NEGROES NOT FARING WELL.
Emigrants to Cold North Find That
Climate is Not Agreeable to Them.
Things are not going well with all
of the Southern negroes who have
gone north, says a Greenwood dispatch.
A well known conductor on
the Charleston and Western Carolina
railway stated to some Greenwood
men yesterday that he had counted
so far thirty coffins of dead negroes
brought back from the north in the
last three months. The severe winter
is expected to be even more fatal to
them. Mr. J. Brown Bailey, of Greenwood,
who lives in Pittsburg, in a private
letter some days ago mentioned
that things were not going well with
tne soumern negroes uy uig wasw.
He said one hundred and sixty-five
had been arrested and heavily fined
the past week for being drunk and
disorderly. Evidently the nrosperity
of big wages was too much for them.
The winter has not begun yet and it
is thought that not being used to such
severe weather it will be the cause of
the death of many of them.
long Staple in Boll Weevil Territory.
A reader wishes to know if there
is a long staple cotton which is as
early as the King group of varieties
' ?King, Simpkins, Broadwell, Mitchell,
etc. He says he has a few boll
weevils this fall and wants to know
v
if he can safely plant his regular long
staple variety he has been growing.
There is probably no long staple
variety of cotton quite as early as
the early short staple varieties mentiAnnfl
Cninn nf fhom niQV frilit
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as early, although this is somewhat
doubtful. The long staple varieties
usually have larger, thick-hulled
bolls which are probably less likely
to be damaged when their growth is
considerably advanced. While the
earliest of the long staple cottons are
probably not quite so early as the
.short varieties named, a long staple
variety, like Express, for instance, is
nearly as early and possesses other
qualities which probably make it as
good a boll weevil variety as the
shorter varieties mentioned. There 1
can be no question, but the farmers
of the rich alluvial lands of the Mississippi
valley have decided that a
variety like Express is better for
them, even under boll weevil infestation,
than the small boiled short
cottons of the King type.
It is quite possible that different
soil and climatic conditons may
slightly change the growth and maturity
of different varieties, but the
Mississippi Valley, whence our inquiry
comes, has tried and largely
rejected the short cottons of the
v King type ana are now quite generally
growing varieties that will
make a staple of better than an inch
in length. Of course, this applies
more particularly to the northern
half of the cotton belt?but it is
true even in the boll weevil infested
territory.
If our inquirer only had a few boll
weevils this fall and they came rather
late in the season he is reasonably
safe from severe boll weevil injury
next season. If, however, the
winter is unusually mild and the
month of July is wet his crop may
suffer severe injury by the weevils
next year. In the average year, they
are likely to lessen the yield some,
but the not likely to prevent the profitable
growing of cotton if prices are
right. But the third year, or year
after next, 1918, he is likely to have
a heavy infestation of weevils unless
the winter of 1916-17 or 1917-18 is
very severe and summer conditions
are also unfavorable to the weevils.
?Progressive Farmer.
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It Smelled Like It.
The Swedish jitney driver drew up
beside the road, jumped out and with
wrench in hand crawled under the
auto. Taking advantage of the stop
the only passenger, a German, proceeded
to eat a lunch consisting mainly
of Limberger cheese. Suddenly
the driver emerged from beneath the
machine and with bulging eyes and a
hand on his nose stood staring at the
auto.
"What's the matter?" inquired the
German innocently, between mouthfuls
of cheese.
"Ay don't know," said Ole. "But
Ay tank the engine bane dead."?
Chicago Tribune.
Preparedness.
A young married couple was attending
a fair in Mississippi. Finding:
themselves jostled about in the!
centre of a vast crowd, the husband
remarked:
"I say, dearie. I think you'd better
give me the iunch basket. Don't you
see, we are apt to lose each other in
the crowd."?Boston Transcript.
A little cough often ends in a large
coffin.
Bodily vigor protects against colds.
Open air exercise cures colds.
Neglected colds often forerun pneumonia.
Read the Herald, $1.50 per year.
TO DECIDE WHISKEY PROBLEM.
Quart a Month BiU May Be Projiosed.
Convene Next Week.
There will be nothing spectacular
about the 1917 session of the general
assembly, convening January 9.
A constructive programme of legislation
will be introduced, in addition
to the several hundred local bills,
sure to be proposed. The session
will be well ordered and businesslike.
Xo great issues are to be decided.
This will be a new legislature,
the members having been elected for
two years at the last election.
Richard I. Manning will be inaugurated
for the second time as governor
of South Carolina. He has already
begun work on his annual message,
which will review the condi
tion of the State government during
the last year.
