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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
FERTILIZER-FROM-AIR PLANT.
Operations to Begin in Chester
County This Week.

Chester, Jan. 19.-The current
will be turned on Sunday at the fer
tilizer-from-air plant at Nitrolee,
near Great Falls, for the purpose of
testing the machinery and adjusting
the bearings. 1t is thought by those
in charge that operations will regu-
larly begin in about two weeks.
This plant is the only one of it's
kind in America, and is, therefore,
something of a novelty. The process
employed in making fertilizer at this
plant by extracting nitrogen from
the air and uniting it to limestone
as base has been described, and in
theory at least is now more or less
familiar to the people of this State.
AS stated before, however, the plant
at Nitrolee is the only one Of its
kind in America, and crowds of in
terested and curious persons are ex-
pected to visit the place during the
next few months to witness the
strange spectacle The machinery
with which the plant is equipped was
brought direct from Europe, where
there are several plants of this kind.
The Southern Power Company, which
owns almost unlimited hydro-electri-
cal power up and down Catawba
river and subsidiary streams, owns
the plant, and will erect another
larger plant if this one proves sue
cess.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
WILLING TO TAKE STAND.
ATLANTA ATTORNEY WILL COME
IF SUMMONED.
Declares Governor Will Get All That's
Coming to Him, Good and
Plenty.

Augusta, Ca, Jan. 23.-Col. Thom-
as B. Fielder was in Augusta yester-
day. "Will you go to Columbia and
testify against Gov. Cole L. Blease
if you are summoned by the investi-
eating committee?" we asked him
directly.
"Yes, if the Investigating commit
tee sees fit to summon me-"
What about that book on Blease
so much talked about? Have you
printed such book as you are cred
tied with, showing all the dealings OF
the present governor of South Caro-
lima? ?"~:
mo book has been printed, bit !
have material that would make
most interesting book if it should be
published"
Asked what he thought of the
Blease situation now, he replied:
Hes going to get all that's COM
ing to him, good and plenty-before
long"
Col. Fielder said he did not think
any impeachment proceedings would
be started or attempted by this legis-
lature. Of this impeachment matter
however, he did not know anything
of his own knowledge.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
Good Advice.

What shall we do with our cotton
seed? l have usually exchanged them
ton for ton for, the meal and used
it in making fertilizer. Would like
to get a crusher that I could use to
crush the seed. Do not do anything
of the sort. If you can exchange ton
for ton, it is the best possible use
you can make of the seed, for you
will get more fertilizer material than
you give. The oil is of no value as
a fertilizer and it is better to be rid
of it. But the best use to make OF
the meal is to feed it in moderation
with good roughage like corn stover
and hay and make profit from 1t
before using it as fertilizer, for
you can recover in the manure the
larger part of the manurial value or
the meal. 1t is worth too much as
feed to use as manure direct.-Pro-
gressive Farmer.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
BURNED TO DEATH ON EDISTO.
Miss Jennie McConkey, Alone in
House, Meets Horrible Death.

Edisto Island, Jan. 19.-Miss Jen-
ME McConkey was burned to death
at her home here on last Monday
night, the tragedy occurring while
her brother, with whom she resides,
at the famous old McConkey planta-
tion, was in Charleston on business.
the unfortunate- woman being alone
on the place at the time.
Tuesday morning the plantation
employees, coming to the house.
found the body of the unfortunate
woman in the yard, all the clothing
having been burned therefrom. It
is presumed that Miss McConkey
ran into the yard when her cloth
ing was, by some unknown means,
set afire, and that there she died.
The funeral and burial services were
held here Thursday. A brother
from Canada, the former home of the
McConkeys, was en- route to Edisto,
and arrived just in time to hear the
sad news of the tragedy, and to at
tend the funeral of his sister. Miss
McConkey was about 60 years OF
age.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
A Broken Resolution.

