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Olhr Hamburg lirralii ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. A. W. KXIGHT, Editor. Published every Thursday in The Herald building, on Main street, in the live and growing City of Bamberg, being issued from a printing office which is equipped with Mergenthaler linotype machine, Babcock cylinder press, folder, one jobber, a fine Miehle cylinder press, all run by electric power with other material and machinery in keeping, the whole equipment representing an investment of $10,000 and upwards. Subscriptions?By the year $150; six months, 75 cents; three months, 50 cents. All subscriptions payable strictly in advance. Advertisements?$1.00 per inch for first insertion, subsequent insertions 50 cents per inch. Legal advertisements at the rates allowed by law. Local reading notices 10 cents a line each insertion. Wants and ether 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 ad' vertising. Contracts for advertising not subject to cancellation after first insertion. Communications?We are always glad to publish news letters or those pertaining to matters of public interest. We require the name and address of the writer in every case, i No article which is defamatory or offensively personal can find place in our columns at any price, and we are not responsible for the opinions ex-| pressed in any communication. Thursday, July 31,1913 We are back home and in harness I again, but my, it's the very dickens I to have to buckle down to hard work j after playing for a whole week. A week is an awful long time for a newspaper man to have as a vacation. Bamberg needs another building and loan association and needs it now. Why don't somebody who has some time get out and solicit subscriptions to the capital stock of an association? It could be easily raised. We rather like the idea of the conference for the common good, which is to be held in Columbia, but we are afraid it is going ,to be too much of a talk fest to accomplish much good. Too many movements of this kind, which really mean something if properly carried out. are ruined by too much tongue, and ? narar omrtnnt <45 <4 uuiiseyucutc aiuvuuv to anything for they are talked to death. It is a great pity there is so much friction among the State house officials. It really seems that no department of the government is in harmony with the other, and this is a very unfortunate condition. Meanwhile the interest of the taxpayers suffer because of this continual bickering and fault finding. It strikes us that it would be a good idea to have a general house cleaning next year and elect an entirely new set of State officers, from the governor down. It was a pleasure to us to attend the meeting of the postmasters at Glenn Springs last week. Those who handle the mails in this State are a fine set of men, capable and energetic, and every discussion showed that they were in love with their work and were seeking to improve the service in every way possible in order that the public might be served more efficiently. We feel sure that the government has no officials who are more earnestly striving to serve the public well and faithfully. We doubt not but that more people go to Glenn Springs from Bamberg than any town its size in the State, and yet the owners of this resort are making no effort to provide transportation facilities from Spartanburg out to the springs. A visit there last week convinced us that unless some provision is made to get out there, the resort is bound to go down, or at least to become very much less popular. A trolley line from Spartanburg was projected a few years ago, after the railroad had to be abandoned, but nothing tangible has ever come from the agitation, and it seems to be a business proposition for the owners of the property to get busy and do something to solve the transportation problem. A LITTLE THIP. We ran away last week, the longest vacation we have had for several years. Leaving Bamberg Saturday night we went up to Columbia where we spent Sunday and part of Monday. The capital city is growing rapidly, and what puzzles us is where they get the money for all the building and improvement that is going on, but it is certain that it is coming from somewhere. One of the handsomest and most complete hotels in the South has recently been opened in Columbia, The Jefferson, which I shows the faith the people there have i in the future of that city. | From Columbia we went to Glenn j Springs to attend the meeting of the ! postmasters of the State, this being ! the first session