The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 05, 1907, Image 2
Our New York Letter.
Here is the latest. Baby insurance,
before birth. A company has entered
the field here that guarantees to
every policy holder $500 in gold at
the birth of every child. One does
not have to die to get this insurance,
it is payable at the other end of life's
existence. Any married couple may
enjoy its benefits, and when maternity
stamps the house with the imprint of
a new life, will reap an advantageous
reward. This is one of the most
unique organizations in the country.
What value great railway corporations
place on New York city as a
terminal may be approximated when
persons consider that the New York
Central and Pennsylvania systems are
spending about two hundred millions
of dollars just to improve their present
facilities.
New York city would never have
existed as a metropolis without the
waters around Manhattan Island, yet
to facilitate travel over these waters,
there has been spent and planned to
be spent in bridges $201,000,000.
There are about 13,000 women living
in hotels in New York city who are
entirely relieved of all the cares and
responsibilities of housekeeping and
families, and have their attention
principally occupied with food, dress
and amusement.
New York citv is now a rival to
London in its stock of antiques. No
matter how great the sales, the
numerous shops are able to keep up
, a full and increasing supply of what
appear to be indestructible goods and
chattels.
New York people have no reason
for smiling at persons from the
provinces because they show ignor,
ances of matters metropolitan, for
they are less ignorant of the metropolis
than the average urban born and
bred person is of what the country
far out of sight of Manhattan means
to the nation and what its people are
doing. \
Few persons realize the push cart
business that is done on Manhattan
Island. Last Friday in a walk of
forty minutes within a block of the
terminal of the Williamsburg bridge
were seen 587 of these portable stores
in charge of as many peripatetic
merchants.
The government of New York city j
will spend more than twice as much
in the coming year as the goverment
of the United States spent in the
year before the civil war.
New York city, with all of its
public buildings, has to provide for
the payment of $725,835.96 in rents
next year.
New York's oldest dealer in musical
{ instruments says that there are more
violins in the city bearing the name
"Antonius Stradivarius'' than the
great Cremona fiddle maker ever had
in his little shop.
Residents of New York city are
now planning for about twelve thousand
new homes to be erected for
their us? in Westchester county, next
year.
There is food enough wasted in
New York city each day to feed a
half million persons.
It was a revelation in a New York
inventor who went to nine shops of
mechanics last week and couldn't
find one workman able to make a
sample addition to a machine with/
out a model for a pattern. Finally,
in desperation, he paid a mechanic
$5 for the use of his tools for an hour
and in fifty minutes he made what he
wanted.
TViprp are abont 18.400 lame chil
dren in New York city.
An observer and traveller, who
has stopped in all of the large cities
of the world, says that New York
shopkeepers are so anxious to make
immediate sales that they fail to
make the permanent customers that
they might if they were more careful
of the reputation that their
methods created.
H. W. Finlayson,
450 Broadway, New York.
Congressman Patterson.
Congressman Patterson expects to
leave for Washington Thursday or
Friday to attend the opening of the
' sixtieth congress. Mr. Patterson
leaves this week in order to be presr
ent at the Democratic caucus held
before the opening of the coming session
of congress. At this caucus the
minority leader is elected and committeesappointed.
Mr. Patterson will
doubtless receive appointments on
some of the more important committees
as his work in congress since his
election has been such asto.place him
in the front rank of the Democratic
u . members.?Barnwell Sentinel.
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Swoons at Sight of Dinner. <
New York, Nov. 29.?Weak, emaciated,
half starved, a ragged, tattered
man crept up to the window of
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a residence on .l/ong isianu-iast uigut
and after gazing for a moment into
the window fell in a swoon to the
ground. An hour later a policeman
found him and sent him to a hospital.
There he was found to be starving.
