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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. * ?J. F. Carter, Esq., spent Tuesday in Orangeburg. ?Mr. J. E. Felder, of Ehrhardt, spent Sunday in the city. ?Mr. J. W. Pearlstin, of Olar. spent Sunday in the city. ?The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Brabham is quite ill. ?Mrs." L. R. Sease is visiting relatives in Orangeburg this week. ?Mr. C. Berghaus, of Orangeburg, was in the city Monday morning. ?Mr. A. D. Pearson, of Denmark, spent last Friday in the city. ?Mr. A. D. Williams, of the Olar section, was in the kity last Friday. ?Mr. F. E. Copeland, of the Ehrhardt section, was in the city yesterday. ?Mr. J. C. Moye, of Ehrhardt, spent Sunday in the city with his * family. ?Mr. Will Edwards, of Columbia, spent Sunday in the city with relatives. ?Mr. C. F. Rizer, of Olar, was in the city Tuesday to attend the oil mill meeting. ?Mr. G. A. Lucas and daughter, of Aiken, spent several days in the city this week. ?Rev. S. W. Danner spent a fewdays in the city last week on a visit to friends. > / / ?Mr. W. P. Sandifer, of the Denmark section, was in the city last Saturday. m r* TTfVn hoc Airs. 1. ?jr. nci uci i, r? uu been right sick for some days, is \ much better. ?Mr. Ira Cope, who is now in the navy, is in the city this week on a visit to relatives. :?Mrs. J. E. Felder, of Ehrhardt. is spending the week in the city on a visit to relatives. ?Mrs. M. E. Edwards, of Lawtey, Fla., spent Sunday in the city with her sister, Mrs. G. W. Garland. ?Mr. Miles McSweeney, of Hampton, spent several days in the city last week on a visit to Mr. J. J. Jones. ?Miss Mabel Simmons, of Branchville, spent several days here this and last week on a visit to relatives and friends. ?Mr: Henry Stokes, who came \ home some weeks ago from Clemson College, sick is improving, and is now able to ride out. -^-Solicitor James F. Byrnes, of Aiken, spent last Wednesday in the city and attended the memorial meeting at Rivers' Bridge on Thursday. ?Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Still, of Blackville, spent several days in the city last week on a visit to the family of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Folk. ?Col. W. G. Smith, of Orangeburg, spent last Thursday in the city. The Colonel was looking well, and his many friends in Bamberg were glad to see him again. ?Mr. Wesley Crum has gone to Columbia to stand the examination before the State Supreme Court for admission to the bar. He will likely locate in Bamberg for the practice of his profession. ?Messrs. H. H. Copeland and J. H. McGowan, of this city, and Mr. * Wesley Crum, of Denmark,'accompanied Mr. J. D. Copeland, Jr., to Como, Miss., last week, to be present at his marriage. ?Hon. C. W. Garris, of Denmark, was in the city. last Saturday. He > says his race for congress is coming on all right, and he is prepared to tell the voters some interesting things . when he takes the stump. ?Mr. W. M. Ellison, of Honea Path, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Ellison was looking for a location for a wholesale business, and was favor ably impressed with the advantages of Bamberg. We have plenty Qf room for new enterprises and good citizens, and they will be welcomed. Loses an Arm. Branchville, May 3.?This morning about 9 o'clock Emerson Dukes, who was employed at the lumber plant of Sabin & Morrison as sawyer, struck . his right arm against the saw and got it cut off just below the elbow. Mr. Dukes was immediately taken to the office of Dr. Parker for treat< ment. Here Dr. Parker, together ' with the assistance of Drs. Fairey and Wimberlv, amputated the arm at the elbow joint. The wounded man is resting as well as could be expected, though he seems to be in considerable pain. The following which seems to cover the whole field of ideal conduct, is credited to Abraham Lincoln: "I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man who lives in it live so'that his place will be proud of him. Be honest, but hate no one, overturn a man's WTong doing, but do not overturn him unless it must be done in overturning the wrong. Stand with any> body that stands right. Stand with him when he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." 