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?tip Bamhcrg ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. \V. KNIGHT, Editor! Publi^died every Thursday in Th< Herald building, on Main street, ii the live and growing City of Bam berg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mer genthaler linotype machine, Babcocl cylinder press, folder, one jobber, i fine Miehle cylinder press, all run bj electric power with other materia! and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an invest ment of $10,000 and upwards. ^ T>*r 4-E/V TTOOr ?1 SJrt Suoscripuous??>> ^ ^ six months, 75 cents; three months 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per incl for first insertion, subsequent inser tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad vertisements at the rates allowed b: law. Local reading notices 10 cent! a line each insertion. Wants anc other advertisements under specia head, 1 cent a word each insertion Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Write for rates Obituaries, tributes of respect, reso lutions, cards of thanks, and all no tices of a personal or political char acter are charged for as regular ad vertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation alter nrs insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or thos< pertaining to matters of public inter est. We require the name and ad v . dress of the writer in every case No article which is defamatory 01 offensively personal can find place ii our columns at any price, and "we ar< not responsible for the opinions ex pressed in any communication. Thursday, April 24,1913. If judges would put fines of $1,00C and $2,000 on blind tigers, like Judge Memminger did in Spartanburg, the traffic would not continue very long Some people may not agree en tirely with the article of Mr. W. C Patrick, published in this issue, but all no doubt will agree that it is a timely discusson of an interesting situation. We would be glad to hear from others on the same line. The Colleton and Dorchester papers condemn in strong terms the conduct of the congressional primary in those counties last week. It appears that money was openly and shamelessly used to purchase votes, and it seems reasonably sure that the same conditions existed all over the district. The State executive committee should make a rigid investigation of the election. ,This newspaper can hardly be accused of any great amout of love for corporations, but it seems to us that it is high time some drastic action was being taken against the damage suit industry in this State. The railroads and other corporations are cer tainly having a hard time of h, for damage suits and large verdicts against them are the rule, not the exception. At one time in South Carolina it was said that the negro was the o-nly one who received "justice" in the courts. Now it 6eems to he the corporations who get it all. -?<? > Congressman Wyatt Aiken, of this State, has introduced a bill in congress reducing the letter p <ge rate from two cents to one cent, this rate to also include drop letters. We have very little idea that the bill will pass, and it certainly ought not to. Two cents is cheap enough anyway, and those who would derive most benefit from a one cent letter rate are well able to pay the present rate. Thei^too, from our knowledge of postal affairs, we feel <sure there would be a large deficit should the letter rate be reduced, because of the very large appropriations for rural free delivery service as well as so much second and third class mat^ * ?? rt* U r? W /J 1 f n 1 AOO ter uciug uanuicu cn, a. n_?oo. TWO YEARS IX REFORMATORY. Lad Arrested at Starr for Breaking Into Postoffice. Hezekiah Elgin, the lad arrested at Starr several weeks ago on a charge of having broken into the postoffice there and stolen letters, has been sentenced by Judge Smith in the United States court at Greenville to serve two years in the National Training school at Washington. The following account of the case is given in a special from Greenville: Hezekiah Elgin, a 13-year-old lad of good appearance, this afternoon stood before Judge Smith in the federal court and in trembling tones pleaded guilty to the charge of taking letters from a United States mail box. The boy said that a negro had persuaded him to do the act. The boy's aunt, an elderly lady, appeared also before Judge Smith and made a tearful plea that the lad be returned to her home where he had been reared. The bov had had very little schooling, his aunt stated. He was now in the third grade, according to his own statement. After questioning the boy nirvcoiv Turlp-ex Smith wave an order v.. ?,? - _ ? ? _ that the lad be sent to the National Training school for boys at Washington for two years. The