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( " _ . I Uihr llmttbrnj iMcralb _____________ i ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KXIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City or Bamberg. being issued from a printing oflke which is equipped with Mer-J genthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, aj fine .Miehle cylinder press, all run by j electric power with other material 3 ?lrooniner the whole i anu matiiiuci > m o> . equipment representing an invest-j ment of 310.000 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 inser-i tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad-1 vertisements at the rates allowed by I law. Local reading notices 10 cents' a line each insertion. Wants and j ether advertisements under special; head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six,) and twelve months. Write for rates, i Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions. cards of thanks, and all no-1 tices of a personal or political char-j acter are charged for as regular ad-i vertising. Contracts for advertising j not subject to cancellation after first; insertion. I Communications?We are always j glad to publish news letters or those! pertaining to matters of public inter-; est. We require the name and ad-j dress of the writer in every case, j tvhiVh ie ripfamatorv or' offensively personal can find place in j our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex-; pressed in any communication. ___________________?i? ! Thursday, October 9, 19133 Why can't Bamberg have a "white way?" Other towns are discarding : the arc street lights on the main! section of their business street and i 5 I erecting instead ornamental iron i posts containing clusters of lights.! ' which make a great improvement, j In other towns the business men as; a rule furnish the posts and the' electric plant furnishes the current ; free. We feel sure the board of | public works of Bamberg would glad- j ly see a "white way" here if the mer-1 chants would bear the expense of installing the iron posts. BEACH EY'S MACHINE KILLS GIRL 1 Victim's Sister May Also I>ie?Air_ 1 man Swooped Too Low. Rochester, X. Y., October 7.?Miss Ruth Hildreth, daughter of W. E. j Hildreth, of New York city, was ' killed, and her sister, Dorothy Hil- i dreth, was perhaps fatally injured j late to-day in Hammondsport, when | Lincoln Beachey lost control of a J hundred-horse power aeroplane and < it swept a number of spectators off a ! roof from which they were watching 1 the exhibition. Ruth Hildreth fell cpon an automobile. Her skull was fractured. Among those slightly j hurt were Lieuts. Richardson and j Bellinger, of the United States avia- j tion corps, and Bleachey. Bleachey is said to have planned to ; execute a somersault in the air. A j crowd had gathered for the exhibi- j tion. To gain a good view the Misses j Hildreth and the navy officers climb- j ed to the top of a small building used I as headquarters by naval aviators. j Beachey recognized the party and 1 dipped his machine in salute. They i waved. The aeroplane went to the end of the field, turned and came j back. When it was over the heads j of the Hildreth party the machine j was seen to dip. The aeroplane came ! so close to the party as to sweep all j to the ground. The machine careen-! ed wildly and plunged to the earth,; unseating the aviator and wrecking : the machine. Ruth Hildreth was unconscious when spectators reached her and; blood was gushing from a gaping! wound in her head. Her sister also was unconscious. Dorothy Hildreth { sustained a broken arm and leg and ! may have internal injuries. Her condition is said to be critical, j Lieuts. Bellinger and Richardson es- j caped with cuts and bruises that are j not serious. Beachey sprained an arm j and ankle. Beachey said that as he reached a point directly over the naval building he momentarily lost control of his j machine because his foot slipped j from one of the controls. KILLED IX NEAR RACE RIOT. Leader of Xegro Mob Shot Down by Joiiet Officer. Joilet, 111., October 7.?Fifty negroes and as many white persons today almost caused a riot in the village of Romeo, near here, when the negroes attacked the wooden jail and liberated a negress who had been arrested for drunkenness. In the fight one negro was killed and the little jail was demolished. James Winfield, after calling out negro citizens, led an assault against the jail and had succeeded in liberati ing the woman when Village Trustee James Hausen opened fire. Winfield was killed. The disturbers dispersed. In