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y^L<'r -r . * ? Smnbrrg lirralii ... . ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A, W. KNIGHT* Editor. v.y ? Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for fix months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion; 50c. for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made fot 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 nbjects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature Will not be published unless paid for. Thursday, July 12,1906 The State summer school for teachers ?o rtnvj in Qpccinn at. Rock Hill, but We " presume it is about as much of a frolic as anything else. egy* * # iSo Col. W. W. Lumpkin has withdrawn from the race for the United States Senate. A sensible act, and one which will save him both time and money. * * J. Fraser Lyon gave some letters to the newspapers last week which will stop the mouths of some people who have been trying to create the impression that he acted wrongly. The letters are from Senator Hay, chairman of the dispensary investigating committee, and others. ** Mr. Herbert A. Moses, associate editor of the Sumter Herald, is a candidate for the legislature from that county. Herbert inherited a love for politics, his father, Altamont Moses, being in his life time one of the strongest men in the county and a leader in the legislature for years. #* While we disagree with Senator Tillman as to his right to interfere in the dispensary fight, we ask that our people give him a quiet and respectful hearing when he speaks here on Friday, and we feel sure they will do so. If anybody wants to ask him any questions we suggest that they be written out and handed to the Chairman of the meeting before the speeches commence. Wfeir * Mr. C. C. Langston, of the Anderson Intelligencer, has sold out his interest in that paper and will retire from active : business on account of his health, which has been bad for some time. Mr. Chesjte* V hire has bought Mr. Langston's interest, fc' We regret to see Mr. Langston leave newspaper work. He is very popular with the newspaper men all over the State, and h|s been secretary of the State Press Association for years. We trust his health may soon be restored. i,_ Did you ever think about the small number of mortgages foreclosed in Bamberg county? The Master's sales of real estate in this county under foreclosure proceedings are a great deal less than any county in the State, vln fact, not more than a half dozen mortgages have been foreclosed in this county in the last two years or more. The few sales which do take place are for partition of property. ^ This is a healthy sign, and shows the Ek*'- prosperity of our people. Very few busily ness failures take place here, and, taken all in all, we feel sure Bamberg's people are on as solid footing generally as those ' of any county in the State. *** I Senator Tillman's campaign in me State is merely a fight to save the dispenSary. He spoke at Sandy Flat in Green;" ville county last Saturday and at Columbia Monday. In both speeches he discussed nothing but the dispensary. It is Safe to presume that he will do the same thing in Bamberg to-morrow. If this is Slot meddling and an attempt at dictation - on his part, then we don't know what to ?# . call it. Why should he mi* up in this matter? The dispensary is being defend* ?d by several candidates for governor, *nd the system is not an issue so far as i : : < Senator Tillman is concerned. He hopes to save it by his personal popularity, giT; "but our people will hurrah for Tillman and vote against the dispensary. ** Senator Tillman says that every legis. lator who voted against the Raysor-Manaing bill ought to be defeated for re-* election. Mr. LaFitte of this county voted against this bill we believe, and is a candidate for re-election. The Senator Will no doubt bring up this matter in his speech here Friday, and we very much regret that Mr. LaFitte is sick in a hospital in Savannah and cannot be present. We would like very much for him to be here in case this vote of his is alluded to, for we feel sure that he would be able to take care of himself in a bout with Senator Tillman, and of course he would be granted the privilege of a reply. It is coming rt TM-ottrr note if Spnatnr Tillman is to KV ^AVVVJ M N/vm?v. choose our representatives for us. We imagine the people of Bamberg county are capable of selecting men to represent them without any suggestions from the Senator. The unwise man is always in a hurry. He eats in a hurry and gets apoplexy. He talks in a hurry and says too much. He does business in a hurry and goes "broke. He reads ina hurry and is superficial. He votes in a hurry and produces corruption. He marriejs in a hurry and gets a divorce. He trains his children in a hurry and