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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City anc i at Other Points. ?Col. T. J. Counts is in Florence on a visit to relatives. ?Mrs. J. E. Berry, Jr., of Branch ville, spent Sunday in the city. ?Messrs. G. W. Jenny and W. H Rittcr were in the city Tuesday. ?Mr. D. P. Smith, of the Ehrhardi section, was in the city Tuesday. ?Mr. M. O'Riley, of North, was ii the city Monday attending court. ?Mr. J. D. Jenny, of Jennys, is it the city this week attending court. ?Mrs. Henry F. Bamberg has Deer visiting relatives in Lancaster county ?Mr. W. Max Walker,ofEhrhardt was in the city Monday attending court. ?Mrs. Euly Ellzey, of Clio, Ga. is visiting her mother, Mrs. JuliJ Miller. ?Mr. G. A. Lucas, the piano mar \ of Aiken, spent a few days in the citj this week. ?Mr. E. E. Hughes, of Ehrhardt is in tRe city this week attending court as a juror. ?Mrs. M. L. Glenn, of Greenville is in the city on a visit to her aunt Mrs. R. L. Risher. ?Mr. J. L. Cothran, of the Ehrhardt section, is in the city this weefc attending court as a juror. ?Mrs. Will Bryan and children, ol Allendale, have been visiting Mr. anc Mrs. A. S. Easterling in the city. ?Messrs. J. E. Davis and .T. E Harley, of the Barnwell bar, are ir the city this week, attending court ?Miss Maud Barker, of Baltimore trimmer for Mrs. A. McB. Speaks & Co., arrived in our city on the 10th instant. ?Mrs Koon and grand childrer returned to Denmark Sunday* afternoon, after a pleasant visit to friends in the city. ?Mrs. Geo. W. Bell and little . daughter, of Augusta, Ga., are exN pected to be the week-end guests oi Mrs. H. W. Beard: ?Mrs. Chas. Hopkins, of Rowesville, spent a few days in the city this week on a visit to her mother, Mrs. A. D. Jennings. ?Miss Chevelet Cochran, of Charleston, is the charming guest of her relatives, Capt. and Mrs. W. S. Bamberg, at their home in the country. ?Messrs. W. D. Rhoad and Henry F. Bamberg are at home from a trip to New York. They attended the inauguration in Washington while away. ?Mr Jones A. Williams, who attended the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, also made a trip to New York .while away. ?Mr. L. E. Maxwell, who has been linotype operator for the Herald foi more than two years, left last Saturday for his home in Salisbury, N, C., he having secured a position there as operator. She Needed Proof. It was after ten o'clock at nighi and the jury had been discharged. A stout juryman came over to the reporter's table. He had a worried look. "Your'e an Evening Post man aren t your" . "Yes." "Are ycu going to report this case?" "Yes." "For tomorow's paper?" "Yes." "Would you mind putting in a lint saying that the jury was out until 1C o'clock?" "I'll mention it, if you wish." ' "I certainly hope you will. You have no idea how much 1 want you to. You're a young man and probably you're not married yet, but some day you'll have a wife and then will understand." Endorsing Sims for Marshal Job. A telegram has just been received by Judge B. H. Moss from Senatoi B. R. Tillman in regard to the appointment of Editor Jas. L. Sims as United States Marshal for Soutt Carolina. The telegram asked for the endorsement of Editor Sims for the " position, and the signatures of a num . ber of the members of the local bai have been attached to the endorsement, and also the signatures of the /Court House officials. It is expected that the name of Edditor Sims will be presented to Presi , dent Wilson within the next few days ?Orangeburg Evening News. For Compulsory Education. i Raleigh, N. C., March 11.?A compulsory school law throughout Xortii Carolina, a companion to anot'nei , providing a minimum term of si> 1 months, passed the senate today. II already had passed the house. The law takes effect in the fall of 1913 I The house today reconsidered its r defeat of the bill giving women the right to sit on all school boards, botl house and senate passing it. COAST LINE TRAIN WRECKED. 