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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
Josh Ashley Not Guilty.

Greenville, April 28.-In the Unit
ed States court this afternoon Joshua
w. Ashley was acquitted on the
charge of peonage. The jury re-
turned the verdict after 80 minutes
deliberation. This is the second trial
of the case, the first resulting in a
mistrial one year ago.
When the verdict was announced,
and as the jury was dismissed and
were filing out of the box, each man
was greeted by Mr.. Ashley with a
handshake, he exclaiming to each
juror, 81 hope brother to meet you
on the other side of Jordan"
A large number of Mr.. Ashley 3
Anderson and Honea Path friends
were here this afternoon and ex-
pressed themselves as confident that
the legislator would be acquitted long
before the case was given to the jury,
and when the verdict of not guilty
was read, they gathered around the
old man and he was swamped with
congratulations.
To those who had followed the
case, the verdict came as somewhat
of surprise, for it was understood
the government was preparing great
COUP of some sort. This, however,
appeared to be an idle rumor, and,
aside from a rather severe arraign-
ment at the hands of District At
torney Cochran, Ashley got of rather
light at the hands of the other gov
ernment attorneys.
Messrs. Mccullough and Boggs
made eloquent pleas for the old man,
and several members of the jury were
y;sibly affected.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
Fake Advertisers.

It Is sadly true that the worst fakes
and patent medicine humbugs are to
be found in the advertising columns
of the church papers. 1 picked up a
paper that is published by one of the
largest church organizations in this
country in behalf of the missionary
work of the church, and the editor
said the paper is getting on better
financial basis because OF the In
crease In the advertising. l looked
at the advertising columns, and fully
80 per cent. of the ads in that mis-
sionary paper were pure fakes. The
editors Of the religious papers, gen.
orally lacking in worldly wisdom are
more easily imposed upon than any
other class of papers, and all the
fakes know that they are "easy."
And they know, too, that it is useless
to try to get into the pages of The
Progressive Farmer and Gazette
Progressive Farmer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
Refused to Pick Up Money.

The conversation Of the five men
seated about restaurant table turn
ed to present day prosperity. Four
of them insisted that times are still
hard, says the New York Sun.
Hard nothing" said the fifth.
"It's because the people of New York
have no regard for money. They'll
kick it around in the street rather
than stoop to pick it up"
His companions laughed. ,
I'm willing to prove it." rejoined
the wine agent. "I'll bet $50 I can
lay a dollar bill or SIS bill out there
on the sidewalk and uobody'll stoop
to pick it up. But they'll kick it
around as though it was cigar stub
and pass on
His companions were all interested
now, and the bet was made. They
went to Fifth avenue and Twenty
sixth street. The fifth man took a
dollar bill from his pocketbook, fold
ed it before his companions so that
only the white inside of the green
border was exposed, and laid it on the
sidewalk.
It lay there for five minutes, dur
ing which time about 200 persons
passed over it, some Of them kicking
It, but never q one stopped to pick 1t
up. The bet was paid up.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
MYSTERY sHROUDs MURDER.
killing Of Woman Proves Puzzle TO
Charleston Police.

Charleston, April 29.-The Char
lesion detectives are at work to-day
on mysterious murder as result of
the death this morning Of Margaret
Musgrove, who died at the Riverside
infirmary from wounds which she re-
ceived while in company with c. P.
Grimshaw, a switchman and extra
conductor of the Southern railway,
shortly before midnight, on a stretch
of land in the extreme western portion
of the city, known as West Point
mill. Grimshaw was also shot in the
feshy portion Of the back. The police
department is attempting to unfathom
the mystery. Grimshaw is under
guard at the Roper hospital, held as
a material witness. The inquest will
be held tomorrow.
The killing of the woman was the
general topic of conversation to-day
and various speculative stories were
IOlO. 1llAoudW dl1CSOo upSh AS@SA
ing the hospital, to which place he
ran upon being shot and asked for
treatment, that he and the young wo-
man had been attacked by negro,
and it is understood that in the wo-
mans ante-mortem statement it is
also charged that negro or a dark
man had attacked her. From the
course of the bullets, it appears that
the couple were facing each other
when the shooting took place, and the
man who fired the shots could not
have been very far removed from the
couple. Five shots are reported to
have been fired, two of which entered
the lower part of the mans back and
the others the woman's body just be-
low the heart.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
BARRIERS Mustn't Eat Onions.

