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ii I fe,- ^ te.' s. * ITpL g?| And ev ftp especial |i||f eery st( Hi insist u mm station* S find thi S? virfiAf*A i ITT 1IV1 W ^ I not leas Tablets! We have tablets in all grades paper, and in all the late shapes . and sizes, ranging - price from lc. to 20c. each. ] sure and see our line befo purchasing. We have tabh ruled and unruled, note si: packet size, letter size, leg size, and others. 130 sheets of paper that you c; write on with ink, put up tablet form, for 5c. Pencils The best pencil you ever saw f lc., we have. We also ha some exceptionally good penc at 5c. and 2 for 5c. More pe cils in our store than in the bi ance of the town. All shap< colors and sizes. We also hai on hand at plf- H Pencil Boxe school roon ppl Ip - . willow and igT i: large quant ? your money The te I Knight & Bruce jfepy": DRANK CARBOLIC ACID. - p^oung White Man Committed SuiKap^' cide at Elloree. ^^Ky-BIIoree, March 6.?G. H. Till p^; ^mmitted suicide at this place yesllll^rday afternoon by drinking cargfey&Olic acid. The deed was committed BHpw the afternoon. No motive can be fnr the rash act other than I |g|sthe words uttered by the young man j^'Jiist a few minutes before his death, which he said that he had "been llpyit drag on his mother for several \ p^^rears, and he wished to end it all.": |p%^lTie act was a most deliberate one, agfpiBd within a very few minutes after g^the deadly poison had passed the lips of the young man, he lay a corpse. P^Toung Till had not been noticed to p?i"r,be under any strain of mind prior 3Bf|to his suicide. Yesterday afternoon young Till left his home and went to the drug' Kfevstore. Here he purchased a small i of carbolic acid. He then dij;' ^*iected his way to the dispensary, he bought a pint of corn whiskey. With these two articles the ft^yoong man returned to the home of mother, and upon entering the house he went directly to his room. Here he disrobed as if preparing for bed. Before lying down, however, ? he poured out a quantity of the j?*> deadly carbolic acid in a glass, and mixed with it a quantity of the Sv whiskey. Then he drank this dead ly concoction, and within a short py length of time he lay dead upon his bed. After the young man had poured 0^?: this poison into nis stomacn, ne caued to his mother, who was in an adf, joining room, and she came to him. He then told her that he had just !> taken poison. He told his parent that he had ben a drag on her hands I* for several years, and that he had decided to end his miserable existence, and never to trouble them. He asked for a cloth with which to wipe his mouth, but the effects of the acid - A had already begun. Physicians were summoned imme?< diately, but arrived too late to render the ill fated man any assist|?V ance. Young Till was 24 years of age, f.'C and leaves a mother and four broth| ers and sisters. The funeral took % place this afternoon, and the interment at the family burying ground near Mt. Lebanon church. . . Big line of magazines at The Herald Book Store. ' . V.-' - !ace erything in its ph lly so when you an )re to buy a horse, < ipon purchasing St iry store. The Her ree times as large a ilse, and many thir st, the prices are as Ink This is the place to come to get in ink in any size bottle, any Be make and any color. We have re as much ink in our store at its present as there is in the balse, ance of the county. From 5c. a ;al bottle to 85c. " Files Full line Shannon and Box Files, also wire and standing files, or Keep your papers and corve respondence where you can reils fer to it. Wire and standing in- files 5c. Box Files 25c. Shanil non Files 75c., sold in city at >s, $1.00 and $1.25. Our prices are always lower. re in stock most anything usee all times a large assortmen is, Compasses, Pens and Pen S l, also for the office we have wire, Desk Trays, Pen Racks, ities. REMEMBER each and r back. Come and pay us a vi ? ? ?? nt-t i, Proprietors. ! AWAITED IX A GRAVE. < Japanese Attempts to Bury Himself and Die Afterward. A youth of Kobe, Japan, who sought to commit suicide by burying himself alive and paid an accomplice 25 cents to spade the earth upon his coffin, achieved some degree of notoriety even in Japan, where new things are happening every day, says the New York Sun, He failed of his original purpose, however. A policeman was strolling along the bank of the Miantogawa river outside of Kobe