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ELLERBE ENDORSES TILLMAN. Promises Support to Senator During Interesting Conversation. Washington, Dec, 9.?A very interesting episode of Senator Tillman's return to Washington was a call paid upon him at his office by Representative J. Edwin Ellerbe, oi the 6th South Carolina district. Mr. rAonnnfe t r UilCl UC UU11C LIS paj uio icot'vvw kv the senator and to tell him, in spite of the fact that he had suffered injustice from the senator in several matters, including the Gibraltar letter, he was heartily in favor of the senator's re-election. Says Sixth Almost Solid. Mr. Ellerbe declared that nearly all of the votes of the 6th district would he cast for Senator Tillman, and remarked that he (Mr. Ellerbe) would challenge the few that might be cast otherwise. As to the statement of Mr. Ellerbe that the senator had done him an injustice, the senator said that it was untrue. Mr. Ellerbe insisted that he 1 : n't ' could prove its truth. Tillman and Blease. Among other things, the representative of the 6th district asserted that, within his recollection, South Carolina had had only two governors, with the accent on the word governors, and that they were Gov. Tillman and Gov. Blease. These two, said Mr. Ellerbe, were the only ones that had always been "fools enough to do what they t-t VX ?t X I > muugui, ngui. Mr. Ellerbe said that he believed that in the event of Senator Tillman's death, Gov. Blease would appoint Representative Lever senator; and Mr. Ellerbe also declared that he ? himself would support Blease against Smith for the other seat when the time came. Wants Free Delegation. Another matter which Mr. Ellerbe broached in his visit to Senator Tillman was the representative's desire that the South Carolina delegation to the next National Democratic Convention should go uninstructed. Mr. Ellerbe, who is a strong advocate of Champ Clark's nomination, asked the senator if he did not agree that the delegation should be uninstructed. Senator Tillman replied that he did not run the State, and that this matter could best be left with the people of South Carolina, and that whatever they wished would be satisfactory to him. When asked about the conversation, which was not a private one, Mr. Ellerbe said that the correspondent's version of his remarks was substantially correct, but reiterated his expression of friendliness to . Senator Tillman. "TYPHOID MARY" SUES. g Asks $50,000 for Being Shut Up as Goth Carrier. mW One of the most novel actions ever brought against New York city has been begun in behalf of Mary Wal. Ion better known as "Typhoid Mary," for $50,000 for alleged false imprisonment on North Brother Island by direction of the health department. "Typhoid Mary" has been referred to as a regular germ carrier of typhoid although she never suffered from that disease herself. The case was in the courts some time ago and the woman finally secured her freedom. According to the records of the health department, says a New York special the woman was a living culture of typhoid fever bacilli. She was formerly employed as cook in the families of many persons prominent in society. The records of the department allege that at least 28 typhoid cases followed in Mary's wake. Her atn??B + innc< tlio richt nf thP IIU uc; 4UCOHUUO IUV 11QUV ? city to imprison her or others as alleged germ carriers "on the word of some medical man." AUTO AND GARAGE BURNED. After Striking Match, which Explodes Gasoline, Boy "Skips/* Florence, Dec. 7.?A boy, a match, a tank of gasoline; the three came in contact with each other here this evening, with the result that the fire department was called out to extinguish the flames that soon laid the private garage of Mr. Julian C. Rog~ r\f o TTM rot Vej ti nil a 1 CiO, WOUlti Ul l,JLAV> x 11UI, Bank, in ashes and made a pile of twisted steel and iron of his splendid Overland automobile. Mr. Rogers had sent his negro butler to the house to get his automobile to bring down to the bank, in order that he might go to the station to meet some of the visiting teachers. The boy, in part, complied. He went into the garage, struck a match and the gasoline tank exploded. The negro ran into the house, told Mrs. Rogers that he had struck a match in the garage and the tank exploded and the automobile was on fire. He did not stop and left by the fast "leg route" and has not been seen since. The machine and building were valued at about $1,600, with no insurance. GIVES HIS LIFE IN ATONEMENT. ; Japanese Trainmaster a Suicide Because Mikado was Delayed. Victoria, B. C., Dec. 8.?Giving his life as atonement because the Em. peror of Japan was forced to spend ? an hour in a common waiting room, Moji Shijiro Shimidzu, a train su( perintendent, threw himself under a , train, according to advices brought by the steamer Awa Maru. Shimidzu