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NEGRO SUSPECT ARRESTED. I May Know Something About Murder of Dr. Hickman. Augusta, Ga., April 2.?A negro, James Mathis, is in the custody of the police to-night, held because it is ^ suspected that he has knowledge of the assassination, in February, of Dr. C. W. Hickman. The negro today went into the pawnshop of Max Tunkle, on upper Broad street, and offered to pawn a watch. The clerk to whom he applied for the loan, when he saw the watch and appreci7 ated that it was a valuable timepiece, made an investigation. He says he compared it with the numbers given as the numbers on the watch Dr. Hickman had on at the time of the murder, which has been missing since the murder, and he told the i newspaper reporters to-night that the numbers corresponded. The negro was gotten to the police barracks as quickly as possible. He is there under a sweating process at the hands of the chief and his lieutenant. The officers refuse to let reporters interview the prisoner, and also refuse to make any statment for publication at this time. " l Bamberg Must Have Road. ; i The Bamberg correspondent of The State writes as follows of the railroad situation here: Bamberg, April 2.?The question * of extending the railroad from Ehrhardt to this point is assuming proportions of interesting size. Bamberg is out to win the fight for the road if it is to be built and that it will be built is felt certain. A letter * 'v has been received from a prominent citizen of Orangeburg which shows the attitude towards the project as viewed in that city. They state that they are ready and able to co-operate Wltn tne Citizens OI cms tviuiuuuii,; in having the road built and are ready to send a committee to confer with a like committee from Bamc berg, which two committees will confer with the people of the Ehrhardt section. The fact that the cham' bers of commerce of Augusta, Columbia and other cities are looking at the scheme with so much favor, leads one to the conclusion that the Atlantic Coast Line road or some other road will take up the work in the near future. This road would open up a section badly bottled up at present The people of Bamberg are in earnest about the matter. One prominent gentleman of this community has offered to give his certified check for $1,500 if the road is brought here, and says that he will give twice as much as as any other man tor the . building of the road. There are others here who think very much like i?i? man and Are willine to ' bring I out the cash for the upbuilding of the town. ^ . There has been something like $25,000 spent for automobiles in this town during the past 18 months. It * is believed that fully that amount could be obtained for more permanent investments here, such as the railroad. In fact three years ago [ stock for such a road as is now pro" posed was subscribed to the amount of $15,000. Bamberg wants the road and will have it if it is to be built. "Commission" Won in Columbia, j Columbia, April 2.?By a vote of 1,310 to 68, Columbia, to-day adopt> ed the commission form of government. The result was not unexpect' ed, but the very large majority is re* garded favorably by the earnest advocates of the system. The vote was as follows: , For Against Ward 1 323 11 ? - ? OAA 1A wara z omv *v Ward 3 280 7 Ward 4 352 9 "Ward 5 55 31 Columbia will do away with the old system, consisting of a Mayor, elected at large, and fifteen aldermen, elected three from each of the five wards, and will substitute a * mayor anr four councilmen all elected at large. After election the five ? departments of the city government will be assigned by the mayor each to one of the five memebers of council, including the mayor, who shall respectively be responsible for his own department. The mayor is to receive a salary of $2,500 per year, and each of the councilmen $2,000. * The terms of office are four years, all appointments to city offices are to be made by council from a civil ^ service list, prepared by a civil service commission after proper qualifications. Heavy penalties are provided for promising or giving jobs or money for political service, before or after any election. F. S. Earle, a former mayor, and TTT tr niHhoa nniintv Auditor are candidates for mayor. Some youngsters we suppose amused themselves last Thursday night by changing some of the signs around town. |* SMALL GIRL WOUNDED. Little Mary Connor, of McCormic, Accidentally Shot. McCormic, April 3.?Mary Connor, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Connor, was accidentally shot and seriously wounded Friday by a school mate, Wyatt Chamberlain, while on a walk on the outskirts of the town. j Miss Lucile Conner, one of the | high school teachers, at the request of some of the pupils of the sixth and seventh grades, consented to chap eron mem. me party wnicn sue chaperoned consisted of girls from these grades and a few girls from the fifth, one of whom was May Connor. They went to a nearby creek for an afternoon of pleasure. While at the creek they were