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> a. . '-; ? ?lj? Imttbrrg ifmtlb .,. == ESTABLISHED IN APRIL. 1891 V. ?. P A. IV. KNIGHT. Editor. t , Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, 50c. for each subsequent insertion Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want No. tices one cent a word each insertion. Local 1 >' V Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. after- . wards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must 1 be raid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on subjects ?f general interest will be gladly ; welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not lie published unless paid for. Thursday, Nov, 21,1907. 11 ==^====== Letter from Texas. m xt? in if. ?t liROVETUN, lilX.., i\OV. J.V.?mr. Editor, will you allow me space in j&l- your valuable paper to say a few words in behalf of the Lone Star H State, as I have never seen a letter in The Herald from this State. This is a wonderful State. There is almost , anything to be found here that the human family wants; almost any j I kind of a climate or almost any kind < of a soil. The State is a little more _ than a thousand miles across. In the North and North-western portions of j the State it is a high, dry, and in some places a very rocky country, j ^: In that section there is very little j farming going on, but it is there ; that so many of the cattle are raised. , W& > In the central part of the State ^ * are the best farming lands that I < p V know of. The farmers there raise j pj: more than they can gather. They , fcawo fVio War?V. wflvv soil that will ; |gg. produce for a life-time without any ^0; In the Eastern and Sbuth-eastern parts of the State they have a large supply of pine timber, which is being cut as fast as possible. Here they |||$: have hundreds of the most modern and up-to-date saw mills. At this place tnere is a double cutting band saw mill, that is, two saws in the mill h and both saws cut both ways. They gi^V ran both day and night and average 1- 130,000 feet of lumber each day, IS \ which is shipped to all parts of the ^ . country. The pay roll of this one mill is $30,000 a month, gfe;'; Near here there is a large coal mine, and about one hundred miles j South-east of this place are the great oil fields of Texas Which supply the fv world with oil. Hi, Texas is growing in population very j fast. It is a erreat deal easier to make ; |p?a living here than it is in the old ] States. First, because wages bre so ^$;iirach higher, and then lands are so much cheaper. - I get The Herald every week, and ^ . do not see how I could do without it. is like getting a letter from home. I I must congratulate the editor in getting it over the road so fast. The > . paper is published Thursday, and I ; ; usually get it Saturday evening, but last week it came Friday evening. Subscriber. Sv . lr News from Olar's School. 37'': Olar, Nov. 11.?The Olar highf gradfedschoollis progressing under the ll'V most favorable circumstances of any - , : previous session. New desks and r blackboards have been recently in- f ^/ stelled in the high school department, ?: ' andvthe tnusic and library hall is beBig rapidly built. : agy" The students of the high school have organized a literary society and |p& - elected officers as follows: President, |p;' Miss Emma Bessinger; vice pr&ident, |?>jv Mr. James Chitty%secretary, Miss Belle Cook; treasurer, Miss Ettie frg: Kearse; critic, x Miss Effie Barker; censor, Miss Maida Still; door keep|& er,x Mr. Charley Chitty; program p, committte, Misses Orrie Morris, . Anna McCormack, Evekn Brabham. The program, which was carried ||| oOt in a most interesting way on last |hrV Friday afternoon;' was as follows: ||M. Beading by Miss Orrie Morris; Reels!? Station, '"A Stray Sunbeam," by SPS.v ' Miss Evelyn Brabham; "The Black||p. smith's Story," by Miss Maida Still. 1 fefsT. question for debate was: "Re- J solved, That corporal punishment * Should be abolished in the public I schools." Affirmative: Misses Effie * ??3* "Barker and Ettie Kearse. Negative: * I-> Misses Emma Bessmger ana .Bene * ,.;v- Cooke. After a most interesting dis- $ :\<c cussion the judges decided in favor J of the affirmative. 1 h"." Miss Nora Barker. < . i I I Senator Christensen's View. c Senator Christensen, of Beaufort, 2 formerly of the dispensary investi- c >' gating committee, was recently a?ked his opinion as to what the policy f of the general assembly should be in regard to legislation on the liquor J question at the coming session, and m replied: 2 "I do not see how the present leg- , islature can consistently do anything on the liquor question unless it is to airfend the present law in order to perfect it. The majority of the sen?\ ate and the house are committed to j * to the plan now in force, and unless \ the law is not giving satisfaction it s should stand until the people decree ^ a change" ? * , Ben Tillman Praises Bryan. Danville, III., Nov. 12.?Senator < Tillman, of South Carolina, declared that President Roosevelt will not ac- 1 cept a third term and that Speaker j Cannon, of the House of Representa- ] tives, will be the Republican nomi- 1 ?feJ nee. 1 ? ? mni :j ?< :n i *\Bryan," Mr. unman saiu, wm . ? ' .. be the Democratic nominee without 1 ' doubt. He is the greatest living i Democrat and the proper man to en- < trust with the affairs of our govern- i ment." i CHICKEN THIEF 15 RICH. Becomes an Heir to an Estate Worth About $240,000. Port' Huron, Mich., Nov. 14.? John Roberts, aged 25, who is on the eve of being taken to the Ionia Reformatory for a period of one and a half years, for stealing chickens, is heir to $120,000. Roberts received word yesterday that he would get half of an estate of $240,000 left by an uncle, John Law, who recently died at Stratford, Ontario. There are only two heirs?John and T-. , , ?j i.i Allen jrcoDerts?ana uie iuuu^ xo Uivided equally. "I guess I won't do much to that after I sefve my time," said Roberts today. The will has been filed for probate in Stratford. Our New York Letter. I Phyllis Dade says "nearly as stupid as the people, who scoff at all traditions are the narrow minds who scorn all .innovations." They grudgingly admit that what was a dream yesterday is a reality to-day and yet they are suspicious and distrustful of the dream of to-day just because it is not already an established fact. Wonders which they do not understand have a fascination for some people, but to many others only concrete matter of facts appeal. These things they can believe, but ask them to mix a bit of imagination with their vaunted "common sense" and they say "moonshine and fairy tales!" It is a mere handful of years since messages were first sent by telegraph. Thencam i the tele phone, doing away in a great measure with the necessity of telegraphing messages. And now we can send messages three thousand miles without even the use of wires. Witchcraft and magic and deviltry were :he names given to the first telegraph. What terms, one wonders, could those1 )ld unbelievers find for the wireless message? A few years ago the consumptive vas kept in a heated room, away i from every breath of air. He lived i >n and on, sometimes for years. But le grew weaker and finally died ofi the dread disease. To-day the invalid, once superheated and coddled, is turned out of doors literally. He spends not only his days but his lights in the fresh air, and in the coldest weather as well as in summer. What would have become of a doctor ivho advised such treatment twenfy ' TT.? nuAkoKlir Viotro /ears ago: nc wuum piut/amj ?a>v 3een locked up as a dangerous lunatic if his friends rescued him in' time from indignant relations of patients. I heard an interesting little story the other day which illustrates the ieath-like grip that tradition has on many people: A woman lay dying in i little western town. She had pneumonia, and had been treated in the )ld-time-way, hot poultices, a hot room, closed windows, etc. Her relations were gathered about her bed to bid her good-bye. With fainting breath she asked to have the window it the foot of her bed opened. "But it is snowing. The thermometer is iown to zero," they told her. "The iold air would kill you." "I am dying ind I want to breathe the fresh air >nce more," insisted the sick woman, [he relatives consulted / together. Fhe woman was dying.. Tha open vindow might hasten her end, but ma^HOOI /A rrwjnf tKio last fnncv 41C ICIUOOI W 51 t*i*w VtMW AMWV night embitter her last moments. The window was opened. The sick voman smiled and drew a long breath. In a few minutes she closed ler eyes and slept. When she awakened the fever was gone, and to the imazement of friends and doctor, jhe got well. This case was a village niracle for a dozen years, and the voman to whom through the window lame a new lease of life was looked lpon as specially favored of heaven. H. W. Finlayson, 450 