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(ihr lambrrg lirralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. \Y. KNIGHT, Editor. Published ever}- Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bam-1 berg, being issued from a printingI office which is equipped with Mer-| genthaler linotype machine, Babcock I cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a j fine Miehle cylinder press, an run uy j electric power with other material I and machinery in keeping, the whole i equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; six months, 75 cents; three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. 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. Liberal contracts made for three, six, 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, August 7, 1913 The many friends of W. W. Ball are delighted that he has been made editor of The Stae. Other towns do a great deal of talking, but Bamberg is a town that does things without any great amount of noise. Bamberg people are not going around with long faces these days. The future is bright, and the old town is coming right along. Several big things in the way of improvement and enterprise are on foot for Bamberg and will no doubt materialize before a great while. m This would be a great old world if more of us could realize that the only way to be truly happy is to try to make others happy. Supose you try it and see how it works. People generally are not going to enthuse much over politics just now. The crop outlook is too promising and the prospects for a good fall business too bright. It is well that this is so. Representative Byrnes of the secend congressional district, this state, is said to be blazing the way for his re-election to a third term next year. ?Greenville Piedmont. And he'll get it without any trouble, too, for the people of his district sure believe in "Jimmy." He's all right. The name of the principal business street in Bennettsvilie has been Darlington street ever since the town was founded, we suppose. However, it has recently been changed to Main street. We have often wondered why the town was named Bennettsvilie. Seems to us it would be a good idea to change the name of the town. The county seat of a county named Marlboro, and one of the finest counties in the State, too, should bear a more attractive name than Bennettsvilie. No Political Significance. In a letter from Hendersonville, N. C., to the Pee Dee Advocate of last week, we find the following: There are many visitors at Senator Jno. L. McLaurin's home these days. Hit machine is kept busy, for everybody seems to want to see him. Today he had as his guests Mr. T. B. Stackhouse, of Columbia, and Mr. A. W. Knight, Editor of the Bamberg Herald. Your reporter asked the Senator if there was any political significance in these visits, and he replied. "Not the slightest. .\ir. Knight is an old Bennettsville boy of whom I am very fond, and Bascomb Stackhouse is my cousin." Poor Father. The other day the duke of Westminister lent Grosvenor House for a meeting of the Invalid Children's Aid association, and during the meeting one very good story was told. A speaker mentioned that one child who had been helped by the society was asked for her father's j , name. "Smith," she said. "And what is his Christian name?" | was the next question. " 'E am t got one. answered the child, obviously not having a ghost of an idea what sort of a thing a Christian name might be. "Oh, h*e must have one." persisted the questioner. "Let me see; what does your mother call him?" "Block'ead," was the staggering reply.?Pearson's. There ought to be more houses in Bamberg to rent. NOT AXXOI XCED FOR GOV. ?? Senator John L. McLaurin Says Let I I " 'Km Sweat." When asked abont the statement of Senator Tillman, in which he favorably criticises the warehouse bill, John L. McLaurin, senator from Marlboro county, who was in Spar- j tanburg last .night 011 his way to his summer home in Hendersonville, explained his motives for introducing the measure and some of its provisions. He was somewhat reticent in speaking of the gubernatorial race next summer, but said, in reiernng | to the already announced candidates: J "Let 'em sweat! What is the use in I having a campaign in an off year?" The interview follows: "A reporter of the Spartanburg Herald called my attention to an interview from Senator Tillman endorsing the state warehouse bill, and expressing the hope that it would be passed (or some similar bill) at the next session of the legislature. It was very gratifying to me, and high praise for the bill. Certainly if Senator Tillman says it will be of untold benefit to the state, it must be true. "Governor Blease approved the first bill, which, compared to the one I now have on the calendar, was a crude affair. The provision for a bond issue in the first bill is what caused the supreme court to hold it unconstitutional. I think they were right on that question and only put it in because, had the bill been in operation, it could have been carried on. simply letting the bond provision go. The new bill meets every objection