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?Ijr Hcunbrrg ^rali 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 Mer genthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a ffine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power, with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investk. ment 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. & Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions o'O 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 | - Itead, 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 liot subject to cancellation after first Insertion. %- Communications?We are always SS f'ted to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public inter ost. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. Ho 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 any communication. Thursday, August 17,1911. feiv Here's betting that the Laurens Herald under its new management ]V -will not be a supporter of the presont State administration. It has l)een one of the governor's strongest adherents heretofore. The Hartsville Messenger is now one of the neatest papers that'comes t-U IXIIb UlilUt?. xucic nas n\ju.~ derful improvement in newspapers generally in South Carolina during the past year or two. J ?|V The governor did just what we expected him to do in reference to the ppf?T- Belton matter. When we read the affidavits we said right away that the governor would remove the notaries, so promptly. He wasted ?&' -< fin timp in showine his SDite. [Wouldn't it be fine if all the streets i In town could be clayed. The fine condition of Midway, Carlisle, and ' Bridge streets should put every one In the notion not to rest satisfied until all the streets are put in fine I, shape like the ones mentioned. There should be a merchants' association formed in connection with the business league, in order that the , business men may be protected 1 against those who can and will nor. pay their debts. Bamberg merchants "would be much better off if it was o 4- o /-kMfi+Am at? rr?nol nor hie IJUivnii iual a V/uoiuui^i wuuv ** +*-> k account at one store before he could obtain credit elsewhere. Let us have the organization by all means. The credit system in Bamberg is entirely too la?, and as a consequence many merchants lose money by bad debts. ; A COURAGEOUS SCHOLAR. A. courageous scholar is Dr. Wm. E. Dodd, formerly of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, and now of Chicago V University. The fact that Rockefeller gave millions to his institution Has not shut his mouth as to the evils of monopoly and the corrupting i Influence of money in politics. Dr. Dodd has recently been warning the . whole South against the alliance of big corporations with our political : machines. The North, he declares, is ^thoroughly waked nip as to this matter; but what of our own section? Dr. Dodd, in a speech at Richmond,: said: 'When we turn our eves to IP^ ^ / this old South which has always stood for a low tariff or free felpKP'' trade, a region where men are j not too rich to vote honestly, a v region where men have always \ "boasted that their State govern- , ' ments were the models of de' cency, what do we find? A con' dition which calls for all the courage, all the patience and ??? resolute purpose of which a virtuous people are capable. ggjy - "The great capitalists have Bps? >' been busy with us, too. They , have seized or stolen valuable properties like the Seaboard Railway, the Georgia Central and the Southern. Thomas F. Ryan, one of the worst of all the Wall Street gang, has more power in Virginia to-day than any governor you have had in a 9 dozen years. The Goulds have got possession of the trolley sysIgte' -tern in and about Richmond, and the representative of these prop ortips has mnrp nower in Wash [ington than any Virginia member of Congress. In Georgia, J. P. Morgan dictates terms to the people through his agents, who were actually able two years ago \ to elect the governor of the State. And all over the South the Southern Railway threatens, ' .blusters and domineers; and small congressmen tremble before its president and its great ?; lawyers in a manner positively i : shameful to Southern manhood." ?Progressive Farmer. And yet newspaper editors in South Carolina accept favors from the railroads and tell us all this talk of corporation rule is a myth. We