The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 25, 1909, Page 3, Image 3
LIQUOR SHIPPING LAW.
New Federal Statute Will Put C. O.
D. Orders Under the Ban. ..
Washington, D. C.. November 22.
?After January 1, express companies,
railroad companies and other
common carriers will be very careful
about accepting liquor for shipment
into prohibition States and local option
counties where liquor is under
the ban.
In the act to codify, revise and
amend the penal laws of the United
Rtfttpn which becomes effective Jan.
1, there is a provision which imposes
a fine of not more than $5,000 on any
officer, agent or employe of any railroad,
express company or other common
carrier who knowingly "delivers
to any person other than the*person
to whom the liquor has been
consigned, unless upon the written
order in each instance of the bona
fide consignee, in states where prohibition
prevails."
In addition to the fine, the offender
may be imprisoned for not more
than two years. The act also imposes
a fine of not more than $5,000
if the liquor company, express company
or other common carrier "or
any other person collects the purchase
price or any part thereof, before,
on or after delivery from the
consignee or from any other person,
or shall in any way act as the agent
of the buyer or seller of any liquor."
And all liquor thus shipped intc
prohibition states must be plainly
markd with the name of the consignee,
the nature of the contents oi
the package and the quantity contained.
A failure to do this makes
the offender subject to a fine of not
more than $5,000 and the liquor will
be seized and condemned by the government.
In the opinion of the law officers
of the government, the amendment tc
* * - ?.ill u
tne penal coae wm mane euecuvt
the state laws which prohibit the
sale of liquors within the states that
forbid the sale and manufacture of
spirituous or malt liquors. Under exisiting
conditions the laws are such
that it is an easy matter to get liquor
into states where it is forbidden
by means of the interstate commerce
law, as the police power ol
the prohibition states is powerless tc
stop railroad and express companies
or other common carriers or persons
from acting as agents for those
who want liquor to sell on the quiet.
There are now pending in the
house and seaate bills to amend the
interstate commerce law that have
for their object the exclusion of liqor
from the states where prohibition
prevails, but it is said by the best
lawyers in congress that it will
not be necessary to enact further
legislation. While the law does not
make it obligatory on the government
to notify the railroad companies, express
companies or other common
carriers, it is not improbable that
circulars containing excerpts of the
i new law will be forwarded to the
Interested parties. Reports of the
various state temperance associations
' intend, it is said, to keep a careful
watch on the express companies and
( railroads to see that the law is not
violated.
Southern Loses Case.
Bamberg, S- C., Nov. 19.?A ver
diet against the Southern Railway
company for $475.00 was given to J.
A. Tant by the jury in the court of
common pleas here yesterday morning.
The evidence showed as follows:
Mr. Tant went to the station
at Fort Motte and asked for a ticket
to Denmark. The agent replied that
l be did not have any tickets at that
' time but that he Vould see the conductor
on the train and tell him not
f to charge Mr. Tant but one dollar,
the regular fare from Fort Motte to
Denmark. Mr. Tant boarded the
train and went well until he was on
the train between B ranchville and
Bamberg, he having changed trains
( at the former place. When he reached
Bamberg the conductor told him
that he must pay the fare to Denmark,
but Mr. Tant having paid the
conductor on the Columbia division
his one dollar, had only thirty-five
cents left and consequently did not
have enough to pay the difference to
Denmark. He was put off at Bamberg
and aside from the great inconvenience
he was sick and without
money. He waited here until the
next day when he borrowed enough
money to carry him on to his home in
Denmark.
The case will .very likely be ap
pealed.
" Talks of Rich Man's Duty.
New York, Nov. 21.?The pastor of
the well-to-do Collegiate Baptist
church of the . Covenant astonished
his comfortable congregation tonight
by. a declaration- concerning what
rich men should do.
i '-'The intellectual gymnastics,"
I said the Rev. Dr. Haywood, "of the
average New York preacher when
confronted with the text, 'It is easier
for a camel to go through the eye of
a needle than for a rich man to enter
the kingdom of heaven," are pitiable.
