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-v : 4 /V ' . . vr \ ' THE BAMBERG HERALD ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for ?ix months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion; 50c. for each subsequent iaacrtion Liberal contracts made for three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local Notices 8c. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must be paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on ^objects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. mi j **? o <nnc mursuay, may o, iauu We thought the request blank feature of the dispensary law was to be carried out, but we understand that it is not be* iag enforced in this county. What's the matter? * * Our prospects for a new freight depot for some time to come seem to be growing beautifully less. A mass meeting of our citizens should be called to take action on the matter. The Herald has been trying to push matters for some time, but all we have been able to secure -./ is promises. ^<7, *** The letter from the railroad commission in another column in regard to a new freight warehouse at Bamberg explains itself. It appears that the con* tract for the building has not even been given out. It looks like we will not have the depot in time for the approaching fall business. There should be some way to force the railroad to relieve the situation. We warrant if the company had to pay a forfeit for every day the town was without the depot, it would-soon be built. _ I One of Oar Greatest Needs. Editor The Bamberg Herald:?I was pleased to see in your last issue the mention of a much needed warehouse. In almost every town of any size there are one or more standard warehouses costing from $6,000 to $10,000, either already completed or in course of construction. Our enterprising and manufacturing town seems quite indifferent on this subject, though undoubtedly, it should interest every man in each line of business. The time has come for enlargement, enlargement to meet the increasing demands of commerce which we have invited to our door. The large supplies of ? - cotton coming into this market must necessarily be sacrificed unless some place of storage is provided, and the supporters of our town, the farmers, will be hnrt. That will naturally cripple the speed of business, but give them protec. tion, and they will help to put into circulation the large surplus which seems to lie idle most of the fall months in our banks. Should their cotton hit a low market when brought in, all that would be necessary for them to do would be to deposit in the warehouse, get a certificate, take it to the bank, and have it cashed within a few dollars of what the cotton will bring, and at a very low rate of interest. This will enable the banks to keep their mone^ in circulation iustead of lying idle so long, and at the same time the f?rmer who gets advancements from the merchant can pay over to him the certificate, or such monies as he may draw on it from the bank. This would relieve the merchant of any incumbrances, incurred by such advancements, bence it naturally behooves the merchants to take a very active part in establishing a standard warehouse here for what the farmer's interest is should be his pure and simple, and furthermore by having such a building at his command, it is natural to suppose that he could with impunity make unlimited purchases in lots satisfactory to himself and thereby get the advantage of not only the lowest nrices. but the lowest freight rates also. P The milll would find it very convenient to store away their commodities; also the broker who handles large supplies oi hay, corn, flour, etc., and equally so foi those who handle buggies, carriages, wagons and furniture in large quantities, and all can enjoy the privilege of this great convenience at a moderate cost. I hope these suggestions may induce others of broader views and a more facile pen to bring this to 'the attention of our citizens and cause immediate action in this important matter. J. T. O'Neal. Bamberg, S. C., April 26,1906. ?? At Rivers' Bridges. Times change and men change with them, but there is no waning in the love and loyalty of the good people of the Saltkehatchie valley for the memories ol the cause sanctified for all time in theii hearts by the sufferings and sacrifices ol the heroic men and women of the sixties The gatherings, year after year, al Rivers' Bridges testify to that, and neyei before was that devotion more gloriouslj pictured than on Thursday last in the brave array of the graying veterans their wives and their descendants to paj honor to the stranger yet not forgottei dead. The addresses of J. F. Carter, Esq., o! Bamberg, and W. W. Lumpkin, Jr., o: Columbia, were worthy of the occasion as honorable to their beads as to then hearts and as types of the new genera tion on which the mantles of their fathers ? ?V- mm iconronna that thai are iauiug tucy V V dOOUiOUVV VU U V vuvj will keep the future as the gray heroej made the past.?Barnwell People. i - Z ^ ^ . . 