A^A-A^AA-A-AA^A-A-AAj! f I I A ' ' I* t the j f a Constructed of I-bea ? put in hot. The geai Y railway bridge. In tl ! FIVE Y Y Stronger, more durat The wheels of st . Y riveted into the tires, ? Y t Y ? f v ? X Lasts a life Time > x Y I i See the 1 it ^ ( 1 Telephone Ni NO CHANGE NOTED IN VOTE. , : Nothing to Indicate President Won't - ___ ... J Get All of L'ailiornia s naecu>r>. San Francisco, Nov. 14.?Whether the highest vote for a Republican elector in California was greater than the lowest vote for a Democratic elector was about the only question of interest to California politicians tonight. If this should prove to be the case the State's delegation in the j electoral college may be split. The Republicans admittedly unearthed nothing in the course of the day to indicate for or against such a pros-! pect. Sidney M. Van Wyek, Jr., chair-1 man of the Democratic campaign committee, worked all day bringing in reports from little counties in the I mountains, and also succeeded in getting one or two fair sized counties, j His total for twenty counties showed that the totals for the lowest Democratic elector in each county added 6,466 more than the totals for the highest Republican elector in the same counties. This count would show, when completed, the Wilson electoral vote at its lowest ebb, Van Wyck said. Both Sides Surprised. Tx 1 ?. ? ? ? ^ HATViArtrotc" O ll V O ItCpUUilL'CtllS dUU L>Cluuviaig uw.?v manifested surprise at rumors, trrceable in all cases to the East, that a considerable error had been found somewhere in the State counting the votes. "The mistake as reported would have to be in San Francisco, Alameda, or Los Angeles counties," said Mr. Van Wyck. "So far as we h^ve been able to learn it does not exist. The final count will show no material change." Reports from Republican headquarters were similar. Rotten Luck. "I was at the department store the other day when all the lights went out," said Lightfingered Jim. "What luck!" chuckled his pal. "What did you get?" "Rotten! I was in the grand piano department. ?wasnington rost. It Is, in Fale and of lighter draft th eel, with strong, round sp do away with the resettinj NO BREAK-D Oil Without Removing W DAVENPORT f l Fr amber 49 ANOMALOUS CONDITION. Comment on Scratching Name of J ^AvAfinAI* Columbia, Nov. 7.?The local af-;. ternoon paper today carried the fol-1 lowing: "An anomalous condition has arisen in South Carolina politics, if Columbia is to be considered as a criterion for the remainder of the State. According to the managers at various election precincts the majority of the negroes, balloting there; today cast their votes for tne State and county nominees of the Democratic party with the exception of i governor. They are claimed to have! scratched the name of Richard I. \ Manning and inserted the name of! Cole L. Blease. "At ward two between eight and; eleven negroes are said to have voted at that precinct. The majority of | them are said to have voted for Cole L. Blease. However, a small minori-; ty of them voted the straight Democratic ticket. Of the negroes voting; at ward three all of them voted for ] Cole L. Blease. j "One of them scratched out the name Richard I. Manning while the j election managers were looking on j 'and wrote the name of Cole L. Blease in lead pencil. The law requires all j such insertions to be made in black j | ink. At ward four, between twenty- j five and thirty negroes voted. It is : not known how they voted for gov- j ernor, as they came to the polls with: secret ballots. The only ballots j j floating around the State promiscu-; ously as far as it has been able to ; ascertain are those prepared by W. I I P. Beard, of Abbeville, containing ' the name of Cole L. Blease for gov! ernor instead of the Democratic ! nominee, Richard I. Manning, and j i the names of the other regularly | named Democratic nominees for State j I offices." m TT a V.J. T? 1 Til naru i^oios nruise nun. "That's a peculiar-looking bruise | | you have on the back of your neck," j observed the doctor. "Yes," said the patient. "I'm sub-j j ject to those. You see. I'm a clarinet; player in an orchestra." ; "I don't see how that can produce j bruises on the back of your neck." i "It doesn't produce them exactly, i but it places me in a position where | I am very liable to get them." ' "How is that?" | "I sit directly in front of the man ; who plays the slide trombone."?; | New York Sun. 1 Construe Fifty years a f Bridges were buil and maple. Now and use the stri > | good steel, and b Mttel heaviest lifetime .< | THE DAVENPOR 1 BEARING solidly riveted together raced and trussed like ? vf* a wacron of OUND CAPAC an any other wagon of ei okes, forged solidly into y of tires, loose spokes, ai OWNS heel No Repair E tOLLER BEAR ank A.Story With a Moral. I know of a good man, a tenant! farmer, who has lived for years and j years upon the same farm. He is in- j dustrious, law-abiding, and intensely i religious. He is not exactly illiterate,! but lacks the provident foresight that i intelligence allows. In 1900 the foreign land company that owned his farm wanted to close out their business in Georgia. They offered to sell the land upon a ten- j year loan at 6 per cent. This man's j boys and neighbors begged and plead-1 3d with him to buy this 150-acre farm j upon these comfortable terms. They J hardly got his attention at all. A Macon business man bought it. j He took the money out of his own; pocket to make the first payment, j one-tenth of the purchase price. The j money for the other nine payments! t i he simply took out of the rent money of thfs tenant farmer. Just a month! or so ago the purchaser made the last payment and now owns the land j which this tenant has paid for. The tenant paid for the land but the! other man owns it. This happens to be a bit of history, i i but it is the historv of ten thousand t times ten thousand other similar in stances in the South.?Prof. E. C. Branson in the Progressive Farmer. Roumanian Music. I At the Paris exposition of 1900 there was great rivalry between the Hungarian and Roumanian orches- j tras. The Hungarian gypsies came in bands there several times to entertain the idle Parisians. But the Rou- j manians played the popular airs of i their country on their flutes and clar-! inets, airs moving and tender. They! also played, as did their rivals from j beyond the mountains, the violin and i the cobza, a kind of guitar with ten strings which took the place of the j cymbal of the gypsy orchestra. Every j one went to hear the Roumanians be cause of their bizarre repertory, i Their white shirts embroidered inj many colors, their white trousers, j braided with black, their short, fring-i ed waistcoats added to their pic-: turesque appearance. "When the war is over," says a French journal, "the patrons of our cafes will substitute the Roumanians for the crisp j haired gypsies." : The Smile of Experience. Polly?Jack Dashaway is always, making love to a different girl. Dolly?Yes; that fellow is as fickle as a last year's hammock rope.?Life, j ted Alike HK | go, Wagons and It of oak, hickory M||t| *f we know better, % ongest shapes of v Ac?! masi Wit M A uild them for the ?|> * ~ THE MODERN BRIDGE ? * ? ** tills to Pay Gears of Steel Built for All Kinds of Weather % f X , ING before purchasing another wagon i < uauiu^i g | Bamberg, South Carolina i A. A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A J^k A. ^fiyiy^y t^y f^r T^y w^w^ w* v^T y y y y ||i Don't Be Worried ll I^H rv>" With the old method of smoking I your meats, use I* Figaro Preservar I and be sure that you are safe. I I We have just received a big ship- I ment and can supply those who # want it. Remember that it is I guaranteed to give satisfaction or I money refunded. I SEE OS ABOOT YOUR WHEAT SEED I I H. C. FOLK I I Telephone 26-L Bamberg, S. C. I , \..