An ordinance has been passed by
the city council of Waterloo, Nebras-
ka, and signed by the mayor and be-
comes effective at once, which among
other things, requires cleanliness In
barber shops and then provides:
'It shall be unlawful for any bar
Der in this town to eat onions between
Z a. m. and 9 p. m. No barber, while
shaving q cuustomer, shall insert a
thumb or finger in the said customers 8
mouth; shall not discuss the gossip
of the town and shall not use tobacco
while working over a chair; shall not
insist upon a customer having his
neck shaved or his hair singed."
A violation of any the provisions
shall subject the barber arrest and
a fine of not less than IS for each and
every otiense.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
Shoots Up Town.

Winnsboro, April 2S.-Since Sat-
urday night past Sheriff Hood and
the local police force have been busy
trying to locate the whereabouts of
Tom Dinkins, the negro who attempt
ed to "shoot up" the town Saturday
night. -.t -.
Five shots were fred from a So
calibre pistol, three of them striking
the front of J. O. Boag's store on the
southern end of Main street. It Is
the general supposition that Dinkins
was shooting at another negro, Dick
Chambers, who was standing in front
of .Boag's store when the shots were
fired. After emptying his artillery,
Dinkins beat it down the railroad
track and has not been seen SINCE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
Speaking a Good Word.

"The late Joel Chandler Harris, %
said an Atlanta clergyman, used to
laugh at the way everybody seemed
to want free advertisement of some
sort from the editor. It was the same,
he would say, with the physician
everybody wants free advice on the
health question from him.
81 once heard him tell about an
editor who served 10 days in jail for
licking the mayor. The warden treat
ed him very kindly, and at the 10
days end, escorted him to the door
and, shaking him by the hand, said:
"'Well, good-by and good luck,
Ed. Don't forget to give the jail a
puff
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

with local applications, as they
cannot reach the seat Of the dis
ease. Catarrh is a blood or consti-
tutional disease, and in order to cure
it you must take internal remedies.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly, and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces. Halls Catarrh
cure is not a quack medicine. It was
prescribed by one of the best physi-
clans in this country for years and Is
a regular prescription. 1t is compos-
ed of the best tonics known, COM
bined with the best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous sur
faces. The perfect combination of
the two ingredients is what produces
such wonderful results in curing ca
tarrh. Send for testimonials free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, price 75c..
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
MUST SERVE SENTENCE.
Supreme Court Decided Georgetown
Murder Case.

For the murder of Ruth Crisp Big
ham, w. B. Avant and DR.. G. G. Big
ham, the husband of the woman, must
serve sentence of three and one-half
years in the State penitentiary, the
Supreme Court rendering a de-
cision in which the sentence I'M
posed upon the two men by the
GEORGETOWN court is affirmed. The
opinion is by Associate Justice Gary.
Ruth Crisp Bigham was shot down
on the beach near the summer home
of Avant at Murrel's Inlet near
Georgetown last summer. Her hus-
band, DR.. Bigham, and his friend, w.
B. Avant, admitted killing her but
gave as an excuse that they thought
that she was a "ghost." The two
men were tried at the October term
Of court in Georgetown last year and
were convicted of manslaughter and
were sentenced to three years and six
months in the penitentiary. 1mme-
diately after conviction attorneys for
Avant and Bigham asked for a new
trial which was refused. The attor-
neys thereupon gave notice of appeal
to the supreme court. Avant was
later brought to the penitentiary
where he remained for several
months, finally being released on a
bond of $4,000, after habeas corpus
proceedings had been instituted caus-
ing an order to be issued by the
supreme court.
Since the trial and conviction moth
ing has been heard as to the where
abouts Of DR.. Bigham.
The attorneys for Avant and Big
ham failed to file a written notice OF
appeal with the supreme court with
In 10 days after the conviction.
Both defendants gave bail pending the
appeal to the supreme court.
All exceptions are overruled by the
supreme court.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
Ugly Charge Against Him.

