(5hr Bamberg ijrralh
ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KXIGHT, Editor.
Published every Thursday in The
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the live and growing City of Bamberg,
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Thursday, Sept. 16, 1909.
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We have no disposition to gloat
over the downfall of any white man
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DUX 11 IS pit*clStf-IIL LU ftuun vuub v vuu
B. Ross, the white man of Barnwell
who broke into the treasurer's office,
will have to serve his sentence.
There was no doubt of his guilt, and
the jury promptly convicted him. He
appealed to the supreme court, and
that body affirmed the verdict of the
(? circuit court. His sentence is five
years in the State penitentiary. At
last white men are being convicted
in South Carolina for their crimes,
and we are glad of it.
Up to this writing nobody in Bamberg
has offered a cent on a fund to
pay the fees for poor childdren who
want to attend the graded school, so
t we must conclude that interest in
education does not go very deep. We
think it best that the trustees abolish
the fee and have the taxpayers in
* mass meeting pledge themselves to
vote a sufficient levy next year to pay
up the deficit of this year. Then the
V trustees would be enabled to borrow
money to run the school the coming
nine months. But we are afraid
the collection of this fee will not be
an easy matter and that some poor
children will be kept out of school.
If there is any way to do it, the burden
of taxation should be put on
I property, where it rightfully belongs,
and not on the individual.
Col. Jas. T. Bacon, editor of the
Edgefield Chronicle, and known and
loved all over South Carolina, died
last week at his home in Edgefield
after a short illness. Col. Bacon was
a rare character, and there was none
like him anywhere. He was a won|
. derfully humorous writer, a fine musician,
and a gentleman of the old
school with the beautiful manners and
delightful courtesy of the days of old.
He will be missed especially by the
: newspaper men of the State, for he
was a regular attendant at the annual
gatherings, and his presence was
always eujoyed by all. No man that
we know of had more true, warm
friends than Col. Bacon, and he was
the friend of ev.erv good man. He
lived a life of devotion to others, and
his reward will be great.
Crazy Criminals Escape.
Washington, Sept. 13.?Three negro
criminal inmates, one of whom is
a murderer, made a desperate and
sensational dash for liberty from the
government hospital for the insane,
late last night, and fled before mounted
policemen and attendants.
The insane criminals, Edward
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Folk, were three of the mQst vicious
and unruly characters at the big institution
and their escape was affected
by a secret plan, whereby they tore
from its fastenings a stout guard rail
and made a daring leap from a high
window.
Armed men are now scouring the
woods in which the mad men are believed
to be hiding.
After having been at large for
twelve hours the three men were
captured near Alexandria. Va., where
they had secreted themselves in the
bushes and returned to the hospital.
Judge Fights Duel With Political Foe
Huntsville, Ala.. Sept. 19.?Following
a dispute earlier in the day
over political matters. Judge Betts,
of the law and equity court, and
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litical opponent, this afternoon engaged
in a pistol duel on the streets
here, each receiving minor wounds.
Judge Betts was shot in the abdomen.
but it was announced that the
wound was not at all serious.
The two men passed heated words
this morning and were separated by
bystanders before blows were passed.
Each armed himself later and when
they met on the street to-night both
drew revolvers and began firing,
emptying their revolvers at each
other at close range.
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U. S. OPERATED LOTTERY.
Was Great Gamble Involving Territory
Worth Millions.
Although Uncle Sam is sternly opposed
to lotteries and games of chance
the old gentleman conducted the
other day a land gamble compared
with which the operations of ordinary
lotteries are "small potatoes."
The prizes distrioutea 10 ine iuckv
winners were valued at more than
$50,000,000. There were about 10.000
winners, each gaining a prize
valued at from $5,000 upward. $0
losers there were some 276.000.
which makes the gambling percentage
about 2S to 1. The percentage
might be considered high for a philanthropic
gamester like Uncle Sam
to offer, if it were not that the
stakes of entrants were absurdedly
low?25 cents for each person.
The technical name for the government
lottery, which was the biggest
ever held in this country, was
land drawing. Everything was lawful
and official, so that the Goddess
of Chance would have no fault to
find. Bookmakers, faro dealers and
three-card monte men went as they
saw thousands of persons journeying
to Spokane, Wash., and Coeur Alene,
Idaho, where the drawings were held.
Not that the government was raking
in all the easy money, but the same
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was ueiug <au?ui ucu iu mc mut ui
several millions by railroads and hotels,
and it was useless to talk anything
but sagebrush acreage to the
land hungry hordes. The notaries
public had a good thing on the 25
cent fees they charged for making
out applications for lottery tickets.
