Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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: Hnber tfye i; Chestnut Creei; flflltary Titles Discounted. The late Senator Morgan used to ijoy telling a story illustrative of ie cheapness of military titles a few ars after the civil war. A traveler in the South was pastor through a certain populous! ^Bemmtry district, and stopped to conHBrerse with a farmer, who had a con^Bsiderable number of men at work in ^Bhis hay-fields. |Bf "Most of these men are old sol^Bdiers," said the farmer. ^B "You don't tell me! Were any of flBthem officers?" fl "Two of them. One there was1 a ^Bprivate, and the man beyond was ^Ba corporal, but the man beyond him o main? and that man away ^Bever yonder was a colonel." HB ''Are they all good men?" ".Well," replied the farmer, "I BB ain't going to say anything against ^Bany man that fought for the South. ^BThat private's a first class man, and ^Bthe colonel's pretty good, too, but IB I've made up my mind to one thing ^B ?I ain't going to hire any brigadier B generals." H Retribution. B J visited a school one day where ^B Bible instruction was part of the daily course, and in order to test the children's knowledge asked some B <|nestions, says a writer in the MonB-treal Star. One class of little girls ^B looked particularly bright, and I B asked the tallest one: "What sin II did Adam commit'/" I "He ate forbidden fruit.'' I "Right What tempted Adam?" I "Eve." I "Not really Eve, but the serpent. I And how was Adam punished?" I The girl hesitated and looked conI fused. Behind her sat a little eight[ yea-old, who raised her hand and I said: "Please, pastor, I know." "Well, tell us! How was Adam punished?" "He had to marry Eve." K. .:.y A Lost Art. ' A Richmond housekeeper bad occa. akm many times to employ a certain \, add character of the town known as Aunt Cecilia Cromwell. ; / The old woman had not been seen in Hie vicinity of the house for a long time until recently, when the lady of ^the house said to her: \ morninir. Aunt Cecilia. Iffby aren't yon washing nowadays?" I [ "It'8 dis way. Miss Annie," ref *hed Aunt Cecilia indulgently. "I's been out o' wuhk so long dat now, L when I could wuhk, I finds I's done lost mah tas'e fo' it." r v It js said that a minister who goes to church from his home-in a carriage on Sundays received an anonymous letter recenfly. calling his attention to the fact that tlje Lord never rode to church in a carriage. The minister read the letter from the pulpit end then said: "If the writer will Oomefto me next Sunday properly saddled and bridled I will be glad to follow the Lord's example and come ' ? * * I to church as he entered the city 01 Jerusalem." Teacher?"Jimmy, north is in front ?f you, east oh one side of you, and west on the other side; now, what is "behind you?" Jimmy (thinking a while, then look, mg at the teacher)?"I just told ma you would see that patch in my I; pants."?Judge. A Formidable Document. H > The automatic weighing machine p at the union station has been out of order for some time, and to prevent | peoplS from wasting their pennies, Agent Robinson posted on its face, as the rules of the company require the word "Broken." In a few days somebody would tear the notice off, and then people would begin to drop in their pennies again to see how much they weigh?and could not see. Then Mr. Robinson put up the following: PRONUNCIAMENTO. f . Do not put pennies in my probosCIS, non libet. I am in sine qua uok, and I cannot reciprocate ad valorem. BROKEN. And nobodv has dared to interfere any more.?Newberry Observer. [ Freight Train Wrecked. ? ^ rrn # *1.l Darlington, Dec. ly -ine ireignt train from Florence to Wadesboro, which passes Darlington about 6 o'clock a. m., was wrecked about three , miles above Darlington this morning, but no one was killed or injured. The wreck occurred at almost the 1 same spot that the Hartsville train was wrecked at McCown's mill last July. Mr. J. Wilson Gandy, the section master, says that it must have been caused by a broken rail. At any rate about eight or ten freight cars were . demolished, the engine badly damaged and about 300 yards of track torn up. Passengers from Hartsville (for Darlington walked from where the wreck occurred to Darlington this morning, but those bound for more distant points had to remain here all day, as the delay on account