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A WORD TO FARMERS. Don't Sell Your Cotton Before You Have Made It. The Bamberg Herald has often advicoH tha farmers not to sell their cotton before it is made, and it still advises them not to do so. We have heard of some farmers in Bamberg county who sold their cotton some time ago at ten cents per pound. We think they now realize that they made a mistake in doing so. This practice has caused the farmers of the South to lose millions of dollars. No man can tell what the present crop will cost to make, as it is not made yet by a iong shot. To sell it now would be a leap in the dark, and we advise the farmers not to take it. Should it continue to rain a few more weeks, or should we have a few weeks of dry, hot weather, or an early frost, either of which would cut the crop down to half of what it now promises, and add greatly to the cost of making per pound, as it would not reduce the cost of making the crop in the least, you can readily see that it is a dangerous proposition, to say nothing of the injustice you do, not only to yourself and family, but to your neignDors ana me uuuutry at large. The last crop was sold at about nine and a half cents, which was about cost, causing this crop mainly to have to be made on a credit. You can, therefore, readily see the advantage it would give the consumer over the producer, with onehalf to be delivered as fast as gathered at cost, the remainder to be paid for as soon as gathered, causing the entire crop to be dumped on the marfket in less than three months' time, glutting the market, and the mills would have five oY six months' supply of contract cotton on hand, and perhaps not in a position to take care of any more at present. So you are fleft with half of your crop at the mercy of the speculator, who can fix his own price, which will be perhaps f - 8 cents or less. It will require about fourteen million bales of American cotton this year to supply the demand. It now looks like twelve million bales will be the limit of the present crop, the supply falling two million bales short ?? of the demand. So we see nothing to prevent you from getting a good price for your cotton this fall if you will only keep your cotton until it is needed, and let the law of supply and demand govern the price. We have heard men say twelve cents is a high price for cotton and that ten cents is a fair price. We think a reason ^ - * able profit above tne cost ui pivuut; tion is a fair price for cotton, and that is what every farmer is entitled to and should have. Again, we ask you not to put a stick in the hands of the speculators to beat you with. Fought With Knives. f Laurens, July 16.?A dispute over some trivial remark by the daughter of Nathan Curry concerning the wife " of A. B. O'Sheilds resulted in a seri* ous cutting affray at the Laurens cotton mills this morning between Curry __J and O'Snields. P&r Both men are in a precarious condifion, being cut in numerous , \ places. firrV>+ n/innrroH in tllft mill. X11C Jafe-Ln, p|^C Strong Drink. It is a warrior .whom no victory ^ can satisfy, no ruin satiate. It pauses at no Rubicon to consider, pitches no j||V\ tents at night, goes into no quarters ? {j?. for winter. It conquers amid the pfV burning plains of the South, where the phalanx of Alexander halted in mutiny. It conquers amid the snow drifts of the North, where the Grand Army of Napoleon found its winding sheet. Its monuments are in every Ip burial ground. Its badges of triumph are the weeds which mourners wear. Its song of victory is the wail that was heard in Ramah?"Rachel crying for her children and weeping because they are not." . The sword is mighty, and its bloody traces reach across time, from ????. Marathon to Gettysburg. Yet mightier is its brother, the wine cup. I say "brother," and history says "brother." Castor and Pollux never fought Ipyv'' together in more fraternal harmony. David and Jonathan never joined in more generous rivalry. Hand in hand, H they have come down the centuries, and upon every scene of carnage, like vulture and shadow, they have met and feasted. Yea; a pair of giants, but the greater is the wine cup. The sword has a scabbard, and is sheathed; has a p/; , conscience, and becomes glutted with ?,>- havoc; has pity, and gives quarter to the vanquished. The wine cup has no scabbard and no conscience; its appetite is a cancer which grows as you feed it; to pity, it is deaf; to suffering, it is blind. The sword is the lieutenant of 5; , death, but the wine cup his captain; and if ever they come home to him from the wars bringing their trophies, VvAnc+incr nf tVioip odliiovomonte T Mn imagine that death, their master, will meet them with garlands and song, as the maidens of Judea met Saul and David. But as he numbers the victories of each, his pean will be, "The Sword is my Saul, who has slain his thousands; but the wine cup is my David, who has slain " his tens of thousands."?Tom Watson's Maga*>- * zine. !*V OBJECT TO BACK SEATS. is' ' Virginia Negroes Plan State Organization and Ticket. S&vRichmond, Va., July 17.?At a conference here to-day of leading negro Republicans of Richmond, antagonistic to the policy of the present party organization in eliminating the negro as a political factor, plans were discussed for the organization of a strong negro KepuDiican organization in the State. A committee was appointed to draft a letter to be sent to the leading negro citizens in every district with a view to holding a State convention after the meeting of the Newport News "Lily White" Republican convention, and to take under consideration the advisability of placing a full State ticket in the field for the November election. , |F. Jv MAN SHOT WHILE ASLEEP I SINGULAR ATTACK OX VOUXG MAX IX AIKEX. ~ j Edgar L. Shealey, Asleep in Bod, i Aroused by Crack of Pistol and ^ Discovered Himself Wounded. t Aiken, July 15.?Early this morn- f ing Edgar L. Shealey. a prominent -j young man of this city, was shot in ^ f ^ r his room at the home or .Misses ney- s nolds and McGhee, where he board- y ed, on York street. He was shot once with a pistol, and the ball entered his thigh and lodged. His 'wound is not thought to be serious, but it is exceedingly painful. The shooting is one of the greatest mysteries this city has ever witnessed, and neither the police, Mr. Shealev, nor the ladies of the house can offer a satisfactory reason or solution of it. Mr. Shealey is engaged to be married and invitations were issued a day or two ago to his marriage to Miss Ruby Coward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Coward, who reside a short distance from the city. Last night Mr. Shealey called upon her. Miss McGhee attended a dance with Mr. William Murray, who also boards there. Miss Reynolds remained at home, but she had expected to go when Mr. Shealey left, and on returning about 11 o'clock Mr. Shealey called to see her home from the dance, but finding that she did not come to the dance, went home s * 1 J _ ^ aione. MISS nevnoius avers mar one left the front door open and a light c burning in the hall. t Arrived at House. t When Mr. Shealey arrived at the J house he found the front door locked * and no light in the hall. He first 13 rang the door bell and, as he was do- ^ ing so, he says he heard some one 0 walking in his room upstairs. He thought, he says, that it was Miss ? Reynolds trying to find a match to * strike a light, but Miss Reynolds ? says it was not she. She did not open ; the door, as she says she left it open, ? and she thought it was some one try- * ing to obtain entrance to the house. * A colored woman was sleeping in the ^ house, the cook. c When Mr. Shealey called, Miss J Reynolds recognized the voicte and * got up and opened the door. Shealey c went to his room, and soon after retired. At about 12:45 a pistol shot awoke him and he instantly arose and went to the door, which he found t closed. <3 He called to Miss Reynolds and t then felt the wound for the first time, i although blood on the bed shows that 1 the wound'had been bleeding before ( he got up. He says he was asleep, t lying on his back at the time. A g careful search of the room revealed e nothing. No one was there, nor C could any one be found anywhere ] in the house. The colored woman t and Policeman Busch, on his beat, t heard the shot. No one else heard it. t Mr. Shealey says he heard no sound t after the shot was fired. Mr. Murray I and Miss McGhee arrived from the c dance at 1 o'clock. i Shot from Porch. C His room door was shut. The win- J: rlnn< nnoni'nff An o email nnpnll WDQ ' uvn , vpviiiu^ vu u uuiuii ^/v* vu) ?? open, and he believes that he was shot from the porch. Nothing definite could be found from tracks. When he came in his room he noticed that t the window opening on the porch had a been opened, notwithstanding, he t says, that he shut it before leaving. 