Pinewood, April 2S.-Ethern Gra-
ham, young boy about 18 years old,
was arrested a few days ago on a
warrant sworn. out by woman for
assaulting young girl, age 13. The
girl is from North Carolina, and has
been under the care of the woman
for about two years. She is an or
phan girl and is said to be of un-
sound mind. The preliminary was
heard before Magistrate Stack and
the case sent uup to the circuit court.
It is said that the young man expects
to prove an alibi.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
Moving Pictures in the Church.
supreme cour'

tsJane Adams says that on Sun
day night in Chicago one sixth Of the
entire population is packed into four
hundred and sixty-six places Of en-
tertainment," says Woman's Home
Companion for May. Churches?
No-moving-picture shows! The
churches on Sunday night in Chsca-
90, and we fear, in many other
places, are not conspicuously crowd
Ned. The problem is this: If the
Chicago churches had presented an
up-to-date moving picture show, in
stead of a sermon, would the crowd
have followed the films? Inasmuch
as the church admission Is free and
the theatre admission Is from five to
twenty-five cents, it is fair assump-
tion that the churches would have
been filed. Now, If the object OF the
Sunday-night service is primarily to
reach the crowd on the street, and 1t,
SS udS UCOA Suo"A, ShO ASNAAS FAS
ture is q much more vivid and attrac-
tive way of reaching that crowd than
IS a sermon, why, in all seriousness,
don't churches give us the thrilling
stories of the Old Testament, its beau
tiful tales of the New Testament and
its modern illustrations of Christian
heroism in this and other lands, in
the up-to-date form-in moving pic
lures? They may answer that they
cannot get hold of the films and the
machine, but this answer Is not a
good answer. Excellent sacred pic
lures are shown in the present pro-
fessional entertainments, and many
Illustrations of modern heroism, self
sacrifice and virtue are in every pro-
gram. Moreover, a demand for films
Tor church use would enlarge the
supply. Moving-picture machines
are not expensive and can be easily
operated. You can do it in your
church. Why don't you?"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-05-05
Declines to be President.

Due West, April 27.-Dr. T. G..
Boyce, who was elected president of
the Woman's College of Due West by
the board of trustees at their last
meeting some time ago, has declined
to accept the position. 1t is with
much regret that the friends of the
college here learn this fact as DIR.
Boyce is held in high esteem by those
who are in charge of the college and
by those who know him. Immediate
" steps will be taken to secure some
other good man to take up this work;
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-07-15
Virginia Farmers Represented.

Richmond. Va. July l2.--Farm-
ers and manufacturers all along the
line of the Chesapeake & Ohio will
be represented in the Ohio Valley
Exposition. which will De held in
Cincinnati from August % to Sep
tember "a inclusive. Already the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway is
sending fruits and farm products OF
all kinds TO Cincinnati to be put in
the cold storage plants and kept IN
shape for the exposition. A suf-
ficient amount OF these products is
being shipped to provide for fresh
exhibits throughout the entire expo
sition. The products of the various
manufacturers as well as timber and
mining prod acts are being prepared
in Virginia. North Carolina. Mary
land. West Virginia, Kentucky and
Ohio for shipment TO be exhibited
there. All the railroads arr making
special rates for this exposition and
the farmers as we'll as business men
everywhere are approaching the
great advertising advantages offered
them in this exposition. The
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway is
doing al IN its power to aid the va
rious sections in benefiting by this
exhibition. Mr.. y. B. Wall. As
sistant 10 the President. OF the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. will
gladly give any intended exhibitor
all the information they desire as to
how TO prepare and ship their ex-
hibits. The railroads part in this
work is purely in the various com
muniues along the line.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-07-15
Norwegian Immigrants.
Continued from page -

Tn. Lieutenant believes that Virginia
is good field for his people and
he expects that hundreds of them
Will come here on the Norway Mex
leo Gulf liners to settle on the farms
and in the cities
Seven first-olaSs passengers. eigh-
teen third-clsss passengers and two
stowawsys arrived on the Noreugs
aud the passengers disembarked
here. They were: First class
Lieutenant Boo. Ala B. Rude and
Marie II. Rude, bound for Brooklyn;
Erik Ryming. tor Newport News;
John Jsnson for Springfield. Ohio;
Marcia Jsnson for Springfield. Ohio.
and Stephen Rasmussen for Mobile.
Ala. Third-clasS-Mathias Rah-
bek. for Claremont. Va; Bernard
Seland. Hans Petersen, Soren Mel
sen. Peter Kadsen. Absel Hansen,
TyOring Anderson, Frithjof Olsen.
Arne Peterson. Fens Salusen. al
for Tampa, Fla; and Harald Wer
ner and Tristan Hansen. sailors,
who came here 10 sign with the crew
OF the steamer Vitalia. now in Hamp-
ton Roads; Ralph Nelson. All Han
sen. Ole Thorsen. Ole Olsen, and
Carl Harlssn. ali for Newport News,
and Carl Hugo Nelson for Chicago
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-07-15
Methodist Church News.

