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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
NEGROES ATTACK HOUSE.
Riddle the Home of j. H. Baskin Of
Jonesyille With Bullets.

Union, Sept. 8.-J. H. Baskin, prin-
cipal of the colored school at Jones
vile, this county, had his house shot
into last night, according to reports
that reached here to-day, based on a
statement alleged to have been made
by Baskin, who suspects that the
shooting was done by members of his
own race, who seem to have formed
decided antipathy for the school
teacher.
Baskin, according to reports, had
his house badly riddled by bullets
last night, though he was unable to
recognize any of his would-be assas-
sins and it is understood that he
tried to get blood hounds to-day to
trace those who perpretrated the
deed, though he has not succeeded in
landing any one as far as can be
learned.
1t seems that Baskin was last
week brought up before Magitrate
Munroe Whitlock on the charge that
he had misappropriated public funds
in the handling of the small inciden-
tai fee which he charged his pupils
for supplying fuel and other things
and which he did not give an account
of to the satisfaction Of the patrons.
The case was dismissed by Magis-
trate Whitlock, thus apparently sus-
tanning Baskin's honesty, though the
action, it is said, has caused consid-
cradle feeling among the negroes OF
Jonesville and vicinity.
Baskin came into prominence sew
eral years ago, soon after the lynch
ing of negro at Greenwood when
Gov. Hayward intervened and plead
ed in vain for the negroes. Baskin
wrote an article for the newspapers
in which he, Baskin, stated that the
crime deserved the punishment it re-
ceived.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
4 Kitchen Angel.

''No, she doesn't shine in the parlor
particularly. She hasn't what you
call accomplishments, leastwise not
the fashionable kind called arts.
She doesn't paint, nor play, or do
any such things; but in the kitchen
she just shines. She knows how to
take hold anywhere, and she does
it without any fuss. When I'm rush
ed past endurance and don't know
which way to turn to get through,
then to have her step in and lend
hand at the commonest little
things, as if she loved to do them,
and came on purpose for just such
work, is a lift worth having. She
never acts put-upon or abused, as If
drudgery was beneath her, but comes
right in, all smiling and hearty, and
sets herself to work. Somehow she
heartens a body up; there is some
thing so pleasant about her, as if she
had something good to tell and loved
to pass it on. She's kitchen angel,
that is what she is, and I wish there
were more of her-enough to go
round a number if kitchen where the
Marthas are so numbered they don't
know what to do
Isn't this a tribute to be envied
and an example to emulate?-Young
People.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Grafters Turn States Evidence.

Columbia, Sept. 10.-The under
standing to-day is that Wylie, Sam
uels and Early have turned state evil
dence. They were sworn in their own
and other cases as witnesses to 60
before the grand jury.
The dispensary graft prosecution
was begun in the circuit court to-day
with the handing to the grand jury OF
six bills of indictments charging con-
spiracy to defraud the State out OF
amounts ranging from eleven hun
dred to one hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars, bribing and accepting
bribes and rebates.
The attorney general announced
that other indictments against other
defendants would be handed out to-
morrow charging perjury.
The defendants named were dis
pensary directors John B. Wylie
John Black, L. Whit Boykin, John
Bell Towill, Jodie Rawlinsor Dis
pensary Commissioner w. o. Tatum
and liquor statesmen J. S. Farnum,
Morton A. Goodman, John T. Farley,
and H. Lee Solomons.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Census May Show 100, 900, 900 People

New York, Sept. 6.-Statisticians
who are eminently qualified to form
estimates believe that the United
States census to be taken next year
will show a population of between
90,000,000 and 95,000,000 persons.
They would not be surprised If the
figures ran as high as 100,000,000.
These estimates are made from
the census bureau figures on the pop
ulation of the United States up to the
last census of 1900 as compared with
the estimated population of the larg-
er cities of the United States for
1908.
While the census bureau is not
permitted to offer any such advance
estimates, it's officials rely implicitly
upon the knowledge and ability of
the statisticians, who make the esti-
mates.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington estimates that the num-
Der of farms in this country has in
creased from 4,564,641 in 1890 to
100000 in 1907; the total acreage
has increased from 623,000,000 in
1890 to over 1,000,000,000 in 1908,
and that the capital of the farmers in
the form of land, buildings, improve
ments. live stock, implements and
machinery is now computed at $685.
900, 100000, which represents an in
crease Of rs or 80 per cent over 1890.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Will Try Harvester.

