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The Cairo bulletin., 1907-05-13
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
calrs, Alexander County, lIilntA
Population 1at47. ~9

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Calrs, ALEXANDER County, lIilntA
Population 1at47. MS
Mayor, GEORGE PARSONS.
Clerk, r. "A. HATCHER.
Treasurer, JAMES QUINN.
Comptroller. ERNEST fIORDMkN
Police Magistrate. A. J. RO9n.
Chief of Police, M. 8. HAdAN
Alexander County Population xzAN
County Clerk, JESSE n. MIfIER
Circuit Clerk. LEE d. DAVIS
Sheriff. FRANK Il. DAVIS.
STATES ATTORNEY ALEX. n
Wilson.
Coroner, DIR. JAMES MeMANUD.
County Superintendent Of schools.
PROF JOHN SNYDER
Assessor and Treasurer, FRED y
MILLS. fR t'TEW
Board Of County Commissioners.
]. ]. JENNELLE, Chairman
GEORGE PARSONS.
DIR. EDWIN J. GAUgM.
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OVER SCORE 50 ARE HURT
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huge rent in the roof and alighted
in soft and yielding sand almost un-
injured. The woman was forced
through the floor and wreckers had
10 lift tons Of baggage TO get her body
out.
Diner a veritabIe Death Trap.
But the unfortunate who occupied
every seat in the dining car were
caught in a veritable death trap.
Only two of the nine men of the
diner crew are numbered among the
dead. The remainder. though cooped
|np in he narrow kitchen and pantry.
sustained bad cnts and bruises.
The last call for luncheon had just
sounded a few minutes before the
disaster.
There were countless deeds Of
courage and self-abnegsntion. A. d.
Hagerman, of Reading. Pa, refused
the aid Of his brother mobiles after
Ltiley sl,dd dragged him fatally wohnd-
ed from the wreck.
y am dying" sa saId,TsGe help the
women -.
CLEVELAND Mans Heroic Work.
Sander Deabold. Of Cleveland.
worked heroically to save two women.
I,urrowing his way into the shoulder
ing. spliniered wreck. Deaboid with
hose which he had wrenched from a
coach connection, extinguished the
flames. cut away the broken timbers
and took Mrs. William W. Essick. OF
Reading. from the ruins. As he lifted
Ter from the wreckage. a stream Of
boiling water poured over her soaring
her body terribly,
Women passengers sought to re.
move upper garments but tainted
when the flesh came on with the
clothing. She expired a few minutes
later. Deabold was forced back into
the sieepers unable longer to endure
the Narrowing sight.
II was some time after the wreck
before IL was reported 10 the outside
world. Immediately special trains
were sent with physicians and nurses
to render such aid as was possible.
CORONER STARTS INQUIRY.
Santa Barbara. Cal. May 12.-Cor-
oner Ruiz, began an inquest this after
noon on yesterdays wreck. Joel H.
! Prescott Of Buffalo. testified the train
was running at high rate of speed.
4 Prescott said he discovered the Doini
CT the switch rail broken on. evi-
IDENTIFY by the train.
A piece OF the broken rail- was pro
duced. Examination Of the switch
showed It was not clos<d. The In
quest viii Be continued tomorrow.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-05-13
LIE and Love.

Life is crust Of bread that love
transforms into banquet. VI
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
SMILES FACING DEATH.
Miss Singer, Shot While Hunting Bur-
glar, Calls Wound Trivial.

P1rTsBURG, November 21-S Smiling
grimly, though facing death, Miss
Eleanor Singer, who mysteriously
shot herself while hunting burglar,
tried to calm her mother by telling
her the wound was trivial. On the
operating table at Pittsburg Hospital
the woman, when told she had a
slight chance to recover, told the
doctors to go head with their work,
and refused to take an anesthetic.
The Singer family, mother and two
daughters, live in mansion, at 43
Maryland Avenue. Early Wednesday
morning the police report says there
was a noise downstairs, and Miss
Singer, who always slept with a re-
volver under her pillow, started in to
investigate. A swinging door flew
back. and pressing the weapon against
her breast caused the trigger to snap,
the bullet entering the upper part OF
the abdomen and passed entirely
through the body. Miss Singer did
not cry when she was shot, but went
to a telephone and called physicians.
Last night the physicians at the
hospital were working mightandmain
to save her life. The young woman's
grit is a substantial aid. She de-
clares she will not die.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
Call to Baptist Laymen.

