Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i . - . Personal Mention. ?Mr. L. D. Odom, of Denmark, was in the city last Friday. , ?Miss Addys Hays returned last week from an extended trip to Flor- \ ida. ?Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hays, of Greenwood, are visiting relatives in j the city. ?Mrs. Jno. H. Cope leftyesterday i for Spartanburg to attend the music j festival. ! i ?Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Foster, of j Allendale, spent several days in the j city last week. ?Mr. W. I. Rice and sister, Miss Miriam^of the Buford's Bridge section, were in the city yesterday. ?Mi's. J. A. tfyrd and Miss Kooerta Johnson left yesterday morning for Spartanburg to attend the music fes4 tival. / ?Mr. W. P. Riley, cashier of Peoples Bank, attended the meeting of the State Bankers' Association in Columbia last week. ?Mr. Charlie Black, who has been attending the Charleston Medical College, returned home Monday night for the summer vacation. ?Mr. Algernon S. Smith, of Charleston, spent several days in the city this week. Mr. Smith formerly lived here, and his many friends were glad to see him again. ?Mr. W. D. R'noad returned last Friday night from Chattanooga, Tenn., where he went to attend a meeting of the laymen of the Methodist church in regard to the lay, : men's missionary movement. j Dusincss uiou^cs. Mr* H. A. Wright has resigned as book keeper at the oil mill, and has accepted the position of assistant / cashier of the Planters Bank at Orangeburg. He will assume his duties the first of next week. Mr/ J. A. Murdaugh, who has been book keeper at H. C. Folk's for a number of years, has accepted the place as book keeper at the oii mill, and will take charge the first of May. Mr. P. J. Quattlebaum resigned as manager ' 'and treasurer of the Bamberg and Denmark plants some time ago, his resignation to take effect May 1st. Mr. W. M. Brabham will be manager and treasurer for the coming year. . Corner Stone Laying. Let there be a large crowd at the exercises of laying the corner stone of the Bamberg graded school building next Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The grand master of the State, Hon. J. L. Michie, will be present, as well as other grand lodge officers, and Governor M. F. Ansel will deliver an address as soop as the exercises are concluded. This address Snll be in the Fitting School chapel. Mr. E. L. Price, W. M. of the Ma i sonic lodge here, and the other officers and members are working to make the affair all that it should be, and all who go will enjoy it. Hammond-Co peland. An interesting social event of Wednesday will be the marriage of Miss Helen Hammond and Mr. Henry Gopeland, which will take place at the First Baptist v church at half after one o'clock. The young couple will receive a few friends very formally at the bride's home, the f. s. residence of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, on ^ Reynolds street. The utmost simplicity x and absence of ostentation will be observed in the marriage. The bride will wear her traveling suit and will be attended only by her sister, Miss Fannie Hammond. After a Northern trip Mr. t \ and Mrs. Copeland will go to Bamberg where they will make their home.?Augusta ?hronicle. Leaped to Death. New York, April 25?With a laugh, at the vain efforts of his wife to bolt him in his determination to com mitsuicideEugeneMunsell, president of the Mica Insulating company, and one of the prominent hardware men in the country, leaped to death from the < window of his seventh story apartment in his hotel at 175 West ; Seventy-second street, early to-day. ' Albert Geiger, ticket agent at the Seventy-second streetsubway station, who had seen Mr. Munsell on the ledge outside his window and who \ had called to him not to jump, found , him dead when he reached his side. The family had just returned from an Easter holiday at Aiken, S. C., ' where they hadgonefor Mr. MunselPs \ health, and were planning to go to ' Lakewood, N. J. .] Munsell, who was fifty-six years . old, was associated with L. V. King j Storey and Franklin Graekes in the Mica .Insulating company at 68 j ; Church street, and was one of the most prominent figures in the hardware and metal trade of the country. , r White Stone Springs Sold. Spartanburg, April 27.?White Stone Lithia Springs was sold at auction to-day under bankruptcy proceedings in the United States court, the sale being con, ducted by Julian Calhoun, referee. The property was bid in by H. B. Carlisle, at- 1 torney, for $>17,000. It is believed that 1 Mr. Carlisle represented the banks from ' whom Samuel Sheftall, president of the ! ' ? . White Stone company, borrowed money ' 1 and gave mortgages as security. , "Tigers'* Arrested in Greenville. Greenville, April 28. ^-Magistrate Stradley went on the war path this , mornihg