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Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all noj? V. tices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those STV pertaining to matters of public interest. " We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex x pressed in any communication. Thursday, Feb. 15,1912. Mr. J. B. Prickett has bought out the interest' of Mr. J. C. Hiott of the St. Matthews Advance, and is now the sole owner and proprietor. Suc!?%' cess to him. ? The Sumter county grand jury fc" - says "the prohibition law is being > -. violated in every section of the coun: ^ ty." This is the condition of affairs . > all over the State. It is expected that the general assembly will take a recess this week . . instead of adjourning, so that it may reassemble at once in case the gov: ernoAis handy with his vetoes. We see by the Greenwood Journal that Sam McGhee recently made a > speech at a banquet on "Babies." i'V - What does he know about the subject? We'll bet he never had one ?fin his life. v?- ' The many friends of Col. George % Johnstone, all over the State, will reV gret to learn of his serious illness. He suffered a stroke of apoplexy in Columbia last week, and at first he p.'-y was thought to be dying. However, . it is now believed he will recover. Ilfe^ n. ^ The governor seems to be determin- j kv-' ed to make as many enemies as pos- : |%"7 f sible among the men who are in .charge of other departments of State jp" work. Now he has had a row with < the sinking fund commission, and '< >' has been sat on as usual. Poor fel- ( low! be is really getting to be an ob- 1 t%y'\ Jeet of pity. 1 The employment of "home" archih-t . tectb, as recommended by the gover- ; nor, seems to have been attended 1 g?V :"r with wonderful results in the matter i of the plans for the enlarging and i improvement of the State house. 1 . Truly the incident is one of the most remarkable we have ever known in < \ ( South Carolina. We trust the mat- ; ter will be thoroughly ventilated by the legislative committee which will p < investigate it. ( : The house of representatives has < ' ^passed a bill providing that the po- ? sition of commissioner of agricul- j ture, now so largely filled by Col. E. j J.' Watson, shall be elected by the i people instead of being appointed by- < the governor or elected by the gen- ] eral assembly. The bill is a compro- < mise. It has passed the third read- ' ing in the house and will no doubt pass the senate. It provides that ; the present commissioner shall retain his office until his successor is elected and qualifies, which provision will retain Col. Ebbie J. in office for some time yet. Orangeburg has been making a great ado recntljr because some cotton was sold at auction in thrt city. ? i? t-i- J Our sister city is away oemuu. navtlcally this method has obtained in Bamberg for a number of years. All our buyers are assembled at the cotton platform and when cotton is brought in they all bid on it and the one who pays the highest price gets it. This possibly accounts for the fact that the Bamberg market is always ahead of the other markets in this section. This fact was mentioned to us by a prominent citizen of Orangeburg county who always sells his cotton in Bamberg because he gets better prices. ? A. W. Knight has sold the brick store on Main street, now occupied by S. Yeitrakis as a restaurant, to Mrs. J). Harrison, and the transfer will take place March 1st. Mrs. Harrison will move her grocery store into it as soon as possible. / - KISSES WON $1,000. Juror Saft Them Tlirown and Decided Love Existed. The throwing of kisses by Harvey Rohr and his wife to each other during the trial of the alienation suit, in which Rohr sued Edwin Layton. his foster father-in-law, for $10,000, was the feature of the case chiefly responsible for the jury's verdict of $1,000 in favor of the young husband. In his charge to the jury Judge Trexler said damages for alienation could be awarded only in case ine testimony showed that husband and wife loved each other, and that if Layton's statement was true that Mrs. Rohr had no affection for her husband Rohr could recover. Under the law the young wife could not be put on the stand, and thus so far as the records of the trial are concerned there was no statement from the wife herself whether she loved her husband or not. It is said that as soon as the jury began to deliberate several of the jurors were of the opinion that under the charge the court had delivered them Rohr was not entitled to damages. "Get out," said a member of the jury who is a grandfather and has watched the love game for three generations. "Don't tell me these young people are not fond of each other, because I kept my eyes on them chiefly during the two days of the trial and when they thought no one would see them they threw kisses." Another juryman spoke up, corroborating the first, and declared his 1 opinion that from the way they made "sheep's eyes" they were dead in love. Rohr, as a result of the suit, not i only got a verdict, but he also got his wife back, the reunited couple promenading about the town after the trial arm in arm.?Allentown, ! (Pa.) dispatch to Philadelphia Inquirer. Dispensary Bill Passed. ( A bill to provide for apportioning among the several counties of the State the "total cash balance of the State dispensary fund now remaining in the State