The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 09, 1913, Page 2, Image 2
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KSTABHSHKD APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KXIGHT, Editor^
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Thursday, January 9, 1913.
HENRY JASPER BRABHAM.
January 2nd, 1912, one year ago,
H. J. Brabham was called from a
life of labor to one of rest. He lived
the life of a patriot, a Christian, and
. . a gentleman. There never lived a
more unselfish man than he nor none
who gave more time, money, and effort
for the best interests of his town
and county and the people with
whom he came in contact. Surely a
great reward must be his! The
writer never had a better friend, and
we miss him every day and all the
time. The memory of his words of
kindness and acts of unselfishness
and helpfulness remain with many
of us, and while we no longer see his
familiar figure, we remember him as
. one who loved his fellow-man.
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v A split log dr^g used on every
road in the county will be of untold
benefit and the cost will be little.
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The merchants of Bamberg can extend
their trading territory by means
of the parcels post if they will.
The people of Bamberg should inm;.
vestigate the parcels post rates now
operative. The postmaster and
clerks will be pleased to give all in*
" formation. The rates are much
cheaper tna-n iormer express rates.
The parcel post rates apply to merchandise
only.
"A Deadly Weapon."
Following a long list of automobile
casualties in Chicago recently, Judge
Gemmill reflected public indignation
by fining a speeder who had injured
a young girl the sum of $1,000, on
the ground that there had been an
assault "with a deadly weapon." The
v judge declares that an automobile,
when driven beyond the speed limit,
is a deadly weapon. He declares that
no driver can possibly be in doubt of
the danger inherent in passing at
high speed through crowded streets.
Anything is a dangerous weapon if
used in a dangerous way. A motor
car traveling forty miles the hour
through a city's streets, most men
will agree, is a very dangerous weapon?a
deadly weapon, in fact.
The situation in this town is not so
bad as it was. There is less racing
on the streets than there used to be.
There is nevertheless much room for
improvement. Breaking the speed
laws should be punished by an extremely
heavy tine. To exact a penalty
of ten dollars is merely to invite
the offence. The man who shoots a
revolver at random in the streets is
generally regarded as a dangerous
person. His punishment is not light.
Yet a great motor car, when driven
at high speed within the city limits,
may be a far more deadly and dangerous
thing.?News and Courier.
Stirs New England Town.
The arrest of several business men
in the town of Mystic, Conn., on
charges involving moral turpitude
has aroused the entire community.
Two men committed suicide rather
than face court proceedings. Five of
the men arrested are over 60 years
of age.
When the officers went to arrest
Herman Haulisch, a storekeeper, he
asked permission to feed his horse in
the barn. While there he dived out of
an upper window and broke his neck.
Another man, Edward Williams,
aged 78, for whom prosecutor Hewitt
said he had a warrant, was found
hanging in his dining room.
All the arrested men gave heavy
bonds for trial in the superior court.
More arrests are expected.
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ASSAULTED LITTLE ORPHAN?
. Former Methodist Pastor Arrested IJ
for Alleged Crime in Florida.
Owensboro, Ky., Jan. 1.?Henry
j C. Hoffman, formerly a Methodist s<
l minister and head of an orphanage e:
* home at De Land, Florida, is under f(
' arrest here charged with criminally u
[ assaulting an eight year old girl, an a
i inmate of the institution. The war- e;
' rant for his arrest was mailed from d
5 Land. ir
Hoffman, who has made his home h
here since September, is 59 years old, d
' and married. Since coming to Owens- I gi
[ boro he has organized a band of holy tl
rollers. e'
1 Hoffman said he would return to ?
Florida without requistion papers, ir
r He declared he was innocent and that p
5 the charges were the result of spite p
| work. tl
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Other Girls Outraged.