pointed out by the courts. I am not only satisfied myself, but have - - - * t\ ttt tiie written opinion 01 rt. w. onauu, one of the ablest constitutional lawyers in South Carolina. I did not want the bill passed unless I could get a commission with the ability to handle such a large and complicated problem. I had tentative arrangements made abroad for financing the certificates, and I drew the bill after correspondence and consultation with these people to meet every objection. For instance, one great handicap that any warehouse system now rests under is that a certificate from a warehouse does not give the grade of the cotton, and when money is borrowed. how does the lender know but that all the good cotton may be taken out and low grades substituted and the cotton not sell for enough to meet the debt. "Again, under our lien law and crop mortgage system, cotton may be deposited in a warehouse and somebody may have a mortgage on the farmer's crop, and go and take the cotton. A man in Liverpool or New York cannot bother to hunt the records of the clerk's office in Marlboro county. The warehouse certificate must rarrv absolute title to the cot ton. It must call for the identical cotton on which the loan is made, with the weight and grade of same. The loss to southern planters comes as much from undergrading as from any other cause, and the state should have sworn graders as well as weighers. Xo privately owned warehouse can command loans except in the locality where it is known, and then only with the personal guarantee of a collateral that English banks owned warehouse, where a sovereign state would say Bill Jones has 1,000 bales of cotton in a state warehouse in Charleston of the following weight and grades, numbering on the bales, etc. 'This cotton will be delivered on presentation of this receipt.' Once it was thoroughly understood that the grading, etc., was absolutely correct, a certificate of that kind would make some banking institution. A state financing the Manchester mills, would rather have than a South Carolina state bond, because it could be even more readily converted into gold, The amendment to the currency bill proposed by Ragsdale is right in line with the warehouse bill. He and I have been corresponding on the subject and lie has one of the ablest and most experienced men in the house backing him, Pat Henry. You watch when they go on the floor of the house; you will hear from Ragsdale. He is not afraid, and he knows what! he is doing." Asked about running for governor, the senator said: "Well. I'd lots rather talk to you about the warehouse bill. The governor s race isn't wor- I rying me half as much as it is some j others. Let 'em sweat. What is the 1 use of having a campaign in an off; year? It hurts business to keep the state eternally in an uproar over poli- j tics. Why not get up a fu_ss, if you j are bound to have one, over some-! thing that will do some good?"? j Spartanburg Herald, Sunday, August 3rd. Steamships seldom last more than j forty years. Of those built between , i 1 ?1 onH 1 thprp is lint nnp afloat. ! The life of the modern steel ship is much shorter than that of her wooden predecessor. As for warships, they: are usually scrapped at the age of i twenty. CHARGER WITH STEALING CORN. Anderson Fanner Makes Affidavit < That They Broke into His Crib. Carl and Jesse Shaw, two young white men, have been arrested by Of- i fleers J. Olin Sanders and A. \Y. i Stepp on a warrant charging them 1 with breaking into the corn crib of i Mr. .Mack Meeks. near Lee Shoals, : and carrying away a two and a half : bushel sack of corn. They gave bond 1 for their appearance at a preliminary < hearing to be held before Magistrate J \V. C. Broad well on, August 5th. < The officers have no positive evi- < dence that the Shaw boys are respon- i sible for the corn being gone, but it < is charged in the warrant sworn out i by Mr. Meeks that they got it, and 1 this will come out at the preliminary hearing. They are charged wath lar- 1 ceny.?Anderson Mail. Man Leading Double Life. Montgomery, Ala., July 31.?Until , Albert Driscoll Cammayer was arrested at Chattanooga last week on a ' charge of blowing open the safe of 1 the Green Cove, Fla., postoffice, he was leading a double life?that of safe blower and religious worker?according to postoffice inspectors who came to Montgomery yesterday to get information about Cammayer's career in Alabama. Cammayer?known in Alabama as Driscoll?had been recognized for several months as one of the best citizens of Green Cove. He had gone in the best society. He had formed the acquaintance of a Green Cove girl. They became engaged and preparations were made for the wed ding. One night the postoffice safe was '' broken open, and stamps and some money stolen. Cammayer?then going under that name?was not suspected. No trace of the safe blower could be found. Then Cammayer went to Chattanooga as a representative of the Jefferson Powder company, of Birmingham. Luck went against him. He lost his duplicate check and the railroad refused to give him his suitcase. Cammayer declared that he could identify ' articles in the case and he mentioned a suit of clothes, a comb and brush and other articles. But he said nothing about $900 worth of stamps which were hidden in the bottom of the suitcase. Then Cammayer decided he ought to make a more thorough search for the check. He went to his hotel and found the lost slip. But, in the meantime, railroad officials made .a thor- : ough search of the suitcase and foun the stamps. Cammayer produced the check and demanded the 1 suitcase. Detectives were called and 1 Cammayer was arrested. Postofflce inspectors could not find a postoftice in the Chattanooga district that had been robbed recently i and other divisions were notified. 