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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06

morning his absence was noticed, the
fact Of his disappearance the previous
day was recalled, and he was marked
discharged for being away without ex-
cuse.
Night came OH. and the chill crept up
from the bay anil numbed Lammert
He still cluns to his g:tldy perch and
at intervals shouted for help. Day
break brought fresh hope. Hunger
revived him and spurred him OH to
fresh attempts to escape. He waved
his handkerchief at the people be-
low. He spent the greater part Of
the afternoon writing notes on envel-
opes and papers from his pocket and
trying to drop them into the street.
Some were waited blocks out Of the
way and some fell unnoticed.
Night found him disheartened and
despairing. he was abou: ready to
let loose and fall into the street.
Daylight came again, and with it
hope. I.ammert says that during the
morning he declared he would end his
misery by jumping-but that he was
afraid he would alight on some one
and kill him-so postponed the jump
until night. The grim jest kept re-
curing all day. ,..
About 4 o'clock that afternoon Curtis
Logan, an employee Of brokerage
hrm in the building across the street,
happened to glance out the window.
he saw Lammert and stopped to look.
'That fellow Is long time fixing that
pipe" he thought, for on the preceding
day Logan had seen Lammert, noticed
his rerilous position and watched him
for time, thinking he was a daring
workman repairing the pipe.
Suddenly the thought struck him that
the man could not get out Of the
crevasse in the side Of the building.
He watched awhile longer, and then,
hurrying to the elevator, descended,
crossed the street and went up to the
life insurance company Office, where
he raised the alarm.
Logan insisted that man was on the
ledge. Then some one remembered
Lammert and his odd disappearance.
The window was thrown open, and
some one shouted ,Lammert's name.
The result was a feeble cry for help.
Telephone messages summoned men
from the nearest fire station. A rope
was swung from the window by Lam
merits desk across to the window be-
yond the projection, and a window
washer, with his belt hooked over the
rope, slipped along the ledge, around
the projection and in an instant reap
peared supporting Lammert. Eager
hands stretched forth and drew Lam
inert into the window, and in dazed
way he walked over to his desk, put
the paper he had saved upon it and
toppled over in a dead faint.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06
DUG HER OWN GRAVE.

Girl Committed Suicide After Prspar-
ing Sepuleher.
Brooding over disappointment In
her love affairs, Elva A. Ellison, q
servant in the employ Of Stirling John
son of sol Allen lane, Chestnut Hill.
Pa, committed suicide after having
first dug a grave in the cellar Of the
house.
Miss Ellison was twenty-five years
old. She was brought from New York
by Mr.. Johnson about four months ago.
Her sweetheart ceased paying her at
tentions several weeks ago, and the
young woman became melancholy.
Mrs. Mary Smell, the housekeepef,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06

@MAKINa A PLACE TO DIE IN"
found the young woman in the cellar
digging a long, deep hole In the earth
floor.
what in the world are you doing"
asked the astonished woman.
Making a place to die in,' replied
the servant.
"Well, you get upstairs and forget
this nonsense" said the housekeeper,
and for the time the matter was for
gotten.
Mrs. Smell and the servant arose ear
" the next morning. The housekeeper
went to the kitchen to prepare break
fast, and the girl remained upstairs
to make the beds.
Mrs. Smell heard two shots fired IN
rapid succession q few minutes after b
o'clock and rushed upstairs. She found
the servant lying dead beside bed
with two bullet wounds in her head.
Both bullets had penetrated the base
Of the brain.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06
An Ideal Home for Sale

Situated on the West end Of Railroad
Avenue, and fronts Calhoun and Broad
Streets, contains IA acres OF land IN
town Of Bamberg, with eight room
modern dwelling in good repair; good
orchard and vineyard; about five acres
in pecan trees, about one-half bearing;
artesian well AIT feet deep flowing 10
gallons of good, pure water per minute;
water piped through dwelling; SWIM
ming pool and fish pond; one acre IN
flowers and shrubbery; good servant
house and all necessary outbulldmgs;
also conservatory aud two summer
houses with beautiful vines growing
over them; healthy location. Population
of town about $500, ships about l5,OoO
bale of cotton per year, and only 40
miles from Aiken, the great health re-
sort of South Carolina. This property
lies on the Southern Railway, and the
land without the improvements, cut INTO
residential lots could be sold from $500
to s., 900 per acre, but will be sold at q
low figure. Call early if you want bar
gain. Price on application:
I will sell ten acres OF this lot, with
three-room tenant house and five acres
of pecans, for 81, 10000.
j. T. O'NEAL
- A~.s< . Roonhopo C.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06

It's too bad to see people who 60 from
day to day suffering from physical
weakness when HOLSTER s Rocky Noun
tain Tea would make them we'll. The
greatest tonic known. IS cents, tea or
tablets H. +. Hoover,
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06
Denied Beer, Took Poison.

