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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. G. D. Ryan spent Sunday in Columbia. ? ?Miss Carrie Blain. of Woodford, is visiting Mrs. J. W. Price. ?Mr. and Mrs. F. B. McCrackin spent Tuesday in Charleston. ] t ?Mr. T. D. Beard, of the Colston section, was in the city Friday. Mr R B. Still, of Atlanta, was : in the citv one day this week. ?? ?Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker has gone to Richmond. Va., to spend a while. ?Miss Beaulah Grimes has gone 1 ^ to Ridge Crest. N. C., to spend some time. ?Miss Annie L. Hartzog is spend- ' ing some time with friends at St. ' Matthews. ?Mr. Rudolph Strom, of Edge- , field, spent a few days in the city , last week. ( * ?Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Free spent i several days in Savannah last week . J with relatives. i ~ ~ " ttt n-na ?Mr. and Mrs. j. w. owkco auu little eon spent several days last ] week at Glenn Springs. 1 ?Mr. and Mrs. James Hill, of ( New Orleans, are spending some time 1 in the city with relatives. ?Mrs. Counts and Miss Addie j Hayes motored over from Bamberg j last week.?Barnwell People. 1 ?Mr. I. B. Felder has gone to New York to purchase fall and win- , ter goods for Rentz & Felder. , * ?Mr. and Mrs. G. Frank Bamberg | left Friday for Chick Springs, where , they will spend 6ome weeks. < ^ ?Mr. J. D. Copeland, Jr., has re> turned to the city from Henderson- ' ville, after several days' 6tay. i ?Mr. S. Earle Beard, of Colum- ! bia, has accepted a position as lin- 1 otype operator on The Herald. ' ?Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Glenn, of j 1 Charleston, are in the city on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Risher. ?Miss Flossie Griffith has return- ' * ed from a pleasant visit to Miss , Marion Fairey, of Branchville. , ?Little Miss Florence Griffith has , returned from a visit to her cousin, j Lawrence Smoak, at Branchville. ] ?Miss Cressie Breeland, of near < Olar, has acepted a position with La- 1 Verne Thomas & Co., as saleslady. ?Mr. John Simmons, of Holly Hill, spent a few days in the city this week ' with his mother, Mrs. C. E. Simmons. 1 ?Mr. and Mrs. B. Free and fam^ ily have returned from the mouitains, where they spent several weeks. i . * / | ?Dr. H. F. Hoover and family left the latter part of last week for , the mountains of North Carolina to spend a few weeks. ?Miss Alma Black has returned to , the city from the summer school for j teachers at the University of Virgin- ( ia, Charlottesville, Va. ( ?Messrs. James Armstrong and i W. M. Graham are spending a few ] days with the family of Mr. A. L. Kirkland, in the Olar' section. ] ?Mrs. E. A. Smoak and daughter, i Gertrude, returned Sunday from Charleston, where they spent two weeks with Mrs. W. A. Waters, fr ?Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Chandler 1 and children returned home last Friday evening, after a four weeks' stay with friends and relatives in Geor- . gia. ?Mr. J. A. Spann returned on | Friday from Fountain, Fla., where i he spent some time. He says it is quite warm in that part of the country. ?Mrs. I. W. Bowman and daugh* ter, Elizabeth, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Crum, Jr., at Denmark.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. ?Mrs. C. E. Simmons and daugh- < ter, Miss Marion Simmons, leave to- : day' for Leesville, where they will spend a week with their aunt, Mrs. Rebecca Warren. ?Messrs. H. C. Folk and W. M. Brabham attended the conference of 'anti-administration delagates to the recent State Democratic convention, 1 in Columbia Friday. After the Rain. k The declining sun shone suddenly and brightly thro' the mist, Like a sudden flash of memory; it , seemed but to insist, To show how the wet grass sparkled r and how the ivy shaded tower. The stream so dull and sullen, now # smiled 'neath its leafy bower. The little birds did twitter and chirp so gleefully, On the verdant hedge's branches that dripped refreshingly. A moment?and its glory no more was to be seen The light was all withdrawn, but from the spring time's green Arose a fragrant odor to tired man and beast. It seemed a benediction from God's dear, kindly hand, To His very own creation, the chief I of which- is man.?B. S. B, k Johnston, S. C. f SOME FAMOUS HOAXES. Some l*ractical Jokes of an Earlier ll< Age Than Ours. Hoaxes exist in every profession and walk of life; they flourish in ev- ar ery age and clime; they ply their art either as a means of livelihood or from the sole desire to gull the cred- dz ulous public. It was the latter which r0 incited that prince of practical jokers. Theodore Hook, to perpetrate the b* most audacious of all hoaxes, the Ber- m ners street hoax, that for the time re roused all London to laughter and in- in dignation. Hook bet a guinea tnat a certain modest dwelling in a quiet th thoroughfare leading out* of Oxford ta street would become the most notorious house in town,and set about winning his wager by addressing over a thousand letters, containing orders to tradesmen, with the request that tr they would