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* $32,500 FEE TO WOMAN LAWYER. Largest Ever Granted a Female At- 1 torney in America. Chicago, July 17.?Mrs. Mary E. Miller, woman lawyer, won a decided f victory before Judge Gibbons in the < circuit court yesterday, when, after < deliberating an hour and a half, the < jury that has heard her suit for $50,- 1 000 attorney fees against the three < Lloyd brothers, grandsons and heirs * of John Bross, once lieutenant-gov- < ernor of Illinois, voted for a verdict 1 or $32,5UU. xnis IS me largest ice!' ever granted a woman lawyer in i America. The case has been on trial j '< for nearly three weeks, and argu- 1 ments were completed yesterday. 1 Mrs. Miller was retained by the i * Lloyd brothers to conserve and pro- i tect their youngest brother, John 1 Bross Lloyd, of Boston, who was sup- * posed to be under the control of a 1 designing woman known as the j "college widow." Attorney Henry 1 Scott, representing the brothers, declared in his argument that John ! Bross Lloyd is still with the woman. 1 Mrs. Miller contended that John ^ Bross Lloyd, while a student at Har- 1 vard had became enamorted of a i woman and had conveyed several 1 hundred thousand dollars to her. 1 The lawyer said she recovered much 1 cf this property and kept him from 1 ^ squandering much more. Mrs. Mil- ' ler also showed that she had admin- 1 istered the affairs of the estate in a business-like manner and that the : property had increased in value during her administration. Several leading members of the Chicago bar testified that her charge of $50,000 for legal services against the estate : was reasonable and fair. j Judge Gibbons, in instructing the i S jury, ordered that Mrs. Miller should receive the same consideration as a man. "If she performed valuable services for her clients," said he i ' Judge, "she is worthy of her hire." What the Rat Has Cost in Human > Lives. For one of the most terrible of all diseases the rat is now certainly known to be responsible; the bubonic plague, or "black death." No 1 scourage of mankind is more dreadful than this. It was slaying the ; Egyptians at the beginning of recorded history; a single epidemic cost * p Athens a third of her citizens. At Lyons, in 1572, the pestilence killed fifty thousand persons; Venice in ' 1576 lost seventy thousand. During , s the Great Plague of London, in 1665, < 68,596 died, out of a population of 460,000, and the dead lay in the streets because the living were too few tn hnrv them Even as late as 1771 an epidemic of the bubonic plague cost Moscow v nearly a fourth of its quarter milV lion souls. But, after the last Parthian arrow, the disease retired to India and the region westward to ward the Mediterranean, which seems to have been its original home; and ^ after 1850 Europe and Africa were free. It broke out again in 1894 from a peculiarly - virulent strain that had its habitatt in certain districts of northern China. The army supply trains carried the rats and the rats carried the bacillus pestis from the Manchurian frontier to the sea. From there it made its way back by junks to Canton, where between March and August of 1894, it killed upwards of one hundred thousand persons. Thence the Chinese strain of the plague bacillus passed by ship * to Bombay and diffused itself through India. Five million persons died of the pestilence in India during the six years that ended with 1908, and it was only with 1909 that the annual mortality fell below two hundred thousand. Before it was discovered that v quarantine must include rats as well r as men, this new Indo-Chinese strain had spent over the whole civilized world.?McClure's Magazine. Facts Dressed in Homespun. _ 1 m The skunk never worries much about what the other fellow is doin'. t * A bee never stings twice in the same place for a long time to come. A drop in the bucket is wuth a hull half pint in the whiskey barrel. Gen'ly when a sittin' hen finds she can't set it makes her more set than ever. The sparrer can't sing, but he feels t bigger than the robin an' bluebird A combined. All is not gold that glitters, but a good many people take comfort in * thinkin so. Every early bird can't get a worm J cuz sometimes tney am l euuugu iu go round. Bad pennies don't alius return, an' most uv the good ones git away soon* er or later. Of'untimes a young girl wants to save karosene when her father don't see it in that light. i Autymobiles may tear your good ^ roads up, some, but don't forgit ' they've done a hull lot towards makin' em good. k v# r I * ! FOREST FIRES ARE RAGING. Losses to Timber Interests will be Ai Appalling. Wausau. Wis.. July 21.?Losses h? "rom forest fires in the district north of md east of here continues and to ?very hour brings reports of new tb country invaded. There is no stem- fo ning the process of the flames which er ire sweeping a large portion of gi Northern Wisconsin. So far the w >nly village burned is Heinemann, es but Irma, Gleason and Bloomville of ire in imminent danger. The 400 ci nhabitants of Heinemann are still tv it Gleason crowding the little vil- pi age, and these will be taken out by :rain to-night, if the fires come it learer. The destruction this morn- Ci ng of the Huntington forest reserve uj bear Kelly is a serious loss to the X State, the timber being choice. The hi oss is half a million. The town of li< \niwa did not burn as reported, the sc oss being confined to a saw mill at b: Washburn Siding, near Aniwa, loss si >45,000. Light rain fell at noon, h< but not enough to do any good. The n< Heinemann Lumber Company's mill g> burned at Heinemann, April 4, and tt now loses every vestige of property fii [here, loss over $200,000. Refugees tt from Heinemann say the entire town in burned at once, flames jumping two sc hundred feet and enveloping every as bouse but two. All inhabitants, how- ci ever, had been taken to Gleason two uj hours previous and no lives were it lost. ^ fc as Thnw Pies of Bovhood. b! How delicious were the pies of boy- ^ hood. No pies now ever taste so p: good, what's changed? the pies? No. w Its you. You've lost the strong, healthy stomach, the vigorous liver, the active kidneys, the regular bowels of fi boyhood. Your digestion is poor and h; rou blame the food. What's needed? ri A complete toning up by Electric i<5 Bitters of all organs of digestion? " stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels?try " them. They'll restore your boyhood fi appetite and appreciation of food and ai fairly saturate your body with new health, strength and vigor. 50c at . Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. ir -v n It may be unsafe to drink too ol much water at meals, but it is not t< unsafe to yield to appetite and drink, say, a pint of water during dinner or lunch. As to other periods and times of the day, drink as much ir water as you can, and even cultivate K the habit so as to increase your ca- a: pacity and deside for pure, wholesome water. In the summer plenty of water, inside and out, should be the rule. The healthiest people are great consumers of water. 01 Napoleon's Grit D was of the unquestionable, never-say- tc die kind, the kind that you need most when you have a bad cold, cough or lung disease. Suppose troches, cough a syrups, cod liver oil or doctors have all failed, don't lose heart or hope. 0 Take Dr. King's New Discovery. Sat- s] isfaction is guaranteed when used for any throat or lung trouble. It has saved thousands of hopeless sufferers. It masters stubborn colds, obstinate h coughs, hemorrhages, la grippe, croup, asthma, hay fever and whooping cough and is the most safe and A certain remedy for all bronchial affections. 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle e free at PeoDle's Drug Co., Bamberg. " V Imitators. There are three kinds of workers, and only three, in this world. They are the pullers-down, the builders-up, and the imitators. The first are the most successful, the second are the most self-sacrificing, but the last are the most numerous. They make no beaten tracks, for they take their feet up and put them carefully down, in the exact steps of their predeces- B sors. They will not go where others ^ have not been. The ghosts of the dead and the spectres of greatness are always before them. Authority ^ is a god whom they worship with devout superstition. They say their prayers with awe-stricken regularity S before the shrine of antiquated error and time-honored falsehoods. The V king of men and gods is "He said so." It would kill them like a dose of ^ arsenic to take a dose of originality. In their logic, "It must be right," E follows from the premise, "It has long KAlio,ra^ '' UipfAn* i c Q.irnmanf ^ UCCU UC11C * CU. JLHOIVI J 10 ai^UJLU^UW) fashion authority, and the grand work of life is to please the world. E In walk and carriage, dress and table, in reading and praying, and at last ^ in dying and being buried, they seriously follow what others have done. They are happy in service and joyful in slavery. It is a melancholy fact :hat most teachers are imitators. They come in flocks from normal schools, in great numbers from institutions r and in thousands from our education- a al meetings. They are anxious en- ^ quirers after others' doings, and willingly follow any educated goat that k boldiy leads ihe way, always with note book in hand, asking, "Do tell c .... n me exactly how you teach! ^ h Work 24 Hours a Day. The busiest little things ever made s' are Dr. King's New Life Pills. Every pill isasugar-coated globule of health, o that changes weakness into strength, t: languor into energy, brain-fag into ^ mental power; curing constipation, headache, chills, dyspepsia, malaria. n 25c at People's Drug Co., Bamberg. 1: I PLANNED TO ESCAPE JAIL. M ttempt to Break Out of Penitentiary Thwarted. Columbia, July 22.?What may ive been a concerted plot on the part prisoners of the State penitentiary escape was thwarted yesterday by .e authorities when steel files were und in the cells of certain prison's. One of the men is said to have ven the plan away and the guards ere able to head off the would-be icaDes. As a result of the finding ' the files and other things, such as I garettes, in the cells of prisoners, I irentv-five men met with the usual I mishment. I The story leaked out late to-night, I so happening that the News and I Durier correspondent "stumbled" I pon some of the facts in the matter. 0 verification of details could be id at the State prison. It is be?ved that the files were brought to ime of the prisoners by a man or r men driving to the prison with ipplies or carrying bundles to the Distery mill. However, there was } direct clue to the finding of the lilty person or persons involved in lis affair. Although no direct conrmation is possible of this phase le possibility that the safe-blowers 1 the prison were back of the whole :heme is strongly intimated. The ssumption is based on the general istom that these men very often Be others as their "tools." The men i whose cells the steel files were >und were not in nearly every case 5 dangerous prisoners as the safelowers. It has been the history of le prison that those more dangerous risoners who escape frequently take itli them some prisoner of "lighter ue" for protection and aid. The nding of the cigarettes in cells, aving been brought in against the lies of the prison, caused the punihment of some of the men, but le graver offence of secreting the lo" ertmo enn stern fltion L^O vauovu i mong the officials. The name of the ue or ones suspected -with bringing i the files could not be learned toight; in fact, no information was btained at the prison as to the detils of the matter. Union Meetings. Barnwell Baptist Association union teetings will be held at Seven Pines, dine and Colston churches Saturday ad Sunday, July 30 and 31. PROGRAM. 11 a. m., Introductory Sermon. Organization. Query 1. Lack of Spirituality in ur Churches. The Cfuse? Remedy? Query 2. The Importance of our enominational Schools and our Duty ) Support them. Query 3. The Formation of Fields nd Moving Pastors in the Midst. Sunday, 10 a. m.?Mass Meeting, ur Sunday-school Convention. Misonary Sermon. KLINE. Introductory Sermon?Rev. G. [opkins. Query 1.?Rev. W. C. Baxley. J. .. Jenkins, W. Barker. Query 2.?Rev. R. W. Sanders, D. ?., C. M. Edenfield, J. O. Sanders. Query 3.?Rev. G. Hopkins, Rev. 7. C. Baxley, J. McMillan. Sunday, 10 a. m.?T. J. Deer, J. .. Jenkins. Missionary Sermon?Rev. W. C. iaxley. COLSTON. Qnerv l.?Rev. F. M. Hauser, C. i. Free, Capt. D. H. Rice. Query 2.?Dr. J. B. Black, Rev. B. '. Allen, J. K. Mayfield, W. H. Still. Query 3.?Rev. J. Earle Freeman, lev. F. M. Hauser, Thos. Clayton, W. 'oik. Sunday, 10 a. m.?C. C. Elzey. Missionary Sermon?Rev. J. Earle 'reeman. SEVEN PINES. Introductory Sermon?Rev. J. H. toudenmire. Query 1.?R. M. Mixon, R. A. roodward, T. J. Grubbs. Query 2.?A. P. Manville, B. T. ice, W. J. Kennedy. Query 3.?Rev. W. G. Britton, G. !. Birt, W. Wooley, T. J. Grubbs. Sunday, 10 a. m.?R. M. Mixon, T. . Grubbs. Missionary Sermon?Rev. W. G. iritton. Dinner is expected on the grounds aturday. O. J. FRIER, B. F. ALLEN, W. G. BRITTOX. In a Nice, Cool Sewer. # It was a hot evening following a egular scorcher of a day, and Casey nd the family were sitting out on tie front porch trying to keep cool. "Sure 'twas an awful day in the itchen," said Mrs. Casey. "I have t' smile when I hear ye omplainin' about the heat, for, as a latther iv fact, ye don't know what | eat is," said Casey. "Oh. don't I now?" said Mrs. Caey. "Sure I'd change places with ou any day, for while I'm workin' ver a hot cook stove all day, I'm hinkin' iv th' fine picnic you're avin' workin' down there in that ice, cool sewer."?National Monthr The G Is what everybody ss Innlrofi at that nnp i 1UUI1VU Ul U1UI AA1AV | which we are offerim pound and envelopes 5c the package. We shipment at once and ceived a new lot. I easily worth 25c th( we are making a spe long as it lasts at 15 Lenc is the brand of this i look at it when you co pleasure to show it I Hand Paintei We received last c .1 1 1 1. II or tne nanasomesi n China ever shown j We now have this C play in our large sh Remember when y give a present you < what you are lookir We also have in stocl Office Sup and when you need . your office come to we will treat you rigl TF u 11 n neraia di BAMBERG, SOI Jt I rAa tpet ' ,A i'ip iys who has wraid paper ST 1 ; at 15c the to match at rtQ 1 sold the first pj I have just re- nj ;j his paper is P M i pound but M cial of it as ^ 1 c the pound. 2^ 3j sr* fi .CP 4M >X 3 1 taper, ask to M me in, it is a ji 0 you. pE I 1 fliina 3 A Vlliuu. week some and Painted ,|jlj in this city. 1 Ji hina on dis- NN ow window, jjj 3P ou have to 5? m :an find just ^ | lg for. here. . flggl i all kinds of fij r 0) :1 inline IlilltO M0 2 m anything for Q -M see us and m ll it. 9 iE. ' m M -m ?A|. juk JIUI e UTH CAROLINA I | ' >3*81 .-M : /V % '?< 4?1