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? Wi}2 ?amhivrg ISjrralh ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1801. A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing rtfiioo TvhiVh i? enninDed with Mer gentlialer 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 cent? a month for less thai: one year. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per incfc 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 advertising. Contracts for advertising 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 our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, Dec. 30, 1909. And we actually received a nice dividend check in our Christmas mail! Now wouldn't that jar you! Honestly we would like to see every township in Bamberg vote a . special tax for good roads. A special tax for roads is just as important as a special tax for schools. One weekly newspaper in this State, the Abbeville Medium, is edited and published entirely by young ladies. The editor and type-setters are all girls, the only man about the place be^ng the janitor and pressman. If everybody returned their property at its market value we would hear little talk of high taxes and the burden of taxation would be borne equally as well. But under the present system you can't blame a man for returning his property as low as possible. We wish that we could impress on every newspaper published in this State that the money received from advertising whiskey is blood money. Many counties are now dry by a vote of the citizens of those counties and - yet some newspapers are printing advertisements of mall order whiskey houses. In this time of high prices, it is a wise farmer who raises everything on his farm which he can use. There is little money in cotton at fourteen cents with the prices of everything else so high. The farmer, who lives at home and has cotton as a surplus crop is the one you will find out of debt and prosperous. The taxable property of the town of Bamberg, as returned for taxation, amounts to something over i $400,000. We feel certain that the actual value is four times as great, in other words that the property of this town is not returned for taxation at one-fourth of its actual value. And conditions are just as bad everywhere else. This thing of inequality in taxation is not confined to Bamberg. Remember you can get The Bamberg Herald one year and the Progressive Fanner six months, all for $1.25. But you must take advantage of this offer quickly. We cannot hold it open long. Lots of our present subscribers have already taken advantage of the offer. Let others do likewise. It makes no difference how far ahead you hare paid for The Herald. Pay $1 for another year and you get the Progressive Farmer six months for 25 cents. This newspaper has paid no attention to the report that editor J, C. Hemphill, of the News and Courier, is to become the distributor ol federal patronage for South Carolina thus supplanting Jne. G. Capers, nov referee for this State. It is well known that Mr. Hemphill is a per sonal friend of the president, and it is also well-known that the editor ol the News and Courier is not a poll tician nor office-seeker. If, there fore, he should assist in making ap pointments of good white men t< federal positions in this State be cause of his personal relations witl Mr. Tat, why whe is to complain ex cept the Republicans? Surely th< appointees Editor Hemphill is credit ed with having secured are a grea improvement over what we have had and for our part we are glad he ha taken a hand in affairs, if it be tru* that he has. In our mail Christmas morning w received notice from a bank as t our note falling due. It's a sham to notify a poor country editor aboi : what he owes on Christmas morninf ain't it? [ Let one of your new year resoli - tions be that to pay your debl > promptly during the coming year an not to go in debt for anything yo r cannot see your way clear to pay fo: 5 We want the year 1910 to sho' great growth for Bamberg. Let all make up our minds to work fc t Bamberg as never before. We have ! good town; let's make it a better on L in every way. Poor Dr. Cook! Evidently he di not spend a happy Christmas and hi new year is not likely to be so pleas i ant. He has been repudiated by a his friends, as it seems his claims a 1 to climbing Mt. McKinley and findin | the North Pole are simply fabric* tions. The man must be craz: Surely he could not expect but whs ! his claims would be rigidly Invest | gated. 