- \ * ^ -f V; :t 'V' / . " % ? ' . ^ C j Personal Mention. ?Mr. Jas. E. Sal ley spent Sunday in Orangeburg. ?Rev. Peter Stokes spent yesterday in Columbia. ?Mrs. Jas. E. Sally is visiting relatives in Orangeburg. ?John R. Bellinger, Esq., spent Sunday in Charleston. ?Miss Blanche Garland visited friends in Orangeburg Sunday. ?Mr. R. S. Simmons, of Bates burg, visited relatives here this week. ?Dr. B. D. Bronson is spending the week at home, as he is not very well. ?Mrs. C. E. Garvin returned Sunday from a visit to relatives in NewN berry. ?Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bellinger -left Tuesday for a stay at Harris Springs. ?Mr. Henry J. Free has returned +.n thp oitv. and will keeD books for A. Rice. ?Mrs. F. M. Dunbar, of Augusta, Ga., visited Mrs. Jno. R. Bellinger last week. ?Mrs. Peter Stokes left yesterdaymorning for a visit to relatives at Williamston. ?Rev. J. M. Stead man, of St, George, is visiting his brother, Mr. H. Spann Steadman. ?Messrs. G. B. Clayton and H. A. Hughes, of the Ehrhardt section, were in the city Monday. ?Miss Ottie Harrison has gone to Ulmers to spend a few days with her sister, Mrs. J. C. Folk, Jr. ?Miss Louise Sheridan left Saturday for an extended stay with relatives and friends in Greenwood. TT OT 'J ?master nugo ouenuoii, uui efficient "devil, left Tuesday for a visit to relatives in Orangeburg. * ?Mr. H. G. Sheridan returned last Friday night from a visit to relatives at Vances, Orangeburg county. ?Mrs. Effie Wannamaker and / children, of Columbia, spent a few days in the city last week on a visit to relatives. ?Mr. W. S. Hogan, Head Master of tiie Carlisle Fitting School, is spending a few days in the city. He say3 the prospects for a large attendance this fall are very flattering. He Was Saying Grace. A deaf old gentleman dined with a family where grace was always said. When the guests were seated Hie host bowed his head and began to repeat Hie accustomed verse in a subdued, reverent tone. "Eh? What's that?" demanded the deaf old man, who sat beside him. The host smiled patiently and began again, in a louder, more deprecatory voice. "Speak a little louder. I don't catch what you say," the old gentleman persisted. A low ripple of laughter went round the table. The host, his face crimson with embarrassment, raised his voice and repeated the verse. The deaf gentleman did his best to hear, but failed. He placed one hand upon his host's arm. "What did you say?" he demanded irascibly. The host cast him an angry glance. I "D?n it, I'm saying grace," he snapped, as he mopped the perspiration from his brow. Pistol Permits. Of the hundreds of men who apply for oistol permits to the police com missioner only a few get them. The applicants give all sorts of queer reasons for wanting to tote a gun, the most common being that they carry large sums of money on their person. All pistol permits have to be approved by Chief Inspector Cortright before they are granted. Early in his police career he soured on pistol carriers with the result that he approves about one out of every fifty applications. One man whose application was turned down called on Chief Cortright a few days ago to learn why he couldn't get a pistol permit. "Why do you want to carry a pistol?" asked the chief inspector. "Because I always carry large sums of money," replied the man. The veteran policeman looked the applicant over carefully and said: "If you will show me right now $25 in real money I'll indorse your application." The man flushed and stammered that he was sorry, but that was the first time in his life that he did not have a large sum of money in his pockets. Cortright insisted on knowing just how much the man had. By trying all his pockets he was able to produce just $3. He did not get the permit,?N. Y. Sun." Not Interested. She knew the man that sat behind Was sizing up her hair And peering through her peekaboo With rude, ill-mannered stare. When she could stand his gaze no more Resentment was too deep, She turned to rebuke the chap, And he was fast asleep. A Puzzler. An old white haired darkey living on a plantation, not feeling well, had the doctor pay him a visit. The doctor told him as he was getting old he must eat plenty of chicken and stay out