one day last month when he happened to spy a joint of bamboo pipe sticking a few inches above a mound of fresh earth. Being a Japanese and also a policeman, his curiosity was especially keen. He looked down the bamboo pipe, but could see nothing. Then he began to dig around the pipe. He had a considerable wrench put on his nerves when a voice came out of the end of the pipe right at his ear: "Honorably condescend to go away and permit me to die peacefully." But the policeman did not go. He dug some more and finally unearthed a pine box, the length of a man's body and about three feet wide. The bamboo pipe led through an opening into the box. The policeman pried off the cover of the box, securely nailed down and dumped the selfappointed corpse out. , Yamada Katsutaro, the man who thus would have died, told the prefect of police that he had wanted to die in a seemly fashion because he was out of work. The lack of food had suggested to him the practicability of starving himself to death, but in (order to be sure that he should accomplish this purpose he had determined to bury himself in a securely nailed coffin and await the ravages of hunger. He didn't want to suffocate first, hence the bamboo pipe. The day before the policeman discovered him, Yamada said, he procured the box and the services of a coolie. Then he dug the hole out on Egeyama and after giving the coolie his obi and fifty sen, his last bit of money, he was nailed up in his coffin, lowered into the grave and covered under six feet of soil. Yamada promised never to try burying himself again and the police let him go. Job printing, the kind that pays, done at The Herald office. TOR tee is a mighty gc i purchasing goods or to a livery stabk ationery, Office and aid Book Store is t in assortment of ar igs that cannot be cheap, if not chea Tr maga; We've added to our stoc zines and Periodicals. V National, Everybodys, Cosmo Success, American Boy, Sat N many others. Call and see y Waterman's Ideal ! Without doubt the Ik manufactured. Guarant have the nicest and la shown in Bamberg. < I in a business office or schoo it of Composition Books, Exi Staffs, White and Colored Cra s Ledgers, Journals, Cash Bo< Stamp Pads, Daters, Ink We I every article we sell we gua sit whether you buy or not, v {ALD Telepho ELECTION" CONTESTS FARCIAL. / Lever Protests Against Payment of 1 $2,500 to Dantzler and Myers. Washington, March 2.?Represen- , tative Lever a day or two ago landed hard on Dantzler and Myers, the two South Carolina negroes, who have been making election contests in the 2nd and 7th districts. Mr. Lever objected to payment of $2,500 being made to them by congress, and referred to these contests as nothing more than a farce and pretence. Discussing the question on the floor he said: \ I Mr. Speaker, operating, as we are, under a rule forced upon the minority, which does not permit any debate to amount to anything, and prohibits amendments to any of these appropriation bills, I am denied the privilege of offering several amendments to this bill, which, I am sure, would make it a much better bill. If the rule would permit it, I would offer an amendment striking out the appropriation allowed Dantzler and Myers,- who contested the seats of myself and my colleague, Judge Patterson. The appropriation amounts to $2,500 and is a pure gift to these negroes, who had no idea of win- 1 ning a seat and no other purpose than getting the fees allowed in this bill. I want the country to know the ridiculousness of these contests, and, with unanimous consent, I desire to submit a statement of the contested election cases in South Carolina for the past twenty years. This farcical procedure, this unnecessary drain upon the treasury, will never cease until this congress has the courage to say to these negroes that "Your case must be more than a ridiculous pretence, before any fees will be allowed." Three contests have been- filed again for the 61st congress, and they will never stop until the Republican majority joins with us on this side in refusing fees where the only purpose of the contest is to obtain the fees. I wish I had the chance to test the sense of the house on this matter, but your rule does not permit it, and , I can only voice my protest. The list shows 18 cases, only two of which were successful. The list will also show that the votes received by these Republican contestants have grown less and