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Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, October 23, iyia Do not hesitate to make your contribution to the new dormitory because you cannot give a large amount. All contributions, large and small, are needed and will be appreciated. It is unlawful now to shoot partridges before November 15th, and as this is a Federal law our local hunters had best be very careful lest they run afoul of Uncle Sam. -o Mr. W. W. Smoak, who formerly owned and edited the Walterboro Press and Standard, but who moved to Madisonville, Ky., some months ago, writes us that he is coming backto South Carolina this week, and will be with the Anderson Intellingencer, which was recently purchased by a stock company. Mr. Smoak says he is delighted at the prospect of getting back to the Palmetto State, and we are glad to have him in the journalistic ranks of South Carolina again. One white man who killed another and who is supposed to be serving a sentence for the crime is permitted to go on a hunting trip, and another who is serving a sentence in the penitentiary for taking the life of a human being is paroled by the governor for a while to go home and attend to his business affairs. With such things as these being allowed by omciais, is it any wonuer mat human life is so cheap in South Carolina? Honestly, we are ashamed of our State. CONSTABLE KILLS PRISONER. Spartanburg County Officer Claims Self-defence?Gives Bond. Spartanburg, October 19.?Alvin J. Wood, constable for Magistrate Henderson. killed Charlie Thompson, a negro, near Carlisle school house, several miles from Spartanburg, Friday night. He was endeavoring to arrest Thompson on a charge of dis-1 posing of mortgaged property, and the negro, it is said, refused to accompany him until he had eaten his supper. Wood started to drag Thompson away by force. The negro resisted and the constable shot him. Wood cave that Thompson drew a nocket knife and started to cut him, and lie j killed the prisoner in self-defence, j . Wood was committed to the county jail on a charge of murder, and remained there all night, but Saturday was released on $2,000 bail. Coroner John S. Turner conducted an inquest into Thompson's death. The jury found he died of a gunshot wound inflicted by Wood. Silberger Admits Tlieft of $11,000. Roanoke, Va., Oct. 18.?After pleading guilty to the theft of $11,000 from the Pocahontas post office, former Assistant Postmaster Edward Silberger was remanded to the Roanoke city jail this afternoon by United States Commissioner Goodloe. Mrs. Silberger, wife of the prisoner, neia as an accessory, vsaneu scaling. She has a six-months-old baby and for that reason was not sent to jail. She will remain at the headquarters of the local Salvation Army, the wife of the captain in charge signing a bond to insure Mrs. Silberger's appearance before the United States court at Danville in November, when her husband's case will go to a federal grand jury. An effort will be made to secure bail for both of them. The prisoners were arrested in Cleveland several days ago, to which place they had fled from Pocohontas. They were brought here this after noon. TO STAM> TRIAL FOR MFKDER. i Two Xegroes Xabbed Xear Spartanj burs; by West Virginia Deputy. j Spartanburg, Oct. 19.?Charged I with the murder of a special officer I employed by a coal mining company ; in .Mingo county, W. Ya., John Henj derson and Henry Hall, negroes, were I arrested as fugitives from justice on ( a Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway train at Chesnee Friday night. The arrest was made by \V. O. Power, a West Virginia deputy sheriff?an old man of patriarchal aspect, with a white beard reaching almost to his waist. Power started back to Mingo county with the negroes Saturday. Nothing was said of extradition. Power had been on Henderson's trail for a week. He traced linn from Mingo county to