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GJbr Hambrrg iirralh Thursday, April 20,1911. SHORT LOCALS. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. The stores now close at 6 o'clock, commencing last Monday. Have you contributed to the Confederate monument yet? If not, why not? . . The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet with Mrs. Thos. Taiooi!- noYt Tiipsdav afternoon at 4 X/mVIK y AAVM V ? ? #clock. Permanent street work should be the motto of the next city council. That is the kind which-is cheapest in the end. I The editor of this newspaper has been sick for a week, and this accounts for a lack of news and editorial matter. Mr. Chas. D. Felder has gone to Augusta, where he has accepted a position with the Southern Railway as operator. The Herald ackowledges a cash subscription of $2.50 from Mr. H. S. Dowling for the Confederate omnument fund. The municipal election will take nlace the second Tuesday in May. It I is likely that there will be only one ticket in the field. The passenger train from Charleston last Sunday night was several hours late on account of a freight wreck near Charleston. The Herald will give you 3,000 votes in the piano contest at Hoover's for each yearly subscription. We also give votes on advertising and job work. Bamberg county derives $1,180 from the high school fund, this amount being given to the schools at Bamberg, Denmark, Olar, and Ehrhardt. Some action should be taken by our authorities as to the railroads running freight trains on Sunday. Nearly every Sunday several freight /? trains come through town. Clerk of Court C. B. Free has received the pension money for this county, and is ready to pay it out. The pension list for Bamberg county is published in another column. Work was begun Monday on laying the foundation for the Confederate monument. The work of erection will go forward in order that the corner stone may be laid May 10th. A large force of hands have been working in town for a week or more x . relaying the track of the Southern with heavier rail. Most of the heavy rail has been laid between Branch I yiUe and Augusta. We acknowledge a cash subscrip tion of two dollars to the Confederate monument fund from Mr. G. E. | Hutto. If there are others who wish X*. to contribute to this cause, we shall j|^;:v ' be glad to receive it A letter from A. B. O'Brien, of Ruffin, tells of the death of his mother, a remarkable colored woman. She was 82 years old, and had been a widow for 19 years. She leaves six sons and 45 grand children. Saturday morning at her residence on Orangeburg Court, Mrs. Dick Richardson entertained a few of her friends at cards in honor of her guests, Miss Webber and Miss Beaty. These ladies are from Bamberg, and are spending a few days with Mrs. Richardson.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. The annual memorial exercises or the Rivers' Bridge memorial associ| . ation will be held next Thursday, April 27th. Col. James Armstrong, of Charleston, will deliver the memorial address. This is one of the largest gatherings in this section, and a number from Bamberg will no doubt attend, as usual. Mr. Frank B. Free, who has been connected with the Sentinel for the past several years, left Monday morning for Mulberry, Fla., where he has accepted a position in the analysis department of the Prairie Pebble Phosphate Co. Mr. Walker Keel, formerly of Barnwell, also holds a lucrative position with this company. ?Barnwell Sentinel. > -- A parole has been issued by Gov. Blease to J. R. Turner, white, sent to the penitentiary from this county several years ago for life, for attempted assault upon a little white child. All norfioa qptaaH iinnn tho narnlft ar it r*** ~.0- - x } ? -wras felt, under the circumstances, that Turner had been punished sufficiently. The petition asking for the parole was largely signed by our best citizens. Mr. H. W. Herndon brought to town last Saturday a mammoth lemon - which had been raised by Mrs. Herndon on a three-year-old tree which she kept in a box. This lemon weighed about two pounds, and was 17 inches in circumference. This was the only lemon on the tree last year, but this year there are a number of small lemons coming. It was certainly the largest thing in the shape of a lemon that we ever saw. The Denmark graded school wat one of the 12 schools in the Stat? which received a bonus of $200 fo] making 14 units. The cotton mill will close dowr this week and remain closed for si> weeks. This will throw the opera tives out during a bad season of th< year. That valuable exchange, the Con gressional Record, is again with us Being an old newspaper man himself, Congressman Byrnes knows what good wrappers they make. The Bamberg graded school has been awarded a bonus of $200 bj the State board of education for mak ing 14 standard units. Only li schools in the State made this record. New Advertisements. I Southeastern Life Ins. Co.? Opportunity Knocking at Your Door. gerndon's Grocery Store ? Yoi Show Good Business Judgment. 