f _ PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. 4 . ?Hon. C. W. Garris, of Denmark, Tvas in the city Monday. ?Dr. J. L. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, was in the city Monday. ?Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Johns, of Baldoc, spent Sunday night in the city. | * ?Miss Ruth Byrd is at home from Columbia College for the Christmas holidays. ?Miss Blanche Hair is at home from Greenville Female College for Christmas. ?Miss May Brabham is at home ^ from Columbia college for the Christmas holidays. I ?Misses Ottie Simmons and Ethel and Urma Black are at home from T ] Greenville Female College for the holidays. ?Rev. W. H. Hodges, of Bamberg, \ preached an eloquent sermon at the Methodist church Sunday morning. ?Kingstree Record. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Garland, of New York, have been in the city for about a week on a visit to Mr. and i Mrs. G. W. Garland. ?Miss Kate Felder, of Bamberg, I \ is spending a few days in the city.? ^ Charleston Evening Post. ?Mr. and Mrs. M. Blount left this week for an extended visit to relatives at Fernandina, Fla. They will be away about two months. * ?Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hammond Bamberg will spend the Christmas \ holidays with relatives in Bamberg. ?Charleston Evening Post. ?Mrs. David Felder has returned frQm a trip to* Richmond and Wash ^ ingtou. She expects to enjoy the Christmas holidays at her former home in Bamberg.?Charleston Evening Post. ?Mr. H. J. Brabham has been sick for the past two weeks, but was able to be out on the streets Tues day, and his very many friends were * so glad to see him. It is the earnest desire of all his friends that he will soon regain his strength. ?Mr. F. E. Copeland, of the Ehrhardt section, was in the city Monday. He renewed for The Herald for another year, although his time does not expire until next May. He says it is one paper he cannot be without, and as everybody in his house wants to read the paper as soon as it arrives, he feels like taking two * copies. Union Meetings Dec. 29, 30, 31. By authority of the last meeting of the association there will be two divisions of the union meetings. Bamberg, Bethel, Bethany, Bethesda, Colston, Denmark, Double Ponds, ^ Edisto, Ehrhardt, Ghent's Branch, George's Creek, Great Saltkehatchie, Hunter's Chapel, Midway, Olar, St'. John's, Springtown, and Spring Branch will form the eastern divis ? ion. The remaining churches win ' make up the western division. Churches in either division finding * it more convenient to belong to the other wjll affiliate with the division of their choice. Topics. 1. The men in the pulpit and in the pew as seen by each other and how to get closer together, g V 2. The absentee member and absentee pastor as church problems; their causes and remedies. 3. What are the best ideals and methods of church discipline? "4. What do Baptists believe to be the qualifications and privileges of church membership? 5. WThat are we doing for pastoral % support and for our aged ministers? 6. Was Dr. C. C. Brown's recent criticisms of the Barnwell association justified? Eastern Division. Double Ponds. Introductory sermon, Dr. J. D. Pitts, alternate, G. A. Martin; missionary sermon, E. A. McDowell; alternate, B. F. Allen. Leaders on the topics: 1, S. G. Mayfield, J. D. Pitts; 2, D. O. Hunter, Calvin McMillan; 3, J. . : ? D. Timmons, Geo. Hopkins; 4, Thos. Clayton, E. L. Sanders; 5, W. G. ( Britton; 6, J. A. Jenkins. If - Western Division. Topics and Leaders: Missionary sermon, 0. J. Frier; alternate, J. K. Goode. Introductory sermon, J. D. Peacock; ^ alternate, W. M. Jones. 1, J. D. Peacock, Sam Hair; 2, Geo. W. Boylston, F. P. Lee; 3, Basil Bates, G. E. Birt; 4, W. M. Jones, J. K. Hair; 5, R. R. Johnston, R. M. Mix I son; t), J. B. * Armani-vug. The moderators are earnestly rej quested to render all assistance by | i the appointment of any speakers or topics not herein mentioned as may ]; seem best. Churches are requested to co-operate by furnishing such refreshments on the grounds as are usually given to make the meetings a success. j W. M. JONES, for the Committee. h * Three white men were arrested ** and fined in Columbia on Friday for trying to sell "tips" on the races. - / They paid up and left the city. I r f- L f r 1 \ TO BREAK A DROUGHT. Picturesque Procession in Balkan