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jj; IBambrrg k ? | $2.00 Per Year in Adavance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1922. Established in 1891. ? - ? " " " " ' i V Tax Reform is Being j * Neglected Somewhat Columbia, Feb. 3.?Chances forj - complete success of the tax reform ? programme of the present legislature, >- ^ i tlhe burden of whose work is alevia, tion of the tax burden, appears at this K date in the session to be somewhat * ' " * " * flia ? dOUDtlUl, muugu yai c ui lUU v gramme has already carried. None of the bills has passed all stages in the process of legislation and several of them have apparently NJ struck snass. | ? The gasoline and the inheritance tax bills have gone further than any of the others. They have both passed both branches of the assembly and " ' i are now in the house for action on x j amendments made by the senate. Both will pass in some form. The corporation license tax bill has v developed strong opposition. It was called up in the senate Thursday night, but it ran against a snag thej first thing. A motion was made to h strike out its enacting words, which would have, if carried, laid it to rest ? for this session. However, this motion was withdrawn to allow the bill to go to tWrd reading, subject to + amendments there, and for deoate at. that final stage. There are senators! ? ? strongly opposed to it and who pro* pose to fight it. The income tax bill* which passed l the house, is on the senate calendar, and has been for a good while, for second reading, and it seems to be t standing still. k The luxuries tax bill has been re^ ported twice by the ways and means! committee with favorable reports. It i * . went to the committee the second { time to allow for public hearings, it is being opposed but will likely pass.! The hydro-electric power tax bill is in the hands of the finance committee of the senate4 where strong opF v position on the part of manufacturers, large and small, has been regis\T tred. There are members of the fi'? ? oTrmnothv H&1K6 UUUlUlIttCC UUL l/I with this (ax and a strong lobby is f; being waged against it. The bill to create a tax on moving' picture films is also in the ,v hands of % the senate finance committe, not having as yet been reported bach. * : m iei m BOYS POINT WAY. Youngsters Produce Hogs, Cattle, ^ Corn, Cotton and feas. $r. jf".) _ ; . Two thousand and ten members of boys' clubs in South Carolina grew crops and animals in 1921 valued at ?v:;'v $89,565.35, according.to the report ^ of L. I. Baker, supervising agent. " - ? fha ; Tnese ngures uuu w ouuviuuig VI VUV I concerted value of boys' club work. The instructional and inspirational values are inestimable. Club work was conducted in 27 counties in 1921 and tbe total membership was 260 more than in 1920. f :? - . The work included corn clubs, cotton 3 clubs, peanut clubs, and pea clubs among farm crops, and pig clubs and dairy cattle clubs among live'stocs. The membership in each of these was: j Corn clubs, 733; cotton clubs, 31; peanut clubs, 84; pea clubs, 91; pig Z ~ . clubs, 1,039; dairy cattle clubs, 32. Of the corn club members enrolled 299 sent in complete records showing a total production of 14,611 bushels with an average yield of 48.8 bushels K Per acre and an average cost of 43 cents per bushel. The total value of this yield was $11,231.40 and the profit $4,861.19. The estimated to tal value of the corn produced by % members not completing reports was $12,204.09. Of the 31 members enrolled in cotton clubs 13 turned in complete recirds, showing a total production of \ 21,318 pounds, the yield averaging Oil nnnn/le noi? o OTft at OTI ftVftTaPfl J. ,V 1 ^UUUUO UWU v>? ? - ? - * costof 2.3 cents per pound. The total value of their cotton was $1,7*1.71 and the total profit was $1,278.43. < The total value of all crops pro^ duced by club boys was $34,151.85. One hundred and forty-six pis club members reporting completely produced 12,036 pounds at an average i cost of 10 1-3 cents per pound, the ' total value being $8,718.52, and the Z . total profit $3,623.54. The estimated value of the production of members * not reporting completely was $40,610. Fourteen members reporting i completely in the daily cattle profilmed animals valued at $2,945. of which $1,011.47 was profit. The total cost of production of all live stock club members was $7^091.40, the \ total value $11,563.52, making a total profit of $4,736.02. Borneo is cut midway by the equai tor. LEXINGTON MAN KILLED. Olin M. Price Staggers Prom Drug! Store and Expires. Lexington, Feb. 2.?Olin M. Price, white man 25 or 26 years old, was nwinti/iollTr inotontlv flhlMlt 3 Miicu piai/iiwanj tuowui.^ ? , o'clock this afternoon, two .loads of j large sized shots having been fired into his body while he was in the j drug store of Dr. Rice B. Harmon. ; There were no eyewitnesses, but i after an inquest had been partially conducted, Dr. Harmon was lodged in jail, pending further investigation. Mr. Price staggered out of the drug store, into the funeral parlors j of Charles Hi. 