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THE JURY ACQUITS SHARP
EXONERATED OF CONSPIRING TO
KILL CARMACK.
Jury Cannot Agree as to Guilt or Innocence
of the Coopers?Ordered
Back to Room.
Nashville, Tenn., March 19.?When
the jury to-day returned a verdict of
acquittal for John D. Sharp, charged i
with the murder of Former United
States Senator E. W. Carmack, and j
declared it was "hopelessly tied up as;
to the Coopers," it was generally conceded
that the end of the famous
case had been reached. Nothing
daunted by the expressive firmness of
Foreman Burke's declaration of a
disagreement, Judge Hart sent the
12 men out for further deliberation
and announced that he would not
discharge them until he was absolutely
convinced that an agreement
could not be reached.
Judge Hart fully expected a verdict
to-dav. Several times during the
morning he consulted with the jury
deputies and when he had concluded
the day's docket at noon and sent to
ask the jurors if they had anything
to report, the reply "nothing" came
hack. Evidently the judge had
some information, however, for he
ordered the prisoners brought into
court and instructed the sheriff to
"carry in the jury."
Instead of S. J. Hyde, to whom1
the charge was given, E. M. Burke,
the first man chosen, carried :he papers
and acted as foreman. In response
to the judge's question as to
whether a verdict had been reached,
Burke replied: "We are tied up
tight as to the Coopers, but we find
John D. Sharp not guilty."
The verdict as to Sharp was announced
at 12:32 p. m.
"Is there any reason, Gen. McArn,
why John Sharp should not be discharged?"
asked the court.
"None, your honor."
"Mr. Sharp, you are discharged
from custody, acquitted," said the
court with a smile.
1 Sharp sat still and indifferent. Not
so with his wife. When she had
grasped the significance of the verdict
her eyes filled up and she caught
her husband's left arm with both her
hands and seemed about to break
' down.
"We want the exact words of the
record." said Judee Anderson, of the
defense. "We understood the report
was hopeless tied."
"I do not recall the exact language,
but I am told by the clerk and a
newspaper man that those are the
words. Let the clerk so record
them."
"Is that a verdict, your honor?"
said Anderson.
"It is a verdict as far as John
Sharp is concerned, but it certainly is
r not as far as D. B. and Robin Cooper
are concerned. I sent the jury back
for further consideration."
s The defendant's counsel advised
together a while and assented. Then
Judge Hart adjourned court until 2
p. m.
Sharp, accompanied by his wife
and sister-in-law, father and mother,
the latter two reaching the jail after
the verdict, went to the room he has
occupied for several months in the
jail and there held a little reunion
with the Coopers.
As he left the court room, Reid
Sharp, youngest brother of John, remarked:
"This is not the end of this
case."
The jurors looked tired and worn
and ill at ease. From the loud talking
heard in the room they have been
having a strenuous time. They are
chafing under the restraint, too, but
evidently are determined to vote with
their convictions. They sent word to
the sheriff late this afternoon that
their room was poorly ventilated,
that the plumbing was defective and
that several of the men were ill from
the confinement. The room is quite
small and the sheriff decided to let
them sleep to-night in the quarter
Of the jail set aside for a woman's
hospital, which has no tenants at
present t
The jurors put in the afternoon
deliberating, but after supper at 6
p. m., devoted the balance of the
evening to amusing themselves with
cards and songs.
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It was a thrilling experience to
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whooping cough and all bronchial affections.
50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle
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Condensed Wisdom.
The three "D's" of "high society"
are Dress, Divorce and the Devil.
There are two animals which will
eat and drink anything and every
* thing: the hog and man.
"Contrasts go well together"?is
that why the waist measurements of
so many society couples are 15 and
51 inches respectively?
An overloaded stomach is one of
the Devil's most delightful habitations.
The woman who has a wasp-like
waist usually has also a wasp-like
disposition.
Many religious papers are advertising
a new road to Heaven; the
Patent Medicine Highway.
