The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-11-10
ETCHINGS FROM EHRHARDT.
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unbounded satisfaction and while he
was standing holding little sorrel by
the bride and shaking his finger
threateningly at the painting, worn
| out creature, the bard fired his third
and last charge, then beat hasty re-
treat for home Here it is:
THE chase wound DER hill and dale.
And thrill'd thro' marsh, dell and
| fields,
The way that loosened Caper's joints,
And smarted him from head to
heels,
But grinning he viewed the sorrel
DER,
Trembling with fear meath curses
ban,
And said: you're no longer sorrel,
You're you-youbedam, youbedam!"
Anent the Byrnes circular, that
gave the last primaries such an inky
hue, it has been intimated recently
that the author of the scurrilous pa
per was perhaps conscientious in
his effort of vulgar blackguardism
to elect Mr.. Patterson one more term,
| whom he believed was on his
last political legs, and in the
campaign of 1912 would offer
for the place himself. If the
suspicion of honor in himself. and
what would the author of such
rash indecency not stoop to do to &C
complish selfish ends? The only
reason the voters of the Second dis
trict could assign for allowing them
selves represented in the national
assembly by such an one would be
that the elevation would add to a
putrid Republican congress the inde-
fensible odor of a basket of unfedged
sapsuckers. Why not any other ser
pent with forked tongue and rattlers
on his tail prove as dependable?
But in all candor, it is up to Mr..
J. F. Byrnes to say what the dis
coveries, if any, of the Pinkerton man
were in the case. Would he have
given the facts, if he is in possession
of any, had he been defeated? Ger
tainly.
Does election to Office so plaster
ones scoundrelism that elevation to
the high position suffice in the non
exposure of crime? Hardly.
What was the Pinkerton man
brought here for? And what did he
do? If secrecy in the case is made
of necessity, why?
Chief Justice Copeland gave the
horse and buggy thief, Boy Kearse,
four months on the chain gang for his
cupidity the night of the 30th ultimo.
Nose Jones came clear. The negro
woman, Susie Grant, got thirty days
on the gang for being accessory to
and after the fact, and she alsosgot
thirty days for contempt of court.
But scarcely any punishment will
dampen her ardor for devilishness
pure and simple. Though warned by
the court that if she was ever brought
before his honor again, "in addition
to the sentence the. law imposed, she
would either have to hang four hours
by the neck to a briar or be required
to kiss a billy goat till he bleated his
brains out" she was singing during
the evening of her first days service
upon the county and gleefully en-
gagged in a shuttle upon the streets
here while whistling: big fooot mig
ger you ca dance, crismus holler
day."
Supervisor J. B. Kearse was a well
come visitor upon the streets here
Thursday of last week. 1t was de-
lightfully pleasant to meet him again
in the flesh, after the lapse of twenty
years or more. The fates have dealt
kindly with Jimmie; his heart is as
warm as ever and in work so faithful
in the performance of his duties that
it is the hearts wish that he grow
much grayer than he is in the harness
of public service.
H. M. Graham, Esq, of Bamberg,
was in town one day last week. He is
one of the manly and pleasing char
acters not found easily in the every
day walks of life. After his pleasant
visit he seemed anxious to get back
home in response to mandates of the
ten little Grahams then anxiously
awaiting the fathers return home
that night. This correspondent had
the pleasure of reviewing one wing
of the little army of grace and beauty
! one dow 1oct eummer at their Vener-