The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 07, 1911, Page 6, Image 6

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I A Few Good Reasons Why You Should Deposit With The Ehrhardt Banking Company 1st. Because we are absolutely safe. 2nd. Because we are conservative. 3rd. Because we are constantly helping the farmer, and in helping the farmer we are building up the country in which we are located. 4th. Because a bank account with a strong bank stimulates credit, ana helps you to help yourself. 5th. Because we are strong in the desire to make our bank of practical value to every man, woman or child that favors it with their account. We pay 4 per cent, interest on deposits in our savings department. Now that the cotton season is on, bring us your checks and drafts, and we will handle to your satisfaction. Ehrfaardt Banking Company Capital and surplus $24,550.00. EHRHARDT, S. C. FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Office la Hoffman Building. GENERAL PRACTICE. : ? ~\ : "LOMBARD" ! Improved Saw Mills, {variable friction feed. nd^Reiiable. *} Best material and workmanship, lightj running, requires little power; simple J easy to handle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial moneyj making machines down to the smallest size. write for catalog showing Engines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. Lombard Iron Works A Supply Co., , * * AUGUST A. GA. H. M. GRAHAM H. G. ASKINS GRAHAM & ASKINS Attorneys at Law. We practice in the United States and State Courts in any County in the State. BAUBERGi S. C. ? I J. P. Carter B. D. Carter i-- ' ;' . CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law Bamberg, S. C. 8pecial attention given to settlement of estates and investigation of land titles, tan j Fire, Life j|. ;: Accident ;; i INSURANCE i; < ? BAMBERG, 8. C. o DR. J. a BOOZER DENTIST, DENMARK. Graduate Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Class 1907. Member South Carolina Dental Association. Office Rooms 1-2 Citizens Exchange Bank Building. Hours: 9-12 and 2-5 every day. i I J. D. COPELAND, JK. i: ^ .-agent for... Penn Mutual Life Ins. Co. Money to Loan On Real Estate BAMBERG, .-SOUTH CAROLINA WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO Their Unceasing Work Keeps Us Strong and Healthy. All the blood in the body passes through the kidneys once every three minutes. The kidneys filter the blood. They work night and day. When healthy they remove about 500 grains of impure matter daily, when unhealthy some part of this impure matter is left in the blood. This brings on many diseases and symptoms?pain in the back, headache, nervousness, hot, dry skin, rheumatism, gout, gravel, disorders of the ?T7/}oicrVi+ anH ''npnrin? fiizzinffss. W^01buv "VM.. C>> ?; irregular heart, debility, drowsiness, dropsy, deposits in the urine, etc. But if you keep the filters right you will have no trouble with your kidneys. Mrs. Samuel Harrison, Church St., Bamberg, S. C., says: "I have used Doan's Kidney Pills and they have been very beneficial. My * kidneys annoyed me and I suffered intensely from backache and pains through my lions. Doan's Kidney Pills, which I <rr\+ fmm Pennle's F)rnC.d re v?^ - X c , -lieved these difficulties and improved my condition wonderfully. You are at liberty to use my name as a reference." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's? and take no other. GUN-FIGHTERS IN CONGRESS. How Ben Johnson Answered the Four "Bad Men." It is pretty generally known that a small arsenal can be mustered in the chamber pretty nearly any time the house of representatives is in session. A percentage of the "voices of the people" in the lower house go "heeled" pretty much all the time, and a silk handkerchief is not always responsible for an unexplained bulge in the immediate vicinity of a congressional coat tail. Staid, weaponless inhabitants of large cities have ceased wondering at well-known "gun toters" from the South and West. In fact, the "gun toter" is becoming less numerous with each succeeding congress, thowzh there be Dlenty now. But if the "gun toter" has ceased to be a cause for wonder, the gun fighters of congress, were all their records known, might excite comment. For congress has gun men, real live fighters, with "Kit Caraons" on their gunstocks and reputations for speed of the draw and a bird's-eye brand of