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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
Deputy Postmaster Faces Murder
Charge.

Jackson, Miss, March 24.-Judge
Potter has fixed April End as the
date for the beginning Of the trial
of Will Sorsby, the young deputy
postmaster, of Clinton, who shot and
killed Postofice Inspector Charles
Fitzgerald after he had checked him
up short several hundred dollars in
his accounts and declined to agree
not to report the matter to the de-
partment at Washington. The spe-
cial venire of 200 men demanded by
the defense has been ordered drawn
Monday preceding the trial, but the
question as to whether the venlre
shall be taken from the entire coun-
ty or only from this, the first dis
trict, has not been determined.
The proceedings Tuesday lasted
but short while and the great
crowd in attendance was disappolnt-
ed that no further proceedings are
to be had till Friday week.
Sorsby was accompanied to and
from the court room Tuesday by his
wife, as on the day previous, the lit
tie woman taking more interest in
the proceedings apparently than does
her prisoner-husband.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
Postmaster Short.

Marion, March &c. R. Moore,
postmaster at Pee Dee, in Marion
county, has been found short in his
accounts by a postofice Inspector to
the amount of $703.16 and he has
left for parts unknown. The in
spector checked up his Office on the
23rd and found the shortage and
Moore told him he would go over to
Florence and get the money to re-
place that which was short. Moore
has been missing since the 23rd and
all hope of his return has now been
abandoned. He left note behind
addressed to his family stating that
he was accused of being short, but
that he was not short, and that ii
they ever found his body he wanted
his family to give him decent
burial.
Up to two years ago Moore was a
resident of Marion and he moved to
Pee Dee to engage in the mercantile
business. He has been conducting a
store in connection with the postof-
fee at Pee Dee for about two years
and he has also. been running farm
in Florence county, near Winona. He
is married and has several children,
one of his sons being grown. The
bondsmen have made good the
shortage and the government will
lose nothing.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
Burned Under Automobile.

West Palm Beach, Fla, March 27.
Deputy Sheriff James R. Abrams
was burned to death and George G.
Barco was seriously injured when
Mr.. Barco's machine turned over
near Boynton shortly after mid
night last night, pinning Abrams,
Barco and Richard Gardner under
the machine
The gasoline tank exploded, scat
tering the burning fluid over the
men. Gardner succeeded in extri-
eating himself uninjured and helped
Barco from under the machine, but
Abrams was pinned under in such a
manner that he could not be moved.
The accident was caused by the
steering gear becoming unmanage-
able.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
He Played Jean Vatican.

How soldier escaped from cof-
fin and got pension is told by Capt.
J. w. Lindsey, commissioner Of pen
sions, and it has to do with one of
prison war records of the civil war
record.
This applicant for pension" "
said Capt. Lindsey, claimed that he
was a veteran of the civil war and
that he had been a soldier in one of
the Georgia regiments. l investi-
gated the records and they showed
that he was marked up as deserter,
having been placed on, a post as
picket, from which he mysteriously
disappeared. I could not approve the
pension, although there. was no
actual proof that he had been de-
serter.
"A short while later he came back
and said he was ready to show that
he was not a deserter. He proved
that he had been captured by Federal
soldiers and put in prison, from
which he had later escaped. The
story of his escape was peculiar.
lone night six coffins containing
the bodies of men who had died were
brought into the guard house where
other prisoners were confined. The
soldier induced one of his fellow
prisoners to assist him in taking out
one of the bodies, which they hid in
a pile of rags. Then he climbed in
and had his comrade to lightly nail
the lid.
'sNext morning the cofins were
carried out some distance from the
prison to be buried. You can imagine
what happened when that fellow
burst out of the coffin with blood
curdling shrek. Graves and grave
diggers fell pell nell back to camp
and the Confederate soldier hurried
into the thicket and was lost. l ap-
proved the pension. ."-Atlanta Geor-
gian.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
Swept Over Niagara.