district attorney stated that efforts had been made to capture the negro, but that they had been unsuccessful.?Anderson Mail. IGKAXI) JURY FINDS "NO BILL." i . i Akerman Failed to Secure Evidence j in Cotton Seed Oil Trust. J Augusta, April 19.?After an investigation extending over the larger 11 part of two weeks, and examination i "of a large number of witnesses from ' | several States, the grand jury in the c! United States Court today reported j l|"no bill" as a result of its investiga-1: r\ . . I ^ i tions into the case presented to mem i by District Attorney Akerman, charg- i - ing that there is a cotton seed oil i trust. District Attorney Akerman reportj ed to- the Court that he had not been as successful as he had hoped in se* curing evidence showing that there i . was a cotton seed oil trust. The 7 grand jury investigated the American * Cotton Oil Company, Proctor and j Gamble and other large concerns, and . it was stated at the outset by the 11 I ? district attorney that he expected to * show that there was a trust. i? . | What's the Matter With Bamberg? Columbia, S. C., April 17, 1913. ; [ i The Bamberg Herald, Bamberg, S. C. j Dear Herald: Viewed from a dis-' sjtance, there seems to be something! -- -- ~ , T 1 I * radically wrong in tsamoerg. 1 nave;; been much interested in the nomina. tions for your councilmen and noticed r them, one after another?men who! I are the very blood and sinew of your 1 town?decline to serve. There must be a cause. What is it? Knowing : the men whose names have been brought forward as I do I can not believe their reluctance is due in any , measure to selfishness, nor is it due ; to the lack of patriotism. In the . past these same men have given of I 11 their time and services unselfishly, | but now that the town needs them j more that at any period within my -! i memory their reluctance to seTve \\ l amounts almost to indifference. 11. > wonder if it has occurred to you that j ' fhp situation is a serious one and \ | whether you have formed an opinion | ( j as to its cause. j! j If one who first saw the light with- . ' I in the confines of your town and who j still feels an interest in its welfare j j ^ might be so bold as to hazard a sur- . mise, this would be the burden of it: ' ' the lack of individual interest among J ! [ the citizenship of your town who nev- ^ er offer for public office. You must have team work if you expect your ^ town to progress along any line and ! particularly in its municipal affairs, and unless every officer has the hear- ' ty co-operation of every law-abiding i. ; citizen you need never expect a con- j . tinued sacrifice on the part of those j' ! who have in times past shouldered !. i j the burden of your city's government. ^ You have seen it, so have I, when a man permits himself to be placed in a ^ ; position to serve his town, no sooner J i has he taken the oath of office than l every visible support is withdrawn ^ i and he is left alone to fight his battle ^ singlehanded, and when he fails in > the accomplishment of miracles in his administration he receives the jeers instead of the plaudits of the people. There are in your town many good < people who earnestly desire the put: ting down of crime, particularly in the j 1 forms of illicit sale of intoxicating j ! liquors and pistol toting?the two t of which run neck and neck in their * race for supremacy there and the ^ two things most responsible for the ^ ' numerous homicides of the past? who would sooner suffer the loss of a right arm than openly participate in either crime, yet the crime they ] : commit in standing quietly by and : | withholding their support which ; properly belongs to those in charge of the administration of the laws of ; your town is no less than that of the booze seller or the gun man. This, my dear sir, is one cause of the indifference displayed by the men of your town in public affairs. Can , ' any man of Bamberg afford to do his duty fully, conscientiously? That question confronts every man who , offers for the public's service, and he ( need go no further back than the present to get his answer. No. His , daily bread in many instances de pends upon the good will of his neighbors. Can he afford to offend them by meting out justice to offenders? ] Here is an illustration: John Smith 1 is in the service of Mr. Moneybags, ( his services are valuable because he 1 produces money for his employer, < he violates the law and is taken into i ; the toils and is punished. Does Mr. , Moneybags uphold the officer and i commend him for his vigilance? It 1 is safe to say no. He is rather criti- 1 cised for over-zealousness and the ] just punishment imposed upon the offender is but a persecution, in the 1 eyes of Mr. Moneybags. It is not < right; nor is it just. Justice is that r which we wish for our felltfw'Tnen i but we will have none of it ourselves, I ! otherwise more of us would be in the i toils. These are the things which t j confront your people and it is no 1 ' wonder that they hesitate before ( ! entering the lists. If you would have a town to be proud of let every 1 man who believes in the right become i an integral part of the machine as- 1 sembled for the purpose of stamping 1 out lawlessness and all pull together. ] WILLIAM C. PATRICK. h H. HYMAX "COMES TO LIFE." | ?