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HAS HAD A BUSY WEEK. MR. KOHX REVIEWS WORK OK LAWMAKERS TO DATE. Compulsory Education, Referendum and Primary Measure on Docket This Week. Columbia. Jan. 30.?Although there have been a number of very important matters disposed of in tlie general assembly, there has been thus tar the kindliest feeling and the utmost lack of partisanship on the part of the members, both in the house and senate. There has not been the slightest indications of any political lines of demarcation and no vote or suggestion has indicated factional feeling, nor has any member been referred to directly or indirectly as having won or lost in the recent political struggle in South Carolina. There is apparently a marked desire on the part of the membership to let the administration, of which so much is expected, have its way in the more important matters of policies. These policies were indicated in the inaugural address of Governor Man ning. It might be noted that two of the most important matters that have been acted upon either by the house or senate, or both, were not incorporated as a part of the administration policies, that is the repeal of the cotton acreage bill and the prohibition referendum. These two matters, together with the State warehouse system, have brought about the most interesting discussions thus far during the three weeks of the present session. Like a Whirlwind. Whether it be an embarrassment to the present administration or not, as the Charleston Evening Post suggests. the prohibition referendum went through the house like a whirlwind. The expectation is That it is going to pass the senate, and the chief hope of those who are opposed to plunging the State into prohibition is to have the opportunity of letting the people vote upon a license system, and in that way bringing to the attention of the voters the merits of such a system as compared to prohibition. There are going to be very tew remnants left of the work of the extraordinary session. The most important action of that session was to pass what was known as the cotton acreage reduction bill, which has been repealed by a decided majority, both in the house and in the senate, As a matter of fact, the sentiment against this legislation has been the strongest that has been evidenced in the legislative halls. Warehouse System. Whether the fight on the warehouse system is more against the policy of the State going into a new business or whether it is against the incumbent commissioner is not so certain. There are two views: one is that the system is wrong and that the State ought to leave the warehouse business to private enterprise, the other that the selection of the present commissioner has introduced a political element into the question that has minimized the possibilities of success. Although the house had only a few days previously repealed the cotton acreage reduction bill the warehouse act was allowed to stand only by a few votes, and the solidarity of the Orangeburg and Richland delegations is credited with saving the system, at least temporarily. It might as well be recognized that some of those who voted to spare the system do not expect to give it any additional money. The original appropriation was for $15,000. Of this amount $12,000 is left, and some of those who voted in favor of the retention of the system indicate that this balance will have to be sufficient for at least another twelve months. This, of course, is very much less than the commissioner is asking for, and it may result in his announcement that he cannot make a success of the undertaking without more funds, and this may have its sequel. Work Ahead. The next week is going to be detn throp. nf the most important propositions that are pending. First, the senate expects to take up on Tuesday the compulsory education bills: then on Wednesday the referendum proposition, and after these the Nicholson bill to reform the primary election laws. On the house side compulsory education, the proposed tax commission legislation and medical inspection will be the most important matters for the coming week. These topics are the most important issues that are pending this year. The tax commission bill that has been prepared by the sub-committee of the ways and means committee with Mr. Liies as sub-chairman, is by far the most important undertaking in tax reformation since the constitutional convention of twenty years ago. Briefly stated the proposition is to abolish tne .State board of assessors, the State board of equalization and all assessing and taxing FALLING T1IKK FATAL. Hugh llyrd, of Giigal Section, is Killed. Edgefield. Jan. 2<?.?Hugh Byrd was killed on his farm in the Gilgal section by a falling tree Thursday. Having some woodland that he de! sired to cultivate, he invited his , noighliors to assist him in telling the I tr?