"A man can't make better new
years resolution than in season and
out of season to mind his own busi-
ness"
The speaker was Representative
Henry, of Texas. With his grim
smile, he resumed:
YEA Texan, at hotel, got acquaint-
ed with a millionaire. One night in
the hotel lobby, as the two men pun
ed their cigars, the Texan said: :
"'I make it a rule to mind my
own business, sir
"'And very god rule it is, too,
said the millionaire, placidly.
"'Yes, SIR the Texan went on,
back in '93 I made a new years
resolution to mind my own business,
and, by heck, I've stuck to it ever
since
"'Good,' said the millionaire, as
he reclined in his leather-arm chair
and smoked, with half closed eyes,
Good!
But, sir said the Texan, there
are times when man must speak
out, and I want to tell you, sir, that
you are making a terrible mistake in
employing as private secretary the
young fellow you do. He's not
worthy of position of such trust.
The fact is, I've seen him drunk in
fashionable theaters and restaurants
at least a dozen times. He joy rides
in your motor car in the small hours
with all sorts of bad company. He's
been seen plunging heavily at sew
eral gambling houses. BY jingo, sir,
I wouldn't trust him with 10-cent
piece. l guess you hired him out OF
charity-to reform him, and all that,
eh?'
"'Well, yes, suppose / did,
muttered the millionaire, and very
red in the face, he added. You
see, he's my SON. Washington
Star
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
VICTIMS ASK THIEF TO DINE.
jewelers. Invite to Banquet Man Who
Robbed Them of $4,000.

Chicago, Jan. 18.-The padded
brick burglar" who has smashed
iewelry store windows and taken
goods to the value of 100000, has
accepted, through his wife, the invi-
tarion of the Chicago Wholesale Jew
elers' Association to attend their
banquet Thursday night.
The woman, whose letter was sign
ed only Rosa, says if her husband
receives through the press pledge OF
honor that he will not be betrayed
to the police, he will be present and
make what restitution he can. w.
F. Juergens, chairman of the banquet
committee, pledged the organization
tonight, declaring the members are
sincere in Offering protection.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
BAMBERG S. c., THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1872
WOMAN CHARGED WITH FRAUD.
Unusual Situation Follows Divorce of
indianapolis Couple.

indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 20.-That
Mrs. Leona Batty practiced fraud
on the court when she represented
that she had become a mother on Oc-
tober %, 1910, was the decision late
to-day of Judge Joseph Collier, of the
superior court, and the petition of
Bernard H. Batty, the divorced hus-
band of Mrs. Batty, asking that the
court relieve him from supporting
the child was granted. The baby,
which was exhibited in court, also
was claimed by 19-year-old girl, of
Eaton, Ind, who averred the baby
was. born to her at hospital here
about ten days before the time Mrs.
Batty said the child was born.
In February, 1911, Mr.! Batty
brought suit for divorce and his wife
filed a cross bill. Judge Collier
granted a divorce on the cross COM
plaint and ordered the husband to
pay SIS a month for the support OF
each of the two children. Later the
husband asked release from the sup
port of the younger child and at the
hearing, a short time ago, the decep-
ton of the wife was brought out and
the young girl brought into court to
claim. the child. The Battys are
prominent socially here.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
Can't Refuse to Haul Beer.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Beer is a
commodity and railroads must carry
it when offered for transportation
from one State into dry" counties
of another State, regardless of the
laws of the latter State.
The supreme court made this rul-
ing to-day regarding proposed ship
ment from Indiana into dry Ken
lucky counties.
The case arose when the Louisville
railroad refused to carry beer o1er-
ed by the F. w. Cook Brewing Com
pany at Evansville, Ind, because a
Kentucky law of 1906 forbade bring
ing intoxicating liquors into local op-
tion districts.
The United States circuit court for
Indiana enjoined the railroad from
refusing to transport beer, on the
ground that beer was a commodity
and that the Kentucky statute, If it
attempted to- regulate interstate
commerce, was no defense for the
railroads refusal. The court of ap-
peals for the seventh circuit affirmed
this decision.
valid as a regulation of intra-
State shipments, it never was effect
i've as to interstate shipments to
dry countess" said Justice Lurton
today, referring to the State law in
sustaining the lower court.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
A DOZEN WIVES ORDERED.
Western Farmers Ask Marriage Lii
cense Bureau to Supply Brides.

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 20.-The
largest matrimonial order ever re-
ceived in the city has come from Ian
sing, Mich, addressed to Marriage
License Clerk Claude F. Gage, call
ing for IL brides for like number
of Michigan men, ranging in years
from 25 to so and ready to begin
housekeeping on some of Western
Washington's logged-off lands as soon
as exigences permit.
1--WE want the land and We want
the wives" ran the letter. ''The
land question we have already taken
up" Gage has written the Michi-
gan man that he will advise him later
as to the condition of the matri'
monial market.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
Country Correspondence.

