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Gty? Hamburg ?rralfc ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT. Editor. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamv ?~ ifonod from a nrinfin? i UtJl g, UClUg 199U&U nuuA U o office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, cylinder press, folder, two jobbers, all run by electric power, with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. 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 reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. 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' ? r* i?? A n cr VertlSing. V/Omrauu> iui aumuBiao not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case. No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in oar columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. ? ? Thursday, Oct. 28, 1909. If the cotton harvester is really here, the question of cooks when cotton picking time comes around is solved, and many a housewife will hail with delight the advent of the mechanical cotton picker. .We notice that the newspapers of several towns in the State are protesting because carnivals are being ' allowed to visit their towns. Bamherg discontinued granting a license to carnivals some years ago, and a number of applications from these ; shows since that time have been re ruse a. Speaking of paid in advance subscribers this newspaper has plenty of subscribers on its list who are paid ten years in advance and a number who are paid Bix and seven years ahead.?Bamberg Herald. Will Brother Knight please tell us how it is done.?Edgefield Advertiser. Had a subscription contest last summer. Tillman certainly put it all over Columbia in the matter of the Taft luncheon, and we agree with him. The capital city has not done itself any good by the way the luncheon * !-4-? nut onH VO rp. UlViUluuua wcic o^u?. v/ub, uuu ..v .v gret it deeply. Numbers of people have discussed the affair with us, and all are of the opinion that a serious mistake was made. The general opinion is that Senator Tillman did exactly right. Explaining to Brother Wallace, of the Newberry Observer, how it is . that we have subscribers on our list paid for five, six, seven, and ten years in advance, the answer is easy. We conducted a subscription contest last summer, and the result was that ' many subscribers paid away ahead and our list was nearly'doubled. The young lady contestants went after the subscriptions and they got 'em. Old and new subscribers were not afraid to pay ten years ahead for The Herald. No doubt this newspaper has more subscribers paid further in advance than any paper in the State. Ife a 9 ? The jury who tried Bingham and Avant for murder did their duty, but Judge Watts did not do nis. me judges needs censure as much or more than the juries. In this case the Jury found the men guilty of manslaughter without any recommendation, and the judge had the power to impose a sentence of from two to thirty years. He gave the men three and a half years each, and by his action he practically said to the jury that they found a wrong verdict. We are surprised at Judge Watts, for heretofore we had a good opinion of his judgment. A few months ago this newspaper criticised judges for being too lenient to criminals, and we are more firmly convinced than ever that we need new judges worse than new juries. Governor Ansel still has his backbone all right. He did not hesitate in removing the Dorchester county board of registration when the facts were made plain and a hearing had j been granted members of the board. The governor does not go off half cocked, but he does his duty fearlessly after a full and impartial hearing. No innocent man need be afraid of not receiving justice at his hands, but he does not dally with wrongdoers or hesitate in removing crooked officials once their guilt is proven. No doubt the record of Governor Ansel's administration will show that he has removed more men from c' office than any governor since 1876. He is all right, and we'd like to have j him keep the job of governor for several more terms. And in case he does retire, he ought to be on the bench. MILLS TO CLOSE. Factories in Piedmont Will Close Down Temporarily. Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 23.?Monday morning some of the largest mills in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas will inaugurate a one or two weeks' curtailment and if conditions do not improve it is likely that this period of curtailment will be considerably extended. The first North Carolina plant to inaugurate the curtailment plan is the Tarboro mill, and the Henrietta mills, the biggest plant in the State, employing 3,000 operatives, will follow suit Monday and it is probable that the Caroleon mills, under the same management, will shut down in a few days. The seven big mills in Spartanburg county, S. [C., shut down last night. These are Whitney, Spartan, Clifton, Glendale, Arkwright, Lockhart and Pacolet. They consume about 200,000 bales of cotton annually and employ several thousand operatives. The mills have run for two weeks on five days' time, but the present shut down is complete and for an indefinite period. There is now a feeling among the manufacturers that the curtailment proposition, having been sanctioned by the American Manufacturers' association, can be put in practice by the mills without thereby injuring their standing in the least, and it has been pretty generally agreed that curtailment is the business like course to pursue, the movement is gaining ?x ??? if TWAorraeoaa sircugui cvo ik j/iu^ivo?vb. Voyage on a Plank. Two attempts were made to set up records for the sea voyage between Dover and Margate. J. A. Weidman made an effort to swim the distance, and a man named William Westlake did his best to make a successful voyage on a plank. The plank was two feet wide and 18 feet long. Weidman started at 11 o'clock yesterday morning from Dover, and after swimming 18 miles, had to give up within a mile of Ramsgate at 7 o'clock last night. Westlake also returned to Dover on his plank after a day at sea. The tide and wind were against his reaching Ramsgate, but he will try again. ?London Leader. After Standard Oil. Columbia, Oct. 23.?Attorney General Lyon is gathering affidavits against the Standard Oil in behalf of the support of the prosecution he will bring for the Peoples Oil Company of North Augusta, which has branches in Columbia, Charleston Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Denmark, and Edgefield. In South Carolina and Atlanta in Georgia, under the new statute rorDiaaingaicnmination by charging different prices in different communities for 4he same commodity. It it alleged that the Standard has cut prices in a number of South Carolina towns to run out the Peoples Company, whose proprietor is H. C. Boardman, who was twenty-flve years manager of the Standard at Augusta, Ga. The maximum penalty is $5,000. Will Improve Road to Charleston. Superintendent H. L. Hungerford, of the Southern railway, who is in charge of the Charleston division, which includes the line from Charleston to Augusta, Branchville and Columbia and the Camden branch, spent Monday in the city for the purpose of visiting the freight yards in Hamburg. According to Mr. Hungerford the tracks on this division will be much improved during the next few months, as it has been planned to relay the line between Charleston and Augusta and also portions of the Columbia branch with new 75 and 80pound rails, and the roadway is to be improved in many other ways. Recently the Charleston division received five large locomotives from the shops, which are practically as good as new, and when these are placed in service it will be possible to handle the trains on that section of the Southern with greater dispatch.?Augusta Herald. Paid Away in Advance. Speaking of paid in advance subscribers, this newspaper has plenty of subscribers on its list who are paid ten years in advance and a number who are paid six and seven years ahead.?Bamberg Herald. What did they do it for? The Observer has two men on its list that have paid two years in advance because, they said, it was too much trouble to be paying so often and, besides that, they did not like to draw a ! check for less than three dollars. But ' six and seven and ten years ahead? ! That certainly beats us. In fact it is | ahead of anything we have ever heard of in the subscription line except tne Standard Oil company's subscription to the Baltimore American?which, if we remember correctly, was for something like seven hundred years in advance.?Newberry Observer. CONDUCTOR SHOOTS NEGRO. Columbia Street Railway Employee Uses Revolver. Columbia, October 24.?At an early hour to-day Paul Hard, a negro, was shot and killed by W. W. Lyles, of the Columbia Street Railway, after words between the two, because the car on which the negro was riding stopped at the car barn and did not go on to