and had his constables arrest twenty-seven persons, charged with runing blind tigers. Many of these are now in jail and those remaining are out on bond. The evidence has been accumulat- ] ing for some time and preparations have been making for the haul. rgm** v f ;' vv*- -"v *.. ''<- / * ,.. ' - ; FOUGHT WITH BURGLAR. Chester Man Has Thrilling Experience in his Bed Room. Chester, April 24.?A burglar entered Mrs. M. A. Nail's home, on York street, at an early hour yesterday morning, making his entrance through a window on the first floor and ascending to the second story, evidently being in search of money. The first intimation that there was an intruder on the premises came to Mr. Pinkston Nail, who, on hearing stealthy footsteps, roused himself and secured his revolver. The weapon, however, was not in working order, and he was forced to advance upon the burglar with what weapons he could pick up. The burglar was in the sleeping room of Mr. W. R. Nail, who had not been aroused by the noise, bufrno sooner had Mr. Pinkston Nail sprung from his bed than he was faced by the intruder, who was entering the room. Mr. Nail went at his antagonist and landed several blows. On account of the height of the intruder, however, and the fact that he protected himself with a chair, the blows were not as telling as they would have been otherwise. Mr. Nail thinks, though, that one of them found its mark and did some damage. By this time Mr. W. R. Nail had awoke and came to the rescue of his brother. The burglar finding himself hard pressed retreated down the stairs and leaped through the window. T"? "* * XT*?il ma*Q JLfie IY1C5SIS. lXOil tvuc wuimvii that there were more than one engaged in the attempt, although only one man was seen during the encounter. However, the wet ground on the outside showed that the fellow had no confederates. He is described as being a white man of heavy build and smooth shaven. One of the peculiarities about the affair is that the fellow had removed all of his top clothing. The police, who are at work on the case, have discovered that the burglar disrobed at the school house, on Foote street, before entering the Nail house, afterward returning there to don his garments. The attempt to burglarize the Nail house, together with the sensational encounter that resulted and other features, make the case one of the most interesting ever heard of around here; and it is to be hoped that the guilty party will be detected. Mr. Pinkston.Nail had a clear view of the burglar's face, despite the fact that the latter made efforts to shielcMiis identity by holding up his hands and by placing a chair before him, and Mr. Nail is satisfied that he can easily identify his antagonist if the police succeed in landing mm. Deed of a Degenerate. Butler Pinson, a dissipated and wayward youngmanofGreenwood county, having earlier prepared for the deed, arose about 3 o'clock Tuesday morning and fired one barrel of his gun at his father's head and the other at his mother's, while they were asleep in the same room and only ?few feet from his bed. It seems almost miraculous that neither was hurt, the load in each case missing its mark a few inches and lodging in the pillow and the head of the bed. He then left the house, and, wa? arrested at Honea Path Wednesday afternoon and brought to jail at Greenwood. Until he was arrested he supposed thathis mother was killed. His father fell from the bed at the first shot but was heard to get up again. He expressed the opinion that his son wanted to get them out of the way in order to get a division of the estate with his brother. The degenerate son says this was not his motive, but says he does not know why he did it. He is 26 years old. He has been at home very little for some time. ABBEVILLE MAN KILLED. Engineer Neisler, of the Seaboard, Scalded to Death In a Wreck. Abbeville, April 25.?A through freight train of the Seaboard Air Line which left Abbeville this morning for Atlanta was wrecked near Howell's Station, about 6 o'clock. The train was in charge of Conductor Clyde Morgan, of Abbeville, and Engineer Samuel Neisler, also of Abbeville. A train hand was killed instantly and the negro fireman badly injured. Engineer Neisler was caught under his engine and fatally scalded, dying at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Conductor Morgan wasinjured internally. The death of Mr. Neisler and the injuries of Mr. Morgan have cast a gloom over this city. Mr. Morgan is a young man who was very popular with Abbeville people. He has numbers of friends all over the city, who are grieved on his account, and who earnestly hope for his recovery. No man who ever worked for the Seaboard had more friends in Abbeville than Sam Neisler. His father lived here for many years, as did his sister, now Mrs. Daisy Shakespeare, of Philadelphia. Sam Neisler