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"OLD TIMER WRITES. Things Look Dark, but a Rotter Time is Coming. Wanderer's Rest, June 13.?Jordan is a hard road to travel, ain't it Cap? would Uncle Bill say. For here is the rain, rain?clouds by day and clouds by night. These floods the past week and showers one after another with no sign of a let-up, the ground soaked and low lands get - * j ting in bad snape, wun grass auu weeds taking the crops, is the cheering sight after the long dry and cold spring to give the old -farmer a long face and sad countenance. Horses about crushed, and dreams of bumper crop and twenty cents for his cotton, knocks the idea of an automobile to take Sallie, Kate and John to all the big meetings, picnics, shows and towns into a far corner of his brain and leaves him wondering will it ever be. With great gulps coming in his throat and as he tries to gulp them down, tears of great disappointment silently trickle down his furrowed cheeks; as he tries to brush them away, in disgust comes his big boys and say J am done with the farm, for I can soon get rich in the town; others do and can ride in fine touring cars with <n-?ft hands and fair faces and lovely ladies all laughter and smiles by his side. No more clod hopping and bogging next day in the mud perhaps for me. Then comes his better half with a basket full of halfdrowned chickens and turkeys, all out of sorts, saying hard things to such luck, and the poor old farmer inwardly wishes like David of old, for wings of the dove to flee away and be at rest. Now at this moment comes the sweet strains of a mocking bird in a near-by tree and the old man listens for a moment only, then with a smile all calmness and serenity calls to the boys, stay on the old farm, boys, and- drive a mule if needs be, for I have seen it thus many times beforej and if you will only labor and wait with true economy, all will come in due time; the sun will shine and stars overhead, with song of birds and cooing of doves, and the pigs and calves, with the scampering of the rabit, and the yell of the boys, as the dogs give chase, has a greater charm than the excitement and '.auto rides of the city lad or lass. r Stay close to nature for it made Abraham, Isaac and Moses, in the long ago; Washington and Lincoln, with many others whose name echoes down the pathway of time, and whose lustre grows brighter each day. What is needed is rich poor men who will work with their own hands, build neat homes and have, as your correspondent' found last week, a onehorse farmer who has reared a family, corn, oats, hay, and all other produce needed to run the place three years. In place of one thousands are needed, then will the desert bloom as the rose and hard times will come no more. Let the speculator yell i - his throat sore on the stock exchange, the laborers strike for higher wages while his wife and babies cry for bread, and the gambler with blood shot eyes watch the cards as he wins or loses, the crook as he blows the safe and runs from place to place to } x keep uqder cover with sleepless nights, has no place with the man ,/ that follows the plow who can sleep the sleep of the just and rise with the bees and birds and whistle while he waits for Kate to ring the breakfast bell:. These are the kind of men needed now both by town, city and country. Now don't get it into your heads, boys, that an old man "fi QrVi f +AWnC Knt TTl 11 pVl nauio WV U^UW bUV tv ff wu. 4 1VV for he well knows that some of his truest friends are town people. Then we need them but we also want some I ' of our best talent to run the farms and teach old dogs new tricks in the art of model and modern farming. But enough of this, and now an old man with a hobby who loves children and flowers, looks forward to a bright day soon and he has just learned that some kind ladies are planning to give the children a picnic soon in a beautiful grove and he is to be there. Then will he be in all his glory as he watches the little fellows as they romp and play over the grounds at jumping the rope, mumble peg, and many other games, with ice cream and lemonade, then a mdving of great big baskets, the spreading of clothes, then dinner, for a dinner bell has great charm to little folks, also a greater for an old , man. Then more fun and games until late evening, then hOme. Won't it be fine, little folks, and don't forget to pin a bunch of flowers on. For children and flowers Amid gay wood bowers Will be the theme that day With songs and play and happy hours. OLD TJMER. We do not want the earth. A small part of it will satisfy us. Try us for a "square deal." C. H. MILHOUS, Manager Denmark Realty Co. A MUCH MARRIED MAX. Seven Women Call Negro Preacher J Husband. Richmond, Va., June 16.?Rev. S. A Tucker, pastor of a flock of negro I Christians at Scuffletown, near Rich- \ mond. has jumped his bail and disap- y peared and his bondsmen, Americus s Dudley, was called upon to-day to t pay $50. J Seven women have come forward t claiming Tucker as their husband, y Two more have written to the same s effect from North Carolina. When { Tucker was arrested for prowling c at night around the house of still an- ' other colored woman, a rabbit's foot, r a bottle of gin and a bottle of cologne i were found in his pockets. 