1 I Tender and Coaches Derailed, but Inc Nobody Injured. Sumter, March 8.?Atlantic Coast r * Line train, No. 54. was wrecked at cus 7.30 this morning when entering the tin; - city, which delayed it for a couple of tha . hours before it could go on to Flor- des ence. The wreck occurred at the of junction with the Southern Railway ma t and the tender and baggage and ex- we] press cars were derailed. Pat No one was injured and the pas- hac 1 sengers only suffered a slight shake- cue up. Another engine and baggage and Loi 1 express cars were attached to the Ne' train, which then continued on its goc i way. The wrecking train arrived here a . this afternoon to place the derailed asb cars back on the track and repair the r other damages. rou int< Why I Favor Prohibition. ?61 t Now about the power of prohibian f torv laws to prohibit?the laws of 63S l the state against murder do not enr tirelv prevent murder. But nevertheless, I am opposed to licensing W3,1 one murderer to every so many thou* 01*^ r and persons, even on petition of a majority of the property owners in rob Mi? the block, that we may have all the . 0 Q 0 2 ' murder that is desirable in the com3.11 ' munity under wise regulations, with a little income for the municipality. k " I believe in the absolute prohibition set k of murder. f3% tro The laws of the country prohibiti ing stealing do not entirely prevent f I stealing. Nevertheless, I am opposed ne to a high license system of stealing, anc provided that all theft shall be re- bin t stricted to certain authorized thieves, 111 6 who shall steal only between the hours of say six a. m. and 11.30 p. m., except Sunday, when no stealing car ' - ........ tha shall be done except by steaitn, enp]n trance to be made in all cases on that day by the back door, and at the wei L thief'o ri&k. I believe in laws that so^ absolutely forbid theft at any hour, ' on any day of the week. And, 011 aft( the same ground, and just as posi- the J tively, do I believe in the prohibition the * of the liquor traffic. And I never rar : said I did not. And I did say that I *ea did. And I do. I do say that the best way to make r a man a temperate man is to teach ^a? , him not to drink. But a saloon is ?ei not a kindergarten of sobriety. Your chil . town is under no obligation to any ber . saloon. All .that it is, in respecta- tou . bility and permanent prosperity, it a" has grown to be without the assist- ^en ance of the liquor traffic. . f?r ( It is deliberately claimed by some people who appear to be sane on ^l0 other subjects, that properly to in- in struct a sober people in ways of so- w^' briety, and to teach total abstainers ^Io the beauty and virtues of temperance, P*a you must license the selling of liquor me 1 in the town. The man who originat- me: 1 ed that idea ought to have it stuffed am and exhibited at the Panama Exposi- Nin 1 tion, and he should be leaned up be- ba(^ ' side it as a part of the exhibit. Pla As to prohibition in Pasadena, if ttie 1 * ? ~ fVtnra ie KlV StO any Iiquui mail iuiuas tutu, ao ui0 money and a safe thing in running d?e a "blind pig" in Pasadena, let him Lii5 come here and try it. If he has ?th any love for his liberty and pocket- it ( - book, however, he will do well to Pre cofisult the fellows who have tried m0 ' it, if he can find them; we can't. Sra I They are in hiding somewhere out in soc the desert. "Running" a "joint" in &r? , Pasadena is like running a powder boi mill in a smelting furnace. It's r?u mighty exciting while it lasts but it the 5 doesn't last long enough to be profit- Th< able. er,' If the saloon men insist on quoting ??t me on this topic, let them commit sev this to memory, that they may repeat ber ? it as they need it: I do not knowr one but > good thing about the saloon. It is Par an evil thing that has not one re- sell deeming thing in all its history to is i commend it to good men. It breaks ag l the laws of God and man. It dese- she - crates the Sabath; it profanes the of > name of* religion; it defiles public to [ order; it tramples under foot the ing tenderest feelings of humanity; it is all a moral pestilence that blights the tak very atmosphere of town and coun- on I try; it is a stain upon honesty; a nia * blur upon purity; a clog upon pro- out - gress; a check upon the nobler im- it > pulses; it is an incentive to false- the t hood, deceit and crime. J Search through the history of this V thi'nn,.' r>r>a Tin CT& em ' na^iui tiling, auu t. j - over which some mother can how'her chi; grateful head and thank God for all set - the saloon did for her boy. There is am s no such record. All its history is ren written in tears and blood, with rob - smears of shame and stains of crime, Jar - and dark blots of disgrace.?Robert ?1? . J. Burdette. tha . thii Right Name for Complaint. wa! Foi The young physician, who was hoi l working for the city and doing good Pre .