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\ ' ?Ijr Bambrrg Sfrralb r ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, cylinder press, folder, two jobbers, all run by electric power, with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year, $1.00, or 10 cents a month for less than .. one year. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance, s Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent inserCA nop inoh T ,P PaI ftd UU11B t)U pvi kMvui vertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. % ' . Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first ,1 Insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters of those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and ad' dress of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or ip: offensively personal can find place in ft*. our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, June 9, 1910 What's the matter With the candidates in Bamberg county? Doesn't pw. anybody care to hold office? / Sumter is determined to enforce prohibition. A white blind tiger was given a chain gang sentence a few |fe. i days ago, without the alternative of a fine. This fellow kept a store and b&V ' gave a drink with every one dollar ??&' purchase. We notice that some disgruntled ?politicians are endeavoring to start new paper in Beaufort, because they do not like the way ChristenRclte' sen runs the Gazette. They'll find out that publishing a newpaper is a ??V;i harder proposition than running for IpA; office. By the way, is it not high time ||^vVV ' that city council was making some . \ provision for sprinkling Main street this summer? The old sprinkler is t0 out of commission> so * council is going to buy a new one, 'fj " it would be well for the body to get tusy. Bamberg has a business league. |g|: - All. Walterboro is a business league, ' hut we go Bamberg one better. Here Hfe- we have a civic league composed of Walterboro's feminine sex who do things creditable to a town thrice the ?p|fe; population of Walterboro.?Colleton |p?>, News. Bamberg also has a civic league, &nd the ladies have been hard at work beautifying the town for the - Past yoarINDUSTRIAL EDITION. wBm ^ The Herald is making preparations to issue an industrial edition, which . ^ -will give in comprehensive form facts about Bamberg county and its several towns which should be of material benefit to all our people. The .. edition will be in magazine form, jjn . printed on fine book paper, liberally ^ interspersed with nice half tone cuts, and we propose to make it a W-- - creditable publication. As we have r- - just installed a fine Miehle press, !/ ; we feel that we can do as nice a jod as can be done anywhere, and we shall not slight this industrial edition. It is our idea to enlist the help of Bp:-7"-.-" - everybody in this work, and to that end we shall call on our friends in different parts of the county for articles for the edition. Of course we V - shall need financial assistance, for we cannot bear the expense of pubt > -. lishing this edition alone. Therefore \ we shall ask every business man in the county tc help in the work, either by advertising or by inserting a cut and write-up. Our solicitor will call on you in due time. It is a lot of hard work we have laid out for ourI w *' selves, and we do not expect the scheme to be a paying one. If we get / expenses out of it we shall be satisl fied. Either the editor or a solicitor will visit Denmark, Olar, and Ehr narat ior xne purpust? ui swunug , data as to those towns and enlisting the co-operation of the business men and citizens generally. If you have a nice residence, we will be glad to print a cut of it. It may not be possible for us to call on everybody, so we hope you will write us if you want to be represented in the edition. Now if everybody will just co-operate with us, we shall publish something of which every citizen in the county can be proud. Our plans for your help will be explained when we call. ' t - * X r ' , . \ , \ .... _ '.-v ;/ \ " . . . ' ' "y- '! : ."i-.-;.'-:. .--.1 ..<S I DADDY JOI I AN! TIT-:4.4.^ TUa Uc TT llttCil XVI XUV XXV ^8SS00SHS8SS880B8S8! If somtime when the lights are low and the house is quiet, aDd no one disturbs you, you should give yourself over to dreaming dreams or thinking things purely local in interest, you would be surprised at the number of interesting facts and faces appearing to claim your attention. Some past and forgotten event, some person long lost to sight and perhaps even erased from memory by the constant flow of receding years; some present condition unthought of or even unknown, something that you or I did not care to notice; someone that we have bestowed no thought upon save to take him as a matter of course; these and other lines of thought will make interesting past times for you and for me. For instance during the past two years there have returned to Bamherg for short visits, no less than six or seven men all of whoip at one time resided here, but who have moved to other towns and States twenty and twenty-five and even thirty years ago. It would doubtless be interesting to recall these by name and follow their fortunes and misfortunes and see just what of success and what of failure they have tasted. But this time for another line of thought. 