Enraged because he could not have
a schooner instead of shell Of beer,
Robert Hughes, Big -Four fireman, OF
4203 West Sevent1eth street. Cleveland,
O., took a dose Of poison in Charles
Abersold's saloon, 2670 West Forty
first street. He diad shortly afterward
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements Under this Head 25c
For Is Words or Less.

BEFORE buying or selling farm or
any property, write THE CAROLINA
REALTY & TRUST COMPANY, Bish-
opville, S. C..
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j w Black,
Joseph Nimmons,
Mrs C E Gray,
E w Williams,
MrsMEBamberg,
J B Kearse,
G w Miley,
w M Brabham,
Mrs DCSellers,
w M McCue,
J J Simmons,
NJ NJ Smoak,
Haywood johnson.
C. F Ellzey,
Raymond Smoak,
T L Belvin,
H G. Folk,
N B Rhoad,
D w Phillips,
] w Brown,
w L Mitchum,
c. r Brabhan,
Col Willie Jones,
w R HERS,
DIR J P OFT,
S Broughton,
Thelma Bailey,
G. R Clayton,
DIR v w Brabham
H Babel.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06
NARROWED IN GOTHAM
Fjfty Hours Alone on the Side of
a Skyscraper.
TEN STORIES ABOVE GROUND.

Awful Plight Of a Cierk Who Crawled
Out of a Window to Got Paper
Lodged on Lofty Lsdse-Two Days
Of Agony.
Marooned for fifty hours on mar
row window ledge on the tenth story
Of a New York skyscraper was the re.
cent strange experience Of George l..
Lammert, life insurance clerk. With
tens Of thousands Of persons within
hearing of his voice and with men
working within ten feet Of where he
stood or sat, Lammert was for fifty
hours as isolated as II he had stood on
some ledge in the Himalayas. Nobody
heard him or paid any attention to
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06
Honor Roll for May.

The following persons paid their
subscription to The Herald during
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06
New Advertisements.

M. M. understanding New in
Bamberg.
Peoples Bank-We Want the Small
Accounts.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-06-06

OF all the fruits there are in the land,
That grow on bush or tree,
I would give up the choicest ones
For HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea
H. F. Hoover.
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GAS u1Ollt1I VI moJ
j B Rentz,
F E Dozier,
J'W Washington,
Lizzie Wilkinson,
JW Stewart,
G B Clayton,
j w Jenny,
Miss c Bamberg,
J w Smith,
] j Brabham, Jr.
Hebron Berry,
C. B Bishop,
Fl NJ Graham,
c. P Robinson,
Jno ] Copeland,
Henry Ehrhardt,
CS HERS,
T ] Crider,
LCSmith,
DGCopeland.
J C. Kinard,
F F johnson,
A Wilson,
J j JLecote
A J Alexander,
ELPrice,
R E Thompson,
Sallie Fielder,
l. A Bikle,
P w Williams,
The independent., 1907-03-14

VIII J. Davis, proprietor of the Iro-
quois theater which burned over three
years ago with loss of six hundred
lives, is now on trial at Danville, Illi-
nois, for manslaughter. His failure to
obey the regulations for the safety of
theater patrons in building the Iro-
quois theater Is the ground for the
charge. Two years after the original
indictment was found the process of
drawing a jury is beginning, the in
tervening time having been consumed
in legal quibblng. Some advantages
may be discerned in the long delay. In
the heat OF feeling following the dis
aster of December 80, 1903, IL would
have been well nigh impossible to
secure jury Of the requisite ignor :
ance and want OF opinion to try the
case. Moreover, public opinion has
cooled sufficiently by this time TO ad-
init OF trial without an outside de-
mand for the punishment OF some
body. anybody. Had the trial been de-
layed a few years longer tin new
generation OF theater builders arrived
on tho stage. the additional end would
be served OF saving tho expense Of a
trial altogether.
The independent., 1907-03-14