reached his manhood in Abbeville, and'has been a faithful engineer for ten years. He was a man of character and stand- , ing in his community, and the people of this place feel a great loss in his death. It is doubly regretted on ac- . count of the fact that he leaves a J wife, a bride of only a few weeks. She came here from her home in 1 Richmond only a short time ago, and during that time she has won a place : in the hearts of all here who know ; her. * The people of the city sympathize with her in her great loss. It cannot be learned at this time just i what caused the wreck. It is, how- < ever, stated that ft was due to the washout of a fill caused by a regular < waterspout. So far as is known, no ; blame now attaches to the railway i people. -7T\.. ->wr -, _ . ' >*''V -V." * V . r .*? ' i 7? FORGIVES WIFE FOR LEAVING. V Paris Doctor Proceeds to Nurse Her Back to Health. Paris, April 23.?Five years ago a Paris doctor obtained a divorce from his wife, who deserted her home and her three children to elope with another man. The doctor recently received an appointment as one of the visiting physicians at a public sanitarium, twenty miles from Paris. While he was examining new patients, a wan, consumptive woman, still young and with traces of past lrkrAro woe hrnnorVit-infcn his con ^WVi 1 WUtJj ?? K/* - suiting room. The doctor looked at the woman, and recognized her as his divorced wife. The woman turned pale and trembled violently, but the doctor gave no sign of recognition and quietly prescribed for her. Later he went to the ward occupied by his wife, and had a long conversation with her. Reconciliation followed, and the woman has left for the Swiss mountains, in the company of the doctor and her eldest son, to be nursed back to health. Family of Criminals. A grim epitaph, perhaps unexampled, is to be found in the cemetery of Debrescin, Eastern Hungary. It reads as follows: "Here rest in the Lord Joseph Moritz, Sr., who died in his sixty-second year. He was shot by his son, Frau Joseph Moritz, who died in her forty-seventh year. She was shot by her daughter. Elizabeth Moritz, who died by her own hand, in her seventeenth year, after shooting her mother. Frau Joseph Moritz, who died in prison, age twenty-seven. He had shot his father. May eternal mercy have pity on their poor, sinful souls." The last of this unfortunate family left a sum of 1,500 pounds for thej purpose of setting up this memorial. ?London Globe. Homicide in Aiken County. Aiken, April 27.?On Sunday night, Warren Morning, a young white man of Madison, was brought to Aikenby Sheriff Raborn and lodged in jail on the charge of murder. Sunday afternoon Mr. Raborn received a message from Morning stating that he desired him to come at once for him; as he wished to surrender, and that he was afraid to come alone, as he understood that some threats had been made against him. The sheriff arrived with him at 11 o'clock Sunday night. The homicide charged to young Morning occurred on Saturday night at Madison, when he struck another white man named James Cushman on the head with a fence picket, making an indentation of the skull, from which wound he died on Sunday morning. It appears that from the reports heard concerning the affair, that Morning twitted Cushman about something trivial, and that the latter took offense at the remark, at which Morning apologized for his action, stat" * ' ^ T*- i n firt l/l mg mat ne meant nu uilchsc. mso<uu, however, that Cushman followed him with an open knife and made for him with it, upon which Morning jerked off a fence picket and struck Cushman on the head. Death resulted Sunday morning. Both parties are white. This is the first homicide to occur in the county in some time in which white men were concerned. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, April 27.?The Kearse club played the Ehrhardt graded school nine on the school grounds last Saturday afternoon. The school nine had no trouble to beat them, not near enough to be interesting. Three or four innings the Kearse nine did not make a score. We are having plenty rain these days; the farmers say they can't work their small crops. Its too wet, and it is so warm that we fear the grass is going to get the start on them. Several farmers carried turns of hoes out of town Saturday and say they are not to be placed up to look at but-to be used from sun to sun. The Methodist conference at this place lasted up to Sunday night. Notwithstanding the bad weather there was a fairly good attendance on Sunday; not near the crowd that would have been present had the weather been favorable. Presiding Elder Herbert gave the young and old men some points to think about as they go along through life. Mr. Willie Chassereauisallsmilesnow. It's a bouncing baby boy. Capt. J. M. Dannelly and son, David, have shut down their saw mill business in Florida. A car of his stock was % / brought in on Saturday. They will try *?