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f Otyf lambrrg Strralfcj; -!' ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. \V. KNIGHT, Editor. j ( ? 1? Published every Thursday in The j Herald building, on Main street, in j the live and growing City of Bam- j1 berg, being issued from a printing i office which is equipped with Mer- < genthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a! J fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by j1 nnwer with other material i s and machinery in keeping, the whole j ( equipment representing an invest- r ment of $10,000 and upwards. 1 Subscriptions?By the year $150; 1 six months, 75 cents: three months, j 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. 1 Advertisements?$1.00 per inch:1 for first insertion, subsequent inser-jtions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at ,the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents < a line each insertion. Wants and s other advertisements under special j head, 1 cent a word each insertion. 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I Thursday, Jan. 15, 1914 =^=^^^===== j The great trouble about the dif- } ferent towns contributing to road j building, we fear each town would 2 want their money spent on the roads ] right around that particular town, . . and you can't blame them for this j position. ] * While the Seminole Securities ] < Company was no doubt a swindle j through which many people lost . money, there is little cause for cri?- , icism of the pardon of J. Y. Garling ton. If Hebert and all the others mixed up in the affair are to go scot free, there is no justice in punishing Garlington and Young. . . The legislature made an admirable beginning in that there was no dis- c play of partisan feeling. x.Let us ; hone this state of affairs will jon x-- ,ttinue, and that the members of the general assembly will work together for the best interests of the State and not for personal or political advantage. We have had enough of this sort of thing to last for a *ong X. time. . A few days ago the government *? sent us some income tax blanks to be filled out. thinking of course that we were liable to this tax. Of course we appreciate the compli- ? ment; any man is always tickled when some one thinks he has more money than he really has, but we were obliged to return the blanks not filled out. The idea of a country newspaper man having a net income of over $3,000 a year! In fact it is rather more of an outgo than income with us. " We have not heard what action our legislative delegation will take in ? regard to the recommendation or request of the good roads committee that the dispensary profits be appropriated for improving the roads of the county. However, we learn that ? the town authorities of Bamberg will 1 not contribute half of the town's pro- s fits to the roads, at least for the pre- s sent, as they had already planned f and contracted for some permanent * " work which will absorb the profits 1 accruing to the town. This work * is the large brick culvert in the 1 main ditch which goes through towi;. 1 We do wish that some plan could * be adopted which would be satis- 1 factorv to all the tax payers in the c 1 matter of road improvement. We need better roads, and so far as we 1 are concerned we are not wedded to any plan. Whatever suits a majority of the people suits us. What we want is better highways at a mini- '< mum cost, or rather we do not want ' to see any money not judiciously t STent such for instance as high priced 1 government experts who will make < road construction too high. We un- 1 derstand that the government in- ' spectors require eight inches of clay 1 on a sand-clay foad, and this is too ] " much and would make roads in this county cost too much per mile. For 1 this reason alone we are not in favor 1 of accepting the aid offered by the 1 government. < We are publishing in another ' column an interesting letter from Congressman Jas. F. Byrnes in re- j i gard to the matter of government aid . in building roads, and his letter i throws much light on the subject. 1 We regret very much that Mr. < Byrnes could not be present at the : last meeting held, for if he had been no doubt he would have given the committee much valuable information along the line of government aid and caused these gentlemen to take a different view of the proposition. In the light of the letter of Mr. Byrnes, government aid appears t'ery desirable, the cost per mile of constructing roads under government supervision not appearing too high. He has worked very hard on this matter, and we wish it were possible for Bamberg: county to take advantage of the money offered. We are ijlad indeed to publish his letter, as ivc were not at the first meeting held, and it relieves an arroneous impression created on us. l^et