He recovered sufficiently to tell the
surgeons that his name was Louis
Fink and that he had not eaten for
three days. He was a longshoreman,
he said, and left his job when a strike
was declared six months ago. Since
then he had not averaged four meals
a week and for three days had not
eaten a morsel. "When I looked in at
the window," he said, "and saw a
family at their Thanksgiving dinner
I must have fainted." The doctors
say that Fink's case is serious, but
he may recover. "...
You know as well as any one when you
.need something to regulate your system.
If your bowels are shiggisn, your food
distresses you, your kidneys pain, take
Kollisters Rocky Mountain Tea. It al.
way3 relieves. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets.
H. F. Hoover.
TOWN BEAUTIFYING.
Practical Method For Improvement by
Architectural Aid.
Consul Thomas H. Norton, writing
from Chemnitz, says that the sojourner
in Germany is frequently impressed
by the evidence of many sided efforts
on the part of municipal authorities to
gratify the aesthetic sentiment of the
population at large in all that appeals
to both eye and ear. The consul con
tinues:
The tendency is almost as strongly
evident as the more distinctly utilitarian
determination to abolish mendicancy,
improvidence and suffering
from poverty during sickness and old
ago. An interesting phase of this policy
is revealed in the prize competition
offered recently by the authorities of a
neighboring Saxon town. The town
council invites architects to submit
suitable plans for the fronts of residential
and business edifices. These
facades should be in keeping with the
location and general character of the
place and aim at fitting and harmonious
effects within the reach of modest
purses. Four substantial prizes are offered
for the most successful competitors,
and other projects are to be purchased
if deemed desirable. These
plans will be placed freely at the service
of property owners who decide to
build or to alter existing constructions.
It is hoped by this means to combat
unfortunate and all too prevalent tendencies
on the one hand toward monotonous
uniformity, on the other toward
the baroque and grotesque, when architectural
details of projected edifices
are often confided entirely to
builders destitute of adequate training
or taste for the aesthetic.
The idea is certainly one which if intelligently
carried out should eventually
improve materially the general appearance
of the towns where it is introduced.
It is of importance in a
pountry like Germany, where even in
villages buildings are erected in continuous
blocks. As but one side of a
construction is exposed to public view,
It frequently happens that the services
of an architect are not sought This
habit of compact buildings even in
small places dates from the olden time
when dictated by the needs of mutual
aid and protection.
MAKING THE BOYS USEFUL
How GIor Cove League Operates to
Keep Village Streets Clean.'
A boys' league was recently formed
under the auspices of the Village Improvement
association of Glen Cove,
N. Y. The village has been divided
into eleven sections, and a club of
boys has been formed in each.
The aim of the league is to effect an
improvement in the village of Glen
Cove as regards cleanliness and attractiveness.
Already many boys have
manifested an interest in the league
and have done considerable work in
picking up stray pieces of paper, etc.
Mrs. Charles P. Valentine has charge
of the leaeue. and under her are eleven
women in charge of their neighboring
sections.
The league has placed ash cans in
various portions of the town for the
collection of paper and other rubbish.
Each boy haslbeen furnished a badge
of office in the shape of a button bearing
the inscription. "Boys* League,
Glen Cove, L. I."
The expenses of the league for ash
cans, buttons, etc., have been moderate
up to the present time. Any one interested
in the purpose of the league and
in the boys of the village may help defray
expenses by contributions sent
through the treasurer of the Village
Improvement association, Mrs. A. H.
Sleigh.
Gumwood For Paving.
The black and tupelo gum trees,,
which find their ideal home in the Dismal
swamp and other marshy places
of south Atlantic and gulf states, will
probably play an important part in
solving the street pavement problem,
which vexes the officers of every municipality,
says a Washington dispatch
to the Boston Transcript Experts
who have experimented with the timber
of this tree, which hitherto has
been considered almost worthless, say
that it makes an ideal paving block
when properly preserved. A representative
of a large wood preserving
company of New York, which makes
a specialty of the manufacture of
street paving blocks, recently left
Washington after a conference with
officers of the forest service regarding
methods of wood preservation. His
company is now dealing almost exclusively
in black and tupelo gum. and he
is highly elated with the experiments
which have been made.