Sousing a Stranger. The tricks are many and varioi by which members of the human rai have tried to bring rain in time < drought. There is a village in Russi for instance, where the men used * climb certain fir trees in season < drought, one of the three having vessel of water which he wou sprinkle all around, says the Londc News. v One of the two others hammen on a kettle or made some simili noise in the hope of thereby produ ing thunder, and the third scatter* sparks from fire-brands as a warnir to the lightning to make haste. T1 Golden Bough gives a host of i: nf similar nnromnnip? as thf OlaUV/CO VI Oiuttiu;l vv* vuavm.w ? ? ? have been observed in different par of the world. In Roumania, Servia and oth< countries the charm for rain is mo: picturesque. Here a troop of girl the leader of whom is naked, sa^ for a covering of leaves, herbs ar flowers, goes in procession from hou: to house singing for rain the hous to house through the village, and i they pass singing for rain the hous holders drench them with buckets < water. "The ceremony," says D Frazer, "regularly takes place a over Roumania on the third Tuesdi after Easter, but it may be expect* at any time of drought during tl summer." There is yet anther wetting Ro manian-custom described in the Gol en Bough. Sometimes when rain needed, we are told, the Roumaniai "make a clay figure to represe: drought, cover it with a pall ai place it an open coffin. Girls crou< round the coffin and lament, sayin 'Drought is dead! Lord, give 1 rain!' Then the coffin is carried 1 children in funeral procession wi a burning wax candle before it, whi lamentations fill the air. Final they throw the coffin and the cand into a stream or well." In unspoiled parts of Russia tl popular methods of influencing tl weather are less funereal. Sometime for instance, Dr. Frazer tells us, "a ter service in church the priest his robes has been thrown down < the ground and drenched with wat by his parishioners. * * * In Kursk, province of Southern Russia, wh< rain is much wanted the women sei a passing stranger and throw him i to the river or souse him from hej to foot." If you are going to spend your ho days in Southern Russia it is as w< that you should know this. Otherwi you might come away with the total false impression that strangers a unpopular in those parts. SOME PIONEER MAKESHIFTS Town of Kansas City was Survey* with a Grapevine. When the town of Kansas Ci was first laid off in lots in 1839 1 J. C. McCoy he did the measurii with a grapevine a rod in length. I used that because he had no chai There was not a chain West of ? Louis that was fit for surveying wit The grapevine, pliable and light ^weight, served the purpose quite well as a chain would have done. The pioneers of Kansas City ai vicinity had to use many makeshil for they were far from civilizati* and a source of supplies for evi the common necessities of life. 'i nere is a woman in ivansas to-day who came to Westport in tl fifties, and later went with her hu band to Baptist Wea Mission ne Paola, Kans. She recalls many the curious makeshifts of those da which she personally used. Among them was an ear of co: which was used as a substitute for rolling pin. It was crude, but fective. "We were young and full of ho] she said, "and it is a mistake .suppose that we are entitled to ai sympathy because of our hardshii Life stretched away before us. was like a party eterually campii out. We enjoyed it all." This woman remembers that tl first summer snent in Kansas it W necessary to wait until the prair hay crop was harvested before "fi ing" could be obtained for the ma tresses, and that they slept on blan ets. But they slept well in tho pioneer days. She recalls also that when mi infested their cabin, they had i mouse trap, and it was 45 miles Westport. A simple substitute w devised with the aid of a thimb placed under the rim of the sauce small end down, with bait attache and no mouse was the wiser. A hopper filled with wood ashe the accumulation of months, was feature of every home. Wat poured into the hopper emerged the bottom a very good grade of ly Later combined with "soap grease also the accumulation of months, ai the pioneer had his supply of sc soap. "The most singular of the mak shifts of the pioneers" said Mrs. ] CONGRESS GETTING BUSY. >s. Pre-Holiday Activity in Both of the Chambers at Washington. 