Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f WORLD'S BIGGEST ENGINE. Monster Locomotive Has Just Been Completed for Western Road. Weighing with the tender, 300 f tons in working order, and having a hauling power one-half greater than the most powerful passenger locomotive now in use, the largest pass* enger engine in the world has just been completed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It will be used for fast trains on the mountain division in Southern California and Nevada. $ Apart from its tender this locomotive weighs 376,450 pounds, and is 65 feet long. The tender carries 12,000 gallons of water and 4,000 < gallons of oil, which is the fuel the monster locomotive will use. This will run the engine about 100 miles without stopping for water or fuel, f ^ Total length of locomotive and tender is 105 feet. The traction power ^ of this locomotive is 53,000 pounds. Tt is hiiilt. for sDeed as well as great hauling power. There are five pair of driving wheels, 73 inches in diameter, which work in two sets, the locomotive being of the Mallet articulated compound type. The three pair of wheels in the rear set * are driven by the high-pressure cylinders, while the two pairs in the ? forward set get their power from the low-pressure cylinders. The locomotive has a steam-making area of 4,756 square feet. A feed water heater raises the water temperature above boiling point before it is admitted to the boiler. I Steam passes through a super-heater * before going to the high-pressure cylinders, and, exhausted from them, goes through a reheater before env tering the low-pressure cylinders. In the boiler proper are 294 tubes 19 feet long and 2 1-4 inches in diameter. The feed water heater contains 314 tubes 7 feet long. This locomotive is the first for passenger service to be built on the Mallet type, and the first to combine 7 feed-water heater, superheater, a,nd reheater in one machine, and its fire box is built upon a new plan, which > : ' eliminates stay bolts.?New York Herald. A New Remedy for Typhoid Fever. A correspondent of The Statesville Landmark tells about a new remedy * for typhoid fever which has been successfully applied on a patient in Ire>* dell county. The patient was a wo.man 80 years of age. A physician was called in, but we judge from the % Landmark correspondent's account of the new treatment that he had nothing to do with the experimentation upon the old lady. When the fever had run high some of the neighbors . "advised the frog cure, which was ac* cordingly tried. The treatment is thus described: "Two large toad frogs were caught alive and bound firmly to the bottom of each foot of the patient. In a short time the fever had left the patient, and she commenced to improve at once and is entirely well. Those that applied the remedy say the frogs were parched to a crisp when taken oil the patient's feet." A We have heard of the old woman's remedy for fever?binding a salt herring to the sole of each foot of the 1 patient, but the live frog is a new one on us. This treatment, while perhaps all right for the patient, is * plainly death to the frogs.?Charlotte Observer. \ Pretty Girl Elected County Treasurer ^ Miss Gertrude Jordan, good lookl ing and twenty-eight years old, has , been elected treasurer of Cherry county, Nebraska. Until recently she had been a deputy in the office. 1 She made the race as a republican. JThe county attorney questioned whether a woman was eligible, and the matter was referred to Attorney General Thompson, who declared that i f there was nothing in the constitution to prevent Miss Jordan assuming the office. SUICIDE 1?TCOLUMBIA. Man Wished to be Buried in Con/ federate Uniform. Columbia, Nov. 12.?W. J. Arant, well known here, in Charleston and throughout the State for the past twentv years as a dry goods clerk, If and a prominent Mason, committed suicide at his boarding house here last night by drinking laudanum, due to despondency over his wife's r death, which occurred a year ago in \ . Charleston, where he was sixteen \ ]. years with the Kerrison company. He left his Confederate uniform, nicely pressed laid out, with a note pinned to it: "Bury me in this." He also left notes asking that his son Frank H. Arant, at Camden, H. L* B. Bolger at Kerrison's and C. F. Hebrich at Stonewall Masonic lodge in Charleston, be notified by wire. wj He left no letters. At an early hour this morning Mr. ^ Arant waked up a fellow boarder friend and asked him to say at Tapp's dry goods store this morning that he would not be there for work, and told his friend good-bye. He seemed in - fine humor last night when he retired ' at 11 o'clock. All efforts to revive him this morning when he -was found, with the tell-tale two-ounce bottle of lauda num m tne siop-jar Desiae rne Dea, failed and his instructions were j i promptly carried out. His only relative in Columbia is t his wife's sister, Mrs. Windsor, of Waverly suburb. His son will arrive here this afternoon in an