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?hr lambrrg i|?ralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday iu The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bam berg, being issued from a priuuug office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; I six months, 75 cents; three months, j 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. j Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 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. T iKorol prmtrnpts made for three, six. UlVWlUi W^v.^w/ 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 not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. ' - ??- * Thursday, Dec. 26, 1912. Let Bamberg people make the much-needed resolution to be less selfish next year. Up to Monday night when we v/ent to press the town had been peaceful and quiet. Let us hope it will continue so throughout the holidays. ' Merry Christmas and happy and prosperous new year is our earnest desire for all our readers. May peace and prosperity attend this j -- A/\??mv?r A Y? commuuuy ciUU tuuuij 1U iuc jcui j to come. Now let's see what the governor is going to do about the lynching at Norway last week? We hope he wijl arouse himself and take some steps to see that the guilty parties are brought to justice. Farmers ought to protect the negro from the mob from a business standpoint if for no other reason. If lynchings for trivial crimes continue there is going to be a large exodus of negroes from this State, and you can't blame them for going. Would you stay where you had no protection from the mob? Of course the governor does not feel in any way responsible for that lynching at Norway last week. We have come to an awful pass when human life is taken under such circumstances as'these. Just keep up this sort of< thing and the lands of this country won't be worth ten cents an acre, for there will be no labor to farm them. We must depend on the negro as a farm laborer, and they are certainly not going to stay in a country where they have no protection from the mob, and who can blame them? 4 ft aw 1 TY1 Q CTC* vapuucu tuuvu Seattle, Wash., Dec. 22.?A bandit who last night commandeered the touring car of Frank McDermott, president of a large department store, compelled the chauffeur, Charles Osland, to drive him about the city, held up a saloon and a grocery store, engaged in five running fights and shot two men, was arrested to-day. He gave his name as Alexander Thompson, 24 years old and said he was a sailor. The highwayman, after making Osland drive the entire length of the city to Georgetown and back to the business district, stopped in front of a saloon, marched Osland ahead of him into the saloon, made the bartender give him $40 and exchanged shots with a patron of the place. One bullet hit Fuji Moto, a Japanese, in the leg. Twice he en\ gaged in a pistol battle with motorcycle policemen who pursued the au* * ^1-- -1 tomODiie. JJunng rue cna.se ctc^ucii Kailes, a laborer, was hit in the head and seriously wounded. The highwayman next entered a grocery store, obtained $12 and escaped after a pistol fight with the proprietor and later with a policeman. Penitent Woman. "You say your wife threw a plate at you?" "Yes, it was a fine china plate. It broke against my head." "Didn't she appear sorry after she threw it?" "Yes, she appeared very sorry." "Ah, indeed. And what did she say?" "She said she was a fool not to control her temper." "Good. And what else did she say?" "She said she didn't believe she could match that plate again if she hunted the town through."?Photo j Bits. FRANK E. THOMAS KILLED. Leading' Sumter Citizen Dies from Injuries Received in Gin Accident. Sumter, Dec. 19.?Mr. Frank E. Thomas, a prominent farmer and business man of Wedgefield> this county, and for many years a member of the county board of commissioners, died at the Sumter hospital last night as the result of injuries received yesterday while operating a buzz saw underneath his ginnery building at Wedgefield. Mr. Thomas's death will prove a heavy loes to the county, as he was a very valu able man on the county board and has done a great deal of good for the county. From information obtained it seems that Mr. Thomas was endeavoring to remove a belt from the saw, which he was operating, when his arm was caught in the belt. He was thrown against the machinery and one arm broken and his side crushed. A negro boy saw him lying on the ground and immediately gave the alarm, so the machinery could be shut down and the body removed. Mr. Thomas was brought to the city on the afternoon tFain and taken to the hospital. He died about 9:45 o'clock. v Would Drive Negroes Out. Atlanta, Dec. 19.?A petition signed by a score or more of the most prominent white people or jacKson county, has been presented to Gov. Brown urging him to investigate an alleged movement which is going on to terrorize negroes and chase them out of Jackson and adjacent counties. It is stated that a band of unknown men, operating under cover of darkness, are posting notices warning all negroes to leave that part of the country under pain of being flogged or lynched. It is asserted further that the negroes, including the most trustworthy and law abiding, are becoming terror stricken and that the labor situation is growing acute. To make matters worse, white citizens, who have discountenanced and refused to have anything to do with the secret movement, are being threatened.The white planters complain that they will be deprived of field hands and urge the governor to take steps to investigate and stamp out the lawless movement. The governor is looking into the affair, to see whether it is a question that should be dealt with by State authority, or by the sheriff of Jackson. Had the Right Kind. A young preacher went fishing for trout, accompanied by a couple of girls from his parish. A farmer who fiohi'nflr oolloH tn tho was aiou uut, nouiug ^ui.vu young clergyman: "Ketchin' many trout?" "I am a fisher of men," said the young preacher with dignity. "Well," the farmer smiled, and then looking at the girls said: "I see you've got the right kind of bait with you."?Ladies' Home Journal. Brooch Worth $20,000 Gone. Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 18.?Mrs. Robert C. McCormick, of New York city, who arrived in Jacksonville today, reported the loss of a diamond brooch containing 33 diamonds, which was either lost or stolen while Mrs. McCormick was a passenger on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. Mrs. McCormick was en route to Palm Beach for the winter. The pin is valued at about $20,000. FEARED THE GHOST. Worn Retailer Confesses He Sold Dead Man Whiskey. ??? # Fearful that the ghost of a dead man would rise up and haunt him if he testified falsely, John Henderson, a negro "tiger," yesterday admitted selling whiskey before Judge Long in superior court in Asheville, N. C., and was sentenced to the roads for 18 months. Henderson has been up on numerous occasions on the charge of selling whiskey, his last offense for which he was held to superior court being the sale of whiskey to Ed. B. Swinney, who "turned up" Horace Melton in police court about three months ago and was killed by Melton's brother, Clyde, the same night. Solicitor Reynolds had already moved to nol pros the case against Henderson yesterday and Judge Long was reading the negro a lecture on the error of his ways, before releasing him. In awful tones the Judge told Henderson how the ghost of Swinney would rise up and daunt him for telling a lie about selling Swinney whiskey and then asked him the direct question: "Did you sell Ed. Swinney whiskey?" I "Yes, boss, I did," was the negro's trembling reply, and Judge Long immediately ordered a plea of guilty entered on the records and j sentenced the negro to 18 months on the county roads. SOUTH CAROLIXIAX A SUICIDE. F. \V. Reid, of Che raw,, Kills Him- 1 self in Alabama Hotel. Union Springs, Ala., Feb. 18.?F. W. Reid, 35, committed suicide at a { hotel here at 6 o'clock this morning j by sending a bullet through his < brain. He was a native of Cheraw, j S. C., and had worked in New York. ( He was a salesman for a large mer- | cantile establishment of this city and had lived here two years. He was ] unmarried. ] An unbalanced mind is supposed j to have caused the suicide. He was heard making a resolution yester- \ day afternoon that he would die rather than take another drink. ] % News Shocks Cheraw. Cheraw, Dec. 18.?Frank W. Rei-d, who committed suicide at Union Springs, Ala., to-day, was the oldest son of Mr. Samuel H. Reid, who was for many years magistrate of Cheraw township. He was in H. W. Finlayson's store until he rose to head clerk, and when Mr. Finlayson moved to New York he went with him. He was much thought of here and people were shocked to hear of his death. He leaves a father, mother, two sisters and one brother living here, and two brothers living in Virginia. Pocket Money. "I do not carry more than $10 in my pocket as a rule," said a prominent broker recently, "but I bet you that clerk of mine over there, probably has $25 to $50 in his jeans." Fact is, most of the rich men carry ! litle cash in their pockets, and few i of them carry their checkbooks. ' Their credit is so good everywhere that the pocketbook is rarely neces- \ sary. Andrew Carnegie has been caught short of $1; J. P. Morgan i carries only small sums of cash in his ! pocket and Theodore N. Vail has had ] to search for change at times. Dan- i iel G. Reid usually has a roll with < high-figured yellowbacks on the out- : side and most of the prominent steel i men are disposed to carry a goodly i amount of currency in their pocket- < books. Theodore P. Shonts is gen- : erally well supplied. "A Wall Street man who knows i most of the big men in the Street ] and in finance says that at least 60 1 per cent, or these gentlemen do not 1 carry enough cash in their pockets to pay for a good lunch. One of the Vanderbilts was lunching a halfa-dozen brokers in London some ' months ago and his bill came to 7 < pounds. Mr. Vanderbilt felt in all ; his pockets, flushed a bit, then turn- 1 ing to a famous jobber said: "Bill, i lend me a tener, will you?"?Wall ] Street Journal. 1 How Kansas Fights Typhoid. j The State of Kansas has instituted ( a vigorous and successful warfare ( against typhoid fever. Whenever the ' vital statistics report of a city shows ' an unusual number of deaths from ? typhoid fever, an expert medical in- ' spector from the State university is ^ hurried to that city on the first train. ? He takes samples of the water and sends them to the university for analysis. Finding typhoid bacteria, he takes over the water supply system and installs a portable hydrochloride * plant for its purification. The plant ? consists of three large tanks that are c set up outside the city pumping sta- i tion. The mains are cut and run into 5 the tank. -In the first one the water 2 is treated to remove whatever dirt may be in it, and in the second tank the water is given a hypochloride of * lime bath. It passes into the third c tank, wh^re the lime is precipitated, 1 and then the water goes into the wa- 1 ter mains clear and free from all c bacteria. The State furnishes the J plant free of charge, and the work of the sanitary expert does not cost * the city a penny. While the federal 1 and State governments are justly busy in finding cures for cholera c among hogs, and tongue, lung and ^ foot disease among cattle, and gaps among fowls, it is a matter of the 1 greatest importance also to safeguard the health and lives of the 1 citizens, and to make a speedy and successful fight on such a fatal dis- c ease as typhoid, such as the State of Kansas has made in its movable water purifying plant.?Christian Herald. It Applied to Both. 1 At a mass-meeting in a small conutry town a large quantity of re- j freshments were distributed to Keep i the audience in good humor, says the j Kansas City Star. The first speaker rose after the noise had ceased to some extent and began his speech by saying: ] "The old hall is full to-night," but 1 here his voice was drowned by the i confusion. When it had subsided he began again by saying: "The old hall is full to-night." He paused for rhetorical effect and t a thick voice in the back of the hall ' said slowly and deliberately: I "So is old Bill Horn." s The meeting then broke up. 1 tr CAN'T PUNISH MAN. Father Has Served Six Months and is Immune for Same Time. New York, Dec. 19.?There came ;o the Gates Avenue Court, Brookyn, yesterday a pale; sunken cheeked woman, dressed in threadbare garments. To her skirts clung five small children, all as wan and underfed as :heir mother. The woman asked Magistrate Harris if it were possible to compel her husband, Jacob Boll, to support her md the little ones. "It certainly is," said the magistrate. "Why do you ask such a question?" "Because I have been to many of the Brooklyn courts this morning and all the judges have told me I could not expect any help from my husband and that he couldn't be punished for the next six months at least." The woman said she was Mrs. Lena Boll of No. 127 Knickerbocker avenue, and that the children were Lena, twelve; Catherine, ten; Charles, seven and Henry, three. "My husband and the father of these children deserted us a year ago," she continued. "I had him arrested for desertion and he was sent to prison for six months. Recently he got out and then he said: " 'Starve for all I care,' and he let ue starve. "I have been working at home for sweatshops, from 7 in the morning until midnight, but I can't make more than seventy-five cents a day. Now my health is about gone. We don't get much to eat and the children are too young to help me." "Where does your husband live?" asked the magistrate. "With his parents at No. 92 Cedar street. I have appealed to him but he will do nothing. Also I have appealed to the Charities Association and was told that nothing could be done to my husband for the next six months, but that they could take my children from me. I want to keep my children. Can nothing be done at once to make their father assist me?" "I'm afraid not^" answered Magistrate Harris. "He is immune for the present. And yet this is Christmas," he said, as the mother and her forlorn looking children went away. An Anderson Farm Yield. Anderson, Dec. 19.?While the crops in Anderson county have been a. great deal short of some years, still there can be found here and there *ome splendid yields, showing what modern farming can do in spite of the seasons. J. Wade Drake, who lives four miles below the city, raised this year 1,600 bushels of corn )n 21 acres and 106 bales of cotton )n 90 acres. Of the crop of cotton )0 bales were raised on 70 acres. Mr. Drake had one bale of cotton stolen from his home a few nights igo while he was away from home. 3e also lost a bale a year ago in the same way. ( Points on Population. Mrs. Champ Clark, who is as well fnown for her brilliancy in conversation as her husband, the speaker )f the house of representatives, is :or his fame in politics, tells this story, according to the Popular Magizine. The late Bishop Potter, of New fork, had a most unclerical relish or practical jokes and pointed aneclotes. His cosmopolitan spirit loved nen and things-, and nothing pleased lim better than to gather a group of :ongenial spirits about him and swap okes. One day he met a friend, a dis:inguished Jewish rabbi, and said to lim in great seriousness: "Rabbi, I am greatly worried ibout a dream I had the other night. dreamed I died and went to the Tewish heaven. And who do you sup>ose were the only occupants?" "I don't know, I'm sure," said the abbi. "Pawnbrokers and second-hand dothing men," laughed the bishop. Shortly after, however, he met the lishop. "Why bishop," he said, "I lad a dream myself the other night." "Yes," said the bishop uneasily; 'and what did you dream?" "I dreamed I went to the Christian leaven." "Well," pursued FOtter, Dracing limseli, "whom did you find there?" "Nobody," answered the rabbi. Called the Bluff. "So you advertised for your lost purse, pretending that the person vho found it was recognized?" she isked. "Yes." "How did the bluff work?" "Didn't work at all. Next day ;his ad. appeared in the same paper, 'The recognized gentleman who jicked up the purse on Boylston street requests the loser to call at lis home."?Boston Transcript. HOW BEARD KEEPS YOUNG. At Fifty-three He's as Frisky and Limber as a Boy. John Beard, who has a vehicle and carriage jobbing business at Paola, isn't so young as he used to be when he was a drummer, but you'd never know it to look at him. . It was a hot day and the Coates house walks were shimmering in the ray6 of an active afternoon sun. A stray newsboy was pitching pennies at a crack, but there was no other sign of energy in the crowd that filled the outside chairs until Beard came along. "I'll show you how to get the money, son," he said. He pitched a penny at a crack and hit it. "If you can't win anything that way you might get a few shoe strings for a bluff and try this." Beard drew up one leg until it appeared to be a foot shorter than the other and convulsed the crowd by his imitation of a crippled beggar. "Or. try this," he said, drawing his fingers into a cluster of rheumatism whacked talons. "Or maybe you'd like this better," he suggested, rolling his eyes until they appeared sightless. Everybody was watching the man from Paola now. He dislocated a shoulder, apparently, made himself humpbacked, there was a chest expansion that looked like a deformity, bent backward until his hands touched the sidewalk, and removed a standing posture without apparent effort, and touched a few handsprings and cartwheels for good measure. "Say, how old are you?" gasped a young salesman on hi9 first trip. "Fifty-three, son," said Beard. "These hot day amusements stunts may look foolish for a man of my age, but I could not resist the temptation to show you fellows that there's still fun and elasticity in an old roster who made up his mind to stay young."?Kansas City Journal. Heirs of Victims to Sue. Bristol, Dec. 20.?Judge Nicholas P. Oglesby, of this city, who was counsel for the Aliens In the trials at Wytheville, growing out of the shooting up of the Hillsville court, has returned to his home in this City after visiting Carroll in connection with the civil suits now pending there against the various Allen estates. These are suits for damages brought by heirs and administrators of the five persons killed in the Hillsville tragedy. Judge Oglesby says that the suits are being pressed. He is now endeavoring to get an attachment dissolved. This was secured against the large estate of Sidna Allen, who owns a $25,000 residence in Carroll conuty and was issued on the ground that he had skipped. It is believed that this attachment will be dissolved. The civil suits will be tried at Wytheville, Va., before a judge to be appointed by the governor. Judge A. A. Campbell, the successor of Judge Massie, feels incompetent owing to the fact that after the tragedy he volunteered his services to prosecute the Aliens for the murder of the court officials and bv-standers. Judge Oglesby says that Allen and Edward? go to the pen in the hope of a pardon. They believe that sentiment will continue to change in their favor. Allen is forty-six years old and is entitled to be pardoned in seventeen and a half years, when his sentence will have been half expired, on good benavior. Edwards is younger and as he has only a twenty-seven year sentence he will likely be paroled, which will be in thirteen and a half years. The penitentiary sentences were a relief to the men, who had been in the shadow of the electric chair since their capture at Des Moines, la., several weeks ago brought about unwittingly by Miss Mary Iroler, of Carroll county, a sweetheart of Wesley Edwards. Petitions are being sent to the governor from this section, for the commutation of the sentences of >..Floyd Allen and Claude Allen, now in the death house at Richmond and respited until January l <pendingan application to the supreme court for a new trial on newly discovered evidence of a material nature. HOBO MAKES HIMSELF AT HOME. Woman's Ruse Works, However, and Police Get Intruder. Yonkers, N. Y., Dec. 20.?When Mrs. Arthur J. Van Zeutendal, wife of a Yonkers architect, went to her bed room last night she found sleeping in lior hori an nnk^mnt stranger with a week's growth of beard. Her screams awakened him. Turning down the counterpane, he sat up, blinked and said: "I won't be long; I'll be going." "Don't go, I'll get you something to eat," replied Mrs. Van Zeutendal, regaining her composure, although she was aione in the house. Tiptoeing down-stairs she went to the telephone and notified the police. The tramp told the police he found the front door unlocked and after warming himself went to bed. STOLE CHRISTMAS BOOZE. Lexington Depot Entered by Thieves and Liquor Spoils Carried Away. Lexington, Dec. 20.?Robbers entered the Lexington depot last night and looted express packages by the wholesale. Seven packages of Christ- ; mas liquor consigned to different persons were taken off by the thieves. Leaving the express office, the robbers entered the freight room nearby and opened a number of boxes, but the agents at the depot were unable to say what, if anything, was taken from the freight office. The robbers gained entrance by < using an axe or crow-bar to the front door, which was prized open. When ^ ^ ?? j. i. j.k. JL/epui Ageui weui tu cm? suition this morning he found the door open. Sheriff Miller was early on the scene to-day and went to work on the * case, and it is expected that rail- # 4 road detectives will also be sent here to investigate the robbery. The depot being located a mile from the town and outside of the incorporate limits, the robbers had an easy time doing their work. There is no watchman at the station and that part of the town is without police protection. The Lexington depot has been robbed many times during the last few years, and with the i exception of but few instances the j perpetrators have never been caught. 7 ?? 'Wk BACK OF OUR FIXE CARRLAGES We stand with a guarantee that is v. * worth something. . We don't consider a transaction closed Kith the tak- ^* 7: ing of your money. We insist that you shall be perfectly satisfied with v your carriage after you have tried it as well as when you selected it. We are right here to do anything that will give you that satisfaction. Try HORSES AND MULES. . V G. FRANK BAMBERG, ' Bamberg, S. C. PENSION NOMCE. I will be at the court house every Sntnrrinv in .Tarmarv. 1913. fffitti 10 'Wfe. o'clock a. m. to 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of writing up and preparing all applications for all Confederate soliders and their widows that wish to go before the county pension board which meets the first Monday in February, 1913, and all those already on the pension roll will please report to me in person at by letter. C. R. CLAYTOM, -% Pension Commissioner. ? ASSESSMENT NOTICE. -- ? - ; The Auditor or his deputy will b# % at the following places on the days: and dates named below for the purpose of taking returns of personal property, notice of transfers of real estate, and income tax returns: Bamberg?January 1st to 18th. . Denmark?Monday and Tuesday, January 20th and 21st. Lees?Wednesday, January 22nd. Midway?Thursday, January 23d. Olar?Monday and Tuesday, January 27th and 28th. * Govan ? Wednesday, January 29 th. Farrell's Store?Friday, January 31st. Ehrhardt?Tuesday and Wednes-^ day, February 4th and 5th. St. John's?Thursday, February 6th. Camp Hill?Friday, February 7th, until 11 a. m. Kearse?Friday, FeDruary vtn, from 12 to 2:30 p. m. I will appreciate it very much if every taxpayer will meet me and make his or her return in person. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 60 are liable to $1 poll tax, except Confederate soldiers and. sailors who are exempt at 50 years r. of age. f All able-bodied males between the ages of 21 and 55 are liable to the commutation tax of $2. ; Come prepared to give the name and number of your school district, and if you have bought or sold any real estate be sure to give notice of same when you make your returns. 50 per cent, penalty will be added to all personal property not returned before the 20th of February. R. W. D. ROWELL, Auditor. MASTER'S SALE. 1 State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. By virtue of a decree of the court of common pleas in the case of J. J. Cleckley vs Alice Walker, et al, I, H. C. Folk. Master in and for the county of Bamberg, S. C., will sell at public outcry, to the highest bidder for cash, in front of the court house door, at Bamberg, S. C., on January 6th, 1913, the same being salesday, between the legal hours of sale, the following described real estate: That certain lot, in the town j of Bamberg, S. C., containing one half acre, more or less, and bounded on the North by lands now or formerly of Arthur Nimmons; East by Colored Graded School; South by J. A. Spann; and West by Tom Banks. f Purchaser to pay for papers. H. C. FOLK, I Master Bamberg County> ; * - r&s jfr*- ^ MMiILJ