Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and 1 at Other Points. ?Mr. C. R. Hooton, of Denmark, was in the city Monday. 3 ?Mr. J. M. Carter, of the Smoaks r section, was in the city Tuesday. I ?Mr. and' Mrs. W. I. Johns, of 1 r Baldoc, were in the city Monday. * r ?Mr. W. D. Bennett, of the Ehr- * hardt section, was in the city Tuesday. 1 L ?Rev. S. P. Chisolm, of the Colsft ton section, was in the city Tuesday. hk. ?Mr. J. L. Priester, of the Ehr- a W hardt section, was in the city Tues- ^ day. ?Mr. W. S. Miley, of the Buford's t Bridge section, was in the city last t Friday. i ?Mr. M. N. Rice, of the Buford's c (Bridge section was in the city last Saturday. t ' ?Miss Clara McMillan has gone 1 North to buy spring millinery for * t The Millinery Store. ?Mr. G. A. Lucas, the piano man % of Aiken, is spending a few days in the city this week. 1 ?Mr. S. G. Ray, of Denmark, was ? in the city last Saturday and gave us "^ftis announcement for sheriff, w ?Messrs. H. B. Breland and J. H. ^ f Kearse, of the Buford's Bridge sec- j tion, were in the city Tuesday. , k ?Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Boylston, j B of Blackville, spent Sunday in the ^ H city with their daughter, Mrs. Geo. j F. Hair. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hair and Dr. W H. B. Hair, of Blackville, spent Sunf day in the city with Dr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Hair. ?Mrs. Ella Martin and son, Leon, of Blackville, spent Sunday in the city as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. HH W. D. Trent. |?Mr. Chas. D. Felder, of Yonge's H Island, spent Sunday and Monday in |V * the city with his parents, Capt. and w Mrs. J. D. Felder. ?Mr. W. D. Rhoad has been in New York for the past two weeks, buying spring goods, but is expected home in a few days. ?Mrs. A. McB. Speaks, accom1 panied by Mrs. B. F. Varn, of Varnville, left for Baltimore on Monday to buy spring millinery. ?Mr. W. P. Jones returned last Saturday from St. Louis, where he j had been to buy a car load of horses ^ ana mines ior jones joros. ?Mrs. M. A. Bamberg and Mrs. J. Norman Walker and little daughter left Tuesday for an extended trip to Florida. They will visit a number of ^ points, and will be away for some time. ?Hon. Jno. W. Crum, of Denmark, was in the city last Saturday. His many friends were glad to see him, and only hope that he would come oftener. His visits to Bamberg are short and far between. v ?Mr. Robert Lathan, editor of the Charleston News and Courier, spent last Friday and part of Satur l day in the city as the guest of Head Master J. C. Guilds. Mr. Lathan de" livere^ an address on "Journalism ' as a Life Work" at the Fitting School Friday night and delighted all who heard him. ?Mrs. M. C. Bellinger, of Augusta, spent a few days in the city this week on a visit to relatives and friends. Ik This was Mrs. Bellinger's first visit i to Bamberg since she left here nearly f three years ago, and she was sur I prised and delighted at the growth and improvement of Bamberg since she has been away. ?Mr. J. N. Maxwell, of Salisbury, fc N. C., spent from Friday to Monday B with his son, Mr. L. E. Maxwell, to f be with him while he was confined m to his room from an operation which was performed Saturday. The operation was successful, and Mr. Maxwell is back at the linotype in The Herald office turning out hot slugs at a great | rate. B Tyrolean-Alpine Singers. i The concert given by the TyroleanAlpine singers at the Fitting School auditorium Monday evenning was a musical treat, certainly one of the finest attractions that has visited Bamberg in some time. The musical numbers were of the highest order, and the reading of Miss Ramsden was superb. Head Master Guilds is doing a patriotic work in bringing such romnanies here, and he should at least have the financial support of 1 the public whom he is so faithfully < 'serving. If he can pay expenses on i these attractions he is doing well, 1 and he should not be forced to fear 1 financial loss all the time. i 1 Sailor on the War Path. 1 1 Washington, Feb. 20.?Edmund ? F. Gilligan, a discharged sailor from < the receiving ship Franklin, at Nor- < folk, created a commotion at the ; navy department this afternoon by 1 threatening to shoot Lieut. Commander W. R. Sexton, in charge of the recruiting division, because he 1 refused to re-eulist him. FOUNDLING OF THE SEA. Jaby Rescued Adrift Becomes a Hero. Saved Eight Lives. Noel Lambezellec, fisherman, 21 rears old, son of Jan Lembezellec, etired, of Brest, saved eight lives in darch last, and was one of those vho received the Carnegie rewards or heroism presented by ex-Presilent Loubet on Christmas Eve. He lad earned his reward by an act of ? 