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PERSONAL MENTION. j1 * i People Visiting in This City and ! at Other Points. ?W. E. Free, Esq., spent Monday [ 2 in Columb'a on business. j x p - -Mr. J. H. Wolfe, of the Cope ! section, was in the city Monday. 11 ?-\ir. J. k. wweiis is syunuiug | * ~ some time in Charleston with rela- 1 tives. 1 ?Miss Alice Sease, who is now staying at Holly Hill, spent yester- Jc day in the city. y ?Mr. John J. Speaks, of Varnville. visited his brother, Mr. A. McB. Speaks, last week. ?Misses Belle Cooner and Wil- ? helmina Folk spent Saturday and x Sunday in Columbia. x ?Mrs. J. H. Lever, of Blythewood, c is in the city on a visit to the family ( of her father, Capt. J. D. Felder. ? ?Mrs. L. M. Glenn, of Charles- * ton arrived in the city Monday even- 1 ing for a visit to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. " Risher. ?Mr. J. J. Smoak returned this c week from the mountains of North ? Carolina and Virginia, where he bought a load of fine stock. . ... _ .. \ ?.Mrs. w. h. Kitter ana .miss suaie Ritter have returned to their home . at Ehrhardt, after spending several > days with relatives in St George.? Dorchester Eagle. ?Mrs. J. E. Warnock, of Allen- { dale, who as Miss Sadie Meriwether t is pleasantly remembered here, spent t several days last week with her r aunt, Mrs. A. McB. Speaks. s ?Mrs. E. O. Kirsch, delegate from r the local Home Mission society, and s Miss Llewellyn Cleckley, district dele- r gate, left for Conway yesterday e (Wednesday), where the State meet- r ing is to be held this year. fi FIRST GASOLINE ENGINE. * 1 Was Made by Frenchman Forty-Five ^ Years Ago. t ^ The first attempt to apply gasoline 1 as a motive power was made by a v Frenchman. Pierre Josejh Ravel, 13 Q who patented 45 years ago "a steam generator heated by mineral oils, to ^ be applied to steam locomotion on ordinary roads." Ravel's engine was fitted to a small carriage and developed three horsepower. The Fran co-German war put an end to Ra- c vel's experiments for a time, bux. t years later he built a motor car in which petroleum was used for the c direct generation of motive power. In 1876, Lentz invented a burner ^ A * by which a mixture of gasoline and p other napthas, called massout, was used as fuel on steamships. About the same time gasoline was used as an p illuminant in street lamps, and later 13 a new use was found for it in the ? manufacture of varnish and oilcloth. Gasoline, amounting to 8 per cent v of the distilled product of the crude * petroleum, continued to be a drug on the market until the invention of the s' gassoline motor and its application 0 to the automobile; boats, aeroplanes 11 and hundreds of industrial uses. Several inventors helped to inaug- s urate the "age of gasoline," but the chief of them was George B. Selden. c of Rochester, N. Y., the father of the ^ automobiles.?Philadelphia Ledger. First Arrest Made Under Webb Law. Rock Hill, Oct. 9.?The first arrest * for an offense of this kind since the * Webb law went into effect took place ^ here last evening, when Chief of Po- * lice Youngblood arrested a party giv- 1 ing his name as Edward S. Krails. F who was soliciting orders for whiskey- 1 etc., he stated, for Moss & Co., of Cin cinnati. The recorder fined him $100 ^ under the city ordinance and then ^ Magistrate Wingate took charge of v him and telephoned to Solicitor Hen- 1 ry at Chester to know what to do with him. The solicitor instructed him to bind Krails over to the circuit ^ court under a $500 bond. CHESTER WOMAN INJURED. c Mother and Daughter Thrown From f Buggy in Runaway. e Chester, Oct. 15.?Mrs. E. A. ?as- e sels, wife of a prominent farmer, * had her right arm broken in addition to receiving several bad bruises G ciUUUl lilt? auu ouuuiuvio mvm the horse she was driving ran away r this morning on Ashford street as c the result of the colliding with a 1 "bicycle, which a negro boy was rid- * ing. Mrs. Cassels's daughter. Miss ! Lucile, who also was in the buggy 1 was likewise hurled to the ground, but fortunately receiving no injuries. 