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?h? IBambrrg ifpralft ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1801. 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 wwoca f<-*i Her twn inhhers. all run by VDWj IViUv* ) ? tt v ^ ^ 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 advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch /or first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by taw. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special bead, 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. rAmmiinir?tjnnfi->We are always glad to publish news letters of those I 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 l our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. i????????? Thursday, March 2, 1911. No doubt our readers are tired hearing about Gov. Blease. We'll give them a rest after this week. ' The Hampton County News and the I Allendale Herald have discarded their "ready print" outside. Good business. Bamberg means business this time, and we are going to get a railToad. We are not talking much, but are working. Don't be an obstructionist. The town cannot grow while those who have made their money here clog the wheels of progress. Some of the business men of this town are doing some mighty fine work for Bamberg just about now. "Would that we had more like them. (The ladies of the civic league will do doubt soon appoint a "spring cleaning day," but don't wait on that. Spring is approaching, and if you want to get rid of flies and disease, clean up your premises and keep & them clean. Congratulations to Walter Colton, who has assumed the editorship of the Union Progress. He is one of the finest fellows we know and a first-class newspaper man. By the way, he is also a Sunday-school superintendent, dnd there's where he has it on most editors. If the governor was sincere in saying he desired to save the tax payers money, why did he not veto the whole appropriation bill instead of a few items. The total appropriations of the legislature were more than a million dollars, yet the vetoes amounted to about $90,000 or possibly less. After all his brag about "standp:-. ing by his friends" and expressing publicly at various times his friendship for John Black, the governor did not have the nerve to pardon him outright, but commuted his sentence to a fine of $2,000. The great and only Cole must be a great disappointgpf ~ ment to his friends. Now the governor has antagonized the labor element by vetoing the appropriation for the factory inspect,>41 ors. He says he will veto any bill which attempted to change conditions for any man or woman over 21 years of age. Of course he is wrong as usual, but we say, go ahead, you could not please us better than by following your present course. ?* We must congratulate our people on the get-together spirit shown recently. That is the only way to build up the town, and if we will keep up this spirit Bamberg will grow. Of course every movement may not be carried out just as you like it, but when a majority adopts a certain line of action, don't stand off and say you will have nothing to do with it, but show the proper spirit and do your share. Governor Blease has reconsidered and signed the bill which chartered the trolley line in the Piedmont in -which the Dukes are interested. The governor changes his mind right often. He has also reconsidered in regard to enforcing the factory inspection law, and says he will enforce it with the whiskey constables. Where does the law give whiskey constables any right to enforce the labor law in regard to factories? It seems that the governor has made himself appear ridiculous as usual. AS TO TAXES. We are rejoiced that we have satisfied Mr. A. W. Brabham. His letter this week calls for no comment from us, although he might have been as fair to us as we have been to him and acquitted us of any mistatement. We will here reiterate what we have safd before, that we are glad to have articles not onty from him but from others of our readers on this question of taxation. We consider it our most important problem of government just now. The legislature year after year makes excessive appropriations and then fixes a levy not sufficient to meet these appropriations. As a consequence the State is forced to borrow money every year to pay expenses and we are getting deeper in debt. It is not hard to predict the result to a private business where the expenditures exceed the income, and South Carolina will finally be forced to meet the issue of expenses going and no revenue tc meet them. There must be something done along this line, and the burden of taxation relieved as far as possible. Of course some expenditures are ?