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aJhr lambrrg fbrralft 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 o Ice which is equipped with Merg athaler linotype machine, Babcock cj .inder press, folder, one jobber, a t?ne Miehle cylinder press, all run by s-.'ectric power with other material h:;<! machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an invest tr.c-nt of $ 10,0UU ana upwaras. 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 cents a line each insertion. Wants and ether 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 in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. ? Thursday, April 23,1914. With McLaurin and Manning lined up as the leaders on opposite sides of the political fence, it would not surprise us to see Clinkscales come out winner. Our sympathies go out to the town of Olar, which has suffered so severely by fire twice in the past few months. However, handsome brick * buildings will take the place of the wooden structures burned. What about a county fair for Bamberg county this fall? This matter was discussed several months ago by our people, but no action was taken. It is time something was done if the fair is to be held. We understand that city council is seriously considering the question of paving Main street from the depot to the cotton mill, and we certainly ^ hope this can be done. With this street paved and a "white way" for same, Bamberg would certainly have the appearance of a city. \ . SUSTAINS RULING. t > Supreme Court Decides the Daicho School Case. Columbia, April 22.?Action of the board of trustees of the Dalcho public school in Dillon county, in dismissing Herbert Kirby, Eugene Kirby and Dudley Kirby, was sustained in a decision yesterday by the Supreme Court. The main opinion was written by Chief Justice Gary and concurred in by Associate Justices Hydrick, Watts and Fraser. Associate Justice Gage wrote the dissenting opinion. The action of the DilI Ion trustees was sustained by the State board of education and an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court. Geo. W. Tucker, guardian of the chily dren, brought the action. "While the testimony shows," says the court, "that the children are entitled to be classed as white, nevertheless the action of the board of trustees were neither capricious nor arbitrary, as they are willing to provide equal accommodations for the Kirby children and those in the same "-1 ^+ V>Tiio toctimnnv alsr* VJia^d V> 1 C11 U1CU1. X v?.v/x, shows that the decided majority of the patrons would refuse to send their children to the Dalcho school if the Kirbv children were allowed to continue in attendance. Tested by the maxim, The greatest good to the largest number.' it would seem to be . far better that the children in question should be segregated than that the large majority of the children attending that school should be denied educational advantages. \ "Subdivision 3. section 1761, code of laws. 1912, provides: That the board of trustees shall have authori, ty and it shall be their duty to suspend or dismiss pupils when the best interest of the schools make it necessary,' shows that the action of the trustees in dismissing the said children was justified by the law of the land and that the petition should be dismissed." The action was brought on the ground that "the wards of petitioners are not of pure Caucasian blood." "If these children are white and are^'entitled to be classed as white.' then they may not be rightfully excluded from schools made up of white children," says Associate Justice Gage, in his dissenting opinion. Of the surviving Indians in this country, 74,825?more than a quarter of the whole number?live in Oklahoma. Seven other trans-Mississippi States have more than 10,000 Indians apiece. ORDERLY PUT IX JAIL. Indignities Have Been Heaped Upon T United States. Washington. April l.~>.?The arrest of an orderly who went ashore at Vera Cruz to obtain mail for the American fleet, the interception of dis- n patches to Charge O'Shaughnessy, ^ j the censorship over official dispatches u and repeated offenses "against the p | Tights and dignity of the United I ^ I States" were given to-day as some w of the causes of the dispatch of the 0 i Atlantic fleet to .Mexico in an official n | statement representing the adminisj tration views. 0 The following official statement v was issued to-day as representing the views of President Wilson and c the administration: "In discussions in official circles w in Washington of the present Mexi- ^ can situation the following points ?