St. Paul, Ya., at the northern end of the Clinchfield Road, and reached the conclusion that the negro had headed for his home, at Greenville. S. C. The deputy sheriff started down the Clinchlield Road, making inquiries of trainmen and others. During the trip he ran across Henry Hall, whom he knew to be a pal of Henderson, but of I whose alleged connection with the j killing he had no suspicion when ! he started out. Following Hall, the deputy sheriff saw him join Henderson. Both boarded a south-bound train. Power boarded the same train, and when it reached Chesnee placed the negroes under arrest. The charge against Hall is based on the assistance he is alleged to have given Henderson in the latter's attempt to escape. Hall is accused of being an I accessory to the murder after the fact. ELIJAH'S STORY PROVED. California Redwoods Index to Past Climatic Conditions. __ The discovery that the big trees of j California are an index to climatic conditions almost from the beginning j of time has just been announced by | Ellsworth Huntington, a government | scientist, in a publication entitled The Secret of the Big Trees. In the growth rings of the big trees, the Sequoia Wasbingtonians, .Mr. Huntington finds evidence that California suffered from the same drouth that ended in Asia Minor when the prophet Elijah prayed for rain 870 years before Christ. Famine afflicted Palestine in the days of Elijah, according to the Biblical story. No rain fell, the brooks ran dry, and distress was prevalent all over the land. King Ahab sent for Obadiah and commanded him to "go through the land, unto all the fountains of water and unto all the brooks; peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts." Obadiah met Elijah on his journey and escorted the latter to King Ahab. Elijah prayed for rain and the famine was stopped. From this famine, 870 years before Christ, to the Sierra Nevada mountains seems a long cry, but Mr. Huntington claims he has bridged the distance by growth curves on the trees. The curves begin with the epoch of the Trojan war, about 1200 B. C. There both curves dip very low, indicating an epoch of sudden and severe dessication. That particular period, historians tell us, was one of the most chaotic in all history. The famine in the days of Elijah appears in both curves. Apparently at that time the climate did not become extremely dry, nothing like so bad as it had been a few hundred years earlier during the 12th century, but there was rather a distinct fall ing off in the amount of ramian, as compared with the uncommonly good conditions of the preceding century. About 700 years before Christ both curves stand high in the day when the Greeks were laying the foundation of their future greatness and the empires of Mesopotamia were at their height. Then comes a pronounced falling off, with a recovery 300 or 4 00 years before Christ, anothe.' decline culminating reaching a high point 50 B. C. The time of Christ, the great era of universal peace under tne sway or Rome, was apparently an epoch of favorable climate, a time of abundant rain and consequent good crops in all the countries around the Mediterranean sea and eastward in Asia, as well as in California. Next comes a long period of decline culminating six or seven centuries after the time of Christ. No period in all history, save that which centres about 1200 B. C., was more chaotic, and that early period also appears to have i been a time of greatly diminished i rainfall.?Kansas City Star. i Farmer Killed By Negro, Who Flees. Wilmington, N. C., Oct. IS.?Seat| ed beside his little nephew in a buggy I in which they were driving to mar| ket at Wilson. N. C., late today, Ross I Flowers, a well to do farmer of Wil i son county, was shot to death by Tom | Debren, a negro whom he met in the j road e?id with whom he quarreled. I Debren escaped to the swamps and a J posse is in pursuit tonight. MEAT CHOKES