The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 31, 1913, Page 6, Image 6

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(Eh? Sambrrg ifrralh! Thursday, July 31, 1913 SHORT LOCALS^ Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. Rev. W. H. Hodges will return to Bamberg some time this week, and will preach as usual at the Methodist church next Sunday. Next Monday is the first Monday - ? 4 .. ^ ^ l^rrol OOIAO f\O TllOrCk Ill AUgUbl d IIU icjai oaito uu.< . xuviv are a few sales to be made by the sheriff, under execution for taxes. Miss Addys Hays will entertain this (Wednesday) morning with a porch party in honor of her guest, Mrs. Alf. G. Hays, of Appalachicola, Fla. A postal card from Rev. W. H. Hodges states that he will be here and preach at Trinity Methodist church next Sunday morning and evening. In another column the commissioners of election give notice of the dispensary election to be held in this 1 county on Tuesday, August 19th. The list of managers is incorporated in the notice. Through error in last week's issue a paragraph from the Sumter Herald in reference to the recent fiddlers' convention in Bamberg was credited to the Dillon Herald. Mr. Jno. H. Cope, of the Cope section, was in the city yesterday. He ; cove tho incs sustained by the CWJO V** V _ burning of his barns was about $3,- i 500, and he had insurance of $1,900. Reports from various sections in this county give the cheering information that the crop outlook is fine. < Both corn and cotton are exceptionally good, and the farmers anticipate ? an unusually large yield this year. Last Friday afternoon the barn of Mr. Jno. H. Cope, near the town of Cope, was destroyed by fire, and the building with all its contents, was a total loss. The fire was caused by a bolt of lightning, which set the build- < ing on fire. Work has begun on the remodeling of the' Pearlstine store, next to Bam- < berg Banking Company. It will be ] thoroughly overhauled and greatly i improved, and will be occupied as a 1 general merchandise store when the i repairs are finished. ] A post card from our friend, C. J. S. Brooker, states that he and Mrs. 1 Brooker left Richmond in their car 1 last Thursday, and they are now on their way home, coming down 1 through the valley and by the natural ' bridge. He says it is grand up there. ' The large ginnery of Mr. Jones A. TT*-11 - ~? ~ -?> nrnni rkliatofi Qnd it \> niiciLLia is auuui (.uuiyvivu uuU ^ will be in shape for ginning this fall. This gives Bamberg extra facilities for ginning, and it will no doubt result in increased cotton receipts at this market. The Cotton Oil Company has a large gin plant, i and the company also owns the plant ] formerly belonging to the Farmers' ] Gin Company, just above town. c Messrs. J. A. Peters, Jr., J. C. Kinard, J. F. Chassereau, and others, of the Ehrhardt section, were in 1 the city yesterday. They were here to attend a hearing in the matter of 1 the claim of St. Johns church against the U. S. government to recover for 1 the burning of this church by Sher- > man during the war. The hearing 1 was held in the offices of Carter & ' Carter, who represent the church, ' and the government was represented by Mr. Blake. The amount claimed ' by the church is $1,500, but as most ( of the witnesses testified that the ; loss was about $1,000, the latter amount will likely be allowed. It will be some time before the matter 1 is finally settled, as it is well-known ! that the government is slow about : f "/>V> o t tore 1 ouvu luaw^vi c The Home Town. "The home town's the best town, whatever town it is? The fair town, the square town, for , any kind of biz? To live in, to give in, to work in, to play, To dwell in, to sell in, to buy day by < day. , "The home town's the best town, , wherever it may be. To dream for, to scheme for, to bring prosperity, To shout for, to spout for, and not to run it down? For it's your town and my town and ev'rybody's town." WILL CARRY MAIL SOOX. Line from Orangeburg to Xorth Promises to be Very Serviceable. Orangeburg, July 27.?The Orangeburg Railway, W. C. Wolfe, President, which is now in full operation from this city to North, will soon be carrying mail, the application of the company for the service now being considered. Quite a crowd w-as taken by the company a few days ago to Wolfton, a prospective city on the line of the road where the sale of town lots was held. THE POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM. Every Presidential Office to Become Depository After Sept. 2. Washington, July 27.?By an order just issued by Postmaster General Burleson, every presidential post-office in the United States will become a postal savings depository on the 2d of September next. All but 174 of the presidential-postoffices in the country are already postal savings depositories. Of these, fou* are in South Carolina?Bamberg, Ferguson Jonesville and Saluda The four will be included in the postal savings system September 2. Only two presidential offices remain out of the system in North Carolina: Mount Airy and East Durham. The only first-class postoffice in the United States not yet open for the receipt of postal savings is Danville, Va. Church Notice. Preaching at the Baptist church Sunday at 11 a. m., and at S.30 p. m. Owing to the absence of so many of our leaders and helpers, there will be no prayer meeting and choir practice till further notice is given. W. R. MCMILLAN. DIRECTORY OFTRINITY METHOODIST CHURCH. Preaching every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Sunday-school every Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Mid-week prayetmeeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, Epworth .League every Tuesday Bvening at 7:30 o'clock. Everybody is cordially invited to attend these services. W. H. HODGES, Pastor, Railroad Avenue, Bamberg, S. C. Quality of Her Money. We used to be pretty well acquainted with a physician in a little town where there weren't many cases? but where there were always more :*ases than collections. This fine young practitioner had one troublesome patient?an old woman who was practically on the free list, but who registered more kicks than all the other patients put together. One day she called to reast him for not showing up when she called tiim the night before. "You can go to see your other patients at night," she howled, "so why :an't you come when I send for you? Ain't my money as good as the money that them rich people pay you?" "I don't know, ma'am," answered the doctor, gently. T have never seen any of yours." Lives on 50 Cents a Week. The record in the low cost of living which a Cornell freshman set by living on S5 cents a week last winter has been broken by Clara S. Loewus, )f Towanda, Pa., who claims to have lived at the rate of 50 cents a week for her food for the last twenty weeks. She is a student of the violin at the Ithaca conservatory, Ithaca, N. Y. Her daily menu is a cup of tea, two slices of bread with peanut butter and a cup of cocoa for breakfast, one boiled potato with butter and two slices of bread with peanut butter for iinner. As an occasional treat on Sundays she has had a few tomatoes and oc:asionally an egg, but all within the $10 limit for twenty weeks. Miss Loewus is five feet tall and weighs 115 pounds, and is in the best Df health despite her restricted fare. She won a scholarship in the c-onserratory and, although she might have received assistance from her parents, >e has preferred to educate herself without any help. CHICKEN PRAYER FOR TILLMAN. Chicago Broker Furnishes Text for an Appropriate Thanksgiving. Washington, July 27.?Senator Tillman has received a large number of letters relating to his recent alleged utterances on the poor quality of Washington chicken, but the one which seems to have amused him most is the following, from a broker in Chicago: "Senator B. R. Tillman, Washington, D. C.?Dear Sir: After reading in the papers of the great supply of fried chicken that had been sent you by some of Washington's fairest cooks, a prayer offered by Capt. Ben W. Tibbev, of Arizona, seems very appropriate for your use: " 'O Lord! we bless Thee for chicken vounsr and chicken old, Chicken hot and chicken cold, Chicken tender and chicken tough; We thank Thee, O Lord, We've had chicken enough! Amen.' "Trusting that this may be of some service to you, I beg to remain very truly yours, etc." Many a man who gets in on the ground floor never gets any higher. William Gilmore Sinims. Editor The Bamberg Herald: Every one should be interested in the great men their country have produced. Your paper is read by near1> every one in your county, while very few read the Literary Digest. In the May 31st number of the Literary Digest there is an article 011 '"Slighting Southern Literature," and William Gilmore Simms, who did most of his writing at