approached by four of the boys of the school, who had a gun with them. On the return trip, the supposedly empty gun was fired, in some unknown way, the whole load taking effect in the little girl's thigh. Drs. Jennings and Mattison made a thorough diagnosis of the wound and decided to carry her to Augusta to the hospital for immediate attention. Dr. R. F. Jennings, the attending physician accompanied her to Augusta yesterday morning. Senate Digs Into Scandal. Jackson, Miss., April 1.?The Mississippi senate delved deep into the affairs of State Senator Theodore Bilbo to-day. Continuing their investigation of his alleged bribery at the hands of L. C. Dulaney, the Delta planter, and former member of the legislature, his fellow legislators had Filbo relate, first, the circumstances of a visit he is said to have made to a questionable resort in the hope of meeting Dulaney and arranging the preliminaries of the vote sale. This occupied the morning session. In the afternoon Senator Letwich, acting as cross-examiner, went back to Bilbo's college days and asked if it were not true that he was expelled from a university for cheating at an examination. The charge had been preferred, Bilbo explained, but he was exonerated. The witness admitted that at one time he was charged with the embezzlement of small amounts but subsequently the charge was withdrawn. The questioning finally drifted to legislation in which Bilbo has taken a more or less prominent part, but without the development of material facts. The senate was in session again to-night behind locked doors. Orangeburg Mill Shuts Down. When the present stock is worked up at the cotton mill of the Orangeburg Mfg. Co., the announcement is given out that the mill will be closed down for six weeks, and perhaps longer, all depending on the price of the staple, and the price of the manufactured article, it is stated that there is a loss to the mill of $15 per bale, and the mill has been orJ ^ J 4/v AI/vma O m K/jtfoi* UCICU IV UUOC UUUI I.UV1V mv uvv?v> prospects in view. Col. W. G. Smith has just returned from a trip to the north, and in comment on the situation he states that he has never before seen anything to equal the present situation in the mill business. Col. Smith, who is president of the Orangeburg Mfg. Co., has been in the mill business for thirty years, and has passed through several panics, but never before has the situation been so acute as the present. Col. Smith has at all times hiterto been able to keep his mills in operation, at least for a portion of every week, but for a full shut down, he has never yet been compelled to resort. Cotton is now being sold the mills for prices above 15 cents, and it is truly in the hands of the speculators, and in the words of Col. Smith, the manipulators are "killing the goose which laid the golden egg." Other mills in the South are in the same predicament as the local mill finds itself, and on his return from the North, Col. Smith visited several of the up country mill towns and at one mill he found a stock of 5,000 bales of cloth manufactured at a loss of $15 per bale. For this reason the president and directors of the local mill have decided to shut down for the present at least, and they will not again begin operation until the price of the manufactured article takes an advance in price, or cotton drops somewhat in price. The Orange Mills, the yarn mill located here, has been shut down for a week or more now, but this has been for the purpose of installing a new engine. As soon as this work has been completed, the mill is expected to begin operations again, hut will probably run on short time. The price of yarn manuractured by this mill, has not made any advance, either, and the mill while it is able to continue running, is not making any money, it is stated.? Orangeburg Evening News. % MANY IDLE SPINDLES. Greatest Curtailment Known is Now in Progress. Boston, Mass., March 30.?Fifty per cent, of the spindles in Southern cotton mills are idle, according to statistics which have been assembled by the American Wool and Cotton Reporter. The figures show that the curtailment now in progress, not only in the South, but in all sections of the country, both North and South, is more extensive and drastic than has ever been known in the history or tne trade, even taking into consideration the panic year of 1907. The greatest curtailment comes among the yarn mills, although restriction of production among weaving mills is greater than ever% before. Mill after mill is closing down entirely until new cotton arrives or market conditions improve, while with the majority of others the amount of curtailment varies from 20 to 100 per. cent, with many mills running on orders only. The followingfl are the percentages of spindles idle by States: Alabama 36 per cent; South Carolina 31; North Carolina 49; Georgia 80; Tennessee 80; Virginia 60; Mississippi 63. Figures for the New England states have not been completed. The Boy Who is Most to be Pitied. The very reading of the title suggests the