The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 05, 1911, Page 6, Image 6
^ INCRASE IX TAG TAX.
Farmers Spent Much on Fertilizers
the Past Year.
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The tag tax paid on fertilizers in
the year 1910 will exceed the amount
received in 1909 by nearly $35,000.
The first year of the tag tax the total
income was not $35,000. This year
it will probably reach $240,000.
The total for last year was $207,741.31,
and the total for 1909 up to
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ing that $8,000 came in during the
last four days. The receipts for 1910,
up to December 27, have been $236,412.15.
On the 1st of December the
receipts had been $230,684.55. The
receipts for 27 days of the current
month have been less than $6,000.
Judge J. Fuller Lyon, the clerk in
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charge of this department at the
State treasurer's office, stated yesterday
that he believes that the falling
Off during the present month has
been due* to the recent talk about
ftorrnan kainit suddIv running short.
He looks for a heavy reaction in the
month of January.
Hie Tag Tax.
The tag tax or privilege tax is an
assessment of 25 cents on every ton
of commercial fertilizers used in this
State. This is, nominally, to pay for
the expenses of the inspection of
fertilizers under the direction of the
chemistry department at Clemson college.
The great increase in the use
of commercial fertilizers is due to the
k r - more intelligent method of farming
now being used all over tne state.
Farmers are beginning to nourish
I their crops in the languishing seasons
just as the human body is stimulated
by wholesome food.
Increase Shown.
The increase in the use of such fertilizers
may be seen from the following
receipts from the tag tax:
1908 X $172,234.76
1909 207,741.31
1910 (partial) 236,412.15
As each dollar of the tax represents
four tons of fertilizer it will
be seen that already *there have been
used in South Carolina during the
current year 945,000 tons of commercial
fertilizer, and at $20 per ton this
indicates that the farmers of South
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I Carolina last year put into the soil
about $18,000,000 worth of stimulatriy-'
ing material. Not only this, but they
are studying the needs of the soil and
are becoming more proficient in manufacturing,
preserving and using stable
manure and vegetable matter to
enrich the soil. All of this is building
up the land, not for one crop, but
for succeeding crops, so long as the
farmer keeps it up.
Tn/<*oacA in r?nital TnvpstwL
I Columbia, Dec. 29.?The total
capital invested in all industries in
Soutli Carolina this year was $155,889,153
as compared with $95,203,199
in 1909 according to reports received
by Commissioner Watson from
over 2,000 conoerns in the State.
There were only 662 concerns to report
last year and this is the cause
. of the great difference in the amount
i invested. Approximately $30,000,000
represents the amount of new capital
put into industries in South Carolina
during the year. The following totals,
are given for all industries for the
year:
Capital invested, $155,889,153.
Value of annual product, $114,306,076.
Number salaried males (reported)
1,906.
Number salaried females (reported)
146.
Trk+al number nersons emnloved.
|r>v 67,467.
BjT- Number males over 16 years of
r ^ age 45,397.
Number females over 16 years of
age 12,790.
Number of males under 16 years
of age 5,185.
Number of females under 16 years
of age 3,772.
Total wages not including salaries
of managers $18,796,102.
Wages paid to males over 16 years
of age $14,260,129.
Wages paid to females over 16
years of age $2,952,725.
Wages paid to males under 16
years of age $.917,062.
Wages to females under 16 years
of age $692,170.
SHOOTS HIMSELF ACCIDENTALLY
Charles Lake, Newberry Lad, Seriously
Wounded while Hunting.
Newberry, Dec. 28.?While out
hunting this afternoon, Charles Lake,
the 15-year-old son of Dr. W. E.
Lake, of this city, accidentally shot
himself with a parlor rifle, and the
most serious fears are entertained as
to the result of the wound.
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lower portion of the breast bone on
the left side and penetrated a portion
of the lung. Young Lake Aas
hunting with two companions, Ralph
War and Harold Boozer, and they
had stopped for dinner in the old
burying ground behind the cemetery.
