Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I / ' ulltf Hamburg iEtrralb ????__^___________^^???? ?? * ?? ??m?^??? Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1906 One Dollar a Year IN THE PALMETTO STATE. INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading Pungent Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Two stores were burned in Edgefield last Thursday night, the loss being ten thousand dollars. G. G. Watson, a white man, shot and seriously wounded his son-in-law in Darlington county last week. Family troubles caused the ahooting. A negro burglar was shot and dangerously wounded at Fort Mill last Friday night by a policeman while breaking into the express office to steal whiskey. An obstreperous negro at the poor iarm in Florence county was shot by the white superintendent and supposed to be killed, but the negro is still alive, with a broken skull. Robert Hussey was fined $15 on Tuesday by the mayor of Sumter for cruelly beating his 15-year-old wife. He pleaded that whiskey had dethroned his reason and that he did not know what he was 0,; doing. It is said that the Socialists will run a candidate for governor of South Carolina. His name is J. Lee Chandler, of Clinton, ? and he will not participate in the Democratic primary, but will run in the general 0" election. % Governor Hey ward has directed the at0, torney general to prosecute those parties connected with the dispensary who are charged with bribery, accepting rebates, k etc. None of them tnaj be convicted, but it will have a salutary effect. Tom Miller, president of the State negro college at Orangeburg, has sent in his resignation as president to Governor ? Heyward. Miller took this step because the board of trustees re-elected some .teachers whom he wanted removed. The railroad depot at Georgetown was partially wrecked by an explosion last fl Thursday morning at five o'clock, ana tne depot agent was seriously wounded, and ^ two other men were also injured. It is ^ not known what caused the explosion. The dispensary investigating committee brought out evidence last week thai H. H. Evans, J. B. Towill, and L. W. Boykin, former members of the State board, had accepted money from whiskey houses. A man named Davis from Newberry gave the testimony. i ' M. L. Smith, of Camden, will not make the race for governor this year, as his t-; physicians advise him not to make the campaign on account of his health. He ; will be a candidate for either the House :i# or the Senate. We would like to see him go back to the House, and fill the position of Speaker, as he has so ably done for * , , several years. f : ~ The Bishops in making out their appointments for this year assigned Bishop A. W. Wilson to this district. He is in charge of only three conferences, two in North Carolina and the South Carolina Conference which will begin Nov. 28 in Columbia. Bishop Duncan has only two conferences, the Memphis and Alabama. Neither will interfere with his attending V. the South Carolina Conference. Representatives Lever, Patterson and Legare, of South Carolina, will not have to rise and give the negro contestants a seat. The election committee of the house, which had under consideration the contests of Scott, Myers, and Prioleau brought in their reports Tuesday, unfavorable reports, of course, and the ^ bouse promptly, unanimously and emphatically voted the pretenders out. The cotton mill men of South Carolina, at a meeting held in Greenville last week, decided to reduce the working hours in the mills, commencing July 1st. After that date a week's work will be sixtyfour hours instead of sixty-six, and a rear duction will be made each year until the N working day shall be ten hours. They will also see that the law as to children working in the mills is strictly carried |&?ut. The case against Major John Black has been dismissed by the governor. At the hearing Tuesday Mr. Black's attorneys presented a statement saying that he assumed a position not warranted by the circumstances and one which he re?a ftlsnsaid he had grenea. xuo Olaiiwiuvu. ? - * no purpose of being in contempt of the investigating committee or obstructing any legitimate investigation. Governor Heyward then dismissed the rule against him and he will not be removed from / V office. The body of a negro was found in Tyger river in Union county last week. A rope was around his neck to which .was tied a heavy rock. A plow line was tied around his pants leg and his pants filled with rocks. The body was so badly decomposed that it could not be told whether a mark on the body was a bullet wound or not. The story is that the '^negro was killed by a white man on ac* count of his barn being burned and he suspected the negro of being implicated, although he