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STONE CUT WITH SHOT. Sand and Emery Ueing Superseded by New Method. It is popularly supposed that the sawinsr of stone into slabs or blocks is done by sand and water beneath some suitable tool. But sand and emery have been abandoned in favor of chilled-steel shot. Steel shot is made so hard that it cannot be bruised o-r crushed under the heaviest pressure, whereas sand or emery is soon reduced to an ineffective powder. A piece of work can be done thrice as fast with shot, so that the saving of time, says Harper's Weekly, makes it9 use cheaper than to use sand. The wear on the tool is far less also, and there is greater accuracy in the cut. A particle of sand is effective in sawing only when it embeds itself in the blade, to stand there as a small, sharp tooth, which removes from the stone below it one grain at a time and no mnrp A shot rolls over and over between the blade and the stone, and as the point of contact is very small, the pressure there concentrated crushes the hardest stone to splinters of appreciable size. Shot of different sizes should be worked together, as the largest tend to escape from under the blade first, then the next in size, and so on, leaving some i&.ioer the blade to the end of the cut. The durability of the shot is amazing. Under a ring drill, steel shot is employed in borings of all sorts in quarrying, etc. In sinking the foundations for the Hudson Terminai in New York, cores six to eight inches in diameter were thus taken out more economically than was feasible by any other method. This hard shot is aiso taking the place of sand and emery in crinrlinc r?nrl nnlisbine" stones, fin 1XJL Jjl iuuiiijj VA** v* ^ 0 ? _ _ , ishing a job far more rapidly than formerly. No special machinery is required and only the simplest of tools. A strip of sheet iron notched along its edge like a saw with teeth half an inch high and two inches apart will eat its way through a-stone by aid of the shot at a rapid pace. GIRL HAS THREE HUSBANDS. Young Woman Arrested at Greenville Tells of Matrimonial affairs. Greenville, April 10.?Three husbands in six years, all living, is the matrimonial record of a pretty 18year-old girl, who is being held in the woman's ward at the county prison, charged with polygamy. According to the girl's statement, she was originally married at Newport, Tenn., to a man who she alleges forced her to marry him. Soon leaving him, she married again in about a year. Husband No. 2 mistreated her, she claims. She accordingly left him without the formality of a " ~ n * 1 + <T/-V C"V?Q divorce. several uiuuwb <x&v oh& came to Greenville to "live with her mother's niece," as she expressed it. Becoming enamored of a young man, James D. Scott, she married him March 3, last. Scott soon learned of his two predecessors in his wife's affections, and yesterday reported the matter to the sheriff, who arrested the girl. Scott says he loves the girl, and the girl says she loves Scott. The query now is. who will furnish the evidence to convict her, ; provided she refuses to tell her story in court? The girl's maiden name was Zoie Ledford. She is quite intelligent and feels humiliated that her plight should have been discoveded. PISTC>L I)I EL 1X*LEXIXGTX)X. . Xegro Shoots Another and in Turn is Shot by Officers. Lexington, S. C.. April 13.?In a pistol duel on the principal thoroughfare of this usually quiet little town at 6:30 jo'clock this afternoon, two negroes received pistol shot wounds which may result fatally to both par ties. Boozer Strouthers was shot by Henry Edwards, who in turn was shot by Lester .Miller, son of Sheriff Sim Miller, and Chief of Police Klecklev. Edwards fired upon the officers when they went to arrest him. Stro-thers, who was shot in the left / side and the lower abdomen, was carried to a hospital in Columbia. Edwards was shot in the left breast, the ball barely missing the heart and lodging itself in the body, the extent of injuries cannot be determined tonight. The shooting was the result of a quarrel between Strothers and Edwards who claimed that Strothers had a knife in his hands when he fired the first shot. Fifteen or more shots were fired. Edwards immediately after the shooting made his way across a back street followed by the two officers. When he was told to throw up his hands he drew a pistol from his pocket and fired directly at the officers who returned the fire. Not until the pistol was empty did he cease to shoot. Edwards was brought to jail, where his wounds were dressed by Dr. G. Frank Roberts. Up-to-date line of stationery just received at Herald Book Store. % KILLED BULL WITH HANDS. Hi"- Irishman Gave Mexicans Chance To See How Americans "Would I)oit.