Some of the notaries averaged each
$150 a day in fees for 20 days.
The lands distributed consisted of ]
660,000 acres of former Indian res- '
ervations in the States of Washington,
Idaho, and Montana. The In- ?
dians were not allowed to take part \
in the contest. Only white men who 1
were citizens or who intended to be- 5
come citizens, who did not own more \
than 160 acres of land and who 1
wished to acquire a homestead for j
personal use being permitted to take 1
a chance at a quarter section plot. ]
It was a rare sight to see the ;
chicken wired, open air platform at 1
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, heaped with s
white envelopes which men poured ?
out of steel cans, and surrounded by 1
thousands of breathless persons, who (
hoped that their envelopes would be j
picked out first by the white frocked {
young daughters of leading citizens. 1
Thousands of other persons in all i
parts of the country who had sent in
applications, were breathless, also, as 1
the drawing hour approached, and ?
many of them learned their luck or *
failure Dy teiegrapn. judge James
W. Witton acted as Uncle Sam's personal
representative at the drawing
and assured verybody that the Goddess
of Chance had no "phony" envelopes
in her voluminous sleeves.
Little boys mixed the envelopes on
the platform with wire potato scoops.
Filings on the lands allotted will
begin on April 1, 1910. Meanwhile
the winners may pick out the plots
they want. One hundred clerks at
Coeur d'Alene are hustling to sort
out the wagonloads of applications,
which will be further scrutinized at
Washington to make sure that no
one has gained an undue advantage
by registering more than once. Easterners
won about one-third of the
farms, Illinois leading the other
States. Mechanics, laborers,, widows
and school teachers constitute the
majority of winners.
Clinchfield Won't Build.
Columbia, Sept. 13.?The committee
of five named by the Chamber of f
Commerce to go on to New York to
see the general officers of the Clinch- *
field about its coming to Columbia,
will defer their trip until the return j
of Messrs. John J. Seibels and J. P. \
Matthews, who had been to New York ?
and who wired that this should be J
done.
A long-distance interview this c
morning with Mr. Seibles indicates :
that he and Mr. Matthews consider it
useless for a committee to go on at
this time. Practically all of the men
to be seen are out of town.
And it seems practically certain i
morning with Mr. Seibels indicates <
whatever after reaching Spartanburg, t
at least for several years, though it I
will make traffic arrangements to ?
reach Columbia, Augusta, Charleston,
Savannah and other important points c
for the distribution of coal. i
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Weds "Dying" Girl; She Recovers. ?
New York, Sept. 14.?Kenneth M. ^
Strong and his bride, who was Miss
Grace Rummage, of Stapleton, S. I.,
are today planning for a delayed c
wedding trip to Canada. c
Summoned by telephone to the c
bedside of his fiance, who was *
thought to be dying. Strong, a hard- k
ware merchant of Amityville, L. I., 1
succeeded on his arrival at the home (
of his bride-to-be in persuading her J
to have the marriage performed at (
once. (
Early on the wedding day Miss
Rummage, who had been taking !
lessons in cookery, prepared a bowl (
of soup for herself. Immediately 5
she was seized with pains, and in '
spite of the efforts of four physicians 1
her condition became steadily worse.
When Strong arrived he asked the
young woman if she would consent
to a wedding at once. In less than ,
an hour the knot was tied.
1,000 Weavers on Strike. ,
Fall River, Mass., Sept. 13.?The 1
1.000 weavers employed at the Fall
River Iron Works cotton mills, which
are controlled by M. C. D. Borden, of
New York, did not report for work
to-day, in accordance with their announced
intention of striking for an
increase in wages. ;
Although but one-fifth of the em- <
ployees of the six mills were affected, 1
when the strike was inaugurated today,
there was a probability that unless
an agreement was reached during
the day, all the departments 1
would be closed down, throwing 5,000
operatives out of work. i
The striking weavers ask for a ten
per cent increase.
An hour later all six mills compos- ;
ing the plants were shut down. The
absence of the weavers so hampered
other departments that the management
decided to close the entire plant <
until the differences should be settled.
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THIS TIME THE WORM TURNED.
A Woman Took Pistol Away From
Her Husband and Fired at Him.
James Martin, who, with his wife,
Mattie Martin, engaged in an altercation
on Hampton street Friday evening,
that terminated in an abbreviated
shooting on the porch of Mr. T.
T. ialleys residence. n<ts iiul
been located. Mattie Martin, who
was arrested at the time, has beer
released, as it appears that her husband
was assaulting her with the revolver
when she seized the weapon
and fired the lone shot of the battle.