had been arrested and turn* ed loose by the magistrate. I YOUNG MAN DROWNED. | Palmer Leister Loses Life While in Swimming. Spartanburg, June 9.?Palmer Leisj ter, a young white man who lives at Apj pilachie, about 20 miles from the city, I was drowned at that place last night at about 7 o'clock. Leister and a party of [ friends went in swimming and Leister dived from a springboard which had been put in place for the use of the swimmers. Leister upon arising found the water deeper than he expected and being a poor swimmer soon sank. None ' " ' 1_ oi mose on me uaus. were ca^chcuv^u swimmers and were unable to give assistance to the drowning man. The bodywas recovered from the water about three hours after the young man had been drowned. Tainted Money. A certain preacher in the backwoods of Alabama preached on the subject of 'Tainted Money," and the sermon had two points which he expounded with j great eloquence. They were: First," 'Taint Enough." Second, "'Taint Mine." flow Women are Treated in the North Recently a beautiful girl of nineteen was standing upon the platform of a Brooklyn bridge car because she could not get inside of it. At the New York end of the bridge the conductor opened the gates. Before the girl could step off a crowd of men in a hurry brushed by, 1? -~u:_ /3/%TT?n Vnno ctonnpfl to lid uun Ui vuv ?w pick her up, but trampled upon her and ran on, followed by more of the brutal mob, who walked over her body in the same manner. When the police, attracted by her screams, had beaten the toughs over the head with their clubs and at length picked the girl up, it was found that her left arm was broken, her right shoulder dislocated and her head badly, cut. Only for the police she would have been trampled to death. And yet these are the same sort of people who blow off their mouths about the negro's treatment in the South. There is no danger of a negro woman being treated this way in any Southern city. A Brave Woman. Charlotte, N. C., June 10.?With remarkable courage, Miss Pearle Jones, night long distance telephone operator at Selma, this State, shot and fatally wounded a negro brute, who, by his own confession, had premeditated an assault upon her. Miss Jones heard noises outside her office at midnight and seizing her pistol went out to investigate. As she stepped outside the negro, Bud Anderson, attacked her and she promptly fired five times, mortally wounding her assailant and then returned to her work. Anderson made a death-bed confession, implicating another, who was arrested and jailed. The people are highly excited, and trouble is feared. Admiring citizens have raised a fund with which to purchase for Miss Jones a gold mounted revolver and gold medal. What's the good of keeping from him Any good things you may see, Thot will lift hia lriftfl nf lfthnr Like Rocky Mountain Tea, H. F. Hoover. No Respecter of Persons. Rev. John Matthews was a pioneer Methodist preacher, of Alabama, in the days when preachers were privileged characters and consequently prone to eccentricities. His wife was sane and had views much broader than her husband. On one occasion she sold a bureau and used the money with which to buy herself a hat. On the following Sunday while Matthews was preaching, he was annoyed by the people in the congregation turning their heads to look at the late ones, and he said: 'Now please, brethren and sisters, don't look around anymore and I'll tell you who comes in. This he did, calling off names in loud tones, greatly to the embarrassment of the tardy ones. Finally, his wife, who was very late, appeared at the door, he said: "Make way there for sister Matthews. She is coming down the aisle with a bureau on her head." Wallace Early, son of a prominent lawyer, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was adjudged insane last week. The cause of derangement was cigarette smoking. Evidence was adduced showing the young man often smoked as many as fifty cigarettes after going to bed at night. He had but recently run away with a girl "and married her. On his return his father swore out the lunacy warrant. FOLLOWING THE FLAG. When our soldiers went to Cuba and the Philippines, health was the most important consideration. Willis T. Morgan, retired commissary sergeant U. 8. A., of Rural Route 1, Concord, N. H., says: "I was two years in Cuba and two years in : the Philippines, and being subject to j colds, I took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, which kept me in peri feet health. And now, in New Hampshire, we find it the best medicine in the world for coughs, colds, bronchial troubles and all lung diseases." Guaranteed at Hoover's drug store and J. B. Black's. Price 50c and |1.00. Trial bottle free. t CATCH DRUNKEN FISH. Thirteen Thousand