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BANKER UNDER ARREST. Henry Dekay, of Providence, Held j in Tombs. New York. Oct. 13.?Henry Dekay, under indictment in Providence, R. I., in connection with a misapplication of funds of the Atlantic National a j bank of Providence, was arrested by j department of justice officers in Yon- j kers, X. Y., today. Later, in default I of $20,000 bail, he was committed to j the Tombs. Dekay and others under arrest are charged with aiding and abetting Ed- j ward P. Metcalf in an alleged misuse I of funds while Metcalf was the bank's | trvrloi- Flo. ! 1/1 to? > ntn auMtvu IUUU," kay was at the home of Samuel Untermeyer, lawyer. While before United States Commissioner Shields Dekay denied participation in the al* leged bank frauds, declaring he was in Mexico on the dates set forth in the indictment. URGE CATTLE RAISING IX SOUTH. Department of Agriculture Issues Bulletin to Farmers. Washington, Oct. 11.?Shortage of meat in the United States and the way to increase the supply are dis\ cussed by experts in the department of agriculture in a special bulletin to-day, issued to the farmers of the country. That there is a decided meat shortage is explained by James M. Pickens, of the bureau of animal industry, while George M. Rommell. chief of the animai-husDanarv division, urges maintenance and increase in the meat supply by revival of beef cattle raising in the corn belt, its extension in the Eastern States and increasing the production of beef cattle and hogs in the South. "The high cost of meat is a serious reality," says Mr. Pickins, "and it is now obvious that the rise in prices in recent years is the natural result of actual shortage in production." t s The bulletin points out that in the last six years the number of beef cattle in the country apparently has fallen off over 30 per cent, while the population has increased. The slaughter of beef, it is set forth, has fallen off approximately 780,000 pounds from 1910 to 1913. Meanwhile the country's export trade has greatly decreased and Mr. Pickens offers little hope for imports from Argentina and Australia because of their great drain by European markets. Unlimited Possibilities. The department makes the asser tion that the farmers of this country ^r have almost unlimited possibilities for live stock production and that all the meat needed could be furnished if the farmers could be shown how to produce it and how to get a ready market. Mr. Rommel asserts that the nation's meat suply can be increased r- by: Revival of beef cattle raising in the corn belt and its extension in the TToctorn States, where success de pends upon the utilization of pastures and cheap roughage, the use of dual purpose cows on dairy farms, saving the calves for feeders: raising sheep more extensively in the corn belt and Eastern States, increasing hog production on the irrigated farms of the West: increasing production of beef cattle and hogs in the South, the only section of the United States I I * where cattle can still be raised, fed | and sold at a profit of from 5 to 6 cents per pound/' PANIC AMONG MACON SHOPPERS. k Two Men Engage in Pistol Duel on L Streets. r Macon, Ga., Oct. 11.?A panic occurred here late to-day among shoppers in the heart of the retail district, when G. C. Bolton and C. A. Snipes engaged in a pistol auei. duuuu, a metal worker, received wounds from which he is expected to die. Snipes and G. C. Tittle, who was with him, received painful wounds, neither being dangerous^ ly hurt. Fifteen shots in all were fired. Snipes and Tittle to-night are in jail. It is said that Bolton and Snipes recently engaged in a cutting affray, which was not attended by serious results, and that both were on the lookout for further trouble. MERCHANT HELD UP. J. P. Waddle is Forced to Hand Over $227 to Robbers. Spartanburg. Oct. 13.?J. P. Wad-j die, who conducts a country grocery store near Riedsville. was held up by three negroes near his place of business Friday night about 0 o'clock, i while on his way from Greer and re lleved of $227 in cash. He gave the alarm to the authorities at Reidsville and the negroes, Joe and Gill Griffin, and one Smith, were arrested | ' Friday night in that town. Xo money was found on them. At the preliminary hearing held at Riedsville today Mr. Waddle identified the two Griffin * " negroes, but could not identify Smith as one of the robbers. The Griffins were held for trial in the circuit court 0 and the Smith negro was released. I SABLKS NOW SC ARCE. Russia Has Forbidden Killing of More ; Animals I'ntil 191b. Henry C. Hibbard, of Seattle, whose firm onerates a trading steam er to the coast of Siberia and buys { furs there and in Alaska, says that ! sables have been difficult to set this season, owing to the fact that the Russian government has forbidden j the killing of more ahimals until 1916. Mr. Hibbard is on his way to Europe with 300 skins collected by his steamer on her last trip, says The New York Times. "Our boat goes from Seattle to Unalaska and thence to Petropavivosk, and then up the coast to Anidir around to Kotushin Bay and thence back to Nome." said Mr. Hibbard at the Astor yesterday. "She takes $100,000 worth of merchandise and between $35,000 and 345,000 in Russian money for the purposes of trading and bartering for furs, whalebone and ivory. This year she made a specialty of sables, and if the boat had been more liberally supplied with money we could have got a great deal more, in spite of the scarcity of the supply. "Petropaviovsk is the center of the sable industry in Siberia, traders and hunters bringing their skins there to sell or exchange. The London market is usually a great deal better for undressed skins than any in this country, and Leipzig is good also. The selling markets that are the best are Paris, Vienna and St. Petersburg. Yet if women knew it who buy their furs over there, they might be able to do a great deal better in this country. "I know a New York woman who purchased a sable coat in Paris that cost her $15,000, and presumably she had to pay 35 per cent duty to get it into this country. Her sister, who lives in Seattle, wanted to get a similar coat, and she asked me what I thought it would cost. I told her I could save for her at least 50 per cent. She gave the order, and there was made up for her in this country a coat that cost a little under $7,000 and which was a far better garment than the one her sister had paid $15,000 for in Paris. "Of course, Americans are big buyers of furs. But the fur game is funny. We have brought furs from Seattle to New York and offered them to all the big dealers, who have absolutely refused to buy. Then we would ship them to the London sales, and in many cases American buyers would purchase our furs and bring them back here, though if they bought them dressed they had to pay duty on them. "Silver foxes are rather scarce this year, especially choice skins. I sold two skins the other day for $1,000 apiece which the retail customer will probably pay $2,000 apiece for when they are made up. "After our boat gets back from Nome she makes a trip to Herschel Island, at the mouth of the Mackenzie river. On her last trip she took a big cargo for the Stefansson party. She is the only craft that makes a regular annual trip up there, her main purpose being whailing. This time she is carrying a moving picture camera with 15,000 feet of film and is looking for the bowhead whale, which is of considerable value because of the whalebone it yields. As against the $700 value of the sperm whale, the bowhead is worth $8,000, though its value has dwindled tremendously, because women nowadays wear so little whalebone in their corsets. Formerly a bowhead was worth $20,000. Last year in four months we caught 11?a phenomenal number. "The ice up there is closing in already. We had news a while back that all the boats were frozen in and would not get back this winter, but I think ours will return. She carries o nf niPTI and. W8S built fOTI d VI V M Vt * v - bucking ice. "Business conditions in Seattle are excellent. Everything is going ahead fine. The big gold strike at Shushana, Alaska, has drawn lots of people through Seattle of late. "By the way, owing to the government restrictions against the killing of polar bears, those skins are getting scarcer. We had 150 skins come in not long ago, which I imagine is about half the world's supply of the | skins this year. They have to come from the Siberian side. "Sealskins are showing a marked decline. They are going out of style and muskrat is taking their place. I could get real seal skin a lot easier I than muskrat." i | 9 j THE KAKTH Ql'AKKS AT MESSINA ! | According to Observatory Reports j Shock was Local. j .Messina. Oct. 12.?An earth shock, accompanied by distant rumblings, was felt here to-day. The disturbance continued about ten seconds. It caused much alarm, but 110 serious damage. Acording to records of the observatory the shock was local. Full line of blank books at The Herald Book Store. BEEF IX THE SOUTH. How Southern Farmers Can Help in f/ii I'i-eventing Shortage. Ill/ Enough has been said to prove the existence of an alarming shortage of beef cattle. To allow depletion to go on unchecked must ultimately mean a meat famine. The remedy, of course, lies in increasing the supply, but the vital question is how that is to be done. What better breeding place could be asked for tnan in tne south : netween Virginia and Louisiana are millions of acres of cheap, well watered lands that could carry cattle. Climatic conditions would make the carrying cost less