1 A number of the weekly newspar ers of the State issued handson Christmas editions. All were credil able alike to the publishers and th towns in which they were printec We extend congratulations to al However, we would suggest to a fei of the brethren that if they woul take a little more pains with thei press work on these special edition they would add to their looks at leas a hundred per cent. Special edition on good paper should be well printed Poor press work spoils many a: otherwise good job of printing. Thi is advice, brethren, not a criticism so please accept it as it is given. Some talk is going on in som newspapers as to a license for newa papers in the towns in which they ar published. A newspaper is a busi ness enterprise, and there is no gooi reason why it should not pay a li cense. Charge the city authoritie for what you do, just as you do othe folks and thus maintain your owi self-respect and the respect of you people. Newspapers should qui their cringing way of wanting favor because they do so much work fo nothing. Be independent, pay fo what you get, and get pay for wha you do. Suppose you do boom you town free. Don't it help you as muc! as anybody else? Prosperity of the Farmer. This year we shall raise 3,000 000,000 bushels of corn. It is har to realize what that means, says writer in Success. It is a harves greater than the bumper crop c 1906. These 3,000,000,000 bushel * ?-11 1? ? *?mor nvor Will Ut; n uiw IU IUC lai iuv> VTV. T500,000,000, or over three times a much as the corn was in 1906. Las year the value of farm products i the United States was nearly $8 000,000; this year it will b over $8,000,000,000. This is mor than the entire wealth of Americ in 1850. In 1850 the farms of th United States were worth less tha $4,000,000,000, to-day they ar worth $28,000,000,000. Every da the farms of the country are wort $3,400,000 more than they were th day before. It is a good thing for the peopl at large that the farmers are gel ting their share of the general Ir crease in wealth. The $28,000,000 000 that they get each year amount to only $700 apiece when it is dii tributed over all the farmers an farm laborers in the country. Bi the per capita rate is growing and i bound to grow still more. During the next twenty years w are going to see a great revolution i formincr A crrip.1llt.ilTft is to be mor intelligent and more intense, ne^ plants are to be introduced, a bett use is to be made of the land and a . acre will produce twice as much s . it now produces. The benefit of th: new production should not be m( . nopolized by railroads, elevator con panies and harvester trusts. j should go to the farmers and to tl people, and it should show Itself i better food, clothing and housin . and in more widespread educatio for the great mass of us.?Farmer . Union Sun. f ? SHOT-UP HIS HOME. t r . Spartanburg Man Swears Out Wa rant for Guest who Used Gun. ^ Spartanburg, December 28.? ^ warrant was sworn out to-day t Turner Cantrell, of the Boilir Springs section of the county, f< the t arrest of Roscoe Wall, a we } known young man of the count charging him with shooting up h 1 home several nights ago. Mr. Cantrell claims that Wall ar " a party of yong men called at h home and he entertained them wil phonograph music. While dispen " ing music he alleges Wall drew h 3 pistol and began firing, shooting nei 5 the musical instrument, and cau ing great excitement. e . NEW BANK FOR BARNWELL. o e Meeting Held Tuesday, I^arge Block ; 't of Stock Subscribed. r On last Tuesday afternoon a number of the citizens of Barnwell met in the law office of G. M. Green, Esq., * and formulated plans for starting a 1 new bank here. The proposed bank \ will have a capital stock of $30,000 ' U and will be known as the Home Bank 1 r. ( of Barnwell. A committee was