accuracy. Several have records for having "got" their man, and at least one has put several bad actors away. Others have come out of hostile powder smoke with marks of the conflict or after having left their opponents so marked. Representative Ben Johnson, of Kentucky, chairman of the commit- j tee on the District of Columbia, caused something like a sensation among his Washington friends not long ago by suddenly deciding upon a ride in one of the army aeroplanes at College park. Mr. Johnson, after the machine had been brought to earth, languidly " 'lowed" he liked ^ ! ~ oywnAAna on ororflof IlViUg. VV licii ovmcuuc others might have thought the trip hazardous Mr. Johnson did not even think the joke deserving of a smile. For compared with some of the picnics Ben Johnson has 'come out of, an aeroplane ride is just about as dangerous as an old woman's home Sunday afternoon. By the way of explanation it might be stated that Mr. Johnson, besides serving a term as speaker of the Kentucky house, came out triumphant and with a whole skin after four years as collector of internal revenue for the Fifth Kentucky district?and life insurance rates are high on revenue collectors in the blue grass State. It was while Mr. Johnson was speaker of the Kentucky house in 1887 that he made his best gun record, though he was known as a good man on the trigger even before then. Johnson as speaker was the storm center of a bitter factional fight. The element that Johnson fought hardest contained a number of well-known gun fighters and Johnson, knowing it, carried his own gun handy. The climax came when it was seen that Johnson would soon be in position to rule against his enemies and rule hard. Four "bad men" took it upon themselves to get Johnson out of the way. Meeting him on a lonely road one afternoon they invited him to start then and there for the State line, not to return to Kentucky upon pain of death at sight And they didn't keep their guns under their coats, either. , Not long ago when Mr. 'Johnson was asked about the story, one of his audience interrupted at this point: "What did you do, Mr. Johnson?" "Why," replied the Kentuckian, in a matter-of-fact way, "I killed two of them, wounded another, and the fourth ran." Which is exactly what happened. In the course of his service as collector of internal revenue, Johnson had occasion several times to use his gun in a hurry. And it is generally understood he used it to good advantage. "If taking my foot from that chair would prolong my life five years I wouldn't move my foot, but I'd fight until I lost every last drop of blood in my veins before I'd let any human being be responsible for shortening my life," explained Mr. Johnson when a listener remarked on his dare-deviltry. Johnson is not the only member of the Kentucky delegation who has carried a gun to good advantage. Caleb Powers, the Republican member, thrice tried for the murder of Gov. Goebel, of Kentucky, found no slight solace in the companionship of a blue steel six-shooter during the fierce private and political feuds * V* ?/%? nrt* tttV* i aK Vi a f All all f KlQ ttq v tn till UI15U n uii/U v ju&m ?v w a seat in the house. One man lost his seat for a time because of his gun record. James S. Davenport, of Oklahoma, who runs Cherokee politics in that State and carries a gun as a matter of course ?at least when he is at home?has been through the fiercest of political storms and in a country where a sixshooter gives rise to less comment than in the effete east. Davenport has twice married into the Cherokee nation. He is the only "intermarried" -white to attain political prominence in Oklahoma. Following a heated argument, he shot and killed a man in the old territory days. He was tried, pleaded self-defense, and was convicted of manslaughter. Granted a new trial, he was acquitted: In 1808, when running for re-election, at the eleventh hour his political enemies obtained access to the records of the Federal courts at Fort Smith, Ark., where the first trial was held. Taking certain damaging parts of the testimony, they reprinted them in pamphlet form and mailed them broadcast throughout the district. Davenport was defeated, but he won his way back at the late election. Judge Rucker, of Colorado?of Rucker Ridge, suh!?began his gun record as a soldier of the Confederate army, and continued his familiarity with firearms while