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KILLS WIFE, COMMITS SUICIDE Son of Dead Couple Witnesses Tra gedy in Allendale. Allendale, Aug. 13.?George Rob erts, a negro employed by the towr authorities as scavenger, shot anc killed his wife with a shotgun, ther reloading, shot himself in the head blowing off the greater portion of his skull. The double tragedy accurred aboul 9 o'clock this morning and was witnessed by the dead man's son. It is said that the killings were the resuli -a Tho n OPTO WJ1C thflll frh 1 Ui ci ViUdl I Ci. x iiv ulv^o' ^ ? ? to be a quiet, peaceable laborer. HIERLOOM CLOCK STRUCK 13 And Ever Since the Owner Has Had III Luck. P- ?? George Zollenberg returned to his home near that city recently after another ineffectual attempt to have the jinx taken out of his grandfather's clock. The ancient timepiece is tc blame for a long train of misfortune that started Friday, June 13, 1913. The clock was brought to this country by Mr. Zollenburg from the Fatherland. The old time mill had never missed a tick or let a second slip by unrecorded until noon on that fatal Friday. While waiting for dinner Zollenburg was surprised and alarmed to hear the old heirloom strike 13 times for noon. .. "You'd better take that to some clock mender in Hammond," said the watch fixer, and he put his hand behind him as though the old timepiece fc were not. {Zollenburg took the clock to Hammond. Not wishing to have it repaired under false pretences he told the jewelers there about its having struck 13. Neither of the Hammond clocksmiths would have touched the hoodooed clock with a fishing pole. Since then Zollenburg has taken the clock to every expert near here, only to have the job declined. That is not all. Here are a few of the things that have happened since, for which he blames the clock. tt:~ ?!~I. ~A+Vi??_in.loTr /lonorfod XllS 1IC1I uiuiuci-iu-ian wu this life back in Germany without leaving him a red pfennig, v His valued hen (the one that walks with a limp) deserted her nest after setting patiently for two and a half weeks on 13?there it is again? jj ' thoroughbred Cochin China eggs. His hired girl eloped with his best p^V. stable hand. Twelve kittens fell in a well near his home and were drowned. His brindle cow, Bessie, gave birth to triplets, all of which were black as coal dust and males. An attempt will be made to give the clock to a distant relative in Germany whom Zollenburg does not like. Every one in the neighborhood knows the story and would not allow the hoodoo hour mill to come near his home. jjpp ' Wisdom of the Kiddie. Congressman James L. Slayden of v}"; Texas told me once at a recent banquet to prove that occasionally you can't lose the kiddies when it comes to choosing the wisest course, says The Philadelphia Telegram. Connected with a religious institution in a certain city, the Congressman said, there is a baseball team composed of 12-year-old youngsters. Some time ago the team got a challenge from the club of a similar institution and wishing to encourage the boys, the minister gave them $5, told them to spend it for bats, balls s; and gloves or anything that would help win the game. f Came the great day and the minister went down to the ball field. Glancing around he saw some old paraphernalia. Not a single new article was in sight. "Come here a minute, Willie," said he, calling the captain. "Where are your new hats, balls and gloves?" "We haven't got any new bats, balls and gloves"' said Willie, glancing from the dominie to the opposing team. "You havn't?" exclaimed the surprised pastor. "Didn't I give you $5 * * xi_ on to Duy mem: "Yes, sir," replied Willie, "but you told us to spend it in any way we thought best to win the game, so we gave it to the umpire." The Up-to-Date Girl. It was after her birthday and the little maid of 8 was sitting disconsolatelv bv the nursery window. "Aren't you going to play with your new doll?" asked her mother with a side glance at the discarded present. "No," said the little girl. ? * - "1 tUOUgni yuu xit\tru juci ?u Don't you?" "No." "Oh! but you wanted a nice dolly One that talked; didn't you?" No response. "And this one says, 'ma-ma!' 'pa pa!' " The little maid's eyes flashed am sparkled as she replied: "I want i doll that ?ays 'Votes for women.' Gulf State Presbyterian. KILLED BY HER HUSBAND. - Mrs. George S. Nance Slain in Hamlet?May be of Greenville. Hamlet, N. C., Aug, 15.?Guests of i a hotel here rushed into a room from I which they saw smoke issuing today, > and found stretched on the floor the . dead body of a woman who had given 5 the name of Mrs. George S. Nance of Macon Ga. Her skull was fractured in several nlaces. her clothing had burned off, and besides the body lay > an empty beer bottle. Her husband, t who came to the hotel with her this t morning, was arrested in a room three doors from that of the woman, and told the police of a sensational story of killing his wife after they I had engaged in a struggle. According to the report given by the police, Nance said that his wife . had told him she knew he was crazy ) and that she was also insane "and , would stop at nothing." They strug, gled, and he seized the beer bottle > ( and fractured her skull, then he poured kerosene over her clothing and the furniture and set fire to the room. After the coroner's jury had re, turned a verdict that Mrs. Nance had been killed by her husband, George S. Nance, he was hurried to jail at Rock, ingham, where he was charged with murder and arson. In Mrs. Nance's handbag was a receipted bill from S. H. George & Co., Greenville, S. C., addressed to Mrs. George S. Nanoe, 321 Laurens street, Greenville. Her shoes bear the mark of a Knoxville (Tenn.) firm. Nance appears to be about 40 years old. He had more than $500 in his pocket, together with a government * ' " - r\ r\ /\ j _ J Dona ior $i,uvv auu a ueyusit oiiy showing $1,000 deposited in a Macon (Ga.) bank. Efforts to find relatives of Nance or of his wife had not succeeded late tonight. The woman's body was placed in charge of an undertaker to be .held subject to instructions. Horse Committedl Suicide. According to the Humane Society of Spokane a horse deliberately com mitted suicide there the other day. The animal was decrepit and had been deserted. Too weak to eat solid food, he was tethered in front of a patch of clover and then, according to the report, deliberately plunged headlong off a bluff overlooking the river a few feet away and was later found dead. Naturalists have frequently related the suicide of animals through grief. Probably the oddest one of all is that told by Dr. Ezekiel Henderson, the traveller, of a tigress whose cubs had been taken from her by the agents of one of the large circus menageries of the United States. The party came upon the tiger's den while hunting in Asia for exhibits. They took four cubs and crossed a near-by river with them, destroying the primitive tree trunk bridge after they had reached the other side. The tigress returning and finding her cubs gone, bounded by scent down to where the party had crossed the stream. She knew of the tree trunk, having made use of it herself before. When slie saw it was gone she uttered the most piercing and lamentable howls and cries. The party with her cubs came back to the river bank, attracted by the noise. The tigress when she saw her cubs gave vent to an unearthly shriek. Then crouching, rising and recrouching again, she deliberately sprang from the river bank. T?V..* ~ V fiva tl -n-i Clc U'lHoP t Vl U D i 1 lie 1IVCI v> ao u> ^ kiuivo ??iuvA v^v*M | she could have been expected to leap, and leaping animals are close calculators. She fell 25 feet into the stream. She came up once, turned toward the distant shore, threw herhead back and sank for good. A clear case of suicide the doctor called it.?New York Siin. The Intelligent Repair Man. A woman had called at the electrician's shop to say that a repair man ought to come up to her house, as the electric bell would not ring. A day passed, an'd the repair man did not make his appearance, so she ventured down to the shop again. "How is it you didn't send a man to fix my bell?" she asked. , "I did send him," replied the employer. "He came back and told me that he rang three times and there was no answer, so he took it for > granted that no one was at home."? . New York Evening Post. YVillianiston Sorins: is Dry. I " * ~ > Williamston, Aug. 16.?A dire ca^ lamity threatens the city of Williamston. Since 12.30 o'clock yesterday the famous Chalybeat miner al spring that has for more tha$ forty years furnished the people of the town and visitors for many miles with its health giving water, has been dry. The only explanation that can be - offered thus far is the possibility that some blasting which is going i on about a quarter of a mile disi tant caused it. There has been no - drought at Williamston, plenty of rain having fallen lately. . SHOOTS HER SISTER-IN-LAW. Georgia Woman Says She Didn't Know Gun was Loaded. Steven's Pottery, Ga., Aug. 13.? Mrs. Charlie Winters leveled a shot gun at her sister-in-law,. Mrs. Will Winters, at the latter's home to-day and shouted: "Lookout, I'm going to shoot." She pulled the trigger and Mrs. Will Winters fell dead. The women were the best of friends. Mrs. Charlie Winters, who is prostrated as a result of her act, told the coroner that she did not know the gun was loaded. She is not being held by the police. Thp pnn was the DroDertv of Will Winters and had been borrowed by Charlie Winters. The latter's wife was returning it at the time of the tragedy. Infirmities of Age. There were some deficiencies in the early education of Mrs. Donahoe, but she never mentioned them or admitted their existence. "Will you sign your name here?" asked the young lawyer whom Mrs. Donahoe had asked to draw up a deed transferring a parcel of land to her daughter. "You sign it yourself an' I'll make me mark," said the old woman quickly. "Since me eyes gave out I'm not able to write a word, young man." "How do you spell it?" he asked,, pen poised above the proper place. "Spell whatever you plaze," said Mrs. Donahoe recklessly. "Since I lost me teeth there's not a wurrd in the wurrld I can spell."?Youth's Companion. "The Girl Must Suffer." The chief of Pittsburg's police recently received a note saying: "By the time you get this I will be in the river. My life has been ruined by a man well known. Men get off easy, but the girl must suffer." He hurried ail officer to the place where the writer said she intended to jump from the high bridge, but too 1 late. A moment before the officer arrived, a young girl had climbed to the railing and dived overboard. Her body was not recovered. Her name ; i? unknown. Yes, alas, "men get off easy." That man, for instance. Well known he may be, but not for the treachery which sent this poor girl into the sheltering depths. Perhaps* well known for his gifts to charity, for his attendance at church, for his prominence in the activities of business. Perhaps well known -, as a husband and a father. He had amused himself for a time with a pretty human toy, had feigned the arts of a lover to satiate a selfish passion, and then, boy-like, tired of the pastime, had thrown her aside. She lies somewhere in the river's sweep, and stark; but he goes on his way untroubled. Verily, the girl must j suffer. And it pains us to say that it has Always been so and that we very much fear it will be so to the end. For woman, the matrix of the race, the one in whose soft body, close to whose warm heart, all the children of the race must find their way into the world, lies by nature's fiat under this special condition, that for that unique function, with its tremendous import to the future, she must guard jealously her honor, her fitness for motherhood. "Men get off easy," yes, because happily the percentage of women who can be cheapened, even deceived, is small. Men would go down to swift racial ruin, uncheered by offspring, never knowing the pride of fatherhood, unwept, unhonored, unsung, if it were otherwise. And yet, to make the girl do all the suffering frankly isn't fair. We ought, as professedly a Christian society, to 3 5+ ~+Vi nrn-ico trv SOPpnt. t.hfi Ui UtJi 11 ULIltl u iuv , kv ~ tr - splendid challenge of Eugene V. Debs who took into his home an erring sister rejected of others. We ought, but when will we?? New Orleans Slater. A Hand on the Shoulder. When a man ain't got a cent, And he's feeling kind of blue, And the clouds hang dark an' heavy, An' won't let the sunshine through, It's a great thing, O my brethren, For a feller just to lay TT" 1 J ?'"VI**1 ?"