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Hfemfarrg i%raih KSTAIJLISHEI) APRIL, 1891. A. \V. !v\IGHT, Editor Published every Thursday in Thei Herald building, *on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Aliehle cylinder press, all run by electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; j six months, 75 cents; three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex pressed in any communication. Thursday, Jan. 23, 1913. Hon. Jas. L. Sims, of Orangeburg, editor of the Times and Democrat, is a candidate for United States < marshal. He will make an ideal official, and he has done enough hard work for the party to be rewarded. We hope he will be appointed. i * One of the leading railroad men of the State, who was a visitor to our ( city recently, said that he did not know a better thing the people of the town could do than to furnish the Carlisle Fitting School with the modern buildings that she needs. It was a great plasure for us to have as a visitor last Wednesday afternoon for a short time. Rev. L. M. Rice, of Union, editor of the Union Times, who was spending a few hours in the city. Mr. Rice pub- 1 lishes a good newspaper, and has a j mighty nice plant, having bought an entirely new outfit after his office ' was destroyed by fire some time ago. ago. Right on the heels of the sentence , of A. M. Stokes comes his parole by the governor, even before he had served a day of his sentence and while the case was on appeal. If our memory serves us right the governor has heretofore announced that he would not parole anybody until they had actually begun the serving of a ; sentence. It seems little use to con- j vict whiskey sellers any more, as the governor has a parole ready for them. ] The mayor of Columbia nominated J. J. Cain as a member of the dispensary board of that county and the ! governor declined to commission him ! and asked for another recommenda- ] tion This the mayor declined to ! give. What will be the outcome is problematical, although the law plainly states the governor "shall" appoint on recommendation of the mayor. Wonder what the governor's friends think of such action as this? Another case of his trying to med- 5 lie in matters out of his jurisdiction. Mr. W. D. Rhoads magnificent : gift to the Carlise Fitting School is 1 significant. It not only supplies a need that has been keenly felt at the ' school, but it is an unmistakable ex~f foirVi tViut nnp of thp 1 CSOlUii Vi tut 1HK.U ,. . leading business men has in the future of the school. We believe that it marks the dawning of a new and : greater day for this institution. The school now needs two buildings?a new brick dormitory for boys and a gymnasium. The authorities are now considering the dormitory proposition. They have already purchased a site, adjoining the present campus, upon which to erect this building. It should be ready for the opening of the fall session. Let's get together! We quote from an editorial in the News and Courier of July 27, last: "The Carlisle. Fitting School, under the guidance of Mr. Guilds, is accomplishing the most encouraging results. The more schools like it that can be built up in the various parts of South Carolina the better it will be for the State. We are greatly pleased to learn of its increasing prosperity, and v:e could only wish that all ^f its friends would realize more fully what its opportunities are and what it is doing and would rally liberally to its financial assistance. Already it is of large benefit to that part of the State in v.hichN it is located; but its sphere of usefulness might easily be expanded were the funds available." Now is the time for its friends to "rally liberally to its financial assistance." CARLISLE EITTL\(r SCHOOL. Here are some of the reasons the citizens of Bamberg should suppor the Carlisle Pitting School liberally <!.) It is the best advertising medium we have. There are thousands of people in our State wiie would know nothing of Bamberg were it not for this school. As tin school enlarges the efficiency of the medium increases. (2.) It brings splendid financia returns. We can spend $15,00'. there in equipment and put the school in position to accommodate from 125 to 150 boarding pupils: this means that they will bring from $30,000 to $40,000 a yeai to the town that would not come here otherwise. (3.) It would make Bamberg a distinctive town. How many towns of the State can boast such a school': Few indeed?let's make our town a leader among them. (4.) It would make Bamberg a more desirable town in which to live, The best educational advantages are being sought after by home builders, LAST DAYS IN JAIL. An Old Man Talks Pitifully of Hi* Own Case. An Atlanta dispatch