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(Ihf Ismiirrg iiirralh ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. \Y. KXIGHT, 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 Mergent-haler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine miphia rvlindpr Dress, all run by electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole 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 centa 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 iu our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex pressed in any communication. Thursday, Nov. 6, 1913. People generally don't enthuse very much over politics with cotton at thirteen cents, no matter how much the ollice-seekers may rant. John L. McLaurin's friends will be glad of his decision not to become a candidate for governor. There is no opportunity just now for a non-factional candidate. it seems to us that it is asking a good deal of McLaurin to expect him to take the stump against prevailing political conditions in South Carolina just now. To run for the United States Senate with no hope of being elected but merely to attack men or policies, is a mighty thankless task, and a man's motives are so likely to % be misunderstood that we are of the opinion that no one will undertake it. However, if McLaurin should take the stump in the race for the United States Senate, you can just bet your bottom dollar the ?-- ???1 J ^ ^ torAc tiry cr campaign wuuiu uc an untic^uuj, , one. Our legislative delegation should have an act passed at the coming session of the general assembly requiring the publication of a quarterly report by the supervisor of the county. This report is published in most counties of the State, and the tax payers of Bamberg should also have this information published so that they may see how their money is being spent. Don't understand us to say that any money is being spent unwisely, for we do not think so, but on the contrary we feel sure that every dollar of the county's money which passes through the supervisor's office is being spent wiself add economically, but the tax payers are entitled to know the condition of the finances of the county. Soapless Shaves for Years. Zaceheus Adams, Jackson township. Fayette county, has shaved himself twice a week for 54 years, but never owned a shaving mug, a razor, a strop or a hone, says an Indianapolis correspondent to the New York Sun. It is Mr. Adams' pride that he keeps his razor, an old cleaver twice as big as a common razor, in the finest trim with the least trouble of any man in the county. He wears old-style, high-topped leather boots and still has one pair which he bought 26 years ago. Wishing to shave, Mr. Adams first puts on these boots. He then smacks the razor blade back and forth along the leather leg of the left one for a minute or two. His next operation is to moisten his face with rain water?no perfumed so^p for him?and then he just shaves. Mr. Adams was never shaved except by his own hand. Barbers and all the perfumes and the gew-gaws of their trade provoke him to scornful snorting. Returns of N. Y. Election. New York, Nov. 5.?Complete returns from yesterday's municipal election in which Tammany met defeat, showed to-day that John Purroy Mitchell, the fusion nominee, led Edward E. McCall. Tammany, by 121,209 votes. Charles Edward Russell, Socialist, polled a total of 2 2,109. McCall ran behind his ticket in all five boroughs. Our admiration ror jonn i?. ,\icLaurin is greatly heightened. Mr. McLaurin found himself in uncongenial company, politically, and had the courage to say so. We glory in his manhood.?Gaffney Ledger. ! EXPERIENCE OX A PLAGUE SHIP. ("apt. Ancker Joined Crew as Engineer for $500 Gold. The favorite story of Capt. Wa :er ! Ancker. superintendent of the Ba.tiI i more and Ohio railroad's floating ; equipment at pier No. 22, foot of Jay ; street. North river, who died a few i days ago. was of his experience on a | plague ship, says The New York ! World. Ancker was assistant engineer on the German steamer Minister Achenbach, which lay at Nikolaeiv, on the Bug river. One day he and Capt. Kahmke were discussing bubonic plague in the cabin on the bridge deck when Capt. Stringer, of the ! British tramp Sea Gull, came alongside in one of his boats very much excited. "A hundred pounds in gold for an engineer!" shouted the captain. "I'm short of engineers and I must get to Constantinople. I'll drop him off at Constantinople and there you can pick him up." Capt. Kahmke advised Ancker to accept the offer, saying the Achenhach would be at Constantinople in about a week. Ancker accepted it 1 and turned over