Broadway, New York. Stabbed a Conductor. Columbia, Nov. 13.?Yesterday af;ernoon, J. P. Draffin, a conductor >n a Waverly car, was-stabbed in the jack by an unknown negro. It ap>ears that the negro was on the plat:orm of the car and the conductor ;old him to get on the inside so as lot to interfere with the "passengers getting on and off. As the conduc;or said this he turned and was walkng back into the car when the negro Irew a knife and stabbed him in the | >ack. The wound, however, is not langerous, and Mr. Draffin will probibfy be again on his post of duty in a lay or two. After making the assault, the nep*o jumped from the car ancT made lis escape. Another negro on the :ar threatened to shoot Mr. Draffin f he had the negro who stabbed him irrested. This man also ran. The affair occurred out of the city imits, on a car returning to the city. Young Woman Whipped a Man. New York, Nov. 14.?Mary Mur ay, an athletic young woman detec;ive in a Sixth avenue department store, enlivened things yesterday by shipping a man, who, she declares, stole a handbag. After a rough and :umble fight, she threw him to the sidewalk and sat on him till help lame. Miss Murray followed the man to the door and seized him just as he reached the street. The man, gray-1 laired and athletic, punched her in the jaw, and sent her reeling. That was about the only one he landed. Miss Murray went back at him like a whirlwind. She struck him so rapidly and so hard that the fellow clinched to avoid punishment, and appeared to be glad when he was taken in charge by a policeman. I i Crushing the Curate. One of the first tasks they set the new curate, who was handicapped by youth and inexperience, was to investigate the bona fides of a "widow woman" who had applied to the church for help. He departed nervously on his errand and knocked, as ill luck would have it, at the wrong door. "How long has your poor husband been dead, my good woman? What number of children have you? Are any of them working? If so, what amount of money are they earning altogether?" were the questions he fired, like shots from a revolver, at the slatternly woman who answered his summons. "I presume I am ad I dressing Mrs. Harriet Smith?" he added, noticing with alarm that she looked angry. "No, you ain't." answered the woman snappishly. "My name is Sellna Jackson, my bairns go to school and my 'usband's doinj what is necessary to a plateful of steak and onions at this very moment. Would you .like to know anything else? Where I was born? When I was baptized? At what age I started courtin'? Perhaps," she concluded sarcastically, rolling her tattered sleeve up abbve the elbow, "you'd like to see my vaccination mark before you go?" But the bashful curate was already in full flight.?Liverpool Mercury. Long Men Wanted. The records in the war department in Washington are as a rule very dry, but occasionally an entry is round tnat is humorous. An officer of engineers in charge 0/ the construction of a road that was to be built through a swamp, being energetic himself and used to surmounting obstacles, was surprised when one of his young lieutenants whom he had ordered to take twenty men and enter the swamp said that he could not do it?the mud was too deep. The colonel ordered him to try. He did so and returned with his men covered with mud. "Colonel, the mud is over my men's heads. I can't do it" The colonel insisted, and told him to make a requisition for anything that was necessary for a safe passage. The lieutenant made his requisition in writing and on the spot It was as follows: "I want twenty men eighteen feet long to cross a swamp fifteen feet . UCCp. "JiOipci O II CClUj . The "Nagur" and the Fiddle. Here is a story that Frederick Douglass used to tell about himself: Once when he was in Dublin he felt very lonesome. He was wandering about the streets when he was attracted by two violins in the window of a secondhand deader. Frederick entered and asked the price of one of the instruments. * "Five shillings, sor," said the Irish dealer. * Frederick tuned the violin and began to play "Rocky Road to Dublin." Soon the proprietor's wife heard the music and entered the rear door. Then Frederick started in on "The Irish Washerwoman," and the couple began to dance for dear life. When the music and dancing stopped Frederick tendered the <ratler 5 shillings, but his performance on the violin had greatly enhanced its value in the mind of the a+/ti?