says "Uncle Bob" Davis, bent and broken, hair as white as the driven snow, but his hands stained crimson with the blood of his son Hewlett, has taken his place in "murderers' row," at the convict camp near Miledgeville, Ga. He went through Atlanta on his way from his home in the peaceful valley of Mill creek Wednesday morning. There were no shackles on his arms nor feet. "Uncle Bob" is 75 years old, and carries one of Sherman's bullets in his legs. He Wouldn't run away if he had a chance. His hands are stained with the blood of his son, Hewlett, his first born, and he owes a debt to God and fellow man. "Only punishment can wipe away my sin," "Uncle Bob" says. "I must first square mysplf with man and then I'll get right with the Lord." "Uncle Bob" killed a thing he loved. It was a clear case of self-dee-?~ ~ ~ V...+ ' T* v,/-.IDnh" HiH n n f" trv it'list, UUl *_ 1-lv.ic^ XJ\JU vi.vi to evade the law. It was on December 11. He was killing hogs when his son, Hewlett, came through the gate. The old man ordered the boy away from the premises. Then his heart softened, and he asked him to go into the house. The son picked up a stick, and the old man fled into the house and went where he had his shotgun handy. When he came out on -the porch, the son was there. He raised the stick. There was a sharp report. The son fell over dead. "Uncle Bob" had trouble with his wife. They had lived happily on the farm in the Mill creek valley. She left to go to the home of her son and grandchildren. That was what started the trouble. It put murder in the heart of the old man. At least, that is the way he explains the tragic occurrences. "I would heap rather it be I," he said. "I loved the boy and I loved his children. I didn't mean to kill him. When I aimed the gun, it was at his feet. I jest wanter ter keep him from me. My hands are stained with blood and I want to pay for what I have done. There is nothing here for me." "Uncle Bob" will probably spend the balalice of his days behind the prison walls at Milledgeviile. Judge Fite sentenced him to serve five years for manslaughter. Five years is longer than "Uncle Bob' ever hopes to live. The prospect of dying behind the walls has no terror for him. "I hope I'll live to pay the debt," he says. "The blood is on my hands," "Uncle Bob" said, as he was led unshackled to prison. He believes that by serving time he can wash away the blood. He wants to be alone, in confinement. "Uncle Bob" asked that the formalities of the 'law be set aside, and that Geo. C. Glenn, his attorney, be allowed to take him to prison. He leaves a wife and ten children, with whom he lived in his mountain home. He wants to serve out his sentence like a man and return some day to the hills of dear old Whitfield. "Uncle Bob" followed Lee anc Jackson through during the stirring days of the sixties. There is not a man nor woman ir the country who is not willing to dc all they can for "Uncle Bob" but he won't let them interfere. "My hands are stained," he says "Sorrow and tears alone can make them white." A few sentences like Judge Rice gave Stokes in Orangeburg woulc break up the blind tiger business b\ white men. For measuring the pressure on air tomobile tires a guage which can b< carried in the pocket has been in vented, consisting of a tube to screv on a valve, the outrushing air rais ing a piston that registers on' a scale REPTILES IX DUEL TO DEATH. jj> i Rig King Snake Kills Monster Rat- ft tier in a llar<l-Kought Rattle. It does not fall to the lot of many '! to witness, nor does any seek the i } excitement, of a snake light. R. F. Bettis is a civil engineer, loctaed at | Tampa. Fla.. and his work takes him * into the virgin wilderness, dense hammocks where the sun penetrates T j only at high noon, which land when | cleared furnishes the earliest vege- ft ' tables from th.e south to those of 2 j wide and deep purses. J ' Although Mr. Bettis has spent | 'r some forty years in following his pro- I ' fession, he has had but few experi- J ences with snakes because, contrary | to popular belief, there are not many I snakes in Florida. Recently he was 2 cutting saw palmetto when a rattler, ^ ' coiled and ready to strike, disputed his right to disturb his eminent do- c main. To hesitate or retreat was to ^ court death, and without a false move | he let his machette descend, cutting | | the snake's head off and severing | the snake in five pieces as the blado I went through the coil of the ser- | pent. | "That was the nearest I ever came ** < to being the principal character of a f funeral," said Mr. Bettis, "but a I ? couple of years ago I had a scare ; which set me back in growth about i ten years. I was surveying a low w : hammock when I felt something n glide over my <shoes and between my t\ i legs. I jumped back completely w frightened, I must admit, and took I i a position on a cypress stump where tf I tried to locate the enemy. I am w slightly deaf, but I distinguished the st i spit of a snake, and a musty odor P< came to my nostrils. Soon I noticed a 4-"U ^ 11 lit-* rl Aro-rAu'tVl cwovinp* anH ?