1 To hold a position for twenty-seven years is in itself a pretty good guarantee of faithfulness. There is - 1 iVn* T only one man in camueig mat ? know of who has this record. The holder of the place is not an os- ' pecially competent man. He is, however, like his position, humble. He i does not do his work as thoroughly as you or I might wish; he has to be 1 told things which he should know to < do without being told; at times, per- : haps, he leaves footprints on the dust i he has failed to remove; at times our heads are encircled with webs < spun by an industrious spider, but i not removed by a less industrious ' worker; but withal he is faithful. He ] never fails to make the trial; he is 1 always there when you need him, i and he can be counted as one when- l ever you make your count, whether i it be at a regular service on the Sab- s bath, at the Sunday school, at the i midweek meetings, at the special re- i vivals; any time that you choose to J count, he is faithfully there. When 1 the early break of day calls to the i sleeping man to awake for the cares i of the new day, this old fellow is 1 always on the path of duty some- i where; it may be to scour some floor; < it may be to make a fire in some of- 1 fice; it may one of tne dozen otner < places, but somewhere Old Daddy ] John is on the way to work. There have been storms; there have been snows and freezing winter mornings, there have been varying vicissitudes of life, all of which woo the man of the world to linger longer in the room of comfort and to make a man willing to lie down on his job, letting the work of the day make the best of circumstances; but no Sabbath day has yet found this old fellow idling. You see I am indulging in a reverie, such as I invited you to in the beginning. Daddy John appeals to me because he is Daddy John, and because he does his best even though that best be far from great. Ever since Rev. Mr. Auld came to Bamberg back in the eighties, Daddy John has been sexton; to be exact twenty-seven years ago. John is not much on keeping a church in order, perhaps, and he is doubtless a poor judge of a cold day when you think of the hot days he has the furnace 1 going and of the cold days he lets the embers slumber; but be that as it 1 may, John knows Trinity church history in his own way. There has never been a marriage or a funeral; there has never been a soul saved in Trinity church, there has never been any thing of any kind, whether Christmas tree or a lecture by a missionary, that Daddy John was not there. He may have been on the outside or behind the organ or under the Christmas tree, or some where else, but the truth stands that John was there in hearing distance. If you want to hear a man figure with yoi}, try the experiment of finding out who his favorite preacher is. He knows them all and knows something good about each one; if he knows anything contrary-wise ; he never tells it. I have tried on numerous occasions to get him to tell me who's the best preacher that has filled this appointment; each time comes the same reply, giving me name after name with the Statement "dat is a good one." I believe for reasons hereinafter to be told that the present pastor will always hold c the tenderest spot in Daddy John's c heart. Suffice it here to say that the 1 bell has something to do with it. v >. ' ) HIS BELL I xald by M. W. B. And that brings it to the point in the case. The bell. You are doubtless aware that ringing the bell (I don't mean just any bell, but the hoin ic naddv John's lone suit; he knows the exact stroke which is needed to sound the time to the congregation hi their homes on the Sabbath morning. He holds the record for endurance when you begin to figure on the number of strokes of a bell. Daddy John has an aversion to funerals, unless it is a funeral of someone of his own race, in which event he goes to the "sitting up" which usually lasts far into the night with shouting and singing. But when it comes to the time to toll the bell for some of his white folks, he has a peculiar antipathy for such occasions; there are a number of reasons, chief of which is that the ringing of the bell