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l"T" I We Ma IWe have one of 1 H. M. G PERSONAL MENTION, i ? " * - rrk!? reopie Visiuug ui JLUis vit/ auu I at Other Points. 3 y ?Mr. G. W. Garland is at home from a trip to Beaufort. t ?Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stokes are at home from Glenn Springs. a ?Mr. J. 0. Hartzog, of the Govan c section, was in the city Tuesday. d ?Dr. and Mrs. V. W. Brabham, of * $ Cope, spent Monday in the city. ?Miss Marie Sease is spending a some time with relatives in Kline. ^ ?Mrs. H. J. Brabham, Jr. and ^ children have gone to Saluda, N. C. t ?Mr. H. A. Ray, of Blackville, t r was in the city Monday and Tuesday. ^ ?Mrs. H. W. Beard and children v are visiting relatives in Atlanta, Ga. n ?Miss Minnie Owens, of Ehrhardt, a is visiting Miss Lena Miley.?Brunson t News. t ?Mr. M. A. Moye, of Fairfax, is * visiting relatives in the city this 13 week. a 0 ?\Tr and Mrs. .Tames B. SDann. of Wewahitchka, Fla., who have been a t visiting relatives here, left for home yesterday. s a ?Mrs. R. Lee Klauber, of St. ^ r Matthews, is visiting Mrs. W. A. : Klauber. v ?Mrs. C. P. Desportes, of Chai-.es- ^ i ton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Coleman, in this city. c, ?Mrs. W. H. Zeigler, of the Cope a section, has been visiting her father, '] Mr. D. F. Hooton. ^ t ?Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wright, of r Orangeburg, are visiting relatives in the city this week. ?Mr. O. A. Simmons left yester- F day for a trip to West Florida to visit ^ his wife's relatives. P ?Mrs. Henry F. Bamberg and ^ little son, Henry, left' last Friday for s' a stay at Hendsrsonville, N. C. , s< ?Mrs. Wade Faust, of Denmark, is here on a visit to her father, Mr. W. V. Blyth.?Greenwood Index. ?Mrs. Susan Platts and son, of Bamberg county, visited Mrs. J. B. Harter last week.?Brunson News. ?Messrs. H. J. Brabham, Jr., and q W. A. Klauber left last Saturday for 2 a business trip to Baltimore and New j: ^ York. o ?Mrs. M. B. Kennedy and little v son, of Ridgeland, are on a visit to t her mother, Mrs. M. R. Brickie, in 0 this city. d ?Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Matthews and b daughters, Misses Lucile, Juanita and n Blanche, spent Wednesday in Bam- s ^ berg.?Blackville Courier. v * ?Mrs. J. D. O'Hern and little son, h of Lakeland, Fla., are in the city on ^ a visit to her father and mother, Mr. 8 and Mrs. Geo. A. Jennings. f ^ ?Mr. Ed. Hays and Mr. G. Frank T Bamberg, of Bamberg, were here last * > week visiting Capt. F. S. Evans for c a few days.?Greenwood Index. * ?Mr. H. O. Matheny and little sons, Masters DeWitt and Hugh, of t Washington, Ga., spent Sunday with E his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. \ Matheny. ?Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robinson, j, of Ehrhardt, after a visit to Mrs. s Robinson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. q J. R. Scurry, returned home on Sun- a day.?Newberry Observer. ?Miss Pearle Sandifer returned j to her home in Bamberg after a a month's visit to friends and relatives a in Johnston. She was accompanied c \ by her sister, Mrs. W. M. Sandifer, g Masters Marion and Alvin Sandifer. ? ?. ?A merry party 01 young ioiks i spent a few days last week with Mrs. s W. S. Bamberg, near town. They were Miss Myra Hooton and Mrs. S F. B. McCrackin, of this city, Miss i May Zeigler, of Cope, Miss Julia t '* Fender, of Georgia, Mr. W. P. Mur- t phy, of Bamberg, and Mr. Robert 1 Graman, of Charleston. i w* INS inufacture Hi the best equipped the South. Our iRAHAM Country Correspondence. The reunion at Bethesda was quite l success, and as a great number of our readers were not there, out of rhich a few might like to hear of he day. The day dawned clear and bright, nd long before the shadows were urling themselves in shorter lengths, roves of folks were seen wending heir way in the direction where for ive years in succession Company G nd their comrades, companions, and osts of other friends have spent the ast Thursday in July in a social, inelligent and unison manner, where he old mingled together to talk of heir