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? ' s A. THE COUNTRY EDITOR'S DAY. Many Varied Calls on his Time, bat he Meets them All. , The duties of the editor of a live country weekly with a circulation of 5,000 and a working force ot fiiteen or eighteen are as the sand swept b> the tides. There is no end to 'em. At 7:30 a. m. Saturday morning such an editor was seated on his high stool at the long desk in the front pari oi xiis prim suup ciniug u^cu his mail. He checked off the renewals on the mailing list to his right, handed the foreman the complaints k from patent medicine advertisers and their changes, and with pen and ink attended to the letters that required answer. Then he rolled up 150 papers in single wraps, marked each one "sample copy" with a rubber stamp and addressed them to possible subscribers and advertisers. Between 8 and 9 he refereed a controversy between his foreman and V one of the job printers, helped a printer girl to decipher ten pages of badly written penmanship by "Old Subscriber" and entertained a committee of women seeking assistance for a church enterprise. It was 10 when the editor began making out some bills for the collec tor who stood Dy waiting, a sman gentleman wearing spectacles came in, deferentially removing a rusty still hat. "I have some poetry," he said, producing a paper. The editor looked up apprehensively. "I would like to read it to you if you could spare the time," the visitor went on, getting closer. "There's a man in the front room * who likes poetry," said the editor. "Read it to him." "But you're the editor, aren't you? "Well?yes?but?" "Then you are the proper party. It won't take long." "This is Saturday and I'm awful busy; couldn't you come 'round Monday?" "I will not be in town Monday. I t live in Iowa, and I'm here visiting ?Tawi Tnnoo Mr .Ton PR my ueyucw, ivui uvuv?. takes your paper." "Oh, he dees? Well, go ahead and read it." The editor settled wearily back in a chair, and the collector left, saying k she would return in the afternoon for the bills. The poet got out in the middle of the big room and read in a tragic voice. The printers, thinking ? it a free entertainment, quit work and gathered around. There were ten pages of the poem and it took an hour to get rid of the poet. * Then the editor began again on his * bills, finished them, and, the collector having gone, he started to go out with them himself, when another caller was ushered in. He had a t frown on his face and the editor saw trouble in his suppressed manner. He wanted to know if the paper meant to ridicule him and his family about > a cat and a parrot story it had printed in that issue. He said the parrot was worth $250 and that he couldn't see anything to joke about when the cat killed it. "" - - ? ? ? 11TT acaiimoH nil me eauor iiiauiuuj a^umvu blame for the story which had been written by a reporter, insisted no harm had been intended, and that he would be more careful in the future. > When the visitor left the frown was gone and the editor had another dollar for renewal. Directly after dinner the editor was summoned to a private meeting of the county's lawyers and a few citizens to consider a threatened move by certain persons who held a large number of bonds against the county and whom the county had been litigating for thirty years. It was a serious and important meeting > t and lasted until late in the afternoon. When the editor got back to his office he found the collector had been there, waited an hour and left in disgust. Then he took the bills and went out to collect from the merchants during the rush hour of the busiest day in the week. He hated to do it. but he knew at 5 o'clock the breadline would form by that long desk and that the ghost had to dance whether it felt in a frolicky mood or not. As the clock was striking the hour the editor, a bit tired, but with light of victory in his eyes, was on hand with the goods. When the last toiler had passed by the long desk the telephone rang. It was a call from the superintendent of the public school, twelve miles 1 v. fho nnnntrv The SUDerin OitUH. Ill IUO WIIUVI^. _ tendent said there was to be a declamatory contest at his school that evening and that the board had det cided to have the editbr act as judge; he knew the editor would be delighted with the honor and they would look for him by 7:30 sharp. As the paper has a large subscription list at that point the editor had to go y ' and umpire the proceedings which lasted until nearly midnight. Next morning at 9:30 sharp the * editor was on hand at the Presbyterian Sunday-school, where he taught a class, and not long thereafter smiled indulgently as the late arrivals excused their tardiness on the i grounds of multitudinous duties. , Girl Burned to Death. Winchester, Va., Appl 4.?Miss Virginia Carter, the young daughter ~ ? - - - - " ? A Kiirno/1 tn or tteese tj. ^ariw, v?ao uuiUvU death this morning in a fire which * destroyed her home, "Yellow House," at Rest, this county, one of the most historic structures in the State. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carter were badly burned in a futile effort to save their * daughter. They are expected to recover. "Yellow House" was more than 200 years old and was the scene of many notable events during Revolutionary and civil war times. Gen. George Washington stopped there while on his way to Braddock's relief at Fort Duquesne, and during the conflict between the States it was the home of Miss Rachel Wright, whose information to Gen. Sheridan was of such value to the federal army during his valley campaign that congress voted her a gold medal in appreciation of her services. The origin of the fire which destroyed this historic pile is unknown. ir HIGH WIND PLUCKS DUCKS. Missouri Storekeeper Says he Witnessed it with his Own Eyes. To doubters of his story, Jules Buermann, constable of Meramee township, shows his broken store window. He was sitting, he says, in the front part of his store watching the approach of a storm, in which the wind was blowing with great force when he suddenly noticed a flock of ducks blow over the large lake in front of his property. The ducks were driven onward by the fierce gale, and as they neared the Buermann store the constable noticed feathers flying from them. Then there was a crash,/and three of the ducks were driven through the front window of the store, falling on the floor, almost entirely stripped of their feathers by the wind. Buermann said that all he had to do was to draw and cook them. Buermann found two more of the flock of ducks minus their feathers hanging on a barbwire fence back of his store. The ducks had been driven into the fence by the wind and killed?New York World. "Megaphone Method" Bonaparte's Choice. New York, April 3.?Former Attorney General Chas. J. Bonaparte, speaking at a luncheon at the City club to-day, expressed himself in favor of the "megaphone method of governmental administration" ^ as compared with the "whispering method." "Wherever you find any one," 6aid he, "who wishes to discharge his duty in corners, in whispers and in darkness, or at least in twilight, you have the man who wishes to run his own business in accordance with other than civil service principles. "Personally* I am more assured than ever that civil service is absolutely necessary to proper conduct of our government. "Is it not encouraging for one who wants to get good things," said Mr. Bonaparte, "to find that he has to fight it out with senators, the grounds for whose recommendations to office are not always such as to commend them to a gentleman who is tainted with civil service? "It is not always for us who think of the judiciary as we should in this country to find out motive animating some senators in recommending the choice of some judge, and to conjecture from what we know of those motives, what motives ruled in the selection of others. "I remember one case before the administration which I served under, when a president- could not get a -0 ~ ? n roollv CrnnH lHSt.ice COUUrilicttlUU vi a iv?>v o ? unless he agreed to give a certain senator's wife's son-in-law a position for which he was absolutely unfit. Accordingly, a good appointment was held up." FLAMES SWEPT FT. WORTH. Property Valued at $450,000 Sacrifice to Blaze. Fort Worth, Texas., April 3.? Starting in a barn, presumably from a carelessly thrown cigarette, fire this afternoon burned over 20 blocks in the residence section of Forth Worth, destroying four churches, over 200 residences, and the round house and machine shops of the Texas & Pacific railroad. To-night it is impossible to secure estimates of losses and insurance which are in ? -4-~ waoa/vn any degree accurate, 101 mc that those who suffered scattered widely, seeking shelter wherever they could find it, and it will be a day or two before the full extent of the personal losses are known. Texas & Pacific railroad