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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-06-01
This Letter Has Scared Many.


exchange has been sent The
News with request to publish:
According to the hist tory
of the letter it was written by
Christ just after his crucifxion,
signed by the Angel Gabriel
ninety-nine y ears after t h e
Savior's birth and presumably
deposited by him under a stone
at the foot of the cross.
On this stone appeared the
legend, BLESSED is he who shall
turn me over.''
mo one knew what the in
scription meant, or seemed to
have sufficient curiosity to inves
tigate, until the stone was turned
over by a little child and the let
ter which follows was discover
ed:
"Whosoever works on the Sab
bath day shall be cursed. | COM
mand you to go to church and
keep holy the Lords day, with
out any manner of work. You
shall not idle or misspend your
time j n bedecking yourself in
superfuities of costly apparel and
vain dressing, for l have ordered
it day of rest. l will have that
day kept holy that your sins may
be forgiven you.
"You will not break my COM
mandments, but observe and
keep them, they being written
by my hand and spoken from my
mouth. You shall not only go
to church yourselves, but also
your man servants and maid SER
wants. Observe my words and
learn my commandments.
you shall finish your work
every Saturday ate o'clock in the
afternoon, at which hour the
preparation for the Sabbath be-
gins. l advise you to fast five
days in the year, beginning on
Good Friday and continuing the
five days following in remem-
brance of the five bloody wounds
l received for you and mankind.
You shall love one another
and cause them that are not
baptised to come to church and
receive the Holy Sacrament; that
is to say, baptism and then the
Supper of the Lord, and be
made a member thereof, and in
so doing | will give you long life
and many blessings. Your land
shall be replenished and bring
fourth abundance and | will COM
fort you in the greatest tempta-
ton, and surely he that doeth to
the contrary shall be cursed.
81 will also send hardness of
the heart on them and especially
on hardened and unpenitent un-
believers. He that hath given
to the poor shall find it profta-
BILE. Remember to keep the Sab
bathday, for the seventh day |
have taken as a resting day to
myself.
"And he that hath copy of
this letter written by my own
hand and spoken by my own
mouth and keepeth it without
publishing it to others, shall not
prosper, but he that publisheth
it to others shall be blessed by
me, and if their sins be as many
L IL
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
Negro Turned Loose.

The negro held by the authorities
in Savannah as the murderer of Mr..
Lawrence Nix, which killing oc-
Cured near Denmark some months
ago, was released from custody last
Saturday, as the gentlemen from Den
mark who went to identify him said
they were not satisfied that he was
the negro who committed the MUIR
der. Mr.. J. A. Hunter went down to
Savannah last week with the requisi-
tion from Governor Ansel, and when
Messrs. Sandifer and Baxter went
down and saw the negro and stated
that they could not say positively that
the negro under arrest was Isadore
Hartzog, he was turned loose.
However, Chief Hand, who made
the arrest, is of the opinion that the
negro was Hartzog, as two negroes
had positively identified the negro as
the man wanted. However, the man
arrested has been released and this
ends the matter.
The appointments of census enum-
orators for this county have not been
made public yet, at least we have not
heard of it il they have. We hope
good men will be appointed.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
Returns to Insane Asylum.

Aiken, Feb. 12.-The warrant
against Lieutenant William c. Stone,
retired army officer, charging him
with the murder of DR.. Charles w.
Hickman, of Augusta, Ca, about two
weeks ago, was withdrawn this after
noon. Stone was turned over to the
Maryland authorities, who returned
him to an insane asylum from which
he escaped January %.
On the arrival of the officers from
the Richard Grundy Home, of Balti-
more, they were questioned on the
subject by the News and Courier's
correspondent. They said that they
had nothing to give out on the sub
ject of the Hickman affair, but gave
short account of the man in the
hands Of the police. According to
them the man Is Lieut.. Stone, U. S.
A., retired, who, having travelled
around a great deal in the service,
especially in tropical climates, had
been overcome and temporarily lost
his reason. He had been placed in
the Richard Grundy Home, a santa
rum for such mild cases and given
almost unlimited freedom. From
this place he wandered away a few
weeks ago, and had not been heard
from until this affair came to their
notice. They thought it improbable
that Lieut.. Stone could have been
connected with the Hickman murder
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
CANCER CURE DISCOVERED?
Great Results Obtained Through
Vaccination of Rats.

