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3^" ^ 51 < % ===== In License Town. "The doctor positively forbfds me to go outside the door to-day: * e.vclaimed Bert Foster petuiantly. "So you ii miss your vote? Sorry, old man! replied ms iritnd sympu-. theticall}. j "Well, you needn t btr. Arthur j Powers, ior if I did go I would vote straight against your pet scheme." j ' "Against prohibition: Wny?" inquired Mr. Powers. "Because, for one thing, I don't believe in binding men by law not to drink. 1 believe in liberty of conscience. Let ministers and these other temperance reformers get to work reforming men through their (consciences and leave the law as it is." "Your pastor is a worker for prohibition, but since when did he quit appealing to men's consciences? On Sunday he appeals to the drunkard * to assert his manhood, but to my mind he is only consistent when he itakes his place in the battle-line on Monday to fight the drunkard's battle tor him." "Well, we have had prohibition here now for three years, and what haB it accomplished? There is more drinking done in our town than ever before." Arthur Powers threw back his hAftd and hurst into a hearty laugh. "Excuse me, Bert," he said, "but in the name of all that's wonderful, tell he why liquor men without exception oppose prohibition, if it makes liquor easier to obtain. Why are the brewers and distillers putting up large sums to fight the scheme? Why did such men as Pat Green circulate the petition asking for the vote to-day, that they might repeal the local proLi;' / hibition ordinance, if it is easier to obtain the stuff under he law now existing?" "Well, you may laugh, but I saw ** man nn the street less Ck UlUuavu tuuu ? than three months ago." 'Really? And while our town had license how many drunks did you you see in three months?" > ? "Oh, of course! But one expects better with prohibition." "True, and we get better!" "But, Powers, you know there is something in a man's nature that makes him want to do what is forbidden. Do you remember the teacher we had who forbade us the first day of school to climb on the shed-roof? We had never thought of doing so, but restriction created a desire. We talked about the fun it would be, and daTed each other, until Fred Green, Will Johnson and Nick Lee took the dare and accomplished the feat. Now that was the direct result of the prohibition." T "I am not so sure of that. Anyway, only three in the school. disobeyed the rules. The rest of us were afraid of the consequences." "Well, I prefer a decent licensed house to a dive. Look at that house of Shaver's! The boys gather in there and smoke, swear, play cards, and discuss all manner of evil things." "And vou would introduce liquor ^ into this group as a moralizing r;yj- force? You got that speech, Bert, from some of the whiskey men. They give Shaver's the worst name, although it is a heaven to the licensed houses we had here four years ago. But granted that what you say is true, then if prohibition is repealed ~ we virtually put into Shaver's hands the- power to make drunkards of ^ these boys as well as blackguards. Shaver would probably have the license. Certainly no better man would accept it. And after all," he added, "you believe in prohibition * "* ? ?Tint 4T*? thlC along otner nutss, w u * um <u ' evil? But I must not spend ail day on a man who can't vote. There is work to be done." And Arthur . Powers hurriedly left the room. "Prohibitory laws along other . lines? Why I suppose so," mused Bert Foster as his head sank back on the soft cushion of his invalid chair. He listened dreamily to the noise in the street below. It grew louder. It was the tramp of the multitude. The people were all moving in one direc tion. Presently he was down among . them, carried along by the eager crowd. On, on they sped. A beautiful town appeared in view. Joy bells ^ were ringing, and at the entrance to the town the mayor stood blandly smiling and bowing a welcome to all. "Welcome! Welcome to License Town!" he said. "What do you mean?" Bert inr quired. "Is there no prohibition against the selling of liquor here?" "There is no prohibition against anything," he explained. "A prohibition law only creates a desire to transgress that law, so we have no prohibitions. This is License Town." Bert looked about him. On every side were bright, happy faces. The children danced in glee. A woman's merry laugh rang out, and louder, louder the joy bells rang. Suddenly a dispute arose between two children. There was an impatient word, a quick blow, and then the mother stepped forward to interfere. "Leave me alone!" shouted the child angrily. "I'll do as I please. I'm in License Town." And on the very thresh+> V hold of License Town a shadow rested on a mother's face. Then, as Bert watched and waited, > She?the Creature of his dreams? came. More beautiful than ever she looked with the bloom of health on her cheek and the