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ROPER GEGINS NEW DUTIES. South Carolinian Takes Oath as 1st Assistant 1*. M. General. Washington, March 14.?Daniel C. Roper, of South Carolina, the new First Assistant Postmaster General, was sworn in todav. Many of his friends were present to witness the ceremony. Where it is believed thai most of the nominations for postmasterships wil be postponed until the meeting of Congress in the coming special session of Congress, near ly all of these candidates will be passed upon by Mr. Roper before being decided upon by the Postmaster General for recommendation to the President. I)o Not Procrastinate. A gentleman who had been in town only three days, but who had been paying attention to a prominent belle, wanted to propose, but was afraid he would be thought too hasty. He delicately broached the subject as follows: "If I were to speak to you of marriage, after having only made you? acquaintance three days ago, what would you say of it?" "Well, I should say never put off till tomorrow which you should have done the day before yesterday." BOND OF $10,000 DEMANDED. , Joe Hogan in Jail for Failure to Pay Fine. Sumter, March 16.?Further developments were made in the Joe Ho?an ease vesterdav when he was re arrested and recommitted to jail on failure to pay a fine in one case in which he had plead guilty and to put up a valid bond pending the appeal in other cases. His bond was fixed at $10,000 by the Recorder, in ac_ cordance with law, his find being $5,000, and he was unable to put up this bond. Hogan's attorney and the city are at present tontending as to whether the appeal was served in the time allotted, the former claiming a time limit of five days, while the latter alleges that all appeals must be made within twenty-four after conviction; the time customarily allowed in the city court for the making of appeals. This is another question which will probably go to the higher court when the appeal comes up. . The main ground of appeals is that the ordinance is invalid as to selling liquor, but should the appeal be sustained on this ground, the two counts of "storing and keeping in possession" will still hold. Hogan's attorney promises further developments in the case in the next few days. Patronage vs. Patrotism. v Congressman Byrnes has earned - J ^? 111 ine gradiuut; ui uis uuuouiutuw this town.for his successful work in securing for them a post office and custom house building. Last year he got congress to appropriate twentyfive thousand dollars for the deepening of Archer's Creek, and this year the rivers and harbors bill through his efforts carries an item calling for the survey of the Savannah-Beaufort inland route with a view to deepening it. It is said that he has been equally diligent in developing the upper counties which cast a much larger primary vote. Each appropriation he has got has been for a real and substantial benefit to the taxpayers, and we do not believe that any reasonable critic would claim that they are pork barrel grabs. The hold that Congressman Byrnes has on his district is not based, however, on his ability to get us appropriations. The district was enthusi astic about him before he had made an effort along this line. Neither is it bottomed altogether on his pleasing personality and gift as a campaign debater, in which he has few equals in this State. In our opinion it springs from a general belief in his honesty of purpose to serve the country in a large way, and confidence in his good judgement. The force with which he supports the measures advocated in the Democratic platform and President Wilson's interpretation of them, will be the real measure of the value of his service to the country. The tendency is going to be to judge him for the recommendations for appointments he will make. In the nature of things he will disappoint more individuals than he will please by his recommendations, for there will be many disappointed applicants to each successful one. The whole South is now on trial. After many years our leaders are at the helm of national affairs. Behind them are their constituents, and unless they, and that means each of us, forgets patronage and cultivates patriotism the administration may be wrecked. We do not know whether our congressman is going to have our friends appointed and we are not going to judge him by what he does along this line, but by his vote and his influence on important legislative measures. With a large majority of his constituents we share confidence in his political integrity.?Beaufort Gazette. BURGLARS MAKE RICH HAUL. Get More Than $250,000 in Loot From Pawn Shop. New York, March 15.?An east side burglary, perpetrated by clever cracksmen some time today, netted the thieves the largest haul obtained in New York city in many years. Martin Simons & Sons, pawn brokers in Hester street were the victims, and the property stolen includes $200,000 w-orth of jewelry, diamonds and other precious stones, and $50,000 worth of negotiable securities. The thieves gained acces to the pawn broker's richly stored vaults by means of a