at a certain hour on a certain day deliver their goods at a cer- th tain house in Berners street. Besides th the unfortunate shopkeepers, who fo suffered much loss through damage 1)6 to their goods, others were* included w in the "fun." The lord mayor, the lord chief justice, the archbishop bf de Canterbury and the commander-in- aE chief were among the many victims that fell into the trap, and, duly arriving at the appointed spot, exper- or ienced most unceremonious treat- to ment amid the turbulent and exas- co perated throng. As the result of a bet between the th Duke of Montague and Lord dies- on terfield that the former would, by th advertising an utterly impossible per- ea formance, find fools enough to fill he a playhouse, it was announced that *'1 on Januar\ 10, 1749, on the stage of is the Haymarket Theatre, a person in would get into a tavern quart bottle, and while there sing several na Bongs. On the evening appointed for' Bi the accomplishment of this marvelous feat the house was packed from W Boor to ceiling, among the expectant a audience being no less a personage of than the Duke of Cumberland. For w< a while all sat in patient silence, but. lis on the curtain not rising, catcalls and m whistles soon swelled to open riot, bt Someone threw a lighted candle up- cii on the stage and a general stampede tie for that part of the house immediate- bl< !v followed, and in the melee that to jnsued the Duke of Cumberland lost Hi tiis sword. tv The papers, especially those of the Jacobite party, made great fun of co this affair, and in old England ap- de oeared this burlesque advertisement, or having reference to the Duke of wl Cumberland's loss: "Found entangled pli in the slit of a lady's demolished smock petticoat, a gilt-handled sword of martial temper and length, not nuch the worse of wearing, with the Spey curiously engraved on one side, Ri md the Scheldt on the other; sup- or posed to be taken from the fat sides or pf a certain great general in his cr hasty retreat from the battle of Bot- it tie Noddles, in the Haymarket. Who- T1 sver has lost it may inquire for it th it the sign of the Bird and Sinking as Land, in Rotten row." lii A hoax eqaully diverting, and with lu ao harmful issue, was that originat- th ing with Daly, the manager of the Dublin Theatre, who wagered that us within twenty-four hours he could in- w: troduce a perfectly meaningless word tb into the English language, to effect ns which he chalked on every wall to m; which he could gain access the four in letters, QUIZ, which at once set er all Dublin wondering as to their m significance?wondering in vain, the b? sole result of the general bewilder- th ment being the calculation of a word Si that has remained current till the re present day. ' ai "Astounding News By Express, via of Norfolk! The Atlantic Crossed in pi Three Days! Signal Triumph of Mr. pt Menck Mason's Flying Machine. Ar- ht rivel at Sullivan's Island, Near Char- fr leston, S. C., of Mr. Mason, Mr. Kob- w ert Holland. Mr. Henson, Mr. Harri- re son Ainsworth and Four Others in ct the Steering Balloon Victoria After hi a Passage of Seventy-Five Hours ta From Land to Land! Full Particulars of the Voyage!" was the announcement that headed an article in the New York Sun, giving account *-' of an aerial voyage across the Atlantic. Nearly everybody believed in the preposterous statements, and the circulation of "the sole paper that had Li the news" increased by leaps, and es and title of "The Baloon Hoax" is m included among the tales of Edgar in Allen Poe. if The imposture of Charleston?too rc well known to need retelling?was ai surpassed in audacity by that of the youth Ireland, whose Shakesperean forgeries form the subject of Payn's ^ novel, "The Talk of the Town." In- p cited by the almost universal acclaim = with which some spurious signatures er and minor documents of the poet sc woro rofpiv-pd he had the hardihood n< to "discover" some unpublished plays ki by the master's hand, one of which, w; "Voltigern." was produced by Sheri- cc dan at Drury Lane. Its stilted bom- w bast, however, disgusted and unde- fi( ceived the critics and public, and o^ Ireland, finding his position no longer ta tenable, made full confession of his fu knavery. More extraordinary still th was the hoax perpetrated in the fa CASTE AMONG HOBOES. eal Wanderers I>esj?ise "Bums and Panhandlers." "Mission stiffs, panhandlers, bums id strikebreakers are not allowed. 