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?be Bamberg ijeralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. 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 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 aavauce. 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 advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always T\?V?1icV> tipws Ipttprs of those g iau IV puviiwu uv ?? w _ 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, Sept. 15,1910. That mysterious circular letter has given the voters of the second district something to talk about for the past two weeks. -*<9-* The State of South Carolina has been forced to borrow more than a half million dollars already this year in nr/ior tn the continually in creasing appropriations of the general assembly. Suppose we stop discussing the whiskey question a while and try to devie ways and means of reducing expenses of the government as well as securing equitable returns of property for tazation. These are the most vital issues before the taxpayers just now. The .Democratic executive committee of Greenville county has declared that John G. Greer, who was nominated for the house of representatives in the recent primary, was not legally elected, and has decided in favor of John Harrison, the next highest man. Both men received a majority of the votes cast, but Greer led Harrison by thirty votes. Harrison contested the matter before the committee on the ground that Greer had not filed his expense account in time, and the committee sustained the protest. REFORM THE PRIMARY. " The editor of this newspaper has no political axe to grind, but we are of the opinion that the time is ripe for stricter rules for the Democratic primaries. It must be evident to every intelligent man that our primary system as conducted at present gives too much room for fraud and illegal voting, and while we do not ??ant anv white man disfranchised, we do think if a voter has not sufficient patriotism to comply with strict regulations he has only himself to blame. The ballot is a sacred right \ and should be jealously protected, but all necessary safeguards should be thrown around it. It seems to us that unless our primary system is reformed, we may look for i return to the convention plan of nominating candidates. To be entirely frank about it, we believe the primary has outlived its usefulness. At the time of its inauguration it was no doubt wise, as conventions were possibly being manipulated in the interest of "the ring," as it was called in those days. But any system becomes corrupt, and we are free to say that we believe better results would accrue in this State were we to return to the convention plan. Then when that plan again becomes too easily controlled by a few men or is used to thwart the will of the people, why return to the primary. We believe in changes in all things. The people get too careless and indifferent when things are allowed to get in a rut. UNIFORMITY OF ACTION. There should be law and order in all organizations, and the rules of any organization should be enforced. However, there should be some concert of action in regard to candidates in the primary. In one county a candidate fails to file his expense account, as required by law, his opponent makes a protest, and in most cases it is dismissed by the committee Then in other counties where these protests are made the committee decides against the candidate who fails to file his account of expenses. The fact is that the rules and regulations of the primary are entirely too lax in the first place, and too often they are not carried out by the county executive committtees. In one county we noted that a candidate protested against a recount of the votes before ; the official result was declared and no protest before the committee. : claiming this was the law. In Bam; berg county the committee recounted ! the votes at once, without a contest. ' as there was plainly some discrepancies in the vote sent in by the managers, and this action was ex actly right. The primary system was inaugurated to get at the will of j the people and the voters should not be thwarted because of technicalities. The point we want to stress is 1 that there should be unanimity of action by county committees. What is good law in one county should be good law in another, the intention always being to carry out the will of the voters as honestly expressed at the ballot box. We notice that the State Democratic executive committee will revise thte rules of the party, but we think it high time that the present rules are enforced by the, county committes with fairness and justice. SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES. Cigar Maker Dies at Tampa as the Result of a Beating. Tampa, Sept. 12.?The first casualty since the beginning of the cigar niol.-ovt. c*T*il.-o n^nrrf-d thic mnmin? in the death of a Cuban cigar maker named Gras. who died as a result of a beating which was administered yesterday afternoon by a mob of strikers in the Ybor City section of Tampa. Gras was to have gone to New Orleans with a force of strike-breakers who are to make cigars there for one of the factories which has established a branch there since their factories here have been closed. The steamer Morgan on which he was to have gone sailed Saturday night, but Gras failed to go. He was walking down the street yesterday when a crowd of union strikers set upon him and beat him unmercifully. There was a small sized riot at the Seaboard Air Line station this morning when strikers interfered with trainmen who were loading one hundred and forty barrels of tobacco on an express car for shipment to Miami, Fla., where Sanchez and Haya are to start a branch factory working non-union men. The police quelled the rioters and the tobacco was placed aboard the cars. Soldiers' Train Wrecked. Indianapolis, Sept. 12.?Two men were killed, two seriously injured and several were slightly hurt this morning in a collision In Brightwood, a suburb of Indianapolis, between Big Four passenger train No. 9 from Cleveland and a special train carrying Kentucky national guardsmen to Fort Benjamin Harrison. The dead are: E. C. Ike, of Anderson, Ind., fireman, and Samuel Densmore, of Indianapolis, engineer. "The seriously injured are: George W. Kurtz, Union City, Ind., and Charles Adams, fireman on No. 9. The soldiers special was carrying the First Kentucky regiment to the fort for joint maneuvers with the regulars and the Fifth Ohio regiment and none of the soldiers were hurt although several received severe shakings up. The collision was caused by an open switch, the passenger train crashing into the special, which was standing on a side track. ? For Suppression of Slave Traffic. New Orleans, Sept. 12.?Great interest is being taken throughout the country in the progress shown in the work undertaken by the ladies of the Travellers' Aid Society, especially aimed at the suppression of the white slave traffic as well as the general welfare and comfort of members of their sex traveling without escorts. Jackson, Miss., reports the appointment of two estimable ladies of that city as matrons in charge of the union depot, whose primary object it would be to look to the protection of school and college girls who are forced to journey alone. It is expected that most junction and terminal cities of the South which have not already done so will soon adopt similar measures for making safe and pleasant travel for unaccompanied women and girls. BOSTON STILL FIFTH CITY. Census Department Gives "Hub" Population of 670,585. Washington, Sept. 5.?The population of Boston, Mass., is 670,585, an increase of 109,693, or 19.6 per cent, as compared with 560.892 in 1900. To-night's announcement leaves Boston, the fifth city in point of population in the United States. A decade ago St. Louis outranked Boston by only 14,346 and the present census leaves St. Louis ahead by 16,444. There was but a slight change in the rate of progress in the two cities, St. Louis's increase from 1900 to 1910 being 19.4, and Boston beating that by two-tenths of 1 per cent. * COLE L. BLEASE ELECTED ? i *i HIS MAJORITY WILL BE ABOUT f FIVE THOUSAND. ' ? Moore Almost Doubles Richardson. ! Hamj?ton Beats Cansler.?Con- ! gressional Race Close. I Cole L. Blease was nominated for i governor in Tuesday's primary, and t his majority over C. C. Featherstone ? m will l>e al)Out five thousand or possi- ? < bly more. Moore ran away with t i Richardson, and Hampton defeated t i Cansler for railroad commissioner. ? *? The daily papers of Wednesday reported nearly 100,000 votes, and the balance out will not change the result. Ellerbe defeated P. A. Hodges for congress by a good majority. The race in the second district for congress is close, and at this writing (Wednesday afternoon) it is not known which was elected, and it will no doubt take the official count to settle it. Byrnes wired a friend here this morning that they were only about twelve votes apart. Xo doubt the official count will not give either candidate a majority of over 50 votes, but who will win cannot l>e stated with any degree of accuracy, as the rAt/?c nnt mav Alprt pithpr nnp rvr thp *! other. 2{ Following are the figures given by the State Wednesday morning: Governor. ?] Cole L. Blease 49,907 ?j C. C. Featherstone 45,994 ] Adjutant General. > W. W. Moore . . 63,450 J. M. Richardson 30,047 ? Railroad Commissioner. ? < G. McPuffie Hampton 48,543 ? James Cansler 44,000 ( Congress?Second District. ? J. O. Patterson 5,718 ? James F. Byrnes 5,676 J! Patterson carried Barnwell, Bamberg, Beaufort, and Saluda, Edge- ! field is in doubt, but both men ran X right together there. Byrnes carried f Aiken and Hampton. ?! In this county, G. W. Folk defeated ; H. J. Bellinger for county conimis- j J sioner, and O. J. C. Lain is elected | * magistrate at Olar over J. S. Fields, t HER NECK WAS BROKEN. 2 One Killed and Two Injured When * Automobile Struck Tree. < Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 11.?Mrs. j ? Arthur Griffin was killed, Mrs. Nettie Fernandez seriously injured and a young man named Calhoun injured, is the result of an automobile accident early this morning. The car b( was going at an excessive speed at a sharp curve and skidded, throwing aj the machine against a tree. The oc- ^ cupants were thrown to the ground and two miraculously escaped. The car was demolished. The woman ^ who was killed had her neck broken ,, 01 and was dead when picked up. b( Pearls Hidden in Hat. ^ ol New York, Sept. 1.?Mrs. I. Reynolds Adriance, of Poughkeepsie, N. hi Y., simplified the smuggling charge against her this afternoon by proving to the satisfaction of the custom au- r thorities that an assortment of jewel- w ry roughly valued at $100,000, which ai was seized when she arrived here last w Sunday, was not purchased abroad. e* It was accordingly released, as was a e* $3,000 necklace from her daughter, G ? d< ivituiuu. The lot released does not include ol the $6,000 pearl necklace which Mrs. g< Adriance had concealed in her hat. ei She has not denied that she bought g< the necklace abroad and she is still bi under $7,500 bail pending examina- oi tion on the charge of smuggling. lo Two sealed indictments were re- st turned this evening. ei ? sc KILLED HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW. 10 ' ei Threat to Slap Wife's Face Cause of hi Tragedy. "w Tc Folkston, Ga., Sept. 10.?Firing diiectly across the supper table, H. M. Guinn shot his brother-in-law, tc James Scott, to death last night, at tc Scott's home, a few miles from here, at according to the story which reached gi here to-day, the bullet going straight ic into Scott's forehead and through ai his head. a Leaving the house for a moment si and returning with Mrs. Scott's ei father, who had been summoned by s* the wife of the slain man. who w saw the shooting. Guinn is alleged fc to have declared he would finish e( Scott and to have fired another shot la to make sure he was dead. The men p< been on the best of terms. Guinn si was waiting for his wife, Scott's sis- c( ter, and remarked that he would pi slap her when she came. Scott hi answered that he would not, and aj then Guinn fired without warning, ol Guinn was arrested to-day and is in jail. w _____ : * m Trunks & Suit Cases f ? I* ? |? 1 lir ? HP V* 14* V ? HP * I if* HP |4f ? KB i !?# ? ra? n lift HP * lift > j| In a few days the young men and women p| .j " <4 ^will be leaving their homes for the colleges \\ x * and schools. Some of them will have to ?& * ' tt | buy trunks and suit cases. Their first If I law * 1 \ thought is, where can I get them; the next, 1 * I who has the best line; then of course, who 1 * fli At. A sm A /X tf/X M /x lnnr?+ /XM A*r 1*2* "1 I W1USCII UlC^aillC^UUUMUl llicicasiuiuucv. Kg j ; uE I We ask you to compare our line with the He * I I! v|fj j others, if we can not sell you, but then we pi 1 - * |j? ! can sell you if you wish something real |j V.J I mWi ^nice tor very nine muiicy. Kg |9 m : :l I ^ 'W^^m C R. Brabham's Sons ! I ? Hp tvmm I BAMBERG, SOUTH CAROLINA % >M I If' . VvSPH In Memoriain. journey and at times, not a few of us SPECIAL NOTICES. 1 ? : would dare to drop out of the ranks _ * < ' When the aged, the truly good our own volition, but if those of Advertisements Under This Head 35c. lose ripe unto the harvest?die, we us so frail and destitute would per- , For 25 Words or Less. %T*r in vinmKiA cs 11 v*micQiVin to t^ivitipI Qiit memory to linger one moment ?^wmmmmmmm* 5 ill, content that the debt we must on h?w gently and saint-like and un- For Sale.?Splendid buggy horse. I pav in the end has its finality in complaining the tender being of this Fast, young, sound and gentle. Af- , vv v. le redemption and cancellation, sketch labored with her burden till glyct0 A* S* EASTERLIN<*? Bamberg, , ithout usury, at the hands of Al- the tired soul found rest and peace _? * ^ 'v ighty God; and as we listen at last, we would catch the heavenly L?st.?Last week on Main street / .rough the ear of faith to the joy- incentive, resume the march glad of ^VgoTd toodf fli^d ' ' JS greeting to the departed by the the opportunity of striving to obey with iighx an(j hair. Reward if savenly host, and we hear, too, the the mandate of justice, mercy and j returned to MISS CARRIE BAM- M elcome plaudit, "well done," some truth in the end. ?BERG, Bamberg, S. C. | : us, at least, often feel that per- All those who knew her were al- Night Policeman Wanted?AppTT 4 aps the transition from earth to ways impressed at tne nrst meeting cations for the posltion ot nlght p0_ t saven is slow and in some instaces with the Christian spirit of true nceman of the town of Bamberg will slayed beyond time. womanhood' found in Lucile's every be received by me untiI Tuesday Sep. ** But there seems to be a spirit of word, act and deed. Graceful in ^mber 20th. State what salary ibellion lurking within our bosoms manner, tender, yet persistent in wanted> age, and experience in this hen the young, the noble, the just deeds of love and kindness, gentle in work> M w BRABHAM Clerk and > id good die, those fruitful of good word and action as to draw all people Treasurer ' * % V orks and who have beautified with to her it seems that her whole Kq- j . * ich word, with each act, and deed, lag bad its dwelling place in God. fr^?rr,f^en^,~7Eiftlt"irK0^ill0U^ , , . 1 , . j * j s* ia.i. x i. front of graded school building. Good ich day and moment of their life A devoted wife with irreproach- water> good cook houge> one and a od in His mercy and infinite wis- able character, a true Christian, half acres of land, good barn and ' .j im chose to give them in this world zealous and unfaltering in church stables. Ready for occupancy Sep! sin and sorrow. We seem to for- and Sunday school work, a kind tember 1st. Apply to E. C. BRUCE. Jt for the time that to fulfil the neighbor with loving disposition, a SHERIFF'S SALE, ids of all justice, and for our own (true and unwavering friend, it may The State of South Carolina Bamx>d, death is made to love the truly be said that in Lucile's death' berg County. ' \ ' * * * xrintiio of an p*<?eiition to me di Tightest of shining marks, and if humanity has lost a iriena. ? ily at the moment of dissolution of In turning the leaves one by one Bamberg' county I h?aTC STpo". ived ones we might strive to see of the short volumn that made up and will at public auction, to the raightly, not through glasses dark-' Lucile's life we search in vain for one highest bidder for cash, on Monday, j led, our faith would fathom to, blotted page. Each chapter is a the 3rd day day of October, 1910, the .me extent the spirit of overflowing I book within itself white as her own fn^ont'of tt^courthoufe^atX^ , , ? ve and mercy of a just God in gath- pure soul whiter than than the driv- berg, S. C., at 12 o'clock noon, the * *ing to himself those ripe unto the en snow. To catch the summit following described real estate, arvest regardless of age, and we of her character we find it in the All that piece, parcel, or tract of ould in the fulness of our hearts types of those pure and devoted wo- '"ounty" SS^' ftoS, * ither exclaim with the Psalmist: men whose pathway In life followed taining three-fourths of one acre, Thy will be done, Oh God." closely beside the footprints that more or less, bounded as follows: v ' The peaceful passing from death led from Bethlehem to Calvary, By lands of G. Frank Bamberg, Alice t . life eternal of Lucile Fender Clay- who were last at the cross and first J?Let?ed upon^'and^o"^6 SiTm the 1 >n, the child wife of Laurie Clayton, at the grave and whose dwelling pr0perty of H. O. Frederick at the : three o'clock p. m., Sunday, Au- place today is beyond the skies. suit of the State of South Carolina for 11st 10, 1910, should awaken new WALTER S. EAVES. taxes now due and owing. iterest in the life we should live Ehrhardt, Sept. 1, 1910. Purchaser to . * ad the death we should die. The Sheriff Bamberg County. - dm resignation to the ending of a *EGR0 WOMEN VSE KNIVES. Bamberg S c l'pt f. 1910 lort but beautiful career here on NOTICE OF OPENING BOOKS OF irth made perfect when death's cold ?'?sh t-acti other and are uotn nneo SUBSCRIPTION. efemued uDon her pale brow by Magistrate. By q( a commi"ss'lon i?3ued , ill ever be an inspiration to the Lancaster, Sept. 11.?Two ne- to the undersigned as a board or corrndest memory of those who watch- gresses, Nannie Hyatt and Nannie porators, by the Secretary of State, 1 beside the dying spirit whose Brooks put up a stiff fight here yes- hooks of subscription to the capital * ist breath was breathed out as terday ofternoon, the trouble being ^fb/opent/at JL office of?PUu5> sacefully and sweetly as "though about a man. Knives were used and ers* Mercantile Co., Bamberg, S. C., * le had drawn the drapery of her { both women were cut, Nannie Brooks on Friday, September 16th, and re>uch about her and lay down to j receiving the worst wounds, a long, main open until all of said capital leasant dreams," while angels held > and ugly gash being cut on her shoul- stock is subscribe ^ ^ FREE, er hands along the silent pilgrim- der and arm, which bled profusely. C. B. FREE, ^ ie to the great beyond and the love The Hyatt woman was slashed on the Board of Corporators, f God was a light unto her feet. chest and hand. Mayor Gregory Bamberg, S. C., Sept. 12, 1910. Oft, perhaps, many of us grow gave them each a sentence of $20 or Watch the date on label of your eary with our burdens along life's 30 days. paper and renew promptly. A . I: