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IS NOW THE WI( CITY Havana, Cuba, Said to i Place on the Wes Night Gaj They say good Americans when; they die go to Paris, but "live" | Americans go to Havana. Havana, gay, wicked, wide open, it is the one city to-day to be shun- j ned or visited, according to one's; point of view. Several cities have I been called the wickedest city?Reno, j Nev., Port Said and Irkutsk, Siberia, for instance. They are wicked cities, V"A n-inlraHnocc! io r?f Q Rfirdid UUl rvi^xvv/uuvco *.k> v?. v? w* , >. -i* <*. variety. Havana is wicked and gay. j And five hours from the United j States. . v I In Paris the "night life," gay restaurants and dances are for English and American tourists. In Havana the "gay life" is for the natives. Its j wickedness is part of its life. Everything in Havana is wide open. And of its 57 varieties of wick8$b. t edness the mildest is gambling. Gambling houses in Havana are open to both men and women. All that is necessary is a bank roll. Roulette, faro, hazard and good American j poker are at hand. Jai Alai, the! popular Spanish game of skill, on j which such big sums are won and lnct nn innsrer flourishes, but it is: .? ? scarcely missed. Burbridge's Mira- j mar hotel is a temple of chance i where one can woo the fickle goddess as she can be wooed nowhere in I America. And, what is more, it is j fashionable to do so. Even as one sips his chocolate in the morning the daily round has its i beginning. A half dozen peddlers of lottery tickets interrupt the meal. The lottery in Cuba is run by the government and there are drawings every three months for enormous prizes. The first prize is $100,000. The tickets are hawked about the streets and sold at every corner store. But the fact that the gov-1 ernment conducts it does not guar- j antee its "being on the level." At a recent drawing the first prize was, not awarded for the reason that that, particular ticket had not been sold, i ft": | The public didn't like it, but they | kept on buying tickets, for it is their j instinct to "take a chance." i If one sits around a cafe any j length of time?and a large part of ( every dav is SDent in this way?one is certain to be invited to witness a j cock fight. Cock fighting is one of . the commonest sports in Cuba, and j while it is against the law it is rare- j ly interfered with. Large sums change hands on these bloody exhibitions. But it is not until after dark that: Havana fakes on any of its air of gayety. Then the Prado and the Malacon and the various parks become a fairyland of lights. A band j plays at the Malacon, as the boulevard along the ocean front is called. All Havana emerges from its cool and comfortable stone houses ready for a night of pleasure. The cafes are crowded, there is a constant stream of automobiles and i carriages up and down the boule-1 vards. The sidewalks are filled with ! people hurrying to the theatres.! They are nearly all dressed in the height of fashion. Havana is one of j the richest cities in the world. Its styles come direct from Paris. The ! only cheap things are tobacco and matches. At 8 o'clock performances begin in a dozen theatres. At the Payre i *V..; " I grand opera is sung by a company of artists headed by Constantino, of the j Metropolitan forces. At the Albisu j a Spanish opera company from the City of Mexico is singing "the Chocolate Soldier" and "The Count of Luxembourg." At the Marti farce comedy reigns. In the moving picture and variety theatres one finds real wickedness. The "grizzly bear," the "bunny hug," are modest compared with the dances j shown on the stages of the variety j theatres, where the public is admit- j ted for 25 and 50 cents. The little j plays are beyond description and the actresses wear very scanty attire. At midnight Central Park, which j ic in thp hpart of the citv. is as crowded and filled with life as Broadand Forty-second street before the theatres swallow up the crowds. The cafes are filled with people, but instead of eating lobsters and draining cold bottles they eat ice cream and sip soft drinks. There is very little drinking of alcoholic liquors in Havana. Of course, all of