of the wreck caused them to miss all the /\n4- riorlmrrtAA muriung uoiiio uut ui ^cuungtuii. I - -When winds shriek high in-fiendish glee, And enters winter with his key K Protect yourself, from disease be free; H Take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. M H. F. Hoover. I GIRL SCALPED BY MACHINE. Hair Becomes Entangled In Belt and Is Torn From Her Head. Scalped by the shaft of a machine near which she was working, in the running gear of which her long hair had become entangled. Lulu Dreher of 560 Orange street was taken to the City hospital, Newark, N. J., seriously and perhaps mortally injured. The wrench was so great after the rapidly moving shaft had gripped her hair that her scalp was torn off from the nape of the neck almost to the forehead. It was sewed on by surgeons in the hospital, who now are endeavoring to save Miss Dreher's life. The accident occurred in the printing ? " ^ /n. rru: M plant or m. j. Broods & l,o., ai a uuteenth street and Park avenue. Many girls are employed in the place, and the sight of Miss Dreher fast in the machine caused panic. They did nothing at first to assist the injured worn* an, who was semiconscious and struggling feebly to free herself. Miss Dreher was standing beneath the shaft cleaning a table at which she was working. Her hair was not done up tightly, and one of her tresses flew up and the shaft gripped it Screaming from fright and pain, she was dragged from the floor and suspended beneath the shaft until finally her scalp tore, loose and she dropped far enough ! to touch the floor with her toes. The panic among the girls attracted < the attention of Theodore S. Gottlieb, superintendent of the plant. "Shut off the power!" he yelled and rushed to Miss Dreher. Seizing her in his arms he lifted her so as to take the strain off her neck and scalp. When the shaft had ceased to revolve the work of getting Miss Dreher free from it 'was begun. It required several minutes of careful work. Then she was hurried to the hospital. For almost an hour there - BiiMMiAno nropo Qt work kp win ?? the IUC OUI^WUU T? V* v %%v o scalp on again. TORN BY A LION. Tamer Crippled For Life In a Pittsburg Theater. J. F. Brlggs. a liOD tamer whose home is in New York city, was crippled for life at a theater in Pittsburg by a lion. During the early part of the week one of the largest lions became ilL . Briggs treated the animal, but he did. not seem to improve. When Briggs SHOT THE LION THROUGH THE ETK. entered the cage the lion sprang at him and stripped the flesh from his right leg with his teeth The screams of Briggs brought other attaches to the rescue, and one of them shot the lion through the 6ye. Briggs #was dragged from the cage in an unconscious condition. He was hurried to the East tEnd hospital, where it was stated that he would recover, but would be a cripple for life. LIGHTNING SCARES WHALE Tug's Officers Tell a Queer Tale of i Puget Sound. Lightning is of such rare occurrence on Puget sound that even a whale was frightened by the vivid flashes and crashing peals of thunder In a recent storm. 1 According to the officers of the tug i Elf, returning to Tacoma fpom a tow, the whale became frantic during a i storm, thrashing the water into a milky white color for some distance by its huge tail, and in its madness almost demolished the boom of logs which the tug was towing to Ballard from South bay. ' The tug was oft Robinson's point when the leviathan was first seen several hundred yards to the right It was raining hard at the time, and the mammoth aquatic animal was appar- 1 ently enjoying a shower bath. < j? -- 1 a?>?i? ji. Tnen there came a pyroiecnmcai uiaplay of zigzag lightning, accompanied ' by the usual roaring noise, and the i whale seemed to go wild. "I never saw anything like it in my life," said Chief Engineer Bouschor. 1 who has seen hundreds of whales. ' speaking of the tug's experience. ' 'The lightning and thunder must 1 have scared the whale badly, for it ' almost leaped from the water. We saw j nearly all of its body, and I'll swear It ' measured ninety feet in length. "It lashed the water with its tail. 1 making a nasty swell. The next thing we knew the monster came up under our boom and broke the swifters?the 1 lines running across from one boom i stick to another. j( "Several of the logs were lifted out of the water on the whale's back, and ' I feared our entire boom would be broken. Fortunately only a few of i the smallest logs became separated." 