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?Ij?lamhrrg iipralb ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1891. A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bam berg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mer-j genthaier 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 trictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch , for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law.. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special bead, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, reso lutions, 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 insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters of those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in afiy communication. K . Thursday, Feb. 16,1911. There is plenty of money in Bamberg, let some of it be turned loose fe for the growth of the community. No "better investment can be made. The governor is finding that the V* general assembly is taking him to laugh at, and it seems to make him furious. Never mind, Coley, you'll find out that you are not near so big a man as you think you are before you are in office very long. ,\ Bamberg has the opportunity to do something this year if her business men will pull together and invest a little of their money for the upbuilding of the town as well as benefitting their own interests. * Let us all 11 1. o rrnAO for R a m horc !pun lugeiuci 1U1 a & i VUUi?v.0. A bill has been passed by the legislature limiting exemptions from jury duty, and under this act only office holders, attorneys and physicians are exempt. This will make ministers ^subject to jury duty, which is well. They are the highest type of our citizenship, and are the very kind of men we want to serve on juries. Bue we bet the lawyers will always object to them. i Senator Earle, of Oconee, has introduced a bill in the Senate allowing the governor to appoint special judges instead of having him appoint those recommended by the State Su-preme Court. The bill is not likely to pass. The present law was not adopted to suit a governor and it is not likely to be repealed because it does not happen to suit the purposes Of the present incumbent. I BE MORE CAREFUL. Mr. A. W. Brabham should be more careful in his statements in regard to taxes. In his letter to the "Walterboro Press and Standard, re-nnhiished in our issue of January 126th, he says: "When I paid taxes in Barnwell county, it cost me $4.00 on 100 acres of land. On the same land now in Bamberg county I am paying $20.00, or five times as much." ? We have been to the records and we find that Mr. Brabham returns.in this county 105 acres of land which is returned for taxation at $400, a little less than $4.00 an acre. On this land are seven buildings valued at $300. The levy for all purposes in his township is 16% mills, so he pays $11.37 taxes on his land which -is valued at $700. If his taxes amount to $20.00, no doubt his personal property and poll tax make up the difference. Mr. Brabham's statements and the records do not agree. Who is wrong? Again, in his letter this week he says "we are spending $46,000 for county purposes," and he is wrong again. The total expenses of this county for all purposes are less than $18,000. The tax levy for county purposes the past year will not raise hut $16,500 if every dollar is collected. Again, he says Colleton can make eight counties like Bamberg. The official record of the square miles in each show that Colleton is only three r times as large as Bamberg. Again, he should remember that taxes have notning to ao witn tne size 01 counties. They are levied on taxable property, and the area has nothing to do with it. We are with him as against higher taxes, but he ought to get his fig* ures correct. We fear his articles will have little influence unless he does. S:. i ' c\ " % OUR QUESTION. The Walterboro Press and Sandard was silent last week in regard to our question as to taxes being six times higher in Bamberg than Colleton. We would appreciate an answer to our question.?Bamberg Herald. We are sorry not to have seen The Herald's question, but if Bro. Knight will propound it again we shall endeavor to answer.?Walterboro Press and Standard. Here is the question, which appeared in our issue of January 19: "By the way, the editor of the Walterboro Press and Standard recently paid a visit to the auditor's offine in Bambere for the purpose of getting information as to taxes for the purpose of comparison with Colleton. Will he say that taxes are six times as high in Bamberg as Colleton? We will appreciate it if he will answer this question in his next issue." It really makes no difference now, as Mr Brabham has since stated that he has not paid taxes in Colleton in several years. We only wanted to put Brother Smoak on the stand to j convince Mr. Brabham that he was mistaken, but since his acknowledgement as above, it makes no differI ence. ^ i? Mr. Brabham on Taxes. Editor Bamberg Herald:?My friends all over the county request me to keep on agitating the unreasonable taxes we are paying in Bamberg. When Bamberg seceded from Barnwell both counties were then paying $60,000 taxes. As Bamberg is only one-fifth of Barnwell, and is paying $61,000 taxes this year, it clearly proves that we are paying five times as much as we were paying when we were part and parcel of Barnwell. If the taxes are as nign t?ere as here, the mother county is paying this year $240,000. Colleton county can make eight counties like Bamberg, and if the taxeis are as high there as here, 'her taxes this year would be $448,000. Putting the cotton crop of Bamberg