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Get f Your ^ Friends * mi l ii | J tO ir Subscribe L | 111 will t I' III fAv? t0 ne nil IvI asv? I t UK im || paid Hi! I HP II leadii ??v , The ] | ; Bamberg ?> p great Herald S H ill' 1. No names nm n 2. ~~2 II Jivery monies utii day fox recording tificates will be d pi || having largest nu II __ | f Hie Contest LORIMER CASE AGAIN. Sk. f Illinois Senate Wants More Probing. Thinks Election Corrupt. Springfield, 111., May 18.?Declaring that William Lorimer's election to the United States senate was brought about by bribery and corruption, and that the gravity of the situation involving the integrity and good name of Illinois and the welfare of the country demands further investigation. the Iillinois senate to-day by a vote of 31 to 10, adopted a resolu-| tion asking that the United States senate reopen the Lorimer investigaPfev tion. y La Follette to Respond. Washington, May 18.?Senator La Follette to-day gave notice to the senate that on Monday he would call up his resolution providing for a special committee to investigate charges growing out of the election of Senator Lorimer of Illinois. ? Youth Walks 475,000 Miles. . There reached the battery yesterday a young man dressed in a khaki suit gaily bedecked with ribbons and badges, says the New York Times. He was Julius Rath, of St. Louis, and he was started out in 1897 by the St. Louis Club to walk 500,000 miles by 1915. Rath says he has already been three times around the world and has walked 475,000 miles. & y. He was leading an Alaskan husky wearing a dilapidated oilcloth blanket inscribed "Around the World." Rath, who was 14 years old when he started, has visited nearly every country in the world. Leaving St. Louis, he walked to Mexico, then to Honduras, Brazil, and then went to England. When he travels on shipboard Rath must walk 12 hours a day to fill his contract. Rath will go to Boston in a few days and sail for London. One condition of his walk is that he must bring back a dog. He has already had three, and Jack, the present one, had already covered some thousands of miles. Rath says he has worn out 433 pairs of shoes in his long tramp. He must end his walk with $1,000 in his possession. So far he has saved up $40. If successful in his accomplish! ment he expects to receive $30,000 from the St. Louis Club. Screen wire doors and windows of all sizes and quality at Hunter's hardware store. 1 " ' ' - ' * -. t: IP I? ;; Ill HAS, w ne young lady c e j u p. III., dllU )UU j ow to Get Vote tli every yearly subscription Id accompanied by $1.00 in < >e given. This applies to reu w subscriptions, and you can u desire. You can also get v< md job printing?100 votes on either advertising or jol ag merchants in Bamberg c Terald, and they will be glad whpn thfiv mv anv of theil ~ ~ ^ JT "?/ %J est way to get votes is to get >aper, as the schedule of v< er for subscriptions than any ?e surprised how easy it is to ? ie Herald if you try. i of Contestants will be knowi t gets a number. 5. Stand 7. Votes must not be wril banged each month and musi mber of votes on MOND Has Just Comm HIGHER PASSENGER RATE. Interstate Commerce Commission Announces Order. Washington, May 19.?Railways operating in the Central Passenger Association territory?including the States of Ohio, Iindiana, Illinois and Michigan?are permitted by an order issued to-day by the interstate commerce commission to exact higher passenger fares for interstate than for intrastate business, where State Legislatures or State commissions have established a two-cent-a-mile rate. The carriers in such instances are forced by State railroad commissions or by State legislatures to apply on all intrastate passenger business a maximum fare of two cents a mile. This would result, through the application of the long and short haul provision of the law, in a maximum rate of two cents a mile throughout the territory. In the hearing before the commission the railways declared their intention to test before the courts the validity of the two cents a mile restriction in fares on intrastate business. At present there is no distinction between interstate and intrastate triffip and a hieher rate a mile for interstate, when the service performed is the same in both cases, is indefensible. The commission denied the request of the carrier to adjust their changes in multiples of five, in order to avoid the use of odd pennies in change. Sick Convicts Will be Freed. Columbia, May 19.?Following a personal inspection of the penitentiary this morning, in company with Chairman Sanders, of the board of directors, Gov. Blease announced it as his intention to set free all prisoners disabled by chronic ill health. This will remove from the big prison many convicts, some serving life sentences. The governor will, in each case, require a certificate from the prison physician as to the fact of disability. He said such convicts were a burden to the State. The governor also said he would not call a special session of the directors, but at their meeting on June 7, would urge them to cancel the hosiery mill contract. If this cannot be done legally, other efforts may be made to have the mill condemned by the health authorities on sanitary grounds. ome Pi; hat other occu] irns as a few ho ill ? The piano >n Monday, No\ may be the luck) Tickets ReM i to The Bamberg _ __ t ?ash, 3,000" votes lltouni tewals as well as pay for as many A 1 otes on advertis- flj || for each dollar b printing. All A 1 ounty patronize i\o 1 [ to give you the accounts. But QITR^fD subscriptions to OUDuvIY )tes is so much r thing else. You 111 J 'et subscriptions COlf RULES GOVERNIf i. 2. No names of Contestant ing by Numbers published ^ itep on. 8. Tie votes in pac t be recorded monthly to corn >AY, NOVEMBER enced and You WILSON ON THE PRESIDENCY. ? - ~ ? A Aot SjeeKing Aominaaon out inuoouy too Big to Take It. Portland, Ore., May 19.?Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, yesterday spent some time in conference with Democratic national committeemen from # Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Gov. Wilson declared his intention of devoting most of his time in Portland to a study of the Oregon primary law, which he said, he heartily endorses, although he was not willing to admit it would work so successfully in all parts of the country as it appeared to work in this State. Asked whether he would be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, he replied: "T nortoinlv dial! nnt sppIt the nomination, but no man is too big to refuse it." ' Germany Won Potash Dispute. Hamburg, May 18.?In the agreement reached in the German-American potash conference, the German potash syndicate, according to authoritative German intimations, won Us i contentions to furnish fertilizers for home agriculture cheaper than those sold to foreign countries. The new contracts now being drafted are to remain in force for five and a half years. They raise the prices of raw salts considerably and provide for a further increase of 3 per cent, during the term of contract. The price r?f salts remains nrao tically as it was before the potash war began. The American potash interests profits by increased rebates averaging 12 instead of 9 per cent. German companies are entitled to sell potash directly to the American market, and American firms are forbidden to purchase the product except through the German syndicate. There is no intimation that the settlement of the tax will be made public. The representatives of the American interests throughout the negotiations have refused to talk, and it is impossible to confirm the above statement. The German press generally regard the settlement of the potash dispute as a German victory, af fr*iVnif in C if fn tflA P.hAnCP in S11D port expected by tbe Americans, and to a desire of the United States government not to provoke tariff hostilities. 1 "*' * ' V anoAfc pation will yield urs scent each d< A i will be given 'ember 20th 191 r one if you will on iwals How to ( llicf With every pui JUvl Store votes will be m | lar's worth purcln flucn ^?n a*s? & If any of our friei J Toilet Articles, D .1C ?? carried by an up-1 patronize Hoover' IPTIONS votes, or if they o\ and secure the vot nns The earlier you st; have in final counl rEST j contest will be Mo II *G THE CONTEST s will be published. 3. Every C veeklv in The Bamberg Heral ikages with Contestant's numbe at. 10. Votes are transferable 20, 1911, wins Piano. Have a Chance 1 FIGURES ON NEV ENGLAND : a COMMITTEE MAY SPRING SUR- c PRISE ON MILL OWNERS. Manufacturers Protesting Against a Reduction in Tariff Will be Con- t fronted With Facts. * c Washington, D. C., May 18.?New I England cotton manufacturers who d are - preparing vigorous protests ^ against a downward revision of the y cotton schedule will find upon their c arrival in Washington that members t of the ways and means committee s are loaded with some extremely il- I luminating statistics about the prosr i: perity of the New England cotton d mills, says the Washington Times. . i The subcommittee of the ways and s means committee, which is engaged 1 in framing a cotton schedule, has t come into possession of a table of cotton statistics prepared by Hawes, c Tewksbury & Co.. of Boston. These t statistics show a prosperity among | c cotton manufacturers which will f have an important bearing on the i: revision of the schedule, and which t will be the subject of much debate 1 when -the bill is brought into the o house. ' c That enormous dividends are be- c ing paid to cotton mill stockholders P 1 is demonstrated beyond a doubt in c these tables of statistics. The New p Bedford mills, where the finer grades u of cotton goods are manufactured, d are especially noticeable in the matter of big dividends, although at Fall E River, where lower-grade goods are I manufactured, big dividends are paid c with great regularity. d From 1901 up to and including 1906 the Acushnet mill of New Bed- p ford paid annual dividends of 16 per d cent. In 1907, the panic year, the c dividend was increased to 66 per r cent. In the three years following d the dividend rate was again restored to 16 per cent., but last year the i* stockholders of this mill were made v a present of stock dividend of 100 v per cent. c In 1907 the Bristol mill of New 1 Bedford was on a 6 per cent, basis, d The same dividend was paid in 1908, c when the effect of the panic was be- 1 ing felt severely throughout the country, and, in addition, there was a 20 per cent, increase in stock. Not- o ?liV.i J: J.I W iLllSLclJLlUiLlg lillb muicasc iix n the mill finds it possible to continue p its 6 per cent, payments. si Another New Bedford mill which 1 made its stockholders a present of d *- -."