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I WAS KNIGHTED FOR PIRACY. ^ir Henry Morgan was Rewarded Instead of Punished for Buccaneering. "Ho! Henry Morgan sails today To Harry the Spanish Main Wuh a pretty bill for the Dom. to pay Ere he comes back again! Sir Henry Morgan, who won a title by able work at piracy, has long since ceased to sail, and his name is only a whisper in the southern seas today. Yet it is not wholly forgotten, as was proved the other day, when several Kansas City men announced their -? - * -i. i.: Riuteunuu or starting oil an e.\peuuiuu to Sabine Pass, Texas, where they believe Captain Morgan buried some gold a few centuries ago. They mean to find it by the aid of a wonderful I * scientific instrument that shows just where to dig for buried treasure. To return, however, to Sir Henry Morgan. He wasn't Sir Henry to begin with?just plain Henry Morgan, son of a Welsh farmer, and he ran away to sea because he didn't like to stay at home, and the sailing master * with whom he sailed sold him into bondage in America at the end of the voyage, which proves the unwisdom of running away from home with sailing masters about whose characters you are not informed. An * active lad like Henry,'however, soon I succeeded in getting away from the sweatty bonds of toil, escaped from * Barbadoes and went to Jamaica. There he started in the buccaneering business, and eventually demonstrated what W. S. Gilbert later announced that "It is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king." You must understand that piracy, SBST or buccaneering, as it was called, wLr- was a much more respectable calling I in the seventeenth century than it > is today. Spain was the natural enemy of Enaland, and it was considered perfectly good form to rob and murder a Spaniard wherever you found him, whether England happened to be officially at war with Spain or not. There might be times of peace between His Most Catholic Majesty and the King of England on the other 6ide of the Atlantic, but in America the other two nations were always at war. Henry Morgan, after a trip or two on other men's ships and thriftily saving his share of the booty, went in with a number of other ambitious young pirates and bought a ship of his own. He was elected captain, and from that day on Henry Morgan continued to be captain of every exjr pedition he attended, r t His first big success came at Porto Bello. Porto Bello was a large Spanish town in Panama, whence the trpasnrp shins snilpri pvprv vpar for Spain. It was strongly fortified by two castles, one on either side of the harbor mouth, and had it been prepared, would have been almost impossible to captue. But Morgan took the place by surprise. When he left ^ Jamaica with a fleet of the small ships carrying 4 60 ruffians of assorted races, he did not tell even his captains where he was going. A secret wasn't a secret if more than one man knew it, the astute captain believed. Not until the coast of Central America was reached did he pass around word that Porto Bello was to be ta4 ken. The ships themselves were left in P* a harbor some miles from Porto Bello, and, under cover of dusk, the * pirates moved stealthily upon the doomed town in long boats and canoes. At midnight, when no human sound disturbed the chorus of the southern jungle, they reached Porto Bello. They seized a Spanish sentry ?so swiftly and so effectually- did they gag him that he had no chance to cry out or to fire his flintlock. / Brandishing their long knives they made him describe to them all the defenses of the city. Then the pirates surrounded one of the castles which guarded the town and commanded the garrison to surrender, lest they should every one be put to death. The Spaniards replied with a volley and the fight began. In a short time Morgan's men had battered down the defenses and were swarming through the castle. All the Spanish officers who were not slain at once were shut up in one great room and then the powder magazine was fired. Not a Spaniard escaped. But this was only one of many castles. The fighting continued from rtawn fn noon nf next dav. The SDan iards defended themselves gallantly. / When Morgan's men tried to set fire ^ to the doors of their castles, they $ hurled down great stones and honie"vf made bombs, earthen' jars packed with powder. The governor of the town commanded the last castle that fell. Morgan tred time and again to take it; then he had great ladders built, so wide that three or four men could scale a ladder at once. > These he forced the nuns and monks whom he