1 Town of Bamberg?Notice of Municipal Election. A. R. Byrd, Administrator?No tice to Creditors. Mrs. K. I. Shuck & Co.?Ch&ngi of Schedule. F. E. Price & Co.?Ice. Dance at Ehrhardt. Invitations have been issued tc the annual spring ball to take plact at Ehrhardt, in Copeland's hall, or the evening of Friday, April 28th 1911. Music will be furnished bj Metz's band, of Charleston. Chaperons?Mr. and Mrs. B. V Kearse, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Dannelly Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Farrell, Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Kearse. Committee?G. E. Ritter, Clarence Farrell, Horace Kearse, Roscc Kearse, Jessie Farrell, G. B. Kearse Frank Kinsey, Jake Hiers, J. P Griffin, E. D. Dannelly, Car Kearse Stacey Kearse. Floor manager?B. V. Kearse. New Manager. Mr. D. G. Richardson, who haf filled the position of manager of the St. George oil mill for the past twe season, has resigned and will take a similar position with the Denmarh oil mill. Mr. Richardson has filled the office of manager nere very acceptably, and It is with much regret that we learn of the departure of him and his charming wife from St. George. During their stay here they have made many friends and their departure will be a distinct loss to our town. Mr. Richardsor will move sometime before Maj first.?Dorchester Eagle. Married Last Sunday. Last Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the residence of her sister, Mrs. G. W. Eaves, Miss Hattie Gates of this city, and Mr. J. O. Tyner, oi Florence, were married. Rev. W. H, Hodges was the officiating mniister, The wedding was a quiet one, onlj the immediate relatives of the bride being present. The happy couple left on the evening train for their future home in Florence. They have the best wishes of their many friends. Dropped Dead. Ed Kinsey, an employee of the Orangeburg Manufacturing company in this city, dropped dead at the fire which occurred at the mill on Sunday morning. Kinsey ran a long distance to reach the fire and oe reaching the mill he stood watching the fire for a few moments, after which he fell dead in his tracks, The man is said to have complained of heart trouble for some time past and this is ascribed as the cause of his sudden death. Kinsey was about 30 years of age, and had been in the employ of this mill ever since its organization, he having come to this city from Bamberg. He was a native of Smoak's cross roads, and the remains were taken to that place yesterday afternoon for interment. The deceased is survived by one child. He was a native member o 1 of the gospel missions, of this city. ?Orangeburg Evening News. Hon. J. O. Patterson 111. News was received in Aiken yesterday afternoon that Congressman Patterson was desperately sick at his home in Barnwell, and that grave doubts were expressed as to his recovery. . The news spread rapidly about the city and much sympathy was expressed. All during the winter Mr. Patterson has been in declining health and everything possible has been done to restore him to health, but his disease failed to respond to treatment and he has been growing weaker month by month until the news was received yesterday that he was desperately sick and that his chances for recovery were very slim. The knowledge of his serious illness will bring sorrow to a large circle of his acquaintances who knew him so well when he represented them in Congress.?Aiken Journal and Review. # 3 Pension List for Bamberg County. > m ? CLASS "A"?$96. Beard, H. D. l Chitty, L. S. . Cox, L. L. Bishop, O. ? Bessinger, W. C. Pearson, H. F. Wilson, H. E. .Williams, G. P. Zeigler, J. H. CLASS "B" $72. 3 Copeland, J. C. Zeigler, J. J. 3 CLASS "C NO. 1" $48. 7 Beard, W. G. Brickwelder, Nicholas. ' . Copeland, W. R. Dempsey, A. R. Dempsey, R. C. Myers, A.,L. CLASS "C NO. 2." $20.60. Burbage, Sim Bessinger, J. W. Blount, M. 1 Copeland, J. S. Carter, M. S. Carter. L. C. Carter, Marion Cope, G. M. Hartzog, D. A. , Hadwin, H. N. Handberry, G. D. Jones, J. A. Johnson, James. Kinsey, Allen. Main, J. E. , McMillan, J. E. j McMillan, C. M. t McCormack, J. A. Morris, J. C. r Richardson, J. F., Sandifer, F. J. Sandifer, W. P. Stoudemire, J. H. i Wilson, A. Williams, W. W. 5 Weeks, T. S. CLASS "C NO. 3" $48. Ray, Rusha. ' CLASS "C NO. 4" $20.60. Boozer, Elizabeth. Bishop, J. A. Brown Georgiana. Brabham, Martha. Folk, A. E. \ Fail, Emily. ? Gilliam, M. A. > Grimes, Emma. ? Hagan, Lavinla. : Hutto, J. Lee. i WfrAS M A. Inabinett, M. A. Jones, Mary L. > Kinsel, Annie, i Kenyon, Mildred. ? Kinsey, Martha. I Kirkland, Regusta. t McMillan, M. A. t Morris, Eliza. r LaFitte, M. J. Muse, M. V. Morris, Nellie. Neil, Adeline. Nevils, Lizzie. ' Prpowitt R. fi. > Smoak, Annie. ? Smoak, Rebecca. Snider, M. L. % Smoak, Delilah. Tindall, S. R. Tant, Sarah Ann. Tant, Julia, i Tant, M. E. > Touchstone, Nora. > Zeigler, May Not Free Stripling. Atlanta, Ga., April 17.?"This is i not a court of -review, and applica> tions for clemency must have feat. ures which were