> have been very much dwelt upon. It c has been pointed out that, in con- S siderin? the present somewhat deli- c cate situation in Mexico, the unpleasant!1 incident at Tampico must 1 net be thought of alone. For some J* time past the defacto government of ^ Mexico has seemed to think mere 0 apologies sufficient when the rights t of American citizens and the dignity 1 of the government of the United t States were involved, and has apparently made no attempt at either reparation or the effective correction of the serious derelictions of its civil * and military officers. * "Immediately after the incident at Tampico an orderly from one of the chine nf the United States in the liar- ^ bor of Vera Cruz who had been sent ashore to the postoffice for the ship's 1 mail and who was in uniform and ^ who had the official mail bag on his s back, was arrested and put into jail n by the local authorities. He was subsequently released and a nominal c punishment inflicted upon the officer * who had arrested him, but it was n significant that an orderly from the e fleet of the United States was picked out from the many persons constantly 11 going ashore on various errands from d the various ships in the harbor rep- t resenting several nations. ^ "Most serious of all. the officials ** in charge of the telegraph office at Mexico City presumed to withhold an ^ official dispatch of the government a of the United States to its embassy a at Mexico City until it should have been sent to the censor and his permission received to deliver it and a gave the dispatch into the hands of f the charge d'affaires of the United P States only upon his personal and ? emphatic demand, he having, in the 11 meantime, learned through other & channels that a dispatch had been r sent him which he had not received. E "It cannot but strike any one who 2 has watched the course of events in Mexico as significant that untoward r incidents such as these have not occurred in any case where representatives of the United States, and that s there has been no occasion for other * governments to call'attention to such 0 matters or to ask for apologies. 0 "These repeated offenses against 11 the rights and dignity of the United States, offenses not duplicated with regard to the representatives of oth- ^ er governments, have necessarily s made the impression that the govern- n ment of the United States was singled n out for manifestations of ill will and s contempt. - v "The authorities of the State department are confident that when the seriousness and the cumulative effect a of these incidents is made evident to e the government of Mexico that the * government will see the propriety ^ and necessity of giving such evidences of its desire to repudiate and correct these things as will be not 11 only satisfactory to the government c Qtntpc; hut also an evi- n Wl llic L Uiu-u dence to the rest of the world as an c entire change of attitude. There can * be no loss to the dignity of the de facto government in Mexico in recognizing in the fullestv degree the claims of a great sovereign govern- 11 nrent to its respect." ' s DIVORCE BY WIRELESS. Hawaiian Heiress in Hurry to Take * a New Husband r Mrs. Marie K. King, a Hawaiian P heiress, now in Honolulu, is probably the first woman who ever received a decree of divorce by wireless. She got it to-dav in order that 0 she might marry at once another man. * Mrs. King was the wife of S. G. O. ^ King, secretary of the Junction Oil p Company. She is rich in her own name, and a member of the old Piiloi ^ I family, of Hawaii. I The Kings separated in 1909 and Mrs. King sued for divorce, charging f desertion. The interlocutory decree ^ was granted April 1. 191.1, in Oakland, and Mrs. King returned ?o Honolulu. There she met a wealthy Hor-irtoH tn rpinarrv. but at in a. xi anu uvviwvv* v? , , the last minute she remembered that I the final decree of divorce from King had never been granted. She sent ^ frantic wireless messages to-day to her attorney here, and as a result Judge William H. Donahue, of Oak- c land, signed the decree.?San Fran- c cisco Examiner. F TRAFFIC OX CANAL. wo Small Railways Carried $130,500,000 Worth of Merchandise. Washington, April 15.?Suggesnns of thp amount of traffic which lay be expected to pass through the anama canal are contained in figres made public to-day by the deartment of commerce which show !iat in 1913 two small isthmian railrays carried across the narrow strip f continent $130,500,000 worth of lerchandise brought by vessels from tie United States for trans-shipment, f this trade two-thirds moved west-ard and the remainder eastward. Only a few American ports partiipated in the traffic. New York leadlg with $84,000,000, San Francisco ras second with $21,S00,000, and lawai third with $1S,200,000. Many f the shipments were from New irleans to ports on the west coast of outh America. From San Franciso large shipments went to Europe. The Tehuantepec railroad, which