had captured in Porto Be! lo to drag up and place against the wall. He did not believe tlie Spaiysh governor would kill these people. But the old Spanish governor was as i lion-hearted a fighter as Henry Mo"i gan himself. He killed the monks and nuns unhesitatingly, rather than > ' s p < slack his defense. They called to him piteouslv begging him to surrender and save their lives and his own. He only ordered the firing to be redoubled. But at last the ladders were placed, with tumbled heaps of priests and nuns prone at their feet. "Then the pirates," runs an old account written by one of the pirates himself, "mounted in great number, and with not less valor, having fireballs in their hands and earthern pots full of powder; all which things, being now at the top of the walls, they kindled and cast in among the Span- 1 iards. "This effort of the pirates was very great, insomuch that the Spaniards could no longer resist nor defend the castle, which was now entered. Hereupon they all threw down their arn-s and craved quarter for their lives; only the governor of the city would crave no mercy, but killed many of the pirates with his own hands, and not a few of his own soldiers, because they did not stand to their arms. And, though the pirates asked him if he would have quarter, yet he constantly answered. 'By no means. I had rather die as a valiant soldier than be hanged as a coward.' They endeavored as much as they could to take him prisoner, but he defended himself so obstinately that they were forced to kill him, notwithstanding all the cries and tears of his own wife and daughter, who begged him on their knees to demand quarter and save his life." Don C. Seitz has described his j death in "The Buccaneers." J With blade at throat and pistol at heart The proud old governor stands, Rather to die than yield his sword To such scoundrelly outlaw hands. Wife at right and daughter at left, Their pleadings are in vain? Mercy's not the buccaneer's creed; VIa tmnhlpc with thp in And thus fell Porto Bello. The pirates ocupied the town for several j weeks, stripped it of every scrap o? loot and made the citizens pay \ ransom of 100,000 pieces of eight before they would leave. When the governor of Panama sent out a force of Spanish soldiers to drive .Morgan and his men away the pirates, instead of fleeing to their ships, as every | one supposed they would, went out i to meet the soldiers, defeated them and drove them back to Panama. Mor- 1 gan sent word to the governor of Pan- ] ama that he would pay his town a visit within a year. As a matter of fact, it was three years before he made good his boast. The capture of Panama was a far more remarable achievement than that of Porto Bello. For Morgan and 1 his men marched nine days through 1 tiopical jungles before they reached ' the city. Most of the time they had 1 r.o food, for the Spaniards, who Knew they were coming, drove every cowout of the country and burned or 1 carried away every sack of grain. So ! reduced were Morgan's men that they ate strips of rawhide bags, softening the leather by moistening it and pounding it between stones, then 1 i broiling it like bacon. The Spaniards had plentiful warnj ing of their coming, and made elabo- j j rate preparation for defense outside the city of Panama; Indians aided : them and drove wild bulls against the Knglish buccaneers, thinking to break ' their ranks. Morgan's men laughed and killed the bulls, and were glad to have their meat for food. John Esquemeling. an old pirate who was with Morgan and who wrote a book to which we are indebted for most of what we know of this prince of 1 buccaneers, tells of that feat. The pirates hacked out great chunks of meat and threw them into 1 the camp fire they had kindled; then. < when the meat 'was charred outside and still raw within, they fished it out and devoured it. "Such was their hunger," writes Esquemeling, "as they more resembled cannibals than Europeans: the blood manv times running down from their beards to their waists." Thus nourished and encouraged they swept into Panama, a ravening pack, and scattered far such of its defenders as they did not slay. They stayed there a month, and burned the city and carried away everything movable, and sent out ships to ravage the nearby towns on the Pacific coast. Nov.