Cotton is still gracing the pods over
many acres of land and evidently it
-ill serve as fertilizer for the soil,
as it will be nearly impossible to
gather it at this season of the year.
Many changes have taken place;
so many folks are leaving their farms
to move to the towns. These changes
make a little feeling of loneliness
pass over one whose neighbors are
moving away.
The country schools, Gall that we
hear about are doing very nicely
and the teachers that make rural
TEACHING their vocation seem to real
ize and are trying to rally to the STU
alton, that the great majority OF cltl-
zenship is and has been from the
country. Yet it is a noticeable and
almost deplorable fact that the ma
jority of boys by the time they reach
their early teens have aspirations to
other channels than that of farming.
And to my mind it is a sad. hue that
colors the agricultural horizon, that
so many are turning away from the
where with for all'' profession and
seek "jobs'' along other lines.
There are so many expressions OF
regret to be heard all about over the
country over the resignation and de-
parture of Rev. o. J. Frier and his
wife from the Bamberg Baptist
church Their influence has been
muchly felt. All the hearers who
have been fortunate enough to be ia
vored with a message from this
graceful and gentle follower of the
divine work have felt the magnetic
inspiration. We, the writer, with
their many other friends, wish them
every success that can await their
earnest labors, in their new field OF
service.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.

Ehardhardt, Jan. 22.-The snow
has gone but not all of the mud.
Roads arev cry tough now.
Two young men visiting young
lady friend express themselves some
what like this by their looks: The
heighth of the buggy, the width OF
the body and the length of the drive
kept them from visiting her oftener.
Tough isn't it, lady friend.
Mr.. John NJ. Kirkland's oldest son,
Milton, was bitten by one of Mr.. Jack
Smiths dogs Sunday afternoon. Not
very serious I hope.
The old farmers say 1912 will be
a good crop year on account of the
snow.
The banks are putting out plenty
of money to help the farmers run
their business this year.
The Hacker Mfg. Co. have practl-
cally shut down on account OF the
woods being so wet and boggy. Their
skidder man says the shadow OF the
cable as they carry it to the log bogs
down and they have hard time get
ting logs to the road.
Booze still comes from Jackson
vile, Fla. AS long as few dollars
can be gotten it will continue to
come. Most of the darkies club TO-
xether and divide up when the jug
comes in.
Mr.. J. w. Priester's little son was
somewhat sick the first part of last
week and stayed from school to take
medicine. Was standing before the
fire with his gown on, made of can
ton flannel goods. Same caught on
fire and the little fellow was burnt
so badly until he died shortly after
being burnt, and was buried in the
Ehrhardt cemetery Friday afternoon
at 3 o'clock. Quite crowd went to
see the little fellow laid to rest. He
was a. promising boy OF about elghs
and his untimely death is a heavy
blow to his parents, who have our
sympathy in their bereavement. we
will all miss the manly, quiet little
fellow from our midst.
Rev. D.. B. Groseclose has combin-
ed lesson study of the Sunday
school lesson for the following Sun
day on each Tuesday nights along
with prayer meeting. The lesson is
gone over and questions are given
and answered and studied by the
older heads, which makes the meeting
instructive and interesting to all.
There are three churches IN town,
and the meetings were intended TO
be in one of the churches each Tues
day night, but of late the cold wave
and a. new preacher in the Metho-
dist church has somewhat broken the
alternate meetings, but hope they
will soon be regular again. JEE.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
RICH INDIAN GIRL.
Navajo Maid Inherits Large Fortune
from Her White Father.

