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1E%t ^Bamberg ^eralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. $2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 31. Number 25. Thursday, June 22, 1922. Misses Marie Louise Cornell, Blanche Porter and Pauline Holman, accompanied by J. D. O'Hern 1 and Owen Riley motored to Bamberg Monday, thereby. whether con sciously or unconsciously, these young gentlemen were handing out a treat to the Bamberg young men? for the sight of our Barnwell girls is ; always a treat to discriminating young men everywhere.?Barnwell Sentinel. . Nay. friend, not that your girls are not all that could be desired, but than Bamberg girls there are none finer, and were it not for our generosity in extending our influence to the ends of the earth our discriminating young men would confine themselves entirely to the home product. The South Carolina railroad com- J ? mission fixed the rates to be charged by the Augusta-Aiken electric rail> way. The railway appealed to the United States court and that tribunal promptly set aside the order of the commission and fixed other rates? higher, of course. % The telephone company in this state is appealing to J the United States court to restrain the state government from lowering its telephone rates, and few persons have any doubt in the world what the r outcome will be. The act of the state : legislature will be set aside. Very little protection is afforded the people against corporations in the federal courts, and it has come to pass ) that state railroad commissions and legislatures count for nought. They are useless adjuncts. Under the present system, they may as well be dispensed with. The state is not runt>itvcr ;t.e mrn affairs anv mnrP. Naturally there are two sides to . this question of granting pardons to convicted persons. The governor's position is one in which he is entitled to sympathy. But the governor leaves his personal sympathies at home?or should?when he becomes g9vernor. In acting off pardon petitions the governor represents not Ihis own personal views, but the interests of the people of South Carolina urhnsp servant he is. The mat ter of getting up a petition is comv paratively easy. We have never known a petition of any sort to be circulated that was not signed by I more or less persons. In fact, the contents of a petition have not a great deal to do with securing signatures. If a friend asks another good j friend to help him out by signing a . ?. -petition to hang another friend by , the neck there will be some to sign it. . Jj'ive of the jurors convicting one of . the men executed last Friday signed , a petition that the governor commute the sentence, without, so far ( as we can see, any reason, whatever : lor doing so., Such petitions are, generally speaking, likely to cause serious consideration from an executive, and it all goes back to the wis- j dom of putting such enormous power as life or d?ath in the hands of any one man. The writer has ^lways contended that the pardon power, as . conferred on the governor in this ( state, is too much power to. grant any J man. When women and children be- ^ siege a governor to grant mercy to a i j condemned man it is hard to turn a ( deaf ear; a man would have a heart j of stone if he did not listen to such j appeals ana to De movea wun com- ^ passion by them. The state has a j pardon board; let the board's recommendations be carried out. This j gives ample protection to the inter- " ests of the convicted men. ^ Lain-Scharpf. 3 1 t Miss Alma Lain and Jack W. Sckarpf, both of Orangeburg, were quietly married Saturday afternoon, 1 June 17th, at 6:30 o'clock, by Rev. c Thos. G. Herbert, pastor of St. Paul's j * Methodist church, at the home of the ' pastor in the presence of a few inti- 4 I i mate friends. Immediately after the ' ceremony the youmg couple left for * Charleston f^r a brief honeymoon. Mrs. Scharpf is an accomplished young woman. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. C. Lain, of ' Olar, and has been employed for the 1 past two and a half years as stenog- 1 rapher-for the firm of Wolfe & Berry, 1 of Orangeburg. { Mr. Scharpf is from Rochelle, 111., ] but has been employed by the South- j 3 ern Bell Telephone & Telegraph com- ( pany. of Orangeburg, for the past * two years. He came to Orangeburg 3 in 1919 when he was discharged 1 from Camp Jackson, having served 3 three years in the army, one year in France. Mr and Mrs Scharpf will make * their home for the present at 66 ^ west Russel street, Orangeburg. m 1M, m 1 Men who make good use of their time have none to spare. j i Would Introduce . Cotton Substitute 1>u In 189S Dr. 0. D. Faust, now dead 1 some years, wrote to J. G. Pratt, of we; Chicago, 111., in' regard to the grow- ag ing of "ramie," a plant whose bark livi is said to make an excellent substi- wil tute for cotton, wool, or linen. Un- spe der date of October 5, 1898, Dr. ]ati Faust received a letter from Mr. yea Pratt in which he stated that he was -we' developing machinery for the manu- is facture of the product, that his ex- par periments had been entirely satis- ty factory, and that there was no doubt Cro whatever of the success of the new fiber. Mr. Pratt was very much in- seL terested to learn if Dr. Faust had sea produced any of the fiber. ove For some reason, however, Dft. ma Faust did not pursue the matter any His further. Perhaps the reason was He that cotton was so easy to produce that there did not seem to be any dra necessity for a substitute. in O. D. Faust, Jr., the other day in bee looking over some papers of his fath- hal er came across the letters and was it. so much interested in the possibili- me ties'of growing ramie that he is tak- the ing the subject up with Congressman Fe Byrnes with a view to investigating inh the possibilities of introducing the tha plant in this section. That the ef- am fort of Mr. Pratt, or some one else xh interested in the matter, met with tha more or less success seems to be prov- ag( en by another letter found of Dr. ext Faust's. This letter was from a New = York manufacturer, and samples of ramie cloth were enclosed. The A samnles have every appearance of