of damp night air. "But, sah," said the old darkey, "how can you expect me to stay in de house at night and still get my chickens." SPANKED HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW Bargeman In Correcting Woman Dialodged Her Front Teeth. Because his mother-in-law "sassed" him James Henry Young, the captain of a Hudson river barge, spanked her so hard that he jarred two of her teeth out, and now he is a prisoner charged with assault. Young and his wife live at 274 East One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, New York city. He is in charge of one of the big railroad floats of the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad company and when he gets through with his work and goes home expects to find his wife there. After a particularly hard day Young went home and instead of being wel HE PUT HEB ACROSS HIS KNEE. corned by his wife found the key unJ J ^ Wa lrtf V*{moalf -JTI uer me uuunuau uc ici uuogu ^ the lonesome flat and not finding the expected hot supper had to go to the refrigerator and cheer up on cold potatoes, macaroni and other things. After Young had fed the cat and wa^. closing up the house for the night his wife came in and told him she had been up to her mother's. "I'm going up there myself," Young announced, and he went Mrs. Mary A. Lyman is his wife's mother, and Young asked her why she persisted In keeping her daughter, his wife, away from her, home. "None of your business," Mrs. Lyman answered, according to Young. "Don't sass me," Young says he warned his mother-in-law. "I'll do as I please," Young says Mrs. Lyman returned, and then followed a "scissors" conversation. Mrs. Lyman was telling Young exactly what she thought of barge captains in.'general and him in particular j when he reached over and, picking her up, put her across his knee and spanked her. The spanking was a good, j pound one, too, even Young admits, j Mrs. Lyman says he knocked two of her teeth out, but Young insists they j fell out HE SOLD HIS DAUGHTER. Transferred Her For $100 to a Man Three Times Her Age. Bargained away by her father for $100 to become the wife of a man nearly three times her age is the lot of Mabel Begosian, a pretty fourteenyear-old Armenian girl of Worcester, Mass., the bride of Isidore Shanheidan, aged forty. Friends of the girl reported the story of the wedding to the police, and if their statements are true the girl was sold to the highest bidder. Mabel left home a short time ago on account of a cruel stepmother. A little later Shanheidan opened negotiations with the girl's father. The money bid was accepted, and the following day Shanheidan secured a marriage license, giving the girl's age as eighteen and his own as twenty-five. An Armenian priest married them. The police advised friends of the girl to secure an annulment of the marriage. This, her friends say, they will at once attempt Dikran Thomajanian, another suitor of Mabel, is at the head of the movement to give her back her freedom. Arm Cut Off to Save Man. Suspended In midair, with his arm caught in the cogwheels of a traveling crane at the Baldwin Locomotive works in Philadelphia, John Rooks, a painter, hung for two hours and twenty-seven minutes. He was caught by the arm as he passed the crane and drawn Into midair. The clogged machinery refused to reverse. A scaffolding had to be built to him, and on it surgeons of the Hahnemann hospital worked and amputated the arm to re lease him. Injections of morphine deadened the pain until the scaffolding was built He sustained internal injuries also, and it is thought that he will die. Fierce Fight With Half a Snake. i Church Barkley of Harrodsburg, Ky., | had a terrible battle with a monster snake a few days ago. He heard a noise upstairs and went to investigate and found a snake coiled on the bed. He fired at it with his shotgun and cut it in two. The part with the head, about three feet long, made battle and tried to bite and coil around Barkley's legs. He had to fight it out with part of the snake, and he says he never did faster kicking, but finally dispatched that part of the reptile. The entire snake measured nine feet nine inches ?n length and had a horn or some hard substance three inches long on the end of its tail IAN || UNPROTESTED CHECK. 