1S Washington, Dec. 18.?A sharp dice vision of sentiment among Senators regarding service pension legislation, a? protests against large congressional expenditures, the Russian treaty question, continued investigation, a and enactment of the urgent defici^ ency bill into law, will keep congress >n busy this week. Both houses will adjourn on Thursday until January ^ 3 Plans are going forward for what ar promises to prove a congestion of c~ legislation after the recess. The Sherwood so-called "dollar-alg day" pension bill, which the house ie has passed, probably will not find an Q~ easy way in the senate. Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, a leading Demo cratic member of the pensions committee, already has started an inquiry 2r into the possibility of postponing acre tion until the next session, when s' there will be no presidential election. :e In the house proceedings on the l(* Sherwood bill, the effect upon either 56 party of marked liberality to the e" Mexican and civil war veterans, ag1S gregating possibly $75,000,000 ule" timately, was a conspicuous factor and Senator Gore contends that the ,r* subject will not be so popular in congress after the presidential eleciy tion. Senator McCumber, chairman of ie the pension committee, while not committing himself to the Sherwooo u" bill, expressed the opinion that some general pension legislation would be 18 enacted during this session of con118 gress. Qt "We should do now what we are 1(* going to do regardless of politics," he said. He thinks congressional action should depend on the state of as the treasury and has taken steps to 3y ascertain that and to determine what ^ various plans of legislation might *e. cost. Secretary of the Interior Fisher is investigating the cost. *e The house democrats will caucus . on a number of pending questions, probably soon after the recess. The leaders contend that the economy program must be maintained, that some of the Democrats on the com111 mittee's list for appropriations must )n be refused,-but in such a way as to er avoid party dissension. a The pension bill already passed by 311 the house, carrying from $70,000,000 ze to $75,000,000; the demand of the n" public buildings committee for an l<* omnibus measure to carry between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000, and other larger drafts on the treasury have complicated the situation. se Democratic Leader Underwood inly sists that the public buildings bill re shall not be put through. The work of the investigating committees is also piling up expense accounts. The tariff board's report is expected ed from the president this week, but the ways and means committee probably will not recommend action ty until after the recess, but will then by proceed vigorously, ig The Democrats were not agreed le last summer as to the raw wool tariff n. many favoring free raw wool. This jt. que&tion, trust legislation and other h. things will be considered in caucus, in The proposed plan to open the cauas cus to the public has developed strenuous opposition from those Demid ocrats who believe pary differences ts should be settled behind closed 3n doors. 3n AH the witneses who will be heard in the defence of Senator Lority mer, except Mr. Lorimer himself, he will appear before the senate comlS. mittee this week, and the committee ar will then adjourn to meet after the of Christmas recess. Senator Lorimer ys will testify under oath for the first time. rn The Steel Trust investigating a committee of the house and the sen}f ate committee on inter-State commerce, which is investigating trust pe problems, will be in session this to week. There are 798 species of roses ^ known, and 448 of chrysanthemumus. Sing Sing, in New York State, is he said to be derived from two Indian as words, meaning 'The place of a stone." 