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?it? Sambmj Ifmtlb ESTABLISHED IN APRIL 1891 A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for ^ix months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?fi.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. afterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must for a? r^crular advertising". ? t" ? ? - -? ^ Communications?News letters or on subjects general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. % Thursday, August 1, 1907 - = If a certain editorial writer of the News and Courier had his way about it he'd have the game played at old man Greenhut's in Arkansas City to be the national game from now, henceforth and forever. No doubt it is more exciting and interesting to the players than base ball. -? Some editors have called us down so hard on our statements as to | bankers among the editors, that we must reply by saying that the gentlemen mentioned run newspapers as a side line. They can afford it, but we fellows who make running a newspaper our chief work are not financially strong enough to get in the banking business. ) The dispensary people of Newberry and Marion were not strong enough to get sufficient names to the petitions for the ordering of an election on the dispensary question. These counties have been dry a year or two, and the people must be pleased with the situation or the election to vote f; the dispensary back in would have been held. Couldn't get one-fourth of the people to ask for the election. There is a reason for it somewhere, and from this distance it seems that prohibition must be working mighty well there. Why all this talk recently about enforcing the dispensary law in CharlesPton, after years of the most open and flagrant violations? Is it because some of that city's "favorite sons" are being boosted by the people there for State positions? Everybody knows there has never been an honest effort made to enforce the law against the illegal sale of liquor in Charleston, by governors nor nobody else. The mayor and the entire police force know that whiskey is sold openly and without any attempt to be secret about it. In fact the police will point out to a stranger where he can get a : _ drink. But all this talk at this late day will not fool the people. If the mayor of Charleston wanted to he could reduce the illegal sale of liquor in Charleston to a minimum, but there's the rub, he don't want to. There has been somewhat of a system of fines imposed on the tigers, which was practically a license. Put the sellers on the chain gang and then we'll believe you are trying to enforce the law. The Sunday News contained some excellent lessons for the Bamberg Herald pertaining to the leading intv. door intellectually athletic game.? News and Courier. Examination for Annapolis. Editor The Bamberg Herald: I have just received notice from the secretary of the navy of a vacancy from this district, which I am called upon to fill in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. I will, therefore, hold a competitive examination at Barnwell C. H. on Thursday, August 15th, for the purpose of nominating a principal and three alternates. Candidates must be beA"f oiv+ofln orirl HiTtm'f-v tYVCCii i/ix^ a^w v/x uiAwvu w ?? vnwj years and physicially sound and well formed. They will be examined in the ordinary English branches, in. eluding Algebra and Plane Geometry. There will, therefore, be examinations on this day for lx>th the U. S. Military and Naval Academies and I hope there will be a number of applicants on hand, as either affords a means of obtaining an excellent training and education free of charge. Please give this notice publication. Very truly yours, J. 0. Patterson, Member of Congress. Barnwell, July 29, 1907. No Election in Newberry. Newberry, July 24.?The county supervisor and board of commissioners this afternoon completed the work of comparing the names of the petitioners asking for an election on the question of voting the dispensary back in this county, with those on the registration books and the result is that there will be no election. The petitions contained 812 names, 595 of 4-z-v l\A Ainnlifi XTAf AVO VVIJiCII }J1 UVCU L<J uc 14uainicu vv/i-do. The registration books show that the county has 3,024 registered voters. Seven hundred and fifty-six would have been one-fourth, so it will be seen that the petitions were 161 names short of ordering an election. The anti-dispensary element in the county had no fear of the result had an election been ordered. ' NO HUGGING IN THE WALTZ. Western Dancing flasters Institute a New Rule. Omaha, July 24.?There is to be no more hugging in waltzes and other round dances in fashionable social circles in Omaha. The dancing masters of this city, according to an announcement made by one of them, have signed an agreement not to teach hugging by pupils at their academies and not to permit it, by pupils or others who may attend the "hops" given under their auspices. They will hereafter teach their pupils to preserve a more or less formal attitude when on the floor. The new and correct position, the mactprs ?tv will he an imDrovement on the old, so far as gracefulness is concerned. The gentleman