25y Edith M. Doarte. * Copyrighted, 1907, by M. il. Cunningham. J ItMUUHMMMnMUMUIMUUd When all the legal formalities were ended and the fortune that had been Robert Maxwell's was finally handed over to his "beloved daughter Elizabeth," that young lady regarded her new found responsibilities in dismay and promptly proceeded to shift them to other and broader shoulders. James Gordon had been her father's secretarj and his shoulders were presumably better fitted for the burden. "But you cannot hand me over your fortune to carry, as If It were a book or a parcel," said Gordon distractedly, though Inexpressibly cheered by this profession of confidence. "You do not understand"? "Oh, yes, I do," returned Miss Maxwell serenely. "I understand perfectly. I shall appoint you"? "Chairman of the finance committee," suggested Gordon. "Yes," said Miss Maxwell. "I will be the committee." "Well, I shall do my best," said Gordon. lausrhinsr. "But the committee will please remember that It has certain active duties." "I don't see why It should have any," she retorted. "Practically, you have already managed the estate for the past five years. You were invaluable to father." "Perhaps I was," Gordon returned, "though I don't remember It, and he never mentioned It. However, I appreciate your confidence and will serve you faithfully; but (gravely) what if I should make mistakes? Is it wise to intrust the handling of so much money to one man?" "I should think it might depend a good deal upon the man," said Miss Maxwell softly. So Gordon fitted up an office in a downtown skyscraper, where he sat at a table strewn with papers and pinktaped, legal looking documents, figuring and writing late into the nights, ?nd mirh Maxwell, having arranged her financial affairs to her liking, annexed a meek, elderly relative as chaperon and turned her attention to other difficulties. Her first, chiefest and most immediate difficulty was her cousin Tom Cornish. "It isn't that I do not like you," she painstakingly explained for the hundredth time. "You know I do. As a sister, now, I"? "Oh, drop it?" retorted Tom inelegantly. \ "And anyhow I shall never marry." "So it's all up?" "I think I have been telling you that for the past five minutes," said Miss Maxwell impatiently. ""You know what I meant all along," he said sullenly. "Some one has been giving you a resume of my vices." - "Your vices are nothing to me nor your virtues either. If you"? The words died on her Hps. For the first time in all their lives his arm-closed around her. Convulsively he held her to him, bending his head till his lips met her soft brown hair. "Betty, I?I've got to?tell you?I'm in no end of trouble. I need you?I need your help?I"? By a single vehement effort Betty released herself. "How dare you? How dare you?" she raged, then came to a dead stop. Her eyes grew wide with dismay and fixed upon the doorway at the end of the room. "Mr. Gordon," she said in a constrained voice. j It was Gordon indeed. He was quite at the other end of the long room, but I not so far that the late tableau could itnooflTi v.-tr him and the distress of UC UUOVVU - J . ? - her face was Intensified in his as he bowed hurriedly and the yellow portiere fell behind him. Betty blushed furiously. A person looking on and not understanding might, of course?she turned,suddenly 'to Tom, who stood staring at her uneasily. "Now go!" she cried desperately. "Go!" Meanwhile Gordon had found his hat and the sidewalk and walked blindly down the avenue, forgetting the papers he had gone for?forgetting everything except a girl's flushed, dismayed face. It was scandalous that she should be allowed to drift Into complications with that fellow. It was all very peell that Cornish was her cousin, but what of the fellow's character?a gambler, a fortune hunter? Yet what could he do? All day he had looked forward to seeing Betty. Well, he had seen her. And she must have been in earnest She wasn't the kind of girl to let a man?ana as memory gupyc-u. unu * %. plunged gloomily on. It was several days later that Miss Maxwell, blue gowned and demure, turned into the entrance of a bank on lower Broadway and walked calmly to the paying teller's window. "I suppose you know