The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 17, 1906, Image 4
THE BAMBERG HERALD
ESTABLISHED IN APRIL, 1891
A. W. KNIGHT. Editor.
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Thursday, May 17,1906
Remember the railroad meeting the
first Monday in June. If you want competition
in freight rates, now is the time
to work. The electric line must bd built.
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The candidates are coming out of the
woods in this county, and it looks like
~ there will be a full crop as usual. We
want to see a number of candidates for
every office, for we ought to have a lot of
good men to select from.
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The great importance to Bamberg of
Another railroad cannot be over estimated,
and yet some of our people are apparently
entirely indifferent about this
matter. If we want the town to grow
and prosper, we must work to secure a
competing freight line.
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in the court house here the first Monday
in June. The railroad meeting is to be
held in the morning and the graded
school mass meeting in the afternoon. A
great deal depends on the action of these
meetings, and there should be a large
attendance. There can be no more important
matter than the election of trustees
for our graded school, and every
patron should be present. Get the very
best men to serve?men who will take an
interest in the school and visit it and
look after its affairs. No man should be
elected who will take little or no interest
in the school.
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Locating the Lost.
In the great work being carried on in
relief of the distressed people at San
0 .Francisco, and in locating friends for
anxious ones, many peculiar leuers 01
inquiry came from all over the country.
They are all sincere, but some of them
not the less amusing. One woman writes:
"My husband disappeared three years
ago. Please locate him among the killed
at San Francisco, if possible."?Denver
News.
An Overworked Cow.
% A story is going the rounds in Darlington
that there is an industrious negro in
the county who has a cow which he milks
regularly at morning and night. That
same cow he plows till noon, when be
drives her to town with a load of wood.
- In the afternoon plows again and at
nightfall another load of wood is hauled
to town, at which time the industrious
farmer carries to market a pound of butv
ter that his industrious wife has made
from the cow's milk. At night the industrious
cow grazes in the green forest
nearby. And thus the thing goes on
from day to day. We recommend neither
. . the plan nor the butter, but mention it
simply as an example of diversified industry.
And add by way of parenthesis
that cow ought to take the prize at the
next State fair.?Darlington New Era.
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Maria Mitchell, the famous astronomer,
was once directed by her physician to
use lager beer as a tonic. On the way to
visit her sister, Mrs. Joshua Kendall, of
Cambridge, Mass., she stopped at a saloon
and purchased a bottle of beer and
afterward asked her brother-in-law to open
it for her. The Mitchell family, according
to the Boston Herald, spoke
among themselves after the Quaker custom.
"Where did thee get it, Maria?"
questioned her sister. "At the saloon on
the corner," replied Miss Mitchell, serenely.
"Why, Maria! Doesn't thee know
respectable women don't go into such
places?" "Oh," said Miss Mitchellt in the
manner of one who has done all that
could be required, "I told the man he
ought to be thoroughly ashamed of his
traffic.*?New York Tribune.
An Extraordinary Woman.
Dr. Abernethy, a famous Scotch sur
geon, was a man of few words, but once
be met his match in a woman. She called
at his office in Edinburgh one day and
6howed a hand badly inflamed and swollen,
when the following dialogue, opened
by the doctor, took place:
"Burns?"
"Bruise."
"Poultice."
The next day the woman called again,
and the dialogue was as follows:
"Better?"
"Worse."
"More poultice."
Two days later the woman made another
call, and this conversation occurred.
"Better?"
"Well. Fee?"
"Nothing," exclaimed the doctor.
"Most sensible woman I ever met."
Have you weakness of any kind?
stomach, back, or any organs of "the body.
Don't dope yourself with ordinary medicines.
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea
is the supreme curative power. 35 cents,
Tea or Tablets. H. F. Hoover.
NATURE IN THE OCEAN.
Creature* Devouring Each Other to
Prevent Overproduction.
It is estimated that the cyclops will
beget 442,000 young in the course of
the year, and if these were all permitted
to mature and reproduce themselves
the seas would in a short time
be a simple mass of living organisms.
But the cetochilus, or "whale food,"
constitutes almost the exclusive food
of the vast shoals of herrings and the
sea living salmon and salmon trout
Their existence is one of the greatest
economic triumphs of nature, for these
minute creatures scour the sea of its
refuse and keep it sweet, while they
form the food of fishes, which in turn
furnish wholesome food for millions of
human beings.
Feeding on dead vegetable and animal
matter, these entomostraca are
converted into the food fishes of the
world by one remove, being first assimilated
by the herrings, then absorbed
by the tunny, cod, mackerel and other
fishes which follow herring shoals and
prey upon the latter. They mainly
swim on the surface of the water, and
' it is the search of them in this position
which brings the shoals of herrings to
the surface. Their countle'ss numbers
are also augmented by the microscopic
larvae of fixed shells, such as the barnacle,
which begins life in this form
first as a one eyed swimming crustacean,
then growing a pair of eyes and
finally affixing itself.
