The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 10, 1913, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
A. \V.~lv\IGHT, Editor
Published every Thursday in The
Herald building, on Main street, in
the live and growing City of Bamberg,
being issued from a printing
office which is equipped with Mergenthaler
linotype machine, Babcock
cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a
fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by
eipotrir nnwer with other material
and machinery in keeping, the whole
equipment representing an investment
of $10,000 and upwards.
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Communications?We are always
glad to publish news letters or those
pertaining to matters of public interest.
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offensively personal can find place in
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pressed in any communication.
Thursday, April 10,1913.
Have you contributed to the dormitory
fund yet? If not, do not delay.
Make every day "clean-up" day in
Bamberg. That's the way to have a
clean town.
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Referring to the suggestion of the
Aiken Journal and Review, we have
only to say that the people of Bamberg
know a good thing when they
see it, and that Mr. Denbow's
name has already been suggested in
this newspaper for alderman of Bamberg.
The Columbia State has announced
that in future it will not accept
whiskey advertisements. While The
State is one of the few daily papers
to adopt such a policy, it is only following
the course adopted by many
weeklies in South Carolina, who have
always refused to accept whiskey
advertisements at any price.
Senator Tillman's letter on the
mileage book question is timely and
will serve to again direct vthe attention
of the people to one of the great
hardships the traveling public is
forced to put up with, as well as one
of the greatest instances of petty
meanness on the part of the railroads
that has come to our attention in a
long time. The railroads adopted
this regulation as a matter of spite
because an act was passed by the
legislature requiring that mileage
should be pulled on trains. The legislature
should have adopted a flat
two c^nt mileage rate at the last session,
but it didn't, and we cannot
hope for substantial relief from railroad
extortion in South Carolina as
long as editors of newspapers and
many legislators (so we are informed)
ride on free passes. We do not
object to exchanging advertising
space for transportation, but it should
be on a business basis?so much
space for a given amount of mileage.
The newspapers don't run their affairs
in any such slip shod manner
with anybody else, and why should
they make an exception of the railroads?
If we live to attend the meeting
of the SU-te Press Association
this summer, we serve notice here
and now that we intend to offer a
resolution along this line. We shall
if possible put the Association on record
as favoring or being against putting
this matter on a business basis.
Our idea is to offer the railroads
space at cash rates in exchange for
mileage, (not passes) such mileage
to be good for members of the family
of ar. editor or persons who are bona
fiHo pmnlnvpp<> nf thp naner and a
certain amount of mileage for a
certain amount of space. The papers
charge everybody else a fixed rate
for advertising, but the railroads pay
much or little, all depending on the
inclination of the editor to use his
"free pass." Let's put the matter on
a business basis and retain our selfrespect
and cease being under obligation
to the corporations.
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Georgia Town Wiped Out.
Smithville, Ga., April 5.?The business
section of Smithville was practically
wiped out to-day in a fire
that raged for over three hours in the
middle of the day.
From a radius of several miles in
both Sumter and Lee counties farm
ers came in and added their efforts
to the tireless bucket brigades, which
finally won the fight shortly after 3
o'clock.
Four grocery stores, hardware,
drug, meat and pool room establishments
were completely wiped out.
The total loss will be $20,000. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
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The Fish Law.
A subscriber writes us to publish
for information the laws governing
the catching and selling of fish. We
take pleasure in so doing.
Sections 754 and 755 of the crim
inal code provide as follows:
For the purpose of classification
the following fish shall be known as
game fish, viz Jack-fish or pickerel,
pike black bass or pond trout, striped
bass or rock fish, warmouth, redbelly,
robbin, beam, copper-face or
ball-faced beam, banded beam, redfin
trout or yellow perch, rain-bow
trout, speckled trout, flyer, crappie,
rock bass, goggle eye and white
perch.
