The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 26, 1912, Page 4, Image 4
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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
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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?
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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*
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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.
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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.
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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. ]
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
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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>
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