The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 12, 1911, Page 4, Image 4
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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
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. 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Aiken, Edgefield, Saluda, b
York counties.
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ever before in the Five Sue
history and our statement s
show a net gain of $1,000,01
present year. Our agents a:
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