the meantime calls had been sent here for help to suppress a race riot. A temporary jail was found and the woman to-night was a prisoner under I special guard. I INTRUDER ST1 US HOUSE FOIU E.! 1 ~. ! Lerlines to Leave and Trouble is I i Narrowly Averted. ? Heading not the stentorian tie- j mauds of Joe Sinnott. doorkeeper, j t and a horde of pages and assistants j ; who bade him depart, an intruder ! a violated the rules of the House in a ! most vexatious manner to-day. writes : c I Then Tiller in the Washington Times, j 1 Under the rules the House chain- j 1 ber is sacred to members. Cabinet | ] officers and a few others of privileg- s ed status. Notwithstanding this, the ( trespasser entered the House chamber. remained for more than an hour 1 and left at his own pleasure just be- { s fore the House convened. As soon as the invader was dis- j i covered a page spread the alarm, j 1 and Doorkeeper Sinnott was appris- j \ ed of the situation. | i "Get him out of here." commanded ; ] Sinnott. entering on the half run. j ( "He won't go." said the pages and | < assistants in unison. Seldom had the! authority of the doorkeeper been | i challenged in such manner, and he j ] was naturally indignant and excited, j i lie allowed his indignation to cool, however, in order that he might first i use diplomacy to rid the chamber of ' an unwelcome visitor. Acting under j ] direction of the diplomatic doorkeep- < er page after page said soothing ; words to the interloper. He remain- t ed obdurate. f The hour for convening approach- j ed, and this gave rise to hope in the j breasts of the guardians of the privi- \ leges of the chamber, for, with the ? House in session, the sergeant-at- j arms may use the mace and "jug" i anybody who questions authority. ( Visitor Remains Obdurate. t Nevertheless, the doorkeepers and pages of the House did not want to ( be reduced to the extremity of appealing for aid to the sergeant-at- i arms and the mace, although there is little doubt Bob Gordon would have 1 fearlessly rushed into the fray with his eagle-crested symbol of police 1 power. < "Hey. don't you know the House i is going to meet in a few minutes," 1 yelled a page. The outsider was 1 silent, immovable. About the time the news spread 1 through the House wing of the Cap- I itol that there was trouble on the c floor and that the doorkeeper had his i hands full in handling an unruly vis- ( itor, who evidently believed he had t as much right in the House chamber 2 as any legislator from the day of i Thomas Jefferson down to the pres- j ent. J Tourists who passed the gallery doors paused to watch the unusual ^ -. - ? .i? a ?? scenes or activity on me nuui ucivn. Men and boys were running about, gesticulating and shouting orders. Doorkeepers who ordinarily sit about drowsily were on the jump and pictures of galvanized energy. The before-convening work of cleaning up * the chamber and distributing copies of the Congresional Record had stop- * ped. All eyes and ears were for the 3 trespasser who had violated in many a day. "This must stop," Said Sinnott, * finally. "He's got to go, one way or the other. He must not be found r here when the gavel falls." The minority employees of the s House led by that Pennsylvania gen\ eral, Joe Rodgers, who had aided in enforcing descipline for many years, entered the chamber in battle array 1J and went into executive session with the chief doorkeeper. The strategy * board was in session five minutes and r thit upon a solution of the difficulty. As the unwelcome guest had refused to pass out of any door of the House chamber, it was decided that a he might deign to leave via the sky- 0 lights and the roof. A skylight on j the Democratic side was hastily open-! ** k ed. after communication had been had with the office of the superintendent of the building, and the intruder flew away. The visitor that caused all the 0 trouble was a sparrow hawk; some employees said it was a whippoorwill, * but the ayes had it. v The bird flew into the House early 1 this morning, perched about whereever it pleased, sat awhile in * wherever it Dleased, sat awhile in the President's gallery, then visited 3 the press gallery, and after circling x around unmindful of the mere men who yelled "shoo" from below, event- 1 uallv made his exit in his own sweet J way through one of the vari-colored r skylights. * A Chicago Make-Up. Among the curiosities of typography a prominent place must be given c to the achievment of a Chicago paper i in the mixing up of headlines in a most startling manner. First there t was an article with this caption: ^ "The Condor of the Andes \ Dmrr Qontnri Rprrv of KentUCkv. > n : uci i uv-wtwi* ^ v , , ? Bears That Distinction. t In another column, on the same page of the paper in question, was } this announcement: "Tallest Man in Congress Soars Far Above the Eagle and J Reaches a Height of Six Miles."