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TIE BAHBE8G HRBALD ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A* W. KNIGHT. Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?fi.oo 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. 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 Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for.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, May 24,1906 Those of our citizens who are lukewarm on the building of a cotton warehouse in Bamberg should read the article in another column from the Abbeville Press and Banner. * * * In the race for governor, we don't know but that we will vote for Joel E. Branson. We do not believe much in prohibition, but we know he is the straightest man in the race, and character -counts more than policy. * * * The people of Bamberg have suffered long on account of having no freight depot, and we have appealed to the commission in vain. The members of that body need expect no support in Bamberg hereafter. We have heard numbers of citizens say the commission was of no benefit and they would not vote again for a single member. Just wait till the election. What our people will do for the members who stand for re-election will be a plenty. Chairman Wharton is to ran again this year. Our people are being treated outrageously and we will re resent it. * * * ! For our part we can see no reason why ? every man who wants to run for governor j should feel called upon to express himself j upon the whiskey question, and to make j this the most prominent. There are numerous other matters more important than the dispensary, and we are sick and tired of this running for office largely on a whiskey platform. The voters of the State have heard the thing discussed for the past ten years or more, and campaign speeches along this line have ceased to be interesting to them. Our campaign orators should find something more elevating to discuss than the whiskey question. #** All candidates for County Supervisor in this county had as well make up their minds to live in town if elected. The present Supervisor has set a precedent which the people will demand be followed by his successor, and they will demand that the Supervisor live in town so as to attend to the duties of the office properly. Certain it is that a ffian cannot attend to the duties of Supervisor and stay at home nearly one-half of his time. When people come to town from a distance on business with the Supervisor they want to find kim in his office, and they have a right to do so. The office pays a salary of $800 a year, and the tax payers feel that they have a right to require all of a man's time. In fact this was the understanding when the salary was raised. * * * Messrs. Manning, Ansel and Blease are rnnning for governor on a dispensary platform. They are liable to be badly fooled as to the temper of the people on this question before the campaign is over. Mr. Ansel's position is more satisfactory than Mr. Manning's, but one hardly knows whether he will be of the same mind a few months from now, especially if he should find that it was unpopular with the people. Mr. Ansel is a great man for the "peepul." If he can just find out their wishes he is delighted to go which ever way they want him. As to Mr. Manning, he had to go np to Washington too many times before he could make up his mind to run. As to Sloan and Blease?oh pshaw! Mr. Smith is to be heard from yet, and if he has felt the public pulse to some purpose, he may prove an important factor in the race. Revenue Officer Said to be Missing, Greenville, "May 21.?H. M. Barton and Magistrate James, of Chick SpriDgs township, stated here today that it is rumored that a revenue officer sent direct from Washington to the Dark Corner is missing. He appeared near Glassy Mountain Church as a fruit agent. When last seen he was with a notorious moonshiner. It is reported that this revenue officer was to report to headquarters at Washington every other day, and it has been two weeks since a report has been received at Washington, and the authorities in Washington have sent two other offioer? tn the Dark Corner to'investigate. The name of the missing officer is~unknown. Closing Exercises Denmark Graded School. The commencement exercises of the Denmark graded school will be held in the school auditorium on the nights of Thursday and Friday, May 31st and June 1st, at 8.30 o'clock. Thursday night will be devoted to drills, choruses, and plays by the pupils; and Friday night will be devoted to the regular graduating exercises, consisting of class day papers and an address by Dr. E. M. Poteat, of Furman University. To all of these exercises the public is cordially invited. The new bishops elected at the general conference of the Methodist church are J. J. Tigert, Seth Ward, and James Atkins. The general