The manufacturers Of ingram car
pets are suffering from the prosperity
of the country, and the prevailing taste
for higher priced carpets and hard
wood floors and rugs. They are form
ing an organization to standardize
their goods and sell them through a
New York agency under uniform
label This tag they are arranging to
make familiar to the public through a
newspaper advertising campaign. 1t is
hoped in this way to restore the old
time popularity of this sort of floor
covering. The battle seems to have
been lost in the cities and towns, and
this campaign is to be conducted in the
country The rural newspapers are to
receive the bulk of the first advertis-
ing appropriation.
The independent., 1907-03-14

An ancient Greek book makes two
of its characters, strangers, meet in a
social way. "Are you a pirate?" asks
one courteously by way of opening the
conversation. So we see how standards
change, for pirates of the maritime sort
are no longer welcomed in polite So
ciety. Another illustration even more
striking because of the quickness Of
the change, is afforded by. last weeks
proceedings in the Nebraska senate.
Hardly moro than two years ago to
ask man. 'have you railroad pass?''
was equivalent to asking, "are you a
man of influence, are you prominent in
society and politics and business, do
your neighbors hang upon your words
and follow your advice, and can you
deliver your ward or county in the con-
vention?" Then men flashed their
passes as now they flash their dia-
monds or their honorable titles and
now the senate has voted to make the
possession of free pass the mark of a
criminal.
The independent., 1907-03-14

1t should not escape notice that the
head of the weather department, Pro-
fessor Moore went through hostile
investigation at the hands of the mi
nority of congressional committee
and came out with substantial en-
dorsement. The principal point of at
tack was the creation of a station
called Mount Weather, Va, for the
advanced study of meteorology. Con-
gress has agreed with the chief OF the
bureau that it is time for serious at
tempt to extend the boundaries of our
knowledge of the weather, and that an
institution of this kind promises to be
effective in that direction.
The independent., 1907-03-14

Nine million acres of corn are planted
in Iowa every year, estimates an Iowa
paper 1t adds that each acre produces
not less than ten tons Of corn stalks
and every ton of corn stalks will yield
1870 pounds Of alcohol. There is here
then 1874, 100000 gallons of alcohol to
be gained in Iowa from what would be
otherwise a waste product enough to
run all its factories, steam cars, stoves
and traction engines. All this is very
pretty and the western farmers will be
foolish not to advance as fast as pos
sible to the utilization of this force
But commercial methods change slow
ly, and it will be long before there is
a market for all the alcohol to be made
from all the corn stalks in the state of
Iowa. There is still found occasion
ally a man who writes with a quill
pen, and some farmers in Iowa still
swing pump handle for hours every
week because they have not the apti-
tude to harness the winds for pumping
their water There will be farmers to
burn corn cobs long after there is al
cohol enough to heat their houses
cheaply and do their cooking a thou
sand times more conveniently
The independent., 1907-03-14

Assistant District Attorney Heney
who is trying to try Ruef in San Fran
cisco, declared his undying contempt
for Judge Hebbard's court, alleging
that the judge. was drunk and In col
lusion with Ruef's attorneys in making
a certain ruling In case Judge Hebbard
cites the attorney for contempt the
case will be a worthy spectacle.
Senator Patterson through his news
papers accused the Colorado su-
preme court of corruption, and was
fined for contempt, being refused op-
portunity to prove his charges. Judge
Hebbard, as soon as he gets over his
last spree, might with equal facility,
it would seem, make Heney sweat for
his attack on the judiciary.
The independent., 1907-03-14

No doubt the president will give Mr..
Hartman and other railroad magnates
plenty of additional opportunities to
"be good before the expiration of his
term of Office. 1t is intimated In a
recent dispatch from Washington that
"The president has some very positive
ideas about further reform in the
postal service especially in the second
tation contracts are handled. The con-
ditions prevailing there are said to be
little short of scandalous. The rail-
roads have been greatly favored. The
president wants change in the thou
sands of contracts. This matter will
have much of Mr.. Meyers attention
assistants office, where mail transpor-
for the next~few months"
The independent., 1907-03-14

