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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-03-30
speeds Locals.

When you paint use DrVoe's tho Kind tha'
goes further, looks btttar ard asts longer
For sale oni y al Sppeds Drug store.
Russian corn cure IN, kes rough roads
easy" A su'e cure for COILS. For sale a
Speed. Drug store.
Still the talk Of the town-Speeds Cine
"'gara. II hvorite vii all the boys. Speed's
Drug store.
l. costs a. mu b 10 nut on CHEAP pain "a II
does tie best ne D-Noe's nnd be satisfied
Only little diff renee In price. Speed's
Drug Store.
Trv one bottle OF Russian Corn Clre and
yon will use no other. only 10 cents u bottle
speeds Drug Store.
You can always get box oil nice fresh
candy a. Speeds Drug store.
Don't fool your money away for poor cigar
VIII YOU can get speed Clncos al The SAM
price. Speeds Drug Store.
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TROY.

The back bone Of winter Is broken anC
every indication Is turned toward sum-
mer queen Of the seasons.
Miss Rebecca Jones a most attractive
young woman from Kershaw is with her
cousins the Misses Horten, on R. F. D. !,
This Is her visit, but she will be charmed
with the good people and their hospitality
in that vicinity.
Mrs. J. w. Young bought the lot In town
known as the Mitchell lot last Monday In
Greenwood and will improve 1t at once. We
understand it will be for rent.
Miss Ann Russell was pleasant visitor
with relatives last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Crawford from Long
Cane spent day or two with their son
Mr.. j. w. Crawford's family last week
near Cheathams.
Mrs. w. W. Wardlaw with her two little
jewels were to see relatives at Bellevue
week.
Measles are raging there snd some cases
are serious.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Morrah from Route
1 were cordially received visitors with her
sister Mrs. Harvey Robinson a few days
ago.
Mr.. J. W. Bradley of the Bank Of Troy
took little pleasure trip to Columbia last
week and came homo in new auto ma
chine with Mr.. W. d. burst OF Greenwood
Jim Doc says it was most refreshing
trip, and now can count your denominations
in the bank in jiffy.
Did you see those fleet footed horses
driven by Mr.. George Gillian from Watts?
He Is being watched with goo, goo" eyes
Miss Alma Clinckscales most delight
fully entertained the jolly Dozen Saturday
afternoon. Tempting two course lun-
cheon was served after the business meet
ing. =
Good Friday was the busiest day OF the
season with gardeners and seed sewers.
This has been an exceptionally fine March
no winds or severe weather.
Mr.. Zeke Clinckscale and sister-in-law
desville were to see her mother Mrs. Su-
sana Britt recently.
Our depot is frequently being forced open
and thief or thieves are helping themselves
to illicit booze. A close eye is an them
and Mr.. King our efficient agent will make
the times hard for them when they are
brought to justice. :,
We thought the diabolical villains had
gone to parts unknown but not so, when
lege in Abbeville? together with the burn
ing to death OF Of their students, holy
horror .crept over US. This seems to be
the age of fire fiends and Ia persons life is
nothing more than beast
Mrs. Sallie Toland and little son Robert
we're to see Mr.. Sam Young and family
Friday night and Saturday.
Miss Viola Franklin of the Atlanta Hos
pital is home for month to the delight OF
her many friends. Recently she was sue.
cessfully operated on for appendicitis and
is fast improving.
| Mr.. c. C.. Myers the N. S. tickman Is
back in Troy. He spent last year in Troy
and Is universally liked here.
Little Willie Robinson gave her friends
an egg hunt Saturday where much fun
was had tin hunting the hidden prizes.
She is one OF the sweetest little girls in
town and Is as popular She makes dear
| little hostess and we know they wish Eas
ter would come oftener, than once year
Mr.. g. A. Hanvey Is delighted to have
his sons, DR.. Hanvey of the Philippines,
and Robert Hanvey Of Memphis, Texas,
to join the happy family near Hopewell
for some weeks.
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Unfair to AbbeviIie.