1 The negro boy is in jail awaiting an * inquiry into the accident. _ * i Pandit Hobs Mail Car. * San Francisco. Oct. 14.?A masked e bandit late to-day robbed the mail a car of a Southern Pacific train near t Burlingame, Cal.. rifled the register- 1 ed mail pouch and escaped when the c train reached the terminal yards c here. Postal inspectors said the loss t would not be great. c dILLIOXS SHUN WEDDING BELLS. There Are 17,000,000 Adults in the United States Unmarried. j Unmarried men and women, you j ire being investigated. Why are you I inmarried? There are more than j 17,000,000 of you in the United! states, and T. E. Rittenhouse, a con-i ervation commissioner of New York,! s conducting an investigation to de-: .ermine the reason for so many mil- j ion single people. His conclusions irp pvneoteO soon, savs The Washing- I on Star. "Why,'" asks Mr. Rittenhouse, "are hirty-nine out of every hundred! liales without wives? Why should! ve have 17,000,000 unmarried per-; >ons in the United States? These I nateless millions nearly equal in! lumber the population of the king-1 iom of Spain, or that of Mexico and ; Canada combined. They are divided j is follows; 8,102,000 unmarried men ! i wenty years old and over; 9,000,000 j nmarried women over 15 years old; j ",226,000 of these men are between j 10 and 44 years old; some 500,000 ^ >f them are between the ages of 45 j md 54. "Never in the history of the world j las a nation been so prosperous nor j vithin such easy reach of the com- j orts and luxuries of life as the Amer- j cans of today. There is something j vrong. What is it? Some Lack Courage. "Making due allowance for the im-j >ecunious, the aged and the men- \ ally and physically unfit, it is safe i o say that 5,000,000 of these single; ^ V.l ? ^.C nr.** iv\ r>- f R A A ' neu ax e L*ayauie ui adduuiiiig luv iponsibilities of married life. The najority of these men have a wholecme respect and reverence for the : narried state, and many of them will I i inter it, but there are an enormous ! lumber of men who lack the moral iber and courage to marry and take , man's part in human affairs. "While an army of single men are avishing their earnings and their af- i ections upon themselves and many of j hem developing extravagant and of-j en vicious havits?an existence; rliich they prefer to an orderly, economical married life?another great rmy of young women are forced to \ oil in our factories and business j nouses for the necessaries of life. j "This is an unfortunate and un- \ natural state of affairs. Moreover | rom the ranks of the unmarried j omes humanity's heaviest contribu-i ion to immorality and crimes. "All these factors are well worth i onsidering when studying the prob- j ?m of marriage, eugenics or race deeneracy, and the fundamental moral rinciple which underlies them all. Discusses Decline of Fit. "There is a demand, more or less opular, to place restrictions around ! larriage to prevent the immorality, \ rime and degeneracy which follow j :he renroduction of the unfit.' But i rhat of the decline in the reproduc- j ion of the fit? Why should not our j ighly developed civilization devise j ome means to encourage our 17,000,-j 00 fit, but unmarried, persons to; larry, and assume their natural and j roper places and part in the great i cheme of humanity? "What civilization needs is not neessarily large families, but more and setter families." ( Xinestein Elected Mayor. Blackville, Oct. 14.?Today has >een very exciting in municipal poli- j ics. For the past few weeks the j ines have been tightly drawn beween the opposing tickets. Much nterest has been shown by the sup-1 sorters of both tickets and the result | s as follows: A. H. Xinestein was j sleeted mayor, receiving 95 votes; | V. A. Fickling, John O'Gorman, G. i V. Wilkins. Jr., and C. S. Wilson rere elected wardens. There were 59 votes cast. BEGINNING OF BREAKFAST. leal Not Known Until the 15th