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U <Th?> lamhrrg ijrralh ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. , , ? Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bam' berg, being issued from a printing whifh is eauiDDed with Mer genthaler linotype machine, Babcockl cylinder press, folder, two jobbers a g%fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power with other materia, and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an in vestry -:s ment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $1.50: i- - sax months, 75 cents; three months > 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance, i Advertisements?$1.00 per inch ; for first insertion, subsequent inser* tions 50 cents per inch. Legal adE v^rtisements at the rates allowed b> f law. Local reading notices 5 cents IJ. V* line each insertion. Wants and uf E ; other advertisements under special * head, 1 cent a word each insertioii. H&t Liberkl contracts made for three, six Rcf* and twelve months. Write for rates. S;Obituaries, tributes of respect, resold dilutions, cards of thanks, and all no-? """1 char < I1C6S OI' ii J^i &uuai ui ^ * acter are charged for as regular ad- J . . vertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first c Insertion. , j Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those liCV'1 pertaining to matters of public inters est. We require the name and ad^ dress- of the writer in every case. I )'/ No article which is defamatory or ?pensively personal can find place iq our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions extev pressed in any communication. Thursday, January 13, 1916. BB?'.*', We read in the Dorchester Eagle J|p*that the editor has been promised KSthat the stumps will be removed from Main street of St. George. Shades of Moses! Why ruthlessly destroy , such a well known landmark? I We imagine there are a few peo? ' pie in the State who are genuinely t? read in Governor Manning's fage to the general assemDiy tnat i special fund of $2,000, approp- i I by the last legislature for le- ] dvice for the governor's office, t >een returned to the State treasmtouched. Although the gov- j J did not ask for this appropria- j he came in Nfor considerable 3 ism from certain sources on ac- 1 of it. ] i legislature opened its annual n Tuesday. It has always ap- J rto b. casual observer that there necessity for the passing of so laws. A few laws, enacted in ! maimer as to be declared con- 1 tmal by the courts, will fill the ind we could very well dfspose .ny laws that are now on the es. It seems to be the idea of of our legislators that the leg*e meets for no other purpose 1 o pass lawsi s are pleased to give our readers'} fe^today practically in iull the annual'( pfe > message of Governor Manning. The (5 ^?^pmessage will be found very interest- 1 |ng to those who have a desire to | up with the affairs of the State, j1 i^Kiv*Fh? governor urges upon the general j ( \ assembly the importance of an eco-1 1 |^p 'r!nomical administration of affairs, yet Jio does not desire to cripple any of 1 : the * various State institutions. He p ? Wants the tax levy placed at a mini- 1 \mum. As was to be expected, the 1 i V, governor has a good deal to say about 1 ^VVlaw enforcement, and he feels that 1 there is 'a better understanding in v -this regard among the people of the ] | Burkitt at Work. J Can it be possible that Assistant ( Postmaster Burkitt, of Wipnetka, 111., < is being haze<^? . If the news tele- 1 felt- grams airb trustworthy \t would al- 1 Slpt most seem so. , ] t'P '.Mr. Burkitt, whose expression of 1 gjgp. views on. second, marriage proprieties 1 recently lifted him from an unobtru- ] lip- sive status to national celebrity, is 1 : back on the job ^hich his conversa- ] fcional indiscretions^eost him?hack by peremptory order from the white ||gj|house itself. With undoubtedly re\ vised conceptions of the advantages < ||fe: incident to refraining from combin- j ing sociological discussions with his 'Clerical duties, there is no reason" ' why he might not have disappeared ; | > from viefw as suddenly as he emerged. V But apparently