>ira*nar and ft?i h<? hurried awav to a place of security be exclaimed: v "If a black nagur can git such chunes out of that fiddle I'll never sell it at any price, begorrah!" " | The Secret. From his farm Judge Blank was in the habit of supplying the preachers of all the churches with flour, corn, hay and vegetables free of cost He also kept the country supplied with venison from the herd of deer which he kept for many years. He built a big smokehouse in the rear of his grounds. One night unseen himself, he saw a man emerge from the smokehouse with a side of pork on his shoulder. He recognized the intruder, but said nothing. A week afterward the fellow approached him, saying, "Judge, I understand you had some meat stolen from your smokehouse?*' The old judge raised his hand deprecatingly and said: "Sh! No one on earth knows anything about that but you and me."?Argonaut v Where She Got Themf "But" said the inquisitive bachelor after the baby had been carefully placed in his arms, "where does she get her blue eyes? Yours are dark, and so are her papa's." "Oh," the fond young mother explained, "shfe inherits them from my side of the family. My brother Will's wife has just such eyes exactly."? Cleveland Leader. ' \ j, Food and Civilization. Few people realize adequately that the stomach Is the greatest civilizing agency upon earth. A well fed man whose meals are suitably served will rise out of barbarism with an irresisti[ ble elan.?London World. The Attraction* Mme. Dupont?Have you been to the theater this week? Mme. Durand? Yes. Mme. Dupont?Did you see anything good? Mme. Durand?Yes; three perfect loves of new hats.?Rire. His Order. "Pop," asked the waiter's little boy, "what does 'apple pie order* mean ?" "Huh," exclaimed the waiter, "that sounds like a Boston man's breakfast."?Philadelphia Press. | / Exactly. "I can tell you," said he, "how much water runs over Niagara falls to a quart" "How much?' asked she. "Two pints." Overloaded. A United States senator had been inveighing at a dinner against long speeches. "But, senator," said a congressman, "you can't accuse me of ever having made too long a speech, can you?" The senator smiled. "Perhaps not." he said, "and again? but did you ever hear about the temperance lecturer? No? "Well, you must know that there was a temperance lecturer in Maine who visited Ellsworth and lectured. He hit out pretty hard from the shoulder at these so called moderate drinkers, and at the end of his remarks an Ellsworth man took him aside and said in an aggrieved tone: ? " 'Look here, Jim, I am a moderate" drinker, as all the town knows, and to many people it is going to seem as if a good part of your lecture was pointed straight at me. What did you want to do it for, Jim? You never saw me with more on board than I could carry.' " 'What's that?' said the temperance lecturer. " 'You never saw me with a bigger load than I could carry, did you?* "The lecturer frowned. "'Well, no,' he said slowly, 'but I have seen you when I thought you'd done better to go twice for it'" Wireless Money Lending. One of the most interesting types on the American track is the professional money lender. Money lending Is abonlntalv on/4 o/\ tha onHrtt DV1UIV1J IVi VlUUVlit UUU WV kUV Vi*?** v transaction must be conducted sub rosa, but if a person who is on goes broke and he has some article of jewelry of value with him it is easy for him to realize money on it The lender is an irreproachably dressed person who sits on the grandstand with the rest of the crowd and is known in his true colors only to the habitues of the track. A man who wants some capital makes an unobtrusive sign to him and twirls a ring he may be wearing at the time. Shortly afterward both will proceed to a restaurant where, for the benefit of onlookers, they wiil greet each other as ordinary acquaintances. \ The exchange is then made over t^e drink they order; the loan broker has the ring and the bettor his capital. If the latter cashes in on the next race he will return the money and the agreed upon premium and will receive back his ring.?From "The People and the Ponies," by C. F. Peters, in Bohemian. Spoiled the Encore. The nobility and gentry of Little Plowboro were recently gathered in the village schoolroom to enjoy some tableaux vivants by Jocal performers, cnDoAWAn'o WAAVIV oaj o j. uai ovu o TV vvaij The curtain had just fallen on a really creditable picture of the death of Nelson, shown to slow music, when one man, who