This terrible calamity often hap.
pens because a careless boatman ig-
nores the rivers warnings-growing
ripples and faster current-nature'
warnings are kind. That dull pain or
ache in the back warns you the kid
neys need attention If you would
escape fatal maladies-dropsy, dia-
betes or Bright's disease. Take Elec-
trio Bitters at once and see backache
fly and all your best feelings return.
AFTER long suffering from weak kid
neys and lame back, one $1.00 bottle
wholly cured me-" writes ]. R.
Blankenship, of Belk, Tenn. Only
soc. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg,
S. G..
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
LAKE STILL IN CALABOOSE.
Travelling Man Arrested by Lexing'
ton Sheriff Remains in Jail.

Lexington, March 25.-W. E.
Lake, the travelling man who was ar
rested in Columbia yesterday by
Sheriff Corley, under the charge of
skipping his board bill at the Meetze
hotel, in this place, is still in Jail.
Chief of Police John G. Darby, of
Batesburg, came here this morning
and swore out a warrant for Lake,
charging him with jumping his hotel
bill at Batesburg. Lake positively
refuses to make statement as to his
doings. He claims to represent the
Up-to-Date Advertising Company, of
New York, and the papers found IN
his possession bear out this state
ment. He skipped his board bill at
the Grice hotel in Edgeheld and at
the Penn house in Batesburg. His
grips were searched to-day but moth
ing was found that would indicate
that he had been connected with safe
blowers.
One thing that has caused a great
deal of comment is that Lake regis
tered at the hotel here under the
name of w. E. Lawrence, at another
place as w. E. Landham, and his
baggage and letters bear the name
of W.. E. Lake. When asked why he
used so many different names he
positively refused to explain. 1t is
understood that he wired his house
for money to-day. He has employed
Messrs. Graham & Sturkie to look
after his interest. He will be held
for a day or two for further lnVestl-
cation.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
Words to Freeze the Soul.

your son has consumption. His
case is hopeless" These appalling
words were spoken to Geo. E. Bile
vens, leading merchant, of Spring
field, N. c., by two expert Doctors
one a lung specialist. Then was
shown the wonderful power of DR..
Kings New Discovery. after three
weeks use," writes Mr.. Blevens, che
was as well as ever. I would not
take all the money in the world for
what it did for my boy" Infallible
for coughs and colds, its the safest,
surest cure of desperate lung dis
eases on earth. soc. and $1.00. Peo-
pies Drug Co., Bamberg, s. c.,
guarantee satisfaction. Trial bottle
free.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
I'D Rather Die, Doctor

than have my feet cut off," said M. L..
Bingham, of Princeville, Ill, "but
you'll die from gangrene (which had
eaten away eight toes) if you don't," "
said all doctors. Instead, he used
Bucklen's Arnica Salve till wholly
cured. Its cures of eczema, fever
sores, boils, burns and piles astound
the world. Csc. at Peoples Drug Co.,
Bamberg, S. G.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
ORIGIN OF "RED SHIRTS"
Col. Crews Does Not Think Col. Sit.
ton Was Originator.

ton Was Originator.
The following from Col. T. B.
Crews, the veteran editor of the Lau-
rens Herald, appeared in that paper
in it's issue of March IS:
I'VE see it stated in several news
papers that Col. A. j. Sitton, who re-
Gently died in Anderson county, was
the first captain of Red Shirts that
did so much to redeem South Caro-
lima from Radical misrule in '76."
With no disposition to take any
credit from the memory of Col. Sit
ton due him, we will say that the
claim that he was the originator OF
the famous Red Shirts is different
from the generally conceded version
that the late Gen. Mart Gary, of
Edgefeld, was the originator of the
scarlet uniform" and that it first
made it's appearance at that place on
the occasion of a Radical powwow
there, at which the then governor
(Chamberlain) was present; that the
old Bald Eagle (as Gen. Gary was
sometimes called) forced Chamber
lain to divide time and that the
powwow was finally broken up and
dispersed. This initial incident oc-
Cured, if we remember correctly, a
short time previous to the opening of
the regular Hampton campaign of
I'76.
"As to the origin of the Red
Shirts as a uniform, so far as our
recollection goes, they made their
first appearance at Abbeville on the
day Immediately succeeding the his
toric event Of firing on the Federal
steamer Star of the West by the
Citadel cadets in Charleston harbor,
from a battery on Morris Island, on
the morning Of January 9, 1851.
Capt. Jas. M. Perrin, Of Abbeville,
who commanded company OF
minute men, received orders from
Gen. Maxcy Gregg, then colonel of
the First regiment, on the evening of
the 9Th to report with his company in
Charleston, forthwith, and the COM
pany left for the designated point on
the morning of either the 10th or
1th of January, 1861.
"The Minute Men, of which the
writer was member, having no uni
form, the Red Shirt was adopted.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
Prohibition Bill Passed.