CHILI) TO DEATH. Morsel, Lodged in Throat at Breakfast, Causes Death at Night. Gaffney, Oct. 20.?Emma Hughes, iIia :nar-vear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes, choked to death Sunday night, about 9 o'clock, presumably on a piece of meat. The little girl had been sick throughout the day but it was not known what the trouble was. When the family retired she was given a dose of castor oil. but at 9 o'clock the family was awakened by her cries and it was found that she was rapidly choking to death. A physician was summoned and the meat extracted, but not before life was extinct. Members of the family say that the child had had no meat since breakfast, and it is therefore presumed that the lodgment had been in her throat since morning. The physician who removed the meat stated that there was no evidence of digestion having set in, proving conclusively that the substance could not have been in the child's stomach throughout the day. IX WOMAN'S WORLD. Interesting Figures and Facts About Feminine Folk. A woman 5 feet 6 inches in height should weigh 144 pounds. The mortality of women is greater between the age of 20 and 40. Seventy-two married women live to the age of 45 against 52 unmarried. Smoking jackets are the latest addition to the attire worn by London women. Turkey has a daily newspaper %\hich is managed and edited entirely by women. The ban which prevented telephone girls in the employ of the Italian government from marrying has been lifted through the influence of Queen Helena. As a result of the new order 70 switchboard brides in Rome alone will be led to the altar within the next month.?Birmingham Ledger. ACC 1DENTALLY ELECTROCUTED. Prominent Florida Man Dies when He Touches Lives Wire. Tampa, Fla., Oct. 19.?W. A. Lemeiu, one of the most prominent real estate and insurance men in CrtiitV! TTlnfMa wac pi Pf>t TOP 11 tpd in UVUtll i. 1VA AViUf ?. his garage at St. Petersburg at 9 o'clock to-night, according to a special to the Tribune. Mr. Lemeiu went to his garage to get his machine, and when he reached up to turn on the electricity he touched an exposed portion of the wiring and was almost instantly killed. Mr. Lemeiu came to St. Petersburg several years ago from Adrian, Mass.. where he is well known. Drunken Monkeys. According to a recent letter from the Congo region on the west coast of Africa the monkeys there are inordinately fond of a kind of beer made by the native, who use the beverage to capture their poor relations. Having placed quantities of beer where the monkeys can get at it, the natives wait until their victime are in various degrees of inebriation, and when they mingle with them the poor creatures are too much fuddled to recognize the difference between necrr-n on/j one wiion n rpfm takes t> 1 ^ OllU ttyv. ?? V. ?.w0 - ^ the hand of one of them to lead him off, some other fond creature clings to the hand of the latter one, and another to his hand; thus a single negro may sometimes be seen carrying off a string of staggering monkeys. When secured the beer is administered in decreasing quantities, so that they may only gradually awaken to the sad results of their spree.?Tid-Bits. National Beverages. Norwegians are one of the most temperate of Northern nations, consuming but 46^4 pints of beer and 4 y2 of brandy per head of population. The Dane drinks on the average 156 pints of beer, but little wine, and only 6 pints of brandy each year. The Swede manages to consume 84 pints of beer and 13 pints of spirits. The D.ioeion arinlrc 7U nints nf vodka and the same amount of beer. The Frenchman, however, takes 100 pints of wine, 15 of beer and 48 of brandy. The Britisher soothes himself with 9 pints of whiskey or gin, 3 of claret and 228 of beer. The Dutchman will drink 54 pints of beer and 12 of brandy. Taking every German province to obtain an average, it is found that the German consumes 187% pints of beer, 102% of wine and 9% of spirits. In Munich, however, the average amount per hear rises to S50% pints, being the highest of any province, while the lowest average obtains in the | northern province of Alsatia. Here the inhabitants are satisfied with only 144 pints of beer per head. The Italian is the least of all addicted to alcoholic beverages, taking only 3 pints of beer, 1 % of alcoholic beverages and 144 of wine per head. ?Answers. Cleaning, pressing, and repairing of all kinds neatly done. Dixie Tailors, opposite post office. 