The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 01, 1912, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. W. KXIGHT. Editor.
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Thursday, Feb. 1, 1912.
It is said that wihte men in towrn
are selling liquor. We hope the authorities
will catch them and give
them the extent of the law. t
There is a feeling of political unrest
among the people and a general de
sire for changes, and if any man
wants to run for office, this year is
the time. There is no telling where
the political lightning will strike
this year.
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A bill has been introduced in the '
legislature making it unlawful for
white persons to teach in negro
schools, and some Northern people
who are conducting negro schools in
the State are much exercised over the 1
bill. It ought to become a law.
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A bill has been introduced in the
legi. lature making the position of j
commissioner of agriculture, now
held by Col. Easy Job Watson, elec- ,
tive by the legislature instead of appointive
by the governor. Col. Watson's
term expires in March, *and it .
appears that some of the legislators ,
are determined to save tils scaip lr ,
possible, as the governor seems certain
to turn him with the dry cattle ,
after that time.
Representative J. A. Hunter in- 1
forms us that he and the other mem- :
bers of the Bamberg county delegation
in the general assembly will op- '
pose with all their power the propo- 1
sition to allow Orangeburg county to
Tote on the question of dispensary or
no dispensary. We hardly believe the
legislature will pass a bill allowing
any county to vote on the dispensary
this year, as it seems to be tfie idea
to keep the whiskey question down
for this year at least.
Suppose it Were You.
The Herald subscribers agree that
the pay-in-advance plan tor newspaper
subscriptions is best for everybody
concerned. They get what they
order and pay for, and do not have
big bills accumulating for back subscriptions
for papers which they may
not want.
There are a few people, however,
who still think that modern newspapers
should be run on the old payas-you
please plan,?at the end of a
year, two years, five years or never.
For the benefit of these few we want
to ask a question.
Suppose j*ou were in our place?
Suppose you were a two-horse
farmer, and had a lot of money tied
up in your land, stock, farming implements,
etc., and had to pay cash
for your labor, fertilizers, supplies.
. etc.
Then suppose you planted 50 acres
in corn, and made 2,500 bushels at
a cost of $2.00.
Would you sell all this corn, in
bushel lots, to 2,500 people, scattered
all over the United States, and
wait a year or two, or upon the convenience
of the buyers, to get your
pay, and try to make another crop,
while waiting, to be sold in the same
way. In addition to selling the corn
out in bushel lots, would you send
it by mail, in pint packages, and pay
the postage on it, in order to get people
to buy on credit, to be paid for in
a year if they like it and don't forget
about it?
If you would do that, then you
would send out papers on credit, if
you were in our place. If you would
do either, in these times of the high
cost of everything, a lunacy commission
ought to be appointed to investigate
your condition.
An ad. in The Herald will bring recults.
Try one and see.
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AFTER FEDERAL JOB HOLDERS.
Bill Aimed to Eliminate Entirely
Their Political Activity.
Washington, January 28.?Every
reader who is even passably familiar
with the political "modus operandi"
of the Republican party in the Southern
States, in many of which the G.
O. P. is almost exclusively a federal*
office-holding affair, can understand
the consternation and demoralization
which would ensue in the ranks of
Southern Republicanism if Senator
Reed, of Missouri, and Representative
Richardson, of Alabama, should
succeed in getting congress to pass
their interesting little bill introduced
a few days ago, to this effect:
Section 1. "Be it enacted by the
senate and house of representatives
. . . that it shall be unlawful for
any person, while holding any ap
pointive office or receiving a salary
or fees under or by appointment of
the president of the United States, or
any officer thereof, to be a member of
the managing or controlling political
committee, either municipal, State,
or national, of any political party, or
to be a delegate to or take part in
the proceedings of any political convention
at which delegates to any
other political convention are selected
or candidates for any public office,
either of the United States or
any State, county or municipality,
are nominated. A violation of the
provisions of this section shall ipso
facto work a forfeiture of the office
or position so held, and a vacancy
therein shall be at once created, and
it shall be unlawful for any such
person +6 thereafter continue to perform
or attempt to perform any of
the duties of such office or position,
or to accept or receive any salary or
fees for service in such office or position
after the date of the violation
of this act; and any person so continuing
tb perform or attempting to
perform any of the duties of said office
or position, or receiving and accepting
any such salary, fees, or
emolument, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on indictment
and conviction shall be fined
not less than $500, and may be imprisoned
for a period of not more
than six months, or both such fine
and imprisonment. " Any person who
has violated any of the provisions of
this act shall be ineligible to appoint
ment by the president of the United
States, or any department of the
United States, or officer thereof, for
a period of two years after such violation.
"Section 2. That any officer of
the United States who shall wilfully
and knowingly certify to, or pay, or
cause to be paid, or assist in procuring
the payment of any salary, fees,
or emolument to any persons who
shall have forfeited his office or position
as provided in section 1 of this
act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be punished by a fine
of not less than $1,000, or by imprisonment
for not more than six months,
or by both such fine and imprisonment."