Havana does not go to the theatre. Many of the fashionable set seek the clubs, some seeking the gambling palaces and others attend mask balls, which are given nightly. The dancing, even at the fashionable balls, would be called "immoral" in America. The gayest affairs are given on Sunday nights at the Theatre Nacianal. They begin about midnight 3CEDEST IN THE WORLD. ae the Most Wide-Open stern Hemisphere. rest Time. and last until 8 and 9 o'clock Monday morning. The New Miramar, which is run by Walter Burbridge, who used to be associated with Canfield, is the Mecca for tourists. Dinner there costs you about twice as much as any ( place in New York or Paris. If one is well dressed and looks prosperous < he is asked if he wishes to play. The second floor is one big gamb- 1 ling room, and it is thronged nightly ! by scores of American visitors as well as rich Spaniards.?Milwaukee 1 Sentinel. BLIND MAN May Practice Surgery and Will Use His Fingers as Eyes. Surgical operations may be perfomed by a blind man if Jacob W. Bolotin succeeds in passing the examination for a physician's license which he took before the State board of medical examiners, says a Chicago special. He has met every test that has been given him, and the examiners believe he will qualify and become the first blind medical practitioner in the State of Illinois. Bolotin, blind from his infancy, will complete a course in medicine in the Chicago College of Medicine and surgery tms muiim. 5 "A blind physician!" exclaimed ] the young man after he had finished dictating his answer to the final question. "Well, is there anything so remarkable about it? Because a man hasn't eyesight is it any sign * that he hasn't any brains?" * "They laughed at me when I asked 5 for a chart and said that I was going ' in the regular class for dissecting. ' But there wasn't a nerve, a sinew, a ] vein, an artery, a tissue that the eye ( could behold, but I could feel with the tips of my fingers. My fingers 1 are good' eyes. With them I can de- ' tect pulsations, irritations and tern- ] peratures instantly. ^ "My ears are keen to every little { sound within the human body. They J tell me unquestionably and prompt- 1 ly when the machinery of the heart 1 or digestive organs is not running 1 smoothly. Or if there is a catch or [ obstruction in the lungs my ears tell 1 me immediately what is the cause, 1 and then I know what to do. "I am to specialize in heart and 1 lung diseases, and am sure that I 1 shall succeed, for already I have been practicing as assistant in the College Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium." Bolotin was born in Chicago 24 years ago. His parents were poor and he was sent to the State School ! for the Blind at Jacksonville. He wanted to be a physician, but was discouraged, both because of his blindness and because he had no financial resources. He said he would make matches. He made 3 cents the first day, 74 cents the first week, and alter that, he says, he never made less than $3 a day. Last year he went ' out on the road selling typewriters, and made nearly enough to carry him through his last year of college. Better Than an Alibi. Col. G. M. Quarles, a tobacco planter in Christian county, Ken- 1 tucky, has a darky manservant 1 named Mose. Mose was driving his 1 boss into town one day, when he 1 suddenly remarked: "Marse Garrett, dey had me up befoah my church las. night fur dancin\" "I don't suppose you were guilty ?were you Mose?" asked the colonel "Yas, suh; yas, suh," said Mose. "I was guilty of dancin', and dey proved it on me, too; but I come clear. My friends stuck to me close, and after dem other niggers had done testified ag'inst me my friends all got up and testified dat, though it was true I danced, I was so drunk at de time I didn't know whut I was doin'. So I come clear?and the preacher 'scused me."