The Columbia State, commenting on the
recent fire that destroyed one OF the dor
mitory building of HARRISON College,. q
negro institution in the suburbs OF Abbe-
vile, declared:
'Incendiaries, whom the white people Of
| the vicinity are morally certain are white
incendiaries. burned the dormitory build
ing Of HARRISON College, at Abbeyllle In
! the dead Of night;
"Abbeville, once center of intelligence
and refinement, Is made victim, along
with these poor innocent negro youths, OF
the a1barity OF men with white skins
whose membership would disgrace the
meaneSt race on earth. The act that
shocks humanity was melted by race ha-
tired, intensified by feeling Of jealousy
awakened by vague sense OF inferlorlty
in the breast OF the untutored white when
he sees the negro responding to the stir
ring of ambition.
"Abbeville, once the center OF intelli-
gence and refinement" Does The State
mean to imply that Abbevhle is less cul-
tured now than before2 Does the State
mean that citizens Of Abbeville are not as
good as they were before this fire, which
unfortunately appears to have been the
work of O crazy incendiary? But where
does The State get its information that
the fire was the work Of a white man!
Negroes have been known to do such deeds
before and against and against their own
race, too. :,
We believe there is no community In
South Carolina that regrets more deeply
the outrage than does Abbeville.
Probably the State bases its criticism on
frcctiOn between former president OF
HARRISON College and some citizens Of Alb
beville. If that is the case, the critism Is
still more unjust, for as we understand It
the present head of the school is colored
preacher, native of that vicinity, and q
man who has the respect, esteem and CO
operation of practically all the white peo.
pie Of Abbeville.
1t may be said further that the belief ol
the people of Abbeville is that the fire was
set by negroes, actuated by probable mo-
| tives of jealousy. Certain it is that there
appears to be no foundation for the state
ment that the fire was the work OF the
hites.-Greenville News.
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tother day." he began, "a nice lookin' old
chap-and he says to me, "sOon as you Ire
through, want to talk to you about yer
job and some other things. / tell you l
was scared awful; I took him to be a
'Spotter,' and I thought he'd got on to me
sellin' my own stuff now and then; taint
right, yer know, but all the fellers do it.
Well, lowed had to face what was up;
so directly went and set alongside OF
him. That was the day afore got hurt
I'm glad l seen him, I never knowed
about them things he talked about afore. y
His lip Quivered. II oughter a knowed
afore, it's too late, now"
What is too late, Jimmie|
Them things he talked about"
what did he say!"
HE asked me about the Office; and
told him as how things wuS. Yer know, L
works the 4 80 train to New York. The
boss gives me basket of stock, and I'm
held responsible. I carry all the latest
novels, candy, CIGARS, Florida oranges,
bananas yer know them things yer get on
the train. We gets 20 per cent on all we
sells. Every night we turns in our money
and stock to the boss, and he checks us
up, sometimes we're right, and sometimes
we're short. This old chap he listened
and asked the most questions about all
I'm atellin' yer. Finally he says, says he,
We've all got to check up some day, do
yer ever think of that?"
1 asked him what business he was in:
He said he wus connected with somethin'
or mother. don't just remember now
then he said he wusn't referin' to business,
but that we all when we died, would have
to give an account, to the Ore what give
US our lives as to what we'd done with 'em
He said it was sumthin' similar to my bus.
mess. My Heavenly Father has gimme
some stock, such as my health, my right
Senses lots of chances fer dOin' good, and
so on the like O that and when died, I'd
have to check up, and He'd ask me what
I'd done with all He'd gimme; then il I'd
used all them things just for my own
Him, I'd be short when checked up. He
told me Of beautiful home prepared for
them as wus all right in their stock
When he talked about havin' home, fell
to longin Il never knowed what that
wus-to have home, yer know"
Jimmie. paused for moment, then with
the saddest expression I ever saw, he muir.
INJURED, "but that's not fer the likes O me
it's too late now; if I'd only a knowed
I've got to check up just as am; and
There was silence-silence which | could
not break. Why could not comfort this
dying boy? was able to relieve his body
but his soul was suffering now. Several
times I essayed to speak, but no words
came. knew the old, old story; but my
own misspent life reproached me. Should
l tell him that that which he had listened
to was mere fable, or should I give up
now and here, the stand which had taken
for so many years. and own to myself that
all the doubts had held to so tenaciously
were false? Here in the presence OF
death, knew did believe-there was a
Christ-this child had shown him to me.
Jimmie was looking to me for comfort
his large eyes fixed on my face, wondering
why l did not speak. All at once the
words came, and I preached to him Christ
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Information Wanted.
Anderson, S. c.. March, 18th 1910