Gallons of Whiskey in Stream and Fish Become Sportive. Franklin, Ky., June 12.?Since earlymorning farmers along the banks of Benson creek have been gathering in baskets and catching with their hands thousands of live fish that became intoxicated by the breaking of the flake stand at the Fitzgerald distillery. More than 13,000 gallons of whiskey were turned in the stream. In droves the fish came to the surface of the water, sporting around and cut the most fantastic capers. They seemed to be about 3 sheets in the wind, and generally disported themselves in the most unfinnylike manner. The distillery will lose about $25,000 in addition to being forced to shut down for repairs. A Sad Death. My father, Jacob A. Hiers, died at his home in Hampton county last Wednesday morning, after an illness of some duration, in fact he had been in bad health for some time but his death came as a shock to his large circle of friends aDd numerous relatives. He was seventyeight years and a few months old and leaves a wife, three sons, and one daughi ter to mourn his death. The funeral and burial took place at Hopewell church Thursday. He was an admirable Christian, and had many relatives and friends in both Bamberg and Hampton. He was an old Confederate soldier, and served three years ii^ the war. He moved from the lower part of Barnwell county, now Bamberg, to Hampton about twenty-five years ago. Many hearts will sorrow because of his untimely death. G. F. H. Value of a Newspaper. I never took a paper that didn't pay me more than I paid for it. One time an old friend of mine started a paper way down South and sent a copy to me and I subscribed just to encourage him and after awhile it published an order to sell a lot at public auction. So I inquired about the lot and told a friend to run it up to $50. He bid off the lot at $38 and it sold in less than a month for $100, so I made $63 dollars clear by taking that paper. My fattier told me that wnen ne was a young man he saw a notice in a paper that a school teacher was wanted away off in a distant couity, and he went and got the situation, and a little i girl was sent to him and after awhile she grew up sweet and beautiful and he married her. Now if he had not taken the paper what do you suppose would have become of me? I would'have been some other fellow, or maybe I wouldn't have been at all.?Bill Arp. In Memoriam. On Sunday morning, the 6th of May, 1906, in the 34th year of her age, the sweet spirit of Evelina "Wilson, wife of W. I. Johns, passed heavenward. She leaves a husband, four children, a father and three sisters. "Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to .wither at the North wind's breath, And stars to set?but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 Death." To us who knew and loved her, it seems so hard, so strange and unaccountable that dear Evelina should have been taken, just in the prime of womanhood, just when her little ones were clinging to her for guidance; but we know that with God there can be no mistakes, and that some day when the mists of earth have been dispelled, when this veil of sense shall have been removed, we shall understand and know the meaning of all these sad experiences, and shall praise Him for his boundless love to us. "What ? * t i i. 1 1 1 ao, IDOU snowest nut now uui tnou shalt know hereafter." < She was lovely in person and in char, acter. She was a consistent Christian and a member of Mt. Arnon Baptist church. Her life is a precious memory j to those who knew her. "A perfect woman nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still and bright With something of an angel's light." "For the most loved are they Of whom Fame speaks not with her clarion voice In regal halls! the shades o'erhang their way; The vale, with its deep fountain^ is their choice, And gentle hearts rejoice Around their steps!?till silently they die As a stream shrinks from summer's! burning heat." One Who Loved Her. White Man to Hang. Darlington, June 11.?Bob Small, the white man who was convicted of murder here last year and sentenced to be hanged, but whose case has been before the board of pardons to no avail recently, was resentenced here to-day. Friday, August 3, is the date fixed by Judge Hydrick for Small to die. In pronouncing the sentence of death Judge Hydrick did not go into the details of the case, but simply named the date and admonished Small to prepare to meet his God. STARTLING REVELATIONS. Witness Says Money and Presents Were Given State Board of Directors. Columbia, June 7.?The most startling revelations that have yet characterized the dispensary investigation were disclosed this morning when the much talked of Newberry situation was entered upon for the first time in a really aggressive