'i'ayior, in an adjoining j building. He was bleeding profusely | from an ugly wound in the chest, but managed to request that a physician be called. His efforts to -give explanation of the tragedy resulted in only agonized gasps. He expired within ten or 15 minutes, although three physicians hastened to his side to give any possible medical relief. The trail of blood led to the rear of the drug store. There two empty shells were found, rfhd holes had been pierced in a screen door in the rear of the store by the loads of shot. The * ? ?ill V ^ 4>TV* Awwnnr lJUqUebL Will Lie icauuicu luuivnun ai- j ternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Following the testimony by several: witnesses, Sheriff Roof went to Dr. Harmon's home and placed him under arrest. Dr. Harmon made no statement. j | BURLEY WAREHOUSES OPEN. I Farmers Get More in Advance Than For Whole Crops last Season. j Lexington, Ky., Jan. 30.?Four i j million pounds of tobacxk) were deliv- j ered to the warehouses of the Buriey Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Marketing Association when those outside Lexington were opened today for the first time this season, it was announced at headquarters tonight. -As was the case wihen the houses were opened last week, it was said that growlers received more money in advance for their crops this year than they sold them for last season. No reports of dissatisfied growers were received. Tobacco buyers tonight contrasted conditions as they existed today with those of the opening day for marketing the 1920 crop. Low prices paid for the weed then caused so much dissatisfaction that in several cases the warehouses . were closed for a time. LONG FEUD ENDS. Judged Words Break Barrier Between Mountaineers. Members of the Benge-Martin feud factions, seventy-five of whom made peace and shook hands in the circuit court room in Manchester, Ky., last week, returned to their home shortly afterward. Dread lest their homes be burned or riddled with bullets during the darkness was gone from the hearts of many mountaineers. Peace came unexpectedly at the close of a four-day hearing on peace bonds, more than one hundred of the clansmen having been summoned into court, while fifty National Guardsmen were on duty in and around the courthouse. Judge Hiram Johnson, after placing forty-six of the men under bonds ranging from $500 to $3,000, lectured them, urging them "to act like men, shake hands and become friendly neighbors again.'' Then, almost before the spectators could realize what was taking place, the line in rival camps in the court room was crossed and, following the example set by the igrey-bearded leaders, the feudists were clasping each other's* hands and calling each other by their first names. The feud followed the slaying of Wood Benge by Steve Martin after the men had quarreled over a shot gun stolen from the former and sold to the latter. Six men were killed, sixteen persons, including two children, were shot, and more than fifty homes shot up. On Christmas day three men were shot to death in a battle in which a dozen participated. Still Going. Winchester, Va., Feb. 3.?A motor i truck loaded with more than 1,000 pounds of dynamite skidded on ice. plunged over a retaining wall on tne i Shenandoah Valley pike today at I Fisher's Hill and rolled nearly sixty feet to the bottom of the hill. The dynamite did not explode, but the negro driver who is said to have escaped unhurt has not been seen since the accident. Subscribe for The Herald, $2 year. Human Skeletons j Line Snow Trail An Associated Press dispatch from Volga, Russia says: When tihe snows melt next spring the Russian stenDes will be strewn with skeletons. They will resem-! ble the high prairies of the American cow country in tihe days when! big cattle outfits had insufficient hay ; to carry their stock through a hard i winter. But among the skeletons of cattle and camels there will be boiies of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who fell exhausted in their quest for bread; who lived the simple lives their peasant ancestors lived for centuries and had little conception of the political upheaval wihich made this famine more terrible than that of 1891. They wandered, and millions of them are still wandering. There was nothing to eat in their homes, so they started on the trek for bread. Some drifted westward to the Volga and found death in the typihus-ridden railway centers, or among the horrors of refugee camps along the Volga; others started for Turkestan; still others moved eastward toward Siberia, the land of gold and wiheat which has always been so alluring to the Russian moujik, who heard little of a_ a. o T* rl Ua liS vasiliess, XLS Udiuaui^o auu i heartlessness. The peasants knew nothing of modern ways. They were unable to get rides on the trains, burdened with the Red army and food for Moscow and Petrograd. When their animals dropped dead the families walked on always hoping that food lay over the next knoll. But the country districts have no grain, or if peasant families have a small supply they conceal it in the effort to prolong their own lives until another crop is harvested. In the larger towns there is food for sale at fabulous prices but the starving refugees have neither money nor goods to exchange and can only sit down to await death or trudge on until they sink of exhaustion. The bodies that lie along the rail a? ? "M ^ ^ ^ ?? none" onrl IVi o 111_ roaus are cuucuicu uu o w... ed to centers where they are piled in frozen, snow-covered heaps to await burial. Freezing refugees remove all garments from the dead, so the frozen bodies are nude when the scavengers collect them. Families drift apart and wander aimlessly on tjheir inevitable fate. Human instincts are lost and they become little better than beasts. The cities and town populations are so A 4-Vk 4-k 4- f Vintr orD naraenea to suuenus ua t LUOJ MA V I little moved by the misery whidh lies all about them. Death seems more merciful in the country for the refugees; they sink into the wihite covering of the endless plain, And wolves strip their bodies. , From Perm and Ekaterinburg to the Caspian sea death is stalking over the steppes. Russians, Cossacks, Kalmucks, Kirghiz and Tartars alike are meeting tjheir end with hopelessness and patience begotten of centuries of unequal struggle against political extortion and unfavorable climatic conditions made worse by ignorance of scientific methods of tilling the soil. t American corn will be too late to save many of these wanderers through the steppes as well as the families who lhave elected to make O ~ - " " ? 1 their fight in tneir villages /romvro ( j from the railways rather than endure j the ("hardships and death their neighbors have suffered along the main I lines of transportation. Entire village populations have j died in the provinces east of the Volga and the animals which survive are so weak it is impossible to get adequate horsepower to deliver food " -? ? to tne tnousanus cu siiu *y uuuuu uvu^. 1 tute settlements far from food stations. \ < m ? Curtis Franklin Electrocuted Friday. Columbia, February 3.?Curtis Franklin, Aiken county negro, convicted of. criminal assault upon a young white woman, was electrocuted in the state penitentiary shortly before noon Friday. Abraham Williams, aged colored man from Orangeburg county, who was to have died the same day, had ; his sentence postponed to April 7, J to allow the pardon board to give complete consideration to ms wac, o i petition having been filed with the hoard for commutation of the sent ence to that of life imprisonment This is the third postponement he has received. Read The Herald, 52.00 per year^ - > "'A:, si.j.^7.. w . " - . - DOWN ON CAMOUFLAGE. _______ \ Old Time Laws Held Women Under Close Watch. Had a young woman in the present day attire endeavored to get married in the city of Chatlotte when tihis - AS ?-IS J |.VA piace was a tiny vuiase> uuuci iuc rule of the King of England, not only would the brazen maiden have seen her nuptial knots untied later, but she would have been in danger of iher life as well, According to a discoverey by B. F. Wellons, Charlotte attorney, who found it in a set of ancient laws governing all English subjects that was enacted in 1670 and continued in vogue for many years. The funny thing about the whole matter is that right here in Charlotte there was a time when a girl who wore high heeled shoes could be con* victed of witchcraft! And possibly executed! And cosmetics! Well, if anv vouns: woman sauntered forth in search of a ihusband with paint on her cheeks, she had to keep three jumps ahead of the sheriff. The law held t/hat woman is a dangerous animal, and that the male species must be protected. It said that if any woman caught herself a spouse, she must do it by showing herself in her true light. She could be convicted of sorcery if she even allowed perfume to be on her person when her beau called to A nhi', nf foleo toafli nortain OCC UC1. A JJO.ll Ml luxo\J <,uvvu .~.aaa ly meant the gallows, foy this was the greatest trick to gain a husband of all time. No one tilling was permitted that might in any way deceive the poor fellow who might fall in love. And certainly the King of England believed that love is blind, for he unreservedly allied himself with bh.e amorous suitors of the land and declared that there was no woman alive who could play a trick on them and get away with it. He required their faces to be as free of powder and paint as that of a nanny goat, and insisted tihat/every curve in the human outline had to be the real thing; The following is the law that was passed by his majesty as recorded in the ancient statutes that governed s. his subjects around tihe yeaT 1700 J 1-x ana iaier; "Be it hereby declared that all women, of whatever age, rank or profession, whether virgins, maids br widows who shall after the passing of this act impose upon and betray into matrimony any of his subjects by