1 FLAT LIFEREFORMER Noble Work of Young Cleveland Woman Worth Millions. START MADE WITH CHILDREN Miss Nellie Huntington Teaching Them How to Live In Apartments Without Fuss or Friction?Economy Keynote, of Lessons?Serenity Basic Principle. "Be economical." Strange words perhaps from a young woman, pretty, possessing $2,000,000 in her own right as heiress of a Standard Oil magnate, spoken to a score of little girls, mothers of the next generation. But Miss Nellie Huntington, daughter of Colouel J. T. Huntington, partner of John D. Rockefeller, who died several years ago. leaving to his daughter a big fortune, sees nothing out of the ordinary In her devotion to the little girls who make up her classes, taking instruction in the Goodrich House social settlement in Cleveland, O., under the title "How to Be a Contented Flat Dweller," says a Cleveland special dispatch to the New York World. Miss Huntington has forsaken society and the enjoyment of her wealth in the whirl of butterfly existence to teach the children who some year will become mothers how to evade the dominations of the janitor and bring forth from a four room flat all the comforts and joys of home at a cost far under the sum necessary to maintain even the smallest of individual residences. ~ ? - 11 IX?sv 99 "It is necessary nrsi or an w u\c, says Miss Huntington, whose forte Is cooking, but who dabbles in the sewing and general housekeeping in the Bocial settlement school in which Miss Winifred Chapman, graduate of the College For Women of Western Reserve University, daughter of a Toledo capitalist, is instructor in housekeeping and Miss Callie Silver, daughter of a Semitic family of wealth and standing in Cleveland, has charge of the sewing lessons. "And to live in the next generation, even in this generation, means the ability to make the most of a flat" Miss Huntington says. She is a Mount Hoiyoke graduate; also she is regarded as the Helen Gould of Ohio. Her fortune has been dedicated to making flat dwellers happy. She says: "We must start with the children. Flat dwelling has not become so imperative as it will be in a few years, but we are preparing the next generation's mothers. We teach them ideas their mothers never heard of. Serenity is the basic principle of the whole art of living and being contented in a flat Don't fight with the janitor. Sometimes I think he is a much abused auto?I was going to say autocrat, of course. I won't though, for I don't kiiow what we would do without the janitor. He knows ail aDoux tne range, everything about the refrigerator and the telephone wires and the milkman and the iceman. Maybe he does get free ice and milk for recommending their product but it doesn't pay to wrangle with him. "What If he refuses to help move the refrigerator or, in retaliation for some fancied wrong, turns off the heat? Do you justify the use of strong language?" Miss Huntington asked. "Well, there may be unusual provocation, of course, but I teach the children to get around these things. Housekeeping, whether in house or flat, Is an art Housekeeping in a flat is the chef d'ouvre, if you know what that means. I don't A woman with a placid temper is the queen of every hqme she surveys. Serenity is the basic principle. No; if the janitor is stubborn about the refrigerator have a cold box' on the window sill. The children finished one recently. A 'cold Do I t' uont you KDOW YVUttt i uicaui A box set out on the window sill. It la to put your meat and milk, butter, eggs and everything you want to keep cool in. It saves ice charges, saves warfare with the janitor. It is the one requisite to the well ordered flat. You don't need a refrigerator, and, besides, refrigerators take up space. "Space is money, and saving of money means happiness to the flat dweller. That is one of the beauties of oar course?the teaching of the value of space. In a flat every inch should be utilized. There must be no waste space. Everything useful should have Its place; the beautiful too. Then a flat is a home. It is more a home in its four, five, six, perhaps eight, rooms than the finest mansion in Euclid avenue or in Fifth avenue, for every bit of space is utilized. There is no waste. In a big house there is waste. But you don't need the big house. It Is extravagant. The