Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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u CHAXCE TO MARRY. Men are Most Easily Caught Betwee: 25 and 35. For instance, an approximation o statistics covering a period of a num ber of years shows that one youn man ranging anywhere in age fror 25 to 35 years is worth to a woma: ?as a marrying man?50 younge men whose ages range from 15 to 1 years. In other words, if this gii x possessed 51 male acquaintances, a] of them 19 years of age or undei with the exception of one older mar the one is worth as much to her as marriageable possibility as the othe 50 combined. These same statistic show that a bachelor ranging fror 25 to 35 years is worth three time as much to a woman?as a marryin man?as a bachelor between the age of 34 and 42. In summing up these facts, th best advice between the ages of 2 v < and 30 is, "Make hay while the su; shines." Don't frivol with youm men not likely to marry, for these ar years of opportunity that will neve come again. For during these year time expended upon young men of 2 or younger is practically wasted, a one unmarried man between the age of 20 and 24 is worth as a marriage able "chance" just 36 men of 20 c under. In men between 25 and 35 however, lies the greatest hope o achieving married happiness; for th man anywhere between those age is just about twice as likely to tak< a wife as the man between 20 and 24 , while the bachelor between 35 am 45 is less than one-fourth as vain able. From 45 to 55 he is only one sixth of a chance as compared wit] a man of 20 to 24. Between the age of from 55 to 60 he falls to abou cne-twentiethv?James Oliver Cur wood, in Leslie's. * : i ? The Panama Canal and Fish. The suggestion that the openinj of the Panama canal will result i] the intermingling of the fish faun; of the Atlantic and Pacific ocean will be of more interst scientificall: than commercially. It is not at al likely that the principal food fishe of either of these great seas will us< , Colonel Goethals's big ditch fo transportation purposes. The tooth some shad, one of the finest foo< fishes that ever wriggled, is a nativi of the Atlantic, but the scientists o the bureau of fisheries were not con tent to wait for the completion o the canal to witness his transfer b; natural means to the Pacific. Som< thirty-five years ago shad were trans ferred to the Pacific, where they ar< now as numerous as they are on th< other side of the continent. On thi other hand, the salmon, the mos valuable food fish which our Pacifii coast boasts, has never been trans planted to the salt waters of the At lantic, although attempts to propa gate it in fresh water lakes in Nev Hampshire and elsewhere have beei made. It is by no means probal* that the salmon will ever find hi: way through the Panama canal t< the Atlantic by way of the Caribbean and accustomed himself to these wa ters. No salmon are caught so fa: South.?Philadelphia Ledger. Telling the Time. A great many persons believe tha time is told by watches and clocks. This tradition is carefully kep alive by makers of clocks and watch es. Yet nothing could be furthe: from the truth. If man were depend ent upon clocks and watches alon< he would never have the faintest ide; as to the time. Why, a man ma: look at a clock three or four time! and then go ahead and have th< wrong idea as to the hour. The fact is that people tell time b: their meals. This shows what import ant things meals are and how neces sary it is to have them at regula: hours. Now, for instance, take the cas< of my mother. She had dinner ver: late the other night and I innocentl: thought that there was plenty o A- A iVkAOf AT* time to ?0 lO me lucaici I had just eaten my dinner. I look ed at my ^vatch several times, bu the hands didn't tell me anything, had just had my dinner, therefore i was early. If a man gets up an hour or tw< late and eats a late breakfast and n< lunch at all, it is utterly impossible for him to know what time it is al day long, and eight o'clock arrive: for him an hour or so after mid night. If a man wants to sit up all nigh let him arrange his meals according lv and he will never oe a dii im worse for it. Travelers and boarders will bi comforted to be assured of this use ful quality of meals because it seti forth about all the advantages tha some meals have.?Chicago Xews. NOTICE?Summer clothing, blu serge $12.50, all wool, mohair $12.51 up; wash suits $4.00; linen duster $1.25 up. All kind of summer was] pants $1.00 up. F. G. MERTINS the tailor