little fellow of the street, who is knocked about and cuffed at the place he calls home, and is dirty and unkempt and untaught. But?is he the most to be pitied, after all? A successful Dusiness man was talking frankly the other day to a visitor. This business man had accumulated money in abundance. But he leaned over his desk a weary, heart-heavy man. To the visitor he frankly confided that his older son had gone wild; and then he said: "And there is my other boy, now sixteen. Only a few dayB ago a friend warned me that this boy was going with a wild crowd. Whereupon I put down the names of the boys he was going with, and I find that the crowd is made up of a minister's son, a merchant's son, a phyclan's son?each man standing at the very head of his group in the city. If those boys are not fit chums for my boy, where on earth will I find fit chums?" Ad the great body trembled and the eyes filled with tears. Mark it: This was not a gang of friendless street boys, but a group of wealthy boys. And two nights late the same visitor sat in the home of one of the boys mentioned. The telephone bell rang, the boy was called to the instrument, and accepted an appointment to go to the theatre with a chum, who should call for him in his automobile. The boy was fifteen years old. No word was offered to the parents to to tell them even of his destination, and they asked for no information aside from that they heard from the telephone conversation. What a harvest there will De irom that sowing! A wealthy boy of that type has not even a fighting chance to come out all right Pity the street boy, we may, but, at least, he early learns something of the art of selfpreservation, and it often pulls him through. Not so with the pampered wealthy boy. Money buys his way everywhere?why should he be anxioua about the future? If he wants anything, he gets it. Can there be any more mischievous preparation for life? While the Church is awakening to the needs of the boy on the street, let us not forget the needs of the wealthy man's son, when that son is unwisely pampered and spoiled. He, too needs a friend that will save him from his folly.?Sunday-School Magazine. Asylum Committee Appointed. Columbia, April 1.?Dr. J. W. Babcock, superintendent of the State HosDital for the Insane; Dr. Robert Wilson, Jr., chairman of the state board of health; Judge R. O. Purdy, Dr. Geo. Cromer, a well known educator, and Leroy Springs, a successful financier, were to-day appointed by Gov. Ansel as members of the commission provided for by a resolution of the last general assembly to purchase lands and erect buildings to relieve the congested conditions at the State Hospital for the Insane. The commission is authorized to borrow $ 100,000 for the State to carry on the work. The commission is to receive $5 a day and expenses while engaged in the work. The commission will report the results of its work to the next general assembly ?' ' J ?Vl-V 4V1M Tne resolution unuer wmcu tma commission was appointed was a compromise between the minority and the majority report of the asylum investigating committee. We never did like this idea of going hungry in order to help those who are suffering because of their own Ignorance. LAWYER'S PHONEY FEE. Bank Cashier and Treasury Experts Took ir as Good. A noted lawyer of one of the Southern States, famous not only for his brilliant mind and legal ability, but also for his rigid code of honesty, used to tell this story on himself, says The New York Herald. Soon after the civil war the judge was called on to defend a man accused o? passing counterfeit money. The old lawyer after investigating the matter and satisfying himself thfcs the man was innocent of any intent to do wrong and had only paid out money which he had received in good faith, undertook the case. When the case came up for trial the jury was so impressed by the Judge's plea for his client and his explanation of the circumstances that a verdict of not guilty was rendered without delay. The acquitted man was very grateful to the Judge, and after thanking him profusely for getting him out of the ugly scrape, said: "Judge, I'll never forget what you've done for me, and some day I hope to be able to prove my gratitude; but the only thing I can do now is to pay your fee, and I'll pay whatever you ask. How much it is?" "Well, I think about $1,000 will be fair," replied the judge. "That's fair enough, sir," agreed the client, "but, judge the only money I've got is the same kind of money that I have just been prosecuted for spending. Some of that money is , good and some of it is the counterfeit that was worked ofT on me, and I don't know t'other from which. Now, I will pay you $1,500 in the bills that I have got and you do the best you can with it." As there seemed nothing else to do, the judge agreed to this, and the client paid him $1,500 in bills and left him. The judge took the $1,500 to his bank and explained the circumstances to the cashier and asked him to take out the bills which he as an expert pronounced good. The