9 r-- . LOCAL OPTIONIST WINS. Emmett A. O'Neal Nominated for ] Governor. Montgomery, Ala., May 2.?Emmett A. O'Neal, leader of the fight : against the recent proposed amend- 1 ment to put prohibition in the consti- 1 tion of Alabama, defeated H. S. D. < Afallorv. a suDDorter of the amend- : ment, by a majority of between 20,- ; 000 and 25,000 for governor in the < Democratic primaries hjld~ in Ala- < bama to-day. United Spates Senator j John H. Bankhead received a vote which will probably equal the com- ; bined vote of his two opponents, John ! B. Knox and Frank S. White, and is , assured of a new term in the senate. The claim is made to-night that the < majority of the delegates to the State i convenion, which meets on May 15, < will stand for local option and will in- ; sist on a modification of the present < State-wide prohibition laws. It is ; also claimed that a majority of the ] State senate will favor local option, ] although the attitude of a majority of ; the members of the house will not be I known iintil later. i It is accepted as certain that the ] prohibitionVlaws of the State will be i modified. The anti-amendment candidates on 1 the State ticket appear to have made ; a clean sweep. The lines drawn in the recent pro- < hibition amendment campaign were j maintained in the primary to-day. The ] candidates who supported the amend- i ment received" practically the same < vote as cast for the amendment, while 1 the anti-amendment candidates received tl^e majorities cast in 'the various counties against the prohibition amendment. What Science Says of Alcohol, irhis is an age in the history of the temperance reform when science comes to the front, turning her X-rays upon alcohol, and shows just what it is. With unerring certainty it seeks to focus the eyes of the world upon this poison, and proclaims it to be an enemy deserving nothing short of destruction and death up to within a few years men have looked upon the effects of drink, and turned away with disgust, while the State has built refuges in which to punish the victims and get them out of the public eye. Science now steps forward, calls the attention away from results and fixes it upon the cause, and says: "Behold in alcohol,a deadly enemy. It has no redeeming feature. It strikes at every vital organ in the human body and leaves it worse than it found it. It creates an appetite for itself, that it may more surely do its work, and attack's the mental, moral and physical powers at one and the same time. It deceives its victim into believing that it will cool him in the heat of summer, and warm him in the cold of winter. It points the way from virtue to vice, and marks out thfr road to the jail, the work1 otiH fho ?fl1]nVR. 11UUSC, kUC isuu, uuu o? It breaks down the will power and 1 laughs at its slave as he tries to i break his chains." < Thus speaks science, and it is en- 1 couraging to note that many of the daily papers and most of the religious 3 journals are giving voice and wings < to the utterances of some of the lead- t ing scientists and physicians of the i world. Many of the latter say alco- 1 hoi has no virtue as a medicine, and have excluded it from their practice In a recent article by Woods Hutchinson, A. M., M. D., he makes the ^ following points worth heeding: 1 "No human being ever developed 1 an instinct or natural liking for alco- ( holic drinks. ' 1 "Alcohol is a toxin or poison, pro- 1 duced by one germ to destroy an- ' other. "The seeming improvement' in one'3 1 "1 * ?1 onmP. ^ piiySlUitl UULLU1 UUil luat aituuui times produces is wholly imaginary, ] and due merely to a deadening of the 1 nerves. 3 "While the taking of true foods produces a sense, of satiety, alcohol 1 produces only an appetite with no 1 Natural or self-acting limitations. "Is it reasonable to conceive that a drug which has an unvarying ten dency to exaggerate and increase all that is worst in us, can possibly have an improving and strengthening influence upon our higher powers and ' tendencies?" ! We could quote from hundreds of leading men, did space permit. Let 1 the voice of science be heard and 1 heeded. Let the truth be thundered ! from the pulpit, and in burning words 3 taught to the youth in the Sunday 1 and public schools. Draw the pro- J hibitory line, not simply at the thres- ] hold of the saloon, the brewery an& 1 distillery, but also at the door of ..he "house beautiful."?Rev. C. R. Mead, D. D., in Christian Herald. Capt. R. Boyd Cole, of the Barn- j well Guards, was on last Saturday i elected major of the 2nd battalion, : 3rd infantry. The 2nd battalion is ( composed of the companies at Barnwell, Bamberg, Georgetown and Con- ; way. Until his successor is elected : the company here will be under the , command of 1st. Lieut. Frank B. i Free.?Barnwell Sentinel. 