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ttty? lambrrg ISimilii ESTABLISH ED J N APRIL, 1891 A. W. KXIGUT, Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$ 1.00 per inch for * 6rst insertion, 50c. for each subsequent insertion Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. after- 1 wards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must 1 be paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on subjects general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not i>e published unless paid for. Thursday, Dec. 12,1907. ! Crookedest Railroad in World. Grading is in progress in East Los Ancreles for the crookedest railroad in the world. Compared with it the famous JMount Tamrlpais road, 1 which now has the squirming record, : is as straight as a Mexican's hair. 1 It will take two miles of track to 5 cover a stretch not more than three blocks running north and south, and not more than that running east and ? west. It is claimed by engineers 1 that there will not be a single straight ] rail in the two miles of track; every 1 one will be curved. The road de- 1 signed as an extension to the Griffin 1 avenue street railroad line, and will open up for residence the highest < tract of land in the city. In Kentucky. The light descends the softest in Kentucky; The summer days come oftest In Kentucky; There friendship is the strongest, There love light glows the longest, Yet wrong is alway wrongest -' - In Kentucky. Life's burdens bear the lightest In Kentucky; The home fire burns the brightest In Kentucky; While players are the keenest, And cards come out the meanest, The pocket empties cleanest In Kentucky. The orators are grandest In Kentucky; Officials are the blandest In Kentucky; The boys are all the fliest, Great dangers ever nighest, And taxes are the highest In Kentucky. The blue grass waves the bluest In Kentucky; Yet blue bloods are the fewest In Kentucky; The moonshine is the clearest, By no means its the dearest, And yet it acts the queerest In Kentucky. The dove notes are the saddest In Kentucky; The frolics are the maddest In Kentucky; Hip pockets are the thickest, And pistol hands are quickest, The cylinder turns slickest In Kentucky. k ?Indianapolis News. g j, Saved By a Woman. d New York, Dec 5.-Frank Gillian, ^ an attendant at the Children's Museum, Brooklyn, is back at work a 1 t 1 *i! xl 11 alter six weexs in a nospitai witn tne , knowledge that he owes his life to the promptness and bravery of Miss ? Mary Day Lee, formerly of Richmond. Six weeks ago Gillian was cleaning . out the cage which is occupied by 8 the Gila monster, in the museum, n - when the venomous reptile bit him. Its teeth were buried deep in Gil- * lian's hand, and he was forced to pry its jaws apart. Gillian at once bathed his hand in alcohol, and then b Miss Lee lacerated the hand with a p sharp knife, and applying her lips to u the wound, sucked out the poison. In spite of her prompt action Gil- v lian s hand at once began to swell n and he was rushed to a hospital, r where he was forced to remain for six weeks. e The bite of the Gila monster is 1 usually deadly, and the surgeons say v it was only Miss Lee's promptness that saved his life. Now the Gila i] / monster is dying, not from the ef- J fects of the bite, but because it can- ? not stand the cold north winter. b i fi Acqitted of Peonage. c Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. 6?In the United States Court to-day B. F. i Brinson, Barney Taylor, John W. { Sweat and Charlie Henderson, charg- g ed with peonage and the holding of e Melvin McDuffie, Nat White and others to conditions of peonage were j acquitted. Just twelve minutes were y 4-Vk/\ -infA AL O rtxjuireu itu wic uiai jujlj' w i^a^na. verdict, declaring the defendants not i guilty. The cases had been brought separately, but by agreement they y were consolidated. J. Edward Geirg- a er, indicted for peonage, by consent of the Court, withdrew his plea of g not guilty and entered a plea of t guilty. Judge Locke sentenced him t] to pay a fine of $1,000. k Drug Runs Negro Wild. ? li Augusta, Ark., Dec. 5.?Crazed d by cocaine, Wash Mussay, a negro, e 1 ran amuck to-day, shooting seven t white people, two of whom were wo- \ men. The negro was finally corraled t ?? -^-1?- ?? J **v*/I mL/\4- ^/\ r in me raiiruau yai.u aim suvl tuucaui r by a posse, fighting until he fell t literally riddled with bullets. One of a Mussay's victims will die. The board of trade of the city of c Greenville has launched a movement a to build a new court house for the t county. | Jack and th JACK didn't believe in fairies any more. 1 Boys who are eight and a half years old and In third grade at ; Bchool are not expected to believe in < things with wings and wands and : spells anyway. Of course Dorothy did; 1 bat. then, she was only a girl and 1 Jack's sister. 