The early Christians practiced
fasting and praying; not feasting
and braying.
The making of money is often the
unmaking of man.
Some people's highest ambition is
to keep their hands as soft as their
heads.
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Where are Your B<
Going to!
Editor The Bamberg Herald: The
following article contains so much
good common sense that I ask you to j
give it publicity through the columns'
| of your paper.
Yours truly,
E. PAUL ALLEN.
1. Are you thinking of sending
either or both to coiiege next year?
Would it be the wise thing to do?
Would it be the best thing to do?
Sending your boy or your girl to college
is a grave question. In settling
the question use caution, discretion,
business sense, and courage. Be not
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swayea Dy mere sentiment, juuk at
the matter in a judicial way, and be
not influenced by the seductive reasoning
of the college drummer,
whose business it is to get students.
2. If your boy or your girl has
the age, the maturity, the settled
habits, the preparation, and any ambition
to get a college education, by
all means send him or her, if it is
possible, to do so. At the proper
time and under favorable conditions,
it is your sacred duty to send him or
her.
3. Not every student would be
benefitted by sending him to college.
Unless your child has a genuine desire
to go there for the work it would
be a mistake to send him at all. If
he wishes to go to college to have a
good time, by all means keep him at1
home at work. For his future welfare
a college campus is the last place
for a student to go simply to enjoy
himself.
4. Is your boy or girl old enough,
mature enough, and settled enough
to stand alone morally, and to do j
college work in the college way? If I
not, by no means send either. The
average boy or girl sixteen years of
age has no business at college. The
majority of college uoys and girls
are fine types of young manhood and
womanhood?ambitious, sincere and
of fine fibre. But among those on ev
ery college campus are tne aerencis
?the idlers, the morally weak, and
the morally vicious. To withstand
the influence of such characters is a
part of the training to which every
boy and girl must sometime be subjected,
but it is courting disaster to
your son or your daughter to thrust
either in the way of temptation until
old enough and settled enough to resist
it. Do not bank upon the
strength of your immature child;
many another parent has drunk the
dregs of bitterness because he imagined
his child unlike other children.
With the same preparation and equal
native ability, the young man entering
college at twenty years of age
will do as much college work in three
years as the boy of sixteen will do in
four years.
5. Is your boy or girl prepared
! to enter college? Is he just through
the ninth grade of some school? If
so, he lacks about two years of the
proper preparation. You ought not to
be in any doubt about that. You can
easily find some college anxious to
take him. Suppose it does take him;
will that student do college work
next year, or will he do high school
work?at increased expenses? The
answer to that question is simple.
The college must take the pupil
where it finds him; the student cannot
jump from the middle of the
high school into the college, and if
he undertakes to do so, he is sure to
pay the penalty. To send a ninth
grade pupil to college is unjust to the
DUDil. robs your high school, and
forces the college into the high
school business.
6. Has your boy or girl completed
the tenth grade in some school? If
so, do you think either is properly
prepared for college? How much has
he been taught? How well has he
been taught? What has he mastered?
How much power has he acquired
for independent thinking? Has he
barely got beyond quadratics in a
school algebra? Is he still in plane
geometry? Has he read three, or
even four, books of Caesar's Gallic
war? Is his knowledge of history
confined to a smattering gathered
from a few months' study of some
general history? Is he or she able to
write a simple English letter of three
hundred words, spelling all the words
correctly, using capitals where they
belong, and dividing the letter properly
into paragraphs? Is such a pupil
ready for college?
7. The average school with two
average teachers to teach the eighth,
ninth and tenth grades, will not,
and cannot, properly prepare students
for real colleee work. The ex
planation is simple: Two teachers
cannot teach such a course in three
years, unless the classes are unusually
small and the pupils above the average
in ability. Such a school needs
at least three teachers for these three
grades. The proper preparation for
college to-day means the mastery of a
wider range of subjects than required
fifty years ago.
