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I Wat lambrrg limtlfr 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, Babcock: cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Miehle cylinder press, 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 $iou; six months, 75 cents; three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly 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 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 insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or 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 nna piace in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, June 27,1912. Just as we all expected, Taft has been nominated and Roosevelt has bolted and organized a new party. It is to be hoped the Democrats will show some sense and not split up as usual. Of course practically * all the K voters of this county are going to ; ; vote for Tillman for United States " Senator, nevertheless they will give a respectful hearing to the candidates opposing him, who will speak here next Saturday. Things are very quiet in this county in political circles, and the voters generally do not seem to be much interested. We have been expectK mg other candidates to announce, | but they seem shy about entering E the political arena. I We may deprecate the political conditions in South Carolina as much as we please and talk ourselves hoarse about the great sacrifice a good man makes to run for office in South Carolina, but the question is what are we going to do about it? It is a disgraceful condition we are in, and one which should not be permitted by the good people of the State. The first week of the State campaign meetings has been anything but an edifying spectacle, and if a campaign of dirty insinuations and covert insults is to be put a stop to, the people must do it. No office in the gift of the people is worth such a sacrifice on the part of a clean man. It appears that Mayor Grace has proved his case in the matter of graft being paid by the blind tigers of Charleston for protection, and it seems certain that if the governor did not get any of the graft himself he knew that it was being paid and he knew7 w7ho was getting it. As to why the mayor should have turned against the governor we do not know, and not being an admirer of either official we can look on with equanimity and judge impartially. At this time, however, it appears that Grace is equally cupable with Blease. He f' should not have permitted conditions | to exist as long as they have, as it appears he has known what was goI v ing on for some time. m 0 I We are sending out this week a supplement for Mr. Harry D. Calhoun, a candidate for congress in this district. In order that our readers pf may fully understand the matter we will state that this supplement is sent out purely as advertising matter and is paid for as such. It might he well to restate here wrhat we have said | many times before, and that is that all communications favoring any canf ' #jei& didate and all political matter of any kind is charged for as regular advertising. The opinions of the paper can always be found in the editorial column, but nowhere else. It doesn't make any difference whether we are supporting a man for office or not, we publish his political advertising S| just as we publish his card of an nouncement. ? Resented Reprimand. g Vienna, Ga., June 24.?Because B she had been reprimanded for not do? ing her work properly, Ann Boston, | ' a negro servant, to-day fatally stabJ| bed Mrs. R. E. Jordan, at Pinehurst, B this county. Mrs. Jordan received B several cuts in the back, besides a Si deep gash across the throat. The B negress was hurried to Hawkinsville M to prevent further trouble. The JorB dans were among the best known citH izens in the county. CAMPAIGN OF MURDER. 