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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
King Cotton in the East.

According to late report to the
United States government and, there
fore, likely to be near the truth the
cotton crop in India this year will
exceed four million bales, being an
increase of over nine hundred thou
sand bales over last years produc-
ton. That cotton is short, coarse
staple, but it suits the cheap goods
markets of Asia and Africa and the
islands of the Pacific. The cost of
making it is small owing, to the
richness of the soil which requires
no fertilizers and the cheapness of
wages of laborers who live on rice
and other grains and eat no meat.
The British and Germans were re-
ported last week to be growing cot
ton/more successfully than ever be-
fore in Africa. Labor is plentiful
and cheap and the English make the
native work whether they like or
not.
The plain, unvarnished, if unpala-
table truth of the~situation is the
combination of all the East against
the cotton industry of America is
solid, resentless, aggressive and un-
tiring. Both self-interest and nation
al pride are involved. Though the
world is at peace so far as the quies-
cence of fleets and armies goes there
is an industrial conflict in progress
that affects the greatest acre of wee
vii infested cotton in Dixie. Through
cotton is the best method of the at
tack of the old world upon the new.
And the South is the first sufferer
from the arrogance of big stick boast
ers of men and money and the un-
blushing, unchecked gamb1ings of the
ravenous spectators of wicked New
York and Goddess New Orleans
Barnwell People.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
Why, Indeed.

1t is related of the president OF a
famous college that at one time he
allowed his wife to persuade him OF
the uselessness Of fire insurance on
household goods, and he allowed his
policy to lapse. But better judgment
asserting itself, he finally renewed his
insurance. The same day fire in
his wife's rooms destroyed some of
her dresses, which the professor en-
joyed as good joke.
In due time the president of the
insurance company wrote President
Blank this letter:
Dear Mr.. Blank:
eve enclose check for $500, pay
ing your fire claim under our policy
B 6007.
Il note in passing upon these pa
pers that the policy went into effect
at noon, December 10, and the fire
did not occur until p. m.
"Why the delay?"-Circle Maya
line.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
DREW TOO MUCH SALARY.
Georgia Superior Court Judges May
Have to Refund.

Atlanta, Ca, July 14.-SuperioI
court Judges in Fulton, Chatham
and Richmond counties are entitled
to salaries OF $4,000 and not s5,-
900, according to a decision of the
State supreme court to-day, in the
case of Judge H. A. Hammond, OF
Augusta, VS.. Walter A. Clark, treas
urer of Richmond county. Those
Judges have been receiving $4,000
yearly since 1905, and while the
decision is not retroactive in itself
under it's terms the Judges specified
may be called upon to refund to the
several counties the total amount OF
money they have been paid in ex-
cess of the $4,000 per annum.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
CONVICT COMMITS SUICIDE.
Every indication that Life-Termer
Took his Own Life.

Columbia, July 14.-Henry Mars,
a negro convict at the State peniten-
tiary, committed suicide this morning
by leap from the third tier in the
main prison building. The negro
sustained a fractured skull, dying
this afternoon. Although it was not
definitely established that Mars COM
mitted suicide, this is the opinion
among the authorities at the pen1-
tentiary.
Mars came out of his cell this
morning, along with the other prison.
ers, and nothing unusual was noted
until the guard saw him take a
plunge from the third tier. The
prison, it should be understood, is
arranged with narrow tiers surround
ing the upper cells. The negro land
ed on the cement floor, the fall be-
ing about "a feet.
The tire had a railing of four feet
high around it and it would have been
rather an unusual proceeding had
Mars fallen over this railing, hence
the suicide theory. Mars may have
been sitting on this railing, but this
theory has been abandoned.
Mars was a life-termer, having
been sent up last year from Able
vile for murder.
This is the second case of this kind
at the prison within the last two
years. In 1908, negro leaped from
the tier to his death.
Mars died several hours after the
Jump from the tier, following an
operation.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
Columbia's New Departure.