Planting of Street Trees.
The selection of trees suitable for
streets requires more knowledge and
judgment than does the planting of
them, for not all for sale are in any
wise fitvfor such use. In planting the
chief factor that tends to success is a
hole of sufficient size so that the tree
stands a fair show of growth by reason
of water and air reaching the
roots. So much of our soil, especially
on the street, is so hard packed that
neither air. water nor roots may per
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meate 11 10 auj uibuuicc. xms dvu
should he loosened to the depth and
width of three to four feet, and if this
is done no fear should be held regarding
the future of the trees.
To Adorn a Town*
Some years ago a neighborhood association
in a Michigan city began to
improve the respective homes of th*
members. Here a fence was taken
away, there an unsightly barn was
covered with climbing vines, over there
a clump of shrubs hid the back yard,
farther along still low lots were filled
in and the grass was revivified by
constant care.
IK DRAMA'S GLARE,
Author Lewis Dares to Write Nat
Goodwin a Play.
AS TO ETHEL BARRYMORL
An American Actor Now In London
Rises In His Wrath to Score English
Audiences For Their III Manners.
an^ Rnninn Pooular.
[From Our New York Dramatic Correspondent.]
Alfred Henry Lewis, author of
"Wolfville," "The Throwback," "The
Sunset Trail" and "When Men Grqw
Tall," is quite willing to write "the
American play" for Nat C. Goodwin
which the well known actor has announced
that he wants.
Mr. Goodwin recently said that he
wanted Mr. Lewis to write him a
play. "I should like a stalwart American
play by a stalwart American author,
and Alfred Henry Lewis fills the
center of the stage in that role."
Mr. Lewis said later:
"tmi xxrrito a nlflv for Nat Goodwin
that will fit him and will suit both him
and me. In many ways I regard him
as the representative American actor
and one of the best men that ever
walked on a stage and faced an audience.
"I would rather write a play for Mr.
Goodwin than any other actor in the
country, because I believe that he can
present the true American type of the
west that I will create or write into a
play. Goodwin is an American of the
full blooded kind, without a cross, and
his experience fits him to represent
the true citizen of this country."
Ethel Barrymore's new play is stated
to be one that will give her the best
opportunity of her career for effective
work. Clyde Fitch and Cosmo Gordon
Lennox collaborated on the drama,
which is reported to have scenes laid
both in America and England. Its
title Is "Her Sister."
UTA +Vi{ner hr?w T^ncllsh
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customs contradict one another," says
an American actor who Is now In London.
"It is considered very rude to talk
loud here' or. even raise your voice
much above a whisper in a public res
ETHEL BABBYMOBE.
taurant, yet these same people will go
to a public performance In a theater
and boo and hiss like a pack of rowdies.
No matter how bad the play
may be, it seems to me to be the worst
sort of manners to hiss In a theater.
It may be that the person sitting next
you likes the play and wants to listen
to it You have no right to deprive
him of that privilege, which he has
paid for, by expressing your disapproval
"In America audiences are too well
bred to hiss in a theater, and when
they do hiss it is generally to silence
people in the audience who are making
disturbing noises and is not aimed at
the stage.
"The much vaunted dignity and
drawing room deportment of the London
audience are very greatly myths,
and they go about as far as wearing
evening clothes, and then they quit I
have never been in a country where
the audiences are quite so bad mannered
as they are here.
"In addition to hissing and booing,
they have very little consideration for
one another's feelings or comfort.
They whisper and chatter during the
scenes, and the men have no hesitation
in forcing their way out each
entr'acte to get a drink, though they
discommode dozens of ladies each time
in doing so, and they will stand in the
doorway and gossip, preventing scores
of people who are in a hurry from
passing out They think nothing of
ntanninc* in front of vou or Dushins
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their way between a lady and her escort
"Fashionables in London have not
even the courtesy to applaud a good
thing. All they do is to turn to the
person next to them and drawl "Rather
good!'" ROBERT BUTLER.