manner. C. C. Davis, a Newberry contractor who had worked on ex-Chairman H. H. Evans' fine new house in Newberry, in a cool and somewhat reluctant manner, told of Evans admitting to him that on various occas: ns he had been getting presents of various kinds and great wads of money on account of his taking care of his friends on the dispensary purchasing board. Evans showed him on several occasions big bunches of greenbacks of all sorts of denomination, bills as high, more than one time, as $1,000, and several of these in each bunch. On one occasion when witness told Evans a certain door in the house had better be moved Evans pointed to a beaver hat sitting on the floor full of greenbacks of large denominations, and asked witness if he did not think that would move it. Evans never did call it rebates or graft but admitted he got the cash as well as the presents and said they were in consideration of his services on the board to these houses. Among the presents was a handsome suit of furniture, with a $500 poker table among the pieces, which Evans admitted getting as a present from Bluethenthal and Bickart of Atlanta. Witness denied that Evans told him he bought the big Kinard plantation in Newberry with dispensary graft, and also denied that Evans said he used poker playing as a blind. Denied that Evans told him that on one occasion he won $10,000 in a poker game with some whiskey drummers. A whiskey man named Jonah Loeb told him that in order to get a showing he paid Evans $2 a case on several thousand cases. The most important part of Davis' testimony was perhaps that involving a direct case of bribery, against Evans* two associates on the board, John Bell Towill and L. W. Boykin. Witness said Evans told him that Evans was not getting the proper showing for his friends in the purchases and he and Briggs Wilson of the Richland distillery hpn? laid a tran in which thev caught Towill and Boykin. Evans' whiskey friends got Towill and Boykin in a hotel room here and Evans and Wilson standing on a table in the hallway saw the other two directors pay the money. E. W. Robertson, president of the National Loan and Exchange Bank antf of a number of other Columbia enterprises, and interested as director in a number of cotton mills throughout the State, was on the stand today. He corroborated the testimony of L. W. Parker, given yesterday, as to Samuel J. Lanahan having Director Boykin as his State middleman, but there was, a decided difference as to what Lanahan said about having a middleman now who is a State officer but not connected with the dispensary. Mr. Parker said Mr. Lanahan's statement was made in New York in the presence of Mr. Robertson, but Mr. Robertson did I not remember this and thought Mr. Parker must have been mistaken as to this point. The committee yesterday did not insist on Mr. Parker giving the name, although the supreme court had just ruled that he could be compelled to answer questions. AN ALARMING SITUATION frequently results trom neglect 01 ciogged bowels and torpid liver, until constipattion becomes chronic. This condition is unknown to those who use Dr. King's New Life Pills; the best and gentlest regulators of stomach and bowels. Guaranteed by Hoover's drug store and J. B. Black. Price 25c. Ants Kill a Battler. A hunter tells an interesting story of the way in which a colony of red ants put to death a rattlesnake which dared to disturb their abode. He was out hunting when he saw the rattler and started to put a load of shot into the reptile when be noticed that it was headed straight for an ant hill, of unusual size and waited to watch the proceedings. It had hardly got half way across the mound when a big red ant hastened to the attack and sank his nippers into the snake's body. In less than two minutes he was joined by the whole colony, which practically covered the whole body of the rattler, each one sinking its scissors-like blades into the intruder's body. The snake began to thrash and squirm, but the ants held on like bulldogs. The rattler's fury crew nr? crrpftt rhat. h? sank his fanes into (his own body, then straightened out after a few more convulsive efforts to get away and was dead in less than ten minutes after the first ant had mounted his body.?Kansas City Journal. DEATH FROM LOCKJAW never follows an injury dressed with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Its antiseptic and healing properties prevent blood poisoning. Chas. Oswald, merchant, of Rensselaersville, N. Y., writes: "It cured Seth Burch, of this place, of the ugliest sore on his neck I ever saw." Cures cuts, j wounds, bnrns and sores. 