1 A physician was summoned at d once, and he is now resting well. The 1 ball has not been extracted yet. d Some bureau drawers were found E open in two down-stairs rooms, but e nothing was missed. Nothing was interfered with in Shealey's room. No ? motive can be ascribed for the crime. ^ The shot was fired from toward his t head., ranging down. Mr. Shealey E says he does not know of an enemy J in the world and he is known to be L: an exceptionally quiet and well-liked * young man. If it was committed by \ a robber, why did .he shoot when " Shealey was asieep, mere Deing uu danger to the robber? The robbery . theory is not believed generally. Buv. c if it was someone who wanted to c murder him, what was the motive? ? Mr. Shealey is a highly valued salesman for Powell Hardware Com- t pany, and is to be married, his y wounds allowing, to Miss Coward on the 28th of this month. It is baffling, and up to this time the police can find no clue upon v which to offer an explanation. > $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at c least one dreaded disease that sci- ] ence has been able to cure in all its c stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's rj Catarrh Cure is the only positive \ cure now known to the medical fra- j ternity. Catarrh being a conscitu- j tional disease, requires a constitu- ] tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh I Cure is taken internally, acting di- i rectly upon the blood and mucous i surfaces of the system, thereby de- ? stroying the foundation of the dis- , ease and giving the patient strength , by building up the constitution and ( assisting nature in doing its work. ] The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer one hundred dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of , testimonials. . Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. , Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. I Sees Mother Grow Young. "It would be hard to overstate the \ wonderful change in my mother i since she began to use Electric Bit- i ters," writes Mrs. W. L. Gilpatrick, i of Danforth, Me. "Although past 70 she seems really to be growing ] young again. She suffered untold ^ misery from dyspepsia for 20 years, i At last she could neither eat, drink ] nor sleep. Doctors gave her up and < all remedies failed till Electric Bit- ] ters worked such wonders for her i health." They invigorate all vital 1 organs, cure liver and kidney trou- i bles, induce sleep, impart strength < and appetite. Only 50c. at Peoples 1 Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. 1 FIGHT HOT IX BEAUFORT. loth Sides Waking Up to Importance of August Election. Beaufort. July 15.?This county ias at last waked up to the interest n the special election to be held August 17 to decide whether the county lispensarv shall give way to prohibiten. The local paper is receiving a ;reat many letters from subscribers riving both sides of the controversy, rhe Baptist church in Beaufort has lismissed from membership the aslistant dispenser because he would lot give up his job. The ministers. ioth white and colored throughout he county, are active. This county has always shown a trong anti-dispensary sentiment vhen it comes to enforcing the law igainst illicit liquor selling; more>ver the geographical conditions nake it very hard for the special :onstables to keep track of importaions of liquor. So the dispensary idvocates are arguing that prohibiion will mean transferring the $36, 00 now received in revenue from he dispensaries from the public unds to the pockets of blind tigers, rhe county commissioner from Beauort, 'in this week's issue of the Beaufort Gazette, states that the loss >f the dispensary fund will make it lecessary for the county to cut down he appropriation for ordinary road epairs from $10,000 to $4,000 and top all bridge and road building, or aise the county levy from 3% mills o 8 mills. The town officials anlounce that the loss of the dispenary revenue to the town of Beaufort vill reduce the town's income by ine-half and make the contemplated >ond issue for electric lights and waer-works impossible. The county su erintendent of education reports hat the loss of the dispensary revenue that now goes to the school fund rill reduce it from $26,000 to $14, 00. The total vote is not likely to be ?ver 600 and of this about 150 will ?e cast by negroes. All that can be aid now is that the result is likely o be close. Notorious blind tigers re actively at work for prohibition, he negro preachers are also urging irohibition, and these two elements .llied with the bona fide white prohiutionists, will have very nearly a uajority. Some are urging prohibiion as "a first step toward high li ense." Where the Corn Goes. People often wonder, particularly hose who have traveled for hunIreds of miles through the corn >elt, what becomes of the corn which s grown every year. In the year QOfi whpn thp' tntnl r>rnn wac 9 - >66,000,000 bushels, 241,000,000 rnshels were consumed in flour and jrist mills products, 8,000,000 bushsis in the manufacture of starch, 9,100,000 