--? ?w/\ V? i crV? nr fVion WISt. VV uuc utAca ai c tuuu they were years ago, we are getting more for our money. Good roads I and schools cost money and it is well to have them. But new and useless offices have been created, and all along the line appropriations have been excessive. We would not do or say one word that would retard education, but a study of the tax figures in this county is interesting. The figures published last week show that we are paying fully twice as much for schools as for running the county. Most of this, too, comes from special levies voted by the people themselves. Nearly $15,000 raised for schools in this county by special levies alone, to say nothing of the constitutional school tax and other sources of income for the schools. We are sure that our higher educational system is getting extravagant, and the county schools should be careful that they do not fall into the same error. We need education in South Carolina, we have too much illiteracy now, but we want to see the people get value received for every dollar they sp^pd. In one school district of the county the lenroll * ?tt? nnnllc iliCUL U1 LJLIC OLUWi IS UU1J u I v i<ui/iio and the teacher is paid $45 a month. This is only one instance. Others could be mentioned. Of course no one will deny for a moment that farm lands do not bear their just proportion of taxation. They are returned much lower than other property. Land in Bamberg county which could not be bought for $100 an acre?and more than that has been offered in some cases?is returned for taxation at $5.00. We are against high taxes and we are also against unjust values, and to the remedying of these conditions we are pledged in earnest. Of course it is not popular, but we care little for that. It is likewise true that some lands worth only $20 to $30 an acre are returned at $5.00. Is there any jusrino in +Viie7 TAT a oo txr fha ctatomont tlVV 1U tu 1U T I V ?f VUV/ WVUrl-ViUViAV published a few days ago that the average value of farm lands for the State, as returned for taxation, was $3.80 an acre. Does anybody believe that they could be bought for four times that? Is it any wonder that people at a distance think the farming lands of South Carolina are poor when they read statements like that? Little wonder that the State needs to be'advertised through the medium of corn clubs and other agencies, in the face of our tax returns. Bolen Oil Mill Burned. Orangeburg, February 28.?News reached the city to-day that the Bolen oil mill in the Bolen section of Orangeburg county was destroyed by fire last night at 2 a. m. There is a belief that the fire was the work of an incendiary. An attempt was made to burn the building one night about one month ago. The fire at the early hour this morning had gained such headway that it was impossible to stop the flames. Ten tons of cotton seed. over 500 gallons of oil and all the machinery were destroyed. The loss will approximate $10,000, with only about half insurance. The mill owners will take every step to apprehend the perpetrators of the dastardly deed. WOMAN EGGED IN PARIS. Frenchmen Show Disapproval of Her Immodest Costume. Paris has been shocked! The French capital, home of almost anything and everything "ultra" in fashions, has become cripper over the new trousers skirt. By some feminine contraption of apparel has designated as the "harem scarum." Paris blushed when it had heard of the skirt, but that blush of modesty turned into the flush of anger. A young woman, attired in the new mode, walking along the Avenue de l'Opera?the Avenue de l'Opera mind you?was actually egged by a mot of disapproving men until the police appeared and helped her escape in an automobile. UNIQUE HUNTING METHODS. i How the Australian Black Fellows Stalk Their Game. i "One afternoon when I was quite a small boy living in the heart of the Australian bush," says a writer in the American Boy, "a blackfellow, his wife and their two children were camped near the creek which ran through our farm. They had just arrived and were both tired and hungry. "So the blackfellow walked down to the edge of the creek and had a look around. Soon he saw a pair of wild turkeys, or bustards, feeding quietly along a wide open space and about 80 yards away. Now, wild turkeys are very good eating, but they are very shy birds and difficult to get near. 'lrPV? Klo alrfnll att7 Vio/1 n a criin hilt 1 UQ UtaVAltliU n uuu uw ()UU| uv>? - had three boomerangs, four spears , and a club called the nulla nulla. I . watched him carefully to see what , he would do. He took the three , boomerangs and the nulla nulla. Then he broke several branches of i a neighboring tree and swam quetly across the creek. On the other side . he skirted around the edge of the i clearing, getting as close to the turkeys as he could under cover. "I soon lost sight of him and kept my eyes on the turkeys. After , about a quarter of an hour I suddenly noticed well out on the clearing a bunch of shrubbery. Watching it carefully, I saw that it was gradually approaching the birds. It never moved except when the birds had their heads down feeding. "At last it got so close that the turkeys noticed it, but beyond a good stare they paid no further attention to it. Nearer and nearer it approached until it was only about 