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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-03-31
Disastrous Storm Sweeps a
Section Of Missouri.
MANY LIVES ARE LOST
Town Of Caruthersvisie Hard Hit
Cyclone Also Sweeps Louisville,
Ky. Entailing Great Prop
erty Damage.

miles north OF CarutnerSVIIle, AASoo"
ri. Saturday night, causing a great
loss of life and destroying thousands
u dollars worth Of property.
The wires were down all day Sun
day: and authentic news was hard 10
ret, but as belated reports come ID
he loss of life and property increases
It is now known that six lives nave
been lost and thousands OF dollars
worth OF property destroyed.
The lives of the Shoemaker famliS'
living near Portageville, four IN num-
her were blotted out and their nome
demolished.
wesley Miller and wife, living two
miles north Of Mount Pleasant. were
killed and their home demollsheo'
Their bodies were found 200 yards
away badly mutilated. Mr.. Miller was
. wealthy mill owner and planter
Fifteen hundred dollars in money BE-
longing to him was found scattereo
oyer the ground.
Much stock was killed and woundeu'
Chickens were found with their heads
blown off and stripped Of their teath-
srs.. Fence posts were blown from the
zround and giant trees were twisted
aside like straws. -,
rt is feared a full report will reveal
greater loss Of life. Saturday was
very warm, and just after dark the cS-
clone burst its furious wrath from d
funnel-shaped cloud. sweeping q
path 800 yards wide.
Storm Hits Louisville.
Eight persons were injured and ex'
tsnsiye damage was done 10 city anu
suburban property by a storm "hlcn
swept over Louisville, KY, Saturday
The storm was central over the mid
sls Mississippi and Ohio valleys, and,
according to the weather bureau
moved aortheastward to the Atlantic.
with a cold wave close on its heels.
In 81 louisville the wind attained a We
locity of sixty miles an hour and rain
fell in torrents, accompanied by heav'
euly pyrotechnics terrifying to tne
tfmid. The entire city was for time
hooded: In an area Of dozen squares
tan houses were unroofed and several
persons were hurt Reports from va
rious parts Of the city indicate tnat
about one hundred and fifty houses
were more or less damaged.
Reports OF damage throughout the
state we're received during the Day.
At Owensboro the warehouse Of the
Continental Tobacco Company was
unroofed and many thousand pounds
Of tobacco ruined by water.
Damage amounting to $4,000 is re-
ported from the northern part OF Mont
Eomery county.
A cloudourst swept the country ao-
jacent 10 Petersburg, Ky, but no lives
were lost. .. &c.:
A levee broke near Henderson, Ky,
washing away several bridges and de-
laying all railway traffic.
Very few trains arrived in Louis
vile on time, as the food damage de-
layed all Of them. From Bedford came
the report that the rain there amount
ed almcst5to a cloudburst, and all tral'
fsc on the Monon was at standstill.
Trains from indianapolis and Chicago
were delayed Indefinitely by reason of
the storm near Indianapolis.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-03-31
RUSSIANS PILLAGlNG TOWNS.
Their Usual Mode of Warfare Being
Carried Out on Noa-Conbatants.

Advices from Seoul state that two
detachments Of Russian troops, one
estimated to number 500 and the other
2CO men. are reported to be pillagilg
the country around Anju. This town
is forty miles north Of Ping Yang, and
about sixty miles south Of the Yalu
river
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-03-31
INCREASE FOR RURAL CARRIERS

Item Struck from Postoffice Appro
priation Bill Is Re'inserted.
The house, Friday, passed the post
Office appropriation bill, after a pro
longed debate on the paragraph affec:
ing rural letter carriers, which was
previously stricken out, but which
was reinserted under a special ordc:
of the committee on rules. Every
amendment and substitute offered &c
this paragraph was voted down.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-03-31
LAWYER SEEKS NoToRlETY.
Files Bill in Equity to Estop Building
Of Panama Canal.

