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/ ???? Wi&z Bamberg Jperalb 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 39. Thursday, Oct. 5,1922. According to local people who have given the matter considerable thought, the exodus of colored people from Bamberg county to northern cities has assumed such proportions as to become alarming to the agricultural interests of this section. County Treasurer Jennings, who is in a position to know by reason of being the tax collector, estimates that no less than one thousand negroes have left the county within the past twelve months. Of this number at least 500 could be estimated to be colored men, most of who would be farm laborers. The Herald is decidedly of the opin ion that farm owners are making a grave mistake in not taking care of their laborers during these strenuous times. While "it is bad going for everybody now, and especially the farmer, who has failed to make a crop two or three years in succession, it is also true that with the return of better crop conditions the farm owner is likely to find himself without adequate labor with which to produce a crop. It has been quite impossible for any farmer, and especially a share-cropper, to make any money crop for at least two years past. This has caused great discontent among the colored population. They feel that the alluring wages received by some of the more fortunate negroes in the north means wealth for them ( if they follow. 0/ course this is not correct, as many colored people can testify. Living conditions in the north are entirely unsiuted to ne* groes, and as a rule it does not take a long residence there to convince them of this fact. It would seem a better plan to encourage the southern negro labor to stay, here where they are always assured of a good living,even though they can not make money crops. This the average farm owner might do by giving them plen ty of land for growing food crops. The county has plenty of land, much of which has been idle for two years. It would be better for the land and better for the laborers if these lands were tilled, even though the owner did not receive a cent of rent for their use. Tenants would be assured of growing plenty to eat, and by encouragement and assistance where possible living conditions could be made at least endurable until better times return. Inasmuch as Bamberg county depends entirely on its agricultural interests the necessity of conserving the labor is an imminent and serious problem?one which calls for the best attention of everybody, white and colored. OBJECTION TO MARRIAGE. * Kaiser Wilheim's Future In-Laws Do Not Like It a Bit. 3* " % A veritable storm of indignation continues in inner monarchal circles, j especially among the former higher i court nobility, over the former kaiser's intention to marry again, re- < lates a Berlin dispatch. i Princess Herminie Schonach Caro- j lath, a 37-year-old widow, the happy ; bride-to-be. is telling the secret to j j friends and relatives everywhere and ] makes no concealment of her pride over her "catch", and the fact that ; she will be spoken of in history as 1 "second wife of Wilhelm II, the last Hohenzollern". Some of her relatives, however, ] . take a different view. "We are horrified", writes one of < those in a letter which I read today. "If the kaiser must marry, why her? ; What a terrible position for her five children! Herminie writes us that she 1 will marry the kaiser and that we may tell it to our children." The former kaiser's marriage will make him father of an even dozen children. According to friends and relatives of the princess, the kaiser's courtship ; was most impetuous and quite in keeping with his impulsive nature. Princess Herminie wrote him such a touching letter of sympathy and con dolence after the death of the former empress that he invited her to visit him in Holland, which she did during the summer. It is alleged that he popped the question with all the ardor of youth, six days after her arrival. VETERANS TO RIDE FREE Southern and Seaboard To Aid Men of Confederacy. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 28.?Confederate veterans will be transported to and from the State Fair thi9 fall free by the Southern and the Seaboard Air Line railroads, it was announced today by the South Carolina Railroad Commission. A VAX WLSKLE TOWN. Village of Bernadote Comes to Life After a Lang Sleep. Bernadote, a Rip Van Winkle town, is awakening from a century of sleep, says a Springfield, 111., dispatch. Like those souls living "on yonder hill" above Spoon river, who were quickened into life by the imagination of Edgar Lee Masters in his "Anthology", the unperturbed inhabitants of this strange little village on the same Spoon river, have been touched with life by the pen of a newspaper writer. Without telephones, automobiles, railroads or any modern conveniences, this town had gone on in its undisturbed way for a hundred years, sleeping quietly in a busy wo/*ld, until a few days ago when it was "discovered" by a motion picture director and the next morning awoke to fame with a column of type in a Bloomington newspaper. C. L. Vanard, looking about for a "location" to film a country town scene, ran across the village. It has no railroads and half the inhabitants claim never to have seen a train. It has no picture shows, and of course had never seen a motion picture camera. There are no telephones and no electricity in the town. The old village grist mill is still grinding away every day with water from the same spillway that suplpied the mill a century ago. But now strange things are happening in Bernadote. Big automobiles whiz through the village. There is the unusual smell of oil and gasoline. The swirling dust from many pneumatic tires distresses the bewildered inhabitants. Old ladies in calico dresses no longer go their quiet way to the village store, and long whiskered old men no longer calmly whittle the hours away under the village trees. Their nerves twitch and the day is no longer calm. The article describing the rustic wonders of the superannuated village has brought tourists from far and wide. About the town go unusual looking men with camera and stage appearances. They are the moving picture people who are going to put Bernadote in the films. Bernadote is sleep walking. Some of the oldest inhabitants think, it is a nightmare. Most of the folks of the town are farmers. A few of the oldest are considered to be retired. The others work in the fields, harvesting crops from the same ground their fathers and grandfathers tilled. There are two small wooden buildings in the village that serve as stores, where the simple wants of the people are supplied. The houses are quaint and old-fashioned, of the old colonial and English type. Picket fences separate the yards. Old-fashioned flower gardens bloom in the doorways. Henry Ford Wealthiest Man in World Henry Ford is the richest man in the world, according to an article published a few days ago by the Wall Street Journal, of New York. "Henry Ford has in the Fora Motor company the largest income and, if capitalized, the largest fortune in the world", said the newspaper. "Profits before taxes for 1922 will exceed $125,000,000; after taxes, they will be $110,000,000, or about $100 a car. With these earnings the Ford Motor company could be capitalized at $2,000,000,000 and pay 5 per cent, on that capital. "Ford condemns bankers, but with $180,000,000 in cash he is the largest . banker in this country, if not in the world. "His income, adding to his boundless wealth $500,000 a day through the busy season, is probably unequalled in all history. "If he continues to pile up cash at this rate he can not long denounce Wall street or the money power of the country. "Henry Ford will be that money power." None Too Hot. During an art exhibition one of the artists was receiving the benefit of a friend's criticism. "This canvas", said the friend, indicating a violent bit of impressionalism. "Do you not think, after all, the atmosphere is too warm?" "No," said the artist, "not for a pot boiler." Its Progress. "And your stock is utterly worthless? Why, I thought the enterprise was a going concern." "It was?they were running it into the ground when I got in." Superogation. "You can nearly always tell a married man?" "But you can very seldom tell him anything he hasn't already been told by his wife." 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