tunnel from an abutting building on a neighboring street. They made a clean get-away with their valuable loot. The police are of the opinion that six cracksmen were employed on the job and that the tunneling required all of last night and the greater part of Sundav morning. It is their be lief that the actual robbery took place this afternoon, while hundreds of persons were passing along the street in front of the pawn shop. The police found that the tunnel was begun in the cellar of a house in Eldridge street, directly adjoining Simon's place. It was driven through the wall of the Eldridge street house and into a wood bin in the cellar of the Simon's store. There, leading up into the pawn broker's shop, is a flight of stairs. They are wired for a burglar alarm, however, and the thieves avoided them and sawed away the overhead flooring at a spot direccly in front of the treasure vault. The vault, which stands 12 feet high and is built into the wall, was entered by chopping away the masonry. Later $40,000 of the negotiable securities were found scattered on the floor of the vault, but about $50.000 were missing, the robbers evidently having been afraid to take them owing to the risk of detection in their disposal. Another thing that seemed to point to the up-to-date business acumen of the looters was that they left behind them in the litter about the vault three pairs of gloves. The police are of the opinion that the cracksmen wore gloves in robbing the vault, realizing the extent to which the finger print bureau of the police department is capable of going into detecting crooks who leave impressions of their fingers at the scenes of their crimes. The burglars were well prepared for their task. In the pawn shop they left all the paraphernalia they had used in breaching the wall, cutting through the floor and hammering their way through the brick masonry of the vault. When Simons and his son reached the pawn shop and made a hasty inventory they declared the loot taken easily was worth $250,000 and that probably its value would exceed that figure. FIRST HAIRCUT IN 16 YEARS. . Florida Democrat Submits to Ampu tation in Town Bandstand. Seated in a bandstand in the public square in Orlando, Fla., in the presence of scores of the townfolk assembled for the evening, Code Hill, an aged resident of Orlando, yesterday had his first haircut in 18 voa rc During the 1896 campaign Hill made a pledge to allow his locks to go untrimmed until a Democrat became president of the United States. Hill, in a speech, declared that the pleasure of parting with his superabundance of hair was not more welcome than the assurance vthat a Democrat at last had taken up his residence in the White House. LINEMAN KILLED AT ANDERSON. 1,500 Volts Pass Through Body of Charles P. Pearson. Anderson, March 16.?Charles P. Pearson, a lineman on the Piedmont and Northern Railroad, was electrocuted in the" city this morning while working on the line. A section of unused wire fell across a highly charged wire and came into contact ? W1LI1 .rtJclI SUIl s uuu >. Pearson was at work with several other employees taking down an unused wire. Fifteen hundred volts of electricity passed through his body. He is survived by a wife and three children. His body was taken to Greenville for burial. Free Advice. The late James B. Hammond, of typewriter fame, had a singularly generous nature?as was evidenced, among other things, by his distribution of 50,000 bright new Lincoln pennies from his motor car among the children of New York. Mr. Hammond hated meanness. Once, at a club, he heard a man meanly asking-a doctor for free advice on all sorts of medical topics. "And now, doctor," this individual finally said, "suppose a man got frostbitten?how would you treat him?" "Oh," broke in Mr. Hammond impatiently, "rub him with a man who's had a sunstroke." $5,000 OR 3,000 DAYS. Sentence of Joe Hogan, Allege;] Sumter Rlind Tiger. Sumter, .March 14.?What is probable the greatest fine or number of days' imprisonment imposed by any municipal officer in this State was the sentence imposed by Recorder Lee here yesterday on Joe Hogan. when he pleaded guilty to the charges in thirtv warrants, each containing three counts, for violations of the city ordinance against the sale, storing and keeping of alcoholic liquors. The sentence was $50 of thirty days on each of the ninety counts, making a total of $4,500 or 2,700 days. Hogan had already pleaded guilty in one case and been tried on three other warrants by juries and was found guilty each time. The totais of his fines and time are $5,000 or 3,000 days. Hogan has appealed in each case! on the ground that the city ordinance is defective. Anderson Plant Changes Hands. Anderson, March 13.?The properties of the Anderson Water, Light and Power company, consisting of the water and light systems of the city and the Portman Shoals power plant on Seneca river, developing 5,500 electric horse power, have been acquired by the Southern Power company, more than $1,000,000 being involved in the deal. The Anderson Water, Light and Power company is capitalized at $300,000 and has bonds outstanding amounting to about $400,000 additional. It is said that the purchasers paid $150 for every $100 of stock. The sale or tne local company nas been talked of in business circles for several days and while it is known positively that the deal has been made, no word of confirmation can be secured from the officers. President Orr says he has no statement to make and Secretary Chapman says that no stock has been transferred on the books of the company recently. During last summer C. Elmer Smith, of York, Pa., and Elliott G. Stephenson, of Detroit, bought- up nearly all the stock of the companv, leaving only one large stockholder, | W. S. Lee of the Southern Power company. Later Smith and Stephenson transferred their stock to the Georgia Railway and Power coinpony of Atlanta, that company thereby securing control of the local company. The deal that has been consummated now is the purchase of the stock originally held by Smith and Stephenson by the Southern Power nnmnanv The Southern Power com pany is now said to hold practically j every share of stock of the company, i The local company, in addition to furnishing water and lights for this city, also lights Abbeville and Greenwood and furnishes power to the Greenville, Spartanburg & Anderson railway and to many cotton mills in this section of the State. This company holds a lease of and operates the Savannah River Power company, which is owned by the Georgia Railway & Power company. The Savannah company develops 2,500 electric horse power. Desperation Cause of Stealing. Atlanta, March 13.?Declaring that she was forced to steal out of sheer desperation, and that though she was garbed in a silk and velvet dress of the latest fashion, she act ually did not have a nickel to buy something to eat with, Edna Johuson, an unusually pretty girl, who says she comes from Kansas City, broke down in police court yesterday afternoon and pleaded guilty to shop lifting charge. After spending a sleepless night in a cell at poli'e neadquarters, she was in a hysterical condition and wept pitifully. She said that she was penniless and starving and that unable to obtain work, she preferred theft to the only other alternative. Sentence has been suspended in her case, and the police are making an effort to get in communication with her family. The girl shows every evidence of education and refinement. SUES OVER HUSBAND'S SIGN. Wife Seeks Freedom When He Insists on "Who's Boss" Defi. Chicago, March 8.?Because her husband would not remove a sign from their living room which read, "If you want to know who's boss around here, start something," Mrs. William H. Zeno wants a divorce from her husband. "My husband insisted that sign must remain on the wall in our house where everybody could sec it," Mrs. Zeno testified. "I protested right along, but he wouldn't take it down, and now I just won't stand it any longer. Everyone that calls stares at it and construes it as an insult to tnemseives, i naa callers who eyed the sign and then abruptly left." The court has the affair under advisement. I5LOWX THROUGH GIXHOUSE. Boiler and Engine Hurled From Place by Explosion. Trenton, March 15.?The boiler at the ginnery of Richard Ripley, located about four miles from this place, exploded Friday afternoon, killing a negro woman and seriously iujuring two. negro men. Mr. Ripley and his brother narrowly escaped injury. The boiler and engine were mounted on skids. The fireman, not knowing that the water in the boiler was low, steamed it up and then attempted to pump cold water into it, causing the explosion. Both the engine and boiler were blown through the ginhouse, entering at one end, passing through and out at the other end. The woman who was killed was handling cotton in the second story of the ginhouse when struck. Boys Face Trial. Hillsboro, N. C., March 13.? Twelve jurors were selected and the taking of testimony was begun here today in the trial of the four University of North Carolina sophomores charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Isaac William 'Rand, a freshman of the institution, who met death while being hazed. The students on trial are Ralph W. Oldman, Raleigh; Aubrey C. Hatch, Mount Olive; William L. Merriman and Arthur H. Stryon, Wilmington. Attempts by counsel for the prosecution and attorneys for the defendants to reach an agreement by which they would bring in a special verdict in the case failed today after a two hours' conference. Four witnesses were introduced for the State before court was adjourned for the day. They told of the defendants coming to the room occupied by Rand at the university and taking him to the athletic field where he was forced to sing and dance. Because of the legal precedent involved in the case many prominent lawyers from throughout the State were on hand. The defendants are represented by a brilliant array of counsel, while Solicitor S. M. Gattie also is aided by leading members of the bar in this State. Young Rand met his death as the result of being hazed by upper classmen September 13, last. According to his roomate, Robert