?Saturday Evening Post. CHURCH AND A HALF A DAY. I Remarkable Progress Rei>orted to M. E. Church, South, Board. Louisville, Ky., May 8.?A church i j and a half built every day during tne i past year is the record of the board of church extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, according to reports made to the thirtieth an! nual session of che board here today. Many of these were in the West ; and Northwest, where the growth of j the church has been phenomenal. ; Application for loans and donations 'before the board total nearly ?446,j 000. UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE. Swarm of Bees Settle on Mr. Hin key's Head and Badly Stung Him. A very unusual thing happened a Beaverdam last Saturday that cam near costing Mr. Bee Huskey his lif( He and his son were plowing whe Mr. Huskey's attention was attracte to a swarm of bees that were comin his way. To his surprise they bega to settle upon his hat and crawl dow on his face. He began brushing thei away and the bees resented this ir terference to their plans and bega protesting with their stingers. Mi Huskey snatched off his hat and th bees settled on his head, gettin, down under the hair and stingin him. Mr. Huskey snatched up guano sack and covered his head running to the house, crushing th bees with his hands through th sack. Directly after reaching hi house whelps as big as a man' thumb began to appear all over hi body, caused by the poison from th bee stings. Mr. Huskey 'phoned fo i doctor and Dr. Darwin hastenei down, telling Mr. Huskey over th phone to bathe his face and hand in a strong solution of soda water rhis undoubtedly saved his life. Mi Huskey was very weak when the doc ? ? -v Vim r\f\A o /I tr? iniof orn/ tor I'CdCliCU lillXL auu auiuiuiaibiv medicines. Fortunately Mr. Huskey receive* no permanent injuries and was abl< to be up town Tuesday. The stinj of a bee is very dangerous in som instances and Mr. Huskey was stun; in so many places that it is a miracl that he is alive. The bees also stung Mr. Huskey' son several times but no sufferini resulted. The bees settled on th mules, causing them to break loos ind run out of harm's way.?Chero kee News. Car Load of Eggs. Siler City, N. C., May 9.?Sile 3ity having earned the enviable repu Nation of bejng the biggest marke n the South for rabbits, now come :o the front as being the only tow: n the State from which a solid car load of eggs has been shipped oi me consignment. Capt. W. S. Durham, tie pionee produce dealer of this town, shippe< last Friday, one carload of eggs, be ing one hundred and fifty crates, o four thousand eggs. On the sam lay that these eggs were shipped Mr. Durham purchased from on 'armer over six hundred dozen eggs ft'hich are not included in the car oad shipment; this, however, is i iaily occurrence. More than $65,00' is expended each year in this tow: ilone, for chickens, eggs, quail, am :he famous Chatham rabbit?whicl "act bespeaks that the produce busi less of Siler City is no small affair Part of Brain Gone. Savannah, Ga., May 9.?Becaus tie took the "one chance in ten thous md" which physicians said he had t keep his life, W. Galloway, cashier o the Bank of Collins, Ga., wno at tempted suicide by shooting out par 3f his brain, soon will leave the hos pital here, where he was brough from Collins, and soon will be a wel man again. He is yet very weak, but entirel rational. He probably will not re turn to Collins at first, but wrill g to his old home at Mallory, S. C. Hi intention, however, is to return t Collins, ultimately. Galloway says that it was becaus ijf worry over reports that he ha been drinking hard that he tried t end his life. He says he had stoppe drinking but the reports about hii did not stop and brooding over ther caused his effort at self-destructioi Gallowav has the distinction c having lost between one and tw ounces from the frontal lobe of hi brain, yet he doesn't miss it. Hi wife of less than a year stood by hii and helped him in his fight for lift He put the muzzle of his pistol in hi mouth and fired one shot. Phys cians told him he had one chance i ten thousand to live, and though pr< viously he had wanted to die, he too that one chance to live and has mad good at it. He went under the knift the operation was successful, and h will live. Three Miles a Minute by Hail. Foremost among the countries coi stantly engaged in railroad improve ment which has high speed for it object is Germany. Connecting Zo: sen with Marienfeld is a