1 \ JURY INDICTS PACKERS. Presents Bill Against Firms and Inc viduals. Savannah, Ga., April 30.?As a r suit of the investigation which h been carried on by the federal ju bere~for several days into the pric ?f meats in Savannah and the caus for them, an indictment' was return* against five of the big packing co ?erns and three men, local manage 3f three of the packing houses, Individuals. The investigation began when tl iurv heard an arraignment of tl 30-called beef trust, delivered 1 Judge Emory Speer. The indictment is brought again Cudahy & Co., the Schwartzchild Sulzberger Beef company, Swift 2o., the Armour Packing compai and the Nelson Morris company ; corporations and Fred M. Hull, J: as local manager for the Nelson Mc ris company; William D. Cooper, local manager for Armour & Co., ai Emmet B. Adams, as local manag for Swift & Co. The Savannah re resentatives of the two other packii houses named in the indictment a aot mentioned. The datee of operations for whi< the indictment is brought is for t] rear 1908. It is alleged that the packing hou as named in the indictment boug and slaughtered live stock at vario; points in the West and Northwe? shipped fresh meats to Savannah, r iuced the price of meats and so them on the market at a loss. T1 result of this manipulation is alleg< [o have compelled the South Atlant Packing and Provision company Savannah to sell its product at a lo and was a conspiracy in restraint business, trade and commerce. Tl intent of the larger packing hous is alleged to have been to force tl local house out of the field of comp tition. The second count alleges that b wfien June 10 and August 1, 190 ill of the defendants effected a com! lation whereby they fixed arbitrar ion-competitive and exorbita prices for meats, thus eliminatii :hat competition which should natu illy exist among them. William D. Cooper, one of the d fendants, is now in Nashville, Teni md Fred M. Hull, Jr., is at Litt Rock, Ark. It is expected that se dee will be effected immediately < ;he defendants and bonds made. In discharging the grand ju ludge Speer said that acknowledg nents were gratefully returned i ;hat body for what was sure had be< i valuable service to the public. Two assistants to the attorney ge jral, W. L. Gregg and O. E. Haga laveiiad the matter of the investig Jon in charge, and probably will r main here for several days longer. The indictments are brought und :he act of congress "to protect trai md commerce against unlawful r 3traints and monopolies." The i ieged offense is punishable by a fi] lot exceeding $5,000 on each cou ir a penitentiary service of a year i both. The action of the grand jury can aot at all as a surprise. The stat if the Savannah meat prices has loi >een the basis for comment and it w known yesterday that an indictme svas being drawn by experts. Sits on Hatpins. Los Angeles, May 2.?Percy Vj Dyke, a visitor from New York, e tered a motion picture theatre ye terday, pushed his way along a rc Df seats occupied mostly by wome sat down and instantly leaped in the air, yelling. He had sat down < a phalanx of long hat pins. His body shot into the darkne and he landed in the lap of a worn* in front. This woman's escort ii mediately leaped upon Van Dyke a] there were signs of panic when t] police were called. Van Dyke was found to be seriou [y injured and was taken to a recei ing hospital. A CHlUAtiU uittL a iviuiv. With One Blow From Her Boot SI Kills a Bulldog. With one kick of her right foot M Ired Wilson, of West Randoli street, Chicago, a few days ago, brol the neck of a large bulldog that s tacked her on the way home from aearby store. Miss Wilson, who is slender girl, 19 years old, has be< practicing stage dancing, and to tfc 3he gives the credit of having be< able to ward off the attack of the ai mal. She was returning from tl store with her arms full of bundl when the dog rushed at her. SI jumped to one side. Before the dog could attack h again Miss Wilson was prepared, ai as the animal jumped she swung h right foot, which was encased in heavy walking shoe, against the dog eliin, much in the manner in which football player kicks a goal. The d< gave an agonized yelp and dropped Its tracks dead. No Booner had tl girl realized what she had done thi she began to cry out of sympathy *'f the animal that had attacked her. FUEL OF THE FUTURE. li- Oil May Supplant Coal in the United States Navy. ~ e- Substitution of oil for coal as fuel as on United States cruisers and battlery ships is being so seriously contem-. es plated by the naval authorities that es its early adoption by the navy is now ^d generally considered certain. Recent n- experiments have demonstrated, it is rs reported, that the plan is not only as feasible, but a great improvement over the use of coal. It not only gives tie the shiDs a ereater steaming radius, le according to experts, but it elimint>y ates the telltale trail of smoke that in the event of war could easily best tray the whereabouts of a fleet. & Vessels now being built for the & United States government are being ly equipped with auxiliary oil apparatus, as This is regarded as the first step of r., the government in its contemplated ir- plan to eliminate the use of coal. If as the results prove satisfactory and it id can be demonstrated that a vessel of er war can be better propelled by tne p- power derived from the use of oil as lg locomotives are in the west, then the re substitution of oil for coal will be made. 2h The change, it is believed, will be ae of great benefit, as it will enable the government to dispense with the seris vices of half of the men now employht ed in the boiler rooms, will save us space, do away with smoke and elimi5t, nate the laying up of vessels for days e- at a time in order to take a coal supId ply aboard. A way can be devised tie for the filling of the oil tanks of the ?d vessels in a few h<Surs. At present ;ic several days are lost in filling the of bunkers with coal. ss ? 