Attorneys for Henry C. Simpson,
who died in Kansas City three weeks
ago. have instituted search for an In
dian maiden somewhere jim the
southwest" who is heiress to $751;
600 of the Simpson fortune.
That Simpson was wealthy was not
known generally until after his death
His estate amounted to $4,000 and
was left in the care of his son, Henry,
as executor.
After the death of his first wife,
more than 25 years ago, the elder
Simpson is said to have married an
Indian. 1t is for a daughter by this
marriage that the son seeks. The
daughter is said to have returned to
live with her people, the Navajos.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
Harris Renamed Postmaster.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Pres. Taft
to-day sent to the Senate the nomlna-
ton of Wilmot L. Harris, to succeed
himself as postmaster at Charleston
and of Rufus G. Gettys, to be post
master at Blacksburg.
Postmaster Harris and United
States Marshal j. Duncan Adams are
now in Washington, presumably look
ing after this appointment and its
confirmation.
Denmark and Westminster, S. c.,
were to-day designated as postal say
ings postofices, to be ready for de-
posts February 19 next.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
Paroled Prisoner Arrested Again.

Paroled Prisoner Arrested Again.
Chester, Jan. 19.-Jim Carter, col
orded, convicted of rape in 1905 and
sentenced to life imprisonment in
the penitentiary and paroled during
good behavior by Governor Blease,
in May last was arrested here yes
terday for disorderly conduct and
carrying a pistol, and was locked up,
after fighting two policemen savage
ly until subdued.
Chief of Police Sanders wired
Governor Blease last night to find
out whether Carter's. offence is Sc
rious enough to revoke his parole
and the governors reply is awaited
with interest.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
Sermons i'm Sentences.

Friends do not freeze to a frozen
heart.
Easy times often account for hard
habits.
Nothing is really sacred until all
things are.
Big plans do not balance small per-
formances.
Short cuts to fortune are often
bottomless cuts.
If wishes were wings good works
would soon cease.
That soul is truly lost that gathers
darkness of the light.
No man ever saw his father by
climbing over his brother.
Your rank among men depends on
how you help them to rise.-Turner
Falls Reporter.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
APPARATUS HANGS HIM.
Wrestler Tries Device to Strengthen
Neck.

St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 22.--Le-
George Loefler, young amateur
wrestler, in trying to strengthen his
neck by hanging himself from the
ceiling with a special device moose,
was strangled to death.
Loef1er had: an old manual in
which were numerous pictures show
ing the methods by the former world
champion. He tried the apparatus
with fatal result.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
A Modern Miracle.

In the January Lippincott's Mrs.
La Sale Corbell Picket tells
strange story connected with the bur-
ial Of General Robert E. Lee. It
seems that when the great leader
died, at Lexington, Virginia, the
North River, a tributary to the
James, had overfowed it's banks, and
Lexington was cut OF from all
communication with the outside
world. A warehouse was washed
away, and with it all the supplies
contained therein, including all the
coffins in the city.
I'm this extremity Professor Nell
son, of the University Of Virginia,
was consulting with some Of the
other professors as to what could be
done. In the midst of their dilem-
ma two boys came up to them in q
timid way, hesitating to approach the
group of dignified strangers, yet feel
ing the necessity of imparting the in
formation they were bringing. Each
feared to be the first to speak and
pushed the other on, saying:
You tell
"'Ne; yon tell. You saw It first.
. Saw what?' asked Professor
Nelson, who was a Judge Of boys.
and perceived that there was some
thing of unusual Importance on their
minds.
eyes; saw what?' repeated one
of his companions.
Encouraged by the readiness to
receive their tidings one of them re-
Piled: "A coffin
owe saw it, affirmed the other.
Eyes; we saw it there upon the
shore, there by the island.
"'On the shore? A coffin? Where?
."'Just about three miles from
town. We saw it, said the boy who
had first spoken. Maybe nobody's
in it. We was too scared to do
more than see the outside, and then
we tuck out. 'Tain't never been
used. It's bran, spankin' new.
"I wonder if they really saw it,
or only imagined it, said one OF the
gentlemen.
Professor Nelson arose and turn
ed to the boys, saying:
leone and show us the way.
"The boys led on and all follow
ed, uncertain as to what they were
to find, but trusting that in some
way heaven had graciously supplied
their great necessity. Along the
river-bank they walked until thedr
two guides stopped beside a long,
closed box that had floated down the
swollen waters in the great food
and drifted ashore. In the box was
a beautiful coffin.
"They carried home the box, and
in that heaven-sent casket all that
was earthly Of the great commander
was laid to rest in the college chapel,
where the tomb Of the Southern hero
has become a shrine OF glory for the
inspiration of the world
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
Twenty.Three Children.