Century. That the hours of dining vary in lifferent countries is well known, but ew persons realize that the meal 'breakfast" did not become recogniz>d until late in the 17th century. The 'arliest period to which the word can >e traced is 14 63. In the days of the Tudors the hight classes dined at 1 and supped at 5, md the merchants seldom took their neals before 12 and 6 o'clock. The hief meals, dinner and supper, were aken in the hall,both by the oldEngish and the Normans, for the paror did nor come into use until the eign of Elizabeth. Dinner was really the great meal of he day, and from the accession of -lenry IV. to the death of Queen Elizabeth the dinners were as sumptions and extravagant as any of those ! n history. Carving was then a fine art. and \ iac-h person brought his own spoon' md knife. As the fork was unknown, he diner thoroughly washed his lands before and after each meal, nd it was considered a bad breach >f table etiquette.for one not to use he left hand only in the common lish. FIND GOLD IN COFFEE POT. Workmen's Picks Strike Nuggets Hidden l?y Dead Miners. The moving of a building 50 years old, in Breckenridge, yesterday, resulted in workmen finding a rusty j coffee pot containing old nuggets { worth more than $1,800. The buiid-j ing was being moved to the rear of i the lot on which it stood by Henry Evans, who intends to erect a modern brick structure on the lot. Imme diately after the report of the find | hundreds of persons rushed to the scene and, because of their activity with picks and shovels, workmen will not be needed to finish the excavation. The landmark, one of the oldest buildings in Summit county, was built of logs. In the early days it was occupied by Edward J. Collingwood, who has since moved to Denver. Since then it has been occupied by various individuals and firms as a store, among them being G. B. Watson. of Breckenridge. Evans was advised to teear the ancient structure down, and thus save expenses, but. because of sentimental reasons, he decided to move it to the rear of the lot to use the space which it had formerly occupied for his new building. The moving of the building entailed much digging, and a force of laborers was put to work. One of the workmen unearthed the pot, and cast it on a pile of dirt. When it struck, the lid flew off, and yellow gold nuggets rained over the ground. The contents were weighed and placed in a local bank. Evans says that unless some one claims the find, the proceeds will be devoted toward building his new store. Enthusiastic fortune hunters crowded the site all afternoon, and Evans, after watching them for a while, decided to dispense with the services of the workmen. Various theories have been advanced to account for the treasure, the most popular one being that of the old-timers, who declare the gold was hidden there by high graders years ago, who afterward either died or were afraid to return for their loot. In the opinion of the old miners, the character of the gold indicates that it came from Farncomb Hill, which, in the early days, produced hundreds of thousands of dollars.?Denver Republican. ? Wife Whipping. i The ancient idea that an honest Briton held in his own hands the inherent right to "correct" his wife ; has never been given up by the hus- < bands of that land?that is, among the plain people. For many years it 1 was generally accepted that the husband could use in this necessary correction "a stick no thicker than his thumb," and when this failed to ef- ; feet a cure the village authorities ? would come to his relief with the 1 ducking stool. Wife whipping is to- i day of such common occurrence that ; the music halls have put upon films as a drawing card in their moving i picture entertainments this particu- < lar British recreation, and it may be that this will bring about a reform i in domestic discipline in that country. ; One of these music hall sketches, en- i titled, "What Every Woman Ought ] to Know," is by two actors, who give a lesson