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V - V " - ' . * v ' " *?.; ' - J - V\ J - ? TAFT AND TILLMAN CHUMMING. President and Senator Joke Each Other at Banquet. Washington, May 8.?President Taft to-night was entertained at a I banquet tendered him by the citizens of Washington, under the auspices of the board of trade and the chamber of commerce. More than three hundred representative business men of the national capital were present and an array of prominent men in public life were present as guests. While the president was being in-j troduced Senator Tillman strode into the hall toward the president. The latter greeted him and grasped his hand cordially, remarking: "Hello, Senator, what are you trying to pass yourself off for to-night?" Tillman laughingly rejoined, "Oh, I just drifted in here to see how you would behave yourself among the common people." This merry interchange provoked much amusement among the guests. President Taft made a thirty-minute speech, during which he declared that he was strongly in favor of retaining the municipal form of government for the District of Columbia, but that he had not reached any con elusion as to what r.e would recommend to congress about the real point of contention, whether there shall be a governor or three commissioners as at present. The president declared himself unalterably opposed to the plan for suffrage in ISP: the District. . When the President left the hotel h$ invited Mr. Tillman to join him in r, the White House automobile and the president took the South Carolina senator to the latter's home. 'JL Dynamite in Cotton Seed. ^Waterloo, S. C., May 5.?Yesterday afternoon on the plantation of S. L. Moore, between Waterloo apd Harris Springs, a very unusual apd peculiar accident occurred. A pl'v. nfgro boy ten years of age, while en. gaged in untying a sack of cotton seed in the field pulled the end of a piece of wire where the sack was fiqff v tied and in an instant a sharp explosion rang out. The explosive compound was unquestionably dynamite, but no one knows how or when it got into the sack. The boy's hand ahd arm were badly lacerated and tpm. Drs. Wilbur and Fennel were summoned and amputated his thumb |*|,vr apd several fingers. The wound Is a I'v. very ugly one and he suffered conalterably from shock. 1. < Refuses Seven Pardons. .-Columbia, May 7.?Gov. Ansel toddy refused pardon in seven cases, as follows: .Love Robinson, of York, a negro, sentenced to hang next Friday for the murder of a young girl, who refused to' let him hug her. Daisy Cook, white, of Hampton, sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. Will F. Gardner, of Spartanburg, sentenced to one year for driving off another's team. Henry Black well, of Spartanburg, six months for selling liquor. Morgan Thrailklll, a prominent farmer, of Saluda, sentenced to life for murder. Sion Miller, white, Saluda, ten years for murder. Arthur Boyd, of Richland, two years for murder. 1$ Seeking Desperate Negroes. Jessup, Ga., May 9.?Posses are scouring the country, for miles around fofr three negro prisoners who early - to-night escaped from the Wayne county jail, leaving behind them Deputy Frank Mandray with his skull fractured, his eyes almost forced from their sockets and his life merely hanging by a thread. Bootheel prints on his face seem to show that : the .negroes after flooring the officer, stamped in his face. It is thought that after assaulting him when he went to the corridor of the jail to give, them some water they dragged him to the jail yard and there left him. After an hour he was found by his wife, who went to seek him. She sounded the alarm and the search for the escaped negroes began at once.; Automobiles were sent for the v nearest bloodhounds, many miles aWay, and in the meantime crowds of !v mbn. .began a systematic search k through the county. Excitement is high.'and if one or more of the ne' groes is caught a lynching is regarded an 'almost certain to occur. The negroes' are George Roberts, Henry Miller and Robert Banks. ? I I * Anchored Him. <"I was at a reception with a certain ^oung lady the other, night," said a man who always tells the : trtkh, "and her father was there, toq. ' He doesn't think much of me, and he followed us about from room to; room?wouldn't let us get out of hi$ sight for a minute. Well, I knew the old man was an awful tight wad, sq J thought up a scheme. I carelessly dropped a half dollar on the floor while he was looking. He moved over and put his foot on it !and never stirred until the party broke up. Meanwhile daughter and I beat it and enjoyed ourselves."