In rivers these larvae are the sole
food of all young fish and often also of
older fish. In early spring the creatures
in every stage?eggs, larvae and
perfect though miscroscopic entomostraca?swarm
in the water, on the mud
and on the water plants, and were it
not for nature's provision for keeping
them in check so rapid would be their
rate of multiplication that the whole
character of the water would speedily
be entirely changed.
AIR IN HIGH ALTITUDES.
The Same aa In Other Places, bnt It
Contains No Microbes.
It Is an error to think that the chemical
composition of the air differs essentially
wherever the sample may be
taken. The relation of oxygen to nitrogen
and other constituents is the same
whether it is on the heights of the Alps
or at the surface of the sea. The favorable
effects, therefore, of a change
of air are not to be explained by any
difference in the proportions of its
gaseous constituents. The important
difference is the bacteriological one.
The air of high altitudes contains no
microbes and is, in fact, sterile, while
near the ground and some hundred
feet about it microbes are abundant
In the air of towns and crowded places
not only does the microbe impurity increase,
but other Impurities, such as
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crue also.
Several Investigators have found
traces of hydrogen and certain hydrocarbons
In the air, especially in pine,
oak and birch forests. It is to these
bodies, doubtless consisting of traces
of essential oils, that the curative effects
of certain health resorts are traced.
Thus the locality of a fir forest is
said to give relief in diseases of the
respiratory tracts. But these traces of
essential oils and aromatic product
must be counted, strictly speaking, as
impurities, since they are apparently
not necessary constituents of the air.
Recent analysis has shown that these
bodies tend to disappear in the air as
a higher altitude is reached until they
disappear altogether. It would seem,
therefore, that microbes, hydrocarbons
and entities other than oxygen and
nitrogen, and perhaps also argon, are
only incidental to the neighborhood of
human industry, animal life and damp
vegetation.?Chicago Chronicle.
Ancient Remedies For Hiccough*
The hiccough seems to be a modern
and dangerous disease, but the ancients
knew it and prescribed remedies
that might now be tried advantageously.
Galen recommended sneezing.
Aetius approved of a cupping instrument,
with great heat, to the
breast Alexander believed in an oxymel
of squills. Alsaharavius made use
of refrigerant drafts. Rhazes put his
trust In calefacients, such as cumm,
pepper, rue and the like In vinegar.
Rogerius looked kindly on calefacient,
attenuant and carminative medicines.
Not Just What He Meant.
Lloyd George was addressing a meeting
in Wales, and his chairman said:
"I haflf to introduce you to the member
of the Carnarvon boroughs. He hass
come here to reply to what bishop
of St. Asaph said the other night about
Welsh disestablishment In my opinion,
gentlemen, the bishop of St. Asaph
is one of the biggest liars in creashon.
But he hass his match in Lloyd
George!"
Savored of the Troth.
"That's no lie," remarked the man
with the newspaper.
"What's no lie?" queried the other
party to the dialogue.
"This paragraph to the effect that
'wise men are more often wrong than
fools are right,'" answered the other.?
Chicago News.
Why Bodies Were Embalmed.
The Egyptians believed that the soul
lived only as long as the body endured;
hence their reason for embalming the
body to make it last as long as possible.
It is estimated that altogether
there are 400,000,000 mummies in
Egypt
Bad men live that they may eat and
drink, whereas good men eat and drink
that they may live.?Socrates.
It is some compensation for great
evils that they enforce great lessons.?
Bovee.
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g Novelties, Laces, Embroideries, 3:
3; Silks, Lawns, Muslins, at unheard ^
of prices. :::::: jjj
I MRS. K. I. SHUCK & CO. Bamberg, S. C. jij
iTour Attentioni
ESs? Having purchased the stock of Staple and Fancy j
mil Groceries formerly owned by H. A. Ray on the Gf/Kj
gvS corner at a bargain, I am prepared to supply the gKa
Kw trade with nothing but first-class goods. We are rer^n
ceiving fresh goods every week. Your business raru
[kJ| will be appreciated, o'ooooooooo jfij
?j Tinware, Etc., at a Bargain! m
^ We have a small stock of tinware, glass and chinaware, . ill
]VM etc., on hand and we have not the room to carry it, so '
My we are going to offer it at a great sacrifice. Come in aWI
pH before it all goes. Yours for business, j^gi
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kg F. M. MOYE, Proprietor
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WONDERFUL MIRAGES.
Tltoae Seen In the Winter Twiligbti
In Northern Alaska.
The most wonderful mirages ever toheld
by mortal eyes are those that are
seen in the twilight winter days in
northern Alaska. These remarkable
ghastly pictures of things, both imaginary
and real, are mirrored on the
surface of the waste plains instead of
upon the clouds or in the atmosphere.
