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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25

Ex-Congressman Asher G. 'Caruth, OF
Kentucky. tells this story OF an expert
ence he once had on q visit to little
Ohio town, says Harpers Weekly: II
went up there on legal business" he says,
.sand. knowing that I should have to stay
ali night, I proceeded directly to the only
hotel. The landlord stood behind the
desk and regarded me with kindly air
as I registered. 1t SENS that he was little
hard Of hearing, fact OF which was not
aware ASH iabbed the pen back into the
dish of birdshot I said. Can you direct
me to the bank?' He looked at me
blankly for a second, then, swinging the
register around, he glanced down swiftly,
>canght the louisville after my name and
sn eTnression of complete understanding
ne lightipg Sa up bis countenance, he said id:
Certainly, sir. You will find the bar right
through that door at the Left
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
In the Sanctum.

"Here!" stormed the irate woman as
she descended upon the editor. "Look at
that What do you mean by saying that
when the guests at our silver wedding
anniversary celebration presented US
with that beautiful silver service we
were duly appreciative?'"
"Why, why" said the mortified editor.
81 wrote that as plain as typewriter
could make it: duly appreciatiVe.' And
now do you know what I'm going to DO"
"No."
"Tm going to the proof-room."
"Yes?"
"And I'm going to do to that head
proof-reader what he failed to do to that
misleading word"
"And what's that?"
"Knock L out out of him." ,
And Mrs. snobberly went away satsned
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOMEINTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.

News Items Gathered All Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Death of DR.. j. l.. kearse.
OLAR, May 1s.-Dr. James L. Kearse,
aged 70, died here yesterday. His death
was not unexpected, as he has been very
i'll for some time.
DR.. Kearse was highly educated. Before
the war he practiced for the large rice
planters east of Walterboro, and was for
four years surgeon in the Confederate
service. Since the war he has lived on
his farm here, a veritable hermit. Hepos-
sessed many noble traits of character,
was a gentleman of the old school, a
gifted linguist, a successful physician, but
was very eccentric. He never married
and belonged to no church. His remains
were laid to rest today: just in front of his
old home, spot he dearly loved. Peace
to his ashes.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
Effect Of Yankee Invasion.

81 don't take much stock in the new
vay of pronouncing that people have
these days," says W. W. Nordyke, OF
Birmingham, Ala. "Take the word inter
EST Everybody pronounces in INTER
est these days. If you say you are inter
EsTed in anything people look at you
with pity. One day I went to an old
school teacher, who has the reputation o!
being one of the best grammarians in the
South, and asked him:
"sWhen did interEST get to be inter
ests' and he replied:
"sWhen the d---d Yankees came
South in the co."
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Punsent Paragraphs About Men
and Hapoeninds

and Happenings.
Green7ille, s. c., has been selected g.
the next meeting place of the Southern
Presbyterian General Assembly.
Walter Hill, young negro OF Edge
field, being jealous of his wife, killed he'
on Monday night. He first shot at he
with a Winchester rifle, but missed; theI
he crushed her skull with the weapon. H'
made his escape.
A special to the News and Courier from
Cheraw SAYS that Cash Watts, son o
Judge Watts, accidentally hit a negro
while shooting his pistol in the road OF
Friday night and the wounded man IS II
a critical condition.
The Citadel cadets revolted one da!
last week and refused to enter the dining
room on account of the food given then
and the manner in which it was served
A protest was made by them to the facult.
and the conditions improved.
The announcement has been made tina
the Southern railway will build a doubl
track to Summerville, % miles iron
Charleston. The double track now ex
tends as far as the ten-mile hill, and tn
engineers are at work grading the roat
for the extension.
Mack Jackson, negro, shot and klllet
his brother, Lewis Jackson, at the latter
home at Campobello last Sunday morn
ing. They quarreled over the ownership
of some whiskey, and the dead maj
called his brother fool, who then selzet
d ehotonp and killed Lewis
The opening of the Pee Dee river b.
the United States engineers departmen
will make the river navlgaole IRON
Cheraw to the ocean and the Charleston
Steamship company, which was organized
last Monday, will doubtless avail itself O
this opportunity to extend its service
high up into the State.
A special election was held in Picken'
county last Saturday on the question O.
voting out the dispensary. The anti dls
pensaryites won by vote OF about lou
to one. One by one the upper counties
are getting rid of the dispensary, but W.
very much doubt that the absence OF dis
pensaries will do much to promote tenn
perance and sobriety.
Clinnie, the thirteen year old daughte:l
of Mr.. and Mrs. N. P. Smith was acci
dentally shot in the breast with shotgun
last Friday afternoon in the town O
Marion. She and several other children
were playing on the lawn at the home o
DR.. Utley when the accident occurred
A boy in the crowd had the gun and i
was discharged. She died few hour
later.
It is estimated that there are yet IA,
0OO, 900 acres of undeveloped land in Soutf
Carolina. Think of the great increase II
the value of taxable property, the increas'
in the volume of all lines of business, tht
additional support that would be given t.
schools and churches, not to mention IN
Vulnerable other advantages, were these
vast acres peopled with a thrifty class O.
white people.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
Items from the O. 8. Naval Academy.

