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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-11-25
LIQUOR SHIPPING LAW.
New Federal Statute Will Put G. 0.
ID. Orders Under the Ban. :.

Washington, D. c., November 22.
After January /, express compan-
les, railroad companies and other
common carriers will be very careful
about accepting liquor for shipment
into prohibition States and local op-
ton counties where liquor is under
the ban.
In the act to codify, revise and
amend the penal laws of the United
States, which becomes effective Jan.
/, there is a provision which imposes
q fine of not more than $4,000 on any
officer, agent or employe of any rail-
road, express company or other COM
mon carrier who knowingly "deliv-
ers to any person other than the per-
son to whom the liquor has been
consigned, unless upon the written
order in each instance of the bona
fide consignee, in states where prohi-
bition prevails.
In addition to the fine, the offend
er may be imprisoned for not more
than two years. The act also impos-
es a fine of not more than $4,000
If the liquor company, express COM
pany or other common carrier "or
any other person collects the pur-
chase price or any part thereof, be-
fore, on or after delivery from the
eonsignee or from any other person,
or shall in any way act as the agent
Of the buyer or seller of any liquor. y
And all liquor thus shipped into
prohibition states must be plainly
IL nf tho n.
signee, the nature of the contents OF
the package and the quantity con-
tanned. A failure to do this makes
the offender subject to fine of not
more than $4,000 and the liquor will
be seized and condemned by the gov
ernment. ..- .... p, .
In the opinion of the law officers
of the government, the amendment to
the penal code will make effective
the state laws which prohibit the
sale of liquors within the states that
forbid the sale and manufacture of
spirituous or malt liquors. Under ex-
listing conditions the laws are such
that it is an easy matter to get Ii
quor into states where it is forbid
den by means of the interstate COM
merce law, as the police power of
the prohibition states is powerless to
stop railroad and express companies
or other common carriers or per-
sons from acting as agents for those
who want liquor to sell on the quiet.
There are now pending in the
house and senate bills to amend the
Interstate commerce law that have
for their object the exclusion of liqor
from the states where prohibition
prevails, but it is said by the best
lawyers in congress that it will
not be necessary to enact further
legislation. While the law does not
make it obligatory on the government
to notify the railroad companies, ex-
press companies or other common
carriers, it is not improbable that
circulars containing excerpts of the
new law will be forwarded to the
interested parties. Reports of the
various state temperance associations
intend, it is said, to keep careful
watch on the express companies and
railroads to see that the law is not
ufnlofoH
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-11-25
Dies as Result of Fall.

Greenville, November 19.-Walter
Smith, an employe of the Poe mill,
died to-day as the result of an injury
he received Saturday night in falling
off street car. He attempted to get
off while the car was in motion and
was thrown to the ground, sustain
ing the injuries from which death re-
suited.
Smith was % years old and leaves
a wife but no children. His body
was carried to Lowell, N. G.
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SPECIAL. SCHOOL LEVIES.

All persons between the ages OF
twenty-one and sixty years, except
Confederat soldiers and sailors, who
are exempt ct fifty years of age, are
liable to a poll tax of one dollar.
Capitatiop dog tax, so cents.
All persons who were 21 years of
age on or before the 1st day of Jan
ary, 1909, are liable to poll tax of
one dollar, and all who have not
made returns to the Auditor are re-
quested to do so on or before 1st of
January, 1910, and thereby save the
penalty and costs.
I will receive the communication
road tax of two (s2.00) dollars from
the 18th day of October, 1909, until
the 1st day of March, 1910.
JOHN e. FOLK.
Treasurer Bamterg County.
Bamberg, S. c., Sept. 80, 1909.
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17

John Stuart Thomson spent many
years in Hongkong as agent for the
Pacific Mail steamship company and
made a serious and exhaustive study
OF the people. the country, their re-
ligion and politics and all conditions
which viii interest the outsider. OF
particular interest is all he has TO say
10 the people OF the Pacific coast, for
the eyes Of all students Of political af
fairs have recently been upon China.
The appointment of a progressive man
as minister 10 Picking and the rumors
Of constitutional reforms in China. to-
gether with the already expressed in
tention of the government TO try to
regain our lost prestige in the orient,
make this book Of timely interest
The picture Of Hongkong which the
author paints for us is truly fascinat-
ing. Hongkong is a British island, the
first fruit from the folds of the flag
of the opium war" And the author
here pays a deserved compliment to
English rule - but English
men rule by suggestion more than
compulsion. They endow. OF course,
but they have elasticity OF judgment
enough 10 adopt. and this is why they
ere successful colonial rulers To
-tink that Hongkong supplies half the
refined sugar used on the Pacific coast!
That bit of information was more
than surprising This chapter is full
Of bits of history not usually found in
books Of this kind The descriptions
are graphic and the style is easy and
convincing.
Besides the opening chapter describ-
ing the Daily Life of Foreigners IN
China" the various subjects discussed
are: The Portuguese and Camoens In
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17