*' In the "nineties" everybody on the .Mexican Central knew Mike Moran. He was gigantic young Irish-American, standing about six foot in his stockings, and proportioned like a hercules. He had worked his way up from coal-passer to fireman, from fireman to freight engine-driver, and from freight to passenger. Promotion was rapid twenty years ago on the Mexican Central. Mike's grand coup, that made his name known from El Paso to Oaxaca, was made when, as a "cub" enginedriver, he was in charge of a graveltrain during the construction of the Sullivan road, now known as the Mexican National. It happened at Acambovo, which was then the end of the "line. The town was "wide open," as they say, with eamblinsr. drinking and bull fighting as the standard amusements of the rollicking crowd of well-paid adventurers whfi were rapidly pushing the road to completion with the vim and energy that characterize the American workingman wherever he may be found. The usual Sunday afternoon bull fight found Mike, or "Don Miguel," as the admiring peons of his gravel train called him, with a load of vino under his belt, which he carried with ease and dignity, as became his stature and position, although there was enough of it to have put three smaller men asleep or crazy drunk. The first bull came into the ring and, after passing through the usual tests of pich, capa and banderilla, was deftly killed by the chief bull fighter, or matador, with one thrust' through the heart. It was all done in the most approved style of the art, but Mike, who had once worked in a slaughter house in Kansas City, viewed the whole proceedings with contempt and disdain. "That ain't no way to kill a bull!" he growled. "Let me in that ring, and I'll show 'em how we do it in Kansas City." No sooner thought of than done. He forced his way into the inclosure which in every bull ring serves as a sort of greenroom for the performers,' and, walking up to the picador, who was already mounted and ready to go into the ring, calmly pulled him from the saddle, regardless of the indignant protests and threats of the man and his fellow performers. Then, dressing himself in the picador's costume, which he plucked from its righful owner very much as one picks a chicken, Mike leaped into the saddle and, lance in hand, rode out into the ring, where his train crew of Mexican shovel experts recognized him by his great bulk and received him with storms of applause. The legitimate and duly accredited bull fighters looked on in a state of semi?,tn refaction from the greenroom door. The bull was a good one and appeared to be suffering from a distinct grievance as h'e rushed into the ring like a roaring lion. Mike's huge bulk on the starveling, weak-kneed mustang was the most prominent object that met his eyes, and without a moment's loss of time he charged. In an instant the sharp point of the garocha (la-pce) was in his shoulder, and Mike gracefully and easily?thanks to his wonderful strength?held the bull off, although his mount had a narrow escape from a fall. "Viva Don Miguel. Xuestro maquinista!" howled the gravel train gang in chorus. "Bully for you. Jumbo!" shouted Tom Foley, a fellow Irish-American, above the din. "Stick him again, Moike. Stick him again!" came in rich sonorous accents from Paddy Cafferty, the boss of the steam shovel outfit, while the rest of the crowd gave vent to yells of inarticulate enthusiasm. Discomfitted by the. sharp recep' * - 1 - J iiU 4. T U,, 11 lion ne naa mei wiui, uie uun ictired a few yards and there stood pawing and tossing his head, half frightened by the pandemonium on all sides of him. Mike, gracefully raising both hat and lance in salute, acknowledged the applause that was being showered upon him. Quick as a flash the bull saw his chance, rushed in under his guard, J and threw horse and rider over his back, the horse, in falling, pinning; Mike to the ground by his left leg. Fortunately Mike was unhurt, although the poor h^*se was finished. As the bull retired slightly with lowered head, preparatory to another charge, Mike extricated himself with a mighty pull from beneath his fallen charger and stood up. There was no time to either run or aoage. ine bull hud the right of way, and was coming "with the throttle wide open," as Mike