* among the poor, was called to exam- a 1 c ine a little Hebrew boy. The doctor am t tried to be as gentle and kind as pos- of i sible. Ru Finally, in order to make the boy Th< s forget his troubles, he asked: the i "Are you ticklish?" son t "No," answered the boy; "Yid- tra dish."?The Popular Magazine. aln JELDAY OF TRAIN ROBBER. m idents of Old Times in the Young U Southwest. M -j Train robbing was the topic of dis- fl sion. There were three men sit- n g about a table on a dining car ^ t reeled off the miles across the ert country of Western Texas. One the 'group, a large, clear-eyed n, was the superintendent of a 11-known division of the Southern nfic railroad. For some time he 1 sat silent, listening to the disysion of a recent hold-up of a lisville and Nashville train, near w Orleans. With .some of that ^ * )d-natured tolerance with which ^ westerner feels for the "downerner" he allowed his section of States to be handled pretty ;gh. Finally, however, he broke d the conversation: 'I see that train robbing is fast ting to be on a par with football _ I other popular sports back in the j ~~ t." There was no denial, and he ceedcd: 'Don't do things in quite the same y as the bandits that used to op- ^ te.out here did. It looks as if the W hers back on the other side of the f1 ;sissippi get the rough end of the I U .1 almost every time. See where I engineer put one of them out of I Q ?? /\r? orir>/\ f Aro)i O I llii au cu5iu^ tvi V/u u iv m g rs ago. Mighty few of them ever I away with the plunder. The H -tj uble is, the would-be bandits are bunch of 'mollycoddles.' Their rves' and their methods are soft ~y 1 amateurish. Baby-carriage robg would be more in their line. 1 uld invite one of those eastern n who goes in to make a success i S that sort of business to look up efully the methods of the gang ,t it took us 25 years to break up ng the Southern Pacific lines. They re men of steel, and paused at abutely nothing. When they went er a mail car, an express car, or ( \ sr the passengers they got what y went for. Rarely was one of m ever injured, and almost as ? ely were they ever caught for ,rs after a crime. Hatchery for Robbers. 'Down here at a point between El ( 50 and Tucson at a town called m ison, and at another called Co- || se, were favorite places for rob- | g ies to be hatched. Those were 11 gh joints along in the late '80's I g I early '90's. They were excel- II 1 t places from which to operate, ^ this reason. To the north of m, and nearby, were the White |P untains, while to the South, with- g a day's ride, was Mexico. A man o knows anything about the White untains knows that there are gtoeer ces up in there that a couple of an(* 111 n can hold out against a regi- GXPr?s nt for a month, provided food and roac* s munition are plentiful. One place the ei particular was popular with the clerk lits after pulling off a job. The ce is called Russell's Park, and is ^an^it re to-day just as it has always ?Pen od?a secure retreat for evil- Pouch< ;rs, who wish to escape capture. ^ay 110 ;e the famous 'Devil's Hole' and move er places of refuge for bandits, ^ers f consists of a large valley or de- rascah ssion, way up in the top of the knGW untains. There is a plenty of Qu*ck ,ss for the horses and also lots of tions. ?d water. The surface of the er >und is covered with great, huge eni ilders that have paused on their cars ai :te from the highest points along away peaks to the lowest in the valley. werG sse boulders form excellent 'covand it is not a hard matter to straigl lost among them. The park is wh?re eral thousand acres in extent. But for e is the important point?there is turned : a single entrance to the great t0 k. One can gain access to Rus- w?re 1's park in one way only and that They through a narrow, tortuous pass- ^en ( >, flanked on either side by high, stolGn er precipices. Why, after officers the law had made several efforts Sorr get at bandits known to be hid- red w in the park they gave it up for featur time?the place simply cannot be perad< en as long as a single man remains the o guard at that narrow door. How board* ny officers were 'winged' or killed passer right before learning their lesson miles is hard to estimate, but lots of They m. 1 house' An Instance. ing ws 'In the early days of the Scfuth- pile o Pacific out here, Benson and Co- packa* se were nothing more than 'adobe' near