After their lunch young Lake picked
, up his rifle and his companions heard
a shot. They carried him to the
road, where he was placed in a buggy
and brought to town. He is attended
by Drs. Pelham, Mower and Kibler.
ROBIN INDICTED.
Grand Jury Makes Short Work of
Banker's Case.
New York, Dec. 29.?It took the
juy just an hour to-day to indict
Joseph G. Robin on a charge of the
larceny of $50,000 from the Washington
Savings bank, of which he was
president. The bank passed into the
hands of the State banking department
to-day, there to keep company
with the Northern Bank of New York,
of whose executive committee he was
chairman and with which his name
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connected. The district attorney explained
that out of a mass of evidence
drawn from the records of both institutions
he had chosen fehe charge
that he thought could he presented
most simply to a jury.
Robin was immediately placed under
arrest at the home of his sister,
Dr. Louise Robinovitch, but his arraignment
was postponed until tomorrow
when he must give bail in
the sum of $25,000 or go to jail,
pending either a trial or determination
of his sanity.
Technically Robin is insane now.
The order of committment signed by
Justice Amend, at the request of Dr.
Robinovitch, and on the certification
of three other physicians, still stands,
although the private sanitarium to
which Robin was taken refused to
receive him.
Austin Flint, one of the physicians
who signed the certificate for his com?
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superintendent of the Manhattan
State asylum for the insane, to-day
began an examination into Robin's
condition. It was not expected that
their findings would be made known
I until they were presented to the court
j to-morrow.
College Declines Money,
i A dispatch from Washington, Pa.,
| on Friday says that Washington and
j Jefferson college has relinquished
| claim upon a $40,000 endowment,
; because it was feared the widow and
six children of the donor needed the
j money more. Before his death, a
j year ago, the donor, who is a graduj
ate, made a codicil to his will be!
queathing the $40,000, which was
in addition to $10,000 he had al
| ready set apart for the college,
j President J. D. Moffat anonunced
j the rejection at a meeting of the
board of trustees on Friday, saying
that to accept it would diminish the
estate so as to leave an insufficient
amount for the support of the widow
and her children. It is believed the
donor overestimated the value of his
estate.
Missing Editor Found in Woods.
Charlotte, N. C., Dec. 30.?Editor
James A. Cromartie, of Sparta, Ga.,
who disappeared mysteriously from
a hotel in Hamlet, N. C., November
9, was found to-day wandering In the
woods near Ellenboro, Rutherford
county, more than a hundred miles
from the scene of the disappearance,
by a farmer, who is detaining
him until relatives can be communi'
cated with. Cromartie, who is over
j sixty years old, is said to be derang!
ed and does not know his own name,
j but identification was established by
! pictures and stories printed in State
i newspapers. He arrived at Hamlet
the night of November 9, at which
place it was necessary for him to
| change cars for Clarkton, N. C.,
j where he purposed visiting relatives.
During the night he disappeared,
j leaving his baggage at the hotel. Two 1
I sons of the aged man took up the!
J search for him promptly, expending
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I quest two weeks ago, when all clues
proved futile.
RICHARDS WOULDN'T SIGN.
I Question Involving Railroad Pass
Before Attorney General.
Xolumbia, Dec. 28.?Attorney Genj
eral Lyon has been asked to pass on
a very interesting question and one
which has never been brought up before
in the State.
Several nights ago John G. Richards,
Jr., of Kershaw, who was recently
appointed a member of the
railroad commission, presented his
pass to a conductor on one of the
trains of the Seaboard Air Line Railway.
The conductor asked Major
Richards to sign a provision which
would exempt the road from damages
should an accident occur. Major
Richards refused to sign the ticket.
He paid his fare to Columbia.
The law requires that the railways of
the State shall haul the members of
the railroad commission. Major Richards
sent the question to Attorney
General Lyon.
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LEAVES ASYLUM TO WED.