*] tut; suiaii uuuti 51U11 tii oiii,. .u0l I thought from the r u*ement that I t\ was in a nest of snakes and they were ai bent on attacking me. Snakes seem- ol 1 ed to be all around me. Occasionally t 1 I got a glimpse of a writhing body X gliding swiftly about me?then again a I saw two snakes at the same time. Looking about, there were indica- ir . tions that there were hundreds of al snakes surrounding- the stump. I tc stood my ground for fully half an cl hour, the sweat pouring out of every m pore?a cold, clammy sweat. I! had a no protection against the snakes ti except a good pair of boots. tl "After a while things began to b< quiet down and the snakes seemed to I have moved on to other haunts. I qi 1 got off my perch and, picking up a si stout stick, started about my work, tl I had gone but a very little ways cc 1 when I saw two immense snakes tc chasing each other about. One was k: a rattler about 7 feet long and the ai > other a king snake 8 feet long. Those cc two snakes had been the cause of all st my alarm. They were engaged in a k ( battle unto death, and had no more tl i thought of attacking me than I had ft : of meeting them. A "I wanted to get away from the tl , sight of the contest, but could not. w My mipd told me to beat a retreat, w but my legs would not respond to the w thought. It was very much like a F bicycle rider who sees a rut in the if : road and knows that he must steer ts clear of it, but the muscles of his It arm will not act in unison with the a thought, and he goes into the rut. I ci knew I was in d.anger. -j-ne snaKes k: were moving this way and that way, w dodging, cutting all manner of fi: angles; the king chasing the rattler, bi and then the rattler chasing the tc king. It was impossible for the eye k: ; to follow their quick movements, k: They passed near me;?once between d< my legs?gee! how I shuddered! But Si ; I was glued to the spot, fascinated by the battle royal before me. For 20 1 minutes the snakes sparred for an opening?the rattler striking viciously, the king trying to get a hold of the rattler's neck. The air was nasty with odor; the backs of the snakes J< 1 glistened as if smeared with oil, g . while their eyes glistened venom. f Finally the king rounded up the s< j rattler. The circle became smaller n . and smaller, and the rattler took his o: last stand in the center of the clear- tl . ing, coiled, and was ready for busi- si [ ness. The king began sparring for an w > opening. It would glide back ten s( feet with eyes fixed on those of the w rattier, which swayed its head from h t side to side to ward off any solar a> j plexus blow. The king would lie mo- si > tionless for a few seconds and then b . dart forward like a shot. The rat- 0 tier would strike viciously in the di- g [ rection of the king, which would s< r check its forward motion just outside b the danger zone. The fury of the vv i snake was beyond words to express. s< ) The rattler reposed in its coil?the p > king straightened out to its full a length?neither snake relaxed its L glare for a second. One minute, e< i two minutes, three, the suspense was P telling on me. 1 wanted to shout, s< nr swab down the snakes, or fan ? them, or do something ridiculous, tl * Four minutes?it seemed four years g ?five minutes?the king's stare dis- n concerted the rattler. It blinked its si - eyes and glanced sideways. f< } That eight feet of inanimate rep- b - tile sprung into life like a large tl r spring relieved of its tension. With ii - a power indescribable it bowed in . middle, shot into the air, and, with p We don't know wl J good, bad or ind > bring you better] IOur success depe to say that the yi I' any previous yeai assure you that j t our best to give r ~ an up-to-date dru PEOPLE L ide distended mouth, landed on the ittler. This was all I could see for vo minutes. When the wriggling rithing mass, could be distinguished saw that the king had a grip on le rattler just behind its jaws. It as snake strength against snake rength. At times both snakes were Dsed straight into the air, with but few inches of their tails on the round. Then again they would be visted into a ball and rolled over id over, and when the rattler shook if his opponent they would lie dis;nded full length on the ground, ever for a second did the snakes iase their struggles. "At this juncture of the fight I got ito the game. I followed the snakes Dout like I was the timekeeper ready > count out the vanquished. This ing hold fight continued for fifteen linutes, when the king snake, with quick movement, wound its body me after time around the body of le rattler, and kept the rattler's Ddy distended. "You could see the king's body liver and tighten, the glistening des creeping over itself. The rater's bones were heard to crack. It ?ased to struggle and laid its head > one side in agony of faintness. The ing did not relax its hold, but as a extra precaution tightened its >ils. Both snakes were lying ;raight out on the ground?the ing's body wrapped four times about lat of the rattler. The rattler made itile attempts to renew its attack, t every attempt the king would put le screws on him. The king was a ary old fighter. He knew a snake as not dead until its tail stopped iggling after the sun went down, or five minutes both snake laid as dead. Then the rattler raised its Lil and ishook its warning rattles, was his last rattle. The king made superhuman effort and literally -ushed the rattler into pulp. The ing slunk off the rattler, moved off ithin five feet, laid with its eyes xed on the rattler and seemed to reathe a sigh of relief. I went up ) the rattler, cut off its buttons and icked the mess to one side. The ing never moved an inch. It was Dad tired?the rattler was dead."? t. Louis Globe Democrat. FINE PRESENT FOR CAKfjlSliK. amberg Citizen Presents Athletic Field for Fitting School. Carlisle Fitting School, Bamberg, muary 19.?An adequate athletic round, a need that has been keenly ;lt at Carlisle, is now supplied. The ihool authorities make the anouncement that .Mr. \V. D. Rhoad, ne of the leading business men oi le city, has purchased a splendid te very near the present campus ith a view to presenting it to the ?hool for an athletic field. The site hich contains about three and a alf acres, is splendidly located and dapted for a play ground. It is ifficiently large for baseball, footall, track, or any outdoor game ut of consideration for Mr. Rhoad's enerosity and friendliness to the :hool the new athletic ground will e known as "Rhoad's Park." Work ill begin right away in levelling, ^raping and packing?it is the purose of the authorities to make this n athletic field of the first-class, ater the grand stand will be erectd and it is probable that "Rhoad's ark" will not be surpassed by any 2hool ground in the State. The authorities look upon this as he first decisive step toward the reater Carlisle. The erection of a ew brick dormitory is being conidered by the trustees, and the efort will be pushed to have this uilding ready for the opening oi le session next fall. A site adjoinlg the present campus and upon -hich this new dormitory will be laced has been recently purchased aaEsaeasai ac^j ^ iat sort of treatment 1912 has given you, whether : lifferent, but whatever it was may the new year | luck, more prosperity, more success..'. .* /.;. J nds entirely on your patronage. We are happy * i r 1 l l *1AIO I 4 oiume ot business aone Dy us in ivu surpasses H < Help us to make 1913 our banner year. We Q our business will be appreciated, and we will do q you the most satisfactory service obtainable in [1 g store. t S DRUG COMPANY ll ' r H E REXALL STORE) [ANNOUNCEMENT I take pleasure in informing: my friends and the public generally that I have purchased the fancy grocery business of W. P. Herndon, and I am now actively in Charge of the store, with Mr. ryj W. H. Morris as assistant. I will continue to carry the hest and freshest Groceries to be had, onr] irill ha itlo>)L:arl fA a O'PllPl'OllC ehfll'P I? fill wv |/1VMC7V u tv i VV ^ ? V **> j^vv* " v of patronage. Um We shall ei deavor always ot give satisfaction 11 K to our customers and deliver promptly. Our ^ 4j prices will always be as reasonable as possible and the quality of our goods the best. By the way, I am selling first-class creamery Butter, , the highest grade, at 40 cents the pound. The f t! same reasonable prices prevail throughout the m store. Will appreciate a trial order. k J .Yours truly, C/> J. A. MURDAUGH by the school. This site, together SUMMONS FOR RELIEF, with the new "Rhoad's Park." gives (Complaint not served as to absent the school a campus of about 12 acres defendants.) i ^ pv,.;b* ob , ^i,-j0,rc. The State of South Carolina?Counslnce the Christmas holidays ty Qf Bamberg?Court of Common t has started off nicely. About the only pleas, thing that mars the pleasure is that Matthew Hampton, plaintiff, some of the students are having to against i ~ i J- J- Cleckley, Ella Brabham, Alice make up work fa-led on durin3 the Walk r> Simon Washington Hamplast final examinations. ton, George Hampton, and Carry s - r oil ?* J ~ - TT j. j ^ i? At recent meetings 01 tue oueriuau nauipiuu, aeienuauis. ' and Kilgo literary societies the fol- To the defendants above named: : lowing officers were elected for the Yo" a,re herebr summoned and re* quired to answer the complaint in next term: this action, which a copy is filed in Sheridan: Miss Alice Edwards, the office of the Clerk of the Court of A Orangeburg countv, president; Miss Common Pleas for the said county, ! Ollie Mae Culclasure, Calhoun coun- and to serve a copy of your answer to .. ? ,, the said complaint on the subscribers ty, vice president; Miss Nell Mc- at their office, in town of Blackville, ' Cants, Orangeburg county, critic; s. C., within twenty days after the 1 Miss Lida Carson, Orangeburg coun- service hereof, exclusive of the day ty, secretary; Miss Edith McCants, suc^ service; and if you fail to ' x answer the complaint within the Orangeburg county, treasurer; Miss time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this Reba Rhoad, Bamberg county, cen- action will apply to the court for 1 sor morum; Miss Ellen Taylor, Cal- the relief demanded in the complaint. ^ : houn countv, monitor. |T? the defendants Simon Washing.... . ? , ton Hampton. George Hampton, Kilgo: Hampton Mitchum, Berke- and Carry Hampton. lev county, president; Frank Rentz, Take notice, that a copy of the " * A r\loint l'r> O Knt'O Colleton 'county, vice president; auiuuivuo auu (.umpiaiui, iu iu-^ uuuiv ' Lewis Stabler. Calhoun countv, first entitled action was filed in the Clerk criric- Francis Bambere Bambere 0f Courrs office of Common Pleas critic, Francis Bamberg, Bambeig for sai(^ coimtyf state, at Bamcounty, first censor; Ryan Woods, berg, S. C., on the 15th day of Jan' Clarendon county, second critic; Wil- j uary, 1913. ' lie Foxworth, Charleston countv,' A. H. XIXESTEIX, H F BUIST ( secretary;. Clement Browning, Dor-j Plaintiff's Attorneys. [ Chester county, treasurer. j January 15th, 1913. , HEALTHY LIVER MAKES BEAUTY j MASTER S SALE. ! By virtue of a decretal order di, Famous Actress Finds that a Healthy rected to me out of the Court of Liver is Necessary to Good Looks Common Pleas, in the case of M. S. ?i prmoi^nrj vs .t TV CoDeland. et al, ami 1UIH1I1U1IIC39I I . t , ' One of the best known women of 1 H; C. Folk, Master in and for the . the American stage is writing a se- County of Bamberg, State aforesaid. L ries of articles on the preservation of will sell to the highest bidder for beauty. She attaches great import- cash, in front of the court house door, ance to keeping the liver active at Bamberg, S. C., on February 3rd, ! all times, and she is right. Neither 1913, the same being salesday in good looks nor happiness will stay said month, between the legal hours long with any man or woman who of sale, the following described real , lets the liver get lazy and sluggish, estate: 4 It is not always safe to take calo- All that piece, parcel or tract of 5 mel, the old liver remedy. Doctors land, situate, lying and being in the I agree that it is a very uncertain County of Bamberg, said State, meas; drug. But Peoples Drug Store has uring and containing one hundred a remedy for sale that they guaran- acres more or less and bounded as ' tee to take the place of calomel abso- follows: North by lands of G. Frank lutely, and still be harmless, caus-, Bamberg, East by lands of G. Frank ; ing no restriction of habit or diet, j Bamberg, South by lands of G. Frank This remedy is Dodson's Liver Tone.1 Bamberg, and West by lands of G. | Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant- j Frank Bamberg and J. F. Jones. tasting vegetable liquid, but it starts i Terms cash, purchaser to pay for ' the liver gently and surely and re-1 papers. lieves constipation and biliousness so j H. C. FOLK, promptly that it has become a de-1 MasJer Bamberg County. , pendable remedy in thousands of; MAYFIELD & FREE, ' i homes in the United States. There j Plaintiff's Attorneys. Mare scores of families in this vicinity . who will not be without it in the j NOTICE FINAL DISCHARGE. ; . house and who would not think of I I will file my final accounting with starting on a trip without a bottle of G. P. Harmon, Judge of Probate, on it. ! Saturday, February 15th, 1913, as 5 Peoples Drug Store has sold so J executrix of the estate of Francis M. : much Dodson's Liver Tone that they : Stubbs. All persons having claims . are convinced of its merit and will j will present same Deiure mat uaie ui give any person his 50 cents back, I forever be barred. 1 who buys a bottle and does not find MRS. HATTIE M. STUBBS. ! that it takes the place of calomel to Executrix. x 1 perfection. Bamberg, S. C., January 15, 1913. 4 jp .