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THE BAMBEBB HERALD ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for ?ix 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. alterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must he paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on objects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. I Thursday, April 26,1906 NWhen, oh when will the railroad give vs a new freight warehouse? #* Does your gate open on the sidewalk? If so, have It changed at once and thus save yourself and council trouble. Don't pot it off. ** Now is the time to organize a business league. Somebody ought to start the work of organization. There is much work for such a body to do. n * * Our citizens are all practically agreed as to the great benefits to be derived by the town from a cotton warehouse. That being the case why not build it? * ? The aid and co-operation of people all .rtwpr the oonntv is needed to erect the i monument to our Confederate dead. It is a work in which the whole county should be interested. ** The suggestion of our Denmark correspondent as to legislative candidates is a most excellent one, but Mr. Wiggins should run for the house before he aspires to the senate. We trust strong men will be induced to stand for election as representatives. *?* We understand that the people of this town raised in cash and good subscriptions about $1000 towards erecting a Confederate monument at this place. The monument will cost about $1,700. Surely ps the balance of the county can raise $700 to finish this patriotic undertaking. iy * * The latest report from Washington is >. that the railroads will attempt to defeat Senator Tillman for re-election. The information is said to have eome in a letter from Detroit. This evidently is a joke, for if there was any doubt of Tillman's reelection to the Senate, he would only need the opposition of the railroads to make his success certain. No matter what the conditions are .in other States, ,v. the railroads do not rule South Carolina | . ' by a large majority. * w * It is an off day in the Senate when Senator Tillman is not on his feet several times. Much speaking has weakened his influence.?Carolina Spartan. This is true of every man who talks too much, either in public or private life. Many men who seemed to have promising |a'- political careers have been laid on the shelf in this State simply because they were given to much public speaking. Instances of this kind frequently happen * in the legislature, for in no place is much talking more dangerous than in a law making body. II- # * Some of our citizens are in favor of purifying the primary system, and the idea of requiring the same qualifications for voting in the primary as in the general election is gaining strength. It is likely that this question will come before the county convention soon to be held. We can see no harm in this. No white man would be debarred the privilege of voting and it would prevent many of the irregularities which now prevail in the primary. This change in the primary law is being advocated by many of the ataunchest Reformers of a few years ago. * * * C. W. Creighton has written in his paper an article giving what he claims are the facts of the recent sessions of the committee which investigated the charges against him. The littleness and meanness displayed in the article, to say nothing of his contemptible insinuations against the presiding officer and members of the committee, stamp him as a man who is totally unfit to preach the gospel. Mr. Creighton had a stenographer present at all sessions of the committee and stated that he would publish every line of testimony taken. But we bet he won't /i/N ^ dare not Drint the plain, un UV AV? ? ?? 4 varnished record. What is the matter with Southern Methodist Bishops? It is said that four of them will retire at the General Conference at Birmingham. About a dozen D. D.'s are mentioned as ready to become their successors and the half dozen South Carolina preachers ready for the job are not mentioned?Carolina Spartan. The owners of the Georgian, the new paper soon to start in Atlanta, have insured John Temple Graves, the editor, for $75,000. The premium will amount to $2,000. The insurers must think they have a dead sure thing of it. Charges and counter charges are being bandied about by the State board of control and the dispensary investigating committee, and such will probably continue to be the case as long as the institution lasts. Abolish the dispensary and re-introduce into our State affairs that purity and that lack of