conference adjourned Monday of this week. % .. WALKED TWENTY MILES FAST ASLEEP Amish Boy Awoke In Strange City and Got Lost In Woods Going Home. From Tuesday night to Thursday night the people of Middlefield, 0.. were greatly excited over the mysterious disappearance of Jonas Petershelm, a fifteen-year-old Amlsh lad of that town. He was missed from his room some time in the Mght of Tuesday. and as he was In the habit of walking In his sleep his parents thought he might have wandered out and would soon return. But he did not show up HE WANDERED ALL THE WAT WITHOUT WAKING. Wednesday forenoon, and a search was at once started by the whole Amish settlement It was then feared that he had fallen into a creek near by. The search was kept up until Thursday evening, when he returned home. He says that he was waked up by a train of cars early Wednesday morning * ? ?_ - -IA? ana rouna mmseu in a strange ei iy auu completely bewildered. Upon Inquiry be found that he was In Warren, a distance of twenty miles from home. He must have got up In his sleep and wandered afoot all the way to that j city without waking. He immediately started for home up the Baltimore and j Ohio railroad track afoot, as he was ! without money. t He walked the track to within a short distance of his home and then cut across lots for the house. It was now after dark of Wednesday evening, and he had to pass through a piece of woods, In which he became lost and wandered about all night and nearly all day Thursday, bewildered and unable to find his way out Finally he happened to run across a familiar fence that led him to his destination, completely tired out from his forty mile tramp and nearly starved, as he had had but little to eat since Tuesday. BIRDS COMPETE WITH PREACHER Fifteen Hundred Sparrows Chatter Constantly In Quaker City Church. It Is not every church that can have a bird chorus In addition to its regular choir and its congregational singing. While it cannot be said that Bethany temple, at Fifty-fourth and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, enjoys this distinction, yet it Is true nevertheless that the services are accompanied by the singing of 1,500 English sparrows. It was while the windows were being put in place and after the roof had been completed that the birds made their ingress to the church. The workmen paid little attention to them, | thinking they would go out as they came, but the birds are still there, and their presence causes no little worriment to the officers of the church. They nest up on the big joists that brace the roof and during the day fly about the church, keeping up a continual twitter. Were it not necessary to open the windows occasionally to ventilate the edifice the birds might be starved out But this seems to be impossible. Every time a window is opened twenty or thirty fly out and go in search of food. If the windows are all closed when they return they wait another opportu- j nity to re-enter. Evening services are never disturb- J ed, for the birds have then gone to nest, and the church singing evidently does not arouse them. It is while prayer is being offered or a sermon preached x 1 ??isAT?nr?/?A svrtm ACS HThn I | UlttL UiC 1 CUi aiiiiuj auic v,vui^o, AMV i speaker has to talk continuously against a twittering chorus. Muskrat Attack* Mail Carrier. Standing at the corner of Haddon and Kaighn avenues, Camden, N. J., the other day waiting for a trolley car, H. C. Pine, a letter carrier, was attacked by a muskrat, and during a lively fight, in which Pine tried to beat the muskrat away with his mall pouch, a policeman put in an appearance and shot the animal. This is the third time a pedestrian has been attacked in j the same neighborhood by one of these rodents. Too Brittle to Go to School. In a case at Blackpool, England, I in which a man was charged with neg; lectlng to send his two children to I ! school, he stated that both children had I suffered from broken thighs, and every time they walked or ran their bones snapped. In the circumstances he dare not send them to a public school, as he was afraid the other children would be rough with them. :ij : I? el--r--I--I-il- -I?-I; -I--:i--I--I- -I--I-a:| LADIES WE THANK YOU | S For Kind Appreciation daring our Easter Display |j i|i We still call your attention to our ft 4? line of hats, so pretty, stylish and 3? V cheap. Also to our line of dress *t* m 3: Novelties, Laces, Embroideries, 3: W /- < * mw I! i_ i TJT ^ MIKS, Lawns, iYiusiins, at unncaru i* - < > of prices. :::::: it* < i. ?. i < ? 1 MRS. K. I. SHUCK & CO. Bamberg, S. C. gYour Attentions m Having purchased the stock of Staple and Fancy |?j/M rjv|j Groceries formerly owned by H. A. Ray on the grkj gw* corner at a bargain, I am prepared to supply the fwa tw) trade with nothing but first-class goods. We are re- (ml * ? ? ?Ay,/ln /lOTAlHV TRAAIT V AM * /\f-n W-yr~% cr^n ceivillg xresii Jiuuus cvcijr nccci. xwui uusmc?