officers place the company's loss at $250,000. The losses to church property include the Broadway Baptist and the Methodist churches, their losses being estimated conservatively at over $200,000. From Annie street on the south between Jennings and Calhoun streets, everything was swept clean to the Texas & Pacific railroad reservation. Here a strip of unoccupied territory about 700 feet wide checked the flames and saved the business section of the city from destruction as the flames were fanned by a stiff wind and all efforts to stay the progress of the flames haa been unavailing. At least one life was lost and it may be that others were caught in the fire. Six people were seriously injured but they will recover. Otts Appointed Solicitor. Columbia, April 1.?Gov. Ansel has appointed as solicitor of the seventh circuit to succeed Thos. H. Sease, elected circuit judge, Senator J. C. Otts, of Gaffney. The appointment was announced to-day and Senator Otts will take office on April 15 th. This will necessitate the election of a senator from Cherokee to succeed Mr. Otts for the unexpired term of one year. It will be recalled that on the resignation of Y. J. Pope, of Newberry, Justice Ira B. Jones was elected in his place as chief justice. This vacancy was filled by the election of Judge U. E. iiyuriea., ui oyai iauburg, and Judge Hydrick's place was filled by the election of Solicitor Thos. S. Sease, of Spartanburg. This left a vacancy for solicitor. There were several names presented to the governor, among them being Messrs. S. J. Nicholls. of Spartanburg; J. B. Bell, of Gaffney, and J. C. Otts, of Gaffney. The term is for three years, Mr. Sease having been elected last fall without opposition. ' Senator Otts is well known in the seventh circuit, which consists of Spartanburg. Union and Cherokee. He took a prominent part in the prohibition fight in the senate at the last session, being one of the authors of the State-wide prohibition bill. Afterwards he agreed to the Ansel plan for a vote in August on the State-wide prohibition, thereby giving each county the right to vote omt or retain the dispensaries, although he wished the enforcement, although to be incorporated, which was not done. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, DRY. Prohibitionists Won Out by Only Eleven Votes. Springfield, Ohio, March 30.? Clark county goes dry by eleven votes. Returns in the election from 48 precincts show the heaviest vote in local history, with a wet majority in the city of about 1,950, but the heavy dry precincts in the -country overcame this and gave the county to the "dry" forces by narrow margin. With the break of dawn yesterday the wet and dry forces of SpringJ rtrviintv TT7 OrO 11 T\ PtlH Ilt?IU (liiU Vjiai IV tuuuv; IT VI V v*y busy preparing for the battle. The city was quiet and there was no serious trouble, as the saloons had all been closed since Saturday night. The two breweries are owned by an English syndicate. Clark county is the largest county in the State that the "drys" have attempted to carry, the county having about 65,000 people. More than one-third of the vote in Springfield was polled by the wets and drys by 8 o'clock. Everybody was up at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, the women and boys were aroused by alarm clocks. They hurried to the various booths, where the women took up their positions as guards, they being stationed on all sides. If any of the wets stopped to talk to a man approaching the booths the women slowly sauntered up to them, and as a result the crowd separated. Women guarded the front and rear entrances of the saloons and the alleys and adjoining buildings to the saloons were under surveillance. Besides detectives sent to Springfield from the other cities by the J TT-ota thp nolice urj& auu iuv nvvui ? , force and deputies were on duty at the precincts. Required Explicit Directions. "Bill had charge of the animal tent," said the old circus man, according to Tit Bits, "and among his pets was a leopard, the only one we had with the show, and quite enough, too. This leopard gave Bill more trouble than all the rest of the menagerie put together. It was certainly an ugly brute. "Well, one day, when we were showing;in Midlands, I had come up to London to arrange about some advance business. I was eating my dinner in the hotel when a telegram was handed to me. It was from Bill, and read: 'The leopard has escaped. Prowling about