Rev. \. X. Odell viii preach at
his Warwick appointments on next
Sunday morning and there viii be
no preaching services at the VII
iamsburg Methodist church at ll;lS
q. m. but the night services at Sis
will be held as usual except that
hereafter as long as the hot weather
continues these Sunday night ser
vices will DC only IS minutes lorg
or thsresbouts. and the ladies are in
vited % attend without their hats If
they so desire. Fans are furnished
in the pews and the many large
oper windows admits what breeze
there IS. Il is expected that the
new sceralyn fixtures viii be in
stalled in this church by next Sun
day which will add much to the
comfort OF the congregation.
Rev. K. K. Oden preached at
Eweu Station School House last
Sunday afternoon al $50. but since
there was confusion and misunder-
standing in the announcements only
sixteen persons were present. Mr..
Odell has given out an appointment
to preach again at this school house
on the second Sunday in August
AZ $50 o'clock and all the people IN
that locality are most cordially urg-
&C 10 be present
Five hundred and thirty dollars
has been contributed and deposited
in the local banks thus far for the
construction OF tie new Sunday
school rooms Of the MerhOdis'
church. Subscriptions are earnest
ly asked that this much needed i'm
prJvemenJ may be begun.
Inc Willing Workers Society Of
the Methodist church net last Mon
day night al the home OF Mrs. Geo
Holmes. A goodly number were
present and important business wa
transacted. The next meeting VII
e held the first day Of August anC
s1Il meet with Miss Louise Inmsn a
thz new home Of her father. Mr.. J
l.. Inmsn. n west end.
Hudnuts Violet Toilet Water 7Sc
I-Wllizmsburg Drug Co.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-07-15
OLIVER
Typewriter
A Quarter of a Million People
are Making Money with

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r.-tt rrom Or word -g9r So easy torun thal
Beginner sgol gel BOB me expert class Eteu
a. sou le,irn Letthe machine pay tne % cent?
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Tglatls our batuocry today We have uiade
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d. i.4lsgel in bsislness AOR comes the
conquest ~ tle bone.
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b for family uss 10 u becoming AZ important
fac.gr il tie lQuas trailing ~ young people.
An educator a. vel ~ o money maker.
our Ees selling pan guts tAe Oliver On The
THRESHOLD - every home in America. VIII sou
c.ose the cD0r " yOur home Or once % thls r.
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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-07-15

Hudnuts Violet Toilet Water 75c.
Williamsburg Drug Co.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-25
KNITTED WEAR FOR GIRL ROUGHING 1T
Daily Fashion Talk.
Bv FRANCES CARROLL.

wv HEN the leaves begin to turn and
the summer girl finds herself up
in the mountains banging away at golf
balls or taking long tramps or canoe
trips or indulging in the camping out
habit she will find the faddy new things
in knitted goods just the sort to please
her fancy. No longer will she be re-
quired TO depend upon the ever seTv-
iceable sweater. for some of the clever
est ideas imaginable have been worked
out with great success from the stand
point Of comfort and picturesquesness
Nowadays the outdoor girl may be
properly logged out In knitted wear
from head TO foot and such an oppor-
tunity has been embr sced by the young
woman who posed for the Illustration
accompanying this chat on outdoor
wOOlens. The skirt with its comfort
able Ouble-breasted sweater. the long
coy looking circular cape and the be-
coming headgeaT are all examples Of
what may be had in knitted wear. In
white or gray or crimson the pictur-
esque possibilities Of such an attire are
patent to the eye and the mountain re-
sorts in the late fall Will present no
more attractive picture than the girl
who. making the most of her oppor-
tUuity TO be becoiningly and comfort
ably clad indulges in some of the late
ideas in outing attire offered in the past
few weeks
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-25
FOR MOURNING
Is GENERALLY ADOPTED
White Robes Used In France In Bygone Years. Queen
Anne Introducing lime vation-FowerS Played
Part In Earliest Times

