Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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S of General Merchandise & & ~i WE HANDLE A Fine Line of Buggies Consisting of Rubber tire, Often and Top Buggies, Harness and Whips, also a selected line of both %^I.QNE AND TWO-HORSE WAGONS ??$& Call and see us and get our cheap P#' i- prices before buying ... BLACK & BLACK |? BAMBERG, . . . . . . SOUTH CAROLINA fe"VV. SMALL, ACCOUNTS AS WELL AS LARGE ONES ARE WELCOME HERE fit: . i You need not wait until your business has asv ' { : '> sumed great proportions before opening an account DO SO TO-PAY Our patrons, regardless of the amount of business done, receive every courtesy in all matters entrusted to us, and there Is nothing in safe banking we cannot perform PEOPLES BANK BAMBERG ...... SOUTH CAROLINA \ . . , ' - Cosby Patent Air-Tight Baker and Heater Mfc?p?- IT HEATS rnriKs too. The Most Convenient, Useful and Economical Stove for the :"v.. - ' Home Ever Made IT DOES DOUBLE DUTY It warms the coldest and largest roopn in LL1C uvua*., ma&uig XL \,\j?.y. XXIL uiw^ 1 Pox*2745, RICHMOND,VA. . I * } / GOOD LUCK OP WHIPS How Missouri Couple Is Making the World Happier. THEIR AIM IS TO DO GOOD. Mr. and Mrs. Russ of Ravenwood, Mo., Having No Children of Their Own, Have Taken Into Their Home Eleven Tota to Raise?May Adopt More. While the annual farmers' picnic was in progress in Ravenwood, Mo., a few days ago a big, comfortable farm wagon rolled into the grounds and discharged its human freight of nine happy, hearty boys and girls upon the grass under the trees, writes a Ravenwood correspondent of the Kansas City Star. These nine boys and girls were soon engaged in gleaning all the joy that childhood can gather from candy, peanuts, lemonade and gayly colored balloons. The oldest child was fifteen years old, the youngest five. "An interesting and happy group," said a stranger. "Is it possible that they all belong to one family?" "They do and they don't," said a bystander. "The man and the woman you see with them are Mr. and Mrs. Oliver P. Russ. They are the foster parents of the entire nine." Mr. and Mrs. Russ do not run an asylum for orphans or a school. They have taken these nine little folks into their hearts as well as into tneir Dig, comfortable home, a home which beyond a doubt has not Its duplicate In Missouri and probably not in the nation. Mr. and Mrs. Russ have no children of their own. They have, however, a goodly supply of this world's goods and a desire to do their part in making the world better and happier. In the furtherance of this ideal they have taken, in all, eleven children under their roof. One of these children, a girl, has grown up, married and has a home of her own. A boy died in young manhood. Of the nine children they now have five are girls and four are boys. Eight were vaken from institutions for orphans. One is a distant relative of Mrs. Russ. One of the older girls is a sister of two of the boys. "No, we did not take these children because we were lonesome," said Mrs. Russ. "I was never lonesome in my life. We were not extravagant We had a home. We wanted to accomplish some good In the world, but where and how to do it.,puzzled us. At last we fell upon this plan as being the one most apt to result in the most good with the time a"nd money i spent. - v I The home that Mr. and Mrs. Russ had was roomy and comfortable 1 enough for them,(but when their famil ly began to grow by leaps and bounds i it soon overflowed, and Mr. Russ had to enlarge It. An addition was built ' to the building, and the house now , has thirteen rooms. Mr. and Mrs. Russ give their foster children all the advantages they would give children of their own?all the advantages, in fact, that a well to do northwestern Missouri farming community affords. The Russ family home Is *one-half mile from a church and three-quarters of a mile from a school All the children go to Sunday school. Those old enough go to district school. The girls take music lessons. One of them, Mrs. Russ says, with pride, shows unusual ability. One of the younger ones also gives promise of being a musician." "The children are not prodigies," said Mrs. Russ, "but we are pleased with their work. We believe in heredity to a certain extent. We get a child witn fine mentality if possible, but we do not look for that altogether. We seek moral qualities in the little ones, not brilliancy of mind. We know at least a part of the history of all the children. All are of legal parentage." "Do you ever become discouraged