sparkle of love in her eye. Under the intoxication of the ringing bells, he took her hand and told his love in words of fire. She assured him of her love, but when he spoke of marriage, she turned laughingly away. "We can't I marry here. Don't you know tnai the marriage ceremony is a prohibitory law? It prohibits 'all others.' There are no marriages in License . Town. It is quite right, too," she added. "A prohibitory law always creates a desire to break that law. If I were compelled by law to love only you I would probably fall in love at f once with some one else!" As she spoke, a low-browed, evilfaced man caught her in his arms and pressed his brutal mouth to her rosy lips. Bert started forward in blind rage, but the man laughed "boldly. "I'll kiss her if I like! There are no prohibitions in License Town." Then the surging crowd carried both her and the man onward. ^ Bert, engaged with his own trou bles, had not noticed the changes going on around him. Now tor the nrst time ne noticed that the bens were uul or tune, ana instead of tne merry, musical cnimes were sending .orth harsh, discordant notes. Ihe iaces arouuu were 110 lougc-r urignt and smiling. i'he men wt.e coarse and brutalized, while the w omen were worse, ana tne children nia in terror at e\ery approaching iootstep. "Stop thief! Stop thief!" a woman called out. "He has stolen my purse: ' Bert started to her assistance, but was snoved to one siae by two men in deadly conflict. Then, as they struggled, one drew a Knne and plunged it to the neart ot Ins opponent. \uurder! Punish the murderer," Bert shouted to the mayor, wno stood looking calmly on. "We can't punish him," said the mayor. "You see," he explained, "we thought it better not to prohibit murder or theft because people might break the law it wre made it." And ever louder, louder the bells rang forth their harsh, discordant notes. Bert watched a woman approaching. A woanoi?but with all the grace and purity of womanhood gone. Her eyes were bleared and bloodshot, and on her cheek was the flush of intoxication. She carried in her hand a half-emptied bottle, while from her lips rolled half-articulate, maudlin blasphemy. Bert was turning from her in disgust when something familiar in this reeling, maudlin creature revealed her identity. "My love! My lost love!" he cried. "Have you come to this?" Then as old memories thronged fast upon him, he held out his hand. "Oh, come! Even yet let us leave this cursed place." The bottle dropped from her hand and the drunked flush left her cheek, but the face raised to Bert's was one from which all hope had forever fled; and in the eyes was the unutterable woe of the damned. "I can't go," she said. "Don't you know? This is Hell! Look!" Bert looked in the direction she pointed. The mayor was just removing his smiling mask. He stood revealed?the King of Darkness. "No longer need of the mask!" he said. "They are all mine now. Licensed evil is one of my cleverest schemes." Then the Devil's laugh rang out to mingle with the cries, the groans and the curses of his victims. "Oht T? thArp no eseaDe?" Bert panted. "Oh-h-h! Oh-h-h!" "Here, wake up! What's the matter?" Bert opened his eyes to find himself in his own room and Arthur Powers vigorously shaking him by the arm. "What's the matter?" Mr. Powers inquired. "When I entered you were shouting ten thousand murders. What's wrong?" "I was in hell," Bert answered. "Then," said his friend, laughing, "let me welcome you back to the abode of mortals, and at the same time congratulate you upon your * ? Al 11. M snort stay in tne uemw icgiuuo. Bert rubbed his eyes sleepily. "I wish also to inform you," continued Mr. Powers, "that we carried the day with a sweeping majority, so for at least three years more, our town will have prohibition." "Thank God!" Bert exclaimed fervently. Then, in answer to his friend's questioning look, he added whimsically, "J once spent an afternoon, in License Town."?Desta E. Brown, in The Union Signal. The South is Going Dry. Lay the jest about the julep in the camphor ball at last, For a miracle has happened and the olden days are past; That which makes Milwaukee f^paous doesn't foam in Tennessee And the lid in old Missouri is as tight locked as can be? 0, the comic paper Colonel and his cronies well may sigh, For the mint is waving gayly, but the South is going dry. By the stillside on the hillside in Kentucky all is still, , For the only damp refreshment must be dipped up from the rill; No'th Ca'olina's stately gov'nor gives his soda glass a shove And discusses local option with the South Ca'lina gov; It is useless at the fountain to be winkful of the eye, For the cocktail glass is dusty, and the South is going dry. It is water, water everywhere?and not a drop to drink! We no longer hear the music of the yellow crystal clink When the colonel and the major and the gen'l and the jedge Meet to have a little nip to give their