Mrs. Fred Walkenhorst, wife of a
farmer living about two miles from
St. Louis suburbs, says she believes
that all the more good fortune will
be visited upon her home with 23
children than with %. On Wednes-
day she presented her husband with
a baby girl, their twenty-third child,
all of whom are living and at home.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
FrOZe 4 Baby.

Pottsville, Pa, Jan. IA sever
al-months-old baby, found on the
highway near New Castle, frozen
stiff in death, is believed by the po-
lice to have been deliberately placed
outside by it's mother under the de-
lusion that the oxygen in the open
air would stop it's crying. The baby
was stripped of nearly all its cloth
ing when found.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
Gentle JabS.
More tombstones would tell

More tombstones would tell the
truth about people if left blank.
When a woman says, "There's nc
use talking,' she means that you
might as we'll shut up and give her a
chance.
Tell the average man joke and ne
will say THAT reminds me-" Then
he'll get busy and you will have to
listen and it serves you right.-Chi-
cago Ledger.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25
He Needed a Pull.

by gosh, there amt no chance tc
git ahead of these swindlers,' com
planned Silas Hossbarnes.
whats the matter now?' his wife
asked.
Il sent a dollar to one of .'em fol
a receipt to keep hair from fallin
out, and what do you s'pose he
writes?"
Il can't guess
"'Quarrel with your wife and gi,
it pulled out
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25

Last week the legislature killed a
bill allowing the voters OF Abbeville
county to vote on the dispensary
question.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-01-25

For Sale.-Full blood Shepherd
pups for sale. Males, $500; females.
$500. w. H. ZEIGLER, COPE, S. C..
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-06-20

A DARKToWN MEETIN'
When the members of the
Smoky City Othello and Ham
Literary society had gathered in
their hall, Rev. John Quincy
Adams Jackson, the president,
raped for order with the tin dip
per handle.
"As | ariz to promulhzgate, fell
low litratures, dis hyeh meetin'
am fob de purpose of 'lectin'
successor to de honorable and
wuhthy ,gemman who now
'dresse yoh. 1t am httin' befoh
yoh go to nom'natin' some wuol-
less, ornery, come-seven, razor
totin'', moon-eyed, doctor-sew-
ed"
l riz. to point of order" in
terrupted Frog-eye Simmons. "If
Brudder Jackson continues to
spout all night like a red-hot,
steam-hissin' sawmill en-jine, dey
won't be no time to elect me as
president. F."
Elect yohP' cried out Presi-
dent Jackson, Sister Ann Huckle
berry and Uncle Orlando Orestes
Napoleon Hardtack in unison.
Oats what saidP affirmed
Frog eye Simmons. II pro-
nounces my canvas-ship fob de
same"
"But yoh can't write no poul-
tryR' exclaimed Confucius Wat
erloo.Lee Jones.
Frog eye Simmons drew a
shining razor from his right boot
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-06-20

some sonnet poultry to enlighten-
fly dis hyeh club"
81 shoh hasw cried Confucins
Waterloo Lee Jones. He climbed
upon the coal box, unfolded
piece of brown wrapping paper
from the Fleshy Opossum res
taurant, tied with a pink and
lemon ribbon, and recited in a
melodious bass:
"De moon sot in de tempesquen-
tial sea;
De stahs tucked dere bright coun-
terances behind a 'sit1mon
tree;
De fahmer deserted de hen-house
and fohgot de key,
And left de succuliferous pullets
a-waitin' theah fob me"
There was a tremendous out
burst of applause.
"Oh, yoh chickenP shouted
Christopher Columbus Henson.
Then Frog-eye Simmons wav-
ed silence and, displaying a man
uscript cut from the back of a
-four sack, he read: Eli
20, Ham, lustiferous sire of "a
mighty, ciIllud band,
When yoh left de good, old Ark
and wandered down to
Egyptland,
What fob in de name O darkness
didn't yoh turn and ramble
back
Befoh yoh face got blistered and
yoh turned a nation
b1ack?"
Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-03-01

One Black Gelding five years old, weight 100 lbs
One Bay Gelding six years DID, weight 100 lbs
One Bay Gelding nine years old, weight 100 lbs
One Grey Geldng twelve yrs. DID, weight 1900 lbs
One Grey Gelding five years DID, weight l00 lbs
One Bay Mare ten years old, e g HI 1900 lbs