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I SOLD SEED TO SOUTHWEST. ISamberg County Farmer Indicates His Ability to Succeed. That a Bamberg county farmer sold 4,000 bushels of commercial seed, principally cotton seed, during the past spring to farmers in Texas, Mexico, New Mexico and in the Mississippi valley was the information contained in a letter from that farm* ev to Commissioner Watson received late yesterday. This progressive farmer stated further that he would ohrmt 4 000 hnshols of ear corn seed, selected from fields which yielded at least 150 bushels to the acre, for sale next spring.?Columbia ReCord, Sept. 19. Wrecks Costly in Human Life. New York, Sept. 17.?The probable cost of the latest New Haven wreck in money damages to be paid by the railroad company to the injured and the legal representatives of the dead is estimated at $300,000 by experts of the interstate com1 merce commission and at $500,000 by lawyers experienced in the trial of negligence actions. The cost to the railroads of the 14 New Haven wrecks in the last 27 months, in which 70 persons were killed and 400 injured, is estimated , at $900,000 for the dead and $800,000 for the injured These estimates are based on the results of the action against the New York Central railroad, arising out of the collision in the Park avenue tunnel on January 8, 1902, when 15 persons were killed and 36 injured. | Many of the victims were New York! busiess men. The New Central paid I $1,000,000 to the victims or their families. The cost to the New Haven road of the latest wreck damage to its j equipment and in the expense of i clearing away the wreck is estimated { at $100,000. An indication of the ? expense involved is shown in reports j by the railroads to the interstate j commerce commission of the dam- j ages to equipment and the cost of j clearing the wrecks. The cost for the last five years j was as follows: 1907, $12,685,702; 1908, $10,183,660; 1909, $7,480,203; | 1910, $9,851,780, and 1912, $11,527,485. The officials of the inter-j state commerce commission believe J that the cost of 1913 will exceed all * previous records. The records show 188,037 persons killed and 1,395,618 injured on railroads in the last 24 years. This is an annual average of 7,835 persons killed and 58,150 injured. Over 53 per cent of the whole number killed are classified fn the records as "trespassers." The Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific >\ New York Central, Atchison, Topeka Rnntn Fa and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads have organ-! iy.ed safety committees among their; employes with good results. ^ . The Chicago and Northwestern's report for the three years ended June 30,, 1913, is as follows: 93 passengers killed. 6,433 passengers injured. 133 outsiders killed. 157 outsiders injured. It is estimated that $60,000,0001 was paid out last year in personalj claims for accidents on railroads. CHLOROFORMED HERSELF. Spartanburg Woman Leaves Note j Bidding Farewell to World. Spartanburg, Sept. 17.?When j Frank Wymbs. a paperhanger, re-; turned home from work to-night, he j found his wife's bed room door lock-! ed. His little children told him their mother had entered the room early \ m the afternoon, and they had been : unable to get any response from her ! since. Mr. Wymbs forced the door open j and found his wife lying in bed with I a sponge soaked in chloroform pressed to her nose. She was dead. She had written a note bidding farewell to the world. It was given to Coroner John S. Turned, but he declined to divulge its contents. He said it indicated a deranged mind. He will hold an inquest to-morrow. Mrs. Wymbs was about thirty years old. ORIGIN OF DUELS. Judicial Combats Began with Celts and Spread to Other Nations. Duelling took its rise from the Jur dicial combats of the Celtic nations. The first formal duel in England, between William, Count d'Eu' and Godfrey Baynard. took place in 109(5. Duelling in civil matters was for-j T.irifipn n? France in 13or>. Francis I I ~ - - - j challenged tlie Emperor Charles V. I in vain in 1.72S. The fight with | small swords was introduced into! Engtend in l-'ST. A proclamation was made in 1G79 that no person should be pardoned who had killed another in a duel. The custom was checked in the British army in 1 792, and was abolished in England by the aid of public opinion.?Kansas City Star. TAMED THE MONARCH. The Part a Silver Inksand Played in ' l a National Crisis. The pages of history record many instances in which trivial incidents have shaped the destinies of nations. According io a story in the New York Tribune, a small silver inkstand and the quick wit of a prime minister once played an important part in the history of the Netherlands. Wiliam III, King or tne seinerlands, was a man of violent and ungovernable temper. Although in general, a clever statesman, he was inclined, for some reason or other, to involve Holland in the trouble that was brewing between France and Germany in 1S70. He was deaf to the appeals of his ministers, who foresaw the ruin to the country that war would bring. Thorbecke. the