_ Murder Mystery in Lancaster County j Probably Never Solved. Lancaster, April 19.?Sheriff John P. Hunter, who has been working dil-' igently after some clue to the perpetrators of the murder of the unknown man whose body was found on the hanks of Twelve Mile Creek about a month ago, and who was thought to be Harry Hyman, a Jewish peddler of Bishopville, to-day received another letter from Mr. L. Schlesinger, of Bishopville, reading as follows: "Sheriff John P. Hunter, Lancaster, S. C.?Dear Sir: Harry Hyman came 'to life' last night about 9 o'clock when the A. C. L. came in. He remarked that he had been in that part of Lancaster County at about the time, but left there, going in the direction of Columbia and the other side of it. So, the body is not that of H. Hyman, of course, it must be some one else as we can readily see now. I wish to express to you my sincere thanks for your many kind efforts and your favors, which I assure you is very greatly appreciated. Yours truly." "L. Schlesinger." , | No further clue has been obtained as to the slayer or the identity of the victim and it looks now as if it will be passed as one of the unsolved mysteries. Negro Attacks Woman and Boy. * :i OA T>1, ? ? t n .Florence, /vpin l\j..? xnc mic ui a. prominent Florence citizen and her son, a boy of about 12 years, were murderously assaulted by a negro, Herman Kelly, about 10:30 o'clock last night. Kelly applied at the home of his victim to buy a pint of milk for a restaurant accustomed to buy from her. She delivered the milk in her own pitcher, none having been brought. In a few minutes Kelly returned the pitcher, paying for the milk, and as the lady reached for it, he caught her by the left arm, and swung ^long handled wrench, used by car inspectors, striking her on the head. He forced her into the room, striking her several times with the heavy wrench, she screaming aloud. Her son attempted to dash from the room for assistance and Kelly caught him, dealing him a fearful blow on the head with the wrench and following him to the yard, striking him again. He then dashed toward the back fence, as the lady's cries were attracting persons from all around, for the home is near the old Jacobi hotel on Front street. In trying to get over the back fence his feet slipped and his arms were skinned, but * " ^1- J * 6 got away oeiore me nuwu ica^uw him. He was captured at the restaurant next door several hours later, and with every evidence of being the right negro, even to blood stains and freshly washed cuffs and skinned arms. He is now in jail. Both the lady and her son are in a serious condition. The victim is the wife of a well known yard conductor, of the Atlantic Coast Line. Kelly is the same negro who was sent to the chain gang for three years some time ago, being caught under a bed in a private house in the city. He has worked recently at the industrial school. He was a good worker when 3n the chaingang, but the police have aeen watching him since he was released. A Necessity. The temperance reformer was justly proud of having converted the biggest drunkard in a little Scotch town and induced him?he was the local grave-digger?to get o-n the platform and spout his experience. "My friends," he said, "I never, thoc'nt to stand upon this platform with the provost on one side of me and the town clerk on th' ither side of me. I never thocht to tell ye that for a whole month I haven't touched a drap of anything. I've saved enough to buy me a braw oak coffin wi' brass handles and brass nails?and if I'm a teetotaler for anither month I shall be wantin' it." Blease Grants Requisition. N Columbia, April 19.?Governor Blease today suddenly adjourned the learing on the requisition from Gov?rnor Sulzer of New York for the aleged wire tappers, arrested in Charleston and wanted in New York, vhen a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Devore, directing the sheriff to -eturn the prisoners to Charleston at the conclusion of the hearing was landed to him by counsel for the prisoners. The governor announced that he ivould grant the requisition for two I >f tv?om A A Carter and Frank i rarbeaux and they were turned over to the Xew York detectives and will je taken there tonight. James