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(Ihr Bamberg Beralb V ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. \V. KNIGHT, Editor. f - i: Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bam- c berg, being issued from a printing o office which is equipped with Mer- E genthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a c fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by s electric power with other material e and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an invest -. AAA onH nnwarHs_ V HI trill U1 iiiu,vvv uu\* ..? Subscriptions?By the year $150; d six months, 75 cents; three months, j 50 cents. All subscriptions payable . strictly in advance. 1 Advertisements?$1.00 per inch ? for first insertion, subsequent inser- o tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad- . vertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and v ether advertisements under special r head, 1 cent a word each insertion. 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McLaurin, of Bennettsville, e and we do not believe he will listen c to the siren vcrice of "Bull Moose" r Beard and become a candidate for a governor. t m p PA primary is to be held in Augusta ^ Saturday of this week to vote on the ^ commission form of government, and . as there is a call for managers and ' clerks to conduct the primary, the Augusta Herald is calling on the ^ ministers of the city to serve in these o capacities. This is certainly something new under the sun. Why we were under the impression that the c. politicians did not want the preachers ^ to have anything to do with politics, and we fancy the idea of The Herald e is not likely to be popular. WEBB LIQUOR*LAW CONSTRUED. " , b Attorney General Says it is Not a p Criminal Statute. M Washington, June 19.?The Webb " law forbidding interstate shipments of liquor into "dry" States, is not a I criminal statute and violations of it fj cannot be prosecuted in the United ti States Court. . E * M/>Povnnlds <?o n AllUIUC* UCUtiai declared in instructions sent to-day to w every United State attorney in the e country. The law merely prohibits s< such interstate traffic and contains no s< penalty for infractions. ii "Its purpose," said the Attorney fi General, "is to permit State laws to p operate in respect of intoxicating li- w quors moving in interstate com- p merce." k The law simply deprives shippers ir of any privileges they might claim on rr the ground of interstate commerce w and permits the application of State ir prohibition laws to interstate com- e1 merce in liquors. tc This is the first time the depart- tc ment of justice has construed the ir Webb law, which was declared un- u constitutional by former President p Taft and former Attorney General Wickersham. President Taft vetoed ^ the bill on the ground that it violated ^ the interstate commerce clause of the m Constitution by delegating the regu- g( lation of interstate commerce to the t]o+otoc The hill was nassed over his I ~ ? X- . Lv veto. e< Attorney General McReynolds's in- j n terpretation is said to mean that the ! a Federal Government is not called up-1 p on to enforce a law for the violation ! I of which no penalty is''imposed and ^ that the interstate commerce forbid- 0 den by the law is "outlaw" commerce n in regard to which the States are free ^ to apply their statutes. The Attorn- ^ ev General did not attempt to pass +< upon the constitutionality of the Act n and it is believed that this question ? ultimately may reach the United f, States Supreme Court. t] SWINDLER CAUGHT AT LAST. a a Clever Crook Has Been Getting t! Thousands in Easy Money. Jacksonville, Fla., June 19.?Sher- n iff Dowling left for Savannah this u morning to bring A. C. Reynolds here on the alleged charge of swindling v the Seminole Hotel out of $35 on a L fake draft 011 the Thermos Bottle b Co. of New York. n That concern wires that a man sup- 0 posed to he Reynolds has cashed bo- f gus drafts aggregating thousands of t' dollars in many cities on the firm d swindling hotels, it is said, by placing h the ware at a cheap figure and then e getting advances on drafts. e He is alleged to have tried in Sa- a vannah yesterday and the police there e warned from here, arrested him. CHARGES AGAINST MILL MEN. Varrants are Issued Alleging Violation of Law as to Hours of Work. Spartanburg, June 20.?Warrants or the arrest of Mac Smith, superntendent. and W. L. Hames, weaveoom boss of the D. E. Converse ompany of (Jlendaie, were sworn; >ut before Magistrate Gantt this norning charging a violation of the riminal statute in reference to the chedule of working hours of employ's in cotton mills. It is alleged that >peratives in the weave shop are working a half hour overtime every [ay and on complaint made to the abor commissioner's office, a factory nspector. \V. S. Bonner, came to >partanburg yesterday and investi;ated the case. The date for the learing has not been set. The first report of this alleged iolation of the law, it is said, was nade by a woman who was dischardd from the mill because she refused o work overtime. Several witnesses have been summoned, who, it is laimed, will testify in corroboration if her charges. The defense is exacted to plead that this overtime rork was in an effort to make up suficient time so that the operatives night have a full holiday on Satur[ay, July 5. The Hapgood Editorial. Columbia, S. C., June 19, 1913. Dear Mr. Knight: Every true ioutherner who notes your stand gainst the invitation of Xorman iapgooa to aaaress tne souin uaroina Press Association on the 27th nstant should do so