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Our New York Letter. Here is the latest. Baby insurance, before birth. A company has entered the field here that guarantees to every policy holder $500 in gold at the birth of every child. One does not have to die to get this insurance, it is payable at the other end of life's existence. Any married couple may enjoy its benefits, and when maternity stamps the house with the imprint of a new life, will reap an advantageous reward. This is one of the most unique organizations in the country. What value great railway corporations place on New York city as a terminal may be approximated when persons consider that the New York Central and Pennsylvania systems are spending about two hundred millions of dollars just to improve their present facilities. New York city would never have existed as a metropolis without the waters around Manhattan Island, yet to facilitate travel over these waters, there has been spent and planned to be spent in bridges $201,000,000. There are about 13,000 women living in hotels in New York city who are entirely relieved of all the cares and responsibilities of housekeeping and families, and have their attention principally occupied with food, dress and amusement. New York citv is now a rival to London in its stock of antiques. No matter how great the sales, the numerous shops are able to keep up , a full and increasing supply of what appear to be indestructible goods and chattels. New York people have no reason for smiling at persons from the provinces because they show ignor, ances of matters metropolitan, for they are less ignorant of the metropolis than the average urban born and bred person is of what the country far out of sight of Manhattan means to the nation and what its people are doing. \ Few persons realize the push cart business that is done on Manhattan Island. Last Friday in a walk of forty minutes within a block of the terminal of the Williamsburg bridge were seen 587 of these portable stores in charge of as many peripatetic merchants. The government of New York city j will spend more than twice as much in the coming year as the goverment of the United States spent in the year before the civil war. New York city, with all of its public buildings, has to provide for the payment of $725,835.96 in rents next year. New York's oldest dealer in musical { instruments says that there are more violins in the city bearing the name "Antonius Stradivarius'' than the great Cremona fiddle maker ever had in his little shop. Residents of New York city are now planning for about twelve thousand new homes to be erected for their us? in Westchester county, next year. There is food enough wasted in New York city each day to feed a half million persons. It was a revelation in a New York inventor who went to nine shops of mechanics last week and couldn't find one workman able to make a sample addition to a machine with/ out a model for a pattern. Finally, in desperation, he paid a mechanic $5 for the use of his tools for an hour and in fifty minutes he made what he wanted. TViprp are abont 18.400 lame chil dren in New York city. An observer and traveller, who has stopped in all of the large cities of the world, says that New York shopkeepers are so anxious to make immediate sales that they fail to make the permanent customers that they might if they were more careful of the reputation that their methods created. H. W. Finlayson, 450 Broadway, New York. Congressman Patterson. Congressman Patterson expects to leave for Washington Thursday or Friday to attend the opening of the ' sixtieth congress. Mr. Patterson leaves this week in order to be presr ent at the Democratic caucus held before the opening of the coming session of congress. At this caucus the minority leader is elected and committeesappointed. Mr. Patterson will doubtless receive appointments on some of the more important committees as his work in congress since his election has been such asto.place him in the front rank of the Democratic u . members.?Barnwell Sentinel. "'' r , Swoons at Sight of Dinner. < New York, Nov. 29.?Weak, emaciated, half starved, a ragged, tattered man crept up to the window of ? t t_i ? ji?j. a residence on .l/ong isianu-iast uigut and after gazing for a moment into the window fell in a swoon to the ground. An hour later a policeman found him and sent him to a hospital. There he was found to be starving. He recovered sufficiently to tell the surgeons that his name was Louis Fink and that he had not eaten for three days. He was a longshoreman, he said, and left his job when a strike was declared six months ago. Since then he had not averaged four meals a week and for three days had not eaten a morsel. "When I looked in at the window," he said, "and saw a family at their Thanksgiving dinner I must have fainted." The doctors say that Fink's case is serious, but he may recover. "... You know as well as any one when you .need something to regulate your system. If your bowels are shiggisn, your food distresses you, your kidneys pain, take Kollisters Rocky Mountain Tea. It al. way3 relieves. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. H. F. Hoover. TOWN BEAUTIFYING. Practical Method For Improvement by Architectural Aid. Consul Thomas H. Norton, writing from Chemnitz, says that the sojourner in Germany is frequently impressed by the evidence of many sided efforts on the part of municipal authorities to gratify the aesthetic sentiment of the population at large in all that appeals to both eye and ear. The consul con tinues: The tendency is almost as strongly evident as the more distinctly utilitarian determination to abolish mendicancy, improvidence and suffering from poverty during sickness and old ago. An interesting phase of this policy is revealed in the prize competition offered recently by the authorities of a neighboring Saxon town. The town council invites architects to submit suitable plans for the fronts of residential and business edifices. These facades should be in keeping with the location and general character of the place and aim at fitting and harmonious effects within the reach of modest purses. Four substantial prizes are offered for the most successful competitors, and other projects are to be purchased if deemed desirable. These plans will be placed freely at the service of property owners who decide to build or to alter existing constructions. It is hoped by this means to combat unfortunate and all too prevalent tendencies on the one hand toward monotonous uniformity, on the other toward the baroque and grotesque, when architectural details of projected edifices are often confided entirely to builders destitute of adequate training or taste for the aesthetic. The idea is certainly one which if intelligently carried out should eventually improve materially the general appearance of the towns where it is introduced. It is of importance in a pountry like Germany, where even in villages buildings are erected in continuous blocks. As but one side of a construction is exposed to public view, It frequently happens that the services of an architect are not sought This habit of compact buildings even in small places dates from the olden time when dictated by the needs of mutual aid and protection. MAKING THE BOYS USEFUL How GIor Cove League Operates to Keep Village Streets Clean.' A boys' league was recently formed under the auspices of the Village Improvement association of Glen Cove, N. Y. The village has been divided into eleven sections, and a club of boys has been formed in each. The aim of the league is to effect an improvement in the village of Glen Cove as regards cleanliness and attractiveness. Already many boys have manifested an interest in the league and have done considerable work in picking up stray pieces of paper, etc. Mrs. Charles P. Valentine has charge of the leaeue. and under her are eleven women in charge of their neighboring sections. The league has placed ash cans in various portions of the town for the collection of paper and other rubbish. Each boy haslbeen furnished a badge of office in the shape of a button bearing the inscription. "Boys* League, Glen Cove, L. I." The expenses of the league for ash cans, buttons, etc., have been moderate up to the present time. Any one interested in the purpose of the league and in the boys of the village may help defray expenses by contributions sent through the treasurer of the Village Improvement association, Mrs. A. H. Sleigh. Gumwood For Paving. The black and tupelo gum trees,, which find their ideal home in the Dismal swamp and other marshy places of south Atlantic and gulf states, will probably play an important part in solving the street pavement problem, which vexes the officers of every municipality, says a Washington dispatch to the Boston Transcript Experts who have experimented with the timber of this tree, which hitherto has been considered almost worthless, say that it makes an ideal paving block when properly preserved. A representative of a large wood preserving company of New York, which makes a specialty of the manufacture of street paving blocks, recently left Washington after a conference with officers of the forest service regarding methods of wood preservation. His company is now dealing