Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mm Bamhrrg irralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, 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 electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole oniiinmont representing an invest VV1 v" v - ? x? ? w meijt 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 no. tices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communicatious?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and ad dress of tne 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 21, 1913 pSi*' In a communication published in another column a correspondent asks for in formation concerning the license tax levied on automobiles and bicycles by municipalities. We have often wondered why owners of automobiles and bicycles should pay a license and other vehicles pay nothing, and have never understood just why. It may be that it is perfectly all right and legal, but how, where and why such a ' ? system originated we do not know. However, the licensing of machines by towns and cities is rather a gener' < t al custom. Some people, especially those in politics, have a great deal to say about the unfairness of newspapers. Naturally, as a member of the pro g* . fession, we like to defend tne papers whenever possible, and have done so on many occasions. Yet we must say that we are surprised at some things done by newspapers in this State, and yet the editors of these papers are nice fellows and claim to be unprejudiced and just in their treatment fe of those with whom they do not agree. It gives us no pleasure to say this and we do it with reluctance, but if it shall serve any good purpose we will not regret having said anything. Tale of a Dollar Bill. A farmer went to town to spend Some of his hard-earned dough, And in a merry jest and just To show his printing skill, He printed his initials on , A brand new dollar bill. He spent that dollar that same day, t. ' Down in the village store, He thought 'twas gone forever then An he'd use it no more. But long before the year rolled by One day he went to fill A neighbor's order, and received . That same one dollar bill. Once he spent that dollar bill In his own neighborhood, Where it would do himself and friend The most amount of good. Four times in two years it came back, As some bad pennies will And each time he'd go out and spend This marked one dollar bill. Had he been wise that dollar might Be in town today, But just two years ago He sent it far away. The people who received it then I know have got it still, > For 'twas to a mail order house He sent his dollar bill. No more will that marked dollar Come into the farmer's hands, s And never more will it help to pay The taxes on his lands. He put it where it never can T?.? /-V? Ufa fulfill' X to HUIIV UL Hit 1U1UHI He brought about the living death Of that one dollar bill.?Exchange. Allen Emmerson Paroled Anderson, Aug. 15.?Allen Emmerson, who was paroled by the Governor late to-day went to the penitentiary more than six years ago to serve a life sentence for the murder of Tlios. I Drake, an aged and leading farmer of Anderson county. While his attorneys were taking his case to the Supreme Court, Emmerson escaped from the Anderson jail byrmeans of a key he made from a stick of solder. During the ten months he was a fugitive, the Supreme Court affirmed the s\ ,, Y.+ T? m m o r_ veruici ox uxe xuhci ui son later surrendered to a constable and was taken to Columbia to commence his sentence. The trial attracted much interest and was one of the most noted ever held in Anderson county. BEAT NEGRO TO DEATH. D ) mrnrnmammmmm j Superintendent of Gaqg Arrested on T Warrant Charging Murder. I Aiken, S. C., Aug. 16.?That he i literally beat a negro convict to death si i is the charge that has been brought d; i against Albert Sorgee, superintendent a: | of the Aiken County chaingang. ol At least, the negro, John Hen- li ririrVs riiprf after he had been aiven sj | a whipping by the convict boss, and ol j Sorgee, arrested and charged with murder, has been released on bail. v: It is customary when chaingang ^ convicts refuse to work to whip them, V: according to common report. They w are sometimes whipped for other in- c< fractions of the camp rules. Sorgee tl does not deny that he whipped the m Hendricks negro, but his friends deny h that the whipping he gave the negro g brought about his death. cc Sorgee's defense will be, it is un- r( derstood, that the negro was sick when he was put on the gang; that tj. he did not die from the whipping, but from the disease from which he was ^ suffering. s( Hendricks, it is jinderstood, had d; been sent to the gang for a comparatively short sentence. Punishing the negro for some miscouduct or for r( failure to do his work, Sorgee is said to have used the lash on him. It is so charged in the warrant that the