1 Dr. E. R. Jones Relates Story of How 1 Men Robbed, Stole and Killed. Mammoth Springs, Ark., June 23. ?Alleged details of a campaign of < murder, cattle stealing and bank rob- ] bing, resulting in the death of four J persons, the loss of innumerable cat- i tie and the looting of at least one j bank, are contained in a statement 1 made to-day by Dr. E. R. Jones, un- t der arrest charged with participation in the robbery of a bank here several weeks ago. Jones made a statement denying his guilt but implicating Loftus Davis, Charles Davis, brothers, * and Howard Sears, all of whom are ? under arrest charged with robbing c the Mammoth Springs bank. Among the crimes charged to the trio in Jones's statement is the mur- j der of Mrs. Sears, a widow, whose ^ body was found in a cistern near her t home May 18 last. t Jones's statement says that Howard c Sears, son of the murdered woman. e formulated a plan to steal his moth- 1 er's cattle, but did not otherwise take i part in the affair. Two Davis broth- 1 ers, co-conspirators, according to 2 Jones, entered the Sears home on the 1 pretense that they wanted supper, 1 strangled Mrs. Sears, threw her body 1 into the cistern and later drove off c her cattle. r Then, Jones declares, the Davis brothers rejomed young Sears. The ^ trio then proceeded to the Davis ranch, says Jones, and on the way \ they met a stranger whom they rob- r bed and murdered, throwing his body i into Spring river. u Jones also charges the three men i Tirifh viiiinpr hi<? nwn son. Ben Jones, n and Will Dabbs, both of whom mys- p teriously disappeared several weeks t ago. c Though they admit guilt in connection with the robbery of the Mam- j( moth Springs bank, the three men stoutly deny the other crimes charged to them in the Jones statement. They charge that Jones was an accomplice kin the bank robbery. The charge 1 against Jones is yet to be tried. * S State Campaigners at Chesterfield. c a Chesterfield, June 22.?Barring a c verbal clash in which Gov. Blease, 1' Judge Jones and the county chair- t man, M. J. Hough, participated, when t the governor interrupted Judge Jones, to-day's meeting at Chester- y field, the fifth and last meeting of s the first week in the State political a campaign, passed off smoothly and g quietly, if such affairs can ever be t said to be smooth and quiet. i; "Tell the truth old man," the gov- o ernor yelled to Judge Jones from a l window. "I'm telling it," was the re- t ply. "No you ain't," rejoined the governor. Here the presiding officer, c saying that in this capacity he was as t much for Blease as for Jones, com- f manded the governor to be silent. a "You shut your mouth" was the cour- t teous retort by the governor of the h State. Chairman Hbugh was prompt o to enforce the guarantee he had giv- " en each speaker of a respectful hear- ? ing. t Judge Jones consumed part of his t period in reading a statement which, c in substance, was a reply to the carefully phrased Bishopville speech of i, the governor. Gov. Blease, in his ^ turn, read a statement regarding the \ denunciations of himself by Judge f Jones at Benettsville. The governor v in his statement deiterated his Ben- \ nettsville declaration that he desired ^ to avoid a physical encounter and a added that hereafter, Judge Jones g having placed himself beneath his f notice, he would not notice any i charges Judge Jones might make t against him. o Barnard B. Evans, having left the v party, temporarily, for business rea- ?? sons, it was said, there was not the c usual clash between himself and the ?? attorney general, J. Fraser Lyon. i] Probably 1,000 people faced the 0 candidates, who spoke from an im- i provised platform at the rear of Chesterfield's handsome brick graded e school building. Many more ladies E v/pre nresent than are usually in at- i< tendance on such meetings. All mem- t bers of the campaign party remarked the careful attention and perfect or- s der of the crowd. A surprise was the d apparent popularity of Judge Jones i with these people. It had been said ^ that this would be a Blease crowd, p but not even the distribution of applause seemed to bear out this asser- p tion, though Blease supporters as a t rule are much more addicted to that expression of approval than are the i friends of his leading opponent. Hon- 2 ors were at least even and Jones men \ here say Jones sentiment preponderated. Certainly, the former chief jus- l tice made many new friends. Most i of the citizens present were farmers. ] Augusta to Have Levees. ^ Augusta, Ga., June ? rne voters of Augusta to-day, by an over- * whelming affirmative ballot, ratified 1 a bond issue of $1,000,000 for levee * river protection, $150,000 for city 1 hospitals and $100,000 for water- 1 works improvements. * ,i i Rub-My Tism will cure you. ( B RANCH VILLE MAN OUT AGAIN. I?V. W. All, Who Was Shot by Noon, Evans, Returns Home. Columbia, June 17.?W. W. All, Df Branchville, who has been at. a ocal hospital since May 5, recovering irom the effects of a gun shot wound, -eturned to his home yesterday. Mr. All, who is