with great admiration, especially if he be acquaintd with the facts connected with the ase. However, from what I have ead it would seem that few recall ccurately the incident which at the i ime brought forth such a vigorous rotest from the press of the South, laving been especially interested in he matter at the time, I believe that he details of the article published as *ell as the other facts in the case rere impressed upon my mind more eeply than they would have been j rdinarily, therefore, I feel called up- i n to take issue with several of the; apers, which, through their expres- j. ions, show a lack of knowledge of j he incident. The Spartanburg Herald express- ; s its doubt that Hapgood was re- ( ponsible for the article in the words: If Mr. Hapgood was ever responsile for such an article.", To this aper I wish to say that Mr. Hapgood as responsible for the article accordig to his own admission. 1 To the esteemed Columbia Record wish to say that its memory is at ' ault when it recalls either explanaion or repudiation of the article by lapgood, as he had not the grace to 1 ffer either. At the time the article 1 as published I was a constant read- 1 r of Collier's and expressed my re- ! entment to Mr. Hapgood in a permnal letter, to which he replied, stat- j lg that he would discuss tne matter, irther through the colum6 of his pa- ' er later, though a month passed i1 ithout the article appearing as |' romised, and replying to my second ; 'tter on the subject he denied hav- ' lg promised to further discuss the : latter through his paper. That he ] as interested in the outcome of his ' lsult to Southern womanhood was ridenced by his having a represenitive of his paper call on me to try ) smooth the matter over, as he did i other quarters where vigorous pro- 1 jsts had been raised against his ex- s ressions. The Charlotte Observer must never ave "observed" the editorial under iscussion, judging from its statelent that your opposition to Mr. Hapood was due to an article in connecon with the driving out of Wilming- j >n of the negro editor Manley. The ditorial which aroused the ire of so lany Southern men was written propos of a lynching which took . iace at Springfield. 111., in course of r\rr>a c i ATI tn 59 V that I here Ivnchings occurred for assault , r attempted assault upon women by , egro brutes the Ivnchings followed, J 1 a majority of cases, identification y the victim while in a state of hys- . >ria and often the identification was lade to cover up darker crime. Mr. lapgood, with his great store of inDrmation at his fingers' ends, knew hat this dirty insinuation was untrue nd yet. he deigned no reply when his uthority for sitting in judgment of he virtue of Southern women was sked for and specific instances delanded to justify his unclean insinations. If he had never meant to insult the roraen of the South as the Gaffney *edger says, why did he not retract is statements and make a frank and aanly admission of his errors, or ffer positive proof that he was right? le would never have been lowered in he esteem of a single man had he a opted either of these courses, but to ide behind his right to refuse to do ither unfits him to address any body, very member of which is a champion nd guardian of the purity of Southrn womanhood. WILLIAM C. PATRICK. AGAINST TRUCKERS' TRANSFER. Complaint of South Carolina Carrier is Dismissed. Washington. June 21.?Decision is announced by the interstate commerce commission against the Truckers' Transfer Company, a boat line, which asked for through routes and joint rates from river landings near Port Royal S. C., on an equal basis as a connection carrier, with its competitor, the Beaufort Transportation Company. The commission notes in its decision that under its charter obtained from the State of South Carolina, the Truckers' Transfer Company is prohibited from doing any business as a common carrier, but it is admitted by the commission that interstate commerce, not being subject to State law, would not fall within this prohibition. Decision against the Truckers' Company is based on the conclusion by the commission that the complainant is not capable financially, or physically, to assume the obligations which through routes and joint rates would inpose if it were so capable, and were able to demonstrate the fact by putting up financial security. The complaint in this instance is dismissed. Wliite Women Work in Fields Atlanta, June 19.?White women of Georgia are working in the fields this summer who never worked there before, according to the observation of people who have traveled through the farming sections within the past two* or three weeks. Sturdy wives and daughters have bravely set to, with hoe and harrow, to help out the men folks at a time when money is hard to borrow and it is difficult to raise the necessary cash to employ enough labor to work the crops. Girls home from boarding school for the summer have willingly put aside their silk stockings and embroidery to lend a helping hand to mother and father at a time when help is badly needed. There is no serious pessimism about agricultural prospects, but the fact is admitted that in many sections the farmers of average means have borrowed practically all they can to pay for foodstuffs and imported grain pending the harvesting of the cotton crop, and that they are temporarily up against it for money. The Proper Age for Marriage. "What is the proper age at which to marry?'^ This question has become so chronic in the women's departments of the "yellow" newspapers that a statistician has gone to considerable trouble to collect data that will enable the questioners to settle the subject for themselves. These precedents con stitute tne result 01 tne laours: Adam and Eve, 0; Shakespeare, 18; Ben Jonson, 21; Franklin, 24; Mozart, 25; Dante, Kepler, Fuller, Johnson, Burke, Scott, 26; TychoBrahe, Byron, Washington, Bonaparte, 27; Penn and Sterne, 28; Linnaeus and Nelson, 29; Burns, 30; Chaucer, Hogarth and Peel, 32; Wordsworth and Davy, 33; Aristotle, 36; Sir William Jones and Wellington, 37; Wilberforce, 38; Luther, 42; Addison, 14; Wesley and Young, 47; Swift, 19; Buffon, 55; Old Parr, last time, 120. If Adam and Eve married before ;hey were a year old, and the veteran Parr buckled with a widow at 120, Dachelors and spinsters may wed at any age they like, and find shelter ander great names for either early or late marriages. KNIFE TO STOP GROWTH. Surgeons Will Operate on 15-YearOM rjiant (i Fcpt 7 Inches Tall. Surgeons at the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital are anticipating the successful outcome of an operation on a 15-year-old boy named John Michael, who is six feet seven inches tall, for physical overgrowth, by removing a portion of the pituitary gland from the base of his brain. This operation has never been performed before for such a reason. The pituitary gland or pineal body is believed to control human growth, and to stop the boy from outgrowing his constitutional strength they have decided to perform an experiment shown to be successful on the dog. Michael outgrew all his comrades and would not go to school because his fellow pupils joked him about his size, and the smaller children feared him. When he got on the trolley cars everybody tittered, and he had to stoop when he entered a door. At home his father had to have an extra bed made for him, and at the hospital where he was undergoing the rest treatment a new cot was necessary to accommodate him. Mentally and in other respects the body is normal-. He is simply growing beyond his strength and years, and the surgeons say that if the operation is not performed he will become afflicted with a mental disease, for the overgrowth of the body will affect his mind. BOYS LOST IX NIAGARA RAPIDS. Two Lads Dashed to Death in Pres- 1 ence of Hundreds of People. Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 22.? Donald Roscoe, ten years old, and < Hubert Moore. 9 years old, both of i Buffalo, went to their death in a ' small boat this afternoon in the i whirlpool rapids, while hundreds of . men watched helpless from the shore. ' The boys were playing in a flat i bottom scow half a mile above the ( rapids when the rope holding the 1 boat broke and they were carried out i into the stream and down the river. Until the boat reached mid-stream S it made little progress. After it 1 passed the bridges the current car- < ried it swiftly towards the rapids, i The bridge men did not see the boat 1 until it was close at hand. Then they ' called fire headquarters and two companies of firemen were sent to save 1 the lads if possible. Hundreds swarmed to the river 1 banks in a vain effort to rescue. The : boys, realizing their fate, stood up ( as the boat neared the edge of the 2 roaring whirlpool and shook hands in s farewell. A second later they were 1 engulfed by a great wave in the rap- s ids. The boat shot out of sight. One ( boy was seen for a moment strug- 1 gling in the rushing waters. Neither ] body has been recovered. 1 Never at any time was there a ! chance to save the boys. Scores of passengers in the cars along the Gorge route watched the hopeless ( struggle of the boys, as did hundreds 1 who had gathered at the water's edge. Men became hysterical and women passengers on the cars wept ] and prayed in distress at the plight 1 of the lads, who were standing in the * boat calling for help. As the boat neared Swift Drift, the ] first breaking of the water from the 1 calm upper reaches to the rapids, it * began to rock. The boys sat down to 1 keep from tumbling into the stream. Then, caught in the swift drift, the ( boat went racing under the cantilever ( bridge. Whatever hope the boys had of rescue was lost. They ceased their cries for help, turned towards each other and calmly shook hands, then " with the boat in the tumbling waters, c threw themselves on the seats of the scow and clung with all their strength. The craft held to its course until it encountered a huge wave, which crested at a height of forty feet. It seemed to dive into the very middle to view it was bottom up. A second or two later a little head appeared bobbing on a wave below for a moment and then was seen no more. The bodies of the boys are in the whirlpool, and may never be recovered. There was a quantity of driftwood whirling there this afternoon and the bodies may be beaten to pieces, as were those of Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Stanton, of Toronto, and Buell Peacock, of Cleveland, the victims of the ice bridge tragedy of February 4, 1912. They were battered by cakes of ice. The point where the boat broke loose is about a half-mile from the beginning of the rapids. It drifted down in about twelve minutes. The Roscoe boy's mother is very ill and was not told of the tragedy. The boys are members of well known families of Niagara Falls. They were chums. ] THE WORK OF THE WIFE. \ Why Farm Women Die Earlier Than c Farm Men. f Farm and Fireside, an agricultural \ paper published at Springfield, Ohio. s contains in its current number an in- t teresting account of farm life as view- r ed from the standpoint of women. The author of the article (a woman) says