1 "Don't you even believe in witches any more. Jack?" asked Dorothy when they were over in the woods hunting for nuts one Saturday. Jack lay on his back underneath a hickory tree and looked up at the leaves that danced overhead. "No, sirree bob," he said, "I don't believe in mermaids or things that live In caves or any of those kinds of things. I just believe in Indians and animals and"? "And Santa Claus, Jack?" "Sure, and Santa Claus," assented Jack cordially, as every boy must two months before Christmas, "because he leaves stuff around that you can really and truly see. But I mean all the things you can't see. Who ever saw a fairy?" "I have, only they's always enchanted," said Dorothy softly, hugging her "YOU CAN'T SEE ME, JACK," % :nees and watching a big black and s old bee stop to chat with a bit of be- t ated goldenrod. "They're always in a isguise, and they won't let you see i hem." t Just then a hickory nut fell down t nd hit Jack fairly on the tip of his ^ ose. Jack rolled over and started to g aik some more, dui anoiner nut ien n nd struck him sharply on the back of t) is head. "Quit, Dorothy," said Jack crossly, n If you hit me with a nut again you han't come over to the woods any o lore at all." tl "I didn't hit you," Dorothy laughed o t him. rubbing his head. "They fell d own." s Then a nut hit Jack right bang in s< tie middle of his chin where the dim- a le was, and somebody laughed way s p in the brandies of the hickory. 1? "You can't see me, Jack," said a u olce up there. "But you believe in n le, don't you, Jack? Do you Jack?- k )on't you. Jack?" Four nuts came flying down, and ev-1 ry single one was a good shot at Jack. 1< )orothy never stopped to find out what a ras up in the hickory. She ran over g i the far end of the lot and hid down 1? i the corner of the stone wall. But & ack stared up at the tree. It was e ne of the boys, of course. It couldn't tl e any one else. And wouldn't he just a x him when he came down! "Dare you to come on down," he a ailed. ci "Thanks," called the same voice sadF. "I wouldn't if I could, Jack. But e can't. I'm spellbound, and I can't s< et down from the tree. Have anothr nut, Jack?" r< "You quit throwing at me," said e ack crossly. "I never did a thing to Y ou." "You did too. You said you didn't 6 elieve In me." ci "How could I 6ay I didn't believe in ?? ou when I don't even know what you u re?" "Well, you did, all the same. You J aid you didn't believe in mermaids or b hings that live in caves or any of ? bat kind of things. I'm one of those :ind of things, don't you see? I live 11 a a hole up in this tree. At least, I'm iving here today. Tomorrow, I un- v erstand, I have to move over to the "X aaple. Saturday next I shall be in he chestnut. Yesterday I boarded rith the big oak up on the hill. Guess iow many leaves it has lost so far? b ''our hundred and seventy-nine. And a here's a whole lot more ready to fly n .way." "Are you a squirrel?" asked Jack. "Now, Jack, do I talk like a squirrel? ei lan't you tell the difference between n l squirrel and a leaf counter? I am a due doo. They call me blue because g e Blue Poo. J I am blue. Good reason, isn't it? I am terribly blue. You'd be blue, too, if you had to go around every year and count ail the falling leaves, the iarllng, dancing leaves that have so much fun all summer playing with the sunbeams and the raindrops and the wind. And now that the frost is at last here they have all to dry up and fly away. Why, it makes me feel so blue and sad when I'm counting them I don't know what to do." "Rut tha loaroe Hrtn't imiti tft mlnrt falling off the trees," said Jack, watching a whole bunch scurry and dance iway before a quick breeze. "They don't know any better," said the blue doo. "That makes it all the worse, you know. They are so glad to get down from the tree, and they think they are going to be free. The thistledown tells them it is fun to be free as it blows away through the air, md the dandelion balloons laugh at them because they have to stay fastened to the branches, and even the jirds tease them because they can't ly. So they are tickled to death at the Irst speck of red or gold that steals )ver them, and they think it is the greatest fun of all when at last they <fr? T w [ SAID A VOICE UP THERE. 4 wirl down over and over from the ree. Some of them even try to fly way like birds. One maple leaf that was acquainted with went clear over he stone wall the other day and down o the brook. She flirted outrageously rith the south wind. And there was a ray squirrel, too, that nearly broke is neck trying to climb away out on he tip end of a branch to kiss her. "Is she down there by the brook ow?" asked Jack. "Mercy, no! I kept telling her she ught not to laugh and dance so much; hat some day she would tumble down n the ground and dry up, but she idn't believe me, and what do you uppose? She didn't do it at all. The Duth wind took her and danced her on nd on over the hill pasture, over the tone wall and the rest of the dry ?aves down to the brookside and right nder the nose of a girl?a real girl, I lean?and she took the maple leaf and issed it" B "What for?" asked Jack. a "I don't know," said the doo. "She a >ved it I guess. I saw her put it in n envelope and press it That is the f randest thing that can happen to a c ;af, you know, to be loved and press- c d. But, oh, dear me, so few are press- f d. It makes me cry every time I f dink of all the rest that just dry up c nd blow away." "Don't cry," said Jack sympathetic- j lly. "I believe in you now even If I E an't see you." T "Can't see me, indeed. Who ever c xDected you would see me? Can you x ee the wind?' g "I don't care," laughed Jack, turning t ad, though. "I'd rather be a leaf, ven if I did dry up, than an old doo. f ou can't do anything to me." e "Better look out, Jack," said the doo, f hying down a last nut "You never E an tell what I might do. j What would a blue doo do, i: r a blue doo could do anything?" <3 "I know the answer to that," said ack as he ran away, and he shouted g ack: 8 He would do the thing that a doo would ^ do. i f a blue doo could do anything." ^ "I'm it," said the doo sadly. And he ^ rent back to counting leaves.?New p ork World. e Disingenuous. The butcher was busily attending to is customers when a nice little boy t pproached the counter and, with in- c ocent manner, asked: 1< Xliive ) uu auj utj- uctixug, oil i y "Yes, my son," answered the butch- a r, looking benevolently down at the b ice little boy. g Nice Little Boy?Aw, why don't you fl Ive 'em a drink? S RICH FOSSIL FINDS, Tiny Horse and Giant Bear Tusk Unearthed In Wyoming. PONY NO LARGER THAN A FOX. Wild Region Now Regarded as Original Equine Home?Beavers the Size of Mice Found?Specimen of Huge Liz* ard Discovered. That Wyoming was once a lilliputlan world, occupied by pygmy animals in the likeness of animals on earth today, is the scientific fact which paleontolo gists of the Wyoming State university are preparing to give to the world, says a Cheyenne (Wyo.) special dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Horses no larger than a modern fox, beavers the size of mice, dogs as smail as coyotes and other animals built upon the same miniature lines are now known to have existed in the mountains of Wyoming millions of years ago, and their skeletons are now being set up in the museum of the State university by Profe-isor W. H. Reed, paleontologist of the university and curator of the museum of natural history of that institution. Professor Reed spent the entire <n fhfl ITTdof fAfisll ho^tl f\t aumiiict iu iuc A,VWVM v. central Wyoming and says his discoveries therein are among the most important ever reported to science. In the past the discoveries in those beds have been confined to animals built upon tremendous lines, monsters of prodigious size and ferocity, but the discoveries recently made public by Professor Reed prove that the contrasts between the animals of that ancient time were as great as between those of Lilliputia and Brobdingnag. In fact if Dean Swift had happened into central Wyoming in those days he might have believed he had actually reached Lilliputia. By the securing of the fossil of the little horse Professor Reed confirmed the surmise heretofore held that Wyoming was the real birthplace of the horse. He has an almost complete skeleton of the antediluvian horse, Bhowlng that animal to have been no larger than a fox of the present day, but with every bone of the present horse and in much the same shape. The little animal was evidently a hardy grazer, capable of much hardship in securing its food, and even in that early day the horse showed great swiftness of foot and possessed speed sufficient to enable It to keep out of the clutches of flesh eating animals. But Professor Reed attaches more Importance to the fossil beaver than to the horse even. The beaver is from the aligocene tertiary age, one of the eldest in which fossils are found, and shows that that animal flourished at that early period in the earth's existence. The specimen is a perfect skull md upper jaw of the rodent The skull Is less than half an inch long and shows the beaver of that age to have ^een even smaller than an ordinary nouse. The molars are only an eighth )f an Inch long and the incisors not nuch longer. He was also fortunate enough to secure the complete skeleton of a dog of iie aligocene tertiary age, not a bone tting missing. The skeleton is about ?e size of a coyote of the western ilains. But if some of the animals discovered by Professor Reed were small others he found were big enough to make lie average large. An Important find vas the almost complete skull of a calf Itanotherium, a monster of that day vhich was extinct long before some of he oldest fossils heretofore found were even created. Not the least Interesting of the flpds vas the tusk of a monster bear, the tusk indicating an animal weigh ng about 2,600 pounds. The tusk is :omplete, but is in three pieces, and hows an animal which must have been l terror to the other animals in that Lge. A fossil of one of the great lizard amily was discovered in a sandstone liff, where it can be seen stretched ut to its full length, high up on the ace of the bluff. Nearly seventy-five eet of the great reptile can be seen, reserved in solid rock. Professor Reed says the field he visted, called "Hell's Half Acre," is the aost remarkable fossil quarry in the vorld. It abounds in fossil remains >f great value to science, and every ear all the large eastern universities end field parties there to excavate and o add to the museums. The fact that so many fossils are ound in the "Half Acre" has led scintists to believe that the whole surace of the earth was changed by some nighty convulsion of nature and that lace was left as a high point, the anmals gathering there to escape the levastating floods. Anoiner meory is mat wueu buuiu Teat famine came apon the land this pot was left the one of all others rhere food was plentiful, and all anmals of that day and time were atracted there to die in some cataclysm rhich left the fossil remains for the resent generation of mankind to unarth. U. S. A. Dirigible Balloon. The United States war department 3 about to award a contract for the onstruction of its first dirigible balDon, says the Engineer. The balloon rill be about 190 feet in length, with . capacity of 50,000 cubic feet will lave two 120-horsepower French enInes and is calculated to make thirtyire miles an hour. It is to cost somo 60.000. 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