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*!" /*" * v y iT ' sC* * ;n* ' * m :fc"v... ?Ijfp lambrrg ISjmtlii i ========================= ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. Tfl . Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, 50c. for each subsequent T lKarol /^nntrapte made for uJtj UlXiUVU three, six, or twelve months. Want Notices one cent a word each insertion. Local j,;'" Notices Sc. per line first week, 5c. afterwards. Tributes of Respect, etc., must > ? be paid for as regular advertising. Communications?News letters or on subjects of general interest will be gladly welcomed. Those of a personal nature - will not be published unless paid for. | Thursday, May 30,1907] jB? ' It is announced that Mayor Rhett & will run the gamblers out of Charlesti ton. Evidently the mayor has a fondness for tackling hard propositions. With his fight against railroads on fe his hands, if he takes up the cudgel against the gamblers in earnest he will. have no time for a vacation this summer. BE&y:. - _____ The Orangeburg Times and Demj ocrat says the Herald confirms its ||' statement exactly in regard to the ' J-T- _ T7? condition ot tne crossing ox tne j^uiatu river near Branchville, because frr we stated that lumber was on the jfe ' ground to renew the bridges. Not so fast, please. The bridges were not p in the condition our friend would have the public believe. Bamberg ?. county does not wait for her bridges tobreakdown,aswasthe case with the f Orangeburg bridges, but she renews them in time. That is the reason new lumber was put there to rebuild them before they got in bad fix. The engine broke through on the Orangeburg side, and while there is no feeling of satisfaction to us in placing the Times and Democrat in such an unenviable position, it has only itself to thank. Get your facts right next time before you blow off your mouth and you'll avoid making yourself so ridiculous. We deeply regret the spirit exhibited by the Orangeburg papers recently, especially the Times and Democrat. Those people are our neighbors and friends, and we regret that they should have attempted to defeat the new county wanted in the St. Matthews section, by attempting to belittle Bamberg. Their remarks have been totally free from any semblance of fairness, but rather there has been an attempt all along to dis I tort facts to the discredit of our county. We have no objection to criticism, but we must protest against such unfair treatment. Publish anything that is true, that's all right, but to make unjust and untrue statements does not show the spirit which should exist, especially among people of adjoining counties. Their references to this county were entirely gratuitous, anyway. We were taking no hand in the new county fight, in fact we rather symyathized with Orangeburg, for she is going to lose the best part of the county. OUR ORANGEBURG FRIENDS. The Orangeburg Patriot wants the g Herald editor to keep still while he is |L. putting a quietus on the new county | promoters of St. Matthews. Although ft' our friends across the Edisto have || not dealt fairly fn their references to Bamberg county, we are perfectly willing to keep quiet if they will let | us alone. But they must expect to get the shortcomings of Orangeburg i: county exposed when they hit Bam: berg. Orangeburg is a fine county, but it p is not doing near as well as it should W-' in the!matter of taxation. Taxes are K? ? . - too high there for the amount of taxable property. If Bamberg had such a rich territory, we'd hardly have a Efl one mill levy. If the dispensary is kept here, next year we will have no county levy at all anyway, but poor Orangeburg cannot say as much. We understand that county is now in debt, | while Bamberg has a surplus of nearly $10,000. The Patriot says this surplus would not much more than pay for a good breakfast for their county chain gangs, and we guess this is true, for it certainly seems that the finances over there are not in as good shape as they might be. Possibly extravagance and bad management is the reason why Orangeburg makes ^ i i such a poor financial snowing as compared with Bamberg. But the Patriot might as well bow to the inevitable. The people of St. Matthews are entitled to a new county, and they going to get it no doubt. The wonder is that this county has not been created long ago. So let them go in peace and good will. All the ravings of you Orangeburg newspaper men will amount to nothing, and if the new county is as well managed as Bamberg, the taxpayers will pay less than in Orangeburg. \ I We extend sympathy to Ed. De| Camp, of the Gaffney Ledger, in his | loss by fire, but we feel sure he will ! not miss an issue of his paper. It i takes more than a fire to put a newsi paper out of business. NO SLUR INTENDED. The editor of the Orangeburg Times and Democrat is very much like an eel. When caught he squirms and squirms, devoting considerable *-- Tiraolr Vm+ WP "shall space lu us laau wccn, uuv ..w hold him to the record and by it he must stand or fall. Evidently the truth does hurt him, and while we have no inclination to "rub it in," the'statement that one man4 'TRIES" to do the work of two offices was a reflection on Bamberg county and upon her Auditor and Superintendent of Education. We so considered it, Mr. Rowell so considered it, and every man who has talked to us about the article looked at it in the light we did. To say that one "tries" to perform a duty is certainly equivalent to saying that he does not do the work well or rather does not accomplish what he tries to do. Therefore the use of the word, "tries" in this connection was "uncharitable and unkind." We might go further and say the statement is untrue. The