25c at J. B. | Black's and Hoover's drug store. A TALK ON FARMING. Interesting Communication, in Which Farming in Its Various Phases is Discussed. Editor The Bamberg Herald?I have for some time been scanning the columns of The Herald, as to the number of advertisements the farmers of Bamberg county put into its columns; as to their select seeds of corn, cotton, oats, wheat, and other seeds to numerous to mention; the fine milch cows, pigs, chickens, mules, horses. Now let me ask the question, uHow much of this do we find advertised in the columns of The Herald for sale?" Oh, but Bamberg county is a grower of 10c cotton and not a seller of all such stuff. No money and too much work in raising good select seeds of corn, cotton, oats, and didn't you know our lands would not grow wheat. Can't raise good milch cows for sale as our lands won't grow hay to feed them during the winter. The writer believes this, for there can be seen wagon loads of hay passing daily, and this, or most of it, to large land owners. Going to pay for this hay this fall with my 10c cotton. Farmers of Bamberg county, you should advertise because it is the open door to success in any undertaking that depends on the public for patronage. More and more each day, each month, and each year the people who buy look to the press, to the advertising columns for what they want. Business men, city merchants, manufacturers, etc., understand and appreciate this fact thoroughly and they load the columns of the daily newspapers, the magazines and the journals with their advertisements. But town people are not the only buyers. Indeed in these days of general prosperity, the country and village people are alive to the bargains to be found in the advertising columns of their favorite publications, and they look there very largely for what they want. The present system of free rural delivery makes the country home next door to the postoffice and brings the prospective country buyers in close touch with the advertiser. All over the land there are people who want to V.??t Tphtnh tharr Mnnnt Hn UUJ IU1UKO TTU1VU VUVJ VUUUV* tvvwivj ??v not know where to find them. Every farmer should take some farm paper or magazine, for without it he cannot employ the up-to-date methods of tilling and improving his soil, unless he ' borrows these methods from some neighbor who does take some such paper. Any honest subscriber will tell you that most agricultural papers are richly worth the prices paid for his subscription. And why? Simply because the men who edit farm magazines have devoted their time, energy and mental faculties to the study of agriculture, and are, therefore, prepared to give wholesome advice upon any subject pertaining to correct farming. The net results which farmers have obtained by heeding and executing the aforesaid advice is proof positive of the above statement. And I mean by net results, the yield of the land and its improvement. Further, allow me to say, right here is horn an inspiration to that neat farming which is so warmly advocated. I simply mention these things in passing, because some of our less-enlightened brothers seem to scoff at what they are pleased to term "book farming." I have often heard it said that to be a successful farmer requires more brains than any other single occupation, and I do not deny the truth of this old saying. I'm sure every young man who contemplates farming should have a thorough course at some recognized agricultural college, if it is possible for him to have it; and it is generally possible if he really wants it. In most of the articles on this question of agricultural education, that have come under my observation, young men are encouraged and urged to fit themselves for competent, useful farmers, and the idea is indeed a worthy one. But a young man's ability, his capacity, his talent, if you please, should be carefully consider* ed, more than that, should be carefully studied before he is rushed into this course preparatory to farming. There are those who would flood the agricultural schools with the youth of our land? and turn them loose upon the fields, some to farm, some to plant, and some to graze with the rest of the cattle, which are just about as capable of properly conducting the enterprise under discussion. In every line of action history at some period repeats itself. All of the grazers J - ? ^fKo nlonfnvo sua ftu uuv/Citiiiu pci tent, ui tut p?utv*o would be swallowed up by the cotton factor and in due time the sheriff would have their little all in his tender little grip. I think this not a pessimistic view of the situation but rather a natural consequence, a simple case of cause and effect. A man must be suited to his work, not the work to the man, because if the latter is the case there is sure to be a mis fit. Though a young man be versed in all the "oligies" in the catalogue-of farming and enter upon this