- 1 ?The Christian Register. THK SOl'TH'S COTTON' CROP. ts Value May Kxceed at ?S0."> a Rale, V the Sum of $1,000,000,000. Tentative estimates indicate that he cotton crop of the growth of 1013 tl it current prices for lint and for seed fi vill be worth over ?1.000,000,000. w The highest value in the ten years o >f record which the census office has sj <ept of cotton prior to this season si Evas $963,180,000 for the crop of fi 1910. Last year's aggregate value ;tood next to that and was $920,630,- tl >00. including cotton and cotton seed, b That the biggest crop does not cl . ?; Uin-Jiopt oaprotrato valno iq \t Jl lllg I 11 C lllgliUOt *W shown by the experience of 1911. tl There were then grown 1 6,1 60.126 t running bales equal to 16,250,276 v 3ales of 500 pounds each. These fig- o ires all included linters. But the val- ti le of the record crop of 1911 was on- a y $295,840,000. or just $102,340, ei )00 less than the 1910 crop of 12,>22,405 running bales. p This latter crop was remarkable s or the price it brought per pound. A [ts average export price of 14.4 cents ii vas the highest in twenty-five years, ii There are those who estimate the y ralue of the current season crop on a 14-cent basis. Farmers at Southern fi railway stations, especially in the si ?ast, are getting on the average of ir 13 cents a pound or $65 a bale. At ii :hese same points the average price or cotton seed is $22 a ton. At last ti rear's production of lint of 193.2 it Dounds an acre, the 35,622,000 acres P vould yeild 13,764,000 bales. This d seems conservative in view of the E act that current estimates generally d ange from 14,000,000 to 14,500,- ^ )00 bales. At $65 a bale we should si lave the following results: tl Crop of 13,764,000 bales at $65 ;ach, $894,660,000. h Seed, 6,000,000 tons at $22 a ton ! tl 51 32,000,000. | 1} Total value of lint and seed at; d arms or gins $1,026,660,000. j P The value of cotton seed in 1912 i fi vas estimated by the census office as i >12S,390,000. The quantity of feed j ci tself was 6,104,000 tons, compared j fi vith 5,1 75,000 tons in 1910, which T tad a total value of $142,860,000. ti The above aggregate of $1,026,- r< 560,000 represents the worth of the o products, or the price basis assumed at the point at which they pass nto market, or where, as in the :ase of seed, they are consumed on he farm because they are regarded j a is more valuable for planting of feed- ^ ng purposes than to be sold to the ^ see-crushijng mills.?Wall Street lournal. b CHIEF ARRESTED FIFTY TIMES. Ic rires, Burglaries, Hold-u^>s and As- ^ li sault Among the Charges. Richard Tucklowfskv, aged six, ? lacine's boy bandit, has been sen- Venced to the industrial school at Vankesha. Whether he remains w here is a question, as the age limit r< 1 the industrial school is eight years. r< I C ( iucklowfsky was arrested followng the theft of a purse containing ilO from Miss Lydia Hanson of the' 0 f f Colonial hotel, and a watch from a lOtel attache. Carrying the woman's turse the lad entered a shoe shing r> tand and asked for a shine. Policemen took him in charge 16 rhen he told them it was "none of n heir business" as to how he got the ^ r urse. The lad has been arrested fifty ^ imes, each time a charge of theft, c( unning away or some other offense 0) as been made against him. w Here are some of his pranks: Holding up a man at the point of 81 loaded gun and demanding "money ^ ir your life." He was disarmed. Threatening to shoot or stab his C1 daymates. He had both gun and :nife. Setting fire to vacant buildings. Sneaking to St. Luke's hospital, ~ indressing and sleeping all night un- ^ bserved by attendants. tJ Ransacking the homes and rifling k he pocketbooks of neighbors who 0 vere out for a few hours. This hap>ened ten times. S' Runnning away from home twelve ir imes. Is On July 4 he stole a gun and drum b( md marched down Main street on 11 he way to battle. w He has been the terror of the po- s< ice department for more than a ^ ear. His parnts claim they can do 11 lothing with him and asked that he 0 >e sent to the industrial school. The Stranger. Is h A stranger knocked at a man's n loor and told him of a fortune to be si nade, says the Atlanta Georgian. 