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(5b? Hamburg Ijrralb ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891 A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Rates?$1.00 per year; 50 cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements?fi.oo per inch for first insertion, 50c, for each subsequent insertion 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 subjects general interest will be gladly welcomed. _ Those of a personal nature will not be published unless paid for. Thursday, Dec. 26,1907. Remember the poor and needy, especially at this glad season. Oh, well, there's no use to grieve over the record of the past year. Make up your mind to do better during 1908. ? . The Herald is grateful for the business given it during the past year, and we hope to render better service 1 to both subscribers and advertisers dtiring 1908. Bamberg merchants should enlarge their territory for business next year. Don't depend on the country adjacent to the town, but reach out and bring people here from a distance by offering inducements. If you don't believe the people of Bamberg county have money, read the bank statements and see the amount on deposit. We think these statements show a pretty healthy condition of affairs for hard times and a money panic. *TT1 - * T>~ 1 io r?AT*T_ woy, ox course x>*uiiueig i? owning. New dwellings going up, new enterprises being started, and it will not be many years before the place can be truly called a city. Are you doing your share to help along its growth and progress? No town can grow and prosper un\ less its citizens are interested in the general welfare of its people and the public good. There is little growth in a community where the idea-is every man for himself. Let us get rid of that idea in Bamberg. For its part, The Herald favors a new graded school building which will cost at least $15,000. The best is none too good for our children, and' bonds should be issued if the insurance money is not sufficient to erect a suitable building. Some of the automobilists of the city ran their machines entirely too too fast on Main street during the > ' holidays. The street was crowded with people and vehicles, and a serious accident might have occurred. xWe trust they will keep their machines off Main street as much as possible on days when the street is crowded. This newspaper can consistently advocate a good graded school building for Bamberg. Every dollar we have is invested in property located in the school district, and we are willing to bear our burden of taxation. We hope the trustees will give us a building which will be sufficient for our needs for several years to come. It would be the best sort of economy t to do this. The compliments of the season tc all our friends?and to our enemies also if we have any. There is nc malice in our heart against anybody, even to those who we know have tried to injure this newspaper and its editor. We wish you all well, and trust the time will come wher you will be so btisy minding youi own business that you will forget tc "knock" us. mis uewspapcx nao gouu icosun ia be gratified at the past year's record, Our friends (both subscribers anc advertisers) tell us we have printec a better paper, and the receipts oj the office have been larger than evei before. Our subscription list is large] and we have carried nearly double the amount of advertising of anj previous year. True, we have noi made much money, because of in creased prices, but we have no reasoi to complain, even if we have spen all the money we made on improve ments. When we get in our nev building and get our linotyp* machine, we'll show the people o: Bamberg county a few things in th< way of an up-to-date printing offio and a first-class newspaper. All w< ask is that you give us your co-oper ation and support and we'll give yoi a newspaper which will be a credi to the town and county and whicl will be a fine advertisement of ou: resources and advantages. BOOMING THE TOWN. Do the merchants and business men of Bamberg realize that a poorly , printed patent outside newspaper does the town harm instead of good, and that a neatly printed, newsy sheet, with the advertisements well displayed is the best advertisement a town can have? This statement is ^<nia on/3 if folroc mnnpv lllCiailJ tlUC, anu *1/ wu>\~ | and a lot of the hardest kind of work to get out a good weekly newspaper. Type and material cost money, and ! you cannot do good work unless you i have a properly equipped office. The , outfit of this newspaper is worth three or four times as much as that i of any newspaper in this immediate i section, and yet some of our business < men do not seem to appreciate the