Warren B. Wilson, lawyer Of Chi
cago, filed in the district supreme
court at washington, Monday, a bill
in equity for an injunction against
Secretary Shaw, the republic Of Pana'
ma. the new Panama Canal Company
Of France and others, to estop the
construction of the Panama canal.
He AYERS that there is no appropria.
ton by law of any money for the pay.
ment of any Of the construction ex.
penses, declares that the act Of June
%, 1902, is in violation Of the consti'
tuition of the United States.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-03-31
BURTON NEEDED THE MONEY.
Kansas Senator Tells In Court Why
He illegally Accepted Fees.

He illegally Accepted Fees.
Previous to the defense resting its
case at st. Louis Friday, United
States Senator Burton, Of Kansas,
took the stand in his own behalf, in
connection with the charge Of having
illegally accepted fees from. the Rialto
Grain and Securities Company, Of St.
Louis. Burton testified that he had
accepted the offer of the company to
act as its general counsel because he
had lost heavily in a financial panic,
and needed the $500 month. for
which his contract called.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-03-31
QUESTION OF CIVIL SERVICE
Raised in Senate By Georgian-ladian
Appropriation Bill! Passed.

The senate Thursday passed the In.
dian appropriation bill. Mr.. Bacon
again raised the question Of civil
service appointments, basing his re-
marks upon the statement previously
made by Mr.. Hoar to the effect that
senator's from states Of political faith
!ifferent from that Of the presider.
should be consulted in the mater OF
apccintment to Office. --.<
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-03-31
STORM SWEEPS OVER ILLINOIS.
Great Damage Done in Area About
Chicago and Vicinity.

Reports of Friday from the storm 8
area in and about Chicago indicate
that the havoc wrought Thursday IS
greater than at first believed. The
property loss from wind which was
of a tornado character in several dts
tr;cts, was augmented later by height
ened floods, which had but partially
receded from previous heavy rains.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

tie girl with the pug nose warns up close to Honey Boy and puts one hand in his overcoat pocket. and thinks how awful it would be if anybody should steal him. When the firemen's grand hall is given she is there with Honey Boy. He gets around on the floor about as gracefully as a baggage truck, but she holds onto him tight, and glows with pride. Honey Boy is not much of a locker. but he will be building house for the little girl with the snub nose. while the duchess. and the girl with the ancestors, and the old maid. and the blonde, and the others are clerking in the dry goods store, or having mat rimonial troubles.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

Luxury of lifing, it is true. has in- creased as the country has grown in wealth and individual fortunes have run into the higherA figures. and men are able to do for their wives. in the way of gifts, what they would not have thought of doiiig twenty-five or thirty years ago; but, we do not believe we should have to go very far in search of woman whof would find more real de- light in a single rose brought to her by her husband and offered with a dainty odor of love+ like sentiment mingling with it's own perfume than in a whole case of jewels presented as a matter of course or with the usual perfunctory associations pf gift-making. Feeling plays a largeH part in the inner life of woman than et man. and not all that she seels ever gets to the surface and is made known. to the world.
 No, we are inclined to think that the trouble lies not in the excess of devo- tion shown by husbands toward their wives, but in the failure of the wives very often, to realize what sort of a bond they are entering when they give themselves in marriage to their hus- bands They think ef the hard and of- ten sordid side of housekeeping in the strict sense, and not to home-making which is much larger thing to be considered. They are content to say of particular function" That is some thing for the servants to attend to-" without pausing to reflect that the mi cf rko notice step in and take servants place is a good deal like the manufacturer who knows nothing of his onw methods of production, but is compelled to lean for everything upon his foremen and operatives, who may be faithful to his interests or may not
 It is not essential of course, that a woman should be a culinary chef or distinguished expert in any department of the care of house. but that she should know, and take pride and pleas ure in knowing, how to do every kind of domestic work well enough to lend hand when necessary it is only right to expect. Then she should reflect that, as she looks 10 her husband to bear the brunt of the battle with the outside world, and bring her only the fruits thereof so she should be ready to bear the brunt of the difficulties in the home and try to keep it, during the few hours of his active occupancy, a place of peace and rest, which all day long he will have in his mind as the storm-tossed sailor thinks of the smiling harbor toward which his ship is headed. Let the hus- band continue as devoted as ever, say we, but let the wife return measure for measure, and we shall hear less of marital troubles among the young.-Washingto Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08
4 FIT IN THE 0INrMeN7.