we had met with them. We knew very few of them, but they are a fine body of men, and while we went there a stranger we ; made some friends whom we feel it a privilege to call friends. A few hours in Spartanburg showed that it was keeping up in the matter of growth and development. Spar tanburg is really one of the very best towns in South Carolina. Its growth is steady all the time, and it is on a solid basis. The only real skyscraper above Columbia is now being erected ( there. f From Spartanburg we went to Hendersonville to visit our children who are spending the summer near that city. It is a place of beautiful scenery naturally, made more so by the work of man. There are a number of pretty homes there, and the cli- , mate is delightful, especially to us who live so far down State. It ap- , peared to us that there were fewer . people there than usual, in fact this seemed to be the condition elsewhere, no doubt caused by the fact that , money is especially tight this sum- . mer, many people no doubt finding it , hard to stay at home much less get away. . Frankly, if it were not for the < summer visitors, we do not see how those people out in the mountains < would live. Xo cotton is planted, of i ? nn ^ rvlrtnf nr\r*r\ AO f c course. llie lcumcio piaui. ^.viu, Irish potatoes, and garden truck, and ( raise apples, peaches, etc., while most of them keep cows and chickens, and ' sell milk and butter. Most of the i farms we saw were small, caused in 1 large measure no doubt by the high i price of farming lands, though we were informed that in other sections < of the same county there were large | farmers, planting 'several hundred 1 ! acres, where the lands were more '< productive and higher in price. Lands 1 near Hendersonville sell for fifty to 1 one hundred dollars per acre, and it ! I is pretty poor farming land at that, J but this was only a few miles from 1 town. Everybody takes summer J boarders, no matter how small and s cramped their house is. Out a few { miles from town the mountains are 1 dotted with houses and every house * takes boarders. The mountain people out there call their -fady boarders ' "boarded ladies," and the natives ! certainly know the value of a dollar. While in Hendersonville we went * to see Senator John L. McLaurin, who ' spends the summers there with his ^ family, he having a summer home in the city. There was no political significance attached to our visit, in fact he did not know anything about our being up there. We have known him all our life and we have been friends for many years. We know - * 1 J.- 1 ? r, him well, ana Know min iu ue <x iuau standing four-square to all the j world?a man of ability and courage. We talked very little politics, ' and whether he will enter the race ' for governor next year we do not ' I know, although there has been con- 1 siderable newspaper gossip about I him. We did not ask him if he was going to run, but we do know that pressure is being brought to bear on ' him to do so. To be entirely frank about the matter, we do not believe ; that he is at all anxious to enter politics again. He loves his home life, and he does not seem to care for public life and politics any more. Left to his own inclinations, we should say he would much prefer to remain a private citizen, doing what he could as such to better the condition of the men who clothe and : fppd the DeoDle. But if he should make the race for governor, you may i be certain that it will not be as a factional candidate. He will not be 1 the candidate of the Blease or the anti-Blease people. He has never been a partisan, and those who re- 1 member the beginning and growth ' of what was called the "Forty Movement'' or the "peace and unity" movement can easily believe this. A man of deep sympathy for his people and love for his State, naturally he no doubt is distressed over the division of the people politically, and having seen the blighting effects of factionalism in the recent general assembly, it is not surprising to us that he should want to do something to bring order out of chaos, that the old State should move forward along the lines of growth and activity in education and other important matters. The present condition in the State house should be and no doubt j is humilating to every Carolinian who loves his State?a total lack of sympathy and co-operation between the various branches of the government, without which no substantial progress can be made. We had not intended to say this much when we j commenced to write but it naturally I grew out of our conception of Senator