hurries them into evil ways. He gets religion in a hurry and forgets it in a hurry. He'makes his will in a hurry and leaves a legal contest. He dies in a hurry and goes to the devil and his tribe increases. f I Gerald's 1 I Slffe Ssl. I ? FORRESTER | ? Copyright, 190a, by Ruby Douglas >!; $ff$3$S3$$$S$3S$S$SS$3$g$$S$SSS$g$SSS$al Broderick swung off the 4:35 express, walked quickly up the steps leading from the railroad platform and took his first look at Pineville. Those who Bred In Pineville proper were eontent to call it Pineville. Gerald had written that they did not live in PinerHiio nwnpr hnt In Pineville-by-the-Sea, otherwise Pineville improper. All that Broderick saw were pines, plenty of them, a flat white ribbon of roadway and a bit of a postofflce, roughly shingled, In the midst of the nearest dump of pines. Be stepped Into the postofflce as the central spot of civilisation. Borne one was stamping letters behind the glass lnclosure, a girl with smooth dark hair. Beatrice had smooth dark hair. He watched the glrl'stamplng letters with Interest ahd wondered why some one did not tell her to wear ber smooth dark hair In two soft braids around her bead, crown fashion, as Beatrice did. "Where do. the - Vaugbans live, please?" he asked .finally, when the stamping ceased. "The Vaugbans? Oh, Mr. Gerald Vaugban and his wife? Ifs a brown bouse down near the shore, with a wide veranda and a funny roof. About a mile straight down the road." A wide veranda and a fupny roof. That sounded like Gerald. He won/laMM'a Hked it. Bea- I uct^vs uv n \jrv>* m?v* ?# trice was artistic, but not artistically eccentric. She had a horror of things odd, bizarre, so called bohemlan, and yet she had married Gerald. And Gerald's brother knew that Gerald was utterly odd, bizarre and bohemlan, so called. He walked on down the flat white ribboned road-fray and wondered whether he would And her like the girls Gerald had always admired. A lithesome, limp, blessed damozel type, with close silky gowns and loose floppy hair. Last summer she bad not been that type. He thought of the trim girl figure holding the rudder of the Water Lily that last day. She had been more than the sort of a girl to fall in love with. She had been a good fellow, a stanch friend. And as be watched her he had stopped rowing, and they had drifted slowly In the sunset glow that flooded the lake while he told her. There had been no actual engagement He had nothing to reproach her with. He had not been in a position to ask her to be his wife then, but he had thought a girl like Beatrice had meant more by a kiss, a hand clasp, a few vague words of understanding, than other girls. He had thought she might wait until next summer. And now, In April, he had returned to New York to learn that Gerald was in disgrace, had married on nothing, eloped to Pineville-by-the-Sea, N. C, and his wife was Beatrice Stafford. , Gerald's mother had said they were penniless. Gerald's father had remarked that he didn't give a rap. They could exist upon love and art More or leas for Beatrice's sake and a little for Gerald's, Gerald's brother had taken it upon himself to visit the bridal couple and help Gerald. Smothering his own love, he had made up his mind that as long as Beatrice had married a Vaughan she should not suffer from it There was no bell at the =door of the little brown house with the funny roof. It was merely a bungalow in weathered shingles, and he pounded on the door lustily until it opened and Beatrice stood before him. She was not the -blessed damotel type yet Her smooth dark hair was wound about her head in just the same crown fashion, and she wore a short dark blue linen skirt and a while shirt waist The sleeves were rolled to her elbows, and from her finger tips to elbow dlmpleq there was flour sprinkled. He had not expected to see her face to face so soon or alone. Neither had he expected her to act as she did. The color rose in her cheeks, tipping even her ears with pink. It was an old habit He remembered It "I thought you were in London," she said. "You don't give a fellow a very decent welcome after he's traveled from London to this wilderness to say congratulations." Wp atpnned into the after her. She hesitated and laughed, looking at her floured hands. "I can't shake hands with you, and? and the biscuits are In the oven. I shall have to watch them. Do you mind coming out to the kitchen?" He didn't mind. There appeared to be only three rooms?the studio-sitting room, the dining room and the kitchen. Collapsible ready-ln-a-mlnute studio, divans were in the sitting room and dining room in lieu of bedrooms. It was all charmingly, most uncomfortably odd, bizarre and bohemian. "Where's Gerald?" he asked when he had found a chair in the kitchen. Beatrice knelt beside the stove to look at the biscuit He could