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Short Locals.
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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.
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The county dispensary board was
in session here last Monday. Bids
and samples fhr the ensuing quarter
were opened, and purchases were
made.
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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
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(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
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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
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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
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?. . 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."
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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
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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
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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.
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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*
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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