6V>_' v": ' V > TINY SLOOP'S LONG RACE To Compete In First Contest Over the Pacific Ocean. SHE WILL BEPEESENT HAWAII La Paloma, Which Will Race From San -Francisco to Honolulu, Could Be Carried on Deck of Bis Yachts. Owners of Competing Craft and Their Guests to Be Royally Enter tained by Hawaiian*, On the high seas, between Honolulu and San Francisco, is a small sloop wending her way across the Pacific to try to race back to Hawaii with the greatest yachting laurels of the western ocean, says the New York Worid. She is La Palorna, owned by Charles W. McFarlane of the Hawaii Yacht club. When the ocean race from the Golden Gate to the famous islands far out in the Pacific was projected Hawaiians saw a chance for a gr?at sporting victory on the sea, and a craft was sought to represent them. There was La Paloma, which had won race after race at home. But could she stand the stress of 2,100 miles of sea? Her owner thought so and entered her in the race. Yachtsmen on this side of the continent would ridicule the idea of so small a craft attempting such a voyage, especially in racing trim. She is a mere pygmy compared with the great Atlantic, which won the ocean race from Sandy Hook to the Lizard last May, and could be carried on the decks of most of the vessels in that contest But she is a seaworthy little craft and despite her size is worrying the California yachtsmen, who are not sure hnt the honor of winning the first yacht race across the Pacific will go to the little boat and her daring owner. Commodore H. H. Sinclair of the San Francisco Yacht clnb was the first to realize the possibilities of the prize going away from the coast and entered his schooner Lurline in the contest On her are based the hopes of the California yachtsmen. There is another yacht in the race, however, which those in the east believe will prove faster than all the others. She is the Anemone, owned by C. L. Tutts. She will fly the flag of the New York Yacht clnb. John Murray Mitchell was her former owner. She is an auxiliary with ketch rig, of 88.16 net tons and 112 feet over all. Her speed under sail is only moderate, but she is a splendid sea boat If the usually peaceful Pacific should get wrathful the Anemone would revel in it The race, which will start from Meigg's wharf in San Francisco on May 19 and finish off Diamond' Head lighthouse at Honolulu, will take the contestants across the tropical latitudes and the Sunshine belt of the Pacific, and five entries have been attracted. Besides La Paloma, the Lurline and the Anemone, there are James V. Coleman's Aggie and Fulton G. Berry's Nixie, which will also struggle for the prize. The course the yachts will cover is ideal. There are no fogs, bleak winds or icebergs to endanger and harass the ? ~ ? mnnth nf MflV Luaiiiicio. ^ui 1U5 mv ^ the trade winds almost invariably blow strong and true, with little chance of calms, and all the boats should make good runs. It will be "a wet sheet and a flowing sea, a wind that follows fast," say the coastwise sharps. On the arrival of the yachts in Honolulu the owners and guests will be royally entertained. It is proposed to give the visitors an old time luau, or Hawaiian feast, and they will be introduced to "pol," the Hawaiian's stafl of life?fish, game, pig, bread and fruit?cooked underground. It will be > the character of entertainment formally offered by the kings and queens of , Hawaii to favored visitors. I As they have some able little yachts ( in Hawaii, it is proposed to have a , race around the island of Oahu, on which Honolulu is situated, in which ' the island craft can compete with the Pacific coast visitors. The distance is ; 120 miles, with running, reaching and > beating, which will bring out the dif! ferent points of sailing and make the most exciting contest ever sailed in the islands. In this race there will be about a dozen yachts of all rigs and | sizes participating. To make things even more interesting a cup will be offered for a race tc 5 Lahaina, on the island of Maui, seven ty-five miles from Honolulu. This is a t course up channel and requires some > beating and will bring out the close hauled work of the yachts. Another luau will be held at Lahaina. After viewing various points of interest ashore a visit to Haleakala, the largest extinct volcano, which towers over 10,000 feet from the sea, the yachtsmer 1 will embark for a run to Hilo, the citj 5 of second importance in the islands * From Hilo the sailors will journey tc f the greatest active volcano in tht r world, Kilauea. f Her Verses Worth a Barrel of Floor, * "Sherbie" Becker, the new mayor ol ' Milwaukee, did not go to Harvard ii r vain, says the New York Press. Wha" r he learned about women when in col ' lege he put to good use when he rar , for mayor. He got the women inter r ested in his campaign by offering t prizes for various achievements. Foi instance, he announced be would giv< ^ a barrel of flour to the woman wh< . would write the best "pome" embody ing reasons why he should be elected ' Mrs. Eva Spauldlng of the city tha r was made famous by a larynx lubri * eating product wrote verses that ended T Now don't you, can't you, won't you b* , That gift of flour should come to me? She got the bu.rel, all right "i? - \ v.'