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Ulbr Hamburg iirralii ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KXIGHT, 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 Mereenthaler 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 $150; 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- a a line each insertion. wants ana 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 find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex^ pressed in any communication. Thursday, April 3, 1913. 1 We hafe an idea that few of the business men of Bamberg realize what a fine investment the Carlisle Fitting School is from simply a commercial standpoint. You wouldn't think Bamberg was anything like a dead town to go around the city a little and note the t many handsome residences recently completed and those now being erected. IT5 If one dozen of the business men L r of Bamberg would back up the ladies of the civic league in their efforts for a clean and beautiful city, what a fine place Bamberg would soon become! Can't we get them? With blind tigers all over South Carolina and the dispensary auditor declaring that the dispensaries are nothing more than open bar rooms, ? i-\f O Qto fck CX>Pm to tlP 171 111^ Vt liAV K/VN/MA VW a mischief of a fix no matter which they choose. . While there is little doubt tnat the appointment of J. Fraser Lyon as district attorney would be very distaseful to the governor, there is Lttle reason to believe that Senators Tillman and Smith will agree to annoy the chief executive that much, little as they may like him. However, Lyon s press agents are giving him a lot of free publicity. _ _ gPu . The canvass for funds for the K;"Vv . erection of a new dormitory for the Fitting School is meeting with good success. The list published in another column shows that fine progress has been made and yet few people have been seen. The dormitory will be built, that's certain, and it will be a fine investment. We are encouraged very much over the outlook. We almost lose heart some times, but F^mberg has never failed on any great big movement yet and will not fa:l this time. Judging from the amount of in terest taken in the aproaching municipal election, the men of Bamberg are asleep. However, if they are, they had better wake up. Matters of vital importance confront us, and if we fail to measure up to our duty, x we can have nobody to blame but ourselves. The town is not going to run itself, that's certain, and if those people who have property interests here will not take a little time and trouble to protect those interests, you may be sure no one else will. In other words, if we are to be helped, we must help ourselves. There is no more worthy organization in Bamberg than the civic league, and yet it has. little or no financial or moral support from the men of the town. These ladies are doing a great work and they should have the hearty co-operation of the men of Bamberg. iney nave aone mucn ior me eume comunity, they have spent time and money for the good of Bamberg, and . yet they have not even had the backing of the very ones who ought to be most interested. Is it not time that we were throwing off our indifference and developing the get-together spirit for the good of Bamberg? . Hopeless. Two men sat at a table in a club. The first man, frowning at the other, asked: "Why on earth do you let your wife go around saying that she made a man of you? You never hear my wife saying that." "No," the other frowned back, "but I've often heard her say she tried her hardest."?London Opinion. I WILD MAX NEAR LANES. A. C. L. Conductor Tells Thrilling Story of Capture. A thrilling story of the capture of a typical wild man of the jungle,^ a negro, covered from head to foot with black, bristling hair, as thick and long as that on some giant gorilla, on the edge of Santee Swamp, in South Carolina, near Lanes Junction, fifty miles north of Charleston, is told by W. S. Damon, conductor in charge of the Atlantic Coast Line passenger train which arrived at 3.25 P. M. from Florence yesterday, says the Savannah Morning News of Monday. The .wild man, Mr. Damon states, driven from Santee Swamp by a freshet in the Santee River, hid in a barn near the edge of the marsh land and. when discovered, fought fiendishly until overpowered and cowed into subjection. The man is now chained and tied with ropes in the barn in which he was captured, the conductor says. Details of the capture of the man Mr. Damon states, are unknown to him. Lanes Junction is a division point where transfers are made for Columbia, and Georgetown and Sa vannah. He said that when his train reached the junction yesterday morning at 11.10 o'clock the little town was \n a state of intense excitement over