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DRINKS "BUG KILLER." Cherokee Negro Charged with Murder Commits Suicide. * Gaffney, June 24.?Alfred Poole, a negro prisoner, confined to the county jail to await trial at the next term of court, which convenes here next Monday, committed suicide by drinking "bug killer," in his cell last night, dying from the effects about 1 o'clock. Poole was arrested about 4 two weeks ago at Cowpens, charged with being an accomplice in the killing of a negro baby at his home near Cowpens. He was about 55 years of age. It has been the custom of the +V. outm-vItt tfici nriannprs with the "bug killer" at intervals. When > the disinfectant was given to Poole yesterday he saved it until night came and then drank it, becoming paralyzed at once. Although there were two other prisoners in the same cell, both of them disclaim acknowledge of the taking of the fluid and claim that they knew nothing about the affair until they became suspicious of his loud breathing, and when they attempted to rouse him they found him dying. Medical as' sistance was summoned, and although every thing possible was done, Poole x soon died. The evidence tended to show that the act had been contemplated for several days, as he had told his son Sam, who is confined in the jail as a witness to the killing of the infant, that he did not intend to live much longer. This was, about three days * before the act was committed. He seemed to be in fear of the outcome of the trial. The coroner's inquest was held at the jail this morning, and the jury decided that Alfred Poole came to his death by his own hands. Auditor West Has Resigned. ?? i t After a- service of three years ' as Stat? dispensary auditor, W. B. West has sent in his resignation to Gov. Ansel. Mr. West has resigned to take * the position of chief inspector in the t department of agriculture in the enforcement of the pure seed and commercial food stuffs acts. He asked that his resignation take effect on July 1. As dispensary auditor, Mr. West was a most efficient State official. Gov. Ansel made no statement as to Mr. West's successor. .; * The following is the letter of resignation received by Gov. Ansel from > "V^. B. West: 'T?beg to submit herewith my resignation as dispensary auditor for South Carolina. I do this that I may i accept a position in the agricultural department of the State, and if possible, I would like to be relieved of my present duties by July 1. The ha> ture of my duties in the agricultural department will be such that I can accompany my successor over the \'-c State and assist in learning him of the duties of his office, that is, show ing him the system of book-keeping and the method formerly employed in auditing the accounts. "Permit me, please, to express to you my very great appreciation of the honor you have conferred in having appointed me to a piace 01 nonor ana trust for your universal kindness and consideration while I have held this position. I have always striven earn* estly to do my duty as I saw it and wish to thank you for the encouragement and assistance that you have al ways willingly given me in assisting in the performance of my duties." Good Advice. r y-> i. r The following bit of advice was given by Thomas Jefferson to young * men: "Do not sit up late at night; study and work in the day time. Rise early and go to bed early. Avoid novel reading and cultivate the - 'companionship of good books. Never tell a lie or stoop to a mean act. Be kind to every living creature. Speak no evil of any one. Be good, adore , God, be loyal to friends, and love your country better than yourself. ^ Take hold of things by the smooth v handle; avoid disputes; do not turn , pleasant conversation into heated argument. Too much speaking is not best. Never put off until to-mor ruw wuai .vuu uau ao io-aay. ixever spend your money before you have it. * Never buy what you do not need because it is cheap. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. We never report of having eatep too lit. t tie. Never borrow trouble." For Good Roads. At a recent election held in Blackville township, the citizens voted unanimously to continue the two mill special levy for road building they ^ have had for several years. The citizens of Blackville township are progressive and realize that good roads will do more to increase their property than anything else. They also reaf lize that it is necessary for them to o'A r? ATi'n in Ai' r nAol'Afo onH Violn -4 i/wxvtto auu build them. That they are not afraid to do this is evidenced by the vote for the continuance of the road tax at the election recently held.?Barnwell Sentinel. i THE VALUE OF SLEEP. Man Could not Sleep for Twenty Years. There should be material for a 1 weird, tragic epic in the news storytelling how a man in