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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16
Olfactory Evidence.

A typical old-time ''circuit rider"
died recently in Alabama-a man
whose godly, unselfish life will long
be remembered. Many were the &C.
centricities of this rugged old man,
and many anecdotes are current
among the Methodist minister's of
the State concerning him. He was
noted for two things-his denuncia-
tion of sin in no uncertain tones,
and the familiarity with which he
addressed the Lord in prayer.
On one occasion he had been
preaching in a log meeting house in
the piny woods of North Alabama.
There were several young fellows on
hand who had been celebrating by
patronizing still hard by. After a
long, fiery sermon, the preacher
made call for mourners, and soon
the rude altar was filled mostly by
the aforementioned young fellows.
The old man looked them over for
a moment, and with keen intuition
felt that it was perhaps a "lark'' on
the boys parts, but he knelt to pray.
30 Lord,' he began, there's a
crowd of young fellows kneeling
round Your altar. They've been
cussin' and swearin' and drinkin
and spendin' their time in riotous
livin,' but they've come up here
seemingly penitent. They look like
penitents, Lord, and I hope they are
They weep like penitents, Lord, and
hope You'll forgive 'em if they
are; but, O Lord, I declare they don't
smell like penitents!"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16
The Largest Safe in the World.

The United States government is
now in possession of the largest and
finest safe in the world It is located
deep under ground below the United
States treasury building at Washing
ton, and in this huge strong box it is
the intention to keep in storage at all
times not less than s500,000,000 in
currency Of course this new gov
ernmental depository of wealth is not
a "safe" in the ordinary interpreta-
ton of the word, but rather vault
nearly 50 feet in length, close to 20
feet wide and about Is feet in height.
The exterior walls of the new vault
are of the heaviest steel construction
and the door and the portfolios pro-
viding for ventilation are closed by
heavy steel doors fitted with the
latest approved locks of the heavi-
est and most intricate construction,
but the main safeguard for the sub
terranean wealth lies in an electric
system that cost $4,000, and which
enmeshes the entire vault in a close
drawn network of electric wires
more than II miles of wire in the
aggregate sounds alarms at
any interference. This system is
tested every Is minutes day and
night. The only means of reaching
the new vault is by a secret elevator,
guarded by treasury watchmen.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16
Something in His Pockets.

Detective Joseph Fanelli, of the
New Rochelle police force, saw a
man with pockets bulging step from
trolley from Mount Vernon early in
the morning, and promptly arrested
him.
At police headquarters the pris-
oner said he was George Evison, Of
Mamaroneck, and his pockets were
found to contain needles, thread,
patches, razor, razor strop shav-
ing brush and soap, stocking full
of tea, mirror, a paper percel con-
tanning butter eight onions, plug
of tobacco, several pieces of ribbon,
a whisk broom, silver watch and
chain, number of ladies' side
combs, a small bag of buttons, a
bunch of shoe laces, Sherlock
Hoems pipe and tobacco, a special
policeman's shield of Suffolk county,
a small broiler made of copper wire,
a cold chicken, several pieces of
bologna sausage, napkin, a nail
file, half-used cake of face pow
der, box of matches, a pair of scis-
sors, a wash cloth, a jack-knife, a
box of drawing pencils and crayons,
and a small sketch book containing
a number of rough sketches of land
scapes and street scenes
Edison told Judge Samuel F. SWIM
burne that he had been on a sketch
ing tramp through Westchester coun-
ty, and was allowed to go home
New York Times.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16
AFRAID OF BLEASE.
Hub Evans Likely to Escape Trial
for the Present.