flat is economy. You must be economical. The flat owner will spend all your money if he can. Plan properly and It will be Impossible to be extravagant The flat Bbould be made to fit the pocketbook, ot the pocketbook the flat "We have some new flat Ideas too. In our little model flat the kitchen Is bo arranged that you can cook, Iron and wash dishes with two steps. It's saving space. Then In the sitting room the library table, covered with books and magazines, becomes a dining room table at mealtimes?another saving of space. "But serenity is the secret of all. One should never lower one's dignity by rowing with the janitor?no, nor with the meat boy or grocery boy either. A calm objection or hint will do as well and keep the mind placid. You can't have a storm in the mind In a little flat. That is one thing that must be fearned." , This is the lesson Miss Huntington and her assistants are teaching the little girls, the oldest of them sixteen, who make op the Uoodricn House elasses. Sewing, cooking and housekeeping, keeping the flat spotlessly clean with a minimum of labor, are the technical details, serenity the all absorbing topic. To the outsider who has attained mature years Miss Huntington bares another side of the flat dwelling problem. She says: "I have no sympathy at all with the flat owner who bars children. Children there must and shall be. Where else is the next generation to come from? And by the next generation to this one we will be flat dwellers. So you can see easily, can't you, the flat J ? -11 - ? ha nnpinlftod i If]rpii V UWCIiClD LUU.3L Ut We must have children, and they must be reared in an atmosphere of serenity. That is all there is of it. Accomplished, we shall have an ideal race." And Miss Huntington is doing her best Casting aside her millions, so far as the joy she might take from them Is concerned, she is laying the basis of another generation along lines neglected by other social reformers. "It is the basic principle of the problem of existence, as it will be in the next generation," she says. "Who shall gainsay me? I've overriden the objections of relatives and friends. The world may laugh if it will, but here are my rules. They will make happiness and content: "Be serene. No janitor, human or otherwise, can withstand the calm of wisdom which turneth away his retort. "Be neat "Be quiet The flat is one big family of from 50 to 500 members. A piano should be listened to, not heard. "Be economical. The flat dweller can thwart the flat owner's desire to spend all the dweller's money by careful planning." ANTHRACITE CENTENNIAL First Use of Coal as Fuel to Be Celebrated on Feb. 11. A committee of the Wyoming Valley Historical and Geological society has arranged for the celebration on Feb. 11, 1908, of the one hundredth anniversary of the first burning of anthracite coal in a commercial grate, says a Wilkesbarre (Pa.) special to the New York Times. It has been decided to strike off a medal commemorating the event Coal was first successfully burned in a grate by Judge Jesse Fell in the old Fell tavern in Wilkesbarre, and the room where the experiment took place Is still preserved. At the time the coal was known as stone coal. It bad been burned In open fires, but its utility was not recognized. The outcroppings of it In this valley were abundant, but no one thought of turning the new discovery to domestic use until Judge Fell conceived the idea that it could be done. He constructed in the open hearth of the main room of the old EJell tavern a grate of iron bars imbedded In brickwork and made the experiment. There was a fine draft up the big chimney, and soon the coal was red hot, gave forth a comfortable heat, and the experiment was a success. INDOOR TOBOGGANING. Device to Amuse Society During the Winter. Parlor tobogganing is slated as one of society's amusements for the winter, says the New York Press. It is a sport that can be indulged only in the homes of the ultra rich, for it needs lots of room. As a rule, it is done in a long corridor^ An incline of polished hard wood is built and down it slide the toboggan enthusiasts on tiny sleds fitted with rubber wheels. There is only a mild sensation in comparison with that experienced on a real chute, uA VMO ITAA if onom out Uie euvuuuiiiCUl Uiaaca snappier than it is. Any one can toboggan outdoors, but society flatters itself it takes