Albany, N. Y, Feb. ia strong
hope of curing cancer, or at least
greatly ameliorating the condition of
cancer patients by means of inocula-
ton, is held out in the report of Har-
vey R. Gaylord, director of the cancer
laboratory of the State department of
health at Buffalo. This hope is based
on extended experimentation during
the past year in the incubation or
vaccination of various animals, main
ly rats, with the cancer virus.
1T appears" says the report, that
where the resistance of the animal
is not sufficiently awakened by one
incubation of the tumor, this re-
sistance can be heightened by re-
peated doses and, in a considerable
proportion of cases, immunity can be
raised to a point which will bring
about cure.
cit is needless to point out that
this process Of repeated vaccination,
which has cured in the proportion of
25 to 40 in rats, might we'll be ap-
piled to those cases of late cancer in
human beings in which surgery has
nothing to offer and the outlook is
hopeless.
LAS we strongly urged the Legis-
lature in previous reports, the time
has come when we should begin ex-
perimentation with human beings.
Funds sufficient to enable us to main
tain ten patients, is the least amount
can be of value if this work is to be
undertaken"
Statistics are given to show that
cancer continues to increase. The
report says that in the United States
it has increased from nine per one
hundred thousand population in 1850
to 43 in 1900, an average of about
IS in 1901, and an average of more
than 70 in 1906.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17

Robert Latham, who has been on
the staff of the News and Courier for
some years. has been appointed edi-
tor, succeeding Maj. J. C. Hemphill,
who goes to Richmond, Va. Mr..
Latham is a bright young man, and
he will no doubt add to his reputa-
ton in his new position. He is safe
and conservative. yet progressive,
and we expect him to do good work
for Charleston and the State.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17

They are certainly selling whiskey
wide open in Augusta these days, for
dealers there are even shipping it
to Bamberg. We noticed in the ex-
press Office several days ago several
packages of whiskey shipped from
Augusta, but of course the name of
the shipper was not on the package.
This is disgrace to our civilization.
The idea of whiskey not only being
cold illegally but shipped out to other
towns, just as if there was no law
againstit! What are we coming to-?
The Bamberg Herald thinks it was
a significant incident for man who
has always been an opponent of Sen
ator Tillman, and who now happens
to be State Senator, to object to the
immediate consideration of House
resolution inviting Senator Tillman
TO address the Legislature. The great
importance attributed to this little
incident by The Herald only illus
trates how small matters are some
times magnifed.-Orangeburg Times
and Democrat.
The significance of the incident
was not only in a Senator objecting
to immediate consideration of the
resolution, but also that there was
no fried of Honest Ben" present
to demonstrate with Senator Will
Jams. Does the Times and Democrat
believe such thing would have hap
pened in the Senate of South Caro-
lima six years ago? We don't.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
Crum Case Records Public.

Washington, Feb. 14.-Senator
Tillman's "pitchfork" eloquence in
condemnation of former President
Roosevelt's appointment Of negro
collector of customs at Charleston,
S. c., which has lain in the Senate
closet for executive secrets for more
than two years, will be given to the
public. The Senate to-day ordered
the injunction of the secrecy re-
moved from all Of its records in the
case of DR.. William D. Crum.
The order gives to the South Caro-
lima Senator the right to fire at the
public a cannonade Of oratory. which
was volleyed at his colleagues behind
closed doors.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
MURDER IN FLORIDA.
Girl of Fourteen is Literally Chopped
to Pieces.

Tampa, Fla, Feb. 13.-FolloWing
the finding of the horribly mutilated
body of 14-year-old Mary Tedder at
the home of her father at Glenwood
yesterday afternoon, Irwin Hanchett,
a 16-year-old white boy, was arrested
this morning. He was Immediately
spirited away by the sheriff to escape
the enraged posses of citizens also
IN search of the mureder.
Additional details received here
from the murder are horrible. A
bicycle, which the girl was riding,
was found 100 yards from where her
body was discovered, indicating that
her assailant had struggled with her
for this distance after knocking her
from her wheel.
The body of the girl showed 65
knife wounds. She was literally cut
to pieces.
That the girls asssailant had other
motives than murder is believed from
the condition of her clothing. She
had been beaten about the face be-
fore being stabbed.
Following the organization Of
posses of citizens in search of negro
supposed to have committed the
crime, the sheriff secured blood
hounds and followed a trail in the
orange grove of VIM. Woolsey, where
young Hanchett was employed. At
ter a careful investigation the boy
was placed under arrest. In his room
was found bloody clothing and the
knife with which it is believed he
committed the murder. When he
was arrested he seemed unconcern-
ed, but strenuously denied that he
had committed the crime.
The boy came to Glenwood last
October. Previous to this he had
been confined in a school Of correc-
ton at some point in Connecticut.
The boy is said to of an unusually
vicious temperament, and as soon as
it was learned that he had been ar
rested on a strong chain Of circum-
stantial evidence excitement was in
tense. He was spirited away in an
automobile, and is believed to have
been carried to Jacksonville and
placed in Jail.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
Published every Thursday in The

Published every Thursday in The
Herald building, on Main street, in
the live and growing City of Bam-
berg, being issued from printing
office which is equipped with Mer-
xenthaler linotype machine, cylinder
press, folder, two jobbers, all run by
electric power, with other material
and machinery in keeping, the whole
equipment representing an invest
ment of $4,000 and upwards.
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Communications are always
glad to publish news letters of those
pertaining to matters of public inter-
est. We require the name and ad-
dress of the writer in every case.
No article which is defamatory or
extensively personal can find place in
our columns at any price, and we are
not responsible for the opinions ex-
pressed in any communication.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
Conduct Earned His Parole.