and regret paving undertaken this j task?" Russ was asked. "Never," was the decisive reply. "We considered it well beforehand, but we were willing to endure it all for the reward of knowing that we had done our duty." Mr. Russ, a tall, rather heavy man, with red hair and whiskers, appeared rather aggrieved that hp had been given more credit for the work ho and his wife were doing than he believed he was entitled to. Mrs. Russ gently objected, but Mr. Russ insisted. "What could I do without her interest and co-operation in my plans?" he asked. "I can attend to my stock, I "can care for my crops, but this?why, she has the heavier part" Mr. And Mrs. Russ said that they have found it necessary to whip only two of the children they have taken. They prefer to use moral suasion, but believe in using tne rod when tne necessity arises. "I want to say," Interjected Mra. Russ, "for it Is due them, that no one ever saw children show more respect for parents than these children do for us. That little fellow, for Instance," indicating an attractive, sturdy, black eyed boy of seven or eight years, "never takes a drink without bringing me one. When they go to bed it is always 'Good night, father,' 'Good night, mother.' We don't ask it of them.. They give it to us." It is possible that the limit of the Russ family has not been reached even yet Mr. and Mrs. Russ may take still more children. "We are considering the matter, and if we see- our way clear we will do it" said Mr. Russ. The Ant. If we moved our legs proportionately as fast as an ant, it Is calculated we could travel nearly 900 mllee an hour. >. : * . . Id. j. delk' CARRIAGE WORKS I ANYTHING ON WHEELS 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 I notice, first-class repair ana paint shop, does pipe work and carries piping and fixtures, brass fittings, engine supplies, injectors, steam gauges, engine oils, large stock of buggies, harness, lap robes and whips for sale cheap. All work will be appreciated and satisfaction guaranteed D. J. DELK Di UDDDO Q . f H -" WANTED! Fifty Colored laborers at Once i For Logging, Railroad and Sawmill Work. STEADY WORK GOOD WAGES Paid Every Night With Checks which may be turned into office every two weeks to be cashed. House Rent Free Also can use white labor Call or Address BREON LUMBER GO. ULMERS, S. C. Located on 5, A. L. Railroad. \ f \ IW. P. RILEY !! % < FIRE, LIF !! ACCIDENT i It INSURANCE ][ BAMBERG, .... S. C. PHOTOGRAPH QALLE RY Open in Telephone Building I r-> a ?A..H vy cxpcn Aruai9i wine auu i examine our pictures. Prices from 60c to $6.00 per dozen. Special attention to enlarging and copying old pictures. T. J. POOSER & BRO. BAMBERG, S. G. Mm I'^F. C AJRTER"! Attorney-at-Law 1 i BAMBERG, S. C. I Y Special Attention Olven to Settlement T ^ of Estates and Investigation of Titles X Offices over Bamberg Banking Co. NOTICE FINAL DISCHARGE. On Satnrdav. November 2nd. 1907. I will file my final account as administrator of the estate of Plenty Stephens, deceased, with Geo. P. Harmon, Judge of Probate for Bamberg County, and will thereupon ask for my final discharge as such administrator. H. C. FOLK, Qualified Administrator. Bamberg, S. C., Oct. 1st, 1907. VALUABLE Plantation For Sato My plantation known as the Honey ford or Hutto place, containing two hundred and ninety four acres, well timbered, with both swamp and upland. Price thirty-five hundred dollars, onethird cash, balance on one, two and three years' time, one-third each year,- with Interest at the rate of eight per cent, payable annually on tne whole balance. Five-horse farm now open. Mrs. S. H. Counts Bamberg, S. C. COCKTAILS AS AN ISSUE Temperance Workers De< Who Indulge or Furr Washington, Oct. 22.?Cocktails are likely to cut almost, if not quite, as important a figure in the approaching national campaign as the tariff. Organized "temperance" workers throughout the country have declared war on all candidates who either indulge in the festive drink themselves or who furnish it to others. Already they have begun "to make it hot" for those candidates who do not conform in their practice to the ideas of the prohibition organizations, and they have the strength to make their influence felt. This influence is due not alone to numerical strength, but in part to that strength aroused by an apprehension in the minds of the candidates that they dare not run counter to the anticocktail element. Curiously enough, practically every man thus far mentioned as a candidate for the presidency by either Republicans or Democrats is