Anderson, S. c., March, 18th 1910
Editor Press and Banner:
Dear Sir. Being one of the oil dest resi-
dents of Abbevile, write to see il you car
give me any information of the Nash's and
Tarrents. My great grand father John
Nash, came from Tennessee or North Car
olina, and settled at Abbev'lle Court House
or in the District. He married Tarrent
my grand mother. Lucinda Nash their
daughter married Cain Broyles OF the Bel
ton section in 1910.
The Nash's were prominent people at
that time. John Nash is supposed by oul
relatives to be son of General Francis
Nash who was killed in the revolution at
Germantown. l am anxious to get the
proofs.
II you know nothing about it. please
hand this letter to some party OF this name
If any are about there.
ANY information will be most gratefully
received Address
Mrs. Frank Crayton, Anderson, S. c.
Greenville st.
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How Good News Spreads.

81 am 10 years old and travel most
of the time" writes B. F. Tolson, Of
Elizabethtown, Ky. "Everywhere I
90 l recommend Electric Bitters, be-
cause l owe my excellent health and
vitality to them. They effect cure
every time" They never fail to tone
the stomach, regulate the kidneys and
bowels, stimulate the liver, invigorate
the nerves and purify the blood. They
work wonders for weak, rundown
men and women, restoring strength,
vigor and health that's daily joy.
Try them. Only soc. Satisfaction i
positively guaranteed by P. B. Speeds
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Capt. Bogardus Again hits the Bulls Ey'

Tnis " or Id famous fl shot who holds the
cha NJ pionship record OF 100 ptg' Ons In l0O
shots is living at Lincoln, IT..
Recently Interviewed, he Rays: Il have suf-'
fertd lonv time with kidney and bladder
trouble si d have used several well known
kidney medicines all Of which gave me no
re- lief until started ttkng Foley's Kidney
Pills. Before l use Fulry's Kidney Plll-
was subjected to severe backache and pains
10 my kidneys with suppression and often
times q cloudy voidrg. While upon arising
In the morning would get dull headaches.
Now I have taken three bottles OF Foley =
Kidney Pills ano feel l(0 per cent better. !
am never bothered with my Kidneys or blad.
der nd once more feel lk my own self All
tn owe solely TO FoIey's Kidney Pills and
always recommend Them 10 my fellow suffer-
ers" C. A. Milford d. Co.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-03-30
An Awful Eruption

of volcano excites brief interest, and
your interest in SKIN eruptions will be
as short, if you use Bucklen's Arnica
Salve, their quickest cure. Even the
worst boils, ulcers, or fever sores are
soon healed by it. Best for Burna,
Cuts, Bruises, Sore Lips, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains and Piles. 1t gives
instant relief. 25c. at Speeds drug
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The easy. pleasant, safe, sure, prompt pills
are Rings Little Liver Pills. In any emergen
cy, Pintsalve Carholized Is the salve to use
1t soothes pains. 1t heals bruises. Sold by
G. A. Milford & Co.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-03-30

Orpine ton Eggs for Sale.
am getting 15 eggs every day from 25 hens.
What are your hens doing? I can furnish
you fresh setting OF select Orpington eggs,
laid the same day that you buy. for one dol
lar. Apply j. +. Bradley.
Hot chocolate and all the hot an d cold
drinks at Mi!fords drug store.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-03-30

Place your fire insurance
with Abbeville Insurance snd
Trust Co. If the fire comes
they give you prompt and
satisfactory settlement. We
represent fifteen of the larg-
est companies.
We insure town or country
property.
J. e. McDavid, Mgr.
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Schedule for Due West Railway,

Morning train leaves Due Weat at 1880
Evening train leaves Due West at 4:40. These
Trains meet the morning and evening trains
ou the Southern at Donalds.
Passe neers can 90 cut from Due West on
Ghe evening freight train which leaves Due
West At two O'Clock.
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Money to loan on city or
county real estate. Able.
Vile Insurance and Trust Co.
J. E McDavid, Mgr.
Would Have Cost Him His Life

Oscar Bowman, Lebanon, Ky, writes ~
great pleasure in stating IL cured me perma-
nently OF kidney disease which certainly
wou have cost me my life." G. A. Milford
4, W
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Bees Laxative Cough Syrup contains no
tive, by which IL drives the cold from the
system and at the same time heals irritation
Of the throat apd stops the cough. Sold by
g. A. Milford d Co.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-04
Synopsis Of Preceding Chapters.