0 "I'm," said the man, "It appears 2 hat considerable effort will be in*olved." o "Oh. yes," said the stranger, "you 11 vi 11 pass many sleepless nights and o oilsome days." a "I'm," said the man, "and who are U ou?" . ir "I am called Opportunity." o "Um," said the man, "you call ii ourself Opportunity, but you look n ike Hard Work to me." tl And he slammed the door. o ( ST. LOUIS, THE FUR CENTER. forld's Fur Center Moves to The United States. The United States government, trough Secretary of Commerce Redeld, has just made a decision that ill make St. Louis the fur center f the world. That is, to change the i!e or' all the government catch of ?al skins, foxes and other Alaska irs from London to St. Louis. This is the first time in history lat the American seal catch has een marketed through American tiannels, and the action of Secretary William C. Redfield is regarded by le commercial organizations and ureaus of commerce with great faor; particularly as being significant f the activity of the Wilson adminis-ation in paying close attention to 11 manufacturing and trade inter3ts. The United States thus will disose of several thousand raw seal kins constituting the 1913 catch, nd under the protecting laws favorlg the increase of seals the sale will lcrease many fold in the coming few ears. The next step will be the removal rom London to St. Louis of seal kin tanners and dyers, establishing l America a great new uiauuiaiiuilg industry. Thus will a trade of great proporons be fostered. But more than this will mean the elimination of the resent heavy duty now paid on ressed and dyed skins prepared in lurope; while the skins will be ressed and dyed in America just as ell, if not better, according to the :atement of the best European dyers lemselves. The economy thus effected by this ome industry and by the absence of le former heavy duty will eventual* mean a saving of several hundred ollars a garment to milady in the urchase of the aristocrat of all irs. The government furs, by the deision of Secretary of Commerce Redeld, will be sold at public auction, he first sale is scheduled for some me in December, at which time the 2presentatives of the great furriers f America and Europe will assemble. Some Seal History. The history of the seal is one of le most absorbing and romantic of 11 the great American industries, fhile the United States government as produced wonderfully interesting ooks on the subject, and which can e had free of charge, the whole Duntry will be interested in a few ? 1 ys c lets Dearing on ine seai uisiuiy ui orth America, especially in the ght of the recent action of the deartment of commerce, which stamps t. Louis as the fur center of the orld. The price paid to Russia for the hole of Alaska was $7,000,000. The ivenue from the seal islands alone? Dugh, barren, forbidding spots that jmprise but an infinitesimal area of le Alaska map, has been $15,000,00?more than twice the sum paid >r the entire territory. This area comprises the Bribilof ;lands discovered in 1786 by the ussian navigator whose name the lands bear. It is the seat of the lost important fur seal colony in the orld. Next in importance is the ommander herd owned by Russia, hile the Kuril herd owned by Japan )mes third. During the first year? f Uncle Sam's possession, the catch as about 200,000 to 300,000 seals, ut the herd has diminished so conderably that as a result laws have een enacted by which the herds will 3 conserved and future catches in*eased. The Greatest Evil. * This great diminution of the herds as been the result of pelagic sealing -the killing of seals in the open sea. 'hole fleets would sometimes lay off le seal islands while their crews illed the female seals which swam ut to sea seeking food. At sea the sexes cannot be distinnished, and the females predominatlg the pelagic catch is made up irgely of this class, the percentage eing from 85 to 95 per cent of felales. The death of a female seal a$ not the only evil. She was out seking food for her pup which she ad left on shore, so that her death leant also the death of the young ut;. King of the Harem. The seal is a polygamist. The irger and stronger males have arems, ranging from 20 to 40 in umber according to the fighting trength of the "king of the harem." ne bull has been known to have 00 cows in his harem. Naturally there is a large surplus f mateless males, whose one object 1 life is to get a harem of their wn, entailing continuous warfare nd bloodshed, in which often the ?male is torn to pieces or maimeci 1 the struggle for ownership. To kill ff a goodly number of these disturb1 g bachelors of the herd is therefore ecessary?not only for the good of le herd itself but also for the good f the skins, for naturally a mutilat ! HUNTER FINDS BODY OF WOMAN i I | i | Form in Tattered Garments Tells> Tale of Murder. j Chicago, Oct. ">.?The body of a woman was found on a prairie near! ! Argo, 111., a suburb. She apparently j had been strangled with a heavy cord ; w hicli lay near. There were no signs | of a struggle near the spot where; the body was found, but fresh auto-; l ^ f itAnl..