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I It puts new life into you, makes you strong and well, able to easily accomplish |^S?L. ! your life's work, l|J|Sbk It is guaranteed to do what we say it will. Your , money refunded if it fails. * At your drug store?25c. and 50c. Suffolk Drug Corporation, Virginia. I CORTRIGHT * METAL SHINGLES TO KNOW THE GENUINE... !??! 'LOOK FOR THE STAMP 1 iwm wm 11- "CORTRIGHT" Reg. U. S. Pat Off. haifoy jgati . 1 ; accept no substitute, if you want a roof that 2 ! ; wiH las* u long as the building, and never need Sh ratvim ? n?vor n?*JI aH.nfinn r\t -inv Irin^ wMnt UVVVI uvvu tAVlVMUVr** VI UAAJ BUIVt VAVVVI ?gg|.J|. so occasional cost of paint. V gS8(5M8agaJ? i 3 Fire-ptoof?Storm-proof?Lightning-proof. ... . i We have local representative* almost everywhere, but if none in your immediate locality, write us direct for samples, prices and full particulars. CORTRIGHT METAL ROOFING COMPANY 50 North 23d Street Philadelphia, Pa. | Just About Over | * * The hunting for this season is about over and you J1 should have your guns cleaned and put in first-class ? shape before storing them away. If you want the * A best work at lowest prices bring them to me. I u also have bicycles and supplies, also automobile ?. supplies at lowest prices. Come and see. jf J. B. BRICKLEt ??. The Repair Man Bamberg, S. C, ? /* V w w v v V ^ fTV v v If o "V 9 ? v ? wr IUJFORD'S DEFEAT BY COLONEL TARLETON. (Continued from page 2.) dismount the latter to gall the enemy's flank before he moved against their front with his cavalry. Captains Corbet and Kinlock were diron+erl with thp Spvpntppnth draeroons and part of the legion, to charge the centre of the Americans while Lieut. Colonel Tarleton, with thirty chosen horse and some infantry, assaulted their right flank and reserves." Such was the order of the battle observed by two of the commanders as stated by Colonel Tarleton. The British commander had rushed his detachment forward with great rapidity, having marched 105 miles in 54 hours. Many of the horses had broken down or become so tired that their progress was slow. These with the three-pounder which was still behind when the plan of battle was arranged, were ordered to take position when they arrived, on a small eminence which commands the road. This was designed as a rallying point in case of repulse, which Tarleton seems to have apprehended. These two forces were within 300 yards of each other, when the arrangement of battle was made by the British, yet the Americans did not fire a gun. As soon as the British commander got his forces put in position he, moved forward to the attack. When at the distance of 50 yards from the American front, the Continental troops prepared to fire, but were commanded by their officers to reserve their fire until the British were within ten paces. When this distance was reached, the Americans fired, but with scarcely any effect. The British closed in on the command of Buford and in a few moments the affair ended. / The Americans had more men than the British, and they were well provided with arms and ammunition, but they failed to use them to any advantage. The whole British loss in the battle was five killed and fourteen wound. The loss of the Americans was terribly great. The killed were 113; the woilnded and unable to be moved, 150; and the prisoners, 53. In all 316. Tarleton captured three stands of colors, two brass six-pounders, two royals, two wagons with ammunition, one artillery forge cart, 55 barrels of powder, 26 wagons loaded with new clothing, arms, musket cartridges, new cartridge boxes, flints and camp equipage. The reader is, no doubt, ready to say this was a strange battle, and so it was. Colonel Buford seems to have made many egregious blunders. If he had opened his artillery on Tarleton when he was forming his men for action, the result would have been far different. Many of those in 4;he command of Colonel Buford were citizens of the counties of York, Chester and Lancaster, who had gone down to assist in the defense of Charleston. For safety, they joined the command of Buford, and while returning home many were cut to pieces. We are a loss to know which to censure most, Colonel Buford for his mismanagement, or Colonel Tarleton for his cruelty. It is admitted by the Americans that some of them laid down