was in charge of the arrangements for the Emperor's jour? ney from Kyushu, where he witnessed the big army maneuvers and the imperial train was detained as a re, suit of the derailment of a carriage due to a misplaced switch. Shimidzu left a letter saying he considered it his duty to give his life to pay for the Emperor's embarrassment. The Emperor was , much distressed when the incident was reported to him. Be a Farmer Next Year. Whenever cotton gets very low there are always a lot of people to cry out, "Quit raising cotton," and a lot of farmers who begin looking for some other crop "to take the place of cotton." Now, we do not believe that the Cotton Belt farmer should quit raising cotton or that he needs another "money crop" to take its place. Cotton is the greatest money crop that Southern farmers, as a class, can grow. For the man who has been growing cotton all his life to quit all at once just because prices are low and plunge altogether into some other branch of farming, is anything but a wise policy. The cotton farmer doesn't need to get unduly excited because cotton prices are low. Coton was a profitable crop, even this year, -to some iarmers; it will be a profitable crop for a long . time yet if farmers will only give it a chance. There are a great many changes sadly needed in our system of farming, but there is not the slightest need of a panic-stricken rush to untried lines of work. The kind of farming needed next year is exactly the kind of farming that was needed this year,?the kind that the Progressive Farmer urged,?and the 1 kind that good farmers here and there all over the South are doing. Cotton is low this year, because our farmers went wild last spring and planted the biggest cotton crop in the history of this country. Prices had been high for two years, and they forgot that a cotton crop of medium size almost invariably brings more than a big one. They forgot, too, that the entire dependence upon a single crop, no matter how good a crop it may be, is an unsafe policy. For all these years the Progressive Farmer has been urging Southern farmers to reduce their cotton acreage, tp farm their lands in a systematic rotation, to grow more corn and hay and other feed crops, to keep more live stock, to give more attention to building up the fertility of their lands, to reduce the cost of production by making larger crops to the acre?in short, to farm so as to make their cotton a real "money crop," a surplus crop, instead of having to sell it to pay for fertilizers and mules and feed and "supplies" and clothing and everything else they need. All this we still believe was sound advice then and now, but it does not follow that it will pay the man who does not understand hog raising or dairying to rush into these businesses, or that the man who has had" no experience with truck crops should change all at once from a cot vlAwf/vw o f olrnr TIlAf A 1Q IU11 piauici tv a ti uvn.vi j.uv^w ?v no great change needed, except the change from the present miserably wasteful cropping practice to a rational system of general farming; and when this change is made cotton will still he the great staple crop of the South. Do not be misled, either, by the advice some people are giving to buy no fertilizer next year, or by any of that sort of stuff. What you want is to have every pound of cotton you produce next year produced at the least possible cost. The way to do this is to make just as much cotton as possible on every acre planted. 1 Reduce the fertilieer bill by reducing the acreage. Put half the land you expect to plant to cOtton in 1 peas or soy beans or potatoes or some other crop, and then plant your cotton on good land, plant good seed, fertilize liberally, cultivate well with improved machinery. Whenever Southern farmers get to the point of. making the fertility -* fl-nof Ui. LlltJii iauu iucii iiiou wum.vkw*.* tion in the planning of their farm work, and when they get to real farming with systematic rotation and ; diversification, they will not plant every available acre in cotton one year because prices are high and then hunt a substitute crop the next year because prices are low. And then i cotton will be a profitable crop every > year to the man who uses good farm: ing methods, and a big crop will not have to be sold for less than a small one just because the farmers are un able to hold and market it in a business manner?Progressive Farmer. MAN THE TERROR OP ANIMALS. Ferocious Beasts Rarely Fight Unless They are Pressed. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 6.?George Shiras III, naturalist and originator of the sport of hunting wild game with the camera, has returned from a successful expedition to the Kenal peninsula, bringing back pictures of the giant moose of Alaska, and of the white mountain sheep, the ovis dalli, found only in the northlamd. The moose pictures complete a set which Mr. Shiras began years ago and which took him to the woods of Maine, New Hampshire, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Idaho and Wyoming. Incidentally he added largely to his collection of otter, porcupine, marmots and birds, such as the arctic tern, shags, gulls, eagles, willow and rock ptarmigan, spruce grouse and ducks. Mr. Shiras went to Alaska during the first week in July and visited that part of the northern district lying thirty miles back of Seward and along the Kenai and Shilac lakes. The long experience of Mr. Shiras in the wilderness has led him to the conclusion that the "savage beasts" written of by the nature fakers are mostly mythical. "The almost daily reports of the 'man chasing and devouring wolf/ the 'fierce' lynx, the 'savage' bear, the 'terrible' cougar and the 'revengeful' bull moose excite Wonderment," said Mr. Shiras, "but in my humble judgment all such blood curdline attributes are unfounded and mendacious in- nearly every particular. "After a personal experience of more than thirty-five years in the American wilderness, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Hudson bay waters and to Alaska, and especially throughout the range of those particular animals, I think it would be safe to say that more persons are injured or killed through attacks of domestic animals in confinement in a single season, than by all the wild animals of the forest in fifty years. "True, it is that the grizzly bear, badly bounded or defending its young, may occasionally show fight, but the old) day when the powerful animal voluntarily stood its ground is gone forever, at least in every district where the repeating rifle has taught the lesson of the man's overpowering mastery. . "The pestiferous mosquito or black fly may force the bravest hunter to retreat, tout no man need ever hesitate to go unarmed into any so-called wilderness resorts of his country for fear of menacing beasts. "The more dangerous the supposed traits of any particular animal the more the certainty of it being the one now most fearful of man's presence, whatever may be its attitude toward 0 the other animals of the forest. To this one fact alone does this predaceous quadruped now owe its existence, for were it to meet, instead of retreat from the man with the gun, the end would have long ago been reached." Mr. Shiras has shown by his work that better information may be obtained and more accurate conclusions can be reached with one season of the camera hunting and with opportunity to studv at close range than will ever be reached where the crack of the rifle almost always follows the appearance of wild game. Several years ago a magazine carried an interesting story of flashlighting beasts. The pictures were of the Yellowstone Park bear taken under conditions which showed the primal forest in the background. Mr. Shiraa says this was nature faking of the most deceptive kind for the reason that the Yellowstone Park bears are semi domesticated and are so one may approach within a few feet without scaring them off. "I desired to show the park bears as nature fakers did not show them, surrounded by garbage cans and scraps from the hotel," said Mr. Shiras. "I set up a moving picture machine near a group of the animals which were feeding near one of the hotels. Several bears thinking that the moving picture machine contained jam or some sweets not found among the scraps, came forward to investigate. "It is necessary to have the object at least fifteen feet away when taking moving pictures, so I was forced to back up and reset the machine to keep out of the way of the harmless but inquisitive bears. Instead of the camera man pursuing the bear, the bear pursued the camera. It was an amusing experience, but quite apart from my work as a photographer of wild animals. Mr. Shiras is the son of a former justice of the United States supreme court of the same name. He served as a member of congress from Pennslyvania. His home is in Pittsburgh. R. Marcus Burriss, a prominent banker and farmer, died at his home in Anderson on Wednesday of pellagra, after an illness of only a few weeks. i IC a nT t i s I * ~ V ( > O why people will S iQg something tl :: pie, not pretty.? 45 both useful and 12 sities. If you h< your interest as ?J sent it, for you t *: but staple goods H ing but what an; you give sometl p always rest assu 3? look our stock ( *2* : * mence to name ;: mother, father, | j heart, or somebo f i do is to come an ?? that we can sell; 0 ? 