-, this attack had been made just after England had concluded peace with Spain, and as Morgan bore the title, bestowed on him by the British governor of Jamaica, of "Com mander-In-Chief of all the ships of war in Jamaica," Spain demanded that he be brought to punishment. Ho was sent to England in 1672 aboard a British frigate, but he took along enough pirate gold to smooth his way at court, and instead of being punished he was knighted and leturned to Jamaica as lieutenant governor. That marked the end of Morgan's days of active p acy. lie continued as a servant of the British governor of Jamaica. Great were the rewards in those thrilling days.? Kansas City Star. All kinds of ledgers and blank books at Herald Book Store, cheap. AN HONEST PRIMARY. Present System Leaks Like a Sieve. Gross Frauds Easy. (The Herald will publish a few articles on primary reform written by a member of the legislature. They are strictly non-partisan and are deoicrrkorl +/-> nnint nut tlio r>hflnProc ne>r> IVJ V"" " essary to eliminate fraud without taking the ballot away from anySouth Carolina Democrat. The articles are in no way inspired by any candidate for office, and none know of their preparation. They are designed solely to assist the mass of Democratic primary voters to clean house. Bills to this end will be acted on in the next legislature and South Carolinians are of course interested in the subject at this time.) ri o the Editor of The Herald: Every lover of pure democracy must rejoice in those features of our primary system that give every true Democrat in South Carolina the right to vote whether he be rich or poor, learned or illiterate. Perhaps nowhere else in the world is there such universal white manhood suffrage. The problem is to make the vote pure as well as free. Xo matter who the voter is he does i.ot want his vote killed by the ballot of some repeater or outsider. vVhat use is it for one county to be honest when some other practices wholesale fraud? or for you to vote once when others are voting twice? Freedom has to be guarded. To decide on a remedy we must frst find exactly where the trouble lies. 1 am going to cite some instances. See if you do not agree that the fault is twofold, first with you and me and the rest of the rank and file who have been unwilling to be put to the trouble of obeying even the loose rules we have, and then with these rules which are so poorly arranged that the most conscientious election managers are helpless where voters set out to cheat. Tammany Methods. "There may have been some minor irregularities in this county, but we believe that it was a fair election so far as county is concerned," reported one county chairman to the investigating committee a year ago. He adds, however, "1 found that the club lists had disappeared. Our committee has been unable to locate them." Over night some one stole the records from the ballot boxes. A familiar device of Tammany thugs in the good old days practiced right here in a farming county of South Carolina. The chairman was honest and sincere, though, when he called this a "minor irregularity," for every one of us who has anything to do with our election management sees rules so violated on every hand that only downright bribery is considered serious. Early or Not at All. Ill illlUlUCI liupuitaut vuui>v ?W no uncommon thing for a voter to find on going to the polls that some one has cast a ballot in his name. Friends who had this experience laughed to me about it as a part of the regular order of things, remarking "Next time we must be a: the noils when they are opened." The State executive committee called on the party authorities from that county for a report on the election and the reply was "no irregularities found." There so mild a term as "irregularly" is too harsh a name for the most flagrant frauds and everything goes. Why Holes Among Friends? In still another big county the local executixe committee found among ;uher "irregularities" that Men were allowed to vote whose names were not enrolled on the club lists. At one box 128 names of those who voted were found after a most searching examination to be fictitious. The average of the poll lists of all the county boxes showed from 10 per cent, to l"> per cent, that could not be identified. At other boxes 340 names of actual persons were found to have apparently voted from two to five times, and after making allowances for a possible proportion as proper, a large number were seen to be repeaters. In a very few instances was the club roll certified to. Bystanders were called in by managers to assist in counting the ballots. one of whom did destroy or attempt to destroy tickets. .Managers of election were not sworn and other voters took no oaths. Yet this committee in summing up spoke of these things as "numerous ii regularities." but found no evidence of fraud. , * - * _ 11*.,,, Summarized m .