Bennettsville, Sept. S.-Mr. Angus
Campbell, representing Mr.. Theo H.
Price, of New York, was in Benefits
vile to-day for the purpose of Sc
curing field of cotton to be used in
the demonstration of cotton har-
vester. Mr.. Campbell found what he
wanted and has purchased 100 acres
from ex-senator Jno. L. McLaurin.
The cotton on this field will re-
main unpicked until the latter part
of this month or the first of October
when Mr.. Price and associates will
come here and the demonstration
will be made.
Mr.. Campbell is the inventor of
this machine and Mr.. Price and 9th
ers are interested in promoting and
backing the proposition. The invent
or is a native of Canada, though he
lived for a number of years in Texas.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
MAINTAINS QUARANTINE.
House Occupied by Miss Kirk Still
Under Guard.

Aiken, Sept. 6.-At special meet
ing of city council this morning 1t
was decided to continue to guard the
premises of Miss NJ. V. Kirk, the
alleged leper, whose case was de-
cided by the supreme court some
days ago. This case, it will be re-
called, was appealed to the supreme
court by the board of health, who
aimed to take the lady out of the
city to the city hospital. The su-
preme court denied the board of
health this right, so now the same
old question has arisen what must
be done for the protection of the
health of the city?'
So Miss Kirk will remain under
rigid quarantine in her premises, un-
less she consents to be removed to
the city hospital.
This place has been under quaran-
tine now for about nine months, and
the case has developed into one of
the most interesting ones in the his
tory of the city.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Bulletin on Cotton Ginning.

Washington, Sept. S.-The first
bulletin of the director of thc census
showing the operations of the cotton
ginners for 1909 was issued to-day.
It covers the period up to September
/ and shove that for that time 377,-
$50 running bales have been ginned,
as against 4O2,229 for the same pc
riod last year.
Comparison is also made with the
production for 1907, when there
were ginned up to September l, 20O,-
278 bales, and with 1906, when the
total to that date was 407,551 bales.
The 377,552 bales ginned this sea-
son were distributedsas follows:
Alabama 1888, Arkansas 363,
Florida 3,544, Georgia 105,927, Lou
isiana 3,419, Mississippi 1870,
North Carolina 1868, Oklahoma l.
367, South Carolina 19,04S, Tennes-
see 4, Texas 227,869.
These figures count round bales as
half bales. There were 1,137 round
bales this year and 20,S6S last year.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Swims Through He'll Gate.

New York, Sept. 5.-Adeline Trapp,
20 years old, to-day swan nine miles
through the treacherous waters OF
He'll Gate from the foot of East
Eighty-ninth street to Classon Point
light.
Accompanied by Priscilla Higgins
q girl of about her own age, Miss
Trapp swan in the wake of 40 sturdy
swimmers Of the United States volun-
teer life saving corps who were hold
ing their annual endurance test.
Fifteen of the men swimmers were
forced to give up before the finish,
and Miss Higgins, after going most
of the distance, was taken with
cramps and picked up exhausted.
Miss Trapp was in better condition
than most of the men at the end OF
the long swim to-day.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Enforcing Law in Mobile.

Mobile, Ala, Sept. S.-Mobile
which fought hard against the dras-
tic Statewide prohibition laws, gave
convincing evidence to-day through
her officers of a determination to en-
force the law to the letter. Sheriff
Drago and his deputies made series
of raids to-day that were not without
result, and tonight the county s
warehouse is we'll stocked with seiz-
ed liquor.
Fifty casks of beer were seized at
the Bienville Brewery, which re-
sumed operation last night. Later a
raiding sqad visited the Mobile brew
cry, of which three large copper watts
filled with beer were seized.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
The Difference.

The Office boy of a certain Phila.
delphia lawyer, recently approached
his employer with request for an
increase of wages, says Harper's
Weekly.
How old are you?" demanded the
lawyer.
"Fourteen, sir"
And you're drawing four dollars
week."
Eyes, SIR"
do you know, young man." said
the lawyer, with forbidding stern
ness, that when I was your age
was receiving only 50 per week?"
"No, sir, I didn't know it" said
the boy. Then, after moments
reflection, he added, quite respect
fully, "but, then, sir, perhaps you
weren't worth any more"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
PRICE SET on COTTON.
Minimum Adopted by Farmers
Union After Stormy Session.