official mentioned does not "try" to do the work of two offices. NHe DOES the work, and satisfactorily, too. Suppose we were ? * * i /\ to write an article aoout urangeburg and her newspapers and say that Editor Simms "tries" to edit the Times and Democrat. Would he not feel that such a remark was uncharitable, unkind and untrue? We think so. We are not here to blow Mr. Roweirs horn, but some in position to know say he is one of the best officials in the State, wfth his work always right up to the minute, and he would not make a better one if he had .only one office to look after. This might be true of a tremendous county like Orangeburg, but not of a small county like Bamberg. Our auditor is not overworked, in fact he has some leisure time. Of course he does not visit schools and take returns at the same time. No man can do two things at once. The foolishness of such an argument on the part of our friend is shown by the fact that the auditor only takes returns from January 1st1 to February 20th, less than two months. He has no reason to attempt both at once, for he has plenty of time to visit the schools and attend to taking returns and all other work. We have no objection to it being known that Bamberg consolidates these two offices, in fact, we are proud of it, for it shows good business judgment to let one man do the work instead of having two men and let them be busy about one-half the time. The Times and Democrat says it is sheer nonsense to say that one man could discharge the duties of both offices in Bamberg as well as two men in Orangeburg. Brother Sims may think it's nonsense, but it is true nevertheless, and he can get all the proof he needs by referring to the comptroller general or State superintendent of education. We'll humbly apologize if they don't confirm our statement. In order to give our readers the benefit of the explanation made by the editor of the Times and Democrat, we publish it below, and we merely suggest that the next time he will say exactly what he means and mean, what he says: "We believe everything said by the Herald about our friend Rowell, but still we believe that he could make a much better auditor or much better school commissioner if he had only the duties of one or the other of fViooo nffinps tn attend to. Hp can't take returns and visit schools at the same time. Nor can he work in the school commissioner's office and take returns at the same time, and while he is attending to the duties of one , office he must for a time neglect the duties of the other. That is what we meant when we said one man tried to do the work of both offices. So we say again that Bamberg county consolidates the auditor and school commissioner office, ana one man tries to do the work of both offices and 1 would be glad if the Herald would : point out where it is either unkind or nnrharitable for us tosav so." It's too bad to see people who go from 1 day to day suffering from physical weakness when Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea would make them well. The greatest tonic known. 35 cents, tea or tablets. H. F. Hoover. Too many of our young people fail . in showing considerate attention, and too often do not fully appreciate ; the self sacrificing love and benign ; presence of mother. Like the air [ and the sunshine, she and her tender ; ministries are received and looked upon as a matter of fact. When 1 she rests in the home of the soul, i this thoughtless negligence will cost them many a tear. '* LOSS OF M LEOPARD A True Tale of the Sea by the Captain of Peary's Roosevelt. FIGHT FOR LIFE IN THE ICE. Sealer's Crew After an Awful Night on the Black Ocean Scales Three Hundred Feet of Frozen Cliff to Safety. Helped by an Old Wreck. This is a true story of the loss of the sealer Leopard on the deadly southeast coast of Newfoundland, as told by Cai>tain Robert A. Bartlett of the Peary arctic ship Roosevelt, who is now in New York city to superintend the fitting out of that stanch vessel for another attempt to reach the north pole. On March 6 last the sealer Leopard. Captain Bartlett commanding, was in St. John's harbor, having taken on sealing supplies, coal, provisions and camping outfits. She carried tremendous weight for a craft of her size. In addition she had 105 seal clubbers, for SINISTER SWELL LIFTED HER HIUH. opce on the sealing grounds, which in the gulf lie between latitude 42-48 north, work on the thin Ice must be done quickly, and pelts must be gathered by many hands. v. At 1 o'clock the sealer was headed out of the harbor for the open sea. It was a beautiful day, but the waters were jammed with Ice. It was a fight from the start, three miles of steady I bucking, crunching, grinding, full stop; then a rush full speed ahead, a crash; another ship's length gained. It,was 8 o'clock when*the Leopard steamed into open water. As she rounded the*cape the heavens, which all afternoon had been of clearest blue and after sunset studded with stars, suddenly became black. The wind be gan to moan irom me soumeast, uuu Inside of fifteen minntes half a gale, accompanied by blinding snow, was assailing the coast bitterly. J Captain Bartlett's problem was this: i He had to take his boat down the coast until Cape Race had been cleared, when he could head northwest, taking his vessel past Cape Breton and St Pierre Miquelon, finally entering the gulf. He held the Leopard about eleven miles OtTshore. He would have given a great deal had he dared to take his vessel still farther out to sea, because the wind,-which had been holding from the southeast, had hauled dead east and was thus blowing directly on shore and with full hurricane force by this time?9 o'clock. Outside the slob ice through which the ship was sailing