military rai road, fourteen and one-half miles i length and as straight as a rule, an on this line the world's highe: speed records have been made. Tli cars are about seventy-two feet Ion and weigh ninety tons each. Eac car is fitted with four electric mc tors, two at each end, developin 1.000 horsepower in all. Day by day the speed was increa: ed, until the velocity of 130 mil* per hour was reached. It was tb opinion of conservative engineei that 150 miles per hour could be ha< Less conservative engineers place the limit at 200 miles per hour. BLEASE S ORDERS CARRIED OUT. >- Buyer of Federal Contraband liquors Arrested. it Greenville, May 11.?The first e clash between the United States i. court and State officials, over the ren cent decision of Federal Judge H. A. d M. Smith, that the government has a g right to sell at public auction in a n "dry" county whiskey that has been n seized and condemned as contraband n occurred here to-day. t- In compliance with the order of n Judge Smith, at the April term of the \ federal court held in Greenville, e United States Aiarsnai j. jjuncan g Adams advertised for sale at public g auction, at Greenville county court a house, May 11, at 12 o'clock, two I, packages containing intoxicating e liquors, the packages being marked e "G. V. Stoeber" and "J. B. Thackss ton," care of the "Hundred Thouss and Club." Several days ago Gov. s Blease addressed letters to the shere iffs of South Carolina and to one of r the masgistrates in Greenville, advisd ing them to arrest any party who e might purchase contraband whiskey s sold in the State by United States of*. ficials. Sheriff Poole Prepared. ''' Sheriff J. Perry Poole, of Greenville, and Magistrate Samuel Stradley received copies of the letter and forthwith primed themselves for the e clash. This morning a deputy of ? Marshal J. Duncan Adams appeared 9 in Greenville and prepared for the ? * auction. Shortly before noon the two e barrels of whiskey were transported from the police station to the front s of the county court house, having 5 been confiscated last October by Po0 lice Chief Holcombe and United 0 States revenue officers, because the barrels bore no markings to indicate their contents, which is a violation of the federal laws. Dr. J. L. Dean was employed as r auctioneer by the deputy and at the - stroke of 12 he called for bids for t the first package of whiskey. He s was interrupted by the stentorian a voice of Magistrate Stradley, warn - ing the crowd that Gov. Blease had a ordered any purchaser of the beverage to be arrested. r Only One Bidder. ^ The call for a bid was repeated and : there came an offer of $ 3 from Attorr ney Oscar K. Mauldin. The auce tioneer took up the cry, "Three dol^ lars, three dollars," etc. There were e | no more offers and the hammer fell. I Bids for the second barrel of whis key were called for and Attorney a Mauldin made an offer of $2. Again ? rang out the voice of the auctioneer, a but no one made a higher bid. The hammer fell, and to the purchaser k went $190 worth of champagne, bene " dictine and imported Scotch whis' keys for the sum of $5. Sheriff Poole approached the purchaser and placed him under arrest, while his deputies seized the two barrels of 8 whiskey and bore them into the court house. Later the attorney gave bond ? of $200 and stated that he would bring action, through the "claim and delivery" process, for the recovery of the whiskeys. t Large Crowd Present. [1 A large crowd gathered principally out of curiosity to witness the sale v of the beverages. As the hour for the auction dawned big rain drops nn/1 tViora Hut tViio not Q 1 CI I iiCi^ auu y MU(/ ?W. s allay the interest of the onlookers o nor diminish the number. The sessions court was in progress and ade mitted a few hundred spectators. The d sale went on and the rain increased, o and simultaneously with the climax d of the episode?the descending of u the governor's hand upon the purn chaser of the whiskeys?the heavens j. wept torrentially, and many stood in wonderment at the power that dared o "buck" the United States court, while is the wiser ones scented "campaign is thunder" in the proceedings. n GLAD HE WENT TO