1 Governor Offers Reward for Negro. Aiken, June 12.?Governor Ansel ^ has offeied a reward of $100 for the * arrest and conviction of Jim Robinson, a negro, who is wanted in this county for the murder of two negro women o^ May 31. Robinson shot t and killed Fannie and Willie Brown, 1 mother and daughter, near Bath, in ^ a cotton field, where the women were * chopping cotton. It has been ascer- 3 tained that the negro escaped into 0 Georgia, having crossed the Savan- d nah river a day or two after the mur- v der. * Robinson is described as follows: " Dark brown, age 35 to 50; weight * about 140 to 150 pounds; height s about 6 feet; slender; round should- ? . Kolz-1 cliahtlv cfummPrs* t Ci CU , uaiu UVUUVU f teeth decayed; hair a little gray; f smokes very frequently, reads an<!h 11 writes fairly well; is "parrot-toed" and wears number 9 or 10 shoes. Was wearing blue overalls, small brown hat and a dirty coat whe^ last y seen. He is also a little "pop-eyed." fj The crime was a most atrocious one, and the people of the vicinity fc were greatly stirred at the time. a Every clew was closely followed by E the county officers, but he eluded j them, and escaped over the river into i Georgia. Cheating the Union Cows. c The cow stable was electrically lighted. \ "With these lights," the dairy farmer said, "I cheat my 500 union cows. I add 100 minutes or mbre to their union day. f "Cows you know, have a very strong union spirit, especially in the matter of the morning milking. They don't want to be milked before day- ~ light; in fact, they won't be milked before daylight. They insist on getting their full night's sleep. "Now, when I went in for co-operative farming, it became necessary e for me to milk earlier than before, a so as to catch the milk train. But my cows, roused up in the dark, angrily refused to give down their milk. ? Can a cow hold back her milk? By t heck, yes! "So I introduced electricity. A half ? an hour before milking time, I turned a on these lights in their round glass a globes. They thought the gray dawn s had come, and they gave down their ii milk freely. "Great thing, electricity?the only h thing that will make a union' cow ii work overtime." x e / * a Why Grant Never Swore. t I. While sitting one night, after everyone had gone to bed, I said a to him: "General, it seems singular s that you have gone through all the tumble of army service and frontier life and have never been provoked into swearing. I have never heard i? you utter an oath or use an impre- g cation." "Well, somehow, or other, I never i: learned to swear," he replied. "When f a boy I seemed to have an aversion o to it, and when I became a man I c saw the folly of it. I have always c noticed, too, that swearing helps to s arouse a man's anger; and when a g man flies into a passion, his adversary a who keeps cool always gets the bet- v ter of him. In fact, I never could f see the use of swearing.^ I think it is the case with many people who L swear excessively that it is a mere habit, and that they do not mean to p be profane; but, to say the least, t it is a great waste of time."?Michl- i gan Christian Advocate. t c How to Kill Nut Grass. t a The only way I know to kill nut grass is not to let it show a leaf above j ground. This means constant cleaning off, for it will be up next day, but ^ if constantly prevented from making r green leaves the roots will die. Nut grass spreads more seed than from the roots, and being neglected late in the season, it fills the soil with seed, f and nothing but constant vigilance r will eradicate it. I have just made a garden here from a piece of land that t is full of it, and I am going to do just what I advise; clean up every i shoot every day. Nothing short of this will answer. Geese penned on 1 the spots will keep it down, it is t said, but I have never tried them.? W. F. Massey in Raleigh Progressive i Farmer and Gazette. g GIRL KILLS HERSELF. tew York's Famous Girl "Newsy" < Dies by Her Own Hand. New York, June 11.?Mrs. Jennie 5inea, one of the five Horn sisters, < vho attracted wide