Meriden, Conn.,, Feb. 13.-1rvin
Hanchett, the 16-year-old boy, who
was arrester for killing Mary Tedder,
of Glenwood, Fla, was an inmate OF
the Connecticut State school for
boys here and his home was in New
Haven. While in the school the
boys behavior was of the best and
his conduct earned his parole in the
custody of William Wooley of this
place, who has an orange grove in
Florida.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17

Some time last year the women of
New York's -four hundred" or the
so-called swell" society of that city,
took up the suffrage movement for
women. Now, Mrs. Belmont, who
seems to be the leader of the move
ment, wants to bring the negro wo-
men into the movement. It is what
might have been expected from wo-
men of her stamp, but this will be
sufficient to kill the suffrage move
ment with the women of the South.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
AMERICA A THIRSTY NATION.
Imports Of DrinkabIeS Reach Amaz-
ingly High Figure.

Washington, Feb. 11.-Americans
must be thirsty nation Judging
from the imports of drinkables as
set forth in a statement just issued
by the bureau of statistics of the de-
partment of commerce and labor.
The United States drank the essence
of more than a billion pounds of
coffee in 1909, valued at $S6,000,-
900. That was about a dollars
dollars worth of coffee for every per-
son in the United States. Tea is not
such a favorite. Only a little more
than a hundred million pounds, val
ued at about 6,0OO,000, came in.
But in splits, wines and malt
liquors the nation touched it's highest
record for importation in 1909 and
consumed foreign products of that
kind to the value Of more than $685.
100000, more than twice as much as
was imported in 1899.
South America supplied most of the
coffee, Asia most of the tea and Eu-
rope most of the wines and liquors.
The United States is the worlds larg-
est coffee drinker and Great Britain
is the worlds largest consumer Of
tea. Every person in the United
States used on the average of II
pounds of coffee during 1909, but the
use of tea remained about unchanged
from the previous year.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17

Judge Robert. .Aldrich, of Barnwell,
Is presiding over the term of court
fn Charleston this week. In his
charge to the grand jury he said that
Charleston's chief of police could
close up the blind tigers but he did
not want to, and the policemen would
not do their duty because they would
lose their jobs. That he could bring
q man from Barnwell who would
close up the tigers in thirty days.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17

Bamberg voted out the dispensary
en- moral grounds. and now the money
which formerly went to the county,
towns and schools is going to Au-
susta and Jacksonville. Go to any
express Office in the county and see
the amount of liquor shipped in here
and you will know why our people
do not seem to have any more money
under prohibition than they did un-
der the dispensary. We are having
the evils of whiskey without the reve-
nue.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
John G.. Richards, of Kershaw, h;

John G. Richards, Of Kershaw, has
announced as a candidate for COVER
nor. He announces a good platform,
the best plank of which is equaliza-
ton of taxation. He is in favor of
taking up the problem in earnest,
and while we realize that this work
cannot be all done at once, the start
should be made. Mr.. Richards will
stand for prohibition.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17

: Zach McGhee, Washington CORE
spondent of the The State, is said to
be thinking of running for congress
in the seventh district against Lever.
This must be joke. Mr.. McGhee is
g capital newspaper man and a
mighty fine fellow, but running for
congress against Frank Lever would
be mighty tough proposition.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17
Thursday, February II, 1910

There is to be no lack of candidates
for the Offices in the new county of
Dillon. The people over there seem
to be hungry for Office from the num-
Der of candidates already announced.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17

Orangeburg county pays it's super
visor 5000 year. The salary in
this county is $1,000 a year. AS
Orangeburg has at least twice the ter
ritory of Bamberg, either that coun-
tty pays too little or this county too
much.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-02-17