a. Dowling, the other of the :rio, was released, the Xew York of- I ic-ers having stated that they had no charges against him. Governor Blease said Judge Devore had no right to interfere in the mat ter before he passed on tne requisition and had no right to issue instructions to him as governor. He had the papers from Governor Sulzer and they ivere made out legally and proper. | FATHER FINDS STOLEN CHILI). Searched Throughout Mississippi for Many Months. Columbia, .Miss., April 21.?Robert Dunbar, the eight-year-old child who was kidnapped at the home of its parents near Opelousas, La., last August, has been found and identified by Mr. Dunbar, the father, according to a statement made at the sheriff's office here. A man giving his name as W. C. Walters, has been placed in jail here, charged with kidnapping the child. Mr. Dunbar has the child in his possession, and while he is positive in his identification, he has telegraphed Mrs. Dunbar to come here and see the child. Mr. Dunbar stated that his identification was made by means of certain scars and marks on the child's body. Walters, who travels about the country in a wagon repairing clocks and stoves, stated ""hat a widow in North Carolina gave him the child more than a year ago. He was questioned closely by Mr. Dunbar about his movements since last August, and it is claimed made several contradictory statements. Walters was arrested here two weeks ago, but told what appeared to be a reasonable story about the child and was released. Mr. Dunbar was notified, however, and came here to make a personal investigation. He found the child had been left with a man named Wallace in West Columbia. After identifying the child, he and several deputies set out in search of Walters, whom they located near Morgantown, about 12 miles north of Columbia. The Dunbars and their friends have spent several thousand dollars in search of the missing child, and several months ago offered a large reward for its recovery. Numerous tramps and other migratory individuals have been arrested in this and other States suspected of being implicated in the'kidnapping, because in each case they were accompanied by a child. FINES AND PRISON TERMS. Sentences Imposed on Two Alleged Blind Tigers at Spartanburg. Spartanburg, April 19.?Unusually heavy sentences were imposed by Judge R. W. Memminger on William Bowen and J. H. Brown, proprietors of so-called social clubs, who were convicted in tne circuit uouri m violating the dispensary laws. Powen was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 or serve one year, and Brown was sentenced to pay a fine of $2,000 or ! serve two years. Brown has been repeatedly convicted before. Judge Memminger was severe in his denunciation of the men and their witnesses. Bowen and Brown, through their attorneys, served the customary notice of appeal to the Supreme Court. Judge Memminger warned them that he would make it a point himself to see that the thirty-day limit in which to perfect the appeal was not disre- i garded. WIFE CHARGED WITH DEED. Georgia Merchant Refuses to Tell Who Shot Him. Columbus, Ga., April 20.?George Radcliffe, a merchant of this city, lies in the city hospital with a pistol bullet in his spine and in a paralyzed condition from the waist down. The police have arrested his wife, Mrs. May Radcliffe, charging her with assault with intent to murder. Radcliffe is in a desperate condition and may die. The woman denies the charge against her, and says thai she had no part in the affair. The wounded man refused absolutely to discuss the shooting and would not talk of it before lapsing into unconsciousness. A revolver was found by the police in a cupboard in the house, two of the shells being empty. A charge of shooting at a man named Martin is pending against Mrs. Radcliffe, according to the police. Two Want Divorces. A special from Atlanta says: The unique sight of a mother and daughter arraigned side by side as defendants in the divorce court will be wit nGSSGQ in .PUiton supenui cuun, ucin this week. Two sGparatG suits have filed against Mrs. Fanny Garrison and Mrs. Lillian Garrison Hicks, mother and daughter respectively. Both husbands claim that they are hen-pecked. C. H. Garrison says that his wife forced him for a long period of the time to turn over all of his weekly salary to her, and that she allowed him only ten cents a day for car fare and spending money. The remainder of his money he says she spent in extravagance, in addition to running up bills which he was unable to pay. R. C. Hicks says that his wife, who is the daughter, forced him into marrying her and has ruled him with an iron hand ever since. Threats of violence, he says, are a common thing in the household. BARTER OF HUMAN FLESH. y Mothers Contract for Disposal