will lightly rest his right hand on his partner's back, his left gently clutching the tips of her fingers. Her left will be gently resting on his right forearm, and both bodies will be held erect. Killing Near Springfield. Springfield, July 25.?M. Gantt, a young white man of this community, shot to death John Jackson, colored, yesterday afternoon at the saw mill of his brothers. Gantt came into town and surrendered to Judge Corbett, who will commit him to jail. According to reports Gantt states that some days ago his brother employed a negro by the name of Sterling Mathews. It seems that Mathews was under contract to work for Jackson and left him. This evening Jackson took his repeating rifle and went * . n in ?j ?4. ? j;#; down xx) tne mm <uiu gut unu a umr culty with Mathews, during which he attempted to shoot him. Gantt, it is claimed, interfered or attempted to prevent Jackson shooting when he turned the gun on Gantt, who grasped the barrel and barely escaped a shot fired by Jackson. Gantt then drew his pistol and shot Jackson as above stated. It flows like electricity through your veins; it does the work. If you are wasting away, take Hollister'sKocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. H. F. Hoover. Our New York Letter. Down in 42nd street near 8th avenue, in glad tidings hall, a strange religious sect is holding forth with two meetings daily and attracting crowds. These people claim to acquire "gift of tongues" by power of prayer. , The writer wended his way thither on Sunday last to see for himsel with his own eyes and with his ears hear these strange sensationalists. Sic tor Smith a widow of 27. from Texas is the chief "preacher." Seventeen tongues have been given to her so far and more are expected. Mrs. Smith is not alone, there is quite a following and other "preachers" in and near the city who have this year been sweeping across the country from the West and South. piese people think themselves enthused with a Pentacostal fire which makes them think they exhort in all the languages of this wicked world. A "sinless" one they claim can be enendowed with the power to dis-' course in every known dialect. The leader or "preacher" "comes through" they term it, and immediately delivers a sermon, part in one language, part in a dozen or more other dialects. They admit they understand but one tongue, yet persons present, may be a German or Frenchman, Assyrian or Spaniard, declare that not only the language is correct but pronunciation is perfect. Here will be an appeal in English to turn from the ways of the world, then it is fired forth in French, German, etc. The writer cannot account for it, the speakers admit they do not remember after it is over what they said, only affirming that they are "sinless" and that they put themselves through a course of prayer, then in a receptive attitude and the "tongues of fire" are given them, and the message to deliver. Sister Smith knows not what she talks according to her own story but it has rhyme add cadence in places and the gestures keep up just as though all were in English. Even the Chinese get a message. It is one of the puzzles of these latter days to understand the ways of the new sect. Followers are sincere in the belief that they are speaking with the tongues of men and angels. It is thought by some that the secret lies in the actual learning of some sentences in each language for the purpose of deceiving, others "give it up" and admit it. H. W. Finlayson. The secret of fashionable beauty. I asked the question of a beauty special| ist. In order to be round, rosy and very j stylish, take Hollister's Rocky Moun| tain Tea. 35cents, Tea or Tablets. H. F. Hoover. I DR. (i. K HAIR; Dental Surgeon - - - Bamberg, S. C. In office every day in the week. X Graduate of Baltimore College of z + Dental Surgery, class 1892. Mem- + ber S. C. Dental Association. Office X next to Bamberg Banking Co. T OPENING BIDS. Notice is hereby given that the county dispensary board will open bids in their office in rear of the dispensary in Bamberg, S. C., on Monday, August 12th, 1907. E. R. HAYS, E. L. Price, Chairman. Clerk of Board. Bamberg, S. C., July 30, 1907. FOUGHT WHOLE ARM! American Single Handed Stood Off Nicaraguan Horde. WAS SHOT EIGHTEEN TIMES. But Killed Twenty-five of the Enemy Before He Fell?Foe, Marveling at His Bravery, Buried Him With All Honors of War. The fighting power of an American shows in the desperate battle of Fred Mills in the battle of Amisegir in the recent war between Honduras and Ni<rn.q Mo John P. Poe, who once kicked a field goal for Princeton, winning the most sensational football game on record, recently returned to Nevada from Honduras, where he served as captain in the Honduran army. About his own service he has little to say, but while In San Francisco on his way to Nevada he told the story of Mills, an American adventurer, recently of Goldfield, New, who, with his back to an adobe wall, held the whole Nicaraguan army of invasion at bay and killed twenty-five of President Zelaya's men before he was finally borne down by overwhelming numbers. The story comes from an officer in the Nicaraguan forces, who came in on the close of Mills' great fight When there was