bushels for malt liquors, .7,000,000 bushels in the producion of distilled liquors, 40,000,000 rnshels for glucose, 190,000,000 rnshels for export and 13,000,000 rnshels for seed, making a total of >18,000,000* bushels, or 19.3 per sent, of the entire crop. The renaming 80.7 per cent., or 2,118,>00,000 bushels, seems to have been ised almost entirely for. feeding.? Cansas City Journal. The Lady and the General. The old Southern city of Colum>ia, S. C., is the home of a courtly ,nd a chivalrous people. They pride hemselves on t.heir manners, do Coumbians. But there is a story told lown there concerning a bit of galantry on ?the part of "one of those lem Yankees, Suh," which it is adoitted could not have been surpassd by the courtliest Southerner. The story is to the effect that a ^reat bail was given at the South Carolina caDitol one evening during he reconstruction era, and while any Southern hearts were still emuttered. A number of Northern oftcers were present at this ball, and n the course of the evening one of hem was introduced to a haughty Southern lady, whose antipathy to .11 Northerners was well known. The lady acknowledged the introluction with a gracious inclination ?f her head, and then drawing herelf to her full, magnificent height, aid proudly: " 'But, Sir, I would have you know hat I am still an unreconstructed re>el." The Yankee officer bowed low. "Madam," he said, "I am sure that o admirably constructed a rebel as 'ourself needs no reconstruction!"? tew York Times. Life 100,000 Years Ago. Scientists have found in a cave in Switzerland bones of men, who lived [00,000 years ago, when life was in lonstant danger from wild beasts, ro-day the danger, as shown by A. N. Brown, of Alexander, Me., is argely from deadly disease. "If it lad not been for Dr. King's New Discovery, which cured me, I could lot have lived," he writes, "suffer ng as I did from a severe lung trou)le and stubborn cough." To cure ;ore lungs, colds, obstinate coughs, md prevent pneumonia, its the best nedicine on earth. 50c. and $1.00. juaranteed by Peoples Drug Co., 3amberg, S. C. The Dead Beat. No. man is wholly free from sin, jut so many lesser evils are tolerated ;hat a man should hesitate long be:ore becoming a dead-beat. Criminals ire despised and abhorred, says the \tchison Globe, but to the dead-beat s coming all that, as well as the contempt of his fellow-men. There is something at once so mean and so ittle in taking advantage of the conidence which comes with friendship that the hand of every man is turned igainst a dead-beat as soon as his reputation is well established. The dead-beat may fondly imagine ie is living easy and making money vithout work, and of course he takes no account of the confidence he vioates and the hardships he inflicts on Dthers. But, that aside, he really las a harder time than the man who is honest and fair. He is compelled to move a good deal and peace of mind he knows not. Like other types )f crooks, he doesn't prosper, and his finish is more unpleasant than the beginning. DISMISSED THE JURY. Judge Meniminger Took Drastic Action at Yorkville. Columbia, Julv 14.?In the criminal court at vilie to-day Judg^ Meniminger .1 issed the entire panel of jury iv.se the jury failed to convict j:. 1 on tria1 for assault with intent to kill and of carrying concealed weapons, although two admitted on the stand they had guns. He told the jurors that they could make York county ridiculous by their verdict in the case of men shooting others in the back, but he didn't propose to have them make him ridiculous, and refused to preside for them. The jurors were stunned and walked out of the room crestfallen. Lead Us Not Into Temptation. Little Isabel had been helping herself to jam, and had more than once been found with sticky fingers and lips, soiled dress, and a guilty but satisfied expression, seated on the floor near the open door of the preserve closet. She had often been admonished in regard to the sweets, but the habit of sampling seemed to grow on her. Her little nursemaid, Louisa, was obliged to be ever vigilant, in order to preserve the preserves?to say nothing of Isabel's health. Finally, one day, a shout was heard from the vicinity of the closet. Isabel was there, again! This time, however, it was with "clean hands and a pure heart." She was seated, as usual, on the floor near the open door, rocking herself back and forth with her hands behind her, and shouting for her little maid. ' "Weesa! Weesa! Come quick! Put the jam up higher. Bel's 'fraid she'll touch it. Hurry!" Louisa came flying to the rescue, and from that time the jams were stored on shelves beyond the little tot's