- ^;;r i - .-v hufi { u? !? tj? ?I? !? J?1#1?1 J? J? 1 LADIES WE j| For Kind Appreciation di jft We still call your ?f line of hats, so pi jg cheap. Also to jF Novelties, Laces a? Silk's, Lawns, Mu ? of prices. : : $ Die. K. 1. MIIIU smmsmmsmmm lYour Am Having purchased the si g/zj Groceries formerly owne ^ corner at a bargain, I ai jjiwj trade with nothing but firs ceiving fresh goods eve wA will be appreciated, o p Tinware, Etc., j|?j "We have a small stock of ti: Ifffl etc., on hand and we have we are going to offer it at y| before it all goes. You If MOYE'S QRO jMj F. M. MOYI Jkjlfp Phone No. 41 S. A. BLACKMON Contractor & Builder ORANGEBURG, S. C. CONCRETE STONE WORK A SPECIALTY Agent for P. B. Miles Cement Block Machine A Restful Book. "Yes, I picked op his book last night and I never budged out of my chair until 4 o'clock this morning." "Goodness! Was it that interesting?" "No, but I didn't wake up until that time."?Philadelphia Press. True Helpfulness. I want it to be said of me by those who know me best that I have always plucked a thistle and planted a flower In its place wherever a flower would grow.?Abraham Lincoln. ELECTRII i i* > I ; ? Phone No. 23 and < f ? will call and give ' ii ???-??????? ? Expert Electrician 1 *i! I if Electric 5 f :: CONTRACTORS FOR *1* ?4( JOB PRINTING i ???? ??? I Southern l THROUGH Every Day i | High-Back Cos Room Sleepers ! Railway Dinin i FINEST CARS, > CONVENIENT SCHEDULE' For Full Inform* t Southern Railwa I R. W. HUNT s Division Passenger Agent Charleston, S. C. Ml ~ ' . * t - j - . r THANK YOU 1 iring oor Easter Display ? =^=^=^= attention to our ? etty, stylish and 4? our line of dress 4? ?, Embroideries, islins, at unheard jjj M# & CO. Bamberg-s> c-1 ttentionl ;ock of Staple and Fancy |w id by H. A. Ray on the m prepared to supply the >t-class goods. We are rery "week. Your business tor ooooooooo fib at a Bargain! nware, glass and chinaware, 8*5 not the room to carry it, so a great sacrifice. Come in sjyffl ;rs for business, ICERY STORE ?| E, Proprietor EffijJ Bamberg, 5. C. j|j| . Dead aa a Doornail. "As dead as a doornail" at first seems utterly senseless, but becomes lively and picturesque when we remember that knockers were once universally used. Beneath the knocker, in order to prevent disfiguring the door, a j large nail or bolt was driven. An impatient caller, waiting for the door to be opened, would frequently use the knocker with great force, and the lrresponsiveness of the nail gave rise to this expression. * The Play la Pari*. By a fortnight all Paris is supposed to have seen a new play. It is not considered smart to be seen at a play after it has been running for more than that time.?London Bystander. i A Difference. He?Don't you think that some of her sayings are smart? She?They aren't but they do.?Brooklyn Life. mights! a ^ 2 ' our Mr. E. J. Putzel < | you a price. : : : : ?? * ? ?i i? s. Best flaterials. *f supply Co j| CITY LIGHT PLANT ??4* #4* *4* *4* *4* *4* f4f *4* *4* The Kind That You Want Give us an order. Do it now ??-i i Railway I SERVICE ill the Way! icties, urawing5. and Southern g Cars. FASTEST TIME > ON LOCAL TRAINS ^ ^ itlon Consult any iy Agent, or BROOKS MORGAN Asst. Gen'l Passenger Agt. Atlanta, Ga. ' V vr'"- ri v.' ^ 4 1:; San Francisco, Earthquake Stricken City Mark Bennitt's Pen Picture of the Metropolis on the Pacific Slope. Great Hive of Industry Where Ships of the World Have Unloaded Treasures of the Orient and of All Zones?A City of Boundless Wealth, Whose Sky* scrapers Have Successfully Withstood Former Earth* quake Shocks. \ San Francisco, which was so seriously damaged by an earthquake on April 18, has had a number of similar experiences. In 1868 and 1898 there were severe shocks. The former year a crack several inches wide and eight or nine blocks long was made in Market street, the main thoroughfare of the city. In 1898 the tall buildings were given a terrific shaking, and some of the occupants were made dizzy and sick. However, the structures were uninjured. Prior to 1890 there was hardly a building in the city that exceeded five stories in height Builders knew that the city had suffered from seismic disturbances and were afraid to erect skyscrapers. However, shortly after 1890 they became mere venturesome, and big structures