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% NINE NEW INVENTIONS. Edison Says They Will Soon Come l and Pave the Way for Hundreds More. (Thos. A. Edison in N. Y. Times.) 5 The next era will mark the most wonderful advance in science and in- i vention that the world has ever , known or hoped for. So vast will that . advance be that we can now have scarcely any conception of its scope, 1 but already a great many of the in- 1 ventions of the future are assured. ( It is only of those which I regard as practical certainties that I shall speak here. 1. Within the next twenty or thirty i years?and it will start within the next two or three?concrete archi- ^ tecture will take enormous strides : forward; the art of moulding con- : crete will be reduced to a science of 1 perfection, and, wnat is equally im portant, of cheapness; there will rise 1 up a large number of gifted archi- < tects, and through their efforts cities 1 and towns will spring up in this 1 country beside which Turner's pic- i ture of ancient Rome and Carthage ] will pale into nothingness and the buildings of the Columbia exhibition ' will appear common. But great ex- 1 pense will not attend this; it will be J done so that the poor will be able to < enjoy houses more beautiful than the ' rich now aspire to, and a man earn- ' Ing $1.50 a day, with a family to sup- ' port, will be better housed tnan me j man of today who is earning $10. 2. Moving picture machines will 3 be so perfected that the characters J will not only move, but will speak ' and all the accessories and effects 1 of the stage will be faithfully pro- 3 _ duced on the living picture stage. 1 This, oi course, will not be done as 1 well as on the regular stage, but its 1 standard will approach very near to < that, and the fact that such entertainments will be furnished for 5 i cents will draw vast numbers of the working classes. The result will be 1 that the masses will have the advan- 1 tage of the moral of good drama, 3 they will find an inexpensive and im- 3 proving way of spending the evening i and the death knell of the saloon j will be sounded. 1 3. In perhaps fifteen or twenty 3 years?depending on the financial < condition of the country?the loco- 1 motive will pass almost out of use, 3 and all our main trunk lines will be < operated by electricity. 1 4. A new fertilizer will spring in- < to existence, containing a large percentage of nitrogen. This will be 1 drawn from the air by electricity, and i will be used to increase the arability 1 " of the land. Even now this is done to ; a large extent in sweaen. 5. All our water power will be utilized by electricity to an extent now almost unthought of, and will be 1 used with great advantage, both in- 5 k dustrial and for railroads. . 6. A successful aerial navigation j i will be established?perhaps for mails?and achieve a sound, practi- J cal working basis. ( 7. We shall be able to protect our- ' selves against environment by the ! use of serums and things of that sort, | so that the general state of health ' will be improved and the average 1 span of life will increase by a large ! percentage. The grand fight which is J being made against tuberculosis and ' cancer will reach a successful cul- 1 mination, and those diseases will be j entirely mastered. , ' 8. A new force in nature, of some f. sort or other, will be discovered by 1 fwhich many things not now under- [ understood will be explained. We, j unfortunately, have only five senses; | if we had eight, we'd know more. j 9. We shall realize the possibili- J ties of our coal supply better and ( learn, how to utilize them so that 90 1 per cent of the efficiency will not be ! thrown away, as it is today. Finally, let it be said, hardly any * | piece of machinery now manufactur- { ed is more than 10 per cent, per- j feet. As the years go on this will be improved upon tremendously; more automatic machinery will be devised J | and articles of comfort and luxury will be produced in enormous numbers at such small ? cost that all : classes will be able.to enjoy the bene- 1 fits of wuem. 1 These are some of the inventions ^ which the wond is awaiting which it is sure of seeing realized. Just how 1 \ they will be realized is what the in- J ventors are