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I Qty? Bamberg Iferalb 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, Babcock cylinder press,'folder, one jobber, a flne Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power, with otl er material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; six months, 75 cents; three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent inser tions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by ' law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line 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 insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or 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 are ?nt rpsnnnsihle for the ODinions ex pressed in any communication. Thursday, Feb. 8, 1912. We can't understand why the legislature should want to waste $13,500 of the money of the tax payers for plans for improvement of the state house when they know there is no probability of the money for these improvements being raised. Few members of the general assembly would have the nerve to vote for such an appropriation. WANT DISPENSARY BACK. * . There is no disputing the fact that numbers of our leading citizens and tax payers, men who do not touch whiskey themselves, want to see the dispensary system voted back into this couniy. It is openly stated that liquor is being sold in Bamberg and has been for a long time. We have recently heard that there are a num-1 her of places on Main street where whisky can be bought, and some mighty good citizens are becoming mighty tired of the situation?having all the evils and losing the revenue from the sale of whiskey. Numbers of good people say there is more drunkenness in Bamberg now than there was in dispensary days and that the evil is growing. The money is going* to the express company and to the liquor dealers in Augusta and Jacksonville. It is said that lots of-liquor is being sold in the country, too, there being a blind tiger on nearly every plantation around town. The situation seems to be getting ' serious, and we look for something to happen pretty soon. State Treasurer to Reply. Columbia, Feb. 2.?Robert H. Jennings, State treasurer of South Carolina, will be given a hearing by the general assembly of his State in regard to the charges advanced "by Gov. Blease as -to the State loan on $5,000 last summer. The house this morning adopted the senate concurrent resolution allowing the State treasurer to make a written communication to the general assembly giving his side of the case. Mr. Jennings, who lost his left arm in the service of the Confederacy and has served his State as treasurer for the last eight years, resents the insinuation of the governor in a message to the general assembly aSout the State loan. The resolution which has passed both houses allows him to print his side of the case in the journals. The statement of the State treasurer will probably be sent to the general assembly to-day. There was a strenuous opposition to the adoption of the resolution on the part of the governor's friends in the house on the grounds that it accused the governor of telling a falsehood, but the house refused to reconsider its action on adopting the resolution. several aays agv cue guvauui, *** a message to the general assembly, challenged a statement by Mr. Jennings as to the loan. The real facts in connection with the incident will now be related. The resolution authorizes the % statement of the State treasurer to be printed in the journals. The Light, a negro newspaper edited and published in Columbia by negroes, says: "We are glad to note that Gov. Blease agrees with our position as to the tax fertilizer money, that part of it should go to the negro schools, since negroes use the greater part of the fertilizer." So Gov. Blease wants to let the negroes have part of the Clemson fund. This will be news to many of his friends.? Orangeburg Times and Democrat. HOW LOUIS NAPOLEOX ESCAPED. In the Disguise of a Workman He Passed the Guard. In discussing the origin of Louis Napoleon's nickname of "Badinguet" some details were given incidentally of his escape from the fortress of Ham, in northern France, on May 25, 1846. Fuller details are now available, thanks to the researches of M. Thirria, and in view of the escape of Captain Lux they have a special interest at the present moment. It seems that the sole credit for the escape must lie with Louis Napoleon himself. He made his valet, Thelin, buy a black wig, some rouge, a cap which was scrubbed with pumice stone and a pair of sabots. Then v?ck Ant r\ff hie rrmctnphp nnt nn a blue apron, a blue pair of trousers and a close fitting shirt of coarso stuff. Some workmen were carrying out some repairs to that part of the fortress where the prince lodged and this gave color to his disguise, so much so that the two watchmen entertained no suspicions regarding the man who walked past them and out at the great gate, a pipe in his mouth and a plank on his shoulder. The sergeant on duty at the drawbridge was reading a letter as he passed and took no notice of him. It was then 5 o'clock in the morning. Four times that day, the last time at 5 in the afternoon, did the governor, Demarle, send for the prince. Each time Dr. Conneau replied that the prisoner could not see anybody because he had taken medicine. When at last the governor lost patience and went himself to the prince's room and walked up to the bed on which the supposed invalid was lying he discovered that a very presentable dummy had taken the place of Louis Napoleon. The discovery was made too late. By that time the fugitive was over the Belgian frontier.?From le Journal des Debates. Last Call. See O'Riley now, as he will close his photograph business in Bamberg next Wednesday, February 15th. "THE WAGES OF SIN." Sad Idealization, iiut too ljate, 01 Victim of Suicide Pact. New York, Feb. 5.?Death, which brought to a sordid end the romance of Louise Lawrence Suydam, the millionaire's wife, and Fred Noble, the plumber's son, flung back its chapters of mystery to-day, leaving a chapter in which friends of the woman profess to read another lesson in morals. The lesson was drawn from a declaration made by Mrs. Suydam-Noble to a friend a few days ago. "My friend," so Mrs. Suydam-Noble is quoted, "you and I and Fred may laugh sometimes at old things like law and moral codes and religion when They say 'thou shalt not.' We may think that phrase was written for the weak spirited and for fogies. Law and moral code", and religion are right. What they say we cannot do without suffering. I have learned that. I have learned my lesson. I know the wages of sin is death?and in many cases those wages demand more than death?hell -on earth." That the young couple?the millionaire's wife and the plumber's son?learned their moral lesson and entered into the suicide pact a few /jovo after thpir romantic marriage, is the general belief expressed today. Close friends of Mrs. SuydamNoble claim she was never happy with her new husband and that young Noble wearied of it and surrendered to discouragement. Yesterday they were found in their comparatively humble apartment in West 12th 9treet, lying in front of a gas range, dead from asphyxiation. They had left no farewell note. Mrs. Suydam knew, so her friends believe, that no final message was necessary. The romance?the beginning of which was never really known?first came to notice five months ago, when Mrs. Suydam fled from her husband's palatial home, in Blue Point, L. I., with young Noble. There followed a chapter of tearful entreaties from the husband that his wife return. She ignored him, declaring she had found happiness in the humble apartment of a workman. Next came divorce proceedings, and when she had been freed by the millionaire's legal initiative, Mrs. Suydam was wedded to the plumber. EViPnds sav Mrs. Suydam never | loved the youth she took for a second ! husband, while Noble felt her car-1 dinal affection remained for Suy-1 dam. It is believed the suicide pact was entered into a few days after the marriage. WEhile Suydam secured a divorce, it is claimed he did not abandon hope that there might be a reconciliation. He was among the first to reach the Noble opartment yesterday after the bodies were found. Four handsome new Fords just received, new models. See them if you want a machine of satisfaction. FORD MOTOR CO., Bamberg, S. C. No more photographs after Feb. 15 'r T~r rree! rree FOR ITDAYS C t LIFE AMONG ROME'S POOR. Great Crowding, Bad Hygienic Conditions and Scarcity of Food. The problem of life among the poor of Rome has been illustrated by Prof. Domencio Orano, who recently wrote a book dealing with the miserable condition of the inhabitants of the Testaccio quarter, which is the most densely populated district of Rome. Out of the 10,000 inhabitants of this quarter, scattered in eighty-two tenement houses, there are 723 families who cannot afford to rent apartments, but are forced to sublet enough space in rooms where they can sleep. There are 513 single room apartments in the quarter and 109 rooms are occupied by five persons each, seventy-six by six, twentyfive by eight, while the rest afford shelter to from ten to fifteen people. The rent for sleeping space in each room varies from $1 to $5 a month. The hygienic conditions of the tenement houses in Testaccio are very bad. As a rule the poor people of Rome live on vegetable soup with paste and bread as they cannot afford to eat either meat or fish, but in order to make up for their scanty diet they drink wine freely. There are thirty-eight wine shops in the quarter against only three shops where milk is sold, and the average daily consumDtion of wine is over 3,170 gallons for 10,000 people, including women and children. There are many men who drink habitually from six to seven quarts of wine every day. Morality is at a low state, mainly owing to the fact that entire families composed of young men and women as well as children sleep in one room without any partitions between the beds, and very often instead of beds sacking and mattresses are placed on the floor, which is thus converted inton one bed for six, ten or even fifteen persons, who sleep side by side Prof, Orano ascertained that fully two-thirds of the /wages earned by the poor inhabitants of Testaccio are spent in food and drink, while the remaining third serves for house rent and clothes. The best way and the only really good way to build up a rundown farm is to put it into a good rotation crop, grow for J ? 