appointed to apply for a commission to W ? _ ? v- ( , incorporate. mis wiu ue icwiycu s within the next few days and it is ,r hoped to have all the stock subscribed a immediately. All of the stock will be 0 placed in Barnwell county. Nq effort will be made to get outside capital, as it is believed that all cf the stock ^ will be subscribed locally.?Barnwell 19 Sentinel. I" 11 PARSON A CHICKEN THIEF. is ^ Colored Preacher at Newberry Robi bed Hen Honse as a-Side Line. lt Newberry, December 22.?As a l" side line to his ministry, a negro Baptist preacher engaged in the business of stealing chickens and selling )_ them, and now he is engaged in r work for the public, having received a sentence of thirty days in each . e case against him in the Mayor's I* Court yesterday morning, his sent' ences aggregating six months. V The* o manv rhirlrens were X nav UP o WV* uaw*U|r ~ ^ being stolen came to the attention r of the police force some time ago. 8 Along about the 9th of the month t Mr. W. A. Hill lost eight. / On the s night of the 15 th Mr. George W. Swittenberg lost eight, Mrs. Anna Q Crouch three and Mr. W. A. McSwain 3 five. On the night of the 16th Mr. l? W. O. Wilson lost seven chickens and a turkey, weighing about twenty-two pounds. e The police force got busy. Policei man Franklin and Policeman T. P. e Adams went out on the trail, and Poi liceman Austin and Policeman Lee 3 were looking for the wholesale dealer [- in other people's chickens. Some of s the chickens were recovered, and r they were traced to Clarence Thacka cr, a negro Baptist preacher. r It was learned that Thacker would t have some chickens for delivery on 1 8 the Mollohon Mill hill on Saturday, r and Policeman Lee and Policeman i ,r Austin were on the lookout for him. X Policeman Lee went in one direction r and Policeman Austin in another. _ h Policeman Lee found Thacker, and at the time he caught him Thacker had ten chickens in a sack on his back. _ ' Thacker was tried yesterday morning on six charges of stealing chick- * a ens. He admitted selling the chick,t ens, but denied stealing them, saying ( that he had got them from other ne- t _ groes. He was convicted and sent- } lb enced to serve thirty days or to pay ' a fine of $50 on each charge. He is serving on the county chain gang. When arrested, Thacker had a pistol on his person. He contended that ' this pistol did not belong to him. ,D Those who lost chickens are con? vinced that the cchickens did not bea long to him. n Some of the parties have identie fied and recovered their chickens. He y also had his pockets full of eggs ^ when arrested. The Old Home. e Boys and girls, be patient and kind t- with one another in your homes. Do t- you ever think how short a time you will all be together to enjoy the old ;s home? Very soon you will grow upx 3- and go from beneath its roof to a d home of your own, or perhaps you ( it will go away to a distant city to earn r is your living. Then you will know what it is to have a home and kind e friends who really care for you. ( n Be careful of those little differ- i e ences that occur between you and 1 f? your brother and sister, at which you >r flare up and say nara woras, some- 1 n times there is a quarrel which is < ts afterward made up, but you are never ? is again quite the same with each other J >- as you were before. , i- These dear fridnds will soon pass [t out of your life, and never again can '< te you have any more like them. They * n are your folks and dearer and truer . g than any other ever will be to you. < ,n I will remember my own dear old s' home and often wish that I could be ^ gathered with father and mother, sis- j ters and brothers, once more (beneath its roof. But that can never be again, for the brothers and sisters ' r. are now all scattered. Some are : dead, the others are far away, and father and mother are peacefully J A sleeping in a near-by cemetery. >y ?