is entirely too slow; one stroke at a time does not appeal to him; he likes the double stroke and the resounding tones which echo and re-echo one after another. According to his way of thinking there is only one advantage of tolling a bell, that is that it lasts a long time. About twelve years ago the church folk bought a pipe organ and installed it; that pleased old John tremendously; what with pumping a pipe organ and pulling the church bell, his joy seemed complete. But the old saying that pride comes before a fall had its verification in the case of John. With the pipe organ to pump and his bell to pull,. news additional that a new church would be built soon, gave Old John a heart of pride. If he could pump the organ and pull the bell In a handsome, new brick church, he would have the odds on any of his. race. Work began about seven years ago on the new church. No member of the congregation watched things with more interest than John. The pupils of school watched the walls of the Sunday school room; the congregation watched the auditorium with pride. But old John was for the 3teeple. The steeple gradually took 3hape and conforming to modern style, did not reach high into the 3kies; this did not please old John any of the best; he wanted it to be true to its name and pierce upward and be steep in fact. But work progressed. Another pastor came and tie did not favor bells for churches and consequently there was no sign Df a bell. Bamberg's city airs entitled it to city style of doing without a bell; this accomplishment was appreciated by many but not by Daddy John. What is a city without a bell? A.s well have no church as have no bell, was his thought. Poor old John, weeping for his bell and he svould not be comforted. The call bf the bell never lost its charm for John, and the love of pulling the bell aever died down. Hear the bells, :he loud, the small, the sharp, the diver, the golden, the brass, the Uarum bells, but no Old John's bell; aot the master. stroke of the artist who has studied just how to give :hat right pitch and pull so as to aaake the call sound and resound in :he ears of the sleeping sinner or irowsy church member remaining at home with his Sunday paper. Old John knows his bell as he knows aothing else. Perhaps he did not earn the trade of cleaning up in the aest of schools, his work perhaps justifies that conclusion at times, aut no one can tell him how to ring i bell. At least that was the case svith the old bell in the old church. Sorrow hath had her inning and ' " 11. ler ending. a iew muunib agu uun 3f placing a bell in the new church ivas begun. If any one could have ;een behind the pipe organ that SunJay when Mr. Herbert called a conference and the matter of the aell was mentioned, they would have seen a line of white ivory stretched across the face of the sexton, as he smiled so contentedly that it was alalmost audible. Daddy John was thinking of the old times about to be -enewed and the joy which had been curned into sorrow some seven years ago as it was about to be converted nto a present day joy. For seven ong years old John has been without lis bell, and the pipe organ has felt :he effects, for each Sunday as the lour for preaching rolled around, :here was naught to comfort him >ave the organ; he could not pull jut he could pump and that is the eason that the congregation have at ;imes heard a lingering minor note :'or several seconds after the organist lad relinquished her hold on the ceys and the hymns had been coniluded; Old John was pumping for lear life and trying to forget his jell. l Last week the bell prived; the new RED PEOPLE RETIRE. Indians Leaving Reservations Soon to Be Opened to Settlement. ^ y i Spokane, Wash., June 3.?Indians i are rounding up their horses on the 1 Spokane reservations, northwest, of 1 here, preparatory to the coming of the ^ Wfkft TirA?*A aii/tnoaoflll rr WIlIlC BClllCl B, w Ii?J ncic ouvuvaoiui j in Uncle Sam's lottery for home- ' steads last August. Among the horses 'r corralled during the last few days are ; many with several brands unknown < on the reserve; also a lot of mave- ' ricks, which will be branded and | taken by the redmen unless the own- , ers appear before the close of the roundup and claim their stock. It is ' believed the animals strayed from pastures in Ferry Stevens and adjoin- r ing counties on the border. The r roundup is a month earlier than ' usuai and the horses are not in the best of condition. However, the bidding by dealers from Spokane and other points is brisk and this competition will result in the Indians receiving good prices for their cayuse. Cartain John McA. Webster, i Indian agent on the reserve, says the I Indians have plenty of money, $850,- J 00 being