1 n VvA^rrvrv A rt 11 Ocfi r\r\ '<ixur mat wao u^j unu 4uvquvu, But all the same a busybody had written to the committee of the fund itating that Jan Lambezellec was a >achelor, that Noel was not his son, md that, therefore, the reward was >eing conferred under false pretensss. Red tape has its ritual and has o be satisfied, so the fund sent down o Brest to ask old Jan Lambezellec n his small cottage why he had de:lared that Noel was his son. "Yes," said the old man, "I am a >echelor. But Noel is my son, though have never married, and his mother is the sea." "The sea?" inquired the messenger. "Yes, the sea which washed Belle sle lighthouse away just 20 years igo, before it was the great building t is now, and when it was not on 3elle Isle itself, but on the spit of ock which disappeared in the queer leather three years back. Volcanic? day be. It disappeared. That's all know. We used to call it Happy sland, Goulvec and I, because life | vas so dull there. A bit of a buildng 60. feet high on a bit of bare rock n the sea. A small room for Goul-ec and me, just under the lamp. The lamp to look after, and when it *ras foggy (it usually is foggy nine nonths in the 12, as you know,) a jreat bell to ring till the weather ;leared up. That was our life on lappy Island. "And 21 years ago, on Christmas ?ve, Goulvec and I had quarreled. I lon't remember what it was about. But a quarrel between two men who ive in one small room, where their loses rub as as they ait at supper, is io amusing thing. We had not ipoken to each other since the mornng. Our fire was drooping because leither of us would look after it, tnd we sat there on Christmas eve md thought about the little church m land here, with the manger and he plaster statues of the kings in )lue and gold, the ox, the ass, St. Toseph, Mother Mary and the Baby vith the gifts round Him. "Goulvec had a wife and two chiliren at home. My only home was Sappy Island. It was a merry evenng. Oh, no, I shan't forget Christnas eve on Happy Island 21 years igo. We were short of food, too. rhe boat had not been out to us for ;hree days, owing to the weather. tVe were not actually hungry, but our * j.? ? Kaaw foo. a si meai or two uau uut, uctu ;ive and we had no more tobacco. We sat over the miserable little fire md brooded in silence. "The sea moaned and lashed the *ock, and the wind whistled and swore at us outside, but we were used :o that, and I remember thinking ;hat the night was very still and woniering whether when 12 o'clock struck we should hear the church Dells from shore. We sometimes did, md last Christmas old Goulvec and [ had kissed like women when the Dells rang out, and had touched glasses to the wife and lads on shore. "Suddenly we sprang up and listened. I heard a crash on the rock Dutside, and Goulvec had heard it, too. 'Stay you here and see to the ire,' I said. 'It's my watch. Til go Iown.' 'Be careful, comrade,' said Did Goulvec, and touched my shoulier as I left the room. We were not talkative men, either of us, and our luarrel was over. There was something in danger outside. "It was no easy matter to get iown. The staircase was slippery, md the wind and sea were high. As for the stones, they were like ice, md it was not an easy thing to get 3ut to the point where I heard something tapping. There was a hit of i boat there, and I marveled that it held together. I was so startled, though, by what I saw in it that I forgot to look, as I ought to have looked, for her ship's name and number. "There was a bundle in the cockleshell, and the bundle wailed in a jueer little high-pitched voice, which [ heard quite distinctly above the tvind and the lashing of the sea. , I have always marveled how I got it Dut of the b^?at without drowning myself. But I did get it out, and the boat went to pieces as I stumbled Dack to the lighthouse. " 'Comrade,' I said, as I pushed the door open and blinked at the brightness inside, 'comrade, poke up the fire. Here's a visitor,' 'Saint Joseph!' cried Goulvec (he swore by 3t. Joseph, who was his name-saint,) Saint Joseph, it is our lord himself!' But it was only 'a baby boy whom the sea had washed up to our doorstep, and we called him Noel. As Goulvec had lads and a wife of his jwn, we agreed that the child should TRAIN STRIKES WAGON. Fatal Railway Accident at Grade Crossing. At a grade crossing near Bath in Aiken county, Saturday night at 7:40 o'clock, B. C. Sharp, 50 years of age, was instantly killed and his body frightfully mangled. James Reynolds, 13 years of age, was so seriously injured that he will die, and Ben Sharp, son of B. C. Sharp, received injuries which may result in his death, when a wagon in which they were driving was struck by Southern -L __ A A 1 IV . itanway train i\o. zy, Known as me Palm Limited. The Sharps and the Reynolds boy are from Augusta. Sharp, who was a peddler of chickens had been on the Carolina side buying poultry and eggs and with the boys had started back to Augusta Saturday night, when they drove in front of the Palm Limited, the wagon being struck slightly forward in the front wheels. The elder Sharp was caught in the wreck of the vehicle and his body dragged for some distance. He was killed instantly. The Reynolds boy was found on the pilot of the engine when the train came to a stop. He had an ugly wound in the back of his head. Young Sharp was dashed to one side and was injured about the legs and body. One of his hips was fractured and a leg broken; internal injuries were also found. The engineer, E. A. Wagner, declined to make a statement. The injured boys were carried to Augusta hospital, where they received surgical attention. Sharp's horse was killed and his wagon torn to splinters. Doctor Chloroforms Doomed Man. Portland, Me., Feb. 19.?Pinioned beneath wreckage of freight cars, fol lowing a Kead-on collision of two freight trains on the Grand Trunk road at North Yarmouth this morning Arthur Collis, a fireman, reailzed that the efforts to rescue him from the flames, which were directly over his body, would fail and he pleaded for an hour and a half for physicians to give him something to put him out of his agony. After all efforts to remove the heavy timbers from the man's body failed, Dr. Edgar E. Barker, of Portland crawled through a tunnel of grain and wreckage to Corliss's side and passed him a handkerchief saturated with chloroform. By that time flames were lapping the lower part of Corliss's body. "I did the only thing a man could do," said Dr. Barker. "I did not want to give the man chloroform, and I did not give it to him until I knew that it was impossible for him live. He pleaded for more than an hour for us to give him something to put him out of his agony, and I decided that it was the right thing to do. "When I passed him the saturated handkerchief he did not hesitate a second, as he knew that he would be burned almost by inches. "It was the last resort to relieve a doomed man." Oil lamps can be prevented from smoking if a little liquor distilled from onions be placed in the bottom of their reservoirs. t be mine. And that is how I came by "Luck never comes alone. The wind changed a few minutes later, and the fire burned up more brightly. We fed Noel on milk?lucky we hsd any?taking turns to hold the child and the spoon. Our quarrel had disappeared, as if by magic. We rang the bell that night without remembering whose turn it was, and we pretended (for lonely men have to play at pretended games like children do when they are cheerful) that the fog-bell was really the church bell for Christmas. And I'll swear we heard the shore bells ringing on Christmas morning, too, though Goulvec always said that was just my imagination? "They began chiming just as little Noel took his first sup of milk out of I the spoon I held, and opened eyes : like early pansies up into my face. 'Don't cry into his milk, you fool,' growled Goulvec. 'You will make it all salty.' 'He loved his joke, did old Goulvec. Poor chap, he has been dead these 18 years. "And Noel is my son now, monsieur, and the sea his mother. Papers? No, I have never thought about papers for him. But if you say so, he must have them. He will want them next year when he has to serve France. Of course, he'll be a sailor. He's a fisherman now. Put him down of unknown father and mother if you think that is best. We do not care, Noel and I, and old Goulvec is dead these 18 years. "But Noel is my son and the sea is his mother. It does not matter what the official papers say about him. Wie never saw or heard anything of the ship from which the sea took him. There were 30 ships wrecked near Belle Isle that Christmas, 21 years ago."?Paris correspondence London Express. I . , j -? : ? ^^^mm^bm?t^mmmmwm?^mma^ bm ^MM Specials Saturday j AND NEXT WEEK AT " KLAUBER'S "THE STORE OF QUALITY" ALL GOODS QUOTED SOLD FOR SPOT CASH =^=^=^^=^=^==^^==^=^==^= p-?-?????I p??????| p???| p?????| 36 Embroidered 36 Boys' Wash Suits, Good Black Hose 2 One lot $5.00 Men's Gowns, $1.00 value $1.00 value, each for 25c value, per E. C. Burt Shoes, special each only pair only your choice, per pair "I 50c 50c 8c $2.45 -M . ' M Good quality Caps One lot Men's Leg- , ? Wide Embroidery for only ging Ladies Pure Linen Flouncing, worth Handkerchiefs at 50c yd, special at 39C each 29c 11 1 8c s 1 All Trunks at Cost 50c Boys' Knee One lot Embroidered $1.50 Comforts, ex- Your choice of Sam- . ^ Pants, per pair at Petticoats $1.50 val- tra full size, eacn pie ?iats ior Men, only ues, each $1.50 to $2.50 values, each .1 25c 89c 95c 95c g ? Remember, Your Money Back if You Are Not | Satisfied With Your Bargain fj IKLAUBER'S, ?vS Bamberg, S. Cj 1 f TITCT AITTTT CA n 1 II JUJlftLIi ILLttLM Telling you that we have a few f i _ i j Blankets, Sweaters, Shoes, Hats, || | Clothing, Shirts, and Underwear , that we will sell At Cost'.'.'. | ' If You Are In Need Of Any Of These jj j Give Us A Call And Save Money | Remember that the Globe Tailoring Co's tailor will be here next Wednesday and Unirsday February 28th and 29th , with a full line of Spring Samples. He can fit you. You must , nbe satisfied or you don't take the clothes; Come If in mi these davs and see the line. 11 j C. R. BRABHAM'S SONS I || Bamberg, S. C. ' .' 4 Ojj