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Our Boys' Clothing is an up
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We will sell our extra pants
Blankets and Comforts will
We have a few trunks, will
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have a few pieces of plaid
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BAMBERG
Davis Wants to be Judge.
Barnwell, Nov. 27.?The resignation
of Judge James Aldrich, made ]
public in today's paper, has brought j
forth many remarks of regret on the 1
streets and around the court house ]
here today. Judge Aldrich has a host 1
of friends and admirers in this county ]
and they all regret to learn that he i
was compelled to retire from active
work on account of his ill health. It <
is the earnest desire of all his friends s
in Barnwell county that his rest from j
official duties will restore him to his j
former good health and vigor.
It is very probable that there will I
be more than one candidate from 1
Barnwell for the position made vacant ]
by the resignation of Judge Aldrich. i
It was rumored that Solicitor Davis 1
would be a candidate for the position. ]
When seen by your correspondent,
Solicitor Davis stated that he would
be in the race to the finish.
Mr. Davis is a native of Baniwell j
county, but was admitted to the bar ]
from Aiken. He is the son of Hon. J. 3
L. Davis, who was clerk of court in (
Barnwell county for several years (
previous to the war. Solicitor Davis ,
has been a member of the Barn- ,
well bar for a number of years. He
was first elected solicitor in 1900 and .
since that time has held the office
continuously.
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It is rumorea mat ?enaior vjeux^c H.
Bates and B. T. Rice, Esq., of the (
local bar, will also be candidates.
Your correspondent was not able to j
get a statement from either of these .
men.
Sawyer to Stand for Judge.
Aiken, Dec. 1.?In addition to the ]
probable candidates from Barnwell ;
for the judgeship of the second cir- 1
cuit the name of Capt. C. E. Sawyer 1
of this place has been mentioned for <
the office. During the past few days *
Capt. Sawyer has received numerous
telegrams and letters from friends
throughout the State urging that
they be allowed to place him in nomination.
Capt. Sawyer had no idea of en- '
tering the race until he received
these numerous communications,
but he is now taking the matter un- i
der consideration. He is a lawyer
, of known ability, of wide experience 1
and would make an excellent judge.
His friends here hope he will allow
his name to be placed before the legislature.
i The Anderson Mail says that Mr.
Rucker is mistaken. The people of
' that county do not want the dispen:
sary back and are perfectly satisfied
with prohibition.
This is the season of decay and weaki
ened vitality; good health is hard to re,
tain. If you'd retain yours, fortify your
! system with Hollister's Rocky Mountain
Tea, the surest way. 35 cents, Tea or
Tablets. H. F. Hoover. |
ABHAM i
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$6.50 We are selling our \
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8.50 We are selling our 5
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lem before buying,
at about cost. It will pay yc
be sold at the very lowest figi
sell them at about cost,
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men and children will be sold
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ABHAM*
Governor to Own Paper.
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 30.?Disappointed,
it is said, at having been de- c
feated in the recent race for the *
United States Senate by Congress- c
nan John Sharp Williams, Governor c
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v araaman win reure at uie cuu ux ^
lis present term from politics, to de- j
70te "his future to journalism. ;
Arrangements have been perfect- t
id for launching a big daily at Jack- 1
jon and the governor will be at the <
lead as editorial writer, advisor and (
general manager. *
In an address at the college in
Starksville, Miss., Wednesday, Gov.
^ardaman said his future would be
inked with newspaper work, to
which he devoted himself in his native
county, LeFlore, prior to his
plunge into politics.
"Lemon" Club in Windy City.
Chicago, Nov. 30 ? Mrs. Maiy
Hulen, 315 East Forty-first street, is
the originator of Chicago's most
novel and in many respects most exclusive
club. She is forming a society
of grass widows and grass widowers.