their arms, while others kept up an ineffectual fire. It was declared, while the slaughter was going on, that Tarleton was killed. This incensed the British, and they hewed the Americans to pieces without mercy. On the morning of the 30th, those of the Americans who were so badly wounded that they "were not able to travel, were," Colonel Tarleton says, "paroled and placed at the neighboring plantations, and in a meeting house not far distant from the tattlefield." The wounded from Chester county were in a few days removed to their homes. On the way home, however, a number of the wounded became so weak that they were deposited in Waxhaw Presbyterian church and here some died and were buried in the graveyard. The meeting house not far distant from the battlefield, in which Colonel Tarleton placed some of the wounded, was an Associate church within, perhaps, 400 yards of the battlefield. The probability is that the spring used until lately by Mr. S. E. Usher, was the meeting house spring. This meeting house was also called Waxhaw, and so was the whole country from a short distance north of Camden. The meeting house not far distant from the battlefield, was one of the places at which Rev. Thomas Clark, M. D., preached as early as 1769. Some of the families with ? -i-T-.? - J ?? 1 A/\/3 1\tt wnom me wuuiiueu were yienjcu uj Tarlemn, were Usher, Barkley, Hull, Montgomery, Nelson, Porter, Galloway, Cornes, and others forgotten. Thirty-five or forty years ago a plain marble monument, seven and a half feet high, and eighteen inchas square at the base, was erected to the memory of those Americans who fell in the battle, and a rude wall of flint stones placed around the grave in which 84 of tbem were buried. On the east side of this monumental shaft is the following inscription: "Nearly the entire command of LUNATIC ATTACKS PHYSICIAN. Dr. J. A. Faison, of Bennettsville, Receives Severe Cuts. Bennettsville, April 7.?Dr. J. A. : ... ... ^,,4. r uisuu was seveiei) uui iasL mgiii by John White, a crazy negro. About 11 o'clock Dr. Faison received a 'phone message to go to the plantation of Mr. Kenneth Matheson, about six miles west of Bennettsville, to see White, who was acting as a crazy man. Dr. Faison hastened to answer 1 the call. In the meantime the negro 1 had escaped from those who had him in custody. As Dr. Faison drove on the dam at Egypt Mill the negro, with a sheet over him, jumped in front of ' the horse and seized the lines, fright' ening the horse. It looked like the horse would back the buggy from the ' dam and the doctor got out. The negro advanced and slashed the doctor's face with a knife. Dr. Faison grabbed the negro and ' threw him down, but soon found that the negro had two knives. Finally the ' doctor succeeded in pinning both of the negro's hands down, but in that 1 position he could not take the knives away from him. After about fifteen minutes two negro men came up and the lunatic was. tied. Then Dr. Faison f nnh -nroc Viarllv f>nt T-Tp Vmrripd ' to Bennettsville and Drs. Crossland and Kinney dressed his wounds. One ugly gash raji from just behind the 1 left ear to above the eyo, requiring ten stitches to close it. Another one 1 began just below the temple and ran ' to near the middle of the chin, re' quiring six or seven stitches. The 1 right hand was also badly cut. Dr. ' Faison's remarkable strength and ' personal attention to his wounds alone prevented his bleeding to death. .The negro was brought to jail covered with the blood of Dr. Faison. COMBINED GOOD ROADS BILL. Sub-Committee of House Named to . Consider Measure. i Washington, April 7.?A sub-committee of the house committee on agriculture has been appointed to consider the consolidated measure for federal aid in the maintenance of good roads, recently introduced by Representative Shackloford, of Missouri, as the result of meetings Kr-nni*Vif oVinut hu "R onro?pn ta ti vp I | U1 OUglll. UUVUt K/ J * W Byrnes, of South Carolina, to secure co-operation among the score or mora of representatives who had introduced individual good roads bills at this session. The sub-committee , consists of Representative Rubey, of , Missouri, chairman, and Representatives Lever, of South Carolina; Beall, of Texas; Simmons, of New York, and Hanna, of North Dakota. It is . expected that a report will be made by the sub-committee