Pennsylvania, having been struck with lighting, was unable to sleep for 20 years, and how at least he died, grateful for the , belated sleep which came to him. The clever writers who have evolved philosophers from clothes and other prosaic things have overlooked an obvious opportunity in the phenomenon of sleep, which is almost our most treasured privilege, yet which receives so rarely the tribute which it deserves. Shakespeare, who touched all subjects, refers with grand forlornness to sleep, "that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care," but for the most part the poets and philosophers have been silent on this subject which suggests strange and incomprehensive things. Only the doctors have wrestled with the problem extensively?and almost without avail. But there can be no doubt that life would speedily lose its savor if the beneficent sandman were to forget . us. It is not the body alone that longs for rest after a few hours' exertion; : the mind, no less insistently, demands the bliss of oblivion, after the world's waves of sensation have left a ceri tain number of impressions. We would all be a race of cynics and pessimists if we could not forget all things once in every 24 hours, and greet the day afresh, after the world and its panorama has been effaced from the eyes. The "man about town" is a cynic not because he is wayward in miq^l or in morals, but because he sleeps too little, and sees too much of the N world. And one who sleeps too much ma v ho a HnllarH hilt ifcrhat a nana city he has for the simpler joys of life. We have been touched by the closing paragraph of the story telling of the death of this man who could not sleep for ?0 years. "Two nights ago he called his wife to his bedside. 'Thank heaven, I think I'm going to fall asleep,.' he said. He never wakened." If the doubters be right and there shall be no eternity for man, may we not still be pacified by the thought of that-long sleep, some day, when the sound of children's voices shall drift up into the burial ground, and robins shall come to sing matins and vespers to the rising and the setting sun??St. Louis Times. The State Candidates. The candidates for State offices are now touring the State, the first meeting having been held at Sumter last Wednesday. The Bamberg meeting is to be held on Monday, July 11th. Following is the list of candidates: For Governor. Cole L. Blease, John T. Duncan, C. C. Featherstone, F. H. Hyatt, Thos. G. McLeod and John G. Richards. For Lieutenant Governor. E. Walker Duvall and Chas. A. Smith. For Secretary of State. R. M. McCown. For Comptroller General. A. W. Jones. For State Treasurer. R. H. Jennings. For Adjutant General. Chas. Newnham, W. W. Moore, J. M. Richardson. For State Superintendent of Education. J. E. Swearingen. For Attorney General. B. B. Evans, J. Eraser Lyon. For Railroad Commissioner. James Cansler, G. McDuffie Hampton, G. H. Mahon, 0. C. Scarborough. Candidates for Congress. The following "candidates filed pledges for the different congressional districts of the State: First District?Geo. S. Legare, J. H. Lesesne. Second District?L. P. Boylston, Jas. F. Byrnes, C. W. Garris, J. O. Patterson. Third District?Wyatt Aiken, Julius E. Boggs, Coke D. Mann. Fourth District?Jos. T. Johnson. Fifth District'?Thos. B. Butler, D. E. Finley, J. K. Henry. Sixth District?Geo. W. Brown, J. E. Elerbee, J. A. Hodges, B. B. Sellers. Seventh District?A. F. Lever, W. W. Ray. Serious Fire in Savannah. Savannah, Ga., June 24.?Fire which started shortly after 1:30 o'clock this morning destroyed the Cozy theatre, the magazine and cigar store of the J. S. Oppenheimer Ci^ar company, the large candy factory and store 01 faui uonida. the ticket omces of the Southern railway, with the commercial freight office, and the florist shop of John Wolf. Poor water pressure gave the flames a big start and the buildings were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $50,000. \ NEGRESS MAKES SOCIETY B< Black Graduate of School Deternii To Attend Dance. New York, June 27.?The dete ination of Irene Vandervale, a neg and pupil in the East Orange t i school, to attend the dance of graduating class of that school in fashionable Women's Club rooms Orange on June 24, has set the cial atmosphere of the two Orar boiling, and complications of most preplexing order are in p pect. A a n mpmhpr of the eradiifl.1 class of the school the girl recei two tickets to the dance, which is of the features of the ending of high school curriculum. In addii her sister,, who may also he gradi ed, received two tickets to be use< , the event that she passes the f examination. These two are the only negro g in a class of about 80 boys and gi many of whom are scions of som< the most exclusive families of most prominent social set in Oranges. When the parents