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Thursday, August 22,1907
Short Locals.
It is time you were putting that
fall ad. in The Herald.
The dispensaries were closed Tuesday
on account of the election.
Remember the cotton association
meeting here the first Monday in
September.
Richburg Rowell was struck in the
eye with a base ball Mondav after
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noun aim pa.iiuuuvy nun.
See the ad. of the great midsummer
sale at C. Ehrhardt & Sons.
Great bargains will be offered.
In this issue Supervisor Kearse notifies
all road overseers to warn out
the hands at once and work the public
roads.
There were no young men from
Bamberg county applicants for the
West Point or Annapolis scholarship
at Barnwell last week.
The reunion of Confederate veterans
at Olar is to take place on Thursday,
August 29th, and not the 28th,
as we published last week.
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ine sman Doys 01 rHunuerg <mu
Denmark played a game of base ball
here Tuesday afternoon, and Bamberg
won by a score of 3 to 2.
The Herald needs money mighty
bad. Look at the date on your label,
and if you owe us anything, there is
no better time than now to pay.
What are you doing to further the
warehouse project? The capital
stock can be easily raised if the proper
effort is put forth. We need and
must have the warehouse.
Rev. Peter Stokes left yesterday
morning for the up-country to spend
his vacation. There will be no
I[ preaching in the Methodist church
until the second Sunday in Septem
ber.
No interest was taken in the election
for alderman, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of M. M.
Smoak, which was to have been held
last Monday, and as a consequence no
election was held.
Bamberg's colored base ball team
has been winning a number of victories
this season. They played a
game here Tuesday with Dry Branch,
a country team, and Bamberg won
by a score of 8 to 6.
Bamberg needs another railroad
badly, but our business men do not
seem interested in the matter.
Therefore we will not get a competing
line of railroad. We can't get
* these things unless we work for them.
Mr. M. M. Smoak and family have
8: * moved to Young's Island, where they
will live in future. Mr. Smoak was
a good citizen, and we regret his
leaving. He has rented his dwelling
and shop to Mr. Parker Jennings,
who will continue the business at the
$ same stand.
The scholarships in Winthrop and
Clemson colleges for this county
were both awarded to Denmark people.
Miss Lillian Nix, who had the
Winthrop scholarship last year, was
orroi-n o,i*o vr]oH if onri fVio PJomcrtr
a&am cmaiuvu
scholarship went to young Mr. Riley.
The examination for the Citadel
scholarship will be held on Friday,
the 30th.
Death of firs. H. M. Eaves.
Mrs. Margaret Matheson Eaves di<ed
at her home in this city last Sunday
afternoon, after an illness of
several months, which was caused by
??. * a stroke of paralysis. She had been
very ill for several weeks, and while
it was known that she could not long
survive, still her death came as a
shock to the entire community.
Mrs. Eaves was the widow of the
late A. V. Eaves, who died here about
1897, he being one of the town's
prominent citizens and well and favorably
known in this and Barnwell
counties. She was born in Marlboro
countv, where her father, Mr. Don
aid Matheson, was known as one of
the best and purest citizens of the
Pee Dee country. Mrs. Eaves was
sixty-five years old; she was a sister
of Mr. A. J. Matheson, of Bennettsville,
and has many other relatives
throughout the State. She leaves the
following sons and daughters: Maj.
Havelock Eaves, D. M. Eaves, of
Bamberg, and A. J. Eaves, of Pittsburg,
Mrs. E. D. Raney, of Beaufort,
Mrs. Decania Dowling and Miss Mary
Ellen Eaves, of Bamberg.
The funeral sendees took place at
the Presbyterian church Monday afternoon,
and the interment was at
Restland Cemetery. The services
were conducted by her pastor, Dr. J.
Wm. Flinn, he beingassisted by Rev.
H. R. Murchison, of Bishopville, a
former pastor here. There was a
1 aro-p Catherine Dresent, both at the
O' O w A
church and cemetery, many coming
from a distance to pay a last tribute
of respect to her who was loved and
held in high esteem by all who knew
her.
Mrs. Eaves was an earnest, faithful
Christian. She loved her church,
and as long as her strength permitted
she was a zealous worker in charitable
and church affairs. It was through
the generosity of her late husband
and herself that the Presbyterian
church was built here.
The following were the pallbearers:
Honorary, Messrs. J. D. Copeland,
Sr., W. A. Riley, V. J. Hartzog, S.
W. Johnson, C. R. Brabham, Sr.,
Thos. Black, J. A. Byrd and H. A.
Ray;active, Messrs. J. H. Armstrong,
H. W. Johnson, J. D. Copeland, Jr.,
C. W. Rentz, Jas. E. Salley and E. H.
Weissinger.
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COURSE OF STUDY.
