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"X (Ebr Sambrrg l^pralh ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KNIGHT, 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 Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Miehle cylinder press, 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. Locai reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special i?j , o ivnrH paoh insertion. OfcJclU, 1 tcui, u ?? v* 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 in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, Jan. 22, 1914 Editor Wallace, of the Newberry Observer,, certainly has his nerve v with him all right. In his issue of last week his leading editorial was headed "Women Are Strange Creatures", and then he proceeds to discuss the sex through about a column and a half of space. We thought he had learned better by this time. That rumor about Jim Byrnes run ning for governor was evidently not started by any friend of his. Of course Byrnes would make a good ;4 governor, but he is going to run for his present job, and is not casting any longing eye on the executive chair. He appreciates the confidence ot the voters of the second district and will continue to serve them as congressman. We fear that Bamberg will not have a sewerage .system for some time to come, as many people who have water works are putting in septic tanks. Mr. Hatchell, who has been here for some time putting in these tanks, says that he has built so far a dozen -or more and others are putting them in. If so many persons go to the expense pf having these tanks put in, they will not be in favor of. extra taxes for sewerage. The hospital project is not dead* by any manner of means. Dr. J. J. v Cleckley, who has taken much interest in the matter, is still at work 011 ?- i* nnA wo fool euro fho msttpr will ^ II, auu ut JLWJ, >JU? V v?*v vvvw. be pushed forward to success. It is probable that the residence of the late Mr. Hi H. Copeland will be purchased for the hospital in case the necessary amount of subscriptions to the capital stock of the hospital company can be secured, and this: seems practically assured. We received a few days ago the first copy of the Anderson Intelligencer as a daily paper. It has not been on our exchange list for some time. The issue referred to contains twenty-four pages, made up of interesting matter and a liberal advertis ing patronage. Win. Banks is editor and W. W. Smoak is business manager, both of them hard-working and ! competent newspaper men. The pa- j per is owned by the business men j of .Anderson, and has strong financial j backing. With such men as Banks j a QmnoL- tn smiiia it thp naner' , - should prove a success, even though j the field is a limited one. But An- J derson is a mighty good town, find | possibly can support a morning and I afternoon paper. Our best wishes are with the new daily and its editor , and business manager. Whiskey Stolen During Fire. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 19.?Quantities of whisky were stolen by negroes and white men this morning when the North Augusta, S. C., dispensary was threatened by a fire which consumed a big warehouse of the Industrial Lumber Company, nearby. The whisky was removed through fear of destruction by the flames. The fire damage will result in a loss of from $40,000 to $">0,000, covered by insurance. The Industrial Lumber Company is in the hands of a re-1 reiver. ^ Why <?f Course. "Stockings?" said the salesman. "Yes, ma'am. What number do you wear?" "What number?" snapped the stern-v.isaged lady. "Why two, of N course. Do you take me for a centipede?"?Ladies Home Journal. \ * MAX WITH CAMERA EYE. J Andrew Irle, Famous Sleuth, Xot Only Possessor of Unerring Memory. A! Most of us frequently experience more or less embarrassment from the inability to associate faces with names. Our memories of the face a and the name are stored, as it were, in separate mental compartments, and we cannot quickly bring them together. In Andrew Trie's brain ba they seemed to be stored in the same PC compartment and always apparently, co came out together. ai Many public men have owed much Si of their popularity to their ability at vc once to call a man by name when K they see his face. The average man Tl is pleased to be thus instantly and or accurately remembered. The late la .Tames G. Blaine was a notable example of this faculty. Andrew Irle's as went much further. His eyes, like jn the photographic camera, seemed to in record all details of appearance, and to his brain put under the