2t out!" Thus reads a neat pasteboard card tngling in the window of a little om on the first floor of 816 CallowU street, Philadelphia. It is flanked a card announcing the established of a "Hobo Employment Buau," and urging every hobo to walk and "join the union." If the passerby 13 a bit dazed by is apparently contradiction of invitions, and if he wonders how the mm" genus differs from the "hobo" inus, he has only to walk in and inure of Joe .Millar, who claims to tve crossed the country on freight ains more than one hundred times. The hobo will always give someins for lodging or meals while on e road, and he has the most pround contempt for the man who tats his way from place to place ithout working. Bums, on the other hand are the irelicts who strew the park benches . id fill the workhouses. Panhandlers are street beggars. "Mission stiffs" are down-and-out- , \ s who won't work and are willing exchange "conversion" for bread, ffee, and a free bed. "The hobo is the itinerant laborer, e fellow who saws lumber in Maine ie week and punches cattle in Texas , e next" says Joe Millar. "In the ,st the average public confuses the t >bo with the tramp, but in the west, here he obtained his nickname, he often a welcome guest at the farm harvesting time." The hoboes of America, or if you ust be dignified, the International -otherhood Welfare association of J aempioyea, .Migratory auu uaauai orkers, have organized to demand . 10-hour day and a minimum wage 15 cents an hour. They have a ?ekly journal. The Hobo News, pubihed in Chicago, by August Schureyer. They have an I. B. W. A. itton, with the word "justice" enroled by the name of the organiza>n. The significance of the emem is that justice fe the keynote liberty. "Justice." comments the 3bo News, "is what we want; liberis what we all prize." Recently the organization held a nference in Cleveland to which legates were sent from every local ganization in the United States, and , lere all union problems and princies wcere discussed.?The Sparvey. ^ Is Pie Vanishing? This is the question asked by the chmond Times-Dispatch. It depends , l what he calls pie. If he means ie of those tough things, mostly ust, and with a modicum of fruit, ought to have vanished long ago. len some housekeepers understand e art of making tough pastry about , , hard to digest as rubber dumplgs. That is not pie. It is the desion and snare. It is an insult to e lover of real pie. When you set about making a pie -?!?? T>?/in Immatnro fruit >C5 iSCICVV 11 U?U x VW4 , 4UUU.MW. v ill not make a first-class pie. After e fruit is selected the pastry is the >xt consideration. This should be ade so that it will be crisp and melt- ( g. Then the fruit should be proply apportioned. The baking deands special attention. It should > a delicate, rich brown color, and ien you will have a genuine pie. ich pies will soon vanish in any well gulated family. Can you imagine lything better at the close of one ' these days than such a pie and a tcher of creamy sweet milk? A >rtion left over for breakfast is not ird to take. Good pie, well' made om good fruit, will never vanish hile men of good gastronomic taste imain, and while there are some lildren around who have a chronic inger.?Capt. Chas. Petty in Sparnburg Journal. MAKES PLEA FOR QUORUM. aderwood Threatens to Have Absentees Arrested. Washington, Aug. 3.?Majority eader Underwood today made an irnest appeal to the Democratic embers of congress to stay in Washeton and keep a quorum. He said a quorum failed to develop on a >ll-call he would have the absentees rested and "dragged back." Glendale Springs Water on sale .Mack's Drug Store, in five-gallon ittles. Delivered at house for r>0c t bottle. udite George Psalmanazer when icessfullv personating a converted itive of Formosa. What little lowledge he possessed of the East as supplemented by invention. He imposed an imaginary language, hile from his brain was evolved a :titious history of Formosa. This, 1 ving to the palpable errors it conined, led to detection, people reising to credit the statement that : ie natives sacrificed 18,000 male in- ; nts annually. i A HI MAX PEDIGREE BOOK. Government May Establish Bureau to Record Brides and Bridegrooms. We have splendid new races of horses, cows and pigs. Why should we not have a new and improved1 race of men? A century of breeding and training has added 50 per cent, to the efficiency of the trotting horse. The same period has seen a grave degeneration of the human race in the most civilized countries. A new species of hen has been developed which lays 300 eggs a year. The civilized human mother shows a steady decrease of vitality which it is plainful to consider. These are a few of the interesting facts and arguments used by Dr. J. H. Kellogg in his address on eugenics before the National Conference on Race Betterment at Battle Creek, Mich. Dr. Kellogg virtually pleaded for a record book, stating the qualities of human parents and the way in which these qualities are preserved, improved or lost from generation to generation. This idea receives the strong support of the many scientists who wish to check the alarming decrease of American vitality and the degeneration of the human race in the populous centres of America and Western Europe. The human pedigree hook would be known as the Eugenics Registry Office. Every man or woman intending to marry would be able to turn to the records of the office and ascertain the pedigree of the life partner :hat he or she thinks of taking. This [ is just what everybody now does be-1 fore buying an expensive horse, dog I or cow. The suggestion of a human pedigree book may shock persons with petrified 'taboo" notions concerning marriage, but why, argues science shouldn't we have as good a guarantee with a husband or wife as with a horse or dog? In time, it is argued, every human being would be proud to have his or her pedigree en i r-\ t o Krvoir ICICU ill 111V. /?