State High School, Bamberg, S. C.,
H. G. Sheridan, Principal.
FIRST YEAR. '
Milne's Progressive Arithmetic,
3rd book. Lippincott's Ele. Algebra,
Completed. Buehler's Grammar
with composition. Thompson's
U. S. History, Completed. Tarr's
Physical Geography, begun. Bain's
Latin Grammar, Completed. Civics
by D. D. Wallace, 2nd session.
Speller and Definer, Benson. Literary
masterpieces.
SECOND YEAR.
Wentworth's School Algebra. Arithmetic,
revised weekly. Meyers'
General History. Advanced Eng.
Analytical and Synthetical. Tarr's
Physical Geography, Completed.
Latin, Caesar and Nepos. Latin
Prose Composition, Pearson. Merchant
of Venice, Shakespeare.
THIRD YEAR.
Wentworth's School Algebra,
Quadratics to ratio. Wells' Plane
Geometry. Rhetoric and composition,
1st session. American Literature,
2nd Session. Meyers' General
History, Completed. Caesar, First
session. * Cicero, 2nd session. GilHprsWvp's-Ijodiye
Latin Grammar.
Latin Prose Composition, Pearson.
Physics, 2nd session.fcSilas Warner,
Elliott.
COMMERCIAL COURSE.
Miss Jessie Huey, (Winthrop Commercial
College.)?Stenography, Ben
Pitman's System. Shorthand Reader,
Pitman. Business Dictation and
Legal Forms by Pitman. Model
Typewriting by Altman. Commercial
Correspondence by Altman. English
and Spelling.
Course of study subject possibly
to slight change. Tuition free to
pupils from Bamberg County.
Course of study for graded school
will appear in Herald next issue.
Some Regulations of Bamberg Graded and
High School Relating to Pupils.
Pupils must not assemble on school
grounds previous to 8:30 a. m.
Doors opened at 8:40, when all pupils
and teachers must assemble in their
respective rooms. Regular work begins
at 8:55 a. m.
Pupils will be marked late if they
do not answer roll call at 8:55. Entering
doors will be kept closed during
chapel exercises.
1 Excuses of absence or tardiness
must be made in writing to the
teacher of the grade by the parent
or guardian.
Request for dismissal before school
closes must be made in writing to
the teacher by the parent or guardian.
Any pupil who shall leave school
at recess or at any time before the
regular hour for closing, without
rvormnieeirm r\f Lie nr Vipr ti*ar?hpr shall
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not be allowed to re-enter until satisfactory
excuse is given the principal.
It shall be the duty of the principal
to report to the board all refusals
to reinstate.
Pupils failing to make the average
in daily recitation must do the work
after school. Pupils leaving under
these conditions without permission
shall be dealt with as if leaving school
without permission.
Any pupil failing to make an average
of 70 per cent in the high school
and 60 per cent in the graded school
shall not be promoted. Provided
that no pupil in the high school who
falls below 60 per cent on any one
branch, and no pupil in the graded
school who falls below fifty per cent
on any one branch shall be promoted.
Any pupil failing of promotion may
apply to the principal for a special
examination at opening of school.
Each pupil shall be assigned a seat
for study and he shall keep it, together
with his books and desk, in
good order, being responsible for
the appearance of the floor in the viA-f
lllO rloclr Pnnils must oh- I
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tain the books prescribed for their
class and must bring them to his class
each day.
During regular exercises of the
school, whether of study or recitation,
pupils are required to abstain
entirely from communication with
one another without permission.
Any pupil marring, defacing, or
in any way injuring school property,
in addition to punishment inflicted
by the principal, shall pay the full
value thereof, as estimated by the
principal, and in case of failure to
pay, the matter shall be reported to
the board for action.
Pupils are forbidden to bring to
the school fire-arms, knucks or weapons
of any description on penalty of
expulsion, or other adequate punishment
by the principal.
Pupils are enjoined strictly to
avoid truancy, profanity, indecent
language, fighting or any other dis
orderly conduct on penalty of punishment
at discretion of principal.
Other regulations may be announced
as the judgment of the principal
may dictate.
H. G. Sheridan,
Superintendent.
New Advertisements.
Claudia Baker?Notice.
County Dispensary Board ?Monthly
Statement.
C. Ehrhardt & Sons?Great Midsummer
Reduction Sale.
Dorchester Lumber Co.?Brick for
Sale.
J. W. Barnes?For Sale.
G. Frank Bamberg?The Dispensary
Stays.
J. B. Kearse, County SupervisorRoad
Notice.
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away, take Hollister's Rocky Mountain
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F. Hoover.