The Columbia correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle says the chances
are that H. H. Evans, Familiarity
known as Hub" Evans, of Newber-
ry, will never come to trial during
the administration of Gov. Cole. L.
Blease. Without any official confir-
nation this statement is made in
view of recent circumstances.
Hub" Evans stands indicted for
accepting bribe when he was chair
man of the old State dispensary
board of directors. He was indicted
at Newberry by Attorney General
Lyon and was placed out on bond
pending his trial true bill having
been returned by the grand jury of
his home county.
Chief among the happenings that
lead to the conclusion that Hub Ev-
ans will not soon be tried is the
committing of the sentence of John
Black, the chairman of the dispen-
sary board in the years following
Hub Evans regime.
That Governor Blease Did not
grant full pardon to John Black
has been wondered at in many of the
papers of this State.
It should be recalled, however,
that when he was charged during the
campaign with the cry of 'Blease
will pardon the grafters," the pres
ent governor issued a statement
from Newberry in which it was de-
MED that he would pardon.
This, it is believed, is the main
reason the governor did not pardon
John Black. The commutation is
regarded as practically pardon in
the view that the convicted man es-
capes the prison, but in the eyes of
the law the person convicted admits
guilt.in accepting communication and
the only further act that the gov
ernor can later do is to restore to
citizenship thus wiping out the stain
of not voting or accepting any affice
as provided by the constitution.
The very object of the convictions
in the dispensary cases is to secure
punishment by Imprisonment as was
announced in Judge Ernest Moores
sentencing of John Black. When
those who are convicted are either
to be pardoned or their sentences
commuted it is felt that it is entail
ing unnecessary expense upon the
county where trial is held and TAX
ing up the time of all persons in
volved in the hearing of the case to
no advantage.
For this reason, too, it is believed
that H H. Evans will not be brought
to trial during the administration of
Governor Blease. Future events may
change the situation but a bet of
1000 to 1 IL .ght be taken on the
probability that Hub" Evans may
not soon be brought to trial.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16
REFUSES TO OBEY.
Major A. H. Kirby Will Not Give Up
His Office.

Spartanburg, March 9.-Major A.
H. Kirby has received letter from
Gov. Blease ordering him to vacate
his office as magistrate and turn over
his records to Malcolm Bowden, the
governors appointee.
Mai. Kirby has said that he will do
nothing of the kind.
Though the major is S3 years old,
he says he is not ready to retire at
this time and holds that the governor
has no right to remove him from Of
flee. His attorneys advise him that
he can hold over, since Mr.. Bowden,
whom the governor appointed to sue
ceed him, has not had the indorse-
ment of the county delegation nor
been recommended by the senate.
Both Maj. Kirby and Bowden are
transacting business. What the de-
velopments will be is the question in
which the city is much interested.
Blease's Letter.
The following is Gov. Blease's let
te to Maj. Kirby:
"Dear Sir: Your successor having
been appointed, you are hereby mott
fed that your commission as magis-
trate is null and void.
"Yours respectfully,
"COLE L. BLEASE,
Governor. "
Major Kirby said tonight, II have
not yet sent Gov. Blease my reply,
but l won't have much to say to
him."
He says he will continue to do
business.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.
Bamberg People Should Know How
to Read and Heed Them.

Sick kidneys give may signals of
distress.
The secretions are dark, contain
sediment.
Passages are frequent, scanty,
painful.
Backache is constant day and
night.
Headaches and dizzy spells are
frequent.
The weakened kidneys need quick
help.
Don't delay! Use special kidney
remedy.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sick
kidneys, backache and urinary dis
orders.
Bamberg evidence proves their
merit.
Mrs. R. A. Delk, E. Church St.,
Bamberg, S. c., says: II can say
that I have been greatly benefited by
Doan's Kidney Pills which I pro-
cured from the Peoples Drug Co. I
took them for backache and kidney
complaint and found them to be just
as represented. They relieved me Of
backache and pains in my lofns and
also removed trouble that had exist
ed with my kidneys"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffa-
10, New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16
Laziness in Legislatures.

Copies of the rebuke addressed by
Governor ColQuitt to the legislature
of Texas might be sent with equal
justification by nearly every governor
in the United States to the law-mak-
ing bodies of their respective COM
monwealths.
1t has come to be the fixed habit
of legislatures in this country to as
semble and trifle for 80 or 40 days
and finally to carry through with a
reckless rush such legislation as is
absolutely necessary to the main
tenance of the State government and
it's institutions in the closing hours
of the session.
Usually in the legislature of this
State a local bill with one member
or senator behind it and half a
dozen influential and interested citi-
zens of a county "in behind" him
is likely to run the gauntlet of the
committees and the two houses to
passage and ratification, unless it ex-
cites antagonism, but the larger
measures affecting the whole State
and requiring thorough and diligent
study if they are to be perfected,
hang fire from session to session.
Such a bill, for example, as that
relating to the remodeling of the
school laws of South Carolina intro
duced in the session lately adjourned
should have had the energetic and
determined direction of half dozen
legislators from the beginning of the
session and these men should not
have allowed it's progress to lag for
a day.
The average legislature is of the
Texas type and subject to the infirmi-
ties of the Texans. In word, it is
an idle and Indifferent body that
works most under the lure or the
goad of a lobby. Were the opposite
the case, were the legislatures bent
upon making laws for the whole peo-
pie and accustomed to give attention
and diligent study to great meas
ures. there would be little time avail
able to listen to the lobbyists.-Co-
lumbia State.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16
A MECCA FOR CATS.
Pittsburg Has 100000 to Stamp
Out the Rat Plague.