us all get .ogether on some scheme by which ve can secure at least $5,000 of this government fund. We stand ready to 10 anything we can. and any scheme which suits a majority of the people will suit us. We are after better toads, and if we can get $5,000 of ETOvernment money without burdensome restrictions, we ought to get t. i STORY OF TWO FARMS. ^)ne Had Roads and the Other Did * Not. In a certain county in the western part of Pennsylvania avej^ao farms. One of these, high set among the xentle hills, is floored with a soil so ich and productive that men marvel it its fruitfulness. The grain which greens and gilds its fields is heavy with foodstuff. Firm and fine of fiber are the vege:ables it mothers. Apples as beautiful as blue ribboners from the Hood River orchards and far better to eat; peaches that blush for their very perfection; grapes, plums and pears ibound year after year as if some inexhaustible store of nitrates, polish, phosphorus and sulphur underay the loam. The only poor thing on that farm is the house in which the farmer ives. It is little more than a makeshift for a home. And this farmer md his wife and children never have lad more than just enough to keep ;hem going. No money in bank, no idded lands, no luxuries of any sort ?not even a talking machine. Curious, isn't it! Four miles down the road that -un^ past this farm to the nearest ;own is another farm. Not even a Mulberry Sellers of an iptimist ever would choose it as a iroducer. The soil is below average, rhe man who tills it has to work vith it pretty much as a loving moth er works to keep alive a sickly baby, tfis wife and children help whenever they can. and together they nanage to raise fair crops of medium trade stuff. Yet this family lives in a good louse, wun aDout as many cuuuuris md luxuries as well to do town folk. f j rhe farmer has two bank accounts^ me in the savings, and a n-seated auomobile. It is a coincidence that he md the man first mentioned moved 0 their present farms at the same ;in\e twenty-two years ago. He has prospered for the same eason that his friend had tailed. In each case the road that runs )ast the farm has settled its fate. Nature's bounty couldn't overcome 1 long haul on a poor road?seven niles, with rocks and ruts for half he way. By the same token, Naure's skimpiness couldn't hinder a nan with only three miles of good oad between him and town. We cite this case because it stands >ut so clear before us. In some measlre it is paralleled in every township in this broad land. Out in the nost fertile farming section of Missouri a man who owns three hundred icrcs of excellent land had to beg for food last winter. Not because le couldn't raise plenty to eat. Lut because for three months the roads n that part 01 the state were so Dad hat he couldn't get a thing to or rom the town ten miles away. When Governor Majors proclaimed lis good roads day in August that nan was the first to raise a company if workers. He Jiad learned from )itter experience that good roads are >rital.?Philadelphia North American. Millionaire Goes to County Jail. San Francisco, Jan. 14.?"'Come Hid get it," was the unaccustomed summons that greeted early to-day :he ears of Richard McCreerv, millionaire polo player, who was given a sard of membership for five days in :he Speeders' club at the county jail by Judge Shortall on conviction of having raced his automobile on a public highway. McCreery obeyed and was served the regulation prison breakfast of black coffee and toast. No special favors are being granted him in the :ounty jail, though he fared delicately in the city jail for a single night he spent there. The regulations permit that he send out tor lood. out the county jail is distant from fashionable restaurants, and the only dainties McCreery enjoyed last night were chicken sandwiches and French pastry brought to him for dinner by his friends. McCreery is sharing a cell with John Fredericks, convicted of petty larceny. V RAISES $20 TO $50. Pretty Girl Does .Land-office Business in B<*gu9 Bills. New York, January S.?Secret service agents today called on a number of leading merchants and warned them to be on the lookout for a pretty girl with a bogus $50 bill. They exhibited samples of bills she has already passed. About $2,000 of these hillc liovo alroaHv heen distributed. The counterfeiter has taken $20 bills and by clever pen work raised them to $50 bills. The work~4s so well done they are readily accepted by persons not on the lookout. Sold Again. For ten long but blissful years they hau walked along the path of hne: but as yet the lovesick youii? had never mentioned about their getting mairied, relates Tit-Bits. Courtship is very charming; but when the*e does not seem to be cl'ar-rails at the end of it, girls naturally b?giu to lose interest in the game. Anyhow, Jane