working now to determine. _ ] Negro Waylaid and Robbed. i 1 Monday night Branchville was ] treated to a sensation when it be- \ came known that a man had been held up and robbed after the most approved style of highway robbery . near the town limits. . On last Monday Abraham Mays, a hard working, respectable colored farmer, who lives a few miles out of town, brought in some cotton which f he sold, and pocketing his hard earned dollars, he went to Sixty Six, where he paid up a bill which he was owing. About nine o'clock, as he was coming back to Branchville in a lonely and dark part of the road a little ways out of town he was starty led by the command, "Hands up!" In another instant a blow from a heavy ; f club came crashing through the darkness, felling the poor darky to I * the ground. As he arose a pistol J was presented by one assailant, [ while the other went through his I pockets, relieving him of all the I money he had left. He was then orI dered to move on, and more dead than alive, he finally reached town and told his story. No trace of the robbers could be found. All the clue which he could 1 give to aid in the search for them was that there were two men whom he thought by what he could see of them, were white and had bearded faces. So far they have not been I discovered. A severe gash several inches long above his left ear proves the severity of the blow.?Branchville Journal. Much the Same. Mrs. Homer: "Mrs. Naggsby was here to-day. She reminds me of a motor car." Homer: "What's the answer, my dear?" Mrs. Homer: "She's always running other people down." XEGRO FIRES OX OFFICER. Ulysses Mays, Wanted for Murder in; Bamberg, Escapes. Aiken, Dec. 24.?Yesterday Sheriff Rabon, Deputy Busbee, and Messrs. Samuels, Weeks, Alderman, and Cato formed a posse who went to arrest Ulysses Mays, a negro wanted for murder in Bamberg county, and after a fusillade of shots the negro escaped and has not been captured. The officers learned that the negro was located in this county and yesterday they were informed that the negro with his two brothers, Jake and Wash, were coming a certain road toward Aiken. The posse was quickly formed and they started to meet them. When they got about two miles from Aiken they stopped 3 ~ J ? ~ iVA??nAl*,An VkTT ana were uispusmg tucmociy uj the roadside to wait for them. Mr. Cato went up the road about 100 jrards and at a turn of the road he met the three negroes face to face. Ulysses Mays opened fire on him with a pistol. His brothers dodged to one side on either side of the road [n the bushes. This confounded Mr. Cato, he thinking that the criminal's brothers would fire on him from the bushes. Mr. Cato fired four times with a Winchester rifle, but so far as known none of the balls took effect. By this time the others of the posse, bearing the shooting, rushed to the assistance of Mr. Cato. Meanwhile Ulysses Mays turned and fired before the other gentlemen arrived, Mr. Cato firing after him. The two brothers were ordered to "hands up," which they did. A pistol was found on one of them, which, howaver, he did not attempt to use. They were lodged in jail late last aight. Several of the posse returned to the city about 8 o'clock last night, while the rest followed the track of Mays for several miles, but could not find him. He had got on a mule and rode in the direction of Graniteville. A.t a negro house near Graniteville they found the mule which he had left there. The mule was taken in charge and was found to be one that Mays stole from a Mr. Willis at Elko. The mule is now in charge if the authorities here. It is thought that Mays escaped into Georgia. Mays is a bad negro and it is not believed here that he can be taken ilive unless a drop can be gotten on bim. $6,000 on Six Mule Farm. One of the most instructive examples of what can be accomplished on i small farm through the cultivation >f food crops almost to the complete exclusion of cotton, is afforded in the case of Sheriff F. G. Edwards, of Dougherty county, Ga. During the crop year of 1908, Sheriff Edwards, whose place is just jutside the corporate limits of Albany, had under cultivation about 20 A acres of *and. He had 60 acres In cantaloupes, 60 acres in corn, 30 icres in oats and 24 acres in