The two have not dwelt together
in harmony for some time and James
Martin has been sent to the chaingang
for beating his wife. The police have
also been called upon to pour judicia'
oil on the troubled waters several
times. Friday evening, while walking
on Hampton street, they were engaging
in one of the old line quarrels
when the argument became so
heated that the husband made for
the wife with drawn revolver. The
woman took refuge on Mr. Talley's
porch and when "the villain still pursued
her," she illustrated the fable
the fable of the turning worm by
wrenching the revolver from the
man's grasp and firing at Martin.
He succeeded in recapturing the artillery
and beating a hasty if not orderly
retreat.?Columbia State, September
13.
NEW ST. LOUIS BRIDGE.
Wan Who is Known in \Crginia is the
Designer.
Phillip Aylette, the Norfolk engineer
who built the great Sewalls
Point terminals of the Virginia railway
on Hampton Roads and who designed
the wonderful five-mile bridge
pf the Norfolk & Southern railway
icross Albemarle Sound, has been
selected to supervise the construction
)f the new bridge across the Mississppi
at St. Louis. Mr. Aylette says
;he structure, which is designed to
areak the "bridge trust," which has
reld St. Louis in its iron grasp so
one, will be the most remarkable
3rid.ee in the world in several respects.
It will have three 650-foot
spans, will be a dbuble-deck structure
85 feet wide, the lower tier
:arrving six railway tracks, the upper
six trolley tracks, two roadways
md projecting sidewalks for foot
passengers, and the approaches will
iach be 3,000 feet long.
The bridge will cost in the neigh
Dorhood of $6,000,000 and will reluire
at least four years to complete.
Dwing to the treacherous nature of
;he Missouri river bottom, the work
presents engineering- difficulties rarey
encountered in bridge building,
it will be a combination of the truss
md cantelever type of bridge, a species
of construction first attempted
n the present case. For the piers
:our caissons, each 110 feet below
:he surface of the water, will be sunk
md in them the men will work unler
the heaviest air pressure ever usid
in bridge construction, running
>0 pounds to the square inch. Fortvive
pounds is the heaviest pressure
jver tried before. The workmen
vill be compelled to wear divers'
suits with steel braces to protect
;heir bodies under the enormous
pressure. The piers will be concrete
:o the water's edge and will rise with
i concrete core and granite facing
120 feet above it. Mr. Aylette was
'ormerly with the Seaboard Air
Line.?Portsmouth Star.
Negroes Whip White Man.
Spartanburg, S. C., Sept. 10.?Inuriated
by the attack of a white man
>n a young girl of their own color,
;he negroes of a thickly settled
leighborhood about two miles from
:his city to-day secured the girls' assailant
and after administering a severe
whipping, forced him to leave
:he county. The sheriff and a posse
)f citizens, heavily armed, went to
;he scene or the trouDie to avert a
;hreatened race riot.
2,200 Operatives Return.
Saco, Maine, Sept. 13.?After idleless
of about three weeks the 2,200
imployees of the York Mill in this
;own, who were thrown out of em)loyment
by the strike of 150 weavers,
returned to work to-day.
The weavers went back to work tolay
at the old rate of wages, but the
nill management promised to do
iomething for them as soon as possible.
>oal Companies Allege Discrimination
Washington, Sept. 14.?Fifteen
:ompanies mining coal in the Coal
;reek field of Tennessee today filed a
jomplaint with the interstate comnerce
commission charging that the
Southern Railway company discrimilates
against them in the rates on
;oal as compared with those accorded
>perators in the Appalachian, Tombs
3reek and Black Mountain districts
)f Virginia.
It is urged that the differential of
SOc to Knoxville, given on the Coal
;reek coal, should be maintained on
shipments to South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, and other Southern
points, when passing through Knoxville.
To points in North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia reached by
both fields through Morristown,
renn., it is claimed that the same
rate should apply beyond that junction
with a differential to that point
Df 40c instead of 25c, in favor of the
Coal creek fields.
The rates to Aasnvuie are aiso
made the subject of complaint.
Peace Officer Killed.
Jesup, Ga., Sept. 10.?Marshal G.
B. Pope was killed this afternoon by
a. blow over his heart in a desperate
struggle with Edward Tyre, Brantly
Tyre and James Tyre, prominent
young white men, whom he was attempting
to arrest.
It is not known which one of the
Tyres inflicted the fatal blow. All
were arrested as they attempted to
escape, and lodged in Wayne county
jail.
Intense feeling exists gainst the
young men. The officer was attempting
to arrest them on charges of disorderly
conduct.
