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i^T" . ?fvT ? ttltj? Uamhrrg fmtl& ' Thursday, August 15, 1907 r^=^=-=r= Short Locals. ?" The district lodge Knights of Pythias will convene at Williston next Wednesday morning, August 21st. Notwithstanding the dull times, covpra? rpjjl deals were made here Tast week for city property. g?c: The county dispensary board was in session here last Monday. Bids and samples fhr the ensuing quarter were opened, and purchases were made. j?.* j Rev.* Peter Stokes is still sick at Williamston, and there was no preaching at the Methodist church last Sunday. His little son is much better. Mr. P. J. Quattlebaum, manager of the oil mill, who has been occupying the T. S. Rice residence, will occupy ? /V*% Ayfitiroxr I (one 01 uie runv uui/UAgcss un uuunar street. Norris S. Nevils, of this city, has entered suit against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in Charleston county for $10,000 damages for injuries received while working for the company. Bids will be received from contractors for the building of a brick church at Denmark. Plans and specifications can be seen by calling on Rev. J. B. Traywick at Denmark, who represents the committee. The election for an alderman for I the town to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of M. M. Smoak is to be held next Monday, but so far we have not heard any candidate mentioned for the position. G Marshall Moore, who lived in Bambei^ at one time, but who is r , now editor of the Piedmont, a daily afternoon paper in Greenville, was ? ' i 1 i 1- -.ff l; i&- elected iasc weeK as one 01 nve ponce commissioners of that city. There will be a reunion at Olar on Thursday, August 28th, of Companies jj&. G and H, 17th infantry. All confed_ erate veterans and the public generally are invited to attend, with well ' filled baskets. Capt. W. T. Cave has ; the reunion in charge. If the dispensary is voted out next III Tuesday the town of Bamberg will have no source of income until taxes h- are collected next spring. There is no money on hand, and it seems that the electric light plant will have to fcj - olivff i-f -flio r?ieT\or>eo 1-17 rrnoc ?U1UV uu?? 11 U HIV fo The Orangeburg Collegiate Institute, Orangeburg, S. C., is one of the best schools in the State. Boys and girls who expect to go off to ?? school this fall will do well to write President Peterson for a catalogue. Prices are very reasonable, and you can get any course of study that you want. Send for a catalogue today. A postal card from Rev. Peter Stokes, who has been sick at Williamston for the past two weeks, states that he expects to arrive in s|r Bamberg this (Wednesday) evening and will preach as usual at the MethIp./ ; odist church next Sunday. Mr. Stokes ? gays that he is getting al 1 right again, and his little son, Peter, is improving kr rapidly. | y Before our next issue the voters of Bamberg county will have decided i. the dispensary issue. We hope to !, / publish the result in next week's paper. The election is to be held Tuesday and we print The Herald Wednesday morning. We will appreciate it if the managers will send us the < | vote at the various precincts, either . Iff*V ^ wire or 'phone. No doubt a very light vote will be ; polled in the dispensary election next : i 'Tuesday, many people being without ^ registration certificates. Then, too, nobody seems to be taking much in- ' terest in the election one way or an> other. Both dispensaryites and antis seem perfectly willing to let the mass |v - of the voters decide the question for jjA themselves without any suggestions from them. A regular meeting of Bamberg lodge, Knights of Pythias, was held last Monday evening. L. B. Fowler, ek. J. F. Carter, and B. W. Miley were ( elected as delegates to the district lodge which meets at Williston next Wednesday, August 21st, with C. F. M Ellzey, A. W. Knight, and H. W. g Adams as alternates. The position of vice chancellor was declared vacant and B. W. Miley was elected for the unexpired term. The Southern Railway has notified all its agents that their cotton platforms cannot be used hereafter for the purpose of storing cotton. The company does not object to the public cotton weighers using their plat f/vfm fnv wAicrhinfr ont?nn hut. it XVA.*** AV*. " ?, ?. . must be marked and ready for shipment. This order wiil work a great hardship on our cotton buyers here, and they should take up the matter with the railroad at once and try to arrange some settlement of the matter before the cotton season opens. Rev. A. J. Foster said in his sermon last Sunday at the Baptist church that many of our church members were selling out their moral conscience for money. He said in part: "The man who knows and believes it is wrong to sell liquor through our dispensaries and then votes to keep the dispensaries here on the ground that they bring in revenue sells out his moral conscience for money and is guilty of high treason against his own conscience and society." His text was: "The love of money is the root of all kinds of veil." i The Woman's Home Mission Society will