and clothier, Augusta, Ga USE OF EARTH AS FOOD. n Practice Among Indian Tribes?Relit of Superstitious Observance. if One of the most odious character L_ istics of Southern "crackers," as the: ^ were described to us a few years ago is the habit of chewing earth or clay a When Dr. Stiles, of the public health Q service, discovered that the low men r tal and physical condition of thes< 9 people was due almost entirely to th< 1 ravages of the "hookworm"- we learn [1 ed at the same time that the eartl *, eating was but a manifestation of ? t, perverted appetite, a The practice of eating earth, say: r the Scientific American, is not con s fined to any race or region of th( n earth. In America several tribes o s Indians, of the Northern as well as o: g the Southern continent, are given t( s using earth as food. Different varie ties of clay seem to be preferred, e The Pawnee Indians used a yellow 0 ish clay which they shaped into little a balls that were allowed to dry in th< g air and were then slowly roasted & e the open fire. When the clay attainec ? - 3 -i ~ ? + ViViollo -nrprn rpmovftd I a reu CUIUl LJ-IO ua.no n VI V ~ s moistened with water and eaten 0 These clay balls were especiall: s liked when served in connection witl & fish and seem to have prompted di >- gestion. r The Timmeh Iindians of the Mack '? enzie river used to resort to earth a: f food in time of famine. They duj e out the clay found in the hollow* s along the banks of the river. In pros e perous years they chewed the cla> , as a delicacy. The Apaches mixec 1 powdered clay into their meal befon - baking this into their rude loaves o: - bread. & In South America the Indians It s the uplands of Bolivia ate a clay thai t is nearly white in color; this thej - used either raw or in the form o; cakes of various shapes, which an sold in the market places. They at so prepare a sauce with the clay; this ? they eat with boiled potatoes. Among the negroes of the Guinea a coast as well as among those in Wesl Africa the eating of clay is very comy. mon. The natives of the Sudan dig 1 their favorite clay from between lay e ers of sandstone in the banks of th g river. The natives of Java prepare little cakes of clay containing ochre; these are sold in the public markets j The "hairy Ainus," the obarigmes of Northern Japan, mix clay witl j their rice and with the leaves of various plants which they use as food f In Persia varieties of clay are consid ^ ered luxuries among certain classes ' while in the foothills of the Hima3 layas the natives are constantly a chewing a piece of greenish clay I which they believe has the property ~ of protecting them against the goiter In Finland as well as in certair parts of Sweden powdered clay is ^ mixed with the flour used for baking bread. This practice is similar to thai of the Apaches, and may really, represent a relic of some early cere1 monial or superstitious obesrvance. In the Ural Mountains the natives g mix gypsum ("plaster of paris") 3 with their dough. In Styria, in Sardinia and in Treviso (the Travisiuir ' of the ancients, near Venice,) cakes ? of clay are sold in the markets witr r other food stuffs. In parts of South America the whites imitate the natives in using clay as an article of diet; but there t they cultivate the excuse that eating earth leads to the production of a t fine complexion. A Poser. r Speaking of common sense, Dr 5 Faulkner, head of the Vineland, N 1 J., hospital, told the following story: A mysterious building had beer 3 erected on the outskirts of a small 3 town. It was shrouded in mystery All that was known about it was thai 7 it was a chemical laboratory. An old farmer driving past the place aftei work had been started and seeing a r man in the doorway called to him: "What be ye doin' in this place?' "We are searching for a universal ' solvent, something that will dissolve all things," said, the chemist. "What good will thet be?" ''Imagine, sir! It will dissolve all things. If we want a solution of iron, 1 glass, gold, anything, all that we have ' ? * - * 1 !_ il ?? to ao is to arop it in tne suiuuuu. * "Fine," said the farmer, "fine! What be ye goin' to keep it in?"? 3 Everybody's Magazine. 3 _ e Fined for Calling Girl a "Chicken." 