occupation as his life work from a cold-blooded, financial standpoint (simply because the farming outlook is bright) without regard to his fitness or unfitness for the work, he will feel about as much admiration for his work as a cat has for "Conic Sections" or "Metaphysics" and can not possibly ob tain any great success. A farmer who cultivates his land intensively and extensively (that is, cultivates hundreds of acres and handles numbers of negroes) is entrepreneur?bookkeeper, master mechanic, lawyer, doctor, chief cook and bottle-washer of the whole concern. Small wonder his business requires so much brains. "A fool will follow his natural bent," and if his bent be farming we should rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for what the country j needs, what the land itself needs, is farmers, not makeshifts. Just providence with equal hand, The universal globe has planned, Success lies not in the sea or land 'Tis as the ship or farm is manned. Tommy Burns. ^ Electrie Lights. The following persons hare had their residences or places of business wired for electric lights. Their names, whether residence or store, and number of lights follows: Jones A. Williams (residence) 56 A. W. Knight (residence) 17 Methodist Church 85 W. A. Klauber (store) 10 N. B. Felder (store) 7 J. A. Spann (store and bakery) 16 J. A. Spann (residence) 10 E. C. Hays (residence) 17 Jno. R. Bellinger (residence) 13 R. M. Bruce (residence) 8 Bamberg Herald (office) 13 H. J. Brabham (residence) 14 JnO. H. Cope (residence) 17 Bamberg Hotel 20 Dr. Geo. F. Hair (residence) 20 < W. M. Brabham (residence).. 13 J. D. Felder (residence) 10 Methodist Parsonage 11 v! J. M. Jennings (residence) 9 Telephone Exchange 6 S. A. Kinard (residence) 9 J. A. Byrd (store) 10 Mrs. L. E. Livingston (residence).... 9 ?? Total 400 V i In Honor of Mrs. Lightsey. Last Friday afternoon, Mrs. Jones A. Williams entertained in honor of her * | guest, Mrs. J. L. Lightsey. of Macon. Her pretty, parlors were most attractive with plants, carnations and ferns, tinder soft pink lights. .V. Whist was the chosen game and after several exciting rounds it was found that the first prize, a very handsome piece of cut glass, was won by Mrs. H. J. Brabham, Jr., who very gracefully presented it to the guest of honor. The consolation, an exquisite Dutch vase,* was won by Miss Bernie Counts, and the booby, a handsome bouquet of carnations and ferns, by Miss Gladys Rountree. After the game a most delightful salad course wasserved. - ' J Mrs. Williams is a most charming hostess at all times and this reception, like all others whic^she gives, was thorough* ly enjoyed by each and every one of her guests. Those present were: Mrs. H. P. Bam- ' berg, Mrs. H. J. Brabham, Jr., Mrs. C. R. Brabham, Mrs. R. M. Hays, Mrs. Norman Walker, Mrs. E. J. Wannamaker, Miss Llewlie Bamberg, Mrs. A. M. Brabham, Mrs. E. T. LaFitte, Miss Gladys Rountree, Miss Pearle Counts, Miss Addie Lou Easterlin, Miss Clara Riley, Mrs. Willie Stokes, Mrs. G. Moye Dickinson, Mrs. Paul Riley, Mrs. J. L. Lightsey, Mrs. W. D. Rhoad, Mrs. A. W. Knight, Mrs. G. Pi Harmon, Mrs. H. E. Dickinson, Miss Bernie Counts, Mrs. D. F. Hooton, Miss Myra Hooton, Miss Rhee Nevins, Mrs. Doll Lewis, Mrs. R. L. Risher, and Master Edward Wannamaker. ' \ Teachers Elected. At. ft TriAPtinir of the new board of trns tees of the Bamberg graded school last Friday afternoon, a principal and teachers were elected for the school the coming year: Mr. H. G. Sheridan, who has been Headmaster of the Carlisle Fitting - y School for several, years, was elected principal. He was not an applicant for the position, so we understand, having already accepted the school at Lake City, " * ?* Williamsburg county. The board here tendered the position, and he sought and ; obtained his release from the Lake City people. The following teachers were elected: Mrs. J. A. Murdaugh, Bamberg; Miss Maggie May Zeigler, Cope; Miss Mamie Connor, Branchville; Miss Ila Elita Ott, Bamberg. All these taaght in the school last year. Miss Harmon, one of the teachers of last session, did not apply for re-election. Miss Mattie Ketchins, of Winnsboro, who has just graduated at Winthrop college, was elected to fill the additional place in the faculty. The board raised the salary of principal to $1,000 a year, and the teachers are to receive $40.00 per month, instead of $35.00, as paid last year. Dispensary Sales for May. Ehrhardt?Sales, $747.35; invoice price, 4 e_ (^1 AO OA. Avnnnoafl JfOO'i.IUj puutt ^ieu.vV| $90.00; net profit, $103.20. Denmark?Sales, $1,330.85; invoice price, $997.32; gross profit, $333.03; expenses, $115.81; net profit, $217.22. Olar?Sales, $749.38; invoice price, $555.52; gross profit, $193.86; expenses, $93.36; net profit, $100.30.