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&lnv fembmj Sjrralii KSTAIW.iSHKI) APRIL, 1891. t'ubli.shed every Thursday in The herald building, on Main street, in :he live and growing City of Bamuerg. being issued from a printing otlire which is equipped with Mergenthaler iiuotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Aliehle cylinder press, all run by 1 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, , f.0 cents. All subscriptions payable ] strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch fnr first iriRprtion. ^ubseauent inser- : tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad- . wertisenients 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, reso- 1 iutions, cards of thanks, and all no- j tices of a personal or political char- ] aoter are charged for as regular ad- , vertisiug. Contracts for advertising ]' V not subject to cancellation after first j! insertion. 1 Communications?We are always . glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and ad dress of the writer in every case. 1 No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in j ( our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex- j pressed in any communication. i Thursday, Jan. 21, 1915. ============= | Despite the fact that a record crop!; of cotton has been made in the South, : war and the depressed condition of;' - - _ | Business, couon prices iia\e uccu steadily advancing for some weeks, j' Augusta middling is quoted at above eight cents, an advance of more than a cent and a 1mlf above the low price j record. It seems that the cotton sit-1 I uation will adjust itself. isS ^ \ S"'- N. The promoters of the State warehouse measure gave assurances that with a $15,000 appropriation to begin on the warehouse system would be self-sustaining. Now Warehouse Commissioner McLaurin asks the general assembly for an appropriation of $137,000 to carry on the work. This is another bit of legislation that needs the knife, we are thinking. The American Press, a trade journal issued by the American Press V.\ association, is doing a public duty in calling to the attention of the publishers of newspapers the various forms of graft that is played upon' them. Each week it prints a department headed the "Chamber of Hor rors," in which it prints facsimile copies of circulars sent to publishers for "gratis" publication, and other forms of free advertising. All of our press friends who do not read this department, are earnestly askf.jV ed to refer to it. The newspapers are preyed upon for more free work than any other business enterprise, and it isv time the newspapers were waking up to this fact. A movement is on foot in the gen-' eral assembly to kill the cotton acre-; age bill passed at the extra session. While it seems like child's work to pass a bill at one session and kill it at another, still all cotton legisla- j tion has proven a distinct failure, j and it is but a burden on the farmers' to allow the present legislation to! stand. In the hurry and confusion j, to do something for the farmers, the I legislators were taken off their feet j last fall, and now tnat cooler juag-;; . ^ ment prevails, the present session! may as well correct a wrong. No other State has passed acreage legislation, and South Carolina's measure will not in any way affect cotton prices. There is now a general optimism and feeling of renewed confidence among business men in Bamberg. Nearly everybody feels that the worst has come. The people are now adjusting themselves to the existing conditions, money has been loosened to a large extent, and it is practically sure that the penury predicted by so many will not be ours. By recourse to 6trict economy in business and in living expenses, the people will hardly find conditions worse in the future than they have been for the last few months. Coming with the people unprepared, ? ? ? - - ?*????? * xv KrtifA olrao^V me crisis seems iu ua?e. vu^.' done its worst. We suggest that it would not be a bad idea for the county authorities to contract with individuals for dragging the roads after the rains. The ordinary split-log drag is the most economical road working machine in existence, and its operation elsewhere has proven its effectiveness. It is positively of no use to spend large sums of money in making roads unless they are kept up. Road drags used after the rains levels the road, fills in the washed places and makes the road smooth and hard. Farmers could easily take a contract to keep up a certain number of miles of roadwayafter rains with drags at a comparatively small cost to the county. ^"elconie. Governor Richard 1 .Manning! South Carolina is a State of ex ireines. It is a long way from Bleas to Manning. The State is famous fo its traditions, and it has "com back" to