described it afterward. A head-on collision, or something very like it, was bound to happen in less than a second. But Mike was equal to the occasion. As the bull's horns came within THE GREEN BAG INQUIRY. How u British Investigation Got Its Name. The Green Bag Inquiry began February 3, 1S17, 9 6 years ago. The inquiry took its name from the fact that its chief promoter, the Tory Lord Sidmouth, carried the papers upon which it was based into parliament in a green bag. The British people, having put down Napoleon, began thinking that it might be just as well to put down the clique of little Napoleons at home, writes the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory in the New York American, who were strutting around in their imaginary greatness and doing much harm to the rank and file of the kingdom. Having settled the affairs of the continent, they very wisely concluded that it was about time to begin settling their own affairs. In a word, the people began holding meetings to discuss the ways and means of relieving the political and economic situation in which they found themselves, a situation that was as full of distress as it was of humiliation. * T } n; o * v. ?\OW, my IjUiu oiuiuuuiu, vuiti 115 the sentiment of the greater part of the British aristocracy, declared that these public meetings were as dangerous as they were presumptious. A member of the house of lords thus unbosomed himself: "These meetings are not meetings of the people of England but of vagabonds. They sap the spirit of loyalty, of morality, of religion, and serve to subvert our laws and our liberties." Still another said: "Reform is innovation; innovation is revolution; revolution means the guillotine and the dagger. Down with reform." To this balderdash the reply of the people was: "The question now is as to the paramount and imprescriptable right of the people of England to meet and express their opinion upon the political state of the country. We hold that to be a right not only of Englishmen, but one inherent in man?one antecedent to all political institutions of which no political institution can deprive mankind." With his green bag Sidmouth went to the parliament and came out with the famous "Four Acts," the two most important of them being the "seditious meetings act," prohibiting the assembling of the people for public discussion, and the "bill for the suspension of habeas corpus," which, violating the most sacred provision of Magna Charta, gave powers to ministers to arrest practically any one they wished, thus establishing upon the soil of England as veritable a despotism as was ever set up by an Oriental sultan or a Russian czar. Such was the result of the first attempt in modern times of the people of England to secure the freedom of speech upon which all governmental justice and all personal selfrespect necessarily depends. It was a forlorn beginning. But fortunately it was only a beginning. The fight was kept up, and today there is no freer people on the footstool than those who were so summarily down' ed by Lord Sidmo-uth and the Green j Bag 96 years ago. WHISKEY IS SEIZED. Allendale Officers Take Charge of a Dray and Contents. ?? Allendale, April 10.?A raid on a blind tiger Monday and again Tuesday resulted in the seizure of four barrels of whiskey and two of beer. Yesterday a negro, Jno. Sherman, a drayman, was suspected by the authorities of being in the employ of the tigers, transporting whiskey, and upon being approached by them he [ made haste to escape with the loaded team to a hiding place, giving the j constables a lively chase. The load J of whiskey and beer, consisting of I two barrels of whiskey and one of hppr. was attached and the negro j arrested. The sheriff arrived today and took charge of the goods. Jno. Sherman will be tried today in the magistrate's court. reach of his long arms, he grasped a horn in each hand arid with a lightning-like twist, impossible to describe and requiring Herculean stength and great skill to accomplish, tnrew the animal to the ground with a broken neck. Amidst round after round of wild applause, while money, cigars, silk handkerchiefs, and even somDeros were thrown into the ring by the enthusiastic devotees of hull-fighting, .Mike placed his foot on the head of the fallen monarch of the range and, laying one hand on his breast and raising the other aloft in graceful imitation of the Spanish bull-fight ers' custom, turned inquiringly toward the judge's stand. The judge nodded graciously, and a moment, after the crier announced that the dead bull was the property of "Don Miguel," for his prowess in having performed an unheard of feat .in bull-fighting.?Wide World Magazine. BANK STATEMENT. ; Statement of the condition of the Bank of Olar, located at 01ar, S. C., at the close of business April 4th, 1913: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $1 73,70S.42 Overdrafts 245.94 Banking house 500.00 Due from banks and hankers 4.179.65 Currency 1,498.00 Gold 5.00 Silver and other minor coin 602.25 Checks and cash items.... 137.35 Total $180,876.61 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 20,000.00 Surplus fund 25,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and ^taxes paid 11,337.78 Individual deposits subject to check 34,257.68 Time certificates of deposit 15,756.40 Cashier's checks 205.57 Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 70,000.00 Reserve fund carried on general individual or savings ledger 4,319.18 Total $1S0,S76.61 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Before me came G. M. Neeley cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. G. M. NEELEY. Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of April, 1913. A. H. NEELEY, Notary Public. Correct-Attest: C. F. RIZER. Director. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of The Farmers & Merchants Bank, located at Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of business April 4th, 1913. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $56,756.23 Overdrafts 580.55 Furniture and Fixtures.. 2,2S0.06 Banking House 1,435.75 Due from banks and bankers 10,000.28 j Currency 1,829.00 Gold 90.00 Silver and other minor Coin 334.31 Checks and cash items 1,121.42 Total $74,427.60 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in $19,700.00 Surplus fund 1,970.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 2,797.72 Individual deposits subject to check 22,645.35 Savings deposits 6,043.69 Time certificates of deposit : 2,779.05 Cashier's Checks 49.82 Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 18,000.00 Reserve fund carried on general individual or savings ledger 441.97 Total $74,427.60 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Before me came W. Max Walker, cashier of the above named bank. ~ ^ninor /llllv CU'fim fifl VS that V?HU, UClJUf) UUij ? ,? Wi ??. - the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. W. MAX WALKER, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day o-f April, 1913. F. E. ROBINSON, Notary Public, S. C. Correct-Attest: S. W. COPELAND, G. J. HERNDON, G. B. CLAYTON, Directors. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of the Bamberg Banking Co., located at Bamberg, S. C., at the close of business April 4th, 1913: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $228,489.00 Overdrafts 758.07 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 1.000.00 Furniture and fixtures.... 1,986.56 Banking house 5,635.49 Due from banks and bankers 51,084.48 Currency 1.715.00 Gold 295.00 Silver and other minor coin S94.24 Checks and cash items.... 814.05 Total $292.671.S9 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 55,000.00 Surplus fund 45,000.00 Undivided profits less current expenses and taxes paid 17,102.79 Due to banks and bankers 863.92 Individual deposits subject to check 102,243.51 i O i A1 OO Savings deposits Time certificates of deposit 4,335.78 Certified checks 5.22 Cashier's checks 19.45 Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 20,000.00 Total $292.671.S9 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Before me came D. F. Hooton, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. D. F. HOOTOX, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before - * ~ * ?;i 1 m o me tins ntn aav 01 Apm, uiu. W. D. COLEMAN, Notary Public, S. C. Correct-Attest: J. B. BLACK, J. D. COPELAND, W. D. RHOAD. Directors. I Try one of those new stationery packages at Herald Book Store. Land Value A) HEN a Lee c IBWr bought a rur I2jw^ his neighbors nJ?EDj bad bargain. fl 7Vv*-i^, treatment by || raised more than eighty acre on land that pro< is bushels the first year he I It is no longer unusua from farmers who hav spreaders consistently fc three to five years, to th is regularly raising so m the value of the land is I H C Manui are made in various st all conditions. The lov low to be hauled, loaded snow. I H C spreaders steel frames in wide, stvles: all of eruaranteec I both return and endle there is an I H