attention for ( ears by selling newspapers on the ] treet, committed suicide yesterday j iy shooting herself through the heart. , rennie was next to the youngest of he sisters, and sold papers up to 3 'ears ago, wnen sne marneu. ner ister, now ddad, was well known to , )oliticians, and it was she who first lubbed the late Thomas C. Patt the 'Easy Boss." He sent them Christ- , nas gifts each year and through his nfluence the newspaper stand at rwenty-third street and Sixth avenue vas never disturbed. , HUSBAND AND WIFE FIGHT. Is a Result They Both Now Rest in County Jail. Magistrate Hahn has sent up to he county jail W. A. Martin and Florence Martin, husband and wife, ioth white people from the vicinity of Corth Augusta, to serve a sentence of 0 days in jail for breach of the peace if fighting. They got into a family [ifficulty and as a result both of them I'ere considerably bruised and cut, he husband getting the worse of the ieal. Magistrate Hahn sentenced hem to pay a fine of $100 each or to erve 30 days imprisonment or on the j ;ang. The husband, on account of ] lis wounds, was unable to go to the ;ang and consequently both are now n jail.?Aiken Journal and Review. Why They Laughed. One of New York's successful lawers was telling at the club about his irst case. "I was very nervous and excited," le said, "especially as my client was i bad egg. But his relatives were rominent people and for their sake worked iiard to secure an acquittal. 1 .luckily I succeeded." Just at this point a millionaire from , Western city approached in com- ] any with another member of the j lub who proceeded to introduce him. i Yhen he came to %the lawyer the ( isitor quickly remarked: "I do not need to be introduced to ( his gentleman. I met him when I 1 ived in this part of the country; in J act I gave him his start in life. I j ras his first client." ( The noisy hilarity which greeted 1 his announcement was not explained 1 o the visitor. * \ ^ c They All Serve. George C. Boldt, well-known hotel nan, was talking in Philadelphia ,bout the hotels in Switzerland. 1 "They are good," said Mr. Boldt. ] At the price they are remarkably j ;ood. The Swiss are a nation of t totel-keepers. ] "The Alps, you know, draw all the . rorld to Switzerland, and a million- ] ire goes into the hotel business, as n American would go into steel or ] ugar. He begins at the bottom. He ^ 3 a waiter. 1 "It is said that once in Bern, at a ] listoric .public meeting, all the leadag men of Switzerland were gatherd together. A vote had been taken nd in the intense silence preceding 1 he epoch-making verdict of the tel- J ers a wag shouted 'Waiter!' "Instantly the whole assembly rose s one man and answered, "Yes, ^ ir.' " j Why He Couldn't Hear. [ I A certain Philadelphia banker who 3 afflicted with ear trouble tells a ;ood joke on himself as follows: 3 "I've been worried about my hear- j g for some time, and finally the ear of getting deaf became a sort of ' obsession to me, and I decided to go , iver to New York to consult a spe- ; ialist. I got over there and went to ee the doctor, and he looked so ;rave I was more scared than ever, ^ nd I was feeling pretty blue as I ( i-alked down Fifth avenue with a riend. ] "Suddenly I saw two 'special trol- 1 eys* coming*down a cross street filled j rith children waving flags and aplarently having an awful good time, i >ut I couldn't hear a sound. In an J nstant, without stopping to realize ( hat I could hear all the other noises ; if the traffic and my friend's voice, I < urned around and seized him by the 1 .rm and shouted: ] "My God, Joe, I'm deaf! I can't 1 tear those children at all." < "Neither can I," said my friend ! vith a roar of laughter; "they're j nutes." Transmigration. One morning Jenkins looked over lis garden wall and said to his teighbor: "Hey, what are you burying in hat hole?" j "Oh," he said, "I am just replantng some of my seeds; that's all." . "Seeds!" shouted Jenkins angri- ? v. "It looks more like one of my lens." "That's all right. The seeds are nside."