Brantly Tyre and James Tyre are
sons of County Commissioner George
Tyre. Edward Tyre is their cousin. I
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That "nothing succeeds better than success" is exempli- ?
fied in our growing Furniture trade. All the time we strive
for new ideals that embody every goo#d idea that is help- 0 .
ful, both to our trade and to ourselves. It means, of
course, the getting away from trashy furniture, which is ^
absolutely the most expensive investment you can make.
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advantage of all discounts. A visit to our store is well of
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We will open up our Jewelry Store with a line of f0]
goods that has never been equaled in Ehrhardt pa
City. It is a collection of beautiful things in solid ^
gold, sterling silver, and gold-filled. Everybody in no
Colleton County knows the kind of goods we JJ.
handle and the treatment we have given our custo
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mers for years. J|o
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UWe will give to any purchaser of 25 cents in cash, I so
a number, with the privilege to obtain a $15 outfit, I ^
Disk Graphophone with a half dozen records. The I
outfit may be inspected at the store. H ce:
REMEMBER, Goods will be ready for inspection ft ^
Monday, September 20, at old stand of Mrs. Jones*
Millinery Store. ^
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advertisement has been done away with, and what the @ ^
I buying public wants is a plain, candid statement of facts
in regard ~to~~good and prices." jgi
We say we have an exceptionally large and well selected
stock of fall merchandise. That's absolutely true.
We also claim that our prices are exceedingly reasonable, 89 c
yet we are not claiming to sell at cost. . But we bought ?
early, before goods went up, and therefore our prices are A ?
unusually attractive. Come in and see if you don't agree
with us. Our Clothing for men and boys is well-made, 5?
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Our lines of Dry Goods, Staples, Dress Goods, No- ^
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Wanted.?By widower with two
lall boys, reliable housekeeper of
od standing. State age and salary
pected. Box D. McClellanville, S.
Lost.?Savings department book
). 48, issued by Bamberg Banking
tmpany to Chester Summers. If \
und please return to said bank. ^ \
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For Exchange.?I have a quantity
pure Toole cotton seed which I
11 exchange for other seed on a
sis of two bushels for one. Exange
seed to be delivered at Bam- -1
rg oil mill. J. J. SIMMONS, Bam
rg, S. C.
For Sale?Two thousand bushels *
)pler seed oats raised by Mr.
;orge Salley, Orangeburg county.
divered in 25 bushel lots in Bam- <
rg, at 67 cents per bushel. Sample
The Herald office. GREEN-BRAB- ri 1
&.M CO., Cope, S. C.
Wanted.?A man to superintend a ?
enty horse farm. Must have had 1
perience and be a capable, ener- I
tic, sober man. Salary good. Apply, V
iting experience, qualifications, 4\
th recommendations, to "M," care , A
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For Sale.?One sugar cane mill, .
-inch rollers, two pans, 80 gallons
ch, and about 1,500 brick on
lich pans are set. Will sell the
lole outfit cheap. Outfit can be
3ii at Mr. Henry F. Bamberg's,
own as the old Delk place. T. C. , 3K ?
lNT, Bamberg, S. C.
DANGER IN DELAY. ?
dney Diseases Are Too Dangerous
for Bamberg People to Neglect.
The great danger of kidney trou- v.
bs is that they get a firm hold here
the sufferer recognizes them,
jalth is gradually undermined. ,*
ickache, headache, nervousness,
meness, soreness, lumbago, urinary
rubles, dropsy, diabetes and
fight's disease follow in merciless
ccession. Don't neglect your kid- 4.1
ys. Cure the kidneys with the cerin
and safe remedy, Doan's Kidy
Pills, which has cured people
jht here in Bamberg.
D. J. Cain, Church St., Bamberg,
C., says:
"I suffered from kidney trouble
r two or three years and during the
st six months my condition became
ite serious. I often had spells of *
ckache which were so acute I could
t work. I could not sit down . *
thout first grasping something for 1 .
pport and then putting my whole
fight on my arms. After lying i
wn it was impossible for me to get'
> without assistance, and I might
y that I was as helpless as a child.
ie kidney secretions were disorderand
at times there was an almost 4
mplete retention. My condition
is critical and all the doctoring I
i brought me but little relief. Reutly
I began using Doan's Kidney
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is Drug Co., and I have since felt
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For sale by all dealers. Price 50
nts. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
iw York, sole agents for the
iited States.
Remember the name?Doan's?
d take no other.
Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson
Wyman & Henderson A
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BAMBERG, S. C.
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For first-class Shoe and Harneac
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ike new harness of all kinds,
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Wouldn't it be well if the Epworth- J
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nd its energies toward raising $20,
0 for the rebuildin of Columbia 4.
liege, rather than for a new
lence hall at Sou Chow, China?"
Charleston Evening Post.
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