-. i A i^o tt hot r li Ci wn- ' lllUimc lliuaaicu n?t > ? j man had been murdered at some distant place. The woman was about years! old. Her clothing all bore marks of Chicago merchants. The body was found by Charles Kluck, a hunter. She apparently was a person of means. Cards and papers found among the I woman's effects caused the belief that she may have been .Miss Ida Leggson, who formerly lived at the home of W. K. Morris in this city. .Miss Leggson. according to Mrs. Mor-| ris, boarded at their home during j j the summer, while she was a student j J at the Art Institute. She left Sep-1 tember 1. saying she was going to Mason City. la., to become a teacher! in" the public schools. Mrs. Morris j said Miss Leggson resembled the description of the body. ARRESTER OX BIGAMY CHARGE. Alleged that Sumter Man Has Sec- j ond Wife Living. Sumter, Oct. 4.?P. E. Andrews, a well-known white man of this city, j was arrested here this morning on the charge of bigamy, the warrant having been taken out before Magistrate H. L. B. Wells by W. Y. siusKey. a orouier 01 Auurewss alleged second wife. It is claimed that Andrews was married several years ago and that his first wife is still living, that she is now in Atlanta and that therefore the second marriage was illegal. The Rev. Geo. K. Way, who performed the ceremony on September 7, and John Andrews, a brother of P. E. Andrews, are named in the warrant as witnesses. Andrews is in jail now pending further developments. ed skin or an old one has but very J little market value. Nearly two years ago congress made a law stoping the killing of seals entirely on United States islands for five years, except seals needed for food by natives on the islands. While from the usual standpoint of game-preservation this seemed a good thing, zoologists and experts on seal life are not in favor of it. They say that the ruling regarding the preservation of deer or grouse does not apply to the seal. They claim that if the number of male seals is not kept down they will continue to fight and kill each other, and the pups and females of the harem as well, that only a small percentage of male seals is needed to increase the herd. But besides this if the killing is closed for five years thousands of skins will be lost, because a skin older than four years and a half is worthless. Scientific men say that killing rightly governed, with none on the open sea. will mean a auick growth of the herd. However, congress decided the other way, and closed the season for five years. The skills of the several thousand seals killed under the law as food for natives are not to be sent to London as formerly. Sec. Redfield has ordered otherwise. After a thorough investigation, he has ordered that the entire quantity be sold in the United States. How It Affects Prices. In 1837 a seal skin fetched from $2 to $3; in 1SS0, $17 to $3U, while in 1909 the price reached the $40 mark. The prices on seal garments, however, have indicated a fictitious \alue, due to the heavy duty entailed by London shipments, and fur dealers have had to demand an exorbitant figure for an article which is a home product and should be, and could have been, bought for much less. So that naturally this signal recognition by the United States government of the commanding positon held by St. Louis in the fur markets of the world cannot fail to have its effect on the fur business in this country, as well as in time reduce the price to the consumer. At the present time St. Louis is the largest primary fur market in the world, and it is estimated that three-fourths of all the furs trapped on the North American continent are shipped to St. Louis houses to be sold. The books published by the United ctotoc. ffwomnipnt nri this interest uvutvo JjV ' v* ing subject can be obtained free by | writing the Department of Commerce, | Bureau of Fisheries, and will afford ; enjoyable and instructive reading. Dealing as they do with the purchase of Alaska by the United States from J Russia, and comprising a veritable! natural history of the fur bearing seal, as well as setting forth the economics of the sealing