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$hf Ikmitrrg feralii: ; ? ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KXIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in The j r Herald building, on Main street, in j the live and growing City of Bam-; j berg, being issued from a printing i office which is equipped with Mer-U genthaler linotype machine, Babcock i t cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a j fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by * electric power with other material f and machinery in keeping, the whole ? equipment representing an invest- . raent of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?Bv the year $150; * six months, 75 cents; three months, a 50 cents. All subscriptions payable j strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch 2 Tor nrst insertion, buustquiut iu?w <= tions 50 cents per inch. Legal ad- c vertisements at the rales allowed by s law. Local reading notices 10 cents c a line each insertion. 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We require the name and ad- T dress of the writer in every case. a No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are 1 not responsible for the opinions ex- 1< pressed in any communication. $ Thursday, Nov. 20, 1913. ============== r In an editorial in the Progressive c Farmer of last week we noticed that c Editor Clarence Poe rather advocated 1 the taxing of unimproved lands and d reducing the assessments on improve- a ments. That system would possibly o be a good thing in some towns and t communities where parties hold prop- IKitrlmr. nr-iAQp onH TL'i 11 nflt . Ct t > 1V/1 IHJIIVI {Jliv&ij uuu sell, even at a reasonable price, to those who would improve it, and j yet they will make no improvements themselve. We don't know how this plan would work out, but we certainly would like to see it tried in South 3 Carolina, for here we tax a man's en- ^ ergy and improvements. It would t; seem to be a good principle of gov- ^ eminent that if a property owner would not sell to some one who ^ would improve it, that he should be j, taxed because of his lack of progres- r siveness. [ Logic in Railroad Rates. A veteran traffic man for one of d the important railroads of the United States says: "What is needed more than anything in the readjustment t] of freight and passenger rates is a 1 little bit of logicT It is scarcely logi- ti cal to allow some travelling freight c man to make a rate between two t] points on certain freight subject to c< the approval of the general freight * agent alone and at the same time to ? require the president of the railroad a / to sign a requisition for a feather e duster. . C "From another point of view it t< does not seem logical to place the s . burden of increased rates on one P particular class of freight without in- o creasing all rates. The burden must be distributed. It isn't logical to i ti charge the passenger without bag- fi gage the same rate as the man with n . two trunks or other pieces of lug- is gage. Neither is it logical to charge s the same rate per mile to a passenger e in a light coach that is charged to the t passenger in the heavy steel Pullman n car. Rates should be made scientifi- c cally under the direction of the high- tl est traffic officer of any railroad line." ti ?Wall Street Journal. A Vanishing Kace. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus, of Harvard, says that there is a / lack of power and vitality in the a American people which the immigrants posess; that they have, for ex- a ample, the power of reproducing their own kind while ten classes of Har- n vard graduates failed to reproduce nm eol tli& ? V*J. The generations that follow the immigrants Americanize, but- the i change in the racial stock of the country must be very great, if not t< very important. It is noticeable in the cities and in the country also. P Forty years ago Chicago was a city of American stock, with the principal b additions from Germany, Ireland and the Scandinavian countries. It has p taken in many foreign nationalities since then, and the percentage of persons of remote American ances- a try must have greatly decreased. There are country districts in which a the .American farming communities have disappeared to give way to peo- E pie from north, central and southern Europe. In certain places one peo- P pie will be predominant, but, taking the country as a whole, there is great ~ V.o* + Vi Qro ic n r\ cnliHoritv i V a 1 1CIJ , OV lUUt *0 uv 4VJ whose influence is generally felt. a It is a fact also that the tendency toward small families is not confined a to the highly educated classes. It is comon among all classes of Ameri-, J cans who desert those employments ; that the immigrants take up.?The i a Chicago Record-Herald. W EALTH IN CACTUS RANCH. Irs, Pickerell, 74, Says the Spine- I less Variety Will Pay. A woman 74 years old is to