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(Slip Hainbmj iirralii EST ABLISHKI> APRIL, 1891. 1 Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing ' office which is equipped with Mer- s genthaler linotype machine. Babcock j cylinder press, folder, two jobbers, a , fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by * electric power with other material t - ? 1 ?Viq whnlo , and macninery in neepni6, .. t equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $1.50; ' six months, 75 cents; three months, i 50 cents. All subscriptions payable s strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch v for first insertion, subsequent inser- ? tions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by z law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and 1 other advertisements under special i head, 1 cent a word each insertion, g Liberal contracts made for three, six r and twelve months. Write for rates. 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Gulf States: tA shower period during the first three days of the week will doubtless be followed by a period of generally fair weather, with occasional scattered showers. The temperature tendency will be upward. c T , STATEMENT. ? of the ownership, management, cir- F culation. etc.. required by the act of August 24. 1912. of The Bamberg v Herald, published weekly at Bam- . berg, S. C., for April 1, 1915. I Editors: R. M. Hitt and R. M. ! * Bruce, Bamberg, S. C. *' I c t Managing editors: R. M. Hitt and j R. M. Bruce. Bamberg, S. C. i Business managers: R. M. Hitt F and R. M. Bruce. Bamberg. S. C. j F Publishers: Hitt & Bruce, Les- 1 sees, Bamberg, S. C. j j - Owneri A. W. Knight, Bamberg,' . o | t Known bondholders, mortgagees, a P':". and other security holders, holding 1 t per cent, or more of total amount of t bonds, mortgages, or other securi- . ties: None. . i R. M. HITT. ! 1" Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of June. 1915. i r k H. L. HINNANT. i Notary Public. | r fWe see that old Vic Huerta was r ? arrested in New Mexico for conspir- l ing to incite a "revolution in a p friendly country." Whaddyamean r "friendly country?" t e| The Gaffney I.edger says a good n g-'\ deal about how useful the letter "e" t is. It certainly is useful to the editor ^of the Ledger; forvwithout it Do- a Camp's name would not be <Ed:l0 neither would he have that classy j. French prefix in his last name. I c Two well known South Carolina ^ v: newspaper men this week joined the ranks of the Benedicts. They are . Col. E. H. Aull, editor of the New-i J berry Herald and News, and Mr. A.', & W. Knight, owner of the Bamberg Herald. Col. and Mrs. Aull and Mr.; ^ and Mrs. Knight have the best wishes ' of a host of friends all other the jp' State. | ^ The natural drainage of Bamberg is nor sood. This is an additional) argument for the need of sewerage j here. Of course, even if the drain-i age were good, we would still need r a sewerage system, but the fact that g it is not good makes it absolutely c necessary. The more the city grows r the worse the condition will become j ? unless this progressive step is taken.' j Mr. Taxpayer, your property will en- ] hance in value if a sewerage system j a is installed in Bamberg, and, unless a we are mighty badly mistaken, your, c doctor's bill will be greatly reduced, i = t There is a strong and growing t sentiment in Bamberg for a sew-er ^ system for the town. Since the matter was first suggested, it has been t the talk of the town, and it seems to r be well established that something . will have to be done about it. It has come to be a recognized fact that the } city needs sewerage about as bad- ^ lv as it does water, and it needs both , mighty bad. With all of our neigh- ^ boring-towns?nearby competitors? j installing sewerage systems. Bamberg will surely be left in the one-horse town column unless she keeps the ^ pace. "Let well enough alone" has c never contributed to a town's growth and progress. Once a town stops in , progress she goes the other way. A town never stands still. Professor (to student)?What are c you laughing at? Not at me? > Student?Oh, no, sir. i Professor?Then what else is t there in the room to laugh at? { it' TIOKIl OF INSECT WORLD. 