this is not to be. ' i Originally merely a victim to his own f ^ delivery window conversational gifts, f he now promises to become again conspicuous as a martyr to the rigors of official tyranny. The plain implication of recent '.; Chicago news dispatches is that his * - - oimorifir tha nftotmoetar nf ^r. . Winnetka, "has it in tor him," if we | - v may be permitted to .use the phrase. To begin with, Mr. Burkitt's reception when he returned to his duties was chilling. He was met with a brusque order to "get back there and shuffle mail." The "shuffling," furthermore, had to do with pigeonholes. Then he was told to go and "get his . lunch and be back in ten minutes." his home being eleven minutes' walkdistant. Demotion and an unchristian al lowance of time for luncheon! It smacks distinctly of hazing.?New York Sun. ....... U. S. NAVAL RESE GUANTAN By Lieut. D. Graham Station, Guant (Editors note.?Lieut. Copeland j; has kindly furnished The Herald with 1 ^ - 11 ~ inf/M'Aolin tr o yi H 1110 IOUUWIU5 > Ci > lUlciconug uuu instructive article, which it gives us < pleasure to give our readers. Lieut. Copeland is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. j D. Copeland, of Bamberg.) ji i How many readers of The Herald know that Uncle Sam is a tenant of j the Cuban government? How many < < school children, if asked the question i on examination: "Name and give date ' of acquisition of all outlying posses- ] sions of the United States," would in- < elude in their answer "Naval Station, 1 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, acquired by i lease from the republic of Cuba Oc- < tober 6, 1903, for a period of ninety- i nine years at an annual rental of; t $20,000. s It is safe to say that the great ma- t jority of readers would scorn the idea! i of Uncle Sam being a tenant of the c republic set up only a few years ago, ( and that still fewTer school children c are aware that on the , southeast j i ' coast of Cuba, only fifty miles from t Santiago, known so well to all stu- ^ dents of history, there is a bit of land forty-seven square mnes in area? v hardly one-tenth the size of Bamberg c county?where the stars and stripes r fly supreme. Would it interest you c to know something of this spot? i f Discovery. 1 Guantanamo, or at least the bay j of that name, has been known from a the earliest days of western coloniza- r tion. The great harbor, with its nar- j t row entrance effectually keeping out i the terrific hurricanes and gales that, * sweep the Caribbean sea, is a natural c haven, and its broad expanse of deep 1 r blues sea affords an anchorage for the j c fleets of the world. Early in the six-*! t teenth century, a Spanish galleon,! s richly laden with gold stolen by Pi- ? zarro from the Incas of Peru, buffet- v 3d by wind and wave in the Caribbean, sought refuge in the-bay, refitted and set sail for Spain. There the 1 stories of the wonderful harbor with r its arid surroundings, fell on the c aager ears, not of courtiers and con- ? ciuistadores, but^ of pirates instead, s Pirates. * What could be more alluring for 1 'Jolly Rovers of the Spanish Main" a than a wide, deep harbor with arid v surroundings to tempt no colonist? I ? And, thus, while Habana, Santiago!1 ind Cienfuegos were favored by the j a brown and became wealthy Spanish j c g settlements, Guantanamo became the j rendezvous of the followers of tbe| 'Skull and Cross Bones" flag. So j r bold and daring did the pirates be- :J J come and so numerous the bands, that the neighborhood was shunned by vessels of all nationalities. In time, prizes at first so plentiful, bebame fewer, and it was necessary for j the pirates to 'extend their cruises, ? though none deserted their original a base. The neighboring settlements 1 bf Jamaica, Haiti, Santo Domingo,! t Martinique, Florida, and even the | ^ English colonies on the North Ameri- | a ban coast, paid toll to their daring, ! ? As long as British shipping and j < British colonists were not molested, ^ , ill went well, but the moment sailprs under the protection of the flag e bf St. George were forced to walk the s plank the British liom roared. A powerful British squadron was des-! g patched to put an end to the depre-' c iations of the pirates, and so effec-11 lively did they do their work that the * rendezvous was*/completely broken j ' up, and, as a pirate centre, Guantanamo Bay does not again appear in i hietnrv " I UlkJWV* J French Colonists. ' ? The British vessels remained long- s er than the Spanish galleon, however, and learned that instead of an arid g waste, to the northwest at the foot't of a high mountain range, lay a rich ^ and fertile valley blessed by a climate ( second to none. England, having j colonies enough of her own to develop, and Spain being at the time r too eager to enrich herself at the , expense of the Peruvians and Mexi- ^ cans to bother with one small valley,; j the richness of the cotintrv might 11 have remained unknown had not just j then Dessalines gathered together the slaves of Haiti and Santo Domingo t and, profiting by the troubles of the , French, managed to butcher every j . : l white who did not escape on the eve of the massacre. Rich, accustomed to every luxury and oppulent beyond | degree, the French colonists fled in open boats with scarcely any food and water whither they knew not? wherever a friendly wind and tide' mitrVii- lnr?H ^ I Some finally, reached Louisiana.1 1 where the names of Beauregard, Cas-, tallanos, Claiborne, Carondelet and other famous Creoles, inscribed on!( i < every page of Louisiana history, at- * test the valor and chivalry of their i \ . :rtation amo bay, cuba Copeland, U. S. Naval anamo, Cuba. ancestors so ruthlessly put to the sword by the blacks of Haiti and Santo Domingo. The majority however, iri.ted through the entrance of Guantanamo Bay, only one hundred miles from Haiti, and pushing inland camped at the foot of the hills, where they found sugar cane growing wild. Sugar. What ric%was to the early settlers of South Carolina, sugar cane proved to be to the French colonizers of Guantanamo. The Spanish government was friendly and granted every encouragement, giving land, not by the acre but by the sq,uare miles instead. Soon cane was being cultivated on thousands of square miles of . ertile valleys and mountain tracts? ;he labor being furnished by the enslaved Indians and Africans of whom ;he number in those days was very ?reat. The world famous haciendas )f San Carlos, Santa Catalina, Los }anos and Soledad, were founded and >ver them, the French, who had no ntercourse other than official with he Spanish, ruled like feudal lords, rhe property- passed from father to ildest son, and, until the exploitation >f the region by American capital at dose of the Spanish-American war, emained in the hands of the direct lescendants of the settlers who fled rom Haiti during the dark days of .790. Today, the haciendas are deserted irid, where once the haciendado uled in oriental luxury, are heard he gruff orders of American fore- * nen, the click of Underwood typewriters, and the songs of thousands >f West Indians working amid the attle of American made sugar ma^ ' hinery. Only one of the great esatcs remain. This is Yuruguana, ixty-five square miles in area. But ve are off the American naval reserT.tion anti should return. Fort Toro. ] ' The ease with which the British < tad entered led the Spanish to comnence a comprehensive scheme of lefense for the bay,., the possession of which practically meant the owner- j hip of the entire eastern end of the < sland. Accordingly, Fort Toro, with ' ts elaborate system of walls, moats, J . ntrloc HnnfrDAna anH aroat Piatarnc ?UJ?U0VU?U ?"U v ?as built tp withstand a prolonged 1 iege. At first, in the arid wastes, . he fort attracted little attention, but, s colonists increased in numbers and Ipanish repression created in them 1 n ever increasing yearning for Cuba nbre, Toro became a symbol of teroism, much the same to the Cuban, latriot as was the Bastile to the j French revolutionists. The fort is deserted now, its guns [ismantled, its moats filled, but gray laired Cubans still tell in hushed ones of the cruelty its haughty govrnors practiced in the days of their 1 iffluence. "Was it not there> in Nu ero 13, that Jauana de la Barra, afer her father had been brutally murlered and his estates sequestered for ,lleged conspiracy, was kept as serant of the Spanish governor until ter youth and beauty had left her?" 'And, Pedro Pianos, remember his torrible death by garrotte before the syes of his aged mother and faithfui weetheart?" These stories, handed down from generation to- generation, are told by i lozens, and, undoubtedly, the Span- ; arr? snffprs increased odium each! . - -- j , ime they are retold, but enough re- , nains to justify us in believing that j 1 he history of Fort Toro, like that of'! >a Cabana at Habana and El Moro ; < it Santiago, was bloody and horrible inough to mark it for destruction as 1 ;oon as the Cuban patriot became ' itrong enough to throw off the yoke. And so it happened in the 30's, and igain in the terrible revolution of he 70s and finally in '96 and *98, Toro became the scene of fierce en:ounters. Attack after attack was aunched against the fortress, but *ach time the Cuban machete could lot cope with the Spanish JNiauser, md about the only discomfort the garrison suffered wag the invariable 1 rnnting through the dense under- ( irush and cacti after the fight for the i jodies of the despised Cubans, which, ottins: beneath a tropical sun, dis-|! ,urbe& their revels within a few lours after the last gun had been ; ired. The Spanish army in Cuba suffered a single defeat in the open.at the lands of the Cubans., It was only vhen it was enticed into ambush that ;he followers of Marti, Garcia, Goliaz and Maceo were able to make ?ood use of their deadly blades?the nachete?and annihilate a Spanish 'orce. Wherever there was an open ield or a fort, the story was always lifferent. The Cuban could not withstand the onslaught of trained in(Continued on page 5, column 2.) a i V. V" \ . % w ^.. ' * - :?k ^T T^T T^f T^r ly T^f "^T ^r | "WHO PAYS?" | t M J ' 1__ 17 X ? iriunuay, Jan. 11 i ===== f > THE PURSUIT V OF PLEASURE ^ Second in a series of twelve dramas of undilute<l realism, Y ======== Y THE THEME being the story of a woman who ignored her birthright, ^ ^ the privilege of bearing chil- ^ i dren; of how she repented, X J and of how it was too late. ^ Ramified by contributory cir- V cumstances in the form of a 4$*. clergyman of the hell-pre- A A and-'wimstoiie variety, a SisX illusioned husband, and an I t age of civilization that isn't, t Y ====== Y Matinee (Who Pays?) 5 and <* 10 Cents. A Night, 6 Reels?10c and 15c. ___ . _ __ mi i mi f lluelen Iheatre f WATCH OUT FOR HIM VAX ORSDELL, Artist of Orangeburg, S. C. will be at OLAR, S. C. JANUARY 12th to 20th Honest, Good Photos Made. Rain or Shine. Take Advantage of This Chance in Your Own Town. Bring the Babies, We Are Good Friends. ESTABLISHED IX 1880 VAN ORSDELL * THE OLD RELIABLE CITATION NOTICE. The Stcte of South Carolina? County of Bamberg?By Geo. P. Harmon, Esq., Judge of Probate. Whereas, Ella Mitchell, hath made suit to me to grant her letters ot administration of the estate of and. effects *of Jerry Mitchell, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred md creditors "of the said Jerry Mitchell, deceased, that they be and appear before me in the Court of Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on Saturday, Jan. 8th, next, after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal this 18th1 day of* Dec., A. D., 1915. GEO. P. HARMON, Judge of Probate. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP. Notice is is hereby given .that the firm of H. O. Morris & Brother, a firm composed of H.yO. Morris and G. Cleveland Morris, doing business at Olar, S. C., by mutual consent, will disolve copartnership, the dissolution to take effect January 1st, 1916, and all persons interested will be governed accordingly. Parties interested will further take notice that all parties indebted to said firm will make payment to G. Cleveland Morris, and all parties having claims against said firm will file the same with G. Cleveland Morris, duly itemized and verified, forthwith. H. O. MORRIS & BRO., By H. O. MORRIS. G. CLEVELAND MORRIS. December 28th, 1915.?3t. ASSESSMENT NOTICE. The Audi(or or his deputy will be at