McLaurin, and we believe that there is no better time than now to say it. Many a fellow who weds an heiress marries Miss Fortune. FOUGHT WITH SEA TIGERS. Captain of Advance Killed Sharks With Clasp Knife In Limon Bay, off the coast of Costa Rica, it is said to have happened, and with a bare clasp knife he is said to have done it?to have killed no less than four man-eating sharks in swimming a mile from a capsized row boat. The personal pronoun stands for James J. Clarke, captain of the steamship Advance, of the Panama line, about whose exploit officers and passengers were eager to tell when 4 the ship arrived here today. An ear- ( lier chapter in the history of Capt. J Clarke, which was recalled by some of the officers, was that relating to a ( terrific hurricane in the same waters some five years ago, when he brought ^ the steamship Colon and her hundreds of pasengers safely through ( without losing a man, says The New * York Evening Post. The conflict with the sharks was ( said to have occurred a week ago Fn- 1 day. The captain left the Advance in 1 a small boat. The craft ("frail craft," ( the accounts had it) was struck by a "black squall" and turned turtle. Capt Clarke clutched the keel and scrambled as far up on the bottom of the boat as he could without over- * turning it. Scarcely had he done so c when an enormous shark brushed 1 aeainst the boat. The wind increas- 1 2d in violence, and in the heavy roll the captain "was thrown from the Dverturned boat and into a school of man-eaters. He drew his clasp knife and plung2d it into the nearest shark. Instantly several other sharks attacked the wounded fish, and Capt Clark had to swim hard to get out or "each of their thrashing tails. Torrents of rain were falling at the time and the 1 wind was whipping the sea into increased roughness. The captain is a good swimmer, but i tie was weighed down with clothing, ind the heavy sea forced him to exertions which with his encounter with the man-eaters began to tell on his * strength. Scarcely had he recovered ? ais breath and headed for the shore i more than a mile distant, than he 1 saw that he was again surrounded by t ,harks. He swung his knife again and < igain as they turned on their backs 1 to seize him. A third and a fourth s time was he attacked when a native, j who had put put in a small boat, c came alongside and beat back the ^ sharks with his long paddle. I Capt. Clarke did not dare climb in- t to the boat because it was too frail c ind might have been overturned, so t a? clung to the pointed stern while s the native headed for the shore, which by this time was nearer than the Advance. For a considerable dis- , hancp the sharks trailed after the boat and made rushes at the captain, but with the aid of the boatman he fought them off. I The squall had hidden the captain from the sight of those on the Ad- j vance soon after the battle with the i sharks commenced, but the first and j second officers had seen the capsizing ? of the small boat and had sent anether boat to the aid of their com- t mander. In the wind and rain they j made slow progress and came up j with the native boat just as the latter f drew into the shore. I Capt. Clarke was taken back to j ;he Advance, where he soon recovered ( from the strange experience and re- j ceived the congratulations of officers and passengers. i His Future Mapped Out. The father of a bright young son ] went to a wise friend for advice as to ' what profession the youth should be j fitted for. The sage was brusque. < "Let the boy choose for himself," j he said. , "But," protested the father, "he's too young." 1 "Well," responded the wise man, j "put him in a room alone with a book on theology, an apple, a knife and ( * 1 - ? J V> A some small cnange, aiiu sec nuai uc 3 plays with. If he cho'oses the book, 1 make a minister of him; if he takes j the knife, make him a surgeon; if the apple, he'll make a farmer, and if he ( chooses the money, a banker." Much relieved, the father went , away but returned the next day in < great distress, saying the plan hadn't j worked at all. , "Why not?" demanded the wise man. "What did he do?" "When I went in," said the father, "he was sitting on the book, with the knife in one hand and the money in his pocket, and eating the apple." "Ah!" said the sage, "that's easy ' The boy is a natural born lawyer."