1 1 1 0 A beautiful line * of Silk Scarfs and | Shawls for evening wear. See ; them quick. j 1 i New1:,' ! tractive HATS coming in daily. i i 0 AI duiiimuiig always to please you at i 1 1 i Rentzs Millinery Store * C. W. REXTZ, Proprietor. 2 BAMBERG, S. C. 5 If ! V?n 1 uu 2 Forgot j i | To get your Shoes | and other winter ! ; wear this cold spell j i n.?>. i has you. uon 11 forget to see Rentz & Felder and you = will not forget tox get what you want R and what will? ai please you. Low- J ? ? o est prices and best? goods always at ? se m Rentz & Felder: BAMBERG, S. C. urchases of Bamberg County Dispensary Board, Friday, October 10th, 1913 FREIDMAN KEILER & CO., Paducah, Ky. mount Brand Cost Price Selling Price 0 cases Old Possum Corn @ ?8.50 in qts. ?1.00 5 cases Old Possum Corn (ft ?9.00 in pts. .60 0 cases Old Possum Corn (ft ?9.50 in ^pts. .30 0 cases Crescent Club Rye (ft ?8.75 in qts. 1.00 5 cases Crescent Club Rye (ft ?9.25 in pts. .60 5 cases Crescent Club Rye 'ft) ?9.75 in %pts. .30 ^ MERCANTILE DISTILLING CO., Cincinnati, O. 0 cases Rogers Corn (ft ?8.50 in qts. ?1.00 5 cases Rogers Corn @ ?9.50 in pts. .60 0 cases Rogers Corn (ft ?10.50 in ^pts. .30 n /\ 0 cases Private Stock Rye @ $8.50 in qts. i.vu 5 cases Private Stock Rye @ $9.50 in pts. .60 5 cases Private Stock Rye @ $10.50 in ^pts. .30 ^ JACK CRANSTON CO., Baltimore, Md. J 0 cases Upper Ten Rye @ $10.50 in qts. $1.25 0 cases Upper Ten Rye (7? $11.50 in pts. .75 0 cases Diadora Corn (7? $8.50 in qts. 1.00 5 cases Three Feathers Rye @ $10.51) in qts. 2.00 1 5 cases Three Feathers Rye @ $17.50 in pts. 1.00 I 5 cases Scotch Whiskey (5 $13.00 in qts. 1.50 PEOPLES DISTILLING CO., Cincinnati, O. 0 drums Magnolia Corn (3 $24.50 in qts. $'..60 00 drums Magnolia Corn @ $25.50 in pts. .35 A 00 drums Magnolia Corn <71 $26.50 in %pts. .20 50 drums Club Flush Rye (7? $24.50 in qts. .60 00 drums Club Flush Rye @ $25.50 in pts. .35 00 drums club Flush Rye (77 $26.50 in -^pts. .20 ^ 00 drums Overholt Rye <Q $30.50 in qts. . .75 , 00 drums Overholt Rye (77 $31.50 in pts. .40 00 drums Overholt Rye (77 $32.50 in ^pts. ,25 PEOPLES DISTILLING CO., Cincinnati, O. 'Gal. Qts. Pts. ^p. 0 barrels 100 Proof Corn (77 $1.49 gallon $2.75 .75 .40 .25 0 barrels 90 Proof Gin (a $1.32 gallon 2.25 .60 .35 .20 0 barrels 90 Proof Corn @ $1.36 gallon 2.25 .60 .35 .20 2 barrels 188 Proof Alcohol @ $2.64 gallon .95 .50 ^ 0 barrels 100 Proof Rye @ $1.55 gallon 2.75 .75 .40 .25 ^ 0 barrels 90 Proof Rye @ $1.36 gallon 2.25 .60 .35 .20 ROSSKAM, GERSTLEY & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. * * 20 cases Old Saratoga @ $13.25 in qts. $1.50 25 cases Old Saratoga (3 $14.25 in pts. .75 30 cases Old Saratoga @ $15.00 in %pts. .40 30 cases H. A. Rogers Rye 'Tz $9.00 in qts. 1.00 20 cases H. A. Rogers Rye (a SI0.00 in pts. .bu 20 cases H. A. Rogers Rye @ $11.00 in %pts. .30 BERNHEIM REXINGER CO., Cincinnati, O. 50 cases Tom Gin @ $7.25 in qts. $ .75 75 cases Tom Gin (d $7.75 in pts. .40 00 cases Tom Gin @ $8.33 in ^pts. .25 * i 50 cases Private Stock Rye @ $8.50 in qts. 1.00 J 75 cases Private Stock Rye (f? $0.00 in pts. .60 ~ ^ 00 cases Private Stock Rye <q> $9.50 in HPts. .30 1 50 cases Silver Dent Corn <5 $8.75 in qts. 1.00 I 75 cases Silver Dent Corn $9.75 in pts. .60 ' 00 cases Silver Dent Corn @ $10.75 in ^pts. .30 50 cases Mett Grove Rye @ $12.00 in qts. 1.25 75 cases Mett Grove Rye @ $12.50 in pts. .65 00 cases