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TAKKES POISON AND DIES. Sumter Farmer Puts an End to His Life. Sumter, September 13.?William Edward Dick, a well-known farmer of Sumter county, put an end to his life this morning by taking poison al his home at about 8 o'clock. Deatfc was almost instantaneous. Mr. Diet had been in poor spirits for a long time, but yesterday seemed verj much better. He went to the polls to vote and remained there a gooc part of the day, showing a great dea' . -of interest in the election. The news of his death this morning at his owe hands came as a great shock to his family and friends. Mr. Dick was in his fifty-sixtt year. He was the son of the late Dr Leonard White Dick and a native o\ Sumter county. He attended the Citadel as a young man and always took an interest in that instution. He is survived dv ms wuc, nuu marriage was Miss Annie Blanding youngest daughter of the late Col James D. Blanding, of Sumter; twc daughters, Mrs. James W. Fowler of Fountain Inn; Miss Gertrude E Dick; two sons, Messrs. W. E., Jr. and Anthony White Dick. The fuis. neral.services will be held Friday and the interment will be at St. Philip's Bradford Springs, burying ground. STREAM FLOWING WITH LIQUOR Strange Actions of Children Led tc Investigation and Disclosure. Sailors hundreds of miles from land may draw fresh water from the ocean at the mouths of the mighty Amazon, says the San Antonio Express. In East Texas there's a stream flowing with beer and whiskey or was, until a few weeks ago, when internal revenue officers traced it to its source and exposed among the pines fringing its winding sides a home-made plant manufacturing moonshine whiskey. Stills whose localities are unknown to government officers usually are associated with mountains, Kentucky and Tennessee. Recently the internal revenue department has discovered two perfect specimens of this type in the rolling prairie country of East ||^|:' v Texas. ' Each nestled among towering pines beside a meandering creek miles from I any town, and each was as well protected from the gaze of "revenooers" F- ' ^ as though it lay in a deep canyon beneath a towering mountain side. None but the invited likely ever would have any business in the neigh [i borhood. The descipline of a country school with its giggling girls and gawky youths sometimes larger than the ' teacher herself, often weighs heavy on pretty misses of 20 years. But when the school house sits on the bank of a stream flowing with beer and whiskey the task of keeping order is doubly hard. Such a job confronted such a teacher in a country school 20 miles northoast of Carthage, Texas, a few weeks ago, and it was the teacher's efforts to meet the situation that resulted in the discovery of the first illicit liquor distillery in Texas in many a v day. The school was situated two to three miles below a still on the banks M 11 _i ?I me sueauj. For a long time the teacher won \ dered why her boy pupils came to study after noon recess "wobbly" and v "woozy." She began to grow sus' picious when she noted the boys seemed especially fond of drinking in the creek after lunch, and that the '4- ' girls who <5rank there soon began to : . act queerly. She wrote J. O. Bender, internal revenue agent for Texas, stationed at San Antonio. Mr. Bender sent C. A. Wood, general deputy collector, tc f Carthage. Mr. Wood solved the problem. As he approached the creek he noted there was liquor in it, and he reasoned that if there were liquor it came from above. Noting the way the current flowed, he pro ceeded up the creek, keeping a snarp lookout on every side. He was accompanied by two other officers. They had gone only a few miles when they discovered the still. The officers confiscated the still, whicli consisted of an iron pot, a brick furnace, a barrel for cap, a galvanizec iron pipe running through the watei obtained from the creek and various home-made parts. The farmer lived in a tent near 2 spring close to the still. He was feeding 24 hogs on the mash. He claimed when arrested that m was manufacturing only a smal amount of liq,uor, and that for the benefit of his wife's health. She mus have been "powerful" sick, for the revenue omcers proved 10 meir saus faction that 52 gallons of corn whis key had passed through the grape vine-like worm since January 1 About 20 gallons was on hand whei the still was examined. The farmer pleaded guilty to con ducting an illicit distillery in the dis trict court of the United States fo] the eastern district of Texas and wai CLAIMED BY DEATH. Mrs. Howe's Body Rests in Same Plot With Father and Mother. t New London, Conn., Sept. 16.? Mrs. Anne E. Howe, only sister of ; President Wilson, died in a local hot tel early today. t Mrs. Howe had been extremely ill fnr nhnni a wppk with neritonitis and r the end had been expected at any t moment for the last two days, j Mrs. Howe came from her Philal delphia home in the early summer ( with her niece, Miss Margaret Wil5 son, daughter of the president, staple ping at a summer hotel in the su5 burbs. Her health had long been impaired. When her condition be{ came a matter of grave concern, Mrs. Howe was brought to a city hotel. I With her were her two sons, ? George Howe, of North Carolina, and 5 Wilson Howe, of Richmond, and a \ daughter, Mrs. Cothran, of Philadel? phia, besides Miss Wilson. ' She Asked to Know. ) Stella called on her newly married ' friend, Bella, and found her attired in a businesslike overall, while her ' arms were full of fashion papers and cookery books. ^ "Hello!" she exclaimed. "What ' are you going to maKe?" "Some cakes," replied the young wife proudly. "But why have you got out those fashion papers, as well as the cookery books?" "You see," confessed Bella, rather | shamefacedly, "I'm a bit of a novice | 1 at cooking. Tell me, do you make! ' cakes from a recipe or a pattern?"? Minneapolis Journal. , Angelic Treatment. "The late Jno. Townsend Trow[ bridge, author of 'Darius Green and ; His Flying Machine,' had a quaint ! way of expressing himself," said a ; New York editor. "A girl asked Mr. Trowbridge's l advice one day about marrying an . impecunious young poet. " 'How much does he make?' Mr. . Trowbridge asked. . " 'Oh,' said the girl, 'he only i makes about six dollars.a week. He's ; no pay-your-own-way poet. But,' she added, fervently, 'but he says ; he'll treat me like an angel.' " 'Humph,' said Mr. Trowbridge, . 'I suppose so. Nothing to eat and less to wear."?Philadelphia Ledger. Some Kicker. A man who lives in Savannah and owns a plantation in Chatman county, Georgia, bought a mule with a reputation for owning a set of gifted and hair-triggered hind legs and shipped her out to his place to be used in plowing for cotton. A Sunday or so later he visited 1 the plantation. The darky whose particular job it was to take care of the working stock came up to him to report. "Jim," asked the owner of the ' plantation, "does that new mule kick 1 much?" 1 "Kick?" said Jim. "Bos, dat der mule kin kick de sweeten' right out of your coffee."?Atlanta Journal. Could He? i ; He was a perfect wonder, was the parliamentary candidate for a certain agricultural district. And he i was never shy of telling the voters why they should return him as their . M. P. i "I am a practical farmer," said he, ; boastfully, at one meeting. "I can ( plow, reap, milk cows, work a chari cutter, shoe a horse?in fact," he went on, proudly, "I should like you i to tell me one thing about a farm fc wViioVi T nnnnnt rln " Then, in the impressive silence, a i small voice asked from the back of . the crowd: , "Can you lay an egg?"?Baltimore - Sun. ; Tlirifty. It is said that Scottish humor is 1 an, electric spark that flies back and forth between the two extremes of whiskey and religion. But the fol-j ' lowing anecdote is Scottish, without J touching either extreme. 1 A wife-was asked by her husband what kind of a bonnet one would like ^ him to bring her frae Glasgow, and she replied: "Weel, ye'd best make it a straw bunnet, Jock, and when I'm done wi' " it I'll feed it to the coo." If silence is golden, the man who invents a process of smelting it ought ' to make a fortune up Oyster Bay ^ way. t sent to the penitentiary. 5 Only two weeks later Collector - Wood ran down a still 14 miles - northeast of Hughes Spring, Texas. - This still was of copper. It had a .. capacity of 55 gallons. It also was i conducted by a farmer. The farmer was arrested, escaped and was re captured three days later by Collec tor Wood at a railroad station while r buying a ticket out of the country, s He was sentenced to the penitentiary. 'I! 11 WW \ . \ Copyright Ilart Schaiiner & Marx o/o fathers c \ IT'S TIME to get tl have the clothes; ing them away to set not see smarter ones they'll give you a goc money you spend. For that long step f ers, we have some li man" would be delig t t n 1 I Hart Sciii I put all the style, desi II suits that have made I Start right and pul I to style and economy I Bambe I i Official Vote in the S Held Tuesday, Septeml COUNTY OFFICES Clerk Court Judge Prob. Au. <fc Sup. < Q 7^ C3 C3 ^ O O ^ ^ O i-S >-j ? p BOXES ? ? s? 2 8 <5 S ? <* p ~ ? X ^ 3 National Guard 3 I 2| if] 5J |! ft Midway 18 251 13 30 20 2oj Bamberg 251 132| 226 158 192 19o Lees ' 5 23| 8 20 2) 261 Ehrhardt 100 97j 76 121 j 731 123;! Kearse 11 53! 11 54! 33 j 3-j Edisto 4 5 4 2 J 73 14| 2J 61 j Colston 18 43 22 40' 4<i 1011 Hunter's Chapel 8 39 23 24 11! 36|! 01 a r 17 153 33 13 < j 951 7a|( i? 1191 10 911 Q 1 I 19911 n2! 1 6 1 ' i u Gil mariv nu| xv?i ? ?| x ? ^^ ( ? _M Hightower's Mill 141 23 3 34l| 5| 32|| Govan 40| 27 1 9 4S|| 30| 37| Clear Pond 11 j 9 12 8|| lSj 2\\ "oM "6541 768j| 612[ 8"l2j| 6091 81Si[ The best line of FULL SIZE Tablets in B< ' * - v *- .t \ ind mothers of hoys I i4 lie boys ready for school-we H so stylish that any boy wear100I can be sure that he will > on anyone; and durable? ' )d, long, hard run for the ) . . ,*>. irom knickerbockers to trous- | vely suits that any "young I hted to wear. iffner & Marx gn and skill into their "prep" ! their men's clothes famous. ' 4 t the boys on the right road j in clothes-buying. express my jnuiuunu giamuuc ivi _ - ' the support of you and your friends." iraberg at Herald Book Store; ??rUl8,p.r """"" " SHAM'S SUINS I rg, South Carolina I I # MASTER'S SALE. fu ! By virtue of a decree of the Court r*l I II IB I I I III 1/1 I V in the case of B- Frank Smoak. et VVvlIU * JL M1MM1AA J al. vs. Hattie Gaskin, et al., I, H. C. w ; Folk, Master for Bamberg county, _ 4 will sell to the highest bidder for L 1 04-1* 1 Q I & ' cas5 *n front of the court house door JCI J. ?<1.11, It/lU ! at Bamberg, s. <j., on tne zna aay or October, 1916, ^between the legal ^?^_? hours of sale on said day, the followstateoffices ing described tract of land: ?- - .. All that certain tract or parcel of .0. Com mis. Governor K. R. Com. , ,an(J gituate jn Ulg c?mnty Qf Bam_ Q I EC C | 2 Q [ 3 j berg, State of South Carolina, con ? ? g g 5 5 taming one nunarea ana nneen 2L ? s ^ (115) acres, more or less, known as ? ? 5' ? j the Jake Rentz place, and bounded 1 ^ ^ I on the North by lands of Lewis Kinj sey and Delia Childs, East by lands iT fj 31 ' D. Gaskin, South by lands of D. 29 14 17 26! 39! 4 Gaskin and lands of D. B. Rhoad, and 228 152 140 240' 207 177 j west by lands of D. B. Rhoad. ~q 22 G **22' ~23j 5 Purchaser to pay for papers. 1 80 17 34 161 i 106| 91 H. C. FOLK, 53 ii 14' 511: 45 20 Master Bamberg County. 15 70:j 38 4 9:1 77! 9 Sept. 13th, 1916. 53 9 i I 24 36|| 17? 45 ~ " ; = 25j 22!j 3j 43| 17 30 Manning Thanks Cooler. 148| 221) 341 135j 75 95 ' ) 103! 103 ji 61! 148 j 181 j 33 Columbia, Sept. 12.?Governor 20j 17j| 111 261 371 ^ Manning at 11 o'clock tonight sent jJI y|| 2g| |q| '{q j the following telegram to Robert A. 934! 4751! 41 11 99711 872' 550 ! Co?Per> of Laurens: Permit me to k 1 4 nrro titn/i a f A r