cashier did so, and the judge deposited the accepted bills to his credit, and then taking the package of doubtful money to another bank he made the same explanation and request of the cashier, the bank receiving on deposit the money, which, as experts, they pronounced good. "And do you know," said the Judge, "after I had visited six banks I had got rid of all the money except five $20 bills, which all the banks had agreed were counterfeit, and my fee in the case instead of being the $1,000 which I originally charged the man netted me $1,400, and I've always had a suspicion that if there had been a few more experts in the town I would have got rid of those last five $20 bills." "What became of the five bad twenties?" some one asked the judge. "I'm not sure," replied the old lawyer. "My wife asked me for them and shortly afterward she made a trip to Washington. When she returned she showed me a brand new hundred dollar bill, which she said she had got at the United States treasury?but I never asked her any questions. I knew the treasury department had experts, too." Took the Wrong Bottle. Danville, Va., March 30.?As a result of mistaking a bottle of carbolic acid for whiskey, J. Luther Abbott, a clerk in a tobacco ware house here, killed himself this afternoon at a house in the Craighead street section. Abbott had a bottle of whiskey on a bureau and beside it was anhnftle labelled whiskev. but containing the poison which he drank He died in terrible agony in thirty minutes. Abbott was thirty-two years old, and leaves a widow and two children. i Showing the Right Spirit. How earnestly the need of a railroad from Bamberg to Ehrhardt is felt is illustrated by the remark of a "prominent business man" to The Bamberg Herald that "he will give $1,500 to get the new railroad"?and he does not mean that he will subscribe for stock of that amount, but will make a donation outright of the sum. This gentleman, so The Herald says, goes further and declares that he will give twice as much as any other man in Bamberg to get the road. The distance from Bamberg to Ehrhardt is 16 miles and if the gentleman quoted by The Herald is representative of the prevailing senti ment about the undertaking, the road will be built. It ought to be built. This section of the country that it would penetrate is too fertile and it is inhabited by people too intelligent and progressive to remain isolated. ?Columbia State. Perhaps they call it "revision downward" because our chance of getting justice from the trust is made smaller. , ' M IOT~~K II Reckling is I UW. A. RECKLING, the famou Columbia is coming to Bamberj and his dates are THURSDAY, FRIDAY, April 14th, 15th, aid Everybody in this part of the fine work Reckling does, but ss are now on exhibition at The I I Call and see what really fine v | prices are reasonable, too. He will be located in the galle building, on Bamberg Street, I three days, THURSDAY, PRH J DAY, APRIL 14th, 15th, and 1< 1 portunity to get fine photograpl wife or baby, or other member get him to do your work while 1 be a long time before you agai , tonity of getting such high-grat M Remember he will be here for Vfrl??101?1< n~ v?. i $uu iuu Line in it it !! I \ and Most' Stylish Mitt Novelties, Silks, and B least money. Call c 15 | i are better prepared t< $ than ever. :: i tt II MRS. K. I. SHU :: BAMBERG, S. immmmmmmm ! JNO. W. is Thanking you for past fa | s like to call your attention i || I have just received a fr 1 HEINZ'S FOOD PRODUCTS, En rLAtidavi DAOa {not flia fhinnp fnr ra vrcuuou * ocw) j uov vuw uiimg xua || Try "Gold Crest" Coffee. ] || a delicious flavor that will | || fastidious. Primentos, Ci || and Salad Dressings alwaj IfJNO. W. A | j "The Quality Store." 'Phonei Is Isolation a Bun 1 The telephone makes th large family for business and s aids in church work and sun neighbors to social gatherings, the Bell System enables you tc most anywhere without leaving Write to nearest Bell Tele address 1 Farmers' line Departm< SOUTHERN BOL TEL ANB TEL C*. 108 SOUTH PRYOB STRUT, ATU ?=M^ Cornel j 5 photographer of r to do some work, JJ , I SATURDAY | m >? ? ? 4> A loth, mU S W State knows what imples of his work lerald Book Store, rork he does. His II t 'V? ry in the telephone lamberg, S. C., for )AT, and SATXJE- ._:M 5th. This is an op- i is of yourself, your 1 s of the family, so le is here, as it will in have the oppor- i| le work as he does. , three days only, If >E=0^ . . m i q? q a? m ti? a? txi a? o .f e Kretbest] m inery, Dress ? v!^ at the very j? n us. We > please you {} i i 5 f : i ^ . .v*3? ?> CKSC0.il c H .31 it imuiaaiaicaiicaiffl AcCUE'I tvors, I would X ;o the fact that X esh supply of X , String Beans and 8 a "hurry dinner." fi is rnilrT wifTi IB . MM jlease the most ? rabs, Shrimps, R '-'Ssp / cm rs on hand. ffi IcCUEl 32. Bamberg, 8.0. g Remove It! | e community one ocial purposes. It imons friends and Connection with ) reach anybody al- I * your home. I phone Manager,or I . S OF vnuam 1 i MTA.GA. ^ Jj/ x ' . , K< , . -J > .'. . :?0 .'* V H-XkH- . iJi': -Jlt&U