Little Rock, Ark, March 24.-By
a vote of SO to % the house this aft
ernoon passed the house joint reso-
luton which provides for statutory
Statewide prohibition by constitu-
tional amendment. If the resolution
passes the senate the question will
finally be settled by a vote of the
people.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-04-01
Up Before the Bar.

N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pitts
field, VT, writes: 1--WE have used Dr.
Kings New Life Pills for years and
find them such a good family medi-
cine we wouldn't be without them. %
For chills, constipation, biliousness
or sick headache they work wonders,
Csc. Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg,
S. G.
The National tribune., 1909-11-25
RECEPTION AT INDIANAPOLIS.

Commander-in-Chi Samuel r. Van
SAINT, of ST. Paul, and Orlando A. SOM
ers, Commander of the Department of
Indiana, G. A. r., were given fine re-
ception at Indianapolis by George Fl.
Thomas Post. A feature of this was
the music OF the 10th Regiment Band
and the singing Of National songs by
the big audience. There was a tableau
of the Star Spangled Banner. and Mrs.
Laura S. Burr. Past Department Presi-
dent, w. R. c.. sang and lifted the audi
ence to a pitch of enthusiasm. Addresses
were made by Gov. Marshall, Mayor
Bookwalter and w. A. Ketcham, after
which Commander-in-Chief Van SAINT
and Commander Somers made suitable
responses Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller,
Past National President, w. 4. c., and
w. II. Armstrong, Chairman of the
Council of Administration, also spoke.
The Rev. Daniel Ryan was installed as
Chaplain-in-Chief. The bugle calls were
given by Carroll NJ. Rollin and J. Earl
Shea.
The National tribune., 1909-11-25
STERN DEALING WITH ZELAYA.

The State Department is moving none
too sternly in the matter of bringing
President Zelaya to sharp account as
to the execution of two Americans. 1t
must not be endured for an instant
that these pigmy South American poll
ticians shall shoot American citizens
off hand for opposing their corrupt and
iniquitous rule. Zelaya tries to defend
himself by the accusation that the men
were spies and engaged in laying mines.
Even if this were true he should have
notified the American Charge dAffaircs
or other representatives of our Gov
ernment and furnished them with the
evidence which would justify the exc
cution. This is the common practice
among civilized Governments. and that
Zelaya did not do this stamps him as
barbarian who must be repressed by
a strong hand.
President Zelaya has made himself
intolerable in many ways. but this
high-handed/ crime is the eliminating
point in his career, and will and should
bring about his overthrow. The Gov
ernment has already sent several war
ships to both coasts of Nicaragua and
followed this up by the dispatch of
some 500 marines, and Zelaya has been
informed that he cannot escape the
consequences of his crime by a mere
apology and indemnity. Just what
course the Government will take is not
allowed to transpire. but the dispatch
M cir nf
plies that Zelaya will be hunted to his
hole and brought to personal ac-
counting. Possibly 500 marines are not
all the landing force that viii be sent
to Nicaragua, but that body Of such
magnificent troops as the marines are
would be sufficient OF itself to march
where they desired in Nicaragua and
force their way directly to wherever
zelaya may have taken refuge.
The National tribune., 1909-11-25
VETERAN CLERKS.