There's got to be a fly in the oint- ment. With more gold in the treasury than there ever was before or than there is in any other treasury. and with the per capita" larger than ever. the sad and surprising truth is put before us that the gold production of the United States last calendar year com- pares unfavorably with that of 1902, ac- cording to estimates made by the direc- tor of the mint. To the miners strikes in Colorado is. attributed most of the falling off, that States output being only about s92, 1000, ,OOO, compared with s2S. .46S.7OO in 1902 and about s29,000, 900 in 1901. But California shows a slight decrease, without such an explanation, and so does Alaska, whose output was s6,921. .157, compared with $S,s45 800 in 1902. Total production for the United States is estimated to have been s74,- 25,s40, against about sSO, ,OOO. 900 for both of the two previous years. s7s,OOO,oOO in 1900 and $T1. .OO0, 900 in 1899.
 It has been generally supposed that our gold production, as we'll as our gold hoard. was increasing. But we can't have quite everything to please us. If we could the country would be too good to live in.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08
4 RIT OF KANSAS FIFE.

There is life in Kansas. Some of it is graphically described by the Atchison Globe, which says that in an Atchison dry goods store there is titled duch- ess clerking incog; also very cold and very naughty lady with an endless line of stately ancestors; also an overflow
 ing blonde who would land almost any, body who did not kick too much; also an old maid who would stick a man
 with a hat pin if. he called her by her first name. But the interesting one of the clerks is a little girl with snub nose who loves her Honey Boy. He is a wiper, or boilermaker, or something,
 out at the Central Branch shops, and her only trouble is that he might get car bit. The dapper boys around town walk into the dry goods stores and lean over the counter, joshing with the clerks, but Honey Boy is too big to get into the store without brushing all the dry goods off of the counters. He never slows up in the daytime, but at night he is always out in front of the store when it closes, waiting for her The duchess, and the girl with her ances- tors, and the old maid, and the blonde look at his big black hands and his awkward frame, and sheer, but the lit-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08
READY.

That little mare I got from you was no good at all.'
 And yet you say am no judge of a horse. Life.
 Wantanno-At which joint did your friend have his arm amputated?
 Duzno--That's mighty disrespectful way to speak of a hospital.-B American.
 He-I think the bride was wonderfully lucky in receiving so many beautiful wedding presents, She-Oh! She always was lucky in that respect.-Brooklyn Life.
 He hasn't very high opinion of your intelligence
 How do you know?'
 T heard him refer to you once as an ideal juror. Philadelphia Ledger,
 What makes you think she has a saving sense of humor?"
 Because she laughed so heartily when she described the way you pro- posed to her. ."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Flatleigh--I suppose you are pretty familiar with the scenery, between the city and your supurban home?
 Urbanite-Yes; I know every inch of the advertisements!-C Chicago Daily News.
 What am I ever going to do with such a bad, bad boy?" sighed the fond mother
 'Oh, you leave me alone" replied the young hopeful I'm not half as bad as I can Brooklyn Life.
 Then you have no sympathy for the deserving pocr,' said the charity work CT.
 "Me?' retorted the self-made man. Why, sir, have nothing but sympa- thy. y."-Chicago Daily News
 Tt was only five years ago that I started in with our firm at S a week" ]" said Bragg, and now earn $50 a week without any trouble.'
 That's SO; it's easy to earn that" remarked Hewitt, but how much do you get" Philadelphia Press
 Edwin (before marriage)- Never mind, dear I'll shovel off the snow so that we can skate. I'd shovel off acres for youl
 After marriage-What! Me shovel that snow off the walk? Well, should say not! I'm no chore boy.-Chicago Daily News.
 sOh, yes, I've opened an office" said the young lawyer; you may remember that you saw me buying an alarm clock the other day"
 Yes" replied his friend, "you have to get up early these mornings, eh?"
 'Oh, no. use it to wake me up when it's time to go home -Philadel- phia Press. One day just before Christmas Joes mother was busy cleaning the windows Shortly after she had finished Joe be- gan to make fingermarks on them.
 Why, Joe," exclaimed his mother what are you doing that for?"
 'Ps fraid Santa Claus won't know there's any children here. ."--Little Chronicle.
 The eminent surgeon who had off ciated in the ear-grafting case was ex- blaming the process to an inquirine | friend.
 'Of course," he said, T had to re- move the ear with a knife. I could have found plenty of men who would gladly have talked his ear off, but the method I used involved less suffering. ! l l-Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08
FOR A WHITE MOUNTAINS FOR
 EST RESERVE.

Widespread interest exists in New
 Hampshire in the bill introduced in the United Senate by Senator Gallinger of
 New Hampshire for the purchase of a national forest reserve in the White
 Mountains. The bill calls for an ap-
 propriation of s5,0O0,00O to enable the secretary of agriculture to obtain lands. Senator Gallingeriin his capacity as a
 member of the hepublican committee on Committees. has done New Hamp-
 shire and the project a good turn by
 procuring the assignment of Senator Burnham to the Committeee on Forest Reservations This is the body to
 which is referred the bill establishing a national forest reserve in the White
 Mountains, also the Appalachian forest reserve in Virginia, Tennessee. and Carolina. In addition to Senator Burn ham, another son of New Hampshire has been added to the Senate Committee in Senator Alfred R. Kittredge of South
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08
Home.

He goes, when night begins to fall
 And peace cree9s in the market place, To where q butler in the hall
 Admits him with solemn face. Magnificence surrounds him there,
 The heavy walls are rich with art, He dimes upon the choicest fare,
 But no shrlll voices cheer his heart; No little arms reach up to twine
 Themselves around his neck; he sits Ill lonely state and sips his wine
 And takes his bread in grudging bits. When I rush up the steps at night
 No butler gravely swings the door, But I can hear with proud delight
 My darllngs fighting on the floor; l hear their mother wearily
 Complaining that they'll drive her mad, And when they wildly rush on me,
 With sticky hands. how doubly glad am to know that they are mine
 Their appetites are such that when I've had whats left on which to dine
 l often long to start again.
 -S. F. Riser in Chicago Record Herald.
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4 scAnn ANp 4 nAY OF noPr.

4 SClA fl F. A ~ D -I 1S q T VT 1T AOA fts
 Many things have been discovered in vertical handwriting which may or may not be there. and now Boston bank official has made the discovery that the vertical handwriting is breeding a race of forgers. He has protested against the method to an executive officer of the local school board, declaring that when it is firmly established it will be as easy for John Smith to write the correct signature of Richard Ralston as for Richard himself. Infinite trouble will sollow for bankers and all those who rely upon the Individuality in hand writing for purposes of Identification. The school official replied that, while vertical writing made the way easier for the forger, it's compensating advantages to those who had to handle much cor respondence are so great that it is jus tified. Furthermore, according to the Boston school board official, forgers are bound to exercise their brains and skill anyway, and a banks paying teller must simply look little sharper when a check comes in signed in the new and legible way.
 The Boston bank mans discovery is alarming enough, if taken seriously, but perhaps by the time race of forgers is bred by the vertical handwriting some new fad will arise and proceed to nulli- fly the vertical fad. There's always ground for hope of new fad in the schools.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08
DEVOTION OF HUSBANDS
 WIVES

DEVOTION OF HUSBANDS TO
 WIVES.
 We observe among our contemporar- ies a widespread disposition to copy, with insignia of approval, some remarks from the lips of lone of the cleverest and kindest of society's elder matrons'' quoted in the New York Press concern ing the sources of trouble between chief obstacle to the happiness of these young people she thinks she has dis covered in the excess of devotion paid by the husband to the wives. In her young days, she says, women would have been overjoyed to receive half the attention and affection the average man now showers upon his wife. Women then were grateful for good homes. reasonable allowance and moderate display of husbandly regard and gave in exchange a much larger measure of wifely duty.
 It may be that we are somewhat pur- blind, or else our experience has been less grandly rounded than this fair vet eran's, but if we had been guessing at relative proportions we should have said that the percentage of devotion paid now by husbands to wives had de- creased rather than increased with the lapse of years. Divorce has certainly become easier and more common. The clubs have multiplied, and both sexes, so that, taking broad average, there have been an increasing number of dis fractions, actual and potential, from the cosy home life of our fathers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