A Pittsburg lawyer, according to-
the Philadelphia Ledger, makes the
assertion that s1,O00,000 worth OF.
property is destroyed every day In
the depredations committed by rats
throughout the United States, and he
says Pittsburg is more heavily VIC
timized than any other community.
He declares perhaps the
assertion is not to be taken too
seriously-that he Is authorized
to offer s1,0O0,0O0 for a rat-killing
device that will do for Pittsburg
what the Pied Piper did for Hamlin.
The mere announcement is enough
to bring upon him an inundation OF
"crank" letters, models of patents,
sketches and blue prints, and his of
flee will be thronged with wild-eyed
visitors and inventors of perpetual
motion machines, until he will rue
the day that he was born. But It Mr..
Evert seriously wishes to rid his city
of rats, the means by which Richard
Wilmington became an inordinately
wealthy Lord Mayor of London sug-
gests itself. Let him invest $1,00Os-s
600 in cats. Just think how many
cats that amount of money will buy.
In short time it is to be ex-
pected that Pittsburg will resemble
ancient Egypt, and that a cat will be
installed as the tutelary divinity OF
every household. The city hall will
be a temple of Bubastes, and any
one who has request to make about
street openings or sewers will bring
a propitiatory Offering Of fish or cat
nip for the commissioners cat. 1t
has been decided in New York that
the postofice cats are government
employees, and an appropriation Is
regularly made for their mainten-
ance. The question is whether the
cats of Pittsburg would have to be
classified as city employees and
whether they would be compelled to
take civil service examinations. In
the meantime, Mr.. Evert's offer will
make Pittsburg the mecca for the
tramp cats of the entire country.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16
Thought 1t Was Earthquake.

Cleveland, Ohio, March 9.-The
seismograph at st. Ignatious college
observatory recorded earthquake vi
brations tonight beginning at 8:45
p. m. and lasting for 25 minutes
when they began decreasing. Father
Odenbach, observer, says the records
show two distinct shocks.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16

First Wedding Guest-How happy
the bridegroom looks. Second We'd
ding Guest-That' isn't the BRIDE
groom-that's the fellow the bride
jilted.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
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"O'Riley is coming!"
"O'Riley is ooming!"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-16

"O'Riley Is coming!"
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"O'Riley is coming!"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15

Three Conventions VIII Hold Sessions
I'm philadelphia This Week-Wfi
Try TO Reach Agreement in Some
Ecclesiastical Matters.

Philadelphia. Pa, June Il.-Bap-
lists from MANY lands will assemble
In Philadelphia this week TO atten /
three big conventions TO consider de-
nomlnatsonal matters and TO promote
unity and efficiency in efforts for the
evangelization of the world.
The Northern Baptist Convention.
representing more than 5000
Baptists in the North, holds a six
days meeting beginning on Tuesday.
The General Convention OF the Bap-
lists of North America, representing
the entire United States and Canada,
will hold a single session on June
18th.
The Baptist World Alliance will
open its sessions on June 18th and
will meet daily until the 25th. The
last meeting of the latter body was
held in London in 1905.
In the three conventions some Of
the best known Baptists in the
world are expected to speak. Chief
interest is expected to center in the
visit of the foreign delegations, con-
sisting of about 800 from Great Bril-
tain and about one hundred from the
Continent.
English Baptists and American
Baptists differ somewhat in matters
Of ecclesiastical arrangements. The
Baptists of England are what are
called open communion" and the
Baptists of the United States, to a
large extent, "close communion" and
it is expected there will be spirited
discussions on points Of difference.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15
Finally Lost N.