last year at a two-third crop, it took one bale out of every sixteen to pay the taxes. If cotton had sold at seven cents it would have taken every eighth bale to pay the taxes. Bamberg county took $17.50 out of every family in the county, which would pay for all the flour bread consumed in each family. We are spending $46,000 for county purposes, and are we getting full value for that much? If the State were taxed as high as Bamberg, wealth considered, the State would gather over $6,000,000. . ^ , These are figures linked with facts, and I want the people to study thdm carefully, for the people are the great arbiters of every question of import arising in a free government, and from the welcome I a^m getting, the people next year 'are going to speak in no uncertain way through the ballot-box. I am accused by the advocates of high taxes of writing these papers for policy. Let me say here that patriotism and not policy, or the hope of patrimony, is prompting every word I say. I have nothing to ask of the public. My private affairs are lifting me higher than politics could ever lift me, and I shall pursue the even tenor of my way, but when I see a free people imposed upon my provincial voice shall be heard in the land, my humble pen shall be brought into requisition regardless of the contumely and opprobrium of the place-holder, the placehunter, the politician, the demagogue, or the imposter. A W R&ARHAM. Olar, S. C., February 10, 1911. Body of Victim Kills Laborer. Chicago, Feb. 9.?A man's body, hurled through the air when struck by the Overland limited train, killed another man last night and seriously injured a third. The man struck by the locomotive was Edward Donahue, foreman of a gang of laborers. He survived the effects until to-day. The train on its way to the Pacific coast had not yet cleared the Chicago and Northwestern railroad yards here when the accident took place. Donahue and 50 of his men were at work cleaning snow from the i 1 ir&UK.. me luiciiidu appai cnuij t>av* the locomotive approaching, but before he could escape he was struck and his body shot through the air, knocking over the two other workmen who were 15 feet distant. Oyster Supper. Kearse, Feb. 13.?Again we invite your attention to a good cause. In order to further improve White Point school house, which serves as a church in the neighborhood, an oyster supper will be given on next Friday evening, February 17th, at the hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Kearse. Country delicacies and substantials will be served as well as oysters fresh and fine, so come J all wise people, and enjoy a genuine feast-funds going for a good pur-| poso. I ALCOHOL FROM SAW-DUST. By New Process, Daily Deficit is Changed to Profit. Changing a deficit of $60 per day to a profit of $100 daily by the utilization of saw-dust and other waste at the mills of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation, of Georgetown, S. C., has attracted no little attention among lumber men of the different States to the novel process. The lumber company is one of the ? it- * t _ fi largest in tne aoutn, naving a aany capacity of 500,000 feet. From the saw-dust and waste, alcohol of 188 per cent, proof is made to-day by the Wood Waste Company, of Georgetown. In view of the general interest in the subject, A. L. King offers the following information relative to the success of the innovation: "The method by which the juice from the saw-dust is transformed into alcohol of a high grade is known to one man only, G. H. Tomlinson, a Canadian, who discovered the process. The plant at Georgetown is operated by the E. T. DuPont de Nemours Powder Company, and Mr. Tomlinson is the manager. The government maintains four employees at the plant, three store-keepers and one gauger. The plant covers three quarters of an acre and is several stories in height. Through a covered viaduct running from the nearest lumber mill to the second story of the plant the saw-dust is transferred. "It is put through a process by which the juice is extracted, then the juice with certain other materials, is discharged into fermenters, of which there are nine. Each has a capacity of about 20,000 gallons. This liquid is known as "beer." After 72 hours' fermentation it is pumped into the stills and distilled in+o ethyl alcohol. When running at its full capacity the distillery is capable of turning out 1,500 to 2,000 gallons ner day. There are three re ceiving cisterns, each having a capacity of 100 barrels of "spirits." "Up to the present time all shipments have been made to one of the DuPont Powder Companyls denaturing warehouses in New Jersey, and after denaturization is transferred to the powder plant of that company in Wilmington, Del., where it is used in the manufacture of smokeless powder and dynamite. It is drawn from the Georgetown warehouse without tax payment to the government. It is said that it is not necessary for the saw-dust to be from pine trees, dui tnat aiconoi may De procured from saw-dust of any kind found in that section. "Since the item of loss from waste is a big one with every manufacturer there is keen interest taken in this process for turning loss into substantial profit, and it is likely that the plant at Georgetown will be duplicated in many places." SOURCES OF DEGENERACY.t Eighty Per Cent, of Wayward Girls Said to Have Inherited Vice. At Philadelphia Miss Whitehead, of the Girl's Home of Refuge, spoke on heredity and environment as the lanuence mat Dnngs aDout tne downfall of the youth. Here is one -thing she said: "In our institution fully 80 per cent of the girls come from homes where their parents