The department starts on its annual
cr1ise June the 4th with the following
fleet, the largest that has ever assembled
at their institution, viz:
Battleship Texas, U. 8. F. s., Admiral
Dickens commanding; Monitors Arkan-
sas, Nevada, Florida, and Terror; Cruis-
ers Atlanta and Newark, sailing ships
Chesapeake and Hartford; Destroyers Mac
Donough, Whipple, Briddle and D9port;
torpedo boats, Manly, Laurence and Hol-
land. They will take part in the army
and navy maneuvers in Chesapeake bay
and around Norfolk from the 9th and 10th
of June, after which they sail northward
for the rest of q three months cruise,
returning home about September LIST on a
thirty days furlough, and then again the
1st of October for studies at the Academy.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
TERRIFIC RACE WITH DEATH.

"Death was fast approaching" writes
Ralph F. Fernandez, of Tampa, Fla, des-
cribing his race with death, "as result
of liver trouble and heart disease, which
had robbed me of sleep and all interest in
life. I had tried many different doctors
and several medicines, but got no beneat,
until I began to use Electric Bitters. SO
wonderful was their effect, that In three
days I felt like new man, and To-Day l
am cured of all my troubles" fr1ce QUO.
Guaranteed by all druggists at Bamberg;
Fielder g. Matthews, Denmark.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
SAVED BY DYNAMITE.

Sometimes, a flaming city is saved by
dynamiting q space that the fire can't
cross. Sometimes, cough hangs on go
long. YOU feel as if nothing but dynamite
would cure it. z. T. Gray, of Calhoun
Ga. writes: my wife had an aggravated
cough. which kept her awake nights
Physicians could not help her; 80 she
took DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con;
sumption, coughs and colds, which eased
her cough, gave her sleep and cured her. y
Strictly scientific cure for bronchitis and
lagrippe. At all druggists at Bamberg;
Fielder & Matthews, Denmark. SOC and
ri 90: guaranteed. Trial bottle free.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
When e'er you feel impending i'll,
And need a magic little pill,
M other one will fill the bill,

Like DeWitt's Little Early Risers.
The famous little pills Early Risers cure
constipation, sick headache. biliousness,
etc. They never grippe or sicken, but i'm
part early rising energy; GOOD Tor elsaef alief
Burgess, Milesburg Borough, Pa. says:
"I never used pills in my family during
the forty years of housekeeping, that
cave such satisfactory results as DeWitts
Little Early Risers." Sold by b F Hoover
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25

Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks
have selected five hundred dollar ink
stand, which will be paid for by the gov
ernment and will become the private
property of Mr. Fairbanks when he re-
tires from Office. There is something in
the vice presidency after all.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
Letter from Charleston.