*1 -,V." iolutely you as great r ly on this conte I TRY let Vote Ticket [ chase made at Hoover's D ^ given?100 votes for every < ised. Votes in the same prof ven to persons paying accoiu ids need anything in the line rugs, Cold Drinks, or anyth to-date Drug Store, get then s Drug Store and give you tl ve an account, get them to pa; es. Now is the time to get bi art the more advantage you i The date of the closing of i-nrlav Nnvprrihpr 9.0 1011 I Contestant gets 2,000 votes tc d. 6. All votes must be bi t and amount on top slip. : only before recording. lo Win By Start dditionai stock, was the Butler aill. In 1910 it paid 8 per cent., ,nd in addition declared a 20 per ent. stock dividend. Most Prosperous. Probably the most prosperous of 11 the New Bedford cotton corporaions is the Dartmouth. In 1901 his mill paid a dividend of 12 per ent.; in the three years following it raid 8 per cent.; in 1905 the divi[end was 20 per cent.; in 1906 it ?as 26 per cent.; in 1907, the panic ear, the dividend jumped to 66 per ent.; in 1908, when business hroughout the whole country was till suffering from the panic, the )artmouth.again paid 66 per cent.; q 1909 this mill's dividend was cut town to 13 per cent., but on Christnas eve it declared a 100 per cent, tock dividend, and in 1910 it paid 6 per cent, on this increased capialization. In addition to this the Dartmouth orporation is turning large quantiies of its earnings back into the onstruction of new mills. The preerred stock of this corporation was ncreased 50 per cent, in 1909, and his stock now pays 5 per cent. The Manomot and Kilburn mills if New Bedford, in addition to inreasing their capitalization 100 per ent., declared dividends of 9 and 6 er cent., respectively, on the inreased capitalization, and then to ut the stockholders in a good huaor each mill declared an extra cash ividend in 1909 of 33*& per cent. In 1907 the Nonquit mill pf New Bedford was paying 7% per cent, n that year there was a 100 per ent. stock increase, and in 1908 the ividend was increased to 8 per cent. The Soule mill of New Bedford aid 8 per cent, in 1907-8-9, in 1909 eclared a stock dividend of 2 per ent., and in 1910 was able to keep ight on paying the 8 per cent, diviend on the new capitalization. The Whitman mill of New BedDrd, owned by William Whitman, rho has personally supervised the writing of woolen schedules in reent years, was paying 9 per cent, in 909. In that year an extra cash ividend of 33 1-3 per cent, was delared, and in 1910 the dividend was 0 per cent. A Big Payer. Down in Fall River the cotton mill wend by Senator Bourne of Oregon anks well among the big dividend ayers. Its stockholders received a tock dividend of 40 per cent, in 903, and since that time the divi- 1 end has been slowly but surely in- i rree 1 - *1 ? Ask 1 St N I Your : 1 Friends | t0 I "* Trade I lol "f ^ i 1 Hoover's 11 yit IWrni II i isy. 1/1U5 ivffl : |j ae Store m ) start with. 4. Nil ought in Tues- ||| 9. Color of cer- I 11. Contestant II creasing. The Chase mills, one of the most | prosperous in Fall River, declared a | stock dividend of 33-13 per cent. In 1907, the panic year; two years prior to that time it declared a stock dlvi- j dend of 20 Der cent, and is now pay Ing 8 per cent, on the stock which the stockholders bought, and, also, M on more than 50 percent. of the 3 stock which was given to them for 3 nothing. '^jj Stockholders in the Davis mill, in ^ Fall River, got a stock dividend of 25 per cent, in 1909 d continued to receive 6 per ce?. an their holdings, the same rate that was paid before the stock dividend was declared. The Da vol mill of Fall River paid y a stock dividend of 25 per cent, in 1907, the panic year, and has been paying 6 per cent, on the increased capitalization ever since. ' The King Philip mill, reorganized % as one of the best in Fall River, let | i+a atA/ithniHArs deeMe whether they - A ivg k)vvvn.uv?uv*w would have a 50 per cent, cash divl- *| aend or a 50 per cent, stock dividend' :'v'| in 1906. The mill was paying 6 per cent, before this bonus was given i and it has kept right on paying 6 per ceDt. ever since. The prize package in Fall River dividends was handed out by the f Laurel Lake mill. In 1907, the panic year, the mill declared a stock dividend of 100 per cent This was in addition to the regular dividend of 3 14 per cent The following year, the 4 mill was able to pay 13 per cent, on its increased capitalization. Other panic year stock dividends paid were by the Marchant mill* 50 per cent.; the Pocasset mill, 100 per cent.; the Richard Borden mill, 25 per cent. In 1906 the Teccumseh mill || paid a stock dividend of 50 per cent.* * and in 1909 the Troy mill declared - . . J A a loo per cent, oona uivmcuu. Maudlin Heroism. An exceedingly drunk man, on a very rainy day, stood weaving back ^ and forth beneath a belching water- 'm spout. A passing policeman took him -ggj by the arm, thinking to lead him 7away, but the drunk resisted weakly and mumbled: Am "Save the wimmen an' children! I c'n swim."?Everybody's. Henry C. Lundy, assistant post master at Conway, Horry county, -3 has been arrested on the charge of rifling a number of registered let- J ters, securing somewhere from |500 f " to $1,000 from them. ,