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As ail example 01 wnat sucu a
measure would do if enacted into
law, we have the fact that the majority
of the votes cast at the last
meeting of the Republican State committee
of Virginia, held to determine
the time and place of the State Republican
convention which will select
the delegates from Virginia to the
national convention, a majority of
the votes cast came from committeemen
and proxy-holders who occupy
federal positions from which they
obtain compensation in either salaries
or fees. In most of the other
Southern States' the situation is
doubtless as bad or worse.
It has not been forgotten by political
scrap book keepers that President
Taft himself, before his eleva'
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audience of Republicans at Greensboro,
N. C., that it would be a greatdeal
better for the Republican party
in North Carolina if it did not have
a single member holding a federal
office. To-day the president's main
reliance in his fight for renomination
is on these same federal office-holders
whom he said a few years ago,
in pffftct. to be a blight upon the
genuine progress of his party. But
for the administration's grip upon
these Southern federal office-holders,
it is generally admitted that there
would be practically no chance of the
president's selection a second time to
lead his party in a national campaign.
' Beats Cotton.
A farmer in Bullock county, Georgia,
says he realized $270 in one year
from what was a young sow two
years ago. Last year her progeny
yielded 3,000 pounds of meat, and
she yet has 11 suckling pigs. That
is equivalent to six bales of cotton
at prevailing prices. This farmer
produced enough corn to feed his
hogs?and a lot to sell at the market.
This is one farmer who is learning
that cotton is not the only crop.
The acreage in his part of Georgia
will be cut down in 1912.?Anderson
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MURDERER AWAITING DEATH.
Ruth Wheeler's Slayer Executed Before
Daylight To-day.
[ Ossining, N. Y., Jan. 28.?In his
cell next door to the death house in
Sing Sing prison, Albert W. Wolter,
the degenerate youth who murdered
and burned Ruth Wheeler in NewYork
nearly two years ago, awaited
to-night with a stolid nerve the final
expiation of his crime by death before
daylight to-morrow.
The visit of Wolter's aged parents,
who came up from New York during
the afternoon, was affecting, but
the doomed youth went through it
without emotion.
The Rev. F. F. Burmeyer, who remained
with the condemned man during
the evening, said that Wolter
seemed reconciled to his fate. The
witnesses to the execution will be restrictd
to the usual number of 15,
as required by law.
The crime for which Wolter pays
the penalty was one which shocked
the country, when the charred and
dismembered body of Ruth Wheeler
was found on a fire escape outside of
Wolter's East Side apartment. The
girl, who was trying to help support
a widowed mother, went to Wolter's
rooms in answer to his advertisement
as "stenographers wanted."
She was there mistreated and
strangled to death. The date of the
murder was March 25, 1910.
I)r. Day Expels Eleven Students.
Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 27.?Dr. Jas.
R. Day, chancellor of Syracuse University,
dismissed eleven students today.
This summary action followed
an investigation to ascertain how
24 out of 50 students in history
handed in perfect examination papers
on January 17.
The eleven students admitted that
they had been able to make perfect
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the examination papers in advance.
The questions had been prepared byProf.
Earl Sperry, who conducted the
class. Dr. Day announced that one
student, whom he named, had admitted
taking a paper from a package
left there for Prof Sperry by the
printer.
"We are now in consultation with
the district attorney, but have not
decided whether legal action will be
taken or not," said the chancellor.
The names of the suspected students
are being withheld.
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Hebert May be Tried.
Columbia, Jan. 29.?C. J. Hebert ,
will very probably be brought from ,
Chattanooga to this State to answer
a charge of "conspiracy to cheat and
qhH nht^in monev under
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false pretenses," in connection with
the late Seminole Securities Comijany.
According to a dispatch from
Chattanooga, Judge S. D. McReynolds
held that Hebert is a fugitiVec
from justice from South Carolina.
The petition for a writ of habeas
corpus was dismissed and it was ordered
that Hebert be remanded to
the South Carolina authorities.
The indictment of C. J. Hebert
grew out of the ''eal whereby the
Seminole Securities Company, organized
by John Y. Garlington, procured
the stocks of"the Southern Life
Insurance Company, of Fayetteville,
N. C., at what was declared to be an
exorbitant price. Hebert and Garlington
were indicted in connection
with the deal, which, it is charged,
Hebert conducted.
It is expected that Hebert will be
brought back to South Carolina and
that he will be placed on trial in the
Richland county court at the next
session.
Against Gambling in Cotton.
Washington, Jan. 26.?Representative
Byrnes, of the 2d South Carolina
district, to-day introduced a bill
aiming to prohibit gambling in futures
on cotton and other farm products,
by restricting the Inter-State
transmission of messages relating to
such transactions under heavy penalties.
Similar bills were introduced
the same day by Representatives
Mays, of Florida; Godwin, of North
Carolina, and Oldfield, of Arkansas.
A measure of this kind passed the
house at the last session, but did
not get through the senate. The demand
from the agricultural sections
for such legislation is increasing
steadily and is reflected in the number
of the bills introduced/
Girl Wanted to Enter Navy.