not in the trial." j This comment was made by Gov. i Brown to-day, when the petition for . pardon of Thomas E. Stripling came before him for final hearing, it is , the belief of many here, according to 1 the Atlanta Journal, that the gover/ ; nor will shortly declare his disap; proval of the prison commission's recommendation and Stripling will , have to serve a life sentence in the i penitentiary, which he fled from afi ter being convicted of the killing of . William J. Cornett in Harris county, ( Georgia, more than 15 years ago. ( It was stated by the governor's sec. retary to-night that the governor was still considering the Stripling case i and that an announcement of his de; cision probably would not be made , for several days. Shortly after the hearing convened Gov. Brown stated 1(vf ovtflnrloH or III <11 11? BttW UU UVUU VAVVUUVU u. gument. "I can not use this office as an opposition establishment to the courts," he said. "It is not a court of review like the supreme i court; and it is not a court of cori rection to the supreme court. I can not retry a-case that was tried upon ' the same issues in the court below." BUSINESS LOCALS. O'Riley is still in town. Screen wire doors and windows of , all sizes and quality at Hunter's hard, ware store. O'Riley is still in town. C. F. Rizer at Olar has on hand [ thirty-five head of horses and mules, - and he will receive another car load . next Wednesday, the 26 th instant. It will pay all prospective buyers to . see him, for he can give them any i price horse or mule, from cheap to very fine. Those who come early [ get" the best bargains, so don't fail to call soon. O'Riley is still in town. i J Baptist Church News and Notices. DIRECTORY. Preaching service every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and at night, by the pastor, Rev. O. J. Frier. Sunday-school every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, J. A. Hunter, superintendent. B. Y. P. U. every Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Prayer meeting every Thursday night. Woman's Missionary Society meets Wednesday afternoons after the second Sunday in each month. Sunbeam Band meets every two weeks on Friday afternoons. Monthly conference each fourth Sunday. Observance of Lord's Supper the first Sunday in each quart r. NEWS AND NOTICES. There was a good attendance at Sunday-school and the morning service last Sunday. There was no service in our church at night on account of the union service at the Methodist church conducted by Rev. J. L. Harley, superintendent of State anti-saloon league. Rev. Harley preached an interesting temperance sermon at our church in the morning. Pastor Frier preached Sunday for Rev. Mr. Allen, pastor of Denmark Baptist church and enjoyed the visit and service to and with the Denmark Baptists. The B. Y. P. U. had an interesting Easter program Sunday afternoon. A good sized crowd attended. Let us not forget that we must round up all our home and foreign mission offerings this week. The Sunbeam Band meets Friday afternoon. Mr. Brabham Against Phosphates. Edtor The Bamberg Herald:?I have just read "Old Timer" on the boys' corn contest. If we count the value of the fertilizer which he mentioned it will go anywhere from $60 to $80 per acre. T? ???? 1io+ nf 1oe+ voar'o 1X1 guiiig UYCl LUC ilOL WL 1UUL J *. contest, very few boys made 100 bushels per acre. All of the good crops were' reported but none of the failures were reported. I do not wish to discourage the boys, but we older farmers are teaching the boys extravagance in the first and last degree. Everybody now thinks that land to make good crops must be dosed every year with from one-half to a ton of commerical fertilizer per acre. This may do for a few years but in the long run every farmer who does not supply humus (vegetable matter) to the soil every year will sooner or later find his crops growing less each succeeding year. Forty years ago 200 pounds of phosphate gave as good results per acre as does a ton per acre now. t hflvA eone over a considerable part of four counties in the past few months, and I find 90 per cent of all the land I have seen is fearfully destitute of humus. With nothing for a base, how do we expect phosphate to pay. If we send a man to plow, and give him no plow, plowstock or horse, how do we expect him to do any plowing? If we put fertilizer in soil in which the organic matter has all been consumed, how do we expect fertilizer to work. On nearly all of our soils, only nitrogen or ammoniates will pay. On soils such as ours now are, by constant clean cropping in corn and cotton, dosed heavily with phosphoric acid and potash, with only a moiety of ammonia or nitrogen, the two first ingredients do not pay, simply because from future T.Aova o eiiffinicmt ommiTit rpmains in J ^U1 tJ a DUUAVtVUV ii?? ? v V * soil for several years?in fact in almost all soils enough phosphatic matter is found to supply the crops for hundreds of years, but nitrogen nearly always is lacking. The first lesson the boys