Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?hf lambrrg Irralb ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. \V. KXIgHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamoerg. being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler iincr i>e machine, Babcoek cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Mieiile cylinder press, all run byelectric power with oilier material 1 .. . !-ai.i,iiur flip whole est. we require tne iiamt auu audress of the "writer in every case. Xo article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions expressed in any communication. Thursday, Feb 20, 1913. Let's make Bamberg a better, bigger, busier city. But it will take united efforts to bring about this result. \ Wonder who made affidavit to the correctness of the population figures in the new city directory of Spartanburg? This directory puts the population at 21,207. ^ The house has passed a compulsory eduaction bill, but it is not likely to become law. To tell the exact truth, there is a whole lot of bluff about the South Carolina legislature. Something is being said in the newspapers about the friends of -M. L. Smith, now speaker of the house, to run for governor next year. He won't be hard to .induce. Fact is Mendel has been wanting to run a i long time. Up to this time very little has been j done by the legislature, in fact no sweeping legislation of any kind has I been enacted into law. and we suppose it is best this way. it is not at all likely that anything of much importance v.ill be done at this ses sicn. * The Newberry Observer wants to know if the chairman of the house j committee on railroads totes a free | pass. We don't know as to that, but there is little doubt that the chairman of the senate committee on rail- ! roads totes a free pass and is opposed J to a two cent passenger rate. The bill offered in the legislature I by Mr. Rembert, of Richland, which was designed to muzzle the newspapers, was defeated by a small vote. We nevei* took it seriously, as we' had 110 idea it stood any show of passing the house even. However, we are surprised at some members who voted for it. The people of Bamberg are doing a lot of talking about the deplorable state of affairs in the city as regards lawlessness and the illegal sale of whiskey, yet they seem to be taking it out in talk. What is needed is action uy tne gooa people 01 me iuwu and county. Prosperity will never come where lawlessness is in the ascendancy. The house passed a bill authorizing, the State to assume charge of the medical college in Charleston and making an appropriation of $20,0i>0 for the college, but it now seems probable that it will die in the senate, which is exactly right. The State lias all the colleges now it can care for and more too. Fact is we are overburdened in this State with higher education and we are not devoting enough attention to the schools of lower grade. Lost Roy Found. We learn positively on Wednesday morning, just before going to press, that iittle Clyde Rentz has certainly been found. In another article we stated that news had been received that the little fellow was at Timmonsvilie and Dr. S. P. Rentz had uicic i ucr.ua,) utui i\jl him. A telegram was received from the doctor after his arrival at Timmonsville stating that the boy there was Clyde Rentz and that he would be home with him to-day. it seems that the little fellow got to Charleston and was there taken charge of by a gentleman who lives in Timmonsville and carried to his home, where he had been well treated. The little el low has been going to school in Timmonsville for several weeks. iinu \ .11 ; i ~ * j - ? r. y - equipm- nr. r. presenting an investment <>. .s ! .i.i.vif i;11tl upwards. Stihsci-ipsioji.-?By the year $ 1 "0; six mouths. 7"> cvais: three mouths, cent v. Ail subscriptions payable stricti> in advance. .td-. 'Misenieut>?$l.uo per inch for livi* insertion, subsequent insertions :.m cents per inch. Legal adr< nt rhp rales allowed by ? V. I HOV i. .Vik w ~ _ law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and other advertisements under special head, 1 cent a word each insertion. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months. Write for rates. Obituaries, tributes of respect, resolutions, cards of thanks, and all notices of a personal or political character are charged for as regular advertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We arc always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public inter * * A ~ A OOrKTIiOOM DEVICES. | How Clever Attorneys Introduced Winning Evidence. Many devices have been employed I in the courtroom productive of an j effect far more telling upon the jury I than mere words. A suit was brought some years : ago by the people of a'certaui quar! ter of Montreal against a manuI ! facturing company. The vile odor of | the chemicals used, in the works, rhev ' alleged had made the neighborhood | untenable and seriously lessened ilie J value of their nroperty. The judge and the jury were disl posed to turn a deaf ear to the coinj plaint. The conipau\ was rich and powerful and "an alleged smell," as i their counsel declared, "was too inI tangible a grievtyice to grasp." One of the opposing counsel was seen to go out and not long after returned with two glass retorts. "Here." he said, in the course of his plea for his clients, "are the offending subjects of our contention." He passed them to the judge and then to the jury, who smelled them and smilingly declared them pure and odorless. "But." said the counsel, "the company mixes them!" He suddenly poured the contents of one of the retorts into the other and the nauseous fumes of hydrosulphuric acid or sulphuretted hydrogen filled the air. .Judge, jury, and spectators choked for breath. It was necessary to adjourn court until the next day, when heavy damages were at once awarded to the plaintiffs. '? In a murder trial before a western court the prisoner , was able to account for the whole of his time except five minutes on the evening when the crime was committed. His counsel argued that it was impossible for him to have killed the man under the circumstances 111 so frrief a period and on that plea largely based his defense, th^ other testimony being against his client. When the prosecuting attorney re! plied he said: "How long a time realj ly is five minutes? Let us see. Will his honor command an absolute si| lence in the court room for that [space?" 1 I The judge granted the request, j There was a clock on the wall. Every eye in the courtroom was fixed upon I it as the pendulum ticked off the seconds. There was breathless silence. I We all know how time which is waitj ed* :or. creeps and halts and at last does not seem to move at all. The' keen-witted counsel waited until the tired audience gave a sigh of relief at ihe close of the period .and then quietly asked: "Could he not have struck one fatal blow in all of that time?" Dramatic effects, however, are hazardous agencies to use as it is not j impossible to spoil them by an anticlimax, as a member of the English I parliament round when at the close j of a fiery adjuration to the goveruj ment to declare war he cried out: "Unsheath the sword!" and drawing a dagger, threw it 011 the floor. "Ah!" coolly said an opponent. "There is the knife, but where is the fork?"?Green Bag. SITE FOK INSTITUTE CHOSEN. Bailey Military School Secures Fine * ill Cwiotm lliui Greenwood, Feb, 18.?The stockholders of the Bailey Military Institute unanimously decided at a meeting held in the court house last night upon a site for the school. The location is on Edgefield avenue, near the residence 'of Mr. R. B. Tolbert. The offer of the site was a combination one, joined by Messrs. R. B. Tolbert, Dr. S. L. Swygert, W. J. Wells and J. S. Eilenberg. The offer carried with it a cash bonus of $4,100, contributed by residents in that section of the town. The court house was packed with people, stockholders and interested spectators last night. One by one the other sites offered were withdrawn until this on?, generally considered the very best and'most desirable, was left. Upon motion of Mr. D. A. G. Ouzts, Col. F. X. K. Bailey, who was present, was instructed to cast the unanimous vote of the stockholders for this site. Col. Bailey did so, and very graciously expressed his gratification at the happy solution of the problem. He said he regarded it as the best site for a military school -in the State: that it was ideal. He also told of the strong encouragement he had already received from all sections of the country. He said he was sure the school would open with not less than 150 cadets next September. Soldier Tramping 7,000 Miles. St. Louis, Mo.. Feb. 18.?Sergt.John iM. Walsh, U. S. A., arrived last night from Jefferson barracks on foot, after a 7,000-mile tramp across the continent and back under orders to test army shoes. The sergeant left Xew York April 10 and is returning from California. He plans to re sume his journey to-day with Fort Hen Harrison, Indiana, his objective point. Walsh is wearing the fourth pair of shoes he is testing. QUEER TURKISH CUSTOMS. ! ; Broom Bets First Blimpse of Bride | After Ceremony is Performed. jp I hud a strange peep into Turkish n life in a visit I paid to a harem on fl J the occasion of "a wedding between I t'ne son of a sheik and the daughter 9 ot a J'asha. writes a correspondent ?3 of the Queen. .My interpreter was M a French governess who in iter voca- ra tion had made many friends in ha- ? I rt ins and seen much of Oriental ens- 9 We drove about i|! o'clock from & my hotel at Cera to the quarter of ! Constantinople as Kaiuttash and left jra our carriage at a big door in a ye!