11 it- M. Harris, of Rock Hill, Mo., who k- was born in Westport 71 years ago, se "was the one-legged bedstead which I have seen in the log cabins of the ce very earliest settlers. A stout post tio was let through an opening in the to puncheon floor about six or seven as feet from the corner vails; holes le were made in the logs correspond>r, ing to the height of the post; atd, tached to the post were poles running each way, which were mortised is, into tne noies in tne wans; siais a rived from green timber were laid er from these supports and the bedding at arranged upon this crude structure, e. "Bread bowls (troughs, we called ,'! them,) were basins and utensils of id that kind were scooped out of solid ft blocks of wood with a tool called a gouge. Pails and small tubs, calle ed 'peggins' and 'noggins,' were usuN. ally home made." # FIENDS FIRE INTO HOUSE. Two Negroes Accused of Shooting Up Farmer's Dwelling. Two negroes giving their names as Trapp and Johnson were lodged in Winnsboro jail on charges of shooting into the house of Mr. Kohn, a prominent farmer of the lower section of the county. The negroes will be given a preliminary hearing in a few days. It is alleged that the prisoners fired through the window of the house. While none of the shots struck anybody, Mrs.Kohn and her infant child had a narrow escape. The men are charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. masterssaleT Pursuant to a decree of the court of common pleas in the case of A. Karesh, plaintiff, vs. Adeline Rowe et al, defendants, I, H. C. Folk, Master for Bamberg county, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, on Monday, January 1st, 1912, the same being legal sales day, during the legal hours"of sale on said day, before the court house door at Bamberg, S. C., the following described tract of land, to wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the county of Bamberg, State of South Carolina, containing twelve (12)acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: North by Charleston and Augusta Road, East by lands of A. Karesh and Daphney Davis, South by lands of W. Y. Smoak, and West by lands of C. F. Smoak. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. C. FOLK, Master for Bamberg County. CARTER & CARTER, Plaintiff's Attorneys. master's sale. Pnrcnont fn a /^?>r>rAO ftf tVlP Pniirt i UI0UUUI/ tv u vrv\^A W VA VMV WM* V of common pleas in the case of, Johnnie W. Jones et al, plaintiffs, versus George Jones et al, defendants,' I, H. C.v Folk, Master for Bamberg county, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, on January 1st, being salesday in January, 1912, the same being legal salesday, between the legal hours of sale on said day, before the court house door, at Bamberg, S. C., the following described tract of land: All that certain tract of land situ' ate in the county of Bamberg, State aforesaid, Fishpond township, containing 220 acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Jones A. Williams, Keenheel, Jefferson Stokes, estate of H. W. Walker, and J. B. Stokes. Purchaser to pay for papets. H. C. FOLK, Master for Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C., Dec. 9, 1911. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having claims against the estate of John J. Copeland, deceased, will file the same, duly sworn to, with the undersigned, at Ehrhardt, S. C., on or before the 23rd day of January, 1912, and failing so ?* - * _ ? -ii ^ to do will De Darrea, ana an persons indebted to said estate will make payment at once to the undersigned. JOHN L. COPELAND, Administrator. December 15, 1911. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. Notice is hereby given that an examination for applicants for teachers' certificates will be held in the court house at Bamberg on Friday, January 12th, 191? beginning at ten o'clock a. m. Applicants will please be prompt. R. W. D. ROWELL, County Supt. Education. Bamberg, S. C., December 18th, 1911. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements Under This Head 23c. For 25 Words or Less. For Rent.?A two or three-horse farm, known as the Dr. E. Kirkland place, for rent. It is located in the Buford's Bridge community. Aypiy to J. HAM KIRKLAND, Esq., Olar, S. C. For Rent.?A five-horse farm, in half mile of postoffice; land wil! make a bale of cotton per acre. Also two farms ori the river. For further information apply to H. J. FAUST, Denmark, S. C. Farm Wanted.?I desire a good farm of large acreage with good improvements, well located as to town and railroad; must be good value for price asked. Give full particulars in first letter. R. COSBY NEWTON, Lock Box 121, Bennettsville, S. C. Special Notice A _ * ___ ! 4!