? Cleveland Leader. - Yarn's Rheumatic Remedy. This is the only remedy ever known to cure rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder trouble. Sold by all druggists and G. A. Ducker, Bamberg, S. C., price $1.00 a bottle. Read the following testimonial : Branchville, S. C., Jan. 12, 1908. Mr. A. G. Varn, St. George, S. C. , Dear Sir: I have suffered with articular rheumatism for the past ten years and have tried every spring in the. whole country for it and got no relief. I have tried nearly every drug the medical profession has gotten* out for the treatment of rheumatism with the same result. I was induced to take a bottle of your remv edy, and one bottle cured me entirely and I am too glad to be able to heartily recommend it to any one suffering with any form of the disease. Very respectfully yours, L. J. MANN, . ... Physician;and Surgeon. r/? . | ALCOHOL FROM SAWDUST. ! Process Promising to Convert Lumber Waste Into Wealth. Manufacture of ethyl alcohol from sawdust is the rather startling prospect presented on another page of this week's issue of the Manufacturers' Record by G. U. Borde, an engineer, of New Orleans, who is now designing two plants, one for the State of Washington and one for Ontario, Canada, to enter upon the process. In an article on the saving of the waste of all kinds in lumber operations and the utilization to the full of all material Mr. Borde tells of v>jo vicit tn FYptipp whpre the 11 AO 1 111 v iuib vv a .. industry is upon a commercial basis and where he had opportunity to make experiments in it himself. The results of his experiments may be condensed as follows: From every 3,200 pounds of green i sawdust, equivalent to one long ton of theoretically dry wood, he obtained 21^ gallons of 188-degreeproof alcohol, equivalent to 38.6 gallons of proof alcohol; 76 pounds of acetic acid, and three-quarters of a I ton of refuse, which the English and French are manufacturing into stock food. Because of the incompletion of the plant where the test was made by Mr. Borde, the best results were not obtainable. He estimates that from every 3,200 pounds of green sawdust one may obtain, at a cost of $7, 30 gallons of 188-degree alcohol worth $12, 76 pounds of acetic acid worth $4.56, three-quarters of a ton of stock food worth $17.25, or a total of $33.81, a net profit of $26.81. When one considers the millions of tons of sawdust ancl other waste of the lumber industry that is burned to get it out of the way, this opportunity for wealth in waste through the derination of alcohol and other valuable products openB a prospect possibly not even equaled by that which came upon man when he ceased to pour his cotton seed into the nearest stream and make the seed the basis for an industry which in only 40 years has reached an annual output valued at more than $100,000,000. No one need fear that the new inJ 4-? ir, tnrt mnoh alprt U.usli y win xcoun in ivv ujuvu hoi. The value of the use of alcohol for an economical fuel has been demonstrated successfully, and about the only restriction upon the use of it is inability to get it in sufficient quantities at a reasonable cost. The opportunities for its use are increasing just as is increasing the realization of the necessity for scientific handling of other fuels, such as coal and petroleum. The alarm over the fuel situation, which an exaggeration of the conservative idea has developed, ought to subside at the prospect of millions of gallons of alcohol from the despised and rejected sawdust. Troubles of Pope Havird. Columbia, May. . 7.?The troubles multiply for Pope Havird, the Saluda man who recently jumped into the spot light by appealing to the governor to send aid to hunt down persons he claims tried to assassinate - ? ___? til mm ana geiuug uitcbicu iui nnuug a negro instead. After bond in three cases against him in the magistrate's court his bondsmen in the case of the negro killing decided to come off his bond, and so notified the Saluda clerk of court, and then as the case has been changed to Edgefield the Saluda clerk under the law could not approve of a* new bond. The sheriff kindly escorted Havird to Edgefield, where he got his bond, amounting to $2,500. After all this he is charged with drawing a gun on Joe Ben Brooks, whom he met in the road, and for