half of the 100 pounds in gold to his captain for safe. I keeping and tucked the other half I inside his belt. Inside of half an hour the young , engineer was aboard the Sea Gull, which already had steam up in the Bug. She was low down in the water. I She had just returned from India, and her crew embraced Lascars. Russians Finns and English. All the officers were English. Ancker went at once to the engine room and found only one man, an oiler, on duty. He thought this was | peculiar, but a hasty inspection showI ed that the engines were all right, and he so reported to the captain. The anchor was soon up. the engines started and the Sea Gull was steaming down the Bug at eight knots speed. Suspicious Hospitality. The captain was unusually hospitable. He came to the engine room, bringing a flask of brandy and a box I of cigars to the engineer and asking him not to leave the engine room and "not to spare the cigars and brandy. It looked suspicious?such liberal hospitality. At four bells of the first watch Engineer Ancker decided to steal a little sleep in a comfortable armchair which the skipper had sent below. He stepped first into the alleyway, where were the berths labeled, respectively, "engineer," "first assistant engineer" and "second assistant engineer." In the first room he saw the form of a man in the bunk. ?In room No. 2 darker than the first, he touched a man apparently asleep, a bottle of brandy by his side. From the bunk in the third room Ancker grabbed a blanket and wrapped himself in it in his chair in the engine room. Ancker knew now what the trouble was. The Sea Gull's engineers had taken shore leave at Nikolaiev and gone on a spree. The oiler woke up the understudy every 20 minutes until the first watch, when the oiler dropped asleep himself, while the engine throbbed away, unwatched, for 45 minutes. A splash outside the port awoke Annkpr and then ramp several more splashes. Disobeying the command of the skipper, he went on deck and found the crew throwing overboard canvas sacks, each containing a dead man. No, It Wasn't Measles. "What's the trouble?" the new engineer asked a sailor. "Do you think it is measles?"' returned the man contemptuously. Questioning the sailor more closely, Ancker learned that nine out of the crew of 36 were already dead, including the regular engineer, the first assistant and the second assistant, whose bunks the understudy had visited during the previous night. Ancker went back to the engine room and took a long pull at the brandy bottle and then returned to the deck and asked the sailor about the cargo. It was wheat. He remarked to the man that the consumers of the wheat would be fish, because the Turkish authorities would scuttle the ship. The man laughed,coughed, choked, had a slight hemorrhage, complained of a severe headache and pains, in his back, and went below. Six hours afterward he, too, went over the side in canvas. A second oiler made his appearance, but Capt. Ancker did not quit the engine room, his meals being sent down to him. "Nothing Like Being Beady." At eight Delis or tne torenoon | watch on the second day Ancker stumbled into the storeroom and found the carpenter sewing canvas. "There's nothing like being ready," said the carpenter with a shrug. Capt. Stringer invited the American to have luncheon in the cabin, but the engine room was a good enough dining room for him just then. Twice again on that day there were NOTICE TO EVERYBODY. Denmark, S. C\, October 14. 1913. j J To the tax payers first, and second, | to to all oi' the other people of Bamberg 1 county, of every faith and order, | who believe in law and order and | good roads, listen: On the night of ! ? October the 1st or morning of the | i 2nd, before light, there was stolen 1 out of my back yard one black top . g buggy with side springs in good re- j R i pair and had been used carefully j : about two years, and also at same ! time lost a good set of single buggy \ j harness comparatively new, with f \ brass rings on saddle and harness, I with tan colored lines. Attention, ! 1 will give a reward of $10 for the | ! buggy in good shape like it was when ! i carried off, $5 for the return of the I j harness if in good shape, and will j I also give $10 each for party or par- ! i ties who took the buggy and harness J j from my premises with sufficient evii dence to convict for the carrying j ; away of the above mentioned proper- j ' t.v. i p I have lived right here by the j j road side for nearly thirty years and j ! have travelled in different States and i ' have heard and read of almost every i i kind of theft and rascality, but have j never read or heard of anything just like this before under the same mr| cuinstances. This buggy, was, say, in ten feet of my dwelling house, and two men sleeping in the house and i buggy was pulled out by hand right ! by the house to get out to the road j ! to tie it to wagon, which pulled it I away towards Bamberg Court House. 