Hereafter no person or persons
shall cast, draw fasten or otherwise
make use of any seine of drift net,
fike net of any other description, or .
use any other appliances for the
catching of game fish in the waters j
of this State other than privately j
owned ponds or lakes except hook !
and line and ordinary fly, or by phantom
minnow, or by artificial bait,
between the first day of April and
the first day of November of each
year: Provided, That in the counties
of Bamberg, Berkeley, Clarendon,
Colleton, Dorchester and Williamsburg
the close season shall be between
the first day of April and the
first day of August of each year.
For violation of this section, the
party so violating shall be fined
twenty ($20.00) dollars or imprisoni
o/? for enoh offense:
Provided, that this section shall not
apply to such person or persons as
are catching game fish with a net or
other appliances for the purpose of
stocking a pond or other streams
not for commercial purposes:
Provided, that in the counties of
Bamberg, Berkeley, Clarendon, Colleton,
Dorchester and Williamsburg
fish may be sold: Provided, also
that any or all persons engaged in
the catching of fish for the purpose
of stocking a pond or stream must
notify the nearest game warden or
magistrate of his or their purpose
to so catch the fish: Provided, also,
That no game fish shall be sold during
the months of April, May June:
Provided, further, That this shall
not prohibit the catching of any kind
of fish in a private pond not erected
on a navigable stream in any manner
by the owner of such pond or by
permission of owner at any season
or tne year.
Kew's Famous Gardens.
Kew Gardens, which has recently
suffered a heavy loss by the destruction
of its tea pavilion by suffragettes,
originally belonged to the royal
family. It was given to the nation
by Queen Victoria in 1840.
The Gardens are a huge kind of
botanical clearing house. There you
can get information about any plant
that has been discovered, be told how
to grow it, how to care for it, what
it is worth, and anything else you
may want to know about it. Letters
come from all parts of the world to
Kew wanting information about this
or that plant.
Though the very center of the plant
world, strange and rare plants that
arrive there do not always take kind
ly to the great conservatories. They
sicken and pine away and would die
were it not for a small, cosy structure
known as "the hospital." There they
rapidly recover their health and return
to public life once more.
The Great Palm House, one of the
principal sights of the Gardens, was
built in 1845 at a cost of 33,000
pounds. It is 362 feet long, 100 feet
broad and 60 feet high, and contains
nearly an acre of glass. Six huge
ovens heat this enormous glass house.
Three are kept going night and day.
rummer and winter, and the other
three in winter only. Over 17,000
feet of hot water piping is used in
the palm house.
Kew Gardens possess one of tlie
b'ggest collection of dried plants in
the world, a collection which is constantly
being added to by travelers
and scientific institutions in all parts
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this collection really is one bequest,
that of Sir W. G. Hooker, contained
no fewer than 2,000,000 specimens
of dried plants.
Largest Power Project.
The state engineer of the state of
Oregon, John H. Lewis, has submitted
a project for developing 300,000 continuous
electric horse-power at Big
Eddy, a point three miles above the
Dalles on the Columbia river. At this
location the river runs through a narrow
gorge which could be closed by
a dam only 300 feet long, and ISO
feet above its foundations, and the
construction of a canal 300 feet wide,
20 feet deep and a mile and a half in
length. The head of water is 73 feet
at low water, 42 feet at high water,
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throughout the year is 235,000 cubic
feet per second. The hydro-electric
units would be each of 32,000 horsepower.
The total cost of the scheme would
be about $23,000,000.?Scientific
American.
ANOTHER JEAN VALJEAX.
Sent to Jail For Life Because He Stole
a Small Piece of ISacon.
.Millions of Americans have shuddered
at Victor Hugo's tremendous
arraignment of law in tlie story of
Jean Valjean?the youth who, for
stealing a loaf of bread for his starving
family, was condemned to a lifetime
of suffering, imprisonment and
persecution. And they have said:
"That was terrible. But that was in
France, and long ago. Such things
could not happen now?certainly not
in America."