-\iufiuer ???*,*. Managers omit to take the honesty obligation oath the party rules re(; 11 ire. Disregarding the rules, they allow men to vote whose names are not on the poll lists. These voters and others cast their ballots without swearing as to their qualification, though the party rules demand the oath. Uncertified poll lists with dead \ y PREACHED IX THIS STATE. I)r. Richard I). Smart, Methodist, Dies in Charlottesville, Va. Charlottesville, Va., January 4.? The Rev. Dr. Richard Davis Smart, a prominent Methodist minister, died here to-day after a protracted illness. Dr. Smart, during a long period of service, has held various pastorates in Virginia and South Carolina, and had been connected prominently with the Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis and Louisville conferences. He is survived by Mrs. Smart, formerly of n11 1 - - x r% rs * ~ A ?Vm'1 ^iianesiun, o. C/., auu live uwiuieu. MAN BURNED TO DEATH. Body Pound in Furnace at Lumberton, N. C. Raleigh. X. C., January 1.?Leslie Stone, white, 18 years old, was burned to death early this morning in the furnace of the Kingsdale Lumber Company, at Lumberton. Stone had prepared to go out hunting, and had gone to the furnace to get warm. Later he was found burned to death, his body partly in the furnace. Post Office Information. Hereafter the mails which arrive at 9:37 and 11:17 on Sundays will not be distributed until after church services are over, say about 12:30. The office force will come directly from church to the office and put up these mails. All mails will be dispatched as usual. The daily papers nrrivo nn tbp pnrlv mnrninir train will be distributed about nine o'clock, so all renters of boxes can get their daily paper in plenty time to go to church. So now there is no use for any patron of the office to stay away from church on account of waiting to get his mail on Sunday, as it will not be distributed until after services, as above stated. We do this to allow the clerks to attend church, which they cannot do if they distribute these mails, as they cannot get through with the first mail in time for service. The postal laws and regulations require s to do this, as will be seen from the following quotation: "Paragraph 4 of section 2S3: Third and fourth class post offices need not be opened on Sundays unless a mail or mails arrive during the time between the Saturday closing hour and 6 p. m. Sunday. If such a mail does arrive and the public convenience requires its delivery on Sunday, the office MAY be opened to the public not more than once nor for more than one hour, and the time of servipp tn natrons MTTST NOT be durine that of church services." We feel sure that a majority of the patrons of the office will endorse this action, in fact all who have expressed themselves to us have been pleased that the government adopted such a regulation. The general delivery window will be opened on Sundays immediately after the mail is distributed. Mail will positively not be handed from lock boxes. Learn your combination or have your key with you, for we are not going to violate this rule for anybody. We don't want to be unaccommodating, but there is other, work we should be doing instead of handing out mail from boxes So don't ask us, for we will certainly decline. We are of course glad to learn combinations to all who are entitled to them and to please the people in every way possible, but this is one regulation that is going to be absolutely carried out. Some people may not like it, but we feel that a majority of the patrons will see a good reason for the rule and endorse it. men's names by the score and scores of other men who had moved away written on loose sheets of paper and in old books years ago were used. But mind you, the party rules require thai each list be certified to by the officers of the clubs. "Where We Are At." These instances might be multiplied, but sufficiently illustrate the free and easy condition we have leached, when the most glaring ini'ractons of party rules are held in the highest quarters to be merely irregularities that do not impair the integrity of an election. Don't blame the managers. All of us are to blame. For years we have shouted from the house tops, "It is better that ten dishonest men should vote than that one honest man be deprived." We have tolerated and insisted on these lax rules and laxer enforcement until any man can vote, be he resident or non-resident, over age or under age, whether he has voted before ten times or not at all. A Remedy Does it not seem to you that the time has come to replace this loose system that leaks like a seive at every joint by a law that will be short, simple, definite and carry penalties? I have no bill of my own to present but later will further describe the way frauds are carried out so you can see how to stop the leaks. LEGISLATOR. H A NEW YEAR'S I The Best 0 ^ Can Mai ^ This 22$ Buy From | - HUr T m iry1 Next to Postoffice H "The Good to 1 II Notice The Insurance Riley ?