g< superintendent whipped the negro. A few days later Hendricks died. Members of the negro's family took the matter up and had tht warrant tc issued for Sorgee's arrest. He was placed in the Aiken jail, but released ^ yesterday on $2,000 bail. He will be Cf given a preliminary hearing before T Magistrate smoaK next luesuaj. te TRAINED TO MURDER. A CI Assassins Once Formed A Very In- tfc fluential Sect. w n( The assassination of King George of Greece recalls the fact that the word itself is derived from a regular order of men pledged to take the life, 01 especially the life of a ruler. bl The assassin sect was an offshoot W1 of the shiah form of Mohammedanism, but its tenets comprised fragments of magianism (of sorcery,) Judiasm and Christianity, as well as of the teachings of the Koran. It was j in some respects* not unlike the Dru- ^ ses of Mount Lebanon, with whose .. tt outbreaks the name of Lord Duf- _ d( ferin was honorably connected long before he became governor general ^ of Canada. sc Its founder, who gave it his name, jn was Hassan Ben Sabah, chief of the famous mountain fortress of Alamoot in Persia, about 1090. He gathered ^ about him a body of fearless young men, pledged to obey him and highly ac trained in various metnoas 01 murder. These were dispatched, general- ai ly singly, to end wars by killing kings ^ or generals, or to destroy rivals or in personal enemies. 01 In order to give them courage for ro their villainous work, they were taught to make use of hashish, the in drug called chang in India, derived hi from the leaves of the common hemp tb plant, which is terribly intoxicating, fr I In Arabic they were called haschis- in : chin from this fact. ca These men followed their instruc- th tions in every country, as is shown ag by the fact that all the European na- a tions have the word in their langua- st ges, assassinen in German, assassin in Y< French, aesino in Spanish, "assassino w< in, Portugese and Italian, etc. But st they flourished especially in the east, ui where they also used the terror of Y< their name for blackmailing purposes, ri: The Knight Templars in the time of Richard Coeur de Lion, fought n them openly, the leaders of the Cru- br I sades having suffered seriously from, fo their designs, and also spreading the pt knowledge of them and of their lead- th ers, known to them as the "Old Man tv of the Mountains," throughout Christ- at endom. v hi The Mongols massacred the Persian branch of the order in 1256, and the m Sultan Beliars tried to extirpate the Syrian branch in 1270. Neither at- wi tack was thoroughly successful, how- fr ever, and the order is believed to exist to this day in Persia, and to be er not without influence in some east- tb ern affairs. ot Not even Persia had more hor- si rible assassinations than had France Ac at the time of the revolution, and n( ! there was awful rightfulness in the words in which the tyrant Robespier- ar re addressed the national convention, it. when he was refused permission to w make a defense against the fate to ec which he had consigned so many, and 1? which now threatened him: "Presi- ti dent of Assassins,"' said the deposed th ruffian, "for the last time I ask liberty w to speak." for by assassins nowadays th we mean not members of the sect of ar that name, but a murderer who spills th life blood for any other than a purely personal reason. cs ? to Edward Walker, son of Mr. and ol Mrs. Jos. A. Walker of Columbia, w drank carbolic acid on Saturday by ai mistake for water and died soon T] I thereafter. | to EATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON W ragic End of Confederate Leader, Slain by His Own Men. The moon was coming up. She lvered the Wilderness about Dowall's Tavern. She made a pallor round the group of staff and field B' fficers gathered beside the road. Her cc ght glinted on Stonewall Jackson's ibre and on the. worn braid of the ^ Id forage cap. bi The clamor about Chancellors- ^ ille, where, in hot haste, Hooker ;ade dispositions, streamed east and est, meeting and blending westward ith a like distraction of forming Dmmands, of battle lines made in le darkness, among thickets. The in oon was high, but not observed. Beind him Capt. Wilbourne, of the ignal Corps, two aides and several ^ mriers, Jackson rode along the plank J? >ad. C2 There was a regiment drawn across lis way through the wilderness, on m le road and in the woods on either p* and. In places in the Wilderness the ;rub that fearfully burned the next ay was even now afire, and gave tough uncertainly and dimly, a st irtain illumination. By it the igiment was -perceived. It seemed bc imposed of tall and shadowy men. What troops are these?" asked the aneral. 