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it -V V ' ' . ?. t ' ?s ' -?' V ' RAN INTOANELEPHANT Train Queerly Wrecked on the Chota-Nagpur Line. KILLED THE PACHYDERM. I But the Train Went Off the Track and Barely Escaped Dropping Over a Forty-five Foot Embankment Into the Karo Kiver. The elephant sat on the railroad track, Picking his teeth with a carpet tack. ^ This rhyme, popular with the children of twenty-five years ago, is recalled by a remarkable accident on the Chota-Nagpur railway, in India, to a train bound from Chakardharpore to Sagpur. The train left the first named station at 8:20 p. m. There were three or four passenger coaches and some Stone, lime, lac, hides, silk, cocoons and 8abboi grass. There were also a few pilgrims on their way to Puri, the elty of Juggernaut. All went well until Goilkera station was passed, at 9:15. Four miles from Goilkera the line passes through the v Saranda tunnel, and beyond this is a paradise of big game?elephant, tiger, bear, bison, spotted deer and sambbur. From the tunnel the grade is one in a hundred downward to the Karo river, en the opposite side of which is a high approach bank ending in a cutting. Here Is the engineer's report of what happened after the train left Goilkera: "I was proceeding steadily down the I grade at thirty-seven miles an hour. It was pitch dark as I ran through the fiaranda jungles. "Immediately after I had crossed the Karo bridge I felt a violent obstructive ritock. I tried to reverse and put on my brakes. My engine kept the rails at first, but a few seconds later she was plowing her way through the loose W : granite and providentially stopped jfcort on the very lip of a bank fortyfive feet high. "It was most fortunate that heavy rains had been falling and the way was very soft So my engine had no Doner left the track than she was plunged up to her axles in soft earth f - and loose stones. "I got down and groped my way back to see what damage had been one. Four cars, including that of Mr. Faulds, the deputy locomotive superintendent, were also derailed, and our t' brake van was badly smashed, as also was one of the third class cars con- j J- taining pilgrims. "Mr. Faulds joined me, and so did; our guard. We thought at first there HI STOOD FULL IN THE TRACK. must be cattle on the line, but we could see nothing. We procured lanterns and carefully eiamined the engine. * Suddenly I beard Mr. Faulds cry: " 'Why, what's this? * "He held in his hand a strip of ele phant skin. We plied our lanterns this way and that and soon saw the huge telltale pads everywhere. And we found the spot where our enemy had rolled over the bank after the tremendous impact "These heavy jungles are full of wild elephants, and the big tusker who attacked us was evidently an outcast rogue, a fellow of bad temper, such as those that terrorise the villages, lying up in dense jungles by day and coming out only at night to feed and destroy houses and human life. "It did not take much search to find him. He lay, a monstrous Inert mass, among the tangled wet undergrowth, and his mighty weight?perhaps six tons?falling nearly fifty feet, had driven a vast hole in the soft earth. One hind leg had been cut off, and there were three severe Injuries to the head and shoulders: "I Judge that the big tusker, angered by our approaching lights and the general uproar of the train, had j stood full In the track and indeed had charged down upon us, only to secure a terrific stroke, which struck him dead. He punished us pretty severely, however, for he had done damage to the extent of 14,000 rupees at least "I sent back word to Goilkera, six mfles awav. and we soon bad a gang of recruits at work on the damaged train. We chopped out the fallen monster's tusks and made over the mighty carcass to the half savage natives * who used it as material for a feast which . will long he remembered in that part i of India." i C . v 'v V. . ... ' .V. . . | Dominated by a Woman. j [Original.] Women often <' N-.inate men whose wills are stronger than theirs. They have different ways of accomplishing this, but they are all of the same genus ?an advantage of sex. We of the police are constantly subjected to this domination of women. We therefore often appear to err in judgment or in ordinary caution, while we err in neither, being simply mastered by the woman and forced to uo her bidding. I was once sent with a single assistant to go and make an anest. The offender was a woman who lived In luxury and refinement. Of course we went in plain clothes. Leaving my assistant at the uoor, 1 entered on being bidden to do so by a maid and