thought it time that ihe mar: iage-day was fixed, so she threw out a gentle hint to her lover by way of encouraging him. Encouragement, she thought, was all <!;e dear fellow wanted. / "Xathariel," she whispered, coyly, "they're saying we're going to re married soon." "Are they though?" answered the stolid SAfjii. "What a jolly sell it'ii be for them when they find out we ain't!" Endorsed for Places. Washington, January 13.?In response to a notification from Commisioner of Internal Revenue Osburn thac he was ready to receive their recommendations for four appointments in South Carolina under the income tax law. Senators Tillman and Smith to-day joined in endorsing the following men: L. M. Overstreet, of Aiken, to be inspector: \V. H. Ross, of Walhalla, .and J. F. Mcintosh. of Lynchburg, to be office deputies, and S. Frank Parrott, of Gaffney, to be field deputy. The senators signified to Commissioner Osborn that the sooner these appointments were made the better they would be pleased. It is possible that Secretary McAdoo will not be bound entirely by the recommendations. In several States appointments were to-day announced in the internal revenue department, which did not have any senatorial influence behind them. In the main, however, Mr. McAdoo is expected to follow the senators' em dorsements as to these places. Combating Mail-Order Houses. * There ha^ recently appeared in print an article entitled* "Severn Good Reasons Why You Should Buy at Home," presumably "by some literary syndicate which is engaged in a propaganda directed against the mail order houses. Here are the reasons: 1. Your home merchant can duplicate the prices made by any responsible firm anywhere on goods of the same quality, in the same quantities and on the same basis of delivery and payment. 2. You can examine your purchase in home stores and be assured of satisfaction before investing your money. , 3. Your home merchants are always ready and willing to make right any error or any defective article purchased. 4. Your home merchants help support through direct and indirect taxation, your schools, churches, libraries and other public institutions. 5. Your home merchants help to . make a good local market for every tiling you have to sell, and that market more than any other racior give* your land its present value. 6. Your home merchants are your , friends, ever ready to extend a help ing hand in time of need. 7. If this community is good enough for you to live'in and make your money in. it is good enoifgh to spend it in. 8. The best citizens in this community are those who believe in and practice home patronage. Be one o the best. 9. Merchants in the distant citios give you nothing valuable that the home merchant cannot give you, and the former cannot, and will not rio' J for you many things the latter do gladly. 10. Every dollar kept in circulation in this community helps increase property values.?Keystone Journal. Pleasant Party. Miss Franke Folk entertained yesterday evening for the Apollo Music club. Rook and other games were I ?>? onH o cruocsinp- r?nn tpst was cu aiiu u 5, w- ? also enjoyed. A salad course, with !ciearn'and cake was served. The | club rendered some delightful music during the evening. The affair was largely attended and very much enjoyed by the ,young people. ' ?- - - -".J. Three Loads Here We have received those told you about last wee beauties. Come and set exactly the kind of anin terms always reasonable. We also have another 1< - ? ? - m will arrive the tirst part that we carry plenty of s\ and you can always be s are among the very large lower part of the State, b Mule market in the w< position to take of our la ing number of custome dealt with us for years. * BUGGIES, WAGO Good stock on hand. C in this line. Our vehicles facturers, and they are t A visit will 1 Jones / Railroad Avenue v Legal Any kind you may The Herald office. t - .1 i j. - form inai you warn we will get them o We are prepared to < Mail Orde ^====3 We wil I POUND < n I f? i Pound of Dr ? rarmen J Bambe ^? J?? * . ! and More Coming three loads of Mules we j ;k, and they are certainly . * I i us, tor we can give you ? lal you want. Prices and / ? >ad on the way, and they ^ of next week. Remember tock, not just a few animals, uited at our stables. We ! 11 - jst live stock dealers in the ray in the largest Horse and orld, and therefore are in , rge and constantly increasrs. Ask those who have . I , " Y: ;;f-v NS and HARNESS an furnish what you want come from the best manu- |g| he kind that give service. * wnfetaL D'L-1,. Dl&lllVd r want can be had at. . If you have a certain |j? send them to us and ut for you promptly. i i? do all kinds of printing. 1 O k/l/llV/1 iVVt ; . * J||| ' Us give a II ^ I OF MEAL J r a II y Cotton Seed | % " a. ' ~ a. I :clfl l" # I* I ?| 5 bin Co. r rg, S. C. ^