than in the North. The fever tick is being eliminated. North Carolina, for instance, is now two_ thirds free from the pest. There is room in that section (and need, too) for thousands of cattle. j j In the last census year the two || Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, || Mississippi and Louisiana, had 5,- |i 766,000 head of cattle, worth $72,- IJ 000,000. With their total area of 11 348,715 square miles that would ; average 16.5 head to a square mile. || New York and Pennsylvania are by II no means well stocked with cattle, I yet on their total area of 94,330 II square miles they carried that same II year 4.010,000 head of better cattle, I worth $140,000,000, averaging 42.5 I head to the square mile. J| In that same year these seven II southern states spent $60,000,000 II for commercial fertilizers, and their 11 crops were worth $916,550,000. I Those of New York and Pennsylvania || (without counting animal products) II were worm $ i ub,uuu,uuu. inis is not because the northern soil is more fertile. The enormous yields of cotton on some of the experimental | farms, and the extraordinary results obtained by some of their boys' corn clubs, show what the southern lands can do. Less cropping and more cattle would mean larger returns per acre. The census valuation looks as if a | large part of the southern cattle is j native "scrub," of which even New York and Pennsylvania have too | much. To prepare such a steer for market is like trying to fatten a fence j rail?and the product is about as | juicy. But to establish herds of thor- j oughbred stock is a costly undertak- j ing. The North Carolina commission- j er is trying to grade up the native : stock by placing thoroughbred breed- i ing animals in different parts of the j U state. The plan commends itself to j \Xxj common sense. X If the farmers of the south will be satisfied to raise more corn and for- j" age, and learn to look upon well grad- j V ed cattle as mills to condense that I E feed for market, they can raise an j l| equal amount of cotton on a similar acreage, and save a part of their immense bill for fertilizer. Incidentally, also, they will be on the way to solv- j _^ ing the question of rural credit.? | ll Wall Street Journal. | ' ? j II FIYK CENTS CAUSED KILLING. Chester Coroner's Jury Accuse Jack ; Wherry, who Escaped. Chester, Oct. 12.?The jury of inquest Friday, with .Mr. H. W. Grant as foreman, returned a verdict to the effect that Crawford McCullough, colored, who was shot Thursday evening ^ on the farm of James McCullough, about two miles from Rodman, came to his death from a pistol shot wound t* r in the right side and that said pistol shot was fired by Jack Wherry. Cor- !Go: oner Gladden examined eight witnesses from whom the testimony was ftl6 secured that resulted in the verdict. From the testimony it appears that Crawford McCullough and John Stephenson were the hosts at a party and dance, and a quarrel arose between McCullough and Jack Wherry, % when the latter persisted in dancing more than one set after having paid only five cents, the price of one set. When remonstrated with by McCul- j lough, it seems that Wherry took offence, which finally resulted in his yyQ going off and securing a pistol with which the killing was done. Th, Wherry made his escape, and up to this time has not been apprehend- lmy Pni-Anor Clo/1/lon -in enoatinc -w . . CU. VU1 uu^l u ?UUUtU, 1U | 1 7^ about the homicide, said he was called as coroner eleven years ago to hold an inquest over the remains of Frank McFadden, colored in the same community, and that that homicide grew out of a difference over the yoi small amount of ten cents. ^ Horse Killed by Yellow Jackets. , A most unfortunate occurrence of Friday was Mr. Moses Wood's loss of 'pK his driving horse. Mr. Wood had gone to his farm a few miles out of 2iVi the city and hitched the horse near a clump of hushes. lie returned in probably two hours and found his horse literally covered with yellowjackets. As hurriedly as possible he brushed them off and brought the horse to town at once, where the animal was placed under the care of Mr. C. H. Robbins. but all the veterin- 1J ary's efforts were in vain as the ani- 1% nial succumbed about 9 o'clock.? Gaffney Ledger. ^I We received Tu i i t+ our first load of s We have in tli brood mares as? berg County, from Ohio, and : an animal of tbi.< and see these. 