"I am perhaps the largest property
holder here tonight, but I deny the
right of any man to exploit the land
f while there are hungry stomachs to
j fill. I let my property to tenants for
just as little as will pay taxes and
the expenses of one girl whom I am
putting through college.
"I have known but two religous
men in my life. One is dead and the
other is on the Bowery. He has given
millions to the poor and he lives the
life of a day laborer. There is
stamped on the face of Eads Howe,
sometimes called the millionaire
. hobo, more world wisdom, more
saintliness, than on any other face I
ever saw."
Dies as Result of Fall.
Greenville, November 1 9.?Walter
Smith, an employe of the Poe mill,
died to-day as the result of an injury
he received Saturday night in falling
I off a street car. He attempted to get
off while the car was in motion and
was thrown to the ground, sustaining
the injuries from which death resulted.
Smith was 28 years old and leaves
a wife but no children. His body
was carried to Lowell, N. C.
CYCLIST CHASED BY ELEPHANTS
They Gave Him a Lively Ride When
He Ran Into a Baby of the Herd.
Cycling in Rhodesia occasionally
has "the charm of adventure?if there
is much charm in the excitement of
the chase when the chased is the
human rider.
A cyclist who was riding from
! Broken Hill to Ndala on the edge of
. a bush clearing almost ran into the
hindquarters of a baby elephant?
half a score hands high.
"Vopv lilrolv T npvpr e'nt off m V
bike so quickly before, and I suppose
both of us looked rather bamboozled.
My new acquaintance gave
. me a long, doubtful look and, scream?
ing, ran toward home or rather an
. old tusker and three cows browsing
. on the opposite end of the glade,"
he said in telling of his adventure.
"In wonderment I stood rooted to
the spot. The wind was blowing toward
me, and the bull, a magnificent
monster, swung his trunk to and
fro through the air to smell me out.
It appears that elephants ^cannot see
very far; besides, the sun was right
against them. As soon as the now
whimpering youngster arrived by his
protectors they fumbled with their
trunks all over him to find out what
was wrong, uttering the while a
curious rumbling noise through the
long nostril.
"By this time I thought it was
: time to return. In swinging my
( cycle around some dry twigs broke
p under me with sharp cracks. xne
puzzled bull stood for a moment moi
tionless, with his huge ears extended
; like some topgallant sails; then, as
| he heard the chink of metal through
. my mounting the bike, the huge ani[
mal lurched forward with a grunt
that rumbled as distant thunder
down his big trunk.
- "I waited no longer, but pedalled
' for dear life, and wonder even now
| how I dodged the many obstacles on
[ the 12 foot path.
"Behind me came a crashing of
; trees. I did not look back, but put
; on, as it were, more steam, until,
after a retreat of some four miles,
1 hearing nothing more, I nearly came
a neat cropper over an ancient tree
stnmp.
! "Still a trifle flurried, I dismounted,
but except the sighing of the
\ forest and the buzzing of tsetse flies
there was no other sound. A few
[ miles behind my carriers came bel'
lowing along with their peculiar
; swinging gait. As I believed a yarn
; of those elephants might frighten
| them further, mum was the word.
; However, I halted them on pretence
of desiring a rest, and after an
| hour's delay we all started once
: more. My cycle enabled me to scout
| cautiously in advance, but as I ex'
pected the elephants had gone to
some more sequestered sylvan retreat
and nothing more was seen of
fVinrvi ' ' "D V* Afii n T_T A*?O 1 /I
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Shall We Sell Hay or Feed It?
I do not think that for the average
. farmer it is wise to sell hay off the
farm. Much, however, depends on
the condition of a man's land. Of
the deep peaty soils of the reclaimed
swamp land of the coastal sections I
believe that a farmer could profitably
sefl peavine hay at $15 a ton, if he
will invest the money largely in phosphate
and potash that his soil especially
needs. This soil has a great deal
of potential nitrogen and the pea
roots will give him more.
