Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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lamherg iHrratt ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in Th Herald building, on Main street, ii the live and growing City of Bam berg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mer genthaler linotype machine, BabcocJ cylinder press, folder, one jobber, ? fine Miehle cylinder press, all run b; electric power with other materia and machinery in keeping, the whol< equipment representing an invest ment of $10,000 and upwards. "? Qw tha vonr $1 nrt 3UU&cripuuu9 uj mu vw y*" ? 6ix months, 75 cents; three months 50 cents. All subscriptions payabl< strictly in advance. Advertisements?$ 1.00 per incl for first insertion, subsequent inser tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad vertisements at the rates allowed b: law. Local reading notices 10 cent a line each insertion. Wants anc other advertisements under specia head, 1 cent a word each insertion Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Write for rates Obituaries, tributes of respect, reso lutions, cards of thanks, and all no tiees of a personal or political char acter are charged for as regular ad vertising. Contracts for advertisini not subject to cancellation after firs' insertion. Communications?We are alway! glad to publish news letters or thos< pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and ad dress of the writer in every case No article which is defamatory oi 1 ? 1 J nlnAA onensiveiy persuu<u can uuu a. our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. === Thursday, June 6, 1912. - ? No doubt the tragedy in those pathetic words of the genial and openhanded "Hub" Evans to M. A. Goodman, a liquor drummer, "I am out oi coffee and Goshen butter," will be fully appreciated by all South Carolinians in touch with the situation. What a cruel world is this, after all, and how oft are we reminded that republics are ungrateful! Just think of clever "Hub" Evans, chairman ol the State board of dispensary directors and an upright public servant, having to write to a liquor drummer , of his necessities. Shame on South Carolina for not providing more hderally for her self-sacrificing patriots! < ^ a K. P. Grand Lodge. Spartanburg, May 30.?In a downpour of rain the Knights of Pythias grand lodge convention was called to order for its second days' session, several new delegates having come in since last night. The first business of the day was election of officers, this being made a special order for 10 o'clock. The result of the election follows: Grand chancellor, F. S. Evans, Greenwood. Grand vice chancellor, Geo. W. Dick, Sumter. Grand prelate, H. K. Osborne, Spartanburg. Grand keeper of records and seal, C. D. Brown, Abbeville. Grand master of exchequer, Wilson G. Harvey, Charleston. Grand master at arms, J. M. Oliver, Orangeburg. Grand inner guard, Perrin W. Price, Barnwell. Grand outer guard, E. R. Cox, Darlington. Grand tribunal, O. J. Bond, Charleston. PThe place selected as next year's convention city was Aikon, there having been invitiations from four places. By a large majority, and after considerable discussion, it was voted to continue the publication of South Carolina Pythian. Kills Woman and Himself, Chicago, June 3.?Nicholas Gill, 30 years old, a city policeman, early to-day shot and killed a woman known as Julia Johnson, and then committed suicide by shooting. The shooting took place in a house of which the woman was an inmate, in the South Side levee district. She was 20 years old. Gill, according to fellow policemen, had called frequently of late to see Miss Johnson and is said to have been infatuated with her. The policeman lived with his widowed mother in Lakeview. The police were unable to find any one who had heard any words pass between the two previous to the shooting. Sunday-School Picnic at St. John's The annual Sunday-school picni< at St. John's will be on Thursday June 20th. The Rev. Geo. E. Davis of Orangeburg, S. C., will deliver the address. The public is cordially invited to attend. G. J. HERNDON. P. S. The editor is especially invited to be present. G. J. H. At a meeting of the sub-committee of the State Democratic execu tive committee, held in Columbic this week, the campaign itinerary foi State candidates was arranged. Th< campaign opens at Sumter Tuesday June 18th. The Bamberg meeting will be held Saturday, July 13th, anc at Barnwell on Friday, July 12th. FACES MURDER CHARGE. - Aiken Man on Trial for Killing c Policeman. Aiken, June 3.?The case of Jam( = G. Seigler, charged with the murd? e cf Policeman Wade Patterson on tfc 1 main business street of Aiken lai ? fall, was called at 3:25 o'clock th - afternoon. Seigler, who had been i * jail since the afternoon he shot Pa * terstfn to death, came in the coui 1 room smiling. The securing of a jur 3 was begun at once, and when at o'clock court adjourned for the da . the entire panel has been exhauste , and the court found it necessary t 5 draw a new venire. Out of the 3 men, whose names were called, on! . r.ine jurors were secured. This is th - first time in a number of years th? ^ an entire panel had been exhauste I in Aiken county without completin 1 a. jury. The State exhausted il * peremptory challenges and the d( ? fendant objected to five men. Tw 1 were excused on account of relatioi - ship by marriage to the defendan " eight had formed and expressed a ~ opinion as to the defendant's gui] t and were excused. One man wh stated that he had expressed hi J opinion was accepted. One was ej I cused on account of his health. Thre - did not believe in capital punist raent. One was a witness for th ^ defense, and one a witness for th j State. The nine jurors so far s? - cured are: O. L. Weeks, James E League, L. L. Hill, B. L. Adams, J : A. Stallings, C. W. Munnerlyn, H. E Verdery, E. M. Cook and F. O. Gunl ; er. As soon as the other three ar secured to-morrow morning from th special venire the taking of test: mony will begin. ! No case that has come up in Aike s county in a long time has excited th interest that is centered in the Seig Tor on co Senator Tillman. The scars of a veteran are the nc ! blest insignia of honor. Senator Til] man, of South Carolina, was never , greater figure in American eyes tha ' in these days of his ill health. But no amount of physical suffei ing can break a spirit as indomitabl as that of any man who ever livec The fearlessness, the intellectus power, the invincible will of Senato Tillman are what they have alway been. He is a candidate for anothe term in the senate. It should b granted him. We are sure his con stituents feel, as the country does > about the matter. No legislator in the American con gress is Senator Tillman's superior ii parliamentary knowledge, and gras; of the practical workings of govern ment. Sprung from the people, heart brain and soul a man of the people beginning against the handicap o great odds, he fought his way to th< foremost rank of orators, legislators and parliamentarians by sheer geniu and force of character. His great per sonality has subdued the animositie of an earlier time. Eighteen year in the senate have made him under stood, not only by the State of Soutl Carolina, but by the whole nation The United States recognizes in Ben jamin R. Tillman one of the ables and most dauntless champions o liberty, one of the most relentles foes of special privilege who eve: drew breath. In a stronghold of plu tocracy, he has fought, year in an< year out, the battles of the people. Thi senate, the American republic, can not afford to lose Tillman.?Buffal< Times. Builds Peculiar Wagon. Kansas City, Mo., June 2.?In ; wagon so ingeniously constructe< that it may be converted into i "diner," "sleeping" or "dressinj room," Dr. Oscar P. Blatchly, a re tired physician of Kansas City, Kan. with his wife and daughter to-da; started a 5,000 mile drive that wil take the travelers from here to Ver mont, thence down the Atlantic coas to Florida and then back home. I will require a year to make th journey as pjanned. Dr. Blatchly, who built the wago: himself, said the trip, besides bein pleasure, was to give his 12-year-ol daughter practical knowledge of bot 1 any, geography, geology and photos ' raphv. Certificates of Attendance. The following pupils of the Ban: ? berg groded school were awarde certificates for not being absent nc tardy during the entire year: Georg [ Bamberg, Leone Bamberg, Reub Beard, Bennie Black, Mamie Faus Pauline Faust, Arrie Free, Glady Free, Reba Free, Roy Free, Mar Lee Grimes, Lernne nernaon, :vic mie McMillan, Nettie Mitchell, Rut - Phillips, Hazel Rice, Alonzo Sand - fer, Pinckney Smoak, Garris Zeigle: i % Of the nineteen pupils in the se\ p enth grade, six were not absent i day or late a morning; seven wer , not absent a day, but late two morr I ings. This is a remarkable record, e: 1 pecially when the severe weather c the past winter in recalled. COTTON ACREAGE REPORTS. P )f Figures Based on Reports to Mem* U phis Newspaper. is Memphis, Tenn., June 3.?The ir Commercial-Appeal to-day will say: le Reports of correspondents of datet. st May 28 and 29 indicate a probable is decrease in the acreage planted to n cotton this season of 6 per cent. J t- These figures are, however, more rt than usually indeterminate, as con y siderable planting remains to be 6 done over wide areas. Correspond.y ents estimates on the condition of d the crop as compared to normal in;o dicate a percentage of 80 to 83. 0 The crop is later than last year \ y in all States save the two Carolinas J ie and Texas and over the whole belt it the land preparation is less thorough d and planting was begun at a later g date than last. Raj id germination :s has, however, done much to restore 5- the time lost. o The plant is generally healthy and l- growing thriftily and where it is adt, vanced enough cultivation is making n normal progress. In detail returns It show as follows: o South Carolina?Acreage decreasd is 9 per cent. Alabama?Acreage decreased 12 M e per cent. | J i- Mississippi?Acreage decreased 11 L e per cent. = e Tennessee?Acreage decreased 13 i- per cent. I. Missouri?Acreage decreased 15 r. per cent. [. Arkansas?Acreage decreased 12 per cent. e Louisiana?Acreage increased 5 _ e per cent. i- Texas?Acreage increased 3 per ? cent. n Oklahoma?Acreage decreased 11 e per cent. Georgia?Acreage decreased 11 per cent. North Carolina?Acreage decreased 9 per cent. A Ngro in the House. [- For the first, time in many years s. a negro occupied a seat on the floor of n the house Tuesday. As a result Southern Democrats! were very much agi - tated. Under the rules of the house, 0 the negro was entitled to the privil. lege of the floor. The man was John l1 R. Lynch, of Natchez, Miss., who is r now a paymaster in the army and s who represented the Third Mississipr pi district in the house in the Fortye third, Forty-fourth and Forty-sevi enth congresses. He was also tem5, porary chairman of the Republican national convention in 1884, which l- nominated James G. Blaine for presq ident Representative Ben Humphp ries now represents the Third Mis sissippi district, but he did not wel:, come his predecessor when he came i, in. Lynch occupied a seat on the f Republican side of the chamber and e remained in the house about an hour. ;, Lynch appeared at the capitol s shortly after the house convened and - presented himself at the mam ens trance to the chamber, asking admiss sion. He was stopped by Doorkeeper - Heartsell, of Georgia. Lynch re1 mained at the door while Heartsell rushed in to Speaker Clark to ask - what he should do under the cirt cumstances. The speaker called Repf resentative Sisson, of Mississippi, to s the rostrum and asked him if Missisr sippi hajl ever been represented in - congress by a negro named John R. i Lynch. Mr. Sisson recalled the sere vices of Lynch and the Speaker is sued a pass authorizing Lynch to 3 enter. While Lynch sat in the rear of the hall talking with several old Republican members it was noised among the Democrats that the former Mississip* pi congressman was in Washington laying plans to run for the United States senate from Mississippi just y 3 as soon as the constitutional amendment for the direct election of sena' tors is ratified by the States. It is j the contention of Southern Democrats that the ratification of the amendment in the form that it has ^ been passed by congress will result * in the enfranchisement of the ne groes who have been disfranchised in the Southern States by the operaQ tion of the "grandfather clause." s There are more negroes in Mississippi ^ than in any other Southern State, and if they should be enfranchised it is expected by the Southern Democrats they might easily elect the United States senators from that State. l~ Andrew Carnegie tells of a unique d proposal of marriage which was an ,r actual happening in a Scotch town e where he was stopping one summer, y A Scotch beadle was very much in love, and was also extremely bashful. * ne couian t mane up nis mma 10 ?sk y the lady for her heart and hand in the ordinary manner. He made several al attempts, but his courage always i- failed him at the auspicious moment, r. One day he asked her to go for a t- walk and led the way to the churcha yard; there finding the lot where his ? 'e ancestors lay, he pointed to the head- H i- stones, and said: 3- "All my folks are buried here, Jo>f an. Wadn't you like to be laid away here wi' 'em some day?" , . .V \ . ; V/. " 111 "? 11 IE 11 | i ....THE.... h Rexall Stores J IT WILL PAY YOU TO SEEK AND PATRONIZE THE 11 REXALL STORE. YOU CAN ALWAYS BE SURE OP U RECEIVING A SQUARE DEAL and "THE MOST OF O THE BEST FOB THE LEAST MONEY." LUOA JfUK THE SIGN REXALL AND PATRONIZE THE STORE DISPLAYING IT. YOU WILL FIND A DRUG STORE SERVICE THAT IS AS IT OUGHT TO BE AND AS YOU WANT IT. WE BACK OUR FAITH IN REXALL REMEDIES BY PROMISING YOUR MONEY BACK I IF THEY FAIL TO SATISFY YOU. | Peoples Drug Company Q J I (THE REX STORE) f| ' = . : For all the news while j it is still news read The >|j Bambersr Herald dur- H ing the coming cam- || paign. $1.50 a year. | v-IB ' $gi ' ? / < " -_-' ? 5gfAj . ^ .