-: si iow washed wall. The door opened jn into a charming garden, and although j jl high yellow washed walls shut us in ; on every side, the prison-like effect j B was mitigated by the masses of lovely j ^ flowers which grew there, chysanthe- j mums, magnolias, geranium#, and||j jessamine. : Narrow walks paved with black B and white pebbles led to the seraglio, B which stood on the shores of the Bos- B phorus, was large and square and had m a not unpicturesque loggia 011 one j| side. A crooked and dilapidated S fountain poured its waters into a a moss-grown basin and a cat sat blink- M ing in the sunlight. gg The room we entered was eminent- ? Iv commonplace, with crudely frescoed walls and imitation marble pillars. In the saloon the walls were of M a dull slate color, hung with oil paintings in common gilt frames. Flimsy gilt chairs stood about' and at the windows were draped in pea,cock r plush, heavily festooned. q, Our hostess, the Pasha's wife, re- tr ceived us most kindly, and her man- Cr ners were graceful and charming; er but my expectations of "caftans of f1( gold brocade" and waistcoats of gold fy and silver were doomed to disap- in pointnient. Tiie TurKisn laaies wore st Parisian evening gowns, very mag- be uificent in material and of the latest oi fashion, and their tiaras and neck- R( laces of diamonds were curiously be European. Having no figures to ar speak of, the effect of Paris dresses m on shapeless forms was very funny. 0t While we ladies were amusing our- b; selves as best we could the shiek's jn son was being married all by himself, tb At the conclusion of the ceremony he i was brought to the harem by eunuchs and led into a room, where he lifted ni the bride's heavy lace veil and saw si her for the first time*. This perform- js , ance over, and it must have been a it pleasant one in this case, as the bride tii was a lovely girl, the bridegroom $ quickly returned to the Pasha's-party y( and we filed past the bride to offer <s her our congratulations and good tu wishes. . st She sat on a dais hung with blue satin and was gorgeously dressed in tl: I rich white satin covered with raised th gold embroidery. Her masses of jn black hair was dressed in the latest p( 1 Paris mode and she wore a diamond vI crown. A lace veil hung over her train and behind each ear depended Cr a golden rope of plaited gauze, much ai in the fashion of .Marguerite's plaits cic in "Faust." I was indiscreet enough 3, to ask a friend of hers if the appear- ye ahce of the newly made husband had R( pleased his bride. I was told in m answer that to express an opinion on such a subject was considered in 01 Turkey as not "according to the prac- fc tice of elegant females." w The bride's bedroom was visited in next and here 110 illusions were shat- ai tered, for the turniture was of dark 11( wood inlaid with mother of pearl and tt the bed was hung with pale blue satin bt embroidered in gold thread. The w wedding presents and the two trous- Sa seaux were 011 view?gold coffee ser- ir vices, silver ewers- and basins, silver 0i coffee cups, shirts, dainty lingerie and tine w dresses displayed and manne- n< quins ranged round the room. b< Breakfast was served down stairs se on long tables laid much in the EuroI pean fashion. We began our meal n< with a thick soup which tasted cold 0l and nauseous. Then came a Bos- 01 nhorotis rish stewed in spices, a n ragout cooked in tomato sauce and })( stewed beans. After these followed al a cream, an apple jelly (not at all y< bad,) pilaf of sweetened rice colored p with saffron and tasting of gravy and tr iittle black beans. Xo wine was of- m fered, but every one drank water and ei ate melon. As we left the room a w slave bearing a silver pot with a long jj] spout sprinkled us with rose water ]1; and then coffee and cigarettes were nl i handed round. 0i 1 thought Turkish ladies handsome e: in a purely animal way. They have ni glorious eyes and hair, creamy skins fa and good features, but their faces tl are dull and apathetic and they show ?; little signs of intelligence. They w smoked and ate sweets and nursed ni their babies and gossiped, examining tc each other's finery with more interest than they showed in anything else except the bride and the stranger % within their, gates. ? Women grow old despite their dis- ^ regard for birthdays. .Men who sow wild oats never com- K nlain if the croD is a failure. If a freak garment shocks a wo- *ei man, she'll wear it sooner or later. b< {9 i I I j We wish to we will be I I to Post Off! See us now before mo FINANCING THF FARMERS. aeliinery and Fertilizer Amount to About $300,000,000. reading nnanciai insmuuous are . "last getting into much more dijct relation with the capital retirements of farming in this counr. The discussion of agricultural edit has awakened financial lead's to an appreciation of the vast ?ld as yet almost untouched in the irnishing of capital for the workg operations of agriculture. A ep in that direction appears to have jen taken in the issue of the $G,)0,000 5 per cent, collateral gold )tes. These issues, it will have jen noticed., are based on the guaruee by the manufacturers. The anufacturers guarantee the security the issue in question, forming the isis for a Credit which banks assist distributing as investment securies. Reference to the amount of busijss done by the agriculture impleent companies in the United States iows that in this field alone there a wide scope of investment activy. Farm implement manufacturers irn cut a product valued at from 12.000.000 to SI 50,000,000 each .ar. A large part of this product sold to farmers on notes which maire some time durins: the latter ages of the year, between July j id December 21 or later. While Lese notes run for a longer time an ordinary credits of manutacturg and mercantile business, they are me the less secure taken as a hole. Xot only do they represent fferent localities, but also different ops, different system of farming id different periods of time. They ) not mature all at once but fall ie during the latter half of the ?ar when the banks are most in ?ed of maturing resources for crop oving and other uses. One of the largest bills of farm itlay in the course of the year is ir fertilizers. It has been asked hy some such system as is affordg a good market for farm credits ising from implements notes could Dt be made equally available as in ie case of fertilizers. A well-known ink official to whom this question as. asked, replied: "One may not ty that is not ta be. The fertilizer ldustries dispose of their annual ltput in much the same way and lere is no reason why they shoifld jt utilize these instruments as a isis of floating desirabfe investment (curities of a short-term character." The "fertilizer manufacturers are dw entering upon the busiest stage f the season in distributing theii itput to the more southerly disicts of the cotton belt and the com ?lt. The movement usually begins >out the beginning of the calendar ?ar and runs up to .March or April, ormerly it was much more conceu ated in the earlier months than 3W. Now cotton planters begin i _ 1. A ? e *1, ^ irner iu get anttiu ui u?- uuu ecvil. ?>ince the method of applyig fertilizers to the growing cror as taken the place of applying it : planting seasons only, tke period f distribution has been somewhat ctended to the advantage of the lanufacturers, the railroads and the irmers themselves. The output from lese industries is not less than "?0,000,000 a year, a great part ot hich is bought on eight or nine ionths notes, especially in the cot)n bel'.?Wall Street Journal. (ireenville Man Found Dead. Thomasville, (la., Feb. 18.?J. L. 'alker, president of the Greenville atton .Mills Company, Greenville, S. ., was foui^d dead to-day in his >oni in a local hotel. Death was le to acute indigestion. .Mr. Walk came to Thomasville Sunday.- The )dy was sent to Greenville to-night. -V - announce that on and afI ocated in the Hoffman Bi Ice, until our old building is as we must close out our ving back into. our ne rim t*i im 9 n"Ti BiLJK O, bai V % SKItlOCS ACCIDENT. ??? j Citizen of Cope Has Foot Taken Oft' by Freight. .! Cope, Feb. 15.?Mr. W. P. Jerni. I can met with a most serious acci! i . . , j dent on last night, by having his : right foot cut off above the ankle . j and the left very badly mashed by j the local freight, as same was pulling , | out of Cope for Augusta. Mr. Jernigan boarded the train while it was in the siding waiting for another , train to pass and when the local '1 *.? , backed into the main line he got off at the street crossing and fell with , his feet under the train, which had . started out and hence had his feet , | injured