-es. He had just cut one tree and i while watching it fall another tree i | that, was cut near him fell across his ' body. He lived about four hours, j .Mr. Bjrd was a member of a large ; and representative family. Hardly Worth .Mentioning. As A1 Stewart, who runs a hotel j in New Orleans, tells the tale, a nineI ty-vear-old negro man. who was I homeless, penniless, infirm and crip I pled, crawled into a hayloft in a strange neighborhood to spend his last hours. The darky who owned the hay saw a suspicious figure slinking into his stable and came with his shotgun to make the intruder a prisoner. Cautiously entering the stable he detected a rustling in the hay and, aiming his gun in the direction whence the sound came, yelled out: "I got you! Dog-gone you, I got you!" The expiring wanderer raised his head and, as he gazed down the gun barrels, replied wanly: "An' a great git you got!" boards and place the full and absolute authority for all assessments, equalization and tax values in a board, consisting of three members, one of whom is to devote his entire time to the matter of tax assessment and equalization, and the remaining two members are to be paid a per diem. Authority is given for the appointment, of clerks, sten ographers ana experts; u.e unec i?.v commissioners are to be appointed directly by the governor, the responsibility for the suooess of the undertaking being with him. 1'he proposition goes so far as to provide that the commission, being entirely familiar with all matters of taxation, fix the levy after the general assembly has provided the appropriations. This board is to have full authority of the matter of assessments of ail real estate, personal property, railroads, express companies, telephones, cotton mills, water power and any and everything that is now in the j hands of the various hoards that I touch the matter of equalization in high spots. St&to Hospital. Another matter that is advocated by the new administration and will have the serious attention of the general assembly is the reorganization and reformation of the State Hospital mr>ro commnnlv lor Uie moaiic. mu'v . known as the asylum. As is known, [ Governor .Manning has had an expert ! going over the situation, and the re| port of this expert is expected within l.the next few days. The committees | on the State Hospital for the Insane j have been diligently at work preparj ing plans to bring about an improvei ment in conditions, and the expectaj tion is that legislation will be recom| mended that will entirely reorganize the present system and incidentally i bring about the use of State Park I for the colored patients at this time and the gradual development of that I property. i There are quite aviiumber of mat-' i ters of minor importance that are re! ceiving legislative attention, about which there is not much concern, j One of these is the Carlisle-Boyd bill. j which proposes 10 I giving and receiving of "tips." This 1 legislation is supported by the travel' ling associations in the State and tne i bill has already passed the senate. Mileage Books. I Some time ago it will be remembered that certain of the traveling associations were largely instrumental in having South -Carolina adopt a , law by which the railroads were j forced to allow mileage books to be i pulled on the train. As a result of this ! legislation the railroads all placed j on sale mileage books that were peculiar to South Carolina and were J good only in this State and in conI fortuity with the South Carolina staj tute. What was known as inter{changeable mileage. Book Z form of j mileage, sold in other States and good j for either interstate or intrastate ' travel, under the South Carolina law, j and the regulations of the railroads j were not acceptable for travel in j South Carolina. Everybody seems to j have gotten quite sick of this ar1 raniromPTit and Mr. Carlisle, in the senate, and Mr. Boyd, in the house, i have introduced bills by which the j old-time Book Z mileage books are j to be recognized in South Carolina. ; The idea is that if a person should I buy a mileage book at the rate of i two cents per mile that the book may ! be used on any of the railroads that i interchange mileage, and it may also ; be used, as was done before the South i Carolina statute, either for travel in j South Carolina or for a trip to any ! other State?the one book being good for anv travel.?August Kohn. ? Read The Herald. $1.50 per year. i K\(iLA\l) DISPLAYS IXTKIL T. Minister Instructed to Ascertain at an Status of Landslides. re er Panama. -Ian. 30.?The British adj miraliy apparently is displaying much pv j interest in the condition oi' the Pana- !ii ma canal. Sir Claude C. .Mallett. at British minister to Panama, has heen CO instructed, it is understood, to ascer- o: tain tlie status of tlie recent landslide. ; Sir Claude told canal odiciuls re! ports had been received in London ; that the waterway probably would i be closed indefinitely because of un! favora!;le conditions in Culebra cut 0-j |and that apparently British shipping ! interests had requested the govern- S: ; ment to learn what conditions actual- 0, I ly were. It is believed here the re| ports in London were caused by a 2, ! misunderstanding of the announce| ment from Washington that the forso mal opening had been delayed. a] The condition of the channel was th better today than at any time since ' ' * L - ? * rtlAr>A/l uciouer i;>, wutru xl \>ao uuaCj. i .... vessels of heavy