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Wcp lamherg lirralii 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 i 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, ? 1 rt ? ? ? ~ * V. 1 QOC fhan ; OF IV CtUlB a uiisuvu i.v/4 tvDu vuwu one year. All subscriptions payable stnctly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch tor first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a liDe 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 S&7 * insertion. I 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. our columns at any price, and we are1 not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, Jan. 12, 1911. This is certainly the day of the farmer. Nothing else has kept pace with the increase in price of farm products. We cannot repair the mistakes of the past year, but we can make the most of our opportunities in this year of grace. In three months The Bamberg Herald will be twenty years old, being established in 1891. The present management has had charge of its ripRtinv for the Dast eleven years. ???. In an exchange of the date of Janfef, uary 4, 1911, the "heading in an ad; vertisement reads: "We make a bid j for your Christmas shopping." Pretfc; ty early to begin advertising for next fe; Christmas. If the legislature will give us biennial sessions and compulsory education and secure equal returns of Bp'* property for taxation, they will do " TT- ? V.? (vnnlr nro ilrvn'f !WC1I. nUWCYCl , IU LIC liauA, nv uvii v . expect the body to do anything with either. There are now seven banks in Bamberg county, and yet this is one of the smallest counties in the State. The combined deposits are nearly a half million dollars. When we came to Bamberg ten years ago there were only two banks in the county. Attorney Gadsden got a rehearing before the State Supreme Court in a bad looking case. He was severe KSj& ly criticised in the decree of Judge Aldrich, and now he asks for a re> hearing in order that he may be vin||tv dicated. Will the Supreme Court fer give him what he asks for? The Walterboro Press and Stand?Tx' ~ ard says: "Anyway the annexation f ; - to Bamberg is dead, eh?" Wait and see. We are of the opinion that you'll find it a lively corpse. The jjgj:Vpeople of Warren will be given the opportunity to cast their lot with |v Bamberg, and their decision ought to be satisfactory. ^ . , The Blackville Courier has susfefe nended Dublication. The editor, W. P^:.: % W. Tyler, has moved his family back ? ; to Georgia. Another instance of trying to run a paper where the support was not sufficient. Everything is so high these days that it takes careful management and the hardest kind of work to keep a paper going in most J, small towns. Governor Ansel has disappointed some of his friends, we are afarid a good many of them, and no doubt delighted his enemies by commuting the sentence of Pink Franklin to life imprisonment. We are surprised at orrtwornrtr Ho has hppn chief j vuu gvm vluvii aav/ i?>,?w - ? executive for four years, and in most matters he has shown admirable common sense and excellent judgment. We are also sorry that at the very ending of his administration he has made such a blunder. We have been his friend, and would have been glad indeed to see him go out of office without this act of clemency charged against him. He has made a serious mistake, and one that we fear will bring serious results in this ziy part of the country. Human life is pntirpiv too cheaD now. and sparing the life of a negro who had been sentenced to be hanged, after every legal resort was employed, will not strengthen respect for the law nor make life safer. The governor has done the State much harm by this act, and we must say we are disgusted. j-i' " During the past year 393 new banks were organized in the South, the aggregate capital being $7,420,000. Evidently the Southern States have some surplus money. The price of cotton seed the past season was remarkable. From a half acre of cotton the seed we exchanged brought us eight hundred pounds of meal, more than enough to fertilize the land this year. In the spring the editor is sent a cotton bloom in order that it may be mentioned in tne paper, out we notice we didn't get any back-bone and spare-ribs or sausage or pudding at hog killing time. Th#> noonle of South Carolina voted in favor of biennial sessions of the legislature, but nothing has ever been done about it. Let the present general assembly adopt biennial sessions and thereby save the enacting of many useless laws as well as saving money to the tax payers. Th Baptist Courier has announced that after January 21st