A call has been issued for meet
ing of Baptist laymen to be held in
Orangeburg during the meeting of
the State convention, the purpose of
which is to secure amore general en-
listment of the laymen of our
churches in missionary and denomi-
national activities. The meeting is
called for Sunday afternoon, Decem-
Der 8, and will probably result in the
formation of a laymen's missionary
organization in line with the move
ment which is awakening interest so
generally throughout the country.
The call is being sent out over the
names of about forty prominent lay
men Of the State, and will be re-
ceived by a dozen or more represen-
tative laymen in each Of the district
associations. Baptist Courier.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
nobile May Secede.

MOBILE, ALA, Nov. 21-Mobile
i-Prohibitionists were not joking
when they threatened to secede from
Alabama if the legislature voted the
State dry. A large majority Of the
city's voters oppose prohibition and
will form regular organization at
once, employ counsel and provide
funds for formulating plan bywhich
the city believes it will be able to cut
itself loose from the States control.
A legal campaign will be waged along
entirely new lines, and it is said it
will probably be waged in federal in
stead of state courts. Leaders Of
the local forces say they will begin
their warfare at once and believe
they will be independent of the rest
of the State long before the new law
takes effect, January 1st, 1909.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
Floods Menace Texas.

Houston, Tex, Nov. 20.-Since
Saturday rain has fallen almost in
cessantly throughout the southern
part of Texas and all the smaller
streams are overfowing and the
rivers are at or near the flood stage.
The heaviest precipitation is report
ed from Lockhart where the rain
guage showed a measurement of 81
inches between l o'clock last night
and an early hour today. At Nacog-
doches, residences along Bointo Creek
are under water to the first floor, IA
inches of rain having fallen there.
Much damage to roads, bridges and
farms is being done by the flood and
the railroad roadbeds are soft. Trains
cannot make schedule time and wash
outs are reported from a anumber Of
points.
It was still raining early today.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
Incendiary Fire in Clinton.

CLINTON, Nov. .21.-The new fire
department of Clinton acted nobly
last night. The wooden cottage oc-
cupied by Mr.. R. j. Burgess and
family, near the Clinton cotton mill,
was totally destroyed by what may
prove to be an incendiary blaze, as
no one was at home. Mr.. Burgess
was in Newberry and Mrs. Burgess
was spending the afternoon and
night with a neighbor., Suspicious
circumstances point to the fact that
the house may have been set on fire.
Both the hose companies were
promptly on hand. The colored hook
and ladder company was forced to
abandon the trucks, but taking the
ladders on the shoulders of the men,
bers present, they rushed to the res
cue. There was nothing saved at
all from the burning building.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
r1ARRY OR COMMIT CRIME.
Prof. Barnes Tells rlothers' 1eeting
They Are Alternative.