1 Now, this buggy did not belong to me, ! but as it was stolen from my yard it ! will . be right and proper that I i should pay for same if I do not get j it back, which 1 propose to do. I fe j had recently paid $13.50 for the B j harness above mentioned. I I am in a contract to travel for a i i shoe hous6 every day or six days I j out of each week until October the I 1st, 1914. and have no time to look ? for the buggy and harness. The E j buggy and harness was worth in I ; round figures say $65.00 and we need them daily. I have no money j that I can afford to pay out as re- ! J wards for this property or for the j arrest and conviction of the thief or ' thieves, but will be very glad to ini vest in this way under the circumj stances if it should have any effect in ! checking this new established precei in Mir fnrnrninifv. I have no ft ! VlCXlt ill VUi ... ^ . ? _ idea that the party or parties who -committed this felony, had any conception of the extent of the crime or the penalty thereof, for such a crime, j The full limit could be made ten years in the penitentiary or on the chaingang of Bamberg county. Of course the penalty can largely be left with the discretion of the court. ( Now, let me appeal to every in- g dividual in the county to make him I or herselves a committee of one to | catch this thief or thieves, for all P who have buggies and harness might 4 lose them if we allow this kind of J thing to go on. ,Now, to all who own I personal property or appreciate good 8 roads, let's figure some. Just leave | the moral out of the question and g you need not consider our loss either J if you please. Suppose some of you, I my friends, landlords, tenants, rent- J ers, wages workers, all kinds of pro- J fessional men of the county, could I furnish evidence sufficient to have I arrested and convicted a strong J work hand, and he should get a sen- g tence by the court which convicts " j him or them of just one half the | j full limit of the law of this state for I j such a crime which is five years in 1 i the state prison or on our county 5 | roads and the court should say five f i years on the public roads of Bam- | berg county chaingang at hard labor, I { what would a strong man be worth | to work under a good, strict boss? | Get out your pencil now, you busi- I ness men of the county who use our I public roads daily, whether good or bad, and to you auto speeders, what g say ye? A good able-bodied work I hand worked judiciously would be worth at least $15.00 per month, which would be $180.00 per year, at five times $180.00 is $900.00 for five years; and suppose the court should say ten years, why it would be $1,800 worth of work on our little county roads, for one buggy and harness. Now, friends, this is not a personal proposition, as much as I like good roads, for I know I have not used our public roads as much as | fifty miles in the last five years ! outside of the incorporate limits of the town of Denmark. So, you friends of the county, one and all, get busy and find this property and catch the thief or thieves and let me keep selling shoes. In conclusion, will say in all probability our buggy may have crossed the county line and if this is the case and the buggy is not in Bamberg county and the thief or thieves posfiihlv mav not live in our county. So, ( let's all get busy and find out where J i they crossed our border and where they live if you can, and report all information to our Sheriff, who looks out for his friends. Please get busy, one and all. Thanking you in advance. G. W. GOOLSBY. "must ride cold. Passengers on Chicago Elevated Lines Are Not Cheered. Chicago, Nov. 5.?The millions of passengers who patronize the elevated railroads of this city find no cheer in a decision handed down by the appellate court of Cook county holding that they can not compel the roads to heat their cars. Through a technical defect in the municipal ordinance designed to protect shivering passengers the court ^ holds that the overhead companies I are not bound by the law which 8 makes it obligatory that surface cars g be kept at a comfortable tempera- I i me. b splashes alongside. Ancker took fre- p quent small nips of brandy, smoked t cigars, drank boiled water only and * ate sparingly. ^ C30C30C30C30E ???? 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