1 also some extra 11 well as several OUR PRICES AND and everything; anteed to be ji I also have an Buggies, Ham " J n &JL1U. lit iati anjrt "Horse Clothes." Buggies, we hav< rubber and steel 1 to see me, I w Railroad Avenue Near Pa ofan ! MMBt Villi i Should Convir I The frank st3 j telling the meri i T T Bids you pau: ifpccac I n 2vsr.? 1 wUVU U p Commands nc Here's a Bam A Bamberg ci Read and be E. Dickinson, S. C., says: "I 1 f backache and and my kidneys I took Doan's XT, ,. -r t i i them from the ] Achat s John SO dressed up they benefited i 0 ^ . . i -t kidneys are now '? Going to a wedding, neSs and sorer left" in? Picnic time is gone. | For saie by , i i i cents. Foster-: mg to some big church New York. soie ? States, eimg. Remember tt take no other. I lohn Thisismynewwin! winter now, you see. ; ^ ast wanted to see if you uld notice my new shoes. P [ICT at's as good work shoe as Best material ai running, requin ~ - ?- A V%/11 A others are dress shoes. s a great privilege to be ^"writefor ^ines, Boilers a] e to get what you want, Lombard Iron^ 1 something that pleases |? n Rentz & Felder will do j UFE.F1RJ it every time. Just try' JJ?AITII ? >m on anything you need, i . J. J INSi e price is right; the goods. j right. Always see i Agent for Slli Can Save you 3 ! w. ma: EHRH | john i WATCHMAK1 entz & Felder BAMBERG, S. C. DENH esday of this week || tock for this season. lis lot some as fine jver came to BamThese came direct I if you are wanting 5 kind be sure and ;| iir-i j II VV e iictvc 111 uiid iuau iji lice driving horses as extra fine mules. | TERMS ARE RIGHT ] we sell you is guarjst as represented, extra nice line of ess, and Whips 3 :hing in the line of | Come and see our j|| e both open and top, ||j tired Buggies. Come ill treat you right. ' ' -p ' - m ssenger Depot Bamberg, S. ??T-n r. ^nr COLORED COUNTY FAIR BG riiOOF ? ' A colored county fair at Denmark November 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th, ice Every Bamberg 1913. This will be the sixth annual Reader> fair of the Bamberg County Fair Asitement of a neighbor, soc*^tioiV. , . ,, . . . . . The object of the Association is to ts oi a remedy, stimulate our people to a greater ipse and believe. terest in agricultural, f mechanical orsement and other vocational pursuits and nger far away thereby in a tangible way lead them ? belief at all. to labor for the things pertaining to berg case. the higher side of life. ; lH_.n tpctififla The Association has purchased ten . ' ! acres of land out from Denmark for nAnvinno/i 1 _ . .. ^^"<3+ T3o w* lFair PurPOses and are erecting thereBridge St., Bamberg, on an exhjbjt building thirty by was subject to attacks . seventy-five feet. This of course pains across my loins j brings upon us a pretty fair expense, did not act regularly.; This we are hopeful of meeting by Kidney Pi'lls, getting j the strong aid of our white friends, People's Drug Co., and j who have always aided us in this ne in every way. My Sreat industrial uplift r normal and the lame- * President. iess in my back has T g. NIMMONS, Vice President, all dealers. Price 50 R. w. WROTON, Milburn Co., Buffalo,! Secretary, agents for the United ( WALLACE W. CARTER, Treasurer. ie name?Doan's?and TAX SALE. ? mi State of South Carolina?CounV By virtue of an execution to me directed by G. A. Jennings, treasied upon and will sell at public auc- ' tion before the court house door tion before the courte house door I I in Bamberg, S. C., on Monday, tne h ! ^r(i day of November, 1913, the same | being legal salesday in said month, ICavat Rili 11 c ' during the legal hours of sale, the D2Vif lYllIIde I real estate described below, to the IMUFFFn Strong, Accurate^ highest bidder for cash, said sale lull illU. and Reliable i being for non-payment of taxes due id workmanship, lighti an(j 0Wjng the State of South Caro3S little power; simple,, ijna an(j the county of Bamberg: Are made in several one lot situate, lying and being od, substantial moneyj in the town of Bamberg, State of es down to the smallest south Carolina, containing one quar1 catalog showing En4 ter of an (M ) acre, more or less, ad all Saw Mill supplies. an(j bounded North by lands of Alice Works & Supply Co., Johnson; East by lands of G, Frank cuata. ca. ^ Bamberg; South by lands of W. C. - Brabham, and West by public road E* fTTpprfi/x/iyr leading to new bridge. To be sold ! I VrS I III K as the Pr?Perty Maggie Christmas. ' Sheriff Bamberg County. and ACCIDENT Bamberg, S. C., October 10, 1913 TDAlMrT NOTICE OF OPENING BOOKS OF JKAINLL SUBSCRIPTION. .erior .Monument Co. Notice is hereby given that books oi subscription to the capital stock loney on Tombstones. 0f tjie Rjzer Auto Company will be opened at the offices of Carter & Car/ WAT kTFP I ter, Bamberg. S. C., between the v TT hours of eleven ana tweive a. in. ARDT, S. C. October 17th, 1913. ?????????? C IT" R T 7 R R >. HADWIN C. B. RIZER* Corporators. ER AND JEWELER October 1 3th., 1 913. and Complicated Re- y0 ?ure a coid jn Qne Day ? a Specialty. Take laxative BROMO Quinine. It stops th< rs EvDerience Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. ?ARK, S. C. I 2. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c. * 1-iHii iti V