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' PERSONAL MENTION. ST y People Visiting in This City and I at Other Points. ?Col. J. R. Owens spent Sunday in Charleston. [; ?Dr. J. H. Roberts, of Ehrhardt, was in the city Monday. I ?Col. T. J. Counts is in Florence ' ^ on a visit to relatives. ?Mr. A. Shep Pearlstine spent a few days in the city this week. ?Mr. T. D. Beard, of the Colston section, was in the city Monday. I ... _ .. _. . : ?Miss Kutn Kiiey is at nome rrom St. Matthews, where she taught the past year. ?County Commissioner H. W. Chitty, of the Kearse section, was in the city Monday. ?Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wright, of k Orangeburg, spent Sunday in the city W "with relatives. ?Supervisor of Registration Isaac W. Carter, of the Ehrhardt section, ^ was in the city Monday. '* ^ ?Mrs. F. B. McCrackin and little daughter, of Charlotte, N. C., are visiting relatives in the city, ft ?Mrs. Carrie Simmons spent SunE day and Monday in Branchville with her daughter, Mrs. Whetstone. ?Rev. and Mrs. T. C. O'Dell, of i Rock Hill, are in the city on a visit "* to Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Brabham. ?Mr. Carl Kirsch is at home from Jamison, Orangeburg county, his 1 school having closed for the summer. ?Miss Thelma Bailey, of Edgefield, is visiting her grand parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Black, in the city. ?Mr. and Mrs. T. R. McCants and j daughter, Hannah and Mr. D. C. Hay den left this morning for Bamberg ?Miss Carrie Lee Bradley, of Orangeburg, is in the city on a visit to her grandmother, Mrs. M. L. r Johns. ?Mrs. W. I. Johns has returned to her home in Allendale after a ten $ days visit with friends.?Gaffney Ledger. ?Miss Pearl Black, who has been teaching in the Florence graded schools, is at home for the summer vacation. * ?Mr. A. McB. Speaks spent a few days in Charlotte, N. C., this week on a visit to Pr. and Mrs. F. B. McCrackin.x ?Misses Lou Belle Brown, of Lawtey, Fla., and Lucile Howell, of Orangeburg, are visiting relatives in the city. ?Mr. LeRoy Peters, of the Ehrhardt section, who has been attending t Furman University, returned home last week. ?Af t. Tr?hn? snent a few ^ days in Orangeburg last week on a visit to the family of her daughter, Mrs. Bradley. ?Misses Ruby and Sadelle Guess, | of Denmark, were among the grad uates of Converse college, Spartanburg, this week. ?Misses Julien and Helen Easter? ling, Josephine Adams, and Evelyn Free are at home from Limestone college, Gaffnev. ?Miss Marian Simmons left last Friday for Greenville, to attend the commencement exercises of Greenville Female College. ?Presiding Elder M. L. Banks, of Orangeburg, was in the city Monday and Monday night, attending the Carlisle School commencement. ?Mr. H. X. Folk, of the Folk's ?r. in m'tv "POT a imur^ ?ao ijll vivj tva m few days this week on a visit to his sons, Col. J. F. and Hon. H. C. Folk. ?Rev. H. B. Browne, of Camden, was in the city Monday, attending a * meeting of the board of control of Carlisle School, of which he is a member. ?Mrs? Lillian Faulkner, of Augusta, and Mr. Pinckney Bellinger, of Columbia, were in the city for several days last week on account of the * illness of their mother, Mrs. Jno. R. Bellinger. , to attend the commencement at the l Carlisle Fitting School. Misses Edith, Maybell and Nellie McCants will finish there this year.?Orangeburg Evening News. ?Mr. E. P. Allen, superintendent of the Bambefg graded school, left last Friday for Williamston, where he will spend the summer, Mrs. Allen and the children having preceded him to that place. " a a drnwn UOUI L Oieuugiapnci .