The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 19, 1912, Page 5, Image 5
PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and
at Other Points.
?Mrs. A. McB. Speaks spent Mon- (
day in Savannah. (
?Dr. J. L. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, <
was in the city Monday. s
?Mr. I. D. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, c
was in the city Monday. *
?Mr. Thos. Clayton, of the Cols- t
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tun seciiULi, ? ad iu Ksiauvuday.
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?Mr. and Mrs. Jno. E. Carter, of
the Ehrhardt section, were in the ,
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city Monday. .
?Mrs. I. D. Copeland and Mrs.
Maude Farrell, of Ehrhardt, were in
the city Monday.
?Mrs. G. T. Andrews, of Charles- ]
ton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. W. i
Stokes, in this city. ]
* , ?Mrs. H. F. Spann and little 1
daughter, of* Florida, are visiting ?
relatives in the city. 1
I ?Mrs. B. S. Johns returned home 1
* Sunday, after spending a week with
her parents at Lodge.
?Miss Ruth Gillam, of Orange- t
burg, spent Monday in the city the
guest of Miss Camille Price.
?W. E. Free, Esq., left Sunday for
Hampton, where he will join Mrs.
Free, and from there they will go to (
Florida to spend the Christmas holidays.
?Miss Alice Sense and her moth- .
er, Mrs. L. R. Sease, spent Sunday in
Orangeburg, where they went to attend
the marriage of Miss Marie .
Sease.
?Misses Minnie and Flossie Riley, 1
Etta King, and Messrs. Black and j
Stack, of Orangeburg, spent Sunday ,
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in tne city witii xur. ;mu iuics. o. o. .
Smoak.
?Miss Helen Lambert, who has
been with Mrs. A. McB. Speaks & Co.
v as milliner for the fall and winter
season, left last week for Florida to
spend the Christmas holidays with
relatives. She will return to her
home in Baltimore after the holidays,
but the many friends she has m.ide
in Bamberg trust that she will return
for the spring season.
Express Rates Down?
Washington, Dec. 16.?The express
companies are preparing to
meet the rates that will be put into
effect January 1 under the Parcel
Post law. They will compete for the
parcels that come within the scope
of the Bourne act. It is the purpose
of the express people to try to hold
t^eir business in the towns and
* cities. They cannot deliver their
parcels in the rural districts.
T r + fViolT*
jLi Lilt: ciyi CS9 V. <-> J-U pauito V.UI tuuK
rates to compete with the Parcel
Post law, starting with New York
as a central point or basis, the following
reduction must be made:
From 25 cents on a one, two or three
^ pound package, within fifty miles of
New York, to 5, 8 or 11 cents; from
30 cents on a four or five pound
package, to 14 or 17 cents, and from
35 cents on a six, seven, eight, nine,
ten or eleven pound package, to 20,
23, 26, 29, 32, or 35 cents.
Six pounds, about the medium
weight for a parcel, will be carried
by the Post-Office Department 50
miles for 20 cents, 100 for 26, 200 or
300 for 32 and 400 or 500 or 600
for 38 cents, 1,000 for 44. For the
, same service the express companies
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would cnarge: iuu nines iui ou
cents, 200 for 45; 300 or 400 miles ^
for 50, 500 miles for 55, 600 miles 1
for 60, 700 or 800 or 900 for 70, and ;
1,000 for SO. (
The parcel post package cannot {
weigh more than eleven pounds, but *
* one can sent sixty-six pounds in six 1
packages fifty miles for $2.20, for ;
which the express companies charge
$3.05. A comparison of aggregates
shows that the express companies
charge $51.50 for what the parcel';
post will charge $38.28. The parcel
post rate reduction from the present
; express charges is 25.67 per cent.
In order to meet the competition
better the express companies will in- ;
^ crease their delivery force and employ
the most modern equipment, i
The contest is to be spirited.
82,965 Soldiers on Army Rolls.
Washington, Dec. 16.?There was
a net decrease of five officers and a
net increase of 4,455 enlisted men in
the authorized strength of the regu- .
T lar army last year. The annual re- port
of Brig. Gen. George Andrews,
adjutant general of the army, made
public to-day, shows 4,992 officers
and 87,141 enlisted men as the au,- ;
thorized strength, although the actu- ;
al strength is 4,650 officers and 82,965
men. There were 10,017 army
? officers on the retired list at the close
of the last fiscal year.
Gen. Andrews observes that the
regiments serving in the United
States and having the lowest percentage
of desertions last year were the
10th cavalry and the 25th infantry,
both negro organizations. The desertions
from these regiments were
1.52 and 1.60 per cent, of the whole
number of enlisted men.
BANK ROBBERY IN GEORGIA.
Safe Blown Open and Small Amount C
of Cash Taken.
Macon, Ga., Dec. 14.?The Merchants'
and Planters' Bank, of Cullo- pi
leen, Ga., 30 miles from Macon, was fe
mtered by burglars last night, the it
safe was blown open with nitro-gly- h<
cerine and the robbers got away with st
i small amount of cash. No one in ir
;he small village heard the explosion, tr
ilthough there were several people
iving close to the bank building. w
J. O. Holmes, president of the in- cl
>titution, says the work was evident- ai
y done by experts. The loss to the re
)&nk is covered by insurance. ci
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Tennessee Bank Robbed. w
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 14.?A tele- oi
Dhone message from Bellbuckle, 50
iiiles southeast of here, says that the tl
3ank of Bellbuckle was robbed this J<
norning by safe-blowers and $3,000 tc
secured. Before attacking the bank tl
:he robbers cut the wires leading si
:'rom the town. h:
The bank is covered by burglar in- tl
>urance. A reward of $1,000 has rs
)een offered for each participant of tl
:he robbery.
Mike Hester's Miracle. ^
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"Get me a scaling-lader and a coil ^
>f rope!" Mike commanded. Men E
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lew to bring them. Alone he crept VJ
ike a spider up the spliced ladders, w
vhich lagged and dropped threaten- vi
ngly under his weight in their long ^c
each across the alley. The men hur- 111
iedly got long poles and braced the st
nnHar fho snlipps as Mike or
auuti c uuuvi ?
lered them to do. Hester glided upward
with the utmost stealth, so as
lot to strain the splice too hard. Now ?
ind then a swirl of sparks shot 0
iround him. At last he reached the n<
top, which alternately sank and g;
*ose along the wall as his weight fi
shifted in climbing. Below, the ai
svhite stone pavement gleamed If
through the smoke wreaths, but Hes- n<
:er kept his gaze upon the girls who ir
lad gathered at the window 15 feet b:
ibove and three feet to the left of c<
aim. y<
He climbed to the second rung ai
from the ladder's top and cautiously tl
rose erect, pressing the open palm of cj
tiis left hand and his knees against o'
the flat wall for support. His feet, s<
turned outward, were braced against H
the sides of the ladder. With his k
right hand he raised the scaling-lad- ti
ler, which weighed 30 pounds. Hold- h
mg it outstretched with his arm, he a'
it last succeeded in securing its back w
lpon the ledge of the window where g
stood the' girls. The scaling-ladder a:
vas a single piece of wood with cross
^ /\p Tiiin *Lr
pieces m&icdu kjl i uufec.
Mike shouted to the young women a:
:o kneel and hold the scaling-ladder's d<
Lop rung with their hands. Hovering nbetween
life and death, they were too o:
terrified to obey. h
"Damn you, take a holt o' that ic
ladder!" he yelled at them. "Take a ri
bolt of it or I'll " a
He never finished his threat, for a:
the girls were hypnotized into hold- w
ing on now and Mike Hester felt jus- d
tified for swearing?the first time in V
bis life that he had ever uttered an ti
bath. s]
Hester slid down the scaling-ladder tl
and swung it over so that he caught tl
Lhe top of the spliced ladder that n
leaned against the wall. Quickly as si
she could the first girl followed him
C
iown. He lifted her across the gap
and handed her to a fireman who
bad climbed to the top. One by one C
:he girls crawled down, and there was ti
always a fireman waiting for each V
ane. Eight times Mike Hester swung P
a living burden across the gap. One k
af the girls weighed 160 pounds, and S
ardinarily Hester could not have A
swung her across, using both arms; si
but "she seemed as light as a feather o
that night," says Mike. "I guess I
bad some poor body's prayers help- It
ing me."?Rickahr L. Stokes, in d
Harper's Weekly. C
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Love Letter is 4,000 Years Old.
Love letters written 4,000 years
ago on a baked brick in Babylon, a ^
unique cure for toothache and a
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complaint about poor boarding house
fare were translated to-day from *
ancient cuneiform writings recently
excavated by Rev. F. C. Eisen, pro- ^
fessor of Old Testament interpretation.
One love letter read in part: a
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"To Bibevan from Gimil-Marduk. ^
?May Shamash and Marduk grant
thee, for my sake, to live forever. I '
write this to inquire after thy health.
Let me know how it goes with thee. '
I am now settled in Babylon, but I
am in great anxiety because I have
not seen thee. Send news when thou
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wilt come that I may rejoice at it.
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Come in the month of Arakhsama J
(Xovember-December.) Mayest thou, SJ
for my sake, live forever."
The toothache cure is:
"So must thou say this:?'Oh,
worm, may Ea smite thee with the
might of his fist.' Thou shouldst
then do the following: Mix beer, the o
plant sa-kil-bar and oil together. Re- n
peat thereon the incantation thrice
and put it on the tooth."?Chicago d
dispatch to N. Y. Herald. h
TO KEEP THE DEVIL OUT.
urious Scheme of English Parson to
Make People Good.
Some of the more out of the way
irts of Cornwall, England, can of>r
many singular sights to the visors.
None of these is more curious,
owever, than that which is to be
sen in the small village of Veryan,
i the southern part of the couny.
On each side of the main roads
hich lead to the group of cottages
ustered around the church there
e to be seen certain queer looking
>und houses, each surmounted by a
oss. These cottages, according to a
riter in the Wide World, were built
Ith the object of keeping the devil
it of the villages.
More than a hundred years ago
te vicar of the parish was a certain
jremiah Twist, a parson who seems
> have been a most worthy man,
lough curiously superstitious. In
)ite of all his endeavors to make
is parishioners good it seems that
le village folk did not improve very
ipidly and he decided that some
ling must be done to right matters.
Accordingly after much cogitation
te famous round houses were built,
nth these in position protected by
ieir crosses, it was urged that the
vil One would not dare to enter the
illage and therefore all would be
ell in Veryan. Whether the good
icar's hopes were realized it is unirtunately
impossible to say, but the
ouses stand to-day as singular in;ance
of an attempt to baffle the
owers of darkness.
Cat's Care -of a Deaf Mute.
In an apartment house in West
ne Hundred and Fifteenth street,
ear Riverside Drive, lives a little
irl who has been deaf and dumb
*om birth. She and her mother
ad their cat occupy the apartment.
! it were not for the cat the mother
ever could leave her daughter alone
l the apartment. The cat is a big
lack fellow and has been the girl's
anstant companion for the last 11
When thp rat and the eirl
re alone and the doorbell rings or
le dumbwaiter buzzer sounds the
it springs to his feet and bounds
ver to the side of his mistress. He
:retches up and pulls at her skirt,
^e does not meow for he seems to
now that she cannot hear him. He
lgs at her dress until she notices
im, and when he has attracted her
ttention trots over to the dumbaiter
door. There he stands on
uard, every sense alert for the girl's
id and protection.
. The cat who is guardian of the girl
nows all the friends of the family
nd if one of them appears at the
oor he walks off to his favorite corer
and resumes his nap. If it is some
ne that he is not sure of, however,
e arches his back and spits cat-fash>n,
making himself appear as terble
as possible. When the mother is
t home and he is off duty that cat
sks to be let out into the hall and
aits at the elevator to be taken
own to the street entrance. The
/est Indian elevator and hall boys
'eat him with great awe and repect.
He sits sunning himself in
le entrance for an hour or so and
len goes over to the elevator and
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lews nis request iu ue uiiteu uy:airs.
lasping Her Photo, Girl Drops Dead.
New York, Dec. 14.?With a
hristmas picture of herself clasped
ghtly in her hands, ten-year-old
iolet Post, daughter of James V.
ost, a wealthy contractor of Yoners,
died of heart disease in the
impson street station of the subway.
. few minutes before she fell to the
:ation platform Violet was a picture
f health.
Accompanied by her mother, Vio)t
came down from Yonkers yesteray
to have her picture taken as
hristmas presents for her friends,
fter leaving the photographer's Vio>t,
carrying the proof of her photoraph,
visited several department
lores. It was planned before she and
er mother went home that a stop
ould be made at Violet's aunt's in
le Bronx to show the picture.
As they were leaving the train at
impson street the child clasped her
and to her heart and complained of
sharp pain. A moment later she
ell. Several men carried her to a
rug store, where a physician was
illed. He pronounced the little girl
ead of heart disease. Mrs. Post calipsed
and had to be attended to by
le doctor.
Mr. Post, at his home in Yonkers,
as notified by telephone. He aril,,^
tVio c.trtro in an aiitnmnhile
i vcu at cxxVy kjivx v
hortly and, having received permision
from the coroner to remove the
ody, placed it in the tonneau beside
im and drove home.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
A girl knows she will never grow
Id because her mother and grandlother
did.
Every once in a while a woman sits
own and has a nice time thinking
ow it will be at her funeral.
*EVERYI
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short cottc
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provid
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We Again Que
60c Heavy Fleeced Und<
per suit 75c, each
$15.00 Men's All Pure W
hand tailored, unmat
able, per suit
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AH Ladies' Suits and
Cost.
Furs at Cost.
We Guarantee Every
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BARNWELL COUNTY KILLING.
Julian Peeples, Once Acquitted of
Murder, Shoots Farm Hand.
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Barnwell, Dec. 16.?Julian Peeples,
a young white man, from the
western part of the county, shot and
killdd Wesley Gant, a negro, on the
plantation of Mrs. J. O. Patterson,
about six miles from town, late this
afternoon. From what can be learned,
Peeples thought the negro intended
to run into his buggy with a cart
and warned him to get out of the
road. The negro complied and made
a remark to his companion, where
upon, it is said, Peeples drew nis
gun and began firing at the fleeing
negro, his shots taking effect. The
wounded man died in about thirty
minutes.
Peeples was recently acquitted of
killing, a negro at or near Martins.
Gant is said to have been a quiet fellow.
BARNWELL WOMAN ASSAULTED.
Lynching May Follow Capture of
Suspected Assailant.
Barnwell, Dec. 16.?A telegram
was received here early to-night that
a criminal assault had been committed
upon a white lady by a negro at
Kline, in this county, and asked that
bloodhounds be rushed to the scene
of the alleged outrage to aid in the
capture of the assailant.
The particulars are unobtainable
to-night, but there is little doubt but
that the negro will be summarily
dealt with if caught.
Eliza Coleman Won Case.
Eliza Coleman was awarded in her
case ^against the Southern Express
company $400- and the cost of the
coffin which has played so conspicuous
a part in the proceedings in the
court of common pleas before Judge
Gage.
The mother of the defendant died
at Norway, to which place a coffin
was shipped through the express
company. After the coffin had reached
its destination and the corpse
placed in it an agent of the company
appeared and claimed that the
coffin had been sent C. O. D. and demanded
a payment. This being refused
by the family the body was removed
and it was necessary to purchase
a second casket for the funer
al. The coffin was offered as an exhibition
in the court.?Columbia
State.
3AY is SATURDAY4
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Big Sale!
ID THERE IS A REASON
!uced prices so low that the
>n crop will not keep you
tting your Xmas wants,
led you buy them at
LAUBER'S
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)te Some Unmatchable Bargains
erwear, OQ- 1 lot $5.00 and $6.00 Boys' All Wool
OJ/C Suits, your choice per suit d?9 7C
Worsted Suits, durinS the bi* sale : j
$10.75 Best Outings during the big 0 1 O,
"* sale per yard O lrult i,
[ 5 1-2C Best Sheep Skin Suit Cases, tfQ OA
Dresses at $5-00 values> each
All Solid LeatherCowhideSuit <M At
I Cases, $6.50 value, ?P^w
Price Quoted Come in and See for Yourself
ITDTD'C
UDEiIY J, of Quality"
FOR THE BIG RED SIGN J
SEE HIM FIRST!
Before the fertilizer salesman arrives, go to your dealer and explain to him that
you will not buy 2 per cent goods that contain only 40 pounds of Potash
fpoiASMf P*1" ton- Show him that modern, profitable fertilizers contain from
PAY3 5 to 10 per cent. Potash, and that the composition of crops and the
effect of crops on soils require that
? I?I...,,? the per cent of Potash .should be LVI 1' ' A \U
?iHi increased until it is as great as, ?r J_ fljll
phoric Acid in the fertilizer. It is this grade of goods that pays you I
of crops are better and the actual plant food
III MONEY TO LOAN
I represent the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the |||
strongest and most liberal companies in existence, and can offer you a
most liberal policy contract.
This company has plenty of money to loan. I have just completed
a loan for the company of $45,000, and have one of $5,000 now under
way, and I would like to place some more in this county.
SEE IVf E AIND IINVESTIGATE
J. D. COPELAIND, Bamberg, S. C.
Xmas Goods Cheap
We have a few Xmas
ni-pspnh. l#?ft from last
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Christmas, which we
will sell at and below
cost, also a few Xmas
cards, tags and seals.
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