this a warrant has been issued. Two others have asked for peace warrants against Havird, and he is said to have made threats against others, saying they need not be surprised if they are burned out or shot down in their fields. Havird's troubles started by his falling out with his brother-in-law, who reported him to the sheriff for killing Tom Scurry, colored, and making away with the body by burning it on a brush heap. Will Run for Mayor of Augusta. Augusta, Ga., May 9.?Thomas Barrett, Jr., announced to-day his candidacy for the office of mayor of Augusta. He is one of the leading men of the city, and will not have opposition. There is opposition in only one of the five wards of the city for the councilmanic honors. - Lived 152 Years. Wm. Parr?England's oldest man ?married the third time at 120, worked in the fields till 132 and lived 20 years longer. People should be youthful at 80. James Wright, of Spurlock, Ky., shows how to remain young. "I feel just like a 16year-old boy;" he writes, "after taking six bottles of Electric Bitters. For thirty years kidney trouble made life a burden, but the first bottle of this wonderful medicine convinced me I had found the greatest cute on earth." They're a godsend to weak, sickly rundown or old people. Try them. 50c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Won't Slight a Good Friend. "If ever I need a cough medicine again I know what to get," declares Mrs. A. L. Alley, of Beals, Me., "for, after using ten bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery, and seeing its excellent results in my own family and others, I am convinced it is the best medicine made for coughs, colds and lung trouble." Every one who tries it feels just that way. Relief is felt at once and its quick cure surprises you. For bronchitis, asthma, hemorrhage, croup, lagrippe, sore throat, pain in chest or lungs its supreme. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Kills to Stop the Fiend. The worst foe for 12 years of John Deye, of Gladwin, Mich., was a running ulcer. He paid the doctors over $400.00 without benefit. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve killed the ulcer and cured him. Cures fever-sores, boils, felons, eczema, salt rheum. Infallible for piles, burns, scalds, cuts, corns. 25c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. 9 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CHERAW. Godfrey's Large Lumber Plant a Prey for Flames. Cheraw, May 8.?One of the biggest fires Cheraw has had in years, broke out in William Godfrey Company's extensive lumber plant this morning at about 2 o'clock. It started in the centre of the building, and when discovered the entire mill was a mass of flames, which soon spread to the loaded cars on the tracks auri the stacks of lumber in the yards. Owing to the inflammable characur of the building and contents there was nothing to do but to see it burn. The S. A. L.'s tracks caught The Seaboard Air Line's traci-.s on fire and had to be torn up, and telegraph and telephone poles burned off. A successful fight was made by the citizens to keep the fire from spreading to the spiritine plant, and the negro quarters in the neighborhood, by playing streams of water, by carrying away stacks of lumber and shingles, and by lighting a counter fire to meet the advancing flames.. . The entire mill and contents, the brick drying kilns, seven or eight cars with their loads of dressed lumber and many stacks of lumber in the yards, are totally destroyed. Only the office and boiler house, and some shingles, which were carried to a safe place, are left. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is only partly covered by insurance. This was one of the largest mills in the country, about a block in length, and the one which furnished most of the lumber for the new union station in Washington, D. C. It employed a large force of hands, all of whom are now out of employment. Insurance Agent Arrested. Marion, May 8.?Mr. J. C. Hoesa, of Kansas City, Mo., traveling representative of the Lumbermen's Underwriters' Alliance, of that city, was arrested yesterday afternoon at Sellers, eight miles above Marion, for violation of the State insurance law. The charge against him is soliciting insurance without a license, and the warrant was issued by Magistrate Oliver. He had been in Marion yesterday and it was under instructions from State Insurance Commissioner F. H. McMaster that the warrant was