the capture of the man. The Savannah train did not stop at Lanes, however, for longer than five minutes and so Mr. Damon could get but meagre information of the affair. The negroes of Lanes are panio stricken, Mr. Damon says. Theory of the Natives. What disposition will be made of the man Mr. Damon declares he does not know. He says that it is his supposition, however, that the matter will be reported to the authorities of the State Hospital for the Insane at Columbia and that the man will be sent there for confinement and observation. The man is a burly negro and speaks some English, says the conductor. It is generally thought, the conductor says, that the negro is either an I pcpnrwpd onnvint nr a fueitive from justice. He says it is the generahbelief at Lanes that the man went into Santee Swamp to hide from officers of the law and, frightened by the loneliness of the place and the fear of capture, became insane. Another theory of how the man reached his present state of savagery, Mr. Damon says, is that the negro, already mad, wandered into the swamp and remained there. The appearance of the negro, it is stated, would indicate that he had been living in the swamp as a savage for probably many years. Discovery of Wild Man. According to Mr. Damon, when members of a family of negroes residing on a small farm on the edge of Santee Swamp went out to a ramshackled barn in the rear of their little cabin, about daybreak yesterday, they were frightened by the terrible sight of a man, over six feet tall, broad and muscular, with great brawny arms and heavy shoulders, covered from head to foot with thick black hair and whose eyes gleamed like those of some wild animal, crouched in one corner of the shack as though ready to spring upon the first living creature which molested him. The family of negroes, it is said, were thrown into a panic and went hurrying in all directions in search of aid. Residents of that neighborhood went in response to the frightened cries and pleas for help. A small mob, it is said, formed around the barn within half an hour and plans were hastily made for the capture of the man alive, if possible, and with as little injury to him as necessary. Man Fights Viciously. The negro showed signs of fight and when the effort to catch him continued fought viciously. Finally, however, without any of the mob hpinsr hurt and v.'ithout inflicting any injuries dpon the man furthe than a few bruises of a minor nature, the burly stranger, more animal in appearance than human, was overpowered and tied hand and foot. Quickly the news of the fight with and the capture of the man spread over the surrounding country and people from adjoining settlements and residing on small farms and along the railroads in all directions from Lanes Junction began to pour into that little town to view the strange species of human held in the barn of the negro family. Little groups and circles of people, the blacks and the whites to themselves, began to form all over the streets of Lanes Junction, with here and there a larger gathering of white men, with a few awe-stricken negroes 011 the outskirts who would listen for a few moments to the trend of the discussion, and then go back to those of their own race, to report. Much Like an Animal. The authorities of Lanes Junction are following up every case where a criminal has been thought to have hidden in Santee Swamp, or where a OFFICERS STOP COCK FIGHT. Arrest Bunch of Union Sports and Seize Entire Outfit. Union, March 29.?Detective Robinson, of Anderson, and Detective Lee, of Columbia, sent here by Governor Blease, assisted by Sheriff Fant,' raided a place known as "The Chicken Farm," just on the corporate limits of the town, this afternoon, and caught a number of men, some of them prominent, conducting a cocking main. The officers arrested all parties and brought them before the local magistrate, who admitted them to bail. A small quantity of beer was seized, the chickens and outfit were brought in and a supply of poker chips wrere seized also. The place is said to be owned and operated by Will May. Among those arrested was L. M. Charles, recently arrested by Federal officers on a charge of fraudulent use of the mails, and now out on $5,000 bond for his appearance at the Federal Court. Great apple diving contest at the Pastime Theatre this (Thursday) evening at 8 o'clock.?Adv. Samuel Greenwald, of Philadelphia, bought property on east Main stroet, Spartanburg, on Saturday, paying for it $1,000 a front foot, or $57,000, the width of the lot being 57 feet. Southern Flagman Gashes Passenger. In a conversation between a reporter and an automobile salesman at police headquarters last night it was learned that there had been a fight aboard the Southern railway train near Trenton, S. C., and that a passenger had been severely cut across the cheek and disfigured by the flagman on the train as the result of a dispute over an alleged failure of the flagman to call out the name of the Qtatinn Thp nnssenaer's name cnuld not be learned from the automobile man, nor could he tell 'where he had gotten off the train. He said he thought the passenger had gotten off the train before he arrived in this city. The city hospital was then called and asked if a patient had been treated there who had gotten a cut across his cheek. The reply *as that a patient had been treated only a short while before, but his name could not be ascertained. This led to the belief that the man who had been injured had come on to this city. . After finding that he had left the hospital a canvass of the hotels was made, with the result that the gentleman who had been cut was found at the Elkins hotel. His name is F. L. Hundley and he is traveling salesman for a New Orleans firm. He says he is a native of South Carolina, where his family resides. When asked for an interview on the affair he gave the following: "I had to^d the conductor I wanted to stop at Trenton, S. C., so I could journey from Trenton to Edgefield. Mr. E. G. Morgan, of this city, and I were talking of the flood disaster while sitting back in the smoker when the conductor came and said, knowing I wanted to stop at Trenton, "Where to now?' to which I replied that I wanted to get off at Trenton. He said, 'We have already passed Trenton!' and then turned to the flagman and said, 'Did you call Trenton?' to which the flagman replied, 'I did.' "The conductor then left the car very suddenly. I told the flagman that I did not hear him call out Trenton, and Mr. Morgan and several other gentlemen .said they had not heard him. The flagman then replied, 'I'm d n sure I did.' I took no notice of the oath, but replied that I did not believe that h? had called the station. To fhis he called me a d n liar, and I jumped for him, but he ran. I gave chase and overtook him at the door of the coach and struck at him. At this he drew a knife from beneath his sleeve already opened and slashed at my throat and would have opened it from ear to ear had it not b^en for a protecting hand I held up. This made his hand fly upward above my throat and cut my cheek. I have a gash five inches long across my left cheek, which barely missed my eyes. I am disfigured for life. About fifteen stitches had to be taken at the hospital." The name of the flagman could not be ascertained, although the yardmaster's office in Hamburg and other places were called in an attempt to ascertain it. It is understood that the flagman is a new man on the road, however.?Augusta Chronicle, Friday negro has strayed off and never heard of again, in an effort to identify the man. The negro, it is said, will not talk, glowering in a ferocious, sullen manner at his questioners at times, and at others appearing wholly oblivious to the queries being propounded. When any one goes near the man he strains and tears at his tethers and makes a throaty, horrible sound more like the growl of some terrible, man-eating beast than of a human.? News and Courier, Tuesday, March 18th. ALL SHOULD LIVE 100 YEARS. I)r. Allard Relieves Body May Be < Trained its Servant of Will. Dr. Frank Ellsworth Allard, professor of physical economics at the ; Boston University Medical school, be' lieves that 100 years shculd be the ; average life of man. The old Biblical passage anent the life of man be- ? ing three score years and 10 is put into our head at Sunday-school, said Dr. Allard today, and we later accept it as a matter of course. It is unfortunate that we have the limit i of life in mind; we ought to live to be 100. All disease is a process of ! disintegration. "I believe that every disease of every name and nature begins pri- < marily in the breaking of some of na- ' ture's laws. I believe that the body < may be so trained that it becomes : r__j. ? i. ~ e n?'ll TViy* a ptJI'ltJUL seivaui Ul iuc nm, 1UV keeping of nature's law6 in the most perfect form of morality. "To my way of thinking we tnust look to sanitation for the solution of our health problems. < "Insurance statistics show that among insured lives of men between the ages of 45 and 55 the death rate is greater than ever before. They would live longer and accomplish more if they ate less, drank less and indulged in daily periods of rest and recreation. "There are thousands of women? and not a few men?whose health is being sapped by the habits of idleness and gossip. These people are lazy, mentally and physically, and their view-point on life is purely personal and usually petty. Laziness gives rise to sluggish livers and un- 1 healthy habits of introspection, which in turn breeds neurasthenia and imaginary ills, that become real so far as the sufferings of the patients are concerned. "Intemperance in the use of alcoholic stimulants is perhaps the greatest curse of our age. The whole problem of drunkenness should be dealt with as a mental affliction, a weakening of the will. - -'J jl ne oiu line pichjuliuuci is uuuuu to passf The family doctor as we know him today is doomed to extinction. His place will be taken by the physician who will fulfill the real meaning of the word, which is 'teacher'."