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Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contract for advertising not subject to cancelation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public intereat. We require the name and ad- 1 dress 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, January 27, 1910 2? 1 The question before the people ; of South Carolina is not whether Dr. Hell was too small a man for the position of president of Clemson college, but whether the statements , made in his letter to the legislative committee are true. If the state- ( ments made by Dr. Mell as to tne board of trustees be true, there < should be some resigning done with- < oul delay. Ain't we glad that the j Press Association decided not to j meet at Clemson this summer! ?? 1Some people believe this newspa per is in favor of higher tax values ^ and higher taxes, but not sb. It >, v ' would be a decided advantage if all property was returned at its true \ value, provided the tax levy was < made to suit, for this is the only ; ?' Bane and safe basis for taxation. But j what we want is for property of all < v ; hinds to bear its just proportion of < I taxes. Property is now returned at f?) all sorts of valuations and as a re- ; f* suit one man pays more taxes in proportion than his neighbor. Let us i jj| ;:v have the burden shared equally. We hear it rumored around pret- . ? ty strong that W. W. Ball, now of ] *-?- -..ill +?l.^ gv xne uoiumuia ouur, win mac ?-uv If -.', position of editor of the News and jg1 Gourier when Maj. Hemphill goes to Jlichmond next month. Mr. Ball j H'; was formerly on the staff of the News ? and Courier, leaving that paper h~. some months ago to go with The State. We are very glad if the news 6- ^ ' ? , Be true. Mr. Ball is a brilliant news- * | - paper man, a writer of force and * r convictions, and withal a most com- ] panionable man. He will no doubt ( ^ ' succeed in bringing the News and x jfe Courier and Charleston into closer 1 | touch with the balance of the State, 1 ? which will be a good thing all round. p. The average value of the farm y lands in Bamberg county, as re- ^ turned for taxation, is $3.75 per e*' acre. In Marlboro county, where c land never sells for less than $100 t ^ an acre, the average tax value is < p. $5.25 per acre. We wonder if any s ?| - :class of property is returned so much f below its real value as farming land. f In Bamberg county no doubt the real value of farm lands is not less I ^ than $20 to $25 per acre, and yet it | is returned at $3.75. And yet Bam- 1 berg land- is returned much higher y '? than the other counties, in proportion * to its real value. The equalization t . of taxes is the most important issue 1 . , , , ,.A. 7 -* - J J *\r\iifiAiQ?o on^m r l> - ctiJLU JCl IUC pvnuviauo tjvviu afraid to attempt to better condi- ( tions. J ARRESTED FX)R ^KIDNAPPING. ? Negro Says he Took Child to Save It & From Rough Treatment. < * * Lexington, Jan. 24.?Charged with 1 kidnapping a little 10-year-old negro girl on the 8th of February, 1909, j Emanuel Johnson, a negro, is in jail 1 here, having been arrested by Deputy j Sheriff Miller late Saturday after- -< noon near Summit. As soon as the crime was commit- 1 ted George Simpkins, father of the : girl, swore out a warrant for John- ] son's arrest, but the warrant was not : placed in the officer's hands here un- i til about two weeks ago. ; Johnson claims that his reason for 1 toTHnp- phild was that it was re- i lated to him and that it was being i roughly treated by its step-mother. He says that he will give the child : up, provided her father will agree to j his release and will pay all costs in the case. The old man was very much elated i \ when he found out where his child 1 was. : K . KANSAS WOMEN IN OFFICE. Teachers, Court Clerks and County Treasurers and a Judge. The power and influence of women in the State's educational affairs was demonstrated in Kansas last week, when 5,000 teachers had their annual meeting. Neary three-fourths of them were women, says the New York Sun. The first day brought together the county superintendents. Gov. Stubbs and other State officials who have not kept themselves informed on the progress women are making in this State as officeholders were amazed to learn that forty-one of the 105 were women. The day following more than 3,000 of the bright young women of the State marched in the city to have a voice in the annual meeting of school teachers. Five hundred of them arrived by special train at 1 a. m., finding hotels and Hoarding houses packed with earlier arrivals. It was too late to find shelter in the homes of Topeka for that night, but these women were equal to the emergency. "Open your churches," they said, "and we will sleep in the pews." More than 200 were thus accomodated. Sixty-two women hold county offices by election in Kansas, many of them having been elected for their third and fourth term. Many women hold executive municipal offices, but a list of these is not obtainable. The women have a notion that they can fill purely clerical places as well as men, and the office of register of deeds in each county appeals to them. Seven women have already been elected to the office in Kansas, and it is estimated that at least twenty-five will be candidates in other counties next year. Five women hold the office of clerk of the district court, and their records are models of neatness and accuracy. Four are county clerks. Three are county treasurers. One woman is a county commissioner far out in Wichita county. Miss Minnie Lipper was elected to this office because of her business ability. Mrs. Mary J. Cooper is probate judge of Mitchell county. She issues marriage licenses and performs ceremonies with as much dignity as any minister of the gospel, and she says she likes the job. Many brides and bridegrooms from surrounding counties have travelled to Beloit to J be married by her. In this way she has picked up many extra dollars. The Kansas women who hold coun-1 ty offices attend strictly to business. | Invariably the rooms occupied by j women county officers are clean and attractive. The use of tobacco is barred. MANY "UPS AND DOWNS." Prank Herdic, Who Handled Millions, Often Was Broke. No man was more widely known ?n the trotting turf and better liked han the late Frank Herdic, the noted pool-seller, bookmaker, racehorse jwner and a lifelong follower of the ;rotter, and perhaps no man had as nany ups and downs in his life as le. During his life time Herdic handled millions of dollars, and was alvays a heavy plunger himself, with varying luck. A few years before his death Herlic had a bad season, and soon after he close of the Lexington meeting same to New York hoping to (traighten his finances, but ill-luck ollowed him and he decided to retire 'or the winter to his native town, i-Villiamsport, Pa., as the safest dace. He arrived there with only $20 >etween himself and starvation, and vhile talking to a friend who was ully aware of his financial condiion, he saw a good chance to double jp his twenty. An old blacksmith mown as Uncle Henry, whom Herlic had known from boyhood, had iust passed, and Herdic bet his friend the whole $20 that the blacksmith had not had water all over limself for three years. The bet was taken and the two friends went to the blacksmith shop :o settle. "Uncle Henry," said Herdic, "I just bet all the money I had in the ivorld that you have not had water ill over yourself for three years, ind we have left it to you to decide." "Frank, you have made a very bad bet," said Uncle Henry, "for if pou had left it as you intended, that 1 have not taken a bath in three pears, you would have won, but as it is you lose because only a month igo while driving over the bridge my borse ran away, threw me out, I fell into the creek and came near being drowned." Herdic always considered this the most unlucky bet he ever made.? New York Morning Telegraph. When you want the new form crop mortgages, this office can supply you. We furnish them with or without four name printed in them. DEADLOCK IN MISSISSIPPI. Senatorial Contest Apparently n Nearer Ending than Before. Jackson, Miss., Jan. 24.?After recess of three days the legislativ caucus resumed balloting to-night i: an effort to choose a successor to th late United States Senator A. J. Mc Laurin. Both ballots to-night, how ever indicated that the caucus is a tightly deadlocked as ever, the sev eral candidates showing practical! the same strength as when the cau cus adjourned on Thursday. After to-nieht's sessions report were current that agreement woul be reached during the present wee! and the deadlock broken. Howevei both the adherents of Former Gover nor James K. Vardaman, who remain far in the lead, but still short of th required number of votes, and thos who oppose him, declare that the tid of votes will turn in their favor. O: the surface there is little to indicat but that much ballotting must yet b done before a selection is made. On the two ballots taken to-nigh Vardaman received 74 votes on th first and 69 on the second. Eighty six votes are necessary to nominate The Deed of Molly Pitcher. ' In the achievement of fame fror whatever source it may arise whio history or tradition gives a people whether it be achieved by the lowl poet in his lowly cottage sequestere from the maddening crowd of socie ty, or by the indomitable hero o battle, whose skeleton has Ion since bleached and returned t dust, which too was arrayei with mother earth and namei corruptible, there is one whos deed done in the name of lib erty, invincible, courageous, valor ous, towers above all others. He name is Molly Pitcher. At the tim of an engagement with the British ii the Revolutionary war, she was ii the act of conveying water to he husband when he fell mortall wounded. Hastily she took his plac at the cannon and remained unti the battle was over. History says she won the sobri quet of Captain Molly Pitcher. Bu what of the title? Did the title coun to her anything? Was she aspirin, for emolument?the preferment o soldier rank? No, no, her heritag was too dear, her spirit too patriotic There she, a feeble woman, stood beside her mortally wounded hus band, perhaps thinking it futil to minister unto him, she laid asid the refreshing ale, with which sh expected to refresh him, and tool his place at the cannon. Such : noble sacrifice. Has human endeavo ever emulated an equal in bravery in patriotism, in the spirit of sacfi fice? The spirit of sacrifice her appeals to liberty lovers, and he name should be enshrined in th heart of every American. How could the enemy (did the; know) have fired upon the Ameri I cans, that shield for liberty beinj supplemented with a feeble woman Would it not have been enough t< have turned aghast the enemy an< paralyze them from further attack' I suppose though this little act o this woman, unimportant as it was had its influence upon the narrow fragment of the Continental arm; only, and ere long the heroine tool refuge in the everlasting arms o peace, known as the inevitable, he] fame to live or die. WILLIE HAY, JR. Govan, S. C. January 22, 1910. "Methodism in Bamberg." (Southern Christian Advocate.) My good young friend, M. W Brabham, of Bamberg, deserves grea' credit for his admirable sketch o "Methodism in Bamberg." I would first of all heartily thank and com mend him for it. As history is his tory, however, I beg leave to correc his table of salaries so far as it con cerns the years I served the work It was then "Bamberg and Buford'i Bridge" charge, composed of Trinit: (Bamberg), Mizpah (Buford'i Bridge), and- Oakland, now th< church at Cope. The charge paid m< each year a salary of $800, not $665 $800, and 480, as Brother Brabham'i table has it. The Conference min utes for 1889, 1890, 1891 will sho\> to others (what was sufficiently evi dent to us), the generous support o the pastor, as well as all Conferenci claims in full. Never did we servi better or more liberal people. Neve: were the "perquisites" so numerous It is a good thing to show how mucl progress we have made by contrast ing the present with the past "day o small things." But it is better to re call that Bamberg liberality is n< new thing, but a blessed inheritanci from the fathers. There are some other minor error: that I will not mention. I much pre I-.-- -L- +h,'{ ier lO bytiliv ui cut; i ecu. mciit wi vun valuable paper. J. L. STOKES. N. Augusta, S. C., Jan 14. Subscribe for The Bamberg Heralt this year and keep up with what ii going on. If you have been bor rowing your neighbor's paper, qui and get one for yourself. ; MARITAL WOES. o We Stand Next to Japan in the Mai ter of Divorces. a The divorce rate is much highe e in the United States than in an n other American or European lane e says a writer in McClure's. Indeec our people have had this distinctio . for more than two centuries and s half. Twenty years ago we first be _ came aware from statistics of th y exact situation that existed, and re u cent research has proved that befor Milton penned his essays favorin s civil marriage and self-divorce, th A New England colonists had initiate k the most liberal divorce policy tha f then could be found anywhere in th civilized world. Year after yea g since the birth of the American nz e tion this policy has become broade e and broader. To-day only Japane for peculiar reasons which do nc n concern us?has a higher divorc e rate than we, and in this race eve e Japan has been far outrun by som counties in our Western States. t During the 20 years covered by th e last census 945,625 divorces were de creed to 12,832,044 marriages cel< >. brated; about one decree to 12 wee dings; whereas it is believed that i 1870 the ratio was about one to 3^ One marriage dissolved by divorce t 11 terminated by death is sufficient! tragic; yet, even this ratio, accordin '' to one of the first statistical expert y ' of the country, falls short of the re ality. By Prof. Walter F. Wilcox i ' is computed that not far from one tenth of all the marriages in th g United States are now ended in th ? divorce court. d d Do Your Duty. e A very good resolution to make i - to attend exclusively to one's ow r business. The best way to ge e through the world pleasantly is to g a straight ahead. One's own busines a is always more than he can attend t r perfectly. But we must not limit th y maxim to merely selfish pursuits. 1 e is our business to do our duty. Thi il is the chief object and to it the mafe ing of money and the winning c - fame are mere incidental. The busi t ness of life is to be useful to you t neighbors, to the church, to the cour g try, to the race. Happily a ma i can now manage all the demands c e his legitimate business and4 not go !. day's journey to do it. He can pei L, form all these duties for humanit i- near and far, without leaving hi e own home. ? MASTER'S SALES. J State of South Carolina, County c of Bamberg?In Court of Commo a Pleas. r Mrs. Elizabeth Fogle, et al., plair tiffs, against Mrs. Joanna Fogle, et al., defendant* e By virtue of a decree of the coui r of common pleas for Bamberg count e in the above stated case, dated Janij - -i ?