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Iapl i And ev | especia 8 eery st( I insist u I station< | 1 find thi g- I where < I I not leaf I 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 table ruled and unruled, note Bi; packet size, letter size, leg size, and others. 130 sheets of paper that you a write on with ink, put up tablet form, for 5c. Pencils rhe 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 shape colors and sizes. We also ha> on hand at Pencil Boxe school roon willow and large quant your money TP f f p 1Mb fell Knight & Bruce ATLANTA WOMAN ARRESTED. Mrs. Ridley Accused of Stealing 'yHandbag Containing Jewelry. jj% . Newark, N. J., March 18.?Mrs. Frances J. Ridley, a wealthy widow | of Atlanta, Ga., furnished $5,000 bail in the Criminal Court here tonight for her appearance to answer . to a charge of grand larceny. She A \ was arrested this afternoon, near the ?. Pennsylvania station by railroad de JF - tectives, who accused her of having in her possession a chatelaine bag belonging to Mrs. Andrew Albright, of New York city, and containing jewels worth $7,000, which had been lost on the train between Atlanta and this city. Mrs. Ridley admitted that she bad the bag and turned it over to the detectives. When it was examined by the Albrights at police headquar? . ters, they said that a diamond ring, valued at $800, was missing, while a Pullman ticket, belonging, it was said, to Mrs. Ridley, was inside the If bag. She denied that she had opened the bag, or had any idea what it V contained. She declared that she A had found the bag on the car and had intended to turn it over to railA road officers upon her arrival. She had not cared, she said, to give it to no eVia nroforToH tn Lilt? Uaiumcil) ao uuv yivi.v>Avvt w hand it to "some more responsible officials." Mrs. Ridley told the police that she was on her way to East Orange, where her son-in-law, A. J. Ensler, is seriously ill. With her were the two Ensler children, who had been visiting their grandmother in Atlanta. The police, after making the arrest, communicated with the Ensler family, and the latter's lawyer appeared to arrange for bail. The Albrights and Mrs. Ridley were passengers from the South on the same sleeping car. Mrs. Albright missed her handbag soon after- leaving Washington and reported her loss to the conductor. That official, a little later saw the missing bag inside Mrs. Ridley's purse and telegraphed the Newark authorities. FIRE IN CHESTER. Flames Destroy Property Worth Between $40,000 and $50,000. Chester, March 18.?One of the i most disastrous fires of recent years visited the city early to-night. The fire originiated in Jos. Wylie & Co.'s' cotton warehouse, and this building, with contents of somewhere between 350 and 500 bales, was totally destroyed. Other losses were Wylie & j Co.'s stables, platforms and sbeds,; also a number of wagons and a big: lot of hay, S. M. Jones & Co.'s stables, the city's stables and several I negro houses belonging to E. C. ! Stahn. | The fire for a while looked ex-1 tremely menacing, but effective work J by the city fire department finally got< it under control. The loss will be something like' $40,000 or $50,000. i !acS erything in its pi; lly so when you ar >re to buy a horse, ipon purchasing St sry store. The Hei ree times as large i ilse, and many thii _ A J.I ^ ? si, ine prices arc aj Ink Phis 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 balte, 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 n- files 5c. Box Files 25c. Shaail non Files 75c., sold in city at ;s, $1.00 and $1.25. Our prices are always lower. re in stock most anything us? all times a large assortmei s, Compasses, Pens and Pen I i, also for the office we hav wire, Desk Trays, Pen Racks, ities. REMEMBER each am back. Come and pay us a v Hep Proprietors. V?? HOW HE ESCAPED STARVATION. Arctic Explorer Describes an Encounter with Herd of Musk-Oxen. There have been several events in my life that might be called dramatic, but I think the climax came in mid-May, 1895, says Commander Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., in the April Delineator. We had started on a five-hundred mile Arctic trip. Four hundred miles from my winer quarters we came to the end of our walrus-meat, and there was nothing for it but the literal "dog eat dog." By this time, only seventeen were left of the original sixty; I cannot express our sufferings more eloquently than that. Six more soon followed, and the men had to get into the dragropes, taking the places of the dogs that had died or been killed. I saw that we must seek the coast and find the quickets way down from the ice-cap, for our only chance of saving any of the dogs was to get fresh supplies; only on the coast could we hope to find a trace of liv- j ing creatures. The specter of famine was drawing nearer. We made our way down the ice-slope, three weak and weary men, with nine starving and exhausted dogs, in