Tampa. Jan. 1.?A dispatch to the tl
Times from De Land says: "Henry h
. C. Hoffman, arrested to-day at tc
Owensboro, Ky., is charged with tc
! criminal assault upon a 10-year-old w
girl inmate of the orphanage at En- bl
i terprise, Fla. He is also charged lc
( with three other girls of the institu- tl
tion ranging in age from fourteen to k'
, sixteen years, of having illicit inter- tl
' course with them. The rumors of il- tl
| licit relations with the children be!
came general and he was discharged ei
by the trustees of the institution. It v<
: was later reported he had gone to k:
Germany. The man is well connect- di
r ed in this State." d<
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Order in Tillman Case. hi
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Columbia, Jan. 6.?The supreme p
court this afternoon tiled an oraer m
a. J
the Tillman children case designating j
what times of the year the mother is m
to have the custody of the children
and what time the father is to have
them. The children are to be with
their father in the months of July
and August, from December 26 to
January 2, and one week in April. W
During the time they are with their
mother they are to be permitted to
see their father every other Saturday,
and during the time they are fii
with their father they are to be per- e^
mitted to see their mother every oth- il
er Saturday. The question of sup- F
port is not passed on. c?
The following is the order in full:
"B. R. Tillman, Jr., petioner, vs e<
Mrs. Lucy Dugas Tillman, alias Mrs. st
Lucy Dugas, respondent. Per curiam ti
order: The parties to this contro- ai
versy being unable to agree as to the
details referred to in the order dated sc
December 9, 1912, the court orders oi
as follows: w
"The children, Douschka Pickens
Tillman and Sarah Stark Tillman, are si
to be in the custody of their father, ai
B. R. Tillman, Jr., every year during th
the months of July and August, sub- tt
ject to the right of che mother to
have them at all times when ill. They pi
are to go to their father every year qs
on December 26 and remain until p<
January 2, following, and to spend bi
with him any week in April of every w
year that the mother may duly in- A
dicate to him as most convenient. la
"The children are 'o spend every \\
other Saturday with their father
when in their mother's custody and th
with their mother when in their b(
father's custody in July and August, di
The duty is imposed on the mother ec
to provide that the father shall have v
reasonable access to the children in pc
case of serious illness. The children 1'
may be taken temporarily out of the ai
State by either parent for their 'th
health or pleasure, but the undertak- C!
ing to the State of South Carolina, Li
mentioned in the former order, shall
provide that they shall not be removed
permanently from the State,
and that they shall at all times be
subject to the order of this court.
"The court adjudges nothing as to /l
the duty of the father to support the 111
children, because that question is not S(
before it in this proceeding, and because
there is no evidence that the 10
father has refused to support them. oC
"Eugene B. Gary, C. J.; C. A. er
Woods, A. J.; D. E. Hydrick, A. J.; bl
R. C.' Watts, A. J.; T. B. Frazer, fa
A. J." t0
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Officers Drinks for a Living. d(
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Uncle Sam's expert "taster." a
man whose sense of taste is so keen w
that he can detect a drop of sherry tl
wine in an egg flip, arrived in Spar- fa
tanburg yesterday and visited all ei
the soda fountains and drank egg ti:
flips to his heart's content. In all Si
establishments where flips are serv- g?
ed with sherry the "taster" required
the proprietor to pay a revenue li- rc
cense of $25, the regular amount as
the government charges for selling in
spirituous liquors. st
The United -States revenue depart- j tr
i
ment has a large number of men who i n<
go about the country visiting soda in
fountains for the purpose of ascer- T
taining whether they flavor drinks of w
l-i.. J ? * * Vs AVX1- ti'iriA
any ki 11 u \\ i in shcj i > w juc ?*
any are detected the proprietors are al
required to take out a revenue li- w
cense. Several local druggists yester- cc
day were asked to come across.? pc
Spartanburg Herald. fa
FOUND WOUNDED IN STORE.
a I'll well County Merchant Taken to S<
Columbia?No Clue.
Columbia, Jan. 5.?Mi*. Hankin3n,
who conducts a store at Walk- h;
r's station, in Barnwell county, was fc
)und last night in his store lying sc
nconscious on the floor. Examin- R
tion revealed wounds in his head, h<
ye and the back of his neck, evi- 01
ently inflicted with a blunt instrulent.
The work was evidently the of
andiwork of robbers, for the cash p<
rawer in the store was rifled and ac
oods scattered around, indicating w
lat the robbers had been moving tre
verything looking for money. Mr.
lankinson was brought here this gc
lorning and taken to a local hos- ol
ital and his wounds dressed. Re- 01
orts from his bedside to-night were ai
lat he was still unconscious and in is
critical condition. E
No clue was obtained to the au- w
lor of the deed last night, and none ta
ad been obtained, so far as reports
) this office are concerned, up till di
)-night. It is said that two negroes X
ere suspected of the crime, and xi
loodhounds placed on the trail fol- ca
>wed it for some distance, but lost to
le scent. A steady mint is oemg sc
ept up and it is hoped soon to have m
le ones responsible for the deed in
le custody of the law. R
Walker's station is on the South- rt
rn Railway, near Barnwell, and T1
ary few people live there. Mr. Han- fr
inson conducted a store there, and gi
id a prosperous business, and evi- ti
ently the marauders figured he hi
ould have a good deal of cash on
and on Saturday night, and, ther- th
>re, picked that time for their raid, ki
rom the appearance of things Tl
ound the store, it is- thought that se
le parties responsible were fa- ul
liliar with Mr. Hankinson's move- ri;
ents and arranged their actions ac- in
irdingly. " H
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DEVIL TAVERN STILL EXISTS. he
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ras Favorite Resort of Ben Jonson
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and Shad well.
Af + nroeont timp it WOllld be dif- ^
nt LI1V/ VWVMV V *v - ? _
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cult to discover a London tavern ,
fr
rer called by the name of "The DevBut
in the eighteenth century 1
leet street, still in existence, was so
i. ^ m
tiled. ^
"The Devil's Tavern," was so calli
owing to the proximity of St. Dun- ^
an's church and the fond recollecal
on of an interlude between the saint
ad the Evil One.
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This was Ben Jonson's favorite re>rt
and here he presided over a club
t* which he was the founder. He
rote once:
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"The first speech in my 'Catiline,' .
>oken to Scylla's ghost, was writ
Iter I had parted with my friends at <
le Devil Tavern; I had drank well
ar
tat night and had brave notions."
It was also the resort of Shadwell, ^
llorized as Og by Dryden in his "Ab3.1]
dom" and "Architophel." Here the ^
aets laureate used to rehearse their
irthdav odes, so carefully written
pe
ith the minimum of emotion in the
ugustan style, and here Killigrew
id one of the scenes in his "Parson's a?
'edding."
Swift, in his "Journal to Stella,"
ie human document of a passionate
r I
ling, mentions dining here with Adson
and Garth. Pope has embalm1
it in the amber of his classic ..
th
irse. Here Goldsmith, in his prosmi
irous hours, played at cards, and in
sl<
f 51 Dr. Jonson assembled his merry ,,
th
id almost famous party to celebrate
le publication of the delightful .Mrs.
barlotte Lennox's first novel, "The
v.*.
ife of Harriet Stuart." .
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An Involuntary Bridegroom.
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On the old Rosebud Indian reser- ci*
ition in South Dakota they still th
ugh over the peculiar predicament
to which a new Indian agent once
)t himself. 1S
The agent, an unqualified "tenderot,"
was inspecting an ' Indian sij
hool. Noticing tjiat as soon as he m
itered the room every girl present m<
ought her hair forward over her
ce he asked the teacher to tell them th
i throw it back so that he might see Tl
leir faces. But this they refused to Os
until aftpr mnrh ursrine. one eirl fe;
d finally uncover her face. tl<
After school was over the agent
ondered at the strange actions of w<
ie girl who had shown him her ha
.ce. She followed him to his house, ea
itered after him and set about getng
his dinner. As he spoke no 011
oux and she no English he could br
it no explanation from her. le!
Finally, to his relief, the teacher dc
)de up. Shaking with laughter, he R1
iked the agent how he liked his su
aw wife! Then the latter underood
what he had done. In certain 00
ibes of the Sioux Indian all a man
?ed do in order to get a wife is to
duce a girl to uncover her face,
he agent had proposed in the usual wl
ay?and been accepted. go
In vain did the agent plead that he cii
ready had a wife in the East; there te
as only one way to get out of it. It of
)st him the equivalent of fourteen sli
)nies to persuade the Indian girl's ly
ither to take her back again. bu
GENERAL JACK FROST.
Drne of the Remarkable Parts He g
Has Played in the Big Wars.
It is eighteen years since we had a
ard winter. There has not been a 9|
irtnight's skating on end in the
)uth of England since 1894-5. ^
ain, fog, gloom, sometimes a halfaarted
attempt at snow have been ^
ar winters ever since.
Weather experts declare that an- ^
:her big cold snap is due, and they
aint to 1879, when a summer ex- g,
;tly like the deplorable one of 1912
as followed by weeks on end of bit- w
;r frost and whirling snowdrifts. ^
If it comes?if the year 1912 is ^
)ing to renew the old-time tradition ^
t hard winters?it will add just
ai
le more to a long train of really
nazing coincidences. For the fact
,, that there has hardly been a ^
uropean war on a big scale in
hich General Jack Frost has not
.ken a hand. ,
Hi
Go back a century. Eighteen hun*ed
and twelve was the year when
ol
apoleon made up his mind to inide
Russia. Before starting he was
ireful to inquire of the experts as j
what date winter usually set in in
uthern Russia. They told him the
a
iddle of December.
It was on June 24 that he invaded ^
ussia with 600,000 men, and he
al
cached Moscow on September 14.
hat night fire broke out and within
re days the city was burned to the
-ound. Even then he remained un1
October IS before commencing
s retreat. ^
In the last week of October began
te worst. frost which Europe had ^
si
lown for three generations. The
hames froze from its source to the
a. The Seine, the Rhine, the Dan- m
je were all ice-bound. On the Ad- f
atic, off Venice, was seen the amaz- 1D
g sight of floating ice floes.- The ec
ellespont and the Dardanelles were
ozen. Jack Frost's icy fingers lay
iavy upon North Africa. Drift ice
>peared in the Nile, and there were
iow storms in Tripoli and Morocco. cc
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As for Napoleon's huge army, it
as almost wiped out. Four hun- le
ed thousand men perished. They. m
oze to death in batallions as they
ivouacked and when at last, on us
ecember 6, Napoleon reached Ger- ?
an soil, out of his whole vast host ni
it 130,000 men were left alive. ?*
During the winter of 1853-4 the
irks were battling for dear life T
f r
ong the Danube against hordes of
ussians. In the following Septem- fo
tr 25,000 British troops, a similar
imber of French and 8,000 Turks te
ere landed in the Crimea.
Again came a terrible winter, and r
om the west of Ireland right across ec
to Asia, frost fell heavy on land
Ld sea. In London it froze for six
eeks without a break. From Janu- *
y 14 to February 24 the thermom- P*
er was below freezing every night,
the Crimea the cold was fearful fo
/N ?
id our army, disgracefully catered U1
r, suffered horribly. In all we lost **
),056 men, and of these only 12 d(
>r cent, fell in battle. The rest c*
*re defeated by cold and disease, ***
;gravated by a rotten commissariat.
In 1870 came the biggest war of m
e latter half of the nineteenth cen- gr
ry, the titanic conflict between st
*ance and Germany. By October 29
ere were 850,700 German troops in
*ance, Paris was beseiged, and tr
ere began the four months invest- ^i
ent, with furious fighting on both "J
ies. Again Jack Frost came to tr
e aid of the Germans. A long spell cc
intense cold made life almost im- *n
ssibie for the half-starved French,
hile the Germans, who had the ~
liole country to draw on, beside J
eir own excellent commissariat,
ffered very little. By January, the
:y was in such a terrible condition
at it surrendered.
The date of the last great war in
lich Turkey was engaged was
177. The Turks were attacked by
. enormously superior force of Rusins,
with the czar himself in comand.
Osman Pasha, with 40,000
en, hurried inland to Plevna, a vilge
which stood upon a hill, and
ere hastily entrenched himself,
le Russians had 100,000 men, but i
>man and his dauntless band de- *
ated them in four successive bat;s.
In November winter set in three
jeks earlier than usual. The Turks
id no winter clothing and little to
t but maize-porridge and horsesh.
The suffered fearfully. At last
l December 9, they determined to
eak out. There were only 30,000 |
ft, but their rush was so tremen- *'
us that they carried three lines of _
tissian trenches before they were *
rrounded, and forced by enormoussuperior
numbers to surrender unnditionally.?London
Answers.
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Thanks, Brother, Thanks:
Postmaster Knight, of Bamberg,
10 makes a good official, being a
>od, staunch Democrat, will have a ?
ich on his office for a good long
rm. We are glad of it, as it is not
ten that a newspaper man gets a
ce of pie, and Brother Knight richdeserves
all he will get.?Orangeirg
Times and Democrat. 2
THROUGH AFRICA OX FOOT.
xperiences of a Settler Who Completed
a Walk of 5,000 Miles.
Emil Lund, a Rhodesian settler of
6, has just completed a walk from
apetown to Cairo, not in fulfillment
: a wager, or to test a system of diet
training, but simply from the love
: adventure. He has been a soldier
id scout since he was 17, serving in
le second Matabele campaign in
893, the Uganda rebellion of 1897E)
and the South African war.
T-T<a oturtoH frr?m Psnptown and
alked, all alone, right through the
ape Province and the Transvaal to
hodesia. Thence he continued on
irough the Congo State, the Sudan
id Nubian desert to Egypt, a distnce
of 5,000 miles as the crow
ies. "My wish," he said, in telling
le story of his great walk, "was
nrply to be the first man to accomlish
the feat. I am proudest of
aving walked across the Nubian
ssert. That was the hardest work
i all." Until he left El'zabe'thville,
i the Belgian Congo, he had a comarativelv
easy time, for he could
itain supplies, good food and good
ater, but beyond that point he had
very trying time. He had no port's,
carrying all his own impedifents,
weighing 7 0 pounds. This
one is no mean task in a tropical
id wild country. But he could get
i natives to accompany him owing
> tribal hostilities being in progress.
During most of the time Mr. Lund
as obliged to be a vegetarian, but
3 always had meat when he could
3t it. "Sometimes," he said, "I
lot a buck, but I could only eat the
ver, which I broiled in the ashes of
ly fire. Having no salt, I cannot
ty that I enjoyed my food. In pass.g
through the great forests I camp1
on the ground, lighting a large
re to keep off the wild animals. I
id to be very carerui to Keep mis
Ding throughout the night. At early
iwn I renewed my march, tramping
mtinuously until about 11 o'clock,
fter that I used to hunt around, colct
wood and cook my own dailj*
eal. Then I slept 'till sundown,
ions and other carnivora do not
sually attack in the heat of the day
-they are asleep, and it is only when
ght falls that they set out in search
! prey." He met with a good many
ons, but was never attacked by one
he idea that water will protect one
om a lion is, he says, erroneous,
?r lions are excellent swimmers.
In the Katanga district he was bitn
by a black mamba snake, and
ould probably have died, but he
ached a native kraal and was treatl
by a woman, who applied a decocon
of herbs to the wound and cured
m. She steadfastly refused to say
hat herbs she used or how she preired
them.
From Albertville the traveler made
r Lake Albert, and here he had one
his most unpleasant experiences,
e came across a powerful tribe univ
the command of a very suspicious
lief, who, before he would listen to
m, put him through the "ordeal of
rt. " This consists of eating a
outhful of dirt picked up from the
ound. In the native mind this conitutes
a form of oath, and it is bejved
that any one who undergoes
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16 oraeai ana aoes nut s>peai\ mc
uth will be condemned to an eternal
et of dirt. The ordeal is called
ikola donga." One of the worst
oubles with which Mr. Lund had to
intend was the venomous flies and
sects which swarm in tropical Af:a.
He was bitten near the eye by
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It is free?it tells
ocal and long dista
ice in your home ai
Send for it today. ^
hone Manager, or
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a certain kind of malicious tick, and
for a time was nearly blind. If he
had not shortly afterward reached
Ft. Portal and obtained medical 9j^H
treatment he would probably have
lost the sight of at least one eyei
, A little further in the course of
h*s walk he fell in with the Baluba *
and Valessi cannibals. When they
have a cannibal feast the victim is
usually a man accused of some crime.
In such case the man is offered a
draught of a poisonous decoction. If
he takes a long drink the poison is
inoperative, producing merely nausea.
But if from timidity or guilt,
he drinks but a small portion, the ? *
effect is almost immediately fatal.
Women are excluded from these
feasts. |\^
Making a wide detour of Lake-Al
bert, Mr. .Luna eventually arrived on
the Nile, which he followed to Abu
Hamed and .then struck across the a
Nubian desert and came to the Nile 4 f
| again at Wady Haifa. There are but
two wells on the route across the
desert and he had to carry with him
three days' food and water supply.
But he safely crossed the desert and.
reached Khartum, where he went in-,
to a hospital, to patch himself up for
the last stage of his journey, which
he completed without furthef mishap.?Cape
Town cor. London Telegraph.
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FOR NEW COURT HOUSE.
Bill May be Introduced for Orangeburg
County.
Orangeburg, Jan. 2.?It<s reported
in this city that a member of the
general assembly from Orangeburg
rrrnntv will introdnop a hill at. thp
next session of the legislature .providing
for a $100,000 court house
for Orangeburg county. Such a building
is badly needed, as all of the offices
are too small and a number of
county officers have to rent offices
elsewhere. Although the local court
house was in years gone by one of
the best in the State, it is now too
small and not as good as a county
like Orangeburg should have. Just
how the bill will fare in the legisla-.
ture is anxiously awaited in this
county by the citizens generally.
.
Deputy Wounded by Farmer.
Mullins, Jan. 6.?James Fowler,
deputy for Magistrate Harrellson;
was" shot this afternoon about 1
o clock by Bob Smalls, a white tenant
on James Norton's farm, near
Mullins. <
Mr. Fowler went to Smalls's
;
house to serve a distress warrant
As soon as he made known his business,
Smalls, it is alleged, ordered
him off. Deputy Fowler replied that / >
he was armed with the law and that
he had come for the purpose of closing
the business. Small went into
his house and returned with his shot*
gun and fired. The load of No. 6
shot entered Mr. Fowler's right leg
above the groin, inflicting what the
doctors fear may prove a dangerous
wound. The wounded man was car- '
ried to the hospital at Florence to.
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night for treatment. \
At dark Smalls had not been cap- '
tured.
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FORD AUTOMOBILES. '
A few weeks ago I closed a con-,
tract to sell Ford cars in Bamberg
county. I have placed an order for
six machines, for immediate shipment,
two touring cars and fpur,runabouts.
These cars will arrive soon,
and I will be glad to confer with
those wanting an automobile that -*
will give satisfaction. Ask the Ford
owners how they like it. There are
plenty of them in Bamberg.
C. F. RIZER, Olar, S. C.
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