1 Green Cove s office had been robbed a few weeks before and investigations i showed that the numbers of the stamps in Cammayer's possession corresponded with those stolen from the Florida postoffice. Cammayer denied that he had robbed the postoffice. News of Cammayer's arrest went to Green Cove, where he was regarded as an upright citizen. People there refused to believe he was interested in the robbery, and his fiancee declared* she believed him a gentleman and she is still standing by him. Cammayer's finance is a daughter of a superintendent of af large plant in Florida, but postoffice inspectors have refused to make public her name. Cammayer was convicted, of robbing the safe of Hirscher Brothers, **? iQfll W a xvns Ill .uumguiiiei *, in i. ^ v i. ~ sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary, but was paroled by Governor O'Neal in 19911, when wardens reported that Cammayer had been , converted and had become a minister and religious worker. Soon after being released Cammayer was employed by the Jefferson Powder company, of Birmingham, as traveling representative and it is alleged that he used his position to get explosives to use in his criminal operations. Terrible Revenge of Ga. Negro. Cairo. Ga., Aug.. 2.?Two members of a family of eight are expected to die and the remaining six are seriously wounded as the result of an attack by a negro with an axe on the sleeping household of George Bodiford, a farmer six miles north of here at midnight Friday. Posses with bloodi hounds are searching for a negro i . . j whom members of the tamny say was ; their assailant. Bodiford and his wife have not recovered consciousness since the attack. Each has wounds in the head, j A 12-year-old daughter, who was! awakened when the negro entered the house, screamed and the negro; cut and mutilated her face. The negro left the axe and his j shoes behind when he fled. His son, i who is being held, told officers of a quarrel Friday between his father and Bodiford. NEGRO UNDER ARREST. Charged With Assaulting White Girl Whom He Harbored in His House. Charged with criminally assaulting Sunday night a young white girl who, : it is claimed, had been kept in his ! louse l'or several nights for immoral j relations with white men. Lee Wil- j son, a negro hackman. was yesterday afternoon arrested by city police and :urned over to the sheriff for incar deration in the county jail. On the I face of the allegations, the case is me of the most deplorable that has sver been brought to light by the city authorities and brings to the front ance again a serious problem which the public have had to face for some time. Yesterday afternoon Privates Patterson and Smith observed a small white girl enter the rear door of a r.egro dive near the Southern railway passenger station. They promptly took charge of the child and soon learned from her a few facts that later led to the arrest of the negrt* tiackman. The girl was carried to tht police station and was there confronted by the chief and the inspector of police to whom she told a story of shame. From the police station the girl was carried before Magistrate Samuel Stradley, where she made an affidavit setting forth the charges against the negro hackman. Upon this affidavit and one from another negro hackman which corroborated, in certain details, the story told by the girl, Magistrate Stradley issued an arrest warrant for Lee Wilson. He was placed under arrest and transferred to the county jail. In her affidavit the girl alleges that she is 15 years of age and will be 16 in December; that she was born in Durham, X. C., and raised in Columbia, S. C., for the past four or five months has been making her home, in Greenville; that on Friday night she was taken to the home of Lee Wilson, t where she was kept that night, Saturday night and Sunday night; that white men were brought to this house by Lee Wilson for the purpose of having unlawful relations with Her; that Sunday night the negro came into her room and overpowered her, that she was not permitted to leave the house until about 9 o'clock yesterday morning. A negro hackman by the name of Parker Evans made an affidavit before Magistrate Stradley to the effect that Lee Wilson did not stable his horse at the customary place at all Sunday and that the cot which he slept in at the stable was not taken down that night. This would indicate that the negro hackman was elsewhere than his customary haunts on the night the