1 5 Atlanta, June 20.?It's against the law now to call a girl a "chicken" in Atlanta. By the same token it is ocroiriet tho law to p?sll hpr a "broil ? I, AM H ) VV VM.4* UV4 w er" or a "squab." B If you must call her something tc eat, the word "peach" is about the a only thing you can safely get awaj with in this city now. O. E. Lancass ter, a debonair young beau, was fined t $5.75 yesterday for saying, "Hellc chicken," to a pretty and diminutive telephone girl, and the recorder e warned all and sundry henceforth ) that barnyard terms of endearmenl s would have to be cut out. ; A guilty conscience needs no press agent. SLAIN MAN'S FRIENDS ACTIVE. 2 Mill Employees Start Fund to Prose- I cute Rock Kill Policeman. Rock Hill, June 20.?The em7 ployees of the Victoria Cotton Mill I , have started a subscription for a fund r . to prosecute Policeman Eubanks, 1: i who on Sunday morning shot and - killed Henry H. Putnam, an em- c 3 ployee of the mill. They feel, it is f 3 stated, that the killing was unjustifi able, and will make an effort to have r i the officer punished. c i Dunlap & Dunlap have been re- t tained as counsel, and on Friday will a > appear before Judge Gage, at Chester, r - to oppose the application for bond, \ 3 which W. B. Wilson, Esq., Eubanks's t f counsel, will make at that time. a f ? r Lost Fifty Dollars. , i William Wilkins, a typical ante- ^ bellum darky nearing the seventies, . s and holding the position of sexton at I the Central Congregational church, * t was minus $50 and again in possesj sion of it Monday morning in less j time than it takes to tell it. ^ The old negro had just received a j y rent check for the amount mention- g ed and after having it cashed at the c Fourth National bank, started for j the Germania bank to make a de- _ \ posit for his own personal account. At the steps of the Germania he . 5 c r took his bank book from an outside t 9 pocket, where he had placed the ^ money and started up the steps when j a touch on the shoulder caused him j to look around. In the outstretched ^ j hand of a total stranger lay a roll P of bills. "You may need this," said a voice, and as the speaker disapj peared into the crowded thorough[. fare William counted over his half a . nundred dollars.?Atlanta Journal. 1 ^ How a Country Woman Rests in the j City. e 1 i In the July woman's Home uompanion, a womn living in Wisconsin 1 tells as follows the kind of vacation l she likes: a "During the summer, when people t ? generally take their vacations, I am q ' deluged with work. After Christmas r ' I watch the city dailies to find when t some noted atcors, singers, plays, or : operas are to be heard, and plan to f have my vacation simultaneously ( i with the appearance of some of them, j 1 Two large cities are within a few f - hours' ride by train. I engage a room j, by the week at the Y. W. b. A., or at ( some place recommended by that or- f > ganization. t "As I always have to be up early t r at home, my first relaxation is to stay ? ? in bed mornings. I have fruit and t r wafers upon which I can breakfast, if I wish; but I never get up before s 1 lunch. For lunches and dinners I go ^ 5 to as many different places as I have E ? meals, including always one first-class t hotel. I want to see different people and eat different things. Any new dish in a menu comamnds my patronage. If it suits, I try to duplicate it 3 5 for the benefit of my family when I 1 get home. Many viands commanding " extravagant prices in the city are or1 dinary affairs with us. 5 "Afternoons and evenings I go to g 1 art galleries, museums, recitals, matinees, vaudeville, lectures, moving5 picture shows. I watch the amuse' ment columns of the dailies, noting a - especially 'free days,' and attend > whatever promises me pleasure, in- J 1 eluding always one first-class play or c opera. "I enjoy the store windows, and study their displays with ail attention B that makes me the local fashion au- * . thority. I find profit in attending the 8 bargain sales and patronizing the L remnant counter. The stores often * I offer excellent music free. I enjoy 8 , sitting in their rest-rooms, listening * r to the instruments and watching the 11 I people. I attend their fancy-work 1 class, where I get instruction, ideas, L and patterns, more for a shut-in friend than for myself. Once I en' rolled in a cooking class, but that was [ too much like home. > "Sundays I go to hear a cleberated minister, or attend a church which j? has a reputation for fine music. Near ' I the end of my vacation I sometimes . v let some friends know that I am m ' 1 a I 4- ? ^ A orv, +T?QO tOfl J? 11 tOTT) Ohl 1 ft i luwu, aiivi am tiv,ai.v.u v,v rides or other pleasures, but I never visit when on my vacation. My ex. penses seldom exceed ten or twelve ^ dollars a week, including transportation and presents. I keep a vacation savings bank during the year." m h Not so Bad. h p ; A young lawyer who has recently . hung out his shingle here was re- t< tained by a criminal with $5 and a j, i very poor defense. y s "Well, you got a case, son," said r his proud father. "Yes, dad." [ "And what advice did you give f; > your client?" v "After listening to his story, I p . collected what money he had and ad- g ! vised him to retain a more experi- t; I enced lawyer."