not entirely himself yet, las sufficiently regained his strength :o make the trip home. Earthquake Anecdotes. The slight tremor of the earth a few mornings ago reminds me of ome things that happened during md after the earthquake of 1886, cnown to history as the Charleston quake. A blacksmith owned a huge and 'icious bulldog. A few days before he "shake" he gave the dog away; he new owner taking him home, and :hained him with a tracechair. The jvening before the quake the dog )roke the whole chain from its noorings, and returned to his old lome with the chain around his neck, md lay down upon the steps which ed out of his old master's bedroom, rhe dog with the chain around his leek looked very much like the thing iescribed by Pope in one of his fanous poems: 'Gloomy Pluto, king of terrors, , f Lrmed in adamantine chains." When the house began to shake vith fearful violence, the dog's old naster came out to see what was dong. When he opened the door the igly old dog with his chains clanking n an armonial jingle reared upon his dd master's breast, placing his huge aws on each shoulder. Struck with torror, with such an object armed in hains the old master cried out: ''Don't chain me old man; I'll folow!" He was sure the devil had him. A big meeting was in progress at iandy Dam. Brother Brown was eading in prayer. He had reached he climax, and with much fervor was aying: "Lord come down and shake ild Sandy Dam. Shake up the people ,s never before. Shake the old hurch. Shake her good; shake her ong, shake her loud; shake her from lottom to top; shake her from center o circumference." Just as this part of the invocation pas reached the old church began to hake as if it would fall to pieces, ,nd Brother Brown on all fours be;an jumping benches like an odorous lilly goat, knocked down every bench n the amen corner, went out of an pen window, and dashed for home, eaving his good old horse tied'to a. ree in the church yard. A drummer noted for his prevariations was caught in the 'quake disrict. He had faith in prayer. He elt sure there was an inexhaustble fountain yielding from above trough the medium of prayer, and ie prayed but the earth shook right n. He stopped, and looking up said: Lord, perhaps you don't know me. illow me to introduce my sinful self o you; I am lying Bill Bradley, of he A. B. Crawford Co., limited, Chiago!" Un a large plantation uvea a, iuug, san, lank man. By many around he ras looked upon as being "knowing." Vhen the 'quake came our lank riend was A bed asleep, and as the ( weather was hot he was thinly clad. Vhen his home began shaking out he fent just as he was with his family t his heels. Soon a large crowd had athered to get our lank and learned riend to explain the phenomenon. 1 le was waxing warm in his explanaion, almost nude, and was not aware f the figure he was cutting, so his fife approached him and whispered: Go in the house and put on your lothing." "Mollie," replied he, shut your mouth. 'Naked l came uto this world and naked must I go >ut! Blessed be the name of the iord.' " This quotation, disconnected, howver, from the book of Job, was too ciuch for the crowd, and a peal of aughter went up from the assemilage. A large crowd of negroes were asembled after the 'quake, and were loing some earnest and quaint prayng. The prayers made that night rould make a readable and laughable >amphlet; but only a few nuggets rere remembered. A young man was iraying and among many other things le said: "Good Master, please sen' down Dhy only forgotten (begotten) Son, in' fer to tell us poor sinful niggers vhat de matter down hur no how.'-' After this invocation, an old white leaded man was called upon to lead n prayer. Looking up toward leaven the old scared man said: 'Good Master, don't yer answer dat roung nigger prayer. He mean good )ut he fer no pray right. He pray 'er yer only forgotten Son ter come, in' please don't send him. Bat Mas;er, yer ole service do pray wid er inderstandin' an' er definition! Send lot Dhy forgotten Son. Leff him lome and come Dhy own self. Tain't lotime fer chullen no how; ole heads ir none!" A. W. BRABHAM. p ===== =i| I ....THE.... 2J * Rexall Store IT WILL PAY YOU TO SEEK AND PATRONIZE THE j J REXALL STORE. YOU CAN ALWAYS BE SURE OF II : O RECEIVING A SQUARE DEAL and "THE MOST OF O 1 THE BEST FOR THE LEAST MONEY." LOOK FOK THE SIGN REXALL AND PATRONIZE THE STORE DISPLAYING IT. 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