almost exclusively in black and tupelo gum. and he is highly elated with the experiments which have been made. Planting of Street Trees. The selection of trees suitable for streets requires more knowledge and judgment than does the planting of them, for not all for sale are in any wise fitvfor such use. In planting the chief factor that tends to success is a hole of sufficient size so that the tree stands a fair show of growth by reason of water and air reaching the roots. So much of our soil, especially on the street, is so hard packed that neither air. water nor roots may per A. JA rrkift meate 11 10 auj uibuuicc. xms dvu should he loosened to the depth and width of three to four feet, and if this is done no fear should be held regarding the future of the trees. To Adorn a Town* Some years ago a neighborhood association in a Michigan city began to improve the respective homes of th* members. Here a fence was taken away, there an unsightly barn was covered with climbing vines, over there a clump of shrubs hid the back yard, farther along still low lots were filled in and the grass was revivified by constant care. IK DRAMA'S GLARE, Author Lewis Dares to Write Nat Goodwin a Play. AS TO ETHEL BARRYMORL An American Actor Now In London Rises In His Wrath to Score English Audiences For Their III Manners. an^ Rnninn Pooular. [From Our New York Dramatic Correspondent.] Alfred Henry Lewis, author of "Wolfville," "The Throwback," "The Sunset Trail" and "When Men Grqw Tall," is quite willing to write "the American play" for Nat C. Goodwin which the well known actor has announced that he wants. Mr. Goodwin recently said that he wanted Mr. Lewis to write him a play. "I should like a stalwart American play by a stalwart American author, and Alfred Henry Lewis fills the center of the stage in that role." Mr. Lewis said later: "tmi xxrrito a nlflv for Nat Goodwin that will fit him and will suit both him and me. In many ways I regard him as the representative American actor and one of the best men that ever walked on a stage and faced an audience. "I would rather write a play for Mr. Goodwin than any other actor in the country, because I believe that he can present the true American type of the west that I will create or write into a play. Goodwin is an American of the full blooded kind, without a cross, and his experience fits him to represent the true citizen of this country." Ethel Barrymore's new play is stated to be one that will give her the best opportunity of her career for effective work. Clyde Fitch and Cosmo Gordon Lennox collaborated on the drama, which is reported to have scenes laid both in America and England. Its title Is "Her Sister." UTA +Vi{ner hr?w T^ncllsh XI IB a WUUV'iD luuig xv.. --- Q customs contradict one another," says an American actor who Is now In London. "It is considered very rude to talk loud here' or. even raise your voice much above a whisper in a public res ETHEL BABBYMOBE. taurant, yet these same people will go to a public performance In a theater and boo and hiss like a pack of rowdies. No matter how bad the play may be, it seems to me to be the worst sort of manners to hiss In a theater. It may be that the person sitting next you likes the play and wants to listen to it You have no right to deprive him of that privilege, which he has paid for, by expressing your disapproval "In America audiences are too well bred to hiss in a theater, and when they do hiss it is generally to silence people in the audience who are making disturbing noises and is not aimed at the stage. "The much vaunted dignity and drawing room deportment of the London audience are very greatly myths, and they go about as far as wearing evening clothes, and then they quit I have never been in a country where the audiences are quite so bad mannered as they are here. "In addition to hissing and booing, they have very little consideration for one another's feelings or comfort. They whisper and chatter during the scenes, and the men have no hesitation in forcing their way out each entr'acte to get a drink, though they discommode dozens of ladies each time in doing so, and they will stand in the doorway and gossip, preventing scores of people who are in a hurry from passing out They think nothing of ntanninc* in front of vou or Dushins ? v * ? their way between a lady and her escort "Fashionables in London have not even the courtesy to applaud a good thing. All they do is to turn to the person next to them and drawl "Rather good!'" ROBERT BUTLER. fc. R. BR Us ? i y MEN' has the style of Tailor Made We are selling our $7.50 suits for We are selling our $8.50 suits for We are selling