the Olympia end. Two shots were fired. The negro insisted on being carried on to the end of the line, and Lyles informed him it was the last car for the night. The negro, it is stated, cursed the conductor and made some motion towards his pocket. That movement cost the negro his life. Several rocks and a knife were found in the pockets of the negro. HILLS BEGIN TO CURTAIL MANY MILLS IN PIEDMONT TO CLOSE ONE DAY IN WEEK. Agreement Now Effective.?Price of Cotton in Relation to Price of Cloth the Cause. Greenville. Oct. 25.?The leading! cotton mills in what is known as the Greenville-Anderson-Greenwood mill district are finding it as a rule impossible to make cloth at cost on the present cotton market and have decided to curtail their productions one day a week beginning this week. Mills that have been in operation I 25 years and longer and that have j never before curtailed their production have agreed to stop one day each week. The mills so agreeing will aggregate about 1,000,000 spindles and some 25,000 looms, and consume annually about 300,000 bales of cotton. All the mills in Greenville will be closed on Thursday of this week and the mills of Anderson will be closed on Friday and Saturday of this week. Experienced manufacturers say that they have never before been confronted with so serious a problem as that which faces them in reference to the cotton mill industry. Closing in Union. Union, S. C., Oct. 25.?Nine cotton mills in this county, representing 300,000 spindles and 8,000 looms, employing 5,000 operatives and consuming annually more than 60,000 bales of cotton will close down, it was announced to-day, for one week or more. The mill representatives say that the present price of cotton goods is not keeping apace with the advance of raw cotton, giving the mills no margin of profit. One Day in Week. Anderson, S. C., Oct. 25.?Because the price of cotton goods does not correspond with the high price of the raw cotton, the cotton mills in Anderson and vicinity will only operate five days a week. It was not announced how long this curtailment would be in force. ARRESTED IN CHESTERFIELD. Negro Charged With Serious Crime in Lancaster. Lancaster, Oct. 23.?Sheriff Hunter has succeeded in locating another badly wanted man, an old negro, about 60 years of age, named Simon Blackmon, who is charged with attempted criminal assault upon a white girl in the Rich Hill section of the county. The alleged crime was committed some months ago, but the warrant was not placed in Capt. Hunter's hands until the 7th instant, having in the meantime been in the possesion of a constable, who, after diligent search, failing to find Blackmon in the county, turned the papers over to the sheriff. Capt. Hunter ascertained that the negro was in Chesterfield county and at his instance has been arrested and lodged in the Chesterfield jail, a telegram being received to-day by the Lancaster sheriff from Sheriff Douglass to that effect. tt??i ?*_~,j r<v>?o_ L/cip i. nuuier uaa wucu iuc uutoterfleld officer to hold fast to the prisoner until he can go after him. next week upon the adjournment of the court now in session here. Banks to Consolidate. The following is from last Friday's issue of the Blackville Courier: "At the regular monthly directors' meeting of the Bank of Blackville held at the bank here Friday there were several important matters acted upon looking to the good of Blackville community financially. A full board of the directors were present Those coming over from Aiken were Messrs. H. M. Dibble, president Bank of Aiken, James Powell, vice-president Bank of Aiken, C. K. Henderson and B. F. Holley, directors of Bank of Aiken. A resolution was adopted favoring the merging of the Bank of Blackville into the Bank of Western Carolina, being a combination of Bank of Aiken, Bank of Barnwell, Bank of Blackvllle and other strong banks under the name of Bank of Western Carolina with a paid in capital of $300,000 and surplus of $300,000, thereby creating a strong financial institution and by far the strongest bank in Southern South Carolina, it being composed of good banks with large deposits already on a dividend paying basis and financiered and controlled by bank people of long experience in banking and finance and of known ability. They are desirous that some of this stock be placed in Blackville among the depositors of Bank of Blackville and it looks like a good investment. "Another important matter practically decided was the building of an up-to-date bank building in the near future at some good central location of which the people of Blackville will be proud. "The deposits of Bank of Blackville are largest in its history, being over $100,000." ORDEAL OP A BRIDEGROOM. Paraded In Clown's Garb and Robbed of Wife by Bachelor's Club. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 23.?Clothed in the suit and cap of a clown, with his face painted red and green, and then compelled to ride on the back of a mule while his bride unwillingly followed in a dilapidated vehicle, Frank A. Reed, of Elmira, N. Y., decided that his friends were carrying a joke too far. The bridegroom was a member of a bachelor club in Chester, Pa., where he formerly lived, and by his marriage had violated one of the rules of the club. After he had been held in this nitv whilp his wife was sent sDeedins to her home in Brooklyn on an express train in charge of one of the club members, Reed threatens, when he has been to Brooklyn and recovered his bride, to return to this city and cause several arrests. Horses, mules, buggies, wagons, harness, etc., at Jones Bros. Prices reasonable. A new load of stock just received. "QUEER COURTESY." Senator Scores Columbia for Charging Guests at Taft Luncheon. Columbia, October 23.?Because he was asked to pay $10 for a plate at the luncheon which will be given to President Taft on the occasion of his visit to this city November 6, Senator B. R. Tillman has declined to attend the luncheon, and states that he may not serve on the reception committee. Senator Tillman states that, while Columbia is to be the nominal host of Mr. Taft, the city expects the State at large to pay for the President's entertainment. The letter in which Senator Tillman makes these statements is addressed to the secretary of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, who wrote asking Mr. Tillman if he would attend the luncheon. Senator Tillman says he received an invitation to the luncheon, and with it an invitation to send a check for $10.00. Mr. Tillman continues: "This may be a new way of con ducting entertainments in South Carolina that will find favor in the future, but it is wholly contrary to all the ideas of courtesy and hospitality that I ever heard of in this State, and I do not propose lend any laid or countenace to it." Mr. Tillman, in concluding his letter, says, since "it seems to be the official scheme to ask men to meet the President and have them pay the expenses, I tell you emphatically, no, I will not attend the luncheon." Gov. Ansel and the other members of the committee in charge of the affair have accepted invitations and paid for tickets, as have also more han one hundred prominent residents of South Carolina outside of Colubia, including United States Senator Smith and Chief Justice Jones. NEGRO DESPERADO KILLED. After Shooting a Magistrate and a Negro Child. At Sumter Wednesday while Magistrate Douglas Jenkins and Deputy Charles Jenkins were attempting to arrest a desperate negro named Geo. Mitchell, the latter fired upon and seriously wounded Magistrate Jenkins and the negro's stray shot caught a negro child in the neck, crippling it for life. The officer, returning the fire, killed Mitchell instantly. The coroner's jury exonerated them. There was intense excitement for a timp Jpnklna heine Drominently connected. The universal verdict is that Mitchell got exactly what he deserved, and that the community in which he lived is better off without j him. "special notices. Advertisements Under This Head 25c. For 25 Words or Less. Wanted?To contract with party or parties to haul 20 or 30 thousand brick from railroad to my store lot at once. PH1LLIPP MURPHY. Lost.?Between Thomas Clayton's and Bethel church, one ladies' cloak; color, tan. The finder will be rewarded by returning same to THOMAS CLAYTON. Wanted.?To buy a good secondj hand violin, Don't care whether it is in good or bad condition, but must j have good tone. Apply at The Herald office, stating price wanted for instrument. Rye and oats seed for sale.?Rye $1.75 a bushel; oats 65 cents a bushel, f. o. b. Cope. These grown by me. Cash must accompany order. J. B. TRAYWICK, Cope, S. C. Wanted.?First class man to act as book-keeper and manager of new mercantile business. Must give surety bond. Salary $1,000 a year. Will also pay for bond. None but experienced man need apply.?FARMER'S MERCANTILE CO., Ehrhardt, S. C. For Sale.?Six head of stock. Two first-class mules, in good order and sound, five and nine years old, good workers; also one bay horse mule, a little thin but sure a good mule, about nine years old; also a red mule, about eight years old; also one large bay mare, known as the Hartzog mare. Anyone can tell you all about this horse. I also have a nice buggy mare, perfectly gentle, not afraid of anything, sound, and only eight years old; any child can drive her. Any one wanting a nice little family nag, this is the one for you. I also have two timber carts; two 2-horse frnna rmo tmnA nR Tlf*W: also One 4-horse wagon (Delk's make); two 11-horse wagons; also one 8-wkeel jlog cart, cost new $200.00; also about 900 feet % Inch, 1 Inch and 1 Vz Inch best quality manila rope, some of it new; also 250 feet wire ! cable. If you need a mule or a horse or can use any of the above, I will sell at a very low cash price, or on time with good security. See me at once. MALCOLM MOYE, Bamberg, S. C. Notice to the People of Barnwell and Bamberg Counties. The incorporators of the Barnwell and Bamberg Mutual Benefit Association, organized for the purpose of giving the people of the two counties, male and female between the years of 18 to 65 years of age, insurance on their lives at cost, require no medical examination, only a certificate from local director that you are free from chronic disease. Blanks furnished on application. And in order to secure one thousand policy holders within the next sixty days we have decided to write fifty policies in each township at cost as follows: Advance assessment $1.25. Policy fee, 50 cents, making a total of $1.75 to secure membership in the association. This offer to close December the 15th. After that date we will put a canvasser in the field and the admission fee of five dollars will be charged each applicant. Write for information and application blanks and secure membership at once, to Frank H. Creech, President, or William McNab, Secretary and Treasurer, Barnwell, S. C. | Some Mistakes are | ' I Not Serious,::::: I 1 >JF] but tne one wno maKes tne mistaKe 01 going ijr \2r from store to store and asking for an article, j@ ? A and then not getting what they want, has |A ;.?$ 4 ? & made a costly error. Time is money. |A X We have the goods, and they are here for ElC ^ you, to keep you from making the mistake of fir 4 jg asking for an article that we haven't got. Pg hum ' I FINE TOILET GOODSj | A is complete and up-to-date: Ask for a Patent CK 5J Medicine that is not on our shelves. : : fir HpJ We sell cigars to smoke and serve Soda rSJ 8M Water to drink. Any rare prescription care- raf Aj fully compounded. If the mistake is made by |ft A calling for something that we haven't got, we . K /S will gladly get it for you as soon as possible, K -M xj and without any extra cost to you. : : : : Br XI : : Telephone your wants to No..<48. : IS Aj Prescriptions a Specialty jA tsi gPeoples Drug Gal J || OUR FALL DISPLAY OF . | j|J Choice Furniture J is ready for inspection, and we want an expression from yon as to how you like it. Walk right in, we'll be glad you've come, and we know the verdict will j . be favorable to onr swell display of all kinds of house-furnishings and the reasonable prices. If yon liave a house to furnish, or even want to buy sWjfe a single piece, it will pay you to inspect our stock of furniture in all lines. The vast sco*1 >f our furniture, the splendid values, and tho emphatic savings in prices make it worth your while to come to the store and select what you want, even if you live miles away. Anyone wanting furniture can be suited here. We have the best at lowest prices. Remember, we also carry RUGS, MATTING, STOVES, and RANGES, and conduct the only exclusive furniture store in the county. Rv the wav. come in and see that beautiful Ma ?'# v f _ _ _ hogany Bedroom Suite. I ^ Q. 0. SIMMONS 11 THE FURNITURE STORE I Opposite Hoover's Drag Store. BAMBERG, S. C. I 1????/ roi -301??101?_icij VI NO. 451 IS THE | LUCKY WINNER ! J ; BIS H . Hi A Bi \ . sent enjoyment. M ^ ; ( A CHRISTMAS PRESENT f '2? ' 1 I ^ M< 1 We are also going to give away to our customers a cosuj Christmas gift, which will be a SOLID GOLD LADLES' i * WATCH, 14 k., the price of which is $35.00. Tickets will be given with every cash purchase of 50 cents, beginning Monday, November 1st. The watch will be * displayed at our new store in Ehrhardt, for the examination of everybody. Come and get your tickets. ' > [ S. FINN'S Jewelry Store f H EHRHARDT, S. C. ft;, I be=?jot?for?iocs!;