es-! \ ablisii the only spineless cactus j p anch in tl e Southwest. She is Mrs. n u. V. Pickerell. of El Paso^ and she j r ntends to go into this peculiar busi- j i: less on a wholesale scale. She is en- h husiastic over the proposition, and s las but recently returned from Cali- h ornia, where she thoroughly studied md investigated the spineless cactus, 1< ts growth and uses. Mrs. Pickerell I las ordered 700 Burbank samples, tnd will plant these on her farm near CI Paso, and later increase the imount. Each plant will grow 3 5 ;labs a year, and make excellent and a heap fodder for horses, cattle, hogs, md even poultry. Little has been a lone with the plant so far except in m experimental way, but Mrs. Picke- * ell sees xan opportunity to make it >ay. ^ The spineless cactas is a semi-tropcai plant and will not grow or thrive e '/here the temperature reaches zero, "hat low temperature, however, is a arely reached in El Paso. In addition o the slabs used for forage the plant lso bears a fruit that is pleasing to he taste. It resembles the orange, "he plant also may be cut into strips ^ nd fried or boiled. Those who have t! ampled the cactus food have found t appetizing. Luther Burbank not .. ong ago gave a banquet, at which all p ishes served consisted of the spinea ess cactus cooked in various forms. A test was made at the Burbank 1 anch recently with the cactus. One ow was pastured on the spineless actus and another was fed on alfalfa. 11 "he animal which ate the cactus prouced one-third more butter than the lfalfa-fed cow. To prove the value f the experiment the cows' food was w hen reversed and with like result.. ^ logs fatten when given cactus alone. -San Antonio Express. tl Buffalo Increasing. a . b Announcement that at the end of I he current year New York will send n 4 buffalo to stock the Wind Cave ^ National park in South Dakota leads ^ he New York World to cite some p ifcroctinor anH fipniTAS rp1?tiVfi 0. JL u. v_/ VW MAA\* % - ? - o the downs and ups of the North s mierican bison Forty years ago arge herds of these animals still a oamed the western plains: 15 years f< iter the total number in the United S1 Pi tates was said to be less than 1,000, nd early extinction was freely pre- a icted; now we are told that the buf- a alo tribe is again increasing. P Ten years ago The World tells us tie specimens in captivity numbered C( ,119, while it was estimated that here were 34 running wild in this ountry and 600 in Canada. Today he number is put above 2,000, not o ounting the half-breed "catalo, "with rhich experiments have been made, 'here are about 50 in New York nd smaller numbers in other east- C rn cities, while various western and e 'anadian reserves contain from 50 ^ o 100 each. In Europe there are ^ pecimens in some of the public arks and a small herd on the estate f1 f the Duke of Berforu " That the present increase will con- c, inue is no apparent reason why buf- ir aln raising shall not be made a com- ? ? " 1/ lercial venture. If the precaution E ; taken of checking in breeding and a o keeping the herds in health, by .J xchanging specimens from time to C ime, buffalo, as we are told, are j early as easy to raise as ordinary a attle, while the claim is made that 1 he "catalo" is even more hardy than he Texas steer. " m ? e Baptist Union Meetings. o e: TOPICS. f< 1. S. C. as a mission field and as p mission force. a 2. The State mission board?its P chievements and needs. s; 3. How to avoid panics in our 0 lission work. tl 4. The Judson centennial. Union No. 1 at Barnwell. Speakers: ^ 1. W. M. Jones, T. P. Lee, and ^ J. Grubbs. 2. F. H. Funderburk, Geo. Boylson, and A. P. Manville. ^ 3. W. L. Hayes, G. E. Birt, and I. R. Johnson. 4. W. M. Jones, F. H. Funder- e urk, and W. L. Hayes. P Missionary sermon Sunday a. m.? ~ \ H. Funderburk. o No. 2, Do?ble Pond. Speakers: o 1. Paul Bolen, Henry Grymes, ~ nd Wm. Hutto. g 2. J. D. Huggins, C. C. Ellzey, a nd S. G. Mayfield. 3. W. R. McMillan, Dr. J. B. i3 Hack, and Geo. Smoak. C 4. Geo. Hopkins. H. J. Hair, and " 'aul Bolen. a Missionary sermon, J. D. Huggins. V No. 3, Aliens Chapel. Speakers: 1. W. G. Britton, E. A. McDowell. rid H. C. Creech. e 2. W. D. Heckle. J. A. Jenkins, ? nd W. E. Brandt. 3. J. R. Culloin, F. J. Deer, and . W. Carter. 4. E. A. McDowell. W. D. Heckle, Jj nd W. G. Britton. a Missionary sermon, W. D. Heckle. \ FOOLED THE DOCTORS. broken Necked Man Died of Stomach Trouble. New Roc-helle, N. Y., Nov. 17.? Yhile in a fair way to make good his iromise to "fool the surgeons," made uore than two years ago when his tec-k was broken as the result of div- j a ng into shallow water, Waldorf Mil- " er, 19 years old, today died from tomach trouble. Three weeks ago ? ? "> ? + i <~v 1 1- r\ f Ait? ef Arve t; vv <i?