^ /\s I win reurc irum mc mercantile business January 1st, 1912, I urgently ask all who are indebted to me to arrange their ac= counts before that date. It is not my desire to oppress any one, but it is im= perative that my business be wound up, so don't fail to see me before January 1. J. 1 BYRD Bamberg, S. C. ' -v- .... >- : NOTICE OF SALE. State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg?In the Probate Court. W fi- Wntto administrator of the estate of L. B. Lee, deceased, plaintiff, against Annie Lancaster, Mary Hutto, R. F. Lee, R. E. Lee, Irene Rush, Mildred Lee, Henry Lee and Mrs. M. C. Bellinger, defendants. Pursuant to an order of this Court, in the above stated action, bearing date the 31st day of August, 1911, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, on the first Monday in January, 1912, (being the 1st day of the month,) within the legal hours of sale, before the court house door in Bamberg, S. C., the following described tract of land, to wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land lying, being and situate in the County of Bamberg and State of South Carolina, containing one hundred and seventeen (117) acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands of R. F. Lee, on the East by lands formerly of Wade H. Faust, now of Williams, on the South by lands of Scott Kennedy, an on the West by lands of Mrs. S. H. Counts. G. P. HARMON, Judge of Probate, Bamberg County. GRAHAM & ASKINS, Plaintiff's Attorneys. NOTICE OF SALE. ~ State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg?Court of Common Pleas. Hattie Carter, plaintiff, against uiarence ivioiiroe ^arie, r uasie may Carter, Williams Carter, H. C. Folk and Peoples Bank, a corporation duly created and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the 'State of South Carolina, defendants. Pursuant to an order issued out of the Court of Common Pleas for the above named county, in the above stated cause, dated the 15th day of November, 1911, I will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, before the court house door in Bamberg, S. C., on the first Monday in January, 1912, during the legal hours of sale, the following described real estate, to wit: Tract No. 1. All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land lying, being and situate in the county of Bamberg and State of South Carolina, containing fifteen (15) acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands of D. B. Rhoad and Mrs. Acklin Hill, on the East and South by lands of D. B. Rhoad, and on the West by lands of Paul F, Carter. Tract No. 2. All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land lying, being and situate in the county ol Bamberg and State of South Carolina^ containing thirty-six (36) acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands of Proveaux, on the East by lands of Paul F. Carter oi Fred Padgett, on the South by lands of D. B. Rhoad, and on the west by lands of J. h. smitn. Said tracts may be sold separate^ or together, as will be determined on the day of sale. Purchaser to paj for papers. C. B. FREE, Clerk of the Court of Commor Pleas of Bamberg County. ' H. M. GRAHAM, Plaintiff's Attorney. ~~ MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina?Counts of Bamberg?Court of Commor Pleas. " Janie Tucker, in her own right and as administratrix plaintiff against J. Frederick Tucker, defend ant. Pursuant to an order made in th< above entitled cause on Decembei 8th, 1911, by S. G. W. Shipp, Circuit Judge, presiding in the 2nd Circiut, I, H. C. Folk, Master in anc for the County of Bamberg, will sel! at public auction for cash to th< highest bidder, in front of the cour house door, at Bamberg, S. C., 01 January 1st, 1912, same being salesday, the following described real es tate. If the successful bidder fail* to comply with his bid within on( hour, the property will be sold or the same or some subsequent sales day at the risk of the former purchaser, and so on from time to time unti1 a purchaser be found who will comply. Purchaser to pay for papers. The real estate is described as follows: All tnat certain tract or parcel oj land, situate, lying and being ii County of Bamberg, in said Stat* containing two hundred and fifteei acres, more or less, formerly consisting of two tracts one of one hundrec and five acres, bounded as follows: On the North by lands of Southerr Railway Company; on the East b3 lands now or formerly of Mrs. Lucretia Atkinson; on the South by lands of R. C. Wood and Wash Williams; and on the West by lands of McFail being known as tract D on a plal made by R. C. Mixson