the gale was lashing the ocean into fury. Hour after hour passed. It was the blackest night Captain Bartlett ever knew. Fifty fathoms ahead there was nothing to see?nothing but a black void against which the bullet rush of snow produced the vaguest Impression of movement. Outside the line of slob ice the terrific seas could be heard battling among themselves In elemental riot Even the weighted waters through which the Leopard plowed her way rose out of the dark in many a long swell, lifting the vessel toward heavens that could not be seen, dropping her into depths from which there ?eemed no escaue. But up and out of them steamed the Leopard, trembling and going on and on into the gloom. Hiidhight came and passed. Captain Bartlett had long known that the vessel was making in all ths time on that dreaded tangent line, but now the fact began to thrill through the ship like a clammy breeze. The master was not really worried, because he thought that the leeward drift would not set at naught the headway down the coast But he wauted to hear the sound of that Cape Race bell. So did every one. The sealers huddled In whispering groups on the deck, looking inquiringly at an officer or a sailor as he hurried past, but venturing no questions. Where was that bell? It was time that the notes began to drift to them through the secondary lapses into silence which sometimes characterize high winds. Captain Bartlett and his mate, William Wilcox, were on the bridge, and every minute that passed told these two experienced navigators as It told no other man on the vessel that a tragedy which is old as mankind is old was setting its grim scenes for toother act "All's well!" came the voice from the . f ' f. - - -* '' " lookout on the topgallant forecastle head. "All's wellf echoed the man on the pp.?:* topsail yard. Bui there was a dubious ring to these assurances. The wind increased in fury. The snow Hew in veritable clouds. From the bridge but a few feet of water could be seen over the Ikhv. One o'clock. The Leopard steam ed on. Every oiie felt as a man must feel who walks blindfolded over an acre strewn with pitfalls. Aside from the occasional call of the lookouts there was absolute silence. Captain Bartleti looked at his watch. One-thirty o'clock. And then before he could replace the timepiece it came?a loud, rending grinding crash and then a lifting and quivering which told the master that the swell had lifted the vessel clear of the hidden reef. ' AH hands on deck! Loose the topsail!" These two commands hurtled from the bridge in rapid succession, while as the chief officer headed the craft dead for shore the signal full speed ahead sounded down in the engine room. The sealer bounded forward ten yards. Then a crash and then another. A sinister swell lifted her high and then let her down. Another one lifted her and dropped her j on the stony fangs below. Still anothj er swell raised the vessel, and this time she fell back on her starboard beam.. There was little excitement, according to Captain Bartlett. The men just ! clung to whatever was handy and ! waited for orders. The launching of boats in that pastelike ice which smothered the waters was out of the question, and so the captain ordered the sealers to take their pokers and "prizes" and spear planks and make a bridge. But a bridge to where? The darkness was suffocating, so to speak. The men seemed shut in a narrow vacuum. There came a pause in the wind, a sudden lift in the storm, and Captain Bartlett amidships saw through the gloom the outlines of a wreck, grim and ghostlike, dead ahead, not fifty yards away. He looked again and theg recognized the wreck of the steamship Vera, which gave up her life under Black Head cliff two years before. So Black Head cliff it was. , *"* ~ * u o AKaaw nuAmAnfA. tie Kliew it iu ur a oiicci pivuvuw ry, rising 300 feet above the surf, which lashed its base. But sheer as that cliff was he knew that every man on the Leopard had to make the base of it without delay. The bridge therefore was pushed forward until, with a shout of joy, It w88 discovered that astern of the Vera, between the hull and the cliff, had formed bard, level ice. From the bridge to this ice the men of the sealer made their way. Here they paused, hardly knowing what to do. The cliff towered over them, and ahead were the ice clogged surf and the reefs. They looked at the Leopard. She had gone clear over,on her starboard side, with her foreyards resting on a shoal. The rocks worried the starboard side out of her, aud the cargo tumbled and splashed into the waters and was swallowed. One of the men discovered a number of ropes depending from the top of the cliff to the base. A beneficent government had placed them there in view of just such an accident Hauling themselves by their hands, digging their feet in any protuberance they TOWAKD HIS VES8KL HS TUBHED A LAST LOOK. could find, man after man worked np a sheer height of 120 feet, whence the remaining i?u reer or hhcvul wwc uivic sloping. A slipping of the fingers on the rope, the slightest weakness or giddiness, meant instant death, but the chance had to be taken. And they took it in the darkness, with the hurricane all about, and succeeded to a man. As Captain Bartlett, the last man from the ship and the last man from the bottom of the cliff, seized the hand ropes he turned toward his vessel a last look. As he did so a swell caugbt her and, with cargo out tossed her high. She landed on her beam and struggled to right herself, like a wounded animal trying to rise. Another swell tossed her, and down she went again on the grinding rocks. When she rose again she was a frayed, spineless, shapeless hulk. 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