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^amfcerg Herafo ESTABLISHKl) APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1S79. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 30. No. 34. Thursday, August 25, 1921. A Massachusetts mob, composed of men and women, we read, stormed a jail and tried to get a negro prisoner accused of a crime against a wJiite woman. Southern mobs do this same thing and frequently succeed better than the Massachusetts V.11+ Vinr-o nQVOr roaH rtf a LHU U, UUL ? C na > t i.x ^ ^ X N/A. ~ southern mob, on lynching bent, that was composed of both men and women. Verily, Massachusetts has gone the south one better. / About the most amusing thing of the year was the letter of Judge Hammond demanding an apology of South Carolina for alleged invasion of Georgia by a South Carolina mob. Truly this ought to go under the head of the joke department. It is related that the streets of Jerusalem were kept clean by everybqdv sweeping in front of his own door. When ? . Georgia ceases to be the leading ex ponent of the lynch law, then we will join Judge Hammond in demanding an apology of any state that permits tomob "invasion into its bounds. Concerted action of some sort should be taken by the merchants as a protest against the higb.-handed methods of the state tax commission. The commission has selected a few industries, evidently, to pick on, one of which is the mercantile business. Merchants are required to value their stock at 100 cents on the dollar, and then the 42 per cent, valuation is fixed. Other lines of business are permitted to value their own property, at least to some extent. It is a rare thing that a householder values his goods for taxation at more than $100, and nothing is said or cone about it, even though the goods are frequently worth $1,000 or more, and it is common for horses and mules and wagons to go down at $10 to $25 each. The finest land in Bamberg county is returned at less than $7.00 an acre, when the salable value is $100 or more per acre. One merchant can do nothing; it will take money to fight this matter, and it will be cheaper for the average merchant to pay the taxes rather than contest his as? ' sessment. What about a meeting of ?53* V *V?a momliantc rtf Ramhpr? tn start VUC JJLL VX V/UUU CfcJ V i. o IV wv?*. V something? The Herald will undertake all necessary publicity and will assist financially in such an undertaking. The Chester News is reading the "riot act" to its merchants for sending their printed matter to northern and western states. The News says it is "spending more money in the city of Chester than is paid in by the people of Chester" and for that reason alone is entitled to a chance at the commercial printing of its town. Every word the News says is true. ;But the News is not the only newspaper in the state that suffers from ' the ingratitude or indifference, or TJ* Vi o toror ir/-?n mav 11 it r?f ltft m PT* chants and business men. Fifty per cent, of the printed matter used in the state comes from the north and west. It is printed on the same presses, from the same material and by the same class of workmen as one will find in this state and is every bit just as good in point of price, quality and 1 appearance. The above is from a recent issue of the Dillon Herald. It seems to be a peculiar theory among folks that a newspaper can just exist. People like to point with pride to their county paper; they swell with pride in telling their friends what a fine pa* ^ ~ 1 ? ? ? " J 4 V 1 * T- / % f /N to L'O per iney nave, aiiu iuc; nr.c tu their visitors to the county newspaper office and explain to them how much better office their towq has than other places. But they seem to forget that it takes money to have a fine paper and a fine office. They also neglect to take into consideration that newspaper equipment has to be bought out of prifits, and that a fair profit must be charged on everything, advertising, subscriptions and job work, in order to have money to put into equipment. In other words, a good many folks want a good printing office in town, but they don't want to give the printer any profits when it comes to their own work. If they can save a dollar or two a year by sending their work elsewhere they don't hesitate to do