Woodlands, his home in your county, is considered to be the most eminent man of letters 1 i 1? ~?u v ^ proaucea oy cue ouum uciuic mc civil war except Poe. This fact should be known to and impressed upon the school children of your county. The protestant, Mrs. Townes Randolph Leigh, is State historian of the Alabama division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and she objects to the use of Prof. Brander Matthews's "Introduction to the Study of American Literature" as a text book in the high schools of the South in this way: Professor Matthews's book contains twenty-eight portraits of literary men, and of this number only two Southerners are represented, Edgar Allen Poe and Joel Chandler Harris. Mr. Matthews says Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards were the first Americans known abroad. Why does not Matthews mention more fully Capt. John Smith, of Virginia, who in 1624 published his "Generall Historie," an amusing and picturesque account of America, and whose story of the Indian Princess, Pocahontas, is related in the United States Histories? "Washington Irving should be followed by John Esten Cooke, both writers of the same type of classic humor, though their characters are divided by geographical lines. James i->n+ crrootor than Simms. William Cullen Bryant than Wilde, Emerson than Beverly Tucker, who wrote the wonderful novel, 'The Partizan Leader.' Halleck and Drake cannot compare with Hayne and Timroa, nor Hawthorne with James Lane Allen. Only Poe equals Sidney Lanier as does Longfellow Father Ryan." A writer to the New York Times takes up each of Mrs. Leigh's comparisons, and it is most gratifying to note in his criticisms of these Southern writers what he has to say of Simms; we learn: "He was born in 1806 in Charleston, then the only important literary centre South of Virginia. For forty years he produced books at the rate of two volumes a year, besides which he wrote poetry and did a tremendous amount of journalistic work. "He was the centre of the Southern literary group, and its Maecenas, for he did much to help and encourage the younger writers, including Hayne and Timrod. His works complement Cooper's, for he undertook to do for the South, in its conquest of thp land from nature and the In dian, what Cooper did for the same struggle in the North. Even those who do not hold him Cooper's equal admit the strength of his work. " 'The Yemassee,' a story of early colonial days, is considered his best, though such stories as 'The Partizan,' 'The Scout,' 'Katharine Walton,' and 'Eutaw,' dealing with the American Revolution, are strong and powerful tales." In the literary supplement of the same paper, however, is found the following expression of editorial opinion: "Mrs. Leigh insists that Fennemore Cooper is not greater than William Gilmore Simms. We say frankly that if we were compelled to choose to-day between reading 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Eutaw,' we would choose 'Eutaw.' There is some mighty good reading in Simms." W. G. SMITH. Orangeburg, S. C., July 28th, 1913. LAUREXS NEGRO DIES OF WOUND Phil Randell's Dying Statement was He was Killed Without Cause. Laurens, July 26.?A negro by the name of Phil Randell died in this city early Friday morning, the jury at the inquest rendering a verdict that the deceased came to his death as a result of a wound inflicted upon his body with a sharp instrument in the hands of Manuel McMorris, also colored. The difficulty occurred late Thursday afternoon when McMorris found Randell in company with the former's wife. Randell gave out a statement before his death that he was killed without cause, the woman corroborating this statement. But McMorris, who has been lodged in jail, tells quite a different tale. The weapon used was a knife. Not Always. "Success will come to any one who nprsevpres." "I don't know about that. I've been married for ten years now, and my husband hasn't liked anything I've had for dinner yet."