that this overdraws your account, Miss Maxwell," said that gentleman, handing out a packet of fresh bank notes. Thft irirl stared at him in astonish ment "No, I did not know. I had not : thought," she said nervously. "That last check* was rather large- ( ten thousand"?1 "Ten thousand!" repeated Betty weakly. "Yes. We did not question It, of ' course, because Mr. Gordon so often draws large amounts." He looked at ( her keenly. "It was all right, I sup- : pose?" i "Yes; oh, yes," said Betty unsteadily. ( "It was all right. I?? suppose Mr. , Gordon cashed It?" ! J ; - % J w ; . "He sent a messenger, as he usually does." Betty nockled. The bank swam and for an instant her brain reeled as she turned away, perplexed and vaguely conscious of impending evil. Ten thousand dollars! Even to Betty's vague business reasoning $10,000 seemed a good deal to lose track of. But there must be some good reason why Gordon had filled in the check for so much, for Miss Maxwell's methods of de^ng with the management of her estate had not changed, and, though she still signed all her checks, she serenely washed her hands of further responsibility, and Gordon usually filled them in. Once at home she hurried to her desk. She had a prejudice against keeping her check book in order, and an appalling number of hastily scrawled stubs confronted her. She worked VviiqUtt nAtrorlnor a nofl xH+h fimirog flnH counting up totals on her fingers. But it was slow work, and near the end one stub stared out from the rest provokingly. It was blank. She leaned her elbows on the desk and, resting her chin in her hands, stared hard Into space. There was the check unaccounted for, and he had filled it out for $10,000. No one knew how many others he had used. He was welcome to the money. She would not fight It if she could. But he had seemed so different, and she had trusted him. Slowly her head sank on the desk, and the heiress of the Maxwell millions cried her eyes out like any ordinary lovesick girl. It was ten hours later?ten dreary, interminable hours?that the clock on Betty's dressing table chimed 1. Betty shivered. No sleep had come Kor attao rinffin or aiif a# VwI oVia W VJ to. \JtLUU5 V U t Vi UUU) OiiC slipped Into a dressing gown. She would read. Anything would be better than lying In bed open eyed and sleepless moaning over James Gordon. Her book was in the library. She opened her door and ran hurriedly : down into the hall below. Pushing open the library door very gently, she entered the room, then uttered a faint scream. The room was lighted by the faint rays of a bullseye lantern. Standing at her desk with his back to her, opening her check book, was ?Tom Cornish. Starting convulsively at sound of her cry, he turned and confronted her, white to the lips. "Betty," .he stammered. \rko strtftrt vprv Rtni. "Tom," she said, "why did yon do It?' But Tom had fallen into a chair and hidden his shamed face in his hands. "It's all up," he said hoarsely. "I'm dead broke, and I thought I stood a chance to stake myself once more. I've had the devil's own luck lately. I lost every cent of that other check." Betty looked at him as if in a dream. "The check?your check. I was dead broke?debts everywhere?and I got hold of your check book. I knew Gordon did about as he pleased?and it was your signature all right. I meant to give it back to you, Betty, as soon as my luck turned, I really did." But to his mystification Betty was looking at him with shining eyes. "It was you who cashed the check for ten thousand," she repeated softly. "It was you?it was you." 1 It was weeks before she told Gordon/and he, being a wise young man In his generation, said no word of her bygone Injustice, but his arms went i round her, and he held her close, while she, crying quietly, hid her face against S his coat 1 "No other man would have under- ' stood," she whispered softly. Her Very Good Reason. ( The two wives were discussing the i pecuniary peculiarities of their respective husbands, and they coincided with 1 great unanimity until they reached the point of their own relation to the purse ^ strings. "My husband never gives me a penny 1 unless he growls about my extrava- j gance," said one. 1 "Mine does the same thing," attested the other. 