?Kansas City Jour- j, nal. v f; 5 We recover umbrellas and parasols of all shades and sizes. F. G. y MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. P JUDGE W. R. BRABHAM DEAD. Comment Citizen and Veteran Ex pires Near Allendale. Allendale, June 17.?Judge W. R Brabham died to-day at his home lear Allendale, in the 71st >ear o lis age, after several months' illness In the death of Judge Brabham th ommunity loses one of its most use ul and respected citizens. For several terms he has served a nagistrate in this district, and hi :ourteous and impartial bearing i] he discharge of his duties as sue] is such has marked him as a gentle nan of the old school. He serve< vith distinction in Hagood's brigad hroughout the war. He entered a i private in Company C, 1st regi nent, in Hagood's South Carolin Volunteers. As a soldier he wa lever known to shirk duty, and a he second battle of the Wilderness n which he was wounded, he wa >romoted for gallantry to the offic >f sergeant major. He leaves three daughters, Mrs. F I. Edenfield, of Allendale; Mrs Carrie Edenfield, of Savannah, Ga. drs. Ida Ley, of Jacksonville, Fla md three sons, W. H. Brabham, o Savannah, Ga.; R. L. Brabham, o Fairfax, and M. B. Brabham, of Sa rannah, Ga. The funeral services will be coe lucted at the residence, the Mason hen taking charge, and the remain vill be interred with Masonic honor it the Allendale cemetery. Judge Brabham was a member o he Methodist church, the Masoni >rder and the Knights of Pythias. Cudahys Living Together Again. ~ltot,coo Pi+v \Tn Tunp 90 .Tnh' xvauoao vivj j v v*^v m V? ^ ? ? 3. Cudahy, wealthy 'packer, and hi ormer wife, who divorced him o; August 22, 1910, after he had slash id Banker Jere F. Lillis, are no^ iving together again here, thoug: hey have not been remarried. The explanation given for this un isual domestic situation is that botl ire Catholics and therefore, unde heir religious law, are not divorced ?o their friends they have expresse< 10 intention of again going throug] he marriage ceremony. The Cudahys have been reconcile, or two or three days. Lately Mi Judahy had been living alone at th lotel Baltimore, when not at hi arm, near Belton. An apartment a Jo. 3527 Main street had been Mrs "udahy's home. There Cudahy wa ound to-day and there, it is believed hey will remain until they obtai: he custody of their four children, i natter which will be adjudicated i: he city court. /'We have settled our differences, aid the couple to-day, "and we hop ve will give no further occasion fo iewspaper notoriety." The Cool Stranger. Business was brisk in the villag tore when the stranger entered. "Any of you drive up in a trap? Le asked casually. "Yes, I did," said Farmer Turin ips disinterestedly. "Why?" "Gray horse, and an old lady in ide?" *Viof'e TMO-Vif ? Put " i COj tuat Q 1 JL^VAV "Can she manage him all right? .sked the stranger. "I should think so," replied Turm ips. ''Why, my wife's druv tha torse ever since he was a three-yeai ild!" "That's all right, then," said th tranger. "I merely asked becaus he grav has just gone down th treet like a mad bull, and the ol< ady's hanging on to the back of th rap, screaming 'murder!' Still, i he can manage him, there's nothin; o get excited about. How's th< rice of 'taters down your way?"? London Answers. Conductor Passed the Plate. It was a street car conductor's du ies in the church of which he was i aember to take up the collection om ay, and, as it happened, his first ex erience of such duties, says Tit-Bits le was a little nervous as he starte< own the center aisle, but that sooi wre off, and he began to feel almos t home. There were several children in th< rst pew, and each put in a penny 'he people in the next pew also con ributed something each. A big glum fellow sat alone in th? hird pew. The pew collector passec im the plate, but the man shook hi; ead and stuck his hands deep in hii ockets. Thereupon, our friend, the conduc or stopped, put up his hand as if t( erk the bell cord, and said, "Well ou'll have to get off." Some Family. Mrs. William ^Ioore, wife of