>i t^ni ^ -will be appreciated, oooooooooo ||| || Tinware, Etc., at a Bargain! m We bave a small stock of tinware, glass and chinaware, ill wja etc., on hand and we have not the room to carry it, so jm we arq going to offer it at a great sacrifice. ' Come in &wj before it *11 goes. Yours for business, If MOYE'S GROCERY STORE f| F1. M. MOYE, Proprietor jrtfjjj Kg) Phone No. 41 Bamberg, 5. C. j|Jj Pumps, Belting, Injectors Brass Goods, and Full Line of General Supplies oe All Kinds of Machinery Repaired* dl W. H. PATRICK, BAMBERG, - - - . SOUTH CAROLINA ft #f> ?> <ft tf* jf; | TTJT 4?7?7 i? TA# 747 7i? A* *47*47*4**4* *4? *4* *47*4? 4* ^4*^ *4^ A*' ? " ULX^IJBBir /J 1are^? J IS> | I LOW HIQH 11 I > ~ < > ? I > { i? ( l? * > ?! !? * 5 S? Have Your Home Wired Por ?J It Electric Eights p ?j. ; ? Phone or write a postal to Hr. E. J. 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The Arab, however, experienced in the ways of Sahara, knows that when the rain stops the dunes are apt to begin their most terrible "walking." He seeks shelter while there is yet time. Our worst experience of the desert in one of its mad fits, says the author of "In the Desert," was on a morning liiftlrUtt no nofhono tpo ircrfl nutu, 4uvauj ivi uo jpv&uu|/?) ??v ?? v*v Bearing the large oasis of Nefta, near the Tunisian frontier. The flapping of the tent and the drumming of raindrops upon it awoke us, and Ahmeda, in some excitement, hurried our depar-. ture. He explained that so long as the rain lasted it would keep the sand quiet and that this was our opportunity. Accordingly, in a very short time we had struck tent, loaded camels, saddled ponies and were under way. It seemed to us a somewhat purposeless proceeding. The rain was and had been heavy. The ground was saturated. There seemed no prospect of its drying in a hurry. As Nefta was only half a day's march away it seemed unnecessary to start In frantic haste in the middle of the night in a pouring rain. Ahmeda, however, made no answer to our protests. The other Arabs seconded his efforts with all their energy. Morning broke wan and sickly. As the light grew the rain slackened; The big warm drops became less frequent and at last ceased. The dull, opaque sky was pasty white and the air hot and oppressive, but the wind still blew as hard as or harder than ever. Hardly had the rain stopped when I tasted between lips and teetn tne rami liar, gritty texture of sand. Hardly had the light increased sufficiently to disclose to view the drifts when all their edges and crests could be seen crawling and flickering in the gale. Already there was the droning sound in the air which meant that the dunes were walking. We saw at last the reason for the hurry. The rain cannot hold the sand for more than the Instant it is falling. As soon as it strikes the earth it sinks in. One moment you may be streaming with water like a drowned rat, the next you are choking in clouds of sand. The air grew darker and darker, and the roar of the sand as it rushed along the desert made speech, except by shouting, impossible. I could just distinguish our tall camels in the gloom, their ungainly action giving th^m something the look of ships pitching and tossing in a gale. Ahmeda led the way by some mysterious instinct to us totally incomprehensible. We followed as best we might, breathing sand as we went, our heads bent to protect our faces. My recollection of the next two hours is no more definite than would be the recollection of being rolled over and over by a huge breaker. A singing and roaring in the ears, almost total blindness, a sense of suffocation and the feeling that I was in the hands of elements more powerful than myself are the vague impressions that remain. When we at last got to Nefta we could not have been more saturated with sand had we been buried in it and dug up again. Hair, ears, clothes were full of it Our cheeks were scarlet and sore with the ceaseless battering, and on them had formed hard crusts of sand, cemented by the water that had streamed from our eyes. Tke Bloodstone. Almost every Jewel has superstition of some sort attaching to it, and the bloodstone is not wanting in this particular. The story is told of it that at the time of the crucifixion some drops of blood fell on a piece of dark green jasper that lay at the foot of the cross. The crimson crept through the structure of the stone, and this was the parent of this beautiful jewel. The dark red spots and veins were supposed to represent the blood of Christ, and many wonderful properties were attributed to the stone. It was thought to preserve its wearer from dangers, to bring good fortune and to heal many diseases. Great Xea Hare Eeen Erect* The first object of physical methods should be to straighten and expand the body. The world may In a broad, general way be divided Into two great classes?the erect and the Inerect, the strong and the weak. The epoch makers?the Cromwells, Luthers, Napoleons, Wellingtons, Washingtons and Websters?have been men marked by a straight sDine and a broad, high, deep chest The mastered millions, the defeated ones, have been the inerect? Outing. Extenuating Clrenmatancea. A woman was charged with stealing a dozen cases of silver. She appeared before the second judicial chamber. Said the judge, "Come, tell us the truth." Said the woman: "The truth, my good judge, is that I have,not been able to resist the temptation. Consider, your honor?they all bore my Initials!"