'erocious .Moth Fats I,(MX) Caterj lars in Eight Weeks. The government's scientists w iave been engineering the warft igainst the destructive gypsy a >rown-tailed moths in this count ire confident that within a few yei hey will have these pests entir mder control. The insects knp is moth-slayers, which have^ be irought here from other lands to ; n the work of extermination, i iaid to be slaughtering the moths vholesale and thriving at their s: fuinary task. ? - ? * * 1 une or ine most uuic? ui iu> vl < ilien insects, and one which has b nost active in the slaughter, acco ng to a writer in the Century, is creen beetle, a veritable tiger in t noth world. Here is a terrible creature indei l creature of intrepid ferocity a nagnificent voracity. Beside h he hog is a beast of most delict ippetite. The green beetle wot levour ten times his weight in gyj noth caterpillars in a single day, a >e ready to duplicate this perfor ince on the morrow. His nominal two seasons of act: ife are a wild orgy of slaying a easting. His span of mortality ludes a mere fortnight of larval 1 nd two brief summers of adult < stence, representing less than f nonths of acitivity altogether: t luring this time he will normally < our nearly 650 gypsy moth cat' tillars or pupae as big as himself. A : ingle pair have been observ o eat 2,000 caterpillars within eif reeks. glutton almost beyond beli ?Newark Evening News. The Verdict at Syracuse. The jury in the Barnes-Roosev ase at Syracuse has decided that t olonel did not libel .Mr. Barnes, a .lr. .Barnes is going to take an ? ?eal to the higher courts. Col. Roosevelt charged that tht ras a bi-partisan combination tosses in New York, and that > Jarnes was a party to it. The wee if testimony brougnt out impressr y little that went far to change t tublic's understanding of how 1 ? 1: A. * Vi ? onmirA Cf o IUllUl'3 Ifc pitt> CU 1U CMC cuit/uc k/tu "here was a mass of highly intere ng details about the intimate re ions of men dealing with big pub .ffairs, but it bore out pretty clos< he general impression of those m; ebs. The public had not been fool< ts notiop of how it was govern lad been a right accurate one. In the talk of the public, men li Jarnes and .Murphy had been i erred to as bosses, and the sort elationships that have existed amo nen of their type have been cynic y looked upon as amounting to >artisan combinations for the pi notion of the interests of the pc icians "rather than the interests he public. Whatever the jii flight have decided, the general 'i ion would not have been changed. But while Mr. Barnes did not g , verdict?or at least he has not g ne yet?he succeeded in discred ng Col. Roosevelt for all time ome. It was made very clear th 'ol. Roosevelt has been of and wi he bosses: that he has been son ihat of a boss himself. He has be ust as deep in the mud as Bare las been in the mire. The pub tas been believing this all the tin nd the trial at Syracuse served ring out the indisputable eviden lr. Barnes did not vindicate hints nth his suit, but lie just about p he finishing touches to the colon ?Anderson Mail. Russia's Lack of Ammunition. The London Times' military e espondent comments on the stri tie in Galacia as controlling t haracter of the whole campaign J nonths to come. He says: "If the Austro-Germans succe n driving the Russians out of ( acia or in dispersing the Russi irmies in the south, we shall not ible to count upon a serious Russi >ffensive this summer and there v >e greater difficulty than before jringing about the useful coope ion of Italy. Serbia and other Stat vith the action of Russia. "Germany clearly aims at the ov hrow of the Russians and the se] ation of the Russian southern ar es, based on Kiev, from the nor >rn and central armies based 'etrograd and Moscow. We are s ar from that point, but every irement of the southern armies vard the east tends to disconn le Russian fighting line. "It is not want of men which 1 lriven Russia temporarily to the < ensive. Therefore no serious in;ion of Russia is yet possible. 1 an imagine where the trouble ]i md superhuman efforts are bei nade to meet Russia's deficiencie A wrench that its Ohio inveni laims will replace the monl< vrench and that will handle pipe veil as nuts of all shapes has a mill vheel. adjusted by a spring clip, dace of the lower jaw. USED APPENDIX AS BAIT. ?il- So Alleges Patient Whose Physician I Friend Caught the Fish. ho Bill Case is mad. He says that it ire is all right for Doc Holmes to be a f nd fisherman, but he'll be dog goned if t ry. Doc didn't carry it too far with him. 1 irs. and that he is entitled to the three- t ely ounce trout Doc caught. t vvn Bill and Doc went fishing the first ;en two days of the season and brought I in nice catches. A couple of days c ire later Bill was taken sick. i by His wife called up Doc on the 'phone and caught him just as he * was starting fishing. Doc hustled ( he over to Bill's house. He diagnosel * !en the case as appendicitis, got out his 1 insirunieiiis, pci itn uicu n?c | -( ? a tion, got Bill back to bed and hur- ; ;he rie(j 0ff to go fishing. p He came back to see how Bill was o ed- doing and brought in the big trout s nd to show his patient, who nearly had \ itn a relapse. Now Bill declares Doc q lte just operated on him to get his appendix for bait and that he caught ^ )S>" that big trout with it.?Smith. La., nd dispatch to New Orleans Item. q m- ? Advantages of Chamber ot Commerce. ive nd The aim of a commercial organiza- ^ in- tion is, we all know, to create a com- ^ * * ,4" .'