it will not accept any more contracts for patent medicine advertisements. We are glad to note this action on the part of the Courier, and we wish that not only every religious weekly but that every secular paper in South Carolina would take similar action. Those towns in South Carolina whose population has been announced by the census department are not at all satisfied with the count of the government. ' We would remind them that in this case we are not as big as we feel. Frankly, however, we have little confidence in the accuracy of the census figures. The Abbeville Medium, for many years owned and edited Dy uen. rt. R. Hemphill, but which has been edited by his daughters since his death, has been sold to a stock company, with E. C. Horton as editor and manager. The first issue under the new management appeared last week, and it is a creditable paper. We know of at least one farmer in Bamberg county who only plants ten acres of cotton to the plow. There is a tendency here to plant less acreage and get a higher production per acre. When we first came to Bamberg county half a bale of cotton to the acre was considered | good farming. Now many of our farmers consider that they have made a very poor crop unless they get a bale to the acre. Better methods and heavier fertilization is the rule. ? m Now that city council has started the work, let them continue until Main street is a sightly place. Have the telephone and electric light poles removed from the street, and strictly enforce the ordinances against sweeping trash into the streets and putting goods on the sidewalks, also forbid hitching posts on the street. While council is about it, let them make a good job of it. We feel sure that , such action will meet with the approval of a large majority of our citizens. Third Trial for Murderer. Cordele, Ga., Jan. 9.?The third trial of former Sheriff W. B. Lyons, and his son, Archie, on the charge of ?3 ~ TTM ? r*? WTO n oqII^/^ V) Pro muruei lUg ricuiiug, nao vanvu uww to-day. The first trial in Wayne county, resulted in conviction and life sentences for both men. The State Supreme Court granted a new trial, which after proceeding several days was declared a mistrial because one of the jurors was related to one of the prosecutors. Lyons, his son and Smith were residents of Jesup, where Smith was a druggist. The case has been before the courts for two yars. DEMOCRATS GET TOGETHER. Conferences Paving Way for Conference January 19. ^ Washington, Jan. 7.?Conferences among Democratic members are smoothing out some of the difficulties preliminary to the caucus of the House on January 19. It' was announced to-day that the selection of J 1 - - - ? ? ~ ? V\*? tne commiutie uu cumun LLee? uj iuu next ways and means committee is now assured, there being little opposition left to their procedure. Representative Fitzgerald, of New York, is among the Democrats holding out for the vesting of such selection in the Speaker as at present, but the endowment of that power with the incoming ways and means committee, who are to be chosen at the coming caucus, will be entirely in accord with the views of Representative Clarke, of Missouri, probably the next Speaker; Representative Underwood, of Alabama, probably the next chairman of the ways and means committee, and Representative Henry, of Texas, conspicuously mentioned in connection with the chairmanship of the committee on rules and other Democratic leaders. The contests between Representatives Kitchen and Pou, of North Carolina, for a place on tne ways ana means committee has practically been decided in favor of Mr. Kitchen. MAN WITH A WOODEN LEG. On? of the Best Civil War Stories Ever Told. Old Cropone, as he was called, walked on a crutch after he lost a leg in the Civil War. One day he was at the Macaroni Club in Boston and was prevailed upon to tell the story of the missing member. He began by relating that there was a bunch of Union men, some of whom had lost a leg in the same battle and one had lost both. They were removed to a Southern mansion soon after the battle. "One day," he went on, "word was brought that a woman had crossed through the lines and would visit us that day. It is wonderful how a woman's visit will spruce up low ebb prmra^p in a. sick man. There we lay watching the door, and at last she appeared. She carried on her arm a basket filled with little packages which she distributed to the cots as she came along, meanwhile talking to each invalid. She wasn't what you would call a pretty woman?in fact, she would be called plain?but the influence of the hour and her presence made her appear to me