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dhr Hamburg ferali ~KSTAI{LISHKI) APRIL, 1891. * ? Published every Thursday in Th herald building, on Main street, i the live and growing City of Bare oerg. being issued from a printin offue which is equipped with Mei genthaler linotype machine, Babcoc cylinder press, folder, one jobber, fine Miehle cylinder press, all run b - - -J?-- V* n+Vior matorifl electric mvu UIUEI u^vv.. and machinery in keeping, the whol equipment representing an invest ment oi $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150 six months, 75 cents; three montht f.O cents. All subscriptions payabl strictly in advance. Advertisements?r$1.00 per inc for first insertion, subsequent insei tions 50 cents per inch. Legal :.d vertisements at the rates allowed b law. Local reading notices 10 cent a line each insertion. Wants am other advertisements under specia head, 1 cent a word each insertior Liberal contracts made for three, si2 and twelve months. Write for rates Obituaries, tributes 01 respect, icol lutions, cards of thanks, and all nc tices of a personal or political char acter are charged for as regular ad vertising. Contracts for advertisin not subject to cancellation after firs insertion. Communications?We are alway glad to publish news letters or thos pertaining to matters of public inter est. We require the name and ad dress of the writer in every casf No article which is defamatory o offensively personal can find place ii our columns at any price, and we ar cot responsible for the opinions ex pressed in any communication. Thursday, Jan. 28, 19L{ About the most undesirable job w< think of just now is being presiden of Mexico. Old Man S. L. Drag is a might; good friend to the people if he i encouraged a bit with a good pai of mules and a driver. When a good many people wh< vote prohibition quit drinking liquo then possibly a law prohibiting thi sale of whiskey can be enforce* reasonably well. No town without an adequate sup ply of good water can offer invitini opportunities lor the location of in dustries and the investment of mone; by outsiders within the town. The recent special term of cour was in session two weeks and trie: four cases, if we are not mistaken Such business methods as this wil soon bankrupt any county. Let th< thinking people rule! It is time our county affairs wen being put on a business basis, an* relief brought to a people alread; overtaxed. Give the people a chance A salary system for all county officer would do mucn to relieve present uuu ditions. When prohibition can and will b( enforced as well as any other lav on the statute books, then we wil be ready for it. Every law is bourn to be violated to a greater or less ex tent, but prohibition has always beei worse than a farce in Bamberg. r Every taxpayer in the count; should ask himself the question How long would a private busines keep out of bankruptcy if its affair were managed as the affairs of no ^ only Bamberg but practically ^ver; county in the State are managed? I? it not time that the people who fur nisli the m6ney to run the county government should have a voice in it management?. Something should be done in Bam berg to protect the people from burg '""OH TVn rintr tlio nast wppk tllPf lau^o. ^U?1U{3 -? have been two stores burglarized am several other attempts. Finding tha they have been successful in tli small burglaries already committed burglars will become more brazen Let the town put on a sufficient num ber of night police to patrol th town properly. If the representatives from Bam berg county in the general assembl want to really do something whic will be of benefit to an already ta burdened people, let them put ever office in the county on a salary basis with all fees to go into the count treasury. They should also take ou road working system out of politic! If the county supervisor had a teri of four years, or better still, was ai pointed by the governor, we'll wai rant conditions would soon be in proved. It strikes us that the present wj terworks of Bamberg could be e: tended without a great deal of e: pense to the town. This would ? least insure the people with a plent ful supply of water, which is lackin at present. Along with this extei sion, a system of sewerage could t installed at a minimum at the sam time. With an adequate system ( waterworks and sewerage, the tow would be fifty per cent, more invi ing to strangers to make this plat their home. The health of the tow needs sewerage, and no argument < all is needed for a more satisfactoi system of waterworks than the tow now has. The present status speal for itself. j PROHIBITION". = This is being written before th hearing by the senate committee o e the State-wide prohibition bill. tin n is the bill providing for an electio l" on the question, and we have no ide g .. what will be done, but our goo k Iriends, the prohibitionists, are fixin a lor the elevation of another fello ^ like the former governor. The pet e pie of South Carolina are not read t- for prohibition, and will not be unt members of the different branch* '' of the church quit drinking whiske e and voting for prohibition. Th question should be made an ecoin P mic one, leaving the moral issu aside, and men like the present rej y presentative of the anti-saloon leagu s in this State should be put aside. \Y j* have no quarrel with the Rev. M u Harley and nothing but the kinde: c, feelings for him, but he has done th ? cause of prohibition much harm, an ? will continue to