appetites an edge, For the eggnog now is noggless and the rye has gone awry And the punch bowl holds carnations ?and the South is going dry. All the night caps now have tassels and are worn upon the head. Not the night caps that were taken when nobody went to bed; And the breeze above the blue grass is as solemn as is death, For it bears no pungent clove-tang on its odoriflc breath; And each man can walk a chalk line when the stars are in the sky, For the fizz glass now is fizzless and the South is going dry. Lay the jest about the julep 'neath the chestnut tree at last, For there's but one kind of moonshine and the olden days are past; Now the water wagon rumbles through the Southland on its trip And it helps no one to drop off to pick up the driver's whip, For the mintbeds make a pasture and the corkscrew hangeth high? All is still along the hillside and the South is going dry. Mr. N. Z. Felder will not be a candidate for cotton weigher at Bamberg before the county board of commissioners at the July meeting. He will work for the Planters Mercantile Co. this fall. TOLD BY THE OLD CIRCUS MAN. The Greatest of all Giants Brought Back in Fond Recollection. "You know," said the old circus man, "thfe great giant, big as lie was, was a very uainty man, ne liked nne, wen made clothes, and nice shoes, and good linen, and one thing tnat ne was very particular about was uis nandkerchiefs. "in those days, you remember, or 1 guess you don t, but 1 can tell you, it was the fashion tor men to carry their handkerchief tucked in their outside breast coat pocket with a corner sticking out, and that's the way the giant %always carried his, and you can imagine what size cort f a V* o irn cr All t Af iiCl lie: UOCU IV uavv uuvaiug vuw w* I his pocket to have it in proportion. | "Hm?m. It makes me laugh to j think of the giant's handkerchiefs. That's one thing we didn't think of when he first came to us, we bought him a lot of handkerchiefs of the usual men's size. '* 'What's this?' says the giant, the first time he ever tried to carry one of them. "You see, it was so small in proportion that it dropped down into the bottom of his pocket, and he tried to reach in deep and fish around for it, and it wasn't much use to him either, and, of course, we saw right away that those handkerchiefs wouldn't do, and so we had some made for him about three times the usual size and those he said would do, though he always wished we'd had 'em made a little bigger, and then one winter, when the show was laid up in winter quarters, a queer thing happened. "The laundress we '4iad for the washing at the headquarters house was a nice old lady, but a little testy, and what with the work for the giant and all it used to keep her pretty busy, and one day when he went to his bureau, the giant found he had no handkerchiefs, and he was no picker and kicker, he didn't go growling to old lady Mary?that was the laundress?but he did go to the old man, and say to him pleasantly, that he seemed to be out of handkerchiefs. " 'All right,' says the old man. 'I'll see Mary about it,' and he did, and Mary didn't say anything back to the old man, but she says to herself, 'I'll fix the giant all right. I'll give him some handkerchiefs right now.' "We'd just got in a bunch of supplies of one sort and another for house use, and in this bunch there were a lot of fine new sheets, and what Mary does was to go to the store room and get half a dozen of these sheets, and then she gets the step-ladder?she always had to use a step ladder to get up to his top bureau drawer?and in one corner of this drawer where the giant kept his handkerchiefs, she laid in those nicely folded new sheets. "The next morning when the giant went for a handkerchief that's what he found in the handkerchief corner of his top bureau drawer, and when he had eot one of them and shaken it out, he smiled. And then he tucked it in his outside breast pocket, leaving a yard of it, more or less, sticking out, and then he goes in to see the old man and yanks it out and shows the new handkerchief to him, and " 'There,' he says to the old man, 'there's a handkerchief that's something like. I don't exactly like the shape of it,' he says, 'you Bee, it's made longer than it is wide,' and he held it up for the old man to see. 'But, it's big enough,' he says, 'anyhow. 'Now, why can't I have a lot of handkerchiefs like that, only made square?' "Why, you can!' says the old man. 'Certainly. Of course. Why not?' and he ordered a lot of 'em right away, made square, and that's the sort of handkerchiefs the giant carried always after that; at last he bad got a handkerchief that was big enough for him. "He was the greatest of all giants," the old circus man said, bringing him back in sorrowing but admiring recollection, "there never was another like him. I wish you could have seen him." Wife, Murderer Starving. Norfolk, Va., May 28.?Eugene Peebles, the Georgian, who recently killed his wife here by chopping her head with an axe, is growing yreaker each day in the jail hospital, as the result of self-starvation. He refuses all nourishment except a little milk. He refuses to recognize his relatives and friends from the South and seldom raises his head from his pillow. Defied a Mob. Mrs. Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the former president's mother, was a Georgia woman, her family being one of the oldest in the State. In her were many of the traits which developed in the son. One instance is typical of her character. At the close of the civil war, while feeling ran high, Theodore Roosevelt, the elder, decided to give a great social function in New York. He decorated his house with the Stars and Stripes. Mrs. Roosevelt, who was with the South in her sympathies, went to her boudoir and flung from her window the flag of the Confederacy. A mob gathered before the house threatening violence. To her husband's entreaties that she remove the flag she returned a defiant refusal. It was only when the husband appeared before the mob and explained his wife's sympathies that thev dispersed.?Boston Post. Little Bit o' Feller. Little bit o' feller, half the time asleep, Never doin' nothin' for his board and keep; Makes a lot o' trouble, costs an awful sight, But, oh, how we love him mornin', noon and night! Little bit o' feller thinks he owns the place, Deepenin' the wrinkles I have on my face, But I'm glad we've got 'im, bless his little heart! Listen to him singin'?golly, ain't he smart? ?Chicago Record-Herald. >- ' - ? MARVEL OF A CLOCK. Unique Timepiece Made by a Cripple in Ohio. As faster surprise for iisj patrons ind manage ui - at or t.io' Hotel at. Aegis. iu -\'ew Vork. ix-i ceutly i...i\aased a unique and re-j markalie ciock ior the .uhiu draw-1 llig 10j.il Ji lut* Loici. i fle CiOCk was maae m a little Ohio town oy a crippled workman. who spent iour -. ?> nnnctmr'i'ion a n r\ whncP I cai O 111 ICO V.UUOC1 UVUVU MilV4 ?> MVWW only tools were a scroll saw, a jackkniie and a tile. .Manager Gus R. Schmidt, of the St. Regis, who heard of the clock in the West, where he inspected it, said: "The clock is a wonder. It is 12 feet tour inches high, four feet four inches wide and twenty-nine inches deep. One large dial gives the standard time, while directly beneath it is a dial which shows the changes or the moon and gives the government weather indications for twenty-four hours in advance. "By watching the clock one sees handsome pictures of the ships in the United States navy pass behind a glass. The history of Christ is shown from the nativity to the ascension by pictures painted by the maker. "An interesting feature of the clock is a miniature Niagara Falls, with real water, the color of which appears to change. Just below are an electric fountain and an arch, which produce a beautiful effect. Flags appear on staffs in front of the dial and indicate the kind of weather expected twenty-four hours in advance. The weather reports are produced by a thermometer, a barometer, a hydrometer, a spirit level and a compass arranged on the front of the clock. "The front of the clock is lighted by fifty small electric lights, thirtyrrrVilnVi ora arrnncAd around UTU \JL TTU1VU Mi v Mi v the Niagara Falls and electric arch. The history of the United States from the landing of Columbus to the present time is shown by ninety-six paintings attached to a ribbon 108 feet long, which is moved by electricity. When the clock strikes the hour the figures of Uncle Sam and the Goddess of Liberty pass out of an electric elevator on one side, down a stairway, around the base of the miniature cataract and electric fountain to the other side, where they ascend ananother stairway and enter another elevator. A minute after the hour strikes fifty lights appear around the dial, and a musical attachment is brought into play, sending forth delightful airs% At the half J hour the cathedral gong strikes once, and the musical attachment is started again. "An illuminated picture on one side of the dial shows Washington crossing the Delaware with his army. Three boats are portrayed, with Washington standing in the first one. This scene is repeated every hour and forty minutes. Other illuminated pictures, which appear periodically, show the old battleship Maine, both before and after the explosion in Havana harbor. "On the back of the clock is displayed the Lord's Prayer, inlaid with 312 pieces of wood. Pictures of American poets, musicians and the presidents also appear on the back. All of these portraits are in motion and travel at the rate of twenty-five feet a minute. Pictures of President Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley are shown, and at the hour of their death a light appears on the face of the cloc^, while a phonograph announces the occasion. "The face of the clock contains a piece of wood from every