within about ten days. If such a report is not . made, a caucus of the Democrats of , the house may be called to setttle the matter. The supporters of the , consolidated bill are confident of being able to pass it through the j ; house. Killed by Southern Train. Union, April 6.?Mr. W. W. Hug gins, an old, hardworking and highly respected white carpenter of this city, was killed by passenger train , No. 14, of the Southern Railway, here to-day, while crossing the railroad at the crossing near the residence of Dr. S. G. Sarratt. The body was not mutilated, but the neck and an arm were broken. Colonel Buford were either killed or wounded. Eierhtv-four eallant sol diers are buried in this grave. They left their homes for the relief of Charleston, but hearing, at Camden, of the surrender of the city, were returning. Here their lives were ended in the service of their country." On the south side is inscribed: "Erected to the memory and in the honor of the brave and patriotic American soldiers who fell in the battle which occurred at this place on the 29th of May, 1780, between Colonel Abraham Buford, who commanded a regiment of 350' Virginians, and Colonel Tarleton of the British army with 350 cavalry and a like number of infantry." The inscription on the north side is: "The cruel and barbarous massacre committed on this occasion by Tarleton ahd his command after the surrender of Colonel Buford and his regiment, originated the American warcry: 'Remember Tarleton's quarters.' A British historian, confesses, that at this battle 'the virtue of humanity was totally forgot.' " Some of the statements contained in these inscriptions vary from the Statements made by both American and British historians. Evidently the number of Tarleton's forces are greatly exaggerated, while those of Buford are greatly diminished. . The massacre of Buford's forces . aroused the Scotch-Irish settlers of Chester, York and Lancaster, and the result was that the British were defeated at Williamson's, King's Mountain, the Cowpens and Yorktown.? ^ g j K. -Liaiiia.il in iurK-viue. jkuiiliuci. j* NOTICE!! The Pastime Theatre will tilVL AWAY . . .ON. . . Wednesday Night, April 24th i A Real Live Baby This baby will be awarded to the one holding the lucky number on date mentioned above. NOTE?The person holding the lucky number must eive us a bonafide guarantee to take the best, rare of the baby. Should the winner not wish to accept the infant, ' - iA *t will be awarded to the next lucky number and if no one in the house wishes to accept the baby we will give . $2.50 in cash or 50 free passes to our theatre. Don't fail to get your coupon ticket with number at door. ! .. -i Pastime Theatre i >1. A. MOYE, JR., Manager. "The Home of Classy Features." x (S P. S. This baby will be sent from Columbia from a good family. It has coal black hair and brown eyes ' J) ? ^ | Attention: Farmers of South Carolina Jj This is the year for you to return to your "first love/^1 the Old Reliable "Star Brand" Wilcox & Gibbs Guano Go's Manipulated Guano, and use it on your crops exclusively. It has given satisfaction wherever used for over 45 years, and is acknowledged by those who use it to be the best all-round Cotton and Corn Fertilizer in 1 the world. It gives you the Best Results for the Least Money. It is Cheap in price, High Grade in Analysis, made of the Best Materials, and has a record of 45 years which proves its Superior Value as a Crop Producer. For Economy and Best Results this is The Fertilizer for you to use. Ask your Merchant for it and insist on having it. We sell all other grades of Fertilizers. If your Merchant does not handle our goods, write us direct The Macmurphy Company Successors to The Wilcox & Gibbs Guano Co. j Charleston, S. C f I ^ J v .-J"!!????????^ Saves Expensive Trips rWAS NECESSARY for the Attorney to have a personal talk with a client in a distant city. The journey would seriously interfere with several important engagements made for that day. He used the Long Distance Bell Telephone, had a satisfactory talk with his distant client and was able to keep all his engagements at home. The Long Distance Bell Telephone increases the efficiency of business men who adapt it to their needs. It can serve you with equal satisfaction and economy. ^?3^. 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