do so as long as h - holds his present position. Ther 1 - ? Ai 1 4 i- can oe no question out uiai me iun | ing of the prohibition question o the people four years ago resulted i s the election of Blease and a cons< e quent orgy of lawlessness and scar dal. We honestly believe such a cor , dition will be repeated if the questio r is again brought to the front. \V Q are opposed to the graft in the di: ? pensary system, which everybody wh has any sense knows is there, alway = has been there and always will b 5 there, even if it can't be proven, Li = prohibition would be a hundred time worse in our opinion. Conditions i t Bamberg were scandalous under pre hibition and good men stood by an saw these things go on without an y attempt to stop them. For our pai s we want to see no more prohibitio r in Bamberg if it is to be of the typ we have always had and we ar candid enough to say so, no matte "v ...U /v :? r\r> A icnl no coc nuu 11 picaocs \ji ui^ivmovw. r There are many ol our good friend e who are the strongest sort of proh i bitionists. both in practice and prir ciple, and we regret very much t differ from them, but it cannot b " helped. They aref honest in thei ? convictions and'all we ask is that th " same privilege be accorded us. W ' had rather live ten. years under dis . pensary regime than three month of Bleaseism, but the masses of th j peoile in South Carolina are no ready for prohibition and we are sur j this is the condition which will con front us if a State-wide prohibitio: ? law is put into effect. Prohibitio is a beautiful theory and a bette B personal principle, but our peopl I must be educated before it can b ^ enforced. We ought to have th , Webb law enacted into a State sta tute and try that awhile before w | take such drastic steps. Manning i I going to make a good governor an do much to restore better condition e in South Carolina, and he should nc be handicapped at the beginning o 1 his administration with the futil j problem of enforcing a prohibitio: I law; Let well enough alone for th j present! THAW AGAIN IN THE TOMBS. May lie Arraigned on Charge of Con s spiraiy. s ' New York, Jan. 24.?Harry K , Thaw is again in the Tombs. Brough ' here this morning from Boston, hi only stopover on the way from Xei Hampshire, he was locked up in th prison from which he was transfer s red almost seven years ago to th State asylum for the criminal insan - at Matteawan, after his acquittal c - the murder of Stand ford White o e the ground of insanity. d When the train drew into the st? t tion Thaw greeted the newspape e men. out reiusea 10 uisuuss ius inam 1, William Travers Jerome, speciz l. counsel for the State, and Deput i- Attorney General Kennedy arrive e on the same train. * Thaw and his guard went to hotel for breakfast and then the pri: l" oner was taken to the Tombs. Lat he attended religious services in th ^ prison chapel. x Thaw's counsel were told that they wished to consult with hii 5> they must get an order from a si preme court justice. Abel I. Smitl r one of Thaw's attorneys, said t< s- night: 11 "Even though bail should be fixe for Thaw, it is probably we will mak r" no effort to furnish it. The case ht 1_ been left entirely in the hands of h attorneys, John B. Stanchfield, Mo , gan J. O'Brien and myself. Ju ._ what our next step will be we hai , not decided." lt Thaw's mother, who is in this cit j_? refused to say anything regardir o. her son's case, and Jerome and Kei j. nedv likewise declined to discuss tt matter. x>nie "niimns. )f n The unassailable supremacy of tl t- "Smiths" in London can be estima e ed from the telephone directory. Tl n honorable family of Jones, for e it ample, occupies not quite four page T The Robinsons, who have a pla< n with the greatest, do not require tw cs pages. But the Smiths begin c page 762 and end on page 770. PLANTING GHAIX. ie Oats and Wheat Show Very Large n Increase. it n Washington, Jan. 22.?The acre;a age planted to oats last fall in cotton d States exceed that of the preceding ? year by nearly 2.000,000' acres, and w the increase in Southern wheat acre3* age was almost as great, the departy nient of agriculture announced to31 night. The department's figures folJS low: y Planted in oats, fall of 1913, 2,455,000; 1914, 4,355,000. 3* Planted in wheat, fall of 1913, 5,ie 459,000; 1914, 7,271,000. 3" The wheat and oat increase, the department said, appears to have e been more than 10 per cent, of the acreage planted to cotton last year. 3t Reports to the department indicate e an intention on the part of Southern d planters to considerably increase the e acreage of the 1915 spring planting e or corn and spring oats. The following table prepared by 11 the department gives the acreage inn crease in Southern States: Wheat Oats 1_ Increase Increase l" Acreage. # Acreage n X. Carolina .. 4 70,000 98,000 e S. Carolina .. 164,000 336.000 5~ Georgia 170,000 328,000 0 Florida 328,000 's Alabama .. .. 63,000. 258.000 e .Mississippi .. i.uuo lae.uuu lt Louisiana 94.000 >s Texas r. .. 228.000 291,000 n Arkansas .. .. 56,000 154,000 )_ Tennessee..... 145,000 124,000 d Oklahoma .. .. 