eW 4Ork HTlce 81
administration of the laws. In her
last chapter DIR. Coolidge says:
after all, the exclusion of Chinese
labor, acquiesced in by many who have
not approved the method, is not the
immediate and vital question. 1t is
rather. whether a bureau of officials
and the consular service shall continue
to jeopardiZe the relations of two ma
tions by methods of administration I'M
warranted either by treaties or legis-
lation, or even by the selfish interests
of the country. In short, whether the
onlaboring Chinese shall not be
treated with such courtesy as BELTS
the people of a most favored nation
The remedy for present conditions nee
essarily involves special and highly
trained officers of the service stationed
in China: the devising of a passport
which upon Identification shall be final.
not mere prima facie evidence of the
Chinaman's right to enter this country;
and such that when here he shall be
free from molestation. 1t involves also
a new registration of all the resident
Chinese and nonpartisan board or
inquiry or an immigration court to
which all debarred Chinese may APP
peal"
The author writes throughout with
the keenest appreciation of her subject
and much sympathy. This, too, not
withstanding the fact that the book is
filled with all sorts of statistics and
dry as dust facts. These same dry
facts are not dry at all to the western
reader; here the book will prove as in
teresting as a novel, for it treats of a
subject of vital interest to every one on
the Pacific slope, and especially to CAL
ifornians, and particularly to San Fran
ciscans. This book also belongs by
right in every Pacific coast library.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17
"True Tilda"

By T. CUTLER Couch author Ut Of ''M Pj'
lished by Charles Scribners Sons, New York
Praise of 20" is like painting the lily,
for his literary style in fiawless and
his tales have always some new, UNI
usual note to make them different from
the work of any other author of to-
day.
This newest book tells the story of
Tilda. a little waif girl with heart
as big as her body, who in resculng
a poor little boy from an orphanage,
where he is being mistreated, sheds
sunshine on everybody with whom she
comes in contact on her errand OF
mercy.
Tilda is a child of 10 years and all
of her life which she can remember
has been spent in a circus. She is left
in a hospital because of the kick of a
pony and her quick wit makes her I'M
derstand what 8 dying woman in the
next bed wishes her to do. Tilda has
many serious and humorous difficulties
to surmount in getting the little boy
out of the orphanage, and when they
finally do arrive at the hospital the
poor woman, mother of the boy, is
dead. The boy is terror stricken at
the thought of being taken back to the
orphanage and Tilda promises to take
care of him. me qudlHtneSS Oh tne
child is shown by her remark to he.
faithful friend, her dog; But, OH
'Dolph, to think of me bein' a mother
at my time o. life.'
Tilda has had her training in the
hard school of experience and she IS
a wise child, at least wise in worldli-
ness. It's easier for her to lie than
tell the truth and often she uses her
gift to the height of her ability. The
two children with only the clew of a
name or two trace the father of the
boy across England and their adven-
lures on the way make the story. The
stroIling players prove kind and en-
PERTAINING and we are sorry our selves
to part with the fat lady a spinster,
who chooses Mrs Lobb" for her sta ge
name because it gives her such
sheltered feeling"
There is little description, the story
being told almost entirely by the dia
logue between the children, and not
till the end do we realize that there
is no love story. No pleasanter book
has fallen into the reviewers hands
this season and it is heartily recon-
mended to the jaded novel reader who
would experience an entirely new SEN
sation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17
By Mary Roberts CooIldg,