Chapter Judith Bartelmy, society
woman, goes to the office Of the Daily
Advance to protest against story
which had severely criticised her faith
er, 8 Judge Of the United States court.
She discovers that the author Of the
article was Wheeler Brand, brilliant
young writer whom she had promised
to marry. He refuses to cease attack
ing her father. H-Judith discards her
engagement ring. Dupuy, a lawyer,
representing big advertisers, calls and
demands Brands discharge, as his cli-
ents are friends Of Judge Bartelmy.
aging editor, for the paper, long own
ed by an insurance company, had been
friendly to corporations. Michael No
Ian, who buys the paper, comes in the
office and finds Dupuy to be an old
enemy of his. IV-Nolan calls for
Brand and makes him managing editor.
V-Brand tells Nolan and his socially
ambitious family that the dishonest
judge, Bartelmy, and his unsuspecting
daughter have taken them up socially
so as to try to induce Nolan not to at
tack the Judge in his newspaper. VI
Dupuy aids Bartelmy in endeavoring
attacking the judge regarding tricky
opinion he has rendered in the Lansing
Iron case. Every man has his price,
even Brand" says Dupuy. VH-Nolan
says IL Brand will trap Bartelmy in the
act of offering him bribe to keep ST.
lent that the Advance will print the
story in full. V1II-Bartelmy agrees
to pay Brand $4,000 to keep quiet
about the Lansing Iron case. TX
Brand lays the trap for Bartelmy.
X-Bartelmy arrives at the Advance
office to pay Brand the $4,000.
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betrayer of the public trust he had
sworn to hold sacred. And 1t was with
unmistakable triumph in his voice that
he gave the reply that was to be i'm
printed on the brain of the false judge
as long as he was to live-a reply that
would haunt him while awake and
awake him when he slept:
1T is a picture Of you in stripes,
Judge Bartelmy," he announced.
The Judge, realizing that he had
been tricked-that he had been photo
graphed in the very act Of handling
bribe money to the managing editor Of
the Acknowledgment rare presence
of mind for a man whose complete
social and professional ruin had be-
come suddenly imminent. He rushed
across the room at tine point where
the flash occurred, hoping to obtain
hold of the camera and destroy the
plate Owing to the pail of smoke he
had been unable to see just In what
manner the camera had been arranged.
But when he reached the side of the
room there was no camera to be seen,
only a round mole extended through
the partition into the next room and
from which the camera had been re-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-04
Hardness of Iceberss.

The hardness and strength Of ice
increases with the degrees of cold, and
as icebergs come from the region OF
perpetual cold of an intensity difficult
to realize it is readily seen how they
can become demons Of destruction
The hardness of icebergs is something
wonderful, even SURPRISING that of the
"land ice' reported from st. Peters
burg in 1740, wherein it Is declared
that 'in the severe winter Of that year
a house was built of ice taken from
the river Neva which was fifty feet
long, sixteen feet wide and twenty
feet high, and the walls supported the
roof, which was also of ice. Before 1t
stood two ice mortars and six ice can
mons made on a turning lathe. with
carriages and wheels also of ice. The
cannon were of the caliber Of six
Founders. but they were loaded only
with one-quarter pound Of powder
and with hempballs-on one occasion
with iron. The thickness of the Ice
was only four inches, and yet 1T re.
sisted the explosion" Ice palaces have
also been built in late years in this
country and in Canada which have
stood for weeks, so, then, how strong
must be the ice in masses hundreds OF
feet in ickness!-Pittsburg Press.
madeam Id
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Precisely"
Then that's understood"