But on the sandy cotton soils it is
not wise to sell hay. But no matter
how impecunious the farmer is, if he
has a fine crop of peavine hay he can
very rapidly increase hjs stock of
cattle if he sells some of the hay and
invests the money in stock to eat the
remainder, and in this way can soon
get stock enough to consume all he
can grow.
But the difficulty with the average
farmer is that he will sell the
hay and put the money in his
pocket and let the land suffer. It
does look like waste to let a crop of
peas remain on the land when a
profit coul be made from their sale
as hay, or a profit for the farm in
feeding the hay. But what we are
trying do is to convince the farmer
that good systematic farming and
stock feeding will pay him and improve
his farm. The haphazard sort
ui iuijvo uuiuuuuaici) liuuiciuuo,
and are always looking for some one
crop that they can plant and make
money out of, and trying to abandon
the crops that they could make profitable
if they would stick to a regular
system and farm. It is well enough
to tell these men that it will improve
their land to let the peas remain on
it, but with hay at $15 a ton they
are not going to do it, though they
might get the market value by feeding
it, and have the manure as a
profit. The hope of the South is in
the young men who are getting better
ideas about farming.
I believe it is perfectly possible
for a man to improve his farm and
make money selling peavine hay if
he farms in a good rotation and supplies
the land liberally with phosphoric
acid and potash. But few will
do it and will run their land down
by selling hay, and certainly the best
way to improve the farm is to feed
all the roughage grown on it, and any
man can gradually build up a herd
of cattle if he will try. In fact, on
many Southern farms I believe that
stock raising would be the most
profitable industry. ? Progressive
Farmer.
Swindlers in Eastover.
Eastover, Nov. 21.?For the past
few days tnere nas oeen a swinaier
in the community . A white man has
been canvassing the county under the
name of agent for a certain sick benefit
society. He would approach a person,
generally a negro, and interest
him in the subject. Then he would
win his point by saying, "You know
Mr. T. H. Auld, of Eastover, don't
you? Well, he is general agent for
the company in all this Mower Richland
county. Now vou give me $1
and I'll give you my receipt and you
take it to Mr. Auld and he'll issue
you the policy."
Several persons fell for this game
and now are bemoaning the loss of
their dollars.
Let us measure you for a famous
Racycle bicycle, the best on earth.
SIMMONS HARDWARE CO.
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MODERN PIED PIPER.
Smithsonian Institution Mysteriously
Ridded of Rats.
About forty-five years ago the
Smithsonian institution was infested
with rats; nothing in the building
seemed to be rat proof. They ate
skins cured with ansenical soap, or
in his home during the day, Prof.
Henry's pantry without discrimination.
Every one in the city, from
Prof. Henry to the bootblacks, had
one subject in common, and that was
"rats."
As Prof. Henry, who lived in the
east end of the building, was listening
to an account of the ruin wrought
in his home during the day. Prof.
Spencer Baird walked in and said,
just as if he had been following every
word of the family conversation, "I
have just been told that there is a
man in Philadelphia who can rid this
place of rats!"
Prnf Wanrv's pvps pvnrpflspd
est and incredulity at the same moment.
"I have his address here," went on
the assistant secretary. "He calls
himself the 'Rat King,' and won't
take a cent if a rat remains and
has?"
"We'll send for him if it takes our
last thousand cents to do it!" said
Prof. Henry, and laughingly predicted
the repetition of of the famous
old tale of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin."
Several days later the "rat king"
appeared in Washington. He was almost
as short as he was.broad, and
wore clothes too loose for the description;
they had no shape. He
carried a large oilcloth sack and a
covered basket. His penetrating
blue eyes were almost covered by
shaggy eyebrows and his blond hair
had not been cut but haggled. His
manner was short and brisk, and he
went straight tc the point, talking tc
Prof. Henry in German.