MoNTcLA1R, N. j., Nov. 21.-Prof.
Earl Barnes in a talk before the
Mothers Congress at Upper Mont
clair recently said that bacherlor-
hood tended toward cri1ninality.
Statistics prove that the criminals
of the world are generally those who
are not married." he said. Prof:
Barnes condemned the profession Of
school teaching, which, he said, nee.
essitated celibacy on the part Of
800, 900 women in the United States
today.
"There is no person happily mar
ried who says marriage is a failure, :"
said Prof. Barnes. Devotion may
be called slavery if you choose, but
there is no man or woman who
knows the blessed institution Of mar
rage who will not say it is the envi-
able and desirable state of being
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
Report of Cotton Ginned.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-The cen
sus bureau today issued it's report on
cotton ginned from October 18, 1907,
to Nov. IA, showing total of 1911, :
202 bales, counting round as half
bales, compared with 8,562,242 bales
for 1906, and 7,501, ,180 for 1905. The
number of round bales included is
142, 500 for 1907 and 200, 1866 for 1906
and 2O9, ,OO6 for 1905. Sea island in
cluded 42,7O8 for 1907, 30,671 for
1906 and 64, lob for 1905. The num-
Der of active ginneries were 26,571
for 1907.
Following is the report by States,
giving running bales, counting round
as half bales and excluding inters,
and number of active ginneries: Ala
bama, 761, ,138 bales and 1910 gin
neries; Arkansas, 1885, bales and
2,O42 ginneries; Florida, 1855 bales
and 237 ginneries; Georgia, 1875, Ill
bales and 4, ,439 ginneries; Kentucky,
766 bales and two ginneries; Louis
lana. 349, $40 balesand l, ,729 ginneries;
Mississippi, 792,127 bales and 1898
ginneries; Missouri, 1902 bales and
70 ginneries; New Mexico, "a bales
and one ginnery; North Carolina,
1852 bales and 2,603 ginneries;
Oklahoma, 491 ,274 bales and 924 GIN
neries; South Carolina, 847, ass bales
and 8, 119 ginneries; Tennessee, l40,-
921 bales and 629 ginneries; Texas,
1,7O9,583 bales and 1925 ginneries,
and Virginia, 1874 bales and SO gin
neries.
The distribution of sea island cot
ton for 1907 by States is: Florida,
14,492; Georgia, 22,681; South Caro-
lima, 5,535.
There were ginned 6,128,562 bales
to November l, 1907. The statistics
of this report for November IA are
subject to slight corrections when
checked against the individual re-
turns of the ginners being transmit
ted by mail.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28

A press dispatch from Washington
says: Ex-Governor D. G. Hayward
lunched with President Roosevelt to-
day and Informally discussed the
question of the financial stringency
in the south and the establishment Of
a perpetual memorial to Gen. R. E..
Lee. Last year the president began
a movement looking to the endow-
ment of some southern college, which
should take the form Of a memorial
to Gen. Lee, and Governor Hayward
has been one of those most interested
in the movement. At today's con-
ference the plans were gone over IN
detail and Governor Hayward says
he expects good results to follow"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28

One of the prettiest girls in town
is cashier in a barber shop, says
The Chicago Record Herald. But she
is insufferably vain and can scarcely
spare time to short change, so busy
are her hands fuffing her lovely locks
and keeping her rings rig mt side up
with care. She poses continually and
is constantly taking account Of stock
of her many charms in the mirrors.
"Great guns, but you are vain" ex-
claimed a disguised patron after ne
had spent ten minutes Of his valuable
time watching her maneuvers. In
deed, I am not vain,' she pouted,
"for l do not think l am half as
beautiful as l really am"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
To Rescue White Slaves.

CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-Charges that
Chicago rapidly is becoming the
greatest white slave" center Of the
world and that a powerful syndicate
for traffic in young girls exists in the
city has stirred religious and settle
ment workers to form a large or
ganization for the express purpose
Of combating the evil.
At a meeting Of nearly fifty minis
tiers, lawyers and settlement leaders
Yesterday plans were laid for the
work. A number of organizations
already have expressed their eager
ness to join in a crusade against the
traffic in girls.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
Sen. BIease's Novel Scheme.

Senator Cole l.. Blease, of New
berry, has figured outa novel scheme
to regulate passenger rates on rail-
roads. He would have rate OF three
cents the mile on all passenger trains
making forty miles an hour or fast
er; on trains making from twenty
five to forty miles the hour, two and
one-half cents; on trains making un-
der twenty-five miles an hour, two
cents the mile. A party could choose
his train and pay the price according.
ly. He will probably introduce a bill
embodying his scheme at the next
session of the legislature.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
Colorado VIII Be Dry.