515,000 44.000 y 't Totals 1,812,000 1.903,000 n e HOUSE FOIl ItEPEAL. e ' ,r Votes 4 to 1 to I jido Work of Social Session in October. s i_ Columbia, January 25.?The house [. of representatives voted tonight four 0 to one for repealing the cotton aeree age reduction act passed at the sper cial session of the general assembly e last October. The advocates of roe pealing the measure declared that a large majority of th farmers wished 01 his done. The warmest debate of the e present session followed. By a vote ,t of 81 to 22 the house refused to e strike out the enacting words of the . repealing bill and then sent it to n third reading. n The cotton acreage reduction law r which the house voted to repeal proe vided that not more than one-third e of each farmer's lands actually under e cultivation may be planted in cotton. L_ It was passed at the extraordinary e session of the legislature last Octos ber. d The house, after it passed to third s reading the bill to repeal the cotton ,t acreage reduction statute, adjourned f until 10 tomorrow, e To Regulate Liquor, n The house tonight, in a whirle w-ind, without a word of debate, protest or argument, passed the WarrenBoyd bill, which is regarded as a . companion bill Jo the State wide prohibition referendum. The bill undertakes to regulate shipments of all liquors in the State. The bill proposes to apply in the strictest man " ner the terms of the Webb law as to * 'shipments of liquor either into or out s of -the State. Anyone ordering or ,v receiving not exceeding one gallon e of liquor must get a permit from the clerk of court, giving names and e time and quantity of liquor. Not e more than one permit can be issued in any one calendar month, accordn ing to the bill. A copy of all permits for bringing liquor into the State l" shall be open for inspection. No r amendment whatever was offered on s- the floor of the house. jy.V Session of House. y The house spent an hour today d clearing up its Calendar of thirdreading bills and then at the dinner a period receded from business until 5_ evening. :r The most important action was e that the house by a vote of 47 to 32 recommitted to the ways and means if committee .Mr. Liles's bill, which un11 dertook to change the penalty law 1_ for the non-payment of taxes so that after this year tnere would be a flat 5 per cent penalty instead of a cumulative fine. Mr. Moore, of Abbeville, and Mr. Toole, of Aiken :e made the chief fight on the proposed ls change of the penalty and Mr. Liles ,s defended the bill witn tne reasons r" that prompted its introduction and 5t the favor of the committee. Tht 'e house, however, recommitted the bill which, under ordinary circumstances y? is unfavorable. ig ? q_ Given Sixty Days. ie .Mr. Jesse E. George, chief of po lice, returned from Columbia on Wednesday afternoon where he had gont for the trial of Seldom Svlvestei ie Hodges, who confessed to robbing the postoffice at Elko when he was le arested in Aiken. He plead guilty x~ and was sentenced to sixty days or s' the chain gang of Aiken county anc :el will be brought here in the neai ,0 future.?Aiken Journal and Review >n , Read The Herlad, only $1.50 year AT BOTH STORES AT BOTH STORES . J H. KARESH " EHRHARDT, S. C. OLAR, S. C. A Cvaat War Panir a UlVUl V v 141 1 U1A1V ^ and Percentage 14 Days 1 Sacrifice Sale , A O . 1 I OAil. commencing Saturday, January sum And Lasting Until Saturday Night, February 13th Nflpoeeihr Ic Nnt Hio Onlv Raacnn HUtdOOllJ Id 11UI 1 lit V/111J llVUUVtl for this Sacrifice Sale, as others 1 claim when they make one. We arp ma Inn a this sale for the sole benefit of our numerous friends and customers and for all the shopping public in general, whom we think need the change. Turn about is fair play. Our friends and customers are forced > a/?/?onf hnv rAA nrirp fnr tlipiV cotton and IA/ UV/VV/p 1- U1IJ VfiV* fA a-WW produce, hence we will do our part and give you a chance to make up your great loss by making your dollars do full duty for you. ' What Favors We Have For Our Patrons We Bestow Without Asking . Our tremendous big stocks of all kinds of goods at both of our stores, Ehrhardt and Olar, are marked in plain figures at the very lowest possible *"* " - ' * ? ?? -..111 4-1%A 1 A ?latri ftf tliA ea^p oriVP vmi prices, rrom inese iuw prices we wm m *-r u?jo ?.v to Jm? a reduction of 20 per cent, on the dollar. On all Men's Suits and Pants, or Boys' Suits, we will give you a reduction of 25 per cent, on each dollar. ' ; ! On all Ladies' Dresses, Cloaks and Coat Suits we will give you a reduction of one-third off the dollar. Just think how much more goods yoif can get <-\* for your money. A reduction on evpry nickle, dime or any amount you want to spend. We don't have sales very often and we never put on any fake sales. We don't pick out a few items like a good many merchants do, sell them at a low price and make it up on other articles that you may buy, but we are putting every article that we have in the stores, every and lanvthinsr we have, at Sale Prices. We have entirely too much goods for J 9 this time of the year, and we will be compelled to get in new goods for 1 Spring and Summer, and we must sell a whole lot of goods that we now have in order to make room for Summer Goods. . ??????????? ^ rKeep in mind the dates, and don't forget that you can buy anything yon want at a Sale Price at both of our stores, Ehrhardt and Olar. If you were careful in buying your needs last fall, on account of shortage of money, you have the chance to more than make up now nnufFMnrn On-third off on all Ladies' Dresses. Coat Suits, Cloaks and Hats; i KEilVlEilVlDLft 25 per cent of oil all Men's Suits, Pants, and Boy's Clothing, > and 20 per cent, off on each and every other article in both of onr stores. .*..'. A L $25,000.00 WORTH OF GOODS K* .1 ALL GOODS SOLD FOR CASH ONLY H. KARESH ~ ^ Al_.. O f Lhrhardt, C. viar, f "-I , *