boyhood days, love affairs, war appenings and business careers, to iew the younger ages as they promeade in the stage of idleness of life nd watch them emerging out of he romantic stage into that of which he sager ones are leaving, in willing hese stages of romance and enjoylent they also will greater stages of mbition, perseverance, endurance, n6rgy and forbearance and can, with long seeing eye, lift the curtain of he future, see ourselves posing as ilver locked women and men, with s beautiful past of fortitude, faithulness, and courage as we see those f our parents and grand-parents, -ho faced the trials in the '60's; are re made of the metal that will tand the tempest of life, the fight for ountry, if need be; and be as joyful nd happy in the snowy days of the Smber months of our years as those rhom we see at these "old soldier eunions." Thirteen of the original company G" saw the first powder burn at tort Sumter and were at Appomatox hen the eventful surrender took lace. It is a pathetic scene to be rhere so many veterans are asembled, who have so many wounds, cars and minus so much of their odies, all caused by that which rought about the freedom which we re and have been enjoying. A very nice program was rendered, onsisting of songs, recitation and pceches. Miss Sula Walker recited "The tonfederate Grey," Miss Deborah ieigler, "Where Are the Confederate toys," and Rev. Paul Muse, lectured n the patriotism of the South in rhich he pictured the noble deeds of he many Southern officers in the war >f the 60's, and the efficient presients furnished by the South, and last iut not least the gallant, brave, and lever tiring fortitude of the private oldier. His father, Dr. George Muse, ras a member of company "G" and lis speech was one of tenderness and lomage to his father's comrades, howing his great appreciation to the riends of his fathers sore trials and i-arships for the honor of their inviation, and suffice it to say he disharged his task assigned him with :race and adorned his speech with teautiful knowledge. J. A. Wyman, Esq., was next on he subject of secession. He read oany extracts from history which rere the causes of the war, emphaL'ing the fact that the word "civil" s hardly a fitting word, but "secesion" leads the thought more forcibly. :ol. Mortimer Glover, of Orangeburg, i member of the entertaining com>any, was the last on the morning >rogram. He was very appreciative it being a speaker on the occasion ind offered a lot of mirth to the oc:asion, at times touching on the gratitude of the occasion to such an ?:tent as to show emotion, and alogether Mr. Glover proved himself i most delightful man. The services were presided over by sheriff J. B. Hunter, and while seeng all these maimed fathers standing ;ogether the writer was reminded of ;he battle of Mannassas where Sheriff hunter and a number of Company G vere wounded, and of viewing that MAR] (liNCORP* l N T O N, igh Grade Mor mills in the South, satisfied customers * ~ = : Bamberg, Sc battle as pictured at the Charleston Exposition, having the sheriff for a guide, and seeing the old scrag of a tree where the limb was buried, the old house where he was taken and allowing this to come to the memory and taking it as a sample of how the war must have tasted, it should make every one bow with tender reverence to every Confederate soldier. The ladies were never more at their j best as consolers of the inner man' than on that occasion. I think they J must have each estaonsnea a nuie competition inwarly to outrival her neighbor, for the tables fairly groaned under their loads, and I'm sure not going to waste paper at an attempt to give the menu. True Southern hospitality was made manifest and every one made to feel as being at home. Mr. David Hill, though still in his 'teens, made a manly address on j "The New South" in the afternoon, showing how the North and South are becoming more and more united. A collection was taken last of the afternoon to defray the speakers' expenses and others occasioned by the reunion. The services were opened in the morning by Scripture reading and prayer by Rev. J. Earle Freeman