There are gratifying indications of q
strong turn in the tide which has been
running against the veterans employed
in the Government Offices at Washing
ton. For the past few years the efforts
of the Department of the Potomac,
G. A. r., and the Grand Army in gen.
eral, have been strongly demanded to
keep veterans and their widows in
office, to prevent their reduction in sal
airy and TO restore those who had been
discharged.
The Civil Service has naturally
flooded the lower grades Of the clerk
ships with young men and women who
are ambitious OF promotion to higher
salaries. and these are more than crit
cal Of the older clerks who hold the
positions they would like to have.
Every time a new official comes in from
the outside he lends a willing ear to
the representations by these ambitious
youngsters, since he is eager TO signal
ize his administration as a reform"
an increase in efficiency" and so on.
Therefore the trouble with the veteran
clerks, and 1t reached such proportions
that several Secretaries and their SUBJ
ordtnates were urging laws, some ar
bitrarily discharging men and women
who had reached the age of 20, others
prescribing only brief periods in office,
and still others more absurd and i'm
practicable than either of these. Some
of these propositions backed up by Off
ciai influence were SO favorably regard
ed by Congress that it required the
active interposition of the G. A. r. to
secure the exemption of veteran clerks
from its operation. 1t will be remem-
bered that Gen. ]. Warren Keifer, of
Ohio, was most influential in the House
of Representatives in preventing an en-
actment so injurious to his comrades in
Government employ.
There has come out Of all this agi-
tatioR the appointment of a commits
sion to thorcly study the work of the
clerks Of the Departments. and to the
great surprise and confusion of the as
sailants Of the older clerks the Com
missions reports are unqnalifedly in
favor Of the veterans. The report saws
The National tribune., 1909-11-25
Our administration of the philippin

Our administration of the Philippines
is exciting the admiration of the Eu-
ropean press by its vigorous prohibition
of the opium curse. China is now in
the throes of a great struggle to re-
lieve her people of the opium scourge,
and Great Britain is stirring herself to
diminish its evil effects in India All
the travellers and correspondents, how
ever, agree that the American officials
of the Philippine Islands have sue
ceeded in absolutely excluding the i'm
portation of opium, are greatly reduc-
ing the quantity that is snluggled in,
and are constantly diminishing its use
by the natives. They gave the opium
merchants warning before they put the
law into effect to dispose of their stock
at a date fixed. the law was put into
effective operation. A free opium treat
ing hospital was opened at Manila for
the victims of the habit that they might
not suffer any more than was abso-
lutely necessary. Some merchants. and
particularly a number Of unscrupulous
Chinese, scoffed at the idea OF the law
being enforced and thought they could
hoodwink it by cunning bribery, as
they had always been able to do in
their own country, They were rudely
awakened from this belief by heavy
fines at first and then by heavy fines
and Imprisonment later on.
The National tribune., 1909-11-25
VETERANS IN THE CITY.

Col. W. Joseph Vannort, I'd Md,
Chestertown. Nd. Col Yannort is
fine type of the loyal Marylanders who
held their State for the Union and then
fought gallantly for the integrity of the
Nation. He was prosperous business
man and large slave owner when he
decided to enter the Union army. He
sacrificed his business prospects and
lost his slaves, as well as incurring the
social ennlity of many of his neighbors
and relatives. He went into the 2d Md.
fought gallantly, was severely wounded
at Smokers Gap. and on his return
home re-entered business life. in which
he became quite successful. He was at
one time the Republican candidate for
Governor of Maryland.
Capt. B. c. Francis, Hartford, Conn.
Capt. Francis went out first in the 1st
Conn.,, and after his three-months SER
vice re-enlisted in the 7th Conn, in
which he rose to be Captain of Co. A
He was in the dry goods business for
many years in Hartford, but his health
breaking down, he took up small bit
of land in the suburbs to cultivate as a
garden. He is now one of the st. Cloud
colon1sts. and was on his way there to
stay for the Winter. He will be a val
liable man, from his wide experience
and ability, and viii become tower OF
strength to the community. During the
winter he will have his rooms at Kis-
simmee, which will be his post office
address. but will go up to his lands in
the colony every morning, returning in
the evening. He has recently returned
from st. Cloud, of which he speaks in
the highest terms. He is very much
pleased with the climate and possibili-
ties. but does not shut his eyes to the
tact that there are difficulties to be en-
countered which must be met with good
sense and patience There are fewer of
these difficulties. however, he thinks,
than in any other new country that
could be found.
]. F. Wahl. 14th Pa. Cav, Altoona.
Pa. Comrade Wahl is in the grocery
business.
j. w. plummer, 10th Pa. Altoona,
Pa. Comrade Plun1assr is q contractor. !
The National tribune., 1909-11-25