? The Ladies' Home Journal. Would Avoid the Place. ??? J Pat and Mike were obliged to halt j their heavily loaded cart to make J way for a funeral, uazing ai me procession, Pat suddenly remarked: ".Mike, I wish I knew where I was , goin' to die. I'd give 1,000 pounds to know the place where I'm goin' < to die." "Well, Pat, what good would it do ^ if yez knew?" : "Lots," said Pat. "Shure, I'd niver < go near thot place." The Hungry College Girl. But here is a fresh little story ] vhich looks as though when this dry rot of debt gets into the women's colleges, it is not going to be handled so gingerly. It seems there is a pur- i ireyor of good things to eat in the i aeighborhood of this college, as in < nearly every other. Hungry girls i hrong her inviting tables every after- < loon and evening. Hunger, we are ] ;old, defies all laws and limits. This ! s probably why certain of the college < girls who have never been denied ] mything in their lives, and who have i chanced at times to be short of cash, proceeded to run up large bills at j 'Peggy's" for her alluring Lucullan j lelicaces. When poor Peggy attempted to col- j ect these bills the girls would be , 'out," or they "positively hadn't a j ient to spare," or they were "going :o have money from home soon, and j vould settle then," and they put her 1 off until she was on the verge of 1 pankruptcy. In tears she confided ^ ler trials to one of her bright and ( jash-paying customers. "I shall have to fail," she wept. What shall I do?" "Do!" cried the indignant girl, n*ith the spirit of a feminine St. jeorge. "There is only one thing to ^ io. Those girls must be made to pay. Give the whole bunch to me." ^ike an avenging angel she actually vent through the college, and told t he careless and heartless (and J jreedy) young debtors just what she 1 .hought of them. The result was ( hat she handed over to the astound- * id wafl&e-maker that evening more 1 ;han $1,000 in cash. ? Don't get into the way of running ip bills, girls. Keep within your in:ome.? Kate Upson Clark, in Lesie's. AT ASTOR'S BIRTHPLACE. Tillage of Walldorf Celebrates Memory of Fortune Builder. Berlin, July 25.?The memory of Fchn Jacob Astor, founder of the jreat Astor fortune, is being honored n Walldorf, near Heidelberg. The ittle town is en fete in commemoraion of his birth there just 105 years igo. He is the fourth son of a mtcher and worked in his father's shop in Walldorf until he was 16 ears old. In 1783 he went to Ameri:a and started in the fur business, vhich was the source of his fortune, ie remembered his birth place by esablishing alms houses here, the founlation of which William Walldorf Asor, of London, has just increased by l gift of $12,500. FIRST COTTON IN BARNWELL. Uso Produced Frst Cotton Bloom in State this Year. Barnwell, July 26.?The hoary ocks of old King Cotton were exhibit;d on the streets here this week. Two )olls of cotton, grown on the farm of VIr. H. C. Easterling, a few miles 'rom Barnwell, opened on the 21st. This is probably tbe first cotton to i >pen in this county, and perhaps in ' he State. Barnwell also carried off ] irst honors this years in the matter of J Irst blooms, and for the past year or ' :wo the first bales of new cotton have <' ieen shipped from here. Mr. Easter ing is a Marlboro farmer, who mov- < ;d here a few years ago, and who is 1 naking good. 1 U1 Things Come to Them Who Wait. J ??_ 1 "Can I believe my eyes!" exclaim- ] id Mr. Timpkins, of East Orange as i le confronted the burglar. Mr. ; Timpkins had been sent down in the niddle of the night to investigate a , strange noise, which proved to be the ? :amily silver in process of packing . ip. The burglar reached for his gun, out Mr. Timpkins grabbed the hand nstead. , "Don't, he said, giving the hand a ;ordial shake. "You don't know how , auch I am interested in you. Stay a ;vhile. I want you to meet Mrs. Timpkins." , "While you're calling the cop! Not in your life!" retorted the burglar. "No," said Mr. Timpkins, "I just ; tvant you to stay while I call my wife. She's heard you at work every night ' ? Xl X2 ? for twenty years ana mis is me uisl ( ihance she's had to see you."?New ( York Evening Post. His Own Medicine. "Generally run down?" asked the < Qian in the drug store. "Want a tonic? I've the very thing for you Briscoe's Eeatali. Three times a day and in two days you'll feel another man. Fifty cents a bottle." "Oh, no," said the customer ener- 1 Etetically, according to The Cincinnatti Enquirer. "But is is the very thing for you. All the doctors are recommending it. We can't get it fast enough for our customers." "I believe you, but I would prefer something else." "Nonsense. I tell you Beatall ft'ill do you more good in one day than 1 anything else in a month. It cures every thing. What's your objection?" : "Only that I'm Briscoe." 