reach, where they were safe, and soon forgotten by the sorely tempted little Isabel. Why do not mothers oftener make it easy for children to obey by, as far as possible, removing temptation?putting it out of their reach till they are old enough or strong enough to resist??Selected. The above' incident reminds me very pathetically of the pitiable condition of the victims of the drink habit. Why will not their stronger brothers put the temptation out of their reach? It is fully as hard for them with their weakened will power and depraved appetites to resist strong drink as for little Isabel to resist the tempting, sweets. Finlayson, writing of Edgar Allen Poe, the brilliant but dissipated poet, says: "Strong drink kept the genius from rising. Yet there are those who still champion the cause of whiskey and excuse its use. Anything else as dangerous to the human race, the people en masse, would rise up in arms and drive out with army and navy?even to the extent of putting into the field every able-bodied man and backing them with all the resources of a great land. Yet when it is proposed by a simple act of legislation to lift this curse from the people there are those who cry out against it. Why, the writer cannot explain, nor can those persons so acting." They seem to have been blinded. A wave of crime is now passing over our land. The seed sown is beginning to bring forth fruit. Human life gets cheaper every day. In a short while under existing conditions no one will be safe. Pandemonium will reign where there should be peace and quietude. Whiskey covers the land with idleness, disease, and crime. It causes 300 murders, 400' suicides, and glooms the land with more than 500 funerals every day. The drink bill for the United States last year was estimated to be $2,000,000,000." That is only the money value, who can tell the sorrows and heartaches caused by this fearful evil? No one but*God. He sees it in all its hideousness. It is a stench in his nostrils. You, voters of Bamberg county, I have had one chance to lessen this evil. You let it pass; beware how you slight it again. The indiffer enc? of men, many professing to be Christians, touching this question is nothing short of criminal. No one can engage in an unlawful business, whether it is an individual, a county, a State, or the United States, and expect to succeed. God cannot smile upon wrong doing. The prosperity of any town depends upon the farming country around it. Of what use are the farms without the brain and brawn to develop them? When you destroy these you are acting like the man TtrV? A lr ^ 1 1 A/1 f Vt A OTAAf A 4" V* A 4" lo 1/1 A ? L1KJ XV lilvu lilv 5UUOC LllCLL laiU IUC golden egg. To turn manhood into money is a poor investment in my estimation. This terrible state of affairs has been creeping upon you unawares until it has reached gigantic proportions. Is it not time to do away with something that is thinning out our ranks so rapidly? Whatever affects one in a certain measure affects us all. The United States supreme court has declared the sale of intoxicating drinks illegal. Let us fall into line. Next August I hope our county at least will drive out this evil that is blighting everything it touches. How refreshing in these degenerate days to read of such a man as Dr. James Henry Carlisle, Wofford's beloved president! By his noble, upright life he preaches to us far more eloquently than he could with mere words. He stands out in marked contrast to the average man. We, too, have a man of God in Bamberg county. I refer to Dr. N. F. Kirkland, Sr., of Buford's Bridge. I have never heard any one speak evil of him?a man in whom there is no guile. Do we appreciate him as we should? PRO BONO PUBLICO. Frankly, now, do you know of any county newspaper anywhere that gives its readers as much live reading matter for a dollar as The Herald? ' -r 1 = \ 1 CLIFFORD SEMINARY ? , m-\ An ideal home school for girls in Piedmont belt of South Carolina. Gives individual attention to each student. School family limited to 40. Seven instructors. Confers A. B. degree accredited by State Board of 4 Education. Climate unsurpassed. Building comfortable. Modern conveniences. One hundred and thirty-six dollars pays all charges for one year?room., table board, and literary tuition. For catalogue address ? Rev. 3. G. Clifford, D. D.9 * jJvv.-i". ,$?> UNION*. S. C. . I || AN UP-TO-DATE LIVERY ^ ^ us book you for to-morrow. ^ I J. R. KINARD &.CO.M M Jm The Liveryman. Bamberg, S. C. jjjg ^ 1.... A fl * A a, rw* ,1 T> < _/* ? ! > I a urano upportnoity 10 see toe racinc toast and the -j I ''jraP? 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