- -r tt n-ii. ary lvtn, iyiu, 1, n. v^.ruiK, ivitusie for Bamberg county, will sell to th F highest bidder for cash at the coui - house door of Bamberg county, be 5 tween the legal hours of sale, o Monday, February 7th, 1910, th same being legal salesday in sai 3 month, the following real estate, t i wit: ? All that piece, parcel or tract o I land allotted to Mrs. Elizabeth Fogl and children, containing eighty-thre ' (83) acres, more or less, lying oi the Northern side of the Souther: y Railway Company, bounded on th j North by the lands of Mrs. L. K . Mayfield and the Blackville publi 1 road; South, by the South Carolina I p Georgia Railroad, now known as th Southern Railway Company, up t the twenty-five feet of right of wa; of the said road; East, by public roai from Ghent's Branch to Holman' bridge, with an extension across sail public road at the intersection of th' Denmark and Blackville public road said extension being bounded by th< * lands of W. P. Sandifer; West, b; t lands of Mrs. L. K. Mayfield, knowi f as the Bryant-Rhodes tract. Sold a the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Fogle and children, plaintiffs. * ' ALSO . All that piece, parcel, tract or plan tation of land containing one hundrei * and seven (107) acres, more or less . consisting of one parcel containini 3 five (5) acres, more or less, am bounded by the lands formerl; owned by J. W. Walker and Hermai 3 Walker, and now owned by W. F = Sandifer, the Denmark and Black a ville public road, and the Ghent' Branch and Holman's bridge road ' said lot of land having one tenemen 3 house thereon and being triangular ii - shape as shown by the plat of J. N v Hankinson, surveyor, and on th Northern side of the South Carolin; " & Georgia Railroad Company, am * extending up to twenty-five feet o 2 the track of said road; also, ninety e seven (97) acres, more or lees, beinj r on the South side of the said Soutl Carolina & Georgia Railroad, no^ Southern Railway Company, Carolin: i Division, and extending up to twenty . five (25) feet of the center of th { track of said road, said lands bein; bounded on the North by the South " ern Railway Company, Carolina Di d vision; South by the lands of H. J 3 Zorn and Melton Zorn; East by th lands of Dan A. Fairey, formerl; owned by John W. Walker and Her 5 man Walker; West by the Fogle - Gregg-Jones tract, bought by J. J 3 Fogle and Mrs. Joanna Fogle fror Francis Jones in the suit of Gregg Jones vs. J. N. Wood and W. B. Rice Sold as the property of Mrs. Joann: Fogle and children, defendants. 1 Terms: Cash; purchaser to pa; 3 for papers. H. C. FOLK, Bamberg, S. C., Jan. 17, 1910. * Master for Bamberg County. Bamberg, S. C., Jan. 17., 1910. ' z&kJti.-. -v Tombstones and Monuments I am now representing the Consolidated Marble and / Milling Co., of Oartersville, and can furnish anything in Monuments and Headstones, $7.50 to $7,000. See my styles before you buy. I can furnish any design yon want in Italian or black marble, or granite. My house is a most reliable one, and I guarantee satisfaction. Drop e me a postal or 'phone me and I will call and show the > I: urauuiui uvai^ua wo rarr/. G. W. GARLAND I " Bam be s\ S. C. - . I ; I ! 'ftqi : JJ FOR SALE u ||j* ; Automobiles ! - -M?3 e H ? Pi, J- I I 2 Fords, $250 and $295, both in No. 1 Conn dition. : : : : : : ? 1 Reo, 22 H. P. 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If you do not feel like .? paying out the cash for the work when done, see or write them I y about it, and, "ten to one," they will manage it so you can have I i- the work done before the rush, and pay for it next fall. It will I r / r do no harm to inquire about it anyway. Just write about it to B et The Denmark Machine Works, Denmark, S. C. I !- i'r >5'".. x J \ f GREETINGS! This bank wishes to all its patrons and friends as happy e a new year as it is possible for any one to have. Times 0 are good. The 1910 outlook is bright. To everyone $ '% y y with a cheerful and optimistic spirit who is looking for "u": 1 chances to better himself, the coming year is going to s offer abundant opportunities. Here's hoping that every one of our readers finds himself or herself much fare ther along on the road to fortune and independence at ' the end of 1910 than at the beginning. We are verye sure that our bank will be a help, in this respect to ^ y everyone that uses it. And we ask your patronage 1 with the assurance that it will be of great benefit to you s as well as us. In the coming year, as in all previous v ?"o *m? h?nt will be found to be loyal to the best interests of all its customers. " I I ' i Resources over $117,000.00. 4 per cent, interest al- I lowed on savings deposits. ' 'U ? I I \ I EHRHARDT BANKING COMPANY. I a I ^ Ehrhardt, South Carolina. J ; ~ I ? * tip n n p a tt^t ^ J* CARTES <t ? DR- o. D. FAUST J Attorney.atO # e DENTIST o BAMBERG, S. C. o a BAMBERG, S. C. < Special attention giyen to set- < > d < * tlement of estates and investi- \ * f Office In Telephone Building. < > gation of land titles. < - < Loans negotiated on farm lands < 5 ][ in Bamberg County. J ti i > office over Bamberg Banking Co. < > v If yon need a safe that is a ? safe see me before bnylog j-ZJdrfdTw^ E. H. Henderson j J. D. FELDER m . tt J \ bamberg, s. c. 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