? V* All 1 A ills nana uyun j^uui duuu?uvi In a friendly sort o' way. It makes a man feel curious, It makes the tear drops start, = An' you sort o' feel a flutter In the region of the heart; You can't look up and meet his eyes;. You don't know what to say When his hand is on your shoulder In a friendly sort o' way. Oh, the world's a curious compound, With its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses? But a good world after all. An' a good God r^ust have made it? Leastways, that is what I say When a hand is on my shoulder In a friendly sort o' way. James Whitcomb Riley. If f arlisl p 'vschoolC BAMBERG, S. C. A standard "A" Grade School owned by Wofford College. A School, with High Standards of Scholarship; Wholesome, Moral Atmosphere; Positive Christian Influences. [ Twelve act? campus. JHanasome >e\v uorniitory. .new -iui* letic Field. Study Hall conducted by Teacher. Unsurpassed Health. Pure Artesian Water. Teachers and Matrons live in Buildings with Students. TERMS LOWER than any School of Similar Grade in the State. A SCHOOL THAT IT WOULD PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE. y-first year begins Sept. 24. Write for Catalogue. . CALDWELL GUILDS, M. A., Head Master I ioe30QE30|__|C ' We beg to announce to the public that we have secured the services of Mr. ; C. B. Wiggins, of Bamberg, with headquarters over the Peoples Drug. Ci __ j. 1 U otore, as our ageni ana I all packages entrusted to I to his care will receive I special attention and best { of workmanship. Jet-White Laundry t229 King Street, Charleston, S. C. ai?joaooaoi ic J t^ipneyM the foanfe. | ^ insuresyoz/a we/eome The GEAD HAUL) goes out to the man whc has MONEY IN THE BANK. Money in the bank enables you to carry out your- plans and tc get others to join' you in an enterprise. Try tc put through a deal without some MONEY OI YOUR OiVN; you will fail. Try it with SOME NONEY that is yours; you will succeed. We shall gladly ADVISE YOU on business matters, any time, free of charge. Do YOUR banking with US. 1 We pay 4 per* cent, interest compound|| ed quarterly on savings deposits I Farmers & Merchants Bank I EHRHA.RDT, S. C. 8 A Safe Combination I In the Banking business is ample capital, careful methods, shrewd judgment and unfailing courtesy. Thus the fact that our deposits are increasing rapidly is sufficient proof that our customers realize and appreciate that this combination is our method of d&ing business. We shall be pleased to number you among our new customers. We pay 4 per cent, on Savings Deposits. PEOPLES BANK Bamberg, S. 0. FIRST-CLASS *?/?&- DEDAID WAW ' jM iviii mil f? viui PROMPT SERVICE ?m& Patrick's Carajf ^ BAMBERG, S. C. -'- . . .. .- i ' - More | At Home JjjiJ ^ ^ TO and from work?four trips a II day?a wheel will save ten J minutes each trip or nearly an hour " extra?three hundred hours a year 1 more at home. You'll feel better and act better. Gets the cobwebs out of your brain and honest hunger Into your stomach. The fIVER JOHNSON has more strong features, is better built and finished and runs smoother than any wheel you ever mounted. You needn't buy till you try. 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M 1 Cardui 11The Woman's Tonic jJ Ik of greatest need, because it la] M contains ingredients which act [ml M specifically, yet gently, on the rjfl == [1 weakened womanly organs. IBi IJ So, if you feel discouraged, Jk| flfl blue, out-of-sorts; unable to L* do your household work, on 19 iW arrount of VOUT condition. StOO uftl Ik I worrying and give Cardui a III E trial. It has helped thousands la! U of women,?why not you ? UU E. H. HENDERSON _ Attorney-at-Law " BAMBERG. S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated. FOR SALE. TV DC A T T?CT1TI? D.1X\UAl.li3 1^1 i 118 acres fine land partly in town of Ehrhardt. 38 fine building lots in town of Ehrhardt. 16 choice building lots in town of Bamberg. 1 store house and lot next to post 1 office on Main street, Ehrhardt. S 295 acres fine farm lands two miles west of Ehrhardt. Apply to JOIEN F. TxjLK, ' | Bamberg, S. C.