?Boston dispatch to NewYork Herald. FOES KILL CONSTABLE. Fire Buckshot into J. R. Cooler on St. Helena Island. Beaufort, March 31.?J. R. Cooler, dispensary constable, was mortally wounded Saturday night on St. Hel- 1 ena Island, eight miles from Beaufort. He -died at 6 o'clbck Sunday morning while being put on a motor boat that was to have taken him to a Savannah hospital. wnen snot ue was walking along a highway in company with a negro assistant named Deas. From the thick brush that lined the road sped two loads of buckshot, fired from ambush. Four shot entered the constable's head and one went through the shoulder. There seemed no hope from the 1 first, but two docters were rushed from Beaufort by motor boat and automobile. Yesterday morning Sheriff M. 0. D. White arrested and jailed a negro named Reynolds as an accessory. The sheriff today arrested a negro named Green and put him in jail here. At the inquest, which began yesterday morning with a session in Beaufort, Deas was examined. He testified that Constable Cooler had raiaea nve places during the day, among which was a shop kept by Reynolds. Reynolds, he said, was ugly and said he would get "satisfaction." He made this threat three times, following up the constable and his assistant after the raid, Deas asserted. The shooting was done an hour or so after the last threat was made and not far from the shop. The constable has raided Saint Helena recently and had several cases pending before the magistrate. He has done good work since his appoint- ; ment a few weeks ago and has been generally praised. Mr. Cooler leaves a wife and two children. His body was carried to Bluffton < this morning for interment. The county is much stirred up and j every effort will be made to bring all ( (-A friCll 1 IVS bi AMI. Leading negroes of Saint Helena 1 have met to take steps to cooperate 1 with the sheriff and will have a call read in their churches next Sunday < for a mass meeting to express their ( indignation at the assassination and ' to offer assistance in locating the guil- j ty parties. j Saint Helena has- a population of { f over 4,000, only about 100 of whom are white. First aid to the wounded constable was rendered by a negro doctor of the island and a trained nurse con- 1 nected with.a negro school on the j island. t Up-to-date line of stationery just j received at Herald Book Store. t A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. 1 Child Run Over on Bowman and . Branchville Road. Bowman, March 31.?A distressing accident resulting fatally, occurred here last Saturday, the victim being t r* 1 i * f 1 o A f * O n ^ \T TC Pinl^ t a 1 iinc i;uuu vi jn . auu a t Dean. An engine and several flat i cars in charge of Mr. J. Smith, en- ] gineer, left here Saturday about one- ' half hour previous to the regular i train for Branchville and just before ] reaching the brick mill the child men- 1 tioned above was discovered on the track. Engineer Smith reversed the i lever of the engine and applied the J brakes, but being on a down-grade, j was impossible to stop before the . child was struck and instantly killed. < The supposition is that the child got out of the dwelling which is near the * railroad, and not noticed got on the ^ track going down the road looking i for its father who had left home for i work down the road. At the inquest ; held by Magistrate Berry no blame j was attachable to the engineer in the . discharge of his duty, it being one of 1 Hinco iinQvnHnhlo jir>r>irlpnt'5 that OO cur at times. ,i Nat B. Dial of Laurens has announced his purpose to enter the race for United States senate in 1914. Gentlemen CALL TO SEE OUR Suits, Shirts, Collars, Tips 4k Pants, Socks, Suspenders, Supporters, Belts. . I Ladies CALL TO SEE OUR Slippers, SliDDers. * * 7 Slippers, Slippers, Slippers, Everybody CALL TO SEE OUR * Line of hundreds of items in useful merchandise for sum- I mer wear. Rente & Felder, BAMBERG, S. 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Mitchum, deceased, md discharge from the office of ad ninistrator of said estate. W. H. MITCHUM, Administrator. * Dated 25th day of March, A. D. 913. GRAHAM & BLACK, Lttorneys for Administrator. -4 < : . v.?