The new government of our State
capital, composed of a mayor and four
aldermen, has adopted new and
promising treatment for pauper
drunkards, white and black.
Upon suggestion Of an unnamed
citizen of another State the council
has decided to give the liquor cure
to every white or colored man ar
rested for drunkenness who is too
poor to pay a fine. The liquor COM
pany makes no charges for it's medi-
cines and the service of its physi-
clan. It's treatment is claimed to re-
move the desire for drink in three
days and to complete lasting cure
in a week.
During 1909 there were over a
thousand arrests for drunkenness in
Columbia and many more. for dis
orderly conduct resulting from over
Indulgence in booze. Columbia is the
first city in the United States to rec
ognize drunkenness as disease cur
able by treatment and may have com
menced the final satisfactory solu'
ton of the liquor problem.
If results equal hopes the name OF
mayor Wade Hampton Gibbes will be
written high and large in the future
of South Carolina, and possibly in ma
tional politics.-Barnwell People.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
Mans Legal Right to Stare.

Of course, man ought never to
stare; but the law, the New York
law at least, gives a man the right
to a second look. The decision was
was rendered by learned and dis
eliminating judge in one of our sub
urbs last spring.
Going out on a train one evening
were a sensitive husband and re-
markably pretty wife. A stranger IN
the seat ahead glanced back, liked
what he saw, and a little later looked
again; sensitive husband punched
him. and then had him arrested; but
the Judge, when he saw the wife,
quickly decided that any man was en-
titled to two looks at such a woman.
You may be familiar with the old
story of the mems party where the
dominic cautioned them against look
ing at other mems wives, and offered
a silk hat to the man who would stand
up and say that he had not so offend
ed. One of the confiding kind OF
husbands, when he got home, was
innocently telling his wife about 1t
when she interrupted, "Of course,
John, you got right up" John ap-
parently had not anticipated per-
sonal application, but he answered
guilelessly: "Of course not, Mary.
You know how punky 1 look in a
silk t.''-Erman J. Ridgway, in
the Delineator for August.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
Lightning Kills Negro.

Manning, July IA negro nam
ed Israel White and a mule were
killed by lightning about 5 O'Clock
this afternoon, while plowing in a
field on J. w. McLeod's place, two
miles from town. There were sever
al hands blowing in the same field
when cloud came up. The others
took out their mules and went to the
house, but Israel said he had one
more row to plow and he would
finish that. Before he finished the
row the lightning finished his work.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
A Dry Country.

The landlord of hotel in a prohi-
bition county in Indiana is very deaf.
The other day drummer who was
at the hotel walked up to the desk
where the landlord was standing and
asked:
Landlord, can you sell me a
stamp"
The landlord weighed the matter
thoroughly. Then he replied:
mo, sir, I'd like to help you, but
the burned drys is watchin' me so
clus I had to cut it out" Saturday
Evening Post.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
RELIEVE ASYLUM CONDITIONS.
The Commission and Regents Take
Definite Action.

Columbia, July 1.-THE erection
of three new buildings on the pres
ent site and the completion of the
TAYLOR building, to relieve the con-
tested condition of the State hos
pital for the insane, were the imme-
diate plans adopted by the asylum
commission and the board of regents
to-day. The work on these buildings
will commence Monday morning and
will be rushed as fast as is consist
ent with proper construction, so that
the patients may be accommodated.
This portion of the work is under
the direction of the board of regents.
Dr.. J. w. Babcock, the superintend-
ent, and DR.. w. w. Ray we're ap-
pointed a building committee to get
the specifications ready during the
present week.
The immediate erection of build
ipgs at the asylum is but part OF
the larger plan looking toward the
future development of the hospital.
That the races will be segregated and
the tubercular and pellagra patients
kept in separate wards from the
other patients, are matters which
will soon be realized.
Will Push Work Forward.
It is safe to say that by August l,
the commission, acting under the
authority of joint resolution pass
ed at the last session of the general
assembly, will have started the erec-
ton of new buildings upon the lands
to be purchased soon. Next week the
commission will again meet and the
various propositions for sites of
land will be gone over and a selec-
ton and purchase made. This state
ment was made this evening by DR..
Babcock, the chairman of the COM
mission, following the all day session
of the members of the commission,
and the meeting of the board of re-
gents.
1t should be explained that the
building of three structures for the
use of the patients and the compile
ton of the Taylor building is the
work of the regents, and the money
was appropriated by the general as
sembly in the regular appropriation
bill for improvements at the asylum.
This matter is, in a measure, sepa-
rate and distinct from the work of
the asylum commission, which has a
specified duty to perform-namely,
the purchase of lands and the erec-
ton of buildings thereon. Of course,
the plan for all buildings is made
with a view to a general develop
ment.
The sum of $4,000 was appro-
priated for improvements at the asy-
lum. Under the joint resolution,
100000 may be borrowed from the
sinking fund commission in the use
of the asylum commission in purchas-
ing lands and erecting buildings.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
WOMEN OF FORTUNE.
One Billion Dollars Controlled by
Less Than so Women.

The United States is not only land
of millionaires; it possesses also more
millionairesses, to coin word, than
any other country in the world.
Avoiding as far as possible mere es-
Inmates and guesswork, and drawing
the figures largely from the published
wills of the husbands, parents or rel
atives from whom they inherited, it
is possible to make up list of Amer
lean women, comprising less than 20
names, who control a combined
wealth of s500,000,0 Add 20 or
80 more names, and the total would
mount up toward s750,000,000.
Doubtless if the full facts could be
secured a list of 200 American wo-
men who control a combined wealth
of s1,O00,OO0,O0O could be compiled
without violence to the truth.
Here is list of some of Americas
richest women, with an estimate of
their fortunes:
Mrs. Russell Sage .-..---..s7O,O 900
Mrs. E. H. Harriman--.. 10000, 900
Mrs. Frederick c. Pen
field =. .... $4,000, 900
Mrs. Hetty Green ...... 5O,00O,00O
Mrs. C. P. Huntingdon. 100000, 900
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid ...... $4,000, 900
Mrs. Henry j. Bracker.--. 20,0OO,OOO
Mrs. Gustave Amsick 49,. 100000
Miss Faith Moore. 2O,OO0,00O
Mrs. Jno. Stewart Ken
nedy :. ............- 100000
Miss Helen Gould. 100000
Miss Mary Garrett .........- 100000
Mrs. Elliott F. Sheppard 100000
Mrs. w. D. Sloane .....-- 100000
Mrs w. Seward Webb.... 100000
Mrs. H. Nick. Twombly.. 12,OOO,O00'
Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney ......... 10000, 900
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt 1O,OOO,OOO
Mrs. Potter Palmer........ 10000, 900
Miss Giulia Morosini. 10000, 900
Mrs. Chas. B. Alexander. 10000, 900
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hurst. 10000, 900
Mrs. J. J. Lawrence. 10000, 900
Miss Jennie Flood 10000, 900
Mrs. W. B. Leeds. 10000, 900
Miss Laura stallo - 100000
Miss Helen stallo. $500, 900
Miss Grace Watt . 5000, 900
Mrs. Hermann oelrichs.... 5000, 900
Mrs. w. J. Vanderbilt, Jr. 900
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. 5000, 900
Miss Annie Leary. 5000, 900
Mrs. Warner NJ. Leeds. 100000
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21
FATHERS AvENGER RELEASED.
Girl who Killed Parents Slayer
Granted Nominal Bail.

New Orleans, La, July 14.-Jose-
phine Mazella, the Italian girl, who
yesterday avenged the murder Of her
father in their home, by shooting and
killing his slayer, Guise Spannacchio,
was to-day released from the parish
prison on a $1,000 bail bond.
The girl was released and required
to furnish merely nominal bond,
on the ground that the killing bore
the appearance of a justifiable homi-
eide.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21

5 wanting sewing macnlnes.
8 want Bibles.
/ wishes help to bring out opera.
1 wishes help to bring out oratorio
Even in households where the hus-
band or father who has amassed mil
lions still survives and rules, there
seems to be a growing tendency to
let the women give as well as spend
and a growing desire on the part OF
the women to do so. The so-called
Junior League of New York-an or
ganization of young society girls who
work among the poorer classes-ls
increasing in scope and usefulness,
and many of the daughters of wealth
give much of their time to it. In
several of the large American cities
rich women have done much for mu'
sic by the organization and support
of orchestras, and have thus duplicat-
ed publicly the money spent on their
private entertainments. In New York
to-day there is scarcely charitable
cause which does not number among
its chief advocates and it's most val
liable supporters the names of two or
three women who either possess in
their own right, or whose husbands
or fathers possess, large fortune.
So, if Mrs. Hettie Green is the only
example American can show of a Wo-
man who goes down into the market
place and makes millions for herself
and that is not the most lovely type
of what we could wish our women to
be-there are examples in plenty OF
women's ability to administer huge
fortune wisely, safely and justly
Montreal Star.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21

Mrs. Warner NJ. Leeds.... 100000
1t will be seen from this partial
list of Americas rich women that
about half a billion dollars is con-
trolled by II individuals. So much
wealth represents an enormous guam
tity of real estate, railroad shares,
bonds, industrial securities, and while
much of it is held in trust for the re-
cipents of the income, nevertheless
it's owners could make a mighty stir
in the financial world if they chose.
Their holdings represent a potent
factor in the commercial life of the
nation, and indeed, in the money
markets of the world.
With the solitary exception of Mrs.
Hetty Green, it will be noted that
none of these women made their
money for themselves, though many
of them have let it work for them af-
ter they received it by inheritance.
Man, they say, proposes; woman dis
poses. Man also makes, and woman
spends, take the classic case Of Rus
sell Sage, as a striking demonstration
of this fact.
Wealth and Shabbiness.
For many, many years Mr.. Sage's
name was a byword for the extreme
of thrift. A great power in the fnan-
cial world, the possessor of constant
ly accommodating millions, he went
about in clothes of antique cut and
extreme shabbiness, while his wife
drove down the avenue in quaint
rig of ancient craftsmanship drawn by
a poor and white horse. A woman
at whose house Mrs. Sage was call
ing desired , her footman to order
away from the curb the outlandish
trap she saw standing there.
But that is Mrs. Sage's carriage, ,,
said the footman. And presently Mrs.
Sage drove away in it, between rows
of elegant equipages, which her hus-
band could have purchased as the or
binary citizen might buy bag of
peanuts.
But Mr.. Sage, unable to do his
duty either to his wife or to man
kind while he was alive, dying did
his duty by both. He left all but
some 100000 of his vast hoard to
his widow, and let it be known that
thus vicariously he intended to dis
tribute it for charity. Mrs. Sage, an
eldely lady-she was born in SYRIA
cuse in 1S2S-at last could taste the
joys of spending. And she went at
the task with right good will. In the
first three years of her widowhood
she is said to have disposed of $685.
100000 in various charities, of which
the great Sage Foundation is the
chief. She employs an army of Sec
.retaries, and her daily mail is de-
livered in an express wagon.
Doubtless Mr.. Sage had a lot OF
fun getting together his $75,OOO,-
600; but who shall say that the wo-
man in the case is not having a bet
ter time disposing of them? Certain
ly she is doing vastly more good.
Concerning Mrs. Hetty Green, who
possesses, according to her own state
ment and popular estimate one Of
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-21

the four fortunes of s50,000,000, or
more, held by women, much has been
written, and little is known to the
general public. Hetty Green is as
chary of information as she is cash.
She is Is years old now, has worked
hard all her adult life making the
fortune left her by her father, a rich
New Bedford whaler, wax and grow.
She owns real estate all over the
country, especially in Chicago; she
dresses plainly even shabbily; often
she eats her lunches in dairy lunch
rooms. She never makes any dis
play of her wealth that the eye of
man can detect; she hates lawyers,
and is always mixed up in lawsuits;
she dislikes to pay her taxes-or so
the story goes-and says she doesn't
know anything about the Four Hun
dred, and doesn't want to.
Some of the large fortunes con-
trolled by women in America have
been literally administered for the
public good, not for private display.
The superb charities of Miss Helen
Gould are, of course, known to every
body. Never was woman, rich or
poor, more universally loved, respect
ed, and honored than she.
Miss Gould's mail, like Mrs. Sage's
is enormous. Some years ago she
used to answer requests by a printed
circular. This circular stated that in
one week, 1903 letters of begging
character had come to her asking for
a total of s1,54s,502. And there fol-
lowed an itemized list of the various
requests. Here are some Of them:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-29
VICTIMS Of FIRE
WERE SACRIFICED
Huge Door Offered Exit Had it
Not Been for
Panic.
WAGED DEADLY BATTLE
Terrified Men and Women Stabbed
Each Other in Efforts to
Escape.

NATE SZALKA. HUNGARY.
March 2S.--Three hundred and fifty
lives were naediessly sacrificed In the
fire In the dance hall at oekoerito. a
village OF 1900. according to the
report to-day of authorities who in
vestisated Sunday nights tragedy
Had q panic not seized upon the
500 merry makers. who crowded the
large coach house, that had been
turned temporarily into dance hall.
all could have escaped. There was
one huge door at the end of the hail.
through which all might have pass
ed safely had not the frightened rush
toward the door created fatal jam
The authorities found that the
door was nailed up after the dance
began, but light nails were used, and
those who did finally break open the
door declared that 1t yielded readily.
Many OF the bodies bore knife
trusts. On the faces of scores were
the marks OF boot heels of those who
trampied them down. while the bod
les OF some of the children were lit
orally dismembered.
The exact death roll has not yet
been determined, the latest estimate
being 35e. There were SOC persons
In the hail. II Will be impossible to
count the death, as tho ruins have
revealed piles Of charred fragments
OF bodies that do not indicate ao-
curately the number of dead.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-29
SENATORS VOTES
FOR $500 EACH
Insurance Co. President Says
They .Wers Offered Him at
That Price.
BUCKLEY GO BETWEEN
Latter DiInly Recalls Converse
ton, But Makes Categorical
Denial to Charges.

NEW YORK. March 2s.-parwtn
P. Kingsley. who succeeded the hate
John A. Mccall as president OF the
New York Lifc Insurance Company
on the witness stand to-day at the
fire insurance inquiry by State Super
tntendent OF Insurance Hotchkiss,
swore positively that WilliAm II.
Buckley solicited bribe Of $4,000 for
'.stx senAtors," whereby he promised
to prevent the Armstrong bin being
made q republican party measure.
This bill later passed, compelled
the Insurance companies to make pub
lie their lista Of pollcyhoidsrs.
Mr.. Kingsley was called to the
stand at the opening Of the inquiry
while Buckley sat throughout his tes-
timony facing him. Mr.. Kingsley said
he was vtoo-president OF the oom-
pany In 1900. and went to Albany to
urge the passage OF an amendment
to the proposed Armstrong law, which
would prevent the policyholdesE' list
being made public, He succeeded in
getting the Senate to amend the bill
30 tho list could be kept secret.
Mr.. Kingsley was excused, and
Buckley, plainly embarrassed and
very nervoua was recalled. He ad-
mttted his ONCE was In the building
In the vestibuie Of which Kingsley
said the conversation took place, and
ne had& a Faint recollection of an
interview with Kingsley, but thought
II was sought" by KingsIey, That
was all he could remember about 1t,
but he denied categoEtcaliy over offer
ing NIX senatorial votes for $50.
apiece
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-29
WAh7OhLY SHOT
BY STRANGE men
Twelve Year Old Girl Seriously
Wounded by Men Denied
Nights Lodging,

TAzEWEILA VA, March 2a.-Ths
twelve-year-old daughter Of Charles
Kinder Was shot In the temple last
night about 8 O'Clock and very sArl-
oualy but not fatally wounded Ly
one of two young men who weru pass
Ing through the valley. they said, ON
their way from the coal fields to their
homes In North Carolina. They gaze
their names as Long and Shun,at+s.
4 The two men stopped at Kinder's
house about dark, saying that they
had lest their way, and asked Ter q
nights lodging. This was refused and
the man were directed on thAir WAY.
kfrsr leaving the house. they began
fiplng revolvers, one ball gotnx tntD
Kindcrss houge, striking the littls girl
a. above stated. The men were ar
rested and are now In jail. They
claim they shot at rabbit and did
not intend shooting toward the hpuee.
There was strong talk Of lynchjng
In the valley, but the prompt arrival
Of the sherfff and his sosss prevented
trouble.