cotton. He cut hay from 140 acres. Ninety 3f these acres were turned into hay fields after the cantaloupes and oats crops had been gathered, the other fifty being sown in peas for hay. Sheriff Edwards ran six plows. He 3hipped eight cars of Rocky Ford cantaloupes before the 1st of July, ind several more cars during the first ten days of that month. He gathered 1,200 bushels of corn from bis 60 acres, and 1,200 bushels of pats from 30 acres and he sold 100 tons of fine hay at an average price Df $14 a ton, and has on hand a larger supply than he needs for his own use. He also sold 200 bushels 3f corn from his 60 acres, has sold $650 worth of se^d oats, and has a large supply still on hand. His hay ? ?_ 1J nn < /*"T? nf if moo halo/1 Qnrl Wets S)U1U CIO OUUU ao 11 nuo uu.Avvk) MMVU there was no expense or deterioration on account of storage. The net profit of the six-mule farm for the crop year was $6,000 or $1,000 to the plow. The cultivation of cotton was distinctly a "side issue," 19 bales being gathered from the 24 acres cultivated. It was sold at an average price of 8 % cents a, pound. Next year Sheriff Edwards will not plant a cotton seed. He does not believe cotton will be a profitable crop in 1909, but has every reason to believe that food crops will be. He will plant 80 acres in cantaloupes, 65 acres of oats and 50 acres of corn, besides other smaller patches. He will probably make 150 to 175 tons of hay, and will sell all his crops with as little difficulty as he would experience in marketing cotton at the ruling 1909 market price for that staple. And Sheriff Edwards will not he talking hard times in the fall of 1909 But farmers who raise all cotton may have a different tale to tell. ?Anderson Mail. Effort to Save Victim's Life. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 24.?While David Schane, manager of an Atlanta automobile agency, was lying on an operating table at Grady hos" " ... %- ? 1 j iM pital to-nignt giving up mu uxuuu iu a supreme effort to save the life of Alfred Smart Grandy, 11 years old, whom he had Injured earlier in the evening by running over him in his automobile, the little victim died of his injuries. Mr. Schane ran over the child late in the afternoon at the intersection of Mitchell and Washington streets. The boy's right leg was cut off, his left badly fractured, and he sustained internal injuries. The little fellow was hurried to the hospital, followed by Mr. Schane, who volunteered to give up his blood in the effort to save the boy's life, and it was while Mr. Schane was on an operating table opposite that on which lay the boy, with the blood passing from his left arm into the child's body, that the little fellow died. Dr. Grandy, father of the child, died in the Philippines several years ago, where he occupied a position in the regular army, and, while returning to America with his body, his wife, the mother of Alfred Smart, was taken sick and died two weeks after landing. ^nwwwwininnwnwjntr I Genui EE auimuiuwH"'"""""""" HAD A HURRAH START. Prof, and Mrs. Spencer Start Honeymoon Trip. Spartanburg, Dec. 23.?Daring students of Wofford College made a bold attempt last night to kidnap Prof. M. L. Spencer, who occupies the chair, of English at Wofford College, to prevent him from taking his honeymoon trip with his bride. The bride and groom escaped the kidnappers after the friends of the groom had had a lively scuffle with students. Lady friends of the bride used their umbrellas on the heads of the students with teling effect. Prof, and Mrs. Spencer were hurried to an automobile and an exciting trip was made through drenching rain and muddy roads to a point six miles out of the city, where they took the train for Jacksonville. Prof. Spencer and Miss Lois Hill, formerly of Anderson, were married last night at the residence of Dr. C. B. Waller. Innocent Man Pardoned. \ liovernor Ansel yesteruciy giaiiued a pardon in a peculiar case, one in which even the prosecuting attorney expressed the opinion that the prisoner should never have been prosecuted, much less convicted. According to the petition in behalf of Elliott Jones, colored, he was convicted in April, 1906, in Bamberg, on charge of stealing a hog, and was given a sentence of thirteen