1HE EARRING HAS A HISTORY. Egyptian Kings Used to Wear This Ornament.?Popular Now. A curious instance of the survival ind revival of a fashion which originated in the remotest times is the ??rring. Worn by the Kings of Egypt, ind extremely popular among the laiies of ancient Rome, it subsequently lost favor until the gay days of the Stuart period, after which it again iropped out, and has now once more -egained popularity, says The London J1U u^. The very earliest mention of this form of decoration is to be found in :lie Book of Genesis. Jacob, it will be remembered, on reaching Bethel bured certain strange idols, among them some earrings belonging to his family. Doubtless these ornaments were regarded purely in a propitiatory light is amulets or talismans, such being still their principal office in the East today. That they are of Eastern origin is certain, and among Orientals, with the exceptian of Oreeks and Hebrews, it has always been the custom for both sexes to wear them, while frequently only )ne ear was adorned. Among other "aces, however, earrings were always vorn in pairs, and by the women ohy. Excavation has frequently brought ;o light statues, Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian and Etruscan to the ears of ;vhich were attached rings of marvel)us beauty, and commonly of two dis;inct types, the earlier one consisting jl c v\ kj iiaivco aua uuwiacuu ? icii some animal's head, as that of a lion Dr bull, the latter attached to the iar by a hook in the form of a rosette, with numerous pendants bearng delicate figures?a tiny Victory )r Eros playing some musical instrunent. In course of time, and by a latural process of fashion, the Greek "ings assumed such dimensions that :hey could no longer be attached to :he ear lobe, but depended instead :rom a diadem or tress of hair. In Egypt the earrings were of an extremely simple character, often nerely a ring shaped hook hung with some symbolic pendant. They were lowever, used only in a sacred sense, 3eing worn by the sovereign on great Dccasione, as may be judged from the nassive head upon the statue of Ramjses II in the British Museum, in the lays of which holes are pierced. Wonierful workmanship is 6een in the iarrings recovered from the tombs of areek settlers in the Crimea, while :he sepulchres of ancient Eturia lave yielded rings not unlike those !ound in Greece, usually saddle shapjd or decorated with small enameled Igures of birds, such as co.cks, swans, jeese, peacocks and doves. The Pholicians, we are told, used to pierce :he uper part as well as the lobes of :heir ears, inserting plain rings, from tvhich depended drop-shaped peniants or ornamental baskets of grain. Rings were also attached to the hair an each side of the head. Simple enough, but of priceless valie were the pearl earrings worn by Roman ladies. Pearls had been imported into Rome in large quantities about the time of Sulla, and later Pliny wrote: "They seek for pearls -~ /-wf tho Port Spa and at LLIC UUUUUJ ui tuv search the bowels of the earth for emeralds to decorate, their ears," while Seneca thus picuantly refers to the new fashion: "The extravagant tools probably think their husbands are not sufficiently plagued without their having two or three heritages hanging down from their ears." Early Byzantine earrings followed the Roman cast to a large extent though usually crescent shaped and richly ornamented. Earrings were put to strange uses in those luxurious times, for of Antonia, the wife of the Roman Drusus, it is related that she attached a valuable pair to her pet lamprey. Earrings were not particularly popular among the Franks?at best they amounted merely to a ring of plain silver wire?and, indeed, we do not again find them in favor until the 17th and 18th centuries, though they seem to have been popular enough *vith thA ladies of William I's court. During the renaissance period earrings were fairly popular on the continent, as is shown by several well known portraits of that time. Later on Queen Elizabeth was in the habit of wearing pearl peardrops, while Mary, Queen of Scots, seems also to have possessed a number of these, judging by the inventory of her jewelry. Curiously enough, they were largely affected even by the male courtiers of the 16th and 17th centuTies?a fashion which seems *c have been imported from Spain and which mightily shocked the Pur,jtants. Usually only one ear was ornamented, as in the portrait of the Earl of Somerset in the National Gallery. The Duke of Buckingham was famous for his diamond