-x. C. A. Best and T. M, Boulware, Esqs., and Editor B. P. Davies, of the Barnwell People, were among those from Barnwell, who enjoyed a fish fry at the Edisto river last Thursday. They spent a short while in town. ?Mrs. Jno. R. Bellinger, who was visiting relatives in the city, suffered a stroke of paralysis last Thursday morning in the law offices of Carter & Carter, where she had gone on business. She has recovered somewhat from the stroke, and Saturday night was carried to an infirmary in Augus> ta for treatment. DEMANDED ENGINEER'S LIFE. Arabs Sought Vengeance For - Son Who Was Killed By Train. Alzakin, the former traffic inspector of the Egyptian Delta Railway, leaned back in his chair, and drew several long, meditative pulls on his nargileh. "When the Egyptian railroad was < first put through," he said, "the na- : tives regarded it as a creation of evil < spirits. They not only disapproved ] of it, but they attacked its employes, i ' "It was not unusual for a band of natives to gallop up on their swift i Arabian horses, coming apparently 1 from out of the sands of the desert, and then, as they rode alongside the 1 train, take a pot shot at us, wheeling 1 and going off at a gallop the moment I the shots had been fired from their i -- ' 1 - J TViair Vinlv mPTl 1 10ng-Darreieu guuo. ?? used to make incantations and cast spells upon us just as they did on any 1 evil thing, and the ignorant natives i thought that they were fulfilling the < will of Allah if they maimed an em- i ployee or threw a train off the tracks. < "The road had been built by France ] when it held its protectorate over < Egypt. It was a narrow-guage line. and it was not a particularly difficult task to make trouble for the men who were trying to keep things running straight. "One day a little Arab boy toddled out from the cover of the palms which ^ lined the tracks just as a train came along. There wasn't a chance for ^ him and there wasn't time for the , engineer even to shut steam off before * we were on top of the little chap. His father it chanced, was working in the palm grove, and saw it all. "A couple of days later the father called at the office of the general manager with a dozen of his clansmen, all armed with long rifles with inlaid stocks and chased barrels-. It . was the. policy then to attempt to conciliate the natives, and the general manager promptly made an offer c to settle. % - ^ ^ n'nrn ".Money damages, uuwcvci, not what the Arabs wanted. They spurned the offer with contempt and demanded that the engineer be given up to them so that they could take ^ his life in place of that of the little boy. That was a compensation that the general manager could not con- j cede; in fact, he had already trans- ? ferred the engineer to another part . of the line, fearing the natives might j try to wreak vengeance. x c "The delegation finally left when ^ they found that the man would not j be produced, but they left with , threatening gestures and warnings t that 'Arabs never forget.' j "A month later I was riding on a train which was nearing Beltan, on t the main line.- At the junction there was a triangle of tracks, the main line 1 and the K^fr Hamza section coming ? together at the point. A cross track s from one to the other formed the base t of the "riangle. "The train from Kafr Hamza, to ( which my car was attached, was due ( at the junction three minutes ahead i of a train on the main line, and both ( were due at Beltan the same number t of minutes apart. We had the right of way, and unless we were very i much behind time the main-line train was always held for us. There was i no telegraph, you know, ana tne ? length of time that the other train i would be held, depended largely upon i the discrimination of the signalman at the junction. t "I was not surprised that we were ? signaled to proceed, althought we < were five minutes behind time. This i was largely due to the weather, which z was foggy that morning. 1 "You have never seen one of our f Egyptian fogs. They are worse than i any I have seen in this country The c mists lie close to the ground and seem j to be held down by the trees where there is any foliage. Not until the 1 sun gets high do they begin to swirl t about in the heavens like so many t white-robed spirits. i "When our engineer received the I signal to proceed he went on cauti- 1 ously, as was the custom, until we passed the switch into the main line, i I stood in the open door Of the bag- i gage car, having come forward from 1 my own car, which was attached to \ the rear of the train. ] _ m ? J 4 1 ne engine, two ireigm uaie aiiu i the mail car had passed the cross- i over track and the baggage car was s just passing over it when I saw coming out of the mist the engine of the f main-line train. I "It was evident that the signalman j had given us notice to proceed and i then given the other train the same t signal, but instead of sending that t ahead on its own track and causing a i side swipe he had thrown the switch that sent it on the cross-over, so that i it was coming at us head-on. i "For a moment I stood at the open < door of that car watching certain ( death heading toward me. I was not c afraid; in fact, I did not think at all ? that I remember. The feeling that in ' an instant more that engine would ] crush my life out seemed to fascinate 1 me. 1 "Then the guard who stood beside i me grasped me by the back of my i TRUE HEROISM. ; i ' < William Barnes Lower Tells of Noble T i Act of a Wisconsin Minister. t i ? It is said that the day after Gar- ? field's election for President of the ?1 United States a dispatch was sent I I * to Milton Wells, a Wisconsin preach -1 < er, whose vote in the convention had I % kept Garfield's name on the list of candidates to the very last, asking ? him if he would accept the governor- ? ship of Arizona. In his reply, Mr. l\ Wells said: "I have a better office, that I can not leave. I am preaching 5 here for $600 a year." tj Here is one of those heroes of men ? tvhom the word will "little note nor ? long remember." He made a man Ij famous, but he was willing to remain unknown himself. We judge men by < the success they have outwardly achieved. Many would pronounce that Wisconsin preacher's life a fail- ? i jre. What is the Governor of 200,- ; 300 people to saving souls for eteraity ? To have office in the kingdom < Df this world is insignificant in its t pleasure and results t? being a work- ; ?r in the kingdom of our Lord and ? Master. J! Austin's Thumb Sent to Governor. ! 4 / * Columbia, S. C., May 31.?Govern)r Blease was the unappreciative rejipient yesterday of the thumb of M Richard Henry Austin that cocked *j ;he shotgun which killed Fred H. Edenfield near Allendale on April ; 10. The thumb was in a glass vial ? md was preserved in alcohol. The :hief executive had his negro porter o immediately inter the grim relic )f the murderer. < 4 The governor was unstinted in his ?; :ondemnation of the action of the ? norbid mob at Hampton, which cut ?! ( )arts of Austin's body to preserve as m lelectable mementoes of an auspi:ious occasion. He said he could not *jj mderstand why white men should be 9 io morbid as to want to save parts 9 >f the dead body of a negro. ij Gaffney Man Found Dead. jj Gaffney, May 29.?D. W. Hicks, a 3 yell-known Gaffney citizen, was found 9 n bed at his residence on Lau- 5j 'el street early this morning. Death ?3 s presumably due to heart trouble. ? dr. Hicks had not complained of feel- 2 ng unwell, and it was not known that ] le was sick. His wife called to him 9 ind, getting no response, she went ;o his bedside and found him dead. ?3 ie is survived by his wife, who was diss Jessie Grist, of Yorkville, and A hree sons, Messrs Duke, Ollie and ^ ?red. Interment will take place to- = norrow morning at Oakland Ceme- . 1 ery. ??????????? A leek and, yelling, 'Jump!' fairly pullsd me through the door on the other side of the train at the same moment hat he jumped himself. "The next thing I knew I heard a c' jrash and a crackling of timbers, the r< jar careened and, as I glanced up at S t from where I lay on the ground, I ^ jould see it slowly toppling over on n ;op of us. S "I was considerably surprised a ft ninute later to see it settle and slide P 50 that the door opening came direct- y Y over us as we lay together, and w save for the heel of one shoe, which 0 vas caught by the edge of the door- n vay, I was absolutely untouched. *s "When we climbed out and had at- C ;ended to the injured among the pas- ir sengers I began to think about that b signalman. He was nowhere to be H found, and we at first concluded that, d ippalled at the result of his stupidity, le had run away. Later, though, we ^ ound him. He was trussed up with opes, lying on his face in a tangle T )f vines a quarter of a mile from the d iunction. a "It was some time before the poor fellow could talk. Then .he told us ;hat shortly after he came on duty hat morning a band of Arabs appeared out of the fog, fell upon him and. n rinding him so that he could not get R oose, carried him to where he lay. ^ "My mind went back at once to the 0 ^.rab whose boy had been run over a u few weeks before, and I realized that w ;his was the way in which he had ^ vreaked vengeance upon the railroad, .'t was he who had given us the signal ^ ;o proceed and who had switched the nain-line on the cross-over track ' >0 as 10 wrech. me uiuei. "He had succeeded, for the cotton C{ ields which surrounded the junction r< joint were stained red where the in- ^ iured had been laid, and the smoke vhich curled up from the wreckage sc ;estified that a good many piastres of ** ;he Egyptian Delta railroad had vanshed that morning. "It was not surprising that the en-! ?ineers thought the Arab to be the i *egular signalman, for in their native \ :-ostume, heads swathed in white lin- \ in and the figure entirelv concealed, tl )ne Egyptian lpoks very much like mother, especially in the thick fog. j I v< rhe rascal must have watched the: passing of the trains at that point 01 tor days in order to know just how le could effect the most damage in i tl the shortest possible time."?Rail- i -oad Man's Magazine. j n t ? il: ill fli il; ft CD Hi fli iE ft ft ft Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi KLAU 1 "THE STORE C > * ' ; We are now located in our I to come in and see the pre I We are closing out all sumn ? tions in order to make room J > < ?????? I SPECIAL VALUES ? _________ ______ ; ? 100 MEN'S SH ; DRESSES at > f at Cost Big Reduc > ? ? H1HHH I? 500 Yards ? WIDE FLOUNCING Special ? 25c Yard I SATUR |i 50 Dozen 100 | NO. 414 SII.K SOX ShjjJ W| ? 25c Pair t; > formerly priced 1 tj Your Ch ? .$1.00 Ladies' ? EMBROIDERED GOWNS 50c E? > 50c Each I Vhbihb > -? ? All * .All > J STRAW HATS 12^c and 15c ? i? Now Reduced Now 10c 1 ? ilfl AIT S "The Store of Quolity" "AT THE ( CRIME AS PUZZLING AS EVER. ? tlanta Authorities Unable to Solve I lip I In* Stevens Murder Mystery. ENROLLMENT Atlanta, Ga., May 29.? Efforts of MILLION AND le authorities of Fulton and DeKalb Drorrr Ct ounties to solve the mystery sur- \ ? ounding the murder of Mrs. Sarah Engfneering0^ tevens and her daughter, Nellie, ' hose charred bones* were found Wed i^llOrt vOU esday morning in the ashes of the Weeks Winter tevens home, near here, have so far Course for Fan ailed, and to-night the crime is as Cost: Sf uzzling as ever. Wade Stevens, 19- uniforms, $133* ear-old son of the dead woman, who cost per sessioi as sought upon direction of the cor- Four-Weeks Co ner's jury, was located in Chatta- Schol&Tslli' ooga and brought back to-day. It The c0nege m i said that young Stevens was seen in Scholarships, ai hattanooga early Wednesday morn- - of Scholarships lg and, therefore, could not have 3^.? ^ave atte: , ... ittz, University, are een connected with the crime. Wil- other eligibl am Steven6, husband of tne mur- scnoiarsnij ered woman, did not know of the County Superin ragedy until he returned to-day NEXT -om Chattanooga, where he was at- --- . mding the Confederate Reunion. W Fit? 3.t i. he aged Veteran says he will hunt Clemson Colleg own the persons who killed his wife y ad girl. A Slight Mistake. Shooting Near ] While holiday making in a small Lancaster, June 3.iral village Mr. Smith heard that a negro tenant on ^ obinson, his partner, had come to piace on the edge of le neighboring town of Dorchester b> John still> anothe n business. Accordingly he rsns The negroes were cii p on the telephone the hotel at beCame engaged in a hich Robinson usually stajed, and saj(j that Still left thi 5*ed: town and borrowed "Is Mr. Robinson there? he in- j-jjj a snake," and up uucu, Lne I1C1U viiipucu w No; ho is not. Thomas, then came ( "But he has engaged a room?" surrendered to SheriS "We don't reserve rooms here," Thomas's wound is tme the sharp and somewhat airy dangerous. Still has n sply. "First come, first served; the chajn gang> whe lats the rule here. term for stealing. "Perhaps; but surely Mr. Robin- m >n usually stays with you when in A Marrying ie town, don't he?" "Can't say!" was the indifferent Homer Morrison di ijoinder. Chicago. He was a re "Look here, young man!" roared and had considerable ] mits, now growing angry, "you're ly after his death a nu ie silliest assistant who ever spoilt claimed to be his wid' is master's business. Go away and block two wives, unl ill .someone who knows more about other, appeared?and ie hotel to come and speak to me." came forward to wh< "This isn't a hotel," chuckled the gaged. Up to date s oice at the other end, "it's the pris- been heard from, mo n."