8. The average community thinks
it too expensive to employ three
teachers for the eighth, ninth and
tenth grades. What does the average
community in South Carolina pay the
two teachers who attempt to do this
work? One is paid from $60 to $100
a month; the other, from $35 to $50
a month?an average of not far from
$1,250 for the two. Would it not be
better and cheaper to add the third
teacher to the school, than to send
the boys and girls unprepared to college?
9. Suppose your school has te$
grades with three, or even more,
teachers for the eighth, ninth and!
tenth grades. Would it not be wisdom
and economy to add the eleventh j
grade and another teacher? A ten-j
grade school at best cannot offer;
more than three years of high school.
Why should its pupils go to college
to get the fourth year of high school
work?
10. Suppose your school has already
eleven grades and claims a
four-year high school course. Does it
carry its pupils beyond what the ordinary
ten-grade school does? If
not do not be satisfied to call it a
four-year high school. A four-year
high school with a single course of
oy and Qirl
School Next Year?
study giving five subjects to each pupil
cannot be taught with fewer than
three teachers. Does your school of
eleven grades measure up to that
standard? If not, it needs your support
to make it a standard scnool,
and its pupils are not properly prepared
for college.
11. Although we have free
scholarships, free tuition, and other
gratuities at the colleges, the average
boy or girl will need not far from
$250 a year at college. Four pupils
will cost $1,000 a year. Would it not
be the part of wisdom and common
sense to add a teacher at $1,000 a
year to your home school, thereby
keeping your money at home, and
your children at home another year?
12. The entire community is often
unwilling to put more than $1,250
into the salaries of two teachers,
or $1,800 into the salaries of three
teachers, to teach from thirty to
seventy-five pupils in their home high
school, but four parents out of that
same community are perfectly willing
to nav Ji.ooo for only four students
?away from home!
13. Some parents seem to think
that their children do better at school
away from home than they would do
at the home school. Doubtless a few
do, but in most cases he makes himself
believe so because he wiuhes to
believe so, and because he does not
see from day to day his child's faults
and shortcomings.
> 14. As a school master it would
pay to employ an additional teacher
for your home school; as a matter of
business economy it would pay. By
sending your children and your
money to other places you aid in
building up schools at other places at
the expense of your own community
and school. By keeping your children
and your money in your home
school you would soon have a school
that would draw pupils and money
to it.
15. It is foolish and unreasonable
to expect a 40-dollar woman or a 75dollar
man to do as good teaching for
you as the college professor ought to
do. Four parents are willing to pay
$1,000 to have a college professor
teach their children high school subjects
in the college. Suppose you try
a 1,000-dollar teacher in your home
school instead of the one at $40 a
month.
16. By improving your home
school you not only educate your
children at less expense, but without
expense to yourself you give additional
school advantages to the children
of your neighborhood who are
less able than you to send their children
off to school. Thus you prove
yourself a good citizen.
17. By making your home school
better and keeping your boys and
girls in it at least one year longer,
you would not injure the colleges?
you wo lid greatly benefit tfiem. You
would send them better prepared
students, more mature students, and
more of them. Besides, you would
almost immediately raise the standard
of every college in the State.
18. What are you going to do
about it? What are you and your
neighbors going to do about it? Are
you and your neighbors going to send
your fledgeling off to college next
September, bewail the expense, grumble
about having no good school at
home, and finally be disappointed In
that your children do not get on as
you think they ought? Almost every
community in the State could better
its school without one dollar of additional
expense, if the patrons would
use common business judgment and
work together.
19. If you have a high school,
support it and build it up; keep your
children in it until they have completed
the course; then if the course
is inferior or too shcrt, spend your
money on that school instead of on
somebody else's school. If you have
no high school, why not? If you
need help, the State is willing to give
you a start, but not to support it for
you?that is your privilege and your
business. W. H. HAND,
High School Inspector,
Feb. 20, 1909. Columbia, S. C.
Census Report on Cotton Crop.
Washington, March 20.?Running
bales of cotton numbering 13,408,841,
of average gross weight of 505.8
pounds, all equivalent to 13,563,942
500-pound bales, with 27,587 ginneries
operating, was the final report
of the census bureau to-day on the
cotton crop grown in 1908.