1 "But I get even with him." And her i face showed the color of satisfaction. "How do you ever do it?" t "I go through his trousers pockets t when he's asleep." "Goodness gracious!" exclaimed the ^ other. "I wouldn't do that for any- ] thing." "Why not? Haven't we a right to * the money as well as they have?" i "Yes, but I wouldn't go through my j husband's trousers pockets for it" r "I'd like to know why?' said the first quite Indignant at the apparent ^ reproof. 3 "Because," blushed the other, "he | carries his money in his waistcoat 'J pocket"?Pearson's Weekly. * When Banks Are Bitten. j "Speaking of bad checks," said the cashier of a downtown bank, "don't you believe for a moment that most of the expert forgers are behind bars I or frightened into Inactivity. The distinguished professionals?those accus- j tomed to play for a fortune at a single throw?are pretty well In hand, but a there are others. "As a matter of fact, the public I would be surprised to learn how many bogus checks, perfectly executed, get I Dast the bank officials every week in tills city." " "Don't see many of 'em in the police court cases," a listener suggested. h "Of course not. Most of the checks c are for small amounts and are made good by the bank officers. Why? Well, E because it does a bank no especial good to have it known that forged checks can pass through its windows. So the matter is hushed up. Even when a u man is caught in the act he Is often allowed to go free If be is merely an agent and will tell who his principal is. It's business policy."?New York Globe. Be Busir The Check System is the r like method of paying youi And one of the Dest ways Keep from spending a lot oj I all you get in the bank and little while you'll be surprise Bring Your Mone BAMBERG BAN Bamberg s : s s : | Something Ne I have installed a first-class on the shortest kind of notice *?? ets, column posts, and other *? prices are lower than city < ;? freight as well. Give me a 1 ;; i I H VEHICLE RI ? ?? > V- I am prepared to do all sorts * ? pair buggies, wagons, log c ? ? norses, sharpen plows, andd( V- in wood ana iron. Have i J? horse shoer. Don't forget i $ * * ?M. M. I ! : ROU1S LOT RAILROAD A Ijil-:I;-I; :! u--I--Ij -I-il? il :!? :! il? !? tl; $ VERY LO1 i > ?? = il TO NORFOLK, 1 t? } ACCOUNT JAM I; CENTENNIAL, E \l VIA SOUTHEI i * * ? Season, sixty day and fifteen da ? ? April 19th, to and including Novem i + ? ; Very low rates will also be mad< l\ 1 uniform attending the Exposition ? V. Stop Overs will be allowed on s * * tickets, same as t>n Summer tourist ? > * ? For full and complete informatic ;? Railway, or write : ? ? Si n U7 1 I\.? ^ ^ 41 Division Passenger Agent . ; !;;f;;T;;Tt?Ta;Ya>T;;T;>ys>%>Ta;Tufi. *A* ?4? ?4? < VALUABLE REALf: An excellent dwelling, good location, it West Denmark, Write for particulars. < 7 building lots on Palmetto Avenue 15x100,1 residence lot near union depot ] L00x231, one residence on Beach Avenue, . n Denmark. Prices reasonable. 119 acre farm, five miles from Bamberg, iear Odom's bridge. Good bargain. ~ . One acre lot, 7 room dwelling, good jrehard aud outbuildings, near church \ ind school, East Denmark. Price on call. 60 acres land one mile frem Bamberg, leavilv timbered. Price $2,000.00. One acre vacant lot in the heart of \ Bamberg. Price $500. 3 one acre lots on New Bridge street iear Southern depot. Price $550 each. 105 acre farm, one mile South of Bam- < Derg. Good dwelling and outbuildings, leavilv timbered. Price $2,500. One dwelling and lot on South side of Railroad Avenue. Lot runs from Rail- 1 oad Avenue to Broad Street. $900.00. < 400 acre farm 5 miles of Bamberg, 12 ' iorse farm open, high state of cultivaion, 12 tenant houses in expellent condi- j ion. Price on application. Vacant corner lot on Main Street, near graded school. Beautiful building site. ] Price $1,000.00. J 200 acres of land near Rev. Romeo Jovan?well timbered and a bargain, i ?1,500.00. 350 acres clay land, 5 miles tV)Uth of ( Bamberg, on Odom's bridge road. See ne for prices. , 180 acres of land, Odom's place road, veil improved, will rent for $250. Price . S2.700.00. ; 600 acres clay land, 7 miles from Bam- j >erg, well improved. Terms reasonable. 