hold the regular monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon at 5.30 o'clock, in the ladies' parlor of the Methodist church. There was a meeting of the antidispensary people here last Monday. The object of the meeting was to organize for the approaching dispensary election, and committees were armnintor} -fnr flip variousnollincr nrP WAV, ? * V VAV.' I* or' cincts to get out the vote. The Herald has been very liberal in the use of its space by the prohibitionists, and we trust if the dispensary is voted out, they will be as earnest and enthusiastic in putting down the illegal sale of liquor as they are in working for prohibition. The editor of this newspaper has had nothing to say as to the dispensary election in this county, nor do {we expect to take any part in it one way or the other. We are opposed to the sale of whiskey, but as to whether conditions will be better or worse if the dispensary is voted out is the problem. Many of our best citizens will vote for the dispensary because of their experience with county prohibition some years ago. All of us will agree that the dispensary is preferable to blind tigers. Some Startling Facts. The report to the county treasurer of Bamberg county from the several dispensaries for the quarter ending July 1, 1907, shows that there was a profit to the county and school fund to the amount of $2,289.91. This represents the amount of profit for three months. At the same rate the amount for the year will be $9,159.64. The assessed value of property of the county is $2,729,400.00. To replace the total income to the county and school fund from the several dispensaries would require a levy of less than three and one half mills. That is to say the amount of increase of taxes to the county and school fund would be increased a little less than 35 cents on each $100, or less than $3.50 on each $1,000.00 assessed value. The total sales for the same quar ter as reported from the several dispensaries was $18,468.00. At the same rate we will spend $73,872.00 for liquor in Bamberg: county during this present year. Here are the facts according to figures. Does it pay to run our dispensaries? No! For a net profit to our county and school fund we get in return for the $73,872.00 expended in our county the small sum of $9,159.64, or a return of one dollar for an expenditure of more than eight dollars. Does it pay to run our dispensaries? Here is another fact which the books of our county treasurer reveals. For the past three years there has been an increase of sale of liquor in our . county, and for this increase of sale there has been an increase of cost in our criminal courts. From 1905 to 1906 the increase of cost in the criminal courts of Bambercr county was $572.75. To increase the sale of liquor in our county means to increase crime and to increase crime < means an increase in the cost of our < courts. To suppress the sale of liquor means to lessen crime and lessen the cost in our criminal courts. The 1 above facts are all based on figures and can be seen at any time by our citizens at the treasurer's office. i A. J. Foster. One on the Boy. When Attorney Jim Butler was first admitted to practice, the first ; case he got was in a justice court, 1 and unexpectedly the young attorney found his father, Edward Butler, summoned as a witness by the other side. The case proceeded, and the humorously solemn father was called to the stand. His son took him for examination. "What's your name?" "Edward Butler." "Live in Baltimore?" "Yes" (with a sidelong look). "Are you married?" 1 "Well if I wasn't you'd be in a hell of a fix." ; That lost the son's case, but it made him careful ever after about what lawyers call "laying the foundation" for an examination. Death of Georgie Ayer. Georgie, as we all called him, was just fifteen years old at the time of his death, having been born on August 2nd, 1892, and died August < 4th, 1907. The fact that Georgie's health had never been very good and < then at the age of six years his father was called away from him by death's cold hand and at twelve his i mother was claimed by death, all combined to make us think more of him. Since his mother's death he with four other brothers had lived < together at the home left them by i their father and mother. Georgie was a good boy, always kind and * ' 11 * j. 1 .11 i.L _ ooeaieni ana loving towaru an uie family. His death seems more sad by the fact that it is the fourth in : the home within twelve months, his oldest brother having lost his wife 1 and little girl and boy in the home inside of twelve months. Georgie : was taken sick on the 3rd instant '< with acute indigestion. Medical aid : was summoned but Georgie continued to grow worse and worse until Sunday the 4th at ten o'clock his sufferings were ended by death, having been sick only one day and 1 night. We miss him very much, but we know he is at rest in heaven. On Monday morning last his body was laid to rest in the cemetery at Pleasant Hill with his father and mother. Uncle Lewis. 