not see her face. "He went to the postofflce for the last mall. You must have missed him." "Well, what ever made him come to this lost corner?' "Oh, because it was the chance of ? i ?t sometnmg aenrnte, you uiuw; juuu i you know?" she added quickly, seeing the puzzled look on his face. "Well, Gerald's chum, Netherby Ames, broke all to pieces last fall from overwork and so on, and he was ordered down here. And he couldnt afford to come and stay Indefinitely, so he pulled a few wires, and things happened. He was made postmaster bere at PineYille. And he got lonesome and healthy and workful again a month ago, so Gerald's in his place, and he's in New York. Don't yon see? It was really very definite and businesslike and right under the circumstances." "Oh, certainly, under the circumstances," agreed Broderick. "So old Gerry's postmaster instead of artist." "Both," she corrected. "He has lots of time to study, and It's good for him ?the responsibility, I mean. You wouldn't know him." MI suppose not" assented Broderick uneasily. He tried to reconcile his little circle of the universe, to make the chaotic jumble fall into place harmonise. Gerald, Gerald the hapless, erratic, ranxasuc, lrrauuuai, ju.wus hearted, penniless artist & person of matrimonial responsibility, a postmaster. Bnt then he remembered the young smooth haired person stamping letters. Of conrse Gerald had found his usual way out of the difficulty. He had hired some Pinevllle lass to do tb? heavy work, and he drew the salary. It was like Gerald. But there was Beatrice, Beatrice making biscuit He lt>oked at her with troubled eyes, seeing endless vistas of Beatrices making biscuit throughout the years. "Don't you miss New York?" "Oh, so much!" she said. "I'll never be happy until I get back." "Have you given tip your own work?" "Only for the time being. I shall take it up again, of conrse. I shall have to." Broderick's hands tightened in a sudden grip. So she was to work again, turn out her endless succession of little wash illustrations for second rate monthly magazines. Gerald would not mind, would not see the point He would think he was being broadminded and bobemlan to let his wife carry on her own art Irrespective of him. But Beatrice saw the point He rose from his chair suddenly, his face white with the anger and love he had smothered. Before he could stop himself the words came leaping to his lina* "Why dldyoo doltr -Do what?" She stood beside the little bare kitchen table, her face raised to his. her eyes bright with startled wonderment at his tone. -Why did yon marry Gerald T -Marry Gerald! I?" Some one was coming along the white roadway. From the kitchen window two figures could be seen, and she pointed to them. "There is Gerald, and that Is his wife, my sister Barbara! I am merely attendant star to the honeymoon. They brought me along to?well, to make the biscuit" A minute later and Broderick met the bridal couple on the wide veranda under the funny roof. The bride was the girl with the smooth dark hair who had been stamping letters, and she laughed at him. "i Knew who you were, out x warned Gerald all to myself, and I knew Beatrice would take care of yon." "She did," answered Broderick happily, and as the rest went Into &e boose he paused to brush off traces of flour from his coat collar. But Beatrice burned the biscuit The "Father of Leprosy;" The gecko belongs to a family of thick tongued lizards, which are widely distributed; over the tropical and subtropical countries of Europe and Asia, and in all countries where he is known he Is thoroughly despised. Because of his repulsive appearance he is called the "father of leprosy." Down to times comparatively modern it was firmly believed that contact either directly or indirectly with the little reptile was sure to communicate leprosy. The investigations of modern zoologists have proved that the little animal is undeserving of Ms name of "father of leprosy" and that be is indeed a most harmless and useful creature. Since the old belief in the ability of this reptile to communicate leprosy to any human flesh which might come in contact with his warty, sore looking skin was exploded he has retained his objectionable name solely on account of the bad appearance he makes. His skin is one mass of scaly and tuberculous excrescences that cover his body from the tip of his tall to the end of his nose. Every quarter inch section of this repulsive looking body has a general resemblance to the thickened, callous protuberances that appear on the human body in cases of leprosy. On this account and no other the harmless little gecko was given the name of being the progenitor of the worst form of disease. Ugly Athenian Coins. It Is little surprising that tne Atneman coins are less beautiful than some others. They always preserved an affectation