girl alleges he attacked her. The child was turned over to the Salvation Army yesterday and will be cared for by this organization. It is stated that she lived in Greenville heretofore and that her mother died at the Salvation Army emergency hospital about two years ago. The girl's father, it is said, lives in Columbia, but has had nothing to do with his daughter since the death of the mother. At the time the girl lived here with her mother they worked at one of the local cotton mills and since the child came back to Greenville, it is said, she has worked at a mill near the citj*. The house where the girl alleges this offense took place is situated on Parker street in that section of the city commonly known as "Buckner town." Following her arrest yesterday, the girl showed the police the house where the alleged offense was committed and the room in which she stayed.?Greenville News. Bible Story Salvation of Woman. Xew York, July 31.?As a reward for having been the means of turning his daughter from the downward to the straight and narrow path, the - J? i *1,^,4 father of the young laay ueijutjciiueu David S. K. Byrne, an evangelist, a large amount of money, which Mr. Byrne says he will use in an endeavor to save young women and girls. The reclamation of the young woman dates back six years ago, when the evangelist was accosted by her while she was in a saloon with the request that he buy her a drink. He induced her to leave the place with him and took her to a restaurant. There he read the story of the Prodigal Son. The girl wept. "I'd like to have you talk more to me,'' she said. "I am so tired of this, and I want you to hell me.:' She told him that her name was Lucy Byrne, and that she came from Baltimore, and that her father was wealthy. Finally the girl consented to return to her home, and a few weeks later the evangelist received a letter from her father saying the girl had returned, and adding: "One thing I want to do in appre- j ciation of your work. I want to sup-1 port your undertakings. Help other women as you have helped my girl. I will stand by you. And because I feel so toward you I ask that you change your name to Byrne." DIES AFTER TAKING POISON. Miss Irene Etbridge Dies at the Home ] of Her Parents in Georgetown. Georgetown, July 30.?Information has been received in this city of ] the death of Miss Irene Ethridge, 18, ; at the home of her parents, Mr. and i Mrs. J. B. Ethridge. near West Andrews, on Saturday. The cause of death was poisoning : from a mixture of chloroform and 1 laudanum, which the girl had swallowed some two hours or more before < she was found in her room in a semiconscious condtion and frothing at the mouth. Following a bath in the afternoon she had gone to her room for the ostensible purpose of taking ; a nap, as had been her custom. As the time approached for the preparation, of supper her invalid mother sent a boy to call her. The boy received no response to his rap on the door and so reported to Mrs. Ethridge. He was told to go back to the room, enter it, and awaken the girl, who was oversleeping. When tne boy opened the door he found the girl lying across the bed, her mouth covered with white froth. Dr. J. S. Porter was hurriedly summoned. He detected an odor of chloroform in the room. He exerted every effort to revive the girl, without success. She died a few hours * after being found. After a lengthy search a vial containing some remnant of a mixture of chloroform and laudanum was found. The girl's mouth smelled of ' the mixture. The physician said she had swallowed a quantity of it. Miss Ethridge had recently re <-, TVoct AnHron-c with h or iui iicu IU n got AUUI v " ?J " "v parents from North Carolina. It is said she had been despondent for some time, saying she didn't wish to live in the country on the farm. She was an attractive and popular girl. In Oklahoma there are 23,000 Choctaw Indians, worth about $5,- , 000 each; which is said to be the J largest per capita wealth of any group of people in the world. 0="=oao | We beg to an: public that cured the sei { C. B. 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C.. in Xovem- * ber last to formulate a plan for bringing about a conference of representa- 4 tives of various organized cotton in4-? n m of V). lerests ui tut? v\unu iu ucviac a od by which the tare on American cotton may be standardized with a view to eliminating evils growing out of present tare practices was held in the office here to-day of Sen- y ator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina. The committee comprises Senators Hoke Smith, Georgia; E. D. Smith, South Carolina; Postmaster General Burleson, Former Representative W. G. Brantley Georgia, and representatives of the departments of agriculture and commerce. A sub-committee was appointed to work out the de- ^ tails of the conference to be presented to the full committee at a meeting to be held here within a short ^ time. The question of speedily bringing about a universal standard for American cotton also was considered but no definite action was taken. 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