DENVER, Nov. 22-The prohibition
lists of Colorado are confident that
within 18 months the state will be
ssdry," throughout and the saloons
will disappeared forever. The party
has never been more active in cam
paign and the leaders assert that
they will have a majority in the next
legislature. The sentiment is the
same as has gripped the Southern
states, where prohibition is gradually
gaining power until now they are in
control.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
LAWYERS up IN ARMS.
Spartanburg Attorneys fo Resist SIS
License Ordinance.

SPARTANBURG, Nov. 21.-There
promises to be a lively fight between
city council and the lawyers Of the
city as the result of council passing
an ordinance requiring all lawyers to
pay a license of $25 for the privilege
of practicing law in the city. The
lawyers are making a noise indicat-
ing that they may carry the case into
the high Courts if the city attempts
to collect the license fee. 1t is under
stood that unless the license is paid
within the prescribed time cases
against all attorneys who are de-
linquent will be tried in the Police
Court.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
INDOOR BASEBALL.
How the Great Winter Game
Has Advanced.
IT HAS BECOME SCIENTIFIC

Numerous Clubs and Leagues Are Now
Scattered Throughout the Country.
Interesting Facts About the Game.
Originated In Chicago.
Indoor baseball as now so universal
ly played throughout the United States
and Canada is practically governed
by the same rules as those which OBJ
tanned at the initial game in the club
house Of the Farraguts in Chicago
years ago. 1t has developed many
players and host of interested follow
ers, but in all the seasons the changes
in rules have been slight The prin-
cipal difficulty to overcome when the
game is started was the puzzle OF max
ing the run from base to base after
pitched ball. Precise calculation OF
the time required for the catcher to
throw to a base as compared with the
time of a runner between bases (twen-
ty-seven feet apart showed that the
stealing Of second base depended on
the speed of the runner, provided he
started from first at the time the
catcher received the ball. Therefore
the rule was made that the runner
must not start until pitched ball
has reached or passed the catcher"
and so well has this worked that the
same close play Is found at second
base as when a player tries to steal in
the outdoor game under the old rule.
With this point successfully settled.
the other rules were more easily
evolved, and with the proper balancing
Of the relative sizes Of the bat and
ball to meet requirements the game
may be said to have started on it's sue
cessful career.
Owing to the newness Of the game
and consequent inexperience Of those
who played the score at first often
times ran into large figures, the record
Of the initial contest being Al to 40.
AS the play Of the athletes improved
the result was much smaller figures
and more on the professional basis Of
baseball, until now, with numerous
clubs and leagues all over the country.
the game has reached scientific
standpoint hitherto unsuspected Of full
fillment
It can be played in any hall Of size
which will permit Of sufficient light
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28

and room for the diamond and field
ing, the composition Of the floor being
immaterial, as the rubber soled shoes
required to be worn will allow run
ming on even the waxed floor Of a
dancing hall. About the smallest size
for playing floor is 40 by 30 feet A
larger surface will Of course allow
greater freedom for fielding and run
ming. The spectators are usually
placed in the right and left field, on
either side Of the catcher's territory
and in galleries, according to the con-
struction Of the room used for play.
At first the sport was confined to
few of the social clubs OF Chicago,
which had organized league, but OF
late years great strides have been
made toward having the game spread
all over the United States. Many OF
the Chicago clubs have made trips to
cities east and west and played indoor
ball before large crowds Of spectators,
who had become initiated in the sport
and consequently extremely interested.
for it Is said Of indoor ball that It Is
the most exciting sport which the win
ter months give US, for, the space al
lotted for play usually being somewhat
confined, the spectators and players are
at no great distance from each other
and the rapid action is Of very e1cit-
ing nature.
Some excellent players have been de-
veloped, especially among amateurs.
Several professionals have tried their
hand, but find themselves outclassed
by the more nimble amateurs, as agili-
ty rather than strength enters largely
into the sport.
A different style of play is noticeable
in the successful indoor player from
that adopted outdoors. In sliding to
bases there must be perfect abandon,
and sliding we'll around the bag the
arm can be thrust out in passing and
the base held. In batting the ball can
be bunted successfully, and as the first
contact with the floor decides its fair
ness this feature is one practced by
many of the best players.
The umpires' duties are difficult, as
the quick play and closeness to the
players oftentimes actually prevent
their seeing the action, but in case one
is unable to Judge the other may be
appealed to.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
UNDERTAKEN EMBARRASSED.
Greenville rIan Pronounced Dead But
it Was q Mistake.