Concerning the adoption Of black for
mourning, a writer on historic customs
says that II was ''the color Of mourning
from the earliest times, because death
itself was supposed TO be mufhed in
black
Rabelais explains that BLACK is the
sign OF mourning, because IL is the color
Of darkness, which Is melancholy. and
the opposite TO white. which is the color
Of light, Of JOY and of happiness"
In France the mourning robe was for
merly white and continued so until the
reign Of Charles VIII
An explanation Of how this change
came about tells that Anne, Queen OF
Charles VIII. on the death OF her hus-
band IN 1888, surrounded her coat-of-
arms with black and clothed herself
in the same color, IN opposition 70 the
then prevalent habit, which was for
widows 20 mourn f.. white attire
Why certain colors are supposed TO
symbolic mourning is thus explained:
white Is the emblem OF purity; celes-
tial blue indicates the space where the
soul ranges after death: yellow, OF
dead-leaf. exhibits death as the end OF
hopes, and man falling like the leaf Of
autumn: gray Is opposed to represent
mother: black. the color OF mourning,
now general throughout Europe, indi-
Gates eternal night"
The wearing Of black, white, violet,
or any other color as symbolic OF
mourning g., Of course, purely matter
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-25
FIRST CLOCK KNOWN
WAS 700 YEARS AGO
Seventy-One Years Later
World Astounded BY
Earliest Watch.

To the year 1909 the first clock known
to the world was placed in the tower
Of San Eustorgio. in Milan.
The greatest astonishment and admir-
alton were manifested by crowds who
came 20 see the timepiece. In 1874 a
clock was installed In the palace Of the
mobiles at Padua. This was a wonder
OF mechanism indeed. for besides in
dicating the hours it showed the course
of the sun, the revolutions OF the
planets. the various phases Of the moon,
The months. and the fetes OF the year.
The period OF the evolution from the
clock 10 the watch was seventy-one
years, not so very long, all things con-
sidered. and the record OF the first
watch il 1880 Half a century later an
alarm clock made it's appearance. This.
we are told, was looked upon by the peO-
pie of that age as '1un instrument prod
igieux"
The fortunate possessor Of this clock
was Andre AlciaJo. a councillor OF Milan.
The chrOniclers have placed on record
hour, and az the same time little wax
candle was lighted automatically. How
this was done we are not told. but -
must not be overlooked that until about
seventy years ago we had no means or
obtaining a light other than the under-
box, so that the Milanese must have
been centuries ahead Of US in this re-
spect.
Not much progress was made with The
watch until 1910. when the second hand
was added
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-25

Of sentiment, but Is a sentiment that
has becOu-s engrafted into the customs
Of times Until Il has developed into an
unwritten but acknowledged law
Besides symbOliZing death by cOlOrs.
various other customs were followed in
ancient Rome that applied 10 the de-
parting of a soul One was that before
cypress tree was placed, 20 indicate %
all who approached that one Of the Oc-
cupants Of the house had passed into
the region Of shadows"
Another IS n was that a herald in
Vited peOUTr I'D be present at the ceie-
bration Of any grand funeral-where IL
was usual for public games 20 form part
OF the spectacle, and for the procession
70 be joined by Mimi Who ldUdcd the
qualities OF the dep~rted. quoted appro-
pirate passage Iro-n the cramatists
and poets. and then, ] Y way Of contrast
acted the part OF veri able clown
Funeral oratiOns and comm enorative
banQuets-the later held about nine days
cient Rome, the funeral repasr consist
ing OF simple fare. and beans forming a
standing dish
Flowers played TIER part IN funeral
ceremonies then as now. plluy mentions
that flowers were s-reW-n before the bier
Of SCfDiO SeTaDiO. sDd II was no uuCOm-
mon thing Tor a chaplet Of flowers %
adOru the bTOws Of the dead, while
from superstitiJus reasons. coins were
ceased as paSSage-money for CROSSING
he river styX. and inside the toube
bottles filled with perfume were placed
these being the '-tear-flasEs.'' or lachrv-
] matches, so often mentioned in old
books.