~ J State Prison Makes Money. Jr Columbia, Dec. 24.?The State penitentiary has produced over fifty i ' thousand bushels of cotton this year and in addition over fifty thousand bushels of oats and corn as money ! j crops and the management will pre.. sent the legislature with a Christmas tn present in the form of the record breaking iinancial showing. ] * J A Lit;L BUrpiUt) Vl cigui; muuoauu dollars is to be turned into the State Dtreasury. WITH HER BRASS KNUCKLES. Mrs. Cepola Entirely Wrecks the La dies' Beneficial Society. Pittsburg, Dec. 21.?Mrs. Mary Ce )ola, an athletic looking young ma :ron of Wilmerding, was fined $5 fo issault and battery on the person o Mrs. Stella Pokal and others, com prising the Ladies' Beneficial Societ; )f Wildering. Mrs. Pokal is treasurer of the La lies' Beneficial Society and Mrs. Ce >ola had demanded an audit of th< society books. Mrs. Pokal had as serted that she would whip Mrs. Ce pola on sight. Mrs. Cepola decider svhen she started to attend a meetini recently that she would slip her hus sand's brass knuckles into her stock ing?to be used in case of trouble Dne of the members said on the stam :hat Mrs. Pokal "sort of butted Mrs Cepola in the stomach and knocke< ier over the table." Other evidence was that as Mrs ' 'orirtio ?trn cclpH tn hpr fppt. Rbft wa igain floored by an unabridged die lionary, which caught her in the bad )f the neck. Mrs. Cepola appears t< lave become angry about this time sut before getting to her feet for. an )ther knock she reached down int< ler stock for the knuckles and'lDegai ;o fight. Mrs. Cepola is said to hav< vhipped all of the 20 members wh< vere present. Song of the Editor. low dear to my heart is the stead: subscriber, iVho pays in advance without skip ping a year, Vho lays down his dollar and offers it gladly Lnd casts 'round the office a halo o cheer. xT>>n novor *nvs "fiton it. I canno afford it," )r "getting more papers each da? than I read," But always says "send it, the whol< outfit likes it? n fact we regard it a business need.' low welcome is he when he steps ii the sanctum; low he makes our heart throb, hov how he makes our eye dance; We outwardly thank him, we in wardly bless him, The steady subscriber who pays ii advance. ?Buffalo (Mo.) Record MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina?Count; >f Bamberg. Mrs. M. E. Abies, plaintiff, against D. K. Ray and J. F. Jones, defend ants. By virtue of a decree of the cour )f common pleas for Bamberg coun ;y, in the above stated case, date< November 8th, 1909, I, H. C. Folk Vlaster for Bamberg county, will sel :o the highest bidder, for cash, a :he court house door of Bamberj jounty, between the legal hours o ;ale, on Monday, January 3rd, 1910 he same being legal salesday in sai< nonth, the following real estate, to vit: All that piece parcel or tract o and, situate lying and being ii Bamberg county, State aforesaid containing two hundred and eigh ;een (218) acres, more or less counded on the North by lands o VI. M. Roach and others, South b; ands of the estate of D. H. Rice, oi he East by lands of Mrs. C. C. Starr md on the West by lands of F. M Ray, now Mrs. S. H. Counts, am )thers. Sold at risk of former pur jhaser. Purchaser to pay ior papers. H. C. FOLK, Master for Bamberg County. MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina?Count; >f Bamberg. The Bank of Branchville, plaintiff against R. C. Woods, defendant. By virtue of a decree of the cour )f common pleas for Bamberg coun :y, in the above stated case, datei November 10th, 1909, I, H. C. Foli Vlaster for Bamberg county, will sel to the highest bidder, for cash, a the court house door of Bamber, county, between the legal hours o sale, on Monday, January 3rd, 1910 the same being legal salesday in sai< nonth, the following real estate, -to svit: All that certain tract of land situ ite in Bamberg county, said State containing seventeen and one-hal (17%) acres and having such shap q nint thereof made by Prestoi Dtt, surveyor, dated December 15th 1905, doth represent, and boundei by lands of Wash Williams, Mrj Ella Mays, George Stephens, and th public road. ALSO All that certain other tract of lan situate in said county and State, con taining fifty-one (51) acres, and ha\ Ing such Bhape as a plat there of made by Preston Ott, suveyo: dated December 11th, 1905, dot represent, and bounded by lands c Mrs. William Mays, C. F. Smoal