Mett Grove Rye @ $13.00 in ^pts. .35 15 cases Manhattan C. Tail @ $8.00 in pts. .50 20 cases Manhattan C: Tail @ $8.50 in %pts. .25 ^ 15 cases Rexmore Special Rye @ $12.00 in qts. 1.25 25 cases Rexmore Special Rye (q $13.00 in pts. .65 25 cases Rexmore Special Rye @ $14.00 in %pts. .35 ti BERNHEIM REXINGER & CO., Cincinnati, O. 5 drums Apple Brandy @ $25.00 in pts. $ .40 ^ 5 drums Apple Brandy @ $26.00 in ^pts. .25 5 drums Peach Brandy @ $25.00 in pts. .40 5 drums Peach Brandy @ $26.00 in %pts. .25 5 drums Rock & Rye @ $24.00 in qts. .75 5 drums Rock & Rye @ $25.00 in pts. .40 5 drums Rock & Rye @ $26.00 in %pts. .25 0 barrels 100 Proof Gin @ $1.55 gallon $2.75 .75 .40 .25 0 barrels 100 Proof Corn @ $1.60 gallon 2.75 .75 .40 .25 WRIGHT & TAYLOR, Louisville, Ky. Tavlor Golden Rve (a) $8.50 in qts. $1.00 cases Taylor Golden Rye @ $9.00 in pts. .60 cases Old Charter B. in B. @ $10.50 in qts. 1.25 ft E. G. LYON & RAAS CO.. New York. V* cases Dubrenil Brandy @ $8.50 in qts. $1.00 cases Rock & Rye @ $7.00 in pts. .75 WHITE CREST WINE CO., Norfolk, Va. 5 cases Scuppernong Wine @ $4.00 in qts. $ .50 5 cases Scuppernong Wine @ $4.75 in pts. .30 5 cases Blackberry Wine @ $4.00 in qts. .50 5 cases Blackberry Wine @ $4.75 in pts. .30 0 cases Sherry Wine @ $4.00 in qts. .50 i 5 cases Sherry Wine @ $4.75 in pts. .30 J 5 cases Am. Champagne @ $12.00 in qts. 1.50 t 5 cases Am. ChampagDe <? $13.00 in pts. .85 CONSUMERS B. & B. ESTABLISHMENT, Charleston, S. C. 0 barrels Premium Pale @ $8.00 in pts. .85 ANHEISER BUSCH B. ASSN. St. Louis, Mo. 5 cases Budweiser @ $11.49 in pts. $ .15 5 cases Budweiser (g. $10.49 in qts. .20 1 sfeS^OnMyWayl i (To Smoak's Stables to see those || * fine Horses and Mules that have gp | just arrived. If you need a good jfl 1 Horse or Mule for any purpose A see the ones I have before buying. |? 1 I also have a swell line of buggies, |? ' 1 harness, whips, etc., at prices and 11 . - j on terms that will please you. m -v? I J. J. SMOAK.I, H Railmarl Avenue Bamberg, S. C. ' fj *7.~~ *'""" ^^^^^^^ Eg ==-====-========^^====-===================-==?-!??-= *-* WO MORE GOOD JOBS, MAYBE. ROMANTIC QUEST BY WILL. his State May Get Special Income Student Must Find Unknown Isles Tax Collectors. and Pearl Treasure. 'j Washington,"October 22,-Internal A search for treasure in Southern , evenue Commissioner Osborne to- waters w'? sh?rtly be undertaken by j W said that two of the special in- Roland P' Kelly' a Harvard jun,or' I .me tax collectors, who have been in compliance with the terms of the 1 uthorized by Congress under the wiU of hls 8randtather, T. L. Kelly. M nderwood-Simmons law, would The wil1 provldes that youns Kelly . ., . . . 0 should have the savings of his grandrobablv be assigned to South Caro- ? , ? . . * <?o -on father's oO years of trading as a ship V na. The places pay close to $2,o00 & ^ V . , , . . . master in the Far East on condition M year and are not subject to the , ? , . ,. ^ ^ , f M .. that before his 21st birthday he fl vil service. , /. H . , ,, x should attempt to locate pearl fisher- H As these special coueciors aie uu-i . . ? _ . ,, A .. , ., . les in an estuary of the Amazon river H *r the collector for the State, it is ? , , . . . . .. JH . . , .. > and two unchartered islands in the H resumed that his recommendations - . , ,, . .. . .. - i Pacific. These islands, according to ll have considerable weight m their ; ,.i. . . I the will, were found by the old ma- V election, though political endorse-1 . . . W ... . . . , ! riner to contain a large amount of m ents will bv no means be ignored. ,, _. , - *1. x *1. . x ?old and were discovered when he 9 is thought that the appointments . . . . M .? , , ,A,_. _ was m search of fresh water on one M ill be made within the next month I m 01 his voyages. The pearls were seen m ^ix weeks ' j cn another voyage.?Boston dispatch Renew your subscription promptly. ' to New York Times. J r i j .