To date 389 men and women
who have been divorced have applied
to her for membership. She desires
at the most only 30.
"Now we may profit by our mistakes
and not get lemonized next
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time," is the tunaamentai idea un- t
derlying the club, according to Mrs. i
Hulen. She proposes that the mem- '
bers talk over "in friendly chat" 1
their wedded experiences so that
"next time"?if it comes?they will ,
know better. ]
"I was handed a whole crate of
lemons in my last experience," said <
Mrs. Hulen yesterday, "and I want j
to help start a club where those of
us who have suffered may meet in a 3
social way and help each other so (
that we may not be nipped again."
The EUoree Case.
Dr. John A. Branson has led a
vigorous fight against the re-opening
of the dispensary atElloree. He says
that the people of Elloree opposed to
the dispensary are in the majority
and yet in the face of this the county
board decided to reopen the dispensary
in that town. He has discussed
the matter in the Columbia State, and
has shown up some glaring defects
in the Carey-Cothran law which he
hopes the next Legislature will correct.
What would please him and
thousands of others would be the en
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actment by the next legislature 01 a
clear-cut prohibition law for the
State. That is what prohibitionists
should work for, and we believe that
is what the majority of the voters of
this State will in the end demand and
receive. The thwarting of the will
of the people by dispensary tactics
as in the Elloree case is helping very
much to bring about State-wide prohibition.?Baptist
Courier.
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SOUTH CAROLINA
TAX NOTICE.
The county treasurer's office wifl.
>pen for the collection of State,cocmtjL .
school and all other taxes from the 15th
lay of October, 1907, until the : ^
)f March, 1908, incrasive.
From the 1st day of January^ 1908, tm-'
il the 31st day of January, 1908, a penaly
of 1 per cent, will be added to alltmr .
)aid taxes. From the first day ofFehreiry,
1908, until the 28th day of February, & yjjSi
.908, a penalty cf 2 per cent. willbeacHfcv
vrl Ia oil nnn^jM fovoo UVnm fKo
lay of MarSC 1908, until the 15th din
>f March, 0908, a penalty of 5 per eenC :
yill be added to all unpaid taxes.
The fallowing- is the levy:
For State purposes, 5 nulls. v : v >
For comity purposes, 3 mills., >
Constitutional school tax, 3 mills.
Total, 10$ mills.
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14, 4| mills. J
Denmark, No. 21, 6 mills.
Olar, No. 8, 4 mills.
Lees, No. 28, 4 mills. - {L
Midway, No. 2, 2 mills.
Cuffie Creek, No. 17, 2 mills.
Colston, No. 18, 2 mills. * ' jv; ^
Ehrhardt, No. 22, 2 mills.
Oak Grove, No. 20, 2 mills.
Govan, No. 11,3 mills.. .
Biirnaker's, No. 12, 3 mills.
Hopewell, No. 1, 3 mills. ':'C:
Clear Pond, No. 19, 2 'mills.
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16,1 mill. ,
Hampton, No. 3, 2 mills.
Heyward, No. 24, 2 mills.
All male persons between the ages of
twenty-one and sixty years, except Confederate
soldiers and sailors, who are
sxempt at fifty years of age, are liable
to a poll tax of one dollar. ? .
Capitation dog tax, 60 cents.
I will receive the road commutation tax
($2.00) from October 15th, 1907, until/ v
March 1st, 1908.
All male persons who were 21 years
of age on or before the 1st day of January.
1907. are liable to 31*00 poll tat. - W
rhose who have not made returns to the
auditor will do so on or before let day k V
)f January, 1908.
JNO. F. FOLK,
Treasurer Bamberg County*?
Bamberg, S. C., September25th, 1907. j
BRICK FOR SALE .
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We are manufacturing a
High Grade Brick and
can furnish Run of Kiln
of Ofi f n. h. cars
Badham, South Carolina
Dorchester Lumber Co. ]
Badham, Sooth Carolina
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t Attorney-at-L^w
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