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SUtr Bamberg feralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. 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 payaDie strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rales allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other 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. < viniitinnirjitiniis?We are always glad to publish news letters or those I 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, October 22, 1914. The use of the split log drag after the rains greatly improves the roads. They should be used in Bamberg county. It strikes us as being a most dangerous idea for the State of South Carolina to go into the money lending or cotton buying business. Several bills are being proposed looking to the issuance of bonds for this purpose. This will put a debt of millions upon the State, and whether the State will ever come out of the transactions without being the loser is problematical. The State's debt now is only about six millions. We hope the people will think a long time before tacking twenty-five millions more to it. WE HOPE THEY WILL. P : The legislature has been in session now for something more than a week, and nothing has been accomplished.?Bamberg Herald. "This reminds me:" Shortly after freedom came to the negroes and their children started to school, the father of one of the "scholars" said to his boy the night of his first day, "Sit down and write me a letter." The child of course told the old man that he hadn't learned to write yet. "Ain't learned to write yit!" 6aid the old man with disgust. "Ain't learned to write yit and been to school all day! If dat's de best you kin do you better stay at home." Give the legislature time. If that body can possibly give the farmers any relief they will certainly do it, and they are planning things that promise good results. But you must give them time.? Newberry Observer. Thp leeislature has our very best wishes. We trust the legislators will accomplish something, and we will certainly give all credit for what is done. But the fact remains they cannot legislate any cotton out of existence. We are confronted by the fact that there are about fifteen million bales in sight and demand for about six million. Figure it for yourself. The people must work out their own salvation. ] # ONE WAY OK HELPING. That the people can help themselves more than legislative action can help them is demonstrated by the fact that one of the largest flour milling concerns in the country has adopted the exclusive use of cotton bags for all the products of its mills. This one concern, which manufactures one of the more popular brands of flour, formerly used $600 worth of cotton bags each clay, and $625 worth of bags made of other materials tnan couon. v\ nen it became apparent that this country would be overloaded with cotton on account of the war in Europe, the concern adopted the use of cotton for manufacturing all their bags. The result is that the company is now using something more than double the quantity of cotton than a few weeks ago. At present millions of dollars are being spent for cotton bagging, made of jute. America does not produce any jute. We are paying some foraio-n cnnntrv rm'llinns. for cotton bag sing. This bagging could very easily be made of cotton, and this would mean the consumption of hundreds of thousands of pounds of cotton not now being used. The people should demand of the i dealers that all goods that can possibly be wrapped in cotton be pur. into cotton packages. The legislatures of the different I States can. doubtless, help the farmer in many ways, but the fact remains that the legislatures, nor congress, can legislate any cotton out of existence. WAS FRANK IGNORANT? This is an Important Point to he I>e- j cided in Next Appeal. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 1 's.?Counsel for Leo M. Frank today entered into , the final week of preparations for , the legal contest which is now re- . garded as the only barrier between , the defendant and the gallows, the , motion to set aside the verdict on t the ground that Frank was not in r the court room at the time the ver- t diet was rendered. The point will come up for argument before the State supreme court next Monday. The point is a peculiar one. Frank's own lawyers waived his presence in the courtroom, they agreeing with s the court under the then excited con- t ditions his life might be endangered. No complaint was made by Frank. But after other attempts at a new trial had failed a new set 01 lawyers appeared for Frank and entered this plea. It was much commented on | at the time that Rosser and Arnold, his regular counsel, who had waived his appearance, did not attempt to protest their own action, but permit- c ted another firm to enter his plea. . It is stated, that to win this point , Frank must prove that he was ig- ^ norant of his counsel's intent to waive his appearance and that he c never gave his personal consent. A Kuroj>ean View. s i It is not only on the operations of war that a veil has descended so that f we do not know what is happening a there. Darkness has descended on t the work of the builders in society, i the men and women who in normal c times endeavor by a thousand ways, a through art, literature, music, science * and politics, to unite humanity with I what is eternally true, beautiful and s good. On these builders, trying al- i ways to raise pillars of human r thougnt fo the heavens, the curtain i of darkness has now dropped, and on the illuminated stage of the world 1 only the human animal is doing his f turn, using all physical and material t energies against his kind. t When the Armageddon is ended, a we wonder whether there will be any i civilization in Europe. One thing 1 appears certain, that after a long- c continued war of this magnitude, the t leadership of the world will have n passed from the old to the new conti- v nent, and America will be supreme t henceforward in the arts, sciences t and economics over the earlier civili- v zations. This supremacy of hers t was perhaps inevitable, but it is cer- t tain that when this war is ended, the u United States will be the dominant s power in the world in almost every j department where human activity is F displayed. The alteration of its tar- t iff policy lately was a preliminary s athletic exercise of its economic e limbs before attempting the indus- c trial conquest of the world. Now, c all these nations, its industrial rivals, n have weighted themselves with a r terrible burden from which a genera- s tion will not see them released. t Mr. Well6 is writing in the strain n of the prophet about the coming al- t terations in the map of Europe. They t are of little importance compared a with the fact that all the economic en- n ergies, the intellectual powers and as- t pirations which made for civilization, o suppressed in Europe, will have made their home in the new world. The c sun of humanity is going to rise P brilliantly in the west, and Europe t is at the close of its long day, its c royal domination over the fortunes c of the world. There seems nothing v to prevent this except the impossible a event of a sudden cessation of the t; European riot and an immediate re- o turn to the work of civilization.? d Editor George \V. Russel in Irish P Homestead. v t Wild Bullet Struck Infant. ii A bullet from a pistol fired by a Guignard Johnson, colored, passed y over an eight acre field through the d walls of his dwelling and entered the t side of his eight months' old child seated in her mother's lap. The u blood from the wound was thrown in- c to the face of the woman. The wound c was not regarded as serious Thursday night when examined by a phv- e sician a few hours after the accident, a which occurred on the plantation of Luther Martin, four miles from Brookland. ^ Johnson was shooting at a target t located in a field when the bullet 1' flew wild and missing the object, t brought about an accident somewhat of an unusual nature. v a Unwliit^washable. " "If some of those financiers keep on telling on one another they'll all end with the character that C'al Clay gave the deacon." The speaker was Gifford Pine-hot. the famous Progressive, says the St. j T ------ 1 nAmfiorot 14a racunioH I IJUUIS UlUUC-fClllvnai. ??t nouu.vu. | "Cal Clay was a witness in behalf of the deacon, who was tip for chicken stealing. " 'Calhoun, my man.' the lawyer said, 'what do you know of the deacon's character?' " " 'Hit am unreachable, sah,' Cal replied." S t WXIOIS TO l?ASS LKVKIJ HILL. President Relieves Success of Movement Depends on This Measure. Washington, Oct. If*.?President A'ilson is anxious for the house to mmediately pass the Lever bill for lie establishment of cotton warelouses and said today that he beieves the success of plans for loans o cotton planters depends on this >ill. It has already been passed by lie senate. This is the only legislative pro>osal for the relief of the cotton ilanters which the president has apiroved. Regarding suggestions for the reitriction of the cotton crop next year he president told callers that in his jpinion this was entirely a State luestion. COTTOX ACKKAGK REDUCTION. -louse Passes Hill Providing For Planting Third of Land in Cotton. Columbia. Oct. 21.?The special 'ommittee on cotton acreage reduc ion reported the following measure, vliieli has passed the house and has tone to the senate: "A bill relating to the cultivation >f cotton. "Be it enacted by the general aslembly of the State of South Caroina: "Section 1. That it shall be unlawul for any person, by himself, his igents or employees, to plant or culivate in this State in any year a jreater number of acres of land in otton than one-third of the total tcreage of land planted and cultiated by such person in said year: 'rovided, however, that in no case 1-toll r? r?i- noroAn nlQnt rvr r?ll 111 V'511P n cotton more thar. six acres to each egular work animal used in his farmng operations in said year. "Section 2. That any person vioating the provisions of this act shall orfeit as a penalty a sum of not less han twenty-five dollars, nor more han one hundred dollars, for each nd every acre planted or cultivated n excess of the number herein alowed. to be recovered in any courf^ T competent jurisdiction in an acion or proceeding brought in the lame of the State; and said penalty ihen recovered shall be paid over to he county treasurer for the use of he county in which the said offense ras committed. Said penalty and he costs of the proceeding in which he same is recovered shall be a lien ipon all of the property of the peron adjudged to pay the same, subect only to liens existing prior to the assage of this act and liens for axes: Provided, that judgment for aid penalty and costs be entered and nrolled in the office of the clerk of ourt of general sessions and comcon pleas as other judgments are iow allowed to be entered and enolled where the recovery is had in uch court: And provided, further, hat where the- recovery is had in a (magistrate's court the same be enered