31 "Lane's North Carolinians, sir, the nt 5th." , F) As he passed the regiment started bl ? cheer. He shook his head. in "Don't, men. We want quiet now." very few hundred yards from Chan- ^ illorsville he checked Little Sorrel. ' he horse stood, fore feet planted, orse and rider they stood and lisned. Hooker's reserves were up. st bout the Chancellor House, on the bancellorsville Ridge, they were an irowing up intrenchments. They jn ere digging the earth with bayo- jg ?ts, they were heaping it up with ra ieir hands. si, Turning Little Sorrel, he rode. ar ick along the plank road toward his gj ;vH lines. The light of the burning tj ush had sunken. The cannon smoke 0f )ating in the air, the very thick ai oods, made all things obscure. . W; Stonewall Jackson came toward ie Carolinians. He rode quickly (a tst the dark shell of a house sunken or nong the pines. There were with ? ;m seven or eight persons. The so irses' hoofs made a trampling on ru ie plank road. The woods were le sep, the obscurity great. Suddenly fie it of the brush rang a shot, an acci- dc mtally discharded rifle. Some gray he tidier among Lane's tensely await- su g ranks spoke from the core of a w] arful dream: "Yankee cavalry?" pr "Fire!" called an officer of the 1th North Carolina. wi The volley, striking diagonally he :ross the road, emptied several sad- th es. Stonewall Jackson, the aides w] id Wilbourne wheeled to the left, gs lg spur and would have plunged vc to the road. "Fire!" said the Car- lo inians, dressed to the left of the lit ad, and fired. fo Little Sorrel, maddened, dashed ca to the wood. An oak bow struck s rider, almost bearing him from su ie saddle. With his right hand, al om which the blood was streaming, tr? which a bullet was imbedded, he w; ught the bridle, managed to turn at e agonized brute into the road pi ?ain. There seemed a wild sound, be confusion of voices. Some one had lig opped the firing. "My God, men! ac du are firing into us!" In the road are the aides. They caught the rein, si< opped the horse. Wilbourne put Ja ) his arms. "General! General! ar 3u are not hurt? Hold there! Mor- he son?Leigh!" They laid him on the ground be- D( ;ath the pines and they fired the w< ushwood for a light. One rode off r Dr. McGuire and another with a to jnknife cut away the sleeve from to e left arm, through which had gone ,ro bullets. A mounted man came a gallop and threw himself from sa s horse. It was A. P. Hill. "General, General! You are not ri| uch hurt?" "Yes, I think I am," said Stone- nc all Jackson. "And my wounds are ns om my own men." in Tho aides lifted the wounded Gen- sii al. "No one," said Hill, "must tell mi e troops who was wounded." The la her opened his eyes. "Tell them ca mply that you have a wounded of- se :er. Gen. Hill, you are in command hi >w. Press right on." ag A litter was found and brought id Stonewall Jackson was laid upon la: The little procession moved to- th ard Dowdall's Tavern; A shot pierc-- wj i the arm of one of the bearers, he osening his hold of the litter. It th Ited. The General fell heavily to dc e ground, injuring afresh the de ounded limb, striking and bruising ie side. They raised him, pale now or id silent, and at last they struggled A. irough the wood to a little clearing, vc <Jn May otn stonewaii jacKson was 01 irefully moved from the Wilderness fo ? Guiney's Station. Here was a large in d residence?the Chandler house? In ithin a sweep of grass and trees; sv >out it one or two small buildings, o-v tie great house was filled, crowded sh i its doors with wounded soldiers, Lc r? 0 HITE MAX KILLED BY NEGRO. ody of Black Covered with Rosin J and Burned. Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 18.?Charles cGoogan, a naval stores operator, i je 25 was shot and killed by Will I owman, colored, said to be an ex- 2 invict, yesterday at Redlight, Fla., < :e negro dying from a bullet from 1 cGoogan's revolver. The negro's t 3dy was covered with rosin and t irned by the white man's incensed ( iends. McGoogan was to have been i arried in three weeks. Found 'Em. A ruling elder of a country parish 1 . Scotland was well known as a t irewd and ready-witted man. He i )t many a visit from persons who f ked to banter,, or to hear a good j >ke. 1 Three young students gave him a 2 ill in order to have a little amuse- s ent at the elder's expense. On ap- i oaching him one of them saluted s m thus: "Well Father Abraham, 1 )w are you today?" s "You are wrong," said the second i udent, "this is old Father Isaac." c "Tut," said the third, "you are i )th mistaken; this is old Father 1 icob." s The elder loked at the young men, 1 id in his own way replied: "I am < iither old Father Abraham, nor old j ather Isaac, nor old Father Jacob; = it I am Saul, the son of Kish, seekg his father's asses, and lo! I've und three of them."