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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-08-22
WHITE TAN HELD.
Is In WATERFORD Jail Awaiting Trial,
Charged With Arson.

CHARLESTON, Aug. 15.-G. c..
Verde, white, was committed to jail,
at Walterboro yesterday, charged
with setting fire to store of the N.
H. Bitch company at Meggett's.
Besides the Bitch fire, which oc-
CURED on the evening of August 8,
doing severe damage, suspicion points
to Verde for the big fire Of July l8,
at which the factory of the Standard
Truck Package company, with its
contents and valuable stock, was re-
duced to ashes. The loss at this fire
was over 100000, while the loss by
the store fire was several thousand
dollars. There is some ground, too,
for suspicion in a third fire in the VI
cinity of Meggetts, when property
of Mr.. Towles was destroyed. The
case upon which Verde has been nail
ed, however, is the Bitch store fire.
Perhaps Verde's alleged statement
that he would get revenge and do
some damage was the strongest fac
tor that got him into the hands OF
the law. He was in the employ OF
the N. H. Bitch company for year
or so, but was discharged on July l:
There was not any particular good
feeling in his heart over the dis
charge. About two weeks after
wards the burning Of the big barrel
and crate factory took place and fol-
lowing that fire by about two weeks
the store of the company at Meg
gets was burned to the ground.
An old man who slept over the
store had narrow escape from be
ing cremated. He could not see
very we'll, and was nearly caught in
the smoke and flames before he could
be taken to a place Of safety. He
smelled distinctly an odor of gaso-
line and declared that he thought ne
could make out some one running
from the building when he looked
out of the window that night. Being
set with the infammable gasoline,
which appeared to be sprinkled liber-
ally under and about the sides of the
store, the fire spread very rapidly,
preventing the saving of any OF the
contents or the building.
The building was valued at over
$4,000, and the contents at less.
What was regretted especially was
the loss of accounts and papers which
had been accumulating in the store
for four or five years. Postmaster
Smith at Meggetts had his furniture
stored in the top of the building and
this was all lost.
Verde is a white man who comes
from around the section where the
fires took place. The only motive
which can be ascribed to his deed is
that of revenge. He was fairly we'll
to-do.
Great relief is felt about Young's
Island in his arrest, because it is now
thought that these fires which have
been occurring with alarming fre-
uuency, will now cease to break out.
A large crowd attended the preliml-
nary hearing of Verde yesterday.
| Detective Brennan thinks that the
evidence he has collected against the
man will surely send him to the pen
itentiary.
Whether or not he will be held re-
sponsible for the burning Of the pack
age factory is a question. There are
several facts which point to incendiar-
ism in this fire and N. H. Bitch &
Co. are interested in the factory
financially. About $50, 900 loss was
had in the factory buildings and
plant and an equal amount in stock,
partly covered by insurance.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-08-22
THRASHED INSOLENT PORTER.
DR.. Blanchard Teaches Pullman Car
Dignitary a Good Lesson.

SHREVEPORT, La, August 17.-Dr.
]. Ashton Blanchard, a son of Cover
nor Blanchard and a major in the
State militia, beat negro porter in
a Pullman car on a Texas and Pacific
train yesterday, using his sabre for
a weapon. The negro, when request
ed by some ladies' to open windows,
answered insolently, it is said, and
the thrashing resulted. An Ohio
man in the car expressed his opinion
freely to other men present, and one
of the Louisianians gave him a beat
ing and two black eyes. The con-
ductor is quoted as having said that
the negro had been repeatedly re-
ported to headquarters for insolence.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-08-22

The young man who wants to get
up in the morning with the sun,
shouldn't stay up too late with the
daughter. .,..
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-10-03
Skirts

Our new stock is in. They are
good, full made and right,
We have culled out every slow sell
Ter or odd skirt and laid out.
All skirts ranging in. price up to
S.. Your choice for S 2.95
Outing Dressing Saques, SOC and
75c value, closing out for .25
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-10-03
Wool Blankets

Excellent Values 400 to 5 500
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06