friction that used to bo there.?Chester Lantern, OLD LEAP YEAR LAWS. When Women Proposed Six Centuries Ago the Man Had to Accept. In two couitries, at least, and more than 600 years ago laws were passed which gave women the right of proposing marriage. These enactments went even farther than this. They also stipulated that if the man whose hand they had sought should refuse he should incur a heavy fine. * ? ~ paa A seureuer muuug luc uuncm iw.ords of Scotland discovered an act of the Scottish parliament, which was passed in the year 1288, which runs as follows: "It is statut and ordaint that during the rein of his maist blissit Megeste, ilk for the years knowne as Lepe Yeare, ilk mayden ladye of baithe highe and lowe estaet shall hae liberte to bespeke ye man she likes, albeit gif he refuses ta talk hir to be his lawful wyfe, he shall be mulcted in ye sum of ane dundis or less, as his estait may be, except and awis gif he can make it appeare that be is betrothit ane ither woman, he then shall be free." A year or two later a law almost similar to the Scottish enactment was passed in France and received the approval of the king. It is also said that before Columbus sailed on his famous voyage to the westward a similar privilege was granted to the maidens of Genoa and Florence. There is no record extant of any fines Imposed under the conditions of this Scotch law and no trace of statistics regarding the number of spinsters who took advantage of it or of the similar regulations in France, but the custom seems to have taken firm hold upon the popular mind about that time. The next mention of it is dated nearly 400 years later, and it Is a curious little treatise called "Love, Courtship and Matrimony," which was published in London in 1600. In this quaint work the "privilege" is thus alluded to: "Albeit it now becomes a part of the common law in regard to social relations of life that, as often as every leap yeare doth return, the ladyes have the sole privilege during the time it continueth of making love either by wordes or lookes, no man will be entitled to benefit of clergy who doth in any wise treat her proposal with slight or contumely." Up to within about a century ago it was one of the unwritten laws of leap year that if a man should decline a proposal he should soften the disappointment which his answer would bring about by the presentation of a silk dress to the unsuccessful suitor for his hand, A. curious leap year superstition is still to be met with in some parts of New England, and that is that durihg leap year the "beans grow on the wrong side of the pod." An Incantloua Critic. Almost the last work that Sir Edwin Landseer was engaged on was a life sized picture of Nell Gwynn passing through an archway on a white palfrey. This picture, in which the horee alone was finished, was bougtit by one of the Rothschild family and given to Sir John Millais to complete. One morning a celebrated art critic called and was much impressed with this work. "Ah, to be sure!" he said, going' up close and examining a deerhound, which almost breathed, in the foreground of the picture. "How easily one can recognize Landseer's dogs! Wonderful, isn't it?" "Yes, it is wonderful," remarked Sir John, lighting another pipe. "I finished painting that dog yesterday and have done the whole of it myself." That critic was sorry he spoke. Another Reason. Aunt Emeline is the best loved woman in Saymouth, for her charity is alike of hand and heart Like many other excellent persons, Aunt Emeline is not a church member, but she is a regular attendant at the village church, which is so near her cottage as to seem under the same roof. When, at the close of a recent sermon, the minister requested all those present who had never united with the church to retire at the end of service, everybody was surprised to see Aunt Emeline rise and start down the aisle. "Annt Emeline." the minister called softly, "that does not apply to you!" "That isn't why I'm going," Aunt Emeline responded serenely. "I smell my dinner burning up."?Youth's Companion. The Oily Menhaden. The oily character of the menhaden is familiar. It is caught for its oil, which is tried out in factories. Menhaden fishermen use purse nets, which are tarred to preserve them. To keep their hands from sticking to the tarred nets they rub on them a freshly caught menhaden, handling it somewhat as they would a cake of soap. So oily is the menhaden that the simple pressure thus applied is enough to bring through the scales oil sufficient for the purpose. Pleasant Job. "Oh, George, I'm so glad you've come," exclaimed the sweet girl. "Father is so excited and disturbed. Do go in and calm him." "Very well," replied Mr. Lovett, "what's the matter with him?" "Why?er?I just told him you wanted to marry me."?Philadelphia Press. A Mean Trlelc. "What do you do to make talk when you call on a new girl?" "I usually start by telling a joke." "But the rest of the evening?" "That can be filled up in explaining the Joke."?Louisville Courier-Journal. Foresee misfortunes that thou mayest strive to prevent them, but whenever they happen bear them with magnanimity.?Zoroaster. . tft #? #( 1 LADIES WE 1 4* i; For Kind Appreciation dur . ? ? We still call your a t j line of hats, so prei : jjj cheap. Also to 01 :: Novelties, Laces, 3? Silks, Lawns, Musi ?& of prices. : : ? MRS. K. I. SHUCK & 4* A* *4* *4* *4* *4+ *4* *4* *4+ *4* 4< pYour At Having purchased the stocl feya Groceries formerly owned 1 (ws corner at a bargain, I am ] trade with nothing but first-c rs\n ceiving fresh goods every yM will be appreciated. o o if Tinware, Etc., ? si "We have a small stock of tinw Wz etc., on hand and we have no fttej we are going to offer it at a ? si before it all goes. . Yours f MOVE'S OROC rm F. M. MOYE, Phone No. 41 Money Saved is Consult your interest. Open buj umbrella, for $50.00; or top bugg member I sell goods lower than ai Chase's fine plush robes from $1.0 sold at a sacrifice of 40 per cent., t sold in the city. I am also sacri cases, etc., to make room for othe famous Babcock vehicles and best H. M. CC The Carriage and Hard> 749 and 751 Broad Street g? -x?-i- i? -:i: lutein; *1? ji Phone No. 23 and ou it will call and give yc ? i > ?????????? *? Expert Electricians. it I Electric St IE CONTRACTORS FOR < 4* *4* ?A* ?4? ?4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* *4* JOB PRINTING s i 'vmtlimi! #U1V1 Jim j THROUGH Every Day A High-Back Coach Room Sleepers a Railway Dining ( FINEST CARS, F CONVENIENT SCHEDULES 01* For Full Informatloi Southern Railway A R. W. HUNT Division Passenger Agent Charleston, S. C. WATERMAN'S Ideal Founti I ## # 1ANK YOU 1 ing our Easter Display ? & ittention to our tty, stylish and 3? lr line of dress jg CmKfAiHampc TJT L*111ISI V/1MVI 1VO, ins, at unheard ]?: Mi ?Q Bamberg, S. C. jjj t e xx t x o xx ill k of Staple and Fancy <5|| by H. A. Ray on the pwa prepared to supply the gjaj lass goods. We are re week. Your business ip<Pj\ oooooooo ' ^ it a Bargain! if t the room to carry it, so fm rreat sacrifice. Come in SWJ for business, ;ERY STORE ?| Proprietor jr<Rl Bamberg, 5. C. |j|j rr~ * rr n rr h-i-|Ti ~w n n . Money Gained jgy, including harness and y complete for $49.00. Rely other house in the South. 0 up. These are now being he most beautiful line ever ficing trunks, satchels, suit r lines. Sole agent for the farm wagons on the market. )SKERY vare Man of Georgia Augusta, Georgia , > ? ? ? wm| ? r Mr. E. J. Putzel ] >u a price. : : : : 3? , *> ? 1 ?????????? *i i. Best flaterials. ?j? ! ri i *i# i upply Co || JITY LIGHT PLANT 2S he Kind That You Want 1 ___________________________________________________ 1 ive us an order. Do it now 1 i i Railway]! SERVICE I ' II thA Wavf I' 11 111V IT IIJ i ===== 1 es, Drawing- ' md Southern ( Cars. & & & ASTEST TIME I J LOCAL TRAINS * * 1 11 Consult any .gent, or BROOKS MORGAN , Asst. Gen'l Passenger Agt. ] Atlanta, Ga. 1 tin Pens at Herald Office < * t A GOOD IDEA OF SPACE. ft Is Glvta by Contemplation of the Star Sigma Draconis. Stars or planets are said to be "fixad" when they are separated from us by a distance so great that a change in their orbits makes no perceptible difference in their positions, even though such "fixed" bodies may travel an orbit 100,000,000 miles in circumference in the course of a year. These "fixed" stars may be only a few paltry millions of miles away or they may be billions or even trillions of miles from the pygmy planet upon which we have our being. The most distant of all the orbs, as far as astronomers know, is the fixed star Sigma Draconis, which is separuieu iruui us uy a uisiauw >v great that millions and billions of miles are only as inches and feet compared to the miles which intervene between our earth and the sun. Astronomers are noted for their propensities for indicating stelltr distances with robust and well developed strings of figures, but in the case of Sigma Draconis the distance is so great that figures fail to give any conception whatever. Light travels at the rate of ISC,330 miles per second, and, reckoning the day at twenty-three hours fifty-sis minutes and four seconds in length and the year at 365*4 days, an astronomical light year will equal 5,8G4,0GC,148,330 miles. The above figures, which represent the distance which light will travel in a year, when multiplied by 129 give us the distance to Sigma Draconis, or, in other words and figures, that star is 129 light years, or 750,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles, from us! If Sigma had been blotted out of existence before our Revolutionary war began, its light would still be shining as though the star were yet in place! THEY ARE VERY UGLY. The Korean Women Are the Homeliest In the World. I think the assertion may safely be made that the women of Korea are the most unattractive in the world. ^ -Un.Aiinn Anc3 Hnrincf mv une ui my uuici wtupauvu^ ^ i stay in the little Hermit Kingdom has I been making a diligent search for a passably pretty face. I have failed to find one. It is not that they haven't pretty eyes. They have?eyes of softest brown and gentlest expression. It is not that their features are coarse or irregular, for, while this may be true of many, it is not by any means true of all, and I have caught glimpses of as delicately molded features at Seoul as in any other part of the world. But the Korean woman is just ugly. She may have fine eyes, she may have a pretty little nose and mouth and other features that in themselves are not at all unattractive, but as she is put together and as her mental life has made her she is ugly. One doesn't ordinarily see much of the women of the better class in this Btrange little land; but, being admitted, as I have been, to the imperial palaces and several houses of high degree, I have been at least able to receive impressions. The women who are to be seen on the streets of the cities are sually slaves or servants of a low order; but, whatever they are, they, each and every one of them, look as if they had hurried out into the street without taking time to dress themselves properly.?Ladies' Weekly. A- Moorish Legend. A certain sultan one morning commanded his prime minister to take a census of all the stupid people in his empire and let him have the correct list. The vizier set to work, and at the bead of the list, which was a very long ene, he placed the name of his sover sign. The latter nappenea to De in a ?ood humor and merely Inquired how tie came to merit that distinction. "Sire," the minister replied, "I have entered you on the list because only two days ago you intrusted large sums Df money, for the alleged purpose of buying horses abroad, to a couple of men who are entire strangers and who cvill never come back again." "Is that your opinion? But suppose they do?" "Then I will erase your name and place theirs at the head of the list." The Turk. The Turk practices no trade, engages in no commerce. They have a proverb svhich says, "The Frank has science, the American commerce, the Osmanli majesty." But, as majesty won't fill jtomachs, those who do not serve as soldiers strive to become functionaries, ind the men of the small villages, failing in this, do nothing, and the work of the fields and house falls upon the shoulders of the women. One chronicle states that occasionally the man of the house crochets a stocking or minds the baby for a short period. Domestic Bookkeeping. "And what's your reason for increashg the servants' wages, pray?" her , Wend asked. "Because my husband complained hat my dress and millinery bills equaled the household expenses, and I svant to show him they do not"?Lonlon Tit-Bits. Had Him. ? ? . . r* t*ri I 1 He?Isn't dinner reaay yeir one? tfo, dear. I got It according to the time rou set the clock when you came In ast night, and dinner will be ready In 'our hours?Harper's Bazar. j ' After Identification. 4 Detective?Could you identify the nan who bunkoed you? The Victim? ' identify him? I'll do a good deal more than that to him If I ever get near mough. 1 ? j Never let go the reins of the wild 1 jolt of the heart.?Japanese Proverb. ] WHENCE NAMES COME THE SURPRISING CHANGES THAT TIME HAS WROUGHT. Who Woald Think. For IasUieA That the Nine Thomas Whitehom Originally Indicated "Thomas at the Sign of the White Herse?" $? >1 . Considering the surprising changed that many names have undergone, says Miss Laura Alton Payne in the IndeDendent the almost universal lack of knowledge concerning their origin 1* /. not to be wondered at What la theft In "Peter Snooks" to suggest to the li uninitiated that originally It was "Pe ter at the Seyen Oaks?" Though "Thomas Whitehorse" suggests the * M American Indian custom in names, " j originally it was "Thomas at the White Horse," or "Thomas at the Sign of the White Horse" (a tavern). Sidney 1s a corruption of St