a temperance man in the strict acceptance of that term. Not one of them is what ordinarily is referred to as a "drinking man.'' Some of them sometimes drink wine or even liquors, but none of them drink to excess. They are strictly temperate in their drinking, as they are in their eating. Many of them?perhaps a consid' erable majority?supply wines at formal dinners and various punches at receptions, not particularly -because they desire such things themselves but because it is a custom of the time. President Roosevelt furnishes wines to his guests at the White House and at his country home, Sagamore Hill. Personally, he is a very moderate drinker. Sometimes he takes a glass of champagne, which he sips occasionally during a dinner or other social function at which he may be present; but as a dinner drinks hp nrpfprs a licrht sauterne. in the Dro portion of one part of the wine to two parts of some mineral water. He rarely if ever takes a drink of whiskey, although at a recent dinner in St. Louis he is said to have evoked applause by drinking part of a cocktail as others drank theirs to a standing toast. He not only evoked applause of the dinner guests, but he evoked the wrath of the prohibitionists, who have been giving vent to their shocked feelings ever since. SACRIFICE WAS IN VAIN. Daughter Seeks to Save Father Who Killed Admirer. Douglas, Ga., Oct. 23.?In an effort to save her father from the consequences of killing her lover, Miss Ida Summerlin, a pretty seventeenyear-old girl, went on the witness stand and sacrificed herself, but the sacrifice was in vain, for the jury found her father guilty of murder. Ivy Summerlin, the father of the girl, is a prominent citizen of Coffee county ana his victim, Leo Mancil, was a member of a wealthy family. Qrvnrm TYinnf Vic aorn Snmmprlin found UVlliV iliViiVUW ??2>V .... his daughter and Mancil together, and killed the young man in his daughter's presence. When the girl had realized that her lover had been slain, she turned to her father and said: "You have killed Leo, now kill me. Summerlin claimed at the time that Mancil had wronged the girl, but this the girl denied. She said that she and Mancil were engaged and were discussing their marriage when her father fired. At the trial, however, Miss Summerlin appeared as witness for her father and deliberately sacrificed herself, alleging that Mancil had wronged her and then refused to marry her. The girl sobbed bitterly as she told her story and many in the court room wept. The jury, however, was unaffected, for a verdict of guilty was quickly returned. It is supposj ed that the girl's statements at the time of the killing affected the jury. Girl's Snake Hunting. Miss Edith Knox of Garden City is receiving a great many compliments on her skill with a rifle, but the compliments are not more pleasing than the fact that she possesses the skill and was able to use it in a time of danger. The occasion of the compliment was the killing of two large rattlesnakes with a 32-calibre rifle. Misses Babe and Edith Knox drove to the Knox ranch in the sand hills and after tying their team at the road started across the pasture to see the cattle. They took a small rifle with them, thinking they might see some small game, but the game thev found was larerer. On the way across the field they saw two large rattlesnakes. The young ladies made the discovery when they were some distance from the rattlers and Miss Edith took aim at the head of the largest of the snakes and brought it low at the first shot. The other reptile was also in range and another shot sent it in the wake of the other. The young ladies brought the snakes home as trophies of an exciting experience. -Kansas City Journal. John Sharp Williams, Democratic leader in the house, will not be a candidate for re-election to congress. He intends to take a two-year vacation before he takes his seat as senator from Mississippi, succeeding H. D. Money. In the interval he will devote his time to reading and to writing a life of Thomas Jefferson. r 9 /. : ' . ' Vif.. "I -Ws IN NATIONAL CAMPAIGN. i :Iare War on Candidates lish Drinks to Others,I Vice President Fairbanks looks up- A ' ' on the v/ine even less than the presi! dent, if that be possible in one who. I drinks anything at all. Like the president and other public personages, he serves wines at his social functions. At a recent formal luncheon which he gave in Indianapolis in honor of President Roosevelt, the caterer served a cocktail to each present. Notwithstanding the fact that neither the