He declared that not a rat would
be in the building three days hence if
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that time he would stay in the basement
alone, every door was to be
locked, and on no account was he tc
be disturbed until he gave them the
signal. So they left him in absolute
darkness and carried out his directions.
On Sunday morning the queer old
man emerged from the darkness, sc
[confident of his success that he refused
to accept the money which was
his due then and there, but insisted
that Prof. Henry mail the check tc
him in Philadelphia the following
week.
"Now, you can leave your food in
the basement and it won't be touched!
And I won't take a cent if you
are troubled with rats," were his
parting words.
Cheese and cake were directly
placed about the building to tempt
the rats. Morning after morning
they were found as they had been
left, and from that day to this the
Smithsonian Institute has never been
seriously troubled with rats. And
no one has ever found out the secret
of the "rat king's" method.?
Youth's Companion.
It Pays to Buy for Cash.
There is probably no part of their
business in which the farmers of the
South have suffered more severely
than in their failure to pay the cash
down at the time purchases are made.
The credit system is so fastened upon
us and has become such a large and
important part of our whole business
system that many farmers will
feel that they must continue to buy
on credit a large part of the year;
but this buying on credit will have to
be stopped before we shall ever buy
to the best advantage. The man who
buys for cash is entitled to and receives
exemption from those charges
which are legitimately a part of the
selling price of goods sold on time,
These are extra cost for book-keeping
and collecting; the amounts necessary
to reimburse the merchants on
the accounts of those who never pay;
and the interest on the amouait of
the purchases for the time for which
credit is extended. These are fixed
charges on the credit system and so
long as we permit these extra charges
to be added to our purchases we
can never buy to the best advantage.
There are several ways by which
these useless charges connected with
buying on credit are avoided.
By the practice of extreme economy
for one or two years some are able
to so "catch up" financially as to enable
them to afterwards pay cash for
the things purchased. This is a heroic
method, but if none other is
possible, the suffering and inconvenience
which it brings are probably
justified by the advantages resulting
from buying only for cash. Others
nave iouna it economical to Dorrow
and pay interest on the necessary
money to pay cash for the things
which must be purchased, find that
the interest charges on the borrowed
money are less than those against
purchases made on credit.
The most promising method for
generally avoiding the buying of supplies
on credit is, probably, a diversification
of crops, which will not only
lessen the amounts needed to pay
for necessary purchases, and distribute
them throughout the year because
of the better distribution of
labor, but will also afford products
for marketing at all seasons. The
making of purchases on credit is
much easier avoided when farm products
are available for marketing at
all times than when only one crop
like cotton is sold, and that only
during the last two or three months
of the year. The dairyman, the hog
raiser, the grower of truck crops,
because the selling, like the buying,
is distributed throughout the whole
year.?Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive
Farmer.
Young Girls are Victims
of headache, as well as older women,
but all get quick relief and prompt
cure from Dr. King's New Life Pills,
the world's best remedy for sick and
nervous headches. They make pure
blood, and strong nerves and build
up your health. Try them. 25c at
Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C.
Full line sausage mills, stuffers,
and lard presses at Simmons Hardware
Co.
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THE WEALTH FINDERS.
Many of Them Have Died in Wretched
Poverty.
Recent dispatches from Colorado
Springs carried the announcement of
the death of Bob Womack, a man dependent
on charity. Recently, also,
the cable from Melbourne told that
Francis Webster had died in the poor
house at Ballirat, Australia. What
doth it profit a man if he find great
wealth and if the find wreck his life?
Life must have been one continual
tragedy for Bob Womack, as when
doing odd chores around his sister's
boarding house he looked out over
the great Cripple Creek gold fields,
which he had discovered and which
have become the source of $250,000,000
of the world's gold. Yet he
sold his life?and the find was his
life?for $300. And as old Francis
' Webster sat idly in the Ballarat benevolent
asylum he looked over on
that famous south hill out of which
1 he had lifted boulders of pure gold
such as the world had never dreamed
of even in fiction. The "Welcome
Nugget" alone weighed 165 pounds
avoirdupois.