The report included 344,907 linters
and counts round as half bales. The
final 1907 crop report was 11,325,882
bales, equivalent to 11,375,461
500-pound bales with 27,597 ginneries
operating.
Included in the 1908 figures are
93,085 bales, which the ginners estimated
they would turn out after the
time of the March canvass.
Round bales in to-day's report are
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34U.4DU Daies. oea, isiauu uaics included
are 93,848 for 1908 and 86,895
for 1907.
The crop by States, in running
bales, including linters, follows:
Alabama, 1,358,339; Arkansas,
1,018,708 bales; Florida, 71,411
bales; Georgia, 2,023,828 bales;
Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico
(including linters of establishments
in Illinois and Virginia) 5,054; Louisiana,
481,694 bales; Mississippi, 1,665,695
bales; Missouri, 60,609
bales; North Carolina, 699,507
bales; Oklahoma, 703,862 bales;
South Carolina. 1,239,260 bales;
Tennessee, 348,582 bales; Texas, 3,719,189
bales; Virginia, 13,013
bales.
Empty Pistol Again Fatal.
Spartanburg, March 18.?Perry
Leister, of Greer, was accidentally
shot and killed at his home at that
place yesterday by Sam James, his
brother-in-law. James was handling
a supposed empty pistol, when it was
discharged by accident, the ball entering
Leister's forehead, causing his
death within a few moments. Coroner
Turner made an investigation of
the tragedy. It has been clearly .established
that the killing was accidental.
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NOTICE TO LIQUOR DEAIiERS.?fM|
Office of County Dispensary Board
of Bamberg County. *'|PI
Bamberg, S. C., March 5, 1909.' :;|?|
Bids are hereby requested, in aicordance
with the terms of the Bis- 3J
pensary juaw now m iorue, iur uw ;gm
following kinds and qualities of li- " *
quors, beer, and other articles herein
enumerated, to be furnished to
the State of South Carolina for ui?::f|?
of the County Dispensary Board Ot'7%|!
Bamberg County, to wit: /-.f&S
Fifty barrels Corn Whiskey#r 90
proof, different grades.
Fifty barrels Rye Whiskey, 90 ;
proof, different grades.
Five barrels Alcohol, 188 proof. ^
(Fifty barrels Gin, 90 proof, different
grades ' .
Bids will also be receivedfor Case
Goods, including Rye, Com ahfc
Scotch Whiskies, Brandy, Gin, Rum,
Wines, Beers, Ales, and Porter. Also
glass, corks and tinfoil, wire and
other articles used for a County !
Dispensary
All goods shall be furnished in y
compliance with and subject to the
terms and conditions of the Dispensary
Law of 1907, and bidders '
must observe the following rules: ,
1. The bids shall be sealed, and m
there shall be no sign or mark upoh
the envelope indicating the name
of the bidder
2. All bids must be sent by express
or registered mail to Jno. F. -P*?
Folk, County Treastfrer for Bam- :(fM
berg County, at Bamberg, S. Ci,
or before 12 o'clock of Monday, the
5th day of April, 1909. The contract
ah a 11 hp nwarripri to the lowcist
responsible bidder on each ~kta? - 'I
the Board reserving the right to
reject any and all bids and' any;
parts of bids. The Board reserves
the right to increase or decrease
the above quantities at the same ^
price as the bids submitted.
3. All goods to be delivered f. V'S
o. b. Bamberg, S. C., freight prepaid. ;S;|
Terms, to be paid for within ninety
days and subject to regauge at our :? Hi
warehouse. Also state discount for
cash payment. Bids will be opened * IM
in the office of the County Dispensary
Board at Bamberg, S. C. on Mon[day,
April 5th, 1909.
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J. A. WALKER, M
G. B. CLAYTON, W
County Dispensary Board for Bamberg
County.
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hides, chickens and
eggs.
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