and closed in the afternoon by "God be With You," by the choir. Briefly speaking, the last was the best in the annual reunions. The soldiers were happier, the weather pleasanter than on many, the boys more manly, the girls more winsome, the ladies were ever at their best, but on this were better than best and may each and every one present be there on next reunion day. Branchville's New Depot. Plans for the rebuilding of the passenger station at Branchville, on the Southern Railway were approves Tuesday. The new depot will be of brick and large enough to accommodate the traffic at that place. There will be two large passenger rooms. Additional sheds will be erected. The platform will be of concrete. This will give the town of Branchville the handsomest passenger station on the Southern between Charleston, Columbia and Augusta, and we congratulate her on her good luck. Per Capita Tax for Public Schools. According to figures prepared by the census bureau the larger cities of the country pay more for schools and for police and fire protection and related service than on all other accounts, and of these two items the payment on account of schools is much the largest, the average per capita expense for schools being $4.70, as compared with $2.25 for police and $1.75 for fire protection. The figures are given out as a part of the bureau's report covering the financial operations of cities during I the vear 1908. The report covers all cities of more than 30,000 population, of which there ace 158. The aggregate cost of operating all these cities was $404,997,312. The report includes a general increase in the cost of maintaining city j governments. In 1902 the average was $13.36 per capita. By 1908 it had advanced to $16.81 per capita. Boston heads the list with an expense account of $27.58 for each person. Of the large cities New York comes next with a cost of $25.71, while Washington with a cost of $24.63 makes a close third. Of the first-class cities New Orleans paid less for city government than any other, the cost being only $12.76 per capita. Salt Lake City paid more per capita for schools, $8.18. Montgomery, Alabama, made the lowest expenditure, $1.63 per capita. The Denmark Realty Company is delivering the goods. Try them if you want to buy or sell real estate or stocks. C. H. MILHOUS, Manager. BLE ORATED) QEORl lumental Wo and manufacture ; are the best refei = Specij >uth Carolin Terrible Toll of Human Lives. St. Petersburg, August 6.?Russia scourge, the cholera, continues t< spread with most alarming rapidit: particularly in the Southern minin districts and in St. Petersburg, wher the conditions are fast approachin the proportions of the great epidemi of 1908. Figures furnished to-day by th central sanitary bureau show that i the week from July 24 to July 30 th latest available complete figures there were 150,244 cases of choleri and 6,944 deaths. Of these 4,78 cases and 2,233 deaths were reporte from the Province of Yekaterinosla and the interior of the Don Cossaew in South Russia. The provincial as sembly of Yekaterinoslav to-day as signed $2004)00 for the cause. The desertion of the work by \i borers extends also to the railroa employees and the workmen in th ports in South Russia, threatenin to cripple the export movement c grain. Advices from Yekaterinosla report that the transport of the crop is at a standstill. The epidemic continues to mak enormous progress in the capita where the daily average of case jumped last week to thirty. Yestei day 182 cases or suspected cases c cholera were taken to the hospital and there were thirty deaths. Th hospitals now contain 962 cases c cholera. The high record reached i 1908 was 412 cases per day. The' outbreak of bubonic plague a Odessa, however, against which Auj tria, Roumania, Bulgaria and Tui key have instituted strict quarar tines, is not spreading. Only on suspected case was reported yestei day after a two-days' interval. Gei Tolmacheff, the prefect of Odessa, ha thrown a cordon of troops and pc lice around the infected ward of th city and allow no one to pass in o out except the doctors- assigned t fight the plague. It is a noteworthy. fact that th cases of the plague were first repori ed from a bakery, in the same hous in which the epidemic of buboni plague started in 1902. Odessa has been afflicted with scourge of rats since May, and the ir effective measure taken to kill off th rodents by the authorities is blame for the present outbreak. Personal Mention. ?Mr. A. M. Brabham has gone t Hendersonville, N. C. ?Mr. H. H. Copeland is at horn from Hendersonville, N. C. ?Mr. J. D. Copeland, Jr., ha gone to Hendersonville, N. C. ?Mr. and Mrs. Jones A. William and children have gone to Glen Springs. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Murdaugh ar visiting relatives in Charleston th: week. ?Mr. G. A. Lucas, of Aiken, i spending a few days in the city th: week. ?Mr. Glenn Hutto, of St. Ma thews, spent Sunday here with h fomilr icliucri o laiun;. ?Mr. Leroy Price is at home froi Charleston, where he has been ur der treatment. ?Mrs. M. A. Adams is visitin the family of her son, Mr. C. D. C Adams, in Walterboro. ?Mrs. C. R. Brabham and littl daughters, Evelyn and Vista, left las week for a stay at Saluda, X. C. ?Misses Lucile and Jauanita Ma thews, of Blackville, were the guesi of Miss Mary Matheny last week. ?Mrs. W. M. Brabham has gor to the seashore at Charleston on ai count of the illness of the little boy: Mr. Brabham went down with thei yesterday morning, but has returne< COMF I A irk at Minima ; more monuments rence we can offer. al Repres a SIGNS OF PROSPERITY. s Large Increase in Imports of th< Luxuries of Life. r, s Prosperity in the United States b e on the increase, if the purchase: ft - 1 J 1 A AV,? nnc auruau uy xiiuci luaus uunug mc pao 10 year of works of art, diamonds, fin< furs and champagne can be taken a 1 a criterion. Whereas, there wen n brought into this country during th< e fiscal year of 1909 only $3,800,001 3* worth of art works, millionaires an< l' other citizens brought in during th< fiscal year just closed art works t< the value of $21,100,000. In dia v monds the increase was from $24, s 100,000 to $39,000,000, and in un 5~ dressed furskins from $11,700,000 t< $15,200,000; in dressed furs an< manufactures thereof from $9,400, l" 000 to $11,000,000. While no more automobiles wen e imported last year than during th< s previous twelve months, their valu< [ in each case having been $2,900,000 * this is accounted for by the fact tha s most Americans are buying machine! of home make; and whereas only $5, e 400,000 worth of automobiles wen ' pxnnrted in 1909 this country sen f abroad this past year $9,500,001 ^ worth. Increases are shown by th< s figures prepared by the bureau o statistics in imports of many othe; articles, and the total increased fron $1,311,900,000 in 1909 to $1,558, 100,000 last year. The imports o manufacturers' materials during th< ' fiscal year 1909 were the largest oi ' record. The exports for manufactures foi the year also exceeded those of an: previous year. The value of the ex ports was $1,710,000,000, an increasi l' of $72,000,000. The increase in th< (S imports was $246,000,000^. e ir Nation's Population About Ninet; o Million. e Washington, August 7.?It will b< t- October before people of the Unitet e States learn their true numbers as re ic vealed by the official count of th< 13th census. It is generally believe< a that the number will be about 90, i- 000,000, and census officials ar< e known to share in this general be d lief, although they know nothinj about this. This belief is based on the fact tha an increase slightly in excess of th< 13,000,000 increase during the pre vious decade would bring the popu lation in 1910 to the 90,000,00? e mark. About 300 of the more thai 18,000 clerks in the census bureai LS are compiling population figures while the others are working on othe statistics. Contrary to the genera IS opinion, all the counting of the peo n pie is done by clerks, the tabulating machines being used only in class! e fication as to race, sex and other con is dition. Enumeration figures will continm [g to be given out day by day for th< . next two months or more, while th< sociological and industrial