When the United States supreme
court held the Nebraska flag law to be
valid Illinois was given a glimpse of
what she misses by not being allowed
to appeal from the decisions of her
own courts. The state OF Illinois once
had a law of the same purport as the
Nebraska flag law. AS in the case of
the Nebraska law, the act was assailed
in the state courts. The Nebraska su-
preme court sustained the law giving
the suitor a chance to appeal to the
federal supreme court The Illinois
court decided against the law, and as
the state could not appeal from the de-
cison that ended it. According to the
present status of the case, the United
States admits the authority of the
state of Illinois to protect the flag
from DETACHMENT, while the states own
courts deny that it has that power.
In case Illinois should re-enact he
flag law it would be matter of some
interest whether the state supreme
court would reverse itself and sustain
the decision Of the highest court.
The independent., 1907-03-14

Teamster Hamilton of Omaha
VINO pulled horses tongue out in
order to stimulate it's movements
owes the resentment Of the law and
pubic opinion very largely to man
VINO rs yet living. George T. Angel
OF Boston began to plead against cruel
" to animals before public sentiment
mad fairly set itself against cruelty to
human slaves. With several associates
he founded the Massachusetts society
FOR the prevention of cruelty to animals
in 1868, and his little paper, "our Dumb
Animals which is still devoted to de-
Tending the rights of dumb creatures.
was established in that same year
Not long ago n scheme was broached
IN the Massachusetts legislature to
Increase the licepse on dogs To- five
and ten dollars according 20 sex. A
hearing was called on the bin. pains
being taken that Mr. Angel should
not know Of II. In some way he re-
ceived hint of what was going ON.
and dragged his eghty-scven. year old
body to tho garrct OF the capitol 10
confuse the scheme b. his opposition
The independent., 1907-03-14

While the Rhode Island legislature
is entering upon the third month of
a senatorial deadlock the Missouri
legislature is completing the passage
of direct election law. With the two
deadlocks of the winter a warm mem
ory, no state in which the inhabitants
have any considerable political inf1u-
ence or intelligence-the two COM
monty go together-can well refrain
from doing as Missouri is doing and
as numerous states have already done
in this respect. In New Jersey the de-
feat of an Objectionable candidate was,
as usual in such exigencies, not re-
lated to the success of an opposition
candidate, but resulted merely in the
election of the next best friend. politi-
cally of the defeated candidate. In
Rhode Island where thirty-odd ballots
have been taken they are considering
throwing over all candidates who were
known as such before the election and
selecting dark horse, as was done
In New Jersey. Meanwhile, since Mon
day noon Rhode Island has had but
one senator
The independent., 1907-03-14

The defeat of the Sunday baseball
idea in the legislature will naturally
give an impetus to the movement to
make the Saturday half holiday gem
eral in Nebraska Instead of increas-
Ing the number of days when men are
required to work the present day ten
dency is to give all classes of workers
a full day on Sunday for rest, and as
much time during the week as possi-
BILE for recreation and amusement The
Saturday half holiday is an almost
necessary feature of this program.
The independent., 1907-03-14

After ballooning stocks to a point
where reaction was inevitable, the
railroad managers are pointing to the
present depression as a sign Of the
trouble that is certain to follow further
radical legislation" But If the decline
in stock could be traced directly to
two-cent fares and other legislative
acts, the country would not be fright
ened A decline in stock values to
something approaching the real value
of the properties is rather to be de-
sired than otherwise.
The independent., 1907-03-14

The railroad managers never seem
to overlook an opportunity to rasp the
public with petty annoyances like the
decision of the Union Pacific to charge
three cents a mile all the way to west
ern Nebraska just because the main
line dips down into Colorado for a few
miles. This is held to make a journey
that begins and ends in Nebraska an
interstate affair The railroad men
who grasp at these opportunities to
make trouble for themselves succeed
admirably in showing that they have
neither the capacity nor the breadth
of view to make them fit stewards for
so important matter as the transpor-
tation of the people.
The independent., 1907-03-14