showing the muscular benefits that come to a woman who has 1 learned jui jitsu. Bill Borrer, a costermonger. knocks his wife Liz > about when he is drunk. Liz reads an advertisement about jiu jitsu, takes lessons and is ready for him at his next assault. He comes on with a i threat to "smash her face," and at- i tempts to do so. Liz catches the blow, brings him to the ground, puts i ? J An TY1 onrl 1 ail arm anu icg lucn. kju. uhu proceeds to tell the captive that a : new era has arrived in that house- i hold. She lets him up and he re- 3 news the attack. Then, by the aid ; of the most approved throws and < locks, she brings him into abject sub- 1 mission and he begins life anew as the model husband. ] There is but little wife whipping in ] the United States, and when a case j gets into court the punishment inflicted is not of the three-shillings- 1 and-two-pence kind, but usually has a stiff workhouse sentence attached. ! ?Indianapolis News. 1 It Didn't Work. ] 1 Recently two men were speaking of 4 a mutual friend, when one of them 1 told of a practical joke that he had attempted to play on an insurance company, relates the Philadelphia Telegraph. "He bought a thousand cigars," said the man who was reiating the 1 circumstances, "had them insured in ] a prominent company, smoked the lot and then sent in a claim on the ' ground that they had been destroyed by fire." i "I see," returned the second, "and i <yr>r i<sncriipH at fnr his nains. I Dre- 1 It* ~ w w- X 1 a. sume." < "Xo." answered the first, "the in- : surance people had him arrested on a charge of arson." 1 fvZrZE*\ 1 UU VU1A VIVll Why shop around wl and find the most ( section? And at pri good goods can be : extraordinary values LADIES' DEPARTMENT Coat Suits in all the new materials at $10.00 to $37.50 each. Coats at $5.00 to $25.00 each. Dresses at $1.00 to $15.00 each. Skirts, a bier lot of All Wool Skirts made | to retail at $6.50. Special $4.50. 150c value Misses Vests and Drawers 25c each. 1 lot House Dresses at and below cost. 1 case 10c Outing 8%c yard. All kinds of new novelties arriving every day. Come in and see them. Remember "Yc KLAl to. "THE STORE OF QUALITY." ^^^??? CHARGED WITH $14,00 ROBBERY. I l " n j. 'I Pocahontas, \ a., Assistant x'osmuts- m ter and Wife Arrested. I A be and cont Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 14.?Edwin E , M. Siliberger, of Pocahontas, Va., as- I ClW61iin^ sistant postmaster, charged with rob- I fine Wat bing the Pocahontas postoffice of $14,- I StableSJ ! 000, is in the custody of officers here I fine CC and will be returned this week to I ggg ^ Virginia. His wife also is under arrest, charged with being rn acces- I J TT Postmaster Mastard, of Pocahon- tas, this morning was informed of the | VT W T 4 arrests, which took place at the home I Ej I I I M of Silberger's mother here. The al- I I I I I I . leged robbery was discovered two AJI \J I weeks ago. ws CAN SUPP " BP'ST \\I) MO4 TILLMAN PRESENTS PASTORAL. * * * Senate Enjoys Sketch, "A Girl with Cut G! One Stocking." 1847 a Washington, Oct. 13.?A little pro- some piet tective pastoral entitled, "A Girl with One Stocking," enlivened the Senate JJcHTciw proceedings to-day when presented by Senator Tillman, who recently il- Furnitl luininated the pages of the Congres, ^ A , , . able prire sional Record with a cartoon of his ncome tax cow. Mr. Tillman claimed StOV6S no credit for the contribution, but acknowledged it was originally pre- oi sented by Senator Zeb Vance in the F( tariff debate of 1889. _ "Our Mary had a little lamb and #1 4 her heart was most intent," it I i rhymed, "to make its wool, beyond ^ its worth bring 56 per cent." HARDWARE A3 The classic went on to tell that ????"where'er the poor girl went one leg KILLED BY . was warmed with wool and one with ? 