The Chinese question grows more and
moro important each year and this
month is marked by the publication of
two important books on the subject.
THE Chinese" deals with the race at
home and we learn not only many in
teresting racial characteristics and Gus
toms, but much that is, of great value
about the political situation today,
This volume on Chinese immigration
is clearer and decidedly freer from bias
than any previous statement which has
yet appeared on that serious question.
For many years the author was assist
ant professor of sociology at Leland
Stamford Junior university, and con-
sequently she has been able to study
conditions in what may be called the
center OF Chinese agitation. She says
in her preface that she began the
study at the time of the passage and
enforcement of the Geary law in 1892
and 1893. The advantages which
course in race problems at Stanford
gave her were augmented by much
study at the Carnegie institution at
washington, SO the author is well fitted
at least from lstudy, to write on the
subject. The Historical portion of the
book ends with the earthquake and
fire of San Francisco, for the chinese
quarter and most of the city Libraries
were destroyed. but the author says
that ut now appears that the date
also marked 1.-THE close of natural his
torical period; for since that time i'm
portant changes have been made both
in regulations and the official person
mel of the Chinese immigration and
consular service, which may result In
even more important notifications OF
r,oliaNt -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17

China" incidents of Daily Life Among
the Chinese" Chinese Humor," China.
Political and Picturesque" Chinese
Art and Literature. Modern Commerce
and Business in China" Climate and
Diseases of South China Chinese Re-
ligion and Superstition" "Japan's Com
mercial Example to China and THE
Mirror of the Past"
It is in the chapter on "Japan's Com
mercial Example to China" that the
real yellow peril is held up to our ter
rified eyes. Osaka is building 'enor-
nous cotton factories, and. labor being
cheaper there than anywhere else,
freight rates low on the Japanese boats.
many lines now calling al that port.
raw cotton being bought in Bombay at
$500 per ton-the results are not diff
ficult 10 foreSee. Can we afford to
laugh when Japan says that in FIVE
years she will control the mercantile
marine OF the Pacific. and in 10 added
years have purchased and copied enough
machinery TO make her industrial pro-
duction so vast that it will conquer on
both sides of the Pacific"2
For several years we have been read
ing of the failures of various foreign
firms. The Briton steamship company
was one of the latest and 1t bears out
Japan's boast of supremacy. The book
is filled with illustrations from photo
graphs and the statistics and carefully
gathered data make ii a valuable book
of reference. It is interesting to the
layman, too, for the style is charming
and descriptions are never sacrificed
for the sake of dry facts. The book
should be in every Pacific coasOlibrary.
and viii interest readers throughout
the country.
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would be well advised to recognize this
portent ere it be too late"
The author is in deadly earnest and
writes with much force, so much that
at times he loses his literary values en-
tirely. He has compressed into a
small book his observations and opin-
ions of this country and suggests RENE
dies for some of the abuses. Quota
tions show the value of the book so
well that one more may be excused:
"A great intellectual awakening is
shaking this ancient empire to its foun-
dalton. A sympathetic Interpretation
of the facts viii bind the people more
closely TO us and lead to their becom-
ing a loyal self governing part of the
empire Repression will only intensity
their determination to secure self-gov-
eminent and may lead finally to a loss
of what has been described as the
brightest jewel in the British crown"
The book is filled with statistics and
references to authorities, and is a val
liable handbook
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lem. and no easy one. for the boards
were thick, the nails many and fOrmi-
, dable. A long time he battered ard
battered in vain with his rocks. but,
after an hour or so. he succeeded in
splintering his way through the tough
pine. His exertions did not end here:
an inner sheeting OF tin caused him
to frown; more furiously he attacked
this with sharp bits OF coral cutting
and bruising his hands. Unmindful Oe
pain. he was enabled at length to pull
back portion OF the protecting metal
and reveal the contents OF the packing
case. In his befuddled, half crazel
condition he had thought only of bot
ties; what he found proved a different
sort Of merchandise"
Here we leave him throwing the con-
tents OF the case about the beach AMI
here he remains for three long. lone
some years. Probably he investigated
the contents Of that case IN despers
tion, but the results are SURPRISING.
The case had contained books; law
books and a well selected library for
the governor in Tasmania.
The next chapter opens in London
and we find John steele, a famous Lon
don lawyer. speaking In court. He is
really the Frisco Pet and from this
point on the story thrills with inter
est aud holds the reader every moment.
He meets Jocelyn Wray. the little child
he had saved from the wreck and f1nos
she has grown into a charming young
woman. When, as Is soon evident. We
see that Lord Ronsdale Is her most
favored sutton. the dramatic possibil-
tiles are easily seen. Lord Ronsdals
suspects Steele early In the game, but
Is so sure that the convict had drowned
that he needs proof. This Is furnished
one day when Steele's arm is acct
dentally barred and a tattoo mark is
exhibited.
Steele is trying quietly to clear his
own name of its past stain. but from
this time on he is blocked at every
point and every page reveals a fresh
difficulty to be surrounded
The author succeeds in extricating
his characters from all the difficulties
surrounding them and rewarding and
furnishing respectively according to
their deserts, and IL one could only
forget the impTobability OF an ignorant
prize fighter becoming a brilliant law
yer, whom all London was talking
about. there would be little to criticise.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17
Ind"