advantage to the town of an enter- J prising newspaper. In the near future rJ we are going to give every merchant ' in Bamberg an opportunity to adver- t tise in The Herald the coming year, t We want every business represented, t and in order to print all our paper at 1 home we must have a lot of regular t advertising. It wiil pay you to ad- 1 vertise and it will help the town. We ( have not canvassed for business^heretofore, and wfc feel proud of the ( fact that the record breaking adver- i tising givefl us during the past fall { came unsolicited. We did not have to ask for it. But what we call the 1 dull season is coming on and many j merchants will drop their ads. and as a consequence we will have to reduce the size of the paper or use a patent sheet. So you might as well make up your mind to give us an ad. when we come around, for we need and must have your support in order to print a paper which will properly represent the town. DODGING THE ISSUE. Last week The Herald published the following paragraph: "We understand that the Spartan- ' burg Journal has been adopting Co- 1 lumbia Record tactics, ana sending free papers to parties in this locality, who did not subscribe, in the attempt to build up a circulation." The Journal replies in this manner: "Well your understanding is wrong. There is not a single name on the Journal's mail list not paid in advance. This can be said of no other daily newspaper in South Carolina. The Bamberg paper observes that 'this sort of business never pays.' There is another sort that never pays ?meddling with other folks' business." The Spartanburg paper tells us to mind our own business. We're doing that very thing in exposing its attempt to build up a circulation in Bamberg by methods which are not right. The Journal says all its subscribers are paid in advance. Will it kindly tell us who paid for the paper which was sent to the gentleman here? He says he didn't pay for it. Was it paid for by a candidate for the United States Senate? We have the facts in this matter, and the Journal can take either horn of the dilemma its wants to. We were at the post office when the . gentleman referred to got the , Journal out of his box. Unsolicited he tpld us it had been sent to him . without his knowledge or ordering it. A letter was sent him saying the , paper was being sent for awhile hop ing that he would subscribe, but his date had been pushed up for a year in advance. That he didn't want the paper and was going to write and tell them to stop sending it. Now the Journal says the paper was paid ; for. Well, who paid for it? Certain1 ly it was not paid for by the man to whom it! was being sent. i _ ^ 9 /T * _ 1 saie Diowers in ueorxia. Newman, Ga., Dec. 20.?A gang t of safe blowers got in their work . here last night when they entered the post office, blew open the safe * and rifled its contents of $300 in money. The robbery was committed some ) time after midnight. Entrance was , effected through the rear door of the [ building. The safe was badly shat, tered, the massive door being torn | from its hinges and fragments hurll ed through the glass partition separt: ing the office from the lobby. r The police have arrested two 4 strangers on suspicion, but beyond ' this there is no clue. The work was 7 evidently that of professional "yeggt men" who have been operating . through the state during the past l few months. r.- ?/*ii - ^ 9 r\ /\ a iviiieu in kow uver uquur. 7 Statesboro, Ga., Dec. 22? As a result of refusing to open a bottle of 3 whiskey, Wink Mikell, a white man, f was instantly killed last night near 5 Rocky Ford by Joe Woods, also 3 white. Woods and Mikell were ridl ing together and Woods insisted that " Mikell open his whiskey. Mikell re" fused to open his and a row ensued, i Woods blowing the top of Mikell's t head off with a shotgun. Woods, it is understood, made no effort to escape. After the killing r he went to his home, where he was found by the sheriff. Woman's World It Is Not Necessary to Be Lonely. A Mistake For Mothers Not to Be Up to Date ? Teaching Thoroughness. :: :: :: :: :: "I can't understand these lonely peo)le." remarked little Mrs. Energetic, 'or. rather. I can understand their beug so in the first place, but not their emaining so." "But suppose the case of an orphan vitLout relatives in a strange city, vhat of her?" demanded the man who lelighted in problems. 