Mimic lakes and water courses fringed
with vegetation are to be seen pictured
as real as life on the surface of the
snow, while grassy mounds, stumps,
trees, logs, etc., which have an actual
existence some place on the earth's sur- j
face, are outlined against mountains of '
snow in all kinds of fantastic shapes.
Some of these objects are distorted J
and magnified into the shapes of huge,
ungainly animals and reptiles of enormous
proportions. The fogs and mists
are driven across these wastes by the
winds, and as the objects referred to
loom up in the flying vapors they appear
like living creatures and seem to
be actually moving rapidly across the
plain.
At other times they appear high in
the air, but this is a characteristic of
the northern mirages that are seen
near the seashore. When the vapors
and mists are driven out to sea the
images mirrored in them appear to be
lunging through the waters at a terrific
rate of speed, dashing the spray high
In the air, while huge breakers roll
nvor th^m nnd onward toward the
mountainous islands beyond and
against which they all appear to be
dashing.. Monstrous serpents, apparently
several hundred feet long, sometimes
with riders on their backs, men
on horseback thirty to fifty feet in
height animals and birds of all kinds
of horrible shapes and colors seem to
be scurrying past racing and chasing
each other until they are lost in the
twilight fogs or dashed to pieces upon I
the rocky islands mentioned above and
which are twenty miles out to uea.
THE RED SQUIRREL.
Be Stores Very Little Food For Use I
In Winter.
In Maine?in fact, all over New England?red
squirrels do not put by great
hoards of any kind for winter use.
When a Maine red squirrel has filled
itself with acorns and beechnuts it
will bide a few here and there?under
leaves, in hollow logs, in cracks ofj
rifted trees and among stone heaps.
An average red squirrel, having the
run of an oak grove in the fall of the j
year, may in the course of two weeks j
hide away from two to four quarts oi \
acorns, though they will be in perhaps
twenty different places, and in no instance
which we have noted has an}
nut been shelled.
Th/i ortnirroi xrhJph nlnrts a hoard of
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nuts and makes deliberate preparations
for winter is the little chipmunk, or
6triped squirrel, which seeks winter
quarters soon after heavy frosts and
which remains in hiding all winter.
The chipmunks often hide as many as
two quarts of shelled beechnuts in one
place. Their storehouses are, as a rule,
under the ground, In sloping and sandy
soil, the burrows having been dug with
true engineering skill, so that no freshet
can drown them out.
It is believed that most observing
woodsmen will say that the red squirrels
of this vicinity seldom make large
caches of provisions for winter consumption
and never shell the stored
nuts. In fact, the red species have no
need to pay much heed to such matters,
as they are abroad and active in the
coldest days of winter as much as they
are in midsummer, so precautions for
food are not demanded. As the red
squirrels subsist for a good part of the
year upon the cones of pines and
spruces, which hang to the limbs, they
do not care how deep or hard the snow j
may be, feeling secure in finding all!
the food they want among the tree-)
tops.?Bangor News.
Courage.
The greater part of the courage that
is needed in the world is not of a hern^
kind ftonrflfire mav be displayed
In everyday life as well as in historic
fields of action. There needs, for example,
the common courage to be honest,
the courage to resist temptation,
the courage to speak the truth, the
courage to be what we really are and
not to pretend to be what we are not,
the courage to live honestly within our
own means and not dishonestly upon
the means of others.?Smiles.
Indian Ocean Serpents.
Among the most venomous serpents
in the world are the marine snakes of
the Indian ocean. They are the dread
of fishermen, and it sometimes happens
that vessels are obliged to thread
their cables through barrels to prevent
the reptiles from swarming on
board. Great numbers of them may
often be seen floating on the surface
of the water as if asleep. They areexceedingly
fierce and will commonly
attack human beings without provocation.
When the Raven Was Milk White.
According to Mohammedan belief,
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toe ravens wmm ^v?u iwa ...u.
on the ark were both pure white. When
the ark had been riding the billows of j
the flood for thirty-three days one of
the giraffes died, and the carcass was
thrown overboard. No sooner had it
struck the water than the ravens
pounced upon it. For this Noah cursed
them, and since that day they have
been coal black.
The Disappointment.
May?It was too bad that Miss Trills
disappointed the audience at the amateur
performance. Elsie?But she
didn't. She was able to appear after
all. May?Yes, but it was generally
supposed that she would not be able
to appear.