angelic. I could hardly wait for her to reach my bed and hear her low spoken words of comfort. Her progress was very sJow, and the poor fellows kept her talking to them as long as they could. I got to wondering what it was that she gave each of them as she left the cots and from the size of the package guessed that it miight be tobacco. "At last she came to me. I thanked her in advance for her kindne?s and told her in my plain words how cheering her presence made us | feel?that if we took a new lease on life we owed it to her visit. "one held her finger up to me in' warning and said she had orders to do all the talking and not to tire us out. Then she began: " 'Sometimes trials are given us for a purpose Who can tell? It may be that the wise Creator wishes to soften our hearts and cleanse us of our sins. Hardships come upon us?sickness, blindness and lameness ?and they all mean chastisement'of the carnal spirit. You are all on the road to recovery, and when you once more reach your loved ones at home it will not be any easy matter to resist the pleasures that have been denied you so long. I want you to promise me something before I leave your camp. If you do it will quite repay me for the risk and trouble I have undergone to be with you now.' "I was ready to promise anything, sight unseen. Who could resist a woman in tears with a sob in her throat, especially under such conditions? But she interrupted me again: " 'You cannot promise my request until you know what I am going to ask you and not until you have fully understood its significance. I shall leave this little token with you and return in an hour. Then you will know. A pledge to me is sacred and should never be given unless with the intention of keeping it.' "She left the room solemnly, and I fell to my package with all due haste. It was tied with a blue ribbon, ana the first sentence on its printed page struck me with amazement. I was hit in a vulnerable spot. The sin she was asking me to blot out was one I loved dearly, yet I knew before she returned to that room that I should give her my pledge." The old man's crutch fell to the floor with a crash. "What was she after?" we yelled in chorus. "Her crusade was against the 'Evils of Waltzing.' I promised her then and there that I would never dance again. That was 13 years ago, and I have kept my word."?John , Mason, in Associated Sunday Magazine. Kill More Than Wild Beasts. The number of people killed yearly by wild beasts don't approach the vast number killed by disease germs. No life is safe from their attacks. They're in air, water, dust, even food. But grand protection is afforded by Electric Bitters, which destroy and expel these deadly disease germs from the system. That's why chills, fever and ague, all malarial^ and many blood diseases yield promptly to this wonderful blood purifier. Try them and enjoy the glorious health and new strength they'll give you. Money back, if not satisfied. Only 50c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Frcactier (Jaugnt at l^ast. Ellijay, Ga., Jan. 9.?Rev. James A. Kimmond, who with his brother, Rev. Benjamin Kimmond, is charged with the killing of Carter Lingerfelt at Mount Pisgah church in Gilmer county several weeks ago, was arrested last night, together with his son, James, and his son-in-law, John Scruggs. Rev. Benjamin Kimmond has not been captured. The killing for which the preachers are wanted occurred in the cnurcn yard at tne same time federal officers were raiding an illicit distillery nearby which Lingerfelt was said to operate. Lingerfelt, it is claimed, was trying to break up a church service at the time of the shooting. Rewards had been offered for the capture of the preachers. FUNERAL TRAIN WRECKED. Spcial Derailed in Virginia, Though None is Injured. Roanoke, Va., Jan. 7.?The special train of President L. E. Johnson of the Norfolk & Western railroad which left Roanoke this morning at 9 o'clock for Aurora, 111., carrying the body of President Johnson's mother, who died here yesterday, members of the family and friends, was wrecked near Kermit, W. Va., a small station on the Norfolk & Western this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The engine crashed into a rock that had rolled from a hillside onto the track. The entire train, consisting of lo/inmntivQ fVi r?D nri'vato nars and n V/V/1UIV/ Vfi * f VIA * VV f * * * Wl W VV*k w WW M V* WW baggage car, was derailed but none of the coaches turned over and nobody on the train was injured. The engine is badly damaged. The train was running on a slow schedule when the accident occurred. A wrecking train has been sent to the scene and i it is expected the track will be open before midnight. Negro a Wireless Centre. Washington, Jan. 9.?A negro from Charleston, Marshal McLain, says that he has been connected up with all the wireless telephone outfits in this country and people are constantly ringing him up and talking to him. He went to an attorney here this morning to get an injunction against the whole proceeding. The Washington Times has the following acocunt of it: "Marshal McLain, a negro, of 617 L. street northwest, called at the office of a colored attorney in Four and-a-nair street tms morning iu geL out an injunction against a woman who had placed his body in constant communication with all the wireless telephone stations in the world." " 'There is so much talking all the time that I can't sleep and can hardly hear myself think,' McLain ex- , plained. 'I want the courts to order this woman to disconnect all the wireless connections. Somebody is talking to me every minute of the day and night.' "The attorney accompanied him to police headquarters, where a charge of insanity was place against him by Sanitary Officer Sroufe. "McLain, it was learned, was formerly an inmate of the government hospital for the insane, but was discharged last July, and went to Charleston, S. C. He returned to Washington a few weeks ago. "He was sent to the Washington hospital for examination by the poUno snrpwins." Putting in the Time. i A gentleman was engaging a general man and telling him what he wanted him to do. "You will have to clean the windows and the boots and the knives and go messages, chop wood, cut short grass, mind "the horse and pony, look after the garden and keep the house supplied with vegetables and do any old job that is required and if suitable you will get 10 shillings a week." "Is there any clay in the garden?" asked the man. "What makes you ask that?" asked the gentleman. "I was thinking I could make bricks in my spare time," said the man.?Sacramento Union. Fable of the Golden Plow. There was once a Benevolent Fairy who was accustomed to doing Good Deeds in Whimsical Ways. One day she was flying across the country to attend a meeting of the A. O. B. F., when she noticed a Farmer laboring in the Fields. His home was Attenuated and Decrepit and his plow was Heavy and Old-Fashioned. Often he would pause and wipe the sweat from his brow. Plainly he was having a Hard Time. The Benevolent Fairy watched him a moment and observed his Haggard Look and his general air of Misery. Suddenly an Idea came to her?to make this man Rich, so that he would no longer have to delve and struggle to eke out a Bare Living. So she swooped down and touched his plow with her hand?she was, of course, invisible?and instantly it was changed to Solid Gold. Then, with an amused but kindly backward glance, the Benevolent Fairy went on her way. A year later, remembering the occurrence, she flew over to see how the Farmer was enjoying his Good Fortune. She found him in the Fields, plowing laboriously, and, if anything, he and his surroundings looked Meaner and More Miserable than they had before. Much surprised, the Fairy flew closer, just in time to hear him murmur: "I wish this ding-busted plow wasn't so heavy!" The Benevolent Fairy eyed him Pityingly?then she once more touched the plow with her wand, and it again became a thing of wood and iron. Then she flew away, and the Farmer resumed his Toil. After all, are there not some folk who would die of thirst adrift on a river??Lippincott's Magazine. f WAN! Four District and Six Special ness for The Southeastern L of Greenville, S. C., in Richl ton, Calhoun, Orangeburg, Aiken, Edgefield, Saluda, b York counties. Fine opportunities |for go eastern has written more ever before in the Five Sue history and our statement s show a net gain of $1,000,01 present year. Our agents a: where. Do not put it off bu ticulars. 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Caskets always @ Don want farm- ? ids, and we can ? it satisfactorily ? :ces. We carry ? wanted by the ? y you to give us ? * v gure with you. ?.';''.^j usiness given us ? J?(~ ipe that during ? ipon us you will ? , never you need JSj lardware Company I r SOUTH CAROLINA. Sr jOw t/\Z/X0X0\ffx?/X0X0^ffX0^0X0 ^ w w w ^ w w w w w w NG COMPANY. ; f r year we wish to express to ippreciation of their business * ; the year to serve promptly ; with us. very possible facility, we are ndle all business given to us. mall as well as large accounts - - *? asant relations we iook iar appreciation of all business B nfluence. I H oiis New Year, we are, I f 'l. COPELANP, M. D. Pres. J