Editor The Bamberg Heratd:--Slnce
my last letter to the Herald I am in re-
ceipt Of a request from one OF your sub
scribers Ia personal friend) that describe
through the columns of the Herald the
beauties and attractions of Sulliyan's
Island and the Isle of Palms. It would
he well if our Bamberg friends would
avail themselves of the many oppor uni
ties offered during the summer, and, by
visiting these resorts, see for themselves.
as no pen picture can do them justice.
In the first place the trip from any
given point in the city to the pavilion at
the Isle of Palms abounds in of beauty
and interest. Taking the belt line troll
ley We pass many handsome and inter-
ssting buildings. On Meeting street
the Charleston, Argyle, and St. Johns
hotels, the great old Central Market, the
handsome Commercial Club, the new
post Office, court house, city hall, ST..
Michal's church, that historic old place Of
worship so well known to all. In the
center aisle of this beautiful building, is
the pew where George Washington wor-
shipped; just as it was years ago SO it
stands now. The very chair in which
this great leader and father Of his country
sat is still in his place and the pew is still
known as "Washington's pew"
But I have not time to describe in de-
tail each building as we pass or we will
never reach our destination, the Isle Of
Palms. Let US, therefore, board the
"Comorodore Perry" and take seat on
the upper deck which commands per-
feet view of the water, city, and surround
ing Islands. Castle Pinckney, the two
light houses, Fort Sumter, whose history
is fresh in the memory of all from gray
haired men to thoughtlees youth, Fort
Mouitrie on sullivan's Island, made FAM
GUS by the daring deed of William Jasper.
The island is well fortified and garrison
ed, and the daily dress parades and drills
by Uncle Sans soldier boys keeps the
place alive. Many new cottages have
been built, ample boarding house and
hotel accommodations supplied, and quite
number of families have already moved
down.
Surf bathing, strolls on the beach,
card parties, and hops and concerts at
the hotel are a few Of the attractions
the island offers. At, the Isle Of Palms
the attractions are even more varied. The
spot itself is most beautiful, deriving its
name from the thousands Of stately palms
which surround it. The daily excursions
from other towns, semi weekly concerts
and hops, dip in the ocean, fishing, 9
ramble in the woods, caroussels, steeple
chase, ferris wheel, merry go round, are
some few of the many pleasures which
attract large crowds to the place. Ample
hotel accommodations are to be found
there, as on the Island, and many cottages
Just built will be occupied during the
season.
I fear even now I have given but 9
meagre description and crude picture OF
the Isle of Palms. III haveomited to touch
on any subject which my friends would.
find interesting I will do SO in my next.
In the mean time I hope to welcome
many of my Bamberg friends to "the city
by the sea-"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
HOT WEATHER PILES.

Persons afflicted with piles should be
carefnl at this season of the year. Hot
weather and bad drinking water contrib
,'te to the conditions which make piles
more mo- painful and dangerous. DeWitts
witch Hazel Salve stops the pain, draws
ont the soreness and cures. get t9e gen
nine bearing. the name of E. 9. DeWltt& O
r. Sold bY H. F. Hoover.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-25
A CREEPING DEATH.

Blood poison creeps towards the heart,
causing death. j. E. Stearns, Bell Plaine,
MINI, writes that a friend dreadfully
injured his hand, which swelled up like
blood poisoning. Bucklen's Arnica Salye
drew out the poison, healed the wound,
and saved his life. Best In the world for
burns and sores. Csc at all druggists at
Bamberg; Fielder & Matthews, Denmark.
The Washington times., 1905-06-18
Turning on the Lights.

Now and then boys with the hendish-
ness which seems to be Unborn in all OF
them come TO the parks after dark armed
with dark lanterns and turn them sud
denly on unsupported couples with disas-
trous results. 4Iuffied curses. soueaIs
of fright and embarrassed laughter fol-
low these exploits. sometimes the en-
ragged lover gives chase and whales a
certain amount of satisfaction out Of
the small boy.
Besides the shady hooks which the
Government. the river, and the open
country offer to the earnest seekers,
Washington can provide them with sew.
eral TO which admission is charged. The
joys of Cabin John Bridge, of Marshall
Hail. Mt. Nernon-the latter to be sure
more often visited by the thousands
of young married people who come here
on their honeynoonS-are not to be
sneered at by members of the fraterni-
ty of lovers. The deck of the Marshall
Hall boat on it's return trip after dark
presents to the view of the curious mora
loving scenes than any other area of
the same size in the country It's hard
at times to tell where one leaves off and
the other begins and an ice pick would
be necessary to separate them.
The Washington times., 1905-06-18
The Animals Don't Mind.