disbursed among them by j j the Indians' department during the ? i last five days. I j Asheville Dry. * I Asheville, N. C., June 4.?Panic j stricken by the action of the local I ! board of aldermen which last night placed the annual tax for "near beer" (licenses at $1,0UU, tnirty-two "sou drink" emporium closed their doors to-day, in the hope that the city fathers will relent and restore the former tax of $250, or that the summer influx of thirsty souls will be such as to warrant later acquiescence in the new 'enactment. The action of the board was the outcome of strenuous agitation [ against the "near beer' saloons, in t which the W. C. T. U., and Judge J. j C. Pritchard, of the United States circuit court, took a part. It was argued that the low license tax of $250 had resulted in an alarming growth of undesirable "near beer" t establishments where the State prohibition law was being secretly violated. Many of the "soft drink" men declare that the profit on near beer is so' small that the payment of the thousand dollar tax would be practically impossible. MAY GET FISH HATCHERY. Representative Patterson's Bill Reported Favorably in House. Washington, D. C., June 3.?Tht house committee on merchant and marine and fisheries has made a favorable report on the bill of Representative Patterson, of South Carolina, to authorize the establishment of avfish hatchery in the 2d district. It is Mr. Patterson's hope to have it passed at this session of congress, and if this is done the hatchery will probably be located near Barnwell. bell, the joy bell of Old John's heart. 1 It was being placed by a force of ' hands. Things seemed to move mighty slow, at least to Daddy Joan. "Is you niggers gwine ter git it up by League night (Tuesday)? Is you gwine ter git it up by prayer meeting night? Well is yer gwine to have her up fer Sunday?" All of these questions were in John's heart and head whether they had outward s expression or not. Well the bell was t raised and some of the workmen tried a it, just to see if it would work; John * ii will probably never get over that; he wanted to be the first one and the t only one to pull that bell. But the t sweet tones emanating from the church tower, was a great consolation to him; just to hear that sound ^ from the steeple, his steeple, that was worth seven years of = waiting. For John the joy of the ^ bell; the long walk with the bell; the long walk Mr. Holmes tells us about; the walk which knows no ending; the lane without a turning; John and the bell for a long pull and pull A nr? nrmrCA Vfl1T hfl Ve ailUgUVUCi. AUU VI VVM4MW. ,, ? heard the bell; Daddy John has already learned to be as faithful to the new as to the old, and the intermittent ringing last week, which was just for trial of course, reminded one of that little story of Poe's in which the quaint little village of Vonderveit- g timeittis was rudely awakened by the j Devil in the Belfry. If you have not F read that story, get it and read it, it A will repay you and you can then get J a good inderstanding of why Daddy j John has been a regular Devil in the f Belfry; he has upset time and perhaps disturbed the tides by his ever- * lasting pulling and ringing. Or c course the bell was new to him; it c was new to you and to me, so Old F T! Daddy John is forgiven this time be- * cause of his 27 years of' faithfulness, his seven years of enforced estrangement from the bell, and with the final hope that he will for many years more pull the bell with his old-time love and devotion and that it may be many years before some one will have to toll a bell for him. 1 I J ~ - , \ . 'i .:&&& .V*. 'Xf-ji ANNUAL S' Showing condition of City of Bt fay 3rd, 1910; this being a report of ear May 1909?May 1910 in condem 'o sundry amounts, Grandy and Son 'o money borrowed from J. A. Wy 'o interest, money borrowed from 'o interest, money borrowed by foi liams) 'o interest electric light and water 'o commission to National Park Ban 'o interest and bonds, Public Buildi 'o salaries all paid officials, City c 'o street work and ditching (orders 'o commissioners of public works s1 'o commissioners of public works pi \> sundry amounts insurance, city pi 'o chairs for city hall., bought of G. 