and enrolled in the office of he clerk of court of general sessions' nd common pleas as judgments of magistrate's courts are now allowed o be entered and enrolled in said ffice. "Section 3. That after any proeeding has been taken against any erson or persons for a violation of his act it shall be the duty of the lerk of court of general sessions and ommon pleas for the county in ,-hich the offense is charged, upon pplication under oath of either pary of such proceeding, to issue a rule f survey in the case, giving three ays' notice thereof to the opposite artv, the costs of such r^le and surey to be taxed in the bill of costs in he final'adjudieation of the same. "Section 4. That all sheriffs, sherffs' deputies, magistrates, constables nd rural policemen shall be charged rith the duty of inspection, the proaction of evidence and the prosecuions for violation of this act. ' Gaotirvn " The ffnrd 'nersnn' sed in this act shall be held to inlude partnerships, voluntary assoiations and corporations. "Section 6. This act shall go into ffect immediately upon its approv1." To enjoy mashed potatoes at their est. add a little baking powder just lefore serving, the proportion being lalf a teaspoonful if six people are o be served. This makes them so deliciously vhite and light that ycu will never igain serve them without it. WATCH | For Our Ad. Next Week : I LaVerne Thomas & Co. !irt>scribe for The Herald, $1.50 year. I To The As we understand the schools have a hard 11 .1 i*i r scholars tne Rina or s like for them to have used in a school roon enough to us to cal letter and let us kno\ will send it to you Below Are Just a Few of thi n i i it n 1 school nas lommencea You want to equip the children f< school, and you want to equip them i cheaply as you can?yet you want to g< your money's worth. Just come to T1 Herald Book Store, you can get ever thing you need right here?exce] school books. We have so many thing for school children?and the grown-u scholars too?that we really don't kno where to begin. But we will mentic these: Pen and pencil tablets. Pens and inks, any price. Pencils. Water colors. Colored wax crayons. Drawing tablets. Slates and slate pencils. Ink, pencil and combined erasers. Rules. Pencils. Pen points and holders. School companions, in neat boxes, wit keys and without. Compasses. Composition books. jrem;ii sxicu penci a. Pencil and pen holders. Mucilage and paste. Aluminum drinking cups. Combination pens and pencils Colored and drawing pencils. For the Teacher Desk bells. Roll and record books. Erasers. Crayons. Inkwells. Rules. Manuscript papers and covers. Prize books. Ink in screw cap wooden boxes. Plain writing and note paper. Memorandums. Examination Tablets We have the Baltimore Legal, the ! & E legal, Washington Manuscript, an the Genius examination tablets. FOR THE ME For the Lawyers A full line of legal blanks. Typewriter papers, all kinds.Everything for the office. Manuscript paper and covers. Box files. Large and small note books. Index books. 1 uaroon paper. Letter clips. Memorandums We have so many and so many diffe: ent kinds of memorandum books, the we are afraid people would t j offende if we started to name them all. If thei is a memorandum you want, no matte what kind, price, design, style, size, c what not?leave it to us you can get: right here. Prices from 5c to 50c, an every one of them worth it. W^l^a^rder^h^D I Herald B Teachers 5 teachers of most country . time in getting for their chool supplies they would We have most anything l. and if you are not close 1 or send, just drop us a v what you wish, and we by return parcel post. e Many Things We Have In Stock Pencils )r We believe people would laugh at us ^ if we were to tell just how many^diflfer3t ent kinds of pencils we carry in stock. ie They'd think our store was located in a big city?but everybody is onto the fact that we carry the best line in this sec>s tion. Doubtless you like and use one LP kind all the time, here is the place to get w 'em. in School Bags and Straps We have them in a number of different styles and prices. Neat school bag in oil cloth, 10c. Stiff board bags, 25c. Other styles for 15c and 20c. Good serviceable strap, 10c. A better one for 25c. A single one for 5c. fa Tablets and More Tablets Our stock of tablets has been our pride for years. It is more complete now than ever. We have' '57 varieties" of tablets and then some. For the school children we have the "Big Five," "Crony." "All You Can Carry," "Red Bird," "Jingo," and "Buffalo" pencil pads. "Red Gold," "Normandie," "Falmouth," and "Virio" are big five cent values in pen tablets. Composition Books \ Jj We have this season an especially attractive line of composition books. No matter what kind you prefer, we can suit you. - - ? . .I i? .1.1. ' ? weoster?tne oia reiiaoie. D. K. Linen?the very best made, for | 5c. I Two big ones, 160 and 220 for 5c. I One with U. S. map attached. I Fan Favorite. Flashlight. B Stiff Back. d A very large one with board back, for " 1 25c. iff, N AND LADIES 1 Miscellaneous If We have just received a new line of bill and coin purses?dandies. - Manicure scissors. Nail clippers. I Tweezers. | Passe Partout binding. | Photo paste. I Push pins. I Sealing wax. I Rubber daters. I Post cards. I Marriage certificates. I r- Toothpicks. I & Legal envelopes. I d Tissue and crepe paper, all colors. I *e Liquid glue. I 'r Paper napkins. 1 }r Visiting cards and envelopes. I -i it Marking tags, all sizes. I d Rubber bands. g Adding machine paper I ayTheyAr^Received^T^^fe. I Innk Stnrp VU11 k/iVA V ||