In a category of the shady hooks in
End about Washington. Rock Creek Park
must figure at the top of the list in
the favor of those who are afflicted with
the love bug. Its drives and walks and
above all the possibilities which it pos
sesses along the line of real rocks
against which TO lean back, and real
woods in which TO get lost, give il the
prominence which 1t deserves. 1t is
accessible from all parts of the city and
can be reached much more quickly than
the more wildly gay Chevy Chase Lake.
1t would be difficult to say how many
young people visit the park during the
spring and summer as we'll as how
many times some go there. Here and
there the superintendent of the park has
kindly put up signs ITO the animals"
Unless the man and the girl have reac CHI
ed that stage where they are bent upon
improving their minds so as to be
worthy of one another, they Will avoid
the paths to which these signs point
probably the animals don't care If they
do.
Close to the Eighteenth street entrance
TO the park is long stairway which
winds round and round tc end in what is
known as the boulder bridge. All the
way down this stairway are found
The Washington times., 1905-06-18
Washington Leads the Country.

There may be other cities in the
United States possessed OF as many
shady hooks where a young mans
fancy is at liberty to run riot these June
days as Washington, but the question
Is open to reasonable doubt. Indeed.
without prejudice. and in the WORDS of
the young college graduate, Washington
may be said to have them all skinned
to DEATH And why not? There is no
other city in the Union so well provided
with parks, fitted Up with cool-looking
green benches. built with a scoop which
will fit the back of any individual, nor
NAL or otherwise. and with beautiful
shade trees-not the skinny kind that
line so many of the streets and seem
to be there only for horse to sharpen
his teeth on, or as refuge for stray
cats from the attacks of pecvish fox-
terriers Wasiiington,s parks. their
name is legion, and it would be like TAX
ing money from child to bet that they
have played a part in every courtship
that ever happened in the National Cap
ital, no matter whether it be the court
ship of house maid or millionairess For
the parks are ideal as rendezvous when
the cook is receiving a visit from fol
lower" in the eight-by-ten kitchen sit
wrapt in the holy righteousness of
many stocks and bonds. frowns upon
swain who earns possibly enough TO pay
his club dues and his florist bills.
It is a strange thing that whenever q
young man begins to think about love
"a young girl too, for that matter-he
always has a desire to get away from
the city, from the commonplace streets.
TO get out into the country Possibly
green may have a soothing effect upon
him or the trees may lend him courage.
Those are questions for the color-crazed
scientist to answer. The fact remains
that every chance he gets he and an
other make a Decline for the open
country. Here too, Washington is way
ahead of other large cities. There is no
part Of 1t from which It is not posi-
bic TO get out into the country. real
country, within ten or fifteen minutes.
And there IS nc doubt but what the
country which surrounds the city is
beautiful.
The Washington times., 1905-06-18
Up the River.

washington has several Of the appur-
tenances necessary to an ideal summer
resort, Notwithstanding the fact that
many persons consider II taste Of the
lie 70 come II they are compelled to
spend a summer here. One Of these is
as pretty stretch Of water as could be
FOUND even on the upper Hudson or In
New England-the Potomac river above
the Aqueduct bridge. In consequence
there is a fleet of canoes, out-rlggers.
and other small boats on the river every
afternoon in the week, and on Sundays
all day long. Canoes are by far the
most popular with the feminine part of
the excursion, and the man who is
lucky enough to own one of these frail
craft is pretty sure to find a girl willing
TO hunt for SHADY hooks along the Vir-
ginia and Maryland shores with him.
The first canoe was built for two per
sons-there's no doubt of 1t. Possibly
1t was manned by Father Adam and
Mother Eve. Since then there have
been war canoes, and the modern
makers build canoes that hold four or
even six persons. but these are perver-
sions Of the real use OF the canoe. There
Is something about the canoes up the
river that gives them dead away They
are so comfortably lazy even for the
paddler-there's as much difference be-
tween canoe and an out-rigger as
there is between an ambling, long tailed
horse you can drive with one hand and a
spirited span that nearly pulls both your
arms out of their sockets. Then there's
always a spice of danger about them,
they tip easily. which invariably appeals
10 the feminine mind
Scores of canoes are beached along the
Virginia shore as the sun sinks behind
the high bluffs that come almost to the
waters edge. Some of the parties elect
10 go ashore, but the majority refuse 10
move themselves from the bottoms of
the canoes. There they sit. or rather
lie, and look at each other. There's
The Washington times., 1905-06-18