DR. HORHAOAY ON
NATURE WRITERS,:
Scientist Says Animals Disprove
Both Burroughs and Long. |
REASONING ABILITY LIMITED.;
But Director of Bronx Zoo Asserts
That Animals Do Reason?Experiences
With Beasts That Throw Light
on Burroughs' Theory of Instinct.
Whether animals have the almost
superhuman intelligence with which
some nature writers endow them or
whether they are creatures purely of
instinct, without individuality or reasoning
powers, as John Burroughs asserts,
is a problem that can be finally
solved only by the animals themselves.
If one could see Dr. Long's marvelous
woodcock putting its wounded leg in |
splints or his oriole exhibiting the deft -
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ness or a sailor id uie muKiug ui &.uuu>
in the construction of its nest or his
friendly wolves or his sagacious pet
coon the controversy would be easily
and quickly settled. These, particular
animals, however, are not at present in
a position to bear witness for the benefit
of the public to their own extraordinary
mental attainments, and the
question therefore remains to find some
of their kindred of the wild to testify
for them.
Dr. William T. Hornaday, director
of the Bronx park zoo at New York,
the scientist and collector who has
made the zoo what it is and who has
spent the last thirty-two years in the
study of every variety of animal life
as it is found in captivity and in the
Jungles and waste places of nearly ev
-- - - * a I
ery continent of the world, was asaea
these questions by a reporter of the
New York Times who interviewed him
at the zoo:
"Have the animals in the zoo any
light to throw on this subject?"
"Are we to believe these stories of
Dr. Long or are we to conclude with
Mr. Burroughs that animals are never
gifted with a reasoning intelligence
and that hence what Is told about them
by the nature writers is of necessity
incredible?"
"I have heard many animal stories
during my travels," said Dr. Hornaday
reminiscently, "quite as remarkable as
these which are vouched for by Dr. j
Long. For instance, I remember the
yarn of a man down in Demerara?an
educated fellow he was, too, and with
a reputation for reliability?who assured
me that one evening while he
was paddling up a stream not far from
the seashore a creature with long hair
flowing from its head, with white arms
and a fish's tail, rose from the water,
clutched the side of his boat and gazed j
long and earnestly at him and then
sank back into the waves, emitting as
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despair. Pathetic, wasn't It? And
the truth of the story was most solemnly
vouched for and was believed
by most of the people in that vicinity.
"In all my experiences as a collector
in various parts of the world I have
found any number of men of this kind,
men who have an inexhaustible fund
of wild animal stories and who make
it their business to tell them to whoever
will listen. Do I believe them?
Well, I understand that Dr. Long says
that whenever a story Is told to him!
in good faith he feels he is in duty
bound to believe it. That is a simple j
rule, but it has its disadvantages if
one cares to sustain a reputation for
reliability among scientists."
"You don't believe, then, in the stories
told by Dr. Long which the president
and Mr. Burroughs have characterized
as untrue?"
"I believe in them just as much as I
do in the existence of the Demerarra
mermaid. Dr. Long is a most fascinating
talker, and. whether he believes in
his own yarns or not, he seems to
have the faculty of making other people
believe them, but?just let me say
this:
"To all persons, young and old, who
are interested in nature, who desire to
learn what is true, I wish to express
my belief that Dr. Long is the most
visionary writer who has ever appeared
before the American public in the
guise of a naturalist. Any man with
unlimited capacity for swallowing as
gospel truth every silly story that is
told to him by the animal liars of this
world is to be pitied, but when any
man combines with limitless gullibility,
as Dr. Long appears to do, a vaulting
imagination which places upon the acts
of wild creatures only the most farfetched
and wonderful interpretations
he is to be feared and avoided, and
President Roosevelt and Mr. Burroughs
are to be congratulated on having
shown him up in his true light to
the public." ?
"You believe, then, with Mr. But*
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rougns, lUttL auiiiiais aic nuuuuv ?.
reasoning intelligence; that they act
entirely from instinct and are devoid
of anything like individuality?"
"Oh, no, I don't?very far from It!"
was the laughing rejoinder. "When
Mr. Burroughs takes that position I
think he is quite as hard to follow as
Dr. Long. While engaged in hunting
and in collecting all kinds of
game in various parts of the world and
in studying animals here while they
are in captivity I have made enough
observations to satisfy me absolutely
that animals are possessed of great
intelligence, that they can and do reason
from cause to effect, that they
do not act solely from instinct and
tUST TQey uave UiUUU UJC oauic yvLasions
as men, only In a less degree. In
all this of course I believe I am quite
opposed to Mr. Burroughs. At the
same time I do not in any way put
animals on a pedestal of superhuman
Intelligence, as doe* Dr. Long. Bnt
you asked me if the animals in the
zoo had anything to say in their owe
behalf on this subject of reason and individuality.
Let us take a look around
to see."