i armer living near Marshall, Mich, isited that town last week accom anied by her twenty-six children he took the children to town tha hey might witness the mailing of i atter from her to Theodore Roose elt, informing him of the size of hei amily. The youngest child is not i ear old. Among these are sever airs of twins. PRISONERS BREAK JAIL. > Five Men Squeeze Through 12-incli Opening and Escape. Eleberton, Ga., June 19.?Five !, prisoners in the Elbert county jail f made their escape last night by i. breaking the steel cross bars to one e of the cells. They then pried an upright bar from its moorings and squeezed through a 12-inch opening, s The prisoners went down stairs and s gained freedom through the outside a door, which had not been locked for b the night. Those escaping were George Jones, d white, burglary, and four negroes, e John Carter, murder; Jim Patterson, s burglary; Jim Miller and Jim Turn er, both charged with misdemeanors, a Gene Jones, charged with assault s and battery, remained in jail. He t says the prisoners have been work 5, ing to break away for several days, s He states that they escaped about e 9:30 last night. The escape was not learned until this morning. Sheriff ' Haley has offered rewards for theii 5- capture. Woodruff Negro Accused of Murder. f { Charged with killing her daughter Sarah Ann Hugkes, a negress, was arrested at her home near Woodrufl _ last night by Rural Policeman Millei and brought to Spartanburg and lodged in jail. The warrant was swore s out by Officer Miller on information and belief before Magistrate Gantt f The case is rather an unusual one, ? It seems that some time during last January or February the married daughter of the prisoner died at hex home at Woodruff. At the time ot her death there was reason to susQ pect that she had met violence. Re3 cently the Hughes woman is said tc Q have been acting in a peculiar manl" ner. Her conduct, it is said, was v that of a woman of unsound mind, k It is alleged that in talking of the death of her daughter, she made the statementthat she killed her bystrik11 ing her in the head with a bottle, r following a querrel with her daughter about the latter's husband. 3 It is said that the sanity of the h ^ woman was inquired into some time ago and that she was declared to be ^ sane. Since this investigation it is said the woman hegan to taia aDoui e having killed her husband. Magis8 trate Gantt said be kew very little * about the case. All he knew about ' the affair was that Rural Policemab s Miller appeared before him and swore out the warrant for the arrest of the n woman on information and belief. a Officer Miller swore out the warranl a on the statements made by the defendant that she had killed hei daughter by striking her in the head e with a bottle. r Whether there is any truth in the statement of the prisoner that she put her daughter out of the way is not known. In order to arrive al e the truth, it may be necessary for the body to be exhumed and an exam" ination made of the skull.?Spartanburg Journal, June 20. -i if you want a policy I OnYouiJjfe t i in one of the most _ i liberal and larg1 est dividend dee I glaring insurance e i companies in amere I ica, write or call a i on f I Isaac M. Lorvea ej J Bamberg, S. C. I S Office Over | B Bamberg Herald. 1 TOT TO THE PUBLIC a When in need of Farming Implements such as i Corn Drills, Stalk Cutters, Disc Harrows, Grain Binders, Mowers and ' , Rakes, Gasoline Engines, J. I. Case Road Machinery i and a General Repair Shop t see : D.J.DELK 1 BAMBERG, S. C. then examine our new stock of carriages before you buy. You wijl find our assortment the largest and finest. . in Bamberg. We have all the latest new styles, and whatever you want that is up-to-date you will find here. , Built of the best materials and built ^ . right, our carriages are also right priced. HORSES AND MULES. ; G. FRANK BAMBERG, Bamberg, S. C. DR. J. G. BOOZER DENTIST, . DENMARK. I Graduate Baltimore College of Den* | ta! Surgery, Class 1907. Member South Carolina Dental Association. i Office Rooms 1-2 Citizens Exchange 7-j , Bank Building. Honrs: 9-12 and 2-5 every day. S i J. F. Carter B. D. Carter CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. 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From my own experience I can say -9 that Hunt's Lightning Oil is without <9 an equal as a reliever of pain, and I only wish that I had used it several 9 years ago.?Mrs. W. T. Dixon, Sher- t^j9 man, Texas. 9 Sold by Peoples Drug Co., 9 Bamberg, S. C.