'She can always make friends if she s the right sort and is not selfish. - -,/s -1- ?rn-a IATIOIV nnw lne beiii?Li pcv^ic tuv Ihey stay so too. Any woman who ?arnestly identifies herself with church md charity work will make all the 'riends she wants. In helping the poor ;he will find herself so busy that she vill have no time to think of her own roubles. In fact, they will fade away iy contrast with the real miseries of )ther people. "If the lonely woman is intellectual, :he cities are full of courses in different studies, and she will meet charmng people of similar tastes with herjelf. "If she has a talent, what better cure for loneliness than cultivating that jift of hers and watching it grow ittle by little into something that commands the serious attention of her .'ellow men? "And if she has no particular talent, Hit has a little money and a home of aer own, need she be lonely when here are so many people without eiher? "I know a woman who was situated n this manner. She made a point of nviting to dinner one night each week jome lonely person. It might be a nan who lacked the confidence to succeed, one the world called a failure, but the last word on that subject can never be said until the man is dead, rhis woman I speak of helped many a nan 'find himself.' Or her guest might "invited soke lonely febson to dinneb." be a girl crushed beneath some sorrow too heavy for her, and the woman who invited her to sit at her table would help her to bear it "On Thanksgiving this lonely widdow (for that is what she was) might have spent the day, as many do. weeping over the past* and making herself thoroughly miserable. Instead she always invited two or three people she was sure no one else would to stay with her. She took them from boarding houses and cheap lodgings and all such places where Thanksgiving and Christmas cheer does not penetrate, and she sent them home with happiness in their hearts and the - feeling that they had at least one friend. "In the face of all the things to be done in the world in the way of good and In the way of effort I tell yon, my friend, the woman who is lonely has herself to blame." A Hint to Mothers. What a mistake a mother makes in not being up to date! How many times you hear a daugh*? ? ? ? ?T nnnMn't n/"wr?flHo In mflthW! ter Baj, x tuuiuu v w&auw , she wouldn't understand; she is so old fashioned." It is a mother's business ?her greatest business, if I may use the term?to keep her brain clear and energetic to understand new phases ol life and not to be what the boys call a stick in the mud. All the sanctity and halo surrounding motherhood will not give her the respect and confidenceof her children If her mentality does not entitle her to them. Children size their mothers up at a far earlier age than these good women have any idea of. Teach Thoroughness. Teach a child thoroughness and you have won half the battle of life for It Thoroughness in everything, from sewing on a button to doing an errand, Is important Don't make the mistake of thinking that because children are careless in little things they will be more careful about important ones. It never follows, and you are sowing the seeds of their failure in after life. . MAUD ROBINSON. * In remitting for his subscription an out-of-town subscriber and good friend writes us: "I am well pleased with the paper. I just don't see how I could miss getting your paper, as it seems something too near to me to give up. It brings back old times to me. Wishing you a merry Christmas and a"great success for 1908." THANKS We wish to thank all our friends for their liberal patronage during the holidays. Wehave T 3 * 1U, nau an unusuany good trade i and certainly appreciate it. While we sold the most of the Fruit that we had on hand, we have received a fresh supply and now have on hand a as nice an assort- * . ment as ever. If you are* needing anything, in the Grocery or Fruit . line you must be sure and visit our place of business. I r inoyes urocery aiure i I ON THE CORNER I I 'PHONE 41 BAflBERG, 5. C. I [Cabbage Plants) I Cabbage plants grown In I open air will staled severe 9 cold?make large, early B heads. Prices: fl.50 per B 1 m up to 6 m; 5 m to 9 m B $1.25; 10 m and over $1.00, 9 F. O. B. Meggetts, S. C. 9 i Special Express Rates. 9 SOUBEYROIIX & SMOAK I CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA I jFRUIT THE BEST TO BE HAD Can always be had 1 at our store, but iust at this time we have an exception-, ally large line on hand and the prices are way down. We have some of the sweetest and prettiest Apples ever brought to Bamberg; also some exceptionally fine Oranges, Bananas, Country Pecans, Nuts of all kinds, Malaga Grapes, Raisins, Currants,. Citron, Dates, Etc. We bought heavily and have a large stock on hand and it must be disposed nf hpfnre the holi I days are over, so don't worry about the prices, as they are the very lowest to be had. Be sure and come to our store or 'phone us before buying. D. A. Kinard & Co. Under Johnson's Hotel BAMBBRO, .... S. C. BRICK