as above stated. On account ot the fractured bone the right leg , had to be amputated a few inches below the knee. The doctor seems . to think his left foot can be saved. but it is impossible to say positively . at this time if such will be the case. Hurt from Dynamite Cap. Landrum, Feb. 12.?What may prove to be a serious accident occurred here this afternoon when Dr. II. H. Willis accidentally exploded a dynamite cap. His right eye is hurt and the thumb on each hand is injured. It is not known the extent of j his injuries. He will be carried to 1 Asheville. X. C.. on train Xo. 13, and j put in care of specialists. The cap i was left in the dental office by an- ! other dentist and from the explosion j must have contained 40 pounds press-! lire. I imiGCiSTS K.XDOKSE DODSO.Vsj LIVER TO\E. It is a Guaranteed Harmless Vegetable Remedy that Regulates the j Liver Without Stopping; Your Work or Play. A dose of-calomel may knock you j completely out for a day?sometimes } two or three days. Dodson's Liver Tone relieves attacks of constipa- j tion, biliousness and lazy liver head- ; aches and you stay on your feet. Peoples Drug Store sells Dodson's j i Liver Tone and guarantees it to give | perfect satisfaction. If you buy a j nf nnficnn'o T ivpv Trmp nnd do I L/^LLiC WI lyvuuvu * v* A w..v not find it the safest, most pleasant and successful liver remedy you ever took, this store will give you back the 50 cents you paid for it without 1 , a question. This guarantee that a trustworthy ' druggist is glad to give on Dodson's . Liver Tone is as safe and reliable as the medicine, and that is saying a lot. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of the ' Bank of Denmark, located at Den* > mark, S. C., at the close of business February 4. 1013. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $ 76.358.93 Overdrafts 1,833.10 Due from banks and bankers 150,269.83 ' Currency 3,499.00 Gold 10.00 , I Silver and other minor J coin 1.863.81 ) Exchanges for the clear^AA CO 'I ins? no use injure i i - . | TOT A I $2:34, 43 5. r>5 . I LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in....3 1 0,000.00 1 1! Surplus tund 3,000.00 j :j Undivided profits, less [ 1 current expenses and taxes paid 6,126.45! (I Individual deposits subj ject to check 192,110.10 ! 1 Savings deposits 23,199.00 , | TOTAL $234,435.55 , | State of South Carolina?Count> of i Bamberg. ! j Before me came J. Arthur Wiggins, j cashier of the above named bank, '/ who, being duly sworn, says that the j above and foregoing statement is a ! true condition of said bank, as shown ' bv the ljooks of said bank. *J. ARTHUR WIGGINS, Cashier. ! Sworn to and subscribed before i j me this 1 Ith dav of February, 1913. | J. WESLEY CRUM, JR., ; j Notary Public, S. C. ;! Correct-Attcst: S. I). M. GUESS, i JAS. 13. GUESS. !j J. ARTHI'R WIGGINS, ) Directors. CEMENT ter Monday, S isilding next I m > remodeled. 1 m entire stock I fl ? IE STORE OF QUAUTY" ' I WBERG, S. C. urangeourg .nan jjrops lieiia. ? Orangeburg, Feb. 18.?Mr. Mack Besinger, of the Fork section of the county, dropped dead at his home yesterday. Mr. Besinger was. 53 years of age. LODGE MEETING. Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights of Pythias meets first and fourth Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visiting brethren cordially invited. GEO. F. HAIR, Chancellor Commander. A. M. DEXBOW, Keeper of Records and Seal. NOTICE. On Friday, night, February 21st, there will be'an entertainment given v v at the Olar school house for the benefit of the school improvement as sociatjon. The public is cordially invited to attend. . NOTICE FINAL DISCHARGE! On Friday, February 21st, 1913, . at 11 o'clock a. m., I will file with G. P. Harmon, Judge of Probate for i Bamberg county, my final accounting as administrator of the estate of Jno. > J. Copelana, deceased, and will ask for letters dismissory as such admin istrator. J. L. COPELAXD, Administrator. ^~-TT7TI 'T ' UlHTf I???fc j~ "J I Get Your Photo On a Valentine's Day? 1 , ( We got ours but they . sentusthewrongnose, ; I and the Shoes, Hat, 1 and Dress Suit does I not match. We can. I i Shoe vou. Hat you, I I Shirt you, Collar you, j ? Dress you, or Clothe 1 you better than that. I Then we have some- I thing for you to eat. i Another error they I made?our picture is I I not full enough. Come | to see us, we will dress 1 you up, fill you up and | a i rheer vou un. I RENTZ&FELDER I Bamberg, 5. C. jg Remember you get a 25 vote j* 1 coupon, good in The Herald 1 1 and Merchants contest, with SI S every $1.00 cash purchase. H * I ? * ' - , V 'I"?