town. What shall I do?' "That was just like Bill. He had to have explicit directions, even in an emergency like this. He didn't want to make a mistake. "I immediately wired back to Bill: 'Shoot him on the spot.' I didn't think any more about it until a couple of hours later, when I received another telegram from conscientious, careful Bill, asking, 'Which o> ?? oput Calling "Lie" Causes Trouble. Mayor Wagnon had an unusual case to come before him this morning, when two ministers, Rev. J. G. Farr, of Green Street Methodist church, and Rev. E. G. Mays, of the1 Holiness sect, who had a little altercation on Saturday night, the formal charge and disposition of which case is referred to in police court proceedings. . This morning Rev. John G. Farr saw a Progress man, and asked that a statement from him be published. Mr. Farr said in substance, that on several Sundays ago in the course of his sermon he referred to the duty of Christians to affiliate with some Christian church. It seems that on Saturday night Rev. E. G. Mayes, of the Holiness faith, was in L. E. Fike's store, discussing with several men the ques-j tion which Mr. Farr's statement in the pulpit had aroused discussion over. While the men were talking Mr. Farr happened to go to Fike's store, and while there one of the men asked him as to the teachings of the Bible, about establishing earthly churches. After a few remarks Mr. Farr says he left the men, and as he did so, he heard Mayes say: "He has lied and he knows it." Mr. Farr on hearing this, then turned back and asked Mayes who *?J 1,-k J \foTToc rortlipH ' naa neu, iu *? mtu "You have preached a lie, and you know it." This so aroused Mr. Farr that with ai lightning-like movement he implanted a stinging blow under Mr. Mayes' chin, and then bystanders interfered. The affair coming to the attention of the city authorities, both men were brought before Mayor Wagnon to-day. Mr. Farr pleaded "guilty" to the charge of disorderly conduct, and making clamorous noises, and was fined $5. Mr. Mayes pleaded "not guilty" and was fined $5.?Union Progress. Quite Sufficient. A child-loving man was on his way to Denver to transact some important business. During the afternoon he noticed, in the opposite section of the Pullman, a sweet-faced, tired-appearing woman, traveling with four small children. Feeling r? iv? Vio cnon made sorry xur mc mumti, friends with the little ones. Early the next morning he heard their eager questions behind the curtains of the berths, and the patient "yes, dear," of the mother as she tried to dress them, and looking out, he saw a small white foot protruding beyond the opposite curtain. Reaching across the aisle to took hold of the large toe and began to recite: "This little pig went to market. This little pig stayed at home; This little pig had a piece of roast beef, This little pig had none; This little pig cried 'wee-wee' all the way home." "How is that?" inquired the eager man. Then the foot was suddenly withdrawn, and a cold, quiet voice said: "I should think it was quite sufficient."?Ladies Home Journal. "* ...... _ ^ 1 1 J. A. BATES & CO. I Sc ....and try his.... g g Olympia Flour 1 @ FINE FOB BREAD AND CAKES. ? @ Fresh Candies and Cigars always on hand. ? ? Country Butter. ? ? 'PHONE NO. 32 BAMBERG, S. C. g is attached to sleeve, and the bEIM^^ label shown above Is sewed to one's fancy, while the make is 1 1||Jh better than seems necessary, 1HI BB or possible, at any of the seven jf^V 0 $10.00 THE LOWEST I9H Iff $20.00 THE HIGHEST. f? l|y? Sold under an iron-clad MBM |fl GUARANTEE Conrad Ehrhardt Co. I EhrHardt, : s s : s t. South Carolina I I THE I Best Foot Foremost I is good advice, and especially YOU, Mr. Merchant, /gj shpuld heed it. In selling goods the appearance of vx7 your store is an important factor and progressive mer- @ chants the country over realize it. Why, then, should /K you allow your competitors to reap the golden harvest n? --s nt>Ano? aMonHon tn fnnr (Of FVJ U1 UU31UC99 nncu tin, jrivjn/Ji wwvuwvu wV IStore Fixtures! ac would turn the current to you? We can place in your x op x store fixtures that are "down to the minute" in every re- ? A spect and they are trade winners, too. Our lines are A x from the best factories in the United States, where the 5k ? needs of the merchant have been carefully studied, and ? ' A where quality of product is paramount. Drop us a line @ X and our salesman will call on you and supply your needs ? direct from