TO collect tickets and asked him for
them. Without taking his eyes from
his paper he said. Mary, give the man
the tickets and went on reading.
You know / haven't the tickets.
quickly replied tho woman. Then
you've lost them retorted the angry
husband. for ! gave them to You be-
fore we got the train
You didn't, either his wife replied.
81 did
You didn't
I know L did
And 1 know you didn't. Do you
mean to say / tell what isn't true?'
No, but I'm sure you've lost the
tickets replied the husband with
look of extreme disgust in his counte-
nance.
Il saw trouble was brewing and told
them | would return later to get the
tickets continued the Pullman conduc-
tor as he told his story to a crowd
around him. When I went back the
The Washington times., 1905-06-18
The Makinq of Umbrellas

making Of umbrellas. The cloth from
which umbrellas are made comes to the
umbrella factory proper in huge rolls
The steel ribs are usually made in foo
tories which do nothing else. AT tina
umbrella factory the cloth is arranged
IN the desired lengths and widths upon
a splitting table preparatory 20 beins
cut and is held down tightly by weights.
A thickness of seventy-fiye or 5nore
plies is not unusual Into this fhs
workman places a Iong-bladed knife
with a wonderfully sharp edge This
knife, guided partly by a slot in the
table beneath. and partly by the skill
full hand of the workman, rapidly al.
complishes the desired result.
The goods next go to a number of girls
VINO are engaged in operating heurninr
machines. which often attain a snae6
of more than 5000 revolutions a nainuts
1t is not unusual for an experienced
operator at one OF these machines -
turn out 200 yards a day OF hemmed
goods. When the heuming work las
been accomplished the goods must gaIn
be cut, the number OF separate piece
depending upon the number OF ribs IN
the umbrella In GETTING these pieces
a knife is used as before, togctf.rr with
a pattern of the desired. size.
before the covers and tI..s frames ara
united the triangular pieces of cloth
heretofore described arc Sewe0 toSetber
and this work is also zone t.y the now,
erful sewing machines The covers ara
then brought TO the tables, where girls
work at sewing them on. one set of ou-
orators being employed to sew the cover
about the rod of the umbrella and an
other 10 attach the cover to the ribs
there often being twenty-five or. thirty
places where the cover must be thus ar
tached The number Jepeuds, of course.
chiefly upon the number Of ribs in TIA
umbrella. The handle IS next put in
place and nicely glued, Women con-
tinue the work upon tn modern nm
hreHa by pressing it with heavy iron
after which IL gees 40 the inspector ana
then TO the girls who roll il tightly and
who place u cover thereon
,l2CS L cover thereon
The Washington times., 1905-06-18

man was reading and the woman was
pouting. The tickets were In a seat
across from them, and l checked them
up. Not word was spoken as l re-
turned the tickets TO the woman AMI
left.
"A fellow in the car asked me II that
was newly married couple, and l In
formed him 1t certainly wasn't, for both
man and woman fused too much for
that. L offered to bet him they had
been married ten years
Well. we finally reached Ell raso,
rex, where the man and woman were
To get OFF the train. AS the train slowed
up the man called me to him and
said:
rather nice 10 us and we want To Ter.
you into little secret. We were mar
ried just before getting on this train
That fuss about the tickets was all
arranged before we started and I bought
tie newspaper just to make the bluff
gooo: Don't you think we behave we'll
for bride and groom2'5Kansas City
Journal \ -
The Washington times., 1905-06-18
Merely Married"

Just as the moon shining on the tail
bronze statues in the park accentuase
the lights and shadows, so the lights
and shadows of real life are drawn
more clearly in these parks after dark
than they are in the busiest streets Of
the city. Fer all the stories that the
benches would tell if they could talk
would not be of true loves that run
smooth. There would be the story of
many heartache. of disappointed am
hilton, OF hopeless devotion, Of fsdthless-
ness, of deceit, and OF crime. 4 rftiful
story was revealed to a passer trough
Lafayette square only q few days ago.
4 man and n woman sat on one OF the
more secluded benches. She was crying
bitterly. though softly, and the man
was trying not TO look foolish. The one
word which she said over and over more
to herself than TO him was married. =
1t told The story IN a nutshell. She had
probably met this man in that very park
or perhaps in some other similar place
and, attracted by his appearance. had
become acquainted with him and learned
tc love him in subsequent meetings,
perhaps on that same bench. But at
last she had found out that the man
was already married, and had only been
having q good time at her expense.