figure will come later. All enumerate* t- figures are counted from three t< is four times, and an investigation i nrripred if there is any suggestion o n error. In two cases evidence o fraud had been discovered and in one that of Great Falls, Mont., a prosecu tion has been undertaken for fraudu g lent enumeration. " The intention of Director Duram is to tabulate first the population o le the large cities, after which th< ;t figures for the States will be givei out as they are ascertained, the re turns for all counties in the Stab being announced at the same tirm as the figures for the State. & The city council of Spartanburj > has appropriated $ 1,0 00 to entertaii s. the Confederate veterans, who wil m. hold their State reunion in that cit; i. the 17th and 18th instant. >any| in v than any mill in a j entativel I GETTING INFORMATION. 3 A Traveler's Experience with a "Piny Woods" Native. 3 It is not wise, says the Youth's s Companion, to base final conclusions t upon outward appearances. Mr. Ste3 phen Powers made this mistake once 3 while traveling in the South. In the a "ninv woods" of North Carolina it e is hard to get a direct answer, yes or ) no, from tue natives. Mr. Powers 1 made up his mind that he would e force a decisive reply, and one day, d meeting an old clay-eater astride a donkey, hauling a load of wood, he "M - thought his opportunity had arrived. The man's legs were so long that 3 he could have doubled them round r-M l the animal he rode. On one of his - callous heels he wore a mighty spur. "Is there any tavern on the road to 3 Fayetteville?" I asked. 3 "Reckon you mout find one if you ' ' ^ s-iook in the right place," was the re , I sponse. ' t "This is the direct road to Fayette3 ville, I suppose?" -f/T'5 "You'd be pretty apt to get there V' - | 3 if you keep a-going straight ahead.' t "Do you sell much wood in Fay) etteville?" 3 "I reckon this 'ere jack thinks he f has to haul a right smart chance." r "Does wood bring a good price i now?" "It's jest according. Some fetches f more and some agin not so much." 3 "Oak fetches more than pine, I i suppose?" . "It mout, and then agin it r moutn't." [ T "I believe you Southerners burn - green wood mostly?" 3 " 'Tain't particular. Every fellow * S 5 to his liking." "Well, now, my friend," I said, determined to get something out of f the man before I gave up, "I'm writing a book on the subject of wood, ' and I want to get all the informaa tion I can. If you were called upon ? . ^ j in court of law to give your personal * , >-I . and unbiased opinion, you would, dea clare on oath, would you not, that j 100 pounds of green oak would weigh _ more than 100 pounds of dry pine?" s The man gave me one quick _ glance, then looked steadfastly at his , donkey's ears. "Well, now, stranger," he drawled, t "you can jest set down in your book e when you git to that place, that all _ the people of North Carolina were _ such fools you had to weigh it your- < a self" mk ] ELECTION BETTING OUTLAWED. r Little Joe Brown Signs Important 1 Legislative Act. = j Atlanta, Ga., August ?.?Betting - i on elections became illegal *n Georgia - to-day, when Governor Brown signed the anti-betting bill just passed by e the legislature. e The house to-day passed an antie lobbying bill, requiring any person 8 "representing a person, firm or cor* poration for, or against any legisla3 tion" to register his name, that of s his employer and the designation of f the bill he is interested in. Violar tion is a felony. The bin applies only !? to paid agents engaged in lobbying. - It goes to the senate. - 1 The house by a vote of 93 to 13 r^oacori tho cn-rniied white slave bill, I^/ai9?VU vuv V W making it unlawful to procure a fe1 male for immoral purposes or to rob e her of virtue by payment of money, 1 promise of marriage or promise of " employment, or to bring a female into e the State or take her out of it for e immoral purposes. The penalty is imprisonment for from one to two and a half years. The bill now goes ? to the senate. * <v> a m 1 Big line of ladie's and children's y oxfords now on sale for cash at a big discount at Klauber's cash store.