draft safely navigat- dg ed the waterway during the day. 2( Postponement of the formal opening of the canal was announced Mon- tv day at Washington. One of the fac- fo tors said to have been responsible was difficulty in controlling slides. __ Governor Goethals is said to have told President Wilson he could not promise that large battleships could th be sent through in March, when the opening was to have taken place. dg es Iiack on the Map. w: o. The jackrabbit that slapped the " bulldog in the face was a rank cow- _ ard in comparison with the little re- X< I Con Morino flfltlv de'villST I yuuiit SJ*. Kju.il. *>iui tuv . w I Germany to its face. The figure must J be altered somewhat to suit the nat- ge ural history of the case, but the wj doughty Lilliputian country may be | da said to have yanked valorously at the|^ tail of the Teutonic eagle. This was oa when it refused to "receive" the com- L. mission which Germany threatened he to send to investigate an alleged vio- ^ lation of the laws of neutrality in 2E the operation of a wifeless station. tli Of course, the German eagle could co have wiped San Marino off the map ^ with one claw; but for good and suf-L^ ficient reasons, not all arising from j fear of the San Marino standing j he army, casualties were averted. Thei?* | ctC incident serves to recall the fact that sa there is such a place on the map as he San Marino, the oldest republic in the world, one. whose history goes 9_ back uninterrupted to the days of ? Charlemagne. The whole republic i could be dropped down in Kansas City without occupying more than fo half of the 60 square miles of terri- ^I tory now embraced within the bound- js aries of this metropolis. Its population is fewer than 10,000 and its 1? j standing army reaches the fornnda- ^ hie proportions of 1,?00 men, about th twice the size of Kansas City's po- pe lice force. The encyclopedias say t? j that the citadel where the army . { stands on guard is a huge rock 2,700 ' pt ! feet in height, though they do not j ta suggest that the army is set upon a! ^ I hill in order to make it visible. The! p* histories say that along in the 800s ;F< ?not the ISOOs?San Marino rebelC( led against the sovereignty of the j ^ j mighty Charlemagne; but that puis sant monarch was aeepiy engrusscu | in some real trouble at the time and i I L3 j \ is said never to have heard of his! pi rebellious vassal. Certainly the "re- ci bellion" did not disturb his empire. C( San Marino enjoys the distinction of having a dual presidency, and is- pj sues its own postage stamps and j g< ' monev?the two last named being of I H I H1 J great interest to philetelists and numismatists. In the rush of greater pj( events the "ultimatum"* recently is- h sued from the populous capital of 1.600 souls has passed unnoticed, a q, mere chirrup drowned in the roar of q! | 10,000 guns and the march of 10.- St ! 000.000 men. But there is romance i Ss T1 I in it, nevertheless, if only in the temj porarv resurrection of San Marino tv 1 from the sleep of microscopic obscur- ex ; ity. San Marino gets back on the or I map, if but for a day.?Kansas City ^ [ Journal. I Ain't It Fierce? a? ! US Of I 4 I t r^r> Tvllo h ?? Ct f O POIl I /ill) U1UU1CI ^Ulb\S& .?*.V tend with the linotype, which resets qt; I a whole line to correct an error of Is ! even one letter, can appreciate this , . ro ' story. In yesterday s issue we com- ^ ! mented upon this quotation from the th | Jacksonville Times-Union: | "Change of pasture makes fat : calves." In the proof-sheet, the line appear1 ed: j "Change of pasture maks fat i calves." W j We marked in an e, but the line appeared in tlie first edition thus: "Change of pasture makes that : calves." . ? We caught that error and marked ff it for correction on the press and this 'is how it appeared in the final edi-, \ i tion: ! r? . / 'I. ? ? rrn riF nfictnrc Ttiskps fat S V. i ; c 11J v, vyi 1 ? ; calves." S Would not that justify homicide? Z ( ?Greenville Piedmont. U ASSESSMENT NOTICE. . The Auditor or his deputy will be the following places on the days id date below for the purpose of c-eiving returns of personal prop- i ty and notice of real estate bought j sold since last return. The Audi- ; r will appreciate it very much if : ery taxpayer will make a list of i s personal property and the price | which he wishes to list it with the j iditor. This will save time for ail i ncerned and avoid the forgetting j any item of personal property: Bamberg?January l to January j Denmark?Monday, January IS. ' Lees?Tuesday, January 10. Covan?Wednesday, January 20. Olar?Thursday, January 21. Ehr'nardt?Tuesday, January 20. St. Johns?Wednesday, January Camp Hill?Thursday, January 28, 20 a m. till 10 a. m. Kearse Store?Thursday, January jj !. 11 a. m. until 2 p. m. Farrells Store?Tuesday, February 11 a. m. until 3 p. ni. All male persons between the ages 21 and 60 (except Confederate ldiers) are liable to SI poll tax. II able-bodied male persons between e ages of 21 and 55 are liable to ! road tax. Dogs 50 cents. Please get your age in your mind. I will be at the court house on all iys not mentioned above until the )th of February. After the 20 of jbruary a penalty of 50 per cent, ill be added to all personal propernot returned, so make yours here the 20th. R. W. D. ROWELL, County Auditor. ESTATE NOTICE. All persons having claims against e estate of Shady S. Brought on, deiased, are hereby notified to file e same, duly verified, with the unsigned, and those Indebted to said tate will please make payment likeise. G. FRANK BAMBERG, 11 Executor. Bamberg, S. C., Jan. 25. 