it. The average county newspaper spends, we should say, at least 90 per cent, of its total income in the home town, and the average newspaper spends far more in the home town than it receive from the home town. That's true also. While we are rather of the opinion that, for the most part, the tetter of Governor Cooper in regard to the mob rule in the state. is pretty weak, one statement of his was entirely to the point. That was that the work of the officers was hampered during the recent disturbance over the killing of young Brazell by the daily newspapers publish% I ing every move of the officers. If the : daily newspapers were so anxious that the majesty of the law be preserved, why was it that a dispatch was hastened out of Savannah the minute the officers left with the two prisoners? They left, as we recall, at 1:15, and doubtless the papers were on the streets and sold before the officers reached Charleston. Likewise, on leaving Augusta at 3:15 a. m., the daily newspapers, or some of them, carrying the news of the departure, were distributed before the officers could possibly have reached Savannah, or scarcely any other prison. This played directly into the hands of the so-called mob. Our idea of running a newspaper is that there is news to be printed and news not to be printed. If the daily newspapers had been silent as to the officers leaving Savannah with the prisoners, doubtless they could have been lodged in the penitentiary before the mob members ever knew of the move, although we see no very good reason why the prisoners should not have been incarcerated in Charleston as well as in Columbia. And we do not see any real reason wny tne omcers should not avoid possible bloodshed, whenever possible by outwitting the mob. The officers would be entirely justifiable in making a stand for the protection of prisoners, and if they had no doubt a good many hot-headed, but otherwise good citizens, would now be in their graves. As it is, the prisoners are safe, for the time, at least, and nobody had to be slaved for their protection. However, if the newspapers will again assist the would-be lynchers by publishing the removal of the prisoners! from Charleston the minute it occurs, I no doubt there will be further j trouble, and who will be the blame; for it? On the other hand, we do notj "* * "*- 1 rtATip ! tniQK tne iiiajui'itv ui umtcu oti seriously trouble themselves about the punishment of mob members. They never know who participates in j a mob, although it generally seems, to be a matter of pretty common j knowledge to everybody else. PROGRAMME. Barnwell-Bamberg Baptist Sunday School Convention. Barnwell-Bamberg Baptist Sunday school annual convention is scheduled to meet with Long Branch church August 31, September 1 and 2, 1921. Wednesday Morning, Aug. 31. The convention will meet at 11:00 ! a. m. Prayer and song service by R. E. Woodward. 11:30?Address of welcome on behalf of church by Pastor D. W. Heckle. Welcome from Sunday school and community by Superintendant S. A. Hair. Response by A. | M. Kennedy and Rev. J. R. Cullom. 2:15 p. m.?Roll call and enrollment of delegates. Organization and ! miscellaneous business. 1:00 p. m.?"The benefits "we ought to get from this convention," by Dr. Robt. Black. 1:30 p. m.?Recess for dinner. Wednesday Afternoon. 3:00 p. m.?Devotional exercises by Dr. J. R. McCormick. 3:15 p. m.?Discussion: "The Big Problem?Getting Adults to Attend Sunday School," Rev. Geo. P. White, W. H. Collins, M. J. Free. 3:45 p. m.?Address, "The Sunday School Seeking the Lost," Rev. M. B. Buckley. 4:15 p. m.?Discussion: Making the most of special days in the Sunday school, C. W. Rentz, Rev. C. W. Jones. Appointment of committees, announcements, adjournment. Thursday Morning, Sept. 1. 10:30 a. m.?Prayer and song service by L. B. Abstance. 0 10:45 a. m.?Discussion: Officers' and teachers' work between Sundays, F. P. Lee, W. H. Hutto, H. Jeff Hair, C. J. Fickling. 11:15 a. m.?Address by J. L. Corzine, State Sunday School Board, Columbia, S. C. 12:00 m.?"Two Imperative Xeeds of the Sunday Schools," (1) "Training the Teachers;" (2) "Equipment," by,Miss Elizabeth Xuckols, State Baptist Headquarters, Columbia, S. C. 12:45 p. m.?Reports of committees, announcements, adjournment, dinner. Thursday Afternoon. 