?Christian Work and Evanrelist. ( HUNG OVER NIAGARA GORGE. Gymnast Faced Tragic Death for Forty-five Minutes. Niagara Falls, N. Y., June' 16.? Suspended for 45 minutes 160 feet )ver the Niagara Gorge, Oscar Wilson, known as' ''The Great Houdin," was finally rescued by firemen and narrowly escaped a tragic death. Houdin attempted to slide on a cable, suspended by his teeth, across the gorge just below the falls. He 3et off, hanging by his teeth to a little one-foot trapeze, which had no more than a foot of rope uik it. The cable had a big sag and when a little past the center Houdin lost his momentum and came to a stop. For 45 minutes thereafter, which seemed an age to the anxious spectators, the man hung dangling over the ! water, quite helpless. He eased his position by first hanging by one arm and then by another, and then changing off with his legs. Firemen were summoned and a cable pulley was secured, with a 200foot trailing rope attached. Another line was run to the bridge and the pulley was dragged by men on the bridge along the cable till it reached Houdin, who descended the rope to the steamer Maid of the Mist, which had picked up the trailing end. Kept the King at Home.. "For the past year we have kept ;he king of all laxatives?Dr. King's N'ew Life Pills?in our home and ;hey have proved a blessing to all our family," writes Paul Mathulka, of Buffalo, N. Y. Easy but sure reme3y for all stomach, liver and kidney troubles. Only 25c at Peoples Drug . 2o., Bamberg, S. C. What a Foolish Question A Swede entered a postofhce in the Northwest and inquired: "Ban any letters for me to-day?" "What name, please?" "Ay tank de name is on de letter."?Everybody's Magazine. Marvelous Discoveries, nark the wonderful progress of the tge. Air flights on heavy machines, :elegrams without wires, terrible war nventions to kill men, and that wonier of wonders?Dr. King's New Discovery?to save life when threatened jy coughs, colds, lagrippe.^ asthma^ croup bronchitis, hemorrhages, hay "ever and whooping cough or lung :rouble. For all bronchial affections t has no equal. It relieves instantly, [ts the surest cure. James M. Black, )f Asheville, N. C., R. R. No. 4, writes t cured him of an obstinate cough ifter all other remedies failed. 50c ind $1.00.- A trial bottle free. Guarmteed by Peoples Drug Co., BamDerg, S. C. Spartanburg's New Hotel. Spartanburg, June 9.?The work of building a $50,000 hotel at the corner of Charles and Magnolia streets is oroeressine raDidly. The founda tions are being laid of cement. The building will be seven stories high and will contain one hundred rooms. it is being erected by T. A. Green for Messrs. Gresham and Wilson, two railroad hotel and cafe'men who have < the management of a number of hotels along the line of the Southern Railway. How's This? We offer one hundred dollars regard for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Dure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known P. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, md believe him perfectly honorable n all business tranactions and financially able to corry out any obliga:ions made by his firm. 5VALDING, RINNAN & MARVIN, . Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood ind mucous surfaces of the system, restimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. SUMMONS. State of South Carolina, County of Bamberg.?In the Probate Court. J. J. Cleckley against Louis Robinson, et al. To Louis Robinson, Sr., Lewis Robinson, Jr., Minnie Robinson, Crant Robinson, Joseph Robinson, David Robinson and Mattie Lou Robinson: You are hereby required to appear at the Court of Probate to be holden at the Court House for Bamberg County, said State, on the 11th day of July, 1910, to show cause, if an* you can, why the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of Sarah Robinson, deceased, sold by me should not be paid over to J. J. Cleckley, Administrator of the said Sarah Robinson, to be applied by him to the payment of the debts of the said Sarah Robinson. Given under my hand and seal this ihe 6th day of May, 1910. G. P. HARMON, (L. S.) Probate Judge of Bamberg County. H. M. GRAHAM Attorney-at-Law "D t c? n Practices in all Courts of tljis State. Offices in The Herald Building. J. Aldrich Wyman E. H. HendersoD Wyman & Henderson Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. jfeneral Practice. Loans Negotiated v ^ . V'' KEEP i There is no re; should drink wai hot days when j at sucn a reasor livered in any qt pounds up at ar We Sell No. 1 Tin SMOAK'S SALE AN) J. J. SMOAK, Proprietor i i w 1 I If Top Notch || Bottom Not< I SATISFACTION | J NO. W. || "The Quality Store." 'PI Ino More t w with that automobile, bicyc A hava mo tr\ nnf it in I prepared to do your work as cities, and my prices are abo also have in stock a well sell AUTOMOBILE & B! which I will sell to you at cl< what you need I will get it f the next one. When in need don't forget me. \11 work j *J. B. Bi 2 The Repair Man ?#? ?# #? ? > I Do You like j| and Most Stylish j| Novelties,. Silks, p least money. C are better prepar jjj than ever. | MRS. L L SI ? B AMBER 1 Horses i I Buggies & I Full Stock ii on hand at See us befor A few Fan I Horses on H JONES D A uDrn I a \ DniYiD?iA. IpngOBngOBCTBOBOflKJCOBOWMiOttW . 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