?Pittsburg Post. Try one of those new stationery packages at Herald Book Store. I New Advertisements. S R. C. Burts, Headmaster?The ( : Furman Fitting School. Commissioners of Election?Notice ' of Election. v From Old Timer. t Wanderer's Rest, July 2S.?Let us s keep the record straight. While the ^ rays of Old Sol keep us in a free pers- 11 piration, hunting a cool spot and * 1 finding: it not. how refreshing to eat c I a cool crisp watermelon, whose sweet k heart melts in the mouth. When e 1 have they been better, sweeter, or e more crisp than now? Let us go v back only a few short weeks to June ^ 10th. That morning an old man, t thinly clad, hunted up the melon patch, found a few young ones, the ? cruel, cold, cutting jvind lifting the vines in great rolls, heaps and piles, e The sight, coupled with the cold, c made him seek cover, a coat, and a 0 big oak fire, and while the wind t moaned and the fire roared and the P wood crackled, an old man's vision f of better times came and the follow- b ing were his thoughts as they were c penned that day, June 10th, 1913: n Cold wind in June a ragin', Still the country doing fine, If the wind does cut and caper, For all that watermelon on the vine. Hand me down that overcoat, Give me winter underclothing A too, s This wind has my bones des ach- E ing, a And my teeth a chattering?ugh. li Build the fire bigger, Jim, Shut up tighter all the blinds, tj If the wind must keep a howling, a Who cares when melon on the vine. c f Too cold to replant the cotton, The stand all else but fine, Who say the wind not cold as ice, But the melon on the vine. _ Blow on, cold wind, in June; Fire and overcoat feel just fine, Tuck plenty cover on the bed to- N nighty 'h And dream of melon on the vine. * And when the cold winds over, The bright sunshine come again, t Then we all will happy be, s Eating melon down beside the a lane. Then the 10th, 11th, and 12th can G go down in history as the coldest r days ever known in June here, with s frost on the morning of the 12th. Now all nature is smiling, the S fields a living green, the corn bend- v ing under the weight of the ears, and v bread for the eater and seed for the f sower gives all a cheerful look, with Mr. Hard Times to take a back seat, t The merry times will soon be here, 0 Then in the shade all day this s tune, Sitting down eating melons sweet, Laughing at the cold in June. So all along through life, sorrow comes at night, but joy in the morning. OLD TIMER. m h NEGRO BOY DELEASED. f A No Witnesses Appear Against Venus ^ Wallace. e Aiken, July 29.?Venus Wallace, li the 16-year-old negro boy charged n with attempting a criminal assault t ? * - O A IT Here Sunday evening, juiy uyuu . a girl belonging to a prominent Au- h gusta family visiting Aiken relatives, S has been dismissed at the prelim- t< inary hearing held here before Magis- 1 trat W. M. Smoak. The alleged vie- a tim failed to appear as did also her S 9-year-old brother, who was with her E at the time of the alleged attempt ^ and who, it was stated, pulled the b negro away. Consequently there was s no evidence to warrant the police in E longer holding Wallace. b Police authorities here declare v that even the possibility of binding s the boy over for trial at general ses- * sions court was eliminated by the at- t titude toward the case of the girl's a father. 4 4 It is stated that when the negro was arrested the father declared that 11 he would not submit to any notoriety ^ nor would he permit his daughter to a appear in court to testify against her c ... s alleged assailant. Police officers declare this morning u that the father sent a message to the n effect that when the preliminary was t held he would have his children in ' Augusta, beyond the arm of the South v Carolina laws, and that they could ^ not appear as witnesses in open court. s s Pocket Telephone in Use. p A serviceable pocket telephone is ^ the latest innovation of the Hungarian Posts and Telegraphs Adminis- h tration. The appliance weighs only ^ 120 grammes, is no bigger than a t card case, and can be had by anyone c on payment of the price of forty or- * dinary telephone conversations, that _ d. cost a penny each. . The pocket telephone is adapted for insertion in a wall plug either in t . a private house, on street walls, or ' in a lamp post, etc. When the user t has finished his conversation, he ^ simply removes the telephone from the plug and puts it back in his pocket.?New Yory Press. y TRANGE WORM IN GREENVILLE. Yeature Thrives on Pine Needles? ' May Kill Trees. Greenville, July 27.?A worm fhich devours the needles of the pine ^ ree and apears to flourish upon this \ trange diet, is the unusual find of , Ir. J. T. Spearman, a farmer living i :ear this city. Mr. Spearman says he \ las consulted some of the "oldest ? itizens" and none of them have any nowledge of any living