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LIQUOR SHIPPING LAW. New Federal Statute Will Put C. O. D. Orders Under the Ban. .. Washington, D. C.. November 22. ?After January 1, express companies, railroad companies and other common carriers will be very careful about accepting liquor for shipment into prohibition States and local option counties where liquor is under the ban. In the act to codify, revise and amend the penal laws of the United Rtfttpn which becomes effective Jan. 1, there is a provision which imposes a fine of not more than $5,000 on any officer, agent or employe of any railroad, express company or other common carrier who knowingly "delivers to any person other than the*person to whom the liquor has been consigned, unless upon the written order in each instance of the bona fide consignee, in states where prohibition prevails." In addition to the fine, the offender may be imprisoned for not more than two years. The act also imposes a fine of not more than $5,000 if the liquor company, express company or other common carrier "or any other person collects the purchase price or any part thereof, before, on or after delivery from the consignee or from any other person, or shall in any way act as the agent of the buyer or seller of any liquor." And all liquor thus shipped intc prohibition states must be plainly markd with the name of the consignee, the nature of the contents oi the package and the quantity contained. A failure to do this makes the offender subject to a fine of not more than $5,000 and the liquor will be seized and condemned by the government. In the opinion of the law officers of the government, the amendment tc * * - ?.ill u tne penal coae wm mane euecuvt the state laws which prohibit the sale of liquors within the states that forbid the sale and manufacture of spirituous or malt liquors. Under exisiting conditions the laws are such that it is an easy matter to get liquor into states where it is forbidden by means of the interstate commerce law, as the police power ol the prohibition states is powerless tc stop railroad and express companies or other common carriers or persons from acting as agents for those who want liquor to sell on the quiet. There are now pending in the house and seaate bills to amend the interstate commerce law that have for their object the exclusion of liqor from the states where prohibition prevails, but it is said by the best lawyers in congress that it will not be necessary to enact further legislation. While the law does not make it obligatory on the government to notify the railroad companies, express companies or other common carriers, it is not improbable that circulars containing excerpts of the i new law will be forwarded to the Interested parties. Reports of the various state temperance associations ' intend, it is said, to keep a careful watch on the express companies and ( railroads to see that the law is not violated. Southern Loses Case. Bamberg, S- C., Nov. 19.?A ver diet against the Southern Railway company for $475.00 was given to J. A. Tant by the jury in the court of common pleas here yesterday morning. The evidence showed as follows: Mr. Tant went to the station at Fort Motte and asked for a ticket to Denmark. The agent replied that l be did not have any tickets at that ' time but that he Vould see the conductor on the train and tell him not f to charge Mr. Tant but one dollar, the regular fare from Fort Motte to Denmark. Mr. Tant boarded the train and went well until he was on the train between B ranchville and Bamberg, he having changed trains ( at the former place. When he reached Bamberg the conductor told him that he must pay the fare to Denmark, but Mr. Tant having paid the conductor on the Columbia division his one dollar, had only thirty-five cents left and consequently did not have enough to pay the difference to Denmark. He was put off at Bamberg and aside from the great inconvenience he was sick and without money. He waited here until the next day when he borrowed enough money to carry him on to his home in Denmark. The case will .very likely be ap pealed. " Talks of Rich Man's Duty. New York, Nov. 21.?The pastor of the well-to-do Collegiate Baptist church of the . Covenant astonished his comfortable congregation tonight by. a declaration- concerning what rich men should do. i '-'The intellectual gymnastics," I said the Rev. Dr. Haywood, "of the average New York preacher when confronted with the text, 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven," are pitiable. "I am perhaps the largest property holder here tonight, but I deny the right of any man to exploit the land f while there are hungry stomachs to j fill. I let my property to tenants for just as little as will pay taxes and the expenses of one girl whom I am putting through college. "I have known