81 may have lost my golf bal"
thought the old man as be crept on all
fours round the bush into which IL had
rolled. but win not lose my temper. T"
So he continued TO grovel and grope
and to wear q persuasive. patient
smile. His knees bagged. bis back
ached horribly. and the bush bestowed
upon his hands a generous quantity
Of thorns- But he refused to discard
his smile and kept on repeating:
NO; win not lose my temper.
will not"
Suddenly the elusive ball caught his
eye. Flopping fat. he stretched his
hands toward 1t. grasped 1t among Its
nest Of thorns and gingerly with
drew it
"Hoity-toityr exclaimed an old wo-
man behind him. "You ought to be
ashamed. bird nesting at your time of
lifev'
And then he did lose his temper
London Answers.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15
Ghiberti's Famous Doors,

The world renowned doors of the
baptistery at Florence represent nearly
the entire lifework Of Ghiberi. He
began the first pair when he was TWEEN
ty-three years old. and when he fin
thed the second pair he was seventy
three. Excepting the three statues out
side Or San Michele and one or two
minor works, these two pairs Of bronze
doors represent his labors for half a
century. These doors, declared by
Micha elangelo lift to be the gates Of
paradise" represent the book Of Gen
esis in all the depth of its meaning,
and the skill Of the artist has never
been overpraised 1t is impossible to
exaggerate the glory of the work. and
IL one has the time and money the
sight of those wonderful doors Is well
worth the trip to Florence.-New York
American.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15

u tie ball Of afar hoes~ % gwrwx@~zr~
stsves thers In painting - Crorx.
washirxtoa. lie sooks d racsx eoxn-
nandsng person. with The stature CO
a giant and O fanltiess phyxsQus. Bet
looking 81 The portrait receasIy . pub
lie man commented
That il q God deal q . sham
George Washington never locked Ike
that. though ire 10 doukt he would
hav. been proud 10 appear 80 magng1-
cent
Notice the leg" the speaker Goa
tinued- They are perfect beauties.
but they are not washIngton.s They
are the les of General Smith Of New
Jersey. a soldier 0f tire Revolution.
lit happened this way" be explain
ed in conclusion: Washington had
quite uniupressIye les. and the artist
who painted that picture was 50 dis
satisfied with their shape that be per
suaded General Smith TO lend his
fauItIess members as models So.
while we have the face and torso OF
our great first president. the support
ing legs are those Of enc OF his gen
erals. Long may they stand.'-Wash-
ington Post
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15
Saved His Wife'S Life.

"My wife would have been in her
grave to-day" writes o. H. Brown,
of Muscadine, Ala, 'if it had not
been for DR.. Kings New Discovery.
She was down in her bed, not able
to get up without help. She had a
severe bronchial trouble and dread
full cough. l got her bottle Of DR..
Kings New Discovery, and she soon
began to mend, and was we'll in a
short time" Infallible for coughs
and coughs and colds, it's the most
reliable remedy on earth for des-
perate lung trouble, hemorrhages, Ia
grippe, asthma, hay fever, Group and
Whooping cough. soc, $1.00. TriaI
bottle free. Guaranteed by al
Druggists.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15
Ex-Member North Carolina Legisla-
ture in Oklahoma Prison.

Oklahoma City, Okla, June IA
Governor Cruise received letter to-
day from an official of the State of
North Carolina asking his assistance
in securing the release from the Fed
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kansas,
of W. J. Nichols, a former member
of the North Carolina Legislature.
Nichols was convicted of violating
the postal laws under the name of
G. L. Jackson in connection with the
operation of the Little-Crater Crude
Burner Company. Nicholas sold
county rights for the sale of new
patent crude oil burner, maintaining
headquarters at Elreno. Through the
efforts of Postmaster E. E. Brown,
Of Oklahoma City, the Federal au-
thorities were induced to start prose
cutions for using the mails to de-
fraud. Nichols handled thousands
of dollars as a result of his scheme,
but was convicted and sentenced to
serve two years short time ago. A
short time ago Nichols wrote the
Governor, accusing the Federal Off
Gals of the Western District of Okla
homa and Postmaster Mccoy, of Gu
thrie, with having conspired to rail-
road him to Jail.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15