of Infants Before Birth. Chicago, April IS.?Inhuman conditions at "baby farms" in Chicago , were revealed to-day in the Illinois House committee's investigation of { maternity home and other institu- . tions where children are kept. They were such as to bring from Chairman Thomas Curran the assertion that the barter of flesh has not ceased and tnat dealing in DaDies is me most dastardly business existing." The representatives were told that mothers contracted for the disposal of their infants before birth, signing an agreement which ends: "I promise and declare I will never see said child, but do release and abandon it forever." They were informed that babies ? were shipped out of the State when only a few hours old and their moth- J ers were hired out to nurse ihe infants o-f the wealthy. j Superintendents of maternity homes admitted thev keDt no records, 1 I that once a child was sent away there was nothing by which it could be j traced. IT COSTS TO RUX A CIRCUS. I Many Tons of Foodstuff Required to Feed Men and Animals. Has any one ever figured out what a mint of money it costs to operate the biggest present-day circus? Wintering the Barnum & Bailey circus alone consumes $140,000, independent of repairs and building new equipage. But it's when, the circus gets on the road that the financial strain is felt. Each day requires an expenditure of at least $7,500. Figure it out for yourself for a season of eight months and see how much * money is put into circulation each year. Salaries of the performers range from $30 to $500 a week. May ] Wirth, the young Australian equestrienne sensation, gets a season's sum ( that would keep the average workingman on a vacation for the rest of < his life. It costs a barrel of money to get the animals which comprise a great popular feature of the circus. The mother of the baby giraffe cost $14,000. Tom, its father, cost $12,- ] 000. The equipment for this season's show represents an outlay of $3,500,000, of which $1,000,000 was spent i for the parade paraphernalia. The railroad equipment is valued at more than $200,000. The horses and their decorations are worth $340,000. The . menagerie is estimated to have cost $720,000, and to be worth more than j that amount by reason of tricks drill- I ed into the animals by trainers. A tabulated list of the items needed for the daily sustenance of the cosmopolitan host will stagger you. For the animals the daily consumption of food is 7 tons of hay, 200 bushels of ^ oats, 150 bushels of corn, 50 bushels i 1 1-9 /io mo cciic n f hoef for UI ULCLlly -L JL~ iJ VUX VUUWVO VI wv*. the lions and tigers, and 700 pounds of vegetables for the other animals. Then there are needed 6 tons of straw for bedding. What about the foodstuffs for the 1,500 men and women who comprise the human personnel of the circus? Here is an itemized list for a day, taken from the statement of the chef: Three hundred pounds of beef, 150 I pounds of mutton, 200 pounds of pork, 550 chickens, 800 loaves of bread, half a barrel of syrup, 72 cases of eggs,- 440 gallons of milk, 1,200 pounds of butter, 1,400 pounds of fish. 25 bushels of apples, alternating with California oranges, peacnes, and pears and other fruits in season. Condiments and canned goods are bought in cases by the gross. Sixty dining room attendants serve this Kin nf fare and the hiah-sal aried chef has a corps of eight assist- { ants. The pastry cook has six assist- * ants. WIRE GAVE CLUE TO OFFICERS. Four Men Arrested Charged with Robbing Cigar Stores. New York, April 18.?A piece of picture wire to-day led to the arrest of four men charged with holding up and robbing a dozen or more stores of the United Cigar Stores Company, in New York and vicinity. Wire was used to bind the cigar store clerks. Detectives found where it was purchased and lay in wait until to-day when three men called for a supply. The suspects were followed and 1 captured at the points of revolvers in J a trolley car in New Rochelle. The fourth was arrested at a hotel and a young woman who accompanied him was held as a material witness. 0 The prisoners are Charles Truax, " ? AmrvlnT-nn r\ f + li T'nifaH CiPUV clll C.\-Cinp:u>cc ui uig i. uiwu ? Stores Company; John .McDonald, who, the police say, has a long record as a postofFice burglar; Frederick H. Clark and Joseph S. David. Truax was held in Court in $5,000 bail o?n three charges. Duval and Clark in similar bail on one charge "" A o 1 a tl*nc CPf f TAf 1 CcHJ 11, W ill 1C .)lV<uuuaiu " ?>-> ->>. .. vv> I for lack of evidence. McDonald, how- I ever, was immediately rearrested on ' another charge of robbery. We Do Not j Have tft Sell Goods I The Goods Sell Themselves..... ^ Just come and make your selections. 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