but two religous men in my life. One is dead and the other is on the Bowery. He has given millions to the poor and he lives the life of a day laborer. There is stamped on the face of Eads Howe, sometimes called the millionaire . hobo, more world wisdom, more saintliness, than on any other face I ever saw." Dies as Result of Fall. Greenville, November 1 9.?Walter Smith, an employe of the Poe mill, died to-day as the result of an injury he received Saturday night in falling I off a street car. He attempted to get off while the car was in motion and was thrown to the ground, sustaining the injuries from which death resulted. Smith was 28 years old and leaves a wife but no children. His body was carried to Lowell, N. C. CYCLIST CHASED BY ELEPHANTS They Gave Him a Lively Ride When He Ran Into a Baby of the Herd. Cycling in Rhodesia occasionally has "the charm of adventure?if there is much charm in the excitement of the chase when the chased is the human rider. A cyclist who was riding from ! Broken Hill to Ndala on the edge of . a bush clearing almost ran into the hindquarters of a baby elephant? half a score hands high. "Vopv lilrolv T npvpr e'nt off m V bike so quickly before, and I suppose both of us looked rather bamboozled. My new acquaintance gave . me a long, doubtful look and, scream? ing, ran toward home or rather an . old tusker and three cows browsing . on the opposite end of the glade," he said in telling of his adventure. "In wonderment I stood rooted to the spot. The wind was blowing toward me, and the bull, a magnificent monster, swung his trunk to and fro through the air to smell me out. It appears that elephants ^cannot see very far; besides, the sun was right against them. As soon as the now whimpering youngster arrived by his protectors they fumbled with their trunks all over him to find out what was wrong, uttering the while a curious rumbling noise through the long nostril. "By this time I thought it was : time to return. In swinging my ( cycle around some dry twigs broke p under me with sharp cracks. xne puzzled bull stood for a moment moi tionless, with his huge ears extended ; like some topgallant sails; then, as | he heard the chink of metal through . my mounting the bike, the huge ani[ mal lurched forward with a grunt that rumbled as distant thunder down his big trunk. - "I waited no longer, but pedalled ' for dear life, and wonder even now | how I dodged the many obstacles on [ the 12 foot path. "Behind me came a crashing of ; trees. I did not look back, but put ; on, as it were, more steam, until, after a retreat of some four miles, 1 hearing nothing more, I nearly came a neat cropper over an ancient tree stnmp. ! "Still a trifle flurried, I dismounted, but except the sighing of the \ forest and the buzzing of tsetse flies there was no other sound. A few [ miles behind my carriers came bel' lowing along with their peculiar ; swinging gait. As I believed a yarn ; of those elephants might frighten | them further, mum was the word. ; However, I halted them on pretence of desiring a rest, and after an | hour's delay we all started once : more. My cycle enabled me to scout | cautiously in advance, but as I ex' pected the elephants had gone to some more sequestered sylvan retreat and nothing more was seen of fVinrvi ' ' "D V* Afii n T_T A*?O 1 /I iviiuucdia xiciaiu. I m Shall We Sell Hay or Feed It? I do not think that for the average . farmer it is wise to sell hay off the farm. Much, however, depends on the condition of a man's land. Of the deep peaty soils of the reclaimed swamp land of the coastal sections I believe that a farmer could profitably sefl peavine hay at $15 a ton, if he will invest the money largely in phosphate and potash that his soil especially needs. This soil has a great deal of potential nitrogen and the pea roots will give him more. But on the sandy cotton soils it is not wise to sell hay. But no matter how impecunious the farmer is, if he has a fine crop of peavine hay he can very rapidly increase hjs stock of cattle if he sells some of the hay and invests the money in stock to eat the remainder, and in this way can soon get stock enough to consume all he can grow. But the difficulty with the average farmer is that he will sell the hay and put the money in his pocket and let the land suffer. It does look like waste to let a crop of peas remain on the land when a profit coul be made from their sale as hay, or a profit for the farm in feeding the hay. But what we are trying do is to convince the farmer that good systematic farming and stock feeding will pay him and improve his farm. The haphazard sort ui iuijvo uuiuuuuaici) liuuiciuuo, and are always looking for some one crop that they can plant and make money out of, and trying to abandon the crops that they could make profitable if they would stick to a regular system