0? Little Girl Suicides. tie eg Alton, 111., April 26.?Nina Anthis, 13 years old, committed suicide in e_ school to-day in the presence of her teacher and thirty school mates by ? drinking carbolic acid. tr g She left a pathetic note in which she said that her heart^was broken because her foster mother scolded her. She asked that she be buried lg with a favorite doll and wedding ring r_ that had been left her by her own mother. e_ She remained in the room during j recess, but took her place in the line ^ with the class for roll call. As her name was reached she stepped from )n the line and without a word, drained a two-ounce bottle of acid. ^ Danville Votes Wet. eto Danville. Va., April 28.?Danville 3n voted wet to-day by a majority of ten votes in a total of 1, 154 cast, afa ter a vigorously fought contest. Seven a, years ago Danville voted against the a,, open saloon, and since that time e- three additional elections have been held, the result alternating each er time. { ^ f 3e While within one hundred votes of e- the total registration were polled, the election passed off without disorder of ae any kind, frhe women and children at were not in evidence at the pollls. No or statement was given out to-night by the dry leaders as to the result. The ae city council will, it is expected, fix us the license tax and regulations withag in the next thirty days, as Miss Lizzie Road, of Branchville, at who has been teaching school at Oakwood, after spending some time in the city witn mends, leu weanesaay iur her home, having concluded her in school.?Aiken Sentinel. n >3- STRUCK A STUMP. iw n, Novel Damage Suit in Court in Lexto ington County. 5n Lexington, May 1.?A novel suit? and one without a precedent in this ss State, according to well informed 111 lawyers?is going to be fought out n" in the courts of this county. It is a 1(* damage suit brought by Ernest M. k? DuPre, of Columbia, against Lexington county for the sum of $99.75 for ls~ alleged injuries to his automobile v" while on a fishing jaunt last summer. On the 28th of May Mr. DuPre was returning to his home in the city over the Dunbar road, leading from Onie Ij,g Steele's fish pond. He alleges in the complaint that his machine struck a stump, and as a result the car was wrecked, which made it necessary for him to "foot" it into Columbia, a dis1 milae in tha nicVif lauce UL sctcifl! mn^o, iu VUV L*~ time. a ?i a Said Negro Fired Bullet. 5n lis Charleston, S. C., April 30.?The 3n inquest held to-day on the death of ii- Miss Musgrove threw little light on he the mysterious tragedy of Thursday es night in which the young woman was he fatally shot and her companion, Clarence jGrimshawe, was wounded by er two pistol balls. The dying decl^raid tion of the girl was read, saying she er had been attacked by a negro. Grima shawe's deposition was presented, dej's claring he was shot from behind by a an unknown nartv. ag The police established an alibi for in the girl's three brothers and suggestbe ed the theory that Grimshawe shot in the girl though no explanation in that or event of the wounding of the man was attempted. / * \ / * . "' * . *. ."""v" -'v. "- U' '?: - - ?- . - '.'v.-** -*. ? R. C. Neely. R. C. Net I NEELY & ? COTTON ] @ 741 Beholds Str( Sj Advances made to Me: ? Call on us, or write us |99~Pei S 4 OF OUR CUSTOMERS f AND REGULAR PA1 ? ARE SATISFIED A2> 25 OUR UP-TO-DATEP IM?JKC JHA^i JDISJbi, AIM CES. EVERY TTM3 BUYING A NICE SI ANYTHING FOR M FOR CHILDREN'S WAYS THINK OF Ui FOR IT. WHY? BI A NICE AND LAR( GOODS OF ALL K1 YOU WANT, AND W LITTLE AS WE CAI TO SEE THROUGH BEFORE YOU MAK ON ANYTHING. WE SUITED AND PERF IF YOU JUST GIVE WE WILL DO OUR I ONE OF THE 99 FIED CUSTOMERS. YOU JUST HELP US H. K A Ehrhardt : : : : || Horses < 1 Buggies i I Full Stock i on hand a See us bef o! A few Far Hnrsps on f JONES | BAMBEF tfc !?! Sji ili il? SI? ili ill ili ili iliili' | Millinery! $ We have anat S Millinery display 1 vimr incnprtinn 7^7 jvui auv|>vvMviM $ smart creation i 1 at a minimnm c S be convinced. , I Bit r n ? hits. ?. r. f EHBHABDT, ; SgtiHg}ilnHg?agnUg?I?Oi > w- . ... */ v.'.'V -sly, Jr. S. H. Wilcox. 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