tlements, with a saloon or two "greer id a dozen houses. They were the the ru dezvous of the toughest gang of defend hers that ever flagged a train. The had a nes boys and their kind were 'kid- from t ve' robbers compared to the crowd afterw t made railroading a precarious the r( Qg out here 25 years ago. There They 5 a regular system about it, too. and h; r instance, say two mfen decided to the d; d up a train on a certain night, them \ rvious to that date they went to fearles arge town and laid in a store of . ty, Ar munition and food to last a couple ordere weeks. These they packed off to and A] ssell's Park and cached there, the m 3n they rode over to a point along his ha > line, somewhere between Ben- in troi l and Cochise and awaited their der m in. The robbery itself became with t lost sterotyped in form?the en- almost \ CLOSING WE MUST SELL OFF OUR IMI NEXT FEW MONTHS, AS W] STORE WITH A COMPLETE HAVE A BUNCH OF BARGA] Spend Your C TTTTTT1 T% T1 T rr? TTTTT T TNA mTTTI IF/ w ii w xxjJj jju inju mi "SATISFACTION OR YOUR ] ....SPEC 3 yards Best Calico $1.00 3 yards Pride of West Lawn .. ..$1.00 rood Apron Gingham, per yard .. ..5c "andsomiely Embroidered Yoille Dresses, $7.50 values $5.75 Hiite Pique Dresses, handsomely embroidered, at $4.00 and up. pecial clearance of fine Corsets?Kabos and Le Revo? $1.00 to $io.oo each. All to be closed out. ( >c belted Middvs, each 50c Fash Skirts in Poplins, Linens and Piques at $1.00 and up to $3.50 each. SPEND YOUR MONEY AT KLj KLAU 'The Store of Quality." was covered by one robber it. tade to uncouple the mail and A Dangero s cars and haul them down the Knowing what i piece. Then the fireman and they were pursuir Qgineer along with the mail the law waited for 3 and express messenger, were fore moving. The up and kept covered by one in Cochise county ., while the other one blew the sheriff of that the safe and rifled the mail the bandits. The s 2s. Resist? # Why, I should of. the tactics whi< t. It was instant death to even 'sued, and bided hi slowly when you had yoiir or- detectives and set rom one of those cold-blooded and express coe 3. No. When the train crew scoured the countr what was up they fell into line ter a while the sh enough, and asked no ques- out one night to a Sometimes after the robbery picked up his men, igineer was made to uncouple one whom he wan gine from the mail and express The Cochise jail t id carry the robbers some miles so the robbers w< down the road, where horses Pima county jail, i ready for the flight. Once in they awaited trial, saddles the bandits made a happened. Just 1 it line for Russell's Park, one knows. At an everything was in readiness case was called th< em. Occasionally the robbers dor and "Jack," es* I south and crossed the line in- witness behind, ixico, where they knew they For weeks the re practically safe from pursuit, country about Tu< stayed under cover for awhile laughing at the ef lame out and disposed of the army of officers tc stuff." They were wanted An Arizona Robbery. government, the ie years ago a robbery occur- an^ the railroad. C hich presented some peculiar rewards, amounting es. One spring night two des- dollars, were place )es, one named Alvador and ?"dead or alive." ther "Three Fingered Jack," service men, "W >d an Arizona and New Mexico Southern Pacific r iger train at a point a few and private "man 1 north of Fairbanks, Arizona. f?r money. Th proceeded to make a "rough int0 a ferce from ' for awhile. After the shoot- streets' viewpoint, is over the robbers left with a officers were sear< f mail and some few express tor the bandits, 1 ?es, and cut for the mountains daily holding up Benson. It seems that a ranchers in Pima i i" express messenger was on ties, demanding fc n, and when he undertook to tion. A sewing n 1 the company's property he made to dismount n arm torn off by buckshot anc* &? iQto a tow i 'sawed-off breech-loader. He cartridges. The ba ards died. It was known who ?t the game, and i )bbers were almost instantly, go-between, to the were old hands at the game, county offering to ad been seen about Fairbanks certain conditions ay of the hold-up. Both of man ?f. Tucson, k] vere known to be desperate and bcrs, and a friend >s. Sheriff Scott, of Pima coun- was named to carr izona, said that he had once tions. Meanwhile d Alvador to put up his hands, ward-hunters scou VmH palmlv lnnkpri down fruitlessly. L v auui uuu -w v.. ? uzzle