-.4awA?4 V? i-v olfl70n<? A f I 110 mumiv IIIHZHSOL ailiwn^ tlio tai^uo w* gx- the town and county; to bring out the Q Ive different ideas of its many citizens >ut and. by association and cooperation, ie- to formulate and to execute plans for a er- the physical upbuilding of the com- p munitv. Its aim is broad in its scope, ^ ed and many things might be stated re- _ ;ht garding its commercial advantages: ^ ef. but in this article I will endeavor, to Q the best of my ability, to discifcs its advantages from one standpoint only?the standpoint of the world's p markets and their effect upon Amerielt can commerce. n he 0 ' ^ We of the smaller towns feel the c effects of the fluctuations of the mar- i IP kets of the whole \vorld. It is a ma- * terial fact that the prices of Ameri- t >re J can_ export commodities depend upon ? ^ the world's supply and demand. The * | ' price of the South's greatest commod- t itv, cotton, is dependent upon the de- I ' tnands of Europe. Many belligerent c n? i countries are dependent upon ^I^eri- i can consumption of potash, salts, 1 / grain, coffees, leather, and many 1 stja I other imports. Taking the world's < ,, i markets as a whole, we see that the * lie , j prices of all commodities are based t I I iinnn tVio onnnlv anH cnnsnmntion. C at I ? J(j I While exports of cotton are still ed greatly below normal, exports of j other commodities have increased to kg! such an extent that America is now t re^, a creditor nation, in place of a debtor g of, nation. The demand for American c ng goods and American credit will prob- s y_' ably call for more American Indus- t *j_! tries to help meet this demand. It Is , roJ said that the estimated value, of s dj_' American exports over imports at the f of end of the year 1915 will, at the t jrv present rate of increase, be some- , 10"_ thing near one-half billion dollars. ( j It does seem possible, though, that rgt South America may be able to in- r ,ot crease her exports to this country to t ! offset this trade balance. On the con- a to 'trary, they have not been able to do ^ iat so in the past. Outside of fertilizers ^ ith: her principal exports are coffee and f ie_;teas, corn, wheat and other grain. en As it is, America is virtually self- g ie9 supporting in grain, and her markets t jic for coffees, teas and sugar have not c ie ; been materially affected by the war. . t0! American imports have had a tend- t ce ; enoy to'decrease rather than increase. elf I A lack of increased imports will prob- * (Ut; ably call for a large demand in our ej i own country for these import? goods. * Opportunities, therefore, for more ^ enterprises should naturally present ? themselves. By organized effort each r State, and even each town in the * or- State, can do its part in assisting our s ig- country in holding a balance of tradt? c he j and thus secure a more commercial * for independence. 1 The establishment and mainte>ec* nance of a trade balance means great- * *a" J er seaport facilities: and the thing c an | that is important to South Carolina "e| now is making Charleston an importan ant seaport town. The importance ill ' ( of Charleston as a seaport will be 111 known when the United States and 8 ra" South America can inaugurate such es- relations between themselves that will guarantee commercial independ- c er~ ence of Europe. It is said that the 1 - - - - ~ o c ^ financial conditions 01 wuauor, time ni" and other western countries of South * America are deplorable. There must ^ on he relief for such condition#, and the T time will inevitably come when South 1 re~ America will appeal to us, and thus * t0~ pave the way for an indefinite favora- 1 ecl ble trade balance. * Coming nearer home, we reacuiv ias r perceive that a greater seaport must ^ be maintained by large transporta- ^ .. tion facilities. The advantages of ade r ditional railroad facalities in some . es. 1 sections of South Carolina should be , ne , ' g.. apparent to ail. It is a necessary element in maintaining this credit i . tor trade balance that has come over us, g ;ey incident to the European war. It j as would be a stimulus to all nianufacled turers of export goods, being a sav- t in ing in carriage charges, storage, intesest on advances and all expenses BOYS' CORN CLUB RESULTS. {ecord of Chester County Boy for Three Years. Columbia, May 30.?Just what food results are being accomplished >y the boys' corn clubs is illustrated )>* W. Swann Robbins. president of he Boys' Corn club of Chester couny. Swann is 17 years of age and has >een a member of the Chester county :orn club since 1912, and his record s as follows: 1912.?His yield was eighty busli:1s, and he won the following prizes: )ne rocking chair, valued at $ 5.00 Tash 1^.00 de uo puB 'sjuauiaAaiqoe asaqi joj 3job azud siq iuojj sujnjaa qui pun iouaoa.1 sazud aqi uiojj isajajm uo i0i$ quBq aq} ut paoBjd pun pa.ves nq oh 'lia-w sb JapuBuy poo3 v jnq iatuacj pooS B Xiao ion si uubavs i0*66 I $ sjboa aajqi Suunp uo.w sazud pnoj, G* 101$ 1*101 0 02 IB 4 paniBA 'asjnoo }ioqs a2ai -103 *i"BJnjinDu3v uoscuaio oj diqsjBioqos qjuotu-euo ic*9o qsBO O'Ofr JB pan -[BA 'jojBAiJino SUIWBAV aao O'S $ IB pan -[BA 'jojnqujsip aazii!JJ3J QUO :sazjad 3ui.v\onoj aqj papjBAiB sbm q puB 'sjaqsnq jiBq-auo ^yiB 3Ag puB ajpunq quo sb.m P[3ia sih?'H61 O'SI $ IBjox lO'Oi I O'S $ W P9n[BA '.vioid J9AtiO 9SJoq-x euo :sazud Sax.^oiioj aqj i3Pjbmb sB.tt. aq pas 'sqaqsna aaaqj ijnaAas SBAV PiaiA SJH?'S16I 9ZZ % Itnoj. :ount of the interest iie has shown n the club work, and the valuable >xample he has set, on reorganizaion of the club in March he was sleeted as its president.. In addition o his work in the corn club he has aken an active part in organizing a >ig and a peanut club in Chester :ounty, and he promises to make it nteresting to the boy, or boys, who seat his record. This young man las expressed a determination to secure an education and hopes to be ible to enter Clemson college in the lear future and to take a full agri:ultural course. Candy Relieves Fatigue. The value of candy is recognized >y military authorities. The British loldiers in France are reported as onsuming "prodigious quantities of weets." A captain at the front with he British army reports that the caneen has "five times the demand for ;weets than was expected, and oneifth the demand for beer." The Aus-| ralians encamped in Egypt have :aten all the chocolate to be had in ?airo. Scientists contend that sugar has nuch food value and is a good substiute for alcohol. Chocolate, for eximple, is harmlessly stimulating. Solliers have discovered what scientists ;new before, that sugar will relieve atigue quickly and give a sense of trength that is real without the subequent depression experienced by hose who use spirits. Sugars and andies are found to be useful not >nly to the physically tired, but to hose who suffer mental exhaustion. ncident thereto. Further consequences of increased t rade should be increased population. | "hose sections of the State showing j greater progress, or that can give the J nost advantages, will be the places; hat the ambitious Immigrant will j eek. We all know that an increase ?f population means an increase ofj rade, one being a drawing card for' he other. Therefore, a city that has jeen "placed on the map." and is able o offer opportunities in every line >f endeavor, will be able to grow of ler own accord. We all know that the aspiring com-j nunity will in time have her name: >n the map of the business world, j tnd bv proper methods of advertising! ceep it there, and so aid its progress. The financial independence of the in-: lividual citizen of any community nay have a tendency towards a lack >f cooperation, but I do not believe hat any citizen who realizes the advantages of a business organization vould fail to put forth his energies o work and by a united effort bring ibout a greater progress of his own! own. There are opportunities offer-; >d even now for many towns in South ?arolina. and those that pass them by' mist of necessity ne tne ones umi. vili not be able to reap the trade ad-' antages to be gained at the termilation of the European war. Nobody cnows how long the war will last; ; >ut there is no better time than the >re?ent to create a greater coniniun-' tv interest, and by so doing the ;pirit of organization should be mani-j est, and thus be ready to grasp the, ipportunities of a more rapid! rrowth.?G. Leland Summer. Holland haa 194 shipyards. MAKING SUGAR ANCIENT. Over $.">00,000,000 Spent Annually for Candy and Sweetmeats. The world has had a "sweet tooth" for many ages. People have been eating sugar from time immemorial it would seem, and growing sugar cane is an industry so old that it antedates the Christian era by many centuries. At least that is what we gather front an article by Edward Albes in the .May number of the monthly bulletin of the Pan-American Union, Washington, which gives a comprehensive acount of the cane sugar industry in the Americas, and incidentally embodies an interesting resume of what is actually known of the history of the industry throughout the world from the very dawn of civilization to the present. "Scientists admit they do not know just where the sugar cane originated"?he writes?"for nowhere has it been found in its wild state. It has been a cultivated product for many centuries, and the first mention to be found in writing records is in the sacred books of the Hindus. 'I nave crownea mee wim a suuuuug sugar cane, so that thou 3halt not be adverse to me,' was written many centuries before the Christian era. In the train of Alexander the Great during his Asiatic conquests were some observant persons who made notes of what they saw, when not too busy killing off the inhabitants, and in these written documents, according to later writers who fell heir to them, is told the story of 'a reed growing in India which produces honey without bees.' Thus sugar cane was evidently well known in flio* AAtmi/v haf/\ro 590 R P "As to the manufactured product of the cane, the first kind of sugar of which mention is made was a concentrated juice called *gur' in India Cgud' in Sanskirt,) and this seems to have been known as a feed from prehistoric times. That its manufacture was a well established industry in India in the seventh century is attested by the old Chinese ency clopedia, the Pen-tsao-kang-mu, which states that the Emperor T'aitsung, who reigned from 627 to 650 A. D., sent some of his people to Behar to learn the art of sugar making. The manufacture of sugar even in the early centuries of the Christian era was not restricted to the mere evaporation of the juice of the cane to dryness, for the Arabs and Egyptians had soon learned how to purify raw sugar by recrystallization, and incidentally how to make a great variety of sweetmeats, or candy, out of the product." The author tells of the introduction of the cane into Sicily by the Arabs in 703, whence it was taken to Africa, to Spain, and all along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, as well as to the islands and borders of the Indian Ocean. The Crusaders found extensive sugar cane plantations in Tripoli, Mesopotamia, Syria. Antioch, and Cyprus, and by the frmrtoonth ppntiirv the cane was be ing cultivated in* every part of the known world where soil and climate were propitious. It came to South America by being introduced into Brazil by the Portuguese, who brought it from Madeira, and thence it spread to nearly all the other countries of that continent, Columbus is said to have brought it to the island of Santo Domingo, whence it spread to Mexico and Cuba. It was introduced into the other islands of the West Indies as soon as they came under European domination. The first sugar cane came to Louisiana by being sent to the jesuits from Santo Domingo, in 1751, some English authorities giving the date as 1737. Although practically all of the countries of the Pan-American Union cultivates the cane. Cuba is the greatest producer of cane sugar, not only in the western hemisphere, but in the world. The total production of the western hemisphere for the 1513-14 season amounted to 4.919.S14 tons, of which Cuba produced 2,">97,732 tons, or nearly 52 per cent. The total cane sugar production of the world was 9.773.34S tons, and deducting the 2.282,600 tons produced by India and locally consumed, it is seen that Cuba produces nearly 35 per cent, of the cane sugar that is available in the markets of the world. The United States is the greatest sugar consuming country of the world. In 1913 its total consumption amounted to 3,743,139 tons? including cane, beet and maple. This is a per capita consumption of 85.4 pounds per annum. Much of this is consumed in the form of candy, over $500,000,000 being spent for that sweet commodity in the United States every year. New York is the larerest candy-consuming centre in the world, and to supply that city alone it would take five trains of 50 cars, each loaded to the limit with candy, every week in the year if it had to be skipped in on a railroad. Special?every Wednesday 6 reels at Thielen Theatre. 10 & 15c.?adv. <' '- -I" I 'I 1 SICK , If you are sick, >' i we have every- 1 thing yon need * to carry oat the DOCTOR'S OR- i DERS. Our pre- I I scnption department is in charge of an expert pharmacist at all times during the day. We use , < only Pore, Potent Drags, take , ? great care to avoid contamination, and com- | pound them with v the greatest accuracy. %if. &&& " . $ - np I '. If you are well l . . 1 we nave man? comforts and ^ luxuries in the way of ToiletArticles and Novelties. Onr V? I line of Cosmet-. ics, Soaps, Perfumes, and aid to Beauty Cul- * hire is always | up-to-date. You , i should hare some of these things. Their cost will come back to you in comfort , V '1-1 WELL 1 I I 1 rrs ' "^fip MACK'S drug STORE I ' Bamberg, S. C. I iHBBHBnBsl i . . ?