scents, paints, cosmetics, washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high heeled shoes, or bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the laws now in 1 force against wituuvian auu. owiw;, and such like misdemeanors, and that the marriage, upon conviction, shall stand null and void." From this it is obvious that when George Washington took the measure of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown he saved the necks of the feminine part of his posterity. And had not a more considerate king ascended the throne of England and later abolished the law, the gallows would be working overtime in England today.?Charlotte Observer. Another Core for "Flu." New York, Feb. 1.?Here's another cure for the "fiu." Health Commissioner Copeland says: "Remain for half an hour in wa- [ ter as hot as you can stand it. The j water should be kept running so that fc'he heat can be maintained. While in the tub, drink about a q,uart of lemonade, so? hot you will have sip it slowly. Dry ofT well an'1 get in bed between blankets. Remain there for an hour. The perspiration will then have ceased. Get up, sponge off witih cold water to close the pores and get back into bed, this time between sheets." ~ iff Off some wnere. For several minutes the young man did not speak. His heart was too full. It was enough for him to know that this glorious creature loved him; that she had promised to be his wife. With a new and delightful sense of ownership he feasted his eyes upon ^.er beauty and realized that henceforth it would be his privilege to provide for her welfare and happiness. His tgood fortune seemed incredible. Finally he whispered tenderly "How did it happen, darling, tha< * ' A -t-l?n TV/Mir. sucn a Dngnt, samiug augw ao j<ju> self fell in love with a dull, stupic fellow like me?" % "Goodness knows," she murmered ihsently. "I must have a screw loos? j somewhere." 1 ?? Manila is the greatest hemp mark | i st in the world. | J Jimmy Says Economy Gossip is All B Washington, Feb. 6.?Declaration that the economies which President Harding and Director Dawes of the budget announced yesterday at the second business meeting of the government were largely of "paper" variety was made by Representative Byrnes, of South. Carolina, a Democratic member of the house appropriations committee, "who, in a formal statement voiced the "fear that Mr. Harding had been so absorbed in other matters that he was not conversant "with the existing situation" in government finances. /'According to the press," Mr. Byrnes's statement said,"a direct siving of more than 1104,000,000 had been accomplished in less than six mbonths. The fact is that against this alleged saving the president at the instance of the budget bureau, has recently submitted requests for additional appropriations as deficiencies amounting to $108,704,286 and within a few days the congress will commence consideration of another deficiency bill to tafee care of this cVinrtoora in fnnHc This amount is V in addition to the urgent dificiency bill appropriating $50,556J?22 and the first deficiency bill appropriating $105,277,443. If the $180,704,286 now asked by the president is granted, it will make the total deficiencies to date $336,537,9553. "I rejoice that the president reiterated his opposition to deficiencies because I hesitate to think what amount would be requested of (he were not opposed to deficiencies." Representative Byrnes said that if the amounts mentioned had been saved the treasury should show it. He declared that no such showing, however, ihad been made, and added: "I fear the reason f why it is not done is that the alleged savings in most instances consist only in the postponement of actual expenditures until the next fiscal year." Mr. Byrnes declared that the supplemental estimates for the next fiscal year, amounting to $80r083,220, added to the total amount requested - *= 1 1 H O O ?.a,,l,3 mo Ira lor C06 IlSCd.1 y KiHL 1? 40, wuuiu jxicant* that total $109,296,365 more than the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year. PREHISTORIC AMERICANS. Sensational Find in Ruin of Ancient Dwelling in New Mexico. ? The tomb of a prehistoric warrior who apparently fell in combat has been discovered in the ruin of a large Pueblo community dwelling near Aztec, New Mexico, which is being explored by the American Museum of Natural History.. A description of the burial chamber and its contents has been received from Eari H. Morris, in charge of the work of evacuation, according to a New York dispatch. ' " 4-n "Beneatn me aeons auj^cui, the famous painted room opened in i 1920, there has been found a second chamber perfectly preserved in every detail," he writes. "In it was found the body of a warrior over six feet and an inch in height and death .had come to the stalwart defender of the village when he was in the prime of life and in the height of his glory as welL "A fallen chamber not far distant from the warrior's tomb contained thirteen skeletons, and the thirteenth was one of the most extraordinary which has come to light in the entire ruin. The remains were those of an old woman and a stout splinter from a broken ceiling timber had been hewn to a point, then driven completely through the pelvis and well into the earth beneath." ALLENDALE LAD SHOOTS MATE. Twelve Year Old Boy Receives Bullet in Back Prom Rifle. "* Allendale, Feb. 1.?David Johnson. 