months, which he is now serving, the case being taken up on appeal at first, but later dropped by his lawyer. Jones was not notified that the appeal had been abandoned, it is stated, and was very much surprised when he was made to begin his sentence. It appears that Jones had renewed a bill of sale to D. J. Delk, including a hog, which Lxelk had allowed Jones to retain in his possession. A difference arose, settlement was had, and Jones paid up the account in* full, supposing that the hog was included. He then removed, and either sold or killed the hog. Later prosecution followed on a warrant charging Jones with the theft of the hog, and he was convicted. In recommending that a pardon be granted, on the showing made, Travis savs that he has tJV/llV/iVVl m * ~^ ^ made a personal investigation and finds the facts stated in the petition to be true. "It is not very creditable to those people at Bamberg, who prosecuted this negro," says the solicitor, "to impose upon the prosecuting officer the unpleasant duty of convicting an innocent man." He recommends pardon which has been granted.?Columbia correspondence to News and Courier. Took Laudanum to End Life. Asheville, N. C., Dec. 24.?Lying on the ground with four empty laudanum bottles close by, the dead body of William Byers, aged 60 years, who disappeared from his home in Balfour, N. C., ten days ago, was found yesterday morning, near the foot of Stoney mountain, half a mile from Balfour. The condition of the remains indicated that Byers had been dead about a week. There is no known reason why Byers should have committed suicide. He left the home of his daughter, Mrs. James Gallmore, at Hendersonville, about ten days ago and had not been seen or heard of up to the discovery of his body yesterday. He was apparently in good health and spirits when he left his daughter's house, but is known to have brooded considerably over the death of his son, who committed suicide some years ago. Mr. Byers, who up to several months ago, was employ ed by the Balfour yuarry uomyauj, was a brother-in-law of ex-Congressman Gudger, of Asheville. When the Weather Was Cold. An American and a Scotchman were discussing the cold experienced in winter in the north of Scotland a I few Christmases ago. I "Why, it's nothing at all compared to the cold we have in the States," said the American. "I can I recollect one winter when a sheep, i jumping from a hill-lock into a field, became suddenly frozen on the way and stuck in the air like a mass of I ice." "But, man," exclaimed the Scotch1 man, "the law of gravity wouldn't allow that." "I know that," replied the talepitcher. "But the law of gravity (was frozen, too!" I tne Peruvian C lagij|k Untouched by the Chemist or thi Wmk For TOBAC( COTTON, T1 ?|?|F PeruvianGuanoG jT^ CHARLESTON, i / V I Santa Claus Was Good to Us I We Hope He Was to You E Our holiday trade was very good, and we are now pre8 paring to close oar business for 1908. In order to re 1 dace the stock as much as possible before oar Annual Stock Taking, we will offer all small musical instru ments, such as Guitars, Banjos, Mandolins, Violins, Accordeons, Drums and all Musical Merchandise at One-Third Off. All Popular Music ioc per Copy This is AH New from the Standard Publishers Five Hundred New Standard Teaching Pieces at Five Cents Per Copy. We will also make a special > redaction on . pianos. Square Pianos, in good condition, from $20 to $75. A few used and second hand Upright Pianos at specially attractive prices. Remember This Sale Only Lasts One Week THOMAS ft RARTON fO. l iivmnu u I/mii vn ?v. ^ Broadway, AugusU. ?'J I The Millinery House News 1 ? We want you to keep as busy as we have been, so jsg. we will offer goods still lower, such as ? Ladies' Coats, Kid Gloves, Corsets, Under- @ wear, Zephyr Goods, Dress Novelties, Etc. @ !We offer a beautiful prize for you to work for yourself We sell you a piece of stamped work and floss to work it with, and party doing best work of this gets ? the prize. This prize is furnished by the Corticelli A Silk Co. Call and see it. A competent lady of the city will be judge of the work. Work of this kind makes a nice Xmas present, and is easy. Sk Line of Stylish Millinery just in, all going cheap nts. K. I. Shuck & Co. I BAMBERG SOUTH CAROLINA i Hardware Bargains 1 If you want bargains in Hardware, ? call on us at the ware house in rear of @ our burned building. We have a lot of @ goods saved from the fire, all of which Q are being sold way below cost. Come @ @ to see us. k? g J. A. HUNTER & The Hardware Man Bamberg, South Carolina Ss ???????????mmm???? mmmmmin:; mnnnmm^ juanol > -_gg 3! i r SAIanufacturer 2 ZO I ?