the fold. Even the ex-governor's friends ar doubtless glad that he is unable t nand out more pardons. Mr. Bleas has turned out a whole lot of crimi nals upon the public for reasons ap parent only to himself, and it wil cflst the State a lot of money to pu them back again in the public works where most of them belong, am many of them will eventually g> ftgaiui Governor Manning, as was to b' expected, has come out flat-footed fo law enforcement, and promises th people of the State an era of law am order. We believe he will do ir. Th governor comes from a strain o mighty good people. He is himsel a thorough Christian gentleman, ; solid citizen, and a man to whon the people can look for protectioi and sane dealings. The water problem in Bamber; continues to be a problem. Some so lution must be had in the near futur or Bamberg will suffer. It was th intention of The Herald some tim ago to offer some facts and figure nn this matter, but the "war cry staved us off, but the town is he* face to face with a serious probleir and it must be solved. No totfn ca: survive without an adequate systei of waterworks. MEN DEL SMITH BECOMES JUDGE Former Speaker of House Succeed Late Judge Ernests Gary. Columbia, Jan. 14.?Mendel I Smith, of Camden, former speaker c the house, today was elected judge c the 5th judicial circuit, succeedin the late Judge Ernest Gary. Mi Smith has been prominent in legs and political circles of South Care lina. He was a candidate for govei nor in the primary of 1914. Blease's Designation. Cole L. Blease startled and amaze the people of South Carolina yestei day. To startle and amaze has bee his principal function as governc and in the performance of that fun( tion he has surpassed the wildes dreams. In this respect his last at as governor was the most successft of his career in that office. Of a the surprises he has sprung his resl| nation was the greatest. Well, he has made his exit' Thai after all, is the only thing that reall ^ Tin 1- - J - ?4. I maners. vvny lie cuuse tu uu n i the manner which he did choose i: so far as we are advised at the mc ment of this writing, known only t himself and those who share his cor fidence. The question piques the cu riosity, but is of little practical irc portance. One turns from it with sense of relief and of refreshment t contemplation of the new era whic has dawned. Governor Blease ha passed and the mad times whe Blease was governor have passed. H and they must not be forgotten, fo they are a warning which we an those who come after us should cai ry always in mind. But it is mor profitable and infinitely mo-e pleas ant to look ahead upon the work o restoration that is to be done in thi State and not behind upon the sa and pitiable spectacle that lies thert ?News and Courier. Origin of the Maxixe. Dr. W. C. Farabee, who has jus returned from explorations in Sout America, brings the news that th "masheka" is the popular dance c the belles and beaux of the Britis Guinea. The costume for the "masheka consists of a small apron worn b the girls. The apron is edged wit bracelets, anklets and peanut shell: "These shells when agitated give pleasing rattle or tinkle." The mus ical aprons are worn by both me and women. The dance is one c courtship and the name means th dance of the peanut vines. It is r< garded as imitative of the graceft waving of the peanut tendrils as the are seeking to be united with th earth. Dr. Farabee, who describe the "masheka" of the tropical jur gles as lieing "decidedly' pleasing t look upon," says it is a native danci It. was taken to Europe by the Porti guese and both the dance and th name were corrupted, but the danc was afterward refined to meet polit requirements. The name remain: in Europe, the "maxixe." The dances of the day, whateve they are called, are. are much mor graceful than the shuffie-and-roc dances of a year or two ago. D: Farabee brings back a pretty stor of one of them. Dances of courtshi borrowed from savages or elsewher obtained, are at once more gracefi and less objectionable than those c baser origin.?Louisville Couriei Journal. MANY BURIED UNDER RUINS ? - LIVING ENTOMBED WITH DEAD e IX ITALY. r e Twelve Thousand Bodies Said to lie j, Und^r Fallen Walls of Avez- ( P zano. .1 ei Rome, Jan. 17.?A renewal of s . i seismic disturbances early today add- 1 ,_| ed to the terror of residents of parts 1 il I of the district visited by tne disas- 1 t: trous earthquake last Wednesday. * >t Although today's shocks were * ^ light, buildings wiiich had been s 0 cracked and were tottering from the E effects of the first disturbance were i completely razed. In Avezzano and fe Sora, which had suffered most in 2 r Wednesday's disaster, the people left * e; the temporary shelters in which they * d! are living and took refuge in open 1 e, places. * f I Rain and extremely cold weather s f; in some parts of the districts are 3 a | hampering rescue work. In many of 1 a j the towns thrown down by the earth- s a quake it is feared there still are liv- r ing persons beneath the debris and that unless they are extricated soon * & they will perish. s i Last reports increase tne aggregate * e of casualties and the extent of the a e damage done Wednesday. In the de- I e partment of the Abruzzi alone it is t ? estimated that 30,000 persons met c death. * v The government has appropriated ? '? $1,000,000 for relief work and King i n Victor Emmanuel has donated $60,'}? 