By J. Keir Hardie, 81. P. Published by B. W.
Huebsch. New York. Price 81
Americans are not very well &C
ouainted with the work of J. Kier Har-
die, the plucky labor leader and mem
her Of parliament. but this work Of his
on India will make them anxious to
see more from his pen. The author has
spent many year in investigating labor
conditions. and may be considered an
expert on the subject This book is
made up from a series Of letters which
the author contributed to the Labour
Leader while he was travelling in India
In 1907. Either he has received criti-
cfsm or expects it, for he says:
1T is sometimes thrown as taunt
at visitors TO India that people who
have spent lifetime there know little
OF the people, and for mere globe
trotter to pretend TO know anything is
mere ignorant presumption. L was the
guest of a missionary In southern
province. and was putting forward the
view that all classes were worse off
now than formerly. He agreed gener-
ally. but entered d caveat in the case
81 the pariahs. He had good many
Of these under his training and selected
some 20 OF them, bright, active lads, TO
appear before us TO get their version.
They were unanimous in saying what
things were worse Tor THIS class now
because they no longer had the free
use OF land. The incident is instructive
in more senses than one. A man may
spend a lifetime in India and yet over
look some Of the most obvious facts
connected with the life OF the people
Some Of the authors impressions and
observation are startling, but most OF
them have been heard before from the
reformers He has no color prejudice
himself and makes many severe criti-
cisns Of the government in its treat
ment in this respect OF the Hindus He
saws too. that education is spreading,
and that the average of ignorance is
constantly smaller;
1t is not merely that unrest is grow
ing in India; unrest is growing
throughout the east. Those
people. who are kindly affectioned, well
meaning. responsive 10 sympathy, hav-
ing no higher ambition in life than TO
live loyal under the British flag, are be-
ing treated as pariahs. The In
dian people VIII be loyal II they feel that
their grievances are being acknowl-
edged and redressed; but repression,
confscation. deporta-
tio,, without trial viii produce
that feeling Of hopeless despair which
viii menace the safety OF the
Indian empire India as nation is
a growing sentiment, uniting races
creeds and castles, and the British raj
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this is striking. It is studied from all
sides and is very convincing.
The graphic style of the author quite
wins one to agreeing that had Mira
beau lived he might almost have pre-
vented the French revolution; at least
one is sure he would have lessened
it's horrors Curiously enough, remark
able and clear as is the picture or
Mira beau-and the author shows a
thorough understanding of his charac-
ter-there is no feeling of sympathy,
no personal feeling, one might say,
aroused. His home and family life
are described. but it all seems unreal
rather is Mirabeau great public char-
acter, the property of France and ow-
ing allegiance to no individual. 1t is
an interesting study and written so
simply and unaffectedly that a child
can understand 1t. The book is Illus
trated with some fine reproductions
of portraits and is beautifully printed
and bound
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-10-17
"CHINESE


,e, Ph. ID. published by henry Holt q Co.,
The opening chapter gives a brief
summary of Chinese conditions, politi-
cal, industrial and social at home. The
author calls attention TO the fact that
there is no caste in China, such as
there is in India; that classes are di-
vided by occupation, which is not to
any remarkable degree dependent upon
birth. Holcombe. whom the author
considers the very highest authority. in
his Real Chinaman." says that every
boy in the empire is possible prime
minister and that in the chances for a
poor man to become distinguished
China stands second to the United
States.
1t is very interesting to read the
history of Chinese immigration, for UP
to some 90 years ago they were In high
favor The author describes some Of
the festivities occurring at the celebrs-
ton of the admission of California to
the union. The Chinese took a promi-
nent part in the ceremonies that day
and when Judge Bennett, the orator OF
the day. made his speech he said things
of them that the community with one
voice Endorsed:
Born and reared under different gov
ernments. speaking different tongues,
yet nevertheless, we meet here today
as brothers. You stand among us in
all respects as equals. Henceforth we
have one country, one hope and one
destiny
1t is interesting to read from this
point on the gradual change in the at
titude of the whites toward the Chinese.
Many reasons are advanced; all of them
reasonable. The author like most
thinking people who have seriously
studied the subject, thinks this country
has lost much by its legislation against
the Chinese and especially in the unfair