the following places on the" days and date belofr for the purpose of receiving returns of personal property and notice of real estate bought or sold since last return. The Auditor will appreciate it very much if every taxpayer will make a list of his personal property and the price at which he wishes to list it with the Auditor. This will save time for all concerned and avoid the forgetting of any item of personal property: Farrell's?January 6, from 10 to I o'clock. Midway?January 1A from 9 to 10:30 o'clock. Ehrhardt?January 13. St. John's?January 14, from 9 to II o'clock. Kearse?January 14. from 12 to 2 o'clock. Govan?January 20. Olar?January 21. Denmark?January 27. Lee's?January 28, from 10 to 1 o'clock. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 60 (except Confederate soldiers) are liable to $1 poll tax. All able-bodied male persons between the ages of 21 and 55 are liable to $2 road tax. Dogs 50 cents. Automobiles will be returned separately from other articles. Household goods will be returned separately from other goods. Taxpayers are urged to find out the name and num- j ber of the school district in which i they reside, and be prepared to give | this information to the Auditor when they make their returns. Please get your age in your mind/ I will be at the court house on all /Iottc montinnpH ahnve until the uaj O lAV/t lUVUViVMvx* V,-. w . ^ 20th of February. After the 20th of i February a penalty of 50 per cent, j will be added to all personal proper- j ty not returned, so make yours be- i fore the -20th. . i R. W. D. ROWELL, County Auditor. ! Read the Herald. $1.50 per year, j % V A CHECK BOO] THE BEST SHBi IN LIFE'S FLIG MM M /% TT < mi -II A <11 in 1 Jl Yuirvjii reaci aoout urvnie wngnrs success \ ilizer, the balance wheel of flight. In life's balance wheels. For instance, you need honesty, of morality, of physical well being, of m a column about life's stabilizers. Instead we su; this sketch over. THEN COME GET A CH] CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - - \ 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Sav Bamberg Bank | AT CO We will sell at c entire stock of Sell ^ , for ladies. If yoi ' \ shoes now is the ^ * i get a real bargain. i - r . c \' * ??MM??MJ|???? V C. R. Brabham' ENGINEERING. AND SI Land Surveys, Drafting, D Blue Printing, Estimates, D map work a special!" for Further information writ LENAIRE F. WOLFE or VIRGIL ^ X v Phones: 269, 241-L, 72 I OUR SPECIAI I Country style pork sail- on hand at sage and pudding. Your patr< Fresh * water fish three I days each week?Tuesday, The popul Thursday ^nd Saturday. . nothing ot Full line best fresh meats Telephone PARLOR MAR | " " "| Put a Real WILLIA1V ===?======== ' BAfl CARD OF THANKS. j . , We are indeed thankful to the peo- I will sell pie of Ehrhardt and community for cash on Tu< their kindness to us during the re- eleven o'cloc cent illness of our son, Heber,> who the- personal passed away on the 7th inst. Dear hardt, decea friends, your help and sympathy will fodder, hay Ions be remembered. utensils. J MR. AND MRS. G. J. HERXDOX. Read the Herald, $1.30 per year. Read the i t > | . '-V ? ' /'V .... -.--gSij: ' ' ^ ^ ^ . . _ * ^ ^ . rr.iTFP. ? !HT ,<* .># t t* pith his aeroplane stab* s flight yon need several the balance wheels of v oney. One might write jgest that yon THINK + 1 ECK BOOK. _____ - - $100,000.00 lags Deposits. ;ing Co. | ST J :ost our y ^ y shoes u need *. j time to sSons i ' 3 irveying! I rainage, I ' esigning I | E OB CALL I ' ^ F. BRYANT I --.v :M Orangeburg, S. C. TV I I -ill - , H # -i all times. . y *' Si >nage will be ap- ; 7 1 reciated. ar price Market, er 15c per pound. ; KET I Electric Starter f | four Ford. at has been used for reliable. The Starter r the boQd out of the er that does away with , ts from the seat. JET us put on one fl ?or you. ^ IH. PATRICK I dberg, s. c. * notice. v to the highest bidder for 2sdav, February 1st, at * H k, at Ehrhardt, S. C., all property of Jacob Ehrsed. consisting of corn, . . mules, and 'arinihg . I IX EHRHARDT, . Aannnisiraior. , ' / Herajd, $1.50 ^ er year. * V ' - * ' I.' fifr-^yfr "I'lVf 1 .rT.v ' " -/ 7