000 for the aid of children abandon- i ed by their parents or made orphans , by the disaster. Relief supplies are ? pouring into the stricken districts ? and it is believed that shortly there s lS will be sufficient food supplies every- ? where. Trainloads of timber also * are being dispatched to the destroyed 1 towns for the erection of huts. ,f Detailed reports of Italy's latest if earthquake disaster increase the apg palling list of dead and the enormous r. property loss. i LI The Messagero, after a careful I compilation announces that the num.- 1 - ber of dead and injured in the Abruz- 1 zi alone is 30,000 without including < the Sora district. San Atolio has i 200 dead and 500 injured, Morino : 1,500 dead. Canistro 600 injured, < ^ Cervaro 300 victims, Borgo 50 dead and Valleroveto 1,800. At Civitella S n Roveto almost the entire population 1 ,r escaped because they were working 1 in the fields when the shock occurred. 1 ;t Frantic appeals for help have been < ;t received from Petrellaliri, 3,500 feet 1 (1 above sea level on Mount Arango, < 11 eight miles from Tagliacozzo. The < r_ village was almost destroyed and the 1 survivors are perishing of cold and 1 lt hunger. y In the highway near Ortucchio the ] n earth has opened, causing an im- ] 3> mense pit filled with water. < >. The terrific force of the earth- i 0 quake cracked the mountains near 1 Luco. Huge pieces of rock rolled ] [. down the hillsides, burying many, 1 killing cattle and obstructing the a roads. Mont Pizzodeta, 6,450 feet 1 0 high, between Balsorano and Roca- s h cerro, was cut into two parts by an ] s immense fissure. i n The Duke of Abruzzi is continu- 1 e ing distribution of relief. He goes ' r from place to place without escort. 1 d In many places he has organized res- 1 cue work and left without the sur- 3 e vivors learning his identity. The 1 h government has appropriated $1,000,- 1 ,f 000 to relieve suffering. I s Severe winter weather has added s (j to the misery of the survivors. Urgent > appeals for food are coming from many places. Some of the rescues are regarded as almost miraculous. At Avezzano one entire family of six were extriit cated alive from the ruins of their h home. e Tenement houses in the testaccio if quarters of Rome, cracked by the h earthquake, have been vacated by their tenants. Most of the dead at Ortucchio are y women and children, who were burh ied under the ruins of a church, 5. which afterwards took fire. Many of a those buried were burned alive. >- Reports have been received of the n excellent work done by a relief ex?f pedition organized by the American e Baptist church and led bv Dr. Whitj ing Hill. Help was sent to remote il points difficult to reach. A large 1 y quantity of provisions was distribut- 1 e ed at Celano. ] js ] l- Cutting All the Same. 1 o < i. The present era of high prices for ] l- foodstuffs reminds me of the exper- l elience of a friend of mine in New ^ I vnrv Tact tvintpr Seeing some small i .e but enticing looking cucumbers in ] 3, the window of a store, he decided to j be extravagant and to take some j ?r home to surprise the family. ] e "I should like a dollar's worth i k of cucumbers, please," he said, en- i r. tering the store. s y The dignified young person in at- , p tendance drew herself up haughtily, e "We don't cut them!" she returnll ed with her iciest stare. 3 >f Don't laugh. We may be having i r- that experience yet with a lump of j sugar.?Boston Truth. ! / SAYS KAISER IS EXCHANGER. >ven Hedin Finds War Has Taken Away no Vivacity. Sven Hedin's impressions of the ;aiser have been given out 'oy the Jerman information service says the Cew York Times. He writes: "I had the good fortune to be preented to the kaiser in former years, le has not changed a bit. It was ny privilege to meet him several imes, and you may take my word, le has lost nothing of his elastic and 'igorous ways. He is altogether the .ajme as he was before, even in his lersonal appearance. Yet the kaiser s busy, almost twenty-four hours sverv day; and you may take that in l literal sense. I often wondered low his body and mind could possiily stand such a severe strain. But have