persons of real mentality to enjoy the pastime under a roof. When the toboggan gets to the bottom of the slide it runs up an inclined piano at an angle sharp enough to prevent collision with the farther wall. There are mishaps now and then, but few of them are serious, and society will brave a good deal to indulge a truly novel whim. The Gospel With Moving Pictures. The Rev. E. G. Zellars, pastor of the Spencer First Congregational church at Worcester, Mass., announced recently, according to a special dispatch to the New York World, that the church had bought a costly moving picture machine and that he will use it at all the Sunday night services to illustrate his sermons. Hunting License For Engine. Engineer Will Mason has applied at the city treasurer's office in Ashland, Wis., for a hunting license for. his engine, No. 70, says the Duluth Evening Herald. The engine has killed a couple of deer lately, and Mr. Mason does not wish to run afoul of the game ? jaws. A Frosty Philosopher. I like these frosty mornln's, when the wind sings on the way, Comln' 'crost the mountains at the breakin' o' the day. The twltchln' of my jlnts is a most unfailin' sign That they're tunin' up the fiddle fer the boys ter fall in line! When the cabin fires look lively an' twinkle o'er the way, It's then I have a feelin' good times have come to stay; You can hear a whip a-crackin' 'crost a clover field or two, An' you think o' rides by moonlight, with a sweetheart clost to you! Let old winter whistle! He brings the joys along. Spring is rich an' rosy, an' summer's sweet with song. Every season's good enough, but give me frost an' fall, An' balance to yer pardners. an' kiss yer sweethearts all! -Atlanta Constitution. j ' ' .* J . @?@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@61 I A. M. BRABHAM! @ OLD LINE @ ? FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE? A /4 | \A7? Endeavor to advance the AOVflrlCiny^ business interests of our customers in every legitimate way. In h | |4 so doing, our motives may be someJ. IIWll. what tinctured with selfishness, for upon the prosperity of its patrons T hinges the success of every bank. I v I WE PAY INTEREST i I ?????? \ PEOPLES BANK BAMBERG SOUTH CAROLINA WE HANDLE A *\ % % ' " y |jj Fine Line of Buggies 3 Consisting of Rubber tire, Open and Top Buggies, Harness and Whips, also a - M * . 1 /I 1 " ll selected line 01 ootn ^ 'v'? ONE AND TWO-HORSE WAGONS J Call and see us and get our cheap prices before buying Jk fm BLACK & BLACK BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA - ^ DEPOSITORS t iL.? in Hrinorrntr thpip hnsiness -to a Bank they Uinv> IA/ xvv? AM i i . ,. . ^ are helping to build it up?in other words, they are ' giving something for what theyreeeive. We want you to feel the same way towards us. We want your account?want to make ourselves useful to you in any- ? i'-S thing pertaining to finance?and we can do it with profit to you and ourselves. BAMBERO BANKING COMPANY, S. C, IU I V E I We are now in our new building ready and anxious ? M 4 ^'1*1 I to serve you with nice livery I ' B 4 ^3 I Good Teams. Careful Driversa 1 Give us your patronage for everything in the livery I line. Horses for sale or trade..: B: | J. J. SMOAK, Bamberg, 5.C. J ? s. ii " 3i WE HOPE YOU ALL HAD A MEKKX AMAb !g AND YOU WILL SURE HAVE A HAPPY | PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR j : : IF YOU TRADE WITH US AND ENJOY THE If ? ^ BENEFIT OF THE BEST LINE OF MILLINERY, S "H DRESS NOVELTIES, LACES, NOTIONS, ETC., ? ' ?$& I EVER OFFERED YOU. PRICES THE LOWEST > jg Jj HMrs. K. I. Shuck & Co.jf1M ->? -? South Carolina I I i toaniDcrg . . . v I? -I ;I? il? ?I j ;I? :I? ;I -r' il? !? il- il? il? ?I? ;1? fl? il?il? ?I? S | I WE HAVE IT!] I An up-to-Jate drug store with a choice assort- I . I ment, of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, I Stationeiy, Cut Glass. Combs, Brushes, Rubber I Goods, Cigars, Etc. We can serve you promptly m 1 on/1 norht nnces. Give us a share of your trade . i I | Hoover's Drug Store! I TELEPHONE 44 BAMBERG, S. C. I * . - ~-g=g^gjWB=g i ? ? II IN HARDWARE ll We can please you. We have a large line of every- It * thing in the Hardware line, and our prices are way || down. Guns, Lamps, Crockery, Building Supplies, II Stoves, Ranges, and all kinds , of Farm Tools. II J. A. HUNTER J J The Hardware Man - - - - Bamberg, 5. C. f I I li ? ? '!