But William Welch, looking out
hopelessly from behind iron bars,
gives them the lie. For William
Welch, in free America, has suffered
greater wrong than Jean Valjean.
Driven by hunger, he stole a piece of
bacon from a dwelling house; and
for that "crime" he was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life by an Ohio
judge, and driven insane by brooding
on the overwhelming injustice of it.
Six years ago Welch, a young man
of twenty-five, was wandering thru
southern Ohio, looking for work. He
found neither job nor generosity.
Penniless, lonely, hungry he lost his
rov/sronpo fr?r thp PTPflt P'Ofl PmnprtV.
And so, one dark, bitter night, in
Greenville, he opened the door of a
dwelling house, entered and took a
few pounds of bacon to keep him
alive in his quest for work.
He lifted his hand against no man.
He attacked no woman. He frightened
no child. He destroyed nothing.
He had to have food, and he took a
dollar's worth of bacon?that was all.
He was seen, caught and hauled into
court. And being at heart an honest
man, Welch admitted stealing the bacon.
He would steal to live, but he
would not lie to avoid punishment.
The law, however, was not so
square as the thief. Welch was guilty
of "breaking and entering an inhabited
dwelling at night," with intent
to steal property. And that, in .
Ohio, is an offense punishable with
life imprisonment, unless the jury
recommends mercy.
Welch was destroyed by his own
honesty. By pleading "guilty," he
surrendered his right to a trial by
jury. And so there was no jury to
"recommend mercy." Wherefore inexorable
law, in the person of Judge
Allread, sent him to the penitentiary j
for life.
It is not likely that any jury would !
have done that. And the lack of a ;
jury was merely technical. The judge
might have insisted on a jury trial for
ttie prisoner, reiusing to enter ms |
plea of "guilty." Judges have often 1
done so.
This judge merely said, "There is
no alternative." So, speaking as a
statute book, and not as a man dealing
with flesh and blood and the passions
of life, with legal phrase he
took away this young man's lifelong
freedom, his human ties, even his
secret hopes?for stealing a piece of
bacon!
The door of the penitentiary closed
on William Welch, his name became
a number, and he was forgotten. Just
the other day somebody happened
to recall the case, and inquired what
had become of William Welch, and
this is what he found:
The body of William Welch still
lives. But the soul of him is dead.
A few months of prison life brought
him face to face with his appalling
fate. Brooding over it in bitterness,
and longing for "that little tint of
blue," which prisoners call the sky,
"his mind broke." Law had murdered
the only part of him that
raises man above brutes. And now
he is no more than an ape in a cage.
Spartan Youths Wounded.
Spartanburg, April 7.?Their
throats slashed with a pocket knife,
said to have been wielded by Bonnie
Fisher, 20 years old, in a midnight affray
on the road near Shoaley Creek
school house, Sunday night, Curtis
Burnett, 19 years old, son of J. R.
Burnett, and Jonah Kimbrell, 20
years old, son of Dock Kimbrell, are
in bed at their homes, in the Boiling
Springs section, in a serious condition.
Burnett and Kimbrell met Fisher
and two other youths in the road by
chance. Fisher is said to have made
some reference to an old grudge
which he had against Burnett because
the latter ran into him with a buggy
a year ago. Nearly all of the youths
became embroiled in the quarrel
which followed. Burnett has been attending
the Wofford Fitting School.
His father is a prominent country
merchant. Fisher was reported to
have surrendered this afternoon. |
The farmers of South Carolina
have this year purchased about 800,000
tons of fertilizers, according to
a report on file in the state treasurer's
office. The report shows that
$199,663 in taxes has been paid by
the companies. There is a tax of 23
cents a ton. The fund goes to Clemson
college. The records show that
the tax on March 31, 1912, amounted
to $183,302. This is about $18,- 1
000 less than the sales for this year.
The total tax collected for 1912
tft O hrtll t 31 9 Fi ? 000
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BANK OF BRUXSOX CLOSED.
Action of State Bank Examinee
Causes Surprise.