less, until they now practically amount to nothing. Fine line box papers from 10c up, at The Herald Book Store. EVEI >od rule to follow . You would not i i to purchase bacor I School Supplies fi he only one in Ban lything in their lit found at all at ot iper, than are offe ZINES I k a nice line of Maga- j /e handle the following: j polltan, Puck, Judge, Life, . j urday Evening Post, and v vhat we have. I Fountain Pens l V :st Fountain Pen ever j :eed in every way. We i rgest assortment ever | 3ome and investigate, i J) >1 room. We make a specialt animation Tablets, School Bo< yon, Stenographers' Note Bo >ks and Day Books in all sizes lis Arm, Rests, Etc. Anythii rantee to be just as represen re are always glad to see you Boo He No. 59 TILLMAN RETURNS HOME. Says There is no Use in His Remaining in Washington. Washington, March 6.?Senator Tillman left for his home in South Carolina last night. "What is the use of my staying here for tariff legislation?" he remarked to his friends upon leaving the city. "The Republicans have mapped out a policy which cannot be affected by the Democrats." Mr. Tillman will, however, return by the time the tariff bill has been framed up by the house of representatives, and is ready for the Senate. Six Men to Die on Gallows. Baton Rouge, La., March v5.?Today is hangman's day in Louisiana. Six men will expiate on the gallows the crime of murder. One will be hanged for criminal assault. Eight prisoners were to have been executed, but Governor Sanders granted a reprieve to one of this number?Jim Collier, of Madison parish?until the board of pardons could examine into his petition for commutation of sentence. He was found guilty of killing another negro some months ago. Three of the executions are sched- j uled to occur at Port Allen, West Baton Rouge parish. One of these is that of Charles Davis, who, while a convict in the penitentiary near Baton Rouge, killed a guard. Davis has maintained that his first imprisonment was the result of a mistaken identity, and as a matter of fact it was under another name that he was lodged in the penitentiary. A few nights ago he made a second desperate effort to escape, which i came near to proving successful. Wallace and Ben Jones, brothers, will die on the same scaffold with Davis. They killed Conductor Hall, of the Texas and Pacific railroad, on the night of January 22, this year. Charles Madison is to be hanged at Lake Charles for the criminal assault of Sidonia Kelly last September. At Franklin, Jack Ratier is to pay the death penalty fcr the murder of Mary McCoy, a young negress. Willie Williams will be hanged at Gretna for the murder of Willie Brooks last September. Andrew Washington killed his wife im Madison September 17, 1908, and will be executed for his crime at Tallulah. All of the condemned men are negroes. . . %.' ;.. Syth in every walk of lii think of going to 1. Therefore why *om other than a r nberg, and there y< ie as you can fin< her places; and la; red at any other books Leg ye have an exceptionally nice se- p lection of all kinds of novels, k that retailed regularly at $1.50, that we are offering for 50c. 8i and 60c. for a limited tine. We 0 also have a few more copies of *1 The Dark Corner by Zach Mc- a Ghee, at $1.00 each. P Pound Paper ye know we have the largest and ?Up best assortment of pound paper a ever displayed in this city, ti ranging in price from 15c. to a 50c. the pound, and if you like e to be agreeably surprised you a should inspect our line. Air p we ask is for you to come and 1 look. y y of keeping what you want, oks, Erasers, Book Straps, Sc oks and many other things u and Rulings, also Waste Baj ig you may want you can fi ted and if you find it otherwi and show you around. k St Bamberg, MAX ELECTROCUTED. Mr. Cody Young Killed by Electric Current at Marion. Marion, March 4.?A fatal accident occurred last night at the power house of the light and water company, when Cady Young, a young white fireman, was electrocuted and instantly killed. Mr. Young was the day fireman at the plant and was preparing to leave the plant when he passed by the switchboard and placed both bands on one or tne wires. Instantly 2,300 volts of electricity passed through his body. So strong was the current that it held him standing at the switchboard after he was dead, and the first person to get to him was severely shocked in trying to pull him loose from the wires.. Every