rumor of war in Central America, Mills, who was at that time in Goldfield, went to San Francisco and shipped on the first boat He readily obtained a captaincy in the Honduran army and in the upset state of affairs just before the war broke out helped get the army into shape. Then came the rumor that the Nicaraguan troops were preparing to cross the Honduran frontier in tne interior. Mills was detailed with a company of native soldiers to go out into the mountains where the Nicaraguans \fere expected to cross and, avoiding the main body of troops, to pick up any skirmishing parties he could find and learn the number of the Nicaraguans. At Amisegir, a mountain town which the Nicaraguans were advancing upon and were forced to occupy as a key to the position, Mills found himself the only man in the Honduran forces who realized what was at stake. He prepared to hold the place against'all comers. The town lies high up on the hills, * ~ * x ?* ? ? +i?aUa with nothing uui zigzag uvuuunu u. u>iu leading to it. They are the highways? camino8 reales?of Honduras, though in any civilized country they would be called goat paths. , Mills realized that he could not be forced from the town by artillery, as it could only be moved against him on the back of mules. He took up his position in an old graveyard, commanding the last angle of the road, with thick adobe walls jutting out at a sharp angle over the hillside. Had to Fight His Own Men. -The value of this place for him lay not in the fact that these walls formed a first barrier against the enemy, but also that once he got his handful of barefooted, hungry soldiery into the graveyard he was able to take up his stand at the gateway, the only exit from the place, to keep his men from running away as the enemy approached. This was only accomplished after he had shot down one of his own men who tried to brush past him and had locked the iron gate, throwing the key over the wall. Seeing themselves trapped, his men, after one futile rush, which stretched two of them at his feet, recognized their master and manned their positions. Mills made them knock holes through the wall on the side commanding the trail, through THEY BUSHED AT HIM WITH A WILL. which, had they been Americans, they could have kept off the enemy almost forever. What he had not reckoned with, though, was their propensity to blaze away all their ammunition regardless of whether they were hitting anything or not. As soon as their fire slackened the Nlcaraguan general, with the help of a machine gun placed behind his men, forced them up the steep hill. They outnumbered their foes ten to one. Swarming along the trail, although the first ranks went down from the fire of the men behind the wall, they managed to worm their way up to the graveyard. The shooting holes having become useless, Mills' men, trapped as they were, spent their last ammunition firing blankly through the wall, while - - * * r - the Nlcaraguan soldiers replied witl* tenfold effect. The wall now looks like a sieve. When the last rush came and the N1 caraguans were scaling the wall from every side, Mills, with his handful of remaining men. fell hack into one cor ner of the graveyard near the gate way. Just as he was rallying his men one of them smashed the lock to the graveyard gate with the butt of his musket and swung it open. Mills' men saw their chance and rushed out pellmell, leaving him alone to face the en emy. Mills n>hjht have followed them, hut his fighting blood was up. With one last shot at his own men he turned to face the whole Nicaraguan army, which by that time was s warm in c MADS HIS LAST STAND. from all sides. Finding only one man, they rushed at him with a will. Mills' automatic revolver for a few brief moments kept the horde at bay. He made furrows in the Nicaraguan forces at every shot with his quick firing autontflHr For a moment the Nicaraguans fell back before the deadly aim of the American, leaving the victims of his marksmanship groveling among the gravestones. Shot In the Back. In the heat of the next rush a random shot fired through the walls behind Mills' back penetrated his body and for the moment brought him to his knees. Nicaraguans who had not been able to hit him in the first rush closed in with their machetes. Mills fired his last shot while still on his knees. His right arm dropped as he was reversing the pistol to use it as a club. A bullet had shattered his wrist With his left hand he drew his saber and leaned back against the wall. Weak from loss of blood as he was, he still managed to run his sword through three of the men closing in upon him. i h?a a-isrnrd was still cauaht In the body of one man another jumped for his throat, but Mills held him off with the elbow of his shattered arm. At this moment a big Nicaraguan negro, who had climbed the wall behind Mills, leaped down upon hhn. They both went down in a heap. Mills took advantage of the deadly embrace in which they were locked to use the negro's body as a shield, Such was the fury of his foes that they hacked the body of their own comrade to pieces In their efTorts to get at the hated gringo. Rising with the body of the negro held In front of him, Mills tottered blindly to the nearest