our $10.00 suits for Our Boys' Clothing is an up $6.00. Be sure and see tl We will sell our extra pants Blankets and Comforts will We have a few trunks, will We have a large line of D , them before going to thes have a few pieces of plaid it for 17? cents per yard. Our underwear for men, wo m SHOE 5 . When we say Sh | ? independent, for it | ^ fact that the Ham: "! ^ line is t^e best in H ? We can fit anybod; ? B smallest baby to I man or woman. W ? Z our price to be a g g cheaper than any ? ? chant. G. R. BR BAMBERG Davis Wants to be Judge. Barnwell, Nov. 27.?The resignation of Judge James Aldrich, made ] public in today's paper, has brought j forth many remarks of regret on the 1 streets and around the court house ] here today. Judge Aldrich has a host 1 of friends and admirers in this county ] and they all regret to learn that he i was compelled to retire from active work on account of his ill health. It < is the earnest desire of all his friends s in Barnwell county that his rest from j official duties will restore him to his j former good health and vigor. It is very probable that there will I be more than one candidate from 1 Barnwell for the position made vacant ] by the resignation of Judge Aldrich. i It was rumored that Solicitor Davis 1 would be a candidate for the position. ] When seen by your correspondent, Solicitor Davis stated that he would be in the race to the finish. Mr. Davis is a native of Baniwell j county, but was admitted to the bar ] from Aiken. He is the son of Hon. J. 3 L. Davis, who was clerk of court in ( Barnwell county for several years ( previous to the war. Solicitor Davis , has been a member of the Barn- , well bar for a number of years. He was first elected solicitor in 1900 and . since that time has held the office continuously. ' ?i -i n j_ It is rumorea mat ?enaior vjeux^c H. Bates and B. T. Rice, Esq., of the ( local bar, will also be candidates. Your correspondent was not able to j get a statement from either of these . men. Sawyer to Stand for Judge. Aiken, Dec. 1.?In addition to the ] probable candidates from Barnwell ; for the judgeship of the second cir- 1 cuit the name of Capt. C. E. Sawyer 1 of this place has been mentioned for < the office. During the past few days * Capt. Sawyer has received numerous telegrams and letters from friends throughout the State urging that they be allowed to place him in nomination. Capt. Sawyer had no idea of en- ' tering the race until he received these numerous communications, but he is now taking the matter un- i der consideration. He is a lawyer , of known ability, of wide experience 1 and would make an excellent judge. His friends here hope he will allow his name to be placed before the legislature. i The Anderson Mail says that Mr. Rucker is mistaken. The people of ' that county do not want the dispen: sary back and are perfectly satisfied with prohibition. This is the season of decay and weaki ened vitality; good health is hard to re, tain. If you'd retain yours, fortify your ! system with Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, the surest way. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. H. F. Hoover. | ABHAM i We have the fiats that M Just received a large li them as cheap as anytx I large line of caps for be Tl A *._! A ?i i ne uroiui & | ^FnLTHA^ are the best yet. They stylish and the most dura Our large and well sel< S CLOTh Clothing. If we can show yoi $6.50 We are selling our \ 7.50 We are selling our! 8.50 We are selling our 5 -to-date and snappy line. We lem before buying, at about cost. It will pay yc be sold at the very lowest figi sell them at about cost, ress Goods, will sell them as e sales and we think you will s that we will sell cheap. If; men and children will be sold f A SWELL SHC ' * maCiC in all loes we are feathers and is a known Sfjies. the world. ABHAM* Governor to Own Paper. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 30.?Disappointed, it is said, at having been de- c feated in the recent race for the * United States Senate by Congress- c nan John Sharp Williams, Governor c rT " ?*" -i-I J. iL ? J v araaman win reure at uie cuu ux ^ lis present term from politics, to de- j 70te "his future to journalism. ; Arrangements have been perfect- t id for launching a big daily at Jack- 1 jon and the governor will be at the < lead as editorial writer, advisor and ( general manager. * In an address at the college in Starksville, Miss., Wednesday, Gov. ^ardaman said his future would be inked with newspaper work, to which he devoted himself in his native county, LeFlore, prior to his plunge into politics. "Lemon" Club in Windy City. Chicago, Nov. 30 ? Mrs. Maiy Hulen, 315 East Forty-first street, is the originator of Chicago's most novel and in many respects most exclusive club. She is forming a society of grass widows and grass widowers. To date 389 men and women who have been divorced have applied to her for membership. She desires at the most only 30. "Now we may profit by our mistakes and not get lemonized next * * i i j time," is the tunaamentai idea un- t derlying the club, according to Mrs. i Hulen. She proposes that the mem- ' bers talk over "in friendly chat" 1 their wedded experiences so that "next time"?if it comes?they will , know better. ] "I was handed a whole crate of lemons in my last experience," said < Mrs. Hulen yesterday, "and I want j to help start a club where those of us who have suffered may meet in a 3 social way and help each other so ( that we may not be nipped again." The EUoree Case. Dr. John A. Branson has led a vigorous fight against the re-opening of the dispensary atElloree. He says that the people of Elloree opposed to the dispensary are in the majority and yet in the face of this the county board decided to reopen the dispensary in that town. He has discussed the matter in the Columbia State, and has shown up some glaring defects in the Carey-Cothran law which he hopes the next Legislature will correct. What would please him and thousands of others would be the en ? I actment by the next legislature 01 a clear-cut prohibition law for the State. That is what prohibitionists should work for, and we believe that is what the majority of the voters of this State will in the end demand and receive. The thwarting of the will of the people by dispensary tactics as in the Elloree case is helping very much to bring about State-wide prohibition.?Baptist Courier. . > . A .. -ii*.. , K'.' I 'V ' " ?W*'S???3a V'-..-v. f Sc SONS V*. : >' * en and Boys should wear * ** ne, will sell ^ )dy. Also a >ys and men. JIHipL ^ Knapp gSlf TS^ are the most ible hat sold. y ' ;MS|; jcted line of fe ' . r W A. "* *$&& I I i> :,?8|g ii our line we can sell you. $12.00 suits for. $10.00 $15.00 suits for 12.50.. y ;v; $18.00 suits for . 15.00 \ have suits from $1.50 to >u to see them. ,. . g;; ires. . - fMi cheap as anybody. See 'i?m buy them from us. We you want galetea we have at low figures. American Lady ^ Shoes $3 to $3.50 A. D. B. Shoes for A jf A Large Line of A well selected line I -j of Children's I : &5# to Sh0e8' I ' & SONS SOUTH CAROLINA TAX NOTICE. The county treasurer's office wifl. >pen for the collection of State,cocmtjL . school and all other taxes from the 15th lay of October, 1907, until the : ^ )f March, 1908, incrasive. From the 1st day of January^ 1908, tm-' il the 31st day of January, 1908, a penaly of 1 per cent, will be added to alltmr . )aid taxes. From the first day ofFehreiry, 1908, until the 28th day of February, & yjjSi .908, a penalty cf 2 per cent. willbeacHfcv vrl Ia oil nnn^jM fovoo UVnm fKo lay of MarSC 1908, until the 15th din >f March, 0908, a penalty of 5 per eenC : yill be added to all unpaid taxes. The fallowing- is the levy: For State purposes, 5 nulls. v : v > For comity purposes, 3 mills., > Constitutional school tax, 3 mills. Total, 10$ mills. SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14, 4| mills. J Denmark, No. 21, 6 mills. Olar, No. 8, 4 mills. Lees, No. 28, 4 mills. - {L Midway, No. 2, 2 mills. Cuffie Creek, No. 17, 2 mills. Colston, No. 18, 2 mills. * ' jv; ^ Ehrhardt, No. 22, 2 mills. Oak Grove, No. 20, 2 mills. Govan, No. 11,3 mills.. . Biirnaker's, No. 12, 3 mills. Hopewell, No. 1, 3 mills. ':'C: Clear Pond, No. 19, 2 'mills. Hunter's Chapel, No. 16,1 mill. , Hampton, No. 3, 2 mills. Heyward, No. 24, 2 mills. All male persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are sxempt at fifty years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. ? . Capitation dog tax, 60 cents. I will receive the road commutation tax ($2.00) from October 15th, 1907, until/ v March 1st, 1908. All male persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of January. 1907. are liable to 31*00 poll tat. - W rhose who have not made returns to the auditor will do so on or before let day k V )f January, 1908. JNO. F. FOLK, Treasurer Bamberg County*? Bamberg, S. C., September25th, 1907. j BRICK FOR SALE . *' 11 ? We are manufacturing a High Grade Brick and can furnish Run of Kiln of Ofi f n. h. cars Badham, South Carolina Dorchester Lumber Co. ] Badham, Sooth Carolina ' j | f J. F. CARTER :: t Attorney-at-L^w [ BAMBERG, S. C. J. \\ ? Special Attention Given to Settlement ] ' L of Estates and Investifatlan of Titles < ; | Offices over Bamberg Banking Co. |