creature? < xcepting a "billy" goat?which will j at pine tree needles. Hence the j form is considered a curiosity, and ( ras exhibited here to-day in one of ] he store windows. < The worm is nearly white, or a paie reenish tinge, and is about an inch Dng. Several pieces of pine tree, covred with the worms, show that the reatures have made an excellent job f ridding the tree of its leaves, for he twigs are stripped clean of the rojecting needles. Under an attack rom a number of these worms, it is elieved that not even the hardy pine ould long survive, and if the worms multiply, it is feared that they may reate sonsideable ravages among the ine trees of that section of the conns'. Country Correspondence. Misses Ogreta and Clyde Best, of tllendale, who have been spending ome time with their cousin, Miss lessie Priester, have returned home, ccompanied by Miss Bessie, and ittle Thelma Priester, of Ehrhardt. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hill visited heir mother, Mrs. Susanna McMillan, t Ehrhardt, Sunday. Mr. G. W. Folk, of Clear Pond, is onducting a singing school at Sassaras school house. About twenty aembers are in attendance. Messrs. Jeter Creech and Laurie ibstance, of the Denmark-Ghent's Iranch section, were visitors in our aidst Monday. We are sorry to report that Mrs. 1 J. Padgett, of Spring Branch, who as been sick for some time, is not * tupiuving su lapiuij. Little Miss Eva Hughes, who has een on a visit to her parents for everal weeks, has returned to her unt's at Ulmer. Miss Thelma. Sandifer, of Collins, la., who has been visiting her many elatives in this county for the past everal weeks, has returned home. Protracted services were held at !pring Branch Baptist church last reek. Glad to hear much interest ras manifested, and six new converts * or baptism was the result. The old soldiers' reunion at Behesda on Thursday is much talked i f. We hope all, and especially the < oldiers, will enjoy the day. < HE MADE ONE MISTAKE. Quaint Persian Tale of the Taming of the Shrew. In Persia a weathy man will often 1 ave a friend of whose society he is * ond, living in the house with him. 1 ibdullah was such a friend to Aly [ahn, a very wealthy and influential merchant of Ispahan who was deighted with his charm and clever- ] ess and so pleased with his services hat hp thoueht he would make a ery good son-in-law and suggested im as such to his beautiful daughter, he was very overbearing and bad empered; but, thinking that Abdul- ^ ah was rather good looking, she r greed to it. They were married, y loon his friends came to congrat- * ilate him, among them Housseyn, ;ho was known to have a very over- j earing and bad tempered wife. He r aid, "I congratulate you on your t carriage," and then he asked the * ridegroom. "Are you really happy ( rith a woman who is known to have "] uch a bad temper?" "I assure you t hat she is perfectly charming and 1 hat I am perfectly happy." "May I , sk how you manage it?" i "Certainly," answered Abdullah, f On the night of the marriage I went 1 ato her apartments in full uniform 'c ,-ith my sword on. She did not take ] ny notice of me, but put on a super- t ilious air and made a parade of i troking her cat. I quietly picked J p her cat and cut off his head with j ly sword, took the head in one hand, i he body in the other ana tnrew = hem out of the window. My wife ras amazed, but did not showv it. i-fter a few seconds she broke into a " mile and has been a most submisive and charming wife ever since." Housseyn went straight home and c ut on his uniform and went into the 1 arem. The domestic pet came to ;reet him. He seized it with the ( and that was accustomed to caress t t, drew his sword and with a single ilow decapitated it. At the same noment he received a blow in the i ace delivered by his shrewish wife '< nd before he recovered from his as- J onishment a second and a third. ( I can see to whom you have been , alking," the lady hissed, "but you re too late. It was on the first day hat you ought to have done this."? * jxc&ange. Never borry trouble today |that 1 ou acn put off till tomorrow. 1 \ 'J--'"' - * - EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT. 4 ro\vn of Olar Bonds District to Erect ^ New School Building. Editor The Bamberg Herald: It is with great pleasure that I notice vhere the people of Olar have become nterested in the education of their children, and have expressed their willingness to contribute a part of * :heir life's labor to see present school system strengthened. In the present age the profound saving of Solomon th?t "There is no new thing under the sun," must be [orgotten. However, it seems as if DIar, like most of other small towns, ias been satisfied with the validitv )f this statement. The truth of this saying is especially true in regard :o education. Seems as if the good people up until this year had forgot;en that education, like other things, is an awakening that must grow, [f we expect to cope with other pro- ? ^ressive schools we must be wide iwake, and exert our energy in all iirections. We must not be contentid with the present condition of af- M 'airs. Let us remember that in the ^ narket it is only the latest improvenent whfch commands a scale. What question to-day is more important than our school system? Does lot the education of a people bear a jonstant, and most pre-eminent inluential relation to its attainments tnd excellences? Then why not work 'or its general advancement! I call lpon you people, by all you are and ill you hope to be, to lend your very ixistence to your school. Resist iverv attempt to fetter your consciences, or smother your school. If he best results are to be obtained a vholesome and profitable co-operal'nn mnc+ oviof omnnor noronfo faor*Vi_ *vu V/AUJu uixivu^ t^av/Uirs, and children.. Remember again the noblest ques:ion in the world is, what good may ve do in it. Let not fatal spirit of jompromise induce us to aquiesce in )ast wrongs, because of some promise idvantage and security in the future. ^ In closing I wish to congratulate ;he trustees and their former teacher, Miss Jessie Boyd. Up until her adninistration there was very little :alk of a new school building. I do lot say this because she is gone, but feel that Olar has lost a faithful ;eacher. She was conscientious, in ler work, and was regarded as a irilliant and progressive tutor. F. C. CHITTY. Savannah, Ga., July 24, 1913 PISTOL EXPLODES, GIRL DEAD. juii Fell from Wall and Ball Entered Child's Brain. Tampa, Fla., July 27.?A revolver vhich was hanging behind a picture l\ in the wall of a room at the home of Guiseppe Gastano, accidentally exploded last night and killed 6-yearild Rosia Gastano. With a playmate :he child had been swinging the pic ;ure by pushing it with a broom. The picture and the gun came down from :he wall and the revolver exploded is H struck the floor, the ball enterng the little girl's brain. A TRIED AND PROVED ; GUARANTEE. Man Bought a Bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, Then Took it Back and Asked for His Money and Got It. A man recently tried out the guarmtee which Peoples Drug Store gives vith every bottle of Dodson's Liver rone. He bought a bottle and then vent back to the drug store and said :he medicine hadn't helped him. s The druggist just reached into his :ash register and took out a half dolar, the price of the bottle of Liver rone, and handed it back to the genleman. But he didn't take the monjy. He owned up that he was just ;rying the guarantee and, as a matter )f fact, he had found Dodson's Liver Tone the best remedy for constipa- ' :ion -and biliousness he had ever :ried. "Why," he said, "my wife wouldn't be without a bottle in the louse for anything. It's the best :hing in the world for the whole 'amily, and the medicine that I prefer ;o take or give to my children for. i lazy liver." Peoples Drug Store sell Dodson'6 liiver Tone and guarantees it to start :he liver without violence. It is takng the place of calomel everywhere. .'f you buy a bottle and don't find this * ileasant-tasting vegetable liquid the lest thing to start a lazy liver, he will land your money back with a smile. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertisements Under This Head 25c. For 25 Words or Less. For Sale.?Twenty-five share of ?il mill stock. JONES A. WILLIAMS, 4 Jamberg, S. C. Cattle Wanted.?I will pay 3 % ients the pound for all feeding cat;le delivered at my barn on the Vlatheny place. J. A. SPANN. For Sale.?Pair of nice large - - - ??in ? Batched bay norses wmcn wm weigu ibout 1,100 pounds each, gentle mough for any lady to drive, are now )n exhibition at our stables. Come juick if you want something nice. TONES BROS., Bamberg, S. C. GET YOUR FROA JARS, MASON 4ND GLASS CAPS; JAR RUBBERS; GrARDEN HOES; JELLY TUMBLERS, AND SEALING WAX. BEST PRICES AT HUNTER'S HARDWARE STORE. 4 J