0 c ^^oooooo siwiikma Milt ByE?r;ce Mackay. Copyrighted, 10O7.bg M. 31. Cunningham. A C It was a clear, bracing day toward the 1st of November, and from the hill which was crested by the old Lauderdale mansion could be seen a sweep of country touched by varying colors?the russet and crimson of oak and maple, the green of undulating fields and hills broken here and there by the gray of stone walls, the clear flashes of brooks or stretches of open road. "Gad! What air!" cried Grattaa Richards, tossing back his head and taking a long whiff. "And what a day for a hunt!" echoed Rex Tellingford, looking past Richards to where Emily Lauderdale was chattering to a group of men in red coats, checking in her horse as the hounds struggled to be off, straining at their lpochpa "With PVPrv fttlP in SUCh CTOOd fettle It ought to be a great old race!" 6he laughed, tucking a strand of blue black hair beneath her riding hat. The eyes of Richards and Tellingford met with an understanding gleam. Each was cognizant of the other's thoughts?that whoever brought back the brush that day would win a prize of far greater value. Both men knew that their future happiness depended largely on the morning's run, for Emily was a horsewoman from the tip of her riding boot to the ends of her firm gauntleted fingers. She set immeasurable store by cross country rides, daring leaps and hairbreadth escapes. To say a man could not keep his saddle was equal to Emily's mind with saying he could not keep his head. "Though 1 think there are virtues equally as great as cross country rid* " i - i -*-1 - T lug, SUllieu geuiie ?.nz.auciu juauucidale, whose love of outdoor excitement was neither so deep rooted nor -of such long inheritance as Emily's. Emily shook her head. "Dear Aunt Elsie," she answered, "you don't in the least understand, and I'm sure I could never explain. It's bred in my bone, that's all. If I had lived in the olden days I should have had a tournament?rushing of horses, clashing of spears, splintering of armor! That's what I call a wooing! No mere ambling up to demand your heart and hand! And, as I find it hard to decide between Grattan Richards and Rex Tellingford, why, fair field and fair play, and let the best man win." Something of this headstrong resolution stirred in the girl as she turned suddenly in her saddle and glanced at the two men. Assured triumph glowed on the face of Richards. Stern determination was written on Tellingford's. She gave a little nod of satisfaction. JL UCJ V> C1C r>cu jluu lv. wuvuv v?? v. The other members of the Lauderdale house party were not unaware of the drama that was being played before their eyes, and It added to the zest of the morning as the signal was given, the dogs unleashed and the cavalcade swept gayly down the hill. "Look at that girl!" gasped Mrs. Royce Thompson, a novice who pounded in her saddle. "She's actually"? But the rest of the words were lost, for Emily was already in the distance, galloping at breakneck speed, while at her heels followed Richards and Tellingford. The rest of the hunt streamed after them. Luck seemed to favor Richards. His mare's feet scarcely touched the earth. She took fences and furrows like a winged creature. Tellingford was not so fortunate. At the brink of a stream he was forced to pause and fasten his saddle girth. Partly from excitement and partly from annoyance he fumbled with it longer than he had intended, and when he raised his head the others were already far afield, Emily Lauderdale and Richards still in the lead. The hounds had scented their quarry and were in full cry. Tellingford considered. There was a crosscut that he had tried once before. It lay through ditches and brambles and was intersected by five bar fences. Still anything at a pinch, and he would back Fleetfoot against every mare in the county. He congratulated himself on this decision some moments later as Fleetfoot went forward at a pace that justified her name. Her course now lay across wide meadows filled with lush grass and starred here and there by purple asters and skirted by low stone walls, in whose crumbling chinks vines twisted and across whose loose stones squirrels skipped and chattered. "Bravo, old girl!" cried Tellingford, his hand on Fleetfoot's glossy neck, gently urging her forward. At that moment there reached him sharply and piercingly the bitter cry of a child. Tellingford drew rein. By the wall, circling a ditch that Fleetfoot was about to take, lay a small, chubby fignrft mo hnnd full of flowers. "Pricked himself with brambles," thought Tellingford. Aloud he said: "Cheer up, sonny! Men never cry for a scratch." He was for urging Fleetfoot on again when the inertness of the little heap by the wall smote home to him. He checked his horse and dismounted. An Instant later he stood with the helpless burden in his arms. The child's yellow head rested against his shoulder. One small arm hung limp across his own. With an understanding almost human, Fleetfoot stood by the wall like a bronze Btatue while Tellingford mounted and then went slowly back across the meadows toward the read. The child, recovering from his stupor, began to