is 20 miles long, carried $99,500,000 r'orth of traffic and the Panama railray, 40 miles long, carried $31,000,00. The total amount was double hat shipped by the same routes in 908, one year after the opening of he Tehuantepec line. Ten Great Inventions. What are the greatest ten invenions of the past twenty-five years? <ast July the Scientific American ofered prizes of $150. $100 and $50 or the best three essays on this subect of universal interest. The stipulations were made that he greatness of an invention would e measured in terms of practical uccess and general usefulness to mankind. The contestants were limted to "machines, devices and disoveries commercially introduced in he last twenty-five years;" they lust be "patentable though not necssarilv patented." The judges had difficulty in selectag the winner, owing to the wide iversity of opinion among the constants. Xo two competitors sescted the same set of inventions, 'hey finally decided to award the irst prize to William T. Wyman. or Washington, D. C., whose selections re bbriefly summarized in the World s follows; The Electric Furnace. This produces a "heat so intense s to simulate some of the primal ores of nature." It alone has made iossible the production of artificial ems, carborundum (hardest of manifactured substances,) calcium cariide and artificial graphite. It has educed the price of aluminum from Qore than $12 a pound to less than 5 cents. It has made possible the ixation of atmosphere nitrogen and evolutionized the steel industry. The Steam Turbine. Has effected striking economics in team consumption, abolished vibrairm rpHnppd enerine sDace by from ine to two-thirds, and is sending the Id reciprocating engines to the scrap leap. The Gasoline Automobile. The benefits conferred upon rnan:ind by the automobile are so widepread as to need scarcely any comaent. Among them however, must iot be forgotten the creation of thouands of miles of improved highways. Moving Pictures. Have transformed the people's musements and are becoming an ver more important factor in educaion, science, trade and recording urrent history. The Aeroplane. While this presents the least comaercial utility of all the inventions onsidered. it is the most radical inovation in the whole history of ionmotion and threatens to revolu ionize warfare. Wireless Telegraph. Has made possible the universal nter-communication of all the world. ias robbed the sea of its terors and aved thousands of lives. The Cyanide Process. One of the main agencies whereby he world's production of gold was rebled between 1890 and 190S. Has evolutionized the metallurgy of the irecious metals. The Induction Motor. This has made possible the transmission and utilization of alternating lectric current and is mainly reponsible for the rapid substitution f electric for steam power in the inustries, conserving from 30 to 60 ?er cent, of the energy formerly ,-asted in whirling line shafting and elting. The Linotype. Has made it possible to set type rom five to ten times as rapidly as eiore: nas savea nine auu wyeusc nd made the modern newspaper. Electric Welding. * Makes it easy to join the most anagonistic metals with safety, surety nd swiftness. Tt was the first radial change that the art of the smithy ad undergone in historic times. The most fashionable thing in use iow is the initial correspondence ards. We have them, 25c a box. lerald Book Store. ASKS CONGRESS TO APPROVE. ^ Has Authority to Use Force, but Seeks Co-o|?eration and Advice. ? Washington, April 20.?President Wilson laid the .Mexican situation before congress to-day in these words: "Gentlemen of the congress: "It is my duty to call your attention to a situation which has arisen in our dealings with Gen. Victoriano ! Huerta at Mexico City which calls for action, and to ask your advice and co-operation in acting upon it. On the 9th of April a paymaster of the U. S. S. Dolphin landed at the Iturbide bridge landing at Tampico with ^ a whaleboat and boat's crew to take off certain supplies needed by his i ship, and while engaged in loading < the boat was arrested by an officer 1 and squad of men of the army of Gen. Huerta. Neither the paymaster nor 1 any one of the boat's crew was arm- ( ed. Two of the men were in the boat < when the arrest took place and were 1 obliged to leave it and submit to be < taken into custody, notwithstanding < the fact that the boat carried, both i at her bow and at her stern the flag 1 of the United States. The officer 1 who made the arrest was proceeding ( up one of the streets of the town with < his prisoners when met by an officer I of higher authority, who ordered him 1 to return to the landing and await i orders; and within an hour and a i half from the time of the arrest or- '> ders