earrings, while other great men who followed this mode were Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh. The last notable example of men wearing earrings seems to have been T TT-hn hnn? a larae unaries 1 unuscu, nuu ~0 w pearl in his left ear, which he presented upon the scaffold to a faithful follower. PEST OF WILD HORSES. i Alberta Asks Protection Against the | Roving Herds. The Hon. Duncan Marshall, minister of Agriculture for Alberta, who arrived in the capital yesterday, says an Ottawa dispatch to The New York Sun, urged upon the Dominion government the necessity of taking some steps to put a stop to the depredations of wild horses in the Grand Prairie and Peace River district, which has been one of the main pioneering points for the last few years. It is contended that the wild stallions have made raids upon the ranches of the new settlers, have killed ' } many of the domestic horses and have led away many of the well bred domestic mares, which have been imported at considerable cost, and which are one of the principal assets of the new settlers. Being no respectors of provincial ' ( boundaries or of physical setbacks, such as mountain ranges, these wild j horses have caused as great an amount of damage in the eastern district of British Columbia as in the ^ foothills. These equine marauders are supposed to be descendants of horses which were abandoned in the gold dash to the Youkon in '98. KILLS HER HUSBAND AND SELF. Comely Young Cuban Woman Tired of Married Life. Tampa, Fla., July 26.?First tying him securely in bed as he lay asleep, Mrs. Avelina Rodriguez, a comely young Cuban woman, shot her husband to death at their home, in the ' eastern part of the city, this morning. When she saw his life had fled she cut the bonds from his body and, stretching herself beside him, fired the remaining shot from the pistol into her own heart, and was dead when neighbors rushed into the house. The pair lay side by side, and the ? slender ropes which still partly held 4 Rodriguez's body to the bed, and the pistol grasped in Mrs. Rodriguez's va hand told the story. X Camps. A camp is a place from which you religiously stay away nine months in the year so that you may think you are enjoying it when in it. A camp always depends for its success upon its distance form home. Camps, in reality, are of three different kinds, Evening Clothes, Tuxedo and Flannel Shirt. The Evening Clothes camp is filled with butlers, canoes and highballs. The Tuxedo camp has near-aristocrats, guides and bridge players. The Flannel Shirt camp has canned goods, plug tobacco ' and people who have lived in Brooklyn. Camps are used as a shelter for poker players on rainy days; also as an antidote for wives, hotels and Great White Ways.?Life. No Doubt About It. . Recently one heard an amusing story connected with Dr. Chavasee, the bishop of Liverpool. Dr. Chavasse is the father of two , sets of twins and soon after Mrs. Chavasse had had twine for the second time a curate from a neighboring parish was asked to preach the Sunday morning sermon in Dr. Crevas^ se's church. By an extraordinary coincidence he chose as his text the words: "Two are better than one." i A quite audible giggle came from one or two members of the congregation, and quite ignorant of the cause of his hearer's amusement, the curate gazed at them in shocked surprise. Then, fearing that there might be something amiss with his surplice he tried to examine himself. Finding nothing amiss, he looked sternly at the congregation and repeated his ; text in a loud, clear voice: "Two are better than one!" As he now seemed to be calling attention to his little joke, the entire congregation quivered with suppressed mirth!?Pearson's Weekly. DOING THEIR OUT? '' I Scores of Bamberg Readers are Learn* ing the Duty of the Kidneys. To filter the blood Is the kidneys' duty. When they fail to do this the kid* neys are weak. ? Backache and other kidney ills may follow; Help the kidneys do their work. Use Doan's Kidney Pills?the test* i ed kidney remedy. ? Bamberg people endorse their , worth Mrs. Julia B. Sandifer, Bamberg, S. C., says: "I feel justified in recomTVion'c TTMnpv Pills and I am XllCUUlUg X^ y pleased to do so. I got them from the People's Drug Co. for dull, nagging backaches and other symptoms of kidney complaint and they gave me fine relief, also removing other troubles with my kidneys. You may use my endorsement of this remedy for the benefit of other kidney sufferers." For sale by aH dealers. Price 50 cents. 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