think some of them would change their : * i.' m - ' . .. o *- . opinion if they visited the. general assembly and studied the situation closely. To our mind the greatest menace which confronts South Carolina at this time is domination of our politics by public service corporations. Proceedings May End Puzzle. % Spartanburg, Aug. 12.?Frank ATetoalf. constable of Magistrate J. M. Bowden, started legal proceedings .to-day which promises to clear the magisterial muddle in this county. Through his attorney, Stanyarne Wilson, he obtained an order from Justice Hydrick of the supreme court requiring Supervisor Daniel M. Miles and the board of county commissioners to show cause why a mandamus should not be issued directing the board to entertain and pass upon Mr. Metcalf's claim for payment for his services as constable. The hearing will be had before Justice Hydrick Wednesday morning. The county commissioners will be represented by Judge George W. Nicholls, county attorney. Gov. Blease, early in the year, appointed as magistrates at Spartanburg, Pacolet, Cowpens and Readville four men who had not been reccommended by the county legislative delegation, their appointments having been made after the adjournment of the legislature and were not with the advice and consent of the senate, as is required by the statute. The magistrates whom they supplanted took the position that Gov. Blease's appointees were not quali? - - r J nea to serve ana.accoramgiy reiuecu to resign. The situation has, therefore, been presented of two magistrates at each of the four places where there should he only one. Each of the eight magistrates whose right to his office is disputed has his own constable. The board of county commissioners has refused to pay , the salaries of any of .the eight magistrates or the fees of their constables until it should be settled in . court who were the lawful magistrates and who the lawful constables. The proceedings brought by Con- . stable Metcalf are the first move to settle the dispute. Magistrate Bowden is an appointee of Gov. Blease. He was appointed , to the office which is still retained by ' the venerable Maj. Augustus H. Kir- , by. Both of the rival magistrates have been discharging fhe duties of their office daily, hearing and deter- , mining civil suits and fining and im- | prisoning persons convicted before them of criminal offenses. Neither , has received any pay since prior to ' last April. . | Boy Kills Step-Father. 9 i Walter Seaport, a negro boy, ] charged with killing his step-father, < Dave Green, was brought to Aiken Gnnriair mnrnins' h ATflSpist.ra.t.ft fiar- 1 vin and lodged in jail. i The shooting occurred Saturday < night, about two miles south of Wagener at the home of Green and i Seaport. Owing to the fact that the report- t .ers were denied admission to the cell of young Seaport, very little can be i learned concerning the affair, but i from the meagre details at hand, it t was gathered, that Dave Green had I spent the day in Wagener among his friends, drinking and having a big c time, and, incidentally, quarreling < with two or three people that had 1 incurred his dislike. He left Wagener about,dark in a c highly drunken condition, and went 2 fr\ hid hnmo whinh fls hpforft stated. W UiU MVUAV ?' ~ ? ? ? , was some two or three miles south of Wagener. When he reached his home, he proceeded to have what he fermed "a cleaning out,' and began to curse and abuse the other members of the family, favoring his wife especially. # Efforts were made to quiet him and place him in his bed, but all these he resisted, and began to whip his wife most cruelly. Seaport begged and warned him to cease, but to no avail, and, unable to endure it any longer, Seaport shot his stepfather, with the result that Green died a few hours later. Green is known in and around Wagener as a notoriously bad character, and at the time of his death | he had just been dismissed from the chain-gang. Little sympathy seems to attach itself to his death, and the opinion has been expressed that Seaport was justified in the step which he took.?Aiken Journal and Review. Dispensaries Treating Thousands. < Washington, .Aug. 14.?Steady in- : l At _ 1 ^ ? J crease in tne numuer ui cases ui j hookworm treated at the four Rockefeller hookworm dispensaries in < North Carolina have been shown < during the past four weeks, accord- 1 ing to information received at the 1 headquarters of the commission here. During the four weeks, 7,266 cases 1 were under observation. < The dispensaries are now operating j in Sampson, Robeson, Columbus and 1 Halifax counties and within the next j two weeks it is proposed to move them to Wayne, Cumberland, Onslow : and Northampton counties, leaving 1 the work in the former counties, to 1 the county health officers. < \ V BAD REPORTS OX COTTON. Probable that Crop Prospect Has Been Over-Estimated. Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 13.?The Commercial-Appeal to-morrow wil say: "Deterioration of a more 01 less serious nature in the cotton crop is reported from Texas and parts ol Mississippi and Alabama. Elsewhere the crop has done well, with local exceptions." The decline in Texas, which has occurred in Central, Northern and Western counties, is tne resuit oi excessive heat and two weeks without rain following a wef period, during which the plant grew rapidly Shedding and worms cause the basis of the complaints. The heat has reducd the activities of worms, but increased the shedding which has in places been severe. There are som reports from this State which say the crop is still holding up and that the alarm is overstated. The trouble in Alabama and Mississippi arises from an excess oi moisture which has made a rapid growth of stalk and caused some uneasiness by the rapid growing of the stalk and from worms,' which are numerous in some fields. The disappointment resulting from this turn of affairs has produced a feeling that, perhaps, the crop prospect had been overestimated. In the Atlantic States, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, there has been no serious shedding and the crop is doing nicely. Rain is needed only in Texas. Elsewhere dry, warm weather is desirable. Woman Catches Blackmailers. Chicago, Aug. 11.?While C. G. K. Billings, driving his champion gelding, Uhlan, was hanging up a new world's record at Cleveland to-day, his mother, Mrs. A. M. Billings, of Chicago, despite her 89 years, was making a little record of her own in capturing a would-be blackmailer, cr blackmailers, who are alleged to have made threats in true "black hand" fashion. John Mills, a colored man, who says Cairo, 111., is his home, and John Hendricks, .a white man about 27 % years old, and whom* the police styled a "hobo" from his appearance, were arrested. Yesterday morning Mrs. Billings received a letter demanding that $500 be wrapped in a bundle of old clothes and given to a man who should call to-day and ask for work, also a "package." Mrs. Billings promptly notified a firm of private letectives, who called the official poice to their aid. They were secreted about the grounds of the Billings lome at 1424 West Lake street toiay when Mills appeared. "I want a job about the horses lere,." Mills said to the maid who answered the door and who had been joached by Mrs. Billings in her part. "We have no such work here," she eplied. "Well, then how about that packige?" Mills is said to have asked. At this point the maid invited tjie nysterious visitor into the house and lotified Mrs. Billings, who, owing to ;he infirmities of her years, was in >ed. The maid was given a bundle of >ld clothes, but there was no money ;oncealed within it and this she landed to the negro, asking him to vait for a few moments. Then the letectives were notified and Mills' irrest followed. He expressed surprise at his detenion. He declared that he came to " - 1 -~i- ??/! .micago irom v^><m~u mgui, auu hat he met a stranger, who gave his lame as John Hendricks, at a saloon n West Madison street. Hendricks, le said, asked him if he wanted to jarn $50. Mills was willing and, he laid, he was told to visit the Billings lome and to ask the questions about vork and in particular about the jackage. He was to receive his pay lpon the completion of his mission. Mills, after his arrest, led the offl;ers to a West Side saloon, where he jointed out Hendricks, who is a Gornan and speaks little English. He vas sullen and refused to answer the luestions put to him by the police. Mills said that he was the tool of Hendricks and knew nothing of the :hreatening letter received by Mrs. Billings. Wedding Ring Kills Wearer. Chicago, Aug. 9.?Mrs. Jessie Stewart Gardner is dead because she * * foto hpr weddine ring LCLUOUU tV i/Uiiv ?w _ w trom her finger. The