1 C. 0 J The Hardware and Furniture Mai L * . _ *11? # A* A A * A A* A* A *4* CANCER STILLS HIS VOICE. i% Weil-Known Singer Rendered Dumb by Removal of Tongue. Cancer has stilled the voice of one of the leading church singers in New York?James A. Metcalf?head of a well-known firm of silversmiths and for many years bass soloist in Grace church. His tongue was entirely removed in an operation for cancer at the New York hospital, and, though the operation was pronounced successful and Mr. Metcalf is rapidly regaining his strength, it was said by physicians at the hospital that he is doomed to the silence of the dumb for the remainder of his days. VERDICT AGAINST SOUTHERN. Fifteen Thousand Awarded Mrs. Richard Drennan at Rock Hill. Rock Hill, Dec. 7.?The case of Drennan vs. the Southern Railway Company was tried yesterday at Yorkville and a sealed verdict rendered last night. A telephone message received here this morning stated that the verdict was for $15,000. This case was the outcome of Mr. Richard Drennan, who had charge of the Rock Hill Steam laundry's wagon, ' being run into at the Wilson street crossing, near the Rock Hill Buggy Company's plant, and being so badly injured that he has no fur-[ = ther use of his left arm, and physi- j cians stated he was so badly impaired j in his health that he could not with- j o+oti/* or? attanir r?f tvnhniri fpver and : 0bauu UU MVVMVfi*. r died a short time ago. Thomas F. McDow, of Yorkville, represented Mrs. Drennan and J. E. McDonald* of Winnsboro, the railroad. The jury came over Wednesday and viewed the scene where the accident occurred and was sent back on a special train. /malaria^ m headache, biliousness, in- M digestion, rheumatism, m pimples, blotches, yellow complexion, etc., are all ^ I signs of poisons in your blood These poisons should be driven out, or , serious illness may result M To get rid of them, use I TluM's" I Black-Dram I the old. reliable, purely vegetable, liver medicine. j I Mrs. J. H. Easier, of W\ j Spartanburg, S. C, says: li j " 1 had sick headache, for | j years. I felt bad most of m ; j the time, I tried Thed- | ford's Black-Draught, and lj I now I feel better than ; | when f was 16 years old.1' ! j A Your druggist sells it, in A| ! 25 cent packages. J | ! 1 Insist on Thcdford's 1 j I.; -r- -I? 0? g} ;! il; ?I? -I? il.; -X1 ili *1? ?I? ;I? il? ili 0? di tH iH il? ill Understand! h . - ~ 4 persist, when selecting a present, in buy- ?g lat is not useful, and to a good many peo- $ The gifts that we have in our store are ornamental, and most of them are neces- ? J ive any presents to purchase it will be to $ well as to the one to whom you will pre- i ? o pay our store a visit. We have nothing I ih our store, no cheap, shoddy stuff, noth- :! L yone would be pleased to receive. When j j tiing that is needed in a home you can i i ired that it is appreciated. Come in and i } ' >ver, we have too many articles to com- ll. I them all, but we have gifts suitable for 11 1 aio+flr lirntliftt* aunt iitipIo ViqVitt swaat.. 5 M1MVV1 j MA V VMV* | MHMV| MUWAVj J M Vf VW j ^ dy else's sweetheart. All we want you to \ $ I td see what we have and we are satisfied $ you. if - ] ? f' . SIMMONS 1 t. Bamberg, 8. C. t f ? ; ; f : j| Decisive Influence | So She Public : ^ ^ Every nan of integrity tthd thrift in this eosmunity required satisfactory hanking connections. It does not nake so maoh differ- ' ence to the officers of this hank how maoh noney a nan has In oar V hank - we want his name on.oar , ; hooks. His influence and friendship are often worth^even more to the hank than his money. v , The strength of oar institution and the Standing of its officers are such that we have ho hesitancy in presenting oar advantages to the largest or smallest depositor. " Oar ways of satisfactorily serving you are many and we invite your account. - Tours very truly, ' , o:y& ; ?. / . ' - I FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK 1 > 4 per ct. Paid Quarterly on Savings Accounts. Ehrhardt, S. O.J piii me] 11 came just after we had finished unload- j j Iing one of the finest car loads of horses jg j.. and mules that have been received in ]| this city in some time. This load was | bought by our Mr. W, P. Jones in St. g Louis and are as fine as any that have I; ( ever been shipped East, which is saying I K a great deal, but if you will just come I | and look at them we know you will I * . ' agree with us. | ^ JUNK BKU5.JI 1 BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA. 1j |i Two of our prominent citizens met in deadly combat on our | | j | g streets this morning. Blood flowed and profane language was I '-i j 0 k freely scattered around for the rising generation to absorb. This 2 ! >' J j age disgraceful encounter would never have occurred but for a dis- * ag puted account. You don't have disputed accounts when you pay I J Slti by bank check. Deposit your money with us and pay all your J j J accounts by check and you will keep all your Dusiness awwiow n | g your friends. Deposit with us and save trouble. K ^ | g We pay 4 per cent, interest, compounded quarterly, in our jjg Jjj PEOPLES BANE Bamberg, S. 0. j|| '"j* |