There is every indication that the
prohibition leaders will attempt to,
pass a measure reducing the amount
of whiskey which may be imported
from one gallon to one quart a month.
Such a measure has already been
editorially proposed by J. K. Breedin,
superintendent of the South Carolina
Anti-Saloon league. The liquor question
will cause considerable debate.
The Laney-Odom insurance act was
passed by the last legislature. This '
act caused a majority of the fire insurance
companies to withdraw from
the State. Gov. Manning in his message
will propose several fire insurance
measures, intended to relieve 1
the present situation.
It is practically certain that James
A. Hoyt will be reelected speaker of
the house. Andrew J. Bethea, lieutenant
governor, will preside in the
senate. No opposition has developed
to Marvin M. Mann, of St. Matthews,
as clerk of the senate. There
is a spirited contest on between J.
Wilson Gibbes, incumbent, and H. C.
Booker, editor of the Spartanburg
Journal, for clerk of the house. The
general assembly will elect a superintendent
ic succeed Capt. G. J G;riifith
at the State penitentiary.
J. T. Liles, of Orangeburg, will, in
all probability, be reappointed as
chairman of the ways and means committee
of the house.
A programme for social legislation,
including a home for the custodial
care of the feeble minded, will be
proposed by Gov. Manning. Ample
appropriation for the support of the
State tuberculosis hospital at State
Park will also be asked by the State
board of health.
Gov. Manning, it is expected, will
cfiscuss the question of rural credits
and urge that some kind of a law be
enacted. The last legislature passed
a resolution providing for a commission
to study the rural credits mat
ter and make report at the forthcoming
session.
The pruning knife will be used by
the ways and means committee in an
effort to keep down the State tax
levy. The demands on the State government
have been increasing from
year to year. /
Gov. Manning will insist upon a
continuance of the improvement work
at the State Hospital for the Insane.
The legislature has for two years giv- en
$150,000 for this important work
and a like amount will be required
next year. Under the improved conditions
at the asylum the death rate
has been cut about 40 per cent. The
amount for the maintenance of the
institution will have to be increased
because of the high cost of living and
the increase in the number of patients.
The State officials are working on
their annual reports and many recommendations
will be made. W. W.
Moore, adjutant general, will ask that
a liberal appropriation be made for
the expansion of the National Guard
because one more regiment will be
added to the guard this year.
The local option compulsory attendance
law was enacted two years
ago and fine results have been secured.
It is understood that a bill
will be introduced to provide for a
State-wide. compulsory attendance
law. Liberal support for the night
schools in the mill villages will be
asked.?The State.
Describing Eternity.
A colored preacher was trying to
impress upon his congregation the
lpi-i^th of pternitv.
"If a sparrow, bredden, should
take a drop of water from the Atlantic
ocean at Coney Island and with
the drop of water in his beak should
hop a hop a day until he reaches the
Pacific ocean at San Francisco and
when he got there should let the drop
fall into the Pacific, and when this
was done should turn round and hop
a hop a day all the way back to Coney
Island, get another drop and do the
same thing all over, and keep on doing
the very same thing until he had
carried the whole Atlantic ocean over
into the Pacific it would then be only
early morning in eternity."?Los Angeles
Times.
Miss Rankin, the new congressman,
is receiving more proposals of
marriage since her election than she
can possibly accept.
TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
for the collection of State, county,
school and all other taxes from the
1 r?th day of October, 1916, until the
15th day of March, 1917, inclusive.
From the first day of January,
1917, until the J 1st day of January,
1917, a penalty of one per cent, will
be added to all unpaid taxes. From
the 1st day of February, 1917, a
penalty of 2 per cent, will be added
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st
day of March, 1917, until the loth
day of March, 1917, a penalty of 7
per cent, will be added to all unpaid
taxes.
THE LEVY.
For State purposes 6 1-2 mills
For county purposes 7 mills
Constitutional school tax 3 mills
Total 14 1-2 mills
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills
Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills
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DUIOTU S DllUge, i\U. t ?t U1U1S
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
Colston, No. 18 4 mills
Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills
Fishpond, No. 5 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 4 mills
Hutto, No. 6 2 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Hey ward, No. 24 2 mills
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 mills
Lees, No. 23 4 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills
Olar, No. 8 9 mills
St. John's, No. 10 2 mills
Salem, No. 9 4 mills
Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills
All persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years of age,
except Confederate soldiers and sailors,
who are exempt at 50 years of
age, are liable to a poll tax of one
dollar.
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All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of January,
1916, are liable to a poll tax
of one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are requested
to do so on or before the
1st of January, 1917.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the 15th day o"f October, 1916, until
the 1st day of March, 1917.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
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