of these pu learned that the two negro girls tended to take part in the dance news spread through society like electric flash. Offers to relieve the surcharged mosphere by purchasing the f tickets at any price were extende< the girls and were fndignantly rej ed. Failing in this, some of the w girls, unable to contemplate i complacency the social mingling races on the waxed floor of the & ionable Women's Club when the girls should bring their negro esci to the dance, began to decline the vitations. How far this movement has tended no one knows, but the ] ents of the white girls are imdes; of success by codfeiliatory measu as James N. Vandervale, father of two negro girls, is a stanch supp er of the rights of his daughters share all public honors and privile in common with the white people It was he who led the fight aga the segregation of a foreign elen from the other pupils in the grami schools a few years ago, as a re; of which the board of educa compromised by establishing a c for backward pupils into which s< of the descendants of foreigi found their way, much to the re of the best circles of society. , A Dreadful Wound from a knife, gun, tin can, rusty r fireworks, or of any other nature, mands prompt treatment with Bi len's Arnica Salve to prevent bl poison or gangrene. It's the qu est, surest healer for all such wou as also for burns, boils, sores, s eruptions, eczema, chapped hai corns or piles. 25c at Peoples D Co., Bamoerg, S. C. Deserved Compliment. Clerk W. Gilmore Simms has ceived a pressing and flattering i: tation to deliver a lecture in Pi burg, Pennsylvania, on Reconst tion in South Carolina. And of men in the State there is none ot who could do fuller or more forc< justice to- this subject than this triot citizen, who inherits in measure the marvelous talent, v derful memory and accurate ji ment of his great father.?Barm People. A Woman's Great Idea, is how to make herself attract But, without health, it is hard for to be lovely in face, form or tern; A weak, sickly woman will be ] vous and irritable. Constipation kidney poisons show in pimples, t ches, skin eruptions and a wretc complexion. But Electric Bitters ways prove a godsend to women 1 want health, beauty and friends. T regulate stomach, liv^r and kidn ptfrify the blood; give strong ner bright eyes, pure breath, smoi velvety skin, lovely complexion, g health. Try tnem. 50c at Peo] Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Col. J. W. Jenny. Mninr fipnprnl Tpae-iip* has t ferred a well deserved crowning I or in appointing Colonel J. Wyi Jenny to command the Barnv Bamberg Regiment of Confede: Veterans. All who know Col. Je will be gratified by this handsi recognition of his gallantry as a dier. of the lost cause and spier citizen of peace.?Barnwell Peop Rev. F. C. Hickson Refused Divo We clip the following from Times, published at Oklahoma < under date of June 19th: "The Rev. F. C. Hickson, at time a missionary to China, more cently one of the ministers o North Carolina Baptist associat but at present of Oklamoha City, the next and the last. He char his wife, Josephine Hickson, with sorts of insufficiences. and his i counter-charged him in a desposi with an equal degree of cussedn Shooting, fighting, swearing great bundles of other incide: infelicities were mixed up in hearing. So profoundly confused came the bulk of evidence that court refused to decide the case, w holding his opinion until July 5. s )il. ? I SAMP the the DfV DUi Ling ved one the B 1 nat- B i in B inal Bfc ' * ;irls iris, H We still have a | drummers' samp we are offering our %J '? less than the re with www __ __ : ?f UfA V ATI 11 PAll I7A1 lie win aui jfui 30c, a 50c box ex- * E on. Come and the ort: SAMPLE lass T* * )me . , lers 's ?lief ^ We also have ; tail, *' I sample tablets I 1 offering at half f Carry a supply i nviE you on your vaca ? ? m TJ mer, also take full / ronidg imtermanSl g UB ' Safe and imnmix. Car lot- I S jg ^position,up side d hed I "fess it into^our tnm z I - CANNC eys, v 1 1 jjj I SmalipursearVestpoAetsize^r ood pies , 1????? 1% 1 1 E Remember we hi ? times a handsoi Dme r Cut Glass, HanH Pictures at most City one re' ' T f a ...... 1 ion. was J I Herald E the ? BAMBERG, S< the ?"\ LE I <F.D I MHBI 'APER swell line of that ' M le box paper that M at 50,per cent ; Si gular retail price. 11 a 60c box for I for 25c, and so I look at it I TABLETS a few drummers' I | r\A virlii/Jk I ATA OVA HI VY1111/11 nC 01C fii a trice. See them. I of this paper with I ition trip this sum- I along one of our I p Fountain^m I own.right side up,or endI ^ '^ssssss^sssssssssisimisssmsims i?o.?????Lii-J-LI ave .on hand at all I ne assortment of I Painted China and | reasonable prices . 1 1 0. ... ook more | DUTH CAROLINA ' . * ' "... ' $ S* -*-? " r- r -'r* r - ' " V'1 ^ '"Sid * >