that gaunt and frozen solitude. But we ate little, keeping what we could for the dogs. One morning we started after musk-oxen, the specter of famine now seeming to tread on our heels. At last, on a little terrace below the crest of the white ridge, we spied a group of black dots that showed us our quest was ended. The herd was not two hundred yards off. We counted 22 bulls, cows and calves. One old bull was standing guard and two bulls were locking horns. We were too tremulous with excitement and our eyes were too weak from the glare of the snov/ desert to trust ourselves to shoot straight at that distance. There was nothing for it but to rush up to them. We rose and dashed forward, grasping our rifles. The old bull gave the alarm, and in a moment the whole herd was facing us, with heads down and horns arrayed against us. Had I had breath to yell, I could have yelled for joy. As it was, I only gasped. When we were fifty yards off, the hie bull sank his head still lower. It was the signal to charge. Without I slackening my pace, I pointed my rifle, aiming at the back of the neck, above the thick shield of the horns. That bullet meant our lives. If it missed and the herd charged on, we should be crushed like ice-crystals under the black avalanche of thundering beasts. That was the most dramatic moment of my life. The outcome? Well, the shot went true. See the new ad. of J. R. Kinard & Co. in this sisue. Mr. Kinard has bought the livery business formerly run by Mr. J. J. Smoak, and solicits the patronage of the public. FOR ace is a mighty g< e purchasing good* or to a livery stab! ationery, Office an< raid Book Store is 1 an assortment of ai ngs that cannot be ?cheap, if not che* ~ maga; U/aVp aHHpd tn mir ctnr zines and Periodicals. V National, Everybody*, Cosmi Success, American Boy, Sa many others. Call and see Waterman's Idea Without doubt the to manufactured. Guaran have the nicest and la shown in Bamberg. V ===== d in a business office or scho( it of Composition Books, Ex Staffs. White and Colored Crt e Ledgers, Journals, Cash Bo< , Stamp Pads, Daters, Ink We 1 every article we sell we gU2 isit whether you buy or not, \ ?ALD Telephc GUINEA PIGS AS WATCH DOGS. Whistled WTien Masked Burglars Got into Kaymona lmmars noose. Raymond L. Ditmars, the curator of snakes of the Bronx Zoo, had an exciting experience with a couple of masked burglars early yesterday morning and he is firmly of the belief that had it not been for the ; warning given by some guinea pigs ithat he would have been out considerable property. Mr. Ditmars lives at 2043 Washington avenue and the i guinea pigs, which he so highly I prizes, were a gift to him from King j Menelik, of Abyssinia, j Ditmars sleeps in the rear on the : first floor of a cottage with his wife and two little girls, Gladys, aged 5, and Beatrice, aged 3. About 2 j o'clock he was awakened by a whistling sound, which as soon as he was : wide awake he recognized as the 'warning given by guinea pigs when trouble is brewing. j There was no light in the room, i Ditmars sat up in bed and a masked j man flashed a searchlight on him. j The burglar, in a black mask and | carrying a big revolver, was about las much surprised as Mr. Ditmars when the latter demanded to know what he wanted. At the same time to give force to his demand Ditmars placed his hand underneath his pillow and drew a big .44 calibre revolver. The burglar made a bolt for the door, followed by Mr. Ditmars in his pajamas. The burglar dodged several bullets and was joined by a confederate, who was busy packing up the silverware in the dining room. They retreated to the back yard and got over the fence before Ditmars could wing them with his revolver. Down Bathgate avenue the two men dashed with Ditmars following in his pajamas and pumping lead after them. After his last bullet had been spent he decided to abandon the chase. The men ran through One Hundred and Eightieth street and escaped in the darkness. Ditmars was enthusiastic in his praise of the guinea pigs as watchdogs. He ha<* six of them and they are mac's pets of by his children and are all descended from the original pair presented to him by King Menelik two years ago. Mr. Ditmars said that when he returned to his home from chasing the burglars he frmnri the eniinea . Dies eathered I about a silver knife and fork that the ihieves had dropped on the dining room floor emitting their low j whistle, such as had awakened him when the burglar was in the room.? New York Morning Telegraph. Kills Would-Be Slayer. A merciless murderer is appendicitis with many victims. But Dr. King's New Life Pills kill it by prevention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, preventing that clogging that invites appendicitis. curing constipation, biliousness, chills, malaria, headache .and indigestion. 