were received from the comman- ! der of the Huertista forces at Tampi- < co for the release of the paymaster 1 and Iris men. The release was fol- 1 lowed by apologies from the com; 1 man der and later by an expression of regret by Gen. Huerta himself. Gen. Huerta urged that martial law obtained at the time at Tampico; that orders had been issued that no one should be allowed to land at the 1 Iturbide bridge: and that our sailors had no right to land there. Had Xdt Been Notified. "Our naval commanders at' the ' port had not been notified of any such prohibition; and, even if they had been, the only justifiable course open to the local authorities would have been to request the paymaster and his crew to withdraw and to lodge a protest with the commanding officer of the fleet. Admiral Mayp regarded the arrest as so serious an affront that he was not satisfied with the apologies offered, but demanded that the flag of the United States be saluted with special ceremony by the military commander of the port. "The incident cannot be regarded as a, trivial one, especially as two of the,, men arrested were taken from itcoif?that is to sav. from IU^ UV/M V ? , the territory of the United States; but had it stood by itself it migfit have been attributed to the ignorance or arrogance of a single officer. Unfortunately, it was not an isolated case. A series of incidents have recently occurred which cannot but create the impression that the representatives of Gen. Huerta were willing to go out of their way to show disregard for the dignity and rights of this government and felt perfectly safe in doing what they pleased, making free to show in many ways their irritation and contempt. Arrested in Uniform. "A few days after the incident at Tampico an orderly from the U. S. S. Minnesota was arrested at Vera Cruz while ashore in uniform to obtain the ship's mail and was for a time thrown into .jail. An official dispatch from this government to its embassy at Mexico City was withheld , by the authorities of the telegraphic service until peremptorily demanded by our charge d'affaires in person. So far as I can learn, such wrongs and annoyances have been suffered to occur only against representatives of the United States. I have heard of no complaints from other governments of similar treatment. Subsequent explanations and formal apologies did not and could not alter the popular impression, which it is possible it had been the object of the Huertista authorities to create, that the government of the United States was being singled out, and might be singled out with impunity for -slights and affronts. I>uty to Sustain Mayo. "The manifest danger of a situation was that such offenses might grow from bad to worse until something happened of so gross and intolerable sort as to lead directly and inevitably to armed conflict. It was necessary that the apologies of Gen. Huerta and his representatives should go much further, that they should be such as to attract the attention of the whole population to their significance and such as to impress upon Gen. Huerta himself the necessity to seeing to it that no fur ther occasion for explanations and regrets should arise. I therefore, felt it my duty to sustain Admiral Mayo in the whole of his demand and to insist that the flag of the United States should be saluted in such a way as to indicate a new spirit and attitude on the part of the Huertistas. "Such a salute Gen. Huerta has re Capital and Surplus $100,000.00 'used, and I have come to ask your! innrnval nnri SUDDOrt in the COUTSe ! ?? ? r* ' now purpose to pursue. "This government can, I earnesty hope, in no circumstances be foreid into war with the people of Mexico. Mexico is torn by civil strife. If ' ve are to accept the tests of its own constitution it has no government. 3en. Huerta has set his power up in the city of Mexico, such as it is, ivithout right and by methods for svhich there can be no justification. Dnlv part of the country is under his control. If armed conflict should unhappily come as a result of his attitude of personal resentment towards this government, we should be fighting only Gen. Huerta and those who adhere to him and give him their support, and our object would be r only to restore to the people of the distracted republic the opportunity 1 to set up again their own laws and their own government. "But I earnestly hope that war is I not now in question. I believe that r speak for the American people when I say that we do not desire to control in any degree the affairs of our sister republic. Our feeling for the people of Mexico is dne of rippn and genuine friendship, and! everything that we have so far done or refrained from doing has proceeded from our desire to help them, not to hinder or embarrass them. We would not wish even to exercise the good offices of friendship without their welcome and consent. "The people of Mexico are entitled to settle their own domestic affairs in their own way, and we sincerely desire to respect their right. 