gold band was placed on Mrs. Gardner's finger on the day she became a bride. It remained there untill it had to be filed off, but the filing svas done too late. Mrs. Gardner's finger had increased gradually in size. The pressure of the ring became correspondingly greater. The ring finally became imbedded in the flesh and caused an interruption of the blood circulation. With much reluctance Mrs. Gardner consented to have the ring filed offr Owing to the delay blood poisoning developed. She was 60 years old. J V? I Homesee) ill ji GEORGIA SOUTH GI % ' ' - i Al i Tuesday, t " Round Ti Lv. AUGUSTA An VIDALIA Ar. HAZLEHUR9T ! Ar. DOUGLAS Ar. WILLACOOCHEE Ar. NASHVILLE .... Ar. VALDOSTA Ar. SPARKS Ar. ADEL Ar. MOULTRIE Tickets will be Good Re T1 See the Grow An opportunity to see Sea Islam South Georgia, and gain a seek a New Hom< For Descriptive U W. L. GLESSNER, I Land and Industrial Agent, AUGUSTA I Car Unm Irui nuiii Our lines of Staple Groceries always insure success, because they are always pure, fresh and reliable, so that what you put up will be found good and sweet when i opened for use later on in the winter. Herndon Malcolm Moye, Mgr. SEE EDISTO AT ITS LOWEST. Engineers Who are to Make Report nw> At "Work. Orangeburg, Aug. 13.?The government civil engineers who are making the official survey of the Edisto river, are still at work and are now encamped at Carmichael's landing, several miles below this city. : The engineers making this survey are experiencing as low water in the Edisto river as has ever been known. It is practically certain that the river will never be lower than it has generally been this summer, but Orangeburg is expecting a favorable report by the engineers as to the fea- , sibility of opening the river to navigation. j : :ry low round tr [ers Excurs -via the?& FLORIDA TO ORGIA, "The Wire ...FKUM... JGUSTA - GEORG August 22 ip Rates and Schedules From Eastern Time 8:25 Central Time 12:00 Central Time 1:10 Central Time 2:20 Central Time 3:05 Central Time 3:45 Ponfrnl Tfme 4! 50 , Central Time..... 6:08 .*... Central Time 6:18 Central Time 7:55 turning on all Regular ,Tra hursday, August 31st, 191 ing Crops and Cheap Fa 1 Cotton, Upland Cotton, Corn, ana t i true conception of the wonderful pr< i while the prices of Farming Lam teratare and Other information Address ' * i i , GA. n Cm it Drr tmuiirit mmmmwrnrnummmMmmm^ i is Grocei Telephone 24 T Tr?T/^TTT*r/^ "? ? ? "WT TT?TP*m 1T1AX mmmmmmmmmmmrn Posse of Several Hundred Hunting Negro. Durango, Okla., Aug. 12.?A posse of several hundred armed men is scouring the country to-night for a negro who to-day shot and probably fatally wounded Mrs. Reddem Camp Den, wile or a iarmer nvmg uear here. It is feared a lynching may result if the negro is captured. Mrs. Campbell says the negro came to her home and asked for food. After she had given him something to eatr he attacked her. As the negro fled from the house he drew a revolver and shot Mrs. Campbell. ^ I ^ I > % ion Rates 1 ill RAILWAY t grass Country" J JA !nd. 1911 I Augusta 1 TIME * RATE ^|j? A. M. 10:00 P. M. -3| Noon 2:25 A. M. . $2.00 P. M. 4:15 A. M. 2.50 P.M. 7:00 A.M. 2.16 P.M. 8:27 A.M. 3.00 Xj P. M. 9:15 A. M. 3.50 ' P. M. 10:22 A. M. 3.50 P. M. 10:03 A. M. zJo P. M. 10:13 A. M. 3.50 P.M. 11:50 A. M. 3.50 ins up to and Including - V> jming Lands ? WM he Numerous other Products of "v/tH iductlvity of the soil, and is are Reasonable. . ' the Undersigned. " > > C. H. GATTIS, I / General Passenger Agent, I AUGUSTA, OA. I ' ?? -t - -$3%. % serving j Those housekeepers 9 who put up their own I p| preserves know that * ^ 1 good sugar, spices, ? spirits and other es- 1 '[?sentials, |onIy can be x , used and that they ? are best purchased at ^ ,| Bamberg, S. C. A ?_?____________________?? r(? BOOKER IS BARRED. ? ^ Negro Educator Not Allowed to Use -.-*gj Capitol Hall. Austin. Texas. Aug. 10.?Booker T. Washington, the negro educator *'v of Tuskegee, Ala., will not be allowed to speak in the"representative hall of the State capitol during his pro- ^ posed visit to Austin in September or October. A resolution seeking to accord him this privilege was introduced in the house this morning, but x f was cried down without a second reading. The volume of "noes" whifch greeted the reading of the * resolution put further consideration M of the measure out of the question and It was laid aside without formal