* < H ? - - 1 A. - J A. to dispose 01 tnem to me uest auvomage at their sales stables here. ' Mr. L. N. Bellinger has been surveying and renewing lines and corners on the boundaries of C. Ehrhardt's lands for the last two weeks. Think that he will finish this week. Mr. W. W. Smoak, editor of the Press and Standard, Walterboro, was up last week on a business trip. The oil mill at Walterboro is about to close down for the season. Cotton is begining to get scarce in this section. Sunday night we had high wind and heav yrain; hail is reported in some sections. Not any serious damage done by either has been heard of up to now. Mr. Willie Ritter was in town this morning, fixing up some poplar logs for shipment. Jee. A storm did much damage in the States of Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia last week. Hundreds of lives were lost and much property destroyed. The people in the storrti section are suffering for food, and the Red Cross society has taken charge of the relief work. !")"<"i"f ^"H"!"!1 'I1 'fr !' < 'I' '1' ?I' 4"I- * 4** v i * ! LILLIAN.! f *: v t: 111'' * * ! 't a: <i *~H~r * * * * [Original.] Lillian was the only name we kuew her by except when some one called her "airy, fairy Lillian," which described her exactly. She earned1 far less money than other models, because she would never pose nude. Indeed, it was difficult to imagine the modest looking little girl thus exposing herself, though I do not mean to imply that a model may not in that case be modest Lillian, however, made sufficient money to pay her room rent and keep quite enough flesh on her bones !...?.?? nt hflf /.olliriT to insure enipiu^ ueui at act As to dress, she was never well dressed except In the fine clothes provided by %the artists for whom she posed. Her people lived in the country. She had left them to come to the city and while looking for employment was taken up by an artist who made illustrations for magazines, and in that way she came to be a model. Of course Lillian fell into bohemlan life. Several of us, all bohemians. used to have suppers together and were usually accompanied by some of the models whom we used to employ. Lillian made no scruple to attend these suppers and never held her head above the other models who posed as required, but her demeanor was always ladylike, and at the slightest suggestion of impurity she would leave us. Ttiererore wnenever sue w?b present we were especially careful. Any of us would have been glad of Lillian's preference, but it was reserved for my friend Kendall to absorb all she had to bestow. Kendall was a handsome fellow and as attractive otherwise as handsoinV We all agreed that he and Lillian made a very pretty couple. Kendall had barely scraped enough together to secure his education at the art school, but soon after graduation made some success at illustrating. But he was ambitious to paint marine views and in his infatuation dropped his other work. Then he began to look shabby and hungry. Now, the story of Kendall and Lillian I cannot tell. I am sure there Is a great deal to tell if 1 only knew it All I iio know Is certain incidents that were as well known to every one of us artists as to me. The first of these is that Kendall fell ill. I saw as much of him as possible and would have kept him in my quarters, but he preferred to remain in his own room, and I frequently met Lillian there nursing him. 1 was poor as a church mouse and could do but little for him in providing means, and the rest of our set were in the same fix. Not one of us but had a hard time to live. I noticed that the longer Kendall's illness lasted the more worried he seemed to be about his necessities and where they were to come from. I w&s with him one morning when the subject was mentioned?Lillian was there, too?and when he spoke with infinite depression as to his condition she said cheerfully: "He's blue today. Come and see him tomorrow. He'll have1 a windfall." 1 called the next day and found a lot of delicacies on the table, new and clean linen on his bed?indeed, a number of comforts he so much needed. Nevertheless he looked more dismal than ever. I asked mm wnere ms juck had come from, but he only shook his head. t _ The next incident I refer to is this: In N.'s picture of that year, which was sold for $3,500. was a nude figure of a nympth. We all agreed that it. resembled Lillian. We asked N. if she had been his model, but he turned away and evaded a direct answer, saying: "I supposed Lillian never posed in that fashion." Meanwhile Kendall recovered his health and set about practical work. ?le was excellent at outline drawing and gradually worked into some of the best paying newspapers and magazines. B., a figure painter of repute, but a blunderer (as