C spreac conditions and made to lime, or ashes as require I H C spreaders will on the level, going up wheel rims are wide and e lugs, which provide amp rear axle is located we carries most of the loa on large rollers. The tive, but the chain weai I H C dealer will show: machine for your worl logues from him, or, if 3 International Harvester (Incorpc ^ Columbia 1 BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of the | Ehrhardt Banking Co., located at Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of business April 4, 1913: RESOURCES. / I Loans end discounts 550,590.00 Furniture and fixtures 1,076.75 Banking house 2.000.00 Due from banks and bankers 25,027.47 Currency ... 1,325.00 Gold 272.50 Silver and other minor coin 724.19 Checks and cash items.... 4.13 Total $81,020.04 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $20,000.00 Surplus fund 7,000.00 ! Undivided profits, less cur| rent expenses and taxes : paid 3,147.41 Dividends unpaid 50.00 Individual deposits subj ject to check 23,507.44 Savings deposits 27.17S.29 Time certificates of deposit 59.90 Other liabilities, viz: partial payment 77.00 j Total $81,020.04 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Before me came A. F. Henderson, Cashier of the above named bank, ?u~ dulv cn-rvrn cavfi flint tllO w nu, uctug uui,> giiuiu, ~ ? above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. A. F. HENDERSON. Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me. ! this 10th day of April. 1913. J. M. KIRKLAND, Notary Public, S. C. ! Correct-Attest: J. L. COPELAND, M. D., JACOB EHRHARDT, J. W.MS. CARTER. J Directors. ] RELIABLE SEEDS ( FROM RELIABLE PEOPLE Chufas, Velvet Beans, | ? > ?-i Vnrth Amuer (lUU vraugc i ^ ? Carolina Peanuts, Georgia and Span- ^ isfi Peanuts, Pearl or Cat Tail Millet, ? Tennessee German Millet, Select Seed Corns, Improved Brown Seed Pete1'- c kins Cotton. Prices on application SEND FOB CATALOGUE ^ s Shruotrine Co.! A SAVANNAH, GA. i There are some people who imagine they can't be sincere without < saying disagreeable things about their friends. 1 1 most Doubled 1 ] bounty, Illinois, farmer || J i down 400-acre farm, jl mk .thought he had made a *|| , After three years* soil i| r scientific methods, he 1 ' bushels of corn to the || M duced less than thirty || 4 fl farmed it. || I for us to get reports ij| 1 e been using manure ^ V >r periods ranging from : | 1 le effect that their land ^ uch more produce that almost doubled. - ^ re Spreaders | yles and sizes to meet v machines are not too ^ t, through deep mud or are made with trussed || . medium and narrow p I capacity. There are ?| ss aprons. In short, H ler built to meet your p ? spread manure, straw, p spread manure evenly ?| hill, or down. The || J equipped with Z-shaped j| S le tractive power. The p - ^ II under the body and || d. The apron moves || J beater drive is posi- || Jj s only one side. The P > M pou the most effective ?3 1 ?. You can get cata- & rou prefer, write 1 Company of America I irated* ?S j S.C. 1 ' y | ^i ?r(^nary cangive '/ 1 !m&fO you the" - I style' ''cf/ '1 ! Mf'flyhcomfort mmwyou ? * Spirella ' ^^lVORSETs' (not sold in stores) -?< j I will call at your home by j appointment, and give you any information on our corsets with no obligation on your part. Telephone or ! send postcard to MRS. A. A. ZEIGLER, Bamberg, S. C. y 4 ' ! BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of the 3ank of Denmark, located at Denmark, S. C., at the close of business April 4th, 1913: v * RESOURCES. I. Loans and discounts $ 92,599.43 J Dverdrafts 1,283.91 Due from banks and j bankers 107,836.77 t 1 Currency 550.00 * ^ j jold zh.uu Silver and other minor coin 2,040.80 , Checks and cash items.... 541.01 Total $204,876.92 LIABILITIES j Capital stock paid in....$ 10,000.00 Surplus fund 3,000.00 Jndivided profits, less } i current expenses and ' ' taxes paid 7,426.80 V individual deposits subject to check 156,709.12 Savings deposits 27,741.00 Total $204,876.92 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Before me came J. Arthur Wiggins, :ashier of the above named bank, vho, being duly sworn, says that the ibove and foregoing statement is a nf cairi hnrik. as shown ,1UC UUUU1 uuu v/A. . , 3y the books of said bank. i J. 'ARTHUR WIGGINS, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before ne this 10th day of April, 1913. ' J. WESLEY CRUM, JR., * j Notary Public, S. C. Jorrect-Attest: * , S. D. M. GUESS, 4 4s JAS. B. GUESS, ' i J. ARTHUR WIGGINS, Directors.