have been inebriates, degenerates, partly imbecile, or very weak physically. You will find that few delinquent girls come from the homes which have not been wrecked by death, poverty, or divorce." So the future generation takes up the character and tendency of the proceeding generation; and the debauchery and iuebriacy of father or grandfather, hnd on the female side, too, descend to the children. It is this fact that determines much of the evil of the world., Isn't it time that men and women were realizing that the quality of their own lives determines whether it shall be joy or snrrnw fnr thnsA whn /?nmo off at* them? Civilization has no surer security for its maladies than a pure and sober individual life.?Ohio State Journal. What Drainage Does. I know that drainage has worked wonders in sections formerly malaria ous. In my own recollection the eastern shore of Maryland was plagued with malaria. The people in Baltimore were afraid to come over the Bay for fear of chills and fever. Now, with better drainage and the use of artesian water, malaria has disappeared, and in the uDDer counties on the Bav shore every farm house is crowded with summer boarders from Baltimore, and one of our leading doctors told me that chills were the last thing he is called in for. I have lived on the shore now for over three years and have never had to call a doctor to any member of my family. Drain the lowlands and make deep wells of pipe and get pure water, and you can laugh at malaria, for it is not in the air anywhere.?W. F. Massey, in Raleigh (N. C.) Tressive Farmer. THE WAGES OF SIN. Crook Faces Poorhouse After Years of Crime. Broken in health and spirit by confinement in the federal prison at McNeil's island, Wash., where he served four terms, Lawrence (Larry) Kelly, declared by customs officers to be the shrewdest and most daring opium smuggler they have encountered on Puget sound during the last three decades, was turned adrift a few days ago. He is 73, his strength is wasted, his nerve is gone and he is without a dollar. Unless former accomplices come to his aid with part of the fortune he made for them at the risk of his life and freedom, it is likely a will nn oo f Kn rncf nf Viio l11tr vcivl dii tt ill uaoo i vajt vi. uia i days in a poorhouse. "Square" with His Backers. Kelly's smuggling days are over. He is a broken down sailor. He is under the surveillance of customs officials and will be followed by them to the grave. He never confessed or implicated others and he had the reputation of being "square" with those who profited by his traffic though he had opportunities to fleece them whenever he brought a sloop load of contraband goods into the country. Smuggling always appealed to Kelly as a game of chance, to be indulged in only for the excitement and the satisfaction of eluding the officers. He did not sail under the black flag for the profit and it is known that he never fired a' shot or harmed any one. Kelly was successful in many of his adventures between the Canadian shores and the mainland in Washington and Oregon, and it is believed he smuggled several hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of contraband goods, including opium into the United States during the last 15 years. He always worked alone, and, though deserted when arrested the last time, he would give not the least inkling as to who financed the expeditions or who assisted him. He said little at the trial and was convicted following a brief hearing, and sentenced to serve two years. When opium began pouring into the country from over the British Columbia border, for months the customs inspectors searched the country in an effort to trace the smuggler. Finally one overheard a conversation between two prosperous business men at Olympia, the capital of Washington. Kelly was caught with the goods and arreste(j. HAS GOOD CHANCE. Lever Expects Appalachian Bill to Pass Senate. Washington, Feb. 12.?Much interest is manifested in the vote of the senate this week on the proposition to create forest reserves in the Southern Appalachian and White Mountain ranges in accordance with the terms of a bill passed in the clqsing hours of the last session of the' house. In terms this bill sets aside $9,000,000 to be expended over a period covering five years, with which mountain forests more suitable for forestry than agriculture at the headwaters of navigable streams are to be purchased and managed under the direction of the federal government. Advocated for Years. This plan has been advocated for more than a- dozen years by the strongest influences throughout the country, which have recognized the serious effect on stream flow through the process of deforestation o^ large mountain areas. A vigorous campaign is being made by the friends of the proposition to get favorable action at the hands of the senate. Representative Lever was in charge of the fight on the floor of the house last session and it is recognized that he is in close touch with this legislation. He said toj aay: "I do not expect the vote id the senate to he as close as it was in the house last year, where the fight was won by a narrow margin after a hard fight. I feel safe in predicting that a substantial majority of the senate will favor the bill as it was sent to the senate from the house. Support of the idea is almost unanimous among scientific and business men who have conducted an aggressive campaign in behalf of the idea. I feel certain we shall win." Half Million Dollars Stolen. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 14.?Two mail pouches known to have contained checks and other valuable bank papers amounting to about $500,000, mucn of which was negotiable, have been stolen at Thalman, Ga., near Brunswick, on the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad. The thefts occurred on the nights of Jan, uary 19 and 21. No clues to the identity of the thieves have been ob, tained. The pouches were being sent from > Brunswick and were dropped af Thalman by the A., B. & A., to be picked up there by the Seaboard Air Line. In the interval between trains th sacks disappeared. Illlllil vSam^Vjy^' ?MBiin iiilffl^gj r "* - ,, Confederate Monument to House Square for V are Now Bei Asks Damages of Optician. A suit in the court of common pleas for Saluda county has just been commenced on the part of Hon. B. W. Crouch against Dr. B. H. Maynard for damages in the sum of $1,000. The main ground forHhe action grows out of damages to Mr. Crouch's eyes resulting, it is alleged, from wr. Maynara naving nttea improper glasses and causing them to he worn to the injury and damage of plaintiff's eyes?Saluda Standard. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements Under This Head 25c. For 25 Words or Less. Wanted.?100 stalks of sugar cane for Dlantine. R. M- BRUCE. Herald Office, Bamberg, S. C. Found.?A purse. Owner can have same by proving property and paying for this advertisement. Call at The Herald Office. # Lost.?On Saturday, February 4th, on the streets of Bambbrg, one Colt's automatic pi3tol, 32 calibre, blue steel. Finder will be liberally rewarded if returned to Bamberg Herald office. Lost.?On the road from Padgett's Station to Bamberg or on the streets of Bamberg Tuesday, the 14th, fifty dollars in $5 and $10 bills. If finder will return same to me will be liberally rewarded. C. A. TAYLOR, Smoaks, S. C. For Sale.?Lots at Denmark, suitable for residences, stores, factories or cheap tenements.* Easy terms given. Denmark needs houses to rent. They will pay large revenue on cost. Inquiries addressed to me at Savan nah will receive prompt attention. C. H. DORSETT. Wanted.?To hire a team of three mules and driver to deliver about 100 saw logs at Ehrhardt from my place, a distance of two miles. Address W. D. BENNETT, Ehrhardt, S. C. Lumber for Sale.?I am now in position to deliver rough lumber in Bamberg promptly. My timber is good, and you will be pleased with the class of lumber you get from me. A postal card containing your order will have prompt attention. J. F. JENNINGS, Cope, S. C. For Rent.?The four front rooms up-steirs in The Herald building. These are the very nicest offices in the city. They have electric lights and water and all the rooms are connecting. See me quick if you want a nice office. Will rent the four rooms as a Whole or separately. * A. W. KNIGHT. Or. MOTE DICKINSON INSURANCE AGENT WILL WRITE ANYTHING Fire, Tornado, Accident, LiaWU+iT Pocnalfr. ill thft MUll'J f ? strongest and most reliable companies. Thone No. 10-B. Bamberg, S. C. TO THE PUBLIC The undersigned have formed a copartnership for the purpose of practicing law under the firm name of Mayfield & Free. S. G. MAYFJELD, W. E. FREE. ? "i. j ' j* 2 H ' . ^ JBB ym be Erected on the Court t%. 7hich Contributions ng Solicited., BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of The v Farmers & Merchants Bank, located at Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of fp business February 3, 1911. H RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $20,449.87 0 Banking house 1,435.75 "Y 0^ Furniture and fixtures .... 1,347.59 t ; Due from banks and bankers 3,499.45 Currency 1,253.00 4 ^ Gold 20.00 Silver and other minor com 703.IT ,'sMh Checks and cash items ..... 659.73 1 Total $29,368.56 LIABILITIES. ;<.Z Capital stock paid in $10,000.00. Undivided profits less current expenses and taxes paid 888.02 '"^?1 Individual deposits subject to check 12,997.07;-.<.. Savings deposits 465.7$v$f^ps Cashier's checks 17,74? Bills payable, including certificates for money yf<- rJgFS borrowed .... 5,OOO.jOOi^"^{4S r- : | Total $29,368.-56 State of South Carolina?County of ^ 411 Bamberg. Before me came W. Max Walker, cashier of the above named bank,1 Jwho, being duly sworn, 'says that , . ^ the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by* the books of said bank. W. MAX WALKER, Cashier. - .resworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of February 1911. GEO. H. FOLK, <% Notary Public, S. C. .r ; Correct-Attest: S. W. COPELAND, J. H. ROBERTS, M. D., Directors., S. G. MAYFEELD. W. ?. r twu. , . a MAYFIELD & FREE ATTORNEYS AT LAW BAMBERG, S. C. #5 ?SH Practice in all the Courts, both State and Federal. \ Corporation ; . 5?j practice and the winding up of es- - v tates a specialty. Business en trusttrusted to us will be promptly at* tended to. MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of ;< C \ Bamberg.?In Court of Common Pleas. Mrs. L. K. May field, plaintiff, against A. R. Beseinger, defendant. In conformity with en order to ^ f" me directed by His Honor, Robert. Aldrich, Circuit Judge, bearing tate April 14th, 1910, in the above entitled case, I will sell at Lees, a star tion on the Southern Railway In the - ^ said county, the following personal property, on Monday, February 20th, 1911, during the legal hours of sale, to wit: One lot of cotton seed, about 500 , bushels. , One lot of hay. One lot of pindars on the vines. A l.i - a f. J J \Jins iui ui iuuuei. Terms cash. H. C. FOLK, Master Bamberg County. February 4, 1911. NOTICE. i I have formed a partnership for the practice of law with Hon. S. G. Mayfleld, and will therefore more my office to the building formerly occupied by the Bamberg Banking Co., opposite Southern passenger depot. t W. E. FREE ;.4