Leaving the doctor's roomy study,
we made our way to the Primates*
house. As usual, although it was in
the middle of the day, there were plenty
of visitors watching the antics of
these hairy athletes of the jungle on
the flying trapeze and horizontal bar,
| but as soon as Dr. Hornadav entered
the apes' hall the acrobatic performance
stopped, there was a discordant
chorus of simian voices from every
part of the edifice, while the three
chimpanzees at our right hand?August.
Soko and Polly, as they are called?swung
down to the floor of their
cage, where they stood quivering with
excitement, their arms stretched out
through the bars, looking eagerly in our
direction.
"August! August!" called the doctor
as he made his way to the three expectant
ones.
"Wah-wah! Hoo-hoo!" shrieked August
in reply, at the same time trying
to wind his long, sinewy arms in an
affectionate embrace around Dr. Hornaday's
neck.
"I don't know just what 'Wah, wah,
hoo, hoo,' means," laughed the latter,
"but that is the greeting August always
gives me, and I have no doubt it
stands for something pleasant in the
simian dialect.
"Well, you see they know me and
are doing all that is in their power to
show their pleasure at having me here.
If I was in the habit of giving them
food the man who holds to the theory
of instinct would explain all this jubilant
demonstration in my behalf very
easily. But I never yet have given August
anything to eat from my own
hands. I have petted him, however,
looked down his throat and examined
his teeth, from all of which. I take it,
August has reasoned that I am his particular
friend, and he treats me accord
tngly.
"Let me give you a perfect instance
of the intelligence of monkeys mixed
with an amount of reasoning that
would do credit to a human being. This
chimpanzee that you see here?Soko I
call her?was at first a tremendously
active little animal. Her spirits w-ere
so exuberant she was uncontrollable.
One day, however, she was taken sick.
She lost her good spirits and moped in
her cage until we discovered that she
had developed an abscess in her jaw.
This necessitated a surgical operation,
and we were puzzled to know how to
handle her. On the day previous to the
one fixed for this painful operation Dr.
Blair, our veterinary surgeon, stood in
front of her cage looking at her. Soko
came forward and pressed her face between
the bars. The doctor opened her
mouth and felt the abscess with his
finger. Instead of flinching she turned
her face so tha^t he could get at the
diseased part to better advantage.
Finding that she was not only unmindful
of the pain that he was causing
her, hut seemed anxious to have him
do something to help her, he took out
his knife, successfully opened the abscess
through the grating, while she all
the while kept her jaw motionless
against the bars. She seemed positively
grateful for the cut he gave her and
since that time has voluntarily submitted
to similar operations. How was
that for an example of reasoning intelligence
of a high order?
"All this course is absolutely Inexplicable
on the theory of mere instinct"
When we left the Primates' house
we crossed the path of one of the zoo
elephants who was being led by his
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keeper. xne nuge auimai wa^cuownly
up to Dr. Hornaday and stood in
front of him, extending his trunk and
sedately flapping his ears.
"Ah, yes, he wants his sugar!" said
the doctor, helping the swaying trunk
to find what it was after in his pocket
"Do'you know Gunda? Well, Gunda
runs a savings bank. He is one of the
wisest of elephants, and the elephants
share the palm for intelligence with
the chimpanzee. In two days' time
Gunda was trained to the banking
business, and now he looks after his
money in the most approved fashion.
If you give him a penny he puts it In a
box that he has for that purpose and
then solemnly rings a bell. If you
erive him a peanut and a penny at the
same time he carefully puts the peanut
In his mouth and the penny he deposits
as usual in his bank. He never
makes a mistake about it
'The fact is that as soon as you succeed
in training any animal to do what
neither he nor his ancestors have ever
done in a wild state you have proved
that his mere instinct the blind faculty
which he is supposed to acquire
from his parents, has been surpassed
by reason. Training is done by kindness,
not by cruelty. I have told my
men who do the training here to have
plenty of sugar in their pockets and to
reward the animals- that they are
teaching when they learn their lesson
well, but never to punish them for a
failure. It is in this way that they appeal
to their reason.
"I could multiply many times the Instances
of a reasoning intelligence that
have come under my observation with
I tho animals that are in this park. But
really the' question, 'Do any animals
reason?' In view of all the remarkable
things that we know they can be taught
to do and all the things that they do of
their own accord in captivity as well
as in their native wilds, seem to me
nearly as idle and frivolous as It would
be to ask, 'Do fishes swim?' Of course
animals reason, and it is only the man
who does not know them intimately
who will hold that they do not
"Nevertheless, there is a limit to
their reasoning capacity, and that limit
is certainly reached In the tale of Dr.
Long's oriole nest the woodcock and
his surgical splint and all the similar
fictions, for it is nothing else, of oar
highly imaginative nature writers."
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