be- ([r ing excellent goods; indeed tlie man- IIJ ufacturers claim for them a superi- ||| ority over either cotton, linen or j wool. This letter stated that a varie- In ty of cloth was being made from the ||| fiber, including underclothing and ||| hosiery. j Cotton was king in those days, III however, and so far as Dr. Faust ||| was concerned nohing further was II accomplished toward growing the I new fiber. About two years ago ||| young Mr. Faust, finding the inroad ||| of the bool weevil wreaking havoc I! with the cotton production, address- I n lntfor tn ATr Pratt with a View ill CU. CL IClld W ' to introducing the industry here at |||l that time. It was found that Mr. |||| Pratt had been dead several years. I The letter was opened and answered I by a gentleman who was doing busi- I I ness at Mr. Pratt's old place of busi- ||l| ness. He gave the address of his |||| widow, but could give no information I regarding Mr. Pratt's development I of fiber manufacture. I j It is possible .that in unearthing I j this matter, Mr. Faust may be instru- 11 | mental in the opening of a new and |||| profitable industry here, for it is said |||j that the climatic conditions here are I n very favorable for the growing of ||| this product. Inasmuch as the boll ||[| weevil bids fair to prevent a normal |j production of cotton, Mr. Faust is seeking the efforts of Congressman jjjj Byrnes to ascertain if it is possible \UJ 3r profitable to look further into this ^5 matter. , REPUBLICAN PIE FOR FAMILY? B| Distributor of Patronage in State rag Taking Care of Close Relatives. Bgl Washington, June 8.?If the Re- E9g publican boss of South Carolina i K >hould give to his brother, R. R. Tol- P pert, the last worthwhile available j Kyi ederal office in South Carolina, name- | B y, the collectorship of the port of | ^ Charleston,, the state would be com- j gjj )letely Tolbertized. K| What Joseph W. Tolbert will do H| for his brother, if anything, is not j snown. It was reported some weeks Kg igo, however, that he was destined to ||| ill some desirable job. In the mean- gg vhile, R. R. Tolbert is probably not ||| retting that an exeception might be nade of him, for three of his sons |||1 lave landed^on the payroll of the gov- rag irnment. K| Joseph W. Tolbert, the boss, has B| seen nominated ior me marsiiiusLuy i >f the Western district of South Caro- ! gg ina. His wife is postmaster of Ninety- ||| Six. The three boys of R. R. Tolbert jgj ire serving as assistant district at- (glf ;orney of the Western district, clerk n the prohibition enforcement office B ind postmaster at Abbeville, respec- Bs This does not complete the list. I|| Mrs. Kirksey, postmaster at Pickens, wf vas a Tolbert before marriage. Th9 postmaster at Clinton is said to have B1 aeen married into the Tolbert family ind, according to reports, a young ||| voman member of the Tolbert family ra| s slated for a position in the office ||| >f the internal revenue collector at gNi rolumbia. It is said that still another tp! 11 ember of the family is serving on p| ;he force of the prohibition enforce- I y nent office. um i? Magistrate of Irish Court (after a 18 :urbulent scene amongst general pub-1 fig !ic)?"The next person that shouts i |p Down with England,' I'll have ; 81; ;hrown out into the street." ^ Prisoner (excitedly)?vDown wid Bp Sngland!"?London Opinion. RAINS ARE OVER. tch Weather Prophet Says Rainfall Will Be Normal. Hhe prognostications of the Dutch j ather prophet offer some encour-; iment to cotton farmers who are ng in the hope that the country i 1 escape the much dreaded wetI lis which have been occurring the : ter part of July for the past three j rc Tf wo havD n rpnptiHrm r*f thp ~ ~ ~ ? t spells this year the cotton crop gone, but if Jul}* and the first | t of August are dry Bamberg coun-; will make a fairly good cotton i p. That is a foregone conclusion. | Hie Dutch weather prophet, who | dom misses his forecast of the .sons, says the heavy rains are ;r and there will be only a nor1 rainfall during the summer. predictions are encouraging, re is the way he puts it:, rhe period of excessive rainfall is iwing to a close?diminishing both frequency and quantity. It has j >n unprecedented?the oldest inDitants having seen nothing like The Dutch Weather Prophet rembers weather conditions from i time of "Sherman's freshet" in bruary, 1865?he is not an old labitant either?and no year since it time has produced such a long i continuous period of rainfall, is forecaster is of the opinion it weatfier conditions of 100 years ) have been reproduced to a great j :ent during the past five months ^ ' === r WHEN YOU C Choice Si i Today, bear in mind alii "Trimi For a good dinner, is complete, and yo thing you need from WE GIVE PERSOl TO EVER3 Pv*I/?A jPt n I lite VX 1 V BAMBEE Tt For sixty 3 ertv ai u Cooperativ crops 1 ing Ca keting Potato Gr wealth State 1 With the si with t ty; wii ers Coi lift 117 flff/M TI wni snuuL TAKE YOUR SIGN B TOB ACC< / when there have not been five days of successive sunshine in the Piedmont, with similar conditions prevailing throughout the southwest. Seasonable rainfall will continue throughout the summer. Serious drought is not expected. The usual normal temperatures will prevail in daytime with cool nights, the change manifesting itself each day about sundown. ) September will not be the hot I month it was in 1920 and 1921, the Dutc;h prophet says. Unusually cool ^ weather will begin around September a '4.' The most serious disturbance of f the character of a storm originating in the tropics and affecting the South ? Atlantic coast will occur around Oc- i tober 23. F Compromise. "I can't use this poem of yours," said the editor of the local paper. "Why not?" asked the disappoint- = ed poet. The editor looked wildly about him for an answer. "Well?er?er?I haven't room for it." He stopped lamely, then a brain wave struck him. "But I'll tell you what I'll do. * If you'll hand in a year's subscription with your manuscript, I'll put a little notice in our personal column stating that you have written some i lines in which you show a firm grasp ! of spelling and punctuation." 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