of archaism. The Attic drachmas bore the head of Athene and on the reverse an owl often standing on a lyre, the whole in a myrtle wreath. Plutarch in his "Lysander" tells an amusing tale bow Glippus had been sent to Sparta with a great sum of money as a bribe and how he unripped the bottoms of the sacks and stole large sums, sewing up the sacks again, not knowing that there was a writing in each sack saying how much coin it held. On coming to Sparta be hid his plunder under the tiles of his house, showing the Ephors the unbroken seals on the mouths of the sacks. When the Ephors opened these they were in great perplexity, but Glippus' servant betrayed him, saying "that under the tiles roosted die owls." The consternation was great Glippus fled, and the stern Spartans declared that for the future they would use iron coinage made redhot and quenched in vinegar to make it hard and unpliable. In the laws of Solon, 600 B. C., the punishment of death is recorded against forging the coinage. AUTOMOBILE WRECKS STORE Crashes Through Plate Glass Window and Scares. Ckrks to Hurried Flight An automobile owned by John Jobas of New York city caused a sensation in Xyack, N. 1\, by running into one of the largest stores In the town, crashing through the front plate glass windows and smashing everything that stood in its way. The machine, filled with a party of pleasnre seekers, came down from West Point and was passing through THE MACHINE CBASHED THROUGH THE PLATE GLASS. Nyack on its way to the ferry. It was driven by Mr. Juhas' chauffeur. At the corner of Broadway the machine wa9 running so fast that it was impossible for the chauffeur to turn, and the auto took a header for W. W. Devitt's store. The machine crashed through the plate glass, wrecking nearly the entire front, and then demolished counters, boxes and barrels. The dozen clerks and their customers made a dash for the back part of the store, a couple of them leaping out of a side window. The occupants of the machine clung to the seats and were uninjured. They promised to pay for the damage. '. BITTEN BY OVER FIVE HUNDRED DOOS Jersey City Cor Catcher Says No One Need Have Hydro* phobia. Is there such a thing as hydrophobia? If there is, can it be overcome by the mind? With his body a mass of scars from 516 dog bites, Herman Rocktoff of Jersey City goes merrily on catching unlicensed dogs and insisting that science is a failure and that there is no such thing as hydrophobia. When he applied at the Jersey City hospital recently to have a gash in his right hand cauterized he told the doctors how to do it The new doctor marveled that a doe catcher should know | so much about the cauterization of a wound. "Why shouldn't 17" said Bocktoff. "That is the five hundred and sixteenth time at least that a cur buried his tee"i In me, and this is die two hundred and sixty-third time I have had a wound cauterized. Let me show you." And Herman, who is a husky, big fellow, bared his.arms and legs and showed a jumble of varicolored scars which in a museum might be mistaken for the bungling work of a tattoo artist Rocktoff has been a dog catcher for ten years. From the first time a yelping pup sank its fangs in his thigh Rocktoff has firmly believed that he would never have rabies, or at least he has never let himself believe that he would have rabies. "I've seen parents scare their kids into having hydrophobia," said Herman. "I've been bitten by the same dog, and nothing ever happened to me. Perhaps I'm Immune, as the doctors say, but I guess I could go mad if I wanted to. "I think that anybody who doesn't want it need not have hydrophobia. I always know when I have a bad bite, -- ? -? ? i u rrha+ ID ana men 1 uave n tauicu/^u. xuuv all the precaution I take, and I guess I have been bitten by the really mad dog3 as often as any one." Crook Posed as Model Citlaen. The residents of Coraopolis, a suburb of Pittsburg, were astounded to learn that "Samuel F. Fletcher," arrested as an expert bank swindler, was Boyd H. Stoneroad, who has been a respected inhabitant of the semlrural community for five years, during which he has been carrying on his fraudulent operations. Stoneroad was a telegraph operator employed by the Wabash railroad. During his spare time, the police say, he forged certificates of deposit and despoiled banks all over the country of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hanged Hlmaelf, Pipe la Month. The body of fifty-nine-year-old Joseph Spachmann of Terryville, who had been missing since May 8, was found hanging from a tree in a grove near Bristol, Conn. He had not removed his spectacles, and his pipe was in his mouth. The medical examiner declared it a case of suicide. .... ..... " \$S??Z - - 4 ^ -? fBjaBgg&Hga^^ ftj ... YOU CAN HAVE ... 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