of twelve, fourteen and even seventeen stories were built The modern iron and steel skeleton frame was used, and in the earthquake of 1898 the buildings of this type stood the shock well. The following graphic and interesting story about San Francisco was written a few days ago by Mark Bennitt who was superintendent of the general press bureau at the St Louis fair: An old man sat one evening in that wonderful rotunda of the Palace hotel In San Francisco narrating to a party of friends some of his experiences as a young man in the great city of the Golden Gate. "When I landed here in 1855," said he, "the ship cast her anchor near where the Chamber of Commerce now stands." The place is not less than half a mile from the present waters of the bay. "Between the site of this hotel and " h?* continued. 4twas a hill of sand about as bigb as tbe bote!." The sand bill was thrown into tbe bay long ago and many others might have been to tbe advantage of San Francisco. "That was in 1855," continued the narrator, "and they told me I had come too late to reap any profit from the growth of the city." So there were false prophets In those days of fifty years ago as there are now, men who do much guessing and palm it off as sage advice to a suffering and patient audience. Four times in the year 1905 the city of San Francisco broke the monthly record in the value of building permits issued, with no more prospect of a cessation of growth than the^e is in the city of New York. Many millions of dollars go every year into structures of the most permanent sort, from skyscrapers, with skeletons of steel, to flats and dwellings of the humbler kind. The city is without trees except here and there in its remote suburbs, but the absence of shade trees is one of the least of the worries here, because sunshine is always such a welcome thing to a San Franciscan. San Francisco is in every essential a metropolis. It is so far from the greater cities of the east that it is compelled perforce to take upon itself met-?"noliHoo TTptp nrp shODS of lUpviliau i^uauMvD, m - every possible kind to supply every commodity known to commerce; here are men skilled in every craft to produce any article of modern need; here are all the grades of society, all the ; denominations of religion, all the peo; pies of the so called civilized world, mingling in cosmopolitan medley; here , are buildings of every sort ?wood, brick, stone, cement and steel framed, from the architectural masterpieces of geniuses of wonderful skill in artistic composition, the creators of symphonies in stone and marble, to the miserable hodgepodge lacking in comeliness or the least of artistic merit Hither come the ships of the world to tie at the great wharfs or to ride at anchor in the sheltered bay. Here are unloaded the treasures of the orient and of all zones. From this port go the multitude of things produced upon the Pacific slope or other products shipped by rail from their places of origin east of the Rocky divide, here to be transshipped to ports five to eight thousand miles across the blue Pacific. Importers and exporters vie with one another to surpass former records of a prodigious business, and there are brokers in everything, combining to swell the volume of the city's commercial transac tions from year to year. You feel that you are hi a land of progress. The leaven of enterprise is active in every line of effort. The city's streets become avenues of traffic before daylight and continue thus ceaselessly all day, as in other great marts. Only in the small hours of the jilght is there a lull in the activities of the great population. When one M ' " Wm ??immm?mwmmmm relay of workers* with the!f ponderous teams and vehicles, retire to rest, oth- ) ers seemingly step in to take their places, and the thundering traffic goes ^ on and on. Year in and year out the deafening roar of heavy wheels upon. * */ the rocky floors of the streets abides ' ? with the dwellers in the downtown dls- . trict8. The clang of the car bells Is % heard everywhere with scarcely more than a slight cessation when traffic Is- . :'W. lightest At midday the streets are ^ ^ gayest This is a city of boundless wealth. Many millionaires are here and many more are in the making, and ^ wealth without display is contrary to the modern view. One form of expression quite the vogue In San Fran- ?.