3 - A 3 ? V,. clge auu ICtJU 1L <ALLU liianc rnauuic, But the difficulty all over the South is that too much human labor is used and too little horse-power and improved implements. A man with a riding cultivator and two mules will do more work in the corn field and do it better than three men each with a one-horse plow. By liberal applications of acid phosphate and potash you can grow the peas, and the roots and stubble will help the land to some extent, and you can put the land in grass and use fertilizers heavily annually and keep up a good crop of hay if you give an occasional liming.?Progressive Farmer. Popped and Paid Parson. Philadelphia, Feb. 1.?Mrs. Frederick Carr, of Germantown, is the first "bona fide leap year bride of the East. Not only did she propose, but she insisted on paying the car fare to Wilmington, where they were married, purchased the ring and supplied the Rev. George L. Wolf with his fee. Mrs. Carr was Miss Margaret E. Molenkopf. On Tuesday night last Frederick Carr called. "Fred," said she, according to her own acknowledgment, "I am tired of living alone; let's go and get married." The bride explained that she knew "Fred loved her, so she wasn't a bit afraid of a refusal." Fred lived up to her expectations and they were married. The bridegroom says he "never could have gotten up the nerve to ask her." Reflections of a Bachelor. ( Politics costs those in it more self-respect than money. The man who doesn't work just for money mighty seldom does any work. What a girl means when she says no depends on the man to whom she says itw What a woman likes in a man she is never able to discover in him after they are married. When one woman speaks of another's clothes as rags it's a sign they claim to be good friends. A bad temper gets a heap of things to pacify it that a good temper keeps on praying for in vain. Anybody who had a million dollars could pretend it was twenty-five cents when his poor relatives were around. A girl never really has to wait for leap year to ask a man, because any year she knows how to ask him to ask her. J. M. Dannelly & Co. at Ehrhardt operate a first-class livery stable. J Nice teams on hand all the time.; Traveling men and others wanting livery service will do well to see them. i Here's the proposition. I was talking the Herald about advertising in a small town and i ~ pay as well to advertise in a small town as it d that there were not enough people who would it were given them, and he said well if you try: / ad. won't cost you anything, so I told him I ha cum Powder that I would give away absolutel; person making a 50c cash purchase at the Ba either a box of Talcum or a cake of Soap, as ] I this proposition starts Monday, February 1: BAMBERG PH BAMBERG, S. C. J ,,ft i ' ; 1 iii Our Apprecia # # . We take this means of thank & and customers for their patro year, and we wish to state tl v tinuance of same, assuring the and willing to treat them in th EASY way that we always hi (Those who have dealt with words GOOD AND EASY n ? i? 1 1 to advise our friends and cus moved into our new two-stor have enlarged our stock ver] it the following lines: Buggi and Two Horse Wagons, He We also carry a nice line of F Matting, Squares, Rugs, Etc., We sell either for cash or ci see us. Thank you, Farmers Men H. H. KEARSE, Manager / :! free!) ' N l IREE I INLY j other day with the editor of The 1 [ my argument was that it did not M lid in large towns for the reason * take advantage of a bargain if ? : - it and it is not a success why this id a lot of Jergens Soap and Taly free, with this condition, to the M -mberg Pharmacy I would give ' jj long as it lasts. Remember now M 2th, 1912. I , ;A | 0 [ARMACY il OHN L. OWENS, Manager. )))) f ========^ r| i .r T - - f n % . t , ' ~.. M ? *" Kr *'-rvS , - : 'jSrfiBc v'as! % tion m J ing our good friends N.s / nage during the past | tat we want a consul that we are ready | esame GOOD AND J ave done heretofore. I us know what the 1 lean.) We also wish \ tomers that we have -i f brick building, and ; r much by adding to es and Surreys, One urness, Saddles, Etc. urniture of all kinds, Coffins and Caskets. 'edit. Come in and i :antile Co. OLAR, S.C. sSR