automobile from Camden. \ f On his arrival the funeral arrange\ ments will be made. Mr. Arant was affectionately known among the young men about town as "Uncle Joe," and he was very popular among all classes of people. He is spoken of as a man of high princi/"* pie and thorough and competent in his business. He began his dry goods career here and it is said of him that f many lady customers at places where he worked would allow no other clerk to serve them when he was in the store. He returned here last January from Charleston and worked awhile at Tapp's, but retired to his farm in Camden, returning again for regular employment in September, when he was given charge of the silk depart^ ment AX EARLY DAY STORY. How a Kansas Woman Got Rid of Troublesome Indian. The pioneer Kansas women had some hard times. To begin with, the neighbors were always several miles away, and many a woman was left alone home all day while her husband was busy in the fields or working in the timber. Over in Brown county a story is told anent the settlement of the Kickapoo reserve. Naturally the proximity of the Indians often caused the settlers' wives a great deal of worry unrt fwr An Indian and whiskev were always ready to mix in those days. One day a big, ugly Indian staggered up to the door of a farm house and pounded it hard. The door was opened by the farmer's wife. She was alone. "Nothing here," said the woman, trying to add to the meaning by making motions. "Me hungry," grunted the Indian again. He could hardly keep his feet, and leaned heavily against the house for support. "Nothing here," said the woman again, much worried. n;at?nungry, mssea me aruunen aborigine. "Nothing here," said the woman, another time. She saw that time for action had come, and shouted at him: "Go away?get away, no stay here?get away." The Indian grunted a little more, but he was too drunk to quarrel and finally turned around and staggered over to a small fruit tree in the yard, under which he lay down and was quickly asleep. It was still early in the day and the woman was sure that the Indian would awaken before her husband came home. She did not scream and wring her hands and go into hysterics. She put her wits to working. First she went to the barn and got an armful of corn which she shelled. Then she tiptoed to the tree and scattered the corn all over the drunken brave, and then made a trail of corn to the barn lot. She opened the gates and called to the hogs. About thirty hungry shoats, to whom corn was a luxury, ambled joyously forth. They licked the trail clean and came to the Indian. The way they piled on to the sleeper, rooted about him, was a show worth seeing. There was a mixup of shoats and Indian, a wild yell, and a very unsteady, but determined race on the nart of the Indian to Dut as much distance as he could in the shortest possible time between himself and the hungry pigs. That Indian never bothered that farm again.?Kansas City Journal. A War Time Character. "Old Hines" was an odd character, a member of the Richmond Howitzers. He was'short, squatty, stoopshouldered, bow-legged, with an aquiline nose and cock-eyed, deaf as a post, and at least seventy-five years old. Nobody knew whence he came or what was his nationality. He never talked and never did any duty, either in camp or on the field. He detested shoes, and generally went bare-footed summer and winter. Naturally, his feet were as tough and hard as leather. When the boys wanted a little fun they would give "Old Hines" a piece of hard-tack or some corn meal, and he would tuck up his trousers, give a war whoop, + ^ J Ui-LlJJ 1UIU liic 111 JZ anU. AIWA. IUC smouldering embers in every direction, with a war dance that would have made a Comanche Indian envious. When fighting commenced he would begin to hunt for the plunder all over the field. No danger daunted him. Gathering up his booty, he would seat himself on the ground in the most exposed position, near the battery, and calmly proceed to overhaul and mend the overcoats and other garments he had picked up, ginging all the while "Shoo fly, don't bother me." As the fighting grew hotter and the bullets flew faster, his spirits seemed to rise, and he plied his needle with greater industry and sang "Shoo fly" with redoubled energy. In the battle of Frederickburg, when Hecla, Vesuvius and Etna were vomiting fire and smoke and death, just in the rear of the battery, on the top of a perfect pyramid of overcoats, blankets, knapsacks and frying-pans, sat "Old Hines," with his legs crossed, tailor fashion, sewing for dear life, right in the range of a dozen batteries on the firing line. And that night, as we left the field, we passed him, trudging along under a pile of plunder. He made me think of the picture of Atlas, with the world on his shoulders. Doubtless "Old Hines" has long since been "gathered to his fathers," but there are a lot of old soldiers now living who would like to know what became of "Old Hines," of whom it may be said that