State and territory in the Union, including the island possessions, and it took three years for the maker of the clock to 1 rtnf fllATY) V/Ull^V/b "All the mechanism for running the clock is in the base and includes 640 feet of electric wire and 412 electrical connections. The current is obtained from an ordinary electric light connection." ? ~ SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Citizen of Sally Wounded by Person j in Woman's Garb. Sally, May 29.?Last night at 10 o'clock Mr. Walter Brady, while returning to his home from town was shot by some one hidden behind a small tool house owned by the railroad. The would-be assassin concealed his identity under the guise of a mother's robe, and this probably saved his life, for Brady refrained from firing, believing his assailant to be a woman. Mr. Brady was hit in the right hip by two bullets from a .32-calibre pistol. An automobile was sent to Barnwell for the county bloodhounds, and they were brought and put on the track of the would-be assassin. The dogs trailed for four hours but finally lost the t track in the public road. Bloodhounds from Columbia were brought | down to Sally on Southern train No. 2y, Dut were noi lumeu iuubc, ao there was no possible chance of their getting the right track, which had been trampled by hundreds of determined men, who were up all night searching for the guilty party. Mr. Brady has been in Sally but a short while, but during his stay here he has won friends among the best people in the community. Mr. Brady was not dangerously wounded, and at this writing is resting easy. Although away from home he is receiving every attention. It is hoped that in a few days he will be out and again at his work. No arrests have yet been made. Women Who Are Envied. Those attractive women who are lovely in face, form and temper are "- ? ~e TxrVir. micht ha liVa tut: euv y ui mau;, vr uu wiaut them. A weak, sickly woman will he nervous and irritable. Constipation or kidney poisons show in pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. For all such Electric Bitters work wonders. They regulate stomach, liver and kidneys, purify the blood; give strong nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, smooth, velvety skin, lovely complexion. Many charming women owe their health and beauty to them. 50c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. A - v- . - ..v.. L In all The World cf Pianos You will never find a piano just like the artistic Stieff. There is an individuality about the Stieff piano all its own. That beautiful singing, sonorous tone, wondrous volume. and perfect action, place it in a sphere above all comparison. Why should any one buy an inferior piano when they can Duy tne artistic suen or euaw piano direct from its maker? The price is within reach of the most economical buyer while the grade is beyond competition. Don't take chances of buying a cheap or medium grade piano. Write Stieff. CHAS. M.. STIEFF Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff Shaw and Stieff Selfplayer Pianos Southern Wareroom: 5 W. Trade St, Charlotte, N. C. C. H. WILMOTH, Manager. Mention this paper. AUTOMOBILES 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 have secured the services * of W. H. Patrick for my business, and the new business will be known as t The Delk Motor Co. D. J. DELK, Manager. ?J 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 and have the cylinder bored. Make it run like new and give you more power. Bring your cotton gins and press parts and have them repaired before the busy season. A stitch in time saves nine. We repair saw mills, grist mills, cane mills; in fact we run a hospital for sick and disordered machinery. Bring It in and have it cured. Gas engines and automobile engine cylinders bored, and new pis cons ana rings muic that won't leas. Gives you more power and better efficiency. We repair and charge storage batteries, call when in trouble and see what we can do. SOOP AT COTTON MILL I DB. 0. D. FAUST I DENTIST BAMBERG, S. C. Office in Telephone Building. 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O'IN'EAL, Real Estate Agent Bamberg, S. C. v. | n'l.fkmn Scholars hiD and H iUtUl V^/ N/vuvgv ~ m Entrance Examination. The examination for the award of ^Jsa vacant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will be held at the county court house on Friday July 2, at 9 a. ' H m. Applicants must be not less than ' $ fifteen years of age. When scholarships are vacant after July 2 they will be awarded to those making the % highest average at this examination, provided they meet the conditions . governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to Presi- j , dent Johnson before the examination ^fi for scholarship examination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 15, 1909. For further information and catalogue, address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill,