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?hr Hamburg ibrralb 1 * I ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, Editor^ e Published every Thursday in The ^ Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bam- h berg, being issued from a printing s office which is equipped with Mer- c genthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by b electric power with other material a and machinery in keeping, the whole j( equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. h Subscriptions?By the year $150; S six months, 75 cents; three months, a 50 cents. All subscriptions payable , strictly in advance. Advertisements?$l.uu per men for first insertion, subsequent inser- r tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad- ^ vertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents 11 a line each insertion. Wants and h other advertisements under special d head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, T and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all no- V tices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. u Communications?We are always t) glad to publish news letters o'r those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and ad- ii dress of the writer in every case. *( x 1 rvr i\o article which is ucici?iien,viy offensively personal can find place in n our columns at any price, and we are a not responsible for the opinions ex- ii > * pressed in any communication. j Thursday, Feb. 13, 1913. ? * = d The races in Charleston are going h on just like there was no law against n racing in this State. v> We suppose it is none of our affair, but really we would like to see ' Wilson G. Harvey in the race for b . congress from Charleston. He would 0 make an admirable representative. ^ The corn show in Columbia is to 0 remain open this week, and every- a body interested in agriculture should ^ go. It is said to be an exposition a which is educative and instructive. a ' ti If the legislature will pass the h Rembert bill and make it applicable z, to public officials and private perj ; sons, as well as the newspapers, it 0 would no doubt prevent such charges a as werfe recently made against Dr. jf S. C. Mitchell, president of the Uni- ti versity of South Carolina. tl . r r a y* Befriends Negro; Killed. r< ???? V Augusta, Ga., Feb. 10.?Edward (Sonny) Collins, aged 63, a promi- a nent figure in municipal politics for many years, was shot to death on ? ' Saturday night by Marshall Shedd, an engineer on the Georgia Railroad. , ' II From the statements of witnesses Mr. Collms was interceding on betj half of a negro whom Mr. Shedd _ tl was punishing. Shedd becoming infuriated, placed a revolver to Col- a lins's head and fired. Death follow- p ed in five minutes. ^ "Sonny" Collins was one of the ^ most picturesque figures in the city. Since immediately after the civil a w war, he had been a potential factor in the district politics, a sort of "Tim Sullivan," and his influence had been *' 9.] felt. strongly in State elections for OA 11 20 years. t . Shedd declared to the crowd that gathered that the negro had attempted to stab him with a dirk knife. He , .* 1\ Vi had badly beaten the negro and Mr. . , I. ir . Collins interceded in the negro's behalf, asking Shedd to await the ar- ' rival of the police patrol. Shedd became infuriated, and slapped Mr. Collins in the face. The blow was re- f.' S." - tl turned and without a moment's hesitation Shedd placed the revolver he ' had in his- hand against Collins's * as head and fired. , . tj The arrival on the scene just as pi the fatal shot was fired of policemen. cc who placed Shedd under arrest and n; hurried him to jail, prevented serious trouble from the crowd. . 1C Shedd is in the county jail eharged with murder and has permitted no one to come to his cell. His wife, SI who was out of the city, arrived last ^ night, but he would not see her. TO CONDUCT MANNING SCHOOLS. G Prof. I>. R. Riser, of Leesville, Elect- * e<l Sui>erintendent. Manning, Feb. 8.?The board of , trustees have elected Prof. D. R. Riser, of Leesville, as superintendent C( of the Manning Graded and High tl schools, to succeed Prof. R. L. Newton, who resigned a week ago. Prof. ai Riser comes with high recommenda- Z( * /% j i *-> tions ana witn a recora or tweive i " years' experience in school work. He | 0: is a married man, a graduate of Xew-1 ? berry College and a post-graduate of a Yale. He was superintendent of the i Aiken schools for two years, up to | w .last .June, since which time he has ! f< been engaged in the real estate busi- j a ness at Leesville. He has an oppor- j h tunity of doing good work in Manning. c< ? t( Full line of farming implements a of every kind and description at ? Hunter's Hardware Store. Farmers | can sate money on their hardware i v bills by buying of us. j d - ? tl/XAW AY HOKSE STARTS PANIC ilindfohled, Leg Broken, Dashes Through Spartanburg Streets. Spartanburg. Feb. S.?Blindfold-j d, with one leg useless, and pursued j ?y five hundred men and boys a orse dashed wildly through the hopping district this afternoon, reating a panic. He dropped of exaustion on Main street and was shot y a policeman. The incident was sequel to a street car collision, folDwed by a runaway, in which the orse, one of a pair driven by Fate etzer, of Rutherfordton, X. C., had I foreleg broken and the buggy was amaged. Dr. Devereaux Turner, a veterinaian, tied a handkerchief over the orse's eyes and tried to dispatch im with a blow on the head with a ammer. Instead of killing, it raadened the beast, who ran away again. ; UFFALO AS BEAST OF BURDEN. I'ork in Balkan War?Fighter That the Tiger Fears.* The pictures and reports of the ar in the Balkans have brought ind prominence a quadruped which, hough well known as a domestic an nal in the East, is very unfamiliar 0 Western eyes?the buffalo. If lentioned at all this beast is generlly thought of as a savage brute, but 1 the war area we find him, says .ondon Standard, doing duty as a ransport animal, equally with the imiliar ox from which he is easily istinguished in the illustrations by is low set down-curving horns, and luzzle carried almost straight for ard. People who have to travel by bufilo cart are to be p:tied, for the uffalo is the slowest of all beasts f draught. It is his great strength hat gives him the advantage over tie ox. The load that a single yoke f buffaloes will pull is something stounding, and in India they are al- j -ays given the kind of load which is ssigned to dray horses here, ordin- ( ry horse work?except passenger raffic?being there performed by the umped oxen known over here as ebus. India, indeed, is the native home f the buffalo, and it still exists there s a wild animal. Very wild indeed ; is, and an old bull is very apt q attack unprovoked, contrary to ? ?n ' ne usuai custom ui aiuiusi au nuu nimals. Even its tame descendants , etain plenty of spirit. When in a erd tfrey do not fear the tiger, and recognized method of getting stripes" to bolt when he has taken over is to drive in a herd of bufiloes to rout him out, which they ; rill do to a certainty if they get on , is scent. - , Even tame buffaloes can make lemselves very unpleasant to people ley do not know, and they are not , t all safe for a European to aproach in India, but?and here the lore attractive side of their charac?r comes out?they display toward i leir owners a faithfulness one usu- i lly associates rather with dogs than ith cattle. ; The true Indian buffalo is really to ( great extent an aquatic animal, j ad when off duty likes nothing so j tuch- as to lie up to its ears in wa- ] ir, but like the duck, it can if neces- , iry resign itself to existence with- , ut a bath. That an animal so near- j r naked of skin as it is should thrive i so cold a climate as is that of j astern Europe is a remarkable fact . f acclimatization. I Its presence in Italy is less sur- j rising, but even there its introduc- j on seems to be merely of mediae- ( al date. Scientifically the tame buf- ] ilo is of interest as having, like the j 5S, varied so little from the wild ( pe. Pied buffaloes are as rare as ied donkeys, though white and fawn , )lored varieties occur as well as the ] atural black. Like the ass also, the ( uffalo is a despised anima\ yet in j >cal utility both beasts may surpass 1 leir more aristocratic relatives, the . ' < orse and ox, while in intelligence , ad force of character they are cer- < linly far superior. < I X IX HAXI), BULLET IX BIIAIX . j ear of Insanity Drives Prominent ' < Florida Citizen to Suicide. Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 10.?Pensa)la was shocked this morning when le news spread that John E.^Stillian. former collector of the port. nd one of the most prominent citi?ns of Western Florida, had comtitted suicide. His bodv was found ti the floor of a room adjoining his . fhce, a bullet through his brain and , revolver gripped in his right hand. In four letters, three of which j ere directed to members of his! imily, Stillman explained that his lind was clouded and he believed e was being driven crazy. Mr. Stillman was a native of Wisjnsin and came to Pensacola seven- , )en years ago. He was 50 years of ge. He was king of the Mardi Gras arnival here in 1906. fie is surived by a widow, three sons and a j aughter. ; HIS KIXSMEX TO THE RESCUE. Rut IMan to Take Tom Henderson from Lockup Fails. Spartanburg, Feb. 7.?Thomas Henderson, a young white man, went on a spree in Landrum last night and terrorized the town. Defying all comers to interfere with him, he smashed windows and bombarded houses with rocks. Reinforced by a dozen citizens, the police undertook to arrest him. Several shots were fired in the melee which followed, but nobody was injured. After he had been clubbed, Henderson was carried, struggling like a wildcat, to the guard house. An hour or two thereafter Perry Henderson, his father, and other relatives, armed themselves and vowed they were going to rescue Tom. The citi2ens took steps to repel the attack and the Henderson clan were finally dissuaded from their purpose. Henderson was brought to Spartanburg to-day for safe keeping. He will be returned to Landrum for trial when the situation becomes less tense. Nero's Golden House. Rome?Very interesting excavations are being made in Nero's "Golden House" by the Italian government, whose attention was drawn to the subject by Dr. Fritz Weege, a young German archeologist, author of a treatise, published last July, on one of the rooms in that vast palace. Nero's "folly," of which the wits said that it would embrace all Rome, and that the good citizens, emigrating in quest of apartments to Veii, would probably find that it had extended thither also, covered an area about thrice that occupied by the present Vatican with all its appurtenances. Erected after the burning of Rome in '64, the "Golden House," which extended from the Palatine far up the Esquiline, and of which the artistic Emperor complacently remarked that "he was now lodged as a man should be," was converted by his successors into other edifices, according to the time-honored fashion of Rome, and, while the Colosseum arose on the site of the Neronian Lake, the baths of Titus and of Trajan respectively represent other portions of the Neronian Palace. The immense and richly-decorated galleries were more than half filled up with earth; and, when I visited the excavations with Doctor Weege, we had to grope through the dark, bent double to avoid touching the ceiling. The importance of these excavations is due to the fact that some of the most famous paintings and drawings of the Sixteenth Century, when the baths of Trajan were more easily accessible, were copied, often erroneously, from the beautiful mural decorations, which the removal of the accumulated earth is now bringing to light. Descending from a lovely orange garden into the underground passages, we found ourselves in the room, marked No. 80 on Doctor Weege's plan, in a niche of which the famous "Laocoon" is said to have been found in 1506. During the last few days a marble hand of the same marble as the "Laocoon"' was unsarthed here, and it was hoped that it might prove to be part of the missing limb of the statue. Of the mural paintings the most interesting is that 3f a warrior witn noaaing neimet, a woman holding a child (clearly visible in the painting, and another woman in the background) where a ?ate and battlements are also noticeable. Doctor Weege identifies this painting with the .touching scene in :he "Iliad" of the departure of Hec:or from Andromache. The picture, copied from here by Carracci and the Bartoli, is to be seen (but without :he child) at Windsor, and has consequently been misdescribed as "Coriolanus and his Mother." Another scene is likewise drawn from Homer?Paris and Helen introduced to mie another by Aphrodite and Eros. Doctor Weege infers accordingly that :hese Homeric tableaux were specially chosen in allusion to Nero's poem, the "Troica," mentioned by Suetonius and Dion Cassius and satirized by Juvenal, an extract from - hich the Emperor recited while Rome was burning. Thus these discoveries enable students of art to correct the designs copied from these walls and now in the collections of Windsor, Eton and Holkham Hall. Besides the mural paintings, the excavations nave reveaiea a numoer f historic names, scratched, after the fashion of the tourist, on the walls and ceilings- Nearly 200 names have been already noted iown, beginning with the year 1495. Most of them are Dutch; but of Britons there are Cameron. Buchan and Tohn Parker. One King has scrawled his name there?Gustavus Adolphus III of Sweden, with the date 1 7S4, eight years before his assassination. It is to be hoped that the gigantic work of clearing these immense passages of earth will be continued. Rome will thus gain a fresh attraction.?London Post. When his satanic majesty hasn't anything else to do, he teaches a woman to smoke cigarettes. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of th Peoples Bank, located at Bamberg S. C., at the close of business Feb ruary 4th, 1913. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ....$130,951.4 Overdrafts 7,4 72.2' Furniture and fixtures.... 2,459.3' Banking house 3,329.4 Due from banks and bankers 3,916.3! Currency 1,110.0' Gold 82.5' Silver and other minor coin 811.7Checks and cash items.... 2,658.9' TOTAL $152,791.9' LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ..$ 25,000.0' Surplus rund tj,uuu.u* Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 5,775.9* Due to banks and bankkers 3,391.4* Dividends unpaid 64.0* Individual deposits subject to check 99,094.2: Time certificates of deposit 2,961.31 Cashie'r's checks 505.1: Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed ' 10,000.0* TOTAL $152,791.9' State of South Carolina?County o Bamberg. Before me came A. M. Denbow cashier of the above named bank who, being duly sworn, says that th above and foregoing statement is i true condition of said bank, as show: by the books of said bank. Sworn to and subscribed befor me this 8th day of February, 1913 E. H. HENDERSON, Notary Public, S. C. Correct-Attest: D. M. EAVES, H. C. FOLK, C. B. FREE, Directors. JBAlXlY SJLAlfilUCiix 1. Statement of the condition of thi Ehrhardt Banking Co., located a Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of busi ness February 4th, 1913. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts .. $50,265.3' Furniture and fixtures .... 1,000.01 Banking house L 2,000.0' Due from banks and bankers 37,686.21 Currency : 2,055.0< Gold 292.51 Silver and other minor coin 404.2i Checks and cash items .... 169.5' TOTAL $93,872.8' LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $20,000.0 Surplus fund 7,000.01 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid ' 2,688.7! Dividends unpaid 50.0! Individual deposits subject to check 34,047.3: Savings deposits 29,642.1! Time certificates of deposit 210.2i Cashier's checks 100.0! Other liabilities, partial payment 134.3! TOTAL $93,872.8' State of South Carolina?County o Bamberg. Before me came A. F. Hendersor Cashier of the above named bank who, being duly sworn, says that th above and foregoing statement is ; true condition of said bank, as show] by the books of said bank. a f HENDERSON. Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of February, 1913. J. M. KIRKLAND, Notary Public, S. C. Correct-Attest: J. L. COPELAND, M. D., CHARLES EHRHARDT, JACOB EHRHARDT, Directors. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of Th< Farmers & Merchants Bank, locatec at. Eh.rhardt, S. C., at the close o business February 4th, 1913. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $41,183.4^ Overdrafts 821.91 Furniture and fixtures .... 2,280.Of Banking house 1,435.7; Due from banks and bankers 2,673.6$ Currency 966.Of Gold 75.0( Silver and other minor coin 390.8c Checks and cash items .... 988.5( TOTAL $50,815.2c LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $17,000.0( Surplus fund 1,700.0( Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 2,300.81 Individual deposits subject to check 21,038.9c Savings deposits 5,538.52 I Time certificates of deposit 2,729.0." Cashier's checks 65.8c Reserve fund carried on general individual or savings ledger 441.91 TOTAL $50,815.22 State of South Carolina?County o Bamberg. Before me came W. Max Walker cashier of the above named bank who, being duly sworn, says tha the above and foregoing statemen is a true condition of said bank, as shown bv the books of said bank. W. MAX WALKER, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed befor< me this 8th dav of February, 1913. .J. C. HIERS, JR., Notary Public, S. C. Correct-Attest: S. W. CO PEL AND, J. H. ROBERTS, M. D., G. B. CLAYTON, Directors. NOTICE. To all whom it may concern, I 1). J. Sanders, forbid any person oi persons by the penalty of the law to hire or keep my son, Ernest Sanders, in their home; without my consent. D. J. SANDERS. Bamberg, S. C., Jan. 27, 1913. NOTICE. e State of South Carolina, County '? Bamberg, Court of Common Plea Mrs. Mildred S. Copeland, plainti vs Robert W. Miller, et al, defen ants. 4 To Robert W. Miller: Please tal 4 notice that the complaint in tl 5 above cause is fil^d in the offii q of the clerk of court for said cou tv and State, and you are hereby r 9 quired to serve your answer to san 0 on the undersigned within 20 da: 0 from service hereof, or plaintiff wi apply to the court for relief deman 4 ed in said complaint. 0 E. H. HENDERSON, Plaintiff's Attorne 7 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMEN * \Trv i\T0niT 4 0 j^ia^nAnut/. [) State of South Carolina?Coun of Barnwell?In the Court of Pr bate. 3 Petition for final settlement ar discharge. ) Ex parte Mrs. E. R. Kearse in D estate of H. W. Kearse, deceased. To all and singular the kindn 2 and creditors of H. W. Kearse, d ceased: Take notice, that the unde 2 signed will apply to the Judge < 3 Probate at Barnwell court house, C., on Thursday, the 20th day i March, A. D., 1913 at 11 o'clock ) m., for a final settlement of the e - tate of H. W. Kearse deceased, ar J discharge from the office of admi; ? istratrix of said estate. E. R. KEARSE, Executri Dated thirtieth dav of January, j e D., 1913. a GRAHAM & BLACK, Q Attorneys for Executrix. MASTER'S SALE, e _____ * State of South Carolina, County < Bamberg. Pursuant to an order made in tl case of Elvira Walker against Am Hay et al, dated November 22, 191* by his honor, John S. Wilson, I wi sell at public auction to the highe bidder for cash in front of the cou house in Bamberg, S. C., on Monda March 3, 1913, during the leg J hours of sale, the following descri v ed real estate, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel < tract of land situate, lying, and b , ing in the State of South Carolin ^ county of Bamberg, containing 01 i: hundred and sixty (160) acres, mo: or less, and bounded on the Npri , by lands of estate of Floyd Walke ^ East by Caroline Reed and South E ^ isto river, South by J. C. Matthew and said river, and West by estate < R Floyd Walker. Purchaser to pay for papers. * ? H. C. FOLK, ~ Master Bamberg Count CLERK S SALE. 0 3 By virtue of a decretal order direc ed to me out of the court of commc pleas in the case of H. C. Fo 5 against C. C. Keenheels, I, C. ! 5 Free, Clerk of Court for Bambe; County, will, on Monday, March 3r 1 1913, the same being salesday 2 said month,' between the legal hou of sale,, sell to the highest bidder f< 5 cash the following described land: ) All that piece, parcel, or tract < land, situate, lying, and being in tl 5 county and State aforesaid, contai: - ing and measuring one hundred ai 7 fifty (150) acres, more or less, ai f bounded as follows: North by lan< of Joseph Copeland, and estate u Patrick, South by public road lea ing from Lemon Swamp to Brii e Creek, and West by Lemon Swam a Terms cash, purchaser to pay f< a papers. C. B. FREE, Clerk of Coui >, MAYFIELD & FREE, Plaintiff's Attorneys. BANK STATEMENT. Statement, of the condition of tl Bamberg Banking Co., located i Bamberg, S. C., at the close of bus ness February 4th, 1913. RESOURCES. - Loans and discounts ....