sworn out, but before it was served he had left through the country for Sellers. Sheriff Blue, when he received the warrant, had very little time in which to reach Sellers before the passage of the afternoon train, on which it was supposed Hoesa would leave, but by the use of an automobile he made the trip and returned to Marion with his prisoner. Magistrate Oliver put the defendant under, a $200 bond until next Saturday, the 15th, when he will be triecl. Hoesa claims that he has not violated the law, and it is understood he will fight the case. How Women Cleaned a City. Kalamazoo is a city of only about thirty thousand inhabitants, yet in many respects it has attained to such correct civic deportment as indicates careful bringing up by hand by the Improvement League that the Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane organized. It is the vital needs of the heart and liyes of the community that are reached. The League looked on the streets of Kalamazoo and saw that they were not hygienically swept. How should men Know how to sweep, anyway? The men of the city government said that they were cleaning the streets as the streets always had been cleaned, and it must be right. But the women said, No, that they would show them. The city council was asked to give over to the League six blocks of the main street for a period of three months, together with the appropriation usually expended on this strip of pavement. The plan was agreed to. Then it became noised abroad that the women of Kalamazoo were going to conduct this demonstration of right street-cleaning. And the yellowest journals of Chicago, the near-by metropolis, began to focus the trained machinery of their all-searching staffs on the little town. The women grew nervous in this glare of the limelight of publicity, but under Mrs. Crane's direction the arrangements progressed. It was Col. Waring's New York system that was to be introduced. The "White Wings" were uniformed and all nrffVi nrtm K w/\/\m o A?>/) 1 {+ cquippcu nibu uiwrno auu intie carts. Then, at the eleventh hour, the women who had been assigned in squads of two to act as inspectors of the work, one after another rang Rev. Crane's front-door bell. With one accord they began to make excuses. There were sick babies and unexpected guests and the ever-useful husband-who-refuses-to-allow-it So that the League that really cleaned the streets was mostly Mrs. Crane. At first appalled by the prospect, she nevertheless stood to her guns when all but one of her faith" ful lieutenants had fled. The yellow cameras got her, but at the fend of three months she had her reward. The city adopted the system, for she had done for $5.00 what had previously cost $8.39 a day and she had proven that sweeping by hand* was better than the machine sweeping that sent clouds of dust and disease into the houses. To complete this demonstration of neatness in municipal house-keeping methods the League purchased and placed on the street corners galvanized iron cans for the reception of waste paper and refuse. And they enlisted the ef forts of the children to keep the streets free from litter by organizing in the schools Junior Civic Improvement Leagues with a badge declaring, "I will help."?Mabel Potter Daggett in The Delineator for June. Smashes all Records. As an all-round laxative tonic and health-builder no other pills can compare with Dr. King'sdNew Life! Pills. They tone and regulate stomach, liver and kidneys, purify the blood, strengthen the nerves; cure constipation, dyspepsia, biliousness, jaundice, headache, chills an<J. malaria. Try them. 25c. at Peoples. Drug Co. Bamberg, S. C. We Will Give $15.00 la Cash For the Three Best Advertisements i i ====== ?" AA frt* Koc?t Qfinff V 1VS1 lli^ UVOt MV1VU i Piano advertisement. $5.00 for the best Shaw Piano advertisement. $5.00 for the best Stieff and Shaw Piano advertisement combined. Mr. John Ross, of the Charlotte Observer and Chronicle, Mr. Birch, of the Charlotte News; Mr. Withers, of the Columbia State; and Mr. J. F. Jacobs, of the Religious Syndicate, Clinton, S. C., will act as judges. Contest open until June 1st, 1909. Open to every one. Send your add to CHAS. M. STIEFF Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff Shaw and Stieff Self player Pianos Southern Wareroom: 5 W. Trade St. Charlotte, N. C. C. H. WILMOTH, Manager. Mention this paper. \ I AUTOMOBILES 1 , I have opened a first-class automobile repair shot at