practicing law in Missouri and Kansas at a time when a lawyer carried something besides bound volumes of United States statutes when he went to court. In 1879 he moved to Colorado and divided his time between the practice of law and the care of a flourishing young ranch near Denver. Pretty soon, however, he was presented with the alternative of giving up his law practice or abdicating in favor of itinerant gangs of AUTO-TROLLEY SMASH. Machine Demolished, bnt Nobody Hurt in Columbia Collision. Columbia, Dec. 3.?An automobile, driven by Dr. Owens on Laurel street, just at dark, was run into and practically demolished by a street car coming north. When the accident happened the motorman on the street car stopped his car suddenly, reversed the lever and jumped off to see if any one was hurt, and as he did so the street car ran back down the track a distance of a block, and crashed into another street car, which was following. No one was injured, the rear end of the front car being broken in by the impact. One man, said to be a Mr. Ritter, who was the lone passenger on the first car, jumped just as the car started backwards and escaped uninjured. He was said to have been on his way to catch a train and caught another car immediately after the accident and went on his way. It is said that the motorman on the car which was run into by the first car jumped, when he saw the runannv hoorinu Hftwn r?r> him TrSf wa,y tai uv.u w- ?? fic on this line was only interrupted a short time. * It seems that Dr. Owens was pre- ; paring to run his car into the yard and when just across the street car ? track, the engine choked, bringing * the auto to a stop. He said that he saw a street car coming up towards * Main street, and knowing that he could not get his auto off in time, he ran down the track a piece and ? attempted to flag the street car. * However, the motorman failed to see the signal and struck the automobile, ? smashing the wheel and one side of 2 it. Reversing the brakes, the mo- ; torman jumped off to see what dam- ? | age had been done and it was then 3 that the street car ran back down $ the track and crashed headlong into the one following close behind it. The accident occurred just in front of the A. R. P. church and it was ? fortunate that no one was hurt. Ij niwnuvpv iwipnwn sia nnn ~~ niivmix^x i^xv^vw. p Case Against A. C. L. and C. W. C. Tried at Walterboro Court. * Walterboro, Nov. 30.?The case of J. B. Pinckney vs Atlantic Coast Line and Charleston and Western p Carolina Railroad companies, which ii was started here Monday morning> o resulted in a verdict of $13,000 for P the plaintiff. This case, as alleged in the plaintiff's complaint, is an M action for personal injuries received b in 1907 at Yemassee by the plaintiff e through the negligence of the de- S fendant in backing their train o'f cars over him while he was engaged in his work as car inspector under- L neath the car. The defendant rail- tl road companies showed from the tes- A timony that Pinckney did not protect b himself by using a blue flag, and not tl following the instructions of the "blue flag" rule. The testimony for 8' Pinckney showed that he gave actu- tl al notice to the conductor of the o train from which he received his in- 8] juries that he was going to work 1 under this car. tl This is one of the most interesting d cases tried here in some years. The n amount of damages claimed was $40,000. A motion for a new trial will be made. ? western renegades who were in the p habit of paying the ranch unwelcome * attention. ? Being by that time more or less ? "sot in his ways," Judge Rucker de- a< cided to dispute possession with the next gang of invaders. When the ?' smoke had cleared away, one of the gang was good and dead, several oth- * ers wished they were, and the rest had "beat it." Rucker handled a shotgun and a six-shooter far too "keerless" for their health. He ? hasn't been bothered much since. Representative John E. Raker, of s California, is not known as the "Fighting Judge of Modoc" for nothI ing. California people have not for! gotten the time he sat on the bench C with a pair of forty-fives handy when I the spectators carried enough hard! ware to stock a sporting goods store. Raker did more to clean up Modoc , county than any other one man. J First, when the law and order committee had done a good night's work Y by hanging a number of "bad men" and cattle rustlers from a convenient :1 railroad trestle, Raker defended them ? and procured their acquittal?always o Krona nf nonifiarc nnHar Vi $ a ^ TV 1 tu a Ul UVV VI pMVlUVi V UUUVA Utw . coat. Later, when county judge?the 8 fighting judge?he was called upon to decide a case in which a number 8 of bad men were vitally concerned. ? Having been warned that in the ? event of a decision adverse to the defendants he would not leave the court room alive, Judge Raker upon 8 seating himself on the bench at the ^ opening of court pulled forth a brace J* of blue forty-fives and carefully laid them where all might see. Then he 8 decided against the "village cutups" 8 and went home'to dinner. Representative Tom Heflin, of Ala- F bama, waited until he came to the * hall of congress to make the play g that brought him into the congres- ^ sional gun column. Mr. Heflin, the s Beau Brummel of the house, during the hot days- of the extra session carries a gun and hates a "niggah" with equal grace and persistency. A few years ago Mr. Heflin was returning from the capitol when he saw a negro insult a white woman on the street car in which he was t riding. In the rumpus which fol- a lowed Mr. Heflin's none too gentle s remonstrance the Southern Hotspur c drew his gun. The negro jumped 1 to the street and took to his heels, i whereupon Mr. Heflin opened fire 1 and sent a bullet through the leg of c an unoffending bookmaker who was c standing in front of the St. James c hotel wondering whether the race t track at Benning would stay closed forever. The bookmaker recovered. ^ Mr. Heflin paying the doctor bills. i There are numerous other gun fighters or "near" gun fighters in 1 congress, but they have succeeded so c far in hiding their light under a bas- t ket. But some of the prominent 1 Southern and Western congressmen t make no secret of their "gun-toting" ? habit.?New York World. t I J 1 J?? i That Presi if Not :: tog i: unti |? hav \ ing ; you 9 swe > \ Rags, Matting, Chairs, R( I Bed Room Suits, Water! i* ; and ; war \ y?u \ Bicycle, Rifle, Gun, Air R I Set of Dishes, Cut Glass, I and E i but jj ther ? righ ! C. G f The Hardware and Furniture 31 * I* >1 ift'fllit *f* ??* ?f? ??? 'fi'tiif? ? i? { ?A? ?J? ?4? ?i?% A* ELLAGRA BAFFLES SCIENTISTS. nvestigation Fails to Show Cause. Conditions in This State. Washington, Dec. 3.?After many lonths of investigation of pellagra l the Southern States, the scientists f the public health and marine hosital service are in as much doubt 3 ever as to the cause of the scourge, [eanwhile the disease seems to e gaining and it has been reportd that nearly every physician in outh Carolina has from five to fifsen cases in his private practice. Assistant Surgeon Gen. John D. .nnc siivfl ft has been demonstrated hat cures can be effected up to the fth attack, but that there is little ope when the patient has reached he stage of insanity. Pellagra has been found to be a easonable disease, and it is thought bat the greatly varying temperature f South Carolina may be partly reponsible for its prevalence there, 'he investigators fiave found that he greatest number of cases develop uring the spring and autumn lonths, when there are sudden and larked changes in the weather. Comparison of pellagra in the Tnited States with pellagra in Italy, rhere the disease is common, has roved that the attack is much more evere in this country. Children, it as been found, respond to treatlent much more satisfactorily than o adults, and show the greatest perentage of recoveries. When the disase reaches the point of producing 3sanity, a suicidal tendency develops nd nearly all pellagra victims choose rowning. Cotton seed oil, Indian corn, cerain classes of vegetables, and a reently discovered gnat are among he supposed causes, but the disease till is a mystery to scientists. POLICE CHIEF ATTACKED. officer Receives Cut in the Face and Shoots Negro Twice. ??i Greenville Dec. 2.?Chief of Police . E. Holcombe was attacked to-night y an alleged negro thief, whom he fas attempting to arrest, and seerely cut in the face. The negro urned and fled as the chief reached or his revolver, which occupied a olster underneath the officer's overoat. By the time the chief had goten out his revolver the negro was everal yards away but despite that he officer fired twice at his assailnt. Both bullets went true to the aark, one piercing the negro's arm nd the other boring a hole through lis heel. The negro continued to run and ucceeded in concealing himself in he rear of a business block. ExIheriff J. D. Gilreath, who is a memier of the board of police commisioners, was near the scene of the hooting and gave chase to the culirit Within a few minutes he ounded up the negro and compelled lim to surrender. An angry mob gathered about and threatened to do iolence to the negro, but was peruaded to desist. The occurrence took place within i half-block of Main street and creited considerable excitement. I ? , Conclusive Argument. Some unscrupulous persons had >een selling bibles to negroes with ill the characters in tnem repreented by negros' pictures instead >f whites' faces. Uncle Ephrum lad heard of this and was discussng the matter with one of his neigh>ors. "Well," he said, "some of dem lesciples mout hev been niggers? ley was fond of fishin' and takin' ley res'; but I know dat Peter neb>er wuz no nigger." "How cum you know dat Peter vuz no nigger?" asked his compan on. "Wellum," says Uncle Eph, slowy, "if Peter had er been a nigger lat rooster nebber would hev crowed hree times befpre Peter'd er got lim." And having settled the mater in his mind by this conclusive irgument Uncle Eph refused to buy ;he fake Bible. Irilf !? ili-I- ?!: ili ili ?:r- q- -I- ili -I? q* -1? ili 0? ^1? ili g? m 0) ait For Xmas 111 1 a 7 is the time to begin thinking of what you are going i s ive for Christmas. Don't decide on what you will give il you have visited our store and inspected what we :: e to offer. Gome in and we will take pleasure in show- j | you the swellest line of goods suitable for gifts that < have seen in some time. We have just received a it 11 line of j I ickers, Bed Steads, Dressers, Wardrobes, \ j Sets, Shades, Tables, Sideboards, Safes, Etc. '$ almost anything in the Furniture line. In our Hard- 1j e department we are just as well prepared to furnish j} , with what you want. How about a it f \ ^ a ' j ifle, Knife, Scissors, Stove, Range, Tinware, i 1 Farming and Carpenter Tools of All Kinds % ! anything in this line. We have a large stock of goods j | ; \ need the money worse than we need the goods, so j) *efore you can rest assured that we will make the prices * $ it. Come to ii j p. aimmuraa i an. Bamberg, 8. C. ffi> ;I> il? a? -I? ;! ;I? a? ?! ?! ?Ii 0? -I? !? g?8 ? ,' *' Decisive Influence --"?1-~-~? I?y r fx*,: ?K \ *y V V W iAc ruuiiu ; ^ Every nan of Integrity and thrift in this conmunity require# satisfactory banking connections. It does not make so nraoh differ* enoe to the officers of this bank , < how much money a man has in our bank - we want his name on our books. His influenoe and friend* ship are often worth'even more to the bank than his money. The strength of oar institution, and the standing of its officers are suoh that we have so hesitancy in presenting our advantages to this largest or smallest depositor. " Our ways of satisfactorily serving you are many and we invite your account. * 7'.'. Your8 very truly, . 1 ' : i' H I FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANE K * > 4 per ct. Paid Quarterly on Savings Accounts. Ehrhardt, S. G. I * imrn hre| w i# m || came just after we had finished unload- a II ing one of the finest car loads of horses | IS and mules that have been received in ?1 J \ this city in some time. This load was I f * If* ill D Tadiact in fit. S 2 | UUUgilb Uy UlU JJXJL TW ? x vvuch m wv> ? g | Louis and are as fine as any that have ] 11 ever been shipped East, which is saying j' , |? g | a great deal, but if you will just come j ! v-' \f and look at them we know you will | JONES BROS., || BAMBERG, .. .. SOUTH CAROLINA. J ^ Two of our prominent citizens met in deadly combat on our ? X | ' - T?1 _ ~ J onJ nKAfann Ion mi?(7P WAS UK Y t (streets this morning. diwu huwcu ailll JJIUIUU^ tMUQUngv ^ freely scattered around for the rising generation to absorb. This 2 | disgraceful encounter would never have occurred but for a dis- 2 ? puted account. You don't have disputed accounts when you pay f 1 by bank check. Deposit your money with us and pay all your I | accounts by check and you will keep all your business associates 2 ? your friends. Deposit with us and save trouble. fi * We pay 4 per cent, interest, compounded quarterly, in our 2 K savings department. 5 v .....mnimr ^ Domhanr S S j "