The compulsory education bill has
again been killed by the legislature.
Why should money be appropriated
to schools if the people it is intended
TO benefit stay away?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27

right man is singled out, even If it
takes year and a half, as In the Lam
caster case.
A new government detective bureau
has been organized since Congress thus
limited the operations of the secret SER
vice. This is the bureau of investiga-
ton in the Department of Justice. 1t
Is In charge of Mr.. Stanley w. Finch,
former trusted official of that de-
partment, and its activities already
compare in breadth with those OF the
secret service.
The most strenuous activities of this
bureau are now being devoted to the
detection of the might riders" and
other secret and mysterious factors
working against the Attorney General
In his battle against the Burley To-
bacco Society. or farmers trust"
Disguised ms Farm Hands.
Disguised as farm hands these new
government sleuths hired themselves
out in the tobacco district. where the
murderous bands of night riders have
for years been terrorizing the inhabi-
tants, destroying the farming phoper
Is, laying waste acres of = tobacco
lands and whipping and torturing to-
/ bacco growers who have declined to
enter the pool of the organization,
which the President has ordered to
ba brought to justice for violation OF
the antitrust law While working
in the Tobacco fields, Mr.. Finch has
I also been in the field masquerading
| as q "horse buyer for the British
| government in South Africa" in search
Of the far-famed .horseflesh of Ken
lucky. The quantities of letters and
| streams Of callers which Nhe has beer
4 receiving here have not excited sus'
/ picion, although the letters have beer
deadly reports from his detectives
scattered about the departments, ant
4 although his callers have not beer
gentlemen with horses for sale, bu
men who have been secretly punished
!, by the night riders. First he ferretet
out the system by which the nigh
riders are organized and then he
learned the names of the leaders an'
lieutenants OF the organization in eacl
half county.
i Five Other U. S. Detective Forces.
The government has its Spoilers
also in the customs service. intersat
commerce commission, Post-Office De
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27
STANLEY w. FINCH,
Chief OF bureau of InvestiEn-
ton, Dept. of Justice.

partment, public land md notuta-
lization services. New work for the
customs agents" as they are called.
has been the ferreting out of the re-
cent tremendous sugar weighing
frauds, as a result OF whose probing
S2.I00,0O0 has been paid back to the
Treasury In acknowledgement OF evad-
ed duties. BY nosing among the mil
liners and dealers in feminine finery
here and aboad, these sieuths have
aided Collector Loeb also in detecting
the "Eleeper trunk" conspiracy, by
which the government for half de.
cade has been losing probably mil
lion dollars a year in duties.
Every heavy purchase of jewels
made in foreign cities by an Amer
lean tourist becomes known In SONS
mysterious way 10 these customs
sleuths.
And now and then some passenger
disembarks from an ocean liner, on
this side OF the deep, becomes incens-
ed because some stranger jostles
against him rather roughly or gives
him disagreeable push In some por-
ton of his anatomy which protrudes
too far to be consistent with the ac-
cepted canons OF humaln proportion
II he is innocent. he perhaps never
learns that the intruder was an tnauis-
tive custom sleuth who has suspect
ed him Of smuggling. If strongly
suspected he is invited into little
room, where he is stripped to his hide.
and women attendants arc employed
to so attend to passengers of their
sex
The post-office sleuths are contin-
ualiy engaged in detecting and llav-
ing excluded from tho privileges of
the mails all sorts OF fraudulent con-
Germs, from matrimonial agencies to
ouack remedies, and in the distrib-
uting room of the large city post-of-
flee you have doubtless seen one or
more dark towers with lattice port
holes throwing their shadows across
the neighboring space or. perhaps q
bridge, with similarly sheltered WIN
dows spanning the room. These are
.look- outs" from which the patient
post-offee inspectors will watch a
suspected clerk or postman for weeks
at at a time until he Is caught with
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27

the goods" The interstate COM
mercc commission slcuth has been an
acquisition only since the functions
of that railway court wcrc recently
enlarged They investigate violations
of the law as to rates. safety applian-
ces, etc. The naturalization sleuth is
an even newer actor upon tho stage
OF official events. He sees to 1t that
our new citizens have been within the
land OF their adoption during the pro-
baton period demanded by the law
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27

and that they are otherwise Dual
fled for the sacred privileges Q
American citizenship. The speci
agents of the public land service n
not detectives in the true sense
the word, but they often have col
siderable gum shoe" duties to pc
for in the work of hunting dow
dummy cntrymen" and the ptThe
grafters who are constantly indulgil
their greed for the peoples land.
(Copywright, 1910. by the Brentwod
Company.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27


Many women spoilers receive money
from the army for bringing deserters
TO justice. They are not regularly
employed. hut profit by the uniform
fee of $50 offered by the government to
any one who will inform on this class
of delinquents. This system. how
ever. offers tremendous opportunities
of blackmail and petty graft" and In
several of our large cities there have
come to light cases ia which there has
been strong suspicion that certain
class of women make 1T a practice to
enticc soldiers into brothels and there
keep them under the influence of liquor
or drugs. 1t is alleged that the Delilah
of this class will then send another
woman to inform upon the alleged de
serter," and receive the $50. which the
two will then divide In almost every
large city there are women who make
revenue out of the detection of de-