?National r onthly: Church Burned at Elloree. Elloree, August 13.?Lightning t ruck the Trinity Lutheran Church T ire this afternoon about 4 o'clock j d the building was reduced to ashes t a short while. The building was nited during a heavy downpour of ] .in, and the flames had gained, con- I deraDie neaaway Deiore aiscoverea i id were beyond control before the 1 e department reached the scene. * tie building, of wood, was the first g the three churches erected here 2 id was valued at ? 1,700. There ( as no insurance. * It is very likely that steps will be * ken at once to erect a brick edifice i the sight of the burned building. 2 - i 1 they laid Stonewall Jackson in a 3 ide cabin among the trees. The * ft arm had been amputated in the j ild hospital. He was thought to be 1 >ing well. At daylight on Thursday 1 i had his physician called. "I am ffering great pain," he said. "See hat is the matter with me." And esently, "Is it pneumonia?" . That afternoon his wife came. He r as aroused to speak to her, greet I >r with love, then sank into some- ? ing like a stupor. There were times * hen he was slightly delirious. He t ive orders in a shadow of the old t >ice. "You must hold out a little J nger, men; you must hold out a _ tie longer! Press forward?press j rward?press forward! Give them j nister, Major Pelham!" Sunday, the 10th, dawned. It was ^ nny weather, fair and sweet, with L the bloom of May, the bright ees waving, the long grass rippling, ^ iters flowing, tfce sky azure, bees t out the flowers, the birds singing h ercingly sweet, Mother Earth so t lautiful, the sky down-bending, the h fht of the sun so gracious, warm 0 id vital! . Jj A little before noon, kneeling be- ^ ie him, his wife told Stonewall ckson that he would die. He smiled y id laid his hand upon her bowed j ad. a "You are frightened, my child, jath is not so near. I may yet get b ill." D The doctor came to him. "Doc- ^ r, Anna tells me that I am to die -day. Is it so?" ^ "Oh, General, General! It is so." He lay silent a moment, then he id: * "Very good, very good! It is all > Sht." ? Throughout the day his mind was ?w clouded, now clear. The alter- ti ite clear moments and the lapses = to stupor or delirium were like the iking or rising of a strong swim- / er, exhausted at last, the prey at J st of a shoreless sea. At times he me head and shoulders out of the a, opened his gray blue eyes upon s staff. The sea drew him under ;ain. The day drew on to afternoon. He y straight upon the bed, silent for e most part, but now and then mdering a little. His wife bowed irself beside him; in a corner wept e old man, Jim. Outside the win>ws there seemed a hush as of :ath. "Pass the infantry to the front!" dered Stonewall Jackson. "Tell P. Hill to prepare for action!" the ice sank; there was only heard the d man crying in the corner. Then r the last time in this phase of be^ AM V?i C AT'OC! g Lilt? great suiuici upcucu uxo cj a moment he spoke, in a very *eet, calm voice. "Let us cross rer the river and rest under the ade of the trees." He died.?The >ng Roll. ALLEGED BANDIT ARRESTED. tfenry Enis Thought to be One of Two who Made $92,000 Haul. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 17.?Hen v Enis, alleged to be one of the two )andits that held up and robbed train <o. 2 on the New Orleans and North-eastern Railroad on the night of May [4, 1912, and secured $92,000 from. he Southern Express safe, was capured early to-day, seven miles from Carbon Hill, in the western part of Uabama. The Flying Frog of Java. The, Javanese frog is a creature neasuring between fifteen and twen:y-five inches. The skin of its back s pale blue and by night looks dark ?reen or olive brown. The frog regains motionless during the day vith eyes sheltered from the light ind with belly up, clinging to its support by adhesive cushions and by ts belly, which i6 provided with a sticky covering and it is hardly dis:inguishable from the objects that surround it, At nightfall it begins ts hunt for the mammoth crickets >n which it feeds, making leaps coverng seven feet of ground. During the eap the play of lungs filled with air swells its body. To descend from a leight it spreads wide its claws and,iropping, rests upon its feet.?Harper's Weekly. UNFAIR TO THE DRUGGIST. fhfi Old JokA about "Something Just as Good," Doesn't Apply to This Drug Store. You have probably heard dozens of :imes the old story that a drug store vas the place to "get something just is good." There is at least one druggist in the world that you can't say his about. It is certain that an inferior article iVill never be substituted for a guarinteed one by The Peoples drug store. Take for instance a safe, reiable remedy for constipation and iver trouble like Dodson's Liver rone. This harmless vegetable li[Uid has proved so satisfactory a liver itimulant and reliever of biliousness, md to entirely take the place of cal>mel without any danger or restric;ion of habits or diet, that there are iozens of preparations springing up vith imitations of its claims. But Dodson's Liver Tone is guarmteed to do all that is claimed for t, The Peoples drug store wilt hand rour money back with a smile. Any )erson going to this store for a bottle if Dodson's Liver Tone will be sure of jetting a large bottle of this genuine emedy in exchange for his half dolar. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. To all and singular the creditors of he estate of G. W. Fail, Sr., deceas }d: Notice is hereby given tnat a eference will be held in the office of 3robate Judge for Bamberg county, it Bamberg, S, C., on the 8th day of 5ept., 1913, ten o'clock, a. m., for he purpose of hearing testimony on he proof of claims against said esate. G. P. HARMON, rudge of Probate for Bamberg Co. Bamberg, S. C., August 18th, 1913. I MOTHER'S GRATITUDE lany a Mother in Bamberg Will Appreciate the Following. Many a strong man and many a .ealthy woman has much for which 0 thank mother. The care taken durag their childhood brought them past he danger point and made them ealthy men and women. Thousands f children are bothered with inconinence of urine, and inability to reain it is ofttimes called a habit. It 3 not always the children's fault?in aany cases the difficulty lies with the idneys, and can be readily righted. 1 Bamberg mother tells how she went bout it. Mtb. J. C. Folk, Jr., Carlisle St., Bamerg, S. C., says: "One of the younger lomhors nf mv family was troubled y a lame back and could not control be kidney secretions at night. I mally got a box of Doan's Kidney 'ills from the People's Drug Co. and bey brought relief." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 ents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, Jew York, sole agents for the United itates. Remember the name?Doan's?and ike no other. Just ^ Arrived ^ We received CIS Monday morning of this week several extra nice horses, ! of work. Come and s< are in need of one or n< new buggy house full c J. J. sr Sale and Livery Stable ^ ???^ I # NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT % AND DISCHARGE. ' To all and singular the kindred and creditors of L. L. Lancaster, deceased: Take notice that the undersigned will apply to the Judge of Probate at Bamberg, S. C., on the 30th day of August, 1913, 11 o'clock a. m., for a final settlement of the * estate of L. L. Lancaster, deceased, and discharge from the office of administratrix of said estate. ANNIE R. LANCASTER, Administratrix. August 4th, 1913. MASTER'S SALE. * Pursuant to an order of the court of common pleas in the case of P. C. Dukes, plaintiff, against Geo. W. May, et al., defendants, I, H. C. Folk, Master for Bamberg county, will sell to the highest bidder for cash at public auction, in front of the court house-door at Bamberg, S. C., on the first Monday in September, between the legal hours of sale on said day, the following described tract of land: All that certain tract or parcel of land situate in Fishpond Township, county of Bambery, State of South j Carolina, containing twenty-eight ^ acres, more or less, and bounded on ^ the North by lands of G. W. Rivers, n East by lands of Hester Glover, South " by lands of Amelia Whetsell, and West by lands of Joseph Zeigler; said tract of land being the same which the said Geo. W. May received from the estate of his father, Joe May. H. C. FOLK, Master for Bamberg County. ! CARTER & CARTER, ' Plaintiff's Attorneys. * { . For Weakness and Loss of Appetite The Old Standard general strengthening tonic 3ROVE'S TASTELESS chin TONIC, drives on Malaria and builds up the system. A true ton* .nd sure Appetizer, For adults and children. 50c . V ;; Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cm. rhe worst xases, no matter of how long standing, are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing OiL It relieves Tain and Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c. Sl.00 To Prevent Blood Poisoning apply at once the wonderful old reliable DR. * PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL. a surgical dressing that relieves pain and heals at the same time. Not a liniment 25c. 50c. $1.00. A ? :? Farmers and Loggers ATTENTION || We are in the market for Persimmon and Dogwood Logs. For further particulars address 1125 STAHLNAN BLDG, I' Nashville, Tenn. |, || HI I ?> ? m. 1 il I The Augusta list) to. Augusta, Ga. Wholesale Fish and Oysters Always Fresh Your Orders Shall Receive Our Prompt Attention i,v yv A trial order, large or small, Is .. all we ask. * __________ The Best Hot Weather Tonic GROVE'S TASTELESSchill TONIC enriches the blood, builds up the whole system and will won> derfully strengthen and fortify you to withstand the depressing effect of the hot summer. 50c. | RILEY & COPELAND { ^ Successors to W. P. Riley. ? | Fire, Life | Accident | INSURANCE f Office in J. D. Copeland's Store t BAMBERG, S. C. ?????????? J ' H fe'* ' suitable for all kinds. 4 ee these whether you ot. We also have our >f extra nice buggies. sAOAK - Bamberg, S. C.