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51 Jj? Hamhrrg fcalb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Subscriptions?By the year, $1.00, or 10 cents a month for less than one year. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local notices 8 cents the line for first insertion, 5 cents a line for subsequent insertions. Wants and other advertisements under special head. 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular ad a verusiug. v/uuuavu) iw ?u.v.?0 not subject to cancellation after first 7. insertion. Communications?We arfe always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interEttt. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. . No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. A;; m Thursday, Dec. 17th, 1908 ===?? The Christmas edition of the Edge. field Advertiser was a good one. The write-up of the S. C. C. I. was es!, pecially good. ? : As a rule the merchants of Bamgju' berg say their sales this fall have | been better than for years. . This does not sound much like times arej 7 hard and money scarce. gjV' There are no evidences of race suicide in Bamberg. Just watch the gg^5 children on their way to school these f:M[ - mornings. It will not d? many year? SPv? before we will need an additional! tafiFJUa*.. ? school building. ! Ek^1 v ????? Times may be hard, but the peo-i pie of Bamberg are going ahead undismayed, notwithstanding the scarcity of money. Building and improvement is going on right along, and work on the waterworks system will soon be commenced. - Prohibition seems to have been a | , success in Atlanta this year. The I State of Georgia 'hah s been dry since l last January, and during 1908 the police court records of Atlanta show a I decrease of nearly fifty per cent, in f the number of cases. There was also ' * small decrease in the cases in Augusta's city court. If every man in Bamberg county .who carried a pistol was fined ten dollars the public treasury would be \SO replete with money that we would have to levy very little taxes next year.?Bamberg Herald. Why don't you report some of them to the grand jury??Anderson Advocate. BeAonco itc not our business in the first ,'f~ place, and the grand jury knows as ' much about it already as we do. If you think *it's a newspaper man's C7 7 duty, why don't you report the pis& : tol toters of Anderson? j *m ' Why wouldn't it be a good idea Z^\;YV'tor the town of Bamberg to secure the Carlisle Fitting School and es% tablish there the high school and commercial departments of our city graded school? It will only be a ?r.V few years until an additional school building is needed, and if the FitIting School property was secured and used as above stated we would have as fine school system as any town in the State. Students would fe-' then be attracted here from all over 7 the low country as no tuition would be charged, the only expense being ? ; V for board in one of the halls. What i \ say our citizens? For our part, we ' favor the plan. We know of nothing which would benefit the town more, and we believe if the plan above outlined was carried out, ad/ ditional halls would have to be built to accommodate the boarding ; students who would come here. In a recent address before the conrc vention of mayors at Charlottte, the mayor of Yorkville stated that his town furnished electric lights at 6% * . cents per kilowatt, 'and that the power rate up to ten horse power . was as low as two cents per kilowatt. Yorkville owns her water and light plant, but we imagine their electric current is not generated by steam, ...... else they could not furnish electricity at the prices named. In Bamberg we charge 12 cents per kilowatt, and find no big money in it at that price, while The Bamberg Herald pays seven cents a kilowatt and furnishes generator and all equipment. We have a genet-ator at the cotton mill here, with a private line to our office. We furnished the entire equipment and paid for the installation and pay the mill seven cents a kilowatt to generate the current, and the minimum charge to us is $10 a month. We can't see how Yorkville furnishes power at two cents a kilowatt, even if, as we suspect, they purchase power from the Southern Power Co., which has a big plant on the Catawba River, near Yorkville. \ Don't cry hard times. Push ahead with a brave heart and strive to make things better. We congratulate Brother Lorenz, of the Aiken Journal and Review, on his Christmas issue of this week. It was a very creditable paper. Every dollar spent with The Bamberg Herald goes right back into Bamberg. We do not send off what money we get hold of, but it goes to people who live here and have interests identical with the town. In a news article in reference to the coming session of the legislature, the Columbia Record says the prohibitionists will not attempt to have the legislature enact a prohibition law, but# prefer an election on the subject. All the same, we oeneve a prohibition bill will be introduced in the general assembly. As to whether it will pass or not we are not prepared to say. Every few days some merchant of the town tells us of having a customer come in his store and tell him that he came in to buy because he saw the merchant's ad. in The Herald. That is the right way for our readers to do. The merchant appreciates it, and naturally he takes extra care to give good values and make a permanent customer. Always tell the merchant you saw' his ad. in The Herald. It helps the newspaper as well as the customer. We want to print a semi-weekly paper after January, but we cannot do it unless our merchants will keep^up their advertising. During last spring and summer we had to cut down to four pages because advertising dropped off so after January, and we can only print a fourpage weekly if we do not get a number or yearly contracts irum ivcal advertisers. As it is, we have a lot of advertising during the three fall months, and for the other nine months of the year we have very little. It rests with the business men of Bamberg as to whether they will have a semi-weekly newspaper or not. We have the equipment to give it to them, but we must have more business throughout the year?not spasmodic advertising during a few months, but contracts running every week in the year. We do not expect to inake money out of the venture. All we want to do is to come out even, but we cannot, print a semi-weekly at a loss. We have reduced our advertising rates for advertisements to run twice-a-week, and will soon call on our merchants to ask them for yearly contracts. If ao thov cVinnlH Ram IUCJI ICiSpUUU UO IUVJ uuvu.v., berg will have a semi-weekly paper, but if we do not get the advertising patronage we cannot afford the additional expense. ?^ % COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS. "I ain't never had no chance." These words in the valedictory of Mr. J. T. Bigham, who retired two weeks ago from the editorship of the Chester Lantern, expresses exactly the feelings of the editor of this newspaper and we have wanted to say something along this line since his article appeared, but we have simply not had time. Often have we desired and still long to be in a position where we can edit a newspaper as we believe it should be, without being called on for so many other duties. As it is, we are any thing and everything from office boy to editor?printer, pressman, bookkeeper, salesman, and so on and so on?in fact our work is like a woman's: never done. Were we to tell of the many different things we do in one day most people would not believe us, and yet we are not different from the average country newspaper editor. We never find time to edit our papers carefully because of the pressing demands of the mechanical and business departments. Few country newspaper, men there are who are not overworked, and the reason is that their income is not sufficient to employ enough competent help. Too few of us know what our work is worth, and we do entirely too much free work, which costs us money and yet we do not seem to realize it. This editor does not lose sight of the fact that a newspaper is in a measure a public servant, and therefore cannot expect remuneration for all the service it renders, but it is nevertheless true that if the average weekly editor would employ real ness methods in the management of his business he would materially increase his income. tsut me reai reason is mere are too many newspapers, and as a result too much price-cutting, poorly edited and printed newspapers, and overworked, always-hard-up editors. Most county seat towns ih South Carolina cannot do more than furnish enough business for one firstclass newspaper, and yet how many have two in the same town, with others possibly in the county. And so it goes. There they all are, doing no more than holding soul and body together, hanging on by the skin of the teeth as it were, eking out a pre % carious existence, with no capital to make improvements in their plant? many of them having only a shirttail full of type and the bare necessities needed for printing a newspaper, oftentimes quarreling like dogs over a bone, having no fixed rates for advertising or job work, but taking any price they can get, with an humble. servile attitude toward the public, taking pay for subscriptions in produce, wood, or anything they can get, and agreeing to "trade out" with the merchant the amount of his advertising bill. Is the picture overdrawn? Answer truthfully and about seventy-five per cent, of the weekly editors will agree with us. But there is a remedy. Improve your paper, make it newsy, print it neatly, use attractive type faces if you have to go in debt to buy it, find out what your work is worth and charge accordingly, have fixed rates and make all customers pay the same prices. Some of you editors quit the newspaper business. Go to farming. It's a blamed sight more healthy and independent. Good advice, all of this, possibly you will say. Maybe so, and the writer ought to take evefy bit of it to himself. But will he do it? We guess not. THE RURAL TELEPHONE. What appears to be one of the surest signs of progress among the farmers of this section of the State is the keen interest manifested in the rural telephone. Already in neighboring towns the managers of the local telephone exchanges have been petitioned for lines extending into the country which will connect some of the most progressive farmers not only with their nearest towns, but also with all of the through lines to the larger cities all over the United States. The advantage to be gained by the use of the telephone in the sale of the products of the farm is obvious. These farmers who have taken this step forward can now remain at home and, while attending to affairs which claim their immediate attention, keep posted as to the fluctuations of the cotton and other markets and thus save much valuable time. Gradually, it seems, the farmers in this section of the State are awakening to the necessity of better facilities of Communication, and we predict that the time will not be far distant until the farmers of Bamberg county will, in most cases, receive daily reports on the cotton market by rural telephone. At Blackville and Allendale these rural lines have already been established and the demand for other lines in those sections is increasing rapidly. Denmark has joined the ranks, and active steps are being taken toward supplying the bes? farmers in that community with telephones. This is a1 splendid idea and as far as possible the example of these towns should be emulated by Bamberg's farmers. BUSINESS GOOD. We are glad to hear from our merchants that trade has been so good this fall, and from the reports we get from our business men generally, no doubt Bamberg's merchants have sold more goods this fall than ever before. We are delighted to hear this, as it shows that our merchants are reaching out for new business and that the trade of the town is being extended. ' There is no reason why business in Bamberg should not increase. We have the territory to draw trade from, and all we have to do is to go out after it. We are pleased to know that our town is getting to be known as the best shopping center in this section. Our merchants should do more advertising, and thereby extend the territory from which they draw trade, for The Herald circulates largely in four counties: Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg, and Colleton, with a number of subscribers in Hampton. Come in and look at our subscription list, and you will see why advertising in The Herald pays so well. Lynching Feared. Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 15.?The usually quiet county of Stanly is in a stater of intense excitement tonight over the first case in the history of the county of criminal assault of a white woman by a negro, and it is feared that there may be mob violence before to-morrow at Albemarle, [ whbre Henry Young, colored, is in j jail, having been beaten into unconj sciousness at the home of John R. I Moss, near Whitney, late to-day by Moss and George Lefler, who, attracted to the home of Moss by the screams of Mrs. Moss, found her in the clutches of the negro, making desperate efforts to reach the telephone to call for help. When the negro attacked Mrs. Moss she ran into the house and locked the doors. Young broke down a door and entered, and seizing the woman, a desperate struggle ensued. Upor the arrival of Moss and Lefler, they had a struggle and fist fight with the negro before they subdued him. Sheriff Green was cdlled and took the prisoner to the jail at Albemarle, six miles away, after he had been guarded for two hours at the Moss home. " \ x 1 What Sh< || I ?m IT EVER 0 M HMMH I That a useful present is always That a man appreciates what h That h Sweater Jacket is suita sister, father, or mothei II j - That we have all styles, shades |f I That a Silk Parasol would be si f| That a Crofutt & Knapp Hat is II That the Floresheim Shoe is ne p That a box of Handkerchiefs is II ' That a neat and durable pair o! H That for dress our nice white a || That you never saw a man that jf| That this cold weather makes a HI in season. i| That you could save expenses b American Lady Shoes. H That Christmas ushers in a Gli depends on how we treat 1 That a Useful Gift is the first t H That finally you should be sure R. 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