same index sc all things seen or heard about any h< person in whom his business inter- w ested him. w He seemed to have for men whom gi he had met what may be called a 111 "complete" memory. When he saw as the face again, or a picture of it, he recalled at once the name, the time, hi and place where seen before, the o! circumstances, and the companions, jn Scores of stories are told about his ki wonderful identifying memory, out of gi which one must suffice here. " er One day there came into the Pink- ri erton agency, with which Irle was connected, a photograph from the d< police of Portland, Ore., of a man cs under arrest in connection with a ri bank robbery. The direct evidence d( against him was not strong, and he tl] was not at all known as a criminal d( to the Pacific Coast police. As soon v< as Irle saw the picture he declared fc it to be that of a man arrested and ai convicted for a similar offense at gi Binghamton. X. Y., about 10 years before, giving the exact date, cir- rc cumstances, and the names of ac- hi complices. And so it was. bi On his release from prison, after tl about four years, the convict ,had ai either turned to honest ways or at re least had kept .out of sight of the nt police. He had simply disappeared from his old haunts in the East. K Either he had failed to make a success of honest industry or had ta thought it safe, in a distant part of S( the country, and after a lapse of nearly 10 years, to-resume a criminal w career. " j 4 Mr. Irle had the same complete memory for handwriting. Only a few ai weeks ago he was shown a portion C( of a letter. He at once named the a? writer, though more than 10 years ^ had passed since he had last seen any writing by the same hand, and then, only a short note. By Andrew Je Irle's death society has lost a member whose special faculties and pecu- c? liar powers made him remarkably useful and efficient in its protection against its predatory elements.? w /".v.- T ? . ? l't i/iuuasu iiiici -vy^caix. , . t\ Wanted Uncle to Kill Mother. ta " lT( Galesburg, 111., Jan. 20.?Prosecution of 15-year-old Julia Flake for tc participation in the conspiracy which, cc it is charged, resulted in the murder cc of her mother by Robert Higgins. the tli stepfather, will not be pushed too 01 harshly because of her youth. State's S< Attorney Wilson said to-day. si "As for Higgins?well, that's dif- al ferent," he added. ' C The alleged conspiracy, terminat- m ing in the murder of Mrs. Higgins on ef January 5. the movements of Higgins and of his step-daughter and their confessions disclosing their infatuation form almost the only topic of S< conversation in this neighborhood. The attitude of the girl toward her mother, as shown bv two letters ? C which she wrote, is beyond the com prehension of countv officials. C. \V. !-IJ ir Ernst, of Galesburg. brother of Mrs. Higgins, and on bad terms with her. was offered pay to kill Mrs. Higgins. This was in a letter written by the a cc gii* last November from North Hen- ' derson, the home of the Higginses. In October, knowing of the differences between Ernst and his sister, Julia, p it is alleged, wrote to Ernst's daugh- ^ ter, Marie, saying: 4'I wonder if ' your father is still of the same notion of killing mother. If he is I wish he would hurry and do it. as I am getting awful tired." Ernst asked Julia if she was crazy. After the supposed accidental killing of Mrs. Higgins he gave the letters to the county authorities. Higgins 0, cL I slept soundly last night and awoke j0 with an appetite for breakfast. He is in jail at Aledo and his step-daugh- Q1 ter is under surveillance there at the home of her uncle. Gus Flake. Confesses Killing Wife. in ti Galeshurg, 111.. January 19.? Robert Higgins late to-day confessed to the mifrder of his wife thre weeks . 1*1 ago. He implicated his fifteen-yearold stepdaughter, who yesterday told . her story of conspiracy to murder Mrs. Higgins to county officials here. I IGER ATTACKS BALLOON.! HERICAN HAS FIERCE BATTLE OX SIBERIAN PLAINS. ^ jast Clings to Car When lialloonist md H|s Fiance Attempt to Make a Landing. A thrilling adventure of American illoonists with a tiger has been rented at St. Petersburg, Russia. Acimpanied by his fiance, Mr. Fobster, 1 American airman well known in beria. made an ascent from Vladi>stok with the intention of reaching habarovsk, a town on the Amur, tie weather, however, proved unfav'able, and the airman decided to nd at the first favorable place. He accomplished the descent, and ai? i. _ 11 f ha o-rnnnrl > me uaauuii ucaicu s^uui. imped out, holding