in the division of the estate lands of Mrs. Hannah F. Patterson, and being the same tract conveyed to the said James M Tucker by James Aldrich, Executor, by deed dated the 28th day of Fel> ruary, 1905, and recorded in said county, in Book E, at page 293. And the other tract of land adjoining the same, containing one hundred and ten acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: On the North by the Edisto River and the tract above described; on the East by lands of N. P. Smoak; and on the South by lands of N. P. Smoak and W. L. McFail; and on the West by the lands above described; being the same tract ol land conveyed to the said James M. Tucker by R. C. Woods and Wash Williams by their deed dated the 9th day of August, 1905, and recorded in Book E, at page 373, Bamberg County. H. C. FOLK, Master Bamberg County. December 13th, 1911. NOTICE. In compliance with an order of the Court, all persons having claims against the estate of Daniel W, Jones deceased, late of the county of Bamberg, will prove them before me on Tuesday, the 2nd day of Jan uary, 1912, or be forever barred. H. . C. FOLK, Master for Bamberg County. December 12th, 1911. MASTER'S SALE. * State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg?Court of Common Pleas! J. W. Black et al, plaintiffs, against Janie Tucker, etc., et al, defendants. Pursuant to an order made in the above entitled cause on December 8 th, 1911, by his Honor S. G. W. Shipp, Circuit Judge, presiding in the Second Circuit, I, H. C. Folk, Master in and for the county of Bamberg, will sell at public auction, for _ "? cash, to the highest bidder, in front of the court house door, at Bamberg, S. C., on January 1st, 1912, same being salesday, the following described real estate: One-third of the tract of land l . 11 T-.ii- r> -m ? i.i ivuuwu as me Jijna r. iwiay poruon of the Patterson estate that is now owned and possessed by J. W. Black, T. M. Patrick, and the heirs-at- law and distributees of James M. Tucker, deceased, having been conveyed to them by the said Julia P. May. The said one-third portion of the tract of land is fully described and shown on a plat of same made by L. N. Bellinger, surveyor, on the day of December, 1911, and will tje found filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Bamberg county, and will be exhibited by the Master on the day of sale at the time of sale for the information of prospective purchases. The tract to be sold is about three hundred acres, more or J less, and is fully and particularly described on the aforementioned plat, reference to which may be had \as above stated. The whole of the tract of land of which the one-third, V or three hundred acres, more or less, will be sold, is all that certain tract of land Tn Bamberg county, said State, containing 1,002 acres and bounded as follows: On the North by the Edisto River; . | , on the Bast by lands of Robert Woods, Millie Cooper, Sallie Felder and Harriet Belcher; on the South by lands of Joseph England; and on ' the West by lands of Joseph Eng-' ^ land and W. F. McFail. The said one-third portion of the . above, described tract to be sold by me is the one-third of the said tract apportioned to the estate of James M. Tucker, deceased, and is the | share allotted to Mrs. Janie Tucker ' i;:!| . and J. Frederick Tucker, his heirsat-law and distributees, and is sold > under the order of the said Court . I for partition. [- If the successful bidder fails to [ comply with his bid within one hour, . the property will be sold on the same or some subsequent salesday at ' ; the risk of the former purchaser, and so on from time to time until a pur-. \ chaser be found who will comply. ! Purchaser to pay for papers. < H. C. FOLK, J Master Bamberg County. * v 1 December 13th, 1911. ! MASTER'S SALE. 7" ^ Pursuant to a decree of the court of common pleas in the case of Ma- ,. | r linda Kinard, et al, plaintiffs, vs. I Carrie Louise. Harter et al, defendr ants, I, I^~C. Folk, Master for Bamberg county, will sell at public atic?' tion to the highest bidder for cash, l on Monday, January 1st, 1912, the same being legal salesday, during the legal hours of sale on said day, be- ^ fore the court house door at Bam berg, S. C., the following; described tract of land, to wit: . ? J t All that certain tract or parcel of i land, situate, lying and being in the x__ TO V ~ CIX^ X _ C