artistic people often are), needed a model for his "Venus of the Springtime." Knowing that Kendall was intimate with Lillian, B. was stupid enough to go to him and ask him to use his influence with her to induce her to pose for it Kendall replied by knocking him down. We heard the story of the affair from B., but Kendall never mentioned it Indeed, after his illness he avoided us all and seemed very moody. Nevertheless he was working hard, running an original feature in a newspaper that must have been paying him largely. As for Lillian, we missed her from our studios, and she dropped completely out of our lives. ' xne next pointer to uuc swij ia umv Kendall came to me one day and astonished me by asking me to be with him at his wedding, which was to be private. Indeed, I was to be the only witness. I asked him to name the bride, but he said that I should see her on the day of the wedding. On that day I went to a suit of rooms of which he gave me the address and was received by Lillian. I never saw a happier smile or a more beautiful expression of unconscious purity on' any bride's face. : * T +/-.11 flio cfni?T7 Hps 1 W1011 X I'UUiU ICU U16 M>v? ?.behind these Incidents. I wondered If Kendall would ever tell It to me, but he never referred to it Nevertheless the woman who had entered a field for love which she could not endure to enter for her own gain has always been to me an object of curious Interest As for the feelings of the man, 1 can only imagine them, though I don't know even If he was aware of how she got the money with which ?he supplied his comforts. After all, the best stories are never told. There are some in the telling of which only an angelic touch would avail. WINSLOW MEKIAM. i i.- . /; ;/r-vv i'refll estate} 2 FOR QUICK SALES LIST WITH US J 2 FOR PAYING INVESTMENTS BUY OF US 1* ! 'f1 *. a n < n< n it n j 4 it is uur roncy to riease/totn Buyer ana seiier j|j| ^ Our detailed descriptions of properties give you facts. t If you have any land to sell let us send you a descrip-. f* eg. tion blank to fill out. 5" ' Write for. a pamphlet of our properties which we will JT *W take pleasure in mailing to you. W* 3. Our Civil Engineer will do accurately any work that ??^>-/;.f| *2 you may wish to have done. SEE US. i Carter & Taylor | J *? Bamberg Office Over Bamberg Banking Company V . Jp T PICKENS, S. C. BAMBERO, S. C. J|j|i DO YOU APPRECIATE THE VAUflTl : OF A CHECKING ACCOUNT? If A checking account is a business necessity, and the man who . mgsSR tries to get along without one is at a great disadvantage. It B \. ? is not required that a man should have a large bulk of ready I mpney in order to open an account. Professional men, farmers, and even many women are running checking accounts. I ;; ' If you have never done business in this way; and are not fa- ;; miliar with the plan, come to us and we will get you started. ^ BAMBERG BANKING COMPANYH| Bamberg, - South Caro^i I have the Gladiator Stalk Cutter, Avery's "Reversible" . - ifS Disc Harrow, Chattanooga Chilled (double and single) Plows, The Oaks Cotton and Corn Planter, Caldwell Improved Cotton Seed Dropper, Blount's True Blue Cast Steel M Plow, Avery Dow Law Cotton Planter, Hoosier Corn Drill, > 9HCole Guano Distributor, K. P. Guano Distributor, Lulu Seed Planter^ The Little Joe Harrow, The* Georgia and ./ Farquhar Plow Stocks, the best Heaters and Stoves, Fish . > and Poultry Wire, Devoe and Hammar Paints, Harness Oil, Crockeryware and Shelf Goods, Pumps and Piping. 1 My prices are right. Come in and take a look. .y-d ^ ?j? a. hunter, | ^ ESI Ill LHIIL LLHULIItf | i We are leaders in the Piano business because we carry more and better Pianos ? ' ^ than any other dealers, and because we sell on smaller profits and easier terms than any other dealers. Are not these A '?% ' very good reasons? 5k WEHAVEMARKEDDOWN fl ? ? 1 "J tinnJ nionno gro I several secuuu-xiauu J/UUIVB, ~ __ practically as good as new, and which X will give you excellent service and per- J5P feet satisfaction. If you want to get a ? - .1^ HIGH GRADE PIANO 11 that nobody can tell from a new one, for JP^gS a small sum of money, now is your chance. Most of these pianos have been St ' * rented to tourists who were here for the A winter only. They consist of such fa- A mous makes as: Everett, Stultz& Bauer, X Packard, Harvard, Knabe, and others. r '> * ; 2 Write us for prices and terms and you will be surprised. We will sell you a "oto riianfi -fnr Orf 1 THOMAS & BARTON CO. II j& Broadway ----- Augusta, Georgia ?lf|? |WE HAVE IT!| (An up-todate drug store witli a choice assort- '> ? ment, of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, 8 Stationery, Cut Glass. Combs, Brushes, Rubber 8 Goods, Cigars, Etc. We can serve you promptly B and at right prices. Give us a share of your trade 8 Hoover's Drug Store!If TELEPHONE 44 BAMBERG, S. C.