the trail rope, tending to drag the balloon down i earth and assist the girl to deend. As soon as he had jumped, iwever, he noticed a Siberian tiger, hich jpmped over the American ho had thrown himself on the *ound, sprang at the car and reamed hanging while the balloon reicended. Mr. Fobster had no weapon with im but a knife, and it was out the question to urge the girl to ? imp out, since she would have been B lied on the spot. Shouting to the rl to keep quiet, he grasped the J id of the guide rope and ran to the ver, 200 or 300 yards away! Meanwhile the tiger was making asperate efforts to climb into the ir, and the airman, reaching the ver, which happily was not very >ep at that point, jumped in and len shouted to his finance to jump iwn. The girl hesitated, but at that ?ry? moment the tiger, struggling ?r life, made a last desperate effort id climbed into the car. Then the rl took the leap. Mr. Fobster then let the guide >pe go and swam to the rescue of is companion. At the same time the illoon, lightened of the weight of le girl, rose quickly up with the nazed tiger in it. The couple were sscued by peasants. The tiger has Dt been heard from. yines Xot to Hun for Governorship. ^ Washington, Jan. 19.?Represenitive J. F. Byrnes of the Second Duth Carolina congressional district, lio has been mentioned several mes recently as a probable candi- ? ite for governor of South Carolina ad whose name appeared in this . mnection in a paper a day or two ji ?o, stated positively to-day that he ad no such idea at the present me, although it is true, he said, that 3 had been approached on the sublet recently. When Mr. Byrnes was seen at the ipitol and asked the specific queson as to whether or not he would 5Come a candidate for governor, and hether there was any truth in the imors which during the past day or vo have become current, he unhesiitingly said that such rumors could j denied at the present time. He also said that he is a candidate > succeed himself in the Sixty-fourth mgress, and for the present he will ? ^ :? ^ 'Hire ins energies uu leiummg iu ie house of representatives and not i filling the office of governor of juth Carolina. Today there was conderable interest from the gossips )OUt this matter here among South arolinians, but the statement just ade would appear to dispose of it Tectuallv. BEFORE SUPREME COURT. ?veraI South Carolina Lawyers Admitted to Practice. Washington, January 19.?Charles arroll Sinims, of Barnwell, is here t consultation with the case involvig the property of S. G. Still & Dns, of Blackville. who recently tJlll 111 IU tlic nanus ui a. icicivci. reditors have appealed from lower 1 mrts to the United States Supreme ourt for a writ of certiorari. } Mr. Simms was to-day admitted to ractice before the Supreme Court tid so were the following other South arolina lawyers: Stanwix G. MayBid, of Denmark; T. J. Kirkland, of amden. and Eugene D. Blakeley, of ershaw. Quits Pulpit to Teach Tango. Hammond, Ind., Jan. 19.?Xorth*n Indiana farmers are tango mad id the rural dwellers are gettiiyb ssons ton tangoing and hesitation altzing from L. H. Laroy, who was ice a clergyman and a circuit ridHe found preaching the gospel d not pay; now he has bought a j lonograph. hired a femin'ne dancg partner and is. giving inslruc_ i on at farmhouses and crossroad llages. There is now '"too much mustard" nearly every farmhouse up this ;iy, and the former preacher is dog a land office business. ^ Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. * NOW v?.., r 1UU1 V To get the very kinc you have been wan We have received th? told you about last w we can please you. suiting those who are i and see this big lot 1 iUGGIES, WAGOf f,nnrl stnr.k on hand. Cai in this line. Our vehicles a 'facturers, and they are th A visit will b< \ Railroad Avenue New Stoc Our buyer is now ing a car load o will have in thi a car load of Horses a _ j- _ as ever came 10 will be glad to 1 and customers t them over : : i I M Hnviii j. iff. vam EHRHARDT - SO r ^ - ; . - .. i J IS !hance i of Mule or Horse ting for some time, at other car load we eek and we feel sure \ We take pleasure in hard to please. Come while they ate here. IS and HARNESS n furnish what you want ome from the best manue kind that give service. -..'J i appreciated. n' -91111 . ?/it Bros. - BAMBERG, S. C. f ? i ^^Ijpp lr fnminff 11 VVIlUlUk ' i " 'vr out West select- , Ml : jfe >f stock and we is week as fine ' .. > ' . ' ! 181 j? * J f,->v nd Mules I this place. We 1 p| lave our friends || o call and look |||B llll * tltt (UTH CAROLINA