Has your cotton seed out? Do
you want to increase your yield another
year? Then write for prices and circular^
of the Original Phillips Improved Seed. >
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