the factory and save you the jobber's ? i Carolina Brokerage Co. | /Z\ Manufacturer's Sales Agents for A Sg BANK, OFFICE AND STORE FIXTURES Sg S? Spann Building Bamberg, S. C. Ss No Land So Rich That Fertilizer Cannot Make It Better You use fertilizers for the profit you get out of them?and the better the land the more profitably a good fertilizer can be used on it. Do not imagine because land will produce a fair crop without Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers that these fertilizers cannot be profitably used on it, or that they were made only for land too poor to produce without them. If poor land will show a normal increase when fertilizer is used, good land will show at least double the increase. Use Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers to increase the quality, as well as the quantity of the crop?and you will increase the profits from your land. "I have been using your fertilizers for a number of years" says Mr. William Fraiser, of Glasburg, La., "andfind that it not only pays to fertilize, but to do plenty of it, and use the best fertilizers to be had, such as your brands. I have used a number of them and found them to be as recommended and to give better results than any other fertilizers that I have ever used." Every planter and farmer should have a copy of the new 1909 Virginia-Carolina Farmers' Year-Book. Get a free copy from your fertilizer dealer, or write our nearest sales office. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Sales Offices Sales Offices Richmond. Va. Durham, N. C. Columbia, S. C. IMfginlaCamllna* Ba timore, Md. J J Savannah, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. I - Of Interest. | to Free ,||| Masons IS and Their >||| Friends & The firm of Chas. M. Stieff and their Southern Manager have donated a magnificent world A $2 renowned Stieff Piano to the Masonic Bazaar to be , ^ held in the Charlotte Auditorium April 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 1909, Charlotte, N. C. The money derived from this Bazaar will be used in the erection of a Masonic Temple, a buildinor tViat tt7i 11 Via a nrfHo trt t jGsU VAA?W nill MV U |/A A\4V bV " ~i 'iTfc every Mason in the Carolinas. Don't you want this artistic Piano for your lodge, your home or your ' p -Jgj friend's home? Visit Charlotte during mB| the Bazaar. Reduced rates on all Railroads. ADDRESS 0. H. WILMOTH >f ^!J| Ch. Music Committee Masonic Bazaar Ca*S. M. STIEFF Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff Shaw and ^B| Stieff Selfplayer Pianos Southern Wareroom: y 5 W. Trade St. ?y||S-j Charlotte, N. C. c. h. wiLMOTH, iJm Manager. Mention this paper. '.y I'DB/GEO.F'h'AIE'| 9 | Dental Surgeon...Bamberg, S. C. < i In office every day In the week. Qradu* ? a ate of Baltimore College of Dental Sur- , i > gery, class 1892. Member 8. C. Dental . >jj Association. Office in old bank bulldtnf , r ! W. E. FREE ~r- M Attorney-at-Law i All business entrusted to me " will receive prompt attention. . Office for present at court house. . . MEAT MARKET. || Same men at a different place. When you \l want the best meats obtainable call at our . -~ market opposite The ; %$? Herald Building, Main - street Onr drices are right. We also buy beef cattle, pork, hogs,; IJH hides, chickens and : ? BBONSON& GRANT '? BAMBERG, 8. C. ':M C. & K. HAT'S For $3.00 and $3.50 and a Florsheim Shoe |l For $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 C. It. BIABBil'S SONS 3 BAMBERG, S. C. > ||1 Brothers Shot in Street.. Hazelhurst. Ga.. ADril 3.?Eugene . '*M and J. L. Williams, brothers, were \ ' ^ shot down on a street of this place to-day by V. T. Stowers, formerly of Conyers, Ga., J. L. Williams being probably fatally hurt. The brothers are members of the firm of Jarman & Williams. It was stated that Stowers had given the , firm a check the bank would not honor and that Eugene demanded the money, a fight resulting. J. L. Williams went to his brother's res- 'jS cue, it is alleged, when Stowers drew his pistol. Eugene Williams was shot in the hip, but the ball has not been located. *y| His brother received a bullet in his ' breast. Stowers was caught and rushed towards the jail at Douglas as great excitement followed the .y&g shooting. <; When you can't think of anybody .^jgj else to find fault with, why Just /.^g blame the newspaper man. He is used to it and can stand it. And yet 1 n how many people are under obligations to him? 1^3 > . - < v. v. & j