there never was a poorer soldier, a greater plunderer on a battle-field, or a braver J man.?J. Russell Wright in Keowee Courier. | The Hughes Verdict. The negro Hughes was found guilty at Bamberg of the murder of W. B. Causey, clerk of court of Hampton county, but the jury recommended mercy, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Two white men of standing testified that Causey told them, separately, that his shooting was his own fault and he hoped that Hughes would not be punished. But Sheppard, a man with Causey, swore the shooting was unprovoked, j Hughes's testimony was the three men came to his house intoxicated; that their declared purpose was an immoral one; that they dragged him ?one-legged and maimed in one j hand?out of his house and were beating him when he shot. A physician testified to the bruises and they are still on Hughes's body. Considering circumstances, we suppose the verdict came quite as near doing justice as could be expected. But if Hughes had been white he would not have been convicted.? The State. Paints, oils, spirits, wall tints, wall colors, colors in oil, varnishes, stains, and in fact everything that is painty. SIMMONS HARDWARE CO. A LUDICROUS MISTAKE. ! When the Welsh Girls Frightened Bonaparte's Troops. Fishguard, the new Cunard port of call, is a place of historic and romantic interest as the scene of Napoleon Bonaparte's futile attempt to invade Great Britain from his camp at Boulogne. A few French troops were actually landed there, with the expectation of holding their ground until reinforcements could be rushed across the channel, and they might have effected their purpose but for a ludicrous mistake. The local yeomanry and peasants rallied to hold them in check, but would probably have been helpless before the French veterans had the latter advanced upon them or even maintained their ground. But a great throng of Welsh women and girls, in their national costumes of red cloaks and black hats, came out from a neighboring hilltop to watch the fighting which they feared would take place. The French commander mistook them for a strong force of British grenadiers, and forthwith volunteered to surrender. The offer, was of course, accepted, and the whole French company was locked up in Pembroke Castle before the mistake was discovered. To give the tale a suitable romantic ending, it is to be added that some of the Frenchmen made their escape through the connivance of some of the very girls who had scared them into becoming prisoners. So Fishguard first became notable at the height of Anglo-French hostilities, and now it returns to the world's gaze at the time of an entente cordial between the two countries. Practical Politics. A political office in a small town in Iowa was vacant. The office paid $250 a year, and there was keen competition for it. The Democratic candidate, Ezekiel Hicks, was a shrewd old fellow, and a neat campaign fund was turned over to him. To the astonishment of all, however, he was defeated. "I can't account for it," said one of the Democratic leaders gloomily. "With that money, we should have won. How did you lay it out, Ezek i err "Well," said Ezekiel, slowly pulling his whiskers, "yer see, that office only pays $250 a year salary, an' I didn't see no sense in payin' $900 out to get the office; so I bought me a little truck farm instead." An Honest Conductor. Some time ago a man at Ypsilanti, Mich., became crazed on the subject of hypnotism and was sent on a Michigan Central train to an asylum. When the conductor asked for tickets the crazy man began telling him of his hypnotic powers. "I'll hypnotize you," ho said. "Fire away," replied the conductor. The man made several passes hefore the conductor's face. "Now you are hypnotized," he said. The conductor loked the part as best he could. "You're a conductor," went on the hypnotist. "That's right," replied his victim. "You're a good conductor," went on the hypnotist. "Right again," said the conductor. "You don't smoke, drink or swear at passengers. You are honest. You turn in all tickets and money you collect from passengers. In fact you do not steal a cent." "That's right," asserted the conductor. The hypnotist eyed him a moment, then said: "What an awful fix you'd be in if I left you in this condition!"?Kansas City Star. Hog Raising in the South. * * In discussing the question of "hog raising in the South," Dr. Knapp of the agricultural department is outspoken in his criticism of hog raising by a dependence upon "a free range in woods and swamps" to fatten the animals or fattening them by keeping the hogs up in small lots and feeding them corn mainly, i Neither method produces satisfactory results. The first method may be cheap, in one way, but it is expensive in another?it does not produce results. The second method is expensive and then does not produce results. Hog raising can be carried on best, according to the department's experts, by grazing "the hogs upon pastures especially prepared for them, supplementing this by the addition of small grain ration." Thus hogs can be raised at "an average cost of 1% to 3 cents a pound." Then the bulletin goes on to set forth a "cropping plan for economic pork production in the South."