?New York Globe. got money from. T1 woman of Kansas ( HaDpy is the young man who loses ?opriert in ADriL and ne first time he gambles. tTo"rrowed $22,000. A string will is all right if you are ot married to the owner. Marriage is a sure c / $ CIS ft fli ili ili CIS fl; -I) Cli ilhU gl ft $$$ bLKo )F QUALITY" 1 ====== $ new store and invite you J ttiest store in this section. *\ ler goods now at big reduc- 4 For our handsome cabinets. jg =^===^= :? QUOTED BELOW f I 1 I IRTS Big Lot Men's * PALM BEACH SUITS I I tions $5.00 and Up. ? ! ? * > MEN'S SUMMER COATS fj J \ For in'Silk Mohair and I I X ~ - 'M Pongee * DAY I | m m I a m i i* ' .2 25c Value ? ? lists P0PLIXS - I |l 15c Yard tj I up to $1 _____________ oice 8 ? 9 Extra Quality * J diCh I SILK HOSE J >j J $1.00 Pair ? ? __ " M Special Values in ? LAWXS Ladies' and Children's t ? k'ard LOW QUARTERS > t J BEiTSi )LD STAND" Bamberg, S. C. | | ilvl; -IHI?-:- !? ;! =!: ;I? il:-S % ^ i| nson Agricultural College | OVER 800?VALUE OF PROPERTY OVER A A THIRD?OVER 90 TEACHERS & OFFICERS Agriculture, (seven courses). ChemJUTSeS. istry; Mechanical and Electrical Enil Engineering; Textile Industry; Architectural * v r , One-Year Course in Agriculture; TwoISCS. Year Course in Textile Industry; FourCourse in Cotton Grading; Four-Weeks Winter ners. per session of nine months, including all fees, , light, water, board, laundry, and two complete 45. Tuition, if able to pay, $40.00 extra. Total '";H| i for the one year Agricultural Course, $117.55; urse, all expenses, $10.00. ^ /J ps and Entrance Examinations: aintains 167 four-year Agricultural and Textile t ad 51 one-year Agricultural Scholarships. Value $100.00 per session and Free Tuition. (Students aded Clemson College, or any other College or ' not eligible for the Scholarships unless there are e applicants.) ^ )s and Entrance Examinations will he held by the tendent of Education on July 11th, at 9 a. m. > SESSION OPENS SEPTEMBER 10, 1913 , )nce to W. M. RIGGS, President jj e, S. C., for Catalog, Scholarship Blanks, etc. If ou delay, you may be ^crowded out. 11 Lancaster. BANKERS COME TO TRIAL. ?Miles Thomas, Charged With Marking Big Note Paid 7. M. Stogner's When it Was Not. town, was shot . r negro, today. Cincinnatti, Ohio, June 2.?The itting oats and trial of George B. Cox, financier, and quarrel. It is former political leader, and other die field, came to rectors and officers of the Cincinnatti a shotgun "to Trust Company, on the indictment / on returning to charging them with violating the th barrels into banking law, was begun here today. >n to town and The charge is that nine of the Ofll[ Hunter. cers and directors signed a joint note not considered for $352,500 in favor of the bank in ot long been off 1911 upon the demand of the State re he served a banking department to? prevent the bank from going to the wall, and that later they falsely marked the note as ^Ian* "paid" upon the books of the bank and destroyed it, whereas, in fact, it ed last veek in had never been pajd sal estate dealer nronertv. Short- A fussy man reminds us of a camel mber of women ?always going around with his back ow. On one city up. known to each ? _ ? _ i. -l _ _ ?,OTr,OT, Send us your name and address another w oman j ^ ^? ? and we will send you free of charge ' Dm he wras en- 0ur pareel Post System. Jet White ix widows have Laundry, Charleston, S. C. st of whom he ' , be sixth was a CAKD op ANKS. whnm hp We Wish t0 take thiS means of ex" 3, om tending thanks to everyone who so from whom he kindly came to our aid during the fire Saturday night, as it is impossible to see all personally. :ure for flattery. J. W. JENNINGS & FAMILY.