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?br lambrrg ijfrrali ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in Th Herald building, on Main street, i insertion. Thursday, July 4, 1912. South Carolina. South Carolina, says George Fitch a popular newspaper writer, is th< fightingest State in the Union, and i the unsafest spot between the At lantic and Pacific in which to discus the emancipation proclamation or t.< edit a newspaper with a trenchan pen. South Carolina is about as big a, the front yard of a Texas cattle king It contains 30,000 square miles, ii shaped like a five-cent cut of pie,'an; has 1,500,000 people, including Re publicans, Chinese, and Indians no taxed. The population is almos equally divided between whites an; negroes, but one Carolinian when h< gnashes his teeth and draws in hi: breath with a low, hissing sound cai make 100 colored residents go awa; in search of rest and a change o climate without waiting for the nex train*. South Carolina was settled abou 250 years ago, but has remained un settled ever since. It has alway: been noted for its nervous disposi tion and its willingness to rise u] and smite the universe on all occa sions. The British were having ai easy time in the Revolution whei they struck South Carolina, but Gen Marion soon made them look like < Republican who has criticised Gen Lee in Charleston. The State help ed win the Revolution but threaten ed to take its doll things and g( home in Jackson's administration and in 1861 it opened the civil wai by seceding with a prodigious explo sion. Later it contributed Tillmai to the Uinted States Senate and ha: listened to the uproarious result: with pride ever since. Sotith Caro lina was severely shaken by a: earthquake in 1886, but did not se cede at that time. HELD FOR SHOOTING DAUGHTEr Clarendon Farmer Puts Up Casl Bond of $300. Manning, June 29.?J. J. Bryant a white man about 60 years old, wh< lives in the Sammy Swamp section seven miles from Manning, was u{ before Magistrate D. J. Bradham to day for a preliminary hearing on i charge of assault and battery witl intent to kill. He is charged witl having shot his 15-year-old daughtei in the leg and foot with a shotgun No testimony was taken, as it is saic the defendant acknowledged having done the shooting and offered to ex plain why he did it, but the magis trate would not hear him. He wai required to give a bond of $300 fo his appearance at the next term o court to answer the charge. Bryant is a man of very uncoutl appearance, but possesses consider able property. He put up the casl for his appearance. NEGRO KILLED. - J Jim Hiott and Norman Hunt Charge* With Deed. Walterboro, June 26.?As a resul of a homicide at Wiggins Saturda; night, Jim Hiott and Norman Hunt two negroes, are in jail, charged wit] the killing of Joe Huggins. It is sal that these negroes had been engage' in a skin game and having finished were lying around a fire when with out warning Jim Hiott picked up single-barrelled shotgun and fired a Joe Huggins, the load striking hir in the neck and shoulder, killing hir almost instantly. It appears tha there was no fuss and no bad bloo existing between the negroes and th killing wras a complete surprise t those who were standing around. Magistrate Chaplin, who held th inquest Sunday night, decided t commit Jim Hiott and Norman Hun1 as accessory, to jail await trial. the live and growing Uity or can berg, being issued from a printin office which is equipped with Me: genthaler linotype machine, Babcoc 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 invesl ment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150 six months, 75 cents; three months 50 cents. All subscriptions payabl strictly in advance. Advertisements?$ 1.00 per inc for first insertion, subsequent insei tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad vertisements at the rates allowed b law. Local reading notices 10 cent a line each insertion. Wants an other advertisements under specia head, 1 cent a word each insertior Liberal contracts made for three, sh and twelve months. Write for rates Obituaries, tributes or respect, resc lutions, cards of thanks, and all nc tices of a personal or political chai acter are charged for as regular ad vertising. Contracts for advertisin not subject to cancellation after firs ^ WHAT INTEREST IS THIS? _ Loan Shark Exacts $8.60 Interest on Loan of $6.00 for Three Months. "Like the poor, the 'Loan Shark' is = ever with us," declared an irate citiie zen whose cook is being harassed by n one of these human vamp;res. <4I g told her." he continued, "not to pay r- that scoundrel another cent, and that k if he bothered her further for her y to let me know and I would try my L1 hand at indicting him for usury." e The above words were spoken by a well known citizen of the city yesr terday as he called a News reporter it off to one side of the street and put e this question to him: "Why don't k you newspapers break up this loan shark business?" By gentle prodding I- the reporter eased the speaker's y mind over a stretch of several J months, and then recall a bitter fight L1 which the News waged last winter l. on this nefarious practice. He was reminded that the News pointed out the evil and the remedy by printing r ?