George Stephens, Wash Williams an the Edisto river. ALSO That certain other tract of lane Bituate in said county and State, cor taining fifty-eight (58) acres, mor or less, and having such shape as plat thereof made by Preston Ot' surveyor, dated December 21st, 190i doth represent, and bounded by land of Mrs. Ela Smoak, Reuben Moni gomery, George Stephens, R. ( Wood, Wash Williams and Georg Stephens. Sold at risk of former pui chaser. Purchaser to pay for papers. JL C. FOLK^ Master ror uamoerg ^uuhlj. \ - -v . , v If ? Two Carloads Horses and ; Mules Coining. : : : . \ ' Our Mr. f. P. Jones is now in the West boy(ing two carltds of Horses and Miles. They will niTTO* MM utaaIj'o Mntf (at Aorfltai* I ^ 1 I ul117v OW1. mtlUl BvAl TTvvn 9 pOpvl IVI lUlUltl ?. i. I ootice. D?it bay ntil yw see these twe loads. , I Jones Bros. I j fl Bfnberg, South Carolina mJK - I GREETINGS! 1 ' This bank wis) s to all its patrons and friends as happy , a new year at It is possible for any one to have. Times are good. TH 1910 outlook is bright. To everyone with a cheerft and optimistic spirit who is looking for t chances to bet t himself, the coming year is going to / offer abundaa opportunities. Here's hoping that every one of our rei ers finds himself or herself much farther along on : e road to fortune and independence at the end of 191 than at the beginning. We are very , i | 3 sure that our ink will be a help, in this respect to everyone that ses it. And we ask your patronage with the assurj ee that it will be of great benefit to you as well as us. In the coming year, as in all previous years, this ban will be found to be loyal to the best A i interests of afiflts customers. * . I r I-a Q Resources over 117,000.00. 4 per cent, interest al> 5 lowed on savi ;s deposits. ' I \ 'V>' a I EHRHARDf BANKING COMPANY. |/1? B Ehrhardt, South Carolina. ^B 4 ' gCARLOAt HORSES!! t I \ I have just nceived a carload of extra fine I U driving hork They are the kind yon are * ! ! not accustomed t| seeing in Bamberg. Afl well I bred, high grade Jock from North Carolina and j Tennessee. No lestern horses in the lot They ; ^ : are FOR SALE. I yon want something nice at t m right prices, I cansoit yon. Come see me pck.? ; i I ; I#;| I If CAAA A ^ | U ?J? J? |OiYlV//VIV || n BAMBERG, \ SOUTH CAROLINA/* M xn ioc=ioi V fft It! T fT iTl Ifi ffi .If ifl.JiTi ffl Tl Tl ffl iTl ITI ffl Tl ffl ITl IB 111 i | Seasonate Delicacies! f , 1 5 I HAVE JUST RECEDED AN IMMENSE STOCK OF 1 T ? T FRESH GROCERIES, |ND I WANT TO SERVE YOU. "J* f m> LOOK OYER THE LIS AND PRICES, AND GIVE US Mm j ? YOUR ORDER. WE (fARANTEE TO PLEASE YOU. t T Fresh Fruit Qke Material Just In. jj # j ?- -M. sp#>df?d Raisins. 1 pound pjkages, two for 25c <| t J Currants, per package, only.!. '. iuc x e Citron, per pound, only x .. 20c 9 a flZ. Dates, per pound, only.. \ J5c Mm l. 3 Brown and Pulverized Sugarfor Cakes. T 3 5 Heinz s Loose pickl ? new an^fresh, very fine, each 1c J* e 5 Reboiled Georgia Cane Syrup per gallon, only 50c ^ Blue Label Sweet Sugar Corn, ?r can, only - 15c * ) Jt Stalk Sweet Sugar Corn, per cn .i-lOc t ' F d j Curtis Brand Garden Peas, peitan .. -15C ^ Curtis Brand String Beans, pe^ can 15c w jft, The finest thai are put in cans. jL i- J Gold Band Hams, per pound...!... ;....18%c y r, Toxaway Co.'iee, 1 lb. can 35c.f or 3 lb. cans for 85c w h jft, All we ask is tha you give it a trial. ^ >f T" TRY SNOWFLAKE FLOUR, art if it does not prove satisfactory, [, ^ we refund your money. 90c inly for 24 pounds. "J* d (ft Karo Corn Syrup, per half galin, only SOc ftp 2 Jumbo Brand Tomatoes, 3 lb. cms only 10c j* Riverside Tomatoes, 3 lb. canst only 9c 1. (ft, Did you ever stop to hink that I am head- ftp ; > t- ~X quarters for Heinz's Gqds? Full line Pickles, ST e Preserves, etc., of thes fine goods. y a Diplomat Lemon Cling Peaches, :lb. cans, only .?uc mm t? ^ Evaporated Peaches, new and fssh, 2 lb. for 25c If '' 2* Big line FINE CANDIES, ala FRUITS of . every descrip- f| : tionu Everything that is seaonable can be found here, V all fresh. Let us fill your net order. Prompt delivery. ,L i E. BARt; PRICE f . J BAMBERG, ...... .. .. *-> SOUTH CAROLINA t