Stunt Pulled Off by a Lunatic in VirI
ginia Hospital for the Insane.
Sta- .ton, Va., Dec. 28.?Staunton
is us< to lunatics and their ways,
there being more than 1,200 of them
in the Western State Hospital here,
those who are harmless and able to
take care of themselves being allowed
to come into the town and go
about at certain hours of the day, so
that strangers have to ask who is
crazy and who is not, the crazy ones
at large being apparently as sane as
any one.
But Staunton has had a new experience
with a lunatic, the facts concerning
which have just come to
light. The lunatic fell in love with
a handsome female attendant, and
she reciprocated. As a result when
J he was permitted to come up to town
a few days ago, she came over and
met him and the two hied themselves
to the city clerk's office, and as the
clerk does not know a lunatic from
anybody else, and as the answers to
his inquiries were all made in due
and ancient form, he issued the license.
They hunted up Dr. O. F.
Gregory, the obliging pastor of theSl
Baptist church, who is just as innocent
when he sees a lunatic, and the
knot was tied and the pair went away
rejoicing^ but as the squel shows,
to short-lived happiness.
The man in the case was A. H.
McGhee, committed from Shenandoah
county, who gave his age as thirtyfour
and his occupation as a plumber.
The 'young woman was Miss
Alice Lillie, of Winchester, aged 35.
A pretty close watch is kept on
the wards of the hospital, and the
nuptial knot had not been tied very
long before McGhee was taken in
charge and hurried to the hospital,
and the attendant was discharged,
ending the romance, but what the I
status of the parties now is is puzzling
the public, if not the authorities.
God BlesT"Dad."
We happened into a home the other
day, and over the parlor door saw
the legend worked in letters of red.
"What is Home Without a Mother?"
Across the room was another brief:
"God Bless Our Home."
| Now what's the matter with, "God
Bless Our Dad?" He gets up early,
lights the fire, boils an egg, and
wipes the dew off the lawn with his
boots while many a mother is sleeping.
He makes the weekly hand-out
to the butcher, the milkman and groceryman,
and his little pile is badly
demolished before he has been home
an hour.
If there is a noise in the night,
Dad is kicked in the back and made
to go down stairs and find the burglar
and kill him. Mother darns the
socks, but dad bought the socks in
the first place and the needles are
darn afterwards. Mother does up
the fruit. Dad bought it all, and jars
and sugar cost like the mischief.
Dad buys the chicken for Sunday
dinner, serves them himself and,
draws the neck from the ruins after
mrprvhndv pIsp is served. "What is
Home Without a Mother?" Yes,
that's all right, but "What 4s Home
Without Father?" Ten chances to
one it's a boarding house; father is
under a slab and the landlady is the
widow. Dad, here's to you! You've
got your faults; you may have lots
of 'em, but you're all right, and we'll
miss you when you're gone.?Conyers
Times.
COMMISSION STANDS FIRM.
Orders Cheraw Crossing Laid According
to First Instructions.
Cheraw, Dec. 28.?The South Carolina
railroad commission met here
to-day in response to a request from
General Manager Hix, of the Seaboard,
who complained that the Coast
Line had not obeyed the instructions
of the commission in putting in the
crossing. The commission viewed
the crossing on Front street and second
street, heard arguments for the
Seaboard by General Counsel L. R.
Watts, of Portsmouth; W. H. Lyles,
of Columbia; W. F. Stevenson; and
for the Coast Line, P. A. Wilcox,
State counsel, and W. P. Pollock, of
Cheraw.
The Seaboard wished to give the
right of way on Second street, but
would contest the crossing at Front
street to- the last court. The Coast
Line wanted action deferred until
Judge Watts hears the case Friday.
The commission confirmed the
Front street crossing and directed
the Coast Line to assemble all materials
before starting work, put in
an interlocking switch and run no
trains until the commission accepts
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dissented, preferring that the roads
make amicable selection elsewhere.
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