gravestone and hia last stand. With his bloody sword drawing a dead line about him, he lasted a full minute longer. He stood his full height, head and shoulders above his enemies. With his long reach he was able to keep them at distance, but he was a mark in the crowd to the fellows on the wall. Down at Last. Chips from the gravestone flew about him, when suddenly a bullet struck him square between the eyes, and he pitched forward his full length. Even as he fell his enemies jumped back. About the dead body of Fred Mills lay the bodies of twenty-five soldiers whom he had slain in the uneven conflict. The Nicaraguan officer who tells the story says that the American's body had eighteen bullet wounds, and It was a marvel to the Whole army how he had lasted so long. The Nicaraguans were so profoundly impressed that, though they did not know the stranger's rank, they gave him the honorable burial that they would give to a generalissimo of their own forces. When the last three volleys were fired over his grave they placed over him the gravestone by which he bad fought and fallen and rudely scrawled on it with a sword an American flag. SHOCKED BY A CLOTHESLINE Wire Carries Lightning Into Kitchen j and Knocks Out Nine. Nine persons who were in the kitchen at the home of Lewis Crawford at Delphi, Ross county, O., were shocked by lightning during a recent storm. Several children were rendered unconscious, and one of them, Goldie Karshner, aged twelve, who had a wire comb in her hand at the time, was seriously hurt. Her limbs have swollen to twice their natural size. Mrs. Karshner was also badly burned. The bolt hit a maple tree, passed along a wire clothesline to the house and tore a big hole in it. A shotgun hanging on the wall was broken in two, and the barrel was hurled across the room and stuck in the other wall. The bolt then followed the wire around to the kitchen and tore out a screen window and door. j . -> \ Notice of Dispensary Election. Notice is hereby given that an election will be held at the various election precincts in Bamberg County on Tuesday, the 20th. day of August, 1907, to determine the question whether alcoholic liquors and beverages may be sold in said county in accordance with the terms of sections 2 and 3 of the Act No. 226 of the General Assembly of this State, approved February 16th, 1907, commonly called "The Carev-Cothran Act," the Petition provided for by said Act having een duly filed with me. The said election shall be held and conducted by the same officers and under the rules and regulations provided by law for general elections. The Election Commissioners for said County shall at each voting precinct therein provide two ballot boxes in which the ballots must be cast. Every voter in favor of the sale of liquors and beverages in said County shall cast a ballot in the box provided therefor, on which shall be printed the words, "For Sale," and every voter opposed shall cast a ballot, upon which shall be printed the words, "Against Sale." At said election any person who is a qualified elector of said County may vote. The Election Commissioners of said County will provide for said election. J. B. KEARSE, County Supervisor for Said County. Bamberg, S. C., July 16, 1907. MANAGERS OF ELECTION. Pursuant to an order of J. B. Kearse, | Supervisor for Bamberg county, calling upon the Election Commissioners of said county to prepare for an election on the dispensary question, in said county of Bamberg, to be held August 20th, 1907, the following are appointed as managers of said election: Bamberg?G. E. Bamberg, C. A. Milhous, J. A. Byrd. Denmark?J. H. Atterberry, J. P. Storne, C. T. Bamberg. Ehrhardt?J. E. McMillan, J. E. Bishop, J. A. Peters. Farrell's Store?J. C. Smoak, J. E. Stokes, W. W. Connelly. Govan?J. H. Lancaster, W. H. Collins, J. A. Lain. Kearse?L. A. Brabham, H. W. Chitty, W. K. Best. Midway?A. J. Hunter, J. B. Smith, M. Smoak, Sr. Olar?W? T. Cave, Jimmie Morris, J. I J. Brabham. The managers shall take and subscribe, before any officer authorized to administer oaths, the oath of office prescribed by the constitution for such officers. Managers may appoint a clerk to assist them m the discharge of their duties, whn shall take the oath Drescribed before the chairman of the board of managers. The managers shall elect one of their number chairman of the board, and the chairman is empowered to administer the oaths to the other members. The polls shall be opened, at the voting places designated above, at 7 o'clock in the forenoon, and shall close at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the day of election. The managers shall administer to each person offering to vote an oath that he is qualified to vote at this election according to the constitution of this State and that he has not voted during this election. The voting shall be by ballot, which ballot shall be of plain white paper two and a half inches wide by nve inches long, clear and even cut, without ornament, designation, mutilation, symbol or mark of any kind whatsoever except the words "For Sale" or "Against Sale" printed thereon in black ink; and such ballot shall he so folded as to conceal the words printed thereon, and so folded shall be deposited in a box provided for that purpose, and no ballot of any other description found in the election box shall be counted. Each box, which must be provided with a sufficient lock, shall be publicly opened and inspected to show that it is empty and secure, and locked iust before tne opening of the poll. The keys shall be hela by the managers, and the box shall not be opened during the election. The managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, in addition to the production of a registration certificate, proof of payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed against him collectable during the previous year. The production of a certificate or of the receipt of the officer authorized to collect such taxes shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. Each clerk of the poll shall keep a poll list which shall contain one column headed "Names of Voters," and the name of each elector voting shall be entered by the clerk in such column. At the close of the election the managers and clerk shall immediately proceed publicly to open the ballot box and count the ballots therein, and continue such count, without adjournment or interruption, until the same is completed, and make such statement of the result thereof,-and sign the same, as the nature of the election shall require. If, in counting, two or more like ballots shall be found folded together compactly, only one shall be counted, the other must be destroyed. If more ballots shall be found, on opening the box, than there are names on the poll list, all the ballots shall be returned to the box and thoroughly mixed together, and one of the managers, or clerk, shall, w^hout seeing the ballots, draw therefroffi and immediately destroy as many ballots as there are in excess of the number of names on the poll list. Withm three days thereafter the chairman of the board of managers, or one of them, to be designated in writing Uy UlC uuoxu, ouau u^ix t ? w vuv wu. missioners of election at Bamberg C. H. the poll list, the boxes containing the ballots, and a written statement of the result of the election in his precinct, and the oath forms signed by the managers and clerks. All these regulations must be strictly observed. The managers will call at the Court House on Saturday before the election for the boxes and tickets. J. F. CARTER, H. B. GRIMES, M. N. RICE, Commissioners State Elections. Bamberg, S. C., July 30,1907. i ? * M 0 Y E DIC KIN S 0 NI J[ INSURANCE AGENT J[ < WILL WRITE ANYTHING < > f Fire, Tornado, Accident, Lia- < i bility, Casualty, in the J[ strongest and most re- J j X liable companies. ^ ? TELEPHONE No. 10 B. Bamberg, 5.C. J \ Be sure to come to the cotton association meeting next Monday. . r SPECIAL NOTICES, Advertisements Under this Head 25c t For 25 Words or Less. - ' FOR SALE.?A few bushels of peas and several bags nitrate of soda. Apply at once. G. MOYE DICKINSON, Bamberg, S. C. FOR RENT.?Six-room house in good location. Rent reasonable. GEO. F. HAIR. WELLS BORED.?If you want a well bored at a reasonable price, call on or write us. We guarantee satisfaction. . SIMMONS & ROWELL, Bamberg, S. C. FOR SALE.?150 acres virgin pine timber. Finest kind of saw mill timber. Located ? mile from side track on Southern Railway, and three miles west of Bamberg. Cheap for cash. JONES A. WILLIAMS, Bamberg, S. C.. BEFORE buying or selling a farm or any property, write THE CAROLINA REALTY & TRUST COMPANY, Bishopville, S. C. ID. J. delkI I CARRIAGE WORKS . \:m ANYTHING ON WHEELS 1 anBHBHMBnffli . :2j lIB v&ij Delivery wagons, one and two horse farm wagons, ice wagons, log carts, sewing machine wagons, or any kind of special work built to order on short .?? notice. First-class repair and paint shop, does pipe work and carries piping and fixtures, brass fittings, engine supplies, injectors, steam gauges, engine oils, large stock of bug- ? > v ? gies, harness, lap robes and whips for sale cheap. All work ^ will be appreciated and satis- j., * faction guaranteed D. J. DELK I BAMBERG,.. S. C. I ; | I PHOTOGRAPH I GALLERY Open in Telephone Building -1 by Expert Artists. Come and examine our pictures. Prices g from 60c to S6.00 ner dozen. Special attention to" enlarging and copying old pictures. T. J. POOSEB & BRO. 1 BAMBERG, - S. O. jll WANTED! Fifty Colored Laborers at face For Logging, Railroad and Sawmill Work. STEADY WORK % GOOD WAGES Paid Every Night With Checks .which may be turned into office eveiy two weeks to be cashed. 1 ' ^ House Rent Free Also can use white labor Call or Address RRFfIN IIIMRFR RO. 1 WllhiVIV aaVnaawaa wwa ULMERS, S C. ~W\ Located on S. A. L. Railroad. IIIIHIIIMIMtlltlllIMM If J. F. CARTER ;f J [ Attoiuey-at-Law J [' < BAMBERO, 8. C. J < > Special Attention Qiven to Settlement \ > 4 > of Estates and Investigation of Tltlea 4 ] J Offices over Bamberg Banking Co. J [ FOR SALE.1 ^ . x.oa Twenty fine mules for sale, ten of , which are extra large timber mules; two extra fine horses. Will be sold cheap for cash or on easy terms with proper security. J. W. BARNES!. Cope, S. C., July 10, 1907. HOLLISTER'S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggoft ,*J? A Busy Medicine for Busy People. 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