FOR SALE We are manufacturing a High Grade Brick and can furnish Run of Kiln at $6.00 f. o. b. cars Badham, South Carolina Dorchester Lumber Co. Badham South Carolina f DR.' G? F.HAIR | X Dental Surgeon - - - Bamberg, S. C. ^ X In office every day In the week. GraduX ate of Baltimore College of Dental Sur- X X gery, class 1892. Member S. C. Dental ] [ X Association. Office In old bank building 0 TAKING CHANCES. When One Neglects to Fit Herself For Earning Her Living. Quite recently a prominent young broker fell ill with pneumonia. It carried him off in less than a week. When the doctor told his wife that there was no hope she fell from one fainting fit into another. She was grieved at his death, to be sure, but can you blame her for thinking of three children? They had always lived up to their income. Why not? The husband was yet in his early thirties, and then, too. their needs swallowed all they had. There was nothing else but a paltry life insurance of $5,000, and every one knows how far that will go with three children. That they had lived up to their last cent was the husband's fault Strange |\^r^ w * ?^j^DBl| * FBOM ONB FAINTING SPELL INTO ANOTHER. how a man disregards a woman's future and gambles on his life In a case like that! ' The fact that she was not fitted to do a thing was the woman's fault?another case of taking a chance that she might never need to do anything and of losing. Can women afford to take chances like this? Quite recently, too, a man died and left his estate so ei)tangled that for three years no money could be drawn from it Hi$ only daughter found her allowance brought suddenly to an end. She must do something, but what? She spent one awful day counting the things she could do, but most of all _ 4. facing her own weaknesses and lack of practical education. She had a smattering of everything on earth and a working knowledge of nothing. Her mother, mercifully dead before the crash came, had educated her to be a society woman, the kind of woman who marries?that must marry. Well, she had not, and now she was forced to face conditions she knew nothing whatever about It was a gamble in which the mother risked the daughter. Can women afford to take such chances as these? HELENA WARE. | A SIMPLE- LIBRARY. An Attractive Place Suitable For a Living Room. The new bookcases are made as plain as can be, and it is possible to add to them at any time, xney ime me warn, about half way up, the remaining space being filled with pictures and bric-a-brac. The illustration will give you an idea of what I mean. Notice the oval oak table suitable for a lamp and magazines. The Queen FUByXSH BP IN OAE[? * i ^? Anne chair carries out ine cuior scheme by being in green. The leather chair matches it. The walls are covered in green burlap. The curtains may be of green net or china silk. The whole atmosphere of the room it simple and restful. R. DE LA BAUMB. A Purple Gown. A gown made of the handsome new purple would make a striking cos tume. Purple in all Its manifold shades, from damson to mauve, is to be the fashionable color, all the rest being second choice. Purplo is rich and dressy, very noticeable among all other colors and becoming to few. The only way the general unbecomingness of the shades of purple can be overcome Is to trim all around the shoulders with other color or black or white. ' - . >. . ; ... S>> 7 ' ' * * '" m SHERIFF'S SALE. Stateof South Carolina?Bamberg County?In Court of Common Pleas. Southern Fertilizer & Chemical Co., 1 plaintiffs, against S. 6. Mayfield et al., defendants. By virtue of an execution to me directed by C. B. Free, Esq., clerk of the court of common pleas for Bamberg county, I have levied upon and will sell in frontof the court house door, at Bamberg, S. C., on Monday, January 6th, 1908, fit being salesday in said month) during the legal 2 hours of sale, for cash, to the highest bidder, the following described real estate, to wit: One lot situate, lying and being in the Town of Denmark, Bamberg county, S. C., known as the Leibman lots, containing (2). two acres, more or less, bounded by lots of Mrs. Richard Martin, the Methodist Parsonage, Mrs. A. C. Faust, Zion church, the lot of Cox, the Dea- ^ mark and Bamberg public road, and Cox * street. Levied'upon as the property of S. G. I an/4 anU f A ootiofff SOI/] OVO/HI. JJX a J ll^lVt OJ1U OVIU w ocawawAjr IAMU VAW? tion. Purchaser to pay for papers. This property was sold on salesday in November ana was bid in by Nixon 4c Danforth, of Augusta, who have not complied with their bid. It is resold at risk of former purchaser. J. B. HUNTER, 4) Sheriff Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C., December 16, 1907. . ^4 