found an explanation, I beieve. The emperor has a clear conicience before God, his fellowmen, a tt? :~ Ilia pusieniv. ne is tunsuiuus lhcil his world conflagration is not of his eeking and that he has done his utnost to prevent it. "Providence could not have inrusted the Germanic cause to a more uccessful guardian than the kaiser, le seems to be born for the present Lge. He staked everything for the reservation of peace, and now lie is aking everything for the attainment >f victory. He feels responsible for he shaping of Germany's fortunes ind feels and acts and thinks accordngly. "I am delighted with the good feeing for the French which prevails jverywhere. They are respected both its o ^ frtoo Thoir riovnHnn iO ujgu auu iuc?> * v?v? ind patriotism are held in honor, the ioldierly qualities are admired. But ls to England! There is nothing but latred and contempt for her paid nercenaries!" Ousting Cotton Tenant. Certainly the South is at the partng of the ways in its cotton growing jolicy. It is face to face with the diemma of curtailing acreage'and disodging its tenantry, or of keeping )n growing cotton at a price which nust bankrupt many who even this rear are selling at less than the cosi )f production. Under existing conditions the South will stand to lose in any case It must make up its mind which is :be less of two evils, so long as the European war lasts. There are probibly between 600,000 and 750,00C :enant farms whose principal crop is cotton. There are mainly negro tenants, but many are whites, whc enow how to grow cotton, but have ittle experience with any other crop rhey represent probably 3,000,00C people as an element in the rural population. Shall these useful occupants of the soil be dislodged and idded to the urban groups, where ;heir service and earning power will probably be reduced by more than salf its rural value? il so, noi umy must uie luoume uj :his large body be reduced, but thetfi standard of living be seriously imjaired. So big a shift will mean nuch increase in indolence and, ;herefore, in crime. It is easy to say 'Grow corn and something els6.' But that something else cannot be earned between seasons. It will be 'ears before the small farm tenant, svhite or black, becomes as good at nixed farming as ne is at cotton arming. He is too valuable an asset to sacrifice to a "temporary coniition, and the people who are leadire in the matter will do well to take ;hought of\he consequences of weakening his hold on the soil by any ;endency to make the conditions of lis tenure needlessly burdensome. The cotton situation calls for calm, :ourageous thinking. Let the big ilantation owners do the curtailing f there is to be any drastic cut. To orce the big end of the load upon he cotton growing tenantry will be uicidal. Let landlords come to see hat it is time for them to get unier the burden, rather than to deirive the cotton belt of its main pro lucing power for all future years.? Wall Street Journal. When Poland Drank Hard. Poland wai a great country for lard drinking in the old days. Its ast king, Stanislaus II., was solemnly warned by the Grand Hetman Branicki that he must never expect lo. become popular unless he got irunk at least twice a week. Pan EComarczewski, who could empty a pucketful of champagne at a draught vithout noticeable consequences, once n company with Pan Sosiejwoski, Pigh chamberlain of Volhynia, disposed of a whole butt of old Hungaran wine at a single sitting. One leld his breaker under the bunghole antil it was full, and then drank tvhile the other filled his breaker; ind so. turn and turn about, they achieved the seat. Susan V. Powell, of Jacksonville, Mo., has organized throughout 40 States a system of canning clubs for girls. In the South alone more than 25,000 girls have become members. t ^ ... , .v, - " i/' A | You Can Save From Ti I Per Ton j I # # We have prepared a little 1 to anyone that wants it, wl mulas for making different j rections for properly mixing information that will save ; per ton on every ton of fer ready for you. Please writ We sell all kinds of fertilize] sumer, for "Home Mixing" bag up, at the very lowest r you. ELLIS & 205 East Bay St. Depar Bridal Chorus. Here comes the Groom, Pale as a 1 Sheet. See how he Stumbles All over' his feet, i Notice his Gloom? Sadness Complete, i He'd give his Shirt For a ctiance to 1 Retreat. He has the gold ; Ring 1 Tucked in his Vest, So. why this / Worry? Why this Unrest? ; Woe and Alas! A thousand ; Alacks! i The poor gink's \ Forgotten : The dime for his Tax. \ i ?E. F. McINTIRE. , FKANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law i Office in Hoffman Building i GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, 8. C. i . R. P. BELLINGER i ! ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. I General Practice ' COLDS & LaGRIPPE 5 or 6 doses 666 will break , any case of Chills & Fever, Colds & LaGrippe; it acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. Price 25c. IBest material and workman ship, light running, .requires E little power; simple, easy to g handle. Are made in several I sizes and are good, substantial I money-making machines down to the smallest size. Write for I catolog showing Engines, Boil- B ers and all Saw Mill supplies. 8 , m LOMBARD IRON WORKS & | I SUPPLY CO. 1 i I Augusta, Ga. 0 ! NO DIFFERENCE The Proof Is Here the Same as Everywhere. For those who seek relief irom kidney backache, weak kidneys, bladder ills, Doan's Kidney Pills offer hope ot , relief and the proof is here in Bamberg, the same as everywhere?Bam' Derg people have used Doan's and Bamberg people recommend Doan's, 1 the kidney remedy used in America ; for fifty years. Why suffer? Why ; run the risk of dangerous kidney ills i ?fatal Bright's disease. Here's a l Bamberg proof. Investigate it Mrs. Bessie Atteberry, Railroad Ave., > Bamberg, says: "My kidneys were very weak and I bad bad headaches. . When I got up in the morning I could scarcely do my housework. I tired , i easily and had headaches and dizzy | spells. Sometimes dark objects float' ed before my eyes. The kidney secretions were scanty in passage ana unnatural. I used Doan's Kidney Pills and they relieved me. My kid1 neys give me very little trouble now." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't 1 simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mrs. Atteherry had. Foster-Milbunf Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. *0 To Six Dollars j| On Your Fertilizer Bill! < )ookIet, for free distribution* tiich contains valuable forgrades of fertilizers, with dithe materials, together with pou from two to six dollars tilizer used. Your copy is e for it. - . r materials direct to the con I purpose, in iocs ui uuui one aarket prices. Let us quote j ''r COMPANY * tment S Savannah, Ga. , ?:V TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15 th day of October, 1914 until the loth day of March, 1915 inclusive. From the first day of January, 1915, until the 31st day of January, ?> 1915, a penailty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From *.' the 1st day of February, 1915, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of .Marcn, i?io, unui tne loin day of March, 1915, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. ( THE LEVY. For State purposes 6 mills , For county purposes 4 mills ' For bridges 1 mill . vffLj For roads 1-2 mill Constitutional school tax 3 mills Total f. 14 1-2 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills . ; Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Co'ston, No. 18 4 mills Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills . Fishpond. No. 5 1 mills i Govan, No. 11 4 mills ---.'U Hutto. No. 6 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Heyward. No. 24 2 mills \ Hopewell. No. l' 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills ; Midway, No. 2 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 ..A 2 mills Olar, No.* 8 .'. 9 mills ' St. John's, No. 10 2 mills Salem, No. 9 4 mills " Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate soldiers and sail- ^ ors, who are exempt at 50 years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one-( Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who 'were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of January, 1914 are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor, are re quested td do so on or Derore tne :: 1st of January, 1915. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1914, until the let day of March, 1915. G. A. JENNINGS,. ? Treasurer Bamberg County. We Will Insure Your ?H Cotton on Your ? Plantation i H. M. GRAHAM Agent Bamberg, S. C. We Securely Weld ' jj All broken metal parts such as auto crank cases, cylinders, transmission cases, differential and axle hous ? parts. All work guaranteed. Southern Welding Co, ,f 961 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. RUB-MY-TISM Will cure Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old Sores, Tetter, King-Worm, Eczema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used internally orerternally. 25c .jjI LODGE MEETING. I Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights * of Pythias meets first and fourth .Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visit-w ?ng brethren cordially invited. - ? H. L. HINNANT, Chancellor Commander, F. C. AYER, Keeper of Records and Seal. RILEY & COPELANDI , f Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life. Accident INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, 8. C. f . . /i " V -tif.skc'? g'ti *