* Copelar , be in any way the death of Mr. |i land. It will bt I?* as formerly, and mation in regarc etc., can be obt\ Mr. J. D. Copel the store. ThanI past favors and' con tinuance. I Riley CHILLS HHP FEVEB ?ii OR ANY FEVER 30 mcra TAX NOTICE. Q The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15 th day of October, 1913 until the 8 15th day of March, 1914, inclusive, limi From the first day of January, wor 1914, until the 31st day of January, sold 1914, a penalty of one per cent, will 3 be added to all unpaid taxes. From ijng the 1st day of February, 1914, until pay the 28th day of February, 1914, a prj( penalty of 2 per cent, will be added at 0 to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st t00 day of March, 1914, until the 15th , day of March, 1914, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be addea to all unpaid taxes. "S" THE LEVY. tim, For State Purposes 0Y4, mills For county purposes 5% mills L Constitutional school tax....3 mills * For public schools ... 1 mill ?? For roads Vz mill ? Total 15*4 mills ^ SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Colston, No. 1 8 2 mills Cuffie Creek, No. 17 2 mills Denmark, No. 21 6*6 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills Fishpond, No. 5 2 mills Govan, No. 11 4 mills Hutto, No. 6 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Heyward, No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills ? Midway, No. 2 2 mills J? Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills Olar No 8 9 mills St.John's, No. 10 2 mills Salem, No. 9 3 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate soldiers and sail- t ors, who are exempt at 50 years of ? age, are liable to a poll tax of one h dollar. j Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of H| age on or before the let day of Januarv, 1913 are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not || made returns to the Auditor, are requested to do so on or before the 1st of January, 1914. I will receive the commutation ga road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from toi the 15th day of October, 1913, until sa the 1st day of March, 1914. g G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. FIRF. INSURANCE " nup Old Line Companies ? J. F. FOLK, Agt. ? C BAMBERG, S. C. any Sale stables, horses and mules, bug- J gies and harness. RIZER & MOYE, . Fairfax, S. C. ftni iESOLUTION M ne You keis HAN'S S Telephone 69 *?5 Eat Store" business ?f B id will not || affected by || H. H. Cope- ? ? continued || any infor- gj I to policies, ruined from || ana, a v., a t iing you for II soliciting a || ; ^ & CopelandJ ????? - yield IF imiucnyp ed with JuHNMIrl o OF SUCCESS T A W I ING FOLKS I Vll I V leal Estate Bargains 4% acres good land near town is, dwelling and outbuildings, th $2,500.00, under wire fence. If . promptly will sell at a sacrifice. 88 acres 7 miles from town; dwelworth $2,500; timber enough to i for property and some to spare. " I ;es and terms right. Must be sold ff ?-I'M V^ ? >iice. oee me quxcn. or yuu win ue ? late. lodern two-story dwelling in the n of Bamberg, prices and terms it if sold by January 1st. With new railroad coming in now is the * to buy city property. 1. M. GRAHAM 3 *. MOTE DICKINSON INSURANCE AGENT Will Write Anything Fire, Tornado, Accident, Liability, Casualty, in the strongest and most reliable companies. My Motto: "Buy What I Need in Bamberg, and From Those Who Patronize Me. " 'Phone 10-L, or at Oil Mill BAMBERG, S. C. ?????????? RANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law * Office in Hoffman Building GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, S. O. ' I PORTABLE AND STATIONARY .N6INES AND BOILERS w, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injec:s, Pumps and Fittings, Wood ws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, ilting, Gasoline Engines OE STOCK LOMBARD indry, Machine, Boiler Works, _l? piy awrc. AUGUSTA. GA 3LDS & LaGRIPPE i or 6 doses 666 will break p case of Chills & Fever, Colds LaGrippe; it acts on the liver fer than Calomel and does not >e or sicken. Price 25c.