was known to be a friend of the gentleman representing the greatest naval hero, rose and tried, to make his way toward the stage. "Keep your seats, please," Said the stage manager. "We're much obliged for your kind applause, ladies and gentlemen, and we're, going to give you the death of Nelson over again." "Oh, are yer?" came from the hero's friend. "Then if you'll tell Nelson 'is kitchen chimney's afire p'raps 'e wonTt die so blessed lingerin'." He Settled It. An amusing story is told at Stratford-on-Avon. In the smoking room of a hotel there an Englishman and a Scotchman engage^ in a heated argument John Bull was declaring William Shakespeare to be the only poet of the'world, and Donald McPherson was standing up for his Robert Burns. Words ran high and blows seemed imminent when a self confident little commercial traveler determined to \tnrow on on me irouuieu waters. "Gentlemen," be said, stepping between the heated disputants, "let me settle this amicably. Who Is this Shakespeare-Burns?" ? London Telegraph. Crowded Out. "I am thirty-five years old," announced a woman of fifty-six at a tea last week. "And I am twenty-six," said the woman of forty-five. Then, turning to a girl of seventeen who stood near by, she asked, "How old are you, Ethel?' "Oh," replied Ethel, "according to present reckoning, I'm not born yet!" "The Smallpox Devil." The natives of the tyest coast of Sumatra object to being vaccinated. They still make offerings to the smallpox devil. The heart find liver of fowls and buffaloes are mixed with yellow rice and other ingredients, placed in the model of a full rigged ship, carried in procession and finally launched into the sea.?Singapore Frbe Press. Proof. Skrappy?When I married you I had no idea you were such a fooL Mrs. (31?rnrr font ft f m V fftn 0&.rappj> XUC I V-ij a.uv. w. ? sentlng to be your wife should have removed any doubts you had on that point?Illustrated Bits. Apprentice Examination. Preliminaries for membership in the Ananias club: "You may not believe it, but;" "Now, leaving all joking aside;" "Seriously now;" "It may seem strange, but"?Chicago Post With a Little Help. 'Tour customs are enough to make any civilized man boil!" exclaimed the missionary indignantly. "With the help of a little dry wood," assented the cannibals gravely.?Puck. The average amount of rainfall below the equator is twenty-six inches, while north of the line it is thirtyatwf rwiA-hfilf inches. ' " . V *- . *? V .t 2' ? , ?.*?'/? v%V ^ - -> = - : tfte.-. * <.-r: * . ' * !; . ' - , . . -A \ ' " ' 0^ fr . 4 LET'S GET TOGETHER H || 1'i -?*> m8sm NO DOUBT YOU HAVE BEEN ' ? ^11 PRO/USING YOUR WIFE A NEW | ra COOKING STOVE or RANGE > pp a long time. There is no better time to M buy than now. The assortment was ! nflimy WIAVA AAVMnlofA fT?A VNWIAAfl nAtfA* M UIVIC tUC piltCD UCVCl Ijl more attractive. Don't put it off. | '%% Full line of WOOD and COAL HEAT- ' Br ERS just received. Come in and let j us show them to you || In Furniture and Hardware we have complete lines, being sold at H >; most reasonable prices. We can fur- fil nish your home complete. Full line of ; floor coverings: Carpets, Mattings ' ? ^"11 and Rugs. C">me and get our prices. Ill | ' J 'jig i Bambers Furniture & Hardware Go. 1 BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA J DRIVING HORSEsI The first car load of Horses and Mules for this season for Bamberg has arrived at our stables. In this load ?'* we have some fancy driving and fast trotting horses. 1 Also cheaper ones if you want them. Lot of fine farm and timber mules in the load. Come and look at them. , - % ?4|||B Buggies and Wagons We have an unusually large stock of the very best makes of > i Buggies and Wagons, male by the best builders In the country, ; Ky; alllnew and up-to-date styles. Can-suit you In any sort of a , . vehicle. Harness, Lap Robes, Whips | We can furnish anything you want In these lines. Our stock of Harness was carefully selected, is made well, of good leather, and will last long. Come in and get. prices. . ' Jones Bros ^ Railroad Avenue Bamberg, S. C. y |nunVA"LTVS| J i? =na good, i ==xsssss fWe are the Exclusive A;eit for Nonnally's Floe Csniles -is Bamberg. A Good Assortment Always on Hand, jt jt jt jt j? ft I? We are also now ready to serve you II with Hot or Cold Soda. A new and 11 up-to-date soda fountain just installed j1 ii ' ii S :: iti Dannlac -1 wpivo w j|? 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