PRISON. * is _ Youth Learns Trade, Gets Education, n Plays Baseball. ???k Peter Muller, aged 20, self-cone fessed safe blower, is grateful to everyone who had any part in sende ing-him to the reformatory at Boonville, Mo., says a Denver, Colo., special. He has a regular berth on the reformatory baseball team, is rapidly i- learning his trade as a bricklayer, is oHaiidinir nVmri->Vi ovprv Snndav and ^ atb^uuiii^ vuui via v ? w- ^ ?. v is getting the rudiments of an educa> tion. For these things he writes But1 ler Disman, assistant United States n attorney, that he is grateful, d Muller was sentenced to the rest formatory by Federal Judge Lewis te for taking part in the robbery of the g postoffice, at Bellevue, near Fort Colli lins. George McWilliams and Wayne > Douglas, his companions, were given g three and five years, respectively. Muller writes that he is glad he is s- in jail, says that he is making a fine >s record and feels that had he not been j le arrested and sent to Boonville he *s would have become a social outcast I. and made safe-cracking his life busiid ness. The Bellevue robbery was his first offense. iDONT THROW AWAYl ffi ? i |r Good Wearing Apparell and Household Furnishings Z ? W simply because they have become 9tained or faded. ? J ?& We can make them like new by our modern process ? ) iff of CLEANING or DYEING. We quote a few prices: I Z * T|f Cleaned and Pressed: Dyed and Pressed: Z ? ?J? Gentlemen's Suits $1.25 up $2.50 up J ?!? Ladies' Coat Suits 1.50 up 2.50 up ?? Ladies' Waists .. .. . . .. .75 up 1.50 up ? ft? Ladies' Skirts 1.00 up 1.50 up f ? Automobile Coats 1.50 up 2.50 up ?? Chenille Portieres 1.50 up 2.50 up ft? Blankets, Double 75 cleaned ? ? '''zjgr f|? For further information write for free booklet. f 1 IDEAL CLEANERS AND DYERS I I ?|t King Street & Burns Lane CHARLESTON, S. O. ? < tCITY PRESSING CLUB, AGENTS, BAMBERG, S. C. ?4 ????*-???V1 ? ? ? iTlafSirTWTliTltTibTSbTS* I 4??4??i?"i?"4?"4??i?"4??4??4"i"A' U' "A' U' U' U" 'A' "A" A" "A? !A""A?*A?U? | great the small gift \M 0/ L when 'tis timely qiven-M^ f Dm^kood fus Oi rt^Kt- expect" ^ fcssistenct jr<m, tjlhws. Aid |l k*w u>iXfi fenortoU^.^ <wul instill 111 fcke. hafctfs that UJM propwe, Km r| I to caJkk ike b u)jtVfi of hcs J|f| 6Vmbiturn. vVi Ufer> tufc btj st&rttouj. |3 a S^^JS f** ^otj ml I "Tht \rodu?.of- won cm ir I I ea^rnm^ p&tuer ? tuujht a^vi^L I, j ju.st p>r*ie <wul responsiMifcf t|-J| lnt^rtst ox swbvjs w. &wT 1 & h/wii?. k nftumdeJ.. . 1 r- wm&m FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK I 4 per ct. Paid Quarterly on Savings Accounts. Ehrhardt, S. C. I I [ime| I g| * We don't claim to have the best P H Horses and Moles ever brought to M I this market in our stables at this _ _ 12 time, for we have had some mighty W S * |i good ones heretofore, but we do v 13 S lC*a"n ^ese to iust 35 good as any ^ . B gjp we have ever handled, and if you will j a ^ fi*.? come and look we know we can I ? ^ nlpflso von. See onrs before buvinsr C JONES "BROSTJ I BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA. | | I A few Snowflakes do not make any impression, bat a 9 g Jk sufficient number of them will stop a locomotive. Your | % vfl small change may seem unimportant to you, but if you g g JH open a savings account here, and constantly add to the ^ H amount, the accumulation will surprise you and prove I I a great help to you when WANT tries to run you down. g | 8 We pay 4 per cent, on Savings Deposits. PEOPLES BANK Bamberg, S. C. ?? pE=30n00B0E=3Ejj [Repaint Your Furniture 1 Didn't somebody scratch, scar or bung up some of your furniture during that Xmas jollification? 6<Le = Mo = L,ac" is a mighty good tonic for ailing furniture. Easy to apply and I Q quick to dry. Try it for floors also, nothing better. ^ ; ' ^( nWe have just received a nice assortment of Screen Doors andi fcgj ' Windows, Flower Pots, Jardinieres, etc., and they are going at J ' U summer jrrices. _ We give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps for all cash purchases II J and for all bills paid 011 or before the 10th of each montfL g B g J. A. HUNTER II . H THE HARDWARE MAX. BAMBERG, S. C. M 4 I a f~"TOc^oocaor??? esl