The tone Of the really influential
Japanese press is strongly in favor of
much friendlier relations with America,
and unexpected as it may be to some
people. they are anxious for us to main
tain our exclusion of Japanese Iaborers.
Prior to the war with Russia Japan
encouraged the immigration of her sur
plus population to other countries, but
with the acquisition of Korea and
Manchuria national policy demanded
that these people should be sent thither
and not into countries where they could
be of no assistance to their home Gov
ernment. Japan's advantage in the
great career of commerce in which she
is embarking is her cheap labor, and
it is desirable that this should be kept
at home and employed in production
of japanese goods in place of going
abroad for the benefit of other coun-
tries. They are necessary for the
maintenance Of Japan's commercial su-
premacy and they had much better
work in Japan and Korea than In the
United States
The National tribune., 1909-11-25

that while the younger clerks may, un-
der pressure. be able to do more worA
than the older ones. yet the work is not
nearly so we'll done, and It is not nearly
SO reliable. The older clerks are slow
but sure, and what they do does not
have to be done over again as is too
often the case with the younger and
less experienced. Every man who is
really familiar with the Government
business knows this to be true. He
has only to so into a Department and
make an inquiry to see it illustrated.
If the inquiry is made of a younger
clerk or new official he will most
likely say that he will look the matter
up and give an answer in day or two.
The older clerks have likely looked
the matter up years ago, and not only
looked it up but have had to decide
| it many times since, so they can answer
at once and with precision. In every
Department of the Government are
found clerks from 20 years old up
wards whose experience is simply in
valuable to the prompt expedition of
the business OF their offices. They
have every detail OF the business re-
dUced TO an instinct, and there is not
the slightest hesitation in deciding or
directing others how to do the, right
thing at the right time. Maj.-Gen.
F. C. Ainsworth. now Adiutant- Gen
eral U. S. A., has probably had a
longer and fuller experience as an ad-
ministrator of a great clerical force
than any other man in Washington. AS
head of the Record and Pension Office
for many years he had a volume of
business such as probably was not
equalled by any other bureau. When
called before the House OF Representa-
tives with reference to q bill then un-
der consideration which provided that
no person should hold an appointment
under the Civil Service more than 10
years, he said:
'I do not rec mmend ii, of course,
because it will deprive the Government
of its very best men. No private busi-
ness man wants short service. All busi-
ness men endeavor to devise ways and
means by which to render their service
attractive and retain men in it, because
the longer a man is retained in any par
ticular place of business, up to the point
Of disability. from age or otherwise, the
more valuable he becomes
The National tribune., 1909-11-25

The mine horror at Cherry, Ill, is
one Of those catastropfes for which
there would seem to be no excuse and
which are q reproach upon our boasted
civilization. Mining is one of the oldest
arts in the world. and every step in it
IS attended with overwhelming exper-
fence as TO what Is dangerous and what
precaution should be taken against ac-
cidents. Probably in no other vocation
that men follow has there been as
many terrible accidents TO impress upon
those conducting the operations the
necessity OF precautions to prevent loss
OF life. In the face of this 1t is abso-
luteiy inexpiicabie how there should
have been such q catastrophe as the
trapping in a death hole of more than
800 men, Of whom more than 100 are
already known to be dead and only 20
rescued alive SO far. This horror is a
matter that calls for the most ener-
getfc action by Lawmakers and others.
and somebody should be held to the
severest account for permitting a con-
dftlon of things which led to IL.