? Kinston, N. C., Free Press. College Girl's Ancestor. "The late William Bristol," said a Rochester lawyer, "was one of the founders of the Republican party. Mr. Bristol at 88" was a mine of history. "He had a keen sense of humor, too. I once asked him if he didn't marvel of the changes brought about by modern times?at the glorious college girl, for instance, with her swimming and jumping and basketball and other athletic attainments. "He said that the athletic girl wasn't a novelty. She was a recrudescence. He said that in his youth, when a young fellow asked to marry i a farmer's daughter, the farmer would pat the brown cheek of his broad-shouldered, six-foot girl, and say gently: I << ? ir? TY> V It <3.111 t C?C1 J UUUJ X VI 11 UOL XXL J little wood violet to. But, thar, thar, take her, Bill. But ye must take good ker of her. She's been raised kinder tender. Three acres a day, recolleck, is all I ever ast my little birdie to plow, and an acre of corn a day is all she's used to hoein.' She kin do light work, sich as diggin' post holes and killin' hogs, but she ain't used to reg'lar farm work, and you mustn't expect too much of her. It's hard for her old pappy to give his little sunshine up. He'll have to split his own wood and dig his own 'taters now.'" DRYS GAINED IN NEW YORK. Prohibitionists Carried Number of Towns for No-License. New York,Nov 15.?The growth of prohibition sentiment throughout the up-state part of New York is indicated by the available returns from towns which voted on local option yesterday. In nearly all the elections, the no-license advocates had a larger following than heretofore. Most of the towns voting were small ones, but the no-license plan went through by a large majority in Hornell, a town of nearly 15,000, in Corning, which has approximately 4,000 inhabitants and in Bath, where about 5,000 persons live. Niagara and Batavia voted for drug store licenses only. The no-license list includes 11 towns in Steuben county, 10'in Allegheny, 6 in Chautauqua, 6 in Monroe and 6 in Saratoga, 3 in Niagara, 3 in Sargossa and 2 in Genessee. Complete returns from other counties have not yet been received. Thief Sends Back Boodle. Charlotte, Nov. 10.?While visiting the South Carolina State fair at Columbia, Mr. E. B. Gresham, proprietor of the dining rooms at the Southern passenger station, was relieved Saturday night of $375 in cash, one check for $25 and a gold watch by a pickpocket or pickpockets. That, while unfortunate, is not an infrequent occurrence. The one which followed, however is more rare. When Mr. Gresham called at the postoffice here yesterday morning for his mail he found in his mail box the check and his watch. They ^ had been returned to him by the = abductor in Columbia. ? This raises the question, was it a ! nice, gentlemanly, kind, thoughtful 1 thief to whom Mr. Gresham fell a i victim or merely an ironical person with a sense of humor when the joke is on the other fellow? Clearly he could be scarcely be called repentant, since he repented only of stealing what was likely to compass his capture. His contributions to the conscience fund were no doubt gratefully received and evidence of a more complete conviction of sin will be welcomed by Mr. Gresham, provided it comes in the form of $375 in cash. Cripple Kills Wife. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov., 10.?As a tragic culmination of marital trouble of long standing, Louis W. Lewis, white, shot and killed his wife at his home in the western section of the city this afternoon, then turned the revolver on himself, sending a bullet through his head, causing almost in- = stant death. Lewis was a cripple and conducted a small soft drink stand near his home. $5,000 for a Whipping. It does not pay to beat up a West Virginia editor. A short time ago in the Daily Leader, published at Bluefield, W. Va., there appeared an article that was not to the liking of Dr. H. R. Hatfield, one of the lead - At a rv- TT?4 ing citizens 01 tne iuwu. ui. naifield forthwith beat H. B. Kitts, .editor of the Leader, and, it is said, the job was a perfect one. Then the battered editor brought a suit for damages in the amount of $5,000 against Hatfield. The case was tried at Bluefleld, and the jury, after deliberating only eight minutes, brought in a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount. I TAX NOTICE. j The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1909, until the 15th day of March, 1910, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1910, until the 31st day of January, 1910, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, 1910, until the 28th day of February, 1910, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1910, until the 15th day of March, 