industry, these books cannot fail to be a source of I real instruction to any good American citizen. JAPANESE MESSAGE TO WILSON. Buddhists Desire Friendship Between United States and Japan. Tokio, Oct. 5.?Buddists in a mass meeting to-day adopted a resolution in the form of a message to President Wilson bearing on the Japan-American relations. The message, which was forwarded to the President, follows: "For the sake of universal peace J and the progress of humanity, which 4M are the ideals of Buddhism, we, in | paying homage to the President, ear- 3 nestly wish for the development of a friendship between Japan and the United States, based on liberty and "justice, with the exclusion of religion and racial prejudices." "*l Three thousand Buddhists were present. j M. Oishi, leader of the Progressive party, declared only by war could Japan obtain fundamental solution ! of the California land question. He I urged determination on the part of * the nation to back up the authorities. Wrong Man Sent to Pen. i Idabel, Okla., Oct. 2.?A most remarkable murder case began in the district court here when Tom Watson was placed on trial for the murI der of Cicero Coltrone, a wealthy [ pioneer, who was assassinated near ! Hochatown, this county, in the j spring of 1903. a \ The chief witness against him is ? l Sam Coltrone, a cousin of the slain j man, who was sentenced to serve for 90 /life in the penitentiary after being declared guilty of the murder. Coltrone has been paroled from the fed- Hj | eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan., | to testify in the case. He hopes to \ gain a pardon by the conviction of 9 i Watson. ^ I Coltrone was convicted in the fedj era! court at Durant. Okla., in 1907 s after the jury deliberated two days. A previous jury disagreed. On the stand he swore that Watson killed his cousin, but admitted he assisted in burying the. body in a corn field. Two days later Watson advised the authorities of the assas- ? 1 sination, blaming Coltrone. Both Coltrone and Watson were arrested, a but the charge against Watson was ^ dropped without trial. After spending almost six years in the prison, Coltrone enlisted the aid of R. P. Saunders, an important * state witness, to induce Watson to confess to the murder. Saunders and a son threatened to expose Watson if he did not. A short time afterward Saunders* house was destroyed by fire at night and the murdered body of Saunders was found in the ruins. The McCurtain county grand jury investigated the case six months and indicted Watson on a charge of being the actual assassin of Coltrone. * The same grand jury also adopted a. \ fl resolution urging the president of 1 the United States to pardon Sam Coltrone. J. Cooper Slain by George Morris. \ Georgetown, Oct. 2.?Information has reached the city of a tragedy ^ Saturday night at George Warr's place, two miles from the town of . Andrews and about 14 miles from A Georgetown, in which John Cooper ^ lost his life. A The slayer, it is said, was George H Morris, who is the son-in-law of Mr. ^8 Warr, at whose home the difficulty V occurred. The place is .near the line ^ i between Williamsburg and Georgetown counties. So far as the infor- J mation goes, there was neither in- ^ cuest nor arrest up to last night. The A body of the dead man, it is said, lay n at the house all day Sunday and was ^ buried Monday morning. From the best sources of informa- ^ tion it appears that Cooper, who was A I a visitor at the Warr house, was not ^ in a good humor and was rough in his language. Morris remonstrated with him, whereupon Cooper showed fight. Upon this Morris shot and killed him. The report is that only one shot was fired, and that death M was instantaneous. * J Owing to the isolation of the locality and the lateness of the hour on Saturday night, notification to the ' A authorities could not be sent until 1 Sunday morning. M Morris and Cooper were of about the same age, around 35 years. Both were married and fathers of families. They were farmers, white, and well connected. Morris, at last advices, was still in the neighborhood, and the under- 4 standing is that he has sent word * to the sheriff of Williamsburg that he will be on hand to stand trial when wanted, claiming self defense. dI Boarding House Repartee. He was one of those fresh young ^B fellows, given to the use of bromidisms and stale slang. At the break fast table, desiring the milk, he ex- ^^Bj claimed: 'Chase the cow down this fl|SB way, piease. "Here, Jane," said the landladyi^^HH "take the cow down to where the is bawling."?Boston Transcript. 1