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 9.-At a
stormy session of the Farmers Ed.
ucational and Cooperative Union to.
night the report of the committe on
minimum price of cotton was accept
ed, and the executive committee was
instructed to reveal or raise, or low
er the fixed minimum at their OWL
discretion.'
Nothing could be learned as to the
minimum fixed, but it is believed tc
be about fifteen cents.
Members of the union were in
structed by the Convention to use
their efforts to get all cotton ware
housed Immediately after ginning
Members were also instructed to be
liberal to brother members in max
ing loans on distress cotton.
Resolutions were adopted to-day
opposing the sending of aliens into
the South.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Blue and Gray March Together.

Utica, N. Y, Sept. S.-The parade
of the G.. A. R. members and ex-Con-
federate soldiers now in the city at a
reunion of the survivors of the battle
of Fort Fisher was one Of the most
interesting demonstrations ever pre-
sented in Utica. In the line were car
ried a number of battle flags and war
relics. Several civic and military or
ganizations added to the length OF
the line.
At one section of the street thous-
ands of school children were station
ed and these waved flags and sang as
the veterans marched past. A basket
picnic was held in Conkling park this
afternoon and this evening Gov.
Hughes, Senator Root, Vice Presi-
dent Sherman and Gen. Curtis made
addresses.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Pointed Paragraphs.

Few men will stand for being sat
upon.
The emptier the head the less ii
takes to fill it.
A minute of real work beats an
hours talking about it.
You will never be happy if you
envy the happiness of others.
When you do a man favor do it
his way if you would please him.
A man is never jealous of the
treasures his neighbor lays up in
heaven.
The average man includes his ci-
gar bills in the cost OF supporting
his family.
And many a man goes up in the
air who doesn't know an aeroplane
from a go-cart.
The average married man would
almost as soon kiss his wife's moth
er as pay his church dues.
Education is all right in it's way,
but the best housekeepers never got
theirs from correspondence school.
Chicago News.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Night on Bald Mountain.

On a lonely night Alex. Benton Of
Fort Edward, N. Y, climbed Bald
Mountain to the home of a neighbor
tortured by asthma, bent on curing
him with DR.. Kings New Discovery
that had cured himself of asthma
This wonderful medicine soon re-
lieved and quickly cured his neigh
Dor. Later it cured his sons wife
of a severe lung trouble. Millions
believe it's the greatest throat and
lung cure on earth. Coughs, colds
Group, hemorrhages and sore lungs
are surely cured by it. Best fol
hay fever, grip and whooping
cough. soc and S1.00. Trial bottle
free. Guaranteed by Peoples Drug
Co., Bamberg, S. c..
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Goats as Trail Makers.

The brush eating instinct Of the
Angora goat is being successfully
demonstrated on the Lassen national
forest in California where they are
cutting trails for fire guards through
the brushy areas on the slopes OF
the mountains.
The animals, which number 5000,
have been divided into two bands
and under the care Of the herders
are grazed within certain we'll de-
fined areas so that their work may
be concentrated on the brush within
those limits. The result is that
they have practically killed nearly
all the brush in the course either
by eating it up entirely, or by
barking as in the case of the heavy
manzanita bushes. At the beginning
of the experiment there was some
doubt as to the goats willingness to
eat the manzanita, but it has been
found that where there is little else
they will just as readily attack it
as any other bushes.
The grazing season was so late
this year on the Lassen forest that
the goats did not begin operations
until about the middle of June, but
since then they have made rapid
progress and the result promises to
be success from every point of
view. The trails will first be opened
and then kept free of sprouts by
the goats, saving the government
considerable labor in cutting them
out by hand as has been done here
tofore, while the brushy forage
which otherwise would have been
wasted will support 5000 goats very
comfortably.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
The Road to Success

has many obstructions, but none sc
desperate as poor health. Success
today demands health, but Electric
Bitters is the greatest health build
er the world has ever known. II
comIels perfect action of stomach
liver, kidneys, bowels, purifles and
enriches the blood, and tones and
invigorates the whole system. Vigor-
GUS body and keen brain follow
their use. You can't afford tc
slight Electric Bitters il weak run.
down or sickly. Only soc. Guaran-
teed by Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg
S, G..
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Death of Jas. T. Bacon.