General Pleasant Porter, the last chief of the Creek Indian nation. is suffer- CT from that highly civilized disease known as gout. If had stuck to the life of my youth" he says, T should not be sufferer from any such trouble. used to live out of doors, sleep on the ground and eat plain food. Then I was healthy. Oh, but this gout hurts. It just compels me to swear. A religious friend told me ought to pray for relief. Maybe so, but it's easier to swear. and seems to be more natural" Chief Por- ter, who is over seventy years old, has been leader of his nation for over half a century.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08
ENTERPRISE IN BALTIMORE.

Baltimore isn't letting slip any chance to increase her business. It is now reported that the rebate system instituted by the Merchants and Manu- faeturers' Association of that city has been the means of attracting many visitors and much trade to Baltimore which but for it would have gone else where. The associations report states that the sum of S1095S.74 was returned to visiting merchants, that sum being one-half of their railroad fare to Balti- more. This offer of rebate of one-half of railroad fare is conditioned on the purchase of goods of Baltimore mer- chants to the amount of S1,200 or more. The number of visitors who registered at the associations rooms during the year was 9S2, against 733 the year be- fore and 696 in 1901. Of those who of the rebate system. It appears, therefore, that if the visitors had pur- chased only the required amount, the aggregate of their purchases would have been nearly $l,00000O. But as many visitors bought in excess of that, it is calculated that the aggregate sales as result of this offer were not far from $2.0OO,OOo.
 When Baltimore gets her deep water channel to the sea, as she now seems likely to, she will be in high feather. and her trade will grow faster than ever.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

A London theosophist, who visited the Chicago stock yards. informed the people that the darkened atmosphere of the city was due not to smoke. but to the ghost life of the millions of animals slaughtered at the abattoirs.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

Tt is rather difficult to tels whether these men are using bad language or not" said the Mayor of Yarmouth, England, referring to some drunken Scottish fishermen.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

Dakota. who is native Of Cheshire County. Another member Of the same committee is Senator Paris Gibson of Montana. who was born and raised in
 Continued on Fifth Page.)
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

During the recent floods in Italy the Tiber rose forty-f1ve feet above it's orr dinary level At Rome, the district of St. Pauls. beyond the city walls, was submerged to depth of four feet. The beautiful inlaid marble floor of the ma jestic Basilica was almost ruined. At Venice high seas caused the inundation of half the city. and for some hours firemen were busily employed every where in erecting temporary bridges to make pedestrian. trafffc possible. The watsggsas were too full to allow gon- es.sus<s to pass under the bridges. The Piazza of St. Mark was nearly four feet under water, and pontoon had to be constructed to enable citizens to enter the cathedral.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

francs for each. This means a rough total of LAO francs a year for each member.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08
AnvrRr1sING RArEs

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each in- serti0u: Five Cents Word for full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch. one in- sartion. s1 20; each subsequent insertion. 40 cents; one week, s. 20; one month, Sl0; one
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

South Carolina made record of 222 homicides last year, and no white man was hanged.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08

A ten-story clubhouse is to be built on Murray hill New York, this year, to be occupied by the American society of civil engineers, the American society of mechanical engineers. the Amerian institute of mining engineers and the American institute of electrical engin- eers The site on West Thirty-ninth street, 125 feet front, has been bought for s517.00O. At the same time a site op Fortieth street has been bought for s225.000, backing on the other plot, which will also bear a ten-story club house for the Engineers club, social organization. and Mr Carnegie, who advances the money for both, has placed the titles in the names of friends of the five organizations. He has also promised s1,O0O,OO0 to erect the club houses, which it is said will cost over s2,o0O,ooo