1 'rice $8,000.00. One 3 acre lot, with 4 room dwelling J n Bamberg, well bnilt, easy terms, i 'rice $800.00. 25 shares Bamberg Cotton Mills Stock. ] 530 shares Bamberg Oil Mill Stock. Fourteen acres with cabin 1 mile West ? lamberg?9 acres cleared. Price $420.00. 300 acre farm two miles North of Bamierg. Good residence and fine farm. ? 'rice $6,000.00. 1 600 acre farm 5 miles South of Bamberg, gilt edge farm. Pric8 on application. 1 34 acre farm two miles South Bamberg, luildings worth $300. Price $600. t 200 acre farm 4 miles from Bamberg. I 'rice $3,000. 1 Two story dwelling on New Bridge f treet, lot 80 feet front and 255 feet deep, ood water and stables, rrice One two story brick buildiDg in the eart of business centre. Pays 10 per ent. on investment. 100 acre farm near Howell's mill, tents for $125.00. Price $1,000. 1000 acre farm near the town of Barnerg. Make no inquiries unless you are S ble to buy something of rare value. Good farm of 475 acres about three liles from Olar. Price $2750. s H. M. GRAHAM, Bamberg, Sou - v * yM * ^ iess=L,ike ' '^5 ________ nost dignified and business bills and other obligations, to keep tab on yourself?to f money uselessly?is to put I check against it. In just a ed at how much you do save. -i y Down Today to , KING COMPANY : : South Carolina. flflOCqiqHSgiOipgHPg | win Bamberg I; i? | 5 wood lathe, and can furnish ; j ' % all styles of balusters, brack- J ornamental wood worK, My aj lealers and I save you the T \.|j 2PAIR SHOP b |! tm ; arus, repami, uugKiea, aiiuc . jjfi > almost any kind of repairing i ? a. first-class blacksmith ana me 5MOAKI VF1SJ1IP RAMRFPO. S. C. ! Z - SV RATES 11 VA., ositioin 11 'h E RAILWAY il l ? A-AAIA AAifiwi/mAififf ^ 1 t '. - >y ucft.cw5 \Jii oaic uaujr tv/uiiuwiviiig WM!9 ber 30th, 1907. ? for Military and Brass Bands in ? eason, sixty day and fifteen day * * ; tickets. ?? >n call on Ticket Agents Southern | |/ ;^||| HUNT || . . . Charleston, S. C. j '*jH| STATE FOR SALE. Good farm of 166 acres two miles East v rf Bamberg. Price $2,500. Timbered lands for sale on Edisto river at rock bottom prices. One acre lot with 6 room cbttage on -M Railroad Avenue. Delightful location Price $1,600. If acre lot with cottage, situate on ;#? Midway street near Carlisle Fitting School. This is an excellent bargain. "*l|? Price $2,250. 117 acre farm one mile from Bamberg. .Va Well improved with barb wire fencing U -H all around. The timber is worth the price. ^ ;f| Price $4,000. 300 acre farm in Buford Bridge town-, ship, well improved with new dwellings 'Ji etc. Price $4,000.00. 400 acre farm, five miles from Bamberg. Rare bargain. $6,000.00. A new residence with six rooms and bath and two tenant houses, with lot, of" ? T>-:i A T>K?? 39 JUG Sure, UU Aamuau avenue. imo wr something to be desired. An unimproved lot on Church street,. 30x200, near colored graded school- %} Price $150. One lot with cottage, situated on east ' prong of Main street. Rents $4.00 month- , [y. Price $400. An unoccupied lot adjoining residence occupied by H. M. Graham. An unoccupied lot, 424 feet, on Bamberg : # it Main street, adjoining lot of W. P. Riley. Suitable for business house or warehouse. ' That business lot corner Bamberg and Elm streets adjoining G. Frank Bamberg's stable lot. The most valuable r business property in Bamberg. Three unimproved lots on street in , ' ^ rear of colored graded school, at remarkibly low figures^ 110 acre farm five miles south of Bamjerg. Good place. Price and terms easy. ^ 136-acre farm six miles from Bamberg, rhe timber worth price of place. An excellent farm between Bamberg % ind Denmark. Don't write or see me inless you have the money. A good cottage with large lot on Carisle street. Price $1,300. V arious ouuaing lots in an sections 01 he town and other farm property for sale, f you wish to buy anything, or if vou f lave any property for sale, let me sell it v or you. Vacant lots for sale in desirable portion if this growing town. Come and see me f you are really interested. I am very msy but can talk to you on business. TO RENT. Six offices in heart of business district. ^ Two 2-story residences, near F. M. limmrms. One 1-story house nearF.M. Simmons. One 4-room residence on Orangeburg treet, with three acres of land. Real Estate Agt., th Carolina.