president nor the vice president touched his drink, a furore quite disproportionate to the incident was 11 11 ;_i rrn. raised Dy tne proniDiuomsis. iney carried the fight into the Methodist church, of which Mr. Fairbanks long has been a prominent and consistent member, and succeeded in defeating : him as a delegate to the general J* council of the church. They propose, JgSA too, to make the incident the Dasis for their opposition to him as a presidential candidate. Secretary Taft, too, is a moderate iiM drinker, as also are other presided-. v'Jgl tial aspirants of whatever political party. Secretary Cortelyou probably drinks as little as any man who has been mentioned in connection '^0, with the nomination. At notably rare inter/als he sips, part of a glass ^ of wine, but he drinks nothing else. He is not hidebound about the matter, however, believing that others should within moderate limits, as they like. Just now the wrath of the prohi- $? ?e Kainrr Qoroinaf UI tlVlilOlO lO Ull WWVU ", Governor Charles E. Hughes, of New York, who at a dinner given on New York day at the Jamestown Exposition, drank his cocktail like a man' much to the satisfaction of the other Cjjj guests who were watching to see what he would do. He is a thorough believer in temperance, not only in drinking, but in all things. The cocktail issue has come to stay,' . #8? however, and it will be next year a \v ^ lively question in the national camp^ign. Speaker Cannon knows a good ",2a drink when he tastes it and he is not ; J ashamed of it, although he is a moderate drinker. About the only thing he does to excess is to smoke. > Thirty or forty cigars a day frequently go up in smoke in his mouth. He enjoys a cigar more than anything BARNWELL MAN SHOT. ^^8 Hr. C. B. Ellis Hay Lose Both Eyes as . Result of Wound. \ Barnwell, Oct. 24.?News reach- , ||| ea here late last night to the effect j that Mr. C. B. Ellis, one of the most substantial Dlanters and merchants , ' in his section, had been shot by a negro. It seems that Mr. Ellis was counting up his money from the sales of his store last night and while in the act a negro'eame up and before Mr. Ellis could realize his intentions the negro shot' with a shotgun, the loaa taking effect in the head. As Mr. Ellis fell the negro gathered m the cash and skipped. The report of the gun was heard by Mr. Ellis's family at his home, a ,'^gS few hundred yards from the store, || and they immediately went to see"' V/f|| what was the mattter. When they - tim arrived Mr. Ellis .was lying on the floor in an unconscious condition. In J a few hours he regained consciousness and told them who had assaulted him. A party was organized and wentout in search of the negro. He was lo- fm cated this morning and turned over to a deputy Sheriff Creech had sent to arrest him. The negro was brought ^ to Barnwell and is now lodged in jail. M Ellis is receiving 'the best of medi- ' J cal attent. It is not thought that the wounds win prove iatai out me doctors fear that they will result in 'Jfy the loss of one or both eyes. . REVIVAL STIRS BENNETTS VILLE. $ 1,375 Contributed for Educating Bax-> ter McLendon. Bennettsville, Oct. 22 ?The protracted meeting which has been con- ' ducted by the holiness people here for the past 18 days closed last night. \ fp The preaching was done by Revs. ' "Bud" Robinson and Will Huff and . ^ the music was under the direction of . Mr. Charles Tillman. These services have been attended by great multitudes of people and hundreds of peo- - Hi pie have professed conversion and . (* sanctification under the preaching ^ and singing of these men. This is the third visit of Revs. Huff and Robinson and they have exerted a wonderful influence upon their hearers. ^ r J i.L^ IS Mr. .Baxter MCBenaon, me prvprietor of a barber shop in Bennettsville that would do credit to any city, was converted last year under the preaching of these ministers, and af-? ter a profession of sanctification this year has sold out his business and left today for college to prepare him- ' j self to preach. Yesterday at the afternoon service Rev. Huff in less than five minutes raised $1,200 to defray the college expenses of Mr. McLendon ana last night a purse of $175 was collected in a hat collection for Mr. McLendon, who is a man with a wife and two children and with little money. His life has been a wild one for the greater part up to last year when he UTQQ rvmvprtpd The contributions indicate the influence the meeting has had as well as the confidence the contributors have in McLendon. -