that as the farm becomes more prosperous, the farmer has more help ?both men and machinery?while ? the work of the wife is increased? I more people to cook and wash dishes s for, more fruit, more chickens and c milk to attend to. In the majority f of cases, the farmer's wife does not f have help as her work becomes 1 heavier. The author goes on to say: 1 "It is a statistical fact that farm ? women die earlier than do farm men, c and that those who survive the years of drudgery break in health sooner g than do the men. The opposite is ? true in town. There is no doubt in t my mind that the biggest factor in ? the development of this state of af- j fairs is the woeful lack of labor-sav- i ing contrivances in the farm woman's home. Many houses in the country t are still without that greatest of la- f bor-savers?a kitchen sink, a sink with a pump or faucet and with a 5 drain leading out from it. The car- e rying in and out of water is the most t laborious and back-breaking task of 1 all the hard tasks belonging to the t housekeeper. There is no substitute ( for a kitchen sink. If you can add ; but one thing to your home this year and if you have no kitchen sink, let that be the addition." 5 ^ c Mr. Pollice Sandifer is all smiles, s 'Tis a girl. 1 5 SENSATIONAL DERBY BETS. fn Old Days Plungers Put Up Fortunes on Single Race. "Bookies are afraid to lay good xlds, nowadays," an old racegoer renarked at Newmarket recently, says rid-Bits. "Bets are mere trifles compared with those of the old days." A.nd certainly we do not hear of 'plunges" such as those, for instance, vhich characterized the transactions pf Mr. Davies, the first bookmaker to pe called a "leviathan" who betted n tens of thousands. In the year 1856 he laid Mr Clarke 5500.000 to $5,000 against each of :hree horses the latter had in the Jerby of that year, Mr. Clarke having to pay, while, if Barbarian had svon the Derby of 1853 instead of Daniel O Kourke the leviatnan would have netted something like 5500,000. One of Davies' first big wagers svas to lay Lord Strafford $60,000 to 55,000 against The Cur for the 2esarewitch. Davies started life as i carpenter, and began betting in a small street off Gray's Inn road by :aking half crowns. But by great shrewdness and insight he soon gained the confidence of the public, and :he amounts he paid away daily to ready-money clients were enormous, tie is said never to have quibbled or suggested mistakes, and such was his honesty that on one occasion, when he found that a successful client had died since making the bet, he paid the winnings over to the widow. Another famous book maker who made big bets, and in whom the racng fraternity had the same high conidence born of actual experience, was :he late Mr. Fry. In the course of his long and successful career he paid out as much as $100,000 on a single wager, and in more than one nstance a sum of $50,00. And while le lost upward of $500,000 through defaulters nobody ever lost a penny )wing to his failure to pay up. It has been suggested that there tiave never been such big betting ;ransactions during the last twenty rears. In 1902, however, when Ard Patrick won the Derby, the Grately Stable had a tremendous gamble on Pekin, and would have taken more ;han $500,000 out of the ring if he lad won. Only a few Epsoms ago an imateur speculator had $60,000 on me of his horses in a selling plate, md lost the money, while more recently still $100,000 to $10,000 was aid to the stable against the horse ;hat won the Cesarewitch. Reference might also be made to tfr. Henry Chaplin, who was said to lave made a quarter of a million vhen his horse Hermit won the Der)y, but probably half that amount vould be nearer the mark. At the )dds of 66 to 1 Mr Chaplin would lave had to invest less than $10,000 0 do it. Quite naturally, it is in backing a avorite that the largest bets are nade. The odds are, of courSe, small, md it takes money to make money. It nay be accepted as an axiom that in 1 first-class race half the betting is >n the favorite. Thus, when the favorite fails to vin, the public are badly hit, and he bookmakers net thousands and housands of dollars. Probably never lid backers suffer more severely than vhen Sir Hugo won the Derby in the .892 race, at the odds of 49 to 1. There was probably only one man vho backed that horse to the extent >f $3,750, and he received $120,000 or his bold venture. But on La Fleche, the favorite at rery small odds, gold was poured in i ceaseless stream?in fact, until the jookmakers refused to take a soveeign more. Distinct Attorney Resigns. San Francisco, June 21.?United states District Attorney John L. Mc s'ab announced today that he has resigned. In a long telegram to Presilent Wilson, McNab said that he feels orced to resign because of orders Tom the attorney general tying his lands in the prosecution of the Diggs-Caminetti white slave cases md the indictments against officials >f the Western Fuel company. He says he had orders to postpone tction in the case, received by telegraph yesterday, in spite of his pro est and statement to the attorney general that efforts to tamper with government witnesses in the cases lad been made. Maury Diggs, former State archiect. and Drew Caminetti, a son of ormer State Senator A. Caminetti, vho recently was appointed commissioner of imigration. it is alleged, doped to Reno, Xev., last winter with wo high school girls of Sacramento, eaving their wives and babies behind hem. They were brought back to California and indicted under the dann white slave act. 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