God who frown5 down this very thing?
The kisses are spent, the prayer As
prayed, and Cynthia Ware goes home.
WhencH. IN due time, comes the Sena-
tor. He has made good" But his
wife, the woman who has learned,
what does she do? If all knowledge
IS pain, all pain born of knowledge Is
glory.
But the Cynthia Wares do not re-
joice III such glory. 1t is mans
world For its balance-what?
Mrs. Ayres has told a brilliant story
with directness, with a Vividness that
tingleS. The Conquest" can justly be
called a very great character-study-
a study of a woman new in fiction if
not new in life.
The volume geographically is one
of unusual beauty-type large and
clearly printed; wide maTginsS hand
some paper; the best of 10th binding
Large 12mO. Price $3.50, postage pre-
paid. The Neale Publishing Company,
Flatiron Building, New York.
buttons Little Stories of Germany.
By Maude Barrows Dutton, author
of Little Stories of France, Fishing
and Hunting, etc. Cloth, 12mo., 1872
pages, with Illustrations, Price, 40
cents. American Book Company, New
York, Cincinnati, and Chicago.
The stories in this volume of the
Eclectic Readings give a connected
history of the German people, from the
Cimbri and Teutons down to the pres
cnt Kaiser Wilhelm. Each of the
great events is, in proper succession,
presented in the form of a short
sketch. The subjects selected show
the influence which the German
PEOPLE have had on the culture and
progress of the world. and include
such TOPICS as Albrecht Durer, Guten-
berg's Invention of Printing, Frederick
the Great. Schiller, Wagner, and Be
thcven The style is clear and simple,
The subject matter attractive, and the
numerous and interest
ing. The book will prove helpful and
pleasing both for the school ami the
home.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
Dress of Montencqrin Women.

The dress of the women throughout
Montenegro varies but slightly. and as
no distinction of rank exists the only
difference between the garments OF
the rich and the poorer classes con-
Sists in the superior fineness of the
materials used or in the quantity or
quality of the ornaments. Their dress
is simply 4 long flowing white camicia,
girdled by a black sash. Black and
white are the national coIors Of the
MOntenPgrins. Some Of the women
wear Il heavy leather girdle set with
three or four rows of large carnelian
stones, sometimes fastened in front by
a massive antique silver clasp. 4 SIM
pie piece of black cloth is an addition
worn on the head by the older ma
irons. Montenegro is everywhere noun
tainOUs. AS Il precautiOn against in
vasion there are no roads. and carts
are unknown The goods OF the coun-
try are carried to Cattaro by women.
Sound will travel four times as ran
idly through water as through air and
seventeen times more rapidly through
iron than through air.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
BOMBAY.
Special 10 The journal.

Bombay, Apr. 5--HOn. J. A. ]. Hath
away left town for a trip of two or
three days up the river.
Hon. II. +. Hickman goes to West
vile tonight on official business.
Hon. c. NJ. Cox went to Este and
Mona Thursday on business
Hon. c. NJ. Cox went to CaryYille to-
day on legal business.
The County Commissioners were in
session part of two days this week
Hon. Daniel ellis was in town a
part of this week
The finishing touches are being put
on the new bank building
W. d. Williams, of the Holmes
County Advertiser, has his outfit here
now preparatory to going into bust
ness again.
Ed. Williams, of Westville, is in
town to-day.
MI. WillOughby. 4 turpentine opera
tor. was in town to-day.
Julius Cegars has taken relapse
and is very sick
Mrs. D. J. Paul is sick of measles.
Since the town was incorporated
the streets are being put in nice or
der
A brother of Dr. Newton from Do
than, was in town to-day on visit to
the doctor.
We hear that another doctor is to
locate in town.
Bud Hickman has returned from
GulfpOrt, Miss
Hon. H. E. Hickman has been busy
serving jurors and witnesses for the
spring term of court.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
Whittier and Eic Mofher

The poet Whittier was 4 grave Qua
ker and a tender hearted nan. but he
told this amusing story of his moth
er's voyage By steamer TO Portland:
My mother" he said. twas not used
to travelling by water, and she had a
new Quaker bonnet made TO go on her
journey. When we were well out at
sea, she became very uncomfortable
and took of her new bonnet and plac-
ed it on a chair beside her.
Her discomfort increased. She
changed her position and sat down on
the new bonnet. Thee knows Quaker
bonnets won't bear sitting on This
was too much for the good woman,
and she said:
John, want thee to take me right
home
But mother, we are way out to
sea. 1 can't take thee home
Cant thee get the boat TO turn
round? 1 feel very sick, and my new
bunnit will never do to wear to friend
Smiths in Portland
NO, mother; thee'll have to make
the best Of it now
oh, John. thee must never take me
again on the water. 1 do know as l
shall live to get home New York
Telegram.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06