56 per cent." Mrs- T- B- ym?r "Now, with free wool," said Sena- Near tor Tillman, "Mary will have to let Greenwood, O her women friends wear stockings on Milford, of Hodj both legs instead of one?something instantly killed b they have not been able to do in senger car, abou twenty years." Hodges, late y Mrs. Milford, wit Died at His Post. buggy, was drn visit to a neighbc The Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill of Just how the v S'ew York, told the following story the track by the iluotrnHnn nf a Mrs. Vlilford W3S Lilt; U Lilt* I lilgilL Hi nuci - uv.-u point he wished to make. negro girl was t? ''I am reminded." he said, "of the eral bones broker irishman whose alarm clock stopped j tured. She was c running. He shook it, but it would | and was still all1 r.ot run. He waited, but it did not Mrs. Milford " improve, and then, one day, he took old. Her husbanc the back out of it. looked in and saw has been mana; a dead cockroach. 'Shure enough,' Ginnery for som said he, I've discovered the difficulty, was in the town The engineer is dead.' "?Washing- was southbound, ton Star. wood at 5.55 p. It" at Klauber'sf ien you can come here i - i _ i I complete stock in this Ices that are as low as sold. We offer some for this week and next MEN'S WEAR The biggest line of Stetson Hats ever shown here $3.00 and up. Michael Sterns High Grade Clothing. Suits at $20.00, $22.50 to $35.00. Overcoats at $10.00 to $3?.00. We are making quite a lot of the famous Scotch Woolen Mills Suits now. Made to your measure, 2-piece suit, $15.00, 3-piece suit, $17.00. We guarantee to fit vou. The best 25c Sox in the world. Every pair guaranteed. We have sold 30*0 dozen of these and have never had a kick on a pair. Some record. Wilson Bros.' and Adler's Kid Gloves and Auto Gauntlets. . >*? ^ $ r\ r\ r\ "i ? a -I 1 i 'f4uu.uu smpment or jsoyaen snoes just in. We can certainly please you Prices $6.00 and $6.50.' jj Regal Shoes, the best at $4.00 and $5.00. Roval Plush Underwear $3.00 suit.. ' >u Can Get It" at BAMBERG, S. 11 FOR SALE J autiful home, situated on Spann street, aining 1 % acre lot, with 2-story, 7-room , with large closets and hallway; well of er; smoke house 16x18; large barn and fruit trees and shrubbery; all fenced and mdition. Will go at a bargain to a buyer, it once, as the time is limited. F A I REAL, ESTATE AGENT ' ** 1-* 9 BAMBERG, .... SE FURNISHINGS I ; \~z LY YOUR WANTS IN FURNISHINGS FOR THE HOME. IT COMPLETE LINE IN OR NEAR BAMBERG COUNTY. | Full line at most attractive prices. Cheap1<*SS. er than you have been paying. .nd Community Silver, J es in this lot.. Come in and look it over. ' ~?*s! General line for the home and farm. Also ^ are. PAINTS and OILS. ^ The prettiest line we have ever carried, Hue. ancj yOU will be astonished at the reason 'S* Heaters and Oil Stoves, Cooking Stoves and Ranges, good lot of them. ;r two stores are full of goods . -J )R THE HOME. LET US SHOW YOU. ). SIMMONS \D FURNITURE BAMBERG, S. C. ' . - ELECTRIC CAR. j CAUGHMAN GETS 12 YEARS. d V ictim of Tragedy ; mayer Gf Sumter Rural Policeman Hodges. Sentenced?Will Appeal. ct. 11?Mrs. T. B. =es, was struck and Sumter, Oct. 11.?T. B. Caughman, y an interurban pas- j Charged wjth the murder of. Rural t two miles north of p0iicemail a. M. Bateman, and conesterday afternoon, j VjCted 0f manslaughter here this h a negro girl in the ; weekj was sentenced by Judge Sease ring home, after a tQ twelve years in the Penitentiary ,r* | at hard labor. J. H. Clifton, Esq., of ehicle was caught on ; ^aug|iman.s counseif stated that an ? car is not known., appeai would be made, killed instantly. The Caughman is only 22 years old and erriblv bruised, sev-1 has lived in the backwoods all of l, and her skull frac-; ^ pje ^ad never rjdden in an carried to Greenville j autoraobile until he was brought t0 ve at last reports. jaii the day of his arrest, and had was about 45 >ears j never rjdden on the train until he i, Mr. r. B. Milford,. was carrie(j to Columbia, when efforts ger of the Hodges , . , , r \ were being made to secure bail for e time. Their home of Hodges. The car and due in Green- j All kinds of ledgers and blank m. j books at Herald Book Store, cheap. i 4