- column after column with reference to both, and then left it to the citizens at large to say what should be | done. The citizen went into detail con= cerning the trouble which his cook was having with the loan shark. He _ said she came into the house one day this week crying and begging for protection from the human vampire. When asked what her trouble was, ' she stated' that last March, about p three months ago, she borrowed $6 s from a loan shark; had already paid him back $8.60 and that he was now ? clamoring for the principal. What caused the servant to go to j- ~ ? V t*-o o + V?fo nei" HielSLtfl, uuncvci, v> a.j viic luvt that the loan shark had just sent a s policeman down to serve notice on her that she must come across with ? j the $6 she had borrowed. Eight dollars and sixty cents interest on $6 for a period of three months?one may figure the rate of j interest for himself.?Greenville News. J s It Lives! i ?? ir Men may come and men may go, f but the republic lives on forever, t Bosses may rise and bosses may fall, but republican government will t survive and go on to final victory. Presidents may win and presidents s may lose, candidates may quarrel and - platforms may be perverted, but the 3 rank and file of the voting masses - ultimately will come to a sound dei cision. i This nation was not born in a day. . It was the outcome of a long and biti ter struggle. It survived the shock . of war with other nations. It came - out of its civil strife chastened and - strengthened. 3 It has pased through many waves , of adversity. It has swept away obr stacles that seemed insurmountable. - It has outlived demagogues and dei molished disturbers. It will do it 3 again. 3 Once more it is being put to the - test. Experimental theories, selfi seeking egotists and loudmouthed - demagogues are having their day. | Whether it will be a long or short one depends upon the common sense t of the American people. Are all the lessons taught by the! i bitter experience of the past to go for naught and be forgotten? We hope not. We believe not. "God reigns and the government 3 at Washington still lives."?Leslie's, j ' Dream Leads Them to Happy } Marriage. i Out in Oklahoma City Charles Sii mons dreamed two weeks ago that i the sweetheart in Atlanta he had c not seen in 30 years had become a widow and able to keep the vow she i had made to him when both were I very young. The dream came true - last night at 94 Spring street, where - Mr. Simons was united in marriage s to Mrs. Katie B. Wiggins. Both bride r and bridegroom are 50 years old f and both are grandparents. Some of the grandchildren saw the ceremony, i Simons came originally from Au~ gusta, Ga., and it was there he met i Mrs. Wiggins back in 1880 before either of them were wed. They were sweethearts for a year and she had promised that upon her father's consent she would become Mrs. Simons, ? but her father was averse to the match just then because Simons was very young in the first place and had t mighty slim financial prospects to V boot. He told the young man to go west and make some money and then h he might marry Kate as soon as he 3 pleased. i Simons was so much impressed 1, with the vividness of the vision that - he began winding up financial affairs a I next day preparatory to a nurriea trip t j East. He reached Atlanta four days n ! ago, and after two days of searching a found Mrs. Wiggins, truly widowed t as he had foreseen, at the Spring d street home. s Simons lost no time in renewing o the 30-year-old romance. He proposed within 4 8 hours and Mrs. e Wiggins in accepting him admitted o that her mind had been much upon t, just such a climax to that Augusta love affair for several months. SCARCITY OF ROBINS. mm Effect of Cold and Backward Season IJ on Land and Sea Birds. After the hard winter of 1911-12 came a cold and backward spring. A severe winter with much snow and ice exposes birds to great hardships and if it is followed by a late, cold, stormy spring the eggs sometimes lack fertility and in many cases few young robins are raised. During the winter of 1911 large numbers of robins and some bluebirds remained in the North, notwithi ^t- inn? I Standing lilt? seven; netiuici ui ?jauu arv and February. Cold waves and H snowstorms extended far to the south Q and must have destroyed many birds which winter in the Northern, Middle and Southern States. These conditions did not much effect those species which do not winter in the United States but mainly pass on to Mexico, the Antilles and South , America. The spring flight of robins was late and they were not so numerous as usual and bluebirds were rather uncommon in comparison with last year, says Edward Howe Forbush, in the Boston Transcript, but when in May the migration warblers came along they appeared in goodly num- |j bers. Some species, however, continued their flights later than usual. ? Most of these warblers fly to Central and South America and thus escape the rigors of winter in the Northern ( continent. The shore birds which 'go far south in winter also come back in numbers. The scarcity of bluebirds has been ? ~ ~ + *-* o 1V/T i aVi 4 o-o n ond reyui ctsu. do im wgol ao imvuit,uu south to Pennsylvania. Over a wide area quail did not winter well, and if bluebirds and robins were destroyed in numbers by severe weather in | the South we may expect some reduction in the numbers of woodcock which winter in the same regions. Many small birds are killed by the Southern people. Last winter many persons took advantage of the necessities of the birds to kill great numbers of robins, blackbirds and bluebirds. The city council of Pittsboro, N. C., rescinded an ordinance forbidding shooting within the city limits, that the people might shoot the birds that were driven by stress of weather to that town to feed on berries and about four thousand robins were killed there in a short time. Quantities of blackbirds and bobolinks have been killed in the Carolinas' by negroes and these birds are sold in Southern markets. It is a remarkable coincidence, now that robins and bluebirds are reduced in numbers, that farmers are complaining loudly of the inroads of cutworms, of which robins and bluebirds eat great quantities. A scarcity of cuckoos in some localities in Eastern Massachusetts is accompanied by a great increase in tent caterpillars, on which cuckoos feed. The ice which locked ponds and rivers in January and February and extended over the flats, bays and harbors and in some cases out to sea, x * A niirtnl xr nf fhn wilH CUt Oil lilt; luuu v* i.ub ducks which now winter along our coasts in large numbers, since they are protected by law at that season. Some of them were starved and ?i many were facing death by starva- H tion when the ice embargo was lifted by the coming of spring. As spring opened reports came from many parts of Massachusetts, _ as well as from the other New Eng- Ig land States, that unusually large numbers of wild fowl were returning to our shores and inland waters. Even in Boston harbor, where ferryboats play to and fro, and on the f Charles River, where trains are M constantly crossing the bridges, B flocks of wild ducks appeared, exhibiting a confidence and tameness never before observed in these localities. The numbers of these birds seen later on inland waterways and ponds, as well as along the coast, were such as to give color to the general view that they were not seriously reduced ' ' 1 1 Ttri n frtr* or?/1 f VlO t in numuers uy mc mmci, uuu i,uu<. the increase and tameness of the B birds was due largely to the cessation of winter and spring shooting. Many wild fowl are now reported to be breeding in New England marshes and near the larger water ZJ courses?another encouraging re- V suit of the present laws.?New York Sun. A priest, who was a very good and M amiable man, but possessed of an 1 endless flow of language whenever he " arose to make a speech, was once addressing a body of Irishmen on the subject of Irish benevolent societies. _ ? He spoke from eight o'clock until V ' eleven, and his audience was yawning JL , wearily. At last he ended, and then, with a broad smile, inquired if any one wish ed to ask a question. A stubby little man in the rear of the hall stood up. "Oh, Mr. O'Malley," said the priest, ''what question can I answer for _ you?" O'Malley yawned. "Please, father," B he said, "what toime is it?" ^ ai 11 IE?II II IEI ....THE.... | Kexall Store fi ? IT WILL PAY YOU TO SEEK AND PATRONIZE THE REXALL STORE. YOU CAN ALWAYS BE SURE OP II RECEIVING A SQUARE DEAL and "THE MOST OF O THE BEST FOR THE LEAST MONEY." LOOK FOR H 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 H I IF THEY FAIL TO SATISFY YOU. H - J Peoples Drug Company || j (THE REXALL STORE) H 31 IJL IE3C 01-11! II ?nrcJ , * . 4 Everybody j k Dniiw It 1 u i <i I " " aH toying a supply of that j land Painted China and J? 2ut Glass which is now I . >n display in the window | >f the Herald Book Store H md which is being sold at Wholesale Cost. This is J ?n /?at/?K Knt a Knna finft >ffer, as we will disconinue handling this line. %