A special from Greenville to the
Spartanburg Journal gives very in
teresting story, about which nothing
has appeared in any of the Greenville
papers:
"A prominent Greenville city Of
fetal, who has been i'll of an incurable
malady for some time, was last night
pronounced dead. The undertaken
was sent for and upon his arrival the
supposed corpse turned over and
opened his eyes upon those gathered
at his bedside.
''There was CONSERVATION among
the small group of friends and mourn
ers, and the undertaken, to say the
least was much embarrassed"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
ALABAMA AFTER THE CLUBS.
Senate Passes Bill Adjunctive to Gen
eral Prohibition Bill.

MONTGOMERY, ALA, Nov. 21.-
The Senate to-day passed the Carmi-
chael bill prohibiting the sale, giving
away or disposing of liquors in any
way in clubs. It prohibits exactly
what the Georgia law allows. The
bill will become effective January /,
1909, in those counties where the
sale Of liquor is to be kept up to that
time: in all others on the 1st of next
January. The general prohibition
bill was signed by the Speaker and
the President of the Senate to-day.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
Bloody Fight In Georgia.

CAMILLA, GA., Nov. 21.-Some
young folks gathered at the home of
George Vines near here last night
for a frolic, when a bloody free fight
took place, in which William Shiver,
the son of Gus Shiver of Camilla, was
killed, his brother Virgil Shiver was
badly cut, a woods rider named Ford
was terribly beaten and may lose his
eyesight, and Claude Fowler was
shot.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-11-28
TAX NOTICE

The county reasurer's Office will Be
open for the collection Of State, county,,
school and all other taxes from the 18th
day Of October, 1907, until the 18th day
of March, 1903, inclusive.
From the 1st day Of January, 1906, un-
til the 31st day Of January, 1906, apenals
ty of per cent. will be added to all un-.t
paid taxes. From the first day of Febru-s
ary, 1908, until the 18th day Of February,
1903, penalty of 2per cent. will be add
ed to all unpaid taxes. From the lst.
day of March, 1903, until the 18th day
of March, 1908, penalty Of 5 per cent
will be added to all unpaid taxes,
The following is the levy:
For State purposes, 5 mills.
For county purposes, mills. g 8
Constitutional school tax, mills.
Total, 101 mills. ls
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEvIEs.
Bamberg, No. IA, Al mills.
Denmark, No. q, mills. (. IS
Olar, No. 8, mills. .ezt:sss, 80
Lees, No. q, mills.
Midway, No. 2, mills.
Cutie Creek, No. II, 2 mills.
Colston, No. Is, 2 mills. ssi ss;i
Ehrhardt, No. %, 2 mills.
Oak Grove, No. 20, mills.
Govan, No. II, 8 mills.
Binnaker's, No. IL, 3 mills.
Hopewell, No. l, 8 mills. -, 4,
Clear Pond, No. 19, 2 mills. ss'
Hunters Chapel, No. Is, mill. S
Hampton, No. 3, 2 mills.
Hayward, No. "a, 2 mills.
All male persons between the ages OF
twenty -one and sixty years, except Con-
federate soldiers and sailors, who are
exempt at fifty years of age, are liable
to poll tax Of one dollar.
Capitation dog tax, so cents.
Twill receive the road commutation tax
($2.OO from October 18th, 1907, until
March 1st, 1908.
All male persons who were q years
of age on or before the 1st day OF Janut I
ary, 1907, are liable to $1.00 poll tax.
Those who have not made returns to the
auditor will do so on or before 1st day
of January, 1908. :s:9
Treasurer Bamberg County.
8amberg, S. c., September 18th, 1907.
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Her Husband during the spat) J.
Don't you think for a minute that
you can impose on me. There are no
fools in our family.
: His Wife-Why, John, you forget
yourself!-Chicago News.