Mr.. Jas. T. Bacon, one of the best
known and most esteemed men of
South Carolina, died at his home in
Edgefield on Wednesday afternoon at
$3.50, aged about seventy years. Mr..
Bacon was many years editor ofthe
Edgeield Advertiser, and for several
Bacon was many years editor of the
Edgefeld Chronicle He was man
of high ideals and pure character.
Mr.. Bacon was educated at Union
college, Schenectady, n. Y, studying
afterwards in the University of Leip-
sig. He was never married.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Keep the Trade at Home.

Some merchants in the smaller
towns are disposed to complain about
the encroachments of the mail order
houses in the large cities.
1t is true that trading with the
mail order houses is always an un.
certain bushes aid often dangerous
The goods that look so we'll when
pictured in a catalogue are seldom
satisfactory when they come to hand.
Sending off for goods that can be
bought at home is not sound bust
ness proposition.
But the merchants in the smaller
towns often do not stop to think that
they could keep the local trade at
home if they would pursue the same
methods that are followed by the
mail order houses, with such modih-
cations, of course, as might be de-
manded by local conditions.
Home merchants who do not make
a business of advertising and there
by endeavoring to keep trade al
home, have no right to complain OF
the business that is gradually being
gathered in from the towns and coun-
ty by the mail order houses OF the
cities.
The mail order business is rapidly
increasing and will increase faster
if home merchants do not Offset it by
convincing the people that it is tc
their advantage to trade at home.
The city houses know the value OF
advertising, and every mail is food
ed with their announcements and
they are drawing more and more
trade away from the home mer-
chants every year.
People are going to trade where
they think it is to their advantage
and the home merchant who hasn't
got confidence enough in his own
business to lay it's advantages regu-
larly and Systematically before the
people need not be surprised if they
are induced by others to buy from
them.
Advertising has become just as
much a part of the business of every
enterprise as bookkeeping, salesman
ship or stock taking, and the mer-
chant who can't write advertisements
are either learning to do so or are
hiring others who can.-Anderson
Mail.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
A Perfect Man.

Never has cross word
With his little wife;
Never told a fish lie
In his mortal life!
Never blamed the weather.
Be it rain or sun;
Never ran for Office,
Though they tried to make him
run!
Never in a poker game
Was the feller found;
Never snored in meeting
When they passed the hat around.
In world so sinful
Seemed ashamed to roam;
Bein' jest so perfect
The angels called him home!
But still there we're some people
Who had the heart to say
Satan singed his feathers
When he tried to fly away.
New York Times.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely de-
range the whole system when enter
ing it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from repu-
table physicians, as the damage they
will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., contains
no mercury, and is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure
you get the genuine. 1t is taken in
ternally and made in Toledo, o., by
F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials
free. Sold by druggists. Prices, 75c
per bottle. Take Halls Family Pills
for constipation.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Woman's Head Too Hard for Bullet.

Charleston, Sept. 9.-James Brown,
q coIored boy, shot Clara White, an
aged negress this afternoon in Sum-
ter street with a small pistol, the boy
claiming that he was shooting at a
bird. The old woman was lying fiat
on her face in her piazza, sewing,
when the bullet thumped her in the
head, but the force of the ball was
somewhat spent and the head Of the
ancient negro woman was quite hard,
so that she was not fatally wounded,
and will probably recover. Negro
women in the neighborhood were in
censed against the colored boy and
nearly mobbed him. They shut him
up in 9 room until the police came.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
A Hurry Up Call.

Quick! Mr.. Druggist =
box Of Bucklen's Arnica Salve-
here's a quarter-for the love of
Moses, hurry! Baby's burned him
self, terribly-Johnnie cut his foot
with the axe-Mamie's scalded-Pa
can't walk from piles-Billie has
boils-and my corns ache. She got
it and soon cured all the family.
It's the greatest healer on earth.
Sold by Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg,
S. G.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Young Morris Pleads Guilty.

Union, Sept. S.-J. E. Morris, for
merly of Montville, Va, who several
weeks ago was arrested here charged
with being short in his accounts as
express agent and also on the charge
of breach Of trust, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced by Judge J. w.
Devore to Is months in the State
penitentiary to-day.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-09-16
Go With a Rush.

The demand for that wonderful
stomach, liver and kidney cure,
DR.. Kings New Life Pills-is as
founding. Peoples Drug Co., Bam-
berg, say they never saw the like.
It's because they never fail to cure
sour stomach, constipation, indiges-
ton, biliousness, jaundice, sick head
ache, chills and malaria. Only 25c.
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