-%? cisco, as elsewhere, is in the automobile that costs like a steam yacht to build or maintain. Here it scoots about the busy streets in all the forms ,3m of Its extravagant development or runs : $ to suburban places, scattering terror V'to every living thing whether gifted wffill with two feet or four. Yon wonder how It happens that ^ San Francisco was built on the end of ~ v a peninsula that isolates It almost as completely as if it were on an island. ''&{ The natural place for a city, accord- - J/f 1 ing to the notion of practically all who consider the subject, is on the east side of the bay, where stand the lesser towns of Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda. The question of present expediency and not future needs on the part of those who first dropped anchor <%| in San Francisco bay determined the location of the city. The water was naturally deep around the peninsula. making a safe anchorage, and the shores were easy of approach. On the east side of the bay the water ; ^ was shallow, and a ship could not safely go within a mile or more of the shore, while a small boat putting off for the land would come to wide . v'/'Jf marshes, through which It was practically Impossible to pass. There was then little to attract the aspiring newcomer on the eastern shore of the bay. < The population was scant, even though \ a settlement had been made as early J> as 1820. For twenty years after the in-v>"..'?*jaa corporation of San Francisco the place ^ a had no railroad connection with the .ij eastern states, and it was over 13,000 a? miles to New York by steamer around ; ; Cape Horn. The last spike that unitsiar'jrfgjw the Union Pacific and Central Pacific v^1|| roads at Promontory, at the north end ... -H . J c 1 Great Salt lake In Utah, was drtTettA^j||rj May 10, 1869. Daily steamers nag then been running through San bay, the strait of Carqulnes,. Suisun ,:&/M bay and the Sacramento river to Sa^dJSt j? ramento for twenty years, ad when the ^ railroads came San Francisco's destiny had become unalterably fixed. The railways were brought to Oak- J land, and long moles were constructed, reaching far out to thd deep waterthe bay, where the ferry steame^'j^p* could meet them. Time has wrought marvelous development of the traflEfcp across the bay. Magnificent steamers, many of them devoted exclftsively to passengers, ply back ftfMjgH. ^ forth In a continuous procession, car* rying 50,000 people dally. From Berte*^^^ a ley an electric train flies down to meet* ; >^1 each Berkeley boat, and other swift,; - B trains take the passengers for Oakland and Alameda over the long piers thafci^ H fingerlike, spread out In the bay. :;'|3 A great city has sprung into being on f-j 1 the eastern shore. Oakland, with Alameda on the south and Berkeley on north, has 100,000 population. The-jSHSl three municipalities are properly much a part of San Francisco as Bcooklyn is a part of Greater New though still Independent of the larger city In their government Some, day they will add a mile to their wiatn dj filling in the mud flats that lie along '":;J their water fronts. The San Francisco climate to the new arrival from the east is not the most agreeable. Morning fogs are frequent and they often chill to the bone . the person who is not acclimated. But you never hear a native complain. You I go forth in your overcoat only to find yon are wearing the badge of the strut* ger. A man without an overcoat is no more to be pitied in San Francisco than in Los Angeles or San Diego. You find ;Vthe atmosphere of Oakland much more to your liking, although it is but five or six miles across the bay. The wind movement is almost continuous on the \ ,j? peninsula?from the ocean during the- ' day and from the mountains in the i night ?but rarely violent Oakland stands beneath a high spur of the Coast range, and the orange, the pahs and the roses flourish the year through. "| In the eastern shore cities foliage and *'.^3 flowers are abundant and you feel the contrast ? that San Francisco is for -y business and the lesser cities for rest and comfort San Francisco is taking on the a*rwt nf nprmanence in common with . American cities generally. Many ft .'^89 town has been bnilt in a manner that indicated the probability of early moval to some other site: The work of the builders of today is generally of the enduring kind. The foundations are laid deep, and the walls are thick and solid. The huge ferry building ftt the foot of Market street is one of the/> handsomest of modern buildings. It : is 500 feet long, solid as the moontains and is the gateway of traffic/ -''/Js across the great bay. A stroll along the water front Is fun , of interest Here are sloops unloadlng baled straw and hay or bags of *^$8 grain from Stockton, a city fl^ty miles : / up the San Joaquin river. Here are lumber ships from Oregon and Waih-"^J|S ? ? ? n. --. ^SSjbI lngton. nere are uie great iouik liners from China and Japan, closely watched by the easterns officers, * loading their miscellaneous imports. '1 In the bay are one or two vessels of .'r ija the navy enduring the dull routine of | peace, while beside them are the tiny canvas covered launches that bob like corks on the billows. The wharfs~ extend for miles along the city's short, ' Ir.'yg each year rolling up a greater and greater business, the culmination oT%^|ga which no man can see.