* i . -'42 -:M RUCK 1 J 3 Drporation | I iMiiiuiiiutmmiuummiUii vI TAX NOTICE. The County Treasurer's office will ii| be open for the, collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1908, :j until the 15th day of March, 1909. From the 1st day of January, lavs, l, until the 31st day of January, 1909, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be added 3 to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st .<3 day of February, 1909, until the 28th v day of February, 1909, a penalty of . jsg 2 per cent, will be added to all un paid taxes. From the 1st day of I March, 1909, until the 15th day of : :y March, 1909, a penalty of 7 per cent. will be added to all unpaid taxes. Following is the levy: I . ".gi For State purposes, 5% mills. * For county purposes, 3 mills. Constitutional school tax, 3 mills. | Total, 11% mills. ' , ; Special school levies: Bamberg, No. 14, 7 mills. ... Binnaker's, No. 12, 4 mills. Clear Pond, No. 19, 2 mills. '{$ Colston, No. 18, 2 mills. Cuffie Creek, No. 21, 6 mills. f. Denmark, No. 21, 6 mills. J v| Ehrhardt, No. 22, 2 mills. m v:^ Govan, No. 11, 4 mills. Hunter's Chapel, No. 16, 1 mill. Hopewell, No. 1, 3 mills. Hey ward, No. 24, 2 mills. Hampton, No. 3, 2 mills. Lees, No. 23, 4 mills. Midway, No. 2, 2 mills. Oak Grove, No. 20, 2 mills.* Olar, No. 8, 4 mills. All male persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except Confederate soldiers and sailbrs, who are extempt at fifty years of age, / ~ are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, . .. );i Capitation dog tax, 50 cents. All male persons who were 21 ye^rs % of age on or before the 1st of January, 1908, and have not made re- M fnrncj fn thft Auditor, will do SO On ^ or before the 1st of January, 1909. 2 I will receive the road commuta- "M tion tax ($2.00) from October 1:5th, 1908, until March 1st, 1909. JOHN P. FOT.X, Treasurer Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C., Sept.. 15, 1908. m ASSESSMENT NOTICE. :-M I or my deputy will be at the fol- . ' lowing places on the days and dates v named below for the purpose of re- \ ceiving returns of personal property ^|? and notice of real estate bought or sold since last return: Lees?Tuesday, January 5th, 1909 ! Denmark?Wednesday and ThuraJanuary 6th and 7th, 1909. Olar?Monday and Tuesday, Jan- i uary 11th and 12th, 1909. Govan?Wednesday, January 13th, 1909. ;-|g Midway?Thu'rsday, January 14th, 1909. Farrell's Store?Monday, January ' 18th! 1909. Hunter's Chapel?Tuesday, Jan- T X uary 19th, 1909. \f Colston?Wednesday, January 20, \ 1909. \M Ehrhardt?Monday and Tuesday, \ January 25th and 26th, 1909. v / St. Johns?Wednesday, January > X* 27th, 1909. Camp Hill?Thursday, January 28, . until 11 a. m., 1909. Kearse?Thursday, January zstn, 12 to 4 p. m. All male persons between the age of 21 and 60 years are liable to a poll tax of $1.00 (except Confederate soldiers who are exempt at fifty years). _ / 31 All dogs whether owned by head of family or children must be returned. I will appreciate it if every tax payer will meet me in person and make their returns. (tAfter the 20th of February a pen- ' .. .P alty of fifty per cent, will be added . to all personal property not returned. R. W. D. ROWELL, Auditor Bamberg County. " ^vBamberg, S. C., Dec. 10, 1908. Shoe& Harness Repairing I have moved into the store lately occupied by The Bamberg Herald, where I am better prepared to serve you than ever. All sorts of harness and shoes repaired and satisfaction guaranteed. I manufacture harness ofallklnds, bridles halters, etc. Give me a trial. H. V. Johnson, Bamberg, S. C. id.' wove b'ic'sinson i I A /^C?1VT?T> A X IIXSUKAl^WC, * WILL WRITE ANYTHING < Fire, Tornado, Accident, Ua- J! I bility, Casualty, in the Jt strongest and most re- J [ 1 liable companies. , <> ? TELEPHONE No. 10 B. Boalwrf. S.C. . M '