suffrage question has now been raised
and the women of Iran are asking for
a vote Many women of the leisure
class in Persia, it is said. are highly
educated, and some of them have
| lately addressed memorials TO the
press protesting against their eXclu
sion from the rights of citizenship.
Thomas F. Ryan probably EMPLOYS
detectives more extensively in his
financial operations than any ether
man in the Wall street district He
is credited with having developed
the use Of them to a positive science.
All OF his lawyers he has an
enormous staff of them-are experts
in handling detectives and in finding
ways of getting valuable information
for their client. 1t is said that when
ever he plans to deal with a man he
does not already know intimately, he
invariably puts detectives on the
heels of that man and finds out every
thing possible about him.
What would you do" asked the
timid passenger, IF naked headIand
should suddenly loom up before us
in the darkness?"
Il should skirt the coast" explained
IA4C Cdp ldI4lr Will d DluSll VI uIOuGSlA y.
The increasing frequency with
which balloons have come to earth
of late in various parts of Holland
has led to bill being laid before the
Netherlands second chamber with a
view to putting a stop 10 these I'M
welcome visits The bill says the
London Globe, is aimed mainly at
balloons belonging TO the German
aerOnauticaI societies in the region of
the lower Rhine, as in most cases 1t
has been found that when the balloons
have landed the occupants of the car
have been officers of the German
army and their object in making
the balloon trips into Dutch territory
very naturally is thought to be CON
nected With spying out the country.
Henceforth every aeronaut landing in
the Netherlands will have to pay a
fine of so pounds or go to prison for
three months.
A manufacturing firm has a If
teen-acre belladOnna garden in opera,
ton near New Brunswick The farm
is successful as far as the production
of pure drug is concerned, but it
is not yet profitable enough financial
ly TO make many farmers abandon
their garden truck and take to cult
waiting the deadly nightshade.
During a Lenten lecture on the
poor, Jacob a. Riis said:
The slUms of New York, when l
first came to know them as a police
reporter, were disheartening, indeed.
To clean them seemed as hopeless as
cleaning an Augean stable. 1t was
like the case of a slum boy whom l
heard about the other day
Jackie said the boys mother,
your face is fairly clean, but now
did you get such dirty hands?'
Washing me face said the boy"
Is your hair falling out?
Let it fall,
Are the bill collectors calling?
Let them CALI
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
More People
The Great State Need.

For a long time The Journal has
been insisting that Florida's greatest
need is more people and we have
urged the necessity Of state aid in Sc
curing a desirable class of immi-
grants. We are pleased therefore to
note a similar view in the Tampa
Tribune and our able contemporary
puts the case so wen that we cannot
do better than publish what it says
as follows:
When the legislature gets to work
to-day what will be the prevailing
thought with its members? WILL IT
BE THAT THEY ARE THERE TO
CARRY OUT A SACRED OBLrGA-
TION THEY OWE IT,. STATE OR
ITO SATISFY THE IMMEDIATE RI
QUIREMENTS OF SOME CLIQUE?
The question is vital, because the life
of Florida depends upon the action
of her sons. They have cast their
franchise for certain men to repre-
sent them. and If these men are true
Representatives they will voice the
idea of the whole people. The Trib-
lune thinks the first idea of the, people
is that. POLITICS SHOULDsBE LAID
given to the considerate preparation
and passage of such laws as will
work for state development and the
enrichment of'the people of the, penin-
sula.
THE MOST.MANDATORY LAW is
one that. win establish in Florida a
department of immigration. The
most needed immigrants are those of
a higher intelligence; not alone as
workers in factories, but THOSE WHO
WILL TILL THE SOIL of our thou
sands of unimproved acres. It may
be that wisdom would dictate, in Or
der to secure the latter class that
SOME INVOLVEMENT MIGHT BE
OFFERED in the way Of certain
number of free acres, which our leg
dslators will know how to determine.
This would seem to be the easiest
and cheapest way. so far as Florida
is concerned, to secureSa class of i'm
migrants that VIII, in the best pos
sible way, bui-d up the state. and give
It the greatest strength that can be
owned; the backbone, the foundation
principle ION which all else -depends-
THE WORKING OF THE SOIL.
This IS the first measure which. our
Legislators should consider. WE
MUST GET PEOPLE IN THE
STATE. There is no state in the
Union so well adapted for cultivation
NOR one that returns so large a re-
ward for effort as Florida Let
other measures come later, whether
for good or evil, but THE FIRST
SHOULD BE ONE THAT CONSD-
tERS HESGENERAI.. WELFARES OF
THE STATE; THE GETTING OF
GOOD PEOPLE.
Now this is not only a clear pre-
isentatiOn Of the case. Sbut it offers
logical solution, OF the great question
OF Florida's development. The re-
sources are here, but they cannot be
developed without the requisite num-
Der of people to do it.
. The question is now up TO the Iegis-
aature and to that body alone.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
Honesty In War.