and farm. It is well enough to tell these men that it will improve their land to let the peas remain on it, but with hay at $15 a ton they are not going to do it, though they might get the market value by feeding it, and have the manure as a profit. The hope of the South is in the young men who are getting better ideas about farming. I believe it is perfectly possible for a man to improve his farm and make money selling peavine hay if he farms in a good rotation and supplies the land liberally with phosphoric acid and potash. But few will do it and will run their land down by selling hay, and certainly the best way to improve the farm is to feed all the roughage grown on it, and any man can gradually build up a herd of cattle if he will try. In fact, on many Southern farms I believe that stock raising would be the most profitable industry. ? Progressive Farmer. Swindlers in Eastover. Eastover, Nov. 21.?For the past few days tnere nas oeen a swinaier in the community . A white man has been canvassing the county under the name of agent for a certain sick benefit society. He would approach a person, generally a negro, and interest him in the subject. Then he would win his point by saying, "You know Mr. T. H. Auld, of Eastover, don't you? Well, he is general agent for the company in all this Mower Richland county. Now vou give me $1 and I'll give you my receipt and you take it to Mr. Auld and he'll issue you the policy." Several persons fell for this game and now are bemoaning the loss of their dollars. Let us measure you for a famous Racycle bicycle, the best on earth. SIMMONS HARDWARE CO. % MODERN PIED PIPER. Smithsonian Institution Mysteriously Ridded of Rats. About forty-five years ago the Smithsonian institution was infested with rats; nothing in the building seemed to be rat proof. They ate skins cured with ansenical soap, or in his home during the day, Prof. Henry's pantry without discrimination. Every one in the city, from Prof. Henry to the bootblacks, had one subject in common, and that was "rats." As Prof. Henry, who lived in the east end of the building, was listening to an account of the ruin wrought in his home during the day. Prof. Spencer Baird walked in and said, just as if he had been following every word of the family conversation, "I have just been told that there is a man in Philadelphia who can rid this place of rats!" Prnf Wanrv's pvps pvnrpflspd est and incredulity at the same moment. "I have his address here," went on the assistant secretary. "He calls himself the 'Rat King,' and won't take a cent if a rat remains and has?" "We'll send for him if it takes our last thousand cents to do it!" said Prof. Henry, and laughingly predicted the repetition of of the famous old tale of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin." Several days later the "rat king" appeared in Washington. He was almost as short as he was.broad, and wore clothes too loose for the description; they had no shape. He carried a large oilcloth sack and a covered basket. His penetrating blue eyes were almost covered by shaggy eyebrows and his blond hair had not been cut but haggled. His manner was short and brisk, and he went straight tc the point, talking tc Prof. Henry in German. He declared that not a rat would be in the building three days hence if Vila HirQAfiriTiC! nroro UIO uil tviivuo \J VJ UJ VU. L/UilU^ that time he would stay in the basement alone, every door was to be locked, and on no account was he tc be disturbed until he gave them the signal. So they left him in absolute darkness and carried out his directions. On Sunday morning the queer old man emerged from the darkness, sc [confident of his success that he refused to accept the money which was his due then and there, but insisted that Prof. Henry mail the check tc him in Philadelphia the following week. "Now, you can leave your food in the basement and it won't be touched! And I won't take a cent if you are troubled with rats," were his parting words. Cheese and cake were directly placed about the building to tempt the rats. Morning after morning they were found as they had been left, and from that day to this the Smithsonian Institute has never been seriously troubled with rats. And no one has ever found out the secret of the "rat king's" method.? Youth's Companion. It Pays to Buy for Cash. There is probably no part of their business in which the farmers of the South have suffered more severely than in their failure to pay the cash down at the time purchases are made. The credit system is so fastened upon us and has become such a large and important part of our whole business system that many farmers will feel that they must continue to buy on credit a large part of the year; but this buying on credit will have to be stopped before we shall ever buy to the best advantage. The man who buys