asked to see the lady. The maid asked so many questions as to my business that, having been warned against slipperiness, I went upstairs and straight into a large room used for a boudoir. A lady?I had her photograph in my pocket?rose from a lounge and confronted me. "Mndnm." I said. "I am sorry to have to place you uuder arrest" The look she gave me made me feel all there Is of contempt that could possibly pertain to my errand. It said to me without a word of speech: "You have come unbidden, into a lady's private room. You are on a level with the brute." Had the words boon spoken they would likely not have affected me. As it was, I felt abject shame. Then in a twinkling her manner changed to a sort of friendliness. "I see," she said in a voice full of melody, "you are a police officer not In uniform, but still an officer. You are simply doing your duty. May 1 ask what you are going to do with me?" I explained to her that I would be obliged to conduct her to the station, where in default of bail she would be locked up. "I do not think," she said, "that I, having lived so far above such things, could survive an hour in a cell. If you will permit I can attend to the bail before leaving here. I ask your permission to send a messenger to an attorney asking him to come here and take charge of my case from the beginning. I am completely Ignorant of such matters." Somehow the look she gave me. taken with a certain reasonableness of the raniimaf rianlriari or. rflthpr dominated me. I told her to write.her message and I would direct a man I had posted at the door to allow her messenger to pass. She was going into the next room when I stopped her. "Surely," she said, "you do not expect me to go to the police station in this costume?" How could I? She was en deshabille. I permitted her to go hpth to write the note and change her dress. She told me that to save time she would send her messenger first and don another costume afterward. As soon as she disappeared I stepped into the hall and saw that the room she entered had no egress except by the boudoir. This satisfied me. Not ten minutes after her disappearance a young man of swarthy complexion and a black mustache, with a note in his hand, hurried out of it, passed me and went downstairs. I called to my man to suffer him to pass. If the lady was expeditious in sending her note, she certainly took her time in changing her dress. I waited both far the return of the messenger and for her reappearance. I waited in vain for both. I went to the door leading into the adjoining room and listened. 1 could hear no sound. Suddenly a great misgiving welled up within me. I opened the door and entered. There in a heap on the floor were the clothes she had worn at my coming. An enormous coil of hair lay on the dresser. A box of brown dye stood uncovered before a mirror. The lady had passed out as her messenger. 1 sprang downstairs and to the near est telephone, where I confessed what had occurred to the chief. He told me that he would have the railway depots watched, but as a steamer was to sail within an hour I had better go there myself, since the culprit would be more likely to get out of the country than simply out of the city. 1 followed his directions and proceeded without delay to the dock. Passengers were beginning to arrive. I made a search of the ship, then took position at the gangway, where 1 scrutinized every person who entered. 1 saw no one whom I considered could possibly be my escaped prisoner. The gangway was being withdrawn when a carriage drove up hurriedly, the door opened, and a fat woman wearing dark spectacles jumped out She was very much excited, evidently for fear of being left sputtering French and waddling to the gangway, which she mounted as it was being withdrawn. She was the last passenger to go aboard, and when she had done so 1 went away with a heavy heart I would be reprimanded by the chief and be the laughingstock of the rest of the force. One day a cabman stopped me on the street and asked: "Cap, was you lookin' for some one to go out on the steamer last week?" "Yes. Why do you ask?' "Well, I drove the old Frenchwoman to the ship. She was a young man when she got in. Maybe she was the one you was lookin* for." Now. what I maintain is that no man could have got me into this scrape. Nor was I made a fool of in this case. I knew I had no business to grant what the woman asked. 