The French marshal. Turenne. was
q great general, and his character
bears examination for nobility. He
was q great man. Many incidents
which are related Of him show his
modesty, generosity and honesty as
we'll as his courage and military a5iI-
ity- A little story Of one OF his Ger
man campaigns illustrates his rare
scrupulousness even in time of war
The authorities of Frankfort believed
from the movements of his army that
he intended passing through their ter
ritory. They sent a deputation to him
which offered him a large sum of mon
ey If he would alter the direction of
his march and leave Frankfort.
They were surprised in more ways
than one by his answer. Gentlemen"
he said, my conscience will not per
nit me to accept your money. for 1
have never intended to lead my army
through your town"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
Is your hair falling out?
Let it fall!
Are the bill collectors calling?
Let them call,
Doctors In cru.

1t is somewhat difficult for an Amer
lean physician to open a practice in
Peru Before the doctor can be ad-
mitted to practice his calling he must
take an examination in Spanish before
q board in the usual medical and sur
gical subjects. The fee for this exam
nation is $500 in gold. being the same
fee as that paid by a medical student
during his seven years course of in
struction In the national colleges. The
license, when obtained, is good for
practice in Ecuador, Bolivia and Spain.
Chicago News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
NEW BOOKS
The Stranger.
RV + C1IdWoH

! by j. r j. CALDWELL
! The war of Secession closed some
SIX years ago. The second and not
less bitter war the Reconstruction. Is
i'll progress. Eleanor Field, a Connec-
ttcut woman, is going south, to teach
school. Her family is cIamorous in
! disapprovaL You'll be snubbed, and
starved and scared, and perhaps XII
hluXedi" cries her young sister Julia.
tearfully- You'll be killed by rebels
and bushwhackers! Her brother Tom.
who lost an arm fighting those same
rebels says little, perhaps because
ne KNOWS more. Mrs. Meacham
Eleanor's friend, has written a long and
frank explanation of the conditions
Eleanor must work in, adding: The
community has no liking for Northern
people, for they no doubt imagine that
all OF Us are of the same kind as those
who burnt their houses, plundered
their barns and meat-houses, and car
RED off their horses and cattle"
Eleanor IS no coward and she goes.
goes all alone. reliant upon heraovn
strength and her individual power TO
endure The story of the long, lonely.
cruel days, when every power of her
character was tested, every quivering
nerve strained is told in The
Stranger"
1t is a strong, compelling book,
and an honest one. Mr.. Caldwell is
q Southern man, anG knows the condi-
lions of which he writes He was an
officer on the fighting line of Lees
army, and was subsequently a promi-
nent figure in one of the so-called Ku-
klux counties of the South He has
Tor years been in the front rank of the
legal profession in his native state.
South Carolina, and is recognized Is
enc OF her best scholars Shortly al
ter the war he published his History
OF Brigade of South Carolinians,
which has been commended by North
ern soldiers as well as by his COM
rades. The qualities of accuracy.
clearneSS and fairness which charac-
terlZed that work are marked features
of this story. He HeXtenuates nothing
nor sets down aught in malice The
Yankee SchOolmarm suffered ostra-
clSm, mlSconstruction, calumny, and
SO 1t Is written She had to bear with
Ignorance, prejudice, carelessness, ne
glect and disease; she found strength
ana consolation in the friendship of I
sweet and generous woman and
peace and culture in Margaret Mason's
home. AS it was, so it is written.
Mr.. Caldwell has a clear-cut style,
and he analyses like a scientist. He
IS skilful, keen, thorough, frank, W.
faltering. The Reconstruction period
has received no more intelligent and
forcible exposition.
12mo, cloth; handsome letterpress
and binding. Price, postpaid, 81. so. The
Neale Publishing Co, Broadway, 5th
Ave-, and 23rd ST, New York
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
ALL SORTS.
LITTLE MELINDA BROWN-HER
RnOK

LITTLE MELINDA sRoWN-HER
BOOK.
Torn and battered and smeared with
paint, -
Ladies in purple and knights in
blue;
Cinderella of gentle plant,
Decked in a gown of gorgeous hue;
Hop-O my-thumb and GOOdy TwO-hoes;
A fair queen and a yellow spOOk-
These are the playmates once she
knew:
Little Melinda Brown-Her Book. +"
Here is the tabled and fair Geraint;
Here is the giant BOlgharbOO;
Here is the soft-voiced lovely saint
Of the falling diamonds and pearls;
and, too,
This is the terrible Bluebeard who
Spoke so loud that his wives all
shook.
Little Melinda BrOwn-Her Book
Apples of Sodom have left their
faint;
In the ambrosia is taste of rue;
Try as we may, alas; we mayn't
Summon them now, as we used to
Spirits of life when life was new,
These are the stories that once were
true
Little Melinda BrOwn-Her Book"
Envoy.
Friends of my childhood, fair and
quaint,
Forgive, forgive, that my hear1 for
sock
Ny love I send in this rhythmic
plant.
To Little Melinda Brown-Her
Book
Cecilia Myrover Robinson, in
Harper's Magazine.
When one looks round at the jOvial,
happy, healthy faces of vulgar men;
when one reads of the vast sums
they leave at their decease, one is
astonished that the art of vulgaFity
is not taught in schools. II one has
not inherited a certain proficiency
from ones parents one has to pick Il
up ones self,
The solution of the great problems
of life, how to be healthy, how to
procure the privileges of the wealthy
ana a reputation for happiness and
wisdom is 10 be vulgar.
Even in far-away Persia the woman
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
he Conquest.


BY Daisy Fitzhugh Ayres.
Out OIL the west he comes, a part of
Its freedom and might and glow, q
part of the big-hearted, clean-handed
west-Silas Ware, Senator from Neya-
da.
Senator Ware of Nevada n
little stopped, with honest eyes that
look directly into yours with the chal-
lenge OF a clean life; a man of brand
new millions; yesterday a miner. to-
day representative of the people.
elected to speak and act for them.
Opportunity, in training purple, has
found him neither feasting nor sIeep-
ing, but girded with staff in hand. To.
gether they fare forth, Opportunity
and the Man; together they reach
Washington, where Opportunity draws
his flowing purple about him. There y
pointing to a stately pile of marble
against the sunset sky, go forth and
findi"
Now II Is a mans world. but there
are women in it, and in a splendid
new house, a house a-gIitter with
strange new things bought with new
made money, Cynthia Ware watches
with eager mOther-love-all good wives
love with the Observation-Disclosures man
she knows so well, her big boy-Iover
her husband, comrade, partner. friend.
Rumors reach her. Does she know
him so we'll?
She LOOKS out over the golden desert.
over the illimitable waste of land and
Sky Does she know him SO weu2 She
was coward to let him go alone into
that vortex of sin and ambition and
temptation, that unknown country
where innocence is crime and feminine
beauty Is an end justifying all things.
She was coward to be afraid. 10
leave Silas face it all alone, her great
0oy-hearted, loyal, noble SiIas-her
king, her own, own king
And when his letters innocent1v
grow radiant with Another Woman.
the lust of possession stirs the home.
wanting woman TO action. He is hers.
ana she VIII hold him with the same
powers mat the Other Woman is using
TO win him. She will learn of That
Woman; she will possess the strength
That steals mems hearts from their
homegrown women, Grace. seduc-
-iTeness, elegance, all the useless ef
iects of white-handed ease she will
master Opportunity has not come to
her 1t is mans world Unattended
she fares forth to Washington to learn
of the other Woman.
she IS Western woman, brave. ger
erous, just and large-minded: a thinE
ing woman, woman of passion. Cf
and initiative. As Mrs
Acton" she is popular in Washington
society; as Cynthia Ware she is q
v1carioiS sacrifice to her own love
logic. As she receives the kisses of 4
lover she prays: God, I'm not
wanton- Silas has done this terrible
thing l must do it too. for his pun
ishment- a mans crimes are the
same as wOnan'S crimes in youl.
eyes, dear God, I've got to establish
this horrible equation with my hus.
band. to purge him of his sin against
me. You understand God Please
forgive me, please sympathize For
ChTfst's sake, Amen" When. in the
countless prayers of wronged women.
has woman asked God TO sympathize
with her-in- sUchla case, the same
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-06
Contagious.

An Irish lad on the east side was
obliged recently to seek treatment at
u dispensary. On his return home from
the first treatment he was met by this
inquiry from his mother:
An what did the docthor man say
was the matter Wild your eye?"
HE said there was some furrin sub
stance in it"
'-Shure!" exclaimed the old woman.
with an I-told-you-so air, NOW. maybe.
yen kape away from thin Eyetalian
boysr'-Success Magazine.