12 year-old-son of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Johnson was injured late Tuesday afternoon when he was shot with a 22 caliber rifle by John Williams, another boy about the same age. David walked out of his gate and John comin-g up the street is said to have called to him that he was going to shoot. David turned around to go back into the gate when John sho* him, the ball going through a leathe' belt and other clothing and into Dav1 vid's back. The wounded boy varushed to a hospital in Augusta thi: morning. The boys had not had any ihan 'eelings towards each other and hav always been friends and playmates. - BIGHAM TO APPEAL FURTHER. ? ai Florence Man Wants New Hearing * JO Before Supreme Court. Columbia, Feb. 6.?Edmund D. Bigham, Florence county man, convicetd of murdering his brother and sentenced to the electric chair, and also charged with killing his mother, his sister and his sister's two adopted *l.il w* 711 i r* mm *1 rt r?r? AO 1 ULLiiuieu, win, it is UUUC131UUU, ap^cai to the United States supreme court from the decision of the South Carolina supreme court which recently refused .his appeal for a new trial. It is not known on what grounds the new appeal will be made. An order staying the remittur on the recent decision of the supremo court has been issued by the supremo court, Bigham asking for a rehearing of the case. However the court has not as yet announced whether it will gi ant a i cucai 1115. Bigham was sentenced to die but appealed, making numerous exceptions to the proceedings in the su- preme court recently dismissed tihe appeal and Bigham will be re-sentenced at the next term of court in Florence unless his appeal to the United States supreme court is allowBigham is in the death house of * p? the state penitentiary. His main comment about his case is in repetition of the statement that he is innocent. He talhs very freely about his case. v''j| BARNWELL MAN SUICTOES. A 1?. IT n rf in PHrAfi RnlW TntA Temple?No Cause Given. Barnwell, Feb. 6.?Albert E. Hartin, a local garage owner, took his life about 7:30 o'clock tonight by firing a bullet from a .38 caliber revolver into his head while lying on the * bed at his home here. No reason can be given for the rash act, as he appeared in his usual good health dur- ? yg ing the day. Tlhe members of the, family were downstairs tfhen the fatal shot was fired and the frantic cries of his wife brought neighbors quickly to the home. Th^ first to arrive tound him breathing his last" " ' % with the pistol clasped in his right hand. The bullet entered the right temple, passing entirely through hi* head. t Mr. Hartin is survived by bis wife and three little sons of Barnwell, his parents, who live in Fairfield county, and several brothers and sisters. He was about 32 years of age. He came to Barnwell a number of years age ^ from Savannah and during the time that he had lived here made scores of . 5- J friends. J TAX POSTPON EMENT CERTAINTY. , House Agrees to Bill Sent From;the ' Senate to Delay Collection. * Columbia, Feb. 3.?The postponement of taxes this year became a surety when the house Thursday passed on third reading and sent back r to the senate for concurrence'in minor amendments, the resolution by^ Senator Wells, delaying the maximum penalties on delinquent taxes until after June 1. A motion to re- "3 commit the resolution in the house was lost 49 to 41. \|3 Representative Belser, of Sumter, led the fight against the bill, declaring that its enactment would weaken the state's credit and make the world believe the state "broke" when it ie not. He cited figures to sho# that the state's resources are enormous M and there is no reason for ;uch ex- v J treme talk of money scarcity. O MEMORY IS RECOVERED. ||| Soldier Remeipbers After He Got Hit With. Rifle. Ottawa, Feb. 1.?Quartermaster Sergt. William Ball, of the Canadian forestry corps, reported today at Dominion headquarters of the Great Wsr vpferan'a association with a story of paving had his memory beat- . ] en out of him in 1919 and knocked J back two years later. Ball said he had been beaten and ' 3 robbed in Bordeaux in April, 1919, and that he 'had lost all recollection ! of his Canadian home. Later he joined the Spanish Foreign Legion, j and claimed recently to have recov! ered his memory after an officer had iad hit him on the head with a rifle ' butt in a jail in Refa, Morocco. Ball was posted as a deserter after his disappearance and the Veterans' ? \ association has been conducting a search for him in behalf of his wife, who lives in Port Hope, Ont. I in m Bagpipes are shown on a Roman. c ^ i coin dated 69 A. D. \* , 4 ' M -