Chinese coolies will not be employed
by contract on the Panama canal, at
least not now. Until the army engin-
GERS have had time to grasp the situ-
alton presented by the determination
to have the engineer corps manage the
digging of the canal no important
changes In policy could well be
adopted. This and the fact that there
are now $4,000 men at work on the
Culebra cut, enough to make surpris-
ingly rapid progress are no doubt
among the factors leading to the re-
lection of the bids Should 1t prove
possible eventually to get all the labor
needed from the United States and
the West Indies II may safely be as
sumed that there will be no resump-
tion of that plan.
The independent., 1907-03-14

Observers in the south claim that
100000 northern people have settled
there in the past twelve months
Whether the number is correct or not,
it is inevitable that the pressure of
high priced land in the corn belt
must in a measure overcome the re-
luctance of migration to take a di-
rection transverse to the parallels of
latitude 1t has in fact done so to
some extent in connection with the
Canadian migration, and now that
there is little left to that movement
it can hardly fail to extend southwark.
Some of the best land in the United
States lies uncultivated or half cul-
tivated in southern states.
The independent., 1907-03-14

Reports from Kansas indicate that
the legislature at Topeka thinks 1t has
passed drastic anti pass law. The
persons allowed to go free ARE about
the same as provided in the national
railroad act" Things are in such shape
in Nebraska that it would be regarded
rs something Of a railroad victory
were the legislature here to pass so
lax a law as that
The independent., 1907-03-14

Although the railroads are opposing
the extension Of freight carrying privi-
leges to trolly lines in Pennsylvania
and other states where the question is
up, it remains to- be proved that the
freight business of the railroads would
be greatly injured by allowing subur-
ban trolley lines to carry freight. 1t
would probably be rather a saving of
horses, and would perhaps injure the
trade in wagons and buggies.
The independent., 1907-03-14

Attorney General Jackson of New
York is engaged in an effort to head
off supposed movement of the Bell
Telephone company to absorb all the
telephone business of the state, in
Guiding the independent companies. 1t
was to be assumed that the rival in
terests would consolidate as soon as
1t became evident that one could not
destroy the other, but the consolida-
ton era arrived sooner than was ex-
pected.
The independent., 1907-03-14

poses a law forbidding the disposal
of property in such manner as to al
low it to accumulate for period Of
over twenty-one years, or during the
minority of any person living at the
time Of the death of the devisor. The
change is mild one, but it indicates
the drift toward a closer examination
of the social meaning of inheritance
laws
The independent., 1907-03-14

Eastern financial writer's predict
that five per cent for western farm
loans, the rate current in Nebraska
now. win be too low before long "
railroad and other corporation paper
IN 10 continue at six per cent This
assumes that the money now In the
west win be drawn eastward to meet
tho demand at higher rates from those
sources. To date In Nebraska there
has been no sign of such thing Long
time loans az fyc per cent on eastern
Nebraska land win by many people
be preferred 20 any other security
evcn nj a slightly higher rata
The independent., 1907-03-14

relinaulsh control of his fortunte at
death Under an Illinois law provid
Ing that the absolute ownership of
property must vest within the period
OF lie or lives in being and twenty
one years thereafter. he was able to
tie up the bulk of his property for a
period AZ something like fifty years.
Hence there In 10 be great enatc
automatically adding to itself and TO
pass ultimately nm enormous amount
to some remote heir. Tho Legislature
has taken hint from this and pro-
The independent., 1907-03-14

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Advertising Rates furnished upon ap-
plication.
Sample Copies sent free to any ad-
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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-06-22
Locals.

VIM. Richmond, prop RI
etor of the hotel at Rec
Heights, was a Miller visi-
tor Thursday.
Rep. j. D. Humiston and
+. r. Gardner were iu town
from the west side yester-
day.
The town was full of
land seekers again this week,
Pella Iowa, being repre-
sented by Mr.. Stegeman
and others.
This office, on account of
institute, endeavor meet
ings, etc, is entirely in the
hands of the fighting editor
this week, so please excuse
shortcomings and bad ap-
pearances, for the hard
knocks, without help, are
too much for one.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-06-22

David Lewis, whoi came
here from Iowa, having but
one arm, and went to work
digging in the bitches, do
ing as much or more work
than two armed men, later
turned painter and showed
that he could climb houses
and paint as we'll as the
best of them. Now he has
created a new sensation by
appearing in the teac hers
institute in the garb of a
polished professor and
teaching algebra or other
difficult studies.