of the pistol and kept "Out of the 1 nds at his side. They had been Night had fall< lble all along the Mexican bor- customed quickness any times, and were familiar the lone newspape] he lay of the country, and with horse, unarmed, an ; all of the people living along mal' head toward t 0 OUT SALE] VIENSE STOCK DURING THE ? S WANT TO OPEN OUR NEW NEW FRESH STOCK. WE [NS TO SHOW YOU. :ash With Us II j )ST GOOD. REMEMBER [I VIONEY BACK." || i = fm IALS.... m New lot of Dresses in Voilles, Ratines, Piques, Etc. Very popular styles and i lowest prices. M 25c Poplins per yard 15c 30 inch Embroidery Flouncing, 45c , value, per yard only 25c Linen Laces per yard only 5c Large Gingham Aprons each 25c . J M Muslin Underwear all to close out. % M Big line Oxfords for men, women and E E children, all selling at lowest cash II v pricey. Remember, we would rather 11 sell the goods than move them back || to our other store. RUBER'S AND SAVE MONEY I J BER'S I j Bamberg, S. C. H J -. i tains, northeast of Tucson. For miles . ? us Game. he rode toward the'mouth of a cer- || dangerous game tain canyon mentioned by the robig the officers of bers. Suddenly he was challenged. reinforcements be-?' Out of the blackness of the desert a robbery occurred man with gun in hand, approached and it was up to and exchanged words with him. Then county to capture a blind was placed over the reporter's heriff had an idea eyes and he was rapidly turned around ;h would be pur- a few times until he lost sense of dis time. Railroad rection. His horse was then :ret service men brought to him and, led by another ; \ apany detectives horseman, the reporter began a tey to no avail. Af- dious and dangerous ride, which eriff quietly went would end in the robbers' strongnearby ranch and hold. Miles of rough going were and also, a third covered before the mysterious sentry ted as a witness, ordered the reporter to dismount and vas a frail affair, proceed on foot. Finally the camp ere taken to the was reached and the blind removed it Tucson. There from the visitor's eyes. Before him x jl But something sat the two desperate characters for low and why no whom the State machinery, backed y rate before the by the best from other sources, were 3 prisoners, Alya- even then searching. The two bancaped, leaving the dits and the sentry, being old acquaintances of the reporter, came 14 )bbers roamed the forward and heartily shook hands, :son and Benson, asked a few indifferent questions forts of a perfect and then came down to business. The ? round them up. terms were easy to arrange, and by the State, the were these: That the bandits would express company walk into the sheriff's office in Tuconsequently large son within forty-eight hours, if the I to thousands of sheriff would consent to divide with d on their heads them on the rewards. You see, these Sheriffs, secret men had starving families to provide ells-Fargo men, for, and to their women and children ailroad detectives half of the rewards must go, or no lunters" were out surrender. The .sheriff, a wise old e thing developed owl with years of experience along the 'man-on-the- the border, accepted the terms, and While all of these within the given time the men walk:hing desperately ed fearlessly into his office and were :he bandits were locked up. passengers and Such is one of the dramatic stories <nd Cochise coun- that could be told of the "nerve" and >od and ammuni- methods of the train robbers of the ? ?o" r-rM, +Vi nrQct a.'hon that foil T1 tTV aacnme man was iai .juuiuit&ow, . from his wagon was young.?John Kershaw, Jr., of n and buy pistol Douglas, Ariz., in the News and ndits finally tired Courier. sent a note, by a 7? 1- ^ r n- ? W hen entertaining some school i sheriff of Pima ? m , . children at her country house a cersurrender under . * . tain spinster took them around the . A newspaper , . 4 . .... ,, . rooms and pointed out the beautiful nown to the robof the sheriff's, thmgs m them' . 'J y on the negotia- This' she said- indlcatlng a the army of re- stat"a' "is -)Iinerva'" . j,? ? _ red the country Was Mmerva married? asked one of the little girls. ? "No, my child," said the spinster, BiacKness/' with a smile; "Minerva was the Godsn with its ac- degg Qf Wisdom."?Ex. in the west, when M r man mounted a Keep your soil fertility as you go d turned the ani- along and then you won't have so :he Rincon Moun- much to replace. ! . M * ^?1