1 granted it because she compelled me to grant it. But this did not save me from the consequences of my act D. FISK BRADY. PEERS FLEE TO AFRICA. Rich Britons Prefer \7ifd Animals to Girls Who Wo...!J Wed Them. All London Is laughing at t' decision of the new Marquis of An rlesey and Lord Compton, the heir of the Marquis of Northampton, to fly the I country before the London season commences. The :e two young men, who will be enormously wealthy and who are the greatest matri.u m'al catches in England, prefer to bra.'' lion; and rhinoceri rather than be cha ;ed by designing dowagers with flocks of unmarried daughters. No sooner had Lord Anglesey succeeded to the title held by hl3 very eccentric cousin than he received showers of letters of invitations from old ladies whom he had ne-er met. Young' Lord Compton's eorain- of age last year was also remarkable for*the fact that he was literally surrounded by bewitching damsels who wished to tell him "the story of their lives." Both young men are good looking, ' modest and sportsmanlike. They intend to go out together to Nairobi, east Africa, and do some big game shooting | instead of attending dances every j night in London. Lord Compton's fa- j ther does not want his son to think of , marriage until he is at least twentyeight years of age. Lord Anglesey may possibly be "kept in reserve" for a royal or semiroyal princess. TRAPPED IN SAFE. Bbokkeeper Almost Loses His Life Trying to Save Books From Fire. j Jeremiah Keane. bookkeeper, had a ! remarkable escape from death while shut up in a steel vault in the burning store of Hearn & Keane, at Danbury, Conn. The young man is a son of one of thf> firm tta was twiner to save the books, when some one pushed a big stove against the door of the vault He faced death by suffocation, and his shouts and struggles were in vain. At last, with almost superhuman strength, he moved the stove a few inches and forced his way out. But the thick smoke that filled the room choked j him into insensibility, and he fell upon the floor. A few minutes later a fireman stepped upon his prostrate body. He was dragged out Into the air with the beoks in his arms. GIRL CLIMBS A STEEPLE. Churchwarden's Daughter Startles English Market Crowd. An English girl, seventeen years old, recently accomplished the extraordinary feat of ascending a church spire 260 feet high in the teeth of a gale of wind. Mr. Larkins, the steeplejack of Bow, had undertaken to ascend the spire of All Saints', Hereford, the highest In ttewest of England, or west uene. wnitecross rtoaa, Hereford, the daughter of one of the churchwardens, volunteered to accompany him. 1 The ascent was made by means of a steeplejack's cradle. In spite of the force of the wind and of the swaying , of the cradle the girl, Mr. Larklns \ says, was remarkably cool all through ] the perilous ascent and descent Need- j less to say, the spire had never been ascended before by any except male climbers. . f 1 It was market day, and a great 1 crowd watched In thrilling suspense J the ascent of the swaying cradle. Traf- , flc was entirely blocked by the crowd, ' very member of which stood stock still until the girl had gained the summit descended again and reached the ground safe and unharmed. 1 Swallowed Teeth Fished Up. A man presenting himself at the surgery of Professor Chian, in Vienna, exnlflinAd that he had swallowed a set 11 of false teeth in his sleep a week be- ? fore. The X rays were used, and they c showed an obstruction behind the i breastbone. Without resorting to esoph- | agotomy, the doctors decided to try their hand with an Ingenious combination of Instruments and, after an hour's work, succeeded in extracting the teeth without using the knife. j Coughs Up Tooth and Talks. Joseph Loder, twelve years old, of Terre Haute, Ind., who was stricken ? dumb eight months ago, coughed up a a broken tooth and at once commenced * to talk. < # -A. - " . _ l . . j> ;V x ' ntiJ-KZc. .?. A :.V> t ST.* . - ; . - * . ?# j ' .v * ^ . ' * v. ' |^tS^dynow| @ We Are Ready In Everything @ g to Supply Your |U|| i That a Farmer ? ? Wants For $5^ iwui Has Need For ? @ Plows, all kinds, Hoes, Collars, Bridles, ? S Plow Stocks, Trace Chains,' Backhands, etc. !? i C. J. S. BROOKER 1 11????????????????????????? During the Season of 1907 I, W01 Confine my Repair Business to Guns, Bicycles, and Gasoline Engines Having discontinued the repair of Steam Engines, Cotton Gins and Grist mils, I win be in position to give my line of work :: :: :: :: PROMPT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION W, H. PATRICK, - - - Bamberg, S. C. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES We have for rent in our?vault a number of safety deposit boxes. Large size $1.00.a year; small size , 75 cents a year. Let us rent you one at this low Drice to keen your valuable papers in : t PEOPLE'S BANK BAMBERG, - - - SOUTH CAROLINA . m ?li ili :! il'gli :!? g.8 gi ?1i ili g? SI? g? g? gi jli gj ili ili ili a?tlg gg 0 I VERY LOW RATES 1! & . O f TO NORFOLK, VA., & RETURN t? ii ii < )* 1 * ACCOUNT JAMESTOWN TER- ?f H CENTENNIAL, EXPOSITION....... i; Is VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY I ii? < i. ?? ? i > *. # ? Season, sixty day and fifteen day tickets on sale daily commencing j ? April 19th, to and including November 30th, 1907. ? J I K if ?!; Very low rates will also be made for Military and Brass Bands in ? ? TP uniform attendincr the ExDOsition " T ft ? ?fj Stop Overs will be allowed on season, sixty day and fifteen day * ? i * tickets, same as on Summer tourist tickets. ? ? J] ? For full and complete information call on Ticket Agents Southern J J t ? Railway, or write : { J If R. W. HUNT ]f : J Division Passenger Agent Charleston, 5. C. 11 4* ?A* A* ?4* A? *4* ?A# A* A* *4* *4* *4* #A* *4* #4? *4* *4* ?4* A* A? mtsss An Ideal Home for Sale Farms and Town Properties ? Situated on the West end of Railroad CALL, oin OR WRITE Avenue, and fronts Calhoun and Broad Streets, contains 14 acres of land in JT town of Bamberg, with eight room O' N P \ I modern dwelling in good repair; good " t w orchard and vineyard; about five acres in pecan trees, about one-half bearing; Who has 48,447 Acres of Land for artesian well 417 feet deep flowing 16 Sale, in Tracts of from So to p?^d?1h^h^.^;T^ 40,000 acres, some of ming pool and fish pond; one acre in hi h f * n f 1 flowers and shrubbery; good servant wnicn are nneiy house and all necessary outbuildings; timKoraH also conservatorv aud two summer houses with beautiful vines growing over them; healthy location. Population ALSO houses and lots, and unim- of town about 2,500, ships about 15,000 proved lots, suitable for residences, on bale of cotton per year, and only 45 prominent streets. v._ miles from Aiken, the great health resort of South Carolina. This property ALSO one single story brick store lies on the Southern Railway, ana the 25x75 feet in business center of Main land without the improvements, cut into 9treet, with a nice six-room dwelling and residential lots could be sold from $600 large lot with necessary out buildings to $1 000 per acre, but will be sold at a in rear of same. low figure. Call early if you want a bargain. Price on application. ALSO one large open lot on Main I will sell ten acres of this lot, with street, measuring 70 feet front by 110 three-room tenant house and five acres feet deep. The only opportunity to se- of pecans, for $2,500.00. :ure a building site in the business f _ a i :enter of Main street. A bargain awaits 1 U lM trAL< fou in these properties. Real Estate Ageat. . Bamberg, S. C. come and see me J;T- ?'NEAU| DR fl. W.STOKES I teal Estate Agent - - Bamberg. 5. C. I _ I fPACHERS' rXAMINATION.il I The regular spring examination of ap- ??^I )licants for teachers' certificates, will | ye held at the court house in Bamberg; >n Friday, April 19th, beginning at 9 Will spend the first week in >'clock a. m. and closing at 4 p. m. Ap- j every month in Ehrhardt ilicants will please be prompt and bring ; >encils and stationery. ! R. W. D. ROWELL, County Supt. Education. 1 ? + i: fi- MOYE DICKINSON if locky Mountain Tea Nuggets ;: FIRE ,NSURANCE ;: A Busy Medicine for Busy People. 1 + i ipp O Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. Lir*c? O A specific for Constipation. Indigestion, Liver J * , |! ,nd Kidney troubles. Pimples, Eczema, Impure ' ACCIDENT, T llood. Pad Breath. Sluggish Bowels, Headache !: LIABILITY, 2 .nd Backache. Its Rocky Mountain Tea in tab- .. f A ?I T A1 TV 11 et form. 35 cents a box. Genuine made by .. _ _ _ * X jollisteh dbug compant. Madison, Wis. !: Office at the Cotton Oil Company .: tQLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE' i I . ti Valuable Real Estate I FOR SALE I One acre lot, 7 room dwelling, good orehard aad outbuildings, near churck - \ and school, East Denmark. Price on call. 60 acres land one mile from Bamberg, heavily timbered. Price $2.000 00. One acre vacant lot in the heart of Bamberg. Price $500. 3 one acre lots on New Bridge street near Southern depot. Price $550 each. 105 acre farm, one mile S<>uih of Bam- X,j berg. Good dwelling and out buildings, heavily timbered. Price $2,500. One dwelling and lot on South side of -,^? Railroad Avenue. Lot runs from Rail- ^ road Avenue to Broad Street $900 00. 400 acre farm 5 miles of Bamberg, 12 | horse farm open, high state of cultiva- J tion, 12 tenant houses in excellent condi- ^ tion. Price on application. Vacant corner lot on Main Street, near graded school. Beautiful building site. 