'o amount paid Bamberg Cotton Mill .'o American Surety Co., bond city ti 'o sundry amounts, freight, postage, 'o R. W. D. Rowell, making up tax b tices 'o sundry amounts, feeding prisone 'o Greenwood fire department, 2 hos 'o H. Q. Jennings, effort to restore g \) W. D. Rhoad, chief of fire deparl 'o sundry amounts, local bills, etc., j Total amounts expended To balance on hand May 3rd (set Total CRE] Jy amount received from A. M. Brat ly amount note J. A. Wyman, mone Jy amount dispensary funds ly amount proceeds business license, ly amount property taxes due Jan., ly amount property taxes due Jan., ly amount fines imposed by Mayor ly amount dog tax* due August 1st'., ly amount bicycle tax, August 1st, ly amount street commutation tax, 1 ly amount rents received from citj ly amount sundry amounts received Total receipts Balance due city of Bamberj Amounts in banks May 3rd, Resppectfully May 3rd., 1910. ^Barsfciins in R< Farms in small and 1; and residences, m< , mill sites, sale stab! i propositions, at low terms. Descriptive tion. Call on or wri f J. T. C rtReal Estate Agent, O The Thrifty Man is a Lu His good fortune, howeve He works and saves. Hi only, but the fruits of so he lays by for the morroi His savings are deposited tion from loss and where 1 a fair rate of interest. DEPOSITORS WITH THIS Hi Interest is credited quarte through the quarter. Fo PEOPLES BANE - o rarrmr rim Aim OIIAin IfvuiHUW AIIU ouiw CHARLESTON AND I ?v: SOUTHED Effective Sunday, May 29th, an< on, Southern Railway will have on i o Charleston and Isle of Palms, S. C ilso week-end tickets to be sold on I rains, beginning Saturday, May 28th, ni (blight the following Tuesday. Also cheap Sunday excursion ti rains, good returning on last train *y night. For further information, rates, < gents or address, J. L. MEEK, Lsst. Gen'l. Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. You Must We can supply y( Wa carrv J LCI 1^01 TT V VU> M J assortment of evei to eat, and we re large shipment of Austin, Nichols ? fine grocery house, a few articles for 1 '4 "armdo Asparagus, white, very flue, c iunbeam Pure Food Prepared Mustai ionesuch, Heinz's and Campbell's Soi 'ork and Beans, several brands, all j ill kinds of Pickles and Jams, all fre )eviled Crabs. Fresh Salt Mackerel, 'etley's Teas. Nice line for Iced Tea. rational Biscuit Co.'s Fruit Cake, 1 11 'ancy Cakes and Crackers of every k two weeks, ted and White Cherries, very fine. Yesh assortment Fine Candies just ii frape Nuts, Cream of Wheat, Quaker 'ocoas and Chocolates. 'ull line Canned Meats and Fish, bes test Hams and Breakfast Jtsacon. ?uy your Chicken Pood from us. Small orders appreciated as 1 ber our 'phone is No. 24. promptly. w. P. HI he Grocer, W. D. BESSIN x* . * 4 f r*V"V. " ' . % . ?/< TATEMENT imberg at close of fiscal year ending r expenditures and receipts during the sed form. and Dunne, architect $ 4,469.37 man 1,000.00 ' . J. A. Wyman 18.67 ' % rmer council (J. A. Wll 240.00 coupons 1,0^0.00 k handling coupons 2.66 ng series 1,278.75 >f Bamberg 1,333.85/ street commission) 821.58 treet lights 2,200.00 roceeds business license 1,100.00 roperty 184.15 O. Simmons 326.26 , bursting hose (Hoover).... 75.00 easurer (1909) 10.00 drayage, etc 22.20 ook and post cards, tax no 20.00 rs, forage, etc 112.50 e reels 100.00 raded school well 41.50 Jg? :ment (part appropriation) 17.92 not otherwise included 284.40 614,718.81 i monthly report) 2,219.24 ? _____ V' 616,938.05 DITS. )ham, treasurer 6 4,377.45 y borrowed Oct., 1909 1,000.00 3,077.44 1,390.92 -'MM 1909 .. 613.21 1910 4,939.78 's court..... 730.50 1909 20.00 190 9 31.00 909 and 1910 417.00" r hall property /. 293.25 not included elsewhere 48.00 ..... ..616,938.05 I by M. W. Brabham, treas.6 2,219,24 191 0 .....6 2,219.24 submitted, ' :.t M. W. BRABHAM, Treasurer City of Bamberg. ^ 30oc=ao :jm sal Estate, etc. m arge tracts, town lots srcantile businesses, - ' ;1 es, and pole and tie || figures and on easy ! f?f|| list sent on applica- ' te, )'NEAL , | - - - Bamberg, S. 0. H . 30i?radi =o cky Min r, does not come by.chance. is la bore are not for to-day me part of each day's labor Y-: * w. where he is sure of protec- IvfoiaB bis deposit will earn for him ^ INK A$E ABSOLUTELY SAFE. ^ rly upon balances, remaining or per cent, is allowed. ) ** i ? ? n 11, . - - - uamuerg, o. v. AY EXCURSION RATES ??J SLE OF PALMS, S "railway ,f|H 1 continuing daring the summer sea- sale regular summer excursion tickets \( , with final limit October 31st, 1910, Saturdays, and lor Sunday morning *'> final limit to leave destination before fevSjj ctoets sold only for Sunday morning leaving Charleston 8:15 p. m. Sun- v. ^ V. , gafgggj *c., apply to Southern Railway ticket W. E. McGEE, Division Passenger Agent, - ; 1. Charleston, 8. C. Eat to Live >ur wants in Groat all times a full ifW; ything that's good ceived this week a / J good things from * isg : Co., New York's We mention only * ack of space: / rnly 35 cents the can. v rd, 15 cents the jar. ' ips, fall line. ?ood. fat and nice. >. size, 35 cents. ind and flavor. Received fresh every You ought to try them. ;{ k 1 Oats, Tapioca, etc. t brands. - ' > V J< well as large ones. Remem- , Ring us up. We deliver *"* *"* ERNDON GER, Manager. ^ Bambe^