means was exhausted to try to revive him, but he was undoubtedly killed almost instantaneously. Mr. Young's duties did not carry him about this part of the plant and he was not familiar with the mechanism of the switchboard, and it was probably through ignorance of the danger that he caught hold of the wire. Mr. Young was quite a young man, and only came to Marion last September. His former home was in Avoca, Iowa. Since coming to Marion Mr. Young has been a good citizen and was very highly thought of by his employers and associates. Only three months ago he married a Miss Cook. The coroner held an inquest to-day and the verdict was in acocrdance with the above facts. The funeral services were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Wife of Prisoner Burned. Statesboro, Ga., March 7.?While her husband was a prisoner here on the charge of murder, awaiting a second trial after conviction, Mrs. Joe Woods, who resided near Rocky Ford, this county, was burned to death yesterday afternoon, the news of her death reaching here today. Mrs. Woods was bathing one of her baby children before an open fireplace when her dress was ignited. She ran into the yard and died there. The husband was taken by officers to his home to-day, broken down at the terrible sight, and was returned to his cell. An officer will accompany him to the funeral. Several small children, the oldest but seven, are left uncared for. ' *, -;v-^ V\ ra fe, and | a gro= R do you H egular g )u will 1 i any- jg st, but - 1 store. S Legal Paper 1 J al cap paper and typewriter aper galore. We have various . SB inds and qualities, also mani- 25? Did and carbon paper in legal ffija Ize. We can supply the wants zw f anybody in this line, at less gjfl| lan city prices. Legal cap 10c. 33 quire and up.. Typewriter iff aper 65c. a ream and up. Wt Box Paper ft: | line of fine box papers is the SB rettiest you ever saw. Come in JBR.< nd see if we're not telling the 38,' " ruth. Ail the newest shapes sEt nd fancies in fine correspond- W nee paper, and the boxes alone a|8 re worth more than we ask for ?| aper and box. Prices from all. 0c. to 50c.?none higher?yet ?23 ou get as high as 75c. values. We have . II.. dll hool Bags, H sed in the m skets, both M nd here in H se you get ?g ' ORE South Carolina 1 ; ' % A NEGRO SHOOTING. Colored Man in Gaffney Attempted : ? \ & to Assault Another's Wife. . '/v Gaffney, March 4.?Inteligence has just reached Gaffney to the effeet that a negro named William Linder was shot by another negro oil the plantation of W. Samuel Lipscomb, a few miles from the city, yesterday afternoon. Linder \was shot by the other man ^cause of an alleged assault upon the person of the man's wife by Linder. The negro was at work some distance away from his home, and Linder, according to the statement of the woman, entered the house and accomplished his purpose. She at once went in search of her husband and informed him of the occurrence, whereupon he took his gun and as soon as he discovered Linder shot him. The wounds while necessarily - - . 1 j a 4.1.1 ..a paintui are nor consiuereu xauu auu it is probable that the wounded man will recover. It is said that the man who did the shooting is on his way to Gaffney for the purpose of surrendering to the sheriff. m NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE. :vM Assailant of Mrs. McKinney is Incinerated by Texas Mob. Rockwall, Texas, March 7.?After having been identified by Mrs. Arthur McKinney as the negro who attempted a criminal assault upon her Friday morning, Anderson Ellin was taken from the Rockwell county jail to-night and secured to an iron stake driven into the earth and wan burned to death in the presence of about 1,000 persons. Earlier in the evening Will Clark, a negro, was shot and instantly killed when his father, Andrew Clark, refused permission to a posse to search his premises on the assumption that Ellis was concealed there. People were here from several towns and from Dallas, Collin and Hunt as well as Rockwell county to witness the execution of the negro. Ellis admitted his guilt, but refused to make a statement or to leave a farewell message for his relatives. He did not utter a cry as the pile of cordwood, which had been well saturated with kerosene, was set afire, nor did he show loss of nerve as the flames cooked his flesh. He was dead within nine minutes after the torch had been applied. . v.