1910, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. THE LEVY. For State purposes 5% mills Vi-kf. nn rnncoa ' 2 1/, mills 1' VI WUUbJ ? Constitutional school tax,..3 mills Total 11% mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14, 7 mills Binnakers, No. 12, 3 mills Clear Pond, No. 19, 2 mills Colston, No. 18, 2 mills Cuffie Creek, No. 17, 2 mills Denmark, No. 21, 6 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22, 4 mills Govan, No. 11, 4 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Hey ward, No. 24, 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1, 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill Lees, No. 23, 4 mills Midway, No. 2, 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20, ; 2 mills Olar, No. 8, 4 mills St. Johns, No. 10, 2 mills All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, except Confederat soldiers and sailors, who are exempt at fifty years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax, 50. cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of Janary, 1909, are liable to a poll tax of ftn/1 oil trlirt liovo n Of UUC UUiiai , auu CUi TT UU UMf v W made returns to the Auditor are re- I quested to do so on or before 1st of I January, 1910, and thereby save the I penalty and costs. I will receive the commutation = road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from ? the 15th day of October, 1909, until W the 1st day of March, 1910. *JOHN F. FOLK. Treasurer Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 30, 1909. CHICHESTER S PILLS I THE DIAMOND BBiKD.. A I Ckl^keMcrtDtomadBnuid/A\ LMMJb Pills la Red tad (fold metallic\V/ V -Z>QB tx?es, sealed with Blue Ribbon. W m Ttks ether. Bar sf r?r v . rl Ik Dntatah Ask fcr cni?oiuss>TES si I w Ig DUIONB BRAND PILLS, te Mi \ V 0 ystii Kauanas Best, gill, Ahrtys Reliable _ r :SOUIBNUGGISTSEVBnVMBK 8 Still in the Lead! 1 We will receive Monday, the 22nd, another car load of ac Horses and Mules. This lot of stock is now being pur- * ?9 chased in the market by our Mr. W. P. Jones, and they W W will be an extra nice bunch of Fancy Driving Horses and H ? high-grade mules. We can safely promise our friends H Xk and customers that this will be the best load that has A 3n been shipped to Bamberg this season. Wait and see 'em. jK ac We are handling lots of stock these days, and there is a ar 30 foacnn fr?t? tt Wp harp what thp t??)i)lA want ?nrt at. 00 I the right prices. Big assortment of Gv Buggies, Carriages, Wagons, Harness, etc, 1 on hand, and we can fit yon up with a swell turnout. y We hare a real first-class line of vehicles and accessor- 80 ies, and we can sore please you on any article in our A line. Give us a chance to "show you." : : : : : A |JUrNC;> DKU5. { ^ Bamberg, South Carolina ^ ^ ;ImI! 'ImImI; !? a? -:i.; :!? il? 0? it? 0! gi iU tli ai fTi a? il? ili ili CP m I Let us have your next order for groceries! \ | 17 ? ? ? J > 3j We know we can please yon in both quality and price, ? $ 3. #a? ira toon piffhf nn wHth t.hfl hpst, martpts And whp.n 2 ; there is anything good in eatables to be had, we get it. V U? Our stock is always new and fresh, for we are constant- ? } ? ly getting in new goods. No stale groceries are sent v * ;j ? out of this store. ? * OUR TOOTHSOME DELICACIES I ? will make you a regular patron of ours if you will try us t J ejfl&a ?? once. Let us have your next order. You will find us i 1 !! ? prompt and reliable, and if anything we send you does t . h ? not prove to be exactly right, let us know. We will be J ? glad to adjust anything to your satisfaction. Won't you & j! ? let us have a chance at serving you? Z j J. W. McCUE \\ m 5? "THE QUALITY SHOP." "\$M ? 'Phone No. 32. Bamberg, S. 0. 4 ~f \ :;J| "Safe as the Safest" i BANK OF DENMARK, : : Denmark, S. C. ! J Did you ever stop to think that the substantial wealth of the majority of the rich people of the world has come through strict habits of SAVING? After they had worked hard for a DOLLAR they did not squander it, nor let it lie idle. They KEPT THE DOLLAR and made it WORK for them. .. Our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT offers YOU this opportunity. BY SAVING and by keeping every dollar you save AT WORK earning more dollars, YOU CAN SECURE WEALTH FOR YOURSELF. WE PAY FOUR PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS! Interest computed quarterly. October is the month to begin. Safety, Service and Protection is the pride of our cus' ill FOI 101 101 IE| |:J IF YOU WANT THE I BEST?j IF YOU WANT THE BEST IN W ATCHES, IF YOU WANT THE NEW MODELS, FRESH FROM THE FACTORIES, AND THE BEST WEARING CASES, YOU OUGHT TO BUY OF US, FOR THIS IS THE CLASS OF WATCHES WE HANDLE | -iff ' II WATCH COMES FROM II il? U i S. FINN'S Jewelry Store I EHRHARDT, S. C. ^ REMEMBER: You get for every 50c cash purchase a rj ticket, with a chance to win the Gold Watch. H 1 =0^J r ' 'fop trnv vr^rMtT Cnr l Tnr Cl THnV V/ ^A >UU I ntKi> JIAIC3 ^urrti vv;. H. L. HARVEY, President. Numbing Supplies OF ALL IGNDS^