treasury and not otherwise appropriated," the division to be < made on the basis of enrollment in . the free schools as given in the annual report of the State superintend- . ent of education for the scholastic . year ending June 30, 1911, was pass- , ed by the senate last Monday morn- , ing and was sent to the house. The bill provides that the money shall 1 be used in strengthening weak schools, in encouraging school im- . provement and in promoting educa- ; tional interests generally. ^ The bill allows the distribution of ^ this fund to be made by the State , superintendent of education, the , State treasurer and the comptroller general, and not more than one- < fourth of the amount apportioned to a county shall be spent in one. year, except in counties where it shall be used to defray past indebtedness, in which cases the whole amount may be used in one year. The bill lastly provides that any additional funds-that may hereafter be paid to the State by the windingup commission shall be divided in . < the same way within 30 days after being paid in. The bill was introd ced by the educational committee and was debated 1 it length. t Is Green to Succeed Watson? Columbia, Feb. 12.?Leon. M. Grreen, friend of the governor of South Carolina, who did some "inspecting" for the governor at the expense of the State, is expected to be appointed commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries, to 1 succeed E. J. Watson. The appointment will be made unless the general assembly takes the appointive power out of the hands of the governor. ( It is generally rumored in Colum- i bia that Colonel Green is the campaign manager for C. L.. Blease. There is more patronage attached 1 to the department of agriculture than 1 any other department <\f the State j government. About $50,000 is dis-. pensed under the direction of the department. This amount includes the revenue recefv^d from the sale of the ( feedstuffs stamps. Should L. M. Green be appointed ] as commissioner, it would be possible for him to name 44 feedstuffs inspectors next summer. These inspec- J tors would be located in every counts in the State. Tt would be Dossible < for the same Col. Green to instruct these inspectors to go from house to J house, from store to store, and work for Candidate Blease. 1 These questions are being considered very seriously by the general assembly and it is expected that some action will be taken to hedge off the big political move that the governor 1 is certain to take. A. D. Hudson is also a contender , for the job. He, however, has not rendered such valuable service to the governor as Col. Green and therefore will have to play second fiddle in the game. Remember the address at the Fitting School auditorium Friday night by Mr. Robert Lathan, editor of the Charleston News and Courier. His subject will be "Journalism as a , Life-Work," and he should have a , large audience. The lecture is free. UNABLE TO STAND ON ICE. i ???? \ Max Long in Hospital Sixteen Times in One Month. Unless some means are found whereby Max Long, 44 years old. can be kept from turning flip-flops on the icy streets the officials of the State hospital here will have to press J another ambulance into service. Long has been admitted to the State hospital four times every week for one month, says a Scranton, Pa., special. On Monday he was admitted three times to be treated for slight injuries by falls. ? "For the love of Mike, are you here again?" exclaimed L>r. Artnur Davis, the house physician, as he saw the ambulance men bringing the limp form of Long up the hospital steps. "Yep, it's me, Doc. I am the original fall guy, I guess," wag Long's weak retort. After several stitches had been taken in a gash on his head and his other bruises fixed up, where he had fallen against the curbstone, he was discharged. The attendants wanted him to remain in the institution for a day or two, until he was better able to stand on his feet, but the man was obdurate. Two hours later there was another hurry call from Spruce street for the ambulance. When the attendants arrived they found Long again in a faint, suffering from a fall on the icy sidewalk. "The wicked stand in slippery places," commented Long as he was being carried into the hospital for the sixteenth time in one month. "His injuries are not serious, but we will keep him here for a few days iL A nmktilnnAA V* rvr?OA ornf o Q until tuc auiuuiautc uvi u rest," declared Dr. Wilson. George Johnstone Dying. Columbia, Feb. 8.?George Johnstone, one of the most prominent lawyers of the State, was stricken with apoplexy last night at the Jerome hotel in this city and is now desperately ill at Knowlton's infirmary. He is unable to speak. It is feared that he will not be able to recover. Jailed on Murder Charge. Lexington, \ February 9.?Ernest Thompson, a negro boy of about 14 rears of'age, was placed in jail last night with the charge of murder resting against him, it being'alleged that he killed another negro boy, Chestlne Young, at Irmo yesterday afternoon. The trouble occurred at Pleasant Spring school house during the recess hour. According to the story told by Thompson, the boy charged with the killing, Young had been picking a t* Vklrt / TV> *v? 'n \ irAll n LUD5 W I tl-l HID V 1 UUUipOUU D ) J vuu^^i brother, and when the older Thompson asked Young to desist, Young turned upon Ernest Thompson with i dra vn knife. Ernest says he struck ifoung over the head with a baseball bat in an effort to keep him off, not having the least intention of killing him. Young died a few minutes later, it is said, and the boy was committed :o jail by Magistrate Lorick, of Irmo, Thompson is perhaps the youngest person ever charged with muider in' :his county, certainly the youngest in i number of years. Carrier Appointed. Monday Postmaster Byrd received lotice from Washington that John G. Smoak had wcm the appointment as t. F. D. carrier for route No. 3 from Branchville as a resu't of the competitive examination held recently in Drangeburg. Mr. Smoak succeeds Vfr. C. F. Smoak, resigned. The appointment is effective February 16. Mr. S. S. Byrd retains the position of substitute carrier.?The Branchville rournal. The Station Agent's Job. "Do you suppose No. 17 will be in pn time day after to-morrow? Why lot?" "Can you tell me if a young lady n a blue dress and straw hat got off ;he train which got in from the North it 2:10?" "What time does the 5 o'clock crain leave and is it going to leave in time?" "Is the train going to get into Fort. Wavne on time, do you think?" "What made No. 7 so late a week igo last Tuesday?" "Do you think it is safer to ride in a parlor car or is there apt to be i rear-end collision?" "Why is No. 13 marked up for fifteen minute late?" "Have you noticed an old gentleman with white whiskers and a telescope go through the gate at any time to-day?" "How do I get to Blink's Corner, Texas, without changing cars?" "I lost a back comb on the southbound train three weks ago last Wednesday. Can you tell me where I can find it?" "Will you wafch for my sister and tell her how to get up to my house? 1 haven't time to wait for her train/' ' r F\>r good teams call on J. M. Dannelly & Co at Ehrhardt, who operate a first-class livery service. Go?>d service and reasonable prices, j \ A. "* -. j - -"v ' SLAYER BETRAYED BY GLOVE. Worn to Prevent His Undoing, They Biing About His Undoing. Perhaps the greatest aid to the solution to the mystery of identities, and perhaps the most efficient weapon that modern scientific methods have placed in the hands of the courts is the identification by finger prints. One would say that to avoid this jeopardy the criminal would need only to wear gloves when he went about his work. But it was the very fact that one of the assassins wore gloves that led to the detection of the criminal agents in one of the most extraordinary cases reported in New York, says the Saturday Evening Post. A Spaniard named Otero, on his way from Havana to New York, fell in with a countryman named Gonzalez. Otero was a young, frank, goodnatured fellow, and as Gonzalez seemed to be an unfortunate person of his own country he took up and pvinppri n fripnrilv infprpst in him When they arrived in New York Gonzalez went with Otero to the Barcelona Hotel in Great Jones street, which was known as the Spanish house. Suspected Gonzalez. The proprietors of this hotel were not pleased with the appearance of Gonzalez and, as he came -without baggage, they refused him a room. However, upon the intercession of Otero he was finally permitted to enter. i , Otero said that Gonzalez wa^ a poor fellow whom he was going to help, who had come to New York for employment. Otero seemed to be a very prosperous person; he exhibted considerable sums of gold that he carried about him. The clerk at the hotel advised him to deposit his money in the hotel safe, but he declined to take this precaution. It was arterwara rememDerea tnai Gonzalez watched the movements of ' Otero with the keenest interest and constantly attended him. It was also remembered that within an hour after their arrival at the hotel Barcelona Gonzalez went to the Hotel de Cuba in Bleecker street, a little more than a block from Great Jones street, and there met with another Spaniard named Pellicier, .who had been a former waiter at the Barcelona Hotel. Soon after his arrival Otero left for Philadelphia and did not return to New York until the following Tuesday. At 9:30 o'clock Wednesday night it happened that William C. Mills, of Brooklyn, left his shop in Fulton street to go to his residence in Cannon place, and in . the center of the park he discovered the body of Otero. The police were notified and came immediately. They concluded that as the body was still warm the assassins had been interrupted by the approach of Mills and had not completed their work of robbing the body. s < Found Pair of Bloody Gloves. One of the pockets of Otero was i turned inside out, but another was left undisturbed, although it con- 1 tained over $200 in gold and the re- 1 ceipt for his bill at the Barcelona < Hotel, by which he was at once iden tified. In the haste of their flight i the murderers had dropped their im- ] plements and the police found a bent dagger and the detached blade of a < razor. These weapons could not be j identified and did not indicate "the criminals, but fortunately on the i ground near by the police picked up ] a pair of bloody gloves. When they 1 came to examine these gloves they found that the left one had been cut. As the gloves did not fit Otero the police were of the opinion that they naa Deen worn Dy one 01 ine assassins, and they constructed the following theory: As Otero was an athletic . and vigorous man he had evidently ^ been overpowered, and as there were two implements found it was reasonable to conclude that there had been two assassins. ( As the most deadly wounds were stabs in the back the police conclud- , ed that the assassin who had worn the gloves had clutched Otero with his left hand while he applied his dagger from behind, and that the * bolder assassin while gashing Otero in front with his razor inadvertently cut the gloved hand of his confederate: The police had now a clue to the assassins. They had only to find a man with a gashed left hand. Cut Glove Pitted Wounded Hand. As the victim was a Spaniard they began at once to visit those hotels and boarding houses to which Span- * iards were accustomed to resort in New York, and they immediately 1 picked up Pellicier and Gonzalez. 1 When Pellicier was taken to the sta- ] tion house the glove was put on his . hand and the cuts in it were found < to correspond with the cuts in the 1 fingers of his left hand. The judge i said in his opinion: J "In the light of this evidence, un- 1 disputed and unexplained, the crime ' they committed in darkness is as < clearly open to view as if they had ' perpetrated it in the blaze of the < noonday. The case furnishes a 1 single illustration of ' the searching 1 nature and the irresistible force of 1 ; -.1 * - - v v. [? : NIAGARA'S POWER. Rated Now as Equal to That of 16,000,000 Men. The average man is apt to speak very glibly of so many hundred thousand horsepower harnessed at Niagara Falls, but it is doubtful if one person in a hundred begins to understand the tremendous conservation of natural resources effected at the falls without interfering with the grandeur of the spectacle. TV.n OIO O A A V A* X lie O I V v"liU10CJJU Wei UU VY veloped at the falls is the equivalent of 16,776,000 man-power working an eight hour day, or more than the combined strength of all able-bodied men in the United States, says a Niagara Falls special. Under the American-Canadian treaty promulgated by the two nations to guard the scenic beauty of the Falls for all time, only 56,000 cubic feet of water per second, out of a total flow of 240,000 cubic feet, may be delivered from the Niagara river for power purposes. But even with this restriction, when the treaty goes into effect the force conserved by falling water will be the equivalent of 35,559,000 men working the average eight-hour day. Stupendous although this saving is, it is nothing compared to the full strength of the Falls. The volume of water that will be permitted to run, so as to perpetuate the beauty of the Falls, is estimated to represent 118,680,000 eight-hour man-power or about 18,000,000 more manpower than there are men, women and children in the UinteA States and all its possessions. x erg this jM?Si; year. We will leave for the 1 markets next I week. We will I have with us this I season two de- i | [signers and a I 1 builder, and a I , ,; representative in r ; Baltimore, and I v ? II u_. ' L.. - IEJIH win uavc uatgains in correct I w styles. See our I ^ line of Bordered I Goods, Flaxons, I ) Lawns, Etc. Our I '/?? line of Flounc- I :M ings, Edges, Lace I and Bands is as | ~ complete as the I I State has. New IJ line in every de- IE Partment just in I I Millinery Store I A (C. W. RENTZ, Prop.) ^ I (Formerly K. I. Shuck & Co-) I MASTER'S SALE.. State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg?Court of Common v Pleas. . > J. W. Black, et al, plaintiffs, against Janie Tucker, etc., et al, defendants. , Pursuant to an order made in the v' above entitled cause on December 8th, 1911, by hia Honor Judge S. W. ^ r, oti ni rym^iAi^tr An\W U. OUippi VllUUlt U UU5^| pivp*%?A?0 aw ' the second circuit, I, H. C. Folk,? Master in and for the county of Bam- "-^8 berg, will sell at public auction for "r'i$ "ash, to the highest bidder, in front 3f the court house door at, Bamberg, . A 3. C., on March 4th, .1912, the \ J same being sales day/ the tracts of m land hereinafter described, being the ^ portion allotted to the estate of J. M. Tucker in the above entitled.action. t All of that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being " r 3 in the county and State aforesaid, s containing one hundred and eight .' (108) acres, and known as the May v borne tract, and designated as Tract k, and bounded on the North by the Charleston and Augusta public road; m the East by lands of Isaac Belcher ' md Henry Felder; on the South and West by lands of J. J. England. ALSO 1 All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the said county and State, containing two - ^ hundred and eight (ZU8> acres, ana iesignated as Tract B, and bounded : >n the North and West by lands of W. L. McFail, N. P. Smoak and ^ Southern Railway; on the East by ands designated as Tract D, and be^ / longing to J. W. Black; and on the 3outh by lands of W. L. McFail. s , The two tracts above described are , nore fully designated and described '**$*^81 >n a plat made by order of court in ;his action, that is filed in the clerk's )ffice in this county, reference to vhich may be had if desired. v If the successful bidder at the sale * >f these lands fails to comply with V vi lis bid, the property will be sold oa o ;he same or some subsequent sales 'N lay, at the risk of the former pur;haser, and so on from time to time . mtil a purchaser be found who wtfc somply. Purchaser to pay for pa- / >ers, / h: c. polk. Master for Bamberg County. J Bamberg, B. C., February 14, 1#12.