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BANK STATEMENT. ^
Statement of the condition of the Bam- ^ ;
berg Banking Co., located at Bambeig,
S. C., at the close of business May 4,1906. rjj
resources. iff}
Loans and discounts $312,345.18
Overdrafts 1,197.42
Banking house 2/00.00
Furniture and fixtures 807.03 i
Other real estate 1,255.00 X
Due from banks and bankers. 46,804.15
Currency 5,726.00 -wM
Gold 685.00
Silver, nickels and pennies... 906.98
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Total $271,676.74
liabilities. / t
Capital stock paid in $ 55,000.00 v 'V
Surplus fund 25,000.00
Undivided profits, less current :
expenses and taxes paid... 16,548.64 ./$,
Due to banks and bankers 132.12 *f:j
Individual deposits subject to
check 129,850.75 U4
Time certificates 34,954.42 . >%
Certified checks 8.28> :
Cashier's checks 187.50
Bills payable, including time ,
certificates representing borrowed
money 10,000.00
Total $271,676.74 *
State of South Carolina, ) .
County op Bamberg. j {
Before me came D. F. Hooton, Cashier
of Bamberg Banking Co., who being duly
sworn, says that the above and foregoing
statement is a true condition of said VjJ
bank, as shown by the books of file in
said bank. D. F. HOOTON, Cashier. \m
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 15th day of May, 1906. ' / \ : 5^
Henry J. Brabham, Jr., "
Notary Public. -0m
Correct attest:
J. D. Copeland, )
J. B. Black, > Directors.
E. C. Hays, J
BANK STATEMENT.
Statement of the condition of the Bank
of Olar, located at Olar, S. C., at the close
of business May 4th, 1906.
resources. \
Doans.and discounts $53,276.84
verdrafts 17.28.^.^:^2
Oanking house 918.54.- V v|?
Burniture and fixtures .... 912.50 i-yJm
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*ue irom uanss ana uaaaers.. io,wi.oo
Currency 626.85 Mi %
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Total $68,842.87
liabilities. . j
Capital stock paid in $20,000.00 j
Undivided profits, less current - . A.
expenses and taxes paid.... 2,547.78<"^g?j
Individual deposits snbject to
Notes and bills rediscounted... 29,149,10
State op South Carolina, V.:,g
County of Bamberg. f
Before me came G. M.Neely, cashier of
Bank of Olar, who being duly sworn,
that the above and foregoing statement iK?|| J
a true condition of said bank, as shown
by the books of file in said bank.
G. M. NEELY, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,thfi| ^ "
14th day of May, 1906. I
Bichabd Mobbis;
Notary Public. ' y
C. F. Rizeb, Director.
BANK STATEMENT. Jf
Statement of the condition of the-Bw^W"^
hardt Banking Co., located at Ebrhar^^? . ^
S. C., at the close of business May
besoubce8.
Loans and discounts 3,033.79 :^^p ,
Banking house 2.940.91^^^3
Furniture and fixtures 100.00
Other real estate 80(^H^H v
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uue irom uhd&b aau uan&ers.. ai iSgyMB
Currency 3,293.00
Gold 35.0#J$|M
Siiver, Dickies and pennies.... 588.00 ^1
Expense account 387.08 ^
$2^65.19
liabilities
Capital stock paid in $10,000.00 H
Undivided profits 186.00
Due to banks and bankers... 174.44
Individual deposits subject to
check 8,921.73 J
Bills payable 2,883.02 * f?jjg
$22,165.19
State op South' Carolina, ) . !
County of Bambbbg. ) "
Before me came ConradHartz, Cashier^
of Ehrhardt Banking Co., who being daly
sworn, say8 that the above and foregoing
statement is a true condition of said bank,
as shown by the books of file in said bank. '
CONRAD HARTZ.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 11th day of May, 1906.
Jacob Ehrhabdt,
Correct Attest: Notary Public.
J. M. Dannelly, j
J. C. Kinard, ^Directors.
C. Ehrhardt, )
BANK STATEMENT. .WK
Statement of the condition of the Bank
of Denmark, located at Denmark, 8. C.,
at the close of business May 4,1906.
resources.
t aono ond hioonnnta idfidodtr -&wm
Dae from banks and bankers.. '63470.43 :fi
Currency 8,004.65
Total
liabilities. ^ . j,} ' ?$?:
Capital stock paid in $10,000.00 |1
Undivided profits, less current
expenses and taxes paid..... 4,509.74 .
Individual deposits subject to
check 98,390.11
Total $112,899.85 /%
State op South Carolina, ? . ^
County op Bamberg, j
Before me came J. Arthur Wiggins,
Cashier of Bank of Denmark, who being |S :3
duly sworn, says that the above and fore- , v<?|
going statement is a true condition of
said bank, as shown by the books of file '?M
in6aidbank. J. ARTHUR WIGGINS.
Sworn to and subscribed before ^
this 9 day of May, 1906.
R. D. Holman,
Correct Attest: Notary Public, S. C. ' ^
S. D. M. Guess, )
Jas. B. Guess, [-Directors.
J. Arthur Wiggins, )
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