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hoss~sasvis Ismx oaw CO gwswnSsy
pale. gsssssy dressed as@a wAs s-sa
humbly apswzmehan< sagsu1s E.~ss~*-
traSns- lie was wssse1tay Cot as~a -
aeg~aav aid - Dc tod nls rztoefsc
ssovy wIfboxss fAe rs~aassass sszsaEess
peuple Eaass~a hsfa b. nanosscesi =
nan dressed N 1szxk sssrswd - 70
him and showed hIxn q card tie car
red > Thick sskrk and worw y hrasf
rnustaehe and thsck Iscoss. 1hagn are
the outward AID visible sagns. with
nuaticolcred riblos Ii sae bufsonhoie.
Of drsectiTe In plain clothes
Now. thea. &C. onT Of this % II
run Jon In be said roughly. Tea
Ii n lower tone. Poor chap and fur
lively be gave the zaaa same Silver
People had seen him do IL. and
cheering the Kind hearted policeman.
they. too. gave 10 the poor beggar. A
few minutes afterward In side street
the two men divided the spells and
moved OF separately TO ply their trade
elsewhere The detective wasn't {
detective ST all. but a beggar made
up for the part
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15
pefinina a Boundary Line.

In 1S47 Rufus Choate appeared In
behalf of parties whose rights were
affected by the boundary line between
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. thus
described in the agreement:
beginning etc, thence TO an an
gle on the easteriy side Of Watuppa
pond. thence across said pond to the
two rocks on the westerly side OF said
pond and near thereto. thence wester'
" to the buttonwood tree in the VII
lage of FAN River"
In his argument, commenting on the
boundary. Mr.. Choate thus referred to
this part of the description: "A bound
airy line between two sovereign states
described by couple Of stones near
a pond and a buttonwood sapling in q
village! The commissioners might as
well have defined it as starting from
q blue jay. thence TO a swarm Of bees
In living time and thence to 500 foxes
with firebrands tied to their tails
Minneapolis Journal.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15

or lees openly, even taking newspaper
folk and Others in&o their ccnsidence.
and boat loads Of arms ard other waT
material have been seat ozst Of this
port and from Mobile almost under
TIE no8e Of Hevenae cutters aad 80
cret service men who wsre supposed
20 be under orders 10 prevent such
movement.
There t8as been . change. however.
and the United states Government Il
planning To prosecute FioIators OF the
neutrality laws 10 the fullest extent.
10 the fulIes; extent. 10 the end that
peace may reign ia the little Repub-
lies.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15


r,n~s~s uC1snsz1- sn~ sTzsa
60 i ga.ssus ssarxs~a. lseszson- ss''ss
x.mr~ 40. sna 1oan eessnsn- N ed
r.~sssa sxxox. pa<xnrsa hiEa = tss.
-. ~Tnw audsenee aaax ss'ssss-oslna
=. se~ wor~as O. he xTual o<ass<. ass
rx~,unus ard EzassnIs est soaes- haSos.
Al w1sa ia rsrh uIsexnaan aexeas-
I'd bath @oul ard ~wzsse captive
fsr r.~. nay CesfIc bssed toak are ~
n~mrs shrol.z@<l with g@~sSossats sss<iis-
nassu7 90 EarsEwsi iato tears Is %
dwslt us~pu the wruSaSs 81 az tssoss'a
rouus~y N~ser. surely. wss sara .
horn s,rator. sierra ussn eFard one
rnosnent I'd laughed TIE Hsxt. Strange
ia say. they never laughed IN the
wrong place thouga ozacw - anzss %
Afforded taem uzaian~ opportunity
A. be approached the sad 81 hAs ora
ton. carried away by his theme. ns
tcok rs wig OF "a brown .iasey1 pa'
II tn h!s hat and mop2x-d his oeaati'
fuI bald brow with great aatnins
crimson haDdanna. The action ap
penred So natural and appropriate
that no one seemed 10 think IL absurd
or even incougruous
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-06-15
Death In Factory Fires.

The question Is often debated as to
whether persons who lose their lives
In a fire developing with great rapid
ity undergo extreme physical suffer
ing. An authoritative opinion is ex-
pressed by the New York Medical Jour
nal, which says: Unnecessary an
guish Of mind has probably been felt
by relatives of unfortunate workers
killed in factory fires by reflection on
the supposedly agonizing pain caused
by such a death. Where great bulk
Of highly infammable substances Is
quickly consumed in closed space the
result is the production Of large guam
titles Of carbon monoxide. This gas,
1t is well known, combines with the
haemogobin OF the blood to f0-m q
compound that refuses to combine
with oxygen. The result is speedy
and probably painless asphyxiation be-
fore the flames have had chance to
attack the bodies of the victims"