20 yards away. Then with a jump that made me start the blackfellow sprang up from behind the boughs and running into the birds, threw his boomerangs at them. He seemed to hit both of them, but one flew away all the same. The other one, however, wras disabled and the blackfellow 1+ nff nrith Vlic SUUU 11U19UCU 11 uu nii.il Viu?. "It is the fashion to speak contemptuously of the intellect of the Australian blacks; certainly in some respects they are very deficient. I never met one, for example, that could count more than five, and most of them can count only up to three. But, as hunters they are extremely skillful, very patient, and possessed! of a great fund of knowledge regard-1 ing the habits of the game they pursue. "I have seen them catch ducks in much the same manner as the turkey was caught. The hunter, with a bundle of ireeds, or other aquatic vegetation, slips quietly into the edge of the lake or lae:oon or river, and either wades or swims with the vegetation on his head, noiselessly up to the ducks. Then, one after another he quietly but swiftly pulls them under water, where he strangles them and attaches them to his belt. "It would be thought that the ducks would either call out or flap their wings and so alarm their mates; but the black fellow does his work so smartly that the duck is underneath the water before it has time to do anything. "The kangaroo is stalked in quite a different and rather a peculiar manner. Finding where there is a kangaroo, feeding alone if possible, the black fellow crawls as close as he . can to him. His weapons this time are two spears, wnen mere is uu more cover he waits until the kangaroo has its head down and is nibbling the grass. Then he stands up beside a tree in full view of the kangaroo but absolutely motionless. "The kangaroo looks up but seeing nothing moving, resumes feeding.. The blackfellow then takes a few slow and very cautious steps toward the animal, dragging his two spears carefully through the grass with his toes. The moment the kangaroo stops feeding he becomes immovable, standing, with his hands at his side, like a thin black stump. "This strategy goes on for perhaps 20 minutes, at the end of which the blackfellow is probably within 10 yards of his prey. Then, like a lightning flash, he bends for his spears, and one after the other they are flung nnivM-ine into the flanks of the kan garoo. The animal bounds off, but the blackfellow follows confidently, as he knows before the second mile is covered the kangaroo will be exhausted. "This is the usual way in which the kangaroo was taken. Occasionally, however, it was killed with the [boomerang. The kangaroo has a very thin skull, and if the boomerang , hits it on the head it drops instantly. "The ' boomerangs I have been mentioning do not return to their ' owners, as all boomerangs are so often stated to do. Boomerangs used . foir killing game or in war just go ' for the object aimed at; and what-; ever they hit or miss they never come back, but end their course just like > any other missile. The returning ( boomerang is really a Joy, and is i especially constructed. It is made and used by the same blackfellow i j Your Mom 1 1 j| ty and for tl fjj grades of Cc I Cream Cheei i 9 | live is our n ? ? l* Steam Bake j Herndon ( > ( ft I 'PHONE 24 : : < > , ?f o% >T> ?Tl?% iTi? ?? ?Ae *m* *A# *% *m* 9w* 9m9 9 that uses the game and war boomerang. "Perhaps the most ingenious of all their schemes is the manner in which they net ducks. A creek is chosen which has, as creeks usually do,! short bushy trees along its banks. Between two of these trees, on opposite sides, the blacks stretch their light, home made net, at a height1 of 10 or 15 feet above the water. The net is managed by two black fellows, one on each side of the stream, who j have hold of the top controlling cord. Until the critical time the net is allowed to sag well down. "A few yards down the creek a third blackfellow is concealed in the reeds. Two or three others then make a detour of perhaps a mile or more and strike the creek again. fVioTr nroiir creek 1 11C11 nuiu K/Mwa MAv0 toward the net. Ot once whatever ducks are on the csreek fly up and, as is their invariable custom follow along the course' of the creek, but about 100 yards or so in the air. "Soon they come toward where the net is waiting. Just at the proper time the blackfellow who is hidden in the reeds gives the loud, shjrill cry of the duck hawk, at the same time hurling his boomerang into the air. Like so many arrows the terrified ducks dive down for the shelter cf the trees and dart along only a few feet above the water. At the same time the net rises in front of them, and they dash into it. Sometimes the wnoie hock oi a uuaeu or more is caught at once, and it is rarely that the stratagem is altogether unsuccessful. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements Under This Head 25c. For 25 Words or Less. Purse Found.?On the streets of Bamberg .Monday afternoon, a purse containing a sm^ll sum of money. Owner can have same by calling at The Herald office, proving property, and paying for this advertisement. For Sale.?Eggs for hatching. Barred Plymouth Rocks. $1.00 for fifteen. J. M. GRIMES, Bamberg, S. C. Salesmen Wanted to look after our interest in Bamberg and adjacent counties. Salary or commission. Address: THE VICTOR OIL COMPANY, Cleveland, O. For Sale.?Selected, Thoroughbred Single Comb Brown Leghorn Eggs for setting, 60 cents per dozen. No I eggs sold over five days old. CLIFF JOHNSON, Bamberg, S. C. i Lost.?On Saturday, February 4th, on the streets of Bamberg, one Colt's automatic pistol, 32 calibre, blue steel. Finder will be liberally rewarded if returned to Bamberg Herald office. For Sale.?Lots at Denmark, suitable for residences, stores, factories or cheap tenements. Easy terms given. Denmark needs houses to rent. They will pay large revenue on cost. Inquiries addressed to me at Savannah will receive prompt attention. C. H. DORSETT. Lumber for Sale.?I am now in position to deliver rough lumber in Bamberg promptly. My timber is good, and you will be pleased with the class of lumber you get from me. A postal card containing your order will have prompt attention. J. F. JENNINGS, Cope, S. C. For Rent.?The four front rooms up-st?irs in The Herald building. These are the very nicest offices in the city. They have electric lights and water and all the rooms are connecting. See me quick if you want a nice office. Will rent the four rooms as a whole or separately. A. W. KNIGHT. ey's Worth I is what you g< chasing your store. Good } Quality, and Lo made Herndo: I chasing center lose who appre< ffees, Teas, Ca >e and Butter, motto and we 1 d Bread. Velva Brea] i's Grocer : : BAMBERG, S ili il? j own'an al i I have for sale, a ?? tonish you, two seco ?? mobiles which are it f they came from th ?? "S" two-passenger <m na^sencfir Ruinlc toi < let me show you wl | J. B. B 2 The Repair Man Ii^wrvivirt i The best cigar on the 5 cents straight. Mad vana tobacco. Gentk good smoke know the I ply just received. : FRESi Plenty of fresh countrj price is down. Redu< on a few groceries, an vantage of the drop ir ! OUR GROCER] No old stale stock on hi to serve you and want grocery orders. Phon will be filled carefully; E. L. PRICE Executive Committee Meeting. The executive committee of the Rivers' Bridge Memorial Association will meet at the memorial grounds on Saturday, March 11th, at 3 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of arranging for memorial services. A full attendance is earnestly requested. DR. N. F. KIRKLAND, SR., President. J. W. JENNY, Secretary. I 71 Why Suffer From Eczema/ A Georgia Man Tells His Experience I was afflicted with a very bad case of Eczema for twenty-five years,' which was in my feet, legs and hips. Through all this time I tried different remedies and Doctors' prescriptions, obtaining no relief until I used HUNT'S CURE. One box (50c.) cured me entirely, and though two years have elapsed I have had no return of the trouble. Naturally I regard it as the greatest remedy in the world. Yours, J. P. PERKINS, Atlanta, Ga. Sold by: Peoples Drug Co. Bamberg, S. C. - . * - .. . V .? fgygOTgOTgigigWiptP [very Time jj j 5t when pur- jj A food at this jj } Neight, High jj | wPrices have jj | ris the pur- !! ^ for the thrif- ]| | 11 :iate superior jj nned Goods, {[ i| Live and let \\ 1 11 *^5i ive up to it il I a kfast Syrup. : * * * \ \ J y Store 11 IOUTH CAROLINA i 1 ? J ;I?-I--I? il-'I? il? tl? -Ij-I--iHl-iT'S % g ' ^ ,t prices that wiH asnd-hand rebuilt auto- f ist as good as the day v % M e factory, one model . : ji Iffi? Ford, and one four- f? aiing car. Come and ? tat bargains, they are. * rickleI Bamberg, S. C. 2 . );V| VIARTINEZ ||J| market that retails for I | le in Tampa of clear Ha- | ;men who appreciate a I Vlartinez goods. A sup- I ;:,g " ? I - SjPjg -i eg as ' eggs on nana, ana me :tions have taken place 1 id we give you the ad- I 1 prices. I IBS are FRESH I .J| and. We will be pleased I at leasta shareof your | e us your orders. They I and delivered promptly. I 3 jr., & co. If I BAMBBRO, S. C. I, | Q. MOTE DICKINSON I ^ I TvarTijivrp A nnvT I 1 XI O U II a xi v ii ? W M ? ? WILL WRITE ANYTHING I Fire, Tornado, Accident, Liability, Casualty, in the ' strongest and most reliable companies. r 'Phone No. 10-B. Bamberg, 8. C. * TO THE PUBLIC The undersigned have formed a j copartnership for the purpose of practicing law under the firm name of Mayfield & Free. I S. G. MAYFIELD, | W. E. FREE. S. G. MAYFIELD. W. E. FREE? MAYFIELD & FREE ATTORNEYS AT LAW BAMBERG, S. C. '"'^3 Practice in all the Courts, both State and Federal. Corporation practice and the winding up of estates a specialty. Business entrusttrusted to us will be promptly attended to. NOTICE. I have formed a partnership for J the practice of law with Hon. S. G. Mayfield, and will therefore move my office to the building formerly occupied by the Bamberg Banking -% Co., opposite Southern passenger depot. W. E. FREE ik