for cash is entitled to and receives exemption from those charges which are legitimately a part of the selling price of goods sold on time, These are extra cost for book-keeping and collecting; the amounts necessary to reimburse the merchants on the accounts of those who never pay; and the interest on the amouait of the purchases for the time for which credit is extended. These are fixed charges on the credit system and so long as we permit these extra charges to be added to our purchases we can never buy to the best advantage. There are several ways by which these useless charges connected with buying on credit are avoided. By the practice of extreme economy for one or two years some are able to so "catch up" financially as to enable them to afterwards pay cash for the things purchased. This is a heroic method, but if none other is possible, the suffering and inconvenience which it brings are probably justified by the advantages resulting from buying only for cash. Others nave iouna it economical to Dorrow and pay interest on the necessary money to pay cash for the things which must be purchased, find that the interest charges on the borrowed money are less than those against purchases made on credit. The most promising method for generally avoiding the buying of supplies on credit is, probably, a diversification of crops, which will not only lessen the amounts needed to pay for necessary purchases, and distribute them throughout the year because of the better distribution of labor, but will also afford products for marketing at all seasons. The making of purchases on credit is much easier avoided when farm products are available for marketing at all times than when only one crop like cotton is sold, and that only during the last two or three months of the year. The dairyman, the hog raiser, the grower of truck crops, because the selling, like the buying, is distributed throughout the whole year.?Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer. Young Girls are Victims of headache, as well as older women, but all get quick relief and prompt cure from Dr. King's New Life Pills, the world's best remedy for sick and nervous headches. They make pure blood, and strong nerves and build up your health. Try them. 25c at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Full line sausage mills, stuffers, and lard presses at Simmons Hardware Co. . i THE WEALTH FINDERS. Many of Them Have Died in Wretched Poverty. Recent dispatches from Colorado Springs carried the announcement of the death of Bob Womack, a man dependent on charity. Recently, also, the cable from Melbourne told that Francis Webster had died in the poor house at Ballirat, Australia. What doth it profit a man if he find great wealth and if the find wreck his life? Life must have been one continual tragedy for Bob Womack, as when doing odd chores around his sister's boarding house he looked out over the great Cripple Creek gold fields, which he had discovered and which have become the source of $250,000,000 of the world's gold. Yet he sold his life?and the find was his life?for $300. And as old Francis ' Webster sat idly in the Ballarat benevolent asylum he looked over on that famous south hill out of which 1 he had lifted boulders of pure gold such as the world had never dreamed of even in fiction. The "Welcome Nugget" alone weighed 165 pounds avoirdupois. Both these men had dreamed of great valleys of gold, but certainly their dreams were nothing to compare with the gold they enabled others to find. First they dreamed of gold and all of the remainder of their lives they dreamed of what they had lost. There often is a distressing connecting link between great, sudden wealth and the poor house. The death of these two men on opposite sides of the earth coming so close together serves to recall the uncertainty of windfall riches. Three years ago William Deeson 1 died in an Australian poor nouse. ' His name will always be known in mining history, for he lifted out of I mother earth the greatest lump of gold that she has ever yielded. It : was 210 pounds of gold, so pure that it "cut like a Cheshire cheese.' With the possible exception of the i Witwatersand probably no other - small area has ever produced wealth equal to that which Comstock lode has yielded, yet Patrick McLaughlin and Peter O'Riley died paupers?Mcl Laughlin filling a pauper grave, and ? O'Riley wearing out his disappointed life prospecting alone. And Henry s Comstock, beggared, and suffering I from delusion, ended his miserable ? life with a bullet. ; So the tragedies of lives not molded to enjoy or to be cursed with great l wealth might be enumerated almost without limit. The tragedies have by i no means been limited to precious s metals or to individuals. The finding of the land, and the greatest ' gold deposit the world has ever ; known, lost the Boers their nation; ; the child of Schalk Van Niekirk, i that one day happened to carry one of ! the shining pebbles from the Orange i river up to the house, where it was 1 rolled around as a marble until its sparkle opened the greatest diamond fields in the history of the world, is , a poor wanderer on the face of the globe today while the find even robbed the Van Niekirds of their hum, ble home. The tragedy of the negro shepherd ; who found the great Behia diamond fields is only equalled by the tragedy of the convict that discovered gold in Australia. The former, when he ofincnontinn 4 5fl ftOO r?f JJS IU1CU 1V1 XUi?|/V\/i.iVU ^ V u;v v V v* ? ? pure gems as the world has ever seen, was arrested and returned to ; his master under severe punishment and suspicion, while the diamonds were confiscated.* But the poor New ' South Wales convict that brought in the small nugget that was the open sesame to fields that have yielded $2,500,000,000 of gold, suffered not 1 only loss of the nugget, but-commitment to hard labor and 150 stripes ; "laid on" for having "melted down the case of a stolen gold watch." ?Indianapolis News. , TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, i 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 Mar A, 1910, until the 15 th day of March, 1910, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. 'THE LEVY. For State purposes 5*4 mills For county purposes, 3^4 mills Constitutional school tax,..3 mills Total HVz 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 Heyward, 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. CapitatiOD 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 one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor are requested to do so on or before 1st of January, 1910, and thereby save the penalty and costs. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1909, until the 1st day of March, 1910. JOHN F. FOLK. Treasurer Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. O., Sept. 30, 1909. I Still in the Lead! 1 2k We will receive Monday, the 22nd, another car load of ^ *5? Horses and Mules. This lot of stock is now being pur- a? ? chased in the market by our Mr. W. P. Jones, and they V at We are handling lots of stock these days, and there is a X 1 Bngges^arriag 1 yy 1C9) iUlU nc tan sui t pitaot j v/u vu auj at utit ui uiu ^ line. Give us a chanca to "show you." : : : : : . A I JONES BROS. I a Bamberg, South Carolina a :ii a-a? il? a? -:l; i I? a? Oi ill a- 0? ilitl; C? $ I Let us have your next order for groceries ]| J1 ft We know we can please you in both quality and price, i ^ /gjajja U? for we keep right up with the best markets and when ? . g i y.|^ V there is anything good in eatables to be had, we get it. . * >| ft Our stock is always new and fresh, for we are constant- ? ly getting in new goods. No stale groceries are sent out of this store. ** OUR TOOTHSOME DELICACIES 3* t ? will make you a regular patron of ours if you will try us V ?? once. Let us have your next order. You will find us jfl, V ? prompt and reliable, and if anything we send you does 3! I ? not prove to be exactly right, let us know. We will be ? * ? ? glad to adjust anything to your satisfaction. Won't you i 2. ?||| I! ? let us have a chance at serving you? I ' jg J. W. McCUE jltl t!? "THE QUALITY SHOP." v H ?? 'Phone No. 32. Bamberg, S. C. i il? il j il*' il ? il ? ill* ?1? il ? il? tl? il ? il? ?I? ilHl? il j il; tl; il? il? il? ip j| "Safe as the Safest" J| BANK OF DENMARK, : : Denmark, S. C. 3f| Did you ever stop to think that the substantial wealth of the majority of the rich people of the world has come through strict v 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. I BY SAVIN ti ana Dy Keeping every aoiiar yon save ax wuna m earning more dollars, YOU CAN SECURE WEALTH FOR YOUR- I SELF. I WE PAY FOUR PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS DE- I POSITS! Interest computed quarterly. October is the month to I begin. Safety, Service and Protection is the pride of our ens tomers. u :!?-I?-Iia--Ij-I--:I--I-?I- !?C?g? M A Sick Watch!!! ! $ \\9m f ' -": 1: : '' I^P TURING in your sick watches NOW. A | ^ .ill ??? D few weeks later we will be busy. So * t busv that we cannot turn out repair work. . m i* * " . *y .' J; If you, have a disabled time piece, or some J Jj Jewelry you want fixed up, bring it to us * 3? now, so that we can get it ready for you i f ti ? j 1 g before our busy season is on. .*. ' % I M # ii St? Z T &::.>?& ?? a 4* , *i -W TJT ? * ;M IS. FINN'S Jewelry Store]; EHRHARDT, S. G. ? REMEMBER: You get for every 50c cash purchase a ? ? Al ticket, with a chance to win the Gold Watch. * I? _ ^ 5 ' Southern States Supply Co. H. L. HARVEY, President. ' .? Plumbing Supplies j of all kinds i 810 to 848 Gervais St. Columbia, South Carolina . >> ' ' . 'i ...