/ /?. The idea that the human race is degenerating is naturally unpopular with human beings, but it is strongly supported by science. The evidences of improvement in material comfort and scientific knowledge are so numerous that we imagine we are progressing in every direction. As a matter of fact, proof is accumulating that the human race in the most civilized countries is deteriorating. The fact that the average length of human life has more than doubled in the last 200 years has been accepted as showing that the vital stamina of the race is improving. We have now every reason to believe that this apparent gain in longest}* is due to the saving of many feeble lives in infancy, while the length of life of mature persons is decreasing, indicating that the vitality of the race is really failing. Dr. Charles H. Ward, at the session of the American Dental asso-1 ciation said that human teeth were j degenerating. The evolutionists prophetic visions of the coming man as a bespectacled, bald-headed and edentulous individual of infantile proportions, but bulging head, appeared to him not improbable. - Dr. Scott Xearing, professor of eco nomics in the University of Pennsylvania, states that the native-born population of the United States in the year 1800-was doubling itself every 25 years. The continuance of the ratio would have made the nativeborn population 100,000,000 in 1900 and 800,000,000 by the year 2000. As a matter of fact, the native-born population in 1900 was only 41,000,000. It has been demonstrated that at the present rate of decrease the birth rate will cease within a cencury, and the American nation will no longer exist. HELD HIS JOB 81 YEARS. Work Day Programme of Spry Young Man of 104. Jake Hoebach rounded out a pleasant celebration of his 104th birthday by eating a half section of a juicy cherry pie. Jake is employed as a farm hand on the country estate of D. H. Kirkner 3rd in Roxborough. j He has held his present job for 81 years and has never once tired of his work. Here is the daily work programme -# uniinr man of 104 VeaTS! UA tlXlO 0[/l/ /UUU^ LUMM V. - - - , - 4 a. m., get up; 4.15, feed the horses; 4.25, start milking; 5.30, breakfast; 5.45, currv the horses; 6, hook up for the milk train; 7, back and take out a load of hay or plough; S to 11,1 chores: 12, knock off for dinner; 1 p. m., fix wagon and other odd jobs: 4, 4n tn milk! 5. clean leir\C LUC tunc w ... , , - - horses; 6, supper; 6.30, loaf around; 9. go to bed, with nothing to do till tomorrow.?Philadelphia dispatch to New York Sun. While talking over the telephone in Saville, X. Y., Robert Vanderhoof received an electrical shock, mostly in his teeth, which have fillings France has 20,994 mutual benefit societies, with an aggregate membership of 5,040.735 and annual receipts of $18,000,000. fr THE TRANSMISSION ( <?E MOXKY in any form except a check or draft is risky and expensive. Currency or coin once lost or stolen is seldom recovered. A lost or stolen check can be I stopped without any loss at all. jj A check on the Bamberg Bank- | ing Co. can be mailed for two S i cents. To transmit the cast it If represents would cost many | times that. Why not save as fl well as be safe? < 4 per cent. Paid on Savings Deposits Bamberg Banking Co. V A nice spotted pony for sale at j Jones Bros", stables Full line of Waterman's Ideal J Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store. A nice spotted pony for sale at | Jones Bros", stables KODAK WORK I Let us develop and finish your films. Prices reasonable. Work promptly and well done.*.v. THE GIFT SHOP AIKEN, 5. C. I PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Engines AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood I Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting. Gasoline Engines LARGESTOCK LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works. Supply Store. j AUGUSTA, GA. E. H. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG. S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated. J. F. Carter B. D. Carter CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law GENERAL PRACTICE BAMBERG, & C. Coras Old Sores, Other Rtmetfios Won't Cure. The worst cases. no matter of how long standing, are cared by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves Pain and Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c. $1.00 Plies Cored la 6 to 14 Day* Tour druggist will refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. The first application gives Base and Bast. 30c. CANDIDATES CARDS FOR CONGRESS. I hereby announce my candidacy for renomination by the Democratic party for Representative in Congress from the Second District, pledging myself to comply with the rules of the party. JAMES F. BYRNES. FOR THE LEGISLATURE. I hereby announce my candidacy for the House of Representatives from Bamberg county, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. B. D. CARTER. I am a candidate in the Democratic primary for the House of Representatives from Bamberg county, and will abide the result. J. WESLEY CRU.M, JR. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the House of Representatives from Bamberg County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. J. GORDON BRABHAM. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives from Bamberg county, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. B. W. MI LEY. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives from Bamberg county, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. FRANCIS F. CARROLL. I hereby announce my candidacy for the House of Representatives from Bamberg County, subject to the rules governing the Democratic party, and pledge myself to support the nominees thereof. S. P. RENTZ. COUNTY SUPERVISOR. I hereby Innounce myself a candidate for SuDervisor of Bamberg County, in the Democratic primary, subject to the rules of the party. \Y. T. CAVE. Thanking my friends for their support in the past. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Supervisor of Bamberg county, subject to the rules of and regulations of the Democratic party. E. C. BRUCE. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of County Supervisor, subject to the rules and regulations governing the Democratic party. If elected I promise to give office my best and undivided attention and shall discharge the duties ^ ?apital and Surplus ?100,000.00 thereof to the best of my ability. Denmark. S. C. C. \V. FOGLE. At the solicitation of many friends I have decided to make the race for County Supervisor, submioc r.f the r>emnr?ratir?. ' party. If elected I shall give the office my best and undivided attention, and shall endeavor to serve all the people alike. W. BARNEY SMOAK. At the request of many friends, and having had over two years experience in road building, I have decided to make the race for County Supervisor, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. If elected I promise to do my full duty in every respect. LAURIE P. MCMILLAN. COUNTY COMMISSIONER. I announce my candidacy for County Commissioner of Bamberg County, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. D. W. PHILLIPS. I am a candidate to succeed myself as County Commissioner of Bamberg County, in the Democratic primary. of course. H. W. CHITTY. I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner of Bamberg county, pledging myself to abide by the rules of the Democratic party, and to fiU the office to the best of my ability if elected. W. D. BESSINGER. I hereby announce my candidacy for County Commisioner. subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic frimary. G. H. SMOAK. I hereby announce myself a candi date for County Commissioner in the Democratic primary, subject to the rules and regulations of the party. J. J. ZEIGLER. COTTON WEIGH Eh AT OLAR. I announce my candidacy for Cotton Weigher at Olar, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. A. R. MORRIS. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election as cotton weigher at Olar, S. C., subject to the rules of the Democratic party. D. J. TEMPLETOX. r hereby announce my candidacy for cotton weigher at Olar, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. If elected I will furnish my own scales. W. M. SANDIFER. EHRHARDT COTTON WEIGHER. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Qotton Weigher at Ehrhardt in the Democratic primary, subject to the rules of the party. JESSE C. RENTZ. I hereby annoiyrfTe myself a candidate in the Democratic primary for Cotton Weigher at Ehrhardt, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. J. D. CARTER, JR. I hereby announce myself a candidate in the Democratic primary for Cotton Weigher at Ehrhardt, subject to the rules of the party. J. H. CARTER. I hereby announce my candidacy for Cotton Weigher at Ehrhardt, in the Democratic primary, subject to the rules of the party. . B. W. HIERS. \ ~ MAGISTRATE AT EHRHARDT. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Magistrate at Ehrhardt, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. ISAAC W. CARTER. I hereby respectfully announce myself a candidate for Magistrate at Ehrhardt, Three Mile Township, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. J. H. KIXARD. COTTOX WEIGHER AT BAMBERG. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election as Cotton Weigher at Bamberg, in the Democratic primary, subject to the rules of the par^y. F. E. STEEDLY. Believing I can be of benefit to the farmers of Bamberg and vicinity. I announce myself a candidate for cotton weigher at Bamberg. If elected will use Fairbanks Standard Scales. I will abide by the rules of the Democratic party and support the nominees. N. Z. FELDER. MAGISTRATE AT OLAR. I am a candidate for Magistrate at Olar in the Democratic primary, and will abide the result of same. JXO. \V. SMITH. At the solicitation of voters of my district, I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election as Magistrate at Olar, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. 0. J. C. LAIN*. 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