The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 04, 1911, Page 3, Image 3
FIRE AT ROWESVILLE.
Seed House of Oil Mill and Lumber
Plant Commissary Burned.
Rowesville, April 26.?Fire was
discovered this morning about 4
o'clock in the seed room of Rowesville
Cotton Oil company's plant here,
and although a stream of water was
soon playing on it, the flames, fanned
vj a auu uiccic, suuu icuu^vu n?>seed
room to ashes. The office
building nearby next took fire and
was consumed. The office building
and commissary of J. H. Blake
Lumber company was also burned,
and only by heroic efforts the rest of
the oil mill buildings and the entire
lumber plant were saved. The oil
mill loss will be about $4,000, covered
partly by insurance. Mr.
Blake's loss will be about $3,000.
The books and records from the
offices were all saved as well as most
of the contents of Blake's commissary
and office. The oil mill seed
house contained a large quantity of
hulls, which were consumed or badly
damaged. A .car loaded with hulls
on the siding was also consumed.
Starts Much Trouble.
If all people knew that neglect of
constipation would result in severe
indigestion, yellow jaundice or virulent
liver trouble they would soon
take Dr. King's New Life Pills, and
end it. It's the only safe way. Best
for biliousness, headache, dyspepsia,
chills and debility. 25c. at Peoples
Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C.
TEST SOT FILED.
Right of Order to Raise Rates Point
at Issue.
Columbia, April 26.?A test suit
of Statewide importance against the
insurance department of the supreme
lodge, Knights of Pythias, has been
filed in the Richland county court.
The suit has been filed to test the
right of the order to raise the rates
on insurance of the fourth class policyholders.
This action follows a long fight on
the part of several hundred policyholders
in South Carolina who claim
that' a prohibitive rate has been
placed upon them by the Knights of
Pythias. Two suits have been filed
involving the same issue. The cases
woTa hrAiicht rm Anril 5 hv Edward
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M. Clarkson and S. L. Miller, of Co*
lumbia, against the supreme lodge,
Knights of Pythias.
The complaint of Edward M. Clarkson
shows that on. January 5, 1885,
he filed with the Knights of Pythias
in Columbia an application for insurance
and upon the acceptance of
the application, entered upon a contract
for insurance whereby it was
agreed that Mr. Clarkson should pay
a certain membership fee. The fee is
> > not stated in the complaint, it being
about $5 per month. The amount of
insurance specified was $3,uuu to De
paid to the beneficiary upon proof of
death.
t Dues Increased.
"That beginning with the first day
f of January, 1911, the defendant
above named increased the monthly
dues above mentioned to a prohibitive
amount. That said increase being
so prohibitive and unreasonable as to
amount to a violation of the above
mentioned contract with the plaintiff
and was instituted by the defendant
^ as a result of fraud and mismanager
> N ment on the part of defendant and
its agents and servants."
It is further alleged that, although
Mr. Clarkson has made demand upon
I the agents of the company to return
the amount paid in as premiums, that
his requests have been ignored.
Judgment in the sum of $2,200 is
asked by Mr. Clarkson against the
supreme lodge.
The announcement that a suit had
been brought to test the legality of
the increase in rates by the supreme
lodge, Knights of Pythias, will be received
with interest by several hundred
South Carolinians. It is alleged
that the new rates are prohibitive.
The members of the fourth class policyholders
are old men who have
-v . been members of the order for many
years. It is alleged that in many instances
some of the members have
paid in almost as much as the face
value of the policy and that the high
insurance rate will force them to retire
from the order and lose what
they have paid in since young men.
The fight that is being waged by
the fourthclass policyholders is general
throughout the United States, it
is said, and the determination of the
case in Richland county will have a
most far-reaching effect. The case
rwas appealed to Insurance Commissioner
McMaster,,but under the lawhe
has no power to interfere.
?y, Saved Many from Death.
!W. L. Mock, of Mock, Ark., believes
he has saved many lives in his
25 years of experience in the drug
business. "What I always like to
do," he writes, "is to recommend Dr.
King's New Discovery for weaK, sore
lungs, hard colds, hoarseness, obstinate
coughs, la grippe, croup, asthma
f - or other bronchial affection, for I feel
ty sure that a number of my neighbors
k|| are alive and well to-day because
they took my advice to use it. I
honestly believe it is the best throat
and lung medicine that's made."
Easy to prove he's right. Get a trial
bottle free, or regular 50c. or $1.00
bottle. Guaranteed by Peoples Drug
Co., Bamberg, S. C.
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INDIAN LASSIES CAPTURE MATES
Outpoint Eastern Maidens in Contests
for the Cowboys' Love.
Ponca City, Okla., April 28.?The
yearning Eastern girl who writes to
the Oklahoma newspapers and postmasters
for a husband, dashing cowj
boy preferred, has a strong rival
j right here at home in the native InI
dian girl. The Indian has a big adI
vantage to begin with. She is rich,
j Uncle Sam has given her a farm
worth anywhere from $1,000 to $50,000;
then she may be only an eighth
or one-sixteenth Indian and be well
educated, refined and high up in tne
domestic sciences. So the housegrown
Indian maiden doesn't have to
go acourting, but she can make the
men come courting her. Great advantage
over her Eastern sister,
truly.
Newspaper stories published in
Oklahoma during the last three years
regarding applications from young
women of the North and East, who
declare they are seriously in need of
husbands of cow-punching proclivities,
show the total number of such
applications to have been fully 300
a year. They have been addressed
, largely to newspaper editors and
postmasters, although the governor
and some other State officials have
been called upon to aid in the husband
selecting business.
; A majority of these letters have
come from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois
and Iowa. New York and Pennsylvania
are next in the list. A few of
the older States, such as Kentucky,
Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia are
represented. The letters' that contain
the most alluring hopes for the
untamed young men of the West come
from Iillinois and Ohio, Chicago and
Cleveland furnishing an unusual
number. These cities lead in this
census, very probably for fhe reason
that so many Oklahoma residents
have come from them.
One Chicago Girl in Earnest.
Postmaster JE. iu. .brown, or uaiahoma
City, has received more of such
letters than any other man in Oklahoma.
One Chicago woman went so
far in her adventure that some of the
newspapers of that city began to
make inquiry concerning her intentions.
She used her correct name and
street address and she was the possessor
of a considerable fortune and
was connected with a prominent
family. The publication, locally, of
her letter to the postmaster resulted
in her receiving many proposals from
Oklahoma. ,The latter, be it said,
were not ten per cent, cowboys, and
probably not one per cent, were se
rious. Tbe degree or seriousness at
the other end of the line in most
cases has been about 90 per cent, as
compared with one per cent, at this
end of the line.
, With two or three exceptions
there are no longer any ranches
worth the name in Oklahoma, at
least there are none to compare
with those that existed 20 years ago,
visions of which husband-seeking
girls of other sections have .
in mind when they write silly letters.
Cowboys are scarce. The wild west
aggregations that travel over the
country represent a period of early
Oklahoma history, but the East and
North get the impression that it
represents conditions here to-day.
19, but Tired of Single Life.
Kind-hearted (lov. Cruce. whose 1
sympathies all have the religious flavor,
has received many peculiar letters
since his inauguration January
9, and among them has been a few
from husband-seeking girls. The
latest comes from Miss Hazel Thurs- (
ton of No. 3365 West Twenty-fifth
street, Cleveland, O. She asks that
the letter be published in a paper at
Bliss, Okla., a town a few miles from
Ponca City, and near the "101
Ranch." i
"I want a cowboy husband about
25 years old," writes this Cleveland
girl. "One who is willing and is <
comfortably situated. Tell him I
know what a dollar is worth. I am
tired of single life. I am 19 years ;
old. I am contented wherever he is.
Tell him I am a grand housekeeper, ;
also a good cook. Tell him to write, ;
but not call in person. When I get (
the fellow you shall be rewarded by :
a beautiful souvenir postcard."
Only one marriage as a result of
husband-seeking by this method is
recorded in Oklahoma. Thomas Mc- i
Cracken, a cowboy on a Beaver county
ranch, a few years ago became interested
in an advertisement appearing
in the papers and within a few
months after he had written to her
he became the husband of Mary
Cochran, of Springfield, Mo. They
were married in Monett, a designated
meeting place, and went immediately
to the Beaver county ranch. Shortly
thereafter McCracken was promoted
and transferred to another ranch
owned by the company in New Mexico.
In that territory two years ago
he secured a homestead and settled
down to simple life.
But many of the Oklahoma young
men want Indian girls for wives and
in addition thereto the lands the Indian
girls possess. There are 50 distinct
tribes of Indians in Oklahoma
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WHITE MAX IS SUSPECTED. *
Arrested in Connection With Mysteri- >
ous Stabbing of Negress.
Beaufort, April 27.?In a supposedly
drunken carousal outside the C
gates of the Marine Officers' school 1
on Paris island, April 8, Lizzie Smith, h
a disreputable negro woman of Beaufort,
was stabbed with some sort of a
blunt instrument and died yesterday
from the effects of the wound. With v
terrific force the instrument was driv- a
en through the back, penetrating the s
spinal column and severing the spin- v
al cord, which caused a complete pa- s
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the waist down. An autopsy was
held to-day by Dr. M. Elliott of this o
town. There is a seeming mystery
surrounding the whole affair, and the t
identity of the assassin is in doubt, v
Herbert Roose, a white man, has 1i
been arrested as a suspect. It is a
alleged that he is a marine, baker t
and connected with the Marine Of- d
cers' school. The inquest was call- s
ed for to-day at 12 o'clock at the 1
court house, but was postponed until
to-morrow, on account of the wit- s
nesses being absent. 1
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May Go to Gang. t
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Atlanta, April 25.?Shall Atlanta j
send one of her city councilmen to -t
the chaingang for habitual drunkenness?
The question has been put up
to the city government in a way it ?
can't dodge by a peculiar series of ^
circumstance. ^
Dr. S. D. Warnock, a highly re- ^
spected practicing physician and for ^
years a member of the council from c
4th ward, was arrested about three t
months ago on an aggravated charge t
of drunkenness. It appeared that he g
had bought some "mean" whiskey
from a blind tiger and had publicly f
indulged in a public spree. t
Arraigned before the recorder, he t
pleaded guilty to everything charged, a
but made a beautiful and touching rj
plea in his own behalf, citing his c
splendid record, and declaring j
"Judge, I want you to simply let me
off on probation, for I know I am r
guilty, on the understanding that the a
very next time you learn that I have
been drunk you send me to the chaingang
without the alternative of pay- ^
ing a fine."
The judge agreed. The city ocun- j
cil, which had at first intended to
ask him to resign, instead decided to
give him another chance, and encourage
him in the most kindly way
to reform.
That was three months ago, and t
now, like a bolt from the clear sky,
a
comes Mrs. Warnock, with a petition
for total divorce, setting forth that .
her husband has been "perpetually
drunk" since the time of that trial,
and that during the time he had
treated her with cruelty.
Mrs. Warnock declares that her
husband had become more and more
enthralled by alcohol, and has let his
once splendid practice slip from his
grasp until now practically nothing
of it is left.
and they own and control several ^
million acres of land. Nearly every '
Indian in the State has an allotment. ^
Allotments vary in size from 640
acres in the Chickasaw and Choctaw ^
nations to 169 acres in the Comanche
and Kiowa country. They are worth
from $50,000'down to $1,000. Be- t
sides this, nearly every Indian in the
State has an income from oil or gas
royalty, interest on money held in ?
trust by the United States or leases t
from grazing or agricultural lands.
There are poor Indians, but this con- y
lition results from the inability of the t
Indian to properly manage his af- t
fairs.
Squaw Wives Bring Money. C
Any ttirifty, energetic young man "
who becomes the husband of an In- ^
dian girl can do well, for there is little
difficulty in the average case of v
his getting possession of her prop- I
erty. She may be an eighth or a six- s
teenth-blood and her face may be *
a
white and -her standing in the com- t
munity the best. It is not necessary s
for adventurous men any more to t
marry squaws solely for the sake of ?
getting their lands and money. In- t
dian maidens of Oklahoma have made c
ideal brides in many cases. t
There is a story of a young Geor- ?
gian who settled among the Comanches
12 years ago and married f
a Comanche girl. When the Co- 0
t
manche reservation was alloted prior J
to the opening in 1901, he and his g
wife received 320 acres of as fine valley
land as there was in the reser- 1
vation. Upon it he erected a mag- 1
nificent residence and began improving
his farm. Three years later he t
wrote to his mother in Georgia of 0
his lucky marriage and invited her to ^
visit him. She came in due time ac- i
companied by her daughter. They a
were ushered into the home of the v
young man with a good deal of pomp J
and introduced to a full-blooded In- t
dian wife. He had not written that p
his wife was an Indian. The mother 1
and sister retreated, horrified, and |
refused to again come to the house,
leaving for Georgia on the next train. 1
The young man never has heard of I
them since.
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IYRTLE REED GROWS BITTER.
Ian is a Cheap Skate and Woman AlMost
as Bad.
Chicago, March 31.?Rayenswood
'lub members got a shock yesterday,
'he story as told by the Chicago Triune
is as follows:
"Man is a cheap skate, and woman
lmost as bad."
This doesn't sound much like "Laender
and Old Lace," but it was the
uthor of that "sweet scented manucript,"
Myrtle Reed McCullough,
t'ho said it in effect yesterday to the
omewhat scandalized members of
he Ravenswood Woman's Club.
The author was outlining her views
?n matrimony.
"The wife," she said, "gets her
toard, her clothes, and a few kind
t'ords, while her servant in the
;itchen gets her board, her clothes,
,nd $7 a week. If the average husland
used the same language to his
lomestics as he does to his wife, his
kull would be corrugated from colisions
with a rolling pin.
"The man's argument: 'Well, I
upport her,' breaks down completey
before that state of facts. If anyhing
further were needed, it might
>e pointed out that he also supports
~ ~TJio Am_
Lit; WUlLlcLil 111 ma urntc. mo tui)loyees
do not feel under any paricular
obligation to him for that.
Pay Better than "Beery Kiss."
"You would have great difficulty in
inding a working woman in' this
jreat city willing to exchange her
weekly pay envelope for her emdoyer's
whispered 'darling' and his
eery kiss. Marriage in a good many
ases is a gold brick game in which
he man exchanges that intangible
hing called 'love' for the wife's real
ervice.
"The modern woman is suffering
rom atavism. Modern living condiions
have brought this about. Hisory
has repeated itself and women
ire back in the cave-dwelling age.
The up-to-date flat is the troglodyte's
:ave embellished with open plumbng
and electric lights.
"Eighty-six per cent, of the wonen
of the United States virtually
ire cave dwellers."
Slaughtered Birds Her Delight.
"She bedecks herself with the
eeth and the hides of wild beasts,
ind never is so happy as when she
s able to parade herself before the
<rorld glorified in the feathers of
ome bird slaughtered by a brute of
i man.
"Woman never will be able to
(mancipate herself until she puts all
his aside. Corsets, French heels,
md nursing bottles are the chains
hat bind her to the husband's charot
wheels. The truly great woman
>f the world have been iconoclasts,
'hey laughed at convention. If modrn
woman would follow in the footteps
of the great ones of her sex,
he problem of woman's rights would
?e solved."
Willie's Trousers.
The late Bishop William N. Mcricker,
of Rhode Island, harbored a
arge soul in a body to match. He
vas a bachelor whose sister kept
Louse for him.
On one occasion he telephoned to
lis tailor that he wished to have a
air of trousers pressed, and the tail?r
sent a boy to his residence to get
hem.
The bishop's sister admitted the
nessenger and called up-stairs:
Willie, the boy has come for your
rousers!"
When her brother appeared the
outh's astonished gaze traversed
he prelate's impressive "corporosiv."
then he murmured:
"Gee! Is that Willie?"?Youth's
!ompanion.
Vinthrop College Scholarship and
Entrance Examination.
The examination for the award of
acant scholarships in Winthrop Colege
and for the admission of new
tudents will be held at the County
Jourt House on Friday* July 7, at 9
,. m. Applicants must be not less
han fifteen years of age. When
cholarships are vacant after July 7
hey will be awarded to those making
he highest average at this examinaion,
provided they meet th8 condiions
governing the award. Appliants
for scholarships should write
o President Johnson before the exmination
for scholarship examinaion
blanks.
Scholarships are worth $100 and
ree tuition. The next session will
pen September 20, 1911. For furher
information and catalogue, ad!ress
Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill,
i. C.
JPW prwunc rfim
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This is to notify my friends and
he pubilc generally that I have
pened a pressing club in the Spann
tuilding on Main street, up-stairs.
Ve press and clean men's clothing,
adies' coats and skirts, clean felt
nd straw hats, and in short, do any
fork in our line. We guarantee abolute
satisfaction. If your work
ias not been done satisfactorily hereofore,
give us a trial. We will
ilease you. Will send for and deiver
all work, and shall use every
ffort to give satisfactory service
long all lines.
R. O. RICE
Bamberg, S. C.
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United Confederate Veterans
D' 1 Little Rock, Ark., May 15th-18th, 1191 | :
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I May 13th, 14th and 15th, limited until May ! p|||
23rd. Ticket can be deposited at Little \ ^
1 Rock, and upon payment of a fee of fifty 1 ?
1 cents at time of deposit, limit of ticket can 1
be extended to, and including June 14,1911 >
For rates and information, apply to nearest
agent, or
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