prime minister, resolved to make one last attempt to change his majesty's resolution. On entering the royal presence Thorbecke was greeted with a rough "Good morning! What's the news?" "Nothing particular, your majesty. Only the people of the Hague are talking a great deal of nonsense about your majesty. "About me!" exclaimed the monarch in wrath. "What do they say about me?" "Well, sir," answered the old statesman, "The Haguers declare that your majesty has become stark, staring mad!" Before he could utter another word King William, his face purple with fury, jumped up and seized a heavy silver inkstand, with the intention of hurling it at the head of the premier. Fortunately a projecting angle of the inkstand caught in the table cloth and dragged it off the table with everything upon it. In the confusion the discharge of the j missile wets uciai cu iui a nivun.ui. "Sire,"exclaimed Thorbecke quietly, if your majesty hurls that beautiful inkstand at my head The Huguers will have much reason for their assertion!" For a minute the angry king gazed in silence at his minister. Then he gradually lowered hisarm and replaced the inkstand on the table. He walked to one of the windows and stood looking out for a few minutes. Returning to the table, he resumed his seat and said, as if nothing had happened: "And now tell me what you have got to say." An hour later, when the statesman left, he carried with him the monarch's promise to issue a proclamation that would declare the neutrality of Holland. Zaehry Case to be Heard. Augusta, Ga., Sept. 16.?On her promise that she will not again take the children and flee with them, as she did before, seeking then a refuge in Columbia, Judge Henry C. Hammond has arranged that Mrs. Mary W. Zaehry shall some time this week see her older child, little Frances, who was snatched from her side and hurried away in an automobile after Tit /I nr/\ Ao V* ? /I nritran V? ar f a V> ai? ?j uu5c uai j> uau 51* cn nci iv 1 father, Julian J. Zachry, on habeas j corpus proceedings in Columbia. The Zachry case was set for a rehearing last Saturday, but Judge Hammond was then holding court in Millen, presiding at the famous Godbee trial, and could not be here. He has set the rehearing of the case for September 27, when Mrs. Zachry will continue her fight for the possession of her two little girls, one of which?Mildred?she has kept in her keeping. Little Frances is with her grandmother at Harlem, where her father carried her after leaving Columbia but she will be brought to Augusta some day this week and while the father waits to carry her back to Harlem, she will be given into her mother's arms for a few hours. When the case is heard on September 27, the newly enacted "mothers' rights bill," which was born of this case, will be invoked for the Ijrst time in Georgia. GLOW WORM GOWX SHOWN. Girl Wears Clothes Agleam With Phosporous. A dispatch to The New York World from Carlisle, Pa., says: A gown of flimsy material, which evidently had been treated to a phosporous wash, worn by Miss Beresford, caused much excitement on Main street. The gown was diaphanous and had a glow that gave an etheral appearance to tlie young woman as she, tripped boldly around the principal \ streets accompanied by a stalwart! escort. A mob followed her. Churchgoers j paused on their way to evening ser-' vices, and many of them joined the j throng. A motorman and conductor abandoned their car and followed.! I as did the passengers. The glow-worm gown lighted Miss j Beresford's graceful form, and the crowd, silent, but watchful, pressed closer. Two policemen tried to turn the spectators, but were brushed aside. JOY RIDERS OR BANDITS? Wrecked Touring; Car Found, but! Occupants Missing;. Detroit. Mich., Sept. IS.?A gray! touring car wrecked and unidentified, lying in a ditch fifteen miles south of; Mount Clemens, Mich., with 110 trac-j es of the party that drove wildly through Detroit early today, exchang-j ing revolver shots with local police,; has halted Detroit and Mount Clem-| ens police officials in their attempts; tn annrehend the mvsterious OCCU- I pants of the car, at first believed to j be the Bryan. Ohio, automobile ban-1 dits, who shortly after midnight held up and robbed a touring party of 32,000 in currency, besides considerable jewelry. With reports of the hold-up near Bryan freshly received, the Detroit j police early today were on the watch j fcr an automobile carrying the robbers, who supposedly had started for j Detroit. When a car manned by three or four persons sped through the city, answering orders to halt with revolv- j er shots and finally eluding a motor-! cycle policeman and three high-pow-l ered police automobiles, besides a; score of patrolmen sent in pursuit, j the police believed the Bryan thieves I had escaped them. The car shot away j toward Mount Clemens and the au-j thorities there were notified. The | flying automobile never reached "Mount Clemens, and later to-day a:i interurban railway conductor report- j ed the finding of an automobile j wrecked in a ditch south of Mount Clemens, which is believed to'; be the machine that sped through Detroit. Up to to-night the automobile hadj not been identified and no traces of I the part} had been 'ound. With the repotts of the appreheu-1 sion of the Bryan robbers confirmed, the police now believe that the an-; tomobile carried a party of *'jov riders." perhaps with a stolen car j taking desperate chances to acoid ar-' rest. Daughter Kills Drunken Fanner. i Clayton. Ga., Sept. 19.?Manuel j Nichols, Jr., a farmer living ten j miles from here, was shot and kill-1 ed by his 15-year-old daughter Wed-; nesday night after he had tried to slay his baby in a drunken fit and announced that he intended to murder the whole family.The Nichols homestead is in a lonely stretch of country hidden in j the hills. From the meager details i received here it seems that Nichols came home late at night raving boisterously that he meant to "clean up" the household. As the mother and children crouched trembling in one corner the drunken father battered in the door, seized his shot gun and fired. The charge struck his youngest baby. Before Nichols could fire again his young daughter grappled with him and, turning the gun upon her father, pulled the trigger. The load plowed a red lane, through I Nichols' breast and tore his right arm from his body. He died instantly. Nichols was 40 years of age. County officers have been dispatched to the scene of the tragedy. It is believed that Nichols' infant victim will die. DEATHS DUE TO ALCOHOL. Eight Per Cent. Traced to it, Say Insurance Companies. . The influence of alcohol upon longevity has now been studied with some thoroughness by physicians and actuaries and some definite results have been gained, although here much work needs to be done. The results show at any.rate that alcohol j does not increase longevity and hence we have here again no clew to the world-wide desire for it. Robert Mackenzie Moore, actuary of the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident institute, in a recent report based upon 60 years' experience of that company in' the in surance of the lives of abstainers and nonabstainers (the latter being moderate drinkers and good risks and belonging to the same class and following the same occupations as the former), found that in respect to longevity the abstainers showed a marked superiority over the nonabstainers throughout the whole period of life for every class of policies and for both sexes, however tested. For instance, at the age of 30 the expectations of life for the non-abstainers is 3o.l years: for the abstainers 3S.S years, a difference of nearly ll per cent. At the age of 40 the percentage of difference is the same. Another very thorough and impartial investigation has been made by Edward B. Phelps on the mortality due to alcohol. It is based on the testimony of the medical directors of B twonn'nnnt i i f A inenronen _ t li I CC |#i uniiiiv ill 111^ 1UOU1C4IRC L V7 ui panies of America. Mr. Phelps' conclusion is" that S per cent, of all deaths of adults in the United States are due to alcohol. All kinds of ledgers, and blank books at Herald Book Store, cheap. STEVENSON HASN'T DECIDED. Says Mind not Made Up as to Rare I for Senate. I Washington, Sept. IS.?Former Speaker W. F. Stevenson, of the South Carolina House of Representatives, on his way to his home in Cheraw, alter a visit to Atlantic City, N. J., when asked about his rumored intention to be a candidate to the Senate to succeed Senator Smith, said that he had not yet made up his mind what he would do. He expressed much interest in the movement for a primary election law in South Carolina. Mr. Stevenson took dinner with Senator and Mrs. Tillman at the Capitol. ~ NOTICE OF TRUSTEES( SALE. United States District Court, for the District of South Carolina?In Bankruptcy. In the matter of H. C. Copeland & Company, bankrupts. By virtue of an order of Hon. A. J. Hydrick, Jr., Referee in Bankruptcy, _ issued in the above entitled case, the I undersigned trustees will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash before the Court House door, * Bamberg, South Carolina, on the 6th ? day of October. 1913, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a. m., on said day, g the following real estate, to-wit: I All that certain piece or lot of . land with the improvements thereon, 4 situate in the town of Ehrhardt, J County of Bamberg, State of South Carolina, containing two acres, more 4 or less, and bounded on the North ' by lands of J. H. Roberts and the School property; East by Main or Broadway Street; South bv lands of J. Frank Chassereau and J. D. Dannelly, and West by , said lot be- j ing the same upon which the said H. | C. Copelaiid now resides. Also all that other certain piece or j lot of land with the improvements j thereon situate in the town of Ehr- j narai, uouniy 01 joamuerg, cnaie 01 South Carolina, having a front on Broadway Street of fifty (50) feet, and running back to a depth of two _ hundred and ten (210) feet, and M bounded on the North by lot of Mrs. i \\. S. Folk; East by Broadway j Street; South by lot of D. C. Cope-j land, and West by the Ehrhardt Es-1 tate lands. J. F. CARTER, ' H. H. COPELAXD, Trustees of H. C. Copeland & Co., bankrupts. Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 8th., 1913 NOTICE OF TRUSTEES' SALE. In The District Court of the United ] States, for the District of South Carolina?In Equity. J. F. Carter, et al., Trustees, against D. C. Copeland, et al., De fendants. By virtue of a decretal order of His Honor, Judge H. A. M. Smith, issued in the above entitled case, the undersigned trustees will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, up- * on terms hereinafter stated, in front of the Court House door at Bamberg, . South Carolina, on the 6th day of Oc- v tober, 1913, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a. m., on said day, the i . following described lands, to-wit: | All that certain tract or parcel of land situate in tne uouniy 01 Bamberg, State of South Carolina, con- y taining one hundred and sixty (160) acres, more -or less, and bounded as follows: North by lands of M. A. . Kinard; East by lands of G. F. Copeland; South by lands of T. P. Rizer and John E. Carter, and West by lands of D. C. Copeland. Terms of sale: one-half cash, balance payable in one year, with interest from date of sale, payable annually, secured by the bond and mortgage of the purchaser. J. F. CARTER, H. H. COPELAND, Trustees of H. C. Copeland & Co., bankrupts. Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 8th.? 1913. Notice to Distillers and Liquor Dealers. Bide and samples are hereby requested, in accordance with the dis- = pensary law now in force, for the following goods to be furnished the State of South Carolina for the use of the county dispensary board of Bamberg county, S. C. Liquors to be shipped in car load lots, except beer, freight prepaid to Bamberg, S. C., towit: All kinds of corn, rye, gin, wines, brandies, both in bulk and bottled in full one-half pints, pints, and quarts. Beers in pints and quarts to be delivered at Bamberg, Denmark, Ehrhardt and Olar, S. C. Also oids on empty bottles, onehalf pints, pints, and quarts, in dispensary cases, corks and tin foil. All goods shall be furnished in compliance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the dispensary law of 1907, and bidders must observe the following rules: 1st. All bids must be sealed, and there shall be no signature or mark upon the envelope indicating the name of the bidder. 2nd. All bids must be sent by express or registered letter to Geo. A. Jennings, treasurer, Bamberg, S. C., on or before October 10, 1913. 3rd. The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, the board reserving the right to reject any or all bids, or parts of bids. The board requires that on all bids submitted the age and proof of all goods shall be stated, and all bids shall be.in gallons, one-half gallons, quarts, pints and one-half pints. i Bids will be opened at the office of the county board. Bamberg. S. C., on October 10, t913. Also bids are wanted at once for rent of buildings in towns of Bamberg. Olar. Denmark, and Ehrhardt, in -Viir.il r.An/lnrt rlicnonoorioc J. M. GRIMES, Chairman, J. B. KEARSE, W. H. FAUST, Board of Control County Dispensaries, Bamberg County, South Carolina. GET IN THE GAME Everybody rlays ^111^ am H ^B ^B ^B < H m< 'THE GAME OF GAMES" j . We have just received a new supply and if you want a set :ome auick as thev are going * * WW a Fast. Only 50c with instructions how to play the game. While attending school your child should have an Individual Cup i fou can get a nice Collapsible Aluminum Cup for 5c and 10c, also all kinds of School Supplies, at j Herald Book Store j Hank Books a Specialty Mail Orders Filled Promptly / 1 Bamberg, South Carolina C. G. ANDERSON, JR., Pres. ~ J. N. YOTJMANS, Viee-Pres! Savannah, Ga. Lexsy, Ga. Anderson Cotton Company COTTON FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS ;o8 BAY STREET, EAST SAVANNAH, GEORGIA CONSIGNMENTS OF Upland, Sea Island and Florodora Cotton GIVEN OUR PROMPT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION We Respectfully Solicit a Share of Your Patronage, Guaranteeing Entire Satisfaction * S "5 SECONDHAND I "1 f| AUTOMOBILES ?? i For Sale, $125 up. Let . ) me know your require- J ments in used Autos : f and I can get a machine to suit you. JJ ? |[ Prompt Attention to Repair Work | Patrick's Garage, Bamberg, S.C. | /g|| The Telephone y?|| M}and Good Roads The telephone goes hand in hand with good' roads. ' . J The telephone overcomes many of the obstacles of bad roads and makes it possible for the farmer and other rural residents to transact business in the city and with neighbors when the roads are impassable. Progressive farmers are insisting upon good roads and telephones. These two agencies of. modern civilization are doing more than all others toward eliminating the isolation of country life. You can have a telephone in your home at very small cost. Send a postal for our free booklet giving complete information. FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 5AJ S. PRYOR. STREET ATLANTA, GA. ^iSSiSSiSSSSSSSSiiSiSSiSSS^SSSSSSSSSSSSSS^^^SSSii^S^SSBSBS^BStl^ -i - .1 ..... . ^,...