Brunson. April 5.?An astonishingend
apparently unique proceeding on
*he part of the State bank examiner
was the closing of the Bank of Brur.
son here today. Xo creditor has given
the bank any trouble and the
bank has not failed to meet any demand
of the depositors. In the closing
of the bank no fraud or shortage
is charged. The depositors do not
criticise the bank officials here, and
many have voluntarily offered their
help, and express confidence that
their money is safe. The Bank of
Brunson is one of the oldest banks in
Hampton County, organized in 1901,
and has resources amounting to over
$200,000.
There is not the unrest or excitement
usually attendant upon a
trouble of this kind. This is a hard
season of the year, and the closing of
the bank works a great hardship
upon the community in having so
much money tied up.
. The people express confidence in
the belief that this trouble will be
only temporary. They have great
confidence in the president, who is
not a stranger here, but who is a
nativp ritizpn nnrt has aociirmilated
quite a fortune here during the last
twenty years by hard work and good
judgment and careful, judicious
financing.
EASY RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION.
The Remedy that Replaces Calomel.
Causes No Restriction of
Habit or Diet.
It is a mistake to take calomel
when your* liver is lazy and needs
oning up. Hundreds of people in
this section have discovered that Dodon's
Liver Tone is a thousand times
better and safer and its action is just
s sure. There are none of the bad
after-effects of calomel to Dodson's
L:ver Tone and no danger of salivaion.
For attacks of constipation or bil
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uosness one or two spuumuis ui
his mild, pleasant tasting vegetable
iquid are enough and Peoples Drug
Store gives a personal guarantee that
every bo-ttle will do all that is claimed
for it. Money back in any case
where it fails.
Dodson's Liver Tone costs only 50
cents for a large bottle. Remember
the name because therq are any number
of remedies sold in imitation of
Dodso-n claim^. Some of them have
names very similar to Dodson's Liver
Tone?and are in same color package.
These imitations are not guaranteed
and may be very harmful.
Go to Peoples Drug Store and you will
surely get the genuine.
THE NEW BEAUTIES
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formed that takes the eye
of a lover of beauty, we get
it. Call at our store, you
will be convinced that this
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TEACHERS' EXAMINATION.
The regular teachers' examination
will be held in the court house at
Bamberg, on Friday, May 2nd, 1913,
begining at nine o'clock in the morning
and closing at four o'clock |
in the afternoon. The subjects!
will be Reading, Writing, Arithmetic,
Algebra. Geography, History, Physiology
and Hygiene, Civics and Current
Events, Agriculture, Grammar,
Pedagogy and Spelling. No one will
be allowed to teach the next session,
who has not a certificate.
R. W. D. ROWELL,
County Supt. of Edi^cation.
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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT > j
AND DISCHARGE.
State of South Carolina?County of
Bamberg?In the Court of Probate
Ex parte W. H. Mitchum, in re the
estate of W. L./Mitchum, deceased.?
Petition for final settlement and discharge.
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To all and singular the kindred
and creditors of W. L. Mitchum, deceased:
Take notice that the undersigned '
will apply to the Judge of Probate at , ? /
Bamberg C. H., S. C., on the 26tb ^
day of April, A. D. 1913, at 11 o'clock
A. M., for a final settlement of the
estate of W. L. Mitchum, deceased,
and discharge from the office of administrator
of said estate.
W. H. MITCHUM,
Administrator.
Dated 25 th day of March, A. D.
1913.
GRAHAM & BLACK, it
Attorneys for Administrator. . *
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LETTERS DISMISSORY.
On Wednesday, April 30th, 1913,
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I win me my nnai acuuuau as
istrator of the estate of Frances
Black with G. P. Harmon, Judge of
Probate for Bamberg county, and
will thereupon ask for letters dismissorv
as administrator of said es- *
tate * W. C. BLACK, 4
Administrator.
Bamberg, S. C., April 1, 1913.
?. H. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
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