should learn, is to put all land in physical condition to receive fertilizers. This condition is: Thorough drainage, plenty of humus, good preparation and good cultivation, and last but not least, good seasons. All of these are essential or failure awaits each undertaker. It will take over $30,000,000 to pay South Carolina's phosphate bill this year. Suppose that cotton follows all other products this fall? where will the one and two ton of phosphate per acre farmer stand? Echo answers "in the hole." When I turn fool again and put even a half ton of phosphate per acre T nrant w?r fnionHfl fft Q dill (\P A TT1P TlOU X naut III J JLAiVUUW vv ? -o " ? ? compos mentis, and send me to the hospital for the insane. A. W. BRABHAM. Will Go Into Liquidation. Darlington; April 17.?At a meeting, of the directors of the Bank of Lamar, at Lamar, Darlington county, held to-day, it was decided to go into liquidation. It is believed that with careful management and by avoiding the costs of bankruptcy proceedings,, the depositors may be paid in full. Dr. James A. Cole, lately the president of the bank tendered his resignation last week. W. W. Davis, who was the cashier, resigned a few days before the bank failed to open its doors for business. It is not likely that there will be any payments before collections are made in the fall. No one was elected president to take the place of Dr. Cole, nor was 1 any cashier elected. < LOST BROTHERS UNITED. One a Railroad President, the Other a Laborer Working for the Road. When the civil war broke out John T. Markham, of Clarksville, Tenn., was among those who enlisted on the side of the Confederacy. He was born in Ireland, but in his boyhood his parents came to this country and settled in the "Sunny South'" He was 30 years old when he "marched off to the war" in 1861, leaving behind him an invalid father and a mother with a baby boy in her arms. The baby was christened Charles H. Markham, but the family always called him "Chuck." John Markham was captured and brought to Chicago in September, 1862. For seven montns ne was held a prisoner of war at Camp Douglass. Then he was "exchanged." Friendless and penniless, it took him many weary weeks to work his way back to the little home town ir Tennessee. When he did reach there it was only to find that his father had died during his absence and that hie mother had married again and moved away, taking little "Chuck" witt her. "They've gone north somewhere but just where nobody knows," the townspeople told John Markham And all his efforts to find his mothea and little brother were futile. Finally he gave up the search for them and went to Mississippi. He worked there and in other Southern States as ? well-digger, bricklayer, and plasterer. For several years he has beer an employee of the Illinois Centra' railroad at Hopkinsville, Ky. Such has been the life of John T Markham. In 1881 a boy of 20 asked for anc got a job as section laborer on the Santa Fe railroad in Kansas. He die not stay long in that job, for 2 chance came to do the rough worl at a little station on the Southerr Pacific line. He had brains and ambition, and they kept him moving right up the railway ladder. Ir 1887 he became a station agent himself at Deming, N. Mex. Ten years later he was district freight ageni and passenger agent of the South ern Pacific at Fresno, Cal. In jusi 10 years more he was made genera T%n rtOATt ft# fll Q' 11 c1&11l auu podja^vuv vi. vum company's lines in Oregon. In 1901 he became vice presides of the Houston and Texas Centra railroad. Three years later he sue ceeded Julius Kruttschnitt as vies president and general manager o the Southern Pacific. Last. Decern ber he was elected president of th< Illinois Central railroad. His name? Well, he was christen ed Charles H. Markham, but whei he was a baby the family called hjn "Chuck." The other day an old well-digge] and plasterer working for the Illinois Central railroad chanced to see th( name of Charles H. Markham on ai order issued from the office of th< president of the company. "That may be my brother 'Chuck,'" the old man said to hh fellow workers. "Your brother president of th road! You're crazy," they jeered. But the old man clung to his idea, and finally he mustered up courage to go to the telephone office in Hopkinsville,* and over the long-distance wire he talked with the brother from whom he had been parted for half a century. The other day the private car ol Charles T. Markham, president of the Illinois Central railroad, arrived at Hopkinsville, Ky., and awaiting the coming of "Little Chuck" was John T. Markham, well-digger and plasterer.?Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Shoot Up" Town. T ^ivin nrf An Vxr A nrll 1 7 T -QTTT_ JLiVAlUgtVU) A*. J | A^Xll AC* U?Tf' lessness was triumphant in Jackson, Ky., the seat of Breathitt county, on Saturday night, according to persons arriving here by train to-day, who brought the first news of the disturbance. Friends of Jason Deaton, who was killed in a feud fight with the family of Anse 'White a week ago, "shot up" the town in Western border style, acording to reports, riding through the streets and firing pistols into houses indiscriminately. No one was hurt, according to the information brought here, but as a consequence of the raid the guard about the jail, in which members of the White family are held, has been 1 a increased. Reports continue current that the Deaton faction is planning to raid the jail in an effort to wreak summary vengeance on the Whites. The persons who gave the information of the situation asked that their identity be kept secret as they feared the effect upon them on their return to Jackson. They also said that none of the newspaper correspondents in Jackson dared send out reports of the occurrence by wire, as all had been warned not to telegraph any such items to outside points. The commercial club of Walterboro is making efforts to have a modern hotel erected at that town. Hakes Hone Baking Easy 551 ^ w p11 i */H* ! POWDER Absolutely Pure % : The only baking powder 1 made from Royal Qrape Oroam of Tartar i MAUaUBtMraBPHMt j * A Frontier ,Hero. l I think it was about the summer of 1901 or '02 that I had the plea* ure of visiting in an excellent Ger[ man home near Osage City, Oklahoma. As we entered the house a 1 large black Newfoundland dog fdr lowed in. His beauty caught my eye, 4 y and I made some remark about him; and that led to this story told by the [ old German lady. I shall not attempt to imitate her speech, though I ast sure you that her fine German accent [ and saintly old face, as she related the incident, added not a little to its fascinating charm: * "T_ XL. J. XL. ..XXI. 1X1 Lilt; c<ui y nay a ui iue oeuic* ^ I ment of Kansas," said the good old * k matron, "we settled in the southern j part of the State. We owned a bigger and stronger dog then than the . one you just saw go out of the house. " We had only one child then, Charlie. He was a little over two. Our work r team was a yoke of oxen?one of ' them inclined to be 'ugly.' WeU, V that dog?Bruno was his name? 3 had taken up with the baby from t the very first time he ever saw itBruno was just about a year old t when Charlie was born?and as soon J j as the baby was able to crawl and t later to run about Bruno was always with him. I don't believe he ever * t let that child get out of his sight ^ j when he was out of doors. Well^ ' , ; ^ one day when father was working y away from home, I went out at noon .'<* J to water the oxen. Charlie had fol- ^ lowed me out into the yard, though I did not know it. He had on a % red dress, which I guess drew the attention of the ox; and with a snort the animal charged. My first impreesion wals that he waff rushing at me, * but the instant I fixed my eyes upon him I knew better; and turning; quickly in the direction of his ter- fv ^ ' rible eyes I saw Charlie. When hei ^ reached the end of the picket rope it snapped like twine. I was so ' frightened that to this day I do not 'i know what I did?it always seems WM ' to me as I try to recall that awful moment that I was trying to run to ^ my child, but could not move. As ^ usual, Bruno was near the child. He, too, saw what had happened and - - * ' | w^t was about to happen, witn the noble Instinct of his breed (he x ( was a cross between mastiff and * Newfoundland) he sprang in front of the unsuspecting child. I can see him to-day, his gredt muscles standr ing out in knots upon his shoulders, his powerful crouching limbs tense for the oncoming struggle, his white teeth shining, and his flaming fearless eyes fixed upon the infuriated charging beast. Before the maddened ox had reached him, with one mighty bound Bruno met him, and seizing him by the nose, he crouched to the ground and held him fast,? , until I had run and caught my child % . . " m up in my arms and run into tuts .v.- x house. I was so weak with fright that I could not stand, but sank ' 55 down upon the floor and cried for | sheer joy. * "When father came home that night, of course that was the first thing I had to .tell him. He had al- J ways thought lots of Bruno, and was , always very fond of the baby; but I think he had never before thought so much of Bruno or loved his baby so fondly as he did that night as he listened to my story. And when I had finished, he took Charlie in his arms again, and kissed him half a dozen times; and th^n he went to the door and opened it and called big Bruno in and sat down on the floor beside him, and put his arm around " ' ? *- 5? ? ? filer His necK ana partea mm uu wo u.Q brave head, and for half an hour talked to him and tried to make him understand that he appreciated what he had done."?0. B. Whitaker, of Merom, Ind., in Our Dumb Animals. Notice. The following gentlemen have been selected to serve as mayor and aldermen for the ensuing two years: ' ?% Mayor:?N. P. Smoak. Aldermen:?A. McB. Speaks, J. J, Smoak, Isaac B. Felder, C. W. Rents, E. H. Henderson, M. W. Brabham. Commissioner of Public Works? G. Moye Dickinson.