my carriage works, and we are prepared to execute all kinds of Automobile Repairs We vulcanize tires, and carry auto supplies in stock. All business entrusted to us will have my personal attention. I bave secured the services of W. H. Patrick for my business, and the new business will be known as The Delk Motor Co. P. J. DELK, Manager. L-?? I J. H. DIXON .. Machinist and Engineer General Repair Shop. We repair all kinds of machinery and carry a full line of Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Valves, Injectors, Lubricators, Oilers, etc. Bring your engine ana have the cylinder bored. Make It run like new and rive you more power. Bring your cotton gins and press parts and nave them repaired before the busy season. A stitch in time Baves nine. We repair saw mills, grist mills, cane mills; m fact we run a hospital for sick and disordered machinery. Bring it in and have it cured. Qas engines and automobile engine cylinders and new nlstnnrand rlnars made I that' won't leak. Gives you more power and better efficiency. We repair and charge storage batteries. Call when In trouble and see what we can do. SHOP AT COTTON HILL DR. 0. D. FAUST DENTIST BAMBERG, S. C. Office in Telephone Boil ding. ?? ??? MEAT MARKET. Same men at a different place. When yon want the best meats obtainable call at our market opposite The Herald Building, Main street. Our prices are right. We also buy beef cattle, pork, hogs, hides, chickens and eggs. BR0NS0N&GRANT BAMBERG, S. C. m || 6rand, Upright and Player Pianos | p li FROM FACTORY TO YOXJR HOME 1 S3 i Hb * Is Boardman & Gray Pianos, Albany, N. Y. Es- , E m Briggs Pianos, Boston. Established 1868. x H Merrill Pianos, Boston. 11 m Norris & Hyde Pianos, Boston. Established j j !g Clough & Warren Organs, Detroit. Established j | - " ^ A line of Pianos and Organs which will please the most criti- j . REMEMBER I keep no store and have no expense attached to 9 5 % jg5 the sale of any Piano except what is absolutely necessary, viz: 3 ? g |j Freight from factory to your home, one drayage from your depot, S 5 g g and cost of stool and scarf, which I give you. ? 5 11 MANY YEARS in the Piano business as tuner and salesman | 5 jog gg taught me to have to do with only good instruments, and my ? * v is methods of business enable me to give you Fine Pianos at very ? ?? reasonable prices. Inquiries will receive prompt attention. x TUNING CAREFULLY DONE. I 'M II G- A. LUCAS, | Hfl || P. 0. Box 490. Augusta, Ga. jj r===~- . Ml Our Prices on ; J ?|1| Building Material 1 H ' M Will Save Yon from 10 to 20 per cent. 9 ? iIm Lime, Cement, Plaster, J8 Doors, Sash, Screen Sash, 8 Rlinds. Screen Doors, etc. M Mantels, Grates, Paints, ,f| Tile, Varnish, Glass, and ' 4M Building Material of all ; U kinds. Our services are ^ fj nrnmnt !*: >! :=?: >; ^ m w m. m m v ? v ? v v w w On^ateriaM^h^est JB R. J. Home & Co. 1 Long Distance 'Phone 473. 657 Broad St. AUGUSTA, GA. 1H . WRITE FOR PRICES AND CATALOGUE. . I Excursion Rates 1 m TO ASHEVILLE, N. C., AND RETURN. AC- | J I COUNT twentieth ann uajb jujsjst- y ING NATIONAL TRAVELERS' I PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA- I [ M TION OF AMERICA. I i The Southern Railway announces very low I round trip rates from all points to Asheville, N. C., I and return for the above occasion. Tickets will VJ? be sold May 28th, 29th, and 30th, and for trains I | arriving Asheville before 3:00 p. m., May 31st, lim- I ited good to return 30 days from date of sale. B j Round trip rates from principal points 'as fol- K ' lows: I Blacksburg $3.10 Gaffney 3.40 ff Blackville 6.70 Lancaster 5.05 K y Branchville 7.15 Orangeburg 6.55 I Camden 6.10 Rock Hill 4.30 I Charleston 3.95 Spartanburg 2.35 / ^ Chester. ;...... 4.45 Winnsboro 5.85 Columbia 5.05 Yorkville 4.00 Special arrangements are being made for hand- I ling T. P. A.'s, their families and friends in the I most comfortable and convenient way to and from I Asheville. Entertainnments of various kinds; I i ? ? T il .1 J ? I side-trips to Lake Toxaway, dune sin, oiu-iasn ioned Southern barbecue, trolly rides, grand ball I at Battery Park Hotel, etc. I z Southern Railway officials and passenger rep- I resentatives will be present to assist in looking I ^ after the entertainment, providing informa- I ;J? tion, etc. m For further detailed information apply to I y Southern Railway ticket agents or address, I J. L. MEEK, J. C. LUSK, I Asst. Gen. Pass Agt, Division Pass. Agt., I *-/ 7 ^