sob. Tellingford soothed him with tender awkwardness and was guiding Fleetfoot to the first farmhouse by the roadside when a woman ran down the path leading to the door, untying her checked apron as she went. Her back was toward the approaching trio. "Bobby," she cried, "Bobby!" The boy stirred in Tellingford's arms "I think I have found your boy. mad am," called TelHngford gently and in three seconds more was speeding fa: the village physician. The founds 01 the hunt had long since died in the distance. It was afternoon when Telliugford reached the Lauderdales. From the dining room came sounds of talking and laughter. In the hall he met Emily Lauderdale. There was a look on her face that he had never seen before. "I'm awfully sorry," he began, abruptly twistiug the crop of his riding whip in his hand, "but you see"? He paused and could go no further. He was a man who always found it easy to tell of the good deeds of others, but balked miserably when it came to the recital of his own. He muttered something inarticulate about loose stones, a muddy ditch and a bad fall. Emily Lauderdale Surveyed him with cool scorn. "For a muddy fall your coat is the most conspicuously spotless garment that I have ever seen," she returned dryly. I "Oh, I say," began Tellingford, but Emily swept past him, her head held high. That he had not cared to win was evident, but that he should add to that humiliation with excuses was more than she could bear. She was glad, she told herself, that it was Grattan Richards who had come off triumphant. Yet in spite of this gladness there was a stinging mist in her eyes and a bitter catch in her throat as she sat before her dressing table that night while Katie, the maid, brushed her hair. Everything had gone wrong that day in big things as well as in little. Even the gown she had planned to wear that evening had been left unfinished, and she was forced to reprimand Katie somewhat sharply. Katie burst into tears. She had meant to finish it, she confessed, but that morning the child of her sister, who lived on the road to the village, slipped on the muddy stones of a ditch T * 1 f-!"" **? ?a !r?nf ao rl a 1111 UTOSC UJS ui LU, anu x\anc, iuoimu of sewing on the gown, had gone to see how he fared. "You can ask Mr. Tellingford if it's not so, ma'am," she concluded tearfully. " 'Twas h^ that found Bobby and carried him home and went for the doctor afterward." Of the truth of this assertion Miss Lauderdale questioned nothing. "Do you know where Mr. Tellingford is now?" she demanded. "Indeed I do, ma'am. He's bidden your aunt goodby and is halfway to the station." "Then tell James to saddle Dplly Dumpling instantly and bring her to the side door." Katie gasped and obeyed, while Emily Lauderdale, throwing a scarf about her shoulders, ran down the stairs to the driveway, her silken dinner gown swishing at every step. Tellingford meantime rode toward 1 the station, his lips set in a thin hard | line. He found himself mentally repeating his morning's advice to Bobby, "Men never cry at a scratch," when behind him came the flying gallop of I hoofs. Telllngford was blank with amazement at the vision of Emily Lauderdale, hatless and coatless and in evening dress, tearing down the road. Straight alongside the cart she came and held out her hand. "If you can forgive and forget," she panted, "and if you still care"? j "Care!" cried Tellingford, jerking off his overcoat and wrapping it about her after she had impetuously slipped from her horse and clambered into the tart. "All I can say is, 'Heaven bless Bobby!' " And the flaxen haired young person in a suit of white satin was page at a wedding in the spring. Hard to Determine. "I've laKCLL uepusna UVCl ILiio same counter for more years than I'd like to own up to," said the receiving teller in a downtown savings bank, "and I've made quite a study of reading faces, too, but just the same I never can tell by looking at a man whether he's going to deposit money or draw some out. Sometimes the shabbiest man Jn the line will pull out a big wad of bills to deposit, while a stylishly dressed woman right behind him will want to draw out a couple of dollars. It would take a clairvoyant to toll what was going to happen, and just for curiosity I sometimes cast an eye down the line trying to size up the different people, J A T UUL it ue> ei uutra any guuu. jl icraember a very ragged man coming in once and depositing $200 in coin and small bills, and right behind him was a fashionably dressed woman who deposited $1. I always remember this Instance, as the persons were in such direct contrast."?New York Sun. England's Great Little River. One could hardly fancy an England without the Thames. It is the source, the inspiration, the participant, in so much that distinguishes England's sylvan beauty. In the centuries that have lived upon Its banks it has been a po tent factor In the civilization of this island kingdom. It cuts in twain and laves the burliest city in all the world, a dark mass of human structure impenetrably profound. 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