> peiiiuttcu iu wain. a i^? oic^o. Several years ago a brother of Miler received a broken neck by diving, le lived ten days after the accident. )IRECTORY OF TRINITY METHOODIST CHURCH. Preaching every Sunday morning t 11 o'clock. Preaching every Sunday evening ' ,t 7:30 o'clock. Sunday-school every Sunday afernoon at 3:30 o'clock. Mid-week prayermeeting every Vednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, Epworth League every Tuesday I vening at 7:30 o'clock. Everybody is cordially invited to ttend these services. W H. HODGES, Pastor, Railroad Avenue, Bamberg, S. C. State Superintendent Swearingen as designated Dec. 5th as "Agriculural Day" in the public schools. The Record says there are now 1 almost twice as many white men in I Lichland jail as negroes; the figures * re 25 white and 14 negroes." >ON*T TAKE THE THE WRONG MEDICINE. f Your Liver Gets Lazy You Need a Liver Tonic, Not Merely a Laxative for the Bowels. Many people take a simple laxative hen the liver gets sluggish rather tian take calomel, which they know 3 be dangeraus. But a mere laxative rill not start a sluggish liver. What > needed is a tonic that will liven up tie liver without forcing you to stay' t home and lose a day from your usiness. You have such a tonic in Dodson's ^ .liver Tone. Dodson's Liver Tone * lust be all they claim for it because tiey guarantee it to take the place of angerous calomel and agree to hand ack the money with a smile to any erson who tries Dodson's Liver Tone nd is not satisfied with the relief it ives. Dodson's Liver Tone is a harmless egetable liquid with a pleasant taste, nd is a prompt and reliable remedy 3r constipation, biliousness, sour tomach, and the other troubles that 1 ome from a torpid liver. The Peoples drug store give it their sk about this guarantee you will sk about this guarantee' yiu will rotect yourself against imitations hat are not guaranteed. Large bot- I le of Dodson's Liver Tone is 50 1 ents. JUDGE OF PROBATE SALE. . State of South Carolina,?County f Orangeburg?In Common Ppeas. Ada V. Simmons, et al., plaintiffs, gainst Benjamin F. Simmons, et al efendants. By virtue of a judgment of the ourt of Common Pleas in the above ntitled action, I will sell at public uction, at Bamberg Court House, on ne first Monday in December next, uring the legal hourse of sale: All that certain piece, parcel or "act of land situate, lying and being l Fish Pond Township in the coun7 of Bamberg, in the State aforesaid, ^ ontaining four hundred (400) acres, i lore or less, bounded North by the ' larnwell road, lands formerly of Z limbell and Daniel Jones, on the last by Elijah Minus, Peter Minus nd George May, on the South by E. . Hydrick, and on the West by the hurch road leading to Walterboro oad. Being same land conveyed to no. F. Simmons by Mary E. Stokes nd J. V. Stokes by deed dated the 1 st day of May, 1907. ' And the said real estate will be sold i two parcels of two hundred and iventy (220) and one hundred and ighty (180) acres, respectively, more r less, and pla.ts of same will be a xhibited on day of sale. I Terms: Cash. Purchasers to pay 3r papers and all taxes becoming ayable after day of sale; and in ise the purchaser shall fail to comly with the terms of sale, then the lid premises will be resold on the :.me or some subsequent salesday, n the same terms and at the risk of le former purchaser. ANDREW C. DIBBLE, udge of Probate, as Special Referee, rangeburg, S. C., Nov. 10th, 1913. SPECIAL NOTICES. .dvertisements Under This Head 25c. For 25 Words or Less. For a good tailored^to-measure uit call on the Dixie Tailors, oposite post office. Cleaning, pressing, and repairing f all kinds neatly done. Dixie Tailrs, opposite post office. For Sale.?Appier Seed Oats, home rown, 75e the bushel, sacked. J. K. 1AYFIELD, Denmark, S. C. For Sale?Desirable building lots i town of Ehrhardt, on easy terms ,'HAS. EHRHARDT, Ehrhardt, S. C. For Sale?Pine and cypress timber. l good proposition for saw mill men. a Vrite box 54, R. F. D. No. 1, Bam- I erg, S. C. J Automobiles Insured.?1912 modIs 2 *4 per cent; 1913 models 2 per ent. Old line company. H. M. 2 JRAHAM, Agent, Bamberg, S. C. juure.?1UC puunt 10 iuiv/i rncu hat I will be in my office on Satur- J avs and Mondays. Persons having usiness with the Probate Judge will lways find me there on those days. ? G. P. HARMON. 1 1 Herald B a net Christmas Cards, Holiday E ' We have also Hand Pai which we are [f you want something /ou to look at ours be LARGE ASS Waterman's We have all kinds, i Zap, Bookkeepers, Fir There is" nothing nic Get our p: BLANK or next year. It m WW < < small they may be we save you money. If w we will get it for you. * \T innk Stnrp VV11 MiVl V / . v "A - . v line of p ' , .?V *:< ''' * ?' Tags, Etc. v.. 13$ ' looks, and Novelties / * v - y Wm a few pieces of | inted China j offering at cost 1 r in this line, it will pay k ? 1 store buying. ORTMENT OF f Pnuntoin Pone 1 UUIIIUIII 1 VII o * 1 ^ y5afety, Self Filler, Screw m1. ie and Medium points. 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