$219,958.? Overdrafts 1,299.4 s Bonds and stocks owned ' by the bank 1,000.C f Furniture and fixtures .. 1,981.2 Banking house 5,635.4 Due from banks and * bankers 60,387.6 r Currency 1,956.6 5 Gold 275.6 > Silver and other minor coin 1,378.8 S Checks and cash items.. 1,075.6 ) ) TOTAL $294,947.8 LIABILITIES. > Capital stock paid in $ 55,000.6 > Surplus fund 45,000.6 - Undivided profits less cur> rent expenses and taxes paid 16,061.6 > Due to banks and > bankers 4,317.5 Dividends unpaid 165.6 Individual deposits sub* ject t check 124,930.8 Savings deposits 45,035.4 > Time certificates of de posit '. 4,289.2 Certified checks 5.2 j Cashier's checks 143.2 i TOTAL $294,947.8 State of South Carolina?County < Bamberg. Before me came D. F. Hooto > cashier of the above named ban f who, being duly ?worn, says that tl above and foregoing statement is , true condition of said bank, as show , by the books of said bank, t D. F. HOOTON, Cashier, t Sworn to and subscribed befoi 5 me this 7th dav of Februarv. 1913. W. D. COLEMAN, Notary Public, S. C. - Correct-Attest: J. D. COPELAND, H. J. BRABHAM, W. D. RHOAD, Directors. What makes a girl so light on he feet dancing is they hurt her so muc . in bed the next morning. Every office in the county is ru 1 ?? + V, n f f flflllntv CI UV UUtJ IIIULl CAt'cyt mat v/i pervisor. Is there any good reaso > why the supervisor's office should n( be controlled by one man? W would like to hear from the peop] on the subject. E. H. HENDERSON Of * | ' Attorney-at-Law d" BAMBERG. S. C. ^ General Practice. Loans Negotiated. - CHICHESTER S PILLS - Wyrj^. THE DIAMOND BRAND. * 10 Ladlee! Ask your Dru**Iatfor/A " &S\ ??^M Ohl-chea-ter a Diamond Brand/yVX V'S IMUs in Red and Oold metallic^Vx ;n Jv ?box?. sealed with Blue Ribbon. ill 'R Take no other. Buy of your V H> I ~ (if WruMlBt. AskforCIIieBES-TEK8 u W J? DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for Sft V v* M years known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE y. ? 'X J. F. Carter B. D. Carter tv CARTER & CARTER ?~ Attorneys-at-Law id BAMBERG. S. C. re Special attention given to settlement of estates and investigation of land titles. ( COME TO THE ) ' Corn Show! " AT BAMBERG Of ia """? ?? 2, V in If you want to see n Corn ? we have ai it, Real Seed Corn. Roans. Po ~ 7 ? ? Dr e- tatoes, Millets? >e seeds of all kinds. re ' th Then we can fit if d- you up to plant \ VS * $ of and work them. And too we can y. fit you up so you might think you =t- are too dressed up )n it to work. Any kind rg work you must d> u + ^ m be at, we can fit rg you up. Any kind SI of of leisure you pren . fer, we can fit you id up. And then if is of you get hungry ar wehavethegoods. or So if you work, if I you play, or get I l' hungry call to see 1 i w I RENTZ & FELDER I :5 I Bamberg, 5. C. | 1 Remember you get a 25 vote 5 v 16 I coupon, good in The Herald 5 :9 I and Merchants contest, with H ? I every $1.00 cash purchase. 9 0? \ '/ II I A ^^LI\G OPV 15 will be yours if you buy your carriage ? from us. Everyone who has bought '6 from us knows this to be a fact; but we want you to know it as well. n Hence this advertisement. Won't k, you call? in a vrv *rrrr -nn "a HUKSliB AHJLJ iniLfjO. n G. FRANK BAMBERG, Bamberg, S. C. re NOTICE FINAL DISCHARGE. I will file my final accounting with G. P. Harmon, Judge of Probate, on Saturday, February 15th, 1913, as executrix of the estate of Francis M. Stubbs. All persons having claims will present same before that date or forever be barred. MRS. HATTIE M. STUBBS. ~ Executrix. J Bamberg, S. C., January 15, 1913. h I wwinr PIV1T TUCPU1POI? On Friday, February 21st, 1913, n at 11 o'clock a. m., I will file with G. 1_ P. Harmon, Judge of Probate for m Bamberg county, my final accounting )t as administrator of the estate of Jno. r J. Copeland, deceased, and will ask e for letters dismissory as such admin's istrator. J. L. COPELAND, ? Administrator. I - ' -