Denys, Sinclair of St v ij Clair, Seymour of St Maur, Janeway 5jji of Genoa, Curtis of "courteous," Armi- 3 tage of "hermitage," Spark of Sparrow- : t hawk. Emerson and America had the same origin?Almeric, an old Norman name, Amerigo being the Italianised * ''M form. Names, like things, are not always \ what they seem. Beers and Berry'are - | not "beers" and "berry," but f corrup- ^ tion of "borough," often written "hury" and "bery." In the beginning a single personal name sufficed. For awhile no two persons bore the same name, but as a ^ stock of names accumulated repeti- " tlons became common, and as the populatiou of the world increased distlnc- rtive names became necessary; hence we read of John the Baptist and John the Disciple, Darius Hystaspis and Al* exander the Great, Joshua, son of Nun, and Simon Barjonas?"Simon, son. of ' Jonas." * Surnames were first used In France, ' v^H becoming general there during the lat- ? ter part of the tenth or the fore part of the eleventh century. They were used hereditarily to some extent, however, | prior to that time. They were Intro* $ duced Into England at the V conquest in the year 1066, but it re- : quired two or three centuries to estate. >' * llsh the body of our nomenclature on a fixed basis. During that time snr- 'M names became general throughout tb* British isles except in Wales, In some v parts of which they are unknown Surnames are now general In ^l|| civilized countries, I believe, except Turkey. In England alone there are M from 40,000 to 50,000 existing . aur* Snrnames have been drawn fronr every available source?personal names, location, occupation, deeds of prowess, ^ mental, moral and physical attributes, terms of relationship, the human body, # farm and household articles, buildings, foods and drinks, modes of travel, na- ? tions and laws, customs and religions, ^ geographical terms, weather and seasons, months and days, measures and values, the joys and ills of life^ the animal, mineral and vegetable klncf dom and even from the kingdom * heaven. The use of nicknames and vJS compound terms gave an almost in** exhaustible source. Even oaths be- %||S came embodied, as in Pardoe, from par In most countries it is custqmaiy: for the wife to take her husband's name, but in some European countries |gg It is not unusual for the husband to append the wife's name, particularly; when it is more honorable than his own. Hyphenated names and the wife's retention of her maiden name- X ||jj| for a middle name are customs grow- v? ing in favor in the United States and Great Britain. Among the earliest names introduced . by the conquest were found Serl, Drew, ' Bryce, Harvey, Arnold ("ern"?eagle), % Albred (now Known as Albert and All- J bright), Almeric, Ingelram, Ebrardus (Everard), Warin (Guerin, now War- .$j|j ren), Ivo, Hamon (Hammond), and A Payn (originally Pagan). After their adoption as surnames the most of these . ;t|| became obsolete as personal names. . The most popular personal names since the Domesday Book recorded them have been John and William, but their derivatives are too numerous to ;%j mention here. Roger, Robert and Richard took a double nickname in H and D; hence Hodge and Dodge, HobBs and Dobbs, Hicks and Dicks, with the A rougher forms of the last?Higgs and ' ^ Diggs, and even Hitch, giving rise;to jji Dickens, Hitchcock and Higginson. Diminutive and other affixes served f an important part in the origin of sur- ygg names from personal names. The As- f1, Vfl' glo-Saxon "kin" and "cock" and "ing" are represented in Jenkins, "little John;" Hitchcock, "little Richard," and Browning, "little JJrown;" die Norman "ot" and "et," in Eliot, "little Elias," and Emmet, "little Emma" (sometimes "lot" and "let;" Hamlet, "little Hamon"); the French "on" and "en" in Marion and Dickens. Many prefixes were used. The Celtle > ^ "Mac" or "M" of the Scotch; "Mc" of the Irish; "Map," "Ap," or "P" of the J Welsh, and the Norman "Fits" (Latin J;j Ills), signify "son" or "son of," and the J] irisn u, giuuusvu vi. . A fair knowledge of English nomen- * rjVjygj clature, declares Miss Payne, gives a 1 fair knowledge of English history, 00 vj closely are the two interwoven. a * ||3 Called the Bind. %] Mrs. X.?Yes, I tried to make my tiusband economize in smoking, so X |jg told him If he ever smoked I would nev- Jp ?r speak to him again. Mrs. Y.?What |j was the result? Mrs. X.?His cigar *vagj| bill was doubled the next month. - M There can be no friendship without zbg I pirtue, for that intimacy which among ^3 food men Is called friendship becomes WL Paction when It subsists among die on? principled.?Sallust _