?L'lndependance Roumaine Bucharest No Wonder. "What makes Archie Feathertop have such a strange, preoccupied look about him lately?" "Preoccupied is the right word for It He's engaged to a girl, but he has found another girl that he likes better."?Chicago Tribune. i Accomplished m Good Demi, Mrs. Hoyle?What do you think of my , dressmaker? Mrs. Doyle?She's great She has almost given you a figure.?New York Press. Let thy speech be better than silence or be silent?Dionyslus. iffl 0m ? -I ?1A 4 KIDNAPED BY ; A TROMBONIST ^ i '-. V r :.. ' - * Exciting Experience of Elsie Sarkiewicz, Who Doesn't Like German Hnsic. FAT BANDMAN LOVED BABIES f _ Comedy Dram* of Central Park, Ployed by None Girls, Policemen and Peram- $ | bnlators, With Infant Girl and Teutonic Tooter as Stars. The upper east side of New York city near Central park was the scene J of a little comedy drama the other day, In which the characters were a pretty nurse girl, a baby, a policeman, a Ger- j man trombone player and what is technically known as a "Jag." * ^ Patrolman Bnrbern of the East One / \ y Hundred and Fourth street station was sauntering along Madison avenue, swinging his "billy," about 8:30 o'clock, ^ when a nurse girl ran up to him breathlessly and exclaimed: . ; "Oh, Mr. Policeman, my baby has J', been kidnaped!" The young woman, whose name was v;J: Anna Schrenk. said in the next breath vij or two that she was employed by Dr. Marcus Markiewlcz, 1539 Madison are- ; nue, and that she had started out with ' his two-year-old baby, little Elsie, In the baby carriage. "I left the baby for only a minute*? she continued, still gasping for breath "to go Into the house for a pair of mit- % tens, and when I returned baby gone! Oh, what shall 1 do?what shall Just then Miss Etta Greenbaum, who- .^3|| lives opposite Dr. Markiewicz, rushed;.;^, up to the patrolman and exclaimed^ "I saw the man kidnap little Stsiel He was a German, with a horn under -V his arm, and they have gone in that diShe pointed toward Central park. 4 Then action began. 1 j Anna ran ahead of the patrolman, while Miss Greenbaum followed the f3fl two. As they dashed across the;?ti|ij nue they were followed by scores of other nurse gills, some pushing baby ^ " carriages, others screaming at the <p|? ^ ^ of their lungs.^ "There he is!" cried Anna at last.' Sure enough, about fifty feet from ? ^ the avenue there was little Elsie sitting upon a bench, her curls all awry, ,.$? crying as if her heart would break. Die&w In ImcmX DT FBOXT OF HEB STOOD A FAT OZBHAJT PLAYdO UPON BIB TBOXBOXX. /: V| rectly In front of her stood a big fat v "J German, playing upon his trombone / Between selections of nursery ditties ^ he sang: "Rock-a-bye, baby, In the tree top; ^ When the wind blows the cradle will: rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come cradle, baby and alL Then the German put his trombone to his lips and started another selection, but he did not finish it, for Anna, '? who had sprinted ahead of the police- ? man, seized him from the rear, a la. . 2 Jiu Jitsu, and threw him to the ground,' where he sprawled in the dust Patrolman Burbern then caught tbe-Y^||j fat German by the head and held him down, while Anna turned her attention to little Elsie. She caught the baby in her arms and sobbed and sobbed and \ | sobbed. The baby had been crying all -?0 the time, but the minute she felt the ' was safe In the arms of her nurse she began to coo. But the German kidnaper did not coo. Patrolman Burbern had sat down on him so hard he could only grant. __ Jm His trombone had also bent out of shape in the struggle. A moment later, % without further ado, he was taken to the East One Hundred and Fourth street station house. "Why did you Kidnap me uauy r . Captain Tappen asked him. ? A-j "Och, dat vas a fine leetle baby,** ^i?8 smiled the German. "I like babies. You see, I vas on my vay home ven I saw the baby all alone mlt itself. I vas mad dat a nurse girl should leave * % It alone. I ranted to play It a leetle , tune, so I Just took it to the park." v < J2 As the German was still noticeably under the Influence of various moist productions be was escorted to a mag- ^ Istrate, who let him go with a fine of fS. '