'Sf? Price $1,00000. ?.?? Four store lots in Denmark, opposite ^?H telephone office, 25x100 feet each For +vl? price, pee or write me. Two store lots in Denmark, 25x100 feet :~M each. Price $150.00 each. 200 acres of land near Rev. Romeo Govan?well timbered and a bargain. $1,500.00. 350 acres clay land, 5 miles South of Bamberg, on Odom's bridge road. See > $! me for prices. 180 acres of land, Odom's place road, well improved, will rent for $250. Price .^$8 $2,70000. 600 acres clay land, 7 miles from Bamberg, well improved. Terms reasonable. Price $10,000.00. ' ^ 58 One 3 acre lot, with 4 room dwelling ' ^ In Bamberg, well built, easy termi. Price $80000. 5 shares Building and Loan Stock. |?g 25 shares Bamberg Cotton Mills Stock. y?lS 20 shares Bamberg Oil Mill Stock. Fourteen acres with cabin 1 mile Wegtv;vaB Bamberg?9 acres cleared. Price $4200$. 300 acre farm two miles North of Bam- || berg. Good residence and fine farm. "':M Price $6,000.00. . 600 acre farm 5 miles Soutb of Bamberg. . &|9 a gilt edge farm. Price on application. ' :W|| 34 acre farm two miles South Bamberg^y^ Buildings worth $300. Price $600. 200 acre farm 4 miles from Bamberg. |?S Price $8,000. A Two story dwelling on New Bridge street, lot 80 feet front and 255 feet deep, good^water and stables. Price $2,000. One two story brick building in (be heart of business centre. Pays 10 per 'M cent, on investment. ' 260 acre farm on road toGovan, 6 mile* '?S| from Bamberg. Best farm io the County. A<||' See me quick if yon wish to buy something worth twice the money. % 100 acre farm near Ho weirs mill!' : .JS Rents for $125.00. Price $1,060. :} 1000 acre farm near the town of Bamberg. Make no inquiries unless you are able to buy something of rare value. Timbered lands for sale on Edi8t?.^|| river at rock bottom prices. | An excellent dwelling, good location, at West Denmark. Write for particulars. One acre lot with 6 room cottage on ^ Railroad Avenue. Delightful location^ ojaB Price $1,600. // 14 acre lot with cottqge, situate on Midway street near Carlisle Fitting, 'f. School. This is an excellent bargain. MSal Price $2,250. 117 acre farm one mile from Bkmbet? Well improved with barb wire fencflg^M ':^ all around. The timber is worth the price. Price $4,000. | 800 acre farm in Buford Bridge town*r ^J i ship.'well improved with new dwelling^ etc. Price $4,500.00. '/Ji 400 acre farm, five miles from Bamberg.%^,, Rare bargain. $6,00000. ^ A newTesidence with six rooms naff bath and two tenant houses, with lot of- .is 7* one acre, on Railroad avenue. This fcrvdK something to be desired. An unimproved lot on Church street, J 60x200, near colored graded school. ' &? Price $150. One lot with cottage, situated on east jj# prong of Mainstreet.w Rents $400month- f^S iy. Price $400. An unoccupied lot adjoining residency ' occupied by H. M. Graham. , J An unoccupied lot, 42$ feet, on Bamberg or Main street, adjoining lot of W. ^ RUey. Suitable for business house or 'M warehouse. ^ One acre with good residence, east prong of Bamberg street. The house is . worth more than the price of the whole; That Jot with cottage known as the ^ Graddick place, east prong of Mails; street. If you wish a paying investment see me before it is sold. That business lot corner Bamberg and ^ Elm streets adjoining G. Frank Bamberg's stable lot. The most valuable ''>fH business property in Bamberg. inree unimproveu iowj uu ovrccv iu rear of colored graded school, at remark* ably low flguresT ? ^ 110 acre farm five miles south of Bam-^ berg. Good place. Price and terms easy. _; jj 136-acre farm six miles from Bamberg. The timber worth price of place. An excellent farm between Bamberg ^ and Denmark. Don't write or see IW/ . unless you have the money. A good cottage with large lot on CaT- , lisle street. Price $1,300. Various building lots in all sections of the town and other farm property for sale. ,'^M If you wish to buy anything, or if yon . have any property for sale, let me sell H : .tSl foryou. Vacant lots for sale in desirable portion 4 of this growing town. Come and see me ;M if you are really interested. I am very busy but can talk to you on business. fj| H. M. GRAHAM, Jf Real Estate Agent i| W. P. RILEY I 1 o FIRE, LIFE < M J! ACCIDENT <t INSURANCE J BAMBERG, .... S. C. J [ MONEY TO LOAN On fanning lands. Easy terms; reasonable interest rates and long terms. Will take up mortgages or negotiate new loans.'.www J. ALDRICH WYMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Examination of Title* a Specialty Office upstairs over Bamberg Banking Co ^ ^