3:00* p. m.?Praise and testimony, led by D. O. Hunter. 3:15 p. m.?Address: "How to Reach the People for the Country Sunday schools," by J. L. Corzine. 4:15 p. m.?Address by Miss Elizabeth Xuckols. Announcements, adjournment. Friday Morning, Sept. 2. 10:30 a. m.?Song and prayer service by W. C. Kennedy. 10:45 a. m.?uiscussion: me State Baptist Assembly, The State Baptist Sunday School Convention, and other Greenville Baptist meetings," led by R. B. Fickling, and open to the convention. 12:00 m.?Selections by Sunday schools. (Every Sunday school in the convention is requested and is expected to take part in this part of the t I BLACKVILLE BUREAU Mrs. J. M. Halford, Manager. J Blackville, Aug. 22.?Dr. Ryan A. j Gyles is enjoying a fishing expedition | j on the coast near Charleston this ! week. j Friends of R. B. Fickling will regret to learn that he is sick, and we j wish for him a speedy recovery. Sem Buist Rush has returned home : after a visit to Langdon Cave in Barnwell. Rev. and .Mrs. L. H. .Miller and lit-, tie son have returned from an outing j in the mountains of North Carolina, < around Lake Toxaway. j Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts visited! relatives at Springfield Sunday. Miss Rosa Hutto is visiting relatives in Charleston. .Miss .Myrtle Aitman nas returneu > home after a visit to relatives in Springfield. .Misses Gladys Owei^s and Pearle Toole, of Milledgeville, Ga., are visit-i ing Mr. and Mrs. James Grhbbs." Misses Margaret O'Connor and Marcella Harty, of Savannah, have returned home after a visit to Miss Caroline O'Gorman. Mrs. W. H. Heins and little Missj Mary Heins, of Savannah, visited Blackvilfe friends last week. Misses Dorothy and Helen Wragg have returned home after a visit to friends in Columbia. After a visit to Mrs. J. L. Buist, Mrs. Nellie Cave has returned to her home in Barnwell. Lewis Free, of Columbia, is spending his vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Free. Mr and Mrs. J. L. Baushman and i children, and Miss Agnes Hill, of SnelLng, Mrs. Baughman's sister, are spending a while in the mountains of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Murray Walsh, of Savannah, have returned home after a visit to Mrs. J. W. Browning. Master Leon Holman, of Springfield, is the guest of his cousin, William Altman. H. A. Ray, of Charleston, was in Blackville Friday. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Williams, of: Bennettsville, have returned home, after a visit to relatives here. Mrs. Christine Baltzegar, of Columbia, was the guest of Mrs. Elmer Cnouer. recently. Miss Roselyn Inabinett, of Woodford, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Leon Martin. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Toney, of Columbia, were the guests of Mrs. Toney's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Altman, last week-end. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Moody and B. P. Connelly, of Kline, visited Mr. j and Mrs. H. H. Youngblood, last Sun-; day. Miss Elizabeth Earle, of Darlin?- j ton, was the guest of Mrs. 0. D. Ham-i mond recentlv, and from here left i for a visit to Charleston. Miss Annie Mae Moody, of Kline, j is visiting relatives here. Marion Hare, of Xewberry, has re-j turned home after a visit to Mr. and j Mrs. C. H. Roden and other relatives! in this section. j J. M. Halford visited relatives in I Bamberg Sunday and Monday. Miss Beard, of Honea Path, is vis-> iting Mr. and Mrs. Quinby Beard. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Beard will be glad to learn that their little daughter, Ella Marian, who has not been getting on so well recently, seems to be improving. We are glad to announce that Mrs. John Turner, who has been quite ill, is on the road to recovery. There seems to be a good deal of doubt in the minds of your readers about the story of "the snake sucking the cow," (taken from the ^iken Journal and Review) being true. However my father, T. A. Hutto, says he remembers hearing a similar story in his boyhood days, from a reliable I person, but he can't recall the name,! as it has been years ago. And why' should we doubt this q,ueer story?! Haven't you read in the 3rd chapter j of Genesis that "the serpent wasmore subtle than any beast of the | fields," and behold! what a "stunt" he pulled off when he beguiled the woman into eating the forbidden fruit. Perhaps he was suffering from a "semi-famine" condition, and is searching for "a well balanced diet" now. Some of the "old topers" are afraid they will find him making insidious attacks on the "stills" around here, or sipping from the Jamaica ginger bottles. Wonders never cease! During a campaign preceding the j election of a Missouri congressman it was suggested that, since he posed | as a good business man he might be j willing to tell just what a good busi-1 ness man is. .j "That's easy," he explained. "A! good business man is one who can i 1 j buy goods from a Scotchman and sell them to a Jew?at a profit!"?The : Alabama Baptist. programme by choir selections, duets.' ! solos, recitations or essays.) Each] Sunday school mawes its ownselec-j | tion. COMMITTEE. j KEARSE Kearse, Aug. 22.?J. F. Kearse, i who has the honor of being the oldest man in our section, was surprised and delighted on the ISth instant to { have nearly all his children and J grandchildren and a number of other : relatives to meet at his home to cele-1 brate his Slst birthday. About forty guests were registered. It has beenj said in "ye olden times" that women I couldn't kep a secret, but surely this; theory has been exploded, for the1 "lady folks" in this home made all' nreDarations for this occasion without letting "papa" know it. About eleven! o'clock the guests began to arrive, | and at 1 o'clock a bountiful picnic j dinner was served on the lawn, the j table being adorned with a beautiful j cake with eighty-one candles. After! dinner the old folks told stories ofj the long ago, while the younger ones! indulged in games, etc., 'till the hour of departure which came all too soon. A number of useful gifts was given with the lnve and esteem of the don ors. Among these gifts was one which the owner looks upon as especially useful (?) this being a dainty bottle of toilet water, which he keeps on his mantle'piece, where he can admire its fragrance and beauty. Mr. and Mrs. Cauley Breland, of Rocky Mount, X. C., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Breeland. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Kearse and j children, and Mrs. G. E. Kearse, I l spent the week-end with Mrs. Ashley Bush, of Ellenton. Mrs. X. P. Smoak, of Bamberg,! spent a few days with her parents, j Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kearse. Misses Lorene and Mamie Lou Rit-' ter have returned to their home at! Walterboro after a pleasant visit to; A T T WT D ?f f ay* **11 3 !* . W. IlillC 1. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Dixon are visit-' ing in our midst to the delight of many old friends and loved ones. We are glad to report that Mrs. J. O. Kearse and H. J. Rittee are both convalescent. Misses Gwendolyn and Grace Jenny, who have been visiting Mrs. B. V. Kearse. have returned to their home * at Fairfax. Mrs. M. A. Black, of Charleston, was in our midst a few days last week, attending the reunion at the old Kearse home and visiting in her old home community. The Professor's Reason. A well-known professor went to his club every afternoon and ordered a glass of whiskey in the good old days. He invariably drank it with his eyes closed, and this little eccentricity had been commented upon many times by his fellow members. At last the more I daring of them undertook to get an : explanation of the oft-repeated pecu-j liarity. Approaching the professor he! saia: xou come in nere every auernoon at the feme hour and oi^der a! glass of whiskey. There is nothing extraordinary in that, but do tell us why you close your eyes when you drink it." "Well, "said the professor, "it's like this; when I see a glass of whiskey it makes my mouth water, and I don't care to dilute the liquor." ? m t v A Great Success. The motorist was at the side of the road engaged in the hot, dirty and irrifatinp' irvh nf pVianp-ino- a Hrp A JVW V 1 V/. -.A second motorist stopped his car alongside. "Having trouble with your tires blowing out?" inquired the second driver cheerfully. "Xah!" snorted the troubled one bitterly. "They blow out fine. The | trouble is when I go to patch them up." 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