Both these men had dreamed of
great valleys of gold, but certainly
their dreams were nothing to compare
with the gold they enabled others
to find. First they dreamed of gold
and all of the remainder of their
lives they dreamed of what they had
lost. There often is a distressing
connecting link between great, sudden
wealth and the poor house. The
death of these two men on opposite
sides of the earth coming so close
together serves to recall the uncertainty
of windfall riches.
Three years ago William Deeson
1 died in an Australian poor nouse.
' His name will always be known in
mining history, for he lifted out of
I mother earth the greatest lump of
gold that she has ever yielded. It
: was 210 pounds of gold, so pure that
it "cut like a Cheshire cheese.'
With the possible exception of the
i Witwatersand probably no other
- small area has ever produced wealth
equal to that which Comstock lode
has yielded, yet Patrick McLaughlin
and Peter O'Riley died paupers?Mcl
Laughlin filling a pauper grave, and
? O'Riley wearing out his disappointed
life prospecting alone. And Henry
s Comstock, beggared, and suffering
I from delusion, ended his miserable
? life with a bullet.
; So the tragedies of lives not molded
to enjoy or to be cursed with great
l wealth might be enumerated almost
without limit. The tragedies have by
i no means been limited to precious
s metals or to individuals. The finding
of the land, and the greatest
' gold deposit the world has ever
; known, lost the Boers their nation;
; the child of Schalk Van Niekirk,
i that one day happened to carry one of
! the shining pebbles from the Orange
i river up to the house, where it was
1 rolled around as a marble until its
sparkle opened the greatest diamond
fields in the history of the world, is
, a poor wanderer on the face of the
globe today while the find even robbed
the Van Niekirds of their hum,
ble home.
The tragedy of the negro shepherd
; who found the great Behia diamond
fields is only equalled by the tragedy
of the convict that discovered gold in
Australia. The former, when he ofincnontinn
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pure gems as the world has ever
seen, was arrested and returned to
; his master under severe punishment
and suspicion, while the diamonds
were confiscated.* But the poor New
' South Wales convict that brought in
the small nugget that was the open
sesame to fields that have yielded
$2,500,000,000 of gold, suffered not
1 only loss of the nugget, but-commitment
to hard labor and 150 stripes
; "laid on" for having "melted down
the case of a stolen gold watch."
?Indianapolis News.
, TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of State, county,
i school and all other taxes from the
. 15th day of October, 1909, until the
15th day of March, 1910, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
1910, until the 31st day of January,
1910, a penalty of 1 per cent, will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1910, until
the 28th day of February, 1910, a
penalty of 2 per cent, will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of Mar A, 1910, until the 15 th
day of March, 1910, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
'THE LEVY.
For State purposes 5*4 mills
For county purposes, 3^4 mills
Constitutional school tax,..3 mills
Total HVz mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14, 7 mills
Binnakers, No. 12, 3 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19, 2 mills
Colston, No. 18, 2 mills
Cuffie Creek, No. 17,... 2 mills
Denmark, No. 21, 6 mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22, 4 mills
Govan, No. 11,.. 4 mills
Hampton, No. 3,..'. 2 mills
Heyward, No. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, No. 1, 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 1 mill'
Lees, No. 23, 4 mills
Midway, No. 2, 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20, 2 mills
Olar, No. 8, : 4 mills
St. Johns, No. 10 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years, except
Confederat soldiers and sailors, who
are exempt at fifty years of age, are
liable to a poll tax of one dollar.
CapitatiOD dog tax, 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of Janary,
1909, are liable to a poll tax of
one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are requested
to do so on or before 1st of
January, 1910, and thereby save the
penalty and costs.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day of October, 1909, until
the 1st day of March, 1910.
JOHN F. FOLK.
Treasurer Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. O., Sept. 30, 1909.
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*5? Horses and Mules. This lot of stock is now being pur- a?
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at We are handling lots of stock these days, and there is a X
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