MASTER'S SALE. By virtue of a decree of the court of ' common pleas for Bamberg county, made ' in the case of Moses Smoak et aL vs. \] Hattie Lou Smoak, I will sell before the court house door at Bamberg, S. C., to J the highest bidder for cash between the -f usual hours of sale, on Monday, the 6th day of January, 1908, all that tract of land in the county of Bamberg and State ? of South Carolina, bounded on the North > by lands of G. E. Hutto and Laura San- p difer; on the East by lands of G. E. Hutto and J. L. Copeland; on the South by m lands of John Henry Hutto: and on the West by lands of Robert Padgett and others, and containing eignty-eignt ana m one-half acres, more or less. On this tract is a fine body 6f long leaf pine tim- 4j$ ber; also, thirty acres to be cleared, and a fine well of water, dwelling house and ; other buildings. If terms of sale are not complied with within one hour after sale, the lands will : be resold, at the risk of the purchaser, until apurchaser is found who shall conh f ply. Purchaser to pa^for pa^ers^ * Master for Bamberg County. % Bamberg, S. C., December 16th, 190T. % ? MASTER'S SALE. By virtue of a decree of the court of ? common pleas for Bamberg county, made "J: in the case of Nancy E. Hutto et *1. vs. Rosa Adams et al, I will sell before the court house door at Bamberg, S. C., be^ tween the usual hours of sale, on Monday i % the 6th day of January, 1908, to ton highest bidder, for cash, all that tract of land in the county of Bamberg and 4 State of South Carolina, containing one hundred and eighty acres, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands of G.' W. Folk, and of the estate of j. Frank v Folk* on the East by lands of Hattie M. Bamberg; on the South by lands of Rosa M;; E. Jones; and on the West by lands of ' i James B. Folk. This land will be sold i* v' two tracts, asperplatof L. N. Bellinger, a surveyor, which may be seen in my omce r on day of tele. , v If terms of sale are not complied with' ' in one hour after sale, the lands will be resold, at the risk of the purchaser, until a purchaser is found who shall comply. Purchaser to pay for papers.' H. C. FOLK, Master for Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C., December 16th, WOT. MASTER'S SALE. By virtue of a decree in the case of James F. Byrnes, plaintiff, vs J. W. J Faust, defendant, dated November 29, I 1907, 1, H. C. Folk, Master for Bamberg county, will sell on Monday, January 6, 1908, between the legal hours of sate, at " , the court house door, to the highest bidder, for cash, purchaser to pay for papers: All that certain lot in the town of < Denmark, (East End) fronting On BaS- % road avenue one hundred feet, and rxa- % f ning back to lot of the estate of Coonr one hundred and ninety-seven feet, > more or less, and bounded on the East ?/.' by lot of Mrs. Baxley, and on the West ;. by an alley. \ If terms are not complied with within one hour after sale, the land will be resold at the risk of the former purchaser. H f! POLK. Master for Bamberg County. ^ J. Aldrich Wyman, . . ;; Plaintiff'8 Attorney. Bamberg, S. C., December 16, 1907. ; v ASSESSMENT NOTipE.""1 . ' Office of the County Auditor, Bam- ? : berg, S. C., December 10, 1907. I will be at the following places on the days and dates named ior the pur- J pose of taking returns of personal prop- 8 ertv for the year 1908: j Farrell's X Roads, Thursday, January J 2nd, 9 a. m. until 4 p. m. Hunters Chapel, Friday, January 3rd, 9 a. m. until 1 p. m. Colston, Saturday, January 4th, 9 a. m. until lp.m. Ehrhardt, Tuesday, January 7th, 9 a. w m. until 5 p. m. St. John's, Wednesday, January 8th, 9 a.m. until 4 n. m. Camp Hill School House, Thursday, January 9th, 10 a. m. until 3 p. m. Kearse's Store, Friday, January 10th, 9 a. m. until 3 p. m. / Lees, Monday, January 13th, 10 a. m. until 5 p.m. * Denmark, Tuesday and Wednesday, ' 1iAl a m until K t>. m. ' ItliU CUIU 1UW, wwv ? ?. ___ Hightower's Mill, Thursday, January 16th, 10:30 a. m. until 8:30 p. m. Midway, Friday, January 17th, 9 a.r, , m. until 4 p.m. 7, Govan, Monday, January 20th, 1 p. m. until Tuesday, 21st, 1p.m. j Olar, Tuesday, January 21st, 1:30 p. jy m. until Wednesday, 22na, 5 p. m. J ' At the courthouse from January 22nd, ' i until February 20th, after which date . 50 per cent, penalty will be added to all i personal property not returned. j Where lands have been bought or sold, or new buildings erected since Jan- j uary 1st, 1907, note should be made of ' same on returns. v - V 1 Please meet me promptly. > V'j R. W. D. ROWELL, L ^ Auditor Bamberg County. c.: Many of the boys and girls who ^ , have been off at college are at home -7 -suspending the holidays with- their . parents. -