Bellons, who also was hazed, Rand was dancing on the head of a barrel when it toppled over. In falling Rand's neck struck the ragged edge of a broken bottle, severing the artery. He died within naif an hour. Seeks Voice Like Dead Wife's. To give the world what is lost by the tragic death of his brilliant young wife, Marie La Salle Rabinoff, the beneficiary of a $50,000 scholarship fund raised by Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Otto Kahn and others, Max Rabinoff. the Russian impresario, is searching far and wide for a young woman with a coloratura-soprano voice as pure as that of Mme. Rabin| off. In his studio in the Broadway apartments, No. 1425 Broadway, M. Rabinoff has heard more than 30 voices. None of them has completely suited him. "When 1 find the perfect voice, the equal of my wife's, I will gram its owner a scholarship that will permit her to go abroad to study under the best masters" explained the 1111- | presario yesterday. "I shall also give her $10,000 worth of concert, operatic and evening gowns. "My wife's wonderful voice, her caressing,round, flute-like tones?the purest coloratura in the world?are only a memory to me. I should like to preserve that memory in a living < memorial to her." FACT Local Evidence. i Evidence that can be verified. Fact is what we want. Opinion is not enough. Opinions differ. Here's a Bamberg fact. You can test it. D. J. 'Cain, N. Church St., Bamberg, S. C., says: "I suffered from kidney trouble for two or three years and during the past six months I had such severe attacks that I could not do my work. The pain in my back was so acute that I could not sit down without catching hold of something for support and I could hardly get up. My kidneys were in bad shape and doctors ?3 "U1 ^ ^ ,4 r\ nn vtViintr f nr m C BtJtJUlfcHl UiicLUlt; LU UKJ O.HJ I.U111Q ? ~. Finally I got a supply of Doan's Kidney Pills from the People's Drug Co. and they made so great an improvement that I hardly know how to thank them. I am now able to work every day and I feel like a different man. I gladly confirm my former statement regarding Doan's Kidney Pills. I have used them occasionally since that time and they have always brought the most satisfactory results." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 < cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's?and take no other. \ jA \ vnn^jb Educational Campaign in the Barnwell Baptist Association in the Interest of Home Missions, March 22.27. The home mission board of the Barnwell Association has arranged the following itinerary for Dr. J. E. McManaway, as an educational campaign in the interest of home missions: Saturday, March 22, 3 o'clock p. m., Bethesda. Sunday, March 23, 11.00 o'clock a. m., Springtown. Sunday, March 23, 3.30 o'clock p. m., Colston. Sunday, March 23, 8.00 o'clock p. m., Ehrhardt. Monday, March 24, 11.00 o'clock ^ Of H. 1X1 , Ljl. u vuuc. Monday, March 24, 8.00 o'clock p. m., Olar. Tuesday, March 25, 11.00 o'clock a. m., Friendship Tuesday, March 25, 3 o'clock p. m., If We Want~ And if prompt, pc of everything in ou: JI prices will cause yo <t are sure to be the 1 receiving new good | department every v * i Viovrn o larcrp niia.nt.l !t 11u t v w xuiigw i^mwuvi 5 the market in our ] t Cdine and give us | sure you will come; j H. G. DEI X Successors to H. W. Bea Our Pat Hats Ha Arrived and we will take plea to all callers. We have also nev every shape and mat hat which just now to the large hemp a] are so universally be< We have also a j percales, and cordui marked at rock botto 25 Herald votes give worth of goods purcha Mrs. A. McB. Bamber P": J : - > I % ? ? i I . .&F George's Creek. ' Wednesday, March 26, 11.00 o'clock a. m., Gents' Branch. Wednesday, March1 26, 3.00 o'clock p. m., Double Pond. Wednesday, March 26, 8.00 o'clock p. m., Blackville. * Thursday, March 27, 11.00 o'clock a. m., Mt. Arnon. Thursday, March 27, 8.00 o'clock ^ p. m., Kline. Dr. McManaway is thoroughly conversant with his subject, is a gifted and convincing speaker, and his visit to the churches of the Barnwell Association will afford a rare opportunity for both enlightment and Inspiration on the great work of home missions. The pastors and leading lay men of the churches should lend their enthusiastic aid in securing large aU tendance on the meetings appointed, w. r. McMillan, W. l. hays, e. a. Mcdowell, , < Committee. T. . _ four Trade! 1 >lite service, the best < t' || ; r lines at me lowest ? u u to give it to us we X ? , ucky ones. We are ? s in our 5c and 10c f || reek, and we always 2 ^ ity of everything on | @ Fresh Meat Market, I ? a trial and we feel X ? ,t again. # LK & CO. j I rd. Bamberg, S. C. X @ WWW WWW W vv VWVWWVW ?????@??????? tern ' - :-v mim . - ' j / ve ,t v -.sffjt ; <4 * ' . '- S'; ''' ?\ y Jr "r^i "; ' . . i J '* ' .sure in showing them ^'v'jSj # -xt; r Untrimmed Hats, of erial, from the small is fashion's favorite, *" tid chip shapes which ?oming. -f new lot of ginghams, roys which we have m prices. - 'J i -*/ :n for every dollar's * i ised from us for cash ; ','v, Sneaks & Co. r ; g, s. c. v. . i -l-i.