Precisely"
Then that's understood"
you will make memorandum for
me in writing to that effect-a receipt,
so to speak?"
He pushed a pad toward the man.
aging editor.
"All right-certainly," agreed Brand,
taking up pen.
The judge began to congratulate
himself on the ease with which he was
handling the young man.
"This is-ah-more businesslike," he
said.
But Brand gave MIN another shock
when he said:
Yes; I'll draw it up in duplicate.
Each of us will keep copy-signed."
"Ah-ha-ha." The jurist leaned
back and laughed. You're a clever
lad, Brand. Well, well; youth will be
served" He pushed the pad away.
Brand glanced at the clock fixed In
the wall opposite him.
Bartelmy reached into the inside
pocket Of his evening dress coat and
extracted an oblong package. Slipping
off a rubber band that encircled it, he
unwrapped the yellow paper and laid
before him on the managing editors
desk a neat stack of crisp new bank
bills, all of the $500 denomination.
Bartelmy started to count the money,
but he desisted and pushed the bills
over toward Brand.
Count it," he said.
You count it."
The Judge leaned forward and began
the task His head was within four
or five inches of the mouthpiece of the
telephone. He picked up the bills, one
at time, and as he counted them he
laid them in another pile.
Five hundred" he said-"one thou
sand, attentive thousand, twenty
| five-three thousand, thirty five-four
| thousand, forty five-five thousand
There is half or it," ne remarked.
| les, lIldl SO,UVU, dSSVHlSu
six thousand" said the judge, con-
| tinuing with his task-"seven thou
said. seventy -fve-eight thousand"
Eight thousand dollars" agreed
Brand.
Nine thousand" counted the judge
Nine thousand dollars" said Brand
Ten thousand dollars" the judge
counted.
rs that correct" he queried of tine
editor.
Ten thousand dollars, correct" was
the reply. That will wipe the slate
clean between u.s."
! Brand held out his hand to take the
money.
The judge picked up the pile of bills
compressed them with his hands ant
extended the money across the desk.
Take it. Brand" he said.
AS the false judge said these words
and stood with the money in his hands
and held it out to the editor a loud ex-
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plosion thrilled every nerve fiber In
his body. A binding glare Of light
filled the room, and the air was filled
with the choking gaseous fumes Of the
smoke Of the powder used by photog-
raphers in making flashlights.
A pang Of terror shot through the
craven heart Of the would be briber.
He started back in his alarm, his eyes
almost blinded by the unexpected flood
of light that had subsided as quickly
as 1t had come.
my God! What is that?" he cried,
rubbing the back of one of mis- hands
across his eyes.
Wheeler Brand, who had risen in his
place at his desk when the judge had
finished counting the money, set his
face into hard, unyielding lines as the
Judge besought him to speak, to ex-
plain. He had won. He had COM
pletely at mis- mercy this cold, crafty
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-04
NoveliZed by
FREDERICK
R. TOOMBS
From the Great Play
of the Same Name
by Joseph Medill
Patterson and .Har-
riet Ford. - @
COPYRIGHT. 1908. BY JOSEPH
MEDILL PATTERSON AND
HARRIET FORD

the incident of which you were speak
ing, but also as to- He paused.
Brand helped the would be briber to
complete his sentence.
You mean your secret interview last
night with Dupuy and the attorney for
the Lansing
1.-The visitor raised his hand warn
ingly at Brands loud tones, as though
to counsel caution.
Yes, yes"
Lansing Iron corporation contin-
ued Brand, bending close to the tele-
phone.
"Yes. Will this sum. paid in hand,
induce you to forget-ah-not only that
incident, but also various other matters
to which the Advance seems to have
taken exception in the past
Brand sank back in his chair.
You mean you want us to let up on
you all around?"
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Shaking from head to foot in his
rage, he pounded the desk and cried

Shaking from head to foot in his
rage, he pounded the desk and cried
out:
You have gone to all your trouble
for nothing. I am going direct to Mr.
Nolan's house, and in less than an
hour you will receive orders to Kill
that story-that dastardly pack of lies
you want to print!"
Brand smiled calmly. He gathered
the $4,000 in bills, which lay scatter
ed on the desk where Bartelmy had
thrown them when he dashed for the
camera.
"I'll keep these as evidence" he said
when they have served their purpose
we will return them to you, or maybe
we will send them to the minority
stockholders in the Lansing Iron COM
pany. That's who the money probably
belongs to-"
Bartelmy accepted the situation with
stoical composure for the time. He
saw that he would have no chance IN
a hand to hand struggle with the
young athletic editor for possession OF
the money. Beside, he must see Mo-
lan-must see him at once. That was
the most important matter to which
he should now attend.
He walked deliberately to the closet
and secured his hat and coat. He
turned the key and went out Of the
door leading to the outer hall.
AS the Judge disappeared Wheeler
Brand sank heavily into his chair. He
spread his arms on his desk and bow
ed his head between them until his
cheek rested on the cool polished sur
face.
Judith, Judith" he sobbed, and his
body shook uncontrolledly as he wept
for the girl he loved.
To be Continued, =