Cheyenne, Wis., Jan. 29.?A comely
young woman, giving her name
as Gladys Glendenning, of Ishpemirg,
Mich., dressed in male attire,
to-day called at the army recruiting
station and gave her name as Charles
Johnston and declared she wanted
to enlist.
Her hair had been shingled and
she wore a new suit of clothes. The
receiving sergeant filled in the necessary
blanks and then told her to step
into an adjoining room for the personal
examination. She entered the
room, where she was told to remove
her clothing. She nesitatea, Diusnea
and then began crying. She admit!
ted she was a girl.
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WEALTHY FIREMAN RISES.
Promoted to Be Assistant Night Train
Dispatcher.
No longer will Frederick Almy,
the Long Island railroad's "millionaire
fireman," as he has been called,
shovel coal, rake the grate bars and
pry out the clinkers in the fireboxes
of the Long Island railroad locomotives,
says a New York special, for
the young member of maify wellknown
social clubs has been promoted
to be assistant night trainmaster.
Almy, who is 28 years old, and the
son of Frederick L. Almy, a wealthy
New York woolen merchant, wearied
of social affairs and began to learn
railroading from the bottom up two
years ago. Some of his fellow employees
cracked jokes at his expense,
but he stuck to the shovel on many
a wild night's run, and to-day began
roon tho rpwnrd of his Dersist
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It will now be his task to keep the
tracks clear and the trains moving
under the orders of the dispatcher.
Many congratulations poured-in upon
him from relatives and friends.
Attorney General's Opinion.
Attorney General Lyon holds that
the life trustees of Clemson college
under the will oi Thomas G. Clemson,
are not State officers within the
meaning of the constitution. We are
Inclined to think that the attorney
general is correct. Clemson college
is a private corporation supported by I
State funds. This situation will have 1
to be changed some day.?Yorkville j
Enquirer.
Three Children Burned.
Spartanburg, Jan. 29.?Three childfen
were burned to death and another
was terribly injured early today
when fire destroyed the residence
of Walter Gibson, a farmer, near
Campobello, S. C., this county. The
children were alone at the time.
All the little victims were children
of Mr. Gibson. The dead:
Annie, aged 15; Hugh, aged 12;
Busch, aged 10.
James Gibson, aged 9, was so badly
burned that he is expected to die.
Gibson had gone away and it is
thought left a grate fire burning in
one of the lower rooms. It is supposed
the flames started from this.
Neighbors discovered the fire too
late to save any one. As one of the
would-be rescuers entered the house
the young child crashed through the
ceiling and landed at his feet. The
bodies were recovered after the fire
had burned out.
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SPECIAL HOnO^
Advertisements Under This Head 25c.
For 25 Words or Less.
Wanted.?Fifty thousand cypress
shingles. J. A. WYMAN.
For Sale.?Full blood Shepherd
pups for sale. Males, $4.00; females,
$3.00. W. H. ZEIGLER, COPE, S. C.
For Sale or Exchange.?One nice ^
Jersey cow with young heifer calf.
Will sell reasonable or exchange for
beef cattle. D. J. DELK, Bamberg,
S. C.
For Rent.?A five-horse farm, in
half mile of postoffice; land will
make a bale of cotton per acre. Also
two farms on jthe river. For further
information apply to H. J. FAUST,
Denmark, S. C.
Farm Wanted.?I desire a good
farm of large acreage with good improvements,
well located as to town
and railroad; must be good value for 4
price asked. Give full particulars in <
first letter. R. COSBY NEWTON,
Lock Box 121, Bennettsville, S. C.
FOR COTTON WEIGHER.
To the Democratic Voters of Bamberg
County:
The undersigned hereby announces
himself as a candidate for cotton I
weigher at Bamberg, S. C., subject to -I
the rules and regulations goverring 1
the Democratic party of South Caro- 1
lina. N. Z. FELDER, JR. ".]
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
The Auditor or his deputy will be
at the following places on the dhys
and dates named below for the purpose
of receiving tax returns of personal
property:
Ehrhardt, Tuesday and Wednes- 4
day, February 6th and 7th. ? *
St. John's Thursday, February 8th,
from 8 a. m. to 12 m. $
Camphill, Thursday, February 8th,
from 2 p. m. to 4 p. m.
Kearse's Store, Friday, February
9th, from 8 a. m. to 12 m.
All other days to February 20th
at Bamberg.
Fifty per cent, will be added after
20th of February.
R. W. D. ROWELL,
Auditor
BRICK WORE
I am an experienced brickmason
and do all kinds of . brick and concrete
work, plastering, kalsomining,
etc. Satisfaction guaranteed.
JOHN DAYS
BAMBERG, S. C.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS. ^
All persons having claims of any
kind whatsoever against toe estate
of H. J. Brabham, deceased, will present
same, duly itemized and sworn
to, on or before Monday, February i
19th, 1912. and all persons indebted
to said estate will make immediate
payment to the undersigned. I
A. J. BRABHAM, I
Executrix. I
Bamberg, S. C., January 18, 1912. v
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