'The present situation need have none of the grave implications of interference if we deal* with it promptly, firmly and wisely. "No doubt I could do what is necessary in the circumstances to enforce respect for our government without recourse to the congress and yet not. exceed my constitutional powers as president; but I do not wish to act in a matter possibly of so grave consequence except in close conference and co-operation with both the senate and house. I, therefore, come to ask your approval that T should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from Gen. Huerta and his adherents the fullest recognition of j the rights and dignity of the United States, even amidst the distressing | conditions now unhappily obtaining' in Mexico. I n?re ^an in wnai we uu ue uui thought of agression or selfish ag-! grandizement. We seek to maintain I the dignity and authority of the Uni-! ted States only because w? wish always to keep our good influence unimpaired for the uses of liberty, both { in the United States and wherever ; else it may be employed for the bene- i fit of mankind." i ?????* 'ft ;?* ??* ?iT;jfi 7J7 TJTTJTiJi ?J7TJ?TJT "J? . *7"^? 7*7 I MAKE IT V |T To see our st P } wear, in Ready Waists, Skirts, etc ft of beine correctly We invite your Dress Materials*2* shades and weaves yfc Our Dressmakin found popular fa^ ^ "there's a reason. 3? for yourself. i psc -'Bends'Mil Tbade ti? pi | Price &. "Th#? Itio-ht Pric? f? B AM BE F > \ - - * - - ' ' -' ' 'iS- L If You Propose To Do Business ! J da it in a businese way. Sue- l cessful men these days no longer pay any bills in currency, j They deposit their cash in an institution _ like the Bamberg Banking Co.. and settle all theiraccounts by checks which are indisputable evidences of payment. "Go thou and do likewise." . v Ov <; 4 per cent. Paid on Savings Deposits Bamberg Banking Co. (1 BAMBERG, S. C. = I \ -'== ? 1 SHOOTING AT EDGEFIELD. tegroes in Difficulty and One Serious- . , ly Wounded. / Edgefield, April 19.?William ** Steadham, of this place, was shot last night. Dicjt Hampton is accused of ' the crime. Although alive this morning, the wound is thought to be mortal, the ball from a pistol penetrating the lungs. Steadman went to 4 Hampton's house, where they became involved in a quarrel over a debt, which the former is said to have owed the latter. The shooting follow-, ed. Both parties are negroes. ? * Now is the time to play checkers. Boards for sale at The Herald Book > Store. . ' \. ' GROWING CHILDREN. x They Should Be Protected Against - - - ?* ? 11 internal i ncieamintss us nou*? . External Contamination. The delicate organs of the matur- -J ing child are more susceptible to the influence of disease and infection than are the more seasoned organs ' yv ; of grown-up. Malaria takes an early ^ and strong hold on the child's liver and causes headaches, coated tongue, indigestion, cramps and many-other dangerous conditions. . : These are the signal posts of warn- v < ing nature provides that your child may be relieved of impending sickness. The proven remedy, CARSWELI/S | ||f LIVER-AID which is a purely VEGETABLE liquid compound should ,be in y6ur medicine chest ready to ad-; minister at the first sign of a dis-, ordered liver. Fifty cents purchases a large bottie at Mack's Drug Store, Bamberg/ S. C., under the absolute guarantee that price will be returned without quibble if you want it. f. 35 Democrats, Attention! As provided by the constitution of.. "Agg the Democratic party of South Caro- Jp lina, club chairmen throughout Bam? berg county are requested to give tor mediate notice of the time and place of meeting of their respective chibs to be held Saturday, April 25, 1914, for the purpose of reorganizing and . < to elect a member of the county executive committee and delegates to, : the county convention. Each club4 is i entitled to one delegate for every 25 * members and one delegate- for a majority fraction thereof. # The county convention will convene in the court house at Bamberg, S. C., Monday, May 4, 1914, at 12 J o'clock m., for the purpose of electing officers, a member of the State Democratic executive committee and six delegates to the State convention, and to attend to such other business > as may come before the convention. f'\ Full attendance of Democrats at A their club meetings as well as at the county convention is earnestly^lesif- * ed. ' H. C. FOLK, y . , County Chairman. \ R. W. D. 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