1915. i)TICE OF SALE OF UNCLAIMED FREIGHT. Notice is hereby given that the aboard Air Line Railway Company ill sell at public aution on the 5th y of February. 1915. at 12 o'clock ton, at the freight station of said Dnipanv in Denmark. S. C., one "~ rload of cotton-seed hulls, in S. A. car No. 260S1. Said car of hulls ing shipped from the Southern Cotn Oil Company, Columbia, S. C., to G. Richardson, at Denmark, S. C., id arrived at Denmark on or about e 22nd of September. 1914. the nsignee being notified on the 22nd iy of September. 1914, and refused accept the same or pay the. freight larges therefor. The proceeds of said sale are to s applied to the payment of transstation charges and demurrage crued on same and all expenses of le, and the surplus, if any. to be >ld for the partv entitled thereto. SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. CO. By J. H. Chitty, 4-15 * Agent. TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open r the collection of State, county, hool and all other taxes from the ith day of October, 1914 until the >th day of March, 1915 inclusive. From the first day of January, )15, until the 31st day of January, 115, a penailtv of one per cent, will \ added to all unpaid taxes. From e 1st day of February, 1915, a :naltv of 2 per cent, will be added f all unpaid taxes. From the 1st ly of March, 1915, until the 15th iy of March, 1915, a penalty of 7 :r cent, will be added to all unpaid xes. THE LEVY. )r State purposes 6 mills 3r county purposes 4 mills )r bridges 1 mill >r roads '. 1-2 mill institutional school tax 3 mills Total 1 4 1-2 mills ? SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. imberg, No. 14 9 mills ! nnakers. No. 12 3 mills jford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills ear Pond. No. 19 2 mills jlston, No. IS 4 mills ?nmark. No. 21 6 1-2 mills [ lirhardt, No. 22 9 mills ! shpond. No. 5 '. i mills 5van, No. 11 4 mills I utto. No. 6 2 mills j ampton, No. 3 2 mills | eyward. No. 24 z mins opewell, N'o. 1 3 mills unter's Chapel, Xo. 16 4 mills ;es. Xo. 23 4 mills id way, Xo. 2 2 mills ik Grove, Xo. 20 2 mills ar, Xo. S 9 mills . John's, Xo. 10 2 mills Jem, Xo. 9 4 mills iree Mile. Xo. 4 2 mills [ All persons between the ages of ' entv-one and sixty years of age, cept Confederate soldiers and sail- [ s, who are exempt at 50 years of j ,re, are liable to a poll tax of one = liar. I Capitation dog tax 50 cents. . \ All persons who were 21 years of j ;e on or before the 1st day of Jan- = iry, 1914 are liable to a poll tax [ one dollar, and all who have not = ade returns to the Auditor, are re- j lested to do so on or before the = t of January, 1915. j I will receive the commutation \ ad tax of two ($2.00) dollars from j e 15th day of October. 1914, until = e 1st dav of March. 1915. 1 G. A. JEXXIXGS. Treasurer Bamberg County. | GRAHAM & BLACK Attorneys-at-Law ill practice in the United States and \ State Courts in any County in the State. | BAMBEKG. S. G. t| | 3UB-MY-TISM j Vill cure Rheumatism, Neu- I ~~ ilgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic , *T prains, Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old 1 ores, Tetter, Ring-Worm, Ec- * ema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyrr. , sed internally or externally. 25c ll - - - -L9-' . W\ LitP " He who f mXLM|> does not (ILJjUsSxKnP'save Part I of what he earns n '/ - \ i:T^ "fe anew ^ \ * , \pK-46 , ?6\1 y I,\ to-morrow. ' ' J--J \ Make up your mind to take just so much out of your next pay and put it in % the Bank, then get in the habit of doing i+ vrtmil o r?1 tt lb 1 eg uicu. j. j. ' If you will make a little investment I now and then with good habits or money | you will be repaid in rich dividends, among them, comfort, respect and wealth. Start with $1. # 4 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. - ' i PEOPLES BANK | Bamberg, - South Carolina km III IIIIIWIIMBMBBMMM????^ "" I ll ??gS|S SPECIALS MAJESSTIC HAMS, guaranteed to be as goo<l as the best, per pound... ^UL I CELERY, a fresh shipment received 1 ^ every day, per bunch V I KLK BRAND COFFEE, lias a fine ^ A* . .,<. aroma, none better, per pound SWEET POTATOES, tlie juicy yellow kind, per peck.. ^ , ALL GOODS SPOT CASH ' * i Delk's Market II ? ... t? 1 on t-.if l'Uone ->0. - namuerg, o. v. ITT3T ""LT"' - ' ' ',-* \ '^1..'"'l.'n.lM,:!),,;,!.!;..},;,,!^ jj The Rayo Rests Your Eyes :'', THE bright, yet soft light of the RAYO Lamp | rests your eyes as surely as a harsh white glare | is injurious to them. Scientists recommend the light ' \ of an oil lamp ? and the , = 3^ Barfo LAMP I I - % is the best oil lamp made. = ? ? ? -1-- t>? xr_ b f. - Ask your dealer to snow you uic jxayu. iiu g ^ glare, no flicker. 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