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~ ?c\$ Immirrg IfmtUi ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. j__ - i "ut rrm n j;i. A. \Y. iviYiunx, CiUiwr. Published every Thursday ia The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing 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. ? ? ' T?? _ *1 AA BUDSCripilOIlS oy cue ;cai, f i.vvt op 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 noc tices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first) IV - insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters of 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 E * our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. * Thursday, February 17,1910 SKv There is to be no lack of candidates for the offices in the new county of | Dillon. The people over there seem to be hungry for office from the num| ber of candidates already announced. Orangeburg county pays its supervisor $900 a year. The salary in this county is $1,000 a year. As |. Orangeburg has at least twice the territory of Bamberg, either that countty pays too little or this county too * much. | Zach McGhee, Washington correspondent of the The State, is said to be thinking of running for congress in the seventh district against Lever. 11 . This must be a joke. Mr. McGhee is | _& capital newspaper man and a p; , mighty fine fellow, but running for congress against Frank Lever would . v he a mighty tough proposition. p. ' ' John G. Richards, of Kershaw, has r announced as a candidate "for governor. He announces a good platform, l the best plank of which is equalization of taxation. He is in favor of f taking up the problem in earnest, ? and while we realize that this work cannot be all done at once, the start should be made. Mr. Richards will stand for prohibition. t . ' ... v . - ?j?v " 4 Judge Robert.Aldrich, of Barnwell, is presiding over the term of court fcr Charleston this week. In his r charge to the grand jury he said that Charleston's chief of police could ! close up the blind tigers but he did not want to, and the policemen would not do their duty because they would lose their jobs. That he could bring a man from Barnwell who would close up the tigers in thirty days. Bamberg voted out the dispensary tn moral grounds, and now the money which formerly went to the county, towns and schools is going to Augusta and Jacksonville. Go to any express office in the county and see the amount of liquor shipped in here and you will know why our people do not seem to have any more money mnder prohibition than they did un aer tne dispensary. v\e are uaviug the evils of whiskey without the revenue. They are certainly selling whiskey wide open in Augusta these days, for dealers there are even shipping it to Bamberg. We noticed in the express office several days ago several packages of whiskey shipped from Augusta, but of course the name of the shipper was not on the package. This is a disgrace to our civilization. ? The idea of whiskey not only being sold Illegally but shipped out to other towns, just as if there was no law against ii! What are we coming to? The Bamberg Herald thinks it was a significant incident for a man who has always been an opponent of Senator Tillman, and who now happens to be a State Senator, to object to the immediate consideration of a House resolution inviting Senator Tillman ? ^ ? a* _ r J_i _ i. mi. ^ TO aaaress me legislature. i ue great importance attributed to this little incident by The Herald only illustrates how small matters are sometimes magnified.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. The significance of the incident | was not only in a Senator objecting to immediate consideration of the r resolution, but also that there was no fried of "Honest Ben" present t to remonstrate with Senator Williams. Does the Times and Democrat believe such a thing would have happened in the Senate of South Carolina six years ago? We don't. The compulsory education bill has again been killed by the legislature. Why should money be appropriated t to schools if the people it is intended to benefit stay away? Robert Lathan, who has been on t the staff of the News and Courier for t some years, has been appointed edi- t tor, succeeding Maj. J. C. Hemphill, \ who goes to Richmond, Va. Mr. a Lathan is a bright young man, and t he will no doubt add to his reputa- s tion in his new position. He is safe t and conservative, yet progressive, and we expect him to do good work for Charleston and the State. f Some time last year the women of ^ New York's "four hundred" or the \ so-called "swell" society of that city, \ took up the suffrage movement for f women. Now, Mrs. Belmont, who i seems to be the leader of the movement, wants to bring the negro wo- i men into the movement. It is what t might have been expected from women of her stamp, but this will be r sufficient to kill the suffrage move- t ment with the women of the South. 1 f AMERICA A THIRSTY NATION. r Imports of Drinkables Reach Amaz- s ingly High Fignre. c t T Y a^lLlU.5 LKJLL , JL ^U. JL -L . 1UIUO ~ must be a thirsty nation judging >' from the imports of drinkables as * set forth in a statement just issued v by the bureau of statistics of the de- v partment of commerce and labor. * The United States drank the essence of more than a billion pounds of v coffee in 1909, valued at $86,000,- e 000. That was about a dollar's h dollar's worth of coffee for every person in the United States. Tea is not C such a favorite. Only a little more than a hundred million pounds, val- t ued at about $16,000,000, came in. 1 But in spirits, wines and malt v liquors the nation touched its highest ^ record for importation in 1909 and r consumed foreign products of that s kind to the value of more than $26,- & 000,000, more than twice as much as a was imported in 1899. b South America supplied most of the P coffee, Asia most of the tea and Europe most of the wines and liquors. The United States is the world's larg est cortee arinKer ana ureac oniain * is the world's largest consumer of * tea. Every person in the United o States used on the average of 11 t] pounds of coffee during 1909, but the b use of tea remained about unchanged E from the previous year. b h CANCER CURE DISCOVERED? C1 P Great Results Obtained Through p Vaccination of Rats. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 13.?A strong hope of curing cancer, or at least aj greatly ameliorating the condition of a cancer patients by means of inocula- w tion, is held out in the report of Har- H vey R. Gay lord, director of the cancer laboratory of the State department of ni health at Buffalo. This hope is based M on extended experimentation during hi the past year in the inoculation or h< vaccination of various animals, mainly rats, with the cancer virus. tl "It appears," says the report, "that id where the resistance of the animal si is not sufficiently awakened by one cc inoculation of the tumor, this re- h; sistance can be heightened by re- je peated doses and, in a considerable a proportion of cases, immunity can be hi raised to a point which will bring tl about a cure. A "It is needless to point out that ai this process of repeated vaccination, es which has cured in the proportion of b< 25 to 40 in rats, might well be ap- hi plied to those cases of late cancer in tt human beings in which surgery has ri nothing to offer and the outlook is al hopeless. tt "As we strongly urged the Legis- w Lature in previous reports, the time fr has come when we should begin ex- ni perimentation with human beings, tt Funds sufficient to enable us to main- cc tain ten patients, is the least amount can be of value if this work is to be undertaken." Statistics are given to show that ir cancer continues to increase. The l report says that in the United States ci it has increased from nine per one a| hundred thousand population in 1850 S; to 43 in 1900, an average of about m 65 in 1901, and an average of more tl than 70 in 1906. tl d< Crum Case Records Public. g. ti Washington, Feb. 14.?Senator N Tillman's "pitchfork" eloquence in di condemnation of former President tl Roosevelt's appointment of a negro tl collector of customs at Charleston, H S. C., which has lain in the Senate closet for executive secrets for more tl than two years, will be given to the n< public. The Senate to-day ordered h; the injunction of the secrecy re- tl moved from all of its records in the ai case of Dr. William D. Crum. ei The order gives to the South Carolina Senator the right to fire at the ei public a cannonade of oratory, which m was volleyed at his colleagues behind h closed doors. fi MURDER IN FLORIDA. lirl of Fourteen is Literally Chopped to Pieces. Tampa. Fla., Feb. 13.?Following he finding of the horribly mutilated >ody of 14-year-old Mary Tedder at he home of her father at Glenwood 'esterday afternoon, Irvin Hanchett, t 16-vear-old white boy, was arrested his morning. He was immediately pirited away by the sheriff to escape he enraged posses of citizens also n search of the mureder. Additional details received here 'rom the murder are horrible. A icycle, which the girl was riding, j vas found 100 yards from where her1 ;ody was discovered, indicating that ler assailant had struggled with her or this distance after knocking her rom her wheel. The body of the girl showed 65 i.nife wounds. She was literally cut o pieces. That the girl's asssailant had other notives than murder is believed from he condition of her clothing. She lad been beaten about the face beore being stabbed. Following the organization of (osses of citizens in search of a negro apposed to have committed the rime, the sheriff secured bloodlounds and followed a trail in the >range grove of Wm. Woolsey, where oung Hanchett was employed. Af- 1 er a careful investigation the boy I pas placed under arrest. In his room i pas found bloody clothing and the ( :nife with which it is believed he ommitted the murder. When he ?as arrested he seemed unconcern- 1 d, but strenuously denied that he I iad committed the crime. I The boy came to Glenwood last , )ctober. Previous to this he had ( oon pnnfinpH in n srhr?r?l nf onrren ion at some point in Connecticut, 'he boy is said to of an, unusually icious temperament, and as soon as \ was learned that he had been arested on a strong chain of circumtantial evidence excitement was inense. He was spirited away in an utomobile, and is believed to have een carried to Jacksonville and laced in jail. Conduct*Earned His Parole. Meriden, Conn., Feb. 13.?Irvin lanchett, the 16-year-old boy, who 'as arrester for killing Mary Tedder, f Glen wood, Fla., was an inmate of tie Connecticut State school for oys here and his home was in New faven. While in the school the oy's behavior was ,of the best and is conduct earned his parole in the stody of William Wooley of this lace, who has an orange grove in lorida. , Returns to Insane Asylum. ^ A Il.AM L-1 /-> V\ 1 O r 11V* TT"1 ..O T1 t I AlACll, f cu. jla. xuc nanaut gainst Lieutenant William C. Stone, retired army officer, charging him ith the murder of Dr. Charles W. ickman, of Augusta, Ga., about two eeks ago, was withdrawn this afteroon. Stone was turned over to the iaryland authorities, who returned im to an insane asylum from which i escaped January 23. On the arrival of the officers from Le Richard Grundy Home, of Baltiiore, they were questioned on the lbject by the News and Courier's >rrespondent. They said that they ad nothing to give out on the subset of the Hickman affair, but gave short account of the man in the ands of the police. According to tern the man is Lieut. Stone, U. S. ., retired, who, having travelled ound a great deal in the service, specially in tropical climates, had sen overcome and temporarily lost is reason. He had been placed in te Richard Grundy Home, a sanitaum for such mild cases and given Smost unlimited freedom. From lis place he wandered away a few eeks ago, and had not been heard om until this affair came to their otice. They thought it improbable lat Lieut. Stone could have been mnected with the Hickman murder. Negro Turned Loose. The negro held by the authorities l Savannah as thp murderer of Mr. awrence Nix, which killing oclrred near Denmark some months %o, was released from custody last iturday, as the gentlemen from Denlark who went to identify him said ley were not satisfied that he was le negro who committed the murar Mr T A Wnntpr wpnt drvwn to avannah last week with the requision from Gevernor Ansel, and when lessrs. Sandifer and Baxter went awn and saw the negro and stated lat they could not say positively that le negro under arrest was Isadore artzog, he was turned loose. However, Chief Hand, who made le arrest, is of the opinion that the egro was Hartzog, as two negroes ad positively identified the negro as le man wanted. However, the man rrested has been released and this ads the matter. The appointments of census enum*ators for this county have not been lade public yet, at least we have not eard of it if they have. We hope ood men will be appointed. 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