25c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. eve! )od rule to follow ?. You would not e to purchase bacoi 1 School Supplies fi the only one in Bar lything in their lii found at all at ot iper, than are offe Ill ZINES :k a nice line of MagaVe handle the following: opolitan, Pack, Judge, Life, turday Evening Post, and what we have. 1 Fountain Pens est Fountain Pen ever teed in every way. We irgest assortment ever Come and investigate. Jjl )1 room. We make a special! animation Tablets, School Bo lyon, Stenographers' Note Be oks and Day Books in all sizes Jls Arm, Rests, Etc. Anythi irantee to be just as represen ve are always glad to see you Boo >ne No. 59 BULL FRIGHTENS OFFICERS. Gaffney's Guardians of the Peace Badly Scared. Gaffney, March 19.?Yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock, while Officers Hallman and Austell were patrolling their beats, they were alarmed by the noise of the rapid approach of some large animal. When the creature came in sight it proved to be a large Jersey bull, and his appearance was so terrifying to the officers that they at once sought safety in flight, Austell taking to' a tree and Hallman trying to get behind a | building. In the meantime the ani mai naa cnargea rne giass irum, ui the L. G. Byars building, going through the glass and about half his body inside the store room. He at once hacked out, turned around a few times and fell dead on the street. Upon investigating the officers found that the animal belonged to Dr. Fort and was suffering from some kind of a fit or was probably mad. Will Discuss Child Labor. New Orleans, March 18.?More than 300 delegates have been appointed by the governors of the various States in the South to attend the child labor law conference to be held in New Orleans March 29, 30 and 31, according to advices received by Gov. Sanders, upon whose invitation the convention will meet. The object will be the discussion of improved and more uniform child labor laws in the Southern States and it is believed that far-reaching results will be accomplished. Delegates have been appointed by the governors of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and North Carolina. Governors of a number of other States have signified their intention of naming delegates. Brained Wife With Axe. Culpeper, Va., March 19.?After murdering his wife by braining her with an axe, Henry C. Wheatley, a Culpeper farmer, placed her head on a block of wood and almost completely severed it from the body. The crime occurred at Wheatley's home, near Elkwood, Wednesday night, but was not discovered until yesterday, when Wheatley's 12-yearold son made the gruesome discovery of his stepmother's body. Beside it lay the blood covered axe and with it a note from Wheatley confessing to the murder of his wife as a result of a difficulty over their property. Subsequently Wheatley's apparently lifeless body was found in a well on his place. When taken out by a crowd of neighbors he soon revived and later was arrested and taken to jail, charged with the murder of his wife. Wheatley formerly was deputy county treasurer. He is a well educated man and bears a good reputation. His neighbors regard his act as that of an insane man. "S 5vtS in every walk of !i think of going to i. Therefore why rom other than a i nberg, and there y ne as you can fin her places; and la red at any other books Le Ve have an exceptionally nice selection of all kinds of novels, that retailed regularly at $1.50, . that we are offering for 50c. and 60c. for a limited time. We also have a few more copies of The Dark Corner by Zach McGhee, at $1.00 each. Pound Paper Ve know we have the largest and 0u best assortment of pound paper ever displayed in this city, ranging in price from 15c. to 50c. the pound, and if you like to be agreeably surprised you should inspect our line. All we ask is for you to come and look. 3 y of keeping what you want, oks, Erasers, Book Straps, S< loks and many other things i i and Rulings, also Waste Ba ng you may want you can f ted and if you find it otherw and show you around. k St bamDerg^ VICTORY FOR PROHIBITION. "Dry" Virginia Towns, by Supreme Court Decision, Remain "Dry/* Richmond, Va., March 18.?The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia to-day decided the Ward law to be constitutional, the effect of which is that certain towns and cities, a majority of whose citizens voted "dry" must remain "dry," though the "wets" contended that many who voted dry voted illegally, because they had not paid their poll tax. The decision is far-reaching in that it also involves the legality of bonds issued for road and other purposes in which it was also claimed many of the voters had not paid their poll tax. It was held that the qualifications prescribed by the constitution for voters apply to elections held for members of the general assembly, and all officers elective by the people and that this provision does not prevent the legislature from prescribing the qualifications for an elector ate to vote in special elections tor which the constitution does not provide. A Startling Question. An eight-year-old youngster recently came to her father after church service one Sunday and astonished him by asking: "Daddy, have I any children?" The old man dropped his newspaper and regarded her in amazement. "What?" he demanded. "Have I any children?" doggedly repeated the child. "Well, I should hope not," replied the father. "May I ask the reason of this startling question?" "Why, in church this morning," explained the youngster, "the minister preached about children's children and I wondered if I had any."? Lippincott's. Louisville Depot Destroyed. Louisville, Ky., March 18.?By the destruction here to-night at a loss of $400,000 of the union depot, the local terminal for five of the country's leading railroads, Louisville will probably benefit by a new union station. Crossed wires in the attic of the big structure, which was erected by the Illinois Central in 1890, caused the blaze, which made an empty shell of the depot before the entire fire department of the city, which was called, had arrived. W. G. Roach, chief clerk to Superintendent Egan, of the Illinois Central, fell through a skylight. All other occupants escaped unharmed. Using the depot were the Illinois Central, the Big Four, the Southern, the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and the Chesapeake & Ohio. The rescue of a woman telephone operator from the fifth story by firemen and the great height to which the flames rose made the fire unusually spectacular. - A MNM fe, and 1' ? a &r?- I 1 do you H ,.| regular ? $ ou will 1| d any- 1 |jj st, but 1 :;M store. m Legal Paper | ; ;al cap paper and typewriter 8S9 paper galore. We have various a? tinds and qualities, also mani- Eg) told and carbon paper in legal gg uze. we can supply me wants aw <. ^ )f anybody in this line, at less Ejj ;han city prices. Legal cap 10c. S$u i quire and up.. Typewriter paper 65c. a ream and up. raj Box Paper | r line of fine box papers is the 80 prettiest you ever saw. Come in gjffl| md see if we're not telling the 11 :ruth. All the newest shapes fijS tnd fancies in fine correspondmce paper, and the boxes alone [tMj j ire worth more than we ask for f? ! paper and box. Prices from jj8] LOc. to 50c.?none higher?yet gs r'ou get aa high as 75c. values. |j| We have R Mf! :hool Bags, as ised in the 11 skets, both |s ind here in || ise you get h ORE 5outh Carolina jg | " COBRA WINS BATTLE. /'**, * ' Then Eats the Losers L Three-Cornered Fight at Zoo. < ' . J Tbe king cobra at the Bronx Zoo is 11 feet long, and the whole 11 feet were fighting Sunday. His op- , ponents were a water snake and an iguana, or giant lizard. All three reptiles had heen living in peace together all winter in their glass compartment, and it was sup- ' ' posed they were real good friends, ' ' but a dispute arose yesterday between the cobra and iguana, and in a sudden fit of foolish rage the iguana went for the cobra and bit \ him. ' Instantly the cobra spread his hood and gave battle, biit the iguana took an unfair advantage of him then and there by disjointing himself and coming apart. The big lizard gave himself a shake, and lo! there were two of him?the iguana ; proper and the iguana's tail, both i_ - i _ ^ - J very mueii aiive auu auuvc. Then the water snake took a hand and went for the cobra, too, but thB cobra gave him just one bite and the snake went into a corner, curled up, and died. The tailless iguana kept right at the cobra, but the latter didn't* seem to care much. He had spied the tail catorting around the cage, and it ' $ interested him so much that he made a leap for it, caught, and calmly swallowed it. That gave him a taste for iguana :,i meat, so he next caught the iguana and swallowed him after his tail. Then the water snake was taken for* desert, and that ended the fight. Now the cobra is lining alone.?New '-jl York World. Strange Case of Asphyxia. Chicago, March 15.?One of the strangest cases of asphyxia, or loss of memory in medical records, has been brought to light in Milwaukee two years after it had its beginning) in Chicago, according to the Tribune to-day: William Childs, thirty-five years,